Years of statistical process control give me a feeling for statistics. As my father said, "figures don't lie, but lier's figure like crazy" I've done an informal survey on the job. ( All data is from observation & not from govt. or news sources. Figure a 20% maybe factor here - that makes it better than a NBC poll )
In bad neighborhoods, a substantial percentage, ( 17-35% at a first cut ) of people have relatives or significant others ( not married, but sperm donors ) in jail or prison. There is little race bias involved in the prison #'s. There is race bias in the unmarried children #. Govt. sources put it at 70% "bastards" in the black community, less but still crappy in white, better in Hispanic, better in vietnamese, chinese, & cambodian populations.
The prison #'s show a correlation for fatherless sons, and illegal immigrants. The prison #'s are slowly tipping toward South & central American trespassers, including Mexico and away from African-Americans. Indian (asia subcontinent ) & China immigrants are rising steadily, but don't figure much in the crime stats yet, mostly due to stable marriages.
Race has little to do with it. I have no doubt there are some racist cops, judges & jurors, but that's not the actual reason people go to jail. They go to jail because they are crappy criminals. With only mom at home.
And, Van Jones, the communist revolutionary, & and a successful one, give him credit. still works for Obama. Still gets his pay from your pocket, and still influences policy.
(Message edited by aesquire on September 07, 2009)
If you'd like to see the results of the study, you can register and pull the data down. Ultimately, it follows families with unwed mothers from birth on. They've been conducting the study for 10 years.
We were the control group, but the questions were amazing.
"Is there someone living in the home who regularly physically abuses you?"
"How many days a week would you say that there is not enough food to provide two or more meals a day?"
"How often does the father of your child visit the home?"
"Does your child know who his or her father is?"
"How often have you had to move over the last year as a result of an eviction notice?"
The Van Jones (non) feeding frenzy By: Byron York Chief Political Correspondent 09/04/09 11:30 AM EDT
From a Nexis search a few moments ago:
Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the New York Times: 0. Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the Washington Post: 0. Total words about the Van Jones controversy on NBC Nightly News: 0. Total words about the Van Jones controversy on ABC World News: 0. Total words about the Van Jones controversy on CBS Evening News: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the New York Times: 0. Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the Washington Post: 0. Total words about the Van Jones controversy on NBC Nightly News: 0. Total words about the Van Jones controversy on ABC World News: 0. Total words about the Van Jones controversy on CBS Evening News: 0.
Why would the propaganda organs of the Party publish bad stuff?
Scenario A: The supposedly inept president of the United States carefully planned and orchestrated the worst terrorist attack on American soil in our history. Though “only” 3,000 people died, the plan was to kill many more by simultaneously attacking the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and either the U.S. Capitol or the White House itself on Sept. 11, 2001.
Hundreds of people, including personnel from myriad agencies, participated. According to some versions of Scenario A, explosives were placed at the World Trade Center to ensure success. In other versions, all of “the Jews” working there were tipped off by some phone bank run by the Mossad. In every version, however, the U.S. government was in on it, and everyone involved kept the biggest secret in American history.
Then there’s Scenario B: An ambitious and extremely clever politician, who has at best been selectively forthcoming about large chunks of his youth, lied about his place of birth so he could be eligible for the presidency.
To further this scheme, he has arranged for the full and/or original version of his birth certificate to remain under lock and key. At most, a handful of supporters and lawyers are in on the whole thing.
Now, which one is more believable? For the record, I don’t believe either. But it seems to me the “birther” hypothesis is vastly more plausible than the “truther” hypothesis. Politicians lie to advance their careers. You can look it up. Whole governments rarely orchestrate incredibly complex acts of physics, logistics, and mass murder all the while pinning guilt on others (who boast that they acted alone).
Just for clarification: “Truthers” believe Scenario A. “Birthers” believe Scenario B. .....
And if you believe that both of these paranoid delusions is a cosmic joke, you don't get press time, at all.
