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I got this from an email via The Mic 921 today:

David Bender took over Sam Seder's former Sunday afternoon time slot a few weeks ago. Sam's focus is now online as the editor of www.airamerica.com. He'll be back on The Mic 92.1 next week filling in for Mike Malloy Tuesday through Friday.

Hope this bodes well for Sam moving to NovaM!

Via the latest email from the Desk of Seder - Editor in Chief of AAR.com
Lionel Vision

While you are on our website you may also want to check out Air America’s host, Lionel, on "Lionel Vision," which is available live from 9a-12p ET, Monday through Friday. This is an opportunity for you to get the full Lionel Show experience. Why just listen to him when you can WATCH him? (Think radio voyeurism without the stigma of an arrest record.)

With the "Lionel Vision," you’ll have the ability to watch Lionel conduct interviews with in-studio guests...

Sounds like someone's ripping off the SammyCam!

Randi Rhodes GONE from Air America

John Scott speaks out on the Return of Randi Rhodes

UPDATE: John Scott, Program Director of Green960, speaks out:

"We have been very frustrated the past few days in our efforts to rectify the Randi Rhodes Situation (her suspension by her network, Air America Radio). It is our understanding that today (April 9th) she is no longer an employee of Air America. So we are bringing her back."

Monday, April 14th at 4pm... it will be our pleasure to announce the return of Randi Rhodes to the Green 960 family.

That was quick!

On the blog Four Freedoms, Raine posts about more rapes reported by female KBR employees - including the mother of a soldier. Your Vagina's Belong to Them - V.2
In the past week, we have learned of another rape. Another story of an American woman being raped with ties to KBR. This time, it is with a twist... This time it involves a soldier. In this Article from the Nation, she is Lisa Smith. It is a psuedonym. In this article, we read the following: "That dawn, naked, covered in blood and feces, bleeding from her anus, she found a U.S. soldier she did not know lying naked in the bed next to her: His gun lay on the floor beside the bed, she could not rouse him and all she could remember of the night before was screaming and screaming as the soldier anally penetrated her while a colleague who worked for defense contractor KBR held her hand -- but instead of helping her, as she had hoped, he jammed his penis in her mouth." The article goes on to tell us more of the same type of cover-ups from KBR as I posted previously. A soldier did this to her.
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And STILL... as I posted back in February... NO ONE HAS BEEN CHARGED.
As of today, April 10th, There are NO criminal charges pending in ANY of these cases.
NO one is being charged in a criminal court for the RAPE and SODOMY of American women by American men. Is this what we are fighting for? Is this OK? Is this legal?

OUR Vaginas belong to US.

There's a lot more at the link. I urge you to read it, then contact your senators and congressperson to demand justice be done for these women.

Show your support for Rachel and turn on Countdown tonight on MSNBC at 8:00 / 10:00 / 12:00 Eastern time!

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Today's one of those days I *really* miss Morning Sedition and Mort Mortenson with Morning Remembrance.

Herb Patterson, Egg McMuffin Inventor, Dies At 89
Herb Peterson, who invented the ubiquitous Egg McMuffin as a way to introduce breakfast to McDonald's restaurants, has died, a Southern California McDonald's official said Wednesday. He was 89.

Peterson died peacefully Tuesday at his Santa Barbara home, said Monte Fraker, vice president of operations for McDonald's restaurants in that city.

Anyone around who can do a good Mort impersonation?

If anyone on the blog is near the Shippenville, PA area and has anything they can physically donate, or simply wants to contribute a monetary donation to help, the PSPCA needs whatever you can give them for the Tiger Ranch rescues:

information for donations and drop offs in Shippenville, PA

If you're not familiar with the situation, here's an article from a Pittsburgh resource.

Please spread the word around about this.

A blogger named Raine over at Four Freedoms posted an entry concerning the women who were raped while working overseas for Halliburton/KBR and have come forward so far.

Some points from the blog entry include the following:

• Halliburton/KBR ... They force employees to give up their civil rights in order to be employed. That means you as a woman have the right to be raped by your fellow workers.

• A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident.
  in another incident)

• In a separate letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Nelson asked why there has been no criminal prosecution in the case of the alleged Florida victim. The woman, reportedly now 41, has alleged she was raped in her living quarters. She has sued KBR and Halliburton in civil court, but the judge ordered the case into private arbitration.
  (in yet another incident)

• A mother of five who says she was sexually harassed and assaulted while working for Halliburton/KBR in Iraq is headed for a secretive arbitration process rather than being able to present her case in open court.
  A judge in Texas has ruled that Tracy Barker's case will be heard in arbitration, according to the terms of her initial employment contract.

The full post is here.
Raine has compiled a *lot* of information and written an important piece.

If you are a woman, if you are not but respect women, if you are a human being with an ounce of decency, read Raine's post and post a link in your own blog.

Spread the word about this. If the mainstream media won't publicize it, if the United States government is turning a blind eye to this, then we must do something about it.