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Re: The Strategy of an Ostrich

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Originally posted by Superman
In a recent meeting among smart guys, engineers, I briefly entered into an existing discussion about . . how much wood could a woodchuck chuck; if a woodchuck could chuck wood? . . .. It was very amusing and impressive.

But I guess smart guys can be just as captured by McPolitics as anyone. . . .. The engineers had no intelligent response to the information I provided to them, and now it seems clear they do not want to talk about
woodchuck chucking any more, or WSDOT. Apparently, it's fun to pretend that all our problems are caused by lazy, in efficient woodchuckers. Even if you're otherwise very smart. And even if all the objective evidence disagrees.
a yeah . . . it's them-um engineers who don't get it.

Yep, you shut them up with your staggeringly superior insight of WSDOT?

I mean really, supe . . when you say crap like "and that the voters have the impression that taxes are unnecessary so no one is willing to support ways to get WSDOT the funding they need" in the face of BILLIONS of local dollars being aproved BY THE VOTERS for the RTA here; locals here are are going to make a mental note to put you on their crack-pot list . . . you may as well wear a dress to work.
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