What happens when you oppose Bu$hCo too vigorously

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There are some serious issues with Hydrogen powered vehicles. The biggest one is storing the hyrdogen (which is highly volatile). The problem with Hydrogen is that it's one of the smallest atoms out there which means that it is practically impossible to build a container to store it and it'll go pop very easily when it's mixed with O2 and a spark... Could be a problem if a car was left standing for a bit... ;)
I don't think Ralph Nader is going to like that car one bit!

Here's what I know about New Zealand: Keith Urban, kiwi fruit.....Ahhh, kiwi fruit came from China, so I guess that makes 1 less thing about Enzed and 1 more about China...All part of the Global Village, though.

The Haka dance comes from New Zealand, right?

The Haka dance comes from New Zealand, right?The Maori Haka does indeed come from NZ. Back when I went to school (a long time ago), each school had a Haka. Doesn't look quite the same when it's performed by pasty-faced, knock-kneed schoolboys wearing grey shorts and grey socks!

The Maori Haka does indeed come from NZ. Back when I went to school (a long time ago), each school had a Haka. Doesn't look quite the same when it's performed by pasty-faced, knock-kneed schoolboys wearing grey shorts and grey socks!Here is a video of a high school football team in Euless, Texas that does the Haka before their football games. Euless has a large Tongan population. It plays with Windows Media Player.
mms://win81il.audiovideoweb.com/il81win15069/thehaka.wmv

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/img/12-05/1209trinityinside.jpg

Here is a video of a high school football team in Euless, Texas that does the Haka before their football games. Euless has a large Tongan population. It plays with Windows Media Player.
mms://win81il.audiovideoweb.com/il81win15069/thehaka.wmv

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/img/12-05/1209trinityinside.jpgGood one, TBT. I used to play rugby against teams that were predominantly either, Maori, Tongan or Samoan. I spent most of my time running away from them (without the ball). It made me a crappy rugby player, but a good runner...

Wow, that would work!

Convenient dodge :rolleyes: , but it would be more of a pro-active response than merely complaining about your "problem" of "your" tax money being spent stupidly. If enough people actually did get into the streets about it, you might also see some real change.

But oh no, not you. It's OK that your taxes go for killing innocent women & kids in Iraq and elsewhere, torture programs, and fattening the wallets of the oil & defense industries - as long as you get to keep what you've got.

Quite hypocritical...and disgusting, I might add.

Here's one for ya, sweetheart:

Greg Palast

Some years from now, in an economic refugee relocation "Enterprise Zone," your kids will ask you, "What did you do in the Class War, Daddy?"

The trick of class war is not to let the victims know they're under attack. That's how, little by little, the owners of the planet take away what little we have.

This week, Dupont, the chemical giant, slashed employee pension benefits by two-thirds. Furthermore, new Dupont workers won't get a guaranteed pension at all -- and no health care after retirement. It's part of Dupont's new "Die Young" program, I hear. Dupont is not in financial straits. Rather, the slash attack on its workers' pensions was aimed at adding a crucial three cents a share to company earnings, from $3.11 per share to $3.14.

So Happy Labor Day.



And this week, the government made it official: For the first time since the Labor Department began measuring how the American pie is sliced, those in the top fifth of the wealth scale are now gobbling up over half (50.4%) of our nation's annual income.

So Happy Labor Day.

We don't even get to lick the plates. While 15.9% of us don't have health insurance (a record, Mr. President!), even those of us who have it, don't have it: we're spending 36% more per family out of pocket on medical costs since the new regime took power in Washington. If you've actually tried to collect from your insurance company, you know what I mean.

So Happy Labor Day.

But if you think I have nothing nice to say about George W. Bush, let me report that the USA now has more millionaires than ever -- 7.4 million! And over the past decade, the number of billionaires has more than tripled, 341 of them!

If that doesn't make you feel like you're missing out, this should: You, Mr. Median, are earning, after inflation, a little less than you earned when Richard Nixon reigned. Median household income -- and most of us are "median" -- is down. Way down.

Since the Bush Putsch in 2000, median income has fallen 5.9%.

Mr. Bush and friends are offering us an "ownership" society. But he didn't mention who already owns it. The richest fifth of America owns 83% of all shares in the stock market. But that's a bit misleading because most of that, 53% of all the stock, is owned by just one percent of American households.

And what does the Wealthy One Percent want? Answer: more wealth. Where will they get it? As with a tube of toothpaste, they're squeezing it from the bottom. Median paychecks have gone down by 5.9% during the current regime, but Americans in the bottom fifth have seen their incomes sliced by 20%.

At the other end, CEO pay at the Fortune 500 has bloated by 51% during the first four years of the Bush regime to an average of $8.1 million per annum.

So who's winning? It's a crude indicator, but let's take a peek at the Class War body count.

When Reagan took power in 1980, the One Percent possessed 33% of America's wealth as measured by capital income. By 2006, the One Percent has swallowed over half of all America's assets, from sea to shining sea. One hundred fifty million Americans altogether own less than 3% of all private assets.

Yes, American middle-class house values are up, but we're blowing that gain to stay alive. Edward Wolff, the New York University expert on income, explained to me that, "The middle class is mortgaging itself to death." As a result of mortgaging our new equity, 60% of all households have seen a decline in net worth.

Is America getting poorer? No, just its people, We the Median. In fact, we are producing an astonishing amount of new wealth in the USA. We are a lean, mean production machine. Output per worker in BushAmerica zoomed by 15% over four years through 2004. Problem is, although worker productivity keeps rising, the producers are getting less and less of it.

The gap between what we produce and what we get is widening like an alligator's jaw. The more you work, the less you get. It used to be that as the economic pie got bigger, everyone's slice got bigger too. No more.

The One Percent have swallowed your share before you can get your fork in.

The loot Dupont sucked from its employees' retirement funds will be put to good use. It will more than cover the cost of the company directors' decision to hike the pension set aside for CEO Charles Holliday to $2.1 million a year. And that's fair, I suppose: Holliday's a winning general in the class war. And shouldn't the winners of war get the spoils?

Of course, there are killjoys who cling to that Calvinist-Marxist belief that a system forever fattening the richest cannot continue without end. Professor Michael Zweig, Director of the State University of New York's Center for Study of Working Class Life, put it in culinary terms: "Today's pig is tomorrow's bacon."

Link (http://www.gregpalast.com/todays-pig-is-tomorrows-bacon-a-labor-day-recipe#more-1484)


Of course, you'll keep ignoring the reality as "conservatives" always do - aka: not letting the facts get in your way.

Here is a video of a high school football team in Euless, Texas that does the Haka before their football games. Euless has a large Tongan population. It plays with Windows Media Player.
mms://win81il.audiovideoweb.com/il81win15069/thehaka.wmv

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/img/12-05/1209trinityinside.jpg
Very interesting. we also have a considerable Hmong population up in Wisconsin of all places (not to disparage Wisconsin or the Hmong in any way)
http://appleton-wi.blogspot.com/2005/12/scenes-from-hmong-new-years.html

Convenient dodge :rolleyes: , but it would be more of a pro-active response than merely complaining about your "problem" of "your" tax money being spent stupidly. If enough people actually did get into the streets about it, you might also see some real change.

But oh no, not you. It's OK that your taxes go for killing innocent women & kids in Iraq and elsewhere, torture programs, and fattening the wallets of the oil & defense industries - as long as you get to keep what you've got.

Quite hypocritical...and disgusting, I might add.

Here's one for ya, sweetheart:



Link (http://www.gregpalast.com/todays-pig-is-tomorrows-bacon-a-labor-day-recipe#more-1484)


Of course, you'll keep ignoring the reality as "conservatives" always do - aka: not letting the facts get in your way.
Fact's, fact's, & more fact's. Is that all you got :confused: It would seem bush's "base" (the 28%'ers) votes solely on the issue off the "3 G's" (God, Guns, & Gays) :mad: These top the list as it were. Sad :( As our country slides further & further into debt under bush's reign punishing countless unknowing generations to come.

Good one, TBT. I used to play rugby against teams that were predominantly either, Maori, Tongan or Samoan. I spent most of my time running away from them (without the ball). It made me a crappy rugby player, but a good runner...

Those people of Somoan/Tongan/Polynesian extraction are very very tough rugby players.

NZ have recruited many of them to play for their Provincial teams and they've been selected for the All Blacks as well.

I can well undertsand your decision to run - if I'd Jonah Lomu running toward me like an express train, I'd do the same !

Ahhh, kiwi fruit came from China, so I guess that makes 1 less thing about Enzed and 1 more about China...All part of the Global Village, though.
Well, my kiwis come with little stickers that say New Zealand. I wasn't referring to their original origin (which is possibly redundant), just their current origin (which is possibly an oxymoron). So oddly enough, it is something from China that I don't get from China, as opposed to everything "American" which I do.

Well, my kiwis come with little stickers that say New Zealand. I wasn't referring to their original origin (which is possibly redundant), just their current origin (which is possibly an oxymoron). So oddly enough, it is something from China that I don't get from China, as opposed to everything "American" which I do.Our Kiwis have little stickers that say "New Zealand" too...until they're successful at something.Then we put another little sticker over the original which says "AUSTRALIA!"

Those people of Somoan/Tongan/Polynesian extraction are very very tough rugby players.

NZ have recruited many of them to play for their Provincial teams and they've been selected for the All Blacks as well.

I can well undertsand your decision to run - if I'd Jonah Lomu running toward me like an express train, I'd do the same !Have you heard of the "Maori side-step"? It means to run right over the top of the opposing player,trampling his head into the turf and continuing with no loss of velocity towards the try-line.
Having tackled more than a few Maoris...my advice to young players is to close your eyes,aim low,think of (insert country of origin) and all the nice nurses that you will soon meet.

Our Kiwis have little stickers that say "New Zealand" too...until they're successful at something.Then we put another little sticker over the original which says "AUSTRALIA!"
Like Keith Urban ;) .

Convenient dodge :rolleyes: , but it would be more of a pro-active response than merely complaining about your "problem" of "your" tax money being spent stupidly. If enough people actually did get into the streets about it, you might also see some real change.

But oh no, not you. It's OK that your taxes go for killing innocent women & kids in Iraq and elsewhere, torture programs, and fattening the wallets of the oil & defense industries - as long as you get to keep what you've got.

Quite hypocritical...and disgusting, I might add.

Here's one for ya, sweetheart:



Link (http://www.gregpalast.com/todays-pig-is-tomorrows-bacon-a-labor-day-recipe#more-1484)


Of course, you'll keep ignoring the reality as "conservatives" always do - aka: not letting the facts get in your way.
I see. So I guess you're one of the guys with a bandana over his face, firebombing McDonald's and Starbucks? And calling it "real change"?

(BTW, while looking for Ruppert's book on Amazon, I found it grouped with the genre including authors who seriously believe that the world is secretly controlled by an underground race of reptilian shape shifters. In the non-fiction section.)

This is my problem with what you are saying. From what I can tell between your insults is that you are angry and disgusted with the GOP side of the American government, (though not apparently the Dems who are also sell-outs owned by corporations) and that your solution (and Mike Ruppert's) is to riot in the streets and throw ourselves against "the gears of the machine." And then....what? What is your ultimate goal, if you could have "real change?" Everything that could remotely be called philosophy coming from you is rehashed communist propaganda about class warfare and revolution. What is the result of that? Worse tyranny than what you are concerned about. Ignoring the consequences of class warfare, riots, and revolutions is hypocritical and disgusting. Or maybe you just want anarchy. You tell me.

Every time I ask you and yours what the answer to this problem is, I hear.....crickets.

Like Keith Urban ;) .Russell Crowe...Sam Neill...Phar Lap.Born in NZ..."Made in Australia".

Russell Crowe...Sam Neill...Phar Lap.Born in NZ..."Made in Australia".Yes, SB, we continue to be the backbone of your Country. I'm assisting by filling in the role of token jellyfish - invertebrate, and proud of it...

Russell Crowe...Sam Neill...Phar Lap.Born in NZ..."Made in Australia".
Well, they all got rich in America. :p (excluding Phar Lap)

Yes, SB, we continue to be the backbone of your Country. I'm assisting by filling in the role of token jellyfish - invertebrate, and proud of it...Wanna swap Prime Ministers? Rugby teams?
In the interests of cultural exchange and to strengthen the bonds of friendship between our two great nations etc etc etc. :D

Here is a video of a high school football team in Euless, Texas that does the Haka before their football games. Euless has a large Tongan population. It plays with Windows Media Player.
mms://win81il.audiovideoweb.com/il81win15069/thehaka.wmv

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/img/12-05/1209trinityinside.jpg
Only Kiwis do the Haka.Tongans do a different war-dance ...Sipi Tau.