A driver who is going 55 mph in the passing lane, along with another car on his right, holds up every rush-hour driver, thousands of people, for about ten to fifteen minutes.
The police, naturally, go after “aggressive drivers,” tired people who want to get home and resent spending an extra fifteen minutes on the road, a total of at least a thousand hours, so some impotent old man can prove he knows how fast everybody should go.
Thousands of people spend thousands of extra hours on the road for that one clown.
“Yesbuts” are exactly like that.
A “yesbut” is somebody who makes a promise to get back to you and doesn’t.
When you are trying to get something done, you will call people and clear it with them. Then you run into a “yesbut.” He doesn’t get back to you and everything gets jammed, like traffic behind that impotent clown in the passing lane who wants his one chance to bully the world.
One “yesbut” holds EVERYBODY up.
A “yesbut” doesn’t last long in serious business. Grownups don’t play that game.
PS: A yesbut is also known as a “flake.”
#1 by Peter on 10/13/2005 - 5:41 pm
On August 15, didn’t an unnamed someone promise to get back to me on Israel Cohen and Thomas G. Abernathy? Doesn’t Lake note the irony of one yesbut complaining about others?
#2 by Bob on 10/14/2005 - 10:19 am
I need to be reminded.
Senility makes one a flake.
Which is why I am retired.
#3 by Peter on 10/14/2005 - 11:56 pm
On Aug 15, 2005, at 11:27 AM, robert w. whitaker wrote:
Give me the title of the book and I might just find it for you.
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The title is: Racial Program(me) of the Twentieth Century (or “Radical Program…”), by Israel Cohen, ca 1912. I looked through Abebooks online, and found a number of books by him on Zionism and Jews in politics.
If you find the book, let me know how you did it.
Here is the quotation, which you probably have heard before:
“We must realize that our Party’s most powerful weapon is racial tension. By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races that for centuries they have been oppressed by whites, we can mould them to the program of the Communist Party. In America, we will aim for subtle victory. While inflaming the Negro minority against the whites, we will endeavour to instill in the whites a guilt complex for their exploitation of the Negroes.”
Thomas G. Abernathy put it into the Congressional Record for June 7, 1957 (p 8559). (I have not verified this with the actual Record.) I presume that the quotation refers to a proposed Communist Party. Abernathy says Cohen was one of the original Fabians.
Jews don’t realize that declaring a book nonexistent or “forged” makes it so much more interesting.
Peter
#4 by Peter on 10/17/2005 - 11:17 am
Do you think Eustace Mullins lie about the book to Thomas G. Abernathy? (Some sources list page 7633 for Abernathy’s quotation in the Record). I hope your silence doesn’t mean one should call you “Yesbut Bob?” Nah.
#5 by Bob on 10/17/2005 - 1:07 pm
Peter,
Trying to bully me is a total waste of time.
You can get your congressman’s staff to get CRS to find ANY quotation in the Congressional record
#6 by Bob on 10/17/2005 - 1:22 pm
I reread your note. If you have not checked the Congressional Record, which is available in your local or college library, why are you bullying ME?
#7 by Peter on 10/18/2005 - 1:07 am
Sorry, Bob. I just now saw this note. I meant to tease you. It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve failed at making someone chuckle. You don’t have to look for the book. I thought you wanted to, but just needed a reminder. And if you don’t find my other notes humorous as I intended them, feel free to delete them.
And don’t forget to smile. We’re all rooting for you here. You’re a *good* genius in the classical sense. It’s good to have you around, good to hear your thoughts. A voice of sanity in the wilderness.
You put it all together. And so pithy, too.
#8 by Bob on 10/18/2005 - 10:33 am
Dammit, Peter, I am NOT TOUCHY!!
I get so sick of people calling me touchy!
Excuse me a second while I get my paper bag.
Whew, that’s better!
Something else I am getting tired of is people whispering behind my back about how paranoid I am.
And that cat stomping around next door is getting on my nerves.