Posted on 01/27/2009 5:36:03 AM PST by PlainOleAmerican
America voted to fill the halls of Washington DC government with what they consider to be our nation’s “greatest intellectuals,” political progressives. But they had best not confuse intellect with intelligence, or they will be sadly disappointed by the ignorant decisions already evident in the new Washington elite…
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Washington DC Needs a Transfusion of Intelligence
We’ve had all the intellect we can afford! I refer to the new generation of intellectuals as the “arrogantly ignorant.” They have no idea what they are talking about, but they are damn sure of themselves, just the same.
Today’s example of intellect over intelligence comes in the form of -0 bama’s announcement to replace 2.5 million private sector jobs with 4 million new government taxpayer funded jobs, in the pursuit of “energy independence.”
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
This column shows just how much we will have to fight every day, or there will soon be nothing left to fight for...
Even with a genius ‘garbage in, garbage out’ still applies.
Wisdom would be even better.
It'll take Solomon to get us out of this mess.
Or Patrick Henry...
“liberal” education involves repetition and drill:
“liberals are brilliant, conservatives are dumb, liberals are brilliant, conservatives are dumb, liberals are brilliant, conservatives are dumb, liberals are brilliant, conservatives are dumb, liberals are brilliant, conseratives are dumb, liberals are brilliant, conservatives are dumb, liberals are brilliant, conservatives are dumb........”
Exactly!
“A People Ignorant and Free never was and never will be.”
T. Jefferson
Many intellectuals are the keepers of pure knowledge. Untempered by any real world experience.
All of us know “walking encyclopedias”, their brains wonderfully stuffed with facts and arguments who in their lives make one stupid decision after another. Knowledge is good, but it is not wisdom.
From what I’ve seen, Washington not only needs intelligence, but a little COURAGE (plain old fashion gonads) from our representatives. Most of them seem to think they were sent there to kiss ‘0’s” backside and attend cocktail parties.
Who said that?
Solomon taxed the people until they bled through their ears.
The next king kept the taxes high after the people pled with him to lower them. He didn’t last very long but the next king did drop taxes a long way and flourished. Most people only read about Solomon and don’t bother to read about the kings after he died. It is illuminating.
The Bible is much more sophisticated than most people realize.
He was wise....also really, really expensive.
“The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.”
Stanley Baldwin
It’s not even ‘intellect’.
What it is really is the GroupThink of the Liberal Elites.
I was listening to Maddie Half-bright on Laura Ingraham this am, and it struk me how fatuous and non-sensical she was. But it also struck me that such people know ‘so much’ and are steeped in their own views that they end up being more ignorant than ignorant people, because basic facts escape their closed-mind view.
That’s the danger of Groupthink of the Elites.
They will be wrong on a massive scale and not see the obvious errors of their ways, since their own ideology will get in the way.
Were those high taxes in place for the building of his temple?
I don’t believe so. It seemed that his public works projects were quite extensive and very, very pricey.
The first time I read that section my jaw hit the floor, cause I had never heard it discussed. The message is that even the truly wise can be a mixed bag. Beware.
“Beware the Ides of April....
Point taken.
As I tell my wife: "Often wrong, but never in doubt."
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