Are you telling me that if I bought my new Escalade SUV in Canada I would get 20% off per litre of petrol?
Nuts. I feel like such a fool. robert and benita rabello wrote: >Marylynn Schmidt wrote: > > > >>What has me confused is just exactly who are these 29% and where are >>they hiding? >> >> > > > I think most of them are members of my family . . . > > > >>You are right about no one admitting to voting for him in the last >>election and no one I've ever come across thinks he's anything but >>some bum. >> >> > > > There's an awful lot of support for him among people I know. They >think he's a "good" man. While the rest of us scratch our heads and >wonder how REAL conservatives can hold his policies in anything other >than contempt, the propaganda machine grinds on and the legacy of Josef >Goebbels manufactures artificial consensus through flag waving and >subliminal messages that pervade our media. > > Keith pointed this out in another thread. As an example, I was >listening to NPR this morning and heard a feature involving an >evangelical minister who has been caught up in the Jack Abramoff >scandal. Chris Geeslin, the minister in question, believed one of his >parishoners was a godly man because he was "in the Bible" and "prayed >every day". This associate of Jack Abramoff set up a foundation that >was intended to promote family values and "return America to God as the >Founders intended", but instead, funneled foreign money to Tom Delay. >(Big surprise!) > > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5424662 > > Return America to God as the Founders intended? > > What??? > > I've a personal copy of the Constitution and NOWHERE in that >document does it say anything about America being aligned with God. But >if we hear that lie enough, we begin to believe it. The deception is >subtle and subliminal, but pervasive. > > I've read somewhere else that "a man cannot serve two masters". >People like Chris Geeslin are profoundly mislead when they begin >believing that the US can function as an agent of God, but it's among >people like him that the support for Mr. Bush persists. (I attend >church with a LOT of people whose attitudes are remarkably similar.) > > Meanwhile, GM is offering a program for a 20 cent per liter discount >on gasoline for all Canadian customers who buy a new GM truck or car. >(The truck is prominently featured in the ad.) We're buying a hybrid >electric Camry to replace the thrice-damned GM product that dishonors >our driveway. The spin, counterspin and programming that goes on in our >media really sets us up for corporate control. We get into debt through >manufactured dissatisfaction and live a lifestyle determined by utter >dependency on automobiles, and all the while, our president's corporate >friends are heaping on the profits. > > People complain to me, but lately I've been telling them to shut >up. I've been warning everyone around me for YEARS that we were heading >down the path toward BIG trouble. Now it's here and I'm in no mood to >listen to their bickering. What REALLY irritates me right now, is that >many of those who are lamenting the loudest are the same group that put >Mr. Bush and his cabal in power. If you really want to know who those >29% are, listen to the ones complaining about high gas prices and >blaming their problems on the Arabs. I'd lay odds that among that group >you will find the president's most ardent supporters. > >robert luis rabello >"The Edge of Justice" >Adventure for Your Mind >http://www.newadventure.ca > >Ranger Supercharger Project Page >http://www.members.shaw.ca/rabello/ > > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
