What is he saying or thinking?
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Saturday, May 16, 2015
Caption Contest
• LABELS:
Duuude,
Lead-pipe cinch,
pic = 1000 words
Sunday, April 5, 2015
The Pope and I
• LABELS:
Lead-pipe cinch,
POTUS,
You talking to me?
The contraction, n't, negates the word to which it is appended.
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| Pope Francis (Image via Wikipedia) | Barack Obama (Image via Wikipedia) |
Related source » Pope Francis praises Iran deal in Easter peace wish: 'via Blog this'
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“VATICAN CITY – In an Easter peace wish, Pope Francis on Sunday praised the framework nuclear agreement with Iran as an opportunity to make the world safer, […] Francis made his first public comments about the recent framework for an accord, reached in Lausanne, Switzerland, and aimed at ensuring Iran doesn't develop a nuclear weapon.” [emphasis added]
— Published April 04, 2015 (Associated Press)
Although I am not a Roman Catholic, I have no problem with the concept that the Pope is infallible on matters concerning the Catholic Church. And personally, I believe the Pope is a peace-loving individual, as am I. But beyond the realm of the Church, I believe the Pope is subject to human fallibility, to the same extent that any other well-meaning intelligent person is.
I believe the problem, which many people have with grandiose pronouncements made by powerful and influential individuals, is that one must have a grain of salt within reach whenever one is within earshot (or within comprehension) of said pronouncements. Make no mistake, when a politician like Barack Obama says the word "doesn't", he almost always means "does" (and vice versa). For example, recall Obama's oft-repeated pledge, "If you've got health insurance, you like your doctor, you like your plan -- you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. Nobody is talking about taking that away from you". This, of course, is known in common parlance as "pure unadulterated bullshit".
The so-called "BFD" with Iran is the most irresponsible agreement any American President has ever foisted on the United States and its allies. It is a most perverse enabling of Iran's goal to acquire a stockpile of nuclear weapons. And this BFD, which is claimed to be "aimed at ensuring Iran doesn't develop a nuclear weapon”, is in fact a plan that is aimed at ensuring Iran does develop a nuclear weapon.
Happy Easter to one and all.
Go Duke!
Post 2,598 “The Pope and I”
I believe the problem, which many people have with grandiose pronouncements made by powerful and influential individuals, is that one must have a grain of salt within reach whenever one is within earshot (or within comprehension) of said pronouncements. Make no mistake, when a politician like Barack Obama says the word "doesn't", he almost always means "does" (and vice versa). For example, recall Obama's oft-repeated pledge, "If you've got health insurance, you like your doctor, you like your plan -- you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. Nobody is talking about taking that away from you". This, of course, is known in common parlance as "pure unadulterated bullshit".
The so-called "BFD" with Iran is the most irresponsible agreement any American President has ever foisted on the United States and its allies. It is a most perverse enabling of Iran's goal to acquire a stockpile of nuclear weapons. And this BFD, which is claimed to be "aimed at ensuring Iran doesn't develop a nuclear weapon”, is in fact a plan that is aimed at ensuring Iran does develop a nuclear weapon.
Happy Easter to one and all.
Go Duke!
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
'Less false' would have been 'more precise'
Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea?
Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more.
— from Alice in Wonderland (1951)
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| (Image via Touched With Fire) Walking with [former] Speaker Pelosi are from left: Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., and Rep. John Larson, D-Conn. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) 'Less false' would have been 'more precise' |
Related source » Top Dem admits ObamaCare could have been 'more precise' about people losing health plans: 'via Blog this'
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“A top Democratic official conceded Tuesday that the health care overhaul should have been "more precise" in acknowledging the possibility that some Americans would lose their current insurance plans -- even as the White House defended its past statements on the law.
The admission from House Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer comes after a 2010 document emerged that predicted millions might be dropped by their providers.
The document helped explain why thousands are already getting cancellation notices and being guided toward new plans. It also gave new meaning to Nancy Pelosi's infamous remark, shortly before the complex legislation was approved in March 2010, that "we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."
Hoyer said Tuesday that officials knew some health plans would not qualify under the new ObamaCare regulations. He said the overall message to the public was accurate -- just not precise enough.”
— Published October 29, 2013 (Fox News)
Mealymouthed lying scum …
A little more Kool-Aid, yo?
So, how's that hopey-dopey workin' for ya, bitches?
Post 2,064 “'Less false' would have been 'more precise'”
Friday, October 4, 2013
The over/under death-trap of seniority-based organizations
Just because you are an expert in the field does not automatically qualify you for a management position.
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| Oppenheimer and Groves at remains of Trinity test in September 1945. |
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant theoretical nuclear physicist. But the management of the Manhattan Project succeeded because General Leslie Groves was a great leader of men, albeit one who knew next to nothing about nuclear physics.
Many large organizations "promote" their best experts to management positions. This is actually a prescription for long-term failure of the organization. This might be counter intuitive, but it need not be so.
Management often gets higher pay. That is an implicit prescription for the organization's ultimate failure in accompishing its organization's goals. It's a lose-lose proposition: The organization gets a less than optimum manager in return for a loss of expertise in the accomplishment of the organization's principal product or service.
The false equivalence of specific technical expertise with general management skills leads to having under-qualified managers, who more often than not are over-compensated, micromanaging subordinates who are much better positioned, albeit under-compensated, to accomplish the technical tasks, including the coordination of the technical efforts.
Woody Allen once quipped, “Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym.” I would take Woody's dictum one step further: "Those who can't teach gym, manage."
Many large organizations "promote" their best experts to management positions. This is actually a prescription for long-term failure of the organization. This might be counter intuitive, but it need not be so.
Management often gets higher pay. That is an implicit prescription for the organization's ultimate failure in accompishing its organization's goals. It's a lose-lose proposition: The organization gets a less than optimum manager in return for a loss of expertise in the accomplishment of the organization's principal product or service.
The false equivalence of specific technical expertise with general management skills leads to having under-qualified managers, who more often than not are over-compensated, micromanaging subordinates who are much better positioned, albeit under-compensated, to accomplish the technical tasks, including the coordination of the technical efforts.
Woody Allen once quipped, “Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym.” I would take Woody's dictum one step further: "Those who can't teach gym, manage."
Post 2,044 “The over/under failure of seniority-based organizations”
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Supplies!
What do clandestine partiers clamor for in Tokyo?
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| President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Related source » Obama's Economy Hits His Voters Hardest: 'via Blog this' h/t Newmark's Door
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“What was largely overlooked, however, is that those who were most likely to vote for Barack Obama in 2012 were members of demographic groups most likely to have suffered the steepest income declines. Mr. Obama was re-elected with 51% of the vote. Five demographic groups were crucial to his victory: young voters, single women, those with only a high-school diploma or less, blacks and Hispanics. He cleaned up with 60% of the youth vote, 67% of single women, 93% of blacks, 71% of Hispanics, and 64% of those without a high-school diploma, according to exit polls.
According to the Sentier research, households headed by single women, with and without children present, saw their incomes fall by roughly 7%. Those under age 25 experienced an income decline of 9.6%. Black heads of households saw their income tumble by 10.9%, while Hispanic heads-of-households' income fell 4.5%, slightly more than the national average. The incomes of workers with a high-school diploma or less fell by about 8% (-6.9% for those with less than a high-school diploma and -9.3% for those with only a high-school diploma).
[…]
What all of this means is that the stimulus-led economic revival that began officially in June 2009—Vice President Joe Biden's famous "summer of recovery"—has only resulted in lower incomes for at least half of Americans, the very ones who were instrumental in electing Mr. Obama twice.
The president's announced economic policy goal, as well as that of progressives generally, is to spread the wealth. The left seems to have forgotten that when fewer American businesses and workers are creating wealth in the first place, something else is spread instead: misery.”
— Stephen Moore, September 3, 2013 (WSJ.com)
I got another question for you:
How's that hopey-dopey workin' for ya?
Post 2,029 “Title”
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
TheBigHenry's Truths (Reprised)
• LABELS:
ipso facto,
Lead-pipe cinch,
Life (and Other Concepts)
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| P.S.: You can't fix stupid. (Image via Theo Spark) |
TheBigHenry's Truths:
- My Personal Truth —
- “Honor and good sense can only be lost. What you must fight for is Liberty.”
- My Truth Predicate —
- “Truth is not assertion, and assertion is not proof.”
- My Truth Axiom —
- “Entitlementalia is the audacity of dopes.”
- My Truth Serum —
- “An unfalsifiable truth is not worth examining.”
- My Truth Corollary —
- “Happiness is the pursuit.”
- My Time Rule —
- “A typical watch rarely shows the correct time. But any broken watch shows the exact time twice daily.”
- My Law of Chaos —
- “Any sufficiently advanced chaotic behavior is indistinguishable from free will.”
- My Dad (The Perfectionist) —
- “'Good enough' is not good enough.”
- My 10% Rule —
- “10% of life is getting directions.”
- My Law of Nature —
- “Nature abhors everything, with the single exception of perfect symmetry.”
- My Law of Possibility —
- “Anything is possible, except certainty.”
- My Pleasant Schedule —
- “I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Thursday's not good for me either. How about never? Does never work for you?”
- My Law of Worry Conservation —
- “You must worry all the time to become worry free.”
- My Law of Restricted Choice —
- “You can't choose not to worry, but you can choose what you worry about. Choose wisely.”
- My Maxim №1 —
- “Moral relativism is all the rage. Anti-Semitism is a statistic.”
- My Maxim №2 —
- “Waterboarding a couple of terrorists is a travesty. Murdering thousands of civilians is a statistic.”
- My Law of Balance —
- “I'm suggesting that your outrage is unbalanced; as is your psyche.”
- My Law of Mechanics —
- “Some inconsistency is the requisite lubricant for a functioning compromise.”
- My Law of Expertise —
- “There are no shortcuts to expertise. The only known exceptions were Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Rain Man, and Barry Bonds.”
- My Law of Special Relativity —
- “You're never ‘completely lost’; you're always ‘here’.”
- My Handbasket Rule —
- “Narcissism is the purgatory of evil.”
- My Inconvenient Truth —
- “Truth itself doesn’t change; only its degree of inconvenience.”
- My Cracked Wisdom —
- “If we cannot put solar-power plants in the Mojave desert, I don't know where the hell we can put them,” said Schwarzenegger at Yale. “Put solar-power plants where the sun don't shine,” cracked TheBigHenry at Remembrance in Spacetime.
Post 2,016 “TheBigHenry's Truths (Reprised)”
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Frowned Upon with Extreme Prejudice
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| Cover of Jesse Jackson |
Let's call a spade a spade, shall we?
Related source » Jesse Jackson speaks out on murder by teens of Australian athlete | The Daily Caller: 'via Blog this'
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“Praying for the family of Chris Lane,” Jackson said Wednesday on Twitter. “This senseless violence is frowned upon and the justice system must prevail.”
— Alex Pappas, 08/21/2013 (dailycaller.com)
"Frowned upon", indeed. Tell us what you really think, Jackson, and don't mince any words.
Typical horseshit from the racist, Jesse Jackson. How about, "frowned upon with extreme prejudice", instead!
Here is all you need to know about racism in America today:
- The three bored black teens were inspired by the likes of Jesse Jackson and the racebaiting President of the United States.
- The three bored black teens picked a white jogger as their easy target for killing.
- The three bored black teens shot the defenseless white jogger from the safety of their moving car. They shot him in the back, from the safety of their moving car. They are f*cking cowards.
Post 2,006 “Frowned Upon with Extreme Prejudice”
Monday, August 12, 2013
Boys Claiming Female Identity Spiking in California
• LABELS:
feed the crazy,
Lead-pipe cinch,
Life (and Other Concepts),
WTF?
Must be something in the water …
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| LIFE AS A TRANSGENDER (Photo credit RAJVINOTH) |
Related source » California Gov. Brown signs transgender-student bill: 'via Blog this'
[This related source is recommended in its entirety.]
“California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a controversial bill into law Monday afternoon allowing the state’s transgender public school students to choose which bathrooms they use and whether they participate in boy or girl sports. The law would cover the state’s 6.2 million elementary and high school kids in public schools.”
— Published August 12, 2013 (FoxNews.com)
Suddenly, and without warning, there has been an explosion, in California, of school-boys claiming to identify themselves as girls at heart. The medical community, now governed by Obamacare, is at a loss as to the reason for such an unusual spike in the heretofore rare condition.
The California State Legislature has been called into emergency session to deal with the unexpected crisis. Public schools have put hospitals on notice for a spike in births out-of-wedlock, possibly as soon as nine months hence.
The California State Legislature has been called into emergency session to deal with the unexpected crisis. Public schools have put hospitals on notice for a spike in births out-of-wedlock, possibly as soon as nine months hence.
Post 1,998 “Title”
Monday, August 5, 2013
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
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| Chairmen Ben Bernanke responding to the US House Financial Committee (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
"Stand-up" Bernanke Chastises
Related source » Fed Says “No Way” to Tapering QE -- Trefis: 'via Blog this'
[This related source is recommended in its entirety.]
“At the Federal Reserve meeting this past Wednesday, Chairman Ben Bernanke confirmed the bond buying would continue as economic growth was only modest and jobs remain an issue. In other words, the Federal Reserve is planning to keep the money-printing press in full operation.”
— George Leong, August 5, 2013 (trefis.com)
What's that you say? "Bernanke confirmed the bond buying would continue"?
It sounded funnier when the Stand-up Economist said it.
Reminds me of the semi-serious slogan you often see in office environments:
You betcha.
It sounded funnier when the Stand-up Economist said it.
Reminds me of the semi-serious slogan you often see in office environments:
"The beatings will continue until morale improves!"
You betcha.
Post 1,995 “The beatings will continue until morale improves!”
Friday, July 12, 2013
Crazy means never having to acknowledge reality
And the train wreck barreled on …
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| Train wreck at Gare Montparnasse, Paris, 1895 (Image via Wikipedia) |
Related source » Fact check rips Pelosi claim that ObamaCare mandate 'not delayed' | Fox News: 'via Blog this'
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“Nancy Pelosi, though, had a curious take on the whole thing. Actually, she instructed reporters, 'The mandate was not delayed'.
[…]
But The Washington Post fact-checker on Friday shut it down, effectively ruling that Pelosi is trying to 'deny reality'.
[…]
The Post wrote: "We understand Pelosi's desire to minimize the impact of the decision -- and supporters of the law may have a strong case that the employer mandate is not as central to the law as the individual mandate to buy insurance -- but that's not an excuse to deny reality'.”
— Published July 12, 2013 (FoxNews.com)
What's that you say? No excuse to deny reality?
We don't need no stinkin' excuses!
We don't need no stinkin' excuses!
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| (Image via libertynews.com) Who's your batshit crazy mama? |
Post 1,985 “Crazy means never having to acknowledge reality”
Friday, July 5, 2013
There's good; there's not good …
• LABELS:
a rose is a rose,
feed the crazy,
Lead-pipe cinch,
POTUS,
Remembrance,
Vengeance Is Mine
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| The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem visiting an SS in hospital. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
This is good!
Related source » Theo Spark: Egypt: The View From Israel........................from Dan Friedman: 'via Blog this'
[This related source is recommended in its entirety.]
“When the arab successor of Nazi Germany is overthrown, there is cause for celebration.
There is no reason for a long winded article with a Jerusalem byline over the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood, the ideological ally and successor of Nazi Germany.
Haj Amin El Husseini, Hitler's ally and the Mufti of Jerusalem, played a decisive role in pioneering the Muslim Brotherhood, whose focus rests on an obsession with Israel's destruction.
To witness the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Cairo is a blessed day for the people of Israel.”
— David Bedein, 5 JULY 2013 (theospark.net)
To my willfully-blind co-religionist supporters of Barack Obama:
Obama is not celebrating the overthrow of the successors to Nazi Germany!
Do you require any more evidence that Obama is not a friend of Israel?
Can you manage to comprehend the possibility, however remote, that Obama is a Jew-hater?
Can you add two plus two and get four?
Can you finally admit that Jewish Americans who voted for Obama have a death-wish mentality?
Obama is not celebrating the overthrow of the successors to Nazi Germany!
Do you require any more evidence that Obama is not a friend of Israel?
Can you manage to comprehend the possibility, however remote, that Obama is a Jew-hater?
Can you add two plus two and get four?
Can you finally admit that Jewish Americans who voted for Obama have a death-wish mentality?
Post 1,980 “There's good; there's not good …”
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
The Superiority of a Market Economy — in a Nutshell
• LABELS:
ipso facto,
Lead-pipe cinch,
Life (and Other Concepts)
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| John Stuart Mill (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
In which Thomas Sowell cuts to the chase …
Related source » Prophets and Losses: Part II: 'via Blog this'
[This related source is recommended in its entirety.]
“As John Stuart Mill said, back in the 19th century, 'even if a government were superior in intelligence and knowledge to any single individual in the nation, it must be inferior to all the individuals of the nation taken together'.
People competing with each other, and being forced to make mutual accommodations with each other in the marketplace, are operating in a trial and error process.
Human beings are going to make errors in any kind of economic or political system. The question is: Which kind of system punishes errors more quickly, and more effectively, in terms of forcing errors to be corrected?
A market economy with many competitors has incentives and constraints that are the opposite of those in a government monopoly.
Anyone familiar with the economic history of businesses knows that their mistakes have been common and large. But red ink on the bottom line lets them know that they are going to have to shape up or shut down.
Government agencies face no such constraint. The Federal Reserve can keep making the same mistakes in the next hundred years that it made in its first hundred years. Or it can make new and bigger mistakes.
Nor is the Federal Reserve unique. The same thing applies to the Congressional Budget Office and to government agencies on down to the local DMV.
Elected politicians not only can keep making the same mistakes. They have every incentive to deny that they made a mistake in the first place, since such an admission can end their careers.”
— Thomas Sowell, Feb 06, 2013 (townhall.com)
Once again, the American font of wisdom and common sense explains why government, in most cases, is the problem.
Post 1,947 “The Superiority of a Market Economy — in a Nutshell”
Post 1,947 “The Superiority of a Market Economy — in a Nutshell”
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
No more Mr. Nice Guy
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| Barack Obama and Michelle Obama (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Nice guys finish last.
It sucks to be you.
Related source » Works and Days » Modern Wisdom from Ancient Minds: 'via Blog this'
[This related source is recommended in its entirety.]
“In this age of Obama and a corrupting equality of result, we must continue to speak out, with dash and style, with the knowledge that most of our peers prefer sameness and mandated equality to freedom and liberty, if the latter result in inequality. But at least we are not alone, the best of the ancient world nods with us. And that is the point, is it not — to keep the ancient faith and so welcome rather than fear the popular anger of the age?” [emphasis added]
— Victor Davis Hanson, December 17th, 2012 (pjmedia.com)
People ask me, "TheBigHenry, why can't you accept the people's voice, that Obama has been reelected and, therefore, that we should accept the course he has chosen for our Nation? Why must you continue grumbling from the bleachers? Why can't you be nice?"
The short answer is that I prefer freedom and liberty to sameness and mandated equality. And the very short answer is that, "You is what you is, motherf*cker!" But, since this is my blog, and I believe that Obama has not yet managed to abrogate our First Amendment to the Constitution, I will elaborate.
To begin with, "Why can't you be nice?" is a loaded question. What is or isn't nice depends on what your meaning of "nice" is. If, as is frequently the case, your meaning of nice is something akin to obedient, non-confrontational, or, dare I say it, submissive, then my reply is, "F*ck that shite; that's un-American!"
I accept that Obama is my President. I am a law abiding American (I pay my taxes, wear my seat belt, and don't engage in murderous rampage). But I refuse to worship the ground Obama hovers over, because he is, in my considered opinion, the scum de la scum.
Despite the misguided, albeit tyrannical, voice of the majority, Obama is not a nice guy. Obama is your basic Chicago politician, which is to say, a first class thug. Obama is not a genius; that is a patently false myth perpetrated by his malignant advisers. Obama and his obnoxious wife are abusers of the public trust. They are socially uncouth, incredibly narcissistic, and a disgrace to the dignity of our traditional (and, I may add, earned at great cost) American ethos. Obama is also an ignoramus. And worst of all, he doesn't suspect that he is ignorant, because he has surrounded himself with nothing but yes-people.
And these are his best qualities. In four-years' time, we will all know this to be true, to our collective misfortune.
Post 1,937 “No more Mr. Nice Guy”
The short answer is that I prefer freedom and liberty to sameness and mandated equality. And the very short answer is that, "You is what you is, motherf*cker!" But, since this is my blog, and I believe that Obama has not yet managed to abrogate our First Amendment to the Constitution, I will elaborate.
To begin with, "Why can't you be nice?" is a loaded question. What is or isn't nice depends on what your meaning of "nice" is. If, as is frequently the case, your meaning of nice is something akin to obedient, non-confrontational, or, dare I say it, submissive, then my reply is, "F*ck that shite; that's un-American!"
I accept that Obama is my President. I am a law abiding American (I pay my taxes, wear my seat belt, and don't engage in murderous rampage). But I refuse to worship the ground Obama hovers over, because he is, in my considered opinion, the scum de la scum.
Despite the misguided, albeit tyrannical, voice of the majority, Obama is not a nice guy. Obama is your basic Chicago politician, which is to say, a first class thug. Obama is not a genius; that is a patently false myth perpetrated by his malignant advisers. Obama and his obnoxious wife are abusers of the public trust. They are socially uncouth, incredibly narcissistic, and a disgrace to the dignity of our traditional (and, I may add, earned at great cost) American ethos. Obama is also an ignoramus. And worst of all, he doesn't suspect that he is ignorant, because he has surrounded himself with nothing but yes-people.
And these are his best qualities. In four-years' time, we will all know this to be true, to our collective misfortune.
Post 1,937 “No more Mr. Nice Guy”
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
The Arrogance of Ignorance
• LABELS:
ipso facto,
Lead-pipe cinch,
People (and Other Work)
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.”
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| Jon Stewart (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
There's stupidity. There's willful stupidity. You can't fix either.
We are all born ignorant. Then the race between open-mindedness and arrogance begins. If the former wins, there is hope for the salvation of your ability to reason. The alternative is perpetual willful stupidity.
Arrogance is the catalyst for willfulness, which, in turn, is the superglue that closes the mind permanently and makes it impervious to all contradiction of preconceived notions.
Just to cite a familiar example, consider, if you will, the comedian turned willful idiot Jon Stewart. Although he undoubtedly has a stable of writers, it is clear that he was not born stupid, for he is clearly an attractive personality with a very large following of admirers.
But at some point in his personal development, his arrogance outstripped his ability to consider the possibility that he is full of shit. At that point he became permanently ensconced in willful stupidity, better known as a flaming liberal.
His comedy act has assumed an aura of infallibility on all matters large and small. He has even opined, in recent memory, that President Truman was wrong not to demonstrate (in some non-damaging scenario) the power of the atomic bomb, such that Japan would have surrendered without further ado and without further loss of life.
Of course, such a notion has been definitively debunked numerous times since 1945. But Stewart's willful stupidity shields him from even a hint that he doesn't know what he is talking about.
Although Stewart has created a significantly large block of willful stupidity, a much more damaging figurehead is Barack Obama. His rise to the pinnacle of world power will prove to be, I am sad to conclude, the downfall of us all.
Post 1,933 “The Arrogance of Ignorance”
We are all born ignorant. Then the race between open-mindedness and arrogance begins. If the former wins, there is hope for the salvation of your ability to reason. The alternative is perpetual willful stupidity.
Arrogance is the catalyst for willfulness, which, in turn, is the superglue that closes the mind permanently and makes it impervious to all contradiction of preconceived notions.
Just to cite a familiar example, consider, if you will, the comedian turned willful idiot Jon Stewart. Although he undoubtedly has a stable of writers, it is clear that he was not born stupid, for he is clearly an attractive personality with a very large following of admirers.
But at some point in his personal development, his arrogance outstripped his ability to consider the possibility that he is full of shit. At that point he became permanently ensconced in willful stupidity, better known as a flaming liberal.
His comedy act has assumed an aura of infallibility on all matters large and small. He has even opined, in recent memory, that President Truman was wrong not to demonstrate (in some non-damaging scenario) the power of the atomic bomb, such that Japan would have surrendered without further ado and without further loss of life.
Of course, such a notion has been definitively debunked numerous times since 1945. But Stewart's willful stupidity shields him from even a hint that he doesn't know what he is talking about.
Although Stewart has created a significantly large block of willful stupidity, a much more damaging figurehead is Barack Obama. His rise to the pinnacle of world power will prove to be, I am sad to conclude, the downfall of us all.
Post 1,933 “The Arrogance of Ignorance”
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Peter Schiff's Plain Speaking About Stuff That Matters
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| Peter Schiff speaking (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Idiots need not apply …
Related source » Peter Schiff Blog: Video Interview: San Francisco Hard Assets Investment Conference: 'via Blog this'
[This related source is recommended in its entirety.]
“They talk about how Obama won the recent election and who each of them voted for.”
— Peter Schiff, November 27, 2012 (peterschiffblog.blogspot.com)
It doesn't get much clearer than this.
Post 1,928 “Peter Schiff's Plain Speaking About Stuff That Matters”
Post 1,928 “Peter Schiff's Plain Speaking About Stuff That Matters”
Friday, October 26, 2012
Report: Blacks for Romney!
• LABELS:
Lead-pipe cinch,
poetry and shit,
Say what?,
You had me at bacon
It could happen …
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| Image via Black people love Mitt Romney |
Related source » Blacks For Romney - YouTube: 'via Blog this'
[This related source is recommended in its entirety.]
“Mitt Romney is tired of polling at 0% among Blacks.”
— Published on Oct 1, 2012 by Tomm Fondle
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Post 1,913 “Report: Blacks for Romney!”
Monday, September 24, 2012
Greatest Walk-off • Buzzer-beating • Miracles
“… THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! …”
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| Image and caption via Wikipedia Thomson hits the 'Shot Heard 'Round the World' |
| Sporting Event | Miracle Performance | Annotation |
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| (MLB) Pennant Winner | Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World"! | "The Day That Brooklyn Died". |
| (NBA) Championship | Michael Jordan's "Final Shot"! | The greatest sportsman's grandest moment. |
| (Women's World) Cup Final | Brandi Chastain's "Winning Celebration"! | The exemplar of the Grand Tetons. |
| (NCAA Football) Hail-Flutie Game | Doug Flutie's "Hail Mary"! | "Flutie won the Heisman Trophy shortly afterward". |
| (Thoroughbred) Triple Crown | Secretariat "Wins the Belmont by 31 Lengths"! | "No other horse has ever broken 2:25 for 1½ miles on dirt". |
| (NCAA Division 1) Championship | Michael Jordan's "Jumper for the Win"! | MJ's first of many highlight moments. |
| (MLB) Perfect Game | Sandy Koufax "Strikes Out the Side in the Ninth"! | Selected in 1995 by the SABR as the greatest game ever pitched. |
| [To be continued ...] |
Additional serious suggestions (via comments) will be considered for inclusion.
Post 1,899 “Greatest Walk-off • Buzzer-beating • Miracles”
Post 1,899 “Greatest Walk-off • Buzzer-beating • Miracles”
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Face it, dude — you're busted!
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| (Image and caption via Wikipedia) Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger |
"Who was that masked man, anyway?"
Related source » Face Shape: It's All in the Genes - DNA could one day provide forensic facial sketches: 'via Blog this'
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“(NEWSER) – In the future, a single shred of DNA could reveal the image of a person's face, thanks to a new discovery. For the first time ever, scientists have found genetic code associated with determining facial structure. […] ”
— Dustin Lushing, Sep 14, 2012 (newser.com)
DNA, the forensic gift that keeps on giving, and giving, and … Ain't science wonderful?!
Although the Lone Ranger's last name is given as Reid, his first name is not definitively specified.
The Lone Ranger's middle name, however, is actually "Lone"!
Post 1,889 “Face it, dude — you're busted!”
Although the Lone Ranger's last name is given as Reid, his first name is not definitively specified.
The Lone Ranger's middle name, however, is actually "Lone"!
Post 1,889 “Face it, dude — you're busted!”
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
It's Not Your Father's Racism
But racism it is, nevertheless.
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| Sign for "colored" waiting room at a Greyhound bus terminal in Rome, Georgia, 1943. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Related source » Roger L. Simon » The Democratic Party as the Party of Race: 'via Blog this'
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“As someone who was a sixties civil rights worker, wrote movies for Richard Pryor (successfully) and Whoopi Goldberg (unsuccessfully), and has had the pleasure of working with many talented African Americans at PJ Media for nearly seven years now, I think I have earned the right to write what should be painfully obvious to everyone — most of the racism in America today is from blacks (aided and abetted by white liberals) toward whites. […] It’s all racist as I understood the word in the sixties — making assumptions about other people so you don’t have to consider their humanity — only it’s now in reverse. This isn’t to say that whites undergo severe oppression. They don’t. But the racial climate of our society is increasingly polarized and the survival of the Democratic Party, as presently constituted, is the cause. Everyone’s life suffers as a consequence, with the exception perhaps of those who make a living off race-baiting. That the minorities being exploited suffer most of all is almost a cliche. Unfortunately, it also happens to be true.”
— Roger L Simon, July 13, 2012 (pjmedia.com)
I know what you're thinking, if you're a Leftist (though I am quite confident everyone else does understand Simon): This must be a variation of the old school-yard taunt, "No, you are the (fill in the blank)!" But before you succumb to your knee-jerk conclusion, think about it for a moment. What do you think the monolithic support Obama enjoys from African-Americans implies? That nearly all blacks believe Obama is a model President? That he is doing wonderful things for the Nation and, in particular, for his fellow blacks? That based on his great accomplishments (name one) he deserves another four years in office? Bullshit. He has their unshakable support for one reason only: the color of his skin resembles theirs.
Similar inclinations, though not to the same degree of extremism, apply to Jewish progressive-liberals, which is practically a tautology. Nevertheless, the non-black supporters of Obama are in a sense even more senseless: their stubborn allegiance to, arguably, the most disastrous Presidency in American history, is largely due to trivial face-saving: their refusal to acknowledge their extremely bad judgement in 2008. Even that very intelligent Professor Alan Dershowitz can't bear to admit he was a fool in supporting Obama in 2008.
Post 1,859 “It's Not Your Father's Racism”
Similar inclinations, though not to the same degree of extremism, apply to Jewish progressive-liberals, which is practically a tautology. Nevertheless, the non-black supporters of Obama are in a sense even more senseless: their stubborn allegiance to, arguably, the most disastrous Presidency in American history, is largely due to trivial face-saving: their refusal to acknowledge their extremely bad judgement in 2008. Even that very intelligent Professor Alan Dershowitz can't bear to admit he was a fool in supporting Obama in 2008.
Post 1,859 “It's Not Your Father's Racism”
Monday, July 9, 2012
The dog ate our reason …
… and Obama ate our country.
“I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.”
— Melvin Udall in As Good as It Gets
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Related source » Works and Days » Tuning Out a President: 'via Blog this'
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No One Left to Teleprompter to?
“Again, examine any current topic — green jobs, the Chevy Volt, cash for clunkers, the stimulus, tax hikes, ObamaCare, unemployment, amnesty, the debt, the deficits, race relations — and more or less incoherence follows. Either things have gotten worse or what Obama says is either untrue or not consistent with what he earlier had asserted. The result is that when he starts one of those long teleprompted orations, with the dropped g’s and the faux-African-American preaching patois, we still are impressed how the cadences can package the rather empty content and serial half-truths. None of the above means that Barack Obama is necessarily going to lose the election, and here is why, given the following paradoxes. There are roughly now two groups of tune-outs: the first are the 50% who are either partisan opponents or who have had it with a president who does not speak the truth and blames his own failures on others. The second are the 50% who likewise don’t pay much attention to Obama’s rhetoric anymore, but they assume that mortgage bailouts; loan forgiveness; massive public hiring; more food stamps, unemployment insurance, and disability payments; freedom from income tax; racial and class resentments; and more still all offer, for the poorer, welcome material, and, for the richer, psychic and philosophical, recompense. In other words, supporters, both the poor and rich, don’t worry all that much what Obama says, but focus instead only on the fact that he either wishes them to have more government stuff or abhors the same people they’ve always abhorred.” — Victor Davis Hanson, July 8, 2012 (pjmedia.com)
It's a crap-shoot. Reason has left the station and we are there at opposite ends of the platform, clinging to whatever it is we think we can still count on: the Left to its hopey-dopey, its government cheese, and its delusions of infallibility; the Conservatives to their guns, bibles, and visions of a Lincoln-spirit rising up from the ashes of Obamination. The clueless tweeners are milling about and wondering WTF just happened and why is everybody else yelling and screaming.
To quote a recent TV ad about some product or service that I can't recall, "That can't be good." In my biased view, though roughly half the population that even has a view might agree with me, Obama has buried us in a multi-trillion-dollar mountain of debt and a like-sized mountain of happy-horseshit. And that big November-fan is bearing down on those mountains.
In case you are also linguistically challenged, the operative words in "crap-shoot" are "crap" and "shoot". Many of us know whence the crap emanates. And when (not if) push comes to shove, I still have enough clarity of vision to recognize that those guns the Conservatives cling to are going to come in handy.
I am not, nor have I ever been, a violent man; nor have I ever owned a gun. But I do believe everyone has a horseshit-endurance limit. If the Left can not be deterred from their insatiable lust for ever more horseshit, and that proverbial push does come to shove, I will adopt a slightly-modified rallying cry from the President I have missed since 2009:
Post 1,843 “The dog ate our reason …”
To quote a recent TV ad about some product or service that I can't recall, "That can't be good." In my biased view, though roughly half the population that even has a view might agree with me, Obama has buried us in a multi-trillion-dollar mountain of debt and a like-sized mountain of happy-horseshit. And that big November-fan is bearing down on those mountains.
In case you are also linguistically challenged, the operative words in "crap-shoot" are "crap" and "shoot". Many of us know whence the crap emanates. And when (not if) push comes to shove, I still have enough clarity of vision to recognize that those guns the Conservatives cling to are going to come in handy.
I am not, nor have I ever been, a violent man; nor have I ever owned a gun. But I do believe everyone has a horseshit-endurance limit. If the Left can not be deterred from their insatiable lust for ever more horseshit, and that proverbial push does come to shove, I will adopt a slightly-modified rallying cry from the President I have missed since 2009:
"Bring it, motherf*ckers!"
Post 1,843 “The dog ate our reason …”
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