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To: KM who wrote (38216)	8/16/2005 10:50:04 PM
From: John Vosilla	Respond to of 306849

Not disagreeing with you and I think places like Dallas are a template for the future in other places where folks living beyond their means are bailed out by equity extraction. Just imagine the debt slavery eventually in places like where I live where people make less money, all the jobs are tied to housing and have five times the mortgage<g>.

To: KM who wrote (38216)	8/17/2005 1:52:15 AM
From: shades	Respond to of 306849

Look, stop picking on buffy crowd - if you didn't occupy thier useless lives with trivial superficial stuff like fashion trends and starbucks - they might be like those gaza folks that get so depressed they just strap on a bomb and take out a few folks - you may not like what they are - but are you ready for the alternative?? newsoftheweird.com The Continuing Crisis An official monitor in the online role-playing game Second Life told BBC News in April that he knows of spouses of game players who have actually paid money to online-game detectives to learn whether their mates are committing "virtual adultery" with other players' characters in the course of the game. (Second Life encourages players to create a character and live out a made-up existence, which can of course include having an affair with another player's made-up character.) [BBC News, 4-11-05] In March, when Knoxville, Tenn., prosecutors ordered 582 parents of chronically truant students to a meeting to advise them of their responsibility to get their kids to school, 241 failed to show up. [Guardian (London), 7-20-05] [Knoxville News-Sentinel, 3-16-05] And the New York Post, citing a school system investigator, reported in April that high school teacher Rhianna Ellis, 25, had gotten pregnant from an affair with one of her students but had nonetheless later graded the boy a barely passing "65" in her social studies class, due to his laziness and tardiness. [New York Post, 7-7-05] [New York Post, 4-13-05] 1) The Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area in Alameda County, Calif., with more than 5,000 windmills producing pollution-free electricity for 120,000 homes a year, was challenged by environmentalists in July because an estimated 1,700 to 4,700 birds a year get chopped up by the turbines, including birds of dwindling species