Another Wednesday, another day I have to leave the house to go to class. I’ve been very unsettled this semester, never feeling like I actually know what’s going on. Of course, that’s nothing comapred to these freakin’ Republicans. Boehner told Hastert that had a pervert, then he didn’t tell Hastert, and now he’s back to he’s pretty sure he maybe kinda did tell Hastert, who isn’t sure what the fuck’s going on, except these goddamn high school kids are out to bring down the Republican party (these are, of course, Republican high school kids – or at least they were, before these old perverts started pestering them). Tom Reynolds holds a press conference using a bunch of little kids as human shields (I wonder if he ever saw the Dead Zone movie, where Christopher Walken decides to shoot crazy Martin Sheen, to prevent Sheen from becoming president and presiding over Armageddon; Sheen holds up a baby as a shield, thereby destroying his chances to ever get elected president, and the world is saved). Condi finds it inconceivable that she could forget being briefed by George Tenet and Cofer Black, and then well, maybe she can remember afterall. The NIE tells us that Iraq is making the world less safe, Bob Woodward tells us how dubya’s been lying to us all along (duh) and that Rumsfeld is an idiot (double duh), and then dubya has the nerve to tell us the Democrats can’t be trusted to run Congress. Yeah, we’d sure hate to see them fuck up this great system you Republicans have put in place.
I just hope these idiots keep throwing under the bus, and that we can get them out of at least one branch of government before things get much worse.
:yawn::yawn::yawn::joe::joe::joe::shock::shock::shock:
❓ whatever :sheep: le
The century of drought
One third of the planet will be desert by the year 2100, say climate experts in the most dire warning yet of the effects of global warming
http://tinyurl.com/eptxb
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Rethugs + capitalistrs are:evil:
Rethugs +capitalist must be eliminated :gate::omg:
good morning, Fred :joe:
Report: Bush plans Bolton recess appointment.Human Events Online reports, “According to an administration source who requested anonymity, if the Senate does not vote on Bolton before his current recess appointment expires December 18, the President will again name Bolton to the post during Congress’ post-election recess.”
http://tinyurl.com/rzgzw
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Apparently Bush can appoint him but the taxpayer can not pay him the second time around.. :gate::omg:
:yippee::yippee::yippee: Its Susan :yippee::yippee::yippee:
Bolton = Dolton
(that’s the mature state of mind I’m in right now)
C-span has all these local house contest debates on this time of day ( beginning last Monday I guess)
Neither the dems or the thugs have the slightest idea of what they are talking about when it comes to tax policy or economics :eek::eek::gate::omg:
You know I wish they’d stop talking about this Foley thing. Seriously. It’s taking everyone’s minds off more important stuff.
as long as they can fool people into thinking they know what they’re talking about! 😮
Foley is a great distraction.. I would not be to surprised if the Reich’s media starts making up stories about inappropriate behaviour on the part of dems to make the dems spend all their campaign money defending themselves. :growl::growl::growl:
Most of those citizens with the 7th grade comprehension would not have any idea what they were talking about if they talked about balance of trade deficits, loans from foreign countries, tariffs, and the like .. The only thing they see is that diesel fuel for their Ford F250 super duty is still above $2.00 a gallon.:yuck::eek::paranoid:
:yuck::yuck::yuck: Its heir dictatordorp.:yuck::yuck::yuck:
:yuck::yuck::yuck:its Nancy Ploser :yuck::yuck::yuck:
richard vigary
said on ed schultz yesterday that “values voters” were going to stay home on election day due in large part to the Foley coverup.
what’s his name, the breck guy with the family values whatever, kept trying to blame it all on the general breakdown of godliness of course, etc, on hardball.
we can only hope vigary is right and the christo fascist zombies have finally been disillusioned with the con in neocon.
Build up for war with Iran… maybe ..sort of.. sabre being rattled rather loudly in any case,.,,
http://tinyurl.com/j6ht8
:gate::omg::jason::jason:
The people over at Dirty Underwear seem to know a lot about the movements of the SBR’s military forces but they leave out the chess game that is maybe being played out with the Russians and the Chinese.
During the cold war every time the SBR made a military move in any part of the world close to the soviet block a check was made via satellite surveillance for any dark clouds forming along the border with the Soviet Union caused by 200,000 idling Soviet tanks. The soviets had more tanks in their military units guarding the frontiers than the SBR had men in Western Europe.
Today Russia has some 200 mobile SS27 ICBM launchers and still has most of those tanks.
Bad news: one of the lead stories on the local news last night was about the (not use of the singular article) gas station that is selling regular below $2 a gallon.
Good news: one of the reasons mentioned for the low price was RUNUP TO THE ELECTION. They weren’t specific about it, such as mentioning 2004 when the Saudis dumped excess oil into the market to lower the price for Bush and Cheney’s re-election, I mean election. But I’ll take my enlightenment wherever I can get it.
:yippee:
Media conservatives obsess over Foley’s sexuality
Summary: In commenting on the scandal involving former Rep. Mark Foley, several conservative media figures and outlets have taken special notice of Foley’s reported homosexuality and even linked Foley’s sexual orientation to pedophilia.
In commenting on the scandal involving former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL), who resigned from Congress amid allegations that he sent sexually explicit messages to underage male former pages, NBC News correspondent Mike Viqueira, on the October 2 edition of MSNBC’s Hardball, reported that part of Foley’s “reputation” was that “in 2003 … there were some questions raised about his sexual orientation as he was preparing to run for the Senate.” Host Chris Matthews agreed that Foley’s sexuality was a key component of the scandal, saying: “It is a tricky situation. It has to do with orientation. It has to do with age … and adult relationships with kids.” In making the connection between Foley’s homosexuality and his alleged misconduct involving underage male pages, Matthews and Viqueira joined several conservative media figures and outlets that have taken special notice of Foley’s reported homosexuality and even linked Foley’s sexual orientation to pedophilia.
For example, an October 3 Wall Street Journal editorial attacked “today’s politically correct culture” and suggested that “Democratic critics” of House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) are being hypocritical for criticizing him over his handling of the Foley scandal because they aren’t saying that “they now have more sympathy for the Boy Scouts decision to ban gay scoutmasters.”
From The Wall Street Journal editorial:
But in today’s politically correct culture, it’s easy to understand how senior Republicans might well have decided they had no grounds to doubt Mr. Foley merely because he was gay and a little too friendly in emails. Some of those liberals now shouting the loudest for Mr. Hastert’s head are the same voices who tell us that the larger society must be tolerant of private lifestyle choices, and certainly must never leap to conclusions about gay men and young boys. Are these Democratic critics of Mr. Hastert saying that they now have more sympathy for the Boy Scouts’ decision to ban gay scoutmasters? Where’s Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on that one?
http://tinyurl.com/hgbjg
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:growl::growl::growl::growl::gate::omg::jason::jason::jason:
MARK FOLEY GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARDS
MONDAY: I’m an alcoholic and I’m going into rehab to deal with this terrible disease.
TUESDAY: I was molested by a priest when I was… sort of the same age as a congressional page.
WEDNESDAY: Aliens gave me an anal probe, and Scott Baio gave me pinkeye. Oh, wait a minute, that was the first season of South Park.
THURSDAY: Dennis Hastert held me down and filled my anal cavity with pork products.
FRIDAY: I was forced to have sex with Condolleezza Rice. You’ve gotta admit, that would mess ANYBODY up.
But seriously, how old are you? What do you want for your birthday? Send me a picture. Send me a picture of your friend, too. He’s hot. :hubba:
Foley is a great distraction.. I would not be to surprised if the Reich’s media starts making up stories about inappropriate behaviour on the part of dems to make the dems spend all their campaign money defending themselves
They want to take the Republicans down with this just before the election. I’d much rather they take them down on real issues, of which there are plenty of…I mean it’s not like there’s any lack of Republican horror stories to choose from, things that really matter like this illegal bullshit war…
INCREDIBLE! FOX ‘NEWS’ LABELS FOLEY AS DEM DURING O’REILLY FACTOR!
Three Different Video Cutaways, 15 Seconds or More Each, Credit Disgraced REPUBLICAN Congressman as Being a Florida DEMOCRAT!
Just amazing. Fox’s O’Reilly Factor just covered the Mark Foley (R-FL) issue in two different segments, one of them with a page who says he received communications from Foley, and another with Ann Coulter.
Never mind the content of either segment for now. Incredibly during a total of three different cutaways to video footage of Foley, he was labelled at the bottom of the screen eachtime as “(D-FL)” !
Just an oversight no doubt. Three different times. In two different segements. Each cutaway about 15 seconds or more. Showing Foley as a DEMOCRAT. Amazing.
http://tinyurl.com/n2wbb
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FAUX News :tommygun::tommygun::tommygun::tommygun:
that’s actually kind of funny…
After what they have seen and heard over the past few weeks — events including the news of a Republican congressman’s improper correspondence with a teenage page and the recent release of journalist Bob Woodward’s unfavorable portrayal of the Bush administration’s handling of Iraq – respondents to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, by more than a 2-to-1 ratio, say they have a less favorable impression of the Republicans maintaining control of Congress.
What’s more, a strong plurality believes the Iraq war is hurting the country’s ability to win the war on terrorism, a significant shift from a month ago.
Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, who conducted this survey with the Republican Bill McInturff, says that there is the point in every election when it becomes crystallized for voters. And the events from the past week, he notes, could very well be that point for the upcoming midterms.
The news of a Republican congressman’s improper correspondence with a teenage page and the recent release of journalist Bob Woodward’s unfavorable portrayal of the Bush administration’s handling of Iraq all seem to have taken a toll on President Bush and the Republican Party, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
http://tinyurl.com/l38ye
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Lets all hope the dems heads don’t swell up so much they blow it . :yuck::eek::gate::omg:
The typical FAUX News viewer could make good use of a color etcha sketch since they neither can read very well or listen very well. :gate::omg::jason::jason::jason:
Hummmm…… they would all make good corporate managers ( substituting color echa sketch for coloring book)
If you haven’t read this piece about the detention of a teenager at Guantanamo, I highly recommend it.
http://tinyurl.com/ztnbz
Sheeez all the C-span callers are all rethug stupids.. :gate::omg::jason::jason::jason:
General Grant, after hearing one too many time about the brillance of General Lee, finally exploded and said, in so many words, ‘enough” – you people think he’s going to take his troops, do a double back flip and attack us on the flank – Let’s let Bobby Lee worry about what we’re going to do, for a change.’
Enough with all this crap about how Foley was purposely made a distraction from the other crippling problems that Bush has. He wasn’t purposely made anything. The regime didn’t intend for Iraq to be a disaster either; that’s crap too. They thought that Chalabi would run it, and we would turn to the next country on the list.
All this shit about how brilliant Rove is is simply foolish. His frankenstein monster is imploding, from natural causes.. [why does our side always maintain that Bush is a moron and Rove is a genius? Is everything this simple? ]
The GOP coalition of classic small govt libertarians who want govt to leave them alone and moralizing christo fascists who want an underwear check of the whole country every morning is inherently unstable, and crumbling before our eyes, if we let it.
If the Dems can’t win under these conditions, its time to fire everybody and start from scratch. At least we’d have a new beginning.
And if the Yanks don’t win it all , with the red sea parting for them in baseball terms [no angels, white or red sox in the way; the mets falling apart], they have no one but themselves to blame.:sammy:
Is this real???
Check out the transcript from a telephone conversation between Rove and Ailes. Is this real???
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/4/22756/3378
I’m going to go protest Bush in a few minutes. Don’t know what the hell he’s doing at a resort in Paradise Valley this fucking early but I’ll go join the welcome wagon nonetheless.
Rove is brilliant only because he uses slander and lies to smear the opponent causing them to spend an inordinate amount of campaign funds on defending them selves as apposed to getting to the issues. One could use things to smear Rove too. The first things than comes to mind would be a DC transit Bus or a Metro car. :gate::omg::jason::jason:
I think the spin is that “Rove is brilliant” is what keeps people afraid of him, and that it’s only because of the wimpiness of the other side that it works
How ’bout a well aimed piano falling from a 10 story building.
FBI case against Foley explores legal ‘gray area’
Making a federal case out of sexually charged e-mail could prove difficult
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15126151/
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:eek::eek::eek:
Also the seeming willingness to do absolutely ANYTHING to stay in power.
With the arrangement of the media one attack leading to a response just leads to more attacks which are covered in great detail and responses that not covered except on C-span at 3 am.:tommygun::tommygun:
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI, FOUNDER OF THE FRIARS MINOR, CONFESSOR—1181-1226
Feast: October 4
:nixon:
Hey …good morning everyone.
I was hoping that this would die doun a bit but Im hoping that some of you who are going on and on about “killing” republicans will cut it out.
I dont think that I have to tell you that America is built on checks and balances and the problems we have now is that the balance is really off. Of course these people who are running the governement and Faux news,etc…, are no republicans or conservatives in any sense that history has ever known them to be….they are Neocons…and I dont believe in “killing” and wiping out any of them.
Nor do I believe in wiping out Capitalist society, because the extreme alternative doesnt work….what seems to work is a semi socialist system, but it also has to be semi closed regarding liberal immigration as is bein seen in denmark and other places in europe where there is an influx of groups who dont want to be a part of the society but rather to forcibly change it.
All of the extreme violent talk and even the overuse of this shooting gun icon is becoming troubling to me….mostly because its not a conversation…..
Im hearing alot of “Kill em all” sentiment from a couple of people, and I’d like to know what these people think the alternative is….who they want to take over runnign things.
It appears that Nicki and Suz would like Nader to have won both times…but my question is, where would we be? How would he have structured things?
And Fred, I would reallylike to ask you directly what sort of government you envision, because Im getting the impression that you are maybe sort of an anarchist, but maybe dont really have any plan at all except to keep demanding that people take to the streets and shoot eachother and government entities that you dont like.
I really dont like spending time arguing about illogical points of view…ie plans that have no chance in hell of coming to pass in the near future…unless you can actually envision how we get from here, right now, to there….and in some way that doesnt include the next revolution….because, if thats what you think is happening, youre deluding yourself. I dont get the Naders of this world who can pop up and spew all over and then they dont do anything long term to bring about change….long term….
Unless we have a major draft and start seeing bodies in boxes and more real news coverage with blood, we wont see people in the streets….
So, if you and 100 of your closest allies and friends go marching down Pennsylvania avenue, thats good for you and it keeps your spirits high……, but if youre espousing killing others constantly, its a bad vibe and its really ruining any sort of real give and take here….
So tell us what your plan is….and also I’d personally like to know if you have any children yourself…and if you really hate all of us liberals who take prozac and drink lattes ….
If some of us here are not radical enough for you and dont live according to your exacting specifications, then give out the background on which you base the judgement.
And what does it get you to keep implying that we (or I, in particular…Im not speaking for anyone else but myself here) are somehow deficient in your eyes?
I am very troubled by what is happening in the government and the world, but I am also going to work for my local political races, blogging and always talking to people and delivering signs and the like…..If you have this adical agenda, what are you really doing besides killing republicans with an emoticon? If youre just blowing off steam, thats OK…but youre doing it more and more, it seems, and maybe you have to look at who youre preaching to…and what sort of communication its shutting down.
I didn’t know much about Nader at all until this past week or so other than he was once a consumer advocate and he ran for office a couple of times…how do you come to that conclusion about how I would have voted vote or like to vote? I voted for Kerry in the last election and Gore before that, and I have no idea who I’m going to vote for now. Where do you draw these conclusions about me?
Capitalism is Organized Crime!
:omg:
I feel like using gun emos for the rest of my life
A SHORT HISTORY OF NEO-LIBERALISM:
TWENTY YEARS OF ELITE ECONOMICS
AND EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR STRUCTURAL CHANGE
BY SUSAN GEORGE
The Conference organisers have asked me for a brief history of neo-liberalism which they title “Twenty Years of Elite Economics”. I’m sorry to tell you that in order to make any sense, I have to start even further back, some 50 years ago, just after the end of World War II.
In 1945 or 1950, if you had seriously proposed any of the ideas and policies in today’s standard neo-liberal toolkit, you would have been laughed off the stage at or sent off to the insane asylum. At least in the Western countries, at that time, everyone was a Keynesian, a social democrat or a social-Christian democrat or some shade of Marxist. The idea that the market should be allowed to make major social and political decisions; the idea that the State should voluntarily reduce its role in the economy, or that corporations should be given total freedom, that trade unions should be curbed and citizens given much less rather than more social protection–such ideas were utterly foreign to the spirit of the time. Even if someone actually agreed with these ideas, he or she would have hesitated to take such a position in public and would have had a hard time finding an audience. . .
Im not drawing any conclusions suz….actually Im sure that we all are gonna vote in a reasonable way even if it makes us sick….I guess I shoulda said that you are just learning about this stuff….sometimes i seems like you go along with it and agree with it.
I m not against talking about stuff…but I dont know where all of this stuff like #39 above and the violent stuff gets us besides blowing of steam….if thats what it is….
I’d like ot know the alternative…
Not trying to offend….just want to know what the alternative is that makes sense….
because Im steeled to work my way through the system and try to change it however possible for my kid and the kids in the future….
Strike down capitalism…and then what??
be specific Nicki…..because there are alot of kids, old folks and sick people out in the world who need a sorta seamless transition to whatever it is youre espousing…..
That’s what I was trying to google just now but I didn’t remember what it was called.
Love comes in spurts! :omg:
oohhh! :pent::sdavid:
When your spine is cracking and your hands, they shake.
Heart is burstin’ and your butt’s gonna break.
Your woman’s cussing, you can hear her scream.
You feel like murder in the first degree.
Ain’t nobody slowing down, no way.
Everybody’s stepping on their accelerator.
Don’t matter where you are,
Everybody’s gonna need a ventilator.
When you’re trapped and circled with no second chances,
Your code of living is your gun in hand.
We can’t be browed by beatin’, we can’t be cowed by words.
Messed by cheatin’, ain’t gonna ever learn.
Everybody walkin’ ’round,
Everybody tryin’ to step on their Creator.
Don’t matter where you are, everybody, everybody gonna
Need some kind of ventilator, some kind of ventilator.
What you gonna do about it, what you gonna do?
What you gonna do about it, what you gonna do?
Gonna fight it, gonna fight it?
:fist:
Markets Über Alles?
by Michael Albert
Regular readers of Z know I frequently use this column to argue that private ownership yields grotesque inequalities, while markets:
* hide human relations, ensuring that economic calculations focus only on dollar profits
* promote antagonism among buyers and sellers, yielding conflict and precluding solidarity
* promote a class of intellectual workers dominating traditional workers, precluding democracy and self management
* bias against social goods, diminishing social and ecological concern
Other than broad references to income distribution, homelessness, infrastructure, and ecology, most efforts to demonstrate the above points have been abstract and have not yet convinced even progressive economists, much less the broad population. Perhaps this is because the discussion has been too abstract. If so, a couple of case studies may help. “Pile It On” enhighlights the worst of markets, with or without private ownership. “Movie Time” adds a new criticism and interesting avenues for further examination.
Pile It On
In the February 8 issue of The Economist there is a brief, boxed article titled “Let Them Eat Pollution.” Ninety-five percent of the article reproduces parts of a purloined memorandum sent by Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, to some of his colleagues. Summers is the picture of civilized accomplishment: a scholar, administrator, theorist, writer, dressed impeccably, exuding confidence—the fruit of our best breeding, the archetype, responsible, liberal Harvard economist. In his memorandum, this living ode to Western achievement argues, “Shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging more migration of dirty industries to the [Third World]?” He presents three supporting arguments, which, though it goes unstated, apply equally to dumping in urban ghettoes rather than wealthy suburbs.
Use the emos, Suz…the point is not to get all huffy….its to look at the situation and say what your idea of an alternative is….
All of this kill, kill, kill stuff is fine if its backing up some real ideas, but if youre stockpiling AK-47’s, then its a little too much for my liberal elite senses….
I doubt that anyone here wants to kill anyone really…but why go on and on about all of this stuff when we have to be working towards getting the house and senate back?
Suz, you never knew anything about Nader at all? Im surprised….So many people I know voted for him and it was a horrible disappointment to me that their anger at the system caused them not to look at the emergency situation that we were in….
Is that the same Susan George from Straw Dogs? She was hot!
Funny she should drift to economics.:sammy:
Check out Participatory Economics. A modern political and economic theory. Very wholistic. It abhors markets.
http://www.zmag.org/parecon/detail.htm
You are so fucking clever.
Ahhh…. a “Good American” has spoken..
These Necons/Free traders have turned the USA into the SBR..a cross between Germany of the 1930’s , Soviet Russia and Panama.
They have destroyed a great deal of the middle class by allowing corporatists to export good paying union jobs and by creating laws suppressing organized labor.
They have hammered away at the ability of the federal government to provide a social safety net so that people instead of being able to squeeze by on welfare are now living under a bridge and eating at a soup kitchen
They have gotten rid of affordable housing so even a lot of working people can not find any affordable place to live and end up living in their cars.
They refuse to keep the infrastructure maintained and force up everyones costs through privatization of public services.
They encourage companies like WalMart ( the countries largest employer) twenty five percent of who’s workers are on some form of public assistance.
Through privatization of health care we have the words most costly and least efficient medial system with 45 million uninsured people.
More and more people are falling off the end of the system every day .. They can’t pay for housing, their car and basic services. Many have their property taken away because they can’t pay their bills.
They pass laws taking away the rights of the consumer to sue because they got screwed in some way by a large corporate interest.
They make using the legal system to fight inequity so lengthy and costly it is way beyond the means of most of the people in the country
They start illegal wars and by their foreign policy over the last 30 years have some 80% of the worlds population ticked off at us. .
They are imperialists who go into foreign countries and support puppet governments that kill people who just want a better life for themselves and their children in the name of furthering the ambitions of their capitalist supporters.
By making it difficult for the elderly to get assistance and not supporting Medicaid and Medicare and through encouraging high drug prices( big Pharma profits) they are are killing elderly Americans.
By their social policies and the lack of reasonably paid entry level jobs they are causing some 5 million more people to enter poverty each year.
They encourage the incarceration of people for minor offenses to further the profits of their private prison industry. .The SBR has the highest prison population in the industrialized world.
And finally they corrupt the political system by pandering to the fringe groups of bigots, hate mongers, religious zealots, people with questionable business practices and authoritarians. The most disrobing thing is their the use of outright lies and falsehoods to make a great number of poor and uniformed people people think that what they are doing is justified because it is done in the name of things like morality and lower taxes.
I make the point that to effect a change in any of the above it requires more than an election and a change in the parties in power. FDR did not get his social reforms by just his presence there was an underlying social pressure that something like the French revolution might occur here that did that. 😮
I’m sure your wholistic economic theories just rock, but don’t you think you should look at the culture of the country that you’re attempting to install it in? For starters, we don’t even have all of the kids covered by medical insurance. And a large percentage of the country thinks that the pentagon was struck by a missile. Lets get real here people; drastic economic or social change ain’t gonna happen unless we get the entire country ‘la-may’ed’, a la Japan 1945.
Not worth it to me.:sammy:
I need to read more about that. I would actually like to see practical plans for alternatives. I just found an amazing myspace group about ecology and socialism…I’ll have to link it to you later, Nicki
Ok. Don’t try. Let things continue along the current course. Capitalism! There is no Alternative! That is what you are saying.
The whole country “nuked”? Is that what you said. My you are an optimist.
melina:
one of the lessons I took from the metamorphosis from the late sixties to the raygun eighties was this: every set of good (in both the practical and the moral sense) ideas becomes solidified into a structure that must be broken down for the next good idea. thus racial and gender sensitivity became p.c.ness., which begat raygun’s new morning inamerica….
when the left became so sure of its moral superiority, the right struck back. the same thing is happening to the rapture right, as we speak.
why does (regulated) capitalism work better than communism? because humans are incredibly competitive and aquisitive. we’re hardwired to maintain our spot on the top of the food chain. me and mine first. include even the deluded as part of “mine”, and altruism arises.
hatred is a comforting indulgence but as mlk said, “love is not the answer, it is the assignment.”
on the other hand, I had a truly visceral understanding of gun ownership when I read about the recent crackdown on dog ownership in china. an est. 50,000 dogs were slaughted by gangs at the behest of the government to reduce rabies. in the cities small dogs were torn from the arms of their owners and beaten to death in front of them. groups went into villages at night. making lots of noise so barking dogs could be located and killed.
we just aint a very nice species….
Capitalism isn’t evil in and of itself as a system. Neither is socialism or communism. Unfortunately, when you add people, all systems seem to become corrupted by a relatively small number of people. And when you get rid of that small number of people, another bactch steps forward to take their place.
Probably the best system was the one that white Europeans found in place right here where I live. They all but killed it, of course.
Alternatives to capitalism?
Start with something small, like Liechtenstein, or Ecuador. If it works there, then we’ll talk.
Just look at the vicious, underhanded, opposition to any reform faced by incremental, middle of the road presidents like FDR and Clinton. A President Nicki Rose, or Fidel Castro, would get poisoned at the Inaugural Ball. Just reforming one single segment of the economy, health care, is a herculean task, especially now that media consolidation is the law of the land.
Yeah I know, You may say I’m a dreamer….
The venue last night where Marc played was really small. There was a small gathering so it was personal and casual. The venue was also across the street from the giant Scientology fortress. (Man is that a beautiful buidling.) Marc couldn’t NOT mention it! He tried some new stuff (it’s a workshop kind of thing he does there). He read a monologue that he’d written that was Marc-brilliant. It was like a long-version of a dream diary. We enjoyed talking to him afterwards and he was glad to meet mr fk and talk Iraq.
He misses doing radio.
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Heron, I hope your kitty is feeling better.
You ramble. Universal health care is compatible within a capitalist system. Sweden. Germany…It is such a struggle here because we are ruled by a duopoly. Two business parties.
Use the emos, Suz…the point is not to get all huffy….its to look at the situation and say what your idea of an alternative is….
All of this kill, kill, kill stuff is fine if its backing up some real ideas, but if youre stockpiling AK-47’s, then its a little too much for my liberal elite senses….
I doubt that anyone here wants to kill anyone really…but why go on and on about all of this stuff when we have to be working towards getting the house and senate back?
And re 56- Nicki- I dont see how you go from Your Way to Dont Try!! That is sorta limited, dont you think?
Whatyou espouse is not trying anything…its impatience and inability to work within what we’ve got to try to change things.
If you realize that the sort of revolution that you want to happen is not going to happen, then what?…you have to go on in a helpful way rather than sit in the corner with your articles going over and over the same ground.
I am more of a socialist certainly, and I know first hand alot of people who actually live in that system….so, the capitalism is not my favorite thin. But the first thing to do is to change the deregulation….its been proven that deregulation doesnt work…
So, regulate things and tax the hell out of rich people, and give everyone healthcare through medicare, which works…..and then go on from there….
The idea of “freedom” of the market, people, this country is way overplayed…
But hell, we have what we have…..and if the whole hting blew up tomorrow we would be screwed…Look at Katrina….imagine if we had less government than THAT!….
We have to put in major social programs…then work on the third and fourth parties….
It will never work without runoff voting…so why arent you workign with Brad on election reform and printing a million articles about that.
You want to criticize and then post a zillion articles about Israel…..
but what is the PLAN????
Suz, you never knew anything about Nader at all? Im surprised….So many people I know voted for him and it was a horrible disappointment to me that their anger at the system caused them not to look at the emergency situation that we were in….
I don’t like your summation of my position. I agree that we need to regulate the economy. Let’s go for it. See how happy the entrenched elites will become. Which political party will support your proposals? The Dems? The republicans?
So, you’re the one saying it’s impossible and don’t try, I guess?
Are you talking to me?
I’m surprised we’re still kicking around Nader at this late date. He’s no favorite of mine, but it is more interesting to look at what Pat Buchanan did to Ross Perot’s party in 2000.
If you’ll recall, Perot got a massive, almost unprecedented third party vote in the middle-teens in the 1992 election, and about 8% in 1996.
In 2000, life-long republican hack Buchanan took over the Perot party, and managed to knock that back to about 1%. The beneficiary was the Bush/Cheney ticket, ‘bigtime.’
If Buchanan had gotten 2%, Gore would have been president.
Anyone ever investigate whether the GOP sent any cash to Buchanan to take a dive?
Yeah, Nader screwed us up, but he had help. :sammy:
Or is it just that anybody who thinks the best chance to get anything actually accomplished is by working within the system we currently have is “ignorant?”
Nader is basically insignificant. He has a certain amount of culpability for Bush, but not all of it, for sure. If the purpose of a Nader is to push issues and pull the parties back to the left, well, maybe he did that in 2000, but (whether it’s fair or not), he was seen as putting Bush in office, and has no affect on much of anything.
Bush would have won in Oregon in 2000 had Buchanan not run.
There is more. Anyway, Gore ran a poor campaign in 2000. He should have wiped Bush out. As it was, he won, but the Supreme Court took it away. Why did he not fight?
I’m a post graduate and I get 12 bucks an hour working my ass off tutoring, and because of no-child left behind I can’t get my certification back without going to school for a few years though I have FIVE years of teaching background…12 bucks an hour and I’m a well educated professional…capitalism has set it up so teachers are the lowest pieces of crap on the earth and are kicked in the mud at every opportunity and under capitalism our standard of education in this country has dropped to that of a third world country because business is oh so more important
Blaming Nader is like the Cubs blaming that schmuck in the stands who interfered with Alou for missing a trip to the Series. No body told the shortstop to make the foolish error, or the pitchers to throw meatballs.:sammy:
Nader keeps progressive issues on the table. Hopefully, someone significant will pick some of them up and run for president.
The implementations of regulated capitalism along with a government second tear power structure that is not fluid from administration to administration so it maintains some consistency works for me.
Things are getting much to complicated for there to be two forms of economics that alternate from administration to administration.. Demand side (Keynesian) economics seems to work for the betterment of all people where as supply side economics only works for the rich. Programs like Social Security, Public health care and public owned infrastructure are only going to be successful if their is a strong tax base which means the revitalization of a strong middle class. The creation of good jobs for all sorts of different educational backgrounds will solve a lot of the societal problem. The SBR can not do these things and still play in the sandbox with people making $.75 per hour ., corporations must have their charters reviewed like they did in the 19th century and make only ‘reasonable” profits for their investors and there must be a lot of regional companies not just two or three world wide ones to promote competition.
Once again you cannot accomplish such things through an election. :omg:
Nader got 5% in Oregon in 2000. A mere 600,000+ votes less than Bush (who got less votes than Gore).
Hate to say it, but Feingold is just about the only real progressive out there, and his marital history renders him dead on arrival. Even a lot of progressive women just won’t accept an explanation of two divorces. It sounds frivolous. Otherwise, he’s the best one out there. If only the US was France. :sammy:
Work within the system. Expand it. Bring back the New, improved, Deal. Regulate business so that they cannot muck it up again. Overturn Taft-Hartley. I am all for working within the system. (As Ralph Nader is.)
Oh, but Fenigold didn’t sufficiently denounce Israel, and he supported Roberts, so nobody can vote for him. Or any of the other “imperfect” candidates.
#70.
I don’t know if your Buchanan in Oregon stat really makes the point. If Perot had run and racked up another 6- 8% or so in 2000, like he had in 1996, Bush was toast. Instead, Buchanan took over, and got something like 1.3%. :sammy:
Was Buchanan even on the ballot in Oregon in 2000?
Gore won Oregon by about 5,000 votes. Buchanan got more than 5,000 votes in Oregon. How many did he get?
We need another Populist Movement. Go beyond the duopoly.
YES. Buchanan was on the Ballot in Oregon in 2000.
Oh, yeah, he was. He got about 7,000 votes. So, add all of those to Nader, and you get, um, yep, Nader woulda still been in third place by over 600,000 votes.
In spite of his anti-Iraq war stance today, and his anti-immigration notoriety, Buchanan is a dyed in the wool republican who worked for Nixon and Reagan, and he still is part of the Nativist wing of that party. I smell a rat as to why he sought to close down the Perot party, which if you will recall, was so successful that at one point in the 1992 election Perot was polling higher than both Clinton and Bush Sr.:sammy:
Independent 7,063 0.46% Pat Buchanan
The Libertarian candidate got about 7000 votes too. They probably cost Bush the state between them.
If the thugs had not started doing the boiling of the frog thing in the 80’s working these things through the system would be fine but you have all sorts of social and financial pressure that’s going to be placed on the system from the retiring baby boomers in just the next several years. The thugs have set us up by all this borrowing so that with the collapse of the middle class their will be no way to raise the tax revenues to pay for these things. You only have maybe ten years to change things .. You are not going to do that through the election process.:gate::omg:
Perot is a Pentagon troughing capitalist. Therefore no real alternative.
Too bad they ran, it woulda saved a lot of angst in Florida. And Nader coulda been blamed for losing Oregon, too. Either way, 2000 is over. So is 2004, come to think of it.
I know more people who voted for Badarnik than voted for Nader. These people I know would have voted for Bush if not Badarnik, they are no liberals , believe me.
Well, y’all get out there and see if you get a following. Personally, I think organized labor is the only real way to go. Unions should be legally required, as should vacation time and healthcare.
And we should only trade with other countries if their workers are represented by a union. Free Trade is fine, if we all follow the same rules – global or at least a hemiglobal trade unions.
Negation. When the Democrats give us a decent presidential candidate, then people will not vote third party. Gore would have continued Clinton’s bullshit triangulation politics.
And????
I only bring up Nader because it drives me crazy that the nighttime on this blog (which I sometimes read in the morning) is like crazy Nader time lately….
That anyone, today, right now, is gonna sit aorund and blame Gore and Kerry and whoever….is just crazy to me….who cares….I only want to see who is active all the time in the parties and who is the most honest and independent that we can get within the system….
Yes, they ran bad campaigns….But the realistic thing to do was to vote for them. We were mere babes in the wood back then before the Bushies and 9-11 and all….most people wouldnt even believe that we could get attacked….that a president could go after our rights and break the law and lie so badly that it was just obvious…..
Our big problem is lack of education and media consolidation….that people dont stand up is that they dont see, and they dont understand.
However the dems or republicans or anyone take it, big business has to be reregulated and media has to be reregulated…I think that the people are getting behind this stuff becuase look at what has happened since Reagan…..people can now see the consequences….
Its not so simple as one extreme or another…
BUT, Suz…..you are underpaid and cant do what you want to do….so, what do you do? What is the plan?
Listen to Nicki all night and read and read so you are educated in all of these philosophies …”take to the streets”…and then what?
You Still make poverty wages and our children are not educated….
So, either you start to get the education yoou need to do the teaching you want to do, you get active in the issue, and you look into teaching for a private school that isnt tied down by the law.
The truth is that if you work for a third party now you are surely helping some republican arm of the current administration who is strongly influenced by these neocons (ie McCain) get in power, and education will stay the same for 4 years more at least.
Im working for Ned Lamont because he clearly states that we need to bring the money back form Iraq and put it in education and healthcare. My state is suing the government about no child left behind…I would find out whats happening in NY State about that because I think they are also suing to be released from it.
Its a long shot, but people like Lamont will go into office and will shout this stuff because no one owns him and the people are putting him in…if he gets in….
I know that you will vote with your head Suz….there really isnt any alternative. I even think that Nicki is gonna vote the dem ticket….
And Fred- If Im the “Good American” that you so condescendingly refer to…thanks alot…but we still know nothing about anything that you have actually done…or if you speak from experience or just rage.
Same with Nicki….
Do you have children? Have you served in the military?
Have you been ill or had someone in your family who was ill?
Are you Ted Kazynsky living in a hut and writing your treatise??
Do tell baby…because, its a little tiring at this point to be kicked around by someone with no background at all…..
I actually agree with much of whatyou say in what you believe is wrong with the country…but I see no ideas of how to make it better except to tear others down and to go on about your own anger…
Lets have it…
Nicki??
come on boys…
Imagine if, in 2000, Nader had offered to tell his supporters in Oregon and Florida to vote for Gore. He might have been able to get some issues on the table in a Gore presidency. At the very least, he’d have been a significant force (a hero even) in the 2004 election. Instead, he got a lot of people pissed at him, had trouble getting on the ballot in many places, and went from a 2.74% “victory” in 2000 to an insignificant bug on the windshield in 2004.
And, yeah, Gore ran a shitty campaign in 2000, and Kerry was even worse in 2004. It may not be fair to blame Nader for allowing his ego to take over in 2000 and allowing a Bush win, but it aint a fair world, is it?
It would have been interesting had Gore been inaugurated. We may never have know there was a plot to attack the US, because Gore wouldn’t have been on vactaion. Gore would have been handcuffed by the Republicans, just as Clinton was, and probably would have had a dismal one term in office. Of course, we also wouldn’t be where we are today.
Where did the saying ‘throw under the bus’ come from?
It would be totally wonderful if the union movement could be re-energized, and the NLRB returned to its former impartial status, instead of being a weapon for employers, but we got a massive re-education problem on our hands. In many parts of the country, the only worse word than ‘atheist’ is ‘union’, unless its ‘liberal.’ Nonetheless, you have reformers who are doing great work right now in this area, so this would be a lot more realistic than a plan to overthrow capitalism. :sammy:
How does one tell when you have a “good candidate” You can’t usually tell until after the first year has passed what you got . In the present system change will occur to slowly if you have Ms Rants balance of powers .. Nothing will get done.. Incentives need to be provided for the system to be changed.:gate::omg:
Who did more to defeat Gore, Nader or The Washington Post/NY Times cabal? Check out Somerby at Dailyhowler.com for the answer.
The worthless shits made up lies about Gore, and then lied about the lies. They’re all still in denial, including present left-wing heart throbs Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd. Contemptible elitist bastards, who deserve every drop of Bush era misery that has been inflicted on all of us. Unfortunately, we’re stuck here too.:sammy:
Nader ran because people asked him to. Stop buying into dem talking points. Anyway, Nader wants to see the political system go beyond the two party corporate duopoly. His campaigns may provide a blueprint for future campaigns that will succeed.
You do the best you can with the information you have at the time. My general rule is to vote against any incumbent, unless I have an actual reason to vote for them.
And, I know you dont’ like it ‘cuz it’s gonna take too long, but you have to get good candidates in office at the local and state levels (you know, when you can actually go to their house and talk to them to see what you think of them) first. Whether it’s getting “better” Democrats in place, or getting a viable third-party going, that’s what needs to happen.
Running a dismal campaign for national office every four years isn’t working the system. It’s masturbation.
Actually, what I’m buying into is what people like Michael Moore said – that Ralph had promised not to actively campaign in states where things were close, but that he broke that promise. Of course, as Ralph Nader pointed out after that, Moore is fat.
This would be a better world if there were more masturbation [e.g. GHW Bush]. :sammy:
Re#94 Nader tried that with Kerry in ’04. Kerry was not interested.
I agree with much of post #94.
Prescient commentary by Joe Conason 10/24/2000 on Ralph Nader.
Someone has already posted that Conasen hit job. So what? Joe is a Democratic apologist.
What was Kerry’s position on the Iraq War?
The truth is worth another post. :fist:
Well “Good American”.. Yes and No. I have no kids but I was off work for almost a year with health problems. My cousin who is having his house repossessed by the bill collectors was injured in an industrial accident and is on disability. His wife works as an office manager but they don’t make enough to pay there basic bills plus pay for his drugs , and his kids bipolar meds . I volunteer to work for the county dept of social services at the shelter/soup kitchen as required and see all these people and more people and more people all the time who fell off the end. I also see all these people who I have worked with who have advanced degrees falling off the end too. We have had many discussions about what to do.. nuf said:eek:..
Nader never promised that. Green Party Cobb the con artist did.
It was too late for 2004. For one thing, Kerry’s campaign was too stupid (not Kerry, I don’t think, but his campaign, which was also the problem with Gore in 2000, but Gore had so much Clinton baggage – both from the left and right – that he was in a bit of a hole to begin with;), and by 2004, so many people were so pissed at Nader (again, not making a judgement on whether it’s fair or not) that he had become pretty much insignificant.
Had he played nice with Gore in 2000, he could have come out in 2004 and said, “they said they’d work on this, that and the other thing, but they didn’t, and now I’ll run again and won’t work with them.” Or, maybe he coulda been head of the EPA or something (always wanted to see Michael Moore as press secretary; imagine him out there in his sweats and baseball cap).
Nader probably offered to pay for an exercise program for Moore. Nader once told Christopher Hitchens that he would pay if Hitchens signed up for a quit smoking program.
Hitchens’ problem is smoking???? That’s so obtuse that for that remark alone Nader is deserving of our contempt.:sammy:
Im off to the debate…will have to catch up later….
hopefully with better news….
Hey there, FK. Glad Marc got to meet you and the Mister. I sure hope he winds up somewhere where we can hear from him every day.
This sorta fits for today doesn’t it?
:cat: is much better today Thanks FarmerKat!
Hey, that’s interesting. It sure looks to be serious, too.
Yeah but he was supposed to be coming up with a platform in August.
:sammy:
Hitchens’ problem is smoking???? That’s so obtuse that for that remark alone Nader is deserving of our contempt.
Comment by cresttwo — October 4, 2006 @ 11:19 am
No kidding. But maybe it speaks to Nader’s sense of vision that he was able to see the cigarette burning behind Hitchens’ barrel of whiskey.
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Hey I read last night that Godless Kinser is on his way home…:banana::banana:
That’s great. I wish the rest of them were, too.
Hey, Guys!:yippee:
Grannies are going to rage tonight at a county hearing on buying electronic voting machines :growl: — Anyone got any good ideas for signs that start with “Raging Grannies say …. insert clever barb here about how shitty EVMs are ..”?? :ear:
We’ll be singing the following to Battle Hymn of the Republic:
We’re the Raging Grannies and we’re here to take a stand
Against the Diebold vote machines Election boards demand.
They steal our taxes for computers we know are a scam
TELL EVM’S TO SCRAM!
We want paper for our ballots.
We want paper for our ballots.
Count our votes the way we cast them don’t hack them away.
Give Us Paper NOW!
Diebold and Sequioa tell us touch machines are keen,
But the software used to count our votes is secret and unseen.
GOP says trust us these machines are quite pristine
WON’T GIVE DEMOCRACY GANGRENE!
We want paper for our ballots.
We want paper for our ballots.
Count our votes the way we cast them don’t hack them away.
Give Us Paper NOW!
We stand here in our country wondering at the sad disgrace
That our sacred right to vote can disappear without a trace!
Snatched by greedy corporations politicians still embrace.
We want paper ballots now!
:jason::tommygun::spank::nana:
http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/wp-images/smilies/puppy.gif
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U.S. to stop seizing Canadian drug imports: WSJ
October 4, 2006
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have scrapped their 11-month-old policy of seizing prescription drugs imported through the mail from Canada, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
The practice had come under fire from lawmakers for depriving American seniors of their drugs and protecting the prices charged by U.S. pharmaceutical companies, the newspaper said.
Citing a Customs spokeswoman, The Journal said the seizures would stop on October 9.
Prescription drugs are cheaper in Canada, because its national health-care system negotiates lower prices for its citizens, The Journal said.
Okay, so, there was about 200-300 people at the protest this morning. It went longer than I had hoped as I brought neither sunglasses or a hat. :hot: Plus, I forgot my camera, but my friend had his. But I think I saw Bush’s evil hand waving and as the traffic was stopped for a solid 30-40 minutes a couple of the protesters got into a heated argument about 9/11 with an old man in one of the cars. I got into an argument over a silly comment I made about the gaggle of cops standing around gabbing with each other. It was a strange thing to argue about and the manner in which the guy argued made me wonder if he was a mole. He stomped off saying he was leaving, and I said bye bye. But then he came back and accused me of telling him to leave 😐 Whatever.
Mozilla duped by hacker’s ‘humorous’ presentation
Hey KP..glad to see you made it back
The link to the Mozilla thing goes to a Gmail page…
This is from Evan and Novak subscription only page. Kos reprinted part of it:
The fact is, Foley was reluctant to run for re-election because of pressure over his homosexuality. He was reportedly considering two private-sector jobs already, after the White House had panned him as a Florida Senate candidate, reasoning that he could not win statewide. But National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Tom Reynolds (R-N.Y.) talked a reluctant Foley into staying. Naturally, Reynolds, as the campaign chairman, wants all incumbents to stay in the House and to minimize open seats. Foley filed as a candidate in Florida on May 8 of this year, after Reynolds and other Republican leaders had been made aware of the e-mails by the page’s congressional sponsor, Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-La.), in April. It would have been a good time to ease Foley out, because his district is solidly Republican enough that another candidate could have carried it easily.
Windows Vista will have new antipiracy technology that locks people out their PCs if the operating system isn’t activated within 30 days after installation.
If Vista is not activated with a legitimate product registration key in time, the system will run in “reduced functionality mode” until it is activated, said Thomas Lindeman, a senior product manager at Microsoft. In this mode, people will be able to use a Web browser for up to an hour, after which time the system will log them out, he said.
http://tinyurl.com/qfzlf
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XP works this way too. sooo ???
Translated…. MS to encourage the increased usage of open source Operating systems.
Iran to promote nuclear tourism
After marvelling at Isfahan’s magnificent architecture and admiring the ruined city of Persepolis, how about checking out a nuclear installation?
Iran’s state news agency said on Wednesday that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the country’s president, has made the tour possible.
Rahim Mashaii, the head of Esfandyar, Iran’s tourism and cultural heritage organisation, was quoted as saying: “Foreign tourists can visit Iranian nuclear sites, after Dr.Ahmadinejad issued an authorisation ordering this organisation to study ways to do so.”
No details were given on the nature of the visits that would be allowed, or when it would become legal for tourists to take a trip to one of the facilities.
Possible attractions for tourists would include the uranium conversion facility outside Isfahan, the uranium enrichment plant in Natanz or the Islamic republic’s first nuclear plant being built in the southern city of Bushehr.
http://tinyurl.com/q6qy4
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Uranium corp of America used to give guided tours of their plant at Rifle so WTF. Now the EPA does. You can walk around the 10 foot reallock fence with concertina wire across the top that is marked WARNING RADIATION AREA/ EPA SUPER FUND SITE/ KEEP OUT
:eek::eek:
Wall Street barreled higher Wednesday, propelling the Dow Jones industrials to their second straight record high close as investors shrugged off lackluster economic news and grew more optimistic that the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates as the economy cools.
http://tinyurl.com/zq4gv
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So when does the Hindenburg blow up and crash.???:eek::eek::yuck::paranoid:
:crap::crap::crap: They still haven’t come for Ms Rant .. :paranoid::paranoid:
Oops , here’s the real link.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/10/03/HNmozilladuped_1.html
From what I read about Foley he was a thug cash cow.. What ever funding source he was plugged into was to good at funneling $ to the RNC for them to want to change him out. With thugs almost everything is related to $$$:yuck::evil::paranoid:
Good Old Associated Press …
[Dobson] touched on the uproar over former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, D-Florida, who resigned Friday in a scandal over electronic messages he sent to former teenage male congressional pages.
The party affiliation that dare not speak its name.
Late Update: As of about 12:18 PM, the version of the AP story I linked to at the San Jose Mercury News has been corrected. But it must have been what the AP sent out over the wire. So I’m sure there are million more examples of it still out there.
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3572
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Thats 2 ….:eek:
Still no official radio news to report, but of the three radio opportunities we’ve been writing about, one is now out of the picture, one remains unchanged (but seems to be cooling off as time passes) and one has become slightly more likely. The bad news is that we do not have a concrete time frame as to when we’ll be back on the air. As you know we are very eager to get back behind that mic! We do hope it will be before the end of the month.
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. Atlanta Magazine is also considering an article. We haven’t been told the publication dates, but watch for them. Mike had some interesting observations. We’ll post a link if/when they’re published.
We’re still working on a few issues before we can openly reveal what we’ve come to believe is the backstory to our untimely dismissal from Air America. You better get out a flow chart because there are more twists and turns than entire seasons of “Lost” and “24” combined. It is truly bizarre.
And it’s come to our attention that there are one or two Internet efforts underway to initiate some kind of independent syndication for the Mike Malloy Show. We want to thank all those folks who are working to establish a self-syndicating operation for us. As we’ve stated in response to your many inquiries via email, we are awaiting official word from a couple of traditional radio outlets before we delve into the world of at-home syndication or netcasting.
We do remain confident that the Mike Malloy Show will be picked up by a network very soon. If not, then we’ll certainly entertain all these other opportunities and generous offers in the near future. As always, we so appreciate your support and efforts on our behalf.
In fact, your email, calls, and petitions are tremendously helpful. 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
10/04/06
http://www.mikemalloy.com/
I am really curious about the “AAR back story”. What the hell is going on there? If it is so sinister, why do people like Peter Werbe are anxious to get on the network?
You are so clever, cresttwo. Hitchens related that story. Hitchens used to be a decent lefty writer. Had a Nation column.
I think the left sided media was a creation to kind of make the left think they had a voice and to help reinforce left of center but not far left of center ideals. The observation that they have moved just left of center says it was either to successful or all the whining really did turn people off. I have never found the powers at be in commercial enterprises to be fond of left of center ideas. :gate::omg::jason::jason::jason:
(As everyone here knows) here is the real scandal:
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff10042006.html
Dave Lindorff
I find it very difficult to view what the thugs do at the 7th grade level. Things like that subliminal references to D-Florida. Most Americans probably never knew they had a right to habeas corpus to begin with. The poor and uneducated get intimidated by the police all the time and I don’t think the public defenders office even asks the right questions.
Yes to war, yes to killing habeas corpus, no to pedophilia:
http://www.counterpunch.org/sharon10042006.html
You’d be surprised what average people know. The time is ripe for massive, democratic organizing on the grassroots level. New Populist Movement.
The Dems will “get ’em” over Foley’s trolling on the internet. But after taking control, will they get a spine? IT IS UP TO US!
:fist:
One needs to figure out some way to get rid of the Reich wing slime campaigns or to that 7th grade mind the media will make the dems look as bad ( lets hope they are not that bad) as the rethugs look to us.
Is that Walken for pres site legit??
Yes! It has been around for many months.
:omg:
:doh:
:jason: ( emo of Maddow standing on limb) :jason:
That Walken site has been up for over a year, at least.
What real Christaians do:
“We will forgive you.”
– unnamed Amish neighbor, while embracing the father of Charles Carl Roberts IV, the gunman who killed five Amish schoolchildren and injured five others before taking his own life Monday morning. (source: Lancaster New Era)
Members of the community have established funds both for the families of those killed and wounded (the Amish do not have health insurance), and for the family of Roberts, who leaves behind a wife and two young children. Mennonite Central Committee and Mennonite Disaster Service are also coordinating support for those affected.
From my Sojourners email.
I never knew Walken wanted to run.
You can make a donation for the families in Lancaster County here.
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:pent::sdavid::parrot:
I like David Benders’ choice of bumper music.
Cheers All, just a quick “run by” since I am taking a break in calling #’s in Florida, now for MoveOn. I just believe, personally not calling back east after 8:15 or 20. (We close shop back east at 9pm anyway.) I am “resting” before Pacific callars starting at 6pm.
SBLUEHERON you heard from Godless Soldier? I keep looking on his name and wondering where and how is he and :knit:Praying. :banana: he is returning? re 118. Please tell.
Hi Druid. how are the rats? How many animals do you have anyways?
RAGING Granny re 120 :yippee:
Kristapea re 122:yippee:
SBheron re 118 :yippee:
and others :yippee:
re154:
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-PIn4srM6cqhvChpmeJGRmKvJtwk-?cq=1
hey Jim Earl updated his page o’ crap:
http://www.jimearl.com/feelgood.html
Don’t forget to listen to the damn song
Kristapea and Nellie:pup:,
The old female and The Mother of them all, Dharma, is slowly joining her mate. 🙁 so I am giving her super special time. They only live mostly 2 yrs. But is better than being thrown to “pound”.
It is raining here so can’t go out to play but let her Rule inside (Always with me awwwww so Precious, as all her Gems, she gave birth to.)
How many animals? 😮
Danu (hybrid) , 9 ex-strays (although Mister Misty does still MUST Play outside stray too many times, still 6 Ratsl, and 15-20 OUTdoor strays, some fixed now, some not yet, but feed. Grave came by last night (I hadn’t seen him for 2 days, but he was here last night.)
I swear I will get that “Crazy Cat Lady” Action Figure, that I think Farmerkat told me of. Real Neat:!:
Then there is the city Wildlife, since this church just took out their only eating and DRINKING place, thus I feed and water here (next door-ish), even skunks, who now keep tail down for me — but are WILD . Also wild birds, which I sing as feeding that Mary Poppins song, Feed The Birds.
THANKS for asking, since I always wanted to offically count 😮 but much :love: .:tongue:
travisdem_04, I listed to that “damn song”. :rofl2: 😉
hey roxie gave Marc a crazy cat lady action figure
:rofl2::billcat::cat::nuts:
Franken is coming on Scarborough in a sec….this Foley thing is going wild…the breaking news is that Foley, on at least one occasion, showed up drunk at a page’s dorm room and had to be forcibly removed….
Hastert is over….
Gay republicans are about to be outed because its thought that they protected Foley’s behavior….
And the comics are going wild…Keith had such a good show….
I just got home and have so much to do and a headache…but this is all too god.
Wish I oculd get on my blog but my internet is crawling slow…so Im blogging onto word and hope that whatever is wrong, rights itself….
Anti-gay gay republicans…Al wants the repubs to explain to this…their votes are anti gay…
Oh, what a great gift…didnt I send Dru that link way back when?
We should all have our own action figure…
Hey- I love that Jim Earl song…the Lan and Earle Feel Good Show, huh? I really liked Jim;’s songs on Marc’s show. I guess that as he did more co-hositng he did less songs, though I dont know why…they were fab.
PJ, check this out…its a prototype right now, but this looks like its gonna be a very good lil’ player and recorder for all sorts of things…
Melina, was it you:?: I have been looking who sent it :rofl2::banana::yippee::banana::rofl2:, I will be getting it soon, I hope:!: I have it Still on my “bookmarks”:!::parrot::pup::yippee:
Just for info, the reason why I call strays deathly names like Skull, Grave, Graveyard, Tomb, Tombstone, Mystery, and Ghost who is a recently “Adopted” stray, and many more is since they are usually “skin and bones” when they get to me. I am trying to get different behavior from City/County “Hall”. Yeh Right:!:
Oh calls tomorrow, too tired to want to do tonight.:grin: Rats
I love the way I “kill” blogs. :tommygun: :billcat: 🙁
Why:?: :doh:
Yea phobias :slap:
Druid, I hope we can meet in person some day – you strike me as a real pisser.
I think we’ve all felt like we killed the blog. I don’t know how many times I’ve posted something and there’s nothing……………for hours. And I think the same thing.
pjsauter and Kristapea :nod: 😉
I really do feel like we’re all family here. Sometimes squabbling, perhaps a crazy aunt (or uncle) hidden away in the attic, here and there, maybe a goofy kid brother, even a bit dysfunctional (what family isn’t?), but family nonetheless. I would miss this, if it went away.
It’s not going away is it?:paranoid::-(:cry::knit2:
Sure would be cold and unfunny.
:cold:
Dad?:tinfoil:
Hey can we get rid of this?:tommygun:
I was held at gunpoint once…seriously.
I keep getting double trouble today:mad:
sblueheron , Why Sad:?:
Somebody was choppin’ onions on #174.
ugh I need to go fix an omelet. Be back later.:knit:
SBlueHeron, I just tracked back and saw (and will write:nod:) Godless S’s wife :?::!::?:
Regarding Gun, there is a major story. I also (still do) have shot guns. I worked for a PD and SO when younger ALSO I do not believe most mammal hunters have the right to call themselves “hunters” since I LIVED OUT IN WILD for Many Years. … and only 5ft 3and1/2″ I tracked and shot MANY guns, even when attacked ish. I love the gun. …in regarding auto rifles and guns before LAW said ONLY simi-autos. Lets talk and debate, since I SOOOOO understand why one does not “Trust” even police with guns or OTHERS ALSO:!:
But roxie made such a great point (was it this morning?) about having guns to protect our animals…
I just really want my cavorting bananas back. That’s where I go crazy in the head.:tongue::doh::slap:
Mock Hunters even KILLED one of my wolves, because of their petty fear. I even wrote a short story regarding a woman losing a child and how “the murder of a child”, and how when one “ACTS” normally, the Death NEVER Leaves.
There is so much sorrow in this society this day…that might be why I “Keyed” on the Sorrow. I am always fighting and so impatient with “rethugs”. I do what I can but totally disrespect and dare I say HATE the rethugs and anyone voting for this 👿 bush and his 👿 administration.
I think I ‘hushed” (kill) blog again —
NOW to change subject, PJ the “CONTACT (blog) and “Yours” doesn’t like me — it keeps saying ERROR. What wrong did I do now:doh::?:
I will probably rewrite later in night, since you (and The Rage are probably sleeping :yawn: 😉 :hubba:
Tea:joe::!: :oops::wink:
This “family member” is being so bad
:slap::boobs::nana: :spank: :doh:
(but still Best EMOS Ever:!:)
I’m not sure about the error, but you can always e-mail me at my username here (pjsauter) AT the domain name here (morningseditionists) DOT com. I get a lot of spam, but I’ll keep an eye out for your e-mails 😉
PJ 😎 re your #189 How is Sylvester awwww and “the baby tigers” major awwwww? No answer now since you should be snoring 😉
Many HERE have a ZILLION animals :banana::yippee::banana:
And when PJ will you have “broadcasts” and maybe “visitors” on “SHOUT” or oneday maybe I will get a weird and radical station also :pent: :nod: and :omg: :reaper::omg: :eek::wink: – tres :cool:.
I will never have a camera since office has a bazillion papers. 😮
SBHeron, did you do that Yahoo 360 – whatever – thingy:?:
Today is October 5
Check list for Protest:
Got Flag With Black Mourning Tie Flapping In The Breeze,
To Remember The Dead!
Blessings!