The Majority Report Circle of life is now complete. !3 hours after the end of our last M-F show on AAR, Jessica, our segment producer gave birth to Annabelle Jordan Woods!
Oh and based on the results of this study, Jessica could have conceived as a result of taking an abstinence pledge.
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SEDER HAS ABANDONED US
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when's the next thread, sam
the next time a crew member pops a kid
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Hee ! ok...well..it didn't hurt..it was like that pleasure/pain thing...like when I scratch my poison oak... :)
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http://www.myspace.com/thejingoswithcaptainmarblehead
Not a bad tune...
Gwen Ifill Calls Out Russert, Brooks For Their Silence On Imus »
This morning on NBC’s Meet the Press, PBS anchor Gwen Ifill directly called out host Tim Russert and fellow guest David Brooks for failing to speak out against Don Imus’ offensive remarks.
“There has been radio silence from a lot of people who have done this program who could have spoken up and said, I find this offensive or I didn’t know,” Ifill said. “These people didn’t speak up.” She then turned Russert and Brooks, frequest guests on Imus’s show. “Tim, we didn’t hear from you. David, we didn’t hear from you.”
Ifill added, “A lot of people did know and a lot of people were listening and they just decided it was okay. They decided this culture of meanness was fine — until they got caught. My concern about Mr. Imus and a lot of people and a lot of the debate in this society is not that people are sorry that they say these things, they are sorry that someone catches them.”
Watch it:
Despite being called out by Ifill, Russert said little during the show about his frequent appearances on Imus’ show. Intead, he suggested that Imus will launch a new show dedicated to “racial reconciliation and healing,” which Russert said he would “absolutely” listen to.
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Rove Left Out of Dealing
According to Robert Novak, the White House "is letting it be known on Capitol Hill that top presidential adviser Karl Rove will play no part in President Bush's forthcoming big push to pass a compromise immigration bill" since "he probably would not be helpful in trying to find a middle ground on the immigration problem, which will require bipartisan cooperation."
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Obama Returns Lobbyists’ Donations
Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) "campaign said late Friday that it had returned more than $50,000 in donations after learning that the contributors were federal lobbyists, which the campaign had pledged not to accept money from," reports the New York Times.
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Pundit: White House wants it 'difficult for people to vote' David Edwards
Published: Sunday April 15, 2007
On Sunday's edition of ABC's This Week, pundit Robert Reich suggests the core issue behind the US attorney firings and missing White House emails. Reich says, "I think the question here is that once you start asking, 'Should the emails have been disclosed?' -- 'Which emails to disclose?' -- is that the public loses sight of what the big issue is in the background."
Reich continues, saying, "The issue at stake here has to do with what the White House was trying to do with the US attorneys. What the White House was trying to do in terms of, perhaps, creating a public image of voter fraud across this country that would entitle the White House to make it more difficult for people to vote. That seems to be to be a very large issue that needs to be discussed."
The following video clip is from ABC's This Week.
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Shell, are you listening to Ring of Fire?
Rober Kennedy is talking to his brother Joe Kennedy about Hugo Chavez.
Joe Kennedy met with him to discuss the low cost oil he was offering to the NE this past winter.
If you didn't listen, try the podcast.
Cheney on credibility issues: “We’ve got issues we need to work through…”
By: John Amato @ 11:45 AM - PDT It's time for a little comedy on C&L…Bob Schieffer asked him with the new Gonzales scandal if:
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Schieffer: Does this administration have a credibility problem?
Cheney: I don't think so Bob, ummm…I think obviously we've got issues we need to work through. You do the best you can with what you've got obviously and I think on reflection that indeed the record of the President and his administration will stand up well to scrutiny…
Sorry…I-can't-stop-laughing….Remember Rumsfeld saying:
As you know, ah, you go to war with the army you have—not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time…
He says he has no idea what's going on with the DOJ…OK, sure thing Dick….Gonzo has been preparing like mad so he'll have his talking points together…Well, maybe not… He sure is cramming for the big test though..
Cheney says he hasn't spoken to his BFF Scooter Libby since the trial and when Bob asked him if he feels responsible for Libby's problems, Cheney refused to comment.
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http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Free_speech
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=165760484&blogID=253171846&MyToken=905b12c6-dff1-477f-8e47-8eb34bcf5b68
Lewis Carroll is rolling in his grave with laughter at all of this, at YOU Kevin Sites, at Debra Saunders, at the Bush White House...HE LAUGHS!
Josh Wolf is protected by the first amendment. That should be Nuff said, but YOU Kevin Sites and YOU Debra Saunders are professionally neutered, you are sitting here getting tangled up in the web of semantics laid by YOUR ENEMIES, the enemies of Free Press. They are the reason I didn't know more about YOUR activism/journalism Kevin (until now) and if you don't purport yourself to be both sir you are delusional. Your articles inspired your readers to take action to help your subjects. It's right on your homepage. Your story could have been presented in a way that inspired no one, and created disdain and resentment for the "needy" survivors, but it did not. That is thanks to the goodness in your heart. Your desire to to change the world for the better made it into your journalistic work. Should you be punished for that? Should Josh Wolf be asked to divide himself where you cannot? Perhaps the problem is that for too long the press has forsaken or been robbed of the right to FULLY EXPRESS ALL THE SIDES OF A STORY. Perhaps we have only been telling one side for too long, the cold side, the dead side, the story-is-already-over side, the side the status quo wants us to read so we don't fully excercise our rights to life, liberty and justice in this glorious democracy! Maybe THAT is the biggest story now; That finally people are demanding that the WHOLE STORY BE TOLD via a collective vision and voice, which is what a web blogger represents, one multifaceted side of a colorful prism of people with ideas and information for solving the pain and problems of Earthlife. Josh is defending the truest essence of democratic expression and liberty.
Demanding a free man "choose sides" as his defense for DEFENDING HIS RIGHT TO PRESENT BOTH SIDES...is illogical and shows that there is really only one battle worth waging here; The battle to protect ALL AMERICANS from people who would diminsh the awesome power of the first Amendment.
NOW THE ARTICLE:
Journalist or Activist?
Video blogger Josh Wolf is free from jail. For Wolf, it's the end of a record-setting prison term. But the debate over his role as a journalist continues.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Whether he is a journalist or not, as many debate, Josh Wolf believed strongly enough in the journalistic principle of protecting his sources that he was willing to spend seven and a half months in a federal prison being faithful to it.
Tuesday afternoon, he walked out of the Dublin Federal Correctional Institution in California a free man.
Wolf was in prison for refusing to hand over video he shot during a protest in San Francisco in 2005. In a deal brokered between his lawyers and federal prosecutors, Wolf posted the uncut video of the protest on his site, JoshWolf.net, gave prosecutors a copy, told them he had not witnessed any crimes and was released.
In exchange, prosecutors acceded to Wolf's key contention: that he not be made to appear before a grand jury and identify those on his videotape.
"Journalists absolutely have to remain independent of law enforcement,'' Wolf told reporters outside the gates of the prison. "Otherwise, people will never trust journalists.''
Just as Wolf became a poster boy for the debate over whether bloggers are actually journalists and deserving of the same legal protections, his status as an Internet icon may get another boost as likely the first federal prison inmate to be released for posting a video to his website.
Wolf, who calls himself an activist and anarchist on another one of his sites, "The Revolution Will Be Televised," filmed a July 2005 San Francisco protest against the World Trade Organization that turned violent. A police officer suffered a fractured skull and there were allegations of attempted arson.
Wolf provided some of the footage to local television stations, but refused to give the raw outtakes to a grand jury or to testify.
(Most states, including California, have shield laws providing legal protections to journalists who want to preserve the confidentiality of unnamed sources or unpublished material gathered during the reporting process. However, those protections do not apply to proceedings in federal court. There is no federal shield law.
For more information regarding a federal shield law, visit the Society of Professional Journalists' site; for more on Wolf's case, see Yahoo! News' Media Issues coverage.)
The standoff led to Wolf being jailed and sparked a heated debate about whether an activist blogger deserved the same protections as a professional journalist.
I spoke to Wolf by telephone while he was still in prison a few weeks ago and asked him if his advocacy made him selective in what he videotaped at the protest. Would he turn off the camera to protect his friends? A partial transcript of our conversation follows (Listen to the full interview).
Kevin Sites: If there had been a situation where you saw a protestor beating up a police officer, or you saw them committing arson, would you have shot that?
Josh Wolf: I wasn't there to shoot that.
Kevin Sites: No, but would you have shot that?
Josh Wolf: That's a question I would have made in that moment...
Kevin Sites: Well, that's what I want to ask you. If I asked you to take sides, if I asked you to take a side of journalism or activism, you know, which side are you taking here? Because you're asking for the protection of journalism yet you're also seeking to be an activist.
"My role is to uncover the truth to deliver to the public. That is my number one accountability."— Josh Wolf
Josh Wolf: Would you not say that Thomas Paine was an activist for the Declaration of - or the independence of America and also...
Kevin Sites: But I would say that he would not be claiming to be journalist, he would be claiming to be an activist. That's all I'm asking you to do, is take sides. Are you claiming to be an activist or a journalist?
Josh Wolf: I don't. I see that advocacy has a firm role within the realm of journalism.
Kevin Sites: Right, but as an advocate, you have to be willing to allow yourself to be jailed and expect the consequences of your actions. As a journalist, you're asking for certain protections, you know, from those consequences. That's why I'm asking you, you know, which side do you want to step on at this point.
Josh Wolf: My role is to uncover the truth to deliver to the public. That is my number one accountability.
Kevin Sites: But that truth is through, as you said, a prism of your own political convictions.
Josh Wolf: The truth is biased by everyone's convictions, whether it's a corporate conviction of your employer, your own personal convictions that are left politically based from mainstream press perspective, or a more biased perspective [because of] which you won't be as open about as a journalist who does not put forward an impression that they are trying to be objective. If you watch the videotape, you'll see there are many things that make the protestors look bad and there are things that make the cops look bad. It is essentially a balanced report of what I saw. It's a bird's eye view.
Debra Saunders, a conservative columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, applauds Wolf's dedication, but doesn't believe he should be called a journalist.
"I think that you can be a blogger and be a journalist," Saunders tells me from her office at the Chronicle. "There are people who fit that [description], but when you're an activist cavorting with the people you're chronicling, then you are not a journalist."
Her own newspaper disagrees with that assessment and has supported Wolf on the Chronicle's opinion pages.
"The fact that Josh Wolf has strong political views does not disqualify him from being a journalist any more than the fact that I am an editorial page editor and have opinions disqualifies me from being a journalist," says John Diaz of the Chronicle. "The fact is, he was out at that rally, collecting information to disseminate to the public. I think that makes him a journalist."
Ultimately, Saunders says, it won't be journalists and bloggers who decide the issue, but the government.
"The courts are going to end up deciding who journalists are, because, unfortunately, this administration is really pushing the envelope in jailing journalists, and it won't end with the Bush administration," Saunders says. "It will get bigger as people point fingers in many ways, and that means the courts are going to decide who journalists are. You may not like it, but that's the way it is."
The Revolution Will Be Televised
Shell! you got 3 rec's on the article you posted!
-conbo
Where do I see that #?
UFO reported to have landed in Somalia
A mysterious device like "a satellite or UFO" has landed in Somalia. --The Canadian
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/04/13/01494.html
open thread you posted your story on
you have a rating of 3+ which means three people rec'd your comment.
If you click on the 3+ you can see who rec'd you.
-conbo
I am starting to get the DT's....oh, I don't want tomorrow to come. I miss you Sam - already. 5 weeks until you return......
Oooh I see..I thought you meant on the diary I posted...I'm getting chewed up #.. :) But it's been fun...
Josh says Thank you to the posts from here I showed him, btw...that is one cool ass dude....
BBL....
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz rejected calls for him to quit less than halfway through his five-year term, saying he still has important work to do alleviating poverty in the developing world.
``I believe in the mission of this organization and I believe I can carry it out,'' Wolfowitz, 63, told a press conference in Washington today. ``This is important work and I intend to continue it.''
holy crap Shell!
i did not read the article, just looked at the title
you are holding up well tho
Like you said the information is valid regardless of the way things are phrased
im sorry...
don't worry i have had diaries liek that...i don't even try to defend myself though, I just rec everyone and delete it if it is getting really bad comments
You didn't do very bad at all tho!
Some people are agreeing wiht you!
A lot
:)
And it opened up a discusiion
-conbo
Fox News Obituary Trashes Kurt Vonnegut
Shell! OMG! I meant for you to post it to another open thread not make a diary out of it
sweet cheezits I am sorry!
I didn't know it could be considered propaganda...there really is a problem with American jobs being outsourced regardless of wether America is racist or not
It is a problem! So is racism. These two problems, outsourcing jobs and unfair hatred of mexicans can co-exist at the same time,
right?
I am so sorry Shell! I did not know that would happen, ISWTG!!!!!
I would never do that to anyone!!!!
-conbo
Oh jesus...shell I am sorry
-conbo
my girlie parts are turning into deserts of their own
Mexicans are drunks?
Wow...yeah I just read the title and assumed the article was uh, well more uh
I am sorry Shell.
I am so sorry. Will you ever forgive me? I did not mean for this to happen. Sometimes I'm grumpy but im not cruel. Sorry!
-conbo
I am so sorry...
I was so tired last night
I just read the title and it matched up with what I know about the trucking situation...I should have read the entire thing before I had you post it on the kos
On the bright side, people will remeber you over there! You are no longer an anon. This sounds bad, but it isn't. Its good. After awhile people will forget why they remeber you and just remeber you, especially if the majority of your content good.
-conbo
Gonzales suggests firings 'all Harriet Mier's fault': Analyst David Edwards
Published: Sunday April 15, 2007
During a panel discussion on the US attorney purge scandal, CNN legal analyst Jeffery Toobin says that the bottom line from Gonzales is that the blame for the US attorney firings lies with Harriet Miers.
"He said, basically, when President Bush started his second term, Harriet Miers called and said maybe we should replace all 93 US attorneys. Gonzales said no, but maybe we should review whether all of them should continue serving," says Toobin. "At that point he says he got periodic updates but essentially knew nothing about who was going to be fired or why they were going to be fired, and that's his explanation."
John Roberts, the co-anchor of "American Morning," chimes in to say he thinks Gonzales will have a "really hard time on Tuesday" when he testifies to the Senate Judiciary Committee, and that he will not get any breaks from the senators.
The following video clip is from CNN's "Late Edition"
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hey remeber when I called into the show claiming satire was news?
hahahahahaha
that was embarassing too
I guess if you are me, you get used to embarrsment, but I am sorry I put you through that
oh lord
Well. You could make a new nic and start over. I am sorry. I put some comments in your diary. Too bad it is off the rec list now.
-conbo
well I am going to have post an embarrasing diary so that we are even ok?
Mine will be even worse.
mheh.
Watch
-conbo
I know! I will use an article from the onion and pretend I think it is true. hahahaha
-conbo
Lorez Alexandria
cool beans
Dang #, there's nothing to forgive..they're just other humans @ Kos...& I'm not running for office...so who gives ? Not me...
no...i am going to do one better than that
I am going to the conspiracy theory stories and find the most outrageous one and post it as fact
heh
-conbo
watch and see what they do...
It will make you feel better Shell
Al Sadr bloc quits Iraq government
Presses for withdrawal timetable
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Tonight on PBS, "America at the Crossroads"
America at a Crossroads: Jihad
Explore the men and ideas behind Al Qaeda and other modern, radical Islamic groups.
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--it appears that we made a little over $1,250.00 over the two and one half days.--
Cool! Just got this from my Sonora Cat Rescue co-hort...
:)
I'm wondering how RWiley is. They are getting terrible storms in his area. Ja too. And L@L.
☁‿☁
here it is Shell:
Al Gore: Part of the Illuminati
-conbo
The Instant Guide to Enriched Uranium
(it's a very informative 8 minute audio)
wrote an annoying song for the o.g.
"o.g. is my friend
o.g. is my friend
we will come rejoicing...
o.g. is my friend"
(i played it to him hitting a metal pot with a metal spoon)
then got the hell outta there
almost forgot (3+ / 0-
tip jar!
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OFFS...I've fallen over laughing and I can't get up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fred Thompson Invokes Calvin Coolidge For Economic Smarts
By: Nicole Belle @ 5:02 PM -
I don't know how credible a "candidate" Fred Thompson really is for the Republican nod, especially considering the revelation of his cancer just recently. However, it is clear he wants to be taken seriously. At least, it appears that way.
The problem is that he's also counting on most Americans to not know their history or have anything resembling understanding of principles of economics. That's the only way I can account for him holding up Calvin Coolidge when discussing taxation and economic development.
Barbara at Mahablog has more:
Old hustles never die. Fred Thompson writes in the Wall Street Journal [emphasis added]:
President John F. Kennedy was an astute proponent of tax cuts and the proposition that lower tax rates produce economic growth. Calvin Coolidge and Ronald Reagan also understood the power of lower tax rates and managed to put through cuts that grew the U.S. economy like Kansas corn. Sadly, we just don't seem able to keep that lesson learned.
One of the triumphs of the Coolidge Administration was the passage of his tax program in 1926; the photograph shows him signing it. The Coolidge program "repealed the gift tax, halved estate taxes, substantially cut surtaxes on great wealth, and reduced income taxes for all," it says here. The photo is dated February 26, 1926. Assuming that is accurate, We Now Know that the Stock Market Crash of 1929 was only slightly over three years and seven months away. The Great Depression followed soon after.
Calvin Coolidge's tax program is the bad example that won't die.
Ezra Klein has more…
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they think it's satire...
i was aiming for that
but it is better than have a troll diary link
you never live that down
-conbo
Gonzales: 'I have nothing to hide'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070416/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/fired_prosecutors
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, fighting to save his job, said in prepared Senate testimony Sunday he has "nothing to hide" in the firings of eight federal prosecutors but claimed a hazy memory about his involvement in them.
Two Republican senators said Gonzales has yet to shore up his credibility amid shifting explanations of his role in the dismissals. Vice President
Dick Cheney reaffirmed White House support for the attorney general — but left it to Gonzales to defend himself to lawmakers who have called for his resignation.
In his 25-page statement, Gonzales apologized for embarrassing the eight U.S. attorneys and their families by letting their ousters erupt into a political firestorm that has engulfed the Justice Department since January. He maintained the firings were not improper, but said he remembers having only an indirect role in the plans beyond approving them.
"I have nothing to hide, and I am committed to assuring the Congress and the American public that nothing improper occurred here," Gonzales said in prepared testimony released before he appears Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The panel, which oversees the Justice Department, is investigating whether the firings were politically motivated.
"I am sorry for my missteps that have helped to fuel the controversy," he said.
you never live that down
-conbo
April 15, 2007 10:00 PM
I'm not seeing the problem...
Hey #..has anyone on Kos brought up the 22nd amendment recently?
//22nd amendment recently? //
I don't know
you can do a diary search
it searches all the tags
-conbo
Anonymous said...
April 15, 2007 10:21 PM
Let's just pretend I stopped & thought for one second before I asked that question... :)
//Let's just pretend I stopped & thought for one second before I asked that question... :) //
i ask all kinds of dumb questions
btw, always double check whatever I tell you
i think that is the obvious lesson in all of this
-conbo
:)
i mean well, but sometimes i am so off base it is amazing
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How neatly a cat sleeps,
sleeps with its paws and its posture,
sleeps with its wicked claws,
and with its unfeeling blood,
sleeps with all the rings--
a series of burnt circles--
which have formed the odd geology
of its sand-colored tail.
I should like to sleep like a cat,
with all the fur of time,
with a tongue rough as flint,
with the dry sex of fire;
and after speaking to no one,
stretch myself over the world,
over roofs and landscapes,
with a passionate desire
to hunt the rats in my dreams.
I have seen how the cat asleep
would undulate, how the night
flowed through it like dark water;
and at times, it was going to fall
or possibly plunge into
the bare deserted snowdrifts.
Sometimes it grew so much in sleep
like a tiger's great-grandfather,
and would leap in the darkness over
rooftops, clouds and volcanoes.
Sleep, sleep cat of the night,
with episcopal ceremony
and your stone-carved moustache.
Take care of all our dreams;
control the obscurity
of our slumbering prowess
with your relentless heart
and the great ruff of your tail.
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i think that is the obvious lesson in all of this
-conbo
Haha!...Well..maybe...but for me my lesson was...lighten up... :)
i still take everything seriously
life is serious biz
-conbo
I was just thinking how you probably make your kid laugh...I think it would have been cool to have been raised with parents (or a parent) with a great sense of humor...
I don't know if this is all accurate but, I happened to look at Wikipedia and say this about AirAmerica:
XM 167
Air America Radio programming is carried as well as XM Satellite Radio channel 167, of which XM is the exclusive satellite provider of the network. However, XM is not required to carry the entire network, and can also tape-delay shows in favor for non-AAR programming. For instance, XM167 airs Ed Schultz in place of new host Thom Hartmann. Schultz aired tape-delayed on Extreme XM, programmed by Clear Channel Communications, until February 26, 2007. XM 167 also plans to return former AAR host Mike Malloy to the channel lineup in Spring 2007. Despite being on a channel with the "Air America Radio" label, Schultz stated on February 13, 2007 that Air America "sucks" [23] and he doesn't want people who listen to AAR listening to him because he is "better than they are." These comment were in response to remarks by AAR host Sam Seder, who asked his listeners to call XM and request Thom Hartmann instead of Schultz. Seder's reasoning for his action is that he believes AAR hosts should be on the Air America Radio channel. Hartmann will be added to the channel beginning March 5, 2007. Schultz is a host for Jones Radio.
As of April 1, 2007, Air America XM167 is available on XM Radio Canada.
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Interesting that XM167 is adding Malloy!
So, I go to Malloy's site and see this on the front page:
SATELLITE UPDATE!!!
Listen to the Malloy Show LIVE on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 146
Click the "Listen" link on the left of this page for information about live Internet streaming, podcasting, and archives.
If you want to hear the Malloy show in your city, by all means contact your local station and ask for it!
See you on the radio, Truthseekers!
//I was just thinking how you probably make your kid laugh...I think it would have been cool to have been raised with parents (or a parent) with a great sense of humor... //
he makes me laugh
he is much funnier than I am
-conbo
DinoBoy is a gem.
so are you.
(AO's blog ghost says 'quit whining' and ducks)
Hey conbo, jim, and alice!
Later...
Later Catharina!
i'm reading and making dinner!
Dang... Three hours? Was she hold it in all durin the show? Poor girl...
But I am happy to hear about Annabelle! That seems to be becoming a popular name. My cousin has an Annabelle.
Great diary, #.
Wolfowitz defiant as nations seek to push him out over job scandal
Larry Elliott in Washington
Monday April 16, 2007
The Guardian
A defiant Paul Wolfowitz was clinging to his job as president of the World Bank last night in the face of attempts by European countries to force his resignation over the scandal involving a promotion for his girlfriend.
Development ministers delivered a public dressing down to Mr Wolfowitz when they expressed concern and warned that he risked losing the confidence of his staff at a meeting in Washington.
In a strongly-worded statement described as "unprecedented" by one senior G7 source, the bank's development committee piled the pressure on the former number two at the Pentagon to step down from his job running the world's leading development body.
Ministers delivered a barb to the man who has made tackling corruption his mission at the bank by saying they expected the organisation to live up to high standards of governance itself.
One source said Mr Wolfowitz "cut a lonely figure" as his future was discussed by development ministers over lunch. Britain, Germany and the Netherlands were the most vocal critics of the World Bank's president, sources said. The US did not demur from the wording used in the communique despite a public endorsement from George Bush last week.
The communique released by the bank's development committee said: "We have to ensure that the bank can effectively carry out its mandate and maintain its credibility and reputation as well as the motivation of its staff. The current situation is of great concern to all of us."
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I got a hold of a Malloy podcast and it seems there's a lot of music played on it. Is that the case, or did I just get an unedited podcast with incidental music added over the commercials?
24/7 News Didn't Make Us Smarter
New Pew Research survey: "Since the late 1980s, the emergence of 24-hour cable news as a dominant news source and the explosive growth of the internet have led to major changes in the American public's news habits. But a new nationwide survey finds that the coaxial and digital revolutions and attendant changes in news audience behaviors have had little impact on how much Americans know about national and international affairs."
The most interesting finding is that regular viewers of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart were the most knowledgeable while regular Fox News viewers knew the least.
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Follow the Money
The New York Times has an excellent searchable database of all first quarter presidential campaign contributions.
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mornin toniD and the gang if you're still around.
have been away from newspapers, tv, and gasp, the internet for a week. took the wife and kids to san francisco for the week, stayed at a place on union square and walked and walked.
sorry that i missed sam's last morning show. not sure whats going on with aar/xm. seems like the young turks are missing in action this morning and that at 9 we get lionel.
i used to listen to lionel when the local progressive would carry him at 9PM. found him enjoyable but he's no seder. i wouldn't expect to hear much progressive thought if all they are doing is picking up his regular show feed.
don't know what i'll do without my daily fix of hr and dewey...
What happened to TYT today?
don't know. tyt are streaming something on their web site but xm/aar is running some guy who says he's standing in for the turks. talk radio isn't one of his strengths, especially considering his position that he holds bush in a position of respect.
Congrats Jessica
A great many of the destructive bastards in the Bush administration were simply astonishingly stupid true believers.
I would like to state for the record, however, that I was a bald-faced liar.
There's a difference. Plato woulda been proud of us philosopher-kings.
Who is this tool on right now? He didn't even introduce himself.
It's Lee Rayburn ... and no offense to him, but I've already stopped listening
haven't heard of lee rayburn but google says he was a host at the infamous madison talk radio so he's got some legitimacy.
this might be news to only me, but lionel's site says he doesn't start aar till may 14th. given that, what was the rush to get seder off the radio?
Whatever ... no mention of Sam in the first 5 minutes, he (Lee) jumped right in to some McCain rant. Not that I'm surprised that he didn't utter Sam's name--it's probably verboten as per Mark Green--but that turned me off completely.
As for blah's question, maybe Sam wasn't up to 4 more weeks of hypocrisy from the AAR pursestrings. Pure speculation, of course.
--Anon
Morning Blah 3 and everyone.
That's a great question Blah 3. What was the rush to get Seder off?
I can listen to Stephanie Miller from my station here in Chicago, WCPT.
She's fluff but a damn sight better than Lionel. Can't stand his voice and how he belittles people that call in.
AAR really rolled out the red carpet for Lionel; the banner on the web site still shows Sammy's show, with no mention of Lionel. AAR really knows how to take care of its talent.
--trentmannina
Lee Rayburn sat in for Sam when he took off for Passover. He wasn't bad. But again, he's not Sam.
Not listening so I don't know how prepared he is. If he takes alot of calls then he is allowing the callers to dictate the direction of the show.
“About 70% of primary school students in a Baghdad neighborhood suffer symptoms of trauma-related stress such as bed-wetting or stuttering, according to a survey by the Iraqi Ministry of Health.”
LINK
Morning!
If it wasn't so beautiful outside today, I would be feeling empty right now.
I can't listen to AAR, just can't, so it's Stephanie Miller for me on KPHX. I can handle it for now.
Sam mentioned in one of the commercial breaks last week that he didn't want to continue working in that slot knowing he was going to be out soon. He said it was hard to do good radio with that cloud hanging over your head.
“Middle-class Americans, listen up: the I.R.S. is much more likely to audit you this year. Those caught cheating can expect to pay about $4,100 more on average in income taxes. … Audits of these middle-class taxpayers rose to nearly 436,000 last year, up from about 147,000 returns in 2000.”
LINK
“The Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section is investigating connections between disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House, a probe that may be affected by missing White House emails.” Beginning more than a year ago, federal prosecutors and FBI agents interviewed Abramoff and others “at length about numerous contacts between Mr. Abramoff and White House officials, including presidential adviser Karl Rove.”
LINK
Greetings Blogafellows:
It's 9:40 A.M. in Ohio.
I miss Sam.
Lionel sucks.
The Greens suck!
Without Sam, Air America sucks.
Morning 60th St.
Stephanie is on WCPT also. Regular AM radio. I don't have XM so I either stream or listen to regular radio.
XM is a luxury I can't afford right now.
General explains why he turned down ‘war czar.’ Retired Marine Corps General John Sheehan, who was offered and refused the administration’s new war ‘czar’ position, writes in the Washington Post:
But after thoughtful discussions with people both in and outside of this administration, I concluded that the current Washington decision-making process lacks a linkage to a broader view of the region and how the parts fit together strategically. We got it right during the early days of Afghanistan — and then lost focus. We have never gotten it right in Iraq. For these reasons, I asked not to be considered for this important White House position. These huge shortcomings are not going to be resolved by the assignment of an additional individual to the White House staff. They need to be addressed before an implementation manager is brought on board.
LINK
Mornin' Toni! Howabout them 2016 Olympics!
I don't have XM either. I am just streaming the Nova M flagship in Phoenix. I stream everything!
http://www.airamerica.com/node/3535#comment-172977
FJ
Wolfowitz future still in balance
Mr Wolfowitz has apologised for his mistake
Wolfowitz defiant
The future of beleaguered World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz remains in the balance despite a defiant statement that he intends to stay.
His fate lies in the hands of the executive board, which is under pressure to take a decision.
Mr Wolfowitz is still facing calls to resign after admitting helping his partner win a promotion and pay rise.
Bank member governments say the matter is of great concern and the bank staff association said again he should go.
Urgent choice
The Dutch development minister added his voice to those raising questions about the impact of Mr Wolfowitz's actions, saying he saw the situation as a "substantial crisis for the institution".
We don't see how he can regain the credibility that has been lost
Alison Cave,
World Bank staff association
"I don't want to hide the fact that I have doubts about his functioning," Bert Koenders told Reuters.
He said that the bank lacked a clear sense of direction and hoped the board would come to a decision as a matter of urgency.
"There is also a lack of trust in the moment in the leadership and in the management, so that is something that has to be resolved," he said.
Germany's development minister hinted that the bank may face future difficulty in gaining funding from member states.
"An institution like the World Bank lives by its moral authority and its credibility," Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul said.
A communique issued by 24 development and finance ministers meeting in Washington said it was important the bank should maintain its credibility and reputation as well as the motivation of its staff.
LINK
For the love of GOD, please bring back Sam Seder. I miss him so much! :-(
I will try that again ... Hit the wrong keys
My comments to AAR:
Link
FJ
Lee Rayburn sounds like Glen Beck.
gonna stream npr - see ya air america!
"Nothing to hide, but has a hazy memory."
Gonzales has had so much time to prep for his testimony, you'd think he could piece together all the circumstances about which he only has fuzzy memories.
I mean, if he did nothing wrong, he would want to recall everything so he could let the truth set him free, right?
If I ever saw Gonzales in person, I bet I would involuntarily vomit on him.
Krugman to Dem. candidates: Don't fear your base, embrace it.
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 4/16/2007 09:57:00 AM ET
Discuss this post here: Comments (3) · digg it · reddit · FARK · · Link
Paul Krugman thinks that the Democratic politicians -- and their consultants -- should actually listen to their base because that's where the American people are on Iraq and other key issues. This cycle, catering to the base for the Democrats means catering to the opinions of most Americans. The pundit-types tend to dismiss us as the extreme, turns out we're the mainstream:
It took an angry base to push the Democrats into taking a tough line in the midterm election. And it took further prodding from that base — which was infuriated when Barack Obama seemed to say that he would support a funding bill without a timeline — to push them into confronting Mr. Bush over war funding. (Mr. Obama says that he didn’t mean to suggest that the president be given “carte blanche.”)
But the public hates this war, no longer has any trust in Mr. Bush’s leadership and doesn’t believe anything the administration says. Iraq was a big factor in the Democrats’ midterm victory. And far from being a risky political move, the confrontation over funding has overwhelming popular support: according to a new CBS News poll, only 29 percent of voters believe Congress should allow war funding without a time limit, while 67 percent either want to cut off funding or impose a time limit.
And, as Krugman explains, GOP candidates have a base that is out-of-touch on key issues. But that's not true for the Democrats, if they can ever grasp it:
Democrats don’t have the same problem. There’s no conflict between catering to the Democratic base and staking out positions that can win in the 2008 election, because the things the base wants — an end to the Iraq war, a guarantee of health insurance for all — are also things that the country as a whole supports. The only risk the party now faces is excessive caution on the part of its politicians. Or, to coin a phrase, the only thing Democrats have to fear is fear itself.
LINK
The American people don't believe Gonzales
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 4/16/2007 08:43:00 AM ET
By a wide margin, we don't believe our Attorney General's spin.
Yes, we can't believe the top law enforcement official in the United States. That says a lot about Gonzales and his boss, George Bush. The Washington Post-ABC News poll has the numbers:
In the poll, 67 percent said they believed the prosecutors were fired by the Justice Department for political reasons, not on the basis of their performance. About eight in 10 Democrats and two-thirds of independents said they saw political motivations behind the firings of the U.S. attorneys, an attitude shared by 53 percent of all Republicans surveyed.
Overall, nearly six in 10 Americans disapproved of the way Gonzales has handled the issue. Among Republicans, 47 percent expressed disapproval of how the Republican attorney general has handled the matter, with 35 percent approving and 18 percent having no opinion.
With widespread public skepticism about the firings and low approval of how the attorney general has handled the matter -- 24 percent approved in this poll -- 45 percent of Americans said the attorney general should lose his job over the issue. Fewer, 39 percent, said he should remain in place; 16 percent expressed no opinion.
Opinion was split along party lines: About six in 10 Democrats said he should lose his job over the issue, but a similar percentage of Republicans thought he should continue on in his position. Forty-six percent of independents said Gonzales should lose his job, 36 percent thought he should keep it and 19 percent were undecided.
Interesting that so many Republicans think Gonzales should keep his job, even though it's clear he's lying. They just accept that Bush and company just lie.
LINK
" I like the puppet on the left better"
" I like the puppet on the right better."
"Wait... its the same guy holding up both puppets!"
" SHHHH! Go back to sleep America, your government is in control."
-B.Hicks (badly quoted from memory)
mornin!
I like this presenter. AAR should give the show to him.
I've heard nothing bad about 'Lionel'.
SAAAAAAMMMMMMMM!!!!!
It's 9:16 a.m. in Louisiana...my Sammy is gone...no sammy cam...
*weeps openly*
If reasoned Americans can get Imus back, why can't we get Sam back?
Start the Seder movement!
Who listens to lionel? I tried to listen, but i couldn't make it ten minutes.
I heard Lee Rayburn subbing for Rachel and he said that he has a cat that he rescued after seeing A story about it on the news. Another cat lover (like Maron).
Hey he's going to have Melanie Sloan on next.
See you on Sundays, Sam.
Later.
i said...
I like this presenter. AAR should give the show to him.
(Ah, show n tell)
I've heard nothing bad about 'Lionel'.
Obviously you haven't been paying attention
I kinda feel sorry for Stephanie Miller. She's received some serious death threats from right wingers who totally hate her for being a smart mouthed, good looking, liberal broad.
On the other side of the aisle....left wingers call her fluff and refuse to support her. Fuck right wing death threats, she's only fluff.
3,300 US killed in Iraq
by Chris in Paris · 4/16/2007 03:23:00 AM ET
Remember when the Republicans used to dismiss the war dead as nothing more than the number who die in routine military accidents? But I can't remember if that was before or after the first, second or third time they tried peddling the "Iraq is safer than major US cities" story. Either way, it's another sad reminder of the cost of this failed experiment.
By the way, overseas everyone is wondering where Condi has been since it seems to have been ages since we last saw her. Is she still part of the team?
LINK
CNN reporting about a shooting at Virginia Tech. One person killed.
They are talking to a student and he said they have had bomb scares at that school also.
Brendan Stone interviews Stephen Gowans on the support of the fake left's support for demonized regimes.
http://www.raceandhistory.com/Zimbabwe/2007/1504.html
Support Zimbabwe, and the land reform
process.
Video at link:
60 Minutes catches Imus using the N-word
by John Aravosis (DC) · 4/16/2007 12:44:00 AM ET
He denied it. Then they caught him. Yeah, he's really not a racist.
A growing number of conservatives would have us believe that Imus is just as bad as everyone else, you know, just like people who criticize President Bush. Isn't it really the same thing, criticizing President Bush because he's an idiot, a failure, and the worst president ever and picking on a bunch of women because they're black? That's what conservatives are now trying to allege in an ongoing effort to somehow paint Imus' racism as not that bad. And yes, both are "picking on" examples. But one is well-deserved (and true), the other is racist and unacceptable in civilized society (or should be). One is directed at the leader of a free country (who can defend himself, thank you very much), the other is against innocent young college women.
It amazes me how many people on the right still don't understand what America was founded on, and why. Namely, that we led a revolution to overthrow a tyrannical government. That our freedoms have been given to us, and guaranteed in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, in order to insure that such a government does not return. The more we are permitted to openly criticize our government, the freer we are and will remain.
The same cannot be said of spewing racism against innocent young women. It doesn't help thwart the return of the king. It does, however, harken back to 400 years of shameful history that we are still, to this day, trying to put behind us. Calling George Bush a liar, or even a criminal, may shock some (while many others would agree), but it hardly is on a par with racism, historically or otherwise (no presidents nor their ancestors were subjugated for being dumb).
LINK
Did you hear that John Kerry may re-enter the race for president?
He might want to think twice about that, maybe three times.
I'm listening to Stephanie Miller via the Nova-M Phoenix link. I miss Sam. But at least I'm a little more productive so far...
Kerry thinking about
jumping into race
Sen. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) reopened the door to a possible 2008 presidential campaign during a book signing in Denver.
LINK
Here's why I don't have much interest in any other AAR shows beside Sam's.
Mark Riley: Pops is a classic, but 100 times better with Maron.
Young Turks: sloppy, poor humor, politically vague. Sadly, even duller without Jill.
Lee Rayburn: sounds like Glen Beck, and also sounds like he's always about to cry.
Lionel: Dipshit
Thom Harmann: Dry. Hosts lunatic guests and never shuts them down like he should.
Randi Rhodes: Too interested in herself. Deals a little too much in Truthiness.
Rachel Maddow: Funny and interesting, but not REALLY funny and interesting.
David Bender: A good guy, but I forget what happens on his show - while I'm listening to it.
Ecotalk: She has one comment on her page in a week. Need I say more?
Jon Elliot: Never heard of him besides on the AAR schedule. How can he be the most dangerous liberal?
Ring of Fire, On the Real, Radio Nation, Steve Earle: all good listens, but all on the weekends when the last thing I want to do is listen to radio.
Congratulations Jessica!
(hmmmm... I thought I posted this already. Perhaps the blog rejected me?)
Top Conservatives Demand Bush Fire Gonzales
Time Magazine | ADAM ZAGORIN | April 16, 2007 09:42 AM
In what could prove an embarrassing new setback for embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the eve of his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, a group of influential conservatives and longtime Bush supporters has written a letter to the White House to call for his resignation.
The two-page letter, written on stationery of the American Freedom Agenda, a recently formed body designed to promote conservative legal principles, is blunt. Addressed to both Bush and Gonzales, it goes well beyond the U.S. attorneys controversy and details other alleged failings by Gonzales. "Mr. Gonzales has presided over an unprecedented crippling of the Constitution's time-honored checks and balances," it declares. "He has brought rule of law into disrepute, and debased honesty as the coin of the realm." Alluding to ongoing scandal, it notes: "He has engendered the suspicion that partisan politics trumps evenhanded law enforcement in the Department of Justice."
LINK
I actually like Rayburn. He's subbed for Rachel and Sam, like when Sam was on vacation for Passover. I would listen, but I just don't feel like listening to AAR at the moment.
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Spoing!
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Air Force Filling In For Thin-Stretched Army In Iraq
Associated Press | April 15, 2007 11:40 PM
A row of rumbling flatbed trucks and Humvees outfitted with gun turrets lurches toward a mock village of cinderblock buildings where instructors posing as insurgents wait to test the trainees' convoy protection skills.
The training range is Army, as is the duty itself -- one of the most dangerous in
Iraq these days. But the young men and women clad in camouflage and helmets training to run and protect convoys are not Army; they're Air Force.
LINK
Latest comments to green:
http://www.airamerica.com/node/3565?from=90&comments_per_page=90
Sam is not going to last long on Sunday.
Know why?
Because he's too big a talent to be regulated to one day a week.
Someone with BRAINS is going to snap him up before you know it.
And on that day I become a new subscriber to whatever he's on and send back my piece of crap coffee cup, clock and t shirt to Error
america
Doggers got me up at 5:40
expecting a quick run outside and doggie bone pre-breakfast.
i opened one eye, ready to get up, remembered Sam was gone, rolled over and went back to sleep.
so did the dogs. i love sleeping in!
New post on my blog...
Daily Show/Colbert Report viewers better informed news viewers.
Pew Research: What Americans Know - Still not much
hee!
Error America!
how bout AARgh!
Mornin T, gang!
life goes on. what's happening?
Below is part of my email of this morning to Mark Green, Scott Elberg and David Bernstein:
"Another brilliant Air America move?? On both XM and airamerica.com this morning [from 6-9am ET) - who's this boring Jeffers idiot? I hope it's just for today, as he says!!! (I switched over to NPR)
Ya know, I voted for Mark Green for Mayor in 2001, but now I'm glad he lost. If his handling of Air America is any indication, he would have turned our wonderful Big Apple into a Wormy Apple!"
PS - I'm streaming Stacy Taylor at KLSD.
Chimpy on CNN now speaking about the Iraq War suppliment bill. He's really pushing. I turned the sound off.
MSNBC not carrying Bush. They are still talking about the shooting at Virginia Tech.
One person killed and one injured. Gunman remains on the loose.
Hospitality...
Canadian student celebrating her masters degree is forced to strip naked and spends 11 hours in a Georgia prison for the heinous crime of running a stop sign. Welcome to the United Police States of America.
http://tinyurl.com/2y7vqh
Associated Press reporting additional casualties at Virgina Tech. About 7-8. We don't know if they are injurd or dead.
National Intelligence Director seeks to expand government surveillance powers.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070410/ap_on_go_ot/spy_chief_powers
Semi-woot dept.
Mississippi county Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Monday to revert back to the old paper ballot voting methods here, dumping the new electronic voting machines after just a few elections.
http://www.sunherald.com/201/story/27649.html
Medical tech admits molesting Iraq war vet at Walter Reed: A man who had been convicted of fondling a police officer and accused of "improperly touching" patients was hired to administer sleeping tests at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/04/medical_tech_ad.html
Bloppo said...
Rachel Maddow: Funny and interesting, but not REALLY funny and interesting.
Ring of Fire, On the Real, Radio Nation, Steve Earle: all good listens, but all on the weekends when the last thing I want to do is listen to radio.
April 16, 2007 10:46 AM
Gonna have to agree to disagree with you about Rachel. I find her show to be one of the best AAR has still standing.
btw, except for Laura Flanders, the weekend shows on AAR are all free podcasts. If you do like them, download like I do and use them to fill up your free Sammy time.
Remember Bobby Kennedy was the one who literally fought for Sam to stay put! He deserves our support!
hahahaaha in yer dreams dept...
The White House wants to appoint a high-powered czar to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but it has had trouble finding anyone able and willing to take the job.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/10/AR2007041001776.html
from akaMAT:
Pet Food Recall Widens After Toxin Found.
Del Monte adds some of its moist pet food and snacks to a recall list that now includes dry cat food and Alpo dog food
http://akamat.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/pet-food-recall-widens-after-toxin-found/
Who's Lee Rayburn (sp)?
I was just curious who they had on in place of Sam, so I tuned in...
They don't even mention him on AirAmerica, as far as I can tell...
Hi everyone,
A soggy day in NYC. This morning I tuned into Amy Goodman's show, "Democracy Now!" (She's on at 9 am Eastern Time in NYC.) I got in the habit of watching her on cable access or streaming her later in the day so I could listen to Sam. No need for that today.
Anyway, she had Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky on - not too shabby!
I know Sam and Janeanne were/are big fans of Amy Goodman. Good taste.
Doris
grammyR said...
Below is part of my email of this morning to Mark Green, Scott Elberg and David Bernstein:
"Another brilliant Air America move?? On both XM and airamerica.com this morning [from 6-9am ET) - who's this boring Jeffers idiot? I hope it's just for today, as he says!!! (I switched over to NPR)
Ya know, I voted for Mark Green for Mayor in 2001, but now I'm glad he lost. If his handling of Air America is any indication, he would have turned our wonderful Big Apple into a Wormy Apple!"
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I voted for him too, and I wasn't that thrilled with him at the time. And now... well...
mornin Doris!
Amy is superb in the AM!
http://www.democracynow.org/
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New!
Imus Brand Pet Food!
Comes in two new flavors !!!
Hypocritical Racist and Nappy Headed Bits!
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/imus_canned.jpg
eya Catharina!
whats left of that storm?
Seder
N. American Sat Weather Pix:
http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/data/satellite/goes_nam_1070x_100.jpg
BRING BACK SAMMY!
ON THE CAMMY!
GODAMMNY!!
"This planet is in danger, the human race is danger," he said after railing about high U.S. energy demand. "Let's do what we have to do to save mankind." -Chavez
Morning Jim, Catharine.
That nor' eastern is really bad this time.
I wonder how RWiley and Ja are doing. And L@L on Long Island!!
Shell did you see my post yesterday. Ring of Fire's Kennedy Brothers were talking about Chavez.
a LOT of rain ... Manhattan isn't feeling it too badly... but low lying areas are flooded everywhere...
How an ex-Mossad chief, a German uberspy, and a gaggle of top-dollar GOP lobbyists helped Kurdistan snag 15 tons of $100 bills 4-12 POAC
http://tiny.pl/dg2l
Redux, Baby, I'm an Anarchist
michael t said...
BRING BACK SAMMY!
ON THE CAMMY!
GODAMMNY!!
(a good whammy!)
G'morning.
WaitingForCicero said...
Here's how boring Lionel is:
He puts Sammy to sleep.
April 15, 2007 2:46 AM
Boy, did that jog my memory! I forgot I'd actually heard Lionel before. He was seated next to Sam at a panel discussion (The Future of the U.S. Supreme Court and the American Judicial System, October, 2005) at the (ugh!) Heritage Foundation. You can stream it here. (Approx. 2 hours.)
It could explain why we can't hear Seder between now and May 14th.
Lionel suffers greatly in a side by side comparison.
I guess Green hopes we will forget what we're missing in a few weeks.
Oh man, Toni..I always forget to respond to something...yes, I did see it..I wonder if there's a way to hear it again?
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/homeland.php?id=894101
How-D, Toni-D!
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Hey there Shell! Thanks for the email.
I tried to follow your conversation about the Kos posting you did, but I was lost. I get the point though that it was not the most fun experience. I have never really gotten "into" Kos, and so I view it as an outsider... there are a lot of good things they have accomplished, but it's not everyone's cup of tea, and I think that the bigger it has grown, the more they have the issue of being stuck in the least common denominator... or middle-of-the-road.. it's just statistics unless they are strict about their vision. And so, it seems that their vision is really just pro-DLC many times.
i caught that chavez segment on ring of fire. i really enjoy listening to that show, its my kind of populism.
i found it interesting that when you strip away the bush spin, chavez isn't the inhuman monster they would have you believe he is. the elder kennedy (joe) is doing a genuine public service with his stewardship of citizens energy corporation.
did you catch that while they are being damned for helping out the poor (because it puts money in chavez's pockets), bush's response was to cut energy aid to the poor by over a billion dollars? i guess somebodys got to pay for paris hiltons tax cut.
Yes I hope she's ok, Catharine... :(
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The post does become convoluded..It didn't bother me...it led to an exciting day... :) & roight...it's definitely a place that's not for me...
Bobby and his brother Joseph Kennedy II view the populist groundswell in Latin America through the historical lens of their father's and uncle's policies in the Kennedy administration. Joe Kennedy is founder and president of Citizen's Energy Corporation, which provides low-cost heating oil to low-income Americans with help from Venezuelan president (and Bush administration pariah) Hugo Chavez.
Shell there are free podcast for Ring of Fire.
I don't know how they work or how to post them or I would.
Check out the link below and if you can figure out how you can listen again.
http://www.airamerica.com/premium/podcasts.php?type=free
eya A.!
say hey to P and the fur balls for me!
Questions for Gonzales
Tomorrow, senators will have their first chance to question Attorney General Alberto Gonzales about why the Justice Department fired eight well-respected U.S. attorneys. Gonzales released his opening statement and published an op-ed in the Washington Post yesterday, "denying that any mistakes made by his department amounted to willful misconduct." "What began as a well-intentioned management effort to identify where, among the 93 U.S. attorneys, changes in leadership might benefit the department, and therefore the American people, has become an unintended public controversy," Gonzales wrote. But the Attorney General will need more than vague statements of denial on Tuesday in front of the Senate. Sixty-seven percent of the American public now believe "the prosecutors were fired by the Justice Department for political reasons, not on the basis of their performance." "He's got a steep hill to climb," said Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA). "He's going to be successful only if he deals with the facts."
LINK
NYTimes
WaPost
WaPoPoll
If you want to save a video from YouTube, this site can help:
http://vixy.net/
You enter the URL of the clip, select a format, give it some time to convert, and then download the result.
To help fill in for the blank space created by taking off Sam's show, here is the free Ring of fire podcast, or listen on line. This week's show isn't up yet. They have a great show. Sam looked up to Bobby and you can see why when you hear how informed he is;
http://www.ringoffireradio.com/show.asp?jid=165
i feel like
homemade poop today.
think i caught Bgurls flu.
Hey Jim, you're up early as usual!
This Virginia Tech Shooting is getting worse. Now it is up to 17 injured, one dead, one suspect being held, another hiding on campus.
WHAT IS GONZALES HIDING?: Gonzales's public statements have been filled with inaccuracies and inconsistencies, leaving doubts about how aboveboard he has been about the prosecutor purge and his ability to manage the Justice Department. On March 12, Gonzales stated, "I was not involved in seeing any memos, was not involved in any discussions about what was going on." But in sworn testimony on March 29, Gonzales's former chief of staff Kyle Sampson stated, "I don't think the attorney general's statement that he was not involved in any discussions of U.S. attorney removals was accurate," confirming that there were at least five discussions with Gonzales about the issue. In his opening statement, Gonzales writes that suggestions he "intentionally made false statements" about his involvement in the process have been "personally very painful" because he "always sought the truth." But Gonzales was more than just "aware of the process," as he states in his testimony for tomorrow. He personally approved the plan to fire a select number of U.S. attorneys, after determining that "replacing all 93 U.S. Attorneys would be disruptive and unwise." Additionally, in Jan. 2005, while he was still White House counsel, Gonzales discussed the idea of firing all 93 U.S. attorneys with White House adviser Karl Rove. "The attorney general has serious problems. ... I have questions about whether he's going to be able to generate the level of confidence that's needed," said Sen. Norm Coleman (R-NM).
GonzalesMetWithAides
TheHill
EditorandPublisher
PRNewswire
ThinkProgress
MyrtleBeachonline
eya Catharina!
going to take me a while to really get a good snooze in going!
doggers was upset i did'nt want to get up at 5:30 O clock!
just had about 50 crows in the fruit trees, dogs charged out to take care of it, voila! no more crows...
Now, just reported, there are 20 Dead at the Virginia Tech.
28 being treated for gunshot wounds
Still a shooter on the loose.
just had about 50 crows in the fruit trees, dogs charged out to take care of it, voila! no more crows...
April 16, 2007 12:16 PM
*Ruff* *Ruff* !
Good doggies!
toniD said...
Now, just reported, there are 20 Dead at the Virginia Tech.
28 being treated for gunshot wounds
Still a shooter on the loose.
April 16, 2007 12:23 PM
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Oh mygod! 20?!
http://morningseditionists.com/msblog/?p=574
Post 109 (from kristapea)
details of the Nova M B'day bash!
news from shelli bout sam and maron.
hiya sunshine,
sorry you feel like homemade poop.
Get some rest and drink fluids and all that.
Doris
more like
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tanks Doris!
makin brekkers for the crew.
mostly coughin, dripping and sneezing so far.
Now, just reported, there are 20 Dead at the Virginia Tech.
28 being treated for gunshot wounds
Still a shooter on the loose.""
wonder what the hell is going on?
The shooter described as college age
One shooting at dorm, another at classroom. More casualties in the classroom. Now they are saying the suspect dead.
This is coming out in dribs and drabs.
So far 20 dead, 28 injured, several critical.
Suspect of shooter was Asian Male.
Professor was shot in class, students shot, suspect left so the other students barracaided the door with their bodies. Suspect shot through the door and injured more students.
The shooter is dead but not clear yet how he died. Suspecting suicide but not sure.
The shooter is dead but not clear yet how he died. Suspecting suicide but not sure.
This is so effed up:
Study: 70% of Baghdad Children Suffering Trauma
In other Iraq news, a new study from Iraq’s health ministry has found close to seventy percent of Baghdad school children are showing symptoms of trauma-related stress. The symptoms include stuttering and bed-wetting. The International Committee of the Red Cross reported last week many Iraqi children are forced to pass dead bodies on the street as they walk to school.
This all happened in an engineering class.
This all happened in an engineering class.
more pissed off peeps posting to greens "press" thread.
http://www.airamerica.com/node/3565?from=90&comments_per_page=90
both shooters or just the one T?
"many Iraqi children are forced to pass dead bodies on the street as they walk to school."
Looks like it might be just one. They aren't talking about a second shooter.
And now they are saying those figures of dead and wounded is just a ball park figure.
Just said there were several bomb threats at Virginia Tech last week.
Pentagon Extends Tours For All 145,000 Iraq Troops!
http://tiny.pl/dgkj
Will do, SJ...
Time for work...
l8r....
what went wrong there?
talking 50 peeps either dead or with gunshot wounds.
Cya A.!
be careful!
Someone (one of the students) took video outside the building and you can hear shots being fired inside the building.
I heard 6 shots.
This is horrible!!
Gunman kills 21 at Virginia Tech By SUE LINDSEY, Associated Press Writer
16 minutes ago
A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday, killing 21 people and wounding another 21 before he was killed, police said.
"Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions," said university president Charles Steger.
The university reported shootings at opposite sides of the 2,600-acre campus, beginning at about 7:15 a.m. at West Ambler Johnston, a co-ed residence hall that houses 895 people, and continuing about two hours later at Norris Hall, an engineering building.
All entrances to the campus were closed and classes canceled through Tuesday.
"There's just a lot of commotion. It's hard to tell exactly what's going on," said student Jason Anthony Smith, 19, who lives in the dorm where shooting took place.
Aimee Kanode, a freshman from Martinsville, said the shooting happened on the 4th floor of West Ambler Johnston dormitory, one floor above her room. Kanode's resident assistant knocked on her door about 8 a.m. to notify students to stay put.
"They had us under lockdown," Kanode said. "They temporarily lifted the lockdown, the gunman shot again."
"We're all locked in our dorms surfing the Internet trying to figure out what's going on," Kanode said.
Madison Van Duyne, a student who was interviewed by telephone on CNN, said, "We are all in lockdown. Most of the students are sitting on the floors away from the windows just trying to be as safe as possible."
It was second time in less than a year that the campus was closed because of a shooting.
In August 2006, the opening day of classes was canceled and the campus closed when an escaped jail inmate allegedly killed a hospital guard off campus and fled to the Tech area. A sheriff's deputy involved in the manhunt was killed on a trail just off campus.
The accused gunman, William Morva, faces capital murder charges.
LINK
//20 Dead at the Virginia Tech//
OUR BOBBY!?
//The accused gunman, William Morva//
MY BAD!
: )
ono, does Bob go to Virginia Tech?
SCHOOLS OUT!!
IT'S A SAMMY FREE DAY
time for new explorations...
tune into the bbc world service
Ono, read it again, Morva was the shooter in 2006.
This shooter was an Asian man and he is dead.
Now they are saying at least 22 dead, 28 injured. Over 50 people.
They are talking about the 1966 shooting at a campus in Austin Texas. That shooter was shooting from a tower and shot 15 people. This is over 50 people.
//does Bob go to Virginia Tech?//
he's from west virginia so i put 2 and 2 together and concluded "yes, he must attend v. tech"
Virginia and West Virginia are two different States, ono.
If Bob is in W. Virginia, that's not real close to Virginia Tech. Maybe 200 miles difference.
//This shooter was an Asian man and he is dead//
A CHINESE AGENT!!
(a manchurian candidate)
hmmm...
bob's definitely invovled
(although i can't be too sure)
Given the innate hypocrisy of liberals....how soon until they blame Va. Tech on Bush....
and then realize that means blaming Columbine on Clinton...but come up with some excuse for him?
LOL!
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