SEDER V. MARON wed. 3pm est!

Breaking: Obama's VP vetter Jim Johnson just quit.

I suspect that is because of criticism over his past at Fannie Maye.

so looking forward to the show!

i hope it works this week

I CAN'T STAND IT!!!!!!

(If you're listening to Thom right now, you know what I'm talking about)

a seder fix

the blog slows down
i guess everyone knows
it's Sammy Time

There's Sammy!

sam's hair today just like mine, exactly

yay!
i love when he does this at 3pm

A US gagging order is preventing discussion of the allegations.
Submitted by dan on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 2:48pm.
the use of gagging seems to be rather ironic
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Neoconservatism: "Just relax your throat."

U.S.: "I tried. It isn't working."

beer's flowing...guess I'm gonna habe to opt out of that meeting today

out.

sam's hair today just like mine, exactly only mines about three months longer

Sam is going to FRY at NetRoots.

is eczema

they can keep it going

http://www.smackchannel.com/sidebyside_viewer_samseder_secure.swf

adjustable size window

Needs a regular massage for that neck thing

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/11/144446/287/853/534091

they are trolling for Father's Day

poopie poopie poopie!

shortly.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/06/20080609-2.html
executive order.
no government contract unless you sign on to real id.
Is what it says I think.

==
Stop these guys
IMPEACH

===

later -- on the road again.

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

about the Democratic leadership being briefed on torture? We knew this years ago. They were barred from discussing it for fears of violating national security.

they trust fear.

reception, ever!
using http://www.smackchannel.com/sidebyside_viewer_samseder_secure.swf
thanks pbtrue for the suggestion
You see where Ed Schults has started a "eddy cam"
- plagiarist!

Fear is a badge of honor

it's vigilance
but thats ok sam

i love his comebacks to his dad
re: never forget
when i hear people say
"never forget" i always think
of the holocaust and how when
people use that saying it kinda
dilutes the meaning and then i wonder
are they saying it on purpose to
dilute the meaning or ....
nevermind too much thinking

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to send articles of impeachment against President Bush to the Judiciary Committee for review. - Raw

No matter what anyone else tells you, nothing happens to make Impeachment happen unless the motion gets moved to the Judiciary first. Now it's in Conyers hands and it's immediately available when Snotty takes the stand.

The Plame affair has NO DEMOCRATIC TIES. Democrats can't be implicated so given sufficient reason to investigate, the doors should fly open.

Don't forget that McCain is receiving disability payments

Seed the McCain video(s). For the good of the country. Fight fire with fire!

back out
that's good sam really good

Please upload the VOD soon.

Somebody tell Sam to hit record!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/han01/363310512/

Dachau concentration camp

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to send articles of impeachment against President Bush to the Judiciary Committee for review. - Raw

Maybe it will make the news cycle this time.

YES!!!

No matter what anyone else tells you, nothing happens to make Impeachment happen unless the motion gets moved to the Judiciary first.

I'm posting images all the time now.

What is this, 4chan?

If you want to hear Dennis, you can catch randi on 3 hr delay at the podge

Sam, you may need omega fatty acids which are GOOD oils. Flax oil (good on salad greens) or the old faithful, cod liver oil (a spoonful while you hold your nose). Or all kinds of these oils are now available in nutritional sections and healthfood stores. (Especially look into one particular type -- DHA -- which might be out of balance for you; some of the good oil supplements provide DHA with other of these oils, so look for it.)

If it's got a fungal component, try Pau d'arco tea or capsules.

To knock out anything (fungal, parasite, bacterial) that complicates this by reducing your resistence, take grapefruit seed extract (GSE) mixed in water/beverage as directed on the bottle for a week.

Up your Vitamin A.

Never forget: B vitamins are water soluable, and we use 'em up fast when under STRESS. Up your Vitamin B Complex! Get the stress dose and take it morning and evening.

Finally, when the body becomes too acid, all kinds of inflammation processes take place. Get alkalin. It may be as easy as taking one-eighth to one-quarter teaspoon baking soda dissolved in a glass of water the first thing in the morning when you get up. (What acidifies the body? Sugary stuff like sweets, sodas, candy, white flour baked goods; oily fried foods; too much vinegar, booze (it's like sugar).) (What foods are alkaline? Avocado is my favorite. Sea vegetables -- crumble, tear up, cut up some nori seaweed paper on your vegetables.)

Take a cool bath with some baking soda dissolved in the water.

Bless you and your itchy spots!

Gov. Palin (R- Alaska) proposed a $1.2 billion program to grant relief through a two-part plan, one being a fuel debit card worth $100 a month for 12 months issued to permanent fund dividend recipients, and a second that would provide grants to utilities that would have them reduce utility costs to consumers by 60 percent.

sam keeps saying viligance
Submitted by impeachnow on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 3:26pm.
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Y-m-c-a ... you'll find it at the y-m-c-a.
Young man, young man, there's no need to feel down.
Young man, young man, get yourself off the ground.
Y-m-c-a ... you'll find it at the y-m-c-a.

doing well i left her with grover...

The Bush Oil Pals love those roads. They're made of oil -- that is, asphalt is an oil product. They don't want those rail lines. They want to pave them with asphalt too.

Call you public works department in your home town and ask them how much it costs to asphalt one mile of road. In my town 20 years ago it cost $3 million per mile.

When you lay track it is there almost forever with maintenance mostly of the track bed itself. But asphalt roads, they wear out fast, because the weather --of ANY kind, good or bad -- destroys them.

Gas-guzzling cars and oily asphalt roads -- WHAT a scam!

I drink at least one a glass of Living Harvest Hempmilk every day! Great source of Omega 3 & 6 + all 10 essential amino acids.

always at its most interesting

Double Click the speaker button and bring up the WAV sound

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-818915448145465675&q=techmology...

Sam is too fucking talented NOT to have a show!

staff meeting...what did Sam and Marc say?

TYT is still running a show and they got lots of people logging on daily for the vod/pod casts

Sam is way better than Cenk IMHO

Thanks, Conservatives! You are fucking brilliant economists.

I'm a stay at home dad - I'd be happy to consult :D

Man, John Gilbert is so magnificent in "Flesh & the Devil". And you'll love and hate the Greta Garbo character --- love and hate her character at the same time, just like it is with an ex.

Hang in there. This too shall pass!

A million and eight hits on youtube!

Really enjoyed the show!

Have fun on your vacation Sam.

And, go get 'em Marc!

Thanks you guys. Really enjoyed listening and watching you guys jawing away!

Notwithstanding the interruption. Your segment on the dad emails was fantastic!

Good luck with your email debunking scheme!

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those, that in the time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality"

Enjoyed the show. AAR is whacked.

or maybe just ecologically conscious

for the whole month of june he's gonna use the same scrap of paper and just scratch out and rewrite (not even white out) the day of the month

this is really an "underground" production

now that would be fun !

And get us emails to let us know when S v M is scheduled. And when you add stuff to your video library.

Thanks again!

Great Maron v Seder today!

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

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

I can't stand AAR anymore.

I used to listen CONSTANTLY.

Now they've purged all the good hosts. 'cept maybe rach but she was better at her original show "unfiltered" with Kent and Lizz.

I have never had the habit of watching Seder V Maron only listened to the AAR show. I tuned in today because The Young Turks is airing later today at a different time than usual and someone in the chat mention Seder V Maron was on so I happily hoped right over. It is a similar audience and I would be torn towards Seder only because I often podcast The Young Turks.

Both of you keep doing what you do so well.

We lost one of the cable channels here at the hotel...so they had to replace it with something else...and the engineer choose CSPAN!!! (FOR ME I AM SURE)
Because I am the longest living resident here AND I sent them an e-mail in the middle of the night telling them that 9 channels went bye bye due to the storms last night so they didn't get blindsided this morning.

YEAH!!! I have CSPAN on TV again!!! I feel 1/3 more normal!!

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

Technical glitches befall Seder v Maron. The following question and answer is repeated several times.

Seder: "Can you hear me now, Marc?"
Maron: "No."

How is this possible?

If Seder says nothing at all will Maron say "Yes"?

what is wrong with Phoenix??

i picked her up from school yesterday, she was not feeling so good this morning she seemed to be fine...but got sick again at school temp 101 deg. grover has her in the emergency room...its not to far from me so i walked over to the hospital...the doctor is seeing them now as we write

because she knew behind the scenes facts, and she can't be president by default, then who is next in line?

If sucession stays in the house then steny hoyer etc...?
Or does it then go to Harry Reid over at the Senate?

I don't know how that works.

We should research this.

So if we impeach Bush and Cheney but Pelosi is implicated
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Submitted by nora on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 4:45pm.
because she knew behind the scenes facts, and she can't be president by default, then who is next in line?

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

Thanks for the tip on the C-SPAN podcasts... I can't find any archives of raw audio from the floor (like last night's reading) but at least I can get something for commute time.

And if i catch someone pointing out some activity, I can still have one little trick to get through the office firewall and catch the audio-only stream. Our IT department will close that if they discover my trick, so i'm saving it for now. I'm sure i'll be listening on Friday at any rate.

I hope it's nothing serious, you did mention the other day that she threw up

the show was very good - they started with eczema (sam has something on this throat) but fortunately went on from there to more universal subjects, though they did stay on the personal actually, the usual, no job yet (but prospects and plans) for sam, lawyer and ex-wife problems for marc. They talked about their dads who are being swindled by right wing snake oil sellers who talk anti-obama and forward to their sons, sam and marc, derogatory paranoid crazy emails claiming obama is some sort of evil candidate who's plotting some horrible takeover of the country - and they don't understand how their educated dads can go for this shit and propagate, so sam is thinking of rerouting all these emails attaching everything he knows about mcain with videos.

They talked about trains and that was the best part imo - i enjoyed their train stories, but that was cut short by a glitch - marc did something weird and lost the sound

in short, the usual good stuff, too short and too rare, we certainly need more than 1 hour a week of this

So if we impeach Bush and Cheney but Pelosi is implicated
Submitted by nora on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 4:45pm.
because she knew behind the scenes facts, and she can't be president by default, then who is next in line?

*****

Seder/Maron '08!

Glad my geekiness has helped.

Yes, keeping your secret way of streaming in your back pocket is a good way to get around IT in the office.

Being retired so young does a few perks - ie getting to watch CSPAN whenever I want to. ;)

Nefferkitti!
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Submitted by Spunk-Monkey on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 4:51pm.
Thanks for the tip on the C-SPAN podcasts... I can't find any archives of raw audio from the floor (like last night's reading) but at least I can get something for commute time.

And if i catch someone pointing out some activity, I can still have one little trick to get through the office firewall and catch the audio-only stream. Our IT department will close that if they discover my trick, so i'm saving it for now. I'm sure i'll be listening on Friday at any rate.

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

Just like Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" explains.

Insert a neeocon-engineered enemy or attacker and it turns to 'fear'.

If no reason is given for the confusion, then Randi's caller is correct -- it is 'anxiety', generalized, diffuse, and one tries to assuage it via drugs, booze, food, shopping, search for physical comfort.

I like Randi's observation that without an honest corporate media explaining what's happening with the economic situation, most people are 'disoriented' and will remain disoriented until they get their bearings via FACTS and explanations.

SHOCK > disorientation > either anxiety or fear

People I have known forever are so filled with anxiety that they are only able to see things from the point of view of FEAR.... relating back to 9-11 and bioterrorism and dirty bombs - nothing else gets thru that all consuming feeling of fear of the "fear of fear itself"
Hyper vigilence...that is the state of being that the administration has wanted to put the society into, and for those authoritarians who cannot allow themselves to see anything other than what they are told to see, they cannot live in any other state of being than constant fear of being unprepared for "?"...and its that unknown that is the most fearful thing to them.

Disoriented because of SHOCK after SHOCK
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Submitted by nora on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 5:03pm.
Just like Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" explains.

Insert a neeocon-engineered enemy or attacker and it turns to 'fear'.

If no reason is given for the confusion, then Randi's caller is correct -- it is 'anxiety', generalized, diffuse, and one tries to assuage it via drugs, booze, food, shopping, search for physical comfort.

I like Randi's observation that without an honest corporate media explaining what's happening with the economic situation, most people are 'disoriented' and will remain disoriented until they get their bearings via FACTS and explanations.

SHOCK > disorientation > either anxiety or fear

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

Randi's suggestion is a good one! Waxman is the "mustache of justice"!

(Ever since it became clear that John Edwards is not for civil rights for gays (as in a marriage LICENSE), I don't want him on the Supreme Court. I thought he would have been good there, someone for the little guy, until it was clear he doesn't care to extend full citizenship to gays. His wife Elizabeth doesn't agree with him.)

I hope it's nothing serious, but it's a shame for her to miss the end of the school year like this. Nothing worries a parent like when a child is ill. Sending good thoughts your way, wishing her a speedy recovery and low Dr bills for you... ;-)

http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_succ.html

The 25th Amendment reiterates what is stated in Article 2, Section 1: that the Vice President is the direct successor of the President. He or she will become President if the President cannot serve for whatever reason. The 25th also provides for a President who is temporarily disabled, such as if the President has a surgical procedure or if he or she become mentally unstable.

The original Constitution provides that if neither the President nor Vice President can serve, the Congress shall provide law stating who is next in line. Currently that law exists as 3 USC 19, a section of the U.S. Code. This law was established as part of the Presidential Succession Act of 1947. There, the following line of succession is provided:

Speaker of the House of Representatives
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
Secretary of State
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Defense
Attorney General
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of Commerce
Secretary of Labor
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Secretary of Transportation
Secretary of Energy
Secretary of Education
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Secretary of Homeland Security
The only exception to the line provided in the law states that to ascend to the Presidency, the next person in line must be constitutionally eligible. Any person holding an office in the line of succession who, for example, is not a naturally-born citizen cannot become President. In this case, that person would be skipped and the next eligible person in the line would become President.

To see who holds these posts, see The Cabinet Topic Page.
The Bush Cabinet (as of Febraury 24, 2008):

The President (George Bush)
The Vice President (Richard Cheney)
Secretary of Agriculture (Ed Schafer)
Secretary of Commerce (Carlos Gutierrez)
Secretary of Defense (Robert Gates)
Secretary of Education (Margaret Spellings)
Secretary of Energy (Samuel Bodman)
Secretary of Health and Human Services (Michael Leavitt)
Secretary of Homeland Security (Michael Chertoff)
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Alphonso Jackson)
Secretary of Interior (Dirk Kempthorne)
Attorney General (Michael Mukasey)
Secretary of Labor (Elaine Chao)
Secretary of State (Condoleezza Rice)
Secretary of Transportation (Mary Peters)
Secretary of Treasury (Henry Paulson)
Secretary of Veterans Affairs (James Peake)
Chief of Staff (Joshua Bolten)
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator (Stephen Johnson)
Office of Management and Budget Director (Jim Nussle)
Office of National Drug Control Policy Director (John Walters)
United States Trade Representative (Susan Schwab)

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

Incumbent:
Robert Byrd

Sending tons of get well soon healthy vibes your way Lu...and of course calming and soothing vibes to both her parents....the worrying about your child is worse than how bad your child feels sometimes.
Remember - you guys took her to get medical care as soon as you realized there was a problem....She knows you love her... what more can any parent do? Worry I know... but that can't be helped.
Hope she feels better soon.

what is wrong with Phoenix??
Submitted by Lucille on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 4:45pm.
i picked her up from school yesterday, she was not feeling so good this morning she seemed to be fine...but got sick again at school temp 101 deg. grover has her in the emergency room...its not to far from me so i walked over to the hospital...the doctor is seeing them now as we write

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

Is in the hospital right now. And Kennedy is home recovering from surgery.

President Pro Tempore of the Senate
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Submitted by pbtrue1 on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 5:24pm.
Incumbent:
Robert Byrd

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

TED STEVENS.

If nothing else, at least the 2006 elections took the spectre of that nightmare away.
Just imagine Mr. TUBES as president in the event of a crisis.....

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

impeachment "off the table" because she didn't want to lose her position as Speaker of the House in the dust of impeachment investigations and proceedings! But I can't help it.

This band of marauders have wreaked havoc on the entire world, and life as we knew it growing up. I commend Dennis Kucinich's efforts in his Articles of Impeachment of both Cheney and Bush.

My hopes lie in the fact Bob Wexler is a senior member of the Judiciary.

http://wexler.house.gov/index.shtml
Congressman Wexler has led a nationwide campaign in favor of holding impeachment hearings for Vice-President Dick Cheney. Congressman Wexler is Chairman of the Europe Subcommittee and a senior member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the House Judiciary Committee.

http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com

I know. But, I think that because of the corner that the admin put the dem leaders in - by keeping them IN the loop about what they were doing regarding torture and warrentless wiretapping etc... I do not think that Pelosi etc... had in their minds any other choice.
Not that I agree with their minds...but to reveal what they knew would be treason...just like what the white house did with Valerie Plame...so how do we call the valerie plame incident treason, and not call anyone who stood up and revealed what they knew - told to them under secrecy -treason as well?
Its a really bad situation. And I don't have an answer to this.

I don't want to think that Nancy Pelosi took
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Submitted by nora on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 5:36pm.
impeachment "off the table" because she didn't want to lose her position as Speaker of the House in the dust of impeachment investigations and proceedings! But I can't help it.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

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

If that in fact is true a new Speaker will be selected soon. But you know I don't believe any of that crap because Nancy would have been barred from telling her staff what was going on. She could not have sought legal counsel. She was put in a compromised position so she won't be judged the way you are thinking.

I know.... Amen and Amen... My hope lies not just where your hope does...but also with the American people...not just those who like us pay attention...but those whose eyes are being slowly opened....and that sadly...but true...that the price of gas may just be the final final final straw that gets that poor camel's back sprained enough to save us all....before it breaks...

Fingers and paws crossed here.

N-kitti
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Submitted by pbtrue1 on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 5:44pm.
This band of marauders have wreaked havoc on the entire world, and life as we knew it growing up. I commend Dennis Kucinich's efforts in his Articles of Impeachment of both Cheney and Bush.

My hopes lie in the fact Bob Wexler is a senior member of the Judiciary.

http://wexler.house.gov/index.shtml
Congressman Wexler has led a nationwide campaign in favor of holding impeachment hearings for Vice-President Dick Cheney. Congressman Wexler is Chairman of the Europe Subcommittee and a senior member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the House Judiciary Committee.

http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com

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

Randi exposes the Bush Big Lie about the Bush Era Job Scene.

Bush says unemployment is only 5 Percent but Bush has scammed the stat process.

Bush has scammed the stats on the Iraq war casualty and mortality rates, too. Only those who die in Iraq are counted as dead; those who die in transit to hospitals or in hospitals or die later fro, their wounds in the States aren't counted. As for the wounded, Bush started a scam early in 2007 to count only certain kinds of wounds and situations in which wounds occur, and thus Bush proudly claims a decrease in wounded and casualties.

Bush scams. And wants us to pat him on the back for the lies.

Missed the live show this week. Hope you'll post it.

Good luck, hope the next gig is soon. I spend my afternoons listening to podcasts of Rachel and Thom. Missing Sam.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hdj/

:)

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

YOUR elected representative has the power to help restore our democracy and stop the outrageous abuses of executive power occuring right now.

Congressman Dennis Kucinich has proposed a resolution with 35 Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush, meticulously documenting abuses of power that include lying us into war, torture, warrantless spying, and much more. To read the articles, go to:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/bush

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

Barack Obama now holds a statistically significant edge over John McCain, 46% to 39%, among independents nationally, but neither candidate commands complete loyalty from his respective party.

Large Democratic Base Provides Big Advantage for Obama

The current political landscape, with the percentage of those identifying themselves as Democrats outnumbering those who identify as Republicans by a 37% to 28% margin, provides a significant advantage for Barack Obama's presidential chances.

Are we here, or over there on the 2 page thread? ;-p

Thanks for making the move..I Hate Page 2 !

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

This show was previously scheduled and postponed. Tonight it's on for real. Listen and phone in!

Tonight, June 12th, from 7-8 p.m. ET, I'll have the pleasure of interviewing, with your help, Vincent Bugliosi, author of "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder." Let's figure out how to do this together. Go to: http://thepeoplespeakradio.net to learn more. Go to http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net/listen-live to listen live. You'll find instructions there to enter a paltalk chat room where you can post questions. You can also phone in and ask your questions on the air. Call in tollfree from anywhere in the United States or Canada at 888-228-4494 or anywhere else in the world at 877-489-6350. Got that? It's free. You talking with Bush's future prosecutor. Following the show, the audio file will be posted at http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net/audio/2008 and you can find there now the recordings of numerous shows with amazing guests, including Cindy Sheehan, Lincoln Chafee, Brad Friedman, Shirin Ebadi, Phil Donahue, Mark Crispin Miller, William Odom, Byron DeLear, etc.

Post draft questions below, then phone in with the best ones.

Link-AfterDowningStreet

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

Isn't that a Good thing ? :)

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

These difficult times are not an accident of history - they are a consequence of a tired and misguided economic philosophy in Washington. It's a philosophy that values wealth but not the work that creates it. That's how we've ended up with tax loopholes that allow companies to stash profits and ship jobs overseas. That's why we have seen tax cut after tax cut for the wealthiest Americans who don't need them and didn't ask for them. And that's why we're burdened with a tax code that's too complicated for ordinary folks to understand, but just complicated enough for Washington lobbyists who know how to work the system.

Barack Obama
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/tax_relief_for_the_mid...

Through personal relationships and small group encounters, Vereide united captains of industry and politicians as a Biblical bulwark against the increasing power of organized labor.

In the late 1940s, the Family helped roll back key pro-labor provisions of the New Deal. Later, the Family did its part for the Cold War by cultivating anti-communist strongmen around the world, including repressive leaders like Suharto of Indonesia and Jonas Savimbi of Angola.

The roster of current and former Family members includes senators, congressmen, Fortune 500 CEOs, generals and at least one Supreme Court justice. The Family does not publish membership lists, and its members are sworn to secrecy, so a full accounting is impossible.

Sen. Hillary Clinton has been involved with the Family since 1993

http://www.alternet.org/rights/87665/

Cuba is to abandon egalitarian salaries after decades of government control in a bid to improve the nation's productivity, a senior government official has revealed.

It is thought that an end to the capped wages set up by Fidel Castro in 1959 could spark the beginnings of a new middle class in Cuba.

In an interview published in Granma, the Communist party's daily newspaper the minister for labour and social security, Carlos Mateu, said the current system gave employees little incentive to excel because everyone earned the same regardless of how much work they put in.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/12/cuba

Footage from a video camera handed out by an Israeli human rights group appears to show Jewish settlers beating up Palestinians in the West Bank.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7451691.stm

WASHINGTON (AP) - Investigators for the committee that runs House Republican campaigns say a former treasurer appears to have stolen at least $725,000 from the group since 2001.

An internal probe alleged that the former treasurer, Christopher Ward, used his authority to order wire transfers to siphon money meant for the GOP committee into his own accounts.

Ward also appears to have taken at least $28,000 from the group in charge of Senate Republican campaigns, said lawyer Robert K. Kelner. Kelner is one of a team of lawyers hired by the National Republican Congressional Committee to investigate.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7581926

A Poster-boy for The GOP's Culture Of Corruption !

Wouldn't You Think.. :)

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

Ward, who worked for the NRCC for more than 12 years, is suspected of having diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars from the House GOP campaign committee, although the exact figure is still unclear. The NRCC recently filed an amended disclosure report covering the month of December, stating that it had $740,000 less cash on hand than originally reported to the FEC, a portion of which Ward allegedly diverted to his own use.

NRCC Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and lawyers for the committee have suggested that Ward embezzled “several hundred thousand dollars” beginning in 2003 until his alleged scheme was exposed in January. Ward was also affiliated with dozens of other Republican campaigns and PACs. GOP sources suspect he also took funds from a number of them.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9285.html

CREDO Action.

George Bush has only nine months left in office. During that time he could make lifetime appointments to the federal courts that would ensure his legacy for another 50 years. But there's a way to stop him.

Bush and his allies are still trying to ram through a set of ultra-conservative judicial nominees. However, there is a longstanding Senate practice of ending the consideration of controversial nominations in the months before a presidential election. The Senate should simply refuse to move forward with confirmation proceedings for Bush's extreme judicial nominees.

Please Sign Petition-Thank You

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

The Bradblog..

It's Day 3 of my Guest Hosting gig this week for the syndicated Peter B. Collins Show! Please join us for another rip-roaring adventure in radio and accountability-land!

We'll again be BradCasting live from the studios of KTLK AM1150 in Los Angeles from 3p - 6p PT (6p - 9p ET). Hope you'll tune in, call in, stream in, and blog in throughout the show.

Scheduled guests posted here shortly!

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6068

And Podcasts To The Peter B Collins Show..
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Keith O..

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6065

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

Death is inevitable, but federal income taxes aren't for an increased number of high-income earners.

New IRS statistics show 7,389 federal tax returns with $200,000 or more in adjusted gross income reported no federal income taxes in 2005. That's a 161% jump from the 2,833 comparable returns filed in 2004.

Additionally, 4,224 of the over-$200,000 earners reported no worldwide income tax liability on their 2005 returns, the IRS data show. That represents a 75% increase from the 2,420 comparable returns filed in 2004.

The data are the most recent available from the IRS. It shows a rising number of high-income earners have avoided the alternative minimum tax, which was intended to ensure that tax shelters, deductions and loopholes wouldn't exempt wealthy Americans from paying at least some federal income tax.

Con't-USA

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

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

Sam... I need my fix!!! I pay $10/month for TYT and another $10 for Randi and Malloy... So, where do I get my sign up for YOU????? Do it, Dude!

Until then, how do I get the audio of the show??? I NEED IT!!!!

Much love, dana

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3263

Audio courtesy of JMach and Fernando