The Pankian Metaphor wasGoodbye to USENET 3010

Yup... What do they call it ? "Unrepeatable error"...

Louisiana, and I live a long way away, seemed to me to be a problem with people being appointed to do a job, dozing away the years, then suddenly having to do something to justify themselves, and failing . We have heard of Louisiana politicians even here. Also, it was incredibly badly handled by the government, publicity wise. Which counts (Grammer, hey!)

Some people are just stupid. The called it the `Joe Kennedy' situation here, after the story about Joe getting advice from his shoe shine boy as he went to work, deciding to get out of the market when even shoe shine boys were gambling, and surviving '29. A local femenist socialist, Nell McCafferty, here was advising people to invest in Internet stocks, time to get out. AFAIK, pension plans in a lot of companys have not recovered yet.

Shia, Sunni.. The gulf war was was not about religion, it was caused by Saddam Hussein's belief that if he attacked Iran, while it was in its postrevolutionary phase, resistance would collapse. He was advised in this by the US and financed by Saudi Arabia, to the tune of billions of dollars.. Rather like the German attack on Russia in 1941, he confused his wishes with cold knowledge.. Kinda like the US-UK attack on Iraq, too.

What I think you are on about is the proposed anti-spam charge on E-mail by big providers in the US?.. AFAIK, not all ISP are going to charge it. The basis of a free society is the ability to turn about leave the shop, and go to another. Or am I wrong?.

Political parties in power always finish up trying to reduce peoples freedoms. Fact. No matter what party is in power, they have to get the civil service working with them, and the officials want to reduce peoples freedoms. Goes back to Sumer.

Everyone know that, but it's unpopular to do anything. Everyone is being conditioned to expect 10% rises in property yearly.

`Big Dig'??

-- greymaus Just Another Grumpy Old Man