Edward Dolan wrote:
"Bill Baka" wrote in message
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Edward Dolan wrote:
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dgk wrote:
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Nor can we keep our parks nice, or our cities clean, or our people
educated. We can, however, spend huge amounts of money for two
unnecessary wars. There's a great thought isn't it, unnecessary war.
Buchanan seems to think WWII was an unnecessary war, that Britain
(Churchill) should have let Hitler and Stalin have their way with Poland.
He might be right. After all, what business was it of Britain.
One hell of a lot. If Hitler had his way with Poland he would not have
stopped anyway. And no, Mr. Ed, he may *NOT* have been right. Get your
facts together or go away.

We can never know if Hitler would have stopped or not. His main interest was
in eastern Europe, not western Europe. We do know that he never wanted to
attack England. In any event, Churchill is vastly overrated as a leader and
most especially as a world strategist. The English were quite right to get
rid of him once the war was won.

Oh, our city maintenance and civic quality of life went in the dumper
long before the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, at least here in St. Paul.
It happened during Norm Coleman's stint as mayor. Our taxes went up,
city services went down and corporate welfare boomed. The public
welfare, not so much. And education has suffered in America for many
years, since we put the whacky and the delusional in charge of our
schools on a regular basis.
Reality check. In 1963 I went to an excellent high school in Arlington
Heights, Illinois. I loved it because they had advanced and remedial
classes. The jocks went to remedial, most went to regular, and I went to
all the advanced classes. The motivation was that all the smart girls were
in the advanced classes and I did not have to tolerate the really stupid
kids who dragged the whole class down. My parents moved to California in
1963 and it was culture shock. They taught in slow motion and about 2
years behind Illinois schools, and only cared about head count and
graduating *everyone* out the door. College was the same. That wasn't
anything to do with politics directly, just an already overloaded school
system (in 1963).

It has to do with the liberal belief that everyone should be equal, not just
in opportunities, but in outcomes.

I'm not just equal. My IQ is well over 140 and I was bored to death in
school. College too. I once got into it with my electronics instructor
for teaching way too slow.

We have become a nation in which stupidity
is held up as a virtue and enforced ignorance is seen as good policy.
GWB was a prime example of that.

Bush will go down in history as a heroic president who began the war on
Islamic extremism.

You are a flipping fruitcake if you buy into that. I'm losing any
respect for you on this Republican rant.

We shall soon see what kind of mess Obama is going to
make of Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is going to bungle Iran too. It is what
happens when you elect a man-child to the presidency.

Enough bull****, Ed. Kennedy was only 43 when he got elected and he did
OK until Dallas. It was either a CIA motivated solution to him and
Marilyn Monroe or a well oiled job set up by LBJ, the one president I
really hated, party not withstanding.

All large cities in the US are in the care of Democrats (liberals). No
wonder they are so ****ed up! And all schooling is in the hands of
liberals too. No wonder that is equally ****ed up!
Sorry Mr. Ed, the Republicans are worse. Did Bush (either of them) do
anything for the schools? Not more than lip service. No child left behind
just means that we will dumb down the courses so that Forrest Gump can be
an A student. That just ruins it for the smart kids.
You are 110% wrong here, Ed.

Education is almost 100% the responsibility of local government (school
boards) and of the states.

No ****. Illinois had excellent schools in 1962-3 and California had
crappy schools. Two states, one good schools, one horrific schools.

The federal government has almost nothing do with
education. But teachers are 100% liberal democrats.

Knock off the obvious bull****, Ed.

They are the ones who
determine what the quality of education is going to be.

Sure they are. I learned more French in one year in Illinois than I
forgot during 2 years in California. In Illinois we had a text, grammar,
and spelling book so we could see how it was spelled. In California we
had audio/visual teaching which was a complete joke.

Of course, the excesses of the wealthy, led by Greenspan and Rubin,
have pretty much pushed our financial system to the limit, which will
drain more wealth from the middle class to prop it back up. I don't
think Obama will succeed in trying to undue the disaster of the
Clinton/Bush years because he's just a centerist democrat. But I sure
hope he does, because otherwise we're going to see facism here.
Possibly a bit of anarchy thrown in too. Wasn't the American revolution
supposed to be about having a free country? I would rather see someone
farther left than Obama or at least someone with a clue.
Obama is a far-left-whacko-screwball (all one word) . Tune in to the
Glenn Beck show on Fox News to get the facts.
WTF do you think *you* are going to accomplish? Glenn Beck? Is he the new
Rush Limburger? Another total lying sack of **** we don't need.
It does appear that we need a new party free of the good old boys
corruption in both parties we have now. Mandatory retirement at 70 should
be the rule, not so much because of diminishing ability but to be young
enough to keep up with the changes that happen every generation, gradual
changes, but they do happen. A law passed by an old man for his generation
might not apply to the up and coming generation.

Glenn Beck is way over the head of those who do not take politics seriously.
He is better than most college professors of political science that I have
On Nov 3, 7:46 pm, Bill Baka wrote:
Engineer wrote:
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Thanks for all replies. Yes, it's paper! The dielectric is super
thin, brown, translucent (likely impregnated), skin-like paper with
very low tensile strength - I did not test for burst and tear but will
certainly be low!
I plan to replace all of these that are under any B+ stress before
further restoration. I'll be using modern 0.12 uF, 630 volt, black
plastic, rectangular caps (Korean made.)
Everything I buy from Korea is checked very carefully.
If I were you I would replace all those tubular paper capacitors with
the wax on them. I found some that the leads had come loose and you
could twirl the capacitor while the leads were still soldered into the
radio.

Rare original IF's saved, Scott... and lessons learned!
Cheers,
Roger
Best of luck.
Bill Baka
ever had an acquaintance with. Limbaugh is also educational, but he laces
his commentary with entertainment.

Ummm. "Going to?" Maybe you were living somewhere else 2001-2009.
The fascism is already here. I got stopped by two goons on a road on my
bicycle because somebody had used their cell phone to say there was a guy
on a bicycle with a camera and binoculars. They were DHS and CIA and
called a county sheriff to take me and my bike home and out of their turf.
Again, I was on a public road with cars zipping by and these clowns told
me it was an 'orange' security day. Damn Bush was paranoid about
everything.

It is Obama and liberal Dems who are the control freaks. You have got
everything backwards.

Tim McNamara is a Minnesota Liberal, one of the dumbest species ever to
inhabit the planet. Types like him gave us Humphrey, E. McCarthy, Mondale
and many other assholes to numerous to mention. Now we are stuck with
Obama because of ilk like him. What is needed of course is another
Reagan!
Ed,
Your ignorance is showing. Nixon was one of your kind. President Nancy was
a weird 8 years. Bush #1 was bad news and baby weed was really bad if he
could single handedly bring down the world economy.
What don't you understand?

Nixon was one of my favorite presidents. Reagan and Bush were fine too, most
especially when compared to Dems like Carter, Clinton and now Obama. Cheney
was the greatest vice president this nation has ever had.

*Now go take your medication because Cheney would cause WWIII. He is a
pompous idiot. Read his history.

He should have a
monument erected to celebrate his greatness right next to the Washington
Monument. At the least, his likeness should be carved into Mount Rushmore so
he can be properly worshipped by the multitudes.

I totally give up on you.
Bill Baka


Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota