It was nice to hear Marc and Jim (not to mention Kristapea and Andy) on the radio yesterday, plus see a few old friends here who haven’t been around much lately. Marc and Jim will be back on again today (you know, I never used to care for Jerry’s show, but now that he’s got these shitcanned AAR hosts subbing for him, it’s gotten much better; maybe Lizz Winstead will be on next week), so pull up a stream (either go to AAR’s Jerry page, try the WSAI page, or use this Windows Media link), and check back in around 9:00 (Eastern). Maybe we can talk ’em into taking all the screws out of Dr. Laura’s chair before they go.
Call in at 1-877-34-JERRY (1-877-345-3779).
ANV –
good to see you! Check yesterday’s blog for Marc’s show – cnick has it on his podcast site – I think it’s linked at comment #207 or so.
:joe:
oh it does the heart good to hear these boyz. and pj, i like the chair 💡 !
Happy Friday, everyone!
Happy Friday everyone!
And it’ll be even happier at 9 AM! The Marc and Jim show!!!
Maybe a little Rapture Watch, since it’s Friday?
If only I had a DO NOT DISTURB sign to hang on my cube.
:banana::banana::banana:
PJ Thank You ❗ I think of your hysterical take on “taking care of the dirty cat litter and :billcat::barf: and :rofl2::lol::rofl2: and while cleaning the :crap:
Comment by Druid_666 — October 27, 2006 @ 6:53 am
Farmerkat :yippee: and Kevin M :yippee: and 😉 :pent::poof: DO NOT DISTURB and :dancers:
The Gang is starting to “surface”. :banana::wink:
Rapture Watch:!: I NEED to be Saved:!: :cat::pup:tea :joe:
:reaper::reaper::reaper::tongue::tongue::tongue:
❓ whatever :sheep: le
good morning sheeple!!! Another day with Marc in it :nod::rabbi::tongue:
October 27, 2006
Democrats Fear Disillusionment in Black Voters
By IAN URBINA
Last weekend, Jim Webb, the Virginia Democrat who hopes to oust Senator George Allen, crammed in visits to 12 black churches, and for several weeks he has been pumping money into advertisements on black radio stations and in black newspapers.
In Missouri, Claire McCaskill, the Democrat trying to unseat Senator Jim Talent, has been running advertisements about sickle cell anemia, a genetic illness that mostly afflicts black people, and the importance of stem cell research in helping to find a cure.
For Democrats like these in tight races, black voter turnout will be crucial on Election Day. But despite a generally buoyant Democratic Party nationally, there are worries among Democratic strategists in some states that blacks may not turn up at the polls in big enough numbers because of disillusionment over past shenanigans.
“This notion that elections are stolen and that elections are rigged is so common in the public sphere that we’re having to go out of our way to counter them this year,” said Donna Brazile, a Democratic strategist.
This will be the first midterm election in which the Democratic Party is mobilizing teams of lawyers and poll watchers, to check for irregularities including suppression of the black vote, in at least a dozen of the closest districts, Ms. Brazile said.
Democrats’ worries are backed up by a Pew Research Center report that found that blacks were twice as likely now than they were in 2004 to say they had little or no confidence in the voting system, rising to 29 percent from 15 percent.
And more than three times as many blacks as whites — 29 percent versus 8 percent — say they do not believe that their vote will be accurately tallied.
Voting experts say the disillusionment is the cumulative effect of election problems in 2000 and 2004, and a reaction to new identification and voter registration laws.
Long lines and shortages of poll workers in lower-income neighborhoods in the 2004 election and widespread reports of fliers with misinformation appearing in minority areas have also had a corrosive effect on confidence, experts say.
The harder question is whether this jaded outlook will diminish turnout.
Recent polls have found record levels of outrage from Democrats about the current political leadership, which may offset the effect of black disillusion.
But Saleemah Affoul of Milwaukee, for one, is not so sure. Like many other black people in her neighborhood, Ms. Affoul said she was convinced that no matter how she voted, it would not be counted fairly.
“I do think the system is rigged,” she said. “I vote anyway because my forefathers worked too hard to win me that right. But not everyone feels that responsibility around here.”
Walking along Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in the gritty and mostly black section of Brewers Hill on the North Side of Milwaukee, Ms. Affoul said that cynicism in her neighborhood was on the rise.
She traced her own skepticism to one afternoon two months before the last presidential election when she overheard several young black men saying they were not going to vote because they feared being arrested at the polling station for their unpaid parking tickets. The neighborhood had been flooded with fliers from the Milwaukee Black Voters League, a fictitious group, saying that even minor infractions like parking tickets disqualified people from voting.
Ms. Affoul, 66, said she argued with the men but failed to convince them that they had been misinformed.
“I realized that maybe the poll tax isn’t gone after all, and that if people were willing to try that trick, they might be willing to do a lot more that I don’t even know about,” she said.
Black voters are expected to play crucial roles in races for governor and the Senate in Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia.
In Maryland, where blacks make up about 30 percent of the electorate, the Democratic candidate for governor, Martin O’Malley, who is white, is trailing the Republican incumbent, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., by several points. Mr. O’Malley needs a large turnout among blacks in Baltimore to win, and he has mobilized more than 2,000 get-out-the-vote workers in black neighborhoods. He also helped his chances of attracting the black vote by selecting Anthony G. Brown, a black lawyer, as his running mate.
In Tennessee, Representative Harold E. Ford Jr. is depending on a strong showing from blacks in Memphis, which he represents, to edge past Bob Corker and become the first black senator from a Southern state since Reconstruction.
In Virginia, Democrats hope that recent accusations of racism against Senator Allen will motivate blacks to vote for his Democratic opponent, Mr. Webb.
Ronald Walters, director of the African American Leadership Institute at the University of Maryland, said the reason for the rise in black voters’ cynicism could be summed up in a single word: confirmation.
Mr. Walters said that episodes of voter suppression that were dismissed in 2000 as unfounded recurred in 2004 and were better documented because rights groups dispatched thousands of lawyers and poll watchers. In addition, the first national data-tracking tool, the Election Incident Reporting System, offered a national hot line that fed a database of what ended up to be 40,000 problems.
“All of a sudden after 2004, these weren’t just baseless or isolated incidents,” Mr. Walters said.
The type of misleading letter sent this month to 14,000 Hispanic immigrants in Orange County, Calif., threatening them with arrest if they tried to vote, was hardly a first. In 2004, similar fliers appeared in predominantly black neighborhoods in the Pittsburgh area, on official-looking letterheads. The fliers said that because of unusually high voter registration, Republicans were to vote on Election Day, and Democrats were to vote the next day.
Fliers sent in Lake County, Ohio, told people that if they had registered through the N.A.A.C.P., they could not vote.
Asked whether such tactics from 2004 could influence black turnout next month, the Rev. Al Sharpton of New York, whose National Action Network is also mobilizing voter protection teams, said that despite insufficient action from Democrats in responding to the problems, he believed that black turnout would be high.
“Just because more of us believe that folks are trying to rob us of certain rights doesn’t mean we are more likely to give up and leave the front door unlocked,” Mr. Sharpton said.
The rollout of new voting machines may also be contributing to black voters’ fears.
“African-Americans are more susceptible to conspiracy theories about the new technology because they have been subject to actual conspiracies more often than the rest of the population,” said David A. Bositis, senior political analyst for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, a research organization dedicated to African-American issues.
Marsha Lindsey, a black paramedic and former poll worker in Dayton, Ohio, said that after 2004 she stopped arguing with her black friends when they said there was no point in voting.
Spencer Overton, a law professor at George Washington University and author of “Stealing Democracy: the New Politics of Voter Suppression,” said the threat of voter suppression presented difficult strategic decisions.
“Voter suppression is a real threat,” Mr. Overton said, “but Democrats can’t invest so much into voter protection that they don’t have adequate resources to turn out their voters to the polls in the first place.”
The Rev. DeForest B. Soaries, who is black and was appointed by President George W. Bush as the first chairman of the United States Election Assistance Commission, an agency meant to help carry out the Help America Vote Act, said Democrats overestimated the problem of voter suppression in much the same way Republicans overestimated the problem of voter fraud.
Skepticism is especially pronounced in poor black neighborhoods, Mr. Soaries said, because these communities are often disproportionately affected by problems with machines and the number and training of poll workers. When problems do occur in these areas, he added, they occur against a historical backdrop of voter suppression.
Whatever its consequence, the topic is very much on Democrats’ minds. At a recent Democratic fund-raiser in Atlanta, at the home of Representative John Lewis, who is black, conversation centered on perceptions that widespread voter disenfranchisement would haunt the 2006 elections.
Former President Bill Clinton addressed the issue there, criticizing some Republican campaign tactics. After mentioning rough-edged political ads and other strategies, he said, “And when that doesn’t work, they try to keep you from voting.”
Headed into a statewide candidates’ forum on prison overhaul, for pastors from Baltimore, the Rev. Heber Brown III, who is black, said that the success of black voter mobilization efforts in 2004 set the stage for some disillusion.
“Last time, you had hip-hop leaders like Russell Simmons, Eminem and Sean Combs with the Vote or Die campaign and lots of young blacks voted but what did they get?” said Mr. Brown, 26, pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church in Baltimore County. “Now when you talk to young black voters you can’t just say, ‘Get out the vote,’ you have to first do a lot of explaining, cut through a lot of confusion about the 2004 vote and first talk about how change takes time.”
Jennifer Steinhauer contributed reporting.
Good Morning everyone!!
What most people don’t understand is that most election fixing/fraud occurs at the local or state level and its their responsibility to solve the problems. A corrupt state/local government can be fixed by elections or in extreme situations the applied use of a tree and a rope.:gate::omg:
next time I post a long article I’ll just post a short summary and a link, sorry about that sheeple
Wow, PJ- I just saw the Skype thing down below!…..How do you do that?
Kat!!!! Ask Mr to call in to Marc today! Even though hes been home for a while, Im sure he still has alot of information that we need to hear!
Its so great to see and hear everyone!
Hey Melina. It’s magic.
Actually, you can look here.
good article susan
scary but good.
question:
can someone hit the listen live wm button on jerry’s aar page and tell me what you see.
I couldn’t get it yesterday but today it title scans thom hartmann and shows time passing but no sound. is this how it should be, given that there’s nothing on that stream now?
lordy, lordy, I am such a technological idiot.
pj: not just the chair, the desk, bookcases, etc. Great Idea, pj!
Former commissioners of the Internal Revenue Service are questioning the agency’s decision to stall collecting taxes from Katrina victims, The New York Times will report in its Friday edition.
“The commissioner of internal revenue has ordered his agency to delay collecting back taxes from Hurricane Katrina victims until after the Nov. 7 elections and the holiday season,” writes David Cay Johnston, “saying he did so in part to avoid negative publicity.”
The commissioner, Mark W. Everson, explains, “We are very sensitive to political perceptions,” saying also that “he regularly discussed with his senior staff members when to take actions and make announcements in light of whether they would annoy a powerful member of Congress or get lost in the flow of news.”
Four former commissioners of the IRS are saying, however, that instituting such a delay due to an election “was improper and indefensible.”
One ex-commissioner was quoted in the article as responding, “Never, never, never,” and “Oh my God, that is unthinkable,” when asked if he would have considered a similar election-related delay.
Thanks Suz…its espcially hard for those of us who are on remote devices part of the time and have to scroll through over and over…
I need the confessional….I was mean to a “fan” of my grandfather’s who has been harassing me about copyright law ….and knowing that grandpa has been in the hospital he keeps writing and demanding a lawyer letter stating copyright law! …huh?
So, I guess I was a little crazy last night and I sorta…um…did a simple google search, copied the law and then tore him a new one about being a pushy jerk. Its not like he has been making a ton of $ selling RMT, but ebay pulls them down due to a legal affidavit that they have on file, and it pisses him off because in his opinion he should be able to sell any “oldtime” show he wants regardless of copyright law or the fact that Hi is very much alive and in ownership of the copyrights, masters, scripts, and original cancelled checks…and mouse poop and mold and dust and rot from the original dandruff coming off of EG marshal’s hairpiece…shit!.
This guy reminds me of the republicans who have been calling Sam’s show…..”its that way because I think it is….My wages are going up so that means that the general wage is going up”….Just because I think so…you do the research! I dont want ot hear it anyway!
So, I told him that he would have to wait because Hi has been in the hospital and Im busy,….and he keeps writin me saying…well, its been 5 days and I have still not heard form your lawyer….geeze…
I mean…I have talked to the lawyer alot…and I do have a copy of the email to have the lawyer send out a letter on, but we’ve had more important things to discuss…like Hi’s health and home health aides and stuff…!
Now I see why Hi can be so pissed about bootleggers who say they love the shows and respect him, but they want ot be addressed right now!!…as if there isnt anything else in the world…
The funny hting is that I encourage sharing in a really cool community thats out there. The guy who runs it is a real fan and no one makes money. I hate these assholes who sell the same exact thing that can be had for free in a thousand places….Im not sure what Hi wants to do with the shows, but Im pretty sure that its his choice. And most of what he does has to do with education and charity….not making a deal with some guy so he can sell it on ebay!.
So, I feel bad…I was a little mean…and I shouldnt have let the guy get to me. He is just some little jerk with time on his hands.
Hey, the Clear Channel person from Salinas, California was just here again. I wonder (again) if that was Marc and/or Jim?
Hey, Melina, you ought to auction off some of that mouse poop and mold on eBay.
I can’t access the Springer stream via the AA link. My windows media says “playing” clip of Hartmann but it isn’t. I’m going to try the Ohio stream; that’s always worked for me before
Hey, I seem to have substituted “hey” for “well.” Well, hey, I gotta knock that off.
The AAR Jerry stream might not work until 9:00. But the Ohio station seems to be pretty stable. Right now, I’m listening to Bill Press on the Nova M stream. He seems to be far less annoying than the Young Turds. And I don’t have to hear how he was a Republican until 2003 (as if that’s something to be proud of).
yeah, take note sheeple, WSAI is working well right now…
melina:
what’s RMT short for?
I hardy think your action requires a liberal confession. we’re liberals not doormats.
your grandfather sounds great and you are spending so much time and energy on him. my grampa was one of my favorite folks, too. an unreconstructed lefty, my mom & I were visiting him and my grandmother, who was in a nursing home, when nixon fired archibood cox, the independent prosecutor. Grampa kept yelling at the teevee, ” that son of a bitch, nixon. he showed his true colors on the House Unamerican Activities Committee and he’s still the same sob.”
hope Hi is doing better.
RMT=Radio Mystery Theater…and its actually one of his latest and last shows…thus the big issue of copyright, because the laws in question came into effect in 78, I believe…
I dont even care anymore…I think the fans are fantastic and certainly more into the shows than Hi ever was. He is interested in the act of creating but once its done he moves on. he is an original old radio guy from the beginning and they didnt save stuff back then …everything was immediate.
I actually was much closer to my Mom’s parents in that they were more salt of the earth….Hi and I have been close but we are sorta different as people.
Though we did spend around 10 years up here on weekends watching the political shows together. Anymore he is just so fed up and short tempered with politics and everything….
I hope he gets back to himself a litle bit so he can enjoy whats left. He could live alot longer with our genetics…his Mom lived to 100 and she was an immigrant from Russian who came here in steerage and never spoke english…Yiddish only for her whole life!. The whole getting old thing seems a little bleak to me lately….its not fun….as Hi makes clear daily!
Yay! The bus came!! Took mylittle devil to school…Abdul, our driver for the past 2 years called because he had a flat…
It took a long long itme to get a replacement…
Tonight Will has a bowling party in New Rochelle that is, I guess, for the whole upper school. I hear the place is really loud and full of games…horrible. I think Im supposed to be a chaperone.
Then Sunday he has another party…in the middle we have to get Ben and take him to get a costume…and I think that little Fritz, who lives with Ben and his Mom , wants to be davey crockett from the new Pirates movie….something difficult to get.
AND, I was just drinking my coffee and came across some bird poop in the cup…GREAT!!
Perfect beginning to the perfect day!:dancers:
:priest:+Saint of the Day+:priest:
Abban of Wexford, Abbot (not Costello)
Born in Ireland, 6th century. Saint Abban, nephew of Saint Kevin Of Fla., founded many monasteries, mostly in southern Ireland. His name is especially connected with the town of Morrigan-Armuidhe, now D_666. The lives of this saint are hopelessly confused with that of Saint Abba Eban, of the desert and others of the similar names and locations. (Maronites, Encyclopedia).
+++:priest:+++
:jesus:
yay! The Saints are back!
pjsauter, is the reason I do not get Bill Press 😥 on WSAI is since he is more on AIR near the east? I :love: Bill. He was from my area . 🙁
not Costello??? :omg:
Morrigan? Isn’t that Druid’s name? :pent:
I tried to send a myspace bulletin about Maron’s show but bulletins are down
this is posted on rawstory:
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Mystery explosion in Devon/Cornwall, England
Jason says:
In Bude (Cornwall, England) today there was the sound of a huge explosion that caused huge cracks in at least one person’s house. The thing is no one knows what caused it — there is no obvious explosion site, and the MOD and RAF deny any supersonic planes were flying over that area. Although the Ministry of Defence have been known to lie sometimes, surely a sonic boom that could crack houses would have smashed everyone’s windows too. It’s a fascinating mystery.
Reader comments:
Brad says:
This has happened in the US as well. In April, I experienced it in San Diego and it was reported in the newspaper. Every agency or entity that could conceivably be responsible says it had nothing to do with it and though it shook my four story office building, there is still no explanation for it.
Leah says:
Writing in from Toronto to say that the same phenomena was reported to have happened here about a week ago, some time around 4am. I didn’t personally hear it, but woke to the radio personality I listen to discussing it with his co-host. It was described as sounding like a sonic boom, and none of the city’s emergency personnel could provide any information as to what caused the sound. Later reports during the day claim that people as far as Mississauga heard the same noise.
Cited as radio’s first Jewish comedy, The Rise of The Goldbergs began in 1929 as a weekly 15-minute program. In 1931, the show became a daily serial known simply as The Goldbergs. It aired at various times on NBC and CBS until 1950, before becoming a hit on television.
:nixon::sdavid::parrot::pent::pirate:
:jesus:
NickiRose re 27 Very 😎 and :rofl2: Going to copy :nod: = c&v
:song note: NickiRose, you still haven’t named my Confirmation Name
Mwah HaHa or :rofl2:. 😉
:Stop your antirabbism. Rabbitism.
:omg:
I think my dad told me about that show!
Hey!:knit:
Here thanks to the alarm clocks::cat::billcat:
It’s almost 6 past the hour!
I read about it in MERIP (I think) in the late ’80s. I did not realize the show was that popular.
wow this show gets started late
Rabbitism?
Letter “t” stencil, strategically applied with spraypaint.
I love graffiti-ing up the blog.:omg:
so is Sammy lurking somewhere in back of this conversation?
Good Morning Seditionisti. :joe:
Here’s a link to a video of those huge explosions in Camp Falcon
Don’t know anything about the following link, never heard of it but it’s the only place that is reporting casualties
http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2006/10/22/6073.shtml
Baghdad’s sky is illuminated by huge explosions in the Iraqi capital (pic AAP)
Late on the evening of October 10, 2006, Iraqi resistance groups lobbed mortar
Late on the evening of October 10, 2006, Iraqi resistance groups lobbed mortar
Falcon base was designed to house a large contingent of American troops, mostly drawn from the 4th Infantry Division, stationed at Fr. Bliss, Texas. At the time of the attack, there were approximately 3000 men inside the camp, which also was filled with ammunition supplies, fuel, tanks and vehicles….
….Over 300 American troops, including U.S. Army and Marines, CIA agents and U.S. translators were casualties and there also were 165 seriously injured requiring major medical attention and 39 suffering lesser injuries 122 members of the Iraqi armed forces were killed and 90 seriously injured members of same, were also evacuated to the U.S. military hospital at al-Habbaniyah located some 70km west of Baghdad….
Hey Krista
more and more poor people, Maron has got that right….
Morning Kristapea!
Great hearing you yesterday:nod::pup:
Yeah, Krista was super on the radio :peace:
Thanks! :dancers:
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs. Chicago. I am streaming the Chi-town station.
(Stop your anti-semitism.):rabbi:
I wonder if Lawton Smalls will call :ear::cool:
Stem Cell is a non-negotiable issue, Rich.
I finally got my post up from yesterday’s show…took me all last night and this morning…some pics of Will’s school costume and the new bird.
The Chicago stream doesn’t work for me….
Too cynical, :rabbi:. Rebbe Lubavitcher.
I need a goddamned self-hating emo. :jason:
:jason::sdavid:
:jason: :rabbi:
self hating Jew, anyway
Kucinich sent me an email today. He told me he is being swift boated and needs some money to hit back.
That is what I meant. I also want a bagel emo.
Grandpa actually was the first producer to sell the Goldbergs…and played the father in the first months…then Goldberg fired him…he had no contract and had put the whole deal in place…but just went on and created Little Italy and the Bronx Marriage Bureau, figuring that the formula could work in any setting….
::sigh:: unfortunately the only tactic that works in those cases is to counter the messages and that takes money
a bagel and maybe a hamburger :pent:
I know.
What kind of hamburgers do easterners eat?
a “little” cowardly, Marc???
Goldwater sucked shit.
depends what a person likes, some go for the big thick grilled burgers at steak houses, then there are the fast food type burgers, some of which you know about 😛
What about the Jews?
leave off the cheese, not kosher. Otherwise, same as everyone else…
Hey dude. The Democrats don’t want to lose their option to rig elections once they get back in power.
oh yes, ,diner burgers are big (grilled)
“Eros Effect,” dude.
who is this guy?
I think that might have been Jim.
Yes, I came to the same late conclusion …
Nicki and Susan…is it burgers or is it bagels…
:alc:
have you guys shared a meal yet?
Where’s Fred?:crap::crap::crap:
[George Katsiaficas] coined the phrase “Eros Effect” to describe what drives the circulation of passionate, creative, and dynamic political movements around the world (notably in 1968, which he wrote about in his earlier book “The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968”; a third volume to be published in a couple of years will round out this trilogy of vital, lost history).
Bitch slap Bush!
I’m familiar with the mythological definition of “eros”…this sounds interesting too, maybe there are reasons why it’s called that…will have to read more about it
no, not bagels with burgers at the same time. But we’ve had separate conversations about both
Somebody record this for me.
:pent::sdavid::rofl2:
:jesus:
Goddamn it, my Internets were down for an hour and a half. Did I miss anything good?
hm, I haven’t seen Fred at all today…maybe he has a meeting this morning
Stormy weather in Denver.
a conversation about stem cells (serious discussion – no Sammy anywhere, but it was interesting)…hmm, what else did he talk about..
again? Poor Fred, I know he had to dig out yesterday I think it was…
#6 and #10
But maybe they rescheduled the meeting with Ms always late…:tongue:
Nobody blogging.
Oh!, So Jim is okay with skinning a cow so he can have leather shoes, but not okay with utilizing the meat inside. So, in Jim’s world we’re gonna have a bunch of skinned cows grazing in the fields?? :tongue:
I can’t take that particular conversation very seriously
Skinny cows in India…
Do they get used for leather sandals?:paranoid:
Oh man, I had that same experience with a rat when I was living in Portland. And I kinda reacted the same way.
I just woke up…..
It’s MARON!!!!!
This is the best morning I’ve had in a little while… so good is this morning that I’m not going to go back to sleep.
Yep.. gonna stay u…..Zzzzzzzzz
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Ouch. We’re gonna need a shitload of sunblock.
Theoquatic! :rofl2:
well, the indian economy is or was partly intertwined with the use of cow poop for fuel and also milk…so, there is a whole study of that which is probably not germaine to the discussion of vegetarianism…it is beyond religion there actually…
Speaing or Rats, ever seen that thing about the rats in the indian temple? They have overrun the place an are considered to be holy…so there are millions of them! People walk through a sea of rats!
I ran over a squirrel once but it was quick…also one of basement snake’s children.
Small animals must not play in the road or driveway…its the circle of life!
Is someone recording? I totally forgot to open up Replay and I have to go to work soon. I’ll miss the last hour
I believe only the cows are sacred.
I almost never eat beef anymore, ‘cuz I don’t trust the US beef industry. In fact, I don’t buy dog food with beef, either.
I had replay all set to record, but then RoadRunner decided to screw me over, so I didn’t. However, the podcast will be out later (yesterday, he didn’t know that Maron was hosting, and didn’t get cracking on it ’til later, so hopefully it’ll be up around the time Sammy is). Somehow, I don’t think anybody’s clamoring to get Springer up in a hurry.
Marc talking about cultural narcissism, watching Sam talking about having Janine appear as Katherine Harris for Halloween:yippee::yippee::dancers::dancers: What a great way to end a week:banana::banana: I think I’ll go fix a :40::tongue::pup::doh:
I am so loving this! I feel young again! :yippee: Wow, I wonder if he’ll be elsewhere soon.
Hey Marc and Jim :cat: We love you!
Oh, but it’s hurting my brain:hot::love::nuts::bow:
Anybody join me in an early :alc: ❓ 😮
I sure hope we get to have Marc on Nova M, or satellite, or something – soon.
well, if he keeps filling in for Jerry we may have to have a different blog…me no likee Jen.
I think it started yesterday when I told her to be careful to spell Marc’s name right because he would one day be her boss….or no, as the case may be…:yippee:
Im sure that nick will have it up later…but also Ive got it Krista….replay and premium for a month….
and sam from the past 2 days too!!
Im gonna need something for this teen party tonight!
Did you guys see my lil devil?
Ill have to put some new pics in the pic section.
Marc is so good PJ…that he can do this so well on now prep time…and I know for a fact that he wants to be doing this much more than the road…plus you can do both as a comic….but much better for life to not be on the road constantly…whos gonna kill the animals and drag em in for the little lady?
I dont think he would last here for a week…The nature is so extreme…and this isnt even all that extreme!
But Ive gotten good at calling animal control to remove dead bodies too large to move and…ugh…
its all too real….
Interesting that we seem to have a lurker coming from Clear Channel. I thought maybe that was where Laura Slushinger’s studio was, but it appears that she comes out of the Premier Radio Network, whose main corporate office is in Sherman Oaks (thought it would be a bit far for Marc to drive up to the Bay area, but you never know). So, is this a Marc fan? Or are they checking us out to see what sort of a fan base he has, for a possible show? We aren’t Yahoo, but we had about 600 visitors yesterday (mostly lurkers), and we get about 100 – 150 hard core, visit every day visitors (again, mostly lurkers).
So, Clear Channel – get Marc on the air!
And this is a crappy little site that I put together in about two hours, just to get it up there (never really expected it to last, to tell you the truth).
Hey, this sounds like David Cross.
I think it’s pretty awesome, not a “crappy little site” at all…and we have the best emo colleciton on the internet 🙂 (and the best Marc fans!) :bow::om::peace:
Good call pj! It was a good bit!
I thought it was Kent for a second…but no…
We need Marc back on the air pronto! And he is ready!
But its not gonna be on Jerry’s show…
Remember, Marc turned AAR Down for the 6-9 slot just as Jerry was sent to syndication rotation depending on who wants him…
and Jene is a friend of his from the 70’s who has probably been also his asst on the TV show etc…..whatever…
Blogmaster is an interesting title….I think Im gonna call myself that too….and PJ, you can be King Blogmaster…k?
I think Ill thank the suits and not Jerry’s friend from the 70’s who rides a harley and shares Jerry’s concern for the liberal voice so strongly….ugh!
Just like Goldfart did too…
Lets just hope that Sam gets out of there alive or that there is a total overhaul down to the…um…toilet paper dispensers!
:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:
PJ- this crappy little site gets me through the week (and life without Marc) :bow::love::banana::dancers::rofl2::doh:
Ah, Premiere is part of Clear Channel. Shoulda known.
pj, thanks for the site :bow:
All hail pj! :bow::bow::bow::bow::peace:
Hey PJ- The Google crawler just found the post I put up 2 hours ago!…It came in on my Marc Maron search….is that good? Does that mean that Google recognizes me? Or did the crawler just happen on me first?
with and without Marc!! PJ, you know how I feel….youe brilliant!:dancers::parrot::parrot::parrot::parrot::parrot:
Hey PG…how come no one ever offers me a fruit basket??
:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:
Once the googlebot knows you’re out there, it comes back frequently to check. Also (and I think this is the same with blogger, but I know I do it here), when your blog is updated, it send out a little ping to one or more places to let them know that something new is up.
For instance, the Yahoo bot is here right now.
cool…but in the technorati links you are very low and there are so many newer ones…so does that mean that my blog should send out more pings?…should I sign up for more?
It seems like anytime I ook into that I end up with alot of junk email asking me to join services that I dont understan and involving search engines that Ive never heard of.
see, Jene wants some recognition and respect and we all come back here and thank PJ…isnt that telling?
PG are you a people pleaser sorta gal, or applying for an internship at Springer, or maybe youre being respectful to your fellow boradcasters???…Im just kidding….You can have your own point of view about things but try not to speak for everyone…ok?
Just dont commit suicide yet…you have many years to consider that once you get older and see what happens out of all this.
You still have something to say…thats for sure!
It’s not something you sign up for. And technorati only tracks links from other blogs (this on only has four blogs that link to it – b@b has almost 250). I’ll have to look at blogger, but blogger is owned by google, so that no doubt gets updated in a hurry.
PJSauter, YOU kept “The Family” together.
For me, I truly would not “post” (good lurker:hubba:, except for twice with The Guardian years ago..) until HERE :cool::wink::cat:
Yeah, see, there’s an option in blogger (under settings>publishing) to notify weblogs.com when your blog is updated (default setting is yes).
Aw shucks, y’all, knock it off. 😳 I just meant that, if this many people go out of their way to find some obscure website just to see what’s going on with Marc, imagine what he’d do with some real promotion. He needs to get his webmistress off her butt, too (of course, that might put us out of business).
With how things are going, I dont think thats happening soon…its a designer anyway…he still will need some sort of tech….I really dont even believe that he is loading his videos to myspace all by himself….
Too bad. Oh well, hopefully he can get somebody to help him out. I know he thought Harland Williams’ site was really great (it’s kinda cool – all flash and stuff – the first time you go there, but after that, it gets old in a hurry. So does Harland’s act, come to think of it).
Goooood morning, Seditionisti! A Maron fix is a great way to start a weekend. :yippee: (And I’ll get mine later today if Cnick is as heroic today as he was yesterday.)
Check this chart tosee how your Congresscritter (if incumbent in a race that’s close) stands on his or her support of Prez Monkey-butt. In case you’re interested. I’m not. None of the incumbents is even remotely close up here.
Does anyone remember Marc saying at the beginning of yesterdays show that he was definently going to be back on the radio or am I just :bong::doh: :tinfoil:
PJ, even if Maron puts a conversational blog on his site, I doubt anyone’s going to abandon this one. I did while the show was on the air because of my computer’s limitations when I listened to the show online. That’s not going to be a problem for a little while, at least, so I can’t imagine me abandoning the blog and I’m one of the ones who bailed last time. This blog will always be home.
:bow::bow:
And now a brief happy moment for Friday.
:dancers::dancers::dancers::boobs::dancers::dancers::dancers:
(We have almost enough smileys there to make a post entirely in smileys possible…)
Harlands act starts horrible and stays horrible…I cant even believe that we sat through that shit…ugh!
And he is in a movie?
Next he’ll be linked to Jessica Simpson or Kevin Federline or some such….
GYpsy…hi!
Did you see my question about kohlrabi?…what the hell is it and why is it in my farm share? Can I eat it raw? feed it to the birds? I dont have much…
Man! That was great. Someone should give this Maron guy a radio show or something.
LET’S TALK ABOUT THE ISSUES!
WE’RE FIGHTING FOR OUR LIVES HERE!
:yippee:
greetings Seditionists!!
well, i always knew morning classes sucked because i had to get up at 5 in the morning just to be here on time, but now i hate them because i missed Marc and Jim!!!:fu::fustrate:
so how was the show? did someone record it? or will Cnick have it up on his lovely podcast page??:love: i hope so….
well, looks like you guys had a great time while i was trying to stay awake in class :joe::yawn:
i’ll check in with you guys later! have a great day everyone!:love::yippee::banana::peace::fire::fist:
:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:
I GOT MY ABSENTEE BALLOT TODAY!!!
::music::
I GOT MY BALLOT.
I’M GOING TO VOTE.
::music::
G.O.P. Moves Fast to Reignite Issue of Gay Marriage
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 — The divisive debate over gay marriage, which played a prominent role in 2004 campaigns but this year largely faded from view, erupted anew on Thursday as President Bush and Republicans across the country tried to use a court ruling in New Jersey to rally dispirited conservatives to the polls.
Wednesday’s ruling, in which the New Jersey Supreme Court decided that gay couples are entitled to the same legal rights and financial benefits as heterosexual couples, had immediate ripple effects, especially in Senate races in some of the eight states where voters are considering constitutional amendments to ban gay marriage.
President Bush put a spotlight on the issue while campaigning in Iowa, which does not have a proposal on the ballot. With the Republican House candidate, Jeff Lamberti, by his side, Mr. Bush — who has not been talking about gay marriage in recent weeks — took pains to insert a reference into his stump speech warning that Democrats would raise taxes and make America less safe.
More…
Marc Maron is finally on and I miss it getting a front end aligned and some new brake pads. Poop!
I have news. NC Blue will be no more in a couple weeks. I have accepted a job as a government contractor in northern Virginia. Had to do the car maintenance thingy before moving. At least after this move I will know which state I am working in every Monday. Such is the life of a contractor.
morning/afternoon again all
just got home from work where I caught most of the marc & jim blows-the-mind-of-jerry’s-fans show. happy, happy.
PJ: this is an awesome site and i’m glad that it’s not linked to millions of sites. I like it that adoration of brother/father maron is the only link it needs for someone to visit or stay.
how many links does snot green sea have? it needs lots of links to provide access to ms, tmms — with a link of course to this site for those who listen and dig marc.
btw, what does a google bot look like? might it ever turn on it’s master? does it ever get indigestion from some of the sites it visits?
when marc gets back on the air, we’ll owe more than a bit of it to you and rg.
ok now i’m making myself sick. enough.
damn, there seems to be an echo here…
NV Blue….congrat on the new job!
If the repugs are frantically trying tobrin Gay marriage back then you know they are into deep desperation….
how lame…
I wish our guys were hammering more on Iraq…
and Rummy’s performance yesterday in his snotty news conference.
How does he keep his job…does he talk to Bush and Cheney that way?
Hey again folks….
Melina- I’m a people pleaser… I try to please myself.
I had that War discussion thing here at SAIC last night and it was fairly frustrating… illuminating the in-fighting that goes on amongst the people who are NOT part of the problem (ie: us).
I believe that some people were projecting… but I know that I was also projecting because I SOOOOOOOO wanted to say the same thing you did. The “humour” of the Springer Show…. dear Lord it was stupid. Admire them TRYING to be funny (I try to be funny… emphasis on the try)…. but it really really wasn’t.
And the blog was technically their turf…. their under used and under frequented blog.
Melina,
Kohlrabi can be eaten cooked or raw, but raw is best. Chill, peel, and slice into chips. There’re tender and crisp like water chestnuts if young, leathery and dry like pith if old, so be careful.
Otherwise, dice and steam and add a bit of butter and dill weed.
Same for rutabega, another forgotten vege.
That’s how my family ate ’em.
“They say you never hear the snack with your name on it.” -Crow.
REFRAME?
how can we reframe the gay marriage wedge issue?
how about “There they go again. They’ve been in charge for years and have done as well on banning gay marriage as they’re doing in Iraq.”
needs a little work. more than six words is too many.
Well here in Indiana, they’re trying to push a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. The problem is, it’s already illegal here, and our state supreme court isn’t going to overturn that law so they’re clearly just playing politics with the issue. I think I actually heard a quote from our house speaker that went something like “If the people want to pass a law it shouldn’t be able to be overturned by a handful of judges.”
Of course what they’re really trying to do is make sure that if the people change their minds about this issue in a few years it will take a lot more than a simple majority to pass it.
They’re actually trying to take away the right of a future generation to decide for themselves. I don’t know if that’s a good frame, but it’s the truth.
I guess in a nutshell you could say “It’s a solution in search of a problem.”
the rethugs use the issue to energize two parts of their base, which the religious fanatics and the more moderate family values voters.
the reframe for the christo-fascists (the end times are here, hooray bunch) is that “you’re being used by hypocrits.” the reframe for family-values (i’m afraid of everything that doesn’t feel like the mythical fifties) voters is that these guys are incompetent and are adding to the general chaos.
come on, in 6 words or less…
Go here to listen to Marc Maron sub for Springer on the Radio Day Two.
Hearing Marc and Jim this morning made me realize how much my productivity suffers in the mornings these days. Have to say I also miss Mark as part of that team – while Marc/Jim can do great things on their own, what made MS special to me was the entire team and the chemistry they had developed, especially the last 9 months. :fire:
The smoke from the socal fires has drifted over 150 miles offshore now!
Because your religion is better
than their religion.
Because your family is better
than their family
Stay the course….
or whatever they say to say now.
26 words?
It’s all about the sex with these people. It doesn’t even occur to them that two human beings who love each other should be able to share their lives. They’re so hung up on sex – and so twisted over their own sexuality – that they can’t get past it. So the project their self-loathing and disgust at themselves onto the easiest target they can find.
The irony is, the best way to stop gay people from having sex is to let them get married.
cnick responds: If this is true . . . this gay man isn’t getting married . . . ever! 😉
This is amazing. NBC is refusing to run ads for the Dixie Chicks movie, Shut Up and Sing.
“NBC’s commercial clearance department said in writing that it ‘cannot accept these spots as they are disparaging to President Bush.’”
Unfuckingbelievable.
Well marriage may reduce the amount of sex they have, but if you really want to nearly eliminate gay sex, let them adopt children 😉
Besides, gay people don’t get a lot of abortions. Republicans should be supporting gay marriage.
Here’s your six words “Gay Couples Don’t Have Abortions!”
jorogo
the path to hell is paved with good intensions
stay the course!
12 words
8 words:
To hell in a handbasket…
Stay the course!
Hate everyone else.
Stay the course!
There.
6 words.
“This is the strangest debate format I have ever seen.” -Joel.
Heh. I dunno how many Battlestar Galactica fans there are out there (I think it’s a great show, personally), but if you are, you’ll like this.
Funny, they always seemed like Republicans to me.
Ha, the wingnut nerds have their Depends® all knotted up over this, apparently. Poor little Republicans, their fantasy war that’s real is nothing but a big pile of shit, and now their fantasy war that’s a fantasy isn’t so fanciful for them, either. :rofl2:
sufilizard
nice!
Oops. Stay the course!
6 more words:
Stay the course?
Never said that!
jorogo:
Fear and Greed!
Sin and Corruption!
Lies and Ignorance!
etc. and erc.!
Stay the course
by george, I think we’ve got a set of slogans here.
what fun.
off to bed now. later all.
Oh, I just looked over at Springer’s blog. Poor folks over there. I don’t think they’re used to having all these people (we, the unwashed masses) over there disturbing them. Funny, it’s not Jerry’s “civility” that bugs me, it’s that (when I’ve listened to him, which I have to admit I haven’t done in quite a while) he doesn’t have his facts straight, and seems a few days behind in what’s going on. Maybe Al could let him borrow a few people from his staff.
Jerry’s just doing another “show”.
Civility?
Like the TV show he does for aspiring WWF fans?
So who needs facts for that?
Just another show for Jerry.
Ah, poor Jerry. I think his heart’s in the right place, but, well, who the hell pays for a prostitute with a personal check?
Hey, Iran has now doubled its capacity to enrich uranium.
Stay the course!
This fucking Hevesi thing really pisses me off. What an asshole. If he fucks things up for totally eradicating the Republican scourge from NYS, they should, um, do something really mean to him.
:rofl2:
Why the hell doesnt hevesi resign and stop the impeachment in its tracks? If he apologizes he’s a lock for re election – the repub is the village idiot, and hevesi is actually competent.
thanks for posting todays show cnickthomas, by the way, for those of us who had to appear to be pretending to work this morning.
The real irony is that, up until this, probably two-thirds of the people in the state had no idea who the Comptroller is (unlike Carl McCall, who really should’ve beaten the crap out of Pataki last time around; I have a picture of myself with him around here somewhere – he makes me look like I’m about 3’7″). Now it’s big news. Funny how 1,000 Republicans can be in jail, indicted, or under investigation, but let one Democrat have a measly $10 grand in his freezer, or use a state employee to chauffeur his wife around, and it’s all you hear about.
Melina, I’m going to completely disagree with Jorogo. I think the only way to eat kohlrabi raw is to shred it and make a cole slaw like salad from it. But you can cook it (steam it) and it’s just yummy straight, or with some caraway and butter added. You still have to cut it up to steam it but not nearly as much as you would for the salad.
As for why it’s in your farm share, I don’t know. Back when I was doing that same kind of farm thing, I got lots of kohlrabi, too. I think it’s either good for the soil or else it’s just really easy to grow and growing it means they’re more sure of having a good crop of something to give their subscribers. But that’s my cynical side speaking.
I found a really interesting kohlrabi recipe from a back issue of Gourmet magazine. I might just have to hunt up some kohlrabi to try it with.
German-Style Stuffed Kohlrabi
8 kohlrabies (about 5 pounds), bulbs peeled, stems discarded, and the leaves trimmed of tough center ribs
1/2 cup finely chopped onion
1 garlic clove, chopped fine
1/2 stick (1/4 cup) unsalted butter
1 pound ground pork
1/2 cup cooked long-grain rice
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh parsley leaves plus additional for garnish if desired
2 tablespoons sweet paprika
1/4 teaspoon dried marjoram, crumbled
1/4 teaspoon caraway seeds
1 1/2 tablespoons tomato paste
2 large eggs, beaten lightly
3 1/2 cups chicken broth
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 cup heavy cream
Trim 1/4 inch from the root end of each kohlrabi bulb so the bulb will stand upright, scoop out the pulp from the opposite end with a small melon-ball cutter or spoon, leaving 1/4-inch-thick shells, and chop it fine (there will be about 2 3/4 cups). In a large kettle of boiling salted water cook the kohlrabi leaves for 3 minutes, or until they are just tender, drain them well, and chop them fine (there will be about 2 cups).
In a large skillet cook the onion and the garlic in 2 tablespoons of the butter over moderate heat, stirring, until the onion is golden and transfer the mixture to a large bowl. To the bowl add the pork, the rice, 2 tablespoons of the parsley, the paprika, the marjoram, the caraway seeds, the tomato paste, the eggs, 1/2 cup of the kohlrabi pulp, 1/4 cup of the chopped kohlrabi leaves, and salt and pepper to taste and combine the mixture well. Divide the mixture among the kohlrabi shells, mounding it, and arrange the shells in a shallow flameproof baking dish just large enough to hold them in one layer. Scatter the remaining pulp and leaves in the dish and pour in the broth. Bring the broth to a boil and simmer the shells, covered partially, for 30 to 50 minutes, or until they can be pierced easily with a sharp knife. Transfer the shells with a slotted spoon to a plate, reserving the cooking mixture in the baking dish, and keep them warm.
In a small saucepan cook the flour in the remaining 2 tablespoons butter over moderate heat, whisking, for 3 minutes and whisk in the cream. Bring the mixture to a boil, whisking, simmer it for 1 minute, and stir it into the reserved cooking mixture, a little at a time. Add salt and pepper to taste and cook the sauce over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, for 5 to 10 minutes, or until it is thickened. Return the stuffed shells to the baking dish and garnish them with the additional parsley.
Serves 4 to 8.
Ha. Billo on Letterman tonight, apparently (this is from Salon):
Gosh, letterman noticed that oreilly is a fucking liar and a blow hard. Quite a coup.
In NY the hevesi vote is interesting because the governor’s race is a joke [spitzer will get upwards of 70%] and cuomo against the poor-woman’s Katherine Harris isn’t close either, so who gives a flying fuck about the comptroller, a position which isn’t even spelled right?
Who the hell is that guy who plays the nit wit Princeton history professor?
Oh, Letterman hasn’t been shy about telling O’Reilly he’s full of shit before. The thing in NYS is to not give any motivation whatsoever to Republicans who were just gonna stay home this time around, to go out and vote. My district has a 9-term Republican running in a tossup race, and turnout looks like it’ll be the (you should pardon the expression) decider.
Yeah, that’s the downside of Spitzer. Here in yonkers, we got two state races; assembly and senate, which are both very tight, and if the dems don’t come out we’re in deep doo doo. Yonkers is a 50/50 city at this point.
I’m really hoping the State Senate turns blue this year. Just ‘cuz I’d like to see Joe Bruno’s head turn purple and explode. He’s actually playing the Upstate/Downstate “card” up here, saying our incumbent State Senator “…would like to have the leader of the Assembly be from New York City, and the leader of the Senate be from New York City the governor, the comptroller, the attorney general be from New York City.”
I got mixed feelings about that – one party control is almost never a good idea. In the case of Bush, its catastrophic. Still, its hard to root against our guys, at least the ones who are running in yonkers. If we had a few Joe liebermans running statewide, that’s a different story. Silver i have no sympathy for.
Greetings everyone, trying to listen to todays show provided by cnick and install FEAR Extraction Point, but I feel like just going to bed. :yawn:
Oh, Letterman hasn’t been shy about telling O’Reilly he’s full of shit before.
Comment by pjsauter — October 27, 2006 @ 5:01 pm
Hey, thanks for reminding me this is on tonight. I could use a good laugh.
One wonders why O’Lielly would go back to Daveworld, after the reaming he received last time. Then one remembers that Bill is a whore with a book to peddle.
Too bad they couldn’t have booked Maron on the show the same night. THAT would have been must-see TV.
:rofl2:
What a great Friday today was. Just like the old days.
Three hours of MS (OK, not exactly MS, but we’ll take it!), Franken playing Wait Wait Don’t Lie To Me, and finishing my work day with Randi bouncing her boobies. :boobs:
Marc and Jim must not have had enough time to work up a :sammy:
routine. I’m sure the little guy has a lot to say about Michael J. Fox and a certain over-medicated bloviator with an anal cyst.
Speaking of which, since when did it become cool for the MSM to pick on Fox? The actor, I mean, not the network. Apparently Matt Lauer and Katie Couric are having a snarkiness competition, perhaps as part of their divorce package.
:fu:
Two days of maron and jim -its like two potatochips.Now what? My stomach is rumbling.
No, ol’ Shelly ought to be tossed out.
Hey, who’s this bimbo on Rachel’s show?
Oh, it’s Jackie Guerra. Never have caught her show before. Either I need more coffee, or she needs less.
Isn’t ‘ bimbo’ politically incorrect? Not that I care. Just thought I’d check. Might come in handy.
I think if we tell Republicans that stem cells can regrow hair and keep your pecker up, they’ll be all in favor of research.
Boy she really is “workin’ it” isn’t she?
It depends. If it’s Ann Coulter or Patricia Heaton, then bimbo is OK. I guess now that I realize who it was, I need to rephrase what I wrote. Maybe, “who’s this incredibly intelligent woman yelling at me?” I usually listen to Peter B, anyway, but tonight I need to catch the first hour of Maron on the Radio, and then maybe catch up on Sammy. And I just saw on the TeeVee that Lizzy Borden’s house is now a B&B, so I’ll have to see about booking a weekend there. Just me, and my trusty axe.
Did you see that SNL bit on youtube with “Pete Schwetty” and his christmas balls? The two empty headed ladies on the radio show, who ‘can’t wait to get their mouths around those balls” remind me of the satellite sisters.
LizzyBorden was acquitted by a jury of her peers – the OJ of her day.
The old bastards had it coming anyway.
Speaking of which, they just reopened the newly restored, 2,000 year old brothel in Pompeii. According to the story, “sex workers charged the equivalent of the price at that time of eight glasses of red wine.” I wonder what I could get for a whole box?
Yeah, I loved that sketch. “Nobody can get enough of my Schwetty balls.” :rofl2:
Another bimbo in my book is Lynn Chaney, wife of the Vice President. Go here to view a clip of her defending her husband and the Rethug Party on CNN’s Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.
Why are you assuming that the workers were female?
Not that there’s anything wrong with it.
Actually, I’m sure they weren’t all female.
Yeah, Lynn Cheney is pretty horrible.
:fu::doh::evil::growl::cry::smack::holla::(
:penguin:jeffy needs somebody to e-mail sean the last two days of dare jeffy say “springer on the radio”:yuck: i still cant stand jerry but he is making it better!
You know, Lynne Chaney can definitely resist my Schwetty Balls.
yeah someone e-mail me marc on springer on the radio! seaniesean5 at yahoo or aol much appreciated!
great hearing Marc again. Missed last hour, though…he’s so good.
Hey PJ, you know that article you posted yesterday? That reporter wasn’t there when dozier was hit – how do you suppose he heard the blast? isn’t THAT interesting?!
congratulations on the job, NC! :alc:
David Letterman skewers Bill O’Reilly on Late Night. Was it just put on? You be the judge. Go here to view the video clip.
Go here to listen to or download Marc Maron as he subs for Jerry Springer on the Radio.
Hi, whoever’s still here – thank you thank you thank you, cnick, for the Marc Maron clips from today and yesterday! :pup: Listening with the speaker up against my ear, since I’m back home in NY now, in my Dad’s guest room. Since I couldn’t make it to any Colbert Report taping while I’m here, at least I get to hear two Marc and Jim shows! 😀
Anyone else catch the new Law and Order tonight? Interesting episode, pitting an unrepentant war profiteer knowingly sending defective ceramic-reinforced flak vests to the troops in Iraq, against a ptsd-suffering soldier whose buddy is killed in Iraq due to the defective vest. Shades of Halliburton. Eh. Big deal. War profiteering is as old as the world’s second-eldest profession (that’d be war). What you won’t see them writing into the scripts of these shows is the government-private industry collusion in privatizing all government services, causing hundreds of thousands easily preventable deaths. (I’m sure the stories about the sitting-target meal lines due to KBR’s refusal to run meal service 24/7 have already been posted and discussed here. Tip of the iceberg, so to speak). Goddamn fucking war profiteers. May they rot in hell, which I don’t believe in, but I just like to say that. Lying sacks of shit.:fu::evil:
Oooh, east coast rainstorm whipping up outside my window. Maybe we’ll get thunder ‘n lightning.
Hey, I’m not for a ‘better’ war, which is really a full-on occupation. Criticizing war profiteers can cut two ways. What I think we should be demanding is bringing the troops home immediately, not keeping them over there in better protective gear. But nonetheless it galls me the amount of flesh-trading these war profitting fuckheads engage in. This for them: :slap::evil:
Where’s a Smedley Butler when we need him/her?:fist:
Ok, only one other person here now. Late again.
Lemme play with these wonderful emoticons…
:jason:capitalism:tommygun:
Hmm, lemme see if I can make that a little better…
:fist::jason:CAPITALISM:reaper:
Yeh. I like that better.
:cat::knit:
Ok, g’night all, guess everyone’s gone.
So I will probably re-post this tomorrow but some new pogramming news from the Quake in SF. I hope I got this mostly right.
Thom Hartmann coming on from 9AM-12PM replacing Franken. Rachel Maddow coming on for two hours, I think 3-5 PM. Another attempt at BS local programming for an hour after that.Randi Rhoads after that and then Malloy returns. I wish I could be more certain of the times but I sort of have the idea.
Is Franken leaving AAR?
Whoa whoa whoa, where’d you get this news, wv? Malloy coming back??
“I’m no socialist”, says Marc – aw, damn, c’mon and play for our team, Marc!
BS local programming = bullshit local programming?
If aar isn’t going to bring Marc back, they should just rebroadcast Seder’s east coast am drive time show, not Hartman.:no:
Yep. Bullshit. I agree, even though I like Hartmann’s smart.
I think they surveyed live vs. re-broadcast so it does not make sense to dump Franken. PD needs to look smarter than the rest.
I don’t know when Hartmann is live.
Critique of George Lakoff:
http://www.swans.com/library/art11/wrubel04.html
good ol Lakoff…;let me read
strict father figures vs. nurturing family – I know this. Not sure if I totally agree that it’s a difference between conservatives and dems. I agree that people often their identity…well maybe not their identity, but it has to do with their psychology.
Oh great, Sicilian Frank from Staten Island, helping to keep SI’s reputation as knuckle-dragging as ever.
Oh god, transport me back to San Francisco NOW :omg:
Chris LaPresto??? Wow, had me going there…
Where’s Doug from Staten Island, i want to meet him!!! I’m here on Staten Island, I want to meet him!!! :alc:
In another window on my computer, I’m translating an update on plans for a general strike in Costa Rica, in protest of pro-CAFTA legislation that seems assured of approval in the Costa Rican Congress. A show trial to railroad one of the most prominent labor/social protest leaders is underway, as a maneuver to shut
down social protest in the country. Nobel Peace Prize hypocrite President Oscar Arias mouths pro-democracy platitudes for the press whilst condoning massive evidence tampering in the case. 👿
Listening to Marc on the radio actually helps me concentrate on this translating work, beleive it or not. Weird, huh? :rant1::rant1:
Mort Mortenson!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :yippee:
Stand in one place till your feet begin to hurt.
If you go a lot o’ money you can make yourself merry,
If you only got a nickel, it’s the Staten Island Ferry.
:omg:
I wish i had a nickel….-
Stray cats sleeping Barbara Bush’s vagina :omg::omg::omg: WTF :omg:
Heeey, NickiRose, I never heard that one 🙂
That Mort Mortenson, he’s :nuts:
I will never ever think of stray cats the same way again :rofl2: Or Barbara Bush for that matter :rofl2::rofl2:
Hot damn, that made *my* night, yes!
BRING BACK THE FUNNEE :fist:
Santorum goin’ DOOOWWWWN, yeh!
“Rickee, you got some ‘splainin’ to do”
I am listening to Jackie Gerra on KPOJ. She is good on the radio. San Francisco is crazy for dumping Franken for Tyger Thom.
they dumped Franken? That’s a new one to me. Thom Hartmann can’t shine his shoes
What do you think of Daniel Ortega’s support for Nicaragua’s aboilition of abortion law? ( What the fuck happened to the revolutionary Sandinistas?)
:pope::priest:
not too familiar with the situation…outlawed abortion, yeah, that would suck
I finally got the zine
People-
Now I’m getting annoying. Well, the Letterman show has bumped me. They say the will give me another date within the next few weeks. I’ll let you know.
Maron
I think he means annoyed. That makes all of us.
More Lakoff critique:
From the LA Times:
Nicaragua poised to outlaw all abortions
Most parties back the measure, which church leaders helped draft. Medical and rights groups denounce it.
By Héctor Tobar
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 26, 2006
Nicaragua’s legislature is expected today to approve a tough law that outlaws all forms of abortion, including those procedures intended to save the life of a pregnant woman.
The measure has been supported by most major political parties ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election, as they seek to win over voters in this overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country. Leaders of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua helped draft the bill and have mobilized followers to support it.
Medical associations in the country and international human rights groups have strongly criticized the proposal.
Since the late 1980s, two other Latin American countries have adopted similar measures — El Salvador and Chile. At least 34 countries, mostly in Africa and the Middle East, prohibit all abortions, without exception, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights, a U.S.-based nonprofit advocacy group.
The new law would establish prison sentences of six to 30 years for women who abort their pregnancies and the doctors who perform the procedure.
Leaders of the leftist Sandinista National Liberation Front and the ruling right-wing Liberal Alliance have said their representatives will vote for the proposal. The two groups control all but one seat in the 92-member legislature.
“The current law allows a small door in which abortions can be performed, and we are trying to close that door,” said Dr. Rafael Cabrera, an obstetrician and leader of the Yes to Life Movement. “We don’t believe a child should be destroyed under the pretext that a woman might die.”
Cabrera and other backers of the law argue that medical science has advanced sufficiently to allow doctors to bring a fetus to the point of viability without endangering a woman’s life.
But on Tuesday, doctors with the Nicaraguan Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics told a Managua news conference that the measure would endanger women and make doctors reluctant to perform life-saving procedures.
“When a woman arrives at a hospital with vaginal bleeding … we’re going to be afraid to do anything,” said society President Efrain Toruno, according to the newspaper El Nuevo Diario. “If we treat her we could be prosecuted, and if we don’t we could also be prosecuted.”
Women’s groups in Nicaragua charge that the proposed law is a cynical preelection ploy that panders to the influence of the Catholic Church. The text of the law, they note, is almost identical to a church proposal drafted this year.
Outgoing President Enrique Bolanos fast-tracked the bill, using his authority to present emergency legislation to the National Assembly.
“The worst message of this proposed law is that the lives of women don’t matter to this president, or to the government or the church,” said Marta Maria Blandon, Central American director of Ipas, a U.S.-based reproductive rights group.
Ipas estimates that 32,000 illegal abortions are performed in Nicaragua each year, many under unsafe conditions. Only 24 abortions authorized by law have been performed in the country in the last three years.
In 2003, a 9-year-old rape victim received an abortion under the current law’s provisions.
Nearly all Latin American countries outlaw abortion, but most, including Nicaragua, allow the procedure in cases of rape and to preserve the life of a pregnant woman. Many countries, including Mexico, are working to make abortion more accessible to women who qualify for such exceptions.
“We see this proposal as part of a backlash,” said Luisa Cabal of the Center for Reproductive Rights. “This not only goes against a regional and international trend, it would be a human rights violation in itself.”
Ambassadors from some of the countries that donate millions of dollars in aid to Nicaragua, including Sweden and Finland, wrote to the legislators this week urging them not to rush to approve the measure. Nicaragua is one of the poorest nations in the hemisphere and depends heavily on foreign aid.
Jose Miguel Vivanco, executive director of the Americas division of U.S.-based Human Rights Watch, said approval of the law could lead to lawsuits in international courts. Nicaragua is one of many Latin American countries to recognize the authority of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, based in Costa Rica.
But domestic pressures to approve the measure are strong.
An antiabortion rally this month organized by church groups attracted thousands. Many carried placards that read: “Don’t support candidates who favor abortion!”
Only one of the four leading candidates in the presidential election has come out against the law — Edmundo Jarquin of the Sandinista Renovation Movement, a dissident faction of the Sandinista Front.
Presidential candidate Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista Front, who holds a large lead in most polls, has spoken out in favor of the measure. Ortega, who is seeking to return to the office he held in the 1980s, in September signed a declaration drafted by evangelical leaders that declared the existing abortion laws in Nicaragua are “a pretext to legalize all abortions.”
The Sandinista Front ruled Nicaragua for a decade after leading a successful revolution against dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979. The leftists were known as pioneers of Latin American feminism.
Ana Maria Pizarro of the Autonomous Women’s Movement said the Sandinistas’ backing of the tough new antiabortion law had caused a private split among the party’s top female leaders.
“The position of the party leadership is hypocritical and opportunistic,” Pizarro said. “They’ve created a crisis within the women’s movement of the Sandinista Front.”
hector.tobar@latimes.com
Why are you communists here? This is a liberal blog–not a communist or socialist blog. Your posts are all ignored.
Yup, say it ain’t so, Sandinistas. Ah, but it is so, it is. Time to support the breakaway faction of the pro-choice Sandinistas.:fist:
Nicaragua, Nicaraguita, la flor mas linda de me querer;
abonadas con la bendita Nicaraguita; sangre del diriangen.
Hay Nicaragua sos mas dolcita, que la mielita del tamagas,
pero ahora que ya sos libre Nicaraguita, yo te quiero mucho mas.
Sigh. A la gran puta, Ortega 😡
Oh but I’m not ignored. I scare people. Not quite the same.
Hey Nicki, have I been cloned grin:
[insert hammer-and-sickle emoticon]
Debous le damne de la terre
Debous le forche de la famne…:nod:
Woops, that was supposed to read —
Hey Nicki, have I been cloned 😀
[insert hammer-and-sickle emoticon]
Debous le damne de la terre
Debous le forche de la famne…:nod:
:fist::fist::fist::fist::fist::fist::fist::fist:
It is comforting to us as the good progressive that we are identified with the progress of American society, but the truth is that America has not been engaged in progressive change for a period of at least fifty years or more. Any substantive transformation, by which I mean a movement toward socialism, will require extremely arduous work on the part of a very large portion of the American constituency. For Weber, from a very different political perspective than the one I am adumbrating here, admonished us correctly that politics is “…the slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective..”. and the grim and painful truth is that we seem to lack both. Idle flattery is worth less than nothing. Lakoff’s saccharine appeal to our progressive nature may gratify the better angels of our superiority but it will not bring us one step closer and more likely, many steps further away, from a productive political movement.
RICHARD LICHTMAN
I thought all that you communists wanted was for the government to buy all of the industries. You know, get in the way of freedom.
Lakoff just skims the surface and he doesn’t go deep enough. It’s the equivalent of pop psychology for politics
How did you like the zine?
don’t presume to know what I want. I’m into seething self-hatred and a different kind of “nurturing” family model
I love it! Is it bigger than past issues – more pages, or does it just seem that way? It’s incredible. The images and words seem really to have reached a peak
your political is great (think I told you that already)
I do find much of value in Lakoff’s studies. But, as some point out, his theory is not hard science. (Neither is Marxism–or Freudianism, for that matter. But both models can help clarify problems.)
isn’t it hard to apply hard science to any kind of study of this sort though? We’re talking psychology and language. I don’t know if cognitive psych tackles politics.
I’m depressed
Many have tried to apply psych to politics. Recall Janeane’s rants. They can be useful on a limited basis. The Frankfurt School devoted much time and effort to apply Freud to radical politics. Hey. Remember that “Eros Effect” posting from earlier. That is a modern example of this sort of thing.
I am depressed after reading the political article. Damn! It could use another re-write/revision. I used the phrase “evangelical Christian” too much.
It’s almost unavoidable to use some psychology with politics. It’s just that so often it can be used in a wrong way…and there’s also a habit of psychoanalyzing your enemy but not yourself
I’m just depressed because I want to see your performance. But I guess I will see eventually in better venues
3 online. Do we have a lurker aboard? or is the ex-communist keeping it real while translating?
no you didn’t…the article was great. What did you use the word twice? It was fine.
I think there are over 100 lurkers a day or something like that is what PJ said yesterday…so could be anyone
Damn! Steve Earle knows what is going on in the union movement.
Were there things taped to the pages of your political article in every zine you sent or just mine?
Are you kidding? I would go broke if I sent everyone 2 gold dollars. Actually, it was a bribe to get people to read the article. Speaking of politics, I just sent Jack Carter a little cash.
Good for you. it’s really getting down to the wire with this election. They changed my polling place this year. There was a mess with the voting last year. I wonder if there are new machines…
What would New Yorkers do if they tried to pull an “Ohio pollplace scam” there?
I don’t know about scam, but when I lived in the Bronx one year they didn’t have my name on the roll, and I had been living there for years and years. I had to fill out a different ballot. I honestly don’t know if my vote counted that year.
minority areas like where I used to live…isn’t that the kind of place they tend to pull that crap?
More Lakoff criticism:
http://www.counterpunch.org/jensen08142006.html
You do know how they like to scrub Jewish Communists from the rolls?
exactly what I said earlier, a tendency to go after the enemy but not really look at oneself. That’s what this article is saying too
I need to rehearse for “the performance”. 3 poems. Run through the songs. Goddamn equipment had better show up.
I don’t know. Once upon a time Co-op City was run by A Jewish communist. I think probably toward the last couple of years I was there things had started to change in that respect
which poems?
if you felt like you could call me and read the poems to me
Projection. One criticism of lakoff is that he takes his theory as the gospel, not as a useful tool to analyze problems. He sort of reminds me of Burroughs’s intellectual champion, Count Korzypski.
Haha
So, out the window must go any facts or analyses that suggest
(1) the problems of an unjust and unsustainable world may be rooted in fundamental systems, such as corporate capitalism and the imperialism of powerful nation-states, no matter who is in power, and
(2) the Democratic Party is not only not a meaningful vehicle for progressive politics but, as a subsidiary of that corporate system with its own history and contemporary practice of empire-building, is part of the problem.
Count Korzybski:
http://sidereus.org/main/print.php?sid=83
hmm. I guess I’m stuck thinking of symbols in a Joseph Campbell sense
I can’t find your last post because I can’t click on it
Do you try to apply Campbellian symbology onto politics? Does it explain everything?
🙄 no…nothing fully explains politics or human nature to me. I just did some dream analysis a little while ago so I’m just in that mode maybe