Last Day... Seder in for Rhodes at 3pm est

on!

Spot ;)

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

Senate shelves Iraq U.S. troop withdrawal bill

Richard Cowan
Reuters US Online Report Top News

Feb 28, 2008 15:58 EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A liberal Democrat's attempt to impose quick U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq collapsed in the U.S. Senate, as expected, but leaders on Thursday insisted they will retool legislation and force votes in coming months.

The Senate spent much of this week debating a plan by Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin to begin withdrawing most American troops from Iraq by July.

His effort, like one last December, faced deep opposition in the chamber, where members have repeatedly blocked steps to impose timetables for winding down a war that is entering its sixth year.

Senate leaders pulled the bill from debate when it was obvious there was not support for passage.

"We'll be back. There are a number of things we're considering," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, told reporters in acknowledging Feingold's measure was doomed.

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=53282

It's Friday Ya Bastid's !

Shake whatever ya got !

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

(@)(@) (.)(.) (@)(@) (.)(.)

out of thin air:

The central bank has held six auctions so far, two each in December, January and February, providing $160 billion in extra reserves through short-term loans to cash-strapped banks. - Yahoo

where Fubar meets zubaz!

did you catch the soundbite from kudlow the other night. he was saying the fed should have raised the rate and that it should be coupled with an elimination of all corporate taxes...

somehow it fits

They are printing over a billion a day dan. WTF?

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3

Thank You — your click has been counted!

You've given the value of .6 bowls of food to rescued animals.

installed it yesterday. Actually, it came last Friday but the mailman (nobody said they were that bright) had tossed it under the stoop inside of the gate, where it sat for a week. I was going crazy without my lappy. Thanks to you, Sweetie! Let me know when you'r ready for a round, K?
Janice Brown

You made my day Janice. I would have felt crappy if they sent the wrong one.

then?

It's great to have Sam on every day. Hint hint.

Janice Brown

Poll: Majority Of Americans Support Mandates Requiring The Purchase Of Health Coverage
When Medicare was being created in 1964, Ronald Reagan said, “I think we are against forcing all citizens, regardless of need, into a compulsory government program.”

To this day, conservatives continue to resist universal programs. In his 2008 State of the Union address, President Bush once again mentioned private health savings accounts, despite the fact that they may increase the number of uninsured Americans. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) similarly touts private plans, saying he wants people to “go out and choose their insurer anywhere in America.”

A new poll from NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health, however, finds that most Americans reject conservatives’ approach to health care. In fact, the majority of the public supports mandates requiring Americans to purchase health insurance. NPR reports:

When asked whether they would support a broad proposal that would require everyone to get coverage, 59 percent said they would support it. Such a proposal would require employers to provide coverage or pay into a pool. The government would help low-income people get coverage, and insurance companies would be required to take anyone who applies. People who don’t get coverage through one of these channels or purchase it themselves would pay a fine.

As Jonathan Cohn of The New Republic notes, “In a system based on private insurance, a lot of people won’t obtain even affordable insurance without some sort of requirement.” This point is backed up by prominent health care experts such as Columbia’s Sherry Glied and former Clinton administration adviser on Medicare Bruce Vladeck, who have criticized the tactic of scaring Americans into thinking mandates will force them to buy unaffordable health coverage.

For a practical approach to guaranteeing an American right to affordable, quality health coverage, the Center for American Progress has more here.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/29/health-mandates/

Curious George

Preparing for his 14th HBO comedy special, George Carlin waxes philosophic on the freedom that comes from not giving a #%&@.

By Heather Havrilesky

Feb. 28, 2008 | We're not accustomed to thinking of comedians as cultural commentators, but a performer as sharp and defiant as George Carlin is just the person to call this outdated separation of high and low culture into question. Carlin made a name for himself with comedic bits aimed at provoking conventional Americans, but he cemented his status as a pop-cultural icon by digging deeper, illustrating his gripes about American politics and culture with the imagination and insights of our most ambitious contemporary writers.

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=53209

FBI documents contradict 9/11 Commission report
Larisa Alexandrovna
Published: Thursday February 28, 2008

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Hijacker had post-9/11 flights scheduled, files say

Newly-released records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request contradict the 9/11 Commission’s report on the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and raise fresh questions about the role of Saudi government officials in connection to the hijackers.

The nearly 300 pages of a Federal Bureau of Investigation timeline used by the 9/11 Commission as the basis for many of its findings were acquired through a FOIA request filed by Kevin Fenton, a 26 year old translator from the Czech Republic. The FBI released the 298-page “hijacker timeline” Feb. 4.

The FBI timeline reveals that alleged hijacker Hamza Al-Ghamdi, who was aboard the United Airlines flight which crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center, had booked a future flight to San Francisco. He also had a ticket for a trip from Casablanca to Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.

Though referenced repeatedly in the footnotes of the final 9/11 Commission report, the timeline has not previously been made available to the public.

The FBI timeline is dated Nov. 14, 2003 but appears to have been put together earlier (since the last date mentioned in the document is Oct. 22, 2001) and was provided to the 9/11 Commission during its 2003 investigation. The final Commission report cites the FBI timeline 52 times.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/FBI_documents_contradict_Sept._11_Commissi...

McCain’s tax breaks for donating to his kids’ elite schools. Ken Silverstein of Harper’s takes a look at Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) charitable contributions, noting that the senator is essentially the sole donor to the John and Cindy McCain Foundation, and his wife is its chairman and president”:

Between 2001 and 2006, McCain contributed roughly $950,000 to the foundation. That accounted for all of its listed income other than for $100 that came from an anonymous donor. During that same period, the McCain foundation made contributions of roughly $1.6 million. More than $500,000 went to his kids’ private schools, most of which was donated when his children were attending those institutions. So McCain apparently received major tax deductions for supporting elite schools attended by his children.

http://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002519

no lauren yet

I've never been drunk in my life!

blogie poll -- Hillary or Barack ????

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

Hey Sam. Newbie here...love your show

O'Reilly said: "I don't see any difference between Huffington and the Nazis. ... I don't see any difference."

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/#78233

I'VE NEVER BEEN DRUNK, EVER, BECAUSE IT'S WRONG TO GET DRUNK ON LEAP YEAR FRIDAY AND I'M NOT WRONG BECAUSE I'VE NEVER BEEN DRUNK

:)

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

The more we pick at him, the better chance Romney stands.

Shhh.

hi there!

cured Lauren of her plauge, do we have to call him Dr. Seder now?

McCain's new funding strategy:

http://www.funfountain.com/

Janice Brown

Close to -300. Flirting with -280's to -290's

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/#78233

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjMRgT5o-Ig

Max Blumenthal at Hagee's crazy end times loser conference.

Now that Sam
Submitted by Fernando on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 3:04pm.
cured Lauren of her plauge, do we have to call him Dr. Seder now?
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For anyone else the typo would be plaque instead of plague.

But not for Fernando. Nosirreebob. He blazes new trails, he does.

from NY studio.

sound? is everyone else getting lauren's sound and music?

Janice Brown

Hello Sam
Submitted by ETHIOLIB on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 3:00pm.
Hey Sam. Newbie here...love your show

»

there has been a flight to quality today. the big funds are moving to bonds. there are suggestions that the bond insurance rescue is going to be a lot more difficult than all the good news at the start of the week and there are suggestions that there is still more real bad news coming...

Crank Bait. I can't dream of being perfect.
plus, I wear stupid with pride....

I'm getting a little herky jerky sound on my Sammy Cam...
Janice Brown
sound? is everyone else
Submitted by kthc on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 3:08pm

Hi Janice, is this where Sam reads the comments from on the show?

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

Armageddon is that ex from high-school. Duh.

Not only do I click on all the sites connected to the animal rescue site, I am currently drinking my water out of the animal rescue site 32 oz dark purple water bottle, and I buy 80% of my gifts from all their sites, AND I also go to www.care2.com and click on on their donate daily sites.

SO - more power to you my friend...and not in the MC Cain version of my friend. More power to you!!!

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

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

I can hear Sam, but I can't hear the other person. Is he talking t a caller?

Mike the Milkman

I can't hear Lauren online Sam

no, you have to instant message him at SamSederShow.com (use yahoo IM or AOL)

OY!
Lauren is mute and no sound from NYC
randi's website is down.
and samsedershow.com is s l o w

:-(
Brian

viv48

Can't hear anything at Air America need to use radio.

like Hagee wants. There are more pregnant Jewish women than grains of sand in the ocean. I think, us Mexican's learned how to breed from those people.

Mike the Milkman
Sam how many of those flag pins Rightwingers "Suppose" to wear are made in China?

thanks sam! can you redo the titanic bit? we didn't get to hear it and Chris was so giddy about it (in a good way) yesterday.

I blame ABBA.

No salvation outside the church.

haha

Catholics would be a lot better off if they hadn't invented stupid hats.

McCain 'NINEFUCKINGTHOUSAND

Sen. Jay Rockefeller Endorses Obama
By Eric Kleefeld - February 29, 2008, 3:11PM

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has announced today his endorsement of Barack Obama.

Obama now has the endorsements of 12 fellow Senators by our count, closing in on Hillary Clinton's 13 Senate supporters.

Hey there, ETHIOLIB, actually he's reading comments from the IM, but I think he reads these, too. Try him! You can sign up for the IM too.
Janice Brown

Quotes
“Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews.” - Jerusalem Countdown (revised edition, 2007, p. 114)
"Anyone who makes the life of Jewish people difficult or grievous, as did the Pharaoh, as did Hitler, will be cursed by God." - keynote address to AIPAC, (March 12, 2007)
"You will either offend the world and please God, or please the world and offend God." -Faith under Fire broadcast, (September 12, 2005)
"What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say?" - "How Free Is Freedom?" (July 2, 2006) [1]
"Jesus did not come to the Earth to start 285 squabbling denominations fighting over the Bible. How like the devil to divide Christians over the Bible." - "How Free Is Freedom?" (July 2, 2006) [2]
"If you live your life and don't confess your sins to God Almighty through the authority of Christ and His blood, I'm going to say this very plainly, you're going straight to hell with a nonstop ticket." October, 2006[3]
"All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that." [16].
"Why would you want to be politically correct when you can be right?" -The Revelation Church broadcast, (February 2007)
"The most important thing to the Christian community is not the environment but evangelism." "The Fish Gate" 9/2/07
"Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions. If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone we would be able to fire half the police force and in six months the prisons would be all half empty." "The Fish Gate" 9/2/07

Why aren't you on the air weekdays? I need to laugh stoopidly at intelligent humour 5 days a week.

Siegelman Updates
DEPARTMENT No Comment
BY Scott Horton
PUBLISHED February 29, 2008

The Alabama G.O.P. Wrestles with Retraction
One of the most interesting sideshows coming out of the transmission of the 60 Minutes segment dealing with former Alabama Governor Don E. Siegelman has been the conduct of the Alabama G.O.P. The CBS piece features direct charges leveled at Karl Rove and at Bush Administration prosecutors. But to listen to Michael Hubbard, the chair of the Alabama Republicans, you’d think it was a grudge match between 60 Minutes and his party. There must be some reason for Hubbard to adopt this posture, and for it instantly to be shared by his captive press. But maybe it’s something on the order of that line from Hamlet: The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

So let’s do something that no Advance newspaper in Alabama will ever do. Let’s take a look at the way Hubbard keeps moving the stakes around and the points which are left curiously unaddressed in the Hubbard statements.

Here’s what Mr. Hubbard said on February 24:

“Our staff has done an exhaustive search of Alabama Republican Party records going back several years, and we can find not one instance of Dana Jill Simpson volunteering or working on behalf of the Alabama Republican Party. . . Nor can we find anyone within the Republican Party leadership in Alabama who has ever so much as heard of Dana Jill Simpson until she made her first wave of accusations last summer.” (my emphasis)

And here’s how the Birmingham News repositions Mr. Hubbard three days later:

Alabama Republican leaders said this week that they can find no evidence Simpson served as an operative or in any other major role in a campaign. They did not dispute that she may have been among hundreds of volunteers who offer help to GOP campaigns. (my emphasis)

What a difference 72 hours makes. Maybe they got around, in the three days after that “exhaustive search” to talking with Governor Bob Riley and Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh (the G.O.P. chair at the time of the events in question) about Jill Simpson? Maybe they recognized that it was going a bit far out on the ledge to deny that a former county co-chair was unknown to the party leadership? After all, an artful spinner of falsehoods knows that they must at least be somewhat plausible. Or maybe it was Simpson’s statement to NBC’s senior legal correspondent Dan Abrams, who has now adopted the Siegelman case as a staple of his “Bush League Justice” series, that she had confirming telephone records that gave Mr. Hubbard a bit of pause? In any event, what we see between these two statements looks remarkably close to a retraction.

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002517

I can't remember who it was but I am in for that.

here!

Good on ya Neffer, we love amimal lovers!
Janice Brown

PBTRUE
Submitted by Nefferkitti on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 3:17pm.
Not only do I click on all the sites connected to the animal rescue site

If you (Sam) weren't married; and if I (HR) wasn't married; I would ask you to marry me today. :)

uh...that was me...thoughtlessly over reacting to something or other...and offending somebiody 2 or 3 days ago...

Re: Animal rescue.

Could you use your influence with the Boss man, and see if he could include a permanent link for these critters, or will we get better traction by reposting?

I am pretty sure that Tim Russert is Catholic

Barely Begun

I fear this is true.

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - The economic impact of the mortgage crisis and credit crunch will be huge, and it has barely begun, a new study prepared by several prominent economists and released Friday has concluded.

"Feedback from the financial market turmoil to the real economy could be substantial," it said. Unless they can quickly recapitalize, banks are likely to cut back their lending to consumers and businesses by more than $1 trillion, cutting economic growth by more than a percentage point over the next 12 months.

-Atrios 14:30

link

There was a caller on Stacey Taylor carrying on about if Obama is elected then Jesse and Al Sharptin will be running the white house ---

Don't let the negative Obamma callers get off with out finding out who they are for so we can ask for denounciatin/rejectifying the racist

Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 3:33pm.
uh...that was me...thoughtlessly over reacting to something or other...and offending somebody 2 or 3 days ago...
------
Do me a favor: offend WiccanDruid. Take the heat off of me. No matter what I write, she reads insults directed at her family heritage.

Tim might feel uncomfortable enough to ask....

John Hagee is just waiting for the IRS - I found this on Wikipedia: "And I am waiting for the day that the IRS is going to come look at our books. I have spent a chunk of money waiting for them."

This, from a guy who makes more than a million dollars a year as a MINISTER.

think I can take much more of this `Hillary support = racism' & `Obama support = sexism'...
what do we have, 4 or 5 more months?

I can't IM Sam. Please pass this along:

It's "All Saints Episcopal Church" in Pasadena,CA

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0918-05.htm

that's what you get for being a spell checker.

Leave that poor girl alone...you wicked man! Shame on you

and may you be banned from the Joketeller's Convention for

the next year.

Going to be kinda tough to explain all this when the pope visits Bush in june

is john mccain and grandpa simpson the same guy??

If that is who I think she is...I can safely say, "been there, done that..."

still doesn't get it here in New York and all over this country, SAM SEDER is Godlike and if they really could see the damn light, we would br listening to Sam 5 days a week at 9:00am to noon..insted, we take what they give us.
Janice Brown
Can't hear
Submitted by viv48 on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 3:20pm.
viv48

Can't hear anything at Air America need to use radio

He's a non-factor.. everybodee knows. Move on. Much funnier is the Clintons despartley planning something criminal.. it's coming... Corporate America will have it's lovelee day.

HOPE AND CHANGE

(here in Ohio that means I hope this weather changes.)

Hagee was divorced - because he cheated on his wife. And then married a young woman from the congregation he pastored.

think that one will get under the Crank Bait spelling radar?

In Ca being investigated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghSJsEVf0pU

then why is he quoted as saying, "Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions. If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone we would be able to fire half the police force and in six months the prisons would be all half empty"? ("The Fish Gate" 9/2/07")

They got bad names for caucasians too.

Gweilo

Farang

Gaijin

McCain is why mathematicians get hammered with political scientists and the five college kids that don't have rich parents in the US can still dumpster dive.

And I agree with Seder. Lauren's wrong.

Ching chong.

Who's there?

Nigger.

Nigger who?

Ching chong.

Who cares, you know? Stop being 1950s. We don't all live in the South, and many, if not most, of us can't figure out what ethnicity is anymore anyway.

Good bumper music. *knowing nod* I'm still waiting for some Wire though. THEY DON'T SOUND LIKE SPARKLEHORSE, WHAT THE HELL, SHUT UP

Word

Don't worry CRANK, I still love you, Booboo.. LOL..
Janice Brown

and he's now a Panamanian......shouldn't we call him JUAN McCain?

p.s. McCain means "son of CAIN"

how's Hagee going to reconcile that one?

Yeah but...
Submitted by UnrulyWoman on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 3:49pm.

Hagee was divorced - because he cheated on his wife.

Then Hagee followers are already following a condemed man.
(according to the professed beliefs)

maybe Crank is developing an immunity to my typos?

Where is Sammy? In wormtown? Just curious.

Sleeper cell a la mode...

Obama support = sixtsm'...
Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 3:50pm.
think that one will get under the Crank Bait spelling radar?
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I know that you are taunting me when you let impossible consonant combinations slip by your raptor-like gaze.

ur.. Seder

boomp3.com
Recorded live from him preaching in his mega church off my tv.
The tag at the end of the show is similar to an NFL broadcast.
But ! this is clearly political Speech.

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

: )

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

I have a friend who's middle name is Maverick. His mother named him that because he was concieved in an old Ford.

Lincoln is much classier.

Rad. My middle name, just for today, is SORRY ABOUT BEATING YOUR ASS, ANNE RICE, SHUT UP.

I don't care what the judge says.

Crackers are vital if you have good cheese.

Don't be racist!

nqondombili

Just watched this in the AM. It's an exhuastive and credible examination of Putin's Russia... well worth the time of geopolitical students. "The Putin System"

Seriously... check it.

Ya that's right... I wear an Opera Browser lapel pin for every photo op.

and the idiot who was criticizing Obama for not whereing one, wasn't whereing one himself. I had to pull over...yuck, yuck
Janice Brown

I can't find any user guide for this site. Do these messages go live to Sam? Are these what Sam reads during breaks?

Sam does read his blog.

How does this work?
new
Submitted by TooLoose-LeTrek on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 4:04pm.
==
AIM chat
~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

the possibilites are endless, although studebaker rises to the top.

IM'ng Sam Instructions HERE.

calling because they are in a position of superiority. it's like calling a rich person, "you Richie Rich M Effer"--it kind of falls flat, like ooooh, that hurt...
Janice Brown

Buttless pants aren't just for Prince anymore.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/

...is this like `the end of days?

Jamie Leigh Jones Undermines the War Effort

Rusty Shackleford at The Jawa Report, Curt at Flopping Aces and former humor blogger Ace of Spades (who recently won the Weblog Award for Best Conservative blogger) are three of the most respected conservative bloggers in the blogosphere. They will stop at nothing to protect America from terrorists. If they gave medals for bravery in a war you are not actually fighting in, these guys would win hands down.

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=53290

have switched to commodities, and this entire market is running on speculation.

Between the restating of every answer 3 times.... and the leaning into the podium when he's trying to be serious to waste time... i forgot I was missing Maury Povich's paternity tests on Fox.

Sam -- give us a music or movie pick for the weekend before you sign off! Don't be shy!

oooooooppppsssss....the credit crunch.....and every bit of it is a
result of Bush's predatory lending deregulation and law breaking.

looks like you're going to be SOL when you try to borrow cash to keep your house above water. low interest rates for the corporations but not for the average american.

meanwhile your earning/buying power is under assault again today.....$US falling AGAIN

i forget.....who does this economy and country exist for again? the
corporations or the people?

because they are in a position of superiority. It would be like calling some rich person "you Richie Rich looking M eFFer"...oooooh, that really hurt my feelings
Janice Brown

Its the "last day" for some people...

Hey pbtrue1, go back to fourth grade before fifth grade turns you into third grade.

No more financial analysis from you.

GET OUT OF THE MICROWAVE, CHER

What I'm saying is it's bad... in other words it's a bad thing for Americans... When it's bad he he it's a bad thing... So.. badness... is what hurtsn the american people. Bad is Al-Qaeda... when I say Al-Qaeda I mean bad. Bad is what's bad for America... so I call upon Democrats to end the badness.. it's bad.

That's a Bush press confereance template

cracker is about as good/bad as it gets...

altho I find `slave-driver's children' kinda effective...

repeat as necessary

don't want to forget to wish SAM and CREW a happy leap day

not to my fellow stock brokers and traders though.....don't want you leaping.

DOW -325

$US....down....again

Bond market back to inverted.

ish

Are you for real?

Sam with the frog in the throat...

very high voice

Janice Brown

THE PLANE!

snl richard pryor and chevy chase...

ya

Thanks.

guess the oxycodin scrip ran out

give thanks for prophet marley

but i prefer SIZZLA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A12TW5LXvxI

Tell that woman that her husband needs to use his head - oil company PROFITS are at a record high, and profits reflect their income after the cost of doing business. They may choose to use those profits to build more refineries, but of course, they don't have much of an incentive. You build refineries, you increase supplies and lower prices. Which would mean lower profits.

Yeah, that's happening.

Check out the Matt Rothschild article in the current Progressive (www.progressive.org/mag_rothschild)
which lays out how the FBI is deputizing private businesses with shoot-to-kill power in case of a national emergency. Put it together with Presidential Directive 51, in which W gives himself the power to suspend the Constitution in case of a national emergency defined by him. Plus the Rogue Government website
(http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=6563)
in which this extra-Constitutional military entity called US Northern Command declares itself ready to implement martial law.
They're going to pull a Reichstag fire event, suspend the Constitution, cancel the election, and bomb Iran. Their crimes are too great for them to just leave quietly.

good night yourll!

I hate to date myself but I was watching the original as it was happening, high-larious...lol
Janice Brown

offend caucasians by name calling
Submitted by dan on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 4:23pm.
snl richard pryor and chevy chase...

I LOVE that song, and I love this version of it. It's so... cheery!

SOS DD.

a welcome to you new posters!

been holding my breath for months now.

bbl got to drive around an listen...

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

Count Me Out

The Obama Craze

By MATT GONZALEZ

Part of me shares the enthusiasm for Barack Obama. After all, how could someone calling themself a progressive not sense the importance of what it means to have an African-American so close to the presidency? But as his campaign has unfolded, and I heard that we are not red states or blue states for the 6th or 7th time, I realized I knew virtually nothing about him.

Like most, I know he gave a stirring speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004. I know he defeated Alan Keyes in the Illinois Senate race; although it wasn't much of a contest (Keyes was living in Maryland when he announced). Recently, I started looking into Obama's voting record, and I'm afraid to say I'm not just uninspired: I'm downright fearful. Here's why:

This is a candidate who says he's going to usher in change; that he is a different kind of politician who has the skills to get things done. He reminds us again and again that he had the foresight to oppose the war in Iraq. And he seems to have a genuine interest in lifting up the poor.

But his record suggests that he is incapable of ushering in any kind of change I'd like to see. It is one of accommodation and concession to the very political powers that we need to reign in and oppose if we are to make truly lasting advances.

THE WAR IN IRAQ

Let's start with his signature position against the Iraq war. Obama has sent mixed messages at best...
www.counterpunch.org

Lesbian Chic*

25 minutes to Ouzo... step 2 ...? step 3... I awaken in front of a new episode of Battlestar Galactica. Don't ruin it for me. It's gotta be April... it's gotta be April.. etc.

Submitted by ennui_anomie on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 4:26pm.
guess the oxycodin scrip ran out
--

Oxycontin is a CII Rx ( Control class 2 )

CII cannot be refilled.

The reason everything sucks is that Americans treat serious issues like its American Idol... I predict a bad taste in everyone's mouth after the election when nothing changes...ewww

Sorry, but this guest can't pronounce anything correctly.

He's moot.

And yeah, I'm an honkey. But I can 1) read and 2) pronounce.

Bummer.

Walk down the street in my ghetto... there's all sorts of pharmacists

"There's not that much difference between my position and George Bush's position at this stage. The difference, in my mind, is who's in a position to execute."
Barack Obama, July 27, 2004
"Lesbian Chic*

http://www.youtube.com/v/lRWr_RqHlwg

Listen close starting about 2:47 of 9:55

The Situation Room: Is McCain Eligible To Be President?
By: Nicole Belle @ 11:45 AM - PST

What if you ran a candidate who was disqualified from being President by virtue of the location of his birth? It has to make some in Republican circles a little nervous to think about.

From CNN’s Jack Cafferty:

Here’s something you may not know about John McCain: He was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936. His father was stationed there in the Navy.

The New York Times reports the circumstances surrounding McCain’s birth raise questions about his ability to become president since our founding fathers specifically said only a “natural-born citizen” can hold the highest office in the land. The idea was to prevent foreigners from becoming president.

There’s no precedent for McCain. No U.S. president has ever been born outside the 50 states. But, McCain’s campaign says they’re confident he meets the requirement, that they researched the question during his last run in 2000 and this time around as well. And they have asked former solicitor general Theodore Olson to prepare a legal opinion.

So is John McCain eligible to be President if he was not born in the US? To be honest, I thought it was a ridiculous question, since my lay understanding of international law is that military bases and embassies in foreign countries were considered to be American soil, but after consulting my brother in law the attorney, there does appear to be a little technical problem:

(Read the rest of this story…)

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/02/29/the-situation-room-is-mccain-el...

Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. - Hillary Clinton Oct, 2002

Sorry but Phillip Shithandingon or whatever just killed a seven Milwaukee's Best Light can buzz.

If I have a heart attack with another smoke in the backyard, I'm going to sue him and Al Eron.

THANKS A BUNCH YOU PRICK

love me brownin'

Janice Brown

am leaving early today---
Submitted by Lucille on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 4:27pm.
good night yourll!

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is this guy gullible or what?

Are there any pictures of McCain in a Panama hat (i.e., tribal garb)?

How about a jacket without any lapels (for the flag pin)?

PB - I think the best approach is to post the request to click on the link and then to click to donate within each blog thread every day - because that is where everyone who visits the site automatically goes to ASAP, and will therefore provide the most visibility to the most eyes and give us the best chance for more people to catch on to the idea by repeated message with graphic and links.
From a marketing perspective, this approach makes the most sense to me, with also asking those who have individual blogs here to add the links to their permanent pages as well.
Research shows that it takes 21 days for a behavior to be practiced for it to become a habit, so by posting the links, with an explanation of the what and why and the good that can be done w/out ANY cost other than a total of 2 minutes of a person's time a day, within a month, the seed can be well planted and then the donations can grow exponentially.

That's JMHO, but it is based on some of my background before the fibro and I had to retire.

But of course - the generating idea came from YOU - and thats major kudos for you and your heart!!!

Check out www.care2.com and their daily click to donate pages. Even includes a daily political action petition page.

N-kitti - with kittie on her lap, kittie next to me on the couch and a nice tall GIANTS cup from the 1998 season full of choc milk freshly mixed which is what kept me from replying sooner.

Nefferkitti
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 3:34pm.
Re: Animal rescue.

Could you use your influence with the Boss man, and see if he could include a permanent link for these critters, or will we get better traction by reposting?

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

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

No one wins an election in the USA without a corporate reach-around. Face it... the sheer amount of dollars involved in purchasing a government position are only available to the oligarchy. While I love the progressive sentiment.. in the end the jokes on y'all because unless you have a bottomless pit of money... you cannot affect change. You cannot even see the place where power is negotiated. It isn't even knowable. The candidate that strikes the best deal with corporate power will win. Everytime. That's all.

in honor of JUAN MCCAIN

Janice Brown

)

Afterthought: Obama gets the money because corporate power would like to market to this youth / change / new hope whatever... it's clearly a bigger market and paradigm shift in branding. It's a whole new way to rebrand products.. subtley and overtly. Dupes!

WTF? I wanna get paid for making boat sounds.

Baghdad embassy project in trouble

Rep. Waxman: US Officials Certified New Baghdad Embassy As Complete, Despite Major Problems

ANNE FLAHERTY
AP News

Feb 29, 2008 15:12 EST

Federal officials last year certified as complete the new $736 million U.S. embassy in Iraq, even though the mammoth complex was still plagued by construction defects, a senior House Democrat charged Friday.

Rep. Henry Waxman, who heads the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, called on the State Department to respond in a March 12 hearing and demanded they release internal documents related to the project.

Waxman cites a Feb. 13 independent assessment of the embassy that found "major" infrastructure problems and "critical and non-critical" deficiencies in most buildings, despite a December 2007 certification by a senior project official that the embassy was complete.

"These inspection reports raise many questions about whether the embassy is safe for occupation and why the State Department certified the project as substantially complete in December," Waxman wrote in a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/02/baghdad_embassy_project_in_tro...

HAHHAAH, mang, all three of you are great. My buzz is back. Someone put a hit on Green.

This caller makes me want to beat everyone in New York City with Woody Allen's severed leg. I've no idea why. The poor idiot caller's not from New York City. I think the magnetic pole is flipped. Like flipper.

Nice hat.

BLOWS WITH IRAN HOLY CRAP

Work calls.

It's been a group effort, for sure.

but Buddy Hackett was actually funny.

I find myself turning off the commercial for Lionel and for that fat redhead from up north that uses AAR's network (who kind of sounds like that Rush to me)

Fact is that progressive or socialist-ic policies are not photo-ready, broadcast-friendly, sexy or well-attired. They don't play well in sound bytes. The don't look good on the View. Furthermore they don't need spokesmodels because they are about real people. Ugly people. People that struggle everyday in the shame of ____ blank. Fill it in ... poverty.. disease... addiction... violence.. whatever. Progressive social policy engages the ugliness in society and as a result does not play well in the media. Until the grip of the Disney-fication of politics is brought to an end, and we can look into the mirror of our society sans- breast implant or botox... nothing will change. Change is ugly. Our society is ugly. Obama is pretty.

redhead?

Finally made it home and I'm gonna stay here....tgif!! and snow is on the way!
Fernando or anyone...is there an MP3 of todays Randi/Sammi show? I forgot to turn on the replay a/v...

Melina
www.RIPCoco.com
www.BrilliantatBreakfast.blogspot.com
www.SweetJesusIHateChrisMatthews.blogspot.com

I heard about that pile of garbage floating around in the Pacific about a month ago.

Ya..I gotta huge peeve on that term...you wanna go back to the mother-tongue go back to the mother-country...in America it's called HELL YES! or RIGHT ON!...

:)

Just razzin ya's....

a license to steal

I think it reruns right after the show at
http://www.green960.com/main.html

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

There was something on The TEE VEE @ this within the past month or so.
I don't remember where I saw it, but I know is out there.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

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

Hey everyone - how goes it???
At work - got some time to blog a little

FERNANDO - Could you please I.M. Sammy & tell
him Hello from me. Thanks darling

I think it would be cool if you inspired us by letting us know how you are active in your community to affect change! Locally...

hahahahahaha

that place will be a $740 million SMOKING HOLE after Iran gets its nukes.

the most expensive bullseye ever built by slave labor.

hey…..want a diplomat position in Baghdad?

that we will be back to that annoying voice of a-LIONEL next week. It was like Heaven listening to SAJM all week long. Dang, it's soooooo unfair!
Janice Brown

that we will be back to that annoying voice of a-LIONEL next week. It was like Heaven listening to SAJM all week long. Dang, it's soooooo unfair!
Janice Brown

Nefferkitti
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 3:34pm.
Re: Animal rescue.

Could you use your influence with the Boss man, and see if he could include a permanent link for these critters, or will we get better traction by reposting?

smcgee43

Contact pcollins@airamerica.com - tell them you want Sam on daily.

How's your computer holding up these days?

http://sonoracatrescue.org

Liberals
http://www.counterpunch.org/colby02262008.html
Michael Colby
*Lesbian Chic*

Sam-- make like Cobert and give us a Progressive platform instead. Leave the walnut cracking to Wonkette already.

Sam-- make like Colbert and give us a Progressive platform instead. Leave the walnut cracking to Wonkette already.

McBush is a princpled person.

Make 'em bet you $100 their talking point is true. I called one of 'em down today by asking "Will you bet $100 Obama insists on being sworn in on the Koran?". He wouldn't.

___
bluerootsradio

This may be the guy sam was just referring to, to email:

Philippe Collin has been an interactive and marketing executive managing digital media products and services for more than 14 years, serving clients including ABC Radio Networks, CNN, FedEx, LVMH and Muzak. He most recently was President of innovative marketing group M-IMS. Collin said: "I look forward to strengthening and monetizing Air America’s digital assets by leveraging the intense relationship the brand has with the progressive audience."

If this statement is true (like the statements that Danny Goldman made when he first came to AAR)then they should respond to audience pressure. I want to ask Sam via IM if it is Phillipe...if so, then the email will be pcollin@airamerica.com and then the new owner/money guy
Krieker would be at CKireker@airamerica.com ...if they even bother to assign these guys emails addresses anymore, they turn over so quickly (and thank god, in the case of the last one!)

Anyway, if this Phillipe guy is doing any sort of programming, we may be able to write him.

Melina
www.RIPCoco.com
www.BrilliantatBreakfast.blogspot.com
www.SweetJesusIHateChrisMatthews.blogspot.com

Check out LA Times "Altered Oceans" for more on the garbage patches.

Jeebus... you think policy is about strategy... manouevering... defeating Republicans... ? What? How many Americans are suffering everyday trying to get by? How many Canadians? How many Venezualeans? French? Swedes? Vietnamese? Indonesians? Iraqis? etc? Get off you policy pedastal and grow the pair your listeners know you have for F's sake! You have a brain. Use it!!! Dear god! Use it... I don't tune in to hear you act like the Beard or the Corpse or even Olberman. Don't do it Sam! Don't lose the people on your way. You're not
that traitor KOS! Put down your talking points.. you're better than that!

Bush Condemns Leaders Who Have Pictures Taken With ‘Tyrants’