Ben Carson claims he was a violent boy.  He tried to stab a friend, but the blade broke on the friend's metal belt buckle.  After this incident, capping a boisterous career of rock throwing and trying to brain his mother with a hammer, Carson says he took the proverbial look in the mirror and changed course, resulting in the Christian helper of mankind he became--a Yale-educated neurosurgeon, the first doctor to successfully separate conjoined twins.
     He wrote about his childhood violence in a 1990 autobiography.  CNN researched his past, interviewing childhood friends and acquaintances, but none of them were able to substantiate Carson's tales of young teenage rage.  Carson now fights back, verbally, scolding journalists for wasting time when so many problems exist in our great nation.  Watching his falling eyelids and listening to his voice, which always sounds partially anesthetized, as he tries to own attacking his mother with a hammer and attempting to murder his friend with a knife, makes for a comical sketch in this most ridiculous presidential campaign season.
     I imagine a more vociferous Carson, angry and showing it as he defends his past:

     "I did try to kill my mother with a hammer!  I did try to do a West Side Story knife thrust into my buddy's abdomen!"

     The real anti-candidate Carson wants us to accept his violent past, while most politicians would try to conceal theirs.  He says he's not a politician, but given the likelihood that the CNN investigative journalists did a good job and were unable to corroborate his stories after interviewing those who knew the young Carson, he's taken on one key political practice: lying.

     Following up on the most recent post, Lieutenant Charles Gliniewicz, the "hero" cop who staged his death on September 1 of this year, tried to hire a motorcycle gang leader to kill a village administrator who was close to discovering evidence of his corruption.  Gliniewicz, it emerges, was a total shit with thirty years of practice as a cop, using his position to facilitate unlawful activities.
     Meanwhile, national news outlets that promoted his "tragic" martyrdom--before they knew the nature of the man--fail now to acknowledge their own past elevation of this base creep to the ranks of glory.  They report about his crimes without once admitting they fell under the spell of a made-up truth--one manufactured by the creep himself, an embezzler who managed to screw the people of Illinois out of a further 300,000 dollars simply by making authorities, and news outlets, believe in the existence of fictitious murderers.  Gliniewicz's last ploy, no doubt, was carried out so that he could, indeed, become a hero.  It worked for two months.  Now, a memorial photograph of the asshole displayed outside somewhere in Fox Lake, Illinois, has a black L drawn over his forehead.
     Loser.  But who won?

                                                                               Vic Neptune