``Fisk has a point but seems a bit cranky here -- maybe the lingering effects of flu..'' Carl
``He's only telling the truth. You don't even have to leave lbo-talk to read condescending attitudes towards working people..'' Mark
``Everybody down here wants to know one thing: "where the Hell is Osama?" This despite a too-blatant pro-war advertising push coming down from the millionaire bastards who own the mass media that out-shouts anything I've seen back to the sixties. Even the biggest suckers aren't sporting "Attack Iraq!" bumper stickers on their pickup trucks..'' WDK
``The people I work with are a mix of high school and college grads, hailing from such places as Elberton GA and Hattiesburg MI and Warner Robins GA (that's me). I've been rather forward in my views, and I've gotten a warm reception from most, with a little eye-rolling being the most flak I've received...'' David Jennings
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Just to put in my two bits.
All the guys I work with are Vietnam vets (Army, Navy, Air Force, ARVN) and nobody supports the war. On Friday one guy after work slowed me down on the way to my car and ask about the SF demo. I gave him the time and location. Last week the Vietnamese guy started asking about the war---which he didn't understand and thought it was the fault of his bad English. I assured him there was nothing to understand, because it didn't make sense even in English. He laughed.
Friday in general was a bad day. Another guy, a driver came in to the shop, got in a argument with another tech. Later he pulled me aside and started going off on Bush and explained the whole political scene was driving him crazy. `Those rich sons of bitches are just screwing us blind and now their off on a war over nothing...' or words to that effect.
And yes, usually they all roll their eyes whenever they hear me go off on the capitalist pig hegemony.
Chuck Grimes