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2016-12-19 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-12-19 01:59|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 You don't suppose they'll put up a fight at every corner ?

Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-19 04:21|| 2016-12-19 04:21|| Front Page Top

#2 One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
Donald Trump

Posted by Skidmark 2016-12-19 04:48|| 2016-12-19 04:48|| Front Page Top

#3 President Dwight Eisenhower warned of the danger of a military-industrial complex.

However, in the same speech he also warned -

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.

It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system -- ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-12-19 07:22|| 2016-12-19 07:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Quotes from a retired general from Kansas, who led a country during a period of relative peace. What could such a man possibly have known ?

[snark off]

Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-19 08:09|| 2016-12-19 08:09|| Front Page Top

#5 And the Dems used an earlier version of the playbook on his calling Eisenhower, lazy because he delegated work and dumb...can you imagine calling Eisenhower dumb?

They've used that same ploy with every Republican president since. They called Reagan lazy and dumb and they called George W lazy and dumb...

Nothing new in the Democrat/Trotskite playbook

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2016-12-19 11:28|| 2016-12-19 11:28|| Front Page Top

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