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		<title>The 120,000 Strong Post-GE13 Pakatan Rakyat Rally is FAKE!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 01:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Thong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The above? Computer effects! Fotokedai!! Even if you were there in person, it didn&#8217;t really happen, it was Jewish world-ruler witchcraft that tricked your lying eyes!!! &#8230;Or so Dr M would reason, yes?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottthong.wordpress.com&#038;blog=303497&#038;post=16038&#038;subd=scottthong&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>The <a href="http://weehingthong.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/8-may-gathering-pidato-anwar-ibrahim-stadium-kelana-jaya-rabu-8-mei-2013-8-30-malam/">above</a>? </p>
<p>Computer effects! </p>
<p>Fotokedai!! </p>
<p>Even if you were there in person, it didn&#8217;t really happen, it was <a href="http://dagobertobellucci.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/malaysian-prime-minister-mahathir-mohamad-has-repeated-his-claim-that-jews-rule-the-world/">Jewish world-ruler</a> <a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/jewish-witchcraft-summons-phantom-cats-to-rape-gitmo-detainees/">witchcraft</a> that tricked your lying eyes!!!</p>
<p>&#8230;Or so <a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/former-pm-mahathir-911-was-staged-james-camerons-avatar-as-evidence/">Dr M would reason</a>, yes?</p>
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		<title>Dr Hsu Debunks Utusan&#8217;s &#8216;Apa Lagi Cina Mahu?&#8217; Incitement Piece</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 10:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Thong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mas Selamat was hiding in Johor, plotting to destroy peace &#38; harmony. Then he read @UMonline and surrendered &#8211; Utusan Melayu already did it. - 1Malaysia Facts After their countless seditious attacks on Malaysia&#8217;s harmony such as conspiracy theorizing that Christians want to overthrow Malaysia, egging on Ibrahim Ali to declare jihad on Christians, falsely [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottthong.wordpress.com&#038;blog=303497&#038;post=16023&#038;subd=scottthong&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><i>Mas Selamat was hiding in Johor, plotting to destroy peace &amp; harmony. Then he read @UMonline and surrendered &#8211; Utusan Melayu already did it. <b>- <a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2011/08/20/1malaysia-facts/">1Malaysia Facts</i></b></p></blockquote>
<p>After their <a href="scottthong.wordpress.com/?s=utusan">countless seditious attacks</a> on Malaysia&#8217;s harmony such as conspiracy theorizing that <a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/utusan-melayu-dishonestly-rabble-rousing-tensions-against-christians/">Christians want to overthrow Malaysia</a>, <a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/perkasas-ibrahim-ali-dares-malaysian-christians-to-launch-a-crusade/">egging on Ibrahim Ali</a> to declare jihad on Christians, <a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/utusan-melayu-has-absolutely-no-shame-in-suing-teresa-kok/">falsely reporting on Teresa Kok</a> which got her ISAed then preposterously suing her over it, fantasizing about <a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/utusan-malaysia-issues-unsubtle-death-threat-against-teresa-kok-defended-by-rocky-bru/">killing a Teresa Kok expy</a>, <a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/top-editor-of-renowned-tensions-rouser-utusan-malaysia-accuses-malaysiakini-of-causing-all-problems/">calling Indians noisy, ill behaved <i>keling</i></a> and meanwhile accusing DAP of disparaging Islam, libelling Lim Guan Eng <a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/lim-guan-eng-wins-200k-defamation-suit-against-utusan-melayu/">for which they were fined RM200,000</a>&#8230;</p>
<p>Spewtusan is emboldened by their UMNOpocrite owners&#8217; &#8216;victory&#8217; <a href="http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/229352">to be even more bileriffic than ever before</a>!</p>
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<p>Surely encouraged by Nut-jib dishonestly casting BN&#8217;s losing the popular vote as a polarized &#8216;Chinese tsunami&#8217;&#8230; And then flinging totally unjustified <a href="http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/229423">moral equivalence with Chinese papers</a>!</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;view=item&amp;id=97642:anwar-vows-to-fight-on-reject-electoral-fraud-to-be-the-start-of-a-fierce-movement&amp;Itemid=2"><b>Don&#8217;t use the Chinese to cover up fraud:Anwar starts &#8216;fierce movement to protest stolen GE&#8217; </a></b></p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p><b>&#8220;Utusan is following Najib&#8217;s instructions. Najib talks about national reconciliation but on the other hand he also talks about Chinese tsunami.</b> That&#8217;s not right. We cannot play up racial sentiments. A lot Chinese supported PAS in Kelantan,&#8221; said Anwar.</p>
<p>&#8220;This (using the race card) is accepted and approved by the Umno leaders and its media. It accepts a cheating culture, to make fools of the people by distorting the GE outcome, wearing black is now anti-Chinese. This is what i reject. To use racial sentiments to cover up their electoral fraud.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Umno-controlled Utusan newspaper had this morning front-paged a headline titled &#8220;what more do you want, Chinese community&#8221;.</p>
<p>Indeed, in the run-up to the May 5 election, the Umno-BN media had been unleashing election analyses and reports suggesting the PR&#8217;s popularity was due to Chinese voters, but was not supported by the Malays &#8211; which is the predominant race in the country forming 55% of the 28 million population.</p>
<p>Najib&#8217;s days are numbered</p>
<p>Political analysts have long accused Najib and Umno-BN of using racial politics to scare the Malays into rejecting the Opposition.</p>
<p>The May 5 election saw Umno-BN&#8217;s weakest performance since it took over the government of the country from the British colonialists in 1957. In fact, many believe Najib would have lost the latest poll if not for the assistance of the EC, which refused to order recounts in dozens of close-contests.</p>
<p>Given that Najib&#8217;s performance was even weaker than the 2008 result achieved by his predecessor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who led BN to a 140-seat victory, there is intensifying speculation he will be replaced by his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin at the Umno party election later this year.</p>
<p><b>Hence, critics say, the rush by the Najib camp to convince their own party members that the result was not due to Najib&#8217;s leadership but to &#8216;unreasonable&#8217; Chinese demands for greater political power.</p>
<p>&#8220;All over Malaysia, the racial walls are collapsing but Najib and Umno are re-erecting them. This is the only way they can cling to power,&#8221;</b> Johari Abdul, the PKR MP for Sungai Petani, told Malaysia Chronicle</p></blockquote>
<p>To think, a PR victory might have been the start of the end for this poor excuse for bird cage lining (that would surely have the SPCA filing suit over exposing innocent pets to toxic substances!)&#8230; Even as the draconian Printing Press Act that helps get other publications <a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/newspapers-reports-isa-arrests-and-blatant-double-standards/">ISAed over TRUTHFUL reporting</a> would be abolished!</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p><b>Well, <a href="http://hsudarren.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/mathematically-not-a-chinese-tsunami/">Dr Hsu puts paid</a> to that deception and dangerous blame game:</b></p>
<blockquote><p><b>Mathematically not a Chinese tsunami</b></p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>To prove my point and that PM’s assertion about  a Chinese tsunami is wrong, we should resort to scientific method, and do this mathematically.</p>
<p>There are 13.3 millions voters for GE 13, out of which 29.68% or 3.94 millions are Chinese Malaysian voters.</p>
<p>Assuming the turnout of the Chinese voters are the same as the general population which is 80%, <b>the number of Chinese casting votes would be 3.15 millions</b>.</p>
<p>Assuming that 90% of the Chinese voted for PR (this is actually improbable), that would be 2.83 million votes.</p>
<p><b>But PR received more than 5.62 millions votes, which means that even if 90% of the Chinese voted for PR, they comprise of only 50% of the support that PR receives.</b></p>
<p>At a more realistic 80% Chinese support for Opposition, PR would get 2.5 million votes  from the Chinese ethnic group only.</p>
<p>The fact that it received more than 5.62 million total votes means that more than 3.1 millions votes are from non Chinese Malaysian.</p></blockquote>
<p>And also from Facebook pages:</p>
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<blockquote><p><b><a href="http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/229514">PAS thanks Chinese for voting in Malay reps</a></b></p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>“There are tens of Parliament and state assembly seats that were contested by Malay candidates against candidates from the Tiong Hua (Chinese), in mixed constituencies, which were won by the Malays, proving that Chinese voters were willing to reject candidates of their own race,” Tuan Ibrahim said in a statement today.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p><b>More Malays in parliamant due to Pakatan wins</b></p>
<p>Meanwhile, in another statement, Pahang PAS information chief Suhaimi Md Saad explained that DAP’s big win in the election did nothing to lessen the number of Malay MPs in Parliament.</p>
<p>In fact, Suhaimi said, the success of Pakatan’s candidates only served to increase that number by seven.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Among the examples given are:</p>
<p>    Rafizi Ramli (PKR, right) who won against Gary Lim (BN) in Pandan;</p>
<p>    Dr Siti Mariah Mahmud (PAS), who won against S Murugesan (BN) in Kota Raja;</p>
<p>    Abdul Khalid Ibrahim (PKR) who won against Tan Kok Eng (BN) in Bandar Tun Razak;</p>
<p>    Imran Hamid (PKR) who won against Kong Cho Ha (BN) in Lumut;</p>
<p>    Mohd Ariss Sabri Abdul Aziz (DAP) who won against Hoh Khai Mun (BN) in Raub;</p>
<p>    Idris Ahmad (PKR) who won against K Parthiban (BN) in Ijok;</p>
<p>    Tengku Zulpuri Shah Raja Puji (DAP) who won against Chuah Boon Seong (BN) in Mentakab; and</p>
<p>    Mohd Rashid Hasnon (PKR) who won against Wong Mun Hoe (BN) in Pantai Jerejak.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>To further debunk Umno’s claim that non-Malays went against Malays in the ballot box, he further cited 13 examples of seats where non-Malay BN candidates won in Malay-majority constituencies.</p>
<p>Among the constituencies listed in Suhaimi&#8217;s statement are &#8211; Simpang Renggam (57 percent Malays), Tanjung Piai (51 percent), Batu Sapi (51 percent), Gurun (57 percent) and Kahang (74 percent).</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p>So you <a>proven over and over again racists</a>, know that your scapegoats are not standing alone against your smear/hit job!</p>
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		<title>Barisan Nasional Likens Themselves to Dictators in the Vein of Mubarak, Gaddafi and Assad</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Thong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unintended consequences&#8230; Unfortunate implications.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottthong.wordpress.com&#038;blog=303497&#038;post=16005&#038;subd=scottthong&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unintended consequences&#8230;</p>
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<p>Unfortunate implications.</p>
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		<title>Response to Supporters of Homosexuality Who Argue That It Helps Prevent Overpopulation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 02:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ‘homosexuality prevents overpopulation’ fallacy is so unoriginal (ref here, here, here) that I’ve developed a standardized response, as follows: First, it is very narrow to look at this issue solely from the point of population – in fact it is such a tangential point compared to the social, moral, religious, family, health, freedom etc. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottthong.wordpress.com&#038;blog=303497&#038;post=15999&#038;subd=scottthong&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The ‘homosexuality prevents overpopulation’ fallacy is so unoriginal (ref <a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/bible-passages-that-oppose-homosexuality-including-the-words-of-jesus-and-god-himself/#comment-447239">here</a>, <a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/bible-passages-that-oppose-homosexuality-including-the-words-of-jesus-and-god-himself/#comment-438970">here</a>, <a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/bible-passages-that-oppose-homosexuality-including-the-words-of-jesus-and-god-himself/#comment-373838">here</a>) that I’ve developed a standardized response, as follows:</p>
<p>First, it is very narrow to look at this issue solely from the point of population – in fact it is such a tangential point compared to the social, moral, religious, family, health, freedom etc. aspects that it always strikes me as a red herring type of argument.</p>
<p>Second, it is a mistaken assumption to think that homosexuals do not increase population. Or haven’t you heard of all the cases of homosexual couples relying on artificial insemination or surrogate parents in order to have a child that is genetically related to at least one of them? (Funny isn’t it… It’s like there is some undeniable natural instinct to pass on their genes regardless of their non reproductively sexual preference&#8230;)</p>
<p>Third, Malthusian doomsday prophecies of overpopulation are SOOOO last decade. We are feeding more and more people with less and less land area and effort. The problem of hunger is one of overconsumption by some and poor distribution to the others, as well local socioeconomic and political factors, not one of overall global lack of food. In fact, population decline is a major issue today – of the entire developed world, only America has a (barely) replacement level birthrate. All the others (Europe, Japan, Russia etc) are having so few children that if the trend continues, they will all simply all die out as a nation.</p>
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		<title>Bush Saved 11,000 Iraqi Lives per Month During Invasion Period (10x Lower Death Rate Than Pre-Invasion!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get this&#8230; The Lancet now admits only 120,000 died in Iraq invasion&#8217;s 8 years: Iraq: Study Says 120,000 Died During War A new report in “The Lancet” says at least 116,000 Iraqi civilians and more than 4,800 foreign troops died in Iraq between March 2003, and the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 2011. This is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottthong.wordpress.com&#038;blog=303497&#038;post=15992&#038;subd=scottthong&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Get this&#8230; The Lancet <a href="http://www.rferl.org/content/iraq-lancet/24929172.html">now admits only 120,000 died in Iraq invasion&#8217;s 8 years</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Iraq: Study Says 120,000 Died During War </p>
<p>A new report in “The Lancet” says at least 116,000 Iraqi civilians and more than 4,800 foreign troops died in Iraq between March 2003, and the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 2011.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is roughly <b>1,250 deaths per month</b>.</p>
<p>Contrast this against 3,035 deaths per month under Saddam&#8217;s ironfisted rule, and 9,259 deaths per month under the UN sanctions&#8230; That&#8217;s a <b>total of 12,294 deaths per month</b> during the time when both were in effect.</p>
<p>Which means to say, <b>Bush&#8217;s invasion of Iraq led to a death rate 10 times LOWER than existed before!</b></p>
<p>Every month of the invasion, (12,294 &#8211; 1,250) = <b>11,044 fewer Iraqis died</b> than before bloody warmongering killer Bush crushed the peaceful and happy existence of Iraq!</p>
<p>And this is surely further reduced with the Operation Iraqi Freedom and the jihadi insurgency basically over today.</p>
<p>See related and calculations:</p>
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<li><a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/bush-saved-750000-iraqi-lives/">Bush Saved 750,000 Iraqi Lives</a></ul>
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<li><a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/looking-back-at-how-america-won-the-hearts-of-iraqs-muslims/">Looking Back at How America Won the Hearts of Iraq’s Muslims</a></ul>
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<li><a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/hey-ignorant-world-there-is-peace-in-iraq/">Hey Ignorant World – There is PEACE in Iraq!</a></ul>
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<li><a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/nst-letters-just-war-the-plus-factor-in-bushs-iraq-invasion/">NST Letters – Just War: The Plus Factor in Bush’s Iraq Invasion</a></ul>
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<li><a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/datuk-mukhriz-mahathir-yes-that-one-responds-to-scotts-letter-on-iraq-war/">Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir – Yes, That One – Responds to Scott’s Letter on Iraq War</a></ul>
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<li><a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/nst-letters-scotts-reply-to-mukhriz-mahathir-on-iraq-deaths/">NST Letters: Scott’s Reply to Mukhriz Mahathir on Iraq Deaths</a></ul>
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<li><a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/more-replies-to-scotts-nst-letters-on-iraq/">More Replies to Scott’s NST Letters on Iraq</a></ul>
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<li><a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/nst-letters-iraq-us-led-invasion-has-saved-lives/">NST Letters – Iraq: US-led Invasion Has Saved Lives</a></ul>
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		<title>After Relegating Homophobia to the Dustbin of History, Pedophobia Next</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 05:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via AoSHQ from The Guardian: But there is a growing conviction, notably in Canada, that paedophilia should probably be classified as a distinct sexual orientation, like heterosexuality or homosexuality. Two eminent researchers testified to that effect to a Canadian parliamentary commission last year, and the Harvard Mental Health Letter of July 2010 stated baldly that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottthong.wordpress.com&#038;blog=303497&#038;post=15962&#038;subd=scottthong&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Via <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/336270.php">AoSHQ</a> from <a href="http://m.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jan/03/paedophilia-bringing-dark-desires-light">The Guardian</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>But there is a growing conviction, notably in Canada, that paedophilia should probably be classified as a distinct sexual orientation, like heterosexuality or homosexuality. Two eminent researchers testified to that effect to a Canadian parliamentary commission last year, and the Harvard Mental Health Letter of July 2010 stated baldly that paedophilia &#8220;is a sexual orientation&#8221; and therefore &#8220;unlikely to change&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>The reclassification of paedophilia as a sexual orientation would, however, play into what Goode calls &#8220;the sexual liberation discourse&#8221;, which has existed since the 1970s. &#8220;There are a lot of people,&#8221; she says, &#8220;who say: we outlawed homosexuality, and we were wrong. Perhaps we&#8217;re wrong about paedophilia.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Slippery slope? What slippery slope?</p>
<p>See also:</p>
<p><a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/ultimate-quicksilver-scarlet-witch-incest-is-the-next-liberal-sexual-revolution/">Ultimate Quicksilver &amp; Scarlet Witch: Incest is The Next Liberal Sexual Revolution</a></p>
<p><a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/consensual-incest-atheists-please-tell-me-why-it-is-morally-wrong/">Consensual Incest – Atheists Please Tell Me Why It Is Morally Wrong</a></p>
<p><a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/woman-has-baby-with-her-grandson-liberals-is-this-morally-wrong/">Woman Has Baby With Her Grandson – Liberals, Is This Morally Wrong?</a></p>
<p><a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/after-homosexuality-sexual-revolutionary-frank-kameny-moves-on-to-making-bestiality-normal/">After Homosexuality, Sexual Revolutionary Frank Kameny Moves on to Making Bestiality ‘Normal’</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So barring an overhaul of the legislation to allow a third term as President, Obama will be all packed to leave the White House by January 2017. Where to from there? What remains to be achieved by the most powerful man in the world, the head of the richest, only superpower among the nations? It&#8217;s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottthong.wordpress.com&#038;blog=303497&#038;post=15929&#038;subd=scottthong&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So barring an overhaul of the legislation to allow a third term as President, Obama will be all packed to leave the White House by January 2017. Where to from there? What remains to be achieved by the most powerful man in the world, the head of the richest, only superpower among the nations?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s been said by some that there <i>is</i> no higher position left to attain. This is it, and anything else represents a step down for Obama.</p>
<p>Actually, I believe there is <i>one</i> step up left.</p>
<p><b>Say hello to U.N. Secretary General Barack Hussein Obama.</b></p>
<p>It makes perfect sense, doesn&#8217;t it? He was always less of the Leader of the USA, and more of the Healer-Messiah Ascended Guide of The World. Even as practically half of America rejected him in 2012, he&#8217;s still wildly popular in the rest of the world that doesn&#8217;t actually have to live under his domestic policies (Pakistan, Iran and anywhere else his Kill Drones are circling not included of course).</p>
<p>He&#8217;s especially beloved in Europe &#8211; that debt-sunken, chronically unemployed, high-gas priced, green energy failing territory he&#8217;s trying to make the USA emulate. It was a bunch of Euroweenies who voted him his Nobel Peace Prize remember.</p>
<p>It fits his temperament perfectly &#8211; a few mediations here, a few high-society cocktail receptions there, a lot of empty platitudes to world peace and the universal brotherhood of humanity with very little actually getting accomplished. </p>
<p>Plus, heading the carbon-cappy UN gels perfectly with his intentions to slow the rise of the oceans and redistribute the wealth of the imperialist First World that deserves to be punished for their historic wrongs against the rest of the world.</p>
<p>So be warned, Americans &#8211; just because Obama doesn&#8217;t stick around as Diktator for Life, doesn&#8217;t mean he can&#8217;t find other ways to mess up America!</p>
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		<title>Dow Jones Celebrates Obama&#8217;s Second Term Pretty Much the Same Way it Did His First Term</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 05:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By binge drinking their sorrows away: Dow drops in post-election sell-off NEW YORK &#8212; Wall Street greeted a second Obama term the way it greeted the first. Investors dumped stocks Wednesday in the sharpest sell-off of the year. With the election only hours behind them, they focused on big problems ahead in Washington and across [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottthong.wordpress.com&#038;blog=303497&#038;post=15887&#038;subd=scottthong&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By binge drinking their sorrows away:</p>
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<blockquote><p><b><a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/business&amp;id=8877599">Dow drops in post-election sell-off</a></b></p>
<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Wall Street greeted a second Obama term the way it greeted the first.</p>
<p><b>Investors dumped stocks Wednesday in the sharpest sell-off of the year</b>. With the election only hours behind them, they focused on big problems ahead in Washington and across the Atlantic Ocean.</p>
<p>Frantic selling recalled the days after Obama&#8217;s first victory, as the financial crisis raged and stocks spiraled downward.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p><b>It was the worst day for stocks this year, but not the worst after an election. That distinction belongs to 2008, when Barack Obama was elected at the depths of the financial crisis. The Dow fell 486 points the next day.</b></p></blockquote>
<p>Tipped by wits0, via <a href="http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2012/11/08/elections-have-consequences-45-companies-announce-layoff-plans-in-48-hours-following-obamas-victory/">FireAndreaMitchell</a>: <b>45 companies announce layoff plans in 48 hours following Obama’s ‘victory’</b>.</p>
<p>From <a href="http://investing.money.msn.com/investments/stock-charts/?compsyms=&amp;D4=1&amp;DD=1&amp;D5=0&amp;DCS=2&amp;MA0=0&amp;MA1=0&amp;CP=1&amp;C5=11&amp;C5D=5&amp;C6=2012&amp;C7=11&amp;C7D=16&amp;C8=2012&amp;C9=-1&amp;CF=0&amp;D7=&amp;D6=&amp;showchartbt=Redraw+chart&amp;PT=7&amp;symbol=%24us%3AINDU&amp;SZ=0&amp;nocookie=1">MSN Money</a>:</p>
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<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>Yep, credit must go to Obama&#8230; The allergic reaction to his second term is <b>nowhere near as bad</b> as it was <a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/proven-american-investors-think-obama-is-bad-for-business/">to his first term</a>:</p>
<p><img src="http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/obamadowfall5pc.jpg?w=450"></p>
<p><img src="http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/obamadowdaytwo.jpg?w=450"></p>
<p>Plus plenty more at the link, stretching up to 2 weeks (and 1628 points down) from his first Election win.</p>
<p>See also related:</p>
<p><b><a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/obamas-economic-successes/">Obama’s Economic Successes: A Roundup</a></b> &#8211; Dozens of graphs showing just why the markets don&#8217;t trust Obama</p>
<p><a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/obama-please-stop-talking-sht/">Obama, Please Stop Talking Sh*t</a>:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/obamastoptalkingsh.jpg"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/obamastoptalkingsh.jpg?w=480" alt="Obama Stop Talking Sh*t" width="480" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/four-years-on-stock-market-still-allergic-to-obama/">Four Years On, Stock Market Still Allergic to Obama</a></p>
<p><a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/obama-speaketh-stock-market-crasheth/">Obama Speaketh, Stock Market Crasheth</a>:</p>
<p><img src="http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/obamadow03.jpg?w=480"></p>
<p><a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/down-jones-surges-after-2011-gop-debate/">Dow Jones Surges After 2011 GOP Debate</a></p>
<p><a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/proven-american-investors-think-obama-is-bad-for-business/">American Stock Exchange ‘Celebrates’ Obama With Record CRASHES – Repeatedly!</a></p>
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		<title>Why Obama Will Lose November 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 05:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 6 NOVEMBER 2012: The title of this post changed posthumously to &#8216;Why Obama Should Have Lost November 2012&#8242;. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; So here is the laundry list of why I firmly believe Obama is headed out the door come Election 2012. - JOB JOBS JOBS &#8211; it&#8217;s still the economy stupid! Romney is 12 points ahead [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottthong.wordpress.com&#038;blog=303497&#038;post=15502&#038;subd=scottthong&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>UPDATE 6 NOVEMBER 2012:</b> The title of this post changed posthumously to &#8216;Why Obama Should Have Lost November 2012&#8242;.</p>
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<p>So here is the laundry list of why I firmly believe Obama is headed out the door come Election 2012.</p>
<p><a href="http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/17reasonsvoteobamaout.jpg"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/17reasonsvoteobamaout.jpg?w=450" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>- <b>JOB JOBS JOBS</b> &#8211; it&#8217;s <i>still</i> the economy stupid! Romney <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/29/ohio-romney-up-two-in-rasmussen-poll">is 12 points ahead on the economy</a>. Here&#8217;s <a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/obamas-economic-successes/">a few dozen graphs and videos</a> proving that Obama&#8217;s 4 years not only failed to restore the economy, but instead made it WORSE! And from the many, these few in particular are very telling about the election:</p>
<p><img src="http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/disposableincomevote.jpg?w=450"></p>
<blockquote><p>one key economic data component has been quite good at predicting presidential elections, and that is consumer confidence. If the consumer confidence index is at 100 or higher, then the incumbent party is likely to win. If not, then the opposition party wins</p></blockquote>
<p><img src="http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/consumerconfidence61.png?w=450"></p>
<p><img src="http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/consumerconfidencepredict.png?w=450"></p>
<blockquote><p>The table above shows that consumer confidence levels correctly predicted the outcome in 9 of the past 11 presidential elections&#8230; The near-perfect predictive power of the consumer confidence index essentially says that at the time of voting, the single most important issue comes down to the economy. As James Carville once said, “it’s the economy, stupid!” Forget the tough talks on terrorism or the flowery talks of hope; voters are rewarding or punishing the incumbent on the economy.</p></blockquote>
<p>- Polls have Obama barely ahead, tied or <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/330660.php#330660">even behind</a> by <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334368.php">a whole bunch</a> &#8211; Romney is ahead by <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/29/ohio-romney-up-two-in-rasmussen-poll">12 on the economy, 10 on national security, and 8 on job creation and energy policy</a>! And remember, pre-election polls <a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/ann-coulter-researches-the-pro-democrat-poll-bias-through-8-presidential-elections/">always slant towards the Democrat</a>. </p>
<p><img src="http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/disposableincomevote.jpg?w=450"></p>
<p>- Romney is <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/331739/barring-some-sudden-change-romney-will-win-popular-vote#">on track to win the popular vote</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>But the one scenario that political scientists deem virtually impossible is one where undecideds who have declined to support the incumbent all year suddenly break heavily in favor of him. For most of the remaining undecideds, the choice is between voting for the challenger and staying home&#8230; it’s also relatively rare for a candidate to win the popular vote and lose the Electoral College</p></blockquote>
<p>- And personally Obama is being viewed more and more as <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/331136.php#331136">unlikeable</a>. </p>
<p>- No incumbent has won since 1930 <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/332196.php#332196">when tied before the election eve</a>! Romney is now actually <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/robbins-report/2012/oct/18/romney-outpolling-carter-reagan-bush-i-clinton-bus/#.UIInBqxXgKQ">running ahead of previous challengers</a>.</p>
<p>- Debate one was <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/333640.php#333640">the turning point</a> where people realized Romney is a viable challenger, not some monster as caricatured by the liberal media &#8211; my <a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/the-best-and-the-worst-of-the-obama-vs-romney-denver-debate/">coverage and outtakes here</a>. In one night, Romney <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82796.html">undid months and millions that Obama spent caricaturing him</a>.</p>
<p>- Further debates <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334144.php">solidified that positive perception</a>, with more and more voters inclined for Romney and fewer for Obama. Romney managed the third debate by <a href="http://harndenblog.dailymail.co.uk/2012/10/obama-may-have-won-the-debate-battle-tonight-but-he-knows-he-is-losing-the-election-war-to-romney.html">keeping cool and confident</a> as he <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/331326/non-debate-romney-obama-bing-west">wooed voters</a> and <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/331310/romney-wins-not-losing-michael-graham#">portrayed likeability</a> while Obama snarked and combated. Tipped by wits0, the debates <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/23/debates-deliver-favorability-edge-romney/">boosted Romney&#8217;s favorability</a>:</p>
<p><img src="http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/1024liking_s640x810.jpg?w=450"></p>
<p>- Obama&#8217;s <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334167.php">firewall of formerly unassailable states</a> is crumbling fast!</p>
<p>- Obamacare &#8211; it&#8217;s always been massively unpopular. Now that it&#8217;s <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/330521.php">been upheld</a> &#8211; and declared a massive tax! &#8211; Romney <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/330479.php">benefits</a> from the <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/330546.php">wave of support</a> to <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/330574.php">repeal</a> the <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/330597.php">hated law</a>.</p>
<p>- <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/330555.php">Operation Fast &amp; Furious</a> and the invoking of executive privilege.</p>
<p>- The Bengazhi consulate massacre, and now <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334285.php">CIA head David Petraeus is pointing the finger at Obama</a> and a <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334463.php">retired admiral is criticizing the cowardly nonaction</a>.</p>
<p>- The <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/330806.php#330806">preference cascade</a>. The more people start admitting they are disappointed by Obama and won&#8217;t support him this time around, the more others are encouraged to reveal their true feelings because it&#8217;s suddenly &#8216;acceptable&#8217; to. This can <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2012/10/22/preference-cascade/print">lead to an avalanche</a> where there didn&#8217;t seem to be even a snowflake before. Further explanation about this phenomenon <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/10/22/media-bias-obama-romney-liberal/1647825/">at here</a>.</p>
<p>- Liberal media &#8211; which <a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/washington-post-admits-media-was-biased-in-favour-of-obama/">was in lockstep</a> with him <a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/obamedia-loves-obama-and-i-mean-red-hot-steaming-wet-lurve/">in 2008</a> now <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/4-pinocchios-for-obamas-newest-anti-romney-ad/2012/06/20/gJQAGux6qV_blog.html">openly dissenting</a>.</p>
<p>- Demo-rats <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/330467.php">fleeing</a> <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/330596.php">the</a> <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/330594.php">sinking</a> <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/330690.php">ship</a> as they sense impending defeat.</p>
<p>- Other formerly staunch supporters are <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/06/even-big-nyc-libs-are-questioning-support-for-obama-video/">ditching him in droves</a>, <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/330940.php#330940">narrow appeal</a>. </p>
<p>- His 2008 crowd is <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/331538.php#331538">unenthused</a>&#8230; <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/charlie-mahtesian/2012/08/dem-registration-down-in-key-states-132150.html">Dems 10 times more unenthused</a> than GOP (tipped by wits0). </p>
<p>- Whereas GOP supporters are <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/doh-obama-ads-boost-enthusiasm-for-romney/article/2511414#.UIddD2f0RKw">much more fired up than in 2008</a> &#8211; in fact, it&#8217;s at <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/pew-gop-enthusiasm-high/2012/10/24/id/461391?promo_code=1041B-1&amp;utm_source=Moelane.com&amp;utm_medium=nmwidget&amp;utm_campaign=widgetphase1">an all time high</a>!</p>
<p>- Further to that, Pew finds that <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334501.php">76% of GOP likely to vote, vs 62% Dem</a>.</p>
<p>- <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/331703.php#331703">Empty stadium</a> &#8211; even at just <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/331862.php#331862">51 bucks a seat</a>. Obama can&#8217;t even fill <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/333153.php#333153">5000 people</a>. Meanwhile, <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334184.php">thousands had to be turned away from Romney rally that can fit ten thousand</a>.</p>
<p>- Two days to go, and <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334567.php#334567">Romney&#8217;s rally draws 30,000 against Obama&#8217;s 4,000</a>! <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/05/Obama-closes-to-half-empty-stadium-in-Ohio">Photo</a> tipped by wits0:</p>
<p><img src="http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/ohiostadiumhalfempty.png?w=450"></p>
<p>- Bain is a <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/331251.php#331251">huge plus</a>, not a minus, for Romney.</p>
<p>- Romney is a Mormon which still rubs many Evangelicals and Protestants the wrong way &#8211; but Obama sent him their support by default thanks to his abortion and gay marriage stances.</p>
<p>- The most recent national polls from four pollsters — Gallup, Monmouth University, Fox News and the Pew Research Center — <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/333977.php">all show Romney winning the white vote by more than 20 points</a>. And he is <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334235.php">favored by Independents by 19 points</a>! That’s something no GOP presidential candidate has done since <a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/landslide-victories-in-us-presidential-elections-obama-vs-reagan/"> Reagan’s landslide 1984 reelection win</a>!</p>
<p>- And guess who said that <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334501.php">independents are what matters</a>? Why, none other than Nate Silver&#8230;</p>
<p>- Swing voters <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334117.php">have hugely unfavorable views of Obama</a>. Meanwhile, Romney&#8217;s favorability <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334128.php">keeps improving &#8211; especially among Independents</a>. He&#8217;s also <a href="http://www.jammiewf.com/2012/mitt-mentum-romney-erases-gender-gap-in-new-poll/">closed the gap with women</a> and with <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/barone-affluent-suburbs-swing-to-debate-tested-romney/article/2511516#.UIrFXm_MjbN">affluent suburbs &#8211; more than any Republican in 20 years</a>.</p>
<p>- Whoever wins the Independents <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334276.php">also usually wins the important Ohio state</a>.</p>
<p>- All this swing voter support comes into play for the Electoral College&#8230; <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/2012_elections_electoral_college_map_no_toss_ups.html">No toss ups</a> has the vote solidly in Obama&#8217;s hands:</p>
<p><img src="http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/notossup30oct12.jpg?w=450"></p>
<p>&#8230;But <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/2012_elections_electoral_college_map.html">factoring in the swing states</a> has it a very much closer race, with only a 10-vote gap and 146 swing votes up for grabs to the most favored candidate:</p>
<p><img src="http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/yestossup30oct12.jpg?w=450"></p>
<p>Above two screenshots as at 30 October 2012, one week to the election. For instance, <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334400.php">Ohio almost always outperforms the national average in support for the Republican</a>.</p>
<p>- Michael Barone at The Examiner goes state by state and comes up with <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334558.php#334558">Romney 315, Obama 223</a>.</p>
<p>- Meanwhile, the pro-Democrat <a href="http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2012/11/01/washington-post-moves-ohio-from-lean-obama-to-toss-up-obama-only-has-186-solid-evs/">Washington Post has moved  Ohio from ‘Lean Obama’ to Toss Up</a>. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/beyond-debate-pennsylvanias-play-211555800.html">Pennsylvania and its 20 votes is in play</a>.</p>
<p>- And <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/obama-and-romney-teams-top-1-billion-in-ad-spending-20121102">Romney is outspending Obama in all states, to the tune of $30 million</a>.</p>
<p>- And <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334508.php">Romney is ahead by 1-2 points in Iowa</a> according to multiple pollsters.</p>
<p>- <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334510.php">Ahead by 1 point</a> in Wisconsin.</p>
<p>- <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334047.php">Liberal, democrat papers</a> are <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/21/romney-picks-up-newspaper-endorsements/">endorsing Romney</a>. Add the <a href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sfl-mitt-romney-presidential-endorsment-sun-sentinel-20121025,0,1757975.story">Florida Sun SentineL</a> flipping to him:</p>
<blockquote><p>We believe Romney’s past performance is a predictor of his future behavior. He’s proven himself to be a successful businessman. He rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from scandal and mismanagement. He worked with a Democrat-dominated legislature as governor of Massachusetts to close a $3 billion budget deficit — without borrowing and raising taxes.</p></blockquote>
<p>And the almost 100%-endorse-the-Democrat, <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334315.php">Des Moines register</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Our discussion repeatedly circled back to the nation’s single most important challenge: pulling the economy out of the doldrums, getting more Americans back in the workforce in meaningful jobs with promising futures, and getting the federal government on a track to balance the budget in a bipartisan manner that the country demands.</p>
<p>Which candidate could forge the compromises in Congress to achieve these goals? When the question is framed in those terms, Mitt Romney emerges the stronger candidate.</p>
<p>The former governor and business executive has a strong record of achievement in both the private and the public sectors. He was an accomplished governor in a liberal state. He founded and ran a successful business that turned around failing companies. He successfully managed the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.</p>
<p>Romney has made rebuilding the economy his No. 1 campaign priority — and rightly so.</p></blockquote>
<p>As well as <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/10/28/Four-major-IA-newspapers-endorse-Romney">the other three leading Iowa newspapers</a>&#8230; Did I say three? <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334360.php">Make it the other FIVE</a> biggest papers.</p>
<p>- And Chicago&#8217;s second biggest paper, <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/chicago-illinois-the-daily-herald-endorses-mitt-romney-for-president">The Daily Herald</a>. As well as one of the largest and most influential New Hampshire papers, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/10/30/Nashua-Telegraph-Endorses-Mitt-Romney">the Nashua Telegraph which flips to Romney</a>..=</p>
<p>&#8230;What was that about a preference cascade? List of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/politics/newspaper-presidential-endorsements.html?smid=tw-nytimes#/?filter=switched">endorsements</a> for <a href="http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/194160/wisconsin-state-journal-endorses-romney-latest-paper-to-flip-from-obama-in-08/">each side</a> here, and Romney clearly outnumbers Obama. This matters because <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334451.php">newspapers are a proxy for their readers</a>.</p>
<p>- Ouch, the <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334512.php">Las Vegas Review Journal</a> &#8211; the largest daily circulation paper in Nevada doesn&#8217;t spare the flames for Obama on Benghazi, the economy and energy!</p>
<p>- Speaking of Benghazi&#8230; <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334641.php">Obama revealed refusing to call it a terrorist attack</a> on national news.</p>
<p>- The Wisconsin Journal <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334643.php">joins 29 other papers in flipping to Romney</a> &#8211; versus just 3 that flipped to Obama.</p>
<p>- Early voter polls seem to lean heavily for Obama, but this is actually likely due to <a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/why-obama-will-lose-november-2012/#comment-391186">respondents lying to look good</a>. UPDATE: Indeed, <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334397.php">early voting now favors Romney</a>.</p>
<p>- Obama is cannibalizing Ohio early voters who would have voted for him anyway come Election Day, while <a href="http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/11/romney-could-sweep-ohio/#.UJMtQeq2jDY.twitter">Romney has focused of getting low-propensity voters</a> in <i>addition</i> to likely Election Day voters. <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334690.php">Obama counties voter turnout are down</a> while <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334701.php">Bush/McCain counties are up</a>.</p>
<p>- Ohio early voting is seeing a <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334533.php#334533">270,000 vote swing towards Romney</a></p>
<p>- Romney has <a href="http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2012/11/01/iowa-slipping-away-from-team-obama/">cut Obama&#8217;s early voter advantage in Iowa by 75%</a>.</p>
<p>- Republicans outperform Democrats in Pennsylvania absentee ballots, <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334444.php">55% against 36%</a>.</p>
<p>- Renowned war correspondent <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/30/michael-yon-president-obama-fumbled-afghanistan/">Michael Yon anti-endorses Obama</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>And there he was.  Our new President. I determined to support him until he proved unworthy.  Almost four years later, many people have snapped out of the trance, and that includes many non-Americans here in Asia.  Obama’s magic wand has been broken over the knee of reality.</p>
<p>I cannot speak about the economy, education or healthcare, but I can speak about Afghanistan.  Obama cannot be faulted that Afghanistan is stone-aged, or that our military strategy was wrecked when he took office.  It was.  The bus was in a ditch. Obama showed up with a wrecker, promising to yank it out.  Today the wrecker is in the ditch atop the bus.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Our young troops are something to be proud of, and if you saw them in action you would be amazed at their courage and professionalism.  The mess we shoved them into is a national shame. We provided about half the troops required for the stated strategy, then began pulling them out against a domestic political deadline that has nothing to do with the war.  The surge has been a complete waste of effort.</p></blockquote>
<p>- Lots of graphs and analysis of past data and current trends, <a href="http://baseballcrank.com/archives2/2012/10/politics_why_i_2.php">from Dem vs GOP voter turnout, party crossover votes, Independents, the 2010 elections, nonWhite voters</a> all point to a Romney win.</p>
<p>- A list of tweets <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/332707.php#332707">via here</a>.</p>
<p>- Big names including <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/romney-landslide-here-are-the-biggest-names-predicting-it-how-it-will-happen/">a Las Vegas odds maker predict a Romney win</a>.</p>
<p>- Karl Rove <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204846304578090820229096046.html">lists several of the above</a> as his reasons why he thinks Romney will win.</p>
<p>- On why Intrade players and Obama supporters refuse to believe that he will lose</a>.</p>
<p>- Tipped by wits0: <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/11/04/breaking-gen-tommy-franks-gen-henry-shelton-among-500-american-warriors-to-run-full-page-ad-endorsing-mitt-romney-for-president/">500 high ranking military figures endorse Romney</a>, including top generals and <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/romney-wins-the-battle-of-the-pentagon-brass">Pentagon brass</a>!</p>
<p>- Obama could lose <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334550.php#334550">from 13% to 16% of supporters</a> &#8211; who could also double the blow by voting for Romney!</p>
<p>- <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334683.php">Ace lays out his condensed reasons here</a>&#8230; Especially on how it is absurd to expect LARGER Democrat turnout than in 2008 or 2010! I mean, CNN gets a 49-49 tie <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334653.php">with D+11</a> &#8211; that is, with an eleven point advantage in turnout, Obama still only manages a tie! Especially when <a href="http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Rasmussen-Party-Affiliation-in-October">Republican affiliation advantage keeps growing</a>.</p>
<p>- While back in reality, for the first time IN HISTORY, <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334705.php">Republicans outnumber Democrats on election day</a> according to two major polling firms!</p>
<p>- Less serious&#8230; The <a href="http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201211/washington-redskins-world-series-presidential-election-forecast-obama-romney">Redskin Rule favors Romney</a>.</p>
<p>- <a href="http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2012/11/02/why-was-there-no-october-surprise/">The Complete List of Barack Obama’s Scandals, Misdeeds, Crimes and Blunders</a> here!</p>
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		<title>PROVEN: Republicans More Well Informed than &#8216;Reality-Based Community&#8217; Democrats</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Thong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via AoSHQ, from Director Blue: In a scientific survey of 1,168 adults conducted during September and October of last year, respondents were asked not only multiple-choice questions, but also queries using maps, photographs and symbols. Among other subjects, participants identified international leaders, cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, nations on a world map, the current unemployment [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scottthong.wordpress.com&#038;blog=303497&#038;post=15777&#038;subd=scottthong&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Via <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334103.php">AoSHQ</a>, from <a href="http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2012/10/no-theyre-not-going-to-pay-your.html">Director Blue</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>In a scientific survey of 1,168 adults conducted during September and October of last year, respondents were asked not only multiple-choice questions, but also queries using maps, photographs and symbols. Among other subjects, participants identified international leaders, cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, nations on a world map, the current unemployment and poverty rates and war casualty totals.</p>
<p>In a 2010 Pew survey, <b>Republicans outperformed Democrats on 10 of 12 questions</b>, with one tie and Democrats outperforming Republicans on just 1 of the 12. In the latest survey, however, Republicans outperformed Democrats <b>on every single one of 19 questions</b>. </p></blockquote>
<p>Related, Dems think the economy (<a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/obamas-economic-successes/">THIS RECORD BREAKINGLY BAD ECONOMY</a>!!!!) is doing <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/333346.php#333346">just fiiiiiiiiiiine</a>:</p>
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