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"Mike Connor" wrote in message
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Oh, and a merry Christmas anyway.

MC

Um...we're into Happy New Year now Mike, after that we jump right into Happy Easter
while leap-froggin' right over

Three Kings Day (Dia de los Santos Reyes): January 6

Martin Luther King, Jr's Birthday: Monday, January 19

Purim (Begins at Sundown*): March 7

Baha'i New Year (Naw Ruz): March 21

Easter: Sunday, April 11

cause if it don't involve a dead supposed white guy, IT AIN'T VALID!

Mark --

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"Guyz-N-Flyz" wrote in message
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cause if it don't involve a dead supposed white guy, IT AIN'T VALID!

Mark --


OK, what about Irak liberation day?

I sincerely hope that I am never liberated by anybody at all.

TL
MC

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"Mike Connor" wrote in message
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"Guyz-N-Flyz" wrote in message
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SNIP
cause if it don't involve a dead supposed white guy, IT AIN'T VALID!

Mark --


OK, what about Irak liberation day?

Unfortunately, as a citizen of an occupying nation, it is very difficult to liberate
those whom you have occupied?

I sincerely hope that I am never liberated by anybody at all.

I sincerely hope that your hope is realized!

Personally, I'm hoping for some sort of possession--bodily or otherwise.

Mark


TL
MC

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"Wayne Harrison" wrote in message
m...

mike's observations match mine, almost precisely. and, while i
can
understand your response, i just don't think you can outlast the
windmills.


yfitons
wayno (cervantes and wisconsin are a universe apart)

Well, as you pointed out, I don't live on anything as lofty as the
Andalusian Plains and, as Jeff correctly observed, what we face here
is nothing like the giants Don Quixote had to contend with.

Mosquitoes don't require lances or fiery steeds. You just swat them
as they come around.

Small evils left untended have a tendency to grow. Mosquitoes, in and
of themselves, are generally nothing more than a nuisance. However,
they DO carry yellow fever, dengue, west Nile, and a host of other
greater ills. Smacking the little *******s will not guarantee safety
from malaria, but every little bit helps......and besides, it's simply
what one does. In the long run, nobody outlasts the mosquitoes, but
we still kill them whenever they get in range.

and that is such a waste of a very good mind.

As many have so generously taken the time to point out, there's
nothing like consensus on the quality of that mind. At any rate,
reflexive actions like swatting don't tax it all that much. I find
that what little is left is more than sufficient to my simple needs.
:)

Wolfgang

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"Guyz-N-Flyz" wrote in message
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"Mike Connor" wrote in message
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Oh, and a merry Christmas anyway.

MC

Um...we're into Happy New Year now Mike, after that we jump right into
Happy Easter
while leap-froggin' right over

Three Kings Day (Dia de los Santos Reyes): January 6

Martin Luther King, Jr's Birthday: Monday, January 19

Purim (Begins at Sundown*): March 7

Baha'i New Year (Naw Ruz): March 21

Easter: Sunday, April 11

cause if it don't involve a dead supposed white guy, IT AIN'T VALID!

Mark --

Jan 25 th.Rabbie Burns Birthday- dead white guy, haggis, scotch.

"Guyz-N-Flyz" wrote in message
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"Mike Connor" wrote in message
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Oh, and a merry Christmas anyway.

MC

Um...we're into Happy New Year now Mike, after that we jump right into
Happy Easter
while leap-froggin' right over

Three Kings Day (Dia de los Santos Reyes): January 6

Martin Luther King, Jr's Birthday: Monday, January 19

Purim (Begins at Sundown*): March 7

Baha'i New Year (Naw Ruz): March 21

Easter: Sunday, April 11

cause if it don't involve a dead supposed white guy, IT AIN'T VALID!

Mark --

Jan 25 th.Rabbie Burns Birthday- dead white guy, haggis, scotch.

"Jonathan Cook" wrote in message
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I saw that David Snedeker agreed with RD and Dave, I'd sure like
to hear your take on things. I don't know alot about the energy
business but it seems hard to dismiss the idea that y'all's
five year old kids might never own a gasoline-powered car (or any
car for that matter), than we right now will be the last ones
who can drive across country or fly around the world simply to
flyfish...

Jon
My thinking in this area is not very developed or probably convincing. But
since you asked. . . .

Basically I see in the little travel that Ive done that our (US) wasteful
usage of oil isn't the only way. Even in Europe they get lots more movement
per unit of fuel. Second, I don't think we know everything thats in the
earth or everyway to get it out. And while much of the US has been plumbed,
it looks to me that maybe half the planet is still a mystery. Thirdly, I am
amazed at how much energy I release from a chunk of fast growing maple from
the hedgerow around my little place. Which is to say that I don't think we
have scratched what there is to get from even the most basic carbon fixing
cycles.

Personally Im more concerned about fallout from the greenhouse effect, than
our ability to adapt technically, socially and economically to changes in
the supply of oil. In the short term, I am very concerned about the archaic
geopolitical approach of our country to oil, and even more concerned with
that of the Chinese. But thats another rant. :-)

Happy New Year.
Dave