On Sep 15, 1:31*pm, Too_Many_Tools wrote:
On Sep 15, 7:37*am, "Ed Huntress" wrote:









"Gunner Asch" wrote in message

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On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:40:18 -0700, a friend
wrote:

On 9/14/2011 8:57 PM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

"Pete C." wrote:

Don't get too used to your "free" broadcast tv/radio, broadcast is
dying
since they have not found a new business model that will work in this
age of competition. You can readily see the death-twitching in the
flood
of scam advertising (colon cleanser scam, work from home scam, payday
loans, etc.) that broadcasters would never have accepted in the past.
Now they are desperate for ad revenue and will accept anything, which
only drives away move viewers/listeners. The consolidation of broadcast
to a few big companies cut overhead and bought them some time, but soon
even that will not help ad revenues meet operating expenses and
stations
will be going dark.

perhaps you have heard of a thing called "public radio", in which
willing participants pay their radio station? *No advertisers required,
and the ones in my local area at least receive virtually no government
support. *I guess that's not conservative enough for you guys though,
what with people voluntarily paying for content, yet allowing some
others to have the content as well, without paying. *Maybe when the
republicans own the country they can confiscate the airwaves and
eliminate our right to listen to radio that we choose to pay for - that
would be good for business, I imagine - steal from the public and give
to your friends in exchange for money contributed to your election
campaign.

Odd isnt it that standard AM radio is heavily conservative..its content
is heavily conservative...Rush, etc etc etc..and is paid for by
conservatives..and owned by Conservatives.

Of course it is! They did a survey, and they've counted how many of your
pickup trucks have coathangers in the antenna sockets.

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LOL...good one Ed...and right on.

TMT



Methinks I'd like to consider myself "comfortably poor".

Modest upscale house paid for. 1 year old car paid for. Well-
equipped manual work shop paid for. DVD player for the odd movie or
photographs. No consumer debt. 1993 RX7 toy car needing some work
on the engine now. Maybe engine re-build after 180,000 Km???

2 computers; IBM Think Pad 10 years old and a Dell whiz-bang 3 years
old. Digital camera 7 years old, digital video camera 1 year old.

Modest irregular income but at high $ per hour. Modest pension. Some
savings and investments to provide that "warm and comfortable
feeling..."

Soon after my wife died I discontinued the cable TV as I found it
unwatchable, and only listen to the radio when I must drive through
Toronto in order to get the traffic forecast.... this usually too late
to avoid traffic jams.:-)). Get my news from the 'net.

Rarely do I go out to eat; I buy a lot of my food semi-prepared since
I am a lousy cook. My cleaning lady suggested that I take cooking
classes... something to consider and maybe meet a hot babe??? Yeah,
dreaming in technicolour here as there was only my one Mary.

I go to a lot of club meetings though for interesting conversation.
Glad that this season is now beginning.

Now I am in the process of reducing the recurring bills. Thank god
natural gas is cheap, but electricity is a killer. I just got my
bill of $330.00 covering from mid June to mid August. This includes
air conditioning and a 3/4 HP pool pump that runs continuously for 6
months of the year. Any suggestions on how to improve motor
efficiency here? The motor draws 13.8 full load amps... I will
measure it for actual amps but efficiency is lousy for a 3/4 HP
motor.

Some years ago we added 9" of fiberglass insulation to the attic, (15"
total), new thermopane windows, insulated outside doors, and a high
efficiency gas furnace. This has reduced the gas bill to $105 per
month for last January and February. This includes hot water and my
gas fire place used about 3 to 4 hours every night during the winter.

For comparison, in 1981, for a house with 1/2 the roof area of my
current digs, the heating oil bill was $125 per month for January.

Too bad my wife is not with me to enjoy all these comforts she
contributed so much to..... But nobody ever said that life was fair.

Here is a cute anecdote of our 35+ years together:
Whenever I appeared to be searching for something my wife would ask
"What are you looking for?" To which I would reply with my standard
line of "fame, fortune, fast cars, and loose women". To which my wife
would reply "Well dear, 2 out of 4 isn't bad, is it?????"

Wolfgang