Archive for September, 2004

Answer to Chris

Posted by Bob in How Things Work on 09/25/2004

Chris wrote

Quote (from this blog):

“In the real world a person cannot change his real beliefs any more than he can change the color of his skin.”

“Haa Haa Haa Haa Haa Haa Haa Haa Haa Haa Haa Haa

“I’m not sure what ‘real world’ you live in, but changing “real beliefs” happens everyday all over the world. You have done it yourself.”

Chris, in the real world I live in a person can change his skin color very easily. He just pours on some skin dye.

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Reply to Elizabeth and Richard

Posted by Bob in General on 09/23/2004

The best people I ever worked with against the Communists were Free Cubans.

But, as social scientists love to point out, older Cubans, the ones who left Castro’s Paradise, are Republican. Younger ones are “voting along more traditional Hispanic lines,” in other words, straight Democratic.

I wish someone would do a study of the “Hispanic” vote along the lines of color-of-the-skin. It would not surprise me if, no matter what their last name, whites voted Republican and coloreds were the liberals’ Faithful Colored Companions

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The liberals are making the usual U.S. mistake about the Hispanics: just because people are members of a particular ethnic group does not mean that they either think alike or love each other.

The Hispanics in this country come from several countries and occupy all parts of the socioeconomic ladder.

Some of those countries in Central and South America have some very interesting ethnic compositions – and not all of them have Spanish as an official language.

Comment by Elizabeth — 9/22/2004 @ 11:49 am

Cubans vs Mexicans. Both “hispanic,” and both hate each other. The rest tend to stick together – tend is the operative word. A very small number are Indian and they tend to hate the hispanics from Mexico and Central America. the Mexicans are the largest group, and most dangerous.

Americans tend to have little historical memory. The rest of the world tends to have loooooong memories. Mexico still remembers their loss to us in the Mexican war and the political elites use it to whip up the helots for their own ends. Too bad Bush and Kerry and the rest of the Demopublicans, or Republicrats, if you prefer, can’t see it. But, then, they really don’t much care about the country either.

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Posted by Bob in History on 09/23/2004

My boss on Capitol Hill, Congressman John M. Ashbrook of Ohio, traced his family back to immigrants from Virginia in the 1830s, and his congressional district was way up in Mansfield, NE Ohio. His father had been a conservative Democrat — John called him a Copperhead Democrat — from the same district for 22 years until he died in 1941, which was exactly how long John served as a Goldwater-Reagan Republican (and points right) until he died.

If you look at the United States map and you know that the lower half of the Midwest and all points south of that was settled by Southerners, it makes you wonder how sterile New England was. New England AND the huge Mid Atlantic states only settled the United States north of the middle of the Middle West! Take a look at how tiny and sparse America is north of that line!

Richard’s comment:

Hey Bob!

I live in Yankeeland, as you know, and rarely say “hi” up here, Most of those I know here in SE Ohio do the same. Probably helps that many are the descendants of Viginians.

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Can an Anchorman Just Plain Lie?

Posted by Bob in How Things Work on 09/22/2004

When I was coming up there were scandals in every business and every part of political life.

With one exception: the press.

When I pointed this out, people would laugh and say, “Of course not! The press won’t report on itself.”

But they never THOUGHT about that.

Press scandals like the New York Times and its fake article writer and CBS and Dan Rather with his fake memo did not just begin recently. People inside the New York Times said they had been warning about those fake stories for months before the scandal broke, BUT ONLY INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES.

Now every conservative commentator is assuring us that both CBS and the New York Times “made a mistake,” but they are as pure as the driven snow. Every conservative commentator says CBS, the New York Times, and the Washington Post — the latter had a reporter make up a fake story that won a Pulitzer Prize that had to be given back — have never, never, never done this kind of thing before.

These are Major News Organizations, and Major News Organizations don’t lie like the rest of humanity does.

It’s sickening to watch the conservatives grovel to gain brownie points with the liberal media.

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The Basics Don’t Change

Posted by Bob in Musings about Life on 09/22/2004

An old professor friend of mine was very enthusiastic about “Why Johnny Can’y Think: America’s Professor-Priesthood.” He was also amazed about how consistent my ideas have been since we met forty years ago.

With due apologies I pointed out to him that his ideas about arithmetic were also consistent. Since I met him he got his PhD and had a long academic career, but he still repeats “2+2=4” today exactly the same way he did when he was eight years old.

I am still looking at the most basic facts of politics and economics. They are exactly like 2+2=4. They don’t change.

Rememer that there was a whole theory and university science of medicine before they accepted the existence of bacteria. There was a whole university study of economics, called political economy, long before anybody ever heard of supply and demand. Before they heard of bacteria or supply and demand, both medicine and economics were destructive.

I am still trying to introduce the idea of wordism and the professional biases of social scientists into the field of social science. Until that is done, they are still exactly where medicine was when doctors regularly bled people to death and economics was when it pushed the old Mercantile System. They are stupid and they are wrong.

I have spent a frustrating lifetime trying to talk real social science to the social science professors who sell bleeding and Mercantilism in the social sciences today. I will keep doing it.

I will also keep saying 2+2=4.

I am indeed very consistent.

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