Subj : Re: Larry King
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 01:16:08

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

John Iwaniszek wrote:

> 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. 
> 

To be fair, so in all likelihood would Bush Sr., Reagan, Nixon or any non-
sockpuppet.

-- 
Jim

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