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Stan Deatherage said:
( August 8th, 2015 @ 8:50 am )
Bad syntax is all. This is what happens when one is sleep deprived. My goal is to catch up a bit this weekend.
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Now that we are calming down, Stan, let me remind you of how important surveying and tree surgery BOTH are. As you stated, your profession dealt with math and analysis using good observation abilities. The same is true for trees.
I have to KNOW approximately where any tree I fell will land. I have to KNOW how to cut it properly so it does as I need it to do---sometimes within 3' of a house and other things. Putting a 10-ton object slowly and carefully into a small space is no joke and it can certainly kill or injure you. Just like the complex problems of our County and nation WE DISCUSS, I have to figure out how to solve a Tree Surgery problem one step at the time. In the process, I sometimes change my steps as the tree directs me with its reaction to my cuts. Were I to take a meat ax to the tree it would certainly die. If I become a partner with God's way of letting trees live---they respond and heal to continue their lifetime. Some I have worked on down here date to 200+ years. That is frontier days and Bath has been here 300+ years! I have cut trees since I was a child on granddaddy's SC farm near Greenville. I, first, watched them do it. Next I did some limb cutting. I always loved to split wood for my grandmother's stove and go with her in the early morning to gather eggs, milk the cow, and just be there as she moved around her kitchen. I was her little helper --- getting my pay in love and fresh buttered biscuits. I could not wait for my grandfather to get up because the real adventures began --- but being near and seeing my loving grandmother bring order and sustenance into an empty kitchen was the real blessing! She happened to be an early graduate of Greenville Women's College --- now Furman University. That was rare in her day! My most precious possession in my tiny cottage is her milk churn. It's not fancy, but the ovaled out wood cover was formed as she sang hymns and churned up the butter with all due patience and love. . . ![]() |
Stan---I presume your thanks to Lynn deals with the deletion of the Obama hate-and now having the article deal with the debate and candidates. It takes a wise man to listen to a woman. I do it all the time for the better.
Maybe that is why women in politics is not a bad idea . . . ![]() |
Thank-you Lynn for your help in fixing this post.
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Gene: Stop the '"Hate" Speech'. Your judgmental attitude, as a Liberal and without any cognitive reasoning, is making you sound egregiously stupid.
Now, if you want to be thought of a stupid, keep it up. |
STAN ~~~ stop the HATE / I stop reminding you of it before it gets you in trouble with the Devil . . . It's for your own good no matter how much you flinch, buddy.
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I have no prejudices.
But I am smart, and I don't tolerate stupid politicians from either party, and you do. I can think well beyond the group ideal, and you really should try that at some point. And Gene, you need to lose the '"Hate" Speech'. It is getting really old. One more thing: I'm proud that I spent my formative years as a surveyor. The occupation and my classroom education helped me to understand the need for the science of math, solving structural problems with logic and math, which indeed aids in my clarion perspective. There is nothing wrong with understanding finite problem solving. George Washington was a surveyor in his formative years, and it surly did not disturb his cognitive reasoning. |
I went to Emory to have my Southern prejudices and stupid scraped off ~~~ and what have you done to educate your prejudices, Stan????
**Survey property??? **Write hate-filled article??? **Call people names with whom you don't agree??? ![]() Before you splutter and rant ~~~ Emory did the ONLY Affirmation Vietnam rally in the face of Liberalism up at northern elite schools and draft card burners and gays on the West Coast, buddy. Proceed with your outlook with great caution as I am warming up my chipper . . . ![]() |