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Offline Nilsen

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« Reply #75 on: December 04, 2004, 01:31:09 PM »
Sorry to hear about your Brother-in-law Ripsnort.

He should do fine tho if he is as experienced as I think he is with the position he has.

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« Reply #76 on: December 04, 2004, 01:33:56 PM »
Looks like a lot of people showing very little class. WTG. :rolleyes:

A lot of comments both pro and con about airline workers being the problem but not one about lagging ticket sales. If you don't sell the seat, revenue goes down. Lots of reasons for loss of airline ticket sales including cyclical traveling trends.

Not all reasons for a business failure can be tied to your favorite bisiness boogieman.

Rip sorry about your brother in law, I hope he gets another position soon.
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« Reply #77 on: December 04, 2004, 10:11:11 PM »
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Sixpence worked in mrb


Well, now that you're here............





















4th and 26!!
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(and I still say he wasn't trying to spell possum!)

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« Reply #78 on: December 04, 2004, 10:20:35 PM »
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Rip,

sorry about your bro's loss. Hope he finds work soon.


IMHO, this thread's replies are mostly in horid taste.  Airhead, you need to grow up, those blaming the current administration for the airline's situation need to look at who deregulated the airlines,


I agree  Bodhi, I'd come in from an evening out drinking beers and saw Rip's post and responded in knee jerk fashion to his  political personna instead of responding to the plight of his brother in law. It came across much harsher than intended.

However, grow up? I'm too old to start growing up now.

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« Reply #79 on: December 04, 2004, 10:24:37 PM »
What a sweet apology.

In such a dumb thread.

Airhead... I just bought some wool, some knitting needles, and some fine ferns. Wanna make macrome plant holders together sometime?

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« Reply #80 on: December 04, 2004, 10:31:39 PM »
>>I agree Bodhi, I'd come in from an evening out drinking beers and saw Rip's post and responded in knee jerk fashion to his political personna instead of responding to the plight of his brother in law. It came across much harsher than intended.
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IMO no one died or became gravely ill, so the point is fair game. I don't expect condolances from tales of my plight during the 1980's oil field bust. One of the points of the election was loss of jobs, and one point of rhetoric was the creation of jobs. So they happen to be flipping hamburgers. It's easy to laugh at and blame the poor people flipping hamburgers until it hits home.
As dire as it may seem, the US has safety nets. Rips brother-in-law may have to cut off cable, dsl, or private schools, but he probably won't be in the street trying to meet the basic needs of life (food water shelter). People that make our tennis shoes should have it so easy. But hell, why worry about them - someone's losing their cable tv.

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« Reply #81 on: December 04, 2004, 10:33:05 PM »
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What a sweet apology.

In such a dumb thread.

Airhead... I just bought some wool, some knitting needles, and some fine ferns. Wanna make macrome plant holders together sometime?


That sounds great, Nash- after that maybe we can take a walk on the beach and I can search for the missing barbell? ;)

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« Reply #82 on: December 04, 2004, 10:48:55 PM »
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Airhead... I just bought some wool, some knitting needles, and some fine ferns. Wanna make macrome plant holders together sometime?


Nash seems to know a lot about knitting.....might be fun Airhead.

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« Reply #83 on: December 05, 2004, 07:59:07 AM »
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Well, now that you're here............

4th and 26!!


Doh! Well for christs sake, I wasn't playing DB for the Packers last year, nor was I the Defensive coordinator, but this does lead into a interesting weekend in the 'ol NFL.

I do know the Seahawks fans unlike the Monday after week three aren't posting "who will lose the last game of 2004"making them Super Bowl contenders any more, but are just making excuses. Which is rich, and funnay.

However, if the Pack pulls this one off, I'll be like rpmhat on a Bush mistep. I'll be sure to post all about it, and no one will care. Would be nice to be able to do that though, and put that 26 **** to rest.

Cheers.

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« Reply #84 on: December 05, 2004, 09:50:55 AM »
mav... my post was about ticket sales.... I won't buy one if there is any other choice... most people I know feel the same.  I don't even want to go pick up people at the airport.   It is as bad of an experiance as one can have these days.

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« Reply #85 on: December 05, 2004, 10:39:24 AM »
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What a sweet apology.

In such a dumb thread.

Airhead... I just bought some wool, some knitting needles, and some fine ferns. Wanna make macrome plant holders together sometime?


You left out the "barbell" portion too.  You two are perfect for each other.

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« Reply #86 on: December 05, 2004, 12:25:27 PM »
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So what is the light Silat?  Your not going to try and put the blame on Bush again are you?


 I blame whoever is responsible Krusher. Doesnt matter which party. Unlike you:) We the people gave the airlines billions. The execs made out but Rips brother in law didnt. Oversight is lacking in our gov today.
I want capitalism with rules and  "real" oversight.
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« Reply #87 on: December 05, 2004, 01:05:23 PM »
The whole point of capitalism is that there is no oversight.  Whats good for the wealthy is good for the country.  

You are just some dirty lazy red communist bastard.  Why, I bet you even support a so-called "living wage" (robbery from the wealthy I tell you, pure ****ing robbery!) and health care for everyone.  

Well Che, when you tell me why some scrubby trailer trash scum deserves health care for only working ONE full time job, when he SHOULD be working two or three full-time jobs pulling himself up out of the gutter (laziness.. pure laziness!) THEN I might support that idea.  Until then, I'm sticking to the party line.  If they aren't working at least 75 hours a week making rich people more money, they don't deserve ****.  

Health care and safety standards and all that crap are just typical "the Man" sticking it to the rich.  Why, I bet if we imported a whole bunch of foreigners and paid them under the table for less than minimum wage THEY'D be more than happy to work at whatever job we told them to, AND we wouldn't have to give them health benefits (hell, any benefits at all, think of the savings!!!).  Boy, that would be GREAT for the economy!  

Why can't people see that?  If the most wealthy 5% of the country could just somehow get control over the 20% of the country's wealth they don't already have, our economy would be in GREAT shape.  

I think we outta relieve the tax burden on the rich to.  It simply isn't fair that they have to pay all this money for stuff they never even use.  Make it a reverse sliding scale.  Anyone making <30,000 pays 100% taxes (to their employer, just to make it simple), <50,000 pays a very reasonable 60%, and anything over that is untaxable.  Think of all the money that would flow back into our country once people could stop shifting their money into off-shore tax havens.  

It would be like paradise on earth.  

I think I should probably be appointed to be the next Financial Advisor to the President.  I'm sure he'd get behind it 110%.

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« Reply #88 on: December 05, 2004, 03:08:07 PM »
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The whole point of capitalism is that there is no oversight.  Whats good for the wealthy is good for the country.  

 



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« Reply #89 on: December 05, 2004, 07:31:24 PM »
Urchin is right.   The most important problem this country faces today is that the superwealthy simply do not have enough spendable income.

I think we should eliminate the income tax completely for the top 2% of incomes, to be paid for by eliminating the deduction for  mortgage interest on homes costing less than $300,000.

If that doesn't quite cover it we should just borrow the money.  We're only $7.4 trillion in debt now, so there's still some room left on our national plastic.