Shocking News!
This just in: The Central Intelligence Agency reported last fall that Saddam Hussein did not have a close relationship with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi of Al Qaeda as asserted by Pres. Bush and other administration officials. Their findings were delivered to the Republican controlled Senate Intelligence Committee last fall (a year ago).
I know, your jaw is now on the floor, poor thing!
Please note: The human brain requires seven times the amount of time to process a negative statement as a positive one. Could it be that the little monosyllable hidden in the lead paragraph just didn't sink in the administration's collective cranium?
A spokesperson close to Pres. Bush stated, "Cheney just doesn't do 'no'," implying the president's brain trust may require even more time than the ordinary politician to process a negative response.
"It is important," the spokesperson clarified, "that we be told what we want to hear so that we can tell you what we want you to know. That's God's will."
"Don't you mean 'the President'?" a member of the White House press corps asked.
"Next question?" the spokesperson responded.
Some Democrats are reportedly raising the "impeachment issue." After all, if you can impeach a president for lying abut a peccadillo, shouldn't you impeach one for lying about reasons to take the country to war and bringing about the deaths of untold thousands of people?
Not so, reply the Republican lead Congress. Lying about a little nookie on the side is an abomination, lying about your reasons for taking the country to war is, well, just routine politics.
Big News in Business:
Hewlett-Packard’s chairwoman, Patricia C. Dunn, comes under heavy fire for the manner in which she directed the investigation of leaks within HP's board of directors. Dunn, known as a super salesperson rather than someone who actually knows something about the products or services the company manufactures and provides, farmed the investigative process out, and after several more steps removed, the term "pretexting" has now come into fashion.
When you link electronics with a word that has "text" in it, you probably think it has something to do with typing text into some sort of device. And it does in this case, but the real root is "behaving under the pretext of being someone else" (a strategy intended to conceal something). It seems the sleuths pounding the pavement, as it were, in this case were emailing requests while misleading folks about who they were, pretending to be members of the board, when in fact they were not.
The rest of us are accustomed to such activity. We get emails everyday that purport to be from someone other than the real sender.
Frankly, I'm still surprised that sales people are able to rise to the highest levels within any organization. It has always seemed to me that the person at the top should be the most knowledgeable about what products the company makes or services it provides, not some fast talking, slick sales person. But then I guess I'm just naïve, right Jack Welch?
This just in: The Central Intelligence Agency reported last fall that Saddam Hussein did not have a close relationship with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi of Al Qaeda as asserted by Pres. Bush and other administration officials. Their findings were delivered to the Republican controlled Senate Intelligence Committee last fall (a year ago).
I know, your jaw is now on the floor, poor thing!
Please note: The human brain requires seven times the amount of time to process a negative statement as a positive one. Could it be that the little monosyllable hidden in the lead paragraph just didn't sink in the administration's collective cranium?
A spokesperson close to Pres. Bush stated, "Cheney just doesn't do 'no'," implying the president's brain trust may require even more time than the ordinary politician to process a negative response.
"It is important," the spokesperson clarified, "that we be told what we want to hear so that we can tell you what we want you to know. That's God's will."
"Don't you mean 'the President'?" a member of the White House press corps asked.
"Next question?" the spokesperson responded.
Some Democrats are reportedly raising the "impeachment issue." After all, if you can impeach a president for lying abut a peccadillo, shouldn't you impeach one for lying about reasons to take the country to war and bringing about the deaths of untold thousands of people?
Not so, reply the Republican lead Congress. Lying about a little nookie on the side is an abomination, lying about your reasons for taking the country to war is, well, just routine politics.
Big News in Business:
Hewlett-Packard’s chairwoman, Patricia C. Dunn, comes under heavy fire for the manner in which she directed the investigation of leaks within HP's board of directors. Dunn, known as a super salesperson rather than someone who actually knows something about the products or services the company manufactures and provides, farmed the investigative process out, and after several more steps removed, the term "pretexting" has now come into fashion.
When you link electronics with a word that has "text" in it, you probably think it has something to do with typing text into some sort of device. And it does in this case, but the real root is "behaving under the pretext of being someone else" (a strategy intended to conceal something). It seems the sleuths pounding the pavement, as it were, in this case were emailing requests while misleading folks about who they were, pretending to be members of the board, when in fact they were not.
The rest of us are accustomed to such activity. We get emails everyday that purport to be from someone other than the real sender.
Frankly, I'm still surprised that sales people are able to rise to the highest levels within any organization. It has always seemed to me that the person at the top should be the most knowledgeable about what products the company makes or services it provides, not some fast talking, slick sales person. But then I guess I'm just naïve, right Jack Welch?
posted by Jim | 10:27 AM
1 Comments:
Alan, the military is always the exception to everything. There's the right way, the wrong way, and the military way. Been there, done that, watched it fall apart.
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