~311,591,917 Population (in 2011) ~237,744,633 Over 18 (in 2011) 61,218,820 (25.75%) voted Obama 58,200,593 (24.48%) voted Romney 118,325,220 (49.77%) voted neither Romney got fewer votes then McCain in 2008. Obama got fewer votes them himself in 2008. Since the population increased since 2011, the "neither" category should actually be somewhat larger, most likely breaking the 50% barrier. A sizeable group of both romney and obama voters must have also thought they are voting for the "l...
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-5169990/County-to-pay-250-000.html This is a bit of old news (from 2006), but basically shows how government handles money. They were spending 250,000$ to advertise their "lack of funds". Of course what they were really angling for is a tax increase proposition which they hoped the "lack of funds" advertising will convince people to accept. They are not allowed to directly advertise the tax hike proposition (since some of the people oppose it), ...
Ask a typical liberal, and you would be told that anyone on unemployment is a hard working individual who just can't get a job (because corporations are evil). The liberal will contend that they just want to help those poor hardworking individuals who would otherwise could not even afford to eat. Ask a typical conservative, and you would be told they are lazy and don't want a job, and instead just want to be paid not to work. The conservative will tell you that if you cut them off, they will...
The great firewall of australia is a bipartisan move in australia to erect a firewall similar to china. The rallying call is "for the children", the claimed purpose is to stop child pornography. Any politician who opposes it is labeled a child pornography supporter. One of the chief private proponents of it is a high ranking manager in australian telcom, his boss received a personal letter from the minister of communication to shut him up. (instead they published the letter). Recent...
People have discovered that people are naive, trusting fools... you just need to frame something the right way to gain instant support. This is why the american "creationist" movement have renamed themselves "intelligence design" and later "scientific critique"... (see the book "of people and pandas", the book on which the movement is based and the 3 crazy leaders of the movement. the book has had several editions where the term creationism was simply replaced with intelligent desig...
I wonder if I will get banned from wikipedia for this. In the water boarding article, waterboarding is declared torture (if looking to edit, there is a warning that a "wikipedia discussion" declared it to be so. Only evidence supporting such a claim is presented. If you go through the entire article, way near the bottom, is a short section that details the use of waterboarding on american troops to toughen them up... yap, its a training exercise for the military. Well, lets do a little experi...
I recently heard a liberal describe her faith in the government, it struck me (again), how similar liberalism is to religion. When people often try to convert me to religion they often say things like "but how can you go on not knowing that there is an after life", and "wouldn't you prefer to know that you are going to heaven"... My answer is, very much so, I would love nothing more. But I do not know such a thing, everything indicates to me that it isn't going to be the case, and clos...
From the whitehouse, you can get a transcript of obama's address to the UN: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-to-the-United-Nations-General-Assembly/ Excerpt from address to UN (bolding and italicizing done by me - nothing removed or changed or reordered in this portion of the speech. Portions before and after dealt with other issues, such as climate change): I will also continue to seek a just and lasting peace between Israel, Palestine, and the Ar...
People who support obama-care are acting as if there are two and only two sides right now. 1. On the one hand there are those who wish to reform a broken system 2. On the other those who wish to oppose reform because they like the status quo, are stupid, evil, or just ignorant (ignorant means don't know any better; and is not an insult). They go on and on trying to prove how "bad" things are right now by giving personal experiences, or second (or greater) hand stories of people who had bad ...
I will make you an offer. I shall give you 50$ to come to my house and clean my toilet, floors, and carpets. Or 100$ to sit at home and do nothing. Which one would you choose and why?
Look at this chart: Ultraviolet and things to its right will give you cancer. Visible light and things to its left will not. That is because they simply do not penetrate your body, and the few photons that do, do not produce free radicals like UV light. When a UV photon hits a molecule it can cause free radicals, anti bonding bonds, emission of light at a lower wavelength, heat, etc... The reason is the significant amount of energy contained in it. As you go dow...
The CEO of whole foods mart recently came out against Obamacare... http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=8322658&page=1 Interestingly enough, the biggest supporters are the pharma companies and wallmart: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124640564559176649.html
In a speech obama explained what the problem with our insurance is... crushing corporate bureaucracy. I actually agree with this statement. Although most of that bureaucracy is there to deal with bad regulations and laws, and there are non bureaucracy related laws that also hurt. I am amazed however, that he actually suggests that switching from corporate bureaucracy to government bureaucracy would be an improvement. I have yet to ever see a case where government bureaucracy was better than c...
Another day, another crime, another coverup by our soviet overlords. Today the UK government (specifically gordon brown) have come up with a statement that it did not consult the obama administration BEFORE banning michael savage from entering the UK; however it DID discuss the issue with the US government afterwards. A little background. The ban list for that year includes only 16 individuals. They include a hamas "lawmaker" (who spent years in israeli prison after he shot ...