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Sawbonz

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  1. @immamac is this GruHorn
  2. Where are you seeing evidence of this on surly?
  3. So I just saw one of the trailers and I hate to say it look horrible. Jr stuffing his face, farting, and needing a bathroom stat, OK
  4. If that place really has open gates, she’s going to “walk out” and never be seen or heard from again
  5. Yes thread got sidetracked by a troll. So much amazing content that never would have happened without CPB NPR: Car Talk This American Life I Built This All Things Considered Fresh Air Marketplace The Moth Radio Hour Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! PBS: Frontline Nova American Experience Washington Week Antiques Roadshow And of course without CPB the Ken Burns documentaries never get made; for all his flaws and the valid criticisms of his films, they are the richest, most in depth portraits of our country and its people that have ever been put in such an accessible format nothing like this going forward will be created and that is a shameful stain on our government and us for voting them in
  6. Is your argument that because they collect a lot from O&G, the federal government is collecting as much as they should collect from them? Because that’s a pretty fucking dumb argument.
  7. This is the most hilariously bad pick in the draft
  8. Checks out
  9. Much of these arguments seem to be focused on how you can still see the classics like Mr Rogers, Sesame Street, etc online or on cable services. While true, you aren’t going to get as much new quality content going forward. Most if not all npr and pbs shows that become nationwide hits start with a tiny budget on a local station and are able to grow into what they become. That is where CPB money was focused. I can’t imagine how many of these shows try and fail for every one that becomes a nationwide program (and many of those succeed and are cherished at the local level). All that is gone now. Just like with the brain drain that is coming due to the harassment of university faculty and the bullshit going on with visas; these true damage of these cuts won’t be felt for a decade. Also, it is not true that “zero” kids (and adults) require OTA public media to have access to these shows. It’s like last mile mail and package delivery. It is extremely difficult and the government is the most efficient of all the inefficient ways to accomplish it. Hell I get shit all the time from Amazon that starts out as an Amazon or UPS / FedEx on the app and winds up coming by USPS and I live smack in the middle of one of the biggest cities in the country
  10. Jones family will never get the benefit of the doubt with me. Of course the player is trying to maximize his salary and this will be his biggest chance to do so. If you are a middling team (and that’s being generous) and you have positioned yourself roster- and capwise such that you can’t sign your best player (a top player in the league) and field a competitive team around him, you deserve all the badness that comes your way. I hope Parsons sits or gets his trade. Fuck this team
  11. Fuck you, you went CR on post 8 If you really want to lower the budget, you would vote you fucking moron
  12. And yet you just keep voting for dumb motherfuckers that are doing nothing but increasing that debt every fucking time they get the power
  13. If you think Bill Buckley would consider Donald Trump “right”, you are dumber than I thought. And I already thought you’re really fucking stupid.
  14. Buckley would piss all over you and your orange god
  15. The new budget that was passed just gave the top 10 richest Americans on estimated $3 trillion over the next 10 years and not a peep from these fucksticks about it.
  16. You’re a moron. Like really fucking stupid. The entire federal outlay for all public media at every level was projected at 535 million for this year. That is out of a budget of 7 trillion. That’s not even a fraction of a penny out of every thousand dollars the government spends. Please tell me you are sterilized.
  17. OK, how about this? I’ll pick my tax dollars going to pay for healthcare for people that can’t afford it and public media you can elect to send your tax dollars to ice agents to terrorize brown people and pay for a pedophiles golf Excursions deal?
  18. Even if you are super selfish and a total piece of shit realize it’s riot insurance
  19. I mean, I gave him two well thought out responses and look at how he responded. He does not deserve any serious consideration
  20. And yet you voted for him for president
  21. Ever heard of the library of Congress? Read up on its inception and evolution. A federal government was a brand new concept, and ours was in significant debt from fighting a war against the greatest power on the planet at that time. There wasn’t much money available for government subsidies for anything. Look up the Federal Depository Library Program (1813) and Smithsonian Institution Publications (1846) As our country grew, monetary support for the arts and sciences has grown along with it (at least until now).There are examples everywhere, from the Lewis and Clark expedition through the land grant university programs and federally backed research in agriculture and industry. Government leaders beginning in the 20th century have consistently have felt an obligation to promote the arts as well. It is mind-boggling that in the last 30 years or so such concepts have become partisan issues. Even the Robber Barons knew the importance of private patronage in partnership with government money. What we have today is pathetic and we are on the verge of the biggest brain in history
  22. I’m confused. Is your argument that the founding fathers, who put so much emphasis on knowledge, science, and the arts, and who encouraged their development both on a personal level as well as with government patronage, would not take advantage of the technology of television, radio waves, and now the Internet to foster and promote those ideals, and disseminate them to our citizens? Go ahead and flesh this out for us a bit
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