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January 15, 2008
Tuesday
 
 
Las Vegas and the future of the planet
Johnathan Pearce (London)  North American affairs

Check out this Bloomberg headline. No doubt one of the editors thought this was nicely "ironic", etc, and I get their point. Even so, I fail to see why a Vegas stripper or waiter is not as able to judge the wisdom of where to put nuclear waste as say, Hillary Clinton.

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Yup. Condescending or what. Who's to say these ladies are less qualified than anyone else.

I am a twenty-something stripper and adult model. I like money. I have no credentials; I just read a lot and like to talk money and business.

Hustle and Cash Flow


Posted by Mark Holland at January 15, 2008 11:03 AM

Oh, it's just the standard sneeriness. Decisions should be made by educated people with a degree in media studies, kind of thing.


Posted by Ian B at January 15, 2008 11:17 AM

If a person has the vote, their job has nothing to do with it. As Ian B said it is a sneer. Morally bad job= faulty judgement.
Did they interview any cleaners and burger flippers ?
Well I met a hooker once who had 2 degrees. She'd probably vote to stuff the mountain till it glowed.
Expanding the topic slightly. What do folks think of the proposal to bring the voting age in the UK, down to 16, considering the leftie brainwashing they have been getting in schools for the last decade or more?


Posted by RAB at January 15, 2008 01:10 PM

As Ron Paul is finding, the vote of a fringe lunatic might have the same value at the ballot box once doesn't necessarily add up to long term electoral success.

It is important for Presidential hopefuls to not only attract the highest number of votes, but also make sure they come from the right demographic lest they scare the natives.


Posted by Brendan Halfweeg at January 15, 2008 01:41 PM

RAB: "considering the leftie brainwashing they have been getting in schools for the last decade or more?"

I think it is a clumsy attempt at gerrymandering the vote.

Voting in the UK doesn't really matter any more, you get Labour, or Blue Labour - one can barely get a cigarette paper between them. The power to ruin us has been delegated to Brussels.

Take the last Tory conference, the big one, the tory policy on the inheritance tax. Everyone says it was a radical departure from Labour.

In fact the Tories just announced a slightly different redistributive (socialist) tax, instead of taking money from rich british folk, they would take if from rich foriegn folk. Still a socialist policy.

I might consider voting Tory when I hear them say they will cut public spending sufficiently to cut taxes significiantly.

Anything else is just moving the deckchairs


Posted by APL at January 15, 2008 01:49 PM
If a person has the vote, their job has nothing to do with it. As Ian B said it is a sneer. Morally bad job= faulty judgement.

On the contrary, I think that is perfectly fair reasoning so long as the job in question is actually immoral.

I suspect you can guess who that might indict. :)


Posted by Andy at January 15, 2008 02:30 PM

A pity this working girl didn't have any more sense concerning the issue (Yucca mountain) than Hillary. Or that Hillary doesn't have more sense than her.


Posted by Jacob at January 15, 2008 03:52 PM

From the article,

says Tori, who declines to give her last name, citing her day job working with burn victims at a dermatology clinic.

My guess is this stripper has a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing and is likely trained in added specialties and maintains her certification with ongoing training. But she was probably the only stripper the author could find to make his point.


Posted by Midwesterner at January 15, 2008 04:19 PM

Much of politics this year gets me down, but this story cheered me up. A resident of a US state is doing research and using the primary process to influence the election based on a local issue of great importance to her.

I disagree on Yucca Mountain and the possibility of ever, ever, ever placing a vote for Senator Clinton, but the kids are alright.

Had it been a Rupert Murdoch publication, we'd've gotten a better picture than Yucca Mountain for a stripper story.


Posted by jk at January 15, 2008 10:06 PM
we'd've gotten a better picture than Yucca Mountain for a stripper story

Of course.


Posted by Jacob at January 16, 2008 10:26 AM
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