Al Gore's Private Jet

On Apr 6, 12:54 pm, Larry Dighera wrote:
On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:16:31 GMT, "Steven P. McNicoll"
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But it cost more.

Was it significantly more? Can you quantify your assertion?

It was way more expensive. I don't ever remember families taking
vacations by air. It was mostly just business flyers. Since there can
be a wide variety of prices on a given flight even today it would be
hard to quantify. However, just imagine SouthWest no longer in
business (since they only compete on price) and you had to fly United
or American every flight. There were (and could not be ) any discount
airlines under regulation.

-robert

On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:41:46 GMT, Matt Whiting
wrote in :

Larry Dighera wrote:
On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:05:17 -0500, 601XL Builder
wrDOTgiacona@suddenlinkDOTnet wrote in
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But to do so we are screwing which nature which the environmentalists
have been saying is BAD for the last 50 years or so.

Oh, you mean like banning fluorocarbon aerosol propellants to diminish
the destruction of the ozone layer? :-(

Then there is the whole issue that the warming trend isn't even limited
to Earth and that Mars is experiencing global warming as well.

That's a diversionary argument that skirts the issue of the effect of
global warming on the potential extinction of species, flooding of
coastal land, and ocean current disruption.


Yes, any facts that counter the global warming nuts are considered
diversionary. I also like how they explain EVERYTHING via the global
warming argument. Have a warmer day that normal ... global warming!
Have a colder day than normal ... global warming! McDonalds burn your
Big Mac ... global warming! Ok, I made up the last one, but the GW nuts
are almost at that level now.

Matt

It's apparent that you haven't viewed former Vice President Gore's
motion picture yet.

Inform yourself before you make absurd assertions.

On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:03:05 GMT, Jose
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I think air travelers were better off before airline deregulation.
Passengers had more room. Stews were younger. Food was better than
today. ...

Weren't prices higher?

I don't know.

If ticket prices were higher than today, it would be interesting to
know how much more we had to pay back then for the excellent service
airline passengers enjoyed under government regulation.

On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:06:19 GMT, Jose
wrote in :

Prayer != morality, and does not belong in the schools. The Taliban has
prayer in their schools.

Thank you!

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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I disagree. If sufficient government funding were provided to reduce
class size to one teacher per student, there would be a very
significant change in the quality of student achievement in this
country. Do you disagree?


I disagree.

Larry Dighera wrote:


So you have no compunction about your judging former Vice President
Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' motion picture to be "propaganda"
without benefit of having viewed it?


We've all had many years to judge Algore's philosophies and ideas.
He is his own worst enemeny... and he doesn't even have the stones
to practise what he preaches. Typical blowhard politician.

Do you permit others to do your thinking for you, or are you just
prejudiced?


I will certainly try to prevent Algore from doing my thinking for
me... but he represents a movement that proposes to do just that for
everyone else.

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
...

So you have no compunction about your judging former Vice President
Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' motion picture to be "propaganda"
without benefit of having viewed it?

Do you permit others to do your thinking for you, or are you just
prejudiced?


Nobody does my thinking for me, nor am I prejudiced. I've heard Gore's
message on the subject many times.

Jose wrote:




The parents who don't care will still produce voters.

Yes but eventually, if we allow nature to take its course,
they will become fewer and fewer... Darwin's theory.

When you subsidize something (like stupidity) you get more of it.
If you stop subsidizing something you will get less of it.

On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:17:45 GMT, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote in
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"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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I'm saying we shouldn't tamper with nature.

Oh, you mean like exhausting the components of combustion of all the
life that existed for hundreds of millions of years into the
atmosphere as we currently do?

Or do you mean like burning the rain forests to exploit gold deposits,
or do you mean like hunting big game species to extinction, or do you
mean like over fishing the worlds oceans to near depletion, or do you
mean like discharging toxic effluent into our waterways, or are you
referring to failing to realize that the Earth is a closed system, and
we who populate the Earth need to consider implementing closed systems
to recycle our waste? :-(


Yup.


So, if you agree that those things shouldn't be done, are you
proposing that they be curtailed?

Matt Whiting wrote:
We removed from the schools morality
(prayer), any semblance of discipline (no spanking), any form of
personal accountability (might damage their self-esteem if you give them
a D), etc., and now we are wondering why we're in the state we're in.


The real problem wasn't prayer (or the lack of it) it was the
year by year increased meddling by the federal government into
something they have no business meddling in... education.