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Wednesday June 30, 21

Rumsfeld dead at 88

08:12 PM
Rehash

This is breaking news. Check back for updates.
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UPDATE:

21:30 UTC... According to the latest wire, he's still dead

UPDATE2:

00:10 UTC.. No reported changes so far, still dead, pretty sure he's a goner
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Is he the one that shot his buddy in the face?

No, that's the other guy

Oh yeah, is he still around?

Dunno, I'll have to look it up..

UPDATE3:

18:12 UTC.. Donald Rumsfeld is still dead. Sorry to disappoint, but the dems didn't do it, so we can't add him to your Clinton Body Count™... Cheney is still alive...

Side note: While voting rights are being frittered away, Pelosi should think about putting Sharpton on her little "commission" there. It's a perfect match, it'll be like a cross between the Chicago 7 and the Tawana Brawley case with great big pictures on the front page and everything.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday June 30 2021, @08:20PM (6 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday June 30 2021, @08:20PM (#1151487) Journal

    He's dead. Good. He's gonna fry in Hell for so long there isn't going to be a human race to reincarnate into by the time he's served his time.

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    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 30 2021, @09:36PM (5 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 30 2021, @09:36PM (#1151526)

      Known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns were a nice contribution to the English lexicon.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 01 2021, @12:24AM (4 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 01 2021, @12:24AM (#1151598)

        That wasn't Rumsfeld:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns#Origins [wikipedia.org]

        ..... national security and intelligence professionals have long used an analysis technique referred to as the Johari window. The idea of unknown unknowns was created in 1955 by two American psychologists, Joseph Luft (1916–2014) and Harrington Ingham (1916–1995) in their development of the Johari window. They used it as a technique to help people better understand their relationship with themselves as well as others.

        The term was also commonly used inside NASA.[3] Rumsfeld cited NASA administrator William Graham in his memoir; he wrote that he had first heard "a variant of the phrase" from Graham when they served together on the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States during the late 1990s.[4] Kirk Borne, an astrophysicist who was employed as a data scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center at the time, noted in an April 2013 TED talk that he had used the phrase "unknown unknowns" in a talk to personnel at the Homeland Security Transition Planning Office a few days prior to Rumsfeld's remarks, and speculated that the term may have percolated up to Rumsfeld and other high-ranking officials in the defense department.[5]

        My father worked in aircraft development during WWII, he was familiar with this concept back then, so it may have an even earlier origin.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 01 2021, @12:45AM (3 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 01 2021, @12:45AM (#1151605)

          Rummy made the saying infamous.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 01 2021, @02:16AM (2 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 01 2021, @02:16AM (#1151638)

            For a real contribution, he should have filled out the full array:

            Known knowns, known unknowns, unknown unknowns, and unknown knowns.

            The latter are things that are known, but you didn't do enough research to find them, so you are ignorant.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 01 2021, @05:49AM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 01 2021, @05:49AM (#1151707)

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Known [wikipedia.org]

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 02 2021, @03:08AM

                by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 02 2021, @03:08AM (#1152134)

                Looks like Rummy couldn't keep that one straight, from the wiki article:

                > In the penultimate scene, Morris questions him again about "unknown knowns," and the definition given by Rumsfeld has inverted, a discongruence the director is quick to point out, and which Rumsfeld acknowledges: "unknown knowns" are "things that you know, that you don't know you know."[2][4]

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday June 30 2021, @08:45PM

    by DannyB (5839) on Wednesday June 30 2021, @08:45PM (#1151500) Journal

    Quagmire

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 30 2021, @10:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 30 2021, @10:38PM (#1151562)

    Didn't survive the wars he got us into.

  • (Score: 2) by NickM on Wednesday June 30 2021, @11:45PM (5 children)

    by NickM (2867) on Wednesday June 30 2021, @11:45PM (#1151592) Journal
    Alleluia the puppeteer behind Bush Jr middle east wars is dead! I wish I was religious so I could believe that he is currently burning in hell .... Anyhow a dead warmongerer is the only kind of good warmongerer !
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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 01 2021, @12:25AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 01 2021, @12:25AM (#1151599)

      Ding! Dong! The Dick is Dead!

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday July 01 2021, @04:47AM (3 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday July 01 2021, @04:47AM (#1151693) Journal

      He is currently burning in Hell, rest assured, no religion required. It's not literal fire, it's more like "you're essentially a being of thought and now you're faced with everything you've done to people and can't hide from any of it," but it may as well be flame for that sort of bodily (?) constitution. As I said, by the time he's done his time, there might not be a human race to reincarnate back into...

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      I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...

      • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 01 2021, @02:51PM (1 child)

        by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday July 01 2021, @02:51PM (#1151801) Journal

        Ya think the 'vid got him?

        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday July 01 2021, @10:03PM

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday July 01 2021, @10:03PM (#1152035) Journal

          Doubtful, but if it did, the lung infiltrate has boiled off already :)

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          I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...

      • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 02 2021, @03:01AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 02 2021, @03:01AM (#1152131)

        As I said, by the time he's done his time, there might not be a human race to reincarnate back into...

        Wow! You really do know nothing! Run away from the wackos that teach you that crazy shit!

  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 01 2021, @02:53PM (1 child)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday July 01 2021, @02:53PM (#1151802) Journal

    Where's the punchline? I guess I'll need to wait for UPDATE 3 to find out how this is all the Democrats fault!

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