Subj : Re: Larry King
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : weirdwolf
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 02:20:39

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

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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>>> 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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>>>>>>> Tyler Trafford <ttrafford+usenet@gmail.com> wrote in 
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>>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Tyler Trafford <ttrafford+usenet@gmail.com> wrote in
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>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> 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
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Republicans are marching in perfect lockstep with Bush.  There is no 
>> way 
>>> he will be driven out, even if there is a live boy or a dead girl 
>>> involved.
>>> 
>> 
>> OK say for example he had invaded a country for no reason..
>> damn..er..say for example it was found that he was a
>> deserter....shit..ok.. third times the charm... say for example he
>> lied to the senate...bugger this is more difficult than it seems...
>> OOO I've got a good one.. say for example he had completely crippled
>> the national eco..n..o.my... 
>>  Right, fine, we will forget the reason why just imagine they wanted
>>  to 
>> force him out of office. Is there a way that they could do it and has
>> it been done before? My rather dodgy memory and obvious lack of
>> knowledge can't seem to come up with an example of it happening. 
>> 
> 
> The only legal thing that can happen is impeachment or letting him run 
> out his term.  One of those is a certainty, the other is an 
> impossibility because of the Republican inability to admit mistakes or 
> accept responsibility.
> 
> Here is an benchmark to use when measuring the integrity of Boy King:  
> Nixon resigned.

 I thought that might be the case.
It's a bloody stupid system by the way.
 Ted


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