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Ben Carson’s stories of violence in his past questioned
Washington Post ^ | 11/6/15 | Justin Wm. Moyer

Posted on 11/06/2015 5:35:33 AM PST by jimbo123

It was the 1960s. Ben Carson, 14-year-old ninth grader, was growing up rough in Detroit. And, one fateful day, the future neurosurgeon and Republican presidential contender got very, very angry.

The argument, like many among teenagers, was about nothing: what radio station to listen to. Carson's friend Bob dared turn the dial on the transistor radio.

"You call that music?" Bob said.

"It's better than what you like!" Carson yelled back, grabbing for the dial.

That could have been it - good friends have argued about greater things and quickly made up. But Carson found himself consumed by rage.

"In that instant blind anger - pathological anger - took possession of me," he wrote in "Gifted Hands," his 1990 biography. "Grabbing the camping knife I carried in my back pocket, I snapped it open and lunged for the boy who had been my friend. With all the power of my young muscles, I thrust the knife toward his belly. The knife hit his big, heavy ROTC buckle with such force that the blade snapped and dropped to the ground."

His friend - and his own future - saved by a belt buckle, Carson said the incident led him to get his temper under control with the help of god.

"I stared at the broken blade and went weak,” Carson wrote. "I had almost killed him. I had almost killed my friend."

The knife story - along with tales of how Carson punched someone, threw rocks and tried to hit his mother with a hammer - are essential stops on Carson's road to redemption that makes him such an appealing candidate to some. The knife even made its way into a TV movie about Carson. But now CNN, which mounted an investigation of the story, claims it cannot find Carson's purported

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To: grania

OK, criticize his POSITIONS, not the man. INFLUENCE his direction - don’t demean HIM.

Focus on WINNING over these evil B@STARDs


41 posted on 11/06/2015 6:53:51 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: jimbo123
The Carson/SDA food pyramid.

There are many causes for vitamin B12 deficiency.

Surprisingly, two of them are practices often undertaken to improve health:

1. Vegetarian diet

2. weight-loss surgery.

http://chriskresser.com/b12-deficiency-a-silent-epidemic-with-serious-consequences/

A primary sign of low B12 levels is a constant lack of energy.

Oct 26, 2015 - On Friday in Miami, Trump had ripped Carson for having even less energy than Jeb Bush, whom Trump has called low-energy.


42 posted on 11/06/2015 1:35:39 PM PST by Grampa Dave ("If you use FR and don't donate. That means that you are a Left Wing or Rino plant, to be ignored!)
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