Posted on 08/10/2012 5:43:05 PM PDT by neverdem
Thanks for the ping!
They're not even in the running.
You may be right. Birds of a feather. .
I’ve practiced law for 30 years. My observations are that duplicitous, abusive, unethical, tyrannical, hysterical narsissists are often the ones receiving professional awards, being elevated to public office, and being memorialized in stone. I recently read that the most successful and beloved among us are generally evil people.
Reminds me of some judges and opposing counsels...
I guess you have to live through one of these episodes to understand what a nightmare it is.
Dr. Hare wrote a book in 1992 called, "Without Conscience." I highly recommend it.
Learning to work for a crazy boss is an invaluable skill that is best learned as early along as possible.
Learning to work for a crazy boss is an invaluable skill that is best learned as early along as possible.
Sounds just like the fruitcake who finished off my dad's Air Force career. (There were two: the first was just lazy and dishonest. This guy was batsh!t crazy.)
Wound up confined in a mental institution less than two years after my dad collided with him. The fur flew when Captain Bligh demanded that a pair of 60 wpm TTY terminals be moved from the 60 wpm room to the 100 wpm TTY room, because all the 100 wpm machines were gray, except for two black ones he wanted removed. He wanted all gray machines ... regardless of datarate. My dad tried to explain why that couldn't be done ...... and the guy went off like a bottle rocket. That's all it takes with a guy like that.
Good quote about the Democrats. Caligula would have been a Democrat, too.
Years later, after the old man had passed peacefully, I found out what a double armload of drama-queen Shatner is, and that many H'wood people who've worked with him dislike him intensely. But the penny never dropped for a long time with me, that Shatner had not been "in character" so much when playing James T. Kirk, and that my old man's radar had been working correctly.
Mine, not so much.
Old Sufi wisdom: Never give a job to the person who wants it the worst. Wish people voted like that -- like they did in the 18th and early 19th century. Projecting ambition was the kiss of death to a candidate back then. Even Abe Lincoln had to feign disinterest in the Republican convention in Chicago in 1860 -- he didn't even go, in order to be seen not chasing the nomination, when of course he wanted it so he could burn the South down.
Excellent and true. The quest for power, power over others, is devilish.
Good post; good recommendation (I haven’t read the book, yet). Dr. Hare is cited here in this OUTSTANDING video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tro2U-cezqo
I’ve spent around thirty-five years within the Air Force and DoD. I can truthfully say that I’ve been around a dozen people who should have been mentally evaluated, and at least two should have been in a permanent facility.
In one case, the Air Force had examined the person....prescribed the maximum amount of prozac possible, having weekly sessions with the mental health office on base. It didn’t help. No one would dare suggest kicking her out. Her boss finally figured out that she was overweight and hadn’t been working on her weight problem....three months later, she was out. They couldn’t do it for mental issues, but they could do it for weight issues. Go figure.
There’s a four-star general that the Air Force had...who should have been removed for mental issues. Later after he retired, he ended up as a university chancellor, and lasted around seven months before they fired him (daily friction in grasping the environment and working with people). Today, he collects his pension, but I don’t think he works for any company.
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