SEDER v MARON

you guys!

woohoo! best hour of the week

Soon as I finish listening to Maggie bell, I'll be hooking up to the Sammycam!

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

how you doing with your pretty little self?

Everyone - hope ya all had a restful night.

we were all strung out last night
and of course war-dog being war-dog
took so much heroin that he o.d.
and died

p.s. before he died, he licked my balls

WAS THE NEEDLE IN THE PRICK?

New community site, Hubdub, allows users to bet play money on outcomes of news stories.

http://www.technologyreview.com/Wire/20125/?nlid=839

I've had better years...

You are great! Too funny

poor thing i feel bad for you--hope it gets better someday soon, i understand not everyone can be me!

YouTube - Southern California Shanty Town / Tent City

Here are some videos of a tent city / shanty town that has popped up in the suburbs of Southern California. I've never seen anything like this in America since the great depression.

minus Maronface

from my wonderful son-in-law...

She is now able to slowly get downstairs a couple of times a day. But she cannot bend, lift or twist for some time. I am learning how to do laundry, cook and do dishes the hard way. She is much better today than she was a week ago.

with Marc and trying to get his computer to work!

i see he is well trained like grover! GREAT NEWS!!

like arguing with my boyfriend...both Libras

and i am not computer literate at all, but by now he shuldve had this down packed....or wake up 7 hours earlier to work it damnit!!

and Im ready to listen to some good shit!

POOR MARC - He needs someone there to help him!

Subprime Obama
Max Fraser

Last year, forty-three states reported increased home foreclosure rates. Nevada led the way for eleven consecutive months; in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, nearly one in twenty homes is in foreclosure. Whole blocks have been foreclosed in Chicago. Nationwide, rates are nearing Depression-era highs--ravaging working- and middle-class neighborhoods that fell prey to the soft sell and outright chicanery of predatory lenders in the heyday of the housing boom. These lenders have targeted the most vulnerable--black and Latino borrowers have been twice as likely to receive subprime loans as whites; female homeowners, 30 percent more likely than male; black women, five times more likely than white men.

As the subprime mortgage debacle drives a recession that threatens financial markets around the world, the Democratic presidential candidates are pushing plans to address the crisis. John Edwards and Hillary Clinton are pledging substantial federal resources to stabilize the mortgage market and intervene on behalf of borrowers. Barack Obama's proposal is tepid by comparison, short on aggressive government involvement and infused with conservative rhetoric about fiscal responsibility. As he has done on domestic issues like healthcare, job creation and energy policy, Obama is staking out a position to the right of not only populist Edwards but Clinton as well.

Edwards's plan includes a mandatory moratorium on foreclosures, a freeze on rising interest rates for at least seven years, federal subsidies to help homeowners keep up with payments and restructure loans, and explicit measures to rein in predatory lenders and regulate the financial sector. Clinton's plan is weaker--a voluntary moratorium, a shorter freeze, less commitment to new regulations--but she has promised $30 billion in federal aid to help reeling homeowners and communities.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080211/fraser

Don't...feel bad for Maron ;P

if I was doing it! So, I relate.

is that the garage?

looks like George Carlin this morning.

oh word you werent lying

Marc about not being able to look at Hillary.

U.S. checking possibility of pumping oil from northern Iraq to Haifa, via Jordan

The United States has asked Israel to check the possibility of pumping oil from Iraq to the oil refineries in Haifa. The request came in a telegram last week from a senior Pentagon official to a top Foreign Ministry official in Jerusalem. Advertisement

The Prime Minister's Office, which views the pipeline to Haifa as a "bonus" the U.S. could give to Israel in return for its unequivocal support for the American-led campaign in Iraq, had asked the Americans for the official telegram.

The new pipeline would take oil from the Kirkuk area, where some 40 percent of Iraqi oil is produced, and transport it via Mosul, and then across Jordan to Israel. The U.S. telegram included a request for a cost estimate for repairing the Mosul-Haifa pipeline that was in use prior to 1948. During the War of Independence, the Iraqis stopped the flow of oil to Haifa and the pipeline fell into disrepair over the years.

frustrated. Sam should really talk with Marc prior to the show. It would make Marc feel better.

He is really frustrated.

i dont think anyone can make him feel better either than himself!! he is too funny though!

but it is a little bit funny. Just a little. I've been there, Marc...

Maron has a case of computerwhatsit.

Maron is firmly in crankie's school:

"I am NOT technologically challenged!"

*snark*

some of the responsibility to ask how to do things he doesn't know how to do. How would other people know what he doesn't know?

Marc seems a bit helpless at times.

who can help him with this for crying out loud!

send him cigars and money

(and one of the local geekettes)

Poor guy - he gets to stressed out.

This is outstanding "comic" relief!

I know, I know...."Take it on the road, Marc."

he knows people---he's just stubborn--and frustrated

Technitard---- awesome

Technitard---- awesome

Please someone set up his system.

HA!!

it's been

best connection ever!

Nothing makes me crazier than when I am mad and someone tells me to calm down or take a breath......

Marc! you're perfect now! and we love you including all your angst~~we feel it too and can so relate!

Sam, you're the best friend ever~~you take it on the chin and keep going.

we could hire-a-tech for him...

as to why I can't refresh the blog - the cam I can - but not the blog

it was never enough.

I found myself reaching 27 quite a bit.

Drinking coffee from Fiesta ware! Viva Fiesta Baby

His connection always works after 10 minutes or so.

You know, as soon as a democrat is elected, the republicans are going to pretend like the $9 trillion debt wasn't their fault, and instead it is the fault of tax-spend democrats. They're also going to say that Clintons are weak on defense, even though Bill Clinton totally kept bombing Iraq during 1992-2000 and maintained sanctions and intervened in Yugoslavia, plus he ended welfare and signed NAFTA

What Will the Recession Feel Like?
By Dean Baker | bio
Way back in mid-January, when the Washington policy herd had not yet determined that the economy needed stimulus, The Washington Post ran an editorial in which it held out the prospect that a recession may not be severe. This comment was intended to calm readers and slow the rush to stimulus. (The Post editorial board flipped the following week and joined the rush to stimulus.)

Still, the Post was right. We don’t know how severe this recession will be. My bet is that the loss of $4 trillion to $8 trillion in wealth due to the collapse of the housing bubble will lead to a serious recession. But perhaps the Post's optimism will prove correct; what will the world look like?

My colleague at CEPR, John Schmitt, did some quick calculations to remind people what happens in recessions.

The story is not pretty. He contrasted the economy’s performance in mild and severe recessions, with the last two recessions providing the basis for a “mild” recession and the 1980-82 recession being the model of a severe recession.

In a mild recession, we can anticipate that the unemployment rate will increase by at least two percentage points. This increase will not be evenly distributed. For blacks the unemployment rate will rise by three percentage points, for teens by five percentage points, and for black teens by close to eight percentage points.

In the event that the recession proves to be severe and looks more like the 1980-82 downturn, then we will be looking at an increase in the unemployment rate of almost three percentage points. The rise in the unemployment rate for blacks and teens will be close to five percentage points, and for black teens the increase will be nine percentage points. We still will not have recovered to current unemployment rates by the time of the next presidential election in 2012.

We can look forward to other bad things as well. The number of the uninsured will rise rapidly, wages and family income will fall, and poverty rates will rise. You can go the whole grizzly story here.

http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2008/jan/29/what_will_the_recess...

on the cam! amazing!

You guys should give Kim Komando a call. She's a computer tech guru w/ a radio show, and a website.

http://www.komando.com/

Sam has nice eyebrows

with Marc

be fun!

to get the blog to work...

glitch city this AM.

we are IN a RECESSION - aren't we?

make your pictures smaller please

Oh, and that one is great! Luv it

G'day, gang!
Submitted by Liberal-at-large on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 11:18am.
*here*
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I'll alert the media.
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The Media: "Who?"

goodun greenpagan!

Sunshine Jimmy????

greenpagen>>> where did you get that great statue (figurine) of Monkey Boy. LOL

is my pick for Super Tuesday

is my pick for Super Tuesday

how are doing???

I am not totally convinced about Obama. I want to be, but there are things he's said that I don't like.

In the end it will be Congress' job to legislate for the president's plans. That doesn't mean it will all pass the Congress.

If it wasn't for the social services the numbers would've actually been worse than those of the great depression as of four years ago and it's gotten significantly worse since then...So what's in a name?

what a big hole!!!

squinty old fart and hotrods:

http://www3.telus.net/Art-Adventures/65PontiacParissenne/

crankie: "1st or 3rd base?"

jumped 79% from 2006 to 2007. 79%!!

Do you know how much harm this will do to the economy?

Some are going past recession to depression.

doing good today.

Sorry to say I was 20 minutes late, so I'm not recording the audio today.
If someone else is recording, post a link and I'll host it online with my other recordings of Maron v Seder.

Layoffs coming, and in large numbers, survey finds

Corporate executives are poised to start making substantial cutbacks in their staffing, according to a new forecast by employment consulting and legal firm Career Protection.

In fact, the firm is predicting a 37% increase in layoffs this year over last, based on a survey of more than 1,300 corporate executives and senior level officials that was conducted earlier this month.

The layoff forecast registers as the worst in the last five years, according to Career Protection officials. They also indicated that the firm has already been “inundated” with inquiries from employees at a number of companies that announced layoffs earlier this month, including Bear Stearns, Chrysler, Citigroup, Ford, Covidien, General Motors, IndyMac and Sprint Nextel.

Marc has???

This is GREAT!

Sen.Larry Craig is on c-span 2

how can his colleagues even look at him??

multimaron!

ya same model I have...

Submitted by Liberal-at-large on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 11:49am.
crankie: "1st or 3rd base?"
------
You owe me a setup.

How u be, sensei?

Marc is in full sync on the cam -

POOR CRITTER

Coyote?

I wouldn't even think of paying someone to get it. $100 is alot of money to me.

was he describing the SOTU?

Who's on 2nd

I don't know's on 3rd

contemplative and longing for simplicity and finding only the complex at the end of my thoughts...

You?

is everything working for you today?

here

that isn't automagically hyperlinked?"

submitted by Cat Chew 5:43am previous thread 2282

***************

to me the internets & its tubes are all magic :)

we can hear him better through the computer, not the phone

we're all in it together

Submitted by Crank Bait on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 11:56am.

Submitted by Liberal-at-large on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 11:49am.
crankie: "1st or 3rd base?"
------
You owe me a setup.

*

I'll make it a double. *snark*

thank goodness for small blessings

it IS fun!

to the Clintons today. For the last hour MSNBC and to a lesser extent CNN have been concentrating on the Clintons.

There needs to be someone in CA to help Marc out.

yeah

why whats changed?

his name was Tom

we have synch!

its not in sync with the cam

it was perfect for me on the webcam...audio and video...so...

When Bush Says Al Qaeda "On The Run" In Iraq

Washington Times | January 29, 2008 09:50 AM
Read More: Clinton Obama State Of The Union, Warwire, Breaking Politics News
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From the Washington Times:

When Mr. Bush entered the House chamber at 9:05, Mrs. Clinton stopped clapping after a few moments. Mr. Obama, however, clapped for almost the entire four minutes that Mr. Bush took to walk down the aisle.

One of the few policy lines on which the two senators differed came when Mr. Bush said that Al Qaeda is "on the run" in Iraq. Mrs. Clinton stood and clapped, while Mr. Obama did not.

On his way out of the chamber after his speech, Mr. Bush shook Mr. Obama's hand and then Mr. Kennedy's, and made a few quick remarks to both, drawing a smile from Mr. Obama.

The Hill highlighted the same moment:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/29/clinton-claps-obama-refr_n_8380...

are we ready for prime time yet?

Iraqis claims 300 insurgents dead in battle near Najaf; violence persists elsewhere

Iraqi officials claimed Monday that 300 militants were killed in a fierce battle between U.S.-backed Iraqi troops and insurgents allegedly plotting to kill pilgrims at a major Shiite Muslim religious festival.

Andy Card on MSNBC last night after the SOTU.

Was he crying about what Mathews and Olberman were saying about the SOTU and Bush.

It was actually fun to watch him pissed off to that extent. They aren't used to that kind of treatment from the MSM.

Dr.'s appointment today. "Comprehensive Rheumatic Care" to try & find out what is going on
in this body of mine.

so when he makes that available I'll make an audio trac from it.

Scott Bloch, head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, wrote Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey last week, claiming that the Justice Department had repeatedly “impeded” his investigation of the politicization of the department under Alberto Gonzales “by refusing to share documents and provide answers to written questions.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-probe29jan29,1,19...

if someone were to send Marc the exact same system Sam has - but Marc can ONLY use it for the show. Like a little studio in his home somewhere.

In January, there were “twice as many combat casualties” in Iraq “than there were in all of December 2007,” according to analysis from Cybercast News Service. There have been 28 deaths through Jan. 28 in comparison with 14 in December.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200801/NAT200...

Post-xmas...a lot slower than a month ago but still way above average. Usually I'm near-hibernating by now. Can't complain. A lot of peeps are keeping (upgrading, repairing) their old stuff. My little girl & son-in-law visited from England for 2wks early Jan.

Just tryin' to stay on the high side & pay-off everything before the economy flushes.

It's good to read ya!

that Bush didn't announce his early retirement last night.

If Bush would have stepped down and announced that Cheney

was leaving for medical reasons, the economy would get an

instant shot in the arm and there would be a world wide

celebration that would be like no party ever seen.

The Bush administration’s use of the state secrets privilege to avoid disclosure of classified information in civil lawsuits in increasing, prompting legislation that would provide more congressional oversight of the practice. Rep. Jerold Nadler (D-NY) will hold a hearing on the issue today.

Some 9/11 responders were on-hand last night to listen to Bush’s State of the Union. “I’m fed up with how we’re treated,” said Queens paramedic Marvin Bethea. Ground Zero volunteer John Feal added, “You got $3 billion a month to kill people, you got $3 billion a year for health care.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/01/28/2008-01-28_sick_911_responder...

before the weather turns ugly.

Later

just left a comment on your open mic about flt 77

also thaks to Sunshine Jim for his 9/11 links

and no thwaks! :)

Re sizing pics

I would if I knew how. Any guidance?

I usually post pics on sites (including my own blog) that automatically scale-down over-sized art.

(I certainly don't intend to cause any disruptions around websites like Sam's towards which I'm highly politically friendly.)

Regards

-- GP

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Former spy chief confirms US waterboarding

(Adds advance Mukasey testimony, comment in paragraphs 13-14)

By Randall Mikkelsen

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States used waterboarding in terrorism interrogations but no longer does, a former U.S. spy chief said in the Bush administration's clearest confirmation of the technique's use.

U.S. officials have been reluctant to acknowledge the CIA's use of the simulated drowning technique, which human rights groups call an illegal form of torture.

The remarks by former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte in an interview with National Journal magazine come as senators are expected Wednesday to grill Attorney General Michael Mukasey on a promised review of the legality of interrogation methods.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Former_spy_chief_confirms_US__0129.html

Marc is technologically tone deaf.

You know... to "run again"?

I know, I know, 'technically' it's for a campaign, but it's like a corporation, you expense everything you can get away with.

Or... it's like being Mayor of NYC, you expense it to the people... like the new emergency command center in the WTC, with the humidor and the love nest for your mistress, etc etc. etc....

I think he had to make a show of it to get people to keep giving him donations, and then he pretty much dropped out, parked himself in Florida, spent a lot of dough with no intention of ever winning or going the distance. It would be par for the course for a guy who makes a lot of money off 9/11 victims when he actually contributed to their death.

Marc is technologically tone-deaf.

plants. Thanks.

What's on 1st
Submitted by Kat-in-Manhattan on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 11:59am.
Who's on 2nd

I don't know's on 3rd

*

Who's On First?

I have been here once and that was a few months ageo and he STILL hasn't learned to do this????

Poor Marc, lolol!

Re "good bye Rudy tuesday"

Nice. But you know that...

Regards

-- GP

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Would probably strip naked and cover myself with movie blood in protest.

Just curious.

Simply Red

In the middle of the night, when the time is right
Sexily right, I'm gonna do the right thing
Gonna move you slow, much harder though
Sexily so, I'm gonna do the right thing
Feelin' hot, I ain't never gonna stop
To get what you got, you better take what I bring
Feel it now, much harder now
More than any old how, say you feel the pain

Feel I'm getting harder now, get off your back four
Get on top more owww!
Feel I'm sinking farther down, get off your back four
Get on top more

I told you to stop, "You're sleeping out a lot"
You told me get lost, where's your understanding
I feel it now much harder than I've ever done now
I'd better do the right thing

I'm gonna do the right thing
I'm gonna do the right thing

You're sounding a bit of the optimist to me but ok ;)

to resize a picture include the width parameter like this
<img src="XXX" width="YYY">
Where XXX is the url and YYY is the desired width of the picture. Aim for YYY<400.

I don't get why this nation is so wild about Obama. It seems to me that he is just more pro-corporate BS, so WHAT IS IT that people are freaking out about???

I can NOT understand why Edwards is not winning. HE's the only one, seems to me, that truly has the middle class in mind at all! How can we make this known and WHY is it that folks don't seem to be seeing it? Anyone understand what's wrong with this idiot country? I wish I did!

Tell me somethin'..........!

(grew up watching Abbot & Costello)

BUT i did get third base right. . .hmmmm :)

The impression that he's "different"...

He's not...in fact he disturbs me as much as any of the republicans...

That pic was OK in IE and Firefox but Opera blows it up. I use Opera for the Sammy Cam because it resizes the video windows on the .tv frames site whereas the other browsers don't.
Sorry if I snapped at you about that, the pic wasn't all that big after all.

As for Resizing tutorial try this. (without spaces before/after the < & >)
< img src="image url here" width="make numerical adjustments here" height="adjust here too" >

Hey is Sam talking now, cause I see a few remarks like this one but I don't hear anything.....I have NO IDEA how this site works, lol.

aint no 2 people the same!!!

That's the voices in your head.

Obey them willfully.

January 29, 2008 -- US reaction to Kenya crisis gives clue to AFRICOM mission

As the Africa Command (AFRICOM) gears up its operations by staffing its temporary Stuttgart, Germany headquarters with 1300 personnel, Pentagon operations in Africa in response to the post-election violence in Kenya provides some clues as to how the militarization of America's Africa policy will affect the future of U.S. relations with the continent.

Guam National Guard units recently completed training 60 Djiboutian troops who are part of a unit called the "Djiboutian Army East Africa Standby Brigade." The U.S. has established a major military base in Camp Lemonier, Djibouti, a former French military base. The base is the headquarters of the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), a command that will be a major component of AFRICOM. CJTF-HOA makes deployments to Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Yemen. The command also has responsibility for Somaliland, Seychelles, Eritrea, and Sudan.

U.S. troops at Camp Lemonier train along with troops from Britain and France, two former African colonial powers.

Although the Bush administration maintains that CJTF-HOA is designed to combat "terrorists," American troops have been active in helping the Ethiopian dictatorship put down ethnic separatist rebellions in the Ogaden and Oromo regions. They have also been active in training Kenyan security forces who have brutally put down opposition protests stemming from the fraudulent election engineered by President Mwai Kibaki, a U.S. client.

There are credible reports that the US military coordinated the dispatch of Ugandan troops into the violence-plagued Rift Valley of western Kenya in support of Kenyan forces loyal to Kibaki. Troops with the Sudan People's Liberation Movement in southern Sudan being trained by Kenyan and U.S. forces were also reportedly sent to western Kenya dressed in the uniforms of the Kenyan paramilitary GSU security force.

Camp Lemonier is one of the proposed sites for the permanent headquarters of AFRICOM. Others include Morocco, Sao Tome and Principe, and Liberia.

The Bush administration recently announced that Rwanda would receive $7 in military aid. Rwandan troops are active in the neighboring Congo helping a pro-Rwandan Tutsi military rebellion against the central government of President Joseph Kabila and UN peacekeepers. The military aid to Rwanda is under the aegis of the Africa Contingency Operational Training Assistance (ACOTA) program, which will become a component part of AFRICOM.

AFRICOM will also subsume US assistance programs for Africa currently run by the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, and Justice. This includes Justice Department assistance for the dubious war crimes trials of Rwandan Hutus being held in Arusha, Tanzania.

There have also been credible reports of the movement of British military forces into Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, possibly to support the evacuation of British nationals from Kenya in the event that violence spirals out of control.

I'd like to take a stab at this one. Edwards, with all his

positives, SOUNDS like a goober whenever he opens his

mouth. Now, I know this is shallow and silly....but...to

quote a famous and boring Air America commercial..."you are

judged by the words you speak AND THE WAY YOU SPEAK THEM."

John Edwards is a wealthy lawyer. He can afford a top notch

speech and drama coach. He puts a lot of care into his hair.

He should have invested in his voice and speaking

mannerisms.

is where my brother was thrown in jail for 12years and tortured for going up against the apartheid regime!!

Pioneering Blackwater Protesters Given Secret Trial and Criminal Conviction

By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet. Posted January 29, 2008.

Protesters who re-enacted one of Blackwater's worst civilian massacres in Iraq got jail time, while the real killers remain free.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/75244/?page=entire

he tipped his hand.

he said Mischka used to do all the computer maintenance. Now that he has to work this out himself, it's just another reminder she split.

patience, my boy.

That's terrible, but Sadly not unique, Lucille...

Yeah, I've noticed........awfully good at sound bites......way to much like the publicans for me, at least right now.

The media is selling Obama and Hill while creating their own little race card fight and ignoring the real candidate. They are as pathetic as the pubbi-cons :o{

edit: I didn't mean the only real candidate, obviously because they are all real candidates....I'm just angry he's being ignored by the media.....

has a new layout. Not too shabby either.

nothing like a little more artifice for the pot...

[insert hollywood smile here]

Really why is it that we want our politicians to be Hollywood perfect and then we wonder why we get actors?

as a rabid edwards supporter i must admit that there is a lot of truth in what you say. when all is said and done he comes across as an angry wimp instead of a man whose anger has focused him on getting a job done.