Thoughts from the ammo line

[Valin]

Power Line:

Scott Johnson

Aug 28 2015

Ammo Grrrll asks the question WHO IS WISE? She writes

 

The ancient Jewish text, the Talmud, asks, “Who is wise?” and answers, “Who learns from everyone.” (As a topic for a future discussion, it also asks, “Who is rich?” and answers, “Who is satisfied with what he has.” Is that a laugh riot, or what? We can’t have THAT in the socialist paradise of Cherokee Lizzie, Class-Envy Bernie and Disparate Impact Barry, now can we?)

 

But, back to the notion that everyone has some wisdom to impart. Apparently, in the Olden Days, “credentials” were not as important as they are now. So, Sarah Palin would not have been mocked for taking awhile to graduate from an aggregate of colleges, not one of which was Harvard or Yale. Boise? I mean, is that even a thing? It must be in Utah or Montana or some other redneck Western state full of armed white guys clinging to God and guns. And Scott Walker would not have been ridiculed for failing to finish college either. Bill Gates, fellow drop-out, gets a pass; he’s a liberal and a billionaire, so he can say, “Bite me.”

 

So, wisdom comes from a variety of sources according to the ancient texts.

 

Case in point: A friend of mine learned something from a pimp.

 

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But granting access to the “VIP Room of Life,” being the arbiters of Cool, the gatekeepers guarding the trends, the fads, the politically-correct speech code, is less trouble and less dangerous than facing down angry mobs. Sometimes, “in the course of human events” and all that, angry mobs – even nuns! – can be pushed far enough to fight back. And decide for themselves what is Cool. May the time not be distant.