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socialism doesn't say help the people... Socialism says "What is more important, the individual or the state?" In a socialist state, if you aren't worth saving (medical costs, say) you don't get what you need. Period. What it really comes down to is what is more important? Freedom to do what...

I've also seen it here at Safeway. If anyone's interested, I'll price it and see..you pay for postage and I don't need ot make any $ on it.

SWAP shoes. We are people who always wear footwear -- when you live in a 200 year old house with rough wooden floors (we don't anymore but did for 10 years. They say 'they don't build 'em like they used to' and this is true. In some ways things are better now, in some ways worse) you always...

awesome, thanks! I managed to find an electromatic percolator that I don't think has ever been used. It still has its instructions! I think I know, now, why the percolators lost their epoxy. I think too many people kept the coffee hot in them too long - and with too little liquid, causing the...

Heinlein? Panthera, you're a Heinlein fan too? WAY COOL! And 160F hot water - another bygone thing. (I'm glad to have a tankless hot water heater at home, it means you can have any temperature of water at any time instantly). Of course, my favorite phrase of Heinlein's goes without saying...

47th Street Photo is another one The store 47th Street Photo is another one. Nate

statistics my wife and I met, 24 years ago, in a statistics class. What's the probability of that?

Perhaps... Perhaps we, as Americans, are too addicted to stress and feeling like 'oh I just need 10 extra minutes!' I see your point about driving 600 miles in a day - but realistically, most of us DON'T. Assume you have a 60 mile commute - long, but not unreasable. You're talking approximately...

55 is annoying, but 55 mph is annoying, but.... Consider this: One a 300 mile trip, 65 mph will take 4.6 hours. 55mph will take 5.45 hours. We are talking about 50 minutes here, on a trip of 300 miles. On a trip of 60 miles, the difference is about 6 minutes. Yet the fuel savings are...

Panthera.... As a person who lives within a few hours of you, you have a friend when you return to the USA. Sorry about your family. You have my sympathy. Nate

these cars look interesting... Are they really between 11,000 and 14,000? A lot for such a small car, but for commuting it'd be great. What is interesting, is that one thing that would SERIOUSLY lower our fuel usage is this: return to the national speed limit of 55mph. But yet, no one talks...

way to go. This is a great effort. (You know, I think that EVERYONE should be 'domestic partners.' That means, you can afford legal protection to those you care about and who care about you, yet if your CHURCH does not want same sex couples to marry, they don't have to do it. But, if you're a...

how bout that. Panthera, you said it better than I could!!

How about that!! Panthera, Your comments are exactly why I believe the American Right and American Left are exactly the same. "Green" and "Conservative" aren't that far apart - both seek to CONSERVE -- the world itself. Too bad that in the USA 'green' is a marketing phenomena, not really an...

In general, I believe... ...the government that governs best, governs least. I don't understand why so many people, on the right and on the left, who profess to mistrust government, wants to yield so many powers to it. Huh? Isn't this counter intuitive? Nate

interestingly enough... I see both sides of the political coin in the USA trying to keep the polarization going. The dems are always saying the repubs are evil and vice versa. What the current Bush admin has done to the country is truly, truly, criminal. However, you can dig up dirt like that...

hope you're better soon buddy... Hope things go well and y ou're better soon. Nate

I haven't been able to figure out why, either. Panthera, you have a great point. WHY? Is it because Americans are so unimaginative that these products never make it to here -- even though they are engineered and in many instances built here? I still can't understand why a country that has...

god that's the same toaster oven I had when growing up. Does it still pop open when the toasting cycle is done?

Hamfests? if you have any 'hamfests' or 'ham flea markets' (amateur radio) around your way, you may find them there.