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  • Highlights on the Show...February 15 - 19, 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago

    Obama is finished as president!!! I knew three or four months into his presidency that he would be a misfit for the job.

    http://www.opednews.com/articles/Barack-Obama-has-severely-by-michael-pa...

  • Highlights on the Show...February 15 - 19, 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago
  • Highlights on the Show...February 15 - 19, 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago

    The following information that I will share with you, I share it with a heavy heart.

    http://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-Still-campaigning-Ve-by-Allen-L-R...

  • Highlights on the Show...February 15 - 19, 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago

    I have decided that corporations and companies are now called -CORPOPERSONS.

    I looked up and spotted a robin, he looked down and spotted me. Me no worry, me no cry, me glad that elephants don't fly. I take that back because GOP elephants do fly and they crap on our heads.

  • Your citizen activism is needed now more than ever....   15 years 13 weeks ago

    The Supreme Court ruling a bad idea? It's not just a bad idea. It is the most serious attack on a healthly functioning democracy we have encountered in my lifetime (and perhaps since our founding).. The decision has catapulted to the top of my "surveys" list in issues of most concern to the average American public. My most important question: What constitutional principle on the books exists which governs correction of the actions of the body to which we as a people have granted absolute final authority over our rule of law, if they do not, when in error, have the grace to correct it themselves?

  • Infotainment   15 years 13 weeks ago

    LETTER TO THE EDITOR
    There has been a lot of rhetoric from Republican politicians across the country. What frustrates me is that they are saying that the President’s agenda is not working, the health care reform has not included Republican ideas, and the Stimulus plan is a waste of money.
    After saying the stimulus is a waste of money, they then take credit for stimulus money coming to their district and praising it in their own state, holding big checks. So many of these same Republicans who bad mouth the program, voted against it and are taking credit for the benefits received in their districts. I only hope the people in Republican districts punish them for their hypocritical, two faced, and obstructionist posturing by voting them out of office in November. Don’t they understand that when they do this that they show everyone their true colors? I understand that many Republicans who read this may object based on their historical preference to support Republican ideology. I urge them to consider the idea that a Republican politician who is making a conscious effort to block all legislation in congress in an effort to sabotage President Obama is actually turning their backs on you, their Republican supporters. Surely, the economic problems are affecting Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and Libertarians alike. So they are stopping, purposefully, any efforts to help Americans in a very bad situation. It cannot be disputed that the President has made every effort to provide an environment for a bi-partisan process for developing legislation to achieve the goals of his agenda. Instead of cooperating with the President, the Republicans have jammed up every effort of this administration. Who does that hurt most? Us! In the last meeting between the President and the Republican leadership, the President voiced optimism for a bi-partisan effort. What did the Republican Leadership say, “Why should we participate in a discussion about a bill that should be scrapped and start from scratch.” That does not sound like Republicans are willing to discuss options or solutions. About a third of the Health Care Bill contains Republican concepts and there is no longer a public option. What more do they want? The answer is clear; they simply want the President to fail in every effort to help the American people. They would like to start from scratch so that they can spend the next year bad mouthing the administration for not passing the Health Care Bill. Why would anyone vote for someone who purposefully sabotages efforts to help us?
    The bottom line is that, we the people can’t trust the government to help us out of this problem. Even with a president who is trying his best to help, the Republican obstructionists seem willing and able to stop all efforts to help us. We must take things into our own hands and help ourselves. With that being said, I have a plan to do just that.
    If we implement my Supplemental Economic Recovery Plan we, the people, can generate over $130 Billion every year beginning the first year of implementation. 58% of this funding will go directly to 130,000 different taxpayers nationwide each year. 40% of this funding will go directly to schools (both mainstream and inner-city schools equally), police and fire departments, and 2% going to charities.
    We are already generating these funds as I am writing this letter. However, we are not using these funds effectively. Through my plan we will simply redistribute the funds in a way that benefits more people, more schools, more community service agencies, and more charities. By redistributing these funds, which are independent of the government budget, we will directly improve our local economies in 260,000 different communities nationwide. It is opposite of the trickle down economics theory; let’s call it trickle up economics. We will infuse ourselves with much needed personal funding over a broad base which will stimulate the national economy from the bottom up. I believe the trickle up economic model helps us, the people, more than the trickle down model. The more money we have, the more we spend, invest, and revitalize our communities. That will save and create more jobs directly based on real cash being circulated through the economy, not based on borrowed money from the government by increasing the deficit. That is the essence of Robbing Peter to Pay Paul economics. Below is an invitation to President Obama. I am asking anyone reading this to help get this letter to the President. If we can post this letter in enough networks and media platforms I believe we can get him involved. We will only need the government to implement the program, but, we will be generating the funding for the program itself. Remember, we are already paying for the program; we just are not using the generated funding efficiently.
    President Obama,
    I am writing this invitation in response to the recent attacks against you by your political enemies regarding our economic crisis. I believe you are the best, pro-active president this country has ever seen. If I could show you how to put over $75.4 billion dollars directly into the hands of the tax payers of this country over the next year, (and every year thereafter) would you want to hear my strategy? What if this strategy would cost the government zero dollars to implement? Would you still be interested? What if at the same time we could put $200,000 into 100 different schools (main stream and inner-city schools equally), police departments, and fire departments every week, in every state, without costing the government a dime? Would you want to know more? I believe this strategy will make you the most successful and popular President this country has ever known, but only if you contact me to learn more about it. I do not trust anyone else with this simple strategy. I want you as our President for the next seven years and perhaps another Democrat, or Independent with similar qualities and vision as yourself for the following eight years. You can change the face of politics, economics, and humanity forever. All you have to do is contact me to learn more. I realize that the first person to read this invitation is probably a staff member and not President Obama. I implore the first reader to not just delete this message. If you truly believe in the President and his agenda, then forward this to your supervisor. The strategy I have referred to in this invitation can help him and this country, but not if you throw it away.
    With my deepest respect,
    William A. Garrison

    I have a power point presentation outlining the plan but have not figured out how to send it to you.

  • Daily Topics - February 8th 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago

    Medicare Part E is already legislation in the House! Don't take my word for it look up HR 676

  • Daily Topics - Friday February 12th 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago

    You keep properly mentioning medicare part E Thom,

    It is already a bill stuck in the House, called HR 676:

    A BILL
    To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for
    all United States residents, and for other purposes

    the entire bill can be viewed at: http://www.pnhp.org/nhibill/nhi_bill_final.pdf IN acrobat format,

    Latest Major Action: 4/4/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

    If you prefer the Thomas Library view at: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.00676:

  • Daily Topics - Friday February 12th 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago

    Thom keeps properly mentioning medicare part E

    It is already a bill stuck in the House, called HR 676:

    A BILL
    To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for
    all United States residents, and for other purposes

    the entire bill can be viewed at: http://www.pnhp.org/nhibill/nhi_bill_final.pdf IN acrobat format,

    Latest Major Action: 4/4/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

    If you prefer the Thomas Library view at: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.00676:

  • Daily Topics - Friday February 12th 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago

    I think Nodler is just a homophobe that is looking for any excuse to deny gays their civil rights. He's clinging to the Muslim reaction because he thinks its a smart way to get people to go along with his oppressive tactics. I'm don't doubt that if there was a bill presented to throw all Muslims out of America, he'd be the first to vote for it. He's a hypocrite.

  • Daily Topics - Friday February 12th 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago

    Well Brad, it seems you might become a go to guy on a lot of questions regarding Solar energy on this blog.

    I see that you're making some recommendations, but I'm getting a bit confused on which system you consider best for its functions.

    Also you say you run a Solar business, what does that mean? Are you installing Solar Systems, Producing them, both?

    Just curious.

  • Daily Topics - Friday February 12th 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago

    I need to comment on Gary Nodler's comments on how Iraqis will view the US military if they repeal Don't ask don't tell. Do the Iraqis really wonder if the person patrolling the streets with an automatic weapon is openly gay? Does it really matter to them? Following that logic, would Americans think less of a person killed by a stray bullet in a gang shooting if they knew the gang allowed members to be openly gay?

  • Daily Topics - Friday February 12th 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago

    KMH -- sorry to respond so late and after the show has gone off the air...

    I am at work and got real busy for a while -- I own a solar business in Vermont, and a USDA Engineer stopped in for help with a solar water pumping station for a horse farm!

    Sorry to come off as a smarty-pants -- I'm new here, (but a long-time listener), so I have to figure out how things work. I used to get Thom on the radio -- remember those thingies? But now I have to listen to streaming audio.

    Solar thermal stuff used to mean "solar hot water", which is about 67% efficient overall (some evacuated tube collectors are as much as 92% efficient at converting sunlight to heat, but the whole system would have losses in other areas...), while photovoltaic collectors are mostly between 12% - 20% efficient. I have not seen good numbers for solar thermal electricity generation, but it has to be lower than using the heat directly, based on the way these systems operate.

    So, here's one of my pet peeves: "Renewable energy" is starting to mean that which produces electricity. As a culture (OK -- a blend of cultures in many areas) we in the US tend to use a LOT of electricity -- probably much more than we need to, though "need" could be a bit subjective here. There seems to be some collective foregone conclusion that we "need" to make more and more and ever more electricity because we're all addicted to the newest electronic gadgerty, etc... I'm not convinced we need more -- I think we need to learn to be happy with less.

    OK -- back to solar thermal stuff: taking the heat we capture from the sun, and using it to boil water (or another fluid) to make steam to drive a turbine to make electricity has many compounding energy losses, and then transmitting that juice over long distances from the Nevada desert, say, to LA, means even higher losses. If the electricity is going to LA to power air conditioners, why not make heat on the roof right in LA, and use that to drive the AC unit? It would be FAR more efficient. Even better would be a building with 5 times as much insulation that doesn't need much AC (or heat, if Chicago) in the first place.

    Funny thing about electricity and efficiency... Plumbers may tell you that an electric water heating coil is 100% efficient, but that only means the efficiency of converting the power on this side of the wall to heat energy. The fact that getting that electricity to my home is only about 17% efficient really needs to come into a broader view.

    I'm not opposing solar thermal electricity generation, but I want to look at the whole system and make sure we're not just falling in love with the next new gadget. If we back up and look at the wider view, there might be an even better way.

  • Daily Topics - Friday February 12th 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago

    Look at this video about Bank takeover / FDIC corruption by a couple of realtors-
    It is way more profitable to foreclose than rework the loans- Unbelievable!

    http://www.thinkbigworksmall.com/mypage/player/2168/23165/274019

    .

  • Daily Topics - Friday February 12th 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago

    @Brad, OK, there's some good leads for me to search for, I don't have any particular reason to research it other than for my own knowledge. I know too little about Solar power.

    @KMH, don't get upset about it, your shortened comment is sufficient for me to understand that you think I'm headed in the right direction.

  • Daily Topics - Friday February 12th 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago

    @Nels, I assume you refer to the thermal storage technologies I mentioned(?)

    A new company here in Vermont, called Thermal Storage Solutions, or TSS for short, has done lots of research with TESS -- Thermal Energy System Specialists, of Madison, WI. TESS is one of the premiere thermal engineering groups in N. America.

    TSS has been using high-mass, underground thermal storage to use solar collectors to heat high-performance homes in a new way. They are also working on solar absorption cooling. The technology is there for larger, commercial-scale buildings, but there are no units on the market here that are small enough for the cooling loads of super-insulated homes. I've been involved as a solar consultant, and have helped install 3 of their heating systems. Only 1 of them has been in the field through an entire year-long cycle, while the others are more recent, and have not been commissioned yet. I'm planning to use this system on the home I'm building now.

    For large areas of the US with greater heating loads than cooling, we're still working on a company in Spain to make smaller absorption chillers. Its not easy to get companies to invest in new products in this economy.

    Clear skies,

    Brad

  • Daily Topics - Friday February 12th 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago

    What channel on Time Warner in SW Ohio???

  • Daily Topics - Friday February 12th 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago

    :) Sure wish my post would not have been deleted. I put a lot of work into it because I want to let you know that I was totally with you.

  • Daily Topics - Friday February 12th 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago

    BTW KMH, luv your avatar... I confess I am a cat person.

  • Daily Topics - Friday February 12th 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago

    Thank you KMH, much appreciated.

  • Daily Topics - Friday February 12th 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago

    Yesterday, some bloggers on here were talking about Natural Laws... in nature the only thing that comes close to a monetary system is food. I feel that our monetary system is probably one of the major reasons for such inequality in our society. I don't have a solution to it, I'm just saying something here is quite wrong.

  • Daily Topics - Friday February 12th 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago

    @Nels testing now my 3rd post- just wanted to validate and support you

  • Daily Topics - Friday February 12th 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago

    @Nels I wrote this big long validation to you including links to phi.org and oca. ? but it got deleted when i went to post it. In short, I hear you and support you.

  • Daily Topics - Friday February 12th 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago

    @Charles and harry:
    Yes, I am aware of how many people got booted from the military strictly for being who they are. It's so sad that discrimination is so rampant in this country with sexual orientation, race, gender, age, etc that we as a country overtly allow it instead of discourage and outlaw it.

  • Daily Topics - Friday February 12th 2010   15 years 13 weeks ago

    Something that needs to be pointed out to people like Carrie Lukas is that if you only allow corporations to be punished through lawsuits, not only can a lot of people die before anything is done about it, but the corporate execs that made those deadly decisions get off scot-free due to the limited-liability system. So there really is no punishment. The execs can reincorporate and do it all again without fear.

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