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This thread solicits examples of confident predictions, unassailable assurances, expert evaluations and can't miss projections....
I shall begin witha few examples.
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We are no longer fearful of their intervention. We no longer stand hat in hand. The Chinese have 300,000 men in Manchuria. Of these probably not more than 100–115,000 are distributed along the Yalu River. Only 50–60,000 could be gotten across the Yalu River. They have no Air Force. Now that we have bases for our Air Force In Korea. if the Chinese tried to get down to Pyongyang there would be the greatest slaughter.
General Douglas MacArthur to President Harry Truman on Wake Island, responding to the president's question about the probability of Chinese intervention in Korea. October 15th, 1950.
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"War may begin in the Pacific at any moment. But I want you to know that no matter what happens, the United States Navy is ready. Every man is at his post, every ship is at its station. The Navy is ready. Whatever happens, the Navy is not going to be caught napping."
US Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, speaking at a dinner honoring VP Henry Wallace....December 4th, 1941
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This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, and here is the paper which bears his name upon it as well as mine. Some of you, perhaps, have already heard what it contains but I would just like to read it to you: ' ... We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again....
.......My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. And now I recommend you to go home and sleep quietly in your beds
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, upon returning from the Munich Conference with Adolph Hitler, September 30th, 1938.
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"Give me 80 soldiers and I can ride through the entire Sioux nation."
William Judd Fetterman ..1866, who with exactly 80 soldiers under his command, was lured into an ambush and had his entire force slain by Crazy Horse and Sioux warriors.
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^^^^^ Would you send your kids to a Junior High School, where the teachers were that inarticulate and illogical and incapable of answering questions from kids who raised their hands?
I'm ashamed of you, dodging that way. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.
....General John Sedgwick to his ducking and dodging troops at the battle of Spotsylvania, seconds before a bullet struck him just below the left eye and killed him.
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"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face not Gary Cooper."
Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind."
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We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
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"You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference".
The Big Dick at his concession press conference following his 1962 defeat for governor of California.
President-elect Obama’s new science advisor, John Holdren, was concerned about global cooling too. In Ecoscience: Population, Resources, and Environment (1977: p. 686), Paul Ehrlich, Anne Ehrlich, and Holdren stated:
“Many observers have speculated that the cooling could be the beginning of a long and persistent trend in that direction—that is, an inevitable departure from an abnormally warm period in climatic history.”
Paul Ehrlich strikes again. From the Population Bomb, via wikipedia
: "I don't see how India could possibly feed two hundred million more people by 1980."[4] This view was widely held at the time, as another statement of his, later in the book: "I have yet to meet anyone familiar with the situation who thinks that India will be self-sufficient in food by 1971." In the book's 1971 edition, the latter prediction was removed, as the food situation in India suddenly improved. As of 2010, India had almost 1.2 billion people, having nearly tripled its population from around 400 million in 1960. India's Total Fertility Rate in 2008 was calculated to be 2.6.[21] While the absolute numbers of malnourished children in India is high,[22] the rates of malnutrition and poverty in India have declined from approximately 90% at the time of India's independence, to less than 40% today. Ehrlich's prediction about famines were found to be false, although food security is an issue in India. However, most epidemiologists, public health physicians and demographers identify corruption as the chief cause of malnutrition, not "overpopulation".[23] As Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen noted, India frequently had famines during British colonial rule. However, when India became a democracy, there have been no recorded famines.[24]
The Y2K Millennium Bug. Hundreds of billions was spent to solve this non-existent problem. As the year 2000 arrived absolutely nothing of note happened. Chicken Licken in the political world.
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