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Palin completely misunderstands what "Sputnik Moment" means
Just about everyone knows that the phrase "Sputnik moment" refers to America's response to the Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite and how it galvanized the nation to make the scientific and technological advantages that allowed us to go to the moon and beyond, but not Sarah Palin.
To Palin, the Sputnik moment was a bad thing for America and the fact that President Obama "would aspire Americans to celebrate" it represents a "WTF moment." Why? Because, she says, Sputnik "resulted in the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union."
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/01/27/939263/-Palin-completely-misunderstands-what-Sputnik-Moment-means?detail=emailclassic&link_id=2&can_id=9d9ab9550f6f19d630ddc2d594a7bd47&source=email-this-photo-of-hillary-may-surprise-you-but-it-really-shouldnt&email_referrer=this-photo-of-hillary-may-surprise-you-but-it-really-shouldnt&email_subject=this-photo-of-hillary-may-surprise-you-but-it-really-shouldnt
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)Anybody can be an expert on any subject now.
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,304 posts)She wears stupid as a badge of honor.
yuiyoshida
(41,867 posts)Please don't anyone put her on a spaceship! We would have galactic war within ten years!!
niyad
(113,631 posts)daleo
(21,317 posts)Led to the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union. It makes about as much sense.
Mass
(27,315 posts)Why does anybody listen to her?
If it resulted in the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union, why does Sarah Palin think it should not be celebrated? This escapes me totally? But I do not need to know, because she is definitively not interesting.
LostinRed
(840 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,391 posts)in terms a 5th grader could understand. But not a half-term governor, evidently:
"But after investing in better research and education, we didn't just surpass the Soviets we unleashed a wave of innovation that created new industries and millions of new jobs.
This is our generation's Sputnik moment. At stake is whether new jobs and industries take root in this country or somewhere else.
"It's whether the hard work and industry of our people is rewarded. It's whether we sustain the leadership that has made America not just a place on a map, but a light to the world."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/26/state-of-the-union-address-obama-sputnik-moment
kimbutgar
(21,224 posts)And then she says something so stupid it makes your head spin.
I will curse McCain until the day he dies for inflicting this woman on us.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)Narrow, bottomless, and brimming over.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Motley13
(3,867 posts)n/t
3catwoman3
(24,072 posts)...should be.
I do so on his behalf anytime I see or hear his name.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Glug glug glug
malaise
(269,225 posts)Lady BlahBlah is a really stupid woman
Lance Bass esquire
(671 posts)Solly Mack
(90,793 posts)She's stupid enough to believe she has scored a victory when anyone calls her stupid.
Yes, she's that stupid.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)my Pop ranting about Sputnik back in 1957. I was not quite 2 and a half years old.
the Gary Moore TV show did predict that the first man on the Moon would be named Armstrong, this was in a sketch about one month before Alan Shepard became the first American in space. 1961.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)somehow resulted in the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union (my head is starting to hurt)- shouldn't Americans celebrate that?
Stuart G
(38,453 posts)...Sara Know Very Little....... is quickly becoming a very small item in the news...smaller and smaller each day.
John Mc Cain lost to Obama..and Sara began her long slide into nothingness..which will become steeper down each time around and each day...
.yes Obama's win needs to celebrated in several ways!!!!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)that slide is very long, and not very steep. I will celebrate the day we never hear from this nitwit again.
deminks
(11,018 posts)And the MEdia gives her air time, why?
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)Our time rhymes with Soundheim and that rhymes with...sound crime...you bet.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,391 posts)that she prefered to the government-led NASA:
Well, the spudnut shop in Richland, Washington -- it's a bakery, it's a little coffee shop that's so successful, 60-some years, generation to generation, a family-owned business not looking for government to bail them out and to make their decisions for them. It's just hard-working, patriotic Americans in this shop.
We need more spudnut moments in America. And I wish that President Obama would understand, in that heartland of America, what it is that really results in the solutions that we need to get this economy back on the right track. It's a shop like that.
http://nation.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/26/palin-obamas-state-union-sputnik-references-were-wtf-moments
But - the true economic history of the Spudnut shop:
In 1946, the company began establishing a nationwide chain of franchised Spudnut Shops.[3] In 1948, one new franchisee opened a store after paying $50 (approx. $450 in 2010 dollars) plus the cost of 100 sacks of spudnut flour.[4] By 1952, when the Peltons were on the cover of the April 1952 edition of Mechanix Illustrated (Their Potatoes Make Dough),[5] a franchise cost $1,750, plus equipment and other costs, for an initial investment of about $5,000[6] (approx. $40,000 in 2010 dollars).
By 1948, over 200 Spudnut Shops had sprung up across the USA. Spudnuts were advertised widely, with the slogan "Coast to coast... Alaska to Mexico". The cartoon character "Mr. Spudnut" frequently appeared in advertisements, restaurants, and even in parades.[7][8] By mid-1949, the number was over 225, in 31 states.[3] By 1954, there were more than 300 shops in 38 states.[9]
In 1964, Spudnut shops were selling about 400,000 spudnut doughnuts per day. That year, the company announced that it had successfully designed a process of flash freezing its dough, and announced that it planned to increase its distribution centers. At that time, there were six metropolitan franchise dealers who made fresh dough for distribution to shops that did not want to make their own dough from the dry mix sold by the company.[10]
In 1968, the Pelton brothers retired,[6] selling their company, Spudnut Industries Inc., to National Oven Products, Inc., of Washington state, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pace Industries, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The annual sales of Spudnut Industries was $2 million. The sale price was $550,000, payable over five years, plus 20,000 shares of Pace Industries (worth about $175,000). At the time, there were 315 franchise holders, with combined annual sales of $25 million,[11] making it the largest doughnut franchise in the United States.[12] In 1973, Pace sold the company, which it had kept as a separate entity, together with National Oven Products, for $1.3 million, to Dakota Bake-N-Serv,[13] headquartered in Jamestown, North Dakota. Within a year of the purchase, the new parent company remodeled the Spudnut headquarters in Salt Lake City, and retired "Mr. Spudnut", the company symbol, replacing him with a design showing a spudnut with a bite taken out of it. The mix for the company's signature product continued to be produced at the company plant in Salt Lake City, available as 50 pound bags of dry ingredients or as frozen dough.[14] The future looked bright.
However, the owner of Dakota Bake N Serve became involved in a huge, proposed marina development in the Sacramento River Delta, selling all of his stock to a promoter in exchange for tax-free bond notes that proved worthless. When the promoter was convicted on several charges of fraud and conspiracy in 1979, it was the end of Spudnuts as a chain. The parent company was closed, leaving all the franchisees to fend for themselves.[15] By late 1989, there were only 28 franchise stores open.[4]
The Spudnuts brand has not disappeared completely, with some 35 Spudnut Shops in nine states still open. A single outlet in Canada was taken over by a bakery shop in 2009, but still bakes the treat once a week. Over the history of Spudnuts, there were over 600 stores around the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. In 1975, there were 170 Spudnut outlets in Japan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spudnut_Shops#History
So it was a successful company, but was sold to a foreign conglomerate, then sold again, and then the owner got screwed in a massive financial fraud. A tiny number of franchises survived on their own. And this is the model that Palin wants the USA to follow.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)3catwoman3
(24,072 posts)I just have to look, every time I see it posted. Irresistibly awful. She must have wanted to sink thru the floor.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I do feel for her, but I still can't look away.
David__77
(23,559 posts)While it might have been smarter for the Soviets not to trumpet their scientific and technological achievements, not to do so may have diminished the political attractiveness of the Soviet Union.