A good vote
I appreciate Rep. Howard Coble for voting yes on Hurricane Sandy aid. This is a bill that needed to be passed. Surry County has finally got a representative in Congress who votes for the right thing, not just along party lines.
In the future if Gov. Pat McCrory has to declare a state of emergency for North Carolina, we will have a leg to stand on. With Rep. Virginia Foxx, we didn’t have a leg, arm or backbone to stand on.
Welcome to the 6th District, not the 5th.
L.D. BOWMAN
Mount Airy
One critical element
The Piedmont Triad Film Commission would like to give its commendations to the Journal for your Jan. 3 editorial “State must keep up momentum: The film industry.”
In this editorial you point out that state tax incentives to filmmakers and the presence of the UNCSA along with North Carolina’s climate and geography make Winston-Salem very attractive to the filmmaking industry. We fully agree with these conclusions and with your recommendation that states; “Filmmaking is a viable and important growth industry for North Carolina. If we want to succeed, we’re going to have to start acting as if we believe that.”
However, we feel compelled to inform you that one critical element that has led to Winston-Salem’s success in attracting the films to the area was not mentioned in the article. The Piedmont Triad Film Commission played a major role in courting and attracting each of the films that you listed as shot in Winston-Salem in 2012. In fact, the commission, an all-volunteer not-for-profit organization, has played a major role in attracting filmmaking productions, both major and indie, to the Winston-Salem area for two decades.
We are reticent to “toot our own horn,” but we find ourselves constantly trying to obtain support funding from those communities that we service. This lack of funding may force us one day to close our doors. No other organization, state funded or otherwise, provides these types of services to Winston-Salem.
JERRY McGUIRE
CHAIRMAN, PIEDMONT TRIAD FILM COMMISSION
Greensboro
Down the road
I work in an industry (construction) that has seen small contractors give up the ghost (go out of business): grading contractors, paving, carpenters, plumbing, electrical contractors, and the support industries for these small-business entities. And I can think of none being started up anew. Until these folks can afford to buy furniture, cars, appliances, clothes and groceries, there will be no significant improvement in the economy.
I cover the Triad area. Maybe things are improving in the D.C. area and where the big spending is mostly "public" money. We are going to suffer in the hinterlands until the people regain confidence in their overpaid senators and representatives once they've balanced the budget.
Want to guess how far down the road it will be before that happens? It can only get worse.
TONY GOINS
Lewisville
Sum It Up
Are armed guards needed in every school?
Correspondent of the Week
What we take in
In the wake of the Newtown, Conn., tragedy, many societal scapegoats have been offered to take the blame – some credible, some pretty far-fetched. Some worth discussing.
I don’t think that video-game violence or TV violence have much to do with gun massacres. Other countries have just as much or more fictitious violence in their cultures – some Japanese movies, I once noticed, seem to try to set records for how gruesome they can be – and yet these countries have less actual violence, gun or otherwise.
Still, Americans seem to have a thirst for violent entertainment, and though it may not influence gun massacres, it’s not healthy to have that much violence rattling around in our heads. There are so many better things to put there.
Years ago I stopped watching cop and crime TV shows. Some of them are excellent dramas and highly entertaining, but that can be said about many TV shows and movies without violent content. On some level, what we take in will come out. Or, maybe worse, it’ll stay in there.
To borrow a snippet from the Bible, “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” (Proverbs 23:7).
RONNIE MILLER
Winston-Salem
Left over from last night. I will just go to Key West to fly to Greensboro this evening. Annual pilgramige to take my mother to winter in the Keys. Ate at Sloppy Joe's one time maybe 20 years ago. Once was enough. It is nice here. Sitting in park area right of 7mile bridge over looking Gulf of Mexic. Pic of manatee and sunset posted on FB. Glad Bob was able to post LETs today.
ReplyDeleteWordly, when you return from the tropics be sure to fortify thyself. Some of the worst cases of cold/flu I ever experienced came from returning home from Fla and points south of there during January.
DeleteI know what's ya saying Wordly. The place is beautiful, but it's usually full of gay bucks on prowl, at least in recent years.
DeleteMostly just old wrinkled white folks living large off their social security, Medicare and stock market gains. I'm at airport will be home by 10 pm if all goes as planned.
DeleteHave a good trip back Wordly. Put yourself on standby in case Bob goes down on us again.
DeleteAre armed guards needed in every school? No. But why are SROs needed in any schools? There was no such thing when I attended school. It is not a very big leap from SROs in some schools to all schools. Add a sidearm to each is not a big stretch either.
ReplyDeleteWW, I don't know about you, but when I was in school, the principal, the teachers and the parents worked as a team, and that was really all there was to it. I think many parents have dropped out, have, in fact, become a part of the problem.
DeleteAs to the SROs here, they are either sworn deputies or police officers and are armed with the full array of weapons. They spend much of their time twice a day directing traffic, but their stated purpose is to maintain order among the students, and sometimes teachers, as happened recently at one local high school.
If someone wants to shoot up a school, they would be of little use. There was a sworn, armed officer at Columbine, directing traffic, of course, and another officer arrived within 2 minutes. Both exchanged fire with the shooters. No hits. There were over thirty sworn trained officers on campus at Blacksburg.
When I was in high school, the only time that police officers ever set foot on campus was to give safety lectures about twice a year.
I might add that during phase two at Blacksburg, the VPI police responded very quickly. The problem, of course, was that the shooter had chained the doors to the building shut, so it took them awhile to get in. As they started up the stairs, they heard the shot that the shooter put into his own head.
DeleteYes, the seamless team work of teachers, parents and staff were all any school needed. Somewhere something went wrong in this mix and some parents became part of the problem. Makes you wonder why the disorder took over from a time when order was the norm, at school and at home.
DeleteThere are about 1800 armed police officers on Capitol Hill to protect 'important' people there. But Democrats don't want armed guards in schools? I say our children are just as important as 'those' people.
DeleteIt's the same repetitive story over and over. If it makes sense, the Democrats are against it.
The Capitol Police are charged with protecting members and employees of Congress and the millions of visitors who flock to the area every year. Those of us who visit frequently are well aware that a high level of protection is required for all, considering the high crime rate in the area.
DeleteTheir jurisdiction covers an area of approximately 200 city blocks. Additionally, they are charged with the protection of members of Congress, other Congressional employees and their families throughout the entire United States, its territories and possessions, and the District of Columbia.
My grandfather used to say that learning was a cure for ignorance. But what do we do if the ignorant cannot learn?
Your over zealousness to prove me wrong on every point, Rush, is making you like an idiot. But since you have no common sense, you don't even notice your foolishness. Or maybe you enjoy acting like a liberal idiot. Anthony Weiner sure did.
DeleteWell, proving you wrong isn't something hard like sleeping or chewing gum.
DeleteGlad to hear that you still enjoy browsing through your collection of Weiner pix. I'll bet you've got one where he goes for the Full Monty.
You and the WEINER have a lot in common. You both like to show your a--es on the internet.
DeleteThe 15 best selling video games, per Amazon.com. Where numbers are skipped, those are cards, memberships, controllers etc. Repeats are for different platforms:
ReplyDelete1. Darksiders franchise pack, whatever that is
5. Just Dance 4
7. Halo 4
8. Call of Duty: Black Ops II
12. The Walking Dead (online game code)
14. Call of Duty: Black Ops II
16. FIFA Soccer 13
18. Dragon Age Pack
19. Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012
20. Saints Row the Third
21. Just Dance 4
22. Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
23. Far Cry 3
24. Alice: Madness Returns (Alice in Wonderland)???
25. Madden NFL 13
Have never heard of any of those except the two sports games, and have never played any of them.
Of the 25, the last one I have heard of. I've never played any of these things, wouldn't know how to and don't care to learn to. Some of these things that are not movies but seem to be where people like characters engage in urban military shoot outs seem very disturbing to me. On the commercials, for the life of me, I can't tell who or what the devil they are shooting at. All seem to be based around rapid fire of high capacity weapons that have no visible consequences once rounds hit what ever they strike. No consequence- no conscience-no human horror = power without remorse. I can imagine to a weak, awkward and withdrawn young male, this could be intoxicating and empowering with just the right tool.
DeleteDragon Age is an RPG; Call of Duty, Halo, and Far Cry are shooters. All are quite fun, although my favorite shooters are the Half Life games.
DeleteA lot of this is generational I think...back in my day, we kicked a tin can down the road and we LIKED it. Other countries have violent video games too, and they don't have our level of gun violence. Just my opinion.
RPG as in rocket propelled grenade? Halo as in a halo jump(high altitude low open)?
DeleteI play 'Call of Duty' everyday. Doesn't everybody that's a Republican and loves his country?
DeleteRPG = role playing game, most often of the fantasy genre. I'm not sure where Bungie came up with the name for Halo, although that could be it...the first one was released for Xbox in 2001.
DeleteAnother good shooter is Bioshock. You fight mutants in an underwater Galt's Gulch gone bad. One of the main antagonists, Andrew Ryan, is a riff on Ayn Rand.
Aha, role playing, as in "Dungeons & Dragons". I remember when that game was going to be the downfall of Western Civilization.
DeleteBoys, ever since there have been boys, which is a very long time, just ask any mother, have always played violent games. We played "Army", which was sort of a loose mix of WW II and Korea. We also played "cowboys and Indians" and even "Hector and Achilles", because we were taught mythology by a number of oldsters in the neighborhood. The hardest part was getting somebody to be the one who dies, usually solved by recruiting younger kids. On a good day their little corpses littered the woods from one end to the other.
The girls also played a game having to do with horses, which they pretended to be, rearing up and neighing. We never really understood how it worked except that we knew that when they started, several boys were going to get kicked in the head. We were much smaller than them at that age.
I don't think that today's games or movies have any influence on what is going on. Instead it is the society in general, which glorifies violence, particularly gun violence, through such Presidential nonsense as Bush's "shock and awe" (real people were dying) and the NRA and Bushmaster who promote guns as being "manly" when they are just the opposite. That and a widespread epidemic of parental abdication of responsibility.
Ever see "Birth of a Nation" or "Intolerance" or read the Old Testament?
Mutants...is this where all the "zombie" stuff is coming from?
DeleteBeats me. I keep seeing this car around town that advertises a "business" providing protection from zombies and seeks to enlist troops to repel the coming zombie invasion.
DeleteCan't decide whether to enlist or not...might be too old to believe in zombies.
HALO also means "High Altitude Low Observable," as in a "stealth" configuration.
DeleteZombie prevention: we keep garlic around for cooking purposes, but we have yet to have either a zombie or a vampire infestation, and it's cheaper than hiring the zombie exterminator, I suspect.
Dadgum if I don't learn something new every day. Thank god for the LTE Forum!
DeleteI always knew (my grandmother told me) that garlic repels vampires...that's why I wear a garlic necklace everywhere I go. Tip: It repels women and most other sane people as well.
But now I feel safe...no vamps, no zombies.
Does it work against Iranian nukes? I'm expecting them to start raining down on us any day now.
The cloves in our kitchen appear to be deflecting the rain of Iranian warheads, as well. Strong stuff, that garlic.
DeleteI ate at a restaurant on Restaurant Row in Beverly Hills (or L.A., I can't remember where the line is) called The Stinking Rose. It's speciality was garlic dishes, including garlic ice cream (didn't try it). I forget what I ate, but remember approving of it, and my ex-wife's spicy garlic Bloody Mary wasn't bad. I stuck to beer, since vampires, zombies, and Iranian nukes were out of season. Actually, the nearby Fairfax area is well populated with Iranian Jews, but they appear to be pretty benign.
"Its," not "It's."
DeleteWant to see a very funny movie, try "The Fearless Vampire Killers, Or Pardon Me, but Your Teeth Are In My Neck", made in black and white in 1967 by Roman Polanski and starring Sharon Tate.
DeleteSimply bizarre. My favorite scene is near the beginning as the idiot professor and his assistant are driving through a Transylvanian snowscape, arguing about the very existence of vampires. Garlic is mentioned contemptuously.
Then they arrive at a tavern. As they enter, they find garlands of garlic hanging from every beam and around the necks of everyone inside. It is all uphill (downhill?) from there. Many many sight gags.
Remember the DEW Line? Well, the BEW Line (Bucky Early Warning) system recently reported three Iranian missiles headed fo W-S. Fortunately, cooler head prevailed. Turned out is was three crows being chased by an angry Mockingbird.
DeleteMr. Miller ends his Correspondent of the Week piece with:
ReplyDelete'To borrow a snippet from the Bible, “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” (Proverbs 23:7).'
I'm sure that he doesn't know that that snippet was "borrowed" by the author of Proverbs from an Egyptian poem written about a thousand years earlier and repeated in Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian writing.
Obama administration pondering plan to put armed police officers in public schools
ReplyDeleteRead more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/obama-armed-cops-schools-article-1.1238142#ixzz2Hs6KZP1r
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Wait a minute? Wasn't that what the NRA suggested? I guess since they didn't come with the idea they didn't like it. But now they do. Duh!
Keep on reading those headlines, Tinyboy, especially from the crackpots like the NYDN. It beats the hell out of thinking for yourself.
ReplyDeleteBarbara Boxer suggested to Joe Biden that he include the issue of armed guards in schools in the presentation that he will make at the White House this week. Biden may or may not do that.
No one is "pondering" anything at the moment.
I suggest both the basic adult course and English as a second language.
Let me suggest that you put your head in a toilet and flush it. Maybe that'll startle some common sense into that pea sized brain you've got.
DeleteBD attending Salem College wants to become a 'total' man. The oldest women's college in America is pondering the idea of whether or not the BD can stay after the sex change operation.
ReplyDeleteSo let me get this straight? Men are not allowed, but a BD with an appendage might be?
Reported in the WS Journal yesterday.
"...oldest women's college in America..." huh?
DeleteWesleyan College (originally the Georgia Female College) was the first women's college in the world, chartered in 1836. The first bachelor's degrees were granted in 1840. It is the oldest women's college in the world.
Moravian College (originally the Bethlehem Female Seminary) in Bethlehem, PA began granting college degrees in 1863.
Greensboro Female College, chartered 1838, was the first female college in NC. First degrees were granted in 1841. It is now a coed institution, Greensboro College.
Salem College was founded by Elizabeth Osterlein, who had walked from Bethlehem, PA to Salem in 1866 at the age of 17. The School for Little Girls opened in 1772 and became the first integrated school in the South as slave girls were allowed to attend. It was so popular that it became a boarding school in 1804, providing what would now be a high school diploma.
The name was changed to the Salem Female Academy in 1866, but college degrees were not granted until 1890. The final name change came in 1907 with the adoption of Salem Academy and College.
In the tradition of Moravians, I'm sure the Board of Directors of Salem College will allow BDs to become transexualized men, and walk proudly with their appendages. Doesn't everyone agree?
DeleteThings were running along quite nicely until liberals took over.
DeleteFounded in 1772 by Moravians, Salem College is a four-year liberal-arts school for women.
DeleteJohn Hinton, WS Journal
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I went off his information. Maybe he's like you Rush. Maybe he never gets anything right.
"Reported in the WS Journal yesterday."
DeleteOf course, by his own admission, Tim Britton doesn't read the WS Journal. So does that mean that it wasn't reported?
"I went off [sic] his information." ???
DeleteWell, Hinton, per your quote, said "Founded in 1772 by Moravians, Salem College is a four-year liberal-arts school for women." What you said was "The oldest women's college in America…", which is not what you quoted Hinton as saying, so either you misquoted Hinton or you made it up. Considering your track record, the latter is more likely.
Poor Tiny Knothead, almost everything that he posts here is wrong or made up, but it is never his fault. It is John Hinton, or the New York Daily News, or Foxlies®, or Rush Limbaugh or one of Tiny's dozens of crackpot websites that got it wrong. He was only quoting them.
One of the things that any good college teaches its students is to always be skeptical of everything that they read, and how to figure out which sources are reliable and which are not. Maybe some day Tiny will fall and hit his head and become an undunce and move on to seventh grade, where he will at last learn about logical fallacies and how to avoid false analogies. From there, who knows…a high school diploma, or at least a certificate of attendance, then, maybe, if he begs and pleads, FTCC will admit him as a provisional student and if he does well in the remedial courses, maybe he will be fortunate enough to wind up in Nathanael Gough's argumentative writing course where he will be forced to either fish or cut bait.
I know Mr. Hinton well. He has misquoted several of my friends on numerous occasions. He and Tiny have much in common, except for the color of their skin. If Hinton or Tiny wrote "The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain" I could be pretty sure that the rain in Spain falls mainly in the mountains.
Who woke Rielle Hunter up? I figured since 'Johnny' was found not guilty, she'd be busy taking care of business.
DeleteOf course, Rielle is the master 'mind' behind my misidentification, but who's really surprised by that? I'm sure not.
But the liberal lemmings in here, that 'should' be smarter than to follow a lost sheep, have.
I am skeptical of 'everything' I read of yours Rush. And it 'is' usually wrong.
Delete"All of the things that society regulates, but we can't touch guns? That's wrong,"
ReplyDeleteSenator Diane Feinstein (D) from California-where else?
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What part of 'shall not be infringed' don't you understand senator?
There must be something in the water out there.
What part of well regulated do you not understand?
Delete:D
DeleteIndividuals are not militas.
DeleteHas Rush been giving you reading/comprehension lessons again?
mi·li·tia
[mi-lish-uh] Show IPA
noun
1. a body of citizens enrolled for military service, and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies.
2. a body of citizen soldiers as distinguished from professional soldiers.
3. all able-bodied males considered by law eligible for military service.
4. a body of citizens organized in a paramilitary group and typically regarding themselves as defenders of individual rights against the presumed interference of the federal government.
Also, please read Alito's opinion on the 'Heller' decision.
Tis tis...wordly.
Heh heh...
DeleteI'll admit that poor 'ol Rush needs some help. But who would really want to get on my menu?
DeleteOkay, let's have it Arthur. Alito speaks to individual rights in the Heller decision not militas.
DeleteRemember you pounded down quite few beers down there in CH after you got out law school 'ol pal.
DeleteI don't blame ya. I'd have probably done the same thing had I had the chance.
DeleteI believe Heller was incorrectly decided and shouldn't have been incorporated in terms of the 14th amendment, but it'll be overturned or narrowed in time.
DeleteAlso, Scalia delivered the opinion in Heller, not Alito. And you can argue easily that it doesn't apply to assault weapons...
"We also recognize another important limitation on the
right to keep and carry arms. Miller said, as we have explained, that the sorts of weapons protected were those “in common use at the time.” 307 U. S., at 179. We think that limitation is fairly supported by the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of “dangerous and unusual weapons.”
It may be objected that if weapons that are most useful in military service — M-16 rifles and the like — may be banned, then the Second Amendment right is completely detached from the prefatory clause. But as we have said, the conception of the militia at the time of the Second Amendment’s ratification was the body of all citizens capable of military service, who would bring the sorts of lawful weapons that they possessed at home to militia duty."
Although if you ask me this part of the opinion is especially poorly reasoned...2nd amendment only applies to "lawful weapons". Well duh...it's pretty circular reasoning.
It'll be overturned in time. Anyway, rank-pulling is a really poor argumentative technique. Dred Scott used to be good law too.
Ha, ha. Tiny wouldn't know Alito from Sausalito.
DeleteAlito, Thomas and Scalia are all living in 1913, going on 1813, just like Tiny. Heller will be overturned well before I die, because both the wording and intent of the amendment are and have always have been clear. It is ironic that the only reason the 2nd Amendment even exists is because of the insistence of the slave hunting southern "militias". Ideologs always twist things to fit their deranged views, just as the white, Anglo-Saxon, protestant, male Supreme Court ignored first slavery and then Jim Crow for 160 years.
Sorry, I was thinking of the McDonald case on Alito. I quoted the right case concerning the individual right of gun ownership though.
DeleteRush, I realize that you like to live in la la land, or moledom as I like to call it. But most people are living in 2013.
Arthur, unlike you, has clue of what he's talking about. Like I've said before, you're just loser with law degree that apparently teaches over at FT. Many of the things I've done, you've only read about in books, you pathetic piece of poop.
"Sorry, I was thinking [sic] of the McDonald case on Alito."
DeleteStrange that Tiny would use a word like"thinking" when referring to any process involving him.
And one wonders where he got the idea that I am a lawyer. Maybe the same place where he discovered that "millions" of illegal aliens have been voting in elections since the Spanish-American War.
Or maybe it springs from that case he lost which caused him to have to pay alimony to some poor woman. In his feeble "mind", anyone who makes him look like a fool day in and day out must be a lawyer. Believe me, Tiny, the homeless guy who sits on a bench on Fourth Street staring at the Stevens Center all day every day could make you look like a fool without even turning his brain on.
I did pound down quite few beers. Wine was more my thing.
ReplyDeleteYa know Tim, you might be dysgraphic. They often misspell words or omit them entirely, without even knowing they've done it. I mean, everyone makes typos, but you're taking it to another level.
DeleteArthur, I was briefly an insufferable wine snob during my college years. Chapel Hill was not a good place for that…as I recall there were only two restaurants that served wine…the Carolina Inn and another whose name I have forgotten, although I can still taste their delicious French onion soup, which in those days passed for gourmet dining. Students were not particularly welcome at the Carolina Inn and the other place was just as pricey.
DeleteA big favorite date place for both Duke and UNC students was Maola's in Durham which was around from the 30s into the late 70s. Good food and wine at very reasonable prices.
We pounded a lot of beer at the old Rathskeller on Franklin…our favorite beer was Rupert Knickerbocker's, an old time beer with real flavor and very cheap in 16 ounce bottles. There was another good drinking place right around the corner on Columbia that also had great cheeseburgers. The owner was a basketball nut, so the walls were covered with huge pictures of basketball players, at least half of them Lennie Rosenbluth.
When we were broke, we would buy a case of Knickerbocker's and stop by this walk-up in Carrboro called the Chicken Shack, not quite, but almost as good as my grandmother's. It was there one night at the height of the Civil Rights movement that I met and formed a lifelong friendship with a great man, Doug Clark, the leader of the notorious Hot Nuts. They still put on a terrific show, but it's not the same without Doug.
First of all, Arthur, I'm not Tim. I've tried to tell you guys that over and over. I hope you don't listen to people like Rielle Hunter in your professional life. If you do, shame on you.
DeleteMy omission of words is because I don't type that well, and I hate typing in this little box. I don't cut and paste them over from a word processor with spell check and grammar check etc. like Rush does. I don't have the time with the amount of BS that Rush spews. Like I've said before. I just use my keyboard like a machete in here. We're not writing Supreme Court opinions.
Don't worry about me Arthur. I'm doing just fine. Hee Hee.....I think you all understand my opinions quite well. Maybe a bit too well....right?
Wish I could've hit some of those places.
DeleteMost of the snobs I knew were Carrboro hipsters. Not that I don't miss the place. I'd move back there (or to Staunton) in a heartbeat.
Machete, knife. What's the difference?
DeleteAnd there's no shame in dysgraphia. Many interesting people have some kind of learning disability.
It has been interesting to watch the transformation of Carrboro. In the 60s, the U was expanding rapidly, so Carrboro, which was heavily black, became a sort of extended dorm system, with shabby houses carved up into "apartments" at exorbitant rates.
DeleteTo see it become "hipster haven" gives all us old timers a big kick, because we remember what it was like once upon a time.
Chapel Hill has always been and always will be one of the centers of enlightened living in NC. I wish all of the young folks who have come after us could have experienced the Chapel on the Hill when it was really popping during the Civil Rights, Speaker Ban and anti-war movements. Jesse Helms once suggested that we build a wall around the town, not realizing that no barrier can contain good ideas.
As to Tiny:
DeleteAlways an excuse. Blogspot has a built in spell checker in the comments box.
So now what's your excuse? Can you spell i-l-l-i-t-e-r-a-t-e?
"This little box" is where I dictate my posts. The size of the box has nothing to so with bad grammar and spelling. So now what's the excuse?
And yes, everyone understands Tiny's "opinions" a bit too well…that's why LTE Forum members are always laughing…the fools who entertained us last year, like Palin and Bachmann and Aiken, even the Donald, have all pretty much shut up…but Tiny babbles on.
And Arthur, I don't think that Tiny's problem has anything to do with dysgraphia. Most likely, just plain sloth and laziness.
DeleteHis real problem is megalomania.
Megalomania is a psychopathological disorder involving delusional fantasies of power, relevance, or omnipotence.
It is characterized by an inflated sense of self-esteem and overestimation by persons of their powers and beliefs. In other words, people living a fantasy life.
For instance, his use of the term "machete"...he imagines himself cutting a swath through this forum, defeating all comers, when actually he is the laughingstock of the village.
Unfortunately, as with all psychopathological disorders, there is not even a beginning of a cure in sight. There are several million sufferers in the US. Fortunately, the vast majority have zero power, so are not much of a threat to others, although they themselves suffer greatly, whether they realize it or not.
As Tiny says "Don't worry about me...I'm doing just fine. Hee, hee."
Even that last little giggle, expressed as it is in the manner of a child, tells us that somewhere deep down he knows what he really is. Even though there is no cure, he should seek help, because there has been some success in relieving the most acute symptoms using medication.
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DeleteAnybody that disagrees with you people has some type of disability, or they're just plain dumb, right Arthur? Please....
DeleteWhat's humorous about Rush is that he actually thinks he's smart. Trust me, I've worked with, and around the brightest people in America, and he's not even in the same league.
If he were really smart, I wouldn't be able to destroy his silly statements on a daily basis with such ease. He's the only sleaze ball in here. I think the rest of you are actually decent people.
Bob, I'll bet, hates me. But he's one of the sharpest individual in here. I disagree with Bob, but I respect him because he has it together, unlike the forum sleaze ball, Rush
Oh for fuck's sake...I was trying to be nice. You know who else had LD(s)? Albert Einstein. Gen. Patton. Maybe George Washington and Woodrow Wilson.
DeleteOT, you're right.
"Trust me..." How does anyone trust a "person" who posts such a vast array of unsupported nonsense?
DeletePoor Tiny. As I have pointed out before, emptying waste baskets does not qualify as "working with...the brightest people in America...", even if you're doing it at the Salk Institute.
As to destroying "silly statements on a daily basis", wouldn't you love to see him demonstrate just one.
Poor Tiny...get help.
Okay Arthur....I'll take you at your word.
DeleteI haven't figured out your interest in this forum? What's on your agenda besides being a liberal Democrat.
That's a very good question.
DeleteArthur, indeed…and many many others.
DeleteAn old friend of our family started one of the most successful savings and loans in this city.
One day I was in his office going over some figures which weren't quite adding up. I said "Marvin, I just realized…you're dyslexic. How do you run a savings and loan?"
He pointed across the room at a very attractive young woman. "You see her," he asked. "She is a veritable mathematical genius. She will check all this before it goes any further. And pretty too, isn't she. I'm her daughter's godfather."
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DeleteBy the way, geniuses, there is a provision on gun rights in Obamacare. Haaar Haaaar!
Deletehttp://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2013/01/09/ac-acosta-nra-and-health-care-law.cnn#/video/politics/2013/01/09/ac-acosta-nra-and-health-care-law.cnn
How affirmative action divides two justices
Deletehttp://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-57563699-10391709/how-affirmative-action-divides-two-justices/
OT, I believe Marvin would be Marvin Ferrell, IIRC, as nice a guy as any with whom I did business.
DeleteYou got it. What a great man, and Fam's cousin to boot. I loved the grin on his face when I asked him about dyslexia...terrific sense of humor.
DeleteI doubt if most of his customers even knew about the dyslexia. And that mathematician was truly a doll. Marvin also had a woman who worked for him for decades, a Mennonite, I believe, who came to work every day in traditional garb. I doubt if most companies would have had the guts to hire her, PR being what it is.
"Haaar Haaar" ???
DeleteI guess this is an attempt to reproduce the language of "Long John" Siver, the pirate, so that Tiny might sound more manly. Unfortunately, it is spelled "Harr, harr", not "Haaar, haaar."
See the origin, Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Ha, ha. Good to see that Tiny is just as dumb as the other gun nuts.
Some of us have known for some time about the gun thing in Obamacare, which was implemented by Harry Reid to keep his Nevada gun nuts happy. They got suckered.
Anyone who read it…yes, some of us read the entire law…knew that it had no effect on anything, since it is restricted to Obamacare, and has zero affect on anything outside of it.
"So, the good news for the gun folks is that the ACA is, indeed, prevented from being used as a weapon in the ‘War on Guns’ under the guise that guns are bad for people’s health. They can also take solace in the fact that the law prevents government from collecting any gun data resulting from information obtained in the course of medical providers doing their thing—much as HIPAA prevents such information from being used for a variety of purposes.
Beyond that, if you imagine that this obscure section of the Affordable Care Act is going to block the Administration from exercising whatever legal authority it may have to regulate guns in America, I’m afraid you will be quite disappointed.
I think all would agree that should the President resolve to use his executive powers to create a data base or any other regulatory provision, it is far more likely that such regulation would fall within the ambit of the Justice Department—not Health & Human Services—and nothing in the ACA prevents such data collection, or any other regulatory efforts, which would fall outside the limited jurisdiction created in Obamacare with respect to firearms.
So, to our friends at Breitbart and the others who believe they have discovered gold in their effort to prevent the administration from acting on its desire to bring sanity to our gun laws, I’m afraid you are going to have to reload as Obamacare is just not the magic bullet you are looking for."
___Forbes, January 10, 2012
As always, stupid is as stupid does.