Re: OT - Why Denmark is Better Than Texas

[His Highness the TibetanMonkey, the Beach Cruiser Philosopher]

On Jul 15, 8:19 am, "andresm...@aol.com" <andresm...@aol.com> wrote:
> On Jul 14, 8:59 pm, "T°m Sherm@n" <""twshermanREMOVE\"@THI
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> > On 7/14/2011 5:40 PM, Peter Cole wrote:
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> > > On 7/14/2011 1:41 PM, AMuzi wrote:
> > >> His Highness the TibetanMonkey, the Beach Cruiser Philosopher wrote:
> > >>> On Jul 13, 9:34 am, Peter Cole <peter_c...@verizon.net> wrote:
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> > >>>> Good news that segregating bike traffic helps, though.
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> > >>> No, it doesn't work. Holland and Denmark are a complete failure. The
> > >>> success stories are to be found somewhere in Florida and Texas.
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> > >> Texas is a roughly $1.5 trillion dollar economy.
> > >> Denmark turns over roughly US$300 billion.
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> > >> This is not news. Here are a couple of easily found links
> > >>http://www.tradingeconomics.com/denmark/gdp
> > >>http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/01/us_equivalents
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> > > I don't know where all this is going. The only point I was trying to
> > > make is that it seems to be becoming more obvious that cycling in close
> > > proximity to MV exhaust isn't good for you and even small separation can
> > > be helpful -- something my nose told me long ago.
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> > > I don't know what the 5x GDP of Texas vs. Denmark proves, when Texas has
> > > 5x the population, too.
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> > But Texas has way more than 5 times the criminals (both white and blue
> > collar), religious nuts, ignoramuses, SUVs, sociopathic crony
> > capitalists, and other undesirables compared to Denmark.  Also more than
> > 5 times the population of homeless, untreated ill, chronically hungry,
> > and exploited low wage workers.
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> > The laws regarding victimless crimes are much more sensible in Denmark
> > than Texas, due to the population being aware of The Enlightenment,
> > rather than the socially regressive nature of Texas.
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> > Anders Fogh Rasmussen is pretty far right-wing by Danish standards, but
> > a far cry from the brutality and ignorance of Shrub Bush and Good-hair
> > Perry (not to mention the criminality of the former).
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> > Denmark has the much superior climate 9 months out of the year.  And one
> > of the best names for a bicycle manufacturer:
> > <http://www.larryvsharry.com/english/>.
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> > Tºm Shermªn - 42.435731°N, 83.985007°W
> > I am a vehicular cyclist.
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> But, but, but....Texas is the most macho, tough, god fearing state in
> the good ol' USA. Plus we have the handsomest, toughest, most macho,
> most religious , and soon to be president of the USA, Rick Perry. He
> is on a mission from god to become president so that he can minister
> to us, or so he claims. No more black communist foreigners and
> feminazis in the whitehouse.  Do I have to remind u that GHB, BWB and
> Alberto Gonzalez are all from TX?
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> Texas is also so macho that it is one of the least educated states in
> the nation, and it has cut pretty much all educational and social
> services for the state in the last budget session, despite having some
> of the richest and most powerful corporations in the WORLD. NOw, that
> is really, really macho!
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> Finally, we got CHALO, and this makes us the bestest of the best.

"The Middle Class is what has distinguished this country from the rest
of the world for hundreds of years. Not Freedom. The Brits have more
freedom than we do and did almost from the time we were breaking fee
from Great Britain. The French have real, total freedom as do the
Swedes and Danes and Dutch and Germans and Swiss….far more freedom
than we have. What we have is more geography, more space. Germany is
the size of New York State. You could put all of Eastern and Western
Europe east of the Rocky Mountains with room to spare."

http://www.populistdaily.com/politics/national-debt-solution-create-jobs-repeal-tax-cuts-nationalize-energy.html

Regrettably, this much space has not translated into more space for
bicycles...