j_b Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2004/06/11/terror_report/index.html "Cooking the books on terror The State Department finally admits that its report on terrorist activity since 2001 -- which showed improvement under Bush -- was marred by bad data funneled to it by other White House agencies. Sound familiar? [...] The moment of truth came on May 17. A sharp Washington Post opinion piece by Princeton economist Alan Krueger and Stanford political scientist David Laitin sliced "Patterns 2003" to shreds. Their review showed that the "number of significant terrorist acts increased from 124 in 2001 to 169 in 2003," or 36 percent, and that "the number of terrorist events has risen each year since 2001, and in 2003 reached its highest level in more than 20 years." The professors accused the government of concocting a misleading picture by combining the statistics for all "terrorist" acts, whether or not they were "significant." The number of "nonsignificant" terrorist incidents dropped -- but as the professors noted drily, that fact is itself "nonsignificant" and was used to create a phony statistic." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 Hmmm. Another issue not to bring up in the debates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat_Teddy Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 My name is Steve Gardner. I served from ’66 to ’67 and from ’68 to ’69. The last tour was An Thoi and Cat Lo. I served for over 2 ½ months with John Kerry. I was the third class gunner’s mate, within five feet of John Kerry at all times. While I was not on the 94 boat, the boat where he put in for his purple hearts, I did watch his indecisiveness put his boat and crew in jeopardy time after time. His is inability to manage a six man crew properly; I do not believe Kerry is qualified to be our commander-in-chief. I left the Navy, lived in Clover, South Carolina and managed boat dealerships. I’m an ordinary guy with no political agenda and no party affiliation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshK Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 So here is fat teddy, mr "sppppiiinnn" himself changing to a completely different topic to avoid one being discussed. "I'm an ordinary guy with no..." bullshit. Plenty of his reports are sticking up for him too, what's your point? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 Excellent non sequitur Please. Greg, someone, anyone with a conservative logic thread jump and and throw FT a line. He's drowning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat_Teddy Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 My name is Steve Gardner. I served from ’66 to ’67 and from ’68 to ’69. The last tour was An Thoi and Cat Lo. I served for over 2 ½ months with John Kerry. I was the third class gunner’s mate, within five feet of John Kerry at all times. While I was not on the 94 boat, the boat where he put in for his purple hearts, I did watch his indecisiveness put his boat and crew in jeopardy time after time. His is inability to manage a six man crew properly; I do not believe Kerry is qualified to be our commander-in-chief. I left the Navy, lived in Clover, South Carolina and managed boat dealerships. I’m an ordinary guy with no political agenda and no party affiliation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 My name is Martlet. I served from ’66 to ’67 and from ’68 to ’69. The last tour was An Thoi and Cat Lo. I served for over 2 ½ months with John Kerry. I was the third class gunner’s mate, within five feet of John Kerry at all times. While I was not on the 94 boat, the boat where he put in for his purple hearts, I did watch his indecisiveness put his boat and crew in jeopardy time after time. His is inability to manage a six man crew properly; I do not believe Kerry is qualified to be our commander-in-chief. I left the Navy, lived in Clover, South Carolina and managed boat dealerships. I’m an ordinary guy with no political agenda and no party affiliation. You can believe me. No bias what so ever. Trust me. I'm telling the truth. That I'm an ordinary guy makes me more believable. Really, and truly I have no ties with the Republican party. Believe it. I spent alot of time at Grateful Dead shows dancing. I was a spinner. This makes me more credible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assmonkey Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 Fat Teddy is Martlet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshK Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 Fattass, you realized all the intelligence conservatives on this board left you long ago? OK, go ahead...post your john kerry insult again.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat_Teddy Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 My name is Steve Gardner. I served from ’66 to ’67 and from ’68 to ’69. The last tour was An Thoi and Cat Lo. I served for over 2 ½ months with John Kerry. I was the third class gunner’s mate, within five feet of John Kerry at all times. While I was not on the 94 boat, the boat where he put in for his purple hearts, I did watch his indecisiveness put his boat and crew in jeopardy time after time. His is inability to manage a six man crew properly; I do not believe Kerry is qualified to be our commander-in-chief. I left the Navy, lived in Clover, South Carolina and managed boat dealerships. I’m an ordinary guy with no political agenda and no party affiliation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_b Posted June 11, 2004 Author Share Posted June 11, 2004 http://rtorgerson.blogspot.com/ "Most of Those New Jobs Reported Are Imaginary John Crudele's jobs commentary in the New York Post caught my eye last month. He reported that a huge number of the new jobs being reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics were actually the imaginary invention of a statistical method known as "birth/death modeling". This model attempts to correct the notion that the employment figures don't account for jobs created by new businesses that haven't reported in to state Unemployment Insurance agencies yet. So long term studies showed that the rate of dying business was very similar to the rate of new businesses formed - on average, over the business cycle. So, the birth/death model imputes a number for new businesses based upon the number of old businesses that died that month. (If population rates were calculated this way, we would 'discover ' that, among other things, fatal traffic accidents cause babies.) Intrigued, I looked closer. To their credit, the BLS publishes their entire methodology online. All you have to do is wade through explanations of statistical number crunching as described by Washington bureaucrats. What I found suggests that Crudele may have been understating the problem. When you actually reproduce the BLS methodology described in the BLS Handbook of Methods (Chapter 2), you arrive at the conclusion that fully 88% of the new jobs claimed to have been created since March 2003 are imaginary." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat_Teddy Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 May 07, 2004 Jobs Up, Unemployment Down The latest statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show an increase of jobs in April as companies added 288,000 new employees. The unemployment rate dropped slightly to 5.6% with increases in manufacturing, construction and temporary help services employment... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_b Posted June 11, 2004 Author Share Posted June 11, 2004 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/09/international/09SOLD.html "Reversing itself, the Army said Tuesday that a G.I. was discharged partly because of a head injury he suffered while posing as an uncooperative detainee during a training exercise at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The Army had previously said Specialist Sean Baker's medical discharge in April was unrelated to the injury he received last year at the detention center, where the United States holds suspected terrorists. Mr. Baker, 37, a former member of the 438th Military Police Company, said he played the role of an uncooperative prisoner and was beaten so badly by four American soldiers that he suffered a traumatic brain injury and seizures. He said the soldiers only stopped beating him when they realized he might be American." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat_Teddy Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 BAGHDAD, Iraq—Soldiers from 1st Armored Division’s 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment are working to help improve the quality of life from Iraqi children. Led by Squadron commander Lt. Col. Charles E. Williams, the soldiers have focused their efforts on 25 schools around the rim of Baghdad. The schools, neglected by the former Iraqi regime, were in a sad state when 1AD forces arrived in Baghdad four months ago. “The desks were in pieces, the blackboards were broken, there were no doors on the rooms, there were no ceiling fans, and there was no or poor lighting,” said Williams. The Squadron took charge, working with 1AD engineers, American contractors, and local Iraqi contractors to get the schools repaired. Over the past few months, the schools have undergone a dramatic change: walls have been painted, electrical wiring and plumbing has been fixed, glass has been replaced, security bars have been installed in windows, and school supplies have been issued. The Squadron also plans to bring in new desks by start of the school year later this month. “Kids are the common bond for us all,” said Williams. “We realized we could make a difference for them.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_b Posted June 11, 2004 Author Share Posted June 11, 2004 http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5397000 "Pentagon Iraq Abuse Probe to Examine Top Commander Thu Jun 10, 2004 06:13 PM ET By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon plans to widen a probe into the abuse of Iraqi prisoners to include actions of the top U.S. commander in Iraq" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshK Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 I AM MARTLETFATTEDDY HERE ME ROAR! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglehead Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 Hmmm. Another issue not to bring up in the debates. How true that is. Very Sad, but true. They'll make issues out of non issues like gay marriage and the mission to Mars, or some other nonsense like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chucK Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 steroid use by baseball players Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott_harpell Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 (edited) Told ya fuck-O! Edited June 11, 2004 by scott_harpell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat_Teddy Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 No hotlinking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshK Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 But fatteddy, why do you care what somebody does with martlet's picture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglehead Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 We should start a pool to which non issues they spend the most time on or something like that. Bush and Kerry debates. yech. I get ill just thinking about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat_Teddy Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 I don't. I just thought hotlinking wasn't allowed on this board. Trying to help you out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat_Teddy Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 Boy, looks like you posted porn. Isn't that what martlet got banned for? Looks like you're going to band camp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott_harpell Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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