Author Topic: Intellectualist Elitists are anti-American and we just ain't a-gonna take it no more!  (Read 3617 times)

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He wants to cut cut space development for education.  Can someone make sense of that?

NASA is a tiny proportion of the budget, so why cut it when 1) you can get bigger returns by actualy reshaping the existing educational system into something efficient, 2) you need some goal for education to lead kids to.
Cutting a measly 1% program such as NASA isn't worth the absence of something that inspires those kids along their way, nor the loss of american leadership in the field (already happening, nevermind with even less funds), nor the industry that benefits and depends from it.

Then, he's also well connected with some usual suspects like Soro... or I forgot the exact names. He looks like just another corrupt professional crowd pleaser.  
Worse still if he's stuck in the Left/Right bipartisan mindset that'll have him mirror whatever the party does, and bias himself not for what's constitutional and whatever actualy works, but whatever goes against the Republicans.
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Interesting, I just read her article.  Honestly, she's full of ****.

In some of the opening paragraphs she mentions how she was hiding up in a tree house reading a lot of books.  However, she never mentioned that all the other kids were out playing stick ball in the street.


Most of this isn't a lash out against ignorance.  It's a lash out against the popular and the trendy.  

She went through college thinking her brains were all she's needed.  And when people insulted her for never really earning anything, she lashed out at the anti-intellectuals.  


She isn't asking to make children these days better.  She's trying to validate her current failure in life.
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So .... his making a priority of improving potential NASA scientists and astronauts over the current ones (fixing America's broken educational system - our potential) ... as well as a feeling of his having a Soros connection of some sort ....

Huh?

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Arlo, your an intellectual of sorts.  






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It's a lash out against the popular and the trendy.  

She went through college thinking her brains were all she's needed. And when people insulted her for never really earning anything, she lashed out at the anti-intellectuals.


 


While I've seen dumbing down become a popular trendy thing .... I hate to tell ya ... brains are a good thing to have in college. May not be "necessary" ... for some. Take W. But let's not pick on such cause ... well ... it's ... just ... not ... important. :)

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While I've seen dumbing down become a popular trendy thing .... I hate to tell ya ... brains are a good thing to have in college. May not be "necessary" ... for some. Take W. But let's not pick on such cause ... well ... it's ... just ... not ... important. :)


We ALWAYS think that the current times are the worst that has ever been.  That things were better in the past.

But it's always the same as it has ever been.
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Give Steve his props. Jealousy (oops) is an ugly thing. He's mentioned his special education more than once and nobody appreciates it. :D
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Arlo like I said, why kill NASA when it's just 1% budget?  The real problem with NASA is red tape.  Axing it for its few bad apples, when it would make more sense to improvise an adapted solution to the problem, is like opening a can with a sledgehammer... It's messy and solves the problem with another problem.
It just sounds like he's plainly not interested in any space development rather than looking to improve it.

It'd be more effective to source 1% of the budget from elsewhere, like welfare or something.

The Soros connection is something someone brought up, I didn't take the time to look it up.  But that and everything else I've heard sounds like he's just another cookie cutter bipartisan player. Not true to the constitution, not offering real solutions to the gun crime problem besides just axing the 2nd amendment. Just my impression.. It's not like I won't be pleased to be proven wrong.
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Give Steve his props. Jelousy is an ugly thing. He's mentioned his special education more than once and nobody appreciates it. :D



I'm hardly jealous of a guy who doesn't know the difference between conscious and conscience; the same guy who can't spell "acquire".
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I'm hardly jealous of a guy who doesn't know the difference between conscious and conscience; the same guy who can't spell "acquire".
Poser.


Well damn my spellchecker. Impress me with something. I never posed. I never proclaimed myself the best edumacated of the AHBB. But you have. So .... ummmm .... got milk? :D

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Lordy,

Some of the most intellectual people I've ever met have been heavily pro-US. Three of them chose to work there.
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Well damn my spellchecker. Impress me with something. I never posed. I never proclaimed myself the best edumacated of the AHBB. But you have. So .... ummmm .... got milk? :D




mmmmm milk.    :aok

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It just sounds like he's plainly not interested in any space development rather than looking to improve it.

It'd be more effective to source 1% of the budget from elsewhere, like welfare or something.



Could be .... but it can also mean he places more importance on the education of our youth than NASA currently. That's nowhere near the crisis  pouring hundreds of billions into IRAQ to pay Halliburton to rip off the taxpayer is. And the 1% could also come out of corporate subsidies if they're gonna pizz away taxes to retire their CEOs with 9 figures anyway.

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mmmmm milk.    :aok


So, sweetcheeks .... you're just flashing your brains to tease me? Heh.

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... the public school system, itself, isn't the culprit regarding the unfortunate and steady drop in practical critical thought in this country. Remember .... Bush .... Yale education .... about as smart as a pothole. The culprit is the focus of the article. It doesn't matter that the sun doesn't revolve around the earth or you can't find Canada on a map ... all that matters is prayer in schools, fighting terrorism by waging war on it until it magically disappears in a century or two and shooting people on sight for lighting up a flag. It ... just ... doesn't ... matter!

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An expensive education is not evidence of a person having been well-educated. In and of itself it points only to possible assumptions:

Person X paid a large sum of money and graduated from a prestigious school. The school has a reputation of only graduating people who can meet very high standards of Y. Therefore, person X can demonstrate very high standards of Y. It just doesn't work without assumptions.


Is it possible the writer's hypothesis is to the effect that an overall increase in the quality of education would lead to an inevitable decline in the popular distractions she's blasting?