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[May. 18th, 2005|05:56 am] |
In regards to the democratic party's claim that Bush's filibustered judicial nominees are whackos who are far out of the mainstream, you'd think the democratic party was in the mainstream. Clearly, they're not, which is why they lost the election, and why conservative values trumped their attempts at taking the White House with Kerry.
A look at a few poll numbers:
Should same sex marriages be recognized by the law as valid with the same rights as traditional marriages?
YES-- 28%
NO-- 68%
NO OPINION-- 4%
(Sample of 443 people)
CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll
Okay, so we can't attack these judges as being out of the mainstream on gay marriage...
Now, let's look at race based preferences in education (the Michigan State Law School ruling comes to mind)...
NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll conducted by the polling organizations of Peter Hart (D) and Robert Teeter (R). Jan. 19-21, 2003. N=500 adults nationwide.
"As you may know, the U.S. Supreme Court will be deciding whether public universities can use race as one of the factors in admissions to increase diversity in the student body. Do you favor or oppose this practice?"
Favor 26%
Oppose 65%
Not sure 9%
Okay, well there's that issue and what most Americans think...and these judges are with the mainstream.
Now, let's look at abortion...
20% of those polled believe abortion should be illegal in all circumstances
39% believe abortion should only be legal in a few circumstances
59% of the American public say they oppose all or most abortions
CNN/GALLUP/USA TODAY Feb 4, 2005
Okay then, so most Americans oppose MOST abortions. Mainstream...judges in question- mainstream.
Let's now look at social security.
"Some have said that the Social Security program in its present form will run out of money at some point to pay all of the promised benefits. Do you agree or disagree?"
AGREE- 70%
DISAGREE- 27%
UNSURE- 3%
5/2-4/05
Associated Press/Ipsos poll
So, we know that Americans agree that there IS a problem...an admission the democrats aren't even willing to make.
Now, how to fix the problem...what do the American people think about this?
"Based on what you know about the Social Security personal investment proposal, would you want the choice to invest a portion of your Social Security contributions in stocks or mutual funds?"
YES- 53%
NO- 37%
UNSURE- 9%
4/25-26/05
Okay, so a majority of Americans would like THE CHOICE (Bush's plans calls for VOLUNTARY PRIVATE ACCOUNTS, a program which you're not forced to participate in if you don't want to) to put part of their money into a private account. That's the mainstream, and the judges in question aren't out of the mainstream.
Isn't it about time the democrats stop their bogus claims that these blocked nominees are far out of the mainstream, when, in reality, they're on the same page as the American people? |
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[May. 10th, 2004|03:02 am] |
MAKING THE CASE FOR PAROCHIAL SCHOOL
By Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
Sunday, May 9, 2004
Of the roughly 50 million children enrolled in American grade schools, all but about 5 million attend government-run public schools. Of those 5 million, approximately 800,000 attend secular private schools. That leaves just 4.2 million who attend the nation's religious schools -- only one American child in 12.
That isn't much, particularly for a country in which more than 60 percent of adults say that religion is very important in their lives. The United States is by far the most religious of the world's industrial democracies. Yet the vast majority of American parents would no more think of sending their children to a parochial school than they would of sending them to an orphanage.
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[Mar. 17th, 2004|01:51 pm] |
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it
means can never be said.
- George Santayana
The good things that come to those who wait may only be the leftovers
of those who got there first.
- Anonymous
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't
like and give her a house.
- Lewis Grizzard
The truth is more important than the facts.
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[Feb. 27th, 2004|03:32 am] |
anyone see that ridiculous paid program for that alzare product? some "male enhancement" pills with the horrible actors who look like porn stars hosting the show with the "creator" of the drug? anyhow...they have two girls on the right side of the screen that look like porn stars to me (they get semi-classless and talk about how a bigger man is better), and i looked up the black girl. let me just say two words. "yum" and "e." Yes, I am aware that the letter "e" is not a word.
http://www.cafeshops.com/thelookuneed.8011735?zoom=yes#zoom
http://www.uwmedia.net/models/thelook/thelook/shop.html#
too bad in some of the pictures she looks really good...and in others she looks like a demon beast. |
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[Feb. 17th, 2004|04:16 am] |
way cute
http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/meet_bianca.html
i keep seeing her on cyberchase whenever i work during the days. she was trying to figure how many sleeping bags she could fit in a room yesterday, so she could figure out how many friends to invite over. of course, she used simple math to figure it out...but it was still cute. and shes interesting. maybe its the hair. maybe its that, in soem crazy way, she reminds me of someone else i know. |
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[Jan. 27th, 2004|03:21 am] |
check it out...my middle school band at washington middle school in cairo georgia.
i was trying to look up my old band director (andy bell) from that school (he left for another school in north georgia) my 7th grade year), but didnt have much luck in that...well, i think i found the school and stuff, but no e-mail address is listed or anything, and there wasnt a picture, so i couldnt verify it was him. anyhow, i found the site above, looking for more info. on stuff.
i went to that school in georgia in 6th and 7th grade...and the rest of the time (8th grade-high school) in boonville, indiana. i should post that site here, tho i dont think theres that much info. on the site.
just odd, since i dont really remember any of my time in 6th or 7th grade, but i remember faces, like some of the teachers who have their pictures on one of the other sites i found. very cool to actually recognize people and places when you see various pictures. |
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true
success is to labour.
- Robert L. Stevenson
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
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[Dec. 17th, 2003|01:57 am] |
tips for alicia keys:
1. change your hair. that tightly pulled, big afro puffs, half your scalp showing look makes me sick.
2. make better music...music that doesn't suck.
3. don't talk in your songs
4. if you MUST talk in your songs- don't talk like a tard in your songs. 'yeah...i see you in the diner...blah blah...and you always order the special...blah blah blah'
5. learn how to speak the english language. the word is "YOU" not "JEW"!!! "Jew don't know" is not a proper sentence..."you don't know," on the other hand, IS. I hate how people use ebonics and pretend it's anything more than uneducated lingo for fools who are too lazy or too stupid to learn how to speak proper english.
I had to share these tips, since I have seen her video a few times while watching MTV Hits, and I want to scream at the TV. |
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[Dec. 16th, 2003|06:05 am] |
In the spirit of "no-spin," I wrote this. Not a huge issue, but it's always nice to recognize spin, and be able to completely refute it with truth.
Dishonest from Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper is an idiot, and I have the proof.
In Michelle Malkin's Dec 3, 2003 article, she posts a quote from Roeper from his Nov 5, 2002 article on the DC snipers.
Chicago Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper railed against conservative commentators such as the indomitable Mark Steyn, who had taken note of Muhammad's Islamic faith and his reportedly expressed anti-American sentiments after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Roeper also ridiculed National Review columnist James Robbins for astutely observing that the sniper was acting "like a jihadist warrior." Roeper smugly concluded: " . . . an awful lot of conservatives really, really wanted the snipers to be terrorists. But they were wrong. I'll say that because they never will."
Malkins points out over 10 exhibits for trial, pictures and rants from Malvo, where he praised the Sept 11 attacks and Osama Bin Laden, as well as Saddam Hussein. It's clear he is a muslim extremist...going as far as to change his name to show his muslim faith.
In Roeper's December 15, 2003 column (I tried to find the complete Nov 5, 2002 article, but I don't see an archive anywhere on the Chicago Sun Times site), he claims that:
Last week conservative columnist Michelle Malkin yapped about "the media and Muslim activists" who "wanted us to believe that the serial killings had absolutely nothing to do with Islamic terrorism." Malkin provided a selective list of Malvo's Islam-related drawings -- and conveniently ignored all the other sketches.
She provided a "selective" list, and "ignored all the other sketches?" Richard, buddy- all she had to do was prove the fact that Malvo is clearly a muslim extremist- a point you denied, even going out of your way to attack conservatives for thinking so. She doesn't have to list any other drawings (tho, she links to the exact page with ALL of the exhibits that you claim she "ignored.") You're being intellectually dishonest, and that's just sad.
Also in his Dec 15, 2003 article, he says the following:
So in other words, I was right -- they're NOT al-Qaida. Thanks.
Wrong again, Richard. You're, once again, being dishonest. You never just said that they weren't al-Qaida, you said, "an awful lot of conservatives really, really wanted the snipers to be terrorists. But they were wrong. I'll say that because they never will."
So, they WEREN'T wrong, and you're claiming that you only pointed out that they weren't al-qaida, conveniently ignoring the fact that Malkin is debating that particular claim.
Finally, Roeper claims this:
When I wrote that Muhammad and Malvo weren't terrorists, it was in the context of responding to conservative commentators who had wrongly predicted the snipers would turn out to be Middle Eastern terrorists working with a foreign group. Muhammad and Malvo didn't fit that definition then, and they don't fit it now.
Now, he's using the "they misunderstood what I said" tactic, another dishonesty, when it's clear that we aren't idiots who took your quotes out of context, but rather, you're not apt to admit you were wrong, and you refuse to apologize for painting the picture of rabid conservatives who want more than anything to pin the snipings on muslim terrorists (which they are.)
Roeper has convinced me of one thing...he's a complete joke, and honesty is not in his venarcular. |
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[Dec. 16th, 2003|03:30 am] |
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[Dec. 16th, 2003|02:08 am] |
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I need to find more stations thru shoutcast. I only listen to radioprank.com now, but I'm starting to hear a bunch of the same stuff over and over again. I guess that means I have listened to it way too much.
I could always listen to the last episode of car talk from cars.com or the sean hannity show at hannity.com...
I just finished watching Murder in Mind on BBC America, and it was a weird episode. It didn't have the weird twist in it that you'd expect from that series. It was a decent episode, and it had the guy who played Tony from British Men Behaving Badly in it as a psycho stalker guy. I kept seeing him thinking, Tony! He did a good psycho tho, somewhat scary, tho the show itself is never very scary to me.
I got a check in the mail from a survey for $1.00. I am rich. I still have the suicide king sitting here on the desk, right next to the check, next to the speaker, next to a stack of post it notes.
Okay, I'm off... |
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[Dec. 16th, 2003|12:24 am] |
i just read something funny. well- coming from this particular person, its funny...
62. I hate being lied to.
64. Fake people annoy me.
77. I avoid confrontation.
96. I always appreciate honesty.
with those, i had to add one more for her...
100. i am completely full of shit, and so hypocritical, its scary.
i love people. i swear, they crack me up. |
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[Dec. 12th, 2003|11:59 pm] |
okay...something else i just learned from the white house site. the press briefing room (known as the james brady room) is above a swimming pool that used to be in that room. roosevelt installed the pool to help with his polio, and nixon had it covered it by the floor that makes up the room now, so they could fit the press in for briefings. the press used to stand in the hall of the west wing, i believe he said (ari fleischer, who gave the tour, that is.)
ari actually pulled open a trap door at the front of the room and you can see down to the pool below...the tiled floor and all. there are miles of cable in the pool for all the different networks, so they don't have to clutter up the room itself.
the president has his own podium, which is much nicer than the regular podium- and it's reserved for the president only. i think he said it's called the blue goose? not totally positive, but there is a special podium for the president.
a fact i didn't know- well, ANOTHER fact i didn't know is that the reporters have small offices in the west wing (where the press room is), down the hall from the room itself. the camera men and technicians who work at the white house, doing the camera work for the reporters in the press room and on the white house lawn, actually use the press room itself to unwind in, and they hang out there while waiting for the next shoot.
i wouldn't mind working for the news, being a cameraman...that always looked interesting...especially if you worked somewhere cool like the white house. |
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[Dec. 12th, 2003|11:42 pm] |
interesting piece of info from the white house-
the national seal- with the eagle holding the olive branch (peace) and the arrows (war) faces (his head) toward the olive branch to the left of the seal...he used to face the right where the arrows are, but after WWII, truman changed that, so that america would be looking towards peace.
the president mentions this in the video of the oval office tour at the white house site. |
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