Posted on 05/03/2012 5:24:43 AM PDT by jmcenanly
Norman Borlaug arguably the greatest American of the 20th century died late Saturday after 95 richly accomplished years. The very personification of human goodness, Borlaug saved more lives than anyone who has ever lived. He was America's Albert Schweitzer: a brilliant man who forsook privilege and riches in order to help the dispossessed of distant lands. That this great man and benefactor to humanity died little-known in his own country speaks volumes about the superficiality of modern American culture.
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In virtually all such cases we do tributes later.
So, thanks for the news ~ Norman Borlaug ~ rest in peace.
An Iowa boy who did well in Minnesota.
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How awful, their liberal readers said, that all those brown people survived! They must be forced to exercise Reproductive Rights so that they don't produce another generation!
Thank you so much for posting this aain. I read about his deagh several years ago. A truly, truly, great man, and may God reward him.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/business/energy-environment/14borlaug.html?pagewanted=all ~ alas the New York Times beat WSJ to the punch ~ what prescience. He did get the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE ~ my own is, of course, long overdue. Get cracking guys.
I think Shell is having specoial this week. One Nobel Peace Prize with every fill up.
Will stop by. I need one of those things. My life is so empty without it.
He received the Nobel Peace Prize before it became a “prize inside” a box of Cracker Jax.
He was a good man, and his legacy shows what a little man our latest peace prize winner is.
We are starting to realize that the liberals concern with population isn’t about starving people. It’s about their selfishness. They want the roads, trails and beaches all to themselves.
Think about it - what do abortions and famines do? Eliminate people - usually the poorest and least educated people. Many on the left see the human race as a burden on the planet. As if the world is a living organism and people are like some terrible rash that needs to be scraped away. The world would be so much better if there were fewer people. There would more energy to go around. Fewer cities and buildings. Less pollution. More trees and sunshine and butterflies. Why, the world would be a Garden of Eden if it weren't for all these people messing everything up.
And what does this jerk do? He comes along and makes it so there's more people! And not just a few either; A whole lot more. Damn near 17% more, in fact! A billion extra people all eating and cutting down forests and reproducing and defecating all over the place! "Well that's just great. Thanks a lot, horse's a**."
Norman Borlaug loved the human race.
He did everything he could to save as many possible.
And he succeeded magnificently, though he probably would say he should have done more.
And that's why you may never have heard of him.
May Norman Borlaug’s Memory be Eternal!
Many American Lutherans knew his name, I believe, since Lutheran publications often featured articles about this Lutheran boy from Iowa.
I hope that we shall have many more scientists, engineers, technologists, and entrepreneurs who will get us beyond our current “era of limits”. And we all can be heroes in our own way by voting out the obamaite clique, which like all communists excel at creating artificial shortages!!!!
Norman Borlaug was a man blessed by God with a keen mind and a noble heart. And he used his gifts not for his own aggrandizement but to bring succor to his fellow man in solid, concrete ways. He lived the values many of us profess, and as a result, billions go to sleep at night free from the acid pain of hunger.
What nobler legacy can a human being leave?
September 16, 2009Norman Borlaug arguably the greatest American of the 20th century died late Saturday after 95 richly accomplished years. The very personification of human goodness, Borlaug saved more lives than anyone who has ever lived. He was America's Albert Schweitzer: a brilliant man who forsook privilege and riches in order to help the dispossessed of distant lands. That this great man and benefactor to humanity died little-known in his own country speaks volumes about the superficiality of modern American culture.
Green Revolution techniques caused both reliable harvests, and spectacular output. From the Civil War through the Dust Bowl, the typical American farm produced about 24 bushels of corn per acre; by 2006, the figure was about 155 bushels per acre.It’s easy to see the problem: Norman Borlaug didn’t work for the government.Hoping to spread high-yield agriculture to the world's poor, in 1943 Borlaug moved to rural Mexico to establish an agricultural research station, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Borlaug's little research station became the International Maize and Wheat Center, known by its Spanish abbreviation CIMMYT, that is now one of the globe's most important agricultural study facilities. At CIMMYT, Borlaug developed the high-yield, low-pesticide "dwarf" wheat upon which a substantial portion of the world's population now depends for sustenance.
Under the Constitution the Federal Government is intended to facilitate, rather than directly to do, good.Common Sense
By Thomas PaineSOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamities is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer! Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.
Article 1 Section 8. The Congress shall have power . . . To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries . . .Those who use the euphemism “society,” when they mean nothing other than government, want the credit for what the people individually and in society, accomplish for themselves.
Did he die again? This piece is from 2009 and his passing was covered on FR when it happened.
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