Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 22 January 2012

Various driveby media television networks | 22 January 2012 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[SatinDoll]

Thank you for the link. It was ‘enlightening’, to say the least!

[A.Hun]

Generally, the WSJ gets it right. However, I googled it and saw the discrepancies you point out.

I can’t find where WSJ got its numbers. Maybe someone else has an answer.

Thanks for the follow up.

[SatinDoll]

You’re welcome.

[ConfidentConservative]

Ohhh my gos, you are from Oregon?

So am I,

send a private and tell and tell me more...

[From The Deer Stand]

A persnikety pundit named Ann,

Was a fellow named Mitt's biggest fan,

But she had a snoot

When the win went to Newt

And now you-know-what's hitting the fan.

[chooseascreennamepat]

“TAKING IT TO THE LEFT, is the way to win.”

And that includes the left wingers in the Republican Party.

[chooseascreennamepat]

“complaining farmers have already done a pretty good job of depleting and contaminating the Ogallala Aquifer with agricultural practices.”

I live near Phoenix part of the year and visit malls. There, I seldom see a mom pushing or walking with a Down Syndrome child.

OTOH, I go to my home town in Iowa and see in the local mall, never less than 3-6 such afflicted people. This in an area of ~ 60,000 folks.

My sister says it is because the people of AZ are ashamed to parade their DS kids.

I hardly think so!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Phoenix...Down Syndrome child

And this has exactly what to do with elevated nitrates and pesticide levels in the Sandhill's ground water?

Are you implying those Arizona mothers went to Nebraska and drank the water while pregnant?

[chooseascreennamepat]

“Are you implying those Arizona mothers went to Nebraska and drank the water while pregnant.”

It shows an increase in birth defects in agricultural areas in the Midwest due to pesticides all over the place. My sister's farm borders the Missouri River as do thousands of others. The chemicals they use are spread all over the watersheds and ground water strata.

[Jo Nuvark]

THE DELPHI TECHNIQUE
http://www.learn-usa.com/transformation_process/acf001.htm

This technique is a very unethical method of achieving
consensus on a controversial topic in group settings.
It requires well-trained professionals who deliberately
escalate tension among group members, pitting one faction
against the other, so as to make one viewpoint appear
ridiculous so the other becomes “sensible” whether such
is warranted or not.

(SNIP)

While proponents of education reform feel they are quite
justified in this, the effect of this unethical manipulation
of people is to create polarized camps. In an effort to
maintain the process, advocates have marketed a plethora
of publications (such as What’s Left After the Right, No
Right Turn and If You Don’t, They Will) intended to label,
castigate, and alienate anyone who does not go along with
them. As a result, parents come to understand that their
role in education reform is merely perfunctory; that the
outcome is preset, that they are not but the rah-rah team
so when opposition does arise, advocates of education reform
can say, “we had community input.”

HOW TO DISRUPT THE DELPHI TECHNIQUE
http://www.learn-usa.com/transformation_process/acf002.htm