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So I guess I'll put up a follow up. I've been pretty lax over the last year or so. Have you seen this week's news? Pretty lame stuff now that the Democratic convention is over. That was even more lame than the news up now. Take a looksee. Love it.........
The Raiders are Coming!!!
Settle down, it's not Paul Revere. Cool it, it's not the Oakland Raiders. Slooowww it down, it's only Nader's Raiders, the absolute driest of the kind.
Nader to Crash Dems' Party?
CBSNews.com Chief Political Writer, at the
Democratic convention in Boston; Jul 27,
2004
I hardly think someone as insignificant as Nader can crash these people. They're perfectly capable of crashing on their own.
For the 30,000 Democrats gathering
in
Boston, Ralph Nader remains public enemy
number two, behind only President Bush.
Beneath the convention speeches, the delegate
banter, the concern persists that the
independent candidate will once again stand
between a Democrat and the Oval Office.
Number 2 behind Bush? Once again stand between the Democrat and the Oval Office? Know what this is? Take a guess.
If Nader had not been on the ballot
in
New Hampshire or Florida, both states would
have gone to Democrat Al Gore. Instead George
W. Bush won by the narrowest of margins: 537
votes in Florida alone.
Know what this really is? It's an excuse for the banal John F (Lurch) Kerry. They are trying to get you to think this is really close and it's Nader who can be the spoiler again. Forget it, Nader is not a factor. This election won't even be close. Only in the mainstream punditry. Even there it's not close. The Clinton's will make sure of it.
How do I know?
It is really easy to figure out the liberals. I truly hope you see through them as easily as I do. Let's look and see how I know these mistruths.
A Baby Bounce? Kerry's lead over
Bush widens, though not substantially. But the
Democrat makes big gains by other measures;
By Brian Braiker; Newsweek; Jul 31, 2004
See what's happening here? The Dems just finished their presidential nominating convention. The more colorful of the two is the VP nomination, but that's beside the point.
Coming out of the Democratic
National
Convention in Boston, Sen. John Kerry now
holds a seven-point lead over President George
W. Bush (49 percent to 42 percent) in a
three-way race with independent Ralph Nader (3
percent), according to the latest NEWSWEEK
poll The poll was taken over two nights, both
before and after Kerry's acceptance speech.
Respondents who were queried after Kerry's
Thursday night speech gave the Democrat a
ten-point lead over Bush. Three weeks ago,
Kerry's lead was three points.
Now don't get all confused and bent out of shape here. The poll was taken just after the speeches by Lurch and his Tort-lawyer VP. Let me take you back about 4 weeks ago. When ol' Lurch Kerry selected Edwards, there was no poll bounce. When Gore selected Lieberman, there was a 12 point bounce.
Kerry's four-point "bounce" is the
smallest in the history of the NEWSWEEK poll.
There are several factors that may have
contributed to the limited surge, including the
timing of the poll. On Thursday, Kerry had just a
two-point lead over Bush (47 percent to 45
percent), suggesting that his Friday night speech
had a significant impact. Additionally, Kerry's
decision to announce his vice-presidential
choice of John Edwards three weeks before the
convention may have blunted the gathering's
impact. And limited coverage by the three major
networks also may have hurt Kerry.
Get this now, this is from Newsweek and they are reporting the smallest bounce in history. The Dems got a 16 point bump from their Gore convention. We are now looking at 4 points?
Still, Kerry and Edwards have
gained
ground on several key election issues. For the
first time in the NEWSWEEK poll, as many
voters strongly back Kerry as strongly back
Bush (31 percent to 30 percent). In an election
expected to be decided by a small number of
unaffiliated voters, independents now lean
toward Kerry by a margin of 45 percent to 39
percent, with Nader pulling 7 percent. And voters
are becoming more likely to predict a Kerry
victory in November: Forty-four percent say
Kerry will win vs. 43 percent who predict
Bush.
You want to analyze that? I don't!!!! There is absolutely no substance there. Independent leanings and now get this ---- voter's predictability. Wanna know the real truth? The following article appeared on Sunday following the convention.
Poll: No boost for Kerry after
convention; By Susan Page, USA TODAY; Aug 1,
2004
I'd say the 3 points Newsweek claims for Lurch is in jeopardy.
Last week's Democratic convention
boosted voters' views of John Kerry but failed to
give him the expected bump in the race against
President Bush, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll
finds. In the survey, taken Friday and Saturday,
Kerry trailed Bush 50%-46% among likely voters.
Independent candidate Ralph Nader was at
2%.
Newsweek is certainly a liberal publication, but look at the pollsters here. USA Today/CNN? I'd say ol' Lurch is in double jeopardy. This is the best the Dems got and they have to face the bounce from the Republican convention. Is there such a thing as triple jeopardy? If not, we'll invent one.
Now I really am worried!!!
I'm at panic now. (What's that Eye? You're under the realization that your man is going to lose?)
Disaster at sea: global warming
hits
UK birds; By Michael McCarthy Environment
Editor; Independant.co.uk; Jul 30, 2004
Not too worried about the elections. I'm worried about some birds.
Hundreds of thousands of Scottish
seabirds have failed to breed this summer in a
wildlife catastrophe which is being linked by
scientists directly to global warming.
You have to wonder if those birdies don't need some Viagra.
More than 172,000 breeding pairs
of
guillemots were recorded in the islands in the
last national census, Seabird 2000, whose
results were published this year; this summer
the birds have produced almost no young,
according to Peter Ellis, Shetland area manager
for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
(RSPB).
I wonder if those census takers handed every 10th bird a questionnaire on whether they had a color tv?
The counting and monitoring is still
going on and the figures are by no means
complete: it is likely that puffins, for example,
will also have suffered massive breeding failure
but because they nest deep in burrows, this is
not immediately obvious.
Gasp!!!! Incomplete? I guess we'll have to wait and let them research this another 50 years.
The spectacular seabird
populations of
the Northern Isles have a double importance.
They are of great value scientifically, holding,
for example, the world's biggest populations of
great skuas. And they are of enormous value to
Orkney and Shetland tourism, being the principal
draw for many visitors. The national and
international significance of what has happened
is only just beginning to dawn on the wider
political and scientific community, but some
leading figures are already taking it on
board.
I've got a problem with this. If these breeding birds have a value of drawing visitors to the area and now they've lost the drawing power there. They might want to research New Orleans. They replaced jazz with strippers. It worked for them.
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