tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post3186389788522609829..comments2024-03-28T18:35:54.237+09:00Comments on BigHominid's Hairy Chasms: a bad year for prognosticatorsKevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-49951344493835202202017-01-02T12:10:59.446+09:002017-01-02T12:10:59.446+09:00Ordinary people who are not themselves newsgathere...Ordinary people who are not themselves newsgatherers by profession (but I repeat myself) rely on news sources produced by others. Fortunately, we now have the WWW which offers more sources than can be perused by the world's greatest speed reader. You have to choose your limited number of sources wisely, of course. By all means, stay away from all the disreputable (and deplorable) usual suspects, namely the MSM charlatans.<br /><br />But it doesn't end there. You have to cogitate about what you have read. Does it make sense? You have to develop a personal bullshit meter. If it sounds too good to be true ...<br /><br />After all is said and done, you still can't predict the future with confidence, and that goes for tomorrow. Otherwise, why aren't you beating the market on a regular basis? No, you're not.<br /><br />I firmly believe that Trump's victory over HRC was a modern-day miracle. HRC would have been a catastrophe for the entire world. She is, without a doubt in my mind, the most vindictive person I have ever seen in politics. And, amazingly, 50 million voters were prepared to give her the power to launch nuclear weapons because she got out of the wrong side of her bed one day and had a hissy fit.<br /><br />TheBigHenryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04917973198063733316noreply@blogger.com