http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5642962I dunno about anybody else, but I'm inclined to promote the taxing primitive from the
unterprimitiven, the lynch mob, clear up past the third-tier primitives and the second-tier primitives, into first-tier primitivity.
Taxmyth (746 posts) Wed Apr-23-08 10:55 AM
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Advanced Mathematics for Senator Obama supporters
Pay attention now children. We have learned in basic mathematics that 1+1=2. But most real world usage of mathematics involves what is known as a "variable". Sometimes this "variable" is assigned a value, or that value can be easily determined and sometimes it is an "unknown variable".
For example: Barack has 1714 delegates and needs 2024 to win the nomination. Hillary has 1584 delegates and needs 2024 to win the nomination. John has 18 and this is a "known variable". A simple equation using variables would look like this:
Barack: 1714 + X = 2024
Hillary: 1584 + X = 2024
To solve for X we need to isolate the variable on one side of the equation. To do this we simply subtract the 1714 from both sides of the equation for Barack and we have X= 310. Using the same method for Hillary we find that X= 440. Very simple, right children?
Now we are going to make things a little more difficult. We are going to introduce the concept of the "unknown variable". Suppose there are a substantial group of delegates that have not been assigned to either Barack or Hillary. We will assign this group the letter Y. This is how the equations now look:
1714 + (X + Y) = 2024 and 1584 + (X + Y) = 2024. We have already determined the value of X but how do we determine the value of Y?
We know from our reading that Y is composed of two subgroups: Pledged delegates and Super delegates. We will assign the subgroup of Pledged delegates the value of A and we will assign the subgroup of Super delegates the value of B. Our equations now look like this:
1714 + (X + Y) = 2024 - (A + B) and 1584 + (X + Y) = 2024 - (A + B)
We know from our reading that the Pledged delegates variable A will be defined at a later date and will be easily determined at that date. What about the Super Delegate variable B? Now our equation becomes even more difficult. We also know from our reading that some of the Super delegates have thrown their support towards either Barack or Hillary and others will follow before we can determine the value of A. We will assign this subgroup the variable of C. But what of the others? We will assign the remaining Superdelegates the value of D. Now our equations look like this:
1714 + (X + Y) = 2024 - (A + B) + (C + D) and 1584 + (X + Y) = 2024 - (A + B) + (C + D)
Yes, for you children that have read ahead, we can simplify this equation considerably but for right now, let's keep it this way.
As we have learned, the value of C should be known close to the time that we have finalized the variable A. But how do we determine the value of the variable D? Here is where the mathematics involved becomes extremely difficult. We know from our past experience and reading that the value of the variable D is effected by an infinite number of additional variables. Electability, popular vote, Florida and Michigan, scandals, heroics, ad infinitum. The variable D is completely unknown at this time and may not be known until a specific time frame, in this case August 25 - 28, 2008.
This children, is actually a very simple mathematical equation involving the use of variables. When we begin to work on the complexities of solving for the variable D in this equation over the coming weeks, we will introduce the use of multiplication and division using variables.
Your homework for tonight is to visit the Hillary Clinton website and donate. And don't forget, we have a test in two weeks.
The bonfire's pretty big, but no point in bothering rowing over there to see it on Skins's island, as the Obamaite primitives are utterly unfamiliar with mathematics, and their heads get messed up royally trying to figure things out.
mistertrickster (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-23-08 12:43 PM
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99. K'd and R'd to show how Clintonistas think. Here are the real numbers--
These are projections based on Obama's poll numbers.
Clinton. . . .Obama
KY 37 . . . . .16
WV 22 . . . . 11
NC .55 . . . . 70
IN . 39 . . . . 43
OR .28 . . . . 34
MT . .8 . . . . .5
SD . .8 . . . ..11
. . . 197 . . .190
Clinton gains maybe seven delegates by the time the convention rolls around, and Obama is still ahead by some 150 delegates.
Plus, it gives only about three months for Obama to campaign nationally against McCain.
Somebody who believes in party and principle would have dropped out by now.
That's not Clinton.
It's obviously not Barry "Goldwater" Obama, either, who should be a man and throw in the towel, for the good of the Democrat party.
The Obamaite primitives keep on forgetting something--while the Obamaite primitives insist Messalina Agrippina can't win the Democrat nomination with those few delegates left to be selected.....at the same time omitting to remember that Barry "Goldwater" Obama can't, either.
Stupid primitives. Really stupid primitives. Just really stupid primitives.
