Ben Carson for prez 2016
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That's it. You've unmasked HarperCons. He's an unabashed racist, the Grand Gryphon of the KKKK (Kanadian Ku Klux Klan).
Well done!
I am hoping that a conservative republican is put in the executive office next time for one reason. So we can have a vacation from the incessant complaining about Obama,,Obama..Obama. Damn 7years of whining
No chance. They'll still whine about Obama. Just like the lefties are still whining about Bush.
No, he's literally deranged objectively.
He believes the 1930s propaganda film Reefer Madness accurately depicts the affects of marijuana.
He doesn't believe in evolution, he says .."I simply don't have enough faith to believe that something as complex as our ability to rationalize, think, and plan, and have a moral sense of what's right and wrong, just appeared."
He compared same-sex marriage to beastality and pedophilia, and ..
Carson stated that homosexuality was "absolutely" a choice, claiming that "a lot of people go into prison straight, and when they come out, they're gay"
In a speech he made in 1998 he said the Pyramids of Giza were silos built by Joseph son of Jacob for grain storage, in preparation for the famine portrayed in the Book of Genesis.
He's certifiable.
Supposedly he was a neuro surgeon. I guess some people are never satisfied with their accomplishments........
Carson's campaign says he was never offered West Point scholarship
The admission, following doubts over some of Carson's other recollections of his youth, could be a setback for the 64-year old retired neurosurgeon's campaign, even as he is tied with rival Donald Trump at the top of Republican presidential primary polls.
Carson's campaign says he was never offered West Point scholarship | Reuters
Carson's campaign says he was never offered West Point scholarship
The admission, following doubts over some of Carson's other recollections of his youth, could be a setback for the 64-year old retired neurosurgeon's campaign, even as he is tied with rival Donald Trump at the top of Republican presidential primary polls.
Carson's campaign says he was never offered West Point scholarship | Reuters
I don't know why anyone would want to be president . Everyone I've seen in my lifetime looked 20 years older when their term , or terms were finished. This man has a good life, lots of cash and could live the life of Riley from now on. Why climb into the shytpile if you don't have to.
US presidential hopeful Ben Carson has attracted attention and ridicule this week for saying Egypt's pyramids were built to store grain.
Darnell argues that the pyramid theory is "somewhat surprising and scary", coming from a leading contender for the presidency, but he also sees this as an opportunity for people to learn about the Pyramids and Egypt.
As most schoolchildren know, they were actually tombs for pharaohs. But where did the granary idea come from, and would it even have worked?
Egyptian history isn't something American presidential candidates are usually quizzed about on the campaign trail, but this week Republican Ben Carson faced a barrage of questions after it emerged he believed the pyramids were built by the Biblical figure Joseph for storing grain.
This was revealed on Wednesday when Buzzfeed published a video of Carson addressing students at a Michigan university affiliated with his Seventh-day Adventist Church 17 years ago. But the famed neurosurgeon, currently the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, told inquisitive journalists that his views had not changed.
So where does this granary theory come from?
In the Old Testament, Joseph is sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers, where he later interprets a pharaoh's dreams and helps the Egyptians survive a seven-year famine - by storing grain. There is no mention of pyramids in the Bible's version of the story but in the Middle Ages people started to write them into the story.
"If you go to St Mark's cathedral in Venice, there's a medieval depiction showing people using the three great pyramids of Giza as granaries in Joseph's story," says John Darnell, a professor of Egyptology at Yale University.
The belief was also popularised by Saint Gregory of Tours, a sixth century Frankish bishop, who wrote: "They are wide at the base and narrow at the top in order that the wheat might be cast into them through a tiny opening, and these granaries are to be seen to the present day."
The Book of John Mandeville, a popular 14th Century travel memoir, also referred to "Joseph's Granaries, which he had made to store the wheat for hard times".
But Darnell says the idea began to fall out of favour during the Renaissance, when people made more detailed studies of the pyramids.
"Now of course we know the pyramids were burial chambers - albeit just one element of far greater complexes. The architectural predecessors and descendants of pyramids, their internal passageways and the function of their spaces can be traced right through the period into the new Kingdom of Egypt," he says.
The story of Joseph is supposedly set in the time of Egypt's Middle Kingdom, Darnell points out, which is centuries after the pyramids of Giza were built.
"The major internal element of the pyramids is stone and brick - there wouldn't be much space for grain, and it would be huge waste of power and engineering," he says. "Plus we know ancient granaries tended to beehive-shaped and quite small. It wouldn't make sense to build gigantic monumental granaries - it would take ages to grain in, and smother everyone when it poured out."
Egyptologist James Allen of Brown University agrees. "There's no way in the world an ounce of grain would be stored in a structure like that," he says. "It would be totally impractical. It's like saying the Tower of London was built as a granary store."
Why do some people think the pyramids were grain stores? - BBC News
Darnell argues that the pyramid theory is "somewhat surprising and scary", coming from a leading contender for the presidency, but he also sees this as an opportunity for people to learn about the Pyramids and Egypt.
As most schoolchildren know, they were actually tombs for pharaohs. But where did the granary idea come from, and would it even have worked?
Egyptian history isn't something American presidential candidates are usually quizzed about on the campaign trail, but this week Republican Ben Carson faced a barrage of questions after it emerged he believed the pyramids were built by the Biblical figure Joseph for storing grain.
This was revealed on Wednesday when Buzzfeed published a video of Carson addressing students at a Michigan university affiliated with his Seventh-day Adventist Church 17 years ago. But the famed neurosurgeon, currently the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, told inquisitive journalists that his views had not changed.
So where does this granary theory come from?
In the Old Testament, Joseph is sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers, where he later interprets a pharaoh's dreams and helps the Egyptians survive a seven-year famine - by storing grain. There is no mention of pyramids in the Bible's version of the story but in the Middle Ages people started to write them into the story.
"If you go to St Mark's cathedral in Venice, there's a medieval depiction showing people using the three great pyramids of Giza as granaries in Joseph's story," says John Darnell, a professor of Egyptology at Yale University.
The belief was also popularised by Saint Gregory of Tours, a sixth century Frankish bishop, who wrote: "They are wide at the base and narrow at the top in order that the wheat might be cast into them through a tiny opening, and these granaries are to be seen to the present day."
The Book of John Mandeville, a popular 14th Century travel memoir, also referred to "Joseph's Granaries, which he had made to store the wheat for hard times".
But Darnell says the idea began to fall out of favour during the Renaissance, when people made more detailed studies of the pyramids.
"Now of course we know the pyramids were burial chambers - albeit just one element of far greater complexes. The architectural predecessors and descendants of pyramids, their internal passageways and the function of their spaces can be traced right through the period into the new Kingdom of Egypt," he says.
The story of Joseph is supposedly set in the time of Egypt's Middle Kingdom, Darnell points out, which is centuries after the pyramids of Giza were built.
"The major internal element of the pyramids is stone and brick - there wouldn't be much space for grain, and it would be huge waste of power and engineering," he says. "Plus we know ancient granaries tended to beehive-shaped and quite small. It wouldn't make sense to build gigantic monumental granaries - it would take ages to grain in, and smother everyone when it poured out."
Egyptologist James Allen of Brown University agrees. "There's no way in the world an ounce of grain would be stored in a structure like that," he says. "It would be totally impractical. It's like saying the Tower of London was built as a granary store."
Why do some people think the pyramids were grain stores? - BBC News
Carson schools MSM. Good stuff starts around 7:30.
Ben Carson Holds Combative Press Conference About "West Point Scholarship" | Video | RealClearPolitics
Ben Carson Holds Combative Press Conference About "West Point Scholarship" | Video | RealClearPolitics
I keep on looking down the GOP candidate list to see if there is anyone who could become President. It won't be Trump, who presents nothing but bombast.. and cerebral, soft spoken people like Carson just don't have the political weight to win high office.
Since America has completely soured on the Bushes.. even though Jeb is probably the best of an admittedly bad lot.. i land on Rubio, even though he is emeshed in his own scandal now. I think Trump and Carson will fade as the primaries approach.. and someone with at least some linkages to the centre (and some key demographics) wil emerge.
Since America has completely soured on the Bushes.. even though Jeb is probably the best of an admittedly bad lot.. i land on Rubio, even though he is emeshed in his own scandal now. I think Trump and Carson will fade as the primaries approach.. and someone with at least some linkages to the centre (and some key demographics) wil emerge.
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