Ronald Reagan once said “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.” I have known a lot of people that iterated similar statements including my father, who had been a life-long Democrat until, like Reagan, he switched party allegiance. My family is about equally split between Republicans and Democrats. I would say more of my friends and coworkers over the years have leaned more towards the Democrat Party. I have tried aligning myself with both parties but I find too many philosophical differences with both parties to give the party allegiance the followers of each party seem to expect. Still every election time there is one fictional mantra I constantly hear from the Democrat Party Membership – “we are the party of tolerance and inclusion”. I have known many Democrats during my29+ years on this planet and when I compare them with the Republicans I have known; I usually find the Republicans the more tolerant and inclusive of the two. In fact I would say the following “Daily Show” clip fairly represents the Democrat Party tolerance I have witnessed over the years:
According to media sources a third city -San Bernardino- in the State of California has filed for bankruptcy, all within a two-week period. Considering the disastrous state of the Illinois economy under constant mismanagement by Illinois legislators , past and present – are we seeing in California a dark omen for the future of the State of Illinois! According to the Sunshine Review, as of July 2012, Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka said the state has a backlog of 160,000 bills to be paid totaling $8 billion. Illinois’ financial situation was said to be worse than any other state in the country according to a study by the National Conference of State Legislatures, with the state’s budget situation called “tenuous at best.” There is an old adage that states -You reap what you sow. In the case of Illinois that may be true as voters continue to vote the same clueless and/or corrupt and/or repackaged political clones back into office – at state and federal levels.
The Illinois legislation – long held in an unbreakable strangle-hold by the Democrat Party- combined with severely-deficient leadership from both Democrat and Republican Governors has rarely met a piece of pork legislation, they couldn’t justify passing. Yet the State is in backlog in financial pledges to City and County governments as well as untold businesses. And when explaining away their actions, our legislators resort to Orwellian Doublespeak. Who will pay for all this financial mess? Why the people most in need; the poor, the needy and Seniors are already feeling the bite. And when creditors finally force push-comes-to-shove, the taxpayers will be forced to pay-up through higher taxes or watch as their financial legacies are devalued through bankruptcies similar to what we are seeing in California. I am also sure that their are lawyers and legislators from California, Illinois and numerous other financially strapped States -currently combing through law books- searching for some type of legalese that would allow them to pursue bankruptcy without calling actually it bankruptcy.
And yet still the voters of Illinois, California and other cash-strapped States will again trudge to the ballot box this fall and vote back in office, political dinosaurs like Michael Madigan, whom will continue to play Lets Make a Deal. The trouble is unless you are part of their closed-nit circle, they are all busy handing out Zonks instead of luxury vacations and fabulous prizes. And as Monty Hall aptly put it – once you make the deal you are stuck with it. 
One of my pet peeves about politics since before my blogging days has been the inequities of opportunity for political candidates that choose not to run with either the Democrat or Republican party bumper stickers steadfastly adhered to their name. And unless you are already a Golden Boy or Girl of either political party -or- you happen to have a political demigod as a champion inside either party; your chances of advancing past the starting point of an election are slim to none.
There was a great example of that during the recent Democrat Primary where sitting US.State Senator from Illinois, Dicky Durbin used his insider political clout to force his former babysitter, Cheri Bustos into the prominent role as front runner as the 17th District of Illinois Democrat candidate for US House of Representative. Just as when they forced former Congressman Phil Hare into the role – we will never know all the dirty little backroom secret deals that were cut, to position Bustos to win the Democrat primary. If the media were the real watchdogs of Democracy they pretend to be – they would expose the corruption that allows such Good Old Boy tactics; that run wild in both the Democrat and Republican Party. But the Media has long been defanged and pretty much has phased into stenography journalism, where the only reporting they do is regurgitated press releases by the two major political parties. Don’t expect any real reporting or political watchdog protection from the decayed corpse of the media.
Former Democrat candidate Eric Reyes continues to find out just how badly the two parties stack the deck against competition from those candidates that party insiders deem not worthy. Reyes was one of the original challengers to Cheri Bustos for US House of Representative seat. He had the actual courage to publicly challenge and expose Dicky Durbin for his bully tactics on challengers to Bustos during the Democrat Primary. He then dropped out of the fixed race to run as an independent. Of course -as talked about in a QCOnline interview with Reyes- Independents find that the Scoundrels and Scalawags comprising the two-party system throws up political roadblocks to competition that chooses not to run as either a Dem0ocrat or Republican. It seems, while Bustos and Schilling only have to get 600 registered signatures to get on an election ballot – Independents like Reyes, must collect over 5000 to get their name on the ballot. Caution Good Old Boy Politics hard at work – because neither party likes a fair fight.
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I haven’t been blogging much lately but I have been skulking and observing in the darkened shadows of anonymity that surfing the Internet offers. In my previous post I questioned the decision of the Dispatch/Argus on their changes to their QCOnline formats. So far I have not noticed any unacceptable limitations on my accessing their website, as a newspaper subscriber, other than my previous login no longer works for posting comments on their articles. That is as much my fault as theirs as I have chosen not to re-register a name with their new partners in monitoring their comment section. I have noticed that they seem to have experienced a decrease in their comment sections since the change. When doing a 25 comment search the log often has to go back two days to find 25 comments. That probably means less work for their comment moderators – though I am unsure how it will effect their revenue share for advertisement royalties with what seems a considerable amount of lessened comment area traffic.
I have to admit I am glad the Republican Primary is tailing off – it was getting to be pretty much a sleep-inducing repeat of the Clinton/Obama Political Wars of 2008: sans any birther issue. I can’t say I am a fan of any of the finalists and since Gov. Huckabee (the only individual of any party that truly interested me) did not run; My vote still belongs to anybody but fellow Illinoisan, the False Prophet Obama.
After setting my all-time record length as a Grumpy Curmudgeon, this month, my diverticulosis lessened up enough I took in a movie. I went out to the Moline Great Escape and saw the Hunger Games. I liked it! It nicely combined action with drama while attempting a Rod Serling like approach of including morality narrative as part of the storyline background.
Before the movie there were the usual movie trailers of upcoming events attempting to seduce the theater patrons back for new movies. It looks like another banner summer for Marvel Comics in the movie industry. Their were trailers for two of their comic books that have been turned into movies. The Avengers as well as a new Spiderman release are due out soon. There was also a trailer for the late 60′s soap opera Dark Shadows that has been made into a movie.
Okay, I have been a Dark Shadows fan since the early 1990′s. I was introduced to the original 1960′s series and the 1990′s remake of the original when the Sci-Fi channel first came on the air in 1992(?). For the first several years of Sci-Fi Channel’s birth they played Dark Shadows daily sometimes they played they re-aired the same episodes in the morning as well as the evening. This came in handy when power outages interrupted my VCR recording sessions. I had looked forward to the upcoming Dark Shadows movie when I heard the original rumors. I was less excited when I heard it would star Johnny Depp and directed by Tim Burton. If what I have been reading on the Internet and what little I could tell from the trailer are true indicators – my building dissatisfaction is warranted. It looks as if Burton is turning what was a classic Gothic Soap Opera Drama into a Campy production. That does not please this Dark Shadows fan. Plbttt! It also makes me waver considerably at the idea of choosing to pay to see it at a movie theater, where it will cost mega-bucks – when I can just wait for it to come out in DVD and watch it from the comfort of my home for less money. I was saddened to read that the original actor that played Barnabas Collins, Jonathon Frid, had died on April 14 of this year. He along with several of the other original series actors played party guests in a scene from the upcoming movie.
On a blogging note the last few weeks has seemed like Akismet must be running overtime for the load of SPAM I have found in my Spam section of the blog. Much of it from the same loons. What a waste of time for everyone -including the loony SPAMMERs- as the garbage never even sees the light of day. 
All three candidates -Greg Aguilar, George Gualrapp and Cheri (the 8×12 Glossy Senior Pics advertisement candidate) Bustos- seeking to represent the Democrat Party in the fall election for Congressman of the 17th District of Illinois were given an opportunity to shout out to the world in debate, as to why they were the best person to represent the District in Washington DC. They all failed. While watching a yawner of a media monitored debate, two similar adages came to mind; ” in for a penny in for a pound ( along with whats good for the goose is good for the gander, this was one of my late grandmother’s favorite sayings) ” and “If you don’t want it bad enough to risk losing it- you don’t want it bad enough.” None of the candidates went all out in the debate to display themselves as in it to win it. Watching the debate was like watching Pete, Re-Pete and Re-Re-Pete trying to think of ways to rephrase similar answers to asked questions. It was like some Doppelgänger Effect had created three people whom were all factory designed lifeless Muppet characters, with individuals behind the scenes moving and talking for the characters, in some politburo scripted dance routine. It was as if none of the candidates wanted to win the debate. While that may be fine for Bustos, the more public exposure she gets -the more evident it becomes she has been muzzled and subjected to ventriloquism by the Illinois Democrat Politburo- pushing her to the front of the pack, Aguilar and Gualrapp will need sizzle to overcome the special interest moneyand power brokers forcing Bustos upon the electorate. Neither candidate seems willing to risk it all to win the candidacy. Bustos doesn’t have to risk – she is the smoky-backroom hand-picked successor to Phil Hare. She will get all the dispensation and opened doors that special-interest money and power brokers can create. As ugly and nasty as it has become; the Romney-Santorum-Gingrich race for the Republican Representative to run for President this fall, which mirrors the 2008 Clinton-Obama race for the candidacy in its fervency – is a display of in-it-to-win. But it is hard to shine out as special when you project as one of three doppelgänger Muppets like Aguilar and Gualrapp. And if you are not in it to win – even at the risk of losing everything including the degradation that accompanies rejection and loss- then you have to ask yourself, why are you competing and why are you disillusioning your supporters with your lackluster efforts. If the debate is any inkling to the actual desire of Aguilar’s and Gualrapp’s desire to win this contest, they have both run up the white flag of surrender to the status quo of special interest power brokers. In for a penny in for a pound or quit pretending that you really care and can make a difference. If you don’t care enough to win then you are really already out of the contest, which is what Durbin and the Illinois Politburo actually wants – a faux contest with the look of non-interference from the smoky backroom of political wheeling, dealing and pandering.
Caution the following post deals with adult subject of a sexual nature.
An article on Time’s News Feed makes you wonder if the US is behind the times when it comes to protecting the USAmerican human gene pool from accidental incestuous breeding? According to the article tiny Iceland has created an ancestry and genetic website that its citizenry is also using to weed out possible incestuous relationships. The old jokes about hillbilly marriage with their cousins immediately springs to mind. But in the more modern times of US sexual practices the chance for accidental incest is a very real danger. Perhaps one of the biggest dangers comes from the often used modern practice of artificial insemination for biological clock-ticking single professionals, straight and lesbian couples. It is estimated that as many as 60,000 children are born in the US yearly by sperm donors. And though the mothers are asked to report such births to the sperm banks – it evidently only happens 20% to 40% of the time. In one instance noted in an article, one man had fathered 150 children through artificial insemination. A study I read also suggested that of women with two or more children there was a 28% chance the children had multiple fathers. There is also the issue of mothers who refuse to register the name of their baby’s father for personal reasons. That does not take into account children fathered by sexual partners other than the husband, where the husband is automatically registered as the father on birth certificates. There are also cases where members of the male population think it is their duty in life to randomly repopulate the world with Mini-Mes, with as many different women as possible. There is even a growing sexual fetish that includes couples taking part in random partner breeding. While this all may seem incongruous , it certainly increases the likelihood of inadvertent and accidental incestuous relationships. I know this used to be a small concern for adults that were adopted as children, but with the increasing usage of modern reproductive technology and the loosening of sexual mores – how do we balance the rights of personal privacy versus the risks of accidental inbreeding by offspring? Just roll the dice and gamble? It is the way it has been to date. Is the Icelandic model a sign of the times to come? I hope not. Perhaps what worries me even more, is that I can envision Nanny Statists in the Republican and Democrat Parties eventually using this issue as a reason to force a national DNA registry to track genetics of all USAmericans. A perfect foothold for Nanny Statists involved in the philosophy of eugenics.
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I followed a link from HotAir to a 02-02-12 article by Pew Research that talked about the different perception USAmerican citizens in the GOP have on the governments assistance to the poor. I assume the article is in response to Mitt Romney’s open-mouth- insert-foot gaffe saying he “didn’t worry about the poor as they have governmental program safety nets. Granted for the most part Romney’s gaffe is being taken out of context by the media. But the statement was ill thought out and clearly a problem that propagates the left-vs.-right class warfare that will surely inundate the candidate conversations of the 2012 elections. Say does anybody really give a hoot about Bob Beckel’s analogies or is he just the lefts version of Pat Buchanan? Say Hey Willy Mays, here is some interesting news for someone I bet, Rosanne Barr is now running for president on a platform of beheading bankers and legalizing weed. Legalizing weed – she will certainly get my cousin’s vote. She can join the list of other past unsung notable candidates such as Tom “Billy Jack” Laughlin or bizarro candidates like John Taylor Bowles . Hopefully, whether she wins or loses, she WILL NOT be asked to sing the national anthem.
The research poll shows pretty much what you expect from a study if you are comparing questions that revolve around income and how the different brackets feel about the governments ability or inability in assisting the lower income brackets. The brackets were set at income less than $30,000 for the lowest bracket, from $30,000 to $74,999 bracket for median incomes and $75,000 or greater for the higher brackets. The chart displayed that the lower the income bracket- the less trust of fairness concerning the economic system as well as the less satisfied with government and its help for the lower income families. In my 29+ years on this planet, I have never made equal to or over $30,000. So I assume that qualifies me as belonging in the study’s lower income bracket – my whole career. In the article in there were three polls displayed as well as quantifying comparisons contained in each category. I would also say that if you take the questions, as posed by the study, that my answers would fairly match what the poll presented. But examining my personal reasons as well as the reasoning behind others polled, for answering the questions in a matching manner – I think you would find the reasons many people match the controlled poll questions will often vary. (Cue commercial break. Now is probably an opportune time to rush to the bathroom and relieve yourself of the pressure building in your bladder from the Mt. Dew and return with another Moon Pie (maybe Vanilla this time) or Snickers bar for a sugar induced energy rush. If you have none, call up your best friend and have them purchase and deliver your snack to the door! )
In the category titled “But Also See Economic System Less Fair” there were three questions.
St1) The economic system in this country unfairly favors the wealthy.
Okay I would mostly agree with that statement. Though I would drop out the word unfairly. The inclusion of the word fair masks any real or actual results. Fair is a perception not a measurable factor. I don’t care what kind of comparison you make on any level of any subject you study – there is no such thing as a “fair” challenge. There is always a balance that tilts in favor or another person in any challenge, be it economic, personal or athletic. The trick to your success is to play to your strengths and hope for a break that allows you to capitalize on those strengths.
St2) Wall Street hurts the American economy more than it helps.
Like the previous question it comes down to one of perception. Unlike the majority of people in my income bracket, I actually disagree with the overall statement. Though many of us may work for companies that makeup the wheeling and dealing focus of Wall Street, the average lower income individual is not overtly involved in the dealings of Wall Street, though there effects are felt by us on a daily basis. Our dealings with Wall Street are mostly concealed tendrils that only indirectly link us to the day-traders daily business. Because of that, since we have no day-to-day involvement in how it effects our lives, we rarely see the positive ways it affects our lives. On the opposite end we do see the more negative ways that Wall Street overtly effects out lives when we visit gas pumps, grocery stores, clothing and retail shops or when a company takeover eliminates jobs instead of saving them. Basically this is another immeasurable qualifying factor for most of us – as posed by this poll.
St3) A few rich people and corporations have too much power in the US.
Okay I mostly agree with this statement. The rich and powerful have always had way too much influence and power in the US. (And sadly the Leverage Team on TNT is just a fictional group.) But that can also be said of any country, at most any time in history. Both major political parties in the US are run by groups of rich and powerful people. Sometimes that is good, sometimes that is bad. Without their money, power and influence the political legislation that Conservatives, Liberals, Libertarians and etc… vote to see implemented would probably never see the light of day. Sadly as with any nasty tasting medicine -diabetic Dimetapp quickly comes to mind- you often have to take the bad taste results along with the good tasting results. That doesn’t mean we don’t get to publicly whine, scream, cry and even throw temper tantrums – hoping to get things changed! 
You can even perform those freedoms on the Internet using blogs or social networking! Those particular rights of freedom go along with being a citizen of the US. Try those freedoms in any of the Socialist/Communist operated Countries like the former USSR, Modern China, Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela etc… and see how long before you end up in a concentration/reeducation camp or they simply apply a bullet in to your brainpan, Squish-Squish, Yuck! (Cue public safety message.) Perhaps now is a good time to standup, stretch your legs and body in an effort to reduce the possibility of deep vein thrombosis blood-clots forming in your legs, often caused caused from extensive sitting!
The next category in the poll is titled “Lower-Income Republicans Share Distrust in Government” . I am guessing that is hardly a great secret. I have often stated that for years I have considered myself a Conservative Independent. Though in my 29+ years of travels I have walked the same paths of both the Democrat and Republican Party. Neither shoes seemed to fit my feet. However, I would guess that some, not all, lower-income Republicans, are like myself -Financial Moderates/Partially Social Conservatives, though I freely admit that at one point in my earlier life I was a free-wheeling do your own thing liberal. I have no scientific proof to offer, but like the Magnificent Carnac, just my best guesstimate concerning those people I have known and interacted with over the years. And since I am basically a Zelig, though I don’ t ever remember meeting Woody Allen, (Hmmm, does that make me better, worse or just similar to Chauncey Gardner?) I have had the opportunity to interact with a lot of polar opposites in my lifetime. That doesn’t make me an expert but it has allowed me a lot of access to polarizing statements and opinions. An important detail in certifying my expertise is the fact that I once worked for a future Holiday Inn. In this poll the writers offered two assessments.
St1) Trust Government “only some of the time” or “never”.
I easily fit into this category. As I feel most conservatives would. The answer is easy. Why trust government! I am a firm believer in that old adage – “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” It is a no-brainer. I don’t care whether a person is conservative, liberal or wherever their political faith lies – trusting big government to pragmatically represent your everyday interests is like trusting a shylock to kindly forgive you on a late payment. It ain’t gonna happen. Even with the publics best interest at heart before being elected, once in power a legislator is faced with temptations, necessary-while-often-embarrassing compromises and the desperation of insurmountable hills to climb – when it comes to representing USAmericans. And the longer in office the more likely the individual is to turn to the Dark Side. Mr. Smith goes to Washington eventually evolves into a Sith Lord. (Cue to the ominous Darth Vader mechanized heavy breathing.) In the end you end up with abomination legislation -like Obamacare- that only serves the political aspirations of those ramming the legislation through Congress.
St2) Feel “Angry” with the Federal Government
Those results were actually kind of even across the board. Really, what person Conservative, Liberal or otherwise, has not felt “angry” at the federal government, no matter what income level you belong. And it usually festers. Currently the left is furious at Obama because he has not lived up to their Socialist-leaning expectations. Those of us on the right are upset with Obama because we feel that he has exceeded any Socialist -leaning expectations. And those angry in the middle are just pissed because instead of being the Great Uniter he promised in his drink my Kool-Aid Dopey-Hopey-Changey thing campaign – he has turned out to be the Great Divider. Hey everybody is angry. Angry at Obama, angry at the Senate and angry at the Congress. Well if everybody is so bad, why are they all so unpopular for doing their jobs? Easy, Great Expectations. Politicians are all promise and little deliver. Plus even the smallest wrong they do – outweighs the best piece of legislation on the books they were ever involved, in the mind of the public. (Is there such a monster as good legislation. Probably not, once again good or bad is a perception.) Don’t cha just love it, Play it Daddy Dew Drops –> Chick-a-Boom, Chick-a Boom, Chick-a- Boom-Boom-Boom.
That brings us to the final part of the poll, a graph displaying the split between GOP voters by income levels in judging Government help for the poor. I don’t disagree that the polls numbers are probably a good indicator of the thinking among GOP voters – as the questions were proposed. In the poll the highest incomes polled as 44% said the government did too much for the poor, 32% said the government did just the right amount for the poor while 21% said they did too little for the poor. Among medium income the polls read 40% felt the government did too much, 25% said they did just right for the poor and 32% said they did too little. Among the lowest incomes the poll indicated only about 18% thought the government did too much for the poor. Next was 21% thought the government did about the right amount for the people while an overwhelming 57% amount felt that the government did too little for the poor. Okay you can count me among the 57% that thinks the government does too little for the poor. But chunking me in with the 57% does not explain why I feel that way. (cue Twilight Zone Music, again.)
Speaking personally as part of the 57% (can’t speak for the rest or the 99 & 44/100% though I might be able to speak for the 56/100% if I just knew what was behind that Green Door. I bet Monty Hall knows what was behind the Green Door.) I think that most current government programs to help the poor are a BUST and No I an not thinking about what attracts men to Nikki Knockers. Though that is not an unpleasant thought to this 29+ year old bachelor, flashback to my wasted liberal youth spent chasing wild women at strip clubs! Married men should take a brief moment to wash out their minds with their favorite unscented hypoallergenic soap. The rest of us can spin circles in our office chairs while we wait on the others, before we can continue. (Short intermission. Can we really believe Marilyn Chambers Preferred Soap is 99 44/100 % pure! And just what is in that other 56/100%! Can you find that missing purity behind the Green Door?) Government social programs are mostly nepotistic designed bureaucratic nightmares, best designed to keep legislators’ political contributors, friends and family with jobs – instead of actually helping those in need. Hey- Atta Boy Brownie! Every well meaning social program is reeling from government mismanagement. Hell even those programs that actually do help are filled with rampant nepotism. Though let me say that many public servants will work their ass off to help someone in need. Most just lack the training and knowledge to really make the difference to help. That is poor management on the governments part. Too much of the money allocated to helping – winds up in the pockets of the undeserving bureaucrats running the shows. One of the best examples I have encountered has been with Job Service. During the two periods I was previously unemployed, the time I spent at job service was a waste. The individuals in the office meant well but frankly they knew less about assisting me to find a job, than I do about rocket science. And I don’t know much about Rocket Science. But I do really like Moon Pies – though not the chocolate ones. The Job Service help was either handing me a slip of paper with known job openings or sending me to a computer to search for the same. I could have done all that myself. I suspect that had they been running a temp job service for the public, they would have been highly unsuccessful. My guess is, especially in the current job market, most of the longterm unemployed people piling into the office need more than directions to the computer website. I cannot say that I have been offered any better evaluations of the government job service by anyone I know that has used it since my experiences over a decade ago. I help and am familiar with people both on Disability and Social Security retirement programs. Once again they fall short especially when dealing with Medicare or Medicaid. Hell States like Illinois have pissed away the money designed to go towards Medicare, Medicaid and even the education systems. I have seen doctors that have posted signs turning away Medicaid patients. The school systems are begging for money to run basic operations, while the system is also going broke because the State is overextended for guaranteeing outlandish salaries and retirement benefits to administrators. So sure I think that the government does not do enough for the poor and needy. The problem is that they just do not know how to allocate and spend money to operate the social systems they create as a protection net. Sheesh!!! And liberals wonder why I call Obamacare a Frankenstein Monster! That piece of monstrosity will cause untold misery and in the end will help fewer people than it can help. It is little more than a George Bernard Shaw heralded eugenics program in its infancy. We don’t need new fake bureaucracies – but new ideas to fix the bureaucracy problems we already have. Say does anybody else hate it when somebody tries to pass off powdered lemon drinks like Country-Time as lemonade! Grrr, there are kids across the nation that are under the assumption lemonade is something made from a powder. Yucko! Sure I use powdered lemonade – but never as a stand-alone – and I always mix it full-strength with enough real lemons and sweetener to make it taste old-fashioned. Can you say sugarrrrr!!! Up your nose with a rubber hose Michelle Obama, Mayor Bloomberg and the rest of the food police!!!
In my opinion the Pew Research poll is basically a ploy on words looking to make a Pulitzer Prize story out of simple limericks. Is there some real information there -sure- but little substance. Most polls are basically words that have been manipulated to achieve an expected response in order to satisfy someone’s ego and to quantify some theory they got from a wild hair growing on their gluteus-maximus region. Rant Over. ( Draw curtain, cue Porky Pig.)
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Over on Yahoo!, I have been following the popularity of a Live Science article concerning a Canadian College study comparing the connection between racism and intelligence. Considering the tone of the article and its blatant attempt to associate Conservatism, low intelligence and racism combined with many of the malevolent comments lauding the conclusion of the article, that I read at left-leaning sites like the Democratic Underground – the US of America is in for a long hate-filled election complete with all-around race baiting from the hardcore Democrat versus Republican ideologies. Perhaps the best critique of the article/study I read posted at several websites was:
So IQ tests are racist, except when they’re used to “prove” that people with “socially conservative ideologies” are racist and intellectually inferior.
I grew-up in a family that was split right down the middle when it comes to Democrat versus Republican ideologies. I was among the earliest for those in my generation of a family -where the attainment of a high school diploma was rare, not because of intelligence factors but because it was not a reality of the times- that had the advantage of attending high school and later college. With that in mind and without comment on the actual study - I shall offer up my opinionated and mostly Conservative/Libertarian influenced paraphrase of the article (pay no attention to any subliminal sardonic messages that might be hidden in the content of my summary of what I consider a conveniently timed pre-election article, that I felt was clearly designed to stir up an Internet troll-war among Democrats and Republicans)–>
Wee hear act liVe sCience enternet sight thawt it werthy two post duh resulhts of an impotent Kanadeeianne Cawledge studee that looks at duh coneckshun beetween racingism and intaleagense. Duh studee sayeez dat dough their be lots of varyables dat kin leed to racingist beehayvure, duh mane fakturds behighnd racingism is a lick of intaleuhgense. Are Sumerian of duh studee concludes dat sToopid peeples bee predjewdice end most sToopid peeples be Konsirvatibs. Sew most Konsirvatibs an there eyedias must be sToopid! Sins all peeples knough dat Liburals knot bee predjewdice then are conklushun be Liburals intaleuhgense be mulch mulch moore smatter dan Konsirvatibs, Woo hoo, Wee Win!
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