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The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda

Silvio Canto, Jr.
11/19/2019 10:30:37 AM

      The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda 11/19 by Silvio Canto Jr Politics:Guest: Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda.......We will look at week 1 of the impeachment hearings....The media and impeachment hearings......Mayor Bloomberg and crime in New York.....Reverend Sharpton and money.....Obama warns the left about going too far.......Hong Kong exploding............and other stories......click to listen:     

Tuesdays video: President Obama gets an earful from Democrats....

Silvio Canto, Jr.
11/19/2019 10:30:51 AM
                    Tuesdays video:    President Obama gets an earful from Democrats....    Click to listen:               

Fox News Sucks

K T Cat
11/16/2019 6:54:06 AM

... and that's saying a lot as it's the best of the bunch. CNN and MSNBC are simply intolerable.Sitting with mom while she passes, we've been watching her favorite channel, Fox News. She's in a hospital bed in her living room with the TV right in front of her. It's a measure of where she is in life because she never watched TV and never stayed in bed. She was always out accomplishing something productive. There's even a scholarship named after her at a local junior college. She was that kind of woman.Anywho, as much as I agree politically with mom, which is 90+%, I've discovered I can't stand Fox News. Even Tucker, whose speeches I love and whose YouTube snippets I devour with relish, is horrible to watch. I hate the whole[...]

Intermittent Blogging

K T Cat
11/12/2019 8:08:56 AM
Momma kitteh fell and broke her hip last week. She gets out of the hospital today. She's 90 and as far as I can tell, there is no way she will ever stand up again, much less walk. The break was pretty bad and required the insertion of a rod and screws. She's 90 and could barely walk even with a walker before the fall.She's now jacked up constantly on serious morphine doses for the pain. She's not the kind to complain and sitting with her at the hospital is the first time I've ever seen her cry and scream from it.She's going home to Hospice care. She'd been on Hospice Palliative, which is long term, prior to the fall, but this certainly looks like straight-up Hospice now.To quote Han Solo, "I don't know how we're going to get[...]

Hipster Come Latelys: SF's Greta Mural is Nothing New

11/11/2019 2:07:36 PM

    I started seeing all the hoopla around San Francisco painting a giant six story high mural of creepy climate girl, Greta Thunberg (IMDB 1036148), but it turns out it is not so nearly as novel as one might imagine. There all already murals of Greta in the US and around the world. San Francisco is merely 'catching up'.  A small sampling...               Edmonton                        Istanbul                        U.K.                        Rutland, VT           [...]

New ISIS Head Unveils Plan to Defeat Detection by US Military

10/31/2019 2:04:05 PM

   

Canto Talk, Oct. 31st: Halloween News Roundup

mutnodjmet13
10/30/2019 7:30:34 PM
Dear Friends: We will be having a Halloween Party on Canto Talk this Thursday. Come join Silvio Canto, Jr., and me on Oct. 31st, 10 am Pacific/12 noon Central, 1 pm Eastern by clicking here (or to listen to an archived podcast).We will be covering the scariest topics hitting the news today:Impeachment TheaterCalifornia Wildfires and BlackoutsPierre DelectoThe Democratic PrimaryThe media and Democrats reacting badly to Trump's many successesExtinction Rebellion and its climate alarmist anticsPlease listen There will be plenty of treats and a few tricks in our show 

Canto Talk - September 5th: International Edition

mutnodjmet13
9/4/2019 1:45:40 PM

Dear Friends: It is my pleasure to be joining Silvio Canto Jr. as his guest on Canto Talk this Thursday. So, please tune in 10 am Pacific/12 noon Central/1 pm Eastern by clicking HERE for the live show, or after for an archived podcast.

Ric Edelman is wrong on Roth 401(k)s and dollar-cost-averaging withdrawals

W.C. Varones
10/27/2019 2:52:00 PM
I'm a huge Ric Edelman fan. I'm a regular listener of his radio show and believe he's made a huge positive contribution to the financial literacy of America.But he sometimes makes some really bone-headed mistakes. The past couple weeks have had some big ones on his radio program.Roth vs. Traditional 401(k)Last weekend's (10/19/19, minute 48) radio show had a caller ask about Roth vs. 401(k)s. The caller correctly made the observation that post-tax (Roth) contributions effectively allowed you to contribute more money, but Edelman rejected the argument:"It doesn't matter. In other words, investing $10 now and paying the taxes later or investing $8 now and not paying taxes later, it's the same math. It doesn't make any[...]

The unthinkable is now the default path forward

W.C. Varones
8/19/2019 10:54:52 AM
  The experts agreeWe're going Full MMTSo start buying gold  Mauldin Economics on the prestigious Camp Kotok economic gathering:There was an open debate about MMT or Modern Monetary Theory. Brilliant young man economist Sam Rines took the difficult position of being pro-MMT for the sake of debate. He thinks it would be a disaster but is truly afraid we will actually pursue such a policy. There was the usual pushback, which Ive written about more than once, but I have to admit that I was struck by the private conversations after the debate. Many smart, well-informed thinkers were almost resigned to seeing MMT actually attempted in the next decade.

VIOLENCE OF THE LEFT: ITS IN THEIR DNA (4)

barrycjacobsen
10/19/2018 1:27:49 PM

Leftist ViolenceComes toAmerica, a Historical Perspective(To read previous installment, go here; to start with Part One, go here)19th century Europe was marked by growing leftists movements, which attempted several short-lived revolutions throughout the continent. While these leftist risings failed, a new left-wing extremist movement, theanarcho-communists, grew out of them.The word itself comes from a Greek word, anarkos, which means without a chief. Anarcho-communist believe that all government should be abolished along with private property, and thatcommon ownershipof themeans of productionin combination with astateless societies should be the organizing principle. To bring about such change, anarchists argued that violent[...]

VIOLENCE ON THE LEFT: ITS IN THEIR DNA (3)

barrycjacobsen
10/19/2018 12:55:07 PM

PART THREE: UTOPIAN VISIONS LEAD TO BLOODY REVOLUTIONS(To read the previous installment, go here)In 1792 the French liberal intelligentsia, imbibing the heady wine of Rousseaus theories, inflamed the urban mobs against the upper classes. To be born into wealth or privilege was deemed an act oftreason against the People.No level of dissent was tolerated: disagreeing with the goals

Father's Day Love

B-Daddy
6/18/2017 4:30:05 PM
As a Bible following Christian, I am often confronted with accusations of hate, along with accusing questions along the lines of what would you do if your child ______________? Father's Day is a great day to answer with the love God grants me through Jesus Christ.  I have two adult sons, and both my wife and made their upbringing our number one purpose.  Our love them is well-known and shown, so I have skin in the game to discuss this topic.  So on to the accusations.      What if your son came out as gay? I would still love him of course.  Further, I would have good advice for him, remain celibate.  This advice is given out of my love. The gay promiscuous lifestyle isn't known for its[...]

While Leftists Shoot Republicans, California Sinks Into One Party Rule

B-Daddy
6/14/2017 8:36:37 PM

Going Hugo Chavez one better, the Democrat controlled California legislator is taking action to ensure that one of their own who voted for the hated gas tax won't get recalled.  The legislator is rigging the system to make it harder and longer to recall State Senator Josh Newman (D-Fullerton) whose support for the increase made him a recall target.  From the Sacramento Bee:Democrats are pushing late-blooming bills to significantly improve state Sen. Josh Newmans odds of surviving an effort by the state GOP and others to recall him from office.The proposed changes, which became public Monday morning, would add months to the existing timeline of certifying a recall election for the ballot. The measure would virtually[...]

A kinder, nicer NFL?

dawnwildman
1/20/2016 12:37:59 PM

A Kinder and Nicer NFL?Are any of you buying the new crisis management public relations campaign by the NFL, Together We Make Football? The NFL has been pushing commercials that make them look like AT&T or Hallmark. Problem is, I dont think many are falling for the new kinder and gentler NFL. The whole reason they have to clean up their act is that there have been so many bad actors in NFL with behavior stretching from bad to criminal that they had no choice but to look like they cared. And rather than really take a look at the behavior and get rid of bad players, they have them do the classic mea culpa like Ray Rice after he beat his fiance unconscious, they go away for a little while either by due process or the NFL[...]

Natural Born Citizen Definition

Doo Doo Econ
1/19/2016 6:08:58 PM

    Once again Americans are facing questions about the definition of a Natural Born Citizen (NBC).This is the simple and indisputable definition: Two citizens who have a child, naturally create a new citizen. This is a Natural Born Citizen.There is absolutely no expert either legal or historical who will argue to the contrary. They may argue to include additional citizens, but this is the core of the definition.Two people who have a child in a location, have a citizen who is native to that land. This is a Native Born Citizen. Thus, terms like "Native American" which imply a location and not an allegiance to a country.A person can be both Natural Born and Native Born, or in the United States we also have Naturalized[...]

Obama Fuels Eternal Islamic War on America

Doo Doo Econ
8/5/2015 5:00:00 AM

                Do you remember the headlines when Obama apparently declared America a Muslim country on French television?    Taken from an Islamic perspective this statement is dangerous. It sounds as if the President of the United States sees America is a Muslim nation. When you consider translations, this may presented to the masses as exactly that, American President Hussein (an exclusively Islamic name)  Obama declares America to be Islamic. Thus America would be "al-Islam", or territory which may never be ceded to non-Muslims.Semantics, right? Over-reaction, right?Except, this is a long standing meme from not only the President, but also his staffers.   [...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

Elise Stefanik skewers Dems impeachment case with classic cross-examination techniques 

William A. Jacobson

She cross-examines witnesses the way cross-examination should be done: A tightly controlled examination that does not allow the witness to vary from prior testimony or to deny the obvious.

Two Jail Guards Watching Epstein Charged With Falsifying Records 

Mary Chastain

The defendants "repeatedly failed to conduct mandated checks on inmates and lied on official forms to hide their dereliction.

Samu Kerevi joked but rugbys eligibility rules are no laughing matter

Yet even if Kerevi was joking, the fact that he would not be allowed to play for Fiji is a serious matter and raises a question mark over the validity of rugbys eligibility rules. At present Kerevi ...

GRAMMYs 2020: Lizzo's 'Truth Hurts,' Lil Nas X's 'Old Town Road' and Other Eligibility Questions, Answered

Of course, with any awards show nominations comes a bit of controversy over eligibility periods and submission criteria, so we're here to answer a few of this year's biggest questions. The 2020 ...

College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults

Looks like many students are not prepared to be adults. The Daily Beast reports. College Students Need Remedial Classes in How to Be Adults Is 18 years enough time to prepare for the stresses of being an adult? For Americas increasingly fragile college studentsthousands of whom are returning to campus in the next two weeksthe []

You Can Attend an Ivy League School for Free Online?

Not a free college degree though Republican-American reports. How to go to Ivy League schools for free online Ivy League schools like Harvard and Yale come with a lot of prestige. But another thing these famous schools are known for are their high tuition costs. Fortunately, with the popularity of open education and technology, there []