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I wish I could be funny about this.. some little diversion.. damn. There are two things in life that really get to me.. this is one of them.. friggin .. I don't have a word for them.. sorry.. good night friends..

I wonder if it was worth it.. sheesh.. I don't know about anybody else.. I just said a prayer for his soul..

hmm.. what if they indeed do nationalize "our" intersts.. happened in Cuba too, did it not? At the moment, I feel some compassion for the guy who bore the brunt of this stupid debacle.. they sacrificed yet another soul to this insanity..

I've never been to Gunnison.. I've been to Emporia, before they sold it.. been to Indiana campus, before that was gone.. haven't been to Tinney either. I wonder if they still have the property there..

wow.. fifty years.. hey, I'm fifty years old.. sheesh.. where was I.. did I miss something?

Well.. I wish it was closer to Michigan.. :) I'd give a second one a go.. I'm a glutton for punishment..

I enjoy it when I get it.. :) I try to live my life the best God would have me to.. but that doesn't guarantee anything. Respect is kind of like love.. can't buy it, demand it.. I know.. God's love is unconditional and all.. but people? If it comes, it comes..

I was speaking for myself. :)

It's no excuse, I agree. It's just the new economics.. economics with no morality, no conscious. I think it is in the secular relm what twi became in the religious relm. Anyone or anything is up for sacrifice to protect the corporations bottom line.. Personally, I think China has a plan. How better to destroy us, than to give "us" exactly what we want.. freedom to pollute and plunder, no or unenforced regulations... corporations are moving en masse over there. Yeah.. it's cheap labor, no regulations to deal with, at least now. Wait for the real cost. I really think it is a trap. Wait twenty, thirty years.. see how some world court slaps these industrialists silly. Can you imagine the cost of cleaning that mess up? What about restitution for what this crap is doing to the health of the Chinese people? The third generation of one chemical corporation here is now paying for the "sins" of the first generation.

I don't think the system in place in China is broken as such.. just it never worked to begin with..

One thing about respect.. if you don't expect it, you can't be disappointed..

Ahhh.. the "wailers". I knew a "man".. couldn't understand much. All he could understand though: 1. He lost his house. 2. He lost all of the possessions in his house. 3. His wife "hated" him. 4. The whole world hated him.. 5. I don't deserve it and lastly 6. Life is so unfair, I wish I would die.. The "reality" of the matter? 1. He toked enough cocaine to sink a ship. 2. He couldn't stay out of any other woman's pants if his life depended on it. 3. He physically and verbally abused his wife. 4. God only knows what else, more than what he chose to reveal publically, despite himself.. people do tend to tell the best thing about themselves.. Oh yes, the woman initiated the divorce. Wonder why? This guy still can't figure it out.. no kidding. Maybe Brothers has a point.. I've seen the same kind of cluelessness in many others..

Honestly.. to take over the "hive".. you have to smell like the "queen". I think the "man" rolled in vic's remains.. even his writings smell like the vicster..

Yeah.. a wascal, aren't I? hmmm. I wonder.. we could call this thread "the first church (or splinter) of the Juedites", coundn't we? Sorry John.. it's been a good day here at the spot.. especially good if I can manage to invoke one of exie's snorts..

considering his (geers) concerns at pop with the supposed value of the vicster's work.. I would agree with the statement. He did NOT really weigh them with "the word" or even reality for that matter. Afraid that some guy who published a juvenile paper about adultery would threaten the existence of the vicster's moghood.. you tell me.. it was ALWAYS about the vicster.. how he met him, how he showed the proper protocol, how he was soooooo daggone "obedient" when the "others" failed.. how he practiced with him, in the unlikely event someone would try to assasinate the vicster.. how the vicster was so "blesssssed" with his performance in Gartmore.. how he was supposedly the vicster's spokesman.. how he reduced people to crying in the corners of Gartmore, in the name of the vicster.. sooooo afraid.that vic's work won't survive to the next generation.. I don't know whether to think it is pitiable, or laughable.

What I wonder.. when God looks at us, is he looking in His mirror? :)

One last call on this poll before I call it a "dud"

I was thinking about this.. some of "them" really could use some kind of hotmail account or yahoo account. the_loyster@wasdaway.com no_bread_here@vegetables.net da_prophet@spiderbreath.org Ihavedalight@fallindaditch.net well, I have to have some kind of hobby here..

hmm. Well, how about: don't shop at Wally Mart. There are all kinds of options though.. 1. Don't just replace it, get it repaired. Even at half the cost of replacement.. even if you have to miss a couple soaps while waiting.. 2. Things overtly made in china.. don't buy. Buy stuff manufactered in Singapore, Indonesia, Mexico, anywhere but China. I had to buy a calculator for a particular class, but I just didn't have any choice. The damn thing was made in China.. I would have bought used if there was one.. with the global supply chain thingy, five minutes after you buy the $39.95 chinese VCR or DVD, they have another one planned to be rolling off the line. 3. Read the labels.. 4. Buy locally produced goods and produce if and when you can.. Things like cars, I don't think there is a whole lot of options.. so many parts.. some made in U.S., some Mexico, some Canada, some China.. you'd have to perform major surgery to de-China-ize a vehicle.. I think individuals have a little more power than they really think. Sometimes you can't save the world.. but you can kick the bully in the shins..

makes me wonder how much of the exported agriculture was irrigated with water from the Songhua River. Or a river just as polluted..

small as twi is these days.. I don't think it would be quite a coup, mabye more like a mugging in Central Park..

Two year old news, but things are pretty much the same today.. The Real cost of cheap goods..

I dunno how much this will really fix anything.. it gives them the public appearance that they are doing SOMETHING.. but. Maybe not in every circumstance, but I feel like a Chinese "government official" is just a back up plan.. they have a scapegoat in place to take the blame when something goes really wrong.. Same thing happened with the big benzene spill a couple of years ago. Some "official" fell on the sword for it. The government has a cheaper solution than building some kind of infrastructure to deal with toxic releases, and driving business away with harsher standards. Just lop off some poor lackey's head and claim that the government itself was not responsible.

No joke. I wouldn't seek counsel from ex-way's either. The "counsellors" are generally using the same bag of tricks.

I wouldn't advocate merely letting someone beat another either. But exiting USUALLY solves that problem. Especially if you have the luxury to see the situation escalating to that point. I know, some people can snap on a moment's notice.. that's gotta be tough.