IT COULD BE BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE EXPLOITING MARGIN OF ERROR: Polls with Large Voter Samples all favor Romney; Smaller, Less Reliable Polls all favor Obama. Why?
Archive for 2012
October 24, 2012
AT AMAZON, up to 50% off on Men’s shoes and boots.
PLAN NEIN FROM OUTER SPACE: Nazi buddha from space might be fake.
What gave it away?
BUT WILL THERE STILL BE PAPER MAGAZINES BY THE TIME THE REAL 2019 ROLLS AROUND? Prop magazines from the set of 1982’s Blade Runner.
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Tracking America’s Drone War.
HISTORY: How Human Beings Almost Vanished From Earth In 70,000 B.C. This is why it’s bad for a species to live on a single planet.
MORAL EQUIVALENT OF WAR MUCH? Dem. Senate Candidate Said Obesity ‘Dilemma Will Dwarf 9/11.’
Huh. It wasn’t all that long ago that global warming was the left’s moral equivalent of 9/11.
SUPER GAFFE-O-MATIC 2012:
CHANGE: Dems Begin the Post-Obama Blame Game.
Avoid the appearance of the aura of the penumbra of cockiness, but that’s an interesting change from the election cycles in 2006 and 2008, when the pre-postmortems were appearing in October on the right.
ENOUGH, ALREADY: 11-year-old boy convinced NFL to use pink penalty flags this week.
Fighting breast cancer is certainly a noble cause, and I’m thrilled that the NFL is raising millions. (The NFL being onboard with such a health-related cause also helps to deflect a modicum of attention away from the league’s concussion issue, a topic that’s the current obsession of sportswriters.) But am I the only one who dreads watching a month’s worth of pink sneakers, and now pink penalty flags every October?
UPDATE: Pink Jumps the Shark — plus an alternative health campaign for the NFL to champion.
WHOA THERE, BIG FELLA: President Obama deigned to sit down with actual reporters–from the Des Moines Register– and spout out a bunch of inconsistencies and downright fabrications. Oh yeah, and apparently he doesn’t “regret” wasting his first two years in office–during which he had a filibuster-proof Senate and control of the House–pursuing big ticket progressive pet projects like health care reform, cap and trade and union card check.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Secrets to Staying Married for 50 Years (or More).
IS D.C. FACING A HOUSING BUBBLE, OR A LOBBYING BUBBLE? “DC’s housing market is very strange. While the rest of the country falls, we’re in a veritable boom. Where others zig, we zag. What the heck is going on?”
I favor the Hunger Games explanation.
LOOK WHAT WE FOUND! COULD THIS HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH WHY THE JOINT IS OUT OF CONTROL? Found today buried in one of those ghastly tomes known as “Inspector-General reports” was the statement by the IG at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that the agency has no definition of “cost/savings” and even if it did, has no credible way of measuring the same. Now, aren’t you glad that the Watchdog team at The Washington Examiner actually reads IG reports for fun!
WHERE WILL THE NEXT PANDEMIC COME FROM?
READER CHRIS ROHIFS WRITES: “Thanks for posting the generator link. We’ve been meaning to order one for a while, and I finally just did.”
Well, if you live in the potential Sandy-strike zone, you need to be buying now if you want one before it’s too late. If you live anywhere else where winter storms are an issue, it’s not a bad time.
UPDATE: Reader Glenn Howes writes: “A data point here. I ordered a 200 lb home backup generator from Amazon on Saturday Oct. 13, with free shipping, and it showed up in my driveway on Monday Oct. 22, so people might be warned to not delay or to pay for faster shipping, or even go to a store.” Currently, some are showing Friday delivery with one-day shipping, but as the storm news spreads, supplies will dry up.
JUST TELL HIM TO STAY OFF YACHTS UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION: Busted for Flip-Flop: Obama Privately Touts Sequester After Denying Responsibility in Debate.
IN VAIN I’VE STRUGGLED: I still have to link this story, because it’s too funny: Mourners flee after man turns up alive at his own wake. All I could think about was Tom Sawyer. The photographs in the linked article in Portuguese do indeed show remarkable resemblance when you take in account one of them is dead. On the other hand, the language in the article is (I think unintentionally) hilarious. It reads like “Not having seen him four four months, his family decided he was dead.” My son said it sounded like the er… mother of all mind games. “You didn’t call in so long, we thought you were dead!”
I TOO AM SKEPTICAL: Will China Follow the Singapore Model?
SHOWING UP: Reader Gary Kitts writes: “My wife and I took today (Wednesday 10/24/2012) for personal business and included a stop at the Johnson County (Indiana) court house to vote early. We figured that there would not be much of a line. We arrived a little after 11:00 a.m. and there were about a half-dozen people ahead of us. The process was fast, easy and well-organized. The voter ID process was much easier and less intrusive than the ID process required to enter the Minton-Capehart Federal Building in Indianapolis. (I am retired IRS and my wife is still employed by IRS). The electronic ballots and voting machines were very easy to use. The real surprise was the constant stream of voters coming in the door behind us. The poll workers said that the early voting was like this every day and the comments indicated that voters believed that voting on Tuesday 11/06/2012 would be a long, long wait in line at the new voting centers we now have. Just an individual anecdote that this election is resonating deeply as a really important event in our nation’s history.”
UPDATE: Reader Barney Madsen writes: “I took my mom and mother-in-law to lunch to talk over election and ballot issues, and then we went to vote early (early voting started yesterday in Utah) at the Utah County building. We arrived after 2 pm. Voter ID (you can show a Utah drivers license) was no hassle. Almost all the voting machines (10 or 12) were occupied and we had to wait in line. The line got longer while we were in line, and snaked around the inside of the building. Utah is designated ‘solid’ for Romney (one of the reddest of the red states — Utah was Mitt’s adopted home when he rescued the 2002 Olympics, and the majority of residents share his values and are LDS). So, our votes don’t “count” as much in electoral college terms as swing states like Ohio or Florida or Virginia. Turnout won’t matter: Romney will win Utah. Nevertheless, from my experience this afternoon, there is a lot of enthusiasm to get out and vote (and avoid the rush on election day). Heard Obama was going to vote early in Chicago today (the 1st president to vote before election day). So, I’m proud to have voted the same day as our soon-to-be-ex-president!”
BY THEIR ADVISERS YOU SHALL KNOW THEM: Obama Getting More Bad Advice. Fortunately he’s a “better campaign manager” than his campaign managers, so no sweat, right?
DEMOCRATIC REP. JIM MORAN’S SON RESIGNS FROM CAMPAIGN AFTER VIDEO VOTE-FRAUD BUST.