<OT> Re: Big problems in Oz

[Collins]

On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 19:49:32 -0500 dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:
> begin  Tom Wilson's  quote:
> 
> | Wasn't it the U.S. Gub'ment that decided not to prune and launch
> | the put out the fires as faster than they started campaign that
> | really caused all the issues?  Smokey the Bear and all.
> 
> you're presuming that u.s. guvment and environmental wackos are 
> mutually exclusive. don't forget that al "earth in the balance"
> gore, the first space alien to achieve elected office in the u.s.,
> was in a position of some power for eight of the last 10 years.
> 
> though mostly it was nongovernmental loons that thought if you
> clipped a single blade of grass you were raping the environment and
> therefore led to the current miserable situation. here in the east,
> we have similar in the form of those who think it is somehow better
> to let tens of thousands of deer starve to death than it is to shoot
> and eat the things.
> -- 

One of my all time favorite bumper stickers was on a miner's truck at
the Henderson Mine (CO):  "Ban Mining!  Let the bastards freeze to
death in the dark!"

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Collins Richey - Denver Area
Gentoo 1.4 system