Thursday, January 14, 2010

In Passing

In passing ...
 It's a Horror Show for Obamunists

Why Treasury chief should be probed and fired
Tim Geithner should not only be fired as Treasury Secretary, he should then be investigated for criminal activity --

The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2009
#30 -  If I'm corrupt, it's because I take care of my district. -- John Murtha

100 Incredible & Educational Virtual Tours You Don’t Want to Miss
I love the Internet

Liberals and Conservatives
“You know, when the battery fires?” asked the American. “Those two guys off to the side with their arms in the air? What are they doing?”

Palin was 'set up to fail'
Kathleen Parker wears her best Dixie Chicks face

Schumer Goes Gutter
I got the message below from Ted Kennedy's widow, Vicki, and I wanted to make sure you saw it.
Martha Coakley is running to fill the rest of Ted Kennedy's term, and her opponent is a far-right tea-bagger Republican.
It would be bad enough to lose this seat [blah-blah-blah]

EDITORIAL: Google jihad
Google has been accused of pandering to Muslims by censoring negative search suggestions in its main search box. Type "Christianity is" in the search bar, and Google suggests helpful endings to your query, such as "not a religion," "a lie," "a cult," and so on. ...

SEIU-affiliated union endorses…Scott Brown
How bad is it, Martha?

Sarah Palin admits questions about Sept. 11

Or, rather, concedes that Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. got something right.

Palin FNC Ratings Sky High
The Nielsen ratings are in and former V.P. hopeful Sarah Palin hit the nearly 4 million viewer jackpot last night for her debut appearance on Fox News's "The O'Reilly Factor" as a Fox News contributor.

Quote of the day - Sen. Scott Brown’s daughter Ayla
“She even spelled Massachusetts wrong in her original ad which is very embarrassing, I must say as a young woman.”


3 comments:

Kristophr said...

Concerning the Chicago Boyz essay ... the proper way to deal with set point tweakers is to put some screws in the middle of the chassis of the controlbox, with a graduated scale around each one, and then provide a log to record the settings and efficiency gains or losses.

The screws, are, or course, attached to nothing ... but providing them as a placebo encourages tweakers and button fiddlers to stop screwing with the equipment.

Anonymous said...

providing them as a placebo
Placebo knobs can be useful. Once upon a time, I had a mechanic working for me who failed to fix a particular problem after several tries. When I asked him to show me what he did in the way of corrections, he pulled out a huge screwdriver and turned a couple of Dzus fasteners holding a sheet metal cover over the area of interest. He swore up and down that should fix the problem, and because it didn't, the problem lay in the materials coming from another department. Because I was a new face to him, he tried to bullshit me and hide his incompetence. He got the job based on seniority, and what he didn't know was that I was an expert on this piece of machinery. A few months later he was sweeping floors, because in spite of efforts to retrain him (union shop - had to do it), he was too dumb to handle the job.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick

Rodger the Real King of France said...

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This comment on the Chicago Boyz was as good as the post.

# DaveL Says:
January 8th, 2010 at 3:12 pm

The gun story is like the ham story…

In the storyteller’s family, they always cut the end of the ham off before they bake it. After years of this, one of the now-grown daughters calls her mother to ask why. The mother suggests there might be something bad in the end of the ham, but eventually admits “I’m not sure, but I’ve always done it that way.” She then calls her aged mother.

“Why are we supposed to cut the end off the ham before we bake it?”

“Because otherwise, dear, it won’t fit in my tiny little baking pan.”

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