The dust bowl???Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
I think you pulleth our legs.
:D
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The dust bowl???Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
I think you pulleth our legs.
:D
As I noted in post #365. I wasn't the one who took it off track (this time ;) ), that was done while I was enjoying our great southwest.Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
"When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous."
- Mitt Romney as quoted in the LA Times, 23 Sep 2012
Mitt Romney pulls in $6 million at Beverly Hills fundraiser - latimes.com
What is this I don’t even...
Maybe it's because airplanes travel at heights more than 29,000ft where the air is less dense and needs to be pressurized to keep the occupants breathing. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that allowing the windows to be opened would create lots and lots and lots of holes that need to be sealed, and having them leak pressure is not desirable.
This is cloud-cuckoo-land territory.
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Originally Posted by BDunnell
That's the case now and it has been since there was a United States.
Modern "conservatives", many as astute as we see here to our continuimg amazment and dismay---being bereft of any history, forget just how much all US Governments have given away things---for the betterment of the commonwealth.
People and Governments them were not this neo-corn-servative "every man for himself and all against one" repulsive sickening greed mentality which some, beneficiaries of generations of shared giving by the Government, rant and rave against, now that they're fat dumb and happy.Quote:
Canal land grants:
Total 4,424,073.06 acres (17,904 km2)
Railroad Grants:
The first grants were given to the Mobile and Ohio and Illinois Central Railroads in 1850.[2] Additional grants were made under the Pacific Railway Acts between 1862 and 1871, when they were stopped due to public opposition. In total, 79 grants were made, totaling 200,000,000 acres (810,000 km2), later reduced to 131,000,000 acres (530,000 km2).[2]
Homestead Act, free land just given away:
Eventually the federal government granted 1.6 million homesteads and distributed 270,000,000 acres (420,000 sq mi) of federal land for private ownership between 1862 and 1934, a total of 10% of all lands in the United States.[4] Homesteading was discontinued in 1976, except in Alaska, where it continued until 1986.
This reminds me of when George H.W. Bush visited a grocery store and asked the cashier what the bar code scanner was, :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rollo
only stupider and more disconnected. :laugh:
Rollo, you are a very intelligent person. You often opt to pick too soft targets for your critique, though and that, in my eyes, somewhat diminishes the value of your contribution to the discussion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rollo
Conservatives, neo-conservatives, right, left, center... I believe we are confusing ourselves by sticking to the political vocabulary of the last two centuries to describe and analyse the modern day reality. These days various segments of the society group themselves along different lines and that traditional left/right paradigm no longer works. Even in the world of economics the lines of division between the free market and government regulation are very mich blurred. It's about time to refresh our thinking.Quote:
Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
I agree. The labels are useless and are 'code words" anyway.. The use of the words is intended to be like a 'recognition sign" and supposed to infer some kind of complex shared set of beliefs, but its rediculous..Quote:
Originally Posted by Rudy Tamasz
What would you suggest calling these "theoretical social Darwinists"?
I know what I would call them but the moderators in their selective enforcement already dish out absurd warnings and threats of lifetime bannation so I gotta keep "clam".
I am glad to read that and while here, I want to inform you that those threats about off-topic posts were referring to that particular thread. So please stop mention that all the time thank you.Quote:
Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
Well we only can go by what we read that you wrote... you seem pretty selective and "generous' with your demerits as many others have commented on that over the years, and I've been given "demerits" or whatever you call them merely for saying things "seem" like something or for agreeing with Bdunnel...Quote:
Originally Posted by pino
Quite an inhibiting presence you and several others bring to honest discussion.
Perhaps you could be a little clearer and trouble yourself to answer when people take their time to honestly inquire what specifically you mean or was "offensive' when you're barking out your warnings, because we can't just guess what you mean..