Living was so much more jolly when we had public executions. Cathartic in
seeing wrong doers being delivered from evil. Now we just have to read about
how nothing of any moral value is being done to rectify the wrongs.
clay
On Apr 3, 2014, at 2:20 PM, OK Don wrote:
I suspect that it's
I do not frequent the wally world. Not when it was stocked with USA products,
not now. When it was a small, local concern, I might have been inclined, but
when they decided to plop giant boxes that killed small towns, and ran the
folks who supplied them with product out of business, I found I
i only buy socks made in fort payne as those people have always been nice
to me
well, ok, i did cheat on them once 10 years ago buying some wool socks from
a mill in NC
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Rick Knoble rickkno...@hotmail.com wrote:
Date:
yeah, i mean, i find it shocking how much andrew and i see eye to eye.
this milton friedman approach of just caring about the dollar bottom line
and all else be damned doesn't seem to work on any level
on the other hand, i used to love to listen to dr friedman talk as he was
witty and brilliant
you need a hobby to occupy your mind
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Mountain Man maontin@gmail.com wrote:
clay wrote:
I am still confused about ACA.
...Does this mean there are still 40 million people with no health
program?
I don't have insco and I don't qualify for ACA.
which is pretty obscene to my mind. i mean, imagine you walk into a store
to buy a pair of shoes and the price for the exact same shoes varies from
37 to 150 dollars depending on your affiliations. you'd certainly resent
that, no?
why is it just fine in healthcare?
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at
perhaps close enough to fort payne to justify a purchase
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Craig diese...@pisquared.net wrote:
On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 15:30:50 -0700 (PDT) Curt Raymond
curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote:
An example I'm completely taken with Darn Tough
socks http://darntough.com/ made
yeah, back in the day, carhartt was all USA. now that i almost fit into
them again, i discover they have gone offshore as well :(
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Mountain Man maontin@gmail.com wrote:
Curt wrote:
I won't go back to cheap socks, my feet are too important to me.
it amazes me how people so love bosch product when nearly all the
aftermarket stuff is between mediocre and dismal. just this week i had a
guy insist on all bosch filters and nothing could convince him otherwise.
i can't recall ever putting anyone in bosch wires as that just borders on
sadism.
i have a walmart on my corner. i avoid it like the plague. kid likes it as
you can get anything there at 3AM. place is packed 24/7
the reality is that even having divested myself of most of my stuff, i
still have way too much stuff anyway. walmart is not great value anyway.
goodwill is great
Like the car, have to see it in person. Seller talks a lot without really
saying too much...
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Just may buy those socks as Christmas presents this year, thanks!
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On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:17 PM, Gary Hurst jabbahur...@gmail.com wrote:
which is pretty obscene to my mind. i mean, imagine you walk into a store
to buy a pair of shoes and the price for the exact same shoes varies from
37 to 150 dollars depending on your affiliations. you'd certainly
Again the answers to your questions are easy.
A. We (the royal we here) want to pay as little as possible for everything so
we can have more junk. This forces stuff to be made as cheaply as possible
which requires slave wages.
B. 50 years ago there was no need for education since Johnny could
I really don't think it is 'just fine' with health care, but it's accepted
practice all the way to POTUS, so obviously I am in the minority.
The thing I don't get is that this 'mentality' protects the folks who can
afford healthcare insurance ( wealthier ) while shafting the poor who cannot in
I have a pair of made in the USA Red Wings and a pair of made in Italy hiking
boots which are in fact my daily footwear. After 3 years my hikers need new
soles. I'm debating seeing if I can find somebody to do the job or paying LL
Bean for another pair.
For dress shoes I have a pair of Italian
Just like my dress shoes. Two words: Allen Edmonds
Newest pair is 16 years old. Oldest pair in excess of 20. Need to break down
and buy a new pair of black loafers this year. Will probably cost me $300
unless I go to Port Washington this summer and attend their tent sale.
Money very well
I'm not sure I buy the killed small towns. I live in a small town, theres a
Wal-Mart one town over, we still have an IGA, a hardware store, typical small
town stuff. The city with the Wal-Mart has several grocery stores and many
other stores of all different types.
The places which died were
I don't have time to go into all of the details right now, but I can assure you
that Walmart's entry into our area killed most of the small businesses. I knew
two of them personally. One was a pharmacy that was a two generation business
(we had two pharmacies in town.) Walmart approached both,
Do bear in mind however, that the USA likes to export things too and if
everyone bought only goods made in their own country there would be no
exports.
Like it or not, there is a world economy and we do have to try to fit
into it.
Theoretically, if they can do it cheaper, or better, or
My grandparents lived outside a smallish town in KY. I was there once
and wanted to build some steps for their house. So my dad and I go off
and hit the 2 lumberyards in town to get some deck screws and treated
lumber. Neither store had deck screws. So off to 2 hardware stores,
On 04/04/2014 10:58 AM, Rich Thomas wrote:
My grandparents lived outside a smallish town in KY. I was there once
and wanted to build some steps for their house. So my dad and I go off
and hit the 2 lumberyards in town to get some deck screws and treated
lumber. Neither store had deck screws.
Thinking of Randy's concern about plastic in the house, and remembering when
the class action lawsuit forced a vendor to replumb my lake house... the one
Dan remembers...
Plastic is not forever...
On Friday, April 4, 2014 12:34 PM, Randy Bennell rbenn...@bennell.ca wrote:
On 04/04/2014
I was never so excited as the day an Ace Hardware opened in a nearby strip mall
that also has a Walmart. They have the majik boxes that contain all sorts of
odd, weird and unique fasteners and hardware.
They are far more expensive than the four big box (Lowes Home Despot) that
are within 7
Foreign countries - especially the 3rd world countries tend to
concentrate on science and technical education much more than we do in
the west. They understand that is the way to improving their lot in life.
We tend to be lazy and pat people on the back because they got a liberal
arts degree.
Click american made retailers on Bing or other search engines.
Gerry
On 4/3/2014 10:38 PM, Craig wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:45:48 -0400 Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com wrote:
On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 15:30:50 -0700 (PDT) Curt Raymond
curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote:
An example I'm completely taken with
Ya need to buy more of those NC socks.
Wilton
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] Walmart: How big is it?
i only buy socks made in fort payne as
What comes to my mind is more along the lines of the French Revolution and
liberal use of Guillotine in public discharge of ruling class. Adjusted
for present ruling class, of course, but by citizens not government.
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:04 PM, clay redgh...@comcast.net wrote:
Living was
It’s been dubbed the “guns everywhere” bill, and once it’s signed into
law it will make Georgia the latest state to allow firearms to be
carried in churches, bars, airports and classrooms.
The bill, passed with bipartisan support in the legislature, is
jam-packed with changes to the state’s
Regarding Lowe's, I made a number of trips to Lowe's when I first moved here in
'07 and was rather disappointed that they either didn't have what I was looking
for or one couldn't find anyone knowledgeable enough to help, so I went to the
local Ace hardware downtown and found that they are very
Nice house. I could have lived there, plastic plumbing our not.
Dan
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On Apr 4, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Richard Hattaway rhatta...@rocketmail.com
wrote:
Thinking of Randy's concern about plastic in the house, and remembering when
the class action lawsuit forced a vendor to
How do they compare to Muck boots?
Mike
On Apr 4, 2014 10:40 AM, Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com wrote:
Just like my dress shoes. Two words: Allen Edmonds
Newest pair is 16 years old. Oldest pair in excess of 20. Need to break
down and buy a new pair of black loafers this year. Will probably cost
yes, it shocks me as medicine is the only business i know where cash
customers pay the most, often by a factor of many. it was one of the first
factors in my alienation from the doctors. if you'd do this job for $42
for aetna, why are you asking me for $150?
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 10:35 AM,
i concur, although i was too cheap at the end of the day to buy them and
ended up with johnston murphy instead. that was 25 years ago as i have
so little use for real shoes
for my dad, there was but one brand of shoe, floorchime, but they have
long ago been all imported
my understanding is
i kinda like it
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 2:39 PM, arche...@embarqmail.com
arche...@embarqmail.com wrote:
It's been dubbed the guns everywhere bill, and once it's signed into law
it will make Georgia the latest state to allow firearms to be carried in
churches, bars, airports and classrooms.
as i now reside full time in south florida, my need for NC mill wool socks
has gone from limited to non existent
i used to have my clothes made by an old woman in the hood from north
carolina sourced cloth, but she just stopped working at the youthful age of
93, leaving me to the fat man catalog
downtowns are really making a comeback over the last couple of decades.
yours never came back?
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com wrote:
I don't have time to go into all of the details right now, but I can
assure you that Walmart's entry into our area killed most of
same thing with my chassidim in rockland county, ny. they often bypass
their own merchants to buy at the walmart, although the community as a
whole still opposed walmart moving to a better location andn opening a
super walmart
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Rich Thomas
every town used to have the great old hardware store with inventory of
oddities dating back often to the 19th century. along with the great old
hardware store came the great old hardware man who knew in his head where
every screw in the store was
those were better days for me
On Fri, Apr 4,
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on display was an exhaust system for a
I was drooling over the new GLK250 bluetec at the stealers this week. It
has a bi turbo.
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wrote:
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turbo-in-half-1558154190/+gmanaugh
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Only about 39k for basic model. 53k base price for E250 bluetec. Double
drool.
On Apr 4, 2014 5:07 PM, Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net
wrote:
Wow, a GLKBT
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On 4/4/14 4:46 PM, Dwight Giles wrote:
I was drooling over the new GLK250 bluetec at the stealers this week. It
The figure touted by the administration is 7 million, but various surveys
report that between 2/3 and 3/4 of those had previous insurance that was
cancelled by the so-called ACA. So the fact is that very few of those 47
million have actually been covered by the ACA. Probably only 2.3 million or
Wow, a GLKBT
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On 4/4/14 4:46 PM, Dwight Giles wrote:
I was drooling over the new GLK250 bluetec at the stealers this week. It
has a bi turbo.
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wrote:
http://jalopnik.com/mercedes-f1s-secret-is-it-split-its-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ91qt7-brU#t=260
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No, I didn't write that. My kids went to school beginning in '61 and
'64. Daughter had one seemingly poor teacher in grade school who said
she would not pass to the next grade 2 weeks before the end of the
school year. Daughter and I sat on the couch those two weeks while I
helped her learn
With the latest Supreme Court decision, the Preamble should start with the
phrase:-
We, the corporations,...
Fred Moir
Lynn MA
Diesel preferred.
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Like the old parts man that knew every part number in his head. I bet Trent is
like that.
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On Apr 4, 2014, at 2:20 PM, Gary Hurst jabbahur...@gmail.com wrote:
every town used to have the great old hardware store with inventory of
oddities dating back often to the 19th
My well water is slightly acid (ph-wise). In 2005 I replaced all the
existing 1960s-vintage copper plumbing with PEX. The old rigid copper pipes
were quite thin by then and the flex tubing would leak if you flexed it.
The plumber used a short section of corrugated copper flex to connect the
Randy rambled:
...So we get more and more
people with minimal skills who expect a good job without having to work for
it.
You are repeating what MSM says.
There are no skilled jobs available anymore.
That is why MSM also tells us that 100k student debt kids are doing
barista work or asking if
Florsheim? ;)
Wilt
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i concur, although i was too cheap at the end of the day to buy them
Gary wrote:
why is it just fine in healthcare?
Why is it just fine in hospitalization? - that is what you mean.
Caring for one's health is very diverse in food and exercise. Caring
for one's health is not diverse, i.e. nobody's health depends on
processed foods, pharmaceuticals that mimic real
Gary wrote:
you need a hobby to occupy your mind
My hobby is called okiebenz.
mao
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They don't hafta be wool; how 'bout NC cotton? I'm just trying to drum up a
market for the poor farmers around here. ;)
Wilton
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] Walmart: How big is it?
There are no skilled jobs available anymore.
I have to call BS on that one.
That is why MSM also tells us that
Richard wrote:
The thing I don't get is that this 'mentality' protects the folks who can
afford healthcare insurance ( wealthier ) while shafting the poor...
The poor cannot be taken to court for non payment, can they? If a
poor person files as bankrupt and there are no assets, what can be
Rick wrote:
I will post more help wanted for electricians, mechanical maintenance, ect.
in the Chicago-land area if you like, later.
Factor in a few outstanding negatives and I bet I still remain without
paycheck. Leave the jobs to younger people like I was a few years ago
and let the younger
http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/pts/4407286215.html
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All the bundts I have seen ARE 14. I have several in my basement. YMMV..
On Apr 4, 2014 9:37 PM, Mitchell Haley, EA m...@voyager.net wrote:
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All the bundts I have seen ARE 14. I have several in my basement.
YMMV..
W116 6.9 came with 15. Those are the only ones I know of, and obviously
about as rare as W116 parts cars with M100 engines. (well, about 1/5 as
rare, if most of the parts cars have five wheels)
Mitch.
Richard wrote:
The poor cannot be taken to court for non payment, can they? If a
poor person files as bankrupt and there are no assets, what can be
taken?
I know somebody who is in 'debtors prison' in Battle Creek Michigan as I
type this.
They transported him about 150 miles after having him
The chronic poor have a good go at cheap healthcare, as they cannot get blood
from a turnip, as you mention. Personal experience, in an ER while my son was
having a toe sewn back on ( too many beers, rough deck on the beach house ),
was a woman there who was sick, and needed help. She was not
Didn't 126 series also have 15 wheels?
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All the bundts I have seen ARE
Didn't 126 series also have 15 wheels?
After they quit putting bundts on them.
Both of my W201s have 15 on them.
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There are no skilled jobs available anymore.
I have to call BS on that one.
Non-payment of child support is taken far more seriously than
non-payment of ordinary debt, and most states that I know of will jail a
person for that and then release them after a variable length of time.
I knew a retired sailor living in Florida that California was trying to
find and jail for
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