krastner
more experienced than you
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One thing I learned about , early in my life, was all about what a nit picker was. It
occurred when I tried to win off the local three card Monte scammer. I had a quick sense of observation then. The idea was that you kept your eye on the cards and didn't get distracted. After the cards were laid out I knew which one to pick. That's when the nit picker went into overdrive. At first he was just a bystander but became highly excited "hey I got the card..it's not that one..it's this one..." Another one piped up.."No it's not that one..I got the one" who said that there had to be only one nit picker..To make it short I lost because I changed my mind under the pressure and picked the wrong card. The real card was the one I originally thought. I lost all my paper route money. Later I saw the three of the scam team together, living it up on my money..I have never Gambled in the years to come so in a way I won because I learned from it..I swore never to let nit pickers make me doubt myself.
The war in Iraq has all the ear marks of a nit picking incident...It's not a sensible or legal war. The benefits to the US should they prevail is dubious. The negative part is that it is polarizing the country, that and people are dying and a country being destroyed. Iraq and the US. So I ask is there something else going on. Like Russia and China..Hey we won the cold war right..We defeated the soviets..Now they are dead..right? They folded and admitted that we were too powerful for them and quit..right? All the nuclear weapons were destroyed..right..?
occurred when I tried to win off the local three card Monte scammer. I had a quick sense of observation then. The idea was that you kept your eye on the cards and didn't get distracted. After the cards were laid out I knew which one to pick. That's when the nit picker went into overdrive. At first he was just a bystander but became highly excited "hey I got the card..it's not that one..it's this one..." Another one piped up.."No it's not that one..I got the one" who said that there had to be only one nit picker..To make it short I lost because I changed my mind under the pressure and picked the wrong card. The real card was the one I originally thought. I lost all my paper route money. Later I saw the three of the scam team together, living it up on my money..I have never Gambled in the years to come so in a way I won because I learned from it..I swore never to let nit pickers make me doubt myself.
The war in Iraq has all the ear marks of a nit picking incident...It's not a sensible or legal war. The benefits to the US should they prevail is dubious. The negative part is that it is polarizing the country, that and people are dying and a country being destroyed. Iraq and the US. So I ask is there something else going on. Like Russia and China..Hey we won the cold war right..We defeated the soviets..Now they are dead..right? They folded and admitted that we were too powerful for them and quit..right? All the nuclear weapons were destroyed..right..?