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Scott Walker, Marie Harf, and a College ‘Education’-training in an ideology vs an education
FrontPage Magazine ^ | February 20, 2015 | Jack Kerwick

Posted on 02/20/2015 4:35:21 AM PST by SJackson

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To: Graybeard58

“Evil white Rethuglicans are gonna bring back Jim Crow!”

“Evil white Rethuglicans are gonna take away your right to choose!”

“Evil white Rethuglicans are gonna bring back the draft!”

“Evil white Rethuglicans are gonna melt the ice caps and cut down the rain forests!”


21 posted on 02/20/2015 5:21:43 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: SJackson
Brain or diploma


22 posted on 02/20/2015 5:59:58 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

When my kids were small, I would make up nonsensical lyrics to the “If I only had a brain” song from the Wizard of Oz.

My kids, in their 30s, can still sing them.


23 posted on 02/20/2015 6:01:36 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
What a wonderful casting job they did in that film. Interestingly enough, Ray Bolger was originally cast as the Tin Man and Buddy Ebsen (he of "The Beverly Hillbillies" fame) was to be the Scarecrow. But Bolger longed to play the Scarecrow, just like his longtime idol Fred Stone did on stage in 1902.

The two actors and the show's producer agreed to the switch. Here's an early photo of Ebsen as the Tin Man:

Unfortunately, 10 days after shooting began, Ebsen suffered a reaction to the aluminum powder used on the Tin Man makeup; he'd breathed it in, and it got into his lungs. That's how Jack Haley got the part.


There's a really interesting "Wizard of Oz" museum in Wamego, Kansas (ozmuseum.com). My family visited there back when my daughter and Son-in-Law were stationed at Fort Riley.
24 posted on 02/20/2015 6:14:30 AM PST by COBOL2Java ("God save America" - we are at the dawn of a new dark age)
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To: Ouderkirk

I disagree. She needs to go back to ‘da Bing, take her clothes off, resume her pole dancing career, and make some extra money working in the VIP Room, also without her clothes.


25 posted on 02/20/2015 7:37:34 AM PST by libstripper (")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s actually pretty clear on those topics. The media has muddled his view on purpose. He’s NOT for open borders at all and not for amnesty for illegals.

The way the media is going after Walker and the way they go after Cruz is pitiful, but expected. Al Sharpton, Holder et al can do no wrong, but decent guys like these get pummeled. Like the no college degree. Well, I rest my case with that doofus Sharf with Jobs for Muzzies will stop the terrorism. She’s got masters degrees I think. AAAAAACH.

The left poured literally MILLIONS of dollars here in WI to defeat Walker. Everyone loves the ACT 10 changes, except for the teachers union and far lefties. FYI-that John Doe (disgusting and practically illegal) 3+year investigation was run by a leftie DA in Milwaukee and shazam...... his WIFE is a Union Leader, Teacher pushing her husband DA into this. What a sham, illegally forcing all “targets of investigation” to be silenced from talking about it. Finally it is mostly over and the DA couldn’t prove ONE thing against Walker. Everything the left has thrown at him, he stays calm, goes forward and STICKS to his guns. My 2 cents.


26 posted on 02/20/2015 8:12:49 AM PST by WaterWeWaitinFor (Would Winston Churchill stand still for all this nonsense? Cruz our new Churchill?)
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To: yldstrk

“Now that is many times a better resume than obama’s.”

True enough but still it is damning with faint praise, it is like saying Cruz is taller than a grasshopper.


27 posted on 02/20/2015 8:16:59 AM PST by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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To: WaterWeWaitinFor

Living in Minnesota and having relatives in Madison and Milwaukee, I can attest that what you are saying is totally true. The Twin Cities’ news media covered all the Walker vs. the unions, etc. events in Wisconsin. Walker was severely tested, ad trashed by the left. He always prevailed in the end. That is because he plowed on and accomplished his goals and Wisconsin is the better for it.

I am eagerly looking forward to the next two years to see what Scott Walker accomplishes on the national scene. One of my close relatives is his Scheduling director.

For my 2 cents worth - I like both Walker and Cruz. Jindal is OK too, but we are not hearing much about him.


28 posted on 02/20/2015 8:27:08 AM PST by Gumdrop
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Bill Gates and Steve Jobs did not finish college.

The fact that Walker beat the liberals without a college degree while they all had degrees must really sting. Someone without a college education outsmarted them!

That is proof a college degree does not mean you are smart, it just means you sat in classrooms for 4 or more years regurgitating stuff written in a book, most of which is unnecessary to learn, stuff that can be found on the internet free, no tuition required. Art History? You can find all that on the internet. Women’s Psychology Studies? Go to a beach and see real women, not those in textbooks, and watch how they act. You can learn a lot.

Much of college is like trying to read a book to learn how to ride a bicycle. Just get on the bike and pedal and you got it. You do not need to read about sprocket theory and how it might be the handlebars represent male oppression of females and minorities.

College cannot teach those things that require innate talent such as charisma, will, and the determination to succeed. You can take business classes all you want but without an enterprenurial “spark” your business won’t be that great. Same with art classes. Some people, no matter how many art classes they take, just won’t be any good. College can develop talents in some cases but cannot put that talent there.

Walker has political talent, above and beyond a master’s degree in practical applicability of it. He has my vote if he runs for president.


29 posted on 02/20/2015 8:36:16 AM PST by figgs500
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This, though, is exactly the problem: her argument is not nuanced. It’s all too simple. It’s formulaic. Actually, Harf hasn’t made an argument at all. She wouldn’t think to make one, and may not even know how to do so.

And this is because, for all of her college degrees, Harf, like her boss, Barack Obama, (evidently) sorely lacks an education.

She does, however, like millions of American college students, have training in an ideology.

Did you know Josef Mengele was a college educated DOCTOR? Do you know why that makes absolutely no difference?

30 posted on 02/20/2015 9:49:18 AM PST by GOPJ (If you can't get on the high horse for men burned alive and children raped, what's the horse for?)
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To: GOPJ

So was Che Guevara.


31 posted on 02/20/2015 11:59:27 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: RipSawyer; yldstrk

One of the finest legal minds of his generation, who won numerous significant Supreme Court decisions, is just barely above Barack Obama?


32 posted on 02/20/2015 12:01:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: SJackson

An outstanding analysis of the modern, young progressive.


33 posted on 02/20/2015 12:02:50 PM PST by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: RipSawyer

no that is praise, not faint praise


34 posted on 02/20/2015 2:38:42 PM PST by yldstrk
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; yldstrk

Well, yldstrk actually said it was many times a better resume which I will assume means the same as if someone says he is “a hundred times better”, not just barely above. I was actually trying to joke a little when I said it was damning with faint praise, my point being that Obama is such a zero that there is no multiple that would NOT sound like faint praise.

As someone who actually is only “barely above” Obama in terms of intellect, morality and ability I might name Joe Biden or Al Sharpton, maybe Nancy Pelosi.


35 posted on 02/20/2015 7:51:15 PM PST by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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To: RipSawyer

oh sorry, I get it


36 posted on 02/20/2015 8:09:03 PM PST by yldstrk
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To: Gumdrop

Not to say the primary isn’t important....but I think it’s entirely a race now between Jeb Bush and Scott Walker. I don’t think Cruz will enter the race...he’ll wait out the eight years and probably serve as Texas governor for four of them before hitting the national stage.

And I would say this...in Iowa....Walker will likely take the win.


37 posted on 02/20/2015 11:54:21 PM PST by pepsionice
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