Robert Holmes wrote:
<NickCriteria A-D> I can't believe 90% of this list didn't grow up (wanting to) believing in Hari Seldon and Psychohistory, why else would we have gone into the very low percentage game of modeling and simulation of nonlinear systems? <NickCriteria E> Doug Roberts: "then we would not be in our current economic situation." I don't think any of us believe that our "esteemed leaders" don't fit into one (or both) of the two following categories:
I cannot believe that most are not in category 1 with a sad few in category 2, either put there by those in category 1 who needed someone to catch some of the arrows or just slipped in by way of the Skull and Bones or some other fraternity system. Greenspan *had* to know that he was presiding at a series of dedications of a house of cards (Willfully pretending ignorance). We have a lot of Dipsticks in a lot of important positions. I wish this November 2 were a chance for a *real* housecleaning, but first we need some real candidates. hOpeBama has my vote over fauxMaveriCCain but not because I think he's anything but the lesser of Dipsticks. For better or worse, I think Palin and Dubya are category 2 Dipsticks and McCain may be heading there from Category 1. Obama and Clinton (both of them) and Bush I are patently Category 1 Dipsticks. Cheney and Rummy and Leeza are clearly *flaming" Category 1 dipsticks. My only hope for hOpeBama is that he actually believes a lot of his rhetoric and that he will act on it, but that kinda makes him more of a Category 2 Dipstick than I think he is. Biden, Category 1. "Fuck me to tears" (said Doug Roberts). Let me add "with sand". </NickCriteria E> <cruft> ..snip...snippitty.... snip! </cruft> |
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