Displaying 1,531 To 1,560 Of 3,237 Comments Not yet….but time is coming. Were you around when Huffington Post closed its excellent commentary section. Out of the blue….blunt trauma…lots and lots of bad feelings. Not nearly so much at Yabberz. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 29, 2019 @ 1:31 pm I think that you will find The Planet to our liking. I recall a couple of exchanges with you at Yabberz….I am so glad to have to giving us a try. It will take a while for the system to rev up but when it gets going I think it will be spirited. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 29, 2019 @ 1:30 pm John Adams: When the People are Misinformed the Republic Falters “What is most essential to the integrity of a republic is that its citizens be well and truly informed.” John Adams It is with this in mind that the many of the Founders and Framers, taking their own generation as the model for the nation limited the franchise to those who had the education and the investment in society to take their vote very seriously, who were willing to challenge their representatives in government, and who were willing to serve themselves “for a rightful period.” It is with this in mind that the Framers placed within the Constitution the means to amend it by both legislative action and by convention. It was their hope, their faith, that with time education would be available to all and that opportunity would afford to all the means to invest in society. Today half (or more often many more than) do not vote. Most of those voting have only the most superficial understanding of the workings of the Constitutions, Federal and State, and the process by which we are governed. They know virtually nothing of those who represent them or who want to represent them. Complex issues are boiled down into sound bites and sloganeering replaces debate. Modern media (and unlimited monies to fuel it) has made truth the first casualty in most political contests. [img]http://cyrano.blog.lemonde.fr/files/2008/04/founding-fathers-painted-by-junius-brutus-stearns-in-1856.1208032633.jpg[/img] » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 4, 2014 @ 1:44 pm SCOTLAND THE BRAVE EDINBURGH — Voters in Scotland rejected independence from Britain in a referendum that had threatened to break up the 307-year union between them, according to projections by the BBC and Sky News early Friday. Before dawn after a night of counting that showed a steady trend in favor of maintaining the union, Nicola Sturgeon, the deputy head of the pro-independence Scottish National Party, effectively conceded defeat for the “yes” campaign that had pressed for secession. “Like thousands of others across the country I’ve put my heart and soul into this campaign and there is a real sense of disappointment that we’ve fallen narrowly short of securing a yes vote,” Ms. Sturgeon told BBC television. With 26 of 32 voting districts reporting, there were 1,397,077 votes, or 54.2 percent, against independence, and 1,176,952, or 45.7 percent, in favor. =============================
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What’s your impression of this interchange? What’s your impression of the Fox interviewer? What’ your impression of the man on the street? What does this video tell you about what is going on in Ferguson? Summary: Published on Aug 18, 2014 8-18-14 – ( Fox News ) – While reporting live from Ferguson, Mo., late Monday night as protests once again turned chaotic, Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan found himself in an unusual situation: One protestor cursed him out on live television for having described the late-night round of clashes as “child’s play.” Shortly after police began using tear gas to clear crowds on the streets, Harrigan described to Shepard Smith what he saw as a late-night scene dominated mostly by members of the press: This is right now a media event, pure and simple. This is people running towards tear gas, running away from it. The dignified protestors went home at dusk. This is just child’s play right now. “Say that shit. I don’t give a damn you’re on TV, say that shit,” the unidentified man cursed at Harrigan. “We see this shit every day. This is just child’s play? Who is the child playing with toys? That’s them.” “I don’t want to argue with you,” Harrigan told the man. Fox went back to Smith in studio while Harrigan attempted to calm down the situation. The anchor gave some introspective thoughts on how an incompetent police force (“Keystone Cops,” he said) and the media have seemingly fanned the flames of discontent. Eventually Fox went back to Harrigan for a one-on-one discussion with another protestor from the earlier scene. “My source of anger is seeing my people — black or white, blue or brown — hurt. And that is why I ask those certain questions to them: Why are they standing there? Or they can go home.” Asked what he is personally ready to do to fix the situation, the man responded: “What I’m going to do is stand here with my people every night and all night. No pillow, no covers with my twin or my brothers.” » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 19, 2014 @ 3:14 pm But whose tools? » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 15, 2014 @ 3:48 pm DID WE CHAT ABOUT THIS YET? Good News Host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” David Gregory announced Thursday on Twitter that he was leaving the network. “I leave NBC as I came – humbled and grateful,” Gregory wrote in a tweet Thursday. “I love journalism and serving as moderator of MTP was the highest honor there is.” Bad News The departure was widely expected as reports that NBC News’ Chuck Todd was being considered to replace Gregory on the program came to light last week. For more full story at: Hollywood Reporter with thanks to community member majcmb1 for the lead. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 15, 2014 @ 2:40 pm It comes down to the militarization of the police accompanied by the increase in tacit racism. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2014 @ 9:23 pm And this….Here is a list of the many faces of this great man with the character photos. http://film.whosdatedwho.com/tpx_2067/robin-williams/characters » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2014 @ 8:02 pm I am with you in this. Here is a list of the many faces of this great man with the character photos. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2014 @ 8:01 pm Garp is on my list of wonderful roles in a long history of wonder roles. Here is a list with the character photos. http://film.whosdatedwho.com/tpx_2067/robin-williams/characters » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2014 @ 7:57 pm You might want to look at my post in Time Out..several really good links. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2014 @ 6:39 pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbBgLQ1yfZk Robin Williams: 1951-2014 Two links to his unforgettable appearance on James Lipton’s astonishing program. http://www.bravotv.com/inside-the-actors-studio/season-19/videos/classic-episode-robin-williams or http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDEyOTAwNTUy.html His All Time Best Performances Rotten Tomatoes Recalls His Best Movies [img]http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110215/640/heyyou_look_familiar_640_40.jpg[/img] » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 11, 2014 @ 6:37 pm KEY COMPUTER PASSWORDS! 1.2 Billion Names/Passwords Hacked. Change them…Now! As many as 1.2 billion user names and password combinations may have been stolen. Security experts are urging consumers to be more vigilant online. The New York Times is reporting that several computer security firms say they have identified an effort by a Russian cybergang injected malicious code into at least 420,000 websites to gather the data. Because people tend to use the same password, or a form of the same password, on multiple sites, when even a medium-sized breach occurs, it can have major repercussions because those passwords are used on so many systems. This no medium sized breach. It’ enormous. Suggestions from the experts: • Prioritize. Identify the accounts where your money is. Identify the accounts where your medical information is. Identify the accounts where your sensitive medical information is. Change those passwords now. • Mix it up. Create passwords that are 10 characters or longer and include uppercase letters, lowercase letters, symbols and numbers • Split social media and money. Do not use the same password for credit cards and bank accounts that you use for social media or websites. Do not even use a form of them. • Revise record-keeping. Don’t store your account information in an unsecured document on your computer or network. It is best to keep such information as a secure hard copy. • Keep data close. Don’t share your password, even with friends and family. If particular circumstances require that you do so, change the password at the first possible opporunity. • Stay informed. Beyond changing passwords and creating better ones, watch the news for stories like this one. Use A Password Manager. Most people simply can’t remember more than a few strong passwords, so they fall into bad habits of using weak passwords (bad — an automated guessing program will break it easily) or using the same password everywhere (worse — one breach and everything falls). The problem can be avoided by using a password manager; you only have to remember one master password. I use KeePass, which has versions for just about all platforms (including mobile devices) and is free; searching for “password manager” will turn up other options. On the Internet, nobody knows if you’re a dog… but everybody knows if you’re a jackass. [img]http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/sites/default/files/images/Keyboard%20and%20hands.jpg[/img] » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 6, 2014 @ 3:40 pm Ok….I feel much the same way…but seriously…. I got the photo from my sister who is GOP, well only sort of now, because she was stopped from voting in 2012 and she find Perry totally embarrassing. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On July 10, 2014 @ 6:42 pm That fit. The pic was sent to my by my GOP Sister who is deeply embarrassed by Perry. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On July 10, 2014 @ 6:40 pm And I have given him all appropriate approbations and huzzahs! We are a gracious crowd over here. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On July 10, 2014 @ 6:17 pm Giving credit where it is due…and the emmy goes to…..have an UP » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On July 10, 2014 @ 6:15 pm My, aren’t we becoming competitive. Who’s on first? I gave you a “thumbs up” to sooth your ravaged spirit! HaH….scanned down the page and there you were with your pic worht 1000 words! » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On July 10, 2014 @ 5:44 pm someone just e mailed this to me and I was coming over here to post it….quick draw Kes! Don’t Mess with Kes! Forget “Don’t Mess with Texas.” » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On July 10, 2014 @ 5:36 pm [img]http://s1.ibtimes.com/sites/www.ibtimes.com/files/styles/v2_article_large/public/2012/07/03/285934-declaration-of-independence.jpg[/img] THE IRRESPONSIBLE ELECTORATE AND THE 4TH OF JULY John Adams, our 2nd President and the leader of the independence caucus in the First Continental Congress, wrote that the most important duty of a citizen is to be constitutionally literate, and an ardent student of day to day events in the civic life of his state and his nation constantly wary of the temptation to let others think for them. Citizenship requires a disciplined mind and a commitment to informed participation in the life the republic. Adams would know. Independence Day marks the nation’s founding on July 4, 1776 with the signing of the Declaration of Independence The day commemorates the conclusion of a debate that spanned a ten year period when the best minds in the American colonies grappled with the great ideas expressed by Enlightenment thinkers applied to identifying an effective remedy to the “long train of abuses and usurpations” by the Brtish Parliament and its executive, the monarch. The decision to declare independence from the most powerful empire in the world was extraordinarily risky and the outcome of the war constantly in doubt. Independence Day was the first national holiday establish to reconnect Americans with these “truths self-evident.” But it is these same truths that we increasingly take for granted. Jamie Chandler, a political scientist at Hunter College in NYC, wrote: “Favoring talking points, flashy rhetoric and barbed insults over equality, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, we’ve grown too cozy with acrimony and polarization. The rain of negative campaign advertisements, the disproportionate influence of money on this year’s presidential election, the efforts to prevent certain peoples from voting, and the larger problem that half the population doesn’t vote take us far from the Founders’ intent.” http://www.ibtimes.com/4th-july-reconnecting-true-meaning-independence-day-722585 In the words of Patrick Henry, one of the Founding Fathers: we are “responsible for the greatest trust ever confided to a political society.” How are we doing? 33% of voters think Barack Obama is the worst president since World War II. 45% said the U.S. would be better off with Mitt Romney serving in the White House, compared to 38 percent who said the country would be in worse shape. 40% approve of the job Obama is doing, compared with 53 percent who disapprove. 54% say the Obama administration is not competent at running the government. In the closing moments of the musical 1776, John Adams, facing the critical vote for or against separation from England and the creation of a new nation on July 2 joins with G. Washington in a time when despair was appropriate in asking “Is Anybody There? Does Anybody Care? Does Anybody See What I See?”
» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On July 4, 2014 @ 6:22 am Generally very true….and it takes work to keep up ones membership! » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 27, 2014 @ 7:01 pm and the oligarch finance systems that tear down the educational establishment, that become organs for propaganda under titles like “the most trust name in news”, that set up fake grassroots organizations; that set out to mislead as grand and high purpose…. and along the way you get the woefully uninformed to join in the parade of the proudly, arrogantly, foolish who work against their own interests. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 27, 2014 @ 7:00 pm Good question: 1) A little more than half of all decisions made by SCOTUS across its history were unanimous. 2) Somme like the buffer zone one are because the justices generally agree. The 9 justices rule that the Massachusetts’ abortion clinic “buffer zones” literally go too far. The court ruled unanimously that Massachusetts went too far — literally — when it created 35-foot buffer zones around abortion clinics to keep demonstrators away from patients. The decision united Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s four liberals. The other conservatives would have issued a more sweeping ban on laws that restrict abortion protests basically eliminating any barrier of any kind Although the court had upheld an eight-foot buffer zone in Colorado in 2000, the Massachusetts law passed in 2007 went 27 feet farther. During oral arguments in January, that had even the court’s liberal, female justices wondering if the Bay State had gone too far. “That’s a lot of space,” Justice Elena Kagan said. 3) The other scenario for an unanimous ruling is when the justices agree to the decision but for a number of different reasons. The Supreme Court struck down three of his recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board as unconstitutional. The decision gives the Senate broad power to thwart future recess appointments, but did not go as far as some conservatives hoped to undercut the president’s ability to fill vacant executive branch posts and judicial slots. However, four of the justices focused on the failure of the Senate to define its recess procedures noting that if the Executive Branch were to challenge this directly the justices would be disposed to examine the motivation for this (i.e. pointing to the use of a tactic for obstruction that kept the Executive from doing its duty). Four of the justices would have gone further, ruling that the president exceeded his authority because the vacancies did not arise during that break and because the president’s recess appointment power only occurs during breaks between usually year-long sessions of the Senate, but five justices would not accept those arguments. The 10 day minimum recess period is an arbitrary number and was used by way of example. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 27, 2014 @ 2:57 pm Who runs Congress? Only 40 percent know! 4 in 10 Americans can correctly identify which party controls the majority in the House and Senate per a new Pew Research Center study on Americans’ political beliefs. http://www.people-press.org/… Thirty-three percent of Americans can identify the majority party in only one chamber, and 28 percent — more than one in four people (!) — have completely no idea. John Adams wrote that the most important duty of a citizen is to stay informed. Being knowledgeable of how government works and participating in the Republic’s life are essential tests of a democracy. Our public fails those tests regularly. Studies of how much Americans understand the workings of the government at all levels show that most have only the vaguest idea of how bills become laws. Thus Obama’s support among Hispanics has eroded because HE has not gotten immigration reform through Congress. Studies show that most Americans have only a rudimentary grasp of American History, of the role of leaders, of movements in political thought and social policy, or even of those they regularly vote for. No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. Attributed to H. L. Mencken. “In 2011, Newsweek gave the U.S. Citizenship Test to 1,000 Americans. Twenty-nine percent couldn’t name the vice president. Seventy-three percent couldn’t identify the reasons we fought the Cold War. A 2011 Annenberg Public Policy Center found that 38 percent of Americans could correctly identify all three branches of government.” Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/… There is a lot more. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 27, 2014 @ 2:09 pm NIREK….by all means…among the best elements of life on the Planet is that the denizens here are very friendly toward and appreciate of those who share of themselves. I would love to hear of your life in the army. Accept the assistance offered, especially technical assistance. I know I did and it made all the difference. As far as process goes. My suggestion is to do give yourself the time you need to tell your story. Work extra hard at the end in making the narrative clear (spelling, punctuation, grammatical sense, varied word choice) but let the narrative be yours as you wish to tell it. Give it a go. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On March 27, 2014 @ 6:24 pm Hey there Sally, this is the best and fastest way to communicate with you….spent a delightful 2 hours with your weekly treasure chest and wrote mucho comments on the same for February 9. Others have also posted. One of my friends on my politics list….who reads your post wrote this to me yesterday. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On February 10, 2014 @ 3:41 pm “He was the only adult on the scene” I powerful insight. Yes, that this story could happen bespeaks wider tragedy about wealth disparity, about a lack of proper regulation, about family life and the care we have for our children…so much. There are a lot of stories on the internet about this Re. Tyler running back in….he apparent turned around the moment he saw the rest were out and realized his uncle and grandfather were not out. It has been reported that he was seen at the back window where the two were sleeping trying to break it out and then was gone. He was found in his uncle’s arms. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 22, 2014 @ 8:22 pm Agreed. Wonderful response from many people. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 22, 2014 @ 8:18 pm Have you all seen this story…. NY Boy Killed in Fire Hailed as Hero for Saving 6 An 8-year-old boy who died while trying to rescue his disabled grandfather from a burning mobile home had saved the lives of six relatives after being awoken by a burning blanket, authorities said. Tyler Doohan was being called a hero by firefighters on Wednesday, two days after the early morning fire tore through the grandfather’s home in a trailer park in Penfield, killing the boy, his grandfather and his uncle. Six other relatives — four adults and children ages 4 and 6 — were rescued because of Tyler’s actions, officials said. Story at http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/funeral-funds-sought-ny-boy-rescued-21621685 MY COMMENT THERE TRULY IS A HERO! I have been haunted by this story since I first read it earlier today. This valiant little boy responding to some nearly instinctual sense of honor, nobility and attachment to his often challenged family ran into smoke and fire. He roused his grandmother, his aunt, his cousins. He got out of the fire and then ran back in. Courage in its purest form. He died apparently trying to save a grandfather and crippled uncle after saving so many others. There is great good in the hearts of men, even little men. As I grow older I am less sure of what I expect of the afterlife or even if there is one, but today I know that all of my HOPE is that Tyler Doohan is with all of the Angels and Saints and they are singing his name to the high heavens. Here is a fund that has raised more than $40,000 for Tyler’s family. Please consider a donation. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 22, 2014 @ 6:38 pmComments Posted By MurphTheSurf3
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JUST CLOSING THE CIRCLE ON THE DISCUSSION I INTRODUCED YESTERDAY.
That last sentence did not sit well with one protestor nearby who immediately began shouting at Harrigan and the Fox crew.
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“Hey Murph…..Sally’s work is terrific. BUT I would really welcome her starting her post with a “Best of” and a “Worst of” – she has done the work cuz she makes her snappy and snippy comments in association with the ones she really likes and the ones she cannot stand…My bet is that more people will dive in….There is so much there that it feels a bit daunting. If she were to do this she could labeled it “New and Improved” and tell the reader what she has done. There is SOOOO much good work here and I bet that many would good further once they got started. HEY- one more thing. I started doing what you do. I open up Funnies on two screens. On one I go to the comment Box and leave the cursor there. The other is where I scan the funnies. So I scan a funny and make a comment; one on one screen; one on the other. No having to go up and down the screen which takes a lot of time and hangs up the browser. I am just sayin. I want this feature to continue. P.S. I forward this 68 on my list.
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