Not My Tribe http://www.notmytribe.com the myth of middle ground Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:09:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Are you Middle Class? http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/are-you-middle-class-84636.html http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/are-you-middle-class-84636.html#comments Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:07:00 +0000 Tony Logan http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/are-you-middle-class-84636.html Everybody’s Middle Class these days in America! Go to the Dollar Stores and everybody will tell you that they are mainly Middle Class. Go to Walmart and hear more of the same, whether you are in Sam’s Club or at the Walmart slums.

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]]> http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/are-you-middle-class-84636.html/feed Confusing actuarial lies for statistics http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/confusing-actuarial-lies-for-statistics-84655.html http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/confusing-actuarial-lies-for-statistics-84655.html#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:15:33 +0000 Eric Verlo http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/confusing-accuarial-lies-for-statistics-84655.html LYING WITH STATISTICS. It’s a worn truism, but what do you do when the public’s mathematical literacy ebbs ever lower? Lie without statistics. Give new meaning to mean, median and average. Use false statistics to reinforce the new lie. Here are a couple ugly examples.

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]]> http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/confusing-actuarial-lies-for-statistics-84655.html/feed McCain is just another Cheney puppet http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/mccain-is-just-another-cheney-puppet-84656.html http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/mccain-is-just-another-cheney-puppet-84656.html#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:25:42 +0000 Thomas Mc http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/mccain-is-just-another-cheney-puppet-84656.html The Republican Cult has ended its convention, the nationalistic furvor was enough to make even a German Nazi blush.
feeding lions to christians
Manchurian Candidate McCain accepted the GOP nomination last night. Gawd help us!

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]]> http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/mccain-is-just-another-cheney-puppet-84656.html/feed Documentation of Sarah Palin’s rise http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/documentation-of-sarah-palins-rise-84657.html http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/documentation-of-sarah-palins-rise-84657.html#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:20:03 +0000 NMT http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/documentation-of-sarah-palins-rise-84657.html While you burnish your peace buttons in anticipation of the McCain Shit-talking Express visit to Colorado Springs, check out Mark Lewis’ links on John McCain’s adopted pit-bull Sarah Palin. For example:
McCain camp announces Palin will do no interviews before election, only scripted speeches. See you tomorrow morning!

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]]> http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/documentation-of-sarah-palins-rise-84657.html/feed The Man With a Hoe http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/the-man-with-a-hoe-84653.html http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/the-man-with-a-hoe-84653.html#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:16:20 +0000 Tony Logan http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/the-man-with-a-hoe-84653.html Palin and McCain  THE MAN WITH A HOE

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]]> http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/the-man-with-a-hoe-84653.html/feed They had hid shit in bags! http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/they-had-hid-shit-in-bags-84649.html http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/they-had-hid-shit-in-bags-84649.html#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:58:31 +0000 Tony Logan http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/they-had-hid-shit-in-bags-84649.html big shitLike a carefully choreographed play, accusations by the police that they have uncovered shit and urine stockpiles by protesters has been their routine to cover up their actions at both the Democratic and Republican Party Conventions. By making these false accusations in the press, the police and politicians hope to cover up their own shitty actions against lawful protesters. What they are actually trying to do is make political dissidents in the US out to be of the same stripe as common criminals in the police torture chamber prisons around the US, thus justifying their overkill storm-trooper presence these last two weeks. Thus helping tear up all our legal protections and rights.

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]]> http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/they-had-hid-shit-in-bags-84649.html/feed McCain speech reaches out for nobody http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/republican-speeches-reach-for-not-out-84647.html http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/republican-speeches-reach-for-not-out-84647.html#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:39:01 +0000 Eric Verlo http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/republican-speeches-reach-for-not-out-84647.html Snickering sidekick
“REACHING OUT” is a weaselly expression if I’ve ever heard one. Both Palin and McCain are now described to have “reached out” (ergo connected) to independent voters. Would that spin itself appear to be a “reach?”

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]]> http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/republican-speeches-reach-for-not-out-84647.html/feed Barack Obama the Liberal French elitist http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/barack-obama-the-liberal-french-elitist-84650.html http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/barack-obama-the-liberal-french-elitist-84650.html#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:44:18 +0000 NMT http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/barack-obama-the-liberal-french-elitist-84650.html MSNBC, CNN, FOX et al are still giving more coverage to the RNC, and rolling out the usual election disinformation.

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]]> http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/barack-obama-the-liberal-french-elitist-84650.html/feed GO TO HELL YOU GOP ASSHOLES! http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/go-to-hell-you-gop-assholes-84646.html http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/go-to-hell-you-gop-assholes-84646.html#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:14:00 +0000 Eric Verlo http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/4646-84646.html or what to tell their flock: BUNCH O’ DUMBASSES!
 
I’m looking for suggestions for banners to greet the McCain/Palin ticket and the imbeciles who’d turn up to see them Saturday at Colorado Springs’ private airport … DO THEY TAKE YOU FOR IDIOTS? — ENOUGH LIES! — ABORT PALIN! — CLEMENCY FOR THE “KEATON FIVE!” — WELCOME HOME “POW SONGBIRD!”

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]]> http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/go-to-hell-you-gop-assholes-84646.html/feed Sarah Plain, um, Palin http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/sarah-plain-um-palin-84644.html http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/sarah-plain-um-palin-84644.html#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:41:02 +0000 Marie Walden http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/sarah-plain-um-palin-84644.html Cindy McCain elitist bananaSomeone forgot to tell Cindy McCain that the fashion word on Sarah’s big night was “populist.” Cin’s half-peeled banana outfit was examined by the couture analysts at Vanity Fair and the numbers look like this:

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