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by afew Fri Sep 21st, 2012 at 01:03:29 PM EST
Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere
Good to hear they're up in arms. Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere
Polling has the Dem candidate - can't remember his name & too lazy to look it up - leading in Arizona at the moment. (!) They've pulled out of the New Mexico open seat Senate race to shore-up their efforts in North Dakota.
The good thing is they went into this election thinking they had a lock on winning the Presidency, keeping the House, and winning the Senate. Now that reality is hitting they are starting an internal squabble that I'm hoping will turn vicious as their changes fade.
Of course one can never be certain until the last lawsuit is over in December...
:-) Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere
As Romney walked back to the plane to shake hands with the five individuals who drove vans in the motorcade, your pooler asked Romney if he was going to be campaigning a little harder from here on out. "Ha ha. We're in the stretch aren't we? Look at those clouds. It's beautiful," he said, pointing to the sky. "Look at those things."
"Ha ha. We're in the stretch aren't we? Look at those clouds. It's beautiful," he said, pointing to the sky. "Look at those things."
you are the media you consume.
What We Learned Harry Reid Was Wrong: Sen. Harry Reid's notoriously unsubstantiated claim that Romney paid no taxes for 10 years is not true. Romney Is Not The 47 Percent: Romney is not a member of the "47 percent" of Americans who don't pay income tax. What We Didn't Learn Did Romney Change Anything?: Did Romney artificially inflate his tax rate using the same strategy in other returns? That's the biggest question raised by the disclosure of his move to take fewer deductions in 2011. Romney's IRA: Mitt Romney has reported an IRA valued at upwards of $100 million, a huge number that's especially difficult to achieve since there's a $6,000 legal annual contribution limit.
Should this be angrier, or less angry ?
As the tablets come down from the Mountains of Shit As even his friends see "Calamity Mitt" As the clay is perceived not to just fill his shoe But to reach all the way to his head.. what to do ?
When you said things out loud that you meant to keep quiet And they have it on tape, so you cannot deny it When you've written off most of the great middle class Can you ever extract your head out of your ass ?
And yet, in all the darkness, there is just a glim Is it forty-percent who say they'll vote for him ? After all that's been seen, heard, and bandied about Who are all these devotees, who still vote devout ?
What's the matter with Kansas ? I still want to know. And those other wide spaces where midwest winds blow Where the bone of the head is so solid and dense That Fox News is perceived as just plain common sense
Can they all slumber there, do they dream of the days When the old values ruled, long before the malaise Of the modern world came, and wiped out their tradition And took us all straight down the road to perdition
The old days, that they praise, when the White Man stood tall When the God and the Gun were not questioned at all When marriage was marriage, and uppity blacks Were kept in their place, the far side of the tracks
And today, as they see, it has all gone to hell Bad enough they took over our white NFL But now, hell, the White House is no longer White We have got to go back, and restore things to right
I'm just guessing, of course, I no longer live there Nor wish to return, I prefer West Coast air As the finger writes, moves on, a much better day Can be ours, if those bastards get out of the way
Lots of opportunities. For the Eurosceptic: no Brussels. For Americans fed up with congress: no D.C. For Westminster: Nothing north of Oxford. Nothing at all. -----sapere aude
Fifty years ago, police raided SPIEGEL headquarters in Hamburg and arrested some of the magazine's top journalists. The affair, which marked a watershed in postwar German democracy, would cause the government to collapse and the powerful defense minister to resign. They were given names like Dragonfly, Fly and Wasp. Five teams with codenames like "Pentathlon" and "Einstein" were on their trail in a secret operation by Germany's Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD), one of the country's three federal intelligence agencies, that was dubbed "Sabotage." The hunt had begun. OAS_RICH('Middle2'); The affair that happened in West Germany in October 1962 sounds like a spy thriller from the pen of John le Carré, who at the time was working on his bestseller "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold." But at the time, the height of the Cold War, German intelligence really believed they were on the trail of a large-scale conspiracy. They thought that SPIEGEL founder Rudolf Augstein (codenamed "Dragonfly"), as well as SPIEGEL reporters including Conrad Ahlers ("Fly") and Hans Schmelz ("Wasp") had betrayed West German military secrets. The resulting SPIEGEL affair, as it was later dubbed, would cost the defense minister his job, make the magazine famous around the world and mark a watershed moment in the history of West German postwar democracy.
They were given names like Dragonfly, Fly and Wasp. Five teams with codenames like "Pentathlon" and "Einstein" were on their trail in a secret operation by Germany's Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD), one of the country's three federal intelligence agencies, that was dubbed "Sabotage." The hunt had begun.
OAS_RICH('Middle2'); The affair that happened in West Germany in October 1962 sounds like a spy thriller from the pen of John le Carré, who at the time was working on his bestseller "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold." But at the time, the height of the Cold War, German intelligence really believed they were on the trail of a large-scale conspiracy. They thought that SPIEGEL founder Rudolf Augstein (codenamed "Dragonfly"), as well as SPIEGEL reporters including Conrad Ahlers ("Fly") and Hans Schmelz ("Wasp") had betrayed West German military secrets.
The resulting SPIEGEL affair, as it was later dubbed, would cost the defense minister his job, make the magazine famous around the world and mark a watershed moment in the history of West German postwar democracy.
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