I think I did once. Cruz: Hey, I went to Princeton and Harvard Law, my wife has a Harvard MBA and is an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, but I can pander and act like a redneck if that will get you to vote for me. Mmmmmmm, machine-gun bacon.
I miss Rick Perry. How did the “Oops” moment in the debate disqualify him? Who among us has not done that? At least he owned it. When Cruz had a brain freeze, he named the Dept. of Commerce twice, and you could tell he knew it at the time, but it didn’t hurt him. Because we like hucksters. I feel that I see this craving for mendacity all the time trying to sell Internet service. A certain percent of people like it if you’re honest and straightforward, but I think a lot more people want you to work for their business like a car salesman. They want slick ads, fast talking salespeople, the hard sell, some outlandish claims and distortions, and then a too-good-to-be-true price for the first X months to close the deal. They want to be romanced. Once they say “I do”, you can sit on the couch in your underwear with a beer watching football. But first you have to woo them. And they don’t really believe you are tall and handsome with a good job and enjoy the ballet and long walks on the beach. From: Bill Prince Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2015 12:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT weekend edition: Lies, Lies, Lies OTOH... Would you buy a car from this guy? bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 12/13/2015 10:20 AM, Bill Prince wrote: According to the podcast, we all lie to one extent or another to survive, or at least live a peaceful life. Trump calls his speach "optimistic exageration" or "truthful hyperbole". http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-hyperbole-insight-idUSKCN0QX11X20150828#JafpFkegyb8oYMws.97 Potato Potahto. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 12/12/2015 4:59 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: “It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.” - Gregory House https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZR2k5c_198 From: Bill Prince Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2015 5:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT weekend edition: Lies, Lies, Lies The political stuff was just part of the podcast. It went into several aspects of lies, and why/how we accept lies in our daily lies. I just printed the politifact stuff because I had mis-quoted the true/false ratios in my first post. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 12/12/2015 3:51 PM, Simon Westlake wrote: Assuming this is accurate, the best anyone has done is to be 54% truthful? I'll listen to the podcast later, I guess it would really depend a lot on what they're ranking (e.g. 'he said milk costs 2.95 at the supermarket but that day it was 2.84!) but it wouldn't really surprise me from listening to a lot of what's been said lately. On 12/12/2015 4:41 PM, Bill Prince wrote: Correction: the 4%/84% ratio was Ben Carson. The Donald's numbers were 7%/76%. S bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 12/12/2015 2:37 PM, Bill Prince wrote: I listened to this story from On the Media on NPR, and found it very entertaining. It's a discussion about "Lies", and humans inability to just tell the truth. http://www.onthemedia.org/story/on-the-media-2015-12-04/ One interesting sub-topic was Donald Trump, and an examination of 72 statements from the Donald. Of the 72 statement examined by Politifact.org, exactly zero of the statements was considered "true". About 4% of his statements were considered "partially true", but 84% of his statements were "mostly false", "false", or "pants on fire". -- bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> -- Simon Westlake Skype: Simon_Sonar Email: [email protected] Phone: (702) 447-1247 --------------------------- Sonar Software Inc The next generation of ISP billing and OSS https://sonar.software
