Comments by Bobby Tony | Eastern NC Now

I guess that is why they call it dueling hits.
Ted that is a first BT uses the emoticon

Commented: Friday, October 2nd, 2015 @ 7:30 am By: Bobby Tony

I won't try to preempt your next entry but just say that Elton John had some great ones and I hope he won't mind if I include him on my list as well.

Commented: Friday, October 2nd, 2015 @ 6:30 am By: Bobby Tony

My aspersion was more toward their voice quality and not the talent. Both Bob and Tom could convey the message but Roy had the angelic sound in his voice. George and Jeff weren't shabby either.

Commented: Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 @ 5:15 pm By: Bobby Tony

I have made a time lapse study of the temperatures variations in the old folks home and the results are inconclusive. The time frame for this study was tightly controlled and measured over a period of at least 5 minutes. No animals were harmed during this experiment. I have been paid no money nor have I published this in any peer review scientific publication.

Commented: Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 @ 10:49 am By: Bobby Tony

Is anyone else getting tired of Bobby Tony's regurgitation of old music?
One word answers only will serve as an unofficial BT Poll.

Commented: Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 @ 10:14 am By: Bobby Tony

Christopher, I think if you review the discussion, you will see the argument is not about the facts of Climate Change but our beliefs about it. When you take my money by force and spend it on something that I may not agree with, then it becomes a partisan issue. It would be just as partisan if your tax money was spent on an advertising campaign stating that there is no such thing as Climate Change.
It makes no difference on what the right or wrong of the issue is it is the nature of life that all things are partisan. Since most of the research on Climate Change is funded by tax money, there is no alternative but to have partisan disagreement. Imagine a government that took the position that the 3% of active climate scientist were correct and the 97% were wrong. Would you then agree that it is partisan? If something is prejudicial towards a particular point of view, you can call it partisan, regardless of which side you are on.
I think you will find that in human endeavors nothing is absolute. Since the beginning of time, everyone knew that the earth was the center of the universe, until about 1514 when a guy names Copernicus postulated a different scientific theory.

Commented: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 8:05 pm By: Bobby Tony

It cannot be a fact and a theory at the same time. I have no idea or proof either way. But I am a supreme skeptic on all things claimed as fact by people who have a dog in the fight. I merely point out that the 97% figure that is tossed around is a manipulation of numbers to accomplish a purpose. Prudence would dictate that we continue to study the facts but be careful not to extrapolate the data beyond it relevance. Climate Change in and of itself is an overly broad term that has little or no scientific meaning.
"The '97% consensus' article is poorly conceived, poorly designed and poorly executed. It obscures the complexities of the climate issue and it is a sign of the desperately poor level of public and policy debate in this country [UK] that the energy minister should cite it." - Mike Hulme, Ph.D. Professor of Climate Change, University of East Anglia (UEA)
www.populartechnology.net

"Ensure your truths are based on facts, not an opinion of fact". Sabine Retlin

Commented: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 2:35 pm By: Bobby Tony

I played both strum and Pick as well as trying to learn Duane's slide playing. PP&M and Kingston Trio were my favorite groups to mimic.
A pint of Rum and a few cokes, some wood and a match and we were ready for a night at Stone Mountain before it became a State Park. No talent required.

Commented: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 7:43 am By: Bobby Tony

This may be one of the first songs I learned on the Guitar. An Easy C-Am-F-G Guitar Chord Progression. Now Jimi was another matter. By then I had given up on ever being anything other than a folk "Row the boat Ashore" singer and picker.

Commented: Monday, September 28th, 2015 @ 5:29 pm By: Bobby Tony

beaufortcountynow.com
Done, Here is my short review which I hope does not detract from the plot.

Commented: Monday, September 28th, 2015 @ 1:01 pm By: Bobby Tony

My Dueling Hits is mostly artist based with one song highlighted as It would take quite a while to cover all my favorites. The list also changes each time I sit down and try to rank em. I am working my way up from my early teens until I lost track of music.

Commented: Sunday, September 27th, 2015 @ 6:20 pm By: Bobby Tony

Nice try GS, but your enemy is not conservatism, it is access. If there are 100,000 doctors offering free service and 200,000 sick people wanting medical attention, there will be lines, priorities and a system to organize the treatment. No system short of the pearly gates is going to be perfect.
Your utopia is not of this earth. In the medical jargon it is called TRIAGE: assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties or the process of determining the most important people or things from amongst a large number that require attention.
Increasingly the world has shrunk and many people have benefited from the advance in medical treatment, some of which was originated right here in Georgia at Emory University but it was not free:
"Emory is one of the nation's leading research universities, building on an uncommon combination of campus-based resources and global partnerships.
$520+ Million in Funding
In fiscal year 2014, Emory experts received:
• $521.8 million in total research funding awards
• $483 million in health sciences research funding awards
• $356 million in federal research funding awards, led by the National Institutes of Health with nearly $300 million"
www.nia.nih.gov
In addition, here is just a dose of reality.. All but one life started as a result of someone getting screwed!
Calm your anger and volunteer at a hospital, Some of those nurses would appreciate someone else empting the bed pans.

Commented: Sunday, September 27th, 2015 @ 12:50 pm By: Bobby Tony

Some people could take this as a challenge, but not Bobby Tony. I have standards. I also can't disagree with the choice.

Commented: Sunday, September 27th, 2015 @ 9:22 am By: Bobby Tony

I have just ordered my copy from Amazon. Will look forward to the reading.

Commented: Thursday, September 24th, 2015 @ 8:56 pm By: Bobby Tony

BCN has the ability to remove two of the three ingredients to smother this firestorm (audience and access) and yet GS you continue to childishly taunt. Like Don Quixote, I suspect you see this as a quest when it is merely a discussion requiring factual basis for ascertains made on this forum.
GS, this is not a free speech issue, you were invited to attend and required to register in order to make comments and post. BCN has the sole discretion on what is allowed on this forum. It is just like your Facebook page "Democrats Active in Beaufort County for Change (link below)" where you have control over content and require registration to make comments or post there. Save the ad hominem comments for that page, engage here with real debate and not talking points or slander.
www.facebook.com
"The laws are even MORE restrictive when you are in a private location. This includes a private person's home, their car, their back yard, and their private web forum. All of these are owned by an individual and are governed by the rules of that individual. This is a critical part of law, that an individual has full rights over what is said in the location they own.
It is nonsensical for a person in that situation to complain, "but I can paint my house blue in Orlando, Florida, so I should be able to do it here too." That comparison has nothing to do with the rules of the private entity. If a private entity chooses to make rules about X or Y, then those rules are in force in that private location. They are legally binding.
The same is true for a web forum. A web forum is a private location, run by a private entity, and maintaining a set of rules for all forum members to abide by. Those rules are publicly posted and all members need to abide by them.(1 ref available)".
The solution is simple, "Admit you used inaccurate information in your comments or that you did not bother to confirm the accusations, or produce specific facts to back your assertions".
Maybe we can then get back to real debate of issues.

Commented: Thursday, September 24th, 2015 @ 1:14 pm By: Bobby Tony

Technically (Gene) "Waste is WASTE" is not a logically equal statement.
The verb Is usually means to be which is a copula.
In linguistics, a copula (plural: copulas or copulae) is a word used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate (a subject complement), such as the word is in the sentence "The sky is blue." The word copula derives from the Latin noun for a "link" or "tie" that connects two different things.
But a loose interpretation of the word is could be equal if it links the same two words.
However the use of capitals usually elevates the importance of a word,
For emphasis, writers sometimes capitalize a mid-sentence independent clause or question.
Waste with only a single capital letter could indicate an certain degree of important but if it is the first word in a sentence, proper grammar dictates capitalization of the "W" not for emphasis bust just proper usage.
However the use of all capitals as in "WASTE" is interpreted as a sign of great importance.
So using Waste to equal WASTE is not logical or indicative that the two words are equal.
Of course we all know that the meaning of "is" a dependent subordinate based on who is using it.
Carry on, I was just checking in to update my STUPID and CONSERVATIVE word count.
I'll check back later for the specific answer to what did SD vote to waste. It should be a first.

Commented: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015 @ 4:07 pm By: Bobby Tony

I did not like breaking up at all. I usually fell in love with every girl I dated more than a few weeks. However, when the bloom fell off the rose, I felt like a heel when I broke up with them. I finally realized that I was going to feel bad either way, no matter who broke up with whom. That's when I got the bright idea that if I was going to feel bad either way, I would just became a heel and they would break up with me. It worked every time. It made them feel great and had the same result.
Paul Simon eventually wrote a song about it, here is the link.
beaufortcountynow.com

Commented: Thursday, September 17th, 2015 @ 6:25 am By: Bobby Tony