tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post4191329382435047565..comments2024-02-19T07:24:42.397-08:00Comments on Anglican Curmudgeon: Why the Polls Will Prove WrongA. S. Haleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05108498446058643166noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-79338078802492833402016-10-21T19:43:43.983-07:002016-10-21T19:43:43.983-07:00It is true that we can't trust the media becau...It is true that we can't trust the media because they're all willing to tell lies. <br /><br />Americans are not, spiritually speaking, better or worse off than even in Biblical times, but more Americans may have appeared to agree with the Bible's wisdom than they appear to now. Our founding documents set the stage for a religiously 'Christian' America'.<br /><br />Currently, a few facts are important to note, churches are a target to remove God (Bible) from their pews, people are put out of their work and are (in fact) bullied if they refuse to go along with 'gender' conformity issues and there's also this seriously flawed ideal: Islamic Terrorism should not be mentioned.<br /><br />On news about terror attacks, for example, one of the articles I saw about the trash can bomber in New York was on Yahoo's news page (headlined): One Muslim came out strongly against this attack saying "my first thought was 'Oh God, don't let this be a Muslim.'"<br /><br />I take screenshots of Yahoo's top news page, but I do not click to read their articles (for two years now.) But that headline should've made people stop and say, WAIT A MINUTE HERE! Why didn't he cry out 'Oh God, please help those poor victims of this heinous crime?' The same thing happened after the Boston Bombing when a Muslim woman tweeted something similar. The Muslim leadership in America is worried about its stupid reputation? Americans have also been guilty at times in its history of the same sort of stupid thinking but we've done a better job trying to rid ourselves of thinking such things than most other countries.<br /><br />When there are terror attacks (the authorities are fairly certain of the crimes), we read headlines that indicate they don't know if there's been another 'terror' attack. Then we find out the details as soon as they're made available and like magic, it is revealed that there's been another 'terror-related' attack by just another crazy person. The FBI holds the information from the public and works WITH the media. Then we find all of the connections that people make in the places of worship and in their communities.<br /><br />Finally, THAT HRC needs the press to hold her hand in order to get her elected is depressing just thinking about it. Hillary supported the PLO back in the day, but no one mentions it. She strongly supports funding everything Obama has done.<br /><br />That mess will be her America, and it is enough to make me vote for the unusual Trump/Pence team. <br />MIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947286602634684447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-75147473691179861792016-10-20T12:14:22.060-07:002016-10-20T12:14:22.060-07:00Some caution about feeling in an optimistic mood a...Some caution about feeling in an optimistic mood about the potential errors of polls this time around: Point number 2 of this useful blog's FAQ "takeways" clearly doesn't lend itself to interpreting polling results in favor of candidates who tend to support positions considered as conservative. This follows from the fact that landline telephones are far more common in households of older Americans than in households of younger Americans, and, thus, the results of phoning older Americans contacted by landline phone would be expected to indicate a higher support of support for candidates who tend to support positions considered as conservative than might be disclosed from polling using other methods. However, as also stressed in the blog, no potential polling distortion(s) should be received as a satisfactory rationale for refraining from voting in an election.williamphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15462159892385010372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-73076900070954970812016-10-20T05:49:18.979-07:002016-10-20T05:49:18.979-07:00My Congressman was explaining polling data to me t...My Congressman was explaining polling data to me the other day and related the story of one world renowned pollster who he spoke with as the Brexit vote went down. The pollster was at Tony Blair's place and was stunned by the fact that he was off by 14 percentage points having never erred to such a degree. While I personally feel that Hillary is ahead, my feelings are influenced by what I read, and what I read can't be trusted.<br /><br /><br />Undergroundpewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10182191422663119484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-75418002377890189692016-10-19T08:58:54.167-07:002016-10-19T08:58:54.167-07:00I voted first in the Isenhour/Stephenson election,...I voted first in the Isenhour/Stephenson election, and have voted in every one since, Democrat till Goldwater, then as an Independent since, as Republican Party moved too far Left. This may be my last vote. I wish I had a better choice, but it is "NEVER Hillary". I was in AR when "they" were in power there! My best vote was for Senator Tom Coburn, and I favor an Article V Convention. What ever happened to the 10th Ammendment?! I haven't heard it mentioned in this campaign.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10906980382835490734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-58817368147609264992016-10-17T20:57:25.061-07:002016-10-17T20:57:25.061-07:00Early voting begins here Thursday, as with every e...Early voting begins here Thursday, as with every election in the past 50 years, I will be voting. Holding my nose so hard it bleeds, but voting. Sadly, my own team has been doing the best job of voter suppression in that same half century, of its own voters.Tregonseehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01705100658499499100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-45500739216818898062016-10-17T20:55:18.779-07:002016-10-17T20:55:18.779-07:00"Do not, therefore, think you should not both..."Do not, therefore, think you should not bother to vote because the mainstream media all declare this election is already in the bag for Hillary Clinton."<br /><br />That's good advice for either side.<br /><br />" to contemplate such a continuation of everything as it has been thus far is, to say the least, depressing beyond measure."<br /><br />We have a lot of problems now, but we shouldn't kid ourselves that things couldn't be worse. Look at the twentieth century from 1914 to 1950. It was much, much worse. <br /><br />Materially Americans are pretty well off, compared to just about anybody else at any time in history.<br /><br />Material goods aren't everything, of course. For Christians they are arguably the least important. We shouldn't forget that, for whatever reason, God willed that Jesus live and the early Church begin in an impoverished backwater under the most despotic government imaginable. <br /><br />Whatever the fault of governments, past, present or future, they do not govern the life of the Spirit. We are free in a way that secularists cannot imagine. So, though I understand getting depressed about things--I don't want to pretend that I don't feel the same way, even from a slightly different perspective--I still take some comfort in occasionally telling myself to snap out of it. We should be good citizens, and do the best we can for our country. But we also really have no reason to despair, even if the worst (whatever that means to each of us) happens. <br /><br /> rick allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07612435616018593956noreply@blogger.com