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Tuesday, March 28, 2023
CONSUMER ALERT: Southcoast Health Urgent Care.
As I have done in the past, if I am subject to a Very Negative Consumer Experience in the Marketplace, I report it here.
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Monday, March 27, 2023
FACT CHECKING TRUMP, AND ANYONE ELSE. PART 1.
FACT CHECKING- Evaluating a Factual Claim or Assertion of Truth for its validity,
and whether or not it can be relied upon to provide a satisfactory conclusion or judgment about
the Reality of any Given Subject.
It is up to those making such Claims or Assertions to provide Testable and Examinable Information or
Evidence to back up any such STATEMENT OF TRUTH.
Donald Trumps personal opinion is of no value without factual data that can back up what he is claiming.
For that matter neither is anyone elses, BUT HE IS THE ONE MAKING A
FACTUAL ASSERTION/CONCLUSION ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION.
However, so far any Evidence he has provided has been revealed to be Faulty, Incorrect, or
Useless* in backing up his opinions. He and his Allies have lost every single Court Case.
When proper Intellectual Scrutiny is applied, TRUMP HAS NOTHING...NOTHING SUPPORTING
HIS ACCUSATIONS.
If you believe he is being treated unfairly: HOW? If you believe other Politicians are not subject to the
same standards, provide examples. Remember, there is a big difference between saying the following:
"I BELIEVE RATES OF UNEMPLOYMENT, INFLATION, CRIME, etc ARE CAUSED BY THESE FACTORS." (Relays Information that can be checked)
and
"I BELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT, INFLATION, CRIME, etc ARE CAUSED BY THIS (POLITICIAN, PARTY), DESIRE TO CHEAT OR HARM THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.
TO BE CONTINUED...
*( USUALLY RED HERRINGS)
Saturday, March 25, 2023
" THE DESRICK ON YANDRO." SOME CLASSIC FICTION HITS THE MARK, AND WE SHOULD PAY ATTENTION.
PICTURE FROM PODTAIL.
EXCERPTS FROM THE STORY "THE DESRICK ON YANDRO."
BY MANLY WADE WELLMAN.
(TWO MEN CLIMB A HILL CALLED YANDRO. THE HILL HAS A DESRICK
LOCATED AT THE TOP. YET BOTH MEN ARE VERY DIFFERENT. THESE ARE TAKEN FROM THE
END OF THE STORY.)
"That's it," puffed Mr. Yandro. "The desrick."
I looked at him then, and knew what most he wanted on this earth. He wanted to be boss. Money was just something to greaten him. His idea of greatness was bigness. He wanted to do all the talking, and have everybody else do the listening. He had his eyes hung on that desrick, and he licked his lips, like a cat over a dish of cream.
"Let's go in," he said.
"Not where I'm not invited," I told him, as flatly as anybody could ever tell him. "I said I'd come to the top. This is the top."
"Come with me," he said. "My name's Yandro. This mountain's name is Yandro. I can buy and sell every man, woman and child in this part of the country. If I say it's all right to go into a house, it's all right to go into a house."
He meant that thing. The world and everybody in it was just there to let him walk on. He took a step toward the desrick...Mr. Yandro snorted at me, to show how small he reckoned me because I held back, and he headed toward the big door."If she's there, she'll show me the gold," he said.
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A few observations about the Narrators companion.
He wants to be boss.
A Man who wants to do the talking, and everyone
else do the listening.
If he says it's all right...it's all right.
Take these observations for what you will.