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?"
They're supposedly having a big memorial service this weekend. Maybe you could see if the local media are planning on covering it?
Give 'em the scoop on "local political activist whose valiant populist fight with cancer ended sadly." He did briefly run for Washington secretary of state.
SD
Now look below at the confusion that reigns even among Andy insiders! They can't get their story straight! Were the checks lost in the mailroom? That seems to be the reason given here. Did Andy have pancreatic cancer--or not? Is the prognosis good--or even "unclear," as was stated in the pro-Andy Seattle Weekly piece on Andy last week?
Now if the Andy insiders put forward so many inconsistencies in their stories, and then they beat down on their fellow DUers who ask legitimate questions, is it any wonder that this strange behavior raises red flags among us?
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greatauntoftriplets
Tue May-10-05 09:33 AM
ANDY'S SURGERY HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR TODAY....
He arrived at the hospital this morning and was told that they had not received the checks and that the surgery was cancelled. After raising holy hell and traipsing around Johns Hopkins, Andy learned that the checks were on the mailroom supervisor's desk at 11:45 yesterday morning, but were not sent to Financial Services. The checks were marked for Financial Services and had Andy's name and patient ID number on it. He now has to talk to the doctor to find out when it is rescheduled. As he says, a simple phone call would have resolved this and he would be in surgery right this minute.
MissWaverly
Sun May-15-05 05:15 PM
10. Andy is staying with me in Baltimore-Miss Waverly
Last week there were setbacks that delayed his surgery, when Andy arrived last Monday in Baltimore, the check that he sent registered mail to Hopkins could not be found, so they canceled the surgery, we tracked the check down by the next morning but it was too late by then to do any good, but it turns out that the surgery could not have be done Tuesday anyway because Andy needed a super duper test first, well billing now has the certified check, he has had his preliminary test and surgery is now scheduled for May 26th, they will try and move up the date (Andy is now on standby & will move up if there is an opening.)
bettyellen
Tue May-17-05 12:22 AM
17. i guess you didn't read the link where JH says the prognosis is great!
bettyellen
Tue May-17-05 08:05 AM
30.
it is a tumour on the duct, not the pancreas themselves. it looks to not have spread at all. it is not pancreatic cancer as others have posted
benburch
Tue May-17-05 08:13 AM
32. I know *you* have a clear picture of this situation.
Please have some patience with somebody who was trying to figure it out from postings on this forum, which have said everything from "He's got wildfire cancer and will die in days" to the dastardly untrue allegations that he isn't really sick. I know and believe he is sick, and I also know and believe that he raised the money he said he did and is now awaiting surgery. But until I posted this thread I still thought it was a confirmed diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, and that is not a happy diagnosis. I am glad to hear that it is a duct tumor, and that it has a good prognosis.
benburch
Tue May-17-05 08:44 AM
35.
I'm glad things are as you describe them, but honestly, could anybody have figured this out from what has been posted here in the past? . . . Now that I know that the condition is quite different from that, my concerns about the delay and his survival are quite different.
SheWhoMustBeObeyed
Tue May-17-05 09:31 AM
37.
I too have lost track of the actual diagnosis because there have been many conflicting posts regarding it. And you could not have figured it out from reading all the other posts, because this is the first time on DU that duct tumor has been indicated as the diagnosis. A duct tumor is good news compared to pancreatic cancer.
sfexpat2000
Tue May-17-05 11:14 AM
45. Hi there, the doc he's going to has a 90+% survival rate.
I think entirely too much attention is paid to Comrade Pitt, who is, in the final analysis, a pus filled wart on the backside of humanity. We "legitimise" his activities and probably get him grants for studying the mating patterns of Lesbian Whales by even dignifying his existence.
Regards, Ivan
A memorial service will be held at Town Hall in Seattle at 1119 Eighth Ave., on Saturday, July 16, at 2 p.m.
SD
The memorial service is in Town Hall?
Are they that afraid to step inside a church?
Interesting. That article parrots the "pancreatic cancer" line, references DU, and quotes Pitt's threatening rant.
Gee, which side of the political spectrum does that publication fall on?
Are they that afraid to step inside a church?
I'm sure they don't want to offend anyone. It's a diverse crowd over there on the left, ya know. But they all worship the government.
(As far as I understand this is not his "funeral" and one should not expect to see a casket at the memorial service.)
SD
Well, like someone in the other conservative web-site pointed out, since Andrew Stephenson is with God now, he's no longer a liberal, and hence probably his acolyites won't like him.
WHAT????? I read all the Andy threads at FR and I don't remember anyone wishing him any bad luck, illness or death. Many doubted that he was really sick and had doubts about his fund raising methods. How could a bunch of freepers have any effect at all on Andy's living or dying? I even offered him the perfect epitaph "See I told you I was sick!". And before I get attacked for being unkind, I offered it to my husband when his mother died.
The same author did a puff piece on how the big meanie Republicans were trying to kill him last week. There is no question that the "journalist" did no actual investigation.
Still, this is the only source outside of the DU crowd claiming Andy's death. Now, where I'm from all deaths are listed in the daily paper. If you want an obit, you pay for it like a classified ad. Seems odd that there has been no mention of his name in either Seattle newspaper.
SD
Very Odd indeed!
Parsing the words and divining the intentions of a dead man. The phrase "beating a dead horse" is most nearly literally true here.
Are we not to question our fellow man when it becomes apparent he is basically stealing from the needy under false pretenses?
That is certainly an honorable cause, but the government does that at a rate many orders of magnitude higher than in this case.
I found it quite strange that they would print Pitt's threats as well. I'm not sure that helps him much.
Interesting you should bring up a "dead horse", Jack. Perhaps you shall inform William Rivers Pitt to quit beating his "dead horse", as well.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/071105Y.shtml
You're sounding an awful lot like...
Naaaah.
Would I be out of line if I asked for a verifiable paper obit?
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