"Dennis Pogson" wrote in news:TXPxj.2486
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just curious to know if such
training and examination facilities exist in the US

Not in Charleston. They make you install a manual bilge pump if you don't
have one, but noone inspects it to see if it's there.

The qualifications to race here are to have a boat that has at least one
sail that's not ripped to shreds and some kind of tiller so you can turn it
'round towards the start line without running over the race committee's
bouys.

They get all excited, too, if you steer right towards the yacht club dock
with the spinnaker haulin ass...(c;

No dead crew members are allowed. Boozed up is normal.

"Larry" wrote in message
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"Dennis Pogson" wrote in
news:TXPxj.2486
:

just curious to know if such
training and examination facilities exist in the US

Not in Charleston. They make you install a manual bilge pump if you don't
have one, but noone inspects it to see if it's there.

The qualifications to race here are to have a boat that has at least one
sail that's not ripped to shreds and some kind of tiller so you can turn
it
'round towards the start line without running over the race committee's
bouys.

They get all excited, too, if you steer right towards the yacht club dock
with the spinnaker haulin ass...(c;

No dead crew members are allowed. Boozed up is normal.


Larry,,, it amazes me that people who seem to have a brain can't see that
the government does not care one hoot
about safety. All it wants is more money. What a joke. No wonder the US
dollar is worth nothing, no wonder the
credit crisis is so overwheming, .. we are doomed. How long can the great
old USA go on it we have the likes of
Clinton, Obama, Bush, McLiberal,, and the rest of them.

About a week ago I called to ask why there is no public dock for
recreational boats in Portsmouth NH.
You would think I was a member of the Talaban. Public docks? Who are you?

So, I ask, where is all the boat registration money going?

I'm still waiting for the answer.

And now these lemmings want to give the government more of their money for
LICENSES?

ARE YOU PEOPLE NUTS?

WAKE UP...

"Sir Thomas of Cannondale" wrote in message
news:wNWxj.11$4D2.2@trndny06...

Larry,,, it amazes me that people who seem to have a brain can't see that
the government does not care one hoot
about safety. All it wants is more money. What a joke. No wonder the US
dollar is worth nothing, no wonder the
credit crisis is so overwheming, .. we are doomed. How long can the
great old USA go on it we have the likes of
Clinton, Obama, Bush, McLiberal,, and the rest of them.

About a week ago I called to ask why there is no public dock for
recreational boats in Portsmouth NH.
You would think I was a member of the Talaban. Public docks? Who are
you?

So, I ask, where is all the boat registration money going?

I'm still waiting for the answer.

And now these lemmings want to give the government more of their money for
LICENSES?

ARE YOU PEOPLE NUTS?

WAKE UP...


Sir: (note the pun!)

The good thing about boat registration/permit/fee money is that it will keep
some people off of the water. The EPA is doing its part he

http://www.baypointpress.com/article...rticleID=17358

Note the size of the fee! By paying the money the environment will be
cleaner and global warming will be delayed.

"Phil Abuster" wrote in message
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"Sir Thomas of Cannondale" wrote in message
news:wNWxj.11$4D2.2@trndny06...

Larry,,, it amazes me that people who seem to have a brain can't see that
the government does not care one hoot
about safety. All it wants is more money. What a joke. No wonder the
US dollar is worth nothing, no wonder the
credit crisis is so overwheming, .. we are doomed. How long can the
great old USA go on it we have the likes of
Clinton, Obama, Bush, McLiberal,, and the rest of them.

About a week ago I called to ask why there is no public dock for
recreational boats in Portsmouth NH.
You would think I was a member of the Talaban. Public docks? Who are
you?

So, I ask, where is all the boat registration money going?

I'm still waiting for the answer.

And now these lemmings want to give the government more of their money
for LICENSES?

ARE YOU PEOPLE NUTS?

WAKE UP...


Sir: (note the pun!)

The good thing about boat registration/permit/fee money is that it will
keep some people off of the water. The EPA is doing its part he

http://www.baypointpress.com/article...rticleID=17358

Note the size of the fee! By paying the money the environment will be
cleaner and global warming will be delayed.


What Global Warming? Are you totally out of your mind? There is no global
warming.

So really need reprogramming.

YOu don't get it .. do you? The rich guy wants you to pay or get off the
water .. he doesn't care
he is rich.

Do you think Ted Kennedy cares about his boat registration? Every time he
takes a breath, the earth is
warmed.

The EPA is a fraud. It goes after recreational sailboat owners but does not
touch big power plants.

REally .. wake up.. before it is too late.

"Phil Abuster" wrote in news:1m6bs2.ijn.17.1
@news.alt.net:

global warming will be delayed.


Not a second. Global warming is caused by SOLAR ACTIVITY, not humans....

There's a new "Sun Scam" out now to try to squeeze more funding out of the
government treasuries. Look around for the new "Solar Dimming" buzzword.
Our fossil fuel burning is now dimming the sun and REDUCING the global
warming. This is one scam I think is real. From WW2 to 1975, the Earth's
temperature was DROPPING, then it started to rise after 1975.....EXACTLY AT
THE TIME WE PUT POLLUTION CONTROL CRAP ON ALL THE CARS AND INDUSTRY!

If we took off all the pollution controls and went back to what we were
doing in 1955, solar dimming would stop global warming! It only stands to
reason, but not what the Global Dimmers had in mind...(c;

Oh, and there's a MOUNTAIN of evidence that the CO2 content of the air
rises and falls as the temperature rises and falls for the last few million
years (6000 for you Christians). HOWEVER, as the graphs show, CO2 levels
rise AFTER the temperature rises and falls AFTER the temperature drops...by
about 100-300 years...LAGGING, not preceeding, the temperature. Why? The
rising temperature causes the ocean to BLOOM WITH LIFE that emits CO2 and
water RELEASES vast CO2 when it's WARMER. The opposite is true when it
gets cold...The ocean dies off, CO2 production drops and the water holds
the CO2 much better when its cold...nearly 100% when it's FROZEN!

But, alas, these FACTS don't produce GOVERNMENT FUNDING for the global
warming bureaucracy....

If there's no man-caused disaster....noone gets rich.

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:50:01 +0000, Larry wrote:

Look around for the new "Solar Dimming" buzzword.

Ok..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4171591.stm

"Goofball_star_dot_etal" wrote in message
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On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:50:01 +0000, Larry wrote:

Look around for the new "Solar Dimming" buzzword.

Ok..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4171591.stm

I have noticed that "global warming" as a phrase is no longer used here n
the UK. They now refer to it as "climate change". Covers a multitude of
sins!

Dennis.

"Dennis Pogson" wrote in
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I have noticed that "global warming" as a phrase is no longer used here n
the UK. They now refer to it as "climate change". Covers a multitude of
sins!



Hmm...Parliament must have come to its collective senses and cut off the
free cheques...(c;

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:50:01 +0000, Larry wrote:

Look around for the new "Solar Dimming" buzzword.

And Goofball replied:
Ok..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4171591.stm


Google sunspot activity

Numerous recent scientific announcments have been about the low of
sunspot activity resulting in cooling of the earth this last year. If
you follow the ups and downs of earth temp averages there are
corosponding changes in sunspot activity. Several prominent Canadian
scientists have stated in the last few days that they believe we are
going to see another mini ice age like in the 1700-1800's due to this
phenomenon, and that it could last a few hundred years. The sun rules.
Al Gore is a fraud.

Red

"Sir Thomas of Cannondale" wrote in
news:wNWxj.11$4D2.2@trndny06:

About a week ago I called to ask why there is no public dock for
recreational boats in Portsmouth NH.
You would think I was a member of the Talaban. Public docks? Who are
you?


There's three boatramps with nice floating docks, big parking lots for the
trailers and picnic areas for the family within 6 miles of my house, here.
There are more all over Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties we
use. Some are run by the parks and recreations departments, some are run
by the power company up on the lakes, all are free for everyone que'd up
and laughing uproariously as the idiots in front of them try to back the
trailer straight down one of the multi-lane ramps....(c;

Sorry New Hampshire doesn't have them. Our gripe here is the parks people
try to make this beautiful landscaped park out of our boatramps. This
reduces the number of paved parking spots, so on a busy Saturday morning
there's trailers parked all over the grass by the time the fishermen are on
their way to the big ones. There's never enough parking or ramps in any
community with this many boat dealers and boaters....(c;