Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

2010-05-23 Thread Mike Dixon
LOL! Reminds me of a guy I worked with at UPS. One morning he put out a 
cigarette on the floor and a supervisor looked , totally disgusted at him, and 
said why did you do that? You wouldn't put a cigarette out on your living room 
floor. Toby snapped back and said and I wouldn't park 200 oil leaking trucks 
in my living room either.





From: authfriend jst...@panix.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, May 22, 2010 9:30:12 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

  
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote:
snip
  Ahem. I'd say you were somewhat out of touch.
  Check out this video of the factory in which
  they build the world's fastest supercar:
 
  http://www.vidly.net/video-Inside-the-mclaren-factory.html
 
 Certainly a car for the masses. I see them parked all the
 time at Walmart and in the employee spots at Burger King.
 I hear Judy loves hers.

Nope, sorry, don't own a car. Wouldn't have one in the house. ;-)





  

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

2010-05-22 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote:

 authfriend wrote:
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote:
  snip

   Let's see high quality jobs like working on dirty oil rigs?
   
 
  You got something against getting dirty?
 
 Every work on a car?  Or how about crawling under a wheat 
 truck in the dusty farm country to lube the truck?  Grease 
 and oil aren't much fun to work with.  Electric cars are 
 much cleaner.

Ahem. I'd say you were somewhat out of touch.
Check out this video of the factory in which
they build the world's fastest supercar:

http://www.vidly.net/video-Inside-the-mclaren-factory.html

  Jeez, talk about elitism!
 
  They're well-paid jobs, many of them highly skilled.
 
 I don't care how much it pays it is still a dirty job.

Not necessarily. See above.

How clean is your *desk* as you work? Or your
hard disk when you've finished? My experience
is that the cleanliness of the mind creates 
the cleanliness of the workspace, not vice-
versa. The cleanest, most pristine, and by far
the most uplifting workspace I've ever been in
was in West L.A., at a nursery. The owners grew
bonsai, in the way that their ancestors for six
or seven generations had grown bonsai. They had
trees there that were several hundred years old
and cost mid-five-figures. One could not find a
speck of dirt other than in the pots in their
environment.




Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

2010-05-22 Thread Bhairitu
TurquoiseB wrote:
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote:
   
 authfriend wrote:
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote:
 snip
   
   
 Let's see high quality jobs like working on dirty oil rigs?
 
 
 You got something against getting dirty?
   
 Every work on a car?  Or how about crawling under a wheat 
 truck in the dusty farm country to lube the truck?  Grease 
 and oil aren't much fun to work with.  Electric cars are 
 much cleaner.
 

 Ahem. I'd say you were somewhat out of touch.
 Check out this video of the factory in which
 they build the world's fastest supercar:

 http://www.vidly.net/video-Inside-the-mclaren-factory.html

Certainly a car for the masses.  I see them parked all the time at 
Walmart and in the employee spots at Burger King.  I hear Judy loves hers.

 We elitists and classists wouldn't be caught dead in one though.  They 
won't even let us on to the country club parking lot driving one.



[FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

2010-05-22 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote:
snip
  Ahem. I'd say you were somewhat out of touch.
  Check out this video of the factory in which
  they build the world's fastest supercar:
 
  http://www.vidly.net/video-Inside-the-mclaren-factory.html
 
 Certainly a car for the masses.  I see them parked all the
 time at Walmart and in the employee spots at Burger King.
 I hear Judy loves hers.

Nope, sorry, don't own a car. Wouldn't have one in the house. ;-)





[FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

2010-05-21 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote:
snip
 Rand Paul needs to understand that American taxpayers 
 (particularly right wingers) don't want to pay a dime
 for BP's cleanup.

Taxpayers won't pay a dime for the cleanup. BP gets to
pay 100 percent; that isn't in question.

  That should 
 all be on their bill even if it wipes out the company.

It won't even come close to wiping them out.




Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

2010-05-21 Thread Bhairitu
authfriend wrote:
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote:
 snip
   
 Rand Paul needs to understand that American taxpayers 
 (particularly right wingers) don't want to pay a dime
 for BP's cleanup.
 

 Taxpayers won't pay a dime for the cleanup. BP gets to
 pay 100 percent; that isn't in question.

   That should 
   
 all be on their bill even if it wipes out the company.
 

 It won't even come close to wiping them out.
Then they definitely are too big to exist.




[FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

2010-05-21 Thread WillyTex


  Taxpayers won't pay a dime for the cleanup...
 
Bhairitu:
 Then they definitely are too big to exist...
  
You are sounding more un-American every day. 

None of your crack-pot ideas has a chance to 
succeed. The idea is to create more jobs, not 
less. If you don't like off-shore drilling, 
you should sell your car and quite whining. 

British Petroleum will pay for the clean-up, 
but that's not enough for you liberals I guess. 
Let's trash another public business that 
provides high-quality jobs for people. 

That doesn't even make any sense.

WASHINGTON — Taking another unconventional 
stand, Kentucky's Republican Senate nominee 
Rand Paul criticized President Barack Obama's 
handling of the Gulf oil spill Friday as 
anti-business and sounding really un-American...

Read more:

'Obama's criticism of BP sounds 'un-American'
By Michele Salcedo
Associated Press, May 28, 2010
http://tinyurl.com/2epg7au





[FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

2010-05-21 Thread brian64705


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote:
 snip
  Rand Paul needs to understand that American taxpayers 
  (particularly right wingers) don't want to pay a dime
  for BP's cleanup.
 
 Taxpayers won't pay a dime for the cleanup. BP gets to
 pay 100 percent; that isn't in question.
 
   That should 
  all be on their bill even if it wipes out the company.
 
 It won't even come close to wiping them out.

Depends how you define clean up. To restore the environment to it's condition 
prior to the accident ought to be the legal obligation. But that's such an 
inconceivably big task there will have to be compromises. And there's where the 
might of a big corporation will always win in the court.  Rand is coming off a 
little naive in this flush of publicity. And his avoiding to give direct 
answers is killing him. His father is much more open, and not afraid to state 
his opinion even if it's unpopular. On the environment Ron always promotes the 
control should be in the courts not in Govt regulation. It's controversial for 
sure. And I can't say I know which view is right - much as I hate govt 
regulation, I hate the control corporations have in the court room even more. 
Overall though its the monetary system which is the most important issue. If 
that fails nothing else matters. Ron Paul has been the best watchdog in 
Washington to alert us to the dangers of an unregulated, unaudited Federal 
Reserve. So I can overlook other areas I think he's a bit iffy on. The monetary 
system is the number one issue in my mind.



Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

2010-05-21 Thread Bhairitu
WillyTex wrote:
   
 Taxpayers won't pay a dime for the cleanup...

   
 Bhairitu:
   
 Then they definitely are too big to exist...
  
 
 You are sounding more un-American every day. 

 None of your crack-pot ideas has a chance to 
 succeed. The idea is to create more jobs, not 
 less. If you don't like off-shore drilling, 
 you should sell your car and quite whining. 
   

What about more small businesses than big?  Have you ever watched what 
happens when a big business acquires a small one?  They lay off people 
in areas that will be duplicated.  When you break up companies these 
jobs come back.  Your thinking is flawed and you make no sense.

I'd be happy to have an electric car to use most of the time and leave 
the Forester for long trips.  But they still charge a premium for those 
electrics.  I might instead just replace the Forester with an even more 
fuel efficient smaller car since I don't really need the Forester 
anymore for hauling things. 
 British Petroleum will pay for the clean-up, 
 but that's not enough for you liberals I guess. 
 Let's trash another public business that 
 provides high-quality jobs for people. 
   

We'll see if they pay for it all.  My bet is they're weasel out of it 
someway and the taxpayers will not even bleat.

Let's see high quality jobs like working on dirty oil rigs?

White Willy speaks with forked tongue.




[FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

2010-05-21 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote:
snip
 Let's see high quality jobs like working on dirty oil rigs?

You got something against getting dirty?

Jeez, talk about elitism!

They're well-paid jobs, many of them highly skilled.



Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

2010-05-21 Thread Mike Dixon
Bhairitu, am I getting this right, that you base what a good job is by how 
clean your work area is and how clean you are at the end of the work day?  
Those platform workers make a very nice living, probably approaching six 
figures, which they pay all kinds of taxes on. They keep money flowing into the 
Treasury(state and federal) and oil and gas for our cars, homes and businesses. 
Yes, they get hot and dirty, the Gulf of Mexico is very hot and humid, 
especially this time of year, and they spend days and weeks away from their 
families doing what they do. I would call being an oil rig worker an honorable 
job worthy of respect, which I'm sure millions of people would love to have 
right now.




From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, May 21, 2010 2:33:23 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

  


Let's see high quality jobs like working on dirty oil rigs?

White Willy speaks with forked tongue.





  

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

2010-05-21 Thread Mike Dixon
Ooops! Didn't mean to duplicate your post Judy. I was typing mine while yours 
popped up.




From: authfriend jst...@panix.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, May 21, 2010 3:32:06 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

  
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote:
snip
 Let's see high quality jobs like working on dirty oil rigs?

You got something against getting dirty?

Jeez, talk about elitism!

They're well-paid jobs, many of them highly skilled.





  

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

2010-05-21 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote:

 Ooops! Didn't mean to duplicate your post Judy. I was typing
 mine while yours popped up.

No prob. You said it more eloquently than I did.

From what I gather from reading TheOilDrum.com, working on
an oil rig is a very macho gig, dirty and difficult and
dangerous, and the workers are like a special fraternity
that takes great pride in what they do.

Now if we could only find them dirty, dangerous, difficult,
well-paid jobs that would satisfy their macho pride doing
something that wasn't so destructive to the environment and
didn't feed our oil addiction...




Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

2010-05-21 Thread Bhairitu
authfriend wrote:
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote:
 snip
   
 Let's see high quality jobs like working on dirty oil rigs?
 

 You got something against getting dirty?
   

Every work on a car?  Or how about crawling under a wheat truck in the 
dusty farm country to lube the truck?  Grease and oil aren't much fun to 
work with.  Electric cars are much cleaner.
 Jeez, talk about elitism!

 They're well-paid jobs, many of them highly skilled.

I don't care how much it pays it is still a dirty job.


[FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

2010-05-21 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote:

 authfriend wrote:
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote:
  snip

  Let's see high quality jobs like working on dirty oil rigs?
 
  You got something against getting dirty?
 
 Every work on a car?  Or how about crawling under a wheat
 truck in the dusty farm country to lube the truck?  Grease
 and oil aren't much fun to work with.

Not much excitement in working on a car or lubing
a truck.

 Electric cars are much cleaner.

  Jeez, talk about elitism!
 
  They're well-paid jobs, many of them highly skilled.
 
 I don't care how much it pays it is still a dirty job.

And therefore it isn't a high quality job?

Bhairitu, you need to pipe down before you get further
behind. You've just nailed yourself as a classist and
an elitist.




Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

2010-05-21 Thread Bhairitu
authfriend wrote:
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote:
   
 authfriend wrote:
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote:
 snip
   
   
 Let's see high quality jobs like working on dirty oil rigs?
 
 You got something against getting dirty?
   
 Every work on a car?  Or how about crawling under a wheat
 truck in the dusty farm country to lube the truck?  Grease
 and oil aren't much fun to work with.
 

 Not much excitement in working on a car or lubing
 a truck.

   
 Electric cars are much cleaner.
 

   
 Jeez, talk about elitism!

 They're well-paid jobs, many of them highly skilled.
   
 I don't care how much it pays it is still a dirty job.
 

 And therefore it isn't a high quality job?

 Bhairitu, you need to pipe down before you get further
 behind. You've just nailed yourself as a classist and
 an elitist.

I would highly doubt that anyone doing this kind of work would disagree 
that it is dirty work.  Saying so has nothing to do with elitism but why 
should I care if I'm called either a classist or elitist -- line on 
water. :-D



Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

2010-05-21 Thread Bhairitu
You sure have a fucked up value system, Mike.  Ask them if they had an 
opportunity to make that kind of money on a different job and NOT get 
dirty or deal with dirty oil stuff would they take it?  Bet they would 
in a minute.

Mike Dixon wrote:
 Bhairitu, am I getting this right, that you base what a good job is by how 
 clean your work area is and how clean you are at the end of the work day?  
 Those platform workers make a very nice living, probably approaching six 
 figures, which they pay all kinds of taxes on. They keep money flowing into 
 the Treasury(state and federal) and oil and gas for our cars, homes and 
 businesses. Yes, they get hot and dirty, the Gulf of Mexico is very hot and 
 humid, especially this time of year, and they spend days and weeks away from 
 their families doing what they do. I would call being an oil rig worker an 
 honorable job worthy of respect, which I'm sure millions of people would love 
 to have right now.



 
 From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Sent: Fri, May 21, 2010 2:33:23 PM
 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

   


 Let's see high quality jobs like working on dirty oil rigs?

 White Willy speaks with forked tongue.





   
   



[FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

2010-05-21 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote:

 authfriend wrote:
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote:

  authfriend wrote:
  
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote:
  snip

  Let's see high quality jobs like working on dirty oil rigs?
  
  You got something against getting dirty?

  Every work on a car?  Or how about crawling under a wheat
  truck in the dusty farm country to lube the truck?  Grease
  and oil aren't much fun to work with.
 
  Not much excitement in working on a car or lubing
  a truck.
 
  Electric cars are much cleaner.

  Jeez, talk about elitism!
 
  They're well-paid jobs, many of them highly skilled.

  I don't care how much it pays it is still a dirty job.
 
  And therefore it isn't a high quality job?
 
  Bhairitu, you need to pipe down before you get further
  behind. You've just nailed yourself as a classist and
  an elitist.
 
 I would highly doubt that anyone doing this kind of work
 would disagree that it is dirty work.

Disingenuous. Nobody said they weren't.

But you implied, scornfully, that because they were
dirty, they weren't high quality. Think you might want
to take that back, now that it shows you to be a 
classist and an elitist? Or do you prefer to make
yourself look even worse by continuing to try to
pretend you never said it?

And you claimed *Willytex* had a forked tongue.
Hypocrite.




Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

2010-05-21 Thread Mike Dixon
You might want to consider that many of these oil rig workers don't have 
college degrees and others may have degrees in a totally different field that 
doesn't pay as much and their jobs are a step up for them. It's good pay for an 
honest days work. It pays their bills,buys them homes, and helps their families 
to better themselves. They are the salt of the earth. I can't help having 
respect for anyone that has a job and does it well, blue or white collar.





From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, May 21, 2010 6:08:11 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

  
You sure have a fucked up value system, Mike. Ask them if they had an 
opportunity to make that kind of money on a different job and NOT get 
dirty or deal with dirty oil stuff would they take it? Bet they would 
in a minute.

Mike Dixon wrote:
 Bhairitu, am I getting this right, that you base what a good job is by how 
 clean your work area is and how clean you are at the end of the work day? 
 Those platform workers make a very nice living, probably approaching six 
 figures, which they pay all kinds of taxes on. They keep money flowing into 
 the Treasury(state and federal) and oil and gas for our cars, homes and 
 businesses. Yes, they get hot and dirty, the Gulf of Mexico is very hot and 
 humid, especially this time of year, and they spend days and weeks away from 
 their families doing what they do. I would call being an oil rig worker an 
 honorable job worthy of respect, which I'm sure millions of people would love 
 to have right now.



 
 From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Sent: Fri, May 21, 2010 2:33:23 PM
 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

 


 Let's see high quality jobs like working on dirty oil rigs?

 White Willy speaks with forked tongue.





 
 





  

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

2010-05-21 Thread Mike Dixon
I apologize for taking advantage of the situation:-)





From: Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, May 21, 2010 8:18:36 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

  
You might want to consider that many of these oil rig workers don't have 
college degrees and others may have degrees in a totally different field that 
doesn't pay as much and their jobs are a step up for them. It's good pay for an 
honest days work. It pays their bills,buys them homes, and helps their families 
to better themselves. They are the salt of the earth. I can't help having 
respect for anyone that has a job and does it well, blue or white collar.





From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal. net
To: FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Fri, May 21, 2010 6:08:11 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

  
You sure have a fucked up value system, Mike. Ask them if they had an 
opportunity to make that kind of money on a different job and NOT get 
dirty or deal with dirty oil stuff would they take it? Bet they would 
in a minute.

Mike Dixon wrote:
 Bhairitu, am I getting this right, that you base what a good job is by how 
 clean your work area is and how clean you are at the end of the work day? 
 Those platform workers make a very nice living, probably approaching six 
 figures, which they pay all kinds of taxes on. They keep money flowing into 
 the Treasury(state and federal) and oil and gas for our cars, homes and 
 businesses. Yes, they get hot and dirty, the Gulf of Mexico is very hot and 
 humid, especially this time of year, and they spend days and weeks away from 
 their families doing what they do. I would call being an oil rig worker an 
 honorable job worthy of respect, which I'm sure millions of people would love 
 to have right now.



  _ _ __
 From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal. net
 To: FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com
 Sent: Fri, May 21, 2010 2:33:23 PM
 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rand Paul shoots himself in the foot

 


 Let's see high quality jobs like working on dirty oil rigs?

 White Willy speaks with forked tongue.