Subj : Re: Larry King
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 02:07:30

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:Xns96C3B4A0C30203v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
> 
>> weirdwolf wrote:
>> 
>>> 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 
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>>>>> 
>>>>>> weirdwolf <Hooowl@hoowl.com> wrote in
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>>>>>>> John Iwaniszek <Not@hotmail.com> wrote in 
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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. 
>> 
>> We would have to fine a country that would suit your apparent
>> political acumen and media savvy. How do you feel about being Prime
>> Minister of Candyland?
>> 
> 
> Well I am allergic to chocolate and don't eat sweets. 
>  I was reading a story about MacMillan,(ex-brit prime minister, war 
> hero,first not second, and a very intelligent bloke.) He was famed for 
> not being the most approachable of people, not because he was 
> particulalry fierce  just that he wan't good with people. The wife of a 
> prominant Tory was given the job of "humanising" him. At one dinner party 
> with various dignataries as guests she noticed that all conversation at 
> his end of the table had ceased. So she wrote a note and got it passed up 
> the table MacMillan opens it, reads the note, write something. The note 
> is duly passed back Under here original comment of "say something" was 
> his reply, "I did." You could hardly imagie somebdy like that ever being 
> elected now despite his obvious skills. In fact the inclusion of Ken 
> Clarke into the tor party leadership campaign and that people are taking 
> his bid seriously is an example of this.

I'll see your MacMillan anecdote and raise you a Calvin Coolidge anecdote:

  Unusually for a prominent politician, Coolidge was a man of few words,     
  earning him the nickname "Silent Cal." It is said that a White House     
  dinner guest once made a bet with her friends that she could get the     
  president to say at least three words during the course of the meal.     
  Upon telling Coolidge of her wager, he replied simply with the words     
  "You lose." 

(Ripped off from some webpage or other.)

-- 
Jim

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