May 5, 2011 -- 8:06PM, JohnQ wrote:
"Some have given former Pres Bush a lot of credit for the demise of UBL/OBL. Some have given him little to no credit.
Is he receiving enough credit or too much credit?"
A day later catboxer replied:
In my opinion, he's getting precisely the right amount.
Another chelloveck quoted a pretty good item from some bircher wrag which read:
Conservative economists, commentators, and politicians are blasting a draft Obama administration plan that envisions using Big Brother-like tracking devices on private cars to tax drivers on how many miles they travel.
The new tax scheme, designed to help fund transportation spending, would determine your mileage by installing electronic equipment on your car. This would involve monitoring your location and how far you’ve traveled.
And the inevitable reply:
What I'd like to know is why they're going through all this song and dance with tracking devices and electronic monitoring and whatnot, when they could achieve the exact same results by just raising the gas tax.
Plus if they did that they wouldn't have the expense of setting up this whole hypercomplex mileage gestapo. It would yield enough revenue to build trains with, and gas would be more expensive so people would drive less.
Well I could drive my kar or hop on a bus,
But if I catch the train I know I'll get there, and I must
Get to Sequim, West Kansas, Sequim, West Kansas here I come
They got some paranoid-critical women there, etc.
OK one more.
May 6, 2011 -- 12:05PM, KindredSai wrote:
I'm all for the US and UK ploughing money into Pakistan in terms of health services and education because it will reduce extremism.
And then the inevitable platitude issues from the catboxx (but it's a true one which makes it OK):
Now you're talkin.
Kind of like the old slogan "Make love, not war" in action. Works better than dropping cluster bombs on em and costs less too.
See that, Bob? We had er right the first time.
Painting by Salvador Dali: The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft.
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