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Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
"Pete" wrote in message t.com... No, they want to tell you what you can and can't do in your bedroom, and with your own body. They want to tell you who you can marry, demand you go to church, but then you catch them in a motel room doin' what they said not to do. Conservatives are a bunch of lying liars. You've bought the propaganda. The basic difference between conservatives and liberals is their position on freedom. Conservatives are fer it, liberals are agin' it. Actually, you've over-simplified the situation. Both conservatives and liberals are for freedom - as long as it's to do things they agree with! Both conservatives and liberals are against freedom - when it comes to things they disagree with! Frankly, I'm getting tired of people using the terms "liberal" and "conservative" as if they had any meaning. They're simply ways of casting ones self as one of the "good guys" - while at the same time belittling one's opponents - used by those too lazy to argue the merits of an issue. For a case in point, see the words "You've bought the propaganda" printed above. Rich Lemert |
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On 16-Apr-2004, "Tony Cox" wrote: I'd have expected those who chose Libertarian would be a substantially higher proportion than the general population and the Greens substantially lower. Pilots are a self-reliant independent bunch, keen on driving machines whose gas consumption puts SUV's to shame. Taking into account that I can fly from point A to point B in a straight line (rather than following a highway), my Arrow gets about the same fuel efficiency (at 65% cruise) as a typical sedan. A Mooney would do even better. -- -Elliott Drucker |
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"Chicken Bone" wrote in message news.com... Flightinfo.com asked for pilots political orientation. Results: Democrat 22.97% Republican 57.24% Ind. 19.79% http://forums.flightinfo.com/showthr...threadid=21699 -- Liberalism is Communism one drink at a time. - P.J. O'Rourke Seems a number of people have forgotten that liberalism has abandoned liberal principles. Modern liberalism is just monarchy dressed up in new clothes. It was not so long ago that the people who today call themselves liberals were called aristocrats and Tories. |
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"Gig Giacona" wrote in message ... "Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message link.net... "Tony Cox" wrote in message link.net... I suspect the results would have been more illuminating had they included the Libertarians and Greens as options. How so? They'd both be included in the 19.79% that voted independent. Wrong, I'd bet the majority og the 19.79% voted either Dem or Republican in the last election. Most people who claim to be independents --- aren't. |
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Actually, it's another from Winston Churchill (who as I remember changed political party himself, probably at age 30). Actually, it's probably not. This from the authoritative Churchill Centre website http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/...fm?pageid=112: "If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain." There is no record of anyone hearing Churchill say this. Paul Addison of Edinburgh University makes this comment: "Surely Churchill can't have used the words attributed to him. He'd been a Conservative at 15 and a Liberal at 35! And would he have talked so disrespectfully of [his wife] Clemmie, who is generally thought to have been a lifelong Liberal?" -- -Elliott Drucker |
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"Matthew S. Whiting" wrote: Yes, I did that for years when I owned my 182, the the comment said the "average" G/A guy. The average G/A pilot doesn't fly IFR very often at all. Matt If that's the case, why does AOPA continue to push so hard for all those GPS approaches to small airports? |
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