Why can't people just get along?

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Originally Posted by Wullie

Lost the biggest part my hearing on the flight deck of the USS AMERICA. I was a "red shirt" ( ordnance type) and did CAG arming. I worked between or beside the bow cats during the launches. To say it was loud would be an understatement.

The rest of it went to trucks, old HD junk, and planes. I've got more than a few hours in old tube and rag junk. ;)

Don't fly anything but this computer nowadays.

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Brother in Arms! I spent 2 years on the JFK. Ships company. I was a radar tech. The dang arresting gear was right outside my bunk room. I had to wear a headset and listen to 8 track tapes all night to be able to sleep. We were on the way to relieve the America when the war ended.

The rest of my hearing went to an old Piper Comanche 260C and various industrial jobs.

Isn't it true that only State Judges are elected and Federal Judges are appointed?

So half are corrupted by money and the other half by politics.

If they are appointed by your side they are upholding the law. Appointed by the other side they are progressives.

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Originally Posted by Deerhunter1995

the good old days when yoou and a another guy had a problem you stepped outside and when you were done you shook hands and drank a beer together. instead of sueing or pressing chages of something stupid.

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I think you have an overly romantic notion of how arguments were settled.
Yes they would step outside, and then one of them would beat the other senseless and caused bodily harm. The victor would walk away and the loser would remain unconcious until he woke up and managed to get home, or until his friends found him.

The notion that people were somehow all honorable and chivalrous in the wild west (or any other place, 100 years ago) is really not correct.
People were still the same people. No better, no worse.