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Kurt Lochner (Weasel Remember!) wrote:

>>You don't perceive several camps of globalists?
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> 
> No..  

One of them lobbied a little mechanism called the Federal Reserve into 
life, with Wilson's complicity....


>>The reason the nanny state doesn't exist is because there's an ardent
>>disconnect from the American psyche for such, and one that despite the
>>LBJs of our time I suspect will remain active for a while yet.
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> That and it's not practical..

We may well have an agreement forged here.

>>I'd have asked Johnson for sure!
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> For what?

Lots of things, better attention to Tet, less social meddling, more 
attention to his wife's common sense.

>>And really, having driven across that state a few times, it readily
>>lends itself to such thinking - the damned thing is massive.
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> 
> But drivable, in some areas..

True, hill country, the big bend, and s.padre are worth the miles.

> No, my work in uplink is at 6.0GHz, with QPSK..

Ever do any SSTV?

> My radios have yet to get attached to 'real' antennae, maybe with
> some traps this time, and I have a preference for folded double
> zepp configurations but I gotta take into account the lightning.
> 
> My mast got struck once, and it vaporized the top-loading, the
> coax (just some RG-59, a quickie), the A/C compressor didn't fail
> until the next week after, same with the washer cycling switches,
> three light bulbs, two circuit breakers went "soft" and while the
> computer was 'unprotected', it didn't even flicker, though the
> hissing sound of a piece of ball lightning bouncing down the hall
> towards me (about 5" in dia.) wasn't reassuring, to say the least..

Visual recollection!

> So, no, I haven't been 'encouraged to stick any 'real estate'
> back up in the skies, though I sorely miss it, and keep track
> of the K-index in hopes of catching some sferics..
>  
> I've got stuff from 10kHz to 10GHz, and I'm still going to
> build a freakin' tricorder, I've needed such for a while..

You extras are a hoot!


>>Granting you that, so where then to draw the line between a 
>>given faith and the perversion thereof...
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> 
> Welp, living in the "Buy Bull Belt", I could only offer some
> cheerful invective as to that, so let it go for now..

Come now, with all that vorticity about some dogma lifted K was inevitable!
> Having gotten over the flu
> was a little more difficult this year, so I must be getting old,
> damnit..

colloidal silver

>>I'm pleased that some of my needs are met by the latest iteration of
>>Republicans, far more than the last round in fact, but I'm as yet wholly
>>unfulfilled, despite your Strausian guesses.
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> 
> Well, we always want more stuff, don't we..

No objects lose their luster at some point, then we tend to want to get 
RID of stuff...

>>Oh, you're not a literalist?
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> 
> Nope..  Why, are you?

Depends. I'm no adherent to uniformitarianism anyway.

>>Not of the apocalypse at least, despite your seeming need to have me do so.
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> 
> Well, you're the one that's posting the emissions of such..

Nah, you confuse mere cynicism with prophetic destructionism.

>>Well some may be, but you've fallen way off mark on quite a few thus far.
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> 
> Likely, do I need a rhombic?  The twelve foot satellite dish isn't
> available as yet, but I could hang a wire out the window..

Works for me. The SGC always finds my match.

>>Beats the Kerry variant...
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> 
> Nah, I like my motorcycle..

Beemer?

>>Substitute prosperity of the soul here?
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> 
> That'd infer that I'm a Republican..

;-)
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> 
>>>--Debt bombs to follow..
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>>Perhaps, that sounds rather apocalyptic to me...
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> 
> It's your nickel..

Maybe gold.