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Posted on 01/03/2003 2:45:59 PM PST by Mark
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"I'm a middle-of-the-road Republican,"---Maybe also a LIAR?
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posted on
01/03/2003 2:45:59 PM PST
by
Mark
To: Mark
Scratch a moderate and you'll find a liberal in GOP clothing.
To: Mark
One more location:
www.pop.org/students/texas1.html
The whole world's population could fit in the state of Texas...Amazing as it may seem, the entire population of the world can be housed in the U.S. state of Texas and very comfortably indeed, with each person enjoying a living far in excess of that now available to all but the most wealthy.
Consider these facts: The land area of Texas is some 262,000 square miles* and current UN estimates of the world's population (for 12 October 1999) are about 6 billion.**
By converting square miles to square feet remember to multiply by 5,280 feet per mile twice and dividing by the world's population, one readily finds that there are more than 1,217 square feet per capita.
A family of 5 would thus occupy more than 6,085 square feet of living space. Even in Texas, that's a mansion.
These numbers apply to just one-story, ranch house-type dwellings. With a housing mix of multi-story buildings, including town houses, apartment buildings and high rises, appreciably greater living space could be provided. Such an arrangement would allow ample land for yards and all the necessary streets and roads.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world would be completely empty, available for all of mankind's agricultural, manufacturing, educational, and recreational activities!
*The World Almanac, 1999
**UNPD "World Population
Prospects," 1998 UN Revision
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posted on
01/03/2003 2:51:50 PM PST
by
Mark
To: Mark
middle-of-the-road Republican Translation: take the dumbest parts of the Republican platform, and the dumbest parts of the Democrat platform and put them together. That's what I believe in.
To: Mark
As they say in Texas, "The only things you find in the middle of the road are yellow lines and road kill."
To: Mark
A web search shows that this guy is a biology professor whose wife is an environmental activist.
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posted on
01/03/2003 2:57:29 PM PST
by
wideawake
To: goldstategop
Isn't that the truth.
But, maybe the liberal view is valid. If you take the total land in Texas and see it through the liberals' eyes, then 75% would be off limits to protect the pink prickly cactus, 20% would be declared as wetland-- then the libs may have a point( as on their heads.)
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posted on
01/03/2003 2:58:35 PM PST
by
Mark
To: wideawake
Translation: a moderate is the definition of a Republican acceptable to a Dem. He agrees with everything the latter believes in. Now that's being bipartisan!
To: Mark
He is one of the liars who calls c-span and pretends to have been a Republican until some minor annoyance cased him to split with the party.
To: Mark
I'm a middle-of-the-road Republican..... Hey! Great Place to be........
Especially If ya wanna get hit by a Mac Truck er sumpin...
To: Libertarianize the GOP
LOL!!! Jim "Jumpin' Judas" Jeffords: your quintessential GOP moderate and Dem favorite.
To: Mark
But getting to your field would be one h*ll of a commute.
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posted on
01/03/2003 3:02:55 PM PST
by
El Sordo
To: Mark
Good response, but please quit inviting the rest of the world to move to Texas. ;-)
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posted on
01/03/2003 3:02:57 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: Mark
The entire population of the Earth could be comfortably settled in the state of Texas in a 1,500-square-foot home per family. Shhhhhh! Don't tell the Mexicans.
To: wideawake
A web search shows that this guy is a biology professor whose wife is an environmental activist. That sounds liberal. You don't think he was lying about being a Republican do you?(/sarcasm)
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posted on
01/03/2003 3:05:16 PM PST
by
Mark
To: goldstategop
You know I think a lot of these so-called centrists really have strong beliefs, but not in the traditional sense of Left or Right.
They are in fact TV extremists. They believe whatever their TV tells them to believe. Their value system is Hollywood-wannabe, and their heads are filled with mush packed in by the infotainment sound-biters.
The will defend to the death their most fundamental principle: If it's on TV, it must be true.
To: Mark
You don't think he was lying about being a Republican do you?(/sarcasm) What, just because there are no Republicans who live in North Hollywood? Or because there are only about 15 California teachers in the whole state who vote Republican? Surely it wasn't the fact that he's married to an environmental wacko, is it?
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posted on
01/03/2003 3:12:54 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: No Truce With Kings
I don't take crdit for this (somebody else posted it the other day): "The middle of the road is where conservatives eliminate and liberals feed."
To: Mark
Good job! I have spotted many of those kind of liars. They will say "I am a Republcian and I find everything Republican revolting....the Democrats really have their act together.." or something like that anyway. It's ridiculous and I can't believe the newspaper people fall for that trick.
To: Mark
"I'm a middle-of-the-road Republican"
Translation: Limousine Liberal or Rino.
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posted on
01/03/2003 3:26:22 PM PST
by
ZULU
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