"Bert Robbins" wrote in message
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"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Bert Robbins wrote:


Is it my fault that I wasn't sent overseas? No. I was ready to go if
called upon. When I was 18 I decided that I would join the USMC
Reserve
and serve my country while I was continuing my education and working
full
time. One of my prized possessions is my USMC Honorable Discharge pin.
You don't have one and you never will.

But I do have a pin for "perfect attendance" for one of my years in
high
school. You don't have one of those, and you never will. Actually, I'm
not
sure I have the pin anymore. Or my Boy Scout pins or merit badges.

You are jealous.

What were you doing when you were 18? Sitting around praying that your
lottery number was high enough that you wouldn't get drafted? Why
didn't
you ever serve your country?

I was in college at 18, Bertbrain. And I did serve my country, in an
exemplary manner. I got a nice hand-signed letter from the POTUS at
that
time, and the offer of a top-level job political job at a federal
agency,
the first of three top-level federal jobs I turned down. Well, two were
the same job, offered four years apart. Whatever.

Really, which President and what jobs? I was offered several "high"
level
jobs in the federal government too.

I don't have to fabricate my life's adventures and accomplishments. I
will tell you what they are and you can veify them easily.

I'm not that interested in you or your life, Bertie.


Yes, you are interested in every aspect of my life and the lives of all
of
the other "righties" too.


You on the other hand
will not respond to a direct quesiton

Yes, well, not being a marine, I respond to what I feel like responding
to, eh?

What did you do in Vietnam?


"Narcissists are grandiose. They live in an artificial self invented from
fantasies of absolute or perfect power, genius, beauty, etc. Normal
people's
fantasies of themselves, their wishful thinking, take the form of
stories --
these stories often come from movies or TV, or from things they've read or
that were read to them as children. They involve a plot, heroic activity
or
great accomplishments or adventu normal people see themselves in
action,
however preposterous or even impossible that action may be -- they see
themselves doing things that earn them honor, glory, love, riches, fame,
and
they see these fantasy selves as personal potentials, however tenuous"




"narcissists are habitually cruel in little ways, as well as big ones,
because they're paying attention to their fantasy and not to you"