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Posted: Wed 11 Nov , 2009 1:09 pm
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Speaking for myself, the boundaries just denote the different socio-cultural-economical regions (or subnations, if you prefer) present in the United States. The whole subject is mostly academic in good times, but I think Garreau's boundaries would be pretty good predictors of how the nation would fragment in a general collapse of central authority.

Speaking of which, just to show how things change, the teabaggers' new hero is an ex-KGB agent who predicts the US will soon fragment into 10 separate regions under foreign control:
http://www.alternet.org/story/143816/te ... _next_year

How do you suppose the right wing would have reacted to something like that 20 years ago?


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Posted: Wed 11 Nov , 2009 3:35 pm
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How do you suppose the right wing would have reacted to something like that 20 years ago?
They would have been justified in labeling any attempt to destroy the United States of America as treason. Of course, now that such dreams/nightmares are part of the teabagger/libertarian fantasy, it would no longer have that title applied by themselves. But treason it still is just the same.

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We overcome them every day and have been doing so for more than ten score years.

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Posted: Thu 10 Dec , 2009 5:48 am
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Since this became the de facto Fox News thread. Check out Daily Show from yesterday, the clip about Gretchen Carlson from that Fox morning show. They showed a Rasmussen poll about whether people thought it was likely that scientists falsified data about climate change. Here are the numbers: 59% Somewhat likely, 35% Very likely, 26% Not very likely. That makes sense, right?

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Posted: Thu 10 Dec , 2009 1:12 pm
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WOW!!!!! :Q :Q

Those numbers from FOX are really impressive!!!!!!

Perhaps they got them from Austrian economists who normally do not see numbers and what they mean the way that the rest of us do? ;)

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Posted: Fri 11 Dec , 2009 12:23 am
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TheEllipticalDisillusion wrote:
Since this became the de facto Fox News thread. Check out Daily Show from yesterday, the clip about Gretchen Carlson from that Fox morning show. They showed a Rasmussen poll about whether people thought it was likely that scientists falsified data about climate change. Here are the numbers: 59% Somewhat likely, 35% Very likely, 26% Not very likely. That makes sense, right?
Their proof-reader must have been asleep. They added two categories together, and then repeated one of those two categories. Pretty sloppy.

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Posted: Fri 11 Dec , 2009 4:40 am
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TheEllipticalDisillusion wrote:
Since this became the de facto Fox News thread. Check out Daily Show from yesterday, the clip about Gretchen Carlson from that Fox morning show. They showed a Rasmussen poll about whether people thought it was likely that scientists falsified data about climate change. Here are the numbers: 59% Somewhat likely, 35% Very likely, 26% Not very likely. That makes sense, right?
Of course it makes sense, those damn hippie mathematician scientists lied to us about percentages and the government manipulated our children by forcing them to learn faulty arithmetic when it should be up to the parents to determine whether math is right or wrong, and FOX NEWS doesn't stand for that shit. You just hate America.


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elfshadow wrote:
TheEllipticalDisillusion wrote:
Since this became the de facto Fox News thread. Check out Daily Show from yesterday, the clip about Gretchen Carlson from that Fox morning show. They showed a Rasmussen poll about whether people thought it was likely that scientists falsified data about climate change. Here are the numbers: 59% Somewhat likely, 35% Very likely, 26% Not very likely. That makes sense, right?
Of course it makes sense, those damn hippie mathematician scientists lied to us about percentages and the government manipulated our children by forcing them to learn faulty arithmetic when it should be up to the parents to determine whether math is right or wrong, and FOX NEWS doesn't stand for that shit. You just hate America.
You're right. I'm a self-hating American. :( When will I learn that even mathematical principles are relative!?
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TheEllipticalDisillusion wrote:
elfshadow wrote:
TheEllipticalDisillusion wrote:
Since this became the de facto Fox News thread. Check out Daily Show from yesterday, the clip about Gretchen Carlson from that Fox morning show. They showed a Rasmussen poll about whether people thought it was likely that scientists falsified data about climate change. Here are the numbers: 59% Somewhat likely, 35% Very likely, 26% Not very likely. That makes sense, right?
Of course it makes sense, those damn hippie mathematician scientists lied to us about percentages and the government manipulated our children by forcing them to learn faulty arithmetic when it should be up to the parents to determine whether math is right or wrong, and FOX NEWS doesn't stand for that shit. You just hate America.
You're right. I'm a self-hating American. :( When will I learn that even mathematical principles are relative!?
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Of course they are, just like logic. Marx said each class had its own version of logic, that there was proletariat logic and bourgeois logic. Keynesians add two plus two and get eight.

Of course I don't agree with Marx or Keynes.

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Never mind the sloppy maths, As I've quoted before, Fox News uses statistics the way a drunk uses a lamppost - for support rather than for illumnation.

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