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RE: Are you ready to pay $7-$8 for a gallon of gas real... - 7/1/2008 8:02:07 AM

Aynne

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Oh Lockit,

I know, I was sooo temtped to respond to DA as well, but for what? I mean he is so out of touch with reality that it boggles the mind. The rampant and blatant disregard for less fortunate people turns into a huge cause celebre for some people. Less for them more for me they cry. Schaudenfraude anyone?

I know it is not the "right" way to think, but some of these uncompassionate people really need a huge does of financial reality to kick them right in the ass. Of course then it won't be their fault, unlike now when they blame the victim incessantly. Learn some compassion already.

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RE: Are you ready to pay $7-$8 for a gallon of gas real... - 7/1/2008 8:15:53 AM

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sometimes those who do the most bragging on the boards don't have much to brag about in reality.

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RE: Are you ready to pay $7-$8 for a gallon of gas real... - 7/1/2008 8:18:47 AM

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I am inclined to agree Christine. Sad really...

Hijack...nice to see your pic tho

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RE: Are you ready to pay $7-$8 for a gallon of gas real... - 7/1/2008 8:20:14 AM

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Oh the national past time - demonize and villify DA because he is right.... I call you attentions to a statement made by an earlier poster who said:

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I won't be able to afford food, especially fresh food.

I'll be forced to leave the heat off altogether and won't be able to substitute electric heaters for my gas furnace, as my electric company is dependent on oil.

It gets very cold here; I may lose water as the pipes freeze. I may contract pnemonia.

Now - the person who posted this has mentioned in earlier threads that she is a lawyer. If $8 a gallon gas causes a lawyer to freeze , starve, and contract pneumonia something is seriously wrong... A few suggestions on how to cope?

1) When the cops abandon her neighborhood and anarchy ensues as she forecast - begin offering affordably priced criminal defense. Crime increases are good for lawyers.

2) Hang out a shingle that says "Bankruptcy $400" . This will buy her 50 gallons of gasoline or home heating oil fending off the hypothermia, or it could mean 50 rodeo cheeseburgers from the burgerking drive thrrough which will put on enough fat to permit even a walrus to sail through the winter without problem. A poor ecomony means more bankruptcy filings which is again good for lawyers.

3) Apply to be aditted to the Texas or Florida bars, on motion without even having to take the damn test, and live someplace where food is dirt cheap and their is no heating required. The stupidest thing I ever bought was the energy saving furnace for my home - it didnt get turned on one single day last winter and it was used two days the preceeding year.... Considering that my two year old furnace has less than 48 hours of use on it - that solves the heating quandry. What to do in lawyer laden states like Texas and Florida - Hmmmm how about immigration? Hang out a sign "Greencard $800" At the cattledrive barbecue a 3 meat plate with two sides is $7.95 - so with one case she could eat brisket, links, and ham with fried okra, corn on the cob, and jalapeno cornbread every day for the next 100 days! Starvation problem solved.

There you go, I have offered the tools necessarry to help at least one of those in the most dire of straits survive the winter... Others can think just as creatively on their own personal sitiuations....

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RE: Are you ready to pay $7-$8 for a gallon of gas real... - 7/1/2008 8:22:15 AM

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thanks girl....hugs!

ok to answer the OP. i'm not ready to pay that for gas, that's for sure. i think if it ever gets that high it will have an effect on everyone whether they want to admit it or not. everything will be more expensive, a lot of people will have to really knuckle-down and "start saving their bacon grease", so to speak.

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RE: Are you ready to pay $7-$8 for a gallon of gas real... - 7/1/2008 8:27:16 AM

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hugs back goldilocks!

DA, what on earth are you talking about?

"how about immigration? Hang out a sign "Greencard $800" At the cattledrive barbecue a 3 meat plate with two sides is $7.95 - so with one case she could eat brisket, links, and ham with fried okra, corn on the cob, and jalapeno cornbread every day for the next 100 days! Starvation problem solved.

"

Oh yes, no starvation, you are too busy having a triple bypass or driving your ass in a cart at the market because you ate this...food? every day for 100 days. Isn't okra a vegetable? fried? and a three meat plate? Good god man, in your honor I am getting a tempeh sandwich on ezekiel bread for lunch. With water.

p.s. I know you missed me DA, fess up.

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RE: Are you ready to pay $7-$8 for a gallon of gas real... - 7/1/2008 8:32:44 AM

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DomAviator,

Do give credit where credit is due. The whole thread is not made up of one and I dare say you quoted others in your little speech... the first one. Something about nuts. You clumped us all in as one. I did say... I saw few complaining and I did make allowance for that one... but you did intend to insult many for their take on a situation you have a differing opinion on.

Now, when you decide to correct the whole, make sure it isn't one in a bushel. Thank you.

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RE: Are you ready to pay $7-$8 for a gallon of gas real... - 7/1/2008 8:55:20 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Aynne

hugs back goldilocks!

DA, what on earth are you talking about?

"how about immigration? Hang out a sign "Greencard $800" At the cattledrive barbecue a 3 meat plate with two sides is $7.95 - so with one case she could eat brisket, links, and ham with fried okra, corn on the cob, and jalapeno cornbread every day for the next 100 days! Starvation problem solved. "

Oh yes, no starvation, you are too busy having a triple bypass or driving your ass in a cart at the market because you ate this...food? every day for 100 days. Isn't okra a vegetable? fried? and a three meat plate? Good god man, in your honor I am getting a tempeh sandwich on ezekiel bread for lunch. With water.

p.s. I know you missed me DA, fess up.

Aynne, of course I missed you how could I not - I am a man of exquisite tastes.

Hey I didnt say it was good for her, but it would be caloric intake that would sure fend off the predicted starvation. Thats actually what I had for supper last night... Smoked beef brisket, smoked sausage, and smoked ham - with corn on the cop, fried okra (they bread and fry it) and warm fresh from the oven jalapeno cornbread,,, all slathered in BBQ sauce, onions, and pickles for $7.95 I thought of going to Sudies for the all you can eat Catfish, hushpuppies and cole slaw for $9.95, or Mamma Mias for the Eggplant parmesan with baked zite, salad, and garlic bread for $7.99, or to Chilos for the $12.95 "Captains platter" with a salad, friend rice, fried oysters, fish, fried shrimp, and stuffed crab served with garlic toast and a Corona ... but I was in the mood for BBQ. This afternnon for lunch Im going to go grab a Torta - which is a borillo roll, filled with taco meat, shredded lettuce, tomato, onion, salsa and sour creme - along with a "medio litro" of the Mexican Coke for $3.50 at my favorite tacquiera.

Thats not bragging thats the economics of eating out in Houston, TX. It really doesnt pay for me to cook much at those prices...

So rather than a lawyer starving to death as was earlier mentioned, me I would say "things are gonna git bad, time to bug the hell out of here!"

Just as an aside, even if I did fall on financial hardship starvation wouldnt be an option - the Gulf of Mexico will provide for me and I would be dining nightly on flounder, shrimp, blue crab, red snapper, etc... Thats not bragging either, my freezer is full of seafood, which cost me nothing more than a Texas "all waters" fishing license. My texas hunting license will put on entire wild pig - say 150 pounds of pork in my freezer for the cost of a single 30-30 shell. Ditto for deer, pheasants etc. My waterfowl stamp will fill my freezer with ducks. Worst case - invest in a fishing pole $30, a crab trap $5, a centerfire rifle $200 or less for a cheap beginner model like a Marlin 336 in 30-30 or 35 Rem and a 20 ga shotgun $75 for a single shot H&R or if you wanna splurge get a Mossberg 500 pump action on sale for $199 at Walmart. Vegtables? No problem - barter for them, grow them, or there are a lot of edible wild plants. Its impossible to starve if one tries not to.

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RE: Are you ready to pay $7-$8 for a gallon of gas real... - 7/1/2008 9:07:09 AM

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I vote for DomAviator for President!

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RE: Are you ready to pay $7-$8 for a gallon of gas real... - 7/1/2008 9:12:00 AM

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Dom I know some of that is valid. Some of us are quite capable of foraging, hunting, bartering, etc. I hunt ( passably ) and my garden is huge, and I understand that benefit of all of that. But I live where that is pretty much the norm, as well as coastal waters and fishing being abundant.

However...now pay tenshun k? A lot of people do not have nature's bounty at their doorsteps nor are they equipped to even engage in such activities. I am a strong believer in accountability and work ethic, but when you already are just barely getting by, with kids to feed ( another thing you and I don't have to address ) gas prices are truly financially crippling.

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RE: Are you ready to pay $7-$8 for a gallon of gas real... - 7/1/2008 9:21:11 AM

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Dont mind DA, he has a high sex drive -

Anyhow the manual push lawnmower I bought for $3 at a garage sale runs on ME- is now hot!!!

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RE: Are you ready to pay $7-$8 for a gallon of gas real... - 7/1/2008 9:24:26 AM

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I've had a high sex drive longer... should I be scared?

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RE: Are you ready to pay $7-$8 for a gallon of gas real... - 7/1/2008 9:29:33 AM

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Last night, I had: Parma Prosciutto, crisp artichoke, pistachios and aged Asiago followed by slow roasted Long Island duck with braised escarole, roasted fingerlings and Sicilian olives, accompanied by an absolutely unbelievable Australian Pinot Noir. The Charles Hotel on Harvard Square rocks

. I think it was more than $7 or $8 a gallon, but then again, "people today know the price of everything, and the value of nothing" (Oscar Wilde). I win

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RE: Are you ready to pay $7-$8 for a gallon of gas real... - 7/1/2008 9:37:16 AM

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quote:

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DomAviator,

Do give credit where credit is due. The whole thread is not made up of one and I dare say you quoted others in your little speech... the first one. Something about nuts. You clumped us all in as one. I did say... I saw few complaining and I did make allowance for that one... but you did intend to insult many for their take on a situation you have a differing opinion on.

Now, when you decide to correct the whole, make sure it isn't one in a bushel. Thank you.

Lockit - you seem a tad hypersensitive here... In the first portion of my post I correctly and accurately stated that $8 a gallon gas will not affect my driving habits. This is true, as a pilot I am used to paying high fuel costs. As any pilot can tell you, the most common thing done with small planes is "The $100 Hamburger Flight" which essentially means you go grab a $2 burger some greasyspoon airport diner $98 in fuel away. I am sure HizGeorgiaPeach who is a private pilot can attest to the accuracy of this statement and the widespread nature of this practice.... Pilots are used to burning up $100 + worth of fuel just for the hell of it. Thus, a few bucks extra in gas isnt going to determine whether or not I drive someplace. For some, it will thus reducing traffic and giving me that prime spot on the beach as I said.

I then went on to say, accurately so, that it will not affect my business. It wont. The people I provide training and crew leasing services to already dont care how much money they burn up. In all but a very very few cases, the flights I dispatch in the aircraft I manage leave me scratching my head and saying "must be nice to have more money than brains." In advance of a ski trip to Colorado last winter, I had my girlfriend buy her ski clothes online and the UPS man brought them. One of my clients had us fly his little playmate to fucking Aspen so she could shop for hers... That added several thousand dollars to the cost of those ski pants!

I admit there are no good bagels to be had in Houston, and I simply cope with that sad fact of life. However, one of my clients sent his corporate aircraft to Rochester, NY to buy bagels in Brighton and bring them back... Pretty expensive bagels if you ask me - flight time and cycles on the aircraft and engine, pre and post flight maintence, fuel, cost of three crew members, dispatch release, landing fees... KACHING! Yesterday, I dispatched a flight in a jet aircraft to Dallas that had two people aboard... Me I would have driven 2-1/2 to 3 hours, or I would have put them on a cheap commuter flight, or I would have charteed a 4 seat cessna for $110 an hour, but thats fine its their aircraft and at cost plus billing - Any time, any place! Burn up all the money you want. These people will NOT tighten the belt because fuel prices dont affect them and thus they wont affect me either.

Now as to the part you take offense to I assume it is :

Thats the solution to a budget crunch, increase your revenues... When life hands ya lemons, make lemonade and sell it to others so you can buy champagne. Running around screaming that the sky is falling and forecasting doom, gloom, hypothermia, and pneumonia doesnt solve anything. Me, I say fortune favors the prepared so now that its July and the Northern heating season is months away the smart squirell starts gathering his nuts for the long hard winter... Whining and worrying about it wont help, the key is to be proactive and to take positive steps to increase your cash flows so as to weather the upcoming storm. When one door closes, another opens..

To my knowlkedge only one poster mentioned hypothermia and pneumonia. Others were dicscussing proactive steps like buying in bulk etc... However, none of that affects the validity of my statement. Fortune DOES favor the prepared. From childhood on we learn about the squirell that put the nuts away for the winter... I think the kindergarten teacher starts with that story? The rest is equally true - whining and worrying will not help. The train is unstoppable, so you can get a ticket and get onboard or your can be smashed by it. If there is going to be a cash shortfall, the answer is increase your cash flows. You can only tighten the belt so far - a wiser strategy is to hedge your bets and do something to make more money. There is ALWAYS something someone can do, some skill they can exploit, some service they can offer, or something new that they can learn as a tool to make more money....

If aviation were outlawed as a whole tommorrow... If Bush woke up and said Orville and Wilbur really fucked up airplanes are henceforth illegal, I would still survive. I could take the paramedic card I got through my volunteer fire dept and I could get a job on any ambulance in the USA. I could go into welding, as I can easily pass the certification test... I could go into commercial diving, my dad started me at that when I was like eight! (In fact I could go into that business, as I still have all his company equipment in a storage unit) I could get a job running big yellow excavating machines and/or working on a blasting crew like I did when I was still in highschool. Hell I could even grab some books and dust off my now essentially useless engineering degree that I used solely as an admission ticket to the Navy. If worst came to absolute worst, despite being straight, I could place an ad on the Erotic Services section of Craigslist and suck dicks for a living, and if I really lost all sense of self respect or dignity I could get a job as a teacher in any public school in Texas for $42,000 a year because you only need a bachelors degree and it doesnt have to be in education. There are always options and there is always something someone can do...

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RE: Are you ready to pay $7-$8 for a gallon of gas real... - 7/1/2008 9:50:15 AM

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Your double talk and back tracking, side tracking and knowing all the answers is why I said I was voting you in for president. You come in and act like we are whining and doomsday and not doing what any wise adult would do, tell us what to do and then justify how you speak to us. lol And I will most likely be monitored and not you! lol Gotta love it. But... you are the only presidential canidate I have ever wished to vote for that recommended sucking dicks from craigslist as a solution to hunger. Good one! Kudos!

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RE: Are you ready to pay $7-$8 for a gallon of gas real... - 7/1/2008 9:54:46 AM

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But... you are the only presidential canidate I have ever wished to vote for that recommended sucking dicks from craigslist as a solution to hunger. Good one! Kudos!

They do say sperm is full of protein

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RE: Are you ready to pay $7-$8 for a gallon of gas real... - 7/1/2008 9:56:12 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: kittinSol

quote:

ORIGINAL: Lockit

But... you are the only presidential canidate I have ever wished to vote for that recommended sucking dicks from craigslist as a solution to hunger. Good one! Kudos!

They do say sperm is full of protein .

Hehe... I shall keep that in mind... another good reason... woohooo!

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RE: Are you ready to pay $7-$8 for a gallon of gas real... - 7/1/2008 9:58:20 AM

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Henrietta's table? Did you sup at Henrietta's? If you tell me next that you went to Noir for an amuse or an apertif, I am so driving the 3 hours to meet you for provisions soon! I love Harvard Square.

Good food is not a luxury, it is a necessity.

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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

Last night, I had: Parma Prosciutto, crisp artichoke, pistachios and aged Asiago followed by slow roasted Long Island duck with braised escarole, roasted fingerlings and Sicilian olives, accompanied by an absolutely unbelievable Australian Pinot Noir. The Charles Hotel on Harvard Square rocks . I think it was more than $7 or $8 a gallon, but then again, "people today know the price of everything, and the value of nothing" (Oscar Wild). I win .

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RE: Are you ready to pay $7-$8 for a gallon of gas real... - 7/1/2008 9:58:46 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: kittinSol

Last night, I had: Parma Prosciutto, crisp artichoke, pistachios and aged Asiago followed by slow roasted Long Island duck with braised escarole, roasted fingerlings and Sicilian olives, accompanied by an absolutely unbelievable Australian Pinot Noir. The Charles Hotel on Harvard Square rocks . I think it was more than $7 or $8 a gallon, but then again, "people today know the price of everything, and the value of nothing" (Oscar Wild). I win .

The Aussies are doing decent Pinot Noir now? Cool. PN is my main red wine, and I typically drink Calis (Russian River Valley, primarily) and Oregons. A few Washingtons are good, and the Loonies are working on them up in Okanagon. I had a killer PN a few years back from, of all places, NY Finger Lakes (Dr. Frank). Tasted like it had a tiny bit of Brett, which I like sometimes. I'll also occasionally have a Burg, too. I like Vosne-Romanee, Pommard, the heavier wines from Burgundy normally.

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RE: Are you ready to pay $7-$8 for a gallon of gas real... - 7/1/2008 9:59:19 AM

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But... you are the only presidential canidate I have ever wished to vote for that recommended sucking dicks from craigslist as a solution to hunger. Good one! Kudos!

Hey, its not an option I like the thought of but in the most very dire of circumstances, at least it would keep me out of having to teach in the Texas public school systems....

That would be a fate worse than death LOL

Besides, theres good money in it - that chick "Kristen" who Elliot Spitzer hired made what $4,000 an hour. Thats better than a lawyer, doctor, or 777 Captain for a major...

Besides, if one is a swallower, the hunger problem is solved as protien is served on the job...

See, who said we conservatives arent compassionate and dont have answers

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