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Science is religion. Heretics are excommunicated for challenging orthodoxy. Vindicated Israeli physicist wins Nobel Prize yet was forced out his research group in 1982 and savagely attacked by Linus Pauling for his theory. Cannot trust GW conventional (lack of) wisdom because of that.
Jehmu called Cain a bigot tonight on O'Reilly regarding the candidate's comment about Blacks being brainwashed. Typical lefty name calling when they cannot win a discussion.
Yes, the soft cover version should be available on Amazon in a few weeks — will announce — and to order in bookstores in about 8 weeks. It's close to 150,000 words. I gurantee it is well researched. There are no scholarly non-fiction books on my historical protagonist, no articles in journals — only a page or two, paragraph, or sentence here and there [;us a 22 stanza peom about him. The negatives about Kindle and ebooks is that charts and maps cannot be transfered to them.
Today, our heads are filled with useless stuff such as celebrity gossip, Lady Gaga, TV shows with no redeeming content, and video games. All is relative. More of my students in L.A. back in the 80s knew who Johhny Holmes was than Reagan's VP.
When I was growing up in California in the 1930s to 1950s, I often observed more prejudice against “okies” and “arkies” than against Blacks (only 15,000 out of 7 million in the state ca 1940), Mexicans (except Zoot-Suiters and Pachuco gang members), and Asians (Chinese allies good, Japs bad). Even as late as 1956 on a troop train heading home to California for our discharges, several GIs from well to do southern California families became biologically hostile to a kid, whom they referred to as a “shit-kicker” okie. They gave him plenty of verbal abuse short of physical violence.Of course, many young escapees from the Dust Bowl were drafted and others had well-paying defense plant jobs during WWII, made good money, and the smart ones bought homes and started businesses in the San Fernando Valley that flourished after the war. Others took advantage of the GI Bill and got an education that would have been impossible before WWII.
I stole your quote(with attribution, if that is OK.
Okay, flattered — I would never post the stuff I want to protect. I used it in an unsold treatment of a Mel Brooks style comedy set in Babylon at the time of Belshazzar. Played havoc with Herodotus.
And some of us thought that Edwards was an empty suit. Pretty hair fetish paved the way for an even emptier AA suit, if that is possible.
Either they're on their third or fourth beer by then, or you're just not dealing with the sharpest pencil in the pack in the bars you go to. 😀
The IQs of tunnel visioned fortune-hunting female barracudas in Southeast Florida cannot be lowered by any amount of alcohol.
