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Well, if I were one of them....
Right now I would be willing to bet a whole bunch of money that In Washington, both the House and Senate will be Republican in January 2013. The White house is probably 50/50 right now. We'll see what happens after the Republicans set their candidate and start going after Obama instead of each other.
If you have to have three jobs to support yourself, you are probably living beyond your means. Either that or you have run up too much debt. I know there will be exceptions to that, but I have to believe that is the case in most circumstances. You can't expect the goverment to bail you out of your own stupidity and irresponsibilities. You can't expect those who take care of themselves to bail out those who don't.
I understand. Although, playing with the good old Chicagoan Wa-Wah Du All stonelined mute is very gentle ear treatment. It is the mute I used in the videos and I very much hope Humes & Berg didn't outsource their production from Chicago to China. I hope they're still being made in America, by American craftspeople. There's really no better wa-wa mute, as I feel. :)
Maybe I should mail Humes & Berg and ask them.... If they still make their mutes in East Chicago, I'd like to add a little report under my profile here and add a photo of my mute. Nice little story about an example of REAL American exceptionalism with a little personal touch, because I love that mute very much. :)
Scientists believe there is a saturation point in which it would be almost impossible for fauna to procreate and survive--human life is included of course. They have taken readings from samples that existed prior to the 1940's--readings from the present--and subjected different species to varying amounts of exposure to correlate these findings. We are very close to this saturation point right now at the present time.
Yes, I know what you mean about having to keep at it daily in order to keep the old embouchure in shape. I haven't played in a couple of years so I would probably sound pretty horrible. I imagine it wouldn't do my hearing problem much good to continue playing...maybe I should take up the shrunk. ;-} Just saw The Artist...liked it. Enjoyed the tap dancing...and since I have problems hearing and understanding most of what is said at the movies, even with hearing aides, it was nice to be able to read the captions.
A third of us have either done or regularly use pot-to turn us all into criminals is ridiculous.To put pot on the same pedestal as chrystal meth is ludicrous.In a perfect world, no one would use drugs, I get it.I quit smoking pot at 24, when I got asthma.I have 18 yrs exposure to concrete dust too-why is it that a respirator isn't more mandatory than steel toed boots?I don't beleive that keeping the price of a drug high does anything to discourage it's use either.Much as I hate cigarettes and tobacco has always been anathema to my being, the price should be lower.In BC the govt is providing free nicotine drugs to get smokers to quit the habit.None of this works, I wish smokers would all switch to using vaporisors, we could let them smoke in all public places again.Harm reduction.I carry a handkerchief with me everywhere and watch for smokers.They should change their behaviour.
Parents with THREE jobs at the same time, their children develop severe psychological issues. THAT'S reality in many cases. Government has to watch that and protect unions. It has always been the job of unions to fight conditions like that.
No, I avocate the social democratic way. The GOP will get beaten up anyway in November, trust me..... LOL
Free market is NOT working without being watched. Otherwise the problem MONOPOLY wouldn't exist at all. But in fact it is a threat to the free market. That means: government has to protect employees AND the free market. After all government even protects the honest employers! Government really SHOULD protect ventures against people like Mitt Romney......
Communism is dictatorship, without any checks&balances. Communist regimes fight unions. They very much argue like Reagan did, "Not necessary, we do that for you." I am very much for checks&balances. Of course employers have the right to organize as well!
I don't wanna suppress employers -- but right now ordinary people are suffering too much.
Employment is a business arrangement, nothing more, nothing less. In a business deal, both sides have to win. The employee has to somehow generate enough income to support what he/she gets paid or they will be out the door. And the employer has make the situation good enough to keep the employee from leaving for greener pastures.
This is not class warfare, just a business arrangement. The more you get paid, the more you have to produce to keep that job. Nothing is free.
Sorry the existance of Unions will not help your anyone who is looking for a job, they tend to force up wages which reduces the number of jobs available at that wage. That is Economics 101.
Sorry the more skilled will make more money, that's reality. And just for the record, there are a whole lot of people making a whole bunch more money than I am.
Also, you can't set up utopia where everyone gets the same. That's called communism.
@mauiman58: Central and North Europe has not our extend of social distress -- not our homeless figures. Unions and social security are hardly questioned there.
No, not anybody is able to start a business. There are people who don't have this power, who simply can't sell themselves, because they don't have that self-confidence. Many people are different from you and many have health issues. Those who aren't quite intelligent need our protection too.
Your ideas about the world are like communism: painting an ideal world without any defects. That is very-very kitschy and flat-out arrogant. I know there are many people who desperately try to find a job. You talk like the spoiled brat of a millionaire who never saw the world outside his gilded life.
This policy of right-to work-for less clearly supports the 1% over the 99% as Thom explained. I believe we need to reinforce this frame as consistently as the Tea Party unites their support with their relentless messaging through corporate media. Frame EVERYTHING as 99% vs. 1%. If both benefit, like an increase in skills from the work force, we should not hesitate to demand its implementation just as we should if it only benefits the 99%. Analyze everything in terms of 99% and make your case on ANY issue. Just a suggestion.
Thanks! Well, frankly I have problems to change from trombone back to trumpet. I actually started on trombone in jazz and didn't play it for years after changing to trumpet and cornet. Nevertheless my old trombone skills came back after a few minutes this winter. This is different on trumpet and cornet, I have to train daily. Trumpet lipping is an extremely delicate thing.
Oh, that 30s dating was necessary for the time travel, to emotionally get into the year 1933. I heard only music and saw movies that were popular in that year -- during about half a year this calendar slowly went on to 1935. As I read everything with the eyes of the reader in those years. All this totally changed my mood, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to write those articles on my Times Square Observer.
Politically there were a few aspects to watch the New Deal euphoria a bit distrustfully. Hollywood's Busby-Berkely-dreamworld solution (FDR was in a way involved even there) was quite a bit kitschy. But after the terrible winter 1932/33 anything that lifted the fataly depressed spirits of average Americans was welcome. Considering America a life-threateningly sick patient, there weren't other options. I very much felt like that. My articles I wrote 'in early 1933' sound strangely otherwordly in my ears today. That was literally written out of the past.
I can't agree that what the Euopeans are doing is better than what we are doing over here. Look at Greece, Italy, Ireland, and Spain to name a few economies are in real trouble becasue they have fully embracd what the left is preaching in this country. The 2010 election should have sent the message that we Americans are not interested European style socialism.
If you are in a low paying job, get a new one. If you need new skills to get that better job, go get them. If you don't like either option, start your own business. These are all options here, these options are much more difficult in Europe, believe me.
Contrary to Government Claims of 243,000 Jobs Created, Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs Were Actually LOST In JanuaryPosted on February 3, 2012 by WashingtonsBlog I know, politicians never lie. Still, it's an interesting read as to what others are saying about the real, non seasonal adjusted numbers.
The corporatization of America and The Second Gilded Age are the results of bipartisan efforts. We have a representative corporatocracy. The large corps are like the husband who wants to kill his wife and the legislators are like the assassins who are paid to carry out the what the husband wants.
We need--Democracy, not corporatocracy.
Well, you know the present problem is too low pay. I don't wanna be stuck in the 1700s. Thanks God it's NOT the same system today, America had a lot of change since 1776. Life/nature is development!
We progressives look for new ideas. We're not afraid of growth. We're not stuck. That's why we're so interested in Europe, where it works better....
@those who type out their anger above me:
Yes humanity is rotten. TV screens are wonderfully energy-efficient*, so people actually could spare electricity, so we actually could switch off some power plants. But what do people do? They buy huge screens, because they want to feel like in their own movie house -- and they add bombastic cinema sound. The average American doesn't give a darn for a better world.
Those who always talk about fascism, must have a very fascist brain indeed. How often do you think and speak the word fascism over a day? Would be disturbing to track that down....
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* Goes for other devices as well -- it's not just screens!
The GOP pest will be defeated in November and probably driven out of many states over the coming years. Because the Republicans are carrying their idiocy too far, so even rather uneducated Americans get it.
As Thom told us about a GOP pest already in the 1950s, American political generations have to learn this lesson again and again. Maybe in about 50 years we'll have to go this process through again.... The GOP hates the latest unemployment figures. That's part of the process.
**YAAAAAWN** How about another film? Something nice from the 30s!
Well, first was Thee Mile Island, then Chernobyl, the Fukushima so I guess its our turn on the trip around the world on the latest edition of "World-Wide Nukes"! What I loved was just after the Fukushima incident you had right-wing cretins like Lars Larson saying that America should be "brave enough" to wisely invest in nuclear energy. *Yeesh*
I think that both the Democrats and the Republicans may feel threatened by the possibility that they'll both be out on their ears when someone else wins this time. If some other party manages to win, especially if it is someone who wasn't bought by the monied powers, then there may be real hope. The reason why so many people sat out in 2010 was that their only choice was to re-elect a scroungy blue-dog Democrat that deserved to lose their jobs anyway. No difference between a Republican and a scroungy blue dog Democrat...and the voters sent a message...that they would rather see the enemy head on than be fooled by a stab in the back Blue Dog Democrat.
There are a lot of worthless faux Democrats who deserve to lose their positions. So, from the ruling elite perspective, the theater has to be wrenched up so that voters are so frightened of the possible Republican President that they will vote for the guy that will continue to give in to the dictates of the ruling elite while, at the same time, keep people pacified by yet more worthless hope. It's nearly the same game that they play when they created the specter of a boogey man terrorist. They use fear to conquer and divide.
I thought Obama, when I voted for him the first time, was a "true progressive candidate". Surprise! Surprise! Fool me once....
Nope! I don't buy it! And there is no "sulking" about it....I find it quite humorous all of the phrases that people can use to get you to do what they want you to do.
"If you don't vote...then you don't have room to complain!"
"If you don't like the way things are going in this country...then just move to some other country!"
I suppose one could also say: "if you are not out in the streets demonstrating or even actively rebelling against the system then you have no room to complain!"
Or: "if you think voting is the only way to change things then you have no room to sulk when, after your man wins, they take away all your freedoms, right to privacy, or any social program that keeps you alive...or if you are lucky enough...to be working 12 hour days in dangerous and exhausting conditions like they now do in China and barely enough compensation to feed your family.
Bottom line is that it really won't matter who you vote into office because the system is so corrupt that we are all screwed anyway. Voting is the smoke and mirrors that keeps the people thinking they have a choice. It's also a bait and switch....they bait you with promises and a facade of what you want to hear and see then they switch to who they really are after you vote them in.
Why do you think so many rich people are backing Obama? Obama is being backed 2 to 1 (Romney being the 1) by the ruling elite. They are putting on quite a show because the stakes are so high. They want you to believe that the ruling elite like the Koch Roach Bros are the bad old evil entities that we have to do everything in our power to fight. That's the delusion....not that they are evil...THEY ARE EVIL..but the delusion is that Obama is our only chance to fight them. They know that Americans are on the edge of a revolution and they have to keep the illusion of hope alive and are counting on Obama to keep us fooled just a little longer.
Obama has given the ruling elite practically everything they wanted anyway....including the original plan of keeping the people from actively rebelling against the Fascists that have a strangle hold on us. That stranglehold comes through a psychological ploy to keep us hopeful that there is a chance of change through the current corrupt, smoke and mirrors election system. We don't have a real democracy in America...it's a Plutocracy...a Corporatocracy that uses the illusion of the ballot box to keep people from rioting in the streets.
So don't go "sulking" at home after you vote for Obama and he wins just to continue as a lame duck President that owes those who bought him and who no longer has to pretend he is working for the actual people who voted for him. We got a taste of who Obama is when he appointed all of those right-wing Fascists. We got a taste of Obama when he constantly gave in to the Republicans. It will be worse the next time around.
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I thought that sounded like a lot of sophisticated electronics all packed inside a bullet...the patent does say laser "sensors" and not laser transmitters or sources. I have worked with optical image recognition systems in microphotolithographics but this is on the micron and sub-micron scale and not meters or even miles. I have worked with Piezo-electric as well and know that it wouldn't take much surface change to change the aerodynamics of a projectile.
The current austerity "experiment" is akin to being on an expedition through the jungle, losing half your equipment due to some disaster, and then deciding to throw away half of the necessary things you have left, such as snakebite medicine, because someone said the disaster was a sign that you have to "travel light", instead of pausing to work with suppliers to replenish your lost equipment.