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Do bicycles and cars mix? (Sierra Club and Sprawl)
"Brent P" wrote in message news:P0TCb.539971$Tr4.1473699@attbi_s03... In article , DTJ wrote: There are few Chicago cops who would do anything, even though the aforementioned asshole liberal has outlawed all self protection devices in Chicago. At best, the citizen will lose his firearm. I still remember a story that was eclipsed by a school shooting elsewhere in the country. It was of a 78 year old man who could barely walk. Some thug broke into his home intent on theft and harming him. He pulled out what the news reported as an antique revolver, my guess is that ment from the first half of the 20th century. Anyway, he killed the intruder. Charges were not likely to be pressed according to the report. But he did lose his gun and was booked if I remember right. In NC is is very clear that if you are in your house and defending yourself, nothing is going to happen to you. However, one man shot a thief in the back while he was running away from his house in Durham a few years ago. A teacher had told the student he was going to get shot if he kept up his breaking and entering just the day before. The shooter went on trial, but the jury hung and they did not retry the homeowner. It was bad form to shoot someone in the back. I understand that if he had been shot coming towards you and you thought that you were in danger, that would have been another story. In this part of the world, you need to assume every house has a gun + a pistol or both or many of the both. |
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Do bicycles and cars mix? (Sierra Club and Sprawl)
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:55:09 GMT, "George Conklin"
wrote: In this part of the world, you need to assume every house has a gun + a pistol or both or many of the both. George, maybe you should assume it is bad form to break into someone's home, whether they are going to shoot you or not. |
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Do bicycles and cars mix? (Sierra Club and Sprawl)
"DTJ" wrote in message ... On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:55:09 GMT, "George Conklin" wrote: In this part of the world, you need to assume every house has a gun + a pistol or both or many of the both. George, maybe you should assume it is bad form to break into someone's home, whether they are going to shoot you or not. While murder rates go up the further South you go in the USA, burglary rates seem to go down. |
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Do bicycles and cars mix?
Peter wrote:
A large meal provides about 1500-2000 kJ (350-500 kcal). Your definition of a 'large meal' apparently differs from mine. A single Burger King Whopper hamburger has more kcals than that and I wouldn't consider it to be a large meal by itself. That's exactly why you shouldn't eat at a junk food place. A lot of fat, which is the food stuff with the highest energy content per weight. Get vegetables and fruit instead. |
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Dr Engelbert Buxbaum wrote:
Peter wrote: A large meal provides about 1500-2000 kJ (350-500 kcal). Your definition of a 'large meal' apparently differs from mine. A single Burger King Whopper hamburger has more kcals than that and I wouldn't consider it to be a large meal by itself. That's exactly why you shouldn't eat at a junk food place. A lot of fat, which is the food stuff with the highest energy content per weight. Get vegetables and fruit instead. I do - had a snack of four large oranges (~400 kcals) yesterday evening. I didn't consider that to be a "large meal" either. As a fairly tall man who exercises regularly, I need about 3000 kcals/day. Using the average of your figures above would mean that I'd need to be eating 7 "large meals" per day. Not realistic, so I don't consider 425 kcals to constitute a large meal. |
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Do bicycles and cars mix? (Sierra Club and Sprawl)
"George Conklin" wrote in message link.net...
=v= You really have no clue what you're talking about. The organizers of the Sierra Club's campaign against sprawl are excellent people, one of whom I know personally. That means nothing to you, of course, so I'll their work speak for itself: http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/ They are elitists who are do not want the next generation to have what they already have. We have population concentration in the USA, not sprawl. They have it backwards. No sprawl in the USA?! Who are you trying to kid? The eastern seaboard is built to capacity in many areas, the midwest and most fertile valleys are a sea of farmland (needed to feed all those people) and the West is growing in places with barely enough water to sustain it. Take a look at aerial photos of Las Vegas, the Phoenix area, Los Angeles, eastern Colorado, Sacramento and the like. It's the very definition of sprawl, you fool! =v= There has been a concerted effort by the anti-immigration crowd to get the Club membership to support their goals. When put on the ballot, the membership has voted it down. They made an effort to climb onto the coattails of the popular campaign against sprawl and were rebuffed there, too. _Jym_ Just barely was it voted down, because it would tip the hands of the others, who support zero population growth anyway. Zero population growth is an excellent idea, long overdue. People who oppose it don't understand that land and resources are limited (usually a religious viewpoint). There are 290 million people in the U.S. at the moment and it's not doing our quality of life any good, unless you're in the construction business or some other pyramid-scheme industry. Growth-addiction is something to be cured, not satiated. A big appeal of America was once its wide open spaces, but you'd rather bury them in suburbs and asphalt under the pretense of creating "more wealth" or "more jobs" which would be unnecessary without more people in the first place. Growth-addiction is a true sickness. E.A. http://enough_already.tripod.com/ If any other species behaved like Man we'd call it a plague. |
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Do bicycles and cars mix? (Sierra Club and Sprawl)
"Enough Already" wrote in message om... "George Conklin" wrote in message link.net... =v= You really have no clue what you're talking about. The organizers of the Sierra Club's campaign against sprawl are excellent people, one of whom I know personally. That means nothing to you, of course, so I'll their work speak for itself: http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/ They are elitists who are do not want the next generation to have what they already have. We have population concentration in the USA, not sprawl. They have it backwards. No sprawl in the USA?! Who are you trying to kid? No one. Farmers are sprawled. Urbanites live in areas of extreme population concentration. |
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Do bicycles and cars mix? (Sierra Club and Sprawl)
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------------------------------------------------------------------------- Free software - Baxter Codeworks www.baxcode.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "George Conklin" wrote in message link.net... "Enough Already" wrote in message om... "George Conklin" wrote in message link.net... =v= You really have no clue what you're talking about. The organizers of the Sierra Club's campaign against sprawl are excellent people, one of whom I know personally. That means nothing to you, of course, so I'll their work speak for itself: http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/ They are elitists who are do not want the next generation to have what they already have. We have population concentration in the USA, not sprawl. They have it backwards. No sprawl in the USA?! Who are you trying to kid? No one. Farmers are sprawled. Urbanites live in areas of extreme population concentration. An entirely meaningless observations and specious when talking about Urban Sprawl. |
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Do bicycles and cars mix? (Sierra Club and Sprawl)
"Robert Coté" wrote in message ... In article , Really? What you are seeing is called urbanization. Los Angeles, for instance, is the densest metro area in the US. Now you are advocating against denser urbanism and in the cases od LV and Phx against using marginal open land for urbanization. First you bitch about valuable farmland being lost and then you bitch about useless desert being lost. You are not anti-sprawl, you are anti-human. Lucky for the rest of us you are not a hypocrite and we all expect you to lead by example below. In the end, the so-called anti-sprawl advocates end up by saying we have too many people in the USA and the world. But I don't see they are volunteering to become a solution to their problem by eliminating their life so the rest of us can avoid more sprawl. |
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