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Understanding Your Politician (Or Manager)

This difficult task has become much easier, thanks to recent research.  The site at La Cotte de St Brelade reveals a near-continuous use of the cave site spanning over a quarter of a million years, suggesting a considerable success story in adapting to a changing climate and landscape, prior to the arrival of Homo sapiens.

Politicians and managers have been around for a much longer period of time than scientists had previously believed, and once possessed valuable skills.

The huge amounts of carefully manufactured tools show just how technologically skilled the early groups were. Looking at these remnant groups today, it becomes apparent that as their skill levels declined over the last 250,000 years or so, the decline parallels their general decline in cognitive skills as well. The causes remain under investigation.

What can be definitively stated from the available evidence is that the decline in managerial and political acumen appears related to other declines observed over the course of the research. While we cannot at present determine which failures first occurred, the relationship seems firm; thus, we are today faced with a formerly successful population of managers and politicians who now are incapable of conscious thought.

A number of species of parrots now exceed the intellectual capacity of managers and politicians, as tests have shown.

Indeed, managers and politicians today have reached the stage in which they are capable only of repeating mantras, such as "We live our values" or "Caring Now" or "Sustainability" or "Hope". It's time to abandon the managers and politicians in favor of independent application of common sense,which is a concept unfamiliar to either of the aforementioned.

 

What Does It Take To Make It Stop?

A well-known Portland grocery store owner is dead after a crash involving a suspected drunk driver.

John Zupan, 66, was hurt in a crash Monday night but died late Tuesday night from his injuries. Zupan was riding a motorcycle on Marine Drive near 138th Ave. in Northeast Portland when a car crossed the center line and hit him. 

Zupan was in critical condition until just after 10 p.m. Tuesday when he died.
 
The man accused of causing the accident made his first court appearance Tuesday afternoon in Multnomah County.
    
Edy Reynoso-Ramirez is facing drunk driving and assault charges.
 
According to investigators, Reynoso-Ramirez was speeding when the crash happened. He tried to run away from the scene, said investigators.
    
Reynoso-Ramirez is in the country illegally and is now on an immigration hold.

There's really nothing to add to the KOIN(6) report cited above, though the link also goes to their broadcast story and delves a little further into Zupan's history. The question is, how do we stop this idiocy, when our elected representatives refuse to represent our interests - and when police refuse to enforce our laws?

This Ramirez guy should be sent to jail in his home country.

Song And Dance

The definition of the term, "irony", has just been published - not by Merriam-Webster, but by The New York Times.

MSNBC long ago cast itself as the liberal counterpoint to Fox News. Its star muckraker, Keith Olbermann, left MSNBC and took his show to Current TV in June, but other progressive hosts, particularly Rachel Maddow, have continued to attract viewers — not nearly as many as routinely watch Fox News, but more than for less partisan shows on CNN. MSNBC, which found success by preaching to the converted, has now hired an actual preacher.

And that may be the problem with Mr. Sharpton’s cable news pulpit: what he means to say is in lockstep with every other MSNBC evening program, making the stretch between 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. a nonstop lecture on liberal values and what is wrong with the Republican Party.

In other words, MSNBC is encroaching on what The New York Times regards as its turf. They may not take much else seriously, but they clearly regard their role as the bastion of liberalism as inviolable. And they're peeved at Sharpie and MSNBC. Really, you can hardly blame them.

Related articles

• Kara Miller: Jeers to Al Sharpton (boston.com)

Mysteries

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There are many questions and mysteries in life, many of which we are unable to answer in the absence of recourse to that which is widely referred to as "faith". Does God exist? Is there life after death? There are no empirical answers to such questions, other than those derived from faith.

One thing seems increasingly certain, however: when you die, one of your feet is going to wind up in Vancouver.

Time To Gain

As many already know, Oregon is like a bed and breakfast for union bosses. Although only 9% of private sector employees are forced to work under union dominance, 52% of public-sector workers have to pay "dues". Small wonder that state and local governments are broke; the private sector figured out long ago that unionization is essentially parasitic, and it seems obvious that the time has come for the state to become a "Right to work" state, rather than continuing its policy of forced participation in unions.

Beautiful, Historic Astoria

Astoria, Oregon features historic homes, Ft. Clatsop National Memorial, Fort Stevens State Park and many other places and activities.

One activity you're sure to enjoy: shoveling fish-guts.

A truck full of fish guts, freshly filled by Bornstein's Seafood on Portway Street, sloshed heads, blood and other muck out at the stoplight by the Portway Tavern late Tuesday morning.

Bornstein workers scraped, shoveled and eventually - with the help of Astoria Fire and Rescue - hosed down the area for almost an hour to rid the street of the smell and parts.

One could think of it as a seafood medley, but some felt that it was incompatible with the overall ambiance of the town, and so a lengthy - and odoriferous - cleanup process was undertaken. It seemed a bit unnecessary, as between the current sushi rage and the large populations of seagulls in the area, it's almost certain that the problem would have gone away in reasonably short order. On the other hand, it gave the fire department intern some additional experience.

 

 

Big Cats

They seem to have figured out that the weak and sick in the human herds are to be found in hospitals. If the food doesn't get you....

It's The Sun, Stupid

We keep bringing this up, but experts like AlGore just call us racists.

Apparently, the physicists at CERN are all a bunch of racists, too.

Experiments performed by a European nuclear research group indicate that the sun, not man, determines Earth's temperature. Somewhere, Al Gore just shuddered as an unseasonably cool breeze blows by.

The results from an experiment to mimic Earth's atmosphere by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, tell researchers that the sun has a significant effect on our planet's temperature. Its magnetic field acts as a gateway for cosmic rays, which play a large role in cloud formation.

This new finding of 63 scientists from 17 European and U.S. institutes from an experiment that's been ongoing since 2009 is, if we may paraphrase Vice President Joe Biden, a big deal. Which is exactly why the mainstream media, with so much invested in global warming hysteria, is letting last week's announcement from CERN pass like a brief summer shower, ignoring it.

It truly is as many have rightly characterized it: a religion.

 

Related articles

• Sun Causes Climate Change Shock (blogs.telegraph.co.uk)

Boob

Actress Daryl Hannah was arrested Tuesday near the White House while protesting the proposed Keystone oil pipeline.

“Sometimes it's necessary to sacrifice your freedom for a greater freedom,” Hannah said, according to an NBC Washington report.  “And we want to be free from the horrible death and destruction that fossil fuels cause, and have a clean energy future.”

Like Meryl Streep (only with less acting talent), Hannah is an ignorant boob. Streep testified emotionally about the horrors of Alar, only to have it subsequently emerge that the stuff is harmless - but useful as a a plant growth regulator. The lab tests that prompted the scare required an amount of Alar equal to over 5,000 gallons (20,000 L) of apple juice per day.

Now, Hannah's nattering on about horrible death and destruction that fossil fuels cause, when in point of fact, she's so stupid that she can't even tell what a fossil fuel is. She thinks it's oil and natural gas.

 

 

Related articles

• Actress Daryl Hannah arrested during White House protest (mirror.co.uk)

Breakin' The Law, Breakin' The Law

Well, it was For The Children™, so it's all good. Corruption is so rampant in Portland and Oregon (years of Democrat control) that election fraud is second nature.