Posted on 03/18/2012 6:40:10 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
Our lesson for today comes from George and Ira Gershwin:
They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round
They all laughed when Edison recorded sound
They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother
When they said that man could fly
They told Marconi wireless was a phony . . .
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers sang it in the film Shall We Dance? (1937). Seventy-five years on, the president revived it to tap dance around his rising gas prices and falling approval numbers. Delivering his big speech on energy at Prince George’s Community College, he insisted the American economy will be going gangbusters again just as soon as we start running it on algae and windmills. He noted that, as with Wilbur and his brother, there were those inclined to titter:
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People thought that witches poisoned livestock and caused storms. As a result, many people were burned or thrown into ponds. It was a dark time of ignorance.
Today, people think Supply and Demand is a myth, they think redistribution of wealth works, they think Fairness can be achieved, they think judging people by the color of their skin will help diminish racism, and they think that elitists actually care about people other than themselves.
Eventually, humanity will snap out of this period of madness.
Nobody will be laughing when America is reduced to a third-world tyranny.
“Losing my freedom was not the change I hoped for.”
Especially after raising a few generations of innumerate ninnies, who don't know addition from multiplication and who can never understand compound interest, or why debt-based economies always fail in the end.
These morons will scream and shout and DEMAND socialist tyranny when the time comes.
[ Nobody will be laughing when America is reduced to a third-world tyranny.
“Losing my freedom was not the change I hoped for.” ]
Someday simular events as depicted in the book “the Moon is a Harsh Mistress” will occur and the free people living on the moon will have the last laugh....
It’s interesting, as lately I’ve been watching a lot of the films on 1930’s Germany on The Military Channel- during Hitler’s rise to power. In history, there is always a remnant of folks who try to warn of the danger of someone like Hitler - or Obama.
In Germany, those folks were outnumbered. I pray we aren’t, but I find myself thinking how horrible it must have been to have been one of those Germans in the late 30’s who knew good and well what Germany was doing to itself - and yet be powerless to stop it.
I hope history won’t judge Americans of our era the way it judges Germans of the 1930s.
How many Germans laugh at those who put Hitler into power? No, they will curse at us for taking him seriously.
Today some people think that man caused global warming is killing livestock and causing storms and many will be freezing or sweltering in darkened homes, standing in line for $6 gasoline and see their jobs vanish as a result of such ignorance.
In 1492, it was well known that the Earth was round.
And that's not the half of it. I'd retire to Bedlam, but there's no use; we're already there.
and also that Pi(e) are round.
And yet, the expression “pi are squared” survives.
He is [always] ignorant of what he is talking about. How many bright accomplished learned people do we have in this country? And this piece of garbage winds up being the President? This really is an ‘idiotochracy’.
Whenever he goes into any meeting, with the WH staff, with foreign leaders, with the military, he is ALWAYS the least qualified guy in the room to be there. What is he? Who is he? What has he ever done of any significance at all. I wouldn't hire him to work in my warehouse, much less as a lawyer. Has anyone seen any proof whatsoever of his much vaunted education and degrees? No! No one has. We are simply ‘told’ that he has this degree and that degree and we are ‘told’ to take it on faith. He doesn't even understand on a basic level, what America is or how an American government works. He thought, and maybe still thinks, that he was elected President of Kenya or Venezuela. The man is an idiot.
In every speech I can think of since he was elected and many before he was elected, all he does is criticize everything and everyone in America. He seems to ‘love’ billionaires Soros and Buffet and he loves anything Islamic, but no one or nothing else American.
He has criticized gun owners, Christians, American workers, millionaires, and the list goes on and on. He is just a bitter, negative person, uncouth, gauche, inexperienced and unqualified for his position, with an axe to grind against America.
It is hard to imagine that this is the best America could do. Forget future generations, the world is laughing now. Russia, China, Europe, the M.E. view him as a joke. And, he is.
The world is laughing now, but I am not laughing with them.
I find this ominous. Somehow or other, this totally radical and unacceptable behavior from the President reminds me of another demagogue who used to inflame the radicals, revolutionaries, and brawlers in Munich beer halls almost 90 years ago. That didn't turn out well for that country, either. Ominously enough, it was just prior to total economic collapse, too.
Who says history doesn't repeat itself?
Steyn ping!
One of the greatest cons of the socialists is to trick the people into believing that 'everyone' believes like they do. But we have two things they didn't have then: the Internet and the Tea Party.
The Tea Party showed people that there were millions of others who felt like they did -- that the government spending was out of control, that they didn't want the health care bill, that Cap and Trade was a scam, that the economy was drowning in too much government control and regulations.
We may never know what a great service to this country was done by the patriots in the Tea Party.
And, pi is irrational and the circle is always broken. There has to be a discontinuity where DumBO can fall in and never be heard from.
Actually whom they all laughed at was Nicola Tesla....
Thomas Edison was just a thief.. Snidely Whiplash in the flesh..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhC_JJwlep0
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