Thursday, November 05, 2015

As Carsons go, he's funnier than Johnny

Do you think that Ben Carson learned about neurosurgery by trepanning his own skull? That would explain a lot.

Everyone's chuckling about the Republican frontrunner's first foray into Egyptology...
At the 1998 commencement for Andrews University, a school associated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Carson also dismissed the notion that aliens were somehow involved in the construction of the pyramids.

“My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain,” Carson said. “Now all the archeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs’ graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big if you stop and think about it. And I don’t think it’d just disappear over the course of time to store that much grain.”
“And when you look at the way that the pyramids are made, with many chambers that are hermetically sealed, they’d have to be that way for various reasons. And various of scientists have said, ‘Well, you know there were alien beings that came down and they have special knowledge and that’s how—’ you know, it doesn’t require an alien being when God is with you.”
I don't know whether aliens exist, but if they do, I presume that they would be bright enough to avoid this ghastly rock. My question: Which "scientists" were saying that aliens built the pyramids? May we have some names...?

I do hope that Carson will soon talk about one of his favorite authors, W. Cleon Skousen. Skousen was the mad Mormon who thought that Wall Street bankers (you know who!) and the Council on Foreign Relations were the secret power behind communism. He also thought that Ike was a socialist, that anyone who criticized the John Birch Society was a commie, and that masturbation led to homosexuality.

Yeah, I'd love to hear Carson talk about that guy.

You know what's really frightening? For millions of Americans, Carson is the only candidate addressing the real issues: Aliens, pyramids, Jesus, and those Wall Street bolshies.

8 comments:

Alessandro Machi said...

Hillary and Trump.

Twilight said...

"God" at Twitter (God ‏@TheTweetOfGod) one of very few twitterers who always amuses, says:

When Donald Trump is the saner and wiser alternative, your party has gone through the looking glass.
:-)

Stephen Morgan said...

Some Pharoahs had more than one Pyramid build, so at least some were probably Cenotaphs, not to mention job-creation schemes, rather than graves.

Obviously they are mostly solid, hence not good for storage. Perhaps he has been playing Sid Meier's Civilisation, in which building the Pyramids gives you the benefit of having a granary in each of your cities.

Obviously, also not built by Joseph. Jews: slaves making mud bricks. Pyramids: built by wage labour out of granite and limestone.

joseph said...

At one of my favorite blogs, largegreenbird.blogspot.com, somebody mentioned Sid Meier's civilisation (British spelling?), I didn't know what he was talking about. I still don't. Guess I'm just too old.

Unknown said...

Joe--

Please post tomorrow about the downed plane. IF it actually was ISIS, and as you've proved obvious, we funded them, Russia knows, and we basically downed their plane even more directly than Su25's from Ukraine "not" spraying MH-17 with alternatively concussive rounds *POP* goes the weasel.

I don't even want to type half the shit I'm thinking. Please be brave for us and say outloud what I'm implying; we've become what we loathe.

--MLZ

Joseph Cannon said...

I'll have much to say, Morgan. Things are really happening on that front.

Earlier today, I saw a reporter -- not a pundit -- on Fox News state that if ISIS really did bomb this jet, then we should redouble our efforts to help both the fight against ISIS and "the opposition." Presumably, this means the opposition to Assad -- as though HE has anything to do with this!

I burst out laughing. Toppling Assad will put ISIS in power.

Makarov said...

"Papa Doc" Carson (not mine, but I'm stealing it) is a total nutbar who actually believes that the earth and all its fixtures are literally 6,000 years old. The only reason the mainstream media haven't given him the Admiral Stockdale treatment is because he's the only thing keeping Trump from blowing all his competitors out of the water and sewing up the Republican nomination before Christmas. But maybe Carson is a political genius and aliens, pyramids, and gay communists are the hot setup now.

Bob Harrison said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDKvWiToj8Y