The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux) - Page 65

Gemini Cricket · 05-10-2006, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

If you're looking for an end to political corruption you may have a very long wait........it has been around since before the cave man.

You're right. But what's the use of rooting for either party then?

Alex · 05-10-2006, 10:38 AM

The recognition that most of them aren't corrupt, even if it is simply the case that the party in power will have more corruption simply because those inclined to be corrupt can offer more bang for the buck.

BarTopDancer · 05-10-2006, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Congress has been moved to Lake Wobegon.

Isn't Lake Wobegon where Garfield met the panther in Garfield in the Rough?

Gemini Cricket · 05-10-2006, 10:53 AM

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The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, which is charged with raising money for building and operating the memorial, says it will cost $672 million. Improvements to the infrastructure, including reinforcing the slurry wall that borders the pit at Ground Zero, add $300 million. Total tab: $972 million.

Source

Holy crap! Almost a billion dollars?! Isn't that a lot? Who the hell's building this thing? Halliburton?

BarTopDancer · 05-10-2006, 10:53 AM

My co-worker sent this to me and I've spent a bit of time trying to de-bunk it to no avail. So it's either true or my searching skills suck.

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It appears that the Immigration March, 2006 in Los Angeles was a success! According to data from the Los Angeles County Sheriff, Los Angeles had a reduction in the following:

82% reduction - auto theft
28% " " - murders/ violent crimes/ rapes 73% " " - vandalism / tagging 54% " " - drug related offenses (not including the area surrendering the
march)
31% " " - domestic violence cases
64% " " - misdeameanor cases (shop lifting, etc)

CHP reported that today was a record low in the least amount of traffic accidents on South CA freeways.

Looks like the immigration rally was well worth it. Maybe we can do this one again sometime. Sure saves the State of California a chunk of money.

JWBear · 05-10-2006, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

My co-worker sent this to me and I've spent a bit of time trying to de-bunk it to no avail. So it's either true or my searching skills suck.

It sounds like a spurious attempt at racist humor to me.

Alex · 05-10-2006, 05:00 PM

Why is it racist? It strikes me as nationalist.

JWBear · 05-10-2006, 05:08 PM

And as a follow-up...

I just called the LA County Sheriff's Dept, and spoke to a public relations person. She assured me that no such information has been released in any form by the department. All statistical information on crime in the department's jurisdiction is released on a yearly basis.

JWBear · 05-10-2006, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Why is it racist? It strikes me as nationalist.

Because of the implication that Hispanic = criminal. That is racist.

Alex · 05-10-2006, 05:16 PM

The numbers are relatively easy to debunk as obviously silly. Somehow I doubt the LA County Sherrif keeps detailed stats on the day in which tagging occurs. I seriously doubt they have details tagging statistics at all.

Also the murder number is assinine on its face. You can't really measure that on a day by day basis. In 2005 LA County had 433 murders. Which works out to 1.19 murders per day. A 28% reduction would mean that 0.85 people were murdered on that day.

The only place on the intenret I can find this posted is on an NRO message board where it was posted and labeled an urban legend.

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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	The numbers are relatively easy to debunk as obviously silly. Somehow I doubt the LA County Sherrif keeps detailed stats on the day in which tagging occurs. I seriously doubt they have details tagging statistics at all. Also the murder number is assinine on its face. You can't really measure that on a day by day basis. In 2005 LA County had 433 murders. Which works out to 1.19 murders per day. A 28% reduction would mean that 0.85 people were murdered on that day. The only place on the intenret I can find this posted is on an NRO message board where it was posted and labeled an urban legend.
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