Quote from: danmangan on Aug 03, 2015, 11:52 AMQuote from: the_fighting_irish on Aug 03, 2015, 10:57 AM...or punishing me through a rigged system where the right thing takes a back seat to the politically expedient..
Joe, when I read those words of yours it reminded me of the American Polygraph Association Board of Directors' decision to move the goalposts with regard to my quest for the office of president-elect.
For the past fifty (50) years, a full member of the APA could run for the office of president-elect without having previously served as a director.
But now, after seeing my support spike from 15% of the vote in the 2014 election to 28% of the vote this year -- and perhaps fearing that my support would continue to grow in similarly large measure -- the APA Board of Directors has crafted a rule requiring that candidates for president-elect first serve as a director.
That rule is embedded into a much larger package of new bylaws and constitutional changes for the APA, which will be up for a vote at the general membership meeting on September 1st. Passage is all but assured.
I wonder what part of my three-point election platform the APA establishment fears most?
Could it be my bill of rights concept for polygraph test subjects? (Clearly, bringing informed consent to a much higher levels kills business.)
Maybe it's my idea a countermeasure challenge series that pits randomly chosen polygraph operators against a crew of CM-schooled ringers. (I predict polygraph accuracy would be shown to hover around 50% in that scenario.)
Of course, it could be my call for total equality among APA members. (Seems fair to me -- and many of my peers, evidently.)
In any case, the APA's decision to move the goalposts, election-wise, is a most telling development.
It appears that vocal critical thinkers, iconoclasts, and non-believers must be kept at bay.
But for an organization that claims to be dedicated to truth, the question is obvious: Why?
Quote from: the_fighting_irish on Aug 03, 2015, 10:57 AM...or punishing me through a rigged system where the right thing takes a back seat to the politically expedient..
QuoteJoe, as a fellow Irishman and certified Masshole (we grew up about 30 miles apart), I find your patience to be both humbling yet perplexing.
Were I in your shoes, I would have long ago employed a decidedly more severe approach: scorched earth, no prisoners. (I'm speaking figuratively, of course.)
Needless to say, I would start with the chief clown.
As our esteemed former Massachusetts state governor, and past presidential candidate, Stanley M. Dukakis said, "A fish rots from the head first."
Perhaps my approach is uncivilized.
But then, I prefer "Smiddicks" to Guiness, and Irish Mist to Jameson.
Yes, it's uncivilized, but...
Quote from: the_fighting_irish on Jul 25, 2015, 05:20 PM18 year old Jameson and Guinness
Quote from: the_fighting_irish on Jul 24, 2015, 03:11 PMsorry man, it's just that I am the kinda person that when I fight, either I am all in or I am not.
Quote from: danmangan on Jul 24, 2015, 09:44 PMArk, if I may interject...
I dare say that none -- and I repeat, NONE -- of Joe McCarthy's TAPE detractors would ever submit to the dreaded liebox -- the very same instrument they cling to so adamantly as being so highly accurate.
Why the resistance?
That's a good question.
Either the liebox is bogus, or Joe's detractors are....well, you get the drift.
