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Posted by harry on November 29, 2009, 3:36 pm
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> harry wrote:
> >> harry wrote:
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> Personally I think the "tipping point" is near. There's nowhere
> >>>> left to export surplus population. Have you driven across Texas
> >>>> lately? There is *lots* of space left in the world for more
> >>>> people. That said, that does not mean that increasing the world's
> >>>> human population is a good idea.
> >>>>> We just have to keep the starving masses from our own countries
> >>>>> or they will destroy us.
> >>>> To seme extent, this has always been true. That is why we have
> >>>> immigration laws (ineffective as they may be).
> >>>>> The end of the world is nigh. Tee Hee!
> >>>> The odds are, none of us will live long enough to see it. (good
> >>>> news/bad news)
> >>>> Vaughn
> >>> I have never been to Texas. However from Hollywood propaganda it
> >>> seems to be mostly uninhabitable (desert). If the fuel shortage don't
> >>> bring disaster, the water shortage will.
> >> That's a bit like stereotyping the UK from watching "Black Adder". :-D
>
> >> Texas has a mixture of about every terrain and climate you can imagine -
> >> and the folks to our north seem to delight in pointing out that there's
> >> room in Ontario for the entire present population of the planet -
> >> without crowding.
>
> >> Last time I looked, the planet didn't seem short on water - it's just
> >> not always exactly where we want it. :)
>
> > Blackadder is exactly like the present UK government. A more prophetic
> > TV series would be hard to find. Every character in "Blackadder" is
> > to be found in our crooked, lying, scumbag government.
>
> Ah yes, and just how do you suppose people over here (most of whom are
> essentially ignorant of the political doings in the UK) are able to
> relate to it? :)
>
> > You have got rid of your scumbag gov. we won't get chance 'til next
> > year. I have to tell you, our alternative seems to be a real slippery
> > customer. I don't feel optimistic.
>
> And yet there's some cause for optimism - not that either government
> will miraculously behave well - but that ordinary citizenry in all
> countries will continue to do their best to live up to their own ideals
> and principles.
>
> It seems to be fundamental that those who think they'd like to be the
> center of attention gravitate to politics and government and that those
> same people develop the skills that win elections. Regrettably, they
> don't generally seem to have whatever it takes to use those skills for
> the benefit of their constituents.
>
> > I have visited the USA to meet up with someone I met on Google groups
> > & I know that Hollywood is all lies.
>
> Well of course - fiction is their primary industry! It's important to
> not lose sight of that...
>
> > I mean we watch NCSI and CSI here in the UK. But there are no FAT and
> > UGLY people depicted. Whereas in the US it seemed to me that 50% of
> > the folks were fat or ugly. Some poor sods were both.
>
> Agreed - but again, fiction is a /product/ and the fiction factories are
> in the business of producing a product they think will sell - and it's a
> lot easier to sell handsome/beautiful than fat/ugly.
>
> Superficially at least, 50% of every population falls into the "below
> average" catagory...
>
> > Having said that everyone was very kind and generous to me.
>
> ...and beyond superficialities, it's still possible for the "average"
> person to hold to high ideals and do their best to practice those ideals
> in everyday life. My limited observations have convinced me this is true
> everywhere in the world. As an American, I'm pleased that you were
> treated well here - as I hope you might be pleased to hear that I've
> been well-treated in the UK (and everywhere else I've had opportunity to
> visit and get to know people).
>
> > Strangely they nearly all had machine guns in the basement. Maybe
> > they don't like their neighbours.
>
> I suspect that they like their neighbors about as much and as little as
> people everywhere like their neighbors - and probably for more or less
> the same reasons. I can assure you that not liking a neighbor hardly
> ever results in shooting. :)
>
> I've never seen a full-automatic weapon outside of an official military
> or museum context, although I'm aware that a number of "souvenir" AK-47s
> were brought back from Viet Nam.
>
> There /are/ a lot of firearms in the US - and I think there are
> comprehensible reasons, and although I'm willing to discuss it
> one-on-one, I doubt that usenet would be a particularly good choice of
> venues for that dialog.
>
> --
> Morris Dovey
> DeSoto Solar
> DeSoto, Iowa USAhttp://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/
In the UK you can go to university & study politics. I imagine they
must study the topics of lies and deceit, how not to answer a
question, how to maximise one's expenses etc. They get their heads
together and come up with ridiculous ideas and because none of them
has ever seen the real world, they work it up to some no-brainer
policy.
Personally I don't think you should be in government unless you're
fifty years old & have had time to accumulate some common sense.
We now have this encroaching canker of career politicians inflicted on
us bent only in maximising their own fame and fortune.
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