Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:51:40 -0700
Reply-To: zolo <zolo@FOXINTERNET.NET>
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From: zolo <zolo@FOXINTERNET.NET>
Subject: Re: Westfalia Pop-Top Screws - Call It a Sclew
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That sleeping giant is India and China. He did not say this country.
Those can control the world when they wake up. That two countries, out of
the three hundred of the world, are 70% of the world. And they are not
monkeys in jungles, but highly intelligent and much better educated than the
folks here. We looked down on the Japanese fifty years ago. And the
Taiwanese. Now we look down on the Chinese and the Indians. The British
had the same complex with the wold's other nations and ended up beaten
without a war. Now they cling to us to regain their power. Too late boys,
I would tell them. Education and persistence will win over guns and
terrorising nations with accurate bombs to try to control oil and markets.
On the long run we will loose this battle. In a few thousand years we will
be another ancient Egypt. Maybe only a hundred.
Quality tools and parts are still available but only in special places and
catalogs and online. Not commonly anymore. Cheap stuff is the norm.
Temporary fix until it breaks and you throw it away. Buy new. Work your
life away to buy stuff because it does not last long enough to enjoy your
money. If all the things would work as well as a fridge does, we would not
spend our life buying new stuff all the time.
Kerry is an other puppet of the elite we don't even know. We are the
mindless pawns in this chess game. Propaganda will make you elect anyone.
You only know what they told you. Election is the only time when the little
guy with his little brains gets into a brawl and thinks he makes a
difference. They own our mind. We will put them back again and again into
office, irrespective which party wins. One is worse than the other. And at
times the other is worse.
Democracy is a dream, like communism. Kerry is a communist in the eyes of
the folks who fought against the US in Vietnam. He is the one that this
country's communist pary hopes will win in November. Go and check out their
website if you are brave enough and can throw your pride away and see who
John Kerry is for the communists. I think it is www.cpusa.org. Interesting
to learn more about things we wish was not there.
Our head in the sand for too long. Ever wondered why you are not given
foreign movies to feed your mind? You might like people in other countries.
That's no good if you have to go to kill them one day or vote to send troops
there. The more isolated you are the better. Like there is two different
planets. The USA and the World. The tail is trying to wag the dog.
I am just thinking here.
Sorry if I woke up some of you or disturbed the accepted thinking that is
'politically correct'. But there are others in the universe. And we don't
have to look too far away from us. Just as Mexico is a mess and in shambles
so is many of our friends in the world where slaughtering of humans are
tolerated by us if they don't have oil or diamond or gold or something to
take away from them.
That's enough now.
I just wanted to find out how to get a set of rings for my 87 2.1L engine
because two of the rings broke and I don't want to spend the bucks for a
full set.
Zoltan
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Goff" <THX0001@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 7:34 AM
Subject: Re: Westfalia Pop-Top Screws - Call It a Sclew
> In a message dated 10/1/04 2:09:50 AM, warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM writes:
>
> << You can't find metric around here and that big slotted
> screw is an old idea- they don't even have that in
> SAE. >>
>
> This is a sad time in the Land of the Free and, unfortunately, it ain't
gonna
> get better. I mourn the passing of our fastener industry just like I am
> saddened by those long rows of boarded-up brick buildings in Massachusetts
which
> used to be abuzz with the activity of shoemaking. I didn't ask for this
glut
> of cheap dreck from the Pacific Rim to clog our markets; did you?
>
> It's true that about all you can find anymore is Phillips head screws or
else
> that wretched abomination, the combination head. The slotted screw head
may
> be an old idea, but it is a far better idea in almost any venue except an
> assembly line. Just compare a screw made in this country, if you still
have any,
> to what the P-Rim has to offer. The junk screw is ill-formed with soft
edges
> at the head circumference and with a poorly formed driver recess. It is
sorta
> like a Play-Doh version of what a screw should be.
>
> I wish I could just blame those self-serving bastards in Washington for
this
> sad state of affairs. After all, they have their hands on the handwheel
of
> the floodgate which controls cheap imports. But, the merchants who saw a
way to
> cash in on shoddy merchandise are also accountable. They stocked their
> shelves with junk that they could sell at two-for-one prices while still
making a
> higher percentage on the markup, then they used the specious excuse that
they
> were just yielding to the pressures of the market while they incrementally
> inflated the prices of the junk they proffered to that of quality goods.
I guess
> in the end, I have to blame the dumb-ass, American consumer for swallowing
> this bill of goods just to crowd their lives with a bunch of poorly
wrought
> trinkets.
>
> I'm voting for Kerry for a lot of reasons. High on the list is because
there
> is a chance he won't send my kid (or yours) on a pointless forced march to
> his death. Also, because he might be speaking the truth when he says he
wants
> to arouse from his coma the greatest industrial giant the world has ever
known.
> I suggest you do the same.
>
> George
>
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