Hey, it’s Labor Day, so try not to do any today, of you can help it. And Happy Birthday to my stepson, Reuben. :cake:He hits the big 23 today. I hate to break it to him, but it’s all downhill from here. Be careful out there today.
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Hey, it’s Labor Day, so try not to do any today, of you can help it. And Happy Birthday to my stepson, Reuben. :cake:He hits the big 23 today. I hate to break it to him, but it’s all downhill from here. Be careful out there today.
Frist?
Well, that hasn’t happened in a very long time.
Happy Birthday, Reuben! :cake:
And don’t you just wish Earl would do a “Mourning” Remberance for Irwin? Why can’t he do mini-podcasts?
thanks for the link on malloy, sj. i’m beginning to think they just have a bunch of idiots running the place – nothing sinister. They don’t have a clue what radio talent means or loyalty – a bunch of corporate wanna-be’s. And to hear Harrison….he may be a nice guy but he’s certainly a doofus compared to Marc.
Have a great Labor Day. Although labor certainly didn’t win here recently.
Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin killed
Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the “Crocodile Hunter,” was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.
Irwin was at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series called “Ocean’s Deadliest” when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous bard on their tails, his friend and colleague John Stainton said.
“He came on top of the stingray and the stingray’s barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart,” said Stainton, who was on board Irwin’s boat at the time.
Crew members aboard the boat, Croc One, called emergency services in the nearest city, Cairns, and administered CPR as they rushed the boat to nearby Low Isle to meet a rescue helicopter. Medical staff pronounced Irwin dead when they arrived a short time later, Stainton said.
Irwin was famous for his enthusiasm for wildlife and his catchword “Crikey!” in his television program “Crocodile Hunter.” First broadcast in Australia in 1992, the program was picked up by the Discovery network, catapulting Irwin to international celebrity.
He rode his image into a feature film, 2002’s “The Crocodile Hunters: Collision Course” and developed the wildlife park that his parents opened, Australia Zoo, into a major tourist attraction.
http://tinyurl.com/kntyz
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good whatever :sheep: le
From what I was hearing on AAR the AAR hosts seem to be moving to be “more like” other hosts like Shultz and Miller who in theory at least were getting Arbitron ratings where they were not. The move toward the center of the AAR programming by people that used to be really far to the left like Maddow, the rejection of talk about election fraud and the attempt to make a joke out of everything by Franken, The obnoxious and repetitive nature of Rhodes ranting, and the feel good moves by Flanders leads me to think that the AAR management is afraid of losing investors and/or sponsors and that the DLC was getting nervous that they might tell a little bit to much of the truth and ruin the cheese and wine party that the SBR’s “government” has turned into. Really left wing radio will probably have to be either listener financed or financed by an interest outside the country.:eek::eek::eek:.
If the revelation that Seder was making 250k a year ( that’s like $125/hr) is true and AAR can maybe get only 80-120 dollars for each commercial spot and that has to pay Seder, the techs, several office people , for part of several managers, part of a screener, part of the electric bill and part of the rent plus make a profit all in the New York City economic environment the equation does not work out for an individual program to be able to make money. Maybe AAR should think about relocating to North Platte Nebraska if that is true. :eek::omg:
Where is Jim Earl when we need him?
We need a Morning Remembrance for that Irwin fool.
“He requested his remains to be cut into strips to be made into fashionable shoes and handbags.”
And I thought I would be first with that line, FK!
Saw Mr. FK and looks like he got over his bout with the chills. I can’t imagine how his crew gets that video footage.
fred,
Salaries are a big part of any operation. You would think that radio would be lean and mean. The biggest mystery is how the local news shows can keep going. They have huge staffs (watch the credits sometime) and are on for only 1 hour a day. How in the heck do they pay for it, and why can’t something on the radio be done on the cheap?
The cost of bringing one the news is one of the reasons the major networks are going to infotainment instead of bringing one the real news. If you also consider the cost of doing the news along with the observation that few people are watching the news when compared to shows like American Idol one can see why they might be doing that. I think the cost of a commercial on local TV is also something like 1500 to 2500 per spot as apposed to radio which is obviously a lot cheaper. I think that local TV stations also get paid for rather than have to pay for broadcasting daytime TV programs which use non local commercial advertisers.
Hey Sean, my wife brought home Sunday’s Buffalo News. They’re gonna tear down the Aud to build a Bass Pro Shop?
They sure can whine:
The strategic imperative facing the Republicans, many analysts say, is clear: transform each competitive race from a national referendum on Mr. Bush and one-party Republican rule into a choice between two individuals — and define the Democratic challengers as unacceptable.
“Democrats are trying to indict an entire class of people, who happen to be called Republican candidates for Congress,” said Glen Bolger, a Republican pollster handling dozens of House races. “We have to bring individual indictments with different cases and different pieces of evidence.”
Mr. Bolger added, “If you like positive campaigns, you’re going to be let down.”
http://tinyurl.com/nyqlk
Have a nice Labor Day, all!
Morning sheeple:sheep:
Off to check out Bumbershoot with T. Roxie has been there for the last two days..maybe we will meetup again .
Do they still make Geritol?:hot::yawn::40::banana::banana:
yep yup
:rofl2:
“My wife, I think I’ll keep her.”
Be sure to unplug your cell-phone charger. :mad::crap::paranoid:
Tel Aviv- Several European states are refusing permission for aircraft from the Israeli national carrier, El Al, carrying equipment for the Israel Defence Force (IDF), to make stop-overs at their airports, the Israeli Ha’aretz daily reported Monday. Captain Etai Regev, chairman of El Al’s pilots’ union, was quoted in the daily as saying that the refusal came from such countries as Britain, Germany and Italy, which are considered friendly with Israel.
According to Regev, heavily-laden planes arriving from US bases “are not given approval by European states to make intermediate landings for refueling, for political reasons.
“As a result, cargo planes are taking off from the US with much lighter weight, and are reaching Israel with significantly fewer munitions than needed,” he told the paper.
http://tinyurl.com/j59rv
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Humm I thought Israel was in bed with the EU too..:eek:
Hey sblue what did the toxic spill in China have to do with cellphone chargers. ??
Just the seemingly futile effort to combat global warming I guess.
Also a Jim Earl reference 🙁
I find it all so depressing and I’m very, very tired.:billcat:
Did you catch the Hartmann show this morning? Here is an article by the Portland psychoanalyst he had on as a guest:
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/bushnarc.html
Oh, Crikey!:smack: :yawn:Alright, I might make it on time…maybe.
Re 16:
The EU has been on board with the vast majority of nations who demand that Israel comply with international law (UN 242). The stopover refusals should therefore come as no surprise.
Don’t worry!
I will be a little late too Travis.:nod:
:pent:
Have you read
this?
NickiRose?
I have to go to a Labor day Picnic today.
Workers of the World, Unite!:nixon:
(Franken is having a good discussion with policymakers on the matter of globalization and job outsourcing. He is a good facilitator. And why not? They do teach that stuff at Harvard. Everything is based on a business meeting.)
have fun:banana:
The panel is hitting all of the key issues. But what about the effective proposals? Good reasons to outsource? Move businesses to low wages, low taxes, and shaky environmental regulations.
Solution: Allow the workers to unionize! Get a larger piece of the pie.
Franken is still good…I don’t care what anybody says…
Labor standards make us miss the big picture. Incentivize, so that the manufacturing sector, the service sectorwill stay. Not go where it is cheaper.
The federal government has to keep the companies from being based in the Cayman islands , having their offices in the US and all their manufacturing and high tech development off shore. Unionizing by itself does not solve this problem and in fact might make it worse. Perhaps nationalizing a few would help. :eek::shock:
It is the chic thing to do to trash him. I learn a lot from his radio show. This show is quite good, in fact. He is making the panel be clear, and is skillfully moving the discussion.
And then nationalize a few more.
he’s smart and informed and a really good radio person, and he has good guests
Pundits freak out when you start talking about governments getting assertive towards corporate outsourcing issues. “There is little we can do to stop corporations moving overseas.” Alterman said something like that when he was on Seder’s show last week. Probably meaning that if governments push too hard, the corporations will pull out completely. So, to prevent that, we are left with being nice to them and pray that they will throw us a few crumbs.
Bow down to the corporations. It’s always the same old thing.
It’s particularly disgusting when a liberal like Alterman bows down. Tell it like it is: Corporations a private tyrannies, making profits for the few at the expense of the vast majority.
they’ll just dance around that fact and talk about the few little tiny things we can do maybe 🙁
Its getting to the point where the workers need to start looking like an insurgency and kidnap their CEO’s and have public executions..A few politicians might be good to throw in too.:jason::jason::jason::jason:
The corporation’s legally defined mandate is to pursue relentlessly and without exception its own economic self-interest, regardless of the harmful consequences it might cause to others — a concept endorsed by no less a luminary than the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman.
The corporation’s unbridled self-interest victimizes individuals, society, and, when it goes awry, even shareholders and can cause corporations to self-destruct, as recent Wall Street scandals reveal.
While corporate social responsibility in some instances does much good, it is often merely a token gesture, serving to mask the corporation’s true character.
Governments have abdicated much of their control over the corporation, despite its flawed character, by freeing it from legal constraints through deregulation and by granting it ever greater authority over society through privatization.
Despite the structural failings found in the corporation, [Joel] Bakan believes change is possible and outlines a far-reaching program of concrete, pragmatic, and realistic reforms through legal regulation and democratic control.
http://wmom.typepad.com/IMPACT_addons/High_IMPACT_Reading_List.html
I am listening to AAAR on the KPOJ. I notice that they are getting lots of local advertizing, amidst the PSAs. World Can’t Wait is getting a lot of ads on, too.
and they continue to make things easier for corporations in any way they can, because they’re connected to them – lobbyists. Something has to break that chain
Question: Do you believe that the type of statement made last week by Ford Motor Company regarding corporate social responsibility represents a step toward voluntary self-policing that is a realistic solution under global competition? If not, should efforts be made toward developing global regulations or toward localization efforts?
Tom Burgess,
Social Studies Teacher, Taipei American School
Noam Chomsky: A corporation is a form of private tyranny. Its directors have a responsibility to increase profit and market share, not to do good works. If they fail that responsibility, they will be removed. They have some latitude for public relations purposes, and the talk about corporate responsibility falls within that territory. But it makes no sense to regard them as benevolent institutions, freed from their institutional role. It is a public responsibility to enforce decent behavior.
I have to wonder what the underlying politics were in the early part of the 20th century that made the industrialists bow down to the unions. The federal government was not pro labor and the industrialists typically brought in hired guns like the Pinkerton’s to beat up and intimidate the union leaders and workers .. The unions as far as I have been able to tell never really fought back in any proactive way.. After a while they got their way though like some magic force came over the industrialists and made them relent. :paranoid:
that’s good…I like to hear more local advertisers and more non profit type groups
We need to organize and project our power towards breaking up these tyrannies. Simple as that.
What is the ad situation at the AAR Flagship station?
Re 43: Therer was no magic involved. Lots of organizing and struggle. Look at your labor history. CIO history. Sit Down strikes. Massive protests.
Fred I think people were so desperate for work at the time – they had it harder than they do now (but that could change) – so they just fought harder. Nicki’s right, we have to organize and fight
I’ll have to listen to the flagship station before I can answer that 😮
In the early 1930s, as the nation slid toward the depths of depression, the future of organized labor seemed bleak. In 1933, the number of labor union members was around 3 million, compared to 5 million a decade before. Most union members in 1933 belonged to skilled craft unions, most of which were affiliated with the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
The union movement had failed in the previous 50 years to organize the much larger number of laborers in such mass production industries as steel, textiles, mining, and automobiles. These, rather than the skilled crafts, were to be the major growth industries of the first half of the 20th century.
Although the future of labor unions looked grim in 1933, their fortunes would soon change. The tremendous gains labor unions experienced in the 1930s resulted, in part, from the pro-union stance of the Roosevelt administration and from legislation enacted by Congress during the early New Deal. The National Industrial Recovery Act (1933) provided for collective bargaining. The 1935 National Labor Relations Act (also known as the Wagner Act) required businesses to bargain in good faith with any union supported by the majority of their employees. Meanwhile, the Congress of Industrial Organizations split from the AFL and became much more aggressive in organizing unskilled workers who had not been represented before. Strikes of various kinds became important organizing tools of the CIO.
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/depwwii/unions/unions.html
A major reason why Roosevelt and Congress passed pro-union was because of the organized pressure that the union movement brought to bear.:fist: power of the people
I would think that part of being well organized would be to have the federal government on your side in any fight or the industrialists will just move out and/or get their federal judge to put the leaders in Leavenworth for ever. If you don’t do that then you need to be both well organized and well armed.:eek:
Let them move out. Then you seize their wealth. As for judges decisions to tamp down the people: Unjust laws are not to be obeyed.
This is a good guest. :omg:
One Party Country: The Republican Plan for Dominance in the 21st Century by Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten (Hardcover – Jul 28, 2006)
this really is a good “best of” show
You need some wealthy investor or the state/county/local government entity to to the seizing of the assets. The industrialists love to declare bankruptcy and then have their machinery and plant property to be sold to their Chinese subsidiary and a real estate developer at auction. 😮
In general local governments will not seize the assets of private industry unless perhaps it was the power plant or something that would effect all the citizens welfare. A lot of states have taken over railroad right of ways by passing a law that keeps the railroad from taking up the tracks and then repossessing their property for failure to pay property taxes. Kansas did that to the Missouri Pacific/Union Pacific when the UP asked to abandon some 300 miles of track in Colorado and Kansas. Kansas ended up owning some 200 miles by 50 feet of Colorado. The seizure was necessary because of the seasonal service needed to some 200 grain elevators along the line and the rethug legislature in Colorado was more interested in getting the effected farmer’s water rights than saving the farming communities. Towns tend to dry up and blow away without their grain elevators.
We will have to change that attitude. The corporate ethic of profit making for a tiny few at the expense of the majority is not democratic.
Yes. The political/economic system is designed to benefit corporations. No secret there. Are you saying that it is hopeless? There is no alternative? Is that what you are telling us, Margaret Thatcher?
And that’s how it is
That’s what we got
If the president wants to admit it or not
You can read it in the paper
Read it on the wall
Hear it on the wind
If you’re listening at all
Get out of that limo
Look us in the eye
Call us on the cell phone
Tell us all why
In Dayton, Ohio
Or Portland, Maine
Or a cotton gin out on the great high plains
That’s done closed down along with the school
And the hospital and the swimming pool
Dust devils dance in the noonday heat
There’s rats in the alley
And trash in the street
Gang graffiti on a boxcar door
We can’t make it here anymore
“What appears to be the triumph of subjective rationality, the subjection of all reality to logical formalism, is paid for by the obedient subjection of reason to what is directly given. What is abandoned is the whole claim and approach to knowledge: to comprehend the given as such; not merely to determine the abstract spatio-temporal relations of the facts which allow them just to be grasped, but on the contrary to conceive them as the superficies, as mediated conceptual moments which come to fulfillment only in the development of their social, historical, and human significance.”
–Adorno and Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment
enlightenment, baby
The effectiveness of the IWW’s non-violent tactics sparked violent reaction by government, company management, and mobs of “respectable citizens”. In 1914, Joe Hill (Joel Hägglund) was accused of murder and, despite only circumstantial evidence, was executed by the state of Utah in 1915. Frank Little, another senior IWW member, was lynched in Butte, Montana. On November 5, 1916 at Everett, Washington a drunken mob of deputized businessmen led by Sheriff Donald McRae attacked Wobblies on the steamer VERONA, killing at least five union members (six more were never accounted for and probably were lost in Puget Sound).
Two members of the mob were killed, probably by their own side’s cross-fire.
http://tinyurl.com/ewdma
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This seems fairly typical of the labor movement up until the depression. It could have been the influence of the American communist party as well as labor on the Roosevelt administration that got them to pass the laws they did. The perception of those times is that things were about to explode so the elite had no choice but to let Roosevelt do his thing or they would find themselves hanging from lamp poles during the revolution that would have occurred. 😮
http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/strike/
Since its original publication in 1972, no book has done as much as Jeremy Brecher’s Strike! to bring American labor history to a wide audience. Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and often violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. Strike! tells this exciting hidden history from the point of view of the rank-and-file workers who lived it.
Now Jeremy Brecher brings the story up to date. A new introduction places the problems faced by working people today in the context of 120 years of labor history. A new chapter reveals the little-known labor dimension of the Vietnam-era revolt. And a new concluding chapter interprets the rank-and-file labor struggles of the past 25 years—including the path-breaking 1997 Teamsters strike against UPS—in a unique “first draft” of the labor history of our era.
This updated edition of Strike! will be essential for any course that touches on either the history or the present situation of American workers. It will be an inspiration for all those working to revive the labor movement today.
http://www.southendpress.org/2004/items/Strike/Praise
interesting bit of history there
wow, that looks like a good one…
I listened to Chuck D’s AAR show for the first time in ages last night. I used to listen to Kyle Jason’s show, too. Does anybody know the details of Jason’s show cancellation? Was it amicable?
I have no idea what happened to him actually, that’s a good question…
The thing you get from reading labor history is that they were almost always unsuccessful at getting anything they wanted until the industrialist did something to the strikers or to the union officials that got bad press ..like the Ludlow massacre or that strike in Pacific Northwest which had the potential of getting other workers all over the nation ticked off.. When the government got involved on the side of the unions in the 1930’s up until RayGun they were very successful.. Only a change of the government supported by a call to do bad things to politicians if they don’t respond to the workers wishes will cause any progress in keeping good jobs in the SBR.
The Big Strike
The strike began on May 9, 1934 as longshoremen in every west coast port walked out; sailors joined them several days later. The employers recruited strikebreakers, housing them on moored ships or in walled compounds and bringing them to and from work under police guard. Strikers attacked the stockade housing strikebreakers in San Pedro on May 15; two strikers were shot and killed by the employers’ private guards. Similar battles broke out in San Francisco and Oakland, California, Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. Teamsters supported the strikers by refusing to handle “hot cargo”, goods that had been unloaded by strikebreakers. Strikers also succeeded in slowing down or stopping the movement of goods by rail out of the ports.
The Roosevelt Administration tried again to broker a deal to end the strike, but the membership twice rejected the agreements their leadership brought to them. The employers then decided to make a show of force to reopen the port in San Francisco. On Tuesday, July 3, fights broke out along the Embarcadero in San Francisco between police and strikers while a handful of trucks driven by young businessmen made it through the line.
:omg::omg::omg::omg::omg::omg::omg:
Portland had a big communioty effort to support the 1934 Longshore strike. Almost a general strike. (I can’t find the article I wrote on it.) A powerful ILWU local was one result.
so we have to sit back and hope the government helps us…what if the government, like the Bush administration, will NEVER help… got to do other things…can’t be defeatist
The government will help you into the truck that goes to the glue factory.
I don’t think its hopeless but the present situation requires more than just standing in the street yelling slogans. Even during the Vietnam war there were lots of protests where students occupied buildings , blocked streets and threw things at the police but the only ones that got any press were those where the police and/or the national guard shot back or something was torched. Students seeing that started torching things and learning how to isolate and neutralize the police so by the time of the demonstration in DC in 1972 Congress thought they might all get lynched if the crowd got out of control. :jason:
I believe that (#75)
Where were you in the Summer of 1999?
How about during the buildup tp the Iraq War?
People are protesting. People do want real change.
World Can’t Wait…
http://www.worldcantwait.org/
“…taking the lead in full page advertisements in The New York Times is a new group by the name of The World Can’t Wait. They are not waiting for Congress to impeach Bush. They want a mass mobilization to make Bush/Cheney resign.”
-from The No-Fault White House, CounterPunch.org
By 1934 the new deal was well underway. The idea of the new deal was that the best way to avoid revolution is a job that makes the worker feel good , allows him to support his family and tires him out. The strikes during the Roosevelt administration were initially dealt with by the known effective ways. The economy really didn’t improve very much even with the new deal. Hitler and Hirohito pulled us out of the depression.
Millions and millions are deeply disturbed and outraged by this. They recognize the need for a vehicle to express this outrage, yet they cannot find it; politics as usual cannot meet the enormity of the challenge, and people sense this. There is not going to be some magical “pendulum swing.” People who steal elections and believe they’re on a “mission from God” will not go without a fight. There is not going to be some savior from the Democratic Party. This whole idea of putting our hopes and energies into “leaders” who tell us to seek common ground with fascists and religious fanatics is proving every day to be a disaster, and actually serves to demobilize people.
WCW
What is your point? Give up. It is hopeless because corporations are too powerful?
yeah, wait for the dems, who fight each other to see who can act more wimpy so that nobody would get the wrong idea and think they mean business…
What lesson can you draw from the fact that the Second World War got us out of the Great Depression? What was being done economically in 1941(and after) that was different from from was being done in 1934?
What a great Al Franken show. I know Andy Stern. I was one of his photographers when he visited Portland in 1998.
I remember this particular show…yeah, it was a good one. Did you work with him? That’s pretty cool…
It was through a local union. Sterne is a good politician.
I have to go to a Labor Day Picnic.
By 1941 the SBR had almost full employment where as in 1934 it was probably still well above 15%.. One difference between Hitler’s fascism and Bushes is that Hitler kept most germans fat and happy. Bush is not doing that. WCW with their full page adds may get it done by a huge demonstration but to get it really done the US citizens may have to follow the lead of the Iraqi’s:eek::eek:
enjoy baby, I’m going to go walk in the woods later and look for plants
no kidding that Bush is not keeping people “fat and happy” (or employed) – but he somehow makes them think they’re happy and employed – or that their unemployment is based on something other than him… so in that sense he has one over on Hitler…
my dad was hoping he’d live long enough to see Bush out of office – he knew that bastard was foolin’ with the collective brains of this country – I wish he would have made it. What a shame. :fu:
The fundie Christians form a lot of Bushes base and their ideology has many of them convinced Bush will lead us to Armageddon hence the wars in the Middle East make sense to them . The decent into poverty also make sense to them since the bible says it easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to go heaven so they are just waiting for the END
No, Fred. The big difference was that the government poured big money into the economy. Primed the economic pump. What is that called?
so they thank Bush for making them poor? Now I’ve heard everything. I wish they’d just find their END now and leave the rest of us behind.
Bush’s regime isn’t fascism. Bush is not interested in giving anything to workers.
Norman Goldman is pretty good on the radio.
The Roosevelt administration also got started on the conflicts in Asia and Europe well after it was to late to do much about what was happen in either Europe or Asia so they were in a head long dash to get the war machine running at capacity and labor was seen as a major problem. That may be why they were so willing to pass laws in the late 30’s and the 40’s supporting labor and why they passed Taft Hartley in the 50’s to take some of labors teeth away. :rant1:
The point is that government priming of the economy is good for the economy. Defeats the boom/bust cycle. Unfortunately, the US–like Hitler– chose to do it through military spending. Does not have to be that way, though.
I’m listening to that Chomsky CD again…
Once the SBR achieves near to full employment the leverage of the corporations goes away to a great extent. The corporatists see China as the world largest economy in as few as 15 years so they want to go there and forget about the SBR so the thugs and the industrialists have formed a conspiracy ( which is the definition of fascism of the Italian variety) to team up to falsify unemployment numbers, reduce unemployment benefits , sick bill collectors on the consumer and intimidate the worker to force our wages down and demoralize the people who are not paying attention. When Hitler’s Germany put 3 million men in the army and all their wives busy making tanks , trucks, airplanes and guided missiles. the German economy made everyone fat and happy and they thought they were on top of the world until Dresden disappeared one night. :eek::eek:
With the loss of all these manufacturing jobs I would think that probably more than 30% of the economy of the SBR is now related to defense spending. Some 70% of all R&D funds in the SBR come from the pentagon and that has been that way for 35 years or more. If we got out of the war business tomorrow we would have 60% unemployment. We need to get basic industries like Steel and Auto making back as well as consumer goods manufacturing while at the same time we wind down the defense spending. Like you said the current bunch of fools in DC are never going to understand how this works. :eek::eek:
Just in case anyone had forgotten about tomorrow’s Florida primary, some late-breaking sleaze (and it isn’t even about Katherine Harris!)…
http://tinyurl.com/ftzys
Charlie Crist had sex with a woman? Come on. :rofl2:
In Crist’s defense, the “Feather Sound nightclub” the article refers to is within staggering distance of my place. I used to frequent it a lot back in the day, and don’t remember ever seeing him there.
Of course, there were many nights when my vision wasn’t so great, especially around closing time. Fortunately, I don’t think anyone has pictures.
In other election news, none of the other three Repig wannabes running against Harris has dropped out. Scary to think that there are three politicians in Florida who are more delusional than Cruella is.
:omg:
The rethug alternate reality seems to be alive and well in Florida. The thugs say they believe in competition .. right .. :omg:
SBR may be an abbreviation for:
* Short-Barreled Rifle, A rifle with a barrel length of less than 16 inches as designated by the BATFE.
* Space-Based Radar, both the name of a specific U.S. Air Force project, and of a concept in general for placing satellites into Earth orbit with the ability to track airborne, seaborne, and land-based targets.
* SportsbookReview, name of website that rates offshore sportsbooks by grade according to quality and safety.
* Spectral Band Replication, a technology to enhance audio or speech codecs especially at low bit rates.
* Styrene-butadiene rubber is a kind of synthetic rubber.
* Sequencing batch reactor waste water treatment process through oxygenation
* Stone Brothers Racing, a premier Ford team in the Australian V8 Supercar Championship
Have you listened to the William Burroughs one yet?
Shit-Biting Republicans? :rofl2:
Hey Nicki you left out Super Banana Republic
That’s a has been super power that has stupid idiots ( spelled oil men) who have obtained political power illegally, immorally and unethically and who think they have more macho than they really do.. The words real leaders are those seen rolling around the floor while holding their stomachs while watching the SBR waiting for the END
part of it
I got that at wikipedia. I was wondering what SBR stands for in regards to the US or Multinational Corporations.
SUPER BANANA REPUBLIC! Alright. That makes sense.
:banana:
Now with a weak economy and no place to get any money to prime the pump other than through borrowing from foreign countries the thugs have have set the SBR up for a major economic catastrophe. The only way the government can satisfy all its debtors is to declare itself insolvent so the Reich’s dream of getting rid of entitlement programs, the social safety net , Social security, Medicare and everything else except for defense spending ( needed to protect us from physical seizure by our debtors) will now come about .. Explain how it can END any other way
You see what they are doing is getting rid of all the industrial production that made the SBR a super power and substituting defense spending paid for with borrowed money and consumer spending paid for with consumer credit.. Neither the government or the consumer has the ability to repay the debts that they owe. If we were to just kick out the thugs and put in a responsible government tomorrow they would have no idea what to do about this…..( I think we should try that approach however) 😮
:paranoid: My latest podcast is up. Just me acting like a fool.
Go here to listen.:eek:
Whenever I listen to norMAN goldMAN it takes me awhile to figure out he’s not Schultz. Kind of a higher pitched Ed. I listened to Chuck D as well last night; if I listened all the time I figured I would become an expert at hip-hop history. The Kyle Jason cancellation has never been clarified even though Chuck hinted at it.
Crikey!
What a day and I am so very sad about the Croc HUnter…at least it wasnt my sweetie Jeff Corwin! If I could find a guy who is a cross between Jeff Corwin and John Edwards with a little bit of homebody thrown in, I would consider dating again!
I hurt my back and its getting worse and worse…Yesterday I did too much and today I Picked up some large bird cages that my friends sold to me for really cheapo….but, man…I may have to lay down with the heating pad……
Considering that Sam’s 3 hours involves probably 10+ hours of research and that he has to know about all of this stuff…and work on comedy etc…the on air time, as anyone in production will tell you, is just a tiny part of what goes on….Havent read the whole day yet, so forgive me if someone has pointed that out.
To me a quarter of a mil. for a really good on air personality for 3 hours per day, 5 days per week, is not bad at all… 2-3 million forAl is bad….but some of that might be in points or stock, as Sam’s deal might also be part stock or options at a reduced price….
Happy Happy Birthday Reuben….:cake::cake::cake::cake::cake::cake::cake::cake::cake::cake::cake::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:
From your friends in CT!
Poll: labor unions viewed favorably by 58%
rasmussenreports.com Mon Sep 4, 8:27 AM ET
Fifty-eight percent (58%) of Americans have at least a somewhat favorable opinion of labor unions while 33% disagree and have an unfavorable view. Those figures, from a Rasmussen Reports survey of 1,000 adults, include 23% with a “very favorable” opinion and 12% with a “very unfavorable” view.
By way of comparison, 69% of Americans have a favorable opinion of a company the unions love to hate-Walmart. Twenty-nine percent (29%) have an unfavorable opinion of the retail giant.
Forty-eight percent (48%) have a favorable opinion of General Motors while 21% hold the opposite view.
The volunteer Minutemen who organized patrols of the Mexican border are viewed favorably by 54% and unfavorably by 22%.
http://tinyurl.com/z7qjl
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Labor has a way to go it would seem:eek:
Unbelievable…it seems like Americans would throw themselves under a bus if Faux news told them that it was healthy…..There is so much disinformation out there…and CNN has had some very interesting stories tonight: One saying that the war on the middle class is picking up speed and how badly the middle class is doing, and another saying that the shipping containers that Chinese goods come in, have become a real big blight …so there are architects who are gonna start using them to make housing….a good idea, I guess…but the real problem is that theyare not going back toChina with American goods. That was how it was supposed to work!
And now Rasmussen is telling us that most Americans like Walmart. Well, we’ve become spoiled into thinking that those cheapo goods made by underpaid Chinese slaves are what we are due…and that everything should fall apart after a couple of months (thus adding to the garbage problem too)….
What if there were taxes and tarriffs on imported goods? Wouldnt it make sense to buy American made sturdy stuff as opposed to crappy Walmart stuff that fails really quickly?
I just dont think that its OK to offer cheapo goods like that without some sort of extra tax that goes towards the workers who lost their jobs so that China could make that stuff.
Maybe thats anti-global economy and I dont really *get* the global economy…but Id like to know what it is we are making that the world wants anymore?…and what are we gonna do if they let corporations insource laborers on contract to undercut workers who are doing jobs here that cant be outsourced…like construction!
This whole thing is just scary.
And, even as people sort of wise up a little….Man, we need to work on education and specifically critical thinking in our kids…because it doesnt seem like most Americans can figure much out just by experiencing near bankruptcy
every month at bill time……
Happy Labor day everyone!
:omg: I’ve been reading from a link provided by web hubble telescopes site. The link he provides on his site concerns “peak oil.” One of the bylines reads: “Global Oil Production is Peaking and Civilization as we know it today is in big trouble.” Go here to read this article. Life as we know it is doomed. The industrial age will decline and disappear from this planet as a result of the decline in oil production. Oil is a finite resource. Read this article. Your life may depend on it. 😮 What is really freightening here is our mistaken belief that science will find an alternative to oil. No such alternative exists. And it never will. Not unless space aliens land on our planet and offer us some as yet unknown fuel source. This is scarier than the possibilty that hell really exists! Perhaps this is why Iran is insisting on developing a nuclear program. Perhaps there are already signs in the Middle East of a decline in oil production. And with China now competing for a dwindling natural resource? I can’t help but come to the conclusion that we’re . . . f u c k e d ! :paranoid:
cnick,
Don’t freak out. I’ve got one of those narrow issue blogs where I study energy to death. I’ve come to the conclusion that if we become vegetarians like Jim Earl, ride golf-carts like Ed Begley, and unplug our cell phone chargers when not in use as Laurie David sez, we will all be OK.
Oh God…the cell phone charger thing!! That bitch has screwed up my life with all that guilt….what about leaving the computer on?
What about solar? underground hill housing? Wind energy?…and maybe life as we know it isnt supposed to exist anymore? Maybe things are gonna change….like they have thousands of times since this chunk broke free of the sun.
I posted Frank Rich on my blog, if you want to really be scared.
With humans like this in the world, maybe its better if life as we know it ceases to exist…really….these are some bad people.
So, on the charger thing, I started to eat mainly humanely and organically farmed meats whenever possible….does that make up for the cell phone charger? The mac charger? And if youve got a dock for a camera or a palm, does that count?
Hi ALL:!:… I am back in school thus NO TIME and trying to do my Work/Art therefore constant angst/:eek: but want to say:
😎 :banana: HAPPY * BIRTHDAY * R U B E N :banana: 😎
One up on Frank Rich.
Serial killer expert on Thom Hartmann says Bush is a psychopath.
o/w hold off on the guilt trip.
well, Im half Irish Catholic, and half Russian NY Jew, so guilt is my middle name……:shock:
and…Bush definitely has real mental problems….dont need an expert to tell me that…Bush on the couch has nothing on experience with crazy people and common sense!
Steve Irwin is on larry King showing animals….
Tomorrow night his manager and producer and also Jack Hannah (?) will be on…..and on animal planet they seem to be playing lots of his stuff….
Indigo snake is just like the basement snake who lives here…..
Below Frank Rich on RIPCoco is the turtle that the boys caught out back today.
:ear: Quiet night around the blog. Big protest ralley infront of the Presidential Building in Taipei this weekend. It is scheduled to last a few weeks.
The Tiger at Bay: Scary Times Ahead
by Immanuel Wallerstein; Binghamton; September 04, 2006
When many years ago, some of us said that the decline of United States hegemony in the world-system was inevitable, unstoppable, and already occurring, we were told by most people that we ignored the obvious overwhelming military and economic strength of the United States. And there were some critics who said that our analyses were harmful because they served as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Then the neo-cons came to power in the Bush presidency, and they implemented their policy of unilateral macho militarism, designed (they said) to restore unquestioned United States hegemony by frightening U.S. enemies and intimidating U.S. friends into unquestioned obedience to U.S. policies in the world arena. The neo- cons had their chance and their wars and have spectacularly failed either to frighten those regarded as enemies or to intimidate erstwhile allies into unquestioned obedience. The U.S. position in the world- system is far weaker today than it was in 2000, the result precisely of the very misguided neo-con policies adopted during the Bush presidency. Today, quite a few people are ready to talk openly about U.S. decline.
So what happens now? There are two places to look: inside the United States, and in the rest of the world. In the rest of the world, governments of all stripes are paying less and less attention to anything the United States says and wants. Madeleine Albright, when she was Secretary of State, said that the United States was “the indispensable nation.” This may have been true once, but it is certainly not true now. Now, it’s a tiger at bay.
It’s not yet fully the “paper tiger” of which Mao Zedong spoke, but it’s certainly on its way to being exposed as a tiger crouching in self-defense…
http://www.binghamton.edu/fbc/192en.htm