It's not checks and balances if the entire goal of the House is to make the President fail. The House is being disingenious as their job is to focus on the American people and not oppose everything the President does becuase it might make him look good. That's not good governance, but petty spiteful bullshit. Just because the previous President fucked the goose doesn't mean that your party can't strive to learn the mistakes of the past and do better. Sadly, this mentality is working but it turning their base meaner and ugly. It will be hard for htem to please them without still going crazier. We are not going to get good governance till they reject this crap.
Yes, and that's because of conservative Democrats. Who are all gone now. Turns out if you act like a conservative-light, you might as well vote for hte other party and get the real thing. We could have had single payer healthcare. It's just really unfortunate that we missed our chance.. we're going to have wait another decade before we can do this again.
His free community college idea (well whoever it was, he's promoting it) is also a great idea.. this is the kind of stuff I want to see. Ideas. Let's see what ideas has both the Republican party come up with? The same shit.. already, within days, they've gone back to attack social security. While I think there is definitely soem changes to be made to social security, the Republican party wants to eliminate it somehow. Making sure that only the Greatest Generation gets all the good stuff, while everyone after that gets to play Lord of the Flies and depend on the "Market". Moronic. I believe in a lot of the things that the Republican Party espouses. But they are just way too crazy.
Hah, I already did that.. we have Frontier, and those guys are awesome.. high speed internet, with no one monitoring the traffic.. e.g. no filters. Plus at one point they lowered my monthly rate and gave me faster internet. Never usually happens. Their internet package is great, but their FiOS TV sucks though. But taht's fine, I don't have cable or any of that other nonsense... who needs it if you have 50/50 MBits?:)
That doesn't make quite sense.. rural areas are likely not going to have much choice. They can charge whatever they want since there is no competition. The only reason it could be cheaper is that the average income of the rural person is quite a bit lower and so in order to get teh maximum number of subscriber, you price it so that it is worth subscribing too without breaking budgets. But most rural people have TV and cable, won't they be able to get internet through that?
That is a good point. It is a slippery slope.. but ther has been times when a federal agency can do the right thing. Local government can be pretty corrupt as well.
I don't think many our. When I was a kid in the 80s, the concept of network identity was strong. I knew what channel was NBC, ABC, and CBS and so forth. It strongly identified to which physical channel it as allocated to on the TV. These days, I can't tell you which network designation is what. Hell, I don't know what show is on CBS, ABC, NBC or whatever like I used to.
You can thank our Republican friends for this. Apparently, they've seen to have forgotten the happy days of growing up on Seseame Street and The Electric Company.
They could support themselves on Youtube or some other venue. There will be other venues. Count on it. You don't need cable companies to do your delivery.
I agree.. I mean the writing for Arrow and The Flash have been so excellent, I can't believe how awesome it is to watch those shows. You have shows like Chuck, or whimsical stuff like Sleepy Hollow. I think shows have been really good. Thankfully, we've gotten away from reality television and getting good solid shows again.
In fact if ala carte shows up, I hope that the cost of 24 hour news will go up such that it is no longer economically viable. The death of 24 hour news will save our civilization and our democracy.
Meh. Big deal. I still have OTA channel. None of us really need any of those channels. They are all entertainment. If it gets expensive, only the morons (eg sports fanatics) will pay the exorbitant prices. The rest of us will find other ways to entertain ourselves. That might mean buying a chromecast and surfing youtube. There are a ton of stuff in there to watch.
The economics between flying and watching TV are completely different. Watching TV is a luxury. In the end, people will end up watching stuff on the Internet or god forbid start talking with each other, or maybe pick up a musical instrument.. whatever.
Nobody seems to be doing any real analysis.. but from the summary, I find it interesting that these perpetrators believe that insulting the head of ISIS is equivalent of insulting Mohammed. After all, Islam was not at all harmed here, the satire was directed at the head of ISIS. Yet, that was enough to trigger an attack. This isn't really a religious based attack, but more of a revenge and a show of force. This is true terrorism as they are demonstrating that ISIS can reach anywhere. It also makes France looking quite weak.
If anything this attack will cause France to make some kind of mistake that would further cause extremism in their muslim population and possibly creating more recruits for ISIS. The attack will also demonstrate to extremist elements in the muslim population that ISIS has power.
If I was France, I would be looking at both social/economic reforms for these folks, and also restrict further immigration from Arabic countries until they can figure out how to resolve this crisis.
Every news outlet has programming for conservative viewers. They are the primary demographic. Fox was just the first to figure it out and take advantage of it. I don't know if 50% of the population is left and right. We're left and right depending on what the situation is. We are the sum of our experiences...
Of course they are.. everyone has some kind of programming for conservatives. For MSNBC, it's Morning Joe for instance. By my logic, there should be a lot more news outlets competing for conservatives. It wasn't a decades own plan.. once CNN started 24 hour news, and we had whatever that conservative movement when Gingrich took over the House, that's when stuff like Fox News had a chance. Same thing, in the early 90s when the fairness doctorine was repealed, conservative talk radio took off. Like I said, conservatives love talk radio, and speaking truth to power.
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This is true. This is the fault of the Democratic party. They are spineless morons. I'm waiting for some change in their spinelessness.
It's not checks and balances if the entire goal of the House is to make the President fail. The House is being disingenious as their job is to focus on the American people and not oppose everything the President does becuase it might make him look good. That's not good governance, but petty spiteful bullshit. Just because the previous President fucked the goose doesn't mean that your party can't strive to learn the mistakes of the past and do better. Sadly, this mentality is working but it turning their base meaner and ugly. It will be hard for htem to please them without still going crazier. We are not going to get good governance till they reject this crap.
Yes, and that's because of conservative Democrats. Who are all gone now. Turns out if you act like a conservative-light, you might as well vote for hte other party and get the real thing. We could have had single payer healthcare. It's just really unfortunate that we missed our chance.. we're going to have wait another decade before we can do this again.
Yes, that was Clinton, the great Republican president of the 90s. He did a lot of de-regulation. Some of which we are paying for.
His free community college idea (well whoever it was, he's promoting it) is also a great idea.. this is the kind of stuff I want to see. Ideas. Let's see what ideas has both the Republican party come up with? The same shit.. already, within days, they've gone back to attack social security. While I think there is definitely soem changes to be made to social security, the Republican party wants to eliminate it somehow. Making sure that only the Greatest Generation gets all the good stuff, while everyone after that gets to play Lord of the Flies and depend on the "Market". Moronic. I believe in a lot of the things that the Republican Party espouses. But they are just way too crazy.
Hah, I already did that.. we have Frontier, and those guys are awesome.. high speed internet, with no one monitoring the traffic.. e.g. no filters. Plus at one point they lowered my monthly rate and gave me faster internet. Never usually happens. Their internet package is great, but their FiOS TV sucks though. But taht's fine, I don't have cable or any of that other nonsense... who needs it if you have 50/50 MBits? :)
That doesn't make quite sense.. rural areas are likely not going to have much choice. They can charge whatever they want since there is no competition. The only reason it could be cheaper is that the average income of the rural person is quite a bit lower and so in order to get teh maximum number of subscriber, you price it so that it is worth subscribing too without breaking budgets. But most rural people have TV and cable, won't they be able to get internet through that?
For a lot of people saying "we're number one" refers to our military power.
That is a good point. It is a slippery slope.. but ther has been times when a federal agency can do the right thing. Local government can be pretty corrupt as well.
Yeah, they don't want hte government to do that.. it should happen naturally, like child birth.
The Food network is like that now as well. I watch PBS now for cooking. It's the best you can find.
I don't think many our. When I was a kid in the 80s, the concept of network identity was strong. I knew what channel was NBC, ABC, and CBS and so forth. It strongly identified to which physical channel it as allocated to on the TV. These days, I can't tell you which network designation is what. Hell, I don't know what show is on CBS, ABC, NBC or whatever like I used to.
You can thank our Republican friends for this. Apparently, they've seen to have forgotten the happy days of growing up on Seseame Street and The Electric Company.
They could support themselves on Youtube or some other venue. There will be other venues. Count on it. You don't need cable companies to do your delivery.
I agree.. I mean the writing for Arrow and The Flash have been so excellent, I can't believe how awesome it is to watch those shows. You have shows like Chuck, or whimsical stuff like Sleepy Hollow. I think shows have been really good. Thankfully, we've gotten away from reality television and getting good solid shows again.
In fact if ala carte shows up, I hope that the cost of 24 hour news will go up such that it is no longer economically viable. The death of 24 hour news will save our civilization and our democracy.
Meh. Big deal. I still have OTA channel. None of us really need any of those channels. They are all entertainment. If it gets expensive, only the morons (eg sports fanatics) will pay the exorbitant prices. The rest of us will find other ways to entertain ourselves. That might mean buying a chromecast and surfing youtube. There are a ton of stuff in there to watch. The economics between flying and watching TV are completely different. Watching TV is a luxury. In the end, people will end up watching stuff on the Internet or god forbid start talking with each other, or maybe pick up a musical instrument.. whatever.
No, at least not at the scale of these guys. But it shows up in stuff like the bombing abortion clinics or some of these other things.
Nobody seems to be doing any real analysis.. but from the summary, I find it interesting that these perpetrators believe that insulting the head of ISIS is equivalent of insulting Mohammed. After all, Islam was not at all harmed here, the satire was directed at the head of ISIS. Yet, that was enough to trigger an attack. This isn't really a religious based attack, but more of a revenge and a show of force. This is true terrorism as they are demonstrating that ISIS can reach anywhere. It also makes France looking quite weak.
If anything this attack will cause France to make some kind of mistake that would further cause extremism in their muslim population and possibly creating more recruits for ISIS. The attack will also demonstrate to extremist elements in the muslim population that ISIS has power.
If I was France, I would be looking at both social/economic reforms for these folks, and also restrict further immigration from Arabic countries until they can figure out how to resolve this crisis.
Well said..
Of course, some Christians love to revisit the old testament to get their hate on.
It's spelled 'Gandhi'. Thanks.
Every news outlet has programming for conservative viewers. They are the primary demographic. Fox was just the first to figure it out and take advantage of it. I don't know if 50% of the population is left and right. We're left and right depending on what the situation is. We are the sum of our experiences...
Yeah, so once the old guard is out, that is a valid concern.
Of course they are.. everyone has some kind of programming for conservatives. For MSNBC, it's Morning Joe for instance. By my logic, there should be a lot more news outlets competing for conservatives. It wasn't a decades own plan.. once CNN started 24 hour news, and we had whatever that conservative movement when Gingrich took over the House, that's when stuff like Fox News had a chance. Same thing, in the early 90s when the fairness doctorine was repealed, conservative talk radio took off. Like I said, conservatives love talk radio, and speaking truth to power.