01-16-2007, 12:46 AM
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#21 (permalink)
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Roger Zoul wrote:
> Bill Baka wrote:
> :: Gooserider wrote:
> ::: "Tom Keats" <tkeats2005@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> ::: news lreoe.57e.ln@bud.garden.local...
> :::: In article <45aae71f.31804750@news.supernews.com>,
> :::: mister1900mister@hotmail.com (Random Waftings Of Bunker Blasts)
> :::: writes:
> ::::
> ::::: I wonder what the assailants' Free Republic handles were.
> :::: Sounds to me like a case of punk-ettes looking for
> :::: peurile, bullying kicks, beligerently blocking a bike
> :::: lane, and waiting for the next victimizable cyclist(s)
> :::: to come along, to pick-on.
> ::::
> :::: It's old hat stuff. Except cases of inter-female
> :::: bullying are now being more publicized.
> ::::
> ::::
> :::: cheers,
> :::: Tom
> ::::
> :::
> ::: Well, except for the racial aspect. If three white teenagers beat
> ::: two black cyclists while spouting racial slurs, this would be the
> ::: lead story on every networks' newscast, and the assailants' photos
> ::: would be splashed on every newspaper and magazine in the country.
> ::: But the victims were white so this story will remain a local one,
> ::: and a minor local one at that.
> :::
> :::
> :: You've noticed that aspect? I am now a minority in California, being
> :: white, yet discriminated against because of it.
>
> So, who has discriminated against you, Bill?
Working in electronics I would now have to be Chinese or East Indian or
willing to move there to train more replacements for the few remaining
high tech jobs. Not me, all American born engineers.
>
> :: Affirmative action
> :: just means that my job will be given to a less qualified person 'of
> :: some color'. It has gotten out of hand.
>
> Are you sure that person, who goes your job, will be less qualified than
> you? Also, many new hires, of any color, are less qualified that old hounds
> and work for less pay. Watch out that you don't get replaced because you're
> an old dog.
>
I'm an old dog who knows a lot more than the kiddies they bring in at
half the price. I've had to train (and once fire) guys with Ph.d.s who
really almost did not know which end of a screwdriver to hold. It would
have been fun with the soldering iron on the bench.
Big degrees, no real bigger brains.
The new world order, remember?
Bill Baka
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