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September 25, 2009 03:47 PM UTC

Open Line Friday!

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“I would describe what Obama is doing to this country as basically a coup.  It is just frightening.  He talks about a New World Order, and a New World Order is him.  Obama is bigger than his country; he’s bigger than the presidency; he is the world.  He delivered the United States of America to global powers today, just handed us over on a silver platter without a gunshot, without a shot being fired.”

–Rush Limbaugh, on President Obama’s address to the UN this week

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  1. And what do we call control of the public airwaves??? How much does Rush have to pay to have control of the public airwaves 15 hours a week?  Rush has announced that “we will take over the Republican Party.”  How much does his group have to pay to market their ideology over the public airwaves????  That is right, no one gd cent.  

    “We will rock you.”  The right wing wave is coming……right over our public airwaves….don’t you love democracy? Don’t you love the free market place of ideas?

    Meanwhile back at the ranch.  The first public forum for DPS Board of Education candidates has been held…you read all about it in the Post, right? NOT.  Heard about it on one of the many Clear Channel stations or other public airwaves used to broadcast in Denver? NOT. Want to go to the EducationNEwsColorado site I have been giving links to and find out what the candidates said?  I don’t think so.

    To get that information, you have to go to the site and have an IPOD and download the audio…..which is fine if you have an IPOD and a computer and an hour to listen.

    That is not a wave, that is a Tsunami,  Our way of government is going to be swept away and we are the fools chattering on the deck, too self-satisfied to run for high ground or even alert that little girl standing on the beach, smiling at death.

    1. C’mon dwyer, how can you honestly say that Rush has total control of the airwaves? He is only as popular as the people that listen to him make him. And since he has like the most listened to show in the country, that only means many, many more people listen to him for whatever reason, than do the liberals on the air. And if the liberal’s point of view was popular with more people, their shows would be taking over the airwaves and Rush would slide into the ditch.

      You can not force people to listen to stations like 760 am, when they would rather listen to 630 or 850 am.

      Am I right?

      2. given that Barack Obama beat the tar out of the Republican nominee and democrats won more seats in the House and Senate, one can conclude that Americans prefer conservative talk shows and liberal governance.

      3. That is right, No one can be forced to listen to AM760, particularly if they can’t HEAR  it…because it has limited broadcast range.

        If Rush were so popular, why doesn’t he have the guts to go to satellite? There would be no restrictions on what he could say. That would be the true market place of ideas.  But, wait, people would have to pay a subscription fee to hear him….

        Which came first the chicken or the egg?  Rush uses marketing techniques to sell his message, I think it is a message which Corporations want to indoctrinate the american people with. ….that is why they advertise on his show..corporations pay to own a license to use the public airwaves, but once they have that license, they can put anything on the air which they want..(.with the possible exception of obscene material.)…they don’t have to prove that rush or any of his imitators are popular;  

        There is no restriction against lying on the public airwaves.  There is no right for any citizen to refute what is being said.  Rush uses the public airwaves, without paying a fee, to broadcast a very partisan conservative republican message and the party does not have to pay.

        I don’t like the so-called progessive programing, either, because it only has the other side.

        this democracy cannot survive because there is no right to demand local news coverage, or to refute lies, or to present the other side.  NO RIGHT   Your freedom of speech, Gecko, does NOT extend to the public airwaves….so you better love Rush, et.al…….cause you are not going to hear anything else on the public airwaves which you and I own.

  2. Today, the international community has the best chance since the rise of the nation-state in the seventeenth century to build a world where great powers compete in peace instead of continually prepare for war. Today, the world’s great powers find ourselves on the same side-united by common dangers of terrorist violence and chaos. The United States will build on these common interests to promote global security. We are also increasingly united by common values.

    George W. Bush, 2007 National Security Strategy

    NB:  STILL the operative strategy of the United States since the Obama Administration has yet to release an NSS of it’s own.  If this is a “new world order,” it’s the same one Poppy Bush promoted in 1992.  

    Get over it.

  5. http://online.wsj.com/article/…

    There was a little discussion a few days ago about the role of the state AGs.

    Congress and the Treasury have been forced to peel back their financial reform ambitions, which is some cause for relief. But not nearly enough, because their plan for a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency would still unleash 50 state attorneys general to harass America’s banks. Think Eliot Spitzer, without the self-restraint.

    Under pressure from community bankers and Blue Dog Democrats, Barney Frank has been forced to eliminate the requirement that all credit terms be “reasonable”-whatever that means, other than an invitation to lawsuits. The House Financial Services Chairman has also dropped a demand that all banks offer “plain vanilla” financial products designed by a federal bureaucracy.

    But the Frank-Obama proposal still contains the Treasury’s not-so-bright idea to require all banks to comply with national rules, plus a different set of regulations in each state where they operate. The regulatory possibilities are endless, starting with the fact that each state could impose different rules for pricing, product features, repayment schedules, bank capital requirements, consumer disclosure, regulatory reporting requirements, and so on. If each state can set its own rules, expect endless legal confusion over which law prevails when a bank in one state serves a customer in another.

    The WSJ journal worries that the poor beleaguered bankers should be protected from consumers and good AG.

    Not only do the banks want to force you into fixed mandatory arbitration and immunity from shareholder lawsuits, they also want to defang regulators and castrate AGs.

    If you take away both the rights of individuals to hold their banks accountable and the ability of government actors to control mega banks, what check exists on their behavior?

    On another related note

    I just want you all to know that banks are free to lie to you because banking is governed by the statute of frauds.  You can never rely on the verbal assurances of any banker.  It must be in writing. Make sure you get any loan or other agreement in plenty of time to make sure it conforms to what you believe you are getting.

    It may sound like paranoia, but years ago (before I was a lawyer) they changed my rate on a car loan without telling they had changed it.  Fraud maybe (hard to prove), but I was bound by the terms I signed even though they differed from the verbal terms I was promised.

  6. Just keeping my Polsters still updated.

    We launched not one but 2 ads running all over the state to fight back.

    No on 1 Ad 5

    No on 1 Ad 4

    ________________________________________

    Yes on 1 Ad –

  7. .

    I just got a letter notifying me that I lost an Army contract I’d bid on.  The requirement was to furnish two people on-site who are proficient with SharePoint to do portal administration, application development and content support.  

    The fact I lost to a higher-priced competitor indicates my proposal was not well-written.

    But I was surprised to learn that the winner bid $495,744, about $248K per person per year.  

    My price was significantly lower, indicating to the government evaluators that I didn’t understand the requirement, and that the people whose resumes I had furnished weren’t as qualified as they said, or they wouldn’t have agreed to work for the peanuts I was offering.  

    Ouch.

    Now I know why all you IT-type liberals are so smug.  You’re rolling in dough.  

    .

    1. Don’t take it personally.  Sometimes the bureaucrats just like to give contracts to their buddies.

      There’s usually an “out” in each scoring system that allows the bureaucrats to question your ability to do the job, and score you lower, if you don’t screw the government.

      If you complain about it, you’ll never get a contract.

      If you don’t complain about it, you’ll never get a contract.

      Welcome to the world of Beltway Bandits.

  8. …….for they shall have peace. Jesus H. Christ

    FYI, we spend $600 billion a year on defense plus supplemental funding in the $ billions.  China is #2 at $71 billion.  There ought to be a law against throwing gasoline on ANY fire.  MC

    “Almost every weekend, there are cocktails and closed-door presentations in the suites of New Delhi’s five-star hotels, hosted by retired admirals and generals from the U.S. armed forces who now work for defense firms, such as Raytheon and Northrop Grumman.”

    Who better than a general to promote weapons systems? That’s all they’re really good for, with the exception of begging for more troops and explaining why they had to destroy the village to save it.. They make tax and spend Democrats look like puppies trying to pee like a big dog.. MC

    U.S. Eyes Bigger Slice Of Indian Defense Pie

    New Delhi Boosting Military Budget in Modernization Mission

    By Emily Wax Washington Post Foreign Service

    Saturday, September 26, 2009 NEW DELHI — In the ballroom of a five-star hotel here, executives from Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin, the world’s biggest arms supplier, threw a candlelight reception one recent night to woo Indian defense experts as their country embarks on a major military shopping spree.

    India plans to spend an estimated $100 billion on defense over the next decade to modernize its Soviet-era arsenal. With its growing military footprint, India is steering away from traditional ally Russia, its main weapons supplier, and looking toward the United States to help upgrade its weapons systems and troop gear.

    As the world’s largest democracy, India is seen as the most dependable U.S. ally in a part of the world that also includes Afghanistan and Pakistan, both of which are racked by Islamist insurgencies. But India’s expanding military ambitions, and the U.S. role in selling this nuclear-armed nation more firepower, is starting to worry its neighbors, especially perennial rival Pakistan. India also has ongoing border disputes with another Asian giant, China, which defeated it in a short 1962 war.

    Continued:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/…

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