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16705 messages, Last post on Nov 25, 2009 at 6:56 PM
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rocky: yes, you were missed...I began to feel my brain turning to slush as I would pontificate on how Detroit is dead and unions are killing us, and I kept thinking, "I need someone to dispute my thinking, even if they are wrong (...   ...)...someone to keep me on my toes, just to show me how the other half thinks...I knew a topic like UAW would eventually bring you back, as you are magnetized by it as much as I am...selling many cars, I hope??? Imidaz: I read somewhere, recently, (sorry, no cite) that Canada's oil may not be usuable by the USA...something about the oil sands (which has 3X the oil of the Middle east, I believe) that if it gives off too many particles in refining then our environmental rules will prevent us from using the oil...my specific facts are wrong (I wish I had the article) but supposedly there is something that may prevent us from using a source of oil closer, safer, more friendly, and more voluminous, all because the wackos would rather see us all use bicycles...
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Replying to: marsha7 (Mar 17, 2008 7:00 am) The wackos kept us from building refineries, windmills, nuclear power stations. Next they'll block an available source of oil. American Axle: Top Bargainers at Table |
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One of my problems (among the many) is that I read a lot of blurbs on the Internet and in many of the alternative publications I receive in the mail (meaning sources other than US News, Time, Newsweek, etc), so when I read something that piques my thinking, and then someone posts here about a topic, I really don't remember where I read it, so I cannot publish a cite...it bugs me, because I do not like to sound like I make this stuff up, but quoting a cite would certainly give folks a chance to read what I read without my "interpretation"...
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Replying to: marsha7 (Mar 17, 2008 4:10 pm)  Kip |
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A little more commentary on the American Axle strike... Deja Vu All Over Again |
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...but thought provoking email somebody sent me: Subject: Tax Rebate This morning President Bush said each one of us would get a $1200.00 tax rebate. It was previously slated to be $1400.00, but they dropped it to a $1200.00 tax rebate because of various budget problems. Now, if we spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China, if we spend it on computers, most of the money will go to Korea or India . If we spend it on gasoline it will all go to the Arabs.....and none of these scenarios will help the American ec onomy. We need to keep that money here in America .....so the only way to keep that money here at home is to drink beer, gamble, or spend it on prostitution. Currently it seems that these are the only businesses still left in the U.S. 
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Replying to: lemko (Mar 18, 2008 3:26 am) The auto industry will lead the US out of this miserable economy. Watch Michigan and when things start getting better there the US will follow. And we jsut heard that Michigan home sales in the last few months have steadied out from plummeting so maybe things are getting better already. Of course 3.35 gas may stick a knife in that theory. |
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I have to agree with you, including the games bet on by referees. That has to be watched closer by David Stern and the front office of the NBA. That's whacked. Have you ever watched a game that you feel is not being called fairly by the referees? Think back to Super Bowl 40 between Pittsburgh and Seattle. The referees made sure the Stealers won that game. For an NBA example, in the 1993 NBA playoffs between the Phoenix Suns and the Seattle Sonics, in a game in Phoenix, the Suns shot 63 free throws and the Sonics shot only 27. What the? That's dirty referee treatment, that's what that is. Gambling is alive and well in the U.S., gentlemen car freaks. I guarantee it. Yesterday at the mini-mart I was trying to pay for my $3.24/gallon 87 no-lead gas, and I had to wait for about 5 minutes(at least)while the blond woman ahead of me picked out her various assundry lotto tickets. Yikes.
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Replying to: iluvmysephia1 (Mar 18, 2008 10:23 am) |
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are there happily with cash in hand. My Mom sent me some newspaper clippings from the Everett Herald(newspaper from a city just north of Seattle)that featured the latest millionaire lotto winner. Turns out the winner was my friend from high school. After taxes he and his wife will net about $850,000. Decent pocket change. He's decided to keep his job at the north Everett mini-mart he has become an institution working at. He's worked as a clerk there for about 18 years! Umm, no, I'm not gonna try and collect on that money he owes me, either. Just kidding. I mean...he doesn't owe me any money! |
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