10/12 - wasnt sure of the troop amount or the dow average…
missed the troop number and the dow average.
Missed troop count and finance committee member. 
I’m not so concerned with people knowing “facts” as with peoples underlying philosophy. I’d rather have a population of voters that is concerned with preserving individual liberty and property rights than one concerned with what they can get out of the government.
[quote]orion wrote:
Ryan P. McCarter wrote:
Wow, great job guys. If you can score high on that, you MUST be smart…
No, but if you score low on that you are not entitled to a political opinion.
And it is kind of telling that those who have no idea about the basic shape of things tend to vote liberal.[/quote]
It’s also telling that the most educated people tend to be liberal.
Conclusion? It’s hard to draw sweeping conclusions from things like this. Smart people don’t.
[quote]valiant knight wrote:
Liberals are ignorant about the real world.[/quote]
That’s why they have to have their own special news network that won’t break the seal on their parallel reality, eh? Ohhh, right…
Anyway, it’s the conervatives who deny evolution, deny global warming, insist Iraq had WMDs, blame the financial crisis on poor people, etc.
You want to rethink that statement? Oh, of course you don’t. You’re a conservative.
[quote]orion wrote:
jnd wrote:
orion wrote:
Ryan P. McCarter wrote:
Wow, great job guys. If you can score high on that, you MUST be smart…
No, but if you score low on that you are not entitled to a political opinion.
So YOUR freedom comes with an test? Wow!
jnd
How are they any less free for being a dolt?
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Um, I’m pretty sure you said they are not entitled to a political opinion if they score poorly on that test. Which means that you think they should not have any influence if they do poorly. Which is to say they are less free.
[quote]Ryan P. McCarter wrote:
orion wrote:
jnd wrote:
orion wrote:
Ryan P. McCarter wrote:
Wow, great job guys. If you can score high on that, you MUST be smart…
No, but if you score low on that you are not entitled to a political opinion.
So YOUR freedom comes with an test? Wow!
jnd
How are they any less free for being a dolt?
Um, I’m pretty sure you said they are not entitled to a political opinion if they score poorly on that test. Which means that you think they should not have any influence if they do poorly. Which is to say they are less free.
[/quote]
Right to influence others = freedom? Maybe you should get a dictionary.
How is that change workin’ for ya’ Ryan? Where did you get your avatar, Van Jones?
[quote]Ryan P. McCarter wrote:
orion wrote:
Ryan P. McCarter wrote:
Wow, great job guys. If you can score high on that, you MUST be smart…
No, but if you score low on that you are not entitled to a political opinion.
And it is kind of telling that those who have no idea about the basic shape of things tend to vote liberal.
It’s also telling that the most educated people tend to be liberal.
Conclusion? It’s hard to draw sweeping conclusions from things like this. Smart people don’t.
[/quote]
actually it said the highly educated were fairly evenly split. Smart people would have noticed that.
[quote]Ryan P. McCarter wrote:
valiant knight wrote:
Liberals are ignorant about the real world.
That’s why they have to have their own special news network that won’t break the seal on their parallel reality, eh? Ohhh, right…
[/quote]
as opposed to a dozen of them? Either way, it would seem Fox seems to do a better job supplying the facts than the liberal networks.
11/12
Missed the finanace committee one.
By the way, generally why should I really need to know who the fuck Glen Beck is?
Libertarians Unite.
[quote]Ryan P. McCarter wrote:
valiant knight wrote:
Liberals are ignorant about the real world.
That’s why they have to have their own special news network that won’t break the seal on their parallel reality, eh? Ohhh, right…
Anyway, it’s the conervatives who deny evolution, deny global warming, insist Iraq had WMDs, blame the financial crisis on poor people, etc.
You want to rethink that statement? Oh, of course you don’t. You’re a conservative.
[/quote]
Really because I think I’m a pretty conservative guy and I have no problem with evolution to a certain extent, think global warming exists, but people are only a small fraction of the reason why the earth is warming, believe Iraq very well could have had WMD’s, and I blame the financial crisis on greedy people and poor/nonexistent checks and balances, not the poor.
Here you go:
Do you agree with Obama invading Iraq? YES!
Do agree with Obama being pro-life: Yes.
Do you agree with Obama saying our troops should stay in Iraq? yes
Do you think Obama made the right choice picking Sara Palin: Yes.
ROFL.
Idiots run this country.
[quote]Ryan P. McCarter wrote:
orion wrote:
jnd wrote:
orion wrote:
Ryan P. McCarter wrote:
Wow, great job guys. If you can score high on that, you MUST be smart…
No, but if you score low on that you are not entitled to a political opinion.
So YOUR freedom comes with an test? Wow!
jnd
How are they any less free for being a dolt?
Um, I’m pretty sure you said they are not entitled to a political opinion if they score poorly on that test. Which means that you think they should not have any influence if they do poorly. Which is to say they are less free.
[/quote]
To “have some influence” equals freedom?
They are free to be as stupid as they wanna be.
Wont do them any good though, stupid as they are.
[quote]Ryan P. McCarter wrote:
Um, I’m pretty sure you said they are not entitled to a political opinion if they score poorly on that test. Which means that you think they should not have any influence if they do poorly. Which is to say they are less free.
[/quote]
STREEEEEEETCH!
He was saying that if you can’t identify basic political figures and facts, you should shut the fuck up about politics.
Just because you extrapolate everything into law and government doesn’t mean the rest of us do. Just because I say someone shouldn’t do something doesn’t mean I want that something to be ILLEGAL.
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
Ryan P. McCarter wrote:
orion wrote:
jnd wrote:
orion wrote:
Ryan P. McCarter wrote:
Wow, great job guys. If you can score high on that, you MUST be smart…
No, but if you score low on that you are not entitled to a political opinion.
So YOUR freedom comes with an test? Wow!
jnd
How are they any less free for being a dolt?
Um, I’m pretty sure you said they are not entitled to a political opinion if they score poorly on that test. Which means that you think they should not have any influence if they do poorly. Which is to say they are less free.
Right to influence others = freedom? Maybe you should get a dictionary.[/quote]
If some people are free to do something that other people are not, no matter what it is, the latter group is less free. Pretty easy, right?
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
Ryan P. McCarter wrote:
orion wrote:
Ryan P. McCarter wrote:
Wow, great job guys. If you can score high on that, you MUST be smart…
No, but if you score low on that you are not entitled to a political opinion.
And it is kind of telling that those who have no idea about the basic shape of things tend to vote liberal.
It’s also telling that the most educated people tend to be liberal.
Conclusion? It’s hard to draw sweeping conclusions from things like this. Smart people don’t.
actually it said the highly educated were fairly evenly split. Smart people would have noticed that.[/quote]
I don’t care what it says. Over 50% of college educated people (I’ll go ahead and say it–this doesn’t mean they’re intelligent) voted for Obama. Among post-grads it was nearly 60%.
[quote]Ryan P. McCarter wrote:
I don’t care what it says. Over 50% of college educated people (I’ll go ahead and say it–this doesn’t mean they’re intelligent) voted for Obama. Among post-grads it was nearly 60%.[/quote]
I wonder how many of those feel some indebted to the big government that paid for their degrees.
Ah yes, here comes the segment in which we cry about “liberal bias” in the media. There’s no such thing as a liberal bias. The democrats are simply a less ridiculous party than the republicans. They’re still ridiculous, but any objective reporting is going to appear “biased” if your standard is running equal numbers of good and bad stories about each party.
And I’m going to just pretend you didn’t say that Fox does a better job supplying facts than “liberal” networks.
In case you didn’t notice, many of last year’s republican presidential candidates don’t believe in evolution.
Neither does Ron Paul, apparently:
If you really wanted to, you could find measurable data that indicated that the Holocaust was a hoax. That doesn’t mean it was, or that you’re any less stupid for thinking it.
? The CIA told Bush repeatedly there was no evidence of WMDs in Iraq. See? This is the problem with getting your news from Fox. It’s comfortable, but it’s wrong.
Um, there have been quite a lot of conservatives who have blamed the situation of homeowners who took loans they couldn’t pay back. I honestly don’t know how you could have missed this?
[quote]Sloth wrote:
Ryan P. McCarter wrote:
I don’t care what it says. Over 50% of college educated people (I’ll go ahead and say it–this doesn’t mean they’re intelligent) voted for Obama. Among post-grads it was nearly 60%.
I wonder how many of those feel some indebtedness to the big government that paid for their degrees.[/quote]
Dunno. But neither do I know what difference it makes. Indeed, if the government helps supply us with more valuable skilled workers, I’m not really sure what the problem is.