Clusterheadaches.com Message Board


    
      
        Clusterheadaches.com Message Board
        (http://www.clusterheadaches.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi)
      

        New Message Board Archives >> 2007 General Board Posts >> Does anyone watch the news?
        
(Message started by: BarbaraD on Mar 31^st, 2007, 7:42am)

Title: Does anyone watch the news?
Post by BarbaraD on Mar 31^st, 2007, 7:42am

I keep the news on all day while I'm working and listen to bits and pieces.

Well, they've been talking about how much the "candidates" (on both sides) are raising and spending and are projected to raise and spend. IT'S GETTING RIDICULOUS!!!! They're projecting BILLIONS! (yep - not millions - BILLIONS).

If Congress wants to do someting useful - they should consider putting a CAP on campaign spending. How in the devil can someone spend a Billion Dollars trying to get a job that pays less than a million in four years? Why would they -- power?

And right now I think everyone who ever THOUGHT they might want to run for President is running. Every day someone else announces. That guy that plays the DA on Law and Order has "thrown his hat in the ring" now. I forget if he's a demo or rep, but he's funny - used to be in the house or senate before he turned actor. Of course I'm still hoping Robin Williams will be out of rehab in time to run (I loved Man of the Year).

If you haven't been watching the news, ya oughta check in every hour or two -- who knows - your neighbor may have thrown his hat in the ring....

Hugs BD

Title: Re: Does anyone watch the news?
Post by ClusterChuck on Mar 31^st, 2007, 7:53am

Barbara for PRESIDENT !!
Barbara for PRESIDENT !!
Barbara for PRESIDENT !!
Barbara for PRESIDENT !!

Title: Re: Does anyone watch the news?
Post by pieface_49 on Mar 31^st, 2007, 9:17am

And they ask me on my taxes if I would like to donate more? And, if they do not make it, they get to keep some of the donations?
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E6D71F30F930A15752C0A9619C8B63&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FPeople%2FM%2FMcCain%2C%20John

And, if you really want to know:
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/election/election2000-1.htm

The first start to reform would be to limit lobbying.

A list of President Bush's top political contributors:
http://www.opensecrets.org/presidential/contrib.asp?id=N00008072&cycle=2004

Title: Re: Does anyone watch the news?
Post by Brewcrew on Mar 31^st, 2007, 9:32am

Fred Thompson, the guy from Law and Order, was a US Senator (from either Kentucky or Tennessee, I believe), and he is a Republican.

Barb, I don't watch the news anymore. National network TV news became irrelevant years ago, the cable news channels are more hype than anything else (can you say Anna Nicole 24/7?), and local news is becoming more and more sensationalized all the time. Our local Fox affiliate's 9pm "news" is more of a one-hour advertisement for American Idol than it is a newscast.

No, I read a couple news websites, a few blogs, and I turn on the TV around 10:14 pm for weather forecasts (which, despite technological advances in the last 40 years, have not gotten any more accurate outside of the 12-hour timeframe).

It's okay, though. Any excuse to watch less TV is okay by me.

Title: Re: Does anyone watch the news?
Post by artonio7 on Mar 31^st, 2007, 10:58am

How's this for the fund raising..... Let them! Let them raise as much as they want from whoever they want.... Now here's the rub. All campaign contributions should go into a non-partisan campaign fund to be divided equally among all of the candidates regardless of party. I'm really sick of our pay per view type of democracy.... special interest groups will just have to find another way to ~~buy~~ influence the government.

Oh... and did I mention, All elected officials should receive the equivalent of minimum wage and should have to punch a time clock. Their benefit package, medical, hospitalization should be no more or less then the average veteran receives. Any extended benefits like secret service should be offered at a fee that they should pay for. Expense accounts should be left open to a general vote. And the office of president should be reduced from two, four year terms to one, six year term. ....Oh and pension???? Let them receive what everyone else receives... social security and medicare after the age of 73.

Just my two cents.

with warm regards,
Tony

Title: Re: Does anyone watch the news?
Post by Linda_Howell on Mar 31^st, 2007, 11:48am

Martin Sheen for President? I'd vote for him. ;;D

Title: Re: Does anyone watch the news?
Post by BMoneeTheMoneeMan on Mar 31^st, 2007, 12:02pm

No Barb, I make it a point to not watch the news anymore. Too much crap about celebrity gossip, bloviating and ego stoking. I wanna hear about the news, i dont care if someone shaved their head or if someone is anorexic.

The "News" died years ago. Now its just TV, and i dont watch TV. I do listen to AM radio a lot though.

Did you hear last week Pelosi and Byrd talking about a bill in Congress? Between the 2 of them they cant make a complete sentence, and they are supposed to be running our country?!?!?!

Title: Re: Does anyone watch the news?
Post by sandie99 on Mar 31^st, 2007, 12:36pm

I do watch the news; back here we still have news news.

Sanna

Title: Re: Does anyone watch the news?
Post by Mac_Muz on Mar 31^st, 2007, 2:00pm

Yup, I watch the news for here and Britain. World events are a hobby, lotta bs but a good hobby.

I consider iot a sin to have the raise the amounts said to be needed to just run for the office of president.

I check into handy and harmon for silver quotes too since I use it to make trade silver...

I don't dare express some recent findings in terms of silver and todays dollar, I'ld get my donkey kicked out of here.

Title: Re: Does anyone watch the news?
Post by burnt-toast on Mar 31^st, 2007, 3:25pm

Is there a connection between absurd trade imbalances, corporate welfare, insurance laws, healthcare costs, prescription drug costs, taxpayer bailouts of underfunded pension plans, etc., etc., endless lipservice from legislators, and corporate money flowing into Washington? Yes, BD I watch the news and its not a stretch to call it "Pay to Play" in Washington.

I also live Pennsylvania - the only state in the U.S. that doesn't have any lobbyist reporting laws. That's right no one has to report anything. Harrisburg PA has become a cesspool and Pennsulvania government is widely recognized as the most corrupt in the Nation.

Both partys are guilty at the national, state, and local levels.

The problem is that the majority of taxpayers and voters won't get off their asses and take a stand or they're too hung up on "the party" to make choices that can lead to real change.

Politicians are laughing all the way to the bank.

Tom

Title: Re: Does anyone watch the news?
Post by Brewcrew on Mar 31^st, 2007, 3:46pm

No disagreement here, Tom. Apathy will be the cause of the fall of the modern representative republic.

I think many people wish there was something to get excited about in the political arena. The second revolution is coming, but I don't think we'll ever see it in our lifetime. Modern politicians have become very good at writing the rules to benefit them without Joe Lunchbox being able to find out what's really going on. Unfortunately, many more private citizens will get thrown under the bus before the masses get angry enough to effect real change.

Title: Re: Does anyone watch the news?
Post by Charlie on Mar 31^st, 2007, 8:59pm

Campaign finance "laws" always are left with a hole that one could drive a semi through. Other countries have some good ideas but here, money rules.

PBS here does a good job with serious news. I watch local Buffalo news more than before too. Just like Howard Beal said in "Network;" we're in big trouble when monster corporations control the news. The first thing they all did was to force news to make money. It was never intended that way and it wrecked it. Anyway, he said who knows what shit will pass for news when that happens.

BBC America is pretty good if you want international stuff. We get it here every night.

I do turn on CNN every morning on the theory that even they will let us know of another 9/ll or such... It would probably be a crawl during an Anna Nicole story.

Charlie

Title: Re: Does anyone watch the news?
Post by BarbaraD on Mar 31^st, 2007, 9:01pm

Oh, I've been advocating a GIANT tea party up in Boston for years.... But people still believe the Govenment will take care of them and don't get off their apathetic butts to go out and vote. Half the kids getting out of school today don't even know who's president.

Ah for the good old days of Walter Cronkite and Huntley and Brinkley.

I don't think we've had a non-politician in the white house since Truman. Well, maybe Jerry Ford. See I'm ecumentical... :D

Oh well, I think I'll go take a long nap.... :P

Hugs BD