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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

Diminishing oil supplies and increasing prices are and will  
increasingly be challenging. Those conditions can be adjusted to.  
Diminishing water supplies are far more critical. An article in The  
Economist titled Don't make the desert bloom illustrates the issue. As  
with oil, certain adjustments, including rising prices, can have a  
beneficial effect. But, unlike oil, there is no substitute for water.

Don't build a homestead without it in abundance.

http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displayStory.cfm?source=hptextfeature&story_id=11506702
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On Jun 11, 2008, at 8:25 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> > Well, he apparently recognized their skill and hired the better part
> > of the Clinton Machine. Choosing the best people is a leadership  
> > skill
> > that we need.
>
> -----------------
>
> This is like Celia's 'everybody's excited' argument.  Hitler  
> recognized and
> hired the people best skilled at killing Jews, that hardly is a  
> leadership
> skill we need.   </HTML>

That is quite a skew there.

Do you prefer the present skill level, choosing people to lead who are  
incompetent?