When this goes live, I should be in Austin, or Houston, or maybe somewhere between them. Since I’m not flying Delta, it is unlikely I will be stuck in Atlanta. However, I might be because…
It’s that time again boys and girls:
MERCURY RETROGRADE
So batten down the hatches, check your supplies of food, water, gold, silver ammunition, yarn, knitting needles and crochet hooks, etc.
For this week, there are only two alignments, one good and one bad. On the good side, we have Jupiter and Venus aligned with the Sun, bringing peace, love, justice, health and all sorts of good stuff woo. On the bad side, we have the death of a woman foretold by Saturn doing what Saturn does in conjunction with the moon and Venus.
I feel sorry for Pisces. You only get one month out of the year for really good luck and this year you are spending part of it hosting MERCURY RETROOGRADE. Sucks to be you. For everyone else, do not go fishing; It will not turn out well. Last weeks intensely polarized state has backed down quite a bit with the moon moving from Aquarius into Aries. However, Aries isn’t exactly the sign of stability, tossing the entropy-bringing moon in there when we’re already in a state of MERCURY RETROGRADE… yikes! If I don’t make it back, It was nice knowing everyone and I left the combination under the base of my 1983 ICO World Championship trophy.
Pisces: The Devil, reversed – Violence, force, extraordinary efforts, predestination
Aries: Page of Wands – Dark young man, faithful lover, postman, envoy
Taurus: 8 of Coins – Work, skill, craftsmanship
Gemini: 3 of Cups – Successful completion, celebration, happiness
Cancer: 6 of cups, reversed – Renewal, the future
Leo: 6 of Swords – journey by water
Virgo: Strength – Strength
Libra: The World – Assured success, flight, emigration
Scorpio: Page of Cups, reversed – Inclination, taste, attachment, seduction, deception
Sagittarius: 8 of Cups – desertion, abandonment
Capricorn: Ace of Wands, reversed – Fall, decadence, ruin
Aquarius: 2 of Wands, reversed – Surprise, wonder, enchantment, fear
Comments
171 responses to “IFLA: The “I’m Not Actually Here” Edition of the Horoscope for March 10”
Fuck this shit. When are we finally going to get our Whoreoscope?
That is a copyrighted feature of youporn.com
I see women with A cups and flat asses in your future
And not enough rhythm to twerk?
BYOW
Cool sidebar, bro.
I can’t believe it’s still there.
TPTB:
THIS IS NEXTWEEKS!
So, this is fake news?
No, it’s next week’s news today!
The problem will be running this week’s news next week, which would make it last week’s news.
You prognosticated nest weeks prognostications? You are good at this.
Goddamnit am i gonna have to drink 6 cups next week? And i was planning to reduce alcohol intake
Well, you can’t fight science.
I can’t fight this science any more,
I’ve forgotten what I’ve started fighting for.
It’s time to bring this ship back into shore,
And throw away the oar forever….
There’s no image. FAKE ARTICLE.
I like where this is going… wait, the mailman?!
Kevin Costner or Massimo Troisi?
Assuming a time machine is a thing, I could easily work with either.
Cancer: 6 of cups, reversed – Renewal, the future – I did empty 6 cups today. Two of beer One of wine One of Armagnac and the rest scotch. Not cups in the sens of a fixed volume mind you. A cup of Armagnac is quite less than one of beer. But the principle stands.
12 girls, 6 cups.
w00t!!
Glad for you, but
What REALLY sucks for you? This week’s draw was also Ace of Wands, reversed.
Why are you in danger of retribution? YOU didn’t fire him, did you?
No but the Star (Cat) has spoken!
I’m going to get reverse wanded by Ace
Libra is rocking it this week. Guess I’ll buy a lottery ticket.
Next week.
So what am I supposed to do this week? I have no guidance whatsoever.
This website sucks and you’re all Tulpa.
1. Drink
2. Drink more
3. Masturbate
4. Give OMWC grief
So situation normal.
The same thing you do every week Pinky.
From the dead thread: We’ve had our My Pillows for two years and it’s still the best pillow I’ve ever used.
I guess I’ll carry over my reply: The Amazon page is a shitshow of accusations of fake reviews and fake merchandise. Always love that.
It makes me hesitant to pull the trigger.
I’ve spent that much on pillows before that were awesome right out of the box and complete bricks within six months. This was the first one that has continuously been awesome for me. YMMV.
Must be a matter of personal taste. I hated MyPillow as soon as I touched it. You can easily perceive the discrete foam chips that make up the stuffing.
Nein, danke.
No different than mattress preference.
Or music.
Or wine.
Or boobs.
Or cars.
What if your choices are:
Polka
Pruno
Pendulous
Pugeot
Some things just shouldn’t be allowed.
Lol!
Fine:
Triumph
Tempranillo
Tear Drop
Triumph
I had a Peugeot. The ride was great.
Can you feel the pea under your mattress too? 🙂
+ squirting princess
The Princess and the Penis
“naive princess encounters a strange lump in her mattress”
I really do hang out with a bunch of sickos, don’t I.
it was free, so I downloaded it for my flight
It’s an adorable little story.
“I hated MyPillow as soon as I touched it.”
Who would have thought that a pillow made of torn up foam scraps wouldn’t actually be the greatest thing ever?
+1 DIY upholstery
Why do you hate America?
https://gunmagwarehouse.com/german-sport-guns-gsg-ruger-10-22-sr-22-22lr-110-round-rotary-drum-magazine.html
I was unaware this existed. Now I need it.
Didn’t Ruger support magazine capacity limit laws?
Bill Ruger was kind of a Fudd. But he’s dead now.
Once upon a time. He’s dead now though.
No one needs more than single shot
Does ‘Fudd” translate into Romanian?
No
It’s a person who believes that the guns they like/use are the only ones that should be legal.
Andrew Cuomo’s “you don’t need that to hunt a deer” is a good example of the mindset.
The name is derived form this guy
Though why he’s hunting rabbits with a .950 JDJ is beyond me.
One of the gun “reality shows” had a guy come in that was looking for a suppressor for his automatic .22. It had a horizontal drum magazine that sat on top. It looked like an absolute blast.
When they tried out the new suppressor, it went “zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz”, and holes started appearing in the target. With no real recoil, you could write with it. I always thought that if I was going to go through the effort to get the tax stamp, that would be an awesome automatic to own.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-422YyO3Eug
Apparently on the rare occasions when the American 180 was fired in anger, it was pretty devastating.
Getting perforated with multiple .22LR can really ruin your day.
Gun Jesus on this one
https://youtu.be/J50N5lQoAFw
His collab called “Project Lightening.” is really well done. Recorded at a high enough quality that I watched it on my TV.
I want one.
Since apparently everyone here except me has one:
“Money-saving tip for all my wino pals! Make your own Instant Pot wine out of grape juice”
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1102265655770968069
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydEV-M6xvFQ
No…. wait… this cannot be real. Or did this woman just unleash the scariest new craze that’s turning our children into instant winos? This is an outrage, where’s the FBI when you need them? Time for a SWAT raid to stop this mega criminal and terrorist!
My buddies and I would definitely have been trying this ourselves back in the day. We wouldn’t have waited for a sissy two weeks for the secondary fermentation either.
Nope we would have just poured out the wine into our plastic bottle, cooled it down (and probably added a can of 7up to make it a “cooler”).
Yeah, same here. We would have tried exactly everything that we are not supposed to do. IOW, if it’s forbidden, we’re doing it, come hell or highwater. /why banning shit does not work
Of course, you can make wine without even having an Instant Pot.
Yeah, but how’s an aspiring 5 year old wino expected to get himself the necessary goods? Insta Pot and Welches for the win!
We bought one for Altar Boy #1 who is at school. He raves about his.
So we bought a second one for the home chapel. Mostly because we can use it as a backup rice cooker for those times when we have Koreans over to eat and need 400lb of rice.
The wife and I are both luke warm on ours. It isn’t bad, but it also isn’t anything that is revolutionary. I think me trying to brew up toilet wine in ours would push the wife into the No camp pretty quickly.
Prediction time for the glibertariat! Which do you think will happen:
1. This post will be disappeared and replaced with this week’s horoscope
2. This post will remain up, next week the horoscope for March 3 will be posted.
3. This post will be posted again next week, resulting in the IFLA with the highest number of comments ever.
Just chamge the dates and leave it be.
Why are you enacting our labor? You’re supposed to be telling us about the future!
Because you aren’t paying him.
Don’t know, but if the wrong post went up, does that mean Mercury Gatorade started early?
That flavor got pulled. Turns out there was too much DHMO in it.
Yeah, Mercury is moving directly this week.
I love Gatorade. It loves me back by making me gain weight at an unprecedented rate.
Try CytoMax ready to drink. Half the sugar.
I have a recipe for a sugar-free electrolyte drink. http://b10mediaworx.com/recipes.html#_Toc475893052
2 parts H
1 Part O
works well.
I tend to run a little light on K.
True, your team leader only had 164
For my long rides, I generally use Nuun. The watermelon flavor is my personal favorite. If you’re avoiding caffeine, keep an eye out, some of the sport flavors do have caffeine added.
Pedialyte is my choice for rehydration or hangover curative.
4. Not Adahn gets cat-butted for insulting the author of this post.
😉
OT, but I totally get how upset the parents of Otto Warmbier are about Trump’s praise of Kim. But then again, and you cannot expect parents to have to admit this, Warmbier definitely made himself a top candidate for the Darwin award when he decided that going to North Korea and stealing something was a really cool idea.
Did he really steal anything? (Seriously, I don’t know.)
A propaganda poster, IIRC
He probably could have just asked for one to take home as a souvenir of his fascinating stay in beleaguered yet inspiring North Korea.
Supposedly a poster of Dear Leader or something like that. Who the hell would think that a good idea? They probably chop the hands off their own citizens and put them in a camp for doing that. What the hell? Did he think he’d just call his mom if something bad happened? Again, Darin award.
Allegedly. His “confession” stated that he stole the poster on behalf of “his” Methodist church and a frat at his university, both of which were allied with the CIA.
Warmbier was quite Jewish for a Methodist theif.
I knew the (((Methodists))) would be behind it.
The Wikipedia article is giving me the impression that the entire thing was fabricated for political reasons. There is no proof other than a “confession” and grainy CCTV footage showing “somebody” taking a frame off the wall and walking away – without it.
I do agree that just visiting that shithole merits a Darwin.
Yeah, who knows what he did. Maybe he was hitting on a woman of one of Kim’s top men. Or maybe they just decided they’d like to torture an American and that one looks as good as any. If you go someplace like that, you know the risk, or you’re stupid, one of the two.
I believe they were expecting to run their usual extortion racket for aid and didn’t count on Obama being a feckless piece of shit.
That’s “President feckless piece of shit Obama,” thank you.
Ding ding ding
“I believe they were expecting to run their usual extortion racket for aid and didn’t count on Obama being a feckless piece of shit.”
I thought that having nukes and firing missiles over Japan were the key to that?
I feel terrible for him and his family, and I am not in any way suggesting that what happened to him was just or deserved, but it’s like the people who go hiking in Iran or shit like that. These are not safe places. You are placing yourselves into the power of people who mean you harm and who do not share your values. It’s not like getting lost at Epcot Center after one too many in the Germany exhibit.
Are you discounting the problems that people who have had one too many at the Germany exhibit cause when they stumble through the ropes that separate it from the Poland exhibit?
You wouldn’t have dared to minimize that shit when Obama was president. You are clearly emboldened by President Secret Nazi!
Or they let trainee torturer get a little too hands on with him and he ended up brain dead before there was a chance to buy him back.
The Norks have never let geographic locations hinder their abduction and assasination plans.
Do they even Realpolitik?
Pretty funny how the Dems are making something of this now. I seem to remember at least one article and a few pronouncements from the Donks that Trump should not be making such a big deal out of the Warmbier murder. I’m too lazy to look it up, but I’m sure I read a few things on that line. Of course that is memory holed as the main thing is to always say the opposite of Trump.
Maybe Trump should embrace socialism and rail against plots to cut federal spending?
I went to Austin once – for the film festival. This may be laughable for those who’ve read my shitty fiction, but I made it into the semifinals of their sit-com competition.
I don’t really want to discuss The Umbrella Academy Netflix show, since the slow reveals are so much a part of the fun and I don’t want to spoil anything.
But could someone who has read the comic tell me what #1/Luther/Starboy’s power is?
Super strong and resilient.
Thank’ee
Is that like Mighty and Nigh-Invulnerable?
Uffda. Has Gillespie thrown off the harness of the Jacket and is now able to write with free will?
How else do you explain this article?
I saw that article, Drudge had it linked so I’m sure it’ll get plenty o’ hits. A pretty fair effort and mostly spot on for Gillespie.
@Nephilium or any of our other brew folk. I just racked my jug of lager after three weeks at 50* and a two day diecetyl rest. It’s supposed to go another two weeks and then gets crashed before the final 2-3 days at 37*.
The recipe calls for a final SG of 1.013. Just checked it after racking and it’s already at 1.004. I screwed up? Don’t worry about it? Something in between?
Sounds like the yeast went ahead and fermented it out for you. Give it a smell, you’ll know if you still have sulfur or diacetyl present from the aroma (sulfur = rotten eggs, diacetyl = butter). Regardless, let it go, the yeast should still clean up after itself, and you’ll have beer. The standard homebrewing refrain is: RDWHAHB (Relax. Don’t Worry. Have a home brew.)
Thanks! It smells like beer and is back resting in the fridge. All projects are proceeding well at this point.
Now, on the serious side,it does mean that your beer will be ~1% ABV higher then expected. This could be caused by the yeast (depending on the strain), the mash temperature, an infection (it’ll have off flavors if this is the case), or the grist used. IIRC, it was a 5 gallon recipe scaled down to 1 gallon, right? If so, that would mean that there could have been a couple of grains that were just a couple of ounces, measure that incorrectly, and it could make a change.
At 6.7%, that’s going to be a potent little lager.
Leo: 6 of Swords – journey by water
Huh. I guess ice and snow are water…
Nothing in there about being ravished by Salma Hayek and Liz Hurley simultaneously? Because that would be pretty cool.
You have draw those cards from the deck.
THIS IS NEXTWEEKS!
It’s just a jump to the left!
A Time Warp needs a Time Lord.
Is that Poppy?
Well, if they run this week’s next weeks, you can use it as a retrospective.
You lost me. Is a Retrospective like a reverse retrograde?
If you’re not with us, you’re evil, ch 384
In January, Biden said that one of the things he’s criticized for is the fact that he likes Republicans, joking, “Okay, well bless me, Father, for I have sinned.” But the problem isn’t getting along with Republicans. The problem is legitimizing an agenda of hateful discrimination. It’s about the fear that someone who would give Pence the benefit of the doubt in the name of civility might also be willing to bargain away our rights in the name of bipartisanship.
There is a sense among genteel Washington that partisanship is rude and boorish. But when you’re fighting for the rights of marginalized communities who are under attack, it’s okay to stop being polite. This is not a time for hollow civility. This is a time to fight. If Democrats are too wedded to the collegiality of the Senate dining room to call out the Republicans who espouse homophobia, how are we ever going to stop them?
Washed up actress and full time attention whore gets her hate on. Punch a Nazi, America, before it’s too late.
I don’t think she’s wrong exactly (other than the immorality and evilness of her own political philosophy). The biggest problem of the Concession Partyhas been this misguided belief in some sort of 1950’s bipartisan friends behind the scenes BS.
*looks up from attacking a marginalized community*
Huh? Nah.
*gets back to work*
Marginalized? Like libertarians?
The funny thing is there are people who believe that libertarians hold the levers of power at every institution in America.
What? We don’t?
Everyone knows (((who))) holds the levers of power in America.
The Presidential valet?
Asian massage parlor workers?
WE EVVYWHERE!!
I have a silver signet style ring of the pyramid with the eye above it and Annuit Coeptis around the edge.
Sometimes people freeze when they see it; some have asked if I’m a Freemason. Kind of cracks me up.
We should all get them.
https://imgur.com/a/Vl4Fz1g
Do you want some of this, punk?
IMPURE!
Journalist and author Sarah Kendzior on Saturday slammed President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner as a “massive national security risk” and argued that he, and his wife Ivanka Trump, should be indicted.
During a segment on AM Joy, panelists discussed recent reports that revealed Trump ordered his former chief of staff John Kelly to grant Kushner a top-secret security clearance last year, against the objections of intelligence officials and the White House’s top lawyer.
“Basically, Trump has been grooming those two for a dynastic kleptocracy,” Kendzior, author of The View From Flyover Country, claimed. “This is very common. This is something you see in autocracies, this is something you see in mafia states, where the leader will put his children or relatives into office in order to keep the corruption going, keep the money flowing, not get caught, override prosecution.”
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“That is is what needs to be done. Because this problem is enormous. It’s going to persevere. Even if he is gone, he is carrying around this information, other people are carrying around classified information,” she continued. “They do not have loyalty to the country. They have debt. They have financial interests. They have personal interests.
“This problem needs to be handled now,” Kendzior declared. “Just indict Jared Kushner! Indict Ivanka Trump and get this crime family out of the White House!”
Nobody with business interests of any sort can be allowed to work for the government. Only career politicians, NGO workers and non profiteers should be trusted to act in the public interest. Their hearts are pure, their hands are clean.
Eh. Such clearance should only be given to those who have demonstrated need for it in order to do their work. What qualifications and/or need does the un-elected Kushner have besides having seen the President’s daughter naked?
He’s handling a number of diplomatic issues, including the “not gonna happen” Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. Given how they pretty much classify everything, he wouldn’t be able to accomplish much without it. And he was given the second highest classification. The secret stuff that really matters, he doesn’t get to see.
He’s an actual honest-to-god advisor to the president. “Senior Advisor to the President”. Just like Karl Rove, or Valerie Jarrett. It is a presidential appointment.
I don’t know if he ranks that. But, it is a presidential prerogative. Executive branch. Donald Trump is the executive of the executive branch.
If Jared is a shithead, well, he is in good company. Raise a stink. Point it out. Yell at him in restaurants.
But: You can’t have the bureaucracy that is beholden to the elected executive stop the elected executive from doing things.
Just like Schiff can sit in and hear all sorts of shit he immediately texts to Tappart@CNN, our elected executives and representatives and their staff don’t get locked out by whim of the bureaucracy.
Why not? Since the Pendleton Act put an end to the spoils system, and the Civil Service Reform Act established the Office of Personnel Management, the Federal Civil Service, while appointed by the President is no longer entirely “beholden” to the Executive. This was a check & balance created to close the exact loophole that would let a President use the executive branch to establish tyranny. The OPM exists precisely to provide oversight on behalf of the Congress to prevent the President from handing out security clearances like candy.
This is a presidential appointment to his/her senior staff. The position is outside of the OPM structure. I am not discounting your opinions, but this is not an OPM issue.
He could appoint spongebob, or ben rhodes, or karl rove, or rham emanuel. It doesn’t matter.
I believe you that it is de facto, but the Federal Civil Service is defined as including all appointees, that would seem to be to include any appointee to the Office of the Executive, with Senate confirmation or not. Again, otherwise you’re asking for an eventual coup by the executive.
Nothing I originally was writing is as interesting as this.
What do you mean by a “coup by the executive”? Is there something here that is outside of the executive that we’ve been talking about?
Hey! Leave my flannel shirt out of this. God knows it was crazy overpriced.
Look, these Trumpkins should be indicted because I don’t like them. That’s the way government should work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqH3KaW25AA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbQsxWKfTSU
Such clearance should only be given to those who have demonstrated need for it in order to do their work.
What office was Henry Kissinger ever elected to?
*Kushner is no Kissinger, fortunately
Well, that’s the thing. At least Kissinger had experience in military intelligence, again, what are Kushner’s qualifications for the advising roles he has been assigned to?
It doesn’t matter. Maybe he’s like Donny, and out of his element. Maybe he’s got some fucking Master Chops from some time in Tibet. Maybe he’s a fucking chumbalone. The person elected to run the executive branch put him there. The executive branch does not get a veto.
Again, we’re talking about a position that didn’t exist until Bill Clinton took office, has no Senate confirmation or vetting, no legislation to guide such appointments, and no oversight. Like the National Security Advisor, this is Cold War military-industrial complex bullshit that is just one more cobblestone laid on the path to the Imperial Presidency.
And creating these positions is the prerogative of the president. The elected executive of the executive branch.
The President can’t do a lot of things to the GS employees under him or her. There’s far more that can be done to the SES employees and appointees.
But since there were clearances, those have always been the purview of the executive. And Jared’s FIL is the elected executive.
That’s public school civics. Art. II Sec. 2.2. of the US Constitution clearly states:
What legislation created the office of “Senior Advisor to the President” or vested such an appointment to the Executive?
Yes, I know that this is a bit of windmill tilting, but if we’re to get to the point where Congress declares war again, we need to call out the Imperial Presidency wherever and whenever we can.
I think we can all come together and blame Roosevelt.
This guy here.
Man, fuck Roosevelt in his fascist ass.
what are Kushner’s qualifications for the advising roles he has been assigned to?
The people upset by him seem to be convinced his position in a for profit business entity should be an automatic disqualification.
i know jack shit about Kushner. Don’t know where he went to school, what his qualifications are, or are not. I just find it offensive when people accuse him of being some sort of major security risk, just because he has not spent his adult life marinating in the special sauce of the Deep state. Just another form of emptyheaded credentialism.
If Trump has to have an advisor, I’d rather he listen to Javanka than the odious Stephen Miller. That having been said, I find it equally offensive, all just to ‘own the libs’, to cheer on nepotism and handing out clearance to someone who, if he applied to it as a regular guy working for DoS, would probably be denied due to his connections to a convicted felon (Dad) and a multitude of personal and business connections with foreign nationals. And I certainly trust Gen. Kelly’s determination of who and who not to give Top Secret clearance to over the Donald’s.
Again, we’re talking about a position that didn’t exist until Bill Clinton took office, has no Senate confirmation or vetting, no legislation to guide such appointments, and no oversight
Clinton may have formalized it, but I think we can safely assume Presidents dating back to Washington have made use of “special emissaries” and advisers not subject to scrutiny by Congress.
Not saying this is somehow unique to Trump, but most presidents tend to be more discerning in choosing their cronies.
if we’re to get to the point where Congress declares war again, we need to call out the Imperial Presidency wherever and whenever we can.
That’s your position, and I can understand that. I’m not sure I agree completely; the President should be able to consult with people he trusts, in an effort to establish an understanding of a situation, and formulate policy, and still be subject to clearly defined Constitutional constraints.
The position of the person in the article I linked to is “Orange Man Bad”. Everything Bad Orange Man does should be fought and obstructed in any way possible.
And the Constitution gives him that power. There is nothing in it that specifies how, but Washington organized it as a cabinet and that seems to have worked somewhat well.
That is obnoxious. But I was ringing the same bell when Obama filled up his office with his Chicago cronies. Rahmbo is just the Democrat Kushner in many ways.
Luv ya brah, and Rahm was not a friend of mine, but Kushner is no Rahm Emanuel.
Emanuel’s grad degree, extensive campaign experience, and legitimate election to federal office puts him several octaves above “married into the Trump clan.” I agree they are both political hacks, but, whether we like him or not, one has a grown-up skin or two on the wall.
Is this the same argument as “she’s the most qualified ever”?
I’m okay with being kidded, but TBF: there’s no “most” in “Rahm was not a friend of mine.” Qualifications are in the Constitution, and preferences live between your ears, but there are different sorts of men.
Along that line, I do think Hillary is much more intelligent, sane, and usefully experienced than the Donald, but I would never ever vote for either.
HM is correct to the extent that he hangs on to his “in many ways” caveat, but, frankly, EVERYONE is just a hack when you set aside their bona fides.
I just don’t see how this counts for shit. I mean, really; so, the fuck, what? Especially so when you are basically handed it like Emanuel. So he’s a good whore. It really means next to nothing.
Jatflax said it better and with less swearing.
But seriously; so. fucking. what?
Sorry, but grad degrees demonstrably have no positive predictive correlation with competence in governance, judgement, honesty, or reliability. Nor do electability or campaign experience. The fact that we seem unable to recognize this is a large part of our problem.
The skills required to win office are in fact in opposition to the skills you want in preserving national secrets. The skills involved in getting an advanced degree are more useful, since depth of knowledge about a specific subject is helpful in advising on that specific subject, but that is not a cabinet level role, that is “Goto guy on X”.
I have no opinion on Kushner’s capabilities, but I am not opposed to nepotism in the president’s immediate circle of advisors. Sometimes having someone you know, like, and trust is more valuable than having someone more skilled. But let’s not play the silly X has a PhD. Y is an icky business man, therefore X is more qualified game. I very much doubt it is true even as often as it is false.