{"id":128615,"date":"2015-11-05T15:25:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T22:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/05\/ben-carson-and-the-pyramids-of-grain.html"},"modified":"2015-11-08T09:17:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T16:17:54","slug":"ben-carson-and-the-pyramids-of-grain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/05\/ben-carson-and-the-pyramids-of-grain.html","title":{"rendered":"Ben Carson and the Pyramids of Grain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Um &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Carson is apparently a very smart neurosurgeon. He is also apparently a really not-so-smart historian and archaeologist.<\/p>\n<p>One must wonder which he would be as a president.<\/p>\n<p>I do give him credit, though, for doubling down on something he is very, very much mistaken about, despite his lack of expertise in the field. It would be easy enough to say, &quot;Hey, look, that was a while back and clearly I was incorrect.&quot; It takes a bit more to claim you&#39;re still right <i>and<\/i> anyone who questions that is a disbelieving secularist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/news\/a39483\/ben-carson-pyramids'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/fBjzyXUsH6r1G2AM_JU0bZ-di5pfHL0BF3bq1-le5BhQxcIVEXxsrlzF4OTCvSzV8Cu-YLrU29BA2bU8N7iPbeuvahN2pVeMklTdh-nHYbGNcPmgLfoHpmf4RQ=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/news\/a39483\/ben-carson-pyramids'>Ben Carson&#8217;s Biblical Pyramid Scheme<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s some stupid for lunch.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/gNMKsKfcnJR'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Um &#8230; Carson is apparently a very smart neurosurgeon. He is also apparently a really not-so-smart historian and archaeologist. One must wonder which he would be as a president. I do give him credit, though, for doubling down on something he is very, very much mistaken about, despite his lack of expertise in the field. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/05\/ben-carson-and-the-pyramids-of-grain.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ben Carson and the Pyramids of Grain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,381,532,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-conspiracy-nuts","category-elections-2016","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48635,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/04\/dont-listen-to-what-i-say-listen-to-what-i-mean.html","url_meta":{"origin":128615,"position":0},"title":"Don&#039;t listen to what I say, listen to what I mean","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 4-Dec-14 7:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Um ... what?Ben Carson thinks people get overly upset over his comparison between the US and Nazi Germany because they get all hung up on the reference to Nazi Germany. 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But not what he meant to refer to, at least not in the way\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49613,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/18\/none-dare-call-it-war-crime-but-treason-is-okay.html","url_meta":{"origin":128615,"position":1},"title":"None Dare Call It War Crime (but Treason is okay)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 18-Feb-15 6:16am","format":false,"excerpt":"Lovable Ben Carson, who has been tapped by some for being a maverick outsider in the conservative wing of potential GOP presidential candidates in 2016, keeps demonstrating why he needs to be kept far, far away from the Oval Office.In the article below, he apparently endorses a blind eye against\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":50447,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/06\/ben-carson-has-some-odd-ideas-about-the-judiciary.html","url_meta":{"origin":128615,"position":2},"title":"Ben Carson has some odd ideas about the judiciary","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 6-May-15 11:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/ben-carson-federal-government-doesnt-need-recognize-gay-marriage-scotus-ruling1. 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