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  #501  
Old August 3rd 06, 03:44 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc,rec.autos.driving,alt.planning.urban,rec.bicycles.soc,rec.bicycles.rides
Bill Baka
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Default WHERE'S THE POLITICAL WILL?

Matthew Russotto wrote:
In article ,
Bill Baka wrote:
Has anyone here tried taking a stroll in NYC's central park at night?
You are asking to get mugged.
Europe has a whole different crime rate.


Not any more. Europe has gotten more dangerous while NYC has gotten
dramatically safer.


Too many Muslim immigrants?

Flame bait, not serious.

Bill Baka
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  #502  
Old August 3rd 06, 03:49 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc,rec.autos.driving,alt.planning.urban,rec.bicycles.soc,rec.bicycles.rides
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RJ wrote:
Bill Baka wrote:

RJ wrote:
Bill Baka wrote:

The automakers have been keeping the obvious from the public who seems
to buy all the crap they can hand out.
Yeah, and they bought the rights to the 100 mpg carburetor just so we
would have to buy more gas, right?

That was always a myth. Computer controlled fuel injection is about as
close as we are going to get. Most of the energy is wasted as exhaust
heat and radiator heat. Use that and you might get close to 100 MPG.
Bill Baka


Whoosh.


Whoosh meaning what?
Carbs are very imprecise except at a few certain set points.
If there was a way to use all the waste heat to power some kind of steam
engine then you would have a 100 MPG car, at least on the freeway. Stop
and go traffic almost 100% demands electric for start stop and parking
lot driving conditions.
Bill Baka
  #503  
Old August 3rd 06, 03:59 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc,rec.bicycles.soc,rec.bicycles.rides,alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent
Bill Baka
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Default I think we need a smarter president

Edward Dolan wrote:
"Tim McNamara" wrote in message
...
[...]

[newsgroups trimmed]

Human progress is continuous despite the misguided efforts of
some conservatives to prevent it and to keep us trapped in the
Eisenhower Years.


Those were golden years following our victories in W.W.II. It has been all
downhill ever since. America is being eroded and destroyed by
multiculturalism. I blame liberalism for all our woes. Yea, we will never
see such a golden age again as those Eisenhower years.

Human progress is anything but continuous. I have never read anything so
asinine in my life.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota


I was going to stay out of this flame war but for once I have to agree
with Dolan.
Sorry, but he is right.
Bill Baka
  #504  
Old August 3rd 06, 04:36 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc,rec.autos.driving,alt.planning.urban,rec.bicycles.soc,rec.bicycles.rides
Roger Houston
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Default WHERE'S THE POLITICAL WILL?


"donquijote1954" wrote in message
oups.com...

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And who for the bikes, the indigents?


Please leave religion out of this.


  #505  
Old August 3rd 06, 04:40 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc,rec.autos.driving,alt.planning.urban,rec.bicycles.soc,rec.bicycles.rides
Roger Houston
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"Bill Baka" wrote in message
...

Someone please explain why military service is so damned important to get
elected? It invokes visions of taking orders from others to go and storm a
hill and get shot because someone of higher 'rank' told you to. Is this
the mark of a leader or a follower?
Many of the brightest among us have a high level college degree like a
Masters or Ph.D. (or 2 or 3) and would have never considered being a
military grunt.


News flash: Enduring years of school doesn't make you bright, either. Enjoy
your privilege, but don't forget why you post in English instead of German,
Japanese or Arabic.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand
ready to do violence on their behalf.



  #506  
Old August 3rd 06, 05:05 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc,rec.autos.driving,alt.planning.urban,rec.bicycles.soc,rec.bicycles.rides
Bill Baka
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Roger Houston wrote:
"Bill Baka" wrote in message
...
Someone please explain why military service is so damned important to get
elected? It invokes visions of taking orders from others to go and storm a
hill and get shot because someone of higher 'rank' told you to. Is this
the mark of a leader or a follower?
Many of the brightest among us have a high level college degree like a
Masters or Ph.D. (or 2 or 3) and would have never considered being a
military grunt.


News flash: Enduring years of school doesn't make you bright, either. Enjoy
your privilege, but don't forget why you post in English instead of German,
Japanese or Arabic.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand
ready to do violence on their behalf.



True.
And if Viet Nam had been a real war I would have happily joined, but not
for an idealistic clash which made victims out of the people in a far
away land.
Military service is good when a war is to be fought, but not for
political leverage.
Bill Baka
  #507  
Old August 3rd 06, 05:18 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc,rec.bicycles.soc,rec.bicycles.rides,alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent
Johnny Sunset aka Tom Sherman
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Default I think we need a smarter president


Tim McNamara wrote:
In article ,
"Edward Dolan" wrote:

"Tim McNamara" wrote in message
... [...]

[newsgroups trimmed]

Human progress is continuous despite the misguided efforts of some
conservatives to prevent it and to keep us trapped in the
Eisenhower Years.


Those were golden years following our victories in W.W.II. It has
been all downhill ever since. America is being eroded and destroyed
by multiculturalism. I blame liberalism for all our woes. Yea, we
will never see such a golden age again as those Eisenhower years.


The Golden Age was document on TV in such classics as "Father Knows
Best." Unfortunately the reality of those Golden Years was rather
different, but conservatism likes its sepia colored glasses.

Human progress is anything but continuous. I have never read anything
so asinine in my life.


Cheers to you too, Ed (and fellow Minnesotan). You fail to understand
that history has controlling trends, and that conservatism is constantly
fighting a rearguard action that it is doomed to lose. That you choose
to blame liberalism for all our woes just shows that you're an idiot.


Tim,

You seem to have overlooked the possibility that Mr. Ed Dolan the Grate
is not an idiot, but merely incorrigible provocateur.

--
Tom Sherman - Behind the Cheddar Curtain
Impact is not a synonym of affect or effect

  #508  
Old August 3rd 06, 06:15 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc,rec.autos.driving,alt.planning.urban,rec.bicycles.soc,rec.bicycles.rides
Raptor
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David L. Johnson wrote:
On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:14:52 +0000, R Brickston wrote:

The question would be, why are there no new refinieries being built?

The environmentalists won't allow it.


It's amazing the power that these "environmentalists" hold. I'm confused,
though. I thought the Republican Party had both houses of the U.S.
Congress, along with the White House. In addition, they hold most
governorships and many state legislatures. How and where is it that these
evil "environmentalists" hold so much power? Or are the Republicans
"environmentalists"?


The evil environmentalists can't stop a refinery from being built. Only
in certain areas.

Oil companies haven't built any new refineries because environmental and
other regulations make new refineries "unprofitable."

Their profits are, of course, breaking records.

--
Lynn Wallace http://www.xmission.com/~lawall
I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the
trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view,
the most insidious of traitors."
George H.W. Bush, April 16, 1999,
  #509  
Old August 3rd 06, 06:27 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc,rec.autos.driving,alt.planning.urban,rec.bicycles.soc,rec.bicycles.rides
R Brickston
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Default THE GOLDEN RULE

On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:49:48 GMT, Bill Baka
wrote:

RJ wrote:
Bill Baka wrote:

RJ wrote:
Bill Baka wrote:

The automakers have been keeping the obvious from the public who seems
to buy all the crap they can hand out.
Yeah, and they bought the rights to the 100 mpg carburetor just so we
would have to buy more gas, right?
That was always a myth. Computer controlled fuel injection is about as
close as we are going to get. Most of the energy is wasted as exhaust
heat and radiator heat. Use that and you might get close to 100 MPG.
Bill Baka


Whoosh.


Whoosh meaning what?
Carbs are very imprecise except at a few certain set points.
If there was a way to use all the waste heat to power some kind of steam
engine then you would have a 100 MPG car, at least on the freeway. Stop
and go traffic almost 100% demands electric for start stop and parking
lot driving conditions.
Bill Baka


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  #510  
Old August 3rd 06, 06:31 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc,rec.autos.driving,alt.planning.urban,rec.bicycles.soc,rec.bicycles.rides
R Brickston
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Default Blame Bush

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:01:29 -0500, "David L. Johnson"
wrote:

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:30:43 +0000, R Brickston wrote:

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:15:36 -0500, "David L. Johnson"
wrote:

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:28:44 +0000, R Brickston wrote:

On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:40:49 -0500, "David L. Johnson"
wrote:


Where would the U.S. Congress have something to do with a state
running it's own business, such as granting the placement of refinery?


109th U.S. Congress (2005-2006)
H.R. 5254: Refinery Permit Process Schedule Act
Introduced: May 2, 2006
Sponsor: Rep. Charles Bass [R-NH]

New refineries are not being built due, in part, to a permitting
process that is overly cumbersome and capital intensive. Refiners are
subject to significant environmental and other regulations and face
several new Clean Air Act requirements over the next decade.


Nice of you to provide my arguments. These are federal laws, in which
case the Republican party has control. So, stop blaming the flaming
liberals, and ask your duly elected conservatives to do something.

Status: 99% of Republicans supporting, 92% of Democrats opposing.


Sounds like, if they really want it, they can get it.

Remember: More people have died in Ted Kennedy's car than have died in
United States Commercial Nuclear Power plant operations.


Cute. Wrong, but cute.

You want to talk deaths, talk about coal operations.


I wasn't, but let me one up you for the sake of being ridiculous as
your tangent, You want to talk deaths, let's talk about traffic
fatalities.

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