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03-25-2009, 08:03 AM | #1 |
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I agree with your second point Bruce and thats what is going to suffer. As far as the Fumo trial ... There was no need to wait till the next day to find out that info, that was posted the moment it happened.
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03-25-2009, 08:44 AM | #2 |
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Yes, but in bits and pieces, some didn't actually come out until they were well into the trial. It's the difference between, he's accused of climbing a mountain, and he's convicted of climbing a mountain, while trespassing on Joe Blow's land, and with the help of Mr Somebody cut down trees for firewood.
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03-25-2009, 11:36 AM | #3 |
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Sadly, many of the papers do make profits, but not enough to cover the debt of the companies that bought them up.
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03-25-2009, 11:39 AM | #4 |
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No. We still need cars. We don't necessarily need newspapers (playing devil's advocate; I like newspapers too.)
It's progress and technology. I want to revive the failed papyrus industry: would it help anyone to do so? I hear the plants that produce gas-powered street lamps are in trouble, would rescuing them help our economy? Like it or not, it's the future.
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03-25-2009, 11:42 AM | #5 | |
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from the link -
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03-26-2009, 05:08 PM | #6 |
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I don't know why that would be applicable. Just look at how some churches endorse certain candidates while threatening fire and brimstone if you vote for others.
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03-25-2009, 11:53 AM | #7 |
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As Sheikh Yamani, the former OPEC oil minister, said, "The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones."
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03-26-2009, 08:00 PM | #9 |
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Why "they would be prohibited from making political endorsments" would be applicable to newspapers simply because they were nonprofit. So are churches and religious organizations that are nonprofit, yet they do it.
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there are many different types of non-profit orgs. Religious groups are just one type. Most types are not allowed to make political endorsements to receive the tax breaks they do. Churches are already brainwashing, so a little extra is neither here nor there.... besides, they own the govt anyway.... ::lights blue touch paper and retires::
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03-28-2009, 08:40 PM | #12 |
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No, I didn't. I was responding to what was posted. I did, however, see a segment about this on Hardball or somewhere several days ago.
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Washington Post, New York Times seek new cost cuts
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03-27-2009, 12:35 PM | #15 |
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Churches aren't legally supposed to endorse candidates. Of course, few politicians would take the PR hit of enforcing that law.
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