Friday, March 30, 2007
Friday: Take Off Your Pants
It's casual Friday, and Sam's relaxing so much, he's even letting his back hair down. Give us a call, we're taking all comers, at 866-303-2270. In the first hour we'll welcome Joe Conason in studio, and after that, we'll host our very own Sam Seder Show Purity Ball. Bring the kiddies close to the radio transmitter, and we'll cleanse their souls. Or at least give them a good bath.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 400 of 478 Newer› Newest»Hey Edna Ellen… The retarded blog post you think describes the Maron situation accurately is total crap. There is still a blog for fans of morning sedition that gets between 60 to 150 comments a day! (www.morningseditionists.com/msblog) Considering that fact how could hundreds of blog comments about that guy be preposterous? im sure a few of those people have written to air america about Maron…… Im also fairly certain they are not the same person seeing as I have met at least ten of them! Ummmmm one last thing Maron no longer has a substance abuse problem he is all cleaned up and off the sauce. I will give you the narcissism. Even with that he still did the right thing by his friend and that’s what counts in the end! Maron owes no such apology!
Google reverts to pre-Katrina maps
Residents irate, suspect foul play as New Orleans goes back in time.
911 Fundamentalism
Everyone that doesn't believe that the towers were bombed and that a missle hit the pentagon is part of the conspiracy.
only 14% of america belives the official story of 9-11.The rest of the world already knows the truth,when will we wake up.
rosie Odonnell has the guts to go public,when will you sam
Please, please, somebody make an argument that if 9/11 were revealed as an inside job that it would change ANYTHING.
I'm not tired of people wanting to investigate 9/11, but I'm DAMNED TIRED of the arrogant '9/11 Inside Job' dorks pretending like somehow their investigation, if proven, would turn everything around, make the crooked places straight and the high places made low.
Bullsh*t. If you finally proved your 9/11 conspiracy we'd be left with the same damned country led by the same damned cretins with the same damned upper-class led power structure.
Some of you 'inside job' types need to man up and realize that your 'inside job' wouldn't fix America and isn't a magic card to pass go and collect $200.
We're done for.
No serious 9-11 truther has ever said that holograms were used in new york.that is misinformation put forth by those whom are trying to discredit the real facts
hey does anyone know where there is an online archive of the Sam Seder show?
i want to hear the damage
-conbo
They must have mind control holograms that control Sam. He isn't a 911 Truth believer so he is part of the problem. If you don't agree then you are part of the conspiracy.
Sam,
http://debunking911.com/ explains why the conspiracy theorists are way off base. Check it out.
THIS IS SCOTT, THE LIBERTARIAN -
I JUST SPOKE TO SAM ABOUT 911 - HE KEPT ME ON FOR A SECOND AND THEN CUT ME OFF IN SUCH A WAY THAT I COULD TALK BUT YOU COULDN'T HEAR ME.
SAM KNOWS THE TRUTH.HE USES EVERY FORM OF ATTACK TO CHARACTERIZE 911 TRUTH RESEARCHERS AS WACKOS.
THEY ARE NOT WACKOS.
WAKE UP.
SAM SERVES THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM AND THEY SERVE ON MASTER.
WATCH
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6708190071483512003
Thank you, Scott.
Please stop shouting
C'mon 'Insider Jobbers'!! Now's your chance. I'm asking.
Make one damn argument that proving that 9/11 was an Inside Job would change much.
C'mon. C'mon now. Make your argument.
Convince us that proving 9/11 was an Inside Job would change a whole helluva lot.
Or is that what you're afraid of: you're afraid that even if you proved that 9/11 Was An Inside Job that the unicorns wouldn't come out to play, that the pots of gold wouldn't appear at the ends of the rainbows, that the news media would suddenly start telling the truth...
C'mon. Chicken?
Am I taking crazy pills or are the ditto heads calling in and repeating something that is far far from logic? Saddam something 19 something UN. I remember this lie from years ago and it was nonsense then. Let's assume that he did still have the weapons that Rummy sold him, which it is a proven fact that he did not. But if he did, so what? WTF does that have to do with us, Bin Laden, 9/11, or our safety in general. These morons make me feel crazy. There should be some brain type filter inserted into conservative mouths which checks for continuity from sentence to sentence, and it should be compulsory. Don't talking points at least have to logically follow anymore or is blind cowardliness just standard for the right?
HAY SAM - FREE SPEECH IS GREAT AIN'T IT.
YOUR ZOMBIES ARE OUT IN FORCE ON YOUR BLOG!!!
WATCH http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6708190071483512003
SCOTT
Ok
be honest....
Just how stupid did I sound?
-conbo
//Please, please, somebody make an argument that if 9/11 were revealed as an inside job that it would change ANYTHING.//
LMAO!!
you mean you can't imagine that if people found out that 9/11 was a false flag operation there wouldn't be violent upheaval
(oh, well)
Gee, Scott was typing in all caps so he must be right. I guess it is the chip in my head that keeps me from seeing the truth that "everyone else in the world knows!"
scott...we aren't zombies
ft love of god
-conbo
Brownback pushes private Soc. Sec. accounts
"we've just begun to fight!"
oh, connie
fuck up
that's was so half-an-hour ago
enbuenora, IF 911 WERE ACCEPTED AS AN INSIDE JOB BUSH WOULD BE IN PRISON.
WAKE UP
SCOTT
Scott, many of us question the official line on 9/11. I definitely don't buy the official report. Shouting about us being zombies will not help.
Relax Connie. I made a mistake too. Was watching CNN and they bannered the Senate passes the Iraq bill, didn't say it was yesterday.
3 yr anniversary party on monday!
you mean you can't imagine that if people found out that 9/11 was a false flag operation there wouldn't be violent upheaval
(oh, well)
March 30, 2007 8:56 AM
----------------------------
Yes. I believe that. If you think for one minute that a society which concealed a 9/11 Inside Job couldn't also safely channel citizen anger into a few convictions, a few weeks of 24 hour news coverage, and sappy made-for-TV movies, you're just as naive and babyish as I thought.
This is why you're naive. You're a combination of Superman-comic book fans and Maoist pseudo-revolutionaries.
You think proving one conspiracy would magically make the country better, and all the big manly patriots would come out of their houses with their muskets and put the government right.
You're wrong. You could even be right about 9/11, but you're extremely stupid and naive about how revealing that would make America magically better.
and scott,
don't thrust your "axe to grind" down sammy's throat
Relax Connie. I made a mistake too. Was watching CNN and they bannered the Senate passes the Iraq bill, didn't say it was yesterday.
yeah, but you don't go on the radio and annouce it
-conbo
oh well. time to start my day
:)
laters
As for WAKING UP, well, I'm taking a nap.
Peaches, folks.
(ya sounded fine, #)
Sam,
Doesn't the title conjure up a weird feeling? I think it has an incestious overtone. My question is where is the mother-son purity ball?
Not to be gross but this gives a new meaning to the song "Daddies Little Girl"
No sex please, we're daddy's little girls
by Jocelyne Zablit
WASHINGTON (AFP) - It has all the ingredients of a wedding. The proud tuxedo-clad father, the frosted white cake, the limousines and an exchange of vows.
But there is no groom and the girl in the long gown is no bride. She's daddy's little girl, there to take a vow of chastity.
In what is becoming a trend among conservative Christians in the United States, girls as young as nine are pledging to their fathers to remain virgins until they wed, in elaborate ceremonies dubbed "Purity Balls."
The gala affairs are intended to celebrate the father-daughter relationship.
The highlight is when the fathers and daughters exchange vows, with dad signing a covenant to protect his daughter's chastity by living an unblemished life and the daughter promising not to have sex until marriage.
Many fathers at the ceremonies also slip "purity rings" around the finger of their misty-eyed daughters or offer them "chastity bracelets" and other jewelry that the girls can entrust to their husbands on their wedding night.
"The father makes a pledge that he is going to keep his mind pure and be faithful to her mother and there is also a time when there is a conversation about putting the right kinds of things in your mind, such as the father not using pornography," Leslee Unruh, founder of Abstinence Clearinghouse, a leader in the so-called purity movement, told AFP in describing the balls.
She said some 1,400 Purity Balls were held across the United States in 2006, mainly in the south and midwest, and double that number were expected to take place this year.
Mike Parcha, who recently attended one of these balls with his 11-year-old daughter Lora in the western state of Colorado, said the events reinforce his family's Christian beliefs.
"We realize that purity is a lifestyle, not an event, and this is just a celebration of that lifestyle and of that relationship that I have with my daughters," he said. "The ball is a culmination of the relationship we have with God and with each other."
He said his three daughters have looked forward to attending the balls and have no qualms about pledging to remain virgins until marriage.
"They are just all for it, they think it's the greatest thing," said Parcha, 43, who is a college math teacher. "We raise our children as Christians, we share the same beliefs .... and we're on the same page.
"It's not like there is a tug of war of any kind going on."
His two older daughters, aged 11 and 18, have attended the balls while the youngest, aged 4, must wait a few years. The three girls, along with their three brothers, are all home schooled. Parcha's oldest daughter Christy, who recently graduated from high school, is now working on a fictional book about "the emotional purity of a young girl as she grows up."
The first Purity Ball in the United States was organized in 1998 by Generations of Light, a popular Christian ministry based in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Randy Wilson, who runs the ministry with his wife, said the idea was to create an event that celebrates the bonds between father and daughter.
"We saw that in our culture there wasn't a place for the father to work for a good relationship with his daughter," Wilson told AFP. "So this (relationship) allows the daughter to become a stronger person in her culture as she is bombarded with all the sexual images that are out there."
Wilson, who has five daughters, said the balls have become so popular over the years that there is now a waiting list for those wishing to attend.
Enquiries are also pouring in from aboard with organizations or churches in New Zealand, Britain and other countries asking for guidance on how to organize such gatherings.
The popularity of the balls in the United States, especially among evangelical Christians, mirrors the Bush administration's support of abstinence education in US schools. The government's funding for such initiatives has more than doubled in recent years to 206 million dollars (150 million euros).
But critics say that while teaching abstinence to children may be laudable, it is just as essential to make them aware of sexually transmitted diseases and condom use.
They also point to studies showing that the majority of adolescents who take purity pledges break them within a few years, often by engaging in risky and unprotected sex.
One study conducted by researchers at the universities of Columbia and Yale found that 88 percent of pledgers wind up having sex before marriage.
"Unfortunately these young people tend, once they start to have sex, to have more partners in a shorter period of time and to use contraception much less than their non-pledging peers," said Debra Hauser, executive vice president at Advocates for Youth, a Washington-based non-profit organization.
"Teens may pledge with the best of intention... and then as they break their pledges they are so shamed and embarrassed that it's unlikely they will go for help."
I'm having trouble getting AIM for some reason. I have googletalk, but that doesn't work, does it?
Sammycam rarley works for me, never on Friday. Every Thurs. and Fri. my internets slow to a crawl, and don't pick up again until about 5pm on Fri.
Oi!, and my lower back...
hee
Oh well.
Happy 3 years everybody.
That was pretty funny...I IM'd Sam the B&W Erotica site... *tee hee* :)
WTF SAM!
Last two day? The Sammy Cam was still on.
hay Sam-
what is your motive for ignoring the evidence.
you clearly know about legitimate researches like physicist steven jones from BYU.
what could you motive be.
controlling the zombies who can't think for themselves???
FREE THE PEOPLE....NOW
SCOTT
ok, enbuenora
but you're the one that asked
(i didn't do a scotty on you)
enbuenora said...
Please, please, somebody make an argument that if 9/11 were revealed as an inside job that it would change ANYTHING.
You're right, just look at Mika and Mike. They still believe what they believe despite facts to the contrary. If we find out 9/11 was an inside job, they would just rationalize it.
Don't get me wrong I DO want the truth to come out. But we have to clean up the environment. stop global warming and invest in health care and education, because clearly evident is that Mike and Mika, and others like them, are suffering and intend to make us suffer with them.
Trillion is great...you can be signed on to all IM programs @ once
d/l Here
Did I just hear correctly on the post show video feed that they need to make an announcement that next week will be Sam's last?
its the last week of the sam seder show tune into the last two shows thursday and friday….. are they fucking with sammy cam viewers? anybody else catch that?
What did Sam say about next week being the last two shows? Is he kidding? Someone tell me now!!!!!!!
L@L sez:
Anonymous said...
LIBERTARIAN...buzz word for Republican Lite
March 30, 2007 8:45 AM
Nah. Sen. Snowe & that ilk are republican-lites.
Libertarians are fiscal conservatives/Tories on crack.
Yeah! Did I miss out on a running joke......please let it be a joke of some sort...
Ok crazy ass libertarians win! 9/11 may have been inside job. File this under Bush crimes investigation number 68. If you are assigned this one and you are a US attorney watch your butt. This is not the fault of the two party system, whether it was inside or outside job the responsibility still lies with the uber terrible Bush administration. The constitution has not been shredded, it is safely housed in the National archives.
enbuenora,
should we shut our mouths and let o'reilly tell the troops that they're fighting & dying for a noble cause
Giuliani Acknowledges Hearing of Kerik Mob Ties
The New York Times is reporting former New York mayor and Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani has given grand jury testimony that differs from what he previously said about his knowledge of former police commissioner Bernard Kerik. Giuliani claimed he had no knowledge of Kerik’s links to a company accused of mob ties when Giualiani supported his bid for police commissioner and later as head of homeland security. But in the newly-revealed testimony, Giuliani said his former chief investigator told him he had briefed Giuliani on some aspects of the case. Giuliani says he does not remember the briefing but is not disputing his investigator’s recollection. Kerik pleaded guilty last year to letting the company conduct more than one hundred thousand dollars in free renovations to his Bronx apartment.
SHow mp3
did anyone catch that mention of a promo for what dounded like the "last two days of the show?"
I thought I heard you say last two days too. That would be a drag.
No, that's what they said. He's either changing the name of the show, or the show is done.
WTF
Yeh, I heard that to.....last week for Seder? Jeez, it's bad enough I had to list to Sam (Greenfield) & Armstrong. Who'se gonna replace Seder - Laurita Doan???
Saying that you think or feel that there would be a 'violent upheaval' would happen by citizens if a 9/11 Inside Job were proven isn't an argument.
It's an assumption.
It also has nothing to do with my question that much would change.
Again, there could be 'violent' actions, quickly repressed by police, and a few people (probably not Bush Jr. or Cheney, they'd claim plausible deniability) would go to jail.
Violent upheaval done, system restored, back to normal operations.
So far the '9/11 Insider Jobbers' don't make an argument that things would change, they just casually throw out the assumption that Proving 9/11 Was An Inside Job WOULD JUST CHANGE EVERYTHING, IT JUST WOULD.
I don't buy it. I don't buy the lazy assumption and I don't buy the pathetic, over-the-top martyr / pseudo-revolutionary attitude of the 9/11 Insider Jobbers.
They spend so much time obsessing about every microsecond of the Twin Towers, but apparently they can't sit down for one minute to argue that Proving 9/11 Was An Inside Job would bring the ponies and magic singing angels they imply.
lol, shell
did you i.m. sam the cherry-pie site
-
No, I IM'd him that and the Chevalier tune.
enbuenora
quite frankly i don't know exactly how it would pan out
but it wouldn't be pretty
lol, waits
(cool)
I think Sam mentioned earlier this week that he would be out a couple of days for Passover. Hopefully, that is what was being referred to.
SAM - BUILDINGS CANNOT FALL AT FREEFALL SPEED. 10 SECONDS!!!
WHAT A JOKE.
NO STEEL FRAMED BUILDING HAS EVER COLLASPED DUE TO FIRE....NEVER.
SOME CONSPIRACY THEORY.
WHAT IS YOUR MOTIVE FOR MISINFORMING AMERICANS ABOUT THE 911 MURDERS??
SCOTT
"He's either changing the name of the show, or the show is done."
Possible...
we'll see. might get Sammer back on the blog.
He said tune in for the last two days of the show, and then something about only having to get through three days next week.
Or something.
Anyway, can't stay.
Many blessings
can you blog during passover?
Just before Sam re-read the promo copy for Monday, Justin (or whoever that was) was saying something about Sam's last two days on Air America. But when he repeated it, he said "last two days of 'The Sam Seder Show.'" Either way, it's ominous.
With the Sammy Cam still on I clearly heard Dan Pashman say they will make a promo on Monday saying this is the last week of the Sam Seder Show. This sucks!
Sam will do fine without AAR. He's smart and creative. It's a real loss for the rest of us.
I hope he can stay on the radio. Maybe with Nova M. This is really sad news.
enbuenora
remember that you asked how "anything" would change
and i provided a "something"
that's all
then you dismissively labelled it an "assumption"
What is the TV show that you're involved in now and what role will you
play in its production?
I'm working on a series for Adult Swim called "Lucy, Daughter of the Devil," which was created by Loren Bouchard. The show is about Satan's relationship with his daughter Lucy, who bartends at a crappy chain restaurant in San Francisco and dates a guy named DJ Jesus (pronounced hey-soos). I'm writing, dialog editing and doing other production-related jobs for the show. Jon Benjamin plays Satan, Jon Glaser plays DJ Jesus and Melissa Galsky plays Lucy.
Sam Seder, Todd Barry and Eugene Mirman are also in the cast. The show is supposed to air later this year.
http://www.gothamist.com/2007/03/30/holly_schlesing.php
Show's over!
Time to get back to regular
infighting.
Ono, you pluck the first eyeball!
SAM - SEE HOW YOUR ZOMBIES WAX SAD ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF YOUR LEAVING....
DO THEY KNOW THEY ARE SHEEPOPLE BEING LEAD TO THE SLAUGHTER.
WAKE UP.
SAM SERVES THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM AND THAT SYSTEM SERVES ONE MASTER.
SCOTT
The new boss is the same as the old boss: A moron for cancelling the Sam Seder Show. This is a blow to progressive activism via the radio.
yeah, scotty
everyone's involved in the cover-up
sam, hannity, enbuenora, the old lady down the road
have you asked her why she isn't screaming from the top of her lungs that 9/11 was an inside job...
i'd keep an eye on her
actually what he said was last two days.
don't go off half-cocked
I think ANY CURIOUS person knows who planted the thermite charges in the Towers and Building 7.
And I think we know that Sam SEDER, despite his claims to being a "tough on Israel" progressive won't let the virtual state of war that exists between us and the Zionists become public or gain credibility!!!
FRIDAY, MARCH 30
Impeachment Banner Fridays at 6:45 to 8 a.m. on the Berkeley Pedestrian bridge between Seabreeze Market and the Berkeley Aquatic Park, ongoing on Fridays until impeachment is realized. www. Impeachbush-cheney.com
no time, puddles
gtg sleepies
and just when it was starting to get good
(darn)
Maybe Sam is just taking a spring break.
Let's hope.
the 2 hysterical protagonists
and me, air-ono, the cool guy, doing his cool jig in between
What happened to Meg, Nobody, Peter Dragon, etc.?
Where did everybody go?
Oh wow! Phil Zimbardo was on DN this morning! He wrote a new book... cool.
HAY air-ono
here's the dirty little secret -
air america isn't about freeing anyone.
it exists to provide the illusion of a difference so you'll waste your time on phoney issues that are window dressing for the mob.
scott
Sam was fired because he let Scott
TELL THE TRUTH on his show. Anyone that doesn't believe this explanation is part of the cover up.
Meg popped in recently,
PD has'nt signed in lately.
lotta peeps using new sigs as well.
Anonymous said...
SCOTT
supposing this is all completey true...
what are we supposed to do?
go onto blogs and type in all caps?
-conbo
March 30, 2007 8:41 AM
IT COULDNT HURT
SCOTT ALL-IN-CAPS
"it exists to provide the illusion of a difference so you'll waste your time on phoney issues that are window dressing for the mob."
we've discussed exactly what the deal was with AAR many times.
the shows the show, the blog is a community.
that was evolutionary.
Sam's a good head,
doing his best.
[ok, last post]
scott,
say what you will about aar
but i doubt there's a blog in the world that is as wild as sam's
anything & everything has been talked about
has he banned you
has he banned me
NO! & NO!
that's because sam is the man
SunshineJim said...
"it exists to provide the illusion of a difference so you'll waste your time on phoney issues that are window dressing for the mob."
we've discussed exactly what the deal was with AAR many times.
the shows the show, the blog is a community.
that was evolutionary.
Sam's a good head,
doing his best.
March 30, 2007 9:32 AM
HE'S A LIAR WHO CHOOSES DISIMFORMATION OVER FREEDOM.
ALL-IN-CAPS SCOTT
god I can't get over what a jack ass i am
i was fooled by satire!
satire fg sake!
i write satire bs all the time!
-conbo
if i was to place into a capusle the embodiment of the human condition
it would be this blog
(VIVA THIS BLOG!)
is there an archive for the shows anymore?
-conbo
AO!
STFU! dear.
HE'S A LIAR WHO CHOOSES DISIMFORMATION OVER FREEDOM.
ALL-IN-CAPS SCOTT
March 30, 2007 9:37 AM
Is he a liar because he doesn't believe your theory? That makes many people liars.
Because he disagrees with you on this issue, he's a bad person?
Even on this blog there are many who believe that 9/11 was an inside job and many don't. But to call someone a bad person if they disagree with you is wrong.
And the way people have been for the past six years, I doubt you'd get the response you want even if it were proved 9/11 was inside.
This is not the 60's. Believe me I know because that was my generation and it was hard even then to get people to believe that Viet Nam was wrong. Some still don't believe it was wrong.
Calm down. When you get overwrought you don't think right and this gov't , you have to be a step ahead of!
awake you sleeping idiots. it is not satire but SATORI.
so deep in sleep you are that your can't entertain that you are followers that are being led away....
here it is for the slow among you:
steel frame buildings don't collaspe because of fire...
collasping buildings cannot fall at free fall speed (10 seconds)
the inner core of the towers evaporated
there was molten metal in the basement of the towers for 3 months
thermite was used to bring the buildings down at freefall speed.
ALL-IN-CAPS SCOTT
Anonymous said...
it exists to provide the illusion of a difference so you'll waste your time on phoney issues that are window dressing for the mob.
scott
March 30, 2007 9:26 AM
I can't argue with that....
archive for the shows anymore?
a pod cast archive here, u can use any email for the sign up:
http://am1090seattle.com/pages/84914.php?contentType=34&contentId=1199
you have to have XM
in order to hear it
-conbo
nice
Peace...Later
Damn! It looks like I missed a good time today ... Conbo called in for crissakes!
Conbo! Why didn't you call me and let me know I should stop what I'm doing and listen to the show?
Sam's show is FINALLY over!!
April Fools!!!!
You guys are silly.
Sam's show has been over for 3 years.
Remember, El Gare-Doggo said it himself... and you know he is the prognosticator supreme! He said it every day for ... almost 3 years.
Whee!!!!!!!
Are we having fun yet?
Democratic Committee requests deposition from Secretary of State RAW STORY
Published: Friday March 30, 2007
The House Government Committee today formally requested Secretary Rice to testify before the Oversight Committee on April 18th regarding the Bush administration's claims that Iraq sought uranium from Niger, White House treatment of classified information, the appointment of Ambassador Jones as "special coordinator" for Iraq, and other subjects.
The following letter, sent to the Secretary of State today, was acquired by RAW STORY.
LINK
Where to Protest
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2007-03-30 14:38. Activism
GOP 2008
Friday, March 30, 2007
BROWNBACK
UPDATED* BROWNBACK in Manalapan, FL: At 2:50 PM, Senator Brownback
addresses the Club for Growth’s annual winter meeting. He unveils his
plan for solving the social security problem. [Sun Sentinel. 3/29/07]
GINGRICH
UPDATED* GINGRICH in Atlanta, GA: At 8:00 AM, Newt Gingrich delivered a
speech to the Association of American Medical Colleges at the Ritz
Carlton. [Newt.org]
UPDATED* GINGRICH in Manalapan, FL: At 7:00 PM, Newt Gingrich delivers
a speech to the Club for Growth. [Newt.org]
GIULIANI
GIULIANI on TV: At 10:00 PM, Rudy and Judith Giuliani appear in an
interview on ABC's "20/20" program. [Newsday, 3/29/07]
GIULIANI in Salt Lake City, UT: Rudy Giuliani attends a fundraiser that
is expected to raise $200,000 at the home of former Salt Lake County
Council member Steve Harmsen. [The Salt Lake Tribune, 3/1/07]
McCAIN
No Public Events
ROMNEY
NEW* ANN ROMNEY in Washington, DC: At 7:00 PM, Ann Romney keynotes the
National Federation of Republican Women Spring Meeting at the
Renaissance Washington Hotel. [CNN Political Ticker, 3/30/07]
ROMNEY in Palm Beach, FL: Mitt Romney attends a fundraiser. [Hotline,
3/27/07]
Saturday, March 31, 2007
GINGRICH
GINGRICH in Washington, DC: At 1:00 PM, Newt Gingrich delivers a speech
to the National Federation of Republican Women at the Renaissance
Washington Hotel. [Newt.org]
GIULIANI
UPDATED* GIULIANI in Manalapan, FL: Rudy Giuliani addresses the Club
for Growth’s annual winter meeting. [Sun Sentinel, 3/29/07]
HUCKABEE
HUCKABEE in Washington, DC: Governor Huckabee attends the Gridiron
Dinner. [Hotline, 3/29/07]
HUNTER
HUNTER in Webster City, IA: At 6:00 PM, Representative Duncan Hunter
speaks to the Century Club of Hamilton County at the Bridge.
[IowaGOP.org, 3/7/07; GoHunter08.com]
McCAIN
No Public Events
PAUL
PAUL in Concord, NH: At 2:00 PM, Ron Paul builds Ron Paul's unofficial
NH volunteer network. [NHGOP.org]
ROMNEY
ROMNEY in Washington, DC: Mitt Romney attends the Gridiron Club Dinner.
[Hotline, 3/27/07]
THOMPSON
NEW* THOMPSON in Washington, IA: At 8:30 AM, Tommy Thompson has
breakfast with the Washington County GOP at Breadeaux Pizza.
[IowaGOP.org]
thanks Sunny J!
-conbo
Did anybody take off their pants?
catherine i made a jackass of myself...
always in character
-conbo
all this blog proves is the power of the cult of personality.
oh sammy this oh sammy that oh sammy so great oh sammy is great oh i'll miss sammy....
you know the dead don't care how clever you all are.
122 billion was voted yesterday to contiue the killing that started on 911.
SATORI not satire - wake up
ALL-IN CAPS SCOTT
Connie...looky here!
Panel Asks Rove for Information on '08 Election Presentation
By Scott Higham and Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, March 30, 2007; A05
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sought more information yesterday about a presentation by a White House aide given to political appointees at the General Services Administration that discussed targeting 20 Democratic congressional candidates in the next election.
In a letter to White House political affairs director Karl Rove, the committee chairman, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), asked about the Jan. 26 videoconference by Rove deputy J. Scott Jennings, which was directed to the chief of the GSA and as many as 40 agency officials stationed around the country.
Jennings's 28-page presentation included 2006 election results and listed the names of Democratic candidates considered beatable and Republican lawmakers thought to need help. At a hearing Wednesday about the GSA, Waxman said the presentation and follow-up remarks allegedly made by agency chief Lurita Alexis Doan may have violated the Hatch Act, a law that restricts federal agencies and employees from using their positions for political purposes.
In yesterday's letter, Waxman asked Rove who prepared the presentation and whether Rove or Jennings consulted with anyone about whether it might be in violation of the Hatch Act. Waxman also asked whether Rove or any members of his staff have given the same or similar PowerPoint presentations to political appointees at other government agencies.
The PowerPoint presentation was a focus of Waxman's hearing Wednesday into Doan's 10-month tenure and into allegations that she has acted inappropriately. Doan denied the allegations at the hearing.
LINK
SunshineJim said...
can you blog during passover?
March 30, 2007 9:17 AM
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Sure you can but only on a kosher blog after turning your yarmulke inside out.
I know where Nobody is ...
Shhh...
He's on Conbo's doorstep at this minute with a small herd of goats...
***
*Boo*
Looks like Rove's aid Jennings is going to "resign".
More later!
my tinfoil lined yarmulke might come in handy!
Key Rove aide fingered in US Attorney investigation to step down; Could face subpoena Michael Roston
Published: Friday March 30, 2007
Multiple sources reported today that a top aide to President George W. Bush's key adviser Karl Rove will soon step down from her job in the White House. The aide, Sara M. Taylor, was identified in yesterday's hearing with a former top Justice Department official as seeking the resignation of a US Attorney in Arkansas. She could still face a subpoena, RAW STORY learned.
Last week, the House and Senate Judiciary Committees authorized subpoenas of Scott Jennings, a deputy to Taylor, who is a top aide to Karl Rove. A House Judiciary Committee aide told RAW STORY she could still face a subpoena today.
"The people for whom subpoenas were authorized were a result of the document review, and it could be could be that Jennings' name was more prevalent," said a House Judiciary Committee aide. "Other subpoenas can be authorized or issued should any other names come up."
Taylor and Jennings were both fingered yesterday by Kyle Sampson, the former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, as playing key roles in the elevation of Tim Griffin, a top staffer in the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign and a Army Judge Advocate General, as the interim US Attorney for Arkansas in place of Bud Cummins.
LINK
catherine i made a jackass of myself...
always in character
-conbo
******
Well good for you, dammit!
April Fools!
toniD said...
Looks like Rove's aid Jennings is going to "resign".
More later!
***
Good!
She kinda shoulda done that earlier. Maybe gotten all "lawyered up" as they say. It woudl have been wiser to do that BEFORE she went to ansewr questoins at the hearing.
D'Oh!
Hi Sam,
Having just heard that next week will be the final week of your show, I am incenced and outraged. I know you've been hinting this might happen, but to find out it's true, fills me with anger and disgust.
Your show has been an incredible tonic to my mornings. And right now I'm feeling as betrayed by Air America as I did when they dumped Lizz Winstead and Maron.
In any event, the following is a copy of the email I just fired off to the management of Air America. I hope my fellow listeners will do the same and inundate these morons, letting them know just what a betrayal of trust with their listeners this is.
As for you, while I know you'll land on your feet, I'm filled with a sense of sadness and loss that a voice I have counted on to give me truth laced with humor and a modicum of sanity, will be gone from the airwaves. Please let us know where you land so we can follow and contiue to listen. And best of luck!
Sincerely,
Jonathan Marten
To the Management of Air America Radio:
As a loyal and grateful listener to Air America since day one, and a native New Yorker, I was thrilled to hear the Green family was taking over the station. Given the family’s contributions to NYC, my feeling was this could only bode well for the future of air America. Now, in two fell swoops, my level of disgust for the management of Air America, my dismay at its on-air practices, and my need to find a new Progressive voice on the airwaves seems to be renewed.
I have just learned that next week will be the final week of The Sam Seder Show. For the first time since Air America unceremoniously bounced the great Lizz Winstead, Marc Maron, and Mike Malloy, you finally have a morning worth listening to again (I refer to the combination of The Young Turks and Mr. Seder), and now you’ve set out to destroy that too.
It’s not bad enough that on the “Flagship station” for America’s “Progressive voice” you have to stream over the web or listen via XM satellite to avoid the right-wing prattling of a hack like Armstrong Williams and his pathetic sidekick, Sam Greenfield (the Alan Colmes to Williams’s Sean Hannity), but now you’re getting rid of Sam Seder, other than Randy Rhodes, the best progressive voice you have left and a godsend to those of us begging to here intelligence, wit and truth in the morning!
At this juncture I have to ask, what the hell is wrong with you people???
Don’t get me wrong. I love Rachel Maddow. And I have a great deal of respect for Thom Hartmann, although I wish he would stop giving so many right-wing apologists the additional air-time to spew their lies. But the continued changing and weakening of the Air America lineup is disturbing, at best. I can only hope that Messrs. Seder and Maron, like Mr. Malloy before them, line up shows on another network so those of us feeling bereft of the early promise of Air America, have someplace to go for the hope and honesty these people have shown us.
And to the Green brothers, shame on you. You have either sold your Progressive audience out, or are being led to by “radio professionals” who don’t seem to understand the Air America audience.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Marten
Like a house of cards...........!!!
They are falling.......
.
.
.
*splat*
ALL IN CAPS SCOTT is kinda funny.
kinda.
It needs WORK.
House Committee requests deposition of former Rove assistant in connection with Abramoff RAW STORY
Published: Friday March 30, 2007
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today requested that former Special Assistant to the President, Susan Ralston, appear at a deposition on Apr. 5th, as part of the committee's ongoing investigation into the connection between the White House and lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Ralston, who was a deputy to White House Adviser Karl Rove between 2001 and 2006, appeared frequently in emails collected in the case.
The Committee found that Ralston had 69 contacts with Abramoff or his associates during that time, according to a letter sent by Committee Chair Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA).
The following letter, sent to the Susan Ralston Friday, was acquired by RAW STORY.
LINK
damn
they only have the 29th's show on that site
-conbo
http://dotherightthing.com/
From mutual funds to co-ops, there is a large audience for information relating to how socially conscious companies are, and that audience is the target for start-up do the right thing.com, a news aggregator that relates specifically to how well companies do in the area of public perception.
http://dotherightthing.com/
March 30-April 1, 2007 -- Covert shenanigans in Africa. The "usual suspects" are involved.
Our intelligence sources in Africa report that the recent rebellion in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by forces loyal to Jean-Pierre Bemba, the warlord who was defeated in the recent presidential election by current President Joseph Kabila, was supported by U.S. and other Western intelligence services. At least 600 people died in the violence in Congo, which was mainly centered in the capital of Kinshasa. Bemba, the leader of the Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC), took refuse in the embassy of South Africa after his rebellion was put down by the national army. Congo's prosecutor general has indicted Bemba for treason and inciting rebellion. A search of MLC storage facilities revealed that Bemba's supporters had been wearing new uniforms of the Congolese National Army to commit atrocities in Kinshasa that would later be blamed on Kabila.
LINK
The House that Rove built
*sob*
-conbo
if the show ended tomorrow
what would you take with you?
wow, Rove's aid might resign...how incredible.
what progress we've made toward a free and informed nation!@!!!
911 -
a new and real investigation
steel buildings do not collaspe from fire
molten metal burned for 3 months in the tower basements
buildings do not collaspe at free fall speed
WAKE UP
Rove's aid is not the issue. Gonzales is not the issue. Dept of Justice emails is not the issue...
Distraction, distraction, distraction.......
ALL-IN-CAPS SCOTT
if the show ends tommorrow I am going to listen to Stephanie Miller
-conbo
I'll be sad, sure, but Sam is not the only liberal host out there
Scott
In all caps, (respectively)
9/11 was indeed a bit of scam. But no one knows for sure in what way...it doesn't pass the sniff test for sure.
Time marches on however.
The US is going to attack Iran very soon on false pretenses. All you can do is just hang in there and find the humor in all of it.
Sounds sick, I know, but I find fascism hilarious.
-conbo
I am not laughing at the people who have died either.
Just the big picture is...hilarious
i'd take memories of the whole experience, thousands of sites visited, maybe 60,000 articles, and countless examples of courage.
took guts to call Sam #.
what it is!
I will take the funny bickering between Sammy and Janey....the Sunny greetings from Jim for three years...Tonid's GREAT effort to keep us informed and snipe at trolls after she's been pushed to the hilt...the great discussions between dr and Nobs....Crank's sharp wit and terrific writing.....Chubb's ongoing
probs and frustrations and on and on and on.
This be da place!
Baby Blue
Bob Dylan
You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last.
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast.
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun,
Crying like a fire in the sun.
Look out the saints are comin' through
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense.
Take what you have gathered from coincidence.
The empty-handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets.
This sky, too, is folding under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home.
All your reindeer armies, are all going home.
The lover who just walked out your door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor.
The carpet, too, is moving under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.
Strike another match, go start anew
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
took guts to call Sam #.
what it is!
hahahahaha
Breaking News from the Onion!
-conbo
I didn't mean to leave out RWiley...who's work has been terrific...Shell and Alice...and even Ono, weird as he is.
My point is that a lot of good reading has come from this blog for me and I am grateful!
High fives Noodles Jefferson!
right on bud!
who could have guessed that America would taken down from an introverted ex-morman from Utah?
hahahaha!
See it really is funny.
-conbo
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
I see the bad moon arising.
I see trouble on the way.
I see earthquakes and lightning.
I see bad times today.
CHORUS:
Don't go around tonight,
Well, it's bound to take your life,
There's a bad moon on the rise.
I hear hurricanes ablowing.
I know the end is coming soon.
I fear rivers over flowing.
I hear the voice of rage and ruin.
CHORUS
All right!
Hope you got your things together.
Hope you are quite prepared to die.
Looks like we're in for nasty weather.
One eye is taken for an eye.
CHORUS
CHORUS
"if the show ended tomorrow
what would you take with you?"
+++++
I'd ask for my shofar back.
Sam, I love your show. I get it on KOKE1600 in Austin, Texas. However, I have a comment about your stammering. At times, you sound a little bit like Elmer Fudd ("ah-bee-da-bee", etc.). This is a bit distracting and makes you sound unsure of yourself. Perhaps you could slow down and enunciate your thoughts? Just a suggestion. Whatever you do, I will continue to listen to your show.
Aub in Austin said...
Sam, I love your show. I get it on KOKE1600 in Austin, Texas. However, I have a comment about your stammering. At times, you sound a little bit like Elmer Fudd ("ah-bee-da-bee", etc.). This is a bit distracting and makes you sound unsure of yourself. Perhaps you could slow down and enunciate your thoughts? Just a suggestion. Whatever you do, I will continue to listen to your show.
March 30, 2007 10:37 AM
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eh.
It's just part of who he is...
that's why we love him...
flaws and all.
Before I Met You
I thought I'd seen pretty girls in my time
That was before I met you
I never saw one that I wanted for mine
That was before I met you
I thought I was swinging the world by its tail
I thought I could never be blue
I thought I'd been kissed and I thought I'd been loved
That was before I met you
I wanted to ramble and always be free
That was before I met you
I never saw one that could ever hold me
That was before I met you
They say a man must reap what he's sown
Darlin', I hope that's not true
For once I made plans of living alone
But that was before I met you
Flatt & Scruggs
Noodles Jefferson said...
****
Who is that masked man?
Who is this 'Noodles' person?
Enquiring minds want to know ...
Only the Shadow knows....
who could have guessed that America would taken down from an introverted ex-morman from Utah?
~-~-
You gotta watch out for us Utahns.
We're sneaky, back-stabbing bastards.
Hello everyone. :)
Did I read that I'm responsible for global warming? Was it my outfit?
OUCH! What's this talk about the show ending?
Is it for real or another
put on?
Was it my outfit?
(it was the makeup, there is such a thing as too much blue eyeshadow)
eya RJ
was a sammycam blip at the end of the show by one of the kids in the booth.
could be anything from april fools to the end of the universe.
we lack furthur information
It was all you Charlie
-conbo
I'm going to try to keep up my blog so you are all welcome to the comments section for a meet-up.
At least there will be a place to go to to keep up with one another.
And maybe Sam will go to another radio station...Nova M maybe.
Crap! I can't lurk! I have to drive up to Cleveland Hopkins to pick up a bud coming to visit from L.A.
I'll check back for news on this show ending stuff later.
It's a Put ON ..
Eminence Front...
P.S
I know who Noodles Jefferson is but I ain't
saying! LOL
His return to the blog was marred by a little collision with the man from down under and it didn't go too smoothly.
I'm Blue, I'm Lonsome
The lonesome sigh of a train going by
Makes me want to stop and cry
I recall the day it took you away
I'm blue I'm lonesome too
When I hear that whistle blow
I want to pack my suitcase and go
The lonesome sound of a train going by
Makes me want to stop and cry
In the still of the night in the pale moonlight
The wind, it moans and cry
These lonesome blues I just can't lose
I'm blue I'm lonesome too...
love playing these old tunes on the mando and reading the blog.
i experience synchronicty here frequently.
Yup. It's been confirmed. It was you, Charlie.
Reefer Jello said...
P.S
I know who Noodles Jefferson is but I ain't
saying! LOL
His return to the blog was marred by a little collision with the man from down under and it didn't go too smoothly.
****
Well, that could describe just about everyone....
Here's the Rosie O'Donnell rant that Scott was "yelling" about.
Not saying he's (Scott) wrong, not sayinghe's right, but the attitude has to go! Can't change minds the way he's going about it.
"No, but I do believe it's the first time in
history that fire has melted steel - I do believe
that it defies physics for the World Trade Center
Building 7, which collapsed in on itself, it is
impossible for a building to fall the way it fell
without explosives being involved - World Trade
Center 7."
O'Donnell 9/11 Rant Reaches 30 Million Viewers
LINK
Could Noodles be Pete Moon?
From Christie at firedoglake...
The political heat is ramping up all over the nation's…preschools? This satirical take on political commercials really brings home the juvenile idiocy of so many political campaigns these days, and I could not resist showing it to you guys.
The above "commercial" is actually a response to this initial "attack ad," which also cracked me up. "Give your gold star to Jimmy Jones. He colors inside the lines." Mwahahahahahahahahaha. Hilarious.
I thought we could all use a giggle this morning — and a bit of a discussion on what we would rather see in terms of political discussion in this nation of ours. And what we can all do to make that happen.
Video here
well, bye sam, I guess. Too bad, this was the only show I liked on Air America. I've tried with the others, and they just don't make me care. Well, bye all. It was nice while it lasted right?
Tiffany
Let's not sing the dirges yet. Let's see what is happening.
BALT SUN: Protesting and Legislating to End the War
By David Sirota
To understand the passionate debate about the Iraq war spending bills over the last two weeks in Congress, and why so many committed anti-war Democrats support the House and Senate bills in their current form, we must understand the difference between protesting and legislating. Lawmakers who know how to use both are often movements' most essential actors.
To see Sirota's full Baltimore Sun op-ed, go to:
LINK
Ojos De Brujo (Wizard Eyes)
If you think flamenco music means a lace mantilla, castanets, and responsive guitar licks, then Ojos De Brujo (Wizard Eyes) have got something for you. In Spain, flamenco isn’t just music but a culture, and the ramshackle, 10-member ODB collective represent the evolving nature of that culture and serve up a hypnotic fusion that demands the world listen. Forget the Gipsy Kings; if you haven’t heard Ojos De Brujo then you haven’t heard contemporary flamenco.
Flamenco music deeply reflects Spanish culture, from its elaborate vocal ornamentation, to its vivid expression. The roots of flamenco stem from gypsy or Rom immigrants, who arrived in Spain in the 15th century, as well as Jewish and Arabic refugees who holed up in the Andalusia Mountains, away from the Catholic Church’s forced conversions. The music of the three groups fused, creating a singular sound that was preserved through the Rom oral tradition. Although a flamenco artist may be payo or non-gypsy, the most acclaimed performers came from noted Rom cantaora (flamenco singer) areas or families. After flourishing for most of the 20th century, the tradition declined from the late ’50s to ’70s and was regulated to a few clubs and tourist spectacles.
http://illinoisentertainer.com/2007/03/30/flamenco-fusion/
didn't they JUST say above that the show was going in two weeks? goddamnit I hate when people write stuff that isn't verified...
From ALL-IN-CAPS SCOTT
Sam -
Thank you for your histrionic attack on me today.
It was virtually identical to your assaults on other 911 truth callers that I’ve listened to. I sort of predicted that you would attack me at the beginning of my call.
Nice trick with the phones, by the way, cutting me of in such a way that I thought I was still on the air…learn that one from Rush?
To address Dodd's bill. It doesn't repeal the Military Commissions Act (which would seem to be a fairly simple thing to do. The act is clearly unconstitutional. Do you remember the anti-war left saying that it would be challenged as such. What happened to these challenges?)
Why do you think the bill was introduced in the Senate where it has little chance of passage?
Maybe I need an education here. Maybe you can call me and yell at me again and admonish me to take the holographic tin foil off my head.
What do you gain from the 911 Myth? Why won't you stand up for the truth? Why can't you give a voice to the murdered and their families who, EVEN NOW, are asking for the truth!@?
The truth can't be hidden forever.
ALL-IN-CAPS SCOTT
I thought Noodles was possibly, JIK...
Catharine said...
Remember, El Gare-Doggo said it himself... and you know he is the prognosticator supreme! He said it every day for ... almost 3 years.
March 30, 2007 9:50 AM
WHEN did I ever say "Seder's show is over"....I said it sucks, but never said it was "over" until the Fat Lady sings (or Stephanie Miller takes the mike!)
Of course, when I DID say Seder's show sucked...Annatopia had to ban me because...we can't have anybody saying anything bad about our Sammy!
I'll miss Seder if he's booted....all those other AAR hosts (except Randi) have such GOOD voices for radio and act like professionals and are smart and FUNNY....Sam's a breath of strange air compared to that!
Oh-oh....here comes Annatope and the Free Speech-Animal Farm-style Gang...sorry, guys, maybe catch ya again in another year!
WFC!!!
This is so fun to hear Cherry Pie!!
My hair just spiked up!
:)
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gare said...
WHEN did I ever say "Seder's show is over"....I said it sucks, but never said it was "over" until the Fat Lady sings (or Stephanie Miller takes the mike!)
Of course, when I DID say Seder's show sucked...Annatopia had to ban me because...we can't have anybody saying anything bad about our Sammy!
******
Yeah, right.
Hee.
I dunno, Noodles... whaddya think?
How's that uncyclopedia thingy goin'?
****
sorry, guys, maybe catch ya again in another year!
March 30, 2007 11:26 AM
****
Hahaha!
I particularly liked that last touch.
Noodles is dada...C'mon..he can't be everybody...
...or can he? :)
(it was the makeup, there is such a thing as too much blue eyeshadow)
It was all you Charlie
Yup. It's been confirmed. It was you, Charlie.
~-~-
Sunny... I'd wouldn't be caught dead in blue eye shadow, man!
And I thought I'd cleared my wardrobe of anything neon and that ridiculous Generra hypercolor shit looooong ago...!
Is noodles Ja?
Remember Marla Maples?
Tiffany reminded me of her. Tiffany Trump.
noodles is not dada.
dada is just dada.
Do you know who Noodles is, Catharine?
I hope this link works. It's a photo of our anti war rally in Chicago March 20th.
LINK
toniD said...
Let's not sing the dirges yet. Let's see what is happening.
March 30, 2007 11:19 AM
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Poor Otis, dead and gone
Left me here to sing his song
Pretty little girl with the red dress on
Poor Otis, dead and gone
(Them's the only dirge lyrics I know.)
Here's another night shot with the Water Tower, anti war protest
LINK
Catharine said...
March 30, 2007 11:30 AM
Happy to be proven wrong....go back on the old majorityreport.com blog and pull up the posts where I said "Seder's show is over".
Oops, wait....Annatopia probably deleted them....
guess you'll just have to take my word on it.
What's the "uncyclopedia" thing? The link I posted? Happy to re-post it if you like.
And here's the protest in my neighborhood, just outside Peter Roskam's office. The Round building in the background is where Rep. "Roscum's office is.
LINK
BTW, how many 9/11 conspiracy theorists you think Sammy lost from the audience today?
No prob, they're "all libertarians", right?
LOL!
It's Friday ya bastards!
{{{Bounce yer Boobies Everybody!}}}
Hey guys!
Long time no blog!
I'm going to see Janeane Garofalo and Fred Armisen tonight at the Crystal Ballroom, in Portland tonight!
Sen. Clinton confronts McCain over blocked 9/11 funds
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, described as frustrated and animated, confronted presidential rival Sen. John McCain on the Senate floor after he blocked funding for a 9/11 responders' health care program, people familiar with the encounter told CNN.
Clinton, D-New York, has worked for years to secure funding for the program, a $45 million amendment added to the $120 billion-plus emergency funding bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"She got pretty hot about it," a Senate appropriations committee aide said about Thursday's encounter. "She went over to him and was trying to convince [McCain] it was a needed program, an important program, and was rebuffed."
LINK
Hi Harold!!!!
Just mentioned you yesterday. Was wondering where you've been.
good pix T!
Pelosi makes second visit to Middle East By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer
32 minutes ago
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) arrived in Israel on Friday and planned to visit Syria, a country the Bush administration has shunned, on her second fact-finding trip to the Middle East since taking the gavel in January.
Pelosi's repeat trip to the Middle East indicates she has no intention of letting the White House have the sole province on foreign policy. She has already forced legislation through the House that would order all combat troops out of Iraq by September 2008, a measure that resembles a similar measure approved by the Democratic-run Senate.
The Bush administration has mostly refused to engage Syria diplomatically because of its ties to terrorist networks. U.S. officials held their first direct, high-level contact with Syrian representatives in years this month when they met with officials from several Middle East countries in Baghdad to discuss Iraq.
Others traveling with Pelosi were Democratic Reps. Keith Ellison (news, bio, voting record) of Minnesota, Henry Waxman (news, bio, voting record) and Tom Lantos (news, bio, voting record) of California, and Nick Rahall (news, bio, voting record) of West Virginia, and Ohio Republican David Hobson (news, bio, voting record). Ellison is the first Muslim member of Congress.
The House has adjourned for a two-week spring break.
The group planned to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and to travel to the West Bank to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said Ellison's spokesman, Rick Jauert.
The speaker plans to address the Israeli Knesset on Sunday in what will be her first address to a foreign government and as the highest ranking American woman to speak before the Israeli parliament, according to Pelosi's office.
She is expected to discuss "America's commitment to Israel and the challenges facing the two nations in the Middle East," according to a statement.
LINK
Editor Describes Sending His Son Off To A War He Does Not Believe In
If more Americans -- including the president and those in Congress -- had to make the personal sacrifice of sending a son or daughter to this war, some for a second or third time, or if they had to pay the ultimate sacrifice of losing a child in this war, we'd be long past the "support our troops" slogan. We'd be pulling out and concentrating on the real war -- the war against terrorism....
But now we talk about the war, via my son, almost daily: How's he doing? Have you heard from him? Is he in Iraq yet? In a far more personal way, we discuss the impact on families and friends, the political maneuvering and the lack of progress in bringing stability to the country.
What we don't talk about are the daily news stories about soldiers killed in action.
Having a son on his way to Iraq hasn't changed my view of the war: We should not have invaded the country.
If this were a righteous war, it would be more bearable to see him go. But now there's a knot in the pit of my stomach every time I think about where he's headed, what he might have to do and what might be done to him. He and the other patriots are being sent to the wrong front.
LINK
No longer Bush’s war
but the GOP’s
It was conceived by a small band of neoconservatives who had on their side the vice president’s robust agreement and unflagging determination to have the United States return to Iraq. They, in turn, had the president’s ear.
LINK
eya Harold!
sounds like a good evening ahead!
J is a great standup comedian you'll love it!
Hey Jim, Thanks.
Just got them emailed to me from my progressive group.
I was at the local march just for a bit, didn't make the downtown protest.
Welp..I guess Noodles secret identity is safe...for now... :)
Gonzales Rebuts Ex-Aide's Testimony: "I Don't Recall Being Involved"
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales responds to his former Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson's testimony at yesterday's Senate hearings on the recent firings of federal prosecutors.
Video here
no biggie T.
we need to throw as much as we can at it.
we'll get better at it as peeps realise what's happening.
for most peeps it's just coming to their awareness that things are FUBAR.
(how ya feelin?)
Gov Report: Bush Is Hyping False Iraq Spending Deadline
Think Progress | March 30, 2007 02:17 PM
The Bush administration has been trying to force Congress to abandon its support for an Iraq withdrawal time line by claiming that a "clean" Iraq spending bill must be signed by mid-April or U.S. troops will suffer. The Hill reported, the Pentagon and the White House have been "sounding alarms and sketching worst-case scenarios if Congress does not pass the 2007 supplemental by April 15."
LINK
I am feeling fair, Jim.
Just had a slew of shots from the doctor. It helped everything but my left knee. Guess it's getting close to replacement time.
How're you feeling?
And so as we come to the end of another day (here on the East Coast)....
blah blah blah said...
lets hope war with iran doesn't start at 5:45 tonight...
seriously, i would expect gonzo to be gone by the end of the day.
March 20, 2007 1:00 PM
Dang, Phil is not bad looking...I used be a telephone operator for Stanford...taking Phil's calls.. (& Condi's too!) Wish I knew then what I know now....
Understanding How Good People Turn Evil: Renowned Psychologist Philip Zimbardo On his Landmark Stanford Prison Experiment, Abu Ghraib and More
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AMY GOODMAN: Professor Zimbardo, who should be held responsible for what happened at Abu Ghraib?
PROFESSOR ZIMBARDO: Well, my analysis is, individuals are always ultimately personally responsible. He and most of the other military police said, I’m guilty -- well, they had to say it, because they're in the pictures, what I call the trophy photos. He is willing to accept punishment. The situational analysis says, we should limit the extent of the punishment, because these are extreme mitigating circumstances. And what I do in The Lucifer Effect, and I have a wonderful website, we just put up called www. lucifereffect.com, we put the system on trial. To say, if you're going to put these soldiers, these good American soldiers on trial for what they did, my argument has been, the people who create this corrupting situation, they have to be put on trial, too. So, I have a virtual voting booth in which I put George Tenant on trial, the former Head of the CIA, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and President Bush. Because, in various ways, they created that situation which corrupted these good American young men and women.
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This man is disgusting. I can't stand to even look at the little worm. Yech!!
You have to see this video...
From hatster
More From "MC Rove": My Name Is "Patrick Fitzgerald"..."I Like To Tear The Tops Off Small Animals"
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From Kevin's Blog
http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/03/most-hated-family-in-america.html
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What we're trying to do in the documentary is look at an activity that is so antisocial, so strange, so futile and at its worst, so cruel, and we're saying "Why? Why do that?", especially when you seem to be, for the most part, kind and sensitive people. We're exploring what is cruelty, trying to explain how something that really does very often just amount to cruelty could be perpetuated and passed down in a family. Why would nice people do such horrible things?
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Eric Keroack is OUT!!! Big cheer!
Anti-contraception activist and Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs Eric Keroack resigns Because of Unspecified Action Against His Private Medical Practice.
Daily Women's Health Policy
Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs Keroack Resigns Because of Unspecified Action Against His Private Medical Practice
[Mar 30, 2007]
Deputy Assistant Secretary for HHS' Office of Population Affairs Eric Keroack on Thursday announced that he will resign from the post due to an unspecified action taken against his private medical practice in Massachusetts by state Medicaid officials, the Washington Post reports (Lee, Washington Post, 3/30). The Bush administration in November 2006 appointed Keroack -- who was then medical director for A Woman's Concern, a pregnancy-counseling organization -- to the position, which does not require Senate confirmation.
Keroack advised HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt on issues including reproductive health and adolescent pregnancy. He also administered $283 million in annual family planning grants that HHS says are "designed to provide access to contraceptive supplies and information to all who want and need them with priority given to low-income persons." Many family planning advocates reportedly were angered by the appointment, and 14 Democratic senators and seven Democratic members of the House in November 2006 sent letters to Leavitt calling for Keroack's appointment to be withdrawn (Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 11/22/06).
An unnamed HHS spokesperson would not specify what action had been taken by Massachusetts Medicaid officials, adding, "We've said all we feel comfortable saying." Keroack on Thursday in an e-mail to colleagues said he "became aware" of the action taken by the Massachusetts Office of Medicaid and had initiated an appeals process, adding that the "appeals process will present a significant distraction to my ability to remain focused on my duties" (CQ HealthBeat, 3/29). Keroack said he met with HHS officials on Wednesday to discuss the action taken against him and to offer his resignation, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports. HHS Assistant Secretary for Health John Agwunobi in a statement said he accepted Keroack's resignation as "a result of this action" (Freking, AP/Houston Chronicle, 3/29). Agwunobi added that the agency "will move forward as expeditiously as possible to fill this position" (CQ HealthBeat, 3/29).
Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, in a statement said Keroack was "unqualified to run" the Office of Population Affairs and called on the Bush administration to appoint as a replacement a "legitimate, mainstream public health expert who supports family planning and access to birth control" (Reuters, 3/30). Massachusetts Medicaid officials were not available for comment, the AP/Chronicle reports (AP/Houston Chronicle, 3/29).
Alice said...
Dang, Phil is not bad looking...I used be a telephone operator for Stanford...taking Phil's calls.. (& Condi's too!) Wish I knew then what I know now....
Understanding How Good People Turn Evil: Renowned Psychologist Philip Zimbardo On his Landmark Stanford Prison Experiment, Abu Ghraib and More
He was on either the Daily show or Colbert. Can't remember which right now.
I'd love to read his book.
I just heard this story @ work, but it's probably been posted here in the past...
That Rove got his ass kicked @age 8 by his female, 8 yr old neighbo, who was for Kennedy when lil' Karl was for Nixon...& that since then he's hated Democrats...
True?
I think she said it was a question on wait wait don't tell me..
Waxman To Rice: Your Days Of Blowing Off My Letters Are Over
At the heart of the CIA leak scandal was a false claim, made by President Bush in the infamous 16 words from his State of the Union address, that Iraq had sought uranium from Niger for a nuclear device.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) has been trying for years to investigate how this fraudulent claim became part of the basis for sending our country to war, beginning with a letter to the White House two days before the war began.
The Bush administration has consistently refused his requests for information. Since the war began, Waxman has written 11 letters to Condoleezza Rice alone — she hasn’t responded to a single one.
On March 12, 2007, he wrote his first letter to Rice as committee chairman, asking that she respond by March 23. She didn’t, and Waxman has had enough:
Dear Madam Secretary:
On March 12, 2007, I sent you a letter renewing, as formal requests of the Committee, prior letter requests that I sent to you between 2003 and 2006. These requests sought information on the claim that Iraq sought uranium from Niger, White House treatment of classified information, the appointment of Ambassador Jones as “special coordinator” for Iraq, and other subjects. My March 12 letter is attached.
The March 12 letter requested a response by March 23 to several of the inquiries, but the Committee received no response from you.
I now request your appearance before the Committee at a hearing on Wednesday, April 18, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in Room 2154, Rayburn House Office Building. At this hearing, you will be asked to provide testimony and respond to questions on the subjects outlined in the March 12 letter and the original request letters. …
Sincerely,
Henry A. Waxman
Chairman
Since Waxman wrote his March 12 letter, Rice has done more than a dozen press events, including interviews with Sean Hannity and Fox & Friends. Now it’s time she spend a few hours with Congress.
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More From "MC Rove": My Name Is "Patrick Fitzgerald"..."I Like To Tear The Tops Off Small Animals"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/03/30/more-from-mc-rove-my-n_n_44595.html
Why is Colin Mochrie there?
That's so sad. I'm dissapointed.
Jesse Jackson slams CBC/Fox debate. “Rev. Jesse Jackson today denounced the Congressional Black Caucus Institute’s planned presidential debate partnership with FOX. He called for yesterday’s decision to be reversed and for presidential candidates not to attend a FOX debate.” Jackson said, “Why would presidential candidates, or an organization that is supposed to advocate for Black Americans, ever give a stamp of legitimacy to a network that continually marginalizes Black leaders and the Black community?” Take action HERE.
UPDATE: Markos has a round-up of commentary, and notes: “I’ll be asking the campaigns early next week whether they plan on attending this debate, so this time they won’t be caught off guard by the question.”
Go here to take action against Fox / CBC debate
dada said...
Why is Colin Mochrie there?
That's so sad. I'm dissapointed.
March 30, 2007 12:57 PM
I thought the same thing dada.
feelin pretty good T,
want to get some shelving built in the shop, that involves box shifting, wondering if i'm up to it yet.
(these are heavy suckers full of car parts and tools)
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