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Sign the petition... at BraveNewFilms.org.

And be sure to email the Air America program director, pcollin@airamerica.com, as well.

3538 signatures as of two minutes ago!

I signed last night (link is working fine for me right now too)

I already sent an email to pcollins a coupla days ago - should we send more than 1 - or would that just be annoying?

LTR blog had a really informative post - & a suggested lineup I hadn't thought of before: Rachel in the 3-6 spot, Lionel 6-9 & Sam in the a.m., in Lionel's current spot. Someone posted it originally in commments on the AAR homepage post about the new 'celeb' shows.

not sure if y'all are aware of that post....

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/

it's good to repost. Some people don't read the past threads when they get on the blog.

Hillary can do a lot of damage this month.

Every time she lands another blow on Obama's jaw she helps build her case that Obama can not win in November.

McCain is sitting back and letting Hillary do his heavy lifting.

I wonder if "some people" still think there is no way a Republican can be elected President in 08..????

Re: repeated emailing of pcollin/s ... If you have multiple email addresses from which to send him messages, how would he know the difference? :) Of course, repeated emails from the same address might just show listener dedication.

Re: LTR post... It's always best to provide the direct, permalink to the posts, for the sake of the archives... LTR: Air America does the shark hop

Hillary needs a big win in Pennsylvania so that she can hang in there all the way to the Convention.

Bittergate might have been just the ticket to give Hillary a few more percentage points next Tuesday.

I just love it when Hillary wins!

She puts on such a show when she wins.

For the please-forget-the-huge-mess-created stack:

One of the most influential scientists behind the theory that global warming causes hurricane activity to intensify is reversing his position. Hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel of MIT says in the March issue of Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that hurricane frequency and intensity may not substantially rise over the next two centuries.

His new method of simulating weather patterns as computer models shows that there will be in fact an overall drop in the number of hurricanes. During the intense 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons, Emanuel was one of the first to blame global warming and even said that active storm seasons will become the norm.

But now Emanuel is changing his mind saying, "The results surprised me. The take home message is that we've got a lot of work to do."

One of the co-founders of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, says that the environmental organization is wrong for calling nuclear energy "evil." He says, "We made the mistake of lumping nuclear energy in with nuclear weapons, as if all things nuclear were evil."

Moore, who left the organization in 1986 after 15 years of service, also lashed out at the movement he helped create saying, "That's why I left Greenpeace: I could see that my fellow directors were taking the organization into what I call 'pop environmentalism' which uses sensationalism, misinformation, fear tactics to deal with people on an emotional level rather than an intellectual level."

CHECKING OUT

Fed-Up Hannity Exiting Troubled Citadel - ABC Radio

Apparently unhappy with the recently- merged company's political and business direction, talk radio syndication biggie Sean Hannity is exiting Citadel - ABC Radio (NYSE:CDL) for a yet- to- be- disclosed rival. The move could dramatically reshape programming lineups on a number of major stations.

Syndicated in over 500 markets nationwide, Hannity's afternoon drive show is said to bring in $35m in annual revenue, which will now be lost as Sean jumps ship. The program is considered to be the second- biggest cash generator in ABC Radio's network lineup, with his compensation at a reported $5m per annum.

Barack Obama's controversial former spiritual adviser was back in the pulpit over the weekend and so was his harsh view of America. In a eulogy for a deceased friend, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright again characterized America as a racist nation saying the Founding Fathers "planted slavery and white supremacy in the DNA of this republic."

Rush = 600 stations

Hannity = 500 stations

O'Reilly = 400 stations

Randi = 20 stations

Randi has 3% of the Stations !!!!

Hahahahahahahaha... Imagine that !!!!

In each of the past two elections the republican party has relied on promising to protect gun rights and erase the line that divides church and state as a means to attract rural and small town voters. Now after 8 years the voters who voted for those issues can't afford to buy bullets for their guns or put gas in their car to drive to church.

Obama's not out of touch, he's being attacked because he has his finger on the pulse of the people.

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April 15, 2008

LONDON — China executed more people than any other country in the world last year by putting at least 470 people to death, but the number of executions in the country actually fell compared to the year before, Amnesty International said.

In its annual report on worldwide executions, the human rights group said Tuesday that Iran remains the country with the second highest number of executions, and that the number had nearly doubled from the year before. The 377 inmates included a man stoned to death for committing adultery.

The United States was fifth in the rankings with 42 executions, reflecting a drop in the number of people put to death during the year. That was the lowest number of executions in the United States in about 15 years, Amnesty officials said. However, lethal injection executions have been on hold nationally while the U.S. Supreme Court considers a challenge in a case from Kentucky.

Amnesty analysts said China reformed the way capital cases are handled early in 2007, leading to a substantial reduction in executions. But they cautioned that the actual number of people put to death in China in 2007 is undoubtedly higher than the figure of 470 executions that could be confirmed — and they warned that the drop may be temporary.

oh thats fine toniD--there comes a time when one has to quit anyway...i dont think i will be posting anything anymore so you dont have to worry about pick on Lucille day...

im sorry!

AAR and Nova M keep trading those 20 stations back and forth!

That's a Zero Sum Game!

Someone has to come up loser.

Can Belzer and all fight thier way back?

Will Sam a chance to outgun Randi?

Who is up next on AAR? Roseanne Barr ???

..no he was a draft dodger in WWII because in reality he was a coward according to his wife. It was the liberal actors like Henry Fonda, Clark Gable and Tyrone Power who enlisted for combat, while Wayne stayed back and got all the roles playing soldiers in movies. Then after the war he spent his life accusing those who did volunteer for combat of being cowards and communists and at the same time led the cheer for every subsequent war. (Guess they didn't have any mirrors in the 40's).

..but, but he was a great moralist right?

Well, he talked the talk but once again in reality he left a string of mistresses and broken homes that made most pimps look like preachers.

Just another example of why trolls are the tools of fools.

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Founding Fathers "...planted slavery and white supremacy in the DNA of this republic."

How is this a harsh view?
It is a fact.

I didn't mean to stop you from posting. Just add a little description to the link.

I'm just a bit leary of going to links because I've ruined 2 computers. Can't afford a new one.

Your posts are good. Really! Didn't mean to pick on you. Just explain.

Look at the price of gas before the democrats took control in congress and look at what's happened to the price of gas since the democrats have been in control. The voters who voted the democrats into power in the congress can't afford to buy bullets for their guns or put gas in their car to drive to church.

This is what the democrat congress has given us:

Tuesday April 15, 2008 11:18 am ET
By Martin Crutsinger, AP Economics Writer
Wholesale prices soar 1.1 percent in march, driven by big increases in food and energy

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Inflation at the wholesale level soared in March at nearly triple the rate that had been expected as the costs of energy and food both climbed rapidly.

The Labor Department reported Tuesday that wholesale prices rose by 1.1 percent last month, the largest increase since a 2.6 percent rise last November, which had been the biggest one-month jump in 33 years. Analysts had been expecting a much more moderate 0.4 percent rise in wholesale prices for the month.

Core inflation, which excludes energy and food, was better behaved last month, rising by just 0.2 percent, down from a worrisome 0.5 percent rise in February.

For the past 12 months, wholesale prices are up by 6.9 percent and core inflation is up by 2.7 percent, the biggest year-over-year increase in nearly two years.

The inflation pressures are occurring at a time when the overall economy is slowing and many analysts believe may have toppled into a recession. That raises concerns that the country could be facing another bout of stagflation, the malady that last occurred in the 1970s when economic growth stagnated but inflation kept rising.

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Hey toni - FYI, here's my 17 year old teenage blonde's thoughts on Chicago:

"Oh my GAWD, Mom, there's no Taco Bell, and McDonald's doesn't have a dollar menu. How do they LIVE?!?!?!"

Heh heh...

still wrenching.

cleaning up all the details.

sorta odd how fast modern parts fail.

> Submitted by mo lib on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 12:40pm.
>
> Founding Fathers "...planted slavery and white supremacy in the DNA
> of this republic."
>
> How is this a harsh view?
> It is a fact.

Wrong. 'in the DNA' implies it's beyond change. Not true for America at all:

The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old -- is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past. But what we know -- what we have seen - is that America can change. That is true genius of this nation. What we have already achieved gives us hope - the audacity to hope - for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

that seed was planted in the Constitution and grew until it was finally weeded out...by a Republican. Thanks for that.

America never was, is, or will be prefect. It's our duty to keep pushing it in the right direction.

gravitass pull your head out your ass. None of those thing you mention are attributable to the Democrats.

(Don't know why I showed twice in the list. I'm lucky to be posted with this weak wireless connection I have at work)

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Trolls: The tools of fools.

that toothless haploid on Hartman's show just now callin Obama and Hillary Marxists? I just love listening to those nut jobs when they use words they don't understand. It's no wonder they see Democrats as elitist, they are sub stupid.

"And the American people told us they expected us to work together for fiscal responsibility, with the highest ethical standards and with civility and bipartisanship.

"After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: pay as you go, no new deficit spending. Our new America will provide unlimited opportunity for future generations, not burden them with mountains of debt.

"In order to achieve our new America for the 21st Century, we must return this House to the American people. So our first order of business is passing the toughest congressional ethics reform in history. This new Congress doesn't have two years or 200 days.

"Let us join together in the first 100 hours to make this Congress the most honest and open Congress in history - 100 hours.

- Rep. Nancy Pelosi's speech upon her election today as speaker of the House. January 2007

Sound and Fury?
Following up on TPM Reader AY's note below, we seem to have a pretty good read now, which WaPo's Chris Cillizza says he was waiting for, on the effect of "bitter". We have three polls out today -- one shows a 2 point gain for Hillary, one shows a 2 point gain for Barack, and one shows no change at all.

So after four days of the story nonstop it appears to have had zero effect on public opinion.

Now, there is one possible counter-argument. Obama had been gaining ground up until this last run of polls, though SUSA had him falling. So it's plausible to speculate that he would have continued gaining if not for the latest controversy. That would suggest a parallel to Texas and Ohio, where Obama appeared to be making headway until the Nafta controversy and (possibly) the 3 AM ad blunted his momentum.

But based on what we know today it appears that all the sound and fury has signified nothing.

(ed.note: You'll note that two polls came out yesterday. ARG has a huge Clinton lead and huge Clinton gain and Susquehanna had a very small Clinton lead -- 3 points. ARG's record this year has been very poor however; and the Susquehanna sounding was a small sample, which in any case stopped sampling on the 10th, before controversy erupted. Here's the full list of all recent polls.)

--Josh Marshall

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/189116.php

All polls of likely voters*:

Quinnipiac 4/9-13. MoE 2.1% (4/3-6 results)

Clinton 50 (50)
Obama 44 (44)

SurveyUSA 4/12-14. MoE 3.9% (4/5-7 results)

Clinton 54 (56)
Obama 40 (38)

Rasmussen 4/14. MoE 4.0% (4/7 results)

Clinton 50 (48)
Obama 41 (43)

Susquehanna(pdf) 4/6-10. MoE 4.4% (3/5-10 results)

Clinton 40 (45)
Obama 37 (31)

Of the three polls conducted after the flap about Obama's comments about the rational voting behavior of people in economically neglected communities, there's almost no change. One poll has a 4 point swing to Obama, another a 4 point swing to Clinton (both within the MoE), and the third has results identical to the previous survey.

It's possible that Clinton hammering Obama with a concerted ad campaign over his remarks about economically depressed small towns will hurt him. But it's also possible all that hammering with just give Clinton a swollen thumb.

I think we are all a bit freaked out about Sam so it is easy to get hurt because we all feel his pain and make it ours. These family ties are deep even though it is a screen. Lucille is a valuable member of our blog just as everyone is. No one did anything wrong here we just need a place to blame our pain....

sorry for waxing theraputic, it is in my blood

> Submitted by maggiesboy on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 12:57pm.
>
> that seed (slavery) was planted in the Constitution and grew until it was
> finally weeded out...by a Republican. Thanks for that.
>

You're confused. The seed that was planted in the Constitution came from the Declaration of Independence, articulated and signed by the founding fathers and fought for by the blood of our country's founding patriots: "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." This is the seed that led to the abolishing of slavery.

'in the DNA' implies it's beyond change. Not true for America at all:

The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old -- is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past. But what we know -- what we have seen - is that America can change. That is true genius of this nation. What we have already achieved gives us hope - the audacity to hope - for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

IRS to Big-Spending Attack Groups: Ahem
By Paul Kiel - April 15, 2008, 12:17PM
As we reported last week, millionaire-funded and operative-helmed attack groups looking to make a splash in the elections this year are choosing nonprofits as their preferred vehicle. Acting as 501(c)(4) organizations, the groups are allowed to attack all they want and keep their donors secret.

There's a catch, of course. The groups are nominally "social welfare" organizations, groups that are allowed to engage in political activity as long as that is not its primary purpose. That's why you see all the groups claim that they are focused on issues, not candidates, even when it's apparent that's not the case.

It's a hazy line, and one that the groups hope that the IRS doesn't explore. But as Roll Call reported yesterday, the IRS says it's taking a "close look" at whether the groups go too far.

But don't expect the IRS to step in any time soon. The IRS official tells the paper that the IRS likely wouldn't act until after the groups filed their taxes next year (by which time, of course, a president might be in the White House due in large part to a campaign by a lawbreaking group). And what happens then? Well, it's unclear:

The IRS director also agreed that -- perhaps unlike the FEC -- a broad IRS sweep of wayward nonprofits may yield better results than the recent high-profile fining of 527s by election regulators. And although the IRS is likely to just revoke a group's tax status and slap it with a fine, another source within the IRS said that serious violators could "go through our criminal investigations area ... and it could end up at the Justice Department."

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/04/irs_to_bigspending_att...

“If anybody denies that people are frustrated and angry and, yes, sometimes bitter, then they are out of touch,” -Obama said.

Obama has been able to close in the last days of most every Primary.

No Change is a loser when you are behind.

I hope Hillary wins Big so that she can Hang In.

If Hillary thinks she has any chance, she will continue to point out Obama's weakness.

Don't know what the heck you're looking at, but Obama has slipped in PA since last week:

RCP Average 04/06 - 04/14 - 48.2 40.5 Clinton +7.7
Rasmussen 04/14 - 04/14 741 LV 50 41 Clinton +9.0
SurveyUSA 04/12 - 04/14 LV 54 40 Clinton +14.0
Quinnipiac 04/09 - 04/13 2,103 LV 50 44 Clinton +6.0
Zogby 04/09 - 04/10 1,002 LV 47 43 Clinton +4.0
Susquehanna 04/06 - 04/10 500 LV 40 37 Clinton +3.0
InsiderAdvantage 04/08 - 04/08 681 LV 48 38 Clinton +10.0

Frank: Trailing Democrat should drop out

The Trailing Democrat in the Presidential Race Should Drop Out by June 3, Frank Says

Staff
AP News

Apr 15, 2008 09:12 EST

Rep. Barney Frank said the trailing Democratic presidential candidate should drop out of the race by no later than June 3 — the date of the two last Democratic primaries — even if it is the candidate he supports, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

"Probably sooner," the Massachusetts congressman added in an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press. He suggested that the trailing candidate should drop out once it became clear that candidate had no remaining practical chance of winning the nomination.

South Dakota and Montana vote on that day. Sen. Barack Obama currently leads Clinton in both pledged delegates and in the popular vote. But neither can mathematically win a majority by that date and the final outcome will depend on superdelegates.

As a member of Congress, Frank is one of the nearly 800 elected officials and party leaders who are superdelegates to the Democratic National Convention.

Obama lately has been battling criticism over his remarks that some voters in small towns in Pennsylvania and in other parts of rural America have grown bitter because of hard economic times and hollow promises by politicians and "cling to guns and religion." Both Clinton and Sen. John McCain, the certain Republican nominee, have painted the Illinois senator as an elitist out of touch with small-town America.

Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said he thought that Obama had "a very legitimate point to make," but expressed it poorly.

"Bitter is not a good word to use," Frank said. He said Obama should have stuck with an economic argument rather than talking about guns and religion. Obama should have said "yes, people are angry," and that's why they should oppose trade deals that drive jobs abroad and other economic plans that disadvantage U.S. workers.

Source: AP News

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/04/frank_trailing_democrat_should...

The one good thing about election 08 may be that if this tone continues, everyone will see that it's time for a real people-driven party.

At the top, of course, we have the Clinton/Obama battle going out of control, with Hillary the Democrat sounding more and more like McCain the Republican every day.

How dare Obama say working-class voters are frustrated, angry and fed up, Hillary says -- something McCain's party, which advocates for the over-taxed and powerless rich white upper class, has said for years. These two wealthy senators who haven't left Washington in years and seem convinced they're entitled to be president consider Obama 'elitist.'

[snip]

And of course, there's McCain himself, saying the O-man wants to raise your taxes because he'll "let" Bush's tax cuts expire. Sorry, McCain, but that's the law the president and the GOP passed. That's like blaming the governor when your driver's license expires because you didn't get to the DMV in time to meet the deadline.

And also of course, McCain opposed the tax cuts in the first place. Could you be more disingeuous? {Flip-flop?}

One can only hope the voters see through this. And it should help Obama. It also makes the case for what the third-party people who turn to a Ralph Nader at times like these often say: the two parties are pretty much the same.

Because the two establishment candidates are saying pretty much the same thing as they take on the outsider, and the insiders are mocking the very idea of change. The level of the debate, meanwhile, sinks ever lower.

If Hillary succeeds in stealing the nomination from the guy getting the most votes, I'll have a hard time arguing the Democratic Party is any different from the GOP.

I've signed all your petitions, I've spoken to you multiple times on air, and I've written to AAR's fucked up management on your behalf. Have I ever received an email from you?
No.

> Submitted by Fernando on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 1:11pm.
>
> “If anybody denies that people are frustrated and
> angry and, yes, sometimes bitter, then they are out
> of touch,” -Obama said.

Correction: If anbody denies LIBERALS are frustrated and angry and, yes, sometimes bitter, then they are out of touch," - Obama said

You know you are a whining, crying, bitter liberal if ...

1. You are more concerned with the rights of criminal than the rights of victims.

2. You are obsessed with criticizing one of your party's two candidates for President.

3. You show your concern for the poor with words but do not do a thing to actually help them.

4. You think that hard working Americans do not pay enough taxes.

5. You think that God is a bad word.

6. You think that owning a gun is evil.

7. You are a compulsive complainer.

come on..I'm sorry,I wasn't trying to hurt you..Thank you for changing vids..
You post tons of Great things..
We Love you.. :)

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

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

You know you are a twisted, fatheaded neocon if...

1. You think the solution to this country's crime problem is to lock anyone up who looks at you funny and throw away the key. Mandatory life sentences for all "bad eggs"!

2. You are obsessed with parroting the dumbass republican talking points, and thinking of them as your own original ideas.

3. You show your concern for the poor with words but do not do a thing to actually help them. Rather, you do whatever you can to grind them down and then blame them for it.

4. You think that the top 1% richest people and/or corporations do not get enough tax breaks.

5. You think that religion and the state should be in bed together.

6. You think that not owning a gun means you are a pussy.

7. You are a compulsive liar.

The world is more like it is now than it ever has been before. -- Dwight Eisenhower

Submitted by gravitas on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 1:22pm.

You went 0-7 with this Liberal.

S.P.I.T.

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

Barack's big problem isn't that he said people are bitter. Many are (mostly libs), it's that he said they "cling" to religion and guns out of bitterness. He believes it, it's what he said. Now he's just trying to spin his way out.

because he is a waste of time.

He's a frustrated winger.

Ignore the bore!

Hey, Sam: The AAR WEBSITE is such a GREAT improvement! WOW!

And I want to suggest you flesh out your own show's info! Give the timezone (eastcoast) for the time it starts please, and it's duration (4 to 7) and let people know it's what it is, a SUPER show like you ALWAYS bring us! (It's not the time to be shy!) Give anybody who goes there a punchy blog or link to your blogs or a link to your funny/satirical/edgy videos, etc. Is it possible? OKAY, Sammy? Please do for yourself what you've done for all the other hosts!

You've got It, Sam! (One only indulges in false modesty when one keeps It from anyone whose curious about one's It!)

Again, gorgeous super job! Wow! Thank you, thank you!

(Listening to Thom Hartmann's first hour)

Monday, April 14, 2008
Obama would ask his AG to "immediately review" potential of crimes in Bush White House

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Barack_on_torture.html

...I'm hoping the secret service are loyal to the US Constitution and not the "Bush Crime Family." But wait this revelation is an issue, it will never reach the corporate media. Can you hear that?...its the voter machines being programmed and superdelegate arm twisting.

Today's Must Read
By Paul Kiel - April 15, 2008, 10:10AM
Prepare to have your credulity tested.

Back in February, the AP broke the story that the White House had secretly modified a proposed rule to crack down on contract fraud. The rule, originally drafted by the Justice Department, was intended to force contractors to police themselves and report evidence of fraud or abuse. But the White House's version of the rule specifically exempted contractors working overseas on contracts that exceeded $5 million.

The Justice Department, which needs all the help it can get in busting corrupt contractors, was dismayed. But it made the major overseas contractors (like, say, Blackwater, KBR, CACI International, etc.), who had been opposing the rule, very happy.

When the AP asked why the White House had inserted the loophole, no answers were forthcoming. A spokeswoman from the Office of Management and Budget would only say that it was a "proposed rule," and that they were reviewing public comments.

And that was it. Over the ensuing months, members of Congress from both parties denounced the rule and vowed investigations. Even the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction publicly criticized the rule. But the White House otherwise stayed mum.

The first Congressional hearing was set for today. And the White House has let it be known that the loophole is gone -- and that it was all a big misunderstanding:

Reversing itself after months of criticism, the administration closed the loophole that was quietly slipped last year into a proposed Justice Department crackdown on government contract fraud....
Government policywriters said the original rule was drawn up quickly, and chided the Justice Department for not explicitly making sure that overseas contracts should be included in the crackdown. "It was only after publication of the proposed rule ... that DoJ and other respondents expressed concern about the overseas exemption," the draft states....

A Bush administration official on Monday called the loophole "a drafting error" that happened when policywriters merely cut and pasted a 20-year-old Defense Department regulation into the contracting crackdown.

Oh well. Mistakes do happen.

Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT), who had called for the hearing, seems not to take the White House's story at face value: "This investigation proves why oversight works.... The question is why it required a congressional investigation to prevent the Bush administration from giving overseas contractors a free pass to defraud taxpayers."

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/04/todays_must_read_317.p...

Wright made no mention of terrorism, he did revisit the topic of America’s mistreatment of blacks, saying America’s founding fathers “planted slavery and white supremacy in the DNA of this republic,” and adding that Thomas Jefferson wrote, “ ‘God would punish America for the sin of slavery.’ I guess that makes Thomas Jefferson unpatriotic,” he said to the cheers of the congregation.

www.suntimes.com/news/metro/892017,wright041208.article

... discussing Wayne's life, as you describe it?

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

1. You are more concerned with the rights of criminal than the rights of victims.

... Habeas Corpus. Innocent until proven guilty. Humane treatment. Ya, that's very un-Christian of us to want that for everyone.

2. You are obsessed with criticizing one of your party's two candidates for President.

... When one is doing the opposition party's job for them? You bet. That's democracy, dumbass.

3. You show your concern for the poor with words but do not do a thing to actually help them.

... ya, because the GOOPers have done sooooo much for the poor! Like make them a bigger voting bloc since the middle class squeeze began eight years ago.

4. You think that hard working Americans do not pay enough taxes.

No, we think fat, bloated, multi-billion dollar corporations should pay the burden of them, that way the middle class and poor get a break.

5. You think that God is a bad word.

... when GOOPers wield it as a weapon against people they don't like, it is a bad word.

6. You think that owning a gun is evil.

... please, ever heard of the Rocky Mountain Democrats phenom?

7. You are a compulsive complainer.

... this one ya got me on. Eight years of BuchCo has made 81% of us become bitter liberals, I guess. Hard to argue that.

"I like to go by Outcomes!"

We have watched the 3% primary candidates rejected.

We have watched Air America move to the right.

We have watched Hillary move to the right.

We are watching Hillary push Obama to the right.

Funny how things work out!

Would you say 2008 is going to be The Year of the 97% ????

By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 15, 2008; Page A04

Bipartisan groups in Congress are pressing to place new controls on the FBI's ability to demand troves of sensitive personal information from telephone providers and credit card companies, over the opposition of agency officials who say they deserve more time to clean up past abuses.

Proposals to rein in the use of secret "national security letters" will be discussed over the next week at hearings in both chambers. The hearings stem from disclosures that the FBI had clandestinely gathered telephone, e-mail and financial records "sought for" or "relevant to" terrorism or intelligence activities without following appropriate procedures.

The Justice Department's inspector general issued reports in 2007 and earlier this year citing repeated breaches. They included shoddy FBI paperwork, improper claims about nonexistent emergencies and an insufficient link between the data requests and ongoing national security probes.

"It is clear that the NSL authority is too overbroad and operates unchecked," said Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), a co-sponsor of the House bill. "We must give our law enforcement the tools they need to protect us, but any such powers must be consistent with the rule of law."

The House bill, sponsored by Nadler, Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.), Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), would tighten the language governing when national security letters could be used, by requiring that they clearly pertain to investigations of a foreign power or an agent instead of just being considered "relevant" to such investigations.

The House bill would also force the FBI to destroy information that had been illegally obtained -- something that existing rules do not require -- and it would allow the recipient of a letter to file a civil lawsuit if the missive is found to be illegal or without sufficient factual justification.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR200804...

:)

Re: 'in the DNA'... actually, slavery *is* in the country's DNA, since it cannot be removed from the Constitution; fortunately, it has been counteracted by genetic modification (amendments).

>
> Submitted by ghettodefender on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 1:39pm.
>
> Wright made no mention of terrorism, he did revisit the topic
> of America’s mistreatment of blacks, saying America’s founding
> fathers “planted slavery and white supremacy in the DNA of this
> republic,” and adding that Thomas Jefferson wrote, “ ‘God would
> punish America for the sin of slavery.’ I guess that makes
> Thomas Jefferson unpatriotic,” he said to the cheers of the
> congregation.
>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson

Jefferson owned many slaves over his lifetime. Some find it baffling that Thomas Jefferson owned slaves yet was outspoken in saying that slavery was immoral and it should be abolished. Biographers point out that Jefferson was deep in debt and had encumbered his slaves by notes and mortgages; he chose not to free them until he finally was debt-free, which he never was.

Breaking: Jury Finds D.C. Madam Guilty on All Counts
By Paul Kiel - April 15, 2008, 1:33PM
Not so fantastic news for the purveyor of a legitimate "fantasy sex" operation.

It looks like the prosecution's "long, sad parade of former prostitutes" did its work. Deborah Jeane Palfrey was convicted on a slate of racketeering and money laundering charges related to running the service.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/04/breaking_jury_finds_dc...

I wrote to Mr Drobny today about Sam and Marc. His response follows,
"As far as Sam and Maron, they are good friends of our network and if our revenue spikes up and we get increased investor support, you can be sure that we will do everything we can to get them back on the air."

Gallup Daily: Obama 51%, Clinton 40%
Both Democratic candidates have 46% to 44% margins over McCain

PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama is maintaining his lead over Hillary Clinton among Democrats nationally in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking, with a 51% to 40% margin in the April 12-14 average.

The current 11 percentage point lead is the largest for Obama this year, and marks the ninth consecutive day in which Obama has led Clinton by a statistically significant margin. The current Gallup Poll Daily tracking average is based on interviewing conducted Saturday, Sunday and Monday -- after the initial reports of Obama's controversial remarks about "bitter" small-town residents began to be reported in the news media.

The two candidates will hold a nationally televised debate in Philadelphia on Wednesday night, and it is possible that this confrontation -- plus any delayed impact of Obama's controversial remarks -- may affect Democratic voters' perceptions in the days to come. (To view the complete trend since Jan. 3, 2008, click here.)

In general election trial heat match ups, both Democratic candidates now have identical, and slight, 46% to 44% margins over presumptive Republican nominee John McCain. -- Frank Newport

Displaced Iraqi civilians that have stayed within the country's borders are now being offered more aid by various militia groups than the Iraqi government, according to a report by Refugees International. The report says "militias of all denominations are improving their local base of support by providing social services ...," while the Iraqi government, "has access to large sums of money," yet is incapable and unwilling to offer necessary humanitarian assistance. (Washington Post)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR200804...

Today is April 15. Have you done your tax-related duties? Well, the Internal Revenue Service has outsourced some of its own. The agency is expected to lose over $37 million in using private debt collectors to do their bidding. Since 2006, the IRS has collected only $49 million of the $1 billion they sent private companies to retrieve. Those collectors took home as much as a 24 percent commission in the process. (Washington Post)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR200804...

As demonstrated by the meteoric rise of Liberal Talk Radio?

It is interesting that Obama is the Most Liberal Dem to survive!

One would have thought Kucinich or Edwards would be setting the bar for The Most Liberal Dem.

Obama gets the honor only though attrition.

> Submitted by GBC on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 1:41pm.
>
> 7. You are a compulsive complainer.
>
> ... this one ya got me on. Eight years of BuchCo has
> made 81% of us become bitter liberals, I guess. Hard to argue that.

Thing were much better before the democrats took control on Congress. Just two years of Democrat control is making a mess of things.

Barack's problem
Submitted by gravitas on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 1:33pm.
Barack's big problem isn't that he said people are bitter. Many are (mostly libs), it's that he said they "cling" to religion and guns out of bitterness. He believes it, it's what he said. Now he's just trying to spin his way out.

»
========================================

I agree about this word CLING that Obama used. And he's correct: IT IS ABOUT AMERICANS' PROPENSITY FOR ESCAPISM.

E-S-C-A-P-I-S-M

So many Americans have failed to participate as Citizens and, instead, have invested so much of their freetime in escapist pasttimes. We are willingly giving up our Citizenship and replacing it with mere Consumerism.

My own pet peaves are lawnmowers. I've got a perfectly healthy mobile neighbor whose lawn is just about the size of a quarter of a lot and he got himself a riding mower and cuts that patch of lawn in ritualistic fashion. Now there's a guy whose consistency could benefit political engagement! This is just a little nitpicky example.

When you tune in to see the thousands of NASCAR "recreationists" who like to see gasoline burned for entertainment -- well, it becomes clear that each person counts in creating bigger and bigger literally problematic human behaviors that must be reconsidered as we face big climate changes, etc. It would be better to use that gas to commute to Washington AND PROTEST Government Waste and Crime than to continue the escapist pursuit!

Obama's use of the 'cling'word is valid, or else it wouldn't have STRUCK such a nerve. (Hillary herself used the term 'trailer park trash', so evidently she knows what would strike that nerve and she was willing to unethically capitalize on it! Disgusting!!)

... what with a family, a radio show, running a couple websites, and likely continual advocacy for a weekdaily show. I really doubt Sam has the time or the resources (i.e. paid assistants) to respond to individuals emails; and if he did, it would mean he probably doesn't have the listeners to warrant a more widely broadcast show.

You better come back or
everyone here is going to hate me !

I'll have to go blog at ESPN Sports or something..
And,it's not even Football season ! Ahhhhhgghh !

Maybe Ono can sneak me into some Aussie Footy blog ?
See Lucille,I don't have a whole lot of bloggie options..

So just forget what I said..
I ignore Crank all the time !
I love them Animated Gif's and Posting pictures..
And,these guys :) ;) :( ;(

So don't go nowhere's..
We will miss your good morning "yourll" !

If they had a vote here as to who should stay or go..
You would win hands down-to stay..
And,I would be off to Aussie Footy Land !
So,Please stay ! Thank you ! :)

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

bitter pill. I've never received any response from anyone at AAR. Which is fine. In fairness, I have to say, twice I've actually received positive responses from Mr. Ed's "team."
I don't want an email from Sam anyway. I just want him to call Hillary a whore on air.

Me too. :(

I guess I put the icing on the cake. Didn't mean anything bad. I just had bad experiences woth unknown links.

Can't afford a new computer or to get one fixed because of a virus.

I didn't mean to chase her off.

where else are you going to find such intellectually stimulating commentary as this ?

;)

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

I heard Malloy mention Sam at least twice last night -- to the effect they gotta get Sam to NovaM, to the effect that Sam's next. Now THAT was good no matter what! Let the networks fight for Sam! I like that! He's worth fighting for!

I guess Jefferson was a racist

the ground! Dems don't have full majority to change things yet. So you can't blame us for your screw up gravitas. Open your freakin eyes!!! This has been a long term problem and people didn't realize til it hurt their pocketbook!

Foreclosures jump 57 percent in last 12 months

Lynn Adler
Reuters US Online Report Top News

Apr 15, 2008 04:26 EST

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Home foreclosure filings surged 57 percent in the 12 month-period ended in March and bank repossessions soared 129 percent from a year ago, as homeowners struggled to make mortgage payments, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said on Tuesday.

For the month of March, foreclosure filings, default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions rose 5 percent, led by Nevada, California and Florida, RealtyTrac said.

The rise in March to filings on a total of 234,685 properties followed a 4 percent decline in February, RealtyTrac reported.

RealtyTrac said the peak has yet to be reached.

"What we're really looking at is ongoing fallout from people overextending themselves to buy homes they couldn't afford and using highly toxic loan products to get into the houses in the first place," Rick Sharga, vice president of marketing at RealtyTrac, based in Irvine, California, said in an interview.

"We're going to see quite possibly a record amount of foreclosure activity in the third or fourth quarter," reflecting sharp payment increases on adjustable-rate subprime mortgages in May and June, Sharga said.

One in every 538 U.S. households living in single-family dwellings received a foreclosure filing in March. The single-family dwellings can include condominiums.

There are three phases of the foreclosure process in most states -- an initial default notice, notice of a scheduled auction, and an "REO" filing if the property is not sold at auction but instead repossessed by the bank, Sharga said.

REO refers to real estate-owned property.

All of the households in the report received at least one of these filings last month.

at nova m for a year then that is lots of revenue coming in..

I got that information from Rachel's show last night. She interviewed Glen Greenwald who has just released "Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Myths of Republican Politics"

It's chock full of all the truths behind the Republican bullshitters. I ordered my copy.

Too busy right now but here's a link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glenn-greenwald/great-american-hypocrites_...

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femi kuti!

NYT: Retailer bankruptcies set to prompt thousands of store closings
Mike Sheehan

A growing number of bankruptcies among US retailers is set to prompt thousands of store closings, the New York Times will report on the front page of its Tuesday edition.

"The consumer spending slump and tightening credit markets are triggering a wave of bankruptcies in American retailing," with ensuing store closures "expected to remake suburban malls and downtown shopping districts across the country," writes Michael Barbaro for the Times.

Barbaro notes that over half a dozen store chains have filed for bankruptcy in recent months amidst "mounting debt and plummeting sales" and warns that financial troubles are "quickly spreading to bigger national companies."

The Times articles comes amid a slew of reports underscoring America's economic woes. Even presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, who only months ago panned talk of a recession, admitted today that he thought the country was now in one.

Even relatively well-off retailers face troubles. Added Barbaro in the article, such store chains who can avoid bankruptcy "are shutting down stores to preserve cash through what could be a long economic downturn."

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/NYT_Retailer_bankruptcies_set_to_prompt_04...

Rule #1: Call your enemies fascists cuz it confuses the masses.

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Israel test-fires 'Iran' missile

Israel has conducted a test of a ballistic missile aimed at simulating an Iranian attack on Israel.

The test of the "Blue Sparrow" on Tuesday came after Israel's foreign minister said in Qatar the day before that Iran represented "the extremists in the region" and was "a threat and challenge to the entire region".
"Israel asked the US to connect to its ballistic missile early warning system as part of its efforts to defend itself from missile attacks. The US has agreed to the request," he said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9F7B36C7-6928-478D-A190-787A50D85...

You didn't Toni..If anyone did, I did..
I shouldn't have said anything..I guess..
I was just trying to get a descent point(I thought) across..
I feel like a jerk now..
I'll be lookin for a new place to blog.. :(

Maybe I'll go Troll at ManCoulter.com or PigboyRush.com !
Naw,I'd have to take too many showers !

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

They cling to their guns and religion...."

Dozens dead in Iraq bombings

A spate of bombs have gone off in cities across Iraq killing more than 60 people.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/965ED006-B409-4FE6-AB9A-122E68C44...

..I hate all them fucking Republicans! Lost my house, lost my job you're damn straight I'm bitter.

-Joe American
Smalltown, USA

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Lucille will come back. I'll send her an email.

She's just touchy today. I guess we all piled on her.

Relax!

You chased off Lucille? She's usually tougher than that but I totally get it. Too bad. Hope she reconsiders. For a site like this there sure are a lot of unwritten laws to transgress.

Glad you got the Malloy Podcast working..

First time I tried the new Nova M website podcast last nite I returned to my iTunes to find I had about 100 Malloy pods
listed on it..
I said to myself,WTF ?
I was trying to get the 1 hr pods..
I'll have to go back and trail & error my way thru it tonight..
Or,just play the whole 3 hr one..

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

Gun rights, gun deaths divide Pennsylvania voters

Gun rights a hot topic in Pennsylvania but barely visible in Democratic presidential campaign

PETER JACKSON
AP News

Apr 15, 2008 13:05 EST

Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are gingerly threading their way between two of the most politically charged numbers in Pennsylvania: the state's almost 1 million licensed hunters and Philadelphia's nearly one-a-day rate of gun murders.

Gun control arouses deep emotions here. Deadly shootings have earned the state's largest city the ominous nickname: "Killadelphia." One of the strongest antigun control groups, the National Rifle Association, has 250,000 members in Pennsylvania, more than in any other state. This month the Pennsylvania House soundly defeated a bill to require handgun owners to report the theft or loss of their guns to police.

As the state's hotly contested April 22 primary approaches, the Democratic presidential candidates have struggled to avoid alienating either side, to the point of pandering.

Unlike most members of Congress, neither senator has taken a position on the historic case before the U.S. Supreme Court over whether the District of Columbia's ban on handguns violates the Constitution's Second Amendment.

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

...but I can't put gas in my car. Damn you and your jaw-bonin', uniter not divider, I'm the decider, compassionate conservative, some call you the elite, I call you my base, sack o' crap, preppy boy cheerleader.

I'm votin' for Obama!

-Joe American
Smalltown, USA

(..damn straight I'm bitter!! I'm mad as hell and not gonna take it any more!)

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Ask her if you can give me her email address too,Please..
I've been meaning to ask her for it for awhile..
But,everytime I think about asking her for it there
are a few too many Trolls around to be safe..Thanks. :)

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

Brazil uncovers 'major oil find'

Brazil has discovered what may be the third largest oil reserve in the world, off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.

The find by state-run oil company Petrobras, in partnership with BG Group and Repsol-YPF, could be the biggest discovery in 30 years, according to the head of Brazil's National Petroleum Agency announced on Monday.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/640C193E-F649-4D62-A444-A1BE1470A...

Thongs and Oil ! !

W, Send My Stimulus Check To Me In Rio de Janeiro ! !

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

It will settle down. They've happened before.

keiran
hey wht'd i miss? Usually Im the sensi sensi around here:)
also...wheres Maron v seder? what a week....:(

It's weird for me that I feel like there really isn't any Air America anymore. I just don't have any desire to tune into any of it, either AAR or NovaM. I guess it's back to public radio if I want to listen to something during the day.

ken kenik commented about 2 hours ago:

I will not eat my Belzer toast.
I will not eat from a guest host.

I will not eat them in my car.
Sam Seder is the best by far.

I will not eat them in a tree.
Why's AAR forsaken me.

I will not eat Green's eggs & ham.
I want my daily Sam iCam.

Everywhere you go, somebody's getting thrown under the bus.

It's astounding there is traffic moving anywhere with all

these stopped buses with people under them. I never thought

I would live through an era when so many people would get

thrown under buses.

Jerry

While we're signing petitions for Sammy (which I've done along with emails to the idiots who are running AAR into it's last death rattle), May I suggest that you all join me in hitting NovaM, Sirius and XM with requests for him as well.

And don't forget to mention that SAMMYCAM is unique to SAM and likely the wave of the future of talk radio as more and more listen on computers.

I myself would give anything to hear him 5 days anywhere BUT at AAR where they deserve no host LESS than Sammy.

I think he needs a TV connected agent. One only needs to read the timeline of the professional bio of, say, Anderson Cooper to see how even the majors are giving youth the breaks over experience. Like politics times are a changin' they ain't all for the long in the tooth anymore.

Youth is winning out.

No one under fifty wants to see hear nor vote for those who are past retirement age anymore.

I live in Florida and don't want to see anyone over the age of 70 driving on the roads unless they pass a law to submit all in that age bracket to stricter than usual ROAD tests for competency requirements. The same should be said for politicians.

The only time anyone seeks out the demographic that includes senior citizens it's when they're trying to put together a TV lineup made of Golden Girls, Murder She Wrote, Matlock et al. Sorry, But thems the facts. With a nod toward the truly devoted seniors who make it their business to live in the NOW and not let their brains turn to mush with not current interests.
I should know I have a very youthful looking 83 year old Mother who sadly had no interest in anything remotely cultural or political. And it's sad to see how her mind's degenerated as she appears outwardly to be more than 10 yrs younger than she is.

Off track? Forgive me but my point is. Sammy can go a lot farther than talk radio in the current state of "Everyone's a star" He is a star. And a real one with a viable REAL talent.

He's way too good for this cesspool.

And I can tell you. AAR is now purposely intended as a major write off for it's current owners and cohorts. They have no intention of it doing anything BUT collapsing. Why haven't you all guessed that yet.

They're waiting for the current quarter to pass so Green can steal some more money back from the IRS.
It will be closed in within three months. That's a fact.

You heard it hear first.

Run Sammy RUN!

9-1-1 Operator: Shit! Not another one!

You might get that during a commercial break on the SammyCam, but not during the live on-air feed.

And we might start getting emails from Sam, once he has a "team." (i.e. Once Myla figures out how to use her Blackberry)

anyone who isn't bitter is a 19%-er. everything's fine. trust your brave leader...to screw you.

A 'Hello Kitty' model

Portland Couple Has Refused to Pay Taxes for 30 Years to Protest Military Funding

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. Posted April 15, 2008.

More than 40 percent of every income tax dollar in 2007 went toward military spending. http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/82447/?page=1

Sam couldn't do that. He be suspended also once the word got out.
AAR finsihed anyway. I hope Nova M can somehow get on XM and Sirius with their own channel.

Youv'e got the right attitude. The planet is doomed, and we're not going to live forever anyway. We gotta get 'roughneck' jobs down there, penis enlargements and hit the beaches after work.

ghettodefender
Peter Dragon
GBC
Cat Chew
cent
plooger
DaveR

I swear, i don't know how it happens.

I'll swap you two inches for enough energy to stay awake

past eleven!

No, by this outcome, Dawg.

"81 percent of respondents said they believed "things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track." That was up from 69 percent a year ago, and 35 percent in early 2002."

I'd call that "complaining," wouldn't you?

did anyone else get the first one minute of belzers show on novam at 3 pm?

Cling Peaches

Cling Peaches
I found this interesting
Growers founded CCPA in 1922 with a $30,000 loan from
A.P. Giannini of the Bank of Italy (which eventually became Bank of America).

~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

I know that Sam's either busy or resting, but I wish that he could use his fighting fine-tuned whit to beat back these right wingers!

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

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

and started streaming and instead of randis show starting the start of belzers show came up for a whole minute.

Weird stuff

If I was drawing up the Commander in Chief test, I can think of two questions that would be on there. First, what's the difference between Sunni and Shia. Second, who commands what in our military?

Just yesterday, John McCain seemed to say that General Petraeus is the top military commander of our Armed Forces, telling the Associated Press that he wouldn't shift the focus of the military from Iraq to Afghanistan "unless Gen. [David] Petraeus said that he felt that the situation called for that."

Petraeus, of course, is our commander of forces in Iraq. That's it. He's not responsible for Afghanistan, or our regional commitment, or our global commitments. As a Commander in Chief, McCain should know that there are people much more qualified to speak to our global strategy than Petraeus -- including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Secretary of Defense, and the CENTCOM commander.

Of course, this is all a side-point, because the Commander in Chief makes these decisions, ultimately, not one General, as Senator McCain seems to be saying.

on the first few seconds of Randi's show.

and, I can't wait til Jerry turns 50.

that was really weird.I wonder what happened<.

AAR trying to hack nova?

...man, they gotta cut something.

Republican's lied to me twice. No more. I'm bitter and I'm gettin' even.

-Joe American
Smalltown, USA

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Sen. Barack Obama's political opponents charge that his recent remarks on the economic woes and bitterness of low-income voters put him gravely out of touch with small town Pennsylvanians.

But a review of campaign finance records -- conducted for The Huffington Post by the Spotfire Division of software firm TIBCO -- reveals that it is Obama, not Clinton, who has received the majority of donations from these very same Keystone State communities.

Indeed, through then end of February 2008, Obama received nearly $250,000 in contributions from Pennsylvanians residing in zip codes with populations under 30,000 people. That total, which does not include Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and both city's suburbs, was roughly $30,000 more than the amount raised by Clinton: $220,000.

When the population size is made even smaller, Obama continues to best his Democratic rival. Among those non-urban Pennsylvania zip codes with populations under 20,000, the Illinois Democrat has brought in just over $200,000. Clinton has raised slightly more than $170,000.

I got Belzer too, that was weird. Made me feel a little like I was cheating on AAR and got caught.

Doesn't mean shit who gets in office. The occupation will

go on. There is too much money being made by the contractors

to cut it off. Those leeches are staying there and will keep

tax payer paid free protection to keep making their

zillions.

stream keeps cutting out.anyone got a good stream like an unembedded windows media player

Thanks for sharing that with us. Thats great!!!

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

if you know about the Jones network, or whatever, that has Stephanie Miller and Ed Schults.
Has or can Sam contact them?
They seem more stable than Novam and anyone that can get his show on is fine.
Is it possible that we can email them too?
Would appreciate anyone that knows anything about this.

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

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

This'll work with some MP3 players:
http://208.109.219.101:8000/live.m3u

try this:

http://1480kphx.com/1480kphx.asx

†hats the 2 eye use

Seder for senate!!!!!

Is that Alex Jones of infowars

He's on the road right now - so even when not home or in his studio he still makes the time to check in here and make sure to give us new threads. He is doing everything he can and he does read every mail he gets, but just as he said at the end of the last 2 sammy cams - too many IM's to answer individually, and asked us to please no take it personally - he loves us all and will make sure to keep us posted on his website. He is keeping his word to us. We just need to be patient and let him have the break he needs. He was emotionally and physically exausted by the end of last week, and now is probably on his way to his family for PASSOVER which starts Friday.

So, am not making excuses am just stating the facts as I see them based on what we all have seen. And if it makes any of you feel better, I haven't heard from him either.

Oh - the book show this weekend is an all new show, so we do have that to look forward to.

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

came right up.

That freaked me out a little.

I posted on NovaM for them to check their code.

Did you get one of the suggested streams to work?

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

Ya, it happened thru iTunes 1480 KPHX stream as well.

I refreshed and I got that damn AAR muzak. (Guess they don't have many advertisers for Belzer this week)

This stream is working well for me now:

http://1480kphx.com/mod_streambox.php

Me too - totally freaked me out as well because I had just made sure to change my URL to nova.

And Whatnowtoons just got another shoutout!!!

It happend to me too Guy. When I refreshed it Randi's stream
Submitted by cent on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 3:45pm.
came right up.

That freaked me out a little.

I posted on NovaM for them to check their code.

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

Submitted by toniD on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 2:22pm.
Lucille will come back...I guess we all piled on her.
-----
Lucille: "I should be so lucky."

no .i clicked on them and nothing happened.then i copyed the url and it directed me back to this post.lol.

But bib's link did work.thanks to both of u.

ßenjo 4 Congress!!!

[u know wud i mean!]

has probably hired an expert hacker to try to re-direct their stream to novas site.

That was really weird.I then jumped quickly to AAR and sure enough it was live.

ßlog scrum!

she has read her comments and her e-mails and that Mike said something to her...and that she will reverse her comments @ Sam. I know I am an eternal optimist and choose to hope for the best to come out of people, but even Randi should know that burning the Sammy bridge is just not a smart move. Business is not just business.

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

Odd as I am listening to that link right now. Sorry but glad you got it working some way.

neffer
Submitted by Guy Fawkes on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 3:48pm.
no .i clicked on them and nothing happened.then i copyed the url and it directed me back to this post.lol.

But bib's link did work.thanks to both of u.

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

Obama Clearly Outraises Clinton Among Small Town Gun-Toting Church-Going Bitter non-Elitist Pennsylvanians

see you in the duck blind, chica!

she's riding pretty high, and not looking down nor back.

i'm not listening 2 her 2day. she makes my chest hurt.

re: edit

Thank you. That's what it SHOULD have said! effin' hilarious! ;-p

I feel bad for all these people being thrown under buses.
Submitted by Peter Dragon on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 2:44pm.
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If you are on the right track, don't fall off of the wagon, stay out of the fast lane, avoid the rat race, steer clear of trouble, shift gears, hit the brakes and don't run out of gas, you won't get thrown under the bus.

couldn't all the BS about a few true words make ya wanna pull out yer pubes?

Yep that is pretty much what I figured - after this first hour and nanda....also she didnt say anything about her own people at AAR either. C-ro and Miss Hipple etc...not even a thank you or an I love you or I miss you or I am sorry I couldnt say goodbye in person etc....
Granted, I know how big corps work - up and out and no going back even for your own stuff. But - being that she is the goddess of radio she should be able to say anything she wants, so...
But - like I said, I am the eternal optimist....but am also the life long realist as well. I know whats what. Doesn't mean I can't hope.

hoping she will reverse her comments @ Sam...
new
Submitted by bibimimi on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 3:59pm.
she's riding pretty high, and not looking down nor back.

i'm not listening 2 her 2day. she makes my chest hurt.

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

don't go there bibs!

But it was probably just a routing configuration change that someone missed. NovaM was in the middle of a webpage make-over when all this "Randi" insanity started.

Overall, I think they've done a great job with the cut-over. Sure as hell went better than AARs week-long cut over did.

[If you] look before you leap onto a bandwagon...

the operation was a success!

(so far!)

tricky problems, tricky diagnosis.

to market rockem sockem blow up McCain, Obama and Billary dolls!

Don't forget the ChimpCo collector's set...

Oh man, JUST ONCE, Cheney's face, ONE TIME....it would be worth the jail time.

... and love Belzer, generally, but this show is a snoozefest.

I cannot tell you how many emergencies I am dealing with. On my day off yesterday I was on the phone for 4 hours dealing with crisis. Today, the same thing....so it is not just in radioland. Everybody is freaking out...

plus, I have had 2 nights of insomnia....damn the pause....and I have clients for the next 5 hours.

tanks!

Limited edition squeeky condi model!

bibimimi... irt Myla's 'Hello Kitty' Blackberry.... EXACTLY! I thought of "for kids" just after posting, but your branding makes it much funnier.

Nefer... irt 'Seussing for Seder' ... yeah, it had me howling. Def a keeper for later repost.

maggiesboy... irt Greenwald book on faux heroes... thanks for the link/info.

head bowling ball?

I've got to call AMF, be back latter.

You could easily paint each pin with the likeness of a different BushCo criminal, and could paint the bowling balls w/ any number of Dem figures. Too funny.

Here's the most exciting piece of news: the European Environment Commissioner has announced a plan to ban the trade in all seal products originating from inhumane hunts. This builds upon the historic declaration by the European parliament in 2006. If an EU-wide ban is enacted, the fashion houses serving the main markets for seal skins today -- China and Russia -- would be forced to stop, and millions of baby seals would be saved from cruel slaughter. In the meantime, many nations have either banned seal product trade or announced their intentions to do so. They include: Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Croatia, Austria, Slovenia, Panama, Mexico, and the United States. Just the potential for an EU ban on seal products has saved thousands of seals already. Prices paid for seal skins this year have declined so much that most sealers have chosen to stay home.

To tell the EU that you strongly support a total ban on trade in seal products, please sign our petition here.

And we have more good news. The HSUS-led boycott of Canadian seafood in the U.S. has attracted more than 618,000 individuals, 3,500 restaurants, and major grocery chains such as Whole Foods and Trader Joe's. With more than 80% of Newfoundland's fishing revenue coming from shellfish and less than 3% from the seal hunt, we have tremendous leverage as consumers to end this hunt! Fishermen are fast realizing they stand to lose more from killing seals than they will ever hope to gain.

are we deep thinkr's or what?

woot.

with Marc Maron, Eugene Mirman, and Andy Kindler.
http://tinyurl.com/4fboll

They said it would never sell...Something about Obama's bowling average....

mike malloy yesterday, first thing he said back from vacation, after expressing his joy at having Randi on NovaM - he said :"And now we need to work on getting Sam Seder"

Did you guys catch that? Another one of those Malloy hints

What 8 years of BushCheney have done to our economy
http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/node/1603

Wherever you are Ken, thanks for posting this on the petition web site!

ken kenik commented:
I will not eat my Belzer toast.
I will not eat from a guest host.

I will not eat them in my car.
Sam Seder is the best by far.

I will not eat them in a tree.
Why's AAR forsaken me.

I will not eat Green's eggs & ham.
I want my daily Sam iCam.

I hope you're going on job interviews

when I posted the malloy thing - I see you also mentioned it

Thanks so much for posting that update!!!
I have been fighting for this for so long with signing petitions, clicking daily via www.care2.com where you can click to do free donations to multiple causes daily and with all my travel when i was working I got so many people clicking to support their particular passion charity support - that its really good to read this.

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

April 15, 2008
POLL: Times/Bloomberg IN/PA/NC

Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg
(story, results)

Pennsylvania 4/10 through 4/14
Clinton 46, Obama 41

Indiana 4/10 through 4/14
Obama 40, Clinton 35

North Carolina 4/10 through 4/14
Obama 47, Clinton 34

McEconomist's speech today is available in video links on THIS LINK.

His Economic plan is tax cuts for all ... corporations.

is something that can be marketed I am sure, if nothing else as a motion picture video ad for Obama

Iraq car bombs kill 50 as insurgents tighten grip

More than 50 people were killed by car bombs in Iraq today as the country suffered one of its bloodiest days in months.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/15/iraq

..all Obama has to do is to get in a pickup game of basketball somewhere and all the bowling/elitist remarks will fade like a Republican promise to show some compassionate conservatism.
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U.S. Carriers Quietly Developing IPv6 Services
Carolyn Duffy Marsan, NetworkWorld
Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:44 PM PDT
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,144066/article.html

For a decade, IPv6 has been the classic chicken-and-egg conundrum: There has been little North American demand for IPv6, so U.S. carriers haven't introduced IPv6 services; without commercial IPv6 services available from carriers, U.S. government agencies and businesses can't migrate to the next-generation Internet technology.

Now, cracks are starting to appear in the IPv6 egg.

They haven't released many details yet, but U.S. carriers say they are developing commercial services that will take advantage of IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol known as IPv4. Many of the new services are due out in the next year, carriers say.

IPv6 uses a 128-bit addressing scheme and supports a virtually limitless number of devices connected directly to the Internet. IPv4, on the other hand, has 4.3 billion addresses, and most of them have been handed out. IPv4 address space is expected to run out by 2012, a deadline that is forcing carriers around the world to migrate to IPv6.

"We've seen commitments by the major telecom carriers. They're going to be IPv6 ready and enabled by 2010," says Jerry Edgerton, CEO of Command Information, a Herndon, Va., provider of IPv6 services whose carrier customers include Verizon and British Telecom. "These carriers are now global players, and so are their customers. IBM just moved its supply chain management to China last year. This globalization factor is going to drive demand to IPv6. If I'm a global enterprise, I need to be compatible with the rest of the world."
[...]

Other U.S. carriers have been offering IPv6 services that aren't in their product catalogs. Most of their IPv6-related development work is targeting federal agencies, which are required to enable IPv6 on their backbone networks by June 30 and say they will do just that. (Neither Verizon Business nor Global Crossing would comment for this story).

AT&T, for example, is offering managed service for IPv6 routers but only on a custom basis. "We will manage IPv6-capable routers . . . on a case-by-case basis," says Paul Girardi, director of engineering for AT&T Government Solutions. "We will have more of a productized approach that we'll offer in the early-2009 time frame."

AT&T in 2009 will offer network-management services for IPv6, Girardi says. That development is important, because leading network-management software from IBM/Tivoli, HP and others doesn't support IPv6 yet.

I'm broken, spritually (and financially!) somedays from my support of the HSUS. I sometimes just can't take the videos they send of the Seal hunt. I watch them and sob like a little baby. God, it's disgusting shit.

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Just out, Obama leading in bitter Indiana

Yawn.... So?

That's my interpretation of the MSM. *snark*

Brazil, Russia to build jet fighters Tuesday April 15 2008 By MARCO SIBAJA

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Brazil and Russia signed an agreement on Tuesday to jointly develop top-line jet fighters and satellite launch vehicles.

Brazil's Strategic Affairs Minister Roberto Mangabeira Unger told reporters the agreement will lead to the development of fifth-generation jet fighters that are built using sophisticated engineering, such as composite materials, stealth technology and advanced radar. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7464777

..any man who dumps his severely injured wife for a woman 25 years his junior because she's an heiress to the Anheuser Busch fortune and then calls her a trollop and a cunt in public makes me bitter. We don't do that in Smalltown USA. We respect our wives.

Nope, I won't vote for any man that does that.
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www.breitbart.tv/?p=79083 - 2 hours ago -

...I'll say one thing....Randi sure does sound a LOT LESS BITTER!!!LOLZ!

That is why I cannot watch the videos. I am aware of what is going on, I am active in my support to stop it. I do not however need to watch it over and over again. The videos are not for those who are aware of the hellish practice. They are made to record the acts and to bring knowledge to those who do not know, or those who do know but do not act to stop them.
You do not have to punish yourself by watching them. You do all you can - please stop punishing yourself. There is no need for you to do so.

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

did clinton say today on CNN that "a vote for Barack Obama would be a vote for another George Bush"...

i read this on some comments after a PM Carpenter column.....

i'd like to find out the validity before i once again become outraged at this self-delusional con-woman.....

To: Joe American, Smalltown USA
From: Dogma in the name of God
RE: Lack of bullets

Pray to God at our church and God will get those bullets for you....

(local joke, sorry)

But, thanks neffer. I really don't "punish myself" after the first video that comes out each year the hunt starts. I should've been more specific on that.

13ben... thanks for the heads up on the f$%#&ng w&%$e. I'll look into that, too.

l8r folks~

and am wondering when the tape this show on msnbc...she is making some really good points about Obama and the bitter issue...she shines on this show because she gets some talking time and she is not having to deal with that idiot Buchanan today anyway.....

Do not fear. Most 6net will tunnel through ipv4 networks, so life will go on.

I am not seeing too much demand for this on the enterprise level yet, most transport level carriers (ATT, Level3, etc) are far enough into their upgrade that they will not have any trouble keeping up when demand arises. That will not start happening in earnest until we start running out of ipv4 ip address, which should be within the next 2 years.

Most of the networking equipment being produced today is all 6net ready. I would advise anyone who is remotely involved with setting up networks to get started on learning this asap. It is not too complicated, but it deals strictly in hex and is alien to some

IPv6 will be this generation's "new math".

you guessed it.... President of the United States of America

after seven years of bunnypants, I'm WANT the next POTUS to be ELITE!!!!!

I'll vote for him anyway, I don't care that he plays like a white guy these days. It's like they said, everyone over 35 plays like a white guy. ;-)
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"I've got some news for you, John McCain..."
Submitted by ghettodefender on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 5:43pm.
Iraq car bombs kill 50 as insurgents tighten grip

More than 50 people were killed by car bombs in Iraq today as the country suffered one of its bloodiest days in months.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/15/iraq

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McCain's policy is the policy of genocide and colonialism/imperialism.

I look at this situation and this is how I see the 'players':

USA: Imperialist aggressor illegally invading/occupying a sovereign nation.
Resistence: Those called "insurgents" by the imperialists; resisters oppose the illegal imperialist acts and occupation.
Collaborators: Iraqis willing to allign with imperialists.

Sam and guests have described the way the Sunnis and Shiite sects fit in to this. But I say that these sects still need to fit into the resistence and collaborator definition; those opposing each other oppose each other in terms of resistence or collaboration. Am I wrong?

Cancer returned. Just on CNN

Good Afternoon all.

Submitted by maggiesboy on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 5:53pm.
..any man who dumps his severely injured wife for a woman 25 years his junior because she's an heiress to the Anheuser Busch fortune and then calls her a trollop and a cunt in public makes me bitter. We don't do that in Smalltown USA. We respect our wives.

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YEAH BABY!

I don't care if the next president plays basketball, bowls, or goes bikeriding....or how well or poorly they do any of the above. What I care about is whether or not they A. take their chosen form of sport/exercise more seriously than "presidienting" which we have seen is BAD for the country.... but B. if they understand that their chosen form of sport/exercise is not a measure of their ability to do the job of "presidenting". But most importantly my concern is that the media seems to think that B. IS a measure of the ability of the candidate to do the job of "presidenting"....THAT does trouble me.

Thanks ghettodefender..
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Submitted by maggiesboy on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 6:29pm.
I'll vote for him anyway, I don't care that he plays like a white guy these days. It's like they said, everyone over 35 plays like a white guy. ;-)

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

That is very sad news.

BUT - that also means that Chris Matthews is now more than ever excited because he can run for Specters senate seat. And that is sick and sad.

Arlen Specter"s
Submitted by toniD on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 6:37pm.
Cancer returned. Just on CNN

Good Afternoon all.

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

God,

My boy came back from Iraq with one less leg and only 2 fingers on his left hand. I used to joke with him he was never good with his hands but he was always good with the books. He wants to go to college but can't do it on his disability payments (which got cut recently). Hell, I got drafted to go to 'Nam and had full G.I. benefits for college but was too dumb to use them. Now he volunteers, does 3 tours in Iraq and gets squat.

John McCain won't vote for G.I. Educational benefits even though he used them to get his law degree.

What the fuck is wrong with that man God?

Sorry 'bout the language, I'm bitter but you knew that anyway, after all you are God.

If I can get some gas in the truck I promise to make it to church this week. Don't worry about the bullets. It's no fun huntin' without my boy anyway.

Amen,

Joe American, Smalltown, USA

p.s. Take care of the skinny kid from Illinois. Not sure why, but I like him.
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Bush Beats Truman Record for Boos

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AbcNews_Politics/~3/270452029/story

Brown's US trip overshadowed by Pope's visit

He's been on the front pages of all the major newspapers and the focus of fevered public attention for days. He will tour baseball stadiums and address the United Nations.

But the world leader whose visit has America transfixed is not the man from Kirkcaldy. It's the cleric from Bavaria causing all the commotion, and it appears inevitable that he will upstage Britain's prime minister over the next few days.

Gordon Brown flies into the US tonight just hours after Pope Benedict XVI's arrival from the Vatican for his first visit.

Although Brown's three-day trip has been billed by Downing Street as one of the most important of his premiership, it is being swamped in the US by the coverage of the Pope's visit.

The pontiff has already had thousands of column inches in the US papers — and been on the front pages of the New York Times and Washington Post since last week, with long features inside — while Brown's visit has yet to warrant a mention in either publication.

British officials disclosed today that they had been unaware of the Pope's plans to visit the US when a date for meeting George Bush was fixed.

It was days before they discovered that it would coincide with a papal visit, but by then it was too late. An official said: "We knew early on that the visit clashed with the Pope. There was no suggestion of moving it."

The Pope is due to meet Bush at the White House tomorrow morning, an event to be attended by thousands, while Brown is scheduled to make a more subdued visit on Thursday.
The biggest diary clash will be on Friday, when Brown is to make a major speech on foreign policy, calling for the reshaping of international institutions such as the UN.

But the prime minister's speech in Boston is in danger of being largely overlooked as the Pope, in an unfortunate piece of timing, is addressing the UN general assembly on the same day. An official tried to put a brave face on it today, claiming publicity was not necessarily the most important criterion and that Brown's speech would be read by foreign policy specialists.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/apr/15/gordonbrown.usa?gusrc=rss...

Slightly self deprecating, and makes the point PERFECTLY.

Of course, THIS TIME, he bowls a perfect strike.

We got any producers here? Maybe we can whip it up and sell it to the Obama campaign. Pay for Sammy's airfare to PHX for his NovaM interview. :-)

The war is NOT going to end.
Submitted by Peter Dragon on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 3:24pm.
Doesn't mean shit who gets in office. The occupation will

go on. There is too much money being made by the contractors

to cut it off. Those leeches are staying there and will keep

tax payer paid free protection to keep making their

zillions.

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I think there's hope IF IF IF people start looking at these no-bid contracts, emergency funding (unauditable), and crony-contracts for the Bush Club for what they are: GRAFT.

But nobody wants to use that word. Is there a reason? Is there a lawyer in the house who knows if the 'graft' word doesn't apply here? Or are people just so ridiculously accustomed to being RIPPED OFF? It is time to wake up and realize that NON-STOP GRAFT and RIP-OFF IS NOT SUPPOSED TO GO ON AND ON AND ON UNPUNISHED!

great post. Poignant!

Oh no. I feel so bad for him. The Dem's attack him and the Repukes have tried to kill him.

Wasn't it great hearing Mike say that? It made me feel sooo good! YES!

And I still think it's a win-win for Sam, because I want these networks to court him! He deserves the best!

..poignant comes easy.

I think Joe American, Smalltown, USA has a lot more to say.

Call it a hunch.

Thanks, I don't do it for accolades, I do it to try to slice into the icy cold hearts of trolls and leave a burning lump of coal. They have to be melted from the inside out.

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"Take that SPOTLIGHT off our CONFLICTING Columbia positions and money-grubbing to union murderers!!!!!" screamed Hillary in her inimitable screech.

"Don't fret, Sweetpea," crooned Bill in his inimitable Southern-style schmooz. "We'll just start another lying attack on that uppit---I mean upstart Obama, and we'll blast that Columbia $tuff right off the tube and frontpage. Trust me, Hillibunch!"

I think they said nonhodgkins lymphoma. That's like a death sentence. I don't wish that for him. He's not as bad as the others really.

Submitted by Nefferkitti on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 6:40pm.

BUT - that also means that Chris Matthews is now more than ever excited because he can run for Specters senate seat. And that is sick and sad.

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Hope Specter will recover. However, he's an old, cowardly punk. He was the idiot that came up with the Kennedy magic bullet theory. Remember what he did Anita Hill? Now that was a real hi-tech lynching. Moreover, there is talk that the old geez has a squeeze on the side. That's why he remain quiet during his tenure as chairman of the senate judiciary. Chimpy had the goods on him.

As far as Chris "Chucky" Mathews is concern, Pennsylvania did reject his brother as Lieutenant Governor. But, considering they elected Santorum and Specter, well, let's hope they have wised up. But don't hold your breath.

LA Times/Bloomberg Poll: Clinton up 5 in PA; Obama up 13 in NC; Obama up 5 in IN
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 4/15/2008 06:04:00 PM ET · Link
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The Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg just released their latest polls from Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Indiana. Here are the head-to-head numbers:
The poll found Clinton leading Obama 46% to 41% in Pennsylvania -- a far cry from the double-digit margins she held in earlier polls.

In Indiana, where little polling has occurred, previous surveys gave Clinton the edge. The Times/Bloomberg poll put Obama ahead, 40% to 35%.

The leads in Pennsylvania and Indiana are within the poll's margin of sampling error.

In North Carolina, the poll found, Obama leads Clinton 47% to 34% -- a finding in keeping with expectations that he will do well in the state, which has a large African American population. Among blacks there, 71% supported Obama; only 5% backed Clinton and 24% were undecided.

One reason Clinton is struggling in Indiana and North Carolina is that a mainstay of her coalition in earlier contests -- women -- have been defecting. In Indiana, the poll found women split their vote, 35% for each candidate. In North Carolina, they favored Obama, 43% to 36%.
Many interesting nuggets, but this is probably the most interesting:
In Pennsylvania, the flap seems to have marginally helped Obama more than hurt him: 24% said his handling of the issue made them think more highly of him; 15% said it made them think less highly of him; 58% said it made no difference in their views.
Let's see how the painfully pompous pundits dissect that number. Of course, they'll all have to wait for Time Magazine's chief pompous pundit, Mark Halperin, to explain what it means. But, he'll have to wait for the talking points from his high level source at the Clinton campaign to explain it to him.

Remember, Clinton is supposed to win Pennsylvania by 20 points. That's the margin she needs to declare victory.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-poll16apr16,0,1984680,full.st...

Terrible news. Have they said how long? Will he see the election?

I hope so. It would be awful for him to die thinking we won't fix this nightmare. I feel horrible about it.

I do hope he is able to get treatment and beat this again of course and did say that the dx was very sad because any relapse means that he has to go thru all he went thru treatment wise all over again, just as he has gotten back on his feet.

I do hope he has the strength to go thru treatment and recover. Regardless of what he has and has not done.

And I am sure TPTB have the goods on everyone not just Spector.

Submitted by Nefferkitti on
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Submitted by edna ellen poe on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 7:06pm.
Submitted by Nefferkitti on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 6:40pm.

BUT - that also means that Chris Matthews is now more than ever excited because he can run for Specters senate seat. And that is sick and sad.

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Hope Specter will recover. However, he's an old, cowardly punk. He was the idiot that came up with the Kennedy magic bullet theory. Remember what he did Anita Hill? Now that was a real hi-tech lynching. Moreover, there is talk that the old geez has a squeeze on the side. That's why he remain quiet during his tenure as chairman of the senate judiciary. Chimpy had the goods on him.

As far as Chris "Chucky" Mathews is concern, Pennsylvania did reject his brother as Lieutenant Governor. But, considering they elected Santorum and Specter, well, let's hope they have wised up. But don't hold your breath.

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

says soldier she knows is slated to come home,

tour has ended but is sitting in Kuwait because

of airline troubles, cannot get a filght home until May.

~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

ARRRRGGGGHHHHH @#$%^&*(

... The endless coverage of Barack Obama's comments about small-town America is a great example of the type of manufactured scandal that gives political journalism a bad name.
It's obvious why the Clinton campaign and the McCain campaign want to keep this faux scandal alive. It's disturbing to see so many in the media swallow the spin.

Read the rest at The Nation

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I just heard a blurb on CNN before on Specter.

Pa. Sen. Arlen Specter diagnosed again with cancer
5 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter's cancer has returned. The five-term Republican said in a statement released by his office Tuesday that he was diagnosed with an early recurrence of Hodgkin's disease, which is a cancer of the lymph system.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080415/ap_on_go_co/specter_cancer;_ylt=Ahn1...

Bombings kill nearly 60 in Sunni areas of Iraq

By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer 53 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - Bombings blamed on al-Qaida in Iraq tore through market areas in Baghdad and outside the capital on Tuesday, killing nearly 60 people and shattering weeks of relative calm in Sunni-dominated areas.

The bloodshed — in four cities as far north as Mosul and as far west as Ramadi — struck directly at U.S. claims that the Sunni insurgency is waning and being replaced by Shiite militia violence as a major threat.

The deadliest blasts took place in Baqouba and Ramadi, two cities where the U.S. military has claimed varying degrees of success in getting Sunnis to turn against al-Qaida.

In Baqouba, the Diyala provincial capital 35 miles northeast of the capital, a parked car exploded about 11:30 a.m. in front of a restaurant across the street from the central courthouse and other government offices...

Continued:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080415/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=AurQkmVjUaF...

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just now on Lou Dobbs.

She said to Lou, "You talk about the bitterness and dispair of the American workers all the time". Lou said "I never said bitterness. Laura did not back down so lou went to that Oregon radio hack Lars something or other.

Lou Dobbs is a liar too. He doesn't care and he is a Libertarian even though he thinks he's a populist.

Group finds 6 million pounds of trash on world's beaches
3 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The world's beaches and shores are anything but pristine. Volunteers scoured 33,000 miles of shoreline worldwide and found 6 million pounds of debris from cigarette butts and food wrappers to abandoned fishing lines and plastic bags that threaten seabirds and marine mammals.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080415/ap_on_re_us/beach_debris;_ylt=Argc.o...

Student to McCain: "Care to join me for a shot?"

By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer

VILLANOVA, Pa. - Rarely does John McCain not have an answer.

But two questions, about race and drinking, caught him off guard Tuesday during his stop on MSNBC's "Harball College Tour" at Villanova University.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080415/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_tough_questions

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Tweets

I'm still digesting the NYT Magazine profile of Chris Matthews. It's remarkable that it even exists as whatever its merits it's rare for members of the media attack their own like this. More than that, profile pieces of any kind are rarely this vicious. As our stupid discourse focuses on elitism this week, it's worth staring at this paragraph until your eyes bleed.

“I don’t think people look at me as the establishment, do you?” Matthews asked me. “Am I part of the winner’s circle in American life? I don’t think so.”

Annual salary: $5 million.

-Atrios 13:18

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/magazine/13matthews-t.html

RadioNation? It's the last segment. Get the podcast. Wear protective headgear. Eric now has multiple orifices for expelling waste matter. Oh, I love a good liberal bar fight!

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Reid jokes Dem race making him 'bitter'
April 15, 2008

(CNN) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid joked on Thursday said the sharp back-and-forth of late between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is having an effect on him.

"It makes me bitter," the Nevada Democrat said, invoking Obama's controversial comments that sparked strong criticisms from Clinton and Republican John McCain.

Reid went on to call the prolonged Democratic "healthy for our party," and predicted, "This is all going to be over fairly soon."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/15/reid-jokes-dem-race-maki...
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McCain's Base

Milbank:

So much for the liberal media.

John McCain and Barack Obama both appeared before the nation's newspaper editors yesterday. The putative Republican presidential nominee was given a box of doughnuts and a standing ovation. The likely Democratic nominee was likened to a terrorist.

-Atrios 10:47

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR200804...

Obama's Father Authored Long-Lost Article

April 15, 2008
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(The Politico) This story was written by Ben Smith and Jeffrey Ressner.
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Barack Obama's dad was such an important but absent figure in his life that he devoted his first book, Dreams From My Father, to the search for details about his father's life and how the quest helped forge a son's identity.

Now, a long-forgotten essay written 43 years ago by Obama's father has surfaced, and its contents reveal much not only about the senior Obama's grasp of economic theory but also the iconoclastic politics that, his son would later write, sent him into the spiral of career disappointment that concluded with his death in 1982 in his native Kenya.

Parts of the article, titled "Problems Facing Our Socialism," have been making the rounds on several small blogs over the past week, but Politico is now reproducing the entire piece in its original form online for the first time. (Click here to read it on Politico.com (PDF))

The scholarly eight-page paper credited to "Barak H. Obama" is never mentioned in Dreams From My Father, nor has the candidate discussed it in any of his many public speeches. (Politico brought the article to the campaign's attention late last week, but aides did not respond to a request for a comment from Obama.)

The paper's substance, though, offers insight into the mind and the political trajectory of a man described by his son largely through his emotional life, his family, and his traditions.

Published in the esoteric East Africa Journal in 1965, the year after Kenyan President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta took power and the country declared independence from British rule, the paper takes a gently mocking tone to the Kenyatta government's key, controversial statement of economic policy, titled "African Socialism and its Applicability to Planning in Kenya."

Obama Sr.'s journal article repeatedly asks what the Kenyan government means by "African Socialism," as distinct from Soviet-style communism, and concludes that the new phrase doesn't mean much.

Elements of Obama's argument now seem prescient, others deeply dated, but his central aim - particularly in the context of the heady early days of African independence - was moderate and conciliatory.

"The question is how are we going to remove the disparities in our country such as the concentration of economic power in Asian and European hands while not destroying what has already been achieved and at the same time assimilating these groups to build one country," Obama Sr. wrote.

When he wrote the paper, he was in Nairobi and working toward a never-completed Harvard doctoral dissertation, according to his brief biography in the journal. He had divorced his wife, who was raising his son in Hawaii, two years earlier.

But even back in Nairobi, Obama Sr. also felt free to mock the Kenyan government.

More here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/15/politics/politico/main4015307....

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha...

My God you are a simple thing!

Try selling that nonsense to the 97% in the General Election!

Hell, try sellin it to Hillary!!!!

Does McCains age matter?

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4655328

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Dallas VA hospital closes pysch ward after 4th vet suicide.
The Dallas Morning News reports that city’s VA Medical Center officially closed its psychiatric wing after the fourth mentally-ill veteran committed suicide this year. The hospital was rated the nation’s worst VA facility in a 1995 study, though a spokeswoman said that “more than $250,000 has been spent during the last six months to eliminate suicide risks” there. In November, CBS reported that “at least 6,256 US veterans committed suicide in 2005 — an average of 17 a day.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/15/dallas-va-hospital-closes-pysch-ward...

Conservative bias at the Newseum?
Jonathan Schwarz at MoJo Blog looks at a new educational video at the Newseum in Washington, DC. The video — part of an exhibit funded by $10 million from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. — alleges liberal bias in the media by interviewing Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid, NBC News anchor Brian Williams, journalist Clarence Page, Fox anchor Brit Hume, and Fox contributor Juan Williams. Schwarz writes:

At seven minutes long, the video is like cable news in general: unbelievably superficial. It shows snippets from Bill Clinton’s angry response to questions on 9/11 from Fox’s Chris Wallace in 2006, and George H.W. Bush’s angry response to questions on the Iran-Contra scandal from CBS’ Dan Rather in 1988. Then it describes a 2006 Gallup poll in which 44% of Americans called the media “too liberal,” while 19% found it “too conservative.” Hume tells us that those who think journalists are liberals are “by and large correct,” while Brian Williams explains that until recently “conservative America” had nowhere to go for its news.

So the message, while shallow, is clear: the media is liberal, and any critique that it may have a corporate or conservative bias is so ridiculous it doesn’t even need to be voiced.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/15/conservative-bias-at-the-newseum/

Forget WarDog/POT, his alzheimers makes him say very strange things.

He even forgot that he is only part of 9.7% and claims there is peace in Iraq on a day of so many bombing deaths.

I think they spelled it wrong. It should be Nauseum!

I predict a new thread soon!

China conducting 'cultural genocide' in Tibet: Dalai Lama

Published: Monday April 14, 2008

Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama maintained Monday that Beijing was carrying out "cultural genocide" in the Himalayan territory despite denial of the charge by the Chinese leadership.

In an interview with NPR, the US public radio network, the exiled 72-year-old leader currently on a US visit also expressed confidence he would eventually return to his homeland.

The Dalai Lama, who is on exile in India after fleeing a failed 1959 uprising, lamented the loss of Tibetan culture under Beijing's so-called autonomy rule.

"Since we have our own unique cultural heritage, including our language, our script, these matters should be in the hands of Tibet, who knows about our culture, about our religion," he said.

"With this present arrangement, whether intentionally or unintentionally, some kind of cultural genocide is taking place," said the Dalai Lama, whose US visit is his first overseas trip since Beijing's clampdown of pro-Tibet protests.

Tibetan exiles claim the crackdown has left more than 150 Tibetans dead while Beijing says Tibetan "rioters" have killed 20 people in the latest disturbances in the territory...

Continues Here:

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/China_conducting_cultural_genocide__0414200...

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A Hopi elder speaks:

You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour.

Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour.

It is time to speak your Truth.

Create your community.

Be good to each other.

And do not look outside yourself for the leader.

Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

Oraibi, Arizona
Hopi Nation

http://www.wambui-bahati.com/A-Hopi-Elder-Speaks.html

ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM ASK HOUSE AND SENATE LEADERS TO POST COMMITTEE VOTES ONLINE

15 Apr 2008 // Washington, DC - Today, nineteen organizations from across the political spectrum joined Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) in asking leaders in both the Houses of Representatives and the Senate that all committee roll call votes be posted on their websites within 24 hours in tandem with an easily accessible online database of those votes. The letters are available at www.citizensforethics.org.

Currently, retrieving committee votes from Congress is at the very least cumbersome and sometimes even impossible. The only reliable way to review committee votes is to pay thousands of dollars each year to private organizations such as Congressional Quarterly, National Journal, or Gallery Watch, thereby making the votes inaccessible to those who either cannot afford to pay those costs or to visit the relevant committee offices.

...more at CREW

..bet this makes toniD grin ear to ear... ;-)

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I see that one with numbers flying his/her ass is still wandering here.

...America's next President should have a wife who doesn't steal recipes. It would also help if she didn't have a history of stealing narcotics from her own non-profit addiction relief organization.

Joe American from Smalltown, USA

Over 'n Out

And don't fergit to:

Trolls, the tools of fools

A very good post,Maggiesboy Imho.. Thanks ! :)

I posted it on my blog..
I hope you don't mind..

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

McCain's Lobbyist Friends Rally 'Round Their Man

Group: Campaign Finance Reformer Has the Most Lobbyists Raising Campaign Money

By AVNI PATEL and JOANNA JENNINGS
Jan. 29, 2008

Washington lobbyists and members of Congress gathered at a popular Capitol Hill bar and restaurant last night to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, whose staff refused to disclose exactly how much was raised or by whom.

"Like most campaigns, we do not release numbers of attendees or dollars raised per event," said McCain spokesperson B.J. Boling.

While McCain did not attend the event, a copy of the invitation obtained by ABCNews.com shows that donors who paid between $1,000 and $2,300 were invited to rub elbows with some of the 32 members of Congress supporting McCain for a reception at the Charlie Palmer Steakhouse. Donors who raised at least $10,000 were designated co-chairmen for the event and were treated to a "VIP Roundtable" before the main reception. The invitation lists 24 lobbyists as "co-chairman" for the event. The lobbyists represent a range of industries, including the finance, telecommunications, technology and healthcare sectors.

McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates, according to the latest finding from government watchdog group Public Citizen. The group, which advocates for public financing of elections, has identified more than 2,300 well-connected individuals, known as "bundlers," who have solicited contributions from friends and associates on behalf of a presidential candidate.

Story Continues:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4210251&page=1

...glad you found it useful. I am not bitter about it. ;-)

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I sent Lucille an email but haven't heard from her yet.

McCain reveals confusion over Petraeus role

By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Apr 15, 2008 14:58:22 EDT

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona may not have been paying the closest of attention last week during hearings on the Bush administration’s Iraq policy.

Speaking Monday at the annual meeting of the Associated Press, McCain was asked whether he, if elected, would shift combat troops from Iraq to Afghanistan to intensify the search for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

“I would not do that unless Gen. [David] Petraeus said that he felt that the situation called for that,” McCain said, referring to the top U.S. commander in Iraq.

Petraeus, however, made clear last week that he has nothing to do with the decision. Testifying last week before four congressional committees, including the Senate Armed Services Committee on which McCain is the ranking Republican, Petraeus said the decision about whether troops could be shifted from Iraq to Afghanistan was not his responsibility because his portfolio is limited to the multi-national force in Iraq.

Decisions about Afghanistan would be made by others, he said.

“I’ve been sort of focused on another task,” Petraeus said when pressed about whether more troops should be diverted to Afghanistan rather than Iraq.

McCain did not stay for the full Petraeus appearance before the armed services committee, so he might have missed that explanation.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Adm. Michael Mullen, has talked about the possibility that reducing troop levels in Iraq would make it easier to send more U.S. forces to Afghanistan.

In his remarks at the Associated Press meeting, McCain said he is concerned about stress on the force.

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/04/military_mccain_petraeus_041408w/

I seem to be behind the curve on so many things. And missed the intro segment of Mike's show as well cause my internet went bye bye for no reason suddenly.

Warming up dinner as I type.

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

China tops US as #1 carbon polluter
Efforts of other nations to reduce emissions 'cancelled out' by China spike.

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/China_surpasses_US_as_top_carbon_po_0415200...

A Hopi Elder Speaks
Submitted by B_Rad_N_Green on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 8:37pm.

http://www.wambui-bahati.com/A-Hopi-Elder-Speaks.html

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

Merck minimized the true risks of Vioxx: JAMA study

The risk of death linked to Merck's anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx was minimized in trial studies the company made public, according to a study out Tuesday.

The report, appearing in the April 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), compares Merck's internal data from 2001 with the results of clinical tests made public in 2004 and 2005.

Merck voluntarily withdrew Vioxx from sale in September 2004 after a 2001 company internal study showed the drug doubled the risks of heart attack in patients who took it for 18 months or longer.

"Sponsors have a marketing interest to represent their products in the best light. This approach conflicts with scientific standards that require the symmetric and comparable reporting of safety and efficacy data," wrote doctors Bruce Psaty and Richard Kronmal with the University of Washington, Seattle, the study co-authors.

The analysis was based on clinical tests carried out in 2000 and 2001 on 3,000 Alzheimer patients.

"The mortality findings and the Alzheimer disease findings would, in our judgment ... (led to) to stop the trial early," the researchers wrote.

Merck's internal analyses dating from April 2001 of pooled data from the two trials "identified a significant three-fold increase in total mortality."

But, the new study said, "These mortality analyses were neither provided to the FDA nor made public in a timely fashion."

Merck said in a statement it was not given a chance to respond to the article prior to publication.

"We are disappointed that such false and misleading statements about Merck from trial lawyers have made their way into a medical journal," said Peter Kim, president of Merck Research Laboratories.

According to Merck, "a full, unbiased evaluation of the Merck documents shows significant errors in the conclusions put forward by the authors of the JAMA articles."

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Merck_minimized_the_true_risks_of_V_0415200...

..how do you keep from melting your keyboard?

Warming up dinner as I type.
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Trolls, the tools of fools

If you can warm up your dinner by typing N-k
Submitted by maggiesboy on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 9:44pm.
..how do you keep from melting your keyboard?
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...probably using a Macrowave.

Here

it was about posting videos. MMR said the link would be good so the dialup people didn't have probs loading the blog. So Lucille changed to the link.

A few of us asked her to say a little of what the links were and I explained that I didn't go to a link I didn't know because I ruined 2 computers with viruses because of links on the old MRR blog.

Lucille said she was sorry and wouldn't be posting any more. And that's all of it.

YOu got to it first CB - sorry MB. CB was just too quick with the perfect quip.

But - no roasted apples tonight - Chinese - Sesame Chicken. And yes I do use chopsticks - real ones not the break apart ones from the restaurant - so I can't eat and type, cause I need to hold the bowl with one hand, and move the food with the other.

Roasting Apples
Submitted by Crank Bait on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 9:50pm.
If you can warm up your dinner by typing N-k
Submitted by maggiesboy on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 9:44pm.
..how do you keep from melting your keyboard?
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...probably using a Macrowave.

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

..check the next thread.

I'm no Crank Bait, but I'm no dead fish either.

;-)
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Trolls, the tools of fools

When I just told you I was eating dinner? I can't do everything all at the same time.... you know what its like to eat with cats around.

I don't know about that N-Kitti..
new
Submitted by maggiesboy on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 10:10pm.
..check the next thread.

I'm no Crank Bait, but I'm no dead fish either.

;-)

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

Maggiesboy..I'm a Military brat cubed and I like Obama so your post got to me..
Your whole Joe American series is
very good..
Keep it up.. :)

Toni,Thanks for emailing Lucille.. :)

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

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