http://www.notmytribe.com the myth of middle ground Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:09:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/are-you-middle-class-84636.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. http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/confusing-actuarial-lies-for-statistics-84655.html The Republican Cult has ended its convention, the nationalistic furvor was enough to make even a German Nazi blush. Manchurian Candidate McCain accepted the GOP nomination last night. Gawd help us! http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/mccain-is-just-another-cheney-puppet-84656.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! http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/documentation-of-sarah-palins-rise-84657.html   THE MAN WITH A HOE http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/the-man-with-a-hoe-84653.html Like 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 ... http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/they-had-hid-shit-in-bags-84649.html "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?" http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/republican-speeches-reach-for-not-out-84647.html MSNBC, CNN, FOX et al are still giving more coverage to the RNC, and rolling out the usual election disinformation. http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/barack-obama-the-liberal-french-elitist-84650.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 ... http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/go-to-hell-you-gop-assholes-84646.html Someone 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: http://www.notmytribe.com/2008/sarah-plain-um-palin-84644.html