Damn, First Good Reason I Have Ever Heard To Be A Republican

Poll: U.S. sexual divide not so wide

CHICAGO, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Fifty-five percent of Republicans have sex at least once a week, compared with 43 percent of Democrats, a U.S. survey found.

The survey by pollster Frank Luntz, conducted exclusively for Playboy magazine, found 25 percent of all Republicans and 35 percent of all Democrats have had more than 10 sexual partners in their lifetime.

The survey of 900 registered U.S. voters between the ages of 18 and 65, all of whom are very likely to vote in the 2008 presidential election, also found, on average, Republicans say they were 18.4 years old when they first had sex, Independents say 17.6 and Democrats say 17.5, the survey said.

Fifty-five percent of people who attend church every week consider themselves to be "sexually adventurous," while 51 percent of Republicans and 67 percent of Democrats have watched pornography with their sexual partners.

Americans belonging to both parties say they are more turned on by intelligence than by physical appearance, yet 23 percent of all Republicans and 24 percent of all Democrats would "definitely" or "probably" say yes to a one-night stand in the oval office with a president they found physically and sexually attractive.

So maybe this explains why all the leading candidates for the republic nomination (the party of family values) are all on wife number 2, 3 or 4 (expect the guy who's religion is actually ok with that).

The Obama Fairy Tale @ Fixed News

Take a few minutes to watch (courtesy of ScarceTV )the entire context of President Bill Clinton’s remarks regarding Senator Obama’s position on Iraq(as provided on an ABC news feed), is Bill pissed off about the free ride on the topic and unwillingness of the press to critically challenge Senator Obama, yes, are his remarks even remotely racist, no.

Now let’s watch a little Hannity & Colmes from fixed news. (you’ll notice the sudden cut at 45 seconds from Bill’s remarks and of course no showing of the question asked)…thanks NewsHound for the clip

Just what you would expect from fixed news, oh and of course Colmes fails to even mention the out of context nature of the clip in his defense of Clinton, followed by Juan William’s mock indignation later in the segment that was totally a joke.

So this is SOP for fixed news, but I was terribly disappointed to see the good folks at Talking Point Memo doing the same type of editing.

Chris Matthews - Yep He's Ass Alright

Media Matters Jamison Foser Goes After Chris Matthews

……And, in the midst of his years-long assault on Hillary Clinton, much of it either directly based on her gender or on a sexist double standard, Matthews has the audacity to accuse Clinton of being "anti-male" and to insist that "she should just lighten up on this gender -- 'the boys are coming to get me' routine."

None of this should surprise us. Chris Matthews acknowledged his feelings about Hillary Clinton long ago: "I hate her. I hate her. All that she stands for." And "she drives some of us [guys] absolutely nuts."

But Matthews' questionable treatment of women extends beyond Hillary Clinton.

Matthews has described House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as "scary" and suggested she would "castrate" House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. And he has wondered how she could disagree with President Bush "without screaming? How does she do it without becoming grating?"

Just this week, Matthews claimed there isn't a plausible female presidential candidate "on the horizon" because there aren't any "big-state women governors" -- but Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell, and Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius all run states with populations comparable to male governors who have recently run for president, including Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, and Bill Richardson. How large a state does a woman have to run before she qualifies as a plausible presidential candidate to Chris Matthews? One that is twice as large as Mitt Romney's Massachusetts? Three times as large?

Last October, Matthews mused aloud about a hypothetical couple trying to decide who to support for president. In Matthews' mind, the wife just wants to see "the first woman president." According to Matthews, the husband has to explain the math to his wife: "[T]he husband says, 'You know, dear, you know, this is going to kill our tax bracket. You know that tuition thing we pay every couple of years for the kids, every year, we can't do that if we get a higher tax bracket. We have to pay more money.' "

After the Des Moines Register endorsed Hillary Clinton earlier this year, Matthews suggested that the paper's "female editors and publisher" succumbed to "lobbying" by Bill Clinton.

Matthews has repeatedly focused on the physical characteristics of his female guests. He recently began an interview with conservative radio host and author Laura Ingraham by telling her, "I'm not allowed to say this, but I'll say it -- you're beautiful and you're smart." He ended the interview by saying: "I get in trouble for this, but you're great looking, obviously. You're one of the gods' gifts to men in this country. But also, you are a hell of a writer." Note that Matthews said Ingraham is also a good writer -- apparently, to Chris Matthews, there is no reason for men to care about whether a woman can write, only about how she looks……..

And he nails it, I have found Matthews more and more annoying, but man , now I know why.

Not Understanding What An Evangelical Is

Jim Wallis gets it right at the HuffPost

For example, the exit polls in the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary have asked departing Republican voters if they are "evangelicals," but they don't ask the same question of exiting Democrats--therefore assuming there aren't any evangelicals voting for Democrats, an assumption that is demonstrably not true. The leading Democrats in the race--Obama, Clinton, and Edwards--speak explicitly and articulately as Christians and their campaigns have reached out as much to faith communities as the Republicans have.

The media experts on religion then go on to explain to us that evangelicals care mostly or only about abortion and gay marriage, and not about other issues. That is even more mistaken. The issues that most concern evangelicals today, especially a younger generation, include poverty, the environment and climate change, human rights, and the morality of a foreign policy where war is the first resort. This year those issues are drawing a growing number of evangelicals to consider the Democratic candidates.

My biggest problem with so called Evangelicals is the zero sum politics that have been played with them by the republic party, Evangelical Christians have never been as homogenous a group as the GOP nor the media have made them out be. And it is beginning to show.

 

 

1984 - Fixing The Moron's English

The Jerusalem blog writes that the White House transcribers are revising Bush’s remarks to make him look like less of an idiot.

What he said:

The president gestured a few times until his staff realized that something was awry.

"I ain't got it yet," Bush said as Abu Mazen stopped speaking and an aide got on stage to fix the problem - which looked like it might have been an unplugged chord.

(As an interesting side note, "I ain't got it yet" was changed to "I haven't got it yet" in the official White House transcript...)

When it came time for Bush to speak, it appeared that Abu Mazen's earpiece also wasn't working.

"Is it working?" Bush asked as another aide came on stage to fix Abu Mazen's earpiece.

What the revisionists on staff wrote:

(Translation earpiece not working.)

PRESIDENT BUSH: I haven't got it yet. You may have to start over. (Laughter.) Not yet. You better stay awake. (Laughter.)

PRESIDENT ABBAS: Our people, Your Excellency --

PRESIDENT BUSH: I agree completely. (Laughter.)

Exit Poll Shenanigans - @ Fixed News

Fox News at 8:01:20pmET last night.

Brit Hume: "We do not think as of this hour that there was the chance there seemed to be earlier of an Obama

A network insider tells TVNewser the exit polls actually were right on. Here are the final exit poll numbers for the Democratic primary:
• Clinton — 39%, Obama — 37%, Edwards — 18%.

The final vote totals were:
• Clinton — 39.16% , Obama — 36.44%, Edwards — 16.93%

There is something terribly wrong here, team “fair and balanced” apparently fudged the numbers.

I got so sick hearing about “Hanover” from these yahoos last night, they were in complete denial, and even waited for Obama’s concession speech to call the win for Clinton.

Something that hasn't been seen in the US media

What has happened to the media in the US, why do I have to find this out from a news source across the pond??????????????????

Recession in the US 'has arrived'
The feared recession in the US economy has already arrived, according to a report from Merrill Lynch.

It said that Friday's employment report, which sent shares tumbling worldwide, confirmed that the US is in the first month of a recession.

Its view is controversial, with banks such as Lehman Brothers disagreeing.
But a reserve member of the committee that sets US rates warned that it could do little about the below-trend growth expected in the next six months.

"I am concerned that developments on the inflation front will make the Fed's policy decisions more difficult in 2008," Charles Plosser, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said.

He was referring to the problems faced by the US Federal Reserve, which might want to cut interest rates to avoid a recession, but is worried about inflationary factors such as $100-a-barrel oil.

Matthews Is Just An Ass

I used to like Chris Matthews and now I realize he is just an Ass!

Matthews: Well, I don’t know if they read the NY Post. I think the Hillary appeal has always been somewhat about her mix of toughness and sympathy for her. Let’s not forget, and I’ll be brutal, the reason she’s a US Senator, the reason she’s a candidate for President, the reason she may be a front runner, is that her husband messed around.

That’s how she got to be a Senator from New York. We keep forgetting it. She didn’t win it on her merit, she won because everybody felt, “My God, this woman stood up under humiliation, right? That’s what happened! That’s how it happened.

Crooks and liars has more!

**Update - Daily Kos has even more .....a few sample;

June 13, 2005:
On MSNBC's Hardball, host Chris Matthews said Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) "looked more witchy" because she criticized the Bush administration's homeland security spending priorities on July 8, a day after the London bombings...

MATTHEWS: I hate to say this. I'm not going to hate to say it. It's a fact. You [Clinton] look more witchy when you're doing it like this.

November 6, 2006:
Discussing the victory speeches of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (CA) during MSNBC's special election coverage on November 7, co-anchor Chris Matthews told Republican pollster Frank Luntz that Clinton gave a "barn-burner speech, which is harder to give for a woman; it can grate on some men when they listen to it -- fingernails on a blackboard."

New Hampshire The Big Winner - Howard Dean

Clinton 110,550 39% Winner
Obama 102,883 37%
Edwards 47,803 17%
Richardson 12,987 5%
Kucinich 3,845 1%
Biden 616 0%
Gravel 397 0%
Dodd 195 0%
279,276 54.9%

McCain 86,802 37% Winner
Romney 73,806 32%
Huckabee 26,035 11%
Giuliani 20,054 9%
Paul 17,831 8%
Thompson 2,808 1%
Hunter 1,195 0%

228,531 45%

96% reporting

The Independents went Democratic in a state Kerry barely won (50.3) with 2
Republic Senators and NH favorite McCain on the ballot, the Democrats pull
55% of the vote. John Sununu best be freshening up the resume.

I told you Iowa does not matter.

Our Police State - Now You Can Join The Fun

Think Tupperware parties, but for Tasers

A new kind of independent entrepreneur sells protection and peace of mind to women.

Before she lets them shoot her little pink stun gun, Dana Shafman ushers her new friends to the living room sofa for a serious chat about the fears she believes they all share.

"The worst nightmare for me is, while I'm sleeping, someone coming in my home," Shafman says, drawing a few solemn nods. Shafman, 34, of Phoenix, knows how they feel. She says she used to stash knives under her pillow for protection.

Welcome, she says, to the Taser party.

On the coffee table, Shafman spreads out Taser's C2 "personal protector" weapons that the company is marketing to the public. It doesn't take long before the women are lined up in the hallway, whooping as they take turns blasting at a metallic target.

Shafman isn't an employee for Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Taser International. She's an independent entrepreneur with a company called Shieldher Inc., who's been selling Tasers the way her mother's generation sold plastic storage containers.

As a single woman who lives alone, Shafman says she's the perfect pitchwoman as Taser makes a renewed push to sell weapons to families.

The company agrees. It liked Shafman's sales tactics so much that it plans to build a living room set at this week's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and have Shafman hold a Taser party for buyers and dealers.

Shafman has sold about 30 guns per month at $349.99 since her first party in October. She says many of her customers love that the C2 is small enough to fit in their purses and that it comes in a variety of colors. But most want pink.

"It's a girl power kind of thing," she says. "You're kind of making a statement: I know I'm a woman. I know I'm the most sought after victim in regards to sexual assault, sexual abuse. So please stay away from me. If in the event you do come after me, I'm going to use my pink Taser to put you on the ground."

So we already know these things kill people when used by “trained professionals”, now we are going to put them in the hands of just about anyone?