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No more lectures from the French (and other europeans) about racism.

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_...US+than+France

Deal toys. It's all about the deal toys.

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
Spank?

That is Mr. Spanky to you (Actually still trying to figure out why Captain called me Mr. Spanky). Usually only people that don't know me at all show me that kind of respect.

I don't know what you want me to say? I am a little confused by the argument and I alreadys stated the facts.

But my friend does not work 3200 hours a year. His job is definitely nine to five unlike corporate law jobs here. But he is an expat which distorts things a little.

He has a massive house and like six servants.

Deal toys. It's all about the deal toys.

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Originally posted by Spanky
That is Mr. Spanky to you (Actually still trying to figure out why Captain called me Mr. Spanky). Usually only people that don't know me at all show me that kind of respect.

I don't know what you want me to say? I am a little confused by the argument and I alreadys stated the facts.

But my friend does not work 3200 hours a year. His job is definitely nine to five unlike corporate law jobs here. But he is an expat which distorts things a little.

He has a massive house and like six servants.

Exactly, Monsieur Spanky. Gatti is full of shite.

What is the problem?

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Originally posted by taxwonk
Who are you trying to kid, here Sebby? You've made a point for years about how you've given up and you're just phoning it in, work-wise. The only thing that sets you apart is the price of your booze, your television set, and your house.

You even have the same sense of entitlement.

I'm actually rather ambitious. I never phoned it in. When I have to work, I work. You're mistaking my bitching about how much I have to work for a sense of entitlement. The two are very different.

I don't like to work and hate doing it, but I realize that I am not getting anywhere any other way, so I keep doing it. Thats part of the answer to the question "Why doesn't he quit what he hates?"

What is the problem?

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Originally posted by Captain
I would say that your lack of relatives who were part of unions has limited your world view.

I remember someone I knew as a teenager who was a firefighter. He was a friends Dad. He was also shop steward for his union, and one of the most intellectual guys I'd met - while my middle class, college educated parents watched Archie Bunker, he was reading history books. But he never went to college, didn't have the background to become a white collar worker, liked very much what he did and took pride in helping people, and enjoyed the prospect of his son going to the best schools. He wanted to make enough to read some books, send his kid to an Ivy league school (on scholarship) and retire in security, but whether he would have enough was always in question.

Archie Bunker mentality?

I think what is most revealing here is that most of the anti-union sentiment, like Mr. Spanky's, seems based on the fact that he disagrees with their politics and so wants to cut off funding. I understand that, it just will not convince me as it is not a particularly principled reason. Your hostility seems based on stereotyping, which is also unlikely to convince me. Hank believes unions have made bad economic decisions for the bulk of their membership and for the country, which strikes me as the best reason anyone has given for disliking unions.

But I still think the brunt of the question is: in a free market economy, should the government step in to regulate such a problem, or is it one to leave to the market. I would leave it to the market.

I submit that your firefighter is a rarity. Perhaps my view is jaundiced by the cesspool in which I spend my day... The union folk in this town are nothing more than a venomous, bloodsucking blight on our economy. More. More. More. Like little goddamned childdren before they get old enough to learn they can't behave like little parasites forever.

In fairness, the same attitude applies to many of our corporations. Walmart deserves what its getting right now.

People need to learn when enough is enough.

Deal toys. It's all about the deal toys.

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I once worked for the New York Times.

Did you ever see their article on Mr. Big (aka Nortorious Big)?

Vote no on Proposition 73

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
The thing is, what Wonk and the other haters fail to realise is that I inspire this board. It was my creation. Without me it will look like the Infirm PB of today. Sad.

What is the "Infirm PB"? It sounds like something I might like?

Vote no on Proposition 73

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
Why the hate? We were so close to the elusive common ground.......

You mean you didn't take that as a compliment? That is very unkind of you. Poor Paigow, betrayed at every turn.

WWJD, Penske, WWJD?

S_A_M

Fuck Bush and the Republicans

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Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
Hastert and Frist make a big show of calling for an investigation into a leak allegedly affecting national security -- the locations of the CIA's secret "black site" torture prisons overseas. Lott just said, Tuesday afternoon, that he thinks it was a GOP Senator who leaked the info to the Washington Post last week. He says the details had been discussed at a GOP Senators-only meeting last week, and that many of those details made it into the WaPo story.

Cheney was there too, hmm? With previous knowledge?

I'd bet its that known leaker from his office. Charge Scooter!

S_A_M

Fuck Bush and the Republicans

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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
Cheney was there too, hmm? With previous knowledge?

I'd bet its that known leaker from his office. Charge Scooter!

S_A_M

That would have certain advantages. For one, you'd save the cost of another perp walk. The papers could just use the file photos.

Deal toys. It's all about the deal toys.

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
Exactly, Monsieur Spanky. Gatti is full of shite.

Apologies. $50/hour. (Though if Spanky's alluding to his friend being an extraordinarily well-paid inhouse gig, I think you're barking up the wrong tree, too).

Still, would $50/hour buy you the French wine you desire?

Deal toys. It's all about the deal toys.

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Originally posted by Gattigap
Apologies. $50/hour. (Though if Spanky's alluding to his friend being an extraordinarily well-paid inhouse gig, I think you're barking up the wrong tree, too).

Still, would $50/hour buy you the French wine you desire?

In Indonesia it probably would set you up for a goddamned good life. Other than the kidnappings and the bombings of white folks and the places that they tend to frequent, that is.

[Now I scurry back off this Board. I know how dangerous the drive-by posting can be when you aren't really paying attention to the conversation here.]

Deal toys. It's all about the deal toys.

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
In Indonesia it probably would set you up for a goddamned good life. Other than the kidnappings and the bombings of white folks and the places that they tend to frequent, that is.

[Now I scurry back off this Board. I know how dangerous the drive-by posting can be when you aren't really paying attention to the conversation here.]

I was once told that there is no word for "no" in the Indonesian language. Does anyone know if this is true?

(I went googling to try to find an answer - without success - but came across this cite: http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/b...icle315207.ece .

It seems like someting people here would like.

Vote no on Proposition 73

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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
You mean you didn't take that as a compliment? That is very unkind of you. Poor Paigow, betrayed at every turn.

WWJD, Penske, WWJD?

S_A_M

He would give the Paigow the keys to the moderator board to really rile the bear. I think we have seen intelligent design play itself out today on these boards.

Deal toys. It's all about the deal toys.

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Thanks. You are gracious indeed.

1why couldn't I go inhouse of that is where the money is?

2. I make more than $50 an hour, although I am willing to trade some of it for lifestyle. Hookers are cheap in indonesia, no?