Mon 1 May, 2006 10:04 am - Cycloptichorn
Okie is mimicing Limbaugh or some other talk show wag about the free market.
The last time we had an inkling of a free market in this country was when AT&T was broken up... (view)
Mon 1 May, 2006 09:48 am - Okie
It a joke of the same magnitude as your joke about a free market. If you think that the oil companies can't influence public and private policy. Money talks and they have it.
There... (view)
Mon 1 May, 2006 09:33 am - Okie
If you believe that this economy reflects anything close to a "Free Market" then I have a real deal for you. There's a bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn that I have been... (view)
Mon 1 May, 2006 08:01 am - Okie
One thing I left out, when the last iceage occurred, evidence point to the fact that the Gulf Stream had shut down. This led to a cooling of the Northern Hemisphere. I am sure that there... (view)
Mon 1 May, 2006 07:56 am - Okie
I was gonna let Joe answer this one but I couldn't resist.
In 1957, the Ruskies sent a shot across our bow. It was called Sputnik. Three years later Kennedy promised to send a man... (view)
Fri 28 Apr, 2006 05:17 pm - Joe
Okie likely isn't old enough to remember the othr iterations of Rummy and the other Republicans who were so closely aligned with the oil companies that progress was impossible.
You... (view)
Fri 28 Apr, 2006 10:02 am - Thanks Joe. I get a little hot when I am faced with stubborn ignorance born of some notion that George W is looking out for our interests.
Okie, this economy is not a zero sum game. However, the... (view)
Fri 28 Apr, 2006 09:31 am - In the first place I don't admire Gorby, I respect the touch decisions he had to make.
As for alternative energy costing more, the cost can't be more than the bankruptcy we are facing... (view)
Fri 28 Apr, 2006 09:16 am - Okie
you obviously don't know the meaning of pragmatist. Gorby saw the end of th Soviet Union and engineered the breakup without starting world war III in the process. He accepted the... (view)