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I see Dubya's coming out of his closet - he's managed to get most of the world mad at him over greenhouse emissions. I'm not an eco-freak, but this stance does seem rather odd.
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I see Dubya's coming out of his closet - he's managed to get most of the world mad at him over greenhouse emissions. I'm not an eco-freak, but this stance does seem rather odd.Hey, now be nice to Dubya. There's a very good reason for his decision. How can a guy who would struggle to find Canada on a map of Nth America be expected to remember all those dinky little islands like Nauru, Niue, The Maldives, The Seychelles? Increasing CO2 emissions is all part of his much-vaunted education policy. The goal is to make Geography easier by ensuring that there are fewer places above water to have to remember. Plus, once he's drowned all those little island nations, think how much stronger NZ's rugby player base will be! 
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Since a large part of his support came from business people who stand to lose money from legislation calling for rapid reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, it should be no surprise that Bush will move slowly on such legislation.
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I see Dubya's coming out of his closet - he's managed to get most of the world mad at him over greenhouse emissions. I'm not an eco-freak, but this stance does seem rather odd.
Oh, come on, there's a lot of good news coming out of Washington these days. For instance, did you know arsenic isn't poisonous?
It should be no surprise that Bush will move slowly on such legislation.
Sorry, Bill, can't agree with you there. ~president bush is moving this legislation full speed ahead.
The goal is to make Geography easier by ensuring that there are fewer places above water to have to remember [entire post]
Max, you are a card! Incidentally, the Yankees new ball park will be built on pontoons. That way, even if the rest of the city goes under we can, as Mr. Steinbrenner puts it, still line up to give him money.
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, it should be no surprise that Bush will move slowly on such legislation.Oooh, I didn't say I was surprised. No, sirree! In fact, I expected nothing less. I just thought his "advisers" might have been, uh, more advised in the advice they gave him. He could well regard the Orion downed on ?Hainan as a causus belli and start the new month off with a real bang! 
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This from the front page of today's New York Times:
The midair crash occurred about 50 miles southeast of China's Hainan Island, in what Americans described as international waters.
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puts me in mind of
I don't know that I can tell you where this comes from, or how, but I can note that it's a bit archaic. It was an expression used by my grandparents and it puts me in mind of one of my grandfather's delightful, and now archaic, expressions, "to make [someone or something] out", meaning "to understand". Echoing every married man since Adam, at the culminating point of an argument with my grandmother, he would cry, "Jennie, I can't make you out!."
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don't know that I can tell you where this comes from, or how, but I can note that it's a bit archaic. It was an expression used by my grandparents and it puts me in mind of one of my grandfather's delightful, and now archaic, expressions, "to make [someone or something] out", meaning "to understand". Echoing every married man since Adam, at the culminating point of an argument with my grandmother, he would cry, "Jennie, I can't make you out!."
I like that expression--and use it (but never speaking with my wife when I can't understand her).
I also like "puts me in mind" which I saw in passing.
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Thanks for the link, Max. Painfully funny and true.
In defense of us US'ns, I must point out that We the People (the majority voting) did not elect that guy. Call him King George the Usurper.
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