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Sep. 20th, 2006 11:14 amI now have gi, a lab coat (with proper goggles), and a battle suit in my hallway closet, all of which I've used. I think I'm now prepped for pretty much everything except scuba.
Sep. 20th, 2006
Here, this set of charts has interesting implications. It's economic data, a series of comparative plots - housing, copper (to represent commodities - tho' I'd love to see more plots on other commodities and the sector as a whole), and so on. Minyanville is one of the more interesting economics sites out there - if you clicked on the "Mr. T's career vs. gold futures" article I linked to a couple of months ago, it's the same people. But that one was an intentional bit of silliness (even if the plot projection turned out to be, um, reasonably accurate - shows you how good economics forecasting is, ne?) and this isn't, so much.
They've also got an article more specifically on the housing market collapse, here, with an amusing graphic at the end. But you should read the items before it, or at least item five, before you get to the graphic, so it makes more sense.
Eight out of 10 voters will use electronic voting machines that may as well be designed for election-theft this fall. Many of them don't have paper trails at all; others have them but they aren't typically used. Elections using them have produced results with more votes for a single candidate than registered voters, 99% turnouts (when it is known for a fact that actual turnout was not nearly so high), massive numbers of lost votes, and bizarre turnout that cannot be explained any sane way. This cannot be allowed to stand. (This is not the only article I've read on this subject. But I haven't been posting about it as much. This is clearly a mistake. But there are so many systems failures occurring at the same time that it's difficult to keep up.)
For those wondering about the fundamentalist-backed effort to elect a slate of justices in line with, well, their way of thinking - they so far have zero victories where they had contested races. Joel Penoyar is ahead of Brent D. Boger (FFN endorsed1) by 11 points; Mary Kay Becker has soundly defeated FFN-endorsed1 opponent Jeff Teichert (Hi Jeff - still reading?), Supreme Court Justice Tom Chambers is well ahead of FFN-endorsed1 Jeanette Burrage, Gerry Alexander is ahead of FFN-endorsed1 John Groen, tho' by only eight points and there are a lot of votes left to count. In Supreme Court position 2, Susan Owens and Stephen Johnson will both proceed to the general election in November; look for a major FFN and probably a Focus on the Family/etc effort there again. She finished 12 points (as of current count) ahead of FFN-endorsed1 candidate Stephen Johnson, but neither made the 51% marker so will both be in the general election. That should be good, as the turnout is generally higher in November elections than in primaries. You can go here for updates.
1: Where somehow sending out to their entire paper mailing list and pointing constantly to their web page hosted version a broadsheet with lists of candidates marked with "+" and "-" beside their names is somehow not actually an endorsement because down at the bottom of the page they put "for educational purposes only/These are not endorsements." Sorry, homey don't play that.
ETF: Okay, that looked funny. I should make a PNG or something and link to it. I forgot all the / in my </small> tags, so it looked like the contract in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. ^_^
They've also got an article more specifically on the housing market collapse, here, with an amusing graphic at the end. But you should read the items before it, or at least item five, before you get to the graphic, so it makes more sense.
Eight out of 10 voters will use electronic voting machines that may as well be designed for election-theft this fall. Many of them don't have paper trails at all; others have them but they aren't typically used. Elections using them have produced results with more votes for a single candidate than registered voters, 99% turnouts (when it is known for a fact that actual turnout was not nearly so high), massive numbers of lost votes, and bizarre turnout that cannot be explained any sane way. This cannot be allowed to stand. (This is not the only article I've read on this subject. But I haven't been posting about it as much. This is clearly a mistake. But there are so many systems failures occurring at the same time that it's difficult to keep up.)
For those wondering about the fundamentalist-backed effort to elect a slate of justices in line with, well, their way of thinking - they so far have zero victories where they had contested races. Joel Penoyar is ahead of Brent D. Boger (FFN endorsed1) by 11 points; Mary Kay Becker has soundly defeated FFN-endorsed1 opponent Jeff Teichert (Hi Jeff - still reading?), Supreme Court Justice Tom Chambers is well ahead of FFN-endorsed1 Jeanette Burrage, Gerry Alexander is ahead of FFN-endorsed1 John Groen, tho' by only eight points and there are a lot of votes left to count. In Supreme Court position 2, Susan Owens and Stephen Johnson will both proceed to the general election in November; look for a major FFN and probably a Focus on the Family/etc effort there again. She finished 12 points (as of current count) ahead of FFN-endorsed1 candidate Stephen Johnson, but neither made the 51% marker so will both be in the general election. That should be good, as the turnout is generally higher in November elections than in primaries. You can go here for updates.
1: Where somehow sending out to their entire paper mailing list and pointing constantly to their web page hosted version a broadsheet with lists of candidates marked with "+" and "-" beside their names is somehow not actually an endorsement because down at the bottom of the page they put "for educational purposes only/These are not endorsements." Sorry, homey don't play that.
ETF: Okay, that looked funny. I should make a PNG or something and link to it. I forgot all the / in my </small> tags, so it looked like the contract in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. ^_^
