So, here we go again – it’s Monday. Way, way too much to do today. On top of that, I have a ton of wood pellets (minus 40 pounds) to move from my van to my basement (I can throw a couple bags over my shoulder and still work the doorknobs and whatnot, but that’s still 25 trips up and down the stairs. Not only do pellets seem to be in stock this year (for now, anyway; knock on, um, wood), but these are “FreedomFuel” pellets, that came in nifty red, white and blue bags. I was wondering if they used to be called “FrenchFuel” or something, but seeing as they came from down cnick’s way (from Nature’s Earth Pellets in Reform Alabama, by golly), prob’ly not. With all the sawmills in Canada and PA, it’s hard to beleive they had to go all the way to Alabama, but these folks are just gettin’ into the pellet bidness, so I reckon they’re willing to sell cheap (not real cheap, unfortunately; damn things have taken a jump over the past few years). Still gotta get the damn car inspected. Already got an extra month out of it – at this point, maybe I’ll just go for two.
Everybody say Happy Birthday to Susan Joy today! :cake:
:pent::banana:Merry Birthday Susan Joy:banana::pent:
:cake: :pent::cool: :pent: 😎 :dancers: :pent::cool: :pent::cool: :cake:
libras galore..
happy bday susan! howdy druid.
also: if anyone out there missed it, sam’s friday show is still available at http://www.am1090seattle.com
marc on in segments 2 & 3 of hour 3.
roxieseattle, tea:joe: cheers :alc: 😉
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:yuck: whatever :sheep: le
Happy :cake: to you …happy :cake: to you happy :cake: to Susan happy :cake: to you :yippee::yippee::dancers::dancers::banana::banana::banana:
good morning sheeple – thank you oh shucks! :pent:
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lunchtime
and coffee for me.
where’s fred?
re #4, with Fred’s Lament now I know we are still “Here” for another day = :cool::yippee::dancers: = more tea:joe: = 😉
Fred is here :joe::joe::joe::shock:
Yesterday evening Fred was in Colorado .. this morning ….:?::?::?:
Scott Ritter was on the Laura Flanders show last night … His comments about the war mongering demodorps obviously got to Laura. :growl::growl::growl::yuck::eek::paranoid::paranoid:
From these local house/senate debates they have on C-span no one running for office this year has a clue :eek::eek::yuck::spank::barf::fustrate::paranoid::tommygun:
In the 6 years of the Bush administation, the number of people in nontraditional arrangements (not marriage) has increased – so all the evanglical bloviating is all for nothing… LOL Mark Riley today.
DeWine falling behind Sherrod Brown… Republican strategy “leave DeWine alone” haha
I wonder if they consider the eight guys and two girls that live down the street a “non traditional arrangement”:eek:
:joe::joe::joe::joe::joe::shock:
I would think so… Bush drives people into communes. Therefore he makes us into commies. Yay.
hehe, I just got this on myspace, this is funny
let’s see if the code works here
I think a lot of younger people find the economy so tenuous that they don’t want to commit to anything long term..Just as soon as they do one of them will have to move to another part of town or even out of state to find a job. Low energy prices allowed some mobility but even at 2.20 a gallon its still prohibitive to commute a long distance.:yuck::paranoid:
ha I guess not
Is this called a blank stare ..?? I’m sitting here staring at your blank spaces.:eek:
well also there are a lot of people who are single because of circumstances, and raising children that way…also people who are opting to adopt kids now without being married (my friend Debbie adopted a little Russian girl, went to Moscow to do it) … said if she finds the right guy to be with, great, but in the meantime she wants a child…interesting choices people make now. But Debbie is a good mother.
I pasted some code but it didn’t translate here for some reason. It’s from one of those “name decoder things” http://sexy.namedecoder.com/
If this was already posted last night forgive me (didn’t check the blog)… this is about Mike Malloy being back on the air soon and a new progressive network forming (got from my space)
http://www.novamradio.com/thankyou.php (EDIT: Changed link.)
Quote:
We the People,
It is with great excitement and optimism that I announce today the formation of a new progressive talk radio network. Myself along with my partners, Anita and Sheldon Drobny; the original cofounders of the Air America Radio Network, want to be the first to tell all you “truth seekers” that the original truth seeker himself Mike Malloy will be born again live on the public airwaves. The planned second coming (barring any apocalypse) is scheduled for October 30, 2006. The Mike Malloy Show will initially broadcast live, from 9PM -12 Midnight (EST) on Nova M Radio affiliates 1480-AM KPHX Phoenix.
In addition, I’m equally excited to announce our strategic partnership with Joe Trippi and associates. Joe Trippi revolutionized electoral politics in America with his instrumental role in Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign, raising over $40 million in small donor contributions over the internet. Joe created a new paradigm in how campaigns locally and nationally are conducted by leveraging the scope and breadth of innovative internet-based technologies and digital tools. Joe and his team will help us reach out to millions of us who share common values and common goals.
Also joining our team will be internationally renowned pollster John Zogby, President and CEO of Zogby International. John will be co-hosting a weekly one hour show, “The Pulse of the Nation” where John polls particular hot button issues from politics and pop culture to the War in Iraq and stem cell research. Each program will include expert guests and audience participation. At the end of each show John will reveal the secret results of the poll and each listener will then know whether or not they have their finger on “The Pulse of the Nation”!
We will continue to build upon the foundation laid by our predecessors and will work tirelessly to fulfill our fiduciary responsibilities to our investors. Equally important, we will with the millions of faithful progressive listeners uphold our vision to promote freedom, social justice, economic justice and peace worldwide.
We have many more exciting announcements to make; new talent, name of new network and so on. So stay tuned and keep up to date at our web site, http://www.novamradio.com ! And as always, from the bottom of my bleeding liberal heart, God Bless America!
In Solidarity,
Mike Newcomb, MD
CEO & Chairman, Nova M Radio, Inc.
ATTENTION XM SUBSCRIBERS….
now that this info is PUBLIC.. here’s the direction to get these shows on XM
email to XM165@aol.com (yes, it’s an AOL address.. you may or may not know, but there is a XM/AOL partnership that streams XM to AOL subs..)
here’s your talking points… (USE THEM ALL PLEASE, EVEN IF YOU’RE NOT 100% BEHIND THEM, IT’S IMPORTANT)
– Mention Nova M several times… very important
– Mike Malloy was AAR’s most popular host and WE WANT HIM BACK ON XM.
– Getting John Zogby for a regular show is a coup that can’t be passed up.
– Dr Mike would be a good national show also.
other VERY IMPORTANT POINTS TO DROP IN (TRUST ME ON THESE…)
– Ed Schultz is split over two channels and tape delayed, we want Big Eddie back LIVE.
– There are a LOT of important voices out there that need a better platform: Stephanie Miller, Bill Press, LIONEL and Jerry Springer (DON’T GIVE ME SHIT ON THIS.. PEOPLE ARE STILL LISTENING TO HIM AND HE’S ALREADY HIGH ON THE ‘ACQUIRE LIST’).
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT POINT TO REPEAT.
– XM Needs a second LEFT channel to compliment AAR, done right, you can make a channel that gets BETTER ratings than AAR).
THINGS NOT TO SAY
DON’T MAKE ANY CLEAR CHANNEL BASHES, to get these shows up and on the air FAST, they will need some of the bandwidth CC holds (by litigation).. I don’t say you need to say anything NICE about CLEAR CHANNEL, just DON’T MENTION IT.
DON’T DO ANY AAR BASHING.. and I mean NONE. Competition comparisions, yes, but NOT BASHING, that includes slinging any shit (no matter how well deserved) about Morning Sedition, Malloy or Maron. NONE! GOT IT? Doing so will hurt chances of getting them on the air.
SIRIUS PEOPLE: Go for it also… good luck… you may need it..
—
The Opportunity
Nova M Radio, Inc. is in the business of radio. In 2003, partners in our group; Anita and Sheldon Drobny, were the original co-founders and driving force which helped to give birth to the Air America Radio Network, the nation’s first full time programming source of progressive talk radio. Both are widely known as the founding father and mother of Air America Radio. Sheldon and Anita have now joined forces with another visionary and entrepreneur Dr. Mike Newcomb, a physician who cares for the frail elderly and poor. “Dr. Mike” is a radio talk-show host who pioneered liberal talk radio in Arizona. He’s a former Governor candidate who believes passionately in progressive values.
As of this writing, over 6 million listeners tune into progressive talk radio on a regular basis. This phenomenal growth has surpassed the expectations of many industry analysts.
On the heels of this rapid growth, there exists an incredible opportunity to grow affiliates and listenership. Gabe Hobbs, Clear Channel Vice president of programming, is bullish on his company’s plans to convert more stations to the liberal talk roster: “Intellectually I don’t think you can argue against the niche. There’s a theoretical hole big enough to drive a truck through…So far our batting average is pretty high. I see no reason to slow down or stop at all.” Indeed, according to a recent study, on a weekly basis, well over 40,000 hours of conservative content is aired nationwide while only 3,000 per week is progressive in nature.
Nova M Radio, Inc. has been created to lease and/or purchase, own and operate radio stations across America. Nova M Radio is also developing a national network of talk-show hosts who will be featured on Nova M Radio, Inc. affiliates as well as other affiliates throughout the nation.
Nova M Radio Inc.’s stable of broadcast talent includes award winning hosts Mike Malloy, Mike “Doc” Newcomb, and Peter B. Collins. Internationally recognized pollster John Zogby will also be featured on our network with his new show “The Pulse of the Nation” where Zogby polls the nation on the controversial issues facing America and the world and releases the poll results live on the air.
Nova M Radio is seeking partners to capitalize on this business opportunity to own, operate and broadcast progressive content from a conglomerate of stations in markets across America.
Nova M Radio commenced operations in Phoenix, AZ the nation’s 5th largest city and 15th largest radio market on April 3, 2006.
In May 2006 Nova M Radio Inc. entered into a lease management agreement (LMA) with a radio station in Little Rock, AK.
If you are interested in participating in this exciting and unique business opportunity as an investor please contact Mike Newcomb at:
602-257-1351 (Office)
E-mail: mnewcomb@aaphx.com
Nova M Radio Inc
824 E Washington
Phoenix, AZ 85034
hmm, that stuff at the end is weirding me out “No AA or Morning Sedition bashing? Why would Malloy fans bash MS – was there a competition?
excellent news
re mike. I sent an
e-mail to nova m several months ago, asking about minimum investment options but I never heard back. I’ll try again and write xm & sirius too.
Nova M sounds like it might give the “real left” a better voice. Owning their own stations is going to be expensive .. I guess as long as they stream their programs they can reach a much larger audience.
Happy birthday Susan!!!
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thanks Kevin!
I think this is an exciting and interesting time for liberal talk radio. Malloy is surfacing and Maron will eventually too. When there is a need and desire (which there obviously is) opportunities will present themselves and these voices will be heard. I’m optimistic.
Was that a joke? Joe Trippi? Zogby?
So every dipshit who has bludgeoned the Dems into irrelevancy and given us this Stormtrooper government, they’re going to be in charge of our radio entertainment? Can’t wait.
Hey I got it: a radio show featuring tap-dancing hosted by John Kerry.
But make sure you don’t mention Maron or Morning Sedition. I slipped up and mentioned the war once, but i think i got away with it. :sammy:
Every time C-span has a rethug only call in the only thing that comes to mind is
Dear Mr Putin please hurry up and blow the SBR off the face of the earth and relieved us of this plague.
:yuck::paranoid:
Hey everyone…
Crest- who would you like to see running this left radio station?
Im troubled that one of the talking points promotes Ed Schultz…and why not ask them to offer the Marc Maron show so that he can get some funding to hire Jim and broadcast out of his garage…?
I dont think that one network or station or whatever is the new voice of the left. Mom keeps reminding me of the old days when I was growing up when most cities were full of liberal stations….there was a choice and everything wasnt run by a big corporation…….
So, more power to em.
I like Zogby, I like Trippi (at least he realizes our power out here in internet land)…Drobny? Its unclear what part of the management problem he had at AAR, but he wrote me a couple of times that he was not in charge of programming. If he was in charge of money I suppose its just as bad.
I just dont see how anyone stood by and allowed the stupid programming changes to happen without giving some advice…and also I cant imagine that the money people just stood by while things went in the crapper….but, oh well…..upwards and onwards…
Its probably going to have to be alot of smaller voices rather than one large voice…and that might be safer because one large voice can be influenced, shifted and bought…
Its good news and another outlet for us.
:omg:Saint of the Day:omg:
Blessed Gerald of Clairvaux OSB Cistercian Abbot (AC)
Born in Lombardy, Italy; died 1177. Gerald was professed at the Cistercian monastery of Fossanuova in the Roman Campagna, and eventually was chosen abbot. In 1170, he was promoted to the abbacy of Clairvaux. Gerald was killed by an unruly monk while on a canonical visitation to Igny.
:priest:
none of these guys die natural deaths… :priest::reaper:
you gotta put your life on the line i guess…..
How did Scott Ritter’s comments on the demodorps get to Laura Flanders. fred?
yes, I agree. I don’t think a Saint’s life is for me :hot:
Hey, this s ounds like good news to me. Joe Trippi understands how the Internet works, which is something that AAR never quite figured out, or paid much attention to. There’s a ton of potential for both exposure, and even revenue generation, if they aren’t stupid. I don’t know as anyone would have even heard of Howard Dean had it not been for Joe Trippi. Zogby providing “fun” polls doesn’t exctly put him in charge of programming. His polls are somtimes a bit off, but he’s from Utica, so what the hell. Maybe that means we’ll get an affilliate up here sooner rather than later.
I don’t much care for Schultz and Springer, but then I don’t have to listen to them, either. And if it’s the only “liberal” exposure some people are gonna get, well, they’re a wee bit better than Hannity and Limbaugh.
Mike Newcomb not only ran the Phoenix station well, but also managed to pull it out of the ashes and build it back up again (how appropos of the Phoenix). His being on baord sounds like a good thing to me.
As far as not “bashing” AAR (even for being so stupid as to dump Maron, Malloy, and MS), I think the point is not to say how much liberal radio sucks, but to say that it’s so goddamn good we need more of it. Which, of course, we do. And it needs to be properly promoted, and run. I mean, look how well AAR did with a bunch of fucking idiots running it.
Sheldon and Anita Drobny seem to be good, actual lefty, people, who want to support liberal radio, and hopefully Nova M will be all the things that it seemed to promise when it first went on the air.
I heard Scott Ritter say that the “demodorps” have yet to denounce the war as illegal and based on lies. Only that Bush has done a lousy job of conducting it. Why would that ‘get to” Laura Flanders. Truth be told, she is very left of center.
Religion loves the gory, horrible stories. Especially the Catholics. I guess it’s a good way to tell you not to piss and moan about how tough you’ve got it.
Who is this guy talking about “bringing Big Eddie back live”? Is he out of Phoenix?
:omg:
As far as not “bashing” AAR (even for being so stupid as to dump Maron, Malloy, and MS), I think the point is not to say how much liberal radio sucks, but to say that it’s so goddamn good we need more of it. Which, of course, we do. And it needs to be properly promoted, and run. I mean, look how well AAR did with a bunch of fucking idiots running it.
Those are good talking points (even the “Fucking idiots” part) We need to spread more of the positive. Stress the positive. Too many people on the left and right telling us the bad. At least Malloy isn’t trashing anyone and is telling others not to.
yeah, no wonder most religious stories also have the potential to be horror flicks… (and many horror flicks are based on religious themes). Guess the people who sell religion to the masses know that entertainment value is needed
Hey, Young Turks aren’t on. Wha’s up with that? 😕
Happy Appy Birthday Susan Joy! :cake::gate::40:
I’m listening to them right now…well, the show is ending…on the AA stream on iTunes
good morning Krista :joe:
:yippee: thanks :parrot:
The Goddam Oregonian newspaper is endorsing Creep Saxton for Governor. Typical behavior.
Saxton = Repug? Or republican in dem’s clothing?
Dr. Mike is talking about it now. http://www.1480kphx.com/
Saxton is a Repig. A real creepy capitalist pig.
:fu:
Dr. Mike and the Drobney’s wanted to take over AAR instead of letting it go into bankruptcy.
Hey, Bobcat is gonna be on. He’s from here. He and Tom Kenny used to be Bobcat and Tomcat. Maybe Sammy will get him to endorse Dan Maffei in the NY-25th.
But the board didn’t want to do that at the last minute. Dr. Mike is dubious about the current management of AAR. As is everyone here.:roll:
This show is not going away.
And, as far as I know, Air
America is not going away,
either.
Tyger Thom
I don’t expect it to go away actually… I agree with Thom Hartmann on this one
Hartmann is talking about the endorsement. People are cancelling their subscriptions to the paper. It was the first time since 1982 that the Oregonian has endorsed a Republican for governor. Oregon has had some fine Republican governors. Saxton is a strident, rightwing fuck. He reminds me of Gingrich.
I think Dr. Mike, along with Jeff Farias have a great vision of what liberal talk should be. I’m not the biggest fan of Dr. Mike’s show but Jeff subs a lot while he’s being a doctor or a station manager and is doing a great job of building a solid liberal network. Dr. Mike just said that more will be unfolding this week. I’ve sent info and links to Maron about NovaM at least a couple of times so maybe he followed up on it. If we’re to get Marc back on the air, NovaM is the best chance, I think. :yippee:
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Dr. Mike is taking calls about AAR’s bankruptcy. Call now. 800-989-1480
It would be great if Nova M got a deal with XM or Sirius. My equipment is ready to be activated.
Damn, now I sound like a Republican IM’ing a page.
I agree with Hartmann on a lot of things. And I disagree on some. His show replaced Morning Sedition on KPOJ. Not the right foot to start on. He is a community asset.
If we’re to get Marc back on the air, NovaM is the best chance, I think. :yippee:
That would rock!!! Just what I was thinking when I read the announcement
You know, Jeff Farias started a library at the station where you can check out dvd’s like 911 Mysteries, Loose Change, Outfoxed etc. :fist:
He does have good points and bad points. At nine o’clock I find myself switching between Sam Seder and Thom Hartmann and now isn’t Jerry Springer on too? Yowza…
Young Turks say that Jim Webb has caught up with Allen in Virginia senate race. Use the form on the right to send Webb some $$$$$$$$$!
:omg:
…and Steph, too.
:omg: You now have options, babe.
wooo! George Allen is soooo going down :jason:
Dr. Mike is gonna lay out what NovaM is going to do tomorrow in light of AAR’s bankruptcy. I wish I had dough to invest.
Almost all the AAR affiliate stations have their own programming on from 8 or 9 am EDT until Franken comes on. Most of them have streaming too.
Dr. Mike, after seeing the inner workings of AAR, doesn’t have much confidence in the management there. He says they’ve kept on people who were making bad choices before the bankruptcy.
:paranoid:loose change:paranoid:
hey Sean…
Yeah, Fred, you’re right about these affiliates doing their own thing in the morning (NY’s WWRL is a bad example of that). In general that kind of variety is interesting since most of them are streaming and can be accessed. This Phoenix station sounds interesting as well.
In Ritters conversation with Flanders yesterday he said that most of the main stream dems were supporting the Bush admins invasion of Iraq because they see the need to secure a continued oil supply.. When she asked him about what was going to happen with Iran he thought that even if dems took over congress they would do little to keep Bush from attacking Iran and probably Venezuela.. she quit laughing..:gate::omg::jason:
http://www.webbforsenate.com
It is up to us to pressure congress to keep Bush from his planned invasion of Iran.
I wonder if some of these Dems are secretly members of the PNAC… they sure act that way…
Has anyone seen Kat at all?
No, and I was just saying to Chris that we haven’t seen her in a while. I hope all is well with her and Mike and the kid.
With these high oil prices you can be assured that the oil companies are pumping their domestic supplies as fast as they can and we are still importing 70% of our oil. Bushes stupidity has now gotten almost all the people sitting on top of the worlds known reserves ticked off at us or laughing at us. The only way they can control China’s economic growth is by restricting its energy supply ( or so they think) . The Chinese are graduating more technocrats every year than we did in the last 10 years. They will figure out how to go green then cut our nuts off. :eek::eek:
Wern’t Kat and Mr on a road trip to the left coast .??.They went to see Maron in LA a week or so ago.
I was just looking at some stats the other day, and the US (not surprisingly) is #1 in the world (in total dollars) in defense spending, at about $370 billion a year. #2 is China – at a mere $60 billion a year. The US can manage that right now, because it “only” amount to about 3.3% of its GDP. You have to wonder how long that go on, and what happens after that.
The US and China are on a collision course over Iran. Ritter pointed out that China has a lot of contracts with Iran to provide oil and natural gas. he also pointed out that per capita Iran has the largest number of techo PHD’s in the middle east .. Iran is not another Iraq and a major Iranian customer holds 30% of our national debt.:eek::eek::eek:
Somehow, I don’t think even the bushies are dumb enough to do more than sabre rattle over Iran. Maybe Israel will be our surrogates in this, but there just isn’t a scenario that isn’t horrific, and I think they know this. I also think Ritter is incorrect, and not only will the Democrats prevent Bush from doing anything in Iran, but I don’t think the Republicans will continue to be bullied by this lame duck and obiously incompetent bunch.
Then again, maybe I give them all too much credit for common sense. But a full-blown war with Iran would be very bad for bidness, and bidness rules all.
It seems to me that congress with its vast number of lobbyist lunches and cocktail parties gets most of its research done by think tanks which also have to go to lunches and cocktail parties so they extract pertinent information from the area behind the their left ear or out of their a* and feed that to congress as facts. One of these days that procedure is going to catch up with them :gate::omg:
:rant1:damn conservative-elitists and their cocktail parties! ugh
:shock:i think they do cheese and wine too
You guys might not want to hear this, but militarily, we could take out Iran, or North Korea, or even both nearly simultaneously. Even with the stress of Iraq, our military has such overwhelming “stand off” firepower and other technical means that we could neutralize just about any one or three conventional (ie no nuclear ICBM’s) miltary powers in the world with minimal casualties to ourselves. (Although there is little doubt the PDRK set off a small (1-5kt) nuke, it’s almost certainly not weaponized on missles yet.)
But then what? That’s the question that was never asked about Iraq. We don’t have the forces, allies, or willpower to occupy and run things afterwards.
I suspect the “what next” question would not be asked about Iran and if it were would be answered with a similar delusional answer to that given in Iraq. In fact, if you are a neocon, you could make the argument that taking out Iran would suddenly make the Middle East much better. After all, Iraq would have been a free market democratic paradise by now if those Iranians hadn’t been interfering. Iran props up Syria, funds terrorists that attack Our Only Middle East Ally Israel ™. And besides, they would bet that the Iranian People would greet our attack as a liberation and party in the streets. So the sale to the American Sheeple would be that the only way out of Iraq is through Iran.
The problem with the current administration is that just because a thing is possible from a tactical or operational military standpoint doesn’t mean it’s a good idea from a strategic military or foreign policy standpoint. Our military power far exceeds our wisdom to use it rationally.
:doh:if only they drove volvos then maybe we could get them out of office
:pup:bobcat? doesnt sound like bobcat?
Im noticing a ton more polling calls…if that information is being figured into the think tanks then maybe they are opening their eyes…because they may be going to get a big surprise as even the bottom of the barrel wakes up in some way….it may not be much, but at least a little…at least something on the record to show that we werent behind this behavior….
sweet it is bobcat!
I agree Meth, but also we would most definitley have to have a draft and make some sacrifice at home…..and I think that THAT is the thing that would bring Americans into the streets…..maybe thus we would find the real use for the holding prisons being built for immigrants or in case of natural disaster…….maybe thats why they are getting all of these laws in place that cut habeus corpus etc….its not about war prisoners but really directed at us if they have to continue…
Im not worried that they can hurt us as much as that they can attack eachother and that a sring of relatively minor wars will destabilize the world…..people will suffer horribly…
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Happy Birthday!!
You wanna mess with these guys?
Kronya Polla (many years) to Susan and any other Birthday Folks!
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We’re tough to reach, here in the USA. But what happens to Japan and South Korea if we decided to hammer North Korea? How many people do we have to kill to make sure we “knock ’em out?” Do we invade and occupy? How many troops will that require? Is China OK with that? How much is all of that gonna cost?
What happens to the flow of oil if we flat out open up on Iran? Again, how many people do we have to kill? What happens to our guys and gals in Iraq? What about the supposed global network of terrorists that Iran controls?
It’s not that we don’t have the military power to wreak a lot of havoc and kill a lot of people. It’s just, how stupid would our gubberment have to be to go for it?
PJ said “you want to mess with these guys?”
My Military Analyst side says “Sure – I had a good breakfast, and a GBU-43 beats few thousand hungry guys with AK-47’s and artillery any day.
My Foreign Policy Analyst side says “Why? Despite the bluster they really aren’t much of a threat to us. A conflict could hurt our allies. We can isolate them and work for peaceful regieme change.”
My Humanitarian side says “I feel sorry for those guys.”.
PJ – unfortunately, pretty stupid.
Oh boy, another 1 million strong army that will collapse as soon as they see the inside of a Seoul supermarket. Seems like we’ve heard about these mighty armies before, but they need stuff like spare parts, gasoline and food, and the Dear Leader can’t feed it if China says no. They’re the fourth largest army; iraq was number 5.
As for “You bet your Bippy” Trippy and his would-be radio pals, if this gets Maron back on the air, I’ll send him money with a smile, just as i did to those bloodsuckers at AAR. [by the way, if he’s signing up with the progressive side, why believe Zogby polls anymore?] Somehow, I don’t think a new Maron show is going to happen, and with that one exception, what’s the point to reviving old-time radio with left-wing ranters, when its cable and the internet that are much more important. For chrissake, we got keith olberman, jon stewart and colbert, and chris matthews on his good hair days. That’s it. Nothing that’s really a news show, unless you count BBC [I don’t]. Why aren’t we doing something about that? Even so called ‘balanced’ networks like cspan are ridiculously slanted to the right: google ‘american enterprise institute’ on the cspan site, but first bundle your monitor with towels to cushion the explosion. What a load of fakery that network is, and its the only one that progressives like alterman even have a chance of getting on. The Lehrer News hour — the best of the bunch — is also a right wing stronghold, except for flunky Mark Shields. Seems like the Trippi family has their priorities scewed.:sammy:
Hey guys, I haven’t been able to listen in (no streaming at my new job), or read anything besides a couple headlines about the Chapter 11. As stupid as the management has been, we do need an Air America around. Is anyone buying the Premium service again? Buying swag? As much as I’d like to stream Nova M, their website wasn’t very informative.
Is Godless anywhere in here?
Also, I picked up this little gem off the AP: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Street-Preachers.html Have fun with it
I have to confess, I don’t know a hell of a lot about Joe Trippi, so if you could point me in the direction of what makes him such a scumbag, I’d like to check it out. I know he’s worked for a bunch of Democratic campaigns (Ted Kennedy, Walter Mondale, Dick Gephardt, and of course Howard Dean), and he worked for the media company Doak Shrum (they did media for Jerry Baliles, Bob Casey, Alan Cranston, and Tom Bradley).
Whatever else he is, he was the first person (AFAIK) to use the Internet to solicit small contributions for Dean for America.
As for Zogby, I’m sure anybody can commission his firm to do polls. That’s what they do. Believing the results or not is more a function of accurate they turn out to be – and his polling has been a bit off, as of late.
Alright, damnit, I’m convinced. Let’s invade and occupy North Korea, Iran, and, what the hell, Venezuela, too. As long as that military mastermind Don Rumsfeld is in charge of things.
thank you Melina :parrot::parrot::parrot:
(taking brief break between work and more work)
If anybody’s interested in watching the Lamont-Lieberman debate at 1:00 Eastern time, it’s supposed to be webcast live at NBC30.com and CSPAN.
Just turned on the debate…schlesinger is a goo goo clown…but he sounds pretty democratic….
Joementum wants to go back to the theories of the Clinton administration…pago…or pay as you go….
And Ned is very self assured and seeming intelligent with good points…
Joe is trying to attach to Clinton or anyone…grasping…tho he may still win.
I wonder if real repubs and conservatives can vote for him….doubtful because he is trying hard to sound like a Dem…and Schlesinger is attacking JOe….who is trying to take HIS votes….
I like Schlesinger….he is bozolicious…..just bopping along and saying Joe is lying…its a gang bang….Ned and Alan against JOementum….everyone is pretty damned liberal and realistic….
Joe is lying as far as I can tell so far….Its probably not all lies…
But Alan says to go to the GAO web site to see the truth about financial armegeddon around the corner because there are bonds that will come due in 30 years that have no back up….Joe says thats a lie…
I will have to look.
Joe is just so disgusting – he’s hard to watch. Schlesinger is at least animated, and kinda fun to watch when he gets all wound up.
Alan is a Wall man!! He wants to send the illegals back!! How will we do that Alan?
ah, Legislation….that works….
Oh, starting out in a middleclass family is coming from “nothing.”
Well the only way the SBR could take out a conventional military power without very expensive looses ( B2’s are over a billion each) , an aircraft carrier probably 700 million and the 40 aircraft 200 million each , not to mention the 4000 navy personnel on one) would be with nuclear weapons. Using a nuke on someone is an invitation for someone else to use one on you. How do we know what is lurking in one of those Sea Land containers in the rail yard or parked in a vacant lot in in NYC, LA, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Detroit, Billinngs, Houston and who knows where else. 100,000 containers inspected at the point of origin are delivered to American ports each day, unloaded and shipped out by rail. If only one in a million are loaded they have had five to six years to deliver what ever they need. The B2’s take off , and in ten minutes a radio signal that appears to be transmitting a garage door opener signal is detected and the place resembles the surface of the sun for a couple of seconds. :bf:
Lamont :banana: :yippee:
the rest on C-Span1 :barf:
Poor Joey’s all outta time.
Schlesinger is fun….Lamont is really great…Joementum is a creepy little guy…
C’mon you CT Republicans, vote for big Al.
really funny, huh?
too bad that the repugs have been so bad to Alan…he is a good candidate…except for the gambling problem…
hey, screw Ned, I want Alan!!
Oops. I accidentally killed the stream before Droopy Dog’s last statement.
:cake: A very happy birthday, Susan, and many more.
Birdlovers, I need some advice. The monk parakeets that I have been seeing here in Brooklyn are probably living near-by. Apparently they do not wander farm from their colony. During the winter they depend on people to feed them. I’d like to do just that. Is there anything I should do that will let attract them to the food?
A Power-Grid Report Suggests Some Dark Days Ahead
Companies are not building power plants and power lines fast enough to meet growing demand, according to a group recently assigned by the federal government to assure proper operation of the power grid.
The group, the North American Electric Reliability Council, in its annual report, to be released Monday, said the amount of power that could be generated or transmitted would drop below the target levels meant to ensure reliability on peak days in Texas, New England, the Mid-Atlantic area and the Midwest during the next two to three years.
The council was established in 1965 after a blackout across the Northeast, and has since set voluntary standards for the industry. After the blackout of 2003, which covered a vast swath of the Midwest, Northeast and Ontario, Congress set up a process that would eventually give the council the authority to fine American companies that did not follow certain operating standards. It is seeking a similar designation in Canada, since — electrically speaking — the border is irrelevant.
For years, the council has produced often-gloomy annual reports, but this is the first to be officially filed with federal agencies, and to recommend specific action.
The report says, for example, that utilities should be encouraged to pursue financial incentives for customers to cut use during peak hours, thereby lowering demand for new power plants and transmission lines. Financial incentives could reward customers’ installation of more efficient equipment or, more drastically, reward a factory for closing on a day when electricity supplies are expected to be tight.
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Isn’t capitalism wonderful :bf:
World’s Largest Carbon Sequestration Project Approved
by Jack Rosebro
Marking the removal of the final bureaucratic barrier to the construction of the world’s largest full-scale CO2 capture-and-storage (CCS) facility, Norway’s Ministry of the Environment has issued a carbon dioxide emission permit to Norwegian energy company Statoil ASA in conjunction with its planned co-generation plant in Mongstad.
Statoil is taking a phased approach to the project. The initial carbon capture capacity will be about 100,000 tonnes per year starting in 2010, and Statoil will decide in 2012 whether or not to invest in a larger capture facility for Phase 2. If realized, Phase 2 would be fully operational by the end of 2014 with a capacity of more than 1.3 million tonnes of CO2 per year—the world’s largest CCS project of its kind.
Statoil plans to test several technological solutions will be tested in parallel in the first phase of the project with an eye to developing solutions of “broad international relevance and not…project-specific to Norway.”
A technology company responsible for various aspects of the further development of the carbon capture technology is to be set up at Mongstad. The government will invite interested parties to consider part ownership, while Statoil will assume 20% per cent ownership from the start.
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It will never work… no money to be made here ..:bf:
I have never seen this carbon dioxide capture thing explained very well.. So after they pump it into the ground what happens then.. do they have the slightest idea ??:eek:
SueP I think if you see the birds in your yard that if you just put the seed out on the ground or put it in a feeder they will find it and communicate that to the colony.. It works for sparrows.
Federal agents raided the home of the daughter of U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon (R., Pa.) and his longtime friend Charlie Sexton this morning.
The agents departed Karen Weldon’s three-story brick home on Queen Street in Philadelphia with arms loaded with boxes.
A government car pulled into the alley to the back door of the house and loaded boxes into it. Three agents standing in an alley declined to identify themselves.
“I can confirm that we conducted a number of searches regarding an ongoing investigation,” said FBI agent Jerri Williams, a spokeswoman in Philadelphia. “Details regarding those investigation cannot be provided because the accompanying affidavit is sealed.”
In Delaware County, FBI agents had blocked off Kelli Lane leading to Charles P. Sexton Jr.’s Springfield house, and were removing at least one box and a bag of material from his home late this morning. Sexton, a long time ally of Weldon and a power in Delaware County GOP politics for more than three decades, is a business associate of Weldon’s daughter.
The raids came three days after news broke that the FBI is investigating whether the Delaware County congressman used his influence to help his daughter, a registered lobbyist, win consulting contracts.
At an event earlier today at Philadelphia International Airport to discuss airport noise, Weldon said the investigation is politically motivated – blaming a complaint filed by Melanie Sloan, director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
“She is the only one I know of who went to the Justice Department and asked for an investigation,” Weldon said. “I know that because I have her letter.”
He added, “I haven’t helped get my daughter anything.”
Weldon, who is involved in a tight race for re-election, has said he has done nothing wrong.
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They never do anything wrong ..they keep saying that over and over all the way to super max.:bf:
to quote travis, check it…..I love this blog….
Paramilitary attacks continue in Oaxaca
In the past week, gunmen have killed one and wounded four protesters from the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO). The recent killings heightened tensions as the conflict again enters into a critical moment with the Minister of the Interior threatening to withdraw the federal government’s settlement offer if teachers do not end their strike by Monday, October 16.
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Just a repeat of Negroponte in action a little farther south 24 years ago.:bf:
Are the Dems looking at this election like the U.S. refusing to believe in the total collapse of the Soviet Union until the Berlin Wall came down? Granted, they need at least a 7% advantage to win seats [dailyhowler.com] but this sure smells like a melt-down, doesn’t it?
If you’re Bush and Rove, and you ain’t got nothin’, what do you do? you leak that you’re going to have an october surprise, to scare the opposition, and then act like its all in the bag, to keep them off-balance. Once you start looking like you’re panicking, its all over, and the rush for the exits starts. Its like Hitler refusing to let his army retreat from Stalingrad, even though it lost him hundreds of thousands of soldiers; the alternative was a retreat and a total collapse of the front. These guys know their Nazis.
Trippi worked for Shrum? Really? What else do you want to talk about? :sammy:
Oops, my bad. Don’t see anything about Trippi and Shrum.Don’t know where i got that from.
Wikipedia says he did work closely with John Sasso, who helped run the incredibly bad Doukakis campaign [and oddly, for Gerry Studds] – All besides the point, i suppose. :sammy:
America’s Dumbest Congressmen
Radar ranks the 10 biggest fools on the Hill
By Holly Martins
Congress, as any CSPAN viewer can attest, has never been a bastion of intelligence. As far back as a century ago, Samuel Johnson was demeaning the nation’s legislators as a “circus of rogues and fools.” But when it comes to sheer stupidity, the men and women of the 109th have distinguished themselves as a breed apart.
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Boxer, McKinney and Kennedy made the list :spank:all the rest had an (R) after their name.:yuck::yuck:
A Punk-Rock Institution Closes Its Doors
Just after 1 a.m. on Monday morning, the last notes of live music rang from the stage of CBGB & OMFUG, the Bowery club where punk-rock invented itself. Patti Smith finished the club’s final concert with her ballad “Elegie,” growing teary-eyed as she read a list of dead punk-rock musicians and advocates. But just before it, she had worked up a galvanizing crescendo — from poetry recitation to rock song to guitar-charged incantation — in a medley of “Horses” and “Gloria,” proclaiming with a triumphant rasp, “Jesus died for somebody’s sins/But not for CBGB’s.”
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:omg:
Trippi worked for Doak, Shrum and associates, yes. They were a media firm that produced some pretty crappy political ads. They haven’t been around in about a decade, though. Bob Shrum had some success in House and Senate races, but is known as a “curse” in presidential elections (Gephardt, Kerrey, Dukakis, Kerry, Gore). He’s also in with Carville and Democracy Corps.
Just after 1 a.m. on Monday morning, the last notes of live music rang from the stage of CBGB & OMFUG, the Bowery club where punk-rock invented itself. Patti Smith finished the club’s final concert with her ballad “Elegie,” growing teary-eyed as she read a list of dead punk-rock musicians and advocates. But just before it, she had worked up a galvanizing crescendo — from poetry recitation to rock song to guitar-charged incantation — in a medley of “Horses” and “Gloria,” proclaiming with a triumphant rasp, “Jesus died for somebody’s sins/But not for CBGB’s.”
http://tinyurl.com/y642e5
I am sooooo messed up about this place closing…
you know the Village has been losing its character in recent years…this is beyond sad.
fred – I just don’t buy the pessimestic versions of conventional conflicts with Iran or the PDRK – and what should scare you is that neither do the folks in the administration. We would easily get 500 to one or better kill ratios in a straight-up conventional conflict. We held back quite a bit in OIF because we didn’t want “highway of death” type pictures like what started to happen at the end of Desert Storm. Not to be overconfident, we really are a hyper-power when it comes conventional (and nuclear for that matter) forces – we wouldn’t have to go nuclear to annihilate either Iran or North Korea’s military.
But of course that’s not the whole problem – we’d be left with some pretty big messes. Korea is by far the more manageable of the two since I doubt China or Russia would get in to it to help Kim, and there are really no huge global political issues (and we stick what’s left of South Korea with the cleanup). Iran is another order of magnitude: sure, we win the short “conventional” war but are stuck with another asymetric conflict at least 10x worse than Iraq and have really inflamed the Islamic world. Pakistan goes radical, and your container scenario starts to look like prophesy.
Just to be clear: I don’t think either one is a good idea. But most (not all, but most) military folks would probably say “sure, we could do it” if asked. They would also (as with OIF) ask “what’s the post-military plan”, and that’s where as with Iraq what is “doable” is also “idiotic”.
Depressing stuff. 🙁 gonna go play with the cats now . . . :cat:
OK, 2,000 pounds of wood pellets moved. :hot: Funny how warm it feels all of a sudden.
Hauling A$$ around Vermont today..Bristol, Middlebury…now at B&N in Burlington.
Happy Birthday Susan Joy:cake::cake::dancers::dancers::banana:
Speaking of CBGB’s, anyone read Richard Hell’s op-ed “Rock-n-Roll High School” in Saturday’s New York Times?
:omg:
Goddam Jehosaphat Bystanders woke me up from a sound sleep. Did get a few pamphlets with interesting Halloween stories and some terrific images of 7-headed monsters with 10 horns and a harlot astride.
:priest:
Polish workers had long before the war grasped the class aspect of anti-Semitism, the power-tool of the native bourgeoisie, and during the war they redoubled their efforts to fight anti-Semitism … There were only limited possibilities for workers to hide Jews in their homes. Overcrowding in the flats was the greatest obstacle to taking in Jews. In spite of this, many Jews did find shelter in the flats of workers … It must be stressed that in general Jews dream of getting into the homes of workers, because this guarantees them against blackmail or exploitation by their hosts.
:sdavid::rabbi:
:jesus:
No, I’m going to read the times when I get home, that sounds interesting. I have to go back in about a half hour. They have a cake for me!
I wish my grandfather was still alive to tell me what living in Poland was like for him ..
The Nazis and their quislings really heated things up during the occupation. There is a lot to it though, more than you get from standard propaganda. like the NYT and others. These sources make it seem like the partisans in the Polish underground were as bad as the Nazis when it came to the Jews.
While reading Saturday’s NYT, check out Salsitz’s obituary on A-11.
there’s obviously a lot to the story. I’ll have to dig deep to find out the whole story, and you seem to have some pieces of it.
Did you like the artwork I sent?
I’ll be back in a little while.
Read Lenni Brenner’s Zionism in the Age of Dictators, for a start.
In the early 1920s the Polish Jewish community amounted to 2,846,000 –10.5 per cent of the population. It was far from politically homogeneous. On the far left were the Communists (KPP). Although the proportion of Jews in the KPP was always greater than 10.5 per cent, the Communists were never a significant proportion of the Jewish population. Although the PPS had always welcomed Jews into its ranks, it was imbued with Polish nationalism and was hostile to Yiddish; as a result the post-war PPS had little Jewish following. Instead the largest left-wing force among the Jews were the Yiddishists of the Bund, whose Polish section had survived its defeat in the Soviet Union, but they were still a distinct minority in the larger community. In the 1922 elections for the Polish Parliament (Sejm) they received only a fraction over 87,000 votes and were unable to win a single seat. On the right stood Agudas Yisrael, the party of traditional orthodoxy, with approximately one-third of the community loosely behind it. Its members took the position that the Talmud required loyalty to any Gentile regime that did not interfere with the Jewish religion. With their passive conservatism they could have no influence on any of the more educated elements who sought an activist solution to anti-Semitism. A small following, primarily intellectuals, followed the Folkists, a group of Diaspora Yiddish nationalists. All of these elements, though each for different reasons, were anti-Zionist.
BRENNER
Here’s a nice little write-up about the debate today from Paul Bass at the New Haven Independent. Everybody seems to agree that Schlesinger was the star (Bass says Schelsinger wsa channelling Crazy Eddie). Some of the comments are pretty good, too.
I don’t have much of a problem fighting a war with the PDRK .. The South Koreans would just be the ones destroyed by an immense artillery bombardment from the north during the first two days or so. Your GBU-43 would destroy the artillery batteries as well as all of Seoul. and kill 17,000 US troops. Intel, US steel and a lot of other US corporate free loaders would be pissed.:yuck::paranoid::paranoid:
Help Save South India’s last significant Herds of Wild Elephants:
http://www.counterpunch.org/lee10162006.html
So. Did Schlessinger’s performance help Lamont? Is a vote for Schlessie a vote for Ned? Or is a vote…
:omg:
Nick- Thanks for the excellent editing….I know what you cut out!!:omg::omg::omg:
You actually made me sound coherent!!
You have an editing talent too!
What happened to those detention centers in the southwest….remember them? It wasnt that long ago because the excuses were about emergency evacuation and illegal immigration.
Hey everyone! Special shout out to Susan Joy! Happy, Happy Birthday! Did you get skype yet? Did someone buy you a headset for your birthday present perhaps?
FYI. I have portions of Melina’s conversation with me on today’s podcast.
Its wet and cool here in Birmingham . . . Oh well I’ll be around if anyone wants to chat here on the blog.
Hey Melina . . .
Yes, I have your comments about those detention camps on the podcast. Fred must listen to this one.
Schlessinger may be colorful, but look at his positions on issues. Flag burning amendment, Social security tied to real estate racket….:omg: Oh, who cares! A vote for Schless is a Republican vote thaat Joe won’t get. Young Turks said that %35 of CT Democrats support Lieberman.
Nicki, I think Schlessinger was great and that they were both on Joementum….but its al up for grabs, who knows what is gonna happen.
I feel certain that we cant rely on old fashioned polling anymore because information flies in so many different ways and many people here in New England just dont want to talk about it….They already are a little uptighty and liberal-straight, so when you call them to poll, its hard to get info….people dont want to say…and they dont want ot be pinned down.
Im convinced that that is why Zogby has been off lately.
I dont think that people tell the truth anymore…they feel pressed and guilty and embarassed….
Yeah- I listened to it…very, very good podcast Nick…and I dont mean the part with me!
Blue if youre o8ut there and if you still have it, would you post the link to the headset that TWIT Leo LaPort suggests for skype shows with multiple people (or personalities.)
The difficulties as I see them with a conventional conflict is that the SBR has not fought one with anyone that has had any military might that even resembled ours since WWII..
Our command and control systems while constantly changing and becoming more integrated are very fragile in that they make use of satellites, GPS and WIFI networking technologies. Every time we conduct an exercise one still sees those Russian ( and now Chinese) trawlers with all their RF antenna’s lurking nearby.
Jamming aircraft can disable GPS ( as can a good thunderstorm) and someone with several 80mm mortars in the back of their pickup truck could take out the space command.
The Stark and Cole incidents demonstrated that surface ships are very vulnerable to missiles flying low to the horizon and fast moving small boats loaded with explosives Anti ship missiles that can be launched from a high speed patrol boat or even from a fishing trawler can sink an expensive asset like a guided missile cruiser, a cruse missile launching platform or even an aircraft carrier,.
A lot of our guided missile frigates use gas turbines for power plants and carry tens of thousands of gallons of JP5 as fuel. The sailors always welcome visitors aboard their floating bomb.
Iran could very well be a test bed for the Russians and the Chinese to see how well the counter measure technologies they have developed since the invasion of Iraq work.
What would the SBR do if it lost a war to some third rate military power ( remember Germany and Japan both lost a war to one)
Off Topic Stuff:
Who was Mustafa Kemal Ataturk? The Turks (who adore him and place his picture in nearly every shop and his statue in every city), as well as many foreigners hold him up as a hero who saved his country, while others, particularly the Armenians, consider him a ruthless general who continued the genocide begun by the Ottomans. Ataturk was certainly not a perfect hero; his abuse of alcohol often led to indiscretions and he also had a volatile temper. His ethics were not sound either; his first priority was the good of his homeland, and all ethical situations were relative to this. In one case he refused to keep his word to save some prisoners from execution, until it was too late.
However, Ataturk was not a mass murderer or supporter of genocide. Armenians’ principle accusation is that he was responsible for a giant fire that destroyed much of Smyrna when he captured the city from the Greeks during the War of Independence, but in truth, the source of the fire has not been conclusively proven, with both sides blaming the other. Individual Turkish soldiers did most definitely commit war crimes during the course of the war, and of course the non-Turkish populations fleeing the war as refugees suffered many troubles, but Ataturk definitely did not order any organized attempts at genocide.
A strong and forward-thinking leader, Ataturk saved Turkey from sharing the fate of oppression that Germany suffered after World War I, and greatly modernized and westernized the country. Turkey has copied much of the surface of western culture without the core substance that originated it – Christianity – so that today in Turkey, there is a great tension between the old ways of Islam and the new ways of materialism. But even though the equality, modern economy, education, and the many other positive things Ataturk began lacked a basis in Christianity[So what?], they are nevertheless great accomplishments and mark Ataturk as a flawed, but great man. [ I agree. Robert Fisk wrote recently that Ataturk did not deny the Armrnian Genocide.]:cres:
Hosh gelshler ola
Mustafa Kemal Pasha!
Great Cover, SJ.
I have an idea for a poster that I waant you to design. :bow:
Halloween House Party at 7th and Prescott!
Saturday 28th October 8PM
Music in the Basement Provided by Corrupted System
Be There!
Adam and Tyson (Two Gallants) want to apologize for the show in Houston at Walter’s On Washington being cut short on Friday October 13. Some of the mainstream sources have been inaccurate so we want to thank all of you who have emailed offering your support and eyewitness accounts of what really happened. You can read some of these and see some images (see below). The band will speak more about this in the next few days as they have been advised not to comment much at this point.
What follows are first-hand accounts from people who were in Houston. JamBase did not have any reporters on the scene. While the videos, pictures and reports are rather telling, we must be sure to mention that the words below are not from JamBase writers.
Two Gallants were on their fourth song when a cop shows up for a noise complaint. He did not go to the soundboard but immediately heads to the stage. He has some words with the singer Adam and then the cop grabs his guitar.
more
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Watch your back ..:eek:
Senator Hillary Clinton has said that she supports legalizing the torture of a captured terror suspect who knows abut “an imminent threat to millions of Americans”.
This, she said was an exception to her opposition to torture.
“That very, very narrow exception within very, very limited circumstances is better than blasting a big hole in our entire law,” she added.
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:barf::eek::yuck::gate::omg:
BOSTON (Reuters) – Disaffected people living in the United States may develop radical ideologies and potentially violent skills over the Internet and that could present the next major U.S. security threat, U.S.
Homeland Security Secretary
Michael Chertoff said on Monday.
“We now have a capability of someone to radicalize themselves over the Internet,” Chertoff said on the sidelines of a meeting of International Association of the Chiefs of Police.
“They can train themselves over the Internet. They never have to necessarily go to the training camp or speak with anybody else and that diffusion of a combination of hatred and technical skills in things like bomb-making is a dangerous combination,” Chertoff said. “Those are the kind of terrorists that we may not be able to detect with spies and satellites.”
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Hummmm……………….
Wow, Elizabeth Edwards looks great!
Uh-oh. All you Congressmen and other perverts better watch out.
She is on with Chris Mastthews….is looking towards being a senator…recovered from cancer and looks really healthy and fantastic….
Wow PJ…that is fantastic…..I wish they had a scanner to find them in a crowd!…I suppose that would not protect their rights, but you know they cant cure pedophilia….it never goes away.
I heard her on NPR a few weeks back, talking about her book. She sounded like a genuinely nice person.
thanks Cnick… I just stuffed myself with cake, now where’s the booze… :40: I’m fresh out of it 🙁
Re:154 I thought the best part was talking to you. 😉
Damnit, just got back from the office to pick up tomorrow’s work. I hate my job! This shit is neverending.
BTW, I noticed gas for $1.99 just down the street!!! $1.99
I love Elizabeth Edwards… was really impressed every time I heard her speak… she’d make a great politician herself
Interesting post here by someone that interviewed for jobs with Sam Seder and Randi Rhodes:
http://www.weinish.blogspot.com
I was amazed that he/she couldn’t believe that AAR did not want to hire professionals!
Disaffected people living in the United States may develop radical ideologies and potentially violent skills over the Internet and that could present the next major U.S. security threat, U.S.
Homeland Security Secretary
Michael Chertoff said on Monday.
Well hmmmm I wonder why they’re disaffected, golly gee you think things may actually be bad for people, and getting worse? Nahhhh. Couldn’t be. So let’s see, you know that people are upset but your solution is not to make it better but to hold them up as enemies? Chertoff Fuckoff? Is that what you say? :roll::roll:
PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
IN GUERRILLA WARFARE
A tactical manual for the revolutionary that was published by the Central Intelligence Agency and distributed to the Contras in Central America.
http://www.kimsoft.com/guerilla.htm
Getting Started
Combatant-Propagandist
Armed Propaganda
Armed Propaganda Teams
Development/Control – Front Organizations
Mass Concentration And Meetings
Massive In-Depth Support – Psychological Operations
Appendix
A Study of Assassination
Chertoff’s statement about disaffected people using the internet reminds me of bulletins that my college used to issue about dangerous subversives using the college environment as a cover for their illegal actions. Power Recycles!
:rofl2:
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING DETAILS)
The United States has detected fresh signs that North Korea may be preparing for a second nuclear test, according to U.S. media reports Monday.
U.S spy satellites have detected “suspicious vehicle movements” that could be preparations for another test near the site where North Korea conducted its first underground nuclear explosion test on Oct. 9, ABC News said, quoting unidentified U.S. officials.
NBC News also reported unidentified U.S. officials as saying U.S. spy satellites are picking up signs of truck and people movements.
The news reports came after the United States officially confirmed earlier Monday for the first time that Pyongyang carried out a nuclear test on Oct. 9 in northeastern North Korea, thus also effectively confirming Pyongyang’s possession of nuclear weapons.
Since its announcement Oct. 9 that it “successfully” conducted its first nuclear test, North Korea has repeatedly said it intends to take further “physical” actions against what it calls the “hostile” U.S. stance.
Washington called the North Korean test claim itself a “provocative” act, and led efforts in the U.N. Security Council to respond, which resulted in the unanimous adoption Saturday of a binding resolution requiring U.N. members to take economic and diplomatic sanctions against Pyongyang.
Earlier Monday, the U.S. National Intelligence Director John Negroponte’s office issued a brief statement saying, “Analysis of air samples collected on Oct. 11, 2006 detected radioactive debris which confirms that North Korea conducted an underground nuclear explosion in the vicinity of Punggye on Oct. 9, 2006.”
“The explosion yield was less than a kiloton,” the top U.S. intelligence office said. A kiloton nuclear explosion equals a blast of 1,000 tons of TNT.
But the office did not give any further details such as whether the test was a failure or a successful one as claimed by North Korea.
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Chertoff’s statement about disaffected people using the internet reminds me of bulletins that my college used to issue about dangerous subversives using the college environment as a cover for their illegal actions. Power Recycles!
Well I have a photo of some subversives on a college campus (I think) with Noam Chomsky…there’s danger everywhere I tell you… the 60’s never really ended…don’t you know? Now it’s the damn bloggers. …:tommygun:
Tomorrow on Sedition R US we will learn about the Liberal Coop and agricultural/contractors supply.. hint its not in Kansas..:eek::eek::eek:
Chomsky was too conservative for my campus–back in the day.. (He actually considered teaching there after retiring from MIT.)
When I was in college they issued a decree that thou shall not keep explosives in your dorm rooms.. The day after some ying yang blew his hand off and all the doors on one floor off there hinges.:yuck::yuck:.
Report: Wal-Mart to buy China
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15292676/
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Not exactly.. but .. these corps are getting way to profitable.:gate::omg:
When I was in college in Buffalo, campus security came to our dorm orientation, and told us to close the door when we were smoking reefer, and not to walk around in the hallways smoking a joint.
This is possibly one reason why it took me 26 years to get my undergrad degree.
My college feared that too much student activism would lead to the cutting off of funds by benefactors like Bill gates.
Money for Jobs not for war
U.S. out of El Salvador!
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The smell of burning reefers was a bit difficult to obscure..not that anyone minded:alc::yippee::dancers:
Wood pellets from Reform, Alabama? Just noticed the post PJ. :tongue:
too conservative… now that’s a campus! :tongue::sdavid::pent:
http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=bmx&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no
The administraation was not very liberal. Counsellors kept files. We called the security Security Gestapo. But the students…and a handful of faculty! Chomsky was too conservative for the Rosa Luxembourg Chapter of the SDS.
I’ve got to go work on a damned article…:omg:
Nurse sues over ticket for anti-Bush bumper sticker
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) — A woman who was ticketed for having an obscene anti-Bush bumper sticker filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday against a county in the state of Georgia and its officials.
Denise Grier, 47, of Athens, Georgia, got a $100 ticket in March after a DeKalb County police officer spotted the bumper sticker, which read “I’m Tired Of All The BUSH**.”
A DeKalb judge threw out the ticket in April because the state’s lewd decal law that formed the basis for the ticket was ruled unconstitutional in 1990.
Grier is seeking damages from the county for “emotional distress,” according to the lawsuit.
Grier also seeks a declaration in federal court that her bumper sticker is considered constitutionally protected speech because she is “uncertain and insecure regarding her right to display her bumper sticker in DeKalb County,” the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia.
Grier, a nurse who works at Emory University and other hospitals, also is seeking punitive damages against the DeKalb police officer who gave her the ticket because he “acted with reckless disregard” of her rights, the lawsuit said.
The state law prohibited lewd or profane stickers and decals on vehicles.
write it, write it, I want to read it :nixon:
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Nice post from Chris Bowers over at MyDD.
Yeah SJ. Isn’t it amazing how these people create the conditions under which people become disenfranchised and then punish them for being disenfranchised. The cycle begins. 😥
Hey, Cnick! That was fun the other night sending you songs to play and listening to you and Melina. I would like to get some head phones but that is pretty low on my list of expenditures right now. Especially since I don’t know if I’ll have work in Nov and Dec. 😮 Maybe a good way to get some conversation going is to play some clips of say, John Stewart or Stephen Colbert or whatever clips you can get hold of. It would be cool if This blog morphed into a radio show too(I’m still bugging my friends about radio shows PJ). :nod:
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Just like having Sammy lead off my comment….
So thanks to everyone who tuned into the show last night…. I’m a little shy about it because I think I actually did pretty good. Or the pessimist in me would say that “I didn’t suck.” Really dug playing the olberman clips mashed with music…. and I don’t think I sounded completely ungrounded while talking.
Thanks even more for the people who thought it was good in the previous day’s comment.
Yeah… what do you guys who listened think?
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUSAN JOY and many more
:love:i am writing a blog right now at http://www.sean4congress.blogspot.com actually i already posted one on accident and am currently editing it
Hey Painting Girl,
Are you still posting the shows as a podcast. I still have you listed for updates, but nothing comes up.
Thanks
Happy Birthday, Susan Joy!:yippee:
Thanks Dark, Wanwexia, Blue and anyone I missed…had a great birthday. going over to the morning blog now…