July 5, 2005
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TUESDAY POLITICSIt’s a Beautiful Day In the Neighborhood
Congress Votes to Restore $100 Million to the Corporation for Public BroadcastingMoveon.org posted this little notice this morning. Don’t know if you knew the House Appropriations Committee was threatening to dock one of our last bastions of intelligent news and cultural programs, but as a devotee of NPR on my car radio (it’s the only station I ever listen to), I was. It isn’t a done deal yet. Still has to pass the Senate. According to the Arizona Republic (see article here), it was a gesture intended to intimidate public broadcasting to move their content further toward the right. Gee, that’s a surprise. Stay tuned. (Taking off for work now – public radio full on).
Deep Thought: It’s probably not a good idea to be chewing on a toothpick if you’re talking to the president, because what if he tells a funny joke and you laugh so hard you spit the toothpick out and it hits him in the face or something.”
Today I am grateful for: Serial numbers
Guess the Movie: “At your age, you’re going to have a lot of urges. You’re going to want to take off your clothes, and touch each other. But if you do touch each other, you *will* get Chlamydia… and die.” Answer: Mean Girls, 2004.
Winner: tikhead.
Tens of Thousands of Anti-Poverty Demonstrators March Through Edinburgh
by Beth Gardiner
EDINBURGH, Scotland – Tens of thousands of protesters clad in white streamed through the cobbled streets of Scotland’s medieval capital Saturday, demanding that the leaders of the world’s richest nations act to better the lives of the poorest. (Rest of article here.)
End of Day: 9:42 pm
+ = Met two difficult challenges well today.
- = Pretty sure I ate too much damn spaghetti.
Comments (17)
NPR and The New York Times are my only US news sources. Nothing else is even close to presenting actual information. Without NPR and PBS there would be no non-propaganda information on US radio or television.
Mean Girls!!! Just saw it this weekend. Yay CPB, yay PBS, yay NPR…
-Tik
yay. Now Arthur doesn’t have to spout propaganda.
NPR is awesome!
Mean Girls – that is so fetch! It wins.
I signed the petition! :>) I hope summit people open thier eyes…
I LOVE NPR! I wish more people (the government included) would support NPR. I do. A piddly $25 a year, but, hey, if more people did that… Yay Tik.
Yay ! ..and any amount donated is wonderful.. I still have the $40 lambchop puppet from some fundraiser back in the late 80′s LOL….. I have a question about the funding of PBS..take something like the show Sesame Street which has had massive merchandising of characters over the years..does any of the profits from sales of that merchandise go back into public broadcasting ? just curious – I thought maybe one of your readers would know.xoxoxo
That’s great news.
Oh, man. I love NPR. Finding the local station & programming it into my car radio is on my “to do” lists for each new assignment.
The Senate will approve it, and then all those folks running for re-election can say they voted to increase funding to CPB. But the truth is that they voted against it before voting for it.
That is such a relief! I have been stewing over this for days because of it’s obvious attempt to crush anything which exists to offer an intelligent counter position to the current regime. I imagine that as Bush’s numbers decline there will be further efforts made to stop out opposing thought…
Ahhh good! They just don’t want us to think….
Thank you very much, that means a lot to me.
- Rain.
Thank goodness for moveon.org. They take our single voices and bring them together and make them loud enough that we’re being listened too.
A man that is talked to be going into a leadership position with NPR and PBS is heavy into the right. They were talking about it on Neal Boortz.
i would like to send you the name of my new xanga site. e-mail is best bc of my father who i do not want finding my new hide away.