Here comes the torch and pitchfork crowd!

[Rajiv]

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brilliant. clever. obsessive. doombat.

I think going through the Soviet collapse would would have turned anybody into a doombat -- the fact that he is brilliant, clever and obsessive is also quite apparent. I think obsessiveness is the human trait that allows us to accomplish great things and perhaps sometimes some not so great things (read instead - horrors)

[GRG55]

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have we officially entered tin foil hat doombat mode on this thread? is there a little icon we can add to the thread to warn others?

Hey, all I did was connect the dots... :p

[tree]

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Well, it's always nice to be reminded that not all young people have become are luxury-obsessed and apolitical. Things do seem strange now. Yesterday I spoke to a well-known economist who suggested that those worried about inflation should buy NEW, more fuel-efficient cars and substitute "rice and beans for a steak dinner" just once a month, and all their problems would be solved. I said that I was already eating rice and beans about five days a week, but that did not deter him. And I sure am heck not about to go out and buy a new car now, especially when the used car market will soon be, if it is not already, teaming with good gently used newish vehicles. (Although I do think I will wait until I move back to California, in order to get a California car.) Anyway, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself...fear of what? No rice and beans? The other day I spoke to a woman working in Whole Foods who told me that in her country, El Salvador, the very poorest eat tortillas with salt, unable to afford rice and beans. To go with my rice and beans, I broil some corn tortillas, and sprinkle on a little grated cheese toward the end. Fold them over, and eat with the pinto bean chili and rice. I feel rich eating this. Oh, and today I had brocoli (sp?) with all this.

[Jim Nickerson]

Re: Here comes the torch and pitchfork crowd!

Well, it's always nice to be reminded that not all young people have become are luxury-obsessed and apolitical. Things do seem strange now. Yesterday I spoke to a well-known economist who suggested that those worried about inflation should buy NEW, more fuel-efficient cars and substitute "rice and beans for a steak dinner" just once a month, and all their problems would be solved. I said that I was already eating rice and beans about five days a week, but that did not deter him. And I sure am heck not about to go out and buy a new car now, especially when the used car market will soon be, if it is not already, teaming with good gently used newish vehicles. (Although I do think I will wait until I move back to California, in order to get a California car.) Anyway, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself...fear of what? No rice and beans? The other day I spoke to a woman working in Whole Foods who told me that in her country, El Salvador, the very poorest eat tortillas with salt, unable to afford rice and beans. To go with my rice and beans, I broil some corn tortillas, and sprinkle on a little grated cheese toward the end. Fold them over, and eat with the pinto bean chili and rice. I feel rich eating this. Oh, and today I had brocoli (sp?) with all this.

Hi tree,

You might go to Wal-Mart for your rice and beans and tortillas and cheese vs. Whole Foods, that is what we do, except when we go to Sam's, which if one can afford to buy in bulk and has space to store, it is even cheaper, but no doubt foods of many types have become more expensive.

What's a CA car?

[GRG55]

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Hi tree,

What's a CA car?

Maybe it's that Pinto Lukester put up the other day? He lives in California as I recall...

[tree]

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Pinto car.
Pinto beans.
Ha ha.
I go to Whole Foods mostly to snack on the freebies and buy the very few things I want and can't get elsewhere. Sorry, but I know too much about Wal-Mart to shop at its stores. (Or maybe I still have too much $, I dunno. I hear their $4 prescriptions can offer great savings.) Perhaps I can stock up on pinto beans at Costco if I joined there.
A California car is one that's lived in the Golden State all its life so may never have been driven in the snow and sleet and also perhaps over fewer potholes; also the paint job may be in better shape particularly if it's been garaged.

[zoog]

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Ah, it's just our Pacific Northwest anarchists. Nothing to see here, move along, move along. Don't you remember the WTO in Seattle?

Oh I forgot to mention our "eco-terrorists"...

WOODINVILLE, Wash. (AP) - Fires burned four multimillion-dollar show homes in a suburb north of Seattle Monday, and authorities found a spray-painted sign purportedly left by a radical environmental group at the scene.

The sign, a white sheet that had the initials of the Earth Liberation Front in scraggly red letters, mocked claims the luxury homes on the "Street of Dreams" were environmentally friendly, according to video images of the sign aired by KING-TV.

"Built Green? Nope black!" the sign said....

...The ELF, or Earth Liberation Front, is a loosely organized collection of radical environmentalists authorities say is responsible for other arsons in the Northwest...