So, it’s all about jobs. There’s a lot of validity to that. Without a job, households and lives can fall apart pretty quickly. Let’s look at some of the numbers as provided by the ThinkProgress War Room (as shown to me by my friend Marc Liu)
Now that the first Presidential test is in the books, the US media will relentlessly pound away at explaining it to us. Most of the media won’t be far behind Fox News. I think there’s several facts that we really need to remember:
1) In Iowa, fully 60% of the Republicans attending the caucuses are white Evangelical Christians. They are not just virulently opposed to womens reproductive rights and LGBT rights, most are opposed to public education because it teaches the Theory of Evolution rather than Creationism. And for many of them, these “social issues” are more important than war, the social safety net, the economy, education, etc. And these are the people that should define the issues for the Presidential election?
2) How many people actually vote in the GOP Iowa caucus? About 122,000. That’s One Hundred Twenty-Two Thousand voters. Slightly more people than attended the Rose Bowl yesterday. Less than the population of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. So this tiny spec of population is more influential in the choice of our next President than all the people in California, New York, Texas, etc. But don’t despair, the next big Presidential test is New Hampshire….
3) Many people think American Democracy comes down to how much you spend on TV advertising. It didn’t work out that way in Iowa. Rick Santorum, who finished in a virtual tie for first with Mitt Romney, spent $20.59 per vote in media advertising. Mitt Romney spent $155.43 per vote. Even the renegade Ron Paul spent $103.64 per vote. And Rick Perry? He spent a whopping $478.87 per vote. NOTE: These dollar totals ONLY include media advertising. They do NOT count all the other costs of a campaign like offices, staff, donuts, etc.
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“In African and other oral cultures… stories and histories were shared communally between performers and their audiences, giving rise to version after version, each new version surpassing the last as it incorporated the contributions and feedback of the audience, each new version layered with new details and twists as it was inflected through the collective. This was never thought of as copying or stealing or intellectual-property theft but accepted as the natural way in which culture evolves and develops and moves forward. As each new layer of interpretation was painted onto the story or the song, it was enriched rather than depleted by those layers.” — Lawrence Lessig, REMIX (via Regulation by RegularJOE)
Sounds something like an early version of hitRECord.
(Source: wirrow)
This is what happens when i can’t sleep….remix remix remix !
by Elayne
A short history of hitRECord !
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