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by | April 15, 2011 · 4:19 pm

Bearing the burden

By Chrissy the Disgusted and Surly

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CSB @ 2544781280056011884pWmCai

Back in 2006, Dems said they were the only ones holding the line on Bush’s irresponsible spending.

Now they’re the Party of the Recently Wised Up, Newly Humble and Superlatively Brave!

From Obama’s April 14, 2011 interview with George Stephanopoulos [plus my snarky commentary in red]:

GS: You’ve got to extend the debt limit by May. It seems you made your job a lot tougher because of your vote in the Senate against extending the debt limit. When did you realize that vote was a mistake?

BHO: I think that it’s important to understand the vantage point of a Senator versus the vantage point of a President. … As President, you start realizing, “You know what?  We can’t play around with this stuff. This is the full faith in credit of the United States.”

Sooooooo … the People of Illinois elected a dumb, self-centered boy-child to one of the highest offices in the land? Golly. Aren’t we LUCKY that he didn’t stay stuck in that stuffy, vantage-point-limiting job of United States Senator, but became PRESIDENT, so he could finally see The Big Picture and get all smart about this Really Important Economy Stuff?

BHO: And so that was just a example of a new Senator,  you know, making what is a political vote as opposed to doing what was important for the country.  And I’m the first one to acknowledge it.

Sooooooo … 5 years ago (and 20 minutes before he decided he was ready to hold the Most Powerful Office on the Planet), he was nothing more than a self-centered, wet-behind-the-ears, iggerant freshman Senator.  NOW, of course, what with all his vantage point experience Running the World these past two years, he’s become not only Smarter Than God, but also Humble. Golly.

BHO: Nobody likes to be tagged as having increased the debt limit for the United States by a trillion dollars. … The burden is going to fall a lot on Democrats in the Senate to make this happen.

Soooooo … yeah. When Republicans were in the majority, Democrats played politics rather than lead. We knew that. BUT it just gives me GOOSE BUMPS ALL OVER to know that now, by GUM, they’re all wiser and better and Ready to Lead … no doubt because there’s a Spiritually Enlightened Being in the White House and the oceans are slowing their rise and America is finally the Kinder, Gentler Nation (never mind that third war). Should we cue some stirring music now?

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by | April 12, 2011 · 7:15 pm

Caring about the military

By Chrissy the Hyphenated

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This makes me wanna puke!

Eliot Spitzer Creepily Exploits Military Family’s Financial Troubles for Political Gain

http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2011/20110411053858.aspx

If you’re not familiar with Spitzer, he is the disgraced former Governor of New York who, true-to-Leftist-form, has been rehabilitated and returned to the spotlight as a CNN political analyst.

CSB @ http://news.webshots.com/photo/2476179450056011884goHTou

If Leftists practiced the same tolerance for Right-wing pols, I’d maybe buy into their claim that “only what they do on the job matters” to them. But I still remember the outraged Left’s lynching of Judge Clarence Thomas for maybe or maybe not having made “sexually provocative statements” to an employee who continued to work for him in not one, but two different jobs.

Somehow, it was only when Thomas, a strict constructionist, was headed for SCOTUS, that this faithful employee suddenly morphed into the Left’s Favorite Sexual Assault Victim of the Century. How amazing that, just a few years later, a semen stain a naive young intern got on her blue dress while kneeling on the Oval Office rug was evidence of no more than one teensy weensy, inconsequential, very PERSONAL failing of a beloved Left-wing president.

But I digress. This was supposed to be about how suddenly the Left gives a crap about the military.

I don’t remember any Leftist concern for military families last year when the All Democrat All The Time Federal Government was SUPPOSED to be writing and passing THIS YEAR’S budget. How dare they try and blame the threat of government shut-down on Republicans who weren’t even in office then!

For the 2006 and 2008 elections, Leftists paraded rows and rows of dead soldier photos past us and featured weepy Gold Star moms and widows on the nightly news. Soldiers are still dying in our not one, not two, but THREE wars. Seen any dead photos lately? How about Code PINK’s favorite Gold Star mom, Cindy Sheehan? Me neither.

Then there was General Betray Us. Remember that? MoveOn.org kept their vile trash posted right up until His O’liness, the Messiah, put the good general in charge of Afghanistan. Then, whoopsie, that Big Famous ad they were So Proud Of was alllll gooone.

CSB @ http://news.webshots.com/photo/2479858310056011884brYvpZ

Now that Republicans have a majority in the House and are TRYING to rein in run-away Dem spending before the economy gets any worse, the Left is back to using the popularity of the military among decent Americans to score political points for their Socialist agenda. What a bunch of bloviating phonies.

THEY did this to us …

CSB @ http://news.webshots.com/photo/2610746420056011884vLnRzy

And speaking of bloated phonies … does anyone find the IRONY in Michelle Obama’s latest project?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/joiningforces/

I mean … it was HER husband who SAID that if Congress didn’t arrive at an agreement before the government shut down, he was NOT going to make an exception for military pay!

I remember when Democrats had the majority in Congress under Bush, they refused to allocate funds to those soldiers who were under fire. And I will not soon forget La Clinton’s bellicose lies about how the eeevil Bushitler had fooled her into believing the Iraq War was necessary.

CSB @ http://news.webshots.com/photo/2791218150056011884JwtKgz

It never ceases to amaze how the Left managed to simultaneously believe their mutually exclusive memes that Bush was somehow both too stupid to put together a sentence and wily enough to pull the wool over the eyes of all the Smarter Than God Leftists like Clinton who voted for the war.

Never mind how it still makes me break out in a rash when I think about how they crucified Bush and Cheney as blood-thirsty, evil, blood-for-oil maniacs, when both of them honestly and deeply cared about our military men and women.

Both of THEM routinely visited with wounded soldiers … without cameras. Remember when Campaign Obama was scheduled to go visit a military hospital, then canceled at the last minute when they wouldn’t let his “people” (cameras) inside with him?

And where’s MEchelle been for the past two years? Not that any military wives I know wanted to have to make nicey-nice to her, but she did say early on that “supporting military families” would be a “top priority” for her as First Lady.

CSB @ http://news.webshots.com/photo/2205124080056011884MlMBHP

I have always thought MEchelle’s switch to childhood obesity had more to do with the liberal media than anything.

CSB @ http://news.webshots.com/photo/2014158560056011884KmdjQz

She’s deeply committed to healthy eating? Really?

CSB @ http://news.webshots.com/photo/2993844710056011884XeBlkb

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by | April 11, 2011 · 5:49 pm

About that CNN poll

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The Left Stream Media and Democrat politicians like Harry Reid got a lot of mileage out of a recent CNN poll that showed 47% of Adult Americans have an Unfavorable opinion of the Tea Party movement.

That same CNN poll showed only 32% Favorable to the Tea Party movement, but a poll done by GALLUP just two months ago showed 71% considered Tea Parties ideas either “Somewhat important” or “Very important.”

Did 4 out of 10 Americans really switch their opinion of the Tea Party in just two months?!  Not likely.

Now, y’all know how much I love digging into polls! And having dug into this one … methinks CNN got what it paid for. I.e., a biased poll result they could use to sway the swayable.

There’s nothing Dems like better than a sound bite they can blat to the stupid Sheeple who have been voting Democrat for years without having a clue what Democrats actually get up to.

And you know human nature. A hint that some group has started to show signs of growing a Big Red L on its forehead quells enthusiasm around the water cooler Pretty Darn Quick.

These sleazy games have been working for the Left for decades. Why would they change strategies now?  … Hmm, lemme think. How about the risk that the Conservative Loud Mouthed Right will use the internet to wise up the Sheeple that they’ve been conned?

And whoa Nelly … Hell hath no fury, especially in America!  A young lawyer told me one of the most dangerous court room strategies is for a lawyer to try and scam a jury. Americans HATE being conned! If they get even a whiff of an effort by one side to scam them, the jury’ll switch en masse to favor the other side.

So … on that note, let me explain just exactly how we can all see for ourselves that the CNN poll was a Big Fat Lie.

First, a bit about polling. Most polls are done over the phone. Good polls aim for more than 1,000 randomly selected respondents, because the math wonks have proven that if you get that many, your results can be extrapolated to the entire population polled with a ± 3 Margin of Error (MOE).

So these are key items to look for:

  • What population was polled? Both CNN and Gallup polled Americans over 18 years of age who have either land lines or cell phones. These two polls can be compared.
  • Did the survey include more than 1,000 respondents who were randomly selected from the target population? Yes and yes.
  • Did the survey report an MOE of ± 3? Yes and yes.

It’s not uncommon for news reports about polls to ignore the total respondents and MOE. However, the CNN poll reports I saw highlighted BOTH of these items.  In other words, the LSM REALLY wanted the Sheeple to BELIEVE their meme — i.e., the Tea Party is growing a Big Red L.

Except … what nobody but the polling organization acknowledged was that the ± 3 MOE was a fraud. The poll was improperly weighted to give the Left a handy sound bite that would make the Tea Party look bad.

Pollsters have to call people randomly, so they are not going to get an exact match with the population for various affiliations. Thus, they ask the people who don’t hang up on them to not just answer their questions, but also to give personal info like age, gender, race, income level and political affiliation. This information allows the pollster’s math wonks to “weight” the respondents’ opinions so the results will more accurately represent the opinions of the total population.

Weighting sounds ominous, but it’s not. Let’s say a pollster gathers answers on a political issue (like the Tea Party) from more than 1,000 phone calls. And let’s say the people who agreed to give those answers happened to be 50% Democrats and 25% Republicans.  The pollster could not report their answers as meaningful for the American population until he first did some math magic to give a lot less weight to the Democrats’ answers and a little more weight to the Republicans’ answers. Done properly, this would get the responses to ± 3 match the current affiliation numbers, which are 29% Democrats and 29% Republicans.

Party affiliation moves around all the time. Gallup tracks it regularly and posts the results on-line. No polling organization has any excuse for not properly weighting the results they get from their respondents … except maybe, “We were broke and CNN offered us a lot of money to throw our ethics in the trash, but hey, we reported the results in our data and posted it on-line, so it’s not like we really lied … much.”

The Tea Party is very much a Right-wing group. Look at how the CNN poll deliberately biased the political weighting and how the polling organization buried the bias in a ream of numbers:

Here’s another way to look at the bias. The top bar graph shows the current Gallup affiliation results with the independent leaners added to the Right and Left for simplicity’s sake. The bottom two bar graphs show the CNN poll results for “Do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of the [Democratic, Republican] Party?”

The purple box visually drops the proper Gallup weight down to the bottom two bar graphs to make them easier to interpret. If the CNN poll had been weighted properly, the purple box would line up closely with the red and blue boxes. Instead of lining up, the purple box demonstrates a pronounced pro-Left, anti-Right bias.

There’s one more thing I’d like to teach you today about polls and that is to pay attention to who the poll purports to have sampled.

A statement like “3 out of 4 doctors recommend Bayer” is completely meaningless. Bayer would obviously like you to fill in “all doctors in the country” but minus a statement of who was sampled, it could easily mean 3 out of the 4 doctors in some golf four-some said, “Sure, I’d recommend Bayer to my patients. It’s as good as any other aspirin out there. Now can we play?”

On-line polls are almost as meaningless, though you can glean some knowledge from them if you keep in mind that they ONLY poll people who come to that website AND answer the poll questions. However, if you’re interested in, say, who Hot Air readers who respond to Hot Air polls are most interested in for the 2012 GOP ticket, then this poll would have some value for you:

Most of the big pollsters — e.g., GALLUP, Pew — claim to poll Adult Americans. Often, this means they called a random selection of people who have land lines or cell phones in the continental U.S., who tell the pollster they are over 18 years of age and who consent to answer all the questions. Given the difficulties of polling, it’s as good a compromise as any and, since all the pollsters work this way, their results (properly math wonked) are interesting and useful.

Occasionally, a pollster will go for Registered Voters, but that’s rare.

My favorite is Rasmussen, who seems to be the only group that frequently polls Likely Voters. I like them because, when it comes to political issues, it’s really only the voters who matter. When looking at poll results, keep in mind not only that (outside of election season), the Left routinely biases polls to make us look bad, but also that even in a good poll, Adult Americans routinely poll more Liberal than do Likely Voters. You can see this clearly in this graph.

As for reporting, keep in mind that the Left Stream Media reports what it wants the Sheeple to see. They mostly ignore Rasmussen or cherry pick data out of polls while ignoring more significant numbers that don’t fit their meme. For example, the reporting on that CNN poll was almost exclusively devoted to the negative Tea Party number. When I googled “unfavorable view of tea party CNN”, I got 152,000 hits in .13 seconds.

The March 11-13, 2011 CNN poll didn’t just ask about the Tea Party. It also asked about the Democratic and Republican Parties.

  • Democrats: 46% Favorable v. 48% Unfavorable
  • Republicans: 44% Favorable v. 48% Unfavorable

So they made a Big Hairy Deal about 47% Unfavorable Tea Party, while burying the 48% Unfavorable Democrat!

And there was another set of significant data they ignored. Back in November 6-9, 2008 — i.e., the same week Obama and the Democrats swept the elections — CNN got these results to the same questions:

  • Democrats: 62% Favorable v.  31% Unfavorable
  • Republicans: 38% Favorable v. 54% Unfavorable

Let’s see those lined up another way:

  • Nov 2008: Democrats: 62% Favorable v. 31% Unfavorable
  • Mar 2011: Democrats: 46% Favorable v. 48% Unfavorable

That’s a SIXTEEN PERCENT shift in the Democrat Favorables! And it all happened during the period when Dems held the majority in the House, the Senate and the Oval. Ouch.

It’s no wonder the O’drooly Left Stream Media didn’t find it “news worthy.” ::snort::

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SOURCES:

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/03/29/rel4l.pdf

http://www.gallup.com/poll/145838/Americans-Believe-GOP-Consider-Tea-Party-Ideas.aspx

The Left Stream Media and Democrat politicians like Harry Reid got a lot of mileage out of a recent CNN poll that showed 47% of Adult Americans have an Unfavorable opinion of the Tea Party movement.

That same CNN poll showed only 32% Favorable to the Tea Party movement, but a poll done by GALLUP just two months ago showed 71% considered Tea Parties ideas either “Somewhat important” or “Very important.”

Did 4 out of 10 Americans really switch their opinion of the Tea Party in just two months?!

Not likely.

When there’s a discrepancy THIS big, smart people suspect a DemocRAT.

Now, y’all know how much I love digging into polls! And having dug into this one … methinks CNN got what it paid for. I.e., a biased poll result they could use to sway the swayable.

There’s nothing Dems like better than a sound bite they can blat to the stupid Sheeple who have been voting Democrat for years without having a clue what Democrats actually get up to.

And you know human nature. Nothing quells enthusiasm among Sheeple faster than a hint that some group has started to show signs of growing a Big Red L on its forehead. The reaction around the water cooler is immediate. “Better not act like I like them or their friends or people might think I’m a Loser too!”

Right? And heck … it’s been working for the Left for decades. Why would they change strategies now? Well, let me think. How about finding out they’ve been conned? And too bad the Conservative Loud Mouthed Right now has the internet and polling organizations that helpfully post their reports so we can point out to said Sheeple that the Left lies. A lot.

And whoa Nelly … Hell hath no fury!  A young lawyer told me one of the most dangerous court room strategies is to try and scam a jury. Americans HATE being conned! If they get even a whiff of an effort by one side to scam them, they’ll switch en masse to the other side in a heart beat.

So … on that note, let me explain just exactly how we can all see for ourselves that that CNN poll was a Big Fat Lie.

First, a bit about polling. Most polls are done over the phone. Good polls aim for more than 1,000 randomly selected respondents, because the math wonks have proven that if you get that many, your results can be extrapolated to the entire population polled with a ± 3 Margin of Error (MOE).

  • So these are key items to look for:

  • What population was polled? Both CNN and Gallup polled Americans over 18 years of age who have either land lines or cell phones. These two polls can be compared.

  • Did the survey include more than 1,000 respondents who were randomly selected from the target population? Yes and yes.

  • Did the survey report an MOE of ± 3? Yes and yes.

It’s not uncommon for news reports about polls to ignore the total respondents and MOE. However, the CNN poll reports I saw highlighted BOTH of these items.  In other words, the LSM REALLY wanted the Sheeple to BELIEVE their meme — i.e., the Tea Party is growing a Big Red L.

Except … that ± 3 MOE was only for the TOTAL poll. What nobody but the polling organization reported was that the weighting was deliberately biased to make the Tea Party look bad.

Pollsters have to call people randomly, so they are not going to get an exact match with the population for various affiliations. Thus, they ask the people who don’t hang up on them to answer not just their questions, but also to give personal info like age, gender, race, income level, political affiliation and whatever else is deemed interesting and important. This information allows the pollster’s math wonks to “weight” the respondents so the results better represent the opinions of the total population.

Weighting sounds ominous, but it’s not. Let’s say a pollster gathers answers on a political issue (like the Tea Party) from more than 1,000 phone calls. And let’s say the people who agreed to give those answers happened to be 50% Democrats and 25% Republicans.  The pollster could not report their answers as meaningful for the American population until he first weighted those responses so that they better matched current percentages, which at the moment are 29% Democrats and 29% Republicans.

GRAPHIC: 2011_03 29 Latest Gallup Survey of Adult Americans

CSB @ http://news.webshots.com/photo/2189061510056011884SMAFFA

Party affiliation moves around all the time and Gallup tracks it regularly and posts the results on-line. No polling organization has any excuse for not properly weighting the results they get from their respondents … except maybe “we were broke and CNN offered us a lot of money to throw out ethics in the trash, but hey, we reported the results in our data and posted it on-line, so it’s not like we really lied … much.”

The Tea Party is very much a Right-wing group. But look how biased the weighting is. Conservative respondents have an MOE of ± 4.5 while Liberal respondents have an MOE of ± 7.0. (And get a load of all the hits I got when I googled “Unfavorable view of tea party CNN”!)

GRAPHIC: 2011_03 CNN poll – MOE’s show left bias

CSB @ http://news.webshots.com/photo/2866925570056011884XdvOFZ

Here’s another way to look at the bias. The top bar graph shows the current Gallup affiliation results with the independent leaners added to the Right and Left for simplicity’s sake.

The bottom two bar graphs show the CNN poll results for “Do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of the [Democratic, Republican] Party?”

The purple box visually drops the proper Gallup weight down to the bottom two bar graphs to make them easier to interpret. If the CNN poll had been weighted properly, the purple box would line up closely with the red, green and blue boxes. But they don’t and they show the same pro-Left, anti-Right bias.

GRAPHIC: 2011_03 CNN poll improperly weighted to favor Left

CSB @ http://news.webshots.com/photo/2139443770056011884cAkYxg

There’s one more thing I’d like to teach you today about polls and that is to pay attention to who the poll purports to have sampled.

A statement like “3 out of 4 doctors recommend Bayer” is completely meaningless. Without a statement of who was sampled, it could mean “3 out of the 4 doctors in my golf four-some said, “Sure, I’d recommend Bayer to my patients. It’s as good as any other aspirin out there. Now can we play?”

On-line polls are almost as meaningless, though you can glean some knowledge from them if you keep in mind that they are ONLY polling people who came to that website AND answered the poll questions. However, if you’re interested in, say, who Hot Air readers who respond to Hot Air polls are most interested in for the 2012 GOP ticket, then this poll can be useful to you:

GRAPHIC: 2011_04 05 Monthly Hot Air GOP Prez polls

CSB @ http://news.webshots.com/photo/2279031650056011884EfXZcc

Most of the big pollsters, like GALLUP and Pew, poll All Americans over 18 who have phones and consent to talk to pollsters for a few minutes. Occasionally, you’ll see a poll that uses Registered Voters, but that’s rare.

The ones I’m most interested are done by Rasmussen, who seems to be the only group that frequently polls Likely Voters. When it comes to elections, I’m not that interested in what All Americans or Registered Voters think. I want to know how many people are on my side and what do the people I want to switch to my side care about.

The two main things to remember when you see or talk to your targets about poll headlines like the CNN 47% is not only that outside of election season, the Left routinely pays for biased polls and Adult Americans routinely poll more Liberal than Likely Voters. You can see this clearly in this graph.

GRAPHIC: 2011_03 Likely Voters v Adult Americans

CSB @ http://news.webshots.com/photo/2364231020056011884BuDGwW

The Left Stream Media would ignore the Rasmussen poll entirely and report the 47% Approve number from the Pew poll with a headline like, “Majority of Americans approve of President Obama.” Only way down in paragraph umpteen would they maybe admit to the 2% differential between Approve and Disapprove.

With the CNN poll, all the reporting was about that 47% unfavorable Tea Party number. But there were a lot of other numbers in that poll that they could have, but did not report on.

For example, CNN has been asking “Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the [Democratic, Republican] Party?” since September of 2006.

They ran this poll the same week (November 6-9, 2008) Obama and the Democrats swept the election, the results were:

Democrats: 62% Favorable v.  31% Unfavorable

Republicans: 38% Favorable v. 54% Unfavorable

(BTW, you can see a skew here. Obama won 52.9% v McCain won 45.7%. If the poll had accurately predicted the election, the Democrat Favorable should’ve been 9 points lower and the Republican favorable should’ve been 8 points higher.)

The Left Stream Media did NOT report that the March 11-13, 2011 CNN poll showed the following major shift:

Democrats: 46% Favorable v. 48% Unfavorable

Republicans: 44% Favorable v. 48% Unfavorable

Let’s see those lined up another way:

Nov 2008: Democrats: 62% Favorable v.  31% Unfavorable

Mar 2011: Democrats: 46% Favorable v. 48% Unfavorable

Nov 2008: Republicans: 38% Favorable v. 54% Unfavorable

Mar 2011: Republicans: 44% Favorable v. 48% Unfavorable

That’s a 6% shift from Left to Right, all during the period when Mr. Slow-the-Oceans-Rise was running the planet. Ouch. And let’s not forget that this 6% is on TOP of the 8% bias we saw in Nov 2008. Double ouch.

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SOURCES:

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/03/29/rel4l.pdf

http://www.gallup.com/poll/145838/Americans-Believe-GOP-Consider-Tea-Party-Ideas.aspx

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by | April 9, 2011 · 4:50 pm

Who won the shutdown showdown?

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SOURCE @ http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/04/09/who-won-shutdown-showdown-it-wasnt-even-close

Atta boy, John! … Bigger cuts than he started with AND no funding for ObamaCare or abortion! Yahoo! Now, if he could only find a way to keep the EPA from trying to regulate carbon dioxide.

I couldn’t care less about NPR and PBS. Better we waste tax dollars on them than on killing unborn babies. Besides, I found a blog at the NPR website bragging that their audience is small but intensely loyal. NPR is very Leftist. Obviously, this small, but loyal group comes from that 25% who wouldn’t vote Republican if their lives depended on it.

So who cares if they’re on the air? They’re preaching to the choir, not to those critical few percent of Mushy Middlers we need to win.

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by | April 8, 2011 · 9:49 pm

Who is he kidding?

By CtH

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One of the riders on the FY2011 appropriations bill that Congress is fighting about is the one that would prevent the EPA from regulating greenhouse gasses. This is a very important issue for two reasons:

  1. Last year, Congress voted down the Left’s beloved cap-and-tax energy bill, so the Obama administration is trying to use the EPA’s regulatory power to force that tax on us without Congressional approval! This is a major violation of our rights.
  2. Cap-and-tax is going to make our economy even worse by driving energy prices up and by imposing a ton of additional expenses and regulatory bull-puckey on job-creating businesses.

Lefties claim this is all “necessary” because of the alleged threat of Anthropogenic Global Warming, which the American people have finally gotten a clue is the biggest hoax in history. Right from the beginning, the whole AGW fraud has been driven by powerful Lefties like George Soros (who wants to destroy the U.S. so it will be easier to suck into a one world government that people like him can control) and Al Gore (who has been making big bucks investing in government-subsidized “green” businesses).

These are bad people who are actively working to harm our great nation. This EPA thing needs to be stopped, even if it does mean the government shuts down. And I’m not one who will be unaffected by a shut-down. ALL of my kids are in the military and were told weeks ago that in the event of a shut-down, they would still have to go to work, but they would NOT get paid.

Learn more at my new energy albums at Chrissy’s Site Bite:

“Energy Prices and Policies”

http://news.webshots.com/album/578480473InUqkG

“Stop Global Whining”

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by | April 8, 2011 · 2:39 pm

Trash dump planned

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I can’t help laughing about how much this reminds me of Arlo Guthrie’s famous “civil disobedience” … which was actually nothing more than a lazy teen’s scam to get paid for a job he did not do. I.e., he dumped someone’s trash illegally rather than take it all the way to the landfill.

He memorialized this event in his famous song about Alice’s Restaurant. Dearest comes from that area, so I heard the locals’ version and saw the original Alice’s which was famously “half a mile from the railroad track” and “around the back.” Literally true and just as run down and scurvy as what you’d expect in a back alley dive near the tracks. Brr.

The kicker is that Arlo … who was an ICON to the 60’s hippie dippies who are now our cherished Democrat leadership … is now a Republican! LOLOL

 

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by | April 7, 2011 · 3:32 pm

Pelosi lies (what else is new)

By Chrissy the Hyphenated

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by | April 6, 2011 · 6:05 pm

Why I think we need Sarah for 2012

By Chrissy the Hyphenated

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I hope you all don’t mind what I’m going to do here … I started to write a comment in Wednesday’s Path, but it ended up so LONG that I think it really should just be a blog post unto itself. So I’m going to polish and post it here, after which all y’all can continue discussing potential candidates for 2012 and point out where I’m wrong.

I believe what I say here, but I thought McCain could win right up until he didn’t. So I take even my strongest opinions (especially about politics where I am a total newby!) with a pound of salt.

My gut feeling is that no man can win against Obama, especially not a white man. And I don’t see any viable Republicans of color at this point. Down the road, sure. But not for 2012. All the people they’re talking about are doughy white guys.

One thing I do in my poll watching is look at how much of the country inhabits Obama’s true base – i.e., the ideologically Hard Left. I see numbers between 11% and 15% over and over for Hard Left, plus another 10% or so for the Soft Left that will vote reliably Democrat no matter how dumb or unethical the candidate is.

These numbers show up especially clearly and often in the one issue I’ve tracked the longest – abortion.

CSB @ http://news.webshots.com/photo/2941788060056011884MEoLDp

The Democratic Party’s platform supports the Hard Left – i.e., legal abortion for any reason up to the moment of birth (and make Pro-Life taxpayers foot the bill, please). The Soft Left draws the line at viability after which even they can’t see abortion as anything but what it is — early infanticide. The Hard Left, however, supports abortion so blindly that they object to health inspections at abortion centers and, back when Obama was in the Illinois Senate, he personally shot down a bill that would have required medical and comfort care be provided to abortion survivors.

In other words, the Hard Left’s attitude is not “Safe, Legal and Rare,” but “Free, Legal and Lots.” Or as I like to put it: “Kill Babies, Kill!”

I heard Gianna Jessen (famous abortion survivor, pro-life advocate) say she has had people come up to her and practically spit in her face that she has No Right to Be Alive! Can you imagine? That is the face of the Hard Left. And Obama is their leader.

I admit that, what with Libya, the Gulf oil spill, and his occasional forays into actually breathing the same air as Republicans without barfing on their shoes, Barack Obama has lost some approval points among the Hard Left. But face it. That won’t matter a whit in 2012. They’re mad at him for not being Left enough. Neither they nor their slightly less odious companions among the Soft Left are ever going to vote for anyone who is to the Right of Obama. The best we could hope for with this bunch is that some of them are too stoned or hung over to remember to vote.

So let’s just concede that Obama has the 25% ideologically, close-mindedly Left all sewn up. Fine. Forget them! We only need 50.1% to win. Maybe not even that much; Bill Clinton won with only 43% of the vote. Not that I want to see another 3-candidate race, but when Perot siphoned off the Conservative vote, the results were:

  • Clinton 43.0% v. GHW Bush 37.5% v. Perot 18.9%

Now take a look at this:

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The McCain-Palin ticket scored 45.7% of the vote. A bunch of them were willing to give the new president a chance. But it wasn’t long before they all planted themselves firmly in the Disapprove and Strongly Disapprove section. These people are NOT going to vote for Obama NO MATTER WHO RUNS AGAINST HIM.

And vice versa. That 44% who Strongly Approved on Inauguration Day may have dropped in overall enthusiasm, but they’ve held steady in Obama’s camp. I don’t see them shifting sides, particularly not so long as the MSM continues to force-feed them pro-Obama news and entertainment. And oh golly … isn’t 44% pretty darn close to the 43% who voted for Clinton the first time?

And here’s another thought. After the Democrats got creamed on HillaryCare and Clinton wisely started governing from the middle (which Obama is not doing), his job approval numbers went way up.

CSB @ http://news.webshots.com/photo/2852954620056011884HulDdM

Obama’s job approvals have been below 50% for a long time. When Clinton ran for re-election, his were well above 50%.  But check out the election results:

  • Clinton 49.2% v. Dole 40.7% v. Perot 8.4%

Despite very high job approval numbers, Bill Clinton only wooed about 6% more to vote for him the second time around than had voted for him the first time.

Obama’s approvals stinks, but let’s be realistic and just give him the 44% Kool-aid vote. We’ve got the 46% who voted for McCain in 2008 locked down (rounding up for ease).

I’m thinking that, given a two-party race, about 90% of voters are already decided and will not be much affected by who does or does not run on the Republican ticket. I think the GOP establishment that enjoys big government and fat earmarks is going to do what they have done before – i.e., try to convince us to run a “mayo and cucumber” moderate. You know … because we need to get someone who won’t OFFEND the critical middle.

I don’t agree. Yes, the voters we need to focus on are the 10% that are not on board with either side. But we’ve got 46% already; we only need 5% of the middle to win.  These people did vote for Obama last time, so let’s take a look at who they might be and who might best appeal to them.

First, there was a significant number of fad-fans, mostly young “Rock the Vote”rs who were juiced about Obama’s youth and really wanted to vote for The First Black President. These people rarely vote in any serious election, though. And they are notoriously fickle about their celebrities, have the attention spans of gnats and … oops, Obama’s not only gotten gray, but also has been such a media hog that he may have over-exposed himself and become Boring and Last Year.

Frankly, I doubt if he can count on the youth vote for 2012. However, I do think that this type of unreliable “only if it’s fun” voter could be revved up about voting for The First Female President.

Another big Obama bloc was Voters of Color. They’re holding hard to their First President, but I have a feeling his Black support is quietly eroding with the spread of the movie Maafa 21 and the rising up of devout Black clergy who are taking their churches back from the pro-abortion Left and recommitting them to Jesus Christ. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, check out: http://www.maafa21.com/.

I think we could make real inroads in that group with a no-apologies, no-compromise, mother of five, evangelical, Bible thumpin’, Grizzly Mama, Pro-Life candidate. But, like the youth vote, the Black vote is unreliable.  They don’t vote so much when they’re not revved up about the candidate. And I really don’t see them getting excited about any of the mealy-mouthed male Republicans out there, most of whom are only slightly to the Right of the “personally opposed to abortion but” Democrats.

And have you ever seen Tyler Perry’s Madea? Blacks adore that feisty Mama Grizzly! And the message of all of Perry’s extremely popular plays and movies is that Blacks need to Take Responsibility for Their Lives! Perry is enormously popular with the Black community and he’s a seriously devout Christian. In 2008, he was pro-Obama. But one of these days, if He hasn’t already, God’s going to get through to that man about Black Genocide and we’re going to have a powerful ally in the Black community. Pray for him, please.

The other big Obama bloc was the herd of Mushy Middle Sheeple, those nice, but deluded folk that the Left is so good at guilting into voting Democrat. We’re converting them slowly (hey, look at me!) and we need to keep at that. But again … another white guy just isn’t going to overcome melanin-induced guilt for many of them on election day. Not so a First Female President who has proven street cred in areas that NICE people relate to … raising a disabled child, supporting a teen out-of-wedlock-pregnant daughter, married to a smart, manly hunk who absolutely ADORES her.

Besides, Sarah is also very much associated with the Tea Party, which the Left obviously fears or they wouldn’t be blatting about that biased, “47% unfavorable” CNN poll. (More on that in another blog.)

CSB @ http://news.webshots.com/photo/2059361280056011884XQkODT

LOOK at these numbers! 71% of Adult Americans say we should at least listen to the Tea Party. And 26% of Democrats and 46% of Independents say Tea Party ideas are Very Important!

The RINO elite who have been hand-in-glove with the Dems for decades, expanding government and scarfing down the pork, are going to tell us we have to nominate someone like John McCain, a centrist who will be palatable to the Soft Left. But that’s STOOOOPID. Who were we really working for in 2008? Huh? Not nice, doughy, white male John McCain that the MSM pimped right up until he was nominated and then, oh boy, he couldn’t even get an opinion piece printed. He is a good man, for sure. A war hero, no doubt. But he never was the serious Conservative or inspiring, charismatic leader Sarah is.

We NEED Conservatives on board and charged up about the Republican candidate. With Sarah Palin at the top of the GOP ticket, we would have the Right-wing not only sewn up, but the Tea Party Conservatives fired up and OUT THERE campaigning! Besides, the media is going to crucify our candidate no matter what. So let’s get someone who has proven she can deal with it by writing Hi Mom! on her hand and waving at the cameras.

When Clinton won the first time, the GHW Bush + Perot vote added up to 56%. The second time, the Dole + Perot vote added up to 49%.  Taking those Obama v. Clinton job approval ratings into consideration, let’s just say that we could easily count on that latter, lower 49%.  We would only need to capture another 2% to win. And that’s not two percent of Adult Americans (the group surveyed by Gallup in the graphic above). It’s 2% of VOTES and Likely Voters routinely poll to the Right of Adult Americans.

Basically, I believe that we can’t win a 2-party race with any of the viable white males out there and that, with the size and power of the Tea Party, a RINO nomination could get us another Perot-style 3-party race that will hand a second term to Obama. But as I was writing, it occurred to me that an Obama v. RINO v. Tea Party race is not the only 3-party possibility. What if Hillary Clinton decides to run as a 3d candidate?

Would we still need Sarah? I think we would. In fact, I think a race like that would be fascinating to watch. For example, what if the focus was not on Obama’s skin color any more, but on which of the two women, Left or Right, was going to be our First Female President? My but we do live in interesting times!

(And my apologies AGAIN. My “comment that got too long” got even longer and acquired graphics when I tried to polish it into a blog posting! LOL)

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by | April 5, 2011 · 8:52 pm

Random stuff

By CtH … click to embiggen yada yada

Photoshop by Terrell @ http://terrellaftermath.com/

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Source @ http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2011/20110404055945.aspx

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by | April 5, 2011 · 4:09 pm

Brain splinters

By Chrissy the Hyphenated

Click on graphics to embiggen for easier reading

I was given undue credit (again … blush) for someone else’s fabulous photoshop. I also received a request for permission to pass my “great work on to others” (still blushing).  Methinks it’s a sign that I should yap at all y’all about what I think I’m doing and why.

After HB, I spent 4 months hibernating, catching up on stuff I’d let slide, and pondering how to address my personal weakness for obsessing about and over-doing one thing at the expense of all the rest. I also spent a good deal of time with the Lord about His priorities for my political work.

I’m in my fifth week here at PoliNation and, yay me, Very Happy to Announce that the changes I made seem to be sticking. I’m slowly mastering the art of doing … and more importantly, being satisfied about doing … a little bit of a lot of different things each day.

On March 11th, I started applying my new regime to the inside of my 90-gallon cichlid “show tank” which was more of a “There are fish in there? Oh wait … I thought I saw something move” glass box full of algae soup. It’s amazing to me what no more than 5 to 10 minutes a day can accomplish. Of course, this is in contrast to my former life when I did nothing whatsoever unless I felt well enough to do the whole thing … which was ummm … let’s not go there.

My other big change has been to stop photoshopping politically pithy graphics and focus my time and attention on Chrissy’s Site Bites style work. Why? Well, first of all, a lot of talented people are already doing wonderful work with political graphics, but nobody I know does the “bite-sized factoids packaged up pretty” thing I do.

And second, I have a problem with repetitive motion muscle fatigue and clicker finger tendonitis … up to my elbow! One good photoshop job would take me anywhere from a day to a week to finish and as often as not put my hands out of commission for days after. This past month, I’ve been producing multiple Site Bites every day without ever pushing my hands to the point where I needed an ice pack or couldn’t hold on to my toothbrush.

I did take one day off to play at photoshopping, just because I love doing it and I needed a break from politics.

But I digress. My fundamental motivation in focusing on Site Bites style graphics work (besides that I’m good at it) is that I believe every voter has at least one rock solid belief or special interest about which the Leftist media can’t snow them.

Like, for example, do you remember when Kevin DuJan talked about how he cleans house on Sundays for AIDS patients, most of who were drooly over Obama and had their apartments festooned with his face and logo? Then one day, at one of these places, all that stuff was gone and when Kevin asked about it, the fellow talked about those two gate crashers that got into Obama’s first big White House dinner party. This fellow had been a professional party planner. For him, letting gate crashers through the door of the White House was a failure titanic enough to kill his faith in the entire administration. In his words, “If he can’t even run a party, how can he run a country?”

I read another guy commenting on-line that Obama lost his support when he threw Jeremiah Wright under the bus. For this guy, it was loyalty that was paramount and he couldn’t abide what Obama had done to the man who had been his spiritual mentor and surrogate father for twenty years.

For me, it was having kids in Iraq telling me first hand about the war and being completely gob smacked that the news media was reporting something 180 degrees different. Obviously, I believed my kids. And since then I’ve watched my own journey Right-ward with great interest.

Much of what I do with my blogging is informed by having caught that critical “maybe the media lies” idea that I call a “brain splinter.” It’s like when you get a tiny shard of glass under your skin and you know it’s there, because it hurts, but you can’t seem to get it out. Ideas that violate your comfortable world view can be like that in your brain or, more properly, in your mind. They hurt and are hard to remove.

I was born and raised in a deep blue, ultra liberal town where being a Democrat was a no-brainer. But about the time I became old enough to vote, Democrats shifted from pro-life to pro-abortion. I couldn’t buy their arguments, so I left the Party of the People Who Only Care About Air-Breathers.  But I did NOT register Republican; the very idea made me itch. Basically, I hunkered down in the Right to Life Party that never elected anybody and quietly did nothing political but vote. I thought of myself as a Pro-Life Liberal … because, of course, “Liberals are the NICE people” and I wanted to be NICE.

I now call that place the Mushy Middle.

It took my kids going to war to open my mind and heart to the Right-wing. There I learned that nice isn’t the same as good and that if you try too hard to keep an open mind, you end up believing in little and accomplishing less. There I discovered not only that all my core values were represented by the Right, but also that the policies the Left has been promoting for half a century or more are destroying all that was ever great about America.

Do you get what I mean? I didn’t stop being a devout Christian who believes in truth and charity and all those other good things that the Left claims for their arrogant selves. And I certainly didn’t go from being a Smart, Well-educated Liberal to being a Stupid, Deceived Conservative.  Quite the opposite, in fact; I moved to the Right only AFTER I became aware of fact after fact after fact that demonstrated to me conclusively that the Left had been lying to me for decades and that MY values, my true values, were Conservative values.

Meanwhile, I was turning all Grizzly Mama over the appallingly negative news about the Iraq War, so Dearest and I started publishing a 4-page insert to a local monthly newspaper. It cost $250 a month. I put the copy together, mostly pro-military news articles I found on the internet, and Dearest hit up local friends and businesses for the money.

We did the “Progress In Iraq Report” for about a year. It got me used to researching and writing, plus I developed a little pro-military e-mail list that eventually grew to become my current bloggy mail group. Kevin DuJan discovered me via that venue and brought me on board HillBuzz, taught me bunches about how to blog and encouraged me to hone my photoshopping skills.

Occasionally, I’d have someone ask me for information about a specific topic to help them defend or explain something to a neighbor or co-worker, which made me realize that Conservatives really needed a resource for talking points and easily digested evidence.

It all fit in very nicely with what I’d always wanted to do anyway.  My original career path was educational communications. I’d envisioned myself teaching teachers how to use media more effectively in the classroom, but my illness cut those plans off at the knees six months short of a Master’s degree in Communication Arts.

But back to my ponderings and praying about my political activities. At some point, I realized my mostly-my-crafts Webshots account could be turned into a library where Conservatives could access info to help them educate others and where Sheeple who had caught a brain splinter could surf and learn.

I deleted all the crafty stuff, upgraded my membership to get more space and began organizing and uploading stuff I’d made before, during and since my time at HillBuzz. I think I’m close to having 2,500 graphics uploaded and I’m getting about 4,500 hits per week. I had one week when I hit 6,500, which was very exciting!

My mission is to educate voters like I was … the nice, good-hearted, Mushy Middle types that politicos justifiably call Sheeple. I figure if a weenie like me can go from Mushy Middle to Ultra-Conservative Loud-Mouth, heck … there’s hope for all those other Sheeple, right? Especially since we don’t need them to get brave enough to wave signs or get arrested like some of our very own Conservative heroes do. We just need them to get smart enough to vote Right.

The Left has nothing going for it besides a politico-media machine that works primarily at keeping voters stupidly loyal to some vague idea that Liberal Equals Nice. WE, however, have TRUTH on our side. And we have the freedom of the INTERNET to spread it. But we need to use BOTH if we’re going to save our great nation from becoming a god-forsaken Nanny State filled with millions of serfs whose lives are controlled by a small, elite class of powerful, ultra-rich Leftists.

So please … by all means … forward my bloggy mails. Cross-post my blogs. Send e-postcards from Chrissy’s Site Bites. Download my graphics and use them any way you think might be effective. I don’t need credit. I love getting an occasional Atta Girl, but other than that, I prefer a low profile. It’s enough that my bestest buds and God of course know what I do.

About e-postcards: Go to the graphic at CSB and look on the right side of the screen for the “send an e-card” menu option. You will be allowed to fill in the address and write a message if you want. It’s very easy. N.b., they won’t let you put a URL in the text, but if you format the addresses properly, you can send to multiple addresses at once.

About downloading bloggy mail attachments: I attach print-quality files to my bloggy mails, which are mostly variations on what I put here, but with printable attachments. If you’re not on my list and want to be, just ask.

About downloading graphics from PoliNation: I upload print-quality files, but since the site knows my computer and I can’t go anywhere to use another one, I can’t be certain how it behaves for others with respect to download quality. If you want a best quality file, email me.

About downloading images at Chrissy’s Site Bites: I upload print-quality files, but Webshots will only allow you to download a monitor-quality file. I’m happy to email you a print-quality file, but please keep in mind that I have more than 2,000 graphics in my archives. I have the files organized on my hard drive by which albums they’re in at Webshots, so probably the easiest way to ask is to send me an e-postcard of the image you want and put “please send print quality file” on the text side.

My public email addy is Chrissy@ChrissyOriginals.com. If you have my private email, you’re welcome to use it. I just don’t want to publish it here. Thanks for understanding.

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