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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (20360)	6/7/2000 11:37:00 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"Top Ten Al Gore Tenant Pet Peeves." Copyright 2000 by Worldwide Pants, Inc. From the June 5 Late Show with David Letterman, 10. Your request to fix leaky faucet has been sitting in congressional subcommittee for eleven years. 9. Tipper's Black Sabbath tribute band constantly rehearsing. 8. Insists security deposit be paid "in hugs." 7. You put Bush sticker on car, mysteriously electricity stops working. 6. Rent's a day late, Janet Reno orders break-in to take checkbook. 5. Endless stories about how he invented the mailbox. 4. Once a week you gotta clear out to make room for Bubba and some stewardesses. 3. Tipper showing up in negligee saying, "There are other ways to pay the rent." 2. Al showing up in negligee saying, "There are other ways to pay the rent." 1. House is always getting egged by George W. Bush. And, from the Late Show Web page, some of the also-rans because "those over-achieving writers keep producing more brilliant jokes than can fit in a Top Ten List." -- Phone only allows you to call Gore contributions hotline. -- You complain about apartment being too hot, he just throws hands in air and says, "Global warming." -- Rent bill includes "optional but recommended" $50,000 campaign donation. -- Always "accidentally" making inspection tours while you're in the shower. -- All the racket in guest bedroom since Clinton found out about spare key under mat.

To: Neocon who wrote (20360)	6/7/2000 11:53:00 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

"more to lose" hypothesis "more to lose" is more a relative phenomina than one of absolutes. A family with a house payment and new car that is just making the payments each month is going to be much more sensative to job loss or overtime opportunity than a similar family with a house and used car and a few dollars in the bank. This country (and the world) is going through a period of great change, mostly fueled by feedback loops in digital technology. Many people will need to adjust to the changes whether they want to or not. I see much of the conservative movement of today to be similar to the Granger movement 100 years ago. At that time large groups of small farmers resisted the changes of the industrial revolution. They didn't stop it, they never had a chance, it was a worldwide feedback loop. I can't predict the nature of our society in the coming decades, but I'm pretty sure the clock isn't rolling back to 1950. TP