How did this guy Ben Carson ever get to be a doctor? An example of failed affirmative action? His interview with Chris Wallace made me remember Sarah Palin whom I had happily forgotten. He will now blame the media for asking a “gotcha” question.
A panda walks into a restaurant, sits down and orders a salad. The waiter is a little freaked out but thinks a tip is a tip and serves him the salad. The panda eats the salad and gets up to leave. The waiter says, “Hey, you didn’t pay.” At that point the panda pulls out a gun a shoots the waiter. The manager comes running out and says “What’s wrong with you? Are you crazy?” The panda answers “No, stupid, I’m a panda. Look it up in your dictionary.” The manager runs back to his office and looks in his dictionary for panda. It says, “Asian mammal, black and white, looks like a bear and is herbivorous, eats shoots and leaves.
Trump called the Iowa voters stupid for voting for Ben Carson. That’s the joke of the week. The question should be why they kept Trump as number one for so long? The biggest blowhard ever to run for president! In truth, Iowa is not alone. The US electorate is the dumbest and least informed of the developed western world. Having lived in Europe for years, I can tell you that the Europeans would not have an election like ours. Not only don’t the typical voters in the US know who they are voting for, they don’t read anything, they don’t know anything. I’m sure they think Al Quaeda is a latino disk jockey Geography? They have no idea where the middle east is. They probably don’t even know which way is east. The polls and interviews with the “man on the street” only show how ill-informed they are. Note: the Kentuckians just voted for a republican governor who ran on a platform to cancel the affordable care act. Now their health insurance will probably be cancelled and they will wonder why. They pay no attention. They have no clue. They have no jobs but they vote to bring down the deficit, as if they have any idea what the deficit is. Any working person who votes for a republican – even a sane one – is voting against his/her own self interest and must be in a total fog.
It’s difficult to tell which of the candidates are the bigger liars.
“Another 8 years of Obama policies will be a disaster” Quoth the ravings Why? The first 8 were pretty good. Most of our GIs are home. Stock market doubled, Unemployment cut in half. Deficit cut in half. 90% of our population now has some form of health care etc. etc. What will get worse?
Ronald Reagan said,” Are you better off now than you were 8 years ago? Who can answer “no?”
Dr. Carson’s complaints of scrutiny are whining about piffling details and the media plays right into them. It doesn’t bother me whether he was in 7th or 8th grade when a particular incident occurred. It doesn’t throw me into panic because he got a class number wrong, or that we wasn’t really offered a West Point scholarship. What bothers me is that he is a 7th Day Adventist, which implies that his creed is that the only source of belief is the bible. Scholars know that the historical accuracy of the bible is at the least questionable. The gospels were written several centuries after Jesus died. And by then, they had become proselytizing sales documents which exaggerated and perpetuated the myths of Jesus’ miracles. Further bizarre enhancements were added when it reached the King James version. The connection of the evangelical community to the bible as the source of everything is what gives Carson his tiny band of support. The preponderance of people do not take the bible literally. As a source of moral grounding, I can tolerate and accept it, but anything more is not benign. It’s a veritable disaster. It does bother me that a man who claims that the Egyptian pyramids were storage facilities for grain should not only be scrutinized, he should have his head examined. To think that espousing such an idea should be taken as a sign of his superior wisdom and not reflect on his mental capacity is expecting too much. The man may have been a good doctor, hard as that is for me to believe, but for anything else, he is certifiable.
Fiorina’s latest garbage is that the economy does better under republicans. Carson has been caught in a bald-face lie about his involvement with a phony cancer cure. According to Carson, these attempts to classify these republican un-facts as lies is just media propaganda. Once I thought we needed some shovels to get rid of the stuff. Now I think we need an army of backhoes. But where to dump in – hmmm. In their backyard where it belongs
Some businessmen think think that if you fire people to increase profit, there is benefit to them. But if you fire your employees, you are essentially firing your customers. And if there are no customers, a business collapses.
A man decided that his work horse was costing him too much money. He decided to train the horse to eat less, thus costing him less. So, each day he fed the horse less than the day before. Eventually and inevitably, the horse died. His reaction was, “Just when I get the horse to where he costs me nothing, he dies on me. I can’t win.”
Actually, you can win, but not that way.
I just saw Fun Home, a magnificent musical at the Circle in the Square in NY City. This true story can make you cry, about a girl who comes out as a lesbian … I don’t want to ruin it.for you. The performance especially by the kid actors is beautiful. The music and lyrics are world class, almost operatic in quality. It’s worthy of being put in a class with Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd or Bernstein’s West Side Story. Go see it.
As a former professional meteorologist, I find it hard to understand the rationale of those denying climate change. A category five hurricane, the most severe, intensive, and massive hurricane in recorded history is now occurring on the west coast of Mexico. Keep in mind that typhoons in the south Pacific have often been larger and more severe than those in the Atlantic or eastern Pacific. Not only have we never seen a hurricane in this hemisphere as large as the typhoons in the south and west Pacific but this one is the most severe of anywhere in recorded history.
Fortunately, it didn’t sit out there over water. It has made landfall and continues to progress over land which weakens it substantially but it will certainly bring torrents of rainfall with it which will cause flooding.
For those of you who are not aware, a hurricane and typhoon are the same storm type. The difference is only the location.
If you have a scientific bent and want to know more, I lead you to the following link.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/climo/
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