Pukin’s Parting Shots

[alwaysconservative]

Well said, and much appreciated. Please reconsider staying to post as well as lurk, because your insights ARE valuable.

[Steelerfan]

Thank you for the contributions over the years and the words of wisdom now. Wish you well and please consider coming back when things have had some time to calm down.

[LSAggie]

Don't go. How will others learn if those who lead by example are not around to set an example? Please reconsider.

What he said. Mostly just a lurker, but I enjoy your thoughtful posts.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I'll miss the rants. I think you oughta stay.

[ken5050]

Formula for happiness and success in life:

1. Stay on FR..just lurk for a while..

2. Ignore the idiots here

3. Switch to decaf

4. Have sex more often

5. Take a glider flight...

[Lando Lincoln]

Good list, but now allow me to go into my rant about having the list out of order...........

;o)

Lando

[WestCoastGal]

I loved your thread on the Miers nomination and will miss your wisdom.

PING

[CharlesWayneCT]

Hate to see anybody go, so I wish you were staying.

But you have to do what keeps your sanity.

I am incapable of understanding how worked up some people get over attacks on 3rd parties. I like Ann Coulter, but don't lose sleep over people thinking differently. And I think a review of her words justified the vitriol thrown at her yesterday. But not the personal attacks.

Anyway, we need the spirited debates, and we apparently have to take the personal attacks with the sound arguments. And if that cost of doing business is too high for you to take, you should take a break. I think the personal attacks have been out-of-bounds, so don't think I'm justifying them, but we each choose how to respond in our own way.

Take care, and come back when it seems calmer.

[cricket]

"At this time, I have to say that the President has knocked the positive winds from my sails, and I don’t have the energy or inclination to try to understand some of the decisions being made"

You know that FR needs thoughtful. . .articulate and even 'funny' Freepers. . . but most importantly, it needs caring, politically-passionate 'Freepers'. Without all the above; FR does not move forward. So. . .you will be missed. . .

Winds always change. . .I hope when your sails are full again; you will return. (ITMT; I hope your life 'feels better soon' ;^)

[gramho12]

Freepers that have to announce theatrically that they are leaving get on my nerves. We are all equal here, so if you want to go, go. If you want to lurk, lurk. If you want to take a break, take one. Just quit making the Big Announcement already.

[My Favorite Headache]

Haven't you done this before? or am I thinking of someone else? I have had my frustrations with this place in the last year and I have been here for six-years. I have been suspended for 3-7 day periods after posting stories in the incorrect forums by over zealous moderators...and one just happened 12 hours after I donated to the quarterly fundraiser!

What are you gonna do? Sell Amway? C'mon...cut the crap...call the people out on the site that need to be called out and stand up man...this b.s. about opus epics and people bailing because of one or two issues has got to stop.

It's bad enough we have the amount of spineless GOP members in power as it is who do nothing. Face it..we are the force and the fury of politics now. We don't need our ranks breaking down because a bunch of hacks come in here and start crap a few months down the road.

Does Bush deserve hell right now? You bet. There are a dozen better qualified judges available that he passed over. His appointment is insulting to people like Brown and Garza.

Bush also is spending like Mr.Potter and George Bailey put together on a rainy day and could care less about the borders. These things NEED to be addressed on here.

Butch up Pukin Dog.

[steveegg]

Don't make me send your former squadmates out to return you :-)

[Hegemony Cricket]

Dang it, PD, it just won't be the same place without ya! Real good advice for all, and hope to see you back around again...

[MadIvan]

Stay.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'

Fight on.

Regards, Ivan

[Phsstpok]

As much as I love the 777, something about flying a jet that really doesn’t need me around to do what it does, leaves something to be desired. I often wished I could roll the thing just once to give my passengers a lasting memory, but then there would be the problem of the other jerk sitting next to me who would probably tell on me.

A story told to me by the son of a now deceased American Airlines executive. I was a classmate of the son, and my dad was a corporate peer of my classmate's grandfather, so we knew the family quite well.

According to this story, his dad, a former AF pilot (trash haulers?) was deeply involved in AA approving the purchase of the Lockheed L1011s for their fleet. A preface to this next, I know for a fact he was rated for everything that AA flew at the time, but I don't know if that makes this next "legal" or believable. During one demo flight with several other AA execs and some Lockheed brass and techs he asked to take the controls. As he flew the airplane he asked several questions about the physical capabilities of the airplane. He finally said "so it can do a roll, if necessary?" The Lockheed pilot said "sure."

Yep. You guessed it. According to this story my friends dad promptly did a barrel roll in an L1011. Worked perfectly. They bought more planes than they had been planning. However, his dad left AA not long afterwards. No connection.

Oh, and don't leave.

[MikeHu]

The mistake most people make in public forums is thinking that success is changing everybody else -- rather than achieving your own highest understanding, in clarifying and articulating it. If, through your participation and interaction with others, you become a better person, that is what society and culture is all about. And I do think we've all become better through the freerepublic. Fully 95% of those things said here, would otherwise not be seen anywhere else.

It seems over the last several years that most people who follow the news and political developments, think the object is to tell the president what to do, how to run the country -- instead of being president themselves, and having the right and responsibility of making those decisions. But more importantly, everybody has their own part to play, and in doing that, makes their greatest contribution because even the president can't be doing everything -- yet that seems to be the expectation and perception -- that only the president can do anything, and the rest can only try to sway his decisions. That vision of society and government is a very inefficient and ineffective one -- fostered by the seniority-heavy newspapers, at which everyone has reached the top-tier and so nobody goes out and does any investigation and interviews, and lacking that information, the easiest thing to do is bash-Bush because that's what all the other columnists are doing.

So because they've lost their ability to find out, they spend all day, as ignorant people are wont to do, expressing their unsolicited advice and opinions on what the president (and everybody else for that matter), ought to be doing for them, to please them. In another age, these were regarded as simply imperious, senile people, but because of increased life spans and no-layoff contracts no matter how demented they become, they are allowed to crowd out all the talented young voices of merit. That is why we need forums like these and your participation.

[VRWCmember]

What's the old saying? "If you aren't taking any flak you aren't over the target"?

I've seen lots of anger and disagreement on several threads lately, especially over the Miers appointment, but it's hardly worth leaving over any of it. Of course, if you leave, there are plenty of other good FReepers to take your place on the forum. Good luck to you.

[NittanyLion]

So because they've lost their ability to find out, they spend all day, as ignorant people are wont to do, expressing their unsolicited advice and opinions on what the president (and everybody else for that matter), ought to be doing for them, to please them. In another age, these were regarded as simply imperious, senile people, but because of increased life spans and no-layoff contracts no matter how demented they become, they are allowed to crowd out all the talented young voices of merit.

Ironic that a comment like this would be made on a forum dedicated to discussing politics. What? We can discuss only so long as we praise the Administration? If you don't want to read give-and-take regarding politicians, you sure picked the wrong place.

I suspect it's because of foolishness like this that the thread was authored.

[RunningWolf]

Sans Reproache

Wolf

[clamper1797]

Hey PD don't be pulling that ejection handle so fast ... just because you had a flame out doesn't mean you can't re-start. We need you here to help us fight the good fight. Besides .... remember what a Martin Baker will do to your spine