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   His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey to jay birdsong   
   Re: Power, SUVs and the end of the world   
   11 Jun 13 08:11:37   
   
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   XPost: alt.autos.toyota, rec.autos.driving, alt.society.liberalism   
   XPost: alt.fan.michael-moore   
   From: thetibetanmonkey@gmail.com   
      
   On Jun 10, 5:35 pm, "jay birdsong"  wrote:   
   > "His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble Philosopher"  wrote   
   > in messagenews:68dbe78a-641e-4c46-be25-0e4ad6e2164d@d10g2000yq   
   .googlegroups.com...   
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   > On Jun 7, 2:22 pm, "jay birdsong"  wrote:   
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   > > "His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble Philosopher"   
   > > wrote   
   > > in   
   > > messagenews:69364b27-88bc-4506-b817-fb2637478eb8@g8g2000yqa.   
   ooglegroups.com...   
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   > > (This deserves a topic by itself. Once we figure this out, we'll be   
   > > ready to face the future. We must not allow the roaches to take over   
   > > our beloved green planet. Well, I hope we don't trash it before.   
   > > Yes,   
   > > roaches love trash)   
   > > little people, need BIG vehicles.   
   > >So I heard. You mean "little" in the moral sense as well?   
   > >Anyway this is heartbreaking story about a lion:   
   > >On Jun 8, 8:26 am, Malcolm McMahon  wrote:   
   > > It's like the old "Lion will lie down with the lamb." A creature   
   > > that   
   > > lies down with lambs (at least with lambs on the _outside_) isn't a   
   > > lion   
   > > in any meaningful sense, even if it looks like one.   
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   > It means, the Lion lay down to eat the Lamb, after he killed it.   
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   > >Perhaps a "toothless lion"?   
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   > Or, a "paper tiger".   
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   > > Aesop stories contain so much wisdom:   
   > >The Lion in Love   
   > >A LION demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. The Father,   
   > >unwilling to grant, and yet afraid to refuse his request, hit upon   
   > >this expedient to rid himself of his importunities. He expressed his   
   > >willingness to accept the Lion as the suitor of his daughter on one   
   > >condition: that he should allow him to extract his teeth, and cut off   
   > >his claws, as his daughter was fearfully afraid of both. The Lion   
   > >cheerfully assented to the proposal. But when the toothless, clawless   
   > >Lion returned to repeat his request, the Woodman, no longer afraid,   
   > >set upon him with his club, and drove him away into the forest.   
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   > At least he didn't shoot him with a .357 Magnum.  Thus, the Lion lived   
   > to grow new teeth and claws.   
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   > ***   
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   > >It's all about having claws and teeth, right? Hey, Christians don't   
   > >skip on that. And the little monkey is there trying to have fun, but   
   > >Christians don't believe in fun.   
   > >Anyway, what's a man without an SUV?   
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   > I'm allowed by state law to drive around in my SUV with a pistol.  Any   
   > caliber my little, black, stone heart, desires.   
      
   And I should be allowed to ride my bicycle with a hand grenade or RPG.   
      
   They should learn NEVER to blast the horn at a cyclist. ;)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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