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  • Daily Topics - Tuesday March 6th, 2012   13 years 19 weeks ago

    Charles Murray is partially right about comparing what someone with a lower income can buy today vs the 60's. The same can be said about the cave man of 10,000 years ago and the cave man of today, or of people with dirt floor, single wall houses with chickens in the yard in the early 1900s and the people with dirt floors today. The standard of living has changed such that the norms of the 60s are not the norms of today. Further, while stereo systems are much cheaper today than they were in the 60s, doctors visits are much more expensive. Perhaps he would only consider comparing the cost for cures for diseases of the 60's with their cost today.

    Finally, during the 60's it was very common for your mother-in-law to live with you and rare to take your children to day-care, today these are considered impractical solutions for many situations.

  • With estimates that gas might hit $5 a gallon this summer - Americans are screwed at the pump   13 years 19 weeks ago

    There is one reason and one reason alone why there is an excess of gasoline in this country, ethanol. An entire industry that would not exist without our tax dollars. What a total sham that whole program is.

    You notice that diesel now costs more than gasoline? That's because there is no oversupply of diesel.

    Get the goverment out of the free markets and let them work on their own.

  • Hey Rush Limbaugh, who’s the prostitute now?   13 years 19 weeks ago

    Yes, but his bull$h!t is priceless! Which could either mean that there is not money enough to value it...or that it is worthless and no one would be willing to pay anything for it. I think most people believe in the latter. His sponsors evidently don't think his inane utterances are worth it.

  • Has Rush Limbaugh jumped the shark?   13 years 19 weeks ago

    Bad character, bad person.

  • Has Rush Limbaugh jumped the shark?   13 years 19 weeks ago

    Can you say pee test? He is obviously back on the oxycodon. Or something else, because he is bouncing off the walls if you watch his show. Don Imas lost his job for much less.

  • With estimates that gas might hit $5 a gallon this summer - Americans are screwed at the pump   13 years 19 weeks ago

    Are you sure that price was not dollars per litre? In most of Europe, that is how their gasoline is priced.

  • With estimates that gas might hit $5 a gallon this summer - Americans are screwed at the pump   13 years 19 weeks ago

    OK, Clarissa, let's support another Solyndra (sp?). That was a great idea, 500 million tax dollars down the drain. And you want to do it again?

    Wake up and smell the roses!

  • With estimates that gas might hit $5 a gallon this summer - Americans are screwed at the pump   13 years 19 weeks ago

    So electric power plants don't pollute? And electricity is free? If you would do any kind of study on energy you never would have made this post.

  • Has Rush Limbaugh jumped the shark?   13 years 19 weeks ago

    As offensive as he may be to many of us, a lot of people will always love listening to him. This is costing him and his producers money but I don't think it will sink him completely. I hope I am wrong about that.

  • Will America experience a Lost Generation?   13 years 19 weeks ago

    That's a fantastic idea....there is so much to be learned just through the various tutorials (video and otherwise) that really costs nothing except the cost of the computer (or IPAD) and the ISP. I remember the pre-internet days when I had dreamed of the future for when we would all have information anywhere we went....not that I made any money off of it....darn...but now the future is here....great stuff on the internet!

    No one even needs to leave home...they can fly to places on Google Earth or take University Classes right at home...and it doesn't cost anything...and you don't even need to go through porno scanners or waste gas getting to the airport...or have to sit between two obese people coughing all those hours on the plane..don't have to worry about hotels or tips. But, obviously, if you are still trying to find jobs, not many prospective employers would accept an Internet degree unless you paid big bucks to some University.

  • Will America experience a Lost Generation?   13 years 19 weeks ago

    I think it's time for Apple to start the iUniversity and teach everyone on iPads! I'm not kidding! Why not just hire one set of teachers and have live classes shown over the internet - at MUCH lower cost! It just makes sense... We could be at Starbucks, the beach, etc. and taking interactive classes online! Apple started in the schools (thus the apple logo) - well, now it's time for them to reinvent another industry that's very much in trouble... The educational system! Imagine getting a prestegious degree from A.I.U. (Apple Internet University!)

  • Has Rush Limbaugh jumped the shark?   13 years 19 weeks ago

    I Agree with Will. Limbaugh has big money behind him. I'm going to recycle a bumper sticker slogan and put it on Limbaugh's trunk "TO BIG TO FAIL". This guy has been at it for 20 years this isn't the first time hes gone to far. He gets his leash yanked and lays low long enough for the attention span of this country to pass him by. I would love to see him be thrown under the bus, but I don't think they , and you know who I mean by they, are going to sacrifice their best talking head. Every four years these red meat issues surface why? I think they surface to divide us and distract us from voter repression, fraud , and intimidation. It's super Tuesday and on the radio it all about Rush. Thom mentioned in his show yesterday the GOP " putting the mask back on" and I couldn't agree more.We may start to see this kinder more "in touch" moderate GOP, but it is just mask. Check out these books The Silent Language by Edward T. Hall, Body Language by Julius Fast, and Inside Intuition by Flora Davis.

  • With estimates that gas might hit $5 a gallon this summer - Americans are screwed at the pump   13 years 19 weeks ago

    SOLUTION:

    STAY HOME. GET TO KNOW YOUR FAMILY.

  • Will America experience a Lost Generation?   13 years 19 weeks ago

    Really liking what Obama said today. Sure outdistances him from all the other misogynist and obtuse contenders. And unless something really crazy happens before election day Obama is sure to win. I am glad that Obama tended to back down on his previous (what sounded like) unquestioning fealty to the war mongers from Israel in wanting to attack Iran. But, one never really knows just what America is likely to do...after all they (I know...different President) gave April Glaspie the go ahead to let Saddam think we had no problem with Iraq attacking Iran. But this is not the only time that America cannot be relied upon to do the right thing....sparing millions of innocent lives.

    That one caller who said that her son worked for Los Alamos and they were all concerned...not that Iran will get an atomic weapon but that they will not have the expertise to prevent their reactors from doing a melt down. Yeah, right! Wouldn't some people in the US just love to see this happen? After all what do you think that Stuxnet worm was all about?

    "Different variants of Stuxnet targeted five Iranian organizations,[9] with the probable target widely suspected to be uranium enrichment infrastructure in Iran;[10][11][8] Symantec noted in August 2010 that 60% of the infected computers worldwide were in Iran.[12] Siemens stated on 29 November that the worm has not caused any damage to its customers,[13] but the Iran nuclear program, which uses embargoed Siemens equipment procured clandestinely, has been damaged by Stuxnet.[14][15] Russian computer security firm Kaspersky Lab concluded that the sophisticated attack could only have been conducted "with nation-state support".[16] This was further backed up by the Finnish computer security company F-Secure's chief researcher Mikko Hyppönen who commented in a Stuxnet FAQ, "That's what it would look like, yes".[17] It has been speculated that Israel[18] and the United States may have been involved.[19][20]"

    "In May 2011, the PBS program Need To Know cited a statement by Gary Samore, White House Coordinator for Arms Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction, in which he said, "we're glad they [the Iranians] are having trouble with their centrifuge machine and that we – the US and its allies – are doing everything we can to make sure that we complicate matters for them", offering "winking acknowledgement" of US involvement in Stuxnet.[21] According to the British Daily Telegraph, a showreel that was played at a retirement party for the head of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), Gabi Ashkenazi, included references to Stuxnet as one of his operational successes as the IDF chief of staff.[18]"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

    I wonder just how involved Los Alamos Labs were in creating the Stuxnet worm? Maybe they have good reason to be worried!

    I believe that the criminal elite in both the US and in Israel would not hesitate to do something like this....if they thought they could blame Iran for their lack of high-techspertise (made that word up ;-})

    Of course, there are those war chicken hawks who would love to be more brazen and risk someone else's sons and daughters in attacking Iran. But, all they will likely do, if they can't cause a meltdown, would be to lob in some bunker buster nukes. This would, of course, cause $10/gallon gas prices for a while...maybe a long while....and the possibility of terrorist attacks against the US in retribution.

    Iran has plenty of cash, N. Korea doesn't, but they have lots of nukes...maybe even suitcase nukes....if the Iranians have already bought suitcase nukes from the N. Koreans... and may have already smuggled them into the US....there could be a suitcase nuke in every large city in the US and maybe even in Israel. Now that would be really scary!! Who needs long range missiles to carry nuclear war heads when you can smuggle nukes into a country by boat or airplane..cargo containers....or just walk across the border from Mexico or Canada? Talk about MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)!!!

    And besides, as discussed in today's show, we have a lot to worry about right here in our own country...using poorly designed (designed less for safety and more for cutting costs to increase profit) and aging nuclear plants. Who would you rather build a nuclear plant? Someone who has lots of money to pour into building a safe plant, with one's national pride, and competence on the line or one who will recklessly cut costs in order to eek out the last dollar in profits and who will be wealthy enough to move anywhere in the world in the event of a disaster. Capitalists will sell the hangman the noose that will eventually hang him.

    And even if Iran never smuggled suit case nukes into every major city in the US....all it would take is to sabotage any of our aging nuclear power plants. It had been claimed by those who designed the WTC buildings that they were designed to withstand crashes by modern jet liners. The containment vessels of nuclear plants, it has been claimed, have been designed to withstand the direct hit of a freight train. But what about those devices that keep the core cooled and the nuclear reaction controlled? Are they as indestructible? What if Iran or some other country has created their own "Stuxnet" worm that will cause a catastrophic failure of our ability to control the rate of fusion or cooling of the cores?

    That one expert on nuclear safety on today's show said that none of these nuclear power plants in the US use their own generated electricity for....something...backup generators? (we know how well they worked in Fukushima...don't we?)...or was is more than just backup generators? Didn't catch all that was said but it didn't sound very reassuring.

  • Hey Rush Limbaugh, who’s the prostitute now?   13 years 19 weeks ago

    i was just listening to thom's show and he said rush was worth between $300 mil and $400 mil. i have to disagree. i looked up the price of lard and it's about $4 a lb. "conservatively", rush weighs in between 250 and 300 lbs.

    that means he can't be worth more than about $1000 to $1200.

  • Has Rush Limbaugh jumped the shark?   13 years 19 weeks ago

    He's dead meat. What he said and the way he acted about it affected 80% of people (women and men who support and love them). The remaing 20% are insane old white men and mysogonists (aka Republicans).

    .

  • Hey Rush Limbaugh, who’s the prostitute now?   13 years 19 weeks ago
    Quote Craig Bush:Why do democrats continue to vote for wealthy people to represent them?
    Because too many Americans voted for Reagan and then Bush. The American voter is basically to blame -- majories of the American people have empowered corporate America. The Democrats are powerless in this matter and presently have to adjust, until they've changed the rules. They either join the money-game, or go under and we get Romney as President....

    Many Americans who right now complain and blame President Obama are actually to blame themselves: Because they voted for GOP years ago and we just have to live with the consequences.

    The REAL prostitute is the GOP voter who is not wealthy.

  • Will America experience a Lost Generation?   13 years 19 weeks ago

    I just calculate on Barack Obama as President in 2013, with decent majority in Senate and House. There's no other future for this country. America is divided. Currently there isn't just 'an America' -- there're TWO Americas. It's kinda like two nations. Right-wing America is downright another universe, than Liberal America.

    The only person who presently is able to unite this country, is President Obama. If this country had to take another GOP Presidency and Congress majority, it would end up even more divided. We have to get back on FDR's path and rebuild the middle-class, and only President Obama guarantees that.

  • Hey Rush Limbaugh, who’s the prostitute now?   13 years 19 weeks ago

    The real prostitutes are the "repocrats". These are the professional politicians that cannot be distinguished as real democrats or real republicans. Republicans are up front about caring only for themselves and their pocketbooks. Why do democrats continue to vote for wealthy people to represent them?

    Romney will win today. Most money wins for republicans. Santorum is being bankrolled by the same people that want Romney. He takes away the Gingrich vote. My guess is Santorum will be Romney's running mate in the end.

    I thought the latest comment by Barbara Bush was revealing. There could be a brokered convention with the Bush People putting in Jeb. If the people who choose presidents, like Bush sr., Baker and Nunn give the go ahead then it will be done.

  • Will America experience a Lost Generation?   13 years 19 weeks ago

    G8 Move: I think it's possible that the Obama Crew also considered the additional hundreds of people being arrested for Felony Eavesdropping, and the fear of another Chicago police riot ('68).

  • Will Rush Limbaugh be suspended for his fake Fluke apology?   13 years 19 weeks ago

    Rush will leave, right after David Vitter resigns.

  • Has Rush Limbaugh jumped the shark?   13 years 19 weeks ago

    Like indestructable cockroaches Limpballs will, sadly, survive this.....There is simply too much money and hate propping him up

  • Will Rush Limbaugh be suspended for his fake Fluke apology?   13 years 19 weeks ago

    I agree with Snowtoadman and I'm glad he mentioned Margaret Sanger. I remember the days of the Coathanger self abortion. When women said "If you don't have a uterus, you have no say", that shut them up for a while. Then men pushed a so-called Father's cause and exercised their power over Woman. Now they call a small growth a sacred life. So it comes back to men's power. Children are a woman's body's product and a man's weapon. Sorry I am not as sentimental as others about something started in the back seat of a car and ruins several lives.

  • Will Rush Limbaugh be suspended for his fake Fluke apology?   13 years 19 weeks ago

    I WISH THAT RUSH WOULD CRAWL INTO A HOLE NEVER TO RETURN! He has crossed the line that should have NEVER been crossed! Maybe he is broken and he can't get up! That is the only reason I can figure for his rantings. I don't want to waste anymore of my time on that scum.

  • With estimates that gas might hit $5 a gallon this summer - Americans are screwed at the pump   13 years 19 weeks ago

    So the only ones who can speculate are companies that have an interest in the price being low? Someone has to buy those contracts on the other side. If no bulls are allowed in the market, who's going sell those contracts?

    John

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