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Say Goodnight, Gracie. by Joseph P. Lanham, Principal and Founder of JPL Ventures 
Joseph P. Lanham
Why are so many cars looking like suppositories on wheels? Are car companies using designers from Preparation H? Can We All Agree this is a HERO? Not someone wearing a helmet and shoulder pads with a multi-million dollar contract in their back pocket? Or a guy who makes a twenty foot putt knowing success or failure is the difference between a cool $1,000,00 and, God forbid, only $500K? The Original Tea Party rally, on video!! Orwell Watch Oh, yeah, right. The recession is over because the committee said so (paragraph 2). This is also known as argumentum ad verecundiam or the 'argument from authority', the same inductive fallacy your parents used to call an end to any discussion they couldn't win:"because I said so!". In fact, the Great Recession is so far behind us we have this little tidbit of joyous news to celebrate. Admittedly Think Progress is partisan web site devoted to all things left wing, but I wouldn't post if this was a typical cherry picking exercise in support of a straw man. Would you let this person to babysit your child? Mon Dieu!! How will they eat? Pay the rent? School their children? Pay the chauffeur? Ahhhhhh..... Cost Benefit Analysis comes to judicial decision making It will be interesting to see how this affects sentencing for marijuana possession and other minor, non violent offenses. On the surface it looks like a wise idea which means it will probably die a swift death. The Genius of Palin is her ability to know exactly what to say - and how to say it - to people incapable of thinking themselves out of a wet paper bag. If she did this to children she'd be arrested. The Next Bubble? Can't wait to see how Wall Street pitches this one to suckers. Time to re-arrange the deck chairs here on the good ship America. The collective will to action in a national crisis is non-existent in the US because it requires subsuming certain selfish desires. That we have yet to see a economic recovery has it roots in a war without national sacrifice where leadership convinced the willing that simultaneously fighting terrorism with borrowed money while expanding a false economy based on absurd levels of consumer credit was somehow patriotism supreme. BTW. Why is a Credit Score so important today when you need $400 to repair a sink, yet no one gave a damn 5 years ago when you were buying a $1,000,000 house? I've forwarded this video to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena to see if they might be able to calculate how many cubic feet of air inhabits the cranium of the Senate candidate from Delaware. How long before the Nancy Reagan endorsement? Sir Bedevere: What makes you think she's a witch? Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt! Sir Bedevere: A newt? Peasant 3: [meekly after a long pause] ... I got better From the lies, damned lies and statistics department And a new book on the subject. |
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| Joseph P. Lanham, is Principal and Founder of JPL Ventures which focuses on strategic planning, sales and marketing, product development and investment. He has worked with a wide range of companies including Hanna-Barbera, Times Mirror and Spelling Entertainment was co-founder/VP Sales and Marketing for Native Minds, the company that brought 'virtual support agents' to the web for American Express, Ford and Oracle among others. | |