Them Rising Gas Prices.... (OT?)

"Paladin" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Almost enought to make ya wanna ride a bike!

Wait a minute, we already do!

Here's to bike commuting, mooning OPEC, and thumbing my nose to $3/gallon
gas.

CDB

Watch out price gougers...Sonny Perdue is after you!!

Paladin said:

Almost enought to make ya wanna ride a bike!

Wait a minute, we already do!

Here's to bike commuting, mooning OPEC, and thumbing my nose to $3/gallon
gas.

CDB

Oh how I wish I could commute by bike. Just 12 miles away, but I'd have
to go 25 to avoid the Route 70 smash 'em derby. Those 25 wouldn't be a
walk in the park, either. School is starting which would mean 20,000
female (sorry gals) luxury SUVidiots rushing to take their rugrats to
school (while I am on the road), so they can go spend the day roughing
it in the day spa drinking Starbucks and commiserating with the other
19,999 lonely housewives who's husbands are all cheating on them.

Welcome to my life in the Marlton - Voorhees - Cherry Hill - Haddonfield
corridor. Home to just about every Philadelphia sports team athlete and
their rich lonely wives. More lawyers and doctors (and their rich
lonely wives) than their are patients and clients.

Now I'm depressed.

--
o-o-o-o Ride-A-Lot o-o-o-o
www.schnauzers.ws

Ride-A-Lot said:

Welcome to my life in the Marlton - Voorhees - Cherry Hill - Haddonfield
corridor. Home to just about every Philadelphia sports team athlete and
their rich lonely wives. More lawyers and doctors (and their rich
lonely wives) than their are patients and clients.

Now I'm depressed.

Cheer up. Sounds like it's pretty easy to get laid.

CC

Ride-A-Lot said:

Paladin said:

Almost enought to make ya wanna ride a bike!

Wait a minute, we already do!

Here's to bike commuting, mooning OPEC, and thumbing my nose to
$3/gallon gas.

CDB

Oh how I wish I could commute by bike. Just 12 miles away, but I'd
have to go 25 to avoid the Route 70 smash 'em derby. Those 25
wouldn't be a walk in the park, either. School is starting which
would mean 20,000 female (sorry gals) luxury SUVidiots rushing to
take their rugrats to school (while I am on the road), so they can go
spend the day roughing it in the day spa drinking Starbucks and
commiserating with the other 19,999 lonely housewives who's husbands
are all cheating on them.
Welcome to my life in the Marlton - Voorhees - Cherry Hill -
Haddonfield corridor. Home to just about every Philadelphia sports
team athlete and their rich lonely wives. More lawyers and doctors
(and their rich lonely wives) than their are patients and clients.

Now I'm depressed.

Think of all the people down south right now. Makes you feel a damn site
better now doesn't it.

But then ignorance is costing me and everybody else outside of that area a
bundle.

When is the Army Corp gonna figure out they can't tame mother nature?

Paladin said:

Almost enought to make ya wanna ride a bike!

Wait a minute, we already do!

Here's to bike commuting, mooning OPEC, and thumbing my nose to
$3/gallon gas.

CDB

If I could figure out a way to carry all my carpentry tools on my bike or
figure out a trailering method to carry big ass cabinets, I'd ride. But
alas, I need that 6000 lb 4x4 that CC was ragging on.........

Luckily found gas at $2.89 today but I'm headed to Colorado tonight....cha
ching!

Gary

GeeDubb said:

Ride-A-Lot said:

Paladin said:

Almost enought to make ya wanna ride a bike!

Wait a minute, we already do!

Here's to bike commuting, mooning OPEC, and thumbing my nose to
$3/gallon gas.

CDB

Oh how I wish I could commute by bike. Just 12 miles away, but I'd
have to go 25 to avoid the Route 70 smash 'em derby. Those 25
wouldn't be a walk in the park, either. School is starting which
would mean 20,000 female (sorry gals) luxury SUVidiots rushing to
take their rugrats to school (while I am on the road), so they can go
spend the day roughing it in the day spa drinking Starbucks and
commiserating with the other 19,999 lonely housewives who's husbands
are all cheating on them.
Welcome to my life in the Marlton - Voorhees - Cherry Hill -
Haddonfield corridor. Home to just about every Philadelphia sports
team athlete and their rich lonely wives. More lawyers and doctors
(and their rich lonely wives) than their are patients and clients.

Now I'm depressed.

Think of all the people down south right now. Makes you feel a damn site
better now doesn't it.

But then ignorance is costing me and everybody else outside of that area a
bundle.

When is the Army Corp gonna figure out they can't tame mother nature?

When are people going to realize that you can't live below sealevel? I
feel bad for everyone down there, but I am starting to get some other
feelings about the people who decided to stay there and/or are staying
there now. Is it that hard to get on the overpass and start walking
away from the devistation? It also seems like the poorest of poor (at
least that's how they are portrayed on the news) are the ones left
there. Many of them are able-bodied individuals that can start moving
things and building shelters for those who can't.

And what's with the governor of LA? She didn't seem to anxious or
worried for someone who just had the largest city in their state
destroyed. Am I missing something?

--
o-o-o-o Ride-A-Lot o-o-o-o
www.schnauzers.ws

GeeDubb said:

Paladin said:

Almost enought to make ya wanna ride a bike!

Wait a minute, we already do!

Here's to bike commuting, mooning OPEC, and thumbing my nose to
$3/gallon gas.

CDB

If I could figure out a way to carry all my carpentry tools on my bike or
figure out a trailering method to carry big ass cabinets, I'd ride. But
alas, I need that 6000 lb 4x4 that CC was ragging on.........

Luckily found gas at $2.89 today but I'm headed to Colorado tonight....cha
ching!

Gary

I think he was referring more to the ones that so many people use
strictly for commuting and other duties a smaller vehicle (or bike)
would handle just fine.

If you need a truck for what you do then it makes sense to use one.

Matt

Corvus Corvax said:

Ride-A-Lot said:

When are people going to realize that you can't live below sealevel?

Tell that to the Dutch ;-). But you're of course correct. As I
understand it, the thing that really screwed NO was overdevelopment on
the surrounding wetlands, so that there was nowhere for the storm
surge to go. Hence the damage to the levees. There was an excellent
program on NOVA last year about just this kind of worst-case
scenario. Lots of people saw it coming.

Many are cities are knowingly poised on the brink of some future natural
disaster, LA,SF and Seattle come to mind, I'm sure there are others. Me,
I'm downwind if Rainier ever blows.

The whole below sea level thing is just one aspect of nature waiting to
happen in the NO basin. . I always thought it would come in the form of a
flood from the Mississippi River pirating ( overtaking) the Atchaflalaya in
nature's quest for a river to find the shortest route through a delta to the
sea. The Army Corps have been working on that one for years. They have
spent millions, perhaps billions, trying to prevent it. In Control of Nature
by John MacPhee is a very interesting read on this kind of thing.

Penny

Corvus Corvax said:

Tell that to the Dutch ;-). But you're of course correct. As I
understand it, the thing that really screwed NO was overdevelopment on
the surrounding wetlands, so that there was nowhere for the storm
surge to go. Hence the damage to the levees. There was an excellent
program on NOVA last year about just this kind of worst-case
scenario. Lots of people saw it coming.

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372455,00.html

"Ride-A-Lot" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I agree. I have sent money to the Red Cross and I have also sent money
and volunteered local transport services to the North Shore Animal
League. Let's not forget the thousands of now homeless best friends who
are going to need foster care and adoption. Let's help to keep them out
of the kill shelters.

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o-o-o-o Ride-A-Lot (Schnauzer Rescue) o-o-o-o
www.schnauzers.ws

The North Shore Animal League has departed from its mission
of finding homes for abandoned pets and now imports puppies
from all over the country keeping backyard and basement puppy mills
in business just to keep their "sales" up.
I adopted from them in the past but not any more.

JP

PS Paid 3.59 this afternoon off exit 57

small change said:

Me,
I'm downwind if Rainier ever blows.

In the winter, maybe. Certainly you'll only get ash even then.

The entire Duamish/Puyallup river valley systems will be destroyed due
to lahar action.

If you look at the geology unlying these regions you'll see that the
west side really gets the shaft if Rainier goes like St. Helens.

The east side gets it if Yellowstone blows.

E.P.

JP said:

"Ride-A-Lot" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I agree. I have sent money to the Red Cross and I have also sent money
and volunteered local transport services to the North Shore Animal
League. Let's not forget the thousands of now homeless best friends who
are going to need foster care and adoption. Let's help to keep them out
of the kill shelters.

--
o-o-o-o Ride-A-Lot (Schnauzer Rescue) o-o-o-o
www.schnauzers.ws

The North Shore Animal League has departed from its mission
of finding homes for abandoned pets and now imports puppies
from all over the country keeping backyard and basement puppy mills
in business just to keep their "sales" up.
I adopted from them in the past but not any more.

JP

PS Paid 3.59 this afternoon off exit 57

Right now it's the only hope they have. The other two agencies (ASPCA
and Humane Society) put them in kill shelters. I believe in and support
specific breed rescues (NJ Schnauzer Rescue Network and Sweeten
Wheatens), but N.O. needs mass rescue efforts right now.

--
o-o-o-o Ride-A-Lot o-o-o-o
www.schnauzers.ws

Quoted message said:

small change said:

Me,
I'm downwind if Rainier ever blows.

In the winter, maybe. Certainly you'll only get ash even then.

The entire Duamish/Puyallup river valley systems will be destroyed due
to lahar action.

If you look at the geology unlying these regions you'll see that the
west side really gets the shaft if Rainier goes like St. Helens.

The east side gets it if Yellowstone blows.

E.P.

heh heh, married to a geologist, and have most of geology degree myself.
Love that rock stuff, especially as it applies to humans being a blip on the
screen. ;-)

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Quoted message said:

small change said:

Me,
I'm downwind if Rainier ever blows.

In the winter, maybe. Certainly you'll only get ash even then.

The entire Duamish/Puyallup river valley systems will be destroyed due
to lahar action.

If you look at the geology unlying these regions you'll see that the
west side really gets the shaft if Rainier goes like St. Helens.

The east side gets it if Yellowstone blows.

E.P.

If Yellowstone blows we all may get it, especially those of us West of the
Mississippi River.

<Ride-A-Lot

Right now it's the only hope they have. The other two agencies (ASPCA
and Humane Society) put them in kill shelters. I believe in and support
specific breed rescues (NJ Schnauzer Rescue Network and Sweeten
Wheatens), but N.O. needs mass rescue efforts right now.

--
o-o-o-o Ride-A-Lot o-o-o-o
[url]www.schnauzers.ws>

My short essay on the subject...
Last year Carla and I went to the local pet expo and as we were walking around I saw a very skinny looking puppy with the people at the North Shore Animal League's booth I approached and the poor thing was so timid... I realized it was missing one of it's rear legs... The dog and I hit it off. I sat down with it and fed it some biscuit or another I had gotten from another booth. The lady was pretty amazed. She told me the dog was rescued from a shelter that had been been devastated from one of the hurricanes that had hit down in Florida. It had been forgotten and locked in it's a cage, injured for a long time before being rescued and was very traumatized. The dog eventually had to have it's leg amputated. I left with this dog on my mind... I couldn't stop thinking about it and even though we live in an apartment that doesn't want pets we figured out a way we could adopt it and leave it with my parents during the day and bring her home at night. I called North Shore and they told me the dog was adopted out... I was glad for the dog but sad I didn't just adopt it then...
If the same situation arises from Katrina I _will_ adopt.
I am not crazy about the things I have heard about North Shore but they had animals rescued from the same situation as what is going on now...
and I agree mass rescue is needed.


Jimbo(san)

Ya what lives in Death Valley Ca thats below
sealevel. Maybe miners,mules,and camels.

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Ya what lives in Death Valley Ca thats below
sealevel. Maybe miners,mules,and camels.

Tourists.
Or the Dead Sea in Israel? They all seemed to suck.

Shawn

"Corvus Corvax" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Ride-A-Lot said:

Welcome to my life in the Marlton - Voorhees - Cherry Hill - Haddonfield
corridor. Home to just about every Philadelphia sports team athlete and
their rich lonely wives. More lawyers and doctors (and their rich
lonely wives) than their are patients and clients.

Now I'm depressed.

Cheer up. Sounds like it's pretty easy to get laid.

CC

Yeah, I've been sleeping with a lawyer's wife for some time now...

CDB

In article <[email hidden]>,
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Quoted message said:

When are people going to realize that you can't live below sealevel? I
feel bad for everyone down there, but I am starting to get some other
feelings about the people who decided to stay there and/or are staying
there now. Is it that hard to get on the overpass and start walking
away from the devistation? It also seems like the poorest of poor (at
least that's how they are portrayed on the news) are the ones left
there. Many of them are able-bodied individuals that can start moving
things and building shelters for those who can't.

This would seem the perfect opurtunity to move the city woudln't it....

Quoted message said:

And what's with the governor of LA? She didn't seem to anxious or
worried for someone who just had the largest city in their state
destroyed. Am I missing something?

Some of those fires that broke out and blanketed the city in smoke, may
have been growing operations if you know what I mean. 🙂