This is something you should talk to psych about. It is called 'Narcissistic Personality Disorder'
You believe that using your full name lends gravitas and authority to your drivel. In fact it is a barrier to your audience. It feels a bit ostentatious, even priggish. Us mere mortals can get by perfectly well without its use.
Hey David, I just read the article in TIME Magazine. It was a very well written piece that really highlights the struggles of returning soldiers in a moving way. Bravo! for helping make public the plight of thousands of veterans out there. Take care!
For those friends, acquaintances and loved ones reading this post, the link to TIME Magazine's article is here:
Thanks for writing. I think you make some really important points! But I think that the advice you give re. racism also applies to homosexuality - maybe if you asked your gay friends they would explain to you that things aren't always as simple as sexual acts or escaping abusive relationships.
This is very useful info... You are very insightful and as I read this I can tell how strong minded you are about thus subject. I have read to my children as that they know a little history about our history as African Americans because they will never learn this at school... Much respect BABY
Hello Michael, By any chance, could you be the same person I used to deal with for tickets... I used to met you at a place in the far northeast at a McDonalds... If it's really you, you'll know the intersection... I purchased many tickets for you to resell from a Bookstore in Doylestown, PA .... Hopefully its you.... Sincerely, Tony
yes, holidays are depressing in a prison, I know from my pen pals. George sends me articles regularly and they are sometimes very depressing! He sent one lately with the titel: Throwing away the key. What does America do with its people!!! I read this: A shocking number of non-violent Americans will die in prison.
A man of 22 was sentenced to life in prison and with no possibility of parole. In his teens he got hooked on drugs and was convicted of marijuana possession, trepassing and petty theft. He was then jailed for a burglary he committed when he was 16, and this was his undoing. He stole his stephfather's gun within three years of his release; under a Florida mandatory -sentencing law for re-offenders, the judge had to lock him up for ever. Lance Saltzman took the gun from his stephdad. Because he threatened his mom. He sold it to a friend, who used it in a burglary. Mr S. was charged with burglary, theft and being a felon in possession of a firearm- all for taking a gun from his own house- as well as with burglary committed using the gun, in which he says he took no part. Isn't that a sad story.....
Mr S. is one of at least 3,278 people serving sentences of life without parole for non- violent crimes, according to a new report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Around 79% of them were convicted of drug crimes. These include:having an unweighably small amount of cocaine in a shirt pocket, selling 10-dollar worth of crack to a police informant and mailing small amounts of LSD to fellow Grateful Dead fans. Property crimes that earned offenders a permanent home in prison include shoplifting three belts, breaking into an empty liquor store and possessing stolen wrenches.
Some were triggered by "three-strikes" laws, which demand a severe penalty for a 3rd crime, no matter how minor. Among federal prisoners, blacks are 20 times more likely to receive such sentences: they are 65% of the national total, compared with 18% for whites and 16% for Latinos.In some states teh numbers are yet more skewed: blacks are 91% of non-violent life-without- parole prisonersin Louisiana,79% in Mississippi and 68% in South Carolina. The ACLU estimates that life-without-Parole sentences for non-violent offenders add 1,8 billion of dollars to the cost of incarcerating those to whom they apply.
Tremendously sad....
Kelly, it is late here... well you can see what I read. :-(((
Take care of yourself, stay strong and help where needed.
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You believe that using your full name lends gravitas and authority to your drivel. In fact it is a barrier to your audience. It feels a bit ostentatious, even priggish. Us mere mortals can get by perfectly well without its use.
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For those friends, acquaintances and loved ones reading this post, the link to TIME Magazine's article is here:
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2164226,00.html
Thanks for writing. I think you make some really important points! But I think that the advice you give re. racism also applies to homosexuality - maybe if you asked your gay friends they would explain to you that things aren't always as simple as sexual acts or escaping abusive relationships.
But chuy your really good primo, im pround of you
By any chance, could you be the same person I used to deal with for tickets... I used to met you at a place in the far northeast at a McDonalds... If it's really you, you'll know the intersection...
I purchased many tickets for you to resell from a Bookstore in Doylestown, PA .... Hopefully its you....
Sincerely,
Tony
yes, holidays are depressing in a prison, I know from my pen pals. George sends me articles regularly and they are sometimes very depressing!
He sent one lately with the titel: Throwing away the key. What does America do with its people!!!
I read this: A shocking number of non-violent Americans will die in prison.
A man of 22 was sentenced to life in prison and with no possibility of parole.
In his teens he got hooked on drugs and was convicted of marijuana possession, trepassing and petty theft.
He was then jailed for a burglary he committed when he was 16, and this was his undoing. He stole his stephfather's gun within three years of his release; under a Florida mandatory -sentencing law for re-offenders, the judge had to lock him up for ever.
Lance Saltzman took the gun from his stephdad. Because he threatened his mom. He sold it to a friend, who used it in a burglary.
Mr S. was charged with burglary, theft and being a felon in possession of a firearm- all for taking a gun from his own house- as well as with burglary committed using the gun, in which he says he took no part.
Isn't that a sad story.....
Mr S. is one of at least 3,278 people serving sentences of life without parole for non- violent crimes, according to a new report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Around 79% of them were convicted of drug crimes. These include:having an unweighably small amount of cocaine in a shirt pocket, selling 10-dollar worth of crack to a police informant and mailing small amounts of LSD to fellow Grateful Dead fans. Property crimes that earned offenders a permanent home in prison include shoplifting three belts, breaking into an empty liquor store and possessing stolen wrenches.
Some were triggered by "three-strikes" laws, which demand a severe penalty for a 3rd crime, no matter how minor.
Among federal prisoners, blacks are 20 times more likely to receive such sentences: they are 65% of the national total, compared with 18% for whites and 16% for Latinos.In some states teh numbers are yet more skewed: blacks are 91% of non-violent life-without- parole prisonersin Louisiana,79% in Mississippi and 68% in South Carolina.
The ACLU estimates that life-without-Parole sentences for non-violent offenders add 1,8 billion of dollars to the cost of incarcerating those to whom they apply.
Tremendously sad....
Kelly, it is late here... well you can see what I read. :-(((
Take care of yourself, stay strong and help where needed.
a big hug from your friend, Rita!