Good morning. Links?
- The Year in Review.
- Turnout … not so impressive it seems.
- Theology of a philosophical nature to consider.
- On the death of religion.
- The response of the election results from the religious right, sample one, sample two. I personally think that such examples would be hard to find on the left if the tables had turned.
- Construction.
- From an economists perspective.
- A real suggestion for a force field.
- Whatever.
- Heh.
- I’m voting for the minority choice it seems.
- Byzantium.
- Yet another “fact” which fits in the common narrative, which is just wrong.
- Relational apologetics.
Mark,
The response of the election results from the religious right, sample one, sample two. I personally think that such examples would be hard to find on the left if the tables had turned.
Did you see McCain’s speech? 100% class. His audience, though, was ugly — very ugly.
Yet another “fact” which fits in the common narrative, which is just wrong.
Are you just parodying yourself now?
Didn’t we just go through this yesterday? An anecdote that implies the EXACT OPPOSITE of the truth does not show the truth to be wrong.
I mean, this is your methodology:
- The last year or two was cold, therefore global warming is false.
- Someone you read saw some poor people in Vermont voting Republican, therefore the correlation between income and Republicanism is false.
- The richest person ever was richer than Bill Gates, therefore the gap between rich and poor is not widening.
- You voted for John McCain, therefore John McCain won.
Okay, I made up the last one.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_11/015545.php pegs the turnout at 130million and 64% turnout rate which replaces the 1960 JFK-Nixon rate of 63% as the highest turnout in modern political history.
According to wikipedia the 2004 race did total about 122 million but that’s the final count versus count less than 24 hours later of 119.1M (and only counting Obama McCain votes, not 3rd parties).
JA,
Weather is not climate. But global tropospheric temperature averaged over a year surely is significant. A question arises … how many years in a row does the temperature have to trend downward before you begin to have a niggling doubt in global warming?
Mr Rockefeller was not the “only” person of that wealth, and I don’t even know if he was “wealthier” than J.P. Morgan.
However, when I get the time, I’ll pull out the statistical data provided in The Skeptical Environmentalist on that “widening gap.”
Oh, I did in fact vote for Mr McCain.
No I didn’t see Mr McCain’s acceptance speech … as I’ve noted, I’m allergic to political rhetoric. I have almost 1000 blogs on my RSS feed. I ran into 0 instances of anger from those in my feed from the right. I personally don’t think that would have been the case if the tables were turned but will admit that may be uncharitable … but the feeling persists.
So, I’ll ask you bluntly. Do you think that the left blogs you read would have 0 instances of anger if McCain had one by 5-6% instead of the reverse? Would the overwhelming majority be like the two I linked above as they were today from the right?
Mark:
Anybody can cherry-pick blogs that are civil. Have you turned on AM radio? Have you looked at Free Republic? Here are some quotes from a thread titled “Obama Wins! God Damn America!”
“About 20 rockets just hit Israel. The news is just breaking. The Muslims are celebrating their Messiahs victory tonight.”
“‘Obama Wins! God Damn America!’ He may already have done so.”
“Israel will be destroyed at this time and because of this new president.”
“Some Freeper (sorry – can’t find it) posted yesterday something like: “If America elects Obama and we don’t get destroyed by Fire and Brimstone, God owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology”.
Very true. (And I hope He doesn’t!) ”
“Burka’s for every woman!!
Barf, belch!”
“R.I.P. America
Born – July 4, 1776
Died – November 4, 2008
We had a great run and it was fun while it lasted.”
“Unspeakable grief. America just died. All that was good, and bright, and full of promise… Gone. The gift that previous generations bequeathed to us at such great cost has been thrown away as though it were a used tampon. Our great achievement this evening: We’ve managed to throw the baby out with the bathwater. We have become a nation of stupid sheeple.”
“Hmm, Katie Couric in a burqa??? Delicious irony.”
“Sorry folks, but I can find no silver lining in any of this. This is the last straw for me. I’ve completely lost my faith in humanity, and in fact I think I’m just headed toward being sociopathic from here on out.
Too many people are now just irredeemable idiots. I really find myself wondering what we’re all doing here. No matter how hard the good people try to maintain what is good and just about America, the sneering, degenerate scumbags just lie, cheat, and steal their way into office. Their iron grip on the education system ensures that they will continue to inject their filth into naive, but fertile minds.
If you think it will get better, you’re just kidding yourself. We now will have full-on amnesty, and will add even more third-world scum to the home-grown human refuse that inhabits the democratic party. Add to that an apparently growing number of previously good people who have allowed political correctness to poison their minds, and it is clear where we are headed.
At this point, only a revolution ala 1776 can restore America, but we know that won’t happen (we long ago lost the spirit that created this once-great country). So I say bring on the asteroid, the genetically-engineered doomsday plague, or the terrorists’ nuclear Pearl Harbor. Who cares any more?”
“Agreed, I hope He damns it more forcefully in the areas around the coasts. NYC, Washington D.C., san francisco, etc…
Yep, I swear when (not if) we get hit again, if it’s NYC or Chicago or SF or LA or any one of the cities that overwhelmingly went for the Marxist POS, I don’t know that I’ll have any feeling for them. Let their Marxist POS president deal with it. ”
“As far as I’m concerned, Barack Obama is the first President of God Damn America.”
The majority of comments are in that vein.
JA,
I didn’t “cherry pick” in this instance. I did what I said. I am reporting that I saw little to no spiteful or similar remarks from all the blogs on my RSS feed (782 at current count). The majority of those are right wing Christian blogs.
I don’t listen to right wing talk radio or NPR for that matter. And I’m not arguing that if you look for it you won’t find it. I’m saying that those two posts I linked are representative of the responses I’ve seen.
Mark,
My point was that the blogs you read (to your credit) are not a representative sample of the right.
You should give NPR a chance — they are pretty well done, particularly their shows. I get them as podcasts.
JA,
So my question in return was to ask, do you think the blogs that you read from the left would they be similarly balanced in their response if there had been a McCain victory.
And if you listen to NPR via podcast, I’d recommend in return WGN’s Milt Rosenberg’s show (of brief National fame due to the Obama/Kurtz dial-in kerfuffle). His show is really very good.
So my question in return was to ask, do you think the blogs that you read from the left would they be similarly balanced in their response if there had been a McCain victory.
Some would, some wouldn’t. I don’t read anybody that would smear McCain as a fascist or whatever else the left’s equivalent of the Obama-socialist smear would be. Many including myself would have been heartbroken if McCain had managed to pull it off, and probably some would have let their emotions get the better of them.
And if you listen to NPR via podcast, I’d recommend in return WGN’s Milt Rosenberg’s show (of brief National fame due to the Obama/Kurtz dial-in kerfuffle). His show is really very good.
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