Post #421,796
12/20/17 12:13:14 AM
12/20/17 12:13:14 AM
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Paul Ryan
It seems there's a Special Place in the collective American-heart for a man who only can be called Self-less. (Why.. at one point in this endless cascade of accolades--about 2' down? as the Trackball rolls--there's an entry by a genuine Unicorn, one speaking with quite fine diction!) Carrion
Best to keep some around. For when the shelves are bare.
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Post #421,800
12/20/17 7:51:37 PM
12/20/17 7:51:37 PM
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interesting how people think all money belongs to the gummint
and should only be rented to the deserving "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #421,801
12/20/17 11:54:51 PM
12/20/17 11:54:51 PM
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Interesting how so many rich and powerful feel the need to take ever more from society.
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Post #421,809
12/21/17 8:34:32 PM
12/21/17 8:34:32 PM
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Interesting how so many rich and powerful feel the need to "earn" even more from customers.
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #421,814
12/21/17 10:43:33 PM
12/21/17 10:43:33 PM
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It's one of the seven deadly sins -- greed! :)
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
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Post #421,825
12/22/17 4:33:46 PM
12/22/17 4:33:46 PM
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indeed it is
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #421,818
12/22/17 1:48:07 PM
12/22/17 1:48:07 PM
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It's obvious we should take him seriously, but I just can't.
The man reads Ayn Rand for Christ's sake. I've never met anyone (and have heard of only one person - himself!) that doesn't recognize every thought ever conceived in the head of that worthless bitch was utterly useless. The adolescents I knew who read her works and thought they "made sense" and were ensnared in her lunacy quickly abandoned her philosophy once they had matured through their adolescent angst and myopic world view.
He's supposed to be an adult, for Christ's sake, but he has never evolved beyond adolescence. Why does anyone listen to the bastard? Intellectually, he is *still* a very young, very sheltered teenager. Why doesn't EVERYONE see that? bcnu,
Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #421,820
12/22/17 2:44:42 PM
12/22/17 2:44:42 PM
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Possible brief-answer: The Murican pandemic of anti-Thinking; it's just too much trouble and..
The Apprentice is on next! so I'll grab a Coors- Light, watch some Other-person 'do-sports' -so I-don't-Have-to and ... you-know. Yeah, Murika has fully-become that :-/ :-/ vast wasteland so perfectly-coined by Newton Minnow, who seems to have glimpsed that ~~it isn't just our juvenile Tee Vee that Sucks in the transistorized-'Murica' aborning. Clever Lad, he. (Personally I like Philip Wylie's frankly-excoriating summaries of His 'dis-USA' du that earlier jour;) he coined 'Momism', thence to The DisappearanceWe have become so Vile that: it is almost impossible to create a Positive overview without pandering either to er, Pandora?/Pollyanna ..or mouth-breathers everywhen.
Carrion: the National Mind-food.
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Post #421,823
12/22/17 3:32:38 PM
12/22/17 3:32:38 PM
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Looks interesting, checking my library now
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Post #421,824
12/22/17 4:33:22 PM
12/22/17 4:33:22 PM
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she is right up there with elron himself
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #421,830
12/22/17 10:33:47 PM
12/22/17 10:33:47 PM
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At least his drivel was entertaining though.
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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Post #421,832
12/22/17 11:49:41 PM
12/22/17 11:49:41 PM
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oh heck yeah, his scifi occupied a many boring afternoon
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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