"In a recent poll, more Iraqis, who live in Iraq, say Iraq is headed the right direction than Americans who merely watch TV reports about Iraq or read newspaper reports about Iraq."
A bracelet campaign I can finally get behind.
The risks of marrying a "career" woman;
If a host of studies are to be believed, marrying these women is asking for trouble. If they quit their jobs and stay home with the kids, they will be unhappy ( Journal of Marriage and Family, 2003). They will be unhappy if they make more money than you do ( Social Forces, 2006). You will be unhappy if they make more money than you do ( Journal of Marriage and Family, 2001). You will be more likely to fall ill ( American Journal of Sociology). Even your house will be dirtier (Institute for Social Research).
Robert Marshall asks a pretty simple question of media.
Add your own in the comments.
The career woman article hits on some valid points.
In fact, if my wife and I were to look at our friends around us, the least happy are almost always the dual-incomers in high-pressure jobs both earning high salaries, even though they have the most toys.
On the weekends for example, we have observed that such couples go into a frantic mode of trying to spend as much time with their kids as possible, since they hardly spend any time with them during the week.
In my experience most women are happiest when they have balance in their lives.
But mostly the article made me chuckle, because there is nothing I enjoy more than seeing holes poked in radical left-wing kook feminist ideology.
I married a "career" woman who then became a stay-at-home mom (which is another career in and of itself). And I think we were happier when she was able to get out of the house without a couple kids in tow. Also, I come home to a very cranky wife after she's watched Sharon, Lois, and Bram for the 900th time that day.
And if my house would get even more dirtier if she was working outside the home - yikes! - I'd hate to see it! ;)
kgp
the "poll" you link to was conducted by the International Republican Institute.i don't think any more needs to be said about that. i'm certain you know this but i doubt most of your readers actually check your links.
the poll says 41% of iraqis polled, i bet they weren't polling in baghdad, think the country's on the right track. 59% don't, i guess. nothing more needs to be said about either.
Gutsy comment Kevin. I hope your wife doesn't read this.
So what do the Iraqis know? They only live there. Duh.
That's right, jeff, you don't need to say anything more about the poll.
Because a poll is carried out by X-agency, does not mean that the poll necessarily represents the views of that agency. It is possible but not necessary. Get the difference between 'possible' and 'necessary'? It's important; the first one has to be empirically proven; the second one is a logical 'given'.
The people living in Baghdad, the centre of the insurgency, are not representative of the rest of the country. That would be similar to asking people in a small quiet town how they feel about gang violence (big city actions) in their area.
By the way, are you aware of the basic causes for the insurgency? Those groups fighting against the new Iraqi government are doing so because they want to retain tribalism, they want to retain inequality of access to political and economic power. Do you approve?
Um, take a closer look at the poll that is referenced.
The poll, which was done by the International Republican Institute, hardly supports the contention that the people of Iraq think things are going in the right direction. Rather than getting in a partisan peeing match, let's just stick to the actual numbers the poll found.
You can view them yourselves at: http://www.iri.org/07-19-06-Iraqpoll.asp
To the question Do you think Iraq is headed in the right or wrong direction, 30 per cent answered "right", while 52 per cent said the country was going in the wrong direction. When the same question was asked in Nov. 2005 the numbers were 49 per cent right, 36 per cent wrong.
26 per cent of respondents said that they think the situation will be worse or much worse in six months versus 13 per cent who thought that way in Nov. 2005.
62 per cent say that Iraq is more politically divided today as compared to six months ago.
68 per cent say corruption is worse today as compared to Nov. 2005. In Nov. 2005, 49 per cent thought corruption was worse than it had been three mouths prior.
On every measure that looks at whether people think the situation is getting better or worse the numbers are clearly indicating that an increasing number of people think it's getting worse.
And those numbers aren't coming from some crazy, "liberal" group. They are from the International **Republican** Institute. It has a picture of Reagan on its website.
I can answer that for him;
Yes he approves.
Because for people like "jeff", it's more important to be able to declare failure of a Republican President than it is for Iraqis to live in peace and democracy.
U.S. tries to deport man who beat, imprisoned wife on boat for years
"...Victor David -- released this week after serving time for what's been described as one of the most egregious cases of spousal battery in U.S. history -- was immediately detained by immigration agents who want to send the 66-year-old Vancouver native back to Canada.
"I hope he does get deported and stays out of this country," district attorney Mark Roe, who prosecuted Mr. David in 2001, told the Seattle Times this week. "The United States has its own homegrown wife-beaters. We don't need anybody else's"...
"There is a track record of situations like this," a Foreign Affairs spokesman said at the time of Mr. David's conviction in 2001. "Usually Canadians who run into problems and get convicted and sentenced to a jail term are sent back to Canada when their jail time is served...."
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Metroland: I believe you're looking at a poll from an earlier timeframe. (The same confusion is revealed in the comments thread at the link).
It's entirely possible that I'm looking at a different poll as I do not see the information that the American blogger is claiming. However, the poll I *was* looking at *did* show the numbers I wrote above, which is still worthy of discussion, don't you think?
Say yes to freedom. Say no to slavery. Slavery to a husband, master(s), one ruler, one army, one god. Don't be anyone's dhimmi. Off for a week. Sorry Preston (got in 2).
Maybe we could get another bracelet campaign going: WDNF aka Women Don't Need Feminists.
It's not very zippy, though, and at the moment, I can't think of a snappy acronym (a vowel is needed!). Maybe someone else can.
I don't usually wear these message bracelets, but I'd wear one if it basically told the feminists to F*** O**.
Glaciers rise/fall like the ocean tides, albeit over a longer day/month/year/century/eon.
Alert: G's are rising/subsiding.
Conspiracy theory: There is a deus ex machina doing this; its name is Maurice Strong. ...-
Global warming boost to glaciers (HUH???)
BBC News ^ | 08/24/06
Global warming could be causing some glaciers to grow, a new study claims. Researchers at Newcastle University looked at temperature trends in the western Himalaya over the past century.
They found warmer winters and cooler summers, combined with more snow and rainfall, could be causing some mountain glaciers to increase in size.
The findings are significant, because temperature and rain and snow trends in the area impact on water availability for more than 50 million Pakistanis.
free republic
Glaciers 'shrinking for 100 years' | | The Australian
GREENLAND'S glaciers have been shrinking for the past century, according to a Danish study published today, suggesting that the ice melt is not a recent ...
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20211652-1702,00.html -
Liberal MP Coderre must have more standards than the CSA, the Canadian Standards Association.
Lib MP/Lib leadership wannabe, Hedy Fry, sponsored a meeting with the MEK.
Coderre is national co-chairman of Iggy Ignatieff's run for the Lib leadership. Coderre marched in the infamous "We Are All Hezbollah Now" demonstration in Montreal.
Does Ignatieff know this? Does Ignatieff support Hezbollah? Why is Coderre still national co-chairman of Ignatieff's campaign?
Will Ignatieff dump/fire Coderre? Canadian voters are asking questions, Iggy. RSVP, Iggy. ...-
"Is that a double standard?" asked Liberal MP Denis Coderre of Jason Kenney's attendance at the rally. Said interim Liberal leader Bill Graham: "I think it's so hypocritical when you heard the words that came out of his mouth a couple of days ago about the observations made about one of our members and then you find he himself is standing there embracing a terrorist group." via cnews
CBC News: Terrorist designation of group meant to appease Iran *...* "She's using harsher language against the *MEK* than the government has used *...* because [Liberal MP] *Hedy Fry* recently sponsored one of their *meetings* on *...*
www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/05/26/iran050526.html - 31k -
you can take a poll a day for the next 5 years, the fact remains iraq is very unstable, and the bushist trotted out thes great campaign of liberation and prosperity that HASNT HAPPENED.
'mission accomplished'
? and what mission was that dubya?
oil people !! follow the money, er, OIL.
I too am married to a career woman.
with amazing maternal instincts and money managing skills the likes of which are astonishing, outclassed only by our daughter.
she had just graduated when we got married so I was the bread winner. then when she got hired with her award winning degree, she started at more than I was making. then I transferred to st catharines and my earnings more than doubled.
this leap frog stuff went on for years and we would joke about it.
then she decided to make a grab for an MBA which I helped her with by doing all the step'n fetchit stuff and proof reading her research reports. when she got the MBA she was making more than 3 times as much as me since her management and organizational skills had had a chance to shine.
it meant we got to live in a trilevel with dual garage doors and cars to match etc.
she just paid cash for a condo here in TO. do the math.
off topic, but well worth the time to watch. http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=null
dear RobertJ..I find it difficult to believe that you hold a job!
Reason obvious!
Tamil Tigers terrorists' $$$$$$$$ came from Montreal which is not far from the federal riding of Lasalle-Emard.
The current Liberal MP for Lasalle-Emard is the ex-Liberal Prime Minister of Canada, P. Martin, Jr.
Paul Martin, Jr., while PM of Canada, sat with/supped with Tamil Tigers while fund-raising from the Tamil Tigers.
The $$$$$$$$$ raised from the Tamil Tigers had a trade-off implicit in the deal. Terrorists gave money to Martin/Liberals in exchange the terrorists received a wink/nudge from Martin/Liberals.
Does Martin have information which will aid/assist in these investigations, e.g., names,dates,amounts of money, etc.? Will Martin come forth with any information? Martin said he loved Canada.
Another scam from the AdScam Librano$. ...-
Adrian Humphreys, CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, August 25, 2006
TORONTO - Money to bribe a U.S. official - traced during an international anti-terrorism probe aimed at the Tamil Tigers - came from Montreal, the FBI said Thursday.
And two of the men arrested in the bribery case are former Montreal residents, adding more Canadian connections to a widening probe that has seen six other men from Canada arrested on charges of aiding a foreign terrorist organization, including money laundering, smuggling equipment and people, and trying to purchase anti-aircraft missiles, machine-guns and other military equipment.
Tens of thousands of dollars from Montreal were earmarked as a bribe for a U.S. federal agent who was posing as a corrupt immigration officer, pretending to allow Tamils to illegally enter the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation alleged in a sworn criminal complaint filed in a New York court. ...-
via newsbeat1.com
Coming Soon to a Blog Near You
Fauxtography: A Film by the Associated Press
Based on a true story...kind of.
Four ****
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13385.10
LGF
(Explicit Graphic)
"oil people !! follow the money, er, OIL."
and
she just paid cash for a condo here in TO. do the math."
I care not, to do your math, nor follow your money.
I like it! Although protectionist of all political stripes might reject the point, one of the best things you can do for someone is to do business with them. We should listen to the economists. They have something valuable to tell us.
And let's face it - countries who do a lot of business with each other seldom go to war. War between open, free, capitalist countries are as rare as hen's teeth. Too hard on profits.
CNN.com to Replay 9/11 Attacks Coverage
Breitbart.com
CNN will mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by replaying on the Internet the cable network's coverage of that day's events. Viewers can watch how events unfolded starting at 8:30 a.m., minutes before the first reports of an airplane hitting the World Trade Center. The feed will run in real time, as the network showed it five years ago, until midnight. free republic
TDH (and Warren?) says (boasts):
August 25, 2006 - We are very close to tracking these individuals down. Get ready, guys - you've just screwed your candidate (not that he had much of a shot to begin with). ...-
Refers to:
Penalties sought for anti-Ignatieff e-mail campaign
Attacks 'despicable', competing leadership candidate says
The Liberal party will withhold membership lists -- considered the lifeline of political campaigns -- from any leadership campaign found to have used the lists to distribute mass e-mails that attacked leadership candidate Michael Ignatieff. (GMail)
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ommag: do tell, please elaborate on the job thing.
hint: I held enough well paying jobs in the past 30 yrs that now I work when I feel like it.
I have done everything from the dilbert cubicle thing programming financial derivatives to shinnying across steel beams 50' off the ground putting in mercury vapour lighting. its called versatility.
what is your line of 'work'?
mr fisher:
you dont follow the *money* you follow the OIL. and it aint my math its YOURS to do.
heh heh heh.
Heh heh heh.
Is any more evidence required to prove that the left liberal/socialists are suicidal; have drunk the Kool-Aid to the lees?
The Death Wish: ...-
HuffPo Writer Yearns for Terror Attack
The Huffington Post (your one stop shop for the looniest of the moonbatosphere) today features a piece by Russell Shaw wishing for a major terrorist attack on America.
Because it will allow Democrats to regain power: I Hope And Pray We Don’t Get Hit Again-BUT... (Hat tip: Killgore Trout.)
What if another terror attack just before this fall’s elections could save many thousand-times the lives lost?
I start from the premise that there is already a substantial portion of the electorate that tends to vote GOP because they feel that Bush has “kept us safe,” and that the Republicans do a better job combating terrorism.
If an attack occurred just before the elections, I have to think that at least a few of the voters who persist in this “Bush has kept us safe” thinking would realize the fallacy they have been under.
If 5% of the “he’s kept us safe” revise their thinking enough to vote Democrat, well, then, the Dems could recapture the House and the Senate...
Now can we question their humanity?
LGF
"you can take a poll a day for the next 5 years, the fact remains iraq is very unstable, and the bushist trotted out thes great campaign of liberation and prosperity that HASNT HAPPENED.
'mission accomplished'
? and what mission was that dubya?
oil people !! follow the money, er, OIL.
Posted by: RobertJ at August 25, 2006 01:00 PM "
No polls are needed ever when one actually consults the people LIVING in Iraq. The car accidents in the US kill more people per day per capita than in Iraq, yet the constant harping on what is vicious killing by 'vicious killers' NOT 'insurgents' goes a long way to give the West the 'perception' of 'Iraq sliding into civil war' and other comments by those who know little of what is really going on and care less. They have a political agenda and it serves their purpose to tell people lies in order to get votes of the ignorant on election day.
Exactly the same reason the left in the US cuddle up to 'illegal' immigrants and vilify the likes of Wal-Mart.
Such posturing of ignorance has no place in today's dialogue. We simply cannot afford it.
Any more than we can afford the nonsense of the SOW or any of that ilk who pretend to understand what is going on and what we face. IF they had any inkling they would not be 'marching shoulder to shoulder ' stating such idiocies as 'we are hezzbolah now'... just ask the families in Beslan how they feel about THAT!
These murderers need no encouragement or support. They need to be killed before they kill us.
No polls needed for that either.
Mission Accomplished: War won in 3 weeks.
That is Mission Accomplished enough for anyone, any country, anywhere unless you are the American Left or a Canadian Liberal, in which case, lamenting less money for social programs ad nauseum in favour of waging and winning a war is your cup of tea.
Obviously , money in that direction has gotten us nowhere, admitted by Clinton when he signed into law the Welfare Reform that saw parents go back to work instead of living off the dole.
And Oil? Well, if it was all about Oil, we'd have it wouldn't we?
This staggering ignorance is going to get us all killed if the people of the West don't wake up.
Maybe RobertJ could be first in line.
Canada is the biggest supplier of oil to the U.S.
Why then didn't Chimpy McBushitler invade Canada?
Why are prices at the pumps in the U.S. still so high?
Where are the satellite photos of all those tankers bringing the stolen black gold to the U.S.?
Where are the mass protests at the docks when those tankers come in?
Where are the N.Y. Times and Washington Post articles on this?
From Canada.com, headline:
'Liberals pledge to clean up their act'
Again?
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/politics/story.html?id=d3abcfc6-2d53-49f5-8de0-17aa17df3112&k=81408
Coderre "speaking in the name of the Liberal Party of Canada..."
Coderre is the national co-chairman of Iggy Ignatieff's campaign to become the leader of the Liberal Party.
Does Ignatieff support Hezbollah?
There were more people in the "We Are All Hezbollah Now" demonstration in Montreal than in the Hezbollah "victory march" in south Beirut.
Why? ...-
The main Quebec union federations co-sponsored the protest, as did three political parties, the Parti Québécois, the Bloc Québécois, and Québec Solidaire. Leaders of these unions and political organizations addressed the closing rally, as did Denis Coderre, a former federal cabinet minister speaking in the name of the Liberal Party of Canada (Quebec section). Socialistvoice.
Amir Taheri - Hezbollah didn't win
"Immediately after the U.N.-ordained ceasefire started, Hezbollah organized a series of firework shows, accompanied by the distribution of fruits and sweets, to celebrate its victory. Most Lebanese, however, finding the exercise indecent, stayed away. The largest "victory march" in south Beirut, Hezbollah's stronghold, attracted just a few hundred people."
newsbeat1.com
miss. matt gets a lesson in geopolitics:
Canada is the biggest supplier of oil to the U.S.
Why then didn't Chimpy McBushitler invade Canada?
because that supply source isnt under threat of being switched off at some whim.
Why are prices at the pumps in the U.S. still so high?
follow the money: if big oil can get away with high prices they will.
Where are the satellite photos of all those tankers bringing the stolen black gold to the U.S.?
arent none. the plan to make off with all the oil at cheap same-old-same-old prices didnt pan out. first its gotta get thru the pipelines from the interior and those rude insurgents keeps blowin dem up good.
Where are the mass protests at the docks when those tankers come in?
busy filling up the gas tanks on their hummers and SUVs
Where are the N.Y. Times and Washington Post articles on this?
well for that ya gotta ask them sirrah.
anybody else doesnt think its ALL about oil read 'eye on the prize', a comprensive treatment of the oil industry from way back when it provided kerosene for oil lamps in all those farm cabins.
this aint the first war fought over oil; hint: why did japan make a bee line for the indonesian oil fields as soon as the shooting started post dec 6 1942?
aaaaaand why did hitler's strategy include securing the oil fields in romania etc?
OIL people.
in these amounts, the product of geological and chemical processes, NOT biological.
"This staggering ignorance is going to get us all killed if the people of the West don't wake up.
Maybe RobertJ could be first in line."
this is the sort of stuff I have to put up with.
brycie continues personal attacks against me and finally gets a death wish from me.
I have not addressed or responded to a SINGLE posting by the 'yellow'snow bunnie but still get a death wish.
see the discrepancy here folks?
As befits most folks who simply refuse to actually understand the English language.
RobertJ: NO death threat, just a fervent wish that you be first in line to GET what is going on in this world. FAR from a death threat, unless one is so consumed by their own point of view they would PREFER it to coming to some understanding .
Holy lumber, Fatman.
Cdn. politics has not only fell on its side, it has turned upside down!
Labour is supporting Stephen Harper's (What-a-guy) lumber deal with Uncle Sam.
Aunty-American is hiding somewheres in Sask. ...-
2. CTV | Quebec Labour urges Bloc to support softwood deal
MONTREAL — The head of the Quebec Federation of Labour is urging the Bloc Quebecois to vote in favour of the softwood lumber deal when it comes before Parliament this fall. ...-
http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/
Why then didn't Chimpy McBushitler invade Canada?
because that supply source isnt under threat of being switched off at some whim.
Where are the satellite photos of all those tankers bringing the stolen black gold to the U.S.?
arent none. the plan to make off with all the oil at cheap same-old-same-old prices didnt pan out. first its gotta get thru the pipelines from the interior and those rude insurgents keeps blowin dem up good.
So Robert, you're saying the the stolen oil hasn't been stolen yet? It's still there?
If the U.S. invaded because of the "threat of being switched off at some whim," how do you square that with the fact that it hasn't left the country? If the pipelines are being blown up, then hasn't it already been "switched off?"
And if it's all about oil, as you contend, the U.S. is just sitting by contentedly and patiently?
This smells of rotten pork-barrel Librano$$$$$$$.
The pork-lard-asses in the AdScam Chretien/Martin gov't know whereof this corruption arises. Brown envelopes handed over to your buddies, secret meetings with "businessmen", hidden expense accounts...... corrupted civil servants, and etc. $$$$
10. Ottawa Citizen | Builders told to snub [Conservative] government lowest bid ‘game’
One of Canada’s largest industry associations will snub any attempts by the federal government to force suppliers to duke it out against each other in live, online auctions where the lowest price wins. ...-
http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/
hey 'yellow'snow bunnie, READ ie,R-E-A-D my response, specifically a single key word:
"wish"
you made a death "wish" against me or have you forgotten so soon?
I did not accuse you of "threat" as YOU attempt to mangle the TRUTH. its all here for all to see!!
"wish" vs "threat" BIG difference but not enough for you pathetic extreme rightwingers to resist your continued lying and mud slinging.
and it is openly and clearly obvious to all but your ilk that YOU are the one who doesnt understand basic english.
I win !!!
matt matt matt,
"So Robert, you're saying the the stolen oil hasn't been stolen yet? It's still there? "
yup. still there. 2nd biggest proven reserve in the world. tantalizingly there for the americans, the biggest *consumers* in the world
"If the U.S. invaded because of the "threat of being switched off at some whim," how do you square that with the fact that it hasn't left the country? If the pipelines are being blown up, then hasn't it already been "switched off?"
thats right sirrah, it IS switched off anyway, not according to plan!!! and THAT'S why 100 iraqis a day continue to be killed regardless of who is doing it. the american gluttony for oil has now destabilized the target of their unquenchable thirst by creating conditions ripe for civil war. but they painted themselves into that corner and because they failed to learn from the past, and have NO backup plan, still the soldiers remain in iraq because the oil aint moving. and its all about oil. read "eye on the prize".
"And if it's all about oil, as you contend, the U.S. is just sitting by contentedly and patiently?"
their paralysis is because they have no backup plan in their cockiness they didnt think they needed one. and the one they did follow was flawed and not correctly motivated and IGNORED the numerous reports from their own CIA. and here is where I get to remind one and all, THEY gave saddam the impression an invasion or kuwait would go unanswered because of high level AMERICAN support in his war with iran. the yanks had a grudge against iran and used the 'enemy of my enemy is my friend' logic. but they ignored the fact the iranians hated them so much for their propping up pahlavi. and the kuwait thing set the stage for 1993. the americans tasted blood in iraq and wanted more. so dubya annoints himself the 'war president'. it just goes on and on, meddle meddle meddle. they think having the biggest defence budget is licence to push the rest of the world around.
etc etc
tell ya what matt, play some dominoes for a while then you will understand the 'domino effect'
Robert J and SnowBunnie, Thanks for that heated exchange. Better than TV any day
Maz2, thanks for filling out the picture. There always seem to be things new and exciting going on.
My aching ribs. = TG