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To: SAJ
Keep in mind what Gorbachev is doing now...

With the failure of his communist empire he is now running an environmental organization.

The enviros - generally watermelons - figure if they can't delude you into obeying them with promises of a socialist utopia will try to frighten you into obeying them with incessant scare mongering. We've gone through how many environmental catastrophes that never actually happened now? Resource depletion, Malthusian starvation, global cooling, and now we are on global warming...

I wonder what will be next after global warming...maybe global superstorms? A failing sky? Mutant angry wolves attacking boys named Peter? Tinfoil hat shortages?
11 posted on 10/16/2003 12:10:46 PM PDT by swilhelm73
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To: swilhelm73
The upcoming water-wars will make the global-warming business look like chid's play.
12 posted on 10/16/2003 12:34:40 PM PDT by Old Professer
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To: swilhelm73
Exactly so, but don't forget to include in your list the unfortunately prosperous health-(s)care industry, most of whose ''practitioners'' have the identical mindset.

They know perfectly well that no nationalised medical scheme ever even can work, and none would ever be chosen by the populace in a democratic fashion, and so they creep it up on the nation via the diktat of unelected regulators and equally unelected activist alleged ''judges''.

This past January and February, I happened to have both of my lenses replaced (due to rapidly advancing cataracts) with silicon-polymer prosthetic lenses, the procedure called intraocular phaco-emulsification. Completely routine, 26 minutes per eye, local anaesthesia (which makes for a very neat and fascinating slow-motion 60s-style light show, too, because the eye, obviously, is open during the procedure), time from making the appointment to the surgery -- 11 days. Later, I asked an old friend in the UK to see how long the wait would be under their vaunted National Plan. Are you ready -- better sit down -- from 2 1/2 to 3 YEARS!

I didn't HAVE 2 1/2 years, I'd have been stone blind by then; hell's bells, I was legally blind as it was (20/2800), thank you, but am now back to 20/30, just -1.5 diopters in each eye. And yet, these nationalisation advocates would INSIST that I, and hundreds of thousands of others, wait around on THEIR pleasure, because the surgery was ''elective''.

Bleep them and the Marxist mule they rode in on.

FReegards!

14 posted on 10/16/2003 1:29:18 PM PDT by SAJ
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