(That's some smart sh!t !)
Cheers!
Wow — that is one tough row to hoe. But worth the trip.
But after all is said and done if I suggest Gov. Palin may not run, does that make me a bad person?
(hint: yes it does)
Confess! You spent the last four hours preparing this missive didn’tya! ... BTW, nice work, old dude. [We old dudes can say thet don’tchaknow.]
Nothing towards you personally but in general: I dont give a rip about what some leftist or RINO hack says in the media about Palin or conservatives in general, they will always denigrate them nobody what! Even if Palin was to save their lives from danger, I’m sure some will complain about something she did wrong in going about saving them. There are some conservatives who sit around hoping and praying that some elitist media pundit or reporter would recognize or approve their candidate or politicain as though it’s like winning a medal or something.
I’m just sick of hearing about ‘them’ and what ‘they’ say, I’m not burying my head in the sand on anything but it’s time to talk about what we say
Look, these snivel nasal drippers know as much about who is qualified to lead this nation as the next man walking past you down the street, they are very ignorant men and women who only can function on tv or radio as long ad they have a list of preset talking points for the day up and running and without it, they are babbling fools, it’s the truth!
The people of the country will decide, not the media elites and one more thing to this - these people are not gods and they are not all powerful -yes they influence a lot of Americans and they help a teleprompter get elected but that had more to do with many in the name of conservatism abandoning conservatism for years. Let true conservatism be a direct and bold contrast to Obama and you will see a grassroots movement of conservatives come out in droves because Obama will be exposed to the hilt for all to see!
Brooks, as smart as he may be, likely has no clue what tensors and vectors are. These are the foundation stones of modern technology, indeed of civilization as we know it, and an engineering student at the most third-rate cow college in the land has more grasp of them than anyone who writes for the New York Times.
Well said! Reminds me of a recent Facebook conversation...eh, scan59?
“It is true that her remarks were somewhat disorganized; but on the other hand, this has always been Sarah’s way of speaking: presenting snippets of thought, using the disparate elements to give an impressionistic depiction of a larger picture.”
I like the idea of further developing the Just Sarah Being Sarah theory. I was a little surprised at how Palin didn’t make any sense there with the Revere story, but I’m pleased to hear that not making any sense is something that she just does a lot and it’s not something to worry about.
If the “educated” people had known that Revere had told the British that resistance was waiting after he had been captured and interrogated, the inarticulate answer of Palin would have been ignored. But to now admit that Governor Sarah Palin was right on a central question is also to admit that the vast number of people who jumped on this were ignorant, and being hoist with your own petard is not a desired outcome. That is why you see the spinning and the moving of the goalposts.
If the pundits are so sure that Gov. Palin will not run, cannot be nominated, and cannot win, why do they obsess about her? If those on the Left and some on the Right are so sure that she is stupid and ill-informed, why the continuing search for “gotcha” moments? They seem to be trying to reassure themselves that what they want to believe is correct but subconsciously are worried that she may be very different from the portrait her political enemies have painted.
Thanks very much for sound research and a wonderful essay/column that beats the sheets out of the paid pundits.
The way in which your piece is written is sure to appeal to my high-IQ-but-willfully-ignorant sisters. I look forward to reading your next article!
Listen, anybody who quotes Sayers is a-okay in my book. Great article!
“To treat it mathematically remember the Riemann sum from Calculus, used to help describe the definite integral. One draws a function, and then draws a number of vertical lines, from the function down to the x-axis, making a series of tiny, infinitesimally thin rectangles. The integral is formed by adding up the area under each rectangle.
For a tensor, imagine a garden variety vector, but instead of it being placed so that it begins at the origin, imagine dividing all of space into a series of infinitesimal boxes, one at each point in space, just as the integral divided a function into tiny rectangles. A tensor, then, is a vector, where the size and direction of the vector are what they always have been, but the thing that makes it a tensor, is a knowledge and description of which face of the box the vector originates from!”
grey_whiskers! Please. Remember? I never knew. Or tried not to know because it never gelled in MY brain. Thanks for explaining it, though, because I certainly can grok the gist of it. This is an excellent post. I am so grateful for the explanation about WHY Sarah is not only intelligent, but she also uses what she’s been blessed with to expand individual freedom instead of subjugating imagined inferiors.
You’ve earned every one of those grey whiskers. Grey. Thanks for spelling it correctly, too.