I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Oh, I LOVED "Flashforward," but it only lasted a season.  It was REALLY complex and intricate and meaty ... you had to hold a whole lot of stuff in your head to get the plotline and figure things out.  Waaaay too complicated for reality-show junkies, I guess.  I don't watch reality shows either, although DH for some insane reason likes the goldmining show.  He also finds Storage Wars amusing from time to time.  We do like "Through the Wormhole" with Morgan Freeman, and a guilty pleasure of mine is the occasional "Doomsday Hoarders" because it is like a sociology class in every episode.

I LOVE "The Newsroom" (tried to get you all addicted to it back when it first appeared).  And I love "Grey's Anatomy," too -- nightime soap opera.  That's pretty much it for my TV viewing pleasure, other than opening a vein and inserting news.

Don't argue with your friends who are Republicans, just point them to the fact checkers.

For outrageous, lie filled emails, tell them to check Snopes.  http://www.snopes.com/

For straight up fact checking of political speeches and promises tell them to check:

FactCheck.org http://www.factcheck.org/

Politifact http://www.politifact.com/

Politifact has the famous "Pants On Fire" rating for truly mind boggling lies.

Athena, I didn't get what the Moderators meant either.  All the posts seem to be very respectful to each other to me, and, as instructed, we've ( or at least I know I'm not the only one who regulalry posts on this thread) put those who try to "stir things up" on this thread on IGNORE, again, as it was suggested we do, so I don't get who wasn't being respectful of someone's point of view on this thread?

AnneW - I too have always admired Bob Reich. Stands "tall" with me ;-))  As WJC once said of his former Sec of Labor. BR has a good sense of humor about it too.

Bob Reich is one of the best bloggers out there. Pity that his stint as Labor Secretary was so short.

For what my 2 cents are worth, all seems really respectful to me, too.  I don't get the Mods' comment either. 

We haven't had cable since 2003.  And I just cancelled netflix.  So...I haven't seen a new show since...hmmmm...since...hmmmmm.  Oh...I know...we saw some episodes of Modern Family on Hulu.   I liked it.  I really love Star Trek reruns, Frasier reruns and my kids are well versed in Brady Bunch and I Love Lucy...we are weirdos.   

I just didn't want my kids watching all those darned commercials. 

The NYT editorials are on a roll these days!

Yes, Sunflowers -- absolutely!  Can you imagine how raucous we would be!

Yes, Athena, both the NYT and the WaPo are on a roll!

Just found this - the camerawoman who was assaulted speaks out:  http://mije.org/richardprince/cnn-camerawoman-not-surprised-peanut-throwing#Carroll

Wow, HL - thanks for the link. You know, at its most basic, throwing peanuts at someone is assault and battery, and the camera woman should have been given the ability to take the names of the people down. If this were a barroom brawl and there were reporters about, you can be SURE we would have the name of the people. It seems nobody there wanted to know who it was. Strange, isn't it, how "nobody knows" anything in cases like this. Had the colors been reversed, I bet we'd have the names of the "perps" in a flash.

This should be hurtful to all of us, and we should be united as Americans in this. If, as a person told the reporter, they two were alternates, they could still be electors - electors who throw peanuts at a black person. Yes, we should all care.

We need to strive for a more perfect union.

Athena - I SWEAR she said it - on some TV news interview...will google around & see what I find.

OH, HL - it would be SUCH fun...but I think your DH deserves better than our company...</p

Oh - ok - that was in 2003. I thought she had said that last night. NSA people are obsessed with mushroom clouds. :-)

Talking about food porn, you should see the pics people take of their cruise food......truly obscene. Yum!

Now it's Newt and Calista's time to lie - again. Repeating the fib about Obama supposedly waiving the working requirement.

Funny how Newt denounced Reagan amidst the Iran-Contra scandal, and now casts himself as an unflagging booster.

Jeb Bush making a strong push for the teacher's vote....I don't dislike him. I think he is genuine in his public interest. Some of his positions have been aberrant to me, and I disagree with him on vouchers, but he is a passionate fighter for better education - not at all the empty shell his brother is.

NYT Editorial with the following prelude to Romney's speech:

"Mitt Romney will wrap the most important speech of his life, for Thursday night's session of his convention, around an extraordinary reinvention of history - that his party rallied behind President Obama when he won in 2008, hoping that he would succeed. "That president was not the choice of our party," he said, in excerpts provided by the campaign. "We are a good and generous people who are united by so much more than divides us."

More:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/opinion/the-hidden-subject-in-tampa.html?hp

(Mouth falling open!!!)