A READER COMMENTS: “It gets down to this, elections are important.”
“LAZARUS” (of Willits) responds: Your observations are all too common throughout the county, State, and Country. Once, political offices were held by people who knew how to build, grow a business, and manage money. The best and the brightest competed for the right to make policy and govern the masses. But now, the best and the brightest want no part of the morass that all politics has become. Those qualified to lead are either recruited or build their own, more secure environment to live out their lucrative, privileged lives. So, that leaves people who are the poster people for The Peter Principle. Those, for the most part, are morally flawed, intellectually challenged individuals who, through a popularity contest, are promoted to their highest level of incompetence. There are no better examples than Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
A READER WRITES:
As you drive down Perkins St., also known as the Homeless Hwy, you will notice the vacant buildings. Denny’s, Savings Bank offices where Century 21 once called home, Curry’s Furniture and Dragon’s Lair. And now, J.C. Penney. What do all of these have in common? The City of Ukiah!
Let’s talk about our business friendly city, that is at least what Ukiah City Manager Sage Sagiacomo says. Obviously Sage has never met his planning department. Two words, unfriendly and difficult. While their main importance is the beautiful Streetscape, business is disappearing. We will have the most beautiful streets to drive up to a plethora of vacant buildings. As I write today, the old Romi’s Barbecue was purchased by a restaurant owner to put another restaurant in the same site. The planning department has delayed him for almost a year. As a reader wrote, maybe we can get a meeting to nowhere with Mo. Mo has a lot of meetings but nothing ever gets done. Funny isn’t it? But lucky us, her trolls have given us four more years with our fearless cheerleader. Got to love Facebook.
Happy Donuts and the Regal Theatre must love the City of Ukiah as their entrances have been torn up for almost a year, that’s got to be good for business.
Who do we hold responsible? The City Council! The buck stops there. They are Sage’s boss. One would think that Sage is the boss of them if you witness a council meeting.
It gets down to this, elections are important. We need council members who are pro small business. We can have beautiful streets and businesses, but the people we vote in must lead, not follow. They must send a message to staff that their jobs are to open doors, not shut them.
Enough with Streetscapes and Redwood Trails. Elected leaders need to start dealing with real issues that affect their citizens.
BIG FIGHT AT UKIAH SKATE PARK
On 04/05/2024, Ukiah Police Department (UPD) Officers were dispatched to the Ukiah Skate Park located at 1041 Low Gap Road, regarding a physical fight between large groups of juveniles. It was reported that some of the juveniles were using baseball bats and potentially knives as weapons. UPD Officers responded using emergency lights and sirens and requested assistance from the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO).
Upon arrival, UPD Officers were told that a group of juveniles ran southeast through the east side of Low Gap Park. A MCSO Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) was deployed and found several juveniles running southeast across the river and continued toward the golf course and soccer fields near the Pomolita Middle School track. UPD Officers and MCSO Deputies responded to that area to search for suspects. They ultimately detained several juveniles who were suspected of being involved.
UPD Officers contacted a 17-year-old male victim at the skate park. The victim had wounds to his head, face, and shoulder area. It was learned that the victim suffered several blows to the head, face, and back from a metal baseball bat and personal body weapons. He was transported to the emergency room at Adventist Health Ukiah Valley (AHUV) for treatment.
UPD Officers searched the area and found a small, metal, youth-sized Louisville Slugger baseball bat that was thrown in the high weeds just east of the skate park. UPD Officers also located a homemade spear fashioned out of a metal wrought iron fence picket. The spear was approximately 3 feet long with a 3.5-inch double-bladed dagger attached to one end. Nobody in the incident at the Ukiah Skate Park was stabbed or cut.
The juveniles that were detained early in this investigation were either released or arrested on charges unrelated to this incident. One juvenile was arrested for an outstanding warrant. A second juvenile was arrested for a probation violation.
After an in-depth investigation, this case was determined to be gang-related. This is an ongoing investigation and anyone with information regarding this incident is encouraged to call the Ukiah Police Department and speak to an officer.
The Ukiah Police Department would like to thank the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office for their assistance.
As always, UPD’s mission is to make Ukiah as safe as possible. If you would like to know more about crime in your neighborhood, you can sign up for telephone, cellphone, and email notifications by clicking the Nixle button on our website: www.ukiahpolice.com.
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ON-LINE COMMENT: Gang related: A gang of punks beat up a kid with a baseball bat, lucky to be alive, youth violence aggressive strength and no brains equals serious problems. People who are scared use weapons and need a “gang of fools” to back them up.
It’s no wonder then. You drive around Ukiah and see the lawlessness and complete anarchy from Walmart to the entire South End of Ukiah. It’s an open air drug market! Druggy scrounges and drug induced mentally ill, people in wheelchairs from taking tranq which is fentanyl mixed with horse tranquilizer.
ERNIE PARDINI
We could end homelessness in this country with $20 billion. Yet we provide Israel with $18 billion worth of weapons to fight a war and our homeless remain homeless. Israel has universal healthcare and zero homelessnes. We've sunk billions of tax dollars into providing support for Ukraine, yet our own infrastructure is a mess and our politicians tell us there just isn't enough money to fix it. We pay taxes on the money we make and then pay more taxes when we make a purchase. Yet we have millions of hungry children right here in our own country. We have all sorts of restrictions on the use of fossil fuels to prevent global warming yet we are supporting two wars overseas that are burning trillions of gallons of fossil fuel. I am sick of paying taxes so that the military-industrial complex can profit at the expense of our own citizens. They reap the profits while the American working class foots the bill. That is why I've changed my voter registration to “we the people” and will be voting for RFK Jr. in the next election. And it feels right as opposed to voting for the lesser of two evils which is unfortunately the only other choice.
SUPERVISOR TED WILLIAMS:
The Mendocino Historical Review Board rejected cost-cutting ideas, supported action minutes and waiving site visits for signs, but will consider a change of meeting time at its next meeting. Several speakers highlighted the town’s significant revenue generation for the county with little to show in public dollars returning as services and infrastructure.
JOHN REDDING:
What an accomplishment! They will "consider" a change in the time of future meetings. Oh, and action minutes which every successful organization does. It makes my head spin.
WHATEVER HAPPENED to Doug Thron, who once ran for the Northcoast's 1st Assembly District seat as a Green? Smart and articulate, Thron was a candidate when there still seemed to be a little political room apart from the suffocating Democrat domination of the Northcoast. Thron was, and I hope still is, an exceptional photographer and long-time resident of Humboldt's and Trinity's wilder regions. He was well known for traveling around the country with his marvelous photos of imperiled Headwaters Forest, a road show which greatly contributed to Headwaters eventual preservation by inspiring national support for sparing it.
SERIOUSLY, have any of you ever met an intelligent member of Mensa, the self-certified organization of allegedly super smart people? Mensa, in living fact, is a for-profit business that preys on people who yearn to be declared officially smart.
MENSA charges $30 for two tests “featuring questions involving logic and deductive reasoning.” People who pay up pass the test, thus joining “the top 2 percent of the High IQ part of our population.”
PROOF that Mensa tests nothing more than human vanity is its claim that the Redwood Empire chapter contains 200 persons. Where the heck are all these geniuses? There are none in government, none practicing law, none sitting as judges, none in public education.
A FRONT ROW SEAT ON THE PARADE OF LIFE - That's how a newspaper friend once described the best thing about being a journalist. After a 50-year-plus run, I couldn't agree more. I've witnessed many fascinating, intelligent, and colorful characters from my vantage point. Famed criminal defense lawyer Tony Serra is among my personal 10 best. I watched Serra in action during the celebrated Bear Lincoln murder trial in Ukiah and later the Judi Bari federal civil rights case in Oakland federal court. I have seen him here and there in between. He is always accessible and has the perfect one-line comment during any interview. When editors insisted I interview him about his regular use of marijuana even while trying a case, Serra, a teetotaler, grinned. "Maybe they should put down the bottle and take a hit," he said.
— Mike Geniella
AN OLD, OLD TIMER told me that his father told him that Indians always opened the mouths of Mendocino County's silted up streams to free them for migrating fish. If Indians liberated the streams that means the practice went way back — that the Indians knew when the rivers needed dry year help.
OJ. I still say his jury made the correct Not Guilty decision based on the case presented to them, the case they heard and saw while the rest of us — the white population anyway — saw and heard OJ's guilt solidified day by tv day.
YOU MAY ALSO recall that the prosecution was too often incoherent and Judge Ito star struck and half-cracked.
THE RACIAL breakdown of the OJ jury : 9 African-Americans, 1 Hispanic, 2 Gringos. Breakdown by gender : 10 women, 2 men.
THE VERDICT reflected the built-in split in American society between black and white people, and the understandable historical mistrust of black people for police which, in the OJ case, was reinforced by the casual investigative practices by the LA cops.
MENDOCINO COUNTY PUBLIC POLICY is determinedly retro, as is public policy in most of the rest of the country, whether we're governed by the unelected cadre propping up Biden or the Magas who increasingly dominate the national legislature.
MENDO is a tough place for people who have to work for their living but who don't have public jobs. Public jobs, of which there are over a thousand presided over by Mendo's supervisors not counting the major contractors like those in the employ of Camille Schrader — paid almost three times the pay of an employed Mendo person — are the jobs to get in Mendocino County because they are stable, although they don't reward the lower-echelon workers anything close to a living wage.
MENDO'S private sector jobs pay an average of about $30,000 a year and come with no benefits. Public jobs average about $45,000 and they come with a full load of bennies.
SOCIAL POLICY in “liberal” Mendocino County ranges from cruel indifference to incompetent to non-existent. Social policy does, however, employ a lot of really nice people at good public wages. They hire each other, of course, and talk a lot of liberal talk while walking a strictly me first, conservative walk. (cf the streets of Ukiah)
ENVIRONMENTALLY, Mendocino County has no planning to speak of, as is obvious from unincorporated Fort Bragg's unchecked sprawl north and south of town, metastasizing Gualala, the squalid and polluted Ukiah Valley, the even more squalid and polluted Little Lake Valley, a needlessly expensive garbage disposal system, no coherent water policy in a time of a tapped out resource, no transportation planning other than that imposed on us by Caltrans and, here in the great bastion of national consciousness, the Berkeley of the Outback, mental health services are mostly provided by the Mendocino County Sheriff's Department. (Which is actually a plus because most cops are smarter, more sensible and much more humane than the County’s college-trained “helping professionals.”)
JARED HUFFMAN AMONG 23 HOUSE DEMS WHO VOTED TO DEFUND UNRWA (United National Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East).
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT will defund the United Nations agency that aids Palestinians through next year — even as 1.1 million people in Gaza face threats of famine in coming months — on the basis of flimsy allegations by Israel against a tiny minority of the agency’s staff that have yet to be proven.
Bernie Sanders: “Sadly, tragically, many members of Congress seem to be happy to be part of this starvation caucus, happy to cut funding to UNRWA and make it harder to get aid to Palestinians in the midst of this crisis.”
REASSURING EXACTLY NO ONE, the White House announced Saturday afternoon that Biden was being briefed as Iran attacked Israel via slo-mo drones launched out of Iraq. An hour later, Iran also launched a drone attack on Israel from Iran itself, an ominous escalation in hostilities because Iran has never directly attacked Israel before, using proxies to do its fighting. Then, three hours after the drone attacks, Iran said, That's it. It's over from our end. Is it over for Israel? Doubt it.
HAS WWIII jumped off? The international desk at the Boonville weekly long ago concluded that scarifying events are a fact of life, but this one could be more than scarifying if Netanyahu, the least rational person involved including Biden's handlers, decides to counter-attack Iran directly, prompting Ms. Pandora to leap clear outta her box to unleash unhappy consequences for the entire world.
JUST HEARD a guy say he was heading to fill up "because gas prices are going to jump at least three bucks a gallon overnight." An expanded war in the Middle East certainly won't lower fuel prices, but trouble in the ME has always been a handy pretext by Big Oil to gouge us. Maybe Biden will freeze prices at the pump? “What? Freeze gas pumps? Why would I do that?”
BAY AREA COMMUTERS to SF are being told to work from home Monday because demonstrators demanding a ceasefire in Gaza are promising to shut down Bay Area bridges.
THE LOCAL ANGLE: Mark Scaramella, USAF ret., once briefed the Shah of Iran on radar defenses. The Shah was quickly inattentive, falling asleep soon after the major commenced his tutorial.
RECOMMENDED VIEWING: Baby Reindeer on Netflix, a stalking saga based on the real life experience of Richard Gadd, who has turned his painful ordeal into high art. Gadd's ordeal began when he committed a random act of kindness, which ignited an obsession in its obese, unhinged recipient that resulted in him receiving over 40,000 emails, 740 tweets, 350 hours of voicemail, 100 pages of letters, and 45 Facebook messages over the following five years from her.
UH, I wish I'd skipped episode four of this stalking saga because it veered off into some extremely creepy sexual territory only tangentially relevant to Martha's pursuit of our hero. Episode five I'll risk tomorrow.
UKIAH AUTHORITIES seemed to reduce the recent skate park “gang” fight to a mere skirmish between wayward youth, but the kid attacked was struck in the head more than once with a metal baseball bat, which oughta get the gang mope who did it an attempted murder charge.
GAYE LEBARON once wrote a column for the Press Democrat called, “Did Jack London invent Sonoma County mystique?” Doubt it, Gaye. I'd be surprised if the old boy ever once used the word in all his many thousands of words, seeing as how mystique is an ad man's word deployed only when there's more cement than mystery, as is now the case in the SoCo and Napa areas of wine country.
NOT HARD to imagine what a socialist of London's vintage would say about contemporary SoCo, but the Bohemian Club hasn't had a real artist among its membership since it expelled the original ones, and London's beauty spot hasn't been beautiful in any sense that would be recognized by him for at least fifty years.
AT THE APRIL MEETING, of the Redwood Valley Municipal Advisory Council, per Monica Huettl’s report, Supervisor Glenn McGourty said that The Veterans Services Office will return to the Observatory site at some point. McGourty called the move away from Observatory, “a real mistake.“ (—ms)
“I SPENT 33 YEARS and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
— Smedley Butler, Major General, United States Marine Corps
ARMAGEDDON UPDATE: Iran bombarded Israel with hundreds of missiles and drones on Saturday in response to a drone strike in Syria that killed 12 Iranians, including two top generals. The strike marks the first time a direct military assault has been launched by Tehran on Israel, despite decades of enmity dating back to the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution. Senior US defense officials have said that they worry an Israeli response to the attacks would be “frenetic” and “catastrophically escalatory.” Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a late-night phone call on Saturday and made it clear that US forces would not participate any further. Republican hopeful Donald Trump , however, has instead vowed that he would “make Iran pay” for the attack, and claimed that such an escalation on the world stage would have never happened in the first place if he was in the Oval Office. Biden has urged Netanyahu not to respond to the attacks by retaliating against Iran. The Israeli Prime Minister's war cabinet is in favor of a reaction, but is divided over the timing and scale of any such response, according to reports. Three senior administration officials said that Biden has privately expressed concern that Netanyahu is trying to pull the US into the conflict. By the time you read this, things could get even worse.
SURPRISED to read this one this morning: “I've been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust” by Uri Berliner.
AMERICA'S “TRUST”? That's a big claim, although NPR can be said to be the audio arm of the New York Times who claims it's trusted as all heck, but it's been a long time since Americans, en masse, could be said to “trust” any national media.
NPR is piped into rural Mendocino County via semi-public radio, KZYX, whose listenership is confined to the sliver of the local population who believe they're not only getting the straight national news skinny but that that straight skinny is not influenced by the assumptions of the conservative wing of the Democratic Party — Biden, Obama, Billary, etc.
KZYX'S MENDO news is pegged to the assumption that local government is led by capable people, which it clearly isn't, and I would assume most listeners by now understand that they're getting the unicorn version of local events.
I DARESAY most Americans, as our great unraveling gains momentum, choose their info sources based on which of those media confirm their perceptions of reality, a reality manufactured specially for them by those same media from which they think they're getting politically unbiased information.
NPR assumes Biden is perfectly capable, and Trump is demented. And depraved. Fox News assumes Biden is so obviously ga-ga that it's astounding that Big Lib continues to trot him out as plausible, as Fox simultaneously makes the delusional claim that America was paradisiacal under Trump and will be again if Trump is re-elected.
FOX is also four-square behind the maniacal Israeli government under Netanyahu, claiming that Hamas's monstrous attack on Israel six months ago somehow justifies the random murders of 33,000 Gazans since then.
AND FOX is watched by more Americans, by far, than the Big Lib media like MSNBC and CNN, and certainly viewed by more Americanos than listen to NPR.
SO, MR. DIOGENES, where do you look for the straight scoop? Lots of places, but mostly from certain reporters and commentators I trust. Names! The political writers for LRB, for one, and it's too bad that LRB seems too densely academic by drop ins who give up on it after one read, but its political reporting is the most thorough, the most “objective” you will find and, sad to say, unmatched by any Yankee publication I know. I follow Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn. Glen Greenwald is good, imo. My old friend Jeff St. Clair on CounterPunch every week is a must read. I think Amy Goodman is reliable on current events. I don't know of any conservative writers who aren't ideologically driven, which is why I most appreciate those writers and commentators who aren't predictable.
MOSTLY, though, I stick with writers I find most compatible with my grab bag opinions, which boil down lately to the opinion that events are out-running the feeble attempts of governments to control them.
DEEP DOWN, though, I believe most of us believe more what we need to believe than what we should objectively conclude from events as we stumble towards the November abyss.
GUY FERLO, TANK TRICKSTER
One of the many characters I knew during my ten years in the US Air Force (1967 to 1977) was Guy (short for Guido) Ferlo, a first-rate saxophone and clarinet player, and a semi-professional ballroom dancer, I worked days with Ferlo while at Hanscom Air Force Base outside Boston and played with him in local pickup bands on occasional nights. Guy was a sharp dresser, a bit of a lady’s man even in his 60s, and always wore well-tailored suits, whether at the office or on evening gigs. At the time (the mid-1970s), Ferlo was a civilian US Air Force communications equipment specialist closing in on retirement. In World War II Ferlo had been a tank driver for General Patton on the German front. Ferlo was in a Tank Battalion commanded by then-Lt. Col. Creighton Abrams, an aggressive and cunning tank tactician, later a reasonably famous general during the Vietnam war. Ferlo told me that his job for Patton and Abrams was to “draw fire.” Being a small man at 5’4” and about 135 pounds, Ferlo was just what Patton and Abrams wanted for this particular assignment because he was quick-witted, he fit comfortably in the tight spaces of a tank, and his light weight made the tank that much more maneuverable. Ferlo was assigned to drive a specially stripped down tank — no munitions, minimal fuel, minimum crew, small crewmen, minimal armor, smaller engine… — venturing within range of German tanks that Patton’s spotters had spotted or suspected. Ferlo’s tank was supposed to tempt the German tank units to crank off a long-range shell or two at him, thus revealing their firing positions so that Patton’s long-range howitzers could then target them. According to Ferlo, Patton’s tanks, although smaller and less armored than their German counterparts, had newer electrically-powered turrets, whereas the Nazi tanks had hand-cranked turrets. The Nazis, therefore, took a little longer to make sighting and range adjustments than Patton’s tanks, giving Patton and his tank specialist Col. Creighton Abrams a small but critical advantage in honing in on targets. A tank version of Ali’s rope-a-dope, if you will. Patton could beat the Nazis to the punch, so to speak, if he could get them to fire first. Which is where Ferlo came in. When the situation called for it, Ferlo’s assignment (actually he volunteered for it) was to dart out into an area presumed to be within range of German tanks in his decoy tank, crawl around like he was an easy target but having more maneuverability than the Germans thought he had. Ferlo was indeed an elusive target. Ferlo said the tactic worked in most situations, and, obviously, he was clever enough at it to live to tell about it. The tactic is probably not used much in modern warfare. But there’s a metaphor in play here too, a trap that US politicians, for example, fall into all too often.
— Mark Scaramella
ON-LINE COMMENTS OF THE WEEK
[1] The USA has money for everyone, giving countries like Egypt billions, arming Ukraine, protecting South Korea, and so on, but when it comes to maintaining our own power grid, bridges, roads, tunnels and infrastructure generally, we don’t appear to have nearly enough money to do that. It is a sad and absurd state of affairs. I remember W. Bush braying about how proud he was that the US was building roads/schools/hospitals in Iraq. . .and the outcry from US citizens asking why aren’t we building those things here, to help our own citizens/businesses/communities.
[2] Since it is obvious that peaceful settlements of the world’s conflicts (Middle East, South China Sea/Taiwan, Ukraine, etc.) are not likely, then it seems to me that the things to be worried about are: 1) where are you going to be when the hard rain starts falling, and 2) what will be your plea to your Maker?
The rest is just crazy-talk.
[3] I paid off my mortgage a few years ago and live debt free other than a small debt on a vehicle I needed to purchase. Still, even though I have paid off my debt on my property I still owe the County it’s annual rental payment for me to live on my property.
If I don’t pay that tax the County puts a lien on my property. If I still don’t pay the tax the County will sell the lien to an investor who will then harass me until I reimburse them the back taxes as well as any interest on the lien. They may even be able to foreclose on property that I “own” free and clear.
We own nothing in America. We are serfs in a feudal system where the elites in our Government own everything.
It’s a nice feeling when one finally awakens and realizes the awful situation we are truly living in. We are slaves. Slaves to a system we had no involvement in creating.
[4] THE HOUSING PROB, an on-line comment:
“Homelessness exists because we have a housing market; the homeless and the landlords are two sides of the same coin.
These unproductive rent-extractors, imposing a tax for the right to sleep indoors, are parasites, and public attention and pressure ought to be brought to the connection. From a policy standpoint, in the short-term, we can either continue subsidies to bribe landlords so that they won’t throw more people onto the streets – this was the effect of the emergency pandemic relief funds, and is the essence of most policy in this area – or we can enact rent control policies.
A main difficulty in attempting this is that landlords make significant contributions to political campaigns, and also to local, state, and federal revenues by the payment of property tax. It stands to reason that when local politicians tout their successes lowering property tax, the main beneficiaries to whom they are signaling their support are not homeowners and the middle class, who own their own home and pay one tax, but landlords who own multiple large properties, many costing in the millions. This presents difficulties in trying to relieve the pressure of rents on poor and working people, not only in that the political power of landlords has to be faced, opposed, and beaten, but because of market effects on policies which would aim at forcing landlords to pay more, or earn less, which are in effect the same to him, to try to disincentivize landlordism. If a landlord is taxed at a higher rate, he will increase the rent to make up for his losses; that he will pass on his losses to the renters has to be taken into account in any responsible approach to the problem. Multiple avenues of escape have to be cut off.
Are there examples of markets which do not tend towards monopoly? “Markets concentrate” seems like an axiom in the same way as “dogs bark”. Putting the essentials of life in the hands of Mr. Market – how’s that working out with the water in the UK, or with the medical system in the US? Increased homelessness is one of the first visible symptoms of the terminal direction our economic system is headed in; the ultimate destination is feudalism.”
[5] The weather in my state this weekend is sunny and a warm 72 degrees. The daffodils and tulips are in full bloom. The Callery Pear blossoms make the trees look like they are loaded with cotton candy. The sky is a start blue and the mountain tops gleaming with white snow. This is a beautiful world and we are part of this world. This is also a mortal world and all things in this world eventually die or expire and so shall we. Death is not the end in the journey of the human soul. It is just the entrance to the next phase of our journey.
Clearly the daffodils, tulips and Callery pears don’t give a fuck about the problems man creates for himself. The mountains don’t care either. They sit in quiet majesty and observe the insanity of we little ants scurrying about on the surface. All of this points to evidence that there are so many things far greater than we humans. Those mountains will be there long after we are long gone and the tulips and daffodils will still be blooming.
[6] Here’s a sure-fire way of detecting bullshit:
If a debater ever starts claiming to know what the other side thinks or wants, he’s completely full of shit and is immediately disqualified.
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