December 9, 2014
"Put on your overshoes. There's manure out there."
Something Meade's maternal grandmother used to say. Quoted earlier this morning, in a conversation about life on the farm in the 1950s. Recalled now, after a morning of blogging.
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Manure? A pony! A pony!
There is manure in blogging.
Thus the saying "I'm going to need taller boots."
Yeah Gruber apologizing and the CIA report on same day. Plus the demonstrations. Pretty Damn Deep.
Where I grew up, that wasn't a metaphor.
My mom, in Indiana, calls them Farm Boots. The kids love to put on their farm boots. And the dog, left behind in Wisconsin because she is a Springer/Spazhound mix and was disinvited after the last "incident" with the chickens, loves to smell the boots upon our return. Llama, alpaca, sheep, dogs, cats and chicken smells, all wonderfully mixed together.
And there's always plenty o manure in the 'tubes, with all of those smells all wonderfully mixed together.
"Where I grew up, that wasn't a metaphor."
The tag "metaphor" refers to the last sentence in the post.
Instead of T-shirts, "I'm with stupid (Gruber), they should have handed out farm boots to all the folks going into the hearing room this morning.
Comment on Gruber: For a guy who is so detail oriented that he can recall there were 6 other economists in the meeting with Obama and can discuss with detail a 17 year old paper on economic effects of abortion, he's pretty deficient in detail about his own income stream or any figures in his detail-oriented model that incorporated all the necessary details of Obamacare.
I'll bet the accuracy of the model in predicting the effects of Obamacare and his status as a/the key architect of the law was a key selling point to the states that contracted with him.
Speaking of manure, I was wondering, if Gruber is not the "architect" of Obamacare, who is? Whose econometric models did they use if not his? They must have used somebody's.
And if the language he used was unfortunate, what exactly was he trying to say, given a second chance to think about how he says it?
Gruber should get into climate models, nobody cares if they are right or wrong, as long as they predict a crisis.
Now you're telling them how the hog ate the cabbage!
(One of my midwestern father's many expressions.)
It's like dancing with a rooster. The rooster attacks and the hens try to eat your boots.
Also: put on your mukluks, 'cause the sheep are walkin' slow.
A class to teach one how to overcome "white privilege."
This looks Onionish to me.
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/20393/
I expect you see a lot more manure each day than Meade's grandma.
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