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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-22-07 11:06 PM
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Condoleeza Rice - Concert Pianist?. Like Hell. (Because she is a sociopath, that's why)
Here is a paragraph from Judith Warner's piece in Saturday's (July 21, 2007) NYT.

'Rice, I read in the recent biography, "Twice as Good", is so incapable of empathy that, in her late teens, and after years of assiduous and ambitious practice, she was forced to give up her dreams of becoming a concert pianist because her teacher felt she didn't have the "interest or inclination" to "make someone else's thoughts and emotions (her) own."'

Mods, I hope that you can let this stick w/o link. I typed it directly out of the column and gave credit.

I believe this details that awful person in a thumbnail, in a nutshell.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-22-07 11:09 PM
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1. Bingo. Art is impossible without empathy.
So is public service.

"Who could have ever imagined . . . "
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-22-07 11:51 PM
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12. So very well put, B....
And you may have one too many degrees of separation (sp? I never effing know).

"public service" is the essence of Art in motion.

Are you coming to the Tiburon Art Festival (Aug 25-26)?

I will volunteer to be be your personal escort (it's my show, you know).

T
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-22-07 11:54 PM
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13. I accept!
:hi:
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 12:09 AM
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15. This is deadly serious Art.
Our jury consisted of Kenneth Baker (SF Chron art writer - big time) and Dr Lynn Orr (Curator-in-Charge of European paintings at the Museums of Fine Art, San Francisco - DeYoung, etc.). They had never juried together before and neither has ever done an outdoor thing.

The median level of art in our event blows every other outdoor festival away.

Do you still have my number?

We gonna pass a good time, 'cher.

Tom
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 12:15 AM
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16. I'm really looking forward to it, being a dabbler.
Hope the producing is going well!
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 12:38 AM
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23. It has destroyed my life.
I am serial.

But it was worth every bit of it.

Life gets curious, don't it?

T
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 12:40 AM
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24. Tell me about it. n/t
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 12:50 AM
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29. I will call you.
Are your numbers still good?

Good god, B,....
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 12:55 AM
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31. I'm sorry! Call me in the a.m., I'm not at home at the moment.
Number is still good.

:(
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-22-07 11:09 PM
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2. a narcissist, perhaps
That's the telling characteristic of a narcissist, that lack of empathy.
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Wiley50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-22-07 11:10 PM
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3. A pianist only that she can drink the most beer, maybe?
Hey Tom, how you been, bro?
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-22-07 11:24 PM
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8. You wouldn't believe.
Or maybe you would.

I was thinking of you just yesterday as my creaky old knees were grinding my way up the hill.

Walking on the edge of the feather, friend.

The flying comes easy...

The hardest part is when you fall.

I will get back to you.

Tom
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-22-07 11:10 PM
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4. I will never forget an interview she did back when she first became SOS
They filled the last quarter of the time with her playing the piano! I was stunned!! Here this lady is the new SOS of the most powerful nation on the planet, that nation is at war and she has so little to say that they have to fill the time slot with her giving a concert!!! Still just blows my mind.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-22-07 11:42 PM
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10. Exactly. And really -- how may times do we have to sit through "Chopsticks"?
Sheesh.
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Me. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-22-07 11:11 PM
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5. Here You Go
http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/07/judith-warner-crack-in-team-bush.html
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immoderate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-22-07 11:13 PM
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6. I've suspected as much.
Rice is a rote learning over-achiever. That's why she could never play jazz.

--IMM
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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-22-07 11:13 PM
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7. The link
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/07/21/opinion/21warner.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1185163918-gJfbpsOaaMzqT+TG6xT0Hw

Guest Columnist
TimesSelect A Crack in Team Bush


By JUDITH WARNER
Published: July 21, 2007
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-22-07 11:30 PM
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9. I think sfexpat said it quite beautifully -- about art and empathy.
How can Condi play Brahms -- reported to be her strong suit at the keyboard -- without inhabiting the emotional landscape?

Evidently the same way she presides over the State Department without giving a hoot in hell about lost lives in Iraq -- theirs and ours both.

A spectacular failure on all counts is Condoleezza Rice.

She coulda been a condentah.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 12:19 AM
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18. Like Hitler's paintings.
No empathy.

I am sure Brahms would have kicked her off the piano bench.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 12:26 AM
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19. LOL! I love that image. It would have sent her a long way, too, cuz
Brahms was a big guy.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 12:33 AM
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20. He grew up in a brothel too,
so imagine he would have said some 'interesting things' to her as well. :D

Condi should stick to playing music by Schoenberg, Webern and Berg. It suits her personality better. :)
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 12:34 AM
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21. Now THAT'S a picture!
Where was Johannes when we needed him?

Slacker mofo.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 12:36 AM
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22. Way'at TomInTib!
:hi: I haven't seen you in a while. How are you? :hi:
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 12:45 AM
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27. Dancing on the edge of the feather....
Catching baseballs off the roof in the dark.

Life has been throwing me some curves that I just cannot hit (but neither could Michael Jordan).

But I will be fine.

Thank you, buddy.
Tom
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pingzing58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-22-07 11:44 PM
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11. Let's see...buying shoes while New Orleans residents were drowning...yup no empathy.
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 12:02 AM
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14. Somehow, these individuals lacking empathy seem to find each other
Rice, Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, Gonzalez. I recall an article about one of Bush's Harvard professors that stated even as a young man he completely lacked empathy for others in his view of society.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 12:18 AM
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17. That's why they picked 'em.
I have a whole string of stuff about this but I type too slowly.

They have a whole raft of shit on every promising (one way or another) high-school and university student in the country.

I know this for a fact.

And this is not conjecture.

It's a fucking fact.

Duke University has this incredible outreach thing going on (my oldest son was in the program) that you might not believe. Reaches in to kindergarten.

They spot them early on.

And then there's the guy who used to play Wyatt Earp (I am not fucking kidding - google the guy).
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 12:42 AM
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25. The guy who played Wyatt Earp - do you mean actor Hugh O'Brian?
He's still alive I think but he must be in his late 80s.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 12:48 AM
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28. You would not believe the brainwash thing they have going.
At the high school level.

google it.
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Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 12:45 AM
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26. Bingo. Now we know why she's never been shown playing a piano.
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U4ikLefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 12:50 AM
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30. Concert Pianist? I dunno, but I hear she likes tulips on her organ!!!!
Edited on Mon Jul-23-07 12:52 AM by U4ikLefty
Is that true Goergie Boy???...oh, wait I'm repeating that scandilous rumor about the pRe$ident sleeping with Condi.

I'm sorry to be engaging in such rumor-mongering. Please forgive me.

Damn, I gotta stop listening to Stephanie(& the mooks)...NOT!!! ;)
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-23-07 02:37 AM
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32. Ms Rce was a failure in everything, just like her boss.
They both failed upward. If she resigned next week she would not be missed. She is a waste of Tax Payer's money.
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