Friday, May 25, 2007

Survey Says!

This is from the New York Times/CBS News poll...

More Americans — 72 percent — now say that "generally, things in the country are seriously off on the wrong track" than at any time since the Times/CBS News poll began asking the question in 1983. The figure had been in the high 60's earlier this year.

But the poll results made clear that the war continues to be the issue Americans are most worried about. Sixty-one percent of respondents now say that the United States should never have taken military action against Iraq, up from 51 percent in a CBS News poll in April and 58 percent in the same poll in January. Seventy-six percent say that things are going badly in the effort to bring stability and order to Iraq, including 47 percent who say they're going very badly.

You notice you don't hear George W. Bush saying, "Stay the course" much these days? Wonder why that is.

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Today's Video Link

These kids today and their music! You can't even understand the lyrics. Why can't they enjoy sensible songs like this classic sung by The KingsMen?

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Surfing the Web

You may have heard that "new scientific findings" cast doubt on the theory (and the belief of some of us) that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone shooter of a Mr. J. F. Kennedy back in '63. I've been reading the articles — like this one — and have come to the conclusion that this new revelation is being hyped, as headline writers tend to do, beyond its merits. One of many pieces of evidence in the assassination investigation was a test that determined that the bullet fragments that were recovered all came from one rifle — Oswald's. What the new study suggests is not that the fragments definitely came from multiple weapons. That's what some of the headlines would lead you to believe...and of course, that would be a much bigger, important story. What the new study says is that the test that was performed may not have been as accurate as we believed.

Okay, fine. May not have been. It also may have come to the right answer. The whole thing is full of "may have"s and "could have"s and nothing that says with any certainty that the fragments didn't come from the one Mannlicher-Carcano. It's an important fact to add to the pile but it sure doesn't prove anything...except maybe that news editors like to hype stories out of proportion. Like we needed any further proof of that.

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