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Garbage in, garbage out
by JR Mooneyham
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The influence of the irrelevant| |
Excerpt: Attractive women plus cool cars equal brisk sales for auto dealers as men snap up those cars, prompted -- or so advertising theory goes -- by the association. But is the human male really so easily swayed? Can the irrelevant image of an alluring female posing by the merchandise actually encourage a heterosexual man to purchase it?
Possibly, according to a new study by Stanford researchers. |
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Previous Republican-dominated Congresses usually resisted or defied Republican Presidents on at least some matters of importance.
But not the last bunch: instead, they marched in a Nazi-like lockstep on practically every issue with the President.
The most difference they ever displayed was saying something in opposition in public -- but then turning around and doing exactly what Bush wanted in legislation.
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This shows yet another way the crap the mainstream media pushes on us affects our lives -- even when it has nothing whatsoever to do with important matters.
"Garbage in, garbage out", as the old saying goes. Is it any wonder America got stuck with the worst President and Republican Congress in history for so many years just past?
One reason I call the Republican majority houses of the Congress we had during much of Bush's Administration the worst in history is because of how they rubber-stamped virtually everything Bush told them too -- like they were Stalin's Communist cronies in the old USSR. Previous Republican-dominated Congresses usually resisted or defied Republican Presidents on at least some matters of importance. But not the last bunch: instead, they marched in a Nazi-like lockstep on practically every issue with the President. The most difference they ever displayed was saying something in opposition in public -- but then turning around and doing exactly what Bush wanted in legislation. Ugh!
And something lots of Americans don't seem to realize is that our most recent elections didn't actually rid us of the Republican Congressional majorities in a substantial way -- instead, they just gave us thin knife's edge Democratic majorities -- an insufficient quantity to do much to repair the damages wrought by Republicans in previous years of absolute control. Especially while Republicans still wield Presidential veto power -- and beyond that, control of the Supreme Court too. And the corporate media ... (sigh).
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And, I'd add, Democrats have an insufficient majority to do much fighting back, while at least 2/3 of the Democrats in Congress are principle-free and blow in the wind life tumbleweeds, and 2/3 of the rest are what I call Alan Colmes Democrats -- utter wimps willing to compromise on anything and everything.
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