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Email: sbertheaud@mac.com

New Orleans Native: 44 y.o., non practicing MBA, Writer,

Is this possible?

Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 06:20:44 PM PDT

Someone save me if the below is true. I found this posted on claycalhoun.com, one of the local blogs listed on Redstates local blogger project. He referenced "patriotpost.com" as his source. I just can't accept that conservatives f___ more than liberals.

"Simply put, liberals have a big baby problem: They're not having enough of them, they haven't for a long time, and their pool of potential new voters is suffering as a result. According to the 2004 General Social Survey, if you picked 100 unrelated politically liberal adults at random, you would find that they had, between them, 147 children. If you picked 100 conservatives, you would find 208 kids. That's a `fertility gap' of 41%... A state that was split 50-50 between left and right in 2004 will tilt right by 2012, 54% to 46%. By 2020, it will be certifiably right-wing, 59% to 41%. A state that is currently 55-45 in favor of liberals (like California) will be 54-46 in favor of conservatives by 2020--and all for no other reason than babies." --Dr. Arthur Brooks, Syracuse University

Rotton from the inside

Sun Feb 19, 2006 at 05:24:59 AM PDT

I thought this article was very interesting. The Repugs far from being friends are truly a big tent. Lions and Zebras. And there is every indication that they can be made to eat each other. From the east texas review whatever that is.

http://www.easttexasreview.com/...

small excerpt below.

Governor Switch?

Thu Jan 05, 2006 at 08:47:10 AM PDT

Has anyone noticed the possibility of the Dems taking over Governorships in the important area of large electoral vote states. There are seven states with 20 or more electoral votes.

Rx for a liberal WalMart

Tue Dec 06, 2005 at 04:06:55 PM PDT

Well maybe not a liberal Walmart but at least a Walmart that liberals would find more livable. I thought it might be a good idea instead of heaping scorn on Walmart to offer some words that might help them to be better global and American citizens. It doesn't seem so far fetched that they might change. Corporations are not about controversy but about profit and controversy is not profits friend. Walmart may never sell 50 cent albums but it can make these changes to be a more humane store.

Flooding Bush's Fault?

Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 07:33:13 AM PDT

Though I  do not live there now, I am from New Orleans.  I have family there as well as own seven small rental homes. My family is safe but I will be suffer severly financially because of the flood. It is the flood that has caused this not the hurricane and floods are stopped in New Orleans by levees. Levees must be maintained and they have not been maintained.

Is Bush to blame? Worse the Republican party with its attitude that all taxes are bad is to blame. Infrastructure is everything in all modern countries. It is what protects us and enables commerce. This is the Democratic strength whether they will use or not. Taxes are good, are investments and we should embrace them as such. Is this political? Absolutely. This flood, not gods part in it but the governments part is completely political. As was the sniper in the Mid-Atlantic a few years ago. We must be plain spoken and blunt as to where republican policies lead.


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