Petition and Seder v. Maron update

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhT86IX_bv0

Would it be ok if I sign your Petition??

You know you could always go into regular AM radio as Marc suggests?

The Far Left thing doesn't work in your favor!!

He replied that yes, Air America is in serious consideration over the prospect of offering Sam his own show.

But I think you might get a bit hungary..

Nope, you should try for a Real RAdio Show...

XM 167 is going to be looking for good replacements when AAR folds the Tent.

If you stay with AAR, you just delay the inevitable!

Listen to Marc, he's is right on this one.

You can still type can't you?

Huffington is making a fortune.

Then you could have an outlet for your little VOD thingie on the side.

McCain Vs The Congress won't be so bad.

And if we end up in War with Iran we have just the guy we need at the Helm!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JcOfCNpan8

This Is Hell

is kicking ass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nprDgJ7gJE

Could you just imagine have Obama in office if we have to attack Iran?

OMG - you remember how well Jimmy did when he attacked Iran?

No, we need someone who can bring together a massive attack force built from countries around the world.

We did our part in Iraq, it's time the rest did some of the work.

i tried getting it 7 ways to sunday i just cannot, my computer needs something, thats the message i get!!

Lucille!

Thanks for the link to "Frank" he is great

Newsmax/Zogby Tracking: Hillary's Pa. Lead Growing

Friday, April 18, 2008 11:18 PM

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Inch by inch, New York’s Hillary Clinton is building a lead over rival Barack Obama of Illinois leading up to Tuesday’s presidential primary in Pennsylvania, a key late contest on the road to determine who will win the party’s nomination, the latest Newsmax/Zogby daily tracking poll shows.

She now leads with 47% support, compared to 42% for Obama, just four days before the polls open. The two-day tracking survey, which was conducted April 17-18, 2008, showed that 11% were either undecided or supported someone else. This is the first of the tracking polls to be conducted entirely after the fiery Clinton-Obama debate Wednesday night.

On Thursday, Clinton led 47% to 43%, and on Wednesday by 45% to 44

Submitted by pbtrue1 on Sat, 04/19/2008 - 12:20pm.

This Is Hell

is kicking ass
*******************

I am trying to find that riff he read off about this week in hell.... that was a good one, I don't know if he posts that.

8-)

Pollster John Zogby:

“Undecideds are down to 8% and they have slowly begun to break for Clinton.

Obama slipped in the one-day sample to only 40%. His lead in the eastern part of the state is still in double-digits but slipping, and his huge advantage among young voters is narrowing a bit.

Clinton has a 39-point lead among Catholics and a 19 point lead among whites.

She continues to get higher marks on ‘understanding Pennsylvania’ and handling the economy.”

LYA!

Try one of these for this is hell ... just like streaming C-SPAN on a seperate player ....

Listen Online
Windows Media (128K)
MP3 (128k) :: MP3 (32k) :: AAC+ (48k)

I live here, and we're looking at an Obamanation, dawg.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGPuwGnYjm4

Warning-SA content

San Francisco Chronicle

The political odd couple of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich has teamed up to film a new TV ad urging U.S. leaders -- yes, that's aimed at you, President Bush -- to take immediate action on climate change.

It's the second of the "Unlikely Alliances" spots filmed as part of former Vice President Al Gore's $300 million "We" advertising and online activism campaign designed to get the American public to pressure their elected officials to address global warming.

The first ad featured left-leaning Rev. Al Sharpton and conservative Rev. Pat Robertson sitting on a couch on a beach in Virginia. The couch has been recycled in the latest ad, where Pelosi and Gingrich sit side-by-side before the backdrop of the U.S. Capitol.

"We don't always see eye to eye, do we, Newt?" Pelosi asks.

"No," Gingrich replies. "But we do agree our country must take action to address climate change."

Pelosi and Gingrich have their bipartisan act down, but the acting is pretty stiff. They should have taken their cues from Sharpton and Robertson, who appeared to be having much more fun in their ad. Of course, they were at the beach. (Both the ads were produced by the Martin Agency, a Richmond, Virginia-based advertising firm.)

Free Democracy

Stephanie Miller?

BBC

Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan, who went missing in February, has appeared in a video saying he is being held by Taleban militants.

Armed men surrounded Tariq Azizuddin in the footage, shown on Dubai-based al-Arabiya television.

He urged the Pakistani government to meet their demands.

It is the first public statement by the envoy since he disappeared in the border area between the two countries, on his way to the Afghan capital Kabul.

In comments translated into Arabic by the channel, Mr Azizuddin said he, along with his driver and his bodyguard, had been kidnapped by "mujahideen from the Taleban".

He added that they were being held "in comfortable conditions" and "looked after".

"We have no problems, but I suffer health problems such as high blood pressure and heart pains," he said.....

Obama Caught in Lapel Flag Lie

Friday, April 18, 2008 10:36 AM

Hillary Clinton got caught in a lie when she said she had dodged sniper fire during a 1996 visit to Bosnia. Now her Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama has been caught in a “sniper fire” lie of his own.

During Thursday’s debate in Pennsylvania, Obama was asked why he doesn’t wear an American flag lapel pin, as do many other politicians as well as servicemen and law enforcement officials.

“I have never said that I don’t wear flag pins or refuse to wear flag pins,” he responded.

“That is the kind of manufactured issue that our politics has become obsessed with.”

But Obama did indeed declare that he does not wear flag pins, Andrew Malcolm of the Los Angeles Times noted.

During a campaign stop in Iowa last October, a reporter asked Obama why he wasn’t wearing a flag pin to express solidarity with 9/11 victims.

This is what Obama said back then: “You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we’re talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of important to our national security. I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest.”

I missed the beginning of it .. was in another room ... it sounded like he was reading what went on this week upto Friday ...

For your Jamaican Party .... http://www.wnur.org/reggae/

Reggae Vibrations Saturday 9:00pm-11:00pm
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You can stream it from the same links for this is hell

funny how people give them selves screenames
Submitted by mhappenow on Sat, 04/19/2008 - 10:54am.
that are totally narcissitic...
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Some screen names are defined less by Sigmund and more by Groucho.

He was ripping on Miller for being so self promoting that her shows substance was neglected. He ragged on AAR quite a bit actually.
(I could only half listen, had to fix my kids gameboy)

Once you wake up from the kook-aid, you can never go back.
The World Needs More SEDER!

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

Associated Press

John McCain doesn't have an effective plan to turn around the faltering U.S. economy, Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean said Saturday.

"As I listened to Senator John McCain's remarks about the economy this week, I heard more of the same Republican policies that George Bush has brought us for the last eight years," Dean said in the Democrats' weekly radio address.

Among those policies, Dean said, are "privatizing Social Security, denying our children health care, adding $8 trillion in new deficits, no plan to turn our economy around or help people keep their homes."

Despite the nation's current economic woes, including rising unemployment, lower wages and record gas prices, "Senator McCain believes we are better off," Dean said.

been reading some deep disturbing shit..am going to chill a little---and correction "jamerican party" OK!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqgsD-IhFtw&feature=related

oh i saw that crap yesterday morning...pelosi is sitting "amongst" Gingrich geez how much more closer can you get to someone..**throw up**

The Guardian

The US's most senior general was "hoodwinked" by top Bush administration officials determined to push through aggressive interrogation techniques for terror suspects held at Guantánamo Bay, the Guardian can reveal.

The development led to the US military abandoning its age-old ban on the cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners.

General Richard Myers, the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff from 2001 to 2005, wrongly believed that inmates at Guantánamo and other prisons were protected by the Geneva conventions and from abuse tantamount to torture.

The way he was duped by senior officials in Washington - who believed the Geneva conventions and other traditional safeguards were out of date - is disclosed in a devastating account of their role, extracts from which will be published in tomorrow's Guardian.

...

"We never authorised torture, we just didn't, not what we would do," Myers said.

Sands comments: "(Myers) really had taken his eye off the ball ... he didn't ask too many questions, or inquire too deeply, and kept his distance from the decision-making process."

this topic should have been part of the debate

I have doubts that any good will come from it ... burning food to run our cars is one thing we should not be doing.

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

he did not look very happy, like he was being forced to do it..and she was smiling and looking in his eyes..does is help to say it was black and white?

Leila Fadel was a guest on Bill Moyers Journal last night.

She gave me a better feel for the many-factioned and various-motivationed chaos in Iraq than anyone has before.

The rules of Cheney's clusterfuck change from one kilometer to the next and from one day to the next. Even the participants are unsure of who's on first and what's on second.

The U.S. military is on third. And Iran has already won the game (thanks to Dick and his Neocon cabal of morons).

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04182008/profile.html

HA---silly you!

The Hill

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) filed a number of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with Cabinet-level agencies and inter-agency departments looking for opposition research to use against presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.).

In early February, there was a sharp uptick in the number of FOIA requests from the DNC with McCain as a specific target. February was about the same time McCain emerged as the front-runner and likely nominee.

A review of FOIA requests and independent confirmations obtained by The Hill turned up requests from the DNC at at least three agencies – the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Department of the Interior (DOI), the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and the Commerce Department.

According to one filing, Alicia McClintock, a DNC operative, wrote DOI asking for “any and all records of communication (including but not limited to letters, written requests, reports, telephone records, electronic communication) between your agency and John McCain or his offices/staff from 1999 to present during which period he has been a United States Senator.”

A spokeswoman for the DNC said the FOIA requests and research efforts are “standard.”

More for Yoo
Open Mic.
http://www.samsedershow.com/node/2921

Once you wake up from the kook-aid, you can never go back.
The World Needs More SEDER!

One election at a time...

caught my eye - can't find it again

'food for fuel not a good thing.'

I agree and the USA meager bio-fuels program

may be just the 'switch' BushCo is looking for to bring global chaos.

Maybe Iran won't be necessary.

Our food for fuel program has already driven up the price of corn and through that all other grains. I don't know what direct affect the USA bio-fuel program has had in driving up global grain prices but food riots are hitting the news lately.

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

LOSE THE PICTURE.

You look like a Tucker Carlson wannabe.

Sorry dude, but, ya know......?

Submitted by pbtrue1 on Sat, 04/19/2008 - 1:10pm.

More for Yoo

A week ago Friday that Yoo letter came out ... not one Sunday Talk show mentioned it.

like living in a vacuum .... 8-/

http://www.wecansolveit.org/page/s/unlikelyalliance

While Reverend Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson have different views on most issues, when it comes to the urgency of protecting the planet, they agree.

"I am honored that Al Gore asked me to be a part of this campaign urging people to take care of the planet," Robertson said on the Christian Broadcast Network.
==

now, if they would start talking about re-legalizing the planting of hemp and its earth friendly properties...

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

See ya all later

8-)

..music bud just sent me this. Might make for a nice break in the action
___
bluerootsradio

Trolls, the tools of fools

Happy Pesach Sam! We're all pulling for you.
Doris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QORZY11IHMo

A poor imitation is pathetic

Sam Seder 5 days a week!

Barack Obama performed poorly in Wednesday's debate, so his supporters are up in arms because the moderators asked him some tough questions. Howard Kurtz collects the vitriol that liberals have leveled against ABC, Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos (!). It's over the top: "asinine," "despicable," "disgraceful." Basically, Obama's supporters are demanding kid glove treatment for their guy. Well, why not? He's gotten it up until now, and they've come to expect it.

Also, they're trying to intimidate the journalists who will participate in the general election debates next fall. They're warning them that tough questions of Obama will not be tolerated. I wouldn't rule out the possibility that the current hissy fit may, indeed, cause reporters to go easier on Obama in a few months.

As for the substance of the controversy over the ABC debate, Peter Wehner gets the last word:

Consider this thought experiment: Assume that a conservative candidate for the GOP nomination spent two decades at a church whose senior pastor was a white supremacist who uttered ugly racial (as well as anti-American) epithets from the pulpit. Assume, too, that this minister wasn’t just the candidate’s pastor but also a close friend, the man who married the candidate and his wife, baptized his two daughters, and inspired the title of his best-selling book.

In addition, assume that this GOP candidate, in preparing for his entry into politics, attended an early organizing meeting at the home of a man who, years before, was involved in blowing up multiple abortion clinics and today was unrepentant, stating his wish that he had bombed even more clinics. And let’s say that the GOP candidate’s press spokesman described the relationship between the two men as “friendly.”

Do you think that if those moderating a debate asked the GOP candidate about these relationships for the first time, after 22 previous debates had been held, that other journalists would become apoplectic at the moderators for merely asking about the relationships? Not only would there be a near-universal consensus that those questions should be asked; there would be a moral urgency in pressing for answers. We would, I predict, be seeing an unprecedented media “feeding frenzy.”

The truth is that a close relationship with a white supremacist pastor and a friendly relationship with an abortion clinic bomber would, by themselves, torpedo a conservative candidate running for president. There is an enormous double standard at play here, one rooted in the fawning regard many journalists have for Barack Obama. They have a deep, even emotional, investment in his candidacy. And, as we are seeing, they will turn on anyone, even their colleagues, who dare raise appropriate and searching questions–the kind journalists are supposed to ask. The reaction to Stephanopoulos and Gibson is a revealing and depressing glimpse into the state of modern journalism.

As for the political consequences of Obama's fumbled performance, the tea leaves are hard to read. We have dueling polls, some showing Hillary Clinton narrowing Obama's national lead, while a Newsweek poll--an outlier, I think--has Obama up by 19 points.

What matters, of course, is how Pennsylvania Democrats vote on Tuesday. Both camps are busily spinning the margin of victory, but the reality is that if Clinton wins, regardless of the margin, her campaign remains viable and she will continue to try to persuade the superdelegates that she is the party's best hope in November.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/04/020329.php

That was a really nice statement by BNF about delivering the signatures. Robert Greenwald was on Randi's show friday congratulating her on her move and unwillingness to give in to censorship.

zLook like a Tucker Carlson.

Once you wake up from the kook-aid, you can never go back.
The World Needs More SEDER!

Ew. who said that? Ew. Ew. Ew. that dumb fuck that just knows that he knows something..Ew. shame on you!

http://therealmccain.com/
What is the worst question you could ask McCain?
The more shoddy the journalism, the better.

Brave New Films does a parody of Stephanopoulos interviewing John McCain.

http://bravenewfilms.org/subscribe

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=57325

JERUSALEM, April 18 -- Former president Jimmy Carter followed through on a planned meeting with the exiled leader of Hamas on Friday, despite U.S. and Israeli protests that the session would give legitimacy to a group they consider a terrorist organization.

Khaled Meshal, who is accused of masterminding kidnappings and suicide bombings, met with Carter, a Nobel Peace laureate, in Damascus, Syria, where Meshal has lived for nearly a decade. The meeting was one of the most notable exchanges to date between Hamas, which won Palestinian elections in 2006, and a prominent Western political figure.

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=57395

Sammy needs some new head shots.

Obama's (so called) lies about is lapel pin(!)...or McCain's involvement in the S&L crisis of the 70s?

lapel pin or corporate corruption...which truly effects more people's lives?

about barack's choosing a small glass of orange juice over a cup of coffee.

Someone has to be the adult in this situation and engage diplomatic relations.
Stubbornness hasn't helped anything, in fact it has escalated the problems of the area to a point where the whole world is threatened.

J-street
http://www.jstreet.org/
"For too long, the only voices politicians and policy makers have heard on American policy toward Israel and the Middle East have been from the far right. It is high time that mainstream pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans fought back for real peace and security."

N-Kitti and I discussed this just the other day.

Once you wake up from the kook-aid, you can never go back.
The World Needs More SEDER!
Moola-play for cash
One election at a time...

Sunday's Stephanopoulos-McCain Interview Leaked

Last week's Democratic debate in Philadelphia was an abysmal display of journalism. By sticking to trivial topics for half of the debate, ABC sought to provoke controversy without asking the candidates serious questions. The Huffington Post's Jason Linkins wrote that the debate "ventured into territory so utterly asinine that I could scarcely believe what I was witnessing."

Ironically, the mainstream media have been giving John McCain a free ride while trying to pin Clinton and Obama with manufactured "gotcha" questions. In fact, they don't seem to be challenging McCain at all. So there's no reason to think ABC's brand of pseudo-journalism won't continue tomorrow morning, when George Stephanopoulos will interview McCain on his show. Here's a satirical look at what that interview might be like.

Watch the video: http://bravenewfilms.org/watch/27392567/36224?utm_source=rgemail

We used satire here because we felt it's our most effective way to make a point about the shoddy journalism coming from ABC. The network was so desperate to stir up controversy at the debate that Stephanopoulos took incendiary remarks from FOX's Sean Hannity and tried to pawn them off as his own question.

We can't let the FOXification of the mainstream press continue. What's more, we can't allow journalists like Stephanopoulos to give John McCain a free pass. What are the satirical questions you think Stephanopoulos and his colleagues should be asking McCain? Post them to the website and let us know just how shoddy their journalism has become. We'll award the best (meaning worst) satire. It's high time we hold ABC to higher journalistic standards!

Yours,
Robert Greenwald
and the Brave New Team

the page. ROFLMAOBT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm sure Sam will follow right up on it when he reads the
thread.

Yeah!! Makes the email I just sent look totally dumb and ill-informed, but that's cool--I don't mind. Yeah!!! (I hope.)

what the hell does THAT mean....

and you are woo by the way?

Now Streaming
Later in the Show: Don Siegleman will be on talking about
Karl Rove

winamp stream: http://cast.voxcdn.net:8000/live

at times..just watch Bill Maher from last night....great show..no incredible stupid right wing assholes on the panel.....

at times..just watched Bill Maher from last night....great show..no incredible stupid right wing assholes on the panel.....

http://aarlive.voxcdn.com/live.m3u

But I have this one is working.

on CNN trashing Carter's effort as naive and dangerous? BLAH BLAH BLAH. Yesterday it was Berman and Ackerman saying basically the same thing. The AIPAC/NeoCon war propaganda machine has just become so much white noise. Anyone but the Corporate interests start getting close to this issue and they panic.

Carter has brought more global attention to the ME "Peace" initiative in the last year then these idiots have in the last 10.

What the hell could possibly be wrong with wanting peace, talking peace, trying to find out what it will take from either side to even begin discussing peace? Carter is not negotiating, he is pleading with both sides to find common ground and talk. That's all.

But no. It must be on the NeoCon's terms or not at all. I am afraid they are going to kill him PB. That would hurt.

He shames us all.

That means "rolling on floor, laughing my ass off.....

BIG TIME!"

is doing much better now, they can turn her onto her stomach now...

I am a newbie that never introduced herself. New AAR "fan" (problematic term right now) this year. Been in school or been in Mexico, and so out of the loop. Hanging on Rachel's blog for several months b4 this. Playing lots of old shows from AA Place late last year. Pleased to meet ya'. Mutual I hope.

did i introduce myself to you?

Not formally.

Either work for me.
Rather than clicking the link I
start up winamp, then
select play URL:

These right wingers are out of control. I'm glad we threw a wrench in the machine in 2006, but we may have waited too long. M-F'in mind control BS!

I know I worry for my children's future.
Lincoln Chaffee is involved in the J-Street Jewish pro-peace movement, a very good man who got swept out in the purge.
I hope he stays involved.

Once you wake up from the kook-aid, you can never go back.
The World Needs More SEDER!

That explains it, I don't have winamp.
Using VLC right now.

keep it like that!

In late 2006, Congress revised the Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act to make it far easier for a president to declare martial law. Those changes were repealed at the end of this January as part of Public Law 110-181 (HR 4986), the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (signed into law by President Bush on January 28, 2008).

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt), who championed the opposition to the original law, was also the hero of the repeal. It helped that all the nation’s governors opposed the 2006 law.

Boise State Professor Charlotte Twight, the author of the excellent Dependent on DC, alerted me to the change last night. I checked on Nexis and the only news coverage I found regarding the repeal was a 322-word Gannett News wire story from February 1 that focused on how the repeal made governors happy.

More here:
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/04/17/congress-quietly-repeals-martial-...

h/t to media whores at dKos

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-satloff19apr19,0,7779348.story

Jimmy Carter's embrace of the radical Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas -- he actually hugged a senior Hamas official this week -- means that Ramsey Clark may finally get a run for his money as America's most embarrassing ex-somebody.

But no one should take the former president's freelance diplomacy lightly. Far more sober foreign policy experts than Carter have urged an end to Hamas' isolation. Carter's outreach to Hamas -- on Friday he also met Damascus-based leader Khaled Meshaal -- could represent just the first ripple of a tidal wave of dangerous and desperate initiatives designed to "save" the Middle East peace process.

Most advocates of engagement with Hamas fall into two camps. The first sees engagement as a way to strengthen Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and thereby advance Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. A Palestinian "house divided" will never be strong enough to make peace with Israel, this argument goes, and diplomatic progress therefore requires reconciling Hamas and its bitter rival, Abbas' Fatah.

The second camp is more direct. Engaging Hamas reflects the reality of Hamas' power, popularity and ability to undermine any diplomacy in which it is not accorded its rightful role. Peacemakers should talk directly with Hamas, this argument goes, because the Islamist movement -- not Abbas -- is the most important player in Palestinian politics.

The first argument is illogical. No Hamas leader has ever endorsed a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, so embracing Hamas can never advance the prospects of such a solution. At the same time, it is unfair and patronizing to suggest that Palestinians must be unified to achieve diplomatic progress. After all, the world routinely expects Israel to make national decisions by the narrowest of margins, such as the 61-59 Knesset vote on a key 1995 peace accord. For the Israelis, the key ingredient is not unity; it is leadership. Why are the Palestinians any different?

The second argument may be more candid about Hamas' power, but it's also sadly defeatist. Advocates of this school seem to forget that we have seen this movie before, with Yasser Arafat in the starring role.

...

The irony is that Carter and Bush, who are different in so many ways, seem to have forgotten the most important lesson of 35 years of U.S.-led peacemaking in the Middle East: The road to a secure peace has no shortcuts.

I'm watching the Seder/Maron video. Roseanne Barr? Are these people that stupid? Do they think that screaming lunatic isn't going to piss off a lot more people than Randi Rhodes ever did? But she'll be offending Obama supporters, so I guess it's okay.

Joy Behar? Yeah, that'll bring the kids in. All I know about her is she's on the view and she's a friend of Lewis Black, which speaks well of her, but after all these years on the view she's carved herself a niche that I don't think is gonna bring in a lot of Rhodes/Seder people.

¿Cómo está usted?

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Move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!

Once you wake up from the kook-aid, you can never go back.
The World Needs More SEDER!

One election at a time...

I got a lease/purchase. So I'll get to move in, THEN fix my credit and get a mortgage. But it's a done deal now. Relief that I won't be homeless.

________________________________

Move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!

¡Hola Perro de la Guerra!
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Move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!

A mi? Pues ahora mismo medio triste por Lucille. Pero de alguna manera lo voy a superar. ;)

Hasta luego! Tengo que aparentar a trabajar hasta las cinco.

Felicitaciones que no vaya a quedar sin hogar! Demasiado de eso!

When bananas ruled the world

Welcome!

I actually don't speak more thna a few words of Spanish, but I use them because I figure they annoy the right wingers.

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Move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!

I am supposed to be writing a paper on Mathew Brady.

Of course it's a beautiful day. Not the kind of day you want to be inside on the computer.

I was going to sit outside withmy laptop but the battery was dead.

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Move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!

Belzer had Joy Behar on Friday's show. I think she's only doing 3 days. Lewis Black was on earlier in the day.

Behar used to do a radio show, or so they said and she loves Obama. I don't think her true thoughts come out on the Viewd for a reason. She wants to keep the job. Belzer also said he did some radio.

These people are fill ins. And, don't get mad at me, a good business decision by AAR. They wanted to cut the loss of listeners. If Sam ultimately gets that spot, he will pick up the listeners that stayed with AAR instead of moving to Randi.

When I drive to work, I listen to my local AAR affliate so I heard Belzer and Beyhar. Can't get Nova M.

Glad to have you on the blog. I understand a bit of Spanish but don't really speak it much. My husband was from Argentina.

**And, don't get mad at me, a good business decision by AAR.**

I'm willing to give Behar a shot because of my man Lou. And I like Ron Reagan, they probably should have hired him from the get-go. But I think having Roseanne is gonna bite them in the ass. She thinks she's a genius and has a real mean streak. I'd be willing to bet she'll say something that will get a lot more attention than what Randi said (full disclosure: I was never much of a Randi guy, Sam, Rachel and Franken are more to my taste) before her week is up.

It might be a wise decision to put in a few weeks of celebrity hosts. But they should not have asked Sam to host then change their minds and let him hear about it in a press release.

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Let me tell you something...

Why I'm for Obama reason #106

The other day, I was talking to one of my students, a black male. I was telling him he was a pretty smart kid. I told him he could probably be president if he wanted to. He smiled, and said "Yeah! I could be the first black..." He stopped himself. We both had the same thought. That we might be about to have the first black president, long before this child is going to be old enough to run.

When I think about how much an Obama presidency would mean to my students, to African-American kids all over the country, I see more clearly than ever how earthshattering it will be. It will have positive reprecussions for generations to come.

We NEED that.

The same could happen for women with a Clinton presidency, but I think the effect would be lesser because of the public perception of her. Even if the perception of her is inaccurate, unfair, and undeserved, it is what it is.

I like Hillary. But my most basic reason for not voting for her is that we really don't need any more political dynasties in this country. We have already gotten too close to monarchy with more than one American political family. That needs to stop. We really need to get back to what this country was founded on.

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I'm not condoning what they did. I'm just saying what they thought. I'd love to see Sam get what he wants, and selfishly so.

I don't like the way AAR handled any of this. I'm just saying why they did it.

I would much rather that Sam get the morning slot. I think it would bring more listeners because I don't think Lionel is doing it.

By the way, glad you got your house. Lease purchase is good and will give you time to straighten everything out.

I said congrats to Meg on the house.

Then I said I had to look busy till five.

I'm leaving work now. Later.

Did you find the Bush banana connection?

http://theselloutofamerica.blogspot.com/2007/07/george-bush-sr-and-zapat...

Mahony claims Zapata's oil rigs were used as staging bases for drug shipments, allegedly named "Operation Whale Watch." Mahony allegedly worked for Naval Intelligence, US State Department and CIA for two decades.

Zapata, under Robert Gow's direction, acquired a controlling interest in the United Fruit Company in 1969. Robert's father, Ralph Gow, was on United Fruit's board of directors.
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http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/01/15/18347480.php
History of the Bush Family's Money

I just can't listen to AAR and write this paper. It's too distracting.

I just found out that Brady and Walt Whitman were friends though... Hey that's at least another paragraph.

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and what the fuck did you say about me?

Analysis: Time, delegate math working against Clinton By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent
Fri Apr 18, 6:35 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Time is running out on Hillary Rodham Clinton, the long-ago front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination who now trails Barack Obama in delegates, states won and popular votes.

Compounding Clinton's woes, Obama appears on track to finish the primary campaign fewer than 100 delegates shy of the 2,025 needed to win.

Clinton argues to Democratic officialdom that other factors should count, an unprovable assertion that she's more electable chief among them. But she undercut her own claim in Wednesday night's debate, answering "yes, yes, yes" when asked whether her rival could win the White House.

There's little if any public evidence the party's elite, the superdelegates who will attend the convention, are buying her argument anyway.

In the days since the surfacing of Obama's worst gaffe of the campaign — an observation that small town Americans are bitter folk who cling to religion and guns out of frustration — he has gained six convention superdelegates, to four for Clinton.

"I investigated and studied the context of the whole speech," said one of the six, Reggie Whitten of Oklahoma, who told Obama on Tuesday he would support him. "I think the comment was to some extent taken out of context and blown up, but I can tell you I think people in small towns have a lot of reason to be bitter," added Whitten, who grew up in Seminole, a town of 6,700.

Clinton leads in Pennsylvania polls in advance of Tuesday's primary there, with 158 convention delegates at stake. A victory is essential to her chances of winning the nomination, but far from sufficient. Instead, a triumph of any magnitude would instantly establish Indiana on May 6 as her next must-win state, particularly since her aides have privately signaled that defeat is likely in North Carolina on the same day.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080418/ap_on_go_pr_wh/delegate_challenge_3

Did you see John Edwards on Colbert? Excellent and funny.
I think it was linked here but I watched the video on Crooks and Liars.
Value Voters....
John said something like, no one white man's vote has been valued and courted as much as his has.

Once you wake up from the kook-aid, you can never go back.
The World Needs More SEDER!

Outsourced to India: Job stress
As positions are imported from America, so are problems: Weight gain, depression, boredom, deteriorating relationships
By Laurie Goering

Tribune correspondent

8:44 AM CDT, April 19, 2008

BANGALORE, India — After two years working nights at a U.S. company's computer call center, Vamsi knew it was time to quit when his 6-year-old son brought home a school portrait he'd drawn of his father, asleep in bed.

"He was asked to draw a picture of his mom and dad, and he drew me sleeping. That's the only way he ever saw me," remembers the 31-year-old, who like many southern Indians goes by only one name. "He never saw me doing anything else."

Indians may have taken over three-quarters of the world's call-center jobs, but they've also taken on the stresses of those jobs: weight gain, depression, boredom and, often, relationship troubles.

Worse, for the legions in India busy helping Americans reboot their hard drives or refinance their mortgages, the problems are often more severe, both because of cultural differences and because the work, by virtue of time differences with the U.S., largely takes place at night.

"There are a lot of pressures on people. The jobs are very stressful and not very creative," said Karuna Baskar, a director of 1to1help.net, a Bangalore-based counseling service that was contracted by 27 mainly information technology and call-center offices in India to work with troubled employees.

As more and more Indians spend their nights drinking too many colas, trying to sound like Americans and dealing with impatient clients on the other end of the phone line, "it's very clearly showing up in health problems and also tiredness and irritability," Baskar said. "At work and with their families, they're more irritable than they should be, and that's affecting their relationships."

Culture-centered stress
Indian call centers and other outsourcing companies now employ more than 1.6 million people, mainly young Indian college graduates, who earn relatively high salaries. But the fast-paced, repetitive work is creating a growing number of stresses, some of them peculiarly Indian.

In a nation where dating among young people is still the exception, and most marriages are arranged, 20-something outsourcing workers can find it both exciting and confusing to find themselves out at night with attractive co-workers, even if they're simply sitting in the next cubicle wearing a headset.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-india-stress_nu_goeri...

He said he was sad for you or something like that.

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I posted it from C&L on an earlier thread.

Colbert really made a name for himself.

I linke Edwards smile. He' got a hearty smile.

what the fuck for?

congrats Meg...invite me sometime for a drinkie!

I might not be translating correctly. I know very little Spanish.

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Lucille, we can sip wine in my parlor some time.

Yeah, I'm going to have a parlor! A room in the front where I'm not going to have a TV or anything like that. It will be the sitting room, the Christmas Tree room, the reading room...

I'm excited!

Of course I have a den for the TV and stuff.

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Congratulations Digby
By: John Amato @ 11:30 AM - PDT
An honor well deserved. Yes, we really like her, we really do. She’s been an incredible influence and blogging role model for me personally. Women’s Voices. Women Vote selected her as their favorite female blogger.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/04/19/congratulations-digby/

There is also a fireplace in my parlor.

It's supposed to be in working order, but I may have to have the chimney sweeps come have a look at it first, and to clean it if it is workable.

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Definately a chimney sweep if you are going to use it.

If it's not clean, you could easily get a fire.

A friend of mine had a house fire because of that. Her upstairs neighbor used the fireplace a lot and set the house on fire. It was somehting to do with buildup in the chimney. Not his fault but the top floor burned and my friend had extensive water damage.

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i think so!!

that help keep the chimney clean from the sledge that builds up.