Monday rolls on out of the station

Monday June 8, 2009

. . . .Dateline: Hell, Michigan - Ya know what, it's getting a little bit more scary every day.

. . . .Holy John-Paul-George-Ringo boogaloo Batman! Jeff Tweedy and boys in Wilco have been working on a new one in that Chicago studio of theirs, and based on the track just released, it's a doozy, called "You Never Know", it 's the lead-off after the intro and the column's theme song and it's got such a Beatles vibe to it, like dead-on vibe. The second one in today is from Dan Baird & Homemade Sin, (remember the Georgia Satellites, he was their lead), it's already become my favorite road tune, called "Two For Tuesday". The third one is from Shelby Lynne, an old one, called "Jesus on a Greyhound". The others are a good mix of Steve Earle, Michael Franti, Tom Morello, Bruce and Otis Gibbs, and of course some of Ryan Bingham's new work that has a hillbilly bluegrass hard core rock feel to it. There's about an hour's worth of music, when you're done reading, just hit the little bar and minimize the window and let it play.

. . . .Caleb and Ol' Blue made it back Saturday night, in one piece and the truck is actually running well, and a religious miracle, it has power steering for the first time in a looooonnng time. Poor boy doesn't know what to do.

Tuesday afternoon update

. . . . .To go along with the charts and numbers posted below today's update, the ones posted last night Monday that give the true picture of what's going on economically, just a couple of added ones, right here:
- From the folks at CNNMoney and Fortune magazine, this all-in-one Federal bailout tracker chart, it's kind of handy to be able to reference when you have a question, or are in a discussion requiring an answer.

. . . .To go along with that, CNNMoney and Fortune posted this one comparing the opinions of Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winning economist and New York Times columnist, a noted liberal/progressive and Paul Ryan, a conservative Republican congressman from Wisconsin, normally these two are throwing verbal darts at one another and completely disagreeing on everything. On this one, they're not and they're both seeing the same disaster coming and it should scare people:

What's worrying both Krugman and Ryan is the rapid increase in the federal debt - not so much the stimulus-driven rise to mountainous levels in the next few years, but the huge structural deficits that, under all projections, keep building the burden far into the future to unsustainable, ruinous heights. "The long-term outlook remains worrying," warned Krugman in his New York Times column. Krugman strongly supports President Obama's spending plans but bemoans the shortfall in taxes to pay for them.
Ryan flays the administration for piling new spending on top of already enormous deficits. "This isn't a temporary stimulus but a ramp-up in debt followed by a greater explosion in spending and debt," he told Fortune, predicting a day when America's creditors will start viewing the U.S. Treasury as a risky bet. "The bond markets will come after us with a vengeance. We're playing with fire." Krugman favors far higher taxes, while Ryan wants to curb spending, but for now what's so big and so dangerous that it distresses such diverse types as Krugman and Ryan - and should scare all Americans - is the Great Debt Threat.

. . . .Read the rest of it at the jump here.

. . . .This is soooo sad. My attention was drawn to a automotive guy, Paul Belmaer down in Toledo, Ohio who claimed to have "done something" to the engine of an '87 Ford Mustang to allow it to attain 110 MPG, which he supposedly proved by driving from Toledo to Las Vegas on 39 gallons of gas. He further claims that he can generate 400 HP from his stock engine using his secret trick, or 110 MPG.
- First, the chemical formulation of gasoline or ethanol either one does not have enough potential energy in it to produce 110 MPG at speed, with the AC on. Sorry, it really is about the math.
- Secondly, no 400 HP car goes 0-60 in 3 seconds, as he claims, again, do the math.
- Third, Paul worked for Ford up until the recent round of layoffs. Two problems here, (a) if he'd developed it on Ford time, it belongs to them, but (b) more practically, any person with two functioning brain cells would have given it to Ford, gotten a billion dollar trademark, been instantly promoted to Head of Engineering for Powertrain and been set for life. Interesting how it happened after he was one of the many cut.
- Fourth, if he was truly working off an idea of his grandfather's from WWII, then he's truly in trouble, the carbureted engines of the 40's were, and are vastly different from today's fuel-injected, computer controlled engines.
- Fifth, I don't care what you do to an internal-combustion engine, the Laws of Thermodynamics are the laws, and thermal efficiency cannot exceed 100% (which by the way is only theoretical anyhow, the best internal combustion engines developed and tinkered with can reach 30%).
- Sixth, The factory in Wauseon, Ohio was supposed to open yesterday, Monday, but after receiving the investors money and supposedly investing it in a plant, Paul hasn't been seen since Sunday.
-Seventh, and best, there's been no verification by independent testing labs, no lifting of the hood, nothing.
- I worked for Ford and Big Oil both. Neither has roving gangs of Men In Black taking inventors out. It don't happen that way.
. . . So sad, this fits right in with pills that will turn water into gasoline, and is the type of scam that will show up continually as times get tougher.
. . .I will give him credit though, he got his 15 minutes of fame, he got the money, and he got out of Dodge. Like P.T. Barnum said , there's one born every minute, and he and the people who follow his adage make a mint off of it.

. . . .One that's been mentioned here before is my (and others) belief that Pakistan is the nexus, the focal point of the battle between the West and Al-Quaeda. Today's attack on the hotel there is more proof of that. From the Daily Beast, Bruce Reidel of the Brookings Institution:

The attack on the Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar, which left 11 dead and 65 wounded, is only the latest in the escalating war for the future of Pakistan. The Pakistani Taliban and its Al Qaeda ally believe they can destabilize the world’s second largest Muslim state—with the fastest growing nuclear arsenal in the world—and perhaps even take it over and turn it into a jihadist emirate.

Osama bin Laden made this clear in the statement he issued last week on the eve of President Obama’s visit to the Middle East. Contrary to the impression left by the press, bin Laden’s 24-minute long tape was not a message about the president’s visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. There is no mention in the tape of the president’s stops in Riyadh or Cairo, suggesting it was made before at least the Riyadh visit was announced. Instead, the bin Laden tape is all about Pakistan. For bin Laden, this is the key arena today.

. . . .On a subject that I've harped on here ad nauseum, the need to calm down the incendiary rhetoric and find a common ground as Americans, Eric Boehlert over at Media Matters:

If Fox News is going to continue to traffic in hateful rhetoric, then folks at Fox News, as well as their apologists in the GOP Noise Machine, are going to have to come up with better talking points to spin away the atmosphere of vigilantism fomented by their words and actions. . . .
. . . .The Fox News crew is going to need better talking points because I fear the violence -- the bouts of right-wing domestic terrorism -- are likely to continue. As long as Fox News and the Noise Machine refuse to back off the incendiary language that they're actively mainstreaming, the political violence, visible just months into Obama's historic first term, may have only begun. . . . .
. . . .Why the silence? Because militia-style vigilante rhetoric has become a cornerstone of the conservative media movement in America, and it's now proudly championed by Fox News on a nearly hourly basis.That's why the Fox News crew and its eager apologists are going to have to come up with a better line of defense. Because as long as Fox News peddles its incendiary vigilante rhetoric, the right-wing violence in America will continue, and Fox News is going to have to answer for it.

. . . .And the best of what I've read so far on that same subject from Larry Gellman:

What we are seeing could be the harvest of the seeds of the vile and unrestrained anger and hatred that have been planted, spread and nurtured by the sleazemeisters of the Right Wing--self-described media stars and politicians who claim to be true conservatives, real Republicans, and patriotic Americans exercising their First Amendment rights.

This gutterization of discourse hit full stride during the presidential campaign last year when Obama was characterized repeatedly as a friend of terrorists, a secret Muslim, and a person who wanted to destroy America, slit the throat of Israel, and desecrate values that all true patriots hold dear.

Since he became president, the attacks have actually picked up in volume, intensity and scariness. I have seen President Obama portrayed as a Nazi, a socialist, a communist, an enemy of Israel, the destroyer of capitalism, and a racist. And that's in the self-described "mainstream" media.

When you troll with the true bottom dwellers (Limbaugh, Hannity, Liddy, O'Reilly, Savage, Beck, Gingrich, Cheney. Levin, and such) it gets really ugly. Each of these scumbags claims to speak for the Republican party. While none holds any elective position, the party leadership treats them with deference and respect. Is it any wonder that fewer people identify themselves as Republicans today than at any time in a generation and the number continues to drop on a daily basis? Anger and hate apparently just aren't in vogue this season.

But there is absolutely no doubt that we are suffering mightily as a society from the spread of hatespeech and the decline of civility in our public discourse. The truly racist, bigoted, and inaccurate attacks against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotamayor have taken the level of discourse to a new low--not just because of the outrageous and ugly rants themselves but even more so due to the way they have been legitimized and spread by the true mainstream media.

This has nothing to do with the freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment. People are free to express their opinions--that's what makes America great. But people do not have a constitutional right to viciously attack and slander people with lies at hateful comments on our commercial airwaves. The decision to provide these vermin with an electronic soapbox is a commercial decision that is made daily by owners of radio and TV stations who are putting their desire for profits ahead of the public good.

We are paying a huge price as a society for our unwillingness to marginalize these evil people and the media outlets that provide them with airtime and credibility. Unless and until we start making better choices and acting more responsibly, we will continue to reap the bitter harvest that will continue to sprout from the toxic seeds being sown in our midst.

Edmund Burke is credited with telling us that "all that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." We can all start by changing the channel when these egomaniacal zealots are posturing or are being quoted by others and inform the station management that we are V-chipping them until they start acting responsibly.

It is not necessary or even good if all of us agree about the issues. But we cannot afford the luxury of tolerating those who are angry and hateful and want us to be the same. The one value we can all stand for is the importance of civility.

We can't honestly call ourselves civilized until we learn to disagree like grownups.

Monday June 8, 2009 Evening update

. . . .Have to give Andrew Sullivan credit for turning me on to this one. This chart is from the New York Times Economix, and here Catherine Rampell compares recent recessions and job losses to the current one. The dark blue line headed for the basement? That'd be the current one.

. . . .OK, the market can rebound all it wants to, the banks can repay all the TARP funds they want to, everyone can talk about consumer confidence being up, but here's what's on my mind.

- 23.6 million American people out of work, or forced into part-time work. Doesn't even count the number of people who have taken pay-cuts, or are taking one unpaid day a week off, or one unpaid week a month.

- A 40% rise in business bankruptcy filings in May

- A complete collapse in investment in the first quarter of 2009. real spending on equipment and software dropped 33.8%, the biggest drop in one quarter since 1958. - Again, credit to Andrew Sullivan on turning me on to this one. It's from Rich Florida in the same publication.

Green chutes optimism is misplaced. The economic crisis continues to deepen at a pace that is on par with or worse than that of the Great Depression, according to an updated analysis by economists Barry Eichengreen and Kevin O'Rourke. They conclude that even though "trade and stock markets have shown some improvement without reversing the overall conclusion - today's crisis is at least as bad as the Great Depression" (pointer via Mark Thoma).

Their first graph (below) tracks world industrial output leading them to conclude that: "World industrial production continues to track closely the 1930s fall, with no clear signs of 'green shoots."' They add that: "North Americans (U.S. & Canada) continue to see their industrial output fall approximately in line with what happened in the 1929 crisis, with no clear signs of a turn around."

- There is an absolute flood of foreclosures that have yet to hit the market, and be "recorded" numbers. The banks have yet to even list the majority of their foreclosed properties for sale, as these don't hit that market normally for a period of 90 days to 6 months after proceedings have started.

- Credit card delinquency rates jumped 11% in the first quarter of this year, according to CNN Money

. . . .So a report from the AP this morning that is misleadingly titled Recession's Impact Shows Signs of Moderating really means this:

The latest results of the AP's Economic Stress Index show the free fall that marked the autumn of 2008 and winter of 2009 gave way in April to a more controlled descent, possibly even a bottom. Still, the analysis found that pain remains high compared with year-ago levels.

. . . .That isn't "easing". That means it's still in a tailspin, and still headed down, just what? A slower "down". It's still headed down. And these numbers don't even take into account the 1/3 of GM's workforce that will lose their jobs, nor all the GM dealerships, Chrysler dealerships, the suppliers. etc.
. . .What it means is that there are already 23.6 million people without jobs, and the number will be added to. 23.6 million people who aren't laid off, but simply don't have jobs to go back to. 23.6 million angry, frustrated people, who are by the other numbers, losing their homes, defaulting on their credit cards and mortgages and, as it extends up the chain, there aren't any investors who have money to start new businesses or invest in capital with.

. . . .Part of it is this, I, along with a lot of other people was angry and annoyed when suddenly the 5 largest banks declared profits in the 1st quarter, since it looked like all it needed was an infusion of public capital to put them on the mend again. Not so fast, according to Bloomberg:

Citigroup’s $1.6 billion in first-quarter profit would vanish if accounting were more stringent, says Martin Weiss of Weiss Research Inc. in Jupiter, Florida. “The big banks’ profits were totally bogus,” says Weiss, whose 38-year-old firm rates financial companies. “The new accounting rules, the stress tests: They’re all part of a major effort to put lipstick on a pig.”

Further deterioration of loans will eventually force banks to recognize losses that their bookkeeping lets them ignore for now, says David Sherman, an accounting professor at Northeastern University in Boston. Janet Tavakoli, president of Tavakoli Structured Finance Inc. in Chicago, says the government stress scenarios underestimate how bad the economy may get.

The accounting rule changes that matter most for the banks came on April 2, when the Financial Accounting Standards Board gave companies greater latitude in how they establish the fair value of assets. Lawmakers, including Representative Paul Kanjorski, a member of the House Financial Services Committee, had complained that existing mark-to-market standards worsened the financial crisis.

. . . .The solution? No, I still don't agree with "no bailouts". That was a knee-jerk reaction. This country, most people are not ready to go to a "bankless" "no credit" society. Most people don't have the resources, and now, but those numbers up above, even a job to go to a full cash economy. Most people haven't learned to barter their skills and time in fair trade for things like groceries and gas, they haven't even figured out what their time is "really" worth. (Hint: it's not worth as much as you think it is, in many cases, and in other cases, it's worth far more)
- Example: How much would you be willing to pay me to install a solar system or wind power system in your home for a one-time cash only price in order to have at least that much power keep your refrigerator running, or your stove? How much would you be willing to pay if you had no job and no continuous monthly flow of cash to continue to pay the utility company, if those things had been cut off, and you had to go to the office and pay cash or write a check each month?
-As distasteful as it was, the banks needed to be stabilized, though I'm not certain that TARP was the way to go. Kay, a regular reader said it some weeks back, and I think she's right. The time to cut the losses is now. Let the "zombie banks" die, even if they're one of the 5 largest. Send auditors into every other bank, value their assets at 35 cents on the dollar, or whatever, and hit the "reset" button. Short term pain now for long term stabilization later, for our kids and grandkids. Otherwise, it's just this slow death.

. . . .The answers, at least some of them, lie in just that, though. Buy and shop locally. It's summer, buy your fruits and vegetables from your local farmer's market. Learn to barter, your skills, your time, your expertise for those things that you need. For one thing, that does keep if off the tax horizon.

. . . . .T. Boone Pickens, whom I respect a great deal, weighs in this morning with some timely information, a good plan and some very real numbers to go along with the ones I just put up top:

I know you think that the worst is over. Here and there we're starting to get bits and pieces of good news about the U.S. economy. Some are even saying that we're beginning to climb out of this recession. I certainly hope that's true. But one thing's for sure: we've still got our work cut out for us, and the May numbers from the Energy Information Administration prove it.

Last month, we imported 366 million barrels of oil at a total cost of $21.6 billion. Every minute in May we spent $484,087 to pay for our addiction to foreign oil. Think of it this way. By the time you finish reading this post, a couple million dollars will be gone, out of our economy for good. They won't fuel American jobs. They won't pay American taxes. And they definitely won't help us create the infrastructure or the building blocks so vital to the future our country.

OK. I've told you what those billions won't be doing for us. Now I'm going to tell you what those billions will be doing. Each month we cut a fat check to Venezuela's state-owned oil company. We import tens of millions of barrels of their crude. So not only are we propping up Hugo Chavez, but we're giving him the spending money he needs to go out and try his best to give our country a black eye whenever he sees fit.

A much bigger check goes to the Middle East, countries like Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, and Oman. You know where some of those billions end up? Funding Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. Call it what you want: protection money, payoffs, whatever. But we pay for both sides of the War on Terrorism, and we've been doing so for decades. That's got to be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of.

Back to May's numbers. If you're like me and think $21 billion is way too much to be sending overseas, then brace yourself. So far in 2009, the price of gasoline has gone up 88 cents a gallon at the pump, and 48 cents of that jump took place just last month. OPEC has said it would be comfortable when the price of oil back to $75 a barrel, and I guarantee you they wouldn't try to bring it down if it went higher.

So what should we do?

At this very moment we have a window of opportunity that must not be ignored. America can end its addiction to foreign oil, but we have to get moving. Around the world there are roughly 10 million vehicles running on natural gas. Yet only 150,000 NG vehicles can be found here in the U.S. So the country with the most number of cars on earth has the least number of natural gas vehicles? On top of that, America's natural gas reserves are enormous. By some estimates they could last a century. The fact that we aren't making better use of our domestic natural gas makes about as much sense as the way we spend half a trillion dollars each year importing foreign oil.

President Obama recently announced new emissions targets for cars and light trucks. Natural gas produces virtually no particulate emissions and, because of its chemical structure, only a fraction of the carbon dioxide emissions that diesel and gasoline produce. A major initiative to move America's heavy trucks to natural gas would save us billions annually by reducing our need for imported oil. We all know that America's auto industry desperately needs a lifeline. Building passenger cars and light trucks that run on natural gas would help retain existing jobs and create new ones.

All of us want to end this recession as quickly as possible. And we have many of the answers right here right now. What we don't have is any time to waste. Because the longer we procrastinate, the sooner another million, and then another billion, leave this country for good.

. . . .Christopher Buckley, from the Daily Beast this morning weighing in on Joe Scarborough, one of the conservative minds I trust, and his new book

. . . . .He is unsparing about the disaster wrought by George W. Bush and the Republican majority. At times, indeed, it reads like an indictment co-authored by Michael Moore and Paul Krugman. Iraq, reckless spending, the works. His insight is that Bush and the Republicans were not in any sense “conservative,” but rather radical and ideological. In foreign policy, they tossed aside the Powell and Weinberger doctrines of restraint and went pell-mell into every quagmire in sight.

At home, Bush accumulated more debt that the country had amassed from the presidency of George Washington’s to Ronald Reagan’s.

“Big-government conservatism? Woodrow Wilson Republicans? Really. Is it any wonder that the Republican Party got slaughtered at the ballot box over the last two elections?”

Joe Scarborough was one of 74 Republicans elected to the Congress in 1994, in response to the missteps of the early Clinton era. He was the first Republican elected to Congress from his northern Florida district since the 1870s, and handily won re-election three times. He takes credit, legitimately, along with his fellow conservative young Turks, for forcing Clinton to balance the budget, reform welfare and cutting taxes. (Odd how Mr. Clinton claims credit himself for those accomplishments.)

Then things went to hell (as Lord Acton would say) and we got Newt Gingrich’s tantrums and Ken Starr’s unmagnificent obsession. Then we got George W. Bush, Iraq, Katrina, and mind-boggling deficits.. . . . . . .

. . . .From Wired magazine, more on updating and improving the national electrical grid; the cheapest, fastest, most efficient steps we can make towards energy independence and lightening our personal financial load every month that goes towards our utility bills:

Problem The grid is like the adage about a butterfly flapping its wings; an outage in Michigan can cause blackouts in Florida. While utilities are investing in software to spot problems on their own chunks of the grid, they are reluctant to share that information with one another.

Solution Trust a third party. Oak Ridge National Laboratory persuaded 30 utilities to share some of their most precious real-time data in exchange for a grid visualization tool that helps everyone. The lab signs a nondisclosure agreement with each utility, then feeds the raw information into a monitoring system called Verde (Visualizing Energy Resources Dynamically on Earth) that tracks grid assets nationwide, as shown in the illustration above. Users can see where inclement weather is developing that might threaten transmission lines—if a thunderstorm is brewing in Kansas, a utility can temporarily reroute its power. Verde also receives a constant flow of real-time data regarding the health of wires, letting operators know if a blackout is sweeping southern Alabama or transmission lines seem congested in South Dakota. Ultimately, a system like Verde will make the grid more efficient. High-voltage lines frequently carry as little as 60 percent of their capacities, since utilities fear sudden power surges. If operators don't have to worry about unexpected crises, they'll be able to transmit more electricity to their customers.

. . . .From the Daily Beast, the 7 Best moments of Sunday morning talk that you missed, click the link here. My personal favorite, at least 2 of them prove the point that politicians should not be allowed to tweet.

. . . .More from Wired, an old technology gets a new look as it provides some practical, real solutions for energy efficiency in generation and transmission:

Take a jet engine hooked up to some big magnets, add some steam pipes, and what do you have? The comeback of some old-school technologies that could help solve our modern energy problem.

The idea is simple — generate both electricity and heat in the same place, but the potential benefits are big.

Unlike a traditional electric power plant, which can convert about 40 percent of its fuel into electricity but wastes the rest as heat, these combination plants capture that heat and use it to warm or cool buildings. The efficiency of combined heat and power plants can reach into the 80 percent range. If you hook up that plant to a network of steam pipes and electrical wires, you’ve got the tools to power an entire campus or community.

The United States could benefit by learning from its past. In fact, the very first central power plant, Edison’s Pearl Street Station, produced both heat and power, but in the era of cheap, abundant energy, that idea was almost abandoned.
Today, most of the time, we make electricity and generate heat in different places. We get our electricity for lighting and power from a central station located far away and transmitted to us through the grid. Heating or cooling, on the other hand, is often accomplished with on-site boilers or electric radiators. Both systems work less efficiently when they stand alone. Together, waste heat generated during the process of making electricity can be scavenged and piped around to provide climate control.

In the early 20th century as our current energy system was being built, Americans “ignored the efficiencies of cogenerating electricity and steam heat at central plants in favor of less efficient oil and coal furnaces in each building,” wrote energy historian David Nye. Heat and power got farther and farther apart.

Now, though, the century-old trend that accompanied the rise of electricity is being reversed. Many industrial and commercial entities are choosing to build their own combined heat and power generating facilities. In 1998, there were only 46 gigawatts of CHP facilities in the United States. By the end of 2008, 85 gigawatts of CHP capacity had been built.

. . .And while I'm at it, let me tell you that Tarwater and Charla have been down there at Hawkwind for over 2 decades, providing a safe space and giving folks the opportunities for personal growth and transformation. They, along with Lulu are always a blast to hang out with. Charla has some new programs that she's starting up, check her out at the Blue Star Portal.
. . . As always, for great ink and rockin' good time, check Tarwater and Lulu out at the Red Queen, up in Chattanooga, TN.

. . . .Charla sends this one along this morning, about a Gathering of Seers down at Hawkwind, and upcoming mystery school. Check it out.

. . . And another shout right here for Mary Thunder, down at Thunder Ranch, who sends along notes of encouragement to keep this going and keep on keeping on. Mary does good stuff down there, especially in helping people in recovery find a path to spirituality that works for them and speaks to them. Keep it up Mary.

. . . The Rev Charla down at Hawkwind, sends this link. I found it fascinating in light of what's going on the world these days, she's always been on top of how the information flows. It's a link to a website that spends some time with Drunzalo Melchizedek in an interview concerning the Mayan and Hopi prophecies and how they apply to this time. Check it out, it's worth your time. Melchizedek was able to gain some real insights and spend some time with indigenous elders that most of us never, or will never, get to. From my standpoint, with a foot in both worlds, his explanation in mathematical terms, especially the Fibonacci sequence, opened me up to some new things.
. . . .This one is personally important to me. I went to wonderful high school, Comstock High School, where I was given an opportunity to participate not just in sports and academics, but be part of the arts as well, being in high school plays, debate, forensics, the works. I think, if you're a regular reader, you know how passionate I am about music, (turn the volume knob UP on your computer if you don't know it by now, you'll figure it out pretty quickly), it's vital and important, music carries our soul as a society, and not everyone can be a musician, but they can be part of spreading it out and it's messages. Aimee sends this along, to help save 45 years of education radio after school, and I urge you to support it.

Many of you have met my sister Jenny or at least heard about her.
She's a good teacher and this is a good program. She loves her kids
and goes above and beyond for them and the radio station has always
been open for them.

California - you may not make it here, but please send an email and
share with friends. Course, you could always come for a visit, would
love to see most of you:)

Want to come with or meet me there? Let me know. This is a good
cause and community. If you can't make it, please email the
superintendent


WPHS 89.1 FM
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
7:30pm - 10:30pm
Warren Consolidated School Administration Building
31300 Anita
Warren, MI

Tell the Warren Consolidated School board why WPHS should stay on the
air. Are you a listener, an alumni, a current student, a parent or
just a fan of local radio? WCS is trying to shut down their student
run radio station after school- which will effectively kill the
program, eliminate the one place many kids have to go, and quiet the
voices of hundreds of future broadcasters.
Can't make it? email the superintendent
livernois@wcskids.net
or any of the board members
http://www.wcs.k12.mi.us/content/boardofed.htm
with your opinion.

Thanks
Aimee

. . . .Some days it all just sucks, and it doesn't look like there are any solutions, but those are the days, you suck it up, strap it on and go out into the fray and put one foot in front of the other, those days pass, and it gets better, you find out that you're not alone, and there are real solutions.

. . . . .Kiss your kids, tell the ones you love out loud that you do, seize the precious moments before they slip through your hands, this rodeo is a one-way ticket and no one gets out alive, and we don't get to dictate the terms and circumstances of how the ticket gets punched. It's not about yesterday, or tomorrow, it's about right here, right now. This ain't no dress rehearsal, so go change yourself and change your world, the world around you will change.

The Desolation Angel
[where: Hell, Michigan 48137]