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the world is not only sick but also addicted to oil
Originally Posted by Cosssack
"Hell NO ... the WORLD is just fine ...." Maybe because you don't live in the jungle, where many things are happening, like the War on Drugs that has put 2 million people behind bars, so some contractors can get fat... Anyways, Switzerland --where you live-- has approved a sick approach to drug addiction where heroin has been approved for addicts. If you think about it the average Western consumer should be put on addiction programs for OIL ADDICTION. Yeah, all that oil is feeding injustice and terrorism in the world. From the revolutionary program below: While the prohibition of drugs has been largely ineffective and costly (in money, prison overpopulation, crime), regulated legalization -- like that of Holland-- can be a better solution to both addiction and crime. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prosperity in Frugality http://webspawner.com/users/donquijote1 |
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I am convinced bicycling is not safe
"Rob Morley" wrote in message news:20081130180323.43fc8476@bluemoon... On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:05:54 -0600 "Edward Dolan" wrote: "Rob Morley" wrote in message news:20081128144424.54ced272@bluemoon... On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:27:00 -0600 "Edward Dolan" wrote: I am a Great Saint. Have you considered a promotion to martyrdom? All it would take is a slip under an 18 wheeler. Debating with Marika is child's play for me. It is like shooting fish in a barrel. Do not deprive me of some fun. We Great Saints seldom have any fun. I can suggest ways to enliven your dreary existence - why not enjoy a game of Russian roulette solitaire, or relax with a nice glass of Liquid Drano? Obviously you have no consideration for poor Marika. If I don't humor her, who will? Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota |
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I am convinced bicycling is not safe
"marika" wrote in message ... "Edward Dolan" wrote in message ... The Great Ed Dolan is of Irish ancestry and it is ever His delight to kick Scandinavian ass. Plenty of dumb Swedes here in Minnesota! I think Marika is Congolese, not nearly White enough for a Scandinavian, not even for a dumb Swede. However, Tom Sherman of ARBR is of Danish origin. He might suit her. He is unmarried and rich as all get out. He would be a good catch for a Congolese maiden lady, but only if she is not a harlot. Tom, like me, will have nothing to do with harlots. thanks http://www.madehow.com/images/hpm_00..._0_img0068.jpg My Greatness prevents me from ever going to a link unless it is FULLY explained beforehand. Unlike you, I was not born yesterday. Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota |
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I am convinced bicycling is not safe
"Dane Buson" wrote in message ... Hello again, I took a wee hiatus when I couldn't be arsed to reconfigure my leafnode server after a HD change and OS upgrade. I've been more than slightly busy with life, but decided to come back and poke around the newsgroups some. -- how'd you do mk5000 "'Go ahead', she said. "Campbell will be so pleased. I'll tend to Marshall. ' The world was upside down. What was he, a Master of the Universe, doing down here on the floor, reduced to ransacking his brain for white lies to circumvent the sweet logic of his wife? The Masters of the Universe were a set of lurid, rapacious plastic dolls that his otherwise perfect daughter liked to play with" -- Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe |
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I am convinced bicycling is not safe
"marika" wrote in message ... "Edward Dolan" wrote in message ... Obviously you have no consideration for poor Marika. If I don't humor her, who will? know that you are supposed to be "humoring" but what does this all mean?-Besdies that it is supposed to be funny? "Humoring" means to string you along for the dolt that I know you are. I do it because of the sense of noblesse oblige which I feel toward my inferiors such as you. Have you seen No Country for Old Men? I'm pretty sure you must have--but if not-please do I have seen it. What point to you want to make in connection with it? But I must warn you, I thought it was the worst movie ever made. Mindless violence is mindless. What else is there to be said about it? Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota |
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I am convinced bicycling is not safe
On Nov 30, 7:26*pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote:
"marika" wrote in message ... "Edward Dolan" wrote in message ... Obviously you have no consideration for poor Marika. If I don't humor her, who will? know that you are supposed to be "humoring" but what does this all mean?-Besdies that it is supposed to be funny? "Humoring" means to string you along for the dolt that I know you are. I do it because of the sense of noblesse oblige which I feel toward my inferiors such as you. Have you seen No Country for Old Men? I'm pretty sure you must have--but if not-please do I have seen it. What point to you want to make in connection with it? *But I must warn you, I thought it was the worst movie ever made. Mindless violence is mindless. What else is there to be said about it? I've thought you said you were for the war in Iraq. More deaths today, but oil junkies are happy. |
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I am convinced bicycling is not safe
(Hey, somebody is reading this, right? Deep study of human behavior is
taking place) To know human society... poke with a stick at an ant colony I often think of myself as a monkey poking a stick at an ant colony to observe its behavior. Well, there's a science that comes from that observation, which can answer fundamental questions about humanity... "We can not know where we are going unless we know where we came from" -E.O. Wilson http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=97547749 "Wilson came to believe that humans, like ants, are genetically designed to live within natural limits. It is becoming increasingly obvious that those limits are directly related to reduced energy use and consumption of natural resources, family planning, and cooperation among societies, rather than competition." http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005121653 *** But I think big Ed is more interested in roaches than ants... Originally Posted by jfmckenna "I always preferred the magnifying glass to the stick." The stick is meant to cause some kind of reaction. When observing roaches though I change the stick for the shoe. Roaches show me that they operate in the dark and that they like to eat anything. And they are more individualistic than cooperative ants. Perhaps ants show leftist tendencies while roaches show Republican leanings. |
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A March on Washington... on Bicycle?
(I'd hate to leave out of the revolution, guys, so here's an update)
Originally Posted by -=£em in Pa=- "I think we should try to attain the status of Brazil before shooting for Switzerland." You have a point there, particularly if we talk about the Curitiba model for American cities... Curitiba's Bus System is Model for Rapid Transit By Joseph Goodman, Melissa Laube, and Judith Schwenk Bus systems provide a versatile form of public transportation with the flexibility to serve a variety of access needs and unlimited range of locations throughout a metropolitan area. Buses also travel on urban roadways, so infrastructure investments can be substantially lower than the capital costs required for rail systems. As a result, bus service can be implemented cost-effectively on many routes. Yet, despite the inherent advantages of a bus service, conventional urban buses inching their way through congested streets don’t win much political support. The essence of a Bus Rapid Transit is to improve bus operating speed and reliability on arterial streets by reducing or eliminating the various types of delay. The bus system of Curitiba, Brazil, exemplifies a model Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, and plays a large part in making this a livable city. The buses run frequently—some as often as every 90 seconds—and reliably, and the stations are convenient, well-designed, comfortable, and attractive. Consequently, Curitiba has one of the most heavily used, yet low-cost, transit systems in the world. It offers many of the features of a subway system—vehicle movements unimpeded by traffic signals and congestion, fare collection prior to boarding, quick passenger loading and unloading—but it is above ground and visible. Around 70 percent of Curitiba’s commuters use the BRT to travel to work, resulting in congestion-free streets and pollution-free air for the 2.2 million inhabitants of greater Curitiba. http://www.urbanhabitat.org/node/344 *** You know what, I'm going to make a wish list, such as I'd make for Santa, just that this is a to-do list for the revolution. I say "the revolution" because I don't think these things can get accomplished by regular politicians... 1- low crime by decriminalizing drugs 2- good public transportation 3- traffic safety 4- BIKE FACILITIES 5- littering control 6- low cost, high quality healthcare, based on prevention 7- fast trains 8- no more gated communities 9- noise pollution control 10- eradication of homelessness (add your own petition) |
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A March on Washington... on Bicycle?
Originally Posted by cyclezealot
"A Swedish exchange student , who came to my high school. He was Lutheran and quite conservative.. Been a life long friend outside Goteborg. When in the US years ago, he railed against the Swedish Socialists... Well, his primary college education.. Foreign languages and export. Job training did not take. They paid him to again go back to school.. He found his vocation.. He's been paying Swedish taxes ever since. After seeing the poverty of America and how his friends here faired.. He no longer rails against Swedish socialists." *** I choose a name for my revolution (besides banana)... HUMANISM. It's about being human, not left or right. But the right seems to have it wrong too often. And the left often does nothing. Here's some highlights of the article on the post-partisan politician... a "Republican" by the name of Schwarzzenegger. ON EXPERIENCE "I said, There's a storehouse of experience up in Sacramento and look at the shape the state is in. So it couldn't be experience that makes the state in good shape. What it needs is the will. The will to go and make tough decisions and the right decisions. I have the will, is what I told the people. And that's exactly what I have. I have the will." ON UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE "It was a party-line vote in the California Assembly --all Democrats voting yes and every single member of his party, the Republicans, voting no --and yes, the bill that was passed proposed paying for the expansion of health-care insurance by increasing the state tax on cigarettes." ON TOUGH POLLUTION CONTROLS "And then, on Wednesday, Bush. Well, Bush's EPA, which announced that it would not permit California and sixteen other states to set their own stringent standards for greenhouse-gas emissions. The bill that had stood as the best example of what Arnold could do for the United States from the state of California had been declared moot by an administration that had been able to do so little for the United States from Washington, D.C." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prosperity in Frugality http://webspawner.com/users/donquijote1 |
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A March on Washington... on Bicycle?
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Originally Posted by Americo I once lived in a suburb that decided to put walk/bike paths along every street in the city. They were wider than most sidewalks and they painted a line seperating the bikes from the pedestrians. The only drawback was that the project uprooted too many trees - but, still, I thought it was a splendid idea. *** Where I live I can't ride to 70% of the places I would if I had bike facilities. There's only a new scenic trail that takes me close to some shops and I can take the back streets to the supermarket. But the main roads are no man's land, and I have been threatened and terrorized for using my right to be on the road. That would have been my contribution to fight greed, injustice, terrorism and global warming but my right to survive takes preference in the jungle. __________________ "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" -M.L. King |
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