What Bush and Greenland have in common..

Subject: What Bush and Greenland have in common..
From: InOBU
Date: 20 Dec 00 - 05:49 PM

I've been thinking of bush's appointment of Christy Witmann to be Sec. of the envionment. Now, perhaps he was thinking of New Jersey's motto, the Gardin State... if so, I hope for his sake, he takes his snowshoes if he ever goes to Greenland. Ya know, (for those of you who have never smelt New Jersy) one of New York's major cancer zones is down wind from her state... (not to mention his nomination of our next ecconomic tzar - hoping to return us to the glory years under Ford?) It is going to be a long cold four years, I fear.... ah hell, any one know the ballad "Green and rolling Mills of New Joisey?"
We now cut to a rebuttal from our own dear Troll....
Cheersm'dears
Larry

Subject: RE: What Bush and Greenland have in common..
From: Troll
Date: 20 Dec 00 - 06:17 PM

Sorry Larry. Haven't you figured it out yet? Why do you think I liva in Florida? "Cause it's a long,long way from New Jersey.
And New York.
In the days of my youth, I lived in Philly and I got my fill of New Jersey then. I see you are still in New York after all this time.
Slow learner?

Your witness.

troll

Subject: RE: What Bush and Greenland have in common..
From: catspaw49
Date: 20 Dec 00 - 06:44 PM

I'm sorry Larry my friend, but you have mentioned a parody and I fear that I am learning on another thread that we have some seriously humor impaired people around here......fortunately, troll ain't one of them. A Republican perhaps, but a good ol' boy nonetheless.

Spaw

Subject: RE: What Bush and Greenland have in common..
From: Troll
Date: 20 Dec 00 - 06:59 PM

Awwwww.'Spaw.You silver-tongued devil you.

Troll

Subject: RE: What Bush and Greenland have in common..
From: Naemanson
Date: 20 Dec 00 - 08:03 PM

That's it, Spaw, brown nose the conservatives! Maybe you can get some government funding for the NYCFTTS!

Subject: RE: What Bush and Greenland have in common..
From: Amos
Date: 20 Dec 00 - 10:35 PM

Spaw is working on a deal to be Secretary of Bush-in-the-Hand. It's a greasy job but someone has to do it!

A

Subject: RE: What Bush and Greenland have in common..
From: InOBU
Date: 21 Dec 00 - 08:45 AM

Well, frankly Troll, if it were not for love of my sweetie and wife (the same person...) I would be off to several other places in the wink of an eye. New York ain't what it used to be. Once it was somewhat fun to live here. I think, given my druthers, I'd live in the South of France, I was tempted by the neolithic museums that were interested in my early hominid portrate sculptures, a serrious hobby of mine... choice 2, Quebec, choice 3. Wiltshire. Once the first choice would have been the west of Ireland, but things have changed there quite a bit. Unfortunately, Genie enjoys tormenting police officers on the witness stand, and does not look as though she is going to tire of her pastime soon. I think if we did choose to move NYPD would pay for the moving... ah well, maybe bush will be the final inducement for Genie to see that things would be better in greener pastures... New Hope NY is nice too, but a wee bit touresty - might be a good place for a band though...
Larry

Subject: RE: What Bush and Greenland have in common..
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Dec 00 - 10:01 PM

At the risk of mentioning a paordy in the potential presence of the humor impaired...

"Cause it's a long,long way from New Jersey."

Hmmm.. that sounds like a parody waiting to happen....

It's a long long way from New Jersey, but not long enough....

Hmmm... Jeff

Subject: RE: What Bush and Greenland have in common..
From: GUEST,RedCelt
Date: 21 Dec 00 - 10:03 PM

Hmm.. is this how one identifies ones' self when "guest"ing? I was compelled to take responsibility fo rthe above stinker.

RedCelt (Jeff)

Subject: RE: What Bush and Greenland have in common..
From: Dharmabum
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 07:22 AM

I live in New Jersey,ain't proud of it,ain't happy about it.Too damn crowded,too much traffic. I'll be leaving as soon as I pay off the mortgage on my place in the Pennsylvania mountains.

Our state motto should be, NEW JERSEY, it ain't hell,but you can see it from here.

DB.

Subject: RE: What Bush and Greenland have in common..
From: mkebenn
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 08:03 AM

The western part of New York is wonderfull, one third Ohio, two thirds Pennsylvania. Mike

Subject: RE: What Bush and Greenland have in common..
From: GUEST,Arne Langsetmo
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 10:26 AM

IIRC, Roberts and Barrand did a parody on "The Rolling Hills of the Border" (Matt McInness??? does anyone know?, entitled "The Rolling Mills of New Joysey" (phonetic, of course).

They attribute it to a drunk at a bar, but I'm not sure that's the correct entymology.

"When I die, bury me low, where I can hear the petroleum flow, a sweeter sound I never will know, the rolling mills of New Joysey."

It's one one of theiur older records (actually, aren't _all_ their records "earlier"?).

I don't know if I can remember all the words, but I'll give it a go if no one else has them.

Cheers,

-- Arne Langsetmo

Subject: RE: What Bush and Greenland have in common..
From: Peter T.
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 05:18 PM

It should be said that, much as I despise GW Bush, having someone like her at EPA is quite striking because it raises the profile of the position substantially. He must have promised her that the EPA would be taken seriously. If he was going to gut it or wreck it, I can't imagine that he would have invited her. We are not talking James Watt here. This doesn't mean that it may not be a Machievellian plot: but it is not automatically a sign for wringing of hands among environmentalists.

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: What Bush and Greenland have in common..
From: MarkS
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 05:47 PM

Actually, for EPA Secretary, Christie Whitman is not too bad a choice. New Jersey today has some of the toughest environmental regulations around. Seems they were sensitive to their somewhat undeserved reputation. I think Whitman is really a good choice for the job.
MarkS

Subject: RE: What Bush and Greenland have in common..
From: InOBU
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 06:04 PM

MarkS... I hope she turns out to me, She cut spending for the NJ EPA by 30% and got rid of the possition of environmental prosicutor. As I drive past Elizabeth, the town you can always find with you nose, unaided by any other sence... I can only hope so...
Larry

Subject: RE: What Bush and Greenland have in common..
From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall)
Date: 23 Dec 00 - 01:18 AM

DOes this mean one day the whole country will be as clean as New Jersey?

Rich

Subject: RE: What Bush and Greenland have in common..
From: Willie-O
Date: 23 Dec 00 - 06:42 AM

Maybe da woild.

New Joisey state flower: the crushed beer can.

NJ state saying: "Duh."

My wife is from south Joisey, and gets mad at too many slaps at her homeplace (she feels that should be her privilege I guess). The farther south you go--and incidentally the Mason-Dixon line goes through south Jersey--the more interesting stuff is there, albeit highly developed in most cases. The Pine Barrens, Barnegat Bay, Cape May, and the coastal bird sanctuary named after her-uncle-the-congressman are all pretty nifty little ecosystems.

Which is just to say there is still some stuff there worth protecting. Hardest kind of ecosystem to protect there: a family farm.

W-O

Subject: RE: What Bush and Greenland have in common..
From: MarkS
Date: 23 Dec 00 - 12:49 PM

InOBU - As a kid I grew up in New Jersey and remember being told by my father that we could not go fishing in the Passaic River because it was too dirty. Now the shad are coming back and you can fish there again. I really feel New Jersey has made great progress in recent years. I can also personally relate that according to my customers, manufacturing plants, that New Jersey makes them conform to discharge standards which I just do not run into in neighboring states. I hope I am right too with my judgement of Whitman, and if I am the EPA will be well run.
MarkS