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Taktix®|5.23.08 @ 7:23AM|#
Hurray, Chip Bok actually made a funny one.
I suppose if you throw enough shit at the wall...
NP|5.23.08 @ 8:25AM|#
Hurray, Chip Bok actually made a funny one.
Yay, Bok actually draws a cartoon that works.
Agreed.
Taktix®|5.23.08 @ 8:52AM|#
DO the Amish get federal subsidies? DO they accept
them?
To be honest, I don't think they do. They're one of the few groups
that still has they're dignity...
(P.S. Screw you're subject-verb agreement, I'm going on vacation in
a few hours...)
Anonymoose.|5.23.08 @ 9:20AM|#
To be honest, I don't think they do. They're one of the few groups that still has they're dignity...
Their dignity.
tarran|5.23.08 @ 10:07AM|#
The Amish also successfully fought to be left out of the Social
Security system.
Lucky bastards.
Amish Wannabee|5.23.08 @ 10:15AM|#
How do you proove you are Amish? Can I just claim to be Amish. Yo, I'm Amish.
Gibbon|5.23.08 @ 10:16AM|#
Look like the grammer (sic) nazi got final
solutioned.
Be fair, he never claimed to be the spelling nazi.
|5.23.08 @ 10:30AM|#
Chip Bok reveals the hypocrisy behind the farm
bill.
Tomorrow, I reveal the fact that the earth is round.
Wikipedia Fanatic|5.23.08 @ 10:46AM|#
"Tomorrow, I reveal the fact that the earth is round."
No you won't.
The Earth's shape is very close to an oblate spheroid-a rounded
shape with a bulge around the equator-although the precise shape
(the geoid) varies from this by up to 100 meters.[32] The average
diameter of the reference spheroid is about 12,742 km. More
approximately the distance is 40,000 km/π because the meter was
originally defined as 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the equator
to the north pole through Paris, France.[33]
The rotation of the Earth creates the equatorial bulge so that the
equatorial diameter is 43 km larger than the pole to pole
diameter.[34] The largest local deviations in the rocky surface of
the Earth are Mount Everest (8,848 m above local sea level) and the
Mariana Trench (10,911 m below local sea level). Hence compared to
a perfect ellipsoid, the Earth has a tolerance of about one part in
about 584, or 0.17%, which is less than the 0.22% tolerance allowed
in billiard balls.[35] Because of the bulge, the feature farthest
from the center of the Earth is actually Mount Chimborazo in
Ecuador.[36]
|5.23.08 @ 10:49AM|#
Tomorrow, I reveal the fact that the earth is
round.
If it were that obvious, we wouldn't need a veto. It would die a
quick and painless death before seeing a vote. I would have
preferred to see a slobbering, slimy, fat cat pol, pockets stuffed
with earmarks, handing out the subsidy. Bok just makes them look
merely stupid and not terminally corrupt as the pols truly
are.
John and Mary Q. Public need to see this type of message until
every last one of them gets it. Of course, the more obtusely dense
will just want a windfall profits tax on Big Corn.
|5.23.08 @ 11:10AM|#
No you won't.
I said it was "round." I didn't say it was a perfect sphere.
The Flat Earth Society doesn't claim that mountains and valleys
don't exist either.
If it were that obvious, we wouldn't need a veto.
Yeah, I guess that's true, unless most people were economically
illiterate. Oh, wait...
Taktix®|5.23.08 @ 11:16AM|#
"Tomorrow, I reveal the fact that the earth is round."
No you won't.
Yes they will.
Round doesn't imply "sphere" and more than rectangle implies
square.
(had to get some payback for my not caring about grammar today)
|5.23.08 @ 11:17AM|#
Yesterday, I kept hearing (in spite of my fervent wish not to)
about the NPR feature on the BigOilExec witch hunt
hearings.
The same hysterical dopes atwitter over the impending demise of the
planet were spewing venomous outrage at the grotesque earnings of
oil company executives and the high price of gasoline (which has
jumped about twenty cents in the past ten days or so).
|5.23.08 @ 11:21AM|#
Of course, the night before, I got to hear one of them gleefully
chortling about how her beloved Demos had stuck it to You-Know-Who,
and overidden his evil veto of the farm bill.
This is why I refuse to discuss economics at the bar.
Rhywun|5.23.08 @ 12:36PM|#
the high price of gasoline
You just hit the nail on the head. D's are just as dependent on
their automobiles as R's, and both are looking for someone to
blame. Whether they actually believe in the witch hunt is
irrelevant.
ed|5.23.08 @ 12:41PM|#
How do you proove you are Amish?
Make cheese?
Get run over by one of those fancy horseless carriages?
Have 10 kids?
Rhywun|5.23.08 @ 12:49PM|#
...Move to upstate NY/northern PA? None of these requirements is very appealing.
|5.23.08 @ 12:51PM|#
Yeah, I guess that's true, unless most people were
economically illiterate. Oh, wait...
Touche. But, you gotta start the path to enlightenment somewhere.
It would be sweet if the farm bill and the ethenol debacle would be
that driver.
|5.23.08 @ 1:38PM|#
Only at H&R could we get a heated dispute over which values
of "round" are valid for the shape of the Earth.
Well played, gentlemen! Well played, indeed.
|5.23.08 @ 1:52PM|#
To be fair, the Fossil Fuel industry still receives billion$ in subsidies and other market protections...which in turn subsidizes other areas of the US economy, including agriculture.
|5.24.08 @ 4:06PM|#
The long vigils of the night.
Near an alley,
and where magical
violins look like
a melody of
an ancient good
sense, you hear
the first light
of a springtime and
always, in all its
meanings, the luminous
wisdom forgets a
white candle.
Francesco Sinibaldi
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