New Jobless Claims Near 9-Year High

-- Anonymous, June 07, 2001

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This will reduce the unemployment number a bit:

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-- Anonymous, June 07, 2001

Doc: You MUST remember that Charlie is a modern-day Quixote.

-- Anonymous, June 07, 2001

Silly wabbit, Quix is for kids.

(Or is that the chocolate milk stuff?)

(I get confused.)

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2001

Naw Charlie is a rooter for Dallas and Big Business. He runs into trouble because he is too damn easy to read. Thus he finds himself in a box most times even though the guy is social liberal and not even close to as dumb as he sometimes appears.

We need millions more like Charlie. Does anyone doubt his passion? however misguided it can be at times? I would take a hundred Charlie's over 100,000 of the average sleepwalkers walking around society today.

Anyhow enough of that...carry on. All good fun here. About our stupid egos.

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2001

READ 'EM and WEEP:

http://rece nter.tamu.edu/data/empm/empm1920.htm

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2001

Quixote worked on and dreamed about 'impossible things". THAT is the definition of Anita. Not me. If a product can be made and sold for a profit, it holds little interest for me. The bottom line is the bottom line and it better be >> zero. Liberals see no need for that. They forget Profits come after you pay people and after taxes.

Liberals simply borrowed against the future because they assumed that "inflation" would automatically make the debt manageable. When that ended, the entire bankruptcy of thinking of the AIR HEADED QUIZOTES of the LEFT was exposed. 20 years later, we are still cleaning up their mess.

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2001

Insert 'product can't be made to sell for a profit.........etc.

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2001

Eat your heart out Welfare State Lovers:

REMEMBER DFW:

VINI, VIDI, VISA:

"........I came, I saw,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I shopped".

Even our waste heat goes to money and our obsolete Shopping Malls get re-used.

WORLD'S LARGEST STEAM CRACKER NEARS COMPLETION

PORT ARTHUR, Tex. (HoustonChronicle.com) -- A $1 billion plant in Port Arthur that has been under construction since 1998 is almost finished. The plant will mix steam into hydrocarbon and "crack" it into different components, which in turn will be used by the world's largest polypropylene plant in La Porte and by styrene and polystyrene plants in southern Louisiana. The steam cracker will be fueled by an adjacent 175,000-barrel-per-day refinery.

German chemical company BASF and French-based Atofina are partners in the project. The owners expect to save about $40 million per year by linking the three operations.

GIANT NEW TELECOM CENTER SEEKS TENANTS

DALLAS, Tex. (DallasNews.com) -- Developer Archon Group is spending $100 million to convert the former Prestonwood Mall into a facility equipped for computer and telecom equipment and wiring. When completed around the end of this year, Genisus Dallas North will have more than 1.3 million square feet and will be the largest new telecom hotel in the country. Demand has cooled for this type of space, but the developer is counting on the size, scope and location of this project to attract tenants.

The renovation included a new roof and clearing out almost everything except the outside walls and support structures. The floor was restructured to handle almost double the weight of shoppers and merchandise. Meanwhile, Neiman Marcus and Lord & Taylor stores will remain open there until August when they will relocate to the Shops at Willow Bend in Plano.

-- Anonymous, June 08, 2001

HOW CAN THIS BE? Pricing going down, "no gas shortages" foreseen?

http://www.msnbc.com/news/585534.asp
 THE AVERAGE RETAIL price of gasoline, weighted to include all grades and taxes, was about $1.73 on Friday, down 3.48 cents per gallon since May 18, according to the Lundberg Survey of nearly 8,000 gas stations nationwide. It was the first price drop since March.
       Prices dropped despite the Memorial Day weekend, the traditional start of the summer season when driving — and thus gasoline demand — begins to peak.
       “There was never any gasoline ’crisis,’ and I still maintain that for this summer there will be none,” analyst Trilby Lundberg said in a statement. “Supplies appear sufficient to keep prices stable, or slightly lower, for the near future.”
       Prices soared in April, “but refineries completed seasonal maintenance work and cranked up production well in time for the first real pull on supplies by vacationing motorists,” he said.
       Prices fell around the country but the largest declines were in the Midwest, where they had been highest. The price of regular self-serve gas fell 15 cents per gallon in Chicago, which previously had the highest average price.
       Only San Francisco had an average gasoline price above $2 per gallon, at $2.02.
       The average weighted prices were $1.69 per gallon for self- serve regular, $1.79 for self-serve mid-grade and $1.88 for self-serve premium. For full-service, the prices were $2.04 for regular, $2.13 for mid-grade and $2.21 for premium.


-- Anonymous, June 10, 2001

Charlie, do ever actually read any of the shit you post? My guess would be "no" because I still hold out hope that you actually have a functioning brain cell, despite being in TexASS all these years. 'Bout the only thing that's saved you is the fact that you are A New Yorker.

If you bothered to actually read anything Doc's posted, you'd have noticed that he was the FIRST ONE to tell you that there was NO SHORTAGES and that it was being MANUFACTURED by the idiot in the white house's goddamn friends (read: campaign contributors).

Pay attention; it's not that difficult.

-- Anonymous, June 10, 2001

If you bothered to actually read anything Doc's posted, you'd have noticed that he was the FIRST ONE to tell you that there was NO SHORTAGES and that it was being MANUFACTURED by the idiot in the white house's goddamn friends (read: campaign contributors).

SEE THE PROBLEM HERE? He ONLY GETS 1/2 credit. He takes facts then TWIST THEM INTO HIS "big biz baad, common folks gettin' screwed, all Bush's fault" BULL SHIT.

HE WOULD BE BETTER OFF IN TERMS OF OBTAINING AUDIENCE, PUTTING ON A "SANDWICH SIGN BOARD" AND WALKING AROUND THE L.V. MAIN DRAG LATE AT NIGHT WHEN MAYBE..........SOME DRUNKS,,,,,, WOULD LISTEN.

ITS PROPAGANDA AND OPINION AND FRANKLY LIKE THE CRAP CHERRI DREDGES UP.........BORING BEYOND WORDS AFTER THE FIRST 122 REPEATS.

-- Anonymous, June 11, 2001

Uh, yeah; you mean like STILL talking about "doomzies" and "Y2K"?

That's quite a feat; please explain to me how it's possible to take, as an example, someone who's posted link after link and showed evidence upon evidence on ONE SEGMENT OF ONE INDUSTRY, only to have a reader (e.g., YOU) automagically turn that into Bashing All Big Business.

The more you try to defend yourself in this one particular situation, the more YOU sound like a "doomzie". Same lack of logic; same twisting of "facts" to support your "position"; same complete disregard for the ACTUAL truth and the REAL facts; same (dare I say it?) **disconnect**.

And why? All because of an idiot in the white house whom you mistakenly supported? Didn't quite turn out as you thought, did he? Perhaps you should have paid closer attention to what some of us were trying to tell you pre-(s)election.

Now that the proverbial shoe is on the other foot, maybe you can finally understand what some of those "doomzies" went through during that time.

AND STOP YELLING AT ME. It's a good thing you don't play poker. I've noticed that the more wrong you are, the more ALL CAPS you post.

-- Anonymous, June 11, 2001

Calm down there ‘Porky’. Must be a bitch lugging all that weight around in 110 degree weather. Whew, I can smell it from here. Yep, Bush is still the President and you are still…….pathetic.

-- Anonymous, June 11, 2001

AND .......JUST WHERE WOULD 'HERE' BE: NW. ARK. OR NR. AUSTIN, TX.??

-- Anonymous, June 11, 2001