mental invalid Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 July 29, 2004 Kerry/Edwards: Most Liberal Senators? On July 10, the Journal’s Richard E. Cohen (not the Post columnist) tried to explain the pleasing facts which so many scribes have been peddling. Are Kerry and Edwards really first and fourth most liberal? That rating is based on calendar year 2003, when both senators—campaigning for the White House—missed large numbers of the 62 votes the Journal used for its tabulations. (Kerry missed 37 of the 62 votes; Edwards missed 22.) Writing in the rag Goldberg loves, Cohen laid out the big picture: COHEN: The bigger picture presents a more nuanced view of the two senators on the Democratic presidential ticket. Since joining the Senate in 1985, Kerry has compiled a “lifetime average” composite liberal score of 85.7 in NJ's vote ratings. Ten other current senators have a lifetime composite liberal score that is higher than Kerry’s. (See NJ, 3/6/04, p. 679.) Meanwhile, Edwards, who first joined the Senate in 1999, has a lifetime composite liberal score of 75.7, a number that puts him in the moderate wing of his party. “The bigger picture presents a more nuanced view?” Richard E. Cohen, repeat after us: In fact, the bigger picture shows that Kerry and Edwards are not first and fourth most liberal! In fact, ten current senators have more liberal lifetime voting records than Kerry. And how crazily liberal is Edwards? Here are the Journal’s annual rankings since he arrived in the Senate: John Edwards: 1999: 31st most liberal senator 2000: 19th most liberal senator 2001: 35th most liberal senator 2002: 40th most liberal senator 2003: 4th most liberal senator When pundits call Edwards the “fourth most liberal,” they are cherry-picking his rank from one year—a year in which he missed more than a third of the votes used to make the tabulations. Of course, stripped of their ability to rate Kerry and Edwards "first and fourth most liberal" senators with a straight face, conservatives will hammer on their missed votes. But this isn't uncommon in a presidential election year. John McCain missed gobs of votes when he ran for president in 2000. So the missed votes are clearly not a partisan issue. If missed votes are your concern, change the rules, and require senators/representatives to step down if they're going to run for higher office. As with so many of the GOP's talking points, the "first and fourth most liberal" claim amounts to little more than smoke. And the so-called "liberal media" cheerily parrots it without scrutiny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fannypack2 Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 Originally posted by iloveboxcars fact: i am a fucking loser but play it off real well. LIAR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermdog Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 I bench freights a whole bunch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppa.k Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 the most southerly part of canada is further south than the most northerly tip of california. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr430n5_666 Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 http://www.kak.ru/images/archive/16/CODE/tide/Card1.jpg'> I just woke up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nekro Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 Every single driving lesbian I know drives a subaru. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slave_one Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 Originally posted by Nekro Every single driving lesbian I know drives a subaru. ^ hilarious! every asian person i've met so far has owned, purchased, driven, or ridden in a honda at one point in their life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fannypack2 Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 Originally posted by slave_one ^ hilarious! every asian person i've met so far has owned, purchased, driven, or ridden in a honda at one point in their life. and they're all bad at driving Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUDONO? Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 taco bell is not mexican food mexicans like beans all mexicans are 5 feet tall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intercity Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 http://www.freeiPods.com/default.aspx?referer=7434780 if you go there and sign up for an offer, you can get a free i pod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 i had pizza for lunch. Ethidium Bromide is a DNA intercalating agent. it's over 90 degrees here right now. i can parallel park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_dowmagik Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 i once accidently shit my pants while talking on a payphone in a mall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
why write? Posted August 4, 2004 Author Share Posted August 4, 2004 hahahah ^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilush Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 did ya know..... *mr. snuffleupagas'(spelling?) first name was alyoisus. *cat's urine glows under a blacklight. *it takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg. *the declaration of independence was written on hemp paper. *barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33. *dolphins are the only other animals besides humans that get pleasure out of sex. they are also the only other animals that have sex for reasons other than reproduction. *ancient egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats. *donald duck's middle name is fauntleroy. *the common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light. *a group of geese is called a gaggle. *kermit the frog is left handed. *that i only have an hour and a half of sleep and i'm at work? like whoa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 i find that sex thing kind of hard to believe. ^^ how the fuck is soemthing like that proven? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilush Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 i can try to find the resource. hold on........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilush Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 actually, no i cant find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeze Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 *saved by the bell wasn't actually fictitiously set in california...bayside high school was actually set in indiana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 1: Behav Pharmacol. 2003 Jul;14(4):357-62. Plasma levels of corticosterone and testosterone after sexual activity in male rats treated neonatally with clomipramine. Bonilla-Jaime H, Retana-Marquez S, Vazquez-Palacios G, Velazquez-Moctezuma J. Departemento de Biologia de la Reproduction, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico City, DF, Mexico. Neonatal treatment with clomipramine (CMI) in rats, induces alterations of pleasure-seeking behaviors during adulthood. Alterations of hormonal responses to stressful situations have also been reported. In this study, the levels of corticosterone and testosterone in response to sexual activity were assessed in rats treated neonatally with CMI. Male pups received subcutaneous injections of CMI (15 mg/kg, 0.1 ml), twice a day (09.00 hours and 18.00 hours) from 8 to 21 days of age. A control group received saline in the same number of injections. Four months after CMI treatment, subjects (Ss) were submitted to the forced swim test to verify the effect of CMI. Thereafter, they were tested to assess their spontaneous sexual activity. Plasma levels of corticosterone and testosterone were assessed under different conditions. Results of sexual behavior and the forced swim test corroborate the depressive-like effect of CMI. The sole presence of an estrogenized stimulus female caused an increase in plasma levels of testosterone in both control and CMI-treated Ss. The same was true for corticosterone; however, this increase was significantly lower in the CMI-treated group. There is a discrepancy between the normal hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) response and the decreased sexual behavior. The data suggest that CMI induces permanent changes in the reactivity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. .....looks like rats get pleasure from sex and surprise! they are less interested in it when they get a chemically-induced depression. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_dowmagik Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 Originally posted by freeze *saved by the bell wasn't actually fictitiously set in california...bayside high school was actually set in indiana. you sure? i go seasons 1-2-3-4 on dvd and there are many times where someone refers to them being in california. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyeforAnEYE Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 In the first season it was in indianapolis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeze Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 i'm pretty sure...i heard it in one of the episodes. i'll be damned if i can remember which one, maybe one of the bajillion dance themed ones. i think they just reference the beach a lot, and i guess there is a little part of indiana that borders lake michigan. pretty much the only times you ever see them actually at the beach is when they're away on summer vacation or if they're working at that one resort for the summer. i could be wrong though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyeforAnEYE Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 no they moved it to california for some reason, it started in Inidanapolis, and it started off as being called Good Morning, Miss Bliss http://homepage.mac.com/ijball/SbtB/history.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_dowmagik Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 word, i heard that there was a show of them in junior high that turned into sbtb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahyoulose Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 Originally posted by WEAK NIGGUH my friend told me he stayed up for 15 days. he might be lying though. was he on meth? and Originally posted by THE CORONER blah anyone ever seen a penguin and a duck race its funny as fuck it is a fact that this is not a fact Originally posted by Devilush *the declaration of independence was written on hemp paper. pot smoking hippies... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earmuffs Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 im still sick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilush Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 hahaha hippies. have you seen dazed and confused? they have this one part, high as fuck (when arent they high in the movie), talking about how george washington was a pot head. hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_dowmagik Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 fact: devilush is hot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilush Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 ^ shoooooooooo :blush: fact:devilush is a goon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethreadzny2 Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 My friend once shit out of a moving car window on the way to boston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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