Re: OT: Inflammatory Post of the Week

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 08:21:22 -0600, John Fields wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 10:01:13 +1300, "Ken Taylor" <ken@xxxxxxx>
>>"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> On 19 Nov 2005 01:48:49 -0800, bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> >John Larkin wrote:
>>> >> On 18 Nov 2005 14:48:00 -0800, bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> >Oh well.It can't be too long now before the international bankers who
>>> >> >are now financing the U.S. balance of payments deficit finally lower
>>> >> >the boom, and silly extravangances - like pointless military
>>adventures
>>> >> >in Iraq - are going to be off the menu, along with cheap gasoline.
>>> >>
>>> >> How does that old saying go, something like "If you owe a banker a
>>> >> thousand dollars, you're in trouble; if you owe him a million, he's in
>>> >> trouble."
>>> >>
>>> >> Only substitute "trillion."
>>> >
>>> >A truism so well-known that even nternational bankers understand it,
>>> >whch is why the boom will be lowered earlier rathr than later. As long
>>> >as the US had assets left to sell off, everybody was happy to let them
>>> >go their extravagant way, but the bottom of that particular barrel has
>>> >now been well-scraped, and no amount of creative book-keeping is going
>>> >to persuade anybody to buy the residual junk.
>>> >
>>> >> >Hope Jim likes cycling.
>>> >>
>>> >> He works at home!
>>> >
>>> >And lives under house arrest? That figures..The intermittent boasting
>>> >about over-engined cars is just pure nostagia from the days when he
>>> >could use a car to visit his kids and his like-thinking friends (and
>>> >you wouldn't want to live within gunshot of his like-thinking friends,
>>> >would you ....).
>>>
>>> Your reflexive (and uninformed) carping becomes tedious. Your only
>>> pleasures seem to derive from predicting misfortune and deploring the
>>> lives of others. This seems, if I dare to generalize, peculiarly
>>> European.
>>>
>>> Jim and I are doing good work and having fun. You might give that a
>>> try.
>>>
>>> But the real question is, do you think adding the rocket launchers
>>> would detract from the beauty of my Golf?
>>>
>>They'd look good in the buggy, but personally I don't think golf is such a
>>beautiful game. :-)
>
> It's particularly un-American in that the better you are the _lower_
> your score is!^)

I've been known to shoot in the low 60's, but if it gets any colder than
that, I don't even play. ;-P

Cheers!
Rich


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