2010-02-02, 17:29 | Link #5901 | |
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To me.... giving these guys a "military trial" just validates their "warrior mentality". They kill civilians, non-combatants, women, children... a civilian murder trial is all they rate. That, of course, is entirely separate from the large number of people who should never have been in there -- ones we've *made* hate the US because we were so incompetent at identifying and grabbing the right people.
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2010-02-02, 17:42 | Link #5902 | |
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a poll from the Daily Kossacks? please tell me you dont take that poll seriously. keep in mind that same kossak/research 2k poll showed Coakley winning by 4 pts over Scott Brown the day of the MA election. |
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2010-02-02, 18:00 | Link #5903 |
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did you guys see the reuters article that was pulled, about obama's tax increase for the middle class. It's the first time I've ever seen this here is the digg link since the link to the reuters article is a 404.
http://digg.com/politics/Backdoor_ta...middle_class_2 the retraction is what is interesting although letting middle class tax cuts not get renewed while super rich tax cuts do sounded a bit too much of shift in wealth in america. Link to the actual article released by reuters, http://bit.ly/cykiP http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/01/...bc-huffington/ ABC's This Week up as Ailes is confronted on why FOX cut coverage of President's 'Question Time' with Republicans. Last edited by Nosauz; 2010-02-02 at 18:25. |
2010-02-02, 18:01 | Link #5904 |
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http://www.thelancet.com/journals/la...175-7/fulltext
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/02...ex.html?hpt=T1 The vaccine-autism link is fake. "Dr." Andrew Wakefield has been discredited, and The Lancet has retracted his bullshit paper. |
2010-02-02, 19:02 | Link #5905 | |
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2010-02-02, 19:19 | Link #5906 | |
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Being off in one pre-election poll doesn't invalidate an entire organization's efforts. In 1988 I polled for a major newspaper. Throughout our polling, including daily tracking polls and panels with a subsample of respondents, Bob Dole held a slight lead over George H.W. Bush among "likely" New Hampshire Republican primary voters. On the day of the election, Bush won by over ten points. We detected this late swing to Bush the night before the election, but it seemed too implausible to credit. We had double the number of refusals that night, and the results were obviously quite out of whack compared to our earlier research. We had a similar experience polling in a Congressional primary, where the polling made the race look more competitive than it turned out to be. Late surges and differential turnout can sometimes matter much more than the actual distribution of opinion when trying to extrapolate from polls to voting behavior. I'd argue both those factors applied to the MA Senate race. These results aren't that out-of-line compared to other polls of Republicans that I've seen. It would be very informative to know how many people they had to call to get one self-described Republican cooperator. As I posted in a couple of other places above, the Republican party of 2010 looks very little like the Republican party I grew up with in the 1950's and 1960's. What we can't tell from the Kos article is how large a fraction of American citizens the people they interviewed represent. I will say that, after browsing the Research2000 website, they're remarkably closed-mouthed about their methodology.
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2010-02-02, 19:19 | Link #5907 |
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FOX news meets funny news
Stewart to Appear on O'RLY Factor
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.co...reilly-factor/ Fox News knows it’s got a hot interview... it is showing the interview over two nights, Wednesday and Thursday. Fox says in a press release that “the wide-ranging interview will touch on an array of topics, including President Obama, the political landscape and media bias.” |
2010-02-03, 00:23 | Link #5908 | |
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2010-02-03, 01:15 | Link #5909 | |
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That's not to say that the Democratic party, nor the Liberal movemenet, haven't become a little unrecognizable over the years... |
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2010-02-03, 01:23 | Link #5910 |
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On American PBS, there's a series called Frontline which has an interesting documentary called "Digital Nation". Worth a watch... it discusses the impact of the digital age on people (positive and negative) in a variety of countries.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/ The section on Korea and how they're adapting and course-correcting is fascinating. For the US section, the main complaint I have is that some of the documentary is from the perspective of what I'll call the "fearful pre-Internet" people. On the other hand, we do get to see a number of older folks (like me) who *paid attention* during the evolution and trying to help drive it in positive directions. Of particular interest is the human brain and multi-tasking ... as well as the hilarious bit with the principal who monitors the kid's activity via sniff-monitor tools. He's very laid back about it It also mentions a science book called, "The Dumbest Generation" which discusses the fragmentation of deep thinking and ability to stay focused on one topic because of the distraction levels. The author would love to be proved wrong but says the data suggests otherwise. Personally, I contend the differences are more complex. One profile of an 83 year old woman who started a cooking blog with her grandson was hilarious. Anyway.. the documentary was interesting whether or not one agreed with all aspects of it.
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2010-02-03, 05:06 | Link #5911 | |
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2010-02-03, 08:15 | Link #5912 | |
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Murray Hill PR Firm Plans (Satirical) Run For Maryland Congressional Seat
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2010-02-03, 12:01 | Link #5913 |
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I wish them luck getting on the ballot. If they succeed it might be a wake up call to the politicians to get some real campaign reform done. Of course they won't, as the Supreme Court ruling didn't grant citizenship to corporations, but hopefully it'll still be a wake up call knowing that we're one bad decision by the SC from granting exactly that.
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2010-02-04, 17:33 | Link #5915 | |
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_450049.html
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2010-02-04, 18:30 | Link #5916 | |
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2010-02-04, 18:35 | Link #5917 | |
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Toyota does it again! Flagship Prius brake FAIL!
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related news... Steve Wozniak (Apple Inc founder) claims Toyota Prius has "scary" software Problem he can dupilcate! Last edited by mg1942; 2010-02-04 at 18:47. |
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2010-02-04, 22:39 | Link #5920 |
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And who will replace them? "power corrupts." inevitably even the best will become disillusioned and fall from where they were. the world is a screwed up place, even if you have good intentions it's too little compared to the tide of self interest that is prevalent everywhere. you can only comprimise, and choose whoever you think is better, and hope for the best.
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