Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread

[Toemeesleather]

First of all, you don't pay unemployment insurance, your employer does.

My point is that there is something wrong with this particular safety net that 9 out of 10 folk aren't incentivized enough to search for jobs right away.

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Basically, it means that the Kochs, Adelsons and other GOP Billionaires are HAPPY with an economy where Joe Average has gone from making $54K to $38K in 10 years, while Mr. Fat Cat has gone from making $1.5M to $57.5M over the same time period.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ ... story.html

[Professor Tiger]

Heh. The poster couple of making huge amounts of money based on their political insider influence peddling and capital cronyism is now going to campaign by railing against the evil people who make huge amounts of money based on their political insider influence peddling and capital cronyism. That is hysterical. It's like Bill running a campaign on the evils of adultery.

Alas, they will win anyway.

[Toemeesleather]

When your biggest hurdle is duping the double digit IQ crowd, well....

[Johnette's Daddy]

British folks discuss the impact of slavery in England - with the usual slavery apologists. A fairly even discussion, but odd with British accents.

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[Johnette's Daddy]

When your biggest hurdle is duping the double digit IQ crowd, well....

Like:

[img2]https://jonathanturley.files.wordpress. ... p_govt.jpg[/img2]

or:

[img2]http://egotvonline.com/wp-content/uploa ... 164-67.jpg[/img2]

or

[img2]http://aattp.org/wp-content/uploads/201 ... 1e712e.jpg[/img2]

[bluetick]

[bluetick]

[bluetick]

whoa

[aTm]

[bluetick]

IQ and School Achievement - Education.com http://www.education.com/reference/arti ... ievement/

Studies repeatedly show that performance on intelligence tests is correlated with school achievement (N.Brody, 1997; Gustafsson & Undheim, 1996; Sattler, 2001). On average, children with higher IQ scores do better on standardized achievement test, have higher school grades, and complete more years of education.

[aTm]

My point is that I doubt education level is causative with regard to political party identification. I don't believe that if you control for everything else and have an identical person graduate college and another identical person drop out of college, that the drop out will be more likely to have one affiliation or the other. The reality is that education levels are typically correlated with other idicators.

For example, one factor is that at the extreme ends of the age spectrum, replublicans have a bit of an advantage on the oldest end and democrats have an advantage on the younger end. This in itself would contribute to an education difference since people in this country that are aged 30 are probably far more educated than the typical person who is age 70.

[aTm]

Of course, there probably are nutballs who would agree with the implication of your charts. They think that schoolin' is libruhl indoctrination or some such nonsense.

[bluetick]

Of course, there probably are nutballs who would agree with the implication of your charts. They think that schoolin' is libruhl indoctrination or some such nonsense.

Actually the nutball who started this sideshow will probably try to refute the charts...while holding fast about the evils of libruhl indoctrination (from the pinhead elites!).

[Jungle Rat]

Ladies and gentlemen, Rat has left the building.

I shut ya all up with that one ya little fuckers.

[Professor Tiger]

I can see how liberals have more college degrees. Young college grads take classes and get degrees in things like Feminist Studies and Afro-American studies which indoctrinate them in liberalism. The good news is, their college degrees in such fields ensure they remain in low paying and menial labor positions which ensure they are in no position to influence anyone else.

[Johnette's Daddy]

I can see how liberals have more college degrees. Young college grads take classes and get degrees in things like Feminist Studies and Afro-American studies which indoctrinate them in liberalism. The good news is, their college degrees in such fields ensure they remain in low paying and menial labor positions which ensure they are in no position to influence anyone else.

That's Africana Studies, bigot.

[Professor Tiger]

Happy Memorial Day to all.

[10ac]

http://www.breitbart.com/national-secur ... port-isis/

Less than I would guess. Maybe 15% are lying.

[hedge]

Police are evacuating the US Capital building, no reason given as yet...

[Professor Tiger]

While the media and nation obsess on Baltimore and Cleveland, Chicagoans continues to kill each other by the dozen.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... story.html