It’s time again for our daily weekday ritual, the open thread. I hope you have plenty to talk about.
The perception of the U.S. in world has risen sharply again, for the second year in a row:
For the first time since the annual poll began in 2005, America’s influence in the world is now seen as more positive than negative.
The improved scores for the US coincided with Barack Obama becoming president, a BBC correspondent notes.
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“People around the world today view the United States more positively than at any time since the second Iraq war,” said Doug Miller, chairman of international polling firm GlobeScan, which carried out the poll with the Program on International Policy Attitudes (Pipa) at the University of Maryland.
“While still well below that of countries like Germany and the UK, the global standing of the US is clearly on the rise again.”
The increased standing in the world has already led to some foreign policy breakthroughs like the new START treaty with Russia and with agreements with Ukraine and Canada to transfer their highly-enriched uranium to the U.S. There’s also been progress with Russia on the issue of Iran sanctions.
This is just so hilarious, I don’t know why people would take this the wrong way:
Therefore, we must repeal the 19th Amendment. Yes, the one granting suffrage to women. Because? Well, women are biased.
Just look at the poll results in today’s newspaper.
Men favored the attractive former beauty queen Sue Lowden over the graying Harry Reid by 22 points, while women shunned their gender mate, choosing Reid by a 2-point margin. Which proves women favor Democrats.
Obviously, because what men think is automatically correct, logical and unbiased and if you disagree it’s because you’re illogical and driven by emotion.
I baited the hook and dropped it in the water. It was swallowed hook, line and sinker, rod and reel, up to the elbow, in a piranha-like feeding frenzy.
All I did was pen a bit of light extemporanea for this blog on the statistically demonstrable differences between the sexes when it comes to matters political. OK, I might’ve thrown a little chum in the water by flippantly suggesting the repeal of the 19th Amendment, the one granting suffrage to women. It was just a bit of free hyperbole.
The reaction was painfully predictable, swift and voluble. With a boarding house reach, umbrage was taken.
They bit on the Larry Summers lure.
Mitchell just proves there’s at least three things conservative writers don’t do well: logic, humor or satire.