A Forum for Grinches and Ho-Ho-Hoes

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
What do you try? You're a funny guy. A really funny guy.

That is a huge pet peeve. I make many grammatical/typo errors, but when I hear sopmebody say "Why don't you try and do it this way" or "I'll try an do that" its like fucking nails on a chalkboard. Nothing is worse.

OK... maybe "Lets go down the shore" (a phrase favored by Philadelphia area idiots) is worse.

My MIL hates "You've got a friend in Pennslyvania."

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
"You've got a friend in Pennslyvania."

That ain't saying much.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
In the South we got both. Nationally, the exit polls show we won for Bachelor's or HS and you won for grad degrees and no degrees. I don't equate a grad degree to higher IQs than bachelor's.

Cite please.

[Dave]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Cite please.

Not necessary. Hank lives in a blue state.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I try and post conversationally, since I'm pretty sure some of the lefties here are of the "no degree" type.

If what you meant was "Bush won among HS grads, those with some college and those who graduated college; Kerry won among those without a HS degree and with post-gradutate degrees," that result was also true for Bush/Gore in 2000.

To do the detail (because why not):

HS dropouts: 50/49 Kerry
HS grads: 51/48 Bush
Some college: 53/46 Bush
College degree no grad degree: 51/47 Bush
Some grad school: 55/44 Kerry

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pag.../epolls.0.html

Interestingly, I also note that the groups which had a noticeable (1% when rounded) vote for Nader were those with at least a college degree and income over $100K.

BR(Third Party Candidates: the choice of the intelligent rich - and, I'm sure if they ran the numbers, beautiful - people)C

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pag.../epolls.0.html

Very interesting chart.

Can we all agree that the people who voted for Bush despite saying they "strongly disapprove" of his handling of his job, and the ones who voted for Kerry despite "strongly approving" Bush's job, need to be euthanized?

[sgtclub]

• Iranian students have interrupted a speech by President Mohammad Khatami to mark Student Day at Tehran university.
  Students chanted "Shame on you" and "Where are your promised freedoms?" to express their frustration with the failure of Iran's reform movement.
  
  A visibly-shaken Khatami defended his record and criticised the powerful hardliners who have closed newspapers and jailed dissidents.
  
  He asked students to stop heckling and accused his critics of intolerance.
  
  Students were once some of President Khatami's strongest supporters.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Meanwhile, the rebuilding of Iraq is going so well that the U.S government has decided that the road from Baghdad to the airport is too unsafe to drive, and that U.S. personnel henceforth will be transported there by helicopter. Just another success in our effort to turn Iraq into a beacon of stability and democracy for the Arab world.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by sgtclub

• Iranian students have interrupted a speech by President Mohammad Khatami to mark Student Day at Tehran university.
  Students chanted "Shame on you" and "Where are your promised freedoms?" to express their frustration with the failure of Iran's reform movement.
  
  A visibly-shaken Khatami defended his record and criticised the powerful hardliners who have closed newspapers and jailed dissidents.
  
  He asked students to stop heckling and accused his critics of intolerance.
  
  Students were once some of President Khatami's strongest supporters.

Is Khatami really the one to blame? Or is he just the only one they can criticize publicly without getting beaten?

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Is Khatami really the one to blame? Or is he just the only one they can criticize publicly without getting beaten?

I think a little of both. I understand he's walking a very narrow line these days.

[ilikenewsocks]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Meanwhile, the rebuilding of Iraq is going so well that the U.S government has decided that the road from Baghdad to the airport is too unsafe to drive, and that U.S. personnel henceforth will be transported there by helicopter. Just another success in our effort to turn Iraq into a beacon of stability and democracy for the Arab world.

1. What, the insurgents ran out of anti-aircraft missiles? That's pretty hard to believe. I'd rather drive, land mines and ambushes be damned.

2. Nation-building sucks. Has it ever worked, with the possible exception of Germany post-1945 where everything had been bombed completely to shit?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
If what you meant was "Bush won among HS grads, those with some college and those who graduated college; Kerry won among those without a HS degree and with post-gradutate degrees,"

honestly- was my original post that unclear?

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by ilikenewsocks
2. Nation-building sucks. Has it ever worked, with the possible exception of Germany post-1945 where everything had been bombed completely to shit?

Not that it changes your point, but I think all the Axis powers really fall under this, along with (South) Korea

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
honestly- was my original post that unclear?

A little, though I managed to figure it out without spraining anything.

[SlaveNoMore]

Showing that any two-bit hack can now have a blog, here is the latest.

From Nobel Laureate Gary Becker and Judge Richard Posner