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Chef, if you read the first thing in my post, it was that it's MY opinion - not the management's. You haven't broken any rules, but you apparently know just enough about EO to get yourself in trouble, to paraphrase your tagline. We are as much a community here as a website, and we try hard to...

Flea? The drummer?! :confused:

Tis - and luckily, not a submission for the cookbook! :D

I'd be glad to - but who, exactly, is "we"? No matter - you can't accuse folks of being wrong, if you are just as wrong yourself, right?

Chef: it's just my opinion, but wallpapering a site with cut & paste articles is more rude than helpful. Dialogue & discussion become impossible with the quantity of articles slapped up here - who has time to even read, much less respond to so many? The Soapbox was created as a forum for...

Z, as an Independent Contractor, you can sit anywhere your truck will fit - unless the mgmt asks you to leave, at least. (The Flying Hook in Laredo made me move my truck from the entirely empty RV spots, when the truck parking was entirely full :mad:) Guess I'll do my laundry at the WishyWashy...

You are very welcome.

So, Ice, are you going to become a vegetarian who sucks lemons now? I think I'm healthy enough to pass on that one, lol, but you go ahead.....;)

If corporate executives earned their pay, why are so many in such financial trouble? Why did insurance executives demand tort reform to shield them from liability lawsuits? ['Frivolous lawsuits' were the battle cry for that one, yeah, right. If frivolous lawsuits are a problem, either prescreen...

I remember reading a news account of a jet pilot who mistakenly bombed a civilian location in Germany, years ago. I was flabbergasted to read that the pilot had been given amphetemines by his commanding officer - apparently SOP for certain personnel in the armed forces. As America was then...

Hawk: no, I didn't mean "Kennedy's NCLB law" - although Sen Kennedy cowrote the law, it was "originally proposed by Bush immediately after taking office in 2001" (Wikipedia). And no, "not being attacked again" isn't good enough, IMO. I'd like to think the bar should be much higher than that...

I'm not even going to try to respond to that kind of wild conjecture (The left wants us to fail"?!) except to point out that the unions had zero power except that granted by management - if the UAW took advantage of mgmt's lavish renumeration for themselves, can you blame them? I can't, but I...

Yes, not bailing the automakers would leave us in a jam - but it'd still be the right thing to do, if we really believe in free market capitalism. The automakers were stupid, shortsighted, and greedy, and they deserve to fail. As do the banks, and everyone else who put profit ahead of common...

I have at least 12 replies to that "you don't sound soft to me" comment, lol, but we won't go there, ok? :D I think the subject needs to be kept on the Soapbox, though, far as my thoughts on Obama. Back to the regularly scheduled program here.....uh, what was it, anyway? :rolleyes:

"Bit" what, exactly? If you mean the Obama as Messiah notion: not hardly, I haven't. Just don't see how he could be much worse than the past administrations have been - America is in truly sad shape, you know? And I'm willing to wait until he proves himself one way or another, to make judgment...

Welcome, No miles. To answer your question: you may not be afraid of the potential maintenance involved with an older truck, but most carriers (particularly the big names) sure are. Understandable, given that a breakdown while under load is a very bad thing, but hard for those who could (and...

Thanks for the heads up, Shooter. Though I wouldn't be likely to 'talk politics' with him, you might be surprised: I too raised a family (2 daughters, half the time as a single parent) with NO help from the government. One is now a nurse (and wife & Mom), the other is in college - I am as proud...

Shooter: I bow to your superior knowledge of defense strategy and intelligence - but that doesn't change anything I said. Even if Bush were solely responsible for preventing another attack, that's hardly a legacy to rejoice in, particularly in light of the mess he left everything else in...

Sounds like typical liberals to me. Do as I say but not as I do. Whats good for the goose is NOT good for the gander. Take a little 'gander' at the posts about Obama, and remind me: who is guilty of the childish name calling here? (Hint: it's NOT the "liberals"!) And about the 'wink'? That's a...

Sounds like typical liberals to me. Do as I say but not as I do. Whats good for the goose is NOT good for the gander. Take a little 'gander' at the posts about Obama, and remind me: who is guilty of the childish name calling here? (Hint: it's NOT the "liberals"!) And about the 'wink'? That's a...