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riverdog
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13 years ago

trolling🇨🇮 😇

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dstieger
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13 years ago

Never heard of him before yesterday. NPR interviewed him - I know nothing about his background other than what was in the 2-3 min interview, but I liked just about everything he had to say.

riverdog
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13 years ago

Yup, I heard what was probably the same interview, but probably 20 minutes worth. Never heard of him before yesterday either. Interesting for sure. Some good ideas.... solutions to those ideas..?.. could be tough with congress having such a difficult time even deciding who's azz is in who's way. More issues here on his thoughts on evolution, but it's hard to disagree with the premise of proportionality.

Hayell, Dave. You were serious about moving over to NPR.{;-)

HockeyDad
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13 years ago

trolling🇨🇮 😇

riverdog wrote:

Your opinion shows that you are clueless.

riverdog
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13 years ago

Your opinion shows that you are clueless.

HockeyDad wrote:

How so?

HockeyDad
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13 years ago

How so?

riverdog wrote:

Well.....re-read your opinion. It should be clear.

DrMaddVibe
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13 years ago

This thread is soooo informative...why I can almost smell the smoke from so much thinking going on!

riverdog
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13 years ago

Crystal.🇨🇮

riverdog
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13 years ago

This thread is soooo informative...why I can almost smell the smoke from so much thinking going on!

DrMaddVibe wrote:

That was me accidentally setting my beard on fire...... again.

DrMaddVibe
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13 years ago

#10

Crystal.🇨🇮

riverdog wrote:

Crystal as in meth?

Crystal as in oh IDK...maybe a link so the rest of us that don't listen to our taxpaying dollars being hoovered down the drain on NPR can catch up to the glaring bright spot you want to share?

Hmmm?

:-k

DrMaddVibe
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13 years ago

#11

That was me accidentally setting my beard on fire...... again.

riverdog wrote:

Perhaps setting up a thread talking about beard trimmers is in order?[whip]

riverdog
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13 years ago

#12

There are ton's of links, but this one from WSJ is decent.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323452204578292302358207828.html

DrMaddVibe
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13 years ago

#13

There are ton's of links, but this one from WSJ is decent.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323452204578292302358207828.html

riverdog wrote:

Ben Carson for President

The Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon has two big ideas for America.

Whether this weekend finds you blowing two feet of snow off the driveway or counting the hours until "Downton Abbey," make time to watch the video of Dr. Ben Carson speaking to the White House prayer breakfast this week.

Seated in view to his right are Senator Jeff Sessions and President Obama. One doesn't look happy. You know something's coming when Dr. Carson says, "It's not my intention to offend anyone. But it's hard not to. The PC police are out in force everywhere."

Dr. Carson tossed over the PC police years ago. Raised by a single mother in inner-city Detroit, he was as he tells it "a horrible student with a horrible temper." Today he's director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins and probably the most renowned specialist in his field.

Late in his talk he dropped two very un-PC ideas. The first is an unusual case for a flat tax: "What we need to do is come up with something simple. And when I pick up my Bible, you know what I see? I see the fairest individual in the universe, God, and he's given us a system. It's called a tithe.

"We don't necessarily have to do 10% but it's the principle. He didn't say if your crops fail, don't give me any tithe or if you have a bumper crop, give me triple tithe. So there must be something inherently fair about proportionality. You make $10 billion, you put in a billion. You make $10 you put in one. Of course you've got to get rid of the loopholes. Some people say, 'Well that's not fair because it doesn't hurt the guy who made $10 billion as much as the guy who made 10.' Where does it say you've got to hurt the guy? He just put a billion dollars in the pot. We don't need to hurt him. It's that kind of thinking that has resulted in 602 banks in the Cayman Islands. That money needs to be back here building our infrastructure and creating jobs."

Not surprisingly, a practicing physician has un-PC thoughts on health care:

"Here's my solution: When a person is born, give him a birth certificate, an electronic medical record, and a health savings account to which money can be contributed—pretax—from the time you're born 'til the time you die. If you die, you can pass it on to your family members, and there's nobody talking about death panels. We can make contributions for people who are indigent. Instead of sending all this money to some bureaucracy, let's put it in their HSAs. Now they have some control over their own health care. And very quickly they're going to learn how to be responsible."

The Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon may not be politically correct, but he's closer to correct than we've heard in years.

A version of this article appeared February 9, 2013, on page A12 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Ben Carson for President.

Really? How hard was that?

dpnewell
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13 years ago

#14

The guy is a racist who loves the rich, and wants to burden the poor. How dare he not want to punish all those greedy rich guys. It's un-American!

[sarcasm]

Interesting link, Jamie. I wonder which of the folks sitting to his right at the prayer breakfast was the unhappy one? :-"

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