A VERY telling look inside Ben Carson's house.

[nolabear]

I could go on and on about egotism. About how much gilding is necessary to cover up whatEVER the inside of his head is like. But I think I'll just let Jesus speak for me.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2015/nov/07/ben-carson-house-homage-to-himself-in-pictures

[Vinca]

1. I'm going to have to make this fast so I can pick my jaw up off the floor.

A painting of Carson and Jesus together?????????????? Holy shiite. They didn't opt for cute, blond Jesus either. It's "Duck Dynasty" Jesus. The chiseled misspelling is funny, too.

[spanone]

2. and....is Jesus in a bathrobe????

[Vinca]

4. Maybe it's "Spa Jesus." LOL.

[spanone]

6. the doctor & Jesus at the spa? even more troubling....bwahahaahahhaaa

what an ego

[enid602]

66. happy

I think that's what you call 'happy ending' Jesus.

[JBoy]

84. Like James Brown's Celebrity Hot Tub Party

[Warren DeMontague]

107. That one jumped out at me, too. "Sauna with Christ"

[Fuddnik]

82. The Zullily ads seem to fit right in with the decor.

[Hepburn]

3. Unbelievable...

...looks like tRump's house.

[Generic Other]

5. What the??? Poverbs for poor spellers?

[LiberalArkie]

8. He may never have realized it.

[Rex]

9. You know po-verbs. For us poor people.

Also note which is most important to Carson - money then honor THEN life.

I'm moving to Pluto if this loon get's into office.

[Octafish]

51. Sputnik Planum

"Always be closing"

?1437762982

"That watch costs more than you car. I made $970,000 last year. How much you make? You see pal, that's who I am, and you're nothing. Nice guy, I don't give a shit. Good father, fuck you. Go home and play with your kids. You wanna work here, close. You think this is abuse? You think this is abuse, you cocksucker? You can't take this, how can you take the abuse you get on a sit?"

"The leads are coming."

[erronis]

61. Love this. For someone not in the family - one of the best movies ever made

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Glengarry_Glen_Ross_(film)
And makes me very uncomfortable every time I see it. Way too close to our flawed humanity.

So maybe we can ship the whole of the current repug clown car, the fervent "I'm for zxzxzx before I'm for your choise", the ones that aren't going to be Left Behind (or their Right buttock partners), the NRA and all dues-paying members, Ann Coulter and Dick and Turd (special mentions) to the piece of loverly real-estate we have for them.

[tabasco]

90. I love to eat po-boys when I'm reading my po-verbs.

How did this nitwit ever get a license to practice surgery?????

[spanone]

10. looks like he failed the 'humility' part, eh?

[dmr]

12. It's obvious. We've been spelling it wrong.

It's on his wall, after all.

[Heeeeers Johnny]

21. I wonder if its some legitimate accepted alternate spelling?

I Googled "Poverbs" and got back numerous hits, most of them from bible study type sites and
at least one English grammar site...

http://aboutenglishlanguage.com/poverbs-with-added-wisdom/

[Demoiselle]

57. My computer wouldn't let me google "poverbs". It kept correcting the spelling. I had to type it here

…twice to get it to stick!

[Heeeeers Johnny]

69. Your browser is set to 'auto correct'

and/or you're using Google basic instead of Google advanced search.

https://www.google.com/advanced_search

https://www.google.com/search?as_q=&as_epq=poverbs&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=

[tishaLA]

60. if you google proverbs SDA, you get even better stuff

It might be a Seventh Day Adventist thing. Who knows?

[Heeeeers Johnny]

75. I have no idea.

The guy is batshit crazy, and says a lot of ignorant things, but hes not that stupid or poorly educated
to hang that on his wall unless there was some explanation for it.

[bklyncowgirl]

27. Note to Dr. Carson. Spell check twice, carve once.

It's hard to change an inscription once it's carved.

The whole thing is pretty weird. Some people have brag walls, he has a brag house. Also I don't see any sign of his wife here, I do understand that the guy is married. I guess she sort of exists in his shadow.

There is a part of me that feels sort of sorry for him. I honestly don't think that he realized what he was getting into--or thought that somehow the great Dr. Ben Carson would be immune from the media swarms or worse yet every joker on the Internet.

[erronis]

64. You'd hope a surgeon would know WTF he was doing before carving

Such an interesting comparison between this idiopathic person and real doctors. One wonders if he didn't ride some coat-tails into his profession with minimal true abilities. And he may well be trying to prove himself self-made, no exceptional assistance, just like maybe one of our SCOTUS attendees.

[bklyncowgirl]

72. I don't doubt his accomplishments as a surgeon.

I just think he started to believe his own PR. Arrogance.

[gregcrawford]

79. And modesty is only one of his many virtues...

... Surgeons aren't generally known for humility, but getting an "attaboy" from J.C.?!!? Now, THAT'S an ego!

Carson is over-the-high-side-and-into-the-rhubarb in-fucking-SANE!

[npk]

104. But did he carve it?

I always assume rich, egotistical people like Carson have others do it for them. Still just as bad.

[DawgHouse]

110. Maybe someone made it for him? Surely he knows that Proverbs is not Poverbs.

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N/M is appears to be carved into the stone!

[Ghost in the Machine]

99. Reminds me of a cartoon that I saw over 20 years ago, and never forgot..

... mainly because my uncle and I made such a long running joke over it. I forget the name, but it was either "B.C." or "The Far Side"... It was titled "The Waste Of A Lifetime Achievement Award" and it showed a caveman standing back looking at this HUGE sculpture that he had just finished. It said "I'M NOT SPUTID!" in a pyramid shape, starting with the "I'M" on top.... it reminded us of someone who worked for us at the time in our tile setting business. He used to talk about his College Degrees all of the time, but was working as a helper, and we had to tell him EVERYTHING! It was like he had book smarts, but no common sense at all.

My uncle and I worked together off and on for years, and every time one of os would tell the other how to do something, the other would look up and say "I know... what do you think I am... SPUTID???".

Carve ONCE, indeed!

Peace,

Ghost

[dixiegrrrrl]

47. "Humility"

[npk]

105. Maybe he meant "humidity"

Never know I guess.

[PosterChild]

71. The Internet of things.,

... needs a spell checker .

[LiberalArkie]

7. And misspelled Proverbs as "Poverbs" in granite

[BlueCaliDem]

11. Wow. His house looks like a shrine! Which makes *this* sign so out of place:

[Generic Other]

14. It came off the discount rack

75% off.

[BlueCaliDem]

31. ...

That's all he wanted to spend on it - and didn't mind the lack of comma and the misspelled word, either.

Humility my arse.

[bklyncowgirl]

37. Maybe he was a jerk to the guy who carved it--or hired cheap foreign labor.

I could see it either way.

He gets a guy in to carve his private shrine but he treats the workman like crap so in a perfect bit of passive aggressive payback the guy carves a mistake in stone.

I know of a story like this. Back in the 1920s a conservative Irish gentleman who had all of the prejudices of his time, hired a Jewish craftsman to lay a mosaic floor in the bar of a hotel he was building. The craftsman had to endure all sort of anti-Semitic crap from his employer but managed to get in the last laugh. He put a big star of David discretely in the floor. The owner of the hotel did not know of this until some drunks at the bar noticed the unusual pattern in the floor and informed the owner who was faced with the choice of ripping the whole thing out or letting it stay. He let it remain and there it stayed until the hotel was torn down a few years ago.

Or maybe Carson was just cheap, hired someone who didn't speak English and was too arrogant to supervise his workers properly.

[KittyWampus]

49. there's a short novella plot right there!

[mnhtnbb]

20. It's hypocrisy (forget the bad spelling). So typical of Republicans.

I think it has something to do with a total lack of self-awareness which seems to prevail
among right wingers.

[BlueCaliDem]

33. Yep. Arrogance fueled by hypocrisy - a constant in Republican genetics.

I still don't understand why anyone can take these jokers seriously. It just escapes me.

[brush]

73. Guess he's so enarmoured with himself he never noticed the typos . . .

and that and those kitschy ass angels and nativity scene look like they've been there for a long time, meaning, he should've noticed the multiple typos at some point and had them re-done.

Sorry, not what I look for in a president — the full of himself, part not the proofreading and signing off on and unaware of the glaring typos part. Well, maybe the proofreading and signing off on things too.

Attention to detail counts when dealing with Putin and staring down China in the South China Sea.

[juajen]

85. His wife probably noticed the typos and withheld that information.

[brush]

87. She must be a journalist

[SunSeeker]

92. "poverbs"

[LiberalArkie]

13. He must be a very insecure and lonely person. Where are all the pictures of the kids and

vacations with the family? That is a house it isn't a home.

[oldandhappy]

18. exactly

[Sanity Claws]

119. That is what I was thinking

After seeing the house, I wondered if he ever married or had kids. He is married and has adult children. Where are their photos? Plaques of their accomplishments? What kind of a family is it?

[ymetca]

15. Maybe he needs a little Bible versin'

"Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity."
Ecclesiastes 1:2

"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."
Proverbs 16:18

[Arugula Latte]

16. It is my belief he actually uses his house to store grain.

[grasswire]

22. hahahahahahahahahahaha!!

Thanks for that laugh. Excellent!

[renate]

25. perfect!

[XemaSab]

29. LMAO!

[darkangel218]

39. The 1 grain of brain that he has.

[PosterChild]

68. DUZY! nt

[brush]

80. Good one, very good. Made me lol.

[nolabear]

113. So do I. But I let it ferment first.

[oldandhappy]

17. oh my, Amazing

Too be fair, there are others who do this. Maybe they have not yet run for president and had their egos on display. I feel sorry for him. Such a needy person.

[Kablooie]

19. The Jesus thing is a bit bizarre but displaying awards is not unusual.

Certainly he has a big ego and in regards to surgery it may be justified but the fact he displays his myriads of awards in his basement doesn't strike me as extreme.

BTW: I saw an old documentary of him traveling to Africa to separate twins conjoined at the head so as a surgeon he was very accomplished.

[randome]

108. Walls. Multiple walls. Plus display CASES. He worships himself.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"If you're bored then you're boring." -Harvey Danger[/center][/font][hr]

[zazen]

23. agghhhhh--where's his WIFE? so now, Trump is the comparatively reasonable one?

This is even more disturbing than his sociopathic lying.

[Brother Buzz]

24. Jung and Freud are still deliberating on this head case

[hifiguy]

102. Sigmund is gonna need a bigger couch.

MUCH bigger.

[Rex]

26. What a narcissistic asshole. No wonder he is a pathological liar.

Lying has made him rich! Typical repuke.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

28. It's not that much different than what you'd find in Trump's place, sans the Jesus pics.

Donald Trump would never have a picture of himself with Jesus. He likes people who weren't crucified.

At Mar a Lago:



What bizarre people these are.

[packman]

35. God, that is so white - I'm ashamed

[underpants]

42. That's like the soap opera star version of himself

Very weird

[tishaLA]

70. I can imagine him shouting "bigger!...

make the bulge in the crotch bigger!"

And holy jeebus, that "aged" gilt frame makes it even worse.

[juajen]

97. I actually like it. He looks so young, but still handsome.

[Rex]

93. Why does Trump has a picture of a young Robert Redford hanging on his wall?

OH...is that supposed to be Dump?

[Arugula Latte]

100. He looks like Dan Quayle's evil twin there (well, they're both the evil ones).

[nolabear]

114. That can't be Trump.His hand is in his OWN pocket.

[bullwinkle428]

118. See Conan O'Brien's "If They Mated": Trump and a "Ken doll"

[Pisces]

30. This guy is Koo Koo!!

[MADem]

32. That house has some nice architectural features, but his taste is in his ASS.

I am of the mind that even one "I Love Me" wall is probably one too many (unless it's in the garage) but his entire HOME is a schlocky, "I Love Me" Museum.

UGH!

[Rex]

41. I agree, I know folks that have a home office

crowning with their degrees and awards. One room. Looks like Carson has that shit in every room of the house!

[dixiegrrrrl]

50. Our substance abuse program hired a new doctor who supposedly specialized in Addictions

back in late 1980's, when inpatient sub. abuse treatment was a big thing.
His office was decorated, on very large long wall, with frames awards, degrees, etc. which looked impressive as hell
until you got a close look.
The framed stuff started with High School,! looked much like Carson's wall, lots of "padded" certificates, of attendance at continuing education seminars, the kind I kept in a folder and pulled out when I needed licensing renewals.
AND
there was nothing that showed he had any actual TREATMENT experience at all. He was in school and then college , had not actually "worked" in any meaningful way.
Turned out he was hired for PR and make insurance providers happy.

At least Carson supposedly did actual operations.

[Lodestar]

34. Trump pays someone to gather every daily article about him

and deliver them to him each morning to peruse. Don't know if he has a wall dedicated
to his accomplishments....I guess having buildings with your name on them 'trumps'
or surpasses a dinky wall display. And Trump's philosophy is not quite so precious.
He has demonstrated that failures (ie cleverly profiting from bankruptcies) is the best means to an end.

[darkangel218]

36. Damn...

[flamingdem]

38. Carson and Jesus! Now we know he's a performance artist

and all that matters in this country is entertainment (see Reagan).

[packman]

40. No one mentioned the obvious irony in that plaque

"In Humility...." and then the rest of the house acts as an asswipe for those two words. The man needs to ponder those two words.

[frogmarch]

43. I want a portrait of ME and Jesus!

Just kidding. No, wait, I do too.

[wordpix]

44. he needs a bigger house for all that stuff - Geo. Carlin's bit comes to mind

[Cal Carpenter]

45. Poverbs chiseled into the wall

[Boudica the Lyoness]

46. I've never seen a presidential 'candidates' library

before.

This is someone you don't want running a country no matter who's side he's on.

[3catwoman3]

48. I would NEVER hang a gilt-framed...

...portrait of just myself in my home (or any color frame, for that matter). A family portrait of the 4 of us, maybe, but not personal shrines.

Tacky, tacky, tacky.

[Sunlei]

52. beautiful home, not my style but Love the blue lights over the pool table.

[ejbr]

53. Interesting...

I looked and looked but didn't see any mirrors. How does he know how he looks?

[volstork]

54. Anybody in the medical field can tell you

that the neurosurgeons are the biggest nutbags in medicine. Most of them are batshit crazy.

[TexasBushwhacker]

86. I would think they have the God complex squared

With all the devastating things that can go wrong, to have the ego to be a neurosurgeon must be enormous. To be a PEDIATRIC neurosurgeon? I'm sure he can't find a hat that's big enough.

And another thing. Who writes an autobiography when they're 45, and makes the title "Gifted Hands"? But I thought maybe I was judging too harshly. So I went to Amazon to check the reviews. The vast majority were 5 stars, but I took a look at the one star reviews from before 2014 and I found things like this:

"Ben Carson is truly an American success story. Admittedly he worked hard for his successes; but, this book is written in such an unrefined and self-aggrandizing way that I could barely finish it. No matter what this guy did he reminds the reader that he was the best at it and received awards and accolades. There was little depth and he is tirelessly pretentious. His constant self-promotion is repugnant by the end of the book and I was glad it was only 200 pages."

[volstork]

88. "How many neurosurgeons does it take to change a lightbulb?"

Just one. He holds the bulb, and the world revolves around him.

[Mojorabbit]

117. That was my experience back in the day when I was a nurse.

I always wondered if one had to be extremely eccentric to consider that specialty.

[Live and Learn]

55. Oh my. That is too creepy. nt

[valerief]

56. Wow, this guy can up the crazy to no end. nt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

58. Actually, this is probably no more ostentatious than hundreds of McMansions surrounding DC.

McLean, Virginia; Reston, Virginia; Montgomery County, Maryland. Hit street view in Google maps. You'll see.

Hint: look for the Palladian windows. All the McMansions have them.

[Duppers]

83. It's not the real estate

It's the decor. Never have I seen such ago on display -- pictured with Jesus!

[cwydro]

59. That's some bad taste right there.

That window treatment or curtains or whatever you call it in the first one?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

62. I am gobsmacked. I've seen a few ego walls in offices

but never a whole ego house. It all makes sense, though. Carson (like Trump) is probably a raging narcissist who needs constant reinforcement of his unsurpassed wonderfulness. It isn't enough for him to have accomplished something impressive, as he has; he has to be reminded of it by everything and everybody. This would also explain why he, like Trump, thinks he's qualified to be President even though he has no experience in government and absolutely no understanding about how it works. He's just so magnificent (and Jesus' BFF, as well) that of course he's qualified. Maybe he and Trump should have an ego-off. They can compare each others' homes and argue about who's the biggest egomaniac.

If you were to look up Narcissistic Personality Disorder you'd probably find the description illustrated with photos of Mental Ben and tRump.

[angrychair]

91. What is disturbing

Is that for a man that is supposed to be so accomplished, he appears to need a great deal of reinforcement. Not to mention the fact that, despite all his assumed real accomplishments, he has still found the need to grossly embellish or resort to outright fabrication, to make himself look better or create a better legend around his history.
Based on his home and "I love me" wall alone, he worked with children in poorer nations to get attention and stroke his ego, not because he wanted to help the children. Regardless of the outcome, it only looked good for him.
He may have a "poverb" about humility on his wall but he has no idea what it means.

[OxQQme]

63. AA_GH

that's aargh with out the...you know.

[Flying Squirrel]

65. Is there a framed scholarship to West Point? nt

[milestogo]

67. This reminds me of the Virginia shooter Vester Lee Flanagan

Lots of pictures of himself inside his apartment.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/inside-air-shooter-vester-flanagans-sparse-apartment/story?id=33386810

[PosterChild]

74. He's going to have ....

Poverbs? I guess he's going to have "In God We Tust" chiseled unto the facade of the white house !

[keithbvadu2]

76. Jesus does not look blond haired nor blue eyed like

the typical conservative evangelical image.

[Ilsa]

77. What a vain little man.

He reminds me oc those pics of guys carrying teally big guns. You know, like compensating for something.

[greymattermom]

78. I have a bunch of those award things

in my basement too. Not as many as he does. It's the pictures of him that are most disturbing to me.

[hunter]

81. Idiot Savant, used by others. I almost begin to feel sorry for Carson...

..nope.

Can't do it. The empathy quickly fades.

Most idiot savants are gentle people, utterly impossible to "use."

My dear paternal grandfather, an idiot savant and perpetual hot mess himself for almost a century, a man who was never fully functional in ordinary society, used some savants much worse off than he was in World War II. His useful skill during the war was as big handsome officer carrying the "get out of jail free" card. Whatever his social shortcomings were, he looked damned impressive in a big black military car and spiffy uniform. He also understood the language of crazy science and engineering people.

But, as they were all fighting amoral idiot savant Nazis, they were all lucky players for the better side of The Force, Han Solo style. Born in the right place, at the right time.

My grandfather somehow acquired skills with titanium during the World War II and it's Cold War aftermath, and he later put those skills to use flying men to the moon.

But he never played well with our U.S.A. amoral imported Nazis. The Army Air Force retired him honorably but with some prejudice when the war ended, and he wasn't allowed to play again in those circles until Sputnik scared the shit out of U.S.A. Incorporated. After the Apollo I deaths then suddenly guys who had had very intimate relationships with titanium were in high demand, and my grandfather made some bits of titanium for the trips to the moon and back.

My grandfather never ever talked about his military experience. But once you got him talking about the Apollo project he wouldn't stop. It was his greatest pride. Bits of metal he made are in the Smithsonian.

I guess I could feel sorry for Ronald Reagan too, especially as his brain began to disintegrate, but Reagan was always a venal idiot who would say anything to get a blow job, even before the dementia, back when everything inside his skull was still fully functional.

I saw Ronald Reagan up close in person, in a posh hotel, during his second term. He was a confused old man with some kind of obvious dementia who didn't know where the hell he was or what he was doing there. But he said his lines for the evening television news machine, and all was well in U.S. America.

If it's necessary to choose a place and a time, it was at that was the moment, seeing Reagan like that, I traded the faith in the U.S.A. I'd been indoctrinated in with something far, far more cynical.

[tabasco]

89. He doesn't just have an "I love me" wall,

it's his entire freaking house. What an insecure kook!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

94. The awards are typical of Right Wingers....

They hold black tie affairs for each other in lavish ballrooms where they give meaningless awards for being against taxes or for "family values".

[mountain grammy]

95. The portrait with Jesus.. wow!

Just wow! must be hanging next to that humility verse from poverbs.

[BigDemVoter]

96. Ewwwwwwwwwwwww. . . . . .

[Blue_In_AK]

98. I saw this on Facebook this morning.

I have a problem with people who have self-portraits hanging all over their house. I mean, yeah, maybe one with your spouse or whatever, but Jesus? Really?

[hifiguy]

101. That nails it down - narcissistic psychopath.

[UTUSN]

103. Reminiscent of the concept of "pyramids"!1 n/t

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[B Calm]

106. Probably has a naked roman statue of himself in the front yard too!

[Heeeeers Johnny]

115. Except it has a member the size Hillshire Farms kielbasa

instead of one the size of a cocktail wiener

[B Calm]

121. LOL no doubt, he probably sees himself with a 12 inch Mr Chubby!

When in fact it's probably closer to 4 inches.

[AngryAmish]

109. ...

[malaise]

111. Carson is one sick fugg

[Runningdawg]

112. 22 years in the OR taught me

Most surgeons are narcissistic, arrogant little pricks. More often that not, the soft spoken surgeons in street clothes were most likely the ones screaming obscenities in the OR.

[erpowers]

116. I Will Not Criticize Him For That

I will not criticize Dr. Ben Carson for most of what is in his house. I am not a fan of Carson's politics and I do not wish I had his accomplishments. However, if I had his accomplishment, or as many as he has I would also display my awards. In addition, most of my pictures would be of myself and my family. Why would anyone expect him to have pictures of anyone other than himself, or his family in his house? The only pictures of people other than him and his family that I would expect him to have in his house would be of his heroes.

I think many people are like Carson in this regard. Many people put up pictures of themselves, their family, and themselves with famous people. Many people proudly display their awards and degrees. They also display pictures of their children and the accomplishments of their children.

[Enthusiast]

120. There is something seriously wrong with this dude.