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Darla
Darla, did you read Steve Jobs' book?
No not yet.
Darla, did you read Steve Jobs' book?
I'm just over halfway through but I think it is amazing. Part of the reason may be because I'm a Bay Area person and Apple and the Silicon Valley are all in the Bay Area. But that is only part of the appeal. Steve Jobs is another of one these 'complex' personalities. The man was a brilliant visionary who demanded perfection. He was also a complete asshole in how he treated other people especially his children.
Yeah, I have heard that. From my reading, and I haven't read everything out there, the best PResident we ever had was Lincoln. A lot of people like to claim, oh he didn't really care about freeing the slaves, or he wanted so ship them all back to Africa. Well, no...he actually imagine this! grew and changed his mind over the course of his life. He was I think inherently decent, not really all that complicated, but very brave. I read Fiery Trial and I actually cried when he was shot. I mean, it's not like I didn't know how it ends you know?
The thing about LBJ is there is so much I like and dislike about him...but then in Caro's latest when LBJ is deciding whether to accept the VP slot on the Kennedy ticket, and he tells people that he's done the math, one in 8 Presidents die in office...chilling. Caro says outright he found zero evidence that LBJ had any involvement. And I believe that's true...but man he was a ruthless mf'er and he hated the Kennedys (I'm not saying he didn't have good reason to, in many ways he did). Anyway, who knows. I wouldn't want to be BFF's or married to anyone who aspired to the PResidency that is all I know. ANd most likely not to a visionary like Jobs either.
I have the Caro book on order. Will start it right after I finish the Jobs book. Can't wait to read it.
You can throw some top athletes into that 'complex' personality group as well. I just finished reading Hank Heney's book on Tiger Woods. Tiger's drive to be the best ever is unbelievable. There are very few on this earth with his combination drive, toughness, determination and will power to achieve his goals. Yet in his personal life he has almost no close friends and keeps everyone at a distance. And the ability to keep pushing himself once he reached the top basically prevents him from enjoying anything he has done to date.
RDS... then tell us why it is that you stated malicious bullying? Were you being redundant Mr. Faux Outrage?
Watch, SF will be stupefied by that. When someone talks logic to him it's like he short-circuits and has to reboot. If you pay close enough attention you can smell the smoke...
I feel a "moron" coming. I just feel it.
You'd better lay low. You might get a "do tell us," as well.
It's like when people use the term "brutal rape". Isn't rape in itself an act of brutality? But when we feel the rape is particularly brutal, perhaps when the victim is beaten badly enough to be left dead for one example, most of us can't help using the phrase. This in no way means that anyone else's rape wasn't brutal.
See?
yes... which is what I was getting at. Cutting someone's hair is not a particularly malicious act. It was a friggin prank. He wishes to make it sound worse than it was because:
1) The 'victim' is not alive to verify what he did or did not feel about this, so the left can shout out all day how 'vicious' and 'malicious' this particular hair cutting was
2) Obama's former campaign worker can shout out how 'terrified' the kid was (that this very campaign worker held down... hmmm) and how awful Romney was for cutting the kids hair (that the former Obama campaign worker held down).
I understand the desperation the Dems are facing right now. I know it sucks to have to continually apologize for the way Obama has run the country for the past three+ years and thus you are now running to an event that occurred 48 years ago to show just how evil Romney is. Pure desperation leads to much faux outrage
You think everyone was just yucking it up during an incident like that, even the victim?
I don't know what reality you live in. In my reality, it's not only plausible that the kid was terrified, but logical & likely.
You think everyone was just yucking it up during an incident like that, even the victim?
I don't know what reality you live in. In my reality, it's not only plausible that the kid was terrified, but logical & likely.
Right-wingers have a different definition of "prank" than the rest of us. Remember: the Abu Ghraib human rights violations were just fraternity pranks. When that's your standard, pretty much anything qualifies.
yeah, he was terrified his hair may never grow back. Again, you wish to make it sound like some great tragedy because you are desperately looking to divert attention away from the pathetic performance of President Obama. Trust us... we understand your plight.
You couldn't sound like more of an idiot on this one. There are suicides every year from kids getting bullied at school - and that doesn't mean they're getting beat up. For some, it's verbal harassment, or getting pushed into lockers, or humiliated in some way.
Your perception of what it must be like for a kid to get ganged up on, held down & have his hair cut off is actually kind of chilling.
It kind of scares me when I read what righties consider harmless. Even sane ones, or ones I consider to be sane. Weird.