Christine the Lioness penned this

Christopher’s post is very misleading. It’s ironic he is suggesting that the CBS poll was biased, when he did the exact same thing in this post… and he knows it… Christopher is a master manipulator.

1. How does the fact that CBS didn’t report that people felt the Cheney shooting accident was over-reported have ANYTHING to do with Bush’s approval rating? As a matter of fact, since it was the same people asked both questions, it would suggest that more people would be pro-Bush administration if they felt the administration (and particularly Cheney) was getting brow-beaten by the media. Obviously, the additional public sympathy for Cheney over his unfair treatment by the media did nothing to help Bush’s approval rating. But even if you agree with me, there’s still no correlation whatsoever between Bush’s approval rating, and Cheney’s unsafe hunting practices.

2. Christopher mentions a 5% margin of error on the weighting of the results based on Democrat opinion vs. Republican opinion. The problem is… Christopher never links the statistic to give it any value. For that to mean anything, we would need to know what percentage of Democrats and Republicans gave Bush a thumbs up or thumbs down. And in addition, a 5% margin of error is acceptable by any standards in self-reporting surveys.

3. Contracting an Arab country and charging that company with the security of U.S. ports is not a good idea. Again, Christopher is trying to correlate Bush not being racist (a good thing) with trusting homeland security to an Arab country to make it seem like *that’s* a good thing. It isn’t. I’ll tell you why… for the same reason that in order to run for president of the United States, you have to have been born here. Why is that? I’m guessing it’s because we want to know that our President has a vested, personal interest in making sure this country is the top priority. Now, would say, Arnold Schwarzenneger (Governor of California) if he could run for president, put the U.S. interest at the top of his priority list? Probably… does that mean we should let him become president? Hell, no. The same goes for port security. That should be trusted to a company that has a vested interest in keeping the US safe from terrorists… ie– an American company. Geographically speaking, there is a greater chance that terrorists could end up using this remotely controlled port as an entry point simply because they are neighboring that country. Think of it this way… in the U.S. which type of illegal immigrant is it harder for us to find and kick out– a Mexican, or a Russian? Mexicans can “infiltrate” much more easily simply because they are so close to us. The same principle applies over there.

4. No, President Bush isn’t always right. Neither am I? But should we hold the fucking President to a higher standard than Christine from Torrance, California? Fucking I hope so.

5. Eric, I don’t understand your analogy about banging 200 women out here… are the girls in Pennsylvania that much sluttier than the ones in California? And I’m also not sure how the bag of flour comes into play… but come on, darlin’… you gotta come up with something better than that if you don’t want a beat-down from Christopher. I learned the hard way. b-(

February 28th, 2006

Christine the Lioness penned this

So there are lots of U.S.-born American citizens that work for and have an interest in the profit of this “Arab Country based Company?” Or do you think they’re mostly Arabs? You’re missing the point about why a citizen of a certain country has a more vested interest in maintaining that country than a citizen from another country. Let’s face it… most Americans don’t feel safe even travelling to an Arab country right now– ally or not. That basically tells me that we don’t trust those countries’ security measures to keep Americans safe. With that being the general sentiment, why would we feel they can keep our ports safe? And according to your theory, Christopher, that what the most people should think should set the standards here (ie– or little debate about whther or not Brokeback Mountain should be banned or not), then you should definitely realize that if people are up in arms about this being farmed out to an Arab country, then Bush shouldn’t. Period. Besides… weren’t you the one who wanted to keep jobs in America????

March 1st, 2006

Christine the Lioness uttered

You don’t think they’re competent enough to operate call centers, and yet you feel they should be given a shot at making sure our borders are safe. I’m sorry… is there something I’m not getting???

You are a supporter of the Patriot Act which compromises civil liberties of U.S. citizens to make sure safety is enhanced. But you’re not fine with limiting the outsourcing of security at our borders to American our European based companies because that is somehow racist? You really don’t make much sense here, Christopher.

March 1st, 2006

Christine the Lioness quibbed this

And I could hardly compare a company that sells cars to a company charged with keeping U.S. borders safe. Which is more important? Hrmmmmm? Again, trying to connect things to make a point that have no bearing on each other at all.

March 1st, 2006