OT - Time to reevaluate?

That's awfully extreme, Nick. I'm in favor of just granting California independence. And then installing 20-foot-high razor wire all around it.

Ed Huntress

Good idea, Ed. We have enough of the riff-raff that has migrated from the eastern areas. Would be good to keep any more from getting in. Worse than swarms of locusts.

michael

On Sat, 08 May 2004 02:06:47 GMT, "Ed Huntress" brought forth from the murky depths:

Why punish Floridians like that? I mean, how would they get their orange juice if Kalifornia were cut off from the rest of the states? And to whom would Florida sell their own oranges and juice? (If you don't believe this happens, have Gunner tell you. Most of the origins of juices on CA shelves were from out of state. It couldn't have changed much in the 2 years since I left, could it? Well, other than the Governator .)

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Me too! The sooner the better.

Al Moore "Have you been rude to a tourist today?"

I used to thing New Yorkers were the worst. Now I've got a thing about Austrian body builders...

Al Moore

Hmm.....Let me think about this one.

Let's see... Agricultural Production and Exporting California #1, Florida #12

Total Ag. exports California $7.6B, Florida $1.2B

But we were talking about just fruit exports so what does that amount to California $1.7B, Florida $622M

OK, it's a deal, fence us off. And no sneaking in for groceries when you get hungry. :-)

Richard Coke

Hey, it'll bring the dairy industry back to Wisconsin. :^)

Tim (rolling up the windows :o )

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The rest of the country will be a "skurvy crew"

Gunner

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. - George Orwell

Be careful of those fruit exports. We got a bunch of them back when AIDS was taking hold.

Ship 'em to the Middle East, or something.

One wonders if you are familiar with what went on in the Spanish civil war, and of course whether you have actually read "Homage to Catalonia"?

I guess not because the above short passage from Orwell, actually refers to the threat to democracy from people very like yourself!

Speaking of democracy, how about a vote as to whether or not to execute brain fart? Certainly sounds democratic to me. All in favor......Aye!

George S. Patton

Interesting that you sign yourself George S. Patton............why not H.Kissinger, R.Nixon, C.Manson, or any one of the others of thousands of nutters and war criminals that have figured so prominenently in US history?

As an amateur student of military history..Ive some idea of what went on..

He was talking about Buddhist Libertarians? Damn!

Gunner

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. - George Orwell

Personally I think the US has shipped quite enough to the middle east already!

But I guess when the next larger scale 9/11 attack happens, you are going to realise that very well.

In recent weeks the pictures of Nazi style treatment of Iraqi detainees, is perhaps also something that will surely have strenghened the resolve of the many terrorist groups intent on attacking the US!

Aye!!1

Generalissimo Quinatin, Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion of the XVth International Brigade of the Spanish Republican Army

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. - George Orwell

Well, I thought about using Brain Death, Puke Brain, Brain Damage, and a host of other similar crap, but I prefer to be associated with a better class of people.

Festus Haggin

Unfortunately..the bombing in the North WAS working, along with the mining of Haipong harbor etc etc.

The North would start a spate of calls for peace talks, we would stop the bombing..they would fillibuster and it would be back to business as usual. Even Giap admitted using it as a ploy repeatedly.

Gunner

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. - George Orwell

This is what's wrong with this country. We could never fight an effective war simply because we like folks too much. We send soldiers overseas to kill, but then we get all worked up that they're hurting folks.

Doesn't matter that we flew one of those HC130 gunships over a town and blasted everthing that moved during one entire night - what matters is that there's some bizzare S/M stuff going on in that prison. What sells airtime, the hail of lead that falls down in faluja, or the dog collar stuff?

We should not get involved in stuff that we can't finish.

Jim

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