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What issue do you think will drive this election? It's now March 1, and we are nine months away from the general election. Between now and then, will it be the economy, the war, health care or some other issue that drives the election?
For me, groceries and gas, two items not included in inflation and economic indicators, remind me regularly that we need to do something about our government.
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Re: What Issue Floats Your Boat?
May 6, 2008 9:57 PM
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How about the fact that, the consumption of red meet is the biggest problem to our enviroment.
If humans really want to go green, they need to consume less red meet each year. Buying a hybrid and replacing a few light bulbs isn't going to cut it.
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Re: What Issue Floats Your Boat?
May 6, 2008 3:41 AM
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Al Sadr has left Iraq and gone to Tehran. I think of Al Sadr as the Iraqi people's favorite leader (not sure but that's the idea I've gotten).
So, I was thinking....President Reagan bankrolled Saddam Hussein during the Iran Iraq war to the tune of about five billion dollars plus weapons and whatever other help he provided. Between a half a million to a million Iranians died in that war.
The American Iraq war has caused what some estimates say is about a million Iraqi people.
All of this adds up to the US being the enemy of both Iraq and Iran. I doubt either country forgives us for being responsible for a combined couple of million dead and wounded from both countries. And why would they.
So, I'm wondering if Iraq and Iran are contemplating somehow formally officially joining forces against us.
And I'm worried all of this will provoke our crazy president to attack Iran.
But I'm sure I'm not nearly as worried as the Iranian people who have the spector of us obliterating them hanging over their heads.
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Re: What Issue Floats Your Boat?
Apr 25, 2008 2:03 PM
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Vaccinations - Autism - Alzheimer's .......is there anything to the rumors? is it something to do with mercury being used as a preservative in the vaccinations?
I don't know if the rumors are conspiracy/paranoia or legitimate claims. Maybe BM could have a panel tackle that topic
Two terribly tragic diseases - a mind IS a terrible thing to waste.
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Re: What Issue Floats Your Boat?
Apr 24, 2008 5:53 AM
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I want the current Federal Reserve Chairman to admit two things to the American Public.
1. The reason why the Gross National Product quarterly report is no longer mentioned on the news, is because we Americans, are producing, (manufacturing) less each year.
The only types of jobs available in America is, Customer Service for mostly financial institutions, and jobs in Health, and Entertainment .
2. Lowering the interest rate is devaluing the real price of the dollar, and raising the cost of living. It is not benefitting no one, but the financial institutions. They can offer more credit to Americans, that are currently in credit debt ,at a higher interest rate.
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Re: What Issue Floats Your Boat?
Apr 23, 2008 10:29 PM
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Thanks Beansnrice, that was informative 
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Re: What Issue Floats Your Boat?
Apr 20, 2008 12:35 AM
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> > Bill, was just wondering if you saw the latest
> PBS
> > Frontline segment on Healthcare here in the USA
> as
> > compared to five other countries, United
> Kingdom,
> > Germany, Swizterland, Japan, and Taiwan. Believe
> it
> > or not, Taiwan has the best overall healthcare
> > system, while the USA is ranked number 37 by
> the
> > World Health Organization. In fact, the USA
> doesn't
> > have a health care system. What we have is a
> > for-profit free enterprize health care market
> place.
> >
> > Also, you would have greatly enjoyed PBS
> Independent
> > Lens, which was about corn and high fructose
> corn
> > syrup (one of your favorite subjects). It showed
> how
> > corn has literally changed the way Americans
> eat. We
> > now eat corn fed beef cattle (very unhealthy,
> which
> > has led to the feeding of antibiotics to cattle
> > (cattle now consume 70% of the antibiotics in
> this
> > country)). And the over production of corn has
> now
> > led to the high fructose corn syrup commodity
> which
> > is wrecking the diets of all Americans!
> >
> > Two great must see programs!
> >
> > By the way, you're doing a great job!
> >
> > --
> > Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundral -
> Samuel
> > Adams
>
> I keep wondering if having syrup in everything we eat
> has anything to do with so many people getting
> diabetes, even lots of thin folks.
>
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> Edited by RainyKincaid at 04/19/2008 7:24 PM PDT
Corn is a big problem. It isn't just about the syrup though. There is a big connection between what we might call civilized wasting diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and the industrialized food supply.
Here is the big one. Essential Omega fats are nesessary in your food. Omega 3, 6 , and 9 are mostly destroyed when heated or exposed to light because they are fragile, unsaturated fats. When they breakdown they have gone rancid and they cannot be used. Think of bad fish.
Any how, there is a basic metabolic balance between 3s and 6s They are essential metaboliclly, like vitamins. In nature though it is very aparant how and in what ways. You see omega 3s and 6s both come from plants. All plants really since omega 3s are found in greens because they are used in photosynthisis. They are very fragile, sensitive, molecues because they are have to respond to light. Now Omega 6's are sturdier and are used to store energy mostly in seeds. That is energy that is supposed to last for a very long time and be ready, when the conditions are right to grow quickly into a seedling. That storage quality is the metabolic function of seeds and thus 6s.
The point is that we evolved with a diet of about 1 to 2 on 3s and 6s respectively. The current western diet is full of seed oils and meat from animals fed on seed rather than greens and is low in fish. All of this adds up to an imbalance to about 1 to 9 3s and 6s or 1 to 13 depending. Remember, we eat an excess of the metabolism slowing 6s rather than the metabolism enhancing 3s. Slower metabolism is linked to heart disease, diabetes and all of the carbohydrate binging and crashing we do to made up for our slower metabolisms.
The big thing about meat is that we feed a lot of animals such as cows a buch of feed from the seed we grow and they are concentrated with 6s over 3s. Cows normally eat grass and that would make beef good for you then because the cows are then mostly omega 3s. The reason fish and seafood are full of 3s is because they live in an environment saturated with small plankton that use photosynthesis. The whole food chain is saturated with omega 3s then. The deeper you go and the cooler becomes and the less light there is there is a higher concentration of omega 3 too. The photosynthesis needs to be more sensitive to light and thus uses more of the sensitive omega 3. Omega 3 even helps to thin the blood and promote better circulation and is used by the animals at greater depths as a type of antifreeze in their blood.
Any how, try to eat more fish I guess, and cook with canola oil if you can, Olive oil is ok. oddly enough niche meats, like game and niche products, such as omega 3 eggs; create some great options for cooking.
Thats the modern dietary health problem in a nutshell.
A little clip from wikipedia talks about Hippocrates view on ADHD. He might be talking about 6s vs 3s here.
In 493 BCE, physician-scientist Hippocrates described a condition that seems to be compatible with what we now know as ADHD. He described patients who had "quickened responses to sensory experience, but also less tenaciousness because the soul moves on quickly to the next impression". Hippocrates attributed this condition to an "overbalance of fire over water?. His remedy for this "overbalance" was "barley rather than wheat bread, fish rather than meat, water drinks, and many natural and diverse physical activities."
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Re: What Issue Floats Your Boat?
Apr 19, 2008 10:24 PM
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> Bill, was just wondering if you saw the latest PBS
> Frontline segment on Healthcare here in the USA as
> compared to five other countries, United Kingdom,
> Germany, Swizterland, Japan, and Taiwan. Believe it
> or not, Taiwan has the best overall healthcare
> system, while the USA is ranked number 37 by the
> World Health Organization. In fact, the USA doesn't
> have a health care system. What we have is a
> for-profit free enterprize health care market place.
>
> Also, you would have greatly enjoyed PBS Independent
> Lens, which was about corn and high fructose corn
> syrup (one of your favorite subjects). It showed how
> corn has literally changed the way Americans eat. We
> now eat corn fed beef cattle (very unhealthy, which
> has led to the feeding of antibiotics to cattle
> (cattle now consume 70% of the antibiotics in this
> country)). And the over production of corn has now
> led to the high fructose corn syrup commodity which
> is wrecking the diets of all Americans!
>
> Two great must see programs!
>
> By the way, you're doing a great job!
>
> --
> Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundral - Samuel
> Adams
I keep wondering if having syrup in everything we eat has anything to do with so many people getting diabetes, even lots of thin folks.
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Re: What Issue Floats Your Boat?
Apr 19, 2008 10:23 PM
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The candidates keep mentioning green jobs a plenty, maybe BM could do a show about that topic?
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Re: What Issue Floats Your Boat?
Apr 19, 2008 3:29 PM
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Hi,
I think it?s safe to say that the economy and the war will have significant roles in the upcoming election, and Bill discusses both regularly. However, what I have not seen addressed is a topic which has to do with both: the massive increase in the use of emergency supplements under the Bush Administration. The way that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (and increasingly more non-war related items) are being funded is through the use of emergency supplements which are not considered part of the annual budget or the deficit, have less oversight, and congress is often afraid to vote against for fear of criticism that they don't support our troops.
These emergency supplements are in place for use in cases of emergency such as Katrina, 9/11, etc. However, a key law governing their use lapsed in 2002, which required that anything funded by an emergency supplement would require budget cuts to offset the supplemental requests. Since then, the use of supplements has skyrocketed, and this has shielded the true cost of the war from many of the governing bodies, and allowed us to rack up the record deficits we have seen in the last 8 years. The numbers are really staggering: we spent $160 billion in emergency supplements in 2007, and $196 billion is requested for 2008; the trend is increasing. Prior to the Bush Administration, there was only one year emergency supplements went over $50 billion, 1991 for Desert Storm, which was repaid through allied burden sharing.
There is also a shell game going on where the Pentagon is shifting requests for non-war items into emergency supplements in order to effectively increase their already record $481 billion budget. In fact, almost 25% of defense appropriations, and 20% of overall discretionary spending, are now in the form of emergency supplements. More and more special interest allocations are also finding their way into these bills.
We all know that the war is costly, but these games are being used to fund it and other ?pork?, when there would be little difficulty projecting the costs and rolling them into the annual budget as every previouos president has done after a year or two of being at war. The only reason for this game is to avoid the ?sticker shock? of the true costs of the war and an even more massive resistance to an American presence in Iraq.
I have not seen much discussion on this, or coverage in the national media, but I think it needs to be exposed to everyone. It is a great example of the current administrations fiscal irresponsibility, and I would love to see some honest discourse around it on Bill's show.
Thanks,
Silasmith
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Re: What Issue Floats Your Boat?
Apr 18, 2008 9:50 PM
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Could someone please address the audacity that John McCain has to draw SS. The senator?s get their salaries and free health care until they die. Helloooo?! What is wrong with this picture?
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Re: What Issue Floats Your Boat?
Apr 18, 2008 9:28 PM
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Regarding the teen girls bullying video recently, how about a show about cyber bullies?
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Re: What Issue Floats Your Boat?
Apr 18, 2008 8:14 PM
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HBO admin,
Bill has to apologize for telling the truth!
You have hit a new low.
The rest of the your series are steretype of America.
Blacks are drug dealers or in jail.
Hollywood entourage are hip losers.
Italianos are just gansta'.
But Bill Maher said no more than the pope said this week,
The Pope admitted that was pedopile in the Catholiic Church, but blamed it on the trash you serve up for pay to America.
WHY ARE YOU KILLING THE MESSENGER?
BILL MAHER IS STATING THE TRUTH.
SHOULD HE STICK TO THE STEROTYPES OF YOUR OTHER SERIES, OR SHOULD HE FIND A NETWORK THAT IS NOT AFRAID OF THE TRUTH, NO MATTER WHAT MAJORITY FINDS IT OFFENSIVE.
Are you going to make him apologoze to Warren Jeffs, too.
Praise Alllah, you are no better than the TAILBAN.
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Re: What Issue Floats Your Boat?
Apr 17, 2008 8:48 AM
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> In fact, the USA doesn't
> have a health care system. What we have is a
> for-profit free enterprize health care market place.
Because free enterprise hasn't been good enough to put food on your table, clothes on your back, or a roof* over your head? Why should medicine be any different?
(*Excepting that the Federal Reserve dumping inflation into the money supply caused the asset bubble in housing which has burst causing the current crisis, which is a government failure not a market failure.)
See also:
* Consumer driven health care
* Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
* Medical Savings Account
* Morphological freedom
* Health economics
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Re: What Issue Floats Your Boat?
Apr 16, 2008 11:26 PM
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Bill, was just wondering if you saw the latest PBS Frontline segment on Healthcare here in the USA as compared to five other countries, United Kingdom, Germany, Swizterland, Japan, and Taiwan. Believe it or not, Taiwan has the best overall healthcare system, while the USA is ranked number 37 by the World Health Organization. In fact, the USA doesn't have a health care system. What we have is a for-profit free enterprize health care market place.
Also, you would have greatly enjoyed PBS Independent Lens, which was about corn and high fructose corn syrup (one of your favorite subjects). It showed how corn has literally changed the way Americans eat. We now eat corn fed beef cattle (very unhealthy, which has led to the feeding of antibiotics to cattle (cattle now consume 70% of the antibiotics in this country)). And the over production of corn has now led to the high fructose corn syrup commodity which is wrecking the diets of all Americans!
Two great must see programs!
By the way, you're doing a great job!
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Re: What Issue Floats Your Boat?
Apr 4, 2008 12:58 AM
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The next Great Depression. Not much talk over the din of sunny Bernanke's reassurances that everything's swell, the Fed learned plenty from the Great Depression. Do these guys actually believe their own bullshit? Somebody oughta introduce him to Phil Gramm, John McCain's good buddy, whose deregulations in the energy industry led to Enron, and over and under the table banking deregulations led to Bear Stearns as the first domino in national and global markets.
A few Bear Stearns execs and brokers walked away with $3 plus B-Billion in B-Bonuses and rigged it so they can keep the cash and American taxpayers pick up the tab. Nice racket.
Who's gonna tell America the bad news? Reich on Maher this Friday would have been enlightening if Specter hadn't been invited to sit on the panel to shut him up and shut him down. And Bill accuses America of not being informed. Sigh.
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