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"When people call you brilliant, it's always good, especially when the person heads up Russia... He's running his country, and at least he's a leader, you know, unlike what we have in this country... I've always felt fine about Putin."
—Donald Trump

Putin would eat Trump alive and Trump would never realize it. A friend described Putin as 'able to get in a revolving door behind you and exit ahead. The Donald wouldn't stand a chance.

In an equal bit of idiocy, Turkey said they could take out Russia and be in Moscow in no time. I guess they've never heard of a couple of guys named Napoleon and Hitler.

"We've got a phobia about boots on the ground. If our military experts say, 'We need boots on the ground,' we should put boots on the ground and recognize that there will be boots on the ground and they'll be over here, and they'll be their boots if we don't get out of there now."
—Ben Carson

The problem with what Ben is thinking, in his own inimitable and incomprehensible way, is that Iraq DOESN'T WANT US TO PUT OUR BOOTS ON THE GROUND. Regardless of what Ben and most of the RNC ~~idiots~~candidates want to think, if we do put troops in the field there, we are playing to the narrative of ISIS. They want to kill Americans and it justifies their basic reason for being that "The Crusader" is trying to destroy Islam. We can keep up the airstrikes, and should have Apaches and A-10 Thunderbolts ready to bring the pain whenever one of our stolen tanks makes an appearance, but the ground work must be done by Arab forces.

"In order to make [ISIS] look like losers, we have to destroy their caliphate."
—Ben Carson
He's sadly partially right, but then again, a broken clock is right twice a day. Yesterday I read a study on Salon.com about what ISIS really is and wants, and it's complex. No big surprise there, things are rarely as simple as portrayed by media and the punditocracy. ISIS is essentially an extremist fundamentalist version of Islam, basically if you were a Christian fundamentalist and living strictly by the book of Leviticus, you'd be similar. They are trying to provoke the End Times. If an Islamic nation treaties with the West, they're too soft. If they don't stone adulterers and heretics, they're too soft. Saudi Arabia, that executes three people daily for drug crimes, is too soft. They believe that 'forces will come from Rome' and the end times apocalyptic battle will occur near Dabiq and Jesus will return and slay the Antichrist. Christ is, after all, their second biggest prophet after Mohammad.

Basically they must be crushed. They believe they are the Army of God, if they are crushed militarily, that destroys their religious philosophy. And it needs to be the Muslim armies in the area that does the crushing, the question is will the Saudis get off their butts and help do it. My guess is they still want the USA to do their work for them.

This article is quite the read.

"Philosophy doesn't work when you run something."
—John Kasich
Wow. Fail on so many points. Management philosophy, motivation philosophy, I understand there's something called political philosophy. Philosophy, morality, and ethics are kind of tightly intermingled, so I'm not sure how he would disentangle philosophy from running something. Well, we might not ever find out because he's extremely unlikely to ever run something like the USA.

"I feel like an asterisk. I am lost between the glory of Reagan -- the monuments everywhere, trumpets, the great hero -- and the trials and tribulations of my sons."
—President George H.W. Bush
I didn't like him becoming president: he was the former head of the CIA. I've often thought that that should be a job that was an automatic disqualifier for POTUS, but what do I know.

Another article that I read yesterday from The Atlantic was about frontrunners and early polling in our election cycle. Apparently follow-up polling indicated that when they were polling about Dubya in the late '90s, some people thought they were talking about H.W. I wonder if that was enough to influence the outcome of the election. Regardless, I'm tired of Bushes for Presidents and have no problem never seeing another occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

"We'd be Cuba if there were no Fox News."
—Ben Carson on the U.S.

Fascinating the things you learn these days.

"I'm a reasonable person. And if people can come up with a reasonable explanation of why they would like to kill a baby, I'll listen."
—Dr. Ben Carson

Carson knows that a "baby", to use his words, at one month old will not survive outside the womb. It does not have a brain or identity. Yet it can be detected that it may represent a mortal threat to the mother's health, or that it won't be viable. But apparently that doesn't register on his radar.

The thing that I love about pro-lifers is their attitudes on other things. For example, Carson's "Everybody attack the gunman!" statement, followed by "I think you want the person behind the counter" when a gun was shoved in his ribs at a Popeye's. It's also common for pro-life politicians to support the death penalty, and also eliminate any support for baby-carriers after they deliver.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

"I never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away."
—Dr. Ben Carson

Three college shootings in one week, two on the same day. I think two of them won't be classed as mass casualty events because only one or two people were killed. In one event, apparently the conflict that triggered the shooting was over a girl.

I guess he's showing himself as a true Republican politician. I can't decide if Carson or Trump would be a more scary president.

"Carbon dating, all these things, really doesn't mean anything to a God who has the ability to create anything at any point in time."
—GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson, discussing his rejection of evolution theory

I didn't expect the hard-core lunacy quite this soon.

I don't expect him to last very long, but you never know.

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Entries tagged with ben carson

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Apparently the United States was Cuba prior to 1996

It's the Doctor Ben Show!

What a prat.

What is this 'physics' and 'thermodynamics' of which you speak?

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