Obama job approval is almost identical to Bush's in Sept 2006. Bias is just as much what isn't reported as what is. pic.twitter.com/BfxRSfq2Ub
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) September 16, 2014
The Fix... Democrats now have a 51 percent chance of holding the Senate
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How did Udall go from 64% chance to 94% chance of winning? What happened?
Vote democrat - we need for them to be in charge when TSHTF.
Is it dejavu 2014 all over again?
Is a good thing I really haven't gotten my hopes up too much this time.
This was the last chance to see the Obama bubble burst.
The cheat machine is alive and well in Boulder. + The R party in CO - they lack hipness.
The R's could knock it out of the park with so many issues, but it seems like they hold back. Why? Timid/safe campaigns don't get anyone's attention. The democrats also use base level marketing. The R's are "extremist" or "to extreme." it is long past time to counter that, and call leftwing progressive totalitarian democrats out as corrupt and extreme.
That 30% jump does not make sense.
I think we shouldn't get our hopes up. The media are over-predicting an R take over and that achieves 2 things; #1 The media get to gloat when the d's actually hold on. (and Harry Reid, the most slimy a-hole to ever run the place, is given a job extension.) and #2 - the media dog whistle effect.
Udall is ensconced like Ted Kennedy. I have no idea why CO keeps voting for him. He's mr. green and all that green shit sells here. There were some funny things going on in Boulder last election. All swept under by the major media/local media radar. I think the fix is in.
It would be so amazing to get Udall and Al Franken OUT.
I think we need to face the fact that the democrat totalitarians have rigged it all.
If dems keep senate it will certainly mean an amnesty even bigger than what is contemplated up to now.
Good point Lem.
Amnesty is really unpopular - with both parties. Yet the Rs are mostly silent. Why?
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Amnesty is really unpopular - with both parties. Yet the Rs are mostly silent. Why?
Because they like the importation of high tech workers to keep costs competitive. Darrell Issa, who has an otherwise stellar record, is behind this. Republican interests coincide with donors who don't give a shit about the middle class.
What Republicans never told people when they went for outsourcing was that sooner or latter, labor unit costs would have to decrease in this country if a greater worldwide equilibration were to set in.
I saw a tweet claim that something like two out of three new high tech jobs was going to foreign born people.
Over 50% of the 332 bills sitting on @SenatorReid's desk passed the House unanimously, zero opposition. #FireReid
That's a massive stone wall.
Depressing, Chickie.
Yet Cory Gardner, as an example, doesn't say one thing about Harry Reid. If I were writing campaign ads for these R's I'd be mentioning the horror of Harry Reid.
btw- Karl Rove's crossroad's TV ads are terrible.
@ Lem - and the media and their democrat masters lie about "Republican obstructionism." What a load.
I saw a tweet claim that something like two out of three new high tech jobs was going to foreign born people.
There really is no sound solid argument against the importation of more and more foreign high tech workers -- nothing, at least that doesn't smack of protectionism. It's just that we as a society need to accept that this is the path we've chosen, and above all, stop lying to American parents that their kids aren't as smart or that their teachers aren't as good. The imported workers are smart but they will just work for less. It's nothing personal, it's just business. I wish the Republicans like Issa would come out and say the truth:
"It's nothing personal -- it's just business."
But they may not do as well in the 2014 elections if they did tell the truth.
The FUD machine to justify the vote fraud machine.
Chicklit- so many crossing our southern border are not educated. They don't speak English and they are unskilled.
So it's not just middle class/high tech jobs. Of course our spoiled children will not pick lettuce. Too many video games and play dates to conquer.
It's like a grand conspiracy - our government run schools keep people uneducated and indoctrinated, and we churn out masses who cannot compete. (refuse to work hard, give up and expect high pay) I can see why the tech industry need more smarts for less money.
You are correct in saying this is the path we have chosen.
I can see why the tech industry need more smarts for less money.
This is where you've bought into the myth. It's the same smarts for less money. Foreign students are not smarter. You're buying into the Republican side of the mantra.
I agree that a conspiracy is underfoot (this is why I answered your question in the first place as to why the R's didn't oppose immigration reform). To reiterate: accelerated immigration at the "low" (D) and the "high" (R) end helps each party in a different way. The only thing that will change it social unrest.
Bias is just as much what isn't reported as what is.
That is dead-on correct and right and true.
If I could second something more in a way that wouldn't render "seconding," as a word, meaningless, I would.
Regardless of all of that ^ part of my response to the proposition, here is the other part of my response:
AMEN!
If you live through a certain amount of history, you get to realize how full of crap the news is. And that's not the half of it. The movies, tv shows, novels--even the monologues of late night comedians--are all saturated with the liberal world view. They all celebrate and applaud each other in a festival of smug........Before I die I'd like to see some worthy piece of art that dramatizes and illuminates the fatuity and futility of someone like, say, Jane Fonda or Che Guevara or Jean Paul Sartre or, well, pick another name from a long list of celebrated leftists who were wrong on just about every issue of their era.
This is where you've bought into the myth. It's the same smarts for less money.
Putting aside a discussion about "smarts,"same smarts" & etc., that myth also includes a rejecting of experience, especially experience-over-time, as a metric (period, now--just a few years ago I would have said "valued metric," speaking broadly, in order to encourage discussion regarding key issues). Experience (let alone knowledge,even institutional knowledge, much less individual knowledge earned via "time at it") gets disavowed: too costly, first of all, and also there are [at least] two other areas intertwined.
I believe that we, here in these United States, have been on a steady path to chewing up and eating and spitting out pretty much great chunks of our own people, including kids, teens, young adults and middle-aged folks (w/r/t the latter, especially those on the cusp of their final 15-20ish years in the full-time workforce, assuming a willingness to work full-time and hard until age 65-70+).
Let's face it: We, as a culture, and by culture I'm including business culture, prefer cheap and easy, first and foremost.
C'mon, now, folks: As much as you may dislike me, and even as much as I might and may have earned [and even flat-out have earned] that dislike, my points are not invalid. There is plenty there worthy of discussion, even regardless of the source.
I agree with you, rcommal.
"There really is no sound solid argument against the importation of more and more foreign high tech workers -- nothing, at least that doesn't smack of protectionism."
Bullshit. Total 100 percent bullshit.
As stated, it isn't about a shortage of STEM workers, its about getting cheaper workers for the same quality.
As for why the Republicans are favoring Amnesty, which is just delayed suicide for their party. Easy, the politicians are getting bid donations now, and will be out of office or retired when the Republicans sink beneath the waves. And they get cushy jobs on Wall Street. Cantor is doing just fine with his guaranteed $3 million plus lobbying job.
And Trent Lott is raking in the millions lobbying his old buddies on behalf of any foreign country or company that will hire him.
rcocean: You continue to ask us to look at squirrels. Well, OK, whatever. *shrug*
Let's face it: We, as a culture, and by culture I'm including business culture, prefer cheap and easy, first and foremost.
Agreed.
We are lazy. Don't rock the boat!
We, as a culture, and by culture I'm including business culture, prefer cheap and easy, first and foremost.
Cheap and easy would be all right,except they also want it fast.
Chickl. Well I'm no expert on the tech industry. I'm not in it. My industry, building and design, there are not enough people to get the job done and done well.
--In all sorts of areas like: plumbing, electrical, masonry, low voltage electronics, HVAC, etc.. The hardest workers are often older guys and Hispanics.
Not enough skill, and most glaring, American young people entering these professions do not want or expect to work hard to gain experience. They do, however, expect all the perks right away. That's only from my observation and the observations of those in related industries around me.
We need more Mike Rowe juice. More trade schools and trade skilled programs at the high school level. Instead, we get gender studies and the history of TV.
Instead we get Nancy Pelosi telling us that we can all be tax payer funded artists following our bliss.
I'm still confused as to why we need to grant amnesty to millions of those who gained entrance illegally. No matter what the "why" is, granting amnesty to that many is advertisement that we have NO immigration policy at all.
Obama Gets Low Marks in Poll as G.O.P. Gains Strength
"A New York Times/CBS News poll shows that President Obama’s approval ratings are similar to those of President George W. Bush in 2006 when Democrats swept both houses of Congress in the midterm elections."
THE front page story on the NYT.
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April Apple:
...and, also, nowadays, even young people interested and motivated to work, and to even get vocational training from an early [comparatively] age, might get cut off at the knees on account of state regulation.
See this both for e.g. AND i.e
That's what folks have to contend with, even if the parents (oldfolk) and the kid (youngfolk) agree on a particular component of education.
Read, closely. Then think about it.
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We chose to go ahead anyway, btw.
April Apple, I see that I failed to include the comment of yours to which I just responded, and so here it is:
Chickl. Well I'm no expert on the tech industry. I'm not in it. My industry, building and design, there are not enough people to get the job done and done well.
--In all sorts of areas like: plumbing, electrical, masonry, low voltage electronics, HVAC, etc.. The hardest workers are often older guys and Hispanics.
Not enough skill, and most glaring, American young people entering these professions do not want or expect to work hard to gain experience. They do, however, expect all the perks right away. That's only from my observation and the observations of those in related industries around me.
We need more Mike Rowe juice. More trade schools and trade skilled programs at the high school level. Instead, we get gender studies and the history of TV.
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See my previous comment. We are doing it, and despite the obvious humps. Don't believe me? Then don't. That's your problem, because it's not my problem to fix your wrong assumptions, much less approach.
My goal is to help my kid to equip himself with both vocational skills and excellence and academic skills and excellence, so that he has real choices that he can make and balance, over time (and, I hope, as a foundation on which he will be able to make choices over the long haul of his life, including, I hope, many decades after we are gone).
I don't want him to be knee-jerk, ideologically *against or for* skills of any kind. I want him to be able to acquire and build whatever skills he is able to acquire and build, and especially those which require the most effort *for him*.
I want him to have the foundations to be able to make free choices, mindful of tradeoffs and the fact that in no way ought he ever think that he is entitled to believe that the world should spin in order to correspond to his personal "wishfulness."
Be careful what you assume: what you assume might be dead wrong.
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