Joyanna Adams

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Nobody’s Perfect: Jonathan Krohn VS Victoria Grant

Nobody’s Perfect

I first saw Jonathan Kroch when he was 14, on Fox News. It was clear he was some kind of genius, and the conservatives were thrilled to have such a small and talented little miniature future conservative politician walking among us. But, it seemed, like our Supreme Court leader, Mr. Roberts…Jonathan is no longer the conservative. The little genius has wandered into the German philosophers that ALL universities stuff the most promising minds with. It’s pure socialists propaganda…I know, I thought it was great stuff too when I first read it.

I got over it. Once you get OUT of that university, you realize that it’s a fantasy land, and the German philosophers are better off dead.

Thus Spoke…Nobody.

Here’s what the kid believes:

Gay marriage? In favor. Obamacare? “It’s a good idea.” Who would he vote for (if he could) in November? “Probably Barack Obama.” His favorite TV shows? “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report.” His favorite magazine? The New Yorker. And, perhaps telling of all, Krohn is enrolling this
fall at a college not exactly known for its conservatism: New York University.

“I started reflecting on a lot of what I wrote, just thinking about what I had said and what I had done and started reading a lot of other stuff, and not just political stuff,” Krohn said. “I started getting into philosophy — Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Kant and lots of other German philosophers. And then into present philosophers — Saul Kripke, David Chalmers. It was really reading philosophy that didn’t have anything to do with politics that gave me a breather and made me realize that a log of what I said was ideological blather that really wasn’t meaningful. It wasn’t me thinking. It was just me saying things that I had heard so long from people that I thought were interesting and just came to believe for some reason, without really understanding it. I understood it enough to talk about it but not really enough to have a converstion about it.”

Trust me folks, the fact that he likes Obamacare shows that he doesn’t understand a thing he is reading, NOW either!

Now, compare him to this young girl, Victoria Grant. She is reading her opinions here, but it’s very obvious she understand it completely. She has much more common sense, and is not effected in the least, by the thrill of herself, as Jonathan is.

If I had to pick which one of these kids was going to go far in life, I’d would pick Jonathan. It’s obvious, he has the gift of gab….much like his favorite candidate, Obama. Nevertheless, fame isn’t everything.

Nobody Thinks the young girl…has the higher intellect. 

Still, compared to the rest of the kids at their age, both of these young people are marvelous. When I was their age, I was wandering along the beaches at night, picking up seashells, and staring at the stars… 

July 2, 2012 Posted by | American History, Barack Obama, Uncategorized | , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Nobody Flashes Big Crocs

Nobody Flashes

Having grown up in Naples, FL, I think I’ve seen just about every alligator and croc around. My parents told me when I was a kid, NOT to go down to the lake down the street because of the alligators. I, of course, wanted to see them for myself (I was six) so one hot afternoon I went down to that lake, and sat on the bank looking for my first alligator.

After about twenty minutes, which to someone who is six, is an eternity, I saw nothing. I began to think my parents were lying to me.  I was getting pretty bored when I noticed that in the water, about 24 feet in front of me, was a pretty silly looking log. And then, I noticed the log sort of…moved.

To say it was probably the second most frightening moment of my life is an understatement. I froze. For a good five minutes I did not even hardly breathe. All I kept thinking was, “I hope he’s not hungry!”

Since he did not come after me, I decided to get up very slowly and BACK away at a snails’ pace. The old guy must have been asleep because he did not have me for lunch. 

I never told my mother..in fact, I never told anyone in order to not appear…stupid. But that guy was no match for these. He was only about 12 feet. While people make a big deal about the difference between crocs and alligators, they will both try to eat you if they can. They’re like cousins.

Here’s a croc that a good deal bigger by the boat. That’s the Australian Brutus (that’s his name) who they use as a tourist attraction by feeding him buffalo meat. He does a good job even without the one leg.

The other croc was just captured in the Philippines, 21 feet, and weighs a ton. They are going to use him to attract tourists also. It took 100 men to catch him, and they say…that there is one even bigger that they haven’t caught yet.

So, you can bet that somewhere in the Philippines is a little kid, whose parents have told them NOT to go near that water, who are doing that exact same thing I once did…go looking for it.  

Childhood curiosity will almost always outweigh risk that you are too stupid to comprehend….and some people never grow out of it—

Unless of course, you are more afraid of your mother.

July 2, 2012 Posted by | humor | , | 1 Comment