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Biggest Brains Tend To Hatch Biggest Snafus
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| September 29, 2009
| The great THOMAS SOWELL
Posted on 09/28/2009 6:17:53 PM PDT by Kaslin
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posted on
09/28/2009 6:17:54 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: bareford101; BerniesFriend; blaveda; Bookwoman; Celeste732; dsc; Faux_Pas; fortunecookie; ...
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posted on
09/28/2009 6:19:07 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
(Acronym for 0bama: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: Kaslin
Great analysis. Intelligence is not the same as infailability. It is exactly the tendancy of those who are considered intelligent for too much fondness for their own ideas no matter how flawed that causes huge messes. Practical simple solutions are far too often disregarded for the sake of novelty.
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posted on
09/28/2009 6:25:16 PM PDT
by
Maelstorm
(Party like it's 1776!)
To: Kaslin
"There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them."
- George Orwell
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posted on
09/28/2009 6:31:29 PM PDT
by
HoosierHawk
(www.firstsundaymusic.com)
To: Kaslin
Man Oh Man, it’s not fair that people like Dr. Sowell are so smart and people like me can only recognize and appreciate his brilliance.
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posted on
09/28/2009 6:35:07 PM PDT
by
Family Guy
(I disagree with what you said, but I'll defend to the death your right to shut up.)
To: Kaslin
The biggest continuing fallacy is that these people are smart. Off the teleprompter, Obama sounds like a nitwit. He couldn’t hang in an aggressive conversation/argument at the local bar. Hillary Clinton? Are you kidding me? Much of what comes out of her mouth is pure mindless, whiney drivel, and she exhibits no particular talent whatsoever. People like Geithner? Hugely overmatched by his job. This bs about Ivy League people being ‘smart’ is absurd. They are poorly educated numb nuts who were/are naive enough to buy into leftist propaganda, while the common truck driver sniffs that crap out in about two minutes. Smart, my ass. This administration is really dumb, and without the constant cover provided by the media, most would acknowledge them to be the national joke that they are.
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posted on
09/28/2009 6:37:48 PM PDT
by
raptor29
To: Kaslin
To: raptor29
I believe he sounds very smart when he’s talking to “his people”, ie the leftists.
He only sounds like a nitwit talking to America because he’s being careful not to say anything that can be used against him ...
To: MetaThought
You kidding me? You didn’t hear him during his campaign speeches when he went off-script? It was embarrassing. You’ve bought into the bs.
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posted on
09/28/2009 6:48:27 PM PDT
by
raptor29
To: Kaslin
Far too many people have confused indecision with brilliance.
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posted on
09/28/2009 6:54:01 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(No one should die on a gov. waiting list., or go broke because the gov. has dictated their salary.)
To: Kaslin
I’ve always said that the smartest people make the stupidest mistakes!
Someday, I hope to stop doing that..
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posted on
09/28/2009 6:57:32 PM PDT
by
Randy Larsen
( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!)
To: Kaslin
... a gift for the clever phrasing so much admired by the media can be a fatal talent, especially for someone chosen to lead a government.
I think "fatal" is an unfortunate choice of word in this context - some will take it literally.
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posted on
09/28/2009 6:59:56 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: Kaslin
"It was, after all, Franklin D. Roosevelt's brilliant "Brains Trust" advisers
whose policies are now increasingly recognized as having prolonged the
Great Depression of the 1930s, while claiming credit for ending it."
Similar cockiness as well.
To: Kaslin
Many crucial things in life are learned from experience, rather than from clever thoughts or clever words...and of course when one has achieved most of what he has in life through affirmative action and not through being measured in his actual strengths and aptitudes, he is denied the success and failure experience needed to learn those crucial things...until he finally releases his grades and other school records I won't be convinced, certainly not by anything I've seen so far, that Obama got through Columbia and Harvard on the basis of his smarts rather than his race....
To: Kaslin
Take away the freedom and you take away the risk, but you will also destroy economic growth. This is beneath Sowell, he knows better.
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posted on
09/28/2009 7:24:06 PM PDT
by
JasonC
To: Kaslin
Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are.No creative or original thought, no facility of language and not a whit of wit. The president is not brainy. The proof is off tele-prompter. He's simply learned well what he's been taught.
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posted on
09/28/2009 7:29:56 PM PDT
by
fullchroma
(Obama: GET OUT OF MY DOCTOR'S OFFICE!)
To: Kaslin
SNAFU = Situation Normal: All Forked Up
.
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posted on
09/28/2009 8:50:21 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(You can't kill the beast while sucking at its teat - Claire Wolfe)
To: raptor29
I fully agree with you. I think Obama is an idiot without a clue. What original idea has he ever proposed? It is just all leftest theory he grew up with, with no real experience ever.
An Ivy League education is no guarantee of common sense or even actual intelligence. Someone with a great memory and a good work ethic can do very well in school. But when it comes to actual problem solving, specifically to problems that haven't been solved before, they can be complete failures in spite of all that education. Schools really don't teach problem solving for the most part. They teach tools that can be applied to the process.
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posted on
09/28/2009 9:02:44 PM PDT
by
DB
To: Kaslin
Many crucial things in life are learned from experience, rather than from clever thoughts or clever words.A lesson that seems to be re-learned every generation...after the foul-up.
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posted on
09/28/2009 9:16:49 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: raptor29
The biggest continuing fallacy is that these people are smart...This bs about Ivy League people being smart is absurd. They are poorly educated numb nuts who were/are naive enough to buy into leftist propaganda, while the common truck driver sniffs that crap out in about two minutes. Mark Twain said, "Never let your schooling interfere with your education."
Or as a wise professor of mine once said, "In college you spend four years learning the rules, you spend the rest of your life learning the exceptions."
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posted on
09/28/2009 9:22:51 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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