| Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 |
| 1:18 pm |
Some Post election analysis using Wikipedia
Alternate Title: Using Wikipedia against itself. One thing I noticed that was conspicuously absent from this years post-election coverage were any stories about voter turnout. My highly trained eyes and eared honed in on this. The absence of these stories made it clear that there must be something important there. Total votes cast for the Senate in 2006: 58,475,456 Total votes cast for Congress in 2002: 74,706,555 (The wikipedia article for 2002 was somewhat lacking, or I'd have Senate numbers) The Democrats got a very similar number of total votes in 2002 and 2006. They have 31 to 33 million core voters that show up for mid term elections. The Republicans had 12 million less voters this year than in 2002. Mid term elections are all about who can get there people to the polls. But the author of the wiki on 2006 claims that the elections show that the Republicans need to move to the center. The Democratic expansion into Indiana, Virginia, and Ohio has "seriously diminished the chances for future Republican success" it claimed. The paper, which has been described as the "quasi-official organ of the Bush Administration[18]" has called on Republicans to move to the center for the sake of the party's future viability saying "conservatives won't want to hear this, but the Republican who maneuvered his way into the most impressive victory... won ... after moving to the center" and that "the South is not enough space to build a national governing majority". It says under the 2006 election article. (this quote is misleading because it is about governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who lives in a very liberal state that does not represent America as a whole). The Democrats did not win because they convinced Republican voters to vote for them. They won because Republicans stayed home. Hopefully no one will be taken in by this wrong view that the Republicans need to move to the center. If Republicans want to win elections they must remain firm to their core conservative values. The Republicans had nearly 6 years in power and didn't do most of the really important things that they should have like reforming the tax structure, reducing entitlements, dealing with immigration, balancing the budget or bringing the free market back into healthcare. There was far too much pandering to try to make the left like them. So don't be fooled by the media. They have an agenda. They want to "change the world." If the Republicans nominate a real conservative in 2008 that knows how to communicate, they will win. |
| Tuesday, October 24th, 2006 |
| 12:49 pm |
Aurora Anne is born!
Aurora Anne was born last night at 11:32 PM. She weight 6 lbs. 9 ounces and is 20.5 inches long. She and mama are both doing well.  |
| Monday, July 25th, 2005 |
| 8:33 pm |
Ceilidh
Well, I just got back from Suzuki Institute at Ithaca College and my cousin's wedding today. I should have been more organized, but anyhow. Ceilidh! You are all invited to my house next sunday, July 31st at 5:00 PM for a dancing, music and snacks. If you can help out with organizing, call me, or maybe I'll be calling you. See you there! I met a girl named Anne Marie O'Sullivan from County Cork in Ithaca. She tried to teach me irish fiddling. I basicaily only learnt one ornament. I'll keep trying though. Maybe I'll go to Newfoundland sometime and learn more. Oh Warcraft, you are a cruel master |
| Friday, February 11th, 2005 |
| 10:19 am |
A few items
For anyone who has wondered what has happened to me lately I've been playing World of Warcraft, and not really reading LJ. My Paladin has almost reached level 40 though, at which time I'll get....a horse. Yay! Rabbit has not been hosting Celtic Harvest for the last 2 weeks, I talked to her this week on efnet and she has been in the hospital, but is doing better now. Early voting is already going on for the City Council elections in C'dale. Vote HARRY HODGDON and write in people for the other 2 slots, Ray Minner and Brian Lauritzen or Mickey Mouse for all I care. Don't vote for the incumbents. Have you noticed that their signs are only on public property? No one has them in their yards. I haven't seen even one in someone's yard. What does that tell you? timor_noctis called me last night. It was neat. hansallyo, we should get together and watch the rest of the Invader Zim DVDs that you have. |
| Friday, January 28th, 2005 |
| 4:47 pm |
Musical/Rhythmic
I am really not astounded by these results. I think what they really say is that I am compulsively manipulative of transparent quizzes such as this.  | You scored as Musical/Rhythmic. You are sensitive to sounds in your environment, enjoy music and prefer listening to music when you study or read. You learn best through melody and music. People like you include singers, conductors, composers, and others who appreciate the various elements of music.
Musical/Rhythmic | | 89% | Verbal/Linguistic | | 79% | Logical/Mathematical | | 68% | Intrapersonal | | 61% | Visual/Spatial | | 57% | Bodily/Kinesthetic | | 46% | Interpersonal | | 46% | </td>
The Rogers Indicator of Multiple Intelligences
created with QuizFarm.com |
On another note I'm telling my Squirrel story for Children's story tomorrow at Church. yay. |
| Thursday, January 13th, 2005 |
| 4:36 pm |
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| Tuesday, December 7th, 2004 |
| 3:25 pm |
Caroling
I'm planning a little caroling run on my road next tuesday, December 14th in the evening. As many of you who can please please PLEASE come. It'll be fun. |
| Wednesday, December 1st, 2004 |
| 4:44 pm |
World of Warcraft
[Non gamers ignore this post] I'm planning on going to buy WoW tonight. But I was hoping that I could recruit some other people to play it with me. Maybe I'll call you and we'll talk about it. It seems like it would be alot funner to play with others. |
| Tuesday, November 30th, 2004 |
| 11:15 am |
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| 5:06 pm |
somethingawful and Hot Topic
I never discovered somethingawful.com until today when a followed a wayward link on slashdot. And while it is true that this website will never help me become a rockstar, this little tidbit greaty amused me, especially the last bit. "Our trips to Hot Topic were numerous and always left us feeling cheap and slutty yet oddly revitalized as though we had caught a brief glimpse of the elysian fields where happys are grown. The modern day goth still has the same morbid obsession with death as his natural ancestor, the artsy vietnam photographer. However, a newfound self-awareness has allowed him to make some curious discoveries. For one he's found that it's pretty easy to feel angsty and depressed when you're dressed like a homosexual pirate/gypsy." |
| Saturday, November 13th, 2004 |
| 11:21 pm |
Race Track
When I was driving my Plymouth, I discovered that my car had pretty crappy acceleration when I put gas from Race Track (in Ooltewah) as compared to getting gas at other places. I thought it might just be my car. The other day I got gas their in my BMW, and yet again, crappy acceleration (in comparision). So I'm wondering, if other people have had this same experience with Race Track 87 Octane fuel? |
| Thursday, November 11th, 2004 |
| 10:00 am |
Arafat is dead
Will the good news never end! The terrorist Yasser Arafat is apparently finally dead. http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/11/arafat.mourning.reut/Now that he's out of the way I think there is a real chance for peace. And if peace finally breaks out between Isreal and the Palestinians, that will be one less reason for the radical islamicist terrorists to stop wanting to kill us all. And then we won't have to kill as many of them hopefully before they finally catch on. Hooray! |
| Wednesday, November 10th, 2004 |
| 9:07 am |
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| Tuesday, November 9th, 2004 |
| 10:47 am |
The end of the IRS
This makes me so excited I'm just tingling! http://www.gopusa.com/news/2004/august/0802_hastert_irs.shtmlIts not just fringe type people that want to abolish our national terrorist organization anymore. The Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert is in favor of this! The Speaker of the House. Even if I have to pay more in taxes under another plan, I still think it would be better because it would be less invasive. Its a bright new day people. A bright new day. |
| Thursday, November 4th, 2004 |
| 10:14 am |
No more gloating
After my last post I realized how many people read my posts. Possibly as many as 8 people read them! Anyhow, to my loyal readership (all 8 of you). During the next 12 months I promise to not have any more gloating posts. Instead, I will carefully, thoughtfully, kindly try to convince you to stop being liberals. This doesn't mean I'm going to try to convince you to be Republicans, you can become Socialists for all I care (just kidding, you aren't allowed to be Socialists, or Greens). Republican, Libertarian, Constitution Party, Whig, whatever. So if my last post offended you so much that you considered stop reading my journal, don't worry. For the next 12 months I'll be kind (and maybe even Conciliatory, whatever that means). |
| Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004 |
| 10:36 am |
The Taste of Victory
I'd like to thank all of you have posted bitter pussfilled scabs of posts either right before, or right after the election. Your visceral backwash of hate brings a great big smile to my face on this beautiful day of triumph over the Left. Its nice to know that most people on slashdot and most of my friends IRL and on LJ are nationally in the minority. The worst part is that many of your paranoid fears about this administration are either unfounded, or your guy wouldn't have changed anything. So there wasn't much point in supporting him in the first place. I can only attribute it to irrational hate. Is this the legacy of the party of JFK? irrational hate?So thank you </a></b></a> ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cmpriest </a></b></a> judgedreddv and </a></b></a> dyskordus for making this day even better for me, and the 58,487,137 people that agree with me. P.S. Conciliatory? What does that mean? |
| Monday, November 1st, 2004 |
| 1:43 pm |
Cowboy Jubilee
The Cowboy Jubilee is going to be live this weekend from Ackerman starting at 5:30 PM on sundays. If you've never listened to the show its on 90.5 WSMC every sunday at 6 PM. Call for reservations at 236-2905. More info near the bottom of the page at. http://www.wsmc.org/events.php |
| 1:21 pm |
Voting
You know how everyone is telling you to vote? Even if you disagree with them? They say its your civic duty..or whatever. Have any of you really thought about that? Why does everyone want you to vote? I'm going to tell you. Because it validates the election.If too few people vote, then the general population will not feel that the election is valid. Eventually, this will result in revolution and a radical change in our government. So, if you are dissatisfied with the candidates or with the way that our government works don't vote or vote for a 3rd party candidate. In this way, your voice will be heard that you don't like the candidates and you are dissatisfied with the way the government works. |
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| Friday, October 15th, 2004 |
| 9:40 pm |
Wedding trip stuff
Here I am at Nilo and Nilosgirl's wedding. I got 3.5 hours of sleep last night and then drove for about 9 hours to get here. It was great! First road trip in the BMW. Right now Ronan is asleep and Nettas is in the shower and this hotel (La Quinta) is giving me free internet access! How cool is that. Bike gave me the patch cable as I didn't think to bring one. Of course, I could still get on the internet even if I didn't have a patch cable by using Nilos Linksys router that is 2 doors down. You know those nextel walkie-talkie things? I keep hearing them beep...while I'm in my room. Also, what's really strange is that there is about 30 cable TV installation vans in the parking lot of this hotel. I should go count, but I swear its at least 30. Isn't that odd? |
