Posted on 07/11/2005 7:54:25 AM PDT by franksolich
For those watching the DUmmie "William Pitt" this past week was surely a wondrous one, full of explosive fireworks, on the heels of several weeks of utter silence on this subject from the DUmmie "William Pitt."
It appears the DUmmie "William Pitt" finally read what had been said about him.....about four weeks too late.
The guy is hurt, angry, insulted, and it showed.
This is reminescent of a similar event about nine weeks ago, when the acolytes of Andrew Stephenson finally discovered the DUmmie FUnnies, and were alas for them three weeks too late.
One suspects that during his weeks of silence on the matter, the DUmmie "William Pitt" had been ignoring the DUmmie FUnnies, the DUmmie Alert!s, and conservativeunderground, voluntarily unaware that such places were commenting upon his silence.
This has always mystified--and sometimes amused--me, this propensity of some segments in our society to ignore the "political opposition" as if it did not exist, or did not count.
It should be no wonder they keep losing elections.
Okay, so I am a Republican and a conservative, and hang around a great deal on Republican and conservative web-sites.....but I hang around a lot more on Democratic and liberal web-sites, to see what is going on, on the other side of the aisle.
Many people (of all political stripes) tend to hang around those whose values and perceptions match their own, for affirmation of those values and perceptions; by being along with like-thinking people, they feel strengthened, reinforced.
But a truly confident person has no need for "team support;" strong enough in his values and confident of his perceptions, he feels utterly unthreatened scouting around for values and perceptions different from his own.
Perhaps the DUmmie "William Pitt" is unsure and shaky in his own political convictions, and so as to reinforce them, hangs around with his own crowd, fearful of looking into what another crowd is doing or saying, lest his political convictions get shattered.
Which is no sign of a person confident about himself.
And it has obvious disadvantages, not looking at what "other side" is saying or doing.
When the DUmmiette "sfexpat2000" started the fund-raiser the afternoon of April 28, 2005, she should have posted her solicitation in DUmmieland, and immediately parked herself in front of the DUmmie FUnnies, to see what was being said about the matter, from the other side. If she had done that, the acolytes of Andrew Stephenson would have been aware of their missteps, their contradicitons, their omissions, in time to correct such things.
But no, instead, the DUmmiette "sfexpat2000" hung around her own crowd, in the comfortable cocoon of DUmmieland, voluntarily unaware of the furor outside, and the acolytes of Andrew Stephenson were three weeks--three weeks!--three weeks!--three weeks!--too late in seeing what the DUmmie FUnnies were saying about the matter, after which it was far too late to correct matters.
Such behavior--not looking to see what is going on in the great big wide world outside--I had compared with four affluent old dowagers (and remember, with only one exception, the acolytes of Andrew Stephenson are not young) gathering for their Wednesday afternoon bridge game, in an affluent living room with large picture-windows on all four sides.
While the rich old ladies gab and gossip around the card-table, in that living room with large windows all around, a tornado suddenly sweeps though.....and they indignantly wonder what had hit them.
The situation of the DUmmie "William Pitt" is more analogous to that of a post-office clerk in Germany the spring of 1945 (this is a true story, told me a long time ago by a British army veteran who had actually seen the sight); the guy so meticulous, so scrupulous in his duties, that he was unaware of the wider world outside.
While the post-office clerk was noting the number of staples, sheets of paper, various denominations of postage stamps, the metal and paper contents of the till, the British army swept through his town; much destruction, shooting, explosions, buildings falling down.
But the post-office clerk was so diligent in his tasks that he remained oblivious, utterly ignorant, of the noise and tumult and fire and smoke outside his front window, until he had finished accounting for the final pencil-stub and paper-clip.
Only then did he look up, look outside the windows upon his destroyed village, and in stunned shock and awe, stuttered, "What happened?"
Hello...an airport and an airplane full of people, flying for hours with them as they cough and sneeze. This alone can account for an infection in an already stressed immune system.
Same old, same old with the FOA
I have been helping my daughter move into a new apt. and had to play catch up too. I still haven't caught up on some of the other sites. (last I read though, it was nothing but baseless accusations)
I still think it's because richboy was chatting on the cellular telephone while Andrew Stephenson was in the intensive care unit.
Cellular telephones interfere with sensitve medical equipment.
Were all 200-or-so websites doing their fundraising using that PayPal account? If not...
The Andyites have convoluted this thing so immensely, it's amazing. The new meme in town is that some troll caused paypal to shut things down, and that delayed the surgery. That is a total lie, but hey, look who we're dealing with, lol.
Here are the reasons (yes, plural and contradicting) that the May 10th surgery was canceled that I put together a while back: http://www.scamdy.com/forum/html/viewtopic.php?t=29
In other words, the whole May 10th thing is a farce, in my opinion. I really wonder if there ever was a May 10th surgery date to begin with.
I agree with you. Infections can be from anyone at any place. The FOA don't seem to understand this. I guess they think one of the questioners pulled an infection out of their pocket and set it loose.
I agree with you. Infections can be from anyone at any place. The FOA don't seem to understand this. I guess they think one of the questioners pulled an infection out of their pocket and set it loose.
You'll never convince the DUmmies, but there it is. Surgery is risky business!
A 3.75 is nothing to sneeze at! My daughter missed graduating with honors by .03. She was not happy.
oops, sorry for the double post. Don't know what I did.
Were all 200-or-so websites doing their fundraising using that PayPal account? If not...
Nope! Andy was recieving money directly to his PO box and thru Amazon.com........
I seem to recall reading somewhere that the one person's complaint/request to PayPal only held up that person's $10, not all of the PayPal money. Does anyone know who wrote that or where to find that comment?
Um, no:
Yes, legally, it is no problem to speak ill of the dead. For example, in James Bamford's The Puzzle Palace, a book about the National Security Agency, a former government employee is called a Russian spy even though he was never convicted of anything other than contempt of court. The family considered a defamation lawsuit, but learned that it was impossible because the subject was dead. In some cases, a libel suit filed by a person who dies may be continued, but relatives of a dead person cannot bring a libel suit.
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