Well, what wonders do they have in store for us on this, the first Booblehead Sunday of October?
First up, on Press the Meat, Timmy Potatohead has a debate between Ohio scumbag Mike DeWine, and his challenger, Sherrod Brown. My advice to Brown? Dangle a 16 year old boy over the table, and watch Timmuh and Mikey fight over him.
Over at Faze the Nation, bush buddy Bobby Schieffer hosts a real Sunday snoozefest between Senator MBNA, Joe Biden, and Bush “counselor” Dan Bartlett. :yawn:
Over at Fux News, Weaselface Wallace hosts Michael Scheuer, former chief of the CIA’s bin Laden Unit and Dan Benjamin, former NSC member under Pres. Clinton. Let me guess – it’s all Clinton’s fault.
Over at CNN’s Late Emission, the Wolfman asks the question, “did the Bush administration turn a deaf ear to warnings about the Iraqi insurgency?” And, in order to get an honest, objective answer, he goes to (who else) White House Counselor Dan Bartlett. Plus, the disturbingly named Dick Lugar (I think he’s packin’), and CT’s Democratic Senator, Chris Dodd. As if that wasn’t already more excitement than you can handle, Wolfie also welcomes the US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, former National Security Adviser (and a man who desperately needs to buy an “O”) Zbigniew Brzezinski, and war criminal/dubya Iraq adviser, Henry Kissinger (his puss must haunt Jill St. John’s nightmares).
If you weren’t boycotting the Goebells Broadcasting Network, you could tune in to This Weak with George Snufalufagus to see, well, gosh, once again, it’s Dan Bartlett, giving us the unvarnished truth about Iraq. Plus, it’s John Murtha, and yet another exciting roundtable, with George :jerk: Will, former Pentagon spokesbitch Tori Clarke, ABC’s resident political hack, Mark “the Snark” Halperin, and architect of the brilliant Al Gore 2000 campaign, Donna Brazile. Plus, US Poet Laureate Donald Hall unveils his first work as the nation’s poet:
There was a Republican from Florida,
Who met a young boy in the corridor.
He pulled down his pants,
And effected a stance
Where he was the bull, and the lad, an unwitting toreador
Later, on 60 Minutes, Bob Woodward sits down with Mike Wallace to plug his book, State of Denial. Not sure if Woodward woke up one day and realized he’d become a pitiful hack or what, but my guess is that the former darling of the Bush White House will suddenly find himself persona non grata. Or maybe he’s still a hack, but released a couple of “hard-hitting” quotes from his book in an attempt to boost sales. Beats me, but if I was Woodward, I’d ask Mike how it feels to have spawned that evil, fuckfaced, Fox whore creep of a son. Ed Bradley does a story on “bum hunting,” (apparently this is a new sport, popular amongst the “future of America”) that looks to be truly disturbing. But, frankly, what would you expect in a nation where torture is legal, protected – and even admired? And finally, Lesley Stahl looks at a new technique for stimulating “Area 25” of the brain with electrodes, in an effort to help the severely clinically depressed. Looking at Lesley’s hair, I get the feeling she tried this out personally. :omg:
Enjoy your Sunday.
ahem :nixon:
:::does “I am number one” dance ::insert Snoopy on top of doghouse emo:::
susan is #1:dancers:
No one here. :omg: I need to record some videos.
hmmm
::looks around::: oh yes. No one. You’re right.
Do art. Donate to DNC. :omg:
go for it. Do something inspiring. You inspire me with your inspiration.
NickiRose look on the previous stream if you want proof. I again stand by my words. Nader is a whore. sf article thus proving. Do not say to me I am spreading lies for I am not:!:
If Nader is a whore, what the fuck does that make Kerry? Or any goddamn candidate for president?
Kosher dill is a quite a thrill
But how do you label a
Kornblatt bagel?
mmm I think I had a dream about Kornblatt’s
Who’s horny out there?
_666 Is our call. Come back, Druid
before Babylon falls.
:omg:
:pent::sdavid:
Six. Six. Six.
Sending out an SOS.
Sending out an SOS.
:40:
No One I know and have voted for took money from obvious Republicans, maybe big business but not obvious ones for trying to bring down the democrats.
Message in a bottle! :40:
big business are Republicans. They’re just named something else.
just sayin
so who approacheth the well? Did I sense a presence here? :pent::sdavid:
Corporations frrquently hedge their bets and give money to both candidates. But it is usually more than $1000.
We all know big business is is with many a republican, but one should see why that is more acceptable than obvious republican party…
Also I was said to be spreading lies. I do not lie and take offense deeply.
Shemanski by the well
Shemanski by the well
So why in the bloody hell
did he overturn the tables
of the sellers?
Shekinah! Shekinah!
But I see the above and as long as I am not called a liar, I will set down the sword.
Virus. language is a virus. No I wanted to know why you were bought into the propaganda about Nader. No. He is not perfect. But he has more integrity than any elected Demo I know.
:rabbi: Who’s lurking. Come speak, spirit.
eenie beanie chili beanie the spirits are about to speak
:boobs:
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❓ whatever :sheep: le
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Rocky and Bullwinkle.
whoa there
it’s Fred! :banana::banana:
In business they say you call a competitor that wants to buy something a customer. I’m sure that works in politics too.:eek:
yes, Rocky and Bullwinkle and Boris and Natasha
:yippee::yippee::yippee: It’s Susan and Nicki :yippee::yippee::yippee:
:pirate::parrot:
Anybody watch Roger Ramjet?
it’s Nush with a pirate!!!!
re 27 I disagree totally:!: Nader is the least honourable I have ever seen, save for LieLieberman ❗
Until they get big money out of politics you will never be sure what is paying for the person you are voting for. At a time when we need real expertise in government we get a bunch of clowns on both sides of the fence .. :gate::omg::jason::jason::jason::fist:
yes, and H.R Puff n stuff and Land of the Lost and Lidsville and the Banana Splits and so many other weird things I lost count
I was more of a Jetsons fan :paranoid:
I loved the Jetsons! But I resent that there are no flying cars and we aer past the year 2000. I was promised flying cars.
Not all republicans are 👿
Neocons = Rethugs are 👿
Rethugs must be eliminated :gate::omg:
I go futher. I have not seen any rethug in past standing for what is right and true … thus I will not give credit to any who are crawling from under a rock now. Too Late.
Flying cars = 3 dimensional carnage plus all those car parts falling out of the sky on the people below.. :eek::yuck::rant1:
okey dokey reefer smokey Suzie is about to sleep
I see no “real republicans” on the current political landscape that’s why rethugs must first be eliminated.:gate::omg::jason::jason::jason:
Con_de_Loser … err.. Con_de_Lizzard Lice is on C-span :barf::gate::omg:
Go to your local film library and ask for the film Poletown. Then tell me how dishonorable Nader is.
reefer smokey Suzie :omg::spank::spank::shock::paranoid:
Lay off Al Gore and Nader and I will lay off Nader. I will not waste my time on a rethug obvious whore. Read all you want, but not I regarding Nader. Years ago yes but not when he took obvious rethug money and now. He is an obvious waste!
Oh, but then again nevermind for I was thinking about cnickthomas. We may talk about Gore and Dems
I only am interested in Global Warming for a very major issue and only Al Gore Is Doing something besides NOTHING like Nader.
86% of people believe in lies or the telling of “lies”. 14% do not lie.
tea:joe:
Nader has to be getting older than dirt these days and taking money from the thugs in 2004 to just be a non vote candidate was a bit disturbing. Gore has good presentation but his platitudes are just lines out of the DLC’s/DNC’s what to say to get elected play book. All politicians go with the flow from their money interests .. integrity is a word from the past . :gate::omg:
A new U.S. push for greater Russian military openness collided with Cold War habits last week as Russian long-range bombers flew within 15 miles of U.S. airspace off Alaska, Denver Post website reported.
Fully-armed U.S. fighter jets responded, intercepting the two bombers.
The Russian Tu-95 bombers on a training exercise Thursday penetrated a North American buffer zone, said a statement Friday from Maj. Gen. Brett Cairns, operations chief for Colorado Springs-based North American Aerospace Defense Command.
>>>
Russian commanders had announced an exercise in Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic regions Sept. 26-30 involving 70 bombers and the test-firing of 18 cruise missiles.
http://tinyurl.com/zednb
and
It remains unclear how many times the ground-based laser was tested against U.S. spacecraft or whether it was successful.
But the combination of China’s efforts and advances in Russian satellite jamming capabilities illustrate vulnerabilities to the U.S. space network are at the core of U.S. Air Force plans to develop new space architectures and highly classified systems, according to sources.
According to experts, lasers — depending on their power level — could blind electro-optical satellites like the giant Keyhole spacecraft or even interfere with radar satellites like the Lacrosse. Blinding, one source said, is different than disabling given the enormous power required to shoot a laser through the dense lower atmosphere and reach a fast-moving satellite in space. The hardware on the spacecraft can’t be changed given they’re in orbit, but software changes can help them weather disruptive attacks.
http://tinyurl.com/haaoz
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Is Iran a trap ??:eek::eek::eek:
:yawn:…and to all a good night.
:knit::gate: Good Journeys
Nader wants to be significant again. No doubt he was mighty thrilled to have gotten so much attention in 2000 when some blamed him for not asking his supporters in the states where the election was close to support Gore (which, according to some of the people who worked for him, is what he’d promised to do).
Point of fact it, Nader got 2.74% of the vote nationally in 2000. In 2004, Nader had trouble getting on the ballot in a lot of states. He would have everyone believe it was beacuse the Democrats were “mean” to him, which, of course, they were (would have been interesting to see what would have happened to Nader had his campaign been seen as a threat to the Republicans; my guess is he’d have been driven into the ground so deeply, he’d still be trying to dig his way out, but as it is, they were happy to support him, and he apparently had no problem taking their support). But it was more than those nasty old Democrats being meanies, I think. My guess is that it was tough to get support from the same old places (hence, prostituting himself by taking GOP money – oh, and “what about Kerry” makes about as much sense as “buh-buh-buh-but Clinton…!), and he was unable to recreate the magic of his nearly 3% performance in 2000. Getting on the ballot in many states is hard work, and you need some real machinery in place to get it done. So Nader wound up with something like .34% of the vote. No doubt those 411,000 or so righteous souls can stand tall, proud of their votes.
But, if you’re gonna run a holier-than-thou campaign, you ought to remain holy, no? You know, keep your head held high, your hands clean, and you coffers clear of “dirty” money? Especially if you’re just gonna be a loser anyway.
Because, make no mistake, the Nader campaigns were losers. Bigtime losers. To whatever extent that he helped Bush become president, he can feel significant again. But any ability he might once have had to try and push candidates to the left is pretty much gone, now. Whether it’s fair or not, he will continue to be associated with getting the worst president ever elected.
Hey Sean, what are you, down at Virginia Tech?
Good morning.:joe: My, aren’t we getting heady so early on a Sunday. Maybe I should go back to bed.
I liked Melina’s idea, yesterday about having watch buddies on your IM . That’s how my mom likes to keep track of me. She calls me if she doesn’t see me online for more than a day or 2.
:paranoid:oh crap i didnt even post anything yet i knew it PJ is CIA! he put a tracking chip on my truck when i was in Utica! now “they” are gonna come get me:blech:
Hey, PJ. I’m still working on people to get a radio show going. My friend Doug is still so bitter about all the years he “wasted” in bands and in low budget films, but the idea mill keeps rolling anyways and then all that creativity starts piling up and you gotta get it out. I emailed my friend Bob, but he never replied . But he is coming over today to see the pup so I’ll mention it again.
So, did you have to get permision to run all those MS bits? Does Marc know about the station? Does he give a shit?
I dunno, two day’s head start – you could be in a gulag in Kazakhstan by then. Probably need to set up a special call-in time. Miss the call, and we send out a search and rescue team. Need to make sure you don’t use AIM or Yahoo or whatever for “official” communications, too. Need to use one that’s encrypted.
:nana:cute little chick gave me her password to use the v-tech wi-fi!
What about gmail? That has IM, but it’s pretty bare bones. No smileys. 😆
An editorial from the Washington Post:
It’s Not Just About Rep. Foley.
THE SUDDEN resignation of Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) involves more than an obviously troubled man who sent sexually suggestive e-mails to underage congressional pages. Numerous fellow lawmakers, including Republican leaders, apparently had at least partial knowledge about Mr. Foley’s disturbing conduct. A thorough and prompt accounting is needed of what colleagues knew about his behavior, when they knew it and what they did about it.
snip
Mr. Foley’s interests were so well-known that pages reportedly warned each other to watch out for him. Rep. John M. Shimkus (R-Ill.), who chairs the House Page Board, said he was told by the clerk of the House about troubling e-mails from Mr. Foley to a page “in late 2005.” Mr. Shimkus said he warned Mr. Foley to cut off contact and “be especially mindful of his conduct” with pages. That hardly seems an adequate response.
snip
The better course would be to appoint an outside investigator to do the fact-finding. Meanwhile, lawmakers, from the speaker on down, should divulge, fully and quickly, their conduct in this affair.
http://tinyurl.com/mwz7x
I worry about mass demonstrations becoming a hunting ground for the administration when it wants to rid itself of agitators AKA Those materially supporting terrorism. It’s certainly not unthinkable with these guys.
Well, b@b posted a message over on Marc’s myspace about the radio thing, so, if he actually reads that, then he’d know. Whether he gives a shit or not, who knows?
My feeling is that, since I’m not running the entire show, and since I’m not publishing a playlist ahead of time, and since you can’t actually download what’s on the stream (you could record it, of course, but that’s a pain, and not something most people would bother with), and since all those bits (and a few more) are, in fact out there at TSGS and available to download, and since both Jim and Marc have made mention of the fact that they know of TSGS, I think what I have going should be OK under fair use (especially since there’s no money being made).
Of course, I would stop doing it if asked, but since nobody “official” seems to be doing anything to preserve these treasures, I think it would be a shame to to allow them to disappear forever, so I’m very grateful for the fact that TSGS is archiving them.
Plus, it’s not like there are lots of people tuning in to it. I don’t think there’s ever been more than 5 simultaneous listeners.
The gmail communicator is encrypted, and, yeah, is pretty bare bones. One thing I like about it is that your IM session gets saved right with your e-mails, which is pretty cool. Also, Trillian Pro has encrypted IM (if both sides are using it).
I hope those VaTech coeds are all safely locked away down there.
It would be nice to start developing original content, but that’s not looking too likely at this point. There was one person who has some stuff, but decided to back off, and a couple of other people who seemed interested in getting something going, but that doesn’t seem to be happening either.
So, we’ll see, I guess, but unless I win the lottery (and I keep forgetting to buy tickets), I kinda don’t see thinkgs panning out.
:paranoid:i am sure you already know if they are!
Only the ones with webcams.
Seems like I started some shit in last nights blog. I just finished reading what was said after I went to bed. Thanks Druid for your words. I stand by what I said. We have people who voted for Nader to thank for Bush becoming President. That’s what I believe. The Democrat Party is a minority party and depends on liberals and progressives coalescing around their candidates to win elections. People like Nader should work within the Democrat Party. Otherwise the Rethug tactic of Divide and conquer will guarantee their victory.
N e way, the world is doomed. And with that I’ll take my place in a corner of the room. :slap: That’s me on the left butch slapping Bush. Take that you motherfucker.
ooh ooh! if c-nick calls me once a week i will talk to him and we can put that up as original content!
:slap:yeah what was up with blogfights last night! i wish i had a camera for that one!
As for Sedition Radio. If your getting 5 listeners PJ your getting more than I ever get on mine. Chapter 11 bankruptcy is just around the corner. As for my backing off it was simply because the more I listen to my podcast the more they suck. I even eliminated (deleted) some of the earlier ones out of embarassment. But if you find anything in any of my podcasts that you think is deserved of broadcasting you are more than welcome to use it.
And I wasn’t even drinking or on drugs last night. Just went off to an empty room. How was I to know that anyone would bother reading that stuff. Susan Joy and Nicki took offense to my words and the slamfest started. It’s all history now. Sordid, but history. Hope no hard feelings. I just like my free speech rights. Even if I am misinformed and stupid! :doh:
I didn’t go back and look at last nght’s stuff, but I’ve heard the Nader nonsense before, and whether or not he’s responsible for getting Bush elected (he has some culpability there, but not 100%), he has no chance of ever getting elected, and therfore he is of no use. Frankly, even if he somehow got elected, he’d never be able to actually do anything, because there’s no political infrastructure in place for him to work with.
And, a lot of people seem to forget that just because they think this candidate is wodnerful or that candidate is a corporate sellout doesn’t mean that every voter thinks the same way. In the end, you have a choice between somebody who can maybe get elected (and if they do, you can try to push them your way), and somebody who hasn’t a prayer. You know, in NY, I’ll be voting for Howie Hawkins for Senate. This isn’t because Ralph Nader came and endorsed him (again, Nader is insignificant), but because I don’t care for Hillary’s stance on the war.
OTOH, Hillary has done some good things for NY – especially Upstate NY – and came out quickly in favor of the Alito filibuster, was an early supporter of Net Neutrality, and certainly voted AGAINST torture. If the election was gonna be close, you can bet there’s no way I’d vote for wingnut John Spencer. And, while I hope that Hillary isn’t the candidate for prez in ’08, I would gladly vote for her before John McCain or Bill Frist, or whatever thug they come up with. At least, if things were tight here in NY. No doubt, I’d have the luxury of voting for a thrid-party candidate here, since we’re a blue state.
Sean I gotta test this Skype out first. I donno if it will even work. Can’t find anyone with skype who’ll call me. I guess I’m a reject.
Well, in order to get the radio thing really rolling, there needs to be a bunch of content. Enough to make a schedule, so that people would know when to tune in. Right now, there’s just a bunch of mp3’s in the directory with a playlist that plays them in a random order. That’s fine for what it is, but to just start tossing thigns in at random won’t really get the job done.
Ideally, there’d be, say, eight hours of original programming a week. And we could make up an eight-hour schedule. So you’d know that the XYZ show will be on at, say, noon, 8PM, and 4AM, every day. Then, as we get some archived content, we could throw that in, too. So, the fresh content gets played, say, 21times a week, and last week’s stuff get’s in there there 14 times, and eventually you have enough older stuff where you don’t have to play the fresh stuff quite so often. But it’s all precluded on getting regular content.
And god forbid we could get people to subscribe to it. Then we could pay for hosting, and maybe even get a BMI license to play music (not all that expensive, for Internet radio). Start selling swag, promote other stuff, maybe indie music. Oh, the possibilities are endless. All we lack is time and money.
:smack:time its on my side yes it is!
We really need to get people on here podcasting. It’s not that hard a thing to do. Then you’d have lots of content from which to choose. There are a lot of good intelligent people here on this blog that should be podcasting.
:blech:I bought a digital recorder but it sucks!
Time is a big problem for me. Even the time I’m pissing away at this very moment should really be spent in doing something else.
I’ve listened to some very raw audio that is fascinating. Just a clip can be very entertaining. Don’t sell yourself short. Record with it and submit the audio to PJ.
If you have a laptop or a desktop computer all you then need is software to record a podcast. Audacity or Peak Express are good programs to use to record on your Windows box.
:nana:i have audio quality issues!
I read some of last night’s blog before I fell asleep. I hate to discuss religion.
But, believing in a diety or dieties is one thing. Deciding that you or your group knows what god wants is the first problem. Becoming god’s agent is another. It’s one thing to believe JC is coming back, it’s another to hate (fill in the blank) and believe you are doing god’s work by harming or excluding that person. Too often that’s where orgainized religion leads.
Interestingly, the word religion comes from re (again or back) and ligare (to tie) . That’s the same root as ligature.
Go to Soundprofessionals for a cheap mic to use with the software.
Just had a look back at last night. Nice to see Druid here.
Nader’s “illegal” GOP backers
Right-wing groups — and Bush-Cheney ’04 — may have violated federal campaign law to help get Ralph Nader on the ballot in Oregon.
— by Joe Conason
GOP Donors Double Dipping with Nader
Contributors deny that financial support is designed to hurt Kerry
–by Wayne Slater
Politics: Try to Guess Who’s Backing Nader
–By Holly Bailey
There are really a lot more of these. Even Joshua Frank wrote about it (although he – predictably – turned it into a “the Democrats are bad, and anyway Ralph can take money from the devil, ‘cuz he’s pure” story).
Of course, Ralph can take money from whomever he wants (even if his running mate finds it unacceptable). The ends justify the means, and all.
For those who own a Mac you have the software to record podcasts. It’s called Garageband. And you have the means to deliver your podcast to the internet. It’s called iWeb.
Good Morning everyone…Dru, ifyoure out there- re: all 50’s and Nader I am withyou 1000%….Nicki-give it up. Where the fuck is Nader in between photo ops? All Nader has done is gotten rich and taken the publicity he oculd get…but in between elections, where is he? Does he build the Greens or whoever else hes used along the way?? NO! He turns up to be a repug supported spoiler who, no matter what good he ever did regarding exploding cars and stuff when I was a teenager, has damaged our process and government more than anyone I can remember. He is an ego maniac who has no vision of the big picture…and those of you who want to take to the streets and take back the country with Nader as your king…have fun…all 1 or 2 thousand of you marching around the pacific northwest….
Meantime, the rest of us who have to work within the system to try to change it, if its not too far gone, will keep doing the hard work of trying to get some semblence of reasonable people in office and then move ahead to try to get rid of the worst of the “reasonable” people….
Only after that can there be a revolution or whatever deluded thing youre wasting your time on.
Unless we have a nuclear war or a widespread draft or huge disease that killd half the country, no one is taking to the streets anytime soon. People are just too scared and uneducated and unsure.
So cut the crap Nicki…..
Nick- I have Will’s Mac but dont know exactly how to work it. It has no mail set up because Will doesnt care about that but it has garage band and goes on the internet on the linksys…..
But I have no mic right now.
:paranoid:huge disease that kills half the country?:reaper:
:omg:dont give “them” i mean :paranoid:PJ any ideas!
Maybe Ill play around with it a little later.
Is there any reason why not to do interviews on the phone? Is it easier on the computer telephine? I have free long distance so I am looking at which internet skype sorta PROGRAM is good to talk to my good friends in Stockholm who are also on Macs….I’d hate to get Skype and then find that its not good for stockholm. Its like pulling teeth with these folks anyway because they dont want to bother with downloading and setting things up…we are still fighting the instant messenger wars.
Hopefully Microsoft’s upcoming operating system, “Vista” will offer built in software to record podcasts and deliver them to the internet.
Well, Seanie, its not like this country cant be knocked off its pedestal petty damned easily. Im surprised always that no one does more….Just drop a disease in the subway and its all over manhattan, take manhattan out and the stock market is gone…..Im always surprised that any of these cities dont just fall apart but NYC especially because, besides Boston, its one of the oldest…as evidenced by our wooden water main talk of yesterday…..
If they made building materials in the olden days the way they make them now, we’d be so out of luck…..But then, so many people have died throughout the years due to collapse and disease….fire and flood….its a miracle that things go on.
Well, I dont mind buying software. I prefer the microsoft platform so much more…I have my box opened right now and I can do so much more with it, really. If youre techie at all, it makes more sense….
But then, it also depends on what you learned on.
Elenor!!!! I love the McLaughlin report these days….its a real debate.
Hey Melina, perhaps PJ can answer your teckie questions. I not so smart here in regards to Skype.
She keeps saying that the president is a LIAR!! Tony is trying the talking points but she is tough as nails and can outshout him….
well it seems that its .02 to call sweden from skype and .03 to call a swedish mobile…thats not bad at all…but then skype to skype is free….but there is this “until the end of the year” Line, that concerns me.
The think is that you can buy a little box and put it on your modem or router or whatever and it will send the skype calls to your cordless phone. if that works, then why not spend $50 for that and be able to really use it and walk around. I cant stand hving to sit at the computer and wearing a headset because Im such a multitasker….If I had to sit at a corded phone all the time my phone bills would’v been alot less….even before cordless phones, I had a little cradle phone or a princess phone and would put a really long wire on it and carry it round with me from place to place.
Pj mentioned another company that he thinks is better and I wonder why its better…is it sound quality?
And does Skype have a monthly charge?
If its free to have Skype then I might as well get it, but if its got a monthly charge then I need to look at the different ones and see which one is best because I want one that will b the best for my swede peeps and goddaughter…..
“clinton sunk his teeth into wallace and shook him around like a German Shiatsu…?” Huh?? McLaughlin is really strange.
Does he mean a maseusse or a shitzu dog?
“issue 4- ALPHA BILL!!!”
:rofl2::rofl2:
You have to discipline yourself Melina to record podcasts from your computer. Or buy a Minidisc. That would probably work best for you since Will has a Apple computer. Record the podcast on the minidisc then it is a simple thing to import that file into Garageband. I did that with my man-in-the-street interviews.
There are tons of free options available for both Winders and Linux to produce, record, and publish podcasts. As for Skype, for PC to PC, it will work anywhere on the Internet, if both sides have Skype. For PC to telephone, it also works anywhere in the world (free in the US and Canada until the end of the year). Sweden is between 2 and 4 cents a minute, depending on what system you’re calling in to.
I don’t know all the details behind Skype. Fred or PJ can help you with that. I anxiously await their information in regards to Skype. I am curious to.
Skype is free, though you can opt for features that aren’t free (voicemail, a regular phone number, etc.). Skype is proprietary, but there are open source/open standards versions as well. Skype is probably the best known, but there is also voice calling in Yahoo Messenger, proabably AIM, and others.
You can also record podcasts via your mp3 player (assuming it isn’t an iPod, of course 😉 ).
With a minidisc you can go anywhere to record a podcast. Then import into whatever program your using to make the final mix or upload directly to your host server
:doh:so PJ how exactly did you know where i was this morning?
iRiver is a good mp3 player/recorder to record podcasts. Jon Ongline records many of his podcasts with an iRiver. Go here to listen to Jon’s podcasts.
I have a minidisc. My iRiver is much better, though. Can record direct to wav, ogg, wma, or mp3 at a wide range of bitrates/sampling rates. Has a pretty decent built-in mic, or you can use an external one. Plus it has optical inputs/outputs.
I can see your IP address, Sean.
There is some sort of accessory to allow voice recordings on in iPod. But I’ve never tried it. So I can’t speak intelligently of it here. If you prefer Windows you probably better off buying a software program like Audacity to record on your Windows box or wait till Vista and hope Bill Gates offers a free software program to record podcasts.
yes, I am looking at the minidisc issue but I havent had the cash immediately…and yes, I have an ipod PJ…you know that…But I blame Marc beause I never was an ipod person until Ilistened to him fall in love with his…
:nana:ah ok i wasnt sure if that changed with computer or with where you got online!
So PJ, if you have an iRiver you should be podcasting. No excuses now! :yippee:
iRiver is the cheaper solution Melina. Look at them. And they are portible like a minidisc. Much less $$$ for a iRiver.
From what I understand, you can pay money for a third-party solution to record on an iPod, but you’re limited to 8 kbps (roughly equivalant to landline phone quality), unless there’s some sort of a hack available.
One big reason I opted out of the iPod (that and the optical in/out, ogg support, and it was quite a bit cheaper than a comporable iPod at the time – though that’s changed, now that Apple has gotten some competition). But even my wife’s little Samsung one with the built-in mic does a pretty darn good job, and can do multiple bit rates.
Unfortunately, I rather despise the sound of my own voice (too bad certain politicians aren’t similarly inflicted).
No, iRiver’s are no longer cheaper than iPods. They are roughly equivalent, price-wise. IPods tend to be slightly smaller (and have higher capacity gig-wise), and the iRivers come with the ability to record right out of the box, and of course also have FM tuners in them.
I am getting used to my voice. I think your voice is fine PJ. I bet you’d sound really great on a good mic. The microphone does make a difference.
Dunno. It’s not just the “sound” of my voice, but the fact that I seem rather inane when I hear what I’ve said.
:rofl2::rofl2: to funny PJ. Perhaps you need to do standup? Marc move over . . .
I do, however, have the ability to make myself heard, if I must. One thing this goddamn school shit has done is make me pretty good at presentations (which they tell you you have to rehearse, which I pretty much never do; I’m more of a “wing it” kinda person).
IRiver, huh?……I also dont like the sound of my own voice but others really do….I have a good phone voice I know that but if I listen on the answering machine I HATE it….it has to do with hearing it through your skull or you ear, right?
So how big a storage do you have on your iriver, PJ?
I use that same “wing it” philosophy on my podcasts. I think I prolly should do a little more preparatory work upfront. But I’m lazy. So I just hope things will go okay. Hey, I’m not depending on this for a paycheck or I’d do a little more work on the front end.
Mine’s 20 gigs. I’ve had it for, gee, it must be four or five years now.
well, the biggest storage one seems to be the media player that is a little large, but thats OK….but Im not sure if it records….it has no line in….the newer media player one has only a line in in the cradle….I need to look at them
I wonder if they can also be a palm pilot sorta ting so I could cut down on mechanical items Im carrying round…I like the the ipod has no much storage and that it easily connects to the car and such…but I dont watch the videos on it because I dont have time…maybe when I go to cancun or something, but how often can I do that? Well, hopefully more in the future…
My hairdresser and his partner bought a beachhouse in Mexico and they go for 2 months per year …the rest of the time it cost like nothign to have a caretaker watch over it. But it has no cable or phone as far as I can tell….
I owuld need a njor sattelite hook up….but it might be good to have a spot out of the US to go to just in case things get any worse here…
PJ- is it this?
wow, they are closing out the deep dive bundles…I was always gonna get one of those with the little players…to listen while I swim…when I was swimming….
Maybe I should get one of those….but its not the recorder one.
No, mine they don’t make anymore. So, I can’t comment on their little slidey control thing. Mine is the old iHP-120.
here is a dirt cheap refurbished one…..but is the recording quality good?…or does it have more to do with the mic?
Oh, looks like mine isn’t as old as I thought. I bought it about 2 1/2 years ago – April 2004.
what do you think about refurbished?
I have some things that Dell has refurbished that the techs say that by the time theyve had to go througg things a second time that they are perfect because if they get them back again they are losing $$…so they dont want to see them again…
I think as long as there’s at least some warranty on it, refurbished is OK. The mic is important, of course, but I’m quite happy with the sound of mine from the built-in mic. Of course, it’s very dependent on the ambient conditions and all that. If you have an external mic, you have more control over what doesn’t get picked up. The firmware is upgradeable, and you can even (if you’re adventurous) load something like Rockbox on there (haven’t gotten around to doing that, myself).
Have a look around Mystic River for all things iRiver related before you buy anything.
http://www.iriver.com
SHhhhhhhh….be very quiet…
a “secret” hello. Long time no see. Glad to see things are still thriving over here. That is very good to know.
Love all the new icons or whetever you call them. My brother let me know about this new film tonight- Old Joy
Check it out. It has one of my favorite song writers starring in it- Will Oldham. There are references to Air America in it…
Miss ya’alll and hope is all well, although all looks very bad….
Soon, we may have to take :tommygun: and join the “dark side if you will” :reaper: and fuck some shit up! :fu:
Later
Maron Fridays! :cat:
Jason, it’s great to see you. I hope everything’s going OK.
Now we need to get Tom T. to decloak and say hello.
Hey Melina, I got a friend with some land in Costa Rica. I have my passport too.
Congress removed a controversial provision in a military bill on Friday that would have permitted chaplains to offer sectarian prayer at mandatory nondenominational events. At the same time, lawmakers moved to rescind guidelines issued last year by the Air Force and Navy meant to curtail the risk of religious coercion and proselytizing within the ranks.
http://tinyurl.com/hj94u
Melina, you should look into the LG8500 “Chocolate.”
:dancers::yippee::banana::nixon::nana::love::pup::fist:yay jason! jason can make podcast songs i have one for my new show when i finally get around to it!
Jason! :pup:
I also like Tom T.’s “Angel Headed Hipster.” (mp3)
kristapea, Seanysean aka Jeffy! PJ!!! The Young Turks replaced Morning Sedition! :omg: :fu: :doh: Mike Malloy replaced by John Elliot! :slap: :dancers: Who is ready to take up :tommygun: ?
I’m very close…..
I’m okay. Just needed time away :pup:
Kerik Under Investigation … Again
Newsweek
Oct. 9, 2006 issue – New legal problems appear to be looming for Bernard Kerik, the onetime New York City police commissioner and unsuccessful nominee for Homeland Security secretary. Kerik’s lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, confirmed to NEWSWEEK that federal prosecutors are investigating Kerik for an alleged conversation he had with Jeanine Pirro, GOP candidate for New York state attorney general, about bugging a family boat so Pirro could determine whether her husband was having an affair.
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Tacopina said he believes the Feds are also investigating Kerik’s taxes, but declined to give details. (Prosecutors wouldn’t comment on the tax issue.) Kerik’s nomination to succeed Tom Ridge as Homeland Security secretary was withdrawn after Kerik confessed to a “nanny problem”; earlier this year Kerik pleaded guilty to charges of accepting gifts from a company that wanted to do business with New York City’s government. “We are not afraid of any investigation,” Tacopina said.
—Mark Hosenball
The kids at Will’s school all like the chocolate…but I dont know if it has the kind of capacity and recording that I want…
Jason…so good to see you!!!!! How you been?? Whats new??:yippee:
Heh…Kerik…couldnt happen to a nicer guy…ha ha hah hahhahah….
Damn these repugs…
They KNEW about Foley’s inappropriate emails in ’05…how sick is that??
These people are disgusting!! This is beyond stealing, cheating and lying…this is covering for a pedophile.
Imagine sending your kid to work in the government in some teen program and having him come home and be getting emails from some gross disgusting old guy in the govt…? How can that be?
Hiya Melina! I thought I’d just leave the NYTimes op-eds linking to you for a while :tongue:….just kidding…..I’m alright. How are you?
Are you or anyone here planning on a protest on Oct. 5th as world can’t wait is planning?
Activists really need to hit the college campuses!
:fist:
Hey, man. How are you?
What have you been up to lately? Still thinking about going to Amsterdam?
Mike Malloy Update (from MM fan space on MySpace)
UPDATE
Thanks to all of you for your “get well” wishes, ecards, email, and message board posts. We’re feeling much better thanks to Theraflu (Mike and Kathy) and baby vitamin C and Benadryl (Molly). We are traveling this weekend on a little unexpected non-business-related trip and I doubt we’ll have any updates for you until we return next week.
As for media news: Mike was recently interviewed by salon.com for an article they’re writing about Air America Radio past, present, and future. As is “Creative Loafing” here in Atlanta. We haven’t been told the publication dates, but watch for them. Mike had some interesting observations.
We’ve recently heard drips and drabs of rather distrubing information about our former employer that – among other things – hint to another possible explanation for our shocking and sudden dismissal. We are hesitant to discuss the details until we can confirm them, and until all our financial interests with Air America are resolved. Unless we sell the story to E! “Behind the Scenes” first. If true, the intrigue and backstabbing and spying and double-dealing would make Caligula blush. You can’t make this stuff up, Truthseekers.
As for those three radio opportunities we keep mentioning – I think we’ll have final news from one of them early next week. The other remains unchanged. The “less likely” opportunity is more so as days go by, however, a fourth option might have popped up! Not trying to be coy, but this really is all we can say at the moment. Once we’re free to speak, we’ll certainly give you the whole story in as much detail as you can stand!
Finally, your email, calls, and petitions on our behalf are so appreciated. It certainly is a big boost to our morale and is noticed by potential radio outlets as well. Thank you thank you thank you so much, we’ll be in touch.
Watch your back,
Malloys
9/28/06
Travis Dem! Woo-Hoo! How are you? :cold: – I hope not.
We are in the fall rainy season here now. I like rain.
I’m always looking forward to Amsterdam….:bong:
Just like Willie said, ” If I had a bag of spinach, I’d be dead by now.”
travis: Did you take your site down?
Yeah, I’m here in Seattle and I guess it’s suppose to rain a lot, too, but I haven’t seen that much. It’s been the driest summer on record here. I can’t complain- way better than that drag of a town in Alaska. :cold:
no, it’s not down. I just lost my enthusiasm and sort of drifted from it.
Forget that….why is your name not linked to your website? It should be! PJ!!!! :doh: Look at me, making demands…ha ha!! I really miss this! :jason:
:fire:
Wow, you’re in Seattle now? Wow! When did you move there? What happened?
You’re right, I did take it down. I didn’t know what you meant, but I just figured it out. When I start posting on my site more, I’ll put the link back on my screen name
Oh, not much happened. I moved sometime in June or July- I can’t remember:bong:
Why the move man?
Oh…I think I would have gone insane if I had to suffer another winter. I was lucky enough to know someone here in Seattle that is letting me stay at their home jobless and rent free. I’m not sure how long that will last, but for now it’s a good set up.
Hey, I met Marc last night.
I am The Big Lebowski!
“Fucking Facsist!”
Man, I’ve been lucky enough to do the same. People are really kind. We should be very thankful for those wonderful people. You met Marc huh? How was that?
It was great to see him and talk with him in person. Roxie, Gypsy, Old Zeb and Sblueheron were also there. Oh, and some lurkers too. He was too generous with his time after the show, I think. The bloggers brought him some gifts and an ice-cream cake for his birthday, and he hung out for a while while I know he and Mishna were exhausted and had to get up early.
Maron had cancer on his nose- it’s okay, I guess it’s the good kind or something. Too sad to be funny in his routine, though.
:doh:
Hey Trav!! What did Marc say??
any good news?
Jason- things OK here…just really busy and writin alot. I wrote a huge thing last night with frank Rich attached ot the end but I have to look at it again because I suddenly was worried about posting it without rereading….maybe its dumb or some such….
I get little feedback and my family wont read something so long, so Im left to my own devices in figureing out what I can live with.
rain stopped and IM gonna soon take Peach to the bird store for a beak trim. Todd was here Fri night for a bit (my beak trimmer…) but he forgot to do nails and beaks….I like an excuse to go and hug cockatoos anyway…they are so cuddly…
I think that we were figuring that the world cant wait doesnt do much except to promote the world cant wait…..they have ads, but does anyone show up for their protests??? Seems like all their money goes to ads…
It must be lunch time…
Later!
Nicki! :jason: Sean! :penguin: tomt & gaijinda :gate: Kristapea and melina :pup: Damn it, there is no rain! PJ! I’m making demands again! TravisDem has moved to a place where there is alot of rain…
I’m gone….
Well, Maron isn’t sure when his Comedy Central tapping will air- not a good sign. He’s sorta worried about the editing that will happen with the tape, too, and concerned that too much of the good material will get cut. He sad that typically there’s 28 minutes of a show or something, but he had over forty; so he knows that the knife has a lot of work in the editing room:jason:
maybe it was 23 minutes:bong:
Saturday, September 30th, 2006 at 2:56 am
The Government Tells the Truth About Drugs–For Once!
By Doug Bandow
It turns out that the drug czar’s office now admits that marijuana is essentially harmless. Explains analyst Seth Stevenson in an article entitled “The New Case Against Pot? It Makes You Lazy”:
The spot: A high-school kid sits on a couch in a basement rec room, next to a couple of stoner friends. Looking straight at the camera, he says, “I smoked weed and nobody died. I didn’t get into a car accident. I didn’t OD on heroin the next day. Nothing happened. We sat on Pete’s couch for 11 hours.” The couch then magically teleports into the midst of some wholesome teen scenes ( kids mountain biking, ice skating, playing basketball ), while the zonked-out stoners just sit there, looking bored. Our narrator concedes that you’re more likely to die out there in the real world ( “driving hard to the rim” or “ice skating with a girl” ) than on Pete’s couch back in the rec room. But, deciding it’s worth the trade-off, he says, “I’ll take my chances out there.”
…
In this context, “Pete’s Couch” is a work of bracing honesty. Other spots in the ongoing “Above the Influence” campaign have been unawful, too. In “Whatever,” a straight-edge kid talks about chaperoning his stoned friends around, acting as designated driver and as a sort of den mother for his wasted buddies. The point is that this kid makes his own decisions and chooses to stay off drugs even though his friends are getting high. Aside from cloaking the stoner kids’ faces in shadows ( as though smoking pot makes them incorporeal nothings ), the ad is done in a low-key, nonhyperbolic way. I like that it seems to say it’s OK to be friends with pot smokers ( instead of instantly calling the cops on them, as past ads might have recommended ).
The ads rationally explain why it isn’t smart to use drugs. They do not explain why the government tosses hundreds of thousands of people in jail to stop them from using drugs.
It’s time to realize that drug abuse is a moral, spiritual, and health problem. It shouldn’t be a matter for the criminal law.
There’s a link to this at Raw story, but this is the entire piece.
He seemed a little paranoid about getting left out of the loop by his agent:paranoid:
:nuts: “Do you like dogs?”
Goodnight all! :yawn:
Things are gonna change, I can feeli it! :fist:
:nuts: “Do you like dogs?”
Huh?
um….I guess I made everyone bored. Later.:peace:
no trav, im here…just was IMing with Blue about last night. Sounds great!!
Did he do the fat jokes? I think that if anything gets cut from the comedy central taping it will be that stuff…..
Hey everyone,
I just bought “State of Denial” by Bob Woodward on CD. I know Sam Seder said not to buy it. But this may well be the nail in the coffin for Republican control of Congress. And since I have little motivation to read and lots of time to listen I thought I’d give this audio book a listen.
Good to see Travis back. I thought Bush had disappeared him. And I can’t for the life of me figure why anyone would want to imprison Trav.
Nah Travis, I was referring to a Marc bit where he talked about the internet and blogs. He was never interested in it and when he first got on a blog the first question was : “Do you like dogs? ” :doh:
Hey Nick- Copy the CDs and send em to me…Ill copy em and send em on. This is one case where a little bootlegging cant hurt considering how we feel about the author!….
OK IM out for a while
Im trying to figure which iRiver to get…am worried about the audio quality recordingwise….maybe its all the same.
Of course the little movie player that have allsorts of bells and whistles are very attractive, but probably I should get the most storage for the buck and worry less about the screen….
Ah, I thought maybe that was one of Mark Foley’s “questions to ask Pages.”
no PJ, that was “do I make you horney?”
imprison trav? Cuz hes cute….Foley wanted him but he is too old…
I always write tapping instead of taping..:crap:
I could broadcast the Cd’s but I’d prolly get into trouble.
Alright, well, I have to go look for a job now. Later:peace:
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine
by Ilan Pappe ; October 01, 2006
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine, Publication date: October 19th 2006 Hardcover, £16.99, 336pp, 1-85168-467-0
The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.
— David Ben-Gurion writing to his son, 1937
There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
— Golda Meir, statement to The Sunday Times, 15 June, 1969
As Israel stands accused by Amnesty International of committing war crimes in Lebanon following its almost 5-week bombardment of that country, which left over a thousand civilians dead and almost a million displaced, a prominent Israeli historian at Haifa University revisits the formative period of the State of Israel to investigate the treatment of the indigenous Palestinians.
In this controversial new book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Ilan Pappe uses recently declassified archival sources to investigate the fate suffered by the indigenous population of 1940s Palestine at the hands of the Zionist political and military leadership, whose actions led to the mass deportation of over a million Palestinians from their cities and villages, over 400 villages wiped from the map, and hundreds of civilians dead.
that quote by Golda Meir is chilling…
She knows the power of spin. Anyway, we all just need to vote Democratic, and hope the best.
aye and start working within the system and behaving ourselves, because you know the activism we do isn’t really work.
Nah, don’t even bother to vote.
right because it shouldn’t matter to vote for someobody I like. That’s meaningless
Oh, well, if you like somebody, that’s different.
Anybody But Bush Blast from the Past
http://www.counterpunch.org/donnelly02282004.html
Kornblatt’s Delicatessen
628 NW 23rd Ave
Portland, OR 97210You have got to be kidding!
Posted by seattletoportland on 08/19/2006
Anyone who has had real deli food (ie Carnegie, Katz, in NYC) would know that this place is a rip off, and the food is not fresh. A real corned beef or pastrami sandwich should be heaping with meat, not servered luke warm, and at least come is a pickle. The macaroni salad was so old it was hard on top, and the service was far from stellar. Even the kraut was horrible. I would never come back to this place.
Pros: location
Cons: rude staff, deli food for the inept
Overall user rating: Recommended
» Read all 6 reviews
Even the “kraut” was horrible! What kind of place is this?
:omg:
Interesting how insignificant Nader became between February (when that was written) and Novermber, 2004.
Hmm. You know that every restaurant has good reviews and bad reviews. I wouldn’t take it seriously unless I talked to a bunch of people
How do you think the kraut feels?
shame on you for using that word. We put Germans on our hot dogs, we don’t call them that.
Dem Senate Leader Reid demands Attorney General probe of Foley scandal
Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid is demanding that US Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales “open a full-scale investigation immediately” of the “alleged crimes” committed by Congressman Mark Foley, who resigned on Friday shortly after ABC News interviewed him about inappropriate emails and sexually explicit Internet Messages sent to teenage boys who worked as pages in the House of Representatives
http://tinyurl.com/ov6a8
Poor rethugs they just can’t get a break this week.
Hey. It was that nasty reviewer from Seattle who used that word first.
I went to Kornblatt’s yesterday to pick up some bagels. Waited at the takeout counter for a while. “Mario. Get off the phone and help the customers.” Hey. I will be back. Still the best deli and restaurant on NW 23rd. Roses opened a place a few blocks north of Kornblatt’s. Noah’s has had an outlet on Glisan/23rd for several years now. I believe that Kornblatt’s has been their since the incarnation. Not sure, though.
Get Reid to tie-in Impeachment, and we would have one potent issue.
Well it does sound like a good place. how are the bagels? I’ve been in the mood for bagels all week now, I might give in tomorrow and get some sort of bagel sandwich.
Good idea Nickirose. I think some of those “alternative interrogation techniques” would be useful here and we can determine how well they work.
The “Reuben Sandwich” here, is the best in the Portland metro-area. One test here is, can you put your fist in your mouth. If yes, you can eat one of these Reubens. They have another sandwich, they call “Pavarotti’s Pick”, which I think, is a new and improved “Phili Cheese Steak” sandwich. When served, they bring you a small “Pickle Barrel”, with plenty of awesome dill treats. The menu is huge. The feeling here is “New York City”. My guess, is that they can seat about 36, at a time.
Pros: “Awesome, Delicious”, We need more “K’s”, Pickles/Sandwiches
Cons: No parking!, I drive 11 miles.
:omg:
:sdavid::pent:
:jesus:
http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/nickrose.html
nothing like a huge sandwich!
Are you trying to sic Interpol on me, or something?
I’m Innocent!
tm
Maron sure did swear a lot last night.:ear:
also some kid pretending to be you:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=95024086
I know. Kornblatt’s could not cut the mustard in Manhattan.
:bow::sdavid::pent:
:omg:
I’ll find the best deli and take you there
He doesn’t have any friends.
…that music is horrible
it’s a weird sort of profile. I think he hid his friends on purpose
his English isn’t that great either…
Pastors Guiding Voters to GOP
The Christian right seeks out members who might not go to the polls. The focus is issues, but some leaders don’t oppose endorsement.
By Stephanie Simon, Times Staff Writer
October 1, 2006
With a pivotal election five weeks away, leaders on the religious right have launched an all-out drive to get Christians from pew to voting booth. Their target: the nearly 30 million Americans who attend church at least once a week but did not vote in 2004.
Their efforts at times push legal limits on church involvement in partisan campaigns. That is by design. With control of Congress at stake Nov. 7, those guiding the movement say they owe it to God and to their own moral principles to do everything they can to keep social conservatives in power.
Preachers “ought to put their toe right on the line,” said Mathew D. Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, a nonprofit law firm that supports conservative Christian causes.
The Rev. Rick Scarborough, a leading evangelical in Texas, has recruited 5,000 “patriot pastors” nationwide to promote an agenda that aligns neatly with Republican platforms. “We urge them to avoid legal entanglement, but there are times in a pastor’s life when he needs to take a biblical stand,” Scarborough said. “Our higher calling is to Christ.”
link to full story here.
Hey Nick, let us know what you think of “State Of Denial.” I’ll probably end up picking it up next weekend just to see what all the fuss is about. I would have chased it down today, but I was having this really great dream and ended up staying in bed until mid-afternoon. A nice recharging of the batteries.
I finally finished my letter to Bill Nelson concerning the detainee bill. I’ll post it here when I send it to him, probably either tonight or tomorrow.
So did Sherrod Brown kick Mike DeWine’s ass this morning on Press the Meat? Jeez, I had no idea DeWine was such a whiner. “You’re UNBELIVABLE!” His name should be DeWhine.
:rofl2:
Spill DeWine, take that girl.
Mariners win, 3-2. I followed them all year. A real battling team. Watch out next year!
Pat Buchanan! Spoiler!
I haven’t followed baseball this year for some reason.
The Mets had a terrific year, although they have slumped of late. Pedro’s arm went bad.
pitching was always the key with the Mets, when they had it up till the end they could win big. Too bad.
The Mets play in a minor league; sort of AAA-A – check out how the two leagues did in interleague play- the NL embarrassed itself.
Of the best ten teams in baseball, at least 8 are in the AL, and that might be conservative.
AL Pitchers who get traded to the NL think they’ve died and gone to heaven, because the opposing lineups are just not as good, which is just amplified by the fact that the pitcher hits.
If the Mets don’t get through those mediocre teams and into the Series, its a loss in my book [they outspent the rest of their league by tons of money]. And I love Willie Randolph, as a Yankee fan, but this is a major test for him.
Okay, PJ. I talked to my friend Bob about doing a radio show where he fucks with the Christo Fascist Zombie Brigade. It’s his favorite thing to do. One time, him and a couple of friends, back in the day at ASU, were walking past a christian table handing out pamphletts in front of the MU. So they went and got a table, set it up next to them and proceeded to dump a trash can’s contents onto the table and sat there and handed it out, just like the christians. A little edgy and controvercial, but makes for good publicity. Now to figure out how best to present it on radio. I’m gonna keep bugging him.
Slumping Fox News to mark its 10th year
NEW YORK – Fox News Channel will mark its 10th anniversary this week in an unusual position: knocked back on its heels.
The network is in the midst of its first-ever ratings slump. Cable news’ most stable lineup is being juggled. And the blow-up over President Clinton’s interview with Chris Wallace suggests that Democrats are attacking Fox because they perceive the same vulnerability in the network as they do in the Bush administration.
Maybe some of this was on Fox News chief Roger Ailes’ mind one day last week when he rode the elevator to the 22nd floor of News Corp.’s office tower for an 8:45 a.m. stroll through the network’s ad sales department.
Mr. Ailes? What are you doing up here, someone wondered aloud.
“Taking attendance,” the hard-charging motivator replied.
Message delivered.
Loved by some, loathed by others, Fox News Channel has been the biggest success in the cable industry and profoundly changed television news since its signal turned on Oct. 7, 1996.
Ailes can still remember a reporter’s laughter during the news conference to introduce the network. He had the last laugh: Fox News beat by a year his plan for overtaking CNN and grew to more than double its rivals in viewership. It made stars of Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity and put “fair and balanced” into news history textbooks.
link to full story here
I hope Faux News keeps plummeting like the burning plane that it is! :fu:
woodward on 60 mins now…..scary
Oh, shit, got wrapped up in writing this RFI and forgot to watch. I guess I’ll have to catch the highlights on C&L.
T-minus ONE HOUR until Grand National Championship featuring the archived material of Marc Maron and Jim Earl on FREERADIOSAIC.ORG.
It’s a fun time for all, community, laughter, a crappy chat room, and political banter… but not all that serious political banter.
PLEASE SHOW UP!!!!
8 pm CENTRAL TIME on FreeRadioSAIC.org
(going back to watch 60 minutes now)
Hey, thanks for watching that crap for me guys. I don’t know that I want to get all angry on a Sunday. :yuck:
Kristapea, how’s puppy nellie doing? Does she bark?
Hey Sue P, yeah she’s been barking at me a little and the other dogs when she hears them outside. I tried to take her for a short walk yesterday and she is absolutely terrified of the outside human world. I can’t hardly blame her I guess 🙄 I guess we’ll get her used to it little by little.
Kristapea’s got me wanting a doggie. I want a chihuahua so bad. I came real close awhile back to buying one from a local veterinarian. So I keep looking at the Vet’s marquee for “Puppies for sale!” I’m gonna be tempted should I see that message again. :pup:
PJ if you are around. Sorry I was in the Living Room watching 60 minutes.
:fire::fire::fire::fire::fire:
Broadcasting RIGHT now @ FreeRadioSAIC.org!!!
Come for the fun and the funny.
And ’cause I’m playing Maron… and uh…..:alc:
You should get a dog Nick. I think it would be really rewarding for you. Dogs are awesome. I love cats just as much and they are great pets too. But dogs worship you. Cats prefer to be worshipped. :cat: I’ve met some very sweet Chihuahua’s and I’ve lived with some really shitty little Chihuaqhua’s. Much of it is how they are raised. :pup:
http://71.8.9.181:8000/listen.m3u
Call me if you get time on Skype. I’ll broadcast from the above link to see if this test works. I’m broadcasting some of the Bob Woodward book at the moment. Just a test. That’s all.
http://www.counterpunch.org/alreinvented.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/slimeball.html
Ive had and have lots of chihuahuas Nick….Ive currently got 2 pure ones and one mixed….just lost my darling Coco last year….she was a 4 lb wonder…16 years old!
Nicki can you not come up with anything critical of Bush. I’m beginning to think your some kind of Republican operative. I’d like to see you offer up some links critical of the Bush Administration.
Well I was hoping to check out this skype thingy. PJ tried calling me on skype earlier while I was in the living room watching 60 minutes. So I have to wake very early in the morning. Not gonna be able to stay up much longer. Oh well . . .
Yes, Melina . . . I want one so much. Can’t seem to find a human companion who is faithful and true.
Do you mean you need my help in finding critical material on Bush.
No I mean you never seem to offer any links to articles critical of Bush here. So I’m asking if you’d provide links to articles critical of Bush.
Ok, well PJ if you should wander back into the room. I’ve got to climb into bed. Perhaps we can test this connection tomorrow. I usually record the podcast between 2 and 3 in the afternoon. So call if you like. Everyone have a good night.
Oh nite nite Nick…..I have been searching for irivers and sony minidiscs…I can get a less fancy minidisc for cheaper than yours…Im worried about the quality of the recordings….
Hey- did I miss Painting girl’s show?
Two big helpings of steaming Maron! Yeah!
Despite our best effort of planning (Rumsfeld-class) Gypsy and I met at Portland’s Union Station for the ride to Seattle on Saturday. Because of the excellent planning and hospitality of Roxie and SBlue we met up with Travis for dinner & two!-two!–two! showings of Marc’s best at Giggles of Seattle.
If you ever wondered if Marc was pulling his (sucker) punches when, after being teased by Jim or Barry or Bruce, And challenged with the signature, “You wanna’ play? C’mon, you wanna’ play?” well…. Not being limited by the demands of the FCC and the M$M radio we got to experience Marc flay a couple of annoying hecklers while making the rest of the audience double-over in laughter and drool on our shoes. (Not that he was mean spirited: Marc was delivering The Funny to all, including a 17-year old son of a fan and a couple visiting all the way from Kentucky.) His rehearsed and his extemp banter and rants were over the top, once he’d vanquished the gomers back into the darkness.
His two shows to a packed house were not carbon copies — each show was different. (Marc, after noticing the gang of five at the second show, told the audience that we would get fresh material, even if it was at the expense of the other 100 in the audience. Despite his repeated guilt-trip, the second show was even better than the first.)
Roxie supplied all the goodies for a private after show party, and both Marc and Mishna (who opened for Marc with a great set of her own) were gracious, communicative, and friendly to their fans despite obviously exhausted being exhausted.
A fun weekend! Beg, steal, borrow, rendition, or waterboard your way to a live show and relive the times that were TMMS and MS with new material and facets you could only imagine..
Thank you SBlue and Roxie — you’re gems in an Emerald City
Israel Shahak’s Jewish History, Jewish Religion
Foreword by Gore Vidal [p. vii-viii]
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Sometime in the late 1950s, that world-class gossip and occasional historian, John F. Kennedy, told me how, in 1948, Harry S. Truman had been pretty much abandoned by everyone when he came to run for president. Then an American Zionist brought him two million dollars in cash, in a suitcase, aboard his whistle-stop campaign train. ‘That’s why our recognition of Israel was rushed through so fast.’ As neither Jack nor I was an antisemite (unlike his father and my grandfather) we took this to be just another funny story about Truman and the serene corruption of American politics.
Unfortunately, the hurried recognition of Israel as a state has resulted in forty-five years of murderous confusion, and the destruction of what Zionist fellow travellers thought would be a pluralistic state – home to its native population of Muslims, Christians and Jews, as well as a future home to peaceful European and American Jewish immigrants, even the ones who affected to believe that the great realtor in the sky had given them, in perpetuity, the lands of Judea and Sameria. Since many of the immigrants were good socialists in Europe, we assumed that they would not allow the new state to become a theocracy, and that the native Palestinians could live with them as equals. This was not meant to be. I shall not rehearse the wars and alarms of that unhappy region. But I will say that the hasty invention of Israel has poisoned the political and intellectual life of the USA, Israel’s unlikely patron.
Unlikely, because no other minority in American history has ever hijacked so much money from the American taxpayers in order to invest in a ‘homeland’. It is as if the American taxpayer had been obliged to support the Pope in his reconquest of the Papal States simply because one third of our people are Roman Catholic. Had this been attempted, there would have been a great uproar and Congress would have said no. But a religious minority of less than two per cent has bought or intimidated seventy senators (the necessary two thirds to overcome an unlikely presidential veto) while enjoying support of the media.
In a sense, I rather admire the way that the Israel lobby has gone about its business of seeing that billions of dollars, year after year, go to make Israel a ‘bulwark against communism’. Actually, neither the USSR nor communism was ever much of a presence in the region. What America did manage to do was to turn the once friendly Arab world against us. Meanwhile, the misinformation about what is going on in the Middle East has got even greater and the principal victim of these gaudy lies – the American taxpayer to one side – is American Jewry, as it is constantly bullied by such professional terrorists as Begin and Shamir. Worse, with a few honorable exceptions, Jewish-American intellectuals abandoned liberalism for a series of demented alliances with the Christian (antisemtic) right and with the Pentagon-industrial complex. In 1985 one of them blithely wrote that when Jews arrived on the American scene they ‘found liberal opinion and liberal politicians more congenial in their attitudes, more sensitive to Jewish concerns’ but now it is in the Jewish interest to ally with the Protestant fundamentalists because, after all, “is there any point in Jews hanging on dogmatically, hypocritically, to their opinions of yesteryear?’ At this point the American left split and those of us who criticised our onetime Jewish allies for misguided opportunism, were promptly rewarded with the ritual epithet ‘antisemite’ or ‘self-hating Jew’.
Fortunately, the voice of reason is alive and well, and in Israel, of all places. From Jerusalem, Israel Shahak never ceases to analyse not only the dismal politics of Israel today but the Talmud itself, and the effect of the entire rabbinical tradition on a small state that the right-wing rabbinate means to turn into a theocracy for Jews only. I have been reading Shahak for years. He has a satirist’s eye for the confusions to be found in any religion that tries to rationalise the irrational. He has a scholar’s sharp eye for textual contradictions. He is a joy to read on the great Gentile-hating Dr Maimonides.
Needless to say, Israel’s authorities deplore Shahak. But there is not much to be done with a retired professor of chemistry who was born in Warsaw in 1933 and spent his childhood in the concetration camp at Belsen. In 1945, he came to Israel; served in the Israeli military; did not become a Marxist in the years when it was fashionable. He was – and still is -a humanist who detests imperialism whether in the names of the God of Abraham or of George Bush. Equally, he opposes with great wit and learning the totalitarian strain in Judaism. Like a highly learned Thomas Paine, Shahank illustrates the prospect before us, as well as the long history behind us, and thus he continues to reason, year after year. Those who heed him will certainly be wiser and – dare I say? – better. He is the latest, if not the last, of the great prophets.
:omg::sdavid:
whoa. You know I really need this book