Daily Topics - Tuesday March 8th, 2016
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- Republicans Admit They Have Nothing for the Working Class…Past or Present
- How Bobby Jindal destroyed Louisiana
- Sexy Liberal Politics - Stephanie Miller, The Stephanie Miller Show/FSTV
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It's Tues March 8, 2016 11:42 in Tucson, AZ
If I heard right (and lately I've been wondering if my hearing has gone caput) a few minutes ago Thom mentioned an FSTV audio problem. Yesterday I spent half an hour online with a ROKU tech troubleshooting extremly low volume on The Thom Hartmann Program, so low as to be barely audible a few days ago. Today it's just a bit better - have two TVs in same room at max audio, but it's still only just audible, this when TH audio used to be far more than ample, as in blow me to California if it was turned up to present settings. Democracy Now is somewhat better, but still much lower than it used to be. I have Comcast 120+ mbps internet, and I wouldn't put it past this crummy power hungry corp to have a hand in this. I refer you to freepress.net "Comcast Has Sunk to a New Low" (suing the FCC over net neutrality rules) While I can't imagine anyone visiting Thom's website is unaware of this it's paramount all sorts of pressure be applied wherever possible, and we all should feel insecure about this being thrown into the court system.
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PS: Since we are in process of determining wether the Democratic candiate will be Hillary or Bernie (he got my AZ vote especially since I don't believe she is the least bit progressive and doesn't have any intention of carrying through with campaign promises) I'd like to remind those who've determined they won't vote if it's Hillary especially since she gave private, highly paid talks to the BIG BANKS - does anyone think she didn't give them assurances business would'nt be as usual? This in contrast with Bernie's promise to break them up, and my hope that he indicts, tries and jails the execs and all the chairmen of the boards for their consistent criminality (can you say libor fixing?) for the rest of their lives, to reminisce along with Bernie Madoff in the same prison. That'd be justice. In any case all the alternatives to Hillary are worse, wacky, insane, thoroughly untrustworthy unless you, like I, think/know if any publican gets into office they'll shred any legislation that helps those that aren't filthy rich, a bunch of REAL BOOGEYMEN. So yes, I'll vote and vote for Hillary if she wins the nomination, by lying as well (she's running ads telling Michiganders that Bernie didn't vote for the auto bailout) even though I'll bite my tongue when casting the ballot. I hope the electorate finds this out and hammers her to the point of losing the nomination. Her loss would be much deserved for running a dirty campaign.
So, could 2008 be a repeat of 2000?
In case anyone's memory is a tad short here's a couple things to remember in channeling our best efforts to see the following doesn't happen again:
In 2000 pubs sent a bunch of congressional staffers down to Florida to screw up and stop the count:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2000/11/riot-n29.html
Then this:
http://morallowground.com/2010/12/13/on-this-day-2000-following-illegal-...
From what I've seen Supreme Court Judges are not beyond impeachment, especially when they decide to strike at the very core of our democracy. ie: "Citizens United" I'm no attourney but no one should be beyond the law, especially those entrusted with the responsibility of caring for it.
I wish Al Gore had been stronger, hadn't conceeded. I remember that concession like it was yesterday. I think he was in shock.
If something like the above happens again I think a national strike would be appropriate.
Facing diminishing national publican numbers the Bush Admin, looking to a bleak electoral future, installed those damn vote switching e-voting machines. Scheming pubs have been way ahead of Dems (who've been constantly knocked back on their heels) when it comes to dirty deeds to take ground they're not entitled to. Dems and Independents haven't a chance for clean electionsuntil those $#%@ machines are scrapped until those $#%@ machines are scrapped the way a responsible nation like Ireland did:
https://edri.org/edrigramnumber10-14evoting-machines-scrap-ireland/
http://blackboxvoting.org/
Best,
P A