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 Post subject: Re: Letter From The Boss
PostPosted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 3:41 am
  

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Mike would've loved what you just said. I would've read it to him. He really liked you & Don. Amen...


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 Post subject: Re: Letter From The Boss
PostPosted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:44 am
  

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:)

it isn't always easy being loony...i just make it look easy! (?)

anyhow, i was trying to express my frustration with politics and the use of wacky misteachings in general which seems to be everywhere!! and i didn't feel alone in my frustration...at least just a little bit.


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 Post subject: Re: Letter From The Boss
PostPosted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:52 pm
  

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agnes wrote:
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it isn't always easy being loony...i just make it look easy! (?)



ahhhh agnes, you are my holy grail! I'm not worthy....

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 Post subject: Re: Letter From The Boss
PostPosted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 9:18 pm
  

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not worthy?

i didn't think it was a contest!


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 Post subject: Re: Letter From The Boss
PostPosted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:53 pm
  

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agnes wrote:
not worthy?

i didn't think it was a contest!


no?

damn!

then what am I gonna do with these thousands of UPC symbols I've been clipping for the past umpteen years???

(not to mention the hand soap jingle I wrote that rhymes with Chicken Shmaltz)

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 Post subject: Re: Letter From The Boss
PostPosted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:53 pm
  

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maybe you could hand them out as door prizes!


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 Post subject: Re: Letter From The Boss
PostPosted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 12:30 pm
  

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PSBeaty wrote:
cheryl wrote:
I have a lot of respect for Dave too, just cuz he's republican doesn't mean he's not a nice person.

I too am flawed, beyond belief! :mrgreen:

DRR, maybe you could borrow the brain cell for a while, though I doubt you really need it.


I have no respect for the political games that are played by the people Dave uses as sources...the Limbaughs and Coulters and Falwells and such.....the world is in a seriously bad situation and I believe it is this pointing fingers bullshit has to go! I mean for instance...American health care could not be in a more precarious position.. It is destroying our economy because we have no standard coverage for the American citizen and burden our economy with bizarre insurance schemes to pay the cost for those that are insured. It is a horrible economic burden but if you ask Dave he would probably blow off health care reform as some dangerous tax and spend socialist pyramid scheme (oh sure, burden me with the health care of the homeless kind of bullshit). That is what I hear from the conservative philosophical do nothings where I work.

We are in a period where economic theory of the past no longer applies and that means there will be some experimental approaches if we are going to survive. (Conservatives don't seem to understand that we are a Capitalist Society in Rhetoric only in reality we are still an Aristocratic Socialist State or as some in Russia are now calling us ... we are National Socialists).


Well, I couldn't agree with you more about the state of our nations health care, but I believe that most of the problem with _that_ was started by Mrs. Clinton. I have to admit though I stopped following that some years ago as it just depressed the He double hockey sticks out of me.

If we ignore the past, we are certainly doomed to repeat it.


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 Post subject: Re: Letter From The Boss
PostPosted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 12:33 pm
  

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nortonkevin wrote:
Love is Love, and in its true sense is never a bad thing.......



I don't know... What about obsessive love, I don't think that's so good. I've recently encountered a person with this affliction, and it's really not good at all.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 12:46 pm
  

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Obsessive love is not Love in its true sense.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:48 pm
  

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Under the old rubric that love is a verb, doing it badly is always possible. Sorta like justice except you will find love in nature.

So is it worse or better to be loved badly or hated competently? These days it depends on which side of the Title VII suit you are on I guess.


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 Post subject: Re: Letter From The Boss
PostPosted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 3:52 pm
  

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I'm glad I live in NY, ntm: I can't help it if I'm a tree hugging liberal. But after much forethought, I'm very proud of my Obama bumper sticker. :roll:

!000 yr. war we cannot aford. Even my 87 yr. old dad said that's what turned him away from McCain. ( He chose not to vote in this last election, and to hear him talk, you'd think him an active member of the KKK) Ntm: He used to hunt Moose, and thinks Sara Palin, a non sports woman, for killing them outta a helicopter..

Not to hurt anyone's feelings, but I love a good Moose steak, ntm: it's great for my high cholestoral.....

My Dad and I don't always agree, but we're on the same page, that Obama has some great ideas, in making the US of A a better place all around... I never thought I'd hear my Dad admitt it, but he's very much into the stock market, and thinks in a couple yrs. that will turn around.. And no one can be credited more than Obama...

But it's a free country, last time I knew, so everyone is subject to they're own opinions....

My wife Sue is very active in human rights, being Native American, and she told me at lunch, that anyone reading that someone lost a job because they had an Obama bumper sticker, would have a great case in court.... Lost wages, unfairness of losing a job... the list goes on...

* Personnally I wouldn't trust anyone who had been captive for 4 yrs. as a prisoner of war.... That kind of torture, and mental torment, just might be of conflict, when making decisions... e.p. a good idea to engauge in a 100 yr. war... McCain is a warmonger. Say no more...

No offence to anyone.... But As a liberal, this just really hit home... I'm proud of my Bumper sticker, ntm: our new Prez... and it seems good to be an American again, after a long time.....

RB

As Richard Nixon would say... "Peace be with you" or was it ? "Peace my people"....


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 3:56 pm
  

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Hard to imagine Nixon as a Quaker.....ain't it?


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:42 pm
  

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Back in the day, umm, three wars ago, my Dad and I were having the daily argument at the dinner table about VietNam. He was saying we should invade the North. I told him that would pull the Chinese in and start WWIII. He said that maybe what we really needed was another world war.

At which point, my Mother said quietly, "But dear, we only have one left."


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 Post subject: Re: Letter From The Boss
PostPosted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:08 am
  

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cheryl wrote:

Well, I couldn't agree with you more about the state of our nations health care, but I believe that most of the problem with _that_ was started by Mrs. Clinton. I have to admit though I stopped following that some years ago as it just depressed the He double hockey sticks out of me.

If we ignore the past, we are certainly doomed to repeat it.


Really, I thought Mrs. Clinton merely underestimated the forces of the Health Care Industrial Complex and that the Clinton Administration ran out of political inertia once they realized what she was getting into; Ill-concieved employer-based health care (I thought) was a remnant of Union Bargaining gone astray from a previous era! I never could understand why it is called "free-market health care" or why conservatives cling to it so doggedly? I guess non-free-market health care is just a good thing to point a finger at and yell SOCIALISM!

In fact, with the exception of a few fact finding excursions, she really didn't do anything when it was all said and done?

http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/ ... -plan.html


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:00 am
  

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PSBeaty wrote:
cheryl wrote:

Well, I couldn't agree with you more about the state of our nations health care, but I believe that most of the problem with _that_ was started by Mrs. Clinton. I have to admit though I stopped following that some years ago as it just depressed the He double hockey sticks out of me.

If we ignore the past, we are certainly doomed to repeat it.


Really, I thought Mrs. Clinton merely underestimated the forces of the Health Care Industrial Complex and that the Clinton Administration ran out of political inertia once they realized what she was getting into; Ill-concieved employer-based health care (I thought) was a remnant of Union Bargaining gone astray from a previous era! I never could understand why it is called "free-market health care" or why conservatives cling to it so doggedly? I guess non-free-market health care is just a good thing to point a finger at and yell SOCIALISM!

In fact, with the exception of a few fact finding excursions, she really didn't do anything when it was all said and done?

http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/ ... -plan.html


She certainly created a HUGE mess where I work, everybody excitedly hopped and bowed to do what she wanted. Though that is partly because she showed up to "help out" with the institution of her plan. We are still feeling the effects of that plan of hers. Just my observation.


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