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Worth pointing out that we as consumers also share some of the blame for the media. Those second tier news sites, that aren't big enough to be getting direction from the PAC's/government, are mostly doing the same thing that Fox and CNN are, because it's what we click on. The fair news sites that try to present unbiased news are fading into oblivion, because they aren't making money. We've kind of brought this upon ourselves to a degree.

I mean look, here was the headline after the legislature passed a budget extension.

Didn't the conservatives want the liberals to vote for the extension as written? Of course they did, seemingly, because they wrote the extension.

Yet the conservative headline says that they caved. We got what we wanted, so on the way out the door we're going take a shot at you anyways.

So let me get this straight. If they would have filibustered, they would have been crucified by Fox News. If they would have passed the budget, they would have been crucified by Fox News.

My honest guess is that they wrote a budget extension they thought the liberals would never vote for, thereby shutting down the government and putting 7 million people out of work. I really think they wanted to create a temporary anarchy, and then use the liberals as the scapegoat.

How does that help the American people? How does that make our country better? How does that secure our interests within and outside of the borders?

It doesn't. They are not interested in that. They are interested only in cementing their own power and destroying those who oppose them. You know, like any constitutional Republic government would.

It seems like the only thing that the conservatives want is for any and all diverse points of view to be annihilated. #democracy.

@Amos_Umwhat said:

@VegasFrank said:

@peter4jc said:
The fact is, the media covers what they want and doesn't cover what they don't want, and slants what they cover to portray what they're covering any way they want.

The media covers what they are told to cover, and they are told how to cover it. Both sides.

By whom?

The politicians and their Pacs unfortunately

@VegasFrank said:

@peter4jc said:
The fact is, the media covers what they want and doesn't cover what they don't want, and slants what they cover to portray what they're covering any way they want.

The media covers what they are told to cover, and they are told how to cover it. Both sides.

Rats! I thought I could sneak this one in while Frank was out of town. Did not count on such a quick recovery by him.

The PBS News Hour has a segment every Friday, Brooks & Capeheart, to discuss the weeks political headlines. Brooks is in the conservative corner but not so deep that PBS won't let him in the door - so he's in the center-left of the Right side. Anyway, as they discussed the CR, Capeheart was saying the Left was correct to chastize Shumer and those that voted with the enemy to pass the CR, and they need to resist Trump at every opportunity. Brooks made a very interesting point, that the Right was hoping they'd shoot it down so that Trump's henchmen could do some of their dastardly deeds during the shutdown that they couldn't do in normal times when the gov't is up and running; like a shutdown would give them the chance to do what the Left didn't want them to do because of an 'emergency'.

Looks like a bad patch of concrete. Probably marking it to cover their asś in case somebody trips instead of just fixing it.

Watching the https://southernmostpointwebcam.com/ is a good sociology lesson,. Today I watched over 100 people either walk over or around a toppled traffic cone without righting it until a 5 year old girl picked it up while the parents looked on. A real lesson in the lack of civic responsibility in most of this culture. "Not my problem"....

Algore makes a good point. I think a big part of why Mark didn't notice might be the stark contrast in how the media covered that event vs. how anything to do with the current administration is covered. The fact is, the media covers what they want and doesn't cover what they don't want, and slants what they cover to portray what they're covering any way they want.

I am not saying we are not seeing unprecedented measures (some are indeed extreme)... I would propose that the circumstances surrounding/requiring Algore's alleged cuts were less drastic. The bureaucracy that exists is responsible for ruining much about what makes this nation great (IMHO) and is so entrenched that it won't go quietly into the night. I wish it were someone other than Trump trying to change things, someone who knew how to communicate without alienating, someone who knew how to get a message across in a way that made people want to work with him, but that ain't happening.

Just a dormant oil. I am not a very good orchardist. Bugs are a problem because I don't want to use the heavy duty sprays and haven't figured out the timing for the "organic" ones. Yet.