On Jun 16, 9:53 pm, deadrat <
a...@b.com> wrote:
> On 6/16/13 9:26 PM, Neolibertarian wrote:
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> > In article <
JvKdnbguupR79CPMnZ2dnUVZ_t6dn...@giganews.com>,
> > deadrat <
a...@b.com> wrote:
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> >> On 6/16/13 6:07 PM, Neolibertarian wrote:
> >>> In article <
COOdnVcBitKEoSPMnZ2dnUVZ5hadn...@giganews.com>,
> >>> "Bill Graham" <
w...@comcast.net> wrote:
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> >>>>> In the corporate world, this distraction can usually be considered a
> >>>>> wash. The distraction, the various negative effects on office morale
> >>>>> the opposite sex may bring can be offset by several factors, not the
> >>>>> least of which are the skills and abilities the persons of opposite
> >>>>> sex may bring to the table.
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> >>>>> But the purpose of a corporation is completely different from the
> >>>>> purpose of the military.
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> >>>>> And war is not conducted from inside a room full of tv monitors.
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> >>>> But a little distraction can't be helped.
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> >>> Distractions get you killed in war.
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> >>>> It is not an excuse for relegating
> >>>> all women to a kitchen somewhere in the Midwest, however.
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> >>> That's a pretty silly straw woman argument.
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> >>>> I worked at a job
> >>>> where men and women operated a huge multi million dollar high energy
> >>>> research machine.
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> >>> That's not even close to the military's mission.
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> >>>> We were not any different in our ability to operate the
> >>>> machine, and the difference in sex dodn't bother us at all. We even used
> >>>> the
> >>>> same foul language and laughed at the same dirty jokes.
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> >>> Friend, just because you didn' get slapped with sexual harassment suits
> >>> doesn't mean that the above behavior wouldn't have fully warranted it.
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> >>>> It wouldn;t have
> >>>> mattered to us if we were killing enemy combatants or operating a physics
> >>>> machine.
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> >>> That's what you say...now.
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> >>>> Why would you want to prevent women from doing a useful job that
> >>>> they both want to do and are educated to do?
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> >>> Women are far too important to my civilization to risk their lives for
> >>> so little.
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> >> Please keep telling women how precious they are and how they shouldn't
> >> worry their pretty little heads about things they don't understand.
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> > No one claimed anyone didn't understand, goofy, except you.
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> > They removed logic from the curriculum at your peril.
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> > Women have different roles in human society than men. Pretending
> > otherwise is dangerous on a whole host of levels.
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> > It may not be "fair," whatever that means, but men are expendable to
> > civilization, women are not.
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> Please, please keep advancing this argument. Women love to hear how men
> think women are so important to civilization that they need to be
> protected by men from making individual choices that are reserved for men.
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> Women love to hear men deciding on what's "fair" for "civilization."
> That's because they know that they can't make up their minds for
> themselves without putting "civilization" in peril.
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> Please, please keep making this argument until they understand. My
> guess is that they'll understand so clearly that you'll want to repeal
> the 19th Amendment.
yep, as they double down on rape and ultrasounds, the educated are
noticing. lets hope they keep it up.
we are watching not only a demographic change, but a change related to
education: the party of rape and fetal ultrasounds, does not look to
good to the educated: virginia, a case study of red turning blue:)))
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-18/virginia-losing-republican-grip-of-old-with-new-voters.html?cmpid=yhoo
Virginia Losing Republican Grip of Old With New Voters
By Michael Tackett - Jun 17, 2013 7:00 PM CT
The downtown in Leesburg, Virginia, offers a portrait of attachment to
the past. Federal-style buildings line the streets, and the courthouse
square features both a plaque commemorating a reading in 1776 of the
Declaration of Independence and a statute honoring Confederate
soldiers.
The picture is misleading.
The Loudoun County Courthouse stands in Leesburg, Virginia. Areas like
Leesburg used to be seen as discrete communities rather than part of a
larger metropolitan area, and the politics were predictably
Republican. Photographer: Tracy A. Woodward/The Washington Post via
Getty Images
Virginia's Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling, a Republican who said his
party is becoming "too ideological" and stayed out the governor's race
because of that, said Republicans are on the wrong side of change.
Photographer: Alex Wong/Getty Images
A more accurate rendering reveals a downtown that gives way to
suburban growth that has made Loudoun County the wealthiest in the
U.S. Technology companies, many with ties to the federal government,
and other businesses fueled by the development have stoked an economy
attracting higher educated workers and minority populations that have
soared since 1990 -- a five-fold increase of Hispanics and seven times
the number of Asians.
Located 40 miles from Washington, D.C, Loudoun County is now
considered by White House officials to be one of the best bellwethers
for presidential elections. President Barack Obama won there in 2008,
the first Democrat to do so since Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and again in
2012, victories that signaled how shifting economic and population
trends are refashioning the politics of Virginia and the nation.
“We are seeing a solidly red state turn blue,” said Dustin Cable, a
demographer at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for
Public Service in Charlottesville. “Virginia is really ground zero for
a lot of what we see at the national level.”
Varying Forces
The forces of change in Virginia vary from that in other states where
shifting partisan preferences are driven by Hispanic population
growth. That’s because the Old Dominion is also seeing a rise in Asian
voters and in the number of residents with masters or doctorate
degrees. In the recent presidential and U.S. Senate races in the
state, Democrats also have been successful in winning over suburban
independent women and younger voters in the suburbs outside of
Washington.
Democrats have won because of the combination of the demographic
changes and the policy positions taken by Republicans on issues such
as immigration and abortion rights.
“It’s not just the change in demographics, it is the changing issue
matrix the party has decided to embrace,” said Tom Davis, a former
Republican congressman who represented counties in northern Virginia.
“The social and cultural agenda of the party does not play to these
educated people.”
Fetal Ultrasounds
On abortion, the state legislature stirred a national uproar in 2012
before amending a proposal that would have required doctors to do an
invasive transvaginal ultrasound before the procedure.
“If we are going to be the party of fetal ultrasound, then we are
going to have problems,” said Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling, a
Republican, in an interview in his office in the capital of Richmond.
Republicans still control the state-level politics, holding majorities
in the legislature along with several county boards, including all
nine members in Loudoun County.
That power will be tested in November in the governor’s race between
Republican Ken Cuccinelli, the state attorney general, and Terry
McAuliffe, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Democrats have won seven of 10 of the top races -- president, governor
or U.S. Senator -- since 2001.
Bolling, who said his party is becoming “too ideological” and stayed
out the governor’s race because of that, said his partisan allies are
on the wrong side of change.
Republican Challenge
“One of the challenges the Republican Party faces in Virginia and a
lot of other swing states is how do we remain a conservative party but
still be able to appeal to these changing demographic patterns,”
Bolling said.
“I am a Republican. I am very concerned about the direction of the
Republican Party but I believe in the Republican Party. But I’m not a
happy Republican,” he said.
Growth among minorities is forecast to continue in Loudoun, to 16.7
percent by 2020 from 2.5 percent in 1990, according to University of
Virginia demographers. In adjacent Prince William County, the numbers
rise to almost 24.3 percent from 4.5 percent during the same period.
The Asian population in Loudoun is expected to rise to 17 percent in
2020 from 2.3 percent in 1990; in Prince William, to 9 percent from
2.9 percent.
“Very recently, we have seen a suburbanization of Hispanics and
Hispanic population growth,” Cable said. “The GOP might have a better
chance of appealing to these groups in the future, but in the next
four years to eight years it is going to benefit the Democratic Party
more.”
My Way
Bolling said his colleagues have done a poor job appealing to these
emerging voters, and instead have retreated into a party where “you
are persona non grata unless you agree with them 100 percent of the
way, 100 percent of the time. We’ve got to move beyond that.”
He declined a gubernatorial run after the state party decided to
nominate its candidate at a convention rather than in a primary,
ensuring that its most ideological partisans dominated the process.
“The organizational structure was taken over by the Tea Party groups
and Ron Paul types. They have taken the party in a direction that is
very troubling to me,” said Bolling, in a reference to the former
Texas U.S. House representative who sought the Republican presidential
nomination in 2008 and 2012.
Turnout Matters
Still, Bolling said, if turnout matches historical averages for a
governor’s race, Cuccinelli has a good chance of winning. In 2012, 3.8
million votes were cast in the presidential race, compared to 1.98
million in the last governor’s race, in 2009.
If it approaches the 75 percent level of a presidential year, Bolling
said, “McAuliffe would win in a landslide.”
The Virginia calendar for electing its statewide officials in odd-
numbered years that virtually ensures lower turnout than in
presidential or midterm elections was a product of the Democratic
organization put together by former governor and U.S. Senator Harry
Byrd, who was known for saying his state should offer “massive
resistance” to the desegregation of public schools.
Such themes as attacking government spending, which Republicans have
used to win over voters elsewhere, don’t resonate as much in northern
Virginia because both private and public employers rely on federal
spending. So far, mandatory budget cuts that began this year have done
little to harm the local economy.
Local Economy
“It is doing remarkably well in spite of the federal slowdown,” said
Stephen Fuller, director of the Center for Regional Analysis at
Fairfax, Virginia-based George Mason University. “The suburbs are
holding up better than I would have anticipated.”
Fuller said that in the eight Virginia counties closest to Washington,
the unemployment rate is 4 percent, compared to 7.5 percent
nationally. Among those eight counties, five are ranked in the top 10
wealthiest in the U.S.
In Loudoun, the median home price in May was $425,000, up 5 percent
from a year ago, according to Long & Foster Real Estate Inc. The
county, which is home to Dulles International Airport, is also a draw
for such technology companies as Orbital Sciences Corp. (ORB),
Raytheon Co. (RTN) and AOL Inc. (AOL) Obama carried Loudoun over
Republican Mitt Romney, 52 percent to 47 percent.
Loudoun and the other seven jurisdictions close to Washington all are
now trending Democratic, even as the state’s more rural areas are
becoming more Republican, said John McGlennon, chairman of the
government department at the University of William & Mary in
Williamsburg, Va.
Loudoun’s support for Obama ran counter to the national trend that
showed Romney winning among voters with incomes over $100,000, 54
percent to 44 percent, according to exit polls.
Educated Voters
“Democrats have been growing support among those with more than a
college education. The proportion of folks with post-graduate degrees
in Virginia is higher than the nation as a whole. That group has moved
most strongly for Democrats,” said McGlennon.
Areas such as Leesburg used to be seen as discrete communities rather
than part of larger metropolitan area, and the politics were
predictably Republican.
Immigrants from a generation ago might have come to these communities
for a job related to agriculture. Now they come to work in health
care, hospitality and consumer services -- along with technology --
changing housing patterns and incomes from those who came before. They
are also increasingly the target of voter registration efforts,
particularly among Democrats.
Davis, who was elected to the U.S. House in 1994 and served until
2008, said he has watched Democrats gain strength in the state’s most
populous region, as his own party has clung to issues he said are out
of step with voters.
“The answer is great candidates can make a difference, but the party
is not interested in great candidates,” he said.