h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

C-SPAN Highlights

Tonight
• Progess & Freedom Foundation: FCC Chairman Michael Powell (8pm)
• BBC "Newsnight" on Dr. David Kelly Inquiry (8:45pm)
• NGA with Interior Secretary Norton & Gov. Richardson (D-NM) (9:15pm)
• NGA with Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge (9:45pm)

Are those Eastern or Central times abbi? My online tv guide for this evening on C-span just has a big block called 'Primetime Public Affairs' from 7pm-10pm.

That's it probably.
I think I have Co as my locale(time) on that site. It does not say in the email I get. I watch it on the WWW

I'll check the C-Span website

http://www.c-span.org/watch/index.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS2

http://www.c-span.org/watch/index.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS2


http://www.cspan.org/

I've got C-Span on and I've just seen the run down for the evening - the David Kelley section is on in about 40 minutes

Cable is rotting your brains, put down the remote and back away from your top boxes. TV has it's use but the habit of just having the heap big magic talky talky box on because someone is home is just rediculous. My mother, as very smart and somewhat fearsome woman (to others, not me!) did a thesis a few years ago on the effect of television watching by children before school. The results were staggering. The children who watched TV before school were not able to concentrate for as long, or think as quickly as the children who didn't. The results were quite stagggering. I may be able to get the thesis and post it! (Well some of it, it's bloody huge!).
Since then I have only ever turned on the TV to watch something specifically and the turned it off! My lifestyle and general happiness has never been better!
MH
(They do come with an off switch built in y'know!)

"Since then I have only ever turned on the TV to watch something specifically and the turned it off!"

It's rather presumptuous of you to suppose that I don't do that
I can't speak for abbi, nor would I presume to do so.

I do not have cable or sattlelite. Very little TV watching.
I listen to music and watch (listen) to some specific "tv" on the box you are looking at!

I've often suspected people could do with a good deal more vision and a good deal less television. It's nice to know it's there if you need it probably, but it's better to know it ain't really that needed, especially when it's managed by just a few companies, primarily concerned with making themselves rich.

Thanks for the links though, Abbi. I don't know that I can use them, but it's sweet that you're thinking about people that way. It's nice to have someone around interested in increasing public awareness whether through television viewing or something else.

I think the only thing that helps children much is having parents or grandparents interested in raising them and showing it. Television ain't a very good nanny really and nannies ain't very good parents or grandparents, but if that's all you've got you got to make do with it I guess. Lives of privilege do have their downsides don't they?

Ah yes! Well Gosho, not having a currently working crystal ball (bloody monkeys) I was un aware of your TV watching habits!I apologize profusely! I was making a general statement concerning the worlds propencity for unneccesary Couch potatoeing these days! That's all!

MH
(I amaze myself, I can enact personal attacks on people I don't even know, my powers are growing! MWahahahahahahahaha!)

Crystal balls are overrated anyways.

Hi, Hamish. Nice to know your powers are growing again. Miraculous what a little fertilizer mixed with beer can do. It's not only amazing. It's positively dumfounding sometimes. Keep up the good work. Someone will notice. Just wait and see.

*Thinking* Crystal balls must be a real nuciance. No wonder you have to be guarded by a horde of monkeys

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0820/dailyUpdate.html
Here is a great link about the ;love tour for the Patriot Act
There are great links. I like how they do a story and then have the links right on the words. They are excellant at backing all up with sources National or Int news.
There is a BBC link (as usual) in this article.

Hi gosho, how was the cspan show?

I wonder if we can get that Patriot Act atrocity repealed?

Not soon enough in my opinion - it was utterly sickening to hear John Ashcroft defending it yesterday in the name of the people who died on 9/11.

The Newsnight show was fascinating abbi A pity that it was presented by Kirsty Wark rather than Jeremy Paxman, but I enjoyed it all the same. Have you seen it yet?

I think if the CNN or whoever sycophantic morons get off their dead asses and start trailing the Bushturds like they trailed Nixon a generation ago, there might just be some hope of swaying public opinion enough to get the Patriot Act and the phony patriots out of the picture for awhile.

Of course they'll probably crash a few more planes into buildings before that happens trying to scare people into submission or turn off the air conditioning again or other forms of mass torment, but if people stay the course they'll probably be better off in the long term.

Amerika doesn't have a government. It's has a La Cosa Nostra commission on steroids.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0821/p08s01-comv.html

This is an editorial (same issue)pointing to the fallout and hopes of reversing aspects of it.

Oh thanks gosho! I will keep checking - it may be available today.