January 28, 2010 Thursday

Lisa wasn’t impressed by President Obama’s State of the Union speech. She thinks he was basically imploring people on both sides of the aisle to get it together. But in the end it’s just words. She thinks the President was trying to do good things but it didn’t happen; he should have just worked on and committed to one or two things and not so many things at once.

Lisa talked about our Constitutional right of free speech; and that money has always been part of corruption in our society. The Supreme Court ruling is giving corporations the right to give people who are running for office campaign money. If the speech is opinion speech we know money corrupts, we saw Mayor Bloomberg buy his way to his office. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor does not like this new decision because it overrules the Austin decision, which she wrote, in which she permitted Congress to restrict certain kinds of corporate political speech. In the 90’s the Austin case reversed much of the Buckley case. Lisa said the solution is more information, not less.

Lisa interviewed Kurt Schneider, a senior at Yale, who has become famous for doing musical productions. His friend Sam Tsui sang some songs that Kurt arranged. He was commissioned by the Dean of Admissions to produce a video for incoming students. His You-tube channel has over 18 million views, and he really hit it big with his version of “Journey” which was played on the TV show “Glee”. This is a star of tomorrow to watch. Lisa advised him to contact the Jon Stewart show which is completely run and written by ex-Yalies.

Lisa said Hillary Clinton is in England trying to buy off the Taliban with $500 million dollars. What are they going to do with the money? Buy more tanks and wage more war? Is that our solution, to use our hard earned tax money in Afghanistan; it reminds Lisa of how Chamberlain dealt with Hitler in 1938 by giving Hitler parts of Czechoslovakia. Mussolini, Hitler and Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact giving away half of Czechoslovakia and that country wasn’t even there at the signing. Chamberlain was happy that he appeased Hitler by giving him half of Czechoslovakia. What are we giving them money for? To make Peace? To educate their women? Fat chance- no one talks about that. Until we educate their women, their society will never progress. The war against the Islamic revolution is a different kind of war. It’s too late for bullets and tanks in Afghanistan. That should have been done on 9/12/2001. This war is about guerilla tactics, special ops and spies who speak Arabic.

Tomorrow Lisa will be on The Fox Strategy Room on Kimberly Guilfoyle’s show bet 11and 12 noon. strategyroom@foxnews.com

The author of Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger died today as did Howard Zinn who wrote an alternative version of history, called The People’s History, that is used in schools. Lisa started chatting about her own favorite books, which included everything ever written by Agatha Christie. “The Good Earth”, by Pearl S Buck, about China, and “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith are two of Lisa’s other great favorites. Also Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “A Secret Garden” and “A Little Princess”.

Lisa will continue to get first person accounts of what’s going on in Haiti. People were using their phones today and at least one person was found and saved. Lisa imagined if Haiti had been able to turn its power on sooner, so many other people could have been saved. In other news, Miramax production company is closing after 30 years.

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January 26, 2010 Tuesday

Lisa played part of President Obama’s interview with Diane Sawyer, of ABC News today. She told us that Obama said that he would rather be remembered as a really good one term President, than a mediocre two term President. Lisa thinks he should be careful what he says out loud, it could come true.

Lisa said we are 1.35 trillion dollars in debt, and feels Washington is so irresponsible about our future, about the amount our children will be paying in taxes. The Senate rejected the Obama proposal for a deficit task force, to change/increase tax code. What do you do with a balance sheet? Either you up revenue (which Republicans won’t permit ) or cut expenses (which Democrats won’t allow). Lisa is in between and said there is so much government waste and they never want to cut that. She believes they will raise some taxes and cut others. The rich will get richer, and as Gloria says, the poor will have children.

We expect deficits that within the next 10 yrs will reach 67% of our revenues. That means the average person will be spending 67 cents of every dollar earned to pay down our debt to China. China, by the way has 27 million students in advanced education of science and math. They have over 2 million people in medical school alone. And they don’t graduate with debt like the students in this country. They have organized commercial science that they put to application in society for their citizens.

Katharine Weber, who wrote the book True Confections, was Lisa’s guest today.

Katharine has won many awards for her writing, she also wrote Triangle about the Triangle shirt factory fire. This new book, True Confections is the fictional story of Zip’s Candy, based on authentic candy company history. Most of the candy companies in this country were bought out by other candy companies and many were disbanded. Kraft is now buying Cadbury. Katharine will be at the Westport Library, Monday, February 1 for a book signing. For Katharine’s fictional company Zip’s Candy, she made up a jingle and you can go to the website to enter a contest. People believe the fictional characters are real. Katharine is trying to get people’s attention with this book. She is interested in family business. The first generation starts the business, the second generation builds it up, then between the third and fourth generation is when the business can go down hill.

Lisa said the first Tea party convention is going to be held in Nashville. Lisa wants to know what they stand for. She thought it was libertarian and rejected the government spending. She now thinks it is turning out to be a conservative party like the Republicans instead of a third party. Lisa wanted to know about one government program that has really worked well. Lisa believes we need to be careful of government control.

Haiti still expects more earth tremors.

January 25, 2010 Monday

Lisa was wild and witty today. She talked about the Gallup poll, what it indicated last year at this time, and what Barack Obama was left with when he became President. Today he has an approval rating with a 65% gap between Democrats and Republicans. This is the largest gap in the history of our Presidents. Only 23% of Republicans gave job approval for Obama. Obama made 46 trips overseas this first year of his Presidency to try to repair international relations that the Bush messed up. If China changes its currency it will increase the price of everything we buy. The poll showed that the elder Bush was the least disliked President in terms of the difference between what Republicans and Democrats thought of him since Johnson. Lisa believes there is a glimmer of an edge for a third party to run in the future.

Obama's solution to the economic crisis is too little and has the wrong philosophy. He wants to double child care tax credits available for the middle class. Big deal. Lisa thinks he should make ALL higher education tax-deductible, as long as there is no hateful education being espoused in the institution. She thinks the middle class needs jobs, and relief from education debt. Lisa also questions why we (still) are in Afghanistan when Gen. McChrystal is already talking about negotiating with the Taliban. It's like they are already negotiating our exit- what are we doing there? Not our country, Osama bin Laden is most likely already dead, and the terrorists know how to move on to other countries like Yemen where they can regroup. The Afghanistan strategy is a loser and Obama knows it.

Lisa also talked about single parenthood, whether by divorce or some other situation that took place, like death of a parent. She talked about Angelina and Brad breaking up. Of course their six children will be affected. Lisa believes that children need both parents and said a woman’s self confidence and self esteem will come from the way her father treats her while growing up. A father has a lot of influence on how a young girl will present herself as an adult.

Haiti is not forgotten, and there are some CT attorneys who are offering free information clinics on immigration amnesty for Haitians on February 6th.

The National Book Critics Circle finalist were announced today and for fiction, Lisa didn't recognize a single name. So much for being a reader- she had a good joke at her own expense.

Lisa also admitted to her own prejudices and asked us to do the same.

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Monday January 11, 2010

Lisa talked about Sarah Palin becoming a contributing commentator on the Fox News Channel; she is to have a multi-year deal with Fox and host a series which will run from time to time. Lisa feels she is unqualified to comment on anything. Sarah apparently didn’t (even) grasp why there was a North Korea and South Korea. She had tutors who went over world history with her. The book “Game Change” came out by two editors of Time magazine which talked about what various things were going on in the presidential campaign.

Ellen Whitehurst, a frequent contributor to the show, was the phone guest. Ellen spoke about a word she invented: Feng Shuistrology. She wrote the book “Make This Your Lucky Day”. Lisa said she believes in spiritual signs and signals; she doesn’t believe in coincidence, and you can find and establish connections if you just look for them.

Mayor Bloomberg of NY wants less salt used in our diets, in NY restaurants.

News stories that Lisa talked about were China being the number one in auto sales, and three elements that are happening in China concerning why military escalation, population escalation and industrial domination were on her mind.

China surpassed US auto sales in the world. Thirteen point six million cars were sold this year in China. Yet China is a bad place to be if you want a second child, as they force women to have a second child aborted, even into the ninth month.

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