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Save CPB

jo — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:53:03 +0000

In a budget proposal made public recently, House Republicans announced plans to zero out all funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the nonprofit responsible for funding public media including NPR, PBS, Pacifica and more. In Fall 2008, NPR programming reached a record 27.5 million people weekly, according to Arbitron ratings figures. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) adds 21,000 jobs which in turn generates 1 billion to the American economy. It supports stations that do not further any one religious philosophy and the stations must remain noncommercial.

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Most Republicans and the politicians they vote for don’t even watch NPR and PBS yet claim the programs have a socialist bias. What is actually happening is member stations are required to be noncommercial or educational and cannot be designed solely to further a religious philosophy or be used for classroom programming. (“Nova” is socialist?) This can only mean that they relate socialism to anything that does not promote Christianity and commercialism. If you are a centrist who leans to the right and you listen to NPR — you will like Wait…Wait Don’t Tell Me, Car Talk, Marketplace, and Prairie Home Companion. If you go to http://www.pbs.org/programs you can see all the wonderful programs to choose from that are much too numerous to list here. If you are a centrist who leans to the left you will like many of those same programs (and probably already watch them). If you are far right or far left than you really have no interest in truth so this doesn’t apply to you. Just carry on with your Fox and MSNBC and their frequent commercials.

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The entire public interest media sector and all the jobs it creates are threatened by these Republican house members. Write your Senator and your Congressman and let them know if they zero out funding for CPB they must also zero out oil subsidies and bail outs of car manufacturing. Zero out public libraries and the USPS. Zero out — so all of our news and information comes from commercial or Religious funding. Can you imagine corporate censorship and commercials interrupting Sesame Street? You think the government is about censorship? Wait until Monsanto has a say in childrens’ programming, or JP Morgan controls PBS programing.

Water

jo — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:34:27 +0000

Good Morning!

While drinking my hot beverage made from the beans of a tree and paying my water bill I started thinking more about water. Coffee bean trees grow because of water and my coffee is brewed in water.

Water keeps our exquisite Earth alive. It saves us and our earth from being lifeless mineral globs. Of course, we nor the earth would be alive long if all the earths water was contaminated. I wonder why we care more about oil, than clean water?

The critter above seems to be savoring that little orb of clean water the way I am savoring my coffee right now. I am a lifeless mineral glob without my Java.

Water plus carbon and a few other minerals makes us. To give anything life, to keep anything alive it must have water. Someone came up with a way for cars to run on water. Who would interfere with that technology and why, someone devilish?

Water is so life giving that I think maybe God is water and we are drilling for –> well, you get my point?

Hello world

jo — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:44:27 +0000

The news makes me want to jab my eyes out. “Why do you let things bother you?” is the response I often get when I share my disconcert.

Sometimes, you just want to write your thoughts down, get them on paper, or blog, or comment. So here I am, stumbling around and falling over some information that needs to be shared. The authors aren’t always available to me while stumbling; I’ll try to give credit to the sites and authors of information retrieved and commented on. Quotes are in black and my comments are blue.