Zahn went on in great detail about how the sudden exposure to the force drove the clones mad. Well, I think all that was shot out of the water in episode 2. The cloners have a high reputation of putting out good product. And Lucas has made sure to let us know that the clone troopers will become Storm Troopers.
Anyway, Lucas had previously said he wanted his actors "aged" for episodes 7-9. I personally feel that Luke will be an old man playing the role of Yoda et al in episode 7. New Jedi will be the protagonists along with a new generation of Sith.
I think it's the whole "masked man" phenomenom. As soon as Vader was demasked, everyone thought he was a pussy dissapointment. Same thing with Jango/Boba Fett.
Everyone says Lucas ruined Star Wars. But Lucas CREATED Star Wars. It's not like he's Rick Berman riding Gene Roddenberry's corpse and running the franchise into utter stupidity.
At some point, Lucas' vision diverged from the obsessed Star Wars geek crowd. They had too much time to stew and write their own poorly written scripts. They all had time to create their own idiotic foggy ideas about what things should be like.
I'll give everyone the outrageous stupidity of Jar-Jar Binks. But Phantom Menace has some profound implications about how free societies can be taken over by their own best intentions.
Many people absoluetly HATED the movie "Elizabeth". I absoluetly LOVED it. It dealt with politics and changing the world (for better or worse) with something OTHER than a gun.
Lucas stated that he wanted the characters from IV-VI to age.
I personally think that episodes 7-9 will take place when Luke is aged and the Jedi order is largely rebuilt. It will deal with another "new threat" from the Sith and the ultimate victory will be STOPPING them from taking over and wiping them out for good by finally "balancing the force".
It's quite literal. Owen Lars orders Luke to wipe their memories in Episode IV. He obviously recognizes C3P0.
I don't think that part is revision. The droids were ALWAYS meant to be in every episode. It was quite literal that everything happens from the droids perspective.
Beyond that, I suspect that no one besides a tight circle know who Vader really is. If everyone in the Rebellion knew that Darth Vader was really Anikan Skywalker from Tatooine, do you think it would be a big mystery. No one knows that "the dark lord" (sidious) is really Palpatine. Everything the Sith does is in secret. Why would the pattern change with Vader????
I got traditional laser three years ago (a blade made the cut). I've had a bit of regression in my eyesight, but not enough to warrant contacts or glasses.
They attach a little suction cup device to your eye that guarantees getting the right cut.
The entire surgery is pre-programmed into the computer. All the cutting and flashing in the surgery is pre-programmed into the computer. The doctor takes care of attaching the implements and presses buttons to allow the procedure to continue.
You can put goggles over your contacts but that's a pain. Swimming in any natural body of water will result in your contacts being covered in bacteria the next day.
Prescription goggles are available, but they're excessively expensive and make you look dorkish if your just playing water frisbee or water-skiing.
Lasik rocks!!!! If you get night halos, just slap on some polarized glasses.
... why would you even consider it unless you wanted "hawk-vision" as some of the advanced techniques can now shoot reliably for 20/10.
I had it done and I'm perfectly happy. I was 20/20, 20/15, Though I think my 20/15 eye has drifted back a little bit. I don't need glasses anymore and thats the point.
You walk in with glasses, you walk out seeing 20/20. All the places "insure" the surgery so they'll do corrections for free if you drift into vision that would require correction.
I do have some of the halo thing. It's really not a big deal. It gets better as you go along. It's better to squint to kill a halo than squint to read a book.
The LA Times was in Arkansas investigating the Trooper/sex scandals long before David Brock arrived. They didn't break the stories because they couldn't confirm them. They couldn't confirm the stories... BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T TRUE.
David Brock broke the story. And a VERY authoritize source says the story was false....
Bill Clinton is a pretty straight arrow. I do fault him for a few things. But I fault Reagan, and the Bush's for being so crooked they wouldn't fit in ANY whole.
Reagan's sole saving grace is that he had Alzheimer's. As such, I blame the crooks he hired to run his administration... Bush et al....
Just remember. Bill Clinton didn't trade arms for hostages. Bill Clinton didn't bribe the Iranians to KEEP hostages in order to influence an election. Bill Clinton didn't smuggle drugs into Mena Arkansas. That was the CIA and BUSH!!! Bill Clinton didn't use the profits of drug smuggling to finance an illegal war run by terrorists in Central America.
Bill Clinton didn't finance and arm Saddam Hussein. That was Reagan. Bill Clinton's father didn't fund the Nazis. That was Bush's father. Bill Clinton didn't train the Taliban, that was Reagan. Bill Clinton didn't abandon Afghanistan after the Soviets were ousted, that was Bush.
Bill Clinton didn't triple the deficit. That was Reagan. Bill Clinton didn't turn a record surplus BACK into a record deficit. That was Dubaya. Bill Clinton didn't ignore countless warnings about imminent terorist threat. That was Dubaya.
Bill Clinton thwarted half a dozen terrorist attacks. Bill Clinton thwarted the Millenium Bomb plot. Bill Clinton thwarted Holland Tunnel bomb plot. Bill Clinton thwarted project Boijinka which threatened to use 12 highjacked aircrafts to destroy targets in the United States and Europe.
Bill Clinton was NOT offered Osama Bin Laden on a silver platter. The person who offered was a fruit loop in no position to deliver. He now works for Fox News. Bill Clinton's poppy isn't close personal friends with Osama Bin Laden's poppy. Bush IS close family friends of the Bin Ladens.
Bill Clinton wasn't meeting with Osama Bin Laden's older brother on the morning of 9/11. That was Poppy Bush.
Bill Clinton's National Security Advisor DIDN'T lie about threats concerning hijacked aicraft. They knew DAMN well that someone could have thought of the idea. Tom Clancy wrote a book about it called "Executive Decision". The G-8 summit in Genoa was ringed with anti-aircraft batteries to protect against such an attack at the request of the US. The plot for "The Lone Gunman" spinoff of the X-Files was crashing a remotely piloted jet into... THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. It aired on Fox.
Bill Clinton did not embezzle money in Whitewater. Bill Clinton did NOT kill Vince Foster. Bill Clinton NEVER had an affair with Jennifer Flowers. Among Jennifer's famous claims was meeting Bill for the first time in 1981 at a hotel that was not yet built and being Ms. Texas along with a handful of other delusional nonsense.
Bill Clinton did NOT solicit random women with the help of Arkansas state troopers. After being confronted with video evidence, the troopers in question (having been paid substantial sums of money by Richard Mellon Scaife) recanted under oath.
Bill Clinton did NOT sexually harass Paula Jones. I got news for you, before her plastic surgery, Paula was a bit of a dog. And Bill Clinton could do a LOT better than Paula Jones.
Bill Clinton was not a Cocaine user. George W Bush WAS!!!!! Bill Clinton never lied to get out of the military, he broke a promise. Bill Clinton didn't pull strings to get out of serving, he relied on his academic achievement.
Dubaya jumped into a substantial waiting list to get a coveted spot in TANG after scoring 25 out of 100 on his pilots aptitude test. His entrace was a political favor and he took someone else's spot that was more deserving. He was subsequently promoted TWICE without merit. He then REFUSED to take a physical at a time when he would have been administered a drug test. George W NEVER should up in Alabama as he claimed to. He wasted MILLIONS of tax payer dollars to train him and then skipped out on doing his service honorably.
Scarborough signed a three year contract with MSNBC shortly after he resigned from congress in disgrace. He replaced MSNBC's highest rated show that was cancelled because of "poor ratings".
Who did he replace ???? Famed liberal PHIL DOHAHUE!!!!!!
http://www.makethemaccountable.com/floyd/010817_ Hu shHush.htm
It contrasts the coverage of the missing employee of Gary Condit vs the DEAD employee found in Joe Scarborough's office. The fact that Joe Scarborough promptly resign from congress for "family reasons" is also interesting.
So ask yourself the question, what made a DEMOCRAT such fodder, while a REPUBLICAN who had a dead girl in his office garnered ZERO media attention??????
There are always abusers. And I dare say there a quite a bit of tax cheats who run their own businesses. It's unfair to pick on a particular group. It's a strawman. Their are cheats on EVERY end of the government money chain!!!! Your fixation on the little piggies on the bottom of the food chain is really disproportionate to their impact. The FAT HOGS on the top like Ken Lay (et al) take a LOT MORE out of the system.
The vast majority of citizens are NOT welfare whores. They are hardworking individuals who are largely underpaid for their efforts. And believe it or not, what YOU do would be IMPOSSIBLE without them.
If you live out in the middle of Utah and produce ALL of your own food, and all your manufactured goods, than, yes, maybe you are 100% self-sufficient. But otherwise, you are DEPENDENT on the work of others as we all are. Yes, we ARE effectively a BEE HIVE!!!!
The fact that one bee has done exceptionally well is excellent. You have been compensated for your efforts do to your higher income. And your paying a higher rate because you can. Just remember, that poor folk pay a HIGHER portion of their income when you compare it to their cost of living. You have done well for yourself. Society has helped you along. And society takes it's piece of the action so it keeps humming.
I fully support efforts to ferret out welfare abusers. But the notion of helping people through rough patches in their life is still a solid one. It helps people get back on their feet and back into the system. Just remember, that those on public assistance are consumers as well. And letting them starve would only serve to depress markets.
I would fully support programs that required welfare folks to work time for non-profits so they could serve society in the way it is serving them. And I DON'T think it's correct for able bodied people to live their lives off of welfare.
Seriously, I don't think it's a good idea for 13 year olds to have sex. I think this is encouraged a bit by the attitudes about teenage pregnancy. It's basically ACCEPTED.
Once upon a time, a girl who got pregnant out of wedlock was ostricized from society. They were sent on "vacations" to family members and the babies were adopted. Today, the government will pay to take care of those babies. And while it's the more "humane" thing to do. I think it unintentionally encourages teenage girls into thinking that they can handle being a mom.
Thats why I think it's probably a good idea to take the decision making process for the child out of HER hands. Grandma and grandpa can assume the responsibility. But a 13-year old CANNOT. And if Grandma and Grandpa won't, than the baby will go for adoption to someone who CAN!!!!
You're wrong. The conservatives own and operate the major media networks. Take Disney for example. They just tried to block Fahrenheit 9/11 from being released!!!!
Could this have anything to do with Michael Eisner trying to get tax breaks from Jeb???? The fact is that these guys are in a race to buy out all the remaining media properties. They've been cowtowing to this horrible administration and giving them a COMPLETE pass.
The media HUNTED Bill Clinton for 8 straight years. And it was ALL bogus except for Monica Lewinsky.
Flash forward to today when the media would not cover the Plame affair for a solid THREE MONTHS after it came to light. Think about it. Someone in the White House commits TREASON, and it takes THREE MONTHS for that to make the news.
Dubaya is an incompetent rat. And if he got one TENTH of the scrutiny that the brilliant William J Clinton got, his poll numbers would be even lower than the abysmal 40% he is scoring right now.
BTW, Reagan was NOT the most popular president in history. Reagans poll numbers were abysmal after the Iran-Contra scandal!!!!! CLINTON is more popular than Reagan. And I'd take a blow-job loving Clinton over a senile Reagan ANY DAY!!!!!
"Insiders cautioned that, while it is standard to use extrapolations as a guide to the performance of a station, they are preliminary and prone to a certain margin of error.
"They're like a second-inning score in a baseball game," said Tom Taylor, the editor of Inside Radio, a trade publication. "But you have to say that the visitors are on the scoreboard."
From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., a period that includes Franken's show, WNTD pulled in 3 percent of 25-to-54-year-old listeners in Chicago. That number puts the fledgling network in the same league as WGN-720 AM, which scored a 2.1 percent share of the same demographic, according to the extrapolation of April figures. WLS-890 AM, which airs Rush Limbaugh during the same period, beat WNTD with a 4.8 share.
But in New York, where Air America still broadcasts over WLIB-1190 AM, the network beat Limbaugh's station, Disney-owned WABC, among both 25-to-54-year-olds and 18-to-34-year-olds during the 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. period. In the 25-to-54 demographic, WLIB garnered a 3.4 share to WABC's 3.1; among 18-to-34-year-olds, WLIB won sevenfold with a 2.9 share to WABC's 0.4."
Given the fact that Air America is a startup, they're doing an INCREDIBLE job. They beat Rush soundly in New York.
16 stations for a network that in 3 months old is VERY good. They started out with FOUR stations. That means they've quadrupled their market in 3 months even with the losses of the Chicago and LA affiliates (due to over-billing, not failure to pay bills).
Any business would be EXTREMELY happy to quadruple their market in the first 3 months of operation. CEOs would be flipping their lids for that kind of growth.
So I hope your ready to eat your words when they're at 30 or so stations by the end of the year. Air America's success is due to serving a market that just IS NOT tapped. REAL liberal broadcasting. The networks are all corporate controlled by giant media conglomerates (Republicans!!!!).
Sorry, they're getting pretty good ratings. That means they have revenue coming in. They're also the #1 audio streamer on the internet (including me). That means people are staying by their computer JUST TO LISTEN to Air America as opposed to being out doing other things.
What Air America has accomplished is really quite remarkable. They started a COMPLETE network with a 6am-11pm cast. It is NOT syndicated. I haven't seen anyone else do this and it's quite impressive.
Air America will be back on in Chicago and LA soon enough. They have good ratings and will find new affiliates.
Finally, Air America is on the air in 16 different markets in addition to Sirius and XM satellite radio. It's not "small time" by any definition.
Now to the beef of the issue. Basically, Air America was infiltrated from the inside. They got hoodwinked by some really swarmy folks. Those folks have been fired.
Air America is doing very well for itself now. And Al Franken is getting paid (before he was accepting equity in lieu of salary).
Finally, Al Franken is NOT an extremists. He's the most fair minded person on Air America. Randi Rhodes... she's an extremist. Janine Garafolo... she's an extremist!!!!
Don't you remember, he sold out quite some time ago. His empire is now part of AOL-Time Warner.
Also, it doesn't matter who writes the text. It matters who approves it. Try doing your little polls on the EDITORS of the news sources your talking about. Then you'll find out who really owns the roost.
There IS conservative media sources though. Fox is front and center where this is concerned. It isn't run by journalists, it's run by Republican operatives.
Honestly, there aren't very many real journalists out there any more. At least none that Edward R Murrah would be proud of. Most of them have devolved into taking press releases from think tanks and corporate offices. What passes for "news" now has been homogonized into blatant shilling for big money interests. Basically, the media is LAZY!!!!!
Contrast this with a REAL journalists like Greg Palast who busts his hump all over the world collecting stories from people on the ground instead of paraphrasing overpaid pundits. Guys like Palast simply cannot get their stuff on the US airways because he shakes the trees and presents stuff that isn't in the corporate agenda.
Finally, you'd be surprised to know that REAL LIBERALS, not your straw man variety, don't like the New York Times. They don't approve of MOST media sources out there besides "The Nation" and NPR, and "Air America". If the media is so "biased" why do REAL LIBERALS HATE IT?????
60% of the nation does NOT get their news from FOX. Fox News is a cable station and doesn't come CLOSE to the ratings of CBS, NBC and ABC.
Furthermore, FOX watchers tend to be "channel sitters". Fox watchers are far more likely to "LEAVE" Fox on for a long period of time. This schews the statistics. The "Cume" for Fox is MUCH, MUCH lower than that of CNN or the major TV networks.
It's a terrible burden on society. It's also a terrible burden on the individual who loses MANY opportunities for personal development.
I'd personaly be in favor of not ALLOWING 16 year old and under girls be guardians. It simply IS NOT POSSIBLE for a child to be the effective guardian of a child. If grandma & grandpa wants to take the responsiblity until the kid turns 18, fine, they can adopt the child. But there should be a basic realization that a child CANNOT be the primary caretaker of another child!!!!!
If grandma and grandpa don't want the responsibility, than the kid should go up for adoption. Society should NOT be made to subsidize the willfull irresponsibility of others.
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Leia goes on to be the galactic version of Hillary Clinton. She doesn't have to be sexy for that.
Lucas said he wanted his characters aged for episodes 7-9.
There is no such thing as "original music". We all stand on the shoulders of giants (or dwarfs in some cases).
In any case, Williams is the most prolific living composer. His music is amazing and he'll be known as the Mozart of his time.
Zahn went on in great detail about how the sudden exposure to the force drove the clones mad. Well, I think all that was shot out of the water in episode 2. The cloners have a high reputation of putting out good product. And Lucas has made sure to let us know that the clone troopers will become Storm Troopers.
Anyway, Lucas had previously said he wanted his actors "aged" for episodes 7-9. I personally feel that Luke will be an old man playing the role of Yoda et al in episode 7. New Jedi will be the protagonists along with a new generation of Sith.
I think it's the whole "masked man" phenomenom. As soon as Vader was demasked, everyone thought he was a pussy dissapointment. Same thing with Jango/Boba Fett.
Everyone says Lucas ruined Star Wars. But Lucas CREATED Star Wars. It's not like he's Rick Berman riding Gene Roddenberry's corpse and running the franchise into utter stupidity.
At some point, Lucas' vision diverged from the obsessed Star Wars geek crowd. They had too much time to stew and write their own poorly written scripts. They all had time to create their own idiotic foggy ideas about what things should be like.
I'll give everyone the outrageous stupidity of Jar-Jar Binks. But Phantom Menace has some profound implications about how free societies can be taken over by their own best intentions.
Many people absoluetly HATED the movie "Elizabeth". I absoluetly LOVED it. It dealt with politics and changing the world (for better or worse) with something OTHER than a gun.
Lucas stated that he wanted the characters from IV-VI to age.
I personally think that episodes 7-9 will take place when Luke is aged and the Jedi order is largely rebuilt. It will deal with another "new threat" from the Sith and the ultimate victory will be STOPPING them from taking over and wiping them out for good by finally "balancing the force".
It's quite literal. Owen Lars orders Luke to wipe their memories in Episode IV. He obviously recognizes C3P0.
I don't think that part is revision. The droids were ALWAYS meant to be in every episode. It was quite literal that everything happens from the droids perspective.
Beyond that, I suspect that no one besides a tight circle know who Vader really is. If everyone in the Rebellion knew that Darth Vader was really Anikan Skywalker from Tatooine, do you think it would be a big mystery. No one knows that "the dark lord" (sidious) is really Palpatine. Everything the Sith does is in secret. Why would the pattern change with Vader????
I got traditional laser three years ago (a blade made the cut). I've had a bit of regression in my eyesight, but not enough to warrant contacts or glasses.
They attach a little suction cup device to your eye that guarantees getting the right cut.
The entire surgery is pre-programmed into the computer. All the cutting and flashing in the surgery is pre-programmed into the computer. The doctor takes care of attaching the implements and presses buttons to allow the procedure to continue.
You can put goggles over your contacts but that's a pain. Swimming in any natural body of water will result in your contacts being covered in bacteria the next day.
Prescription goggles are available, but they're excessively expensive and make you look dorkish if your just playing water frisbee or water-skiing.
Lasik rocks!!!! If you get night halos, just slap on some polarized glasses.
It will neutralize the "glare" problems associated with Lasik. You can find cheapos at retailed as "fishing glasses"
They'll be happy to correct your vision for free if your eyes go out of correction.
I don't know why anyone would opt for PRK unless they didn't have a think enough cornea to correct their vision.
I had it done and I'm perfectly happy. I was 20/20, 20/15, Though I think my 20/15 eye has drifted back a little bit. I don't need glasses anymore and thats the point.
You walk in with glasses, you walk out seeing 20/20. All the places "insure" the surgery so they'll do corrections for free if you drift into vision that would require correction.
I do have some of the halo thing. It's really not a big deal. It gets better as you go along. It's better to squint to kill a halo than squint to read a book.
The LA Times was in Arkansas investigating the Trooper/sex scandals long before David Brock arrived. They didn't break the stories because they couldn't confirm them. They couldn't confirm the stories
David Brock broke the story. And a VERY authoritize source says the story was false
DAVID BROCK!!!!!!
Bill Clinton is a pretty straight arrow. I do fault him for a few things. But I fault Reagan, and the Bush's for being so crooked they wouldn't fit in ANY whole.
Reagan's sole saving grace is that he had Alzheimer's. As such, I blame the crooks he hired to run his administration
Just remember. Bill Clinton didn't trade arms for hostages. Bill Clinton didn't bribe the Iranians to KEEP hostages in order to influence an election. Bill Clinton didn't smuggle drugs into Mena Arkansas. That was the CIA and BUSH!!! Bill Clinton didn't use the profits of drug smuggling to finance an illegal war run by terrorists in Central America.
Bill Clinton didn't finance and arm Saddam Hussein. That was Reagan. Bill Clinton's father didn't fund the Nazis. That was Bush's father. Bill Clinton didn't train the Taliban, that was Reagan. Bill Clinton didn't abandon Afghanistan after the Soviets were ousted, that was Bush.
Bill Clinton didn't triple the deficit. That was Reagan. Bill Clinton didn't turn a record surplus BACK into a record deficit. That was Dubaya. Bill Clinton didn't ignore countless warnings about imminent terorist threat. That was Dubaya.
Bill Clinton thwarted half a dozen terrorist attacks. Bill Clinton thwarted the Millenium Bomb plot. Bill Clinton thwarted Holland Tunnel bomb plot. Bill Clinton thwarted project Boijinka which threatened to use 12 highjacked aircrafts to destroy targets in the United States and Europe.
Bill Clinton was NOT offered Osama Bin Laden on a silver platter. The person who offered was a fruit loop in no position to deliver. He now works for Fox News. Bill Clinton's poppy isn't close personal friends with Osama Bin Laden's poppy. Bush IS close family friends of the Bin Ladens.
Bill Clinton wasn't meeting with Osama Bin Laden's older brother on the morning of 9/11. That was Poppy Bush.
Bill Clinton's National Security Advisor DIDN'T lie about threats concerning hijacked aicraft. They knew DAMN well that someone could have thought of the idea. Tom Clancy wrote a book about it called "Executive Decision". The G-8 summit in Genoa was ringed with anti-aircraft batteries to protect against such an attack at the request of the US. The plot for "The Lone Gunman" spinoff of the X-Files was crashing a remotely piloted jet into
Bill Clinton did not embezzle money in Whitewater. Bill Clinton did NOT kill Vince Foster. Bill Clinton NEVER had an affair with Jennifer Flowers. Among Jennifer's famous claims was meeting Bill for the first time in 1981 at a hotel that was not yet built and being Ms. Texas along with a handful of other delusional nonsense.
Bill Clinton did NOT solicit random women with the help of Arkansas state troopers. After being confronted with video evidence, the troopers in question (having been paid substantial sums of money by Richard Mellon Scaife) recanted under oath.
Bill Clinton did NOT sexually harass Paula Jones. I got news for you, before her plastic surgery, Paula was a bit of a dog. And Bill Clinton could do a LOT better than Paula Jones.
Bill Clinton was not a Cocaine user. George W Bush WAS!!!!! Bill Clinton never lied to get out of the military, he broke a promise. Bill Clinton didn't pull strings to get out of serving, he relied on his academic achievement.
Dubaya jumped into a substantial waiting list to get a coveted spot in TANG after scoring 25 out of 100 on his pilots aptitude test. His entrace was a political favor and he took someone else's spot that was more deserving. He was subsequently promoted TWICE without merit. He then REFUSED to take a physical at a time when he would have been administered a drug test. George W NEVER should up in Alabama as he claimed to. He wasted MILLIONS of tax payer dollars to train him and then skipped out on doing his service honorably.
All the other crap that Ken Star the Special Pers
Scarborough signed a three year contract with MSNBC shortly after he resigned from congress in disgrace. He replaced MSNBC's highest rated show that was cancelled because of "poor ratings".
Who did he replace ???? Famed liberal PHIL DOHAHUE!!!!!!
Check this out
http://www.makethemaccountable.com/floyd/010817
It contrasts the coverage of the missing employee of Gary Condit vs the DEAD employee found in Joe Scarborough's office. The fact that Joe Scarborough promptly resign from congress for "family reasons" is also interesting.
So ask yourself the question, what made a DEMOCRAT such fodder, while a REPUBLICAN who had a dead girl in his office garnered ZERO media attention??????
There are always abusers. And I dare say there a quite a bit of tax cheats who run their own businesses. It's unfair to pick on a particular group. It's a strawman. Their are cheats on EVERY end of the government money chain!!!! Your fixation on the little piggies on the bottom of the food chain is really disproportionate to their impact. The FAT HOGS on the top like Ken Lay (et al) take a LOT MORE out of the system.
The vast majority of citizens are NOT welfare whores. They are hardworking individuals who are largely underpaid for their efforts. And believe it or not, what YOU do would be IMPOSSIBLE without them.
If you live out in the middle of Utah and produce ALL of your own food, and all your manufactured goods, than, yes, maybe you are 100% self-sufficient. But otherwise, you are DEPENDENT on the work of others as we all are. Yes, we ARE effectively a BEE HIVE!!!!
The fact that one bee has done exceptionally well is excellent. You have been compensated for your efforts do to your higher income. And your paying a higher rate because you can. Just remember, that poor folk pay a HIGHER portion of their income when you compare it to their cost of living. You have done well for yourself. Society has helped you along. And society takes it's piece of the action so it keeps humming.
I fully support efforts to ferret out welfare abusers. But the notion of helping people through rough patches in their life is still a solid one. It helps people get back on their feet and back into the system. Just remember, that those on public assistance are consumers as well. And letting them starve would only serve to depress markets.
I would fully support programs that required welfare folks to work time for non-profits so they could serve society in the way it is serving them. And I DON'T think it's correct for able bodied people to live their lives off of welfare.
With condoms!!!!
Seriously, I don't think it's a good idea for 13 year olds to have sex. I think this is encouraged a bit by the attitudes about teenage pregnancy. It's basically ACCEPTED.
Once upon a time, a girl who got pregnant out of wedlock was ostricized from society. They were sent on "vacations" to family members and the babies were adopted. Today, the government will pay to take care of those babies. And while it's the more "humane" thing to do. I think it unintentionally encourages teenage girls into thinking that they can handle being a mom.
Thats why I think it's probably a good idea to take the decision making process for the child out of HER hands. Grandma and grandpa can assume the responsibility. But a 13-year old CANNOT. And if Grandma and Grandpa won't, than the baby will go for adoption to someone who CAN!!!!
Sorry,
You're wrong. The conservatives own and operate the major media networks. Take Disney for example. They just tried to block Fahrenheit 9/11 from being released!!!!
Could this have anything to do with Michael Eisner trying to get tax breaks from Jeb???? The fact is that these guys are in a race to buy out all the remaining media properties. They've been cowtowing to this horrible administration and giving them a COMPLETE pass.
The media HUNTED Bill Clinton for 8 straight years. And it was ALL bogus except for Monica Lewinsky.
Flash forward to today when the media would not cover the Plame affair for a solid THREE MONTHS after it came to light. Think about it. Someone in the White House commits TREASON, and it takes THREE MONTHS for that to make the news.
Dubaya is an incompetent rat. And if he got one TENTH of the scrutiny that the brilliant William J Clinton got, his poll numbers would be even lower than the abysmal 40% he is scoring right now.
BTW, Reagan was NOT the most popular president in history. Reagans poll numbers were abysmal after the Iran-Contra scandal!!!!! CLINTON is more popular than Reagan. And I'd take a blow-job loving Clinton over a senile Reagan ANY DAY!!!!!
You read too much Newsmax propoganda!!!!
"Insiders cautioned that, while it is standard to use extrapolations as a guide to the performance of a station, they are preliminary and prone to a certain margin of error.
"They're like a second-inning score in a baseball game," said Tom Taylor, the editor of Inside Radio, a trade publication. "But you have to say that the visitors are on the scoreboard."
From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., a period that includes Franken's show, WNTD pulled in 3 percent of 25-to-54-year-old listeners in Chicago. That number puts the fledgling network in the same league as WGN-720 AM, which scored a 2.1 percent share of the same demographic, according to the extrapolation of April figures. WLS-890 AM, which airs Rush Limbaugh during the same period, beat WNTD with a 4.8 share.
But in New York, where Air America still broadcasts over WLIB-1190 AM, the network beat Limbaugh's station, Disney-owned WABC, among both 25-to-54-year-olds and 18-to-34-year-olds during the 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. period. In the 25-to-54 demographic, WLIB garnered a 3.4 share to WABC's 3.1; among 18-to-34-year-olds, WLIB won sevenfold with a 2.9 share to WABC's 0.4."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0405
http://www.gogomag.com/cgi-bin/eboard30/index2.
http://radio.about.com/od/airamericaradio/a/aa0
Given the fact that Air America is a startup, they're doing an INCREDIBLE job. They beat Rush soundly in New York.
16 stations for a network that in 3 months old is VERY good. They started out with FOUR stations. That means they've quadrupled their market in 3 months even with the losses of the Chicago and LA affiliates (due to over-billing, not failure to pay bills).
Any business would be EXTREMELY happy to quadruple their market in the first 3 months of operation. CEOs would be flipping their lids for that kind of growth.
So I hope your ready to eat your words when they're at 30 or so stations by the end of the year. Air America's success is due to serving a market that just IS NOT tapped. REAL liberal broadcasting. The networks are all corporate controlled by giant media conglomerates (Republicans!!!!).
Sorry, they're getting pretty good ratings. That means they have revenue coming in. They're also the #1 audio streamer on the internet (including me). That means people are staying by their computer JUST TO LISTEN to Air America as opposed to being out doing other things.
What Air America has accomplished is really quite remarkable. They started a COMPLETE network with a 6am-11pm cast. It is NOT syndicated. I haven't seen anyone else do this and it's quite impressive.
Air America will be back on in Chicago and LA soon enough. They have good ratings and will find new affiliates.
Finally, Air America is on the air in 16 different markets in addition to Sirius and XM satellite radio. It's not "small time" by any definition.
Newsmax is a right wing propaganda outlet.
Now to the beef of the issue. Basically, Air America was infiltrated from the inside. They got hoodwinked by some really swarmy folks. Those folks have been fired.
Air America is doing very well for itself now. And Al Franken is getting paid (before he was accepting equity in lieu of salary).
Finally, Al Franken is NOT an extremists. He's the most fair minded person on Air America. Randi Rhodes
Don't you remember, he sold out quite some time ago. His empire is now part of AOL-Time Warner.
Also, it doesn't matter who writes the text. It matters who approves it. Try doing your little polls on the EDITORS of the news sources your talking about. Then you'll find out who really owns the roost.
There IS conservative media sources though. Fox is front and center where this is concerned. It isn't run by journalists, it's run by Republican operatives.
Honestly, there aren't very many real journalists out there any more. At least none that Edward R Murrah would be proud of. Most of them have devolved into taking press releases from think tanks and corporate offices. What passes for "news" now has been homogonized into blatant shilling for big money interests. Basically, the media is LAZY!!!!!
Contrast this with a REAL journalists like Greg Palast who busts his hump all over the world collecting stories from people on the ground instead of paraphrasing overpaid pundits. Guys like Palast simply cannot get their stuff on the US airways because he shakes the trees and presents stuff that isn't in the corporate agenda.
Finally, you'd be surprised to know that REAL LIBERALS, not your straw man variety, don't like the New York Times. They don't approve of MOST media sources out there besides "The Nation" and NPR, and "Air America". If the media is so "biased" why do REAL LIBERALS HATE IT?????
60% of the nation does NOT get their news from FOX. Fox News is a cable station and doesn't come CLOSE to the ratings of CBS, NBC and ABC.
Furthermore, FOX watchers tend to be "channel sitters". Fox watchers are far more likely to "LEAVE" Fox on for a long period of time. This schews the statistics. The "Cume" for Fox is MUCH, MUCH lower than that of CNN or the major TV networks.
It's a terrible burden on society. It's also a terrible burden on the individual who loses MANY opportunities for personal development.
I'd personaly be in favor of not ALLOWING 16 year old and under girls be guardians. It simply IS NOT POSSIBLE for a child to be the effective guardian of a child. If grandma & grandpa wants to take the responsiblity until the kid turns 18, fine, they can adopt the child. But there should be a basic realization that a child CANNOT be the primary caretaker of another child!!!!!
If grandma and grandpa don't want the responsibility, than the kid should go up for adoption. Society should NOT be made to subsidize the willfull irresponsibility of others.