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So how many pills you pop a day? Some docs are ex. but most will give you a pill and send you home."CALL ME IN THE MORNING"
Kend People choose to murder someone every day, there's no might about it.
PFNELKAK Are doctors educated? Talk about having one's head in the sand! Doctors are some of the best educated people in this country. Look up the stats, my friend, you obviously know how to do it.
Sorry Thom you are way off. If you buy a gun you might kill some one if you have a abortion you do kill somebody. I was always for a women's right to choose and still am. I do not judge. But I heard my daughter in altrasound at four weeks. Kinda changed my mind. Technology is really showing how alive those little dudes are.
Thom, here's another arguement that might be worth mentioning; The Pope has declared that a woman who has an abortion is now on equal footing with a person who murders someone with a gun, they both can be forgiven. Just one more reason to treat guns and abortions the same.
Oh boy, you sure got your head in the sand on this one Thom. There was a comparison of crime stats of two towns near Chicago in the 70's over a 10 year period. One banned guns and had an increase in crime of over 35%. The other town, the mayor required each household to own a gun. The crime rate dropped to almost 0.
So what about all the thousands who die from our pill pushing doctors who haven't a clue on keeping anyone healthy? And they are educated????
I just commented to NPR the other day - after they said "Hillary is essentially running against herself and her problems"....
Dear NPR,
You are pissing off this listener. How can you ignore the Bernie Sanders campaign? I heard on ATC last night that Hillary is essentially "running against herself and her problems" in the article as to whether Joe Biden should run. Apparently you choose to look the other way regarding the Bernie Sanders campaign. He's ahead in the polls for instance in New Hampshire, and probably every other state. About every Democrat I talk to is rooting for Bernie and loathes Hillary. How can you look away from this phenomenon?
This was their reply:
Dear Listener,
Thank you for contacting NPR.
We appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback regarding “Biden Fuels Speculation Of Presidential Run With College Affordability Speech."
The reference in that conversation to Clinton “basically running against herself” was intended to mean that her campaign is being buffeted in large part by issues related to things she’s done – including using a private email server – rather than by attacks from other campaigns. We understand and apologize that the inference was not clear to some listeners. We did not intend to suggest that Clinton is not facing competition from Sen. Sanders. We also agree that a mention of the challenge posed by the Sanders campaign would have been appropriate and helpful to include.
Sen. Sanders’ campaign, meanwhile, has been the subject of substantial coverage on our air and our website:
Sanders Gaining on Clinton. 2008 All Over Again?
Exactly What Kind Of Socialist Is Bernie Sanders?
Bernie Sanders And The Size And Wisdom Of Crowds
2016’s Campaign War Chests Are Just Jewelry Boxes Next To The Super PACS
Kudos To Sanders, With A Wink To Clinton, Too
Sanders Among The Least Wealthy Presidential Candidates
Bernie Sanders Just Drew A Huge Crowd. How Does It Measure Up?
Small Donors Fueled Sanders’ $15 Million Fundraising Haul
Sanders: ‘My Goal Right Now Is To Win This Election’
Bernie Sanders Walks A Fine Line On Gun Control
Leaving Brooklyn, Bernie Sanders Found Home In Vermont
Bernie Sanders: ‘We Are The Underdog’
Presidential Hopeful Bernie Sanders To Face Test In New Hampshire
Thank you again for sharing your concerns.
Sincerely,
NPR Audience & Community Relations
I think that the more people complain to NPR the greater chance will be that they finally get it- and start broadcasting news again instead of propoganda.
In answer to your firearms article, you must be crazeir than most in the anti weapons crowd. Was good for a laugh though.
@ Mathboy
Yeah, but his peeps (followers-contributors-tithers) think he's riding in the forefront of the neo christian crusade.
He's off to rescue one of his own and will not only fill Kathy's crowdfunding coffer, but his. I can hear it now. cha' ching! cha' ching!
He and his followers suffer from RPD (Religious Personality Disorder)
>>>>Good News!!
No GoFundMe for Kim Davis: Crowdfunding puts the brakes on the disturbing bigots-get-rich-quick trend
If the plan was to fundraise, more platforms aren't going to play along
Mary Elizabeth Williams
http://www.salon.com/2015/09/04/no_gofundme_for_kim_davis_crowdfunding_puts_the_brakes_on_the_disturbing_bigots_get_rich_quick_trend/?source=newsletter
>>>But as the Davis case unfolds, others, meanwhile, have certainly been eager to turn her into a gravy train — Mike Huckabee is vowing an “#ImWithKim Liberty Rally” on Tuesday,
Thom,
On the gun post of yours. I hear these type arguements all the time and I do agree with needed background checks but I would like to bring out the point that I for one own a weapon. It is in my house, it is unloaded with a cable lock through the chamber into the cartidge compartment. Thus no Ammunition can be put in it. The gun is then in a case with a master padlock on it locked. Only the gun and two emply clips are in there.
The ammunition is located in a cabinet in another room, both are stored where no children or anyone else will easily find. By the way there is only one set of keys and they are with me on my person at all times.
I take all of these precasions for I was trained to by my Father. That is the real problem in America too many people get a weapon and have never been taught how to store it or use it. I was taught that like any tool that I own. It is my responsibility to keep the tools cleaned, properly stored and safe from children.
By the way none of this would of worked if I had not been raised with a general knowledge of common sense ideas. That too is lacking by many today.
Mathboy -- I responded to your groundhog day blog, just now 3 1/2 years late.
I have a music show on an NPR afiliate. NPR is taking a tremendous beating on this issue, if that's what comments negative to Ms Liasson's piece can be called (mine included). It's been 24 hours. Let's see if there's at least a response to the Liasson piece, or radio silence.
Mathboy -- I have mathematical (arithmetic) question. Thom keeps saying the VAT is the same as a tariff. I disagree. Please tell me what is wrong with the math in the following simple example.
If it costs $8000 for Indonesia to make an item, and, because of higher labor rates in the USA, it costs $10,000 to make the same item. Assuming Indonesia has a 25% VAT (I have no idea if Indonesia even has a VAT; remember this example is all about the math), the cost to make the item in Indonesia would be $10,000. If they sell the item in the USA they get the $2000 back from the their govt. If the USA sells the item in Indonesia they are charged the extra $2000. It looks like a tariff except for some significant differences. If as Thom suggests, we should introduce a VAT to be more competitive, then the cost of the item made in the USA would be $12,500. The Indonesian govt would no longer charge the $2000, yet the USA would be even less competitive. I can see no way that a VAT would protect American jobs.
Mark S -- You need to stay near to Earth, also, and realize our political system is a winner take all system. Do you have any idea how much worse Scott Walker is than Hillary.
So how will the Donald react to this? My prediction:
"David Cay Johnston is a loser! Pulitzer Prize? Not that prestegious, y'know - I coulda had DOZENS of 'em if I wanted, but I don't. He's just not very smart, and he doesn't want America to be great again!"
Thom said today that "Hillary changed her mind on a few things but good on her". Puhleeeze! Hillary flipped on more issues than ANY politician ANYWHERE, EVER! The slogan of the Clinton's (and don't say she something different from her husband because they always touted themselves as a husband and wife team, she was only "more progressive" than her husband in the Senate was because she then had her finger in the New York wind and didn't have to deal with Arkansas, Alabama, Texas, etc.) was always that they'd rather be "strong and wrong" [on the issues] than "weak and right".
Come back to Earth, Thom, we need you here, not out there.
On the subject of when summer ends, I refer you to this.
http://www.thomhartmann.com/users/mathboy/blog/2012/02/groundhog-day
Huckabee's an idiot. You can't post bail if you're jailed on contempt of court.
Yay, I can finally show it. I get annoyed sometimes by people overdoing accents. When you're speaking your native language, it's okay to pronounce the names of foreign places with your language's phonemes and other speech patterns. You don't have to say them exactly they way the natives of that area would say them.
Jimmy Smits on SNL, "Enchilada": http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/enchilada/n9970
I'd like to say that Adam Schiff's complaint is a sign that presidential campaigns are too long, but the House Government Oversight Committee has been working on Hillary since before the 2012 presidential election.
It gets worse, Thom: Today (Fri.) on "Morning Edition," NPR's Fox interloper Liasson -- after excerpting Donald Trump's recent call-in to CBS' Face the Nation" in which he decried hedge fund managers' lack of tax liability -- said of the GOP front-runner's economic and immigration-policy "populism":
"On this issue, the real estate mogul and reality TV star is right in sync with Bernie Sanders, and for that matter Hillary Clinton, because sometimes populism does tend to be a mash-up of positions from the left and right.”
That's right -- she compared Bernie's authentic and wholly consistent disdain for Wall Street's abject criminals to the Democrat infamous for $400,000 Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase speaking fees, not to mention hostility to reinstating Glass-Steagall. In a still-young campaign full of inane assertions, Liasson's is one of the worst and most nakedly dishonest.
Also, in describing "populism" as a "mash-up" of left and right positions, then citing Sanders and Clinton in the same sentence means our pal Mara has committed a Kinsley gaffe of accidentally telling the truth: Hillary IS from the right.
Davis is a child molester?
Catbird Seat
. . . .
The catbird seat
is The Donald’s throne.
Won’t it be neat? -
- to hear Trump moan
when Repugs give the bird
to this orange-furred turd.
[Oops. Substitute this less-naughty line:]
when Repugs say “Scat!!”
to this scraggly cat.
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JackieO, I don't know why you were affected that way but I assure you it's am anomaly. Perhaps holding your hit in deprived you of oxygen and if you'd had enough to drink it overtook you, or perhaps there was something in the weed, or perhaps you're somehow, unfortunately, "allergic" to it but people have been mixing liquor and weed forever and it NEVER seemed to cause anything like that.
On the contrary, sometimes it even seemed to mitigate drunkenness by adding a pensive perspicacity to one's condition. You can be sure your assertion is incredible news to millions of frat rats and barflies huddling outside the tavern for a toke.
That's okay, riff raff like us couldn't possibly have anything worthwhile to say anyway.