BREAKING: Bush Grabs 90% Approval Rating in NH

For the math impaired (4.00 / 1)

This is the thing. It sounds pretty convoluted but if you know what e to the i theta means then you'll understand this.

Each vote is one.
Each time Sununu votes he's voting 10% NH and 90% Bush.
He always votes as two people, one that represents NH and one that sucks the gas out of Bush's butt.

Therefore you need to multiply each of his votes just like in a probability equation.

The probability of A AND B happening = (Probability of A) * (Probability of B).
The probability of A OR B happening = (Probability of A) + (Probability of B).

AND is always times. OR is always plus. Always.

Okay so know we're at something like: 0.90 * 0.90 = 0.81. Since the governing equation here is always the gas coming out of Bush's butt and not the will of the NH people and the probability of everything happening is always equal to 1, by definition - d'uh.

1 - 0.81 = 0.19.

Still with me? Here's the wrap-up.

Bush is just about at a 19% approval in NH. So this 90/10 break is actually consistent with serving the people of NH. Republicans always use "new math." Always. They have to, nobody can understand what the hell they're doing to the country otherwise.  

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by: mbair @ Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 10:05:03 AM CDT

By way of background (4.00 / 1)

I like math, can you tell?

The reader is assumed to be familiar with the complex plane C to the extent found in
most college algebra texts, and to have had the equivalent of a standard introductory
course in real analysis (advanced calculus).

blah, blah, blah ...

If z = a + bi, then a is called the real part of z,
written a = Re(z),
and b is called the imaginary part of z,
written b = Im(z).

source: some guy teaching some class somewhere in math hell.

See the problem in math is that once you get past like the first semester of calculus, the "real number" system starts to fail and you have to go all "imaginary" on these equations and models to get any "real" answers.

Anyone remember the quadratic equation? Anyone remember when the b squared minus 4ac thingey went negative inside the radical and you just threw that one away? Well you can't throw those negative square roots away forever.

Who knew that Sununu would give us such a practical use for the imaginary number system.

Back to the real world. See you on Sunday with some video of Carol in Exeter.

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by: mbair @ Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 10:30:03 AM CDT

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Thinking outside the box n/t (4.00 / 1)

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by: JimC @ Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 10:36:48 AM CDT

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I also found this on Wiki (4.00 / 1)

"Repeats the pattern from blue area"  - can you stand it?

Any hey, when the box technically doesn't exist, just like this phantom NH population that approves up Sununu's votes in the Congress, you have to start thinking outside of it.

There's no other choice.





 

It's elementary, my dear Hampsters.

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by: mbair @ Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 10:47:38 AM CDT

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Blue area (0.00 / 0)

That took a minute, but I got it (I think).

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by: JimC @ Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 10:55:47 AM CDT