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Actually I am really Gordon Hodson, I conduct research on the relationship between cognitive function and ideology. One of my studies got some buzz in the media recently, maybe you read about it. It was not too favorable for conservatives.
I've been conducting research here on AP for my latest study. It's about how conservatives have great difficulty grasping that something can be good and bad at the same time.
The data is very convincing. Sure to create another media buzz when published.
[QUOTE=Esten; 421371]Actually I am really Gordon Hodson, I conduct research on the relationship between cognitive function and ideology. One of my studies got some buzz in the media recently, maybe you read about it. It was not too favorable for conservatives.
I've been conducting research here on AP for my latest study. It's about how conservatives have great difficulty grasping that something can be good and bad at the same time.
The data is very convincing. Sure to create another media buzz when published.[/QUOTE]From the article discussing Hodson's study:
[quote]Earlier studies have found links between low levels of education and higher levels of prejudice, Hodson said, so studying intelligence seemed a logical next step. The researchers turned to two studies of citizens in the United Kingdom, one that has followed babies since their births in March 1958, and another that did the same for babies born in April 1970. The children in the studies had their intelligence assessed at age 10 or 11; as adults ages 30 or 33, their levels of social conservatism and racism were measured.[/quote]You can measure anything and arrive at a bias. Notice that the study measured intelligence juxtaposed with social conservatism and racism. Query: did they conduct a similar study on social radicalism and its impact on racism and biases? I rather doubt it.
It is a toss up whether Obama was born in Kenya or Indonesia. I am putting my money on Obama being a space alien closely related to ET. A long shot but more probable than Obama being born in Hawaii.
While I, as many others, considered the matter of Obama's birth place to be settled with the production of a birth certificate by the White House, I came across this article from the Associated Press regarding pending litigation regarding the anointed one.
You might note it took a court order to obtain the release of the information from Occidental College.
Do you find it strange we know everything about the current GOP candidates including college transcripts which were freely available but it takes a court order to obtain only a small part of Obama's?
Do you find it strange Obama is spending campaign funds to cover legal costs to prevent the disclosure of personal information? Maybe Newt should have taken a cue!
[quote]AP. WASHINGTON D. C.
In a move certain to fuel the debate over Obama's qualifications for the presidency, the group "Americans for Freedom of Information" has released copies of President Obama's college transcripts from Occidental College. Released today, the transcript school indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia as an undergraduate. The transcript was released by Occidental College in compliance with a court order in a suit brought by the group in the Superior Court of California. The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro) applied for financial aid and was awarded a fellowship for foreign students from the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship program. To qualify, for the scholarship, a student must claim foreign citizenship.
This document would seem to provide the smoking gun that many of Obama's detractors have been seeking. Along with the evidence that he was first born in Kenya and there is no record of him ever applying for US citizenship, this is looking pretty grim. The news has created a firestorm at the White House as the release casts increasing doubt about Obama's legitimacy and qualification to serve as President article titled,"Obama Eligibility Questioned," leading some to speculate that the story may overshadow economic issues on Obama's first official visit to the U. K. In a related matter, under growing pressure from several groups, Justice Antonin Scalia announced that the Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear arguments concerning Obama's legal eligibility to serve as President in a case brought by Leo Donofrio of New Jersey. This lawsuit claims Obama's dual citizenship disqualified him from serving as president. Donofrio's case is just one of 18 suits brought by citizens demanding proof of Obama's citizenship or qualification to serve as president.
Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation has released the results of their investigation of Obama's campaign spending. This study estimates that Obama has spent upwards of $950, 000 in campaign funds in the past year with eleven law firms in 12 states for legal resources to block disclosure of any of his personal records. Mr. Kreep indicated that the investigation is still ongoing but that the final report will be provided to the USA Attorney general, Eric Holder. Mr. Holder has refused to comment on the matter.[/quote]
[QUOTE=Doppelganger; 421453]While I, as many others, considered the matter of Obama's birth place to be settled with the production of a birth certificate by the White House, I came across this article from the Associated Press regarding pending litigation regarding the anointed one.
You might note it took a court order to obtain the release of the information from Occidental College.
Do you find it strange we know everything about the current GOP candidates including college transcripts which were freely available but it takes a court order to obtain only a small part of Obama's?
Do you find it strange Obama is spending campaign funds to cover legal costs to prevent the disclosure of personal information? Maybe Newt should have taken a cue![/QUOTE]Now, the United States do allow dual citizenships, and people freely used that right to legally reside and enjoy benefits of both countries. Education, pensions, tax, housing, voting, etc. That he eventually became president was something that only a dreamer can fantasize. Recently, a poll show that a majority of GOP voters in Alabama & Mississippi believe Obama is a Muslim. And some of us would like to believe George Bush, who I believe is a good man, would never have gotten into Yale & Harvard had his father owned a hamburger stand in Glendale.
Life is changing, it is not static. Some people just cannot accept it.
This is certainly good new for kenya and indonesia. We could send Obama to either country. If we play our cards right we could swap Obama for 2 or 3 camels. If they don't go for the camels we shouldn't accept anything less than a couple of palm trees.
OK, what the heck, we will send them Obama and throw in the camels and palm trees.
[QUOTE=Black Shirt; 421458]And some of us would like to believe George Bush, who I believe is a good man, would never have gotten into Yale & Harvard had his father owned a hamburger stand in Glendale.
And Obama would never have gotten his high school equivalency diploma/GED had he not claimed to be a foreign student born in - take your pick - Indonesia, Kenya, Outer Mongolia or Transylvania.
[QUOTE=Doppelganger; 421453]I came across this article from the Associated Press regarding pending litigation regarding the anointed one.
You might note it took a court order to obtain the release of the information from Occidental College.[/QUOTE]You guys are being taken for fools by whoever is recycling this stuff. This exact, verbatim 'article' was originally distributed on April 1, 2009. It was an April Fools' Day hoax.
Check your facts:
[url]http://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/was-obama-born-in-the-usa/[/url]
It is amusing though how you guys lap this stuff up. LOL
[QUOTE=Esten; 421461]You guys are being taken for fools by whoever is recycling this stuff. This exact, verbatim 'article' was originally distributed on April 1, 2009. It was an April Fools' Day hoax.
Check your facts:
[url]http://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/was-obama-born-in-the-usa/[/url]
It is amusing though how you guys lap this stuff up. LOL[/QUOTE]"Fools rush in, where angels fear to tread."
Oh sorry, excuse my humming.
Black Shirt, Esten, I did not fact check it and you are right and I am wrong, the information regarding the Occidental records release was not valid.
What is true is there appears to be continued litigation regarding Obama's records and he has been using campaign funds to fight to keep his records closed.
It still seems strange; after 3 years Obama's personal history is still an enigma. I cannot remember any presidential candidate whose background was not gone over with a fine tooth comb but the anointed one is exempt.
The anointed one is shooting himself in the foot just fine all by himself. The 'energy tour' as gas prices continue to rise is an excellent example. The XL Pipeline appearance in Oklahoma was a classic on Kerry's 'I voted for it before I voted against it' just in reverse here.
I hate to say it but as gas prices continue to rise I predict the shaky 'recovery' Obama and the Democrats continue to trumpet is about to go south again. As fuel prices increase the cost of any good which is transported goes up from groceries to construction materials.
Reading this thread since its inception I finally remembered that in the mid-1970s US mental health facilities started to release mentally challenged patients considered not to be dangerous back into the general population. Now it is clear that policy has proven a boon for the AP site, as most of the post by the Obama haters who scribble their inanities here can do so from their home PCs, rather than the PCs provided in their facility's communal wards!
Maybe the Republican budget plan is the best option. With our growing debt problem, we all have to make sacrifices.
Giving another tax cut to the wealthy, while I take a cut on future Medicare benefits, seems like a fair approach.
Esten, perhaps you should revisit the changes in Medicare which are already coming on line due to ObamaCare. Now many tests have been dropped from the approved payment list and when physicians order these test it is now up to the patient to pay if the tests are preformed. I guess you missed the millions being cut from Medicare and shifted to Medicaid.
As ObamaCare is phased in the cuts to Medicare, which has been funded by payroll taxes, are real as funds are shifted to the Medicaid program, a totally unfunded liability. So your previous statement should read,"let the old people die so Obama and the Democrats can pander to their base while also permitting illegal aliens, who will become loyal Democrats after another blanket amnesty bill is passed, receive Medicaid benefits'.
The old saying is true:
If you are not a liberal until you are 25, you don't have a heart. If you are not a conservative after 25 you don't have a brain.
Ignorance of the realities of today's perverted US health care system run through this thread as the Obama haters rant on and on. The real world of medical care is hardly mentioned, like who really pays all the unexplained billions of dollars in charges that don't exist in other countries where patients actually get better care. And why! No one, Esten least of all, maintains the new reforms are perfect. But Doppel, Alamo and others only trash the President's courageous attempt to begin to salvage the system before it self-destructs. How can anyone support a system where medical bills are cheaper if a patient claims to be uninsured and pays cash to a provider, because the institutional provider can cheat? The AP conservatives would leave untouched a system where insurance companies, hospitals and doctors play bizarre billing games that make no sense except to enrich the players and bankrupt the patients and taxpayers. The Obamacare detractors seem very comfortable with a system where parents of an 11-year-old girl with a stomachache girl can take her to an emergency room where she is given a few pills and sent home, and a few weeks later a $5000 bill arrives in the mail. Or no problem when a patient spends a total of four hours in a outpatient surgery center having a simple bone spur removed and is billed $37, 000, not counting doctor fees. On a more important note, how can fellow mongers trust the conservative monger chica reviews of when those same mongers are so patently ignorant of quality, value and inflated pricing in US health care?
Good luck arguing that the Affordable Care Act is bad for Medicare. Not only does ACA not cut basic Medicare benefits, it also closes the Part D prescription drug "donut hole" by 2020. The first steps to close this gap in prescription drug coverage saved $2.1 billion for nearly 3.6 million seniors in 2011.
What tests were dropped? I can't find anything about it. You should know covered test lists get updated from time to time. Tests that get dropped are typically those that haven't demonstrated clear medical value, or have been replaced by better tests. Please post your link about the lab tests, let's see what they are.
This may come as a huge shock, but some people feel access to affordable health care is more a moral issue than a political issue. And there is the economic issue of enabling broader access to health care, spending more on preventive care vs. treating late-stage disease.
As the saying goes, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."