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<i> -- I have worked in public relations for 20 years and it never ceases to amaze me how many stupid, naive, misinformed people are still breathing out there. </i> So it must feel good to vent your true feelings now and then, as relief from the PR person's mandatory perpetual smiley face. <i> -- Governments do what they have to do to ensure the armchair idealists who have an opinion on everything but have no clue about anything -- </i> Do their best, with the help of folks like you, to make sure we never <i>do</i> get a clue. <i> -- can drive their cars to the supermarket, buy the food they want to eat, as they sit in front of their flat-screen televisions in either air conditioned or centrally heated comfort. </i> Actually, our house is wood-heated and we grow a lot of our own food. But okay, I'll trash the flat-screen and dig the old CRT out of the attic. <i> -- No legitimate companies or organisations, I repeat, no legitimate companies or organisations hold meetings with an agenda item that says – how do we screw the consumer.</i> Of course not. It's all mission statements and customer bills of rights and fair labor practices and what-have-you. It's what they actually do when push comes to shove that's at issue. Don't read their lips, watch their hips. <i> -- Sir Winston Churchill summed it up best of all when he said that the truth is so precious, it must be protected by a bodyguard of lies.</i> Wow -- talk about weasels guarding a henhouse!