Look at economic output and educational achievement on a state-by-state basis: it's painfully evident that we Blues are immensely more productive and better educated than you Reds. We have lots more money. We live longer. We eat better. We work less. We fuck more. We do cocaine and smoke fine Canadian buds, not the homebrew crank and cheap Mexican headache reefer you guys are stuck with. We drink French wine and Stoli martinis, not Budweiser. Our children rarely bother us: we've got them on Ritalin and Prozac. Our teeth are straighter and whiter, our necks longer, and our fingernails cleaner. And you wonder why the fuck people here in the Midwest resent arrogant bastards from the coast? Holy shit, I know it was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek or facetious, but that was some mighty condescending writing, and plenty of people (myself included) will sense a true undercurrent of condescension underneath the satire and sarcasm
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The Rest of It AllcrashskaNovember 8 2004, 23:40:00 UTC
Ruka, I know our views are radically different, and I don't mean any personal affront, but I'm tired of apocalyptic speechifying and doomsday foretelling and the creation of fantasy situations where people get to have all their wants fulfilled and never have to pay anything for it, where someone else picks up the check. It's not real, it's a delusion. I know, I'm paying at the front end. In the hopes of a long-term satisfying career, I'm earning LESS than a dedicated McDonalds employee, all the while facing the prospect of administrative action from the FAA and now Federal prosecution from the TSA for interacting with foreign nationals who may want to blow up our country with a Cessna 152. I'm seeing the clumsy attempts of the TSA to recruit instructors as jackbooted thugs, and I hate it thorougly, but I'm not quitting and running away crying; we still have the freest aviation system in the world. No, I'm joining with groups in the industry that are fighting, through administrative and legal means, these regulations that I firmly
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Re: The Rest of It AllrukatigerNovember 9 2004, 14:45:04 UTC
I read a brief news clip about that the other day. WTF is up with that? Are you supposed to ask to see their passport and visa everytime they come for a lesson? Hello, isn't that what the visa application process is for?
Re: The Rest of It AllcrashskaNovember 9 2004, 22:06:40 UTC
No, foreigners have to go through the "Pilot Candidate" program and be vetted by the State Dept. This is AFTER they get approved for a visa, and costs them even more money. So, if they're here getting trained, then they're OK- but it has to be to go to a specific school, not to just come here and get random training. Our chief said that if we were going to do sidework flying with a foreign national, we needed to get his help on the TSA regs so we don't get screwed. For US nationals, we need to check the birth cert., passport, or naturalization papers the first time we fly with them, make a logbook entry, and keep a copy of the papers for FIVE YEARS.
That actually was pretty obnoxious and condescending prose. I totally understand where the writer was going with it, and the writer's frustration at trying to do the right thing for people who don't appreciate it is very evident and very understandable. There's only so much "good samaritism" one can perform on unwilling and ungrateful beneficiaries before one decides to just give up. Which is what the writer was doing, with one hell of a flourish, and a backwards glare, and a twist of the proverbial knife.
At it's core were some pretty harsh truths, I think... but writing something like this is only going to make things worse, because we both no that succession isn't really a viable option. Clearly this was intended to elicit a knowing smile from his fellow "blues" and a flare-up of hatred from the "reds"... and I suspect mirrors your intent in reposting it here. And that's fine, this is your journal. But what really needed to be distributed is the same letter, only written for the "reds", in a non-insulting manner, in language
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It was no more obnoxious and condescending than anything Ann Coulter has ever written or said. I don't know if the author was going for a tit-for-tat piece or what, but I agree that it won't change any opinions. Nothing in the past year has, so why should this be any different
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