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Offline Boroda

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« Reply #90 on: July 17, 2004, 12:36:44 AM »
Lizking I'll save ypur picture as a wallpaper so I'll not drink alone at my computer console ;) Thanks!

YOu are left-handed? this makes a picture even better as a target for dzin'! :D
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« Reply #91 on: July 17, 2004, 12:46:10 AM »
I am left handed, and I am going to bed.
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« Reply #92 on: July 17, 2004, 01:19:24 AM »
I have to give the Russians this much, they are way ahead of the US in movie to video production. My son's fiancée has been in Moscow visiting her grandparents and she already has videos of Spiderman 2 and Shrek 2, months before we'll get them here in the US. You guys in Russia must really have some sophisticated equipment. :aok


Hope she isn't busted bringing 'em in to the US. ;)
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« Reply #93 on: July 17, 2004, 01:26:26 AM »
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I have to give the Russians this much, they are way ahead of the US in movie to video production. My son's fiancée has been in Moscow visiting her grandparents and she already has videos of Spiderman 2 and Shrek 2, months before we'll get them here in the US. You guys in Russia must really have some sophisticated equipment. :aok

Hope she isn't busted bringing 'em in to the US. ;)


Communism taught them to steal well.
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« Reply #94 on: July 17, 2004, 01:37:43 AM »
China doesn't need the US to consume it's goods.  Certainly not to the tune to an over 120 billion dollar trade deficit a year.  The US is however becoming reliant on those cheap goods from China.  What is happening though is US manufacturing infrastructure is being seriously erroded because of the trade deficit.
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« Reply #95 on: July 17, 2004, 01:58:04 AM »
"What is happening though is US manufacturing infrastructure is being seriously erroded because of the trade deficit."


being?




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« Reply #96 on: July 17, 2004, 02:40:13 AM »
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"What is happening though is US manufacturing infrastructure is being seriously erroded because of the trade deficit."


being?




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Being what?  The trade deficit?  Over 500 billion a year in total.  Over 120 billion of that is with China.
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« Reply #97 on: July 17, 2004, 02:54:58 AM »
Rest of the world makes the products they buy, and lends them the money to buy them.

Hell of a racket.
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« Reply #98 on: July 17, 2004, 03:02:08 AM »
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This sounds bad.

But thanbkfully we have a clear alternative - everyone Knows where Kerry stands when it comes to allowing asian communist agression. We will all be safe if you vote Kerry in november...


And just exactly what was the point of Vietnam, Grun?  What was our potential gain?

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« Reply #99 on: July 17, 2004, 03:02:32 AM »
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Rest of the world makes the products they buy, and lends them the money to buy them.

Hell of a racket.
so where'd they come from? huh? scardy cat???
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« Reply #100 on: July 17, 2004, 03:05:52 AM »
My apparently unclear point was your questionable use of present tense.  We've lost our manufacturing jobs already, by and large.


I can't see any long-term good comming out of it personally, but OTOH nobody much misses the ~90% of farming jobs that the evil tractors took away although it was much maligned at the time.  


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« Reply #101 on: July 17, 2004, 03:52:24 AM »
What people forget is that while domestic manufacturing employment drops, output continues to rise.  Just like with agriculture in the last century.
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« Reply #102 on: July 17, 2004, 04:23:25 AM »
On a completly different matter FUNKED1

Where is Northern Aztlan? Ive asked a couple of times over the last few months but no reply :)
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« Reply #103 on: July 17, 2004, 04:32:04 AM »
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Where is Northern Aztlan? Ive asked a couple of times over the last few months but no reply :)


Roughly all the western USA.

A bunch of rabidly racist Mexicans, some of them prominent US college proffesors openly want to take it all back for Mexico.
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« Reply #104 on: July 17, 2004, 04:37:51 AM »
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Roughly all the western USA.

A bunch of rabidly racist Mexicans, some of them prominent US college proffesors openly want to take it all back for Mexico.


Aha...are you fishing, trolling or beeing serious? :D
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