Comes now, one Diana Gardiner, a personage unknown to me, to the left leaning pages of the Daily Pilot [HERE] to take umbrage with my earlier column [HERE] (which, as I've written before, was unceremoniously edited by the Daily Pilot and turned into a mere letter with my name at the bottom instead of at the top where I had originally placed it, and then hidden under another letter about water conservation, where few readers, other that Ms. Gardiner [and that sad character, with the Brobdingnagian morphological feature that is anterior to his posterior, who (writing now about the sad character), darkly advised readers that I'm known internationally, and who was confused enough to wrongly think I don't want people to find my writings, and who thus gave a link to one of the many Websites that run my international essays on the so-called human condition, and which include further links to where my books may be purchased; do go right now and buy them]--who (writing now about Ms. Gardiner), boldly asserts that contrary to my expressed opinion, government should not, in Ms. Gardiner's lofty view, be run like a business.
And to bolster her point, Ms. Gardiner then flails about in a failed attempt to try to distinguish business as a whole from government as a whole by cherry picking certain distinguishing aspects of business that are unlike government. Then, after her less than brilliant analysis of the cherry picked aspects, Ms. Gardiner triumphantly concludes that because not all aspects of business are like all aspects of government, that saying that government should be run like a business is, well, not appropriate and perhaps, if I may be permitted a term not explicitly used by Ms. Gardiner, even taxonomically incorrect.
Now, dear readers, with such a low level of understanding of similes, metaphors, plain old analogies, common sense comparisons of relevant aspects of the items under comparison, and even their more robust cousin, poetic license, I am indeed lucky that I had not penned a column (turned into a letter) that posited the notion that "government should be a well oiled machine," or, dear readers, we might see Ms. Gardiner now telling readers with great aplomb, as though she is first to understand this, that machines aren't human. Why, machines are often made of metal. Some use electricity or gasoline or coal to operate, and not one of them really, really cares about human feelings, really. And, furthermore, a government--including Costa Mesa's government, is actually the people behind it, and, as such, those people behind our government, such as, but not exclusively those on our City Council, should not be regularly oiled like machines, and besides, oil comes from under the ground and we all know that government is above ground, for the most part. Therefore, Ms. Gardiner might conclude that government should not be a well oiled machine.
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GENE SIMMONS OF KISS (BORN CHAIM WITZ IN HAIFA, ISRAEL) SAYS GENTILES (NON-JEWS) ARE FOR MANUAL LABOR
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From the evolution files...
ZEBRAS MAY HAVE STRIPES TO KEEP INSECTS AWAY
Background: Nature is a frugal engineer. It causes adaptations for reasons. It doesn't cause long term design changes in organisms unless there is some reason for it. With these three previous sentences as background, you can understand why scientists have wondered for many years exactly why Zebras have stripes. Now, at least according to statistical evidence, it seems it may have to do with keeping insects, and particularly flies, away. However, this now has to be demonstrated in the wild.
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I've never understand the haters argument- business is bad. Developers are evil. Money is horrible. Where does money come from to buy fancy IPhones, and cars. Who builds the homes Gardiner and Wendy Leece live in? Where would this City be without business? Without the Harbor Street of Cars? South Coast Plaza? The developers who build the homes we live in? Why is that bad. I just don't get that logic.
ReplyDeletePerhaps all the haters who are living in homes or apartments built by developers should simply move out to show just how much they hate developers. Since virtually all homes and apartments in Costa Mesa and most other cities have been built by developers, we should end up with lots of vacant properties.
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