More "what is good for the oil industry is good for the U.S.A.".
If you check out Chris Mooney's "The Republican War on Science" ISBN
0-465-04675-4 you can get chapter and verse on the way they have thrown out good advice in favour of advice the suits the oil industry, mostly from advisors who work for the oil industry.Rather reminiscent of their approach to intelligence about Irak in the run-up to the invasion, and the consequences are likely to be even worse, though slower developing.
Oops. The Tasmanian school system didn't like "-yed" and preferred "-ied".
This and other eccentricities have enriched my spelling for mnay years, despite my best efforts.
Come on, John, if anyone can split a pun, you can do it! ;-)
Dyecey!
John Woodgate wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@jmwa.demon.co.uk:
Much more than a "moment".It takes some time and effort to assemble the tools,then climb the pole/tower,then to start cutting. That's premeditated.
It's about 8 unces.
Plus, someone has been stealing the ground conductor between poles for at least a year. It might have been the same moron, and he got careless, this time.
Well, while we're at it, Bush 43 isn't George Jr. either. Bush 41 is George H W Bush. Shrub is just George W Bush.
The most deadly hurricane in US history hit Galveston in 1900. And the hottest summer on record in the US was 1936.
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Then the Democrats regulated and taxed it.
John
You have to maintain a 4' viewing distance ;-)
...Jim Thompson
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Right. I'd rather have such things kept private.
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And the Europeans felt depraved.
random snip
At least the Yanks originally left/escaped europe to set up their own immaculate system of government.
martin
Thank God they made the effort, too.
True. But it does seem that the US system has passed it "sell by date" with its terminally damaged consitution and maybe the EU can learn from the failure of the USsystem ( unlikely)...
martin
"Terminally damaged"? In what way?
I think it is your brain that is damaged... terminally ;-)
...Jim Thompson
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But the USA is doing fine. Europe and Japan are facing economic and demographic time bombs.
John
I just heard your property bubble is about to burst.
You have to be joking !
What economic time bomb ? It's the USA that's running a huge budget deficit and whose currency's value is gradually eroding.
Graham
Halliburton, Die-Bold, Bush, War on AnyExcuse, War on the Constitution
Even Arnuld has packed his parachute :-)
martin
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