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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (514451)	9/19/2009 4:11:46 AM
From: koan	2 Recommendations Read Replies (9) \| Respond to of 1577883

>> Koan: "The best defense you can give your children is a strong mind." D: "A glock and good trigger control help as well.>>" Koan: ""That is silly. I haven't locked my front door in 25 years. A strong mind can navigate this complex world because contained in that kowledge is a map of lifes icebergs. There is no replacement for knowledge. D>>One of my professor friends once said: "every time I see a Japanese kid come into the class I know that is goign to be an A. Profiling or racism?<< Koan: "That is silly. Noting statistically, that a certain culture is mentoring its citizens to work hard in school is not racism. Where is the negativity? That the Japanese are the most educated people on earth, by thier own efforts, is no different than saying a people are very hard workers. School work is mostly just hard work. TYhe Japanese out work everyone else in school. And as a consequence they were able to build a wealthy country using their knowledge. Social scientists contemplate that sort of information all the time. It is necessary to know those things". Koan: >>We just had a president who bragged about being a C student." D: "And now we have one that hides his grades and all papers he ever wrote in school. Koan: Obama was editor of the Harvard law review. That is the highest honor in law in the Us and the editor is picked by their peers. He was picked (becasue his peers felt he was the cream of hte crop)and graduated Magna cum Laude and that is on record. Koan: Dr. Steven Chu nobel winner in physics, and our energy secretary D: "Maybe he'll notice the rest of his countrymen aren't building windmills for power." Koan: You mock Chu? It is that same anti intellectual thinking that makes us vulnerable to the Chinese going forward. In tomorrows world the computer geeks will rule the world. D: "A glock and good trigger control are nothing next to the army of scientists China is training. E.g. if they get the quantum computer before we get quantum encryption they can blow right through any of our encryption.