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It is a sad day but it will look better tomorrow. And some of us try to
keep to the forum topic most of the time. Welcome to feeling like a disenfrancised minority. But picking up your marbles and going home really isn't a viable life strategy - especially over politics (or sex or race). Get a good night's sleep or 5 and hope to see you again. "David Brooks" wrote in message ... One thing - one of so very many things - I learned in my five years of flying is that partisan politics does not fit into the cockpit. Most of my flight instructors have, I know, been to the right of me politically. I had a most enjoyable flight with CJ - although he has since earned my undying enmity by unapologetically using the term "Final Solution" in connection with me and people like me, an astonishing thought coming from an avowedly religious man, but telling and apt. But now it seems the nation has, albeit by a slim margin, re-elected a weak, hypocritical, murderous coward. Three years ago, when some writers on the left started talking about fascism, I thought that an absurd stretch. No longer. The parallels are not precise - they never are - but the broad sweep and many of the components of a new fascist state are in place. The 48% who didn't vote for this disaster keep knocking on my consciousness, but they are now feeble and impotent. The thugs are in charge. That being so, and despite what should be an apolitical setting, I can no longer in good faith keep company with a group of which the majority, I know, has elected to deliver the country I love, and chose as my home, into the hands of Bush and his repressive, regressive masters. So long. Thanks for all the conversations. You guys have made me a better pilot. -- David Brooks |
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Still, I've managed to become and remain friends with quite a few of these
people because I realize that they're not actually bad people, just misguided. Naturally they feel the same about me. Some of them I'm happy to have long debates with over vast quantities of alcohol, others I only talk about other topics with. Life goes on and is richer for the company of people who think differently than I do. Precisely. Well said. Our best friends are both liberal Democrats. We watched the election results together last night, much like watching Monday Night Football. We had the same snacks, the same drinks -- and the same cheering and booing. For David to take this kind of thing so seriously that he's "leaving the community" is bizarre to the point of absurdity. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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These people are mad Kerry didn't run a liberal campaign and can't stand
that he "was just as pro-war as Bush." That is SO ironic. If the Democrats has nominated a middle-of-the-road guy to run against Bush -- say, Dick Gephardt -- this election would not have even been close. The Democrats would have swept the nation, and never by less than 25 percentage points. Stupidly, they nominated a guy whose political positions were to the left of Ted Kennedy's, absolutely ensuring a Bush victory. There were many traditional Republicans out here -- myself included -- who would have voted for a conservative Democrat in this election. But there was just no way for any of us to vote for a guy like Kerry. The moral for the Democrats: Don't ever nominate an ultra liberal to run for president again. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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"David Brooks" wrote in message ... snip But now it seems the nation has, albeit by a slim margin, re-elected a weak, hypocritical, murderous coward. snip Hey! You must have been misinformed!! Kerry lost! Go home cry baby... --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.788 / Virus Database: 533 - Release Date: 11/1/2004 |
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Good riddance, hope you enjoy France.
"David Brooks" wrote in message ... One thing - one of so very many things - I learned in my five years of flying is that partisan politics does not fit into the cockpit. Most of my flight instructors have, I know, been to the right of me politically. I had a most enjoyable flight with CJ - although he has since earned my undying enmity by unapologetically using the term "Final Solution" in connection with me and people like me, an astonishing thought coming from an avowedly religious man, but telling and apt. But now it seems the nation has, albeit by a slim margin, re-elected a weak, hypocritical, murderous coward. Three years ago, when some writers on the left started talking about fascism, I thought that an absurd stretch. No longer. The parallels are not precise - they never are - but the broad sweep and many of the components of a new fascist state are in place. The 48% who didn't vote for this disaster keep knocking on my consciousness, but they are now feeble and impotent. The thugs are in charge. That being so, and despite what should be an apolitical setting, I can no longer in good faith keep company with a group of which the majority, I know, has elected to deliver the country I love, and chose as my home, into the hands of Bush and his repressive, regressive masters. So long. Thanks for all the conversations. You guys have made me a better pilot. -- David Brooks |
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See you in four ytears from now... And we 'll see your ass... |
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:k_bid.351511$MQ5.252777@attbi_s52... These people are mad Kerry didn't run a liberal campaign and can't stand that he "was just as pro-war as Bush." The moral for the Democrats: Don't ever nominate an ultra liberal to run for president again. Hillary Clinton. With Barack Obama for VP, of course. Too soon for him to run for Prez. but he's going to get there sooner or later unless he has an intern problem. 2008 will be a slugfest extraordinaire. First in 50 years that you'll have a completely open race with neither an incumbent nor VP on either ticket. My dream team is Giuliani-Rice. Not likely to happen but the Red Sox weren't supposed to beat the Yankees after being down 0-3 either. That team could put nearly the entire country in play. -cwk. |
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"David Brooks" wrote in message ... One thing - one of so very many things - I learned in my five years of flying is that partisan politics does not fit into the cockpit. snip You have to be one of the most intolerant people I have ever heard of. So you can't hang around people who are (according to your assumptions) different than you? I used to think that Democrats were the type of people who were accepting of others, but I have seen over the last few years that they are not. I am a Democrat, but I voted for Bush. He's not perfect, but at least he's not a hypocrite. I sincerely hope you are jus mis-speaking out of frustration. If this is your true character, then good riddance. -Trent PP-ASEL |
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As a flight instructor, I have learned to understand and put up with the
personal politics of just about anyone. That is, after all, their right. I can politely and quietly listen to unending and asinine arguments made at nauseam by self important, conceited, myopic, hypocrites who's views I personally disagree with vehemently. One thing that I will not listen to, acknowledge, or put up with, even from my own children, is WHINING! Taxi to the ramp, I'm letting you out. PLONK! has been added to your blocked senders list. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.782 / Virus Database: 528 - Release Date: 10/22/2004 |
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A little cheese with that whine, my dear?
-0- "David Brooks" wrote in message ... But now it seems the nation has, albeit by a slim margin, re-elected a weak, hypocritical, murderous coward. |
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