Month: October 2016

Golden Brodie gives a Presidential Polls 101 for 2016

Brodie digs up the “Genie in the Polls” granting wishes

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Ok…I did my golden best to understand and research these presidential polls that many are obsessing over.   Admitting that I came away confused…yes I did and for solid reasons.  Confusing at best is the manner in which polling information comes together, then massaged, spun and refined and finally reported…shared.  I got into quartile, outliers (Yes, they are out there!), data, margin of error, subsets, median, data points, statistics, range, biased sampling, upper fence and lower fence (really…???…I thought I knew what a fence was…wrong!), margin of error, sampling collection, results…and on it goes.  Here’s the deal…there’s a genie in these numbers…working the numbers…every poll has its purpose…and can be handled in such as way as to produce the results wanted…key word…wanted results.  Some polls attempt to use protocols that present the results in a fair and unbiased way.  So…here’s your Golden Polling 101.  Not full proof…but consider doing your own digging…Start getting on top of these numbers…Go get it……

270toWin Make your own interactive map for presidential results…see different models…some like this…some don’t

538 A polling aggregation website…some dig it…some don’t

These are just two sources for your polling entertainment…the more you dig… the better you’ll feel…about this presidential deal…information is golden power.

 

 

 

Bumble bees nectaring on Scarlet Runner Beans

Scarlet Runner Bean

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Scarlet Runner Beans reaching up to the blue sky.
Scarlet Runner Beans climbing up to the blue sky

Run away Scarlet

Bees and bugs dancing on you

Purple stains your vines

Haiku poem by PamelaWLucas  10/10/16

Photographs by PamelaWLucas 10/10/16

Golden Brodie rests after digging in the dirt.

Brodie hides from the “Spin”

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I curled up nose to tail in front of the wide-screen to watch the second presidential debate (debate???really???)…in St. Louie…town hall forum.   The zingers began adding up…I started scratching my ears and placing my paws over my eyes as I listened to the “Spin and the Pivoting”…and then I sequestered myself…hiding in the closet.  I kept waiting for the “going high part”…

Twenty minutes in…ending in the nearest closet was a good move for me.  Each of the candidates moved me to go high in my own way…so my golden self decided to move away…leave it…drop it… Sometimes going into a happy place can help us all.  The closet became that spot.

Next time you hear from me…I’ll share with you some information about polling and how it “should work.”  Look for it.  Paws up!

Brilliantly colored autumn leaves with raindrops

Autumn Rains

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Soft drops glance colors

Nature welcomes the turning

Thirsty yet passing

 

Haiku poem by PamelaWLucas 10/8/16

 

Brodie waits in the car...stuck in traffic

Brodie offers humane and effective training lessons to main stream media

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When you think there is no more political underbelly available…just when you think the stream of information?!?… provided to you by the media… as they fill their role in reporting and shaping public opinions has hit bedrock…the basement…surprise…it’s not over till the last vote is cast???  Well, I have a golden idea to stop this gutter bleed…some of the media simply needs some golden training and constructive feedback.

I have and continue to do my best to avoid distractions while I am on the lead.  In other words, when I am out in public, socializing and being a solid companion, distractions have been my nemesis..my falling like a rolling rock speeding down hill…distractions keep my off target…distractions rob me of my focus and my ability to contribute in a fine dog way…you know strut my stuff…get the pets and praise that simply make my world a happy place.  So…we should offer very basic training lessons to the media, print..tv…talk radio…major networks…lessons that address “How to Avoid Distractions” while reporting on the issues…I know these are good folks, smart folks, folks that strive to inform and with that said, getting some help for these folks would help to put us all in a better place in this race to the White House.

Please know that I continue to strive to avoid distractions…I am so easily tempted but even my slightest successes give me hope.  Paws up!  Be hopeful.

Golden Retriever Brodie shares an illuminating story about loyalty to The White House.

Brodie shares a sparkling story out of the White House

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My golden heart overflows with happiness because of this uplifting story…an inspirational share…

Drop all of your treats, get your head out of the feeding bowl and READ this illuminating article about a man dedicated to his job, his family, his prideful approach to everyday and to serving his presidents.  Stewart Stevens, Sr. your bright life gives us all hope for a better tomorrow.

Thanks to Hamil R. Harris for this shinning piece of journalism found on 10/6 in The Washington Post. Hamil you found the good.

Golden Retriever Brodie yelps political satire on the presidential candidates 2016

Brodie barks for your questions

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“Meet me in St. Louie, Louie meet me at the” second face-off between  Mr. T and The Lady on October 9, 2016: Presidential Debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.  This second debate has a different format.  Get this…

They’re trying something new…”Heads Up” average voters…”the Networks” have agreed to consider the 30 most popular questions…yes… Americans will be able to submit and then vote on questions online at PresidentialOpenQuestions.com,… ABC and CNN have agreed to consider (hocus-pocus perhaps abracadabra, who knows…) the 30 most popular queries when they jointly plan the debate.

Here’s your opportunity…my golden ears will listen for your question.  Ponder this:

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” Thomas Jefferson

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” Albert Einstein

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”  Abraham Lincoln

Questions please…

 

 

Golden Brodie talks about dogs donating blood

Brodie masters the political numbers

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52 pick-up is a blast.  I love playing cards and just lately I have found myself saying  “deal me in.”  And lately, I have been working on my numbers…yeah…I have a canine history right out of the litter of not being on top of my math facts.  I have tried to better myself and have recently been working on place value comprehension.  See the past few days…my dog ears hear ad nauseam about… no taxes paid…dodging the process…dirty dealing…shifty books…?! And the numbers ranked way out of my golden brain…so I motivated myself to improve…saw an opportunity! So, I got the one’s place, got the 10’s place, got the 100’s place, got the thousands…but when reading numbers out loud that roll into the millions…I’m stumped…The number I practiced with is 915,729,293…whooper correct!!! So, the ingenuity in me said tackle this from another angle and so…I started focusing on rounding up and I slammed that down!!! Got it! 916,000,000 and to make it even easier…916 million (dollars).  See there is more than one way to get an egg from a chicken…forget that saying about a cat…it’s unkind.

Paws up…be sure to take yourself to Longwood University, Farmville, VA to experience the veep candidates debate.

Golden Brodie digs up inaction quotes to inspire folks to vote for their president 2016

Brodie gets into action

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My golden ears have been hearing this…I can’t take either The Lady or Mr. T…I can’t cast my vote…I won’t vote…forget it.  Well…donkeys and elephants come on now… this is an important time in your human life…so much is at stake.  Ok…so you don’t think either party deserves your support. You are disgusted by the process.  So in your interest, I dug up some quotes by some famous earthlings that could perhaps inspire you out of inaction…If this does not apply to you then “Good Golden On Ya!”

“I never worry about action, but only inaction.” Winston Churchill

“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction.” John F. Kennedy

“Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.” Will Rogers

 

“Eat, love, vote.” Golden Brodie

 

Brodie asks why the presidential process is what it is?

Brodie leaks on the process to elect

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We are getting closer…moving in on Tuesday, November 8th..the big day…the colossal finale to this presidential race to the White House.  Can’t wait for that day…literally I could not wait…and I leaked all over the process.  It was an accident…I was not paid in golden coins.  There was no ill-gotten gain.  I have no allegiance to either the donkeys or the elephants. So…how am I different from the other leakers?  Well…the golden in me experienced self-evaluation and I’ll pay attention to not letting myself get into such a position again.  I received good training and understand the good.  I wasn’t chasing some promise of shiny dog toys or yummy snacks. My four legs also came forward and spilled it…told you what I did.  So…what have we learned…well…I’m going to curb it.