"Sept. 11 didn’t change everything. We did." Nicely put (and you've got some other good stuff in there). But I'd like you to consider the following comparison:
"Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney didn’t 'get' bad intelligence. They incentivized it and then cherry-picked it to justify invading Iraq, which had not attacked us and wasn’t going to because Saddam Hussein wasn’t crazy or an idiot."
Vs. my words:
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DOE’s standard is to spin a tube at 20% above 90,000 RPM before failure — so 48,000 short is a pretty loose definition of “rough indication.” And since the entire point of testing should be to replicate the conditions of centrifuges, one would think that the full-blown testing would be performed before the NIE was completed.
Out of 31 tubes in subsequent testing, only one was successfully spun to 90,000 RPM for 65 minutes — which the CIA seized on as evidence in their favor. One DOE analyst offered a superb analogy of that contorted conclusion: “Running your car up to 6,500 RPM briefly does not prove that you can run your car at 6,500 RPM cross country. It just doesn’t. Your car’s not going to make it.”
In an industry where fractions of a millimeter matter, these guys were playing horseshoes with centrifuge physics . . .
— Richard W. Memmer: Act II
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While you're 100% right on Bush & Cheney -- "incentivized" and "cherry-picked" have no teeth. Try this on for size -- as my surgical specificity in this clip puts this lie in its place in 5 minutes alone: https://youtu.be/X9Si5T2EmZA Imagine what I did with a 160!
Even all that will not make a dent in the hermetically sealed minds of our time. But there's another way. Hear me out and all will become clear. But to understand the solution, first you need to understand the multiple dimensions of the problem. As Ann Baker put it in "Critical Thinking: A fading skill in the age of information overload":
"Indeed, nowadays, we tend to take in and repeat whatever the values and beliefs of those around us have rather than forming our own independent thought and stopping to organize and evaluate the information we are receiving."
Claims of critical thinking are everywhere, but I haven't found it anywhere. My idea is simple -- but it takes "stopping to organize and evaluate the information we are receiving" to understand it.
Meaningless Majority: How the CIA Rigged the NIE Vote to Take Us to War in Iraq
Regarding JD's assertion that the abortion ban will be signed, I can't help interpreting this as yet another sign that, in his own mind, he is not running as VP; he intends to be prez. He's certain the ban will be signed because he plans to sign it.
"But the people on television say their dog was eaten by the people that went there."
If the SNL skit about the debate won't include this line, with the response from David Muir being something to the effect of: "I'm a person on television and I'm telling you no dogs were eaten", I would be very disappointed.
Trump proclaimed himself a leader on “IVF, which is fertilization”. When Trump explains something completely obvious like this, it usually means he just learned it, and he thinks others will be just as astonished as he is. Remember “people don’t realize Lincoln was Republican”?
“Sir, you understand fertilization better than anyone. Maybe it’s because of MIT. My uncle, very smart, MIT. They say sir, nobody ever thought of that before, but it’s true, IVF really is fertilization, if you think about it. So it’s very interesting.”
Where were people with an audience (like yourself) saying this about 9/11 back in the frenzied days of US anaphylactic shock? Everywhere we turned, those few of us not caught up in the hysteria, it was all about “everything changed” and “what’s it like writing children’s books in the new age of terrorism” (actually asked by Terry Gross on NPR’s “Fresh Air”).
There was no public media space to which one could turn that wasn’t taken up with that.
I see the post-9/11 years as the second successful US coup d’etat of the Cold War and post-Cold War era.
1. “he also called himself a “leader on fertilization,”. True! Given the endless stream of shit that comes out of his mouth every time he opens it.
2. The christo-fanatic general running the USAF academy is just channeling Gen. Jack E. Ripper late of Burbleson AF base.
What is fluoridation doing to our precious bodily fluids anyway?
3. Fear of escalation that has tied Ukraine’s hands in their fight for survival has been proven false time and again. Putin’s nuclear saber rattling is bluff. What would he bomb exactly and what would it get him?
"Sept. 11 didn’t change everything. We did." Nicely put (and you've got some other good stuff in there). But I'd like you to consider the following comparison:
"Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney didn’t 'get' bad intelligence. They incentivized it and then cherry-picked it to justify invading Iraq, which had not attacked us and wasn’t going to because Saddam Hussein wasn’t crazy or an idiot."
Vs. my words:
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DOE’s standard is to spin a tube at 20% above 90,000 RPM before failure — so 48,000 short is a pretty loose definition of “rough indication.” And since the entire point of testing should be to replicate the conditions of centrifuges, one would think that the full-blown testing would be performed before the NIE was completed.
Out of 31 tubes in subsequent testing, only one was successfully spun to 90,000 RPM for 65 minutes — which the CIA seized on as evidence in their favor. One DOE analyst offered a superb analogy of that contorted conclusion: “Running your car up to 6,500 RPM briefly does not prove that you can run your car at 6,500 RPM cross country. It just doesn’t. Your car’s not going to make it.”
In an industry where fractions of a millimeter matter, these guys were playing horseshoes with centrifuge physics . . .
— Richard W. Memmer: Act II
********************************
While you're 100% right on Bush & Cheney -- "incentivized" and "cherry-picked" have no teeth. Try this on for size -- as my surgical specificity in this clip puts this lie in its place in 5 minutes alone: https://youtu.be/X9Si5T2EmZA Imagine what I did with a 160!
Even all that will not make a dent in the hermetically sealed minds of our time. But there's another way. Hear me out and all will become clear. But to understand the solution, first you need to understand the multiple dimensions of the problem. As Ann Baker put it in "Critical Thinking: A fading skill in the age of information overload":
"Indeed, nowadays, we tend to take in and repeat whatever the values and beliefs of those around us have rather than forming our own independent thought and stopping to organize and evaluate the information we are receiving."
Claims of critical thinking are everywhere, but I haven't found it anywhere. My idea is simple -- but it takes "stopping to organize and evaluate the information we are receiving" to understand it.
Meaningless Majority: How the CIA Rigged the NIE Vote to Take Us to War in Iraq
https://liveoutloudandonpurpose.life/2024/08/19/meaningless-majority-how-the-cia-rigged-the-nie-vote-to-take-us-to-war-in-iraq/
Regarding JD's assertion that the abortion ban will be signed, I can't help interpreting this as yet another sign that, in his own mind, he is not running as VP; he intends to be prez. He's certain the ban will be signed because he plans to sign it.
So funny; and wellwritten; thanks for the laugh!🤣
Aw, thank you, Nina!
"But the people on television say their dog was eaten by the people that went there."
If the SNL skit about the debate won't include this line, with the response from David Muir being something to the effect of: "I'm a person on television and I'm telling you no dogs were eaten", I would be very disappointed.
Trump proclaimed himself a leader on “IVF, which is fertilization”. When Trump explains something completely obvious like this, it usually means he just learned it, and he thinks others will be just as astonished as he is. Remember “people don’t realize Lincoln was Republican”?
Another tell of his, is "sir":
When he tells a story, if it features someone calling him "sir", we can be sure that interaction never happened.
“Sir, you understand fertilization better than anyone. Maybe it’s because of MIT. My uncle, very smart, MIT. They say sir, nobody ever thought of that before, but it’s true, IVF really is fertilization, if you think about it. So it’s very interesting.”
Where were people with an audience (like yourself) saying this about 9/11 back in the frenzied days of US anaphylactic shock? Everywhere we turned, those few of us not caught up in the hysteria, it was all about “everything changed” and “what’s it like writing children’s books in the new age of terrorism” (actually asked by Terry Gross on NPR’s “Fresh Air”).
There was no public media space to which one could turn that wasn’t taken up with that.
I see the post-9/11 years as the second successful US coup d’etat of the Cold War and post-Cold War era.
I was at CNN, doing my best. Then I went to Air America Radio in early 2004, and did my best!
Three things:
1. “he also called himself a “leader on fertilization,”. True! Given the endless stream of shit that comes out of his mouth every time he opens it.
2. The christo-fanatic general running the USAF academy is just channeling Gen. Jack E. Ripper late of Burbleson AF base.
What is fluoridation doing to our precious bodily fluids anyway?
3. Fear of escalation that has tied Ukraine’s hands in their fight for survival has been proven false time and again. Putin’s nuclear saber rattling is bluff. What would he bomb exactly and what would it get him?
BODILY FLUIDS!
Wide meaning indeed. I took it to mean more illegitimates out there. Yuck. Love the photo!