Comments Posted By Dave
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ACTING BARBAROUSLY TO DEFEAT THE BARBARIANS
What goes around comes around?
Then we should rescend the executive order against assassination for about four years every time an attempt is made by a world power against a president or former president? That would have been 1993 and 2004, right?
Comment Posted By Dave On 14.02.2007 @ 22:43
New bumper sticker "FU 43/109 FU"
Comment Posted By dave On 29.12.2006 @ 00:57
Wow! The fascist are pissed because they don't get the respect they think they deserve... Priceless
Comment Posted By dave On 29.12.2006 @ 00:55
Republicans will vote for pragmatism in 2008. They've only got two years, and they'll gladly put off the intra-movement struggle you're talking about on this blog in order to ensure that Hillary and Pelosi don't get to socialize society together.
The names that keep coming up post-election are McCain, Rudy, and Romney. Newt's maybe a distant fourth, though he looked better before the election than he does now, as everyone now remembers how Newt seems unelectable, and electability is paramount.
Romney is coming up a lot because a) he's the only all-around conservative left in the field and b) he's just now being noticed by many observers. Those of us who have been watching him for awhile have to question his potency post-election. Again, if there were still a GOP Congress to check President Hillary, he might be a worthwhile risk, especially if the alternative is McCain. But he's still very green, and he's only won one statewide race, and it's hard to see Republicans taking such a great risk by nominating him.
I think it's basically down to Rudy or McCain. Rudy has the edge right now, because Republicans love him, and McCain they can't stand. McCain's only shot against Giuliani is to make the race about Rudy's past positions and personal life, and even then he has to assume that such a smear campaign won't backfire. I think Rudy will be the nominee, though I'd have to say McCain's moved into second place, while before the election I probably would've put Mitt in second.
Comment Posted By Dave On 12.11.2006 @ 23:32
THE SLAUGHTER OF THE MODERATES
This is all very interesting. I tend to agree with the aggregate of the comments that the problem is that the GOP gave up on Goldwater conservatism and embraced big government conservatism. I did my own analysis of the election and found that there are very few "red" states left, at least not this year. The upper midwest and the northeast are now very blue. This is quite disconcerting for Republicans, as these regions were fairly divided between the parties after 2004. Sure, states like Massachusetts were blue long before this election, but New Hampshire used to have two GOP House members, CT had another two, PA, OH, IN...they all lost a number of Republicans. And it adds up. The region went from about 50/50 to 70/30 Democrat/Republican in the balance of power. That's a huge shift. Absolutely huge.
My analysis also shows that the West can be divided into three or four parts. The prairie west, states like the Dakotas, Kansas, Oklahoma, these are still red. The West Coast, Cali, Oregon, etc, are blue. The mountain west and the southwest are getting pretty purple. The southwest is slightly more amenable to Democrats than the mountain west; the folks of Idaho still don't quite trust the Dems, but no longer have any love for the GOP.
So basically the GOP has its base in the south and a few prairie states while the Dems have their base in the northeast, the west coast, and now the midwest. The question is, will the Dems listen to their new moderate overlords in the midwest, or will they push them right back out of the tent? If the midwesterners moderate the Dems, the GOP will have a really hard time winning back the House for the foreseeable future. The West is just sort of observing all of this as if all we easterners are crazy (and perhaps they're right) and I really get the impression that westerners are sort of waiting for the right time to send another Ronald Reagan out here on a white horse to clean up our mess, which is what they usually have to do.
Advice to Republicans for 2008: find a Bill Clinton. That is, find someone who can win the blue states, the way Clinton won all those red southern states after 1994. McCain and Giuliani seem the best bets right now.
Comment Posted By Dave On 12.11.2006 @ 23:10
"The fact that those three percentages totalled up equal 101%..."
EricT is correct. This is one of the most idiotic things I've ever heard. One of the other most idiotic things is EricT's explanation. The real explanation (as any baseline literate math student could tell you) is called ROUNDING ERROR.
Your actual percentages are always equal to 100%. In this case, the actual percentages might have been as follows:
55.5 percent gunshot,
13.9 percent explosion
30.6 percent aistrike
(Note that these percentages add up to be 100%)But when you ROUND those numbers for a news report, you write "56 percent gunshot, 14 percent explosions, 31 percent airstrikes". Seriously, this happens very frequently with every type of statistical survey. It is complete illiteracy to imply this makes the study less credible.
Comment Posted By dave On 14.10.2006 @ 10:44
Nice job on debunking propaganda masquerading as research.
I was struck by the precision of the confidence limits--426,369 to 793,663. Six digits of precision! If you say that 426,368 died, that figure falls outside the limits, but 426,369 is likely at the 95-percent confidence level. So precisely measured, it must be scientific! The Lancet article is truly an insult to our intelligence.
Comment Posted By Dave On 11.10.2006 @ 07:12
FOLEY MATTER PROVES REPUBLICANS SUPPORT PERVERTS
...the emails don’t come close to anything more than rather creepy for which there is as yet no criminal statute.
Wrong. But it's the IMs that are going to fry his ass. So you're wrong twice. Thanks for playing.
Comment Posted By dave On 30.09.2006 @ 19:42
BTW, you realize this scandal is now being referred to as "Predatorgate"?
Just thought I'd share...
Comment Posted By dave On 30.09.2006 @ 19:41
Via the Ballot Box, we MUST NEVER allow LEFTIST like Richard Bottoms and Salty Party Snax have political power AGAIN! We MUST do EVERYTHING in our POWER, to show the average American Voter, the TRUE nature of these delusional, LEFTISTS; this festering, fetid colony of Lunar Chiroptera, who H--
Jesus, talk about losing control of their bladder...
Comment Posted By dave On 30.09.2006 @ 19:27
