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kpete

(71,997 posts) Mon Apr 25, 2016, 10:42 AM Apr 2016

Truth.

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Truth. (Original Post) kpete Apr 2016 OP

Hell yeah! Kelvin Mace Apr 2016 #1

No we don't. We love intelligence. -none Apr 2016 #2

But that might make them question authority n2doc Apr 2016 #3

but Chinaaaaaaaa! but STEM shortage! MisterP Apr 2016 #4

The most effective PSA I have ever seen KamaAina Apr 2016 #5

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)

1. Hell yeah!

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 10:55 AM

Apr 2016

But, being Americans, we HATE intelligence.

-none

(1,884 posts)

2. No we don't. We love intelligence.

Reply to Kelvin Mace (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 11:03 AM

Apr 2016

Just ask the NSA, CIA, FBI, and a long list of federal agencies most people have never heard of.
But for the rest of us, they prefer ignorance as the preferred condition.

n2doc

(47,953 posts)

3. But that might make them question authority

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 11:10 AM

Apr 2016

And we can't have that.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)

4. but Chinaaaaaaaa! but STEM shortage!

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 01:23 PM

Apr 2016

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

5. The most effective PSA I have ever seen

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 01:28 PM

Apr 2016

showed Wynton Marsalis playing trumpet for a few seconds. Then he put the trumpet down, faced the camera, and said "You know where I learned to play the trumpet? In school."

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