Sometimes I refer to Princess Pelosi as the Wicked Witch of the West and Hitlery as the Wicked Witch of the East.
This is a rare time that I get to do both at the same time.
Three or four days ago I referred to some of Hitlery's help as "flying monkeys."
Must admit to my making light of what I truly regard as a war between good and evil (or freedom vs enslavement).
But then again maybe a mental picture is worth a thousand words.
May the light side of the Force be with you.

Well, she is a Commiefornia product.......

The truth is that Pelosi is really not Pelosi; she is a result of multiple combinations of various elements and compounds, many of them, like high fructose corn syrup, created by evil and greedy companies and insufficiently regulated by the government. In fact, her entire existence is a result of a missed abortion.

It is said that a camel looks like a horse that was designed by a committee. If the government was in charge of cell phones we would still be using the old Motorola brick and paying over $3,000 for the privilege. This is a classic example of how liberals have a complete lack of understanding of how economics works. People like Pelosi think money is a form of magic that responds to incantations and chants. My dog has a better understanding of how his food gets into cans than liberals have of why money works.

These posts are too mild.
Pelosi (and Obama - and Hillary) are pure evil for saying such things. Their attacks on Capitalism are soooo un-American.

Ridiculous, of course. The government never really invented anything. Governments don't invent. They appropriate.

"The Germans and Russians also poured tons of money into scientific research. "

"Our Germans [were] better than their Germans."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dSkX...

I disagree with Pelosi's comments and support the quotes from President Obama and Sen Warren. The fact that they're still trying to twist his words form years ago is a testament to how little his critics have for material.

Regarding Pelosi's comments, good ideas are everywhere. All the value is in commercializing them. As for the funding the research that will lead to new technologies, "lean" business is the rage now, BUT that does not mean the only way to invest in long-term technologies is by taking our money by force. Thinks about that way of saying what Pelosi said. She's holding up her phone and saying no investors would have voluntarily invested MEMS, battery chemistry, photolithographic IC etching. We had to take your money, she says, and in the end you're glad they did. It's absurd.

Several errors need to be identified. It was not an AAAS story, but from the Association of American Universities. See this write-up from CNet "Tech Culture." http://www.cnet.com/news/steve-jobs-d...

That article provides a link to this infographic which substantiates the basic claim that government-funded research is important to technologic progress:
http://www.aau.edu/research/smartphon...

The fundamental thesis was annunciated by Vannevar Bush, head of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development: fund everything because you never know what will pay back critical returns.

As for Al Gore and the Internet, it is true that Al Gore, Sr., was a proponent of the federal highway system. Thus, Al Gore, Jr., saw the first computer networks as the foundation for an "information superhighway." His science advisor, Dr. Michael Nelson, became the White House Science advisor in the Clinton Administration. Sen. Gore, Jr., introduced his legislation three times across three sessions before the collective of Congress understood what he was proposing. I have a rather large file scanned from an article that I wrote for Telecomputing magazine in 1991 that tells the story.

All of that was a consequence of "the wizard war." World War II was fought with rockets, computers, and atomic bombs. What is missing from Sen. Pelosi's narrative is the essential element of individual initiative in a free society. The Germans and Russians also poured tons of money into scientific research. The Russians had to let their chief aircraft designer out of prison. in 1938, Stalin had the entire profession arrested on suspicion of disloyalty. The failure the German atomic bomb project is a paradigm.

As for email, Shiva Ayyandurai was 14 years old and living in India when he created an interoffice system with Inbox, Outbox, folders, etc., (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/m...) However, that only underscores the fact that a free society is essential to technical progress. Ayyandurai emigrated to America with his parents, attended MIT, and then returned to India to take up that same kind of basic funding. It did not go well.
"In 2009, Ayyadurai was hired by India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India's largest science agency, by its director general, Samir K. Brahmachari. CSIR was mandated to create a new company, CSIR Tech, that would establish businesses using the research conducted by country's many publicly owned laboratories. Ayyadurai reported that he had spent months trying to create a business plan for CSIR Tech, but received no response from Brahmachari. Ayyadurai then distributed a draft plan, which was not authorized by CSIR, to the agency's scientists that requested feedback and criticized management. His job offer was subsequently withdrawn five months after the position was offered." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_A...

LOL. Now that is funny. The government created the Iphone. Guess we'll have to re-write the history books.

This is like Al Gore and the invention of the internet. You ever notice how it is the government that does things not the individuals or companies producing the products?Also goes to Obama's statement "You didn't build that business/company...."

It has to be the government or some such group that invents it can't possibly be the creative genius of aan individual that see just the right way to combine things to make a newer better thing.Creating music, art a story or novel. the ideas are there but the genius of combining them in just the right way, that take an individual driven to create. It is the individuals drive to create that sparks the world.
[My apologies for lifting some much so poorly from The Fountainhead}

So we could have had the iphone in 1989 if government had let Jobs do it.