18 thoughts on “Open Line Friday!”

1. Both Pubs and Dems work together to destroy humanity.

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   1. Look what they’ve done to you.

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3. Why Apple employees avoid getting in the elevator with Steve Jobs

   “He was very clear about what he didn’t like,” says Dhuey. “He was not filtered with his input. If he was in a meeting that was boring him, he would be blunt. He’d say, ‘I don’t need to see this, let’s move on.’ And we would. He didn’t suffer a fool.”

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   1. I TRY to be in the elevator with him. I like that. Nothing grinds my gears at work more than some airheaded exec who doesn’t have an opinion on anything.

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   I think Mr. Limbaugh should explain the rush for Congress to insert itself into this case before I can consider his statement.

   The plain fact is that this case has been dropped by the national media.  Every time a pol from the Republican Party claims no interest in controlling others this case should be brought up.  But it hasn’t been.  

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   1. 75?  Besides that, a method of measuring audience share not based on self reporting finds weakening throughout the rightie radio star universe:

      A look at radio’s PPM ratings for the largest talk radio market in the nation bears this out. An apples-to-apples comparison of ratings between November ’09 and November ’10 in the New York area shows that Rush Limbaugh’s ratings on WABC declined from 5.4 to 5.0-despite the crescendo of a GOP election year landslide. Likewise, year-end to year-end comparisons of the crucial 24 to 55 demographic show that Rush declined from 3.7 to 2.6-while his packaged follow-up acts Sean Hannity and Mark Levin narrowly declined and flat-lined, respectively. And Hannity was dropped from his Philadelphia radio station along with Beck last month after being dropped from his syndicator in Salt Lake City (!) last year before finding a new home in the area.

      PPM is the new method of gauging radio market share that registers actual radio waves instead of relying on the very analog process of filing out forms that allowed fans to essentially ‘vote’ for their favorite radio hosts rather than mark what they were actually listening to-what Randall Bloomquist refers to as ‘the emperor has no clothes’ impact of PPM.

      http://www.thedailybeast.com/a…

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      1. explains why he always seems to be shouting
         
         But, I rarely encounter ANY talk radio. I did hear Glenn Beck once and Hannity a couple of times while in the midwest a year ago. And on last election night, while returning from festivities in Denver I heard Caldera until the mountains obliterated the signal. Of those I heard I have to say Caldera seemed the most rational. But, he had a couple of victories to celebrate though he was astounded that Buck had lost.  

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   2. One.  

      The state requires abortion clinics to have sinks with hands-free faucets and to abide by certain air flow and temperature settings.

      “These really have nothing to do with patients and everything to do with making it harder to provide abortion services,” said Elizabeth Nash, a public policy analyst at the Guttmacher Institute  

      http://www.washingtonpost.com/…

      Onerous abortion restrictions effect multitudes.

      Republicans don’t seek power over people?  Small government my ass!  Small enough to fit in a woman’s vagina.

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      1. making me really uncomfortable!

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      2. That’s my freakin politics:-)

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5. Kudos to District Attorney Bob Watson for his decision to try the 13 year old as a juvenile.  

   As terrible as the boy’s alleged crimes are, he was 12 when he allegedly committed them.  And I find it incredible to consider the possibility that a 13 year old could be locked up “all day and all night” for something done before he could truly comprehend what he did.

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   2. I always think of Cody Posey — killed his father and stepmother at age 14 — The prosecutor in the case stood there literally trying to diagnose this child with Antisocial Personality Disorder, something you CANNOT diagnose in a child, in her closing arguments. It sickened me. Fortunately he ended up being sentenced as a juvenile and was sent to a treatment facility equipped to rehabilitate him and already familiar with him.

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   3. I can understand why people want a more serious option for heinous crimes but 12 is 12. Children should never be tried as adults because they aren’t. The alternatives posed, such as being able to keep him in custody if, by the time he  finishes the maximum juvenile sentence he is deemed to still be a danger to the community, is a reasonable solution.

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6. Basic precautions

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   The FDA should do more to promote economic growth in addition to advancing regulatory science at the agency, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) tells FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg.

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