A story to warm the cockles of the heart
Never underestimate what a fine wine can do.
Or the creativity of someone named “Cha-cha.”
Virtual group hugs all around.
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Never underestimate what a fine wine can do.
Or the creativity of someone named “Cha-cha.”
Virtual group hugs all around.
Can I respectfully decline the group hug? Sorry, never liked leftie therapies.
As, apparently, Mark Steyn
Competitive doctrine holds that one must Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act more quickly than one’s opponent. This is called an OODA Loop, or a Boyd Loop, for its inventer: John Boyd, of Top Gun fame.
As soon as you Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act, you immediately repeat the process. Each iteration of the process comprises one OODA Loop. You want your loops to occur quicker, and to be tighter, than your opponent’s loops. In this way you force your opponent to react to you, and to react more slowly. You seize intitiative/competitive momentum. If your OODA Loops are tighter than your opponents’, your chances of winning the contest are greatly increased.
Cha Cha’s OODA Loop was tighter. She seized initiative, and was able to induce her opponent to react to her. She observed something about her opponent’s demeanor – a competitive vulnerability, as it were: he was not psychotic, he had a heart. She oriented herself, decided, and acted on that.
Kudos!
gcotharn: he was not psychotic – are you sure? His lawyers now asked the jury to decide on “not guilty” verdict by the reason of insanity.
hey Tat: of course I’m not sure! 🙂 I figured Cha Cha appealed to humane instincts which a psychotic person wouldn’t possess. But, I was merely speculating – for my own amusement, as the thought of Cha Cha employing a nimble and tight OODA Loop cracks me up – even though that is arguably exactly what happened!
I envision Cha Cha as a 45 year old sexy and Earthy woman, with a nicely intuitive and well-rounded understanding of men. In the preachy movie which Hollywood will surely produce from this incident, Cha Cha will be a redhead. She will be played by someone like Lolita Davidovitch, or Gina Davis, or maybe Stockard Channing. Cha Cha will have been done wrong by men – maybe even raped – but she will have healed, and she will have forgiven the entire male gender for its culpability. Her true, girlish love will have died… lets see… as one of only 6 casualties of the invasion of Grenada. She will have dumped her last man b/c he boozed, and wore mutton chop sideburns, but she and he will still have a fond relationship with each other. Cha Cha’s career will be with a nonprofit in the D.C. area. She will have, as a trusted and close friend of the family, have explained intimate things to the 14 year girl in an earthy and frank way the girl’s mother was too scared and awkward to do. Cha Cha will be a breast cancer survivor. She might die at the end of the third act. I will surely leave the theater in tears.
Lovely blog you have going here! Thanks for adding another great conservative voice to the web :). I am trying to get a conservative digg alternative going called GOP Hub (GOPhub.com). Anything you can do to help spread the word would be awesome. Plus you are welcome to submit links to the articles your write on your blog. At any rate, keep up the great work on the blog and have a splendid day! 🙂
What? Nobody died? Then where’s the if it bleeds, it leads stuff?
The AP is floating around a story while saying various good news in Iraq ain’t news because it is not new. Right. Color me unimpressed. In more ways than one.
Nobody has picked up on this key aspect of the wine story yet: Thank God it was near midnight, well after dinner, and the wine had had ample time to breathe…harsh tannins and an under-developed nose could have led to a far worse outcome. [j/k!]
lol!
gcotharn, your scenario will never make it. I loved it, but I’m not a moneybag in Hollywood.
Too many real-life Cha-Chas out there…I even know one, just got married to an editor of a wine magazine who’s after his PhD in Russian poetry in NYU!
Sadly, I am late and got this at the link,
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washingtonpost.comThis link still works:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/12/AR2007071202356.html
I don’t think this story happened the way they said it did.
That aside, it’s a shame they didn’t use the group hug to pin him to the ground and call the cops. It’s the least you can do when someone points a gun at your family.
The media still have not learned what permalinks mean, it seems.