Miguel de Maria -> RE: How long have YOU been playing for? (Jul. 16 2006 16:03:06)
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Ron, I would love to hear some American jokes! I wouldn't take it personally, in fact I bet I could make some of my own. [start of American joke/rant] You know oil prices have been going up, and not coincidentally, Bush's approval rating has gone down. The administration can break the laws of our own country in wiretapping and treatment of prisoners, they can send us to two wars, they can hire the Vice President's old company for the biggest civilian contract in history, and no one cares (as long as the gays are kept in line), but if the price of gas goes up and your magic wand runs out of fairy dust, then you're in trouble! I don't really give it too much thought, although I have to drive about 60 miles a day if I have a gig. That's because I live in a suburb called Gilbert that is 30 miles away from town. You would think that I would be driving through miles of cactus and desert, but it's not like that. The whole way is full of rows of identical brown/gray homes, in subdivisions with names like "Saguaro Estates" and "Tuscan Vistas". The people clogging these wide free ways don't drive the small, fuel-efficient cars you will find in Europe or China. No, we are Americans and we use busses...well, I should say SUVs the size of busses--we don't really like to sit with the riff raff and public transportation is kind of dirty. These Hummers, Escalades, and Broncos are about the size of my old apartment in Sevilla. They get about 10 miles to the gallon, and barely fit in the somewhat small garages of the homes of the sprawling subdivisions. But many of them have GPS and DVD and cupholders big enough to hold your Big Gulps. If you add up 60 miles a day driving, with a huge SUV that gets 10 miles a gallon, and fuel prices that have increased 50%, well that is a significant expense. Enough to get us to the polls, it is![end of American joke/rant]
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