mr_genius

question of the day: is FOX news going to stop running Sarah Palin intreviews 24/7 or am i going to have to put them on my ignore list?

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/26...nesota.recount/ after 80 precent of the recount complete, Coleman leads by238.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 24, 2008 -> 08:03 AM) If we are using a purely stats argument as Silver would, then those sorts of chance occurances - accidental mistaken number transposition and the line - in theory, that should help neither candidate (or both equally). In theory. i can calculate the odds of having 100 votes for Franken and 0 for Coleman in a random sample in a 50-50 election. trust me, they will be staggering, suggesting some shananigans. 1/2 probability of a Franken vote to the 100th power; think 1 to 7.9 x 10 to the 31 power chance; 79 followed by 30 zeros, or 79,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 . calculate (.5)^100 get 7.88861e-31. yea, uh, thats likely. i'm sure he hit that magic 1 in 79,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 can also use the stats of percent of Obama that voted Franken overall and work in the percentage that voted Obama in a certain district of having a 100-0 pro-Franken random sample. again the chance going to be ridiculous, unless this is like a 95% Obama district these votes came from. and wasn't it 200 found votes that were 200-0 Franken? just goign to make it that much more crazy in the odds.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 24, 2008 -> 03:47 PM) I blame the Lizard People. who doesn't?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 24, 2008 -> 03:08 PM) The people have spoken. We elected a liberal president. The most liberal person in history if you ask some of the conservatives on this site. And we also elected a majority of liberals in Congress. That's why liberals are annoyed that the president-elect is creating what appears to be a not-so progressive looking cabinet. Actually, the Democrats have ran a lot of fairly conservative Democrats in the past couple elections to get their big majority in the Senate. The only really crazy liberal to run was Franken, and a lot of Obama voters in Minn didn't even punch the ticket for him.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Nov 24, 2008 -> 12:04 AM) But the difference is, if youre a white guy, you can still register on the African American dating site. If you're a gay guy, you couldn't register on eHarmony. you could register i think, but they didn't have a gay section. oh well. so someone could register for a black dating service then demand white girls to be there? i guess they could do that, but they would probably just get laughed at as it would be obvious they were just trying to start trouble.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 23, 2008 -> 02:41 PM) Agree. If one hunts a deer, assuming they aren't some sicko, they kill it as quickly as possible. And they use or sell or donate the meat, fur, etc., if they are worth their salt. That is being a carnivore, as most humans are. Torturing animals for sport is sick and wrong. ^^^

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Nov 23, 2008 -> 05:26 PM) There are tons of cases just as silly as this one fought every day. well i can agree with that

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Nov 23, 2008 -> 09:25 AM) Yes; they can legally reject a person because he or she is a dork, but not because of their legally protected characteristics; Its not a perfect analogy, but the situation would be similar to a "gay" bar refusing admittance to straight clientele. Sexual orientation isn't quite on the same legal footing as race, ethnicity, religion, and other protected classes, but the issues are similar to those that used to come up with lunch counters refusing service to Blacks in the 60's. it's not really the same situation as forced segregation. it is basically (from what i can tell) a dating service geared towards evangelical straight couples. this whole case is fairly suspect. the fact is that dating services that cater to certain ethnic groups is not anything hateful, illegal, or out of the ordinary. jewish americans, hispanics, and african-americans have similar services.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Nov 21, 2008 -> 12:42 PM) so does this mean that Obama is a lizard person? I just thought he was a socialist muslim terrorist? i heard McCain was actually an evil, George Wallace clone, lizard man alien. true story. i'm glad he lost, we just can't take a risk like that.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 20, 2008 -> 08:39 PM) You do realize that you just made my point. Unless there WAS a threat to those that voted the wrong way on Waxman, why the need for a secret vote? Whereas with unionization, there is a very real threat to those that don't vote the right way so they NEED the secret vote. yet dems don't want them to have that. I guess 'do as I say, not as I do' applies here. The only reason the Unions want a open ballot is so they an use threats and intimidation to get their way. Retribution.

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QUOTE (Cknolls @ Nov 20, 2008 -> 11:46 AM) pcHarmony.com [Mark Steyn] This doesn't seem an encouraging development: The Pasadena-based dating website, heavily promoted by Christian evangelical leaders when it was founded, has agreed in a civil rights settlement to give up its heterosexuals-only policy and offer same-sex matches. EHarmony was started by psychologist Neil Clark Warren, who is known for his mild-mannered television and radio advertisements. It must not only implement the new policy by March 31 but also give the first 10,000 same-sex registrants a free six-month subscription. “That was one of the things I asked for,” said Eric McKinley, 46, who complained to New Jersey’s Division on Civil Rights after being turned down for a subscription in 2005. I don't know Mr. McKinley's taste in men, but this would have been a less predictable case had he attempted to acquire a Muslim boyfriend at, say, singlemuslim.com. Indeed, Mr. Warren and his colleagues at eHarmony might have been better advised to convert to Islam and claim the right to have the case settled by one of the west's fast multiplying Sharia courts, which are (to put it mildly) less antipathetic to "heterosexism". As the Belmont Club comments: Sharia law is at heart a desire to live outside the system and while its spread is probably a bad thing for the West, one wonders how much the paralyzing and expensive effect of excessive litigation and over regulation in Western society has driven the rise of parallel private institutions. There'll be more of that in the years ahead. As Michelle Malkin says, the eHarmony settlement is like a meat-eater going to a vegetarian restaurant and demanding a ribeye. The "tolerance" enforcers are jeopardizing the very possibility of any shared societal space. Good luck with that. of course

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 20, 2008 -> 04:06 PM) I feel like I'm throwing money away by contributing to my 401k. if the market goes back up, which it probably eventually will, you are actually buying at a good rate right now. could work out for you. for people who are retired and need their savings; yea they are getting rocked. but the market has risen by so much over the decades they are still coming out way ahead.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 20, 2008 -> 03:54 PM) DJIA has lost 43.1% of its value... this year alone. it's a complete mess right now. getting close to losing %50 in one year.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 20, 2008 -> 02:08 PM) oh well, those pirates had a good run, but they were eventually gonna get busted.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 19, 2008 -> 08:55 AM) I saw today that that $72/hour figure or whatever it was is actually going to come down to about $44/hour in 2010 which is on par with the foreign companies in the US, but that GM needs a bridge to get there or the whole thing will collapse. GM needs to negotiate immediate payscale restructuring. If the unions don't like it thats fine, they can go form go from $72 hour to $0 in 2009 when GM goes bellyup.

uh oh hopefully the Dems lose the next two.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 18, 2008 -> 05:44 PM) Begcich now has a 2400 vote lead in Alaska. This is important, as anything less than a 1600 or so lead would trigger an automatic, state-funded recount. The Stevens campaign would have to take from its legal defense funds to pay for a recount if the margin is greater than that. Maybe someone could find 2k votes in their trunk, all for Stevens. Sounds reasonable.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 18, 2008 -> 01:13 PM) Clearly you get it, but why the conspiracy theories? Unless it's a character thing you like to slip in and out of like Kap. There's no conspiracy, it's just how the media works.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Nov 18, 2008 -> 12:53 PM) Should all protests at Churches be treated nationally? Are we interested in all protests nationally? My God, to listen to some here the daily newspaper would be 10,000 pages long and cover every damn story from coast to coast. They really can't cover everything, it's up to the news rooms to decide which stories are going to get the most press. Of course news organizations such as FOX and MSNBC will often vary to a great extent as to which news stories are considered most worthy of coverage.

QUOTE (shipps @ Nov 18, 2008 -> 12:29 PM) I always wanted to be a pirate,but not this kind of pirate these guys are all business. you're going to need a more robust ship than the 'S.S No Fatties' if you plan on doing any note worthy plundering.

they aren't unbiased news organizations, they sell campaign merchandise and promote a certain party. there is a big difference putting someone on the cover of a magazine and putting them in the context of a historical figure. if this was McCain on the cover, depicting him as George Washington or Lincoln you would probably understand where I am coming from. i get it, you like your news biased and geared towards your political party. that is fine, buy their stuff and watch their shows. it's no big deal, thats the beauty of how our media works. if you don't like a certain news source you are free to criticize and go to different venues. people are doing just that and the media has polarized itself so much that the competition for pro-Democrat news is causing them to lose viewers/readers. i think it's fine too, these media outlets are free to report as the please.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 18, 2008 -> 12:13 PM) Oh please. Put away the tinfoil hat. dude if you don't think the media has been completely pro-Obama and attacked McCain you are blind. they are even admitting it now. why are you posting in the GOP thread so much? i mean for f***s sake, major media outlets are selling Obama DVD's, putting him on the cover of magazines comparing him to FDR, calling him the greatest president of our generation and he hasn't even been sworn in yet. this isn't non-biased reporting. Obama could be the best ever and i sure hope he is, but this isn't unbiased reporting we are seeing.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 18, 2008 -> 12:09 PM) I don't see how a story involving violence and one that is non-violent should be reported on equally. the violence story would have been ignored. the hoax, self-mutilation was front page news. it was a political story, it was part of a narrative once it was shown that this was a McCain supporter trying to pull a fast one.