HULK SMASH!!!
Peace
That is true.
One must.
ggood for u duncan
... and renouncement of the appropriate people de jure
That's the fucking truth.
I just spent 30 minutes watching Anderson Cooper that I'll never get back.
Absolutely. I keep threatening to go TV news free, cold turkey. But I...I can't! I'm weak. *sob*
I attribute a significant portion of my 86 year old mother's increasing dementia to being home alone with CNN on all day.
And miss the misses and nearmisses?
-
haloscan should just blow me and get it over with
im tired of jim hightower now.
One can live without cable.
I never watch CNN, which is probably one of the reasons I survive every day.
I attribute a significant portion of my 86 year old mother's increasing dementia to being home alone with CNN on all day.
Could be worse.
She could be watching Fox News. Then she'd be brain dead.
(From below)
I say take the Bush tax cuts away and more from the rich, and use the money to give tax rebates to lower income folks. Consumer spending by regular people does a hell of lot more for economy than what rich do with it.
Let's put a 90% tax on CEO golden parachutes.
Richard
One more time. If we do not get the cost of gasoline and diesel fuel and home heating under control and start driving these costs DOWN by whatever means we have at our disposal we will have a depression. It does not matter about tax rebates. People do not have enough money to pay for the fuel and energy they need to live.
(And I don't care if you say it isn't possible because that does not matter. If it is impossible we are truly fucked and you might just as well kiss this country and civil order good bye)
4Legs, i h8s 2 brake it 2 u, but it alrdy did.
And now the healing can begin, Brother Black. Goodnight and good mornings.
I never ever watch it.
...hell, I've made a moderately successful life for myself without having watched CNN for several years...
Hell, I've never bothered to view five minutes of CNN--and I'm looking forward to my sixtieth birthday next month.
Is that because I've somehow been able to ignore CNN?
I attribute a significant portion of my 86 year old mother's increasing dementia to being home alone with CNN on all day.
SteveLG
Sorry, SteveLG. Make sure you have an estate plan...
One can survive an entire day without watching CNN.
Most definitely.
I have it blocked and it's going to stay that way.
no CNN, it must be lent.
Well, haven't we been told how much better the markets are at everything, for the last twenty years at least?--echidne
There's this excellent article in Dollars & Sense that actually
shows how the market isn't just better at fraud, it guarantees it.
Chief Financial Officers have to justify responsible actions to the
board and the shareholders as those same audiences watch competing,
irresponsible companies explode their pockets and purses with other
peoples' money.
Sorry, SteveLG. Make sure you have an estate plan...
ellroon
My plan is to send her to the old lady pound.
Absolutely. I keep threatening to go TV news free, cold turkey. But I...I can't! I'm weak. *sob*
The first step is admitting you have a problem...
are we in high silly seasonn? or is this still prelude?
I almost never watch CNN these days.
I used to watch CNN Headline news from time to time until they started putting psychopaths like Glenn Beck on it.
Now I get all my news from the internet.
I ordered a black MacBook today.
ZOMG!!!!!!!
She could be watching Fox News. Then she'd be brain dead.
fourlegsgood, LUCKY centaur
That's a fact!
fuck cnn. long live the utube!
and in the spirit of the silly season:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=N...feature=related
Ali, sounds delightful!
I shall. I shall leave the TV except for my Friday nights on PBS.
the interwebs haz news AND naken ladies. FTW
One can live without cable.
Village |
One can, but I'd rather not.
Absolutely. I keep threatening to go TV news free, cold turkey. But I...I can't! I'm weak. *sob*
catalexis, Half Century Mellow | 03.14.08 - 11:40 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
I haven't had cable for about a decade now, but I watched a ton of it over the last month, while I was holed up in an Extended Stay.
Sweet Jesus, no wonder this country is so fucked up. The nine hours of Nancy Grace per night alone clinches it.
Meanwhile, PBS is reduced to endless maudlin showcases of sixties musicians. And the Discovery Channel is busy promoting exorcism as a solution for teen angst.
There's this excellent article in Dollars & Sense that actually
shows how the market isn't just better at fraud, it guarantees it.
Chief Financial Officers have to justify responsible actions to the
board and the shareholders as those same audiences watch competing,
irresponsible companies explode their pockets and purses with other
peoples' money.
It has to do with the way the rules of the game are defined. If there are no rules, of course fraud will surface. That's why regulation is necessary in markets with such severe information asymmetries.
I bought a Macbook pro on Monday. It's silver.
My plan is to send her to the old lady pound.
SteveLG
Do you live in California? You can get her coverage in the nursing home under Medi Cal, but if you don't have a lawyer help you, you could lose her house..
4Legs, i h8s 2 brake it 2 u, but it alrdy did.
Oh noes!!
I ordered a black MacBook today.
ZOMG!! doan tell trademark Dave, he'll be h8ting on U
Oh, and I got to see Penn Fucking Jillette trotted out as a political analyst on Larry King. I was choking on bile for about a week after that.
One can live without cable.
Village | 03.14.08 - 11:42 pm | #
As Marlene Dietrich said --
One can live without sex.
I don't recommend it, though....
Monsieur lusts after a MacBook Pro. Our budget, however, has suffered a bit of decimation.
Cheers, Richard! Have you already got it? Mine'll be a few days.
Thanks, Sallyh, I'm all aflutter.
Now I get all my news from the internet.
Pretty much the same here.
execellent word usage thar sallyh
I bought a Macbook pro on Monday. It's silver.
I haz one. I lurves it.
On Adult Swim commercial for Super Deluxe: a pinata jaywalks irresponsibly and it hit by an ice cream truck, bursting his colorful creppy skin and spilling candy all over the road. Children burst out of a school screaming "candy!!!!!!!"
if you don't have a lawyer help you, you could lose her house..
ellroon
Definitely going that route. It's actually in her best interests and everyone but her knows it, and it's gotten to the point where it's a matter of survival for me.
It will not be a pleasant or spiritually uplifting experience, I feel certain.
Why dave (tm) h8 on me?
Sally, MacBook pro was too spendy for me. The black one's got lots of shiny speed and stuff, anyway.
Oh, Ripley iz on mah teevee
Oh, and I got to see Penn Fucking Jillette trotted out as a political analyst on Larry King. I was choking on bile for about a week after that.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint
Oh, now he's a political analyst BESIDES being a doctor and a nutritionist?
As in "there is no obesity problem - it's just a myth propagated by the medical profession and the diet industry"???
4Legs, Riplee doan wan u wach Teebee noos.
Definitely going that route. It's actually in her best interests and everyone but her knows it, and it's gotten to the point where it's a matter of survival for me.
It will not be a pleasant or spiritually uplifting experience, I feel certain.
SteveLG
Yes. Emphatically yes. They say often the care givers die before those who need care. Take care of yourself.
(Meatwad is a taurus...)
Cheers, Richard! Have you already got it? Mine'll be a few days.
Yes. I've been going back and forth between it and my ancient desktop PC the last few days. I aim to gradually wean myself off the latter and use the mac as my primary computer.
without CNN I would be completely uninformed about the hooker story.
totally in the dark.
without clue.
it's vital to American interests!
I'm so old I can remember when CNN was WORTH watching.
When I wasn't calling it "the Conservative Nonsense Network."
aqua teen hunger force is transcendent art.
fuck you if you dont agree.
The other thing is all the true crime shows, and the fake true crime shows.
After a month of that shit, I found myself noticing clues that our temporary landlords might be planning to kill us.
If I weren't a firm believer in market forces, I'd almost think somebody wants to create a population of superstitious, paranoid, dumb-as-dirt hysterics.
Oh, and I got to see Penn Fucking Jillette trotted out as a political analyst on Larry King. I was choking on bile for about a week after that.
Just now they had some fucking lunatic from the Family Research Council opining on the pastor thing.
CNN probably paid him too.
Now why the fuck do I want to hear what some young earther who thinks I'm going to get thrown into a pit of fire when the rapture comes haz to say?
Euphronius, I agree on ATHF.
I never watch CNN anymore. I used to.
Now I watch my local TV news in Boston, NBC News and ABC News for background and Keith Olbermann and Dan Abrams for more details and commentary.
In addition I read the Boston Globe daily, Harpers Mag monthly and about a book every two weeks (Just finished "The Political Brain," by Westen).
Who needs CNN? Besides I can't stand Wolfie - he's a putz.
I'm going to need support here next week. I know I can do it!
What that "Reverend" Hagee said was just as filled with hate and anger. I don't see McCain getting the heat...
Take care of yourself.
ellroon |
Thank you very much. I actually have a decent network of people who're looking out for me, and I'm fortunate that she has sufficient resources to make pleasant alternatives available for her.
Not that she enjoys "pleasant" all that much...
aqua teen hunger force is transcendent art.
fuck you if you dont agree.
Never heard of it. Is that something on CNN?
As in "there is no obesity problem - it's just a myth propagated by the medical profession and the diet industry"???
It is depressing to look around any given anywhere in Michigan and be conciously struck by how fat so many people are. Yes Americans are fucking fat and we're all going to end up paying for various medical problems later.
Oh, now he's a political analyst BESIDES being a doctor and a nutritionist?
He also recently took the brave stand of announcing that "Wal-Mart hatred is BULLSHIT."
When that fat fuck drops dead, the drinks are on me.
Catalexis, of course you can!
The trick is to not click the remote.
4Legs, Riplee doan wan u wach Teebee noos.
No, mah Ripley iz napping on her half pipe, other Ripley wuz on Encore.
The other thing is all the true crime shows, and the fake true crime shows.
After a month of that shit, I found myself noticing clues that our temporary landlords might be planning to kill us.
If I weren't a firm believer in market forces, I'd almost think somebody wants to create a population of superstitious, paranoid, dumb-as-dirt hysterics.
Hee. It's a weird experience to have to watch tv in someone else's house, that's for sure. I never realized how many murders there are every day, especially as the reporting covers the whole country, which is like Europe reporting all the murders in all the EU countries. Which they don't do.
Now why the fuck do I want to hear what some young earther haz to say?
Too many words.
Thank you very much. I actually have a decent network of people who're looking out for me, and I'm fortunate that she has sufficient resources to make pleasant alternatives available for her.
Not that she enjoys "pleasant" all that much...
SteveLG
I hear you. We are dealing with this with my husband's mother. It is hard all around.
"Meatwad get the honies see..."
Never heard of it. Is that something on CNN?
IT'S MORE BIGGER THAN CNN!
Listen: where South Park is content to use painfully out-of-date stereotypes, ATHF ties a Chinese restaurant to an enormous spaceship made out of penises.
The other thing is all the true crime shows, and the fake true crime shows.
I like true crime stories and forensic shows.
The haunted house and psychic shows I can do without.
Fake true crime shows are fun, as long as you take them for what they are: entertainment for the morbidly curious or the terminally bored
Yes Americans are fucking fat and we're all going to end up paying for various medical problems later.
k&y,bloodfeastislandpansies!
You compassion is overwhelming. Why don't we just take them to the gas chambers and save society the trouble?
Oh, now he's a political analyst BESIDES being a doctor and a nutritionist?
He's also a floorwax and a dessert topping.
He also recently took the brave stand of announcing that "Wal-Mart hatred is BULLSHIT."
When that fat fuck drops dead, the drinks are on me.
Phila, Pizen Sarpint
He's one of these people that the term "pompous jackass" was coined for.
Beowulf, how about k+y first?
Fucking carpet pissers.
Off to watch Moyers....
...which is like Europe reporting all the murders in all the EU countries. Which they don't do.
Ever wonder why that is? What are they trying to hide, hmmm?
I just went and watched CNN to spite you. Now what the fuck are you going to do about it?
The haunted house and psychic shows I can do without.
I confess to loving Most Haunted on Travel Channel and Ghost Hunters on Sci fi channel.
silly great fun.
According to Harper's Mag the TV show "Law & Order" had 86 murders during a 3 month period.
Over that same period in NYC where the show is supposedly set, there were 65 murders.
A discrepancy caused by TV economics and a need for drama no doubt.
Fake true crime shows are fun, as long as you take them for what they are: entertainment for the morbidly curious or the terminally bored
I don't disagree with that. They shouldn't be on the news channels though.
Shared Humanity, well, to be honest, nothing.
although eventually we may have to perform an intervention.
Richard, that I can go with.
According to Harper's Mag the TV show "Law & Order" had 86 murders during a 3 month period.
Over that same period in NYC where the show is supposedly set, there were 65 murders.
A discrepancy caused by TV economics and a need for drama no doubt.
What it causes, though, is people who are much more afraid of other people than they really need to be.
I just went and watched CNN to spite you.
This reminds us of a libtard from high school who rebelled against Mr Charlie
by refusing to wear his seatbelt.
IT'S MORE BIGGER THAN CNN!
Listen: where South Park is content to use painfully out-of-date stereotypes, ATHF ties a Chinese restaurant to an enormous spaceship made out of penises.
...oh, ok. I don't watch Faux news either, so I must have missed all that...
although eventually we may have to perform an intervention.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 03.14.08 - 11:57 pm | #
Everyone is just going to have to forgive me. I'm off my meds.
To clarify: I don't mean that Law&Order is taken seriously by many, but the whole focus on crime is taken seriously.
Hee. It's a weird experience to have to watch tv in someone else's house, that's for sure.
It's easy to sound like you're lecturing people or trying to come across as superior when you're trashing TV...but Christ, when you don't normally see this stuff, and you're suddenly immersed in it, it's hard to express how disorienting it all is. I already had plenty of stuff to be tense and anxious about, but that shit just about sent me through the roof. God only knows what a basketcase I'd be if I made a habit of it.
Obviously, some people can handle it OK. But if you're prone to depression or anxiety...I dunno.
I just want to check something with you guys...
we did bomb Cambodia, didn't we?
and we did refuse to condemn apartheid for decades, right?
What it causes, though, is people who are much more afraid of other people than they really need to be.
absolutely. non-conformist behavior is frightening.
It's been fun. Keep up the fight. See everyone tomorrow.
I don't disagree with that. They shouldn't be on the news channels though.
Richard |
Like MSGOP?
What it causes, though, is people who are much more afraid of other people than they really need to be.
Echidne
True but that never stopped the "entertainment industry" from scaring the bejesus out of audiences before.
Consider this year's Acadamy Award nominated films. How many were violent and murderous? No Country for Old Men. There Will be Blood. Michael Clayton and I forget the other one.
It's easy to sound like you're lecturing people or trying to come across as superior when you're trashing TV...but Christ, when you don't normally see this stuff, and you're suddenly immersed in it, it's hard to express how disorienting it all is.
Disorienting is the word. I also find the multiple moving scripts hard because I read them all. On news, for example.
I've just about had it with Mlle's rehab. She was told that she couldn't have her husband at family group tomorrow, just because they argued over (and settled) a number of matters. She was the one who lost her temper; her counselor tells her, but it seems like your family upsets you. She wants him there, but she's been in enough trouble that she's trying not to rock the boat.
Fuck it. I think this counselor has convinced her that her entire family is toxic waste. I'm calling my insurance carrier and tell them to authorize no more payments effective Monday.
haloscan ate mah comment
bitch
i shoot U into teh sun
What it causes, though, is people who are much more afraid of other people than they really need to be.
We never watch that but kei's sister did during a winter break thing and lo, kei recognized the plots as actual stories, except that they were exaggerrated far far worse than they had been in real life. Like-- real life: asshole insists he has the right to couple with virgins, so his-low self-esteem wife drugs victims for him, and they winf up killing her. In the show the guy pretends to be a psychic so as to prey on the hopes of the victim's family and steal her panties and also they have to get a nun pregnant and then kill her with a baseball bat and the paedo guy is played with frightening conviction by Martin Short.
Echidne,
You are correct (as usual) Murders or rapes or heinous crimes that are perpetrated and reported on extensively in areas far from where you live SHOULD have no effect on your life. But with the wonder and misery of mass communication, they do.
Previously sensational crimes were still a part of our society and DID dominate our interests but their domination was not as powerful as it is now. Whether it was the Leopold and Loeb Thrill Murders or the Lindbergh Kidnapping, Americans have always "Loved" such stories. News organizations have always tried their best to fill this lust.
But those WERE amazing stories. The stories that dominate our news today are pretty pedestrian in comparison. (Even the story of the day yesterday about the lady who sat on the toilet for two years - what does this have to do with anything? She is obvious deranged and living with some pretty strange people - so why should I be interested?)
I'm off to bed. Cyall anon...
I just want to check something with you guys...
we did bomb Cambodia, didn't we?
and we did refuse to condemn apartheid for decades, right?
fourlegsgood, LUCKY centaur
..yes...
...and, yes...
Good night, folks.
..yes...
...and, yes...
So why is that preacher so controversial? are we really such fucking children about this country that we cannot honestly talk about our history?
(nevermind, I noes the answer)
.but Christ, when you don't normally see this stuff, and you're
suddenly immersed in it, it's hard to express how disorienting it all
is.
Shhh! We have to try to score some reefer off that nice Negro in the background before he spontaneously break dances!!!
To clarify: I don't mean that Law&Order is taken seriously by many, but the whole focus on crime is taken seriously.
Echidne | Homepage | 03.14.08 - 11:59 pm | # [kill][hide comment]
I was also creeped out by the number of ads for those shows where they talked about characters' having to go beyond the law by roughing up suspects, etc.
But the Nancy Grace show is what really boggles my mind. What an absolutely demented program.
but the whole focus on crime is taken seriously.
Our main problem with it is the totally laughable portrayal of police work; L&O is part of the CSI "docudrama" style that's supposed to be almost educationally realistic, and it's utter shit. There is more fidelity to reality in anything of Grant Morrison's.
sheets maybe i dont know.
SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!!!!!!
we did bomb Cambodia, didn't we?
and we did refuse to condemn apartheid for decades, right?
fourlegsgood, LUCKY centaur
Not only bombed them had troops invade Cambodia (I remember the night and Richard Nixon and his "Fishhook Expedition."
Yes, we did not want to offend our allies the South Africans. And if we condemned Apartheid, we would have been shut out of their economy and then how could we work to affect change? (This is EXACTLY the same bullshit argument they use when they talk of China.)
Disorienting is the word. I also find the multiple moving scripts hard because I read them all. On news, for example.
Echidne | Homepage | 03.15.08 - 12:00 am | # [kill][hide comment]
I remember the first time I saw O'Reilly's program, where he's talking, and his points are being paraphrased and animated next to him, and there are simultaneous crawls and flashing pictures throughout. That's flat-out brainwashing, in my book.
We're not that far from Al Franken's gag about the audio crawl, at this point.
One can survive with their sanity intact just by leaving the TV OFF all day and night. It's become an irrelevant distraction.
How long did it take you to figure this out, Atrios? And not just CNN. Let's make it ALL teevee news. And not just for a day. For the rest of your natural life.
Actually, I haven't watched CNN since Super Tuesday...and been quite happy in doing so.
Oops that was me. I blame Haloscan...doesn't everybody?
"you're great men"-cable news to Rod Parsley and John Hagee
Don't watch cable or network news. Watch my local station for 5 minutes in the morning for the weather forecast, then listen to NPR (with a jaundiced ear) for my MSM news.
I got completely sick of teevee during the Clinton impeachment. In 1999 we moved out of the city and into the country and the only option for getting tv was satelite. I said, how about we try living without it? 10 years later...we are still living without.
I saw Fox news once. It was the leadup to the Iraq war in Feb of 2003. I was in a Dr's office and it was blaring in the corner. Geraldo Rivera was giving the TOP TEN REASONS that Turkey would allow troops to invade Iraq through their country. I remember sitting there with my mouth open. I looked around the room to see if anyone, ANYONE??? was as appalled by what was spewing out as I was.
They weren't.
The last time I actively watched CNN was Gulf War I. Watching Newt Gingrich declare his Contract on America finished me off.
I don't miss it.
I saw Fox news once. ... I looked around the room to see if anyone, ANYONE??? was as appalled by what was spewing out as I was.
They weren't.
JoyousMN | 03.15.08 - 9:24 am | #
I change it to the Weather Channel, turn it off or leave.
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