When It Rains, It Pours
Poor Ben Carson. All that eduction and he never learned to shuddup.
The latest is that he got on Facebook to answer claims that he’s inexperienced.
Well, that’s kinda really absolutely, truly, joyfully, and provably not true.
At least 28 of the 58 signers had indeed held elective office.
So, never one to admit a mistake, Mental Ben edited his Facebook entry to say that none had ever held FEDERAL elective office.
True. None had ever been to the moon or could skateboard worth crap. And, indeed, none were brain surgeons.
Thanks to Bubba for the heads up.
At least Ben will have one thing in common with our forefathers. He will never hold a federal elective office.
1Some are comparing Mental Ben to Urkel. Whereas, I would remind them that Urkel was a fictional character, while Ben is a fiction without character.
And, as I would remind all those pundits pandering the poll numbers, stop and remember some of the other ‘winners’ in Iowa.
Seriously, is there one Klown in the Klown Kar that cannot be beat by any of the three Democratic candidates?
2My sister told me today, she was mailing her $100 to me, Hillary is the next potus – she is retired Army so she has been a moderate repig, but now understands the difference – she also prefers sanity and experience.
3LynnN!!! For the win and the OUCH!
4Its a damn shame this info does not make it into the average school history book! So much of the truth of our founders has been expunged for some crazy reason. I wonder how that happens!
5There’s a little problem with his “correction”. Until the Constitution was ratified there were no Federal offices. I keep wondering where this guy came from. He just fell out of the sky along with his books. Has anybody reviewed those books. Gonna go look up the publishers.
6Carson is a moron. I don’t care if he is a brain surgeon. He is too stupid and ignorant to realize he has no business running for the presidency.
None of the founding fathers were setting out to govern a geographically immense nation of 330,000,000 people, with a vastly diverse population of many cultures and heritages and an incredibly complicated infrastructure and technology base.
Nor were they setting out to govern a country held by many to be the most powerful on earth, with globally complex relationships and the responsibility to manage those relationships in a way that doesn’t turn half the planet into a smoking cinder.
7If the pyramids were built to store grain, does that mean those silos you see when driving through farm country are crammed full of dead Egyptian kings and their cats?
8maggie, education can be a crap shoot which, it shouldn’t be. I was lucky. Nevada had a really good Democratic governor for 8 years, so when I started HS, class sizes were small, teachers were accredited and our textbooks were recent. Now I shudder for the kids with the crazy Tea Baggers in the lege.
June Bug, if you find his publisher(s) and provide the link(s), I am sure a few of us here can be arm twisted into writing a few ‘reviews’ for Mental Ben’s books.
9It’s kind of hard to serve in a political position in a government that didn’t exist at the time the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were written, which is why Carson edited the post. Although the Constitution was written in the Fall of 1787, it didn’t go into effect until 1789 because it required the ratification of at least 9 of the 13 states.
10June,
You beat me too it!
Looked it up, federal government as we know it was set up in 1789.
Ben Carson is a dangerous man. Can you imagine how you would feel now if he had done brain surgery on your child? He may have been good as a surgeon, but how could you trust anything he said/ says?
11Carson successfully seperated con-joined twins. Apparently permanently separating himself from the truth.
12Considering that most (if not all) positions of importance were appointed by the Royal Court of King George III, I’m amazed that there were so many elected officials!
13Unfortunately, too many physicians wind up with a God complex, which allows them to feel omnipotent in all areas. Carson shows all the symptoms and therefore feels entitled to be the most powerful leader in the world.
14Diane is correct to call him dangerous.
The most brilliant mathematician I know can’t spell. But he gets someone else to proofread, and he doesn’t try to convince the rest of us of the validity of his versions of English orthography, or accuse us of entrapment if we dare to offer corrections.
Most of the really brilliant people I know – even the surgeons – acknowledge their limitations. I don’t expect presidential candidates to know everything, but it’s the stuff they know that just ain’t so that is so dangerous.
15PKM, this should give you a head start on Ben Carson’s books:
16http://www.christianbook.com/page/christian-authors/ben-carson
buskyandme: LOL.
17Pssst,
18The national media (AKA: the MSM) is just lapping this crap up, hardly a whisper of incredulity, skepticism, or a probing question from them.
Watched Mental Ben interviewed on a couple of the Sunday morning pollapitallup shows by the DeeCee villagers, what simpering mewling butt-sniffers… assuming the overwhelmed puppy’s beta position, pee’d all over themselves (not even that, they’re somewhere down near omicron’s or chi’s).
Every way in every way, Ben C. gets closer to having his photo included in the dictionary definition of DEMENTED.
19THIS! This is what bothers me about Carson and the rest. They all have theories, opinions, etc. that can be easily debunked with a half hour Google search! This factless reasoning is a danger to every single American. If they want to risk their lfe by jumping off a bridge wearing paper mache wings to prove they can fly, well fine. I’m terrified by the thought that they want the country to jump with them. Um, no.
20I’m with JAKvirginia above. I should be laughing at the clowns, but I’m completely horrified. Even as a kid, I was scared of clowns, and apparently I still am. These people and their followers truly terrify me.
21Marion (formerly known as MM), thank you. It appears that I am not the first to think of writing a few trolling reviews for Mental Ben. One must be a member now to write a review. That’s doable by pinging my IP off Louisiana via wherever and creating a new e-mail, too. No way, no how do we want that dreck here.
Or, I can just be patient and watch the fireworks at the next snacilbupeR debacle.
22Confabulation involves appropriating memories and data and incorporating them into contexts to explain them. It also involves creating contexts to link sparse data into a coherent (to the confabulator) narrative. It’s essentially creating a reality out of data at hand that is not necessarily reflective of objective, empirical reality.
Drunks confabulate to fill in the lost time of blackouts.
Children confabulate to make sense of limited data available to them because of lack of experience.
I have no idea why Carson does it.
And be sure, those created realities are as real to the confabulator as any actual reality. They will hang onto them with all seven hands because they represent their sense of self and place in the universe.
23Next week it will be HRC;s fault he can;t tell the truth.
24No need to fact-check Ben Carson. Every statement made by this clown is either an outright lie, factually inaccurate, or absurd.
25Well, those who are Amazon customers can review Carson’s books on that website. That can be a great deal of fun. A few satirical 5 star reviews could turn out to be hilarious.
I just went through and checked yes on all the one star reviews where it asks if the review was helpful or not
26I wouldn’t waste my money or time on a Carson book any more than I would have wasted on a Palin book. (I got one as a joke)
27Has anyone mentioned to Ben that there were no Federal offices at the time. Actually, that makes his statement true and he will certainly work that into his rebuttal. But then, he has not, YET worked on writing a new constitution, which I know the extremists want to do.
Huh. Ben.
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