0n (23 Oct 06) BOB KLAHN wrote to CINDY HAGLUND...

 BK>  CH>> Now what do you make of this fact that if I search/post for
 BK>  CH>> the Fort Worth area, uh Excuse me! They have it under
 BK>  CH>> DALLAS! !!! grrrrrr.

 BK>  BK>>  There's a difference?

 CH>  (blink blink blink... BARB Hand me the double bubble Nerf
 CH>  Bat_))

 CH>  Yes.

 BK>  I know... my daughter used to live in FW. Went to church there,
 BK>  the only Roman Catholic church I ever went to where the pastor
 BK>  was married.

 What year? It's been growing... :) The "funniest" thing happened last
month. I had been JUST thinking (after visiting my sister in Vancouver
where there's a "kingdom hall" near their house)- we haven't gotten
any of them coming door to door. SO confident I was I forgot to add
the YET. Sure enough!!!! (and you can TELL what they are a block
away.)... Three showed up. We escaped just in time. There they were in
their Long sleeved shirts (three males)... in 90 degree heat.
The JW's... and parked nearby was their spiffy gas guzzling tank of a
car....

***** Major Topic Torque ****

I have learned to laugh at these people. For as anti-materialistic as
they claim to be- they're the most materialistic people on the face
of the plant. ((I've a relative who had got sucked into that cult
which is by far even more 'cult' than the OTHER one(S). Let me clear
something up first beforehand : when I say 'cult' I don't mean 'that
dogmatisms which is not mainstream; I mean  catmatism that is happy
haven for literal minded 'my way or no way' Fanatics.))

There's tons of really super good ways to deter these pushers from
your doorstep. :) One of the best ways that's well, I think most
civilized and yet effective is to ask them where they live.
When they ask why say how you would like to come to their house and
press YOUR views upon them. And then you might add if they don't leave
right then: Holler over your shoulder, "Honey you got that blood out of
the carpet yet?" :)

 ***** End of Major Topic Torque

 CH> The funny thing is on a FW (Fort Worth) faq page it claims
 CH> FW is a mere (laughing!) 16 minutes from Downtown Dallas.
 CH> By what!!!??? Helicopter maybe. I'd say the BIGGEST
 CH> difference is... Traffic. BUT FW is all slap happy to catch
 CH> up.

 BK>  Yes, 16 minutes, at 1AM, on a quite night.

 ER... which night would that be? :) It's not the in between that's so
bad, it's when you get TO the city it piles up.

Speaking of piling up. Ever notice those traffic weavers? I get a kick
out of these idiots. Last time some dofus pulled into our lane in heavy
traffic thinking he or she would be able to get the next break and get
ahead.... well a few miles down the road where we whizzed by,
escaping the jam at our exit... I saw the weaver stuck in a solid line
of traffic HA!!!

OR you know what else? They get a few cars ahead of you sure but end
up getting stuck at the next red light often right next to you in the
next lane. SIlly people.


The other silly people are those who try drive (no snow tires here
mind you) on icy roads where we have icy roads once a year, ice that melts
and dries off completely within a day or the next. (The city doesn't
sand the roads due to the rarity of need.).

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 CH> Can you see it now? The USA as People clogged as Japan? With
 CH> convenient land fills to either side (the oCeans)... the
 CH> rich get the best dibs on location... near the coasts
 CH> perhaps/the mountains... and the rest of us get stuck in
 CH> the middle. You know.. the former Bread

 BK>  Yes. I see that often, when I hear about how we need to allow
 BK>  more immigrants who just want a piece of the American dream.

 What people don't realize that dream becomes less achievable as the
population grows.

In the New York Times not long ago ran an article on how it is in some
Eastern European countries now young couples are opting to have only
one child and then try to move elsewhere because there's no child care
service etc... The contries are working to correct this situation as
they're enduring a brain drain as well as population loss. What's the
take on this from those of you here who live in Europe?

......

 BK>  Much of the world wants a piece of the American dream. We can't
 BK>  solve the world's problems by bringing them here. They have to
 BK>  be solved where they are.

 It's not so much a dream anymore as many not so already wealthy
immigrants soon find out. If you commit a crime and go to prison you
can experience the Prisoner's Paradise though (comparatively cozier
than welfare what with all the free amenities including health care.)

Boy I sure am topic torquing a lot this morning...  yikes. Sorry! The
coffee spoketh!

 BK>  ...

 CH> BTW Corning, NY is the home of Corning Glassworks ...
 CH> Corning Glass makes Pyrex ... among other things. We
 CH> were so SURPRISED to find a

 BK>  I know about them. Pyrex is used to make telescope mirrors.
 BK>  Cervit was also used for that purpose, made by Owens Illinois, I
 BK>  believe. It was even better, but there was so little market for
 BK>  it they stopped production.

 Nod. That comment was directed at our Across the Pond friends. :)
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 BK>  BK>>  Last year? Was that last year? Wasn't that a couple years ago?

 CH>  That long ago already? You're provably right. I try not to
 CH>  think about time too much. Good grief Ooh what does this
 CH>  mean?- My family and I have been here in Texas now just
 CH>  about the same length of time we were in Florida. Funny
 CH>  how it seems like we were hardly in

 BK>  It's hard for me to keep track also. There may well have been
 BK>  another one in NY, for all I know. The big one, that shut down
 BK>  several states, was a couple years ago. Just looked, it was
 BK>  2003. Ah yes... I remember it well.

 Oh. The shuttle disaster is ever entrenched into my mind. It's almost
scary. If I were a superstitious sort I'd say it was almost prophetic
in some weird way but of course that's silly!!!! You see my hubby and
I were standing across the Indian River at a park where you can view
the landing of the shuttle.... see. We even have pictures of the
viewing area looking out... It takes SIX MINUTES for the shuttle to
land from passing by Houston, TX (JSC; mission control).

This was a week before we had to move to Texas, in the same area the
shuttle exploded. It took us a long time to be able to enjoy the big
wide open big huge blue sky without picturing that (AVOIDABLE)
disaster in it. Forever and a day we'll remember when.

(I must explain that my hubby had been working on a contracted project
for NASA. A project nearly completed to upgrade the shuttle launch
check out system... Canceled by current assdministartion to fund a
n illegal war. Knowing this you may get my drift about how 'prophetic'
this disaster seemed.)

...............

Cindy

... A flying particle will seek the nearest eye.

--- PPoint 3.01