Miriam,
Thanks for the birthday wish. 82 on April 13. Gads!
The thing I was focused on was how little information came over the
radio, in particular. We really didn't watch much TV, but the truck
has a radio just begging to be explored, and at night I had my little
radio and headphones. What the local folks have for their listening
pleasure is lots of diverse music, several religious programs
featuring Bible thumping preachers(sor of like me...according to some
folks) and lots and lots of commercials. As many a 9 or more
commercials crammed between the few pieces of music. Oh yes, Sports
Programs, too. Most of them were from some central point outside the
local area. NPR has really been bending over backward to sound "fair"
in their programming. But now it's after 11:00 PM. and well past my
bed time.
Carl Jarvis
On 4/22/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carl,
First, I thought you said you would be gone for 3 weeks. So I'm happily
surprised to see you back on line.
Second: While in California, you could have gotten all their Pacifica
network stations which have the kinds of things we read about on line. As a
matter of fact, KPFA broadcast Democracy Now's 5 hour coverage of the
Science March today. It was also streamed from the website. Well, I didn't
want to sit at the computer, but I can get KPFA on my stream and I listened
to 2 hours of the march before I got bored.
Next, the book is not about Hillary. It is about how dysfunctional her
campaign was. It is so poisonous in terms of describing the various
interactions among campaign staffers and the negative effects that Bill and
Hillary exerted on everyone, that it's caused quite a stir. Matt Taibbi and
Robert Perry both wrote articles about it which I saw yesterday, and that's
why I got it. It's just fascinating to read. You know, there is this three
volume series about Eleanor Roosevelt on BARD. The third volume was recently
completed. And I'm slowly getting through it. I finished the first volume
and was into the second when Shattered came along to divert me. But those
books about Eleanor are fascinating for much the same reason as shattered.
There's so much detail, so much inside stuff about people whose names are
familiar. And I have to say that each new news item that I read about or
hear about on a daily basis, is so incredibly horrifying, that I do want to
hide and reading these books is a bit diverting. By the way, there's a
passage in Shattered which describes how Bernie decided to run and why he
did so as a Democrat. He didn't want to join the Democrats, but people
convinced him that he had no chance of being heard by the public, unless he
ran in the Democratic primary.
And I suspect you had a birthday while you were away? If so, happy
birthday.
And last, I'm expecting a report on your political observations that you
made during your travels.
Miriam
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Hi All,
Home sweet home and my favorite old computer. I enjoy going, and I enjoy
visiting friends and relatives. But after two weeks living out of suitcases
and sleeping in strange beds, home is a welcome place.
While real news is hard to find on the radio when traveling through Oregon,
California's rural regions, Arizona, Nevada and Utah, religious programming
is plentiful. A few Right Wing talk shows and George Norry's Coast to
Coast. NPR is getting under my skin, believing that they are being fair by
inviting a Republican to speak opposite a Right Wing Democrat.
I did see a few comments on my travels through my new rebuilt laptop
computer, regarding the Hilary Book of Scandals. Frankly, Hilary Clinton
was a Player in Obama's administration, supposedly as a Democrat supporting
the common working class Americans.
While I get angry thinking about the dirty tricks played upon Hilary by the
Ruling Class' Right Wing, her hands were just as dirty. And, Hilary can be
counted as one of the Elite Ruling Class, herself...along with Bill of
course. The Ruling Class is no more unified than is the more populous
working class. You can determine on which side of an issue various
corporations line up, based on the impact to their bottom line.
Environmental issues and social services...including health, are not areas
supported by most of these Nation-like Mega Corporations. I am more
concerned with how we build resistance to the upcoming desecration of our
public health, our public education, and our planet, than I am with
Hillary's scandalous behavior.
So much of the attitude of disregard and contempt for the property of
others, as well as our public property, is due to the examples set by our
Ruling Class. The greed driven corporations demonstrate by their actions
that nothing matters except the acquisition of more and more.
Developing a solid resistance to this unrelenting pressure should be our
number one concern. Let Hillary become relegated to the back shelves of our
libraries, and forgotten. There is, in my opinion, no lesson to be gained
from studying this two-faced woman.
Carl Jarvis
On 4/21/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I forwarded Matt Taibbi's article about this book to the list earlier
today.
After reading another article about the same book, I found it on
Bookshare and put everything else aside to start reading it. It's
really quite a book!
Fascinating! I can see why people are writing articles about it. Lots
of details, lots of dirt.
Miriam