Racism and Mathematics

Since I will be moving to Louisville this upcoming August, I've been checking out the Louisville Courier-Journal's website to see whats going on in that city, and the State of Kentucky. Today was the day for the Democratic party primaries in the states, and it seems to me that someone over there didn't really like Hillary Clinton very much, so he declared that

Kentucky = a bunch of racist hicks

Lets see how the math works:

As C-J Washington reporter Jim Carroll pointed out earlier tonight, about 20 percent of Kentucky voters said race was a determining factor when it came to deciding for whom they would vote. And of those people, 90 percent said they voted for Hillary Clinton. The mathematical conclusion is pretty obvious.

90% of 20% = 18% of the whole population.
18% - Holy Shit Batman!
Lets visualize the numbers here for those who lack the imagination - like my humble self over here:

So, if the small piece of the pie does care about race, does that make the whole state Racist?!!!
The other question that I wonder about is would the same statement be made if all of those who favored race were black?

Holding no punches

Wow, I am reading Townhall.com for the first time in more than a week and it seems that last week Doctors Sowell and Williams held no punches at all. They went after Spitzer, Obama, Hillary, the POTUS, and the ethanol industry.

On Spitzer, Dr Sowell "served" him like this

Many in the media refer to Eliot Spitzer as some moral hero who fell from grace. Spitzer was never a moral hero. He was an unscrupulous prosecutor who threw his power around to ruin people, even when he didn't have any case with which to convict them of anything.

Because he was using his overbearing power against businesses, the anti-business left idolized him, just as they idolized Ralph Nader before him as some sort of secular saint because he attacked General Motors.

Linking that to Obama

Currently, various facts are belatedly beginning to leak out that give us clues to the character of Barack Obama. But to report these facts is being characterized as a "personal" attack.

Barack Obama's personal and financial association with a man under criminal indictment in Illinois is not just a "personal" matter. Nor is his 20 years of going to a church whose pastor has praised Louis Farrakhan and condemned the United States in both sweeping terms and with obscene language.

The Obama camp likens mentioning such things to criticizing him because of what members of his family might have said or done. But it was said, long ago, that you can pick your friends but not your relatives.

Then finishes the whole piece with absolute "pwnage"!

Obama chose to be part of that church for 20 years. He was not born into it. His "personal" character matters, just as Eliot Spitzer's "personal" character matters -- and just as Hillary Clinton's character would matter if she had any.

Then Dr Williams opens up a can of whooped () by going on the Ethanol Industry

Ethanol is so costly that it wouldn't make it in a free market. That's why Congress has enacted major ethanol subsidies, about $1.05 to $1.38 a gallon, which is no less than a tax on consumers. In fact, there's a double tax -- one in the form of ethanol subsidies and another in the form of handouts to corn farmers to the tune of $9.5 billion in 2005 alone.

There's something else wrong with this picture. If Congress and President Bush say we need less reliance on oil and greater use of renewable fuels, then why would Congress impose a stiff tariff, 54 cents a gallon, on ethanol from Brazil? Brazilian ethanol, by the way, is produced from sugar cane and is far more energy efficient, cleaner and cheaper to produce.

He goes for the kill right over here

It's easy to understand how the public, looking for cheaper gasoline, can be taken in by the call for increased ethanol usage. But politicians, corn farmers and ethanol producers know they are running a cruel hoax on the American consumer. They are in it for the money. The top leader in the ethanol hoax is Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), the country's largest producer of ethanol. Ethanol producers and the farm lobby have pressured farm state congressmen into believing that it would be political suicide if they didn't support subsidized ethanol production. That's the stick. Campaign contributions play the role of the carrot.

I beg your pardon!

*I am sorry, but you have to be doing something to be hard working...
Anyhow, move on...