6 years ago :: Apr 10, 2012 - 7:32PM #11 | |
I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize what you heard was not what I meant...
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6 years ago :: Apr 17, 2012 - 10:50PM #12 | |
Yep, we conservatives much prefer Fox. In fact, if anyone turns a TV set in my house onto MSNBC the set immediately self destructs. CNN, however, and BBC are both acceptable alternatives depending on the program. Ken
Libertarian, Conservative, Life member of the NRA and VFW
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6 years ago :: Apr 18, 2012 - 5:43AM #13 | |
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6 years ago :: Apr 18, 2012 - 10:50AM #14 | |
Limiting your news sources to only those which re-enforce your own bias (yes, we all have bias) tends to limit one's entire worldview. Therefore, I watch Faux Noise daily. I also read their websites regularly. Try this sometime: On Thursdays, the unemployment figures come out for the previous week. NBC, CNN, CBS will have always headlines at the top of their page and If the figures are good Faux Noise will bury the story somewhere at the bottom, sometimes not even on the homepage. Only if the figures are bad, all of a sudden Faux Noise sees fit to print headlines. I also enjoy adding The Daily Show in for good measure. Occasionally, they distill the entire story to pure truth, and that can be very entertaining.
“Some men see things as they are and say, why; I dream things that never were and say, why not.” Robert F. Kennedy, 1968
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6 years ago :: Apr 18, 2012 - 11:18AM #15 | |
Dave - Just a Man in the Mountains.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov |
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6 years ago :: Apr 18, 2012 - 2:00PM #16 | |
I just almost spit tea all over my keyboard and monitior. |
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6 years ago :: Apr 18, 2012 - 2:52PM #17 | |
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. Aristotle
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato.. "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives" Jackie Robinson |
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6 years ago :: Apr 18, 2012 - 7:21PM #18 | |
Hey... I LIKE books with pictures!!!!! Just try teaching students how enantiomers differ, particularly when dealing with macromolecules, or how cis and trans configurations of alkenes which have identical chemical formulas differ... or try explaining turning an ester into a thioester...or...or...any of that and more... withOUT 'pictures'!!!!! Hmmmph!!! Ken
Libertarian, Conservative, Life member of the NRA and VFW
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6 years ago :: Apr 18, 2012 - 7:53PM #19 | |
Dave - Just a Man in the Mountains.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov |
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6 years ago :: Apr 18, 2012 - 9:04PM #20 | |
Well, perhaps at my age I am in my second childhood, but I enjoy the evening TV news, particularly Diane Sawyer (local girl makes good.) It's important to me to know what is going out to the public. I devour the daily paper, and search the internet news extensively. That's just me. |
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