The end is in sight

That's kind of like when George Takei announced he was gay.

A friend told me Arlen Specter has been more liberal than moderate Democrats for years, was RINO Republican In Name Only for years.

Less than a year ago he affirmed his commitment to the Republican party. He didn't support the planks or platform so he was NOT going to get the Republican nomination. So he jumped ship.

It's about his political survival, not any sudden ideological epiphany.

He wasn't just left wing for a Republican, he was left wing for a Democrat!

LOL!

The fact that that scared so many people proves that the terrorists won the war.

Don't forget your reloader kit - ammo will probably be in short supply as well.

(or buy a frontloader! ;-) )

Cheers! Rich

Make everything mirror-smooth, or at least burnished - in UHV, almost everything will field-emit.

Good Luck! Rich

What, haven't you been paying attention?

He whines about the deficit he's "inherited", then proceeds to triple it? He bails out the companies that were driven into bankruptcy by cowtowing to the unions, and the banks that wrote mortgages that were _guaranteed_ to fail? He's presiding over the biggest redistribution of money from the productive to the unproductive in the entire history of the known Universe, and you can't see that?

Sheesh - how long have you had your head in the sand?

Thanks, Rich

"kowtow", i.e., (v.i.) to exhibit servile deference; fawn; (n.) an obsequious act.

The rest is pure gold.

Cheers, James Arthur

I've got no problem with identifying perps, so you can track down repeat offenders; unfortunately that would require an honest police force comprising people with impeccable integrity. Dream on.

But, unless you have been convicted as a perp, collecting an individual's DNA without his or her permission is not only wrong, it's borderline evil.

Thanks, Rich

Are you ever going to take your blinders off?

Thanks, Rich

Too droopy for my taste. Human women shouldn't have udders.

Thanks, Rich

Skinny smart women are my faves, but smart and sweet in alternate packages shall be considered.

Mencken said "Marry for the conversation--it's the only thing that lasts."

Cheers, James Arthur

Absolutely keerect. My wife is a great conversationalist, and hysterically funny at times.

Next anniversary will be #50 ;-)

...Jim Thompson

On Apr 28, 7:02=A0pm, snipped-for-privacy@ieee.org wrote: ...

You may not need to search for work any longer. Ever heard of Laurence Godfrey?

Michael

Yeah, I prefer small & perky myself.

And your Internet activities monitored.

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We won't know whether or not it's paranoia until afterwards.

Not as far as I can tell. You're obviously entitled to your own opinion.

He had to do that to fend off a depression.

Personally, I agree that America would be better off in the long run, if it let GM & the like collapse, but it'd be a vote-loser in the meantime. I also believe that the taxpayers shouldn't be propping up farmers either, but that's another surefire vote-loser.

It was the commodification of mortgages that made it possible for brokers to sell mortgages to people without jobs, etc. I'm not sure who was responsible for that screwup, but it obviously wasn't Obama.

Like I said, he had to choose between that or a 1929-style depression. This option sucks too, but not nearly as much as a depression would.

Well, that's a matter of opinion, isn't it? - I'd argue the same about your views. ;^)

Well said. That's exactly the problem. In the real world, it actually costs more to make sure that the 'undeserving' are excluded than it does to just pay out & accept that there's going to be some wastage. Per capita, the USA spends more money on health care than countries with free universal health care that excludes nobody. I suspect that the same is also true of the Social Security system.

To someone outside the USA, they both look very right-wing.