Can We Foster Care These Children???

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Wednesday June 20, 2018 · 7:02 PM PDT

2018/06/20 · 19:02

Quick thought here…...can we Kossacks volunteer to Foster Care these poor children that have been ripped from their parents???

First of all the kids need some sympathetic care, which my wife and I can provide and DHS is unlikely providing.

Second, we would absolutely pledge to reunite these kids with their parents come hell or high water. DNA testing, finger printing, whatever it takes to hook these kids back up with their parents or guardians. Any thoughts by anyone how to accomplish this task?

My wife and I attended licensing classes and were licensed as Foster Parents 25 years ago in Illinois, but our license has long lapsed.

My basic question — how do we locate these children to foster? DHS or where??? I read here on Kos that someone was organizing a map showing where these kids are being moved to. Can someone provide this info?

If anyone else would be interested in participating in such a charitable endeavor, please advise.

"Substantial Doubt" that iHeart Media will survive

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Thursday November 09, 2017 · 11:57 AM PST

2017/11/09 · 11:57

Just a quick note…..I saw a news flash come across my MarketWatch screen yesterday that captured my attention. This news flash (www.marketwatch.com/...) reports that the parent company of iHeart Radio is sinking like a rock:

The company IHRT, -33.33% which also owns billboard ad company Clear Channel Outdoors Holding Inc. CCO, +5.19% is currently in talks with lenders to restructure and refinance the massive $20 billion of debt it took on as part of a $24 billion leveraged buyout of then-Clear Channel Communications Inc. by private-equity firms Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners in 2008.

Based on the uncertainty of achieving those goals, “management has determined that there is substantial doubt as to the company’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of 12 months following November 8, 2017,” said the filing.

According to Wikipedia, iHeart Media is the owner of the radio consortium that airs:

Programs that appear on many iHeartMedia talk stations include the Glenn Beck Program (Beck having gotten his talk show start at iHeartMedia (then Clear Channel) owned WFLA (AM) in Tampa), The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Sean Hannity Show, America Now with Meghan McCain and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, all of which are affiliated with Premiere Radio Networks in some fashion. The Mark Levin Show and The Dave Ramsey Show are non-Premiere shows who air on many (if not most) iHeartMedia stations, as did The Savage Nation prior to its ending in September 2012. Limbaugh is almost universally carried on iHeartMedia stations in markets where the company has a news talk station, including recently New York City: WOR was acquired in 2013 by Clear Channel and began carrying Limbaugh's program in 2014 following a long relationship with now-Cumulus Media-owned WABC. In markets where iHeartMedia-owned news talk stations have not been profitable (such as Boston and Atlanta), iHeartMedia has chosen to sell shows such as Limbaugh and Coast to Coast AM to their rivals and change the stations to other formats.

While most of iHeartMedia's news/talk stations carry some combination of Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity and Noory (of Coast to Coast AM), this is not always the case. Many stations (particularly in the larger markets) like KFI, KFYI, KOA, WZZR and WLW broadcast a lineup with significant local programming.

So what this is telling us is that the radio network that broadcasts Rushbo, InSannity, Beck, et al is in deep deep deep shit financially. Now, what exactly does ‘going concern’ mean? As the AICPA explains

“Going concern” refers to the concept that users of financial statements can expect that the company will continue to operate in the near future unless conditions or events occur that may contradict that assumption. Even in a strong economy, companies can lose significant contracts, face cash flow problems or be in danger of missing loan payments.

A public announcement of a ‘going concern’ is usually followed by bankruptcy - either reorganization or liquidation. (Those darn “cash flow problems”!) Years of FlushRush and other endeavors to cleanse our AM radio airwaves are finally bearing fruit!!!

It is wonderful to see that this news comes at the same time as the r’s are shitting their pants over Trumpism, Virginia and the failures of their candidates in that and other elections across the country, and Mueller’s relentless investigation which has already begun to bear fruit.

To me, looking at the situation from 20,000 feet, I see a republican party in disarray and showing signs of implosion across many fronts. Even Paul Ryan, in his Speaker’s noon press conference today, could not emphasize enough how critical their tax plan is for getting the repubs re-elected; he was pleading, begging and dang near crying for passage.

So anyway, good news about our public airwaves getting some hope of fresh air in the future. Keep the faith, baby!

Ammon Bundy: God Made Me Stupid

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Sunday January 10, 2016 · 7:05 AM PST

2016/01/10 · 07:05

Let it be told far and wide:

God told him the cause was righteous, Bundy said.

What motivates a guy praised as:

"...one of the best people you'll ever meet," said Ken West, 67-year-old manager of Valet Fleet Service. "He's very God-oriented. He believes in family and he believes in the Constitution."

...to do these things? He’s not particularly welcomed by the good ole Americans he’s trying to fight the “cause” for:

I wish they hadn’t come here,” Dwight Hammond said

All of this gets Patriotically explained in the attached article from the freedum-loving AZRepublic newspaper. www.azcentral.com/...

Guess his Daddy, Cliven Bundy, must be REAL proud of his son — the old ‘chip off the old block’, huh?

What drove the Arizona business owner to think he could defend a family he'd never met in a small ranching community on a windswept range he'd never visited

I’m gonna quit right now with this diary — I just can’t go on anymore. I already hear snark alarms going off everywhere. :’(

Just read the article for a delightful insight into this Murkin Patriot from his closest friends and associates. It’s either hilarious or pathetic…..I’m still trying to decide.

Scottsdalian is retiring.

Scottsdalian

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Saturday February 28, 2015 · 10:40 AM PST

2015/02/28 · 10:40

Not the person behind Scottsdalian, but the screen-name Scottsdalian.

Reason? I'm not going to be living in Scottsdale, AZ anymore.

Explanation: My job is taking me to San Francisco!

Tragically, Scottsdalian will not be able to finally enjoy urban living in the City of San Francisco. (Atrios would be sad.) The City is just soooo damned expensive, Mr and Mrs Scottsdalian just couldn't justify. ;-(

Instead we have to return to the humdrum of suburban living once again. ;-(

Within the next 3 weeks, I will be officially departing Arizona. Top 10 thoughts I'd like to share about Arizona and moving:

1. Mother Nature did an AMAZING job when she created Arizona! Some of her finest work! Then someone fucked it up with white people.

2. A hunnert years ago, Arizona was a pretty miserable place to live. People HAD to be hardy to survive. And they did survive. Folks here pretty hardy - in Wild West terms. i.e.: guns, tough sheriffs, every-man-for-himself toughness, etc.

3. Arizona does truly represent the last of the old Wild West Days. Still lots of cowboys here (think Shurf Joe A.). And lots of cowboy thinking. (Ya know, them cowboys wasn't too smarts)

4. Tea Party THRIVES here. Lot's of 'em. And they are running the show. Each one of them tries to out-crazy the rest - a race to the bottom. Whaddya going to do???

5. I tried to openly espouse progressive ideals. These ideals were not only rejected, they were ridiculed as "that librul bullshit". The same old me (moderate???) was magically transformed into a "raving liberal" once I crossed that AZ border. I have grown to accept that title, if only in AZ. Many other places - that's considered "normal". sighhh

6. In one relatively short drive of 750 miles, I will again magically transform - from ultraconservative AZ to ultraliberal San Francisco California! Me and Mrs. Scottsdalian find that quite liberating!!! Like we can breathe again!!!

7. Ironically, Mr and Mrs Scottsdalian do not rule out an eventual return to AZ for our retirement years. It's cheap living down here. I am essentially swapping my Scottsdale house for my CA house price-wise, but what a difference in lifestyle! Same price both cities, HUGE difference in lifestyle. Gotta admit......Scottsdale is a REALLY nice area to live. (It's just the people........!)

8. AZ is frickin miserable in the summertime, with stupidly-high temps. The other 7 months.....NICE! Especially compared to our hometown of Chicagoland. Chicago Winters? Stupidly-low temps. UGGHHHHHH!!! 6 months in both areas would be perfect!!!!!

9. Although Scottsdalian is retiring, his person goes on. Once we get established in our new home, I will create a new personna - but with the same witty comments as before! ;-)

10. On to our new adventure!!!!!

As you head to the polls, remember who wrecked the economy

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Sunday November 02, 2014 · 5:24 PM PST

2014/11/02 · 17:24

A really good must-read via MarketWatch:

http://www.marketwatch.com/...

The author of this article gives us a really nice, short economic reminder about WHY our economy remains in the doldrums. Any or all of us could use this in our final arguments to voters as to why they need to vote for Democrats this election.

For example, sucking a few trillion out of the economy may be part of the reason why our economy is currently rather sucky. Sayeth Rex Nutting, author:

For the 10 years between 2008 and 2017, the CBO figured that lost output would total $6.2 trillion, about one-third of annual gross domestic product.

Mehhh, much ado about nothing. Economy-stuff is too hard for most people. That's why we listen to our leaders and don't need to worry our pretty heads, right?

Understandably, very few people would say the economy is working for them.

Well, it's about time they started payin attention! And that's why the Dems are gonna sweep back into DC this week, right?

Shockingly, a plurality of voters trust the Republicans more than the Democrats on the economy, according to a Pew Research Center poll.

Se...wait, what?? NOOOOOOOOOO. IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone who trusts the Republicans hasn’t been paying attention to what their economic policies have been.

I'm sorry, I just can't go on. My head has exploded all over my puter. Let me close with this:

Voters are right to be disgusted. The economy has a lot of problems, cyclical and structural. More federal spending over the past five years would have helped solve some of the cyclical problems.
Republican economic policies have been a disaster.

PS: I have no idea who this author, Rex Nutting, is. Good guy or bad guy - I dunno, but I liked his sentiment expressed.

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