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2004-10-09 | |
Beacon [Ohio] Journal staff writers Two men who tore down a Bush-Cheney sign and urinated on it were caught on videotape by Summit County Republican officials early Friday morning. The videotape shows the men sneaking into the yard of a West Market Street home and bending the sign to the ground. The men struggled to rip the sign out of the ground by shaking it and pulling it but couldn't get it off the posts, so they knocked it down. Sounds heard on the tape suggest the men urinated on the sign. They were white males, about 30 to 35 years old, well-dressed and well-groomed. They parked across the street in what police think was a foreign car, a Toyota or Honda. The homeowner, Steve Kotsatos, who is also assistant to the director of the Summit County Board of Elections, called Akron police dispatchers at 10:38 a.m. Friday and told them about how his campaign sign was vandalized. He said he caught the vandals on a night-vision camera he had installed the day before.
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Posted by:Fred |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#6 Hmmm... never thought about it until now. Who else we got? |
Posted by: Dave D. 2004-10-09 6:03:28 PM |
#5 Yes, that's two nexts tos. Sue me. |
Posted by: Shipman 2004-10-09 5:51:27 PM |
#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 |
#3 The Democrats are taking the term 'battleground state' a little too literally. |
Posted by: eLarson 2004-10-09 5:41:41 PM |
#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 |
#1 Nice graphic. Is that Boss Tweed? Heh... |
Posted by: mojo 2004-10-09 4:11:53 PM |