Comments by Bobby Tony | Eastern NC Now

I should have TIVO's the speech, I am sure it was a Faux Moment.

Commented: Wednesday, July 27th, 2016 @ 9:01 am By: Bobby Tony

Where are the Centrist or just slightly left of center Democrats when they need them. You know, the one's that say "WE CAN ALWAYS AGREE TO DISAGREE on anything!!!" Oh, I forgot there aren't any left, there never were any, or they have left the building.

I have not been watching the DNC, preferring to catch the Ted's notes summary. Thanks TMC.

Commented: Wednesday, July 27th, 2016 @ 7:53 am By: Bobby Tony

Call me dense if you will, but it just dawned on me why the Liberals always think the world is against them and all people are racist, crooks out to take advantage of the poor and the downtrodden people. The recent revelation that "Debbie" Wasserman Schultz and the DNC has been conspiring to keep Bernie Sanders from being selected as the Democratic candidate finally indicated the problem with liberals.

Liberals are surrounded by a bunch of crooked Alinski-ites that do rig the system to accomplish their goals. If you are part of a corrupt system, it is easy to extend that to the rest of the world. Lewis Grizzard, a great American, said "If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes." My own take on the situation is that liberals have a right to be paranoid; their system is rigged.

Another email scandal shows that Democrats cannot be trusted with a keyboard. I think they should begin a grass roots effort to pass common sense legislation to ban keyboards in the hands of unqualified people. Perhaps they should pass a background check before they can purchase or use a keyboard that is attached to anything via chord or wireless. It is also interesting that the only time the Democrats say they are transparent is when they get caught. I never thought transparency could be used as a defense.

I'll move along now, I have a Walk-about in progress.

Commented: Monday, July 25th, 2016 @ 6:55 am By: Bobby Tony

That picture has been around for forty years as a joke from the wives to me and my two high school buddies. We did not always have enough to buy the good stuff. After scanning most of the family albums, the girls remarked "did you notice that every picture of you guys has some alcohol involved"? so true. There is a story about that but I am not allowed to publish it.

Up until the last few years it was true, but 2/3 (both of us here) of us have quit the drinking. The other guy is a slow learner. Life has been very very good to us.

Commented: Sunday, July 10th, 2016 @ 3:24 pm By: Bobby Tony

How did you get that future picture of Stan past the BCN censors?

Commented: Friday, July 8th, 2016 @ 4:44 pm By: Bobby Tony

Thanks for a very thought provoking perspective on this nationwide dilemma. If this article were posted under my Post Icon and name, I am sure it would be branded as a racist article. However, I am afraid that under your Post Icon and Name they would brand you and the article as just another Uncle Tom.

Now they have to make a choice. My comment is racist and / or your article is Uncle Tom.

Your final line is the classic put down of the fuzzy logic of the left.
"Was that a racist or phobic statement? According to the minority, only the minority can decide that. See the problem?"

Commented: Monday, July 4th, 2016 @ 7:38 am By: Bobby Tony

It is possible that many will misinterpret my remarks in this post. I was trying to cover an obvious parallel but some private communications indicate I may have been too opaque in the underlying reference. They are not a condemnation of the utopian wishes expressed in Imagine or the plea for help in We are the World. On the contrary, they are an example of why we need dreamers to soften the realities of the real world. We are the World raised around $69 Million dollars for African relief and Imagine made a fortune for Lennon and Yoko.

In an open letter to Paul McCartney published in Melody Maker, Lennon said that "Imagine" was "'Working Class Hero' with sugar on it for conservatives like yourself"(wiki). He may have understood his utopia was not to exist on this earth but was trying to point the way. It is ironic that John Lennon left England as a protest against the high taxation and moved to the United States where the tax treatment was more favorable. Proof positive that he was more than just a dreamer.

After the dust settles, there is still famine and boundary disputes as illustrated by the vote in Britain to leave the European Union. The reference to Cornwallis (please excuse mis-spelling in post. spellcheck again) and Yorktown is a reminder that the most successful society yet created on earth was based on individuals doing what is in their best interest with a high regard for others being able to do the same thing. It also was a dream not yet realized.

Commented: Sunday, June 26th, 2016 @ 2:56 pm By: Bobby Tony

One can only hope that your peers will age into the maturity that you have already developed. You are already on solid ground with a principled foundation for your beliefs. Regardless of anyone's philosophy, if it is based on an evaluation of fundamentals it beats the blind allegiance to buzz words, slogans and emotional pacifiers used by the shallow souls among our population. There is always room for empathy for other opinions as long as it is a two way street.

Commented: Friday, June 24th, 2016 @ 2:11 pm By: Bobby Tony

I could not help but notice how the liberals are always talking about the community.
The LGBT community
The Latino community
The Black community
The Muslim community
It hearkens back to those heady days of Democratic segregation into separate but somewhat unequal communities. Somewhere I thought that the goal was to integrate all into the American community; Except at election time.

Commented: Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016 @ 4:16 pm By: Bobby Tony

That is funny.

Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your point of view, I am in the twilight of a mediocre life . Too old to act like I feel and too young to give creditable advice. The only option left is to try to keep from being pigeonholed into either category. I use humor to address the quandary.

A guy at the clubhouse this morning ask me what phase of life we were in and I told him we were moving from the "stick-shift" phase to the "shift-stiff" phase. That is the point in life when you would like to shift the stiff back, fingers and knees to some other part of the body that no longer has that problem.

Commented: Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016 @ 11:50 am By: Bobby Tony

Years ago Readers Digest use to have an ongoing series about my most Unforgettable Character. It always featured someone who was memorable. One of the gimmicks used in sales was the shtick, derived from the Borscht Belt comedians of the Catskill Mountains. Have something that was memorable to differentiate you from the crowd. I never had a goatee until the last two or three years of my working career because we were such a buttoned down engineering company. Nevertheless, I used the shtick at various times to hopefully get a leg up. In industrial sales, there is not a lot of pressure or gimmicks used, but my shtick was usually my sense of humor or my quirky personality. Since most sales engineers are as dry as a popcorn-fart, it was not hard to differentiate myself from the crowd.

Like the old saying goes, "If you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your Bull$hit". I am and was pretty good at that.

Commented: Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016 @ 5:28 am By: Bobby Tony

I am 100% if favor of building more prisons in every county in the United States where we can incarcerate all those illegal, undocumented criminal guns. Nowhere in the constitution is there a reference to a gun having any rights. We would not have court trials because guns have no rights. Think of the money saved if we could just pronounce all guns as criminal and arrest them. Naturally, this would require that all guns turn themselves in because we do not have the manpower needed to find them all. New laws outlawing Gun Amnesty Cities would solve the problem of sanctuaries for those foreign guns that creep across our borders. We all know that many guns concealed themselves because they afraid of being profiled.

Based on the success we have had with the war on poverty, illegal drugs, welfare cheats, food stamp abuse, and illegal immigration, I think that would be a good solution. The only ban that I can think of that has worked is the prayer in school ban, but all that did was drive the prayers underground.

Of course, one of the only gun free zones left would be every local cemetery, but I doubt the terrorist would bother to attack there.

I normally don't like Memes because they are usually non-factual pejorative statements attached to a picture to make an point or elicit an emotional response devoid of thought or accuracy.

If you have applied for a concealed carry licenses or purchased a gun at a gun store and undergone a background check, you are already on a watch list at the FBI. They may not be actively following you but you are on the radar. If you have purchased more that one gun in the last six months and submitted to a NICS background check, you are flagged as a potential problem. The NICS database includes people with similar names. Ted Kennedy was on the no-fly list. Do not ever underestimate how our government will use information at it's disposal to pursue or harass perfectly innocent people.

With that disclaimer in place I reluctantly offer this meme which I think is based on factual context.



Thanks for a great post John.

Commented: Monday, June 20th, 2016 @ 9:42 am By: Bobby Tony

There is no mention of Italian/Irish/ in your link. But with a possible Cherokee Indian component I still have a dream. I am still awaiting my return of DNA test.

This video points up the fallacy of trying to identify with a specific race or heritage. Impatient readers skip to about the four minute mark.

beaufortcountynow.com

Commented: Saturday, June 18th, 2016 @ 8:22 am By: Bobby Tony

One more from this old Grunt.

The helicopter that crashes will always be the one with the ammo. The ones with the letters, change of clothes and food will make it through before getting shot down leaving you with plenty letters food and clothes while waiting for more ammo.

Commented: Friday, June 17th, 2016 @ 3:45 pm By: Bobby Tony

I had at least four "me's" working with me at one time. It was difficult at times but always exciting. That is when I developed the pre-scripted disclaimers and responses for anticipated incidents. My boss used to call me and say "BT, get your cowboys in the corral".

Commented: Friday, June 17th, 2016 @ 2:03 am By: Bobby Tony

I just pulled my article about my old job from the Grandpa Diaries folder and put it in the queue.

Commented: Thursday, June 16th, 2016 @ 3:28 pm By: Bobby Tony

Thanks for the wonderful story of a blended culture which illustrates the American dream as well as family tradition passed down through each generation. Life is to be enjoyed and his example endures because of your memories. There is no doubt he would be proud.

Commented: Thursday, June 16th, 2016 @ 9:05 am By: Bobby Tony