Attention: Conservative Obsessive Captains

[sstearns2]

BA History, Yale University (OK, he was offered the best education in the world and could bearly get C's.)

MBA, Harvard University (Have you read what his professors said about him?)

F-102 pilot Texas Air National Guard (Cool...)

Oil & gas business owner (His business were total failures, but his name is Bush and his dad was the VP so the Saudis bought him out for big money.)

Partner, Texas Rangers (He was a small partner, but he got the city to pass a tax law that built the Rangers a new staduim. The new stadium dramatically increased the value of the team and the partners sold out and made big money on the backs of the citizens of the city. Basically it was a small scale income redistrubition scheme from the taxpayers to the wealthy. He pursued much grander versions as president.)

Two term Governer of Texas (I haven't looked into his govenorship that much. He may not have been all that bad.)

Twice elected President of the United States (total disaster, but we could argue about it all day.)

Yep, he's a real dumbass.

He's absolutely not a dumbass. That's an act he puts on to divert our attention away from his policies.

Scott

 

[rajflyboy]

Well, uhh I doan tink so, Lucee...

http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/qthinice.asp

Read a little closer. I said in the year 2007. Your info is old.

 

[rajflyboy]

Raj,
I guess you finally found one thing we agree on.

Well.. there is still some hope for you yet. lol

I guess you don't like Seniority by date of hire and You love to pay for your Type rating before you get a job somewhere. ??????? lol

 

[Scope out RJ's]

Fox clearly has the best looking news gals on TV. I'd watch CNN or MSNBC all day if they had the same eye candy.

Ohh that Lori Dhue.... grrrrrr.

While I'll give you that one, CNN's Robin Meade is clearly one of the hottest chicks on the tube today!

 

[tomgoodman]

Attitude indicator

I find it is more fun to get them more wound up.

That's the spirit! Easygoing F/Os regard cranky captains as a source of amusement, not irritation. They go on to become serene captains, whom everyone likes to fly with. F/Os who are easily irritated, however, get even worse upon moving to the left seat. People try to bid around them.

 

[puddlejumper101]

Ok, so maybe I was a bit emotional when I went on my Bush tirade. Fueled by the fact that my cousin is being shipped to Iraq...for what?
It does hit a nerve when Captain's start their whole Republican rant and how this country will fall apart under Obama. I never said I was a Democrat, just a concerned and honestly irritated citizen. All of this complaining about how Obama will sink this country seems a bit ironic considering the current state of our union. Republicans are soo worried about what Obama will do and totally disregard what Bush already did. Except for a few, there are not many people that are better off today than when Bush became President. Just look around you, it is not good. I drive my car to the airport paying $4.00 a gallon to get there. On the way I see house after house for sale, or abandoned (foreclosed). I get to the airport and hear how thousands are being furloghed, just as I pass a bunch of 18 year old kids being shipped off to Iraq to fight some war that no one wants (not even the people we "liberated"). I get screened by some TSA "rent-a-cop" who is there because the threat of Al-Queda is as great today as it was after 9/11. So why should I have to listen to a right-wing Republican airline pilot rant and rave about how this country will fall under Obama!! News Flash!! We have already fallen...and Obama had nothing to do with it.

 

[Occam's Razor]

Tips for silencing cockpit ideologues:

1. Introduce yourself with, "I'm not just a Jehovah's Witness...I sell Amway too!"
2. The classic Pull My Finger bit.
3. Interrupt their screed with "giggity" anytime they use the words "head" "come" or "nail".
4. Reply only in Klingon.
5. Carry a small bottle of water with you, and flick some on them. When they ask WTF?...tell 'em it's Holy Water and you wanna see if their skin sizzles.
6. Fake a stroke.
7. Tell 'em, "The guy in 6B thinks you're hot"
8. Or, "I used to think that way too, but the tinfoil made my head sweat."
9. Ask them if an airplane placed on a treadmill moving in the opposite direction, at the same speed...would take off.
10. Two words: "Crash Ax"

 

[Caveman]

Don't go letting facts get in the way of your opinion of George Bush. You may not like him or his policies, but he is not the ignorant idiot liberals like to portray him as. He's well educated, he has real world business experience, he has at least some military experience and a political resume that will rival anyone's.

Liberals mistake a southern accent for being uneducated. They mistake liking sports, fishing, hunting and NASCAR as being uncouth. They think a quiet demeanor is indicative of lacking charm or grace. They'd rather have a smooth talking lawyer with no real world experience as the head of their party.

Obama is a nice guy. He's eloquent. He graduated from Columbia University and has a law degree from Harvard. He worked briefly as a civil rights attorney and taught. After that he spent 8 years in the Illinois state senate and now he's the junior sentator from Illinois. He's never owned a business. He's never served in the military. His voting record in the senate is as far left as it gets. He's a product of the Chicago political machine ala Daley and Jackson. He's never met an issue he wouldn't change his mind on and I don't believe him for a second regarding his relationship with his pastor. That's why I would never vote for him. Notice, I didn't call him an idiot. I never questioned how or why he got into Columbia and Harvard. I don't know or care about his grades. He graduated. That's good enough. Do you really think Columbia, Harvard and Yale just hand out degrees because you got in? Connections or affirmative action may get you in, but you still have to earn the degree.

Unlike most of my liberal friends I can separate the man from his policies. I respect Bush and Obama. They both have their stengths and weaknesses. They are both educated and neither one is an idiot. I completely disagree with almost everything Obama stands for. I disagree with about a third of George Bush's policies. Immigration, prescription drugs, and some of his Iraq war decisions just to name a few. I don't vote my wallet unless taxes are involved. IOW, how the guy I vote for feels about unions and airline pilots in general is way down the list of my priorities. I'm concerned about the Constitution, national soveriegnty (sp?) and taxes in that order. In that regard Democrats and Obama in particular are my worst nightmare. He's still a nice guy though.

 

[DH106]

Caveman, I can appreciate your reasonable response. But, the economy is the number one factor here. To quote puddlejumper101, "there are not many people that are better off today than when Bush became President."

That couldn't be more true. I've looked at my family, friends, and myself, and I'm not better off today than I was then. Do we need a president who's tough on terrorism? Of course. But, we also need one who isn't wreckless about it, which is what I feel Bush is all about. We need a president who will tend to America's needs (and our soldier's needs) first. Bush hasn't done that.

 

[Caveman]

Tips for silencing cockpit ideologues:

5. Carry a small bottle of water with you, and flick some on them. When they ask WTF?...tell 'em it's Holy Water and you wanna see if their skin sizzles.

LOL! That's funny right there, I don't care who you are.