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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (120080)	12/30/2000 1:29:14 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Hey Flappy, its Allen Wrench here. I don't follow your last post. There is no bigger Clinton hater than me. I think the man is despicable, a cynical user and abuser and totally unfit to be President. The reckless partisanship the Dems displayed in closing ranks with such a man is a stain on both houses of Congress. I've made this clear many times. Hating Clinton is no clue as to a lack of intellect, in fact to the contrary, not despising such a creep is probably an indication of the opposite condition. Now for the most part I have found the caliber of your discourse much more enlightened than DJD or lawdog or BSP. Hope you stick around. JLA

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (120080)	12/30/2000 1:34:06 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Stinkweeds for Janet Reno. Reno, as odd a bird that has ever flown into the Washington aviary, was Clinton's fourth choice for attorney general, which should speak volumes about her competence. Her idea of the job of attorney general is not to be the people's lawyer, but rather to keep her boss and his henchmen from getting indicted. She made a simple deal: The Boss would not get indicted as long as she could keep a job for which she was ethically and physically incapable. Her specialty seems to be botching up the handling of crises. She started her reign by mismanaging the Waco situation, resulting in the needless deaths of children. More recently, she dealt with a situation involving a child by waiting past the time in which the matter could have been dealt with reasonably, but firmly, by ordering a Gestapo-style raid to send Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba. Privately, we suspect, she wished they could have just tossed the kid back into the sea when they found him. spectator.org

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (120080)	12/30/2000 6:32:47 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I wasn't going to respond to this, but I think I have to. You're probably smiling; your post was obviously a provocation. This will be my last post for a long time. I may be the last Goron left on this thread. It was fun while it lasted, but now the thread has become overrun with pimply-faced right-wing bashers of very limited mental abilities who, in addition, have no manners. It's not the right-wing aspect that bothers me, it's the lack of intelligence, as represented by the post above. I used to look forward to exchanges with Neo, Chuck Mane, Thehammer, Getalife, e-Bill, Allen Wrench, Majordomo kvkkc. But all good things must come to an end. Too many lightweights have overrun the board. Their anti-Clinton hate remains even though their guy won the election. Let's start with: I used to look forward to exchanges with Neo, Chuck Mane, Thehammer, Getalife, e-Bill, Allen Wrench, Majordomo kvkkc. Look around; several of them are still here. As for me: post or don't post, I don't care. Frankly, I think you're reacting to having some very sacred cows attacked, particularly the wonderful unionized American public education system. I will apologize for any emotional stress I may have inflicted. I won't apologize for my views in this matter. The system is badly broken; the educational establishment has been tinkering with it for decades and it just gets worse. pimply-faced Referring to me? I lost my pimples decades ago. "very limited mental abilities" , "lack of intelligence" "Too many lightweights have overrun the board." I have a degree in electrical engineering from a good state university. I have published papers. I have worked as an engineer, a lead engineer, and an engineering manager. I was the software lead, then the software manager, for a hardware start-up that eventually become successful enough to go public. I did the software design from start to finish of project. This was back in the 80's when it wasn't sufficient to dream up a harebrained scheme and then IPO; you had to actually have a live working company. I don't think you can do any of that with limited intelligence. Do you? Their anti-Clinton hate remains even though their guy won the election. I defer to jlallen's response. I agree fully with him. the lack of intelligence, as represented by the post above. Let's look at that. You posted: I didn't state that GWB has a learning disability. I stated that it has been reported or speculated that he has. Message 15098797 I posted: "Did you know that it has been reported that Slick raped a woman?" I was simply pointing out that there are some serious, as yet unproven, allegations about your boy. Lots of 'em. I also said "But, considering the histories of the two men, it's far more likely that Slick committed rape than that GWB is mentally disabled. " Your boy has a pretty bad history here. His habits here are what led to his perjury and his impeachment. siliconinvestor.com I rest my case re GWB's "learning disabilities". who, in addition, have no manners. That's a matter of opinion. If you want to be treated with kid gloves, go over to the feelings thread. Or the Left Wing Porch- -you'll get no argument there; it's not allowed. Or start your own moderated thread and throw out those who you don't like or can't handle. Frankly, your post is a personal attack.

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (120080)	1/4/2001 7:48:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Detroit in free-fall: U.S. Auto Sales Fell 8% in December As Economic Slowdown Tightened Hold By SHOLNN FREEMAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL DETROIT -- U.S. auto sales fell 8% in December, the second straight month of declines, as the economic slowdown tightened its grip on consumers at the end of a record sales year. Even with the Federal Reserve's move to cut interest rates, auto makers said the watchword for 2001 is caution. "The economy has definitely transitioned," Ford Motor Co. sales analyst George Pipas said. "We know it, Intel knows it and Banana Republic knows it." Despite the rate cut, announced while he was on a conference call with securities analysts to discuss sales results, Mr. Pipas said Ford is sticking to its newly lowered forecasts for sales next year. December brought big sales declines for Detroit's Big Three. General Motors Corp. said sales sank to 337,972 vehicles, down 18% after an adjustment for the fact that there was one less selling day last month than a year ago. Sales at Ford dropped 14% to 275,095. DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler unit said its sales skidded 15% to 167,672. Although their sales gains moderated, import brands continued to gobble up market share at the expense of the Big Three. "All year they've had their lunch eaten by Koreans, Europeans and the Japanese, and December is just as bad," said David Bradley, auto analyst at J.P. Morgan. In December, Toyota Motor Corp. sales shot up 14% to 133,993, driven partly by big end-of-year discounts, dealers said. Honda Motor Co. sales were 88,035, up 2.7%. Volkswagen AG sales rose 12% to 26,865. For the year, Toyota's Camry was the best-selling car in the U.S., and its Lexus luxury division was the top luxury brand in the U.S. for the first time ever, edging out DaimlerChrysler's Mercedes-Benz. GM's Cadillac, once the dominant player in the U.S. luxury market, slipped to fifth place, behind Germany's BMW AG.... interactive.wsj.com Ah, the wonders that eight years of Clinton/Gore have wrought. It was heartening to see Cisco's Chambers and GE's Welch - the two most admired business leaders in the country - endorse Prez-elect Bush's tax rate reductions as the best way to pull the economy out of the current free-fall. Didn't see the loser/leaders that supported the other side - those from Apple, Xerox and Novell - down in Austin. That is heartening too. It is also good to see that Greenspan obviously agrees and endorsed the Bush team's view that the economy is in heap big trouble and did everything to show it by his unprecedented rate cut action. So much for "54 out of 55 business economists" quoted by the Boy President - Greenspan has data they don't. Other good news is that Greenspan endorses the Bush-Welch-Chambers view that rate reductions are the only way to go with tax cuts, none of that "targeted cut" nonsense that the Clinton/Gore regime used to buy special interest votes. Greenspan knows - and has said so - that such targeted cuts ruined the 1986 tax code reforms and are detrimental in other ways. He knows that rate reductions add to economic efficiency while "targeted cuts" do the opposite.