Cable News Ratings for Wednesday, February 6, 2013

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1. Hillbilly

   Posted February 7, 2013 at 11:50 PM

   AppleStinx – I bet that O’Reilly gets more than 3 million viewers tonight. Your carbine for my assault piano wire.

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   I hope he gets enough 18-49 viewers to put him in the daily cable ratings.

   C’ya

2. Dreamer

   Posted February 8, 2013 at 12:02 AM

   Ps. When do the changes happen at CNN?
   I might have to start watching again.
   I actually like Jake Tapper. From what I gather the White House press does not like him.

3. Dreamer

   Posted February 8, 2013 at 12:18 AM

   perdon.

4. d.d

   Posted February 8, 2013 at 4:25 AM

   Good Morning, All

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   @Mark
   ….people from both parties want to pay billions for a bunch of new tanks, even though we have a bunch of older tanks rotting in dust lots in Nevada that are sold pennies on the dollar to countries in the Middle East. As I said if somebody is truly fiscal conservative this should bug the hell out of them.

   Well, I’m conservative & it sure bothers me.

   The Pentagon has never passed a financial audit. In fact, the Pentagon is exempt from a federal law that requires all federal agencies to complete annual audits.

   The Department of Defense is the federal government’s largest agency and third biggest spending item, trailing only the amount spent on Social Security and the two big health programs Medicare and Medicaid.

   Independent reports of the Pentagon’s problems monitoring its budgets continue to pile up.

   In 2000, the GAO found that nearly one third of the accounting entries in the Pentagon’s budget were untraceable.

   In 2009, the GAO said its auditors “have continued to report significant weaknesses in the department’s ability to provide timely, reliable, consistent, and accurate information for management analysis, decision-making, and reporting.”

   The next year, the GAO found that half of the Pentagon’s $366 billion in contract awards were never even completed.

   The GAO also showed why the ability of the Pentagon to audit itself is important. Among the problems:

   The Army can’t be sure that it doesn’t overdraw its personnel expenditures account, which funds soldier pay, enlistment bonuses and other benefits;
   The Defense Department still can’t “reliably identify, aggregate and report the full cost of its investment” in weapons systems — currently estimated at more than $1 trillion — and doesn’t have enough information to manage and reduce the billions it spends each year on weapons operations and support costs;

   Databases tracking hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of Army property are improperly managed

5. Coffee Steve

   Posted February 8, 2013 at 4:44 AM

   Good Morning d.d. and Everyone

   Mayor Nanny Bloomberg is at it again, this time he’s going to ban plastic foam containers (Styrofoam)

   He’d better start preparing for the monster snowstorm headed there.

6. Ratboy

   Posted February 8, 2013 at 4:47 AM

   Goooood Morning!!!
   Well picture this, what a site, it is hard to describe, FOUR MORE INCHES OF SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @#$%^*&^^%$#^&()(*&^%$##$^&&**())(*&&^%$#@@

7. Coffee Steve

   Posted February 8, 2013 at 4:47 AM

   @USNretiredx2

   After serveral calls and reading several sources it seems all the ammo buying is no big deal, they are for training grounds which use huge amounts of ammo for training. However it still bothers me that most of the buys deal with hollow points. Seems like to do better with the budgets they would use standard ammo.

8. Coffee Steve

   Posted February 8, 2013 at 4:48 AM

   @Ratboy

   Enjoy the snow, build a Uncle Sam snowman and then… Use your imagination

9. Coffee Steve

   Posted February 8, 2013 at 4:55 AM

   Louisville’s Newspaper has a poll that ask
   Which of these is your favorite Kentucky-born actor?

   Jennifer Lawrence
   Johnny Depp
   George Clooney
   Ned Beatty
   None of the Above

   Any guesses on the results so far?

10. Ratboy

    Posted February 8, 2013 at 4:57 AM

    Two men are out just fishing quietly and drinking beer.

    Almost silently, so as not to scare the fish, Bob says, ‘I think I’m gonna divorce my wife. She hasn’t spoken to me in over 2 months.’

    Craig continues slowly sipping his beer then thoughtfully says, ‘You better think it over, Bob, women like that are hard to find.’

11. Ratboy

    Posted February 8, 2013 at 5:03 AM

    And the loons on the left think this math will work!!!! YIKES!!!!!

    Fed Has Bought More U.S. Gov’t Debt This Year Than Treasury Has Issued

    So far this calendar year, the Federal Reserve has bought up more U.S. government debt than the U.S. Treasury has issued.

    On Dec. 31, the total debt of the U.S. government was $16.4327 trillion and then-Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced that the government had hit what was then the legal debt limit. Last week, however, Congress enacted a law to suspend the federal government debt limit until May 18, 2013, and allow the administration to resume increasing the debt.

    By the close of business on Wednesday, Feb. 6, according to the U.S. Treasury, the total federal debt had climbed to $16.4799 trillion—an increase of $47.2 billon for the calendar year.

    At the close of business on Jan. 2, the Federal Reserve had owned $1.661 trillion in U.S. Treasury securities. By the close of business on Feb. 6, it owned $1.7172 trillion—an increase of $51.1 billion for the calendar year.

    Thus, the Federal Reserve’s purchases of U.S. government debt in this calendar year have exceeded the Treasury’s net debt issues by about $3.9 billion.

12. Ratboy

    Posted February 8, 2013 at 5:05 AM

    BBL, off to my board meeting

13. Coffee Steve

    Posted February 8, 2013 at 5:10 AM

    I know how some of those board meetings are Rats, stay awake dude…

    @d.d.

    *California Gives Up On Math
    State will no longer require eighth-graders to take algebra

    California will no longer require eighth-graders to take algebra — a move that is line with the Common Core standards being adopted by most states, but that may leave students unprepared for college.

    Last month, California formally shifted to the Common Core mathematics standards, which recommend that students delay taking algebra if they aren’t ready for it. Previously, algebra class was a requirement for all eighth-graders in the state.

14. AppleStinx

    Posted February 8, 2013 at 5:22 AM

    Coffee Steve wrote: “Louisville’s Newspaper has a poll that ask which of these is your favorite Kentucky-born actor?….
    Any guesses on the results so far?”

    Ned Beatty.

15. Coffee Steve

    Posted February 8, 2013 at 5:26 AM

    @AppleStinx

    I love Ned, but believe it or not he’s tied with None of the above so far, now a clue its not Jennifer either although shes doing well

16. Coffee Steve

    Posted February 8, 2013 at 5:29 AM

    @Apple

    Here are the results as of today, I have to get her test ready to take in awhile so I’ll give the results

    George Clooney 28%
    Johnny Depp 26%
    Jennifer Lawrence 20%
    Ned Beatty 12%
    NOA 12%

    BBL…

17. AppleStinx

    Posted February 8, 2013 at 7:05 AM

    Nemo’s going home
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN5V2h-2KS0

18. usa8888

    Posted February 8, 2013 at 7:12 AM

    The Rat is still bogged down in his 4th grade education and can’t understand how to revive an economy trapped in the recession caused by Bush and real estate fraud. I can understand Rat’s dilemma–he and and right wingers simply don’t have the education to figure it out. Thankfully, they are not in charge and never will be….if they would only stay out of the way and call the House right wingers and tell them not to obstruct…

19. Sicilian Papa

    Posted February 8, 2013 at 7:18 AM

    I took the opportunity to watch some reality television over the last couple of days. Our society is crumbling. This mind numbing root gut is being consumed and imitated by our young. There are other factors that are rotting our culture at the same time.

    This “entertainment” ain’t Ward, June, Wally and Jerry Mathers as the Beaver. This is secularism at it’s lowest form and it is cancer on our culture.

    We have done much better as a society in the areas of discrimination over past four decades. Although now I am a member of a group it is okay to hate white, heterosexual, evangelical Christian, conservative males. So how much progress have we really made?

20. clinging to my god

    Posted February 8, 2013 at 7:18 AM

    Good one Rat, my husband got a kick out of your joke, describes our relationship to a tee..oh wait, maybe that’s not so great..thanks for the chuckle, nevertheless…