Dec 10, 2015

Noam Laden: Big Show--Big City WABC New York Radio.

English: Looking east across 9th Avenue and 66th Street at WABC-TV studio on Columbus Avenue on a sunny afternoon. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Brilliant show today from Noam Laden on 77 WABC New York News/Talk Radio.

Calling out Donald Trump on his ridiculous accusations about different groups of citizens in the United States, the last one being Muslims.

Setting a very poor example for someone aiming for the highest office in our country to single out certain groups in Hitler style fear mongering.

Some of the most offensive statements to this blog writer is the disrespect he directs toward a sitting President of the United States.

Seriously, someone I voted for twice and someone this blog lady stands behind 100 per cent.

Standing with President Barck Obama.

Noam Laden said today that police officers in New York City have to be removed from their regular posts in order to protect certain mosques that have received threats from angered citizens. Image result for noam laden

Noam is suggesting some of this anger rests with donald trump after stirring up the population by asking for Muslims to be banned from our country......Muslim children are afraid and a violent attack may ensue.

People, this is not right. donald makes false claims.

At the end of the day, WABC might want to consider the fact that they already have plenty of home grown talent to fill the void of Geraldo Rivera--Noam Laden always does an excellent job of creating stimulating conversation about current news issues. Like Geraldo, Noam Laden can handle the callers--agree or disagree without anger and shouting.

Noam Laden is very equipped to host a radio show on a popular New York News/Talk radio station.

WABC should keep with their tradition of Geraldo Rivera and Curtis and Kuby by letting both sides of the issue be known. It is much more interesting for the listener than the angry, shouting old, white man

With Noam, Geraldo and Curtis and Kuby we have both sides of the news--we have more information to make our own decisions.

Well done today, Noam and thank you for a good show.

Now if we can just do something about the false info on Planned Parenthood spewed by O'Reilly--stirring up hate--can we lay blame at the feet of this individual, as well.

I hope everyone can listen to my girl, Joan Hamburg at 10 AM on Saturdays--this lady has the best recipes--I can't wait to visit New York and see the things she talks about--I love Joan.

check out this post: Noam Laden--Chris Christie is donald trump with a brain:
http://theronnierepublic.blogspot.com/2015/12/noam-laden-chris-christie-donald-trump.html

Dec 9, 2015

Planned Parenthood: Could Bill O'Reilly Influence a Young Lady

Entrance to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America headquarters in Washington, D.C. Please note, this is no longer the Planned Parenthood building, this building is now under Brookings Institute. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Washington State Representative Laurie Jinkins at a rally for Planned Parenthood in 2011. Photo courtesy of CarlB104, via Flickr. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Now, just asking the question.

What do you think?

Picture a scared young lady--trying to make a decision--some would say a life decision.

Some would say a decision about health care--women's health care.

It is the choice of the young women--what are this lady's desires and choices for life.

Maybe this is a young girl in college trying to complete her own life dreams or the dreams of her parents.

Maybe it is not the right time for children.

Perhaps the girl is not interested in sharing this information with her parents.

Could the parents be judgemental and beastly--even degrading.

It might be that the girl feels it just is not the business of the parents.

Trying to make a decision--what is right for her.

Enter Bill O'Reilly.........................

Could his nightly hawking on the evils of Planned Parenthood have an influence on our lady?

Given this is a legal situation and having reverence for Bill's own point of view--would he hold sway over anyone in this decision making process?

Just wondering--what is your opinion.......

Dec 7, 2015

Standing with the Very Beautiful Huma Abedin Against donald trump

Donald Trump is leading in every national poll to be the Republican nominee for president.

And earlier today, he released his latest policy proposal: to ban all Muslims from entering our country.

I'm a proud Muslim -- but you don't have to share my faith to share my disgust.

Trump wants to literally write racism into our law books. His Islamophobia doesn't reflect our nation's values -- it goes far enough to damage our country's reputation and could even threaten our national security.

Unfortunately, Trump is leaning into the kind of fear of progress that very well could help him win the nomination. We have to be ready to stop him.

Thank you,

Huma

Huma Abedin
Vice Chair
Hillary for America

Dec 5, 2015

The Big Boys Say Thumbs Down to donald trump

The Opinion Pages | OP-ED COLUMNIST

No, Donald Trump Won’t Win

DEC. 4, 2015

David Brooks

A little while ago I went rug shopping. Four rugs were laid out on the floor and among them was one with a pink motif that was dazzlingly beautiful. It was complex and sophisticated. If you had asked me at that moment which rug I wanted, I would have said the pink one.

This conviction lasted about five minutes. But then my mentality flipped and I started asking some questions. Would the furniture go with this rug? Would this rug clash with the wall hangings? Would I get tired of its electric vibrancy?

Suddenly a subtler and more prosaic blue rug grabbed center stage. The rugs had not changed, but suddenly I wanted the blue rug. The pink rug had done an excellent job of being eye-popping on its own. The blue rug was doing an excellent job of being a rug I could enjoy living with.

For many Republicans, Donald Trump is their pink rug. He does the job that they want done at this moment. He reflects their disgust with the political establishment. He gives them the pleasurable sensation that somebody can come to Washington, kick some tail and shake things up.

But decision-making is a journey, not an early December snapshot. It goes in stages.

The campaign may seem old, but we are still in the casual attention stage. Every four years pollsters ask Iowa and New Hampshire voters when they made up their minds. Roughly 70 or 80 percent make up their minds in the final month of the race. Up until then they are busy with life and work and just glancing at the campaign. If you ask them which candidate they support, that question may generate an answer, but that doesn’t mean they are actually committed to electing the name they happen to utter.

Over at the FiveThirtyEight blog, Nate Silver looked at campaign-related Google searches in past years in the weeks before the Iowa caucuses. Until a week or two before the caucuses very few people are doing any serious investigations of the candidates. Then just before and after the caucuses voters get engaged and Google searches surge.

Silver produced a chart showing what this year’s polling would look like if we actually took the current levels of casual attention and uncertainty seriously. In that chart “Undecided” had 80 percent support. Trump had 5 percent support; Carson, 4; Cruz, 3; and Rubio, 2.

That’s about the best description of where the Republican race is right now.

Just because voters aren’t making final decisions doesn’t mean they are passive. They’re in the dressing room. They’re trying on different outfits. Most of them are finding they like a lot of different conflicting choices.

Human beings have multiple selves. The mind dances from this module to that module. When Montaigne tried to describe his mind, he wrote, “I cannot keep my subject still. It goes along befuddled and staggering, with a natural drunkenness.” In one mood Trump seems pretty attractive to some people. In another it’s Carson, or Cruz or Rubio.

But in the final month the mentality shifts. The question is no longer, What shiny object makes me feel good? The question is, Who do I need at this moment to do the job? Different sorts of decision-making styles kick in.

For example, there are two contrasting types of decision-making mentalities, maximizing and satisficing. If you’re choosing a marriage partner, you probably want to maximize. You want to find the very best person you are totally in love with. You’ll need that passion to fuse you two together so you can survive the tough times. You want somebody who can inspire and be a messenger to your best future.

But politics is not like that. Politics is a prosaic activity most of the time. You probably want to satisfice, pick the person who’s good enough, who seems reasonably responsible.

When campaigns enter that final month, voters tend to gravitate toward the person who seems most orderly. As the primary season advances, voters’ tolerance for risk declines. They focus on the potential downsides of each contender and wonder, Could this person make things even worse?

When this mental shift happens, I suspect Trump will slide. All the traits that seem charming will suddenly seem risky. The voters’ hopes for transformation will give way to a fear of chaos. When the polls shift from registered voters to likely voters, cautious party loyalists will make up a greater share of those counted.

The voting booth focuses the mind. The experience is no longer about self-expression and feeling good in the moment. It’s about the finger on the nuclear trigger for the next four years. In an era of high anxiety, I doubt Republican voters will take a flyer on their party’s future — or their country’s future.

copied from the NYT

Michael Wolfe

Henderson, Texas 1 day ago

Mr Brooks looks at fivethirtyeight, which says that those who are not political pros or serious hobbyists won't really think about the election until election year, which is still almost two months away, and one cannot go by the early polls.

But the Trump phenomenon is mostly arithmetic. From the start, about 20% of those likely to vote in the Republican primaries and caucuses were fervently pro-Trump, and the remaining 80% split 16 ways, with the anti-Trump leader having about 10%. Many thought Mr Trump would drop out after the first debate, but he has been spending little money, getting lots of free publicity, and has no reason to drop out.

Since then, Mr Trump is up to 30%, and we've lost three of the 16 who had 0%, but the 70% who would never vote for Mr Trump are still splitting 13 ways, so Mr Trump still has a big plurality.

But unlike the UK, delegates don't all go to the candidate with the plurality in US nomination caucuses and primaries. To win the nomination, Mr Trump must have a majority of the delegates, and that's something he will never have.

Here is the horrible part of trump--he is bringing out the worst of our country. Seriously, I have the same cousin--they pick and choose the facts and tidbits they want to read--all one-sided and base their judgement on that.

Ann

Chicago 1 day ago

My cousin is posting Confederate flags on his facebook page, as well as links to articles claiming all Muslims want to destroy America and lots of anti Black Lives Matter stuff.

I think that come Election Day, he'll still vote for Trump if he can. And it scares me.

Joan Hamburg: Smiling at Sardi's

Joan Hamburg is getting the last laugh.

After WOR Radio coldly dumped her in 2014 after 35 years on the air, Hamburg brought her loyal audience to WABC. On Thursday, her portrait was hung at Sardi’s.

The beloved expert on just about everything was hailed by her husband Mort, her kids Liz and John, Lorraine Bracco and Joy Behar, who sang (to the tune of “Will You Love Me Tomorrow”):

“You say you need a lawyer/You tripped and fell in the foyer/You call on Joan/She sends you Schwartz & Klein/Now you can sue your employer.”

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