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Myk Murphy:
The answers are always in where the money comes from. Fortunately for jordan, the king is a friend. Otherwise, he would suddenly inherit lots of palestinians. He already has more than he wants.
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:01:51 pm)
Heruka:
I say we go back to pre-WWII isolationism dealing only with a few other select coutries. Fuck the rest of the world, let 'em starve to death.
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:02:05 pm)
Queenie:
We will never become independent of the mid-east energy supply. I just don't see that happening. Despite innovations in the areas of alternative fuel. I just don't fucking understand it. Technology has moved forward in tremendous leaps and bounds in every fucking conceivable way over the past several decades, yet people just CLING to this 100 year old technology of operating vehicles with gas. I just don't get it.
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:02:49 pm)
Heruka:
PBS isn't exactly "enlightening". they keep lowing their own standards.
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:03:17 pm)
Heruka:
actually, by 2020 or something we'll be using 40-50% ethonal in our vehicles.
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:04:34 pm)
Queenie:
Masterpiece Theater is like Taco Bell for the mind... so good... but soooooo bad.
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:04:47 pm)
Queenie:
If it weren't for oil, would we really even give a flying fuck what goes on over there?
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:05:47 pm)
Queenie:
wasn't
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:05:52 pm)
Heruka:
. Despite the British government's high moral rhetoric on curbing the emission of greenhouse gases, the emissions of carbon dioxide have risen in Britain for the second year running. In 1999, 150.8 m tons of CO2 were produced. That amount rose by 0.5% in 2000 and by 0.4% in 2001. And the trend continues upwards. Brian Wilson, the Energy Minister, admitted that Britain would have "a real and tough challenge to meet its environmental targets."
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:09:50 pm)
Queenie:
You know... if I did all my shopping at Wal-Mart, and every time I went there the Wal-Mart employees were brawling with K-Mart employees and slaughtering the shit out of each other in the cosmetics aisle, I would fucking shop at Target.
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:11:00 pm)
Queenie:
A good point from a wise fellow on another board:
Israel's claims to the land are based in their personal religion.
At the time, they had already gained widespread social acceptance in the United States and Great Brittain.
There WERE places they could have gone where there wouldn't have been this constant, constant conflict.
They put religion ahead of common sense, and thus created a situation that will likely never find resolution.
If you were a multi-billionaire, would you build a home in, say, Watts? Compton?
If you did, and you were attacked 24 x 7, would you expect sympathy?
Yeah, the folks attacking you are bad folks, and what they're doing is wrong.
But on the other hand, if you don't understand how your actions are antagonistic, you're failing to see the whole picture.
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:13:25 pm)
Decoy:
Cows make the most greenhouse gas, by far, on the planet. Now what?
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:13:50 pm)
Queenie:
If sping was here, it would probably give him an idea.
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:14:50 pm)
Decoy:
Texas would collapse if we didn;t need oil. A two edged sword, that policy.
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:15:11 pm)
Decoy:
Sping is clever with the gas.
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:15:47 pm)
Decoy:
But we should bite the bullet. They have Dell computers down there in Austin. They don't need oil to survive. Bring out the motionless electromagnetic generators.
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:16:51 pm)
Heruka:
http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,49820,00.html
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:18:57 pm)
Queenie:
Why would Texas collapse?
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:20:08 pm)
Decoy:
We would still extract all the oil to use to make plastic for building material. Which is probably a good use for it. But still. We might have enough to make our own liners right here in the USA.
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:21:01 pm)
Heruka:
The Minority Business Preference program should not be "watered down," Blount said. Federal programs already exist for people living in financially depressed areas.Besides, he said, if a white male from Appalachia wants to move up, all he needs to do is "put his overalls aside and put on a suit."
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:21:10 pm)
Decoy:
I don't how much, but the Texas economy depends on oil,
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:21:34 pm)
Queenie:
Why are people so determined to cling to gas-fueled cars?
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:21:40 pm)
Heruka:
He'll be welcomed anywhere," he said, because of his "prized" place. Minorities, Blount said, can't do that. "It's just the way life is."
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:22:22 pm)
Decoy:
No one knows.
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:22:29 pm)
Decoy:
Yeah, H, I read that. Funny stuff.
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:22:54 pm)
Queenie:
It's short-sighted, really. Because oil won't last forever. I would think we'd be all over being the first to develop new kinds of fuel for cars. I mean... if Ford Motor Company created the first line of alternative fuel cars, their business would boom when the time came for a changeover, like Bill Gates when everyone needed computers. But for all I know, they're already on top of it. I have seen commercials for hybrids.
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:23:54 pm)
Heruka:
there's nothing wrong with the internal combustion engine. it's clean, oil is easy to extract from the earth, and there's enough of it to last for centuries. don't believe the hype, Queenie. it's all fascist propaganda. they want to force us to live in communes and take public transportation.
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:24:10 pm)
Heruka:
there are alternative cars out there. I see them quite often.
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:25:33 pm)
Heruka:
On the fringes of the crowd lurked a man carrying a stack of papers, who flashed a sheepishly guilty smile when asked for his name. After hesitating he identified himself as Ali Larni. He gave me two sheets of paper. The first explained that Zionism was paganism and the enemy of Jews, Christians and Muslims. It demanded: "Zionists, out of Palestine. (All of it)." The second sheet was even more bizarre. It was a lengthy open letter to President Bush. It claimed Israel is engaging in a comprehensive conspiracy that involves listening to nearly every phone call made inside the U.S. The Israelis, it explains, are using this information to blackmail all federal officials in high office and the national media. "Few indeed are the people in America who do not have something to hide. That insider trade, the brief but torrid affair, the stolen votes, the deliberate smear, the role one played in an assassination, the acceptance of money from drug runners." Everyone in high office and the media is guilty of such a transgression, apparently. It offers Bill Clinton and the Starr Report as evidence. In short, because Americans are so depraved, the Jews are able to control them. The letter also says the evidence against Osama bin Laden is "circumstantial, often self-contradictory, and in some cases faked." The real culprit behind Sept. 11 is Israel, but that information is being suppressed through this blackmail scheme. The letter is signed "Best Regards, Alexander James."
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:28:03 pm)
Heruka:
Shhhhh, the Jews are listening.
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:29:06 pm)
Queenie:
Pollution from internal combustion engines is hype? Have you ever seen L.A.?
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:29:25 pm)
Decoy:
Have you ever seen Cleveland?
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:32:51 pm)
Queenie:
No. Is it funky with the carbon monoxide?
(Tue Apr 9, 2002 - 1:33:12 pm)