[Brietbart] Using the hashtag #PutObamaUnderOath, best-selling author and political pundit Ann Coulter tweeted that while knowing the truth about Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor Susan Rice allegedly ordering surveillance of President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign aides, Obama should also testify before Congress on the matter.
"Susan Rice testimony now essential, but insufficient," Coulter tweeted on Tuesday. "Must hear from Obama."
#1
Barry has extended his stay in Tetiaroa to continue working on his legacy. "Hey, writing is really hard work; I had no idea--I don't have my ghost writer Bill (Ayers) here with me."
[SBS] Dutch Minister for International Trade and Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen isn’t one for holding back.
"The leaders of South Sudan are bastards who starve their own people," she told Dutch TV station RTL4 this week.
"The people of South Sudan have been abandoned by their leaders, left in the lurch, and they need help desperately," she said.
How is that different from any other third-world, authoritarian shit-hole?
The outspoken politician made the comments during a nationwide campaign which has seen the Dutch government and the public donate tens of millions of euros to UNICEF and Dutch NGOs as they struggle to address four major famines.
UNICEF says that nearly 1.4 million children are at imminent risk of death from starvation in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.
While few have stated their views on South Sudan’s leaders in terms as strong as Minister Ploumen, the Dutch politician isn’t alone in blaming South Sudan’s own government. Of course Juba has summoned the Dutch ambassador demanding an apology.
#7
I've given some weight to the argument that "relief efforts" in most circumstances allow those who are in power to remain inefficient and/or corrupt.
#8
Having read Martin Stanton's book Somalia on 5$ A Day(2001) on his tour there he noted that:
The foreign humanitarian efforts carpet-bombing the local economy randomly with foodstuffs had the long-term effect of destroying any incentive for local agriculture ... other than quat.
h/t Instapundit
...In "The War on Stupid People," an article for Atlantic magazine, author and journalist David H. Freedman analyses this chasm, lamenting the fetishizing of IQ, and stating that only a few decades ago, good jobs could be found based not just on IQ and education, but also more on soft factors such as "integrity, work ethic, and a knack for getting along." He alleges that "the successful and influential seem more determined than ever to freeze the less intelligent out... rather than shaping our economy, our schools, even our culture with an eye to the abilities and needs of the majority, and to the full range of human capacity." Of course, I've seen it in academia, where it's more "war of the mediocre but socially adept against their socially awkward betters (all good scientists are, a bit, Asperger).
#1
The title at the site is: Why ‘Hillbillies’ Don’t Do Networking So networking only applies to the "elites" as defined by Ivy League pedigrees? I doubt that hillbillies in our part of the country would have survived had they not had social networking as it is called.
the fetishizing of IQ. There's an interesting turn of phrase. Academics have apotheosized IQ to the exclusion of everything else? Well, there are research dollars, publications, and embracing PC also.
#4
I'm afraid IQ is all too often the ability to sit still in a classroom while some pompous professor spouts bullshit.
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Excerpt from an online site:
In 1965, while he was earning a Bachelor’s degree in economics at Yale University, Frederick Smith penned a term paper for Professor Challis A. Hall’s Economics 43A class which contained an outline for a delivery service that would use a “hub and spokes” concept to handle the routing of parcels. (This plan entails first directing packages through a central sorting facility before dispatching them onwards to their
intended destinations.) Such plan did eventually form the backbone of Federal Express, a company Smith started in 1971 upon his return from Vietnam, where he served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1966 to 1970.
A number of sources assert the term paper earned a C from the instructor who marked it. However, while that aspect of the tale has been widely touted as fact, it does not appear to be verifiable. Smith himself fed the acceptance of this element of the story by once stating in an offhand comment about the term paper “I guess I got my usual gentlemanly C,” but in a 2002 interview Smith acknowledged “I don’t really remember what grade I got. I probably didn’t get a very good one, though, because it wasn’t a well-thought-out paper.” (Questioning Professor Hall, the man who bestowed the grade, is out of the question because he died in 1968.)
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"I'm afraid IQ is all too often the ability to sit still in a classroom while some pompous professor spouts bullshit."
As a person with a high (measured) IQ, I can attest to that, #4 Abu. Plus the ability to take tests (usually multiple-choice, so the answer is already there).
I'm sure my IQ is higher than my plumber's, but he contributes a whole lot more to our society than I do.
And to those who worship education (mostly Ivy League) credentials and disparage those who work with their hands, I have a simple suggestion: the next time your only toilet is stopped up, call a Ph.D.
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The un-broken chain of Institutional idiocy is continuous as the idiots continue to make things more complex than they really are to act smart.
Then, their Students become the masters of idiocy and spew it to another group as Professors"".
The soon to be bankrupt young people continue to magnify the pettiness of their existence contributing to a Virtue-less Society overall, and too self important to care.
"That’s what our educational institutions are now: seminaries. Whether their graduates can engineer bridges, heal the sick, or design critical angry birds apps is entirely secondary to their role in refreshing the priesthood–or rabbinate as may be more accurate. "
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[Brietbart] Using the hashtag #PutObamaUnderOath, best-selling author and political pundit Ann Coulter tweeted that while knowing the truth about Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor Susan Rice allegedly ordering surveillance of President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign aides, Obama should also testify before Congress on the matter.
