Evan Keal
Verified User
Interesting. What was the title of the letter to the editor and what year and what was it about and did it get published? I looked but can't find it. I guess I'm not looking in the right places.
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I have Tobytone on IGNORE, so I cannot read what he wrote, but from the tone of your question, I suspect it was about me. (I own Tobytone and it makes him upset) In any case, if he brought up anything you want to ask about, just ask me and I will answer it in a way that you can check.
Tobytone
Verified User
Lol, that's more than I did. You'll have to ask him, he actually started out telling me two letters to the editor and then it grew to over 200 published in other publications I presume. He might get touchy if you approach the subject so go in easy and act impressed if you really want to know.
Evan Keal
Verified User
Just curious about your work and wanted to know where I could go to read it.
You can read it right here in JPP.
In one of my earlier posts I was making a point about the nature of Internet postings. Quite honestly, I think they suck.
I mentioned that before the Internet opened its doors to opinions, one had to write an opinion which met the standards and expectations of editors of newspapers and magazines across the nation. I mentioned that I often wrote opinions that were published...and each opinion published, like the opinions of all others, was accompanied by my verified name...and the town in which I lived. It was, and still is, my contention that the reason for the kinds of posts that appear on the Internet, is because they are totally anonymous. A person can say anything he/she wants and do it from behind a closed door, so to speak.
I also mentioned that I wrote MANY op ed and letters-to-the-editor opinion pieces. My guess would be over 200...published in newspapers across the US...and in England. My successes were a source of pride for me...back then just getting a letter published was an accomplishment. I had dozens published in places like the NY Times, an op ed sized letter taking on the opinion of former Times editor A. M. Rosenthal on drugs. I got a MY TURN published in Newsweek Magazine (paid me $1000 for that). Not an easy thing to do. When Lloyd Bentsen debated Dan Quayle in a heated exchange before the 1988 election...the national magazines were inundated with opinion letters. Not only did I get one selected for publication by Newsweek...I also got one selected by Time Magazine...both national magazines publishing a letter from me from among 800 to 900 letters received by each.
Lots of pride involved there.
If you would like the dates of each publication...I'll be glad to furnish them. Just ask and I will PM you the information.
Tobytone is an asshole...who is bothered by me. He also took a comment I made that I served a drink to Frank Sinatra at a party in the Hamptons...to "He claims he is the personal bartender to Frank Sinatra."
As I said, he is an asshole.
Evan Keal
Verified User
Yes, I would be very interested and thank you.
I’m not willing to just let it happen because it happened before. Former administrations in my lifetime obeyed the courts. This time it’s different.
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I strongly doubt Trump's civil war will be anything like Abraham Lincoln's. IMO, it'll look more like the 1960s than the 1860s.
Still, history is a great teacher as George Santayana often advised and allows students of history to project the future based upon past patterns of human social behaviors.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When
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all that happens is at once forgotten; a vain, because unpractical,
repetition of the past takes the place of plasticity and fertile
readaptation. In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
The hard shell, far from protecting the vital principle, condemns it to
die down slowly and be gradually chilled; immortality in such a case
must have been secured earlier, by giving birth to a generation plastic
to the contemporary world and able to retain its lessons. Thus old age
is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same
inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and
degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird’s chirp.
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Why?
ThatOwlWoman
Not Nice
Apparently you've already forgotten the whole invention of the Tea Party and why -- because of Obama. It's slipped your mind completely that proto-MAGATs were calling for his impeachment and removal before he was even sworn in. You must have not seen the videos and photos of Tea Party rallies with signs saying "We came unarmed -- this time" -- and the rallies at which they WERE armed. You forgot all about the #TangerineTyrant and his bullshit about Obama's birth certificate, didn't you? That wasn't racist or anything, right?
Because.
That depends there, Frank.
For the record, the other assholes usually capitalize the "D."
What is happening now from the left? Oh, and here we go again with your racist bullshit. I'm racist because I voted for Trump?
Nah, it wasn't Obama's color I disliked, it was his ideas. I often mentioned a black woman I'd vote for in a moment. Racist?
So, what about all the left's demonstrations? Anti Israel? River to the sea? College protests? The George Floyd riots? Hypocritical?
gfm7175
Mega MAGA
Offhand, I can't think of a single act of violence towards someone that was done "out of indifference" towards that someone. Can you?
Can you think of a single act of violence towards someone that was done out of anything other than hatred/anger towards that someone?
Think!
Here, you're referring to self defense, not violence.
Meaningless answer.
Attempted cop out.
True.
I personally haven't seen it. Maybe you have, though, in posts that I haven't read. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here.
You oppose A LOT of people then. Fair enough.
Oppose whoever you wish. Stand up for whatever you believe in. Just don't incite violence, and condemn the people who DO incite violence. Peace is the prize. Trump's done a really good job at that so far... He's on about a one peace deal per month pace atm.
Throughout history, lots of acts of violence have been done out of indifference. There are people who have had acts of violence done to them simply because of the "following orders" "defense." The people doing that are indifferent to the people to whom they are doing the violence in the name of protecting themselves from repercussions that might be visited upon them for refusing to administer the violence.
Ask and answered above.
It is violence...motivated by self-defense. BUT IT IS OFTEN VIOLENCE.
No it isn't.
Not in any way.
I repeat, I do not hate Trump. Do not let your own apparent hatred toward so many cause you to suppose others are as shallow as you. If Trump were ever in a situation where I could help him...I would.
Whew. That must be difficult for you to deal with.
Who the fuck cares what you give me the benefit of your silly doubt about?
Almost any golfer would like that opportunity. Because you are an asshole, do not let that trick you into thinking that others are also assholes like you.
Yeah.
I intend to. I do not need your permission.
Poorly written sentence. Read it over again...or get someone to help you say what you obviously intended to say.
Or were you actually suggesting that I should not "condemn the people who DO incite violence?
Trump is a fucking incompetent moron...and apparently, so are you.
Keep your head up his ass if you choose. That is your right for now.
Projection
The process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object. The term is most commonly used to describe defensive projection—attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another.
You'll find the same empty headed, lying, low IQ leftists you would find elsewhere. The difference is that they can't get you banned for your opinions here.