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Yes on 1 ad that launched yesterday
No on 1 ad that responds launched today
So an ugly month of Repub Astroturfers hooting and screening their stupidz ended up cementing their bad standings with the American Voter.
I’m hoping that they’ll do the same tactics on CLimate Change…..
“Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) — Months of Republican attacks on President Barack Obama’s health-care proposals appear to have hurt the party, according to a Quinnipiac University poll.
The survey found 64 percent of voters disapproving of the way Republicans in Congress are doing their jobs, with 25 percent approving. Also, 53 percent had an unfavorable opinion of the party in general, while 25 percent rated it favorably.
The performance of Democratic lawmakers was disapproved of by 56 percent, with 33 expressing approval. For the party in general, 46 percent expressed disapproval, 38 percent approval.
Asked who they trusted to do a better job on the health- care issue, 47 percent said Obama, 31 percent said the Republicans. The president’s overall approval rating was 50 percent, unchanged from a similar survey in late July and early August.
(from Bloomberg.com, posted on Yahoo!)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomb…
that polls show the right losing pretty much all the ground it appeared to gain by letting the fringe loons take the lead during the summer. Maybe you can underestimate the intelligence of the American public after all. And overestimate the universality of the appeal of hate, fear, bigotry, virulent fact free talk shows and just saying no.
Now if thats the case a $3,000/citizen single payer plan would only cost us … $900B. Why are we sold on doing less for more?
Why are we doing less for more … who wins here insurance companies, drug cos and hospitals … seems to me theres some corporate welfare going on just like Colorado’s Hospital Fee from a year or so ago.
Why don’t these polls ask a follow up question when someone responds with “disapprove.”
I “disapprove” of both R’s and D’s in Congress for the way they are handling health care, but for nearly opposite reasons:
-R’s because they are stooping down (or up as it appears to be in some cases) to champion stupid.
-D’s because they appear chicken and are failing to actually work towards something that will actually solve at least some of the problems with health insurance.
A simple follow up question would go a long way towards accurately assessing the direction(s) that Americans would like Congress to take.
Wherefore art thou, pollsters? Why has thoust foresaken us?
Just a week ago I cited a poll that showed just the opposite but the folks here dismissed it because “Rasmussen polls are very accurate on elections but that is all.” or words close to that effect.
So I’m left to guess that if a poll comes out that shows a liberal favor, it is legit, but if it shows opinions other than “progressive”, it is bogus and we might as well not pay any attention.
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Hmmmm. I guess that speaks for itself on this “give the world away” blog.
to ‘give away’?
Gecko has had liberalism explained to him many different times – and he had asked, too, claiming he wanted to understand. Obviously he’s just not up to trying. It’s best just to leave him and his childish rants alone.
..since it came from Bloomberg News. Not so much they’re a news media outlet, but that they’re primarily a Business News Media Outlet.
If they want to present this as news, that goes a long way toward the significance of the story.
And it’s significant.
Rasmussen polls have consistently been outliers this year, and this Q-piac poll is in line with recent trends. Gecko can complain all he wants, but all polls are not created equal.
Rasmussen this time falls against the liberal agenda so we need to dismiss it.
Correct?
What I meant to say was what I said, Rasmussen polls are consistently outliers this year when it comes to assessing liberal/conservative public opinion, and it’s OK to treat them as such.
Early on Kristoff suggests that Congress eliminate insurance for 15% of their members and let that 15% take their children to an emergency room for care. NOT going to happen, however he will incur apoplectic reaction from the jingoists for “demeaning” the holiness of 9/11. Forever waving the bloody flag of 9/11, never stopping to consider those responsible for allowing it to happen, the unconscionable attack of Iraq, our unlawful and horrific violations of human decency, the civilian casualties (“We don’t do body counts”). The most cowardly concept that “fighting them over there……….” by fighting with recruits from our economically disadvantaged citizens and green card immigrants was somehow noble and justified defilement of the Constitution? Death and disfigurement to innocents? Not being prepared for the wounded at Walter Reed? A most arrogant display to the rest of the world of what we are actually capable/incapable of.
For a country that spends $600 Billion annually on “defense” allowing a 58 minute attack on three different targets was absurdly incompetent. The absurdity of what we spend is a whole other can of worms. Another display of the failure in military leadership, the locations of the firebases at Wanat and Kadesh, Afghanistan. Follow this link for the “Battle of Wanat” http://maps.google.com/maps?f=… On the left side of the map will ask the question, “did you mean the “Battle of Wanat?” Click on it, then zoom in to see the elevations. In a valley surrounded by mountains???? A hostile village overlooking the base? That’s not incompetence, it’s manslaughter.
From Kristoff:
“…………We accept that life is unfair, that some people will live in cramped apartments and others in sprawling mansions. But our existing insurance system is not simply inequitable but also lethal: a very recent, peer-reviewed article in the American Journal of Public Health finds that nearly 45,000 uninsured people die annually as a consequence of not having insurance. That’s one needless death every 12 minutes.
When nearly 3,000 people were killed on 9/11, we began wars and were willing to devote more than $1 trillion in additional expenses. Yet about the same number of Americans die from our failed insurance system every three weeks.
The obstacle isn’t so much money as priorities. America made it a priority to provide tax breaks, largely to the wealthy, in the Bush years, at a 10-year cost including interest of $2.4 trillion. Allocating less than half that much to assure equal access to health care isn’t deemed an equal priority………….”
Complete Op/Ed at The NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10…
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Infantry Officer Basic Course, Fort Benning.
The Platoon Leader, Company Commander and Battalion Commander all attended that course.
We were all taught to take the high ground.
Locate defensive positions on the “military crest,” a sort of inflection point near the top of the ridge.
In Korea, in similar terrain, the US Army cut the top off of hills, making it look like West Virginia in some places.
Video from the NY Times showed disturbingly how the firebase was flanked either side by hundreds of firing positions looking down into the base, making me think of the “shooting fish in a barrel” cliche.
Somebody ought to be Court Martialed for not taking the enemy seriously.
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..though I wonder why you posted it here.
I want to wait to here from a Buddy at Carson before I pile on, because it sounds like the original positions had LP/OP’s surrounding the bigger compound. If they follow FM90-6 those should’ve been much higher up with LOS to the main compound.
It also depends on the total elevation involved. If the purpose of the position was to control the road junction at the bottom of the valley, then they couldn’t be too high up.
Once again, MAH was right and I was wrong. Damn the requirements of integrity!
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news…
Anyone want to guess what Gardner reports? And when Lucero and Frazier suspend their campaigns?
You mean Lucero hasn’t already?
“officially” suspend his campaign, as opposed to just wandering off to something else and hope no one notices.
…fascinating study by the Pew Foundation:
One in four people is Muslim, says study
World Muslim population estimated to be 1.57 billion
Islam may be most closely associated with the Middle East, where it emerged in Arabia in the seventh century, but today the region is home to only one in five of the world’s Muslims, according to a study of the religion’s global distribution.
The world’s Muslim population stands at 1.57 billion, meaning that nearly one in four people practise Islam, according to the US Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, which published the survey. This compares to 2.25 billion Christians.
The Top five Muslim countries in the world include only one in the Middle East – Egypt – behind Indonesia, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, in that order. Russia, the survey shows, has more Muslims than the populations of Libya and Jordan combined. Germany has more Muslims than Lebanon. China has a bigger Muslim population than Syria.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl…
What confuses me is how many American women are choosing to become Muslim that were not raised Muslim. I can’t understand why?
This is the most female fearing religion.
My best assistant when I was in corporate became Muslim. We had such long conversations on the topic, however, I was never able to understand why? Why a smart, beautiful woman would choose to become a second class citizen to men. I just don’t get it.
…because under some strict Conservative orders, they are treated “badly.”
The American Public has been raised on bad Warnography of the 80’s that portray all Muslims as evil, primitive sinister beasts who treat women like disposable property. As such, our limited view of interaction between the sexes under Islam means that all Muslim women are sub-human objects wrapped in multiple layers of clothes.
Not what I saw in Morocco or the Philippines….not even out in the sticks. Women were partners in the relationship, and certainly spoke their mind in the situations I spoke with them. And ran their households with a gumption that would’ve made Alice Cramden proud.
And certainly not what I saw as a 5-year old kid at Iowa State University. My parents deliberately chose to live in the international student area, where an Egyptian Couple (Mohammed and Salawah) chose to dote on a stupid American kid who wanted to know why they crawled on carpets all the time.
I don’t remember any of my Jewish friends cutting off their daughters’ clitoris’.
I can remember driving in Saudi Arabia, watching women (in passenger seats) get the shit beat out of them on the causeway between Bahrain and Dahran. Because they glanced to their right and the lane we were in.
Dan, should we not ‘spout off’ because they’re numerous, or because they’re correct in subjugating their women like animals?
Here’s a clarification:
Saudi Arabia, which would probably be considered the most advanced of Sharia law countries, still combines incredibly archaic subjugation of women with a modern society.
The same goes for some of the most populous Muslim countries. Indonesia?
I’m just saying, let’s not pretend that Islam is growing because women look at the way they’re treated and say “hey – that looks great! I think I’ll convert!”
I haven’t travelled thru Indonesia, so I don’t have first-hand knowledge of that. The Dutch Indonesians I know (in Holland) have the same sort of vague spirituality I’d find in the average Presby/Lutheran church here in Denver.
Even more so in Bosnia/Croatia. They seem to have inherited the same religious indifference the rest of Europe has, though in the mid-90’s they had the same religious awakening we saw in the US post-9/11.
My point is that you can’t stereotype an entire religion based on the actions of one of it’s smallest minority, esp the minority that practices the most extreme form of that religion.
Unless, of course, you’re a Right Wing pundit with a radio show or a blog.
http://atheism.about.com/od/ba…
But there are plenty of “moderate” Muslims that treat women like dogs. A majority, even, if we’re talking about population.
I’m still hoping to buy you a beer and talk some hockey sometime.
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Female Genital mutilation is a feature of the Third World (esp Africa), and not specific to the Islamic countries. So is tamping, or cutting holes in a skull to remove evil spirits causing headaches. Do you want to attribute that to Muslims as well?
The point of the survey is the majority of Muslims live OUTSIDE the Middle East, where they practice the most extreme versions of Islam. The vast majority of Muslims in the world don’t practice that extremist version of Wahhabi-style Islam, yet thanks to bad Chuck Norris movies and stupid Right-wing media, the majority of Americans believe in this cardboard cutout version of “Damn A-rabs.”
convert to orthodox Judaism. Almost all of them are born into it, and their population is shrinking every year with all the people who are born Orthodox and then become less and less so the older they get.
and a frequent aspect of old religions, but many people don’t practice it that way. Taliban- or Wahhabi-style Islam is relatively rare and considered pretty extreme by most.
Besides, not everyone views even wearing of the burka to be repressive. I talked with some Pakistani women students about it once, and their view was that they were happy to wear such clothes since it removed artificial inequality and made their teachers and peers treat them as equals. They said it was analogous to having kids wear uniforms in school.
Not sure if I agree with that, but I also have a hard time arguing against the logic of it.
http://voices.washingtonpost.c…
aw crap, you used up all the good ones
Good for him. Now, if he can find a way out of Afghanistan, and Iraq, and eliminate nuclear weapons, and truly play a significant role over the next seven years putting this planet on a path of sanity and sustainability…he’ll certainly have proven all his skeptics wrong.
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