This and That...

[Ross]

Actually to crash all U.S. financial systems!

[Ross]

Because of the World Wide
Hoax and Scam
it is built on !

[redcliffsw]

One thing about it, Obama and the Republicans both think they are doing something great for America and the citizens keep thinking the same thing as they elect the same kind of do-gooders.

Don't like to pick on Bob Dole too much, but his Food Stamp program is one excellent example of the liberal thinking that Obama and Republicans have instilled in them.

[Diane Amberg]

Now that's really funny. It's the working poor that use food stamps. Food stamps can also make the difference between a vet being homeless and living in a tent camp somewhere and just having enough to get by, with the occasional night in a shelter. I thought you were so pro vet?

[Ross]

Now that's really funny. It's the working poor that use food stamps. Food stamps can also make the difference between a vet being homeless and living in a tent camp somewhere and just having enough to get by, with the occasional night in a shelter. I thought you were so pro vet?

Sorry, Diane Welfare is not pro veteran it is pro socialism.

It is also part of Obama's Cloward Piven System Plan along with providing cash and homes and medicare and medicade and disability and social security to illegal aliens, and Muslim immigrants.

To be Pro Vet is to support Veterans not the whole wide world !

Unless of course a person is a liberal interested in Socialism.

[Diane Amberg]

Nope, not gonna read it. It's undoubtedly a criticism of what I posted. I'm always "wrong," so why bother?

[Ross]

Nope, not gonna read it. It's undoubtedly a critisism of what I posted. I'm always "wrong," so why bother?

You would have no knowledge of what you say then would you?
Typical Liberal!
Silly woman. ROFLMAO

[Ross]

Debunking 5 Phony Statistics
Liberals Love To Toss Around

John Hawkins | Dec 15, 2015

Liberals are all about emotions, not facts.

Since that's the case, liberals do a terrible job of coming up with any sort of evidence to support their agenda. More often than not, when they do come up with a great statistic that's repeated over and over, it's fake. If you want some examples, here are five phony statistics you'll regularly hear from liberals.

1) One in five college-age women have been raped.

How do you create a "rape epidemic" that isn't actually happening? Easy. You don't ask women if they've been raped; you just expand the definition of rape so much that you define merely unpleasant events or worse yet, even consensual acts as rape.

The one-in-five figure is based on the Campus Sexual Assault Study, commissioned by the National Institute of Justice and conducted from 2005 to 2007. Two prominent criminologists, Northeastern University's James Alan Fox and Mount Holyoke College's Richard Moran, have noted its weaknesses:

...Fox and Moran also point out that the study used an overly broad definition of sexual assault. Respondents were counted as sexual assault victims if they had been subject to "attempted forced kissing" or engaged in intimate encounters while intoxicated.

Defenders of the one-in-five figure will reply that the finding has been replicated by other studies. But these studies suffer from some or all of the same flaws.

How many college-age women are raped according to the FBI? The actual rate is "6.1 per 1,000 students, or 0.61 percent (instead of 1-in-5, the real number is 0.03-in-5)." Rape is a serious issue and dramatically misrepresenting the number of women being raped is despicable.

2) Spousal abuse skyrockets on Super Bowl Sunday. 

This myth comes from misrepresentations made by liberals back in 1993.

During the era of the infamous Super Bowl Hoax, it was widely believed that on Super Bowl Sundays, violence against women increases 40%. Journalists began to refer to the game as the "abuse bowl" and quoted experts who explained how male viewers, intoxicated and pumped up with testosterone, could "explode like mad linemen." During the 1993 Super Bowl, NBC ran a public service announcement warning men they would go to jail for attacking their wives.

In this roiling sea of media credulity, one lone journalist, Washington Post reporter Ken Ringle, checked the facts. As it turned out, there was no source: An activist had misunderstood something she read, jumped to her sensational conclusion, announced it at a news conference and an urban myth was born. Despite occasional efforts to prove the story true, no one has ever managed to link the Super Bowl to domestic battery.

3) Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce.

If you get married at this point, especially to a college-educated woman over the age of 25, it'll probably be for life.

A false conclusion in the 1970s that half of all first marriages ended in divorce was based on the simple but completely wrong analysis of the marriage and divorce rates per 1,000 people in the United States. A similar abuse of statistical analysis led to the conclusion that 60 percent of all second marriages ended in divorce.

...It is now clear that the divorce rate in first marriages probably peaked at about 40 percent for first marriages around 1980 and has been declining since to about 30 percent in the early 2000s. This is a dramatic difference. Rather than viewing marriage as a 50-50 shot in the dark it can be viewed as having a 70 percent likelihood of succeeding. But even to use that kind of generalization, i.e., one simple statistic for all marriages, grossly distorts what is actually going on.

The key is that the research shows that starting in the 1980s education, specifically a college degree for women, began to create a substantial divergence in marital outcomes, with the divorce rate for college-educated women dropping to about 20 percent, half the rate for non-college educated women. Even this is more complex, since the non-college educated women marry younger and are poorer than their college grad peers. These two factors, age at marriage and income level, have strong relationships to divorce rates; the older the partners and the higher the income, the more likely the couple stays married. Obviously, getting a college degree is reflected in both these factors.

Thus, we reach an even more dramatic conclusion: That for college educated women who marry after the age of 25 and have established an independent source of income, the divorce rate is only 20 percent!

...One report indicated that the divorce rate for remarried, white women is 15 percent after three years and 25 percent after five years. This ongoing study indicated a definite slowing of the rate over time but did not have enough years measured to draw more long-term conclusions. However, it did indicate that the same factors with first divorces were at play here.

Age, education, and income levels were also highly correlated with the outcomes of second marriages. For example, women who remarried before the age of 25 had a very high divorce rate of 47 percent, while women who remarried over the age of 25 only had a divorce rate of 34 percent. The latter is actually about the same for first marriages and likely also would prove to be an average of different rates based (on) socioeconomic factors.

That's a lot more encouraging than starting a marriage thinking there's a 50% chance of it going belly-up.

4) Ten percent of the population is gay.

Ten percent has been the number tossed around for a long time, but perhaps understandably, many people think the gay percentage of the population is even higher based on popular culture's obsession with homosexuality.

The American public estimates on average that 23% of Americans are gay or lesbian, little changed from Americans' 25% estimate in 2011, and only slightly higher than separate 2002 estimates of the gay and lesbian population.

In actuality, the percentage of gay Americans is tiny.

The survey taken by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked a simple question of 34,557 adults nationwide: "Which of the following best represents how you think of yourself?" The five possible answers were straight, lesbian/gay, bisexual, "something else" and "I don't know the answer." Transgenders, the "T" in LGBT, were not included.

The survey found that a mere 1.6 percent of the adult population self-identifies as "lesbian/gay," and an even smaller 0.7 percent told interviewers they were bisexual. The bisexuals were outnumbered by the 1.1 percent who didn't know, wouldn't answer or said they were "something else."

This result was far from the 10 percent that homosexual rights advocates have claimed since the 1970s.

5) Ninety seven percent of scientists agree that global warming is manmade and dangerous.

How do you prove 97% of people agree with you? Find a tiny subset of a group that thinks just like you do and claim that it speaks for a much larger group of people. Joseph Bast and Roy Spencer did an excellent piece explaining how this works at the WSJ.

Another widely cited source for the consensus view is a 2009 article in "Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union" by Maggie Kendall Zimmerman, a student at the University of Illinois, and her master's thesis adviser Peter Doran.

...The "97 percent" figure in the Zimmerman/Doran survey represents the views of only 79 respondents who listed climate science as an area of expertise and said they published more than half of their recent peer-reviewed papers on climate change. Seventy-nine scientists—of the 3,146 who responded to the survey—does not a consensus make.

...In 2010, William R. Love Anderegg, then a student at Stanford University, used Google Scholar to identify the views of the most prolific writers on climate change. His findings were published in Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. Mr. Love Anderegg found that 97% to 98% of the 200 most prolific writers on climate change believe "anthropogenic greenhouse gases have been responsible for 'most' of the 'unequivocal' warming."

...In 2013, John Cook, an Australia-based blogger, and some of his friends reviewed abstracts of peer-reviewed papers published from 1991 to 2011. Mr. Cook reported that 97% of those who stated a position explicitly or implicitly suggest that human activity is responsible for some warming. His findings were published in Environmental Research Letters.

Mr. Cook's work was quickly debunked. In Science and Education in August 2013, for example, David R. Legates (a professor of geography at the University of Delaware and former director of its Center for Climatic Research) and three coauthors reviewed the same papers as did Mr. Cook and found "only 41 papers—0.3 percent of all 11,944 abstracts or 1.0 percent of the 4,014 expressing an opinion, and not 97.1 percent—had been found to endorse" the claim that human activity is causing most of the current warming.

...Rigorous international surveys conducted by German scientists Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch—most recently published in Environmental Science & Policy in 2010—have found that most climate scientists disagree with the consensus on key issues such as the reliability of climate data and computer models. They do not believe that climate processes such as cloud formation and precipitation are sufficiently understood to predict future climate change.

Surveys of meteorologists repeatedly find a majority oppose the alleged consensus. Only 39.5% of 1,854 American Meteorological Society members who responded to a survey in 2012 said man-made global warming is dangerous.

It's simply untrue that the scientific community has decided almost as a whole that global warming is happening, manmade and problematic. Many scientists believe that's the case. Many others don't. At this point, it's merely a controversial unproven theory.

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2015/12/15/debunking-5-phony-statistics-liberals-love-to-toss-around-n2093733/page/full

[Warph]

France Raids Mosques, Finds Weapons - Truth!

Summary of eRumor:
It's been reported that French officials have raided and shutdown mosques after finding weapons and links to radicalization in them.

The Truth:
Reports that mosques in France have been raided and shut down in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13th are true.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on December 2nd that French officials had shut down three mosques and had detained 22 people who were believed to have participated in "Islamist radicalization." In one of the mosques, located about 22 miles east of Paris, authorities seized a 9mm revolver, a hard drive and documents, the Wall Street Journal reports:[/size

The sweep was part of the government's massive security crackdown in the weeks sincecoordinated attacks on the streets of Paris left 130 people dead and hundreds injured. Since President François Hollande declared a state of emergency the night of the attacks, police have conducted more than 2,200 raids on homes and businesses, detained 232 people and seized 334 weapons, including 34 military weapons.

The other mosques closed since the declaration of a state of emergency are in Lyon and Gennevilliers, a northwestern Paris suburb, Mr. Cazeneuve said. "We will be totally firm against all those who preach hate in France," Mr. Cazeneuve told lawmakers.

Despite the raids, French officials have cautioned against concluding that mosques in France are hotbeds for radicalization. "We must not cut ties with loyal Muslims of good faith," Lagny-Sur-Marne's mayor, Jean-Paul Michel, said on French television channel BFMTV.

A leading French Imam told Al Jazeera that many more shutdowns were likely in the days ahead. Hassan El Alauoi said that he expected between 100 and 160 mosques to be closed based on conversations with the interior ministry:

"This kind of speech shouldn't even be allowed in Islamic countries, let alone secure countries like France," El Alaoui, who became the first Muslim prison chaplain-general in 2005, said.

The recent mosque closures, he added, were made under "a legal act that the authorities have" and must have happened because "of some illegal things that they found".

The imam also rejected those suspected of carrying out the suicide bomb and gun attacks, which left 130 people dead, as "terrorists".

So, it's true that three mosques have been shut down in Paris, and that more shutdowns could follow.

https://www.truthorfiction.com/france-raids-mosques-finds-weapons/

[Warph]

'Jail to the Chief'
( Intellectual Froglegs)

VIDEO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7uQu1iWHuwU#t=139