John “SHIT FOR BRAINS” Merrill, Secretary of State of Alabama, pisses off crowd at Selma observance.
How THE FUCK did this moron become a neurosurgeon? Oh wait, he only operated on Republicans. Never mind…
From the link.
In a twisted sense, he was right. Only if “pursue prosperity and happiness in this land” means hoping that someday slavery is abolished.
He also said in that talk:
He’s a brain surgeon, and I am not. But… I find that claim somewhat incredible. The brain being a mushy organic thing, I wouldn’t expect it to do much of anything perfectly and permanently. Can decades-old memories actually be pulled from the brain with some kind of electrical stimulation? Is there some basis for this claim?
ETA: He made a similar claim in Gifted Hands for Kids. Hopefully this link to Google Books will work. Gifted Hands, Kids Edition: The Ben Carson Story - Gregg Lewis, Deborah Shaw Lewis - Google Books
Missed the edit window, but it looks like he’s made similar claims in several of his books. Still no idea if it’s true at all, though.
More realistically, that they could someday get their hands on something sharp and murder all them slaving sonsabitches in their beds.
See : Haïti.
It’s hardly news that Ben Carson’s grain doesn’t go all the way to the top of the pyramid.
We have to ask ourselves…Did he really not know how a comment like this was gonna play? Is he intentionally stirring up shit?
Senator John Cornyn retweeted this article without apparently reading anything other than the headline:
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/322403-former-bush-ag-trump-right-that-there-was-surveillance
So he didn’t read the parts that read things like
I don’t see how it could be true unless one thinks the brain is magical which I do not. The brain is vast (10[sup]11[/sup] neurons with 10[sup]14[/sup] synaptic connections) but it’s still finite. I’m sure that many memories can be recovered but everything a person’s experienced over the course of a lifetime just seems too much. I realize that’s essentially an argument from incredulity but I also think that Carson is viewing the brain as some kind of magical, metaphysical organ.
Honestly? I would not be surprised if he thinks that the “harsh conditions” that African slaves had to endure were something like having the inside cabins on the ship, with no balconies… And the buffet closed down at 11:00 pm.
Such indignities!
I tried to respond, but found what he said so profoundly stupid I just couldn’t.
At lunch, someone in the staff asked, “How can we take attention away from the big guy’s latest tweetstorm?”
And Dr. Ben replied, “Hold my beer …”
(cribbed from elsewhere)
Ben Carson running for President? That’s as batshit insane as the man’s positions. Whew, that’s over with; never hear from him again.
Wouldn’t it be crazy if if someone insane actually proposed him for a high ranking government position? Never happen. Cabinet secretary? Holy crap.
Well, he’ll just recede into the woodwork - just another no-nothing absorbed by the bureaucracy. He said what???
It’s a sad state of affairs when a noted neurosurgeon’s description of how the brain works is less plausible than the plot of Inside Out.
[QUOTE=Ben Carson]
[The brain] remembers everything you’ve ever seen, everything you’ve ever heard. I could take the oldest person here, make a little hole right here on the side of the head, and put some depth electrodes into their hippocampus and stimulate and they would be able to recite back to you verbatim a book they read sixty years ago.
[/QUOTE]
Maybe he should try that on Trump and his people when they can’t remember their meetings with their Kremlin handlers.
"Why, if Ben Carson wants to operate on Donald Trump to stick electrodes in his brain, I say we let him!"
