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Conservatives Talk About Women, pt 2

And lest anyone think I was nutpicking random unrepresentative "conservatives" when I quoted all those FreeRepublic assholes, below, here's Rush Limbaugh doing what he do:

McAuliffe won a landslide among unmarried Virginians, 62 to 29%. That is huge. And, he was especially big with unmarried women, defeating Cuccinelli 67 to 25%, in unmarried women. Unmarried women are looking at government for everything, and when unmarried women look to government for everything, they find Democrats. ..Basically Obamacare and the entire Democrat agenda basically says to unmarried women, "You are discriminated against, you're treated unfairly, you get taken advantage of, you don't get any relationships. Nobody loves you. You end up having babies that you can't support. The dreaded fathers are never around; they walk out on you. They don't pay their child support; we will. They don't pay your prenatal, your postnatal; we will.

What a horrid bunch of people.

99 and 1/2 days

Hey, you know who was a pretty good guitar player?

Jimi Hendrix.

I've been trying to learn the studio version of Red House, just as a technical challenge, and it's kicking my ass.

Are Gun Owners More Racist?

Objective

Racism is related to policies preferences and behaviors that adversely affect blacks and appear related to a fear of blacks (e.g., increased policing, death penalty). This study examined whether racism is also related to gun ownership and opposition to gun controls in US whites.

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Results
After accounting for all explanatory variables, logistic regressions found that for each 1 point increase in symbolic racism there was a 50% increase in the odds of having a gun at home. After also accounting for having a gun in the home, there was still a 28% increase in support for permits to carry concealed handguns, for each one point increase in symbolic racism. The relationship between symbolic racism and opposition to banning handguns in the home (OR1.27 CI 1.03,1.58) was reduced to non-significant after accounting for having a gun in the home (OR1.17 CI.94,1.46), which likely represents self-interest in retaining property (guns).

That, and this, would certainly help explain WTF is up with American "conservatism".

Women Troubles

I'm gonna pull some (most!) of the comments out of this Free Republic thread that I linked to, over in the Web's Golden Bounty, just for posterity.

I apologize if my post appears sexist, but how can statistical FACTS be sexist? This repeated phenomenon of females ELECTING MARXISTS needs to be confronted and defeated. Do females as a whole place more importance on STYLE than they do SUBSTANCE? Don't they realize that when they elect Marxists they are destroying their future children's futures? Why do they not care about or think about this as a consequence of their vote?

For Republicans, THIS IS THE REAL 'ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM' and must be confronted head on. It's time for Republican candidates to call the Democrats out for their manipulation of females with lies and deceptive con games, including the bogus 'War on Women'.

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Why are females so easily manipulated by the Democrats?
Because, I have found, that they vote based on feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelings.

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As your Governor, McAuliffe will help women get two new Obamacare medical mandates:
<><> (1) Orgasmic conditioning---"gynecologists will see an uptick of young patients," said serial fornicator, Sandra Fluck---ObamaCare's Government Orgasm Advisor.
<><> (2) Vaginal rejuvenations----Obamacare is employing surgeons board certified in vaginal rejuvenations (aka "The Wrigley Procedure"--- doubles the pleasure, doubles the fun--lasts longer, too). "

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I'm no dummy. I see what I see EVERY election cycle, and what I see is the same OL' SH!T. The Democrats HYPNOTIZE the females against the 'traditional old white guy' party Republican candidate and IT WORKS.

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Get used to it. Large majorities of women have traded husbands for government and it’s not going to change in your lifetime.

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They epitomize low-information voters.
Their get their talking points from peers in social(ist) networking sites, liberal edited womens’ glossy magazines, and liberal hosted morning tv chat shows.
Would Brangelina, Oprah, and Rosie lie to them?

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I don't understand why so few females 'get it', politically. Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Michelle Bachmann, and lots of the ladies on FoxNews and here at FR are sharp conservatives.. I idolize some of them.
There's an emotional factor that trumps all reasoning or logic. Democrats play to this. Perhaps Republicans need to start UNDERSTANDING THIS and PLAYING TO IT, TOO.

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“Many if not most women feel as passionately about their right to abortion as Conservatives do about their 2nd Amendment rights”
repeal the 19th amendment.

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Sadly brains aren’t always lady parts.

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“Sadly brains aren’t always lady parts.”
It’s the depressive effect of estrogens on the brain that is the real problem. I say this as one who’s had to perform at optimal level even while under their influence.
Think of it like being mad at yourself for thinking with your d*ck.

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I don’t mind losing less than half the female vote by repealing the 19th if it means we get a more logical conversation on rational issues that amounts to more responsible leadership that speaks to issues and not rubbers, pills and free government stuff.

Good people. Salt of the earth. Morons.

h/t The Red Pen.

On The Shoulders Of Giants

Three guys put together a site called the Health Sherpa that does everything Healthcare.org does, but better and faster! OMFG Obama is soooo derp!

wait for it...

wait for it...

wait for it...

Except, the Health Sherpa only breaks down policies based on age (49 or young, 50 or older), dependencies, and by ZIP code. It doesn't provide any information about subsidies or taxes. It doesn't ask about tobacco use. And you can't actually sign up for the policies listed on the site; it just gives you the phone numbers of the various insurance companies whose plans come up. You get to call them up and buy the plan yourself. Freedom, I guess. Well, maybe it's handy. But it's nowhere near what Healthcare.gov is designed to do.

And, not having millions of users trying to use it at once probably does wonders for its performance.

But what about the data that the Health Sherpa uses? That sounds interesting. Sounds like the kind of thing you'd have to have a big research department compiling and verifying and formatting. Right? Sounds like a big job for three guys. Well, that data actually comes from a public API built into Healthcare.gov. Which is to say, the Health Sherpa depends entirely on what Healthcare.gov feeds it. Free market win!

Stupid Obama. You should've just hired these three guys.