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I am very concerned that a significant segment of the electorate is so divorced from reality and that Fox News can't be sued for false advertising. Not only are they unfair and unbalanced, their masquerade as a "news" organization is blatantly false. While MSNBC has a lineup of leftwing talking heads and shows, I have not seen the level of "news" manipulation there as on the purported "news" segments on FOX. MSNBC relies on a legitimate news organization, NBC, for its information, whereas FOX creates its propaganda first, then shapes information to suit its story line, occasionally just making stuff up when there are no outside sources (i.e. facts) that support its story. They are also the propaganda organ of the RNC.
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Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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Even News Corp Board of Directors recognize that Fox News isn't to be taken seriously because they put FNC into the "entertainment" division of 21st Century Fox while its Australian news units are with the WSJ. 
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NWP are you still going to put up that thread?
Life is a banquet -- and most poor suckers are starving to death -- Auntie Mame
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Yes, I've been working on it but some personal issues have kept me mostly away from my computer (posting from my Nook). Should be able to get to it today. 
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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Speaking of "separation from reality" - I was struck that TEA party candidate Chris McDaniels "declined to concede", as Politico put it, after the run-off election in Mississippi. I find it typical of the TEA pity candidates to be whineful, spiteful, uncooperative and small. Mayhaps they will decide to create a third party?
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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Speaking of "separation from reality" - I was struck that TEA party candidate Chris McDaniels "declined to concede", as Politico put it, after the run-off election in Mississippi. I find it typical of the TEA pity candidates to be whineful, spiteful, uncooperative and small. Mayhaps they will decide to create a third party? Or, in the vernacular, a Turd Party.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
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Or, in the vernacular, a Turd Party. Oh, Loggy, I'm all a-flush.
Just a Missouri school teacher ... stubborn as a mule and addicted to logic.
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A woman was at her hairdresser's getting her hair styled for a trip to Rome with her husband..
She mentioned the trip to the hairdresser, who responded:" Rome ? Why would anyone want to go there? It's crowded and dirty. You're crazy to go to Rome . So, how are you getting there?"
"We're taking Continental," was the reply. "We got a great rate!"
"Continental?" exclaimed the hairdresser. "That's a terrible airline. Their planes are old, their flight attendants are ugly, and they're always late. So, where are you staying in Rome ?"
"We'll be at this exclusive little place over on Rome 's Tiber River called Teste."
"Don't go any further. I know that place. Everybody thinks it’s going to be something special and exclusive, but it's really a dump."
"We're going to go to see the Vatican and maybe get to see the Pope."
"That's rich," laughed the hairdresser. "You and a million other people trying to see him. He'll look the size of an ant. Boy, good luck on this lousy trip of yours. You're going to need it."
A month later, the woman again came in for a hairdo. The hairdresser asked her about her trip to Rome .
"It was wonderful," explained the woman, "not only were we on time in one of Continental's brand new planes, but it was overbooked, and they bumped us up to first class. The food and wine were wonderful, and I had a handsome 28-year-old steward who waited on me hand and foot.. And the hotel was great! They'd just finished a $5 million remodeling job, and now it's a jewel, the finest hotel in the city. They, too, were overbooked, so they apologized and gave us their owner's suite at no extra charge!"
"Well," muttered the hairdresser, "that's all well and good, but I know you didn't get to see the Pope."
"Actually, we were quite lucky, because as we toured the Vatican , a Swiss Guard tapped me on the shoulder, and explained that the Pope likes to meet some of the visitors, and if I'd be so kind as to step into his private room and wait, the Pope would personally greet me. Sure enough, five minutes later, the Pope walked through the door and shook my hand! I knelt down and he spoke a few words to me.."
"Oh, really! What'd he say?"
He said: "Who f*cked up your hair?"
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