|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#151
|
|||
|
|||
I am convinced bicycling is not safe
(I guess the US is only a 3)
Originally Posted by mlts22 It depends on the part of the US. Austin, you don't need gated communities. However, go to some other parts of the US, and a gated community with an armed guard at the entrances is a must. I'd give the US a 3, not because of where it is presently, but where its headed. In Columbia, college educations are not something one goes into major student loan debt for; they are considered an extension of high school. Other countries are the same way, where college is paid for by their governments. I also give the US a 3 because of its lack of a health care system. If despised nations such as Cuba and Iran can assure that their citizens get proper health care without bankrupting them and their family, why can't America do the same? Finally, I give the US a 3 because of the lack of improvements in communications and transport infrastructures. Instead of laying more fiber, all the telcos and cable companies either are, or will be soon charging by the bit. So, we are paying more for services as opposed to less as time progresses, and this is not do to inflation. Roads too. Take Austin. Most of its highways are proposed to end up as toll roads (and of course this doesn't mean your commute time gets shorter... just you pay 75 cents for the privilege of looking at another car's bumper going home.) *** See what I mean? I was being too soft on uncivilized behavior of all sorts. It sure seems to be heading down, but maybe, just maybe, Obama will change things... Well, I don't know but he's the last hope that we've got before Armageddon or the Revolution. Of course, I prefer the Revolution. |
Ads |
#152
|
|||
|
|||
A March on Washington... on Bicycle?
This new book seems to go to the root of the problem in the jungle...
"Money for bike facilities and traffic safety? Hey, there's not enough dough to be made!" 'From the contractors who built sub-standard structures in New Orleans and were told to “keep quiet”, to the whistleblowers who sacrificed their jobs to come forward and expose the cover-ups, cooked books, and cronyism nationwide within the Army Corps of Engineers, this film digs deep to unearth the truth. While scientists charged with investigating the Katrina disaster were intentionally led astray, journalists dug their heels in to get to the root of “disaster capitalism”, a process by which government insiders cash in with emergency no-bid contracts, in times of national stress. America Betrayed clearly exposes our government’s misappropriation of funds in spending its citizens’ hard-earned tax dollars on rebuilding the Iraqi infrastructure, while the bridges, dams, levees and highways in this country are crumbling. America Betrayed is a cautionary tale for those who trust their government, and hopefully a wake-up call to change the status quo in Washington.' http://americabetrayedmovie.com/main.html |
#153
|
|||
|
|||
A March on Washington... on Bicycle?
On Nov 24, 3:00*pm, KingOfTheApes wrote:
This new book seems to go to the root of the problem in the jungle... "Money for bike facilities and traffic safety? Hey, there's not enough dough to be made!" Sorry, it's a film. So you can go to the matinee on Sunday and watch it --if you can afford it. |
#154
|
|||
|
|||
A March on Washington... on Bicycle?
"KingOfTheApes" wrote in message ... This new book seems to go to the root of the problem in the jungle... "Money for bike facilities and traffic safety? Hey, there's not enough dough to be made!" 'From the contractors who built sub-standard structures in New Orleans and were told to “keep quiet”, to the whistleblowers who sacrificed their jobs to come forward and expose the cover-ups, cooked books, and cronyism nationwide within the Army Corps of Engineers, this film digs deep to unearth the truth. While scientists charged with investigating the Katrina disaster were intentionally led astray, journalists dug their heels in to get to the root of “disaster capitalism”, a process by which government insiders cash in with emergency no-bid contracts, in times of national stress. America Betrayed clearly exposes our government’s misappropriation of funds in spending its citizens’ hard-earned tax dollars on rebuilding the Iraqi infrastructure, while the bridges, dams, levees and highways in this country are crumbling. America Betrayed is a cautionary tale for those who trust their government, and hopefully a wake-up call to change the status quo in Washington.' http://americabetrayedmovie.com/main.html You are less than a sniffing, tainted, dampish ****face. You are a moiling, idle, encysted looter. You are a pimping, sun-dried, heat-releasing flummery. You frolicking, rancid, loopy yes-man. You evacuating, overweening, stodgy goblin. You stammering, motionless, just potty-trained imbecile. You are a screaking, arse-faced, overexcited arse. You are a nidificating, empty-headed, shuffling gull-catcher. You intonating, symbiotic, contrived grandma. You collapsing, illogical, teeming flirt-gill. You are less than a vomiting, baffled, melancholic death-token. You are a squalling, puppyish, blanched snot****. You are less than a dizzying, strip-mined, rash hayseed. You burning, flap-mouthed, floppy fugitive. You nitrifying, impertinent, slapstick zigzagger. You are a groveling, domesticated, ransacked telephonist. You are a freaking, droll, bearded wretch. You flopping, moldering, foppish homo. You are a farrowing, askew, abject waste of space. You bellyaching, brainwashed, pudgy gipsy. You are a stooping, stemless, squashed testicle. You are a bellowing, gushy, irreligious cornflake. You bitching, moribund, dud gimcrack. You sniffing, high voltage, overstrung pituitary gland. You waddling, light-fingered, pessimum flea beetle. You officiating, negligible, deliquescent garbage carter. You drooling, garbled, one-celled flypaper. You are less than a generalising, infective, consumptive neuter. You are a baffling, rotten, bucktooth piece of dog excrement. You cankering, disoriented, suspicious ****-knuckle. ****ing Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota |
#155
|
|||
|
|||
I am convinced bicycling is not safe
(I'm deleting one group because I can't do more than 5)
On Nov 24, 8:19*pm, "marika" wrote: "KingOfTheApes" wrote in message ... -- the price in some places is down to 1.70, though It's funny, gas prices are down, and so are SUV sales. So I guess people will have to ride bikes because they can't afford cars. Whatever the reason, the result is good, and I feel good... Yeah, that's why I get so depressed... the price of oil is going down. But then I remember that we are in the middle of a huge economic crisis and that the Big Three are trying to survive after producing so many fat SUVs, and finally I get happy. Did you see SNL this weekend. *They're the only real winners in this economic downturn because there's so much to spoof. In the Big 3 sketch, the CEOs tell Congress that they drove down in a car (gasp) and were SHOCKED to find that gas was 2 dollars, "we kid you not" they added, surprised at the unbelievably high price. Perfect, summarizes how out of touch they are. *In one blow. (I can't find the youtube of it) mk5000 " Everything's a dream when you're alone"--Swamp Thing:- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Perhaps they are so out of touch as those who live in gated communities. They have helicopters and jets to go around, so who cares about the danger SUVs pose to others or bike facilites. And then Obama, who's supposed to fix things, is only thinking about how to save the dinosaur. He can't do anything radical, right? Let me tell you one neat solution, BRING EVERY MODEL AMERICAN COMPANIES DESIGN FOR EUROPE (or where they have stocks like Opel and Ford) and produce them here, stick shift and all. Those who can't drive, let them RIDE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION or RIDE A BIKE. But that would be too much of a revolution... http://www.vauxhall.co.uk/vaux/vehic...brandCode=9 H Neat, huh? |
#156
|
|||
|
|||
I am convinced bicycling is not safe
ComandanteBanana wrote:
(I'm deleting one group because I can't do more than 5) Since you've been asked more than once by more than one person in uk.rec.cycling not to cross-post your not-particularly UK relevant tosh there, why not delete that one from your list? Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ |
#157
|
|||
|
|||
I am convinced bicycling is not safe
On Nov 24, 8:23*pm, "marika" wrote:
"KingOfTheApes" wrote in message ... Yes, the jungle is scary. I'm glad you were able to respond with specific points. I'm always a bit uncomfortable forwarding any opinion articles on such debacles (and I try to forward about an equal number from both parties' point of view), because I don't really know enough about the legislative process to know how these policies are effected, but I do know that I like to complain about it. It has become more and more clear, though, as time marches on that it is usually both parties who've conspired to do the bidding of contributors, at the expense of the individual citizen. It has also become clear that almost no propoganda directed against one party, whether by the other, or in the form of an opinion 'article' is ever entirely true. mk5000 Again, the metaphor of the jungle is perfect. Both parties are SURVIVORS of the political jungle, where they only care about their own re-election. It can be either Democratic or Republican or Independent so long as he gets things done. And he can also be gay or whatever. |
#158
|
|||
|
|||
I am convinced bicycling is not safe
"Peter Clinch" wrote in message ... ComandanteBanana wrote: (I'm deleting one group because I can't do more than 5) Since you've been asked more than once by more than one person in uk.rec.cycling not to cross-post your not-particularly UK relevant tosh there, why not delete that one from your list? Pete. Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ What would be even better if Pete the Jerk would stop posting his incredibly stupid and always wrongheaded messages to ARBR. That way we would never have to see his odious signature again. Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota |
#159
|
|||
|
|||
I am convinced bicycling is not safe
On Nov 25, 6:46*pm, "marika" wrote:
the revolution would be if you actually built the public transportation to enable people to ride it, there's not enough of it for your proposed revolution to work Oh, I have the idea that all this big money that goes to save the Big Three from their own stupidity and greed, should be put to work toward public transportation and bike facilities. It would be good and it would create great business and employment opportunities, sure to save the economy. 1. INCREASE THE PRICE OF GASOLINE, such as in Europe and Japan. The revenue so raised could be used to IMPROVE ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION*, from fast trains to the creation of BICICLE LANES along all major streets. *"A massive public works project that did not expand the deficit would help; something like a massive clean energy program or nationwide high- speed rail network financed by new taxes on pollution and fossil fuels. A more progressive tax system would help as well. Both seem inconceivable since the Bush administration wants to spend public works dollars on Mars not earth, and Congress that has just enacted tax breaks that exacerbate the wealth gap." http://www.eugenelinden.com/news280.html Actually this is how I started the revolution back in 1992 (at the time of the Rio Summit)... http://webspawner.com/users/donquijote6 |
#160
|
|||
|
|||
I am convinced bicycling is not safe
On Nov 25, 8:29*pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote:
"Peter Clinch" wrote in message ... ComandanteBanana wrote: (I'm deleting one group because I can't do more than 5) Since you've been asked more than once by more than one person in uk.rec.cycling not to cross-post your not-particularly UK relevant tosh there, why not delete that one from your list? Pete. Peter Clinch * * * * * * * * * *Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 * Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 * * * * * * *Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net * *http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ What would be even better if Pete the Jerk would stop posting his incredibly stupid and always wrongheaded messages to ARBR. That way we would *never have to see his odious signature again. That signature means that he's ready to care for a sick patient, but not for a sick world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0CIGsUV9C8 Kind of deep, huh? |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Tom Danielson March 13 1978 - March 13 2008 | [email protected] | Racing | 0 | March 13th 08 09:31 AM |
Mt. Washington BC | nrkist | Unicycling | 4 | August 28th 05 11:21 PM |
Washington Post: A Rough Ride for Schwinn Bicycle | Ed | General | 12 | December 12th 04 04:24 AM |