Whereas Dickey would love nuthin' more than to try yet again to make this thtread about anything but poverty it is a thread about poverty... Not voting machines... Not Democrats... And certainly not about his silly juvinilistic yes/no games...

BTW, I belive I was the first here in Mudville to use the yes/no thing but I don't live in yes/no-burg as if it's the only game in town... Right now it has turned Dickey into a one-trick-pony...

BTW, Dickey... When did I, as you state in your above post, ever say I never or don't use stats??? You won't find that in my over 5 ot 6 years here... I have said alot of things about stats but never that I never use them... Some stats are purdy straight forward and hard to manipulate... Those are the ones that I am more pat to use ratehr than the ones that my college stats professor used to throw out as examples of how one goes about proving that 1 is equal to 2...

Now as for Democrats... A part of jump starting the war on poverty is assuming that the Democrats get their funding from similar sources as the Republicans: corporations... This does not bode well for and jump startin' seein' as a resumjed war on poverty is going to involve wrestling resources away from the corporate fat cats...

No, this is most likely going to involve a 3rd party and the time has never been better... Voters voted for Dems in the "06 election less because they had ***confidence*** the Dems would do a better job but more because they had lost ***confidence*** in the Republicans... So for anyone to think that a sweep by the Dems in '08 to a point where the Senate has the votes to shut own a fillibuster will signal a jum,p start on the war on poverty, think again...

Yeah, okay, national "single payer" health insurance will make it's way into serious discussion and that's all well and good but a serious discussion about poverty and inequity ain't gonna happen...

My Senator, Jim Webb, has been trying to get folks to listen to him about this issue but they are ignoring him as if he were talking to them from a radiation pit...

Well, got band rehersal so gotta go... Opening for the Nighthawks this Friday night and gotta tighten up the sound a little...

Later...

B~