Comcast disses MSNBC June 23, 2008
Posted by reformedville in : culture , 1 comment so farI knew MSNBC had dropped in the ratings but now Comcast plans to put it along side the vegetable channel. Effective July 17 it moves from channel 39 to channel 266, meaning you must have a digital package and access to Channel One on demand to get it.
A $10.00 investment recoups memories June 23, 2008
Posted by reformedville in : culture, Uncategorized , add a commentWe were at a friends moving sale a couple weeks ago and I bought one of their old computers for 10.00, mainly because it had an “a” drive for floppy disks.
When we first moved to Estes Park, almost all my pix were on 35mm and we had them put on floppys, so we have been enjoying some of the lost photo series
Above the treeline, about 13, 200 ft.
Slip and its sudden death
Near Rainbow Curve
Tundra in Summer
Two Miles High
Who is going to pay the piper? June 20, 2008
Posted by reformedville in : Government , add a commentThe Democrats have controlled both houses of the Congress since January 2007 and we have seen the economy take a nosedive in that same time period. The price of fuel has doubled, the subprime mortgage crisis hit with key democratic leaders such as Chris Dodd getting sweatheart deals and Congress keeps introducing more legislation that will drive up energy costs, while doing everything it can to keep us dependant on foreign oil.
Americans are also looking at the fact there have been no further terror attacks on the United States homeland since 9/11/01 and Al-Queda is fading into relative obscurity. No, we have not gotten Bin Laden, but we have crippled the organization . The man is only as strong as the organization.
I hope the reaction is not to either hold the democrats harmless or think that the republicans are going to save the day. Until we realize that the current situation in Washington is so messed up nothing short of a entire house cleaning is going to send the message to Congress we are not going to take their antics any longer. If Americans would vote anti-incumbant for four election cycles we would have Congress’s mindset turned back to representing the people and have the political parties attention that we are tired of the poor choices they continue to give us to select from.
| Confidence in Congress at record low By: David Paul Kuhn June 20, 2008 02:05 PM EST |
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| Only 12 percent of Americans now have confidence in Congress, the lowest percentage in the 35 years that the Gallup Poll has tracked the number.Americans now view Congress less favorably any of the 14 other American institutions tracked by Gallup, including big business, newspapers and health maintenance organizations.
Even as President Bush’s approval rating languishes at a record low, more than twice as many Americans have confidence in the presidency — 26 percent — than have confidence in Congress. The Democrats have controlled both houses of the Congress since January 2007. It remains to be seen whether the Democratic Party brand will find itself chained to the poor public view of the legislative branch. A recent analysis of ABC News-Washington Post polls found that in April the Democrats held a 24-point lead over President Bush as “the stronger leadership force in Washington.” Today, it’s a tie. While Americans have long viewed their local representative more favorably than Congress as a whole, the public’s current view of Congress is exceptionally poor. Today’s 19 percent approval rating (a different measure than “confidence”) ties the record low of August 2007 and March 1992. Friday’s survey showed an across-the-board disapproval of Washington, with only 32 percent of Americans expressing confidence in the Supreme Court. The sense of malaise extends beyond the capital — Americans show less confidence than in 2004 in all 15 of the American institutions tracked by Gallup. That includes schools, organized labor and the military (which about 7 in 10 Americans show confidence in; it receives the highest percentage of the 15 institutions). Only banks and the criminal justice system have seen as precipitous a decline as the three branches of the federal government. |
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Money fuels global warming alarmism June 18, 2008
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Are Christians subject to different political standards ? June 18, 2008
Posted by reformedville in : culture, Government, Theology , add a commentShould Christians give politicians the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their truthfulness or should they test the veracity of their statements?
Are Christians subject to different standards than others when supporting a particular candidate?
Why or why not?
True? June 18, 2008
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I found this video last week entitled True.Now I am always skeptical when I see a political advertisement entitled True, thinking of the relative nature the truth is presented in. Especially, when ex post facto explanation is required. So the question is, was it true then? If so , is it still true? |
Change in the air June 18, 2008
Posted by reformedville in : Government , add a commentBe careful what you ask for, they are ready to deliver
The Democratic leadership is beginning to define “change” and what they hope Amerika will look like if they are elected. So what does change look like?
Well for starters, Marxist Christopher Dodd believes the government should regulate the profits businesses make.
Listen to Senator Chris Dodd, a former candidate for POTUS: video
Government Can Mandate What Profit is ‘Fair’ for Business
The word for the day is SELL & DIVEST in American regulated firms!
Dodd believes it is both the governments right and its responsibility to make sure businesses dont make enough money to make you want to invest in them.
When asked if he thought all businesses needed to be regulated, Senator Dodd said,
“In fact it’s been done that way in the past and particularly when you’re trying to get some relief for people out here when the economy is in a tailspin. We’re about to go into a recession here. This is really causing a tremendous dislocation, not only here, but around the world.”
The economy is in a tailspin after American have had their earnings devalued 80.00 a week per worker due to the raise in minimum wage and now employers are not hiring people at 7.50 an hour they would have at 5.50 an hour because a 7.50 a hour employee cost 10.00 an hour to employ with all the ancillary costs. Many younger workers are going to be unemployed as a result of Congress madating what wages must be paid.
Congress can’t run itself, has stolen our pensions, and now wants to tell business how to operate? These guys need sent home, all of them!
Time for a tea party.
Calculated manipulation June 17, 2008
Posted by reformedville in : culture, Government , add a commentI have watched the primaries with sheer amazement, even try to lend some advice to those caught up in a trance to stop and think about what they are doing, as those of us with any memory (from our own memory bank, not what the media tells us to remember and what to disregard). These video links go to prove a fact that the majority of people make their decision based on a entralling speech and are gullable sheep. “D the facts, we want change!”
I have heard comment after comment about hillbillies, rednecks and the evangelicals (people who cared enough about the political process to participate without prodding) and those old people. I have heard how factory workers who are white and don’t have a college education just aren’t with it enough to make a good decision and keep pulling the progressive movement off track. I have heard people whine about how the man is trying to keep Obama down.
Instead of launching into a rant, at least today (and I can leave that up to you to fire away with yours!) I think David over at The Political Junction nails it dead on.
Intellectuals, Zombies and the Stupid
“Historically, about one-half of the eligible voters have never bothered to show up at the polls. Evidently this segment of society has never related the success or failure of the economy to their lives.
Maybe the nation should be thankful. Anyone unable to see the relationship between voting and protecting the nation’s self-interests doesn’t have a clue about the consequences of bad government policy. So it is just as well that they have stayed home for generations upon generations.
But the times are a changing!
The current presidential campaign is trumpeted by the press as opening the eyes of millions of these people to the power of voting. Based on the poll numbers, quoted ad nauseam by the media, little, if any, of this enthusiasm is based on political knowledge.
These are the country’s dumbest voters. They are sleep walkers who head to the polls to vote for candidates because of their gender and/or ethnicity. They are joined and encouraged by the intellectuals who want to demonstrate their racial tolerance, and the zombies who automatically vote Democratic.
The vast majority of these Americans, if aware, would protest against any bill that brought the cost of gasoline to $8 a gallon, or doubled the cost of heating and cooling their homes, or tripled the cost of groceries.
They would come unglued if the US Congress promised the United Nations .75% of the US Gross National Product ($845 billion annually) for worldwide charitable causes, and knew America’s poor would never see a penny of this money.
So what if the Democrats want to protect the environment by confiscating the money used to grow the economy? They don’t see the personal relevance. And how could they?
They are blinded by the color of Senator Obama’s skin. That’s enough information for them. And they heard he’s about change. So what if he has no international experience, is pro-terrorist, an economic neophyte, and has demonstrated common sense shallower than the morning dew. No one is perfect.
These voters are in an ethnic trance. They don’t know that Obama introduced the bill (The Global Poverty ACT, S.2433) which automatically deeds nearly 1% of the US’s wealth to those conniving thieves running the UN.
They don’t know he supports the bill pending in Congress that will drive energy prices through the roof to “save the planet.” They don’t know that scientists are uncertain about the root cause of global warming.
They don’t know Obama plans on ransacking the retirement accounts of Americans by doubling the capital gains tax. They probably don’t know what an earmark is, or for that matter, the government’s source of revenue.
They don’t know that Obama supports the Boxer-Warner-Lieberman bill pending in Congress that will cost $6 trillion to reduce global warming 1%. They don’t know China and India’s growth could offset this expenditure.
They don’t know Obama will open the borders and encourage millions of illegal aliens to take their jobs. They don’t know he has promised to gut the US missile defense network. They just know he is black.
Senator Obama’s success confirms that most intellectuals lack common sense, and that political zombies and the stupid are the gravest threat our democracy faces.” (The Political Junction)
Now watch these two videos:
Gullible sheep.
Globalization and the World’s Rising Living Standards June 17, 2008
Posted by reformedville in : culture, Government , add a commentDespite the conclusions one might draw from the constant barrage of media negativity, never before have people lived longer, healthier, and wealthier lives with lower risks of malnourishment, illiteracy, or death by war or natural disaster. In a recent report for the Swedish government, Cato senior fellow Johan Norberg has documented the largest, most rapid rise in human living standards ever, which occurred over the last four decades. He reviews the factors that generated these advances and explain how even more economic liberty, free trade, and globalization are necessary to sustain them.
In many ways this is going to be a core contrast in this election and a major difference between the candidates-protectionism or free trade? How you vote in November may well determine our economic future in the world market place. Or then again, are we only led to believe that democratic are in fact protectionist and not rhetoric to appease union labor voters?
What say you?
A lost lexicon June 17, 2008
Posted by reformedville in : culture, Government, Media , 1 comment so farWhen up is down and right is left
I have long held and written on the fact that our current President out-democratted the democrats in most areas of his first two campaigns and administrations. The major exception which gave him a voting block of Catholics and Evangelicals was his pro-life stance (which he violated in approving the morning after pill under heavy legislative pressure spearheaded by Senator Clinton ) and his pro-Israel stance, and willingness to risk an Armageddon and bring on the end of the world.
Today it seems like the descriptive terms of conservative and liberal are all confused and the entire political lexicon is skewed, making it difficult to hold an intelligent political conversation with any historic perspective.
Conservatives love war, empire, and the military-industrial complex. They abhor peace, the sole and rightful property of liberals. Right? Wrong.
According to Bill Kauffman, true conservatives have always resisted the imperial and military impulse: it drains the treasury, curtails domestic liberties, breaks down families, and vulgarizes culture. From the Federalists who opposed the War of 1812, to the striving of Robert Taft (known as “Mr. Republican”) to keep the United States out of Korea, to the latter-day libertarian critics of the Iraq war, there has historically been nothing unusual about anti-war activists on the political right.
And while these critics of U.S. military crusades have been vilified by the party of George W. Bush, their conservative vision of a peaceful, decentralized, and noninterventionist America gives us a glimpse of the country we could have had—and might yet attain.
Passionate and witty, Ain’t My America is an eye-opening exploration of the forgotten history of right-wing peace movements—and a clarion call to anti-war conservatives of today.
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For balance, Michael Tomasky, the former executive editor of the American Prospect who now edits the Guardian newspaper’s American online edition, begs to differ.
In years past, it was the Republicans who got us out of wars, but since the Bush Republicanism has redefined the party it is now the Republicans who gets us into them.