Duane Woerth rumor... YGTBSM!!

[Occam's Razor]

John Feldvary- Classic fellow- In the mold of Occam.

Ha! Feldvary is a tall, undertaker-looking fellow. Weak treasurer. Not much personality. Me? Fairly gushing with verisimilitude, confidence, and charming wit. And modesty!...Did I mention modesty?

Would and did sell his Grandmother for a lengthy stay feasting at the National Expense Account Boys Club/ALPA.

Ha! I bought his grandmother for $49.95 and she couldn't filet a walleye to save her life!

Occam you are sure testy these days.

According to Heisenberg, you're positing that observation from an unsubstantiated reference point, so it's uncertain that you're correct. Make sense at least once so we'll know where you're coming from. If not...20-minutes to Wapner!

Did Duane no show for your Leg Waxing appointment or maybe your having one of those mood swing moments? Whatever it is keep taking your Midal and you should be your pampered self appointed idiot in no time.

1. It's back waxing!
2. It's "Midol" (and I prefer Pamprin, thank you!)
3. Others have declared me an idiot...so lay off this "self appointed" stuff!

 

[Sig]

Occam,

we all know you get nowhere putting Descartes before the whores. The burning question is when did Sir Isaac invent a tasty fig confection and accidentally describe gravity?

I should've paid closer attention in school, something about a fish in lieu of education...

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Unions are political organizations in washington dc... When a pilot becomes a politician to play the DC game (s/he has too... you don't send a baseball player to a footbal game do you? Well, you don't send a pilot to play politics. You send a politician. Now it helps that our politicans are/were pilots..) he seems to lose a connection with the membership. This is common in general with the citizenry or membership etc...

Politics is all about give and take... Pilots seem to think they are the golden boys and eveybody loves pilots. Not in DC.

Nobody gives a damn about pilots. No One. Not one.

So if you think your pilot politician is selling you out you may want to reconsider that airmanship skills do not apply. Alliances and deal making do.

Woerth was extrememly effective on CapHill. What he was weak at was staying connected with the membership. What the memebership is weak at is understanding the game of politics. IN addition, I don't think any ALPA President was going to be liked over the last six years. Somebody needed to be a punching bag.....

I am not saying that DW was the greatest thing... I do think he did better than most think and that is simply because they use the "me me me" scale to measure his effectiveness. Rather they should use a political scoring sheet given the environement of the last six years... And finally, he lost the last election....so the ship is righted.....no?

 

[Occam's Razor]

Occam,

we all know you get nowhere putting Descartes before the whores. The burning question is when did Sir Isaac invent a tasty fig confection and accidentally describe gravity?

I should've paid closer attention in school, something about a fish in lieu of education...

Ok...you're my new hero!

Deal with it!

 

[Sig]

Deal with it!

Ha!

A few years ago I tried to market a book I wrote called "Zoroastrianism and the Art of Bicycle Maintenance." It was a commercial flop as I was collectively sued by Schwinn(TM), pre-postmodern nihilists and a whining group of lantern waving mystics over the subtitle... "THIS spoke, Zarathustra." Feckin' Hollywood.

** You could say I had found my niche, but that would be so bourgeois as to miss the marks entirely. What hubris!

 

[Occam's Razor]

A few years ago I tried to market a book I wrote called "Zoroastrianism and the Art of Bicycle Maintenance." It was a commercial flop as I was collectively sued by Schwinn(TM), pre-postmodern nihilists and a whining group of lantern waving mystics over the subtitle... "THIS spoke, Zarathustra." Feckin' Hollywood.

Couldn't you just pedal it elsewhere?

 

[Sig]

Couldn't you just pedal it elsewhere?

Due to an unforeseen chain of events (the cyclical nature of the industry, you know), and the long uphill battle I would be mountin' , I came to the stark realization that I was simply two-tired.

 

[redbook]

Never thought I would enjoy a Duane Woerth thread so much.

 

[Occam's Razor]

Due to an unforeseen chain of events (the cyclical nature of the industry, you know), and the long uphill battle I would be mountin' , I came to the stark realization that I was simply two-tired.

I Kant stand this anymore...so don't get me Sarte'd!

 

[CAL EWR B737]

I thought all EVP's were part time (very part time) and flew the line with occasional flight pay loss for Executive Council meetings and other pertinent events? It's my understanding that the President is the only pilot who is an employee of ALPA and the three other national officers and the President's executive administrator are the only pilots at National on full time flight pay loss.

Also it is my understanding that John Prater is one of the first or at least the first ALPA's President in recent history to stay current and continue to fly, albeit very little but does still fly. It is my understanding from a reliable source John Prater had demanded he would do such despite resistance from top ALPA staffers.

 

[Sig]

I Kant stand this anymore...so don't get me Sarte'd!

As a kid, I played:

1. with Play-Doh!
2. Heidegger Seek!
3. with action figures from "The Empiricists Strike Back"!


I'd also Reid a lot, wore sports jerseys (soccer tees, mostly- the sophist ones I could find), and basically told the world, "Foucault you clowns." It's fun to Russell up some puns now and again- Dewey keep this up or not?

 

[Richard Gozinya]

DW will wind up being a paid lobbyist for the ATA. Not the airline, but the Airtransport Association. He'll use his "skills" to lobby against pilot workrules, quality of life improvements etc. He'll convince Congress and the public that pilots are just over-paid and underworked whiners who "should just be glad they can have a job they 'love' "

I thought that is what he did when he was the HMFIC @ ALPA!

OK, easy ones just can't be bypassed. Couldn't resist.

Dick

 

[PCL_128]

I thought all EVP's were part time (very part time) and flew the line with occasional flight pay loss for Executive Council meetings and other pertinent events?

Depends. Many of them are also MEC Chairmen that are already on full-time buy for that. They are usually involved in other projects for National also, so they get FPL for times other than EC meetings.

Also it is my understanding that John Prater is one of the first or at least the first ALPA's President in recent history to stay current and continue to fly, albeit very little but does still fly. It is my understanding from a reliable source John Prater had demanded he would do such despite resistance from top ALPA staffers.

Captain Prater has insisted on staying current in the sim, but I don't believe he's flown the line since taking office. I remember being at some event back in January that he had to miss because he had a sim ride to stay current. Personally, I don't see the point, but it's important to him.

 

[Huck]

You don't reckon he's planning on flying to 65, do you?

 

[Occam's Razor]

(soccer tees, mostly- the sophist ones I could find)

Ok...that one's a Locke!

We should knock this off, Or well drive everybody away!