tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post892911310879292157..comments2024-03-17T12:51:46.412-07:00Comments on Cutting Through The Crap: The Incompetence Is At Last UndeniableSid Schwabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-60534367440658266452020-03-19T00:58:46.244-07:002020-03-19T00:58:46.244-07:00Sorry to hear that James. Money and censorship go ...Sorry to hear that James. Money and censorship go hand in hand.<br /><br />I honestly wish they'd have done ANY moderating. There's no way those trolls survive if that's the case. Smoothtooperatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07901523276177195419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-1925303886798003742020-03-18T21:10:07.561-07:002020-03-18T21:10:07.561-07:00Well, they finally did it. The Everett Herald fina...Well, they finally did it. The Everett Herald finally removed me from the blog by saying I must subscribe to the paper if I want to even look at it! I can only figure they got tired of my constant bashing of Harry-o and Centerfire. Two nitwits who view everything through the lens of a gun and a Bible. At least they wont have to endure my beat-downs any longer.james prokophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11664873829294677282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-45936050831521025582020-03-16T15:52:24.259-07:002020-03-16T15:52:24.259-07:00I recall the movie "How to succeed in busines...I recall the movie "How to succeed in business without trying" and the song "I believe in me"<br />The hero character played by Robert Morris sings that he is a "seeker of wisdom and truth".<br />In fact, he is actually an unworthy benefactor of a series of very unlikely fortunate events that result in his rise to CEO of a large corporation.<br />The Impeached-One is a "seeker of self-glorification and absolute power". His movie will be titled "How to succeed in politics with the help of foreign intrusion".Seeker of wisdom and truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13476996519952533262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-83886151978311544342020-03-16T12:06:56.462-07:002020-03-16T12:06:56.462-07:00Well, at least they haven't started labeling c...Well, at least they haven't started labeling chicken as "Gluten Free"...yet 🙄 skyriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04844531274835922620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-63635072382859542222020-03-16T05:38:31.323-07:002020-03-16T05:38:31.323-07:00Good observation (How to Lie with Statistics)
Buy...Good observation (How to Lie with Statistics)<br /><br />Buy some chicken. Foster Farms or Tyson etc.<br /><br />The package says "No GMO"...(growth hormones)<br />People buy that particular brand because there's no growth hormones. Probably thinks they are kind to the Earth and care about its customers.<br /><br />Well...Using growth hormones on meat birds is against the law. Meaning, not a single chicken in America has been raised on GMO. Yet, the consumer has this high opinion of that company simply because the company put a sticker on the package that says "no GMO". When in fact, that company is trying to sell chicken and don't actually give a rip about the consumer, unless it's to fool them into buying their product. In that case, no expense is spared ;O)<br /><br />Smoothtooperatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07901523276177195419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-32842097918221017092020-03-15T21:21:35.694-07:002020-03-15T21:21:35.694-07:00In terms of its informational value, that Chris Ha...In terms of its informational value, that Chris Hayes video is pure gold. Especially apt is the closing line: "This is what happens when you elect a BS artist to the most important job in the country."<br /><br />Again, shout-out to the classic book <i>How to Lie with Statistics</i>. I highly doubt that Trump has the savvy to deliberately pull off the tricks detailed in the book. That said, the book can be a useful guide to getting a read on statistics that are being cited and then being in a position to immediately render a judgement on the citing party's truthfulness OR appropriately compose questions to draw out more information and then be in a position to render a judgement.<br /><br />Circling back to Hayes's closing line, I don't think Trump is intellectually capable of the forms of BS artistry that the book describes. However, the book is an excellent tool for calibrating one's BS detector and thus becoming equipped to take Trump's talk with an appropriate amount of grains of salt.Mythigatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08472129001677390304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-24418194381860966362020-03-15T19:51:40.579-07:002020-03-15T19:51:40.579-07:00https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow5bhEi6EdY
Anyon...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow5bhEi6EdY<br /><br />Anyone ready for more? <br />Well, ready or not...Smoothtooperatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07901523276177195419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-6468764613675034212020-03-14T18:22:50.165-07:002020-03-14T18:22:50.165-07:00@skyriver —
Your last paragraph drives the nail h...@skyriver —<br /><br />Your last paragraph drives the nail home. We could add to "what you know for sure that just ain’t so" this: "and what you simply make up because you just don't give a damn".Dr Strangelovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14603758423399991937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-42513806923953158042020-03-14T17:32:21.870-07:002020-03-14T17:32:21.870-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Smoothtooperatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07901523276177195419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-89200934135984434872020-03-14T13:37:15.108-07:002020-03-14T13:37:15.108-07:00Hi Mythigator/Yank.
Not wishing to be pedantic ...Hi Mythigator/Yank. <br /><br />Not wishing to be pedantic (but going there anyway;-P ), as as best I can determine (using The Great Google of course), this phrase originated with Irving Kristol in the early 80's: <br />"[A neoconservative is] a liberal who has been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who got mugged by reality but has not pressed charges." Reflections of a Neoconservative: Looking Back, Looking Ahead (1983)<br /><br />Of course this phrase can just as readily be used to criticize any set of beliefs that run up against hard reality. One of my favorite "quotes" (of uncertain origin) is:<br /><br />It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.<br /><br />Our current president sure knows a lot of stuff that JUST AIN"T SO. We are in real trouble and the only good thing der Furor could do to help at this point is to just stfu and get out of the way. Won't happen; he is incapable of reflection, judgement or restraint.skyriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04844531274835922620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-4955022535224913542020-03-14T09:56:31.471-07:002020-03-14T09:56:31.471-07:00I didn't understand testing until last night, ...I didn't understand testing until last night, when a fellow I was in line with told me not to worry, "his cough was Type B, he's tested twice daily to see if he can keep working." And his "wife was sent home to work".<br />Since I'm an I&C person, I suspect it's a Fluke laser temperature "gun" from >6 feet. What else would they do?<br />Bill Gates has chosen to involve himself in testing. No surprise for one of the world's chief criminals.<br />As for ventilators, I'm sure hospitals have their own criteria, it will be an allocation issue (where the 160,000 are located, do we really send all of them to the big cities? perhaps!?) I don't think it's high-dimensional, more of simple math and probability. Plenty of capable people already on top of that at the hospitals, and, certainly at CDC.<br />No, I'm referring to what people aren't thinking of. Scarcity angst.<br />Instead, if it escalates in 'our' country which has not seen something like this since WWII, and those people are dying because of this; then, the 'answer' currently in the works is National Guard and brute force.<br />And, we're currently led by a brute.<br />It's a bad formula. As you know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-82655886272633459942020-03-14T09:35:27.612-07:002020-03-14T09:35:27.612-07:00Indeed. I can easily be accused of being socialist...Indeed. I can easily be accused of being socialist, and have been, in my circle of 'friends', none of them understanding what they accuse me of.<br />In all my years at THEB comments, I'll submit I'm candidate for least understood in the bunch, and a few of them so angry about that.<br />I believe what you wrote in your "About Me", and submit I'm more liberal than you. And, certainly more liberal than Larry Simoneaux. But then, you and he have accomplished things in your amazing lives. Mine, nothing more than a life of quiet desperation, seeing things that people suffer over for no reason, and unable to help though not for lack of trying.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-90245265407787929622020-03-14T09:22:42.494-07:002020-03-14T09:22:42.494-07:00I'd say allocation of testing and ventilators ...I'd say allocation of testing and ventilators is a more pressing issue than TP, ks. But then we're talking the dreaded socialism, right?Sid Schwabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-60001289821595901252020-03-14T09:14:54.431-07:002020-03-14T09:14:54.431-07:00Now, due to your THEB readership, you have an oppo...Now, due to your THEB readership, you have an opportunity.<br />Consider something called high-dimensional data.<br />Consider Costco knows how much TP people buy, by name, historically.<br />Consider when they do get a shipment, hoarders will hoard, maybe fights.<br />When they get the shipment(s), I submit they have easy capability to provide an allocation scheme, such that members can get "fair" amounts.<br />True also of Safeway and Kroger, but no correlation possible (antitrust).<br />Bill Gates and Larry Ellison know what I'm talking about.<br />To maintain peace, and prevent certain bad things foreboding, a Governor could involve himself in this for the benefit of those he leads.<br />You know I have no literary skills whatsoever, but have I provided enough "inkling" of concept for you who does? And, why would anyone "listen" to me?<br />But you, there is ample opportunity.<br />If this proceeds as it may proceed, in "uncharted territory", we get front row seats to the misery.<br />Or, we all work together, all and in all. (sigh, just a thought)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-89323550866639115702020-03-13T15:53:39.630-07:002020-03-13T15:53:39.630-07:00There's a problem with that theory (?).
If an ...There's a problem with that theory (?).<br />If an incompetent tries to look stupid, do they then have a better chance at achieving something intelligent?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-66322561863837483032020-03-13T14:58:01.040-07:002020-03-13T14:58:01.040-07:00> An oft repeated phrase of the right has been ...> An oft repeated phrase of the right has been "a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality."<br /><br />I have heard that thought expressed as "dueling phrases":<br /><br />"A liberal is a conservative who's ever been unemployed", and<br /><br />"A conservative is a liberal who's ever been mugged".Mythigatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08472129001677390304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-86426747390300401602020-03-13T13:58:59.207-07:002020-03-13T13:58:59.207-07:00At this point, the only explanation, Doctor, is th...At this point, the only explanation, Doctor, is that they're actually TRYING to look stupid and incompetent.Sid Schwabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-34604211915915737072020-03-13T13:56:51.038-07:002020-03-13T13:56:51.038-07:00Too late, ks:
https://youtu.be/uo7HB-slsm4
https...Too late, ks:<br /><br />https://youtu.be/uo7HB-slsm4<br /><br />https://youtu.be/aY8-N8-pn1ISid Schwabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-14502191985716627672020-03-13T13:22:16.039-07:002020-03-13T13:22:16.039-07:00> Eight-hundred-thousand Americans died in the ...> Eight-hundred-thousand Americans died in the flu pandemic of 1918, and our “president” didn’t know.<br /><br />He also didn't grasp the significance of his face being superimposed on the image of Nero playing his fiddle (namely, that it should not have been construed as flattery), nor of the <i>Arizona</i> memorial at Pearl Harbor. That substantiates, to a rather alarming degree, the old saying that those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it.Mythigatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08472129001677390304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-28122795282847994132020-03-13T11:56:30.485-07:002020-03-13T11:56:30.485-07:00Can't help myself. The Crown Prince should get...Can't help myself. The Crown Prince should get a spanking. Here's Vanity Fair's take(down) today:<br /><br />'Great News: Jared Kushner Doesn’t Think the Coronavirus Is a “Health Reality”'<br />http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/jared-kushner-coronavirus-no-biggie<br /><br />Favorite quote:<br /><br />"According to the Wall Street Journal, despite the fact that Kushner was in charge of Trump’s Wednesday prime-time address to the nation, he hasn’t “attended a single task force meeting,” where he might’ve, y’know, gleaned some insight on the issue."<br />Dr Strangelovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14603758423399991937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-42453792893342493582020-03-13T11:46:40.415-07:002020-03-13T11:46:40.415-07:00Costco did an advertorial that they sell 100 milli...Costco did an advertorial that they sell 100 million rolls of toilet paper per year, and than a dissertation on how they make the best of the best for that purpose.<br />I spent much of my life in what is now referred to as "supply-chain", and the TP situation is a curious one, indeed.<br />But then, there are, essentially, no more "TP" mills in America, only China, for which we and other countries ship our lumber residuals there for processing, so, the "run" may have more to do with ship passage time from China, which is only a little briefer than quarantine-time for corona.<br />Remember Scott Paper, Everett? We wouldn't have a problem if the excessively rich hadn't sent our livelihoods to China for their own fatness. There used to be three paper mills in and around Port Angeles, too, though they weren't so much into TP if I remember correctly.<br />(I'm still working on my poem for "My Corona", done to the tune of a similar sounding song. No acrostic :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-39815837996092348012020-03-13T11:12:15.354-07:002020-03-13T11:12:15.354-07:00As it happens, ks, I hadn't thought of "h...As it happens, ks, I hadn't thought of "his fatness." Just a quick-time comparison to something timelessly admirable and something far less sol.<br /><br />The run (as it were) on toilet paper is mystifying. But rationality is in short supply nowadays.Sid Schwabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-91269276856108308592020-03-13T10:52:14.834-07:002020-03-13T10:52:14.834-07:00> "Taj Mahal to a double-wide"
I tho...> "Taj Mahal to a double-wide"<br />I thought you were generous with double-wide, but then I know you were referring to "his fatness". I was playing with "tiny home" and "tiny hands", but couldn't come up with anything funny.<br />It seems the inevitable of this corona-thing is that everyone will get it, and some will die, but that the effort(s) to keep the pace of it all to be tolerable by the number of ventilators available for those who need them.<br />The CDC website is a phenomenal source of info on the subject, and I think all should look there for the truth, and avoid most of what is otherwise circulating.<br />Who would have thought things would get so crazy that we have to be concerned whether we'll have toilet paper or not? Time to get a Japanese bidet toilet seat?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-19999050651885156232020-03-13T09:15:26.088-07:002020-03-13T09:15:26.088-07:00An oft repeated phrase of the right has been "...An oft repeated phrase of the right has been "a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality." I wonder how we should refer to COTers who are about to be mugged by reality, along with all the rest of us? Unfortunately, this bug doesn't give a fig about politics.skyriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04844531274835922620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-3343760984638802582020-03-12T19:43:53.537-07:002020-03-12T19:43:53.537-07:00You refer to the "snake," I presume. His...You refer to the "snake," I presume. His leadership compares to Trump's as the Taj Mahal to a double-wide.<br /><br />School closures are a big deal, with a lot of downstream effects; it's hard to argue it's unwarranted, though. And he's clearly taking advice from public health officials, as opposed to shutting them out.Sid Schwabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.com