Run In With Mr. Edwards

"smackey" wrote

Keep your political crap off this newsgroup, please.

You must be kinda new to this. Your comments will have no=effect on the
subject of off topic political posts. If you don't like them, mark the
thread read, or ignore, and move on.

Or even better, just move on.
--
Jim in NC

I don't think either you or I have the chops to criticize Pilate's Latin, which
he learned at his mother's knee and for the next forty years or so.

It is excellent Latin, and it is NOT translated loosely, it is "What I have
written, I have written." No poetic license is necessary.

Or, you can reflect on the New York cabbie that picked up a native NY'er who had
been away for a while and wanted a dinner of scrod more than anything in the
world. He asked the cabbie, "Where can I get scrod in this town?"

The cabbie answered back, "Buddy, I've hoid that question ten t'ousand times,
but that's the FOIST time I've ever hoid it in the plupoifect subjunctive."

End of discussion.

Jim


"C J Campbell"
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:

-Actually, the phrase is not very good Latin or, rather, it takes
-considerable poetic license. Translated somewhat loosely, it is "But what I
-wrote, I wrote."


Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com

"Trent Moorehead" wrote in message ...

I am also very suspicious of very wealthy polititians who
want to penalize wealthy people by increasing their taxes. Will they really
put their John Hancock on a tax that could cost them huge bucks personally?


Something tells me no matter what happens, Laurie David and Teresa
Heinz will always manage to dig enough $100s from out between the sofa
cushions to gas up their Gulfstreams, but there's a very real chance I
will not be able to muster the dimes to fly my Cessna.

It's been said that the people who get hit the hardest are those who
fall into the low-mid range of the upper income band, say
$175k-$300k/year. Enough, in other words, to pay most of their income
at the top marginal rate, but still not enough to start playing the
income-shifting games that the big-big money guys can to shelter their
earnings.

A hard group of people to muster much sympathy for, perhaps, but that
should not be a primary determinant of the merits of policy.

-cwk.

(smackey)
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:

-Well, Jay,
-I suspected this day would come. You are the "hail fellow, well met"
-guy I always figured you for. Friendly and chummy with everyone, but
-really a narrow minded little twit.

Agreed.


For anyone with a bit of ability
-to read between the lines, it has simply been a waiting game.
-Keep your political crap off this newsgroup, please. Your attack on
-John Edwards was not so much without portent given the tone of your
-numerous, "humerous", selfserving and commercially motivated constant
-plugs for the Alexis Inn, as it was surprising that you finally had
-the guts to finally come clean. Why don't you just admit that you are
-against anything that Kerry/Edwards stand for, and are just another
-Bush/Cheney toady?

I can't buy that. He can't stand either one, but is not as abusive of the
Republicans as he is of the Democrats.

!
-My wife and I annually fly to the midwest, and I had planned on
-stopping by to stay at your 3rd rate motel, just from a sense of
-pilot-comraderie. Forget it.

Now I really take umbrage with you, sir. Believe of Jay as you will as a narrow
minded Republican-leaning twit, his hotel is first rate. He may take up an
unusual amount of bandwidth in this ng subtly promoting his hotel (as I do
promoting my avionics business) but mostly his stuff regarding his establishment
is on target. It takes an enormous amount of time and talent to assemble what
he has assembled in the last couple of years, and there is nothing else like it
in the world. You owe it to yourself to spend just ONE night at the hotel,
whether or not you can stomach Jay's politics. Most of us cast that aside in
person, and one on one, he is a genuinely likeable person. In this newsgroup,
as you noted, he is a twit from time to time.


-I'll stay elsewhere, thank-you. The incident you report had nothing
-to do with John Edwards; it is a result of the necessary security that
-surrounds every major pres/VP candidate.

Your call, sir. I'd suggest otherwise. I'd also suggest taking a course on
learning how to snip.

Jim



Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com

"Jay Honeck" writes:

State's Rights and free trade are subjugated during wartime -- and always
have been. Don't worry -- they'll be back again, after this one is over.

Just one question.

How will we know when it's over?

Thanks.

-jav

"Martin Hotze" wrote in message
...
but every citizen is directly affected by their decisions. so they
are rather important, IMVHO

I suppose it depends on your definition of "important". Municipal
governments generally are in the business of providing services (parks,
police, fire, utilities, etc.), with some zoning oversight thrown in (e.g.
don't construct a building that might kill someone). They are NOT generally
in the business of restricting basic rights or setting social policy.

The federal government, on the other hand...

In this context, I'm using "important" to describe politicians who can
significantly and negatively affect what I feel are basic concepts of
freedom. Municipal governments theoretically could attempt similar
interference in individual rights, but they are much easier to overthrow,
and so they do a better job taking care of the people they're supposed to be
taking care of.

Of course, the larger the municipality, the less this is true. Major cities
(1 million residents or more) often feel more like the individual is
impotent, while relatively small cities (10,000 residents or fewer) depend
on each and every citizen to set policy and to run the city.

I find it ironic, actually...the portions of our government that have the
most power, and are the hardest to avoid, are also the ones that are the
most difficult to change.

Pete

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
...


Laura wrote:

Huh? Nobody is permitted to criticize Kerry if they weren't draft
eligible 30+
years ago?

That's not what he said. Basically, if you aren't old enough to have been
affected by
Vietnam, you have no business criticizing either those who served in it or
those who
protested the war for doing so. Want to talk about Kerry's record in the
Senate, go
ahead, but if you're under 50, shut up about Vietnam.


Sounds like the corollary to "The airport was there first." arguement.

Paul,

2nd amendment. That's the justification that's given for people to
bear arms. If they don't like the political machine then they can do
something about it.


And THAT is freedom...

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Tom,

He NEVER was an honorable man and now he's just a psychotic and pathological
liar that's been shoved in front of the camera for "one last fling" much
the way Bob Dole was in 1996.


The CJ types are really coming out of their holes in this thread... Sad!

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

State's Rights and free trade are subjugated during wartime -- and
always
have been. Don't worry -- they'll be back again, after this one is
over.

Ever the optimist.

How will we know when this "war" is over? When some future president
playing boy soldier tells us it is?

Perhaps the ketchup king has a "secret plan" to win the hearts and minds of
the people who are trying to kill us...? (I keep waiting to hear what that
plan is, but, alas, all Mr. Kerry seems to do is mention "bringing the
international community" into the conflict -- and then he changes the
subject back to his war record...)

If I were him, I'd let Edwards unleash the product liability lawyers onto
the newly freed (and unsuspecting) public in Iraq. That would bring the
terrorists to their knees in a matter of months!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"