On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:18:45 -0400, the infamous "Ed Huntress"
scrawled the following:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
news

Who is your "we" here, Ed? I generally find that once people drive an
economy car, they stick with them from then on.

"We" being Americans in general. "We" like big cars and go back to them when
the crisis is over. "I" am one of them in most ways, except that I have
always preferred small cars, and have never owned a big one, except for a
couple of cargo vans.

I've always preferred larger cars, then trucks, because I have always
been busy moving something somewhere and doing everything I possibly
could by myself.

Then again, my first station wagon was for them wimmenfolk. Back into
the drive-in, drop the tailgate until we get tired of the movie, then
roll the windows up and fog them puppies... Ah, what fond memories I
have of the wagons.


Who has the time, if they were so inclined? I sure don't.

It's important American history.

But a bit boring, eh?

Not if you get excited about constitutional law. I don't know why I do; I
find the practice of law in general to be boring.

Ditto the latter. I used to kid my cousin, Bruce, about his being the
black sheep in the family. I was just the alcoholic, but -he- went to
Duke.


I'm still a Libertarian at heart but won't be voting for any
Libertarian presidents soon. You convinced me of the heartbreak.

They're pretty dull, too. I saw Bob Barr give an interview last week and all
I could think of was Buckley's line about libertarians being "ingeniously
simple-minded." g

snort


I'm for minimum three-digit IQ in voters. No more of this single digit
crap, OK?

What we need is to re-instill a sense of responsibility for the country as
a
whole.

Agreed! Do you have any ideas as to how to pull that off?

Nope. If I did, I'd run for some office.

I'd vote for you, too. Can I fax in my Jersey vote from Oregon?


where do you want to cut, specifically?

The last time we discussed this, I wanted out of the war and to snip a
couple dozen alphabet agencies off the list. You made fun of me for
even discussing the agencies and their piddly hundreds of millions.
That's enough discussion with you on budget, TYVM. g

g Follow the money. It ain't the EPA or the Education Department.

Even if we cut out the war wound, we'd still die, hemmorhaging from
the myriad gashes called the EPA, DHS, BATFE, NEC, NEA, etc. We have
to find all the waste and cut it at once to recover, to reverse the
gawdawful bleeding we're doing with the deficits and federal debt.


But I'm still living hand to mouth. Happiest memories include the
occasional comma in my bank balance. sigh

Be glad you have work. Some people are really sucking wind. Even Merck is
dropping 7,000 jobs, and I thought that Big Pharma was pretty immune to all
of this.

Oh, I am exceedingly grateful, and I'm trying to take every job that
comes my way, including doing things I wouldn't normally do. I need to
save up for the sparse winter. I need to buy a new mower and start
taking all the work there. I get at least 3 calls a week to mow yards,
and if they don't balk at $30/hr, I won't.

Home and Garden Handyman = mowing lawns? I still don't understand why
I get all those weed-pulling/lawn-mowing calls. I might hire some
mowers for next year when the calls come in so I can capitalize on it.

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Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.