[quote]MaximusB wrote:
Crowd exits as Obama speaks at Mary Burke Rally[/quote]
Nice one… good old Obola is probably less popular than a fart in church…
[quote]beachguy498 wrote:
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
Crowd exits as Obama speaks at Mary Burke Rally[/quote]
Nice one… good old Obola is probably less popular than a fart in church…[/quote]
I am deeply concerned when Obama mentions about not needing a photo ID to vote, rather startling statement by a sitting president.
A follow up to a story I mentioned earlier…
Muslim Students Plan to Block Maher, Target ‘Conservative’ Berkeley Administration
These students are seriously crazy.
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
A follow up to a story I mentioned earlier…
Muslim Students Plan to Block Maher, Target ‘Conservative’ Berkeley Administration
These students are seriously crazy.[/quote]
With great conviction, she said “Ngga’s 'aint gotta worry about Twitter…Nggas 'gotta worry about getting shot at point blank.”
“She asked to remain anonymous, but told Breitbart News that she was from Oakland.”
That’s hilarious right there! Do you think they got the humor, Max???
[quote]NorCal916 wrote:
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
A follow up to a story I mentioned earlier…
Muslim Students Plan to Block Maher, Target ‘Conservative’ Berkeley Administration
These students are seriously crazy.[/quote]
With great conviction, she said “Ngga’s 'aint gotta worry about Twitter…Nggas 'gotta worry about getting shot at point blank.”
She asked to remain anonymous, but told Breitbart News that she was from Oakland. That’s hilarious right there! Do you think they got the humor, Max???
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Does a bear wipe his ass with a white rabbit ?
Creepy threatening letters are being sent out to people in NY and Connecticut.
Fantastic news…
The Marine being held in a Mexican jail has been ordered for immediate release.
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
Creepy threatening letters are being sent out to people in NY and Connecticut.
https://twitter.com/jonathancoulton/status/527972474051637250/photo/1[/quote]
Any source that it got sent to other people as well?
http://www.myfoxny.com/story/27360334/hearing-on-1st-in-nation-tobacco-ban-ended-early
Let’s play logic shall we:
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Abortion? Women’s right to control her body
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Selling tobacco? The government needs to ban this as to prevent people from being in control of their body.
Sense made? Zero.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
http://www.myfoxny.com/story/27360334/hearing-on-1st-in-nation-tobacco-ban-ended-early
Let’s play logic shall we:
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Abortion? Women’s right to control her body
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Selling tobacco? The government needs to ban this as to prevent people from being in control of their body.
Sense made? Zero. [/quote]
At least with an abortion you are not harming other people. Think of all the children who are harmed by tobacco.
[quote]cwill1973 wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
http://www.myfoxny.com/story/27360334/hearing-on-1st-in-nation-tobacco-ban-ended-early
Let’s play logic shall we:
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Abortion? Women’s right to control her body
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Selling tobacco? The government needs to ban this as to prevent people from being in control of their body.
Sense made? Zero. [/quote]
At least with an abortion you are not harming other people. Think of all the children who are harmed by tobacco.
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I see what you did there
Stop offering extensive medical care to long time smokers, Darwinism is a most effective teacher.
Los Angeles Unified School District lawyers fighting a civil lawsuit argued in court that a 14-year-old middle school student was mature enough to consent to having sex with her 28-year-old teacher, and that she bore some responsibility for what happened.
[quote]Bismark wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]Bismark wrote:
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
Think Tank Employees Tend to Support Democrats
A U.S. News analysis of data from the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan organization that tracks money in politics, suggests that employees at all but the most conservative organizations gave far more financial support to Democrats than Republicans over the last four election cycles.
Wait, you’re telling me the most informed Americans are inclined to give monetary support to… Oh. [/quote]
lmao.
Keep telling yourself that. Whatever helps you sleep at night. [/quote]
Not that they are necessarily correct, but the most educated and experienced people within a policy field are likely to identify as Democrats. Most think tanks require a phd to get your foot in the door. The same in academia. It’s an interesting correlation, especially so when one examines the heavy hitters on that list. [/quote]
I’d like to bring this up because there’s now a very solid case that there is a bias in at least one large branch of study, and the likelihood is that this is far from the only one. Here:
Tell me, is there a correlation between people feeling very unwelcomed/intimidated to speak their minds because they face career ostracism and the amount of people that choose to keep pursuing the field in the face of such hostility? Because I would call that a safe bet, and it would mean that this correlation you have drawn up here about “the most educated” means really not the most intelligent or “educated” per se. It means a selection bias and homogeneity because of intolerance and ostracism.
[quote]Aragorn wrote:
[quote]Bismark wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]Bismark wrote:
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
Think Tank Employees Tend to Support Democrats
A U.S. News analysis of data from the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan organization that tracks money in politics, suggests that employees at all but the most conservative organizations gave far more financial support to Democrats than Republicans over the last four election cycles.
Wait, you’re telling me the most informed Americans are inclined to give monetary support to… Oh. [/quote]
lmao.
Keep telling yourself that. Whatever helps you sleep at night. [/quote]
Not that they are necessarily correct, but the most educated and experienced people within a policy field are likely to identify as Democrats. Most think tanks require a phd to get your foot in the door. The same in academia. It’s an interesting correlation, especially so when one examines the heavy hitters on that list. [/quote]
I’d like to bring this up because there’s now a very solid case that there is a bias in at least one large branch of study, and the likelihood is that this is far from the only one. Here:
Tell me, is there a correlation between people feeling very unwelcomed/intimidated to speak their minds because they face career ostracism and the amount of people that choose to keep pursuing the field in the face of such hostility? Because I would call that a safe bet, and it would mean that this correlation you have drawn up here about “the most educated” means really not the most intelligent or “educated” per se. It means a selection bias and homogeneity because of intolerance and ostracism.[/quote]
Which is why a tenured Ph.d will NEVER see eye to eye with a oil roughneck or other blue collar worker, even though they earn the same amount.
[quote]Aragorn wrote:
It means a selection bias and homogeneity because of intolerance and ostracism.[/quote]
I think “intolerance and ostracism” is putting it too harshly, and possibly misreading what the article is actually saying.
People naturally gravitate towards like-minded people, and they naturally distrust and seek to disprove anything that they don’t agree with.
Academics do quite a lot of this. For example, pretty much every new major idea in anthropology faces a lot of opposition from the established order.
And obviously people don’t like getting questioned and facing opposition left and right. But just because people question and disagree with your claims doesn’t make it intolerance, even if the overwhelming majority within the field does it.
Now, I think the relevant question is more of “what caused social psychology to become heavily dominated by Democrats/liberal thought?” than anything else. Afaik, social psychology in of itself isn’t a liberal field or anything.
Why is it that academia is now supposedly dominated by liberals and Democrats? It’s ludicrous to claim that this was always the case, and so there must have been a period where this change occurred.
Democrats denied a proxy vote to a pregnant congresswoman.
Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), who is eight months pregnant and cannot travel to Washington, will not be allowed to vote by proxy in the upcoming leadership battles, as Democrats refused to make an exception to their hard-and-fast rules about proxy voting.
lol