HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: tx.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Mobil 1
Date: 6 Oct 1992 18:37:42 GMT
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: swrinde.nde.swri.edu

In article <1as4uhINNiat@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> mparsons@fleming.csc.bcm.tmc.edu (Mark Parsons) writes:
>
>In article <1aqc0aINNnp0@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>, kent@stanley.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
>|> 
>|> Bill Clayton (works here) and I and spouses will be taking a scenic route to
>                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Uh . . . er . . . um . . . Kent . . . would you happen to have an extra
>one you could spare for the camp out!?!?! ;-)

I wish!... (Bash!)    Sheesh, what am I saying???  I mean, ... I have this
wonderful lady for a spouse, but I don't think I could survive having two of
them.

Try Again:
Bill and spouse on a Harley.  Kent and spouse on my little red tractor.

Kent Polk: Southwest Research Institute (will disavow any knowledge of me)
Internet : kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu
(DoF #)  : "Happy Trails to ... "  (How's that go???)
From: joe@zx11.cactus.org (Joe Senner)
Newsgroups: tx.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Slipping and sliding
Date: 2 Oct 92 22:58:41 GMT
Reply-To: joe@zx11.cactus.org
Distribution: world
Organization: NOT

mparsons@fleming.csc.bcm.tmc.edu (Mark Parsons) writes:
]My point is . . watch them d*mn intersections when you're
]'practicing' your hard stopping . . . . . and make sure

you know, the last time it rained here I decided to practice my panic
stop front wheel lockups. I found a nice intersection full of cages,
nice wet road, and lots of those vinyl white strips that get like ice when
they're wet. try as I might, I just couldn't lock 'em up and I never went
down (or even came close like you did)... :-)

-- 
Joe Senner                                                 joe@zx11.Cactus.Org
Austin, TX                                                 92 BMW K100RS/ABS
From: joe@zx11.cactus.org (Joe Senner)
Newsgroups: tx.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Slipping and sliding
Date: 3 Oct 92 03:53:23 GMT
Reply-To: joe@zx11.cactus.org
Distribution: world
Organization: NOT

jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
]In article <883@zx11.UUCP> joe@zx11.cactus.org writes:
]>you know, the last time it rained here I decided to practice my panic
]>stop front wheel lockups. I found a nice intersection full of cages,
]>nice wet road, and lots of those vinyl white strips that get like ice when
]>they're wet. try as I might, I just couldn't lock 'em up and I never went
]>down (or even came close like you did)... :-)
]
]You should get a bike with better brakes.  Might I suggest a PC 800?

no no silly boy, I've got ABS on my bimmer. if 'ya aint got ABS on that
truck^H^H^H^H^H PC800 I just aint interested!! :-)

]WHEN ARE YOU EVER GOING TO FIX YOUR MACHINE NAME?  

yea, I keep confusing the r.m newbies...

]I checked, and so far
]as I can tell, "bimmer" is available ;-)

rats! I already picked out a name, just giving my new map time to propogate
before switching...

-- 
Joe Senner                                                 joe@zx11.Cactus.Org
Austin, TX                                                       92 BMW K100RS
Newsgroups: tx.motorcycles
From: peram@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh B Peram)
Subject: Re: looking for NEW '92 600f2 purple
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 20:53:21 GMT

In article <15149@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> mparsons@fleming.csc.bcm.tmc.edu (Mark Parsons) writes:
>
>Bob Lundsford's Northwest Honda in Houston had a purple goof2
>a week ago when I was in there . . don't know about the other
>Honda dealers in Houston.
>
>Mark


Go to Wild-West Honda; He will beat any price.
I got my Nighthawk for $3800/- , $200/- less
than the nearest offer.

Suresh
From: mparsons@fleming.csc.bcm.tmc.edu (Mark Parsons)
Newsgroups: tx.motorcycles
Subject: Re: looking for NEW '92 600f2 purple
Date: 28 Sep 1992 14:19:17 GMT
Reply-To: mparsons@fleming.csc.bcm.tmc.edu (Mark Parsons)
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx
Originator: mparsons@fleming.csc.bcm.tmc.edu


Bob Lundsford's Northwest Honda in Houston had a purple goof2
a week ago when I was in there . . don't know about the other
Honda dealers in Houston.

Mark
From: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: tx.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Slipping and sliding
Date: 3 Oct 92 01:03:35 GMT
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Distribution: world
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Austin, Republic of Texas

In article <883@zx11.UUCP> joe@zx11.cactus.org writes:
>you know, the last time it rained here I decided to practice my panic
>stop front wheel lockups. I found a nice intersection full of cages,
>nice wet road, and lots of those vinyl white strips that get like ice when
>they're wet. try as I might, I just couldn't lock 'em up and I never went
>down (or even came close like you did)... :-)

You should get a bike with better brakes.  Might I suggest a PC 800?

WHEN ARE YOU EVER GOING TO FIX YOUR MACHINE NAME?  I checked, and so far
as I can tell, "bimmer" is available ;-)
-- 
John F. Haugh II           [  TSAKC  ]       UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh
Ma Bell: (512) 251-2151    [ DoF #17 ]            Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org
From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: tx.motorcycles
Subject: Re: SplatterFest Attendance Update
Date: 28 Sep 1992 13:41:36 GMT
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: swrinde.nde.swri.edu

In article <863@zx11.UUCP> lisa@zx11.cactus.org writes:
>mparsons@fleming.csc.bcm.tmc.edu (Mark Parsons) writes:
>]Does this mean you finally talked Joe into that cruiser you've been
>]wanting, Lisa? ;-)
>
>no such luck...  :-)  this is my '74 honda.

You mean the 400Four has been resurrected? Yeah!!!!

(Wish I could have kept mine :^( )

Kent (DoF #)  'Something'
From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (Patrick Taylor)
Newsgroups: tx.politics,rice.politics
Subject: Re: Sex Education <fairly long, but good!>
Keywords: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se wrr3118@tamsun.tamu.edu
Date: 28 Sep 92 03:05:47 GMT
Distribution: tx
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.
X-Disclaimer: This article was posted by a user at Ericsson in North America.
              The opinions expressed are strictly those of the user and
              not necessarily those of Ericsson.

In article <Bv5F6B.JGr@rice.edu> gamble@owlnet.rice.edu (Ben Gamble) writes:

>|The main problem with this disease is that the creator of it will
>|claim that God inspired him to spread it around to punish sin.

>Well, we've got our work cut out for us -- we, the forces of darkness,
>feminism, homosexuality and secular humanism, simply have to find it
>first!

Or the cure ;-)

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Newsgroups: tx.politics
Subject: The debates about health care
From: judy@technology.com (Judy McMillin)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 22:06:44 GMT
Distribution: tx
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas

   	"alm@cpvax.cpses.tu.com" posted the following (parts omitted):
	In truth most people who can't afford health care (indigent
	care) do get treatment for major illnesses through the county
	hospitals. . . ."

	
	I beg to differ.  I know many young families, my kids and their
	friends, who work for a living and do not receive any medical
	benefits for their families.  It is available in most cases byt
	far too expensive for many young familiesy.  The County Hospital
	costs my daughters more to visit than my doctor charges for
	office calls.  They only go or take the kids when it is a 
	serious emergency, and neglect "maintenance" health care for
`	the most part.  They are taking huge changes on their and
	their children's futures.  There is NO FREE or even CHEAP
	place for them to go; a prescription for my pregnant daughter
	cost her $70 when she was sick (that was their grocery money)
	. . . and so it goes.  You see, they have incomes, albeit
	small.  They are struggling to get by and trying to take
	care of themselves.  How come our wonderful USA is just 
	about the only civilized (I use that word carelessly, I
	know) country in the world where lower-income people are
	not provided health care? These people all have the kinds
	of jobs that pay you nothing when you take off for illness
	whether it's yours or one of your kids. (You are supposed
	to feel lucky they put you back on the clock when you return
	to work!) Before you lecture about if they're too lazy to
	get a good job or too dumb, just ask yourself who is supposed
	to do those things in a society?  People who're only working
	for fun?  

	Yes, malpractice insurance is high, maybe too high.  But if
	the threat of lawsuit or losing one's malpractice liability
	insurance is taken away, how will accountability of doctor's
	be, if not assured, at least strongly encouraged?

	I'm not sure this country has really degraded as much as you
	try to say -- indeed, if your (and others on this net) versions
  	of our history are accurate, than we have a long, long way to
	go; you have to be somewhere "up" in order to "come down"
	don't you?

bye.`
From: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: tx.politics
Subject: Re: Quality of Public Education.
Date: 2 Oct 92 12:57:46 GMT
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Distribution: tx
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Austin, Republic of Texas

In article <1992Oct01.164354.36712@watson.ibm.com> johniac@austin.ibm.com (John Iacoletti) writes:
>I'm curious about this, because I've heard it before.  Exactly what
>kind of paperwork does the state require, and for what purpose?  Why
>aren't the "overpaid administrators" doing this paperwork?

There are lesson plans to be filed and mid-term grade slips to be sent
out.  That's about the extent of the paperwork.  The grade slips are
usually only sent out for students doing poorly.  At the end of the
term you have to fill out a set of bubble-sheets (the "Fill in the
circle with a #2 pencil only" forms) with all of the grade info.

My darling ex-wife would regularly do hers while she and I sat on the
bed watching Fawlty Towers and To The Manner Born.  Not really all that
much work.  She taught two different subjects so she had two different
lesson plans (actually, she had three, but two of them were fairly
similar).  The mid-term grade slips took half an hour, and the others
took half a day.  The only other work she had to do was grading homework
and helping with after-school projects.  Homework is an hour or two once
or twice a week.  Projects were about the same, but bunched into periods
of activity and inactivity.
-- 
John F. Haugh II           [  TSAKC  ]       UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh
Ma Bell: (512) 251-2151    [ DoF #17 ]            Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org
From: miller@hmsp04.wg3.waii.com (Griff Miller X7114)
Newsgroups: tx.politics
Subject: Re: Quality of Public Education.
Date: 2 Oct 92 14:04:19 GMT
Distribution: tx
Organization: Western Geo. - Div of Western Atlas Intn'l Inc., Houston, TX

In article <1992Oct01.164354.36712@watson.ibm.com> johniac@austin.ibm.com (John Iacoletti) writes:
>In article <1503@airgun.wg.waii.com>, miller@hmsp04.wg3.waii.com (Griff Miller X7114) writes:
>|> As the son of two public school teachers, I can tell you that one thing that is hurting
>|> public education is the immense amount of paperwork they have to do as required by the 
>|> state. They say that there is very little time left to actually teach anything anymore. 
>|> It gets harder and harder every year just to do their jobs, what with all the paper they
>|> have to wade through.
>
>I'm curious about this, because I've heard it before.  Exactly what
>kind of paperwork does the state require, and for what purpose?  Why
>aren't the "overpaid administrators" doing this paperwork?
>
I don't know specifically the paperwork involved, just that there is too much of it. My folks 
usually speak in generalities when we talk about their work; however, I'll be talking to Mom 
later on today and I'll get some detailed examples then if she feels like talking about it.

The point they make is that the whole attitude of public education is changing, for the worse. My 
parents say that the main focus of their jobs has been changed over the past years from teaching
to baby-sitting/administration (adm. of small, nit-picky details, that is). According to my Dad,
most of their supervisors don't care about the quality of education. They just want them to keep
the kids quiet, out of trouble, with no fuss.

More on this later. They're about to shut this system down for a bit of maintenance.
--
Griff Miller - miller@monarch.wg3.waii.com - My opinions are mine, not Western's.
  "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom 
   and discipline."   - Proverbs 1:7 
Newsgroups: tx.politics
From: thomasr@cpqhou.compaq.com (Thomas Rush)
Subject: Libertarian Party Houston contact?
Reply-To: thomasr@cpqhou.UUCP (Thomas Rush)
Organization: Compaq Computer Corporation
Distribution: tx
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 22:33:39 GMT
Summary: Like to put up Marrou sign

I live in Magnolia (North of Tomball) across from a polling place.
Is there a Libertarian organization (or individual!) in the
Houston/Tomball/Conroe area that could get me a big sign (8'x12'?
or even bigger -- we've got lots of room to put it up!) to put
out on the street -- something along the lines of:

	There is a choice

		Vote Libertarian

	   Marrou-Lord in 1992

I'll put the thing up, and provide the poles if necessary.

We are on a street that gets a good deal of traffic in addition to
the polling place (On Dobbin-Huffsmith Road in Montgomery County).
It might just make an impression.



thomas rush				uunet!cpqhou!thomasr
compaq computer corporation		their employee,
deep in the hearth of texas		not their opinions.
713 374 2392 (work)			713 259 0569 (home, before 9:PM)
From: adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton)
Newsgroups: tx.politics,rice.politics
Subject: Re: Sex Education <fairly long, but good!>
Keywords: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se wrr3118@tamsun.tamu.edu
Date: 24 Sep 1992 22:51:39 GMT
Distribution: tx
Organization: Milo's Meadow

In article <1992Sep24.194532.694@tamsun.tamu.edu> wrr3118@tamsun.tamu.edu (Rick Russell) writes:

>Get real! You know what would happen. Within no time, the green skin
>and 2-inch zit look will be 'in' and people with the disease will see
>it as a badge of honor.

You mean it isn't?

Adam
-- 
"Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the
 stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud.  There is _always_
 something." -- Robert Penn Warren | Vote Cthulhu in '92! | adam@rice.edu
If Rice shared my opinions I wouldn't have this disclaimer | 64,928
From: hari@NeoSoft.com (Doug Andersen)
Subject: Re: Good Teachers in Public Schools (Was Re: Clinton ... (was Re: Theft))
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 22:10:41 GMT

In article <21659@rpp386.lonestar.org>, jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
> 
> 	I didn't inhale.  NOT!
> 	I didn't sleep with Jennifer.  NOT!
> 	I didn't dodge the draft.  NOT!
 
So what, both Bush and Clinton are politicians.  Therefore, they lie.
 
The question is, what do they lie about?  I could care less if Clinton
smoked pot with Gennifer Flowers at Oxford while dodging the draft.  What
concerns me more is the fact that Bush has claimed he didn't know of the
arms-for-hostages portion of Contragate, and it's now becoming clear,
through the testimony and writings of other White House officials (Caspar
Winberger (sp) and George Schultz among others) that he just plain lied.
 
And of course it's probably not necessary to repeat the "Read my lips"
line (but I'll bring it up anyway).  The most interesting part of that
pledge is that later he says (paraphrase) "Congress will push me to raise
taxes and I'll say no.  And they'll keep pushing on me, and I'll still say
no".  
-- 
Doug Andersen
hari@Sugar.NeoSoft.com
From: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: tx.politics
Subject: Re: tax laws
Date: 27 Sep 92 20:20:22 GMT
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Distribution: tx
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Austin, Republic of Texas

In article <1992Sep25.182243.940@oakhill.sps.mot.com> jcj6@ace3.sps.mot.com (james berry) writes:
>You can deny all you want to, But that will not change the fact that Supply-Side
>is a farce.  You cannot deny the simple truth that the only one's helped were the
>rich.  The middle class has lost out and will continue to until the tax law 
>are changed.  As far as being pathetic your knee-Jerk reactions speak loudly
>for themselves.  There is certainly no need for me to waste my time presenting
>the facts of what has happened, you know the truth but for what ever reason 
>try to deny it with "Facts, I don't need no stinking facts"  I am always right
>don't try to confuse me with facts.  

Explain why the upper and middle classes both grew during Reagan and why
the lower class shrunk?  Remember that the percentage of people making
less than $15K in constant dollars DECLINE during Reagan while the percentage
of people making more than $50K in constant dollars INCREASED during Reagan.

Now, either the "poor" aren't those people making less than $15K, or you are
wrong.  Because if what you are saying is true, surely the number of poor
people must have increased.  They didn't, therefore you are wrong.

The problem with what you are trying to prove lies in the definition of
"income" and what is happening to the population.  The typical "new poor"
person is an elderly woman on Social Security with a ton of money in the
bank.  The other problem is that with divorce and split families increasing,
the income is now divided between two households - instant halving of the
income.
-- 
John F. Haugh II           [  TSAKC  ]       UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh
Ma Bell: (512) 251-2151    [ DoF #17 ]            Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org
From: miller@hmsp04.wg3.waii.com (Griff Miller X7114)
Newsgroups: tx.politics
Subject: Re: Quality of Public Education.
Date: 5 Oct 92 14:38:13 GMT
Distribution: tx
Organization: Western Geo. - Div of Western Atlas Intn'l Inc., Houston, TX

In article <21653@rpp386.lonestar.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>In article <1992Oct01.164354.36712@watson.ibm.com> johniac@austin.ibm.com (John Iacoletti) writes:
>>I'm curious about this, because I've heard it before.  Exactly what
>>kind of paperwork does the state require, and for what purpose?  Why
>>aren't the "overpaid administrators" doing this paperwork?
>
>There are lesson plans to be filed and mid-term grade slips to be sent
>out.  That's about the extent of the paperwork. 

Actually, it's not. There is quite a bit more. I'm not talking about the usual paperwork
that has been part of a teacher's job for quite some time (lesson plans, grades, attendance,
etc.), but rather a sharp increase in paperwork required in recent years. As I said in an 
earlier post, I don't remember lots of details (never did pick Mom's brain about this 
at lunch on Friday but i will sometime) but I do know Mom and Dad were talking about new, 
nit-picky, time-wasting paperwork.

>The grade slips are
>usually only sent out for students doing poorly. 

Ah. I remember a detail. One of my best friends is a math teacher at a local public school. You 
know the progress reports kids get in school when they are doing poorly [never actually saw one
myself  ;-)  ] ?  Well, he is now required to send out progress reports for every student,
regardless of their performance. Isn't this what report cards are for? This may be peculiar
to his school, but this is, at least, the sort of thing I'm talking about.

>At the end of the
>term you have to fill out a set of bubble-sheets (the "Fill in the
>circle with a #2 pencil only" forms) with all of the grade info.
>
>My darling ex-wife would regularly do hers while she and I sat on the
>bed watching Fawlty Towers and To The Manner Born.  Not really all that
>much work.  She taught two different subjects so she had two different
>lesson plans (actually, she had three, but two of them were fairly
>similar).  The mid-term grade slips took half an hour, and the others
>took half a day.  The only other work she had to do was grading homework
>and helping with after-school projects.  Homework is an hour or two once
>or twice a week.  Projects were about the same, but bunched into periods
>of activity and inactivity.

Again, not the usual stuff, but new stuff. BTW, homework grading for my math-teacher friend
is quite a bit more than that. For my orchestra-teacher parents, a lot less.
--
Griff Miller - miller@monarch.wg3.waii.com - My opinions are mine, not Western's.
  "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom 
   and discipline."   - Proverbs 1:7
Newsgroups: tx.politics
From: jcj6@ace3.sps.mot.com (james berry)
Subject: Taxes
Organization: APRDL, Motorola Inc., Austin Texas
Distribution: tx
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:42:46 GMT

>>You can deny all you want to, But that will not change the fact that Supply-Side
>>is a farce.  You cannot deny the simple truth that the only one's helped were the
>>rich.  The middle class has lost out and will continue to until the tax law 
>>are changed.  As far as being pathetic your knee-Jerk reactions speak loudly
>>for themselves.  There is certainly no need for me to waste my time presenting
>>the facts of what has happened, you know the truth but for what ever reason 
>>try to deny it with "Facts, I don't need no stinking facts"  I am always right
>>don't try to confuse me with facts.  

>Explain why the upper and middle classes both grew during Reagan and why
>the lower class shrunk?  Remember that the percentage of people making
>less than $15K in constant dollars DECLINE during Reagan while the percentage
>of people making more than $50K in constant dollars INCREASED during Reagan.

>Now, either the "poor" aren't those people making less than $15K, or you are
>wrong.  Because if what you are saying is true, surely the number of poor
>people must have increased.  They didn't, therefore you are wrong.

Care to quote sources for this crap?  Let's see where and who would 
publish such drivel.  I would like to see the following:  Incomes 
adjusted for inflation,  numbers of people in each "class" beginning
in 1980 or there abouts through 1992, from an independent and reliable
source.  Until you do that I have nothing to explain.  I have given 
you the numbers,  from a reliable and indepentent source.  They totally  
refute the very idea that Reagonomics worked and that is what is really
bothering you.  Again I will say this is not a Repulican vs Democrat issue.
Both parties share equally in this.  The only political idea here is that
Chicken George seems to be saying we need to continue this course of action.
And if both parties are at fault it totally blows his "it's all the congress'
fault" line.            
As far as MY interpretation of these numbers being patheic, all I can say is 
I am not saying anything new or original.  Brenard Shaw, you know from the 
last debate Chicken George attended, hosted a show last night that used the
same source and came to the same conclusions.  It's sometimes hard to give
up on an idea that seems to make sense, but for the sake of our children there
is no choice.




James L. Berry  jcj6@giedi.sps.not.com                 
"Sex education in our schools is promoting incest" 
		      The Rev? Jimmy Swaggart
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