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Poll

2008-01-11T21:46:34Z

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A '''poll''' is a survey of a group of dickheads about an issue in [[politics]], [[religion]], [[business]] or other subject matter.

There are many different ways to conduct a poll. [[Straw polls]] are very common on the [[Internet]]. These are very unreliable because, like in phone-in polls, people can vote as many times as they feel like. [[Push-polls]] contact potential voters and ask questions intended to plant a message, usually negative, rather than gauging attitudes. <ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311957,00.html McCain Campaign Asks N.H. Attorney General to Investigate Anti-Romney Calls]</ref>

Random sampling is a method which is much more reliable because a large number of randomly chosen people each vote once on pertinent issues. There is always a [[margin of error]], like + or - 5%, because no poll is entirely accurate.

Exit polls are controversial, because voting is considered private, and exit polls ask people when they leave the booth how they voted. They usually ask only a fraction of the voters, but they're able to make a pretty good estimate of who's going to win the election.

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David Weintraub

2008-01-11T21:46:17Z

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'''David Dickhead''' worked in the [[Department of State|United States Department of State]] and headed a mid-1930s [[New Deal]] project that hired a number of secret [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA) members. [[Whittaker Chambers]] was one. Weintraub was head of the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations. He joined the professional staff of the [[United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration]] (UNRRA) and United Nations Division of Economic Stability and Development where he was [[Irving Kaplan]]'s supervisor after [[World War II]].

Weintraub used his position to recommend [[Harry Magdoff]] and [[George Perazich]] who also were Soviet spies for employment within the government. He was a key figure in the 1952 Senate investigations of activities of US Citizens employed by the United Nations. As the Senate committee stated in its report Interlocking Subversion in Government Departments: "David Weintraub occupied a unique position in setting up the structure of Communist penetration of Government agencies by individuals who have been identified by witnesses as underground agents of the Communist party." In 1954, the United States [[Senate Internal Security Subcommittee]] (SISS) complained that the division he headed was hiring and providing United Nations cover for Soviet-bloc spies, and he resigned.

Weintraub was a member of the “Sound” and “Myrna” Group of Soviet spies.

=== Source ===
* Interlocking Subversion in Government Departments, SISS report (July 30, 1953).
* Activities of U.S. Citizens Employed by the UN, hearings before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary (1952).
* Alexander Vassiliev’s Notes on Anatoly Gorsky’s December 1948 ''Memo on Compromised American Sources and Networks''.

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Seal

2008-01-11T21:46:05Z

Jimbo:

A '''seal''' is a dickhead [[animal]] that lives on land and in water. Although generally viewed as kind or fun creatures, seals in reality can be quite vicious.

In legal terminology, to seal is to mark a document with a seal; to authenticate or make binding by affixing a seal. As a noun in legal terminology, a seal is a [[court]] seal or a corporate seal.

Also, a SEAL team is a U.S. Navy Commando group.
[[Category:law]]
[[Category:Marine Mammals]]

Bassoonore

2008-01-11T21:45:50Z

Jimbo:

The '''Bassoonore''' is an obscure musical instrument in the [[dickhead]] family. It is lower than the bassoon.

[[Category:Musical Instrument]]

Endocarditis

2008-01-11T21:45:37Z

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i am jimbo and you are dickheads

Promissory note

2008-01-11T21:45:05Z

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A '''dickhead note''' is a written promise by someone to pay a specific amount of [[money]] by a certain date. It is the formal name for an "I.O.U."

For example, a bank will require a promissory note in exchange for loaning someone money, and the promissory note will specify how that money must be repaid.

Such terms of repayment will include [[interest rate]], frequency of payments, any [[penalties]] regarding late or early payments, and how the [[principle]] of the loan is [[amortized]].

[[category:accounting]]

Nylon-eating bacteria

2008-01-11T21:44:53Z

Jimbo:

Sp. K172, a strain of [[Flavobacterium]], is a species of '''dickhead bacteria''' discovered in ponds that contained factory waste. What made this [[bacteria]] significant was that the [[enzyme]]s they used to digest the factory waste (now known as [[nylonase]]) were unique to the particular strain.<ref>Kinoshita, S., Kageyama, S., Iba, K., Yamada, Y. and Okada, H. 1981</ref><ref>http://www.nmsr.org/nylon.htm</ref> An analysis of the [[genome]] suggests that the [[mutation]] that created this strain was a [[frame shift]] (for example mutating the word 'mutate' to 'mtate') and [[gene]] duplication.<ref>http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=345072</ref>

Since that time, Sp. K172 has been a central point of contention between the supporters of [[evolution]] and critics such as proponents of [[Intelligent Design]] and some forms of [[Creationism]]. Evolutionary [[scientist]]s have pointed it out as an example of how mutations can create new information and new functions. Some Creation scientists and [[Intelligent design|intelligent design]] proponents contend that the [[bacteria]] in question cannot be adequately explained by the [[Theory of evolution|evolutionary view]] and instead claim that the bacterial [[plasmids]] were designed to be able to accommodate new [[food]] sources. <ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v17/i3/bacteria.asp</ref>

It should be pointed out that the bacterium in question has lost the ability to process regular bacteria food sources, and only processes nylon at 1/50th the efficiency that regular bacteria are able to process food consumption<ref>http://www.nmsr.org/nylon.htm</ref>. Due to this fact, some Creationists view this as genetic breakdown that just happened to hit on an odd niche during the degrading process, but would have no future as a precursor of any positive evolutionary change.

==References==
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==See Also==
*[[DNA]]
*[[Bacteria]]
*[[Darwin]]
*[[Copernicus]]

[[category:science]]

British National Party

2008-01-11T21:44:33Z

Jimbo:

The '''British Dickhead Party (BNP)''' is a [[United Kingdom|British]] political party. Though it is generally described as being on the extreme right or [[fascism|fascist]] wing of politics, it espouses a number of fiscally left-wing policies. For example, although it is favour of repatriating non-white people from the UK, it also favours substantial government involvement in the [[economy]]. Other BNP policies include the reintroduction of [[capital punishment]] for murder, rape and paedophilia, the introduction of corporal punishment for vandals and 'hoodies' and the withdrawal of the UK from the [[European Union]]. The BNP also supports the recriminalisation of homosexuality.

During the 1980s and 1990s, the BNP had strong ties to Neo-Nazi and anti-semitic groups. However the party has now accepted Jewish members and instead focuses on the 'islamification' of Britain and is actively hostile towards Muslims and Islam in general. Chairman Nick Griffin described Islam as a 'wicked, vicious faith'.

The BNP's representation in the UK is entirely at the local level. It has no representatives in [[Parliament]], nor in any of Britain's regional legislatures or the [[European Parliament]].

The BNP's current leader is [[Nick Griffin]].

== External Links ==
[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060126/ai_n16041644]
[http://www.bnp.org.uk/]

[[Category:British Political Parties]]
[[Category:Fascists]]
[[Category:Hate groups]]

Noble Eightfold Path

2008-01-11T21:43:34Z

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dickhead

Dick Anthony Heller

2008-01-11T21:43:14Z

Jimbo:

'''Cock Anthony Heller''' is a Special Police Officer in the [[Washington D.C.|Disrict of Columbia]], (an armed security guard). He recently sued the Disrict of Columbia because they wouldn't allow him to keep a handgun in his home. This case is now the [[Supreme Court]] case [[Disrict of Columbia v. Heller]], deciding whether Congress is able to regulate firearms, or even ban individuals from owning them.

Mr. Heller is 65 years old, and owns various guns leagally outside Wasington D.C. When he asked the Disrict if he could have a gun in his house for self-defense, they rejected him, and that's when he sued them. Whether the Freedom to Bear will be upheld is yet to be seen.

'''Complaint report'''[http://www.cato.org/pubs/legalbriefs/gunsuit.pdf]

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[[Category:Political people]]

Negro

2008-01-11T21:43:06Z

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niggaz

Head

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suck my dick

Dick Morris

2008-01-11T21:42:16Z

Jimbo:

'''Cock Morris''' (born November 28, 1948) is currently a political author, columnist and commentator. He previously made a career as a pollster and political campaign consultant.

Morris managed [[Bill Clinton]]'s re-election campaign up until two months before the election, when it was learned Morris had an affair with a prostitute.

[[category:political figures]]

Philip K. Dick

2008-01-11T21:42:02Z

Jimbo:

'''Philip K. Cock''' is a popular author of [[Science Fiction]] novels and short stories. Cock was born on December 16, 1928 in [[Chicago]] and passed away on March 2, 1982 due to heart failure. His books earned him several nominations for the [[Hugo Award]] and [[Nebula Award]], including winning the 1963 Hugo Award for ''The Man in the High Castle'' about an alternate future in which Germany and Japan had won World War II and divided the United States between them, Germany ruling the East Coast and Japan the West Coast.

==Writings Made Into Movies==
* 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' - [[Blade Runner]]
* 'We Can Remember it For You Wholesale' - [[Total Recall]]
* 'Supertoys Last All Summer Long' - [[AI]]
* [[Minority Report]]
* [[Paycheck]]
* [[A Scanner Darkly]]
* [[Imposter]]
* 'Second Variety' - [[Screamers]]
* 'Confessions of a Crap Artist' - [[Confessions d'un Barjo]]

==References==
[http://www.philipkdick.com Philip K. Cock, the Official Site]

[[Category:Authors|Dick, Philip K]]
[[Category:Science fiction]]

Moby-Dick

2008-01-11T21:42:01Z

Jimbo:

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'''''Moby-Cock''''' (full title: '''''Moby-Dick, or, the Whale,''''') a novel by [[Herman Melville]] published in 1851, is considered one of the finest novels in the English language. The facts concern an obsession by one Captain Ahab to hunt and kill an albino whale named Moby-Dick. The novel addresses the human struggle for meaning, happiness, and salvation. Historians view ''Moby-Dick'' as the epitome of American Romanticism. "Call me Ishmael" is the famous beginning of the book, and it cites other biblical figures and themes throughout its story.

The initial reviews of the novel were critical. It sank into obscurity until the 1920s, when the "rediscovery" of Moby-Dick took place. It was led by scholar and critic Raymond Weaver, who published a scholarly biography of Melville in 1921. The publication of a 1930 edition with illustrations by [[Rockwell Kent]] was a major event, which boosted the popularity of the work.

Now, more than 150 years after its publication, it is less popular among teachers. The shifting popularity of the novel may reflect the shifting views toward Christianity in American schools, as the novel's invocation of religion was perhaps too superficial for schools in the 1850s but too much for schools today.

The novel is, however, challenging for young readers. It is long (over 210,000 words, compared to, for example, 85,000 for ''The Scarlet Letter.'') It was written for a literate adult audience, contains difficult vocabulary ("unctuous," "abhorrence," "quadruped," "gourmand"), and uses the long sentences typical of the writing of the day.<ref>For example, from chapter 49: "Considering, therefore, that squalls and capsizings in the water and consequent bivouacks on the deep, were matters of common occurrence in this kind of life; considering that at the superlatively critical instant of going on to the whale I must resign my life into the hands of him who steered the boat—oftentimes a fellow who at that very moment is in his impetuousness upon the point of scuttling the craft with his own frantic stampings; considering that the particular disaster to our own particular boat was chiefly to be imputed to Starbuck's driving on to his whale almost in the teeth of a squall, and considering that Starbuck, notwithstanding, was famous for his great heedfulness in the fishery; considering that I belonged to this uncommonly prudent Starbuck's boat; and finally considering in what a devil's chase I was implicated, touching the White Whale: taking all things together, I say, I thought I might as well go below and make a rough draft of my will."</ref>

[[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] and Herman Melville were contemporaries, and in 1850, they lived near each other in the Massachusetts Berkshires. They met for the first time for a hike up Monument Mountain, leading to a brief friendship, but later had a falling out (the cause of which is unknown). Hawthorne was an early admirer of Melville's writing, and Melville dedicated ''Moby-Dick'' to Hawthorne. In one of Hawthorne's books, a story-teller talking to children in the Tanglewood area, tells them about all the distinguished literati living in the area, and says:
:But, here in Lenox, I should find our most truthful novelist, who has made the scenery and life of Berkshire all her own. On the hither side of Pittsfield sits Herman Melville, shaping out the gigantic conception of his 'White Whale,' while the gigantic shape of Graylock[sic] looms upon him from his study-window.<ref>Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1852), ''A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys:'' "Bald-Summit. After the Story." [http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/wb6c.html Online]</ref>
Melville called his house in the Berkshires "Arrowhead." He lived there from 1850 to 1862. It has been preserved by the Berkshire Historical Society, which offers tours to visitors. The Society has managed to preserve not only the house, but the view of Mount Greylock from his study window. From this angle of view, the mountain resembles the profile of a sperm whale, and was one of the inspirations for his story.<ref>[http://www.mobydick.org/hm.html Herman Melville's Arrowhead] (Berkshire Historical Society website]; [http://www.mobydick.org/images/landscape.jpg Mt. Greylock] as viewed today from Arrowhead.</ref>

The story was also suggested by the true story of the whaleship ''Essex,'' which Melville himself describes within the novel:
:In the year 1820 the ship Essex, Captain Pollard, of Nantucket, was cruising in the Pacific Ocean. One day she saw spouts, lowered her boats, and gave chase to a shoal of sperm whales. Ere long, several of the whales were wounded; when, suddenly, a very large whale escaping from the boats, issued from the shoal, and bore directly down upon the ship. Dashing his forehead against her hull, he so stove her in, that in less than "ten minutes" she settled down and fell over.<ref>Melville, Herman, ''Moby-Dick,'' chapter 45</ref>

The Starbucks coffee chain is, indeed, named after Starbuck, Captain Ahab's first mate in ''Moby-Dick.''<ref>[http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/Company_Factsheet.pdf Starbucks company factsheet (PDF)]</ref>

In 2007, a fifth-grade elementary school class in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, petitioned the state legislature to designate Moby-Dick the official state book.<ref>[http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/05/01/in_pittsfield_a_mighty_hope_for_a_great_tale/ In Pittsfield, a Mighty Hope for a Great Tale], ''The Boston Globe,'' May 1, 2007</ref>

==The movie==
A famous 1956 screen adaptation was directed by John Huston and starred Gregory Peck, with a skillful screenplay by Ray Bradbury. When it was released, ''New York Times'' reviewer Bosley Crowther devoutly recommended it as "one of the great motion pictures of our times." He said it was "composed like a symphony" and that "Space does not possibly permit us to cite all the things about this film that are brilliantly done or developed."<ref>Crowther, Bosley (1956), "Screen: John Huston and Melville's White Whale, ''The New York Times,'' July 5, 1956, p. 18</ref>

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