“Everybody thinks that they’re being monitored, everybody thinks that the pollster knows who they are, and you’re not gonna have people get asked, ‘So do you personally like the president?’ and say, ‘Hell, no!'”
–Rush Limbaugh, yesterday
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a post from the Thursday open thread that I think many will not see.
I will be in Denver on Saturday with some discretionary time. Are there any meet-ups scheduled? Or perhaps we might put one together.
I rarely cross the Divide, so it would be a good chance for me to meet some of my cyber friends.
I am previously scheduled for the evening (sorry, PCG), but lunch or a late breakfast would be great.
Staying at 6th and Acoma. Do you have lunch plans,David?
That there’s an afterparty for a Democratic Party fundraiser, around 9 PM at Jose O’Shea’s in Lakewood. I suspect that if one were looking for me Saturday evening, they would find me there, and I have reason to believe that the organizers would welcome any Polsters who wish to show up.
Intercollegiate Studies Institute – Full Civic Literacy Exam . It’s pretty easy – I got 96.97%.
More of an econ test at the end than a civics test.
Both econ and on one I just flat out disagreed with all of their choices. It was something about free market economy. All the true civics stuff was easy.
The fact that econ was conflated with civics makes me suspicious of quiz source. And yes I know our elected officials must make decisions informed by knowledge of economics but that doesn’t make economics civics.
For one thing the quiz included what I would consider subjective judgements on some “correct” econ answers whereas civics, the rules that govern the mechanics of how our constitutionally mandated system works, are objective. There is only one possible correct answer, for instance, to what constitutes the 3 branches of government. Not so with some of the econ questions.
Can’t believe I conflated Lincoln’s beautiful words from the Gettysburg Address as belonging to the Constitution. Wishful thinking on my part.
But otherwise, I tied David’s 96.97% score. Owe it to a misspent youth studying International Business and Economics.
It’s a humorous title but the story of how the police are acting is really worrisome – The Gazette
Computer science classes in K-12 – TNTSNBN
I can get help from the neighbor’s kids now that mine is gone
With this:
I imagine that a CS grad can earn more than twice as much out of school as a teacher. How do we entice them to teach?
–Oh, wait, those are dirty words now in education. My bad.
Maybe they could get programmers in regular jobs to teach a single class paired up with a student teacher (who knows the ED part)? Or get existing teachers to teach it – you don’t need a degree in C.S. to teach an intro course in it.
I’ve had 2 national ones – one kicked me out of the poll when I said I supported the President’s Jobs bill. Wonder who was running that poll? 🙂
This is the only thing I could find.
that showed it losing 45-47. There was a poll this spring that showed the CFPI and earlier Heath proposal going down by even wider margin, but that’s part of the reason those didn’t gain any traction and aren’t on the ballot.
Does that support tend to stick or does it drop as election day approaches? Because if this means we go in to election day 2 points down, that’s statistically a tie.
Also, is there any serious money in opposition to the proposal? If not, does that mean we stay closer to even as we approach election day?
ballot measures have to start out the campaign with over 50 percent support, because it’s a lot easier to decide to vote against something than it is to vote for it.
This year could be different, however, with only one measure on the ballot, and nothing else statewide, which is just a very unusual situation so the old rules might not strictly apply.
So far there’s not a lot of money on either side, beyond what Heath and his allies raised to get the measure on the ballot. If any polls show it’s likely to pass, though, count on opponents raising some money to defeat it.
But both campaigns are running almost entirely grassroots campaigns, relying on neighbors talking to neighbors, and that kind of campaign, coupled with turnout being driven by local races with very different profiles across the state, might make things hard to predict.
Conservatives are really pissed with Perry for his terrible performance in the debate. Sounds like someone else I know…
from the Weekly Standard who were taking emails during the debate:
Gee, you don’t say.
“The occupational hazard of democracy is know-nothing voters. It shouldn’t be know-nothing candidates.”
on the debate last night, from the conservative side. I almost regret missing it. Almost.
you’ve probably reached the nadir.
didn’t call the audience out for that shit. That was just vile. I saw the video of it this morning. Literally could not believe that no one had a single word to say, to speak out against booing a guy who is serving in Iraq. Unbelievable.
… ’cause it will only get worse. Media loving these sickenign audience responses. Why mic the audience? Why do moderators accept the audience outburst? Because it plays to the viewers. Live audience reactions are fast becoming the takeaways from these debates.
Just like last summer’s TeaBaggin’ demonstrations were vastly over reported, vastly over played, and proved to be red meat for the CNN/Fox/MSNBC 24-7 ratings.
No Dem primary will make us look timid & pale & weak in comparison. These nine mostly laughable “candidates” are all pants-on-fire liars racing to jump in bed with the extremophile wing of the GOTP.
Fuxsake, Batshit Bachmann said everyone should get to keep all their earnings — no taxes at all. She a nuckin’ fut willing to spew out anything trying to contend. She’s one of the most desperate seel-your-soul liars up there and she’s been riding this wagonload of BS for months. All media know it but just lets her spew ’cause it is red meat for the Coliseum mobs.
…Umbridge?
(Oddly appropriate to the topic of conversation–I must not tell lies?)
when you paste up Potter screen grabs 😉
Hush your mouth. I like my Harry Potter. The writing is between decent and shitty somewhere and more derivative than the Black-Eyed Peas, but it’s great for a quick escape.
She said everyone should be able to keep every dollar…AND we have to fund the government.
The moderator just said ‘thanks,’ audience clapped, move on…
Certainly there is an obvious follow up question–like “How the hell do you expect to do that Congresswoman? Bake sales?”
But on Faux Snooze the obvious isn’t I guess.
Then launched into some line about not having sex when you are in the military, social experimentation…
who said “…we sound like crazy people” as a bright young conservtaive. Wonder if they got any “Bravo. These candidates are awesome” e-mails from our ‘tad, ArapG and Markie.
even when they’re on live TV, we apparently missed a few good lines, like this one by Rick Perry, quoted in the NYTimes:
Help us all.
The second curve should probably dip below the starting point a few times. Success is hard, and is frequently accompanied by a fair amount of failure (and not just in business).