I WAS SAVING UP SOME MONEY TO GO A HUNTING AGAIN! MY UNION WENT ON STRIKE AT NOON TODAY, SO FOR THE NEXT LITTLE WHILE INSTEAD OF HOLDING A RIFLE IN AFRICA, I'LL BE HOLDING A PICKET SIGN IN NORTHERN CANADA! IT'S FUNNY HOW A FEW INSIGNIFICANT LITTLE THINGS (TO YOU) CAN THROW A VERY LARGE WRENCH IN THE BIG GEARS CALLED YOUR LIFE. ANYWAYS, HOPE IT ENDS SOON. A MONTH AGO, MY FATHER CAME TO VISIT (FLEW 3200 MILES), AND MY FREIND WHO IS A NONHUNTER TOOK US UP THE ATHABASKA RIVER FOR A MOOSE HUNT, CANNOT DESCRIBE HOW GOOD THAT TRIP WAS!! AND YESTERDAY MY FREIND WHO IS THE BOAT OWNER/PILOT WENT FOR HEART SURGERY, I AM NOT REALLY AKING FOR PRAYERS, BUT JUST A SMALL THOUGHT FOR HIM WOULD HELP, THANK YOU ALL. DO NOT LET YOURSELF BE LED ASTRAY FROM THE STRAIGHT PATH, AND MAY ALL YOU SHOTS BE TRUE!

NOW THAT I HAVE MORE TIME I MIGHT POST A FUNNY STORY I WROTE ABOUT BULLETPROOF GEMSBOK.

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Originally posted by Sharps Shooter:
...and paddle your own canoe

Give some serious thought to following your own advice.

It's OK to ask for prayer....I'll give some for your friend's quick recovery.

I will write you a doctor's note to get you off the picket line. You might as well go to Africa. You can starve just as well there as in Northern Canada. Since it will be warm you won't need as many calories anyway. Kill a Kudu and live on it for a few weeks.

Prayer and bribe sent to heaven for your friend.

laawndart

Condolensces on the unplanned change in life ... as the saying goes ... "Shit happens." Wishing you better luck, and sending prayers for your friend.

Sharps Shooter,
I also went trough a bad patch this year, a couple of unexpected misfortunes happened to me. You will get though it and it will only make you a stronger person. Things will change and the bad memories will fade. I pray that your friends operation will be succesful.

It is not what happens to you, it is what you do about it that makes a difference in life.

Sharps Shooter,

Were you in Namibia this past August? There was a fella in camp with us from Fort McMurray.

JD

Unions are truly a great thing. Ask the pilots for various US airlines and Ford workers. Unions sure take care of their folks.

Instead of holding up a picket sign go find another job! Sorry, but unions are a pariah. They perhaps served a purpose long ago but are of no good use in todays world. Sorry, just my opinion.

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Originally posted by ForrestB:

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Originally posted by Sharps Shooter:
...and paddle your own canoe

Give some serious thought to following your own advice.

Sure, and he can just expect his employer to pay a fair wage since they don't have HUGE bargaining power over him as an indivudual or anything right? I say a man SHOULD paddle his own canoe when he can but it pays to have some extra oars in the water if you want to go against the current in search of better fishing now and again. Stand tall on that line Sharps and a sign handle made out a good heavy piece of wood never hurts either.

Best,

JohnTheGreek

Yeah Unions are great. Look what great things they've done to General Motors and don't get me started on the Federal employees unio that I have to endure every day. jorge

Never cease praying.

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Originally posted by jorge:
Yeah Unions are great. Look what great things they've done to General Motors and don't get me started on the Federal employees unio that I have to endure every day. jorge

Yep...

Forget the picket line and jsut go on safari. They can alwasy find somebody to stand over a burning barrel in the middle of the night. go on your trip and heat up the barrel on your gun.

If someone does a good job, the company will reward them no matter how many oars are in the water. its just sound business sense. The robber barons of years gone by are gone. If the company doesnt do that, then they wont be aroudn for long anyway, and will disappear quicker if the union is pushing them.

Once upon a time, I was a card-carrying Teamster man myself. It was one of life's better lessons for me.

And JTG, I've still got my union card stashed away and I'll have you dropped in the Nile wearing concrete boots if you cause any more trouble.

How about you guys take this pro/con union crap to the political forum, where it belongs!

Mac, is that a request? jorge

I agree Mac.

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Originally posted by ForrestB:
And JTG, I've still got my union card stashed away and I'll have you dropped in the Nile wearing concrete boots if you cause any more trouble.

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Originally posted by lawndart:
I will write you a doctor's note to get you off the picket line. You might as well go to Africa. You can starve just as well there as in Northern Canada. Since it will be warm you won't need as many calories anyway. Kill a Kudu and live on it for a few weeks.

Prayer and bribe sent to heaven for your friend.

laawndart

ditto...go to africa and laugh your ass off hunting while your poor union buddys battle frostbite

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How about you guys take this pro/con union crap to the political forum, where it belongs!

I couldn't agree more.

Fusino,
Texas Tech is going to put whoopin' on your Longhorns tomorrow.

Go Red Raiders!!!!!!!!!

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Originally posted by Vinny:
Fusino,
Texas Tech is going to put whoopin' on your Longhorns tomorrow.

Go Red Raiders!!!!!!!!!

Oh shit. Now we're gonna have to relocate this thread to both the political AND sports forums!



Best,

JohnTheGreek

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Originally posted by MacD37:
How about you guys take this pro/con union crap to the political forum, where it belongs!

Absolutely!

Going on a Union strike / picket line is nothing more than a personal decision. If it ffffs up your safari then that's a cost of making your own decision.

Myself I would look for casual work and make sure I WENT on safari instead. No ffffing union bastards would allow me to burn up savings meant for a safari.

PS If you burn up savings by going on strike what benefit is the strike to you?

My friend in the hospital is doing well, he is in ICU for a few days. So I guess that we can go up the river for more hunting later. Also I am in the process of portaging my canoe to another river, meaning Africa is back on track. I was in RSA last year, not Namibia. But there are a few here who go to Africa every year, some multiple trips yearly. Thanks.

I think the compaines should just hire new people, and teach the unions a lesson, unions once served a purpose but they just but compaines out of business these days, look at GM ford and the airline industy for examples

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I think the compaines should just hire new people, and teach the unions a lesson,

Great idea....and may the first guy to cross the picket lines gets a Louisville Slugger to the chops.

JMHO,

JohnTheGreek

I agree with Mac' keep the pro/con Union crap out of here. I would definitely spend time in Africa, instead of on the picket line there if possible. I've been to Ft. McMurray a few times, and it can be the coldest place ever.

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Originally posted by JohnTheGreek:

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Originally posted by Vinny:
Fusino,
Texas Tech is going to put whoopin' on your Longhorns tomorrow.

Go Red Raiders!!!!!!!!!

Oh shit. Now we're gonna have to relocate this thread to both the political AND sports forums!



Best,

JohnTheGreek

Sorry, I got carried away.

BTW - Unions are dinosaurs and do not good anymore.

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Originally posted by JohnTheGreek:
and may the first guy to cross the picket lines gets a Louisville Slugger to the chops.

JMHO,

JohnTheGreek

Good to see individual choice and democracy in action.

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Originally posted by NitroX:


Good to see individual choice and democracy in action.

You just hit on why unions are going the way of the dinosaur. About time, too.

Sorry guys....unions level the playing field between companies and workers. Without that, there is no "democracy" to speak of...it's the wolves and sheep voting on what's for dinner. If some idiot is willing to cross a picket line, he's a traitor and deserves what he gets.

JMHO,

JohnTheGreek

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Originally posted by JohnTheGreek:
Sorry guys....unions level the playing field between companies and workers. Without that, there is no "democracy" to speak of...it's the wolves and sheep voting on what's for dinner. If some idiot is willing to cross a picket line, he's a traitor and deserves what he gets.

JMHO,

JohnTheGreek

Sorry John, but marxism is rather outdated and unnecessary in todays western world. The poor today don't get any richer by bringing the rich down. It just creates fewer jobs.

You're wrong.

John the Greek:

I suppose I am the antithesis of your ideal employer. I outsource my software development by using cheap South American employees. I know what you are thinking: I am taking away American jobs. But guess what? If I didn't do that, I might never have started a software company in the first place. I hired a guy a few weeks ago in the US who gets 100K/year, a pretty good "wage."

If I create jobs, why should I allow anyone to hold a gun to my head? No one has a right to a job.

JTG, you act as if compaines are required and obligated to give someone a job, A job is a privilage to have. not a compaines reguirement. I guess according to you businesess should be held hostage by the employees, why don't you try running a business that way?? Their is no level playing field needed, IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE JOB TAKE YOUR ASS AND GET ANOTHER ONE!!!!!!!!have you heard of that JTG unions have ruined the jobs in this country, now all are going to china, because an auto or dock worker thinks he should make 100k/yr WTF?? airlines, auto compaines, etc are all going bankrupt because of the terrible union agreements, delta can't compete with jet blue because delta is yoked with union dues, you own a business to make money, if you ever owned one maybe you might just understand that fact.

Sorry folks!
My intention was not this, If we are to continue this subject, could we please move it out of this forum, Thank you all for co-operating.

Add railroads and steel makers to the list of extinct or soon to be extinct industries due to unions.

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Fusino,
Texas Tech is going to put whoopin' on your Longhorns tomorrow.

Go Red Raiders!!!!!!!!!

Did you watch the game Vinny?!

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Originally posted by fusino:
Did you watch the game Vinny?!