Gotta get the car inspected. Either that, or not go anywhere. I think maybe I’ll just not go anywhere. See ya.
Posted by pjsauter on October 12, 2006
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Gotta get the car inspected. Either that, or not go anywhere. I think maybe I’ll just not go anywhere. See ya.
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:crap: second :dancers::dancers::dancers:
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❓ whatever :sheep: le
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CANTON, N.C., Oct. 11 (UPI) — The United Steelworkers labor union has blocked a Canton, N.C., employer’s plan to send employees to India for lower-cost healthcare.
The union stepped in when Blue Ridge Paper Products announced plans to send an employee, Carl Garrett, to India for treatment, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
The union said it did not approve of the “shocking new approach” to saving healthcare costs and insisted Garrett be treated in the United States.
“No U.S. citizen should be exposed to the risks involved in traveling internationally for healthcare services,” union President Leo Gerard wrote in a letter to the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives healthcare committees. He said he was concerned about the willingness of companies to offer incentives for employees willing to seek treatment overseas.
http://tinyurl.com/o4m67
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Welcome to the Super Banana Republic:yuck::yuck::crap:
Ewwww..heir dictatordorp Ewwwww:barf::barf::barf:full of :crap::crap::crap:and :evil::evil::evil:
Gunmen have killed eight people in an attack on the offices of a satellite television channel in Baghdad, Iraqi police say.
The victims, thought to be security guards and technicians, died in an attack on the new Shaabiya channel in Zayouna in the east of Iraq’s capital.
http://tinyurl.com/qe44f
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Hummm…..the new FAUX news outlet ??
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:eek::eek::eek::crap::crap::crap::yuck::yuck::yuck:
:pup:the office is sweet!
morning sheeple :sheep:
:yippee: its Susan :yippee:
:shock::tongue:
:eek::eek::eek:Did NYC recover from yesterdays trauma yet ??
office ?? sweet ?? Is she cute too..:lol:
Morning shheeepppllleee:sheep:
:banana::banana:Its Sblue :banana::banana:
the costco ho hates being called K-lo wonder if he ever told marc that
Comment by SeanMS — October 11, 2006 @ 7:26 pm
He did the first couple of dozen times Marc did it. I think he gave up after that.
Russ Feingold on the Young Turds later this morning!
:banana::banana::banana:
Oh shit. Tony Snow is scolding the reporters at the press conference. Give me a break. What an asskisser.
:fu:
This list of non-sequiters has been brought to you by Ovaltine. The unofficially most-hated commercial on Morning Sedition.
MORE OVALTINE PLEASE!!!:joe:
they’re talking “9/11” on the news. Please. It was a tragedy, it wasn’t like 9/11.
Why are people in such a big city so paranoid.. ?? The news cast yesterday had people running around looking like it was a repeat of 9/11. Could NYC servive a scenario like the blitz of London. :eek::eek:
“You can’t know unless you live there” Oh wait. I do. Nevermind.
Associated Press
Posted online: Thursday, October 12, 2006 at 0000 hrs
OSLO, OCTOBER 11: Why would any decision made by five low-key,
publicity shy Norwegians meeting in secret in a back room in Oslo be
worthy of a global news flash the moment it was announced?
Because it is they who decide the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize,
and on Friday they’ll make a short, public statement that will focus
world attention on topics ranging from environmental awareness to
advancing peace in Indonesia.
But in the weeks and months building up to the annual announcement,
speculation of who could win is rife, with names as diverse as
American entertainer Oprah Winfrey to veteran peace negotiators like
former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari who helped foment a peace
deal with Indonesia’s government and Aceh separatists last year.
Ahtisaari brokered the talks between the two through his Crisis
Management Initiative and betting companies are speculating that he
could share the prize with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono and the Free Aceh movement.
Others touted as possible winners are Russian human rights activist
Sergei Kovalyev and Chechen lawyer Lida Yusupova; British-based
charity Oxfam; Chinese dissident Rebiya Kadeer who has fought for the
rights of Uighur Muslims in China; and American anti-war activist
Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq.
Although only a dozen women have won the Nobel Peace prize since it
was first awarded in 1901, two of those were in the past three years:
Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi in 2003 and Kenya
environmentalist Wangari Maathai in 2004.
“For the first time in history, there are five political parties
represented on the committee,” said Geir Lundestad, the prize
committee’s non-voting secretary, encompassing the spectrum of
Norway’s political scene – from the far left to the far right.
DOUG MELLGREN
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Cindy would be an even better choice if she had succeeded.
:crap::crap: Got to go get ready to get ready to be bored to death, in the :eek::eek::eek: Thursday morning meeting :yawn::yawn:
Cindy Sheehan was mentioned? Interesting… ok, have a fun meeting, I got mine over with on Tuesday :hot:
Hey guys…..running through here.
Did you guys see my little movie of Angelina helping me clean the house? Its so funny. I have to put her in her crate when I run the vacume. Lola is a little like that, but Angie is totally insane….like that letterman stupid pet trick where the dog would pull the vacume out of the closet and kill it.
Himan is “stable” and Im going in to see how he is….I want to get another opinion…I dont know how much more these people can fuck up …and if they havent killed him yet its only because hes the toughest guy in the world….
I wish there was any signal at all over there…I wish that the east side wasnt so screwed up.
Of course New Yorkers are freaked out. Manhattan is really small and impersonal in many ways, but around any disaster like even a blizzard, everyone pretty much pulls together…..
The 9-11 thing is really big because it was so HUGE…you couldnt imagine how big those buildings were and how hug it was when they fell. It was different than a couple of city blocks of brownstones falling….bigger than that. But also, up until then we felt pretty safe, even though some of us were acutely aware that we werent…..and when that happened it really scared the sheeple. So when this airplane thing happened and people were out in the street…then there were some explosions and people said it was a plane, people ran like hell…..
They were broadcasting on the local radio here as I drove out of the city that it was definitly not a terror attack….
Its really easy to create mass hysteria in this stressed atmosphere. And after hearing Bush yesterday in a waiting room full of people who were basically yelling at the TV and giving him the finger, Im surprised that we didnt get a bunch of terror attacks…
Honestly, he is the most idiotic asshole…and he is inciting violence just with his tone, much less his words.
He really doesnt believe the experts when they say that we are creating more terrorists…wants to just keep fighting forever….
😀 I muted that commercial in disgust just before I read that.
Saint of the Day
Blessed Camillus Costanzi, SJ (AC)
Born in Italy, 1572; died at Firando, Japan, September 15, 1622; beatified in 1867. Blessed Camillus was a Jesuit missionary who was banished from Japan because he was a Christian. He returned secretly, was discovered, and roasted to death over a slow fire.
:priest::priest:
I can understand people being initially afraid because of what happened 9/11 and this being a plane, but the news media does not have to exacerbate it by saying 9/11 over and over. This just makes people more afraid, and gets people to wondering what’s “really” going on… the media should calm people down and look at the reality of the situation without sensationalizing it. My brother lives a few blocks from that area, I didn’t need to drive with the radio on hearing that the world was ending in Manhattan.
Well, I guess we don’t get Young Turks here in Phx anymore. It’s Bill Press ❓ And we don’t have Rachel or David Bender in the afternoon anymore. It’s the Peter B Collins show. Dr. Mike is big on live shows, which I somewhat agree with, but I am getting tired of things shifting all the time. 🙄 It sure seems like AAR is trying to become mild mannered. What morons. :rant1:
roasted in a slow fire? I wonder what those Japanese were thinkin, seriously…
Well AAR is still a step more progressive than NPR. For now. Sorry they’re screwing around your programming, krista.
Eddie Cochran speaking.
Date: Oct 12, 2006 1:41 AM
Subject Remember Gene Vincent – October 12th, 1971
Body: Hello my Friends!
This is a repost for
LILYKINS
http://www.myspace.com/genevincentrocks
in my top friends. Please check her site out too!
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:yippee: :banana: SeanMS #1 & #3 :banana::yippee:
Fred ia #2 :banana: :yippee:
:pent: it’s Druid!
Did anyone hear the end of the Young Turks?
Invitation by the Order of the Holy Rose
Who am I? Can I do something meaningful with my life? Can I make a difference to somebody’s life?
Sooner or later in your life you come to the point, where you ask yourself, whether you really fulfilled the holy purpose of your soul, or whether you merely were busy surviving and going along with the circumstances of life.
:omg: :priest:
::;asks self::: Yes.
They, The Not So Young Turks, used Marc’s beginning theme :growl:
I am only stopping by for a few and to say, periodically:
:banana::cake:: :yippee: To All Libras, especially those October Libs
:pent::banana::cake: :yippee::pent:
:banana::cake: :yippee:
:pent::knit::gate:Good Travels, awake or asleep:yawn: 😉
actually I heard “Give it Away,” RHCP tune, but at least not the Morning Sedition Tune. (Love love love that song)
Druid, we’re going to be having a birthday party, me and you, next week!
Susan Joy it was whatever that drum tat sound is — I think it is from RHCP and it was MARC’s. So it was the first one? I am lucky to know my name :rofl2: 😉 :yawn:
oh ok, so they’re playing the Marc song also “don’t stop” or whatever it’s called along with “Give it Away”. Could be worse music than the RHCP I guess. I won’t complain about it anymore.
Susan Joy also my time is sooner than that teehee but no matter YEA :yippee: for ALL of We especially :pent: Mwah HaHa — :dancers: — Cheers tea:joe: or whatever :alc:
WTF! There’s a tornado warning in the east valley! :omg: It’s clear as a bell where I am. The traffic lady just said there is a tornado warning, more on that later?????? I think if it’s a “warning” it needs to be dealt with NOW.
ok, we’ll party this weekend. :pent::pent::pent:
eeek. What are they thinking? Tornado warnings are nothing to ignore or put away till later…
Yeah, and WTF is a tornado doing HERE, in OCTOBER. I may have to call the station on this. I really don’t think I misheard that.
crazy weather be happenin’. Good idea calling the station. Just let us know when the warning period ends, I’m sure we all want to be assured you’re safe
There’s not a single cloud in the sky here. And no wind. I couldn’t get through to the station and Charles won’t say anything. :tinfoil:
I’m not seeing any tornado watches or warnings anywhere in the US, and I get the same real time data the NWS forecast centers get via the NOAAPort satellite feed. The only area of interest in the SPC synoptic discussion is in S. Central and SE Texas.
If you go to http://www.weather.gov/, they have all the watches and warnings posted. Tornadoes are at:
http://www.weather.gov/view/national.php?prod=TOR
Sure it wasn’t a test or something?
oh ok, so they’re playing the Marc song also “don’t stop” or whatever it’s called along with “Give it Away”. Could be worse music than the RHCP I guess. I won’t complain about it anymore.
Comment by Susan Joy — October 12, 2006 @ 9:29 am
It’s “Can’t Stop.” I’ve heard them play that one on occasion too, and they really need to stop doing it. It makes me sad to hear it during a show other than MS. It’s like your partner calling out someone else’s name in the middle of great sex. Kills the mood completely. 😥
Krista, I think all your clouds are down here. It’s raining hard, which is rare in the middle of the day. Usually it’s late afternoon or early evening.
:cold:snowing in london marc has a conan clip up on his myspace
ATLANTA –Zoo Atlanta’s baby panda opened it eyes for the first time on Thursday.
Zoo officials made the discovery during a physical examination of the 36-day-old unnamed female cub.
“She’s probably able to see now,” said zoo veterinarian Dr. Maria Crane. “We noticed she’s paying more attention to her environment.”
http://tinyurl.com/yefavp
If rodents in Spain are any guide, periodic changes in Earth’s orbit may account for the apparent regularity with which new species of mammals emerge and then go extinct, scientists are reporting today.
It so happens, the paleontologists say, that variations in the course Earth travels around the Sun and in the tilt of its axis are associated with episodes of global cooling. Their new research on the fossil record shows that the cyclical pattern of these phenomena corresponds to species turnover in rodents and probably other mammal groups as well.
http://tinyurl.com/zh8jy
Hey, this must be an immaculate conception.
OK, so maybe Rocky’s drug laws aren’t as bad as I thought. But I guess after a billion dong, it isn’t all that surprising she turned up pregnant.
Sean : In your skype conversation with Cnick did you get the impression he is living in a different dimension than the rest of us are ??
Comment by fred — October 12, 2006 @ 4:03 am
I guess Bama is so economically disadvantaged that things can’t get any worse there so anything is up ??
Comment by fred — October 12, 2006 @ 4:07 am
So WTF is that conversation all about? Huh, Fred?
So why do you think I’m living in “a different dimension”? Not pissed at you Fred. I just want to know what your saying so I can explain myself to you. I figure it’s best to get the information straight from the horses mouth. Say?
CNN is still talking about the plane crashing into a building in NYC! Must be a slow news day! Give it a break CNN!
Al Franken made a joke of Corey Lidle’s plane crashing into a building in NYC on this afternoon’s show. I thought it was in poor taste, but maybe I’m living in a different dimension than the rest of you guys! Or maybe its because I’m so economically disadvantaged living here in Alabama?
The War of the Words. So far, parts I & II are up. Pretty funny.
Playing some Pet Shop Boys, go here to listen: http://71.8.9.181:8000/listen.m3u
I may bitch a little too. No worry. I donno what I’m talking about.
Next: Rufus Wainwright CD
Hey all C. Hitchens fans. Check out this email exchange between Alex Cockburn and a writer for the New Yorker:
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn10112006.html
I used to warn my left-wing friends at New Left Review and Verso in the early 90s who were happy to make money off Hitchens’ books on Mother Teresa and the like that they should watch out, but they didn’t and then kept asking ten years later, What happened? I’ve told you my views on that. Anyway, between the two of them, my sympathies were always with Mother Teresa. If you were sitting in rags in a gutter in Mumbai, who would be more likely to give you a bowl of soup? You’d get one from Mother Teresa. Hitchens was always tight with beggars, just like the snotty Fabians who used to deprecate charity. That’s the basic problem. His moral and intellectual life has been expressed in postures which, on anything more than deeply indulgent inspection, turn out to be either unalluring or deeply disgusting.
AC
According to CIA statistics, the population of Iraq is over 26,000,000. (26,783,383)
The recent Lancet report estimates that 650,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the invasion.
Assuming the report is true, this means that 2.5 percent of Iraq’s population have been killed as a result of the invasion. 1 in 40 killed!(?)
When I was involved in Nicaraguan Solidarity in the late 1980s, we used to make a big deal–and it was–about the Contras having killed 1 percent of the population.
Do I smell the “G” word? Arrest the War Criminals!
:omg:
“The figure for the number of deaths attributable to the conflict [655,000] – which amounts to around 2.5% of the population…”
Sarah Boseley
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2006/s1763779.htm
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=11171
get out of this bloody war :fist:
Randi has an interesting point about “Roe vs. Wade” being kept alive by Republicans because it gets people to vote Republican
I need to get from behind this screen and do some work. Prune my dandelions.
I like dandelions! Although I guess they are aggressive survivors and tend to crowd out regular grass
Playing Steve Winwood
Delerium, Daniel Bedingfield, Sophie Hawkins and Tevin Campbell all up next.
This brand of dandelion was originally considered an ornamental flower.They spread like locusts on the plains. Where are the Mormon Seagulls?
Dandelion
Almost mild-mannered compared to the evil-doers on this list, dandelions are simply too good at growing. They fill up empty spots in lawns, flower beds, and even grow in sidewalk cracks. In many years, they are one of the first spring flowers, not that anybody appreciates their efforts. It was because of this early-spring growth that gardeners brought them to the Pacific Northwest. In the days when pioneers got through the winter on produce from their root cellars, the first spring greens were more than treat, they were a tonic. Many nineteenth-century gardeners thought dandelion greens were just what the doctor ordered. Science later confirmed that dandelions really do offer a jolt of vitamins and minerals.
In Seattle, it was Catherine Maynard, wife of Dr. David S. (Doc) Maynard, who reportedly introduced dandelions. In Oregon, Dr. Perry Prettyman gets the nod. He grew them on his donation claim near Mount Tabor near Portland in 1847. Others throughout the region undoubtedly grew them, too.
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DANDELION (Taraxacum officinale, Asteraceae)
Planet: Jupiter, Sun Element: Air
Parts Most Often Used Magickally: Flower, Root
Associated Deities and Saints: Brighid, Hecate
Language of Flowers: Coquetry
Powers and Uses: Animal Magick, Baseball Magick, Divination, Communication (Love Messages), Elemental Magick (Air Elementals), Healing (Hypochondria), Protection (Agoseris aurentiaca – Protection From Sorcerers), Samhain, Weather Magick (Calling Favorable Winds), Wishes
Magickal springtime wishing is the most obvious use for dandelions; what child has not blown the seeds into the wind, keeping a desire in mind while doing so? Use the wind with more forethought: a west wind especially will take the seeds, along with a message, to a distant loved one. The herb, buried in the northwest corner of your property, brings favorable winds. Dandelions are very obviously useful in working with the element of air, and summoning air elementals. The seeds are used for divinatory purposes. Maidens would blow at the seed ball, and the remaining seeds would foretell the number of children they’d eventually have.
It is said that if you rub yourself all over with a dandelion you will be welcome everywhere and all your wishes will be granted. Use in ritual work for animals or during Samhain ceremonies. The flowers are endemic to little league and softball fields and are useful for baseball magick. Make wishes or incorporate into spellwork to help your team win. Culpeper prescribed the plant to those who suffer hypochondria, or the “melancholy” (depression) related to this condition. The plant, especially the root, is sacred to the Greek Goddess Hecate. In Greek mythology, a poor woman by the name of Hecale gave Theseus a dish of dandelions or sow thistles just before he fought the Marathonian bull. The Navajo Indians took a cold infusion of Agoseris aurantiaca, mountain dandelion, to protect against sorcery.
Dandelion is a corruption of the French “dents de lion, tooth of the lion” probably referring to the shape of the toothed leaves or the yellow color which was once used on heraldic lions. The generic name, Taraxacum, is Greek, meaning to “disquiet”, possibly referring to its one time use as a stimulant.
This common yellow composite flower originated in Asia Minor and quickly spread to Europe and the Americas. It can be found on lawns from the earliest of spring days until the frost.
If you were sitting in rags in a gutter in Mumbai, who would be more likely to give you a bowl of soup? You’d get one from Mother Teresa. Hitchens was always tight with beggars, just like the snotty Fabians who used to deprecate charity.
Comment by NickiRose — October 12, 2006 @ 5:06 pm
And you know there’s no way he’d give you any of his whiskey. :alc:
OK, so maybe Rocky’s drug laws aren’t as bad as I thought. But I guess after a billion dong, it isn’t all that surprising she turned up pregnant.
Comment by pjsauter — October 12, 2006 @ 2:04 pm
Too bad we don’t have a rimshot emoticon.
:rofl2:
Listen to Mike Malloy as he substitutes for Jerry Springer next Thursday and Friday October 19 & 20! Check your local Springer on the Radio affiliates for broadcast times.
As for media news: Here’s an article about Mike in the latest issue of Creative Loafing. Mike was also recently interviewed by salon.com for an article they’re writing about Air America Radio past, present, and future, but that’s been awhile now so maybe the article was shelved. Atlanta Magazine is also considering an article, or at least a blog, by Doug Monroe.
We hope to have some good news to share with you in the next few days (as well as our Air America saga), thanks for hanging in there! What a long, strange trip its been.
As always, 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
10/12/06
Fred please read posts 55 and 56 and answer my questions.
Why I call it Dirty Underware
if dems don’t win this time despite what exit polls say, what will we do?
http://tinyurl.com/ufnaz
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Just had a long, very interesting discussion with my friend and colleague Mark Johnson. Mark is one of the world’s leading statisticians, and an expert in the field of cluster sampling. He just finished reviewing the Lancet article that claims 650K dead civilians in Iraq. His verdict: rock solid. They had death certificates for 92% of the deaths they documented. The methodology is good, and the authors very well respected. For W to say the study is “not credible” is ignorant at best.
The study is devestating. Here’s the summary:
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Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional
cluster sample survey
Gilbert Burnham, Riyadh Lafta, Shannon Doocy, Les Roberts
Summary
Background An excess mortality of nearly 100 000 deaths was reported in Iraq for the period March, 2003–September,
2004, attributed to the invasion of Iraq. Our aim was to update this estimate.
Methods Between May and July, 2006, we did a national cross-sectional cluster sample survey of mortality in Iraq.
50 clusters were randomly selected from 16 Governorates, with every cluster consisting of 40 households. Information
on deaths from these households was gathered.
Findings Three misattributed clusters were excluded from the ?nal analysis; data from 1849 households that contained
12 801 individuals in 47 clusters was gathered. 1474 births and 629 deaths were reported during the observation
period. Pre-invasion mortality rates were 5·5 per 1000 people per year (95% CI 4·3–7·1), compared with 13·3 per
1000 people per year (10·9–16·1) in the 40 months post-invasion. We estimate that as of July, 2006, there have been
654 965 (392 979–942 636) excess Iraqi deaths as a consequence of the war, which corresponds to 2·5% of the
population in the study area. Of post-invasion deaths, 601 027 (426 369–793 663) were due to violence, the most
common cause being gun?re.
Interpretation The number of people dying in Iraq has continued to escalate. The proportion of deaths ascribed to
coalition forces has diminished in 2006, although the actual numbers have increased every year. Gun?re remains the
most common cause of death, although deaths from car bombing have increased.
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Note that the rate has increased in each year after the invasion. Also note the post-invasion mortality rate is more than double the rate under Saddam (13.3 vs 5.5 per thousand). Read the full study for a healthy dose of outrage.
Fred must be typing a detailed response. I’ll check back. I’m lurking for the time being.
Cnick
Last week I posted this in response to Melina’s complaints about being to violent.
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. 😮
What part or parts of this do you see as not describing the mess the rethugs and the DLC demodorps have caused.. We live in a fascist state .. Nicki and I have discussed many times what the Germans did or mostly didn’t do in the 1930’s to sove these problems before the US air corps , the Allied armies and the Russians solved it for them. The SBR can be crushed like an aluminum can under a cowboys boot by just the Chinese manipulation of US treasury bills on the worlds markets not to mention the control of oil by people who are hating us more each day. The politicians no matter what party they belong to are not the “right” people to keep this from happening. Change has to be facilitated on many fronts and quickly and our government structure is completely incapable of doing that under the current system. Your pod cast was critical of the “different approach” an approach which the SBR itself has used successfully to effect regime change in many places. It is time that the people be encouraged to do what what we see the Iraqi’s doing before the SBR Titanic sinks and takes us all with it. Just because the current situation hasn’t gotten your feet wet yet doesn’t mean you won’t drown too.
In so many wars, the civilian death count soars way above the soldier deaths. One would hope that the people would get sick and tired of this, but they don’t. They get sucked into it every time. I wish that all the people of the world would just turn against their masters for once in an act of ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! 😡
What specifically did I say in my podcast that you disagree with Fred?
In many cases the people are buffaloed by the appearance of what looks like superior force on the part of their governments. Even the left wing media ( Thom Fartman is a good example) tell you you can not fight a tank with an assault rifle . The Iraqi’s don’t seem to be having a great deal of trouble keeping 150,000 troops and the most technically advanced army ever to exist hiding in their fortified quarters. The best defense against a tank is actually a backhoe that digs a big hole for the tank to fall into .. So many times fearful people huddle in their houses waiting for the tank to come to find them.. others go out to find the tank and destroy it.
Cnick Like I said
Your pod cast was critical of the “different approach” an approach which the SBR itself has used successfully to effect regime change in many places.:eek:
There will be no popular uprising, in spite of all the above, unless there is a corresponding economic upheavel. Not a threatened one, but a real one. And, never forget that circuses are a wonderful diversion and deflection of anger that might otherwise be directed in the direction of those in power. The Romans knew it and so doess the SBR.
So your advocating the overthrow of this countries government?
Be specific Fred. What part of my podcast was critical of a “different approach”?
I’m all for regime change Fred, but I have to agree with Sue P #85. Do you really think the masses are gonna do anything as long as they have a warm place to sleep, a cold beer and a TeeVee to watch? Let’s get real!
I’ve been off the grapevine for so long that I’ve become a raisin; that being said:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15228489/
Is this “our” Jonathan Larsen?
And if the Rethugs hold onto the House and the Senate in November do you really think the masses will protest?
It would indicate stolen elections to be sure. But do you really think the masses will protest?
But I tell ya what Fred. I don’t think anything that Nick Thomas says in his rarely listened to podcasts is gonna stifle a regime change or a revolution.
What you see in Iraq is not a popular uprising at least not one where more than maybe 1% of their population participates. I saw some place that only about 10,000 people were actively fighting the SBR occupation. The US army had about 200 advisers in Central America during Iran Contra. Rethugs are sheep get rid of their leaders and/or their financing and they will be neutered. If the removal process is done properly one might not even have to have a reasonable percentage of the population as a whole supporting what was going on.
I just express my opinion. Thus far I can still do that in the SBR. And I’ll continue to say :fu: to the Bush Administration, the Republican Party, the Religious Right and spineless Democrats.
Well there you go now. If you can’t even get the Iraqi people to stand up and fight for their freedom then how in God’s name do you expect the people in the SBR to do thus?
And with Bush’s new powers handed him on a silver platter by the Rethug party we can all be snatched up and tossed into a secret CIA prison camp never to be heard from again. So our short term hope is a huge turnout at the polls this November to make it eversomuch more difficult to steal the elections. If we can take back the House and the Senate perhaps we can hold this President, his Administration and his party to account for all the evil they have wrought upon our country and this world.
During Iran Contra groups of paramilitary people went out and disappeared the villagers and their leaders until the villagers themselves started fighting back. I some what doubt that many WalMart employees would retaliate if their local manager vanished one night or a rethuig councilman or the guy in the mansion on the hill.
A rethuig councilman or the guy in the mansion on the hillwill not be the ones who are disappeared.
You seem to keep envisioning throngs of people in the streets looting and burning.. We do not want a civil war we just want the people that finance them, speak for them and some of their leaders to vanish..or have to be washed off the pavement. No one has to stand on a soap box and yell the R word they just go to work everyday and then go out at night and do bad things to those living in the gated communities instead of going bowling.
hey everyone……..home finally
The majority of the people in this country have turned against this President. But do you think that majority will get out and vote? Hell no! Their to busy to be bothered. It’s a sad fact. But true.
Re 99: :rofl2::rofl2::rofl2: I’m all for that Fred.
“they just go to work everyday and then go out at night and do bad things to those living in the gated communities instead of going bowling.”
Hello Melina, How is your grandfather? Or is he your dad?
Hey Nick, I listen to your podcast !! I listened to it over and abpove Sam and Stephanie Miller today…unfortunately, things are such right now that my phone keeps ringing in the car so I had to pause many times….I will finish it tomorrow AM on my way back down.
It is very good…and its getting better.
I got my iriver today. The box had been left in the deluge of last night so I had to peel away the cardboard to get to it, but the player is fine…they sent an old case though…its refurbished, but I was under the impression that refurbished was an opened box new piece….Im sure it works fine and for the price its fine…so IM charging it. It comes with a lapel clip mic that Im sure is not great…I need to get the other mic.
Nick, how is new mice set you got? How does it work?…is it in your ear, like a headset?
Skype is best w/ the headset btw…..I need to get the one that the tech broadcaster who I listen to (TWIT) use for their remote interviews. I sent blue the link…can probably find it again.
I’ve been hoping some nut would eliminate Bush and Chaney, but that doesn’t seem likely! Just wishful thinking on my part. Perhaps we’re just being delusional when we suspect the Rethugs really have the power to steal elections? Or maybe they already have? I think we all believe the 2000 election was the result of a bad count and then no count at all. Intervention by the Republican controlled US Supreme Court. And Kerry in 2004 being spineless. That still sickens me. When will we nominate a Democrat who’ll give the Republican Party hell? That’s what I’d like to see.
Its my granddad-Himan…..
He is so-so, but I am trying to arrabg for his release involving hiring an aide and making a place for the aide to sleep in his apartment.
He is very confused….its scary….
Yes, Melina the new mic fits into your ear. It is very comfortable in the ear, but the wire is sort of irritating. One of my recent podcasts has a section recorded with the new in-ear stereo microphone. I think you’ll like the iRiver. I’ve heard such good things about it. Can’t wait for you to podcast too.
Post script: There are lots of people on this blog that need to be podcasting. Fred you are included in that mix. I’d love to listen to your podcasts.
Well, if its Hillary…I dont know….
I woudl love to see Edwards and Feingold together, but Feingold may be too left……
I think that ass Kerry is thinking of running again.
Its going to be a very interesting primary.
I’d love to see a Feingold as President. He would be a dream come true, but I’m afraid this country would be more likely to vote Hillary than Feingold. And I have my doubts about Hillary in 08. We’re in a mess in this country. I have to agree with Fred on much of what he says. But we’ll never rid ourselves of the ignorant and the brainwashed. Their out there and no matter what facts you lay out before their eyes they’ll just offer up excuses or refuse to accept the evidence. It is so scary!
Melina, I like TWIT (This Week in Tech podcast) also. Leo LaPort! Coolness. I used to watch TechTV all the time on cable till they took it off.
Yes, I think my problem with Sean’s call to me on skype was the fact that I was listening to him on my computer speakers.
So happy tomorrow is Friday!!! Payday also. Woo Hoo! Did you guys hear Lawton Smalls on Sam Seder’s show this week? Was that not cool?
And Marc is on tomorrow’s show! We all miss Marc so very much! Damnit-to-hell
Oh well . . . hope you’re still my friend, Fred! We have to stick together here on this blog. Keep an eye out for one another. Watch our backs. You never know what is lurking in the shadows!
Guess its bedtime for me. Another busy day tomorrow. Listen to my podcasts Fred and everyone else here. If you don’t agree with what I say then leave a nasty comment on my page. And if you really want to make a difference in a legal way . . . PODCAST. And if not that just SPEAK UP when some thug is mouthing BS to your co-workers and friends. We need to stand and be counted!
Good night Sheeple.
Last call: Fred and anyone else. Call me on skype “cnickthomas” sometime and I’ll include you uncensored in my podcasts. Cheers!
Just too tired nick….how bout this weekend? I also want to order the headset.
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Hey Melina! everyone…I hope you can get Himan home soon.
Getting him out of the hospital will be the best thing.
Anyway..really having a tough time getting connected here at this hotel.
Looking forward to Vermont on the weekend. i am slowly convincing more people to come to Maron’s Somerville show next week.:yawn:
Yeah1 I saw Druid stopped by today!.:dancers:
Travis …you here?:peace:
somebody is here:paranoid:
Melina,
I hope your grandfather is better. I’m dealing with a similar situation with my mother, She is essentially bed ridden and she has alzheimers but she is at home with 2 live-in attendants. Not a lot of fun.
Sue, good luck. My Mom worked at a nursing home with a big alzheimers wing and we are very familiar with it….its a heartbreaking disease, especially for family and caregivers….
I am just trying to set up caegivers and its very scary….and will he accept them, because he is very, very independent. So I have ot get stuff in place before he becomes coherent and can say no….if not, he will continue to fall and will die much sooner than necessary….he is incredibly sharp and strong, but his main weakness is not being able to allow help.
So, we’ll see what happens…..
Its worse without the funny….
I am trying to get into stephanie Miller…hope I can start to like her.
And really hoping to still go to see Marc perform in Mass…..fingers crossed! I think I can swing it if I can get help in place.
I need to go to sleep….
Nite all!
Blue, I just saw you…my eyes are closing!…have to go up but have been trying to add u p checkbook and make sure Im not forgetting any bills or anything….
I am trying to get up there…..Ive got a week before I have to cancel hotel so, I think I shuld be able to at least see if things calm down. I got my pool mp3 player today…iriver is closing them out along with many players over there. The recorder I got was really cheap. I had to find a cary charger on ebay, but have all sorts of parts now because the parts are all on super sale….
Hope to read manual and start recording…..
I need the good mic…
Nite all!!