Open Mic Amplification

Nobody loves Sammy as much as Senator Kathrine Harris.

that's just unsafe all the way around....

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/99

been an interesting day for me.

lots of peeps dropping in to visit, a successful carfix in for the day, same with troubleshooting another.

the maron interview in seattle was a good one.

Laura's next to the last weekday show is up next.

and i have the most delicious carrot cake in the universe in the kitchen!

One of those "I'm in trouble and I have no clue why" days...So screw you and your carrot cake

"screw you and your carrot cake"

Oh Yeah?

gonna get pretty sticky, mr sweet tooth...

I too am having a good day. I say let SJ enjoy his cake. Perhaps Nobody needs to get a piece? (mb incognito)

I was born sticky...

Think you can frighten me?

i'm not saying, but, have you ever considered how ubiquotous google is?

i installed some new security software on my system and was surprised to find that google desktop was reaching out and touching someone back at google corporate when i shut my system down.

now we all know that google is freedoms friend. look how strongly they opposed turning over search records when the government asked them to. now consider that they came out of nowhere, they have billions of dollars behind them, they have server farms that rival the nsa, they have taken data mining to a new level, and some of the sharpest minds in the land work for them.

suppose for an instant that google is an nsa black project, hiding right under our noses. the protest on turning over search records would be an ideal cover.

nah. gotta go, there's a black helicopter circling the house...

my life is going all to hell at the moment

pls send pos vibes my way!!!!!!

-conbo

ha!

mr don't even think about giving me a hug!

so what's the most recent kerfuffle?

The ball was definitely dropped with Sam and Laura. That ROF was extended to 3 and Bender as added is a good move. The marketplace will do to the 9a.m. to noon fiasco that it did to all the Clear Channel affliates who dropped AAR and went back to the rightwingspinmachine. Their numbers dropped faster than a motar into the Green Zone.

Moving to the center is not viable strategy in the 21st century. Has AAR put Rahm Emmanuel on the board??

THe Player on here Errors out my browser .... I keep getting a series of Error Boxes or Windows opening up with it ..... like around 4 or 5 of them.

Free Democracy

mmm. how about some virtual carrot cake for the masses? is it the type with the gooey cream cheese frosting?

eya #

we love ya, and we think yer brillant!

Free Democracy

I'm getting two audios on the iTunes feed. Anyone else having streaming issues?

chilled gooey cream cheese frosting done in nice sculptured waves, with a layer of walnut chunks on top...!

..for old times sake.

Free Democracy

best AARgh show sound link:

http://www.airamerica.com/listen/?q=wmp

slow torture...

back later, got to run to the store :)

The specified stream type is not recognized. (Error=C00D07E2)

Cannot open. Please verify that the path and filename are correct and try again. (Error=C00D07E2)

Not Help from Windows .....

Free Democracy

Dude - try adding an avatar in your user profile as a test - we just enabled it! Max 30K.

Beer stores close at 10pm tonight right?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070519/ap_on_re_us/carter_bush

Carter: Chimp's policy "worst in history"

-M the a-c

[quote=Kevin ©]THe Player on here Errors out my browser .... I keep getting a series of Error Boxes or Windows opening up with it ..... like around 4 or 5 of them.

Free Democracy

What kind of browser/player are you using. I'm running XP with MS-IE and Firefox and it is error free.

work?

Hi N! I coincidentally found a small book called The Shooting of Dan McGrew & Other Poems of Robert Service...thought of you..

SJ...I spoke to the RC kid today when he (responsibly) called to renew his books today...I asked him how it was going & he said he's already built one with the items...excellent & thanks again..

Conbo! Done..! I hope you're ok...

[quote=lmh]Dude - try adding an avatar in your user profile as a test - we just enabled it! Max 30K.[/quote]

I tried...where does it show up?

If you can see it on your own account that is the first step. I uploaded a duck as a test - so far so good.

Listening to Laura right now. Sounds like (at this late date no less) she is still in negotiations over her role in the Air America team evening broadcast. I wondered how that would work. Doesn't seem to make sense to me.

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give em a WTG!

Bender is gone, right? They didn't offer a new job to him, right?

Hey Alice. Hey Kevin. Hey Sunshine Jim. Hey Nobody. Hey MRR blog universe. Long time, ... I hope everyone's well.

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We haven't quite developed a system to gain open mic's more prominence so we may do these time tot time.

If you are a Malloy Fan and I should say Fernando is posting a lot of cool stuff- check what he posted in the comments. Ah heck, check out his whole body of work so far.

If you have an opinion on the direction of AAR

Can't wait to talk about this new blog and offer suggestions?

Is this work safe?

UPDATE: from the comments- taken at a heritage foundation talkers event, too funny.

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Free Democracy

I'm putting up a picture I took of a sunset in Rhode Island, last October. Let's see if it flys.

Why was Sam's ratings so low? on the 9-12 time

Should be interesting. Too bad I don't listen to AAR anymore...except on Sundays or secondhand via Rachel on KPHX or the Quake.

According to http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2007/05/air-america-20-but-will-it-float.htm..., Bender's show is gone, but he will be one of several co-hosts on "The Air Americans." This show, anchored by Mark Riley, will include the hosts of Ring of Fire. I am listening to Radio Nation as I write this and Laura mentioned sometime ago that she is still negotiation with management regarding her participation. Her tone left a lot to the imagination.

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"why was Sam's ratings so low?
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 05/19/2007 - 20:09.
Why was Sam's ratings so low? on the 9-12 time"

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I don't know, Gare. Why don't you tell us why you think so.

That must explain why it was grammatically incorrect.

why was Sam's ratings so low?
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 05/20/2007 - 00:09.

Actually, it would seem that they weren't...I guess both God AND assholes work in mysterious ways.

"...judging by the response on various blogs, message boards and even Air America's own site, listeners are very vocal about "The Lionel Show."

Of course, time will tell if the show will grow and expand...Particularly since predecessor Sam Seder actually improved his ratings on flagship station WWRL in the most recent Arbitron book."

Why was Sam's ratings so low? on the 9-12 time

eya LaL!

Hark! Never seen this one before...some good juicy stuff! Green wanted his own show in Seders old spot! Whatta tool! Sammy! Any truth to this???

The snarktabulous LeatherPenguin

They weren't. First off, the decision was made to can Sam before his first full book came out. In New York, he had the highest gain of any time slot on the net. His 24-55 numbers increased by mid three digits. His ratings were on par with the rest of the net. His streaming numbers were double those of Springer's

The problem was clearance. Miller took all of Springers affiliates. Sam had gained affiliates though and my understanding is that Lionel now has LESS affiliates than Sam had when he was booted. Lionel may gain more, though, honestly, I don't know where he could.

called me from Portland, Oregon. He is headed down to redwood country tomorrow for a few days. He sent along his buzz, or something like that. He sounded like a raving lunatic talking about whales and caves and mountains and all kinds of goofy stuff. LOL!

How Goes it?

Been at work and then just catching up with the blog

Better have your shit wired really fucking tight if you're gonna dump on Sam...

...here.

We, his fans, are the only ones who get to rag on our Sam Spaz Stumblemouth.

Ain't that right, Sammer? *bruhahahahaha*

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Hey, Solar One. Hope all's well w/ you & yours. Give B-girl a smootch & the terrierists a scritch & a milkbone for me.

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I think I could have damn good time hangin' w/ reffer jello for a few.

With a nic like that, how could one go wrong?

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Nobs: Good to see you're still alive, shorty.

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Later, kids. I've been summoned.

Iraq is on the verge of collapse: report

Lord I feel bad for those People

Giuliani’s “sketchy” activities. From the New Republic’s latest cover story:

[A]ccording to Kerik’s former girlfriend, the book publisher Judith Regan, this friendship could come back to haunt Giuliani’s campaign. She told one of my tnr colleagues that Kerik and Giuliani would frequently discuss “sketchy” activities in her presence “as if I weren’t there.” Regan told my colleague that she would reveal the contents of the conversations in the event that Giuliani’s presidential campaign took off. (Of course, Regan has her own scandal-ridden past. But she also has enough p.r. acumen and notoriety to win an audience for her accusations.)

Bernie Kerik, Giuliani’s close longtime business and political partner, is likely to soon face charges for “several felonies, including tax evasion and conspiracy to commit wiretapping.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/19/giulianis-sketchy-activities/

NBC planning ‘big exposé’ on ‘Magic Negro’ song. Rush Limbaugh: “The wizards at the Today Show plan, on Monday, to do a big exposé on my parody tune “Barack, the ‘Magic Negro.‘” Limbaugh says he is sending “encyclopedic documentation” to NBC showing “the brilliance of it, the humor of it.” We’ll see how much of that NBC incorporates into its report.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/19/nbc-planning-big-expose-on-magic-neg...

Death toll for Iraq contractors reaches new high. “Casualties among private contractors in Iraq have soared to record levels this year, setting a pace that seems certain to turn 2007 into the bloodiest year yet for the civilians who work alongside the American military in the war zone, according to new government numbers.” At least 146 were killed in the first three months of the year, the highest since the war began.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/19/world/middleeast/19contractors.html?ex...

How do you know when you have a Democratic majority in Congress in the 21st century?

When your representatives are living in and live-blogging poverty! This takes the cake...or not....

U.S. Members of Congress to Live on a Food Stamp Budget from May 15-21 Staff and Advocate Groups to Join Challenge

It’s worth noting that President Bush’s threat to veto a 3.5 percent pay raise for U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan came just two days before Armed Forces Day, the “single holiday for citizens to come together and thank our military members for their patriotic service in support of our country.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/18/commemorating-armed-forces-day/

I read your link. It had these words:

The oil law, among benchmarks Washington has set Baghdad as critical steps to end sectarian violence.

Sectarian violence is about the oil sharing agreements? How does this play?

Are all of those Iraqi on Iraqi deaths indirectly about the will of a few corporations wanting sharing agreements?

Museum in whacky Cincinnati claims 'Adam and Eve cavorted with dinosaurs'

The $27 million Creation Museum in metro Cincinnati tells a biblical version of the Earth's history, asserting that the planet is just a few thousand years old and man and giant lizards once coexisted.

http://www.cobbonline.com/creationmuseum.html

What makes you say it was low? Do you have evidence of this? I think I heard Janeane (perhaps Sam also) mention on MRR that they were doing relatively well in their time slot vs. conservative talk. Al told Sam that he was the future of Air America. If Sam's morning show did not do well, it would be because of a lack of promotion on AA's part.

Something tells me that this show is the final go-round for these hosts.

It reminds me very much of "According to Jim's" launch. Saturday Night Live mocked it and its similar to shows as "Last Chance Wednesdays" or something because apparently industry insiders believed that it was Belushi and a few other failed comedians' last opportunity.

-M the a-c

Oops. Strike "to"

The Immigration Issue is Bush's Latest Last Gasp. He (or, more accurately, Cheney) has failed miserably in every other quarter. The Presidential push is on for something, anything, that can be historically cited as a positive in the "legacy" column.

Unfortunately for Bush, the Immigration Issue is among the last that he would have tackled given an otherwise successful tenure in office.

The Absolute Conservatives hate "illegal" immigration, which is ironic and humorous in that the warm, albeit illegal, brown bodies serve their agenda of corporations über alles.

The Absolute Conservatives comprise a sizable portion of the twenty-eight percent who continue to sit around the dwindling fires of the Bush camp...not a group that you would want to alienate if you were rocketing downward as the worst president ever.

Daddy and Barbara Bush have their "little brown ones" who were conceived of mostly White and mostly Brown parentage. Dubya has his "little brown ones" that emerge from his ass.

(Why is this blog so complicated? I've got more Tabs open than a fat secretary in a 1960's auto repair shop.)

A "fat receptionist" would have been funnier.

Chris Rock and Greg Maddux look like someone's grandfather.

Holy .....

Chris Rock aged 20 years in 2 years.

Okay. I scored two posts in tandem. This is my cue that everyone else has moved elsewhere. I'm beginning to feel like the kid who is fed disinformation so that he won't show up at the big dance.

'''''''''''''Are all of those Iraqi on Iraqi deaths indirectly about the will of a few corporations wanting sharing agreements?'''''''

I doubt it Fernando, but I reckon who will control the oil profits are playing a part in the sectarian stuggle.

This blog needs a feature similar to the maps in the malls: "You aren't here."

It disappeared....... WTF?

Long Time No See......

No Topic for Me

huge editorial in the local paper today trashing these kooks. they have put together a set of displays which claim that science supports their beliefs. its all a fraud, always has been, always will be.

for the record, these creeps live in caintucky.

Crank, did you see where Bush blew a kiss to the Queen....

What a Jack Ass! :D

That guy is embarrassing, they should put him on a shock collar with a remote control.

It's not enough to gut the military, and the Justice Department. Prepare for the dismembering of the National Weather Service.

Yeah Fernando, seems to me like that FDA has been struggling as of lately, what with the Poison catfish, spinach, pet food, vioxx.........

But after Repub control for so long, I am suprised there is still even an FDA.

That's what they don't understand. You can't trust the Corporation to monitor itself.

What a bunch of crooks.

Assim.Press:

Washington, D.C. - President Bush today unveiled an ambitious plan to supply the country with fresh scandals until 2008. "There are those who say America has run out of new scandals, that we're in scandal re-runs.

Link

Bob: "I doubt it Fernando, but I reckon who will control the oil profits are playing a part in the sectarian stuggle."
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Two of my arguments for leaving the ANWR oil fields unexploited are thus: "1.) It is money in the bank as fuel for future generations. 2.) Some kind of extra-important, long-chain molecular discovery might come to pass in the future requiring petroleum as the feed stock."

A corrupt, merciless and capitalistic version of my argument would be thus: "Why pump and transport and refine petroleum at full capacity now, while we could pump and transport and refine petroleum at half capacity now but at twice the price?"

It ain't rocket science. In its infancy, a product abundantly supplied equals tremendous profits. After dependence on the product is established, reduced supply equals tremendous profits.

Reduced supply requires significant control of supply. Iraq is assumed (projected, guessed) to have huge reserves. Any one group that controls those reserves also wields global political power.

Former GOP Lawmaker Arrested On Charges Of Raping Children And Legislative Pages
argusleader.com | Jerry Woster | May 19, 2007 02:52 PM

Former Republican Rep. Ted Klaudt could spend the rest of his life in prison after turning himself in to authorities Friday on felony charges that include eight counts of rape involving foster children and former legislative pages.

Five girls told authorities they were assaulted by Klaudt, court documents state, although charges filed Friday involve only two of the girls.

http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070519/NEWS/7051...

TPM: Sure, I realize that some Supreme Court justices are going to be less curious than others, and some prefer delving into briefs to quizzing counsel, but Clarence Thomas' reticence is unnerving.

Link

Corvette. Daily driver.
On the positive side: Looks good. Runs well. Handles well. Nearly every wearing part is young.
On the negative side: Costs (as of yesterday) seven cents per minute at idle, twenty-one cents per minute at highway speeds.
Contact: Crank Bait. Bring big bucks, leave good sense behind. Idiots given special consideration.

How're you doing today?

It's getting humid here and we are expecting rain so get ready, it'll be heading your way sometime tomorrow.

yer vette has just become a special event amusement ride.

Here. What a dumbass. He still votes like they told him to. I wonder if he even listens.

Bush Admin Designs World's Largest, Most Expensive Embassy For Iraq
AP | ANNE GEARAN | May 19, 2007 02:10 PM

The new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad will be the world's largest and most expensive foreign mission, though it may not be large enough or secure enough to cope with the chaos in
Iraq.

The Bush administration designed the 104-acre compound -- set to open in September in what today is a war zone -- to be an ultra-secure enclave. Yet it also hoped that downtown Baghdad would cease being a battleground when diplomats moved in.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070519/worlds-largest-embassy

Someone call the AdCouncil!

"...the way things are now the illegal employee has every incentive to keep the employer's illegal behavior a secret. So we need an incentive for workers to rat out their employers. But what could be simpler? If you're not eligible to work, and you can prove that someone has employed you illegally, you get a green card."

Moving an immigration bill from Reality-Based Community

Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Sun, 05/20/2007 - 02:21.
yer vette has just become a special event amusement ride
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I had an investment/transportation theory that went like this: Drive an old sports car that doesn't depreciate.

There is nothing wrong with the theory. It works. I neglected to include another component, though: Drive an old sports car that doesn't depreciate and gets great gas mileage.

In my next automotive incarnation I will be located somewhere between Mr. Bean and Mexican Pimp Ride. I'm also looking to my stable of stored motorcycles and busily designing gigantimous baskets to suit.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1965-VESPA-SCOOTER-WITH-SIDECAR-FULLY-RES...

By: Nicole Belle @ 1:03 PM - PDT A few weeks ago, I linked to Naomi Wolf's article in the Guardian listing why she believes we are sliding further and further into fascism.

Obviously, there are some who will dispute that (and I believe we saw that on our comments as well) and the Guardian saw some tremendous feedback, so they invited Naomi Wolf back to debate Boston College professor Alan Wolfe on truly how fascist the country is becoming. Part 1 is available here and Part 2 is available here. It's a fascinating and intelligent discussion. (thanks to Hugh J. again)

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/05/19/wolf-vs-wolfe/

Blog Map
by Crank Bait
This blog needs a feature similar to the maps in the malls: "You aren't here."

Good one, Crank..:)
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Nothing like driving through the mountains towards sunset with LZ blasting..

I imagine it's what a Goodman/Chomsky Presidential ticket would feel like.....

TPM: The AP had an interesting item today, highlighting Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' perspective on being close friends with the president. As the embattled Gonzales sees it, his close relationship with Bush, which spans decades, is inherently "a good thing" for everyone.

What?/What A Moron

F-Bombs: They’re Not Just For Dick Cheney Anymore
By: Logan Murphy @ 9:04 AM - PDT Via The Washington Post:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) hasn't spent much time in the Capitol this year as he seeks the GOP presidential nomination. But one of his rare appearances this week provided a pretty salty exchange with a fellow Republican.

During a meeting Thursday on immigration legislation, McCain and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) got into a shouting match when Cornyn started voicing concerns about the number of judicial appeals that illegal immigrants could receive, according to multiple sources — both Democrats and Republicans — who heard firsthand accounts of the exchange from lawmakers who were in the room.

McCain, a former Navy pilot, then used language more accustomed to sailors (not to mention the current vice president, who made news a few years back after a verbal encounter with Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont).

"[Expletive] you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room," shouted McCain at Cornyn. McCain helped craft a bill in 2006 that passed the Senate but couldn't be compromised with a House bill that was much tougher on illegal immigrants.

Could it be that the rigors of a floundering Presidential campain are getting to Senator McCain? As the article states, he hasn't been spending much time in DC these days, and it seems Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid isn't too happy about it.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/05/19/f-bombs-theyre-not-just-for-dic...

Thanks for the heads up.
I usually do pay attention to what your weather is like. :)

I'm not all here. Been logging in and out with different browsers, and been looking at other parts of the site. Having a problem with the WMA player upblog, or was. I'm stubborn. It works just fine in Internet Explorer but I don't like using that.

Doing the right thing, Goofus style.

Per Crank Bait:

(Why is this blog so complicated? I've got more Tabs open than a fat secretary in a 1960's auto repair shop.)
HaHaHa. :)

McCain and Giuliani are skipping Falwell's funeral. Bush sending junior aide.
by John Aravosis (DC) · 5/19/2007 10:03:00 PM ET

We diss him publicly. They diss him by their actions.

http://www.americablog.com/2007/05/mccain-and-giuliani-are-skipping.html

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h21/mykukla/Falwell.jpg

Submitted by Alice on Sun, 05/20/2007 - 02:39.
Blog Map
by Crank Bait
This blog needs a feature similar to the maps in the malls: "You aren't here."
Good one, Crank..:)
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You are not expected to laugh with me on these types of jokes; you are expected to laugh at me.

I hate "navigating." Navigating is what you do before you arrive to do what it is that you wanted to do in the first place. "The Journey" only counts if you are lazily motoring down Route 66 astride a Norton Commando; pockets filled with bucks and beef jerky, sights set on an overnight stay in a concrete tepee.

Can't you FEEL the new BOLT of ENERGY here though?...
You know...you could just stay here & bookmark this page only...
If you want to see what's happening anywhere else on the site, read the Recent Comments on the right side of this page...right click on one that interests you and do Open in New Tab if you can do that...

You have it.

Submitted by Bob26003 on Sat, 05/19/2007 - 18:43.

That guy is embarrassing, they should put him on a shock collar with a remote control.

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Norton Commando; pockets filled with bucks and beef jerky, sights set on an overnight stay in a concrete tepee.""

with the Norton as part of the room decor overnight...

at any given time considering how many people there are on the planet is sorta right...

I can't comprehend why anyone would choose to hang out in places with rules & stuff...So I like to think we're Exceptional for being here....

i've always loved the sound of my pipes when i was jamming!

i'd try to keep them humming perfectly.

that's another set of memories.

Submitted by Alice on Sun, 05/20/2007 - 03:05.
Can't you FEEL the new BOLT of ENERGY here though?...
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My bolt discharged while I figured out how to register. I'm down to a static cling that wouldn't hold a balloon on the wall.

when we add songs to the audio section

:)

Put your thinking cap on and think of some ways to make 20 some odd people seem like more....

raining like crazy today!

Just relax,and admit your funny!Nothin wrong with that :)

Submitted by Alice on Sun, 05/20/2007 - 03:08.
"I can't comprehend why anyone would choose to hang out in places with rules & stuff."

Where else could you get away with posting stuff like this...

Unless you are funny looking. Like Sam.

Sunny J: "with the Norton as part of the room decor overnight..."
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The first fool whom I knew who had a motorcycle in his living room sported a yellow Ducati Dharma front and center. (This was years before cafe racers were common retail rides.) I thought that it was a nice decorative item.

Less than a year later, I stripped and refurbished my Hodaka 125 Wombat in our studio apartment. My wife wasn't pleased. She became less reticent when the gasoline vapors lost their reserves. (She forced me to paint the frame elsewhere.)

Wimmens; you can't live with 'em, you can't live without 'em.

Ha! That'll teach the Humane Society to slander (libel?) Sonora Cat Rescue...

A few years later, the Commando lost its grip on a sweeping right-hander soaked in diesel fuel and my wife lost her sense of humor and her previously unyielding trust in my ability to pilot a motorcycle.

You know how it goes; you bat 1,000 time after time and then one, itty-bitty, little glitch enters the mix and "Blammo!", you're a moron.

Who dun it? Our government is f****d up.

NYT

WITH the death on Tuesday of the Rev. Jerry Falwell, the Baptist minister and founder of the Moral Majority, and the announcement on Thursday that Paul D. Wolfowitz would resign from the presidency of the World Bank, two major figures in the modern conservative movement exited the political stage. To many, this is the latest evidence that the conservative movement, which has dominated politics during the last quarter century, is finished.

Why was Sam's ratings so low? on the 9-12 time

Why was Sam's ratings so low? on the 9-12 time

They would have kept him on if there allot of listeners.

Why was Sam's ratings so low? on the 9-12 time

They would have kept him on if there allot of listeners.

Submitted by Alice on Sun, 05/20/2007 - 04:10
Alice: "To many, this is the latest evidence that the conservative movement, which has dominated politics during the last quarter century, is finished."
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Don't kid yourself. As per the trite and over-used expression, the camel's Religion Right nose is in the tent. For every Ralph Reed and Jerry Falwell, there is another Jim and Tammy Bakker waiting in the politically-charged, born again wings.

...and a newt isn't just another 'neath-rock-dwelling, mucous-coated, opportunity-seeking, mud-slinging, master o' the craptastic, neither.

The Permanent Soldier

Crank Bait,

What you describe seems eerily familiar to the modus operandi of the smart drug dealer for the past 30 or so years. Get 'em sold on your product, as it were, then reduce supply to create this perception of scarcity and increase demand.

All the while the money rolls in.

Nice work, I suppose, if you can get it.

A Siege of Herons

whoa A.!

cyborg hell!

Submitted by A Siege of Herons on Sun, 05/20/2007 - 04:47.
Crank Bait,
What you describe seems eerily familiar to the modus operandi of the smart drug dealer for the past 30 or so years...
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Your analogy is apt though I can't remember knowing a smart drug dealer. They tended to increase their own demand for their supply, resulting in reduced profits.

...but they threw great parties.

(I suppose that there is a corporate jet parallel in there somewhere?)

OI! TROLL!
does this sentence: //They would have kept him on if there allot of listeners.//

look/feel right to you...

um, "the allotTED listeners"

um, no

er, "tem thar listeners"

er, no

done some snorting in ya time, cranko

done some charlie...
[the carribean 20 years ago]
2 black dudes & crank congregate in the gents cubicle
@ the blue iguana

"whoa! white boy... you one hungry pig"

crank comes out flapping his arms, yelling...

"CHARLIE! CHARLIE! CHARLIE!"

currently there are 437 registered bloggers.

i wonder what the count will be after the show?

my guess it'll crack the 1,000 mark

Malcolm Gladwell talks about the importance of stubbornness and collaboration in problem-solving, and how long it takes to master any challenge. Introduced by David Remnick. From “2012: Stories from the Near Future,” the 2007 New Yorker Conference.

The Right: Down, but Maybe Not Out
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Submitted by Alice on Sun, 05/20/2007 - 04:10.
NYT

WITH the death on Tuesday of the Rev. Jerry Falwell, the Baptist minister and founder of the Moral Majority, and the announcement on Thursday that Paul D. Wolfowitz would resign from the presidency of the World Bank, two major figures in the modern conservative movement exited the political stage. To many, this is the latest evidence that the conservative movement, which has dominated politics during the last quarter century, is finished.

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So how many down is it? Remember when they all thought they were so indestructible?

noticing NYT articles lately...

How's everything? Have a new photos of your garden since winter?

Good evening/morning!

http://buffalofieldcampaign.org/media/video/bisonvideos0607/momday2007.m...

The lifelong Republican and Army Major General that Christian Williamson does NOT want you to hear

Author: Zigler
Date: May 19, 2007

"Mr. President, you did not listen. You continue to pursue a failed
strategy that is breaking our great Army and Marine Corps. I left the
Army in protest in order to speak out. Mr. President, you have placed
our nation in peril. Our only hope is that Congress will act now to
protect our fighting men and women."
- Retired Major General John Batiste

See it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMPIi03wSfY

It just doesn't get any clearer than this.

I have some new photos of my garden, but have to transfer them to photobucket. Well, may as well do it. Be right back..

Catharine - Alice, et al. I spent a few hours writing this : )

please share with anyone who might find it useful.

Sam Seder Show Web Site TUTORIAL

A Sam Seder Show Web Site TUTORIAL

The Loose Change boys will feature on ABC's The View on Thursday May 24th.
http://www.loosechange911.com/

William Rodruigez will also appear on the show.
http://www.william911.com/

Why was Sam's ratings so low? on the 9-12 time

They would have kept him on if there allot of listeners.

http://s79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/SeaCat_2006/?sc=1&multi=1&addtype...

...??...

OM bhur bhuvah svah tat savitur varenyam bhargo devasya dhimahi dhiyo
yo nah pracodayat.

what happened to the picture?

OM bhur bhuvah svah tat savitur varenyam bhargo devasya dhimahi dhiyo
yo nah pracodayat.

RAW STORY
Published: Saturday May 19, 2007

Having gone from one of the most admired men in American to what many Christians and conservatives consider “an embarrassing and laughingstock,” Reverend Jerry Fallwell’s death “could not have had grander symbolic importance,” writes Frank Rich in his New York Times Sunday column.

Con't

Think Progress:
Thirty years ago today:

Q: So what in a sense you’re saying is that there are certain situations…where the president can decide that it’s in the best interests of the nation or something, and do something illegal.

NIXON: Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.

Q: By definition.

NIXON: Exactly, exactly.

Watch it:

Link

Featuring excerpts from my forthcoming memoirs. Book One - 1945-1969; and current matters including occasional fictions.

pete townshend - (who he?) Saturday, May 19, 2007

like the new blog...now I just have to get used to the new Air America...with Sam tonight instead of weekdays, without Laura Flanders or Betsy Rosenberg, Al Franken (still getting used to that)...sheesh...I won't even mention Marc Maron, oh I just did... Sam on weekends? I'll be there

Can you see the real me?

so yes :)

Savage continued to label
supporters of the Fairness
Doctrine "Nazis"

Link

Love Reign O'er Me

Where do you get
Those blue blue jeans?
Faded patched secret so tight.
Where do you get
That walk oh so lean?
Your shoes and your shirts
All just right.
But I'm one etc.

Any mail today?

radfringe (1000+ posts) Sat May-19-07 08:16 AM
Original message
Blowing a hole in the "WE DON'T HAVE THE VOTES" excuse
We've heard the "WE DON'T HAVE THE VOTES" excuse used many times when it comes to the impeachment issue...

Well - Congress may have the votes to pass an Iraq Occupation funding bill with benchmarks/deadlines attached but they don't have the votes to override a veto - YET they continue to pass various versions of bill knowing this

Why aren't they whining they don't have the votes to override a veto? The blatherhead take on it is the Dems are making a political point - be it that bush doesn't listen, bush doesn't face reality or whatever...

Well doesn't bringing up impeachment (votes or not) do the same thing? It would make a political point, it would bring it into the national dialog/debate...

We the people voted for change back in November...if we don't see some MAJOR changes real soon, we'll be throwing them all out and making some big changes in Nov '08

I'll let you know when I do (starting to save real estate post cards, don't know why)

Damn I'm going to miss Laura Flanders. She is so sharp
Well at least I get to check out Sam later

We the people voted for change back in November...if we don't see some MAJOR changes real soon, we'll be throwing them all out and making some big changes in Nov '08

That's how the nazi Reagan regime got into power. WE need to get rid of the undemocratic system we now have.

OMG!

she's here?????

Play

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How many working-class poor, minorities, Latinos, currently live in Mystic Point, Eagle Bay, Hudson View, Scarborough Manor? How many will be able to afford to buy a unit at Harbor Square or Hunter-James or Hidden Cove? Or for that matter, how many of us who currently own homes will be able to sell our homes and afford to buy one of these new upscale units?

And why is it that none of the condo developments built in Ossining over the past 20 years have stabilized the tax base or kept the downtown from deteriorating? Why is Harbor Square the miracle cure?

There is no working class Westchester, Everyone is rich there. Tax base shaky? Move to another town. You can afford it.

But there’s also work that the Clinton Foundation could do. While I was in my local Barnes and Noble in Hartsdale (which is where you’ll find me until I find my next political/non-profit employment after just coming off a campaign), I also happened to come across the latest Z Magazine issue. In that issue there is a paper talking about Anarchitecture which is the anti-developer/gentrification movement going on in building these days.

Right now we are letting developers run roughshod over cities, villages and towns. In my county of Westchester you have people like Cappelli and Trump building luxury housing as they squeeze out the middle class and the poor. Don’t get me wrong, some of what these two have built are great (i.e. the White Plains City Center), but of course to them there’s no money to be made in affordable housing. So it’s up to the local and federal governments to step in, buy land and property to create the truly affordable housing units, or it’s up to non-profits, NGO’s and even unions to do the same. We can look at what the AFL-CIO is doing in New Orleans as a positive example in that regard.

I hope my bird is getting good food, but I think it's easier to analyze since I can see all the individual ingredients...

Play

some of what these two have built are great

Great for whom? We need to create a structure so that if a running dog capitalist builds housing for the few, he [sic] must build affordable housing of ewual value.

Only love can make it rain, the way the sea gets kissed by the sea
Only love can bring the rain.,,

Bellboy! Bellboy!

Love. Reign o'er me-e-e.

Can you see the real me? Can ya? Can ya?

well you know how it is...let the market decide. Can't force real estate people to do things...they're not called "brokers" because they make YOU broke...

neighborhood groups to fight this crap

the twain shall never meet

in an unregulated

The very same economic domination beast that yearns for wars is one in ... Basically, all the big problems we have today are rooted in this corrupted system

listening to rebroadcast of Laura Flander's show last night, I wonder where she'll land. Her talent is too good to be wasted. Of course I've said the same thing about Marc Maron...

is going to be on C Span book TV in about three minutes (6 AM Eastern time)

interesting as to the direction that american politics is taking according to Political strategist Matthew Dowd

an introduction to him

the interview

I missed Flanders. Is she gone too, or just re-fitted or down-fitted like Sam??

Sunday Talk
* Meet the Press: Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT); Newt Gingrich (R-GA); roundtable on "Reagan Diaries" with historian Douglas Brinkley, ex-Reagan CoS Michael Deaver and ex-AG Ed Meese.

* Face the Nation: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA); Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA); AEI's Fred Kagan; retired Gen. Paul Eaton.

* This Week: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA); Senate Min. Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY); roundtable of the Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel, Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria, and George Will.

* Fox News Sunday: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY); ex-SCOTUS Justice Sandra Day O'Connor; ex-House reading clerk Paul Hays

* Late Edition: DHS Sec. Michael Chertoff; Commerce Sec. Carlos Gutierrez; Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI); Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL); Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX); Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-CA); Gov. Janet Napolitano (D-AZ); Brookings Institution’s Shibley Telhami; CFR’s Vali Nasr

* Chris Matthews Show 5/19-5/20: Bob Woodward, Andrea Mitchell, David Brooks, Katty Kay discuss "What is the Truth of the Forecasts for Iraq after U.S. Troops Pull Out? Will Al Qaeda Grow? Will Chaos Spread Throughout the Middle East? If Michael Bloomberg Runs for President, Will He Draw Enough Votes to Decide the Outcome?".

Bill Scher has some suggested questions for the Bobble Heads…and he'll be on Seder on Sundays on AAR to discuss.

http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/weekend_watchdog_5

Poll: Bush, war are dragging
Americans' spirit down to lowest point
It's gloomy out there. Men and women, whites and minorities — all are feeling a war-weary pessimism about the country seldom shared by so many people. Only 25 percent of those surveyed say things in the U.S. are going in the right direction, according to an AP-Ipsos poll this month.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070520/ap_on_re_us/pessimistic_us;_ylt=AvUJ...

Bad news continues for
the incompetent President
President Bush's desk kept piling higher with bad news. There were personnel problems that went from bad to worse, uncertainty in an Iraq war showdown with congressional Democrats, the impending departure of his favorite foreign ally.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070519/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_tough_week;_ylt=...

Does anyone know what time Sam will be on the air today?

Film expose says US health
care driven by greed
Director Michael Moore says the U.S. health care system is driven by greed in his new documentary "SiCKO", and asks of Americans in general, "Where is our soul?"

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSL1915746220070519

Time:

4 PM EDT (New York Time)

Sunday Talk Shows line-up

reveals nothing about the fat pedophile fuck Ted Klaudt who turned //himself in to authorities Friday on felony charges that include eight counts of rape involving foster children and former legislative pages//

right-wingers will exhalt him for turning himself in...
"a law abiding man... who erred"

~(SICK FREAKS)~

Thank you toniD.

Man, the new website for Air America is even less-effective than what it was before. Mark Green sucks.

6:00 am monday est
here in oz

Why was Sam's ratings so low? on the 9-12 time

They would have kept him on if there were allot of listeners.

Why was Sam's ratings so low? on the 9-12 time

They would have kept him on if there were allot of listeners.

Costello

to our latest registered bloggers

xeeb
republitard
Clevelandchick

may i take your coats to be pawned

May 20, 2007

Paul Wolfowitz’s departure from the World Bank signals the end of an ideological era in Washington

As Tony Blair was bidding farewell to President George W Bush in the Rose Garden on Thursday, the World Bank was preparing to kick out Paul Wolfowitz as president. Allies to the left and right in the Iraq war were falling by the wayside that day.

Was he responsible for Blair’s departure from office, Bush was asked. There had to be a reason why a prime minister who had never lost an election was being dumped. “Could be . . . I don’t know,” the president mused above the distant chant of war protesters outside the White House gates.

And what did he make of Wolfowitz’s likely resignation? “I respect him a lot and I’m sorry it has come to this,” Bush said, leaving the World Bank head to his fate.

If Bush and Dick Cheney, his vice-president, are the last men standing with responsibility for the Iraq war it is only because they are protected by their four-year terms of office. One former Bush stalwart told me: “If we had a parliamentary system, Bush would have lost a vote of confidence and have resigned by now.”

Away from the Rose Garden the funeral cortege for the fundamentalist Rev Jerry Falwell was being assembled in the heart of Bush country in Lynchburg, Virginia. The portly 73-year-old televangelist had done his utmost to assemble the coalition of conservative Christians that went on to provide Bush with two presidential victories. Now he is dead and the government sustained by his followers is looking more and more like a corpse.

The writer Christopher Hitchens, a friend of Wolfowitz and foe of Falwell, says: “The main noise in Washington right now is that of collapsing scenery. The Republican party is in total disarray. They’ve been dropping their most intelligent people over the side while the presidential candidates are all outbidding each other to be nice about the revolting carcass of Falwell.”

Wolfowitz, the cerebral neocon, and Falwell, the braying theocon, had nothing in common personally. Indeed, Falwell blamed “the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians” for provoking the 9/11 attacks, an explanation uncomfortably close to the views of the Taliban. But the unlikely alliance between their two movements provided the brains and the brawn behind Bush. Now the neocons have been ousted, one by one, from their positions of influence and trust while the Republican party base is desperately thrashing around for a successor to Bush that it can back in 2008.

The cleavage between the two marks the end of an era in which Bible Belt conservatives became the surprise champions of radical nation-building in the Middle East in the hope of crushing terrorism and halting the march of militant Islam. After Bush, such reforming zeal is unlikely to be repeated.

http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.timesonline...

why the double post

why are your ratings so low...

(because you're a low-life low-fuck)

anyway, what were sam's ratings

Growing number of Afghan casualties in anti-Taliban operations turns population against their 'liberators'
By Chris Sands in Kabul
Published: 20 May 2007
Nato has promised to review its military tactics in Afghanistan, amid warnings from senior Afghan politicians that the growing number of civilian deaths in operations against the Taliban risks provoking a major backlash.

General John Craddock, Nato's supreme commander, said in Washington that the alliance understands that civilian casualties cost it credibility among local people. "Every time that happens, someone walks away, an Afghan citizen, with a bad feeling towards either Nato or the United States," he said.

Last week Nato officials were celebrating the death in a firefight of Mullah Dadullah, the Taliban's most feared and reviled military commander, whose body was shown off to journalists in Kandahar. But members of Afghanistan's parliament said many civilians were being killed during clashes with insurgents, particularly in air strikes. They are calling for a ceasefire and negotiations with insurgent groups, including the Taliban.

Khalid Farooqi, an MP once closely allied with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a notorious Afghan warlord who has thrown in his lot with the Taliban, said: "If they bomb a whole village just to get one insurgent, they will create more enemies for themselves. And once the people stand against them, it will be very hard to control the situation." As bloodshed has increased this spring - yesterday three German soldiers and four Afghans died in a suicide bombing in the northern province of Kunduz - scores of civilians have been killed by Nato and American forces.

The governor of Helmand province, where the majority of British troops in Afghanistan are based, said at least 21 civilians, including women and children, died earlier this month in an air strike called in by US special forces during a battle with militants in the province.

http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.independen...

Essex girl fills White House race with lurve

//AN Essex girl may be the first lady with a tongue stud to have set her sights on the White House. The wife of Dennis Kucinich, a left-wing Democratic congressman and 2008 presidential candidate, is a 29-year-old hippie chick from Upminster at the end of London Underground’s District line.//

i'm not being patronising when i say that you can't judge sam's importance to political discourse solely on ratings

it's the same reason why the n.y. post outsells harpers...

an over-supply of dickheads
: )

Hi T....how ya feeling?

Intelligence Studies List Internal Violence, Terrorist Activity

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 20, 2007; Page A06

Two intelligence assessments from January 2003 predicted that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and subsequent U.S. occupation of Iraq could lead to internal violence and provide a boost to Islamic extremists and terrorists in the region, according to congressional sources and former intelligence officials familiar with the prewar studies.

The two assessments, titled "Principal Challenges in Post-Saddam Iraq" and "Regional Consequences of Regime Change in Iraq," were produced by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) and will be a major part of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's long-awaited Phase II report on prewar intelligence assessments about Iraq. The assessments were delivered to the White House and to congressional intelligence committees before the war started.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/19/AR200705...

Feeling okay Peter, just a little tired. Been putting in alot of time at work lately.

3 Years Ago Today:

WASHINGTON, May 20, 2004

Bush Holds GOP Pep Rally On Iraq
Says Iraqis Ready For Handover, But Warns Of New Violence

Link

Reefer Jello asked about you during our phone conversation yesterday. He told me to remind you about Atomidine. He is driving to the redwoods today in northern California. Wish I could be out there.

That is very sweet of Reefer to be concerned about me. Please thank him when you talk to him.

I forgot about it, to be truthful. So much happening!

I'll look into it today.

an over-supply of dickheads may I quote you air-ono? So is there anything we can do as bloggers to find content during the week?

This lineup today is like the abortion republicans love. Where are we to go for stuff like what Greenwald podcast about?

Its very nice to edit your own mistakes

WASHINGTON, May 19 — The United States is continuing to make large payments of roughly $1 billion a year to Pakistan for what it calls reimbursements to the country’s military for conducting counterterrorism efforts along the border with Afghanistan, even though Pakistan’s president decided eight months ago to slash patrols through the area where Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters are most active.

The monthly payments, called coalition support funds, are not widely advertised. Buried in public budget numbers, the payments are intended to reimburse Pakistan’s military for the cost of the operations. So far, Pakistan has received more than $5.6 billion under the program over five years, more than half of the total aid the United States has sent to the country since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, not counting covert funds.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/world/asia/20pakistan.html?ex=13373136...

So it's not the coalition of the willing, it's the coalition of the paid!! And we borrow money from China and Japan to pay for this?

The elf sleeps in
Last week the Associated Press, hoping to definitively cast away the mainstream media's reputation of worthlessness, asked each of the 2008 presidential candidates about an issue of pressing national import: their sleeping habits. Specifically, the AP wanted to know how late in the morning politicos would have to wake up in order to consider it "sleeping in."

Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Bill Richardson, and the rest all gave suitably early replies like 7 a.m., to remind us how incredibly dedicated they are. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee even boasts that he's usually up by 4:30 a.m., when most of us are still trying to find our car after the bars close.

Meanwhile, local elf Dennis Kucinich likes to crash till 8:30. On good days, he and the missus enjoy getting up for brunch, then going back to bed till 4:30 p.m., according to Mrs. Elf.

That comes as good news to you, fair citizen. The more quality time Kucinich devotes to life between the sheets, the fewer hours he has to annoy the country.

Sounds like outsourcing tactics from thugs toniD.

(don't you love your country, son)

why don't you ask pertinent national security questions

such as why do folk believe there was a operational connection between al qaeda & saddam

hmmm...

//an over-supply of dickheads//

maybe...

an over-supply of demagogues & right-wing creeps... definitely

is a weird dude. He spends a lot of his time doing things for people. He never looks for anything in return. He's done so many favors for me over the last few years, I'll never be able to pay him back. He doesn't care. I'm glad he's getting to do this west coast trip. He wasn't around Kent for the May Fourth annual sobfest and I think he needed to be away for once.

no, just steal it...
we're all thieves & anarchists here
: )

@dKos:
10 Years On: Where Are the PNAC Signatories

Its Sunday so it must be MTP. Newts are smarmy.

oh, there you go again with your pesky questions
: )

as unofficial sam seder greeter

it's my pleasure to welcome our newest registered blogger

mr. or mrs. or. ms.

**flyayo223**

(ding-ding-ding)

keiran
Does anyone know when if or how a podcast of seder on sundays will be available? It's the only way I can hear the show. Anyone?????
By the way good morning everyone!!!!!!!!!!!! When IS the show on anyway??????? I'm so clueless.

has an interesting show about the desert storms. Camels are so graceful. Switched to Newt Pinheaded Obfiscatid. "Legislating defeat"

"We're in real danger of losing an American city with a nuclear..." - I guess he's not concerned about losing the whole country to fascist. What have we become? Professional bed wetters?

the knowledge you seek is interspersed in amongst these here threads

i don't know &...
crank he definitely don't know

but i'm sure cat chew (or one of those organised show-off types) does

Time:

4 PM EDT (New York Time)

Check your local radio listings for time or if you are listening on line...

Check your time zone!!

tell ono that archives to the show are kept at a portland radio station

STRONG LIKE OX!!

ono-memory weak like mouse

keiran
who has the time to read it all? Why is seder on sundays not listed on aar's website?

Deadly fish virus found in fish from Lake Winnebago
By Ben Wasserman-foodconsumer.org
May 19, 2007 - 9:09:19 AM
--------------------------------------------------
---Bait News Service---
Deadly Dog Virus Found In Traveling Winnebago

keiran
what about those of us who podcast and listen on our daily run? When I begged for help I was not joking sheeple.

The Marc Maron Show (2006-02-28)

Marc talks with travel writer Jack Boulware about his weird and wonderful encounters around the world. In this exclusive, unaired interview, Jack tells us about his recent trip to Malaysia, where he discovered a national fascination with the unlikeliest of hobbies.

Listen Now

http://www.marcmaron.com/

keeping an eye on AAR free podcast list and my fingers are crossed.

ono-brain fear reality

ono-brain run from reality...

um, wot is ree-a-li-ty

NOOOOOOOO!!!!!

(almost forgot)

ono-brain don't want to know anything

But I know I will be recording it. I'll post it if it's not out there somewhere. I have an AAR premium subscription so I'll know if they post it.

WTF!!

that slimy fuck maron has weasled a show

the fucking back stabber

Coffee brain?

About Sam Seder - AM1090
AM1090 Seattle, WA - Sam Seder Podcast - Web exclusive show

http://www.am1090seattle.com/pages/84914.php?contentType=34&contentId=11...

that's a highlight from "(2006-02-28)"

or as bush would say 1806

She's so articulate.

The point is, they are still showing Marc Maron on the "New" web site for AAR. Wonder if Marc is getting royalties for this?

keiran
I am also a premium member...a lot of good that does me. Hey Maron is not a backstabber.

Tomatoes fail as prostate cancer preventive
Reuters.uk - May 18, 2007
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study suggests that eating lycopene-rich tomatoes offers no protection against prostate cancer, contrary to the findings of some past studies...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
...because the seeds get stuck.

ok, i bookmarked that podcast site

*************

SAM!!

have a handy bookmark list

-e.g. link to a time-zone site

we can have "time-zone site" wars over whose time-zone site is bigger & better...

oh, the carnage

Here is a question:

Do corporations have a 'right to life'?

(fuck you if you can't communicate)

STOP POSTING HALF-TRUTHS

(that's the point)

my hatred of maron instantly made me lash out with //the fucking back stabber// and unabashed maron lover, keiran, came to his defense

she may have even gone to the trouble of hunting me like a dog to beat me up...

oh, the carnage

Saturday Night Odds and Ends
by BooMan
Sat May 19th, 2007 at 08:29:23 PM EST

There are some interesting tidbits in Robert Novak's latest column. For example, there are some rumors that Mark Warner will not run for John Warner's Senate seat because he wants to remain available as a vice-presidential pick if Hillary Clinton wins the nomination. A Clinton-Warner ticket would be quite formidable. I'd be very disappointed in that kind of New Democratic ticket but it would stand a good chance at turning the clock back to 2001.
Novak also reveals:

Speculation in Washington legal circles is that President Bush has been reluctant to get rid of Gonzales for fear that Senate Democrats would not confirm his successor without a commitment to name a special prosecutor in the U.S. attorneys case.
Well...duh. That's a no-brainer.

Meanwhile, Eugene Robinson does a nice job of recounting the Don Corleone incident with Andy Card, Alberto Gonzales, and John Ashcroft's hospital bed. Then he concludes:

This is the attorney general of the United States, ladies and gentlemen. Heaven help us.

John Dickerson is still an idiot. He thinks Democrats are stupid to shun Fox News because:

They're missing a chance to look confident and full of conviction in front of tough questioning.

Right. Like it makes you look strong to get asked when you stopped beating your wife. Please. I agree with Dickerson about Ron Paul, however. And it is hilarious to see Michelle Malkin mocking Paul because he doesn't believe the Warren Commission was a shining example of government sunshine. Need I remind everyone that Allan Dulles was a member of that commission? BTW- Another piece of that crappy report got called into serious question this week.

In challenging the evidence for the lone-gunman theory, Cliff Spiegelman, professor of statistics at Texas A&M and an expert in bullet-lead analysis, recently teamed with former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent and forensic scientist William A. Tobin of Forensic Engineering International in Virginia and William D. James, a research chemist with the Texas A&M Center for Chemical Characterization and Analysis (CCCA). Together, they conducted a chemical and forensic analysis of bullets reportedly derived from the same batch as those used by suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald to gun down Kennedy on that fateful day at Dealey Plaza. Their findings, which show that evidence used to rule out a second assassin is fundamentally flawed, will be published in a forthcoming edition of "Annals of Applied Statistics." The paper currently is available online at http://www.imstat.org/aoas/next_issue.html.

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2007/5/19/202923/319

Face the Nation has General Eaton on now

one day when we meet we're going to have some wonderful fights

♥

(oh, the carnage)

Iraq is a ‘big moneymaker’ for al-Qaeda. U.S. officials say that “al-Qaida’s command base in Pakistan increasingly is being funded by cash from Iraq, where the terrorist network’s operatives are raising substantial sums from donations to the insurgency as well as kidnappings of wealthy Iraqis and other criminal activity.”

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003714521_alqaida20.h...

"why is that sexy 60-something woman hitting that man with her hand-bag, mummy"

"they're greek, dear"

: )

Must you always disagree!

Welcome to Air America's new 2.0 web site

Multi-page viewing of comments is diabled. But you can view the first 90 (very suspiciously pro Green and Lionel) and the last 90 (very aptly anti Green and Lionel) People are pissed at Fucko Green's continued dissing of Sam by not including his show anywhere in the AAR lineup.

This is absolutely a deliberate coup attempt of Sam's debut today.

For all you "AAR is a business and this was a business decision" corporate sycophants out there and for all the lurking assholes (you too Green) simpering about ratings, ratings, ratings, WHEN was the last time you saw any "network" not even mention the debut of a new show??!?! Not even on the day of its launch!

We're pulling for you Sammy. These assholes can't tear this thing down. They are practically beggin you to make examples of them.

Six soldiers killed by Baghdad bomb
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 5/20/2007 10:18:00 AM ET

Brutal. Just brutal. And wrong. Just wrong:
Six U.S. soldiers and an interpreter were killed by a roadside bomb in western Baghdad on Saturday, the U.S. military said in a statement on Sunday.

How much longer will this madness continue?

http://www.americablog.com/2007/05/six-soldiers-killed-by-baghdad-bomb.h...

Cool! Someone just posted this link over there. Adjust the final number as posts increase.

http://www.airamerica.com/node/3714?comments_per_page800

με αγάπη

(: Toni got it--of course :)

KTPK in Seattle does have Seder on Sunday in their line-up.
KTPK podcast page (SoS not listed specifically)

Having many problems here no matter which browser I use. Later.

keiran
Yes, I am an unabashed maron lover. He got me through a very dark time in my life, helped me lose 30 pounds from last baby, and made me laugh when I wanted to give up. I do love him.

I forgot to log in this morning :|

G'Morning beautiful people!

and keiran...
maron's stocks just rose in my estimation

: )

Why is Falwell on C-Span live? We all suspected this would happen.

What happened to the Avatars?

are you have having browser troubles

well try the new crank-bait browser

written on chariot-age papyrus

using the latest in chisel technology

better call it a night

Have these people no fucking memory!?

This takes me back to the time long ago when I realized that many adults are complete idiots. Pretty sobering for a child to realize....liberating, though.

"A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not."

I hope he wrote about that in his fucking diary.

http://www.devilducky.com/media/57946/

---------------------
(I love this joke.)

DO NOT go to bed.

Bob is right! Our trickly pictures have vanished. And I had put up SUCH a handsome photo of my grim visage! Shame!

AAR is going to be Mark Green's baby and whatever the loyal fans think will not be considered. I was disappointed when "Morning Sedition" and Mike Malloy were canned. Despite numerous protests and petitions these two shows were not reinstated. I liked "Majority Report" and was happy that at least they put Sam Seder on everday in the AM. Laura Flanders on the weekend is great radio, but now she is being relegated to a four-way or something co-hosting assignment on the Air Americans. These shows I thought had a strong listening audience as well as many people posting online as the shows were being aired. I still do not know if Sam's show will be on the NYC AAR station WWRL.

Doris

Hi everyone,
I just was looking at the AAR home page. Under where it says "highlights" they have clips from various shows. One clip was from Randi Rhodes but the other was from Marc Maron! Can you believe the balls of these people? Using his clips to promote the "new" AAR when they fired him twice???
I have to go back and make sure I wasn't seeing things...
Doris

By Rick Perlstein on May 17, 2007 - 3:14pm.
Here's a riddle.

Q: What do conservatives do when one of their own gets investigated for corruption?

A: They promote him!

Promoted

Maybe AAR was set up by evil right wingers like Wm. Mellon Scaife. Maybe they have made all these stupid mistakes ON PURPOSE, insuring that the network would fail and liberality would be made once again to look weak and stupid. It's not beyond the possibility that is what is happening!

Moyers Special Airs, Rangel Attacks Dems, Bush "Drafting Final Language"

On the same day PBS aired Bill Moyers hard-hitting piece on the secret free trade deal, the network also aired an interview with a frustrated Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-NY), who lashed out at the growing opposition to the deal from rank-and-file Democratic lawmakers and millions of workers, farmers and small businesses. Meanwhile, an industry newsletter breaks the news that at least one senior Democrat involved in the secret deal admits that Democrats have delegated responsibility for drafting the final legislative language of the deal entirely to the Bush White House.

To see the full report, go to:
http://www.workingassetsblog.com/2007/05/secret_trade_deal_moyers_speci....

"You love him so much, why don't you dig him up and blow him?!"

--Yucko the Clown

I thot the same thing, starting with Evan "Con-Man" Cohen who started as a Republican operative from Guam (Abramoff). Right out of the gate the stench was UNDENIablE.

I should have said, "it is not beyond THE REALM of possibility."

I don't want my English major wife to spit in my salad tonight for exhibiting such stupidity on line. LOL!

How do they manage to be so incompetent? I am convinsed they are working with the Bush Crime Family- Does AAR now have a contract with FEMA? I am not happy. I listened to Sam every morning. The show helped me get out of bed and get ready for work. Now I listen to music in the morning.

my Avatar back! It made me feel more real in here!

We should take up a collection buy Nova M a banner ad on the AAR site. I doubt the incompetents running tha show would even notice.

I think it's time for another startup liberal radio network to put AAR out of business. I'm pretty sure Randy Rhodes & Thom Hartmann would come over - Randi didn't sound pleased whatsoever with AAR's new direction.

Will the stream mysteriously go down during his broadcast? I remember Sam would bring down that stream w/the flood of his listeners anyway. It looks like the Seattle station previously listed will have his show streaming today, so that's a place to keep in mind should something "go wrong" with AAR's stream during Sam's Sunday debut.

So goes the fuck fest

I think it's time for another startup liberal radio network to put AAR out of business. I'm pretty sure Randy Rhodes & Thom Hartmann would come over - Randi didn't sound pleased whatsoever with AAR's new direction.

...and I indicated as much with my entry on the Daily Kos and on my blog, Under The LobsterScope this morning. Why not have them all join up with Sheldon Drobny's Nova M?

We've already heard Sam and Malloy there... that was great!

Under The LobsterScope

So Sad But True 60th street!

What is MRRules?

Blueherald.com

Comedians, artists and certainly political cartoonists tend to possess an anti-authoritarian, skeptical, irreverent streak. This makes the staunchly conservative cartoonist an especially odd bird.

Con't

Hi Sam,

So glad to be able to hear you today...it's about time!

On your debut show, would you consider playing this clip from Morning Sedition in 2005? It's classic Maron, and is such a fitting send-off for the good Rev. Falwell. When this clip was originally posted on the AAR website, it had this description: "When Marc heard that Jerry Falwell was stricken with a viral infection, he delivered a special prayer for the Reverend."

The clip is 2-1/2 minutes long:
http://thesnotgreensea.com/mp3/misc/JerryFalwellPrayer.mp3

Enjoy!

AAR Needs Advertisers Right?
Submitted by 60th Street on Sun, 05/20/2007 - 09:03.
We should take up a collection buy Nova M a banner ad on the AAR site. I doubt the incompetents running tha show would even notice. <

Yeah...MRRules...sad, but a NovaM banner ad on the AAR page would be fun, especially if NovaM could get a contract where they couldn't take it off. :)

MORFTERNOON GANG!

good stuff upthread! tanks!

I'm taking your prayer to the zoo burningbush.

eya fernando!

good stuff lately!

welcome to the new/old bloggie!

I hope to scoop a grand one later today. I hope you like it.

Banner ads work subliminally
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/20/banner_ads_work_subl.html

The psychology of banner ads
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070519-the-psychology-of-banner-a...

heh!

Artful Snarkfullness To Ya!

a banner?
Submitted by Fernando on Sun, 05/20/2007 - 09:18

Thanks for the banner.
Sorry,I'm still learnin.But,I could put your banner on my blogspotcom,but can't get it to work on my blog here..Can ya help an Sam/Janeane/Maron fan??

if you copy/paste that won't work on the text. Try copy/paste special as text.

My Zoo ride is here so I'll catch ya'll on the phone.

Thanks Fernando.I don't know what that means?But,I'll figure it out.Thanks for trying!By the way,You Look Marvelous!..Couldn't resist,sorry. :)

This one crept up on me...from Beelzebub himself, no less! Anyone else know anything about this Ralston character? I've been wondering, myself, just how effective this immunity thing is going to be for Congress. What exactly does immunity guarantee? And, if they don't deliver the goods, are they still immune? I guess the ball is in the court of the Congress members to ask smart questions.

Rove's Worrisome Witness

some sort of shedjoole cock up looming today...

Sam here on the left coast 1 to 3 pm hours theorhetorically?

but his first 3 hour show is just a 2 hour show???

(wtf? oh yeah! i forgot... mgmt idjits.)

Laura Flanders of the charming voice

is having her last show at 4 pm

(that's left coast time start

ending at 7 normally)

toniD - this morning we woke up to a full front page in the Cincinnati Enquirer featuring:

Creationism - Bullshit or Fundamentalist Science?

sorry if i let my intellectual bias show thru. i just don't understand how anyone can take this crap seriously, and yet that exactly describes the many morons that live here.

of all the people that might know where the bodies are buried, i would suspect gonzo is at the top of the list. the longer this drags out, the more i suspect a faustian deal at the highest levels of the country was made.

what say you?

Note, no mention of Rachel Maddow on the 2.0 Redux, either.

well if thinking about things alters reality,

i'd much rather have Trekkies in control than fundies...

crazy have to go to others for sam's show time...not the website of aa

eya 60th!

the truth revealed!

flufferbutts in one thou suits are still flufferbutts.

You should see their website.

They answer the question pretty well, though...Both!

"We’ll begin the Museum experience by showing that “facts” don’t speak for themselves. There aren’t separate sets of “evidences” for evolution and creation—we all deal with the same evidence (we all live on the same earth, have the same fossils, observe the same animals, etc.). The difference lies in how we interpret what we study. We’ll then explore why the Bible—the “history book of the universe”—provides a reliable, eye-witness account of the beginning of all things."

Eye-witness? Who is that? God? Nuff said.

guessing here:

sammer in studio, bout halfway done with the show tuneup

he'll remember to put up a show thread purty soon.

with all the info he promisededed eerllier.

or he won't... i'm just guessing now...

God was still optimizing image files...

"We’ll begin the Museum experience by showing that “facts” don’t speak for themselves (click here for a proposed drawing of this exhibit)."

lot more

"I witness"

than "eye witness"

ßucking for staff historian at ßush II library --- if any school alows it to be crapped on their campus.

Broder's lips are krazyglued to g-dub backside.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/20/2427/73257

sickening...get a bucket.

This was to "to be" just this:

Greetings All. Just perusing The Past...
To Know The Present and The Future.

(Let's see if this works ["eye roll"])
"They" say, "The Third Time Is The Charm)
(And why does this "thing" call me Anonymous?
I put my bloody name in ... whatever "eye roll"

Nice info on the AAR site! I guess I will have to read backstream.