Here we go again, another Sunday morning with the boobleheads.
On Press the Meet, Potato meets Walrus, as Timmuh hosts John “goo goo g’joob” Bolton. Also, it’s a debate between Minnesota Senate candidates Amy “I’m not Katherine Lanpher” Klobuchar and Mark “you’re no JFK” Kennedy, to see who will fill the seat of retiring Senator Mark Dayton (kurrently, Klobuchar is Klobbering Kennedy).
Over at CBS, bush buddy Bobby Schieffer gets a visit from the Lizard woman, to reiterate why Clinton’s strategy (which kept North Korea from going nuclear) was a tremendous failure, while the bushies’ Strategic Ignorance Mater Plan (SIMP) – which culminated with NK’s test of a nuclear device – was such a masterpiece. Plus it’s Senator John “what the hell was Liz thinking” Warner, Sam “flying” Nunn, and reliable Republican-friendly stooge from the NY Times, David Sanger.
Over at Fux News Sunday, it’s another chance to have a look at a talking Lizard, plus we’ll see if John Kerry can kick weaselface Wallace’s ass the way Clinton did (my guess? Not so much).
Over on Wolf Blitzer’s Late Emission, I guess if you can’t get the Lizard, go with the Walrus, as America’s sweetheart John Bolton makes another Sunday morning appearance. There’s also Howard :omg: Dean, Ken “Larry Bud” Mehlman, Michigan’s Carl Levin, Nebraska’s Chucky Hagel, closet rightwing political pundit, Stuart Rothenberg, out of the closet rightwing hack Candy Crowley, and token non-wingnut Ron Brownstein, from the LA Times.
You’ll be happy to know that you won’t be missing much if you continue to boycott the Goebbels network, unless maybe you missed the Walrus’ earlier appearances (somebody toss this guy a fish already). George Snufalufagus will also hit the road to profile the Tennessee Senate race between Democrat Harold Ford, and Republican Bob Corker, to see who gets to fill Bill Frist’s open seat (so to speak). This one is a dead heat, with Ford running a helluva campaign, so far. Then it’s another thrilling roundtable, with George :jerk: Will, Fareed “token” Zakaria, and graduate from the NPR school of rightwing hackery, Martha Raddatz. Then Marg Helgenberger will be on to talk about her first time.
Later, on 60 Minutes, Ed Bradley talks to the three Duke lacrosse players (Reade Seligmann, David Evans, and Collin Finnerty) who are shocked – shocked, I tell you – to have been indicted for rape. He’ll also talk to the “other” exotic dancer (Kim Roberts), who apparently is refuting some of the accuser’s claims. Can they possibly fill the whole hour with this? Tune in to find out. Or not.
Either way, enjoy your Sunday.
:tommygun:
Good morning EAST: Good night WEST and me:billcat:
:dancers: :yippee: :dancers:
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❓ whatever :sheep: le
Susan is pouting over on the other thread
wassup Wanw ??
:pup: not a lot, but time to go to sleep Have a good day, fred. I am off coffee for awhile so sleep a lot.
Senator John Kerry (D-MA) has lashed out at what he calls a “house of lies” in Washington, RAW STORY has learned.
At a New Hampshire fundraiser last night, Kerry called Republican claims regarding North Korea, Iraq and the Foley affair “a lie, a lie, a lie, a lie.”
“What we have in Washington is a house of lies,” he continued, “and in November, we need to clean house.”
Excerpts from Kerry’s prepared remarks can be read below:
http://tinyurl.com/y8r7e7
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Those 3 martini lunches seem to have caused a 5 year delay in processing to occur.:eek::eek:
Nighty night Wanw:pup::pup:
The New York Times will report Sunday that up to 40 more countries could join the “nuclear club” if the North Korean weapons test spurs a new arms race.
The Times, in a front-page article by William J. Broad and David E. Sanger, will cite nuclear officials who say that up to 40 nations have the technical skills needed to produce nukes and many of them have the materials as well.
http://tinyurl.com/srm4f
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Will this make the Military industrial complex happy or obsolete ??:eek::eek:
Fred, it’s ok, he just called me…
morning!
Oh goody… what was the deal ??
Can we hear his group on KBOO ??
“bombs away”
:eek::eek: Its Sean :eek::eek:
Where are we trucking to today ??
http://www.kboo.fm/listen
beirut! well you would think so this town is DEAD! i remember last time i was here no place was open to eat at all in its downtown oh uh mansfield ohio
“bombs away”
Sounds like what happens when you eat to many White Castles 😮
bombs away is a song by the Police. Still listening.
Hey Sean…
the police where?:shock::paranoid:
So is one of these DJ’s Nicki ??
ok i am outside and cold and going inside to be warm catch you all later!
Starving Artist ??:eek: Did Nicki just give away his alias ??:spank:
:banana:eat the banana! ok yep too cold gibberish go now later sheeple!
:nana::cake:happy tomorrow susan!
:rant1:complain its patriotic!
:cold:type faster before get finger frostbite!
Blogging from outside in the cold… I guess I need to drive around with my laptop and see how many insecure wireless networks I can find..:eek: If it wasn’t for the electric heater under the desk I would be blogging from the inside in the cold.:cold:
:cold:buffalo got murdered! no electricity for my mommy for one to two weeks! cant find my phone charger:doh:
:penguin:ha ha ha! just like jeffy predicted air america has gone bankrupt two more months and they will be no more!
thank you Sean!
:penguin::yippee:ok jeffy is gonna go party now!
Ijust got talked into making a contribution to a small community radio station :omg:
:peace:welcome!
sorry about your family’s plight in snowy Buffalo 🙁
This peace sounds like what you hear when a freight train tries to move before the brakes are fully released. :peace::nixon::paranoid:
I heard the DJ say that he got SJ to become a member..:yippee:
I’m a sucker who can be talked into anything by some sweet-talking guest DJ :omg:
Ahhh… live from downtown Nairobi:ear:
Or maybe live from the Blue Moon.:alc:
SUSAN!
Joy indeed. KBOO is the first thing i’ve been able to stream on my handheld. Download yes, stream not until this one.
THANKYOU!
:banana::banana: Its Roxie :banana::banana:
Hey Roxie 😛
mornin all:
cool station!
hey druid are you out there? I want to talk astrology…
mm astrology. I’m game.
I share the same the same sun sign as Druid and Marc Maron :omg:
I just noticed
yesterday, a series of transits that may be indicative of what’s going to happen re the election. but I need to discuss the possibilities. the following will be greek (or latin rather) to non astrology freaks:
today a t-square forms between mercury, retrograde neptune and moon.
on the 28th, mercury goes retrograde. on the 29th neptune goes direct, so they head back into square aspect, with merc (now conjunct sun) — exact just after the election (12:24 am 11-8 pst ). mercury stays retrograde until 11-17.
mercury = intellect, verbal expression
neptune = illusion, imagination, bodies of water, alcohol, dreams and delusions…
any thots?
Mercury going retro again this soon? Sheesh. Yeah that could screw up communication/political campaigns/messages sent out to the public. And yeah, Neptune is illusions. I know a square is a difficult aspect. I don’t know enough about political astrology to really comment but I find the subject fascinating, if Druid could throw her ten cents in about it I’d be interested.
yeah
maybe a new scandle (or new revelations) or, alternatively, a new “spin” or tactic beginning this afternoon. but the t-square is in fixed signs so it may be hidden.
confusion and misreading of facts beginning 10-28. election issues not resolved until 11-17.????
I don’t know how it aspects u.s. chart, however. or other countries’ for that matter.
interesting, tho.
Yesterday, I listened to Ring of Fire. They talked about the charge that Dems are soft on Terror. The answer to that, said Pap, is, “If Gore had been president there would have been no 9/11 because he would have listened to the warnings.”
I think they are right and that Pap has the perfect response.
Just inside the Vatican’s fortified walls, directly below the street connecting its private pharmacy and its members-only supermarket, lies a 2,000-year-old graveyard littered with bizarre, often disturbing displays of pagan worship. Under one metallic walkway, the headless skeleton of a young boy rests in an open grave. At his side, a marble replica of a hen’s egg, which to pagans represented the rebirth of the body through reincarnation. Nearby, countless skeletons lie scattered among the remnants of terra cotta vases used in pagan ceremonies. The underground air is damp with the smell of wet dirt, and the clay tubes used by the pagans to feed their dead with honey and syrup still protrude, fingerlike, from the ground.
http://tinyurl.com/y7a842
St. Teresa of Avila
Born at Avila, Old Castile, 28 March, 1515; died at Alba de Tormes, 4 Oct., 1582.
The third child of Don Alonso Sanchez de Cepeda by his second wife, Doña Beatriz Davila y Ahumada, who died when the saint was in her fourteenth year, Teresa was brought up by her saintly father, a lover of serious books, and a tender and pious mother. After her death and the marriage of her eldest sister, Teresa was sent for her education to the Augustinian nuns at Avila, but owing to illness she left at the end of eighteen months, 1535, to enter the Carmelite Convent of the Incarnation at Avila, which then counted 140 nuns. The monkeywrench from her family caused her a pain which she ever afterwards compared to that of death. However, her father at once yielded and Teresa took the habit.
Meanwhile God had begun to visit her with “intellectual visions and locutions”, that is manifestations in which the exterior senses were in no way affected, the things seen and the words heard being directly impressed upon her mind, only to the most spiritual confessors she could find, but also to some saintly laymen, who, never suspecting that the account she gave them of her sins was greatly exaggerated, believed these manifestations to be the work of the evil spirit. The more she endeavoured to resist them the more powerfully did God work in her soul. The whole city of Avila was troubled by the reports of the visions of this nun. After many troubles and much opposition St. Teresa founded the convent of shoeless Carmelite Nuns of the Primitive Rule of St. Joseph at Avila (24 Aug., 1562), and after six months obtained permission to take up her residence there. Four years later she received the visit of the General of the Carmelites, John-Baptist Rubeo, who not only approved of what she had done but granted leave for the foundation of other convents of friars as well as nuns. In rapid succession she established her nuns at Medina del Campo (1567), Everywhere she found souls generous enough to embrace the austerities of the primitive rule of Carmel. Having made the acquaintance of Antonio de Heredia, prior of Medina, and St. John of the Cross, she established her reform among the friars (28 Nov., 1568), the first convents being those of Duruelo (1568), Pastrana (1569), Mancera, and Alcalá de Henares (1570).
A new epoch began with the entrance into religion of Jerome Gratian, inasmuch as this old observance in Andalusia, and as such considered himself entitled to overrule the death of the nuncio and the arrival of his successor a fearful storm burst over St. Teresa and her work, she took to her bed and passed away on 4 Oct., 1582, the following day, owing to the reform of the calendar, being reckoned as 15 October. After some years her body was transferred to Avila, but later on reconveyed to Alba, where it is still preserved incorrupt. Her heart, too, showing the marks of the Transverberation, is exposed there to the veneration of the faithful. She was beatified in 1614, and canonized in 1622 by Gregory XV, the feast being fixed on 15 October.
St. Teresa’s position among writers on mystical theology is unique. In all her writings on this subject she deals with her personal experiences, which a deep insight and analytical gifts enabled her to explain clearly. . She herself had no pretension of the Areopagite, the Patristic, or the Scholastic Mystical schools, as represented among others, by the German Dominican Mystics. She is intensely personal, her system going exactly as far as her experiences, but not a step further.
Teresa’s Interior Castles, one of the Western classics on mysticism, describes the journey of a soul towards God–likening it to God walking deeper into concatenated rooms cleaning out the cobwebs along the way.
As the years passed, Teresa was frequently rapt in ecstasy in prayer. Among her spiritual experiences was the remarkable mystical piercing of her heart by a spear of divine love. She wrote a good deal about such things, but she did not give them undue importance, clearly discerning their dangers. She told people about her visions, vowing them to secrecy, but the word got out, making her an object of ridicule and persecution.
When her visions became public knowledge, she was first introduced to a priest, who told her that she was being deluded by the devil– that divine visions were not granted to people who lived a life as flawed as hers. Alarmed, she was encouraged to consult a Jesuit. She did so, and the Jesuit assured her that her visions were divine, but that she must strengthen her mental life. He advised her to resist the visions, and she did so, but in vain.
She nearly fell under the Inquisition because she sought to teach men Illuminati, a movement based on the authority of private revelation and detachment from the sacraments (similar to the Beguines in northern Europe, whose false mysticism was condemned by the Council of Vienne,
The Inquisitors had withdrawn vernacular versions of the Scripture and devotional books from women, and prohibited them from using interior prayer. Teresa wrote her account of her life and way of prayer to clear her name.
She was said to levitate upon occasion. She experienced mystical marriages, and her heart was pierced. She made a vow that she would always do everything that seemed to be the most perfect and most pleasing to God.
She had a wonderful sense of humor; because she was short, she described herself as “half a friar.”
The convent was strictly enclosed and followed a regimen of austerity, including almost constant silence. The nuns wore coarse habits and sandals instead of shoes, and thus were called ‘Discalced’ (‘without shoes’).
Teresa is the classical example of one who combined the life of religious contemplation with an intense activity and common-sense efficiency in ‘practical’ affairs. She recorded the results of both in literary form. She wrote the Way of Perfection and the book of Foundations for the direction of her religious sisters. Teresa writes with authority on revolution, for it was the first work to point to the existence of states between prayer and contemplation.
It is likely that Teresa was of Jewish blood–which made the Inquisition that much more terrifying because it was established to destroy the remnants of Judaism after the ousting of the Moors in 1492, just years before her birth. The Carmelites had many ‘conversos’ or Jewish and Islamic converts, but Teresa forbade any discussion of ancestry within the Carmel.
“God treats his friends terribly, though he does them no wrong in this, since he treated his Son in the same way.”
There is an old Marrano tradition that one member of every generation should enter religious life, in the hope that their influence might protect the family.
Saint Teresa is the patroness of lace-makers, Spanish Catholic writers, the Spanish army and commissariat, and headache sufferers (perhaps due to her own chronic ill health). She is invoked by those in need of grace . ::omg::sdavid::sdavid::sdavid::sdavid::sdavid::sdavid::pent:
:priest:
there he is :pope:
there is an old Marrano tradition that one member of every generation should enter religious life, in the hope that their influence might protect the family.
::everyone gathers around SJ:::: Protect me! Protect me! I don’t care if you’re pagan! At least you believe in something! We don’t know anything about religion except the to send cards out and to bar mitzvah a boy when he turns 13 so we can collect the money people give as presents!!!!
So, the solution in Iraq is to replace one strongman, Sadam, with 5:
IRAQ’S fragile democracy, weakened by mounting chaos and a rapidly rising death toll, is being challenged by calls for the formation of a hardline “government of national salvation”.
The proposal, which is being widely discussed in political and intelligence circles in Baghdad, is to replace the Shi’ite-led government of Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister, with a regime capable of imposing order and confronting the sectarian militias leading the country to the brink of civil war. Dr Saleh al-Mutlak, a prominent Sunni politician, travelled to Arab capitals last week seeking support for the replacement of the present government with a group of five strongmen who would impose martial law and either dissolve parliament or halt its participation in day-to-day government.
ttp://tinyurl.com/yzbe8c
The Gay Old Party Comes Out by Op-Ed Columist Frank Rich
Oct. 15, 2006
PAGING Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council: Here’s a gay Republican story you probably did not hear last week. On Tuesday a card-carrying homosexual, Mark Dybul, was sworn into office at the State Department with his partner holding the Bible. Dr. Dybul, the administration’s new global AIDS coordinator, was flanked by Laura Bush and Condi Rice. In her official remarks, the secretary of state referred to the mother of Dr. Dybul’s partner as his “mother-in-law.”
Could wedding bells be far behind? It was all on display, photo included http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/pix/2006/73788.htm . And while you’re cruising the Internet, a little creative Googling will yield a long list of who else is gay, openly and not, in the highest ranks of both the Bush administration and the Republican hierarchy. The openly gay range from Steve Herbits, the prescient right-hand consultant to Donald Rumsfeld who foresees disaster in Iraq in Bob Woodward’s book “State of Denial,” to Israel Hernandez, the former Bush personal aide and current Commerce Department official whom the president nicknamed “Altoid boy.” (Let’s not go there.)
If anything good has come out of the Foley scandal, it is surely this: The revelation that the political party fond of demonizing homosexuals each election year is as well-stocked with trusted and accomplished gay leaders as virtually every other power center in America. “What you’re really seeing is the Republican Party on the Hill,” says Rich Tafel, the former leader of the gay Log Cabin Republicans whom George W. Bush refused to meet with during the 2000 campaign. “Across the board gay people are in leadership positions.” Yet it is this same party’s Congressional leadership that in 2006 did almost nothing about government spending, Iraq, immigration or ethics reform, but did drop everything to focus on a doomed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriaage.
The split between the Republicans’ outward homophobia and inner gayness isn’t just hypocrisy; it’s pathology. Take the bizarre case of Karl Rove. Every one of his Bush campaigns has been marked by a dirty dealing of the gay card, dating back to the lesbian whispers that pursued Ann Richards when Mr. Bush ousted her as Texas governor in 1994. Yet we now learn from “The Architect,” the recent book by the Texas journalists James Moore and Wayne Slater, that Mr. Rove’s own (and beloved) adoptive father, Louis Rove, was openly gay in the years before his death in 2004. This will be a future case study for psychiatric clinicians as well as historians.
So will Kirk Fordham, the former Congressional aide who worked not only for Mark Foley but also for such gay-baiters as Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma (who gratuitously bragged this year that no one in his family’s “recorded history” was gay) and Senator Mel Martinez of Florida (who vilified his 2004 Republican primary opponent, a fellow conservative, as a tool of the “radical homosexual agenda”). Then again, even Rick Santorum, the Pennsylvania senator who brought up incest and “man-on-dog” sex while decrying same-sex marriage, has employed a gay director of communications. In the G.O.P. such switch-hitting is as second nature as cutting taxes.
As for Mr. Foley, he is no more representative of gay men, whatever their political orientation, than Joey Buttafuoco is of straight men. Yet he’s a useful creep at this historical juncture because his behavior has exposed and will continue to expose a larger dynamic on the right. The longer the aftermath of this scandal continues, with its maniacal finger-pointing and relentless spotlight on the Republican closet, the harder it will be for his party to return to the double-dealing that has made gay Americans election-year bogeymen (and women) for so long.
The moment Mr. Foley’s e-mails became known, we saw that brand of fearmongering and bigotry at full tilt: Bush administration allies exploited the former Congressman’s predatory history to spread the grotesque canard that homosexuality is a direct path to pedophilia. It’s the kind of blood libel that in another era was spread about Jews.
The Family Research Council’s Mr. Perkins, a frequent White House ally and visitor, led the way. “When we elevate tolerance and diversity to the guidepost of public life,” he said on Fox News Channel, “this is what we get — men chasing 16-year-old boys around the halls of Congress.” A related note was struck by The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, which asked, “Could a gay Congressman be quarantined?” The answer was no because “today’s politically correct culture” — tolerance of “private lifestyle choices” — gives predatory gay men a free pass. Newt Gingrich made the same point when he announced on TV that Mr. Foley had not been policed because Republicans “would have been accused of gay bashing.” Translation: Those in favor of gay civil rights would countenance and protect sex offenders.
This line of attack was soon followed by another classic from the annals of anti-Semitism: the shadowy conspiracy. “The secret Capitol Hill homosexual network must be exposed and dismantled,” said Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media, another right-wing outfit that serves as a grass-roots auxiliary to the Bush administration. This network, he claims, was allowed “to infiltrate and manipulate the party apparatus” and worked “behind the scenes to sabotage a conservative pro-family agenda in Congress.”
There are two problems with this theory. First, gay people did not “infiltrate” the party apparatus — they are the party apparatus. Rare is the conservative Republican Congressional leader who does not have a gay staffer wielding clout in a major position. Second, any inference that gay Republicans on the Hill conspired to cover up Mr. Foley’s behavior is preposterous. Mr. Fordham, the gay former Foley aide who spent Thursday testifying under oath about his warnings to Denny Hastert’s staff, is to date the closest this sordid mess has to a whistle-blower, however tardy. So far, the slackers in curbing Mr. Foley over the past three years seem more straight than gay, led by the Buffalo Congressman Tom Reynolds, who is now running a guilt-ridden campaign commercial desperately apologizing to voters.
A Washington Post poll last week found that two-thirds of Americans believe that Democrats would behave just as badly as the Hastert gang in covering up a scandal like this to protect their own power. They are no doubt right. But the reason why the Foley scandal has legs — and why it has upstaged most other news, from the Congressional bill countenancing torture to North Korea’s nuclear test — is not just that sex trumps everything else in a tabloid-besotted America. The Republicans, unlike most Democrats (Joe Lieberman always excepted), can’t stop advertising their “family values,” which is why their pitfalls are as irresistible as a Molière farce. It was entertaining enough to learn that the former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed wanted to go “humping in corporate accounts” with the corrupt gambling lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The only way that comic setup could be topped was by the news that Mr. Foley was chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus. It beggars the imagination that he wasn’t also entrusted with No Child Left Behind.
Cultural conservatives who fell for the G.O.P.’s pious propaganda now look like dupes. Tonight on “60 Minutes,” David Kuo, a former top official in the administration’s faith-based initiatives program, is scheduled to discuss his new book recounting how evangelical supporters were privately ridiculed as “nuts” in the White House. If they have any self-respect, they’ll exact their own revenge.
We must hope as well that this crisis will lead to a repudiation of the ritual targeting of gay people for sport at the top levels of the Republican leadership in and out of the White House. For all the president’s talk of tolerance and “compassionate conservatism,” he has repeatedly joined Congress in wielding same-sex marriage as a club for divisive political purposes. He sat idly by while his secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, attacked a PBS children’s show because an animated rabbit visited a lesbian couple and their children. Ms. Spellings was worried about children being exposed to that “lifestyle” — itself a code word for “deviance” — even as the daughter of the vice president was preparing to expose the country to that lifestyle in a highly promoted book.
“The hypocrisy, the winking and nodding is catching up with the party,” says Mr. Tafel, the former Log Cabin leader. “Republicans must welcome their diversity as the party of Lincoln or purge the party of all gays. The middle ground — we’re a diverse party but we can bash gays too — will no longer work.” He adds that “the ironic point is that the G.O.P. isn’t as homophobic as it pretends to be.” Indeed two likely leading presidential competitors in 2008, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani, are consistent supporters of gay civil rights.
Another ironic point, of course, is that the effort to eradicate AIDS, led by a number of openly gay appointees like Dr. Dybul, may prove to be the single most beneficent achievement of this beleaguered White House. To paraphrase a show tune you’re unlikely to hear around the Family Research Council, isn’t that queer?
White House Upbeat About GOP Prospects
By Michael Abramowitz
Amid widespread panic in the Republican establishment about the coming midterm elections, there are two people whose confidence about GOP prospects strikes even their closest allies as almost inexplicably upbeat: President Bush and his top political adviser, Karl Rove.
Some Republicans on Capitol Hill are bracing for losses of 25 House seats or more. But party operatives say Rove is predicting that, at worst, Republicans will lose only 8 to 10 seats — shy of the 15-seat threshold that would cede control to Democrats for the first time since the 1994 elections and probably hobble the balance of Bush’s second term.
read the full story here.
RIGGED ELECTIONS?:eek::eek::eek:
Yeah, unfortunately many of these races – especially when you get past the top 8 or so – are very close. And if it’s close, they can fix it, either through GOTV efforts, Democratic voter disenfranchisement, or, of course, everybody’s favorite, rigged voting machines and counts. Not just the electronic machines, either. We have the old lever machines here (tell you the truth, before 2000, I thought everybody had those), and you’re just taking it on faith that something’s actually going on in there when you pull that handle over. And then that the results from the machines are being tabulated honestly.
PJ, I talked with Melina on skype late last night. We talked live on my little radio station. I’m hoping everyone here will download skype so we can get together live on the broadcaster and converse about political topics or whatever. I’m going to edit my conversation with Melina and include it in my Monday podcast. We talked over one hour and Kristapea said it sounded good on her end.
Then again, supposedly voter interest is very high this year, and somehow I doubt that’s because people are really, really happy with the way things are. Plus, having Karl Rove call evangelical christians a bunch of “nuts” doesn’t seem like it’ll inspire them to go out and work hard to elect Republicans. So, we’ll just have to see if turnout is high, and Democrats can win by enough of a margin to beat the fix. And if exit polls show a screwjob, we’ll see if US voters have the courage to take to the streets and forcefully (but peacefully) demand what’s right.
Well, that’s cool. I was playing with Free World Dialup a while back, and we had like eight people on at one time. Very confusing (and funny) to have all those disembodied voices out there at once. Especially when you get the folks out there who don’t have headphones, and you can hear the echo from their speakers.
The echo is what made my first skype call from Sean confusing. I used a set of headphones this session with Melina.
I’d like to come up with a time certain each weekend for a call-in show. Let me know what time/day you or anyone else out there thinks would work best.
During the Marc Maron Show. Oh, that’s right…. 🙁
We (at SU) tested a Cell/WiFi VoIP phone (can’t recall the manufacturer) last year that seamlessly switches from WiFi VoIP and back over to cell service if there’s no WiFi available. Worked very well. That’ll be a great thing if the cell providers don’t find a way to kill it. Lots of stuff to work out for SOHO users (like security, authentication, “stickiness” etc), but it would be great to have a phone that would make use of WiFi hotspots (or your home network, even) where available.
Sounds good. Got to get you on skype soon. Maybe you and Melina together on a call? Wish we could get Marc to call us on skype!
Good morning :joe:
Stephanie Miller about to make appearance on CNN to discuss Air America’s situation…just wanted to let everyone know
There’s a comet in the sky: you’re doomed.
For you astrology types (you aren’t serious about that stuff, are you:shock:), there is a comet visible now just afte sunset – Comet SWAN. neat in binocs and a small telescopes. Saw it last night; would have taken some pics but had battery problems. Is it a harbinger of doom for the GOP, or for the hopes of the Dems? My guess is the latter – and I don’t think the October Surprise has happened yet.
One thing the NYT left off is that in addition to the 40 or so countries that could become members of the nuclear club, there are at least that many or more private companies/organizations (ie “non state actors”) that have the necessary expertise and resources to become nuclear capable. Why would a multinational company want to go nuclear? Think about it . . .:reaper:
Morning Kristapea, Susan Joy, Methaz, everyone . . .
Hey, Methaz, is that Nikolai Fedorovsky’s killer comet? ‘Cuz if it’s really gonna hit us in the next couple of weeks, I’m gonna stop worrying about a whole buncha stuff.
Sorry about the bad manners and launching into a doom and gloom post – Good Morning :banana:
Having to work this morning – makes for a darker mood than usual . . .
Perhaps the comet is Karl Rove’s October surprise?
I wonder what Stephanie Miller knows about AAR? Her old man was from Lockport, NY though (in Tom Reynold’s NY-26 Congressional District). How’s that for obscure political trivia?
Oh, and her brother is a two-time Republican loser in NY’s 29th District.
PJ – nah, this one’s on a hyperbolic orbit that’s no where near us. Here’s a picture. Doesn’t look like this in binocs – just a fuzzy blob with a faint spiky tail. In my 6″ telescope you can see a little blue color (the ion tail).
Nikolai’s comet calculations have a misplaced decimal point or two . . .
Damn, I guess I better get the car inspected then.
Good morning all….heading out again….
Is Nicks email address rhubbar5 at yahoo ?
That sure is a pretty comet.
yes, I believe so Melina
The year I met my wife was the year of Halebop. Now that was a comet.
rhubbar7@yahoo.com
thank nick…wish I had been more funny last night. I was tired….maybe we should do it over…..:omg:
I have a 90mm telescope, but there’s so damn much light around here these days (they built a goddamn gas station that has lights on the canopy that light my back yard – and my kitchen – up like it’s high noon), I’m lucky if I can see the moon.
I dunno, Melina, cnick wants you, him, and me to do a three-way. 🙄
Stephanie Miller: Liberal radio is alive and well; AA isn’t the by all and end all; AA failed not because it was liberal but because it has a horrible business plan, radio hosts that succeed, on either side of the fence, will do so because they’re entertaining, not because of their political stance.
So why is she doing so well? Oh, must be the fart jokes.
hey. combine fart jokes with Bush-hatred and you have an audience. It’s not my thing, really, but there is a market for it I guess.
Yay! It’s cool enough to wear my Morning Sedition jersey! :fire:
I’ll take her over the Young Turds, I guess. If I have to hear Yank brag about how he “used” to be a Republican one more time, I’m gonna, um, gonna, well… I’ll be quite irked, darn it.
later guys….wish me luck!!
Good Luck Melina! :gate:
And Ed Schultz. jeeezus, what a loudmouth. He used to be our one “liberal” talker here, but I guess he couldn’t cut it.
Good luck, Melina.
I’m listening back on our conversation from last night right now. You sounded great Melina. No worries.
3 way . . . :rofl2: how ’bout a group? :hubba:
Melina,
Remember to give yourself a break. I know this stuff is exhausting. Good luck.
I saw Stephanie Miller this morning on tv as well. I liked how the host thanked her for getting up early to talk to him. Stupid o’clock and insane o’clock… this was late for her.
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FIRETRUCK!!!
Tonight… LIVE on FreeRadioSAIC.org at 8:00 CENTRAL TIME is GRAND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!!!
An hour of fun and funny featuring the work of Marc Maron, Jim Earl, and the Morning Sedition Players (that’s what I’m calling them now). Oh, and some Lewis Black, Doug Benson, Patton Oswald, and Bill Hicks (aka whatever else you guys want to hear or I want to play).
8 o’clock CENTRAL TIME TONIGHT!!!
Let’s keep the funny alive, people? Please?
TASTE THE FUNNY!!!
:fire::fire::fire::fire::fire:
Significant earthquake on the big island of Hawai’i – mab 6.3-6.5
Everyone aware of Maron’s account on YouTube? Signed up a few days ago and there’s some good new stuff.
Also, Jim Earl’s site has some new stuff. Headlines and some classic Lank and Earl video.
http://71.8.9.181:8000/listen.m3u
Hey wish I could listen..this coffee shop closes in 15 minutes.
I am in Montpelier enjoying the relative quiet in VT and :cold:
so:knit:
So did anyone else catch Gloria Steinam on Bill mahar talking about her new radio network with jane Fonda?
I keep thinking about it and forgetting to mention it here.
Sorry I missed the party last night.
Melina- hang in there does Hi come home today?
my mom got one of those hospital infections once and after that we got her home ASAP.
it nearly killed her and life was bad enough without that..
See you tomorrow.
:cat::cat:
October 16th is National Feral Cat Day!
:billcat: can morph in to :cat: !
I have three in my office – a mom and two surviving kittens (now 2 years old). The mom (maggie) had a litter under the building, four survived long enough to be rescued. Unfortunately they have feline leukemia – two kittens crashed pretty quickly after being rescued, but Maggie and the two survivors (Jackie and Schroeder) are healthy. Schroeder is pretty friendly now; skiddish around outsiders but will sit in my lap, etc. Jackie is more cautious and will sit by me, let me hand her treats, but does not like to be touched. Maggie will sit on my desk and stare at me but any move toward her is met with :evil:.
Rescuing ferals is not for the faint hearted – takes time, $, time, patience, time, and patience. And a good health insurance plan. But it’s worth it the first time you get a meow and head butt from a cat that months before was trying to disembowel you . . .
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/9/12/180204.shtml?s=ic
No time to read this…now being kicked out but.
Looks like I am alone here anyway.
Sorry methaz..my cats were all rescue but scout was feral.:cat:
sblueheron – nothing to apologize for, everything to be proud of! Our house cats are rescues. Depending on their history a rescue can be worse than a feral, depending on how they were treated. Humans are pretty scummy sometimes. Only thing we’re better at than killing each other is mistreating animals.
hey everybody!!…Im home…much the worse for wear.
Didja see Jane and Gloria baking apple pie with Stephen Colbert? He had a “Kiss the Cook” apron on, and they were all over him.
Hey Melina. How’s it all going. I’ve put in those long hospital hours on quite a few occasions, back when my floks were still alive, and it’s incredibly exhausting. Watch out you don’t get so rundown that you wind up in the hospital.
ok passed small dog electronics and vermont teddy bear. wonder if AAR owes them moolah too.
driving around in VT
meeting people for din din soon
ok better go no wifi here either
at least none that I can get in on.
Who the fuck is Stephanie Miller to discuss AAR? She is Jones/ClearChannel. And has AAR failed? I am listening to Laura Flanders on KPOJ right now.
:fu:
I think they thought it would be cute to have someone who was AAR’s competition on to talk to…
this way they can say they have a “liberal” on and have somebody who might even knock AAR. :tommygun:
You’re right, Susan Joy. Aren’t they just too clever.
I’ve started broadcasting and will REALLY broadcasting in 15 minutes…
Grand National Championship!!!
So, Krista was listening to Nick and I live on the air? I wonder if it sounded dumb?…Im so tired today and have been blamed for everything from poor hospital care to starting a load of laundry to bringing canned soup to an empty cuppboard, so Im a little down and was thinking all afternoon that I dont much remember all of our talk, but that I was probably way too tired and not coherent….
Who knows?
Im going to get in bed and see if I can get the SAIC….
Nick I am SO glad that you posted that Frank Rich. If I had any connectivity today I was gonna post it…its a very important piece and everyone should read it.
It is on the select podcasts and you can get that right into your itunes (or I can send it to you) and you can add it to your rotation…
There are a couple of others from this weekend that are good, not to mention that Diggnation has a new one that is excellent.
My favorite listen of the day was Nick’s show from Friday….it was just great!
Maybe thats because I agree on the points…..and it was very funny in parts….maybe because Im punchy….but more likely because of the deadpan sort of humor.
Oh an Nick, I saw a Tshirt in the mall on Friday that said
“Swallow My Pride”
I thought that was pretty funny.
No, you guys didn’t sound dumb. It just sounded like a phone conversation. It sounded as good as any radio station streaming online. It was clear and crisp.
Great….I didnt think that he sounded dumb….it was just me, and if I was too tired. Ive also been driving around NYC at all hours for a week and its a jog down memory lane…really jarring in a way…besides how sick grandpa has been. very scary.
nite nite all….
Nick, if you are editing, be kind!!
Cut out the dumb stuff I said, OK?
God, I miss MS so much! Listening on FreeSAIC….it was so good.
How do I get used to Stephanie Miller? She seems so foreign. Maybe I will just cut down on listening to much of anything.
agreed 110%, melina. good show on saic.
:cres: oh, and ramadan mubarak, folks! :cres:
Oh, drat — I missed Radio SAIC tonight. :no::omg:
Hey, Roxie, my sister runs a good astrology blog and goes into the upcoming transits in this entry.
I listened to Stephanie Miller a bit last week while I was in NC. Her show is sort of like Rachel Maddow’s show now, only with more guys.
AAR failed because it was founded and run by Republican operatives, that’s why. Hopefully someone will buy up the best of the remaining talent (Sam/Randi) and pick up Marc and Malloy off the side of the road where AAR left them, bound and gagged. :spank:
amen, brilliant.
and pick up riley, maddow, and chuck d and maybe find a spot to carry harry shearer as well, in a perfect world
Ghosts of Jewish past haunt Old South Portland
Polina Olsen’s walking tours poignant lessons in living history
By Amy Kaufman
Jewish Review
When Portlander Polina Olsen visited the beautiful old synagogues of the Lower East Side on her last trip to New York, she discovered the world of her grandparents and great-grandparents for the first time. She also found a new avocation.
A software engineer at Hewlett Packard, Olsen became interested in the history of Jewish Portland. She began to gather oral histories and photographs, and she compiled a booklet of illustrations, maps and memories of the area that was home to the “East European Jewish immigrants who settled here in the early 20th century.” Fifty-four blocks of the immigrant community were demolished in a 1958 urban renewal project.
Olsen said she has sold 260 copies of the booklet since March, and her walking tours of Old South Portland have attracted as many as 23 people at a time, including non-Jews who are interested in “all kinds of ethnic and oral history.”
The next walking tour is set for Saturday, Aug. 21. Described as an “easy walk,” it meets at noon at Lair Hill Market, 2823 S.W. 1st Avenue, and ends at 2:30 p.m. “They have a wonderful time and I have a wonderful time. And there’s usually somebody in the group who grew up there, so they tell wonderful stories too,” said Olsen.
The book is filled with the memories of Portlanders who lived in Old South Portland, but the live tour offers some anecdotes that are not in the book, Olsen said.
“For example, a lot of people don’t know there was a community center very close to the Neighborhood House called Manley Center,” she said. “It was run by Methodist missionaries.” Olsen said she found an article in the Neighborhood House newsletter complaining that the missionaries were “trying to convert Jewish kids.”
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makes me really want to take a tour of that area. I should do similar historical research into the areas of the Bronx (other than the one synagogue) that were once Jewish.