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But, she had such a sweet face
"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy."
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/NINTCHDBPICT000000948249-e1588943735169.jpg?strip=all&w=858
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/11579185/peter-sellers-wives-anne-howe-miranda-macmillan-lynne-frederick-britt-ekland/
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/jamesbond/images/e/e7/Britt_Ekland.jpeg/revision/latest/top-crop/width/360/height/360?cb=20121125074358
Gm John, GV $I!. ;)
Charlotte's Web??
666 Deletion conspiracy quiz time agin', lol
Is it the Plan or the Fraudster as Stooge of the Over Lords?
(And without peeking/cheatin' ;) which admittedly gorgeous pieces
Of creative writing was wankerzapped?
In no apparent order other than chronological halvatter:
1.
12yearplanMember Level Tuesday, 09/29/20 11:35:44 AM
Re: 12yearplan post# 10578 0
Post # of 10582
Is whoever it is that put up that ask
Then with it's removal indicating?
1. They are nervous someone might take those precious shares
2. Time is running out sooner than later
3. Keepin' one's head in the sand is dangerous
4. All the above
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/beetlejuice/images/3/3b/Sandwormbio.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/310?cb=20101023182519
GV $I
2.
Scumbag Fraudsters Wednesday, 09/30/20 12:31:17 AM
Re: 12yearplan post# 10580 0
Post # of 10582
I'm not sure what you're asking because I don't care enough to monitor the bid for this ol' scam.
If you're saying there was a huge bid and now it's gone, then logic dictates that:
1. It was a MM trying to load up on .0001's because they noticed fish were beginning to bite and they hoped to dump them back into the pond at .0002 - .0003. But even they eventually realized it was a futile plan.
2. It's evidence that people with lots of $$$ don't believe this turd is worth .0001.
3. There's plenty of time - .0001's have been abundant for the past 4 years.
4. Those who buy turds will end up will an account full of shit.
5. All of the above.
3.
Scum, I think you may have been influenced watching
The debate last night when you posted.
Me
Is whoever it is that put up that ask
You
I'm not sure what you're asking because I don't care enough to monitor the bid
If you're saying there was a huge bid and now it's gone, then logic dictates that: ...
....................................................................
1. Logic dictates a mis-read
2. Scrambled eggs like the debate
3. Cognitive Dissonance
4. All da bove ;)
Cool Pag,.. couldn't play ur video or find it but had fun trying:
Hey! Brand X was opening ,
A friend who was into drumming introduced me to Brand X and Weather Report. First kind of Jazz I liked to listen to...
Jah Mon.. ;( RIP
That is very cool memory and yeah, one needs to learn their limitations some how - just too bad when the tickets are expensive ;).
My most intimate Reggae show was Burning Spear in a small bar
And, Hick's "good shit" moment - woke up from the rubber mat at venue quite unlike a small bar, in time for the last act:
https://www.maxwebsterlive.ca/file/dffcc5218292.5.jpg
https://www.maxwebsterlive.ca/1978-07-10-toronto
Lol; https://www.globalgiving.org/jcr-content/gg/landing-pages/savethechildren/images/global-giving-page-header.jpg
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=158410053
Anyway...squeegee your 3rd f%#$in eye America, . ,
Loved that guy! Saw Peter Tosh in a small club in Austin in the '70s. They handed out "spleefs"into the audience. I had to go sit in the loading area of the club for 30 minutes while roadies and drivers gave me club soda to recover . I was 16. Actually kind of a cool memory.
"Another legend returns to the earth. What an impact he made in his time here."
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54129388
Crap 12, that number shit works maybe, whatever; I'll take the
coincidence in number$ lol
There is one more thing
One more stretch for the unbeliever
C'mon, even da Old-Fogey has a favorite number
Mine showed up, one
Nineteen
GLTA 6ers next 7daze
Mmmm.. Baby - it's time, it's bank business time
15000 beauty thoughts
coincidence in numbers
https://quotefancy.com/quote/871242/Napoleon-Hill-The-person-who-sows-a-single-beautiful-thought-in-the-mind-of-another
.@KamalaHarris explaining how to brine a Thanksgiving turkey 🦃 in the one minute before she has to go live on air is truly a gem to behold. pic.twitter.com/csD1t0jkFG
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) August 15, 2020
Fear the worst!,..
https://twitter.com/stevelackmeyer/status/1292936825854713856
That time John Lewis, then 76-years-old crowd surfed on the Stephen Colbert Show. pic.twitter.com/SVx0sTXy2q
— Sean Cunningham (@SeanCunningham) July 18, 2020
Dear Da Lair Super Sleuths
I fell in love and I don't even know
What she looks like- pls send pics.
All I could find:
"Golden Brown" is about heroin and also a about a girl. The girl was Cornwell's mediterranean girlfriend at the time, who had golden brown skin.
Out played.
https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200626131824-trump-putin-exlarge-169.jpg
..In his phone exchanges with Putin, the sources reported, the President talked mostly about himself, frequently in over-the-top, self-aggrandizing terms: touting his "unprecedented" success
https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200617151225-bolton-trump-file-exlarge-169.jpg
.. top national security aides and his chiefs of staff flabbergasted, less because of specific concessions he made than because of his manner -- inordinately solicitous of Putin's admiration and seemingly seeking his approval -- while usually ignoring substantive policy expertise and important matters ..
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/29/politics/trump-phone-calls-national-security-concerns/index.html
https://www.pbs.org/video/targeting-troops-2-1593465049/
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=156605838
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=156606266
Rep. Elissa Slotkin
@RepSlotkin
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11h
I am headed to the White House tomorrow morning to receive a briefing on reported Russian threat to our troops in Afghanistan. Not sure why Republicans & Democrats were invited to separate briefs on separate days. Sincerely hope Intel & DoD representatives are part of the brief.
https://twitter.com/DanielNewman/status/1277832716709437440?s=20
Really strong reaction from @BenSasse on reports that Russia paid bounties in order to attack Americans and Trump saying he wasn’t briefed on the matter pic.twitter.com/RxS4Iqs3bA
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) June 29, 2020
This scandal of the Trump presidency just got exponentially worse.
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) June 29, 2020
“Russian bounties offered to Taliban-linked militants to kill coalition forces in Afghanistan are believed to have RESULTED IN THE DEATHS OF SEVERAL U.S. SERVICE MEMBERS.” https://t.co/YeuWajvbvl
Lol, going to save that for a stock running day
To fully appreciate 3 1/2 hours
Excellent finds/thx 4 da recco's!
Jim Beam Black and coke, just say'n
I think he may have gone too far for the base.
Weekend cable shows, please ask every Republican supporter of Trump if they agree if its OK for Russia to pay the Taliban to kill US soldiers? Then ask why Trump hasn't done anything since learning about it in March except praise Putin and invite him to the G7? Do they agree?
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) June 27, 2020
Ha, the tool rental $Ardbeg was a bust - too big a job for the band(saw ;). Two passes on da table saw so lots of man-u-ill! labor, lol. So just been drinking CC whisky - quantity not quality ;).
Cheers!..
awesome! love old school jamaican; rocksteady, ska, reggae
hey, wazzzup? Were you the one buying scotch? How'd that go? I bought some Ardbeg 10 and thought meh.. I like Laphroig. But a good cheap one is JW green, and an awsome Irish is Redbreast 12(so I've heard) buying dat next.
But then, there's really...Billy Joe Shaver
Whahahaha!.. - poor chicken, died of boredom, lol..
Very cool, thanks ;)
His life has often been portrayed as that of a jazz musician who had to compromise his art for the sake of commercialism. Beiderbecke remains the subject of scholarly controversy regarding his full name, the cause of his death and the importance of his contributions to jazz.
Perhaps "Bixie's" death at the age of twenty-eight also is symbolical of the futility of the "jazz-mad generation's" quest for self-expression. However that may be, if it is true, as some critics contend, that "jazz" music is establishing foundations on which a distinctive and thoroughly legitimate American music eventually will be built, Bix Beiderbecke has left his mark on the future culture of the nation.[85]
Eddie Condon, for instance, described Beiderbecke's cornet playing as "like a girl saying yes"[91] and also wrote of being amazed by Beiderbecke's piano playing: "All my life I had been listening to music […] But I had never heard anything remotely like what Beiderbecke played. For the first time I realized music isn't all the same, it had become an entirely new set of sounds"[106] "I tried to explain Bix to the gang," Hoagy Carmichael wrote, but "t was no good, like the telling of a vivid, personal dream […] the emotion couldn't be transmitted."[107]
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=Bix+Beiderbecke+
Should be a rock'n'roll cover band Hall of Fame-
And then, there's Leo....
dis song....ppprrrrannnnggggg, mind blown ;-D Love this woman
Gotta hand it to the Bix-man though, he would have been 117 now
Very cool deep fake production..
In 2012 the Philadelphia Enquirer newspaper reported that Grohl gave a $1,000 tip to bar staff at the Smith & Wollensky bar at the city’s Rittenhouse Hotel on two consecutive evenings. More recently, in August last year, Grohl rounded up a $333.30 bar bill at infamous Los Angeles rock’n’roll watering hole the Rainbow Bar And Grill to the more satanic total of $666.30. What a nice man.
https://www.kerrang.com/features/20-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-dave-grohl/
Axes of evil and other penny pumpin'
Lies, damn lies and charts
Alberto Cairo explains how to avoid being duped..
https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2019/10/10/lies-damn-lies-and-charts
..more demonic musings to haunt Da Lair, use those evil numbers and on occasion like the kindergarden teacher said "use ur kind words", lol..
By adopting the kit, we can all shield ourselves against clueless guile and deliberate manipulation. Sagan shares nine of these tools:
Wherever possible there must be independent confirmation of the “facts.”
Encourage substantive debate on the evidence by knowledgeable proponents of all points of view.
Arguments from authority carry little weight — “authorities” have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
Spin more than one hypothesis. If there’s something to be explained, think of all the different ways in which it could be explained. Then think of tests by which you might systematically disprove each of the alternatives. What survives, the hypothesis that resists disproof in this Darwinian selection among “multiple working hypotheses,” has a much better chance of being the right answer than if you had simply run with the first idea that caught your fancy.
Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just because it’s yours. It’s only a way station in the pursuit of knowledge. Ask yourself why you like the idea. Compare it fairly with the alternatives. See if you can find reasons for rejecting it. If you don’t, others will.
Quantify. If whatever it is you’re explaining has some measure, some numerical quantity attached to it, you’ll be much better able to discriminate among competing hypotheses. What is vague and qualitative is open to many explanations. Of course there are truths to be sought in the many qualitative issues we are obliged to confront, but finding them is more challenging.
If there’s a chain of argument, every link in the chain must work (including the premise) — not just most of them.
Occam’s Razor. This convenient rule-of-thumb urges us when faced with two hypotheses that explain the data equally well to choose the simpler.
Always ask whether the hypothesis can be, at least in principle, falsified. Propositions that are untestable, unfalsifiable are not worth much. Consider the grand idea that our Universe and everything in it is just an elementary particle — an electron, say — in a much bigger Cosmos. But if we can never acquire information from outside our Universe, is not the idea incapable of disproof? You must be able to check assertions out. Inveterate skeptics must be given the chance to follow your reasoning, to duplicate your experiments and see if they get the same result.
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Just as important as learning these helpful tools, however, is unlearning and avoiding the most common pitfalls of common sense. Reminding us of where society is most vulnerable to those, Sagan writes:
In addition to teaching us what to do when evaluating a claim to knowledge, any good baloney detection kit must also teach us what not to do. It helps us recognize the most common and perilous fallacies of logic and rhetoric. Many good examples can be found in religion and politics, because their practitioners are so often obliged to justify two contradictory propositions.
He admonishes against the twenty most common and perilous ones — many rooted in our chronic discomfort with ambiguity — with examples of each in action:
ad hominem — Latin for “to the man,” attacking the arguer and not the argument (e.g., The Reverend Dr. Smith is a known Biblical fundamentalist, so her objections to evolution need not be taken seriously)
argument from authority (e.g., President Richard Nixon should be re-elected because he has a secret plan to end the war in Southeast Asia — but because it was secret, there was no way for the electorate to evaluate it on its merits; the argument amounted to trusting him because he was President: a mistake, as it turned out)
argument from adverse consequences (e.g., A God meting out punishment and reward must exist, because if He didn’t, society would be much more lawless and dangerous — perhaps even ungovernable. Or: The defendant in a widely publicized murder trial must be found guilty; otherwise, it will be an encouragement for other men to murder their wives)
appeal to ignorance — the claim that whatever has not been proved false must be true, and vice versa (e.g., There is no compelling evidence that UFOs are not visiting the Earth; therefore UFOs exist — and there is intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe. Or: There may be seventy kazillion other worlds, but not one is known to have the moral advancement of the Earth, so we’re still central to the Universe.) This impatience with ambiguity can be criticized in the phrase: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
special pleading, often to rescue a proposition in deep rhetorical trouble (e.g., How can a merciful God condemn future generations to torment because, against orders, one woman induced one man to eat an apple? Special plead: you don’t understand the subtle Doctrine of Free Will. Or: How can there be an equally godlike Father, Son, and Holy Ghost in the same Person? Special plead: You don’t understand the Divine Mystery of the Trinity. Or: How could God permit the followers of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — each in their own way enjoined to heroic measures of loving kindness and compassion — to have perpetrated so much cruelty for so long? Special plead: You don’t understand Free Will again. And anyway, God moves in mysterious ways.)
begging the question, also called assuming the answer (e.g., We must institute the death penalty to discourage violent crime. But does the violent crime rate in fact fall when the death penalty is imposed? Or: The stock market fell yesterday because of a technical adjustment and profit-taking by investors — but is there any independent evidence for the causal role of “adjustment” and profit-taking; have we learned anything at all from this purported explanation?)
observational selection, also called the enumeration of favorable circumstances, or as the philosopher Francis Bacon described it, counting the hits and forgetting the misses (e.g., A state boasts of the Presidents it has produced, but is silent on its serial killers)
statistics of small numbers — a close relative of observational selection (e.g., “They say 1 out of every 5 people is Chinese. How is this possible? I know hundreds of people, and none of them is Chinese. Yours truly.” Or: “I’ve thrown three sevens in a row. Tonight I can’t lose.”)
misunderstanding of the nature of statistics (e.g., President Dwight Eisenhower expressing astonishment and alarm on discovering that fully half of all Americans have below average intelligence);
inconsistency (e.g., Prudently plan for the worst of which a potential military adversary is capable, but thriftily ignore scientific projections on environmental dangers because they’re not “proved.” Or: Attribute the declining life expectancy in the former Soviet Union to the failures of communism many years ago, but never attribute the high infant mortality rate in the United States (now highest of the major industrial nations) to the failures of capitalism. Or: Consider it reasonable for the Universe to continue to exist forever into the future, but judge absurd the possibility that it has infinite duration into the past);
non sequitur — Latin for “It doesn’t follow” (e.g., Our nation will prevail because God is great. But nearly every nation pretends this to be true; the German formulation was “Gott mit uns”). Often those falling into the non sequitur fallacy have simply failed to recognize alternative possibilities;
post hoc, ergo propter hoc — Latin for “It happened after, so it was caused by” (e.g., Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila: “I know of … a 26-year-old who looks 60 because she takes [contraceptive] pills.” Or: Before women got the vote, there were no nuclear weapons)
meaningless question (e.g., What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? But if there is such a thing as an irresistible force there can be no immovable objects, and vice versa)
excluded middle, or false dichotomy — considering only the two extremes in a continuum of intermediate possibilities (e.g., “Sure, take his side; my husband’s perfect; I’m always wrong.” Or: “Either you love your country or you hate it.” Or: “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem”)
short-term vs. long-term — a subset of the excluded middle, but so important I’ve pulled it out for special attention (e.g., We can’t afford programs to feed malnourished children and educate pre-school kids. We need to urgently deal with crime on the streets. Or: Why explore space or pursue fundamental science when we have so huge a budget deficit?);
slippery slope, related to excluded middle (e.g., If we allow abortion in the first weeks of pregnancy, it will be impossible to prevent the killing of a full-term infant. Or, conversely: If the state prohibits abortion even in the ninth month, it will soon be telling us what to do with our bodies around the time of conception);
confusion of correlation and causation (e.g., A survey shows that more college graduates are homosexual than those with lesser education; therefore education makes people gay. Or: Andean earthquakes are correlated with closest approaches of the planet Uranus; therefore — despite the absence of any such correlation for the nearer, more massive planet Jupiter — the latter causes the former)
straw man — caricaturing a position to make it easier to attack (e.g., Scientists suppose that living things simply fell together by chance — a formulation that willfully ignores the central Darwinian insight, that Nature ratchets up by saving what works and discarding what doesn’t. Or — this is also a short-term/long-term fallacy — environmentalists care more for snail darters and spotted owls than they do for people)
suppressed evidence, or half-truths (e.g., An amazingly accurate and widely quoted “prophecy” of the assassination attempt on President Reagan is shown on television; but — an important detail — was it recorded before or after the event? Or: These government abuses demand revolution, even if you can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs. Yes, but is this likely to be a revolution in which far more people are killed than under the previous regime? What does the experience of other revolutions suggest? Are all revolutions against oppressive regimes desirable and in the interests of the people?)
weasel words (e.g., The separation of powers of the U.S. Constitution specifies that the United States may not conduct a war without a declaration by Congress. On the other hand, Presidents are given control of foreign policy and the conduct of wars, which are potentially powerful tools for getting themselves re-elected. Presidents of either political party may therefore be tempted to arrange wars while waving the flag and calling the wars something else — “police actions,” “armed incursions,” “protective reaction strikes,” “pacification,” “safeguarding American interests,” and a wide variety of “operations,” such as “Operation Just Cause.” Euphemisms for war are one of a broad class of reinventions of language for political purposes. Talleyrand said, “An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public”)
Sagan ends the chapter with a necessary disclaimer:
Like all tools, the baloney detection kit can be misused, applied out of context, or even employed as a rote alternative to thinking. But applied judiciously, it can make all the difference in the world — not least in evaluating our own arguments before we present them to others.
The Demon-Haunted World is a timelessly fantastic read in its entirety, timelier than ever in a great many ways amidst our present media landscape of propaganda, pseudoscience, and various commercial motives. Complement it with Sagan on science and “God”.
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