How To Win Friends and Influence People
As far as I know, Dr. Ben Carson has never called anybody a Yuge Loser, but he is very generous with using the term “dishonest.”
Ben Carson said his top outside adviser and longtime friend Armstrong Williams is dishonest – a failing he also attributed to political opponents and the media that has covered his campaign.
Uh, shouldn’t that say “former friend”?
“He doesn’t speak all things that are correct. He often speaks without thinking.”
And Carson doesn’t.
In the same article, Carson, who was apparently sleep walking at the time, is quoted as saying, “The trappings of wealth and power mean nothing to me.”
Okay.
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If that were a TRUE statement, Mr Carson would be busy quietly doing volunteer work and NOT running for the office of President.
1married to him might be like Married to the Mob…..sit down and be quiet and don’t notice what’s going on behind the curtain. oh, and pray a lot.
2Mental Ben is playing stabby stabby with Armstrong Williams for now. Wait for their co-authored book: “How That Mean Megyn Kelly Made Us Do It.”
3The “poverb” in the linked picture from his house says that by humility and fear of the Lord are riches, etc. With an ego like Carson’s along with a demonstrated lack of humility and no obvious fear of the Lord (he pictures himself as a good buddy of the Lord), it seems that the doctor isn’t exactly honest with hisownself.
4Mental Ben said something? Oh……
5The trappings of wealth and power don’t seem to mean to lot to the current Pope. Has anybody compared the Pope’s preferred bedroom to this guy’s?
6Should it bother us more that this guy was a temporary front leader in the Repub presidential primary?
I mean, a whole lot of these folks wanted this guy to be President.
7His run for the presidency has to be a fraud. HAS to. He would take one look at the White House, realize what a serious step down in the world it is, turn on his heel and walk out.
Still, that could be a step up for the country. Whoever he had picked as his running mate would have to be a better president than hisownself, right?
8I love that painting. It always looks to me like Jesus is asking for a handout.
“Spare change, Ben?”
9Oh Rick, that painting feels so creepy to me. Ick.
I just read a very funny, Jon Stewartish, satire in City Pages about the snacilbupeR clown car occupants. City Pages is a Minneapolis alternative weekly with a wicked sense of the ridiculous. Y’all might like it. Use this link:
http://goo.gl/WRPh2G
If you want to read the article imagining them as circus freaks, it’s here:
http://goo.gl/WRPh2G
(These are the kinds of things that make politics bearable.)
10@Rick
“Brother can you spare a Krugerrand?”
11Well, though the trappings may not mean much to Carson, actual wealth and power seem pretty appealing to him.
12We have been told to leave off comments of Mrs. Carson, which is hard to do regarding her decorating choices, but maybe she should be nominated for sainthood for allowing him to choose the decor.
13Oh oh, I sense a Jesus pigmentation problem!
14Debbo, thank you for the link. Good for numerous snorts and snickers. But kind of sad that this crowd is the best we can do.
15I still say Jesus looks like Jonathan Scott from HGTV’s “Property Brothers.” With a spa bathrobe. Maybe he just came from taking a schvitz at the sauna.
16Oh, my Lord!
Wait!
Did I just say that?
17This is almost a “you do if you got them” situation, though. (Assuming all Texans have already heard the joke about the Texas woman in London.) Suppose you win a bunch of awards, and people give you a plaque or a medal or something when you come to speak.
If you throw them in the trash, that’s…ungrateful. If you stuff them in a box to show humility, what if the people who gave them to you come over (that’s the “Aunt Sally and Uncle Hubert” problem–they gave you that hideous Thing for a weddiing present and if you don’t have it in view when they come to visit, you’ll never hear the end of it.) Esp if the giver is powerful or rich, and you don’t have that item prominently displayed.
I’ve seen people with a row of trophies for volleyball or golf or riding horses over fences. Most of us like to have a brag on the wall…we just don’t generally have very many. I have mine up here and there. Not many, but I do enjoy glancing at them from time to time. What would I do if I had tons of them and some of them were highly regarded by lots of people? I dunno. I can say I’d hide a Nobel Prize for Literature at the bottom of my underwear drawer, but…really?
I can’t imagine having all that egoboo on the walls, but then I can’t imagine having all that egoboo in the first place.
18I don’t mind some egoboo on the wall. But a picture with Jesus’ hand on his shoulder and standing *behind* ? That’s not egoboo, that’s a messed up mind. Mental Ben accepts being placed Before Jesus.
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