> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:05:15 -0700 (PDT), "f. barnes"
> centurytel.net> wrote:
>

>>On Apr 30, 8:46 pm, Roger Denney yahoo.com> wrote:

>>> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:12:31 -0700 (PDT), Kurt Nicklas
>>>
>>>
>>> bellsouth.net> wrote:

>>>>April 29, 2008
>>>>California gun owners face further harrassment

>>>

>>>>http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/04/california_gun_owners_fac...

>>>

>>>>Thomas Lifson
>>>>Bookworm calls our attention to a message from the NRA about an
>>>>alarming bill being considered by California's left wing legislature,
>>>>which is gerrymandered into permanent Democrat domination.

>>> ...

> I got an auction flyer in my e-mail this morning. "By order of
> secured creditor", the half million dollar inventory of a local
> store, once Ace Hardware, will be put to public auction May 8th. It's
> in a nice shopping center, at major crossroads, in an area with
> thousands of relatively new homes. Nice homes, somewhat above average
> price homes. A place you would expect a hardware store to thrive.
> Seems the people aren't spending cash if they can avoid it.
>
> Yesterday I went to a local sub shop for lunch. Ironically, there are
> at least four food places in a long strip mall as well as a food bank
> operation. The food bank normally has signs inviting people to come
> in and donate or take as needed. Sometimes they have said they were
> out of this or...

> My tool box has only two items - a roll of duct tape and a can of
> WD-40.
>
> Instructions are simple. If it moves, duct tape it. If it doesn't,
> spray it with WD-40.

> Three percent of all homes in the entire US are completely vacant. Highest
> quarterly percentage since records started in 1956. Not for sale while
> lived in, not in progress of foreclosure, but currently...

> In article 4ax.com>, Winston_Smith
>
> bogus.net> wrote:

>> China  growing by 10%%
>> India growing by 9%%
>> Russia growing by 7%%
>> Brazil growing by 7%%
>> US loosing jobs by the tens of thousands per month.

>

>> Yet it's just a slow down, not a recession.  Boy, that $600 check is
>> going to fix everything.

>
> First, the U.S. is indeed "loosing" jobs, to other countries, and also
> is "losing" jobs, as in, "not having them anymore." But your use of the
> illiterate construction, "loosing" for "losing," is part of why America
> is losing ("loosing") the jobs war.
>
> Second, I made a lot of money, paid an enormous amount in taxes, and
> received ZERO, as in $0.00, in the "great rebate." ...