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Stan Deatherage said:
( August 21st, 2015 @ 9:11 am )
Thanks B.T.
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I am saddened with the news tonight of Jimmy Carter having cancer spread over his body. He underwent removal of a mass on his liver which was benign. Further tests now show a wide spread of this dread disease.
He is being treated at Emory, one of the leading research hospitals in America and the world. Knowing what kind of man of great faith he is, I am sure he will pray for peace and joy to fill his mind --- and enjoy the days left to him. My own father had the same end and opted to go back home and live rather than undertake awful treatments that make you wish you were dead while you are fighting a useless battle at this point in medical research. I trust you will join me in praying, forgetting the criticism, honoring his faith and life while he is still with us and sharing God's love and faith. |
I am jumping up and down clapping for brother Ted McD!!!
I am thinking both BR and TM have good posts worthy of checking. They both got their education in 2 real ways: Vietnam / Business World. I haven't checked the afternoon hits number on this one. I am gratified you find it worthy of good thoughts and debate. Would any of the "Troika of Thinking" care to do a TERM LIMITS article? That is a most worthy topic and I hope to see such from my commenting curmudgeons . . . |
GS
Government is the acquisition and application of power. Many people may start out with idealistic mindset of doing what is good for the public. However, once in office they and faced with the necessity of dealing with people who may have been attracted to the office for no reason than power. It also attracts people with strong egos. Power and Ego make for a difficult compromise. Politics is the process of compromise and persuasion. The American System is based not allowing one person or group of people to bulldoze the rest. Unfortunately, it is also based on an enlightened voting public as the final check and balance. I think setting term limits would deteriorate into a job interview for better paying jobs after government service. A senator, for instance, would have six years to make contacts with the rich and powerful to insure future fame and fortune. Don’t misunderstand me as not being in favor of rich and powerful people. You will disagree on how they got that way, by my belief is that most rich and powerful people got that way by providing a product or service that attracted the most consumers. I could make a fortune if I was the only Buggy Whip manufacturer in the USA. That would only be true if the year was 1880 and Henry Ford had never been born. In the final analysis, laws and crony connections will always rule until the electorate decides to make a change. We have done that in the past and most likely will in the future. It is a messy business but so far I think it is still the best system ever designed by man. But it requires an educated and involved public. |
Bobby Tony has cited an important part of Jimmy Carter failure ~~~ HE WAS A DC OUTSIDER! No one could agree with him more than me on that one. However, it draws a question:
Do we have an American politic that is so entrenched in certain circles that a duly elected President put in by the people stands NO CHANCE of success without worshiping the system politic? If that be the case, we need to clean house and start over, in my view . . .Any Incumbent goes in time / TERM LIMITS to Congress. Stan---I have been thinking overnight about your continued distortion of "Jimma and Hussein." Even the late night talk hosts who make any President the butt of their jokes show respect by saying their names better than Rush Limbaugh, et al, ---who have nothing to say for themselves as positive suggestions. THEY ONLY CRITICIZE AND COMPLAIN --- THEN ASK PEOPLE FOR MONEY!!! In many places that is called PROSTITUTION!!! Besides getting money a good prostitute usually ends up with the clap. I used to do financial planning and insurance around Raleigh, Fayetteville, and Durham. As a result, I ran into independent contractor ladies who made their money the hard way---nude dancing in stiletto heels--- and had NO benefits nor health insurance. When I started going through the health questions, it is hard to describe the change in image I had from a beauty fully clothed I saw to a lady entertaing, but with awful social diseases underneath! Most, sadly, were uninsurable. You figure it out on that one and consider using respectful names for ANY President. |
B.T., You have hit the nail on the head in all of your comments on this issue, and if you could organize all of them in a post, it would be one that would resonate for some time.
On a another note, this is where Jimma and Hussein are similar, with one difference: Hussein did install so many of his dishonest cronies, many of them should have been impeached and prosecuted, to further his agenda and insulate his own dishonest, felonious behavior. Hussein, at that point, decided to side step congress to unconstitutionally make law. |
Among the many things I have learned in my life is that when a person prefaces his remarks with his resume, you need to watch out because there is a doozy coming down the pike. That is standard procedure in politics. The country was still mad about the pardon of Richard Nixon by Gerald Ford. Jimmy oversold his Good intentions do not always create good results. My point is that I have no doubt on the sincerity of JC’s religious beliefs. It is just his competence that I had concerns about.
Lillian epitomizes the classic southern woman. Sweet as can be but hard as a rock when necessary. Most from the Northern, regions do not really understand the strength of the South rested in the women down here. It may be one of the few southern traits that GTW got correct. Among some of Jimmy’s problems are that he alienated his own party with his process oriented approach to management and arrogant attitude toward the entrenched politicians. In Washington if you cross the Kennedy’s you are toast. Quotes from the link below: "He had no base in the Democratic party and few friends in the federal government, making it difficult for him to achieve his purposes. Despite his intelligence, he had a vindictive streak, a mean streak, that surfaced frequently and antagonized people, He became so absorbed in detail he never was able to articulate a coherent public policy, foreign or domestic." www.nytimes.com |
Government is supposed to be the servant of the people and not controller of the people for it's own purposes. I fail to see any fake religion or faith in Jimmy Carter. He often talks of his mother who was a simple woman of faith and works.
Better Carter tried to micro-manage too much than Reagan live in la-la land while his spurious associates used his a front while doing the things I cited in my early comment. Reagan was a kind-hearted man as well, but his political advisers were not such and we have inherited the whirlwind of a busted economy and war we can't exit. Blaming one party or another is a waste. Seeing the inequities and the few with most money getting more is legalized robbery. Regulation went away and so did banking and investment security! DANGER / WARNING!!!! |
Gene, the Federal government should do what it is tasked to do, and not what it was not constitutionally tasked to do. It is that simple.
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Beautiful, B.T.
I have no probelms with Jimma the Man; however, i think he should be a bit more careful when criticizes anything American, when abroad, and we are at war. Jimma the governor, Jimma the philanthropist, Jimma the Christian; these probably were, and are wonderful things. I celebrate the man and his service. Jimma the president was a failure; just as Barack Hussein the president is an even larger failure. |
GS – Do you have that Watson-brown-link on speed dial?
Reminds me of the first True Grit Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne): [to LaBoeuf] Lawyer Daggett again. LaBoeuf (Glen Campbell): She draws him like a gun. That remind me, I have a post about Glen. beaufortcountynow.com |
I assume that Nido Qubein is a well-known name in North Carolina as he is the president of High Point University. I became acquainted with him by listening to his motivational tapes years ago.
He is a Lebanese / Jordanian Methodist Christian. His is an exemplary speaker, motivator, and worthy of additional research if you care about getting and maintaining a positive attitude. He was born in 1948, the youngest of five, and grew up in the Middle East. At the age of 17 in 1968, he set out for the U.S. in hopes of obtaining a college education. “I came to this country with 50 bucks,” he said. “As an immigrant to America, I believed with all of my heart if one were to work hard enough, choose friends carefully and make respectable choices, one could obtain the American dream.” Qubein learned the English language, attended Mt. Olive College and entered High Point College as a student in 1968. Following his graduation in 1970, he began his own business in the city. “It’s easy for people to look at me today and say, ‘Boy, he’s really done it, this guy,’” Qubein said. “I worked 17 hours a day, seven days a week to get my business going. I rented a room in a home of an elderly gentleman. That’s how I did it.” That business, he said, evolved into half a dozen, and he was called upon by companies across the country for counseling, consulting and coaching services. In 1993, he joined HPU’s board of trustees. beaufortcountynow.com |
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