the problem with that analoty is, even in copying a tape, you need a physical medium to do so (other tapes)) and I doubt anyone would have the resources to buy hundreds and thousands of 'tapes' just to give away music to complete strangers


cyber media allows one to truly pay for a thing once and then pass it out at no cost to themself or anyone else hundreds,thousands, and even millions of times,,,

if you let someone use your car, that is again ONE driver per car, the driver may switch but the use was paid for once because it is ONE car being driven(whomever the driver is)

duplicating a car by chrysler and passing it out randomly to hundreds and thousands of users,, would cause an issue with Chrysler for sure,,,

exactly how I was raised

if they want me to know, they will tell me,,,

preferrably, something that is round enough that I can easily tell where their back ends and their behind begins,and firm enough to pass the 'pencil' test,,,,

last I checked, online downloads run as low as ninety nine cents, and purchase of cds on amazon cost half or less of what a physical cd at a store does,,so Im not sure about this statement at all

if someone else produces it, noone should have the right to just 'Take' it,,, even college doesnt allow us to do that, why should media?

I agree. Teleprompters dont make anyone smart of stupid. They just help with their memory.

unless he is speaking for more than thirty to forty five minutes straight,,,,,,about multiple topics,,,,

they all have positive and negative attributes

but mostly positive, so far, IMHO

understandable

we all have unique methods and experiences with which we interpret and experience what we see and hear,,,

I agree with much of what Wise writes, and disagree with some of it too,,,

I found this piece to be a great analogy of how some choose the SLIGHTEST 'connection' to try to admonish a person or that persons reputation

it was a copy and paste (except the last line, which was my opinion) that I did on the way out the door to work this morning

I dont recall Wright 'calling' for violence

and I only recall Farrakhan talking about DEFENSIVE violence, which we praised pretty highly in america when we felt 'americans' were under attack by 'muslims' (and many still harbor ill feelings and mistrust of the whole group, yet would be the first to belittle Mr Farrakhans feelings and beliefs,,,)

MLK was not perfect, but he was amazing in the things he accomplished

kind of my point about modern politics, where people pretend someone should have to be PERFECT and never say or believe anything controversial or be 'associated' with anyone who does,,,,

the president and congress
the CBO
waste IS waste, and the president AND congress share responsibility


I wasnt part of the 'yall' who blamed bush for budgets, I Have already said I believe a president doesnt really control most of what they are blamed for, and their control is usually secondary to CONGRESS (although congressmen will be sure to use a President as a patsy to reinforce their own party pollitics)

Its not ok to waste, the US budget is a bit more complicated than the average joes household budget, Im sure few people are guilty of not 'wasting' anything, I am not expecting a government of PEOPLE to do a perfect job either,,,

I think its fine as it is

speeches follow some order and can hit many points, I wouldnt want to demand people memorize every point they wished to cover just to prove some point,,,,

Santorum may be fudging a bit, or he may actually speak 'off the whim'

Its doubtful that works well for a 'speech' that lasts more than five or ten minuntes unless one has an iadectic memory though

people who give speeches make notes, refer to written references,, etc,,, to keep track of the points they want to make

there is no need to outlaw it, unless we also outlaw people speaking more than ten minutes at a time,,,

of course, I just dont think you can guarantee that any two individuals will have the same beliefs or same culture, exactly, no matter what you do,,,,

or that that belief and culture will be race specific

'personal' choice is a misnomer when its an action that has an affect on someone elses choice....

thus, smoking laws, laws about abortion, laws about ability to pay for healthcare, etc,,,

are more about common consideration for others than it is oligarchy

Forget Barack Obama’s praise for legal scholar Derrick Bell.

Never mind his decades-long association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

Neither of these connections will matter once you get a load of what I’ve uncovered: a linkage between the president and someone at least as radical if not more so than either of those. A man whom President Obama has openly praised, and not just twenty-two years ago at some fairly innocuous law school protest, but regularly, in his books, in his speeches, repeatedly, over the course of his political career. Someone whom he has still never repudiated, as he did with Wright, no matter the many statements this individual is on record as making, and which line up rather nicely with many of Wright’s views.

What does this radical for whom Obama has shown so much gushing and uncritical praise, say about economic issues? Only that capitalism is a system “permitting necessities to be taken from the many to give luxuries to the few,” and that, “Something is wrong with capitalism…Maybe America must move towards democratic socialism.”

What does this militant, for whom the president shows so much love, say about white folks and race in America? Only that “Racism is a way of life for the vast majority of white Americans, spoken and unspoken, acknowledged and denied, subtle and sometimes not so subtle — the disease of racism permeates and poisons a whole body politic,” and that whites largely refuse to acknowledge “the debt that they owe a people who were kept in slavery,” for hundreds of years.

What is the position of this dangerous subversive to whom Barack Obama is clearly tethered, when it comes to the role of the United States in the world? Only that, “We’ve committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world, and I’m going to continue to say it. And we won’t stop it because of our pride and our arrogance as a nation.”

There is more, much more in fact: pointed condemnations of white racism and arrogance, trenchant critiques of American nationalism and patriotism, and withering bromides against the wealthy, all from a man whom Barack Obama praises often, and apparently regards as something of a national role model.

Indeed, he said as much a few months ago, when he dedicated a monument to this man on the Mall in Washington — the recently unveiled statue for Martin Luther King Jr.




...of course, you can pick ANY president in my lifetime and pretty much be sure to be able to make this 'controversy' apply to them,,,lol

doesnt something 'become an issue' when people are deciding to change it

its become an issue because people are running on the politics of fear to keep Obama from being reelected at any cost so the policies that have been working without objection UNTIL now,, suddently need to be changed