Elections 2012: BFP Watch Party

[Martina]

Originally Posted by Kobi

......Art Linkletter would be proud......

Any adults wish to make a bet on the 2016 presidential election?

Ooooo, I googled. "KIDS say the darnedest things" is your allusion. And then the ADULTS comment.

Kobi, being passive aggressive is not too mature. Just sayin.

[Corkey]

I loved the Linkletter, but he was old fashioned, grew up watching it.
Dance all you want Martina I'm sure some of us would join you.

[Okiebug61]

Originally Posted by Kobi

......Art Linkletter would be proud......

Any adults wish to make a bet on the 2016 presidential election?

I say Rubio, Christie, Jeb Bush are all being looked at by the GOP.

I understand all eyes are on Hillary's final call when she leaves as SOS.

[Kobi]

Originally Posted by Martina

Ooooo, I googled. "KIDS say the darnedest things" is your allusion. And then the ADULTS comment.

Kobi, being passive aggressive is not too mature. Just sayin.

Passive aggressive indicates a clandestine form of communication for those who are unable or fearful of expressing their feelings or thoughts in a direct manner.

I am actually pretty straightforward, and pretty darn clever, and use humor and imagery well.

[Martina]

Originally Posted by Kobi

I am actually pretty straightforward, and pretty darn clever, and use humor and imagery well.

Lawd. *shakes head and displays a hint of a smile*

[Kobi]

Originally Posted by Martina

Lawd. *shakes head and displays a hint of a smile*

I think I'm growing on her......

albeit perhaps like mold on wet sheet rock......

but its progress.......

[Kobi]

Is anyone else following some of the more entertaining petitions on the whitehouse.gov site?

My favorite funnies....at least I hope they were meant to be funny......

1. Establish new legal system of motorcycle riding "Judges" who serve as police, judge, jury, and executioner all in one.

2. Allow United States Military service members to place their hands in their pockets.

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the bonds of service to the United States military, this regretful termination of service to this great nation is often precipitated by inane uniform and personal conduct policies.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all uniforms have pockets and hands fit perfectly inside them, and they sheathe our knife hands gloriously. It must be acknowledged that placing one's hands in one's pockets is not a sign of disrespect, but a precautionary action to prevent injuries.

Therefore, these undeniable truths being told, the service members of the United States military respectfully request the President of the United States to restore our sacred right to place our hands in our pockets -- on or off duty.

3. provide University graduates ability to trade their diplomas back for 100% tuition refunds.

Because of the inability of recent college graduates to find gainful employment in order to repay their college debt, and since this college debt cannot be eliminated in bankruptcy, and most of the recent additions to the job market have been in service related industries, the Obama administration should take up the cause of reducing college debt and hold those accountable responsible.

In the name of Consumer Protection, recent college graduates should have the ability to return the diploma and not make any reference to receiving education from the college in exchange for a 100% refund of college tuition. This may be extended with a graduated (ha, get it?) reduction for the last four years, with a red line at January 20, 2008.

4. have the President to attend a Fark.com party. If scheduling does not permit, at least have a beer with Drew Curtis

Too many serious petitions on this site asking the President to work his butt off. We believe that he should have a chance to have a good time.

[BullDog]

I'm too busy following the latest idiotic moves by John McCain. He's so concerned about Benghazi and wants Watergate-like hearings. Plus he will do whatever is in his power to block Susan Rice from becoming Secretary of State. Meanwhile he was too busy ranting in front of cameras at his press conference yesterday that he missed a classified intelligence briefing on a Senate committee he's serving on. It was a three hour briefing with testimony from officials from the State Department, the Pentagon, the CIA and the National Counterterrorism Center about Benghazi. Apparently there was a "scheduling error."

He calls the Whitehouse administration incompetent and Susan Rice not very bright. This from the man who picked Sarah Palin as his running mate and voted for Condoleezza Rice for Secretary of State despite all of the untruths she passed along from the Bush administration, whereas Susan Rice was not involved in Benghazi and was just the messenger based on CIA briefings on what was known at the time. Yeah he's real concerned about Benghazi.

[Corkey]

Originally Posted by BullDog

I'm too busy following the latest idiotic moves by John McCain. He's so concerned about Benghazi and wants Watergate-like hearings. Plus he will do whatever is in his power to block Susan Rice from becoming Secretary of State. Meanwhile he was too busy ranting in front of cameras at his press conference yesterday that he missed a classified intelligence briefing on a Senate committee he's serving on. It was a three hour briefing with testimony from officials from the State Department, the Pentagon, the CIA and the National Counterterrorism Center about Benghazi. Apparently there was a "scheduling error."

He calls the Whitehouse administration incompetent and Susan Rice not very bright. This from the man who picked Sarah Palin as his running mate and voted for Condoleezza Rice for Secretary of State despite all of the untruths she passed along from the Bush administration, whereas Susan Rice was not involved in Benghazi and was just the messenger based on CIA briefings on what was known at the time. Yeah he's real concerned about Benghazi.

The man is clearly out of his mind, and off the brink.

[Greyson]

Kay S. Hymowitz
The Misunderstood Gender Gap
Women’s voting habits have less to do with their sex than the media think.
16 November 2012


Romney lost the black, Hispanic, and Asian vote, while he won the college-educated vote (though not post-grads), the votes of those making over $50,000 a year, and the votes of older Generation X-ers, Baby Boomers, and voters over 65. In other words, married women voted less as part of a sisterhood than as part of a cohort of white people holding college diplomas, earning more than $50,000 a year, and wearing reading glasses.


http://www.city-journal.org/2012/eon1116kh.html

[Kobi]

Originally Posted by Greyson

Kay S. Hymowitz
The Misunderstood Gender Gap
Women’s voting habits have less to do with their sex than the media think.
16 November 2012


Romney lost the black, Hispanic, and Asian vote, while he won the college-educated vote (though not post-grads), the votes of those making over $50,000 a year, and the votes of older Generation X-ers, Baby Boomers, and voters over 65. In other words, married women voted less as part of a sisterhood than as part of a cohort of white people holding college diplomas, earning more than $50,000 a year, and wearing reading glasses.


http://www.city-journal.org/2012/eon1116kh.html

Thanks for posting this Greyson. It is important to break stuff down a little more than the media and politicans like to do.

Kay Hymowitz is a bit of a controversial figure in "analyzing" data that involves women. Sometimes, she comes across as a modern day Phyllis Schafly.

She has written a few controversial books that have both some merit and some wtf moments. Her book "Manning Up: How The Rise Of Women Have Turned Men Into Boys was interesting tho difficult to read. [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Manning-Up-Rise-Women-Turned/dp/0465028365"]Amazon.com description.[/ame]


And then there are her thoughts on why the gender wage gap will never go away i.e. Women prefer the Mommy track

Women of color might have a bit of a problem with [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Marriage-Caste-America-Separate-Post-Marital/dp/1566637538"]Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age [/ame]

[Greyson]

Originally Posted by Kobi

Thanks for posting this Greyson. It is important to break stuff down a little more than the media and politicans like to do.

Kay Hymowitz is a bit of a controversial figure in "analyzing" data that involves women. Sometimes, she comes across as a modern day Phyllis Schafly.

She has written a few controversial books that have both some merit and some wtf moments. Her book "Manning Up: How The Rise Of Women Have Turned Men Into Boys was interesting tho difficult to read. Amazon.com description.


And then there are her thoughts on why the gender wage gap will never go away i.e. Women prefer the Mommy track

Women of color might have a bit of a problem with Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age

Thanks Kobi. I found this article in "The City." A popular read for Urban Planners. I did not know of her writings but I do appreciate you showing me, us.

I do not always agree with stuff I post but I post it because I think there is some relevence to pieces of it. But really, I do appreciate your follow up post.

[Kobi]

The defeated GOP candidate famously disparaged Obama as the candidate of the 47 percent. Now, liberals gleefully view Mitt's final tally as poetic justice.

Got to love irony.

[Soon]

GOP Assembles All White Male Roster of House Committee Chairmen for Upcoming Congress
Neetzan Zimmerman

It was somewhat disappointing, though not particularly surprising, when House Speaker John Boehner announced yesterday that the GOP's 19 House committee chairs will be occupied exclusively by white men starting next year.

For one thing, the current Congress has only a single minority chairperson — Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), a Hispanic woman.

For another thing, the GOP itself is composed almost entirely of white men: Of the 234 (or 235) Republicans that make up the 113th Congress, only 20 are women, seven are Hispanic, and one is African-American.

Compare that with the Democrats, who, for the first time, will count white male lawmakers in the minority.

The news isn't all bad for female Republican representatives. Four of them were selected for Boehner's leadership team:

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., will be the Republican Conference Chairman, the fourth top Republican in the House, Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kan., will be the conference's vice-chair, and Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., will act as conference secretary.

Still, the fact remains that Republicans aren't showing any willingness to learn from their mistakes — namely, the disregard for minorities that just cost them a presidential election.

As Rachel Maddow said of the image at the top of the post: "This is what you can clip and save for the next time someone in the beltway tells you how seriously the Republican party is taking its diversity problem this year."