In case you don’t know, Mignon Clyburn is the daughter of a Jim Clyburn, the Assistant House Minority leader. She earned her seat on the FCC by rounding up votes with her weekly newspaper in South Carolina. She is the acting chairman of the 5 person FCC Commission, which currently has only 3 members.
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/123658/fcc-chair-clyburn-proposes-reviewing-foreign-owner
While Senator Cruz is demonstrating the size of his manhood to the TEA party by holding up the two replacement members of the 5 member FCC board, Ms Clyburn is rushing through a proposal to be finalized in November to end the current 25% limit on ownership of radio and TV properties by people who are not US citizens, and make approvals on a case by case bribe…. Errr basis. The National Association of Broadcasters is eager to see this change so owners can “cash out” their broadcast licenses. [which nation is the N in NAB?]
Now the Saudi Prince will be able to buy more of Fox News to flood America with propaganda to get us to attack their enemy Iran, and the Mexican drug cartels can officially buy up the AM radio band. Maybe Fidel Castro can even buy up the radio stations in Miami!
In the good old days Pacifica Radio and WBAI in New York would be screaming bloody murder at the thought of foreign banking corporations buying up radio licenses, but WBAI’s remaining skeleton crew is trying to find a tenant to take over their studio as the station winds down operations.
Art, if I didn’t know what a nice fellow you are, I’d swear you are trying to filet Mignon Clyburn.
The name reminds me of this greedy banker. I know my mouth is running with too much chat, I really should clamp it. 😉
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Great clue, CC. At least that greedy banker was only getting Jed’s money and not trying to make the whole country pay for his excesses.
We’re about at the point that the banks are doing us a favor by not charging us to keep our money safe. Life imitates TV.
At least when Sharia laws against usury kicks in, we’ll be used to the idea that expecting interest is the influence of Satan and evil.
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be”
– LORD POLONIUS (Shakespere’s in Hamlet, 1602)
Imagine if lenders had to forgive all unpaid debts every seven years, so people and governments could never borrow money for more than seven years.
Well that milestone, lenders charging to keep your money safe, has already passed. I think it was a Swiss bank, USB if memory serves that required some fee on accounts below a certain amount, fairly high as I remember.
Since I have no money anyway, it mattered little to me so I did not investigate it further.
Jubilee was every 50th year.
Deuteronomy 15:1
My earlier bit about killing the entire village is a rough paraphrase of other parts of the “law” of the Old Testament.
Thou shalt not murder, unless they’re from a different tribe, then enjoy!
A few verses, phrases, or sentences in the Torah seem to be odd, or perhaps added at a later time. Of course but there is the so-called Torah Code. I’m hoping no one wants me stoned-to-death but some people claim the Torah was inspired by a Sumerian.
Ted Cruz has finally yielded in the face of Art Stone’s ongoing criticism and dropped his hold on Democrat Tom Wheeler’s nomination. The Senate confirmed Wheeler within hours and also gave a thumbs-up to Mike O’Rielly for the Republican seat.
It’s amazing how many influential people read this blog!
Yea!!! Go Art, Go!!!
Truly amazing, isn’t it?