Posted on 03/19/2006 2:47:05 PM PST by TASMANIANRED
For the second time in as many weeks I have been pushed polled by DCI. Gary being the name of the automaton.
1) Do you think 6 US ports should be purchased by an Arab firm? 2)Is the execution of Morales by lethal injection cruel and unusual? 3)??????? 4)Are you concerned about rising health care costs? 5) Have I changed driving habits as a result of rising gasoline costs?
Question number one reflects a falsehood. I was polled on if I had assimilated a lie.
Since I know the Dubai firm was purchasing operating facilities that represented only a tiny part of a port rather than the whole port, I answered yes.
Question number 2 also relies on complete ignorance to answer.
Being a nurse, I know the drugs used to induce unconsciousness prior to execution are the same drugs used to induce anesthesia prior to surgery. There are millions of individual surgeries done in the US each year. The number of times a patient reports being awake are rare enough to constitute news.
In 20 years of hospital nursing and having provided post- op care to thousands of patients, I have never seen it occur .
Question is bogus.
Question #3 was skipped for some unknown reason. I can only assume that my answers to number 1 and 2 were not leading in the direction the poll was intended to go.
Question 4. I'm not afraid of rising health care costs because I have a health care savings account and have had for 3 years. I love it. I wish it had been available 20 years ago.
Question 5. I drive where I need to go. Always have, always will until death or the end of the internal combustion engine.
No questions about registered voter, probable voter or party affiliation.
My question and the purpose of this vanity.
Is this part of the equation in how the polls are cooked?
We know part is leading questions?
Question 1 and 2 establish you level of being informed, or your level of having swallowed the MSM hook line and sinker.
#3 is the Money question.
Questions 4 and 5 give indications of your level of fear and your expectation of a big government solution.
They can legitimately claim that 10,000 Americans were polled and 62% of them think bla-bla about question 3 when all or a majority of those likely to oppose the pollsters position on question 3 are eliminated by simply skipping the question.
Is this how MSM is coming up with the majority of Americans are opposed to the War in Iraq and then peace demonstrations can't attract enough attendees to fill a medium sized theater for a free movie?
Any other experiences like this among FReepers.
my sidebars change almost every time I pop onto my ping-page
I get to see a lot, without getting lost on the Forum page
Maybe the skipped one was the one that asks if you would be willing to help ($$$) with the effort to get that "War Monger Religious Fanatical Greedy Drunken Monster" replaced by the "Genius Experienced Kind Strong Hillary" in 2008.
I posted it hours ago.
Figured it went into the FReep black hole.
I don't know if it shows up in Chat,Blog or news.
*shrugs*
is a puzzlement
Been noticing that.
LOL.
Maybe it was about Bush Being Impaled.
Drum Corp. International?
Resurrection is a funny thing.
fyi
it just popped up again:
News / Activism
Politics / Elections
Geeeez. They're gearing up AGAIN.
I tune in to CBS news ocassionally when I drive around to hear what they are talking about. Today it was nothing but how bad the war was and talking to people who were saying we need to bring the boys home.
Conservatives are letting them get away with this, imo.
Quite a tag line, unfortunately it is true.
Indeed.
Didn't see it on my side bar but did when I refreshed the latest posts.
There ought to be a way to sue them.
I agree, but unfortunately we can't. I talk to people ocassionally who don't tune into the internet or have cable etc....some of them actually believe the stuff the MSM is putting out.
Every other occupation imaginable is open to law suit if their job is not done honestly, compentently or causes a bad outcome.
Since the "Freedom of the press" is constitutionally mandated..way can't they be sued for malfeasance.
They are incompetently doing the job the constitution mandates?
only the shadow knows how the sidebars work
I must to bed - mollie just laid down the law
Night kid.
Watch out for wicked weather.
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