All 57 states will save 3000% on health care.
Someone should ask President Obama to speel potatoe.
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Art Stone
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Art Stone
Was Woody (Woodrow Wilson) Guthrie a Marxist or maybe even a Communist? Or is Glenn Beck an out of control paranoid McCarthy wannabe?
Let’s check in with PBS
PBS Profile on Woody GuthrieThe most direct mention is that Woody submitted articles to The Daily Worker, the official Newspaper of the Communist Party USA. PBS doesn’t even blink at the mention, since there is philosophically nothing significant to a person being a Marxist or a Communist.
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phistar
Nothing philosophically significant at all. It’s like Coke and Pepsi. Or Patriots and Rams. My kids are taught that marketing = propaganda. It’s all semantics.
Wait. What was that?
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blsumner
Yes, Guthrie was a Communist.
No, Beck is NOT paranoid
And finally, I think that McCarthy was on to something back then but we did not have the “INDEPENDANT” news and information sources that we have today so the Communist controlled media of the 50’s was able to discredit and excoriate him.
If the truth had been able to be brought to light, McCarthy would have gone down in history as a great patriot ,on the same level as Paul Revere. Just my opinion
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dsrtwillow
I thought this was common knowledge There were a bazillion people (by actual count) in his generation who really believed that the Great Depression was proof of the failure of the capitalist “experiment.” Most of them wised up over time..
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Art Stone
When Cable TV companies want to carry TV stations, they have to pay TV stations to use their intellectual property. If the NAB opposes paying “taxes” on using music, why do they support cable TV paying a “tax” to carry TV stations?
Yes, that’s a rhetorical question….
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msubobcats
I had never thought about that…..So true.
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Art Stone
Citadel gets right to cancel “programming deals”. The Bankruptcy judge has given Citadel the green light to tear up its contracts for programming, like the one with Clear Channel and Sean Hannity. Whether Clear Channel will renegotiate the contracts or move their programming away from Citadel stations (like WABC) should become apparent shortly. Clear Channel seems to have been practicing lately for rapid affiliate changes in major markets.
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Art Stone
Radio Derb – combine sarcasm, a sense of irony, conservative politics and dry British humo[u]r and you have Radio Derb, a production of National Review Online. Well worth the time to listen and ponder.
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Art Stone
Here come higher interest rates… Still not “high”, but when the market thinks the flood of free dollars for lending is gone, momentum can build quickly. Keep your eyes on LIBOR – that’s the only one that matters.
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Art Stone
“Please don’t call me Shirley”… Peter Graves has died at age 83, apparently of a heart attack. He starred in the original “Mission Impossible” TV show, and the Airplane movies.
As a teenager, he worked at WMIN in Minneapolis. If you want to impress your friends, mention he was the brother of James Arness, who played Matt Dillon on the TV series Gunsmoke.
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puck30
I just watched that movie Saturday! One of the all time classics!
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msubobcats
Very good movie…..Airplane…..
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Art Stone
Pat Gray is a chess player – that’s my guess. This “Some Christian leaders are Marxists” thing is busy percolating out there, now drawing in Roger Ebert. What the ACORN experience should have taught people is that Glenn is playing several steps ahead. The first ACORN video came out and he let it sit there for a couple days, to get the outraged “That’s an isolated incident!” responses on the record and condemations on the record – knowing he had half a dozen more outrageous videos all queued to play… a woman telling how she got away with murdering her husband, another explaining how she had run her own prostitution ring, etc…
If Glenn is making the assertions that he is, he has video – count on it. After he shows the video of church leaders embracing Marxism, you can accept that you support Marxism, you can leave your church, you can work to get the Marxists out of positions of power – but you can’t plead ignorance.
Marxists are not shy about telling you what they believe.
http://www.ncccusa.org/news/oscarbolioli.html
But if he is critical of church pragmatists, he also questions those, such as himself, who were influenced by the trends of liberation theology, which emerged from Latin America in the 1970s, incorporating elements of pastoral and social action with Marxist economic analysis.
A few days ago, I predicted that the people who would be howling the loudest about Beck would be people who are not Christians…
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Art Stone
Glenn confirmed today this is exactly what is going on. He’s been collecting video for the past 8 weeks, with people all over the world providing material. He’s just waiting for the right time to “drop the hammer”
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Art Stone
Add to the list Amy Sullivan, editor of Time Magazine. She’s not new to the subject of Politics and Christianity. In Washington Monthly in 2004 in an article titled “Jesus Christ Superstar”, she bemoans the problem that Mel Gibson and right wing conservatives have filled the void created by Hollywood’s failure to produce positive movies about religion. She seems to have the impression that her inside the beltway evangelical friends are typical of right wing Conservatives…. Worth a read – she may be open minded enough to “get it” when Glenn connects the dots.
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Art Stone
Google Nexus One dropped 70% – not the price, the Goldman Sachs guestimate of how many phones Google will sell. GS had originally believed Google would sell 3.5 million of the Android based phones in 2010. Now they are guessing 1 million.
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Art Stone
Lowering blood pressure below 140 systolic with medication or lowering cholesterol harms health, and does not reduce heart attack or stroke risk according to a 10 year study of over 1000 type 2 (adult onset) diabetics
I told you so.
[Of course, don't change your medication without talking to your doctor - in fact print out this story and take it along in case your doctor still gets his medical training from his pharmaceutical saleswoman]
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phistar
I’ve always been skeptical about where cholesterol fits into the endothelial damage pathway. Look at it another way: people who routinely exercise with their hear rate in the upper target zone don’t have issues with blocked arteries as those who don’t exercise and smoke. We’re taught that hypertension –> endothelial damage –> plaque formation. But, for some reason, temporary hypertension while exercising releases chemicals that relax the endothelium. A relaxed endothelium means no trauma and no plaque buildup. Why, then, does the pharmaceutical industry play with trying to manipulate cholesterol? The science that deals with cholesterol seems shaky. Pharma needs to phocus on the agents that relax the endothelium, not messing with the cholesterol pathways. Look at how many people can’t take statins. Does anybody question why? Maybe they do a lot of damage and the body tries to revolt against their presence…
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Art Stone
Correlation does not prove causation. It’s the huge blind spot with many scientists.
Even if high cholesterol causes plaque which causes some types of heart disease, that doesn’t prove that using statins to lower the score on a test result makes any difference on m&m – what is an obvious fact is it reduces quality of life. The single biggest factor is genetics, which a pill can’t change.
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phistar
Now try explaining that to Lilly, Glaxo, and a LOT of physicians.
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Art Stone
And Goldman Sachs
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msubobcats
Red Yeast Rice will help lower it some…..White Yeast Rice will really drop the #s…..
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Art Stone
Cuba 2003 “speeder” trip… Don’t run over my chickens!
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Art Stone
The PSA test is a big mistake – so says the doctor who invented the test in a NY Times Op-Ed. The test was never intended as a screening test, but rather as a monitoring tool for men who already had diagnosed cancer.
PSA test only finds less than 3% of cases – but even then no treatmemt is the best option for most men. Prostate cancer on average is 20 years from diagnosis until it might kill you – by which time you will have died from something else. Of 47 men treated, 46 will have no benefit and will most likely become incontinent and impotent – and 1 will live longer. There is not a clearer case of overtreatment being pushed by drug comanies and doctors. And that’s from the guy who invented the test.
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Art Stone
LA Times pooh-poohs Rush Limbaugh mentioning President Obama’s unilaterally ending the comment period for feedback on changes to fishing laws. WIthout quoting any actual facts, the author urges Rush to “hire a fact checker”.
Rush mentioned on the show (which the author didn’t listen to or get the transcript of) that he has only fished one time in his life, and the salmon he caught was snatched by by a Sea Otter before it got to the boat. Rush is not raising the issue because of a personal motivation.
In 2008, Senator Barack Obama (or possibly his TelePromptr or more likely the WWF) gave an “interview” to Sport Fishing Magazine about his view on the role of the Federal Government in managing fishing resources.
A short list of items Senator Obama thought were appropriate to consider:
- catch controls
- habitat protection
- gear restrictions
- bag limits
- closures
- marine reserves
- international diplomacy
- global environmental treaties
- funding and “ethics” rules for members of the regional fishery management councils
- increased funding for NOAA
- annual catch limits
- ecosystem based management systems
- endangered species management plans
- limited-access-privilege programs…Yeah, there is nothing to this thing other than some ESPN blog guy….
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msubobcats
Heck, obama would never think about taking away any of our freedoms?????!!!!!
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Art Stone
It’s NCAA college basketball playoff season…. Other than Title 9, why would a radio station put women’s college basketball on the air? Or high school hockey tournaments?
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msubobcats
Give me a minute, I am thinking about that one…..
I just wish I could still listen to MLB, YANKEE’S or Giants, or NFL, St Louis RAM’S…..
So far my MSU BOBCATS are still free to listen…..Art, I am still thinking about your question…..
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Art Stone
Local news…. 68 year old fireman dies of heart attack responding to fire, unemployment is still going up (11.4%), radio amateur / emergency management volunteer dies trying to save his dog in a fire at his house caused by smoking in bed, flood watches…. other than that, everything’s great!
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blsumner
OK now…….. are the Fireman, Radio Amateur, Emergency Management Volunteer all the same person? If so, ….that is too close for comfort…..You’ve seen my website, I work with my local Fire/Rescue, I am a Radio Amateur, I work with FEMA and I have a dog…AND we have flood watches here. At least I don’t smoke and am 20 years younger.
Where is the “local news?” Is it in your area?
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Art Stone 11:51 am on March 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Nothing in Obama’s TV shows is by accident. Every person in the picture is hand selected and placed there for a reason.
Notice there is only one black person in his amen chorus, and he is hidden behind Obama’s head.
WesternMA 12:19 pm on March 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Rush is talking about this right now…I wonder if that was on his teleprompter…what a dumb comment.
WesternMA 12:20 pm on March 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Just noticed the “all 57 states” comment…good one!