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To: Lane3 who wrote (4366)	1/27/2005 6:47:15 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 7936

I still support merit pay, but I am aware that it will not be simple to implement, simple to run, or an answer to every problem. Tim

To: Lane3 who wrote (4366)	2/2/2005 1:44:35 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7936

The coming legal superstorm against bloggers calblog.com

To: Lane3 who wrote (4366)	2/2/2005 12:51:39 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7936

For Christmas I received a Sirius satellite radio. Recently I have spent a bit of time listening to the two liberal political channels. Its good to expose yourself to other points of view. I found very little that I can actually agree with. But there is some interesting non-political talk, and occasionally informed reasonable discussion from the liberal point of view. OTOH a lot of it is just Bush bashing or Republican bashing or conservative bashing. In particular a show I listed to for 10 minutes last night consisted of little else but Bush bashing. There where topics, but it seems like every other sentence that the host used while trying to build up some point or another (which were themselves anti-Bush) reminded him of something else he hated about Bush, so he would go off on some tangent about how Bush was horrible and destroying the country in some other way unrelated to his original point, then he would get back on his original point for a few seconds before going off on another Bush bashing tangent. All and all just a rant and not a very coherent one. Rush Limbaugh and even Michael Savage (perhaps the most extreme right wing talk radio host I've ever listened to) are for more intelligible and logical. This morning I was listening to some other host who was calmer and a lot more intelligible then the host last night. I think the guy's name is Alex Bennett. I've heard him before, a lot of what I heard him talk about before was non-political, with occasional moderately liberal statements about one issue or another. Today however the subject of health care came up and he really sounded like a socialist. Not just about health care (apparently he wants national health insurance for everyone) but in general. He argued that there was no good point for having government if it can't take care of things like health care for people. He asks the listeners and a couple of other people in his studio "wouldn't you like free health care", as if it really would be free; and apparently thinks that food, water and health care should be "free". Tim