Subj : Re: Larry King
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : weirdwolf
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 01:41:33

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

John Iwaniszek <Not@hotmail.com> wrote in 
news:Xns96C3D2025DEFEjoiwhnanri@66.26.32.8:

> weirdwolf <Hooowl@hoowl.com> wrote in
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> 
>> John Iwaniszek <Not@hotmail.com> wrote in 
>> news:Xns96C3C566C8CAEjoiwhnanri@66.26.32.9:
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>>> weirdwolf <Hooowl@hoowl.com> wrote in
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>>>> John Iwaniszek <Not@hotmail.com> wrote in 
>>>> news:Xns96C3C34532CABjoiwhnanri@66.26.32.9:
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>>>>> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> It's called leadership.

 Damn, obviously why I could never run a country,(although being 
absolutely batshit crazy might go in my favour,) I would actually be 
doing something to try and help the people invovled and not sitting on my 
arse enjoying a holiday or wondering if the press had got my best side.
 Ted


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