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DES MOINES, Iowa — John Edwards has clawed his way into contention to win Iowa's caucuses on Thursday in the first vote for the Democratic presidential nomination, gaining strength even as rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have lost ground, according to a new McClatchy-MSNBC poll.

Looking forward to the show. Great guests and I am sure, great interviews!

and the Iowa Caucus is only days away.....

NewScientist is running an article right now on how to win at rock paper scissors by subscriptions only and I still haven't figured out which GOPr is the prettiest.

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Damn!

That Reagan could readily crap on "those that brung him" and still be loved is further support for John Dean's authoritarian theory. Some peeps live to be pooped on.

Hope I'm not overwhelming everyone with my working-class-intellectual-liberal-lexicon. ;-)

Actually, we could look at that phenomenon as a critique of liberals and progressives and their--me included--looking down on "rednecks" and so forth. I am a major violator of this sort of thing. Jim Webb may provide insight into how we can deal with this phenomenon. If we look at history, we can see instances where the "poor white" demographic organized and fought for the cause of progress. Think miners, populist movement, and more.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_P-v1BVQn8
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Christmas Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD2ii9lk0eU

is having on a military man who for two years was the man who went to the homes of soldiers killed in war to tell the family the news. Isn't it against the law or something to discuss the fact that war kills people?

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I wanna throw up seeing how many news puppets are talking about this OBL tape...

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Good Morning and Happy Sunday, Naked Blog!

Samina Malik Was Arrested and Jailed for Her Violent Prose and Visiting Terror Web Sites

If the pen is mightier than the sword, is violent poetry tantamount to terrorism?

That was the judgment of British prosecutors after they read some of Samina Malik's poems titled "How to Behead" and "The Living Martyrs."

The 23-year-old store cashier, who called herself a "lyrical terrorist," became the first woman convicted under Britain's tough terrorism legislation last month after writing the poems and downloading material off the Internet.

Her arrest and the time she spent in jail caused an uproar and is prompting a debate about the value of free speech versus national security, with some of her defenders saying that Malik was charged with a "thought crime," a scenario straight out of George Orwell's "1984."
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(...I'd like to see a tally to every George Orwell reference in media and conversations since FTard's been in office...)

http://76.182.94.194:8000/listen.m3u

"Good Morning and Happy Sunday, Naked Blog"

lol. you webcamming like me today?

The hubby's pissed cuz I was too tired for sunday service. Me and the hair straightening teenager will make it for the biblestudy hour.

Damn, why am I so tired?

zzzzzz

I am looking forward to your show.
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One election at a time...

Man, I do NOT miss those days - getting up and it being such a hassle to look nice for church. omigod. some of my WORST childhood memories are tied in to that. lol. I'd be tired, too!

Congrats to the Pats
Good luck in the Superbowl, if they make it that far.

Don't forget, Jesus hates faded blue jeans.
*snark*

look out neil diamond ("forever in blue jeans") and kris kristofferson ("feelin' nearly faded as my jeans").

Obama and Huck are on Meet the Press. Not debating. Separate interviews.

"There is no question that the war in Iraq has eclipsed much of what we have done," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters. "If you asked me in a phone call, as ardent a Democrat as I am, I would disapprove of Congress as well."

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Isn't this statement analagous to O.J.'s claims that he is searching for "the real killer?"

They did a long story about all the massive corruption there on NPR this past week...

Kenya leader re-elected in disputed vote

:)

Submitted by pbtrue1 on Sat, 12/29/2007 - 11:59pm.
I had a real sore loose molar. Dr said my BP was too high to chance pulling it. Come back when my pressure was down.
pffft
I finally used the string on the doorknob route...
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Knock-knock.

pbtrue1: "Mon't mum in! Mon't mum in!"
Knocker: "What?"
pbtrue1: "Mon't omen ma door!"
Knocker: "I can't understand what you're saying."
pbtrue1: "My thaid mi've THANJED MY MIND!"
Knocker: "I'm coming in so that I can figure out what you're saying."
pbtrue1: "NO-O-O--"

Pluck. Thunk.

Knocker: "Now, what did you say?"
pbtrue1: "Thanks."

I think it's more Pelosi suggesting that trying to get ALL the Dems on board is a very difficult task.

Again, there are lots of Conservative Dems. The Reagan Dems. The Blue Dog Dems. The Democratic Party is not a Liberal Party. And it's not a party where someone like Pelosi can just snap her fingers and everyone votes in lock step unison.

Our government was set up so that things would move slowly, to prevent dictators from doing things on a whim.

Now that we have a dictator, of sorts, with Bush - the Liberals in the Democratic Party are still outnumbered by both conservative rapts in the GOP AND with "right" leaning Dems - it's going to take more than a very slim majority of Dems to straighten things out. We don't even have a true majority of Dems, since the Senate requires a 2/3rds majority to override the President's veto.

Instead of bemoaning the Dems lack of progress, I'm more inclined to continue working against the GOP and hoping more true blue Liberals are attracted to politics in the near future. And hope for the best.

What else is there to root for? The Green Party can't get any traction going. Indys are mere spoilers, at best.

and, i'm on yahoo messenger: miamimystic23

Sharing my i-Tunes for a while til Sammy comes on
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Submitted by mystic23 on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 10:22am.

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I hope youre not paying for music....

I was just kidding guy!

Keep your pants on.

:)

my IM froze. i knew you were kidding.

Paul Krugman, , author of
The Conscience of a Liberal

Naomi Klein, , author of
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Free Democracy

Has Joe been featured on any Air America show lately?

I know after Franken left, Sam was having him on the midday show. And then David Bender was having Joe on the evening show.... but all those shows have collapsed.

Sammy - can you get Joe Connason back? He was my favorite Air America regular guest (aside from Mick Foley, who was more of an occassional guest).

I think you need broadband for my stream.

ps: why wouldn't i pay for music?

‘I am legend.’ – Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), 12/28/07

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iE2JCSH5p9r2GBkQWS9TWAMzmuvQD8TQQHT02

He thinks!

Mawnin' guys!
Submitted by Annette on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 10:24am.

The hubby's pissed cuz I was too tired for sunday service. Me and the hair straightening teenager will make it for the biblestudy hour.

Damn, why am I so tired?

zzzzzz

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You can go to church and lay in bed at the same time.

8-)

I miss hearing him too .... Wish he had his own show.

Ron Paul rips Fox News as ‘propangadists for war.’ Fox News will reportedly exclude Ron Paul from an upcoming forum of Republican candidates to be broadcast on January 6, 2008. The Boston Globe’s James Pindell reports Paul’s response:

Ron Paul said the decision to exclude him from a debate on Fox News Sunday the weekend before the New Hampshire Primary is proof that the network “is scared” of him.

“They are scared of me and don’t want my message to get out, but it will,” Paul said in an interview at a diner here. “They are propagandists for this war and I challenge them on the notion that they are conservative.”

http://www.boston.com/news/local/politics/primarysource/2007/12/paul_fox...

Those two are my favorites also.

CIA tapes were destroyed to ’save image.’ The New York Times reports that the CIA’s “every action in the prolonged drama of the interrogation videotapes was prompted in part by worry about how its conduct might be perceived — by Congress, by prosecutors, by the American public and by Muslims worldwide.” The Times adds:

By late 2002, interrogators were recycling videotapes, preserving only two days of tapes before recording over them, one C.I.A. officer said. Finally, senior agency officials decided that written summaries of prisoners’ answers would suffice.

Still, that decision left hundreds of hours of videotape of the two Qaeda figures locked in an overseas safe.

Clandestine service officers who had overseen the interrogations began pushing hard to destroy the tapes. But George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, was wary, in part because the agency’s top lawyer, Scott W. Muller, advised against it, current and former officials said.

Yet agency officials decided to float the idea of eliminating the tapes on Capitol Hill, hoping for political cover. In February 2003, Mr. Muller told members of the House and Senate oversight committees about the C.I.A’s interest in destroying the tapes for security reasons.

The tapes recorded a program “so closely guarded that President Bush himself had agreed with intelligence officials’ advice that he not be told the locations of the secret C.I.A. prisons.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/washington/30intel.html?ei=5088&en=519...

God help me. I'm starting to like this guy.

Not gonna vote for him. But after his Meet the Press last week, I kinda like him.

Both of them were on Charlie Rose last week.

I don't know if he has videos of his shows on the PBS site .... in case you wanted to see them.

Another Poll, Another Dead Heat in Iowa
A new McClatchy-MSNBC poll in Iowa shows a statistical dead heat in the Democratic presidential race and a big shift in the Republican race.

John Edwards leads with 24%, followed by Sen. Hillary Clinton with 23% and Sen. Barack Obama with 22%. Edwards has the momentum since the last poll in early December gaining 3 points, while Clinton lost 4 points and Obama lost 3 points.

Key finding: Mirroring other surveys, Edwards gets the most second-choice support. When Richardson, Biden, Dodd, and Kucinich supporters are realigned, the poll has Edwards leading with 36%, followed by Obama and Clinton tied at 26%.

Among Republicans, Mitt Romney has regained the lead as Mike Huckabee "has lost momentum and support, even among evangelical Christians who had propelled him into the top spot just weeks ago." Romney now leads with 27%, followed by Huckabee at 23%, Fred Thompson at 14%, and Sen. John McCain at 13%. Huckabee is down 8 points since earlier this month, while Romney is up 7 points.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/23940.html

Complete survey results are available for Democrats and Republicans.

Dems:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/static/pdf/poll/1230iowadem.pdf

Repubs:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/static/pdf/poll/1230iowagop.pdf

Toss Up in Iowa
The first Reuters/C-Span/Zogby tracking poll in Iowa is out this morning and confirms the findings of several polls last week that show an extremely tight presidential race for both Democrats and Republicans. The telephone poll was conducted 12/26 thru 12/29.

On the Democratic side, there is a three-way statistical tie with Sen. Hillary Clinton leading with 30.7% support, followed by Sen. Barack Obama at 26.8% and John Edwards at 24.2%. The poll's margin of error is 3.3%.

Key finding: Edwards is the clear second choice favorite with 30.4%, followed by Obama at 24.9% and Clinton at 12.2%. According to Democratic caucus rules, candidates who receive less than 15% of the vote are considered "non-viable." Their backers have the choice of either going home or casting their ballots for their second choice.

On the Republican side, there is also a tie for first place. Mike Huckabee leads with 27.7%, followed by Mitt Romney at 26.6%, Sen. John McCain at 10.9%, Fred Thompson at 7.8% and Rudy Giuliani at 7.3%. The poll's margin of error is 3.4%.

One interesting finding: Democrats think Republicans will choose Huckabee as their nominee; Republicans think Democrats will choose Obama.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2948587520071230

Special offer: Subscribers to the tracking poll will get daily updates until the Iowa caucuses as well as daily results from New Hampshite.

http://www.zogby.com/salespage/2008tracking.cfm?refsite=pw

Gathering to Discuss Independent White House Run
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has been pondering an independent White House bid, will join a dozen leading Democrats and Republicans next week at a meeting "challenging the major-party contenders to spell out their plans for forming a 'government of national unity' to end the gridlock in Washington," according to the Washington Post.

"Those who will be at the Jan. 7 session at the University of Oklahoma say that if the likely nominees of the two parties do not pledge to 'go beyond tokenism' in building an administration that seeks national consensus, they will be prepared to back Bloomberg or someone else in a third-party campaign for president."

"Conveners of the meeting include such prominent Democrats as former senators Sam Nunn (Ga.), Charles S. Robb (Va.) and David L. Boren (Okla.), and former presidential candidate Gary Hart. Republican organizers include Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.), former party chairman Bill Brock, former senator John Danforth (Mo.) and former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/29/AR200712...

I'll look up PBS and Charlie Rose

Quote of the Day
"I’ve never seen anything like it. The get-out-the-vote efforts are going to be the best ever."

-- Iowa Gov. Chet Culver (D), quoted by the New York Times, on the extremely close Democratic presidential race in his state that "could be determined by a swing of as few as 1,000 voters."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/us/politics/30vote.html?ei=5065&en=6b2...

are on CNN now, talking about this meeting for a third party.

This meeting is to try to retore people's interest in the issues. Want to make sure the next president can govern and bring people to the center.

Oh sure, they want "unity" NOW.... where were they when Bush took office (emphasis on TOOK) pressing for him to fulfill his promises to be a uniter and not a divider?

On CNN

Wolf is going to ask him about this meeting in Oklahoma with the members of both parties.

This will be something to watch. Sam Nunn said the two party system seems not to be working and what we have now is too far to the right and too far to the left.

what they really want is to make sure that the Dems aren't too liberal. they don't seem to mind that the GOP is too f'n rightwingnutjob crazy.

with Nunn and Cohen.

He says the right and left have to work together to build the US and to take on world problems.

..will pull both sides in. The right's gone as far off the tracks it can get imho. Thing is the left hasn't moved any further left in the past 4 years, if anything we've shifted back a bit.

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something to watch. The problem is that they will get many center right, center left and independents to agree with them.

"My Mother Always Said Democracy Is The Best Revenge"
In accordance with Benazir Bhutto's will, her 19-year old son was named as the new chairman of the Pakistan's People's Party, with his father as co-chairman — and they're ready to contest the election.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2007/12/bhuttos_son_husband_to_succeed...

Submitted by Kevin © on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 11:30am.
...You can go to church and lay in bed at the same time.
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Hallelujah! I've been saved!

the left will likely agree because liberals tend to want to build bridges.

the right? they'll pretend for a while to make sure the liberals are moving to the center - but it's only so the left is moving closer to the right. they aren't going to move to the center because that makes them seem like they're moving to the left - and their base won't stand for that.

their base is MUCH more politically active than ours is. they'll stomp and complain and even phone in death threats if they don't get their way. not that i'm advocating that tactic, of course. I'm just saying - they're rabid. we're more passive.

Bush Administration has no 'Plan B' for Pakistan

John Byrne

For the Bush administration, there is no Plan B for Pakistan."

Citing US officials operating in the Pakistan policy arena, this is the prognosis of veteran Washington Post reporters Robin Wright and Glenn Kessler in Sunday editions of the paper. The Post ran the story on page 24.

Kessler and Wright paint a US foreign policy unchanged by the assassination of erstwhile prime minister Benazir Bhutto, one aimed at propping up controversial strongman Pervez Musharraf -- and lone pro-US leader in the country -- with hundreds of millions of dollars in aid. Next year, the US will begin a five-year, $750 million plan intended to bring jobs and security to restive border regions.

"Despite anxiety among intelligence officials and experts, however, the administration is only slightly tweaking a course charted over the past 18 months to support the creation of a political center revolving around Musharraf, according to U.S. officials," the reporters write.

"Plan A still has to work," a senior administration official involved in Pakistan policy told the paper. "We all have to appeal to moderate forces to come together and carry the election and create a more solidly based government, then use that as a platform to fight the terrorists."

Bush's policy remains "wedded" to Musharraf despite warnings from experts and others who say his dictatorial methods are "untenable," they say. The Pakistani president recently deposed Supreme Court justices who would no go along with his plans.

"This administration has had a disastrous policy toward Pakistan, as bad as the Iraq policy," Robert Templer of the International Crisis Group told the Post. "They are clinging to the wreckage of Musharraf, flailing around. . . . Musharraf has outlived all possible usage to Pakistan and the United States."

Replied the US official: "We have a room full of tigers in Pakistan. This is a really complicated situation, and we have to use our influence in a lot of ways but also realize we can't determine the outcome. We're not dropping pixie dust on someone to anoint them as the next leader."

More here:

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Bush_Administration_has_no_Plan_B_1230.htm...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Pakistani government has no problem with officials from Benazir Bhutto's political party exhuming the slain opposition leader's body if they see a need to do so, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Saturday.

Brig. Javed Iqbal Cheema made the remark when asked about comments from a top Bhutto aide who helped bathe Benazir Bhutto's body after her death.

Sherry Rehman, Pakistan Peoples Party information secretary, said it was clear that the former Pakistani prime minister suffered bullet wounds to her head, contrary to a government report that she died because she hit her head on a sunroof lever.

Cheema noted that if Rehman -- as she said -- believes she saw bullet wounds that caused Bhutto's death, "We don't mind if the Peoples Party leadership wants her body to be exhumed and post-mortemed. They are most welcome, but we gave you what the facts are."

Cheema emphasized that the government's conclusion on the cause of death was based on "absolute facts, nothing but the facts."

"It was corroborated by the doctor's report; it was corroborated by the evidence of the footage we showed you."

Rehman -- who had been riding in the car behind Bhutto's when it was attacked -- called the government's conclusion that Bhutto was not shot "the most bizarre, dangerous nonsense."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/29/bhutto.death/index.html#cnnS...

"Conveners of the meeting include such prominent Democrats as former senators Sam Nunn (Ga.), Charles S. Robb (Va.) and David L. Boren (Okla.), and former presidential candidate Gary Hart. Republican organizers include Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.), former party chairman Bill Brock, former senator John Danforth (Mo.) and former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman." Maybe if they can channel bluesman Lee Atwater...

mystic23, do you still have your MySpace?

If Buddy Miller does produce a new Solomon Burke gospel record, I may find faith.

Nice looking boy! He is still a boy at 19!

Bipartisan Group Eyes Independent Bid
First, Main Candidates Urged To Plan 'Unity' Government

By David S. Broder
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 30, 2007; Page A04

New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a potential independent candidate for president, has scheduled a meeting next week with a dozen leading Democrats and Republicans, who will join him in challenging the major-party contenders to spell out their plans for forming a "government of national unity" to end the gridlock in Washington.

Those who will be at the Jan. 7 session at the University of Oklahoma say that if the likely nominees of the two parties do not pledge to "go beyond tokenism" in building an administration that seeks national consensus, they will be prepared to back Bloomberg or someone else in a third-party campaign for president.

Conveners of the meeting include such prominent Democrats as former senators Sam Nunn (Ga.), Charles S. Robb (Va.) and David L. Boren (Okla.), and former presidential candidate Gary Hart. Republican organizers include Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.), former party chairman Bill Brock, former senator John Danforth (Mo.) and former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman.

Boren, who will host the meeting at the university, where he is president, said: "It is not a gathering to urge any one person to run for president or to say there necessarily ought to be an independent option. But if we don't see a refocusing of the campaign on a bipartisan approach, I would feel I would want to encourage an independent candidacy."

The list of acceptances suggests that the group could muster the financial and political firepower to make the threat of such a candidacy real. Others who have indicated that they plan to attend the one-day session include William S. Cohen, a former Republican senator from Maine and defense secretary in the Clinton administration; Alan Dixon, a former Democratic senator from Illinois; Bob Graham, a former Democratic senator from Florida; Jim Leach, a former Republican congressman from Iowa; Susan Eisenhower, a political consultant and granddaughter of former president Dwight D. Eisenhower; David Abshire, president of the Center for the Study of the Presidency; and Edward Perkins, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Bloomberg, a former Democrat who was elected mayor of New York as a Republican, left the GOP this past summer to become an independent. While disclaiming any plan to run for president in 2008, he has continued to fuel speculation by traveling widely and speaking out on both domestic and international issues. The mayor, a billionaire many times over, presumably could self-finance even a late-starting candidacy.

More here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/29/AR200712...

We're moving into our new house but don't have computer over there yet. I won't be on the

blog much for awhile while we make the transfer. Hope you all have a happy, safe and

prosperous New Year. Love ya!

Happy, Healthy New Year!

what "moved too far to the left" means - apparently opposing the war, opposing torture, wanting health care, all this is supposed to be some looney far left notion - very sad and dodd agreed with that?

where's the outcry over moving too far to the right? i don't see it.

Bhutto Tried To Hire US Security Guards, Including Blackwater »

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Washington Times | Philip Sherwell | December 30, 2007 11:16 AM

Benazir Bhutto was so fearful for her life that she tried to hire British and American security firms, including Blackwater, to protect her, but Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf refused to allow the foreign contractors to operate in Pakistan, her aides said.

"She asked to bring in trained security personnel from abroad," said Mark Siegel, her U.S. representative. "In fact, she and her husband repeatedly tried to get visas for such protection, but they were denied by the government of Pakistan."

http://washingtontimes.com/article/20071230/FOREIGN/542639205/1003

has John Edwards event on now if you want to hear what he has to say.

..anything left of far right is just plain evil, but that's just the "left" label. Don't most polls show that most American's agree with just about everything we believe in?

I don't let that shit get me down. I can walk into any redneck bar in the country and wrap my liberal/populist spiel in the flag and most of the good ol' boys will agree with me. I just never say the "C" words. (Carter and Clinton)

You've got to catapult over the crapaganda!

Bottomline, actions (eventually) speak louder than words.

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I just finished listening to the companion CD to this book...I LOVED it...it's really something to listen to the people converse together and tell stories...

A Grandpa and his Grandson... If you don't cry at the end of this one you're a BOT! :)

http://www.storycorps.net/listen

The NPR about StoryCorp

..on RadioNation

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...and many do make this ol' curmudgeon teary eyed at times.

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Laura is interviewing Naomi Klein right now..
Submitted by maggiesboy on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 1:08pm.

..on RadioNation

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I just love the whole concept of doing this, it's brilliant.

This is a musical tradition common in Western Africa; the griot is a bard or storyteller who recounts cultural stories through song. There are two examples of griot singing here.

"Kedo," Jali Nyama Suso (recorded 1974, Bakau Village, The Gambia) (296kb wave file)

"Tutu Jara," Dela Kanuteh, Mawdo Suso, and Kurunka Suso (recorded 1974, Bakau Village, The Gambia) (279kb wave file)

..and humanity.

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This bring to mind the Masterpiece Theatre Mini-series (trilogy)
House of Cards
To Play a King
and
Final cut
a great showcase of British political Drama well worth a viewing the story fictional MP Francis Urquhart or FU

we're heeeeere...

when does show start 4 PM ?

yes 4PM

toni, interesting she felt that way instead of the Pakistan government providing security - - opening the door further for the US??

Huckabee doesnt know if people are born gay......

That means he doesnt know if HE was born gay.

He might be gay i guess. I suppose its only some type of moral choice keeping him from sleeping with men.

Bhutto Tried To Hire US
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Submitted by nightbird on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 2:11pm.

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If blackwater was guarding Bhutto

more people would have been killed, plus rapes, and 300 people from that town would be flying CIA airlines to a nice Moroccan "resort"

1. Doesn't know how old the earth is
2. Doesn't know which side of Pakistan Afghanistan is on
3. Doesn't know if he's gay...

Gee think the author had him in mind when he wrote the song..

Don't know much about history
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about a science book...

Ooooh, I feel a major parody comin' on!

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Care to guess which blog post below came from Think Progress and which came from Free Republic? Both are referring to his border faux pas..

1. I suppose he’ll want to build a fence on our Northern Border with Mexico?

2. Huckalujah seems to have about as much foreign policy knowledge as a Texas governor had 7 years ago. Yeah, that worked out well too.

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I saw that, too...he said he is no longer doing that job. Still sad and yes, they were puppetlike, typical m$m..

Stupid pics :

http://funfever.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-stupid-can-you-get.html

on the Wed "Early Show" they had a segment with Michael O'Hanlon. He said basically that McCain was being proved correct in his opinions about Iraq and that the surge was working. I had to quiet my stomach..

it was the Michael O'Hanlon from the Brookings Institute, so it figures...

O'Hanlon
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Submitted by nightbird on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 2:45pm.
it was the Michael O'Hanlon

Save 700$ a year and cancel cable TV. your stomach isnt going to be happy in 2008 watching more of that.

They are trying to control your mind, just like Markos Moulitsas has forbidden any discussion of the obvious 9/11 cover-up.. even though Bob Baer says the evidence points to "inside job". As a result the average groupthinker on that otherwise substantive site thinks the legitimate questions have been "debunked"!

Some have, but others still plainly reveal a cover-up by the Bush Crime Family.

Perhaps an explanation as to why he'd forbid such discussion:
I heard Kos admit to working for the CIA at one point. I smell a control lording over our opposition. Let's get busy turning out the real opposition.

Also: living in fear of Bill O'Reilly who laughably labeled Daily Kos a "hate" site.
Progressives need to be a bit more intelligent and stop giving power to the cabal Eisenhower warned us about. Before they hit us again.

open book

Who will be first??

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/123007Z.shtml

Alas!
Did you see this article prominently on the front page of today's NY Times? No mention of Dodd nor Kucinich nor Richardson nor Gravel nor Biden. Did I miss something? WHen did they drop out of the race? Each of the anointed three have very troublesome drawbacks.

... I can't help but feel the whole thing was orchestrated and the U.S. served up Benazir to stir up things even more.
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(((mb))) I don't see a new thread...

Each of the anointed three HAS very troublesome drawbacks.

THey have been from the beginning...wonder what FAIR says about this (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting www.fair.org)

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Right! Keep your ear to the radio when it plays Counterspin this week.

Love the Clash!

...really, back in an hour.

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always!!! or listen on their site..

And {{{{{Laura Fans}}}}} nice to C U Again.

If Ya-All are looking for good bread recipes go to http://web.mac.com/maggies_boy/BlueRootsBlog/RadioNation_Blog/Entries/20... and next week come join us ;-)

As I say over and over... Cui Bono???

Cui Bono?

*here*

Fine line-up, Sammer.

Never apologize about interviewing Naomi. You could have her on weekly as far as I'm concerned.

Can't we impeach and impound (war profit dollars) and send this administration to Qatar?

Salaam...

Eh? Send 'em a Guitar?? Please don't!

Did you know W vetoed the Defense Bill (in which the Dems gave him everything - no strings) because there was a provision allowing Americans to sue Iraquis for damages that happened during Sadaam, thus potentially freexing Iraqi assets???

Computer says "No"

Qatari's are not bad people. They have some of the most free press in the known world.

Send the administration to Leavenworth, Sing-Sing or Angola. Let Bubbah teach them manners.

Cui Bono?

Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars

"The following document, dated May 1979, was found on July 7, 1986, in an IBM copier that had been purchased at a surplus sale."

{{{{NB}}}}

Cui Bono?

Saw this fun page and thought I'd share.

http://www.endlesssimmer.com/2007/12/10/who-is-the-eater-of-the-year/

Coming to you from Florida this lovely Sunday afternoon - blender is ready - drink orders please....

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

___waiting on my kid. Sam on AM radio blog on iPhone . Cool!
brr

agreed!!!

Am not Treebu, but I did see that news in passing albeit and I am still scratching my head over it. By vetoing the Bill - no funding for his war - what is he trying to do? Make sure to make the democrat controlled senate look bad by not funding the troops? OR using it as a way to make him bring the troops home because of no funding and blame lack of success on the no funding causing premature pull out?

Treebu
Submitted by nightbird on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 4:32pm.
Did you know W vetoed the Defense Bill (in which the Dems gave him everything - no strings) because there was a provision allowing Americans to sue Iraquis for damages that happened during Sadaam, thus potentially freexing Iraqi assets???

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

A cocktail here please.

1 oz Peace schnapps
1 oz rum
1 oz vodka
1 oz gin
1 oz tequilla
Smashed in a glass of fresh mint leaves and served over crushed ice with a splash of Pepsi Cola.

We will call it a Global MMMMMM-Peach-Mint Island

Cui Bono?

I'd be so mortified.

http://bostonist.com/2007/12/21/mittwatch_romne_7.php

He's okay, but I wouldn't call him swoon material.

Now, if yer talkin', say, Josh Lucas or Matthew McConaughey, okay then...I could see that. But Romney?

you think the GOP doesn't have a contingency plan to drag through the mud ANYONE who got the Dem nomination?

what just happened in Pakistan to ask for more money. I think that is why he veto'd the bill. I could be wrong but he's going to use the scare tactic again.

The assassination of Bhutto and the Bin Laden tape threatening the Sunnis and Isreal.

He's going to use the Islamofacist card again.

The offical alcoholic drink of the Dec 30th edition of the Seder on Sunday Book Show!!!!

Nice mixology there - don't forget to send the blend to Rachel for her files.

Blending up a batch for everyone who wants some right now - come and get'em - we're out by the pool!!!

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

http://2photo.ru/uploads/posts/4268/20071120/joe_baran/20_11_2007_004453...

This sounds great. I LOVE losing my lunch, my liver, and my consciousness and then meeting complete strangers blinking awake in their beds in the morning (or so).

If my teen did this
Submitted by Annette on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 4:46pm.

eeeeeEEEEEEWWWWW! Attack of the Romney stink thumb! When grabbing ass do not grab a repug ass as you have no idea of where it has been or what has been pulled out of it.

OK I read past the teenager part.

Cui Bono?

Behold A Pale Horse...
Submitted by Alice on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 4:35pm.
Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars

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http://www.akasha.de/~aton/swfqw.html

I think it's trying to make the Senate (Dems) look bad - they didn't give him enough - and trying to keep the money flowing - and profits,,,

Who wins?

http://www.comnetslash.com/2007/11/06/top-gears-greatest-race-bugatti-ve...

Looks more like Ron Howard as a young lad.

and then he went on to direct Cocoon, right?

Inebriate
And gather beads.

I wonder if the lovely Rachel ever cruises the blogs? With her insatiable curiosity I would be surprised if she didn't.

Cui Bono?

I'm poking around William Cooper's book of that name right now - it's due tomorrow.. :)

you know they will!!

I haven't read all the comments, and someone may have already shared this.
Johnny 'The Surge' McCave stated a couple of days ago that Bhutto's assassination reinforces our need to maintain our war on terror(?!).
How about that we support the guy that killed her father, and is probably responsible for her death as well (Minor detail).

I didn't really see the attraction, either.

Kucinich is much more the Babe Magnet. ;-)

Long Live Peace

Cui Bono?

I think Rachel does look in....remember she did look in on Laura's blog every so often

"I think I just threw up a little, in my mouth"

Cui Bono?

While your interpretation makes BUSH sense...I just do not see why do it on the down low when he cannot get any newsworth milage out of it...unless the calculation is to have it be the BIG news out of the white house - DEMS didnt give troops $$ pres requested - to color the primaries. But even IF that is the reason - HIS given reason for the veto doen't say that - its a non-grabbing reason at least for the majority of the American people - in fact its a reason that would probably make many Americans angry because he didnt put the needs of our troops first...(again the tortured logic of sound bites)
Granted I may be missing things since I am in Fla and have been limiting my consumption of news to keep the stress levels down. Glad that you also thought this pocket veto was an odd one.

Nefferkitti
Submitted by nightbird on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 4:51pm.
I think it's trying to make the Senate (Dems) look bad - they didn't give him enough - and trying to keep the money flowing - and profits,,,

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

I suggest we ban 'anonymous', and his/her entire family from the blog!

Nefferkitti can I get another cocktail to get the lionel taste out of my mouth?

Cui Bono?

google pics of Elizabeth Kucinich...she's beautiful

The 'wake up call' cat.

http://www.thefunnystuff.net/viewmovie.php?ad_key=MYQFWBUSMQKD&tracking_...

OF course - what is your pleasure?

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

HERE

Chad here in AAR control room on a gloomy New York City Sunday. Happy New Year to each of you and thanks for being a vital part of the show.

I seldom jump online but I noticed there is talk of William Cooper. He had been very outspoken on UFOs, The Stealth Bomber, JFK assassination, and the New World Order. A very fascinating man who died just months after September 11th. He had some very interesting theories for sure.

Chad

Perhaps, this is a situation (as opposed to that of Russ Feingold) in which the nascent anti-semitism in this country may work to our advantage. I can think of few things scarier that a Bloomberg 'unity' presidency. It would delude many of the sheep that we have a liberal Republican in the White House, as he privatizes everything (including the air), and gives away even more to the wealthiest 1%, as he has in New York.

So what part of the first amendment do you wish to negate? In ancient Egypt they used to scrub graves of images of a former leaders face and family. Maybe we should remove the word anonymous from the dictionary, eh?

As long as people aren't personally abusive let us share ideas and humor, that is why I, for one, come here.

Cui Bono?

Funny, Kev, we were talking about Barry just the other day! I never expected to find a musical performance with both of these guys in it!!!!!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kL0WFcygdWY

2 dead guys with amazing, amazing talent, each leaving an indelible mark on society. Most of us can only dream of doing that.

A) It was a joke.

B) It seems that 9 out of 10 "anonymous" posters are trolls.

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro"
HST

Yes. I was just reading that part of the book. He said the driver, Greer shot Kennedy, from what I've read so far.

.....further, he would would be deeply placed in the pocket of AIPAC.

In Honor of Elizabeth Kucinich. Can you imagine how distracting it would be to eighth grade (male) history students turning the page to the chapter on early 21st century presidents and seeing Elizabeth Kucinich, President from 2016 to 2024? The great race of 2016 between Laura Bush and Elizabeth Kucinich.

Long live Liberals!

Cui Bono?

So Sorry, I hate missing a joke.

Damn... note to self, adjust sense #6

Cui Bono?

Happy New Year to you and everyone back in the AAR control room.
Sorry its gloomy in NYC - sending a blender full of YB's specially invented offical cocktail for the show your way to hopefully brighten up the gloom abit. We won't tell anyone if you drink during the show OK?

Safe holiday celebrations and thanks for coming in over the holiday weekend so we could hear the book show.

N-kitti

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

Yes, the driver Greer gets a lot of attention. I've seen the video Cooper mentions several times and in my estimation what Cooper believes was a hand gun was actually the light reflecting off the head of the man in the front passenger seat. Still though, Cooper's arguements for their being a coverup can be overwhelming. He's very thorough.

Here he is in 92 I believe speaking on behalf of his book Behold A Pale Horse. Several of his "visions" have panned out already. Scary!

video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-729985813912005672

Chad

i want bubble

i want trouble

i could be luvable

if you pay me double

How many of you can say that???

Cui Bono?

It's really the only sense I can make of it...and somehow trying to spin it that the Dems aren't thinking of the troops...Bush got away with Walter Reed, remember??

there's an AMAZINGLY good post, and one I'm sure you'll all find edifying, by Lambert @ Corrente:

http://www.correntewire.com/obama_stump_speech_strategy_of_conciliation_...

...Krugman his own self linked to it ("...Lambert, who channels me admirably...") and Digby added to it at Hullabaloo, as well. I *know* it sounds goofy, but it's the first thing that's given me hope in a long while.

hey, y'gotta have something to do during stationbreaks, what with no Sammycam! :)

xo-
Anna

...forgot about the signing-in thing. jeebus, those Captcha things are completely illegible!

I have a recurring daydream in which I find the watch that can stop time (a la the movie The Girl, The Watch and Everything). The scumbags & institutions that would "disappear" soon thereafter make for some interesting mental list-making. Go on, kids, steal my daydream. It'll bring an evil smile to your face, too.

*smiles*

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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Obama stump speech strategy of conciliation considered harmful

http://www.correntewire.com/obama_stump_speech_strategy_of_conciliation_...

[...] When you’ve [we've!] got [the wingnuts] by the balls, the heart and head soon follow. How about we try real oversight and a return to the rule of law in the form of criminal investigations, indictments, and jail time, instead of singing kumbaya? Combine that with a strong institutional presence in the form of a party you can actually mobilize, and you might get the Conservative Movement back in line. With a Democratic president, there’ll be no pardons for them. Some operatives should do time, pour encourager les autres. That’s the kind of politics we need.

[...] So at best, Obama is feeding us highflown, but vacuous rhetoric. At worst, he’ll let the Conservative Movement operatives who drive the Bush administration get away clean, after committing criminal and impeachable offenses with impunity and no accountability of any kind. That’s not the kind of politics we need to achieve a permanent progressive majority.

[...] And here I have to say that this passage [from an Obama speech] —

... there’s no shortage of anger and bluster ...

— grotesquely trivializes the experience of any aware citizen under Bush’s rule. Is it wrong to be “angry” that the Bush administration has turned us into a nation of torturers? Is it wrong to be “angry” that the Republicans took us to war under false pretenses? Is it “bluster” to say that Cheney’s claim to be the Fourth Branch of government is absurd? Is it “bluster” to demand our Fourth Amendment rights back?

hi, there, Liberal-at-large! :)

...you owe it to yourselves to read the whole thing. seriously, it's that good.

More on Fuck BI-partisanship...
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Submitted by Liberal-at-large on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 5:36pm.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

__________________________

Lately I have thought about morons who think in terms of extremes. For instance, if you tell a conservative that you don't love America, he assumes automatically that you HATE it. Actually, I am indifferent about it. Is that alright, Mr. Moron? Is my apathy alright? I'm just lookin' out for number one because that is the position that you and your gang have put us in now.

-M the a-c

...anyone know of a Seder bumper music list? I'm tearing my hair out trying to figure out one of them...the real punkrocky B/E/B/E/A thing, for players...

Good Good, Charlie Rose is a freaking idiot. He tried to pose Klein's argument as being "capitalism bad", "all corporations evil". He mentioned the fact that WalMart was more helpful after Katrina than FEMA was as proof that "all corporations are not evil". Yet, he seemed oblivious to Klein's actual argument that such an example is precisely what the neocons want people to believe: that the government is too incompetent to help its citizens and that corporations should be put in charge of such things.

It wasn't that he disagreed with her that was so infuriating, it was that he seemed to be willfully trying to misinterpret her argument. It's obvious Rose has a total hard-on for the two Friedmans. (Richard and Milton)

I might be able to help you out with that information. Can you recall when it was played? Was it coming into a segment or out of a segment.

All the best,
Chad (in the AAR Control Room)

NK - Thanks for the drinks (glug, glug)

Happy New Year to all, also!!!

Exactly - companies don't want to pay, don't commit to employees, and CEOs and upper management laugh all the way with their golden parachutes.

nice to read ya all!

In a good example of corporate media striving to narrow down the Democratic primary field (FAIR Media Advisory, 5/8/07), USA Today (12/18/07) had a story on candidates' electability that wrote all but two of them out of existence. The story opened with the statement that "Illinois Sen. Barack Obama fares better than New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton against prospective Republican rivals," and went on to report:

Missing from USA Today's polling about electability was John Edwards--even though aside from Clinton and Obama, Edwards is the only Democratic candidate who consistently polls in double digits. And when other polls have included Edwards in questions about electability, Edwards generally does better than the other two, sometimes by wide margins.

Con't-http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3234

accuracy@usatoday.com

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2006/01/air-america-bumper-music.html

Oh yes I do remember Walter Reed. How could I or anyone not?
I can see BUSH trying to spin his veto as Dems not thinking of the troops- but I just do not see it working - because the Dems caved and gave him everything he wants and he then vetoed everything he wanted- BUT maybe its because I am on vacation and the brain is just not in full gear???

Good to try and figure this out with ya!!

Submitted by nightbird on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 5:32pm.
It's really the only sense I can make of it...and somehow trying to spin it that the Dems aren't thinking of the troops...Bush got away with Walter Reed, remember??

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

it's coming into a segment. I swear, I thought it was just a Damned song I didn't know, but (seemingly) not so...

and it's D/A/D/A/D/A/D/A/B, not whatever I posted earlier.

Submitted by Alice on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 4:55pm.
I'm poking around William Cooper's book of that name right now - it's due tomorrow.. :)

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As an ex-spook, Billy KNEW where the bodies were buried. I'm surprised he didn't have an "accident."

[edited for tense]

I know it isn't , but I confuse it with the Sex Pistols (dontcha gimme no lip, child...)um, Chad...does that help???It was an intro, also, I believe..

I don't think they played this one on Majority Report, though...

--you know the one I'm talking about? cool! but not Sex Pistols, although definitely that raw-sounding. (why I thought "early Damned".)

Firstly, I'm still woroking on the music but as I am not a chord major I'm a bit in the dark :D.

Liberl at large, In fact WIlliam Cooper is already dead, as wikiepdia declared a "controversial" death.

CHAD

yes, i'm working on getting a user ID

Global MMMMMM-Peach-Mint Islands cocktail

Nefferkitti can you serve him one on my tab? Thanks.

Cui Bono?

However, Bush does have spinmiesters who are very good.
After all, he lied us into two wars already.

Cui Bono?

I forgot to watch that episode.
But like Sam, I have realized that CR sold out a long time ago, and while I still tried to watch and enjoy him for the guests....it was the day AFTER Katrina program he did that totally lost me for 99.9%. Instead of covering the REAL story - he sat there with a bunch of intellectuals discussing the essense of New Orleans and all the non-relevant issues of the moment - it was the FIRST time ever that I had been moved to write in to a TV show - I was just appalled and disgusted and let him and PBS know about it...granted while PBS has slowly started to get a bit of its spine back with Bill Moyers and NOW being back on TV and NOW being true investigative reporting, the damage done by the repub take overs have done their damage...and Charlie Rose demonstrates that daily - esp his relationship with TIME magazine. Granted once in a while he will have guests on that you can see no where else (Ambassador from Iran and other country reps etc...) but even then his perspective is so skewed that it is hard to get anything truely substantive out of watching other than wanting to actually see the guest so I can get a feel for who they are.
Its a real shame - I used to love his show, and shifted my dream job from wanting to take over for Mr. Rogers when he retired to wanting to ake over for Charlie years from now when it was his turn to retire...but now - it actually makes me glad I am retired - because that dream has been so crushed.

Anyone see Klein on Charlie Rose on Friday?
Submitted by sundaynista on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 5:45pm.
Good Good, Charlie Rose is a freaking idiot. He tried to pose Klein's argument as being "capitalism bad", "all corporations evil". He mentioned the fact that WalMart was more helpful after Katrina than FEMA was as proof that "all corporations are not evil". Yet, he seemed oblivious to Klein's actual argument that such an example is precisely what the neocons want people to believe: that the government is too incompetent to help its citizens and that corporations should be put in charge of such things.

It wasn't that he disagreed with her that was so infuriating, it was that he seemed to be willfully trying to misinterpret her argument. It's obvious Rose has a total hard-on for the two Friedmans. (Richard and Milton)

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

ROCKS!!

Cui Bono?

--if you've got an e-mail, I can send you an 150 kb file of it (taken from the UK show Shameless)...or I could post it in my Yahoo Briefcase and send you the link. (or AIM...I think I can shoot it to you like that)

Central Bank...

We're on the same page (of music), I think!!

Yet in our government, politics, tax code and foreign relations we ignore the most basic tenant of criminal investigation...

Cui Bono?

God!

I love Naomi Klein!

But you know what, dumb Americans will never get it.

She might as well be talking to herself.

Americans keep it greasy.

TURNS OUT THAT IT WAS JUST THE MESSAGE THAT POPS UP - I AM ABLE TO POST JUST FINE.

Can someone help me? I hit the post comment button twice too fast.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

The New York Crew is taken care of (actually, I'm alone here today... easy like Sunday morning.)

Annagranfors - post the briefcase please. you rock!

Chad

http://briefcase.yahoo.com/annagranfors@sbcglobal.net

THere is no tab - I always run an open virtual bar.
A second pitcher of Global MMMMMM-Peach-Mint Islands is on its way to you Chad. Share as needed with all in the AAR studios.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

Bet there is a roach in lionels office that would like a drink.... you may plead the 5th on that one :-)

Cui Bono?

According to Naomi Klein, at the conclusion of last week's international colloquium in memory of Andrés Aubry, Subcomandante Marcos remarked that it would be his last public appearance for some time because of the grave new threat of a counterinsurgent attack against the Zapatista communities.
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...only if there was a 24 hr. Lionel Dunk Tank. the Tank would be shark-infested, but they'd probably turn up their noses at that obnoxious idiot. ("yo--I don't eat no shit...")

Virtual bartending, fun but does not pay the bills.

Like last time I tended bar in reality. Although I did quite smoking after a long smoky alcoholic night/morning.

Cui Bono?

Yes spinmeisters he does have but even the McLaughlin Group thinks the leaving of Rove spells the end of the Bush policy - We can only hope that he is right.
And I am choosing at for the next few days to have hope in our fellow country men and women - that they too have grown tired of being terrorized for all these years and have finally found a place within themselves that tells them that there IS a choice between absolute fear and absolute truth....somewhere inbetween MUST exist out there and dammit they are going to try and find it - if not for themselves but for their kids.
HEY -I can hope can't I?

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

Ooops. In my post above, I wrote Milton and Richard. Of course I meant Thomas, not Richard.

BTW, Naomi Klein is hot. Is that wrong to say?

You want to know those chords?

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brr

I think the start of the Bush policy spells the eternity of the Bush policy...the corporatocracy (the real power, anyway) will never let go the reins. why? because they'd all go to Prague. I'd take them there myself.

http://www.narconews.com/

And for the rest of the world: http://www.watchingamerica.com/index.shtml

Always interesting

Cui Bono?

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/511#comment-75515

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

--nope, got the chords (see above)...wanna know who does the song/what its name is!

Only if you objectify her.

Cui Bono?

C/G/C/G/C/G/C/G/DDD

You gotta barre chord it for the best effect.

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brr

Muchos gracias!!!
I am really IN Florida right now and the least I can do is help spread some sunshine and warm weather good vibes to all those not blessed with 80 degrees and sea breezes this time of year...Am only here for another week, so it will be back to hot chocolate with brandy next Sunday probably...so enjoy the tropical beverages while you can. ;)

Well then a double virtual TIP to thee Nefferkitti
Submitted by YBNurmal on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 6:20pm.
Virtual bartending, fun but does not pay the bills.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

Good find on the MMRules. I hadn't noticed that it was posted a few weeks back. Cooper it seems knew too much.

Chad

http://www.chooseyourvote.org/

He was a student there when the rest of these scum were there.

Cui Bono?

...you krazy kids with your music these days. ;-)

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brr

...again, thanks, but a transposed version in D is upstairs...do you know group/name of song, please?

Can you imagine a cruise from the original Air America crew?
Sam Seder
Janeane Garofalo
Marc Maron
Liz Winstead
Rachel Maddow
Al Franken
etc.

Ah, to dream.....

..by Mike Mulligan and the Steamshovels...

..or was it Bohemoth and the Wombats??
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brr

...did you see the Suitcase post above? not rushin' ya or anything...! (so close...so..very, very close...) :)

http://briefcase.yahoo.com/annagranfors@sbcglobal.net

Can you imagine a radio network with....

To dream.

Cui Bono?

I do beleive that you are unfortunately correct....altho I do wish that it were not so. My only hope is that the reins can be shortened by some re-regulation that would bring some much needed re-balancing of the field. - I sound like I am talking about "The Force" LOL.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

yr kidding, right...?

Check your email.

Chad

Hey MB, didn't I hear/see that before, sure feels like it.

Cui Bono?

...I don't think a corporate-run government will be doing any meaningful regulations on itself. throw the bums out, and then go back to the regulations that served us so well pre-Reagan.

oh, and excommunicate St. Ronnie, too, while we're at it... :)

It's just an inverted 1-4-5 riff.

4/1/4/1/4/1/4/1/5...

Plug in, turn it up and bang away like most of the music in that genre.

I'm sorry, I'm old and jaded when it comes to head bangin' toons.

What you need is a special Google where you can submit the sound byte and let it spit back the name of the tune.

Fernando, would you get on that right away?!?!?!?

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brr

GOOD FIND MMRULES
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Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 6:26pm
Chad
*******
A little bit of everything..Fernando,Sir Real have added alot of stuff too..

Kindof of a Gruesome Open Mic..But,ever since
I was a kid I've been interested in it..

Plus,I was in Catholic school when it happened..And,I'm Irish..So....

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

was never so much in display as during the chomsky interview - so condescending and offensive - kinda resenting that he had to go through and show some respect as he kept repeating he got so much mail asking him to get chomsky on he was baffled by all the clout his guest seemed to have and just couldn't let go of it - this baffled resentment at chomsky's stature he couldn't grasp it that someone with such "far left" ideology could be so popular - not that i had much respect for charlie rose but lost it completely after that interview

dupepost

No worries - spelling doesn't count online amongst friends.

I totally agree with you - esp about ST Ronnie. - I think that should actually be step 1 - get the truth out there about what his gov't was really all about and what it brought to the country and the world (other than the beginning of the end of the cold war in small part) to help the blind followers prepare for the shock of true reality.

Neffer (sorry abt. misspelling earlier)
Submitted by annagranfors on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 6:33pm.
...I don't think a corporate-run government will be doing any meaningful regulations on itself. throw the bums out, and then go back to the regulations that served us so well pre-Reagan.

oh, and excommunicate St. Ronnie, too, while we're at it... :)

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

chomsky was saying and kept misrepresenting - like he was doing with naomi klein i gather (didn't see that one)

got your e-mail...thanks, anyway. you can tell via the sample which one it is, though, yeah?

got your e-mail...thanks, anyway. you can tell via the sample which one it is, though, yeah?

..can't find any reference to a song by that title on Google. I'm guessing it's a fairly commonplace punk band from the UK, circa late 70s, since they used it on Shameless as drunken party music.

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Nice pic!

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brr

We have a winner. The song is "Black Math" by The White Stripes.

Sorry for the delay in getting that info. Thanks to JAS for helping me out.

Chad

"Black Math by White Stripes was it", he wrote after hitting the Edit link. ~8^)

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brr

Drinks?

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

thank you thank you THANK YOU!!1! xoxo

LOL..
Poor Fernando !
I love the guy..He's helped me many,many times here !
Brett,ToniD..Just about everybody..

Or,maybe they just got tired of me freezing up the blog ? ;)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

..and thanks for askin'!

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brr

(whoever you are!)

...I'd have enough cash to join the RNC!

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brr

Double on its way! Enjoy - but no driving for you - am calling you a taxi

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

Thank you for listening to Book Show with me today,. and thanks for all the beverages sent our way. Have a wonderful New Year's and I look forward to all of your posts in 2008 - the year we take it back.

Chad

..but I'm already home. Double that double on the double!!

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...that's the one! thanks again, guyz!!

is one we all should know..er...er..er...

drop in more often!

A happy and healthy New Year's celebration - whatever and however you choose to celebrate - or not celebrate- be safe and smart - I know you are all the second - I worry about everyone else out there so be careful OK?

And may you all have a new year filled with love, joy, health and happiness filled moments that allow the rest of the usual everyday stuff to be bearable enough to allow you to keep getting out bed each morning.

Be well everyone!!
N-kitti

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

..it can't be easy makin' Sam's show so good week after week.

Happy New Year!

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now that's ***hot!!!***

to gawd's ears, Chad--and everybody have a good New Year's Eve--stay home! too many drunks-in-training on the roads!

see y'all next Sunday!

ARR-Bumper Music -M O B J E C T I V I S T
Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 5:53pm.
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2006/01/air-america-bumper-music.html
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I had mis-placed that link..
Thanks,Again ! :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

..all the professionals stay home!

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:)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

"Les" talk, Mo' Music
Submitted by maggiesboy on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 6:44pm.
Nice pic!
*******
Yeah,The Neighbor's Love Me !

I May Be Broke Now but,I can make some cool Noise/Sound !

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

I think Naomi was better the second time I heard it. The soak time helped I think.

All this time I thought Chad was allergic to keyboards. Who knew....?

USER NAV

TIme for me to get some chow NOW - bartending is hard but rewarding work!!
See you all in the new year - hopefully many of us will make it to New Year's Day MvS show.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

Stay Safe You All ! :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxhpY0T7R6s

Happy new year to all!

This Week: Edwards Scares The Punditocracy…
By: Nicole Belle @ 12:35 PM - PST

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…otherwise, why would they spend so much time trying so hard to dismiss him? When asked by host George Stephanopoulos which of the presidential contenders “handled” the assassination of Benazir Bhutto the best (a strange question in and of itself) George Will did not focus on Huckabee’s lack of knowledge or Richardson’s demand that Musharraf step down, but rather on the fact that John Edwards made a phone call.

GS: (The Bhutto assassination) was a major event, at least for a day, on the campaign trail. It seemed to freeze the campaigns. Who handled it well; who didn’t?

GW: Opinions differ. I would love to have been a fly on the wall of President Musharraf’s office when the aide came in. The country’s in flames, the army’s in doubt and the guy comes in and says, “We have holding on the line a former one term senator from North Carolina, calling from Iowa.”

Could Will be more dismissive and patronizing if he tried? Turns out, yes. Because as the discussion moved to the upcoming Iowa primary and whose message was resonating most, again, Edwards’ message of populism was brought up. David Brooks immediately pulls a Noonan and discounts how “tough” Edwards can be, and George Will then subverts the whole definition of populism to pull as many conservative scare tactics as possible. How many strawman fallacies can you count?

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GW: Here you have the fundamental contradiction of populism. He doesn’t like Washington and Washington power. He also vows to increase the power of Washington. Populism has to do that. He’s going to increase the regulatory state and with it, he’s going to increase the stakes of politics and therefore the importance of lobbyists.

Why does George & Co. feel the need to dismiss Edwards? Could it be that in head-to-head match ups, Edwards is the candidate who fares the best?

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/12/30/this-week-edwards-scares-the-pu...

nuf said.

Drug firms probed over Iraq cash
GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca have been asked to hand over papers as part of a probe into bribes allegedly paid to Saddam Hussein's former Iraq regime.
The Serious Fraud Office is examining allegations of bribes paid to secure lucrative contracts in breach of Iraq's 1996 to 2003 oil-for-food programme.

The programme, established in the wake of UN sanctions, allowed Iraq to sell oil to buy humanitarian provisions.

Both drug companies deny wrongdoing and are co-operating fully with the probe.

A third company, Eli Lilly, has also said that it will hand over documents.

"We were asked to supply documentation in mid-December," a company spokesman said.

"We are compiling these documents and they will be sent to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in the new year."

UN report

The oil-for-food programme was set up following sanctions imposed on Iraq after the country invaded Kuwait in 1990.

A UN-commissioned inquiry later found that 2,200 companies in 66 countries had breached rules by paying $1.8bn (£903m) in bribes to Iraqi officials to win oil contracts.

The Serious Fraud Office launched an investigation earlier this year into alleged breaches of the sanctions by British companies involved in the humanitarian programme.

A spokesman for GlaxoSmithKline said the company did "not believe that its employees or its agents in Iraq knowingly engaged in wrongdoing regarding the oil-for-food programme".

"In fact GSK went to considerable lengths to co-operate with UK government authorities responsible for the UK administration of the programme and to impose anti-corruption measures when dealing with intermediaries in Iraq at a time when the environment was extremely volatile and difficult," he added.

Medicine consignment

A spokeswoman for AstraZeneca confirmed it had received a formal request for documents from the Serious Fraud Office.

"The company will be providing the documentation," she said.

AstraZeneca previously confirmed it had sent medicines requested by the Hussein government under the oil-for-food programme.

It said the consignment had all relevant UN permissions and export licences from the UK Department of Trade and Industry and was delivered after coalition forces from the UK and the US had taken control of the country.

The Serious Fraud Office investigation, which is expected to cost around £22m, could become one of the biggest the organisation has ever carried out.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7164677.stm

Buffett joins bond-insurance market
By Tomoeh Murakami Tse

The Washington Post

NEW YORK — Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is entering the bond-insurance business in a move that could lower borrowing costs for local governments having a hard time raising money during the credit crunch.

The new insurer, to be called Berkshire Hathaway Assurance, is expected to receive a license to operate in New York by Monday, the state's insurance department said Friday.

Buffett, the billionaire investor, is launching the business as many of his new competitors are facing an unstable outlook because of their exposure to complicated debt instruments that have been roiling financial markets.

Shares of some of the biggest bond insurers have been pummeled in recent months as rating agencies scrutinize the insurers' ability to cover potential defaults on the mortgage-related bonds they insure, particularly those backed by loans to homebuyers with poor credit.

Just last week, Standard & Poor's downgraded ACA Financial Guaranty because of its cash shortfall, and Fitch Ratings warned that MBIA and Ambac Financial Group, the two largest bond insurers, also could be downgraded.

A good credit rating is essential for bond insurers, which play a critical role in the capital markets by helping companies and local governments with imperfect credit borrow money from the debt markets at low interest rates to finance things like ballparks, buildings and roads. Bond insurers can do that because they essentially transfer their top credit ratings to the bonds of companies, states and municipalities by issuing insurance. Without the backing of top-rated bond insurers, companies and local governments would have to pay more for projects.

While Buffett's new business is not yet rated, analysts said it is almost certain to receive the top rating, AAA. Berkshire Hathaway, with its strong balance sheet, is a AAA-rated entity.

Buffett's entry into this business was reported by The Wall Street Journal on Friday. He told the paper that the company would seek permission to operate in California, Puerto Rico, Texas, Illinois and Florida, which have high volumes of municipal-debt issuance. He said the company would stay away from insuring complicated structured products such as bonds backed by mortgages and credit-card receipts.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2004097947_berk...

'08 forecasts: food at least 3% higher; gas up 10.7%
By Karen Robinson-Jacobs

The Dallas Morning News

DALLAS — For cash-strapped consumers already beset by higher gasoline prices and escalating mortgage rates, the hits just keep on coming. This time, it's food.

The sharp rise in food prices seen in 2007 is expected to be followed by another higher-than-normal jump next year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said last week. And 2008's punch will be to the breadbasket.

Items made with wheat (breads and crackers) and soybean oil (cooking oil and fried foods) are expected to rise so much next year that they'll boost the cost of cooking at home by up to 4.5 percent — half a percentage point more than predicted just a month ago.

So pinched consumers thinking they can cut back by eating at home more will find little relief there. Home cooking remains less expensive than eating out, but the gap is closing.

This year is expected to go on record as having one of the largest increases in food prices since 1990 — a jump of 4 percent, according to USDA economists. And 2008 will bring an additional rise of at least 3 percent, according to the USDA forecast. Both rates are substantially higher than the 2.4 percent gains seen each year in 2005 and 2006 and the 1.8 percent rise in 2002.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2004091088_food...

Man rescued from Australian pub chimney after 10 hours: police

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Man_rescued_from_Australian_pub_chi_1228200...

AP Interview: Edwards on populist theme

AP Interview: Edwards Dismisses Criticism That His Populist Message Is Too Divisive

MIKE GLOVER
AP News

Dec 30, 2007 18:06 EST

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Sunday defended his relentless assault on corporations and special interests, dismissing criticism that his pointed populist message is too divisive.

In an interview with The Associated Press, the 2004 vice presidential nominee argued that his oft-repeated theme would unite the nation and force a political realignment heading into November's general election. Edwards explained that he offered this argument during campaign stops in Iowa on Sunday to ease fears about his electability.

"I believe it's true," Edwards said. "It's not divisive at all, it's uniting. Most Americans feel that the economy, the government is not working for them because corporate greed and influence have far too big an effect on issues that affect their lives."

Edwards is locked in a tight race in Iowa with rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. He plans an intense blitz in the closing days before Thursday's caucuses that includes a 36-hour campaign marathon beginning Tuesday. He is subtly shifting his message to ease worries about his viability for a general election by arguing that all voters feel the economic pain he talks about on the stump.

"It's important because it can unite the country, it's important because it can unite voters," Edwards said in the interview. "In a general election it also affects the ability to get elected."

In Iowa, he told voters: "The corporate greed that is destroying the middle class in this country is stealing your children's future. It is stealing the future of Democrats' children, independents' children, Republicans' children. I'm telling you this is a message and a cause that we can unite America around, we can unite America next fall."

Conceding it was the first time he had used the argument, Edwards stressed the theme as he swept through western Iowa.

More here:

http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/AP_Interview_Edwards_on_populist_th...

You KNOW you are truely in VACATION mode, when you read ToniD's
post title info:
and you automatically think its JIMMY BUFFET they are talking about and are truely puzzled as to why in the world he would joining the bond-insurance market....
AAAHHHH....now at least for the moment I understand the ignorance that we see in so much of the American populace. I must admit - its quite nice - but also frightening.
I will choose to enjoy and laugh at this moment of clarity...and enjoy the rest of my time down here - I sure did need it...but I will also admit that its not a long term way to live one's life.

Hope you all got a good laugh.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

U.S. seen internationally as an ‘Endemic Surveillance Society.’ In the recently released annual survey of worldwide privacy rights by Privacy International and EPIC, the United States has been downgraded from “Extensive Surveillance Society” to “Endemic Surveillance Society.”

As Glenn Greenwald notes, this is “the worst possible category there is for privacy protections, the category also occupied by countries such as China, Russia, Singapore and Malaysia.” In general, “the 2007 rankings indicate an overall worsening of privacy protection across the world, reflecting an increase in surveillance and a declining performance of privacy safeguards.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/30/us-seen-internationally-as-an-endemi...

Icky Thump. :-)

And when they say 'thump' they ain't fuckin' kidding.

Huckabee would criminalize abortion and punish doctors. Also during his Meet The Press appearance today, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee said that as President he would seek to “find some way to sanction” doctors “who took money to provide abortions to women if he succeeded in outlawing the procedure.” “I don’t know that you’d put him in prison,” added Huckabee. He said that he would “not support penalizing women who sought abortions even if they were outlawed” because he considers a woman who seeks an abortion to be “a victim, not a criminal.”

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/12/30/huckabee_would_crimi...

UPDATE: A recent study by the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organization found that criminalization is ineffective in lowering abortions, and that the procedure is most “dangerous in countries where it was outlawed and performed clandestinely.”

http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2007/10/abortion-criminalization-it-doesnt...

glad you're enjoying a vacation.

Zogby: Hillary And Huck Lead in Iowa
Mason-Dixon: No, It's Edwards And Romney!

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/12/new_iowa_polls_one_finds_hillary_a...

bullshit. edwards is killing them but he's not the annoited one.

I'm trapped over here in the folky-bluesy timewarp with

and

..I can piss off the neighbors also if I wanna! ~8^)
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Huckabee stands by 'Christ' comment By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 56 minutes ago

DES MOINES, Iowa - Mike Huckabee, a Republican relying on support from religious conservatives in Thursday's hard-fought presidential caucuses, on Sunday stood by a decade-old comment in which he said, "I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ."

In a television interview, the ordained Southern Baptist minister and former Arkansas governor made no apologies for the 1998 comment made at a Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Salt Lake City.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071230/ap_po/huckabee_religion

"It was a speech made to a Christian gathering, and, and certainly that would be appropriate to be said to a gathering of Southern Baptists," Huckabee said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Thanks - altho I cannot beleive how totally brain dead I just became.
Haven't been able to wish you happy anything yet - so happy whatever holiday you happen to celebrate and may new years bring you much happiness and whatever it is that your deepest desires wish for besides the Tigers success.

And while the old "cement pond" here is looking fabulous and inviting, water temp is only 70 degrees or so and thats just too cold for me even with weather as gorgeous as it has been. (I have become a chameleon when it comes to Florida- I turn into a thin blooded native after my first day and won't go into the cement pond unless water is 85 degrees and complain that its cold if the temp drops below 70.)
;)
Have a great football infused long weekend my friend!!!

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

But if we can just cross our fingers for the 'pubs to vote Huckabee in, then we'll have a Democrat President. That beats the alternative.

If Huckabee loses to McCain, we might have another pub..

Paul Revere wrote on December 30, 2007 9:56 AM:
It is now time for some hardball politics or we might see Clinton win both states and only have the support of 1/3rd of her party, That math will not work in the gereral election because Clinton has the highest disapproval percentage out of all the candidates.
Kucinich and Obama supporters in Iowa should vote for Edwards while Kucinich and Edwards supporters in New Hampshire vote for Obama.
That way Clinton gets zip while both Edwards and Obama keep their campaigns alive.

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Iowa Here We Come
By: Jane Hamsher Sunday December 30, 2007 4:00 pm

In the airport on my way to Des Moines, where Jeralyn Merritt and I will be bringing you the latest dish from the Iowa caucuses. In what feels like a replay of last January's Libby trial, David Shuster is on my plane. (Coincidence? I think not.)

Although we still maintain our policy of no endorsement, John Edwards is having a contest -- the campaign wants you to submit a 30 second ad saying why you support John Edwards. The judges will be Elizabeth Edwards, John Edwards for President campaign manager Congressman David Bonior, Elizabeth Edwards’ brother and NYU Tisch Film School professor Jay Anania, actor and activist James Denton (Desperate Housewives), Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Joe Wineke, and Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, and me & Christy. You can submit your entries here.

The deadline for submissions is January 16. And I can't speak for any of the other judges, but Christy is easily swayed by the sight of really nice shoes.

Anyway, we've got press credentials and will be at the Polk Convention Center on the night of January 3rd when real-time numbers will be tallied. If you'd like to contribute to our Iowa trip fund, you can do it here. Your support, as always, is greatly appreciated -- we couldn't do it without you.

http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/30/iowa-here-we-come/

U.S. seen internationally as
Submitted by toniD on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 8:04pm
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I sent that article along to Feinstein,Reid and,Pelosi..

Telling them what a crappy job they're doing !

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Nice gear MMRules, here's my Gibson..
Submitted by maggiesboy on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 8:16pm.
I'm trapped over here in the folky-bluesy timewarp with
*******
I can't afford a really nice acoustic yet..But,I will one of these days..

I have 2 Gibson Les Paul electrics..
The Gibson Les Paul Custom I posted and,a Gibson Les Paul Custom DC..
I have a Old 1969 Yamaha FG-180 acoustic..
But,it's at my sister-in-law's house in Phoenix..
Didn't have enough room for it in the car
when I moved back to San Diego..
I do want a Martin or,Gibson acoustic..
But you know,anything with a Marin or,Gibson name on it are so expensive..
Waaaaahhh ! ;)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

for anybody else ??
Or,is it my computer ?

The article's don't start until half way down the page..

Just wondering..Thanks.. :)

WaPo-Link
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Gibson, how I prefer my Martini

..you don't have to shell out big bucks for a decent sound but you have to try a lot of them out. My 2nd guitar is an '87 Alvarez Yairi with a steenkin' Martin Thinline pickup that I almost ripped out but when I got the Fishman amp, it sounded pretty darn good. I use the Alvarez for open tunings mostly. Oh, I also have a Martin backpack guitar that fiddle with while I'm watching TV, which ain't very often these days for obvious reasons!

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I couldn't afford a Good Electric Gibson..
But,now that I have 2 I can crank out some Great noise..
Just making up for lost time.. :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

...I mean literally, when the wind is just right your sound blows all the way to central Ohio.

Playin' guitar like ringin' a bell, go MMRules, go!

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now playing..
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A friend in High School has a Baby Martin that back then was about Hundred years old..
It was his Grandfathers..
He still has it..
But,I got to play it a couple of times back then..
That's when I feel in love with Martin's..
Great sound..But,my god too expensive..
So,I'll wait and,keep looking around..And,Save ! :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

From all the polls I'm lookin' at, ANY Dem, Edwards, Obama, or Hillary, stands a better chance against Huckabee than they do the other main contenders.

Just my opinion.

.. than anything. The wood in that guitar is nearly "petrified" by now, I bet those notes bounced outta there with enough force to put out your eye. There's a lot of mystique in Martins, and they are great guitars. I just heard David Bromberg play, (he has his own model now $4500+) and it sounds awesome.

Thing is now there is so much more know about acoustics that make it possible to create pretty good sound with fairly cheap material. So why did I buy my Gibson? I played every guitar in the room and on that day it sounded the best for the way I play. I'm just glad I got it 'fore the price shot up. Man it weighs a ton!

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.. a yellow dog should be able to beat Huckalujah by the time he sticks his huntin' boot in his mouth a couple more times and scares of the last of the moderate Republicans leaving him with the lunatic fringe of the party.

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..all this talk about alcohol and guitars makes me want to go do shots and break strings. If I don't see ya'll tomorrow have a Happy and Safe New Years!

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My Les Paul Custom weighs a ton too..

My Les Paul Custom DC doesn't..Chambered..
When I first picked up my Les Paul Custom
I felt how heavy it was..I said,Yes !
Gibson is finally putting some more Wood in their Geetars !
At least in some models..
Bad for the back but,great for the sustain(Sp?)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

*sigh* I'm just in the midst of listening to some ollllld stuff myself.

Don't get too rowdy now ! ;)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Jesus Camp

"I wish you more for the New Year than words can express,
Peace of mind and rest of your body,
Supreme satisfaction in your personal life, and in your work.
Much joy and some happiness snatched from a mad and bloodthirsty world."
- Emma Goldman 1939

go for it. i beat ya. naa naa naa naa.

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