Dave's Droppings

The interesting thing that struck me with this AP story was the fourth paragraph.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,346049,00.html

“Humans are widely believed to have arrived in North America from Asia over a land-bridge between Alaska and Siberia during a warmer period. A variety of dates has been proposed and some are in dispute.”

This poop is only 14,000 years old which is a mere blip in the geologic record of the Earth.

Therefore I would love to hear the global warming alarmist address a couple points.

It is believed this poop was deposited in that Oregon cave by a Human that crossed a land bridge between Asia and North America and that this land bridge existed during a “warmer period”

That leads me to wonder did Humans 14,000 years ago have SUVs, Factories or huge herds of cow’s farting to create the “greenhouse” gasses to cause this warming and if it was a “warmer period” shouldn’t the polar ice melt have caused the sea levels to rise so that a land bridge would not have existed?

Jon Stewart may find that his invitations to Hollywood parties are going to dry up if he keeps poking this kind of fun at Code Pink.

From last nights SOTU address

I have to say that looking at this picture I see the following based on body language.

1. Obama and Teddy look like two high school punks plotting to tease Hillary with the way that are looking at her.  You certainly know who the object of their attention is.

2. Claire McCaskill (the lady in the cream jacket, freshman Senator from Missouri) certainly seems to have a smirk on her face. Looks like the expression that one would see on the wallflower when the homecoming queen trips on her dress.

3. Hillary, chin up greeting people with a game face on as if trying to ignore the fact the she knows everyone is looking at her.

Are the long knifes out for Hillary in a form of “moral superiority” and comeuppance?

This picture should be up for the Pulitzer

An Interesting post from Crosstabs.org on the Exit polls out of Nevada.

“…Now onto the Mormon vote in Nevada. Most media outlets seemed to delight in repeating that Romney got 94% of the LDS vote in Nevada. It was repeated time and again as I watched the coverage live and many pundits said/inferred that this factor accounted for Romney’s win. Actually, if you subtracted out every single Mormon vote for Romney he still would have won by a double digit margin and had nearly double the votes of either of his next two competitors.

But others seemed to express dismay that one religious group would be so absolutely monolithic in it’s support. However, they fail to recognize that Dems NV Exit polling shows that 3% of those participating in the Democratic caucus were Mormons. I’m guessing NONE of them voted for Romney (sarcasm intended).With voting totals around 115,000 in the Dem race (I saw that number on Fox News) that would come out to approximately 3500 LDS voters NOT voting for Romney in the Dem caucus.

By contrast, 25% of the GOP caucus in NV that were Mormon with nearly 45,000 total GOP voters — therefore around 11250 LDS voters and 94% of them were for Romney . . . but that means nearly 500 were not.

So, 4000 LDS in Nevada voted “Not for Romney” and 10,750 voted for Romney. That breaks down to 73% LDS for Romney and 27% LDS that were not for Romney. Not quite the absolutely robotic block-voting groups that many media outlets are trying to play up, but, still, a solid base for Romney in the western/mountain states.

An interesting counter-argument about such huge LDS support for Mitt is that LDS have absolutely NO reservations about or aversion to Romney based on his religion, and can therefore view him outside of that context (while most non-LDS cannot) and therefore judge him solely on his record, experience, and issue stances. Romney surely hasn’t “pandered” to the LDS base like Huckabee has to his Evangelical base. Historically speaking, there was no huge LDS groundswell of support for Orrin Hatch in 2000, or Mo Udall back in the 70s. Similarly, Harry Reid is a guy that only a tiny fraction of LDS would ever consider voting for based on co-religiosity. In Romney most LDS are able to see, outside of the context of him having a “weird religion,” that he is an incredibly competent, faithful, successful, and articulate leader with a record of conservative governance and broad-based executive experience…”

Over on Townhall.com the place seems to be filled with Trolls making anti-Mormon comments to any post where Romney’s name shows up either in the actual Post or somewhere in the comments.   In actuality the Trolls are few (maybe 4-5) but loud and persistant.  Decided to call one out last night, on a post by Hugh Hewitt about MCain, the “Gang of 14″ and the future of Court nominees, and toy with him like a Cat with a mouse.  My nom de plume on Townhall is TR-Racer.

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Another interesting Candidate Calculator.  I took it and it showed me with:

“Top Match”
Sam Brownback @ 81.58%

- Brownback!  Not sure how that got there.  Talk about a long shot fringe candidate.

My other “Top Matches”
Fred Thompson @ 76.32%
Duncan Hunter @ 73.68%
Mitt Romney @ 71.05%

- Thompson. I did like him but his lack of energy and playing coy concerned me from the get go and I never got behind him.  His saving grace was he was in the Senate for just a short time and did not get totally impressed with himself.
- Hunter.  Kinda liked him too but he is a one issue guy and I don’t like single issue candidates for ANYTHING
- Romney.  He’s ok and I like him on most items.  I just wish he had/would run on his record and not try to be all things to all people.  Recognize your strengths and play to those.

Middle of the Pack Matches
Tom Tancrado @ 71.05%
John Cox @ 68.42%
Rudy Guiliani @ 65.79%
Mike Huckabee @ 65.79%
John McCain @ 63.16%
Ron Paul @ 63.16%
Bill Richardson @ 42.11%
Joe Biden @ 39.47%
Barack Obama @ 34.21%
Hillary Clinton @ 31.58%

- Tancrado.  Another single issue guy and too far off the chart on that issue
- John Cox. ???
- Rudy. I could have voted for Rudy without any problem.  I was turned off in December when it became obvious that he was going to basically skip the early States.  I want the candidates bloodied, tested and vetted during the process.  Rudy was acting like he was the Sportswriters preseason title favorite and expected a bye for the season so that he could go into the Playoffs (Super Tuesday) with no injuries, while the rest of the field would be walking wounded, and then sail to the Championship game.
- Huckabee.  Not a chance with his unFairTax and his holier-then-thou I’m a better Christian then you and let’s ban fast food schtick.
- McCain.  Yep.  That’s where I’d place him. One rung up from the lunatic Paul.   If it came down to voting for McCain or Paul Johnny would get my very reluctant vote.  He’s been TOO long in the insulated Senate and has become way too impressed with himself
- Paul.  He’d only beat out only Kuninich or Gravel for my vote.  Actually, for him I would stay home and paint the House and listen to Country Music (I HATE country music)
- Richardson.  Should be higher on this list and probably the best qualified Dem for the job.  I’d take him over Huckabee, McCain or Paul any day of the week.
- Biden.  Think he would steal old Reagan speeches?  What a hack.  Another self impressed Senator
- Obama.  Delivers a great soaring speech.  Too bad only empty drafts of air are supporting that rhetoric.  He was born to be a Senator.  He has not done anything and he’s already written 2 autobiographies!  Yep.  He’s impressed with himself
- Hillary.  No need to say anything.  Plus, another Senator.

Bottom of the Barrel
Chris Dodd @ 26.32%
John Edwards @ 26.32%
Dennis Kucinich @ 18.42%
Mike Gravel @ 15.79%

- Dodd, Edwards.  What is it with all these Senators.  Not impressed
- Kucinich.  Shirley McLaine supports him and he like Assad in Syria.  Need I say more
- Gravel. ???.  What’s the point.

No skeletons in his Closet?  You must be smoking some of that funny weed that Ron Paul wants to legalize.  Have you educated yourself as to the writings in his newsletters that he published from 1976 to 1999?

Ron Paul will soon enough be the answer to a Trivia Question.  “”What Racists Bigoted unknown Politician was able to fleece $20 million dollars from a scared and cowed tiny fraction of the US Electorate in 2007″

I predicted and said as much on my own Blog over the past couple of months.  Nice to see the Media starting to pickup on it too.

http://pajamasmedia.com/2008/01/ron_paul.php

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e2f15397-a3c7-4720-ac15-4532a7da84ca

“…Most voters had never heard of Paul before he launched his quixotic bid for the Republican nomination. But the Texan has been active in politics for decades. And, long before he was the darling of antiwar activists on the left and right, Paul was in the newsletter business. In the age before blogs, newsletters occupied a prominent place in right-wing political discourse…”

The article provides quotes and analysis of Ron Paul’s newsletters from 1978 to 1999.

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Hey!
What are your thoughts on this FairTax thing.  I know I’d love to see a complete overhaul and simplification of the current mess but I don’t know if this is the answer - if there is an answer that would satisfy everyone.

Thanks!
Kathy

While I like the idea that a National Sales tax will make people aware of the real cost of government as opposed to it being hidden in employment taxes, etc…  The “FairTax” is anything but “Fair. Consider just a few items…

They claim that it will do away with the IRS and get rid of tax loopholes.  Sure the IRS will go away because you won’t be sending in a 1040.  However every business in the US will now become Uncle Sam’s unpaid tax collector and we have to collect, report and send that money somewhere and if we don’t the newly renamed IRS will come after the business that don’t send in the Sales Tax,

Now as to the Sales Tax.  The proponents keep saying that it is 23%  But when you find out that the tax on a $100 purchase will be $29.XX that says that the sales tax is really almost 30%.

Of course the proponents point out that the “poor” and “middle-class” will get a monthly pre-bate check to cover the sales tax that would be spent on things like butter, milk and eggs, school pencils (etc…).  but since there is no IRS to determine who is poor or middle-class that means that every household in the US will be getting these monthly “checks” from the government.  Instead of just welfare recipients waiting by their mailboxes for their monthly government check we will have most of America on the “dole”.  Talk about making a new dependency class!  There are 301 millions people in the US (give or take) according to the latest Census estimate.  Now these checks will go to every “Household”, so you have to report somehow if you are single, married, how many kids, etc… so that the Government knows how big of a check to send you each month to cover the tax on the staples of life as determined by some Civil Servant.

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83% John McCain
75% Mitt Romney
73% Mike Huckabee
72% Rudy Giuliani
69% Fred Thompson
68% Tom Tancredo
55% Hillary Clinton
51% Bill Richardson
50% John Edwards
49% Barack Obama
47% Chris Dodd
45% Joe Biden
45% Ron Paul
31% Mike Gravel
24% Dennis Kucinich

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

Interesting.  Right know with the field presented I could vote for either Rudy or Mitt.  It would be real hard and I would have to be extremely pragmatic (looking to Supreme Court appointments) to vote for either Huck (I can’t stand the “Fair Tax” or his spewing I’m a better Christian than anyone else crap) or McCain (McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, Gang of 14, etc, etc… ad nauseum).  Fred doesn’t do anything for me as he just seems to be going through the motions.  As for Ron Paul.  PUHLEASE…

On the other side of the aisle.  Hillary.  Not even worth a thought.  Edwards?  Can’t stand the class warfare and the rest of his rhetoric.  Obama.  Look up the definition of an empty suit.  Kucinich is the same as Ron Paul.  Nutcase.

How Lori faired with her selections:

84% John McCain
77% Mitt Romney
76% Mike Huckabee
74% Fred Thompson
68% Rudy Giuliani
67% Tom Tancredo
47% Hillary Clinton
46% John Edwards
44% Joe Biden
44% Barack Obama
44% Ron Paul
42% Bill Richardson
37% Chris Dodd
27% Mike Gravel
19% Dennis Kucinich

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz