Fresh Air America, not on KOKE AM in Central Austin

[Frances Morey]

Clark, et al,
If our society sanctions the death penalty for some criminals convicted of killing why don't we execute corporations when they kill the populace, with faulty products that they know are faulty, practices that pollute, carelessness re job safety, etc.?
Harris County is where 55% of all persons on Texas Death Row were sentenced. Could it be the Capital of Punishment? Houston, we have a problem...
 
Somehow here in Central Austin we can only get KOKE AM driving around in a car--it doesn't come in on the house radios. I heard that means we have to get cable radio to listen to Air America. How can they keep the broadcast from coming-in indoors and yet transmit into a car radio in the same area? Roger, help! Radio Shack tried to sign me up. It's just like Real Time with Bill Maher makes liberals need to subscribe to HBO. They want us all hooked up to our favorite liberal talk shows ONLY IF WE SHELL OUT MONTHLY tithes. How come is it more expensive being a liberal than a rabid hate driven conservative? I protest.
 
At election school a couple of women were wondering if they could initiate a class action suit against an employer who demeans, browbeats and otherwise takes out agression on underling employees merely calling it a "management style." I often ran into this as a temp. Many supervisors act like their mission is to be an up close and personal abuse machine. The women worked as UT staff, and I know exactly what they were talking about. People who really need their jobs often have to put up with an abominal amount of daily psychological abuse just hanging on to them. Read Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickled and Dimed. 
 
I believe that hate radio effects human conduct.
 
FM

clarksantos at earthlink.net> wrote:
Living is a privilege, not a right. Lets operate more like a humane 
society or glue factory and get rid of all the gimps and stove-ups who 
live in the beautiful hotel owned "Restful Villas" or "Garden Heights" 
as a blow to greedy doctors, drug companies and corporate profiteers. 
This process will help Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and provide 
many nice parking places close to the doors of all enterprises.

Survival of the fittest has been established for eons. If your body 
tends croak on second hand smoke, then so be it. If you can't afford 
it, cut it off or unplug it! If you don't like society subtly fucking 
you for profit or control, withdraw, move, change societies, or all of 
the above!

El Patron



On May 2, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Harry Edwards wrote:

Sorry folks, smoking is a privilege, not a right. Think public health
when you think of the ban. It has been proved again and again that
smoking, first- and second-hand, kills. Would you take seriously an
ordinance whose punishment was only a slap on the hand? The public
health issue is largely ignored in the debate over this proposed
ordinance.

Two good people whom many of you knew, Kit Teele and Jim Groenewegen,
died of lung cancer after many years of smoking. People choose to smoke
and I do not favor taking that choice away. But they can keep their
smoke out of my air and that's what this ordinance tries to address.

Harry Edwards

On May 2, 2005, at 12:50 PM, Peggy Jennings wrote:

> This morning I heard two sides to the current proposed smoking ban.
> I understand the dangers of secondary smoke and know a few musicians
> that
> have died of lung cancer, too.
> Smoking ban or not I am not likely to make any live club rich. My
> bedtime is
> way too early and my spending is limited.
> Both commentaries had good points. I am torn on this issue.
>
> The thing that gets me is the criminalization and high fines
> associated with
> the ban. Fines and punishment apply to both clubs and individuals. It
> is
> not just this issue. There are several issues working their way
> through city
> commissions that seem to have the same remedy.
> I am weary of the "there ought to be law and let's make the fines high"
> attitude.
>
> Any advise on how to vote???
> Peggy and Charley
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harry Edwards" 
> To: 
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 11:37 AM
> Subject: Fresh Air
>
>
>> Just heard that R. Crumb will be on Fresh Air this afternoon: 3 pm on
>> KUT. twisty
>

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