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On today’s show, Jeff Orlowski (@jefforlowski) the director of the new documentary Chasing Ice which tells the story of the “Extreme Ice Survey” a project to gather undeniable photographic evidence of the global climate crisis.
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12:12 pm
MR is trippin’ again?
12:17 pm
Had audio stream issues on the site. Stream is now back up. Sorry!
-Matt
12:12 pm
No show today?
12:14 pm
Not according to yesterday’s e-mail blast: “On Wednesday, I’ll be taking your calls and IM’s to help you navigate the minefield which is gong home for the holidays and seeing your right wing relatives, with my famous “Helping You Navigate The Minefield Which is Going Home For The Holidays and Seeing Your Right Wing Relatives” Show!”
12:16 pm
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12:18 pm
We had audio streaming issues on the site but the stream is now back up. Sorry about that!
-Matt
12:30 pm
We are aware of the Ustream issues that we are now having.
-Matt
12:36 pm
Breaking News: Hillary Clinton just announced a Cease Fire Agreement in Israel/Gaza.
Just now on MSNBC
12:47 pm
Stuart Millar @stuartmillar159
Clinton begins with heavy praise for Egypt: “new govt assuming responsibility and leadership”
[Clinton allowed the Egyptian Prime Minister to first announce the cease fire because he worked on it for days now.]
12:58 pm
Matt Bors @MattBors
This @RubenBolling cartoon is goddamn brilliant. http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/tom-the-dancing-bug-bill-o.html …
O’Reilly’s Nightmare!
1:08 pm
Greg Sargent Greg Sargent @ThePlumLineGS
The @AP reports that the truce includes a deal to allow freer crossing across Gaza border: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/diplomatic-push-for-israel-hamas-cease-fire-gains-momentum-but-deal-remains-elusive/2012/11/20/19943b0c-3376-11e2-92f0-496af208bf23_story.html?hpid=z1 …
1:18 pm
if you save $25,000 per year on average for 18 years you saved $450,000… if you earn 5% you will have about $800,000
add one year to 19 years saving about $30,000 a year would get you about a million
and you can buy a lifetime payout life annuity a get $3500 a month for life
So GoldmanSachs Murray Gurfein is wrong! about beiung able to work 18 or 19 years and retire for 30 to 40 years
1:20 pm
Lloyd Blankfein is sooo wrong you can retire after 18 or 19 years of saving about 30% of your income…
1:28 pm
Walmart workers have no unions, ergo Walmart can’t go to NLRB for an unfair labor practice act against their union, because there is no union!
1:42 pm
The logic is flawless!
1:45 pm
And the situation is one entirely created by Walmart’s own crack squad of anti-union brainwashers and fear-mongerers. For example: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0511-03.htm
1:36 pm
Netanyahu is about to speak about the cease fire.
1:40 pm
Sam should consider having a discussion w/ David Pakman about the Israel, Palestine conflict.
If you are unaware of Pakman’s opinions then checkout his YouTubes about the subject.
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5:39 pm
How to deal with right-wing assy relatives:
1) Say nothing during political discussions. This will hone your self discipline.
2) While you are saying nothing have a smug, self-satisfied smile on your face, occasionally interspersed with a an expression of indulgent sympathy.
3) Believe me, they will understand perfectly, and it will make them crazier than any words you could possibly say.
1:39 am
Well said Paris.
4:02 pm
Re: Bob’s remarks about the increase in doctors’ compensation, doctors will say they have to charge so much because they have to pay skyrocketing malpractice insurance premiums, and then grumble about litigious lawyers.
Medical malpractice victims and their lawyers aren’t the problem, and “tort reform” i.e. capping damage awards, isn’t the fix. In fact, according to the nonpartisan National Bureau of Economic Research, “[d]irect costs of malpractice, which include premiums, damage awards in excess of premiums, and associated litigation costs, represent no more than two percent of health care costs.”
http://www.nber.org/bah/2009no3/w15371.html
And these costs represent about one-tenth of the real driver of health care costs, which is the $124 billion annual cost of treating the uninsured:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glenn-d-braunstein-md/medical-malpractice_b_1761443.html
Doctors may be paying large insurance premiums, but insurance premiums do not go down in states which pass tort reform, only in states like California which enacted insurance reform and required insurance companies to open their books, and even that seems to allow for a generous 200% profit:
http://www.protectconsumerjustice.org/while-injured-californians-face-damage-caps-medical-malpractice-insurers-have-record-surpluses.html