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It is thursday morning, ahead on this final day of 2015, we look back at some of the most significant stories of the year. We look forward to you joining in on the conversation with calls and comments, tweets, and facebook postings. Our face our phone lines opening, for republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. If you are an independent, 2027488002. Getting your comments on facebook. Com cspan or send us a tweet at cspanwj. Thank you for being with us. Happy new year. Lets begin with some of your comments on our Facebook Page. This is from democrats for liberty saying our lgbt brothers a...

Of the torture thing which is is something where i was chained to the ceiling and hosed down with water with fans blowing on me. And i said how are we going to do this and they said were going to do it but not for very long. That set up a precedent for the hole film. That was a very frightening thing to go through. A point you brought up which is the idea that peoples desire to be involved in helping the imaging of this completely depends on what they believe is how they are being portrayed in it. And that gets very complicated. Its a public they report they are trying to not to get in trouble...

Do you still write your songs down with paper and pencil . Yes, i do. I have always carried a little recording device of some sort. They used to be pretty big, but now they are quite small, and i always carry a pen and paper, and i am ready if something occurs to me. You mentioned merle travis. What other musicians . Ry cooder is my favorite guitar player, but there are many others to choose from. There was an album that was a formative for me. Paradise and lunch. There was a guy coming up called tom rush who played here at the cellar door, and he played in boston at the 47. I really pattern m...

President ial candidate, how to deal with the stop light, how to spotlight, how to deal with the national politics. She may be the smartest politician ever and she may be able to come out of alaska to handle all of this. But i will give her three weeks. Three weeks, well know if this is real. Three weeks to the day, she did her interview with katie couric, which effectively ended it for her. I thought they might make [laughter] i thought that they might make a conservative choice, someone who had at least a taste of the National Stage or, which was more of a consensus in the political committe...

Shana Hadley, the granddaughter of the late artist JD Mayhew, recently began a mission to bring her grandfather's art to younger generations. A well-known etcher, former owner of the JD Mayhew Wildlife Gallery in Mendocino, and local nature activist, Mayhew died in 2004.