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All you have to do is look at the first link, Stan. Are you the dumb and stupid one here or what. Do you not listen to the news this last week and this morning???

Maybe it will come to you in your sleep that Mean Conservatism is showing its monkey tail to the public more than you want to admit ever since the Great Debate.

Commented: Sunday, August 23rd, 2015 @ 8:22 pm By: Gene Scarborough

This comment thread is drawing from all corners---BT first reaches abroad / now Stan does one for me to draw in:

"I have a great idea for apologies: Never apologize unless wrong, then own up and make amends ... except in the case of the wife, where I just suffer through it."

Now the Question to Stan---Are you to the point, sir, of admitting you are wrong about Jimmy Carter and his detractors ---- and more people should be more kind in politics???

Commented: Sunday, August 23rd, 2015 @ 5:01 pm By: Gene Scarborough

BT does a good article on Jimmy Carter and I wish he had a comment section so I shall say just a few words here----

(1) I think the reason Carter had difficulties as President was the DC establishment hate that thwarted his success WITHOUT paying the price to learn corruption in national politics. He actually believed and practiced "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"---INSTEAD of "get even with your enemies and bribe your way to their backing to keep their favor" . . .

(2) Had he had a successful rescue mission on Iraq Hostages instead of a bad-luck fiasco from an unexpected sandstorm, he would have been the Hero of the day --- such is luck for good or bad with any presidential decision --- and many things not under any leader's control. Obama had a successful mission, but conservatives keep saying "It was the Special Forces that did it and it had nothing to do with presidential courage" --- to which I say "tough titties--give him the credit!!!"

(3) The Arab Oil Embargo was the biggest fiasco he faced. Oil production had moved overseas at the crude level / Big Oil let it happen to get cheap oil, but the Cartel decided to pull the plug on their "exploitation for cheap" at US hands. It did not happen just because of Carter!

(4) He could have said "I authorize our military to take the oil by force"---which is essentially what our response to 9/11 was and is!

(5) His most shining moment was the Camp David Peace Agreement between Egypt and Israel. The fact the principals were both killed by their own people tells us how much we humans love hate and death to peace.

(6) Unlike the Conservatives of religion today---while Carter was a unapologetic Christian who taught a SS class at his Washington Baptist Church and back home--- he NEVER INSISTED ALL OF AMERICA BE JUST LIKE HIM! He led by example rather than dictatorial methods.

A recent CNN program on his decade showed him with an edgy temper despite all his work to do as he said in his Inaugural Address---"a nation as good as its people." We in America have the same problem with Peace and cooperation --- as do the warring tribes of the Middle East. It is far easier to hate than forgive and work together.

If more people saw that central principle in both Christian and Moslem faiths ---which is their central precept of love and forgiveness over hate and destruction --- we just might find peaceful uses for atomic power / wiser cooperation with mother earth rather than raping it for profits / we could remain in AC comfort rather than go back to a dark cave and keep warm and lit by candles or torches . . .

Commented: Sunday, August 23rd, 2015 @ 10:41 am By: Gene Scarborough

Stan ---Mess with Yellow Jackets in Georgia or NC --- you are gonna get swarmed with welts as the result!!!

Commented: Sunday, August 23rd, 2015 @ 8:58 am By: Gene Scarborough

I left off the end of my friend's yesterday email. Here is what complete it:

"Preachers are most vulnerable to anger…we are both ‘dumped on’ and we get angry…and in a lot of cases we cannot confront the source without a lot of consequences….so as often is the case….IF WE DON’T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THAT ANGER/DISAPPOINTMENT …we’ll find a scripture passage that gives somebody hell and then we preach on that text….as if ‘God led me to preach on this verse.’ We preachers need a ‘cussing tree’ where we can go and dump all our crap on so we can get it out of our systems and go about preaching the greater message of God. I used the term a ‘cussing tree’ because when I related to my daughter-in-law about how my youth director at Weldon and I worked so well together and that I had told her that ‘something church staff members just have to go and ‘pee on a tree’ to get all the anger out…because to do otherwise could have been very destructive…...to which my daughter-in-law said …”I can’t pee on a tree’ stupid me….it was then I say well we have to find a ‘cussing tree’ to dump on….
As noble as it might be to have a face-to-face talk with someone about what they have or have not done ….what they have or have not said…It’s not always possible….NOR….is it always advisable…sometimes the better part of valor is just to bear it….BUT YOU CAN’T EASILY BEAR IT….so find you a ‘cussing tree’, beat the hell out of the tree….GET IT OUT OF THE SYSTEM….BECAUSE IT W I L L COME OUT…SOONER OF LATER… ONE WAY OR ANOTHER…
Just a few of my thoughts on the matter.
Wayne
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Commented: Sunday, August 23rd, 2015 @ 5:50 am By: Gene Scarborough

Surprise, Stan --- the email did not come from Boyd Queen who happens to be a retired federal employee. He is Conservative, but knows from his perusal of BCN that it is a medium based on hate and harsh criticism---WITHOUT POSITIVE SUGGESTIONS TO IMPROVE that which it criticizes.

I have never seen you get so mad so quick when another reader uses the FB approach to confront you. I think we all need to see that round:

www.facebook.com

The more your stuff becomes more public, the more hateful it shows itself to be. The growing readership is good. Most people do as I did to see what it is and ---noting the level of criticism with attitude of hate --- decide to confront it after a while.

A raging bull is best conquered or trained by using his tactics against him after some observation. In this case, Boyd, quickly gave you a laugh over you claim that you "Know Everything" and should be the king of BCN. You could not take it, my friend.

I love ya, man. Don't take it so personal / relax and let others have our place in the world and your mag. You have already proven you can be fair by letting me and 2 others post articles other than abject conservatism. Perhaps that is why the readership is growing so rapidly and diversity is a part of that program . . .

As with US Immigration ~~~ our communities become more interesting as diversity comes into the white southern stubborn we thought was the only way to go . . . Welcome to Emory Diversity University!!!

Commented: Sunday, August 23rd, 2015 @ 4:31 am By: Gene Scarborough

Stan---are you quaking to realize there are more then just me out here telling your Hate to take a hike???

My friend is likely to register and then he can share more details. He is senior to me / has been a Baptist Preacher all his life / got booted by the evil of conservatism from a Florida Church / was supported and helped by Jews, no less / is now retired in the vicinity of both the Colonel and BT.

He lives near Stone Mountain and both of us know well how hard granite can have an image of the South and its integrity blasted into its face. . .

You have 2 of my old time friends posting and trending "Stanitized"---now I have another friend from the big metro who takes no prisoners with his lazier sharp analysis. If you shake a hornet's nest, they quickly get mad enough to make you jump in the Pamlico River and beg for mercy, my brother . . .

Commented: Saturday, August 22nd, 2015 @ 7:18 pm By: Gene Scarborough

I have readers all around when I post an article. One just emailed me his comment:

Your article about Jimmy Carter is well taken…it was and is crude/callous/thoughtless/to beat on such a kind and gracious man like the often-despised Jimmy Carter. As my Yankee friends would say…ENOUGH ALREADY!
Actually criticism about anyone….especially those whose reputation is built more on ‘opinions/likes and dislikes rather than factual events of behavior….who suddenly comes down with severe illness /difficulties/hard times/set backs of any sorts is as much a reflection against the person doing the criticism than of the person experiencing the hard times…Did the liberal world suggest in any way that Reagan deserved being shot? Did the liberal talking points laugh/mock or make fun of R Reagan when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s? What liberals made an issue---and how much did they stir the issue---of Bush’s daughter being caught with alcohol underage… en.wikipedia.org ...? What liberal called for an investigation of Geo Bush and his questionable military leave? And even now as criticism and mounting evidence are forthcoming about the deception of the Iraq war…what are the Conservatives---who like to claim to be above this Fox News attitude----doing…they are giving Hillary Clinton Hell for Benghazi…while ignoring/ saying nothing at all about that dozen or so attacks on Bush’s embassies and numerous deaths relate to them…McConnell and Boehner has some snide comment to make about Obama almost daily as together they obstruct any and everything Obama tries to do…..Cruz, Paul and others are equally acid mouth…..NOW COMPARE THAT WITH THE FEW TACTFUL COMMENTS (OBAMA HAS BEEN FORTHCOMING WITH COMMENTS) FROM DEMOCRATs ABOUT GOP’s CONSTANT OBSTRUCTISM AND NO…NO. You remember when Geo Bush acknowledged his younger days…he even skipped over his DUIs etc… and refused to talk of it anymore…it was dropped…and almost removed from the Democratic talking points….BUT.. .when Bill Clinton say he smoked pot once, but didn’t inhale… he was made a laughing several stock….and even now his passing moment with Monica L is still the hot topic of conversation….REALLY, for the Conservatives to speak of ‘liberal talking points’ is almost laughable. In an effort to be fair….the Conservatives’ love affair with the ‘past’ is a universally recognized trait of character…. (though some do move on beyond the days gone by).
With a little imagination, I suppose we all could find something on each other to criticize and thus try to neutralize one another’s influence….HOWEVER…the message of the NT speaks volumes….’Be angry and sin not.’ Sounds contradictory….don’t know about you…but I have found that reference to be reminding us that the ‘work and results of expressed anger’ can be VERY destructive…(though sometimes that greatest positive work is driven by ‘anger’ as in…he works out his anger in the shop…(I’ve done it many times) or on the golf course…or wherever one can channel that anger in doing something positive and constructive). I’m far from a psychologist…but I’m smart enough to realize that a person harboring anger can be a mean and merciless SOB. (Isn’t a lot of this found in the race riots…as if to say if some were not as anger as they were they would not be as destructive as they are… therefore it is important to get the anger out of ones system lest he/she going around dumping on innocent little old ladies, preachers, politicians and anyone else that person might have a we bone to pick but may not have an opportunity to pick it….or don’t have the guts or courage to face them head on….so we pick a meaningless aspect (your ryegrass) and whip it to death…. Isn’t this where ‘kicking the dog comes in’? usually in those situations where we can’t face the source of anger….we express that anger on those that won’t fight back…PERHAPS ITS NOT THE ANGER THAT IS THE SIN….BUT THE WRONGFUL / DISRUPTIVE/DISTRUCTIVE EXPRESSION OF ANGER AT INAPPROPRIATE TIMES….and like you…I feel this is what that crap from Fox News was….inappropriate.

Commented: Saturday, August 22nd, 2015 @ 4:38 pm By: Gene Scarborough

If Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned down --- you idiots of conservatism shucked and jived your way to la-la land --- and picked blackberries after the season is long over . . .

Commented: Saturday, August 22nd, 2015 @ 1:36 pm By: Gene Scarborough

Great film, B.T.

Commented: Saturday, August 22nd, 2015 @ 1:16 pm By: Stan Deatherage

For Gene:

Commented: Saturday, August 22nd, 2015 @ 12:49 pm By: Stan Deatherage