Rush and Romny to the rescue

[USwings]

Remember the "Bomb Iraq" song with the kick a homeless guy attitude, on the Rush Limbha show? If we fought Iraq we would win so easy, Rush Limbha use to say. You can't get that kind of advice for free. For those of you still under his spell, sorry to hear it, but I know the feeling. I felt like I was better then everyone else because I knew what those evil Dems were up to.

Polarization, and angst, make a great show and has done this country soo much good. We don't have to get along if we can control each other. "Big jail" business is through the roof! "In October 2013, the incarceration rate of the United States of America was the highest in the world.2,220,300 adults were incarcerated in US federal and state prisons, and county jails, at 716 per 100,000 of the national population. While the United States represents about 4.4 percent of the world's population, it houses around 22 percent of the world's prisoners.[1".
We need more jails, people in jail don't need jobs and at the same time we are creating jobs! "Corrections (which includes prisons, jails, probation, and parole) cost around $74 billion in 2007 according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics."

Small matter, what really erks me is the split in the Republican party cost us 8 years of Obama, well it's not so bad, not that much changed, so Polarize baby, tune in, stick to your guns, don't vote for a guy that doesn't meet all your needs or tries to get along. If we can't protect our rights at least we can say we didn't vote for a guy that is not a True Conservative...like Romny?? Hello Hillary!!

the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) estimates that 47,725 veterans are homeless on any given night. Posers, right Rush...can't wait to hear you on Fox so I know what not to do.

The Vera Institute of Justice reported in 2015 that jails throughout the United States have become warehouses for the poor, the mentally ill and those suffering from addiction as such individuals lack the financial means or mental capacity to post bail. Neat huh, who wants to see those guys running around.

• "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence.[1] The phrase gives three examples of the "unalienable rights" which the Declaration says has been given to all human beings by their Creator, and for which governments are created to protect.

The party is behind the curve, trying to lock the doors and keep the voters out. The Idea that Jeb Bush was the best guy in America, that the Party could find to lead us...I am sure they looked far and wide. Finger on the pulse guys! The secret about election day is out due to social media.

Independent

 

[The Great Goose]

Lucy Hamilton

Rush is another of these "controlled opposition" right wing radio/tv guys.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Rush is not a pundit. Rush is a very successful ENTERTAINER, people. He will say whatever will draw an audience.

I'm surprised he hasnt resorted to audio porn yet.

 

[The Great Goose]

Savage wasn't bad value.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Savage wasn't bad value.

Michael Savage is a bit of a ranter as well, but at least he has some original material and I think he is being genuine, enough, with his audience.

Rush was for years slamming on drug addicts and playing up his conservative credentials to his audience while being a drug addict himself. Forget him; there may be an occasional gem of fact or him putting an issue into a clearer context occasionally, but he is not doing it to convince anyone of anything other than that he wants you to think he is a genuine conservative and thus get you to tune in.

Maybe he in fact is a real conservative, I dont know, but I do know all his comments are spoken with the single goal of driving up his ad revenue, not to educate the public about what is going on in DC.

He only distracts the Middle Class listeners while the establishment of both parties fleeces the Middle Class.

For example, he constantly argues that corporate taxes need to go down, but they are already way down proportionately from their highs in 1950. That year corporations paid $2 for every $3 that private citizens paid in federal taxes. Now that ratio has gone to $1 in corporate tax for every $4 of private taxes paid in. IF Rush were really conservative, why doesnt he argue as much for Middle Class tax breaks first? He doesnt because he gets more corporate advertisers that way as they want to help him promote the corporate tax break line of horse shit.

 

[baileyn45]

I am surprised that anyone responded. I've read the op 3 times and have one thing to say. Huh?

 

[LoneLaugher]

Savage wasn't bad value.

Michael Savage is a bit of a ranter as well, but at least he has some original material and I think he is being genuine, enough, with his audience.

Rush was for years slamming on drug addicts and playing up his conservative credentials to his audience while being a drug addict himself. Forget him; there may be an occasional gem of fact or him putting an issue into a clearer context occasionally, but he is not doing it to convince anyone of anything other than that he wants you to think he is a genuine conservative and thus get you to tune in.

Maybe he in fact is a real conservative, I dont know, but I do know all his comments are spoken with the single goal of driving up his ad revenue, not to educate the public about what is going on in DC.

He only distracts the Middle Class listeners while the establishment of both parties fleeces the Middle Class.

For example, he constantly argues that corporate taxes need to go down, but they are already way down proportionately from their highs in 1950. That year corporations paid $2 for every $3 that private citizens paid in federal taxes. Now that ratio has gone to $1 in corporate tax for every $4 of private taxes paid in. IF Rush were really conservative, why doesnt he argue as much for Middle Class tax breaks first? He doesnt because he gets more corporate advertisers that way as they want to help him promote the corporate tax break line of horse shit.

My oh my! You've written something that isn't completely opposed to reality. It's refreshing. Now...let's carry the thought a little further and refine it a bit.

You speak of how Rush has played the middle class for fools while the establishment of both parties fleeces the middle class. Isn't that amazing! You are not differentiating between those middle class Americans who made Rush rich and influential and those who have never believed a word that he's ever said. That....my fine conservative friend....is very convenient.

For Rush to have any influence on a particular individual's brain....that individual must be receptive to his message. That individual needs to be unwilling or unable to give a shit about facts. That individual needs to have a propensity to blame others for his or her own problems.....often times those others are minorities, poor or otherwise marginalized citizens. One wonders why there are very few.....if any....examples of Rush-like figures grabbing the attention of liberal middle class Americans while there are many successful Rush clones on the right. Any thoughts?

I know. This is an unpleasant topic of conversation for many. It's rare, in fact, to find a conservative who recognizes Rush's true nature. I've got to at least give you credit for that. I am going to recommend a book to you....for enjoyment. It's a work of fiction....but covers the Rush phenomenon well. It is called "Talk" by Michael Smerconish.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Savage wasn't bad value.

Michael Savage is a bit of a ranter as well, but at least he has some original material and I think he is being genuine, enough, with his audience.

Rush was for years slamming on drug addicts and playing up his conservative credentials to his audience while being a drug addict himself. Forget him; there may be an occasional gem of fact or him putting an issue into a clearer context occasionally, but he is not doing it to convince anyone of anything other than that he wants you to think he is a genuine conservative and thus get you to tune in.

Maybe he in fact is a real conservative, I dont know, but I do know all his comments are spoken with the single goal of driving up his ad revenue, not to educate the public about what is going on in DC.

He only distracts the Middle Class listeners while the establishment of both parties fleeces the Middle Class.

For example, he constantly argues that corporate taxes need to go down, but they are already way down proportionately from their highs in 1950. That year corporations paid $2 for every $3 that private citizens paid in federal taxes. Now that ratio has gone to $1 in corporate tax for every $4 of private taxes paid in. IF Rush were really conservative, why doesnt he argue as much for Middle Class tax breaks first? He doesnt because he gets more corporate advertisers that way as they want to help him promote the corporate tax break line of horse shit.

My oh my! You've written something that isn't completely opposed to reality. It's refreshing. Now...let's carry the thought a little further and refine it a bit.

You speak of how Rush has played the middle class for fools while the establishment of both parties fleeces the middle class. Isn't that amazing! You are not differentiating between those middle class Americans who made Rush rich and influential and those who have never believed a word that he's ever said. That....my fine conservative friend....is very convenient.

For Rush to have any influence on a particular individual's brain....that individual must be receptive to his message. That individual needs to be unwilling or unable to give a shit about facts. That individual needs to have a propensity to blame others for his or her own problems.....often times those others are minorities, poor or otherwise marginalized citizens. One wonders why there are very few.....if any....examples of Rush-like figures grabbing the attention of liberal middle class Americans while there are many successful Rush clones on the right. Any thoughts?

I know. This is an unpleasant topic of conversation for many. It's rare, in fact, to find a conservative who recognizes Rush's true nature. I've got to at least give you credit for that. I am going to recommend a book to you....for enjoyment. It's a work of fiction....but covers the Rush phenomenon well. It is called "Talk" by Michael Smerconish.

Nah, sometimes its just more interesting to listen to than all the usual horseshit that passes for music these days as I commute to work.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Savage wasn't bad value.

Michael Savage is a bit of a ranter as well, but at least he has some original material and I think he is being genuine, enough, with his audience.

Rush was for years slamming on drug addicts and playing up his conservative credentials to his audience while being a drug addict himself. Forget him; there may be an occasional gem of fact or him putting an issue into a clearer context occasionally, but he is not doing it to convince anyone of anything other than that he wants you to think he is a genuine conservative and thus get you to tune in.

Maybe he in fact is a real conservative, I dont know, but I do know all his comments are spoken with the single goal of driving up his ad revenue, not to educate the public about what is going on in DC.

He only distracts the Middle Class listeners while the establishment of both parties fleeces the Middle Class.

For example, he constantly argues that corporate taxes need to go down, but they are already way down proportionately from their highs in 1950. That year corporations paid $2 for every $3 that private citizens paid in federal taxes. Now that ratio has gone to $1 in corporate tax for every $4 of private taxes paid in. IF Rush were really conservative, why doesnt he argue as much for Middle Class tax breaks first? He doesnt because he gets more corporate advertisers that way as they want to help him promote the corporate tax break line of horse shit.

My oh my! You've written something that isn't completely opposed to reality. It's refreshing. Now...let's carry the thought a little further and refine it a bit.

You speak of how Rush has played the middle class for fools while the establishment of both parties fleeces the middle class. Isn't that amazing! You are not differentiating between those middle class Americans who made Rush rich and influential and those who have never believed a word that he's ever said. That....my fine conservative friend....is very convenient.

For Rush to have any influence on a particular individual's brain....that individual must be receptive to his message. That individual needs to be unwilling or unable to give a shit about facts. That individual needs to have a propensity to blame others for his or her own problems.....often times those others are minorities, poor or otherwise marginalized citizens. One wonders why there are very few.....if any....examples of Rush-like figures grabbing the attention of liberal middle class Americans while there are many successful Rush clones on the right. Any thoughts?

I know. This is an unpleasant topic of conversation for many. It's rare, in fact, to find a conservative who recognizes Rush's true nature. I've got to at least give you credit for that. I am going to recommend a book to you....for enjoyment. It's a work of fiction....but covers the Rush phenomenon well. It is called "Talk" by Michael Smerconish.

Nah, sometimes its just more interesting to listen to than all the usual horseshit that passes for music these days as I commute to work.

Suggestion.

Buy a SIRIUS subscription and tune into the POTUS channel.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Suggestion.

Buy a SIRIUS subscription and tune into the POTUS channel.

I used to have SIRIUS, but the trees to the South as I drove would break up the signal. Lots of forests where I used to drive to work.

I could use it now more easily, but cant afford it while unemployed.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Suggestion.

Buy a SIRIUS subscription and tune into the POTUS channel.

I used to have SIRIUS, but the trees to the South as I drove would break up the signal. Lots of forests where I used to drive to work.

I could use it now more easily, but cant afford it while unemployed.

You are unemployed?

 

[JimBowie1958]

Suggestion.

Buy a SIRIUS subscription and tune into the POTUS channel.

I used to have SIRIUS, but the trees to the South as I drove would break up the signal. Lots of forests where I used to drive to work.

I could use it now more easily, but cant afford it while unemployed.

You are unemployed?

Yes, I slipped two discs in my spine and am recovering from an operation back in September of last year.

I am 90% recovered now, though thanks to not taking pain killers after 3 weeks, and am sending out resumes. No nibbles yet though for a 58 year old diabetic veteran with back issues. But I might have another option; SELL DRUGS! yeah there's the ticket.

 

[Mac1958]

Suggestion.

Buy a SIRIUS subscription and tune into the POTUS channel.

I used to have SIRIUS, but the trees to the South as I drove would break up the signal. Lots of forests where I used to drive to work.

I could use it now more easily, but cant afford it while unemployed.

You are unemployed?

Yes, I slipped two discs in my spine and am recovering from an operation back in September of last year.

I am 90% recovered now, though thanks to not taking pain killers after 3 weeks, and am sending out resumes. No nibbles yet though for a 58 year old diabetic veteran with back issues. But I might have another option; SELL DRUGS! yeah there's the ticket.

Best wishes. 58 is young. Stay positive, focused and GO GET 'EM.
.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Best wishes. 58 is young. Stay positive, focused and GO GET 'EM.
.

Might have an opportunity to start my own business. A friend of mine is a marketing major and I may start making certain kinds of furniture that can sell for as much as $5000 a piece. I have come up with a design that I think is more functional and would only cost about $250 in materials and could be sold for about $2k according to him.

Maybe I'll focus on that instead.

 

[Mac1958]

Best wishes. 58 is young. Stay positive, focused and GO GET 'EM.
.

Might have an opportunity to start my own business. A friend of mine is a marketing major and I may start making certain kinds of furniture that can sell for as much as $5000 a piece. I have come up with a design that I think is more functional and would only cost about $250 in materials and could be sold for about $2k according to him.

Maybe I'll focus on that instead.

Nice!

One recommendation is to find your local SCORE office. Service Corp of Retired Executives. Free counseling on every facet of starting a business, from a business plan to marketing to purchasing to pricing to competition to bookkeeping. All free, all people who know what they're talking about. I'd strongly recommend putting together a good plan before jumping in, a lot of crap will pop up.

High end furniture is a cool segment.
.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Best wishes. 58 is young. Stay positive, focused and GO GET 'EM.
.

Might have an opportunity to start my own business. A friend of mine is a marketing major and I may start making certain kinds of furniture that can sell for as much as $5000 a piece. I have come up with a design that I think is more functional and would only cost about $250 in materials and could be sold for about $2k according to him.

Maybe I'll focus on that instead.

If you are going to make furniture, I can probably be of some help. You won't need a marketing guy, for example.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Best wishes. 58 is young. Stay positive, focused and GO GET 'EM.
.

Might have an opportunity to start my own business. A friend of mine is a marketing major and I may start making certain kinds of furniture that can sell for as much as $5000 a piece. I have come up with a design that I think is more functional and would only cost about $250 in materials and could be sold for about $2k according to him.

Maybe I'll focus on that instead.

Nice!

One recommendation is to find your local SCORE office. Service Corp of Retired Executives. Free counseling on every facet of starting a business, from a business plan to marketing to purchasing to pricing to competition to bookkeeping. All free, all people who know what they're talking about. I'd strongly recommend putting together a good plan before jumping in, a lot of crap will pop up.

High end furniture is a cool segment.
.

I've utilized SCORE. It's a nice resource.

 

[JimBowie1958]

One recommendation is to find your local SCORE office. Service Corp of Retired Executives. Free counseling on every facet of starting a business, from a business plan to marketing to purchasing to pricing to competition to bookkeeping. All free, all people who know what they're talking about. I'd strongly recommend putting together a good plan before jumping in, a lot of crap will pop up.

High end furniture is a cool segment.
.

Thank you for the advice.

I am on my third attempt at a business though, the previous two were fails but not spectacularly so. Wrote a program that did automated investments in the currency markets that initially was designed to exploit the Swiss Franc pairing to the Euro, but once they revised their paring we revised it to work on market retraces, which are fairly predictable. The company that was giving us access to the market was apparently a bucket shop so after making $1200 gross profit, we folded the tent. If you cant trust your market ECN, there's no point to it. My partner is now working for serious Wall Street banks on HFT software, and he laughs now at what we were doing before. Says we were simply lucky. Meh, retraces are not luck.

The second effort was to build a turnkey solar farm and sell it to a power company. We were moving ahead well with our planning, had some property picked out that would allow us to avoid construction of flood control mechanisms, had priced some solar panels and I had designed a cheap framework for holding the panels that could be easily cut and assembled from steal L beams. But that got called off because we discovered that no power network company was willing to give us access to the grid, even though we had recruited a solar panel experienced, certified electrician to oversee the whole thing. All the machines we would have used are standardized and would not have posed any risk, and they could have inspected everything to their satisfaction. That was when I realized that the solar panel promotion by the Obama administration was just a gimick for his corporate cronies to milk money from the federal teet and there was never a real intention to allow private individuals to get in on the action.

So this third venture will hopefully pan out. I can make the furniture, I just hope my friend can really do the marketing like he says he can.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Best wishes. 58 is young. Stay positive, focused and GO GET 'EM.
.

Might have an opportunity to start my own business. A friend of mine is a marketing major and I may start making certain kinds of furniture that can sell for as much as $5000 a piece. I have come up with a design that I think is more functional and would only cost about $250 in materials and could be sold for about $2k according to him.

Maybe I'll focus on that instead.

If you are going to make furniture, I can probably be of some help. You won't need a marketing guy, for example.

ITs a niche market that will have to be sold over the internet, and I dont know much about that at all, and though I could cram a lot of reading in, I prefer experience to book theory.

But thanks for the advice. Maybe I'll milk him for all he knows then drop him like a hot rock and restart solo? Lol, nah, even I cant stoop that low.

 

[mdk]

I am glad to hear your back is doing better, Jim. Cheers!