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Does Redskins Loss Presage A Kerry Win?
Puny Human Nick writes "As mentioned before, the last home game the Redskins play before the election has predicted who will win since 1944. Well, the Redskins v. Green Bay game ended a few hours ago and it looks as though Kerry is going to win on Tuesday."
Bush is not another Hitler!
...Hitler had charisma.
/so going to hell but I don't care.
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Flamebait, indeed. :)
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Yes it means Kerry will win, you Kerry supports don't need to go vote stay at home, and don't bother to vote.
Here's a scary thought, though somewhat off-topic here, I think it needs to be addressed: What if Bush loses, but refuses to leave office?
The reason wouldn't matter so much, he could have plenty. But think about it, who could actually MAKE him leave? He is technically in charge of the military, and would have the United State's entire arsenal at his disposal if need be.
Not an accusation, just something to chew on.
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According to an explosive ordinance Major who was there, he and his team blew it all up.
Again, according to the Major, his team blew up 7,000 tons of ordinance. According to the Pentagon, ~400,000 tons of ordinance has been detonated.
So, in a war zone,
Many people inside both the NY Times and CBS News have an active animus for W. Is it any wonder that they'd try to spin this crap as news late in the cycle?
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
The best case would be for Kerry to (fairly) win the electoral college, but lose the popular vote. That way not only would we get rid of Bush and his insane neocon administration, but we'd also have both major parties pissed off about electoral college results, which might (just maybe) get us started down the path towards getting rid of the stupid thing.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Nicotine and alcohol only...
How much money did these guy spend on the campaigns? How much money does it cost to fix baseball games these days?
Yeah I can believe the psychological impact on the electorate alone would be enough to swing the election to Kerry.
So now the question is, how does Kerry get all those cynical young guys to join the military to go off to the middle east and fight for USrael? Its not like they have fresh-off-the-farm guys like my father to volunteer for overseas conflicts anymore. Most of the GI generation's boomer children got economically sterilized so there isn't a pool of naive dutiful kids to sucker with Disney animations of pompous Muslim clerics goose stepping around.
They'll have to do something really dramatic to get them excited about fighting for "their country".
I know! How about killing a school full of children? Yeah, that's the ticket.
Seastead this.
So there are 9 choices the boston red sox have predicted.
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I wonder if the number of times I masturbated last year % 3 predicts the outcome
Or the number of times I masturbated last year % 5
Or the number of times I masturbated last year % 7
Or the number of times I masturbated last year % 11
. .
I'm sure there are all kinds of random variable that have nothing, or almost nothing to do, with a chance as large as 1/512 that predict the election.
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From what I have heard, W. Bush was pretty sure about going to war with Iraq before he came into office.
The "pickup-truck" Republicans "are nearly a laugh; they're nearly a laugh, but they're really a cry": - It's like watching Clarence Thomas sit on the bench and rule against Affirmative Action after that's what got him through college, graduate and law school.
That's the great draw of the Republicans: people's belief in the American Dream- that they'll actually one day make it and benifit from Republican policies.
Either that, or the Blind Religeous Right: It's GREAT to be RIGHTEOUS - I'm one of the people who has to RISE UP and PROTECT YOU FROM YOURSELF - and I'll get a shitload of virgins (or is it raisins??) when I die for the Cause...
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
Thank you for proving my point; parent post reads like a commentary right out of The Nation--it's pure opinion with almost no facts cited and is considered "insightful" at the moment. But people who follow The Nation (or The New Republic, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times, Boston Globe, CBS, and other mainstream left-leaning editorial vehicles and broadcasters) don't have a need for facts, especially inconvenient ones, in this emotion-driven election year.
Expecting Iraq to be "a perfect war" is a typically American way of thinking--people are impatient and don't remember history. Wars in fact are messy, imperfect, and foggy; it dehumanizes the conquered and the conquerors alike. Post-war Europe 59 years ago was a horrible mess with rampant looting, rape, and general lawless behavior by soldiers and civilians alike. There were the "displaced persons" camps that were little better than the concentration camps they replaced and the shameful incidents of ships full of Jewish refugees being turned away from safe havens. But the "Good War" conviction was so deeply engrained in Americans' minds by then that they simply disregarded such things, if indeed they even heard about them.
I don't see Iraq as a failure of the Bush administration so much as a failure of the Arab people, who in shockingly large numbers have behaved more like a pack of murderously psychotic savages than the civilized people one would have expected from such an ancient civilization.
The U.S. military forces in fact were shockingly successful; they smashed the Iraqi army and took the country in record time, with an absolute minimum of civilian casualties compared to any similar campaign in history. Expecting the Americans to prevent any of a thousand different problems is like expecting the police in your city to prevent all burglaries and murders. Furthermore, there is plenty of evidence that the Americans (and British and other partners) have in fact done a pretty competent job under the circumstances. Consider the "tons of looted explosives" incident that Kerry is making political hay over: far from ignoring the dump, the Americans in fact took 250 tons of munitions away from that site, unless the officer in charge of the project was simply lying through his teeth to the Associated Press.
The problem that no one seems ready to recognize is simply that Iraqis weren't ready to be liberated. They have apparently no concept of rule of law and the savagery we now see, with armed thugs blowing up children and the hostage fiasco, is a statement about them, not us. I increasingly believe that Americans and Europeans in our soft, peaceful societies can't fathom how people could stoop to such levels, so we simply blame the invading forces as a substitute for honest analysis.
Regarding the economy, it's driven by macroeconomic forces that Bush could not in 4 years possibly have affected, perhaps not even in 10 years. It's absurd to assign blame or praise to the person currently sitting in the White House for 20-year cycles of boom and bust. Similarly, Clinton lucked out with a post-recession rebound and a tech boom that had less to do with him than with forces that had been set in motion 20 years before he took office. Heck, the 90s boom and US budget surplus was probably more thanks to Reaganomics and the rebound from the 1980 recession than to anything the Democrats ever did--in fact, it was despite anything they ever did.
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I don't understand how this logic works. Maybe you and your friends on the right can help me.
Media: 370 tons of high test explosives have gone missing in Iraq. Evidence now suggests they may be in the hands of terrorists.
Bush Inc: Yea, well, the explosives were missing before we got there. See! Saddam was giving weapons to terrorists.
Media: Oh, and here's video tape of the US Army inspecting the explosives we talked about.
Buch Inc: Crap, guess they didn't go missing before we showed up... uh... er.... Oh yea! Here's some guy with a vague notion of having destroyed those very explosives you see on video tape. No one else from his unit has come forward and his account is so sparse on details that he might be talking about blowing up a sawdust stockpile in Montana, but he says he did it.
Media: What???
How can you call this an animus against W? You've fundamentally got to admit one of two things. Either the Whitehouse's first response was a flat out lie and fabrication based entirely on a need to control the story and prevent it from damaging Bush's campaign, or the first bit was an honest mistake and the second bit is a complete and total fabrication for the aforementioned reasons.
Either the explosives were or were not there. You can't have it both ways. When the administration said those explosives were missing when our troops arrived, it said so as if it knew where they were. Was that not in fact the case? Was that a lie?
When the administration said that this solider and his compatriots blew up the stockpiles it either demonstrates that the first bit was a lie (they really had no idea what was going on) or it demonstrates that BOTH statements are lies and that confronted with video footage they needed something more concrete than "uh.... pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."
Which is it?
Killfile(TGK)
No trees were killed in the creation of this post. However, many electrons were inconvenienced.
In other words, you sir, are a troll - while there are veterans who may oppose Kerry for his protests against the Vietnam war (and perhaps even rightfully so, since he seems to have branded everyone there with the "atrocity" brush), the swifties were merely a proxy for a wealthy republican who wanted to attack Kerry on his strengths, a classic Karl Rove tactic.
If we're going to judge the candidates by their actions 30 years ago, I'd rather support a war veteran than someone who evaded foreign service, and will not deny that he has used cocaine (his statement was that "he could pass a drug test at the time of his Pres. Bush Sr.'s administration"), or a team that between them have 3 DUIs (Cheney 2, Bush Jr. 1).
"The slave who knows his master's will and does not get ready...will be be beaten with many blows."Luke 12:47-48
I only support legally cast ballots. If a person doesn't have the right to vote then their vote shouldn't be counted (i.e. non-US citizens, people who aren't residents of the state where the election is held, unregistered residents, and felons in many states.) That also goes for people who can't even fill out the freaking ballot.
GB wins in Washington.
GB. Green Bay?
GB. George Bush?
Friends don't let friends vote Dumb-o-crat.
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Budget: fail This i will give you but I did not see any democrats vote against spending measures
Foreign Policy: fail Yea the whole libya giving up its wmd program was a terrible failure, as for Europe they were bound to get pissed when we turned off the oil for money err I mean food scam they were running with the UN.
Education: fail Gee Bush has increased spending more than 50% even *TED KENNEDY* voted for his education bill, so is it really a Bush problem?
Jobs: fail Unemployemnt is right now where is was under Clinton in 1996 was he a failure?
Actually, he earned a bachelor's degree from Yale and an MBA from Harvard. So yes, he did graduate.
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