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To: LindyBill who wrote (250434)	5/18/2008 8:05:18 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

>>don't get 80 with my Moped<< OK, so they don't get 80mpg on the "peasant truck". Main point is that they only use it for essentials, and there are lots of people in the world who can afford these cheap vehicles. Thus we are going to find out what oil is really worth. So I'm hoping for a viable electric car, so I can charge the battery with off-peak power from the grid. My local grid has electricity from hydro/natgas/coal, and potentially wind/geothermal. The geothermal is especially interesting because we have a handy volcano steaming away nearby. The state plans to lease out the flanks of the mountain for geothermal power, and we have no nimby volcano goddess like your Pele to complain about it. ;>)

To: LindyBill who wrote (250434)	5/18/2008 1:58:53 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793958

Remember that terrific African baby buffalo clip you posted a while back? It just hit the big time... Baby buffalo's escape: the movie Amateur clip that became a YouTube sensation is made into a documentary by US wildlife channel guardian.co.uk After returning home, Budzinski tried, unsuccessfully, to sell his eight-minute video of the battle at Kruger to the National Geographic and Animal Planet channels, but was turned down. We don't take submissions from amateurs, he was told. So Budzinski's video gathered dust until, last year, he agreed it could be shown on YouTube. Within days, it was being watched around the planet, drawing more than 30 million viewings and becoming one of the most popular videos in YouTube history. It was then that the buyers came calling. Last year the National Geographic channel, which had sniffily rejected Budzinski's handiwork, agreed to purchase the video's television rights and will devote an hour tonight to a documentary deconstructing the drama.

To: LindyBill who wrote (250434)	5/18/2008 2:04:33 PM
From: Nikole Wollerstein	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

Re: recent Obama endorsement from McGovern, former senator and 1972 Democratic presidential candidate from South Dakota Mc Govern heaped praise on Obama, comparing him with Abraham Lincoln. “Illinois gave us Abraham Lincoln. That state may have now given us a second Abraham Lincoln,” he said. Here is from Lincoln " Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas " in his own words ""I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, [applause]-that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. ""