Posted on 10/07/2012 7:09:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
They associate with, or try to believe that, liberals are not evil and can be trusted.
In short, complicated people lead complicated lives and make complicated decisions (usually).
Sowell, brilliant as usual.
In short, simple people lead simple lives and make simple decisions (usually). Not the case with Joe Biden, obviously.
That is the premise behind "Trouble with the Curve", the new Eastwood movie. See it. It's good.
When presumably smart people take political office and make these 5 mistakes, it affects all of us, unfortunately.
#6 - Becoming involved with a liberal woman.
I used to think I was smart. Thank G-d those days are past.
Now if I get through the day physically intact and know where my next meal is coming from, then I’ve achieved something.
I once walked through Cologne Cathedral and looked at the stained glass windows and thought, “it’s people who built this cathedral who make me realize how little I’ve accomplished.”
No, G-d just gave to them greater gifts, that’s all. He didn’t make me very intelligent and that’s a relief.
If asked how much I know, I respond, “enough to know I don’t know it all”.
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Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.
This is false. According to Tesla's lab notebook, he created something that we now call a ruby laser.
The laser cannons that the military are using now are indeed "death rays."
6. They vote Democrat. Well maybe not, we’re talking about intelligent people here.
“When smart people feel compelled to take stupid positions to prove how smart they are, they can turn their own lives and the lives of everyone around them into a train wreck in the process.”
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Yeah...those relationships didn’t work for me.
Tough read. A better analogy is that I tried for years to teach my kids framing, took them to sites, did all I could think of. They knew the terminology, supposedly the processes. But then we built a structure, and they finally LEARNED framing.
When I graduated from College (I was about 30)...and co-workers were congratulating me....all I could say was...”Now I know how much I do NOT know”
“I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.”
I would rather entrust the government to the first 400 people in the phone book of a small town in Texas or Oklahoma. Boston is too liberal!
Obama defined.
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