Comments on: What Ever Happened to Civility?

By: oldmanriver

oldmanriver — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 03:22:29 +0000

Linda,

Whenever I see someone start talking about the mark of the beast etc etc. I just usually assume they are off their rocker a little bit.
Anyone that can get anything meaningful out of the book of Revelations I wonder about. All the predictions made in Revelations have been happening continually since the time of Christ and before. The big take away from Revelations is that he can come back at anytime. My sect of Christianity doesn’t put much stock in Revelations for whatever its worth. At least you have something that you enjoy doing and you arent hurting anyone. If you choose to buy popsicle sticks and fill your house up with them thats your business.

By: jlsim66

jlsim66 — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:23:28 +0000

dogone Nco’s are always training wonder if listen. Sorry I joined the NCO corps becuase I believe. There is a higher truth to be served. not easy but worthwhile

By: lynne

lynne — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:37:06 +0000

This is the stuff that pissed off my LT’s mostly. I did read Jomini, Clausewitz, Sun-tzu, Mahan and Liddel-Hart. I showed off that I knew some those folks, also I read their books and told the ring-knocking west pointers what I thought of them. Probably not politic especially I after i told most pointers are sacked after 90 days in a real war. Well it was out there. I still think I was right. But I’m sure other folks will disagree.
Damn I have to learn not to stick my head up for “whack a mole”.
Well Linda I’ll be there with you telling folks that the emperor has no clothes.

By: Lynne

Lynne — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:38:32 +0000

I’m reminded of 2 quotes.
“An Armed society, is a polite Society” Robert Heinlein
“Everything in war is simple. It’s just that the simple things are Hard”
Clausewitz “On War”

By: Linda Brady Traynham

Linda Brady Traynham — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:33:42 +0000

Dear Cary: Thanks for the emotional support, and I would love to hear about your former line of work. Do you give lessons? Linda

By: Linda Brady Traynham

Linda Brady Traynham — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:32:48 +0000

Dear Steve:

What a beautiful response, thank you! You make me feel like a heroine out of an L. E. Modesitt novel. I’m like one of his Order Mages, controlling chaos. Well, at least in my immediate vicinity, usually.

Actually…I don’t like to be angry (many people DO), and when I am my response is to grow quieter and more formal. We South’n ladies fight dirty with phrases like “I BEG your pardon?!” and “I don’t believe you understood what I said,” which could escalate to “Let me make something perfectly clear,” and culminate in “How DARE you?!” No shouting, no vulgarity or obscenity, very civilized. That reminds me of an article I wrote on W&G about the benefits of duelling! Thanks for taking my back, guy. Linda

By: Linda Brady Traynham

Linda Brady Traynham — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:13:46 +0000

Dear Essie: Thank you for the comfort and wisdom. I’m always taken aback when anyone is rude to anyone, far less to sweet little old me. They must lead very unhappy lives. I accept that our writing publically lays us open to attacks, and even that if we don’t get sniped at occasionally we aren’t really doing our jobs. I suppose we all have chinks in our armor, and I’m pleased that none of my (really very few) detractors has managed to discover any of mine. Better yet, I make friends with great people like you, Steve, and Cary. The question still stands: how did America get to be such an angry, mannerless nation? What can we do to change that other than being good examples? Hug, Linda

By: C Harriger

C Harriger — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:50:52 +0000

We live in a time when people ‘confuse feeling with knowledge’. I once worked in an industry that fooled people into thinking they were choosing based on knowledge when it was an emotional response. Today, it has become high art, far more sophisticated as is evidenced by the band of brothers in DC. I don’t think this guy will make our list of ‘people we would like to have coffee with’. c-

By: Oilwelldoctor

Oilwelldoctor — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:15:11 +0000

Hi Linda,

don’t take people like sidagong to heart. And hey, somebody’s got to pay the mortgage on that bused down trailer with a second!

As far a inheritance goes, well… as I think I mentioned before, all I have seen from it is is spoiled children, grand children, etc. My father told me of my inheritance just before he died. I wish he would have spent it on me when I needed it, but then again, doing what was necessary (I won’t say on my own because I had a lot of friends), made me a stronger person I suppose.

Money is a store of wealth, a way to store work for later leaner times; nothing more. Sometimes we have to borrow money, to ask those we trust to help us work, but hopefully this borrowing pays off. A new barn to raise calfs or the like, or maybe opening a shop servicing Jaguars (most honerable)!

To live on borrowed money is extremely foolish. Unfortunately, our government encouraged such action over the last 15 years. People bought it too. Now we all pay for those mistakes.

See healthcare passed. I am going to Thailand. No standing in line behind a crack whore for this old boy.

Jeff

By: Steve Foste

Steve Foste — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:02:21 +0000

Destruction of your childrens inheritance,mark of the devil! The only people I see that is ruining our childrens inheritance is the Government.

This person must be a politician or a wanna be politician, for he doen’t understand his adversary.If he things he can get in a war of words with Gary and Linda I would very much enjoy the fireworks, It would be a very short dialog, I for one know better than to take on two intellegent people who generally think things through and take their actions accordingly.

As for the trade goods and the mark of the devil, we would at least know where we stood in that scenerio and fight back accordingly.

sidagong, you would be wise to choose your adversaries more carefully.