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Random Thoughts (Thomas Sowell)
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| 11-30-05
| Thomas Sowell - Commentary
Posted on 11/29/2005 10:30:15 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing
Neat column. Thanks for posting it.
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posted on
11/29/2005 10:37:28 PM PST
by
syriacus
(US success at liberating Iraq outscores the "world community's" success at containing Saddam.)
To: smoothsailing
Since neither the creationists nor the evolutionists were there when the world began, why are our schools teaching either set of beliefs, when there are so many hard facts that the schools are failing to teach? Neither any LAPD officer nor any member of the Dream Team was there when Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman died. Why did the courts bother with OJ Simpson when there were so many cut-and-dried cases they might have handled?
Thomas Sowell is usually smarter than this. Heck, Paris Hilton is usually smarter than this.
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posted on
11/29/2005 10:38:30 PM PST
by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: smoothsailing
I have long suspected that there is a part of the male brain -- perhaps most of it -- which automatically shuts off at the sight of a good-looking woman.
Hypothalamus
Research has shown that at least one nucleus in the hypothalamus is sexually dimorphic; the medial preoptic area or nucleus. This area is generally bigger in men than in women.
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posted on
11/29/2005 10:41:47 PM PST
by
Milhous
(Sarcasm - the last refuge of an empty mind.)
To: smoothsailing
Good stuff, ss. Thanks for posting.
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posted on
11/29/2005 10:41:50 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: syriacus
I like Thomas Sowell."Random Thoughts" is a recurring column, he usually does a new one every month or so.
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
To: writer33
A Pleasure, Chris. :)
To: smoothsailing
BUMP for later reading ... although it'll prolly be in tomorrows NY Post print edition. I always enjoy Sowell's "Passing Scene" columns :)
To: Rabid Dog
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posted on
11/29/2005 10:49:45 PM PST
by
Snapping Turtle
(Slow down and get a grip!)
To: smoothsailing
Thanks for posting this......I especially liked "
Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance." That reminds me of how I felt after college.....like NOW I knew how IGNORANT I really was.
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posted on
11/29/2005 10:52:42 PM PST
by
goodnesswins
(We would have WON in Vietnam, without Dim interference.)
To: smoothsailing
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posted on
11/29/2005 10:55:30 PM PST
by
Milhous
(Sarcasm - the last refuge of an empty mind.)
To: steve-b
Since neither the creationists nor the evolutionists were there when the world began, why are our schools teaching either set of beliefs, when there are so many hard facts that the schools are failing to teach? Neither any LAPD officer nor any member of the Dream Team was there when Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman died. Why did the courts bother with OJ Simpson when there were so many cut-and-dried cases they might have handled?
Actually I think he is right on. Both sides of this argument have it wrong and maybe someday we will all know what really happened but I doubt it.
BTW, your comparison to the OJ Simpson case is just plain stupid.
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posted on
11/29/2005 11:08:18 PM PST
by
calex59
(Seeing the light shouldn't make you blind...)
To: steve-b
It's too bad that you missed his point. Think about it. I really don't think anyone has to tell you.
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posted on
11/29/2005 11:22:39 PM PST
by
taxesareforever
(Government is running amuck)
To: smoothsailing
Nightmare for the 2008 Presidential election: Hillary Clinton versus John McCain. I wouldn't know whether to vote Libertarian or move to Australia.Truly a dilemma that even I would consider.
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posted on
11/29/2005 11:23:51 PM PST
by
taxesareforever
(Government is running amuck)
To: calex59
I'm in agreement with that particular thought about evolution vs. creation is a dumb one, out of character, for the otherwise brilliant Sowell. The whole of science is practically about figuring out how the pieces go together when nobody around even knows what the completed picture looks like! It's an attack on science itself!
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posted on
11/29/2005 11:32:06 PM PST
by
Nateman
To: smoothsailing
It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance. A perfect description of talking with a liberal.
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posted on
11/29/2005 11:51:11 PM PST
by
highlander_UW
(I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
To: smoothsailing
Who would have dreamed that "Merry Christmas" would become a controversial phrase? But increasingly schools and other institutions avoid it like the plague, in order to be politically correct. A couple of years ago people were complaining that we had lost the meaning of Christmas. It was supposed to be about celebrating the birth of Christ not an occasion to buy each other presents and have parties and parades.
So they changed the name to winter holiday and now we are complaining because they changed the name.
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posted on
11/29/2005 11:52:41 PM PST
by
oldbrowser
(The U.S. Senate is a quagmire.)
To: smoothsailing
It apparently does not occur to some engineers who design products that most of the people who will be using those products are not engineers. Ridiculous. If engineers had the social skills necessary to imagine such a thing they wouldn't be engineers, now would we? They. I mean they.
To: smoothsailing
"Nightmare for the 2008 Presidential election: Hillary Clinton versus John McCain." That's just unimaginable. That's worse than a nuclear bomb going off. may as well go live in Mecca. As a Jew.
To: Billthedrill
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