Subj : Re: Larry King
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : weirdwolf
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 01:16:31

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

John Iwaniszek <Not@hotmail.com> wrote in 
news:Xns96C3C566C8CAEjoiwhnanri@66.26.32.9:

> weirdwolf <Hooowl@hoowl.com> wrote in
> news:Xns96C42F73A797r73u67jw56nas@80.5.182.99: 
> 
>> John Iwaniszek <Not@hotmail.com> wrote in 
>> news:Xns96C3C34532CABjoiwhnanri@66.26.32.9:
>> 
>>> Tyler Trafford <ttrafford+usenet@gmail.com> wrote in 
>> news:3nmrg4F2bb0mU2
>>> @individual.net:
>>> 
>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>> Tyler Trafford <ttrafford+usenet@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>> news:3nmr2uF2bb0mU1@individual.net: 
>>>>>
>>>>>> John Iwaniszek wrote:
>>>>>>> Tyler Trafford <ttrafford+usenet@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>>> news:3nmkgoF2a1tqU1 @individual.net:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Steve Brooks wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Which should lead to the development of brown field innercity
>>>>>>>>>>> sites and the development of better mass transportation.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Why should there be any move towards better mass
>>>>>>>>>> transportation when petrol is a mere $4/gallon?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm an advocate of increasing fuel prices to the consumer,
>>>>>>>>> might stop people driving the 15 minute walk to the shop.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Wouldn't that just increase cost-of-living and just cause 
>>> inflation?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Shipping this week has a 50% increase in fuel surcharge.  last
>>>>>>> week it was 20 cents a mile.  This week it's 30 cents.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ah, interstate commerce, I completely forgot about that
>>>>>> consequence. 
>>>>>
>>>>>  one that will encourage locally grown produce, a movement which is
>>>>> rising in this country.
>>>> 
>>>> That would still screw over states like Montana and South Dakota
>>>> (etc) which grow mass quantities of corn and wheat.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> They are already fucked because of aforementioned fuel prices and 
>>> katrina-caused NOLA bottleneck.
>> 
>>  but Katrina hasn't caused the bottle neck it is only served as a
>>  focus 
>> point to bring the problem into the light.
>> 
>>> What this might due is shift transport and port resources to the mid-
>>> atlantic and stimulate a rebuilding of the rail system.  
>> 
>>  Yeah and the pigs will fly themselves to market. Can you really see
>>  that 
>> happening in the current political climate?
> 
> 
> Bush is a lame duck.  His approvals are a 38% and dropping (we're 
> talking Nixon-level).  His
> incapability for feeling or showing empathy and his failure to lead in 
> this situation will sink him further. 
> 
> I understand he had a "birds eye view" of the disaster regions this
> afternoon.  Some one needs to tell him and his media fellators that no
> bird flies at 30,000 feet.  Clinton, Gore, and Kerry would have had 
> their muddy boots on the ground.  Not The First Dry Drunk. 
> 

 I've never been impressed wih the whole visiting the disaster area and 
meeting the hospitalised stuff. Always struck me as fake and 
condescending.
 Short of impeachment or resignation is there anyway that his own party 
can force him out of office a la Thatcher and the tories? A vote of no 
confidence in the senate?
 I'm afraid my knowledge of American political history is rather limited 
and I can't recall a situation where this has occured.
 Ted

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