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I am especially disappointed in THom. He is brilliant and a storehouse of knowledge. Why he can't be more of a leader is beyond me. He certainly is not shy. I really thought Obama was going to continue his motivational charisma was going to continue into the Presidency. I started listening to his weekly talks but soon realized that he was holding back. I still hope that he has a few aces up his sleeve that he can pull out after he is reelected.
Thank you too "Oldcrone" for your communication. If you are on Facebook please look for me under the same name as here. Same logo too and BTW I think that was an awesome thing to do on your 60th birthday. Hope to stay in touch!
Your Welcome Oldcrone! I know that lonely feeling and I know that "talking to oneself" syndrome so well. I wouldn't worry about it though until you start getting answers coming back (OH THOSE VOICES!( (lol). The only person I have to talk to outside of the few on Facebook I have been able to find is my wife and she finds these things depressing too, so she usually cuts me off.
All media, especially progressive media, is controlled one way or another by the 1%. Air America was systematically shut down through buy-outs, inteference, or whatever means possible. It used to air here in Maine but was sold out and became yet another sports station. We really have very little choice.
It's the cash. Take the money out of politics and you deincentivize corruption. Pass Bernie Sanders' amendment to overturn Citizens United, institute publicly financed elections, prevent politicians from keeping whatever's in their war chest when the dust settles, and let's elect some people who are at least running because they want the office. Sure, you'll still have corporate schills involved who want the office for corrupt reasons, but at least it won't be naked on its face like it is now.
Yeah. You're right. It's now public relations or networking.
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Mauiman smells himself. His lies stink like rotting carcass. Did you read the malicious lies he spread out about Sandra Fluke? I met quite some bold right-wingers, but sutch impertinence is flat-out unbelievable. He'd better scram here, for I'm going to constantly remind him of that shameless piece of monkey business...
You're so right. Wasn't that on Thom's show, where someone reported they figured out a way to make parking lots and highways go solar? I have a dream : Four years liberal absolute dominance in Congress to constantly overrule all the Republicans and blue-dogs.....
Cash has always been king, steering elections since the Civil War. The people that get hurt the most usually don't bother to vote or the wealthy use hate and fear to get the votes of those who do. The new world order is now and most don't even know it.
OVER POPULATION is the root cause of all of human abuses. Why pay a person a decent wage when you have an endless source of people. The 'supply and demand' rule stands - Too many humans = too little worth. Why do you think they can wage ENDLESS WARS? Heck, they already have a surplus that's expendable. Ever consider just WHY they are trying to ban any type of pregnancy prevention devices?? They INCREASE HUMAN VALUE!
The smart grid would be the biggest public works project in the history of the world. Im sure residents of Athabasca would love to see the land reforested and the water purity restored. The bitumen should be left in the ground. The same should happen in Applachia-no more mountaintop removal.Who wants to breathe carbon monoxide? A solar panel on every roof, and access to an electric subway or streetcar for all. No more deep sea drilling. No sprawl either, if you want land-no grass or ornamentals-you must use it to grow food, grow treees or raise livestock.
Yes-Canada has a first-past-the-post system. We should have proportional representation. In Alberta for example, a third of the population doesn't vote Conservative, yet they always get 95% of the seats-this really doesn't reflect the will of the people, only the power of big oil, coal and gas. Also Theivin' Harper prorogued (shut down) parliament to prevent a coalition govt.
How do Americans make the lawmakers make laws to stop the lawmakers from taking bribes (Lobby money by any other word). Calls and letters and email don't faze them.
Is that what we call a representative government? They represent who they want or those that pay the most to their "campaign"
I found Gillespie's rudeness, his constant talking overshadowed his ideas. He came across as totally arrogant and insolent which is too bad since the man is bright and articulate and occasionally has a good idea. But, I couldn't get past his none-stop talking...I wrote to him to let him know how I felt.
About public schools: California, where I live, use to have some of the best public colleges and universities and the country and they were very, very reasonable tuition wise. But, currently the state is upside-down and backwards re: revenue and is currently trying to raise tuition much to the chagrin of the students. Where has all the money gone? ...to the Exxon/Mobile CEO? ...or the BoA CEO?
For a true democracy to take place I feel that a multiple party platform needs to be adopted. The "lesser of two evils" that we've all been forced to buy into is a false paradigm. I would argue that having only two candidates presented to us is not really giving us free will to choose. Free will becomes irrelevant when the choices are predetermined beforehand. All we are able to vote for is candidate A or candidate B because candidate C is never given a fair shot by design or by the media. Candidates E, F and G never even hit the radar because they dont have big money from corporate billionaire sugar daddy donors, because they refuse to support their corporate interests. Therefore, leaving the interests of the common people unrepresented and to fall on deaf ears. Now that is truly misrepresentation!
"Ventripotentiously ugly". Belly power?
People who think the only beneficiary of an education is the student are either stupid or are making an extreme effort to miss the point.
When you put a kernel of corn in the ground, nurture it to maturity, and just look at the ear of corn and gripe about the corn taking all of the resources, you are in the same class as people who think that a college graduate is the only one who gains from an education.
A conclusion I take away is that some people just want to make a lot of money from our alleged "system" of education and horrifyingly inflated debt and profit. An honest broker will admit that.
It's either "wake up and smell the coffee" or "stop and smell the roses".
Thank gawd ! It's lonely out here. I"m accused of being a republican, in fact I'm so far to the left it's painful for most people around me. I admit it. But this party has become something I can't even recognize. I don't understand why "progressive" radio won't allow our voices to be heard. It must be policy not to allow dissent on their shows, why is that? Thank you John for responding, I was getting tired of talking to my old self. I should be used to it, but I sure appreciate knowing I'm not alone out here, even though it feels like it most of the time ! For my 60th birthday I had your logo tatted on my inner ankle ! I love it, I tell people it started on my knee and drifted down !
I could not agree more, Oldcrone (great handle BTW). I remember listening to Randi Rhodes doing the same thing when the Democrats took control of Congress. One caller said he didn't have much faith in Democrats being assertive (my view also) and Randi called him a whiner instead of listening to him. She struck me as almost as bad as Bill O'Reilly.
I too expect more from Progressives and used to think very highly of THom. Not any more.
Yes, Obama killed OBL.And he did it with NO due process. The US tried the Nazi's Thom, why do you brag about this president ignoring due process? I am stymied by this total acceptance of this President who claims the right to disappear any US citizen without due process, and assassinate those he "is told" are a threat to the US? Why can't you discuss it? Why do you hang up on any of us who ask? I've been fighting the good fight for fifty years Thom, I'm not a novice at speaking to power, but my gawd, why do you accept assassinations of Americans by this POTUS?
Okay, one more question. Why do you call those callers who do "get through" right wingers? I am far from a right winger, but I have every right to question the decisions coming from the man I voted for. Why do you silence us when we question Obama?
Thom? You just hung up on a man asking you why you NEVER allow one word of criticism of Obama, and you said you didn't know how he got through? That is progressive thinking?
Do you really not allow any caller who questions Obama? Really?
"Robert Oxford, a graduate student at NYU researching the financialization of student debt and an organizer with the Occupy Student Debt campaign, pointed out that even government-granted loans mean profits for the banks and the lenders that get paid to service the loans. “Profiteering on student indenture is common financial practice within the realm of Student Loan Asset Backed Securities,” he told AlterNet. “The 'servicers,' third parties the government contracts to bundle its student loans, are essentially middlemen which bring big finance to collateralize millions of American student loans.”
Like other forms of asset-backed securities (which you might be familiar with from the housing bubble—mortgages were bundled together and sold to investors), student loans are repackaged, bundled and sold at auction. “The people who buy it are mainly the biggest banks in the world, hedge funds, etc.” Oxford said. “The secondary market it more difficult to trace because the deals are done at auction, but are in the finance industry.”
He added, “So similar to mortgages but different in that you can't foreclose on someone's education.”
You might not be able to foreclose on an education, but that doesn't mean the debt isn't being traded as an asset. Because the federal government backs up the student loans, because they cannot ever be discharged in bankruptcy and so essentially follow borrowers all their lives, they don't lose value for investors--you might default, but the government covers 98 or 99 percent of the value, you get sued, and the bank that collateralized your loan still has the money. But investors move them around for their own purposes, Oxford noted."
More ---> http://www.alternet.org/economy/155133/wall_street-inflated_student_debt_bubble_hits_$1_trillion%3B_debtors_rally_for_relief?page=entire
I think that, among journalists and politicians, the favorite euphemism for lying is "disingenuousness".
Something like that song singing in Norway for the anniversary of Anders Breivik's attack would have been good to have here for Columbine High School. Colorado's state flower is the columbine, and hence the state song is "Where the Columbines Grow". The trouble is no one actually knows the song.
It doesn't matter what the situation is, voting is always going to be the better of two evils. Was it Barney Frank who said, "if you believe in most of what I believe in, vote for me. If you believe in everything I believe in, have yourself committed"?