Wednesday, February 28, 2024

When Mendacity is Policy

Apple Inc. is said to be canceling a decade-long effort to build an electric car, abandoning one of the most ambitious projects in the history of the company.

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According to a Stanford study, over the past 20 years, the medical profession has gone from 60% Republican to 80% Democrat.

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One reason the United States didn’t adopt the metric system was because the ship crossing the Atlantic from France carrying a standard kilogram—a real physical object requested by Thomas Jefferson in 1793-- was blown off course into the Caribbean and captured by pirates.

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When Mendacity is Policy

Some quotes from President Biden.

Biden says that a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas might be finalized by next Monday. Does this position have anything to do with the Muslim presence in the Michigan primary? Does the fact that both Israel and Hamas have denied any progress make you think that this Biden announcement might be a tad cynical? And untrue?


Biden said, “The evidence said I did not willfully retain these documents.”   
Hur’s report, page one: “Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.”

Biden said, “There’s even a reference that I don’t remember when my son died. How in the hell dare he raise that. Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself it wasn’t any of their damn business.”   
NBC News reported, “Hur never asked that question, according to two people familiar with Hur’s five-hour interview with the president over two days last October. It was the president, not Hur or his team, who first introduced Beau Biden’s death, they said.”

"We have plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean."

The average federal income tax paid by the richest Americans is “8%. … If you’re a cop, a teacher, a firefighter, union worker, you probably pay two to three times that.”

Al-Qaida is “gone” from Afghanistan.

This is a bit hard to analyze because Biden is unreliable mentally as well as politically. But is this how we are going to live, ignoring our leaders as liars and frauds and incompetents? Just discarding all public pronouncements as nonsense? 
All the pleas for conversation and mediation don't work very well when you can safely assume these positions are all false.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The Medical Profession is at an all time low