Balta1701

We went what, 14-18 in ST in 05?

I just couldn't bring myself to post this in the "For GOP Only" thread no matter how wrong Their numbers are or how many times Kap or Yasny have shown up here. So I'm posting how wrong they are here. It seems someone got the "It's more dangerous to be in Washington D.C. than in Iraq" email. Of course, these numbers are totally wrong. First of all, they're wrong on the Washington D.C. firearm death rate. In 2004, there were 192 murders in that city. In 2005, there were 185. It's highest ever was 482 murders in 1 year, back in 1991. That is for a population of roughly 550,000, according to the U.S. census bureau. Link So, if you break it down, in the worst year, that gives you a number slightly higher than 80 murders per year per hundred thousand inhabitants in D.C. Of course, in Iraq, there have been 2297 fatalities among U.S. soldiers (the email he got was out of date clearly). That is over roughly 36 months at this point, since the war was launched in March of 03. So that averages out to about 750 fatalities per year, and with 150,000 troops, that translates to about 500 fatalities per year per hundred thousand troops. In other words, in the worst year in D.C.'s murder history, there were basically as many deaths for a population of 550,000 as is currently seen among about 100,000 U.S. soldiers in Iraq.

So today, we have 2 new polls out, 1 of which comes from a company which for some reason always has Bush polling higher than almost anyone else. Fox News: Bush Approval: 39% Gallup: Bush Approval: 38%. Fox News shows a 5 percentage point drop for Mr. Bush's overall approval since their last poll in early Feb. Gallup only has a small tick downwards in approval, but a statistically significant uptick in disapproval. This is only the 2nd time Bush has fallen below 40% in the Fox Poll. So, I think it's safe to say that Bush has fallen even farther in Feb., but not as far as CBS's poll had him falling. CBS currently looks like an outlier, especially compared with these polls. In fact, their January poll probably was an outlier too (on the positive side), so they're just bouncing around back and forth due to something screwy with their sampling technique.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 2, 2006 -> 04:40 AM) Not many greasy wheels. Are you suggesting that 25% are dishonest? 2.5%? .25%? ow many dishonest people do you think there are in government? I would not be surprised at all if it was on the order of magnitude of 25%.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Mar 2, 2006 -> 02:09 PM) After much hair-pulling and a few colorful metaphors, the site's obviously back up. My fault... sort of. There was a script that I ran this morning that deleted the function of the message boards. Once I figured that out it took all of 5 minutes to fix. We appreciate the effort, good sir.

Pedro Martinez is out of the WBC. Same foot injury.

Man do they have to work hard to say something nice about Timo.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Feb 28, 2006 -> 07:50 PM) I was thinking 17 as well ESPN says the Bears are under by $7.8 million (John Clayton with a list.)

Linky Edit: Man did that one screw up. Please delete the one with no content in it, someone who has the power. Thanks.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 05:32 PM) ok, can you provide me with the statements he made that were lies? i'm not trying to defend Bush on this, but you need to be more specific with your attacks.

Crooks and Liars (yes its a liberal site, sue me, they have a ton of bandwith) has the videos up if you want to see.

QUOTE(SoxPride56 @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 05:04 PM) Who would we have to give up for Kerry? $10 million dollars. And our dignity.

QUOTE(sayitaintso @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 05:00 PM) It took this long to do it? They were trying to keep him from going to an Eastern conference club, so they had to wait until he struck a deal with someone in the West.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 04:59 PM) no one is saying that the federal government did a good job with this disaster but the local government did even worse, so you might want to place some blame on those "not my fault!" democrats in Louisiana don't worry, i won't hold my breath for an admission of fault As soon as I get a chance to vote against them, I promise I will.

QUOTE(SoxPride56 @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 04:40 PM) I am gona go on record right now saying Nomo will be a great surprise to the White Sox bullpen this year. "I'm surprised a baseball could fly that far off of a bat. Wow."

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 09:51 AM) Good game by the Bulls, regardless of what Casey was doing. Has there been any word on Malik Allen's neck and Chris Duhon's (glass) jaw? Day to day on both of them. But then again, aren't we all?

Link

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 04:49 PM) Show me a Cub that wants Scott Williamson as their closer and I will show you a stupid Cub. Fixed that for you.

Who wants to be that somehow he'll fit right in on the Suns and turn into another version of Diaw?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 04:22 PM) Even if Jack didn't touch a Dem, there is someone out there that did. There's a guy from Louisiana who's been under investigation by the Feds for about a year and who will probably wind up in jail. And Conyers (D-MI) seems to be having some ethics troubles too.

Panthers cut Stephen Davis, "He Hate me", and DT Brenson Buckner. Dolphins cut Left Tackle Damion Mcintosh. Edit: And others. Well, there's a pro-bowl veteran cornerback on the market if the Bears have room. Chris Simms signed a 1 year deal with the Bucs.

The Bills released Sam Adams and Lawyer Milloy. No news yet on Eric Moulds.

Good lord, the Broncos are suddenly a Cap disaster.

QUOTE(fathom @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 12:53 PM) Where's the desire for Geoff Blum to come back for the ceremony? They also have a game the day of the ring ceremony. Perhaps we could just bring along a lock of his hair.

So...I'm not even going to ask how the AP got their hands on these videos. But since they're out...it sure looks like the higher ups, Bush and Chertoff in particular, were in fact fully briefed on the likely outcomes of Katrina hitting New Orleans well before the storm hit shore, including the failure of levees, disaster at the Superdome, etc.