I’ve got bad news for you Obama voters, you don’t get engineers and scientists (or bullet trains or windmills)by teaching school kids about masturbation and ceramics.

No, but it seems you get plenty of politicians

I’ve got bad news for you Obama voters, you don’t get engineers and scientists (or bullet trains or windmills)by teaching school kids about masturbation and ceramics.

One blogger at War is My Concern got 10 mentions in the Citizens Briefing Book. It seems that some citizens are more equal than others …

Especially if those citizens happen to agree with a certain president we all know…

In other words, 92,000 points is only 9,200 votes…. doesn’t sound that popular to me.

ArkCon on May 11, 2009 at 9:13 PM

That’s why they award the 10 points. Liberals are mighty crafty when pushing numbers around. People will say that 92,000 people voted for that rather then only 9200. They love to do the same with money. BO cut 17 billion from the budget. As BO said, that’s a lot of money to people outside of DC. He’s right that it is a lot of money and they use the dollar amount because a headline of BO cuts .02% from the budget just doesn’t sound as grand as 17 billion. Take global warming and CO2. They love to tell you about carbon footprints and how much in tonnage the human race puts out in CO2 but if they used a percent and told you the human race contributes .00001% of the CO2 then people would rightful say who gives a crap but millions of tons people can say is really a lot.

Sadly, marijuana probably won’t be in the next speech.

You can tell how popular each idea was by looking at the number next to it – it represents how many people voted for the idea, with 10 points awarded for each positive vote.

Huh? How about 1 point for each vote … and we could even call them “votes” instead of “points”? Would that be too easy and straight-forward?

progressoverpeace on May 11, 2009 at 7:19 PM

Math abuse, pure and simple. When you look at the total votes for each “idea” (to glorify them with the word ‘idea’ is to flatter that which is, to say the least, retarded as brilliant) the overall numbers aren’t that impressive. I mean, a total of 1.4 Million votes and 125,000 entries, and the best any one of the ideas got was 9297 votes? A measly 0.66% of the total number of votes? I suspect that when they put the “briefing book” together, they looked at the numbers they were claiming in the intro with the reality of the idea votes and said, “we can’t put those down like that, we’ll look more foolish than we already do” So somebody had the bright idea of multiplying by 10 to make the numbers look impressive.

Back before Scientific American became Politically Correct American, there was a brilliant column outlining what he called “math abuse”. This was defined as manipulating figures and graphs to substantiate the author’s point even if the data did not do so. Things like altering graph scales, or only exhibiting data between the two extremes favorable to the author’s cause (can you say Al Gore Hockey Stick Chart?) are all techniques used by the math abuser. Using scaling factors certainly plays into that as well.

Yep the adults are in charge now…the lazy stupid, unsuccessful adults.

with 10 points awarded for each positive vote

In other words, 92,000 points is only 9,200 votes…. doesn’t sound that popular to me.

Sigmund on May 11, 2009 at 9:03 PM

Hats off to your expertise. I can only see the one character.

Is Barack Hussein Obama of sound mind?

jeff_from_mpls on May 11, 2009 at 8:31 PM

On any given day he has at least two “sound minds”. Therein lies the main problem. The Strange Case of Professor Obama and Mr Hussein is a real life drama playing out in the aftermath of the Presidential election of 2008. It is about the dilemma of the American citizen who sees strange dissonances between the new found Messiah, Professor Obama, and the misanthropic Mr. Hussein. It is a vivid portrayal of a split personality, split in the sense that within the same person there is both an apparently good and an evil personality each being quite distinct from the other. In mainstream culture the very phrase “Obama and Hussien” will come to mean a person who’s words are vastly different in moral character from his actions.

A scary question, for the reason that a “sound mind” would surely be decided by a concensus of psychologists and/or psychiatrists, all from the best Ivy League schools, of course.

BobMbx on May 11, 2009 at 8:39 PM

Don’t listen to any of those upstart quacks! Everything they think they know they filtched from me and got most of that wrong.

Did I forget anything?

MB4 on May 11, 2009 at 8:52 PM

Yes, they are not “people”.

For example, how many tax-payers voted to close loopholes?

  Get the Insurance Companies out the Health Care, 55080 points

I don’t know who wrote this or checked it, but they suck at English.

A call to revoke Scientology’s tax-exempt status

Put me down in the call to revoke Mosques, CAIR, La Raza, ACLU and ACORNS tax-exempt status camp.

Oh! And to revoke what sure seems to be Tim Geithner and Tom Dashel’s at least semi tax-exempt status camp too.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the Kennedy’s and Al Gore have been using a lot of tax loop holes, so put me down in the “let’s investigate that” and close those loop holes and collect back taxes and penalties due camp too.

Oh, and I don’t want to forget all the things that Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and the Obama’s seem to have received under the table that they may not have paid the full tax on. BTW, with “received under the table” and Barney Frank – I didn’t mean “that”.

Did I forget anything?

Be sure to read it all. You paid for it.

Where do I get a refund?

This is the Obama people lying their ass off again.

Maybe they could rename it the HuffKos Briefing Book.

More likely a creation of some starry-eyed, idiot Obama interns, under the supervision of some senior staffer.

Obama won’t pay attention to this anyway, but man – what a load of garbage and waste of money.

It does offer some insight into the minds of the fools now running the country, and also a look into the minds of the dimwits who offer their undying support.

This book is just downright embarassing. Was change/gov only accessable to elementary schools?

Is Barack Hussein Obama of sound mind?

jeff_from_mpls on May 11, 2009 at 8:31 PM

A scary question, for the reason that a “sound mind” would surely be decided by a concensus of psychologists and/or psychiatrists, all from the best Ivy League schools, of course.

Need I go further?

Secondarily, if one President is somehow forced to undergo an assessment for a “sound mind”, why not all of them? To be fair, all assessments would be performed by guess who?

In the language of the Libtard, holding conservative beliefs and ideology is by default “unsound”.

Another good reason to repeal the 17th Amendment.

JohnJ on May 11, 2009 at 8:19 PM

Or to invoke the 25th. Is Barack Hussein Obama of sound mind?