DrHarleyboy:" All you proved is the Republican party will elect any one of the street and hope for the best. With Trump we know he is not the best. end game!!!!
Harvard’s president delivers a courageous speech — at West Point
By Seth Lipsky
March 30, 2016
Maybe Drew Faust ought to run for president. She’s the head of Harvard University and just delivered at West Point a speech praising the military that once would have been unthinkable from Ivy League leadership.
And just when we need it most — facing a gathering war while locked in a presidential campaign in which our candidates are slinging insults at each other (and their wives) or hawking socialism and military retreat.
The press didn’t give her speech much coverage. But if you’re seeking grounds for optimism that America will eventually find the leadership it needs, it isn’t to be missed.
Faust offers a paean to the importance of history and literature and to the value of a liberal-arts education. And she makes a formal tribute to America’s military that is surprisingly personal and moving.
Which is no small thing, given that Faust comes from a campus that not so long ago was seething with rage against the Vietnam War. It got so bad back then that Harvard ended its ROTC program, refusing to train our officers.
What a blot on Harvard’s name — all the more so because the university has a long, patriotic history. More of its alumni have been awarded the Medal of Honor than any school save West Point and Annapolis.
Not that Harvard was alone in banning ROTC. Several top universities shrank from the war against the Communist conquest that cast Indochina’s millions into a dark night of re-education camps, dictatorship and genocide.
Instead they left the fighting to draftees without Ivy League pedigrees and college deferments. When America won the Cold War anyhow, our elite universities were shorn of a portion of glory.
In 2011, Faust made Harvard the first Ivy League school to lift its ban on ROTC. Others quickly followed, citing the end of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” which had kept many gays out of the military.
It’s no coincidence that Faust seized the lead. It turns out that she’s the great-granddaughter of a West Point graduate, Lawrence Davis Tyson, who appeared in arms against Geronimo.
Faust clearly nurses a profound admiration for her famous forebear, whose brigade in World War I, she reminded the cadets, took terrible casualties in breaching the Hindenburg Line. Tyson ended up in the US Senate.
“A supreme honor” is the phrase Faust used last week to describe what it meant to her to stand on West Point’s hallowed ground.
She talked about the “importance of language to leadership.” She didn’t attack candidates by name, nor even refer to the primary campaign that has shocked so many with its raucous tone. She did praise Ulysses S. Grant, who, she said, devoured novels at West Point.
Faust also picked up on Sen. Marco Rubio’s suggestion that we need “more welders and fewer philosophers.” In recent years, Faust said, US students have been taking the hint, with the proportion of bachelor’s degrees in humanities plummeting.
What caught her attention is that West Point has been moving in the opposite direction. It has, she said, “transformed its curriculum into a general liberal-arts education.”
That means, she said, that West Point is “graduating leaders with broad-based knowledge.” History, literature, philosophy, she suggested, “enable leaders to compel and to connect with others.”
Faust quoted General of the Army Omar Bradley on the importance of imagination and Gen. George Patton on the importance of history. She talked about Winston Churchill’s fantastic appetite for history, philosophy, economics and religion.
Then Faust spoke of how, in 2008, she met with five Harvard seniors who had worked around the absence of ROTC and were about to be commissioned as officers. “I wish that there were more of you,” she told them.
The Gallup poll, Faust said, discovered that “the military is the last institution in which Americans have high confidence. Not organized religion, not government, not newspapers, not banks — you. You and all you represent.”
“We need you,” she said, “now more than ever.”
What a courageous coda at a time of global jihad. And from a generation in which the so-called best and the brightest turned against a war they had tried to lead — a generation now passing from power. What a gracious bow by Harvard to the institution that stood with the fight.
DrHarleyboy, that's dumb. How about differences? Superficial similarities only don't make for any valid basis for any valid comparison of the two men.
Why Lincoln Was Called "Honest Abe"
by Noah Brook
In managing the country store, as in everything that he undertook for others, Lincoln did his very best. He was honest, civil, ready to do anything that should encourage customers to come to the place, full of pleasantries, patient, and alert.
On one occasion, finding late at night, when he counted over his cash, that he had taken a few cents from a customer more than was due, he closed the store, and walked a long distance to make good the deficiency. At another time, discovering on the scales in the morning a weight with which he had weighed out a package of tea for a woman the night before, he saw that he had given her too little for her money. He weighed out what was due, and carried it to her, much to the surprise of the woman, who had not known that she was short in the amount of her purchase.
Innumerable incidents of this sort are related of Lincoln, and we should not have space to tell of the alertness with which he sprang to protect defenseless women from insult, or feeble children from tyranny; for in the rude community in which he lived, the rights of the defenseless were not always respected as they should have been. There were bullies then, as now.
As for your theory theory there is no theory in this
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Give us any part of a Trump speech with a part of one of Honest Abe's which, with both in context, you see could have been made by the same man.
Your avoidance of the reality, that Trump is a cheap huckster, a serial cheat, and a ruthless truthless bully boy who strategically utilizes violence to build his Trump brand, makes you delusional.
Or is it that you just don't care whether or not your president is a person who to become your leader basically lied and bullshitted you?
Apology: this post was reposted to fix the last sentence.
Original pipeline spills for at least the 13th time, making it most successful thing George W. Bush ever approved
April 5, 2016
About 187 gallons of crude oil spilled out of the original Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota over the weekend, reminding America that oil doesn’t need to be used properly to cause damage.
But Transcanada, the energy giant who operates the giant tube, says don’t worry because “no significant impact to the environment has been observed,” besides the fact that 150,000 penguins in Antarctica have died in six years, likely thanks to climate change.
This is a tiny spill compared to, say, the reported 4.2 million gallons of crude now sweetening the Gulf of Mexico thanks to the Deep Water Horizon spill and the half a million gallons a day it ships from Alberta to Illinois. In its first year after George W. Bush approved the original pipeline in 2008 it leaked 12 times, making it the most successful thing George W. Bush did in 2008.
The pipeline is now shut down as the DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration investigates the accident and billions of volts of energy from the sun and wind spill all over the nation causing sunburns and an occasional chapped lip.
You may remember the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would carry 830,000 gallons of Alberta tar sands oil a day as the GOP’s jobs plan — or its “35 permanent jobs” plan, since that’s how many jobs would be created once the entirety of the proposed pipeline is completed.
After six years of review, President Obama finally rejected TransCanada’s permit last year. The energy giant is now suing the U.S. under NAFTA’s “I Thought We All Agreed the Planet Was Screwed” clause.
This is a nice reminder that “as pipelines age, they are often not properly maintained, leading to a greater possibility of a leak occurring.”
TransCanada claims to have a high-tech network of signals to alert it of spills, except in this case the rupture was noticed by a local landowner who quickly realized that he was not living out the beginning of the Beverly Hillbillies.
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