RobBob

not to mention the great Dean-Gore alliance...

I notice that marylou had nothing to say about timmy's assparrot post. Boy, if that had been from trask or caveman, she would have gone through the roof.

you mean the xx factor...

lummox, you've done it again, imbedded some insight into your strange posts. Have fun in Old Mexico, drink some Annejo for me. Y'won't find many blondies there, though.

Boy, cc.com is where I want to get my advice on the capital markets!

minx

I am disappointed in Catbird, Joshk, scrambler, and any others of you who choose to conveniently believe that dioxins are a product of burning man-made materials. The quote I put up regarding forest fires being one of the major sources of dioxins came from the EPA. Dioxins are usually caused by poor or incomplete combustion of just about any materials, regardless of whther they are manmade or not. This just confirms my belief that at the heart of many radical greenies is a subconscious belief that man is inherently bad, therefore we must restrain his activities as much as possible. That's a different line of thinking from the rest of us, who want to forge a reasonable balance between making life better and preserving the natural world.

Catbird, I believe I'm right in saying that relatively small dung-fires and home trash-fires in asia (aside from being particulate sources) contribute more dioxins to the environment than modern US hazardous-waste incinerators. Any partial- or poor-combustion process is a source. Also interesting to note:

A modest proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public (1729) By Jonathan Swift

okay girlie-boyz...now I realize that you are all various avatars of Necro's

this one takes the cake. don't any guy do that to me, or I'll slap ya.

There was an old lady who cooked in one of the hunting camps I used to go to as a kid. She "par boiled" everything to tenderize it. Shit, I even ate some par-boiled nutria once I think.

That's where we disagree. The asian brown cloud needs to be addressed first and foremost. More dioxins etc. coming out of dung fires than out of hazardous-waste incinerators. Problem is, if we curb reproduction in asia fast, in a few years the likes of peter puget will be whining 'cause the price of their slave-made goods went up.

This is but one risk of allowing the world's population to increase. I say we go ahead and clean up the world. We will institute a global plan, where nations are graded on: a) birth rate b) per capita creation of trash, noxious or disease-causing emmissions, etc. c) ability to police themselves All these parameters will receive appropriate weighting (CO2 emmissions are part of the equation but fairly low on the list of bad human activities). The UN will dispatch people to forcibly institute a mass sterilization program in the worst-offending countries first. Any nation that hasn't reached a flat or declining birthrate within 5 years will get "the plan." It won't be popular, but by God we'll fix this pollution problem at its roots!

What is it with the poop threads? This place appears to be teaming with poo stabbers and fecophiliacs.

huh? whoa...uh...

not that Vince Foster et al had anything to do with Bill Clinton...

Fejas gets the Muffy spelling award for the day. Erik's right, it's his business, but c'mon...this looks about as real as David Copperfield and Claudia.

I think that's a pretty good acid test. Use courtesy. If a chick gets weird about that, stay away from her...there'll only be trouble ahead.

I have one, and it's reserved exclusively for women...

Keef!

obviously 'fair trade' is a subjective concept. I guess I'd start with one that both sides view as equitable.

just correcting the thread title...

No, pp, I'm not claiming to even know what I want. I believed the University of Chicago-type free market/efficient capital market BS that I was fed in B school. But I realize now that those concepts are only partly true. If a trading partner does not have an open market and chooses to purposely import US$, that's not fair trade. As far as Walmart, I'll pay extra to avoid the human trash that tend to congregate in Walmart parking lots and stores. It ain't worth it.