Do you think you could fix your Shift Key? I said: "like ethanol FFVs"... which is Mr. Daschle's pork... when he's not stealing U.S. err, "military surplus" equipment. Hmm, carry a big stick. The lack of "self-sustaning" is precisely why the U.S. has such a strong interest in political stability around the world. With the rogues who are in high positions in the U.N., somebody has to pick up the slack. No need to apologize to the French - they did quite well out of the Iraq Oil-for-food fraud. Total siphoned up the err, spare oil, BNP-Paribas got to hold the escrow account -- which the CPA had a helluva job prising from their grubby hands -- and a few high officials pocketed the spoils - no wonder the buggers didn't want us to invade. Rgds, George Macdonald "Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me??
the idea was a lil "thank you" for "electing" him. want pork? when one of halliburtons trucks in iraq gets a flat tire, they buy a new truck. thats pork.
and propping up israel. or start wars. we have never "won" a war weve started. and we dont want to drill for more of our oil until weve used all yours first.
That's some powerful market force that can fluctuate the price of gas by over 20% in a matter of couple of hours. Pars
Who knows, perhaps the large sedans are next on the chopping block. It'd be cool to see a city that only has mini cars. Pars
If you think what we have now is efficient, you must be smoking crack. A third of the money goes toward just administering the private insurance maze. The Wall St. Journal published an article a few weeks ago which discussed a study showing that, when measuring outcomes, the US medical care was no better (or worse) overall than several other selected countries (I seem to recall UK, Canada and Japan). The other countries had nationalized health care (of course) and spent only a fraction of what we do. They also published a survey about a week ago showing that 63% of Canadians were very or somewhat satisfied with their health care compared to 48% in the UK and 27% in the US.
US military spending is way ahead of China and everyone else. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040611.html Top ten military budgets. The WMEAT list (in billions): (1) U.S., $281.0; (2) mainland China, $88.9; (3) Japan, $43.2; (4) France, $38.9; (5) UK, $36.5; (6) Russia, $35.0; (7) Germany, $32.6; (8) Italy, $23.7; (9) Saudi Arabia, $21.2; (10) Taiwan, $15.2.
How? What is the implementation? Who is going to be nominated to decide what is too big and how is he going to fo that? Do you think they'll stop at what you perceive as "mini car"? Are they going to have car-size police, like we now have tobacco police in certain places? Hmm, why stop at mini-cars? I'm sure that the same people who want to ban SUVs will be only too ready capitalize on a complete car ban when it suits them. Then they'll move on to regulating bicycles. Are you getting the idea yet?;-) If people behave like sheep, they deserve to be treated like sheep. Rgds, George Macdonald "Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me??
Evidence for that last sentence and the fate of the truck with the flat tire!! It's a very small piece of pork compared with the costs to the U.S. population of the creation of a support system for freak vehicles like FFVs and the biomass fuel to run them... at an unsustainable energy loss. Rgds, George Macdonald "Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me??
(Gordon McGrew) wrote in I wasn`t refering to the money end. the care is for the most part the fastest and most efficient in the world. There is a reason those with money come to the US for health care. The cost is outrageus because the people are insulated from the real cost by insurance, paid for by the employer much of the time, so they go for every little thing, driving the cost up even more. Get rid of insrance paying the bill directly with a medical savings account and let the people shop for their doc and you would see a big change when they pay the bills directly. KB This means nothing since perception is not reality. the US respondents think they are owed health care. Since ins. pays they have no clue how good they have it. No one is owed health care. ownly in the last generation has this crazy notion been put forth. In the past it was known you had to pay for it yourself. KB
The situation in Iraq now is much worse than it was under Saddam, nobody can deny this. Iraq has evolved into the largest terrorist state and this is raising oil prices worldwide. Hopefully it will get better (for everyone's sake), if not and Iraq's neighbors become unstable, I see myself riding a mule to work. As far as SUVs go, they are hostile to other cars both in a crash AND in parking lots, too big, high bumpers etc. BTW, my friend's comment was that "the French don't make a SUV worth shit" that's the reason they don't want them. I still stand "SUVs don't belong in city centers" because none of the SUVs owned by people I know (lots of SUVs) have ever been off road (on purpose LOL).
Are you aware, Sputnikbreath, that Germany's had national health coverage since Bismarck (not the herring) united Germany circa 1870, i.e., more than 130 years ago? It's simply not an issue in Europe, not even old Adolf & his merry band of Nazis sought to undo that.
So what? If Japan, NATO members and Korea actually paid for their own defense instead of the US doing it for them this would not be the case.
by that reasoning we should all be driving smart cars as somebody mentioned. relative to smart cars ALL american cars pose a similar threat as SUVs do. so get out of you big honkin accord and drive a smart car...it'll make parking lots smaller and cause less fatalities
In Canada, the guys controlling, Sunoco, Shell, Petro Canada, Esso (which comprises about 95% of the gas stations in Toronto) probably go golfing together. Personaly, I'm not upset about the actuall price of gas, I just hate getting my chain yanked. Pars 98 DX Hatch
There shouldn't be any conflicts between 'freedom to choose' vs 'quality of life for future generation'. A dumb animal may unwittingly consume everything until there's nothing left and go extinct. I'd like to think that we're a little smarter then that. If we can't curb our own appetite, then some freedoms need to have controls. Pars
