Of Bureau's and their feline manifestations;

TTTTT - There is a certain US Secretary of Defense who has lived in such disgrace that his resume has disqualified him for interplanetary travel in the event that a habitable planet is found to solve the problem of global warning. This unutterable disgrace (I hardly know the words myself,) derives from holding two positions in his lifetime that commend the mercies of George W. Bush to all and sundry by merely giving him a job. He was first and foremost an ex-director of CIA. As such, he was at the helm of one of the darkest conspiracies observable in the last 200 years of history, and left without anyone being able to say that he was responsible for most of the US's overseas accomplishments diplomatically during his tenure. From there his ignominy extended to the studied official insult of making him not VP or Premier (to acknowledge both the Parliamentary and Congressional systems,) but rather ACTUAL PRESIDENT of the only University in the country known for its stupidity. I can report that his first move as President was to distance himself from the United States' (I give careful attention to misplacing the single-quote, lest others tumble to the true nature of Texas' own government,) presidency by calling the US President POTUS, where all others attempted to refer to him by his constantly changing Secret Service call-sign. His next move, in violation of public opinion was to observe to all within earshot that the alleged "Two Books" were in fact found in the UT System library in the first place, not the A&M library, and they were not even colored in! Well, this made him unpopular from Venus to Mars, and he compounded the intellectual fracture by inviting the scrutiny due only to the audacious who present theory as FACT, by suggesting that Karl Marx's chief competitor Alexis De Tocqueville should be represented in the profound books catalog. Clearly, we can see by diagramming the sentence that Sec Def was not actually claiming theory as FACT, but Tocqueville was already under investigation, and things just could not be stopped. People who have read Tocqueville’s book have theorized a connection between A&M's depredations and stories of alleged, Flintstone era fossils commonly found in Texas. Well, by following up on rumor, it may be established as fact that these theists are only claiming TWO instances, one in Glen Rose Texas, and one in Austin. Despite the obvious flaw in the claim, county governments have gratified them by immersing the alleged fossils under-water (one a running water source, one a lake,) such that the theory could be literally designated all-wet. By reviewing the facts, we should all be able to infer that these theist advocates are not even capable of understanding basic evolutionary theory, or they would join the theistic evolutionists, and fight the religious evolutionists on THAT basis. Nonetheless, the upshot of the discussion has been to tarnish Tocqueville's own good name, and pitch him in with the theists as a person believing in God. This was probably the single most important factor in the application of the final revenge of the bureaucrat against Sec Def: "Promote him to his highest level of incompetence!" It should be noted that a bureaucrat will commonly misstate his premise so that others will be FORCED to clarify, and slow the whole system to a crawl. I'll fall on this otherwise documentable grenade, and clarify myself as follows: Promote him to a position of responsibility at which he cannot be expected to excel. When he fails, publish the news of his ignominious failure as widely as possible, such that even in his twilight years, his influence will be limited. Shakespeare put it this way: The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones!