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The 912 Project - Glenn Beck

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[Westside and George from the NW tag team on the election]

I am starting this threat to highlight our local talent. Many members are frequent callers to local radio shows and letter to the editor writers to local newspapers. Use this thread to link to our local talent doing their work. Some frequent names are Dave from Powell, Dano from Powell, George from the NW, Mike from the NW, Caller from Worthington, the infamous "progressive Man" and Westside Bob.

Here is just a taste of the fine talent we have here in Columbus. You may need to copy and paste the link. Enjoy, these are some of the better ones.

Westside and George from the NW tag team on the election

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Enviromentalist Smack Down By George from the NW

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Political Smackdown by Westside Bob

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Anti-war smackdown by Westside

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I've a little work to finish so this will happen, it's time that we do a little razzle dazzle with some of the calls that some of those mentioned make to 610 WTVN at various times during the week as well.

I know that some of these same individuals manage to get time on some of the national conservative talk radio shows too, so anyone who may be an insider who pays extra for that download of the show every day your call more than likely is there as well.

Election of Democrats dooms United States
Thursday, November 16, 2006
 

America has just passed the tipping point, and unlike global warming, this one is real, tangible and almost certain to greatly reduce the quality of life and standard of living of Americans.

President Bush wanted to reform the crippling entitlement system before it reached critical mass, but that is now almost certain never to happen, and, in fact, it is more likely to become worse. The first baby boomers turn 65 in less than five years, and talk has turned from privatizing Social Security to socializing medicine. Not only are the Democrats kicking the can to their children, they are trying to increase its size.

Considering the unfunded liability of Social Security is estimated to be more than $40 trillion, I would say that the two children who will be working for every retired parent and/or grandparent in the near future have their work cut out for them. They can thank their parents for the gift. By embracing socialism over ownership, America is repeating the mistakes that reduced Europe to a collection of once-great nations and is turning its back on the practices and principles that made it so great.

America’s history wasn’t built on billing one generation for another’s entitlements, but its future is certain to be defined by it.

Parents will be leaving their children an America far different from the one their parents left them, and one far less promising. The entitlement Ponzi scheme is like a game of intergenerational musical chairs, with parents hoping to beat their children for the last open seat before the music ends.

But hey, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s economist said, "In the long run, we are all dead."

http://www.dispatch.com/editorials-story.p...116-A10-03.html

Letter: Issue 2 will make Ohio less competitive against other states
Thursday, October 26th, 2006

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Ohio's unemployment rate is 5.7 percent, over a full 1 percent higher than the national average of 4.6 percent. Given that situation, the last thing Ohio should be doing is making our labor market less competitive with neighboring states, and that is exactly what Issue 2 will do.

Issue 2 will increase the minimum hourly wage from $5.15 to $6.85, an increase of 33 percent with future yearly increases tied to the consumer price index (CPI). That will have three huge negative impacts.




First, the higher wage will draw more illegal immigrants to our state, and demand for their services will increase as employers are given an even greater incentive to hire them.

Second, many union contracts are tied, either directly or indirectly, to the minimum wage. Ford and GM are already looking for every reason to shut down and leave Ohio, and making them pay more for Ohio workers isn't going to make them want to stay.

Also, many marginal local small businesses rely heavily on minimum-wage teenage labor, and their major and largest cost will increase by 33 percent overnight, forcing many to either shut down or raise prices.

The third major cost is stagflation. Back in the 1970s, automatic cost of living adjustments (COLAS) created a previously unknown economic phenomenon called stagflation (high unemployment and high inflation). Tying the Ohio minimum wage to the CPI is exactly the same mistake they made back in the 1970s, which had devastating consequences.

By raising the minimum wage to $6.85, we are already putting Ohio workers at a competitive disadvantage to almost every other state in the nation, and that disadvantage grows each and every year with the CPI, making us more and more uncompetitive as time passes.

Simply ask yourself: If you can hire someone for $5.15 an hour and give them raises as you see their skills and experience grow, or hire someone for $6.85 and be forced to give them yearly raises each and every year regardless of their work performance, in which environment would you chose to start your business?

Simply put, minimum wage laws are tooth fairy economics; unfortunately you don't just go to bed and wake up in the morning with a 33 percent pay increase under your pillow. If all it took were passing a law to make everyone better off, we would all be millionaires.

Lastly, what kind of a message does this send our children? That they should work hard, stay in school and EARN a decent income, or simply drop out and vote for a higher income. America isn't the greatest nation in history because it relied on easy answers and shortcuts - and passing a minimum wage amendment is the easiest of all answers, and the shortest of all shortcuts.

http://athensnews.com/index.php?action=vie...&story_id=26322

Envious Issue 3 opponents can learn a lot

If you listen to the arguments against Issue 3 you would think you were reading Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, king of class warfare. The main issue I hear against Issue 3 is that some rich race track and casino owners may get even richer by giving the top 5 percent of every school’s graduating class scholarships to colleges and trade schools. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. There are far far more people that are going to benefit from scholarships than will be harmed by these rich guys and gals creating jobs, providing society entertainment, paying taxes and giving scholarships to many many needy and deserving students.

When is the last time you heard of a city or state closing a casino? Do all these spiteful Ohioans know something that Wheeling, Rising Sun, Detroit, Winsor, Niagra Falls, and all the other surrounding cities that host casinos to poach Ohio gamers don’t know? Clearly, those successful examples prove that at least to them the benefits far out weight the costs. Personally I find it unfortunate that Issue 3 opponents will vote to prevent someone from being better off at the expense of our poor inner-city students who otherwise have no real chance of getting a college scholarship. In reality, there is a reason those rich people are rich; they think about creating generous opportunities, not destroying them.

Envious and spiteful Issue 3 opponents can learn a lot from them. While they wallow in their glass-is-half-empty world of misery, I will be voting for hope and opportunity for those that need it the most.

http://www.columbusmessenger.com/103006/we...e/letters.php#3

Letter: Ted 'Slick-Trick' Strickland pulls a Clinton during Columbus debate
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

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Ted Strickland demonstrated what a fine politician he is by proving he can lie with the truth. When asked the question "what did you know and when did you know it?" in regards to the fact that he had once had a convicted sexual offender on his staff, Ted "Slick-trick" Strickland answered that he "never knowingly hired a sexual offender." That most likely is 100 percent accurate, but it didn't answer the question, and it distracted the voters from the issue at hand.

The issue wasn't whether or not he knowingly hired a convicted sexual offender; the issue was whether or not he fired the convicted sexual offender once it was known. Not only did Ted "Slick-trick" Strickland not fire the convicted sex offender once it was discovered, he actually went on a trip to Italy with him, alone, just the two of them. When questioned about this issue by Dayton Daily News reporter Lynn Hulsey, "Slick-trick" answered "perhaps" he should have pursued the matter more aggressively. The man was never fired, and left the campaign on his own accord in 1999, after the trip to Italy.




Another demonstration of this "Slick-trick" approach was demonstrated in his response to his refusal to vote in support of the 1999 House Concurrent Resolution 107, a resolution that was supported by huge majority of 355 members. Only 13 members, Ted being one of the threatening 13, did not vote in support.

In his defense for not opposing an American Psychology Association (APA) Study claiming the "non-negative sexual interaction between adults and adolescents," Mr. Slick-trick found a needle-in-a-haystack, one-in-a-million reason to defend his vote. His tortured logic was that because the APA has done wonderful work for victims of child molestation, he was not able to criticize this one specific report.

Well Adolf Hitler built a wonderful highway system; does that mean "Slick-trick" gives him a pass on the Holocaust? Ted "Slick-trick" Strickland is bad for parents, bad for children, and bad for Ohio.

http://athensnews.com/index.php?action=vie...&story_id=26217

[Social Security Smackdown]

Social Security Smackdown

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Open Line Support for the callers

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[Robert M. Wagner]

Voters seeking change avoided labels this time
Monday, November 27, 2006
http://www.dispatch.com/editorials-story.p...1127-A8-07.html
 

While my faith in America was restored because of the recent election, I’m reminded that those such as Robert M. Wagner and Wayne Green (letters, Nov. 16) remain steadfast in looking at things only as conservative or liberal, evangelical or atheist, homosexual or heterosexual, Republican or Democratic and other divisive measures that have no impact in dealing with problems.

Instead of parroting Rush Limbaugh or the Fox "News" Channel, the majority of Americans actually attempted to read and listen with an open mind and voted to voice their displeasure in a government uninterested in doing anything to further an agenda that can help Americans and our shrinking world. Billions of tax dollars unaccounted for in Iraq, a lack of diplomacy in a world filled with too many weapons, increasing poverty, unabated genocide in various parts of the world, gasoline price-gouging benefiting a small segment of oil profiteers and numerous other domestic and international crises require real leadership.

Way to go, voters, and now let’s all use our letter-writing skills to demand that the people who represent us start working in a bipartisan way to help America and regain our status as a country to emulate.

T.K. CELLAR

Powell

Here is the letter she is referring to.

http://www.columbustownhall.com/townhall/i...ndpost&p=110363


 

There were a couple of good callers in this episode:

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George from the NW and Westside apply the smackdown:

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This is a video smackdown of WOSU callers and a good piece be George from the NW.

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Schools faced ballot box ups, downs in 2006
 
By PAMELA WILLIS  

Schools faced ballot box ups, downs in 2006
 
By PAMELA WILLIS  

Slate Hill Elementary School sixth-grader Evan Livi looks over the mural that his class created in September to honor the victims of the 9/11 attacks.
The Worthington City School District began 2006 with a new superintendent and the need to put a levy request on the ballot -- the third levy request in five years.

The months that followed have been a roller coaster of ups and downs, including a choir's trip to Japan, outstanding efforts by Science Olympiad teams, a resident shooting at a car full of seniors and voters turning thumbs down on one tax issue but passing the next.

Here's a chronological look at the top stories of 2006 in Worthington schools.

'No more taxes!'

New Superintendent Melissa Conrath began her turn at the helm trying to deal with the district's financial woes.

Treasurer Jonathan Boyd's predictions were dire as his new five-year financial forecast revealed a projected budget deficit of $22 million by 2009. School board members appealed to the public for input on levy options and held a public forum Jan. 23.

The majority of residents' response at the forum was, "No more taxes -- we can't afford them!"

Also in January, Dominion Homes reneged on a land deal with the district after making a bid of $2.6 million for 16.8 acres of land at Park and Flint roads. Citing "a slow real-estate market," Dominion pulled out and lost its $50,000 deposit. Losing those expected funds increased the pressure to pass a levy request in 2006, board members said.

Causing renewed grief to the family and friends of 16-year-old Kasey Burleson, someone snatched stuffed animals, angels, crosses and mementos that made up a roadside memorial on Bent Tree Boulevard. Burleson, a junior at Worthington Kilbourne High School, had died two months earlier from injuries suffered in an car accident at the site.

Board members in February voted to put a 6.25-mill combined operating and permanent-improvement levy request on the May ballot, including 1.25 mills for permanent-improvement funds.

 
http://www.snponline.com/NEWS12-27/12-27_woschoolsYIR.html

["Columbus’ townhall station,"]

Interesting choice of words (scroll to the bottom)...

Big changes at 2 stations cause static among fans
Friday, January 05, 2007
Tim Feran
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

They’re coming from the left and the right.

And they’re taking aim at Clear Channel Radio over planned changes for two of its central Ohio stations.

Liberals are upset that the media company on Monday will drop leftleaning Air America programming on WYTS (1230 AM), formerly known as WTPG.

Conservatives are annoyed that on Saturday it will replace right-leaning talk-show host Glenn Beck on WTVN (610 AM).

Both groups plan rallies in support of their causes.

Air America fans have also gathered more than 1,000 names on petitions to keep the programming in place.

"It would be nice to have an alternative view in this town," said Rosalie Immel of Columbus, who signed a petition. "After all, more than half of us in this county voted Democratic in the last election."

Adding to the static are supporters of weatherman Pat Pagano — who are bothered that WTVN is getting rid of the forecaster after 27 years.

Listeners of all stripes have showered the company with gripes.

"Far and away, the communiques have been in opposition to our changes," said Tom Thon, market manager for Clear Channel Columbus.

"It’s really nothing more than human nature and human emotion taking over and not liking change."

Protesters are inspired by events in Madison, Wis., where, after a heavy backlash, Clear Channel recently reversed a decision to cut Air America.

Still, Thon said, the alterations — based on "cold, hard business facts" — are likely to stick, whatever the outcry.

Bon voyage , Air America

After two years, as Clear Channel announced in December, it is eliminating a roster of liberal hosts, including Al Franken and Randi Rhodes of Air America, and the syndicated Stephanie Miller and Ed Schultz.

Instead, WYTS will air a schedule that includes conservatives Laura Ingraham and Michael Savage as well as sports and consumer shows.

"Unfortunately, central Ohio listeners did not respond to the progressive format," Thon said. "It’s been very underperforming in ratings and revenue."

The station has languished near the bottom of the Arbitron ratings for years. (Most recently, it tied for 23 rd among 31 stations.)

Yet fans hope to influence Clear Channel with the petitions and a rally — followed by a mock funeral procession — from 11 a.m. to noon Monday on Capitol Square.

"We want to say: ‘Yes, there is an audience. Let us help you as they did in Madison,’ " said Dave Daulton of Gahanna. "We want to show there is a passion, there are listeners."

Bye - bye , Beck

The decision to replace syndicated host Glenn Beck on WTVN with central Ohio talk-show host Joel Riley is likewise drawing the ire of listeners.

"Our family is very upset that we are losing Glenn Beck on our morning radio," said one fan, Jean Butler of Gahanna. "We love Joel Riley, but not to replace Glenn."

Beck supporters plan to gather at 4:30 p.m. Saturday at N. High and Goodale streets, then march to Nationwide Arena.

Clear Channel offered to move Beck to the 9 a.m. slot on WYTS.

Beck, however, called the signal too weak.

"I’ve had listeners e-mail me," he said, "and say, ‘I can’t even pick up that signal in my car, and I live in the city.’ It’s not good for our clients, for the show; it’s not good for the listeners."

Clear Channel wanted WTVN, which Thon describes as "Columbus’ townhall station," to be locally oriented.

The rest at: http://www.dispatch.com/features-story.php...0105-B1-00.html

I'm not sure why WYTS could not have a mix of ideologies. Ed Schultz has a progressive talk format that is interesting to listen to, even if I don't agree with most of what he says. He is entertaining. Laura Ingraham is OK but not spectacular and I don't get the reason for having a sports show in the middle of the day other than to counterprogram Rush. It would be nice if they brought Bob Brinker back on the weekends.

The real gain is Mark Levin at 10pm on WTVN. The real loss is having to suffer through another hour of John "Disgusting things found in the back seat of your car" Corby.

Also, I question having a local host at 9am (Riley) and a national host at 7pm on a tape delay (Hannity). I can listen to Hannity live at 3pm on 760WJR, so WTVN essentially gives me no reason to listenfrom 3pm clear through 10pm, and people will be less inclined to call Riley during the day.

 

WOW.  Was that supposed to be an insult.   :lol: