Subtle disdain
As the economic downturn grew, along with it came a subtle little disdain for all who are utilizing government programs like Social Security, Medicare, welfare, etc.
I am a 58-year-old person with Multiple Sclerosis who receives Social Security Disability pay. I was diagnosed at age 39 and began receiving Social Security benefits four years later. I am not a moocher, and I very much resent the implication that I am.
These programs were put into place to help citizens of the United States in case of unforeseen hardships. I don't understand how we can put these programs into place, then begrudge those who need them. It reminds me of a desire on the part of some to use a “bait and switch” tactic: "Look at all we offer to our citizens! And we offer it gladly right up to the point where you need it."
Although it would pose a tremendous hardship on me personally, I say "take it back and put it where the sun doesn't shine." Oh, and be sure to stop saying that America takes care of its own. You can't have it both ways anymore.
WENDY D. SCOTT
Winston-Salem
Liberty means …
According to the Feb. 1 story “Backers of gay marriage ban file court brief,” “The North Carolina Values Coalition filed an amicus brief last month arguing that overturning the 1996 law banning same-sex marriage would infringe upon the constitutional liberties of Christians who believe that marriage is biblically ordained to be between only one man and one woman.”
So if gay people are allowed to marry, that violates their “constitutional liberties”? They have a “constitutional liberty” to decide such an important matter for people who are not them?
I don’t think these people understand the meaning of the word “liberty.” You don’t have a “liberty” to control someone else’s life. That’s taking someone else’s liberty away from them.
They believe that “marriage is biblically ordained”? I don’t care what they believe. Anyone who knows anything about world history knows that marriage is not a uniquely Christian ideal. Christians do not own marriage. Nor do they own the lives of people who do not attend their churches.
Liberty means letting people do things that you do not like. Who believes, truly believes, in liberty? If you believe in liberty for yourself but not for other people, then you don’t really believe in liberty.
HENRY TUBB
Winston-Salem
Finish the Thought
Saturday, we asked readers to complete the sentence: “The new bipartisan push for immigration reform will …”
“... eventually prove to be a mirage. Immigration is a costly losing issue for the GOP so they bend a tad. Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana asserts that the core principles of the GOP remain sound but they just need to cease being a stupid party. He is advocating changing the messaging but not the message.
“Just look at the GOP-controlled state houses. They go full speed to implement the tea-party agenda: replacing income tax with higher sales tax (the move is to benefit the rich and hurt the middle class and the poor), resisting the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, cutting corporate tax, slashing public education and h igh education, reducing unemployment compensation. We will see a lot of high drama in the coming debt ceiling and budget fights.”
BOON T. LEE
“... hinge on border security.”
DEB PHILLIPS
“…finally acknowledge the fact that almost 100 percent of our population is descended from immigrants. These illegals, and they are that now, have come here to improve their lives. They want to work, pay taxes and become part of our society. Let them. Kick the true criminals out and keep them out.
“For my friends on the right a simple question: would you rather have a hard-working, law-abiding immigrant in our country or a welfare-receiving criminal who happened to be born here? Remember, the majority of the prison inmates in America were born here.”
KEN HOGLUND
From yesterday, case in point:
ReplyDeleteIn the immediate aftermath of arguably the most violent televised knockout in combat sports history, Uriah Hall's overriding emotion was fear...
FX teased the knockout for a week, referring to it as "the most shocking finish in TUF history."
Episode 3, Season 17, 17 seasons? Violence sells to our exceptionally violent culture.
An exceptionally violent nation
A Miami-Dade circuit judge has reportedly approved an adoption allowing three people — a gay man and a married lesbian couple — to be listed on the birth certificate of their 23-month-old daughter
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Wanna take any bets this judge is gay?
That's the problem with liberalism. It's seeks to legitimize lies. Of course, Rush seeks to do that everyday in here, so everybody in the forum should be acquainted with that liberal form of reporting reality.
Oh but people shouldn't regulate what other people do in the privacy of their bedrooms. That's all we're talking about with legalizing gay marriage.
DeleteJust wait until you wake up and find out their perverted reality become yours.
Yauza, Sauza!!!
DeleteSauzaed on Sauza 24/7/52/∞
DeleteThat's my perpetual nightmare. I keep seeing some buck sneaking up behind me.
DeleteThank God I wake up before anything happens! Jeez!
The only thing that could make it worse is to have Rush somehow involved.
recurring
Deleteperpetual means continuing or enduring forever
Why don't you and Rush write my posts from now on if you know what I want to say.
DeleteI'll tell you'uns if you're right.
Hee Hee...you'uns are knee slappin too funny.
DeleteFolks complain about single-mom families. Now we have a 3-parent family that generates a gripe. That is 3 people who are now bound to support that child. Sounds like more security for her.
DeleteI had two parents, a sister, three grandparents, a couple of dozen aunts, uncles and cousins, three close friends, a couple of older mentors, two principals, one assistant principal, a passel of teachers and coaches, four ministers, a priest and a rabbi, half a dozen Sunday school teachers, a Cub Scout den mother, a Boy Scout troop leader and patrol leader, another passel of neighbors, every cop in town and the guys at the firehouse who felt bound to support me…and we just barely made it.
DeleteSometimes I felt like Huck Finn bedeviled by a hundred or so Widow Douglases and Miss Watsons all trying to "sivilize" me at once. But I am grateful for every one of them. The more the merrier I say.
One day my first cousin Lulu knocked me flat on my bxtt and said "You're disgusting!" I don't remember now what I had just done, but I guarantee that I never did it again.
Pretty much the same for me, but for all those Widder Douglases trying to put me on the straight and narrow, it was still an even match. And like most boys, I finally and reluctantly outgrew all that, more or less.
DeleteOh, an even match and then some. The community let out a collective sigh of relief the night my friends and I walked across the stage at Reynolds auditorium before a standing room only crowd and received actual high school diplomas. You could almost hear voices saying "We did it, we did it, we did it."
DeleteBut we were far from done. I worked that summer for Fam's cousin who owned a big real estate company and the Ocean Plaza Hotel in Myrtle Beach and at Sonny Nixon's place in Cherry Grove. At some point we found a field of watermelons and stole a few, plugged them, poured a half pint of Everclear in each, put the plugs back in, waited a few days, rounded up some older girls from Camden, took them to a "secret" beach up north, got them drunk on watermelon and had our way with them. Or more accurately, they had their way with us. Whatever, they avoided us for the rest of the summer.
We got to feeling guilty about the watermelons…not the plugging part, or what happened at the secret beach…it was the stealing part…most of us had farmer relatives. So we hunted the watermelon farmer down and paid him the going retail price for the stolen melons plus $5 for the aggravation. He pronounced himself "hornswoggled".
That might have been the light at the end of the tunnel for us, at least until we got to Viet Nam and couldn't see the other light that the fraud Willy Westmoreland promised us. "Westy" stole that phrase from French General Henri Navarre, and added that we had "turned the corner" in the war. I guess that corner was blocking the light.
By the time that we got home from there in one piece, we had outgrown childish ways, sort of.
Who says youth is wasted on the young? Your story reminded me of me of the M80 tossed thru the 2nd-floor window of a Boy Scout meeting in Reynolda Village. Still chuckling.
DeleteIt amuses me that the "defenders of the pristine Boy Scouts" go on and on about the Scout creed and the Scout law and how scouting is all about morality.
DeleteIn my experience, and that of most of my friends, scouting was a way to escape the beady eyes of the Widow Douglases of the world and have a little adventure now and then. The highlight of our weekly meetings was not instruction on patriotic matters…it was about playing "kick the can" and "capture the flag", for which we showed up an hour early.
Our camping trips, mostly confined to Camp Raven Knob, which is one of the best Boy Scout facilities in the US*, mostly involved long games of touch, and occasionally, brutal no pads tackle, football, along with extensive after dark skullduggery.
The only one of us to advance past the second class level was a poor soul whose parents were determined that he was going to attend the US Naval Academy, so he reluctantly made Eagle Scout. He did attend the Academy, eventually made admiral, then retired on 9/11 because he knew what was coming.
One of my sons, under intense pressure from grandparents, joined the Scouts, choosing an obscure troop that none of us had ever heard of. When I asked him why that particular troop, he said "Because they do at least three ski trips a year." Huh?
He and his friends had been watching the Winter Olympics downhill skiing events on TV and had decided that that was probably a good way to get seriously injured. They mostly succeeded.
* Having attended one for a near relative, I must say that the "Order of the Arrow" ceremony at Raven Knob (formerly known as Buzzard Rock) is pretty awesome. The participants are at a little amphitheater next to Indicott Creek. The flaming arrow is launched from the knob, some 500 feet above. Cool. But there are gay people there, every time. Be afraid, be very afraid.
And an M-80 through a window epitomizes scouting in my book. BOOM!!!
Just more of your rambling nonsense Rush. You can't verify that there were any gay Scouts at the Order of the Arrow ceremonies.
DeleteWe certainly don't need a bunch of gay peepers in the Scouts. That's the bottom line.
Actually, I can verify that there were gay people present, because I knew almost everyone there and observed that at least one scout leader and one recipient of the Order of the Arrow were both quite gay. In fact, most of the people present were aware of this and had no problem with it.
DeleteThe only people who do have problems with such matters are sad losers in denial like you. Poor little Tiny tiny little. If you come out, you might be surprised at the result.
"Just wait until you wake up and find out their perverted reality become yours."
ReplyDeleteHuh? What on earth are you talking about? Sorry, Bucky, I control my reality. I am not worried about someone else's reality, perverted or otherwise, becoming mine.
We are all aware that you oppose gay marriage and leering in gym locker rooms; and that certain forms of sexual activity in public bathrooms are rampant and threaten the nation and all of Creation. Now that we are properly educated, please find something else on which to fixate or to use for purposes of trollery.
Agreed completely.
DeleteGood old Boon and corporate taxes: corporations do not pay taxes. They collect them, mostly from the allegedly beleaguered 98%. It seems to escape leftward types that lowering state corporate taxes would attract businesses to NC, which might, in spite of the machinations of evil corporations, actually create employment opportunities among the oppressed 98%.
ReplyDeleteGood morning, Staballoy.
DeleteWhile I most often agree with you if not completely, then in spirit.... on this one I must disagree.
Corporations pay taxes on profits. The problem is some of the largest corporations get away with murder in classifying expenses as such, and the owners do not take payout in the form of salary and thereby underpay personal income taxes, but corporations do pay taxes.
I believe it's arguable that corporations UNDERPAY taxes for the large amount of cash flow cirucumstances.
Corporations also collect taxes, but are obligated to remit those taxes to state authorities without delay and according to a prescribed sales tax remittance schedule. Clever corporations earn interest on said sales tax...
So I'm not sure I understand what you're saying.
Walked away but came back with another thought: Even corporations who float sales tax and earn hefty interest income on it, must pay tax on that interest income.
DeleteSorry for the extra forgotten and misspelled word: "circumstances". I only got 4 broken hours of sleep last night.
I have no argument with your analysis, but simply was noting that the left's affection for corporate taxes ignores who really pays the taxes. I suggested that corporate tax rates may influence a business locating here. OT correctly advises that there are other factors as well. Likewise, no argument here, but that doesn't dilute my comment, IMHO.
DeleteAlso corporations with enough cash flow can earn interest on payroll (employer and withholding tax), if you have a payroll of 10 million a month, and hold 2 million in withholding for 5 days, that interest isn't pocket change. But the corporation still must pay tax on that interest income.
DeleteOh, you're right, I agree with your comment about low corporate tax rates actually generating more employment and in turn tax revenue. I got stuck on the "no corporate tax" point.
DeleteSleep deprivation.
I totally agree with that point. I think there's a happy middle ground where everyone pays a reasonable share and we all get the services we need, and the support if God forbid, like Ms. Scott needs.
DeleteHaving experienced an acute health crisis myself, I can appreciate that we are simply lucky if we are not disabled, and I am willing to contribute to the effort to give us all a decent standard of living.
Among western Europe's myriad of problems, is the fact that many of the larger economies are at the point where corporate and personal taxes are all too high, and it's more worth it for people to find ways to dodge it and risk it than pay it.
DeleteThat's why we have Luxembourg.
Although since like 2002 when the EU universal bank reporting laws came into effect, they don't even have that.
I have friends in Belgium who drove to Luxembourg to bring their money back in a suitcase when the intercountry reporting laws changed. Ostensibly that cash is tucked away in their homes somewhere....
Just to prove your point.
I'm done rambling now.
DeleteBack to work now.
Y'all have fun.
Another slow news day.
ReplyDeleteThis is always good news.
I suppose since Fox News is softening it's demeanor, the predictable and immediate mindless outrage and indignancy from the "ditto heads" (thanks OT, ha ha) is likewise muted.
Although based on today's headlines, I predict Bucky's next phrase du jour will be "revenge killings"...
When a company decides to move or expand, it takes into consideration a number of factors, including overall operating costs, which include taxes. But there are a number of other factors of equal importance, different ones having different levels of importance depending upon the specific company. Among those factors are, in no particular order:
ReplyDelete1. Workforce
2. Real estate
3. Infrastructure…for many companies by far the most important…infrastructure includes utilities, transportation…public, private, highway, rail, air, etc, and increasingly, access to wiring for high speed internet communication.
If a community is otherwise attractive, are the citizens amenable to improving the infrastructure?
4. Education…from pre-K through grad school…often crucial is community college type education
5. Quality of life...all top companies are competing for the best and brightest of our younger workers, who do not want to live in a suburban dominated backwater.
In the end, efficiency is the ultimate goal.
No argumement, but taxes are a consideration, as you note, and those taxes are paid by consumers, including Boon.
DeleteThere was a recent JournalNow question about why Greensboro's economy seems stronger than that of W-S. A related article noted the proximity of Greensboro to RTP, but what neither the article nor any responders pointed out was the presence of PTI in Greensboro whereas W-S lacks an airport hub. An airport that's only used to charter a few local company jets isn't enough to draw a FedEx or UPS to Smith-Reynolds. I concur with infrastructure being the most important consideration.
DeleteIf you order something that is shipped by UPS or Fedex and track it, you will note that it always goes to Greensboro, then to W-S.
DeleteMiller Field (later Smith Reynolds) and Lindley Field (now PTI) opened the same year, 1927. Both were visited by Lindbergh during his triumphal tour. Both competed for the first US Air Mail contract. Lindley won, so dominated the aviation business until Dick Reynolds came home from NY in the late 1930s, ran for mayor and expanded Miller Field and built the current Smith Reynolds terminal.
For the next 20-25 years, Smith Reynolds was the dominant airport between Richmond and Atlanta. But during the war, the Army had taken over Lindley and built a huge Overseas Replacement Depot (ORD) and rebuilt and extended the runways.
At some point, those vastly superior runways, and the energy of Greensboro’s leaders, overcame Smith Reynolds and PTI has been dominant ever since. And for many years, PTI’s airport ID was still ORD, sort of a reminder of how Smith Reynolds got left behind.
And thre is the confluence of I-85 and I-40 in GSO instead of here.
DeleteGreensboro has some leaders that are business savvy.
DeleteWe're lucky to still have a town with the way WS leaders conduct business.
Says the great business genius, founder of the bankrupt chains Gander-phil-A and Chicken Mountain Gun Shops, who was once the only candidate to fail the WSPD application process.
DeleteI'm just glad Billy Prim was a nice guy, otherwise we'd still be paying him to have a ball park in WS.
DeleteYou gotta laugh.
Boy my cholestrol is ridiculously low. I just found out its 124. I'm 19 in Rush years. So I think I'm going to start getting the spicy, fried chicken sandwich over at Chick-fil-A, and rev it up a little.
DeleteOh lord...if you were any more full of shit the whites of your eyes would be brown.
DeleteAlthough with so much lying to yourself, it's to be expected.
Hey to you too Hatchman, hope you had a good day at work.
DeleteGood afternoon folks!
ReplyDeleteLTE 1: I'm a bit puzzled about where the disdain towards the "47%" and those who rely on govt benefits (referred to as "moochers", "takers", etc.) for survival originated. Talk radio, perhaps? Whenever I read responses such as Ms. Scott's, the venerable phrase "...but for the grace of God go I" always springs to mind. Those of us still in the workforce are just one debilitating disease or accident away from being in need of disability benefits ourselves. Many of them are actually employed, but their jobs do not offer any benefits nor provide sufficient income to meet their needs. To me, it's as if some people suffer from poverty envy for completely unknown reasons. I would suggest those who do complain about the "47%" quit their jobs, give away their savings, then see how "terrific" it is to be poor. Bravo, Ms. Scott.
LTE 2: The Hebrew term chutzpah seems to be the most appropriate word to use for this "Christian" brief. So, allowing gays to marry violates their right to be bigots? Oh, cry me a river. As Mr. Tubb correctly notes, no group has the right to control the liberties of another group. Allowing gays to marry in no way infringes on the ability of straight people to marry. A "Christian" belief in a "biblically ordained marriage between male and female" is irrelevant in US secular law. This isn't a Christian theocracy that derives its laws from the Bible and relies on priests and ministers for law intepretation. "If you believe in liberty for yourself but not for other people, then you don’t really believe in liberty." - well done, Mr. Tubb.
Finish the thought: hopefully lead to a realistic plan for allowing undocumented workers to work here while providing a realistic alternate path to citizenship. There has been a demonstrated demand for these migrant workers for decades to fulfill highly labor intensive but poorly paid jobs which the migrants happily supply. There was an attempt in 1986 to address the situation, but their solutions were quite inadequate. There needs to be a joint plan drawn up between the US and Central American countries to provide for guest workers to enter the US with the understanding they obtain employment within a set amount of time and remain out of trouble, while the home govts pay the US a certain amt per worker to provide for health care and education.
"North Carolina has regained the top spot in an annual ranking of states’ business climates by Site Selection magazine, knocking Texas and Georgia down to Nos. 3 and 4, respectively.
ReplyDeleteThe Tar Heel State has been at the top of the magazine’s list in eight of the last 10 years but fell to No. 3 last year.
The magazine bases its ranking on six criteria, with the single most important being a set of scores assigned to states by corporate site selectors themselves. On that measure alone, Texas was the top state. Ohio also shot up in the overall 2012 rankings, to No. 2 from No. 9. Rounding out the top 5 was Virginia.
But North Carolina rated highly on all six measures. Its score particularly benefitted from an improved rating of its tax structure, based on analyses by the accounting firm KPMG and the nonprofit Tax Foundation.
___Triangle Business Journal, November 1, 2012
So let's see how the new guys in Raleigh "improve" on that.
Hey you dope. Bev. wanted to keep the tax hike the Democrats implemented.
DeleteYou're unbelievable.
I'm just glad we had a Secretary of State that stayed on top of things over in Benghazi. Otherwise, somebody could have gotten killed.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/no-word-hillary-during-benghazi-attack_700410.html
Hi Bucky, I see you changed to another of your limited repertoire of topics. Here's another one of your favorites voter fraud. It seems voter fraud may have been committed right her in Winston Salem. McCrory’s New Pre-K Director May have Committed Voter
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ReplyDeleteI don’t think these people understand the meaning of the word “liberty.” You don’t have a “liberty” to control someone else’s life. That’s taking someone else’s liberty away from them.
ReplyDeleteHenry Tubb
Winston Salem
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Okay. Which is it liberals? You can take away guns even that's listed as a right in the Constitution, but people can't take or prohibit marriage from gays which is not?
Hee Hee.....never underestimate a liberal's ability to make a fool of themselves.
mixing the singular with the plural is foolish.
DeleteNever mind the main thrust of the topic, huh?
DeleteSomehow I think I shouldn't have used the word 'thrust' with you Bob.
DeleteHee Hee...you devil you.
Somehow you think? You'll need some proof of that.
DeleteIf these young bucks can join the Boy Scouts, what would prevent heterosexual boys from joining Girl Scouts, or what would prevent some heterosexual adult pedophile from becoming a Girl Scout leader?
ReplyDeleteWhere does the liberal madness end?
NEVER! Right liberals?
Delete'Morally Straight'.....I guess that'll have to go soon.
Deletehttp://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=14322&MediaType=1&Category=26
Because, Bucky, the title of the organization is GIRL scouts, thus a boy, hetero- or otherwise, cannot join.
DeleteQ: Who can volunteer?
DeleteA: Membership is open to women and men 18 and over who accept the Girl Scout Promise and Law.
Morally straight: I perpetrated many pranks while a Scout, and had lots of company. Also, Scout camping trips in my day were fart-lighting (not I) dirty joke (guilty) conventions, also.
DeleteIn Australia they are just called scouts, because they have been coed since 1971.
DeleteThe Adventure Scouts of America is for both boys and girls from 1 year before pre-k to 12th grade.
DeleteBucky could never be a Boy Scout because
Delete1. he is not trustworthy
2. he is not loyal
3. he is not helpful
4. he is not friendly
5. he is not courteous
6. he is not kind
7. he is probably obedient, since he is a well trained dog
8. he is not cheerful
9. he is not thrifty
10. he is definitely not brave
11. he cannot be clean, because even well trained dogs eat horse manure
12. and he doesn't even know what reverent means.
That #12 one…I know what it means.
DeleteI guess our church choirmaster had a sense of humor, because one Sunday the choir started singing "Bringing in the Sheaves" as the offering collection began. We were supposed to remain face front at all times in the sanctuary, but I could feel people moving behind me and I thought the choir was saying "Bringing in the thieves" so I just had to look back and see who the thieves were.
I didn't turn into a pillar of salt but I got a good thwack on the head from one of my aunts…that's what reverent meant that day. I learned more about it via similar lessons as time passed.
Scout Oath
DeleteOn my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country
and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong,
mentally awake, and morally straight.
Morally Straight!? The little bucks won't even be able to say the oath without lying.
I can just see Rush as he leads the little munchins in the oath....lying is right down his 'alley'.
Hee Hee..you gotta laugh.
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DeleteBucky, I see all posts, even the deleted ones, so I saw the deletion above. The fixation, even if trollery, is astonishing.
DeleteHey Stab. I don't make the news.
DeleteIt doesn't matter that "Bucky" claims that he is "just" trolling…that is often the case for maladjusted people…ironic really, that an anonymous "troll" would want to hide his or her true self behind such a claim.
DeleteWhy would they care? Perhaps because, deep down, they realize how much of their true selves that they reveal. Certainly, this sort of thing has become a bonanza for psychiatric professionals, who often have to pay "real-life" nut cases to study them. In "Bucky's" case, they get him for free.
Having noted the evidence of very serious mental illness in his posts, and not having time or inclination to actually study them, I passed "Bucky" along to one of my colleagues. A couple of his grad students at the U of Minnesota have added "Bucky" to their study, which involves linguistic analysis and the use of some new psychiatric tools developed especially for the internet "troll" thing.
They update me from time to time. Without getting into specifics, which would be out of my field, I can say that they tell me that he is a seriously ill "person" and needs to be seeing a professional.
His latest post here "Hey Stab. I don't make the news." is one of his most revealing characteristics. Nothing is ever his fault, whether it be his repeated grammatical and spelling failures or his obsession with male body parts. There are literally millions of "news" posts daily on the Web…it is no accident that the ones he notices most are about gay matters.
His illness is as real as Pearl Harbor.
Repeat after me Rush.
DeleteOn my honor, I'll do my best
Oh Jeez, we've already got a problem.
You know why don't you Rush? You have no honor, you scummy liberal. You can't teach this oath.
Oh what the hell. The whole thing will end being a lie anyway. Just do it the best you can.
My friend, who is far from an expert in "trollery" is also totally fascinated with Bucky. She says he is certifiably off his rocker. Not that you all need confirmation of that, because you know better than anyone how crazy and persistent the buckmeister has been.
DeleteOT I hope your friends can suggest something to eliminate his obsessiveness.
Unfortunately, at this point, the study is limited to analyzing trollery and trying to make some basic observations about it to help people understand.
DeleteIn the past, the influence of "crazy people" has been limited to their family and close associates, or to the staffs of mental hospitals. For the most part, they were closeted and unseen by the general public. But now, anyone with access to a computer and the internet can make themselves seen by the general public.
There are many questions as to who these people are. One clearly identified group is middle schoolers who, trying to escape from the agony of middle school, have discovered that they can, through what they see as clever trollery, actually jerk adults around on a regular basis…they range from very bright kids who will probably, like my friends and I, outgrow this phase and move on, to seriously disturbed children in the mold of Dillon Klebold and Eric Harris, who may graduate to something quite different.
At the other extreme are supposedly mature adults who behave in almost exactly the same manner as the middle schoolers. In fact, when language analysis is applied, their verbiage and thought processes are identical to middle schoolers, which is why I make Tiny to be an eternal sixth grader…the level of language, emotional content, and sophistication in his posts matches almost exactly that of the average sixth grade kid.
We would like to attribute all that to simple ignorance and lack of maturation, but, unfortunately, due to his very narrow range of interests and the endlessly repetitive nature of his posts, there is a component of mental illness that is undeniable. Exactly what that mental illness is is yet to be determined.
I have spent the last twenty years critiquing the diagnostic practices of mental health professionals. My studies and others have shown a consistent problem of under diagnosing patients…in other words, far too much willingness to say "bipolar" and stop at that, when we know that many patients have multiple problems, which might include a touch of obsessive/compulsive, another touch of paranoia or schizophrenic, another touch of narcissism, another touch of antisocial personality disorder, and so on.
If we stop the diagnostic process at just one level…which is a temptation for any clinician, simply because treating just one ailment is so very difficult…we admit defeat and have no chance to succeed in the overall treatment, because we are not treating the "whole person".
Where all this will lead is unknown at the present. For the foreseeable future, we in this forum seem to be stuck with a nattering parrot.
Quote of the decade.
DeleteCBS reports that a man was arrested for possessing machine guns and a grenade launcher. Then CBS cites an LA Times article as the source of the information. However, if you read the article, there are major inconsistencies in what CBS reports and the LA Times article. Naaaaaaaaaaah, a liberal media source wouldn't embelish information about a gun arrest would it?
ReplyDeleteYauser Yauser!
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57568220-504083/calif-utility-worker-had-machine-guns-grenade-launcher-explosives-report-says/
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/02/city-employee-charged-in-connection-with-dwp-thefts.html
Hey guys, I can't reply to the threads b/c my computer is acting up (the technical term).
ReplyDeleteMy friend also says bucky is bucked. 4 real.
Poor Bob. I'm sorry Bob he's so crazy into you, it's not fair.
Bucky, Bob is way out of your league. Go find someone else, and stop fixating on him.
In other news, I somehow made it through today, with only a handful of fatigue side effects: rambling, wackiness, and a minor scuff on my front bumper. Very minor thankfully, and only a result of a bit of a skirmish between my car and my curb. I only need to make it to Sunday and I'll have a great day of rest. I'm almost there.
In final news, I was listening to an interesting interview about drones and the ethics behind our country's use of them.
What do you all think about drones? Are you for or against the use of drones, and do you think they are a "first resort" or a "last resort"?
Obama wants to take assault weapons away from ordinary folks, yet he wants to keep killing people with his drones. Does that make sense?
DeleteIt does to a liberal.
Did you find your uterus GG? I'll bet one of those nasty Republicans had it, didn't they?
DeleteTwo perfect examples of sixth grade thinking...right here, right now...
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