Today on Doing Time - Tuesday August 5th, 2008
WATCHING THE WATCHERS
Medical privacy might not be on the top of your personal
watch list, but as more and more data is gathered, more and more data is shared
and used. Ellen Nakashima of the
Washington Post will explain to us how health
insurance companies are now looking at our prescription records and why
that ain’t a good thing.
FROM THE CAMPAIGN
Barack Obama gave a "major"
speech on energy yesterday.
And John McCain
is giving a speech to bikers at Sturgis. We’ll compare and contrast.
Kuby wants to ask you what you think of the comprehensive energy plan being proposed in Congress now. Would you be willing to support drilling if it meant more money for renewable energy? What kind of bargain are you willing to strike?
Also, do you think John McCain is really implying that Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ? Seriously! Watch this ad and decide. We’ll take your calls on that.
Our favorite new website of the day: www.mccainslobbyists.com The site shows you which fat cat lobbyists have donated to maverick reformer John McCain, and which are actually running his campaign. Interesting clicking. Have some fun, report what you find in the comments below or send us an email.
SOME GOOD NEWS – SORT
OF
We should always herald the
positive news cause so many of the headlines are disaster and smear. But
sometimes it only looks good when you skim the headlines. The Pentagon is set to close a controversial domestic spying unit. The Defense Department said it had "disestablished"
the Counterintelligence Field Activity office. 1) What exactly is
"disestablished." 2) Who even knew THIS domestic spying office
existed. And 3) What about all the other offices?
The duties of
the "disestablished" office will be picked up by a new group: The
Defense Counterintelligence and
Plus, cloning
your pets, an earthquake in china, suing the DMV for $16, being too fat to be
executed and much much more …
cloning your booger
You are right ron... cloning the pit bull " booger " does not bring " booger" back.
The new 'booger' may be genetically identical ..
..... but it's a different dog .. with different experioences.
The new Booger doesn't know you.. it doesn't inherit the experiences.
Your caller who was talking about 'human cloning" for medical reasons ...
..cloning for replacement parts for humans ... now that's a scary thought
talk about playing " the old man with long white hair in the sky"
watch out for the lightning bolts
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By MURFMANAugust 5, 2008 - 3:58pmDid Bill Clinton ever go to Sturgis? Sounds like his crowd.
Why couldn't he have just said Obama would make a good president? Instead of his ramble about the Constitution?
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By msiebertAugust 5, 2008 - 4:09pmbill's bitter pill
WHY CAN'T BUBBA SHOW SUPPORT FOR HIS PARTY'S NOMINEE?
His comments in Rwanda were puzzling.
He is coming across as a very bitter person here.
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By MURFMANAugust 5, 2008 - 5:34pmObama as Anti-christ?
Impossible - Dick Cheney already has the job
" if Obama was the anti-christ .. why does he have to "win" the presidency?"
great comment by the caller
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By MURFMANAugust 5, 2008 - 5:51pmPeace and Freedom Party
Acceptance Speech:
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By NickyRoseAugust 5, 2008 - 6:08pmthe antichrist???
Ron,
I was so interested in your commentary today because Limbaugh constantly refers to Obama as the messiah. This is a coordinated campaign to smear Obama and make people more and more uncomfortable with him. It will be a vague discomfort that people will feel as they go to vote, even if they don't actually believe it.
Between the ads and the 6 hour daily Limbaugh/hannity AntiObamathon, I think we are seeing a multi faceted attack that all of Obama's charm and intelligence will not help.
People vote for people they want to hang out with. (maybe not us, or aar listeners, but the majority of Americans). Obama has to become less Kerry-like and more personable.(not an idiot, like Bush, but somewhere in between)
MoveOn and other 529s had better start with more hard hitting ads, especially pointing out that the Republicans are the ones who (purposely) got us into this mess, that Phil Gramm who is McCain's economic guru basically engineered the entire housing disaster and deregulation hurt us in banking, medicine, environment..etc. Why not an ad saying that starving the federal agencies has caused disasters like fires, floods, Katrina etc.
Otherwise we must all practice saying president mccain. yuk
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By VicthpoohAugust 5, 2008 - 10:19pm