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I am Woodcraft yesterday and I am looking at the Saw Stop saws. No money to
buy one, but just thinking when I upgrade maybe I will go that route. On
the saw there is a video playing that is demonstrating the how the saw
works.

Some other customer stands next to me and says: "What they don't tell you is
that after the saw does its thing in an emergency you need to buy new parts
from them to make the saw work again."

I say: "But you still have your fingers"

He then says: "But your saw won't work again until you buy the parts - from
them!"

I almost replied again with "You still have your fingers" but I figured it
was pointless. Apparently this guy has figured out that the corporate plan
is to save your fingers but stick it to you in the wallet afterwards.

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On 1/7/2010 3:33 PM, Larry C wrote:
I am Woodcraft yesterday and I am looking at the Saw Stop saws. No
money to buy one, but just thinking when I upgrade maybe I will go that
route. On the saw there is a video playing that is demonstrating the how
the saw works.

Some other customer stands next to me and says: "What they don't tell
you is that after the saw does its thing in an emergency you need to buy
new parts from them to make the saw work again."

I say: "But you still have your fingers"

He then says: "But your saw won't work again until you buy the parts -
from them!"

I almost replied again with "You still have your fingers" but I figured
it was pointless. Apparently this guy has figured out that the corporate
plan is to save your fingers but stick it to you in the wallet afterwards.


I kept telling my youngest daughter that, on a daily basis, roughly half
the people she deals with are below average IQ ... but she responded
that I didn't factor in that many of them might be concentrated in one
area ... wherever it is that Al Franken lives.

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I am Woodcraft yesterday and I am looking at the Saw Stop saws. *No
money to buy one, but just thinking when I upgrade maybe I will go that
route. On the saw there is a video playing that is demonstrating the how
the saw works.


Some other customer stands next to me and says: "What they don't tell
you is that after the saw does its thing in an emergency you need to buy
new parts from them to make the saw work again."


I say: "But you still have your fingers"


He then says: "But your saw won't work again until you buy the parts -
from them!"


I almost replied again with "You still have your fingers" but I figured
it was pointless. Apparently this guy has figured out that the corporate
plan is to save your fingers but stick it to you in the wallet afterwards.


I kept telling my youngest daughter that, on a daily basis, roughly half
the people she deals with are below average IQ ... but she responded
that I didn't factor in that many of them might be concentrated in one
area ... wherever it is that Al Franken lives.

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I think you meant to write Michelle Bachman.
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I kept telling my youngest daughter that, on a daily basis, roughly half
the people she deals with are below average IQ ... but she responded
that I didn't factor in that many of them might be concentrated in one
area ... wherever it is that Al Franken lives.

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I think you meant to write Michelle Bachman.


Nope ... wouldn't know who she is if she bit me on the butt. Did she
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I kept telling my youngest daughter that, on a daily basis, roughly half
the people she deals with are below average IQ ... but she responded
that I didn't factor in that many of them might be concentrated in one
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I think you meant to write Michelle Bachman.


Nope ... wouldn't know who she is if she bit me on the butt. Did she cheat
on her taxes also?


Frankin paid his taxes just to the wrong state, Bachmann tell the poor to
pull up there bootstraps then collects welfare for her farm to almost
800,000, it's a republican Hippocratic oath thing.Forget the coolaid chew
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On 1/7/2010 9:57 PM, Rusty wrote:

Frankin paid his taxes just to the wrong state, Bachmann tell the poor to
pull up there bootstraps then collects welfare for her farm to almost
800,000, it's a republican Hippocratic oath thing.Forget the coolaid chew
the teabag


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I kept telling my youngest daughter that, on a daily basis, roughly
half the people she deals with are below average IQ ... but she
responded that I didn't factor in that many of them might be
concentrated in one area ... wherever it is that Al Franken lives.

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I think you meant to write Michelle Bachman.


Nope ... wouldn't know who she is if she bit me on the butt. Did she
cheat on her taxes also?


Frankin paid his taxes just to the wrong state,


Actually, that is not really true:
http://wcco.com/realitycheck/al.franken.taxes.2.712757.html
http://newsmax.com/RonaldKessler/al-franken-taxes/2009/02/06/id/340085
It is really unknown whether he paid the proper amount in his own state
because he hasn't released his tax returns. That also doesn't explain the
fact that, even when working in New York, and claiming to live there, he
failed to pay a $25,000 fine for failing to carry workers' compensation for
his employees. Now, one would think that a champion of the little guy and
the middle class would have been scrupulously careful to make sure he was
abiding by workers' compensation requirements, wouldn't you?


Bachmann tell the poor to
pull up there bootstraps then collects welfare for her farm to almost
800,000,


Um, if you are referring to legally eligible farm subsidies, there is a
vast difference between something legally granted and failing to pay legally
required taxes or carry legally required workers comp insurance.


it's a republican Hippocratic oath thing.Forget the coolaid chew
the teabag


Not nearly so much as the leftwing that whines and moans about the "rich"
not paying their fair share when a) they themselves are wealthy, and b)
there is nothing preventing them from paying more than they owe.


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Frankin paid his taxes just to the wrong state, Bachmann tell the
poor to pull up there bootstraps then collects welfare for her farm
to almost 800,000, it's a republican Hippocratic oath thing.



No it's not, it's a people thing. Special interest knows no political
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I kept telling my youngest daughter that, on a daily basis, roughly half
the people she deals with are below average IQ ... but she responded
that I didn't factor in that many of them might be concentrated in one
area ... wherever it is that Al Franken lives.


I think you meant to write Michelle Bachman.


http://fwd4.me/Ae2 Six minutes into the video, she sounds OK to me.
That she was frowned upon by the Puffington Host is also a good sign.

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I kept telling my youngest daughter that, on a daily basis, roughly
half the people she deals with are below average IQ ... but she
responded that I didn't factor in that many of them might be
concentrated in one area ... wherever it is that Al Franken lives.


Believe it or not, most of the people she deals with are above the average
IQ. Here's why.

1. Almost all women have average IQs (90-110), yielding an average of 100.
Theirs is not a bell curve so much as a horizontal line.
2. Men are pretty evenly distributed between 50 and 150, again yielding an
average of 100. Men's intelligence curve is also pretty much a straight line
but instead of horizontal, it's diagonal. Now very many of men below, say,
80 are locked up somewhere, so the one's she runs into are in the range of
80-150, or an average of 120 or so, significantly above average.

An interesting consequence of the above is that your average man (on the
street) is smarter than your average woman.




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Believe it or not, most of the people she deals with are above the average
IQ. Here's why.


Fail

... she sells women's handbags.

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.. Men's intelligence curve is also pretty much a straight line
but instead of horizontal, it's diagonal. Now very many of men
below, say, 80 are locked up somewhere,


or in public office...

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1. Almost all women have average IQs (90-110), yielding an average of
100. Theirs is not a bell curve so much as a horizontal line. 2. Men are
pretty evenly distributed between 50 and 150, again yielding an average
of 100. Men's intelligence curve is also pretty much a straight line but
instead of horizontal, it's diagonal.


Interesting, if true. I did a Google and every reference I could find
says it's a bell curve. Would you please cite a reference supporting the
straight line hypothesis. I'd like to read it.

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On 1/8/2010 10:36 AM, Larry Blanchard wrote:
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1. Almost all women have average IQs (90-110), yielding an average of
100. Theirs is not a bell curve so much as a horizontal line. 2. Men are
pretty evenly distributed between 50 and 150, again yielding an average
of 100. Men's intelligence curve is also pretty much a straight line but
instead of horizontal, it's diagonal.


Interesting, if true. I did a Google and every reference I could find
says it's a bell curve. Would you please cite a reference supporting the
straight line hypothesis. I'd like to read it.


Most IQ tests indeed rank results in a Gaussian Bell Curve with a
standard deviation, depending on the test.

As with the maxim that "statistics lie and liars use statistics ..." you
can certainly massage the rankings, by grouping the results by
ethnicity, nationality, and other creative ways, ad infinitum to prove a
point/agendize.

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Larry Blanchard wrote:
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1. Almost all women have average IQs (90-110), yielding an average of
100. Theirs is not a bell curve so much as a horizontal line. 2. Men
are pretty evenly distributed between 50 and 150, again yielding an
average of 100. Men's intelligence curve is also pretty much a
straight line but instead of horizontal, it's diagonal.


Interesting, if true. I did a Google and every reference I could find
says it's a bell curve. Would you please cite a reference supporting
the straight line hypothesis. I'd like to read it.


"Studies consistently show greater variance in the performance of men
compared to that of women (i.e., men are more represented at the extremes of
performance), and that men and women have statistically significant
differences in average scores on tests of particular abilities"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_intelligence

So there's a greater variance among men. Men on the big-dummy side of the
curve are locked-up, driven out of town, live under a bridge, or get killed
early. The women just putter along.

For women, it IS a bell curve, it's just pretty flat like a very intelligent
woman's boobs.

I recall reading a peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Irreproducible
Results years ago that showed a female's IQ could be approximated as a
function of breast and waist measurements. As I recall the formula looked
something like:

IQ = 75 / SQRT [Breast - Waist]

Lab PhD (32/29) = 75 / SQRT (3) = 130
Lab Receptionist (36/22) = 75 / SQRT (14) = 75/3.75 = 20
Pregnant tecnician (34/58) = Imaginary number

The authors concluded more work was needed on the equation.




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Larry Blanchard wrote:
On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:20:35 -0600, HeyBub wrote:

1. Almost all women have average IQs (90-110), yielding an average of
100. Theirs is not a bell curve so much as a horizontal line. 2. Men
are pretty evenly distributed between 50 and 150, again yielding an
average of 100. Men's intelligence curve is also pretty much a
straight line but instead of horizontal, it's diagonal.


Interesting, if true. I did a Google and every reference I could find
says it's a bell curve. Would you please cite a reference supporting
the straight line hypothesis. I'd like to read it.


"Studies consistently show greater variance in the performance of men
compared to that of women (i.e., men are more represented at the
extremes of performance), and that men and women have statistically
significant differences in average scores on tests of particular
abilities"


I'm still looking for the cite of an article that says IQ distribution is
a straight line - for men or women. You answered a question I didn't ask.

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Believe it or not, most of the people she deals with are above the average IQ.


Most of us also have more than the average number of legs, but it's
still just sophistry.
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I kept telling my youngest daughter that, on a daily basis, roughly half
the people she deals with are below average IQ ... but she responded
that I didn't factor in that many of them might be concentrated in one
area ... wherever it is that Al Franken lives.


LOL! Dang it! Now I've gotta go find the windex.

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On Jan 7, 4:43*pm, Swingman wrote:

I kept telling my youngest daughter that, on a daily basis, roughly half
the people she deals with are below average IQ ... but she responded
that I didn't factor in that many of them might be concentrated in one
area ... wherever it is that Al Franken lives.


Franken went to Harvard and graduated cum laude, so his IQ isn't in
question. If you disagree with his politics, ethics or whatever else,
that might allow you to call him stupid, but not question his IQ.

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I kept telling my youngest daughter that, on a daily basis, roughly
half the people she deals with are below average IQ ... but she
responded that I didn't factor in that many of them might be
concentrated in one area ... wherever it is that Al Franken lives.


Franken went to Harvard and graduated cum laude, so his IQ isn't in
question. If you disagree with his politics, ethics or whatever else,
that might allow you to call him stupid, but not question his IQ.

R


I don't think he did. I took it as the IQ of those that voted for him are
very low. I'd sure as hell not vote for him and I have a fairly high IQ.




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RicodJour wrote:
On Jan 7, 4:43 pm, Swingman wrote:

I kept telling my youngest daughter that, on a daily basis, roughly
half the people she deals with are below average IQ ... but she
responded that I didn't factor in that many of them might be
concentrated in one area ... wherever it is that Al Franken lives.


Franken went to Harvard and graduated cum laude, so his IQ isn't in
question. If you disagree with his politics, ethics or whatever else,
that might allow you to call him stupid, but not question his IQ.

R


I don't think he did. I took it as the IQ of those that voted for him are
very low. I'd sure as hell not vote for him and I have a fairly high IQ.

Those brainy folks from Minnesota also voted in a former wrestler, Jesse
Ventura, as governor.



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In article , RicodJour wrote:
On Jan 7, 4:43=A0pm, Swingman wrote:

I kept telling my youngest daughter that, on a daily basis, roughly half
the people she deals with are below average IQ ... but she responded
that I didn't factor in that many of them might be concentrated in one
area ... wherever it is that Al Franken lives.


Franken went to Harvard and graduated cum laude, so his IQ isn't in
question. If you disagree with his politics, ethics or whatever else,
that might allow you to call him stupid, but not question his IQ.


He wasn't questioning *Franken's* intelligence, just the intelligence of the
people that voted for him.
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On Jan 8, 7:36*am, (Doug Miller) wrote:
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On Jan 7, 4:43=A0pm, Swingman wrote:


I kept telling my youngest daughter that, on a daily basis, roughly half
the people she deals with are below average IQ ... but she responded
that I didn't factor in that many of them might be concentrated in one
area ... wherever it is that Al Franken lives.


Franken went to Harvard and graduated cum laude, so his IQ isn't in
question. *If you disagree with his politics, ethics or whatever else,
that might allow you to call him stupid, but not question his IQ.


He wasn't questioning *Franken's* intelligence, just the intelligence of the
people that voted for him.


More appropriately demonstrated by the reelection on the lunatic
Bachmann. Franken, not so much.
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More appropriately demonstrated by the reelection on the lunatic
Bachmann. Franken, not so much.


Irrelevant .... electorate are sheep for the shearing.

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the people she deals with are below average IQ ... but she responded
that I didn't factor in that many of them might be concentrated in one
area ... wherever it is that Al Franken lives.


Franken went to Harvard and graduated cum laude, so his IQ isn't in
question. =A0If you disagree with his politics, ethics or whatever else,
that might allow you to call him stupid, but not question his IQ.


He wasn't questioning *Franken's* intelligence, just the intelligence of =

the
people that voted for him.


More appropriately demonstrated by the reelection on the lunatic
Bachmann. Franken, not so much.


Can't comment on that -- don't know anything about Ms. Bachmann. Hard to
imagine she's loonier than Franken, though...


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On Jan 7, 4:43*pm, Swingman wrote:

I kept telling my youngest daughter that, on a daily basis, roughly half
the people she deals with are below average IQ ... but she responded
that I didn't factor in that many of them might be concentrated in one
area ... wherever it is that Al Franken lives.


Franken went to Harvard and graduated cum laude, so his IQ isn't in
question. If you disagree with his politics, ethics or whatever else,
that might allow you to call him stupid, but not question his IQ.


Perhaps he meant for us to infer that the idiots who voted Franken
into office are in the lower ranks of IQ.

Franken is another perfect example of the pitfalls of overeducation.

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On 1/8/2010 12:12 PM, Larry Jaques wrote:

Franken is another perfect example of the pitfalls of overeducation.


How about of bein "educated beyond intelligence"?


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On Jan 7, 4:43Â*pm, Swingman wrote:

I kept telling my youngest daughter that, on a daily basis, roughly half
the people she deals with are below average IQ ... but she responded
that I didn't factor in that many of them might be concentrated in one
area ... wherever it is that Al Franken lives.


Franken went to Harvard and graduated cum laude, so his IQ isn't in
question. If you disagree with his politics, ethics or whatever else,
that might allow you to call him stupid, but not question his IQ.


Perhaps he meant for us to infer that the idiots who voted Franken
into office are in the lower ranks of IQ.

Franken is another perfect example of the pitfalls of overeducation.


Given that Franken is a Harvard graduate says more about Harvard than
Harvard says about him.

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Franken is another perfect example of the pitfalls of overeducation.


Given that Franken is a Harvard graduate says more about Harvard than
Harvard says about him.



Perhaps, it has been a very long understanding, I had heard this back in
the 70's, that if you got into Harvard you "would" graduate.


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I am Woodcraft yesterday and I am looking at the Saw Stop saws. *No money to
buy one, but just thinking when I upgrade maybe I will go that route. *On
the saw there is a video playing that is demonstrating the how the saw
works.

Some other customer stands next to me and says: "What they don't tell you is
that after the saw does its thing in an emergency you need to buy new parts
from them to make the saw work again."

I say: "But you still have your fingers"

He then says: "But your saw won't work again until you buy the parts - from
them!"

I almost replied again with "You still have your fingers" but I figured it
was pointless. *Apparently this guy has figured out that the corporate plan
is to save your fingers but stick it to you in the wallet afterwards.

Larry C


He was probably trying to offset the cost of a wiener vs the cost of
the replacement part.


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I have personally never been at risk of having my wiener injured by
the table saw but I think I would be willing to a pay a little more
for the saw if it would help avoid that. I guess maybe I should be
careful, the darng thing is so long it could get all tangled up and at
risk of injury during a ripping op if I wasn't careful.

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I am Woodcraft yesterday and I am looking at the Saw Stop saws. *No money to
buy one, but just thinking when I upgrade maybe I will go that route. *On
the saw there is a video playing that is demonstrating the how the saw
works.


Some other customer stands next to me and says: "What they don't tell you is
that after the saw does its thing in an emergency you need to buy new parts
from them to make the saw work again."


I say: "But you still have your fingers"


He then says: "But your saw won't work again until you buy the parts - from
them!"


I almost replied again with "You still have your fingers" but I figured it
was pointless. *Apparently this guy has figured out that the corporate plan
is to save your fingers but stick it to you in the wallet afterwards.


Larry C


He was probably trying to offset the cost of a wiener vs the cost of
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I have personally never been at risk of having my wiener injured by
the table saw but I think I would be willing to a pay a little more
for the saw if it would help avoid that. I guess maybe I should be
careful, the darng thing is so long it could get all tangled up and at
risk of injury during a ripping op if I wasn't careful.


Jeeez... Really, it could get tangled up? Just how limp are you man. ;~)


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I have personally never been at risk of having my wiener injured by
the table saw


I know a guy who got injured by a bandsaw in much that way...


(Nasty accident - band broke on a horizontal slabbing saw as he was
standing to the side of it. Left him with scars that look like seppuku
and it nearly got his femoral artery too)
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On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:33:06 -0500, Larry C wrote:

Some other customer stands next to me and says: "What they don't tell
you is that after the saw does its thing in an emergency you need to buy
new parts from them to make the saw work again."


Chuckle. I just tell them they can't even open the emergency room door
for that amount of money :-).

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I am Woodcraft yesterday and I am looking at the Saw Stop saws. No money
to buy one, but just thinking when I upgrade maybe I will go that route.
On the saw there is a video playing that is demonstrating the how the saw
works.

Some other customer stands next to me and says: "What they don't tell you
is that after the saw does its thing in an emergency you need to buy new
parts from them to make the saw work again."

I say: "But you still have your fingers"

He then says: "But your saw won't work again until you buy the parts -
from them!"

I almost replied again with "You still have your fingers" but I figured it
was pointless. Apparently this guy has figured out that the corporate
plan is to save your fingers but stick it to you in the wallet afterwards.

Larry C



Too bad you did not think to ask him about Global Warming. LOL




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"Larry C" wrote in message
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I am Woodcraft yesterday and I am looking at the Saw Stop saws. No money
to buy one, but just thinking when I upgrade maybe I will go that route.
On the saw there is a video playing that is demonstrating the how the saw
works.

Some other customer stands next to me and says: "What they don't tell you
is that after the saw does its thing in an emergency you need to buy new
parts from them to make the saw work again."

I say: "But you still have your fingers"

He then says: "But your saw won't work again until you buy the parts -
from them!"

I almost replied again with "You still have your fingers" but I figured
it was pointless. Apparently this guy has figured out that the corporate
plan is to save your fingers but stick it to you in the wallet
afterwards.

Larry C



Too bad you did not think to ask him about Global Warming. LOL

I love how the anti climate change conspiracists always come out in winter
....it's not that hot right now!
Talking 1.5 to 3.5 degrees more at the poles than at the equator. The ice
flows are disappearing .
But then again maybe that puddle at the end of your driveway didn't have ice
on it like it did the same time last year.
Do your own research ..lol


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Too bad you did not think to ask him about Global Warming. LOL

I love how the anti climate change conspiracists always come out in
winter ...it's not that hot right now!
Talking 1.5 to 3.5 degrees more at the poles than at the equator. The
ice flows are disappearing .
But then again maybe that puddle at the end of your driveway didn't
have ice on it like it did the same time last year.
Do your own research ..lol


Reduction of ice at the North Pole is good.

It may open up a year-round Northwest Passage. This, in turn, will
dramatically cut shipping costs between the Orient and Europe, facilitating
trade, creating jobs, increasing wealth, prosperity, and happiness for
everybody concerned.


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"Leon" wrote in message
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"Larry C" wrote in message
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I am Woodcraft yesterday and I am looking at the Saw Stop saws. No money
to buy one, but just thinking when I upgrade maybe I will go that route.
On the saw there is a video playing that is demonstrating the how the saw
works.

Some other customer stands next to me and says: "What they don't tell you
is that after the saw does its thing in an emergency you need to buy new
parts from them to make the saw work again."

I say: "But you still have your fingers"

He then says: "But your saw won't work again until you buy the parts -
from them!"

I almost replied again with "You still have your fingers" but I figured
it was pointless. Apparently this guy has figured out that the corporate
plan is to save your fingers but stick it to you in the wallet
afterwards.

Larry C



Too bad you did not think to ask him about Global Warming. LOL

I love how the anti climate change conspiracists


Huh? ACCC? Oh, you mean _skeptics_, those of us who don't fall for
the overinflated charts and Chicken Little stories of the alarmists?
And why does a finger saver relate to Warming? OK, with fewer
fingeers, we couldn't give you alarmists 'the finger' as often. Was
that it?


always come out in winter...it's not that hot right now!


And the AGWK alarmists always present in August, the hottest month.


Talking 1.5 to 3.5 degrees more at the poles than at the equator. The ice
flows are disappearing .
But then again maybe that puddle at the end of your driveway didn't have ice
on it like it did the same time last year.
Do your own research ..lol


Can you read? Try some of these:

_Hard Green_
by Peter Huber

_The Skeptical Envioronmentalist_
by Bjorn Lomborg

_Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming_
by Bjorn Lomborg (His newest book)

_Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming_
by Patrick J. Michaels

_Unstoppable Global Warming, Every 1,500 Years_
by S. Fred Singer and Dennis Avery

_Terrestrial Energy_
by William tucker

_The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and
Environmentalism_
by Christopher Horner

_The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against
Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud**And those
who are too fearful to do so_
by Lawrence Solomon

_Earth Report 2000_
editor Roy Spencer, famous scientific authors

_State of Fear_ (bibliography, 23 or so pages of enviro books)
by Michael Crichton

and then get back to us, 'K?

If you're still an AGWK whacko after reading a few of those books,
I'll eat my hat.

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and the stuff of life itself. --Bret Stephens, WSJ 1/5/10
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One of my favorites for demonstrating stupidity:

"Me and Charlie went to the movie."

Hint:
It's the structure not the content.

Lew



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One of my favorites for demonstrating stupidity:

"Me and Charlie went to the movie."

Hint:
It's the structure not the content.


....to the theater?...

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ELOQUIDIOT (n) A highly educated, sophisticated,
and articulate person who has absolutely no clue
concerning what they are talking about.
The person is typically a media commentator or politician.




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