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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. Well, for those that can't mix the two, that is. There are those rare folks that are so set in their ways that there is no possible means of even agreeing to disagree. I feel for those kinda people. Some folks can chew cornbread and walk at the same time. Some can dip a wing and still fly straight. Some can pat their head and rub their tummy at the same time. I swear - I've seen all of this done! Most folks can even have an occasional off-topic political conversation with cyber-friends and remain friends. And some . . . Can't do any of those. I hate it, David, but it's your loss, bub. -- Jim Fisher |
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See ya.
Perhaps France will serve you better. "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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Oh puhleeze.... spare us the piety. Now that "the nation has, albeit by a
slim margin, re-elected a weak, hypocritical, murderous coward" you are gonna take your toys and go home. Well good riddance. America was built by human beings of far stronger character than you. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. David Brooks wrote: 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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Why wait four "ytears"... you can take a good look at my ass today if you like.
Nemo l'Ancien wrote: See you in four ytears from now... And we 'll see your ass... |
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Don't let the door hit you in the butt on your way out.
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David Brooks wrote:
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 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, politics does not fit in the cockpit. Ok, I'll buy that. So you're upset about the election results. Ok, I'll buy that too. But...since you "know" all of us voted for Bush, you're packing up your marbles and going home? It took you that long to get fed up with the ton of unnecessary political views expressed here to leave? Um...ok, see ya. -- Jack Allison PP-ASEL, plan-to-be-IA-Student, flying club member/co-owner wanna-be "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return" - Leonardo Da Vinci (Remove the obvious from address to reply via e-mail) |
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"David Brooks" wrote in message ... 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. Get a $&%@!ing helmet, dude. I'm a pro-life, pro-gun, low-tax Republican living in Boston, Massachusetts for the past ten years. Most of the people I know don't understand how an educated, reasonable person like me could vote for "that chimp." One of my best friends is a hardcore lesbian environmental journalist who went to Smith, and I've worked on the staff of one of the alternative newspapers up here. Let's just say that when I went to the Halloween party this year, all the goths, gays, trannies, and just plain weirdos looked at me like I was the freak. Well hey, in Cambridge, I am. These people are mad Kerry didn't run a liberal campaign and can't stand that he "was just as pro-war as Bush." Given the choice they'd like us to pull out of Iraq and beg the UN's forgiveness, raise taxes back to 70% on income over $200k, tax gas at $3/gallon, ban every gun out there, and make gay sex a part of grade-school curricula. Need I say that I think their policies would devastate this country just as terribly as you think W's policies will? 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. 51% of this country did not vote for fascism, they voted for George W. Bush. There's a difference if you care to see it. -cwk. |
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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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