waterfall soul
marika
I was in the Rayburn building a few years ago, to hear former Prime
Minister of Ukraine Tymoshenko speak. It was not til later in the day,
at 5.
mk5000
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From: "marika" <marik...@gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: I am convinced bicycling is not safe
>
> "KingOfTheApes" <comandan...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:722b89d9-d135-4a41...@v4g2000yqa.googlegroups.com...
>> (I guess the US is only a 3)
>>
>> Originally Posted by mlts22
>> It depends on the part of the US. Austin, you don't need gated
>> communities. However, go to some other parts of the US, and a gated
>> community with an armed guard at the entrances is a must.
>>
> I've lived in gated communities. I just never got it. All a burglar
> would
> have to do is walk around the fence. There's this absurd fantasy somehow
> that pushing a white button that you get to answer somehow bestows you
> control over your environment.
> In one such place, a rapist broke in at 4 am. He simply smashed the
> control
> box and walked in and opened the first residence door he could find.
> Thank god that for the first time in my life that night, I had locked the
> door. Don't know what came over me, but haven't stopped locking it sine.
>
> Fantasy, these gates
>
>> I'd give the US a 3, not because of where it is presently, but where
>> its headed. In Columbia, college educations are not something one goes
>> into major student loan debt for; they are considered an extension of
>> high school. Other countries are the same way, where college is paid
>> for by their governments.
>>
>
> but let me guess further: in these countries, isn't college only paid for
> in those cases where the student has a meritorious record and or where the
> student's parents have enough money to create a meritorious record?
>
>> I also give the US a 3 because of its lack of a health care system.
>
> the US doesn't lack a health care system. It lacks an inexpensive one
>
>>If
>> despised nations such as Cuba and Iran can assure that their citizens
>> get proper health care without bankrupting them and their family, why
>> can't America do the same?
>>
>> Finally, I give the US a 3 because of the lack of improvements in
>> communications and transport infrastructures. Instead of laying more
>> fiber, all the telcos and cable companies either are, or will be soon
>> charging by the bit. So, we are paying more for services as opposed to
>> less as time progresses, and this is not do to inflation. Roads too.
>> Take Austin. Most of its highways are proposed to end up as toll roads
>> (and of course this doesn't mean your commute time gets shorter...
>> just you pay 75 cents for the privilege of looking at another car's
>> bumper going home.)
>>
>
> There's an article I posted a few years ago about a guy who believes that
> many many roads should go private. The article was really well written
> and
> it makes sense. Google being as screwed as it is, I can't find anything
> anymore in its archive. But the argument was right on.
>
>> ***
>>
>> See what I mean? I was being too soft on uncivilized behavior of all
>> sorts.
>>
>> It sure seems to be heading down, but maybe, just maybe, Obama will
>> change things...
>>
>> Well, I don't know but he's the last hope that we've got before
>> Armageddon or the Revolution. Of course, I prefer the Revolution.
>>
>
> I'm indifferent to the options at this point.
>
> mk5000
>
> "It's no Earthly storm, that much is for sure. But this demon's tempest
> will
> not hold us out if we really want in!"-- Beowulf
>