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"Dave LaCourse" wrote in message
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:56:12 -0700, "David Snedeker"
wrote:

Bush voters would have been
twice as likely to have voted Democratic if Kerry had dressed up as a
pirate, been coached to speak a little NASCAR, or hosted a campaign
summit
meeting with a snake handler church.

That is plain bull****, David. Do you remember when he said, "Can I
get me a huntin' license here?" The entire nation laughed at him for
dumbing down and acting like some kind of hillbilly hick. He is what
he is and most folks saw that. Do you think Al Gore hiring someone to
make him look more "macho" and changed his wardrobe to earth tones
helped? He is what he is.

Dave


Im sorry Dave, but its true. In fact, a computer simulation using an
artificial demographic avatar profile of a male, retired military CPO or
equivalent, in the upper income category, living in the lower New England
area tested voting proclivities for both Kerry and Gore. The percentage of
Bush voters favoring Kerry rose to 47% when Kerry was dressed as a teenage
girl with little pointy tits, while the pirate dress-up outfit yielded less
that 39.7%.

Gore tested best among this demographic avatar when he wore a Nautica brand
flight jacket, cowboy hat and sneered at the computer screen. Similar
results were noted at informal trials performed at post-election Log Cabin
Republican Dress-up Night Gatherings. Of course there is no guarantee that
you will get the same results in home trials, but some of the same affects
can be observed by dressing up in front of a mirror and slurring your
speech. Its probably not necessary to put on a bra, but the panties are
essential. I think that you will agree that you would be much more likely to
vote for Kerry or any other Democrat, the day you look into the mirror and
see yourself wearing a pair of pretty pink panties.

Dave

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"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
. com...
David Snedeker wrote:

... Focus groups tested
post election showed that nearly 40% of male Bush voters would have been
twice as likely to have voted Democratic if Kerry had dressed up as a
pirate, been coached to speak a little NASCAR, or hosted a campaign
summit
meeting with a snake handler church.

SPLORK

Too funny.

I must be feeling better, I can laugh again.

Got a letter in the mail today from the state of Illinois
that said my daughter is deceased but I can appeal the
decision. I had to laugh.

--
Ken Fortenberry

Good. Some people say it doesn't get easier, but I believe that time can
help form scabs and scars that lets life proceed.

Dave

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"rw" wrote in message
m...
David Snedeker wrote:
"Tim J." wrote in message
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rw wrote:

What could have persuaded people to vote for this transparently
loathsome creep?

The other two even more transparently loathsome creeps? Just a guess. .
.
--
TL,
Tim
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No. Near as I can figure many of the Bush voters like to play dress-up.
So
when Bush staged the landing on the carrier, after having the carrier
turn
so the camera shots were seaward, and did the costume change to the
leather
jacket, it spoke directly to that part of the pocket-poolsters that
prefer
dress-up to real life people with real life experiences like Kerry and
Max
Cleland.

I have to believe that the people who still approve of Bush, despite the
abundant evidence of his bumbling incompetence and mendacity, are the
people who wouldn't mind if he ate their children.

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Or . . . who are people who suck at math. or maybe both: $500 Billion is the
price of Iraq so far, with another $500 billion estimated to come. And whose
children will pay for it?

Seriously, I am amazed at how many people are basically illnumerate, for
whom real basics like long division are more than a stretch. If they can't
count, how can they possibly understand much of the disaster that the
Bushies have created? It would be interesting to compare basic math levels
by voting preference. Maybe a basic test like a long division problem,
placement of a decimal, writing of a billion and a million. Real
simplestuff.

Dave

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You're a sad sack piece of ****, Snedeker, if you can hate someone bad
enough to wish them dead. Man, that is a hate I have never faced or
hope to.

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On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:17:40 -0700, "David Snedeker"
wrote:


"rw" wrote in message
om...
David Snedeker wrote:
"Tim J." wrote in message
. ..

rw wrote:

What could have persuaded people to vote for this transparently
loathsome creep?

The other two even more transparently loathsome creeps? Just a guess. .
.
--
TL,
Tim
---------------------------


No. Near as I can figure many of the Bush voters like to play dress-up.
So
when Bush staged the landing on the carrier, after having the carrier
turn
so the camera shots were seaward, and did the costume change to the
leather
jacket, it spoke directly to that part of the pocket-poolsters that
prefer
dress-up to real life people with real life experiences like Kerry and
Max
Cleland.

I have to believe that the people who still approve of Bush, despite the
abundant evidence of his bumbling incompetence and mendacity, are the
people who wouldn't mind if he ate their children.

--

Or . . . who are people who suck at math. or maybe both: $500 Billion is the
price of Iraq so far, with another $500 billion estimated to come. And whose
children will pay for it?

Seriously, I am amazed at how many people are basically illnumerate, for
whom real basics like long division are more than a stretch. If they can't
count, how can they possibly understand much of the disaster that the
Bushies have created? It would be interesting to compare basic math levels
by voting preference. Maybe a basic test like a long division problem,
placement of a decimal, writing of a billion and a million. Real
simplestuff.

Dave


As has already been amply demonstrated, counting how much money they have is
all the math ability some folks require - or even care to think about...

/daytripper ()

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"Dave LaCourse" wrote in message
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You're a sad sack piece of ****, Snedeker, if you can hate someone bad
enough to wish them dead. Man, that is a hate I have never faced or
hope to.



Oh the melodrama of it all. Hold the presses, I think perhaps Mother Teresa
has not died: She has been re-incarnated as (wait for it), "The Pirate."

Dave

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David Snedeker wrote:
It would be interesting to compare basic math levels
by voting preference. Maybe a basic test like a long division problem,
placement of a decimal, writing of a billion and a million. Real
simplestuff.

You would be greatly disappointed. Although it is far from
deterministic, an engineering organization (I think it was NSPE, but
don't remember for sure) found that engineers voted for GWB somewhere
in the high 60% area -- more in '04 than in 2000.
And no, I am sorry: I don't know where to look to find it -- so, since
I can't PPOR, you may disregard.

cheers

oz, who maintains HS math teachers don't count -- they went to schools
of education and thereby suffered neural atrophy

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That would be the NSPE but they don't typically represent engineers.
Their membership is mostly owners of small firms. Been there done
that. I quit because their agenda is not really engineering but
business and more pointedly makeing the owners more money. I don't
have a problem with that but they didn't seem to have many scruples
about it. They talked a good talk , lots about professionalism etc.
but not much action. I am not supprised they would go for bush,
probably smelling the crumbs that fall off the Haliburton plate.

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BJ Conner wrote:
That would be the NSPE but they don't typically represent engineers.
Their membership is mostly owners of small firms. Been there done
that. I quit because their agenda is not really engineering but
business and more pointedly makeing the owners more money. I don't
have a problem with that but they didn't seem to have many scruples
about it. They talked a good talk , lots about professionalism etc.
but not much action. I am not supprised they would go for bush,
probably smelling the crumbs that fall off the Haliburton plate.

That wasn't my experience. Although a disproportinate number were
CE's, I found their first priority was education and its improvement.
I served as state educational committee chair and MathCounts
coordinator and received tremendous support.

Aside: in one of his non-fiction pieces, Robert A. Heinlein wrote
(mistakes are from wetware inconsistency):
"Voting booths should require some test before a vote could be
recorded. For instance: the prospective voter is presented with a
quadratic equation. If he can solve it, the ballot is offered. If he
cannot, the booth opens and is empty."
He then went on to speculate that knowing the consequences, the dummies
would probably stay home.

cheers

oz, feeling sympathy for your experience

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On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:18:28 -0400, daytripper
wrote:

As has already been amply demonstrated, counting how much money they have is
all the math ability some folks require - or even care to think about...

Yeah, and braggin' about how your screwin' your present employer and
moving to another when you return to work, and how much more money
you'll be makin' in your new job doesn't require a helluva lot of math
knowledge. CC + CC= CC