 Transit fares and high gas prices
In article <4849751e$0$4968$822641b3@news.adtechcomputers.com >,
David Nebenzahl <nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote:
> On 6/6/2008 5:33 AM Peter T. Daniels spake thus:
>
> > On Jun 6, 12:45 am, David Nebenzahl <nob...@but.us.chickens> wrote:
> >
> >> On 6/5/2008 8:27 PM Peter T. Daniels spake thus:
> >>
> >>> On Jun 5, 2:32 pm, "Bernie Kovack" <berniekovac...m> wrote:
> >>
> >>>> "bobgnote" <bobgn...@> wrote in message
> >>>>news:ba67a1e7-2a91-4f98-9f82-aff7ee927f34@y22g2000prd..com...
> >>>> Remember what happened the last time an Austrian seized power?
> >>
> >>> Kurt Waldheim was no Boutros Galli or Kofi Annan, but he wasn't a
> >>> terrible Secretary General.
> >>
> >> And of course we all remember that coup where he forced his way in as
> >> head of the U.N. ...
> >
> > You don't think he was picked at random, do you? No more than Pope
> > Ratzinger was selected purely via divine guidance.
>
> Of course he wasn't picked at random, but there's a rather large
> distance between "not picked at random" and "seized power", wouldn't you
> say?
I thought the reference to the "last time an Austrian seized power"
referred to that fellow in Germany in the 1930s.
Merritt
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