Centroids: I have no idea who this is. Whomever he turns out to be, he isn't very well educated, and he is as uncritical about politics as anyone gets.
Some of his musings struck me as absurd and based on the most careless readings of our e-mails imaginable. I could use some Comparative Religion ? At the risk of causing many Centroids another yawn at hearing it for the 15th time, since I taught the subject at the college level and, I think most will agree, know the subject as only a professional does, what on Earth does our lurker mean to say ? That we should defer to his ignorance of the subject as some sort of wisdom since it takes the Democratic Party line and Obama is in the White House --as if that point of view is unarguable ? Whomever this is, is clueless about RC despite however many times he has lurked. His working assumption seems to be that is you disagree with ANY of the policies of the Democratic Party you necessarily are Right-wing bigot. All the while not for one minute seeing how prejudiced he happens to be. Overlooked in his rant , if he ever noticed, are the many times I have criticized laissez faire economics, my strong critiques of George W Bush, and my dim view of anti-evolution beliefs or opposition to stem cell research. Last I heard on these issues I take the Democratic party outlook, as do many of us at this forum. My best guess, maybe he a HS grad, maybe one year of college max, and probably not in the social sciences This fellow sounds to me like a Left wing version of Rush Limbaugh. Sure, a few points that make good sense, but otherwise a political hack. Basically irrelevant -not to mention misinformed about many things. thanks, but no thanks Billy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- In a message dated 8/9/2009 2:50:50 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Hi Mr. Billy Its been awhile since I had a chance to respond to your long diatribes of your own personal ramblings & rants. I have been showing some restraint, but seems that you could use some comparative religion to go with your former teaching or whatever your latest windbag previous professions have been. Anyway, in your past writings it seems you have a penchant for running down & criticising the liberals & Dems as well as Islam, homosexurals and a slew of others. Now you have a list of all the American political parties that you seem fit to remember, and all that in just 100-pages or so. I am adding a short synopsis and comparison of what I believe is the difference between the two major parties (Dems & Reps) and the two major ideas (Liberal & Conservative) based upon the accomplishments of what we consider Red states & Blue states. Yours Truly, The Lurker Red State Moral Values After the election our nation is more divided than ever. We are constantly swimming in a media barrage of colored maps and pontification of the red state versus blue state rift in America. We're told it has been an election about "moral values", as if somehow we blue state voters on the losing side are somehow supporting an immoral cause. I decided to do a little reality-based research into just what kind of moral example I should be following. Since the voters in the red states have a lock on morality, maybe it is time to look at just how well their morals have been working for them. I combed through some state-by-state statistics compiled from the US census, searching for the true effect of red state moral values. Here's what I learned: Marxist style "from each according to ability, to each according to need" welfare socialism is a good thing. The blue states have an enormous tax base and pay disproportionately high taxes into the government compared to the money they receive from the government. The red states pay very little in taxes and receive disproportionately high returns from the government. "Paying your own way" is for losers; red states believe in sharing the wealth. For every dollar paid in taxes, red state North Dakota gets $2.03 back from the government. The rest of the Top Ten Federal Welfare Queens are New Mexico, Mississippi, Alaska, West Virginia, Montana, Alabama, South Dakota, Arkansas, and Virginia, all red states, all receiving between $1.89 to $1.47 back for every dollar. (To be fair, the District of Columbia is the biggest welfare queen, at $6.17 on the dollar, but it's not really a state. By contrast, eight of the Top Ten Federal Sugar Daddies (states that get less back in federal money than taxes paid) are blue states. New Jersey only gets 62¢ back on its one dollar investment. Connecticut, New Hampshire, Illinois, Minnesota, Massachusetts, California, and New York all receive 64¢ to 81¢ back for each dollar taxed. Nevada and Colorado, both red states, fall into this category as well, though I'm not sure states that contain Las Vegas and Aspen are true representatives of red states. Marriage "until death do us part" is a sacred union before God, unless it becomes a pain in the ass. The blue states, those hotbeds of gay marriage and "living in sin", also seem to be the places where couples are least likely to get divorced. Massachusetts – the only state to sanction gay marriage – has the lowest rate of divorce per capita. The Top Ten 'Til Death Do Us Part states with the lowest divorce rate include the blue states of Connecticut, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Maryland, and Minnesota, with North Dakota being the only red state to make the list. By contrast, all of states with the highest divorce rates are red states. Of the Top Ten Irreconcilable Differences states, Nevada, unsurprisingly, leads the pack, followed by Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wyoming, Indiana, Alabama, Idaho, New Mexico, and Florida. Maybe this shouldn't come as a surprise when you consider the example of the pundits and leaders that are so beloved in the red states: Ronald Reagan (divorced), Bob Dole (divorced), Newt Gingrich (divorced his wife while she was in the hospital dying of cancer), George Will (divorced), Rush Limbaugh (divorced three times!), and John McCain (divorced). To be fair, John Kerry and many other Democrats have gotten divorced, too, but they never used "sanctity of marriage" as a political wedge issue. If grandma and grandpa have to choose between rent and prescriptions, it's only because they were too stupid or lazy to plan ahead for old age. When you check the statistics of elderly persons living below the poverty level, it is not so good to be a senior citizen in a red state. The Top Ten Eating Cat Food to Survive states are all red, led by Mississippi with almost 19% of its seniors in poverty, followed by Louisiana, Alabama, Kentucky, South Carolina, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and New Mexico. The Top Ten Living the Golden Years states do provide a surprise with the reddest state, Utah, leading the pack with only a little less than 6% of its seniors living below the poverty level, followed by Alaska. However, six of the ten states are blue (Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, and Connecticut). Colorado and Nevada round out this Top Ten. Growing up without decent housing, clothing, healthcare, and food builds character. The percentage of children living in poverty shows that it's better to be a kid in a blue state. Nine of the Top Ten No New School Clothes This Year, Either states are red, led by Mississippi with almost 27% of their kids living in poverty, followed by Louisiana, New Mexico, West Virginia, Arkansas, Alabama, Kentucky, Texas, and Oklahoma. The only blue state in the Top Ten was New York, coming in ninth. The blue states comprise seven out of the Top Ten New Hundred Dollar Athletic Shoes Every School Year states, topped by New Hampshire at 7.3% of their kids in poverty, followed by Minnesota, Connecticut, Maryland, Vermont, New Jersey, and Wisconsin. Only Utah, Iowa, and Colorado did as well at keeping their kids out of poverty. God loves poor people so much that he made a whole lot of 'em. The red state love of poverty hits more than just children and the elderly. Mississippi hits the poverty trifecta, leading the pack with almost 20% of all their citizens in poverty. The rest of the Top Ten Living from Paycheck to Paycheck states are all red, which includes Louisiana, New Mexico, West Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Texas, Oklahoma, and Montana. On the other side, the eight of the Top Ten Taking The Family On A Real Vacation states are blue, beginning with New Hampshire's rate of 6.5% of people in poverty, followed by Connecticut, Minnesota, Maryland, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Delaware, and Massachusetts. Only the red states Iowa and Colorado bucked the trend. Sometimes, though, God makes a few too many poor people and has to take some back. When you're born in a red state, there's about a 1-in-5 chance of ending up in poverty. So it's better for these kids to not survive infancy at all. Of the Top Ten Good Luck Seeing A Birthday Cake states, nine of them are the red states of Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina, North Dakota, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, and Arkansas, with infant mortality rates that range as high as 10.5 deaths per 1,000 live births. Surprisingly, blue Delaware tops them all at 10.7, which just shows that there is some hope for morality in the blue states. When you look at the Top Ten Likely to Eat Solid Food Everyday states, once again it's good to be in New Hampshire, where only 3.8 out of 1,000 babies die, followed by six more blue states (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Minnesota, California, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington). Your kid is also likely to eventually take baby steps in the red states of Utah, Iowa, and Nevada. The best kind of housing is made in a factory. Being poor in a red state means that you have the freedom to hook up a big truck to your house and tow it to another place. Home ownership is for leftists; real freedom means living in a trailer house… I mean "mobile home"… no, make that "manufactured home". The Top Ten Houses Likely To Be Wiped Out By God's Wrath During Tornado Season states are all red, led by South Carolina, where one out of five houses are delivered, not built. Rounding out the Top Ten are New Mexico, West Virginia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Alabama, Wyoming, Arkansas, Montana, and Kentucky. Compare that to the Top Ten Houses without Wheels states, which are all blue, led by Hawaii, where only two-tenths of a percent of the homes are mobile. I suppose being in the middle of the Pacific Ocean also has something to do with this. The other nine states in this list are Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Maryland, New York, Illinois, California, and Wisconsin. You can do everything you need to do in this world with a high school edumacation. Everyone knows that the only thing college will do for our youth is indoctrinate them into wicked liberal philosophy and immoral behavior. That's why the red states feel it is so important to keep their kids out of these bastions of depravity. The Top Ten We Don't Need No Education states are all red, led by West Virginia, where only a little less than 16% of people age 25 or older have a Bachelor's Degree or more, followed by Arkansas, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Idaho, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Nevada. By contrast, the Top Ten I've Got An Alma Mater states are dominated by blue states, starting with Maryland at over 37%, followed by Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Vermont, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. Only red Colorado managed to crack this list. Traffic fatalities just weed out the weak and ineffective drivers. Have you ever driven around the congested traffic of a blue state and longed for the wide-open road of the American heartland? Well, forget about it, commie, because out in the red states they don't concern themselves with such nanny-state concepts as safety. When you compare traffic fatalities per 100,000,000 miles driven, only the strong survive in "flyover country". The Top Ten Mad Max beyond Thunderdome states are all red, with Louisiana knocking off 2.32 drivers, followed by Montana, South Carolina, Mississippi, Wyoming, Arkansas, Arizona, South Dakota, New Mexico, and Florida. If you don't feel like driving like a real man, consider the Top Ten Sitting Like A Dolt in a Traffic Jam states, nine of which are baby blue, led by Massachusetts with only 0.9 dead drivers per 100,000,000 miles, followed by Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New York, and Washington. Only Utah made it into this list, just creeping in at 10th place. The so-called "energy crisis" is just a myth made up by a vast left-wing conspiracy. Don't let anyone fool you with talk of conservation of finite precious natural resources or the pending ecological disaster of global warming. God gave us everything on earth to use up just as fast as we possibly can. Of the Top Ten I Got Yer Greenhouse Gases Right Here, Pal states, nine of them are red, led by Alaska's use of over one billion BTU's per person per year. The other red states in the list include Louisiana, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, Texas, Kentucky, Indiana, and Alabama. The only blue state to make the list, coming in 10th, was Maine (not always a blue state). On the opposite end, eight of the Top Ten Look I'm a Tree-Hugging Enviro-Fairy states are blue, starting with Hawaii, where they only consume 219 million BTU's per person per year. This list also includes Rhode Island, New York, California, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts. Two red states, Arizona and Florida (they went blue this time), also made the list. So take heart, blue states. We've got the sage wisdom of poor divorced high school graduates in trailer houses choosing the people who will provide us clear moral leadership on the economy, marriage, education, and housing. The states that take the most federal welfare, yet still can't adequately provide for their very old or very young, will control the tough decisions about health care and Social Security. The places consuming the most energy will direct our policy on the environment. Now, just stay out of their way or they'll run you over in their pickup truck. To sum it all up: A Blue State person is probably a Liberal, Democrat, Educated, Highest Avg IQs, College Degree, Good Income well above the National Average, Good Job or Owns a Business, has Family Health Insurance, owns a House (built on site), Owns a New Vehicle, takes Yearly Family Vacations, lives in a Low Crime Rate area, Family is in Good Health with all their Teeth, Will Live Longer, has Lower Divorce Rate, eats Better Food, Worth a Million when they Die, a Better Life. What A Life! They got Obama elected. A Red State person is probably a Conservative, Republican, Born Again (probably many times), Bigoted, Under-Educated, Lowest Avg IQs, High School Diploma or GED or even less, Low Income well below the National Average, Bad Job, No Family Health Insurance, owns or rents a Manufactured House/Trailer, Owns a Beater Vehicle, Vacations only when Laid Off from Work, lives in a High Crime Rate area, Family is in Poor Health, Missing Teeth, Shorter Life Span, has High Divorce Rate when or if Married, Lives Off of Fast Junk Food, Gets Welfare or Assistance, Incest a Way of Life. Worth Nothing when they Die, That's A Life? They got George W Bush elected. Yee Haw! This last election, a few traditional Red States went Blue, but they will probably go back to being Red along with their rotten teeth, if any. ____________________________________ _______________________________________________ Centroids mailing list: [email protected] http://radicalcentrism.com/mailman/listinfo/centroids_radicalcentrism.com Archives at http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/
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