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QuoteQuoteYou're grossly over-stating the tired, old "liberal media conspiracy" slogan on this one. Here are just a sampling of fairly negative articles about Caroline Kennedy over the past 2 weeks from NPR, The New York Times, CBS News, The NY Daily News, The Huffington Post, Newsday and the LA Times.
By the way, the Daily News article is entitled,
Caroline Kennedy no whiz with words. The LA Times piece is entitled First, by golly, Sarah Palin; now, you know, Caroline Kennedy.
In all fairness, until the press makes untrue personal attacks on CK's family like they did about Bristol Palin, the press is still biased. Whether she is running for Senator or VP, it doesn't matter, family matter's like that should be off limits.
I agree, unless they make them public. I imagine by now you've read in this morning's news that Bristol Palin has apparently been offered $300,000 in the bidding war for pictures of the latest product of her parents' conservative family values. Now that's the American way of life: capitalism at its best.
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QuoteQuoteSave your breath. She's moved so completely into irrelevancy it's not even funny. And you are a right-wing nut job, face it. If you disagree Amazon, you're a kool aid drinking, bible totin, sex-hatin, bush lovin right winger whose only mission in life is to subjugate her and oppress her and somehow infringe on her rights by your thoughts. The sooner you embrace this truth, the happier we will all be.
It certainly does fit certain people here..... sorry I dont duck step to your favorite drummer
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Lotsa ducks around these days.
like i said... irrelevancy... damn you look silly.
I miss Lee.
And JP.
And Chris. And...
QuoteQuoteSalt has several advantages. It is cheap, easily obtainable
Ask yourself this.. where are the salt deposits at.. and how much does it cost to ship it to the far end of the country.. from where those vast paleozoic deposits exist. Rest assured.. its not cheap to ship millions of tons of the stuff out here.
Where did I say it was cheap to transport long distances?
www.wsdot.wa.gov/maintenance/pdf/SaltCom_09_09_2008.pdf
For most of the country salt is cheap. Some areas, as you pointed out , incur transportation costs that can double or triple the price.
Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a
kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the
object we are trying to hit.
Quote>Downside is that it corrodes. Years ago this was abig problem for
> automobiles, but the manufacturers have done a temendous job in
>corrosion prevention and my 2003 Ford with 160,0000 miles has no body
>rust at all and very little elsewhere.
The bigger problem is rust on bridges and other infrastructure. It causes billions of dollars worth of damage and occasional loss of life when bridges collapse due to corrosion. Often the decision to not use salt is a smart financial one rather than an environmental one.
Quite right.
When writing my post I was thinking back to when I served as a township trustee. We had about 40 miles of roads, mostly gravel, to care for and the only kind of bridge we had to worry about was an occasional culvert.
I really miss being a trustee. $10.00/day for any day we worked more than 2 hours, long hours in the winter plowing roads, grading roads and cleaning ditches in the summer.
NOT!
No matter what we did, how hard we worked, there was always somebody pissed off at us because our decisions didn't work out to their personal advantage.
Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a
kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the
object we are trying to hit.
QuoteQuote>Downside is that it corrodes. Years ago this was abig problem for
> automobiles, but the manufacturers have done a temendous job in
>corrosion prevention and my 2003 Ford with 160,0000 miles has no body
>rust at all and very little elsewhere.
The bigger problem is rust on bridges and other infrastructure. It causes billions of dollars worth of damage and occasional loss of life when bridges collapse due to corrosion. Often the decision to not use salt is a smart financial one rather than an environmental one.
Quite right.
When writing my post I was thinking back to when I served as a township trustee. We had about 40 miles of roads, mostly gravel, to care for and the only kind of bridge we had to worry about was an occasional culvert.
I really miss being a trustee. $10.00/day for any day we worked more than 2 hours, long hours in the winter plowing roads, grading roads and cleaning ditches in the summer.
NOT!
No matter what we did, how hard we worked, there was always somebody pissed off at us because our decisions didn't work out to their personal advantage.
Were Amazon and Kallend living there?
It certainly does fit certain people here..... sorry I dont duck step to your favorite drummer
QUACK .... QUACK ...QUACK......
Lotsa ducks around these days.
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