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Voice Of Deseret: Dan Jones November 2009 Poll Shows 69 Percent Of Utahns Now Favor Gay Nondiscrimination Protection In Housing And Employment

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:27:00 -0500

After the Salt Lake City Council, with support of LDS Church leaders, passed two anti-discrimination ordinances for gays in housing and employment on November 10th, 2009, the Deseret News and KSL Channel 5 engaged pollster Dan Jones to find out how this move affected Utah attitudes statewide. [...]

Voice Of Deseret: College Football: BYU Edges Utah 26-23 In "Socialist Overtime"; Time For The NCAA To Revert To Sudden-Death Overtime

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:51:00 -0500

Update: Title of post changed to reflect significant story update.

One of the NCAA's innovations with which I strongly disagreed was the implementation of their "socialist overtime" scheme in which each team gets an equal offensive opportunity in overtime instead of the sudden-death scheme' [...]

Voice Of Deseret: College Football: BYU Edges Utah 26-23 In "Socialist Overtime"; Time For The NCAA To Revert To Sudden-Death Overtime

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:51:00 -0500

One of the NCAA's innovations with which I strongly disagreed was the implementation of their "socialist overtime" scheme in which each team gets an equal offensive opportunity in overtime instead of the sudden-death scheme used by the NFL. On November 28th, 2009, the BYU Cougars defeated [...]

One Utah: Climategate source code more damning than emails.

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:48:19 -0500

***update 12:33AM US MST (UTC-7)***

Here is an example of actual code from the CRU. Try explaining this away warmers…

;
; Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline!!
;
yrloc=[1400,findgen(19)*5.+1904]
valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,-0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,$
2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor
(…)
;
; APPLY ARTIFICIAL CORRECTION
;
yearlyadj=interpol(valadj,yrloc,x)
densall=densall+yearlyadj

valadj is an array that if we plug [...]

One Utah: Gratitude II: Jim Bopp Jr., GOP Litmus Test and The End of Big Government Republicans

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:39:49 -0500

These are heady days for us liberal warriors and the news just keeps getting better. Today, I give thanks for James Bopp Jr., vice chairman of the Republican party and his new G.O.P. litmus test.

Between RNC Chairman and the token negro, Michael Steele, the pasty, white, religious fanatics [...]

Weber County Forum: WSU Game Day Thread - 'Cats vs. William & Mary

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:30:00 -0500

Number of comments: 19
FCS playoffs: kickoff @ 11 a.m; Utes v. Cougars season finale @ 3:00 p.m.

As all rabid Wildcats fans are aware, WSU squares off against William & Mary this morning at 11:00 a.m. mountain time in game 1 of what we hope to be a four game WSU playoff [...]

The SideTrack: Enthusiasm Gap

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:21:00 -0500

Numbers from the latest DK/Research2K tracking poll on "likely" (first number) and "unlikely" (second number) voters by party ID:
Republican Voters: 81/14
Independent Voters: 65/23
Democratic Voters: 56/40And fundraising numbers, via a USA Today report:
The Democratic National Committee, along with the fundraising arm for House Democrats, outraised [...]

Wasatch Watcher: Enthusiasm Gap

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:21:00 -0500

Holly On The Hill: SEIU leader threatens Boy Scout

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:56:48 -0500

Number of comments: 5
Have you seen this story yet? In Allentown, Pennsylvania Kevin Anderson decided to clear a hiking trail for his Eagle Scout project. That drew the ire – and fire – of the president of the Allentown SEIU chapter. Nick Balzano told the city council that the union was considering filing [...]