From the OK Cupid site. (Note that I was not on the site for dating purposes.)
You are a Social Liberal (88% permissive)
and an…
Economic Liberal (26% permissive)
You are best described as a: Strong Democrat
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Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid
Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test
Here’s a previous political compass I took back in 2003:
In case you missed it, yesterday Bush was taking questions in the Rose Garden after his recent Wag the Dog visiting Iraq stunt, and he stopped to give a reporter a hard time for wearing sunglasses while asking him a question. Turns out the reporter is blind.
Not the first time the president has made this particular type of mistake, either. Back on May 9th, he gave a guy in a wheelchair a hard time for sitting down in is presence.
I wondered when I read about this whether Bush had watched that West Wing episode where Jed Bartlett chastizes the Dr. Laura-type character for remaining seated in the presence of the president, and decided that he gets to call people out for not respecting him. Too bad Bush doesn’t merit any of the respect normally accorded to the Oval Office.
Regarding the same-sex marriage ban:
“I don’t believe there’s any issue that’s more important than this one,” said Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican.
Note where the guy is from — a state who’s citizens are still displaced all over the country, who had a major U.S. city destroyed last year.
Great idea — Drinking Liberally: “An informal, inclusive progressive drinking club. Raise your spirits while you raise your glass, and share ideas while you share a pitcher. Drinking Liberally gives like-minded, left-leaning individuals a place to talk politics. You don’t need to be a policy expert and this isn’t a book club – just come and learn from peers, trade jokes, vent frustration and hang out in an environment where it’s not taboo to talk politics.”
Indianapolis has a chapter, with an email mailing list and forums. I signed up, and I’ll be going once we get the house squared away.
Courtesy of this live journaler:
Can we keep the immigrants and throw out the morons who don’t know how to spell? Honk for English, indeed.
From the crushworthy site NonSequitur:
So while many liberals may perhaps share the satisfaction of having been right about Iraq and Afghanistan from the very beginning, this does not mean (1) that they are gleeful over the damage that has been done to America, and more perniciously, (2) that they brought it about or desired it. The current weakening of America’s standing in the world was one of the arguments against silly saber rattling and thinly justified foreign misadventures, not the desired outcome. Taking them to task for having been right all along, as is the current fashion among those who were wrong all along, is like blaming mathematics for your inability to add.
Graphpaper.com has an interesting series of articles on what the real implications of the NSA datamining program really are for average Americans and their privacy and freedom from government abuse. The polls are showing that people seem unconcerned about data mining — until they actually have data mining explained to them, and they start to realize exactly how vulnerable to abuse they are as a result.
NSA Data Mining 1: If you aren’t against it, then you don’t really understand it.
NSA Data Mining 2: So you think you have nothing to hide?
NSA Data Mining 3: Wiretaps? Maybe not. Stakeouts? Definitely.
NSA Data Mining 4: Total Information Awareness, Resurrected
One of the major points he illustrates is that even if you’re innocent, you can get caught up in a government investigation if anyone arround you is suspicious — and he’s got some social networking charts to show you exactly what that could mean.
THE death threat was delivered to Karazan’s father early in the morning by a masked man wearing a police uniform.
The scribbled note was brief. Karazan had to die because he was gay. In the new Baghdad, his sexuality warranted execution by the religious militias.
The father was told that if he did not hand his son over, other family members would be killed.
What scares the city’s residents is how the fanatics’ list of enemies is growing. It includes girls who refuse to cover their hair, boys who wear theirs too long, booksellers, liberal professors and prostitutes. Three shops known to sell alcohol were bombed yesterday in the Karrada shopping district.
In this atmosphere of intolerance and intimidation, the militias have made no secret of their hatred of homosexuals.
This is what we started a war to promote? This is our vision of a free Iraq?
According to the Washington Post:
Forever Pregnant
Guidelines: Treat Nearly All Women as Pre-Pregnant
New federal guidelines ask all females capable of conceiving a baby to treat themselves — and to be treated by the health care system — as pre-pregnant, regardless of whether they plan to get pregnant anytime soon.
Among other things, this means all women between first menstrual period and menopause should take folic acid supplements, refrain from smoking, maintain a healthy weight and keep chronic conditions such as asthma and diabetes under control.
Combine that with this information from the New York Times:
Wider Use of DNA Lists Is Urged in Fighting Crime
The F.B.I.’s DNA database can now be searched only for exact matches to DNA found at crime scenes. But with slight modifications, it could be searched for close relatives of whoever left the DNA.
“Genetic surveillance would thus shift from the individual to the family,” the scientists, Frederick R. Bieber and David Lazer, say in an article in today’s issue of Science.
And then there’s this interesting information about the company providing data-mining to the Federal Goverment:
The leader in the field of what is called “data mining,” is a company, formed in 1997, called, “ChoicePoint, Inc,” which has sucked up over a billion dollars in national security contracts.
You should be more concerned that they are linking this info to your medical records, your bill purchases and your entire personal profile including, not incidentally, your voting registration. Five years ago, I discovered that ChoicePoint had already gathered 16 billion data files on Americans — and I know they’ve expanded their ops at an explosive rate.
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The company publicly denied they gave DNA to the Feds — but then told our investigator, pretending to seek work, that ChoicePoint was “the number one” provider of DNA info to the FBI.
All I can say is, you’re on some dangerous ground, Federal Government.
