[quote]UtahLama wrote:
[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]
My brother is a Ph.d at a major university and he only makes about 25% of what I make. He went to school for 13 years, has a shit ton of student debt and resents the hell out me because I did a 5 year apprenticeship and blow him out of the water income-wise. He’s also a flaming liberal (imagine that) and feels that I earn too much. But he was kissing my ass when I rewired his house for free.
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
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.
But REPUBLICANS have the war on women!
Cassidy wins in LA. Mary Landreau has to pack her shit and go!
[quote]NorCal916 wrote:
Cassidy wins in LA. Mary Landreau has to pack her shit and go![/quote]
Bam is willing to sacrifice his entire party to feed his massive ego. Inexperience and narcissism are a bad combo for a leader to have.
The House fucking skewering Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber after he admits they lied about the law to get it passed, because American voters are too stupid to understand how it works.
Meanwhile, in Nebraska…
Anybody seen that vid of that asshole in uniform impersonating an Army Ranger at the airport???
I gotta find it…
[quote]NorCal916 wrote:
Anybody seen that vid of that asshole in uniform impersonating an Army Ranger at the airport???
I gotta find it…[/quote]
This guy?
Sad stuff. To think that an adult would go to Army surplus stores and buy himself medals; dress up in uniform; pretend to be a vet. Pathetic. And it’s so common they’ve had to bring in laws to deal with the problem. I can’t fathom what kind of psychological issues you’d have to have to do something like that and go to such lengths. “Walter Mitty Syndrome” I believe it’s called.
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
“Walter Mitty Syndrome” I believe it’s called.[/quote]
Should be called, “I deserve to be punched in the face repeatedly Syndrome.”
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
[quote]NorCal916 wrote:
Anybody seen that vid of that asshole in uniform impersonating an Army Ranger at the airport???
I gotta find it…[/quote]
This guy?
Sad stuff. To think that an adult would go to Army surplus stores and buy himself medals; dress up in uniform; pretend to be a vet. Pathetic. And it’s so common they’ve had to bring in laws to deal with the problem. I can’t fathom what kind of psychological issues you’d have to have to do something like that and go to such lengths. “Walter Mitty Syndrome” I believe it’s called.[/quote]
That’s it!
Amazing.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]2busy wrote:
Meanwhile, in Nebraska…
Sure hope the poor rascal didn’t get raped much on his sojourn.
Nebraska: where men are men and sheep are nervous!
(Actually, that line is supposed to say Montana)[/quote]
I thought that line is supposed to say Wyoming…
The sheep has returned home.
http://news.yahoo.com/sheep-wearing-holiday-sweater-found-omaha-215613039.html
[quote]sufiandy wrote:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/15/dem-lawmaker-may-commute-to-work-from-jail/[/quote]
That’s incredible.
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
[quote]sufiandy wrote:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/15/dem-lawmaker-may-commute-to-work-from-jail/[/quote]
That’s incredible. [/quote]
LOL! Sweet Jesus…
Bring on the torture. You cannot treat people who shoot children in the head and then have their spokesman “Confirm” it like humans.
[quote]UtahLama wrote:
Bring on the torture. You cannot treat people who shoot children in the head and then have their spokesman “Confirm” it like humans.
No shit. Heaven help us if leave them in a cell listening to Elton John at full volume.
[quote]UtahLama wrote:
Bring on the torture. You cannot treat people who shoot children in the head and then have their spokesman “Confirm” it like humans.
And yet when these sick animals turn their attention to us and attack us there are many amongst us who say they’re only attacking us because we killed innocent Muslims. They’re up all night weeping about all the innocent Muslims the Americans kill in these precise, pinpoint drone strikes on maniacs; that’s why they do stuff like murder a hundred young, Muslim children. It’s because they’re so upset and angry about innocent Muslims getting killed…by us of course. There’s something wrong with us - in the west. Particularly Americans. We just keep pushing and pushing them and eventually they react. As Hillary Clinton said recently, we need to empathise with the enemy. We’re doing all this “meddling” and “kill[ed] millions of Iraqis” and this entire phenomena of jihadi terrorism is a reactive response against American wars of aggression. The US had troops in Saudi Arabia and they may not have actually fought anyone or killed anyone but their dirty kafir smell polluted the holy lands of Mohammad. So it’s our fault. All of it is our fault.
This is essentially the mentality of the hard left and also a large majority of the libertarian movement. That’s why, or at least it’s part of the reason why we can’t wage war decisively against vanguard jihadists. Obama has resolved to stay out of Iraq. He won’t even admit we are at war. He’s just closing his eyes and ears to what’s actually happening. And it’s ludicrous and very damaging to the credibility and prestige of the US in particular but also to the West in general. There they are the super power; the military industrial behemoth that spends more on arms than every other nation on earth combined. And its inherent structural weaknesses allow it to be undermined and attacked from within. Politicians powerless to stop it. Immigration quotas enforced by UN treaty commitments. And the Marxists have indoctrinated the masses; utterly demoralised the people who now think in phantasmagorical terms of “illegal wars” and US “imperialism” or the language of the libertarian right; “meddling” and the revival of 1920’s “military industrial complex” and central banking conspiracy theories.
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Came across this here
