I dont have ADD but I do have a very type A personality and might border obsessive compulsive behavior, as many lawyers do.

Face it Bruce, most of you guys are lucky to show up without wearing two plaids at the same time.

Higher than average amount of advanced attention deficit disorder too, or have you noticed?

They just read “All Quiet on the Western Front” in school and son said it was the best book he’s ever read.

Would someone please gift me a couple million to move to Greenwich? My ego simply can’t overrun without a smaller house in a richer town.

My frustration is exemplified by Michael Lawlor. He actually understands prison reform and the cost to the state. OTOH He supports gay marriage which I oppose but it doesn’t keep me up at night, Then he turns around (with butt buddy McDonald) and wants to micromanage the Catholic Church (at the bequest of one parishioner) and simply can’t find any budget cuts, or reorganizations, or layoffs, or apply any Lawlor/McDonald micro management techniques to apply to the State of CT.

The one thing Lawlor was voted for (managing the state of CTs finances) he can’t do. He won’t do. He’s defiant in his incompetence. He relishes the fact he won’t do his job and is proud of it. How can anyone not oppose Lawlor and his party hacks?

What? No taxpayer ever asked him to reform or micro-manage CT state government? It’s only the Catholic Church they wanted him to micro-manage? What’s next? He appoints himself and McDonald Rabbi and Rebbe?

I’ve never seen a greater admission to political incompetence. What’s his campaign slogan? I can’t manage state government but I can manage your churches and temples? Give me your checkbook–I’ll manage that too!

I met with Bruce today for breakfast and a long chat. Since he had mentioned that his father and mother were conservatives – He was misled long ago as a raw youth by some college professor, possibly the late William Kuntsler – I thought it might be useful to work a conversion at the Hartford eatery where we met. I aspersed him as best I could with sound conservative ideas and did detect some dangerous rightist tendencies in the lad; for instance, he is uncomfortable with the status quo – and we all know what that is in Connecticut. However, I detected a perverse resistance, and I’m not sure the conversion took. But I like to think seeds were planted, and he did pick up the tab – which I consider a minor triumph. We will have another shot at this later in the year — hopefully before Connecticut economy collapses in ruins — at some eatery in Vernon, most likely Rein’s. I may need some help. Who’s in? I’m thinking — TOTAL IMMERSION.

However my father didn’t witness any of that nor did he engage those perpetrators.
He only met some Nazi’s in the south of France towards the very end of the war when they were intent on destroying the evidence of their crimes, which was to include eliminating the witnesses.

Instead, and in his own words, “scared to death”, he and his small band of OSS agents, dropped by and eliminated all 235 who represented “the problem”. (And couldn’t get out of there and back to the states fast enough to suit him.)

I went too far in my last post. FWIW I would have deleted it seconds after posting it as I had that niggling feeling I should shelve it as soon as I posted it–it was too pointed and lacked any sense of subtlety or sensitivity. Accept my apologies.

You, like Goatboy, miss persist in missing the point, Gerard. I don’t want to go there at all. The only reason I brought any of that up was in a vain attempt to tell Goatboy not to make offensive comments based on stupid assumptions the way he does on pretty much every post I write.

But there’s not point trying to have a rational conversation with an irrational person, so I’m not going to respond to him. End of story.

At this point, I’m so disgusted with the commenters on this site, I’m starting to look forward to the day Ghengis decides to shut it down.

Everyone have a happy holiday.

Indeed, it was the Soviets that were responsible for the famine in Ukraine that may have touched Sara’s family: http://donpesci.blogspot.com/2005/01/famine-lies-justice-and-ukraine.html

People know who the detestable Fr. Coughlin was, but they do not know Walter Duranty.

Sara and GoatBoy. Obviously what you both need is a good mathematical model: we would need to know number of relatives deceased, expected fertility rates, and the distribution of age of childbearing at a minimum. Then we can address the issue who has suffered the most. Which is crass, irrelevant and crude. The Holocaust is comparable to … nothing. Just don’t go there.