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Republicans will kill a Democratic proposal that would cut taxes on small businesses, because the GOP opposes tax increases on small businesses?
Has anyone else noted our public library has apparently lost anything up -to-date that is even remotely informative, yet the shelves are stocked to the breaking point with the likes of Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity?
Your Local Broadcast News is Making Us Stupid
By Tina Dupuy
“The media,” as it’s referred to, is not a monolith. We don’t just have one channel, one paper or one site with one nefarious dude pulling levers. “The media” consists of books, newspapers, magazines, television, billboards, radio, blogs, vlogs, ebooks, webcasts, podcasts and movies etc. The media is a vast and (kind of) diverse way of communicating information.
Let’s talk news. And where the majority of Americans – as in over 50 percent (by most estimates) – still get their news – from their local nightly news show. Any discussion about how unaware Americans are when it comes to news needs to have its finger pointed at the proper culprit: Your local broadcast.
Yes, everyone hates Congress but loves their Congressman. Everyone thinks “the media” is biased, wrong and awful – but tunes in to their local anchor with admiration and trust. A pox on them all, except our guy…
Last week a PublicMind FDU poll went viral with the line, “Fox News [viewers] are five-points more likely than those who watch no news at all, to incorrectly say it’s the U.S. that is bailing out European countries.” The under-reported story (buried lede as we call it in “the media”) was of those polled 67 percent said they watched their local news. And that could explain why 36 percent said they didn’t know who was bailing out Europe and only 30 percent gave the correct answer (Germany).
Any elected official who votes to imprison their own constituents indefinitely is a traitor, and should be hanged for treason. You, are an enemy of “America”.
Not so long ago, before Wall Street and the banks became casinos, before currency & commodities speculation and credit default swaps became big business, U.S. courts would not enforce gambling debts. Close the Wall Street casino.
Miami’s federal prison plagued by hordes of strippers posing as ‘legal assistants’.
Nobody likes you, so why don’t you fuck off and die! A new poll from the Pew Research Center shows that support for the Tea Party — and with it the Republican Party — has dropped precipitously in the last year. Scrotum suckers.
EYaw, kind of like bamboo under the fingernails is a manicure, essentially.
Pay a blogger day! Unlike many of my counterparts, over the twelve years I’ve been moderating bulletin boards and then blogging I have never asked for donation. Never sold an advertisement, or posted a commercially based post. I do this to speak my piece. But, having been un and under-employed going on six years now, and having exhausted my unemployment benefits, well… it couldn’t hurt. If you like what I do and can help out, please feel free to contribute via snail mail: Homeless On The High Desert, c/o Ware, PO Box 6162, Bend Oregon 97708.
Jesus: When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, who love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on street corners so that others may see them. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will repay you. Matthew 6:5-6:
Thomas Jefferson: Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.
