New blogger, and our ecomnomy.

Hey I'm Chetblong, an admin from the English Wikipedia. I consider myself a republican conservative, yet in some things I lean to the middle. I hope to write an entry here soon, but for now just two questions:

What do you think about our economy right now? Which candidate do you think will help solve the crisis, and why?

Al gore

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/4129

I think we can all agree that Al Gore is an idiot.

Personal introduction as a new member

Hi everybody. For those that don't me, I'm Leonard^Bloom, here and on en.wiki (I have SUL though). (Also, for two posts on the google.group, my nick was jjj; currently Leonard^Bloom). I specialize in international politics and civil issues. I don't really keep up with election business and such; I prefer watching the world "go down in flames" through an international lense. For most issues, I'm a liberal democrat, but I don't really approve of partisan politics, so don't hold me to a label. I'm a pascifist, humantarian, and civil rights activist (that's the jist of it).

In order to not bore anyone, I pose a question:

"Has the U.N. failed at its goal?"

Feel free to define goal as whatever you wish, but be sure to back it up.

interesting stats

Why Do Politicians and The Main Stream Media Distort the Numbers? Military Deaths!

Military losses, 1980 through 2006 These are some rather eye-opening facts. Since the start of the war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan, the sacrifice has been enormous. In the time period from the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 through today, we have lost over 3,000 military personnel to enemy action and accidents As tragic as the loss of any member of the US Armed Forces is, consider the following statistics: The annual fatalities of military members while actively serving in the armed forces from 1980 through 2006: 1980 ........ 2,392 1981 ......... 2,380 1984 ......... 1,999 1988 .......... 1,819 1989 .......... 1,636 1990 ....... 1,508 1991 .......... 1,787 1992 .......... 1,293 1993 .......... 1,213 1994 .......... 1,075 1995 ...........2,465 1996 ......... 2,318 Clinton years @14,000 deaths 1997 .......... 817 1998 ......... 2,252 1999 .......... 1,984 2000 .......... 1,983 2001 .......... 890 2002 .......... 1,007 2003 ........ 1,410 2004 .......... 1,887 2005 ...... 919 2006.......... 920 Bush years (2001-2006): 7,033 deaths If you are confused when you look at these figures, so was I. Do these figures mean that the loss from the two latest conflicts in the Middle East are LESS than the loss of military personnel during Mr. Clinton 's presidency; when America wasn't even involved in a war? And, I was even more confused; when I read that in 1980, during the reign of President (Nobel Peace Prize winner) Jimmy Carter, there were 2,392 US military fatalities! These figures indicate that many members of our Media and our Politicians will pick and choose. They present only those "facts" which support their agenda-driven reporting. Why do so many of them march in lock-step to twist the truth? Where do so many of them get their marching-orders for their agenda? Our Mainstream Print and TV media, and many Politicians like to slant; that these brave men and women, who are losing their lives in Iraq, are mostly minorities! Wrong AGAIN! Just one more media lie! The latest census, of Americans, shows the following distribution of American citizens, by Race: European descent (White) ...... 69.12% Hispanic ........................................ 12.5% Black............................................ 12.3% Asian ............................................... 3.7% Native American .......................... . ..1.0% Other ............................................ ... 2.6% Now.. here are the fatalities by Race; over the past three years in Iraqi Freedom: European descent (white) ...... 74.31% Hispanic .................................... 10.74% Black ........................................ 9.67% Asian ........................................... 1.81% Native American ........................ 1.09% Other ........................................... . 0.33% You do the Math! These figures don't lie, but, Media-liars figure and they sway public opinion ! (These statistics are published by Congressional Research Service, and they may be confirmed by anyone at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf ) Now ask yourself two questions: "Why does the mainstream Print and TV Media never print statistics like these?" and "Why do the mainstream media hate the (world wide) web as much as they do?" Submitted by Roy B. reposted from its a very interesting bit of information

Enthusiastic supporters

Out of all the campaigns this year, Ron Paul really seemed to have the most enthusiastic supporters, while holding single digits in primary polls. Rudy Giuliani, meanwhile, lead national polls, yet he had some of the least enthusiastic supporters. Why is this? Has anyone figured this out?