Archive for September 24, 2009
Red State Hits on Ed Schultz — Congratulations Ed!
Hey, Ed — if Red State’s hitting on you, you must be a threat.
Congratulations!
Glenn Beck: Not As Popular As He’d Like You To Think
Or as popular as the corporate media would like you to think.
Nate Silver, over at FiveThirtyEight, a guy who loves to tinker with numbers, took a hard look at some of the numbers contained in the most recent NBC/WSJ poll:
Buried in the cross-tabs of the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll is a question that takes a temperature reading of Glenn Beck. Beck actually makes out pretty well. While just 24 percent of Americans have a favorable view of him (13 percent strongly so), only 19 percent have an unfavorable one (14 percent strongly). That leaves 57 percent who either don’t know Beck or are indifferent toward him.
So, 57 percent either don’t know Beck or are indifferent and 19 percent have an unfavorable view of him. That means 76 percent don’t know who he is, they’re indifferent, or they don’t like him. Who knew? Given all the attention he gets, you’d think it was the other way around.
Fox News Seizes on the Actions of a Stupid Teacher to Further Obama “Indoctrination” Fears
This block of headlines currently appears above the fold at FoxNews.com:
If you click on the top headline, “Obama Song Indoctrination?” you go here.
Obviously the teacher did a stupid thing but of course Fox implies that Obama had a direct hand in it and that this is another example of how he wants to brainwash everyone and turn us all into Muslims.
Yep, love that “news” on Fox.
And, as always, ask yourself: Would Fox have gone nuts if some kids sang the praises of George W. Bush. NO WAY! They’d think it was patriotic as hell.
A Month Ago John McCain Was Hanging With Gaddafi at His “Ranch” in Libya
From the What They Hope You Don’t Remember or Don’t Know category: Here is John McCain’s Twitter feed. Scroll down to August 15, 2009. There you’ll find a tweet that reads:
Late evening with Col. Qadhafi at his “ranch” in Libya – interesting meeting with an interesting man. 12:42 PM Aug 15th from web
Some Perspective on all the Fake Outrage About ACORN
From Glenn Greenwald:
The amount of money that ACORN has received in the past 20 years altogether is roughly equal to what the taxpayer paid to Halliburton each day during the war in Iraq.
Did You Know That Spider Silk is Stronger Than Steel and Kevlar?
I didn’t. Here’s a fascinating article about 1 million spiders and a rare golden cloth.
This caught my eye because an Orb Weaver spider (it looks like this) made a home outside our kitchen window a few months ago. We’ve had a wonderful time watching it maintain and rebuild its beautiful web (something it only does at night). And we’ve watched it catch flies and moths. It hides in a corner during the day but when something flies into the web it dashes out and immediately wraps the bug in silk (while it’s still alive) and then hauls it up into the corner and sucks the life out of it.
I’ve come to like the little guy. I’ve even caught a few flies and hooked them into his web to make sure he has enough to eat.
