Ben Carson Vindicated - Grain Storage found in Cheops Pyramid! (1 Viewer)

Not really, but they did find a big empty space over the Grand Gallery (with no way to get there).

Discovery of a big void in Khufu’s Pyramid by observation of cosmic-ray muons

Discussions are ongoing what it could be, with some scholars expecting it could teach us more about how they built the pyramids.

It'll probably be a few years before the matter is settled

Ben Carson wonders what all those letters in government are for. Well, not really he doesn't wonder at all.

SaintsInDome2006 said:

Ben Carson wonders what all those letters in government are for. Well, not really he doesn't wonder at all.

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Yes, the Democrats just did that because they read “rules for radicals” (Saul alinsky’s book he refers to.) They are just trying to demonize Carson by asking him about aspects of his job. Only the best people. 

SaintsInDome2006 said:

Ben Carson wonders what all those letters in government are for. Well, not really he doesn't wonder at all.

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Actually, the criticism is pretty silly.  Ben is absolutely correct.  Acronyms are used so extensively in government that the acronym becomes the word and you stop thinking about what the letters actually stand for.  If this is what you are going to mock people for, whatever.  

jon_mx said:

Actually, the criticism is pretty silly.  Ben is absolutely correct.  Acronyms are used so extensively in government that the acronym becomes the word and you stop thinking about what the letters actually stand for.  If this is what you are going to mock people for, whatever.  

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Knowledge and competence is the hallmark of democratic government.

jon_mx said:

Actually, the criticism is pretty silly.  Ben is absolutely correct.  Acronyms are used so extensively in government that the acronym becomes the word and you stop thinking about what the letters actually stand for.  If this is what you are going to mock people for, whatever.  

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We use a lot of these- NFL, NBA, LOL, NAACP, KKK, OPEC, OSHA, and so on. I know what these are and have nothing to do with them. I know plenty more, but I don’t know everything. I don’t really have a problem if Ben Carson doesn’t know some acronyms except the ones related to the position he has, which he appears to be under qualified for. Even if you aren’t qualified for it, being a smart man and accepting the duties of the position you’d think you’d immerse yourself in it and learn as you go, and could probably point out during the questioning that you’re working hard to learn all the details of the position, instead of talking about OREOs and asking them to be nicer to you. The sheer emotionless, thoughtless blank stare and mumbled “you know the answer to that” bs over and over is insulting. The guy took the job for the status, is in over his head and is just doing what he’s told because he doesn’t know enough about what he’s doing to even form policy. 

jon_mx said:

SaintsInDome2006 said:

Ben Carson wonders what all those letters in government are for. Well, not really he doesn't wonder at all.

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Actually, the criticism is pretty silly.  Ben is absolutely correct.  Acronyms are used so extensively in government that the acronym becomes the word and you stop thinking about what the letters actually stand for.  If this is what you are going to mock people for, whatever.  

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What the hell are you talking about? "REO" isn't a government acronym. It's a business term.

jon_mx said:

Actually, the criticism is pretty silly.  Ben is absolutely correct.  Acronyms are used so extensively in government that the acronym becomes the word and you stop thinking about what the letters actually stand for.  If this is what you are going to mock people for, whatever.  

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not as silly as this defense.

jon_mx said:

Ben is absolutely correct. 

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Also, Ben wasn't "correct" about anything, because he wasn't trying to make a point about anything. He was just being clueless about a term used in an industry that he (partially) oversees.

You are assuming facts not in evidence, and assigning a motive to Carson's behavior which Carson himself has never claimed to have.

and there's a difference between an acronym and an abbreviation.

joffer said:

and there's a difference between an acronym and an abbreviation.

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Technically it's an initialism. I didn't point it out initially (no pun intended) because jon was already so wrong that I decided to go easy on him.

jon_mx said:

Actually, the criticism is pretty silly.  Ben is absolutely correct.  Acronyms are used so extensively in government that the acronym becomes the word and you stop thinking about what the letters actually stand for.  If this is what you are going to mock people for, whatever.  

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Sorry, are you suggesting he knows what all of these things are, he just doesn’t know what the words mean?

I believe what Jon is suggesting is that Carson DOES know what those things are, and that Carson DOES know what they mean, but that Carson was DELIBERATELY playing dumb to prove a point about the bloated government bureaucracy by showing how ridiculous it is for the government to create acronyms that aren't really acronyms and also weren't created by the government.

Joe Summer said:

I believe what Jon is suggesting is that Carson DOES know what those things are, and that Carson DOES know what they mean, but that Carson was DELIBERATELY playing dumb to prove a point about the bloated government bureaucracy by showing how ridiculous it is for the government to create acronyms that aren't really acronyms and also weren't created by the government.

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It's not exactly a convincing argument, though

msommer said:

It's not exactly a convincing argument, though

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Since when are any arguments supporting anything anyone in this administration does convincing?