I presume some of you have heard of Dr. Ben Carson.  There was a movie made of his life story, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. as Dr. Carson, called "The Ben Carson Story".
He is a black guy who grew up in poverty in Detroit in the home of a single mother.  He has become probably the very best pediatric neurosurgeon in the world, now head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins.
At age 61, he has announced his retirement from medical practice.  He gave the keynote address recently on the National Day of Prayer breakfast, with many notables, including Pres. Obama, in the audience.
Dr. Carson has left the door open to entering political life.  He is an ardent conservative - just the kind of guy we need who knows, first hand, how to improve the lot in life of those stuck in poverty.

Srinath -

Maybe you are right about those who have been thru something being dismissive of others facing the same thing.
I gave up doing primary flight instruction years ago, because I became very impatient of students who didn't learn quickly.  I remember sitting there, beside them, thinking to myself that this isn't rocket science, it's basically just learning how to operate a machine, and why couldn't they do it.  I never said that to a student, but I thought it many times over.

Bill -

What do you know about this man?  From your comment, I think that you don't know much about him.
Did you ever see the movie I mentioned?  He is very ethical.
He got in the limelight because he's the very best neurosurgeon in the world.  He has been famous for decades, not just recently.
I first read about his surgery skills probably 20 years ago.
There are very few black men his age who ever even got into med school, let alone accomplish what he has done, included separating two twins who were conjoined at the head and had parts of their brains in common.  They are now normal, healthy teenagers.
This man is not one in a million - he is one in the whole world.

Jerry;
Carson is screwed. He's a black conservative so he doesn't fit the mold the media has for black men.

I'm guessing our friends Starlifter and Sew disagree with Carson. When we disagree with obama we are racist but when they disagree with Carson they are what?....

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 02/17/13 at 19:25:54:


I do understand all the other rules and follow ... what exactly are you referring to ?

Cool.
Srinath.

Boy..... you guys will argue about ANYTHING!

OOOO the republicons want to educate me about the 2nd amendment ... isn't that touching ...

You want to show me this interwebringthingamajig working as well .. I mean we have internet in our country, but it comes by donkey ...

There is plenty of amendments that need to be thrown in the trash starting with the 14th. The 2nd not so clear cut, IMHO ... but it was written to help an armed citizenry defend the country and dissolution of the military during peace times, and to be armed to overthrow a tyrannical govt ... neither of which is ever going to happen. The govt has shredded the spine of the 2nd. Now the NRA is using it as a cover to cause fear and sell their product and help random people shoot each other ...

Now after the many manuevers of the NRA, Owning a gun IMHO is an acknowledgement that you have been giving the NRA a blowjob ... much like smoking cigarettes was the perfect way to give RJR and Phillip Morris a blow job.

Cool.
Srinath.

To each their own. I was actually trying to be polite and reasonable.

I served my country to help protect everyone's rights. I won't try to deny anyone their rights or beliefs and all I ask in return is that they do the same.

Srinath, your comments about the NRA are just about the same level as Starlifter saying that the NRA is a terrorist organization.