Re: [OT] Hurricane prep (Was: OT: Traffic Signals in New Mexico)


<docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:df04q2$9pc$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <11h6q9etpe8fbc3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Rick Smith <ricksmith@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >"LX-i" <lxi0007@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >news:3a564$43125871$45491c57$10554@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> [snip]
>
> >> People who put up trailers
> >> in Florida deserve exactly what they get. :)
>
> [snip]
>
> >Daniel, your comment seems uncharitable.
>
> Oh, come *on* now, Mr Smith... can't you see the *smiley*? What's the
> matter, don't you know that *anything*, no matter how hurtful or hateful
> or degrading or bigoted, can be un-said if it is followed by 'What's the
> matter... can't take a *joke*?'
>
> You'd know that if you listened to more Talk Radio, that's for sure... at
> least that's where *I* learned it.

That must be it. I don't listen to talk radio.

> >I happen to
> >live in a manufactured home in Florida because, for me,
> >it is comfortable, affordable housing. I certainly do not
> >deserve to have my home destroyed just because it was
> >manufactured and not site-constructed.
>
> Economic Darwinism, survival of the fittest, learn to enjoy creative
> destruction, if you aren't born into a wealthy family then you deserve
> what you get... hmmmmmm... now where's that fool smiley key?

Reminds me of a smiling President Clinton (commenting
on the vote count in Florida after the 2000 general election)
saying, as I recall, "This proves more than ever that those
who do not vote deserve the government they get." My
thought was immediate, "I never deserved the government
I got even when I was voting."



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