Death Cab for Elmo

sometimes it's easier to weep for a puppet... (0.00 / 0)

"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." Albert Einstein

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by: susaninrindge @ Wed Feb 16, 2011 at 14:08:54 PM CST

John Reagan told me (0.00 / 0)

that public TV was duplicating what other educational resources provided.  Damn it, nobody duplicates Elmo!

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by: Lucy Edwards @ Wed Feb 16, 2011 at 14:24:31 PM CST

What about this guy? (0.00 / 0)

Or this trio?

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by: Jennifer Daler @ Wed Feb 16, 2011 at 14:30:24 PM CST

I misremembered the lyrics (0.00 / 0)

The way I (mistakenly) remembered it, the song in the second video went "Sununu! Sununu! Sununununu!"  I like the actual lyrics much better.

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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Wed Feb 16, 2011 at 15:06:28 PM CST

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If you do go look for who voted which way... (0.00 / 0)

You have me to thank for that.  I called for the roll call.  I called for quite a few roll calls this week, and got both thanks and evil eyes from both sides.  On the job is on the record, and transparency means putting folks on that record.

And for the record, yes, I did vote for this. While NHPTV is a valuable resource to many, this vote was a clear message to NHPTV to reform.  It certainly doesn't end NHPTV - they have other resources beside the money that they got this way.  NHPTV is NOT going away as a result of this vote.  

Steve Vaillancourt's posted the salary figures over on nhinsider (not linked to avoid SusantheBruce's wrath), but the CEO makes $150k a year, there are 3 others making $96-97k a year, moving down thru a variety of positions, including Auction Director for $60k and so on.

I wonder how many people who make a pledge to support during a drive realize how much the CEO makes.  Would they pledge so much if they knew?

NHPR gets no state money at all and provide a great deal of original programming.  If NHPTV needs to tighten their belt, NHPR proves it can be done without our aid, and still done well.

If ending giving $5 million to NHPTV means that we can keep social services worth $5 million for the elderly, children and others in the most need in the budget, seemed like the right choice to me, especially since it's NOT the end to NHPTV - they have plenty of other funding sources open to them.  The elderly, children and those in the most need can't usually get anyone to do pledge drives for them, or get sponsorships from the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (to name one of the common PBS sponsors so familiar that we all know it by heart)

In the immortal words of the Count, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... 5 million dollars. (THUNDER CLAP) aha ahhh ha!  Now we just need to find the rest to balance things out, now that the Governor's given us his version of the budget.

BH's token Republican / Libertarian / TeaPartier / Free Stater, courtesy of a Federal Affirmative Action grant, despite many of his comments being marked down and hidden.

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by: SethCohn @ Wed Feb 16, 2011 at 21:37:12 PM CST

And now we know (4.00 / 2)

why Seth avoided the thread about Speaker O'Brien's $75,000 assistant, like the plague.

He can muster all kinds of outrage about salaries for talented people - but was utterly silent about the outrage of having to hire a babysitter for the inept Speaker of the NH House.  NH is so starved for revenue that the GOP is passing fake tax cuts to make themselves look good, buffoons are putting forth bills that will cost the state millions (like pee-testing food stamp recipients and broadening the death penalty) - but we're paying for the $75,000 man.

Remember Craig Benson's $150,000 CIO - the highest paid state employee, ever? The guy who did nothing but pick up a paycheck for almost a year, and quit just before he'd have to report in on his accomplishments?

Why are voters dumb enough to think Republicans are fiscally responsible? Every time they're the majority, they prove otherwise.  

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by: susanthe @ Wed Feb 16, 2011 at 21:52:08 PM CST

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Like the plague? (0.00 / 0)

Sometimes, silence speaks volumes.  Sometimes it just means I don't know enough to have an opinion.
Sometimes it just means that I don't have to comment on every thread, and am content to let you rant about the Majority party's every move.

And I oppose both the peetesting and the death penalty expansion, btw.

BH's token Republican / Libertarian / TeaPartier / Free Stater, courtesy of a Federal Affirmative Action grant, despite many of his comments being marked down and hidden.

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by: SethCohn @ Wed Feb 16, 2011 at 22:35:53 PM CST

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sorry Seth (0.00 / 0)

but that's a pantload. You find time to comment on what you want to. Now, if Speaker O'Brien had hired himself a barber, you might have found time to comment....

Your silence on this issue, which extends into your post - sez plenty.  

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by: susanthe @ Fri Feb 18, 2011 at 14:33:29 PM CST

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A conspiracy of spin. (4.00 / 1)

Vaillancourt goes on radio and says the problem is scarce money and poor programming: "I don't want to take money that could pay for schools and use it to pay for Lawrence Welk."

His colleague Rep. Cohn comes here and says that the issue is, some people in the organization earn too much money.

They don't give a damn about logic or consistency. They simply use the whole world as a public focus group. If any particular "explanation" gains traction they will start using it.

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by: elwood @ Thu Feb 17, 2011 at 06:02:06 AM CST

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The Speaker has (0.00 / 0)

already said that any "savings" or "surplus" will go to tax cuts, decidedly not to the poor, children or the elderly.

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by: Jennifer Daler @ Thu Feb 17, 2011 at 13:42:23 PM CST

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You are a clever man (0.00 / 0)

with a quick answer for everything.  But you fail to persuade.  I wonder why.  

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by: Lucy Edwards @ Thu Feb 17, 2011 at 15:35:14 PM CST

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sometimes (0.00 / 0)

you just can't polish a turd, Lucy. To Rep. Cohn's credit, he does have an industrial sized can of Pledge.  

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by: susanthe @ Fri Feb 18, 2011 at 14:34:55 PM CST

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