There goes another weekend, and this next week and a half should pretty much suck for me, because I have a ton of stuff I need to get done between now and next Wednesday. Once that’s over, though, things shouldn’t suck too bad for a couple of weeks. At least we have Marc’s new show to look forward to. The next big question is, will it be on the AAR live stream (and, presumably, on XM, too)?
NEW YORK-February 24, 2006-Air America Radio announced today that comedian Marc Maron, former co-host of “Morning Sedition,” will return to the network on February 28, at 10:00 pm PST, when it debuts “The Marc Maron Show.” The announcement was made by President Gary Krantz.
That kinda makes it sound like he’ll be on, and it would seem kinda stupid to play Al Franken reruns when you have a new show that you’re trying to build an audience for (so as to better market it for syndication). But, on the far-out crazy chance that AAR will be both misleading and stupid (perish the thought), I have the Replay set to do a test record of KTLK tonight. Don’t forget (like I did, until just this minute), if you’re here in the East and you want to set your software up to record, it needs to be Tuesday – Saturday, 1:00 AM – 3:00 AM (not Mon-Fri; I almost screwed up, big-time). Well, I better get a move on.
First! Woo hoo! Mornin’ everybody who isn’t here, hope ya’ll have a good week! I already started mine….:gate::banana:
Ya’ think Marc is ready to beat a little coast to coast ass! :omg:
They still don’t have Maron up on KTLK’s website…:rant1::40:
The Dubai case: It’s the Corporation, Stupid
By Molly Ivins:OK, here’s for starters. We have already been warned that, should we back out of the DP deal, the United Arab Emirates may well take offense and not be so nice about helping us in the War on Terra – maybe even cut back its money, as well as its cooperation. This is a problem specific to the fact that we are dealing with a corporation owned by a country: A corporation only wants to make money, a corporation owned by a country has lots of motives.
Second, this is a corporation, consequently its only interest is in making money. A corporation is like a shark, designed to do two things: kill and eat. Thousands of years of evolution lie behind the shark, where as the corporation has only a few hundred. But it is still perfectly evolved for its purpose. That means a corporation that makes money running port facilities does not have a stake in national security. It’s not the corporation’s fault any more than it’s the shark’s.
Well nobody is around and I’m startin’ to feel a little strange talkin’ to myself…be back later..:doh:
Sorry I’m so far out of the loop but what software do I need to record Maron off the KTLK website?
morning!
I can’t open Marc’s AAR web page. Is it not up yet?
Art- if you have a pc, you need replay a/v. on yesterday’s blog, pj gave the links and some instructions. if you have a mac, there are a couple programs, I’m using hijack pro (still figuring it out).
Maddow’s voice is sharp like a scratch on a chalkboard this a.m. hope she settles down, YIKES!
Hey atnorton. If you’re on a mac there is a program called wiretap that works. Tom T told me about that one. On windows I’m not real sure…
For windows there is info here
Good morning :sheep:le!
I would give AAR another week before I try accessing Marc’s AAR web page. This place is just fine and perfect for The Marc Maron Show’s blog.
Guess he got hungry. :tongue:
hey farmerkat…thanks for taking care of that…:nod:
Did ya just hear the “Maron Minute” on Riley’s show? Not too funny but why give up your good “bits” before you can hype your own show.
Mornin Kev…that was funny hc! And so true…:rofl2:
Maybe give em’ a month :sammy:
It was alright…Hell for Maron! :spank::sdavid:
I wish the new Maron show was a 3 hour show. I think the two hours is nearly too time constraining. Like with Maddow….it’s so fast and there is so much info in those two hours. Cut an hour from Springer and Randi and give it to Maron and Maddow…:rant1:
Jason-
Thanks for that:bow::lol:
My world will be a lot brighter with Maron back.:lol:
Art
No problem Art. Why have I always called you at? Sorry about that…:spank:
could someone give maddow a gentle
nudgeshove towards TAKING VOICE LESSONS?!I think we’ll all be much happier having the funny back!:banana::alc::nod:
I think she just talks too fast and on too many topics. It’s like those damn sports reports. They speak at such alarming rates of speed that if I was truly interested I’d have a hard time taking it all in….:doh: It’s a talk show, not an auction house
I guess I could email Rachel and request she take voice lessons. I think her problems could be remedied without too much work. I was able to lower my voice and correct most of my Oklahoma accent on my own.
yes, I don’t think it would take much either. how ’bout this:
mr farmerkat’s mom made all her children take elocution lessons – from an American Indian in his basement in Oklahoma:!:
farmerkat, I’m going to use that website myself. Thanks. 😀
Angus McFarquer on Maddow! :omg:
SAM SEDER ALL THIS WEEK FOR AL FRANKEN! 😀
Today’s guests, the blogger Reddhedd from http://www.firedoglake.blogspot.com, Rep Louise Slaughter (D NY) and New Yorker’s Hendrick Hertzberg.
Jason
I’ve wondered that myself:no:
I just figured it was :40::40:
No, just kidding:rofl2:
Art
“Todd Brad, Policy Analystststststs”
I think I always read it as atnorton, like I never saw the “r” before….:doh:
it should be interesting to hear seder at that hour.
Angus wasn’t angry enough!
Has anyone tried any of the available Windows scheduling and recording software for capturing Maron’s show? I’m trying to pick something, but have no experience with any of them.
Norton- Replay a/v is what alot of us pc users have been using to capture everything. Its a good stable program and it will transfer the shows into MP3, if you want, and put them on your iPod or player too. I did a test last night and it went off great…I also made the mistake of the m-f thing….East coaster beware that it has to be t-sa because its on after midnight. Ive been capturing 3 or 4 shows per day and I always have content to listen to….as long as Im not stuck with springer or sattelite sisters Im OK and Im able to fast forward through the bad stuff, like Al singing!
Hey all. Holday here tomorrow. A bloodbath back in the late 40s. Ooops! Let’s have a holiday.
Good Morning. I heard Angus. Pretty constrained for Angus though.
Hey Kong! Long time no see! Melina: feelin any better?
They had another Maron and Earl bit on the Riley show again…:fire:
beemer- let us know how it works out. We should start a page or folder of this info. I was an early buyer of the replay and Im happy with it…also am happy because there is tech help here thanks to PJ and those of us who have used it a little longer. But its probably OK to try those others…as long as you can receive big attachments someone form here can always send you a show if your player misfires or something.
I hope that the station in LA knows that alot of people will be streaming this show and is prepared for that. I would hate to have my replay get a busy signal and miss some of it.
Make sure your player is set to keep trying to connect if busy!
Jason- a tiny bit better but really achey round the ribs from all the coughing. The codeine works grest in that I go to sleep but the min it wears off Im up coughing.
I think Im going to get better now. Its been a long, long time since I had anything like this…its debilitating…and I have so much to do. Oh well…
My poor kid is still sick and coughing but I forced him to go to school because he is on the upswing.
Thanks for asking. It was a black hole of a weekend….I listened to alot of Majority report though. Im really glad that Jeaneane is back…and Sam is hosting Al this week so we get to see what it will be like when Al leaves.
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Despite what the KTLK website would have you believe, Windows Media Player is not the only way to access the station stream.
Opening the following address in Real Player will also do the trick:
http://www.ktlk.com/cc-common/streaming_new/index.html
Comment by Kary — February 24, 2006 @ 7:18 am
Wow Kong- 30,000 civilians killed. I cant fathom it, especially when its the government putting down an uprising. Then they supress the information for all those years…wow! Bush/Cheney coulda done great in that government back then…they’d be perfectly happy rewriting history and blacking certain things out!
I guess the new polls are showing that HIllary is very far ahead of Gore or anyone else…that it cold very well be Hillary and McCain in 08….oh gloom…
On the other hand, if Hill could win we might get that national health plan that we need so badly….but we might also be at war already with Iran by then so who knows.
I think Marc’s show is gonna be on from 11-1 for me until Daylight savings ends. I may have to get Replay/av this week.
I want to hear from XM on this. I may call them today.
Hi Kong! You always bring a wonderfully historical aspect to the blog!
Melina, hope you have a good humidifier running – helps with the cough.
i have not yet heard back from xm either.
(i emailed maddow about her voice 😳 maybe if someone else does, too, she won’t think I’m the lone nut-job and dismiss my gentle suggestion.)
I’m having trouble with ReplayAV. I did a test last night to try to record WLIB and it couldn’t find the signal. Can you do manual recording, or do you have to pick from their list?
If someone could post the EXACT settings (other than time, of course) for ReplayAV to make sure it records the show properly, I’d be most grateful.
I set my McAfee firewall to let ReplayAV send any time, is that enough?
Right now I have it set for Stephanie Miller at 9; I hope it works.
Springer on the Radio!:omg:
The Springer show keeps screwing up Nicki! Ha ha! :rofl2:
Is it Friday or Monday, Friday or Monday? I guess it’s Friday! Ha! :doh:
Brill- I have subscribed to all of my feeds through replay by finding what the old show was…ie to get Rachel I subscribed to MS and then changed the time and name.
If you want to add a feed you can get the address of that feed by clicking on the orange XML button on the page of the show and a page of code will come up. You need to copy the URL address from the top of the page into the address area of replay. I will look for the import a feed buttin…there is always one.
For Rachel’s show the address I have in my replay box is http://www.replay-video.com/user/redirect-station.php?id=7698format=REAL
But I dont know if that is a general address or what…and it is an address to a show and not just to the station. They are slow to update.
If you go into the guide and into find a station and into popular stations you will find AAR right there. you can add shows and adjust the times and names. I did that and it works fine.
I wouldnt do WLIB 1190 am but rather AAR. If you do WLIB you might get the black shows that they sometimes play in the night. Its the local stuff…you want to national feed…right?
Where is PJ when you need him!
What is Supply-Side Economics?
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Supply-Side economics was dubbed “Reaganomics” by the media. If you were for Reagan, that meant you were for it. If you were against Reagan, you were against it. That’s as far as public understanding ever went.
Even today three decades later few people beyond economists familiar with macro-economic theory know what it is. Liberals think it means tax cuts for the rich and call it “trickle-down economics.”
Libertarians believe it is a variant of Keynesian economics that fuels consumer spending with federal budget deficits. Conservatives believe it means leaving more money in the pockets of those who earn it. Other people think it means that tax cuts pay for themselves. President Reagan’s vice president, George H.W. Bush, said it is “voodoo economics.”
Supply-side economics is none of these things. It is a theoretical innovation in macro-economics.
The two professional economists who had the first insights into supply-side economics were the University of Chicago trained economist, Norman Ture, and the Canadian economist, Robert Mundell, a Nobel prize-winner in economics.
I knew both. When I was a professor of economics, I reviewed for Mundell scholarly contributions for publication in the prestigious Journal of Political Economy of which he was editor. I served in the US Treasury with Ture.
Supply-side economics corrects a fundamental mistake in Keynesian economics. Most everyone has heard of supply and demand, but Keynesian economics, known as demand management, left out supply.
In Keynesian economics demand is the important element. Supply responds to demand. . .
http://www.counterpunch.com
Is there a free recorder for Mac? :rant1:
I guess it’s Monday again! :paranoid:
Springer sucks! :rofl2:
I know! I am confused.:omg: Have you debated Hannity, or are you preparing to debate Hannity?:rofl2:
I thought you hated Springer. Why are you listening to him?:rofl2:
Farmer, I dont have a problem with Rachel’s voice but she gets a little squeaky when shes being not-funny…she has a good news reading voice….anyway…I think its one of those things that you have to get used to or not. I dont think she can make it any deeper or she’ll sound like a guy.
One of my stepmothers past had a very high squeaky thing going on that was SO annoying. She became the food person on news channel 4 in NYC and always tried to take voice lesson to get rid of that….I guess broadcasting wasnt the thing for her because it didnt work…though I was horrified to hear some women’s minute from the west coast that she does, so I guess she does little bits here and there…really annoying. But Rachel is perfect compared to that one!
background noise, and it’s great when this kinda crap happens! :tongue:
I am listening to WABC NY, curtis and kuby…though curtis has just gone off to court to testify against Jr Gotti who tired to have him killed some years ago…its still in the courts all these years later…Better with just Kuby. He is a good liberal.
What are you praising Hannity for, Springer? You need lessons from Malloy.:omg:
Springer does get some interesting callers. :peace:
I thought that case was over Melina. I guess not. You know we even have the Angels here in Tokyo! :fire:
True, but he often has a lot of right wingers call in and he just sucks on their toes! :no:?And like you said Nicki: Take some lessons from Malloy…:mad:
Curtis is such a strange guy…but compelling to me because I grew up here and I met him and his wife once when I worked on a benefit party for the Angels. His ex-wife Lisa is a reporter on fox local here at 10PM weeknights….and he just had a kid with his new young wife….its incredible how long its been…but those Guardian Angels really made a difference at a time when NYC was pretty rough.
I’ll take Stephanie Miller over Jerry Sringer anyday anytime! BUT MARON WAAAAAYYYY OVER ANYONE ELSE!
Guardian Angels, not Hells Angels…just to clarify
ZNet | Race
U.S. Racism and Fear: Nothing New
by MickeyZ ; February 26, 2006
The recent uproar over the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Dubai Ports World demonstrates not only a woeful lack of understanding on how U.S. ports work; it also exposes anti-Arab racism across the spectrum. Even if one accepts the presupposition that Islamic terrorists represent the most serious threat to world peace, it’s remains racist to assume guilt based on ethnicity.
Racist…but nothing new.
Two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 giving the army the unrestricted power to arrest-without warrants, indictments, or hearings-every Japanese-American on a 150-mile strip along the West Coast and transport them to internment camps in Colorado, Utah, Arkansas, and other interior states to be kept under prison conditions. This order was upheld by the Supreme Court and the prisoners remained in custody for over three years.
Thanks to an unending wave of anti-Japan propaganda, there was little public outcry. A Los Angeles Times writer defended the forced relocations by explaining “a viper is nonetheless a viper wherever the egg is hatched-so a Japanese-American, born of Japanese parents, grows up to be a Japanese, not an American.” It was no better in neighboring countries.
“Canada enacted similar removal and internment programs,” says historian Daniel S. Davis. “Many Latin American countries were shaken by anti-Japanese riots. Some shipped their Japanese people to the United States at the urging of Washington … Ironically, after the war ended, the U.S. government tried to deport these Latin American Japanese on the grounds that they had entered the country without passports or official visas.”
Life in the internment camps entailed cramped living spaces with communal meals and bathrooms. The one-room apartments measured twenty by twenty feet and none had running water. The internees were allowed to take along “essential personal effects” from home but were prohibited from bringing razors, scissors, or radios. Outside the shared wards were barbed wire, guard towers with machine guns, and searchlights. The atmosphere was often charged with a hostile discomfort.
While 110,000 Japanese-American men, women, and children suffered in prison camps, the U.S. media whipped up a post-Pearl Harbor frenzy of fear on the West Coast. If one were to believe the news reports of the day, it was always just a matter of hours until Japanese Zeros were spotted over the Left Coast. In January 1942, Edward R. Murrow stirred up fifth column worries by telling an audience in Seattle should their city be attacked, they’d “be able to look up and see some University of Washington sweaters on the boys doing the bombing.”
Despite such xenophobic paranoia, the FBI admitted: “We have not found a single machine gun, nor have we found any gun in any circumstances indicating that it was to be used in a manner helpful to our enemies. We have not found a single camera which we have reason to believe was for use in espionage.”
This did little to ease the minds of men like California attorney general Earl Warren (later chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court). “I believe that we are just being lulled into a false sense of security,” Warren declared, “and that the only reason we haven’t had disaster in California is because it has been timed for a different date.”
Sound familiar? Now, if you really wanna get the racists in your life worked up, remind them that most of the world’s shipping is dominated by Chinese firms and the UAE operates a port in Venezuela.
http://www.zmag.org
Yeah, you’re right. I should be listening to Miller. I use my AAR widget which is tuned to AAR’s stream.
Jerry’s on Fire!:omg:
Plug for Springer from Bill Maher!:omg:
:love: JAMES WOLCOTT!
Yes…guardian Angels…though I have to say that the Hell’s Angels , Altamont notwithstanding, have kept the east village pretty good…at least their area of east 5th st…I guess there are the murders now and again and drugs here and there, but they do like a nice neighborhood.
I wasn’t trying to say anything bad about the Hells Angels, I was just clarifying that we have Guardian Angels here in Tokyo because I first said just “Angels”
:peace:
Hey, y’all. Yes you can add recordings manually in RAV. Next to the media guide button is one for manual add.
Here’s the URL I use for the AAR live stream (right-click on that and select “copy link location” or “copy shortcut” or whatever it is in the browser you use). It’s the realMedia stream, and the timeout is set for 6000 minutes, which is really good for actually live streaming. RAV will shut it down based on the schedule you set, so don’t worry. I recommend you get Real Alternative instead of RealPlayer, too.
You can generally just add stations/shows from the RAV guide, but they don’t always work, so you need to check by “tuning in” to be sure.
Another URL you can use to manually tune in KTLK is here (again, right-click, copy link). They use Windows format.
Radio Tower is another good place to find streaming radio stations (you have to be sneaky in finding the actual URL to add, and these are all in RAV’s guide – which is also on their website, and you can add from there). You can also add Shoutcast URL’s to RAV, if you want. Make sure you use stream capture as mp3.
Good luck.
Pj, once again comes in and saves the day! :bow:
Goodnight ya’ll from the land of the :bow: and these :gate:
Later my lovely seditionists! :love:
Hey Melina. A couple years back, I got bronchitis really bad that turned into pneumonia. I got the snot-line codeine cough syrup, too. The first dose I had put me to sleep for a long time (which was a great relief). I saved some for when I wasn’t sick anymore, put it didn’t do much for me.
The pneumonia dragged on for several months, and even though I was up and about, it was like my batteries were just about dead. I got this from having to fly to Minneapolis via O’Hare during Christmas (also when we were at Code Orange, with guys in Darth Vader suits and helmets roaming the airports with machine guns – very odd), breathing recycled air from several hundred diseased fellow travellers, and sitting on the floor, exhausted, at packed O’Hare.
It was when I started to realize that airports had become shopping malls surrounded by airplanes.
Well, the good news is that I think Im getting better. But Im being cautious and making myself rest as much as possible today.
I had some virus last year…coxsackie?…and it lasted 2-3 months, so Im not messing around. Im just gonna use the codeine at night if at all. I cant take drugs anymore. My body just says no.
The whole world is diseased. I have been so careful this year with the hand sanitizer and all but everytime you go to the supermarket you put your hand on a cart or product where some sick kid’s snotty hand has been…it hasnt been much of a problem for me in the past and Im always surrounded by snotty handed sick kids, but there seems to be a shift in what is going around and how quickly it gets better…or Im just old and growing frail…? I sure dont bounce back like I used to. and I push myself too hard.
oh well…at lest it hasnt become pneumonia…but it could have, if I had listened to the Drs….
The guy in the emergency place said that he never would have put me on this incredibly strong antibiotic that I put myself on because this is viral. But then the viral changes to the infectious and….so, Im glad I did that…even if Im creating super bacteria in my body. This has been bad enough as it is. and I hope it’s over!
I love to hear the impeachment thing bantered about so much. I have been saying it since the beginning and everyone laughed at me….whos got the last laugh now!???!!
I want more than impeachment…I want them in JAIL!!
Now that probably wont happen but…maybe the legacy can be ruined.
Hello, seditionisti! I think some of my Replay AV problems had to do with my sound card. I downloaded the enhanced variety from Replay AV and things seem better. I still can’t make the URL finder work so I copied the address you gave us, PJ. The next thing is to test it and then buy the full version, I guess, since I don’t want to just get 15 minutes of Maron’s show.
One thing about computers…you’re never quite “done.” There always seems to be more to learn, more to buy, more to fiddle with. I barely have time to do household chores (which isn’t SUCH a bad thing). 😉
Yeah, I know I hate being sick (there’s just no time in the schedule for that), and it doesn’t happen very often. Every now and again, I start to feel a little something coming on, but it seems to go away. It’s tough for me, too, because my wife is a nurse, and I get no sympathy whatsoever (that will get me a smack when I least expect it). A few years back, I got up and started the morning thing, and one of my eyeballs had apparently exploded overnight. This wasn’t “red” eye – the whites were literally filled with blood. So, I kinda flipped out and showed her (mind you, my sister, a respiratory therapist who deals in snot and other nasty shit was so freaked out she couldn’t look at me – grossed everybody out; it was pretty funny), anyhow my wife says, “eh, it’ll get better.”
That’s the way it is with nurses – especially former hospice nurses – you gotta be exsanguinating all over the kitchen floor to get a raised eyebrow out of ’em (and then, it’s only to tell you to go stand in the bathtub if you’re gonna do that). Then you get to hear about all the horrible shit people can die from. Oy. Our “courtship” involved me coming over, and her getting beeped to go out on hospice calls, so I’d ride along and then sit in the car while she redid a catheter or attended a death or any of a number of other things for hours (thank God for the oldtime radio on the NPR station). Sometimes in some pretty seedy parts of town, too.
I got to see how the funeral dudes pick up people in some odd situations. I mean, steps so steep you’d never believe they could haul people down. One time, we pulled up at a death, and the folks next door were having a barbecue (grilling, having a few brews, your basic labor day weekend sort of thing). I thought, “hmm, this’ll be interesting,” and they eventually pulled the poor person out (husband and wife team, too), traipsing right past the festivities. The picnickers kind of looked the other way, and a little sad for a moment or two.
It was definitely nice having my wife around when my mom died (and all the shit she went through leading up to it), though. I wish she’d been around when my dad died. There, hopefully that’ll mitigate the smack a bit. 😉
melina: how SWEET of you to offer to help walk me through replayAV. I tried the link to email you, but it didn’t work, unfortunately. :fustrate: in any case, mondays are my hell days because I teach really late in the evening (I’m supposed to be preparing, right now, as I type :lol:), so I won’t be trying to set up replayAV until either late tonight (after 10pm) or tomorrow afternoon. but, if I get desperate, I may just have to take you up on your kind offer.
god, seditionisti really are The Chosen Ones. :love::banana:
Patrick, did you watch Six Feet Under? Seems like you could have identified with that show. I loved it….
Six Feet Under is a big favorite at our house. Sad to see it end, but, damn, what a great finale. You know, how the hell a TV show can make a grown man cry is beyond me. It was weeks before I could watch it again.
I LOVED 6Ft Under too! the finale made me cry like a baby…it was so cool, so moving, sooo “deep”!
Yeah, SFO (oops, I mean SFU!!!) was an amazing ride, wannit? I was sorry to see it end myself. What a brilliant show…. At least The Sopranos will be on again soon.
Now listening to Stephanie Miller for the second time, mainly to avoid the ubiquitous, singularly inane, overly repetitive AAR commercials which pretty much drive me insane! :billcat:
Becky
SFO (Six Feet OVER)
dlp- you can mail me at doubter@optonline.net and Ill send you my number and if youre stuck Ill try to help. Im usually up till 11-ish, though these days its depending on when I take my codeine cough syrup…and will be around tomorrow too. I also think I can send you the show if youre unable to get it saved tonight…according to sean I can…and he sent me nina simone last night so it should work if you can receive large attachments.
Anyway, we’ll get this figured out between the brain trust here…and then it will be automaticly put wherever you want it.
And SFU used a clip from Morning Sedition with Marc, so how much better can ya get?
God I loved that show too…wasnt it Sam Mendes show? That finale was so great. It was supposed to answer any question anyone oculd ever have and it really did 100%.
I never missed an episode.
I actually am interested in the new convicted Dick Wolfe show that they are previewing on iTunes because it seems to feature one of Claire’s boyfriends.
I am so fond of all of those actors…can hardly stand to see them in any other roles.
I really like the L Word now…the sex is a bit much, but not in that its L, just that its too much…I think that sometimes these shows do that because they can and its expected. I dont know if it really forwards the story. The characters are pretty great though…its sorta like Sex in the City but more serious…and its L of course…
But it actually makes being and L look pretty good in some respects. Oh well…another great thing I missed out on;-)
Has anyone been watching that Pot smoking PTA mom one? I’ll probably have to catch up on DVD with that…as Im doing now with 24….
AND as if having Marc back wasnt enough this week, we get another regular season of the Amazing race. I love that!
I am reluctant to buy Replay AV because my DSL service is so erratic. It’s Earthlink and they drop me off fairly frequently and also have gaps where I’m not exactly offline but not on. Damn them.
HA HA…it just dropped me off. JUST NOW!!! I can’t believe that. Bastards!!!!
👿
SFU was an Alan Ball show, Melina. I don’t get anything other than HBO so I haven’t seen those other shows. The new HBO show about polygamy, Big Love, might be interesting.
Why aren’t we talking about the issues??? :rant1:
PJ- poor you in nurseland- My brother in law was a nurse and then went back to school at NYU and became a lawyer…so its a double whammy! Then after doing medical law for a while he got tired of the corporate thing and took a job at the NYC archdioses where he does the catholic charities hospitals and rubs collars with the tip top of the gold crown set. Of course its a nightmare over there because his friend (who brought him in) is in charge of the sex cases etc…things are bad in catholic-land!
But I know what you mean about those nurse people having no heart for that which is close to home…and then perfectly caring when putting in an IV or helping an old person with ear wax…then comes home and my sister could be dying of asthma and hes just like, whatever….
I think hes getting better as he gets older and he certainly is insane about his kids…
When I was so sick over the weekend and trying to decide fo I should go to the emergency room the one thing I said was that I DIDN’T want him to come over here and take my pulse or whatever it is he does….
Sure, hes handy to have around, and when the minister for my cousin’s wedding last year had a heart attack mid ceremony, it was great how everyone turned to him….but for these personal things…forget it!
Whats so funny about Big Love is that HBO had to release a statement saying that this family is definitley NOT Mormon. Apparently the MOrmon church has outlawed this sort of thing so they want it clear that this family is not one of theirs….and so I guess they are a fringy Utah family who just marry alot because its fun!I think that they try too hard to be edgy sometimes.
I love FX’s Rescue Me with Dennis Leary too. I think thats on basic cable. I hope thats coming back.
Now that was a good talking to Jesus storyline!
Issues-schmmisues…..all thats on the news is the Martha Stewart/Donald Trump “feud” and the Portscapades….
iin half an hour Sam will be yelling about whats really going on…and its important to have some pop culture time to be a really rounded person…right?
Thats what I tell myself when I watch Survivor and read People magazine!
PJ
You are an amazing writer.
As well as our intrepid blog host.
I have been playing with Wiretap for Mac and have found after recording just a few seconds that the files will be way too huge if you don’t pay for Wiretap Pro. AIFF is the only way for the unregistered. MP3 files are smaller. I was trying to see what fprmat the old podcasts wrer and how big they are.
Also their Windows media player seems incompatable with Safari so I open it with IE. I will try the Real media player again.
I am about subscribe to AAR premium but must check with BOB first and see if he is in line to record for podcasting tomorrow night. He was always nice about answering emails right away if the podcasts for MS were late.
My perscriptions for health:
EmergenC every day.
Ferrum Phos (homeopathy) for those first stages – scratchy throat.
(It even works for my cats)
If I get something then Robatussin and the vaporizer with some Lavender, Orange and Eucaliptus oil in the tray.
Oh and I just use the little hand carry shopping baskets at the store.
I am on airplanes 5 times a year and only got nailed once when a woman next to me coughed a deep infectious rattle the entire flight from Detroit to Seattle and the flight was very cold.
That was a bad one but I still managed to avoid the doctor.
Anyone else haveing any luck recording shows on a Mac?
Melina
You can buy Weeds at iTunes music store.
If my recording messes up, you can buy podcasts, correcto-mundo?
{good story pj.} 😮 … i have a severe case of white-coat syndrome.
But is it any good? Weeds I mean…
I’m using Audio Hijack Pro (pj mentioned it and it got good reviews) and it seems to be working fine. Had to figure out the web address thingy with safari, but got it squared away. Once recorded, I can download to itunes. (you can record from itunes, too, but the ktlk stream seems to work just fine.)
:rofl2:
[hat tip to huffpo]
Oh, geez, you’re gonna get me in trouble. No, I meant, it takes a lot to impress a nurse.
Oh, wait, that didn’t come out right, either.
They have to be able to not flip out over stuff, and they’ve seen so many things that they aren’t impressed by a little blood. You really have to just about hack something off (although, when I trim my toenails with a box cutter, it does gross her out – you should have seen her reaction to the fingernails thing in Syrianna).
She’s also very good for medical-type information, which is very handy (plus, did you know that an RN can administer your eye exam for the NYS DMV? How cool is that?). She does case management and stuff, too, so she really knows all the ins and outs of how to get what you need.
The best part is, she isn’t really in to all this medical/pharmaceutical/insurance industrial complex crap, which I’m not, either. Especially since it killed my dad. Where possible, we try the “alternative” approach, which really ought to be the first approach, not the alternative. Of course, sometimes you need the drugs – but they’re more effective if you don’t take them for every sniffle.
I mean, I never go to the doctor, but a while back I was getting back pain, mostly due to a poor (ergonomically speaking) work area. So, I wanted to go to a Chiropractor (another friend of the wife, who’s into alternative stuff). But, I needed a referral from a doc, which I don’t have (funny, I managed to get one out of a doctor’s office, who isn’t my doctor and who I’ve never seen; they called me back rather sheepishly, and made me get an appointment with another doctor ‘cuz the one I wanted wasn’t taking patients).
So, I go and see this doc (I’ll call him “Doogie,” since he was about 12). So, he runs me to through the chest x-ray and the this test and the that test, and I get the blood tests (all fine, fine, fine). Says I ought to get a “prostate” exam (not on the first date, I tell him), then he asks how long I’ve had that heart murmur. Heart murmur? I don’t have a heart murmur. Oh, yeah you do, and, if you had it before, it’d be no big deal, but since you got it now all of a sudden, you better go get an echo. Oh, and your BP is kinda high (no shit, you stand around in your fucking underwear for an hour so some stranger can come in, grab your nuts, and offer to stick his finger up your ass, and see how your BP is, Doogie)
Well, shit, here I thought I felt fine – except for my goddamn back, which all I wanna do is go see a Chiropractor, fer chrissakes – and now it turns out my heart’s shot. Well, that’s nice.
So, I go get the echo (which is pretty cool, I must say, to watch your heart beat and the blood squoosh around like that), and the tech says, “there’s nothing wrong with your heart,” which I appreciate, ‘cuz I was kinda wondering, “but you gotta wait for the doc to tell you officially.” So I wait and wait and wait and finally the doc comes in and says “there’s nothing wrong with your heart, what the hell you doing here?” So I tell him him Doogie sent me, and he says, “yeah, sometimes these guys hear shit. You’re fine.”
So, instead of the freakin’ insurance just paying for the Chiro visits, they racked up a bill for god knows how much money, just to tell me what I already knew – my fucking back hurts!
Haven’t been back to Doogie since.
ha! BUT how’s your doggon back:?:
speaking of hearts, i gotta have open heart surgery this month. :barf:
“The best part is, she isn’t really in to all this medical/pharmaceutical/insurance industrial complex crap, which I’m not, either. Especially since it killed my dad. Where possible, we try the “alternative” approach, which really ought to be the frst approach.”
ok, I’m trying really hard not to read and blog today, but I can’t let this one go. the medical/pharmaceutical/defensive medicine approach killed my dad, too. don’t get me started on coumadin, hospital protocols, and the medical establishment’s hostility toward toward alternative medicine. :rant1::rant1::rant1: suffice it to say, I”m persona non grata at the Maine Medical Center, since I brought suit (successfully!) to allow my dad’s acupuncturist to treat him while he was in intensive care. :rant1::no::spank::bong:
:shock:Farmerkat, are you serious!!
Oh, back’s fine. Took a lot of adjusting and a better work environment, but it’s OK (as OK as it gets, I went and busted the darn thing back when I was 26 or so, so I can predict the weather with it).
Good luck with the open heart, FK. I hope it all goes well.
yep, ’tis true. The engine needs a valve job.
coumadin killed my aunt, dlp67, and now they tell me i’ll need to take if for at least 3 months post-op. rat poison it is. glad you won THAT suit! i see an acupuncturist (she’s also an md) once a month – done wonders for me (not talking @ heart, now, folks). had a horseback riding accident that nearly killed me a long while back.
ok, got to get to work – putting a magazine out before end of month.
Thanks guys and gals for the invaluable tech education i’m getting on this blog from PJ and the other high priests of the True Maronite Sect. You know who you are.
and yet… I get this sinking sensation that once i plunk down [so to speak] my 50 lawtons for this replay software the Maron show will become readily available and archived on line just like the good old days. I’m like the guy who got that really good price on the last 8 track player. Damn that Goldberg.
Well, you could pony up $60 or whatever for a year, and be limited to just AAR premium (which may continue to add “value added” content, like video – maybe even blogging, for all you know). Or, you can try out some of the freebie software, which is probably what I’d have done if I had more time to putz around.
KTLK has redone it’s website, and now has Marc listed! Looks like he shaved. My wife is not gonna be happy about that.
Hey, they broadcast the Clipper’s games? That means Marc will either be pre-empted or delayed some nights. Now, how are we gonna work around that?
Yay!!!…not happy either here about the shaving,I like the the rough, tough heeb look….
But its good to see someone do something official, even if its at the 11th hour!
I would replay their whole lineup and be done with the muzak if they didnt have that Ed Schultz in there…but maybe I will switch to them for Rachel and Majority report….maybe they have some better muzak or actual ads!
Things are looking up!
Uh-oh….who follows the clippers? We need some inside info on this. damned sports!!!!
hmm, i am thinking it might be photoshopped. :nod: i can’t envision him shaved.
hmm in retrospect, that sounded kinda dirty.:oops:
farmerkat, open heart surgery! when is the surgery scheduled?
is mr. farmerkat going to be in iraq when you’re in surgery? are you doing anything special to prepare for the surgery?
i hope you’ll be near a computer when you’re in recovery so you can keep in touch. you’ll be so happy when you’re all recovered and your heart is well and you can get back to your regular routine with walking your donkey and your dogs.
i thought your life was demanding what with mr. farmerkat being in iraq. your pending surgery certainly ratches everything up a notch.
:love: to you farmerkat! we all want everything to go so well for you.
Farmerkat! So sorry to hear about that. But at least you know the alternatives to help you with the recovery etc…
Most importantly, will they let Mr FK come home to be with you?
Good thing you will have some funny for your healing time…very important!
:rofl2:
Well, Pj, at least its not a twofer with the hearts….I was afraid that your story was gonna end badly and then Farmerkat pipes in with such news!
I wanst putting nurses down at all…I love nurses…but am familiar with living with them. This one is also really a piece of work in so many ways…
Its so funny to watch him fall apart when something happens to one of the chidren. Hes always doing shots for all of our infertile friends (we are all at that last ditch age in my crowd so this comes up a little too frequently,) and being called to look at every kid in the neighborhood’s injury…and he is certified in open heart emergency room procedure, which he did all the time when he lived in Phoenix….but my beautiful curly haired niece breaks her little leg and he is hysterical jelly….The other one got ecoli from a burger and he nearly killed the Dr who thought it was just a throw up virus…. or a TICK….thats the worst!
I love to see what makes them crack….
But they are the best, nurses…I love the school nurses especially. I love to watch them go though the line of little hurt and sick kids in their office and deal with each one. Its so sweet.
He just doesnt take any of us neurotic woody allen new yorkers seriously with our brain tumor worries and bird flu and all….
Well, give Marc a full week in the studio with some M&M’s, japanese products, and alot of coffee and he will stop shaving!
I see they spared no expense on Marc’s new logo.
Yeah, I just had to cover my ass a little bit there. Nurses know where everything is located, anatomically speaking. They can use this knowledge for good, or for great evil. One must take that into account when one sleeps next to one (plus, she hits pretty hard).
Yeah, that’s pretty fancy-schmancy. I wonder if they had a contest for it (gee, I hope Marc didn’t design it).
I think Marc would have used a spray-paint font, like in the old days.
Farmerkat, I just jumped online while on a very short break–I’m shocked to hear about your upcoming surgery. That is a lot to have on your plate! We are all pulling for you and wishing you the best!
And Melina, I also wanted to say I’m glad you’re doing better. (Sometimes I get so caught up in the current posts that I forget what I wanted to respond to a moment before!)
Back to work . . .
Hey, Kat! I’m concerned to hear about your upcoming surgery. Is there anything I can do to help you? I know I’m not right around the corner from you but I’d still be happy to bring you stuff or help you out in any way.
You have my email address, chick…let me know….
very true. i think it’ll be better if he doesn’t shave so things i post on here don’t sound borderline dirty.
Farmerkat, good luck with the open heart surgery! the weird thing is that high tech medicine is particularly well suited to dealing with heart problems, in my experience. after coumadin killed my dad, that same drug and several heart procedures ended up saving my mom. so, although I agree that that drug is a blunt instrument (like rat poisin, as you said!), for many people it really does great things.
as as someone just said, hopefully you’ll have quick access to a computer, so you can drop by and keep us posted. :yinyang::peace::love:
Farmerkat, maybe you can call into Marc’s show and he’ll leave you on hold the whole time so you can hear it from the “comfort” of your hospital bed!
😉
Great catch, Melina – here’s the Clippers schedule:
http://www.nba.com/clippers/schedule/index.html
There are quite a few weekday 7:30 PM games which, in the case of overtimes, could conceivably run into Maron time. The Clips currently qualify for the playoffs too. One way or the other, the reg. season ends in April, so maybe Maron gets pushed back or ‘clipped’ a few times. No biggy after this trauma we’ve suffered through since December, no?
ok im posting this which you absolutely need to check out no if ands or butts click on it it is friggin fabulous ok then i will be back after i read the posts
i love reading on the ktlk website for marc, WEEKDAYS 10 pm to midnight. we’ll get marc two hours a day five days a week. happiness.
yeah its better then now- getting no hours 7 days a week!
I emailed KPOJ in Portland (which bills itself as “The World’s First Air America Radio Affiliate”) and asked about The Marc Maron Show. I got this reply:
Paul,
Thanks the question and thanks for listening to AM 620 KPOJ!
At this moment, we have no plan to carry the Marc Maron Show. It is not being offered to Air America affiliates.
If and when it is offered, we will review the show and our existing line-up to see if the program fits.
Thanks again for the support.
Mike Dirkx
Operations Manager
AM 620 KPOJ
4949 SW Macadam Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97239
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To which I responded:
I’m confused — the Air America press release says Marc Maron will “return to the network” and will be “syndicated through Air America Syndications”. How is that not KPOJ?
(I inserted the link to the AAR press release about The Marc Maron Show)
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This makes no sense to me. How can an Air America Radio Affliate make the excuse that they can’t carry an Air America Radio Syndicated show?
Paul
Not being offered? They should be – should have been, for some time now – shopping the show around to everybody. Maybe they don’t want to knock one of their own shows off an affiliate, but still; that’s frickin’ bad. It didn’t keep WLIB from giving Malloy the boot.
Graduates versus Oligarchs
By Paul Krugman
The New York Times
Monday 27 February 2006
Ben Bernanke’s maiden Congressional testimony as chairman of the Federal Reserve was, everyone agrees, superb. He didn’t put a foot wrong on monetary or fiscal policy.
But Mr. Bernanke did stumble at one point. Responding to a question from Representative Barney Frank about income inequality, he declared that “the most important factor” in rising inequality “is the rising skill premium, the increased return to education.”
That’s a fundamental misreading of what’s happening to American society. What we’re seeing isn’t the rise of a fairly broad class of knowledge workers. Instead, we’re seeing the rise of a narrow oligarchy: income and wealth are becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small, privileged elite.
I think of Mr. Bernanke’s position, which one hears all the time, as the 80-20 fallacy. It’s the notion that the winners in our increasingly unequal society are a fairly large group – that the 20 percent or so of American workers who have the skills to take advantage of new technology and globalization are pulling away from the 80 percent who don’t have these skills.
The truth is quite different. Highly educated workers have done better than those with less education, but a college degree has hardly been a ticket to big income gains. The 2006 Economic Report of the President tells us that the real earnings of college graduates actually fell more than 5 percent between 2000 and 2004. Over the longer stretch from 1975 to 2004 the average earnings of college graduates rose, but by less than 1 percent per year.
So who are the winners from rising inequality? It’s not the top 20 percent, or even the top 10 percent. The big gains have gone to a much smaller, much richer group than that.
http://www.truthoutout.com
Well, doesnt that just sound like the AAR we’ve all come to know, become bitter about, and finally loathe…what sacks of shit! I will take that back officially if its just this one station manager, but why do I have the feeling that nothing has been offered to anyone!!?
One step at a time…that which does not kill me makes me stronger…OMMMMMMMM…..The funny is coming soon.
Maybe I’ll take some of my kid’s old ADD medicine and stay up for Marc….I wonder how that would sit with my barely healing body? Or I could happily start at 6 or 7 AM with my cranky child trying to stay home from school!
OK, I wanted to first of all say that Crest, it wasnt my catch!! It was PJ’s!! And he should get all the credit for what was maybe gonna be a disaster…and it still will be if they just pre-empt rather than push back.
Of course, if we had AFFILIATES then we wouldnt have the problem of local games and we could stream from any number of places…but NO…we dont….hmmm…
Time to write to some station managers. Where would one find the list of AAR affiliates. Did we have it before so I might have it saved here somewhere?
Also, I typed up some very easy Replay setup instructions and if anyone else needs the easy setup in very simple terms for non tech folk, let me know and I will email it or post it over on RIPCoco…or PJ, if you want it you can put it in a file here…maybe someone can type up the wiretap ones and as we get more we can collect them.
Double Standards on Foreign Owners
Amdocs vs. DP World
By LILA RAJIVA
In December 2001, Fox TV broadcast a four part investigation on Israeli espionage by Carl Cameron, which the Israeli embassy in Washington, JINSA (Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs), and AIPAC (American Israeli Political Action Committee) immediately denied and attacked. (1)
One and a half days after its posting, all the material related to the investigation was taken off the Fox website. The facts stayed alive thereafter only on the Internet.
Forget the Israeli art student espionage story which Cameron unearthed and which has never been seriously investigated. Forget any of the other highly credible accounts of Israeli espionage before and during 9-11 which have been conveniently reclassified without investigation as urban legends.
Focus only on what Cameron reported on Amdocs, a company which has contracts with the twenty-five largest telephone companies in the US to handle all their directory assistance, calling records, and billing work. This gives Amdocs access to data on nearly every telephone call dialed in the country. According to Cameron, Amdocs has been investigated on several occasions for suspected ties to the Israeli mafia and for espionage.
Reportedly, in 1999 a Top Secret Sensitive Compartmentalized Information report (TS/SCI) warned that records of calls in the US were getting into foreign hands, Israeli in particular.
Yet this story garnered nary a peep from the mainstream media, so vocal in free-speech defense of race-baiting cartoons.
And it got not much more even in the alternative press, daintily leery of being branded anti-Semitic…
http://www.counterpunch.com
Dear [Decision Maker],
As your constituent, I urge you to oppose the REAL ID Act and prevent its attachment to the supplemental appropriations bill. I believe that it will infringe on my privacy by creating a national ID and sharing my personal information with thousands of bureaucrats in North America. I also believe it includes several unreasonable anti-immigrant provisions.
I have read that this proposed legislation would create a centralized network of your most personal information. The system would include your full name, address, driving history and social security number. It would also include biometric information, which would include your DNA, retinal scans or fingerprints.
I believe the resulting network would be a rich target for hackers and identity thieves. Not only would hackers and identity thieves aggressively target this centralized system, thousands of government workers in the United States, Mexico and Canada would have access to this personal information. If the REAL ID Act is passed, incidents of abuse and identity theft are likely to skyrocket.
I understand that this bill would impose federal control over the issuance of state drivers licenses, even if this violates the state’s own policies. The use of state motor vehicle agencies as agents of the federal immigration service would also lead to an increase in unlicensed drivers, undermining public safety and increasing insurance rates for everyone. Motor vehicles employees lack training in federal immigration law, and are likely instead to rely on ethnic profiling based on notions of who “looks foreign.”
Once again, I urge you to oppose the REAL ID Act and its attachment to the appropriations supplemental.
woo hoo form letters rock!
Okay, so i was pissed off when you voted for this in the first place! I would suggest you start working on atoning for your sins by doing everything in your power to stop this from taking effect.
I must say my friend that I voted for you with a clear conscience in 2004, so far you have been quite a major disappointment. I am not so sure you are getting my vote this time around! Many of my friends are with me as of now we are planning on supporting a third party candidate. You should be afraid. It was close last time and you have been alienating your base. I really hope you can turn yourself around.
Getting money for projects in the Buffalo area is NOT your only responsibility as a congressman.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this important matter.
:banana:sending congressman nasty e-mails is fun!!!!!
From Superpower to Tinhorn Dictatorship?
Twilight of the Hegemony
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
America is headed for a soft dictatorship by the end of Bush’s second term. Whether any American has civil rights will be decided by the discretionary power of federal officials. The public in general will tolerate the soft dictatorship as its discretionary powers will mainly be felt by those few who challenge it.
The congressional elections this coming November is the last chance for for Americans to reaffirm the separation of powers that is the basis of their civil liberties. Unless the voters correct their mistake of putting both the executive and legislative branches in the hands of the same party and deliver the House or the Senate to the Democrats, there is nothing on the domestic scene to stand in the way of more power, and less accountability, being accumulated in the executive.
The Democrats have been a totally ineffective opposition and might not inspire any voter response other than apathy. Rather than vote for a cowardly party that is afraid to defend the Constitution, voters might simply not vote at all.
In this unfortunate event, the only check on the Bush regime is its own hubris.
http://www.counterpunch.org
ok – so i went ahead and bought radio replay and the activation codes don’t work. Of course, there is no phone number for support, just an e-mail form which I filled out.
Any ideas?
linda
ZNet | Mideast
Defeat Is Victory. Death Is Life
by Robert Fisk ; February 27, 2006
02/26/06 “The Independent” — Everyone in the Middle East rewrites history, but never before have we had a US administration so wilfully, dishonestly and ruthlessly reinterpreting tragedy as success, defeat as victory, death as life – helped, I have to add, by the compliant American press. I’m reminded not so much of Vietnam as of the British and French commanders of the First World War who repeatedly lied about military victory over the Kaiser as they pushed hundreds of thousands of their men through the butchers’ shops of the Somme, Verdun and Gallipoli. The only difference now is that we are pushing hundreds of thousands of Arabs though the butchers’ shops – and don’t even care.
Last week’s visit to Beirut by one of the blindest of George Bush’s bats – his Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice – was indicative of the cruelty that now pervades Washington. She brazenly talked about the burgeoning “democracies” of the Middle East while utterly ignoring the bloodbaths in Iraq and the growing sectarian tensions of Lebanon, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Perhaps the key to her indifference can be found in her evidence to the Senate Committee on International Affairs where she denounced Iran as “the greatest strategic challenge” facing the US in the region, because Iran uses policies that “contradict the nature of the kind of Middle East sought by the United States”.
BUSH BELIEVES IN SELF-DETERMINATION ONLY IF HE’S DOING THE DETERMINING…
As Bouthaina Shaaban, one of the brightest of Syria’s not always very bright team of government ministers, noted: “What is the nature of the kind of Middle East sought by the United States? Should Middle East states adapt themselves to that nature, designed oceans away?” As Maureen Dowd, the best and only really worthwhile columnist on the boring New York Times, observed this month, Bush “believes in self-determination only if he’s doing the determining … The Bushies are more obsessed with snooping on Americans than fathoming how other cultures think and react.” And conniving with rogue regimes, too, Dowd might have added.
http://www.zmag.org
February 11, 2006
The US and the Nazis
By Nikos Raptis
In previous Commentaries I mentioned that: “Of course it rests with me to prove that the comparison of the US to the Nazis is not an exaggeration.” Recent events deferred the analysis of this statement. Finally, here it is:
Let us start at the top: “The Fuehrer told me then that the simplest thing to do would be to take as example the United States of America, where the head of the state is at the same time also the head of the government. Thus following the example of the United States, we combined the position of the head of the state with the head of the government, and he called himself Fuehrer of the German people and Reich Chancellor of the German Reich.” (Robert E.Conot, “Justice at Nuremberg”, Harper & Row, New York, 1983, p. 333)
The words in the above quote were uttered by Hermann Goering during his testimony, on March 13, 1946, before the Nuremberg Tribunal.
The head of a state used to be the King. Today a King or a President of a Republic is mostly a figurehead. However, Hitler chose the US President as his “head of state”-model. That, in itself, is quite revealing. That the US President is a real “leader” or a real “commander” of the American people, not a figurehead, cannot be disputed.The verb “fuehren” in German means to “lead” or to “command”. So, Hitler chose for himself the role of the “Fuehrer” (leader or commander) of the German people.
One can ignore the words of Goering (and of Hitler) and (of course) ignore the above brief analysis. What one cannot ignore is that W. Bush is an uncommonly arrogant and violent “leader” whom, according to his loyal legal underlings, no one can touch, no matter what he does (they call it the theory of “unitary executive”) or he can ignore any law he does not like (they call it “signing statement”).
“Hitler … made himself the unilateral arbiter of the Geneva Convention, and declared null and void whatever section was not convenient to him”. This was written in 1983 (Conot, p. 308). It is easy, today, to find a similar statement about W. Bush even in the mainstream US press. It seems that the gang around him and his “loyal” underlings are bent to ruthlessly exploit the shibboleth that a war president has a “blank check” to do as he likes, three quarters of a century after Hitler.
[Note: The “loyalty” of underlings to their political leaders is morally an extremely low point in human behavior. Hitler describing contemptuously his underlings said: “Have you noticed how people tremble, how they try to say what will please me?” The loyalty of Condoleezza Rice, of Carl Rove, etc, to W. Bush is a typical example of what Hitler meant…
http://www.zmag.org
Linda- Make sure your O’s and 0’s are correct. I made that mistake with my XM the other day.Im looking for my replay stuff to see what I needed to get it going.
What is up with the Air America Radio site? All I get is some threadbare text and few images. I don’t think that it is my computer. (Oh, I know..There is a pay-for navigation system in place.)
:omg:
:?:hey nicki are you a male or female? just curious!
Howdy, seditionisti. Been busy today. Honest. Really.
Here’s a recipe from the NY Times that for some reason really appeals to me.
Kumquat Ice Drops
1/4 cup raw sugar
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1 egg white
1 teaspoon honey
10 kumquats, halved, seeds removed.
1. In a small bowl, combine the sugar, salt and cinnamon. In another small bowl, lightly beat the egg white and honey.
2. Line a plate with wax paper. Dip the kumquat halves halfway into the egg-white mixture, then immediately dip into the sugar mixture. Lay on the plate and freeze until solid. Serves 4.
Paul,
Thanks for the continued conversation.
1. Air America Syndications is slightly different than the main Air America feed. The syndication arm runs programs in parallel with existing Air America shows. It is unclear as to when and how the show will be made available to affiliates.
2. While KPOJ is proud to be Air America’s first and most successful affiliate, we are not Air America. We do not clear all Air America programs. We air the programs that we think will help make KPOJ successful. And it has been our model that stations all over the country have used to launch their versions of the Progressive Talk format.
Mike Dirkx
Operations Manager
AM 620 KPOJ
4949 SW Macadam Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97239
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Well OK then. I guess I’m streaming.
Hi Linda. I guess I’d make sure to copy the activation code and then paste it. You might want to use the activation code finder on their site to have them send it again, just to be sure. Then follow the directions for entering it (remember, you can’t put it in ReplayRadio; you have to open ReplayAV and enter it there.
1. Open Replay A/V. (Click the icon on the desktop.)
2. Click the green Upgrade button .
3. Click Enter Code. The Enter Activation Code screen appears:
Melina – i thought that too so I copied and pasted from the order form on the screen – still doesn’t work.
i’m gonna be really pissed if I miss maron and am out $40!!!
linda
Laugh, and the Voters Laugh With You, or at Least at You
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
WASHINGTON
REPRESENTATIVE JAMES P. MORAN, Democrat of Virginia, does not have the kind of record most lawmakers would herald on national television. He has offended Jews with impolitic remarks and made news for scuffling with his wife a day before she filed for divorce. A former boxer, he threatened to slug one House colleague, and has thrown a punch at another.
So what in the world possessed him to appear on “The Colbert Report,” the late-night Comedy Central show, and allow himself to be goaded into taking a swing at the host, Stephen Colbert? “Because,” Mr. Moran explained, “a little self-deprecation on the part of a politician is priceless.”
Self-deprecation is often in short supply in Washington. But Mr. Colbert, playing the deadpan reporter in his “Better Know a District” segments, is injecting a new levity into politics. Tongue firmly in cheek, he is on a quest to interview — or lampoon — all 434 members of the House. (The man who held the 435th seat, the disgraced California Republican Randy Cunningham, “is dead to me,” Mr. Colbert declared.)
So Mr. Colbert is creating a litany of fools on the Hill. He drew Jack Kingston, a Georgia Republican and seemingly boring white guy who once lived in Ethiopia, into a discussion of his “African-American experience.” He tweaked Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, for proposing $300 million to stop school bullying: “Was that bill your idea, or did somebody bigger put you up to it?” He asked the Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank, who is gay, about his wife. Mr. Frank was not amused. “Two Stooges short of a good routine,” he complained.
It might sound like just another silly comedy shtick, and Mr. Colbert, whose show is a spinoff of “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” insists he is only trying to make himself “look like an idiot.” Yet his work has a strain of anthropology. As he assembles a dupes’ gallery, Mr. Colbert is showing a national audience what veteran Congress-watchers already know: the members are painfully, embarrassingly human. It is called the People’s House for a reason.
At the same time, the show reveals an essential truth about Washington: being humiliated on national television can be better than not being on national television at all.
Congress has long suffered an inferiority complex, a sentiment that has only worsened under President Bush, who has flexed his executive muscles by keeping lawmakers out of the loop on matters ranging from eavesdropping to foreign control of American ports. Toss in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal and plunging poll ratings — 61 percent of the public now has an unfavorable view of Congress, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll — and it’s no wonder lawmakers are looking for laughs.
Why else would Eliot L. Engel, Democrat of New York, let Mr. Colbert comb the congressman’s very thick mustache? Could there be another reason that Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, Democrat of Michigan, joined Mr. Colbert in an off-key duet of “Do You Know Where You’re Going To?”, the saccharine theme from “Mahogany”?
Is there some other explanation for Mr. Moran’s decision to let Mr. Colbert stuff his mouth with white Chiclets and then spew the gum out, like teeth, when the congressman feigned a whack at his cheek? The Chiclets didn’t make the final cut. “It was funny enough to have him punch me,” Mr. Colbert said.
In fact, there is a deeper reason. At a time when surveys show younger voters turning away from the mainstream media in favor of blogs and late-night television, politicians and their strategists recognize that “The Colbert Report” is a powerful way to reach a swath of Generation Y.
“We really don’t have a broadcast medium anymore; we have sort of a narrowcast,” said Chaka Fattah, Democrat of Pennsylvania, another Colbert guest. “So you’ve got to look for opportunities.”
Mr. Moran said 40 percent of his Northern Virginia district was composed of highly mobile, transient voters in their 20’s and 30’s. “They’re very difficult to develop a relationship with,” he said. “Now they see me on the Colbert show, they think at least he likes the same show we like.”
Rich Galen, a Republican strategist, sees the youthful hand of hip Congressional aides at work. “The younger staffs of these folks are convincing their bosses that if you really want to be president of the United States some day, you’ve got to get in with the crowd on Comedy Central,” he said.
Thus did David All, the 26-year-old press secretary to the 50-year-old Representative Kingston, persuade his boss, who is also the vice chairman of the House Republican Conference, to be Mr. Colbert’s guinea pig, his first guest. Mr. All then sent an e-mail message to other House Republican aides urging their bosses to do the same, and arranged for a showing of Mr. Kingston’s Colbert clip at a recent weekend Republican retreat.
“We’re all about the new media,” Mr. All said, adding, “It’s good that Republicans can be humorous.”
But so far only one other Republican representative, John L. Mica of Florida, has appeared, only to suffer as Mr. Colbert poked fun of his less than elegant hairpiece. Some Democrats say that the dearth of Republicans proves that Republicans have no sense of humor, while others say that no Republican in his right mind would agree to appear on such a blatantly liberal outlet.
Mr. Colbert counters that he has no “particular political ax to grind.” His head writer, Allison Silverman, insists geography is a factor. Mr. Colbert, she said, has done most of the more than a dozen interviews in New York and New Jersey, two heavily Democratic states, because his show is based in New York.
And it’s not as if Democrats are getting off easy. Mr. Colbert knew just how to get under the skin of one of them, Bill Pascrell Jr. of New Jersey, by suggesting that Mr. Pascrell, a co-sponsor of legislation seeking an end to offensive media portrayals of Italian-Americans, was not a true Italian.
“Congressman,” Mr. Colbert said, “your name doesn’t end in a vowel.”
“Italians don’t have to end in a vowel,” Mr. Pascrell parried. Mr. Colbert demanded that he name one.
Flustered, the congressman blurted out: “Sole! Tom Sole. S-O-L-E.”
Mr. Colbert’s victims — er, guests — report that the interviews can last as long as two hours, all boiled down to a few minutes on air. Most, with the notable exception of Mr. Frank, said they would do it again. Mr. Moran said he thought Mr. Colbert “let me off kind of light,” and Mr. Pascrell said that while the interview was “like going through water torture,” he had “no complaints.”
Mr. Fattah, who emerged relatively unscathed after Mr. Colbert’s grilling, had a more muted assessment of his own performance: “I think I’ll keep my day job.”
AAR website looks OK to me, Nicki, though if you have FireFox with Adblock, you may be missing a bunch of images and ads.
Linda- from what I can tell here in my files, there was an activation code and I think it was case sensitive…so make sure youre making all capitals as capitals and that your zeros and letter o’s are correct.
I hate it when they dont put a number for tech support. But, Ive found that alot of these software companies answer their mail really quickly..
Hope you get it up and running. But if youre sure the code is absolutely correct then you may have to wait to get customer support to unlock it.
Right PJ!! It was a little strange and it took me a while to figure it out. YOu have to open the program and click on “upgrade”….it was a little screwy…its all coming back to me now…wasnt clear in the instructions.
PJ – doesn’t work there either – and i did try the find activation code but it couldn’t find my e-mail address. But I have a screen shot with the order number etc plus activation codes (why are there two of them?)
I’ll let you know IF they get back with me on this.
linda
Wow – I just heard back from them – apparently someone else hit the purchase button at the same time I did and I got the other code for a different product. They sent me the new code and it works!!
Thanks for the support
Looking forward to tomorrow night!!!!!!!
Linda
I’d say this doesn’t make sense except that it came from Dirkx and he never gives a straight answer to anything.
i cant even figure out how to get ahold of the Albuquerque Air America station. When I move back I am driving to their offices and asking them if they are pulling that same ‘its not being offered’ crap.
Hey Linda…great news!
I just realized that it was tomorrow night and not tonight…I must still be in a sickness haze…why are they starting this thing on a Tuesday anyway?
Now Im all let down….I was so happy there for a minute! Damn!
These software companies are really on their email…I love it!
One reason to be happy is the very fun and funny array of headlines on HuffPo right now…it keeps changing today because there is just so much happening.
Matthews is on and its all so silly….How can the Dubai group rehabilitate themselves in the minds of Americans…?…hmmmm….
Trent Lott as the voice of reason?
Bush didnt talk to his guys in the government and now their constituients are approaching all of them all over the place and they cant evne get lunch or go to the bathroom without being approached by someone asking them about this port thing….
Why wont Americans get this activated about the war? About Impeachment? About lying? About corruption? About Treason?
Why sont they see that its the bigger picture of outsourcing these things rather than the Arabs?…maybe more the Muslims than the Arabs too….?
Hillary Clinton vs. Karl Rove….man oh man….
:paranoid:hmmmmmm ok then mind is wandering of the ranch into conspiratorial areas now i am scared of P.J.!!!!!!
why would you be scared of PJ, Sean? He only has all of your information and is a tech god…and hes got a tracking satellite watching YOU as you drive Merce Cunningham’s stage around and go to comedy clubs!! He is taking notes…you might say, making a list and checking it twice…so watch your step!!There are worse things than waterboarding, and I hear that his wife knows all the tricks!! Hes got a space cleared for you in the crawl space right now…nice and cozy…he will just want to fatten you up so that he can borrow your….SKIN!!! (Insert horror movie stabbing muzak here….!!)
‘Cuz there’s a Clipper’s game tonight.
Octavia Butler, brilliant master of sci-fi, dies at 58
Full story: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002831388_butlerobit27m.html
By Emily Heffter
Seattle Times staff reporter
For more than 30 years, Seattle science-fiction novelist Octavia Butler dreamed up fantastic worlds and religions, made-up creatures and futuristic plots. Then, in her stylistic prose, she used them to tackle the social issues she was most passionate about.
“Parable of the Talents,” a futuristic story about a utopian community ravaged by civil war, explored modern-day issues of intolerance, the growing gap between rich and poor, and environmentalism. In her first novel, “Kindred,” she plunged into racial issues when a modern-day character was transported into the body of a pre-Civil War slave.
“What [Ms. Butler] was writing for the first time was a kind of woman’s-eye view, a very smart woman’s-eye view, of say, ‘Brave New World’ or ‘1984,’ ” said writer Harlan Ellison, Ms. Butler’s friend and mentor.
Ms. Butler died Friday at Northwest Hospital after a fall at her home in Lake Forest Park. She was 58.
“I consider Octavia to be the most important science-fiction writer since Mary Shelley,” said Steven Barnes, an African-American science-fiction writer and friend of Ms. Butler’s. She wrote about race successfully because she did it with such subtlety, he said.
Though she was a giant in the science-fiction world, Ms. Butler was such a private person that even her closest friends said they knew little about her.
Ellison said Ms. Butler had a number of obstacles to overcome in the writing business, among them being female and being black.
But Ms. Butler persevered to become one of the few well-known African-American science-fiction writers.
In 1995, she won a $295,000 MacArthur Fellowship, known as the “genius grant.” In 2000, she received the Nebula Award for her novel “Parable of the Talents.” The Nebula award is science fiction’s highest prize.
Those who knew Ms. Butler agreed that, in many ways, she was a contradiction. She kept to herself but was easy to talk to. She was tall and imposing, and, Ellison said, “very warm and charming, but there was gravitas in her.”
She was funny, with a dark, dry, self-deprecating wit.
Ms. Butler, who never married, described herself this way in 1999: “I’m also uncomfortably asocial — a hermit in the middle of Seattle — a pessimist if I’m not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.”
Robin Bailey, the president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, remembered her “deep, rumbly voice.”
The heroes in her stories were often people of color, and Ellison said Ms. Butler’s sense of isolation came through in her work.
In a 1999 interview, Ms. Butler told a Seattle Times reporter that she had been a tall, socially awkward child in Pasadena, Calif., spending much of her time in the public library and sending manuscripts to publishers when she was only 12 or 13.
“I needed to write,” she said then. “Writing was literally all I had consistently. … I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.”
Ms. Butler kept that hard-working intensity as an adult, her friends said. But even in her success, she remained grounded. She bought a house with her MacArthur Fellowship money and traveled mostly to lecture about writing. Ellison remembered that she would cover her mouth when she laughed because she was embarrassed by her crooked teeth.
An only child, Ms. Butler grew up in Southern California and moved to Seattle in 1999, after her mother’s death. She studied at Pasadena City College and California State University, Los Angeles, before participating in the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop in 1970.
Seattle Times reporter Mark Rahner contributed to this report. Emily Heffter: 206-464-8246 or eheffter@seattletimes.com.
Clippperrrzzzz….arghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
Yes, be afraid. Be very afraid.
:paranoid:fuck melina dont say shit like that:paranoid:
:paranoid:i have to drive through syracuse tonight!!!!!!:paranoid:
:omg:no brakes for me just driving straight through
so, apparently Dubai recognized the Taliban government because we asked them to…?…this from Jim Zogby from the Arab American institute on Matthews.
and big fight about this…..there seems to be so much damning information on all sides…their crown prince out hunting with Osama after he had issued a fatwah on some American something…They funded some fringe schools where kids were taught to hate Americans and Jews….
This guy keeps saying that its all lies…that business with this country is essential to America…that the problems were fixed…
Its all so convoluted and obviously the American people are very upset about this.
Why does it take this to get Americans up in arms about our lax security?
A new report just came out saying that the coast guard told the administration that there were big security holes in this deal.
The administration apparently thought they could just ignore that like they’ve ignored everything else….
Oh…sorry…Syracuse is so dark and empty this time of year…hey, isnt that close to where PJ lives????? (insert horror muzak here)
heh heh….
Hey, didnt I hear on the news just now about an escapee from a mental hospital up in Syracuse?….dont pick up any hitchhikerssssssss……:omg:
yay!!! KTLK did some much need remodeling!!!:love::banana::nixon:
:mad:friggin ignorers screw them guys
I’ll keep an eye out for ya Sean. 😯
It’s only dark and empty at night. During the day, it’s just empty.
Well, time to go flunk an exam. See y’all later.
:fustrate:wait i am going to have to stop at the toll booth:omg:
Im venturing my sick self out to take this boy to have his filthy teeth cleaned…ugh!
It is cold and dark out there…but not nearly as cold and dark as where Sean is going….:eek:
buddy of mine from school back in the day posted this on myspace
I was in Iraq for a year. Not once did I see a single Al Qaeda. I saw a lot of pissed of Iraqis, and a whole lot of pissed off Kurds. They were pissed that we invaded their and, and want to put our own leaders there.
Not once did I ever encounter anything that was close to a WMD(Except one of my buddies boots… Holy crap, he took them off and we had to go to MOPP 4). My unit had a Chemical Recon Team as an attachment. We pulled air security for all of the chem recon missions. We never rolled across anything.
And the one thing I can say about 9/11/01… go to this website, and tell me what you think:
http://www.pentagonstrike.co.uk/pentagon.swf
Now, tell me who had everything to do with 9/11?
Hitchhiking by any chance PJ??….
(Im sure you’ll do great…you know more than you think.)
:fu:melina thats not cool youre friggin scaring me damn it
Oh Sean…Im only kidding! Nothing is gonna happen…there isnt anyone up there in Syracuse to bother you. Its freakin cold outside and all the killers are stayin in tonight. If you get scared you can phone me up and Ill talk to you while youre driving …except that what little voice I have sounds a little scary….so maybe thats not a good idea.
But if you need to be talked through it email me.
I can sometimes be reassuring…but then sometimes not….:evil:
More from KPOJ Portland…
Paul,
Air America just sent affiliates some formal information about the Maron show. I will review the info and consider the show in the future, altho I can tell you that we will be not be taking the first shows based on just getting 24 hours of advanced warning.
Thanks for listening.
Mike
—
So it seems like more of Air America dropping the ball on getting the word out on the new show. Portland folks, you can let KPOJ know how you feel at
http://www.620kpoj.com/comments/index.php.
:paranoid:hey if i leave:fire: right now i can get through while P.J. is taking the test
:fu::nod:wow air america is on top of things huh letting their member stations know whats going on
Well, I set up to record Stephanie Miller this AM and that didn’t work either; I got the Microsoft error message that ReplayAV had a problem.
I’m pissed. I really want to record this. If someone is successful, I’d be willing to pay $$ for MP3 files or CDs….
:fist:people all over this world are getting organized
why is carter for the uae port deal?
can you guys get the marc maron web page on aar? I’ve been trying with the link pj gave yesterday and safari says the site is trying to open too many links or something.
Thanks everyone for your very kind wishes. Surgery will be closer to the end of MARCH when Mr farmer gets back. I’m a bit apprehensive about the whole thing but very tired of being tired! I’m normally an over-charged battery and when the ticker doesn’t tick, you tend to become a couch potato. A woman who ran marathons sits on the sofa – UGH!
Thanks again, seditionists.
Oh, when I had a test done on my heart, as they were drugging me, I looked over at the doc and said, “Now, don’t be surprised when you look in there and see a huge heart. [Doc looks concerned] – I’m a flaming liberal.” :nod: zzzzzzz
huh surgery i missed it what happened?
ok so youre heart is bigger than it is supposed to be?
:rofl2:this majority report blog is too much!
:shock:i cant keep up with it too many posts!!!!!
talk about the issues were fighting for our lives here!!!
Posted by: jeffy the penguin at February 27, 2006 08:58 PM
hey…jeffy the penguin,
i agree…this isn’t saturday night live…our lives and our country and the world are on the line big time and here we are in the middle of a GIG!@@@
Don
Posted by: Don at February 27, 2006 09:01 PM
Farmerkat,
I’m just about caught up with the blog. Heart surgery! Geez. I’ll certainly keep you in my thoughts and prayers.
:fire: A firetruck for you.
hey hi andy whats up?
Brilliant are you on a Mac?
…and so nice of AAR to finally send out the goddamned affiliate notice…Jesus! Who is running that place? This is almost as bad as our government!…hey, maybe its been outsourced to Dubai….
What the–??
I just went to listen to a test I did with the ReplayAV and there’s no sound! It looks like all my volume settings are on (no mute), and when I tested the tuner yesterday, it was fine.
With just over 24 hours to go, I don’t want to be messing around with this much longer!:fustrate:
Hey, I realized something today.
Replay PC users be sure to go into control panel and then power settings and make sure you dont have any sort of power save shut down set for after a certain number of hours…and make sure you dont have Hibernate checked.If you inadvertently have your computer set to go to sleep after a certain number of hours you may miss saving the show.
Also, dont forget to leave Replay on or it wont record.
CitKahn- does it say that it recorded? is there an MP3 in the save file? Have you got it set to download or is it going through the sound card? Do you want to see my simple set up instructions?
I have had no problem with any show and Ive been using it for weeks….saving 3 or 4 shows per day. So, it works…just have to make sure the settings are right.
Im afraid to say that because now it will misfire tomorrow night…eekkkk!
One thing is that it doesnt work for me unless I use the download setting because it doesnt recognize my soundcard. That was the only blank recording I ever had.
So how are you guys getting the show? Are you premium subscribers? Should I subscribe? Can I get it from KTLK? I am doing a dry run tonight to try and get Malloy to see if it works.
One question…should I turn the screensaver off? What if I just turn off my monitor and leave the PC on . Will that be a problem?
It would REALLY be helpful if someone could post a detailed instruction sheet including settings for XP PCs, and PJ could link it off the home page. I’m running out of time and have yet to get a good recording.
:banana:HEY SHEEPLE:sheep:, CHECK IT!:banana:
I just saw MR. FARMERKAT on the tube!:banana:
WATCH IT HERE!
Thanks, Melina. I really don’t know what happened. I checked what seemed to be every possible setting. Then I rebooted, and now everything’s fine again. But I will double-check the hibernation settings, just in case!
I remember my brother explaining the Internet to me back in 1994. He said the online community was like “Proud Mary”: “people on the river are happy to give.” Something proven time and again on this blog!
Do we hafta switch over to Marc’s blog? I like it here!
OK I posted my easy Replay instructions based on Windows XP at ripcoco
It should be pretty clear but it lost its numbers…so let me know if its not for any reason. I put quotations around the names of the buttons to click on.
I can send those to anyone who wants em in a format with bold and underlining and printable as a word doc.
Travis which clip was he in? I though he was maybe Bruce Willis at first because they made me watch a commercial for anew action movie before the news clip…but where was he on that clip? Is he the commander guy?…that couldnt be him could it?
i sent my roommate this as an e-mail
yeah do your paper already you friggin dumbass:spank:
he replied with this
that’s the funniest shit I ever seen, well, second. the midget giving that chick a lap dance at carlos mencias show made me cry.
Um, he’s this guy Check it He was talking about the relative ease of violence the last day or so and the small steps toward averting civil war or something.
Hi. Glad to hear you got your sound back, CK. Yeah, you need to make sure your PC isn’t set to go to sleep or hibernate, and remember that if you reboot your computer, you’ll need to restart ReplayAV (you could add it to your startup menu, but I try to limit the amount of crap that starts up with the computer).
It’s not a bad idea to become familiar with what is running on your computer, where it loads from, and what exactly it does. A lot of complaints about Windows is really more about all this stuff that different programs load automatically, without even asking. A lot loads from the registry. Anyhow, much of this stuff can conflict with other stuff, and anyhow can slow your computer down. Plus, if you pay attention to what’s running, you’ll be more likely to notice spyware or other nasty things.
So, in Windows XP (and others), do this:
Ctrl+Shift+Esc (all together). This brings up the task manager. Click on the Processes tab. Whoa, look at all that shit that’s running! What’s it do? Go here (or do a google search) and find out. End the process of anything you don’t like the looks of, and see what happens (hey, if windows breaks, you can just restart – probably – and you’ve learned something. Mostly, Windows won’t let you kill anything really required).
Want to make stuff not start with windows, but don’t want to edit the registry? Do this: Start>Run and type MSCONFIG and check out the services and startup tabs. Uncheck what you don’t want to load on startup.
Remember, Google is your friend. If you don’t know something, google it. Somebody else has already had the same problem. The hard part is figuring out how to ask the question. It also helps if you have another computer to use after you get yours all screwed up.
Want to
went here it spit out this
:rofl2:Please Don’t Squeeze The Mike Malloy.
Well, I guess I’ll see you sheeple later. I have to see my grandmother; her clock isn’t working right, or something.:doh: Later :fist:
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Hey Sean,
I’m a skeptical person, but I think that 9/11 video is totally false. I was in Washington for it and have friends who watched the plane fly overhead and there WAS physical evidence of the plane left behind. Whoever says there wasn’t is a fool. Some conspiracies I’ll buy into…not this one. Utterly fabricated.
The guy at the mic talking? OK…just wondering…glad hes OK Farmerkat if youre around!…
Hey PJ, what are all of those services…some of the running , some not. I wish I knew them all though I suppose that even computer professionals cant possibly. I have my startup down to the basic basics but I so want to get rid of the new AIM screen and mail that comes up. I need the buddy list to come on when I turn on the ocmputer because its the signal to my Mom in the city that Im awake and open for business…and if it doesnt come on she worries…but they added this explorer window that is a branded deal with AOL and they now put a little free AOL mail in the corner. I cant figure out how to get rid of those and not the buddy window. I guess there are worse problems.
PJ-How was your test?
Sean- why arent you driving?
huh what 9/11 video? i dont know what you are talking about? popular mechanics said that the independent speculative investigators on 9/11 are wrong and who am i to question them?
im waiting till pj goes to sleep:paranoid:
Sean, one of my best friends stood on the roof of his building and took a picture of the second plane coming into the frame and plying into the building. I have it here somewhere….and my Mom was there…the place in NYC is right in the village and you could see the WTC from it.
My friend was in the building on the 9th floor at blue cross blue shield and walked down the stairs after being told to stay but seeing debris from the buildin and plane fall by the window and down to the street and then bodies fall by…and he walked down and out just before the things collapsed. I was up here but many, many of my people were there and saw the planes…definitley the second plane.
No conspiracy theory there…possibly a crash nearby a week or 2 later was shot down or exploded, but it was never proved…
Hey Gaijinda….what video?…Im jumping on a bandwagon here and I dont even know which one…;-)
Also, Gaijinda, what is the name of the best japanese green tea? I am looking at web sites to order some from Japan and want to be sure which one I should get because its expensive and you have to apparently use alot per cup of the more expensive one.
I usually like the roasted kind but it seems like the newly picked leaves have the most vitamins and antioxidants etc…
quack quack quack quack………
Sean…and what makes you think that PJ sleeps?…PJ’s surveillance never sleeps!!…his eyes are everywhere…buried in the shag carpet and behind the mexican fringe decorating the cab of your truck!! Just remember as youre heading down that long loney stretch of desolate highway…youre not alone…The undead army of PJ is awaiting at that next deserted truckstop from hellllll……whooooooooooooo…..(insert horror muzak here) 😮
:paranoid:
Ok…Im going to sleep, little zombies and sheep.
I will actually be around tomorrow thank god because I so overdid it today trying to catch up on housework…tomorrow I get my new couches so I only have to move furniture, but can otherwise rest a little…ha!
And what to do with the old couches? Freecycle people dont seem to want ’em….oh well, I guess they go in the dump pile.
Nite all
G’NIGHT MELINA
sent my asshead congressman more e-mail
Representative Brian M. Higgins
431 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Representative Higgins,
I urge you to vote No on H.R. 4167, the so-called “National
Uniformity for Food Act.”
Every year millions of Americans suffer from food-borne illnesses
and thousands of them die. H.R. 4167, however, would wipe out
nearly 200 state food safety protections in all 50 states that
are not identical to federal protections, and which sometimes
are more stringent.
States often lead the way in developing and enforcing America’s
health and food safety protections; we should be encouraging greater
protections for our children and families, not putting more people’s
lives and health at risk.
I also find it deeply troubling that this bill is being railroaded
through Congress without a single hearing. Such haste and disregard
for public safety are often hallmarks of measures pushed forward
by industry lobbyists (in this case, the food industry) that cannot
stand up to public scrutiny.
H.R. 4167 is bad for consumers and dangerous for America’s health
and safety. I strongly urge you to oppose and vote No on this
bill.
mwah ha ha even more form letters!
Higgins normally votes against crap like this right?
Sorry person who is stuck reading this crap. I know higgins is just gonna do as he is told. I figure I will put a tiny miniscule bit of effort in to save my own conscience. Okie dokie im out
laters.
Sincerely,
sean stitt
PJ- just opened the mail and NY Magazine has Sopranoland on the cover, featuring how they think Tony gets whacked scenarios etc….Lots of fun stuff as always!
This is my favorite magazine…its got a little of everything…
And I got Left of the Dial DVD!!
And the new headline on HuffPo is “Republican Party in Free Fall”
Are these the signs that portend the end of days…?
Tony gets whacked,
the Repugs fall hard,
and,
DG gives us our shoe back…?
(and nightline broadcasts from the fake tiny mardi gras going on in whats left of the rubble of New Orleans)
(and then does this mean that we have to say goodbye to the Sopranos, The Dems will have another chance to screw up a gift on a silver platter, and AAR is busily trying to ruin itself even as it is given another chance at a talent that it hardly deserves anymore….?)
(did they even finish finding all the bodies in Louisiana and surrounds?….Maybe Bush should be on the lead float…or an effigy of him.)
:evil:I think I might clear cut my forest in Pennsylvania get myself a couple bucks:!::!::!::!::!:
:barf:I can smell the fecal matter in my cup of ice!!!!!
Hey Sean…your post #179 had the link to a video:
And the one thing I can say about 9/11/01… go to this website, and tell me what you think:
http://www.pentagonstrike.co.uk/pentagon.swf
Now, tell me who had everything to do with 9/11?
Comment by SeanMS — February 27, 2006 @ 6:04 pm
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Melina-
As for green tea-I recommend a sencha or shincha. Avoid matcha-it’s the tea ceremony tea and pretty pricey.
Check this place out http://www.japanesegreenteaonline.com/
They look to havd good stuff! 🙂 I think their prices are a little nigh, but they give you information on the other types of tea…then you can buy them elsewhere! BUT they have Shizuoka tea so I can personally vouch that it’s yummy! The Gyokuro is really good, but super pricey…you can good stuff for much less. Hoji-cha is roasted green tea and sort of the green tea equivalent of hot cocoa on a snowy day. Smells amazing!
That’s FAR more than you asked for, but it’s my 2 cents (or yen) worth! Hoep you feel better soon Melina!
Tough times for wingnut radio in LA. It’s only gonna get worse when The Marc Maron Show hits the air.
yeah ok that was something from my friend corey ok then yeah uh ok yep now i know what ur talking about um yeah the point of that post was his personal account of serving in iraq anywho
Hey Farmerkat, let us know what day and time your surgery is and we will send our prayers and good vibes. It worked for Travis, see! :ear:
I haven’t had time to download Replay. I hope I have time tomorrow afternoon. This working every day SUX big time! I can’t get ANYTHING done and my house is a mess.
It sounds like you are doing too much for someone who is sick with bronchial junk, Melina. Moving couches? :no:
ha ha 24 hours and counting
:rabbi: Hey, guys, I just noticed that AAR added some text to their announcement about Marc’s new show. It says we can stream from aar’s website. Here’s the added paragraph:
:paranoid:later sheeple going to try and get through syracuse without pj’s evil minions catching me ask pj why im not around if i never show up tomorrow
:fire:im off
:fist:22 hours 15 minutes
Hey, I have a question for anyone willing to answer or at least try. What were the Morning Sedition Arbitron Ratings? How did the MS ratings compare with the other AAR shows and am radio in general.
There’s this guy that runs the local AAR affiliate who’s sayin’ that MS didn’t have the stuff it needed to survive and that maybe this new time slot for Maron is better than the morning drive time arena or something.
Maybe I’m kicking a dead horse here(or whatever that saying is) Nevermind. Maron has his own show. Who cares what kind of crap the big cheese spits out? I still would like to know the facts though
😥 All alone. I guess I’ll go fact hunting by myself. I’ll find those buried Arbitron treasures. Argh, me mates!:40:
OK, I give up. This is too annoying!
:bong:Ah, yes, I feel better. If only I could remember what I did with the remote control for the tube.:doh:
Oh, there it is! (in my left hand the whole time):doh:
I guess I’ll get back to the Zinn:yinyang::bong:
GET INTO THE ZONE…..AUTOZONE!!!!!:priest::priest::banana:
:omg:
Okay, I bought Premium for 6mos — FOR THE MARC SHOW ONLY — AHHHHH I feel Slimed and Dirty —:barf::jerk: :doh::doh::doh: So What Now:?:besides:alc:
ARREST:!:
IMPEACH:!:(format by KevinM)
VIGILANCE:!:
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