For some reason, my twenty-two year old nephew Dom was
not impressed by Dr. Thomas Sowell's latest column, "Is Thinking Obsolete?"
(*GUFFAW*)
I love my nephew; he cracks me up; I however tend to
annoy him; go figure!
(*STILL CHUCKLING*)
Anyway... I dedicate this Sowell column to my beloved nephew
Dom!
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Some have said that we are living in a post-industrial
era, while others have said that we are living in a post-racial era. But
growing evidence suggests that we are living in a post-thinking era.
* AMEN, BROTHER THOMAS - HEAR! HEAR!
Many people in Europe and the Western Hemisphere are
staging angry protests against Israel's military action in Gaza.
* DOM DOESN'T APPROVE OF ISRAEL'S MILITARY ACTION IN
GAZA. ("AS A JEW" HE DOESN'T APPROVE!)
* OY...!!! OY VEY IST MIR...!!!
One of the talking points against Israel is that far more
Palestinian civilians have been killed by Israeli military attacks than the number
of Israeli civilians killed by the Hamas rocket attacks on Israel that started
this latest military conflict.
* UM... YEAH... (OR ELSE ISRAEL WOULD BE LOSING...)
Are these protesters aware that vastly more German
civilians were killed by American bombers attacking Nazi Germany during World
War II than American civilians killed in the United States by Hitler's forces?
* AND THANK GOD FOR THAT...!
* SERIOUSLY... I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER THAT NO BASTARD
EVER WON A WAR BY DYING FOR HIS COUNTRY. HE WON IT BY MAKING THE OTHER POOR
BASTARD DIE FOR HIS COUNTRY!
* DOM... YOU MIGHT WANT TO READ THE WHOLE SPEECH...
(*WINK*)
Talk show host Geraldo Rivera...
* IS AN A--HOLE. (SORRY! CARRY ON!)
...says that there is no way Israel is winning the battle
for world opinion. But Israel is trying to win the battle for survival, while
surrounded by enemies. Might that not be more important?
* IN A WORD... "YEP!"
Has any other country, in any other war, been expected to
keep the enemy's civilian casualties no higher than its own civilian
casualties? The idea that Israel should do so did not originate among the
masses but among the educated intelligentsia.
* THE "SUPPOSEDLY" EDUCATED
"CREDENTIALED" INTELLIGENTSIA. WANNABEE EUROPEANS.
In an age when scientists are creating artificial
intelligence, too many of our educational institutions seem to be creating
artificial stupidity.
* IT DOES SEEM TO... (TO ME, ANYWAY!) BUT IT'S NOT JUST
THE IVY LEAGUES'. IT'S NOT JUST AMERICA'S TOP COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. IT'S
NOT EVEN SIMPLY COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN GENERAL! OH, SURE, THEY'RE
SCREWING OUR KIDS UP... BUT OUR KIDS WERE SCREWED UP LONG BEFORE GETTING TO
COLLEGE! HECK... K-12 ALONE DID A JOB ON MOST! THEN THERE'S THE MEDIA! MY
GENERATION HAD OUR PARENTS AND OUR GRANDPARENTS TO KEEP US ON THE RIGHT TRACK
AND TO A LARGE EXTENT OUR PARENTS' AND EVEN GRANDPARENTS' CULTURAL MORES WERE
INSTILLED IN US. THESE GEN-Xers AND MILLENIALS... (*SIGH*)... WITHIN THE
PERAMETERS THEY WERE RAISED... (*ANOTHER SIGH*)... IS IT ANY WONDER THEY'RE...
er... SO OFTEN "CONFUSED?"
It is much the same story in our domestic controversies.
We have gotten so intimidated by political correctness that our major media
outlets dare not call people who immigrate to this country illegally
"illegal immigrants."
Geraldo Rivera has denounced the Drudge Report for
carrying news stories that show some of the negative consequences and dangers
from allowing vast numbers of youngsters to enter the country illegally and be
spread across the country by the Obama administration. Some of these youngsters
are already known to be carrying lice and suffering from disease. Since there
have been no thorough medical examinations of most of them, we have no way of
knowing whether, or how many, are carrying deadly diseases that will spread to
American children when these unexamined young immigrants enter schools across
the country.
The attack against Matt Drudge has been in the classic
tradition of demagogues. It turns questions of fact into questions of motive.
Geraldo accuses Drudge of trying to start a "civil war."
* IF ONLY!
Back when masses of immigrants from Europe were entering
this country, those with dangerous diseases were turned back from Ellis Island.
Nobody thought they had a legal or a moral "Right" to be in America
or that it was "mean" or racist not to want our children to catch
their diseases.
* RACISM WAS (*LOPSIDED GRIN TURNING INTO A RUEFUL SMILE*)
A BIT MORE INSTITUTIONALLY PREVALENT BACK THEN... BUT THE POINT REMAINS...
(*CHUCKLE*)
Even on the less contentious issue of minimum wage laws,
there are the same unthinking reactions.
* DON'T GET ME STARTED, DOC!
(*MUMBLING TO MYSELF*)
Although liberals are usually gung-ho for increasing the
minimum wage, there was a sympathetic front page story in the July 29th San
Francisco Chronicle about the plight of a local non-profit organization that
will not be able to serve as many low-income minority youths if it has to pay a
higher minimum wage. They are seeking some kind of exemption.
* HA! HA! HOLY OBAMACARE EXEMPTIONS, BATMAN!
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
Does it not occur to these people that the very same
thing happens when a minimum wage increase applies to profit-based employers?
* MAYBE IT DOES... MAYBE IT DOESN'T...
(*SHRUG*)
They too tend to hire fewer inexperienced young people
when there is a minimum wage law. This is not breaking news. This is what has
been happening for generations in the United States and in other countries
around the world.
* AGAIN... WHAT ONE SHOULD KNOW AND WHAT ONE DOES...
(*SHRUG*)
* YES. BASIC ECONOMIC REALITY - INDEED, BASIC REALITY OF
ALL SORTS - WOULD COMING AS BREAKING NEWS TO MANY OF OUR FELLOW AMERICANS -
YES... INCLUDING THE "EDUCATED" ONES.
One of the few countries without a minimum wage law is
Switzerland, where the unemployment rate has been consistently less than 4
percent for years.
* ADMISSION: I... DID... NOT... KNOW... THIS! (I MEAN
THAT SWITZERLAND DIDN'T HAVE A MINIMUM WAGE...)
Back in 2003, The Economist magazine reported that
"Switzerland's unemployment neared a five-year high of 3.9% in
February." The most recent issue shows the Swiss unemployment rate back to
a more normal 3.2%.
Does anyone think that having minimum wage laws and high
youth unemployment is better?
* YES! TENS OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS! (DOM... WHAT DO YOU
THINK?)
In fact, does anyone think at all these days?
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