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Candidates leaving out facts in debate
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| 12/10/03
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Posted on 12/10/2003 3:19:56 AM PST by kattracks
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Would you believe this is AP?
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posted on
12/10/2003 3:19:57 AM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
Somehow a reporter snuck this through the filters. And somewhere an angry manager is saying, "Whack his pee-pee!"
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posted on
12/10/2003 3:26:25 AM PST
by
samtheman
To: samtheman; MeeknMing
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DOCTOR DEATH INC
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posted on
12/10/2003 3:31:44 AM PST
by
autoresponder
(<html> <center> <img src="http://0access.web1000.com/HV.gif"> </center> </html> HILLARY SHOOTS!)
To: samtheman
::giggle::snort:::
you made me spew my coffee!! ROFL!
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posted on
12/10/2003 3:32:22 AM PST
by
visualops
(The costs of fighting the War on Terror are significant -the costs of not fighting are unimaginable.)
To: kattracks
Would you believe this is AP? It is shocking, but maybe they decided they needed a token conservative to look fair and balanced.
To: kattracks
You know the employment statistics are going against the Democrats when they start whining about people who lost their jobs three years ago and that the new jobs are not as good as the old ones. Nobody keeps track of the quality of jobs, so they can just cue the violins and bring out the sob stories about the executive chef working at McDonalds.
The Democratic message on their bread-and-butter issue, jobs, is getting more and more muddled as more and more of the DOL statistics turn against them. Look for this trend to continue.
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posted on
12/10/2003 3:39:19 AM PST
by
gridlock
(ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
To: gridlock
Nobody keeps track of the quality of jobs, so they can just cue the violins and bring out the sob stories about the executive chef working at McDonalds. But household incomes are tracked and they are rising too.
To: kattracks
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posted on
12/10/2003 3:51:55 AM PST
by
Jaxter
("When they come for your guns, give 'em your ammo first.")
To: samtheman
Somehow a reporter snuck this through the filters...She's actually rather pretty:
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posted on
12/10/2003 3:55:51 AM PST
by
backhoe
(--30--)
To: backhoe
Pretty? Are you an inmate at a correctional institution?
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posted on
12/10/2003 4:19:14 AM PST
by
Phlap
To: Phlap
Pretty? Are you an inmate at a correctional institution? No- were you born rude, or did you have to study?
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posted on
12/10/2003 4:34:26 AM PST
by
backhoe
(--30--)
To: backhoe
I think she's cute. Thanks for the pic.
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posted on
12/10/2003 4:38:05 AM PST
by
raybbr
To: backhoe
I'd hit it.
To: raybbr; Norman Conquest
Thank you both... for whatever it's worth, Mrs. B thought she was kind of pretty, but that maybe the short hair was off-putting to some men.
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posted on
12/10/2003 4:44:18 AM PST
by
backhoe
(--30--)
To: kattracks
As he told it, the Denuccios can't drink their water or shower because they live next to a lake contaminated with the gasoline additive MTBE.
Even this reporter didn't go far enough!
A History of MTBE
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* API - MTBE Resources
* More MTBE Information
* More Links for MTBE...
Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE) is a synthetic chemical commonly used as an additive to gasoline in the United States since the late 1970s. Originally, MTBE was used as an octane enhancer and lead substitute, in small amounts varying from 0.5 to 3.5 % by volume. More recently, MTBE and oxygenates have been used as an emission control strategy to reduce both carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon emissions from vehicles. In 1981 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the use of up to 10 percent by volume of MTBE and in 1988 increased this to 15 percent. In the late 1980's ARCO Petroleum began marketing Reformulated Gasoline (RFG) with MTBE as an additive. Called "EC-1", the fuel was designed specially to reduce emissions and to replace leaded gasoline in older vehicles. In 1990, Federal laws were passed requiring gasoline to contain 2.7% by weight oxygenate in the winter months to reduce carbon monoxide emissions in 39 cities across the country. About 2/3 of this oxygenate requirement was met by using MTBE (the remainder used ethanol). The Clean Air Act also established a RFG program containing 2% by weight oxygen content, which began implementation in 1995. The RFG program is mandatory in nine cities with the worst smog, including Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, Houston, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Hartford, and New York City. Other areas voluntarily joined the RFG program. RFG is currently used in 17 states and the District of Columbia, and is estimated to reduce emissions equivalent to eliminating 16 million vehicles. The oxygenated fuels program is credited with achieving a significant reduction in CO and VOC emissions from the present vehicle fleet.
Go here for the whole story.
The use of MTBE was introduced in the '70s.
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posted on
12/10/2003 4:46:18 AM PST
by
raybbr
To: kattracks
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, who studies political rhetoric at the University of Pennsylvania, said the debate was filled with hyperbole and exaggeration typical of candidates trying to unseat an incumbent president. "If you were trying to get facts from this debate, you are going to get confused," she said. "You have the party out of power exaggerating the negative impact of the administration and ignoring the positive impact."
Which founding father said of a provision in the Constitution that
This may be a reflection on human nature. But what is government if not the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
Conservatives as well as liberals are seduced into paying attention when a headline asks, "Is Your Drinking Water Unsafe?" People who self-select to be journalists are good at, and enthusiastic about, accentuating the negative about American society and any leadership of it which does
not "reflect on human nature." Because, unfortunately, that is what produces commercial success in journalism.
The "Great Debate" format is designed by journalists specifically to produce "gotchas"--molehills out of which they will later produce mountains. That is an essentially anticonservative project--and only the anticonservative molehills are turned into mountains by journalism.
The basic conservative project during any election campaign must be to delegitimate claims of objectivity coming from the (marginally loyal) opposition--especially journalists. TV debates are bad because they put undue stress on the personality--not to say, the appearance--of the person who will in future be the head of state and of govenment in America. And the "moderation" of the "debates" by anticonservative partisans affecting to be neutral is particularly egregious.
Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate
To: kattracks
Nationally, the net job increase from Nov. 2000 to Nov. 2003 has been 1.3 million jobs.
If 3 million jobs have been lost and the net gain is 1.3 then shouldn't the total jobs created be 4.3 million over the past 3 years?
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posted on
12/10/2003 5:01:57 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
(Diaparerne is crucial)
To: kattracks
Hmmm, an article about Democrat presidential candidates being factually challenged (and ethically bankrupt).
Must be a slow news day. Perhaps tomorrow we'll learn that the sun rises in the east.
To: Always Right
But household incomes are tracked and they are rising too. Well, that must be because the gap between the rich and the poor is getting greater...
Cue the violins!
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posted on
12/10/2003 5:54:56 AM PST
by
gridlock
(ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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