https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorandum_of_conversation
I found this in “Bugle Blast”. Never heard of it before. I’d call it CYA.
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VOCABULARY: “MEMCON”
Saturday, July 8, 2017
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VOCABULARY: “doublethink”
Friday, July 7, 2017Dictionary.com Word of the Day JUNE 25, 2017
doublethink [duhb-uh l-thingk] 1. the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
QUOTES
Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies …
— George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four, 1949
ORIGIN
Doublesthink comes from George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-four (also 1984), published in 1949. It appears alongside Orwell’s other neologisms thoughtcrime and duckspeak. Doublethink, has a more sinister meaning than the relatively innocuous doubletalk, which appeared in the late 1930s and referred at first to the kind of speech that Casey Stengel (1891–1975) was famous for, and later to jargon or pompous language. Doublethink entered English in the second half of the 20th century.
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Hard to imagine that this is possible but we see it today in both “politics” and the “media”.
Current example is the D’s complaining to the TV about the R’s “secret healthcare plan”, while “conveniently forgetting” that they did the same thing to pass Obamacare!
Argh!
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RANT: The road to hell — entitlements!
Thursday, July 6, 2017FROM THE WSJ
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John P. Donchess of Ohio weighed in: “The Senate health-care bill will pass, be reconciled with the House bill and be signed into law by President Trump. Anything less is political suicide for the Republicans. This entitlement is here to stay, despite what conservatives (including myself) would prefer. This bill advances the ball in the right direction and allows for further improvements to be made in the future.”
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Once an “entitlement” is “given”, it’s HARD to claw it back.
“Conservatives” should have fought harder to prevent it in the first place. Medicare, Medicaid, and “welfare” are classic examples.
The road to hell is paved with entitlements!
The USA is broke; its bankruptcy will be the ultimate “claw back”.
Argh!
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OBSERVATION: People can be clueless
Wednesday, July 5, 2017FROM THE WSJ
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“We warned them, we told them this oil can catch fire any second but a lot of people still came.”
Imran Shah, a highway police spokesman, on the explosion of a fuel truck in Pakistan that killed at least 138 people and injured nearly 150 others. Traffic officials closed the highway on either side of the overturned truck, but a large crowd, including residents of nearby villages, gathered to try to scoop up the fuel.
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Wonder if they were just so poor that it was worth the risk?
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LIBERTy: Independence Day + local self-government, secession, and strict construction
Tuesday, July 4, 20172017-Jul-04
FROM TOM WOODS’ EMAIL
https://www.libertyclassroom.com/
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Independence Day is coming up, and I wonder how many people really get why it matters.
In school, we were told this: “No taxation without representation.”
Zzzzzzzz.
The real principles were more like the following.
(1) No legislation without representation.
The colonists insisted that they could be governed only by the colonial legislatures. This is the principle of self-government.
This is why a Supreme Court ordering localities around is anti-American in the truest sense. It operates according to the opposite principle from the one the American colonists stood for.
(2) Contrary to the modern Western view of the state that it must be considered one and indivisible, the colonists believed that a smaller unit may withdraw from a larger one.
(3) The colonists’ view of the (unwritten) British constitution was that Parliament could legislate only in those areas that had traditionally been within the purview of the British government. Customary practice was the test of constitutionality. The Parliament’s view, on the other hand, was in effect that the will and act of Parliament sufficed to make its measures constitutional.
So the colonists insisted on strict construction, if you will, while the British held to more of a “living, breathing” view of the Constitution. Sound familiar?
So let’s recap: local self-government, secession, and strict construction. Not exactly the themes you learned in school.
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VOCABULARY: “Stray Dog Attacks”
Monday, July 3, 2017FROM THE WSJ
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The Lone Wolf and the Stray Dog
Two botched attacks in Europe in recent days signal that Islamist terror has entered a new phase, security officials say, one that is more disorganized and less sophisticated but risks spawning more attackers determined to kill using any means at their disposal. Because of a lack of direct training and know-how, many of this new breed of assailant fail. Still, the absence of a connection to terror networks makes it difficult for intelligence services to track these individuals, and their often unsophisticated weapons—such as knives or cars—are easy to obtain. So authorities fear the attacks will increase. “We may be entering an era not of lone wolf, but stray dog attacks,” said one Western security official. The changing nature of the attacks also reflects improved security in Europe, but officials warn it would be reckless to underestimate the continuing threat of extremist groups.
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An armed citizenry is need to defeat this particular type of attack.
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.” – George Washington quotes from BrainyQuote.com
The USA, in the Red States, is more likely to be secure.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Why not make it a “standard treatment”?
Sunday, July 2, 2017https://www.care2.com/greenliving/does-intravenous-vitamin-c-for-terminal-cancer-patients-help.html
Does Intravenous Vitamin C Help Terminal Cancer Patients?
By: Dr. Michael GregerJune 23, 2017
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Critics understandably attacked the study for using after-the-fact controls. One can see how this could introduce bias. If researchers consciously or unconsciously chose control group patients who were sicker than the treatment group patients, the control group patients would die sooner than the treatment group patients, but it would have nothing to do with the treatment; the control group folks may have just started out in a worse place. Indeed, there is evidence that is what happened: A full 20 percent of the control group died within a few days after being declared terminal compared to none in the treatment group, which really does seem fishy.
Nevertheless, the trial was successful in finally convincing the National Cancer Institute to fund randomized controlled trials—performed by the prestigious Mayo Clinic, no less. What did they find? Stay tuned.
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Why can’t this just be immediately administered? Vitamin C has to be cheap. (Maybe that’s why there’s no impetus to use. No big profits to be made.)
If me or mine has cancer, I’d insist on this treatment.
How bad could it be?
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EVLYNN: A sad day to be remembered
Saturday, July 1, 20172017-Jul-01
Sigh! It would have been her 71st birthday. All that she’s missed. Makes me sad.
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Reinke Faces Life 