Time for a new poll, everybody! In alphabetical order of their last names, here are the current candidates. Which one should be President? I’m very curious to see what the political distribution of our readership is.
I will make this poll sticky for a while, so scroll down for new posts.
Argh, I failed! I wanted to post this:
but I’m inept.
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I keep encountering this word Chthulhu everywhere but I have no idea what it means. Some movie character?
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It’s a malevolent entity created by H. P. Lovecraft that has become quite iconic.
If you enjoy horror stories, you can try reading “The Call of Cthulhu” 😀
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I think you can find out all you need to know, pop-cultural wise, just from reading it up on Wikipedia. That may even be the better source, since Cthulhu hasn’t entered the mainstream without being changed.
If that leaves you curious, the typical collection of H.P. Lovecraft short stories including all the important classics is like 250 pages or so.
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You can find almost all his writings online here:
http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/index.html
Here’s the opening to The Call of Cthulhu:
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
Theosophists have guessed at the awesome grandeur of the cosmic cycle wherein our world and human race form transient incidents. They have hinted at strange survivals in terms which would freeze the blood if not masked by a bland optimism. But it is not from them that there came the single glimpse of forbidden eons which chills me when I think of it and maddens me when I dream of it. That glimpse, like all dread glimpses of truth, flashed out from an accidental piecing together of separated things – in this case an old newspaper item and the notes of a dead professor. I hope that no one else will accomplish this piecing out; certainly, if I live, I shall never knowingly supply a link in so hideous a chain. I think that the professor, too intented to keep silent regarding the part he knew, and that he would have destroyed his notes had not sudden death seized him.
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“Ex ignorantia ad sapientiam; e luce ad tenebras …”
Ja, wir sind alle hier lateinische Gelehrten, oder vielleicht fantastische Akademiker von der Universitaet Miskatonic in der Naehe von der Staedt Arkham, dabei dem mythischen Fluss Miskatonic.
Kannst Du bitte eine Landkarte fuer unsere Leser anbieten?
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Can’t help you there — I lost touch with the people I knew at Miskatonic University after they decided they were going to leave their last home of Massachusetts …
The chancellor muttered something about “not knowing that possessing silver bullets without a licence was illegal” before they whisked him away in handcuffs.
🙂
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I must say that I’m surprised to see that there are Trump voters among your readers! (I’m also wondering who people want for the “other” option.)
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“Other” is probably Rubio. Or maybe there are people who hate all the candidates.
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I’m very eager to see if there are any Cruz supporters. Or do they not use the Internet for religious reasons?
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Really? A real Ted Cruz supporter? Who are you, mysterious person?
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“I’m very eager to see if there are any Cruz supporters. Or do they not use the Internet for religious reasons?”
You are aware that it’s possible to be both a Republican and an atheist, right? 🙂
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Yes. But why would an Atheist want Ted Theocracy Cruz to be President?
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“why would an Atheist want Ted Theocracy Cruz to be President?”
A Republican would want whoever gets the party’s nomination to defeat the Democratic candidate and win the Presidency. If Cruz gets the nomination, that means supporting Cruz in the general election, even if you don’t agree with all his views (and didn’t vote for him in the primary election).
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I know there are people who will vote for Cruz because they don’t have a choice. But I don’t think such people will be enthusiastic enough about him to vote for him in polls in early April.
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Too bad a bunch of Cruz and Sanders nuts (not saying all who voted for them, but clearly most) stampeded over, thinking there was some value in manipulating the results. Losers. Wish you could somehow make it just for your real blog readers.
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Ah, drat. The post has been hijacked by some immature loser. And it’s just one person, too.
What a stupid idiot.
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A poll can be gamed. Now I’m curious as to the lurkers who are Cruz-fans who care.about this poll enough to game it but not down vote Cruz posts.
I know of at least one Trump fan who’s commented. Give it some more time.
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This Internet poll is supposed to allow only one vote from a specific computer IP address, but you can trick it into accepting multiple votes by closing your Internet connection, dumping your server’s Internet cache, and then logging back in to vote again.
It’s possible that some people have done that here to run up the Cruz, Sanders, and Trump count — although I can’t imagine what the hell they think they’re proving by coming to this specific website to do it.
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Freaks. Why people would want to waste their lives this way is a mystery.
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Well given that every major party candidate except HRC keeps talking about their polls and hypothetical matchups in polls ad nauseum, why wouldn’t they try to game them?
“My polls are awesome, my polls are huge and impressive like my long fingers”
“My polls show I can defeat Clinton better than Trump”
“My polls show I beat Trump harder than Clinton does”
“My polls show I clean the Democratic party candidate’s clock and I’m and adult why won’t you pick me? Me!”
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Some election music:
So many things to throw on the ground
Like this, and this, and that, and even this
I’m an ADULT!
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“why wouldn’t they try to game them?”
Still, WHY would anybody go to the trouble of gaming a single isolated poll on a politically insignificant website like this one? (I’m not trying to insult Clarissa’s blog, but its overall theme isn’t about politics, and I don’t think either national party, or any of the candidates’ lackeys, check here daily to determine the political pulse of the voters.)
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“My polls are awesome, I’ve had suppressed every single news-worthy item about me, so I don’t have any …”
🙂
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Still, WHY would anybody go to the trouble of gaming a single isolated poll on a politically insignificant website like this one?
Ego. I never said it was a good use of their time. Maybe it’s a weird convoluted way of expressing group allegiance. :-p “I’m gonna defend my candidate’s honor by making this poll come out on top for my candidate. That’ll show Clarissa!”
:-p
Or alternatively maybe all the lurkers really are Bernie and Ted super fans.
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Trolls troll because they are idiots and have nothing better to do with their useless lives. I’ve had many of these losers come to the blog over the years. But this poll was trolled by a single person.
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“But this poll was trolled by a single person.”
I’m curious as to how do you know that, Clarissa???
Does WordPress, or perhaps the poll app software, give you information about individual voters that your readers don’t see?
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“I’m curious as to how do you know that, Clarissa???”
“Does WordPress, or perhaps the poll app software, give you information about individual voters that your readers don’t see?”
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I still don’t see the actual poll …
That’s quite all right, because I’ll simply buy off the real winner as per usual custom. 🙂
[… BTW, did anyone add “Boaty McBoatface” as a candidate yet?]
🙂
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I figured out why I can’t see your poll …
I have a privacy and security suite that takes care of some of the more annoying parts of the Internet, and one of its features is that it quietly removes social media links, up/down votes, and so forth.
And, of course, apparently it does the same thing with polls.
I didn’t remember that comments on here actually have up/down vote buttons because I rarely ever see them. 🙂
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Sanders against Israel:
During the interview, Sanders estimated that 10,000 Palestinian civilians were killed during Operation Protective Edge in 2014.
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[Sanders]:”my recollection is over 10,000 innocent people were killed in Gaza. Does that sound right?”
The interviewer replied, telling the Senator from Vermont that the number he quoted was probably too high. Sanders then said, “I don’t have it in my number…but I think it’s over 10,000. My understanding is that a whole lot of apartment houses were leveled. Hospitals, I think, were bombed. […] with that technology, they could have been more discriminate in terms of taking out weapons that were threatening them.”
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The true number of casualties in Operation Protective Edge, conducted over a period of 50 days in the summer of 2014, is about 2,125. About 44 percent of them were reportedly armed combatants, fighting for Hamas or other terror organizations.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4788487,00.html
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We have all noticed by now that his knowledge of foreign affairs is vague and based on what he reads on obscure, partisan websites.
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Still, he’s the only candidate to have alluded to the suffering of the people in Gaza. Now that’s an obscure and dangerous position to take in american politics.
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It’s only dangerous inasmuch as it bores the voters, just like anything happening overseas does.
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“..as it bores the voters, just like anything happening overseas does.”
She lost the 2008 primaries because of her support for something that happened overseas.
If foreign affairs bores the voters, why is she so gung ho about her Israel support? She never misses an opportunity to tell the voters how Obama is doing it all wrong and she is the greatest friend to that country.
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“She lost the 2008 primaries because of her support for something that happened overseas.”
“If foreign affairs bores the voters”
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Exaggeration robs the message of all value.
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Agreed. The narrative now is that Sanders flubbed the numbers, how ignorant of him. When the message should be that killing “just” 2000 people instead of 10000 is, you know, not cool.
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“The narrative now is that Sanders flubbed the numbers, how ignorant of him.”
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“Exaggeration robs the message of all value.”
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