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KERRY WON NEW YORK
Red state/blue state differences noted:
Children exposed to intense urban air pollution while in the womb are 2.9 times more likely to be developmentally disabled at age 3, a New York study says.
The Columbia University research found 42 of 183 children exposed to the highest level of exhaust fumes from vehicles and power plants scored an average 5.7 points lower on cognitive tests administered at age 3.
Hmm. It’s possible inner-city types may be inclined towards idiotic environmentalism due to their brains being polluted.
My Brooklyn born and raised, Long Island dwelling mom was in the hospital on election day. She called me because she was “afraid that Kerry might win and it was too late to get an abentee ballot.” She wanted me to speak to the nurse to have a taxi or an ambulette take her to her polling place.
I told her know, Kerry was going to easily win New York, her Congressman was going to not quite as easily get re-elected, and that she should rest.
She is also a woman who when Hillary Clinton was announced the winner in the Senate race, she went into the den, closed the shudders and lights and sat there quietly in the dark for 15 minutes (my Dad called—he was afraid she was not going to come out).
Children exposed to intense urban air pollution while in the womb are 2.9 times more likely to be developmentally disabled at age 3, a New York study says.
Let’s see now….What does this tell us about the parents? Unless of course, one posits that all this urban air pollution started with George Bush 41….skipped Billy and Al and commenced again when George Bush 43, was as Al (as he snickers and sneers the words I own a bunch of friggin’ stock in Occidential Petroleum) would say “selected”.
Which Australian states are red/blue? (Green/yellow?)
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 05 31 at 01:05 PM • permalinkUntil I know the protocols of this study, I’ll take it with a grain of salt. Also, it could apply to any large city in any state, not just New York. Supposedly any study by a prestigious East Coast university would take everything into consideration, including all the other problems that inner city children face. But then again… university… East Coast… etc.
I’m sorry, but this is just stupid.
This is algore-lite.I suppose that the other 141 kids lived near E-85 stations.
5.7 lower than WHAT!!?
How many of the 141 scored 5.7 point higher than WHATEVER?
Would 42 of 183 kids living in Glendive, Montana or No Wood, Wyoming score 5.7 points lower than WHATERVER?
7. (I’m assuming it’s 6 you’re questioning): Australian teams play in green and yellow colo(u)rs.
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 05 31 at 02:19 PM • permalinkI think there may be another factor they’re not taking into account. Hmm, let’s see, what genetic factor could correlate with a cognitive deficit?
Posted by robert speirs on 2006 05 31 at 02:32 PM • permalink#12,
That moonbats give birth to moonbats?
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2006 05 31 at 03:06 PM • permalinkHmmmm.
Something tells me that the major problem discovered by this study ... is the study itself.
Posted by memomachine on 2006 05 31 at 03:07 PM • permalinkThe US has experienced 30+ years of continuously cleaner air, so if the premise of the study (diminished cognition) is correct, there should be an inordinate number of cognitively disabled adults as a result of having experienced in-utero exposure to massively higher levels of urban air pollution over the past 4+ decades.
In fact, given the improving air quality in the developed world over the past 3 decades (London’s air quality is the best in 400 years), and given the premise of the study, people (generally) should be getting smarter, as copared to earlier cohorts.
Scientific assumptions often don’t make common sense—this one doesn’t even pass the smell test!
Thanks paco. I am still sad (and more than a year later my eyes tear when typing it) but not as sad as when my Dad died. My Mom really died the day my father passed and she never started to live again.
The really strange and scary thing was towards the end, as she slipped in and out of it, she started speaking in Italian to me (she never did, as she spoke a dialect and I learned my bad but proper Italian in school).
#6
Which Australian states are red/blue? (Green/yellow?)
Our Federal elections are determined on an electorate by electorate basis, not on states won. Eg, if the Coalition (like the GOP) wins 100 electoral seats and Labor (like the Dems) wins 90, the Coalition forms the government and elects the Prime Minister from among it’s Parliamentary members.
At the moment, all our State Governments are Labor Governments, but it seems to have little bearing on Federal outcomes.
We have areas that traditionally vote for one party all the time, known as “safe seats”. Seats that change hands regualarly are known as “swinging seats”. Part of the reason the Coalition keeps winning Federal elections is that working class areas, formerly safe for Labor, have swung to the Liberal (Howard’s) Party.
Oh, and to further complicate things, Labor, being left, is represented by the colour red, while the coalition is represented by (Royal) blue.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 05 31 at 05:13 PM • permalink20. Thank you for the explanation. Is Queensland more blue, Sydney/NSW more red?
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 05 31 at 05:23 PM • permalinkQueensland is traditionally a more conservative state. Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong are certainly inhabited by a high concentration of left wing types - from the working class die hards to loony-left pinko-poofo-lezzo-greeno types. The rest of NSW has traditionally been poltically conservative. However, in recent years the Western part of Sydney, which for 100 years was a power base for the left, has been voting conservative. Similarly a couple of coastal areas of NSW which have forever been staunchly conservative have experienced a massive influx of hippies, bludgers, druggos and, most significantly, Mastercard Marxists and Champagne Socialists. This has resulted in several seats, held by conservative parties since federation, to be held by the ALP.
Thank you for the explanation. Is Queensland more blue, Sydney/NSW more red?
Queensland, being about mainly farming and mining, tends to be conservative, except for the south-east (cityfied) corner.
NSW is a bit of a mixture. Rural areas tend to vote National Party (Coalition) and the old “steel cities”, Newcastle and Wollongong tend to vote Labor.
In Sydney the richer areas such as the Eastern Suburbs and the Lower and Upper North Shore vote Liberal. The Inner City is full of socially aware yuppies, so it votes Labor and Green, generally. The main concern for Labor is the change of preference of a lot of their safe West and Inner West seats for the Liberal party.
You might argue that the Liberal Party is now the “party of the workers”, while Labor tries to shore up the loss by coaxing the lefty minorities into their camp.
As your own Democratic party found, wooing a majority of minorities will still not beat the middle.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 05 31 at 05:47 PM • permalinkI wish pollution could be blamed for the red/blue division. Sadly, while the root cause is probably environmental, it’s more likely the screwball and self-hating cultural environment created and nurtured by a gaggle of leftoid idiots.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 31 at 06:26 PM • permalinkContinuing chinesearithmatic’s Australian psephological education.
An odd feature of the Oz political scene in the past 5 to 7 years is that ALL the State and Territory governments are Labor (maybe the NT govt has been Labour for only 3 years). Yet the same population has elected JoHo and his conservative government 4 times in a row.
The ‘common wisdom’ is that the population wants a bit each way. A conservative federal govt looking after defence, border security, the economy, national social issues), but more ‘progressive’ State governments.
Also some ‘fear’ as to what Labor would do if in total control of the country (imagine the Democrats in EVERY state and the White House!).
A big factor also is that the State liberals have had a succession of dingbats as leaders & there is almost constant in-fighting.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 05 31 at 07:02 PM • permalink#9 & 10
Rebecca/YoJimbo
Agreed, this study reeks of having first reached a conclusion and only later going into the field to collect supporting evidence.
There are too many variables at play to draw such a sweeping conclusion on just one set of them.
Global Warming anyone?
Imagine as well just how much more the rate of diagnosis for a disability (And all the accompanying state $cha-$ching that brings in per pupil) occurs in urban lefty victim enclaves than in does in the self-reliant red zones.
This just in: Children living near lakes, rivers and swimming pools have a higher rate of drowning. Columbia study finds that Bush/Republican policys cause them to be poorer swimmers.
...or something.
there should be an inordinate number of cognitively disabled adults as a result of having experienced in-utero exposure to massively higher levels of urban air pollution over the past 4+ decades.
Have you met Dennis Hastert?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 31 at 08:01 PM • permalinkThis is another ideological cock-up. A similar study 30-odd years ago about environmental lead reached similar but still entirely wrong conclusions.
I’ll spell it out for the thicko authors. Look where the sample is drawn from. Intense urban air pollution, i.e., low rent rent disticts. Who lives in low rent districts? The urban underclass. What are characterisitics of this set? Poor health, poor employment records, lower intelligence, poor parenting - poor everything.
You’ll get similar deficits in areas of high concentrations of urban poor anywhere, irrespective of pollution levels. Example: Wagga Wagga, where the delightful country air is crystal clear.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 06 01 at 05:01 AM • permalink24, 26. In the 70s movie Newsfront, the great Bill Hunter admonishes his Pom assistant by saying that regarding John Curtin, you don’t get witty. Do we not get witty?
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 06 01 at 08:54 AM • permalinker, sorry chinesearithmatic - did I miss a tongue-in-cheek?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 06 01 at 09:29 AM • permalink35. Sorry for the obscurity. Is Curtin the Australian FDR, Churchill, etc.?
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 06 01 at 10:14 AM • permalinkHmmmm.
Oh, and to further complicate things, Labor, being left, is represented by the colour red, while the coalition is represented by (Royal) blue.
Actually I read somewhere that until recently the GOP was represented in blue and the Democrats were painted red. Frankly I’ve been goofing off with politics for years and I never really noticed.
Posted by memomachine on 2006 06 01 at 11:33 AM • permalinkU.P.I.
Children exposed to intense urban air pollution while in the womb
Anybody who thinks they’ve got “intense urban air pollution” in NYC needs to spend some time in South Korea.
Anybody thinks they’ve got a linkage identified between “intense urban air pollution” and commonplace stupidity needs to spend some time reviewing all the factors they left out of the study:
- all-sugar diet
- imbecilic parents
- too much GODDAMN television
- imbecilic educators
- crowding and the crime that goes with it
- non-Mozart background music
- etc etc etc
I missed the paragraph where those factors, or ANY other factors, are logically or empirically ruled out as being causitive factors. Of course, all I read is the UPI wire story, which isprobablytypically just a padded-out version of the paper’s abstract.
Short version, bad science, filtered through bad journalism. Insufficient skepticism, too.Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 06 01 at 04:11 PM • permalink36: Curtin was Prime Minister during WW2 but died just before the end of the war. The concensus seems to be that he did a good job when in an impossible position, at least without the support of the US, when the Japanese attacked. (Also, Jap midget subs launched torpedos in Sydney harbour and the Japs bombed Darwin about 50 times. many hundreds of casualties. WW2 did come to the Australian mainland.)
When the war in the Pacific began he made no bones that Australia looked to the US and not the traditional ‘mother country’ England. He had a major stoush with Churchill about the deployment of Australian troops returning from the Middle East - Churchill wanted them in Burma but Curtin made sure they returned to Australia to defend it.
Possibly more FDR than Churchill but my WW2 history isn’t that flash.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 06 01 at 06:51 PM • permalink
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So that‘s what’s wrong with the inner-city “education system”: They’re stupefied before they even start….
(I don’t know what excuse that gives the teachers, tho….)