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Are we being told the truth by CNN?

  I reported on this blog about Parija Kavilanz a CNN writer.  The writer seems to be doing stories on the CNN web site about how poor doctors are and how hard doctors have it and I do not believe it.
  The writer did a story on CNN “I’m a Medicare doctor, Here’s what I make.”  Then there was a story by the same writer “Doctor-starved: American’s heartland in crisis.”

  Now the new story from the CNN writer is:  “Doctors going broke.” 

  I think someone needs to take a look at this writer.  Is the writer telling the truth?  Is the writer getting paid by someone other than CNN to write certain stories?

Ron Paul walks out of CNN interview

  Ron Paul you sort of like… I guess until you get to know him…  I think we all like some of his issues and the fact that he seems honest about some of the issues and he seems like a guy that is not going to just say something to get elected.  You want to like the guy… Well until you get to know him.
  I have in the past said some good things about Ron Paul.
  But at last we get to see the real true Ron Paul.  It is not only his walking out on the CNN interview but his conduct and reactions. 

  It is sort of like John McCain…I said a lot of good things about him and had great respect for him but he broke my heart.  When he ran last time for President… We saw the true man and it was sad.  He would do anything and say anything to get elected President and would even put the United States in harm’s way to be elected.  (In harm’s way by his choice of VP.)

 
  I think it is little “people like you” remark that pisses me off the most.
Was she pushing hard on the issue yes.  But that is what the media, even CNN, does not do now days.  They ask easy questions and never press the issue. 
  If I was doing interviews I would be hammering over and over again. I would never let the person just brush it off and say what they wanted to say. 
  People wonder why Larry King could get all the people to appear on his show and the reason is because he never asked hard questions.  Everyone knew they could come on and it would be a love fest.
  It is like Charlie Rose.  I love his show.  He does great interviews. He is very smart.  It is the best interview show on TV but he just asks the questions.  He never attempts to push an issue and never attempts to pin the person down. 
  There is a place for an interviewer that ask hard questions and lets us see the real person. 
Now Gloria Borger was doing a very poor job with the interview.  She was asking the questions in wrong way but it did end up letting us see the real Ron Paul. 
  What I see of Ron Paul I do not like.   

Glenn Beck-backed gold dealer charged with fraud

“Glenn Beck-backed gold dealer charged with fraud

A California company that sponsored conservative talk show host Glenn Beck's radio program has been charged with fraud in a 19-count criminal complaint in Santa Monica.

The company, Goldline, is accused of using Fox News' Beck and other conservative spokespeople in a bait-and-switch operation to sell overpriced gold coins, according to a report on the Santa Monica Daily Press website.

Goldline's salespeople supposedly lured money from customers with a promise of delivering gold bullion, with the intent of later switching the sale to the coins.

"At the heart of the complaint is the suggestion that Goldline profits not so much by selling pure gold bullion, but by persuading customers who want to capitalize on the rising value of gold to purchase collectable coins," according to an ABC News Radio report on the case. "The coins are subject to a significant mark-up in price, and several Goldline customers told ABC News that they found it difficult or impossible to resell those coins without taking a loss."

Beck is planning to move the headquarters and studio of his Mercury Radio Arts to Southlake in North Texas.

The investigation into Goldline was first reported by ABC News more than a year ago. A spokesman for Beck at the time said that Goldline had an A-plus rating from the Better Business Bureau.

The company told ABC today that it will "vigorously fight" the allegations in California.

Goldline features a prominent endorsement from Beck on its website.

-- Tom Uhler, online news editor”

Read more: http://blogs.star-telegram.com/crime_time/2011/11/glenn-beck-backed-gold-company-charged-in-criminal-complaint.html#ixzz1cbP7Gdtm

Rick Perry Calls Social Security ‘A Criminal Enterprise’

“Texas Governor Rick Perry defended harsh words he's used to define his stance on Social Security in an interview with Time published online on Thursday.

"I don’t get particularly concerned that I need to back off from my factual statement that Social Security, as it is structured today, is broken," he said. "If you want to call it a Ponzi scheme, if you want to say it’s a criminal enterprise, if you just want to say it’s broken -- they all get to the same point."

The Republican presidential contender has taken heat from Democrats, rival presidential candidates and even Karl Rove for repeatedly characterizing Social Security as a "Ponzi scheme." After walking back his choice of words as they appear in his memoir, Perry stood by his criticism of the entitlement program during last week's GOP presidential debate.

"It is a monstrous lie," he said on stage at the Reagan Library. "It is a Ponzi scheme."

Mitt Romney shot back, "You can't say that to tens of millions of Americans who have lived on Social Security."..”  Huffington Post

 

  Social Security works.  It has worked for 75 years and will work for the next 75 years unless people elect Rick Perry President of the United States.
  Social Security is not broke.  
  What Rick Perry is saying is a lie.  It is also stupid.
  The American people know that Social Security works.  
  He can not be elected President of the United States saying that Social Security is “unconstitutional”, a “Poniz scheme” and “a criminal enterprise.” 

GOP going to repeal light bulb efficiency law

“In a move that could be called anything but conservative, Republican lawmakers are set to bring a bill to the House floor next week that will repeal state and municipal rights to set efficiency standards for light bulbs.  The bill would unravel a piece of federal legislation that was strongly supported by light bulb manufacturers and has spurred innovation in the lighting industry.

The bill, sponsored by Texas Republican Joe Barton, would strip away any “federal, state or local requirement or standard regarding energy efficient lighting” that uses light bulbs containing mercury. In other words, all compact fluorescent bulbs…”

  Think Progress

 

  This is one of the types of issues that Republicans love.  Some other people also go for things like this…  water fluoridation… flu vaccines… child immunizations and other issues like this …  
  The scary thing being used now is “MERCURY”  … oh no “MERCURY” …
  Truth is that there is a small amount of mercury in the compact fluorescent bulbs.  AND there is a small amount of mercury in fluorescent bulbs.  We been using fluorescent bulbs for a long long time and the Republicans did not care.
  They only care now because they do not want the federal government to be allowed to make rules. 
  If the repeal of the light bulb efficiency law takes effect it appears that the fluorescent light in your bathroom and kitchen would not be legal.  Not 100% sure about that.

  Keen in mind that CFL bulbs are just fluorescent lights except short and curly in shape and they screw in instead of snapping in.  So if you got a problem with CFL light bulbs you should have a problem with all fluorescent lights.  

  Republicans worrying about mercury now?   That is odd… Since President Bush and Republicans exempted power plants from mercury emissions regulations!
 
  I get so tired of the Republican bring up issues like this…  It is just an attempt to scare people. 

  I have seen headlines that the GOP repeal of the light bulb efficiency law will cost consumers $12 billion dollars.  I am not sure how they come up with that number.  My guess it is for the extra amount of power we will use if we are not using CFL bulbs.
  I have been using CFL bulbs since they came out.  I use CFL bulbs here for everything except in the kitchen which has a fluorescent fixture. 

  The CFL bulbs that I have use about 16 watts of power each.  They replace 60, 75 or 100 watt incandescent bulbs. 

Glenn Beck is off TV–now on the web: www.gbtv.com

 

  Glenn Beck did his last show on Fox News.  I am sure they will have him back for specials from time to time to drag in some viewers.

  But Glenn Beck is now on his web site and doing a two hour show each day.  His website is www.gbtv.com 

  He will also have a webcam going of his radio show.  I think he has been doing that in the past.  He is going to charge $9.95 a month for the video for the radio show and some extras. 
  I think he is also going to beg for donations the way churches beg on TV. 
 
  He is going to have viewers but it is not going to be the same as when he was on TV.  I think he will try to be even more crazy and wild and say and do things since he does not have to worry about Fox News management or the FCC. 
  But I do not think this is going to work well for him.  But again he is going to have a base of people to go to his web site but there are a lot of people with web sites and not as many on TV. 

The Texas TSA pat-down bill dies

“AUSTIN -- Legislation to ban invasive pat-downs by federal airport security screeners collapsed in the Texas House on Wednesday as the 82nd Legislature finished a protracted 170-day workathon, including 30 days in overtime…”

Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/06/29/3189812/blame-game-ensues-after-tsa-pat.html#ixzz1QlCLAGkR

 

  I wish the fucking bill had passed.  Of course President Obama and the TSA, FAA and Justice Department would not have had the balls to fight it like they should have… They would have gone to court and of course the federal government would have won in court.
  But if I was President of the United States I would have had the TSA and FAA ban all International fights in and out of Texas after 9/11 of 2011.
  Texas would have gone to court right away to prevent it but at the same time they would have done away with the fucking law so fucking fast.

“…The bill, which had a die-hard fan base of largely conservative supporters, would have expanded the federal definition of "official oppression" to prohibit federal employees from improperly touching a person's private areas. Violations would constitute a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in jail and a maximum $4,000 fine…”

Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/06/29/3189812/blame-game-ensues-after-tsa-pat.html#ixzz1QlDrEzSV

 

  The people that want the pat-down bill passed are so fucking stupid.  The law would not be legal and the courts would toss it out.  Also even if it became a law and went into effect no one would pay any attention to it.
  You would have stupid low IQ right wing nuts screaming in the airports from time to time but no real law enforcement officer would arrest a TSA security person for “improperly” touching someone during a security pat-down.  Police officers do pat-downs every fucking day.  

  I did a “pat-down” on the husband of an ER patient one time.  He was a pain in the ass all the time. He and his wife were coming to hospital ERs all the time to get drugs.  He owned a small business in the area with x number of employees.
  I had worked at another hospital for a year and he had shown up over there and made threats that he was going to kill the ER doctor and staff.  Then later I was back working at another hospital and he and his wife showed up and he was acting in his nutty way..Refusing to stay out of the exam room and then when he went in with his wife he would close the door and the staff asked him to keep the door open.
  I just fucking took him out of the room and did a pat down on him.  He got so pissed off that he left the hospital and as he was leaving he said is this such and such a hospital and it was not the hospital and I told him “yes” and he left.  Right away his wife was ready to be released and he was not there but they called him on his cell phone.  When he pulled into the ER garage I refused to let him get out of his fucking car.
  Now was that “improperly” touching someone?  I don’t think so.. I think when you got a guy saying he is going to kill a doctor and staff because they will not give him drugs that you would be a piss poor police/security person if you did not do a pat down.

  We have not heard the last of the pat down bill in Texas.  I am sure the right wing conservative government hating nuts will bring it up and keep bring it up until they get something passed.  I think anyone with an IQ higher than 40 knows it is not legal and is a stupid law.  So people will water it down until it is just a worthless scrip of paper and pass it just go get the nuts off their backs.  What they should do is tell them you are fucking stupid and get he hell out of my office you piece of shit.

You can not win with the Republicans

  The major problem we have in this nation is the conservatives and the Republican Party.  On every issue they cause problems.  They lie and they mess up everything.  It is not just recently…It has been like this since the days of President Hoover. 

  A conservative group is suing to get bin Laden death photos. 

“Washington (CNN) -- A conservative legal watchdog group has filed the first lawsuit seeking public release of video and photographs of the U.S. military raid and aftermath that left al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden dead.

Judicial Watch is asking the Department of Defense to comply with a Freedom of Information request for the material, especially photos of the September 11 mastermind lying dead on the third floor of his Pakistan hideout. The legal complaint to force compliance was made in federal court in Washington on Friday.

The group says it is being "irreparably harmed" by the Obama administration's "unlawful withholding of requested records."

Judicial Watch made its initial request the day after the commando assault by Navy SEALs. A similar request for material was filed against the CIA...”

 

  The right wing conservative site RedState dot Com says that President Obama is doing “victory laps and spiking the football” and attacks President Obama and says that he should only have released the fact that there was a raid and that bid Laden was dead and the location were the raid took place and no other information! 
   The article that have is long and filled will charges and attacks on President Obama.  They say that for his own personal PR and to get reelected he has given out all sorts of information and put the families of America’s service members at risk.

   You can not win with the conservatives.  They lie and they talk out of both sides of their mouth and they will do and say anything to win.  They may have an American flag pin on their suit but they care nothing about the United States. 

An Enemy Worse Than Al Qaeda

  RedStates dot Com is a right wing Republican blog.  They hate unions, of course, and anytime they mention a working man they call him a “thug.” 
  They more than bend the truth …They out right lie.
  I do not think I have ever seen a fair posting on their site.

  Well They had a posting today “An Enemy Worse Than Al Qaeda.”  It was long but I decided to check it out and find out who the enemy is that is worse than Al Qaeda.  (I should have known right?)

  They start out talking about economic problems in Portugal.  They blame those problems on a lack of education of citizens in Portugal. 
   Then they start talking about the US city of Detroit!
    Then they tell us that the enemy worse than Al Qaeda is teachers and teachers unions! 

“…Yet, within our very own borders, a menace exists that has all but destroyed the futures of millions of Americans. They have no life, no hope and perhaps a High School diploma that they are too gob-smacking ignorant to even read. I can’t help but feel that Al Qaeda wouldn’t have even been sadistic enough to have done to any US city what our secondary education profession has successfully done to Detroit and much of the rest of inner city America…”

RedStates.Com

 

    This sort of bogging in very popular with the right but it hurts our nation.  It makes people that you do not agree with a hated enemy that needs to be shot in the head and  dumped into the ocean.
    When they use hate like this to talk about teachers, unions, the left and Democrats it hurts our political system.  It hurts the American system of government.  Their supporters are not going to want to work on things to fix our problems with an enemy like Al Qaeda.  Not even an enemy like Al Qaeda but an “enemy worse than Al Qaeda.”
     We have freedom of speech in the United States so they can spill out their vial hate
and it is their right but they are not helping the nation.  

Bin Laden’s Pakistani Compound to Become a Shrine

  Fox “news” has a story saying that bin Laden’s compound in Pakistani could become a shrine to him.  Fox “news” seems to think that Pakistan should destroy the building.  A city official seems to say it will be a great tourist place and make some money for the area.
 
  I can see the city point of view.  I am sure they do not have much money and it would be a welcome source of income.
  We got lots of money…. Hell we can print money…  We should have a front group buy the building and then we could use it some way … plant microphones all over the place to pick up anything said and feed it back to the NSA and the CIA.
  We could have CIA people working as guides and making contacts.  Hell we can charge to see the place and give some of it to the local poor people and send the rest back to the CIA to put in their budget.

  We could just pay the city so much money that they would be happy to tear it down for us.
  On the other hand even a vacant lot can become a shrine.
  We should just forget bid Laden.  We killed him.  We tracked him down and we shot him dead.  He is in hell.  We should not keep talking about him and worrying about his name. 
  We can just make it clear if you follow in his foot steps then you can expect a bullet in the head or a rocket on top of you.

  I know we got to do what we are doing right now for a few days.. But it is close to time to move on and end this…
  Fox “news” was attacking President Obama today when he was in New York…  They have already started…  They were carrying on today about how could President Obama let CIA officials face charges for torture because the torture got some information that helped us find bin Laden?  The President of the United States does not decide on who the Justice Department charges with crimes and I was not even aware that any were facing charges…Seems like I heard back in 2009 or something that the CIA people that did the waterboarding were NOT going to face charges.
  But I am not current and up to date on all of it…  But Fox “news” has a woman on talking for a LONG time on the subject and the Fox “news” moderator was sort of clicking her tongue and going on about … wow how can President Obama do something like that?
 

  Yes, I have Fox News at least today.  I had basic cable installed yesterday and I got some extra channels and Fox is one of them.  I think when they install TV they leave on some extra channels for x number of hours or days so that you can see what they are like and so you will upgrade or subscribe.  So not sure how much longer I will have Fox “news” but I can get along just fine without it.