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Dem brute squad videotaped vandalizing sign

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Posted by Fred 2004-10-09 11:51:23 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Nice graphic. Is that Boss Tweed?

Heh...

Posted by mojo 2004-10-09 4:11:53 PM|| 2004-10-09 4:11:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm an electrical engineer. I could have fixed that sign for Mr. Kotsatos so that if anyone peed on it, it be the last damned sign the perp would ever pee on.

Or, given the way I design my products ("We Deliver Performance!"), the last damned time he'd ever pee, PERIOD.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-10-09 4:24:57 PM|| 2004-10-09 4:24:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The Democrats are taking the term 'battleground state' a little too literally.

Posted by eLarson 2004-10-09 5:41:41 PM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2004-10-09 5:41:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Go Dave D.!

BTW I'm sure it's been noted.... but next to Steves aren't engineers of all flavors the next most over represented group at RB?

Posted by Shipman 2004-10-09 5:50:38 PM|| 2004-10-09 5:50:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes, that's two nexts tos.
Sue me.

Posted by Shipman 2004-10-09 5:51:27 PM|| 2004-10-09 5:51:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Hmmm... never thought about it until now. Who else we got?

Posted by Dave D. 2004-10-09 6:03:28 PM|| 2004-10-09 6:03:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I've noticed lots of computer jockeys... errr I mean programmers, of course. Possibly even more than engineers. But I'm an engineer's wife (ChemE, non-practicing) -- does that count for the count?

Posted by trailing wife 2004-10-09 6:47:08 PM|| 2004-10-09 6:47:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Hmmm... it probably should. From your posts at various times, I get a sense that you've probably been innoculated with The Engineering Mindset (facts = good, bullshit = bad; things ain't so just because one "believes" them to be so or "feels" that they are; what is the evidence; what other explanations are there; correlation is not causation; and so forth).

Posted by Dave D. 2004-10-09 6:55:45 PM|| 2004-10-09 6:55:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 How utterly flattering: I've been observed (in the scientific sense, of course)! Inoculated prior to husband, actually -- that's one of the reasons he made the cut. Daddy was a research scientist -- post-docs only, thankyewverymuch -- associated with the university. The bookcases overflowed with mysteries and science fiction, esp. Asimov and Heinlein. And both parents lived through WWII. So I had no opportunity to develop that counter-survival trait of believing that feelings are ever more important than facts. (To be honest, I never managed to pursuade Daddy that sometimes feelings are the facts. He was quite relieved to hand me over to my husband's care on our wedding day.)

Posted by trailing wife 2004-10-09 7:09:56 PM|| 2004-10-09 7:09:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 "So I had no opportunity to develop that counter-survival trait of believing that feelings are ever more important than facts."

Hmmm... Myself, I don't think I would say they're never more important than facts; just that what's vital, above all, is to never mistake them for facts-- something the left seems predisposed to do.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-10-09 7:22:52 PM|| 2004-10-09 7:22:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I'd say Sam Clemens would agree:
"We all do no end of feeling - and mistake it for thinking."

Posted by .com 2004-10-09 9:10:07 PM|| 2004-10-09 9:10:07 PM|| Front Page Top

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