Posted on 03/21/2009 1:24:43 PM PDT by wagglebee
Well, in some states, he can’t get a concealed-carry permit, if he wanted to.
It doesn't bother me, I just wondered why you brought it up since it has NOTHING to do with this column.
his felon status should not be scrubbed from the first paragraph of his biography.
What difference does it make what paragraph in which it appears? You act as if Colson is trying to hide his past.
** crickets **
I am fairly certain that Colson could have obtained a presidential pardon a long time ago if he wanted one, my guess is that he WANTS his conviction to stay on the record.
Here is the opening portion of his biography on BreakPoint, NOBODY would print this if they were ashamed of their past:
Almost 25 years ago, Charles W. Colson was not thinking about reaching out to prison inmates or reforming the U.S. penal system.
In fact, this aide to president Richard Nixon was "incapable of humanitarian thought," according to the media of the mid-1970s.
Depends on the state and/or county.
I am fairly certain that Colson could have obtained a presidential pardon a long time ago if he wanted one, my guess is that he WANTS his conviction to stay on the record.
That wouldn't surprise me.
And if his online bio had actual paragraphs, instead of sentence breaks, the part about his guilty plea and prison term probably *would* be in the first paragraph.
I'm a big fan of Mr. Colson's. I just can't help answering a question when one is posed!
I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out.
It’s one of my pet peeves of online journalism. I don’t know if the authors actually write that way, or if it turns up in the formatting step.
It must be the way it was written, latter parts of his bio DO have multiple sentences in single paragraphs.
It's not as bad as the habit that some FReepers have of actually breaking up sentences into multiple paragraphs.
Looking at the article on this thread, most of the paragraphs are single sentence, and a minority contain two or more. None would pass as a paragraph for English-class purposes.
It must just be a convention of the medium. They do the same thing with Thomas Sowell’s columns.
LOL - with no punctuation or capitals! Catz typying.
I must flee - we’re taking Anoreth out to dinner to celebrate her 18th birthday (a week early)!
These commentaries are actually taken from his daily radio broadcasts. My suspicion is that he writes it this way because it "reads better" with the breaks and then what he writes is put online without being correctly formatted.
I WAS NOT referring to xsmommy, she is a dear FRiend of mine (though I often wonder how she made it through law school without learning to captitalize).
Never occurred to me. I was thinking of some of the bizarre vanities and posts from wacky websites.
Both have had multiple operations and radio/chemo therapy after-wards, both given bad prognosis and yet both are still here and fighting. One is the non believer is currently in remission from what I heard through a friend and the other our neighbour who is a believer has just been told that the cancer has spread again and showing in her bones again.
This lady has beaten the odds the last year and half being told that she was unlikely to see another Christmas back in January 2008. She is just about to undergo 57th chemo treatment and due to have a pic line put back in shortly, I think they need to build her up first because she is naturally very petite and she does struggle with food. Though they say she is still terminal they judge that a further course will extend her life and may even cause the cancer to retreat a little.
I think maybe the real story may well be your attitude to the actual disease which may in many cases given a Christian a more positive reaction if they understand the endurance aspect of their faith on the other hand it can work the other way and make them more fatalistic and not fight as much.
i explain it this way— posting to FR, to me, is like taking notes in class or scribbling a note to a friend.i am not writing a brief or a treatise : ) Not referring to you guys, but there are those on FR who utterly delight in their proper use of punctuation etc and love to rag on those who don’t feel similarly compelled to use it. i smile at them, indulgently, happy that they have that one small thing to hug to themselves and about which to feel superior ; )
Someone once told me that criticism is the unconscious tribute that failure and mediocrity pay to success.
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