Sunday, November 20, 2005

Weekend free for all

Besides politics, let us know anything that is on your mind..

or tell us what happened to you this weekend...

Posted by The Game at 6:17 PM

19 comments:

Mark said...

I heard on NPR today that Zawqari's family has distanced themselves from him and have stated that he will find no refuge in them if he tries.

They don't agree with his politics, especially since he admitted respinsibilty for the recent bombings in Jordan.

al Qaida is losing support amongst their own and they will lose the war.

November 20, 2005 9:30 PM
The Game said...

They will only lose the war if we don't let the Left win it for them.

November 20, 2005 10:27 PM
The Game said...

and jager...I do both very well...fun and politics...which are one and the same at times...

November 20, 2005 10:28 PM
Anonymous said...

I have spent the last 4 days and nights in bed fighting off a vicious flu like illness. I had 1 week of vacation time, which I was very excited about. Then, as it turned out, I was too miserable to get out of bed at all except to go to the bathroom. Cruel fate.
I'm starting to feel a bit better now, by Wednesday when I go back to work, I will probably be AOK. Yep, I'm working through Thanksgiving Day, and the day after. Medical people still have to tend to the sick on holidays.

November 21, 2005 6:24 AM
The Game said...

Teachers get off...
feel better steph

November 21, 2005 7:42 AM
Mike M said...

I had some thoughts on hits vs. comments this morning... Due to the way blogger works, every time you update, the recently updated blog gets tossed into the mix of recently updated blogs that are called up when people hit "Next Blog" at the top of the page in the blogger bar. Usually 3-5 hits per update come from that. I noticed this by paying attention to referers, and following most of those that come from blogger and finding them with nothing whatsoever to do with anything I'm talking about...half the time they're not even in English.

I'm guessing also that more frequently updated blogs also recieve a bigger boost from this random traffic than do the seldom updated. The reason I think this is the case, is during weeks when I post 4-5 times a day, I get on average about 5 random useless hits per post...but when I post say...once a month, I'll get one or two, if any of those random hits.

November 21, 2005 10:50 AM
Anonymous said...

OK, next time I see the kind hearted, loving peace minded Jim bashing the Bible belt states, I would like him to explain this:

PORTLAND, Maine (Nov. 20) - Here are the latest Generosity Index rankings based on 2003 tax data, followed by average adjusted gross income and average itemized charitable contribution, with the previous year's ranking in parenthesis:

1. Mississippi $34,720; $4,770; (1).

2. Arkansas $36,882; $4,890; (2).

3. South Dakota $37,698; $4,318; (7).

4. Oklahoma $38,344; $4,350; (3).

5. Tennessee $41,140; $5,564; (6).

6. Alabama $39,730; $4,555; (5).

7. Louisiana $37,701; $4,180 (4).

8. Utah $42,291; $6,124; (8).

9. South Carolina $39,301; $4,121; (9).

10. West Virginia $35,771; $3,614; (13).

11. Idaho $38,507; $3,709; (10).

12. Texas $44,699; $4,953; (12).

13. Nebraska $41,165; $3,805; (14).

14. North Dakota $37,314; $3,546; (15).

15. Wyoming $46,027; $7,888; (11).

16. North Carolina $42,763; $3,874 (16).

17: Kansas $43,086; $3,959; (17).

18. Florida $44,673; $4,115; (18).

19. Georgia $45,524; $4,194; (19).

20. Missouri $42,120; $3,590; (22).

21. Kentucky $39,220; $3,350; (20).

22. New Mexico $36,817; $3,095; (23).

23. Montana $35,057; 2,889; (21).

24. Indiana $42,522; $3,500; (25).

25. Alaska $43,240; $3,550; (24).

26. New York $54,193; $4,204; (26).

27. Iowa $40,840; $2,993; (27).

28. Nevada $50,101; $3,668; (40).

29. Ohio $41,835; $2,965; (28).

30. Maine $40,201; $2,526; (32).

31. California $52,961; $3,764; (29).

32. Maryland $55,879; 3,783; (30).

33. Washington $50,357; $3,586; (34).

34. Vermont $41,445; $2,634; (35).

35. Oregon $43,233; $3,083; (36).

36. Pennsylvania $45,367; $3,270; (41).

37. Virginia $52,637; $3,593; (38).

38. Arizona $45,003; $3,164; (39).

39. Delaware $49,665; $3,520; (33).

40. Illinois $50,749; $3,584; (31).

41. Michigan $46,113; $3,244; (42).

42. Hawaii $43,510; $2,984; (37).

43. Colorado $50,516; $3,480; (43).

44. Minnesota $50,310; $3,214; (45).

45. Connecticut $67,136; $3,565; (44).

46. Wisconsin $45,188; $2,659; (46).

47. Rhode Island $47,585; 2,399; (48).

48. New Jersey $60,527; $3,143; (47).

49. Massachusetts $58,408; $3,122; (49).

50. New Hampshire $50,952; $2,607; (50).

United States $47,401; $3,724.

Source: The Catalogue of Philanthropy.


Seems like those ever loving liberal states are a whole lot of talk, but no action. I say that they are the TAKERS in society, expecting the rest of us to support their money draining ideas, while the Bible belt folks just keep on giving.

November 21, 2005 1:01 PM
Mike M said...

Interesting.

I'm actually somewhat surprised Utah isn't higher on the list, given that about 45% of it's population is LDS, and in that church, every member contributes 10% of their income as tithing plus a whole host of other contributions regularly.

More things that make you go "hmmm"

It's all very complex though, and a look at a specific church or a single factor of a group of people is too narrow to draw any real conclusions. Oh well.

November 21, 2005 2:10 PM
Jim said...

SR,

The NEXT time? Please cite where I have EVER bashed the Bible Belt states?

November 21, 2005 3:18 PM
Mike M said...

Is anybody else having issues with blogger not updating comment counts properly?

There have been about three occasions in the last two days when I'll go check on a blog, again and again....then I'll do a force refresh CTRL+F5 and suddenly a new post that's several hours old and half a dozen comments will suddenly appear that weren't counted before.

November 21, 2005 3:56 PM
The Game said...

Blogger is definately slower lately...more and more people blogging

November 21, 2005 9:27 PM
Anonymous said...

Mike M:

Actually the statistics used for these results consider many different variables. Which is no doubt why Utah scored lower than you thought. The income (having) and the relative giving amounts are probably the two biggest reasons that Utah's LDS didn't effect higher generosity scores. I believe the methods used for the study are available online. I had them once, but don't anymore. Perhaps RealDebateWisconsin does. Several months ago I learned of these studies from his blog. He is really good at explaining stats, if you need him to. Maybe send him a line?

November 22, 2005 12:45 AM
Anonymous said...

Jim:

You have posted messages where you have 'subtly', indicated your dislike for the southern Bible Belt states. I have noticed that you usually try to be VERY cautious when wording your posts, making great efforts to avoid seeming prejudice toward those who differ from you, either in their beliefs, or otherwise...read between the lines. Another trait you have is that you become very defensive when anyone even hints that you might be less than ideally perfect in your morals, such as maybe you aren't the epitome of fairness and justice. After awhile, it's obvious that you are a bit TOO rigidly defensive of these things, strongly suggestive that you NEED to defend your morality intensely, as your ego cannot possibly afford to be wrong about these issues.
I just read an article about the safest areas in the US. Is it just a coincidence that the safest areas are the places with very few blacks, and the most dangerous areas are the placest with high black populations? I bet it's all whitey's (Republican whitey's) fault. I'm not presently living in the southern states, but I'm smart enough not to vote for either a democrat, or a black person. Call me prejudice if you will...I just call it good old fashioned common sense. See, I know that any race will defend it's own, with a few VERY RARE EXCEPTIONS, before they defend any other race, when it comes down to the wire. How do I know this? At one time, I didn't think this way at all. Then I lived very closely within black communities for quite awhile..I learned the hard way. The sad part is that the Democrat philosophies ENCOURAGE this sort of bias toward whites. Democrats keep spouting about the black victim status, as a major selling point for their political party, one of the only ways they ever get votes. Democrats keep promising more 'special rights' for 'special' people...which is the reason most minorities are Democrats. But these 'special rights' don't work at getting rid of prejudice...they make it worse.

November 22, 2005 11:47 AM
Jim said...

SR,

I have NEVER, EVER, EVER made a deprecating post on this or any other blog towards ANY Bible Belt state, subtly or otherwise. I defy you to present any such example. You won't because you can't.

I never refer to red states or blue states because I don't agree with the concept. There are people of all types, beliefs, and politics in every state. It would never occur to me to dislike any particular state, Bible Belt or not, because I don't think that way. Do you?

The ONLY reference I've made to any state is a positive one towards California.

You are either thinking about someone else, not actually reading my posts, blinded by your political passion, or simply not telling the truth in order slander me.

November 22, 2005 10:52 PM
The Game said...

well Jim, there is not much to support in California...lots to laugh at, lots to cry about

November 22, 2005 11:24 PM
Jim said...

Ever been there?

November 23, 2005 12:07 AM
Anonymous said...

Hey! Have you seen the latest politically correct word list for 2005 yet?
If not, go to www.languagemonitor.com and check them out!
Oh Jim, I know what you've said, I just don't have the time right now to go into that. Happy Thanksgiving!

November 23, 2005 11:51 AM
Anonymous said...

OOPS! That should have read the politically incorrect words for 2005.

November 23, 2005 11:54 AM
Jim said...

What a cop out, SR! But Happy Thanksgiving to you, too.

November 23, 2005 3:39 PM

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