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« Reply #525 on: September 12, 2012, 11:34:08 AM »

I don't even get what that top image is supposed to be. Obama's America means black people?
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« Reply #526 on: September 12, 2012, 11:44:26 AM »

Also, would Naso have Teen Moms abort their babies?
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« Reply #527 on: September 12, 2012, 11:50:22 AM »

I'd like a once sentence explanation of each image from Naso......just one, Mike. 
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« Reply #528 on: September 12, 2012, 12:23:27 PM »


And the District of Columbia.
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« Reply #529 on: September 12, 2012, 03:05:16 PM »

I'd like a once sentence explanation of each image from Naso...... 

I think I wouldn't.
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« Reply #530 on: September 12, 2012, 03:09:06 PM »

I'd like a once sentence explanation of each image from Naso...... 

I think I wouldn't.

It might be a scary world in there, but he has put each up as a representation of something and I'd like to hear in his own words what it means.
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« Reply #531 on: September 12, 2012, 03:17:57 PM »

I'd like a once sentence explanation of each image from Naso...... 

I think I wouldn't.

It might be a scary world in there, but he has put each up as a representation of something and I'd like to hear in his own words what it means.

Naso has ceased to be funny long ago. His ramblings of pure nonsense might be slightly amusing the first couple times, but then it gets boring and just plain retarded.
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« Reply #532 on: September 12, 2012, 05:04:30 PM »

I don't even get what that top image is supposed to be. Obama's America means black people?

Clearly those black people are way too uppity for Michael's tastes.
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« Reply #533 on: September 17, 2012, 01:39:55 PM »

Two from the same thread:

First, I think was a Bradley Effect, i.e. people lying to pollster because of race, in the 1980's and 1990's, but it was dwindling over time.  It arguably was there in some statewide races in the 2000's but it was not strong.

Second, the states where I though it would be pronounced, PA, OH, it was not there.  The PA numbers were right on.

Third, there were states where it looked like it happened, IA, where I never would have expected it.  There also seem to be cases where voters lied to the pollsters, but they said they were voting for McCain and voted for Obama.  That seemed to be in AZ and NM, and may be tied to voters of Mexican ancestry.  (A study from Harvard indicated that during the primaries, Obama underpolled with African-American voters.  Basically, they didn't want to look like they were voting for Obama just because he was black.)

Fourth, in trying to see if there were more states where Obama underpolled, there is the problem that a several large states were not polled.  I had found one poll within a month of the election in NY.  Obama overpolled and overpolled outside of the MOE.  The poll was not in a week of the election, and it was not a major polling firm.  Was that because of the electorate shifting toward the end?  Was it because the methodology of poll was bad?  Was it because a significant number of people didn't want the pollster to think they were voting for McCain because Obama was black?

The only thing that we can say is that Obama overpolled on some normally good nation polls, like Gallup, but didn't on some others, Rasmussen and PPP.  (And 2008 made PPP.)

Liberals have been saying for months that Romney should be beating Obama because the "economy sucks"  

The Liberals are right, Romney should be winning.  

Romney's losing because he's a Mormon and the liberal media hates Mormons.  

Obama's winning because he has the "stature of the presidency" and voters will tell pollsters they lean support towards the President.  Voters also don't want to "give up on the PResident" or appear racist, just because he is black.  

Carter was completely inept with disasters in both foreign policy and national economic policy.  
GHWB was a terrible politician/campaigner who couldn't communicate with voters or appear responsive to the national economic recession.  

Obama is a good speaker who connects with voters, and he staved off a Depression, but can't deliver a recovery.  Voters just have not been quick enough to bail on him yet.  The Liberal Media is helping to keep Obama up in the polls (because he's black superman!), lol.  
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« Reply #534 on: September 18, 2012, 12:42:09 PM »

Feel free to post the greatest hits here!
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« Reply #535 on: September 18, 2012, 12:44:38 PM »

Feel free to post the greatest hits here!
Editting the title only really works if you do it to the first post, Phil.
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« Reply #536 on: September 18, 2012, 12:51:59 PM »

Feel free to post the greatest hits here!
Editting the title only really works if you do it to the first post, Phil.

I know but since I don't have that power, I wanted to do it for at least one post.  Tongue
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« Reply #537 on: September 18, 2012, 02:06:13 PM »
« Edited: September 18, 2012, 02:09:45 PM by a Person »

I figure SurveyUSA's polls are typically about 7 points off from the rest. Obama's doing about as well as he did last time.

I agree. But I just add a standard 5 points to Obama's margin in every SUSA poll, 7 in every Rassy poll, 2-4 in every PPP poll, and usually about 8-10 in all Republican internals.

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The thread's been unlocked. I simply locked it because in the past, when a goldmine has to have a page of argumentative crap deleted from it, it's usually time for a new goldmine.

I don't really care if it's locked or not - I just did it following tradition.

I didn't even think people would care, not even Phil.
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« Reply #538 on: September 18, 2012, 02:14:15 PM »

1) There is in fact no such tradition. The previous Deluge was locked by the OP, not by a moderator.

2) Thinking that nobody would care about the closing of an Atlas Forum institution is absurd.
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« Reply #539 on: September 18, 2012, 02:16:17 PM »

These threads have been closed at least like 16 times.  Why is keeping the current thread open such a big deal?
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« Reply #540 on: September 18, 2012, 02:20:07 PM »

The only ignorant thing there was in thinking Phil wouldn't overreact, considering his past reactions to forum events...

Reported as a personal attack.
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« Reply #541 on: September 18, 2012, 02:22:40 PM »
« Edited: September 18, 2012, 02:34:22 PM by Minion of Midas »

1) There is in fact no such tradition. The previous Deluge was locked by the OP, not by a moderator.

2) Thinking that nobody would care about the closing of an Atlas Forum institution is absurd.
There was such a tradition for the Goldmines. This is why they were eventually superceded by the Institute, which is eternal and will never close.
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« Reply #542 on: September 18, 2012, 02:25:44 PM »

The only ignorant thing there was in thinking Phil wouldn't overreact, considering his past reactions to forum events...

Reported as a personal attack.

It's truth.  You argued with me that someone had hacked your tinypic link when even the administrators at tinypic told me that what you were describing was impossible.
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« Reply #543 on: September 18, 2012, 02:26:18 PM »

1) There is in fact no such tradition. The previous Deluge was locked by the OP, not by a moderator.

2) Thinking that nobody would care about the closing of an Atlas Forum institution is absurd.
There was such a tradition for the Goldmines. This is why they were eventually superceded by the Institute, which is eternal and will never close.

Oh, well apparently I missed that discussion.
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« Reply #544 on: September 18, 2012, 02:30:26 PM »
« Edited: September 18, 2012, 02:34:48 PM by Minion of Midas »

1) There is in fact no such tradition. The previous Deluge was locked by the OP, not by a moderator.

2) Thinking that nobody would care about the closing of an Atlas Forum institution is absurd.
There was such a tradition for the Goldmines. This is why they were eventually superceded by the Institute, which is eternal and will never close.

Oh, well apparently I missed that discussion.
Oh, I don't recall any such discussion either. I am just stating the apparent facts to a n00b who probably can't remember the Goldmines. The Institute has I think (I may be mistaken) been around longer now than any of the Goldmines ever lasted despite the occasional fistfights in its Hallowed Halls.
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« Reply #545 on: September 18, 2012, 02:32:06 PM »

1) There is in fact no such tradition. The previous Deluge was locked by the OP, not by a moderator.

2) Thinking that nobody would care about the closing of an Atlas Forum institution is absurd.
There was such a tradition for the Goldmines. This is why they were eventually superceded by the Institute, which is eternal and will never close.

Oh, well apparently I missed that discussion.
Oh, I don't recall any such discussion either. I am just stating the apparent facts to a n00b who probably can't remember the Goldmines. The Institute has I think (I may be mistaken) been around longer now than any of the Goldmines ever lasted despite the occasional fistfights in its Hallowed Halls.

I don't know if it's been around longer (that was actually one of the things I looked at when I locked it was how long these things normally last), but it had more pages than all of the ones I clicked, so I figured it was fine to start a new one.
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« Reply #546 on: September 18, 2012, 03:00:10 PM »

These threads have been closed at least like 16 times.  Why is keeping the current thread open such a big deal?

What, did you forget the reaction the last time you tried to pull this bullinks?
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« Reply #547 on: September 18, 2012, 03:05:16 PM »

These threads have been closed at least like 16 times.  Why is keeping the current thread open such a big deal?

What, did you forget the reaction the last time you tried to pull this bullinks?

Which was?
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« Reply #548 on: September 18, 2012, 03:09:59 PM »

If you're referencing locking the Deluge, then read my post in the Goldmine:

I'm doubled over at this idea that Inks was going to bow to the very first hint of public displeasure as if he always does that. Cheesy

There's no precedent for what I did here.  What I did was not an action out of a Terms of Service moderation, but merely what I understood to be unofficial forum precedent.  Once I would've realized that my understanding of how the goldmine worked wasn't the same as everyone else's, I would've undone what I did, since I wasn't acted under the TOS, but acting under the rules that had previously guided the goldmines.

Whether or not you believe me is irrelevant, because I know I'm right, since you can't know my thought process.

I didn't lock the Institute because I thouht it violated the TOS.  I deleted a page worth of TOS violations and thought that at that point, the thread had run its course and it was time for a new one.

In locking the Deluge, it was my belief at the time that it should be permanently locked.

Why would I think people would flip out over a new comedy goldmine being started?
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« Reply #549 on: September 18, 2012, 03:35:26 PM »

If you're referencing locking the Deluge, then read my post in the Goldmine:

I'm doubled over at this idea that Inks was going to bow to the very first hint of public displeasure as if he always does that. Cheesy

There's no precedent for what I did here.  What I did was not an action out of a Terms of Service moderation, but merely what I understood to be unofficial forum precedent.  Once I would've realized that my understanding of how the goldmine worked wasn't the same as everyone else's, I would've undone what I did, since I wasn't acted under the TOS, but acting under the rules that had previously guided the goldmines.

Whether or not you believe me is irrelevant, because I know I'm right, since you can't know my thought process.

I didn't lock the Institute because I thouht it violated the TOS.  I deleted a page worth of TOS violations and thought that at that point, the thread had run its course and it was time for a new one.

In locking the Deluge, it was my belief at the time that it should be permanently locked.

Why would I think people would flip out over a new comedy goldmine being started?

That's entirely beside the point. What matters is that you seem to think that a longstanding forum institution (the Deluge bzw. the Institute) can be locked on no other grounds than "it was getting annoying to moderate." If you think there is too much material to moderate, step down and let someone else be moderator. It's that simple.
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