{"id":2399,"date":"2005-06-21T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2018-06-01T13:15:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T18:15:58","slug":"milwaukee-journal-sentinel-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/21\/milwaukee-journal-sentinel-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Headline: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/nat\/jun05\/335269.asp\" target=\"_new\">Senate again refuses to confirm Bolton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the crack mathematical theorists at the <i>Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel<\/i>, the 38 Senators who voted against cloiture&#8211;the end of the debate, and not actually for or against Bolton&#8217;s appointment&#8211;is enough to cast the action as though the entire Senate had refused to confirm Bolton.<\/p>\n<p>To express this algebraically:<\/p>\n<p><center><b>38%=100%<\/b><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Compare and contrast this to any action of conservative legislators or leaders, whose mere majority election or decision does not give a mandate for conservatives to speak for all members of a given group.<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=\"red\">Update:<\/font><\/b>  Apparently, the <i>Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune<\/i> has the same mathematicians: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/stories\/587\/5467149.html\" target=\"_new\">Bolton nomination again blocked by Senate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headline: Senate again refuses to confirm Bolton. According to the crack mathematical theorists at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the 38 Senators who voted against cloiture&#8211;the end of the debate, and not actually for or against Bolton&#8217;s appointment&#8211;is enough to cast the action as though the entire Senate had refused to confirm Bolton. To express this algebraically: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19945,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions\/19945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}