Progressives make rocks look intelligent

I recall seeing this criminal on TV long before her fraud became known. There was some bio on her which included an interview. Once the program ended I turned to my wife and said something like, "That was complete bullshit and that girl is a phony and a liar. What she is claiming is not possible. She is only having success as she fits a model which PC idiots yearn for. Young, nice looking, successful female on the cutting edge of business and science. What a load of crap."

I truly did make such observations. Sampling and assaying have been a very important part of my business life. One doesn't deal in metals, minerals or ores without learning something about these. What she was claiming was simply too good to be true. And despite what many like to think, 19 year-old women do not come up with revolutionary blood-testing technology, which no other people have heard of. If they do, they can explain it.

Yet liar that she was, Elizabeth Holmes was able to con "the best and the brightest" of our country. She defrauded, George Schultz, Henry Kissinger, Mad Dog Mathis, Bill Frist, Sam Nunn, Rupert Murdoch and many others of close to $1 billion. I am especially surprised that Frist, having been a surgeon, fell for this rubbish. But cutting people does not necessarily give one insight to biological testing technology.

I can't help but laugh at these geniuses loosing millions each, but the main thing which I took from this affair is the subject of a sentence in the last paragraph of this article. I am not sure it worried me, but it certainly did confirm my general opinion about most of our betters.


Theranos

One can hope.



Wow. It is rare to come across 100% unvarnished truth...even in the conservative press. Eloquent and factual. A rare aligning of the stars in this paragraph.



You will forgive me. And I admit I may be expressing a bias here. But I have a niece who is a "biologist" of some kind. Maybe it's just my male ego talking. But I've long wondered if she really does anything other than pour liquid into test tubes and mark them via a DYMO label maker, figuratively speaking.

Well, we know via the Holmes case that this "feminism trumps competence" aspect does exist. That above quote from Holmes' summary is extraordinary. Does not that sound like a Dr. of Affirmative Action talking?



Oh my goodness. That's so funny in retrospect. Maybe someone needed to say "You can't do those things!" I know I can't...unless I make a material effort to do so.

Oh my goodness. Another funny. That's the first I heard of her faking a low voice. And, of course, those dolts on the news won't state the obvious. They say she's trying to sound more "authoritative." Yes...by sounding more like a man.

That was one of the first giveaways that she was a fake.  As I wrote a few days ago, we are living in an age of lies. Lies by the elites and lies in the culture. As you have remarked, I believe this lie of affirmative action has resulted in millions of people being in positions for which they are in no way qualified. Perhaps this is not so bad in most jobs, but I certainly don't want the guy who repairs the elevators in the Empire State Building, or works on the engines for American Airlines to be an unqualified boob who owes his position to the color of his skin or lack of a penis. 

Here here. And for the record, I much prefer qualified boobs.

By the way, do you prefer "Holmes’s infamous summary" or "Holmes’ infamous summary" as far as the possessive apostrophe? Presumably pronunciation would remain the same.

This is undeniably true. I, of course, blame the erosion of good ethics on "sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll." That is, life became about being a non-stop party or entertainment as opposed to a sense of duty (either partially or wholly).

Even so, there was something rotten in The Greatest Generation that facilitated this, and I can't say that I can really put my finger on it. I had an older brother and sister. Both can be considered in the age range of Boomers. I fall just outside of that.

My dad was a traditional hard-ass about things like stealing, lying, and (for the daughter) having loose morals. But at about the age of 15 or so, the children of The Greatest Generation were no longer their own. The children were owned and controlled by pop culture (and later college culture) which was thoroughly infused with "sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll."

The parents never stood a chance. They still don't. Unless you take your kids to a desert island, they are going to be pulled toward what we now call Progressive culture. It was (and still is) the anti-Churchillian culture. It promises the opposite of "blood, toil, tears, and sweat". It promises "kumbaya, unrestrained license, good-times-all-the-time, and much of this provided for free."

My father fought the long hair wars. And eventually lost. On every front he eventually lost. That's just one family, one story. But it had to be playing out like this in a lot of places. Indeed, we see it playing out now….to the point where parents basically have quit trying and "gift" their children to government schools and let them do what they will so long as the parents' economic equivalent of "sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll" is not interrupted or diminished.

This video is hilarious. A young MP calls out the Dutch Prime Minister for his lies. The PM looks like the lying tool that he is. The first two minutes or so give you the message, but the whole 7 minutes is funny. Doesn't Klaus Schwab look like Blofeld in James Bond and Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers films?

Mark Rutte

Talk about politely tearing a guy a new one. Every god damn Republican ought to be doing the same thing.

Our parents generation was not any different in most ways from our children or grand children or their parents. The one difference was decorum and that is actually a big change. Our parents generation was no less apt to break laws, look at the 30 crime waves, have sex outside of marriage or engage in drugs, many of the "big bands" functioned on big joints before performances. No one wanted to admit that these and other moral and criminal violations existed. They played to the fiction of G-d fearing upright and convinced themselves that mother did not have lovers before marriage, brother's band did't get high on grass and dad did not have a favorite bootlegger or bookie. Some of this fiction was supposedly to protect "the children". Of course, the children knew what was going on and resented the hypocrisy. 

However, for a few years from 1939-1945 all of this suddenly became irreverent and people who would never have joined together were thrown together by the necessity of war. Old grievances were put aside to defeat a real threat everyone saw in the newsreels. The alliance was not perfect, Blacks were still discriminated against north and south. Women got jobs formerly held by men and performed well. Ship loads of Jews escaping Europe were turned bak to suffer their fate under Nazi hands. But for this brief period in the west old hatreds were put aside, along with the old ideas of decorum. 

With the end of the war the ideals of the 30s came roaring back. Jim Crow laws were broadened and enforced north and south. Women who had become used to a paycheck were sent home to raise children, marriage became the one goal of both men and women and asperiational values became once again the norm. Movies are made about the "evils" of sex outside of marriage and Refeer Madness was shown in every school. The old enemy of Nazism was replaced with communism but it always failed to gain the required level of public commitment, even when Cold War turned hot in Korea and Vietnam, between the two over 100,000 American dead. 

What was produced was a cynicism about government, business and where they are taking us. In 1939 our collective trust in government was very high. FDR could go on radio with his fireside chats and persuade vast numbers of people to sacrifice their time, their fortune and their children to the defeat of Germany and Japan. Our modern day leaders can not persuade people to fill in a pot hole in the road. Perhaps, as a people, we are too jaded and anticipate the worst from our leaders. It may actually be one of the reasons that Trump won in 2016 and may win aria in 2024. He lacks pretense. He is often gross, overbearing, and obnoxious but he is perceived as more truthful than his opponents and more American. He doesn't style himself as a "citizen of the world" before being American. 

What the rest of us must come to terms with is the fact that millions of these idiots exist and are entitled to vote.

We are for reparations as long as others pay

As I have said before, I have some sympathy for the crooked politicians and others who look out on the mass of sheep, which is called humanity, and say, "Look at those fool, if I don't shear them, someone else will."

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