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With the fallen pound and some significantly reduced prices,
now is a good time to buy.

Stephen

Stephen Pelc wrote:

So the Colonies are doing well?

I couldn't resist.
It *IS* election season on this side of Pond.

On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:46:37 -0500, Richard Owlett
atlascomm.net> wrote:

I should have said rising dollar - more positive, y'know.

You'll probably elect the wrong one ... ;-}

Stephen

stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) wrote:

I wish we had a right one to choose. It usually seems like voting
against the worst candidate.

McCain at least looks like an improvement. No sign of cocaine use. He
might have recovered a lot from 5 years as a POW, that's got to be worse
for PTSD than just a couple of years of combat. I'd feel better about
him if I knew he'd done some therapy for it, but he isn't likely to
announce "My mental problems are 100%% cured".

Of course he'd be likely to die in office leaving us with somebody who
apparently has never made a serious government mistake and corrected it.
That's pretty scary.

"Slow down, you're driving way too fast."
"I've been driving for three years and I've never had an accident."
"You'll never have but one."

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 12:05:02 -0700, Jonah Thomas wrote
(in article <20080904150502.304121e5.jethomas5@gmail.com>):

Well, presidents don't run the government. They run the military. Military
mistakes are much easier to fix.

I had also thought about the mental health effects if his imprisonment.
McCain has rarely talked in detail about his POW experience. The act of being
"broken" seems to have changed him from the infallible fighter jock to a
thinking feeling human. He still has difficulty describing how he was
"shamed" and how his fellow prisoners were crucial to his surviving the
experience. Not to put too much on it, but it brings to mind the soul of
Moses being forged in the desert of the Sinai. Now I think it was a good
thing, for us anyway. Sucked to be him. Can't raise his arms, etc.

Palin versus Hillary, Biden, Obama? I don't know. Governors don't get to vote
"present" or not show up at all. Our best presidents tend to be governors
first. Throw in -not a lawyer- and we can start celebrating now! Reminds me
of Teddy R. whose photo is on my wall. Go Bull Moose Party!

Charlie Springer wrote:

Presidents run the executive (administrative) part of government, of
which military is but a part. And if military mistakes are "easy" to
fix, how come we haven't fixed Iraq yet?

Charlie Springer regnirps.com> wrote:

It is thus you console me?

Jonah Thomas wrote:

The first definition of politician in
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/politician is:

"a person experienced in the art or science of government;
especially: one actively engaged in conducting the business of a government"

My wife was elected Supervisor for the township in which we live. So
she is a politician. One of the hardest-working most civic minded
politicians I know. But then I'm biased.

Perhaps dropping this off-topic discussion was a good suggestion.

-Doug

Doug Hoffman talkamerica.net> wrote:

I'm glad for you and your town.

Agreed. I'm done.

On Sep 7, 1:22 am, Elizabeth D Rather forth.com> wrote:

Because it's not broken. Wars are very profitable, that's why we have
them. The fact that not everyone invited to the party has fun is of
secondary importance. The Iraq war will continue until it's no longer
profitable.

Some people wish that world peace will come, and others just know it.
I know it.

-Brad