@#$%$#&@!!! PBS

[eeyore kelly]

How long and what temp?

About 30 mins on 300

 

[Marseeya]

8 oz softened cream cheese
8 oz sour cream
3-6 stalks thinly sliced green onions
small jar chopped dried beef (Armour makes it)
1/2 tsp Accent (yes, that's MSG )

Using a mixer, mix together the cream cheese and sour cream until smooth. Add green onions, dried beef, and Accent and mix well. Refrigerate for about an hour.

Serve in a hollowed out bread bowl or with crackers.

 

[bicker]

Un-hijacking the thread... (because hijacking is disrespectful, IMHO, and confronting disrespect with disrespect makes things worse, not better.)

But there HAS to be better ways to get people to give them money than to beg the way they do.

There are two other viable ways: One is commercial broadcast television; the other is premium pay cable service. The problem with commercial broadcast television it is that if you want to rely on it to fulfill any specific public interest, there needs to be sufficient profit in doing so, and in the case of children's programming, for example, there is a greater public interest in NOT driving children's programming with profit-motivated advertising. Premium pay cable service has two major problems. First, folks generally only want to pay for things that they categorically cannot get any other way. There have been premium services directed at children in the past that have failed due to lack of interest in the market. Second, premium pay cable service's appeal is limited to the more affluent among us, due to the (ahem) premium charged.

Some public stations offer patrons a deal: They open the phones for pledges a few weeks prior to the pledge drive, and promise that for every certain amount raised before the pledge drive starts, they'll shrink the pledge drive by one day. If there were enough people who wanted to avoid the pledge drives then you'd figure they'd get more than enough pledges in advance, but they don't. I can only conclude that either too few folks find the programming sufficiently worthwhile, or too many folks don't mind the pledge drives.

Wait, you don't have $$ to donate to PBS but you have cable? You have no room to gripe that PBS is doing fundraising.

Nobody truly has "room to gripe" about PBS doing fundraising. It is what it is. They've never promised to be anything but what they are. Actually, even if you've donated tens of thousands of dollars to them, there is no rational basis to have an objection to their doing as they do.

How crude.

I think that's really the issue more than anything else, here. There are a variety of ways of expressing the same thoughts. I've found that expressing thoughts respectfully, with sensitivity towards those the thoughts are directed at, is far more appropriate than undisciplined venting. However, as I indicated above, I don't believe that justifies returning disrespect for disrespect. That's not what makes a Community.

 

[Tiffann4k]

I did not. We don't have the money right now.
Besides, if PBS goes off the air, well that's what we have cable for. There's always Disney channel and TickleU on Cartoon Network and a host of other fine children's programming out there. PBS is not the be-all end all of children's programming.

And before somebody starts in..we only have 'extended basic' which is the 2nd cheapest package they offer. "Basic" only offers local channels and for like 15 bucks more you can get 'extended basic' which has something like 50-60 channels. It's not like it's expensive.

Well we do not have cable, we did years ago but it was not worth it for all the bad programing out there. My children watch PBS and thats about it. Very educational WHOLESOME shows unlike a lot of the stuff thats on cable Yes I know there is nick Jr and channels like that but for us it wouldnt be worth it to spend $40-50 ( and yes that is about what the basic in our area costs) for a couple channels when the kids have been watching PBS for the last almost 9 years. So there are a lot of us out there that dont mind the "begging" if it keeps good programs on the tv.
I've seen some of the cartoons out there and I wouldnt pay to have my children watching them...sorry just my opinion...and besides most of the telemarketing is on weekends or evenings when we have better things to do than watch tv anyhow so it doesnt bother me one bit Oh and I forgot to mention that my children love to watch all the cooking shows on PBS as well We are lucky enough to have 2 channels of PBS

 

[Dan Murphy]

Good thoughts and well stated, biker.

 

[AmazingGrace]

At least you all still HAVE PBS. Our PBS comes from New Orleans...need I say more? Out of all the things my ds is excited about with the move to Texas, he can't wait till he can watch Arthur again!!!

 

[Zurealsoon]

At least you all still HAVE PBS. Our PBS comes from New Orleans...need I say more? Out of all the things my ds is excited about with the move to Texas, he can't wait till he can watch Arthur again!!!

Good point...there's hundreds of thousands of kids in the greater New Orleans, North Shore and Mississippi gulf coast areas ,who no longer have PBS, or a home, or a school.


My grown kids learned to count in Spanish before they went to school, thanks to Sesame Street. How anyone could call the folks who work there "dogs"...and especially a lunch room lady.

 

[dumboiu]

I know I should not respond to the poster by telling her that her statement is moronic.....so I won't do so. But, I feel like doing it......is that wrong????

 

[UncleScrooge338]

I TiVo'd the Jim Brickman concert

Money is so tight that you cannot afford to send PBS a donation, but you're paying $12.95 a month for TiVo's service?

 

[wilderness01]

Thank you for all the great recipes. I'm having a party this weekend and I needed some appetizers!

 

[JulyGirl]

Besides, if PBS goes off the air, well that's what we have cable for. There's always Disney channel and TickleU on Cartoon Network and a host of other fine children's programming out there. PBS is not the be-all end all of children's programming.
TOV

PBS is really educational for children. You can't compare it to Cartoon Network.

 

[kydisneyfans]

I personally don't care for PBS but understand why the funding is needed.

The problem right now is that everyone seems to have their hands out for money, and unless you REALLY benefitted from baby Bush's tax cuts (read 1 million or more in income)-you are being squeezed to death by gas prices, heating, higher interest rates and so on. We only have so much money to give.

Our son has learned more from Dora and Blue than Barney and Arthur, but I watched Sesame Street several times a day as a kid-and everyone else should have that same opportunity.

I do not donate to PBS as I feel other organizations have a greater need right now, including the Salvation Army and my local church.

Just my .02 worth.

Now for the recipe:

buy a box of macaroni and cheese-read the side of the box, and 15 minutes the recipe is done.

 

[pearlieq]

You want to watch/enjoy PBS, but you don't want to support it? Furthermore, you're offended by their attempts to fundraise? You call them "dogs"? Whatever...

I can't even begin to explain how messed up your original post is.

Now on to the important part of this thread: appetizer recipies!

My current favorite is Cream Cheese Penguins - they're just so darn cute!

You need:

18 colossal olives
18 medium olives
2 large carrots
1 tub veggie cream cheese
frilly toothpicks.

Slice the carrot into thin rounds. Set aside. Drain all olives. Cut a slit from top to open in the colossal olives and stuff with cream cheese, making sure there's some showing through the slit.

To assemble: Take a carrot round a cut out a small triange. These become the feet. Place the stuffed colossal olive on the feet. Top with a medium olive. This is the head. Run a toothpick through the whole creation--the little frilly bit makes a cute little plume. Finally, take the bit of carrot you cut out and poke it into the medium olive to make the beak. You may need to cut a small slit in the medium olive to get in in there.

 

[Marseeya]

You want to watch/enjoy PBS, but you don't want to support it? Furthermore, you're offended by their attempts to fundraise? You call them "dogs"? Whatever...

I can't even begin to explain how messed up your original post it.

What bothered me was her saying that she didn't have money, but in the same breath mentions cable and Tivo! I'm sorry, but when I don't have money, Tivo and cable sure aren't in my budget. There were plenty of times when PBS was all my kids had to watch because I couldn't justify spending money on cable when we were broke.

I PBS!

 

[tjmw2727]

I haven't read the entire thread I will jump in and then read some more!

Since my dd's were small we have always given at least what we paid for cable to PBS. Before we had cable that was all my dds could watch so it made sense. They are 8 and 10 now and still love zoom and reading rainbow as well as some of the documentarys and how to shows.

IMHO there is no comparison between the pbs shows and the cable, disney and nick shows. Disney and Nick MAKE Money from their shows via profits from ads and toy sales. PBS needs your money to MAKE their shows in an effort to educate and inform children and adults. I love Disney and Nick but I see a big difference.

TJ

 

[mum4jenn]

How anyone could call the folks who work there "dogs"...and especially a lunch room lady.

THAT comment is uncalled for. People (including me) that make a living by feeding America's school children do NOT deserve that comment. Is it a glamorous job? NO. Does it pay well? NO. But YOU get in a kitchen where the temperatures reach at times over 100o and have to wear an ugly hair net and cook food for hundreds of children and see if YOU can do it.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

I just want to point out, that I am sure TOV is not the only person with this attitude. "oh well, there is always cable"

That is why PBS is in the fight for it's life right now. And it get's more dreary each year. With cable expanding what they offer for children's programming, PBS is desperate.

TOV, your signature announces to the world how you feel about Sesame Street. That show has been on the air for almost as many years as I have been alive. Still winning awards. It has 3rd or 4th generations watching. How would you feel if your baby boy did not have Sesame Street to tune into in 2-3 years? His critical pre-school years? No more Elmo, Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Oscar, or my personal favorite , GROVER!

You obviously have no idea how Public Television works. At least I hope you don't. I would hate to think that someone who understands the need for PBS to do what it does, would come to a public message board and call them dogs for asking for money.

 

[goofygirl]

I like PBS. I admit I don't donate, but I enjoy some of their programming.

This week they are going to air the Cream reunion concert!

if they interrupt, I will tape it, then just FF through the pledge breaks.

 

[Jcricket Fan]

Our PBS channel is CPTV which brings us the UConn Women Huskies Basketball the most supported program in PBS history.

Without CPTV and donations from the viewers we would never be able to see the basketball games. I know for those who do not follow Womens Basketball it's no big deal but here in UConn territory there is nothing better.

bicker, this year they have just started the pledge over the needed amount and they will bring us a pledge free game. It's a hoot when they talk about it because they tell everyone that they know we don't want to be listening to them ask for money all the time so they only want to bother us every few games!

We gladly support them and the programs they bring.

Colleen aw:

 

[KoalaJanie]

With a small bit of research on your internet, I've found an alternative to our pumpkin juice is a mixture of 1 part apple juice to 2 parts pineapple juice, with or without a dab or two of coloring is quite close...

I am also very fond of your gummy worms. Mmmm, chewy. Harry still prefers the Mars bars here, but you do have some brilliant confections there. We've better chocolate, but you do make some very nice sweet stuff. Except the gummy spiders. Those still scare me.

Better chocolates over there?! NO way! Belgium and Germany makes the finest chocolates in the entire world bar none!

(sticks leg out and trips poor Ron Weasley)