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General Discussion / Re: The Debt Ceiling Deadline

« on: August 08, 2011, 03:42:56 PM »

President Obama is "making a statement" at around 1PM Easter/Noon central today.  I normally do not follow this kind of stuff, but I should REALLY start.

Didn't see it but looking at the market I can say it didn't help

I didn't see it either, but let me take a wild guess at what he said...

"Let me be clear. What I have said in the past is that the rich need to pay their fair share. We could have easily avoided this mess had the Republicans been willing to negotiate. As you know, I inherited the worst economy since the Great Depression. Which is why we need revenue enhancements (tax hikes) to attack our deficit."

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General Discussion / Re: The Debt Ceiling Deadline

« on: August 08, 2011, 10:23:44 AM »

Simply bring the tax level on the wealthy back to levels under Clinton while doing entitlement reform (which is sorely needed, especially SS disability and SSI) and cutting down spending in all areas of government...including defense and -dare I say it? - eliminating Homeland Security.

I disgree. Homeland security is a must to protect against terrorist threats. However, defense needs to be cut. The defense budget was $663.8 billion in our last fiscal year. Who knows what the figure will be the end of this year when you add the Libya mission.

We have no business being in Libya in the first place.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Walking Weather

« on: August 07, 2011, 10:53:55 PM »

I hate to say that it's funny about how many unintelligent people we have in this country, but some of the answers they give to what we think are easy questions are rather amusing.

I find it frightening. It shows how under-educated many people are these days. Which means our schools aren't really teaching anything important. Sure it's nice to know how to recycle cans, but that kind of knowledge doesn't really transfer to anything in the real world. They might not be exciting subjects, but people need to know how weather works (so they can protect themselves), how our government (and more importantly how our constitution) works (so they can vote intelligently), etc...

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General Discussion / Re: The Debt Ceiling Deadline

« on: August 07, 2011, 02:22:47 PM »

For starters, taxes for the wealthy have to be raised, and entitlements have to be cut down.

One little problem with the first part of your plan...

IRS: Not enough rich to cover the deficit

Entitlement reform is a necessity.

The IRS can say whatever they want to say. There is no reason why the richest 1% shouldn't be required to pay higher taxes. 

I like how you discounted the IRS's evidence without any evidence or reason. You don't get it. You can tax the rich at 100%, it still won't be enough to pay all our debt. Many economists have documented this. Not to mention that the rich pay nearly 40% of all taxes and almost half don't pay any taxes. Funny that no one asks them to pay their "fair share." Which begs the question - how much is a "fair share?" We've heard this from the Dems for decades, but no one (that I know of) has ever qualified was "fair share" means. And why, why, WHY do we punish people for success (though higher taxes)? Think about it. You start a business. You work you ass off for years to build it up. It becomes successful and you earn a lot of money. And as a reward, the government asks you to pay a higher percentage of taxes. WTF!?

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Contributions / Re: Some photos I've found

« on: August 03, 2011, 11:06:42 PM »

Pretty cool! I'm thinking about doing something similar on my site. Can't decide, though, on whether to post images or videos.

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Local Forecast / Re: BIG FIND

« on: August 03, 2011, 10:29:58 AM »

Not on Amazon or iTunes

(PS - Sorry about the repost of info  )

Huh?

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General Discussion / Re: The Debt Ceiling Deadline

« on: August 01, 2011, 08:05:43 PM »

Sadly, there are those in the Tea Party that would prefer to see the U.S. go into default.  I've never been able to figure out their "logic."  I guess they just would rather suffer any consequences rather than compromise.

The reason you don't understand that logic is because what you state is what I like to call a big, fat lie. No one in the tea party wants us to go into default. Name one person who has said that. And think about it...if we did, why would be asking for deep cuts? Wouldn't spending cuts keep us farther away from defaulting? It just blows my mind that supposedly sane people can call serious spending cuts and a balanced budget "radical" ideas. And this deal that was achieved is an absolute joke. They're only cutting a couple billion dollars. That's chump change for the government. That's less than the interest we spend on our debt in a week!! Give me a break! And the cuts aren't even specified. Some stupid committee is going to figure out what to cut. And if they don't find something (which you know they won't), it'll come out of defense. And how exactly will that work with 4 wars going on?

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Local Forecast / Re: BIG FIND

« on: August 01, 2011, 07:51:02 PM »

Just a quick question about the NM songs on iTunes: are they free?

Why would they be free?

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Local Forecast / Re: BIG FIND

« on: August 01, 2011, 10:16:14 AM »

Apparently they're on Amazon too!

FYI - Amazon has the downloads as well.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: If Al Roker wasn't enough...

« on: July 31, 2011, 09:31:18 PM »

At this point I really don't care anymore. TWC has made up their mind the direction they are going in, so the best thing is to watch the times when they actually cover weather.

So 4 in the morning?

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Local Forecast / Re: Late 1980s LF song with meowing cats

« on: July 31, 2011, 01:59:13 PM »

They played some interesting songs by Pat Metheny back then too. I remember "Last Train Home" (another sound effect, this time a train whistle) in particular and a couple others I can't recall the names of but could find easily enough.

I forgot about that one! One of the few Pat Metheny songs I like.

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General Discussion / Re: The Debt Ceiling Deadline

« on: July 30, 2011, 11:45:56 PM »

Hmm...how to respond this without making it political. Let's see...

First of all, we are not going to default. We can't. Despite the fear mongering that the president and Timmy are doing, social security checks will go out and our military will be paid. They have to.

This problem could have been avoided if a certain group would have passed a budget last year. At the time, I couldn't understand why they'd do something so stupid. Now I do. To put us in this position and make another certain group as the enemy of progress. They're doing it by saying things like "hey, we'd love to fix this problem, but they're not willing to 'compromise'." Of course, when group A says compromise, they mean they want group B to do what THEY want. In particuar, to allow them to continue spending money on things we don't need, and pay for it with higher taxes. Which, of course, is exactly what you need to do when the economy is in the crapper.

To group A (and the few left in group B that are like them), this is just a game. It's all about power. Although I expect this childish behavior from them (they've been doing it for decades...it's what they do best), I'm mighty pissed.

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Local Forecast / Re: BIG FIND

« on: July 29, 2011, 11:26:51 PM »

Wonder why this music is made public now?

Probably got so many requests for it that they decided why not. More money for them to make!

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Programming and Graphics / Re: If Al Roker wasn't enough...

« on: July 29, 2011, 03:25:20 PM »

Totally doubt that there's going to be a Law & Order-like show. Maaaaybe some sort of a "Forensic weather" show, since meteorology also affects forensics...I wouldn't be surprised if they did that.

Now see THAT's a show I'd watch!

Especially if the intro was like the attached clip. Of course for TWC, it would have to be changed a bit. Maybe something like...

"In the weather justice system, mother nature is represented by two separate, yet equally important groups. The meteorologists with facts and the environmental nut jobs who persecute them for denying global warming. These are their stories."

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Programming and Graphics / Re: If Al Roker wasn't enough...

« on: July 28, 2011, 08:49:51 PM »

You're watching TWC, where we come up with a new show about weather affecting someone every month. Seriously, every show they come up with is the same topic with a different person/group as the focus. Are TWC viewers really this dull? Are they really this easily entertained? If you're not going to talk about weather, at least come up with original ideas!