Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Wednesday: We're Your Safe Haven From Terror...For Three More Days
We're fightin 'em on the air, so you don't have to fight them in person. Today we welcome Italian journalist Carlo Bonini, who's done some great work investigating the forged Niger documents that were instrumental in forging the lies that took us into Iraq. His new book is called, Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror. Plus we'll have Christy Harvey from the Center for American Progress and blogger, author, and activist David Sirota.
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F.U.B.A.R.: America's Right-Wing Nightmare
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Government supporters and dissenters commemorate April 11th
Both government followers and the opposition held Wednesday in Caracas multiple events to commemorate the fifth anniversary of April 11th, 2002.
Back on that time, a peaceful demonstration requested resignation of President Hugo Chávez and he was removed from office briefly.
According to official numbers, the events resulted in 19 people dead and about 69 injured, most of them opposition and pro-government demonstrators who were near Miraflores presidential palace.
Dissenting groups rallied early Wednesday in Francia Square, eastern Caracas, to carry out a number of activities, including a mass to honor the deceased, Efe reported.
For their part, government supporters rallied in Puente Llaguno, near the presidential palace and the epicenter of the violent events of April 11th, to honor "the memory of the fallen ones," with religious and cultural all day long.
dogger,
yer off yer game.
you are mildly irritating
at best and boring as hell mostly.
the research is posted.
i know a demo when
i see one and i
understand the
significanse
of their
actions.
we're talking mass murder in the us for domestic political reasons.
the tragedy is that it is only one of a thousand more like it.
and you snicker about it...
supposedly.
gotta thank you though for provoking reaction. you've done that beyond my wildest dreams and hopes.
Venezuela Requests Extradition of Coup Leader Pedro Carmona
The Supreme Court of Venezuela approved a request for the extradition of Pedro Carmona Estanga from Colombia yesterday. The request was made in order to try Carmona for his involvement in the April 2002 coup attempt against Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Also, twenty-eight other individuals under investigation for their involvement in the coup attempt are not allowed to leave Venezuela.
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toniD said...
Edwards, Clinton, Richardson Speak To U.S. Involvement in Iraq
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Haven't had time to hear all the comments by candidates but I am convinced that no matter what is said right now and who gets the nomination and who moves finally into the WH: there will be a permanent force in Iraq. For years to come. Its Real Politik.
Hillary Clinton said so first and got beaten up for it on the net. Moving out everyone from Iraq? Not going to happen IMO as much we would want that to happen.
btw. Am not impressed by Edward supporter Bowers from MYDD at all. Don't read that site. But Read some of his stuff during the Edwards/blogger flap. Didn't know him before but he is of the rabid kind IMHO.
How would you like to live this way? It is the luck of birth that any of us are not one of these people:
Red Cross: Iraq situation getting worse. “Millions of Iraqis are in a ‘disastrous’ situation that is getting worse, with mothers appealing for someone to pick up the bodies on the street so their children will be spared the horror of looking at them on their way to school, the international Red Cross said Wednesday.”
UPDATE: In Mosul, “the body remained dumped in the street for hours as all ambulance drivers refused to carry the body due to the death threats directed at them not to carry the bodies from armed groups’ attacks.” Police officers are now reportedly tasked with removing dead bodies, and “the police command operations room has suffered.”
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i think what it is bridge,
is that we all are a mix of good and bad.
it helps when you're honest about it.
we as a group of caring individuals try to spin it towards a positive balance.
The boyz have an easily understood set of motives themselves.
the whole planet needs therapy.
did i miss anything?
Today I am disgusted with everthing! I see what is happening and I am in pure disgust!
How did this happen here? What kind of evil took over the US.
I am also disgusted with the American people. They've been asleep for so long politically they haven't been able to see what is real and buy the lies! As long as it doesn't touch them. And some are so deluded they think their son or daughter, killed in Iraq, died for a good cause!
They are dying to make rich people richer! And their family doesn't benefit from their death. Al they get are memories.
I've been through this b4 and it hurt then and it is hurting again.
when you're stock with what is...
you have to hope for what can be.
personally
i've been delighted
to be able to speak out and
have people that i respect and enjoy
give me attention, genuine affection and consideration. thanks gang!
I think War Dog should ride his wife or talk to his bike...
Have you seen me?
Well that link didn't work. Sorry!
(ROFL!!!)
"I think War Dog should ride his wife or talk to his bike..."
perfect timing!
Shadow Stats Give a Truer Picture
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"The official numbers tell us inflation is less than 3%. Yet calculating inflation using the same methods of before Clinton took office - which was not that long ago - Williams gets inflation closer to 6%!"
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by Chris Mayer
"If you asked a bunch of people sitting at a bar what the inflation rate was, you'd get numbers closer to the truth than what the government says in its official numbers." So said economist John Williams one afternoon over meatloaf and mashed potatoes in a little restaurant within walking of his New Jersey home. I made the trek out here, along with my publisher and friend Addison Wiggin.
We wanted to meet the old fellow, whose work we hold in esteem. Truth seekers like Williams are dear, because lies are so cheap. And because not too many of us are willing to parse through thousands of pages of dry economic reports to get behind the government's accounting alchemy.
What follows is an update on some of Williams' latest work and its investment implications.
In a nutshell, here is the story. Government officials, mere self-interested mortals like the rest of us, want to paint the best picture possible. This, they've found, tends to win them more elections.
So every administration for years and years has made little adjustments in reported figures for things such as inflation. These little adjustments, as you might imagine, always go one way. They make things look better than they otherwise might. Over time, these little adjustments start adding up. Then you get big differences between what is really happening and what the reported figures say.
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Latest Imus gossipy guest Ana Mary Cox who is now punditing with the best of the mainstream -formerly blogger Wonkette - decides no more Imus.
Well. I didn't expect it - so good for her.
No mainstream economist that I know of makes the case that the U.S. is in a recession. Yet Williams does not hesitate to tack against prevailing sentiment. "We are in an inflationary recession now," he told us.
Williams ticks off the data that confirm a recession in progress: much weaker than expected housing starts, retail sales and industrial production. Also, a weak manufacturing survey, sluggish annual growth in durable goods orders, rising new claims for unemployment insurance and anemic employment growth.
Williams' Shadow Government Statistics shows the economy shrinking now, whereas the official government numbers still show positive growth.
We won't get into all of the details. But what does an inflationary recession mean for investors? Think 1970s. Not disco and bell-bottoms, but rising prices for gasoline, groceries and gold. Think higher interest rates.
Rising inflation basically means your dollar buys less. So as an investor, you want to stay ahead of that inflation number, to keep your purchasing power. If you keep this in the back of your mind, some investments look a lot better than others.
Email Marketing Management tips:
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Barack Obama just said that he would not keep Imus. He has two daughters and would not want his daughters to be called what Imus called these girls.
He's on MSNBC now.
A continental flight was almost shot down by the Isrealis. Per CNN.
Communications failure cited as Israeli warplanes intercept Continental flight
A Continental Airlines flight bound for Tel Aviv was intercepted by Israeli fighter jets this morning after the airliner lost contact with air traffic controllers in a communications failure, Israeli security said. The Associated Press writes: "Following anti-terror procedures, two Israeli warplanes intercepted the plane and guided it back over the Mediterranean Sea until communications were restored, Channel 10 TV reported. When it was determined that there were no problems on board and the pilot was in control, the plane was allowed to hand at Israel's international airport, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the incident."
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Al Franken is on Larry King tonight
Yes.
Saw it just now.
Kudos to Senator Obama :)
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3031317&page=2
Armstrong Williams - loyalest rightwinger you can ever meet and
still punditing with the best of them - so when questions of morality and civility in public discourse are discussed, there is Armstrong Willians ... again ....Yawn! Turned off TV.
Missed Obama, toniD
will try and catch the repeat
i know a demo when
i see one and i
understand the
significanse
of their
actions.
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Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy...
When they said...
"There's a sucker born every minute"
They were thinkin of you..
You are not just easily taken in by every silly made-up internet tale that comes along..
You seek them out so that you can be more quickly confused..
But don't feel too bad..
It is something that happen a lot on the left..
But you are truly the poster boy for the gullible...
CB is in a new place, he can actually take a shower almost any time he wants, more privacy and less lockdown time.
And he says he can get books now!
time to send him some stuff.
Kirk Bowers 302414
Airway Heights Correction Center.
PO Box 2139 Unit B Cell 64L
Airway Heights Washington, USA
99001 - 2139
ToniD: Thanks for the link about the economic stats. I've long felt they were fishy, but couldn't say why. Except for the "unemployment" rate. I realise it only counts the number of people receiving dole payments, not the ones who actually can't find jobs. The bit about how the inflation numbers are rose-coloured gives me more ammunition for my paranoia. It's getting like communist China, which also fudges its figures to meet the official perception.
I agree with Williams -- the economist, not Armstrong -- about the inflationary recession. I saw it coming, and was also so mortified by the murderous course the U.S. is taking that my wife and I moved to Australia. All our protesting, campaign contributions, letters to Congress, etc. didn't do squat. It was not easy, and Australia is not perfect, but you don't know what a relief it is to not have the weight of the fate of the States hanging right over our heads.
Bummer that we can't download Sam after this week, though.
Sam and his bloggers .... my letter to the powers, from yesterday (I'm writing a letter a day):
Hello ....
.... is even "scratching his head" wondering what AAR is doing by firing Sam Seder .... whoops .... not "firing" but, moving him to Sundays.
Please reconsider your decision to move Sam.
Please leave Sam where he's at - where he's perfect at.
Thank you for your time.
A loyal and faithful AAR beginner ....
To "Deb the blogger" from much earlier today/Wed.: I've never spent so much time on a blog, either. I even took a sick day to keep up with the Samnews of the day. But, I'm gonna hafta to go back to work tmo., althou, I'm gonna keep writing to the powers that be.
Sunshine said...
CB is in a new place, he can actually take a shower almost any time he wants, more privacy and less lockdown time.
And he says he can get books now!
time to send him some stuff.
Kirk Bowers 302414
Airway Heights Correction Center.
PO Box 2139 Unit B Cell 64L
Airway Heights Washington, USA
99001 - 2139
April 11, 2007 5:35 PM
Coooooool.
BeCaUsE i Am ThAt SkEeRed Of GeTtInG sOmEtHiNg DoNe In ThIs CoUnTrY, sO i wOn'T aCtUaLlY eNgAgE iN rEaL pOlItIk.
SITTING ON MY BUTT AND WHINING SCOTT
Anon,
that was a good article. You might want to keep the link and go to the web site of the Daily Reckoning. They have great articles all the time. And they usually are contrary to this admin's and the Fed Reserve.
Jim,
That's good that CB can get things now.
Sam and his bloggers, my letter that I sent today/Wed., to the AAR powers that be:
Hello Men .....
I feel I'm developing a relationship with youall .... even thou it's a one-sided relationship, since I haven't heard from anyone of you.
I hope you've changed your collective minds about Sam Seder and Sam will stay where he is: Every weekday in the mornings. I know you're hearing from a lot of us SamFans and as a KansasSamFan and/or a MidWestSamFan, I truly need Sam Seder's perspective to live here. If you haven't lived here in middle-America, then you have no ideal what it's like here .... to be alone (or almost, alone) with one's liberal/Democratic ideas/philosophies. Sam will be more accepted here/Kansas than Lionel in the mornings ..... Lionel is more for the night people.
Another concern: If Sam's Sunday show time is correct, what will happen to State of Belief? I really enjoy State of Belief and The Time is Now. At first, when these show began, I thought, what is AAR doing with these shows? But, I warmed to these two ministers and they have brought me back to (at least) listening to religious ideas.
Are you reconsidering Sam's placement? Hope so.
Thank you for your time.
Take care ....
Deborah Plummer
Kansas
Peace
Bridge..you're a kitty angel for taking such good care of... (what's your cats name...? If you wrote it I must have missed it...) -
Scott doesn't bother me...not even the caps...It's nice to see someone with strong, passionate feelings....
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Like Toni...who needs a {{BIG BEaR HUG}} today... :)
Sam Seder is Air America
My email to Air America mismanagement.
I think it is interesting that there are no comments allowed on Mr. Green's statement to all of us yesterday.
Maybe you don't realize the amount of energy and loyalty Sam has showed this station over the years. Many times Air America was 'Sam Seder all the time' radio. He was always there for this concept of what Air America once was. Stabbing a loyal person in the back is always upsetting and it's always wrong.
Sam is not the only one being screwed we the loyal listeners are also being treated horribly. Many of us have been there from the beginning; some have gone so far as to support this station financially. None of us are being considered in this decision. As if all our years of loyalty don't matter.
We have watched the origanal daily hosts all slowly disappear. We were all very excited to hear all these voices say, over the air, things we have expressed ourselves or held deeply within our hearts. We all shared in our own way the ups and downs not only of the station but also of each individual personality we have all come to know.We have watched the inexperienced grow in both talent and knowledge.
We feel betrayed.
We watched Mark and Mike forced out. Chuck banished to a weekend end spot and Mark suffering a similar fate by being given only one hour in the wee morning hours; both being forced to the back of the bus. We're now left with only three, Mark, Randi and Racheal who we are all very worried about after your recent callous actions. This has also left us concerned about the weekend people Chuck, Mike and Bobby and Laura.
There's a lot more going on here than just a simple concern over listening to some show we may have grown accustomed to listening to. A lot more. You have failed to recognize that. We all welcomed you here and now we're feeling sorry, let down and deeply disappointed.
http://circuitousnoodle.blogspot.com/2007/04/sam-seder-is-air-america.html
(there are a bunch of sam videos below the post...)
* "Mr. Imus Has Stolen a Moment of Pure Grace For Us" - Rutgers Women's Basketball Team Condemn Don Imus's Remarks *
MSNBC and CBS Radio are coming under increasing pressure to fire Don Imus over his recent remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team calling them "nappy-headed hos." Imus has suspended for two weeks beginning on Monday but he remains on the air this week. On Tuesday members of the Rutgers women's basketball team spoke out for the first time. We play excerpts.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/11/1432228
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Attention Shoppers!!!
CB Address Correction!!!
Just Got off the phone with him!!!
(think he knew we were thinking of him?)
(11 minute, $36 phone call BTW...)
Kirk Bowers 302414
Airway Heights Correction Center.
PO Box 2139 Unit TB - 36
Airway Heights Washington, USA
99001 - 2139
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eya Deborah from Kansas!
welcome to the bloggie! good to have you here!
drop in any time, we usually go 24/7
Hi Shell! Thanks for the hug. I do need that today.
I see what they are doing to these men and women in uniform and it takes me straight back to the 60's.
Kinda hit me in the gut today. Even after all these years.
MSNBC will no longer simalcast the Imus show.
MSNBC drops simulcast of Don Imus show
Network apologizes to Rutgers women's basketball team for racial remarks
MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 1 minute ago
NEW YORK - Talk show host Don Imus' situation worsened Wednesday, when MSNBC announced that it would no longer simulcast the "Imus in the Morning" radio program.
In a statement, NBC News announced "this decision comes as a result of an ongoing review process, which initially included the announcement of a suspension. It also takes into account many conversations with our own employees. What matters to us most is that the men and women of NBC Universal have confidence in the values we have set for this company. This is the only decision that makes that possible."
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This is good news, but will the prez veto...
Stem cell bill approved by Senate
23 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - A stubborn Senate voted Wednesday to ease restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, ignoring President Bush's threat of a second veto on legislation designed to lead to new medical treatments.
WASHINGTON - A stubborn Senate voted Wednesday to ease restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, ignoring President Bush's threat of a second veto on legislation designed to lead to new medical treatments.
The 63-34 vote was shy of the margin that would be needed to enact the measure over presidential opposition, despite gains made by supporters in last fall's elections.
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Ohio county voting head steps down
46 minutes ago
CLEVELAND - The Republican chairman of the embattled Cuyahoga County elections board resigned Wednesday, days before he was to face a removal hearing.
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Looks to me like we are already at war with Iran..
It's just a matter of where we fight them..
We can fight them in Iraq..
Or we can fight them in Iran..
OR we can fight them in the U.S.
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U.S. Says Iraqi Militias Train in Iran
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA 04.11.07, 5:20 PM ET
How To Say No
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Iraqi militia fighters are being trained in Iran to build and use deadly armor-piercing roadside bombs and complex attack strategies against American forces, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell would not say how many militiamen had gone to Iran but said that questioning of fighters captured as recently as this month confirmed many had been in Iranian training camps.
"They do receive training on how to assemble and employ EFPs," Caldwell said, adding that fighters also were taught how to carry out attacks that use explosives followed by assaults with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms.
How long do we wait to pull the trigger on Iran..
Do we wait for Hillary or go without her..???
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Iran announces giant step in nuclear technology
George Jahn, Canadian Press
Published: Wednesday, April 11, 2007
VIENNA, Austria - Is Iran bluffing about the progress of its nuclear program? Experts and some world powers are expressing doubt that the country has been able to assemble the complicated system it needs to enrich uranium, a potential pathway to nuclear arms.
If true, Iran's revelation Monday that it now has 3,000 centrifuges producing enriched uranium brings the country a giant step closer to being able to produce the nuclear material for a bomb. But the inaccuracy of some past claims, and Iran's present drive to defy the UN Security Council, has fed skepticism.
Experts say 3,000 centrifuges would be more than enough for at least one nuclear weapon a year should Iran decide to make bombs instead of its professed goal of generating power.
Thank you, Sunshine, for your warm celestial welcoming. In the 1960's, my nickname was Sunshine. I'm an infrequent blogger but Sam's changes have drawn me here for awhile. I blogged and wrote a lot during the demise of the mutiple MarcMarons' shows and Mallory's cut-throat firing asking for them to be retained. I know I wasn't the only one asking for Mallory and Maron to stay but it doesn't seem AAR listens to it's fans/listeners. I don't know much about "business plans/philosophies/economics (except the "make money" part)" and what little I do know, doesn't really mesh well with the social work ethics, which is too bad, for if it did, but it could, and it may have to work someday, life would be much better. Peace
Seder fought the Schultz and the... Schultz won. Seder fought the Schultz and the... Schultz won.
:(
I think I understand what you're feeling, Toni..I mean not the Vietnam war...but last night I was watching something, maybe it was mcneil leherer on pbs? Not sure..but anyway, they showed the dead soldiers with their photos and all...most in their early twenties..some younger or older..but it just made me cry...& made me mad....
New post on my blog:
Good News - Bad News, Bad New, Bad News
Sam should do a podcast every day..
He should charge Ten dollars a day for each download..
$310.00 a month per person...
$3720.oo per year per listener..
That way the folks would know what it is like for AAR to lose $43,000,000 in 3 years..
About $1,200,000 per month..
I bet by day two Sam would be talkin to himself..!!!
It's the easiest thing in the world to ask someone to take a loss so you can get something for free...
It is very Liberal!
It's difficult to see the same things happening all over again, Shell.
All these soldiers dead and maimed for life. And that long of duty has to take it's toll on a person's psyche. Mental problems? Nightmares? Changes of personalities? All of it. I saw it with my friends from Viet Nam.
Bill, my friend I just got in contact with, was in Viet Nam. He came home addicted and changed. It took him years to get over that time.
That's sad, Toni...
Maybe this Lionel will save Air America..
Or maybe it will just go away over time..
If they can't sell AAR-lite..
I guess there was no market at all for Left Wing Talk...!!!
Olbermann reports:
NBC News cancels simulcast of Don Imus radio program immediately.
Study: 2 in 10 troops have traumatic brain injury
by John Aravosis (DC) · 4/11/2007 07:37:00 PM ET
Bush loves the troops, to death.
War Dog said...
Maybe this Lionel will save Air America..
Or maybe it will just go away over time..
If they can't sell AAR-lite..
I guess there was no market at all for Left Wing Talk...!!!
April 11, 2007 7:44 PM
Oh c'mon now, Dog, as a business man you know there's a market for everything, you just have to be smart enough to market your product. It's not the message that failed and you know it. It was the marketing, and marketers. Sam didn't fail, the message is marketable, it's the fuck ups in the big offices that created the problem. You know better, why so vindictive?
Hiya toniD~
Hi Shell, are you still here?
Robert Novak: Deal on Iraq in the works. “A bipartisan deal on the supplemental appropriations bill to finance the Iraq war appears to be in the books, with less talk now of a presidential veto and a subsequent crisis over funding the troops in the field. The final version probably will contain the benchmarks opposed by President George W. Bush, but with no cutoff of funding.”
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Hi Cathy!!
I see we had some advertising on the MRR!
>>toniD said...
Hi Cathy!!
I see we had some advertising on the MRR!
April 11, 2007 8:27 PM
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tell me what you heard..?
Oooooh! Look at this at Fox News...
Ingraham walks off Hannity & Colmes. Last night on Fox News, conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham apparently couldn’t stand the incessant bickering of Hannity, Colmes, and their guests about the Don Imus controversy and walked off the show. Via News Hounds:
Ingraham tried to break in to say something but could not get a word in. “This is why I do radio,” she said. “I can’t deal with this. This is a nightmare.”
Hannity broke in to end the discussion, even though Colmes had received little more than a minute of air time while Hannity had used more than three. With great relish, Hannity said, “When we come back, I’ve got a tape of outrageous things Democrats have said.”
Terrell threw his hands up. “Here we go again.”
“And we’ll get Laura Ingraham’s take on it when we come back,” Hannity continued.
“No, I’m not speaking. I’m boycotting you,” Ingraham said. “I’m out.”
Despite being advertised, she didn’t return for the following segment.
Watch it:
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tell me what you heard..?
April 11, 2007 8:30 PM
I heard nothing, just from you email from the MRR Pix
Oh c'mon now, Dog, as a business man you know there's a market for everything, you just have to be smart enough to market your product. It's not the message that failed and you know it.
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What went wrong at AAR is that Business fears being associated with this network..
The tone and content is all wrong to promote Ads on this network..
Too much Crazy Talk...
Now Sam did move away from all that..
But it was too late..!!!
Janeane and others has branded the Network forever...
They buried themselves in the first year and have been trying to fight their way back all along..
Red meat to the Loony Left going to make Business run for the Hills..
And that is just what they did..!!!
eya Lilith
evening! laura will be in seattle this weekend btw...
just swnt CB a moneyorder and a pound of vancover sun funny pages
Think back to the early days..
That is when most folks tuned in to see what all this was about..
They were appalled..
Soon the Black List sprung up..
Companies asked not to be associated with AAR..
Didn't want to explain it to their customers..
I'm new to this blog. Please, please keep Sammy in his current time slot. Put "the popular Lionel" in the Sunday slot.
Is "the popular Lionel" his
official moniker?
sheesh
so i'm talking to CB and he said he got a letter from crankbait.
10 pages of henny youngman jokes.
Yeah, whatever, dog.
You're implying Sam was Mr. CrazyTalk from 9 am to noon, Eastern time? And that's why Lionel will/may "Save" AAR?
Now the bring in Lionel to compliment their new stable of Centrist Hosts..
And you know they gotta be shopping for Randi's replacement..
Alan Colmes..???
The advertising dearth was due to bad marketing. The ads were abysmal, from the beginning, before anyone ever heard Sam's Katherine Hepburn impersonation. THAT was crazy talk.
That is wrong..
I am telling you AAR is working to change it's image..
Out with the old and in with the new..
It was Janeane that tarred Sam with the Rep..!!!
Sam has shown he can do this without the Crazy Talk...
It's just too late..!!!
Crazy talk? You may as well say it's the troll's fault AAR's ship is sinking. There's a market for everything, you just have to know how to tap into it. Then when you find it, you have to not fuck it up like the AAR bigshots did. Jesus, it's just that simple.
Is it sexual harassment when a disabled person does it or is it just pathetic?
-conbo
The ads were bad because the fortune 500 companies that have their own ads ran away..
AAR was left with vacuum salesmen and Internet dating..
Look at them run from Imus..
Big Business wants nothing to do with Crazy Talk...
They want Happy Patriotic Talk...!
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Guantanamo Confession Clears Gonzales In US Attorney Purge
Washington, D.C. - The Justice Department, in a surprise announcement, today stated that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed had confessed to firing the 8 US Attorneys who are at the crux of the latest scandal to plague the Bush administration. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed also said that he was responsible for replacing them with inexperienced cronies culled from Pat Robertson's fourth tier Regent University. In addition, he said that he acted alone and did not consult with Alberto Gonzales, Karl Rove or anyone else in the administration.
http://assimilatedpress.blogspot.com/
Ha! I always love Assimilated Press!
Crazy talk? You may as well say it's the troll's fault AAR's ship is sinking. There's a market for everything, you just have to know how to tap into it. Then when you find it, you have to not fuck it up like the AAR bigshots did. Jesus, it's just that simple
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The real world is proving you wrong every day..
You can draw an audience for anything..
But can you draw in Business that is willing to be tied into the format..???
Lets watch Nova and see how they do..
Strike two...???
Dog, tossing the softballs. Sorry, not worth the effort, old man.
Ignore war dog. He's just trying to pull our chain because of Sam.
Right now, I couldn't care less about AAR.
Nova M for me.
I been here all day old timer..
You asked, but you don't want the truth..
Tell it to Lionel..
Lionel is your reality..
toniD said...
Ignore war dog. He's just trying to pull our chain because of Sam.
Right now, I couldn't care less about AAR.
Nova M for me.
Yep, right on both accounts.
the Good News guy on the MRR pics is now on message restriction. Everything he posts has to be ok'd by me. That won't stop all of the spammers, but it will slow down the repeat offenders.
Gates announces forced extensions for Army troops. In the latest evidence that President Bush’s Iraq escalation strategy is forcing the military to the breaking point, Defense Secretary Robert Gates “said Wednesday that he was extending the tours of duty for active-duty Army troops in Iraq and Afghanistan from 12 to 15 months.”
UPDATE: House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO): “This new policy will be an additional burden to an already overstretched Army. I think this will have a chilling effect on recruiting, retention, and readiness. We also must not underestimate the enormous negative impact this will have on Army families.”
UPDATE II: Atrios notes an interesting moment in the press conference when Gates scolds a “very thoughtless” fellow Pentagon official who prevented the Army from telling troops about this extension before it was announced publicly.
the Atrios spot
More details on Pelosi smear group. Jane Hamsher has more details on the Republican Jewish Coalition, which is bankrolling a series of attack ads on Speaker Pelosi (D-CA) over her trip to Syria: “The board is quite the rogues gallery and includes Ari Fleischer, David Frum, Sheldon Adelson, Lewis M. Eisenberg and Ken Mehlman. They also financed ads for Lieberman during his senate race, and has some lovely overlap with the Scooter Libby Defense Fund.”
LINK
Imus Cancellation: Statement from Media Matters
Cancellation Sparked by Racist Comments First Posted by Media Matters
Washington, DC - This evening, David Brock, President and CEO of Media Matters for America released the following statement regarding the decision of NBC News to cancel MSNBC's simulcast of Imus in the Morning.
"By canceling their simulcast of Don Imus on MSNBC, the National Broadcasting Company has finally done the right thing. We hope CBS Radio will again follow NBC's lead.
More and more Americans are coming to understand the damage done by major news organizations providing a platform for bigoted commentary and other conservative misinformation, and they are demanding change. MSNBC's decision is an important step in the right direction.
This decision sends a clear message to other networks, journalists and media personalities that bigotry and hate speech have no place on America's airwaves.
The cable networks would be well advised to think twice about their broadcasting decisions in the future. It is our hope that this will open a larger dialogue on the overall tone of the media today."
LINK
Democratic Underground's always fun to read...
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/top10/286
Top 10 Conservative Idiots:
#9
The Bush Administration
"So how's that War on Terror coming along? Not so well, it turns out. Have you heard of the new terrorist group called Jundullah? According to ABC News:
Jundullah has produced its own videos showing Iranian soldiers and border guards it says it has captured and brought back to Pakistan.
The leader, Regi, claims to have personally executed some of the Iranians.
"He used to fight with the Taliban. He's part drug smuggler, part Taliban, part Sunni activist," said Alexis Debat, a senior fellow on counterterrorism at the Nixon Center and an ABC News consultant who recently met with Pakistani officials and tribal members.
Sounds pretty bad, right? A group of militant Sunnis, led by a former member of the Taliban, is crossing the border from Pakistan into Iran, capturing Iranians, and executing them. This can't bode well for the stability of the region. Fortunately, the Bush administration is on it...
A Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials since 2005, U.S. and Pakistani intelligence sources tell ABC News.
(snip)
U.S. officials say the U.S. relationship with Jundullah is arranged so that the U.S. provides no funding to the group, which would require an official presidential order or "finding" as well as congressional oversight.
Super plan guys! After all, when we trained Osama bin Laden and friends to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, it worked out really well and totally didn't come back to bite us in the ass at all."
related article: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/04/abc_news_exclus.html
Is it sexual harassment when a disabled person does it or is it just pathetic?""
maybe...
definitely optomistic.
I go by Outcomes..!!!
Opinions are fun..
Then you must measure them against the Outcomes..
In the first weeks of MRR I warned of disaster in Ad Sales..
Outcome = Disastrous Ad Sales..
Now I have never heard Nova..
I guess they are even smaller than AAR..
If they fail as well..
The whole concept will be over..
the Good News guy on the MRR pics is now on message restriction. Everything he posts has to be ok'd by me. That won't stop all of the spammers, but it will slow down the repeat offenders.""
tanks Csea!
Malloy is reading the Media Matters statement I posted.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/11/204212/283
vote on sam's future. It is my understanding that he does whatever blogs tell him to do.
anyone got any idea who the middle-state Christian white guys are favoring to run for president in 2008?
Sorry, but this is still Sam's blog..
I understand you have a private blog..
Fell free to set the rules there..
Think of this blog as reality..
And your blog pretend..
Get the idea..???
It's great that Imus was finally fired.
It's just puzzling what took them so long.
And why haven't they fired other shock jocks?
Why don't the same companies pull their ads from the other stations?
It's all so random, but it's clearly about time something like this happened.
I can not believe the people [like Scarborough] are actually getting angry that it's "not fair" that Imus got sacked... "what about all the rappers that use those words?", they scream.
Puh-leeze... so, because other people get away with it, then he should?
It's incredibly outrageous to suggest that. By that standard, no one should ever have to have consequences for their bad behavior.
What a joke.
Sam never does what the blogs tell him to do.
Dear AA,
I am cancelling my Podcast subscription because of your demoting of Sam.
and Lionel? Thanks for the Salt in that wound.
What a joke.
Imus favorites like Jonathan Alter don't get it along with others of the media elite ... but digby does
check this out - Digby:
"Well that explains it. Imus makes zillions of dollars for decades with his revolting, stomach churning swill because the establishment media have never felt they have any moral or civic stake in the consequences of such talk. The man is a bullying jerk of the highest order --- his ongoing schtick is crude, mean and nasty, almost always something puerile about somene's looks and physical characteristics, like "nappy headed", regardless who he and his little band of "comedians" are deriding. And his show adds nothing positive to the discourse even if he does have various insiders on to talk to each other and pimp their books --- and give him a veneer of respectability. Sure, you can pretend that just being on his show doesn't mean anything --- but it does to the people who are the object of his cruelty. Nobody's saying that you can't go on shows with people with whom you disagree. But when the media and political elite constantly appear with someone who makes a living demeaning others in the coarsest and most inflammatory ways and then laugh and yuk it up on the same show, they are, at the very least, endorsing the kind of show he does if not the specific statements."
-clip
"If you ever wanted to see how the establishment media bubble is floating around way outside the everyday world in which the rest of us live, this is it."
I don't care why they canned Imus...
whatever it takes to get rid of those guys.
Oh, look what nick is here...
Gare-dog, don't you have anything better to do?
Isn't it kinda pathetic that you've been here since the relative beginning cheerleading the demise of this blog, and yet... you can't leave?
Aren't you just a little embarrassed?
I guess that's the beauty of the internet for people like you...
hide behind false identities, with seemingly no repercussions.
Yet, you haven't realized what you have lost. All these years; 24/7; and look at the collection crap you've put out.
You can't get that time back, dog.
has anyone realized that if you print out a thread from this blog it is quite a bit of pages?
a book is probably written here everyday
-conbo
A book of nonsense but a lot of it!
Nova has 12 stations...!!
But the Crazy Talk Left wing is not a tiny sub-set of politics..??
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
Sam has 16 stations..
Lionel has 92 stations..
Bill O'reilly has 400..
Rush has 600 stations..
read the whole digby text here
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/
Nobody Stood Up for Him
There is nothing funnier than someone who is comes here daily pointing to someone else...
Ha ha ha ha ha...
It doesn't get any easier for you does it..???
Malloy is reading Shelly's Email
about Sam
War Dog said...
There is nothing funnier than someone who is comes here daily pointing to someone else...
Ha ha ha ha ha...
It doesn't get any easier for you does it..???
oh the Irony of this idiot
well, whatever this place keeps him off the streets, where he would most likely be setting fires to things and running away...what is that called..Arson
-conbo
be back later... need to get some reading in.
oh, Hi Conbo! Bad timing, wish I could stay longer.
HEY! Did WFC call the show?
-conbo
just read that
bye Lilith
-conbo
holy crap! never, never print out the blog...
this is going to cost big bucks to mail!
-conbo
I guess it wasn't Shell's email.
She posted it from here:
http://circuitousnoodle.blogspot.com/
I won't be here next week..
Neither will Sam..
I will be in Las Vegas..
That's always fun..
No show blogs..
No War Dog..
No Sam..
Just the left behinds..
Sad if you think about it..
But don't cry...
I will be back one day to hear Lionel..
Hey Sunshine and Sam gang,
I'm writing this while I listen to Malloy too. I have to listen to Sam from Premium after Randi-cause I am lucky to have a day job. I just wanted to share the letter I sent to AAR "Comment" addy. If anyone knows another addy to send this to please post? I am just sick that I won't have Sam every nite!!!! Anyway, here is what I wrote:
Mr. Green
I should be used to the heartaches issued to me by AAR over the past 3 years. I abandoned television in favor of listening to AAR, daily-nightly in August 2004. I subscribed to Sirius Radio in January 2005, to have access to AAR at all times. Then, the hits began. MorningsEdition was canceled. Then AAR went exclusively to XM in July 2005. I had to wait till January of 2006 to get a subscription to XM. I signed up for AAR Premium to be sure to hear all my shows if I happened to miss them for any reason; also to do my part to help support the network. Then, Mike Malloy was fired! Next, MRR was axed-ruining my evenings. Randi's show was cut to 3 hours from 4 hours. I was shaken. Thankfully, Sam moved to mornings, and I have been able to LIsten to Randi, then Sam's show via Premium-And when Mike Malloy was picked up by Nova M, my evenings and my life felt normal again.
I want to tell you that 3 hours of Sam Seder daily is barely enough for mental nutrition. I am thankful for the measly appetizer of Sam you are preserving, but I am stupefied that you are creating boundries for him.
I was pleased when I learned that the Mark Green I have voted for in the past was acquiring AAR. I thought you would save it. It certainly seems to me that your short-sighted schedule change presents a premonition of its demise.
I am a faithful weekend listener. I support Laura Flanders and the Nation, Bobby, Mike and ROF, Hartman and State of Belief when I can. Aside from these shows, only Randi and Sam keep me listening.
Clarice Klepadlo
member since August 2004
PS I live upstate in NY and I have never heard of "Lionel", and I frankly don't ever plan to listen to him...
5 or 6 weeks with NO SAM AT ALL?
Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOO-I just hate this.
C
Shells,
I saw your post - was v. sweet. Thank you.
Our cat has had a hard time but is a bit better the last couple days. More alert and moving around a bit more. Eating has been a bit of a problem, too because of the new diabetes diet food and the insulin is not regulated yet. We have been nervous wrecks but keep thinking positive cause we learned never to underestimate our cat.
Her name is Velvet. Black Velvet ;-) Sort of like on your cute pic.
Cat Power :-))
In the end..
I think Left Wing Radio will become an Internet Only medium...
You can really keep your overhead low on the Internet..
You don't need a studio..
And you can target the very very few are going to listen..
Plus there are no restrictions..
You can get completely Loony..!!
The Liberal Talk Show will survive..
But the Loony ones will end up Internet Only...
War Dog the nuclear liberal
ho ho ho ho!
-conbo
I am very Liberal Connie..
Except for War and Taxes..
You are more a religious type than I..
These days that is a right wing group...
I like Jenise's film..
I would like to Sam's wife's film..
But I guess it was just a NYC thing..
She should do like Jenise and post it..
April 11, 2007
IMUS IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
By SDrobny
Imus is another example of the degradation of talk radio that has been going on since Rush Limbaugh started this in 1980. Rush was another failed DJ that got lucky in 1980 when talk radio and the AM signal were in deep trouble. So they experimented with a show that had no boundaries as to the kind of racism and hate mongering that could be disseminated in talk radio. This was followed by the other right wing haters with a mix of the “shock jocks” like Howard Stern and Imus. The fairness doctrine was killed by the Reagan Administration, which was followed by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 signed by President Clinton. That is the short history of why hate and racist talk radio is the rule rather than the exception.
That is why I find it so ironic that the MSM is pounding away at this story like the vultures that they have become. The MSM nurtured, incubated, and profited from the hate radio they created and now they are shocked at the Imus remarks. This is reminiscent of the famous Casablanca line by the corrupt prefect of police when he closed down “Rick’s” Café American.” “I am shocked that there is gambling going on here” was the prefect’s excuse for closing Rick’s as the casino manager says, “your winnings inspector.”
So, Imus is the sacrificial lamb for the whole stinking mess. And he is not the worst of these hate mongers.
Rush commits a felony drug offense after he and his Republican right wing cohorts have been saying far worst racist remarks for more than 20 years. Where is the outrage! Instead of the shock jock words that Imus used for the Rutgers basketball team, these right-wingers have effectively creating more hatred, racism, and divisiveness than Imus could ever have done with his irresponsible comment. The hateful comments like “femi-Nazi” “Ellen Degenerate” by these people has never gotten the attention that the Imus statement got. Perhaps Imus is fair game to these MSM executives because he supports Democrats as well as Republicans. There was even a suggestion by some idiot commentator that Imus is a liberal. In my opinion, Imus would only be a liberal in a fascist group.
My suggestion to Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the other anti-defamation groups is that they extend their outrage to the other talk radio hosts who are doing far more damage than Imus. This would be a message to the advertisers that would really have an impact on talk radio and the dissemination of hatred that has so divided this country over the last 25 years. My suggestion to Imus is that he donates a few million dollars to a chaired professorship at Rutgers University for a media program directed at this problem if he is serious about his apology.
I would like to invite people to go to our web site at www.novamradio.com to sign a petition to the MSM about this issue and show your outrage. Enough is enough
LINK
Wardog
You are so full of it
No liberal in their right mind would sport a picture of nukes and worship warheads
And as for Christianity, radical Christians interrupt the bible literally or rewrite it altogther for their own needs...which btw includes war as Jesus never supported war...
-conbo
Olbermann asked Jesse Jackson why just Imus? Why not all the others like Rush, Hannity, O'Liely, Savage?
ITA with digby re the Imus defenders:
"If you ever wanted to see how the establishment media bubble is floating around way outside the everyday world in which the rest of us live, this is it."
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But Bill Maher thinks its
all fake outrage from you and
me -
I said I was very Liberal..
I did not say I was in the Loony Left..
Alan Colmes is a Liberal..
Janeane is in the Loony Left..
It's a matter of degree..
Until the outrage moves to the Rappers..
It is all bullshit..
I didn't like Imus..
But he was tryin to use the same crap you hear every day..
Now everyone is shocked..???
Please..
okay ... too much trollmania going on right now
bye guys
A year ago WarDog would never say any of this stuff
He is a complete sheep
-conbo
I would like to know if there is anything very specific, other than writing to management, that we can do to help Sam get more time on AA?
war dog you are getting a little bit to big for your troll britches
bbl
-conbo
This blog is on the endangered species list..
With no link to a show...
(Well, a real daily show..)
It will be a vacant lot..
Soon the heartbroken fans will accept their lot in life..
And the Left Behinds will have to soldier on in obscurity..
Why would a federal agency trash its libraries?
The Environmental Protection Agency seems to have a real knack for self-inflicted wounds. EPA gave itself a black eye and enraged librarians throughout the country last year, when, without public notice or congressional consultation, it began the process of dismantling its network of 26 technical libraries. The original rationale EPA offered for slashing libraries was fiscal, but it estimated only $1.5 million in savings from a more-than-$8 billion budget. It seemed a most curious economy.
...
Don't leave Connie..
Who will I talk too...???
Where is that little Ono when you need him..???
Et tu, Ono?
This place is like a bar at Sunrise on Sunday..
A good use for the cur.
Boshintang:
The standard amount of ingredients for one portion:
(1) Ingredients
100g of boiled dog meat
500g of gravy
20g of green onion
10g of a leek
10g of perilla leaves
100g of taro stalk soaked in water.
(2) Sauce
8g of salt
2g of mashed garlic
3g of perilla
2g of red pepper
2g of mashed ginger
a little amount of pepper.
(3) Cooking instruction
After boiling the meat with gravy and stalk of taro for some time, boil again after putting vegetables and other ingredients into it. Before eating, sprinkle pepper on it and put into an earthen bowl. The stalk of taro is to be kept in cold water one or two days to get rid of its smell and taste.
TONI-D!!!
CHANGE THE BLOG BACK TO IT'S ORIGINAL FORMAT
it refreshed smoothly
this format is all "blinky-blinky appear"
and keep your bright ideas to youself in future
you wanna be part of the decision making process, then you cop it sweet my dear
Im not talking to him...
So much as Im talking in his general direction...
Plus he is being extra ridiculous today I can't help it
He is now a liberal
hahahahaha
-conbo
Cicero!
you were on the show!
how was it?
:)
-conbo
that recipe made me hungry!
I just wrote Chubby a letter finally
102 pages. Mine was 1. The other 101 was the blog.
Now all I have to do is take everything ot the post office.
-conbo
I wonder if they will know who Chubby Bubba is at the post office.
have you written your letter Ono?
-conbo
LMAO.
Yeah, I was on earlier, #. Gave Sam an earful about progressive voices and his replacement.
Cat Chew posted it at the MRR Pics site.
How was it? I was nervous. Other than that, it was good.
How goes it with you?
---
Hi, ono!
hahaha
-conbo
Ono, I'll post Achy Breaky Heart if you leave. Don't make me do it.
You are not allowed a GBCW, only a hiatus.
: )
maybe you should vist the docter, Air Ono, I know your kidding but you sound like very miserable
i have not heard it yet Cicero
I will go find it...
wait.
i can't get into mrr pics anymore
what hour was it?
i can find it on seattle's page they post free archives
-conbo
oh God
I bet Air Ono has never heard achy breaky heart! hahahaha!
he's in for a treat! post it anyway Cicero!!!!!
-conbo
You can't Leave air ono
You will die
I am not kidding
We will all die if we leave
The blog is worse than heroin
-conbo
[OK, LAST POST]
i wanna tango with the fiesty sexy eloquent bridge
but no, war-drog drives her away
and i end up with snot on my collar
instead of "black velvet" lipstick
we do need a new thread
couldn't hurt
-conbo
Was about 20-25 minutes into the second hour, #.
---
Apologies in advance.
Achy Breaky Heart, Billy Ray Cyrus
going to listen
-conbo
not to billy ray ylick
are you after Robert?
-conbo
I don't know. He says "Cicero, from Portland, Oregon"
I think the new show should be called Sam Seder's Super Sunday Show
-conbo
doan tell my heart my hear my achy breaky heart
oh god that song is in my head and I haven't even clicked on the link I REFUSE
Robert is going on and on and on
-conbo
he did serve tho
-conbo
Robert the guy that stutters alot? Yeah, after that.
now Sam is going on and on
-conbo
Robert the guy that stutters alot? Yeah, after that.
April 11, 2007 11:25 PM
at least he did not call in to treport the Onion hahahaha!
-conbo
maybe it is on the other pod
-conbo
ok second pod
-conbo
richard in manhatten
uh
-conbo
you should be next
mark
where are you?
are you on the other pod
-conbo
james from austin texas
i think you are on the other pod
-conbo
whoa!
there you are!
very nice voice!
-conbo
Must be
yeh
um
you sound uh
hot and stuff
ok i am going to eat lunch
bbl
-conbo
Hi All!
Which pod is he on connie?
How does one make a blushing emoticon?
Thanks, #, am flattered that you liked it.
Pod people?
Whats this pod business?
Apparently I became a pod person today, Meg.
It is with the most profound sadness that I must report to the blog that Kurt Vonnegut has died.
at Kurt Vonnegut has died.
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NO NO NO! LIE! NONONONONO!
So is Cicero the skinny kid with the curly hair in bangs? I saw him on that clip.
Was just reading about Vonnegut.
Painful.
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Cicero is definitely not that, Portland Patty. I don't believe there are any "clips" of me to be seen online.
I remember that in a Rolling Stone interview Vonnegut said that he wanted his tombstone to read, (paraphrasing) "Music is proof that [G]od exists"
I loved Vonnegut... Actually got to meet him once
I just saw that too..that's fucked
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/books/11cnd-vonnegut.html
BOB HERBERT: Paying the Price
You knew something was up early in the day. As soon as I told executives at MSNBC that I was going to write about the “60 Minutes” piece, which was already in pretty wide circulation, they began acting very weird. We’ll get back to you, they said.
In a “60 Minutes” interview with Don Imus broadcast in July 1998, Mike Wallace said of the “Imus in the Morning” program, “It’s dirty and sometimes racist.”
Mr. Imus then said: “Give me an example. Give me one example of one racist incident.” To which Mr. Wallace replied, “You told Tom Anderson, the producer, in your car, coming home, that Bernard McGuirk is there to do nigger jokes.”
Mr. Imus said, “Well, I’ve nev — I never use that word.”
Mr. Wallace then turned to Mr. Anderson, his producer. “Tom,” he said.
“I’m right here,” said Mr. Anderson.
Mr. Imus then said to Mr. Anderson, “Did I use that word?”
Mr. Anderson said, “I recall you using that word.”
“Oh, O.K.,” said Mr. Imus. “Well, then I used that word. But I mean — of course, that was an off-the-record conversation. But ——”
“The hell it was,” said Mr. Wallace.
The transcript was pure poison. A source very close to Don Imus told me last night, “They did not want to wait for your piece to come out.”
For MSNBC, Mr. Imus’s “nappy-headed ho’s” comment about the Rutgers women’s basketball team was bad enough. Putting the word “nigger” into the so-called I-man’s mouth was beyond the pale.......
http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/04/bob-herbert-paying-price.html
Air America: Loved It...Left It
by 60th Street
Wed Apr 11, 2007 at 07:21:44 PM PDT
My Email to the AAR (mis)management:
To:Scott Elberg
Chief of Operations
selberg@airamerica.com
David Berstein
Program Director
dbernstein@airamerica.com
Lionel over Sam Seder? What a poor decision. You are certainly continuing the sad AAR-management trend of discontinuing real talent versus actually investing in some advertising for honest hard working, effective and popular hosts like Sam. I have run out of patience. You need to promote the people that made this network possible. What was once a juggernaut is now a sputtering junker.
Sam Seder has carried this network and filled in for absent hosts so many times I can't begin to count them.
...
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/11/214912/085
Kevin!
:)
WaitingForCicero said...
The first Vonnegut I read was the short story "Harrison Bergeron". Great intro to a great writer.
Dammit, this sucks
April 12, 2007 12:23 AM
Slaughterhouse Five here
Slaughterhouse Five and Kurt Vonnegut are the answers to many a Jeopardy question
or should I say the question to many a Jeopardy answer.... jeez...
The last gift I gave my ex was a copy of Venus On The Half Shell.
I've never read anything he wrote that I disliked. Cat's Cradle and Player Piano are two faves, but I love 'em all.
moment of zen: laura bush reads children's book
Zapatista Comandantes Arrive at Mexico-US Border
Marcos: “We Will Come and Stay With You, Without Guns, Only With Our Words”
By Brenda Norrell, Special to The Narco News Bulletin
April 11, 2007
MAGDALENA DE KINO, Sonora, Mexico – Zapatistas’ Subcomandante Marcos and 10 comandantes from Chiapas arrived on their way to the Cucapá (Cocapah) Peace Camp and were welcomed by O’odham and friends in the state of Sonora.
Marcos said he will return here in less than two weeks to announce plans for the Intercontinental Indigenous Conference, planned for northwest Mexico for the fall of 2007.
Marcos said he hopes the Intercontinental gathering will “touch the hearts and recuperate the souls.”
“When Indigenous Peoples come together from all regions, they will realize that money means nothing when compared to the values of Indigenous Peoples,” Marcos said in an interview, speaking in Spanish and English.
...
bbl
Lilith said...
Hi Shell, are you still here?
April 11, 2007 8:24 PM
Drat..I missed you again..:(
*
Black Velvet...nice name, bridge... :)
Oddly we got a new book @ work for Cat Names...we don't have one for dog names tho..& someone actually wanted the dog one this past week...
I read him in high school. I dont remember what I read first... Either short stories or Slaughterhouse...
I send my old copy of Vonneguts short stories to a guy in Iraq.
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2007_04_08_atrios_archive.html#117632944888610422
Fresh Thread
May I suggest Sam Seder In the Morning?'
How long til War Dog comes to the blog and celebrates Vonnegut's death?
There is no low he wont sink to.
I doubt Wardog has read Vonnegut or even has a clue who is...even though he is now a liberal
[Vonnegut] quickly lights up. His wheezing ceases. I ask him whether he worries that cigarettes are killing him. "Oh, yes," he answers, in what is clearly a set-piece gag. "I've been smoking Pall Mall unfiltered cigarettes since I was twelve or fourteen. So I'm going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, who manufactured them. And do you know why?" "Lung cancer?" I offer.
"No. No. Because I'm eighty-three years old. The lying bastards! On the package Brown & Williamson promised to kill me. Instead, their cigarettes didn't work. Now I'm forced to suffer leaders with names like Bush and Dick and, up until recently, 'Colon.'"....
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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/11123162/kurt_vonnegut_says_this_is_the_end_of_the_world/2
I have a fluffy orange kitty on my foot.
Rolling Stone interview link
let's try that link again ^
Senate plans subpoena vote tomorrow. The Senate Judiciary Committee is “poised to vote” tomorrow on a motion by committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) for “the power to issue subpoenas for a raft” of Justice Department documents in the U.S. attorney case.
LINK
50 White House officials have used RNC accounts.The LA Times reports:
Today, 22 staffers have e-mail accounts issued by the Republican National Committee, Stanzel said, noting that it is a tiny percentage of the 1,000 political appointees in the executive office of the president.
Since 2001, about 50 staffers e-mailed using the system, he said. One former White House staffer told National Journal recently that Rove uses his Republican National Committee e-mail account for 95 % of his e-mail communications.
One former White House official, Assistant Press Secretary Adam Levine, told The Times that he was issued a private laptop computer but he found the dual system so cumbersome that he decided to use only his official White House computer.
However, Levine recalled seeing White House staff members moving fluidly between their official computers and the laptops provided by the Republican National Committee.
LINK
Kurt Vonnegut passes away at 84. “Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like ‘Slaughterhouse-Five,’ ‘Cat’s Cradle’ and ‘God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater’ caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died Wednesday night in Manhattan. He was 84.”
From a 2003 interview with In These Times:
I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d’etat imaginable. And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka “Christians,” and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or “PPs.”
Video of Vonnegut interviewed on the Daily Show is HERE.
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I remember when this was originally posted on the blog....
August 6, 2004, I Love You, Madame Librarian
By Kurt Vonnegut
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I, like probably most of you, have seen Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. Its title is a parody of the title of Ray Bradbury’s great science fiction novel, Fahrenheit 451. This temperature 451° Fahrenheit, is the combustion point, incidentally, of paper, of which books are composed. The hero of Bradbury’s novel is a municipal worker whose job is burning books.
And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
And still on the subject of books: Our daily sources of news, papers and TV, are now so craven, so unvigilant on behalf of the American people, so uninformative, that only in books can we find out what is really going on. I will cite an example: House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger, published near the start of this humiliating, shameful blood-soaked year.
In case you haven’t noticed, and as a result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily disenfranchised, we now present ourselves to the rest of the world as proud, grinning, jut-jawed, pitiless war lovers, with appallingly powerful weaponry and unopposed.
In case you haven’t noticed, we are now almost as feared and hated all over the world as the Nazis were.
With good reason.
In case you haven’t noticed, our unelected leaders have dehumanized millions and millions of human beings simply because of their religion and race. We wound and kill ’em and torture ’em and imprison ’em all we want.
Piece of cake.
In case you haven’t noticed, we also dehumanize our own soldiers, not because of their religion or race, but because of their low social class.
Send ’em anywhere. Make ’em do anything.
Piece of cake.
The O’Reilly Factor.
So I am a man without a country, except for the librarians and the Chicago-based magazine you are reading, In These Times.
Before we attacked Iraq, the majestic New York Times guaranteed that there were weapons of mass destruction there.
Albert Einstein and Mark Twain gave up on the human race at the end of their lives, even though Twain hadn’t even seen World War I. War is now a form of TV entertainment. And what made WWI so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun. Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don’t you wish you could have something named after you?
Like my distinct betters Einstein and Twain, I now am tempted to give up on people too. And, as some of you may know, this is not the first time I have surrendered to a pitiless war machine.
My last words? “Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse.”
Napalm came from Harvard. Veritas!
Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler.
What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without a sense of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations and made it all their own?
Kurt Vonnegut is a legendary author, WWII veteran, humanist, artist, smoker and In These Times senior editor. His classic works include Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, among many others. His most recent book, A Man Without a Country, collects many of the articles written for this magazine.
and now I am crying
Kurt Vonnegut, 1922 - 2007
Within the next 24 hours somebody will write "Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday. So it goes." It won't be me. Vonnegut hated the trite and obvious, and he hated sentimentality.
But he didn't hate sentiment. He was comfortable with sentiment, despite living in a culture where deep emotion is sometimes treated as a social disorder.
In fact, as a writer and public figure Vonnegut was more richly suffused with sentiment than most writers, or for that matter most people, that I know. He had feelings and he wasn't afraid to use them. Anger came up often, and so did outrage. But love showed up just as often. Love, and nostalgia, and hope.
All those emotions, each one a pedal on the organ of the human soul. Vonnegut pressed every one when he wrote about politics. And he played on some others, too, like sadness. And fear. And astonishment
it will be illegal to hand a child a glass of raw vegetable juice if it has any health purpose whatsoever, but it will remain perfectly legal to drug them up on amphetamines like Ritalin
“He was sort of like nobody else,” said Gore Vidal, who noted that he, Vonnegut and Norman Mailer were among the last writers around who served in World War II.
“He was imaginative; our generation of writers didn’t go in for imagination very much. Literary realism was the general style. Those of us who came out of the war in the 1940s made sort of the official American prose, and it was often a bit on the dull side. Kurt was never dull.”
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