Your local paper is part of the same libeRandian group that owns my Local Puppy Trainer, that was based in Orange County, California before it came up broke. The two are still linked, because your paper prints mine. It was part of the ‘cost cutting’ before the bankruptcy.
You have the Western-most NBC station in Florida. The next one is in Mobile. Comcast may feel that paying to carry that station is all they want to spend with NBC.
Since they bought NBC, Comcast may start carrying it, although they may want to charge themselves too much for the rights. [I’m serious about that. They are probably gouging for the rights, and have probably jacked up the price they charge all cable companies. They have to charge themselves at the same rate or face problems.]
I’m sure they will always tune into Rush.
]]>It is about time we tried capitalism in this country, but that would mean the end of corporations, and other creatures of the government, and the 1% wouldn’t be pleased with that. Imagine a CEO being held responsible when his company killed someone. Can’t have that, it would be too dangerous.
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]]>A major problem that I see coming is the reliance on the real crazies as their shock troops. The Right Fringe [AKA Republican Party] is too unstable to be trusted to carry out orders without getting carried away and doing things that adversely impact the 1%, like the immigration laws. The deficit mania may weaken the forces that they depend on to keep order.
Many of the people down here dump cable when times get hard, and are closed off from the propaganda machine. The local cable provider is getting really nervous about the trend, especially the loss of all of the connections to the rental condos that aren’t renting. They make $100/unit/month for the cable/telephone/’Net connection to those units, so it adds up quickly.
Police officers are being laid off, and that reduces their protection, and adds an additional expense.
They are really worried about people actually listening to the Occupy movement, and finally figuring out that they are being screwed.
Definitely Chinese curse time.
]]>Thing is, now that I think of it, the Soviet elites trusted those exact same things (with a few minor details changed), and we all know how well that worked. Well, actually, it worked out fairly well for them in the end — the regional elites got to run full-fledged Trashcanistans of their own without having to answer to the Russian elite in Moscow, and the Russian elite… uhm… Russia is owned by a KGB goon and oligarchs who were high in the Communist Party prior to the collapse. Hmm.
I.e., the collapse of the current structure when this whole edifice no longer is capable of maintaining the pretense of being a 1st world nation doesn’t mean that things are going to get better or that the 1% are going to quit running things. Though the fact that the U.S. had a democratic tradition at some point in the past, a tradition that Russia and the Soviet Union never really had, might change that outcome to something other than a game of musical chairs amongst the oligarchs…
We’ll see, I suppose. Cue ancient Chinese curse.
– Badtux the Sovok Penguin
]]>History points to where things are going if those in power don’t start doing what is really necessary to fix things, but they just don’t seem to understand.
Attacking the protestors didn’t work in North Africa, it isn’t going to work in Europe, and it won’t work in the US. People will not willingly starve to death.
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– Badtux the Waddling Penguin
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