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11 Nov 2020

Americas Will Get It Right

Thomas Jefferson had faith in the American people, arguing that even when they get it wrong, those wrongs set them on a path to realizing their mistakes and eventually correcting course.

Glenn Beck says the 2020 election is no different. Some Americans made a mistake this election, voting for a Trojan horse in Joe Biden. Somebody who’s mentally not there. And they also voted for his running mate, Kamala Harris, a confirmed socialist, who believes it is the equal outcome we should all be striving for.

But with the election promising to be embroiled in the courts for some time, Beck paraphrased an apropos quote from the iconic Winston Churchill: “Americans will do the right thing, even if they must exhaust every other option first.” Which brings to mind former Yankees’ great Yogi Berra, who said, “It ain’t over till its over.” Here’s more from Beck.

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24 Jun 2019

Immortality Within Reach

Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku tells us that science’s Connectome Project will soon have the technology to map the pathway of the entire human brain, paving the way for genetic and digital immortality. “It will map all your memories, quirks, personalities, everything digitized,” says Kaku. “And, it will put it on a disc, and for the most part, will put it in libraries.” Imagine visiting a library of the future and conversing with Einstein or Churchill? Kaku elaborates in this episode of Big Think.

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01 Mar 2018

Churchill Saved the Free World

The West is free today thanks in large part to one man – Winston Churchill. Historian and bestselling author Andrew Roberts explains how Churchill saved the world from Nazi Germany. It’s the latest from PragerU.

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20 Jul 2017

Saintly They Were Not

Why didn’t Walt Disney trust women or cats? What about Winston Churchill and his racist streaks? Mahatma Gandhi and sex? Mother Teresa? Learn the real dirt on some of history’s most highly revered individuals. We might perceive them to be saintly, but they all had thorny sides as well. More from Grunge.

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12 Jan 2015

The Appeasing Liberals

As Islam again reared its ugly head in Paris last week, we are reminded that it is not the religion of peace. “Despite those who turn a blind eye to Islam, it is the dark side of humanity,” says Joe Dan Gorman. “And it’s not a new thing. Even Winston Churchill said, ‘Islam is as dangerous in a man, as rabies in a dog.'” Great quote from Churchill, but what’s changed?

The progressive liberals, led by Captain Destruct-O in the White House, continue to appease these fanatics. In this edition of Intellectual Froglegs, Gorman lays into the radical Islamic movement, plus throws in some choice comments on government intervention, Guantanamo Bay, and our illustrious president and attorney general.

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06 Sep 2012

The Churchill Thrillers

Winston Churchill is a dashing historical figure. “Churchill was more fun than anyone else in the 1930s,” says writer and TV news producer Patrick McMenamin. “He drank, he smoked cigars and he had better one-liners than anyone else.” McMenamin and his father, Michael, are the creators of a new series of novels, the Winston Churchill Thrillers, which have been described as “Winston Churchill meets Indiana Jones.”

The novels unfold from 1929-1939 — the era when Churchill was often a lone voice in the wilderness, defending democracy against the rising tides of Communism, fascism and Nazism. The McMenamins don’t present Churchill battling alone, however, but in concert with an American sidekick, a fictional son of Rep. Bourke Cochran, D-NY. Cochran was, in reality, a mentor to Churchill and held beliefs that would be considered strikingly libertarian today.

Says Patrick McMenamin, “This guy actually existed. It’s amazing to me that there actually was an American politician who was libertarian in almost every sense of the word. Unfortunately, he didn’t have any children, but we created one and gave him Indiana Jones-type of adventures.” H/T Reason.TV

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13 Aug 2012

The Web’s Pig Latin

Contrary to what you might assume, “OMG,” the fallback euphemism favored by teenage girls to punctuate their every exclamation, wasn’t coined anywhere near the San Fernando Valley. The first recorded use of the acronym came in a 1917 letter written to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill by a retired admiral, John Arbuthnot “Jacky” Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone. The 75-year-old sailor employed the shorthand, but then also thankfully offered a precise explanation of what he meant, when he wrote: “I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis — O.M.G. (Oh! My God!) — Shower it on the Admiralty!”

Wonder if Fisher would be pleased by how his catch-phrase has entered the vernacular, or whether he rolls over in his grave each time Paris Hilton chokes over the expression?  Whatever, OMG has now been canonized, as the term officially gained acceptance into the Oxford English Dictionary in 2011. And, lo and behold, it had barely achieved respectability when meme magicians began to bowdlerize it again, transforming it into “Ermahgerd.”

Internet scientist Forest returns to the lab, with his lovely assistants Alison and Sarah, to trace this tectonic shift of great import to linguists everywhere. H/T Know Your Meme

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