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Porn shrinks your brain

Lack of sleep shrinks your brain

Multi-tasking shrinks your brain

Religion shrinks your brain

Fat shrinks your brain

Elevated Blood Sugar shrinks your brain

Stress shrinks your brain

Aging shrinks your brain

Alcohol shrinks your brain

Vegetarianism shrinks your brain

Type 2 diabetes shrinks your Brain

Cell phones shrink your brain

I think medical fear mongering is shrinking our brains.

And yes, I did search for "Climate Change is shrinking our brains." No hits. So there you go MSM; a perfectly good theme that no one has used yet.

And as for your sig... you think that those that hold a different view from you should be "BANNED"? Kinda goes against the whole "free exchange of ideas" thing doesn't it? How many tyrannical dictators gained power by people who felt the same way you do about people they disagreed with?

I think it's related to this...

Ugh! Not that tired argument again. OK, here we go.

The case in reference was about 2 reporters refusing to do a story because they didn't like the edits. They were fired. They took the FOX AFFILIATE that fired them to court. (Note: Affiliate, not FoxNews. Fox shows the Simpsons and Family Guy. FoxNews shows Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly. They are two separate entities.)

Next, the the court never ruled that the news story was false. The closest they came was the original jury said “a false, distorted or slanted story” (from your second link). Notice the "OR" in the jury's statement. As for "distorted or slanted", shouldn't every media outlet be sued, including those links your provided? Strange. You don't seem to mind their slant. Here is a story about a recent CBS Poll about public opinion of public sector unions. The title is "Report: New York Times/CBS News Poll Slanted". Notice the last word... "Slanted"? Or are you going to tell me that Ed Shultz, Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann don't have a slant? As for "false", didn't Dan Rather run a story a while back using obviously fake documents to claim that GWB was negligent in his National Guard duties? Are saying that Rather and his producer Mapes should go to jail? Should CBS lose their broadcasting license? That is what these two reporters were suing for in their case; they wanted the local Fox affiliate to lose their license. Shouldn't CBS suffer the same fate?

As for the appeal where the jury's ruling was overturned, your second link has this:

“that the FCC’s policy against the intentional falsification of the news — which the FCC has called its “news distortion policy” — does not qualify as the required “law, rule, or regulation” under section 448.102.[...] Because the FCC’s news distortion policy is not a “law, rule, or regulation” under section 448.102, Akre has failed to state a claim under the whistle-blower’s statute.”

Again, it never says that the story was false. It claims that the reporters may not be afforded whistle-blower protection because the “news distortion policy” is not “law, rule, or regulation”. Basically, the reporters claimed that they should not have been fired because they were whistle-blowers. They claimed whistle-blower status saying that airing a false story is against the law, per the FCC regulations. The court said they were not whistle-blowers according to the law, because there is no LAW against airing a false story. The court never made a judgment on the story itself because there was no point since these two were not protected under whistle-blower laws in the first place, meaning they could be fired.

However, I can't hammer you on the misunderstanding. First, your whole point is moot because it was not FoxNews on trial here, but a local Fox affiliate (again, Simpsons vs O'Reilly). But in doing a little research on this, I found the first five or six pages Google returned were all from sites like, purefood.org, organicconsumers.org, HuffingtonPost and so on. Of course, all of these sights are slanted toward their cause, just as a story on Redstate.com would be slanted. It is difficult, if not impossible to find a non-slanted version of this story. The irony of it all is that they are all claiming FoxNews is bad f

And as for your sig... you think that those that hold a different view from you should be "BANNED"? Kinda goes against the whole "free exchange of ideas" thing doesn't it? How many tyrannical dictators gained power by people who felt the same way you do about people they disagreed with?

I think it's related to this...

FOX even got a court to say the media can legally distort or falsify the news.

False equivalency. Fox News has been proven, again and again, to lie on air nearly continuously. Heck, they fought and won a lawsuit defending their right to lie on air.

Please, when you make an outrageous claim such as implying that MSNBC lies as much as Fox, try to back it up with some data. I realize you can't, as there is no data showing that, so perhaps you should just refrain from spreading lies. Fox has that covered.

>I'll make you a deal. I'll support a ban on submissions from Fox News as long as we never have to see another submission from MSNBC, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, or anything similar.

None of those media news outlets have gone to court, though, to argue that their right to deliberately lie to and consciously mislead their readership is protected by the First Amendment.

During their appeal, FOX asserted that there are no written rules against distorting news in the media. They argued that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves. Fox attorneys did not dispute Akre’s claim that they pressured her to broadcast a false story, they simply maintained that it was their right to do so.

http://www.relfe.com/media_can_legally_lie.html

That, to me, says cease using Fox News as a source (and burn it with fire).

Yes but then you had to read the paper. Many people couldn't read, and those that could would have had at least a basic education. Just regular survival required much more critical thinking and a better understanding of life's fundamentals than is required today (not to say what knowledge they lacked didn't kill them). In today's twenty four hour news cycle, any moron can be informed of anything in a moments notice, the only barrier to entry is money, lots and lots of money. And now the news doesn't even bother to inform at all any more just report. Doesn't mater to them if the information is bogus as long as they sell advertisements and lots of them. In fact Fox news just won a major court case enshrining this philosophy into law. http://www.relfe.com/media_can_legally_lie.html

There's this stuff called gold ...
The problem is not interest rates, it is the unfettered creation of fiat money by printing and government backed fractional reserve lending. http://www.relfe.com/plus_5_.html

Here's a shocker.

GOLD HAS NO VALUE. Not like say, iPods, Mazda Miatas, or refridgerators. Gold just sits there and is shiny. It's also rare, AND not radioactive, but that's no excuse at all.

Further more, when tied up with a gold standard, interest rates move much too slowly to respond to crisis situations.

I propose that amending the constitution as necessary is a more reasonable method of getting things done than abandoning the concept of the rule of law.

In our day and age, that process would be ridiculously hard. Further more, you're missing two hundred years of constitutional law that disagrees with you thoroughly.

Money only "dries up" because it is based on fractional reserve lending rather than being backed by commodities. Real money does not disappear from existence if people don't pay their loans. Only fiat money created through loans does that.

Which is better than the supply of shiny rocks permanently drying up because we mined it all out of the ground thus leading us to a fiat money system *anyway.*

I don't like the Fed either, but if we give Congress, a body of people who are heavily influenced by the shift in political tides, direct control over interest rates, it would be pretty dangerous. Reform? Definitely. Abolishment? Not so much.

There's this stuff called gold ...
The problem is not interest rates, it is the unfettered creation of fiat money by printing and government backed fractional reserve lending. http://www.relfe.com/plus_5_.html

It's the rest of their wacky, if it's not strictly in the constitution don't do it, ideas that make me worried.

I propose that amending the constitution as necessary is a more reasonable method of getting things done than abandoning the concept of the rule of law.

Not only that, but when money dries up, it's got to come back into the system some how.

Money only "dries up" because it is based on fractional reserve lending rather than being backed by commodities. Real money does not disappear from existence if people don't pay their loans. Only fiat money created through loans does that.

<tinfoilhat>Why do you think NPR is ranted against so much, given the "L"iberal name? It's not like they're trying to demean the source.</tinfoilhat>

I imagine since CNN and fox and every other mainstream media tries to appeal to the average masses, repeating the same news story ad nauseum, that any coherent, in depth reporting that isn't a sound bite is left to a 60 minutes, a NPR, or the few other news organizations that care to actually get it right. Who cares about a financial meltdown when we can find out if the Octuplet mom is trying to look like Angelina! Of course Watch out calling FOX a news source, Fox fought to outright lie .

SOX is a bit player in a giant swindle. The jobs problem has nothing to do with the lack of venture capital. The problem is the economy is up to its eyeballs in debt, and there's no money to pay the interest due.

This is due to the debt-based nature of our financial system. See Money and the Crisis of Civilization and I Want the Earth plus 5%.

If the congress wanted to create jobs, it would issue interest-free money (such as Abraham Lincoln's United States Notes) and spend it directly into circulation on worthwhile projects. The most worthwhile project today is renewable energy technology. Wind farms are probably the best candidate, with hydrocarbon synthesizers to use all the power generated.

R&D on cold fusion and other paradigm-busting energy technology should get some money too - a Japanese researcher held a demonstration of his Cold Fusion setup in May.

Fixing the banking system is a good first step for restoring rosperity.

I Want The Earth Plus 5%

That page lost me where it says "This meant that for every $100 he held in deposits, it was possible to make 42% profit, most people believing he was only making 2%." I do not see how he can say 42% profit on $100. In the example $45 or 5% of $900 was made, then the $900 morphs into $100.

Falcon

It isn't that hard to grasp, most money is created through loans (fractional reserve lending), when the loan is paid off, that (loan based) money is gone from circulation.

No, money is created by creating an item or providing a service people are willing to pay for.

What I'm talking about is how money is created, ie: how the currency supply is generated, not the process of earning some of that money. Producing an item people are willing to pay doesn't create any new money, it simply moves existing currency from your customer to you.

Thing is while loans can allow businesses to make bigger profits, money creation does not require loans.

I'm talking about the Federal Reserve system and fractional reserve lending, which is what creates the need for perpetual economic growth (that was the question I was answering). Neither my assets nor my income are dependent on me personally borrowing money, but that doesn't change the nature of the currency I use, just my standing in that economy.

There's an explanation of what I'm talking about here: I Want The Earth Plus 5%. It's a simplified explanation, but it's a good introduction to how our currency system works, not the earning of money but the production of currency.

"All the perplexities, confusion and distresses in America arise not from defects in the constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation." - John Adams.

-FL

http://www.relfe.com/plus_5_.html
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=money+master s
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=federal+rese rve
http://www.google.com/search?q=occult+technology+o f+power

Quotes:

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Govern ment/Federal%20Reserve%20Scam/quotes_on_the_federa l_reserve.htm
http://www.apfn.org/THEWINDS/library/money.html

Where sane and informed people get their news:

http://www.infowars.com/

Why no one ever told you:

http://www.google.com/search?q=asymmetric+informat ion+in+economics

"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine." - J. Edgar Hoover

You would think they would have had a major release by now since it's been in development since 1913 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_reserve, http://www.relfe.com/plus_5_.html).

Thankfully for freedom however, the people in charge and the people that support them (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374508844/002-53 79183-7642447?v=glance&n=283155 ) are REALLY, REALLY, STUPID.

He sponsored the Alien & Sedition Acts that eventually jailed the grandson of Benjamin Franklin for sedition (he wrote bad, probably true, things about Adams). Like the law that imprisoned him, he also had a short life.

And not only are you right that there is no law requiring "balanced reports", but the law has been tested on whether they are allowed to deliberately lie. They are.

No, the jokes are the dickheads who continually try to discredit a Fox News because they do more Republican-fellating than their preferred news source-disguised-as-heathen speak.

Aymen to that.

Fox News recently argued successfully in court that they had a right to lie and distort the news.

http://www.relfe.com/media_can_legally_lie.html

You would think that Fox News's credibility would have been blown to pieces after this came out.

Guess not.

Oh well.