Posted on 08/07/2009 10:41:44 PM PDT by neverdem
The reason she sees them is that they are stamped on her contacts.
That sounds fishy to me. Better "Report" it on 0b0z0's Gestapo page at whitehousedotgov.
Great Article! The writer does a great job of explaining why totalitarian governments cannot tolerate the dispassionate quest for truth that has been the hallmark of free capitalist societies.
If you want to pursue these ideas further, get M. Stanton Evans’ book “The Theme is Freedom” (along with some subtitle I forget) , written in the 1990’s. It covers this ground at length. It includes a discussion of these quirky tendencies of the left such as the fondness of leftist ideologues for “superhero” political personalities, pagan religions (and intolerance for Christianity) , “back to nature” movements, junk science, etc). Stanton’s basic premise is that it was the replacement of the ancient concept of superman-like pagan gods and demons with the Christian idea of an all powerful, transcendent “One God” that is responsible for the idea of limited government and the development of freedom.
You obviously don’t understand that mathematics and technology were invented by Africans and stolen by Europeans.
Thats a bit harsh—and very disingenuous.
I suppose the concept of the automobile was “stolen” from the caveman's wheel.
Africa was the birthplace of the human but it has been a mathematical and technological (and everything else) basket case ever since the Europeans created modern science and the most efficacious societies (with a few stumbles,of course) man has yet produced.
Use your jungle drums while I twitter.
What, you doubt Yoruba mathematics. You’re obviously a European. We’ll have you know that the first space program was in Africa, consisting of a giant sling shot that propelled a man 500 feet in the air. And what of the all those codes of law that came out of ancient Africa? You probably think that a written language is important.
Fineman’s quantum thermodynamic equations would have been impossible without it not to mention the Zulu contribution to small arms technology,Kikuyu advancements in post-colonial administration of Kenya,Bantu control of a new and improved Congo and the Xhosa running a once world power like South Africa.
But seriously,the roots of English composition,the supreme accomplishment of written language,from Islamic North Africa script is nothing to sneeze at.
But when those who invented the characters we so eloquently use and abuse can write nothing more profound than death to the infidel,I find it hard to be grateful.
Yes, but in most of Africa for hundred of years there was no written language. And the North Africa of the days of the Roman Empire was taken over by the Islamic sword as an existing situation in terms of its advanced civilization for the day. We are also constrained to point out that under the caliphates a very large number of the leading scholars were not themselves Muslim or were not orthodox Muslims. There was much more tolerance than we see today.
What happened?
Unfortunately,America's glory days are now going the way of the Islamic golden age—and at the hands of a Muslim named president.
I could just die from the evil irony.
And we just may.
Some leadership, don’t you think? We could have taken the oil weapon away, without the delusions of a “green economy,” at by at least 15 years ago and we still haven’t. We could point out that without the illusion of wealth created by the one-crop economy of oil we could actually have the honesty to say that Shari’ia law does not work, but we won’t.
It was about a big intellectual dog giving sage and witty advice,axioms and insights to clueless humans.Some say “Duke” was an inspiration for Calvin and Hobbs.
In one strip,they were debating God,and if He was a practical joker.Duke won the theological discussion nicely by simply stating that the Lord put the oil underneath the sandy sandals of the Arab.
Duke could have continued with God putting the oil in an America infested with environmentalist misanthropes,but that would,I guess,been redundant.
America hating bozos are all the same.
Read this pint to self
Someone remind me, who is he siding with right now, again?
Thanks for the ping!
big bump to the whole article and discussion
I'm reminded of the aging Charles Lindbergh, who glorified contemporary savages and put "nature" ahead of humanity and was the Algore of the times (1960's), except unlike Algore he once actually accomplished something laudable.
The Rousseau movement never dies out, someone always has it, like leprosy.
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“You obviously don’t understand that mathematics and technology were invented by Africans and stolen by Europeans.”
There are mathematics books all over the place, libraries in abundance, nuts, screws, bolts, materials, technical manuals and tools everywhere and you say mathematics and technology were stolen.
Do you mean to take everything back,rescind progress, and give all back to its rightful owners? Will there be an indictment of all who stole mathematics and technology?
Just asking.
IMHO
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