Comments by Bobby Tony | Eastern NC Now

Bring it on Alex, I am only hoping that someday I can Evolve into a writer but it does not look too promising based on my lack of popularity here on BCN.

Commented: Saturday, March 4th, 2017 @ 8:35 am By: Bobby Tony

Alex, I went back to review the exchange between Obama and McCain. Here is an excerpt to refresh the readers memory. While I doubt that anyone can deny John's courage in the face of the enemy, his politics are decidedly middle of the road and perhaps why he and Romney did not excite the "silent majority" in all but New York and California. Donald Trump apparently has changed all that. Here is the clip:

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Commented: Tuesday, February 28th, 2017 @ 6:35 am By: Bobby Tony

I have a friend who uses his IPhone as a dash cam so he can follow sports and keep track of his calendar appointments. Click on the picture to see his calendar.

Commented: Tuesday, February 28th, 2017 @ 4:53 am By: Bobby Tony

Here is one last clip of Buddy at 85 in 2012. It is an interview where he talks about the old Rat Pak days. He was pehaps the last survivor of those days (along with Paul Anka). Married five times and recorded over 75 albums.

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Commented: Sunday, February 26th, 2017 @ 4:45 pm By: Bobby Tony

I know a bar owner who always responds to a request for one on the house from a loyal customer with "I already bought that drink once, do you want me to buy it again?"

Another is the old country boy who says he lives on 2% profit. "I buy it for $1 and sell it for $2. That 2% is all that keeps me in this business."

I am sure you have plenty of stories. The retail business is one of the most misunderstood businesses by the average guy. It is even worse now that profit is a bad word.

Commented: Saturday, February 25th, 2017 @ 5:32 pm By: Bobby Tony

This sample from the link below has multiple handles instead of multiple grabbers, but it is an example of the old store Shelf extenders. How many times did your dad tell you that all his profit was in that one jar you broke? In a case of 24 the profit was in the last one or two sold.

Commented: Saturday, February 25th, 2017 @ 9:14 am By: Bobby Tony

The first nomination for the 'JUST BECAUSE' category has been received. The line is growing but some candidates are being held due to the comic relief they provide.

Commented: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017 @ 5:31 am By: Bobby Tony

"The Wiki Leaks on Hillary's emails and the Russian hacking the Democratic website was despicable and the reason we lost the election." Public statements.

"I think we will adopt that technique for our own use starting with White House leaks by our embedded lefties ." Private plan leaked from an unidentified Democrat Leader.

Commented: Wednesday, February 15th, 2017 @ 2:37 pm By: Bobby Tony

You are so right about leadership. It is nice to have a great Officer to point the way and inspire but they need a good NCO to kick your a$$ up the hill if you falter. By all accounts Plumley was a good a$$ kicker.

Hal Moore talks about the battle in 2008 below.

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Commented: Monday, February 13th, 2017 @ 5:03 pm By: Bobby Tony

"It’s easy to mock Schumer. He’s the world’s biggest publicity hound, famous for chewing through press secretaries. A standing joke in Washington: What’s the most dangerous place on Capitol Hill? Between Chuck Schumer and a television camera."

Quoted from:
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Commented: Saturday, February 4th, 2017 @ 7:14 am By: Bobby Tony

Chuck Schumer is a laughable joke as a policy maker. For years, I have watched his theatrics with amusement. While I appreciate showmanship and drama, I also expect results. Trump is also a theatrical showman but he is also a results oriented executive. I agree that optics do matter in politics, but results matter more. Increasingly all we have these days are photo opps or image control. Both sides are guilty of too much showmanship and too little action. President Trump seems to be able to handle both, which I guess makes him producer as well as a entertainer. How refreshing.

Since the retirement of Harry Reid, I have been amused by Senator Schumer's elevation from understudy to lead player in the Democratic Party road show. The first version of this Video (cried like a baby link above) I saw shows him as Director Schumer just before his speech began. As the director, he instructs the bit players where to stand and set the stage before he begins his performance. That tells me more about the politics than the actual policy he seems to be fighting.

Click below to Watch the first part or click on the cried like a baby link in the article to see what I mean.

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Jack Lemmon, the comedic actor, always had a saying before he started a scene.
He would pause, take a deep breath and say "It's magic time." He knew it was an imaginary performance and wanted to make it as real as possible. www.cemeteryguide.com/lemmon.html

Schumer is no Jack Lemmon.

My reference to Mohel and Bris was intentional to illustrate the point in the first two paragraphs. Some would interpret the reference as Anti-Semitic and perhaps it would offend even my wife who is Jewish. My reason for using the reference is not to draw attention to the fact that Chuck Schumer is Jewish, It is to illustrate his total phoniest by trotting out Arab bit players to enhance his tearful performance.

My wife would not doubt not approve of the reference, but not to the point that she would want to kill me; She has plenty of other reasons for that. Years ago criticism of a particular philosophy or exercise of freedom of speech was considered a right. I am not so sure anymore.

Commented: Tuesday, January 31st, 2017 @ 4:50 am By: Bobby Tony

Fortunately, with my compulsive personality, I missed the drug scene. I knew the booze and broads provide the right amount of self-medication. Now that you are out of the political arena, perhaps a Throw back shot of the Hippie would be appropriate. I suggest you post it under the Pseudonym 'Stu Ridge', just to keep the populace on their toes.

Commented: Sunday, January 29th, 2017 @ 5:53 pm By: Bobby Tony

In the 1970 Steve played at the Great Southeast Music Hall in Atlanta before he became famous.

"Steve Martin and Martin Mull performed on same bill for a week at a time - twice as I recall. We called it "The Steve Martin Mull Revue". They were equally popular at the time, so they traded off who opened and who was the headliner on any given night. We thought it was good at the time but in retrospect it was a whole lot better than good.

I remember being there and each of them dividing the audience up and they took us all outside for tug of war. I was on Team Mull. It was a draw. We just drug each other around in the parking lot laughing our asses off.
On another occasion after the first set both came out together and the crowd had thinned out and either Steve Or Martin said "Hell, this crowd is too small, lets go bowling. The whole crowd went to the bowling alley next door." (Documented on the Great Southeast Music hall Facebook Site)


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Commented: Sunday, January 29th, 2017 @ 2:16 pm By: Bobby Tony

Thanks Stan for the Plausible Denial endorsement of this rant.

Is possible that Donald Trump uses his tweets and off the cuff pronouncements just to get the subject in the mainstream debate, given his knowledge that everything he says will be dissected in the media ad nauseam? He has now brought the shooting deaths in Chicago to the table which is more than Rham or Barack did. Surely he is not that smart!

Commented: Thursday, January 26th, 2017 @ 9:36 am By: Bobby Tony

I am aware that by making such a braggadocio statement before the game I'm setting myself up for a bad time should the Falcons lose.

However since denial and excuse making is in such vogue now I will follow your lead should we not win.

I have already investigated and found out that Harris county and the city of Houston voted for Hillary that's all I need to know if we lose.

Commented: Monday, January 23rd, 2017 @ 12:44 pm By: Bobby Tony

I have been presently surprised by the people that Donald Trump has chosen for his cabinet and team. Competence and Experience in getting results is what most people seem to think they want in their team until they find out that they may have some differences of opinion. While I remain cautiously optimistic, it appears that we may actually be seeing the C&E mantra fulfilled. As an quick aside, I see on TV where the hearings on Rex W. Tillerson have began. One of the first speakers in his favor is former Senator Sam Nunn (D). That is all I need to know. Sam is one of the principled Democrats that I have supported multiple times. I can now watch replays of the Golden Globes to see who lost.

Commented: Wednesday, January 11th, 2017 @ 9:34 am By: Bobby Tony

I agree, as John points out in the video, there is no privacy anymore. The fake news is the political class of both sides using one fact to create a scenario of Fake News. It is a given that both the Russians, USA and almost every other country is actively hacking each other. Using one true statement to form a complete narrative is the classic technique as in the big "R" word.

Commented: Wednesday, January 11th, 2017 @ 8:10 am By: Bobby Tony