And where do you think that around 10 to 12 million persons have gone? There are around 8 million that got registered at the border, and estimates run from 20% to 40% more came across open rural borders.
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I have heard exactly that. The proposals that would tax the most wealthy based on the estimated value of their wealth and not on earned income are definitely "confiscation" as the only way to pay such a tax is to liquidate assets.
It's as if you had to pay taxes each year on the asset value of your 401-k.
My Senators assure me that I am to fear the scary brown people, while they refuse to pass a bipartisan bill because Trump said not to.
One of our state's congresspeople says we need to lower the age to open carry to 18, and allow open carry of assault rifles because of the border crisis. Our politicians WANT mass shootings of Hispanics ("he looked illegal to me").
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There are really only two people in congress in favor of it. It's not going anywhere. But you have to give them lip service, just as the repubs do to MTG.
Oh, the scary "brown" people like Vicente Fox, Carlos Slim, Luis Miguel, Salma Hayek, Anthony Quin, Ricardo Montalbán?
MTG is an idiot or mentally ill or both. But Bernie, one of the leading senators is behind the asset tax.
KILT is now six miles north of where it used to be, and has cut the power in half. How is their night signal on the Island?
KPRC has also moved north and west, farther away from Galveston. But the 950 day power got a 40% increase, while the night power had a 17% reduction.
Meanwhile KCOH 1230 is fading away. Extremely weak at my Cy-Fair location, and pretty much inaudible at the Fairfield Outlet Mall near 290@SH99, where I can hear first adjacents KMVL 1220 and KTAM 1240 with much stronger signals, despite much greater distance. Guessing KCOH is running no more than 100 watts.
He's one of the two. The other one is next door in Massachusetts. They're also the ones trying to break up Silicon Valley. Because its not in the northeast.
A lot depends on the conductivity of the new site vs. the old one.
Remember, it takes four times the power to double coverage. So a 40% power increase from a slightly "farther out" site will likely not even be noticeable. A 17% night power decrease is only a couple of percent less coverage.
The Uri Berliner article on NPR revealed deliberate discussions at NPR DC to not report the Hunter Biden laptop story, support for Fauci's argument against the now widely agreed to view of the lab leak theory in Wuhan, China, and NPR focusing on Adam Schiff's argument of Russia collusion with Trump. When the Mueller Report found no evidence for Russia collusion, NPR barely reported this. Berliner twice voted against Trump, but feels NPR has been one sided and provided advocacy journalism in their reporting since 2016. It's a very powerful and brave article he wrote. The NPR Executives stated they strongly disagreed with the Berliner article, but in their rebuttal gave zero examples of where he was incorrect in his facts. Berliner also reported that all 87 DC NPR news personnel are registered Democrats with zero Republicans, a shocking statistic. When he brought this up at an NPR Manager meeting, staff seemed indifferent to this point. Clearly, NPR has a lot of explaining to do to the taxpayers who pay millions of dollars every year to support NPR.
Keep in mind that the money comes from the stations who buy the programming. And from members who support those stations.
Forty years ago, under Ronald Reagan, the funding structure for NPR was changed. The member stations have representatives on the board, and they might have some questions for management.
It's listenable, though seeming comparable to the San Antonio signals that make it in here at night, though with less fading.
It's not listenable at night in Galveston; the signal is barely there with lots of interference. It's OK in the daytime, strength between KILT and KBME, but there's some audio underneath it that may be from another station. If I get some time today, I'll investigate further.
Baytown's KWWJ is stronger than all these but there's a good saltwater path between there and here (downtown Galveston).
I wondered what happened to it. No sign of it down here and not much when I was in downtown Houston last week.
A reminder that the Uri Berliner commentary is just that, commentary. I wrote about this at excruciating length last night on the National Radio board - but just because he happens to perfectly confirm whatever your existing biases are, doesn't mean that everything he wrote is the complete story of what happens behind the scenes at NPR.
Here's another viewpoint from another of the many hundreds of people who are all part of what happens there (with, I'd note, no federal funding... but we've been through that argument so many times I don't even waste my energy on it anymore.)
Here's another viewpoint from another of the many hundreds of people who are all part of what happens there (with, I'd note, no federal funding... but we've been through that argument so many times I don't even waste my energy on it anymore.)
And here's a great example on how a newsroom should handle the difficult task of reporting on a controversy that's about itself.
I put more trust in a news organization that handles it like this - "Disclosure: This story was reported and written by NPR Media Correspondent David Folkenflik and edited by Deputy Business Editor Emily Kopp and Managing Editor Gerry Holmes. Under NPR's protocol for reporting on itself, no NPR corporate official or news executive reviewed this story before it was posted publicly" - than I would in a newsroom that would be less transparent. I don't think you'd see a disclosure like that at, say, Newsmax.
I put more trust in a news organization that handles it like this - "Disclosure: This story was reported and written by NPR Media Correspondent David Folkenflik and edited by Deputy Business Editor Emily Kopp and Managing Editor Gerry Holmes. Under NPR's protocol for reporting on itself, no NPR corporate official or news executive reviewed this story before it was posted publicly" - than I would in a newsroom that would be less transparent. I don't think you'd see a disclosure like that at, say, Newsmax.
And who provides the funding to the member stations that flows to NPR?
Per their own financial statements, KUHF received $932,132 in 2021, and $578,800 in 2022 from the CPB.
Financial Records & Reporting | Houston Public Media
The argument always seems to be that we need to fund public broadcasting to provide service to white areas with no commercial radio interests. Fair enough.
Houston is the 6th largest media market, and is very well served by almost 100 signals. It's anything but a white area as the FCC defines them.
Correct. Houston Public Media doesn't need CPB funding. But they qualify. That's how that works. Its not based on need. They qualify by raising a certain amount of local money. This is what Republicans wanted. They were against what they saw as welfare for broadcasting. So these stations have to fulfill certain requirements to qualify for CPB money, and they do. Then the local stations all decide individually how they will spend the federal money. The congress just approved the 2026 appropriation last month.
The Berliner article is, to a large extent, criticism of groupthink at NPR.
The disclosure is meant to lend credibility to the NPR executives. Such a process may be required by their protocols, but that doesn't mean the reporters and editors are brainless. They knew what was expected of them before they wrote the piece, and they knew what to expect if they didn't deliver it.
Take a look at the piece itself. It contains veiled accusations of racism against Berliner. To their credit, when Berliner responded to the accusation, they amended it to contain his clarification, but the article as originally written was a hit piece.
As I said earlier in this thread, someone would have to be either incredibly dense or in serious lack of reading comprehension skills to think a lack of ethnic or racial diversity at NPR is what Berliner was criticizing. It's clear from the context of the entire piece that he is lamenting the distinct lack of political diversity at NPR.
I'm sure Berliner hasn't had a fun few days at work. The people who wrote the story responding to his piece could expect the same treatment if their response was too fair to him.
The problem with that is you can't ask someone about their politics or make it a prerequisite for a job. So legally you can't hire a staff based on political diversity or political opinion. In fact some of the anti-DEI laws being passed are along those same lines. Hiring shouldn't be based on anything but ability to do the job.
KTRH uses biased language.
NPR uses biased language.
AP uses biased language.
The problem is universal...since people have differing perspectives. Differing world views foment different biases. We can all live with people who bear differing opinions in peace, but we should be aware that some types of propaganda may contravene the truth or even imperil our nation.
In my opinion, the greater peril to our nation right now is from liberal sources since the left wing completely dominates large media. The fact that there are no Republicans in the NPR newsroom is a clear signal of ugly, horrible, festering inbred bias and that bias is improperly amplified and fueled by taxpayer dollars. Further, the AP Stylebook (as referenced earlier in this thread) is not unbiased. It is saturated with progressive ideals. The AP currently seeks to use its style guide to force liberal bias on all news sources--and mandates of that sort come straight out of another book (1984). AP seeks to force re-writes of any stories which don't tow the line with their world view. A blatant example (not taken from the world of legal vs. illegal border-crossings) is the long-standing mandate to use the phrase "sex assigned at birth", which is nonsensical...at the least, an individual's chromosomal makeup is set at conception and determines that individual's sex. In seeking to further the acceptance of LGBT+ ideals, inaccurate language contortions are forced. This directly parallels the incipient push toward the use of the word "Latinx", which offends most Latinos in order to promote LGBT+ groups. And this push is not new. The skewing of the word "gay" from a term of happiness to a term of sexual behavior (or misbehavior) is an earlier example of pushing language change in order to restructure ideology. That language twist seems to have been successful. Notice that this twisting of our language has been a trick of both left and right wing groups at various times. Currently, it is being used (abused) daily by the media-dominating left wing.
NPR uses biased language.
AP uses biased language.
The problem is universal...since people have differing perspectives. Differing world views foment different biases. We can all live with people who bear differing opinions in peace, but we should be aware that some types of propaganda may contravene the truth or even imperil our nation.
In my opinion, the greater peril to our nation right now is from liberal sources since the left wing completely dominates large media. The fact that there are no Republicans in the NPR newsroom is a clear signal of ugly, horrible, festering inbred bias and that bias is improperly amplified and fueled by taxpayer dollars. Further, the AP Stylebook (as referenced earlier in this thread) is not unbiased. It is saturated with progressive ideals. The AP currently seeks to use its style guide to force liberal bias on all news sources--and mandates of that sort come straight out of another book (1984). AP seeks to force re-writes of any stories which don't tow the line with their world view. A blatant example (not taken from the world of legal vs. illegal border-crossings) is the long-standing mandate to use the phrase "sex assigned at birth", which is nonsensical...at the least, an individual's chromosomal makeup is set at conception and determines that individual's sex. In seeking to further the acceptance of LGBT+ ideals, inaccurate language contortions are forced. This directly parallels the incipient push toward the use of the word "Latinx", which offends most Latinos in order to promote LGBT+ groups. And this push is not new. The skewing of the word "gay" from a term of happiness to a term of sexual behavior (or misbehavior) is an earlier example of pushing language change in order to restructure ideology. That language twist seems to have been successful. Notice that this twisting of our language has been a trick of both left and right wing groups at various times. Currently, it is being used (abused) daily by the media-dominating left wing.
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