Thursday, October 23, 2014

"Mistakes Were Made"

Whoops! Technical difficulties identified with Cook County voting machines.

“This was a calibration error of the touch-screen on the machine,” Scalzitti said. “When Mr. Moynihan used the touch-screen, it improperly assigned his votes due to improper calibration.”

A “calibration error” – indeed: if you vote for one candidate with an “R” after his name and the machine registers a vote for the candidate with a “D” after his name, you could call that a calibration error. The same way you could call going in for a surgery to have your gangrenous left leg amputated and the doctor mistakenly removes the right leg instead, a “calibration error.”

Nobody around here seemed to surprised to hear about this little problem. In fact we’re so familiar with the phenomenon  that we keep a running list of the current top ten “calibration errors.”  Here they are, so far, in descending order:

 

10. EPA Phony Emails

 9. GSA Goes Wild

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 8. Pigford phony scandal

 7. Solyndra et al, phony solar companies

 6. Fast and Furious phony scandal

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5. IRS phony scandal

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 4. VA phony scandal

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 3. Benghazi phony scandal

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 2. Obamacare phony healthcare

And the NUMBER ONE “calibration error” of the past 6 years is (drum roll please):

1. OBAMA!

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"Mistakes were made"

red queen & mad hatterWM copyMore like “two big assed mistakes”

`I can't believe that!' said Alice.
`Can't you?' the Queen said in a pitying tone. `Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.'
Alice laughed. `There's no use trying,' she said: `one can't believe impossible things.'
`I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. `When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

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