It seems Dubya believed in at least part of H.L. Mencken's "I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.".

There is a tremendous volume of screaming, yelling, pontificating,enunciating, placating, ingratiating, talking heads(many times even talking asses) bombarding us from every form of media, but there are very very few of them who dare to speak the truth to power in a clear voice. You are one of those we are able to hear over this constant din of propaganda, Glenn, and I suspect that Uncle Walter read you.

Thank you.

Look at Helen Keller. Notice how the biographies we see of her in our grade-school classes and in the mass media almost invariably stop when she hits the age of twenty? Even though she lived a good six decades beyond that? It's because she became a Socialist. She realized that the only reason she was able to interact with the rest of humanity at a high-functioning level was because she was lucky enough to be the daughter of the most important and richest man in her Alabama town -- and that most children didn't have that advantage.

Look at Martin Luther King. Notice how his biographies leap straight from the March on Washington to the Memphis balcony? It's because he spent the last years of his life fighting against America's involvement in Vietnam. (That's why the TradMed loves to talk about the "Dream" speech but never the "Drum Major" speech.)

They do it to all of them, Glenn.

Friday, July 17, 2009 12:58 PM
Hypothesis Precedes Observation.

Mountain Boy needs to tell the authorities that he had been operating according to a hypothesis that he developed that preceded any observation that he could in fact climb the mountain.

When he sprained his ankle he did not allow this new inconvenient observable fact to get in the way of what he still thought was a bloody good hypothesis. And having not ever taken facts into consideration to begin with he damned well wasn't going to ruin a perfectly good hypothesis by starting now. So he carried on his climb, his hypothesis if not his ankle still intact.

Since his rescue he has been asked by a panel of psychologists, philosophers and scientists whether his hypothesis made without observation first that he could climb the mountain was still a sound one.

He first denied that he had been rescued by a helicopter because a helicopter had played no part in his original hypothesis so therefore in spite of what might have been reported in the newspapers a trip in one could not possibly have ever taken place.
He said he was very pleased with his hypothesis and that it was an accepted hypothesis, the dominant hypothesis and the only hypothesis he could find about his person at that particular point in time. And furthermore he said he was going to stick to it until someone came up with an alternative hypothesis of what would have happened on that mountain had he never gone near it at all.

Since his rescue the scout has spent many happy hours during his convalescence writing up other weird and wonderful hypothesis on the white board he keeps behind his eyes that he can't wait to inflict upon an unsuspecting world as soon as he is able to chew through the straps and make good his escape.

Must read TPM:

"In courting Sanford's office, Gregory wrote that "coming on Meet The Press allows you to frame the conversation as you really want to."

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/nbcs_gregory_to_sanfords_office_meet_the_press_all.php?ref=fpb

Continuing in the same tradition as his predecessor whore, Tim Russert, David Gregory is happy to let powerful Villagers use him any old way they want to. He knows what is his role is and is not.

Ask tough questions and challenge lies?

Nope.

Be controlled by powerful Villagers? Offer a platform for propaganda? Suck up to the powerful?

Check, check, and check! Now where's my check?

Whore, whore, whore -- whore to the core.

Or are you cheating, watching Spongebob Squarepants?

I've just read your post and link and its all dreadful. That fucking Gregory is an utter disgrace. I'm seriously beginning to wonder if there isn't some sort of criminal charges that can't be laid against these sods. They are regularly conning and showing utter contempt for the people who watch.

And that bugger replaced Russet did he?

I warned you about trying to ridicule me with that statement (hypothesis precedes observation). Oh, well.

For the record, one of the two of us has hiked on Mt. Washington in the spring snow, and knows, from the descriptions, where the guy was when he left the trail, and a few other things. Probably don't want to go there.

and won't witness their ultimate decline as Charlie, Brian and Katie Koran edge their way into their ignominious demise.

Curses from the left as we declare: "Long Live FOX!"

There's a gondola as well as road access to the top. Have you ever seen the bumper sticker, "This car climbed Mt Washington"?

Of relevance, during the early years of my childhood (1960s), the commercial operations were owned by one Sherm Adams, forced out of the Eisenhower administration by a scandal that wouldn't even make news today.

Sherman Adams was pressured to resign [as Chief of Staff in the Eisenhower administration] in 1958, when a House subcommittee revealed Adams had accepted an expensive vicuña overcoat and oriental rug[1] from Bernard Goldfine, a Boston textile manufacturer who was being investigated for Federal Trade Commission violations. Goldfine, who had business with the federal government, was cited for contempt of Congress when he refused to answer questions regarding his relationship with Adams.[2] The story was first reported to the public by muckraking journalist Jack Anderson. [Where are his descendants in the press corps?]

Adams returned to Lincoln, New Hampshire where he started Loon Mountain Corporation, today a major ski resort. He died in 1986.

absolutely brilliant - and honest: thank you so very much!