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Why do you make up stuff you know nothing about?

John

It's a Europeon thing ;-)

...Jim Thompson

If he didn't, he wouldn't have anything to post.

Oh. Good point.

John

That might be the thing to do--expose the system by taking them up on their promises. Fold that house of cards.

The finances for those social programs are pyramid schemes; you just can't deliver everybody everything, for free, and continually pass the costs to later generations. But that's been our model.

And like Bernie Madoff's scheme, the first "investors" leave happy, long before anyone notices the coffers are empty.

James Arthur

Except to the people whose paychecks get plundered to pay the bills.

Exactly! The problem isn't the illegal Mexicans, it's the Socialism.

Thanks, Rich

Because he's a Socialist?

Thanks, Rich

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I grew up in Minnesota. One year, (1967, IIRC) in April (spring break, which, before the onslaught of political correctness, they called "Easter vacation"), the family went to see the southwest. We got a room at a motel with a pool, either in Flagstaff or Albuquerque, and I was flabbbergasted that it was possible to go swimming in APRIL!

It was snowing in MN at the time. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Absolutely. The guys who come here are motivated, hardworking go-getters. The problem is we _subsidize_ them, eating up all our social safety net.

That's our fault, not theirs. They're just taking what we offer.

James Arthur

:On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:07:16 GMT, Ross Herbert : wrote: : :>: :>:Liberals have no clue about reality. This is God's country. You :>:ought to check it out sometime. However, before you get enamored... :>:we average 109 days per year with temperatures in excess of 100°F. In :>:other words, "Welcome to Arizona, now go home" ;-) :>: :>: ...Jim Thompson :>

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:>You had better state where in Arizona you are talking about which averages 109 :>days over 100 deg F. It certainly isn't in Phoenix which has only one month of :>the year where the average daily temp reaches as high as 91 deg F and that isn't :>anywhere near 100 deg F let alone for 109 days. :>

OK, my mistake... that link gave the 24 hr average temp, which I concede was not what you were talking about.

This is the data I should have linked to

I can see that over the 5 mths from May - Sept it would be quite possible to get an average of 109 days with an average maximum temp of 100 deg F.

I note that you could only circumvent my question regarding humidity and provide one of your typical smart-arse remarks which shows your mentality is lower than you think. For your information the average afternoon humidity for Phoenix never exceeds 24% during the months May - Sept which would be the period responsible for your average 109 days with max of 100 deg F. This humidity level makes it quite easy for anyone to bear no matter what their political leaning.

Ha! I've never met an interloper yet who could pop into Phoenix in July and cope ;-)

To the uninitiated, 100°F+ takes their breath away and they, fortunately, decide Phoenix is not for them.

Myself, arriving from Boston via un-air-conditioned Renault Dauphine, June 24, 1962, thought I had made a horrible mistake ;-)

But I quickly acclimated, and didn't buy an air-conditioned car until

...Jim Thompson

Sloman wants to speak. So he posts fantasies.

Um, that's covered by the taxpayer, regardless of their political leanings.

Why are you insulting him instead of arguing your case?

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I've spent time sitting in crowded Emergency Admissions areas - in Australia and the U.K. - and in the less crowded equivalents in the Netherlands.

One of my cousins is a doctor turned hospital administrator, who has been known to have interesting conversations with one of my good friends from undergraduate days who spent his entire career as a too- honest-for-his-own-good hospital administrator.

I don't need to make up stuff, and the stuff I think I know about in this area gets tested against well-informed profesionals from time to time. You should do as well.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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Jim Thompson and - to a lesser extent - John Larkin, are living proofs that Americans have also been known to sound off about subjects that they don't really understand.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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=A0 =A0...Jim Thompson

Jim lives in a fantasy world, where Rush Limbaugh is a reliable informant.

My facts don't conform to his fantasies, so he thinks I'm making it all up.

You should really try to identify the "fact" that I've "invented" befor claiming that I'm a fantasist. An objective observer might find it difficult to differentiate your own - unsupported - claim from fantasy.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Pfft. Our record this year was 46.4c or 115.52 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Since the bulk of Michael Terrell's posts are "me too" - just like the above - John Larkin's judgement on off-topic issues is about as reliable as ever.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen