Jimmy Carter Enters Hospice Care at Home {Edit: Jimmy Carter has passed (12/29/2024)} (2 Viewers)

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saintmdterps said:
Umm, some of us can personally relate to "Gimme Three Steps"

Always glad for my fast car in those days...
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I was always too scared to get in trouble as a youth. So I never did anything that could get me in trouble. And if it was illegal in any possible way, I completely avoided it.

I certainly didn’t need Ronnie to remind me how dangerous it was to do a lot of things that my peers were doing. I only speeded one time in my car in my entire life… and I got stopped and ticketed.

That was my sign that I would never get away with doing anything that was wrong. So I never tempted fate the rest of my life. The girls never liked me much. But I later learned that they are actually more trouble than breaking the law.
 
tenordas said:
Carter is the only President in my lifetime that I truly respect as an honourable human being.

He was dealt a bad hand when he took office, largely from holdover problems that originated with Kennedy and were made worse by Johnson and Nixon, and he just didn't have the skills to deal with the problems he faced while President, but he is a great and honourable human being who has done a lot of great things for humanity in his life. My thoughts are with him and his family.
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He was dealt a bad hand but he also made some pre-existing problems worse, like not recognizing that the fall of the Shah’s regime and bitter memories of Operation Ajax US-UK 1953 coup that overthrew Mossadegh and how their might be a backlash if Khomenei co-opts the nationalist fervor and feeling and points it at the USA embassy. He was told by his NSA, Zbnewski, his VP, Mondale that if they allowed a sick, ailing Pahlavi into the US for medical care, their might be a vicious reaction and 44 years ago, their was an international incident where 53 Americans were held hostage for 14 months and a badly-arranged, planned rescue attempt (Operation Eagle Claw) hurt American prestige, reputation and destroyed Carter’s chances of winning a second term.

He was a bit naive in his dealings with Brezhnev when it came to detente and thinking the Soviets were serious about nuclear missile-reduction or reducing ballistic missile stocks. I don’t think Brezhnev respected him as a statesman as he had Nixon.

He may have been dealt a bad hand, but so was Clinton in 1992 when he inherited a shaky economy and through some hard work, a lot of luck (dot com bubble), by the mid-90’s our economy was great and roaring again. A lot of Presidents have been dealt unfair bad hands, but they worked themselves through the problems, Carter made quite a few bad problems actually a bit worse like stagflation, rising interest rates, rising oil prices, and his “malaise” speech was misinterpreted as blaming most Americans for the domestic, economic issues.
 
Bill said:
I was always too scared to get in trouble as a youth. So I never did anything that could get me in trouble. And if it was illegal in any possible way, I completely avoided it.

I certainly didn’t need Ronnie to remind me how dangerous it was to do a lot of things that my peers were doing. I only speeded one time in my car in my entire life… and I got stopped and ticketed.

That was my sign that I would never get away with doing anything that was wrong. So I never tempted fate the rest of my life. The girls never liked me much. But I later learned that they are actually more trouble than breaking the law.
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All those thing you may have wanted to but didn't...I done 'em. Paid the price too, in many ways
 
saintmdterps said:
Umm, some of us can personally relate to "Gimme Three Steps"

Always glad for my fast car in those days...

All that said, Peace and Blessings be upon Jimmy and Rosalind Carter. You truly will leave this world a better place than you found it. Your good works will be known.
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He was a better ex-President than actual President. Good, honorable people don’t always make good, decisive leaders. If he’d been POTUS maybe in the early-mid 90’s, he could’ve conceivably achieved more.
 
faceman said:
Saturday Night Special is another.

Ain't good for nothing except put a man 6 feet in the hole. I always believed the song promoted some
form of gun control.
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This song is my own personal misheard lyrics. Now, I went to a high school whose colors, like the Saints, are black and gold so that's what was on my mind and what I sang. Till one night my boyfriend heard me singing it and was laughing. He goes, The line is BLUE AND COLD. Oh.
 
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faceman said:
Saturday Night Special is another.

Ain't good for nothing except put a man 6 feet in the hole. I always believed the song promoted some
form of gun control.
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It it did, the band itself didn’t follow the best of examples. Ronnie Van Zandt was a big gun lover, as were many other members of the band. Saturday Night Specials were cheap, inexpensive handguns and then as now, were involved in many homicides, murders and killings.

Plus, Skynyrd, at one point, were kicked out of pretty much every London hotel and bar in the mid-70’s due to Ronnie getting into bar fights and drunken disputes. His attitude really didn’t start changing until his daughter was born in early 1977.
 
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saintmdterps said:
Lynyrd Skynyrd was perhaps the most misunderstood band by its fans. Sweet Home Alabama is almost as misinterpreted as Born in the USA. Skynyrd however, knowing the demographics of its fan base, couched its lyrics in a bit of good ole by rhetoric. You really had to read between the lines.

"In Birmingham they loved the governor, (Boo boo boo)" really meant "**** on ya
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If one listens to the end of the song, though, they say “and the governor’s true” and in 1974, that was still George Wallace, so they criticized and supposedly praised him in the same song. Again, if Skynyrd’s was pandering to their audience and demographics, they should’ve decided which lane to stay in, like the Allman Brothers did. Then again, the Allmans were more of a deep, Southern “psychedelic blues band” than Lynyrd Skynyrd being more of a boogie, hard-rock band with a Southern “ethos” and “image culture” attached to them. Plus, Skynyrd wrote “Sweet Home Alabama” as a response to Neil Young’s stereotypical, cliched anti-South/anti-Wallace song, “Southern Man”, from 1970.

There isn’t any nuance to “Born in the USA”, Springsteen makes it perfectly clear that a former Vietnam veteran, who joined the military to get out of a possibly long jail sentence, comes back and has fewer, limited economic opportunities for advancement and mobility and faces public scorn, ridicule from butt crevasse former anti-war protesters still bitter and public about a long-finished war. It’s a very bleak, despairing song with very little hope attached to it and stays in its own lane. It got misinterpreted as a patriotic song because of its hopeful-euphoric sounding beat to it.
 
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tenordas said:
Carter is the only President in my lifetime that I truly respect as an honourable human being.

He was dealt a bad hand when he took office, largely from holdover problems that originated with Kennedy and were made worse by Johnson and Nixon, and he just didn't have the skills to deal with the problems he faced while President, but he is a great and honourable human being who has done a lot of great things for humanity in his life. My thoughts are with him and his family.
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Humanitarian yes. But as a President during the height of the cols war. NOT!
 
Pre-Jimmy


Smith's family lived in poverty, although she later claimed that she and her siblings were unaware, since even though their family "didn't have money," neither did "anyone else, so as far as we knew, we were well off."[5] Churches and schools were at the center of her family's community, and the people of Plains were familiar with each other.[6] Smith played with the boys during her early childhood since no girls on her street were her age. She drew buildings and was interested in airplanes, which led her to believe that she would someday become an architect.[7]

Rosalynn's father died of leukemia when she was 13 in 1940. She called the loss of her father the conclusion of her childhood.[8] Thereafter, she helped her mother raise her younger siblings, as well as assisting in the dressmaking business in order to meet the family's financial obligations.[9]Rosalynn would credit her mother with inspiring her own independence and said that she learned from her mother that "you can do what you have to do".[10] At Plains High School, Rosalynn worked hard to achieve her father's dream of seeing her go to college.[9] Rosalynn graduated as salutatorian of Plains High School. Soon after, she attended Georgia Southwestern College and graduated in 1946
 
guidomerkinsrules said:
Pre-Jimmy


Smith's family lived in poverty, although she later claimed that she and her siblings were unaware, since even though their family "didn't have money," neither did "anyone else, so as far as we knew, we were well off."[5] Churches and schools were at the center of her family's community, and the people of Plains were familiar with each other.[6] Smith played with the boys during her early childhood since no girls on her street were her age. She drew buildings and was interested in airplanes, which led her to believe that she would someday become an architect.[7]

Rosalynn's father died of leukemia when she was 13 in 1940. She called the loss of her father the conclusion of her childhood.[8] Thereafter, she helped her mother raise her younger siblings, as well as assisting in the dressmaking business in order to meet the family's financial obligations.[9]Rosalynn would credit her mother with inspiring her own independence and said that she learned from her mother that "you can do what you have to do".[10] At Plains High School, Rosalynn worked hard to achieve her father's dream of seeing her go to college.[9] Rosalynn graduated as salutatorian of Plains High School. Soon after, she attended Georgia Southwestern College and graduated in 1946
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Crazy, Jimmy entered hospice in February and outlived Rosalynn. RIP.
 

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