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Update on Maron v Seder & Seder on Weekdays
Marc left a message for me from the future today. He is in Australia and called me on April 16th. We are trying to work out the details of a Seder v. Maron. 14 hours difference is tough to manage but we'll do it! Stay tuned!
Meanwhile, not sure of what lays ahead as far as on air opportunities. I've been very touched by the number of people who responded to my email and signed this petition. Long time listeners know that my Seder On Sunday contract ends on May 14th (or whenever that sunday is). April 14th marked the last day of the 9-noon SamSederShow... I remember because Jessica (our show booker) had her daughter Anabelle that night. So, the next couple of weeks will reveal much.



Sam in the AM
thats what I am Hoping for.
2ed ?
Yes
We'll stay posted for news
I know you said that you don't fit into Nova M's business plan at this point, but Mike Malloy seems to think that they ought to find a way for you to. :)
Looking forward to the next Marc/Sam web cast, whenever it happens.
Over 4100 signatures on the petition now - I hope people keep them coming!
3rd?
Nope!
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bluerootsradio
Trolls, the tools of fools
May 14
is a Wednesday.
Will your contract end Sunday the 11th or 18th?
Wow, only 3-4 live shows left?
Lucille, come back
to the blog!
You love Sam.
You have to blog here.
...probably using a Macrowave.
...just to stick to the script Crank, just stick to the script.
Good one!
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Trolls, the tools of fools
My Back Pages
Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin' high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
"We'll meet on edges, soon," said I
Proud 'neath heated brow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
"Rip down all hate," I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
Romantic facts of musketeers
Foundationed deep, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
Girls' faces formed the forward path
From phony jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Unthought of, though, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
A self-ordained professor's tongue
Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
"Equality," I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My pathway led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
Does that mean N-kitti is having
Macrorooni for dinner?!?!?!?
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bluerootsradio
Trolls, the tools of fools
Future Marc? I love that guy!
I e-mailed NovaM and told them I would do an annual subscribe the second they announced they picked up a weekly Seder vs. Maron show.
new show???
Taylor Marsh and Sam Seder-two non crazy people talking truth to power-AAR consider it-maybe I wont huff and puff
Please whatever people on this blog do-do not look at the link below-thank you for your cooperation.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ys68HEA1DLA
Re: 14 hours difference is tough
Boy howdy, I'll say! My astounding ciphering ability tells me we are going to have to leave the Sammycam on for 15 hours (minimum) if we want to enjoy the show in its entirety.
It's Alright Incubus
I'm only sleeping
Good night and
Good blogging!
Say a prayer for bitter Joe American in Smalltown, USA.
p.s. Remember what Fernando said
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Trolls, the tools of fools
Thanks for the info @ what happened
to Lucille. I hope she will come back.
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
MB
Your Message came thru 10 min delayed
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
Me too Neffer
Maybe she'll be back tomorrow. Everyone here is a bit stressed with what is happening with Sam and with the world so we're all a little more temperamental.
I'm off to sleep a little.
Night all
Mike's Show Last Night
Mike Malloy opened his show last night saying he was happy that Randi is there and that now we have to work on getting SAM there. That's what I like about Mike and Sam, not just great radio hosts, but also decent, caring people, unlike most of the conservative talk show hosts.
Yes we all are feeling extra stressed
With everything that is going on and NOT going on and even tho we knew what the future looked like - when it finally got here its still hard to swallow. Times like this makes the idea of Orwell's "Ignorance is Bliss" seem a bit tempting.
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
Deleted this link because I think the Seattle Times
is being disingenous with its information.
The Seattle Pacific Intelligencer is the more reliable paper from the Seattle area and as such I do not trust the info from the Times.
There is a website with earmarks and donations available - put together by one of the Veteran's organizations IAVA or IAVW but I can't remember which one it is.
I would trust one of those sites for more accurate info.
THen of course there is the actual congressional record which is available online but I do not have the head or eye strength to go looking for that bill and then to search for earmarks etc...
Eyes are glazing over as I type now.
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
finally finished working
still everyone is unhappy and stressed this week and most of my clients dont listen to talk radio....
now I feel like you are punishing us Lu'. You didn't even answer my email to you....
from my main man
The happiness we seek, a genuine lasting peace and happiness, can be attained only through the purification of our minds. This is possible if we cut the root cause of all suffering and misery—our fundamental ignorance.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Lawrence O'Donnell: "Wes Clark for VP."
I was surprised by the responses for that post on Huff Post.
"No. Clark is an amateur. Jim Webb."
"No way. Clark can't think on his feet. Chuck Hagel."
Hagel and Webb were the most common suggestions. I thought that people would write, "YEAH! I love Clark!!"
www.sigzone.blogspot.com
Sam,
all of us are cast into reality and navigate.
Your temptations are about to go postal. Keep grounded.
Your temptations are about to go postal. Keep grounded.
translation please Nando????
Is this like "why dont you play a game of solitaire"
Thanks Toni & Maggiesboy.. :)
Submitted by MMRules on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 10:50pm.
Maggiesboy..I'm a Military brat cubed and I like Obama so your post got to me..
Your whole Joe American series is
very good..
Keep it up.. :)
Toni,Thanks for emailing Lucille.. :)
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
omg
keiran
Im wondering if the Lucille thing has more to do with her grandbaby and what her family has been going thru...we all send you love honey...keiran, and I know I speak for tonid, mmrules and nando
On A Lower Plane
Submitted by mhappenow on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 10:50pm.
...This is possible if we cut the root cause of all suffering and misery—our fundamental ignorance.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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For some of us the root cause of all suffering and misery is ignorant fundamentalists.
Marc left a message for me from the future today
Sammy, see, this sort of update is EXACTLY why we {{{{love}}}} you so much! I, uh, will put $25k in an account, oops, first I need to pay for my gas & light bill.....blah de fuckin blah. In all seriousness (G&E threatened shutoff is serious, or would that be Bushwhacked 'seriosity'?), I'd pay to hear you, but if I can't pay for the 'lectricity, I can't hear ya.
Hang in Sam. Somethin's gotta give. In the interim, look for CSA's and wild food classes, learning to live without grid connections, having a stock of grains, a hand (not electric) grain mill, root cellar, garden on every square inch of land, farmers' markets, RAW food, and indoor sprouts...
Big hugs, Sam. AARgh is the pits, but I'm rooting for you. Do you suppose that Randi was saying that if you renew your contract you should NOT allow them to include a clause that says you can be fired at will yet you cannot quit at will?
Hugs to you and all the lovely, helpful bloggers {{{{{{{sederistas!}}}}}}}
No more MACHO, MACHO MAN
Submitted by M the a-c on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 11:15pm.
Hagel and Webb were the most common suggestions. I thought that people would write, "YEAH! I love Clark!!"
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No more generals. No more military style government, please! In a somewhat perfect world, Obama would be the nominee and Russ Feingold or Bobby Kennedy would be the VP
GWB
ELITIST!

TYT rocked today.
OKIE DOKIE BLOKIES AND BLOKETTES
Time for me to get off the computer.
I need to try and get some organization done around here - been slacking off with all that has been going on and need to make sure to try and get some quality sleep or at least rest.
G'night all.
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
Getting Hillaried mad
Thanks Fernando
For the Cenk post.
Critique of Obamamania in the Left Business Observer
As this newsletter has argued for years, there’s great political potential in popular disillusionment with Democrats. The phenomenon was first diagnosed by Garry Wills in Nixon Agonistes. As Wills explained it, throughout the 1950s, left-liberals intellectuals thought that the national malaise was the fault of Eisenhower, and a Democrat would cure it. Well, they got JFK and everything still pretty much sucked, which is what gave rise to the rebellions of the 1960s (and all that excess that Obama wants to junk any remnant of) [read the article to get the reference-dada]. You could argue that the movements of the 1990s that culminated in Seattle were a minor rerun of this. The sense of malaise and alienation is probably stronger now than it was 50 years ago, and includes a lot more of the working class, whom Stanley Greenberg’s focus groups find to be really pissed off about the cost of living and the way the rich are lording it over the rest of us.
Never did the possibility of disappointment offer so much hope. That’s not what the candidate means by that word, but history can be a great ironist.
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Obama.html
Is
THIS real or a parody? Having a realty check moment.
No Way, BUNNYPANTS is not ELITE
An out-of-touch imbecile like BUNNYPANTS will never be considered ELITE in any meaningful way... i.e. intelligence, wisdom, logic, analogic, understanding, inventiveness, diplomacy, military training...... NOTHING, no way!!! But now, I'm proud to finally have an ELITIST on the ballot this year.
OBAMA... Well it's about damn time!
Just when I thought I could lay off Taylor Marsh...
Talk radio personality (not) Taylor Marsh is begging her intellectually bankrupt, pro-Monster mini fan club to send emails to the folks at Air America and XM satellite radio. She's hoping that a wave of "please put Taylor on the radio" missives will somehow convince the network to give her a show.
Now, as you may remember from this little bio of Taylor Marsh, she portrays herself as a radio host when, in reality, she is a Hill-shill podcaster whose only actual on-air experience consists of buying time on a Nevada vanity station in hopes of convincing someone she deserves mic time. That experiment, obviously, failed.
I'm doing my part to keep the streak of Marsh radio disappointment alive.
http://johnbrownks.blogspot.com/2008/04/taylor-marsh-wants-you-to-send-e...
Bitter as hell in Pennsylvania
April 16, 2008 | EXETER, Penn. -- Shawn Erfman lives in a trailer park, listens to Rush Limbaugh and voted for George W. Bush -- twice. Over the weekend, he heard all about what Barack Obama had to say about "bitter" Pennsylvanians like himself. And he's mad as hell.
Not at the guy you might expect, though. "It's fucking true," he said Monday night. "Everybody's bitter for one reason or another. So they're crucifying him because he spoke the truth? Cause he's not saying something that's going to suck up to people and kiss ass? Because, what, he slipped and accidentally spoke the truth, instead of kissing butt?"
A 37-year-old mechanic for a construction company, Erfman won't be voting Republican this time around. While he isn't a registered Democrat and can't vote in next week's primary, he'd be happy to go for Obama in November. (Or Hillary Clinton, for that matter.) "I do like him, I think that he would be a change," Erfman said. "Believe it or not, I voted for Bush. See where that got me?" But when you get right down to it, Erfman -- like many of his neighbors -- doesn't see much chance of any politician really doing a lot to help the dwindling middle class in northeastern Pennsylvania. "It doesn't make a difference who I go vote for, whoever gets in is going to see fit to try to make it go their way," Erfman said. His wife, Heidi, felt the same way. "Can I vote for Mickey Mouse?" she asked.
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"Bush gave Republicans a bad name," said Sciandra, 46, the repairman. A veteran of six years in the Marines, he voted for Bush in 2000 but supports Clinton this time. If McCain can't win him over, it might be a bad sign. Sciandra said he understood what Obama meant, and wasn't offended by the idea that he "clings" to guns. "I hunt, I fish, I love the outdoors," he said. "Me, I tell you, I'm not worried about anybody taking my guns ... I think it just came out the wrong way." As for Erfman, he's more worried about healthcare than his job. His 60-year-old mother-in-law, Iona White, just moved in with his family so she could get onto their health insurance. A lifelong Democrat, White says she'll vote for Obama next week. "It's a bad time in the world," she said. "People are bitter."
Washington Post-ABC News poll: Majority View Clinton as Dishones
Washington Post-ABC News poll: Majority View Clinton as Dishonest
PHILADELPHIA, April 15 -- Lost in the Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign's aggressive attacks on Barack Obama in recent days is a deep and enduring problem that threatens to undercut any inroads Clinton has made in her struggle to overtake him in the Democratic presidential race: She has lost trust among voters, a majority of whom now view her as dishonest.
Her advisers' efforts to deal with the problem -- by having her acknowledge her mistakes and crack self-deprecating jokes -- do not seem to have succeeded. Privately, the aides admit that the recent controversy over her claim to have ducked sniper fire on a trip to Bosnia probably made things worse.
Clinton is viewed as "honest and trustworthy" by just 39 percent of Americans, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, compared with 52 percent in May 2006. Nearly six in 10 said in the new poll that she is not honest and trustworthy. And now, compared with Obama, Clinton has a deep trust deficit among Democrats, trailing him by 23 points as the more honest, an area on which she once led both Obama and John Edwards.
wednesday ~ 12.19.15.4.10
Planetary 13 (10-0.0.6.7)
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white rhythmic mirror ~ kin 58
ORGANIZE in order to REFLECT,
BALANCING ORDER
seal the MATRIX of ENDLESSNESS
with the RHYTHMIC tone of EQUALITY.
guided by the SAME power DOUBLED.
3rd quartet galactic activation portal...enter
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Iran anti-vice chief 'in brothel'-------Is he GOP, also?
Tehran's police chief, who was reportedly discovered in a brothel, has been arrested, it has been confirmed.
Local media have reported that General Reza Zarei was found with six naked women in a house of prostitution in the Iranian capital last month.
He has been taken to jail while his case is investigated, a spokesman for Iran's judiciary said.
Gen Zarei was in charge of enforcing Iran's strict anti-vice laws, which include a ban on prostitution.
[...]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7350165.stm
(I bet he wasn't wearing diapers, or tapping his toes)
Morning.....
that was a great clip for Cenk.....why isn't Sam doing that...
this is the core of the problem
Wall Street Winners Get Billion-Dollar Paydays
By JENNY ANDERSON
Hedge fund managers, those masters of a secretive, sometimes volatile financial universe, are making money on a scale that once seemed unimaginable, even in Wall Street’s rarefied realms.
One manager, John Paulson, made $3.7 billion last year. He reaped that bounty, probably the richest in Wall Street history, by betting against certain mortgages and complex financial products that held them.
Mr. Paulson, the founder of Paulson & Company, was not the only big winner. The hedge fund managers James H. Simons and George Soros each earned almost $3 billion last year, according to an annual ranking of top hedge fund earners by Institutional Investor’s Alpha magazine, which comes out Wednesday.
Hedge fund managers have redefined notions of wealth in recent years. And the richest among them are redefining those notions once again.
Their unprecedented and growing affluence underscores the gaping inequality between the millions of Americans facing stagnating wages and rising home foreclosures and an agile financial elite that seems to thrive in good times and bad. Such profits may also prompt more calls for regulation of the industry.
Even on Wall Street, where money is the ultimate measure of success, the size of the winnings makes some uneasy. “There is nothing wrong with it — it’s not illegal,” said William H. Gross, the chief investment officer of the bond fund Pimco. “But it’s ugly.”
The richest hedge fund managers keep getting richer — fast. To make it into the top 25 of Alpha’s list, the industry standard for hedge fund pay, a manager needed to earn at least $360 million last year, more than 18 times the amount in 2002. The median American family, by contrast, earned $60,500 last year.
Combined, the top 50 hedge fund managers last year earned $29 billion. That figure represents the managers’ own pay and excludes the compensation of their employees. Five of the top 10, including Mr. Simons and Mr. Soros, were also at the top of the list for 2006. To compile its ranking, Alpha examined the funds’ returns and the fees that they charge investors, and then calculated the managers’ pay.
Top hedge fund managers made money in many ways last year, from investing in overseas stock markets to betting that prices of commodities like oil, wheat and copper would rise. Some, like Mr. Paulson, profited handsomely from the turmoil in the mortgage market ripping through the economy.
As early as 2005, Mr. Paulson began betting that complex mortgage investments known as collateralized debt obligations would decline in value, much as Wall Street traders bet that shares will drop in price. In that case, known as shorting, they borrow shares and sell them, wait for the price to fall, buy the shares back at a lower price and return them, pocketing the profit.
Then, over the next two years, Mr. Paulson established two funds to focus on the credit markets. One of those funds returned 590 percent last year, and the other handed back 353 percent, according to Alpha. By the end of 2007, Mr. Paulson sat atop $28 billion in assets, up from $6 billion 12 months earlier.
Mr. Soros, one of the world’s most successful speculators and richest men, leapt out of retirement last summer as the market turmoil spread — and he won big. He made $2.9 billion for the year, when his flagship Quantum fund returned almost 32 percent, according to Alpha. Mr. Simon, a mathematician and former Defense Department code breaker who uses complex computer models to trade, earned $2.8 billion. His flagship Medallion fund returned 73 percent.
Like Mr. Paulson, Philip Falcone, who founded Harbinger Partners with $25 million in June 2001, cast a winning bet against the mortgage market. He pulled in returns of 117 percent after fees in 2007 and made $1.7 billion. The trade thrust him from relative obscurity to hedge fund heavyweight: he now manages $18 billion. Harbinger recently won agreement from The New York Times Company to add two members to its board.
Hedge fund managers share their success with their investors, which include wealthy individuals, pension funds and university endowments. They typically charge annual fees equal to 2 percent of their assets under management, and take a 20 percent cut of any profits.
With a combined $2 trillion under management, the hedge fund industry is coming off its richest year ever — a feat all the more remarkable given the billions of dollars of losses suffered by major Wall Street banks.
In recent months, however, scores of hedge funds have quietly died or spectacularly imploded, wracked by bad investments, excess borrowing or leverage, and client redemptions — or a combination of those events.
“To some degree it’s a very gigantic version of Las Vegas,” said Gary Burtless, an economist at the Brookings Institution.
As Alpha’s list shows, managers who reap big gains one year can lose the next.
Edward Lampert, the founder of ESL Investments and a member of the 2007 Alpha list, was absent this year. His fund fell 27 percent last year, according to Alpha. About 60 percent of ESL’s equity portfolio is invested in Sears, whose shares plunged 40 percent last year. ESL is also a major holder of Citigroup, whose abysmal performance matched that of Sears.
A manager who ranked high in the 2007 list and fell off in 2008 was James Pallotta of the Tudor Investment Corporation, who was 17th last year and earned $300 million. Mr. Pallotta’s $5.7 billion Raptor Global Fund fell almost 8 percent last year, according to Alpha.
A few who did not make the cut still made buckets of money. Bruce Kovner of Caxton Associates and Barry Rosenstein at Jana Partners didn’t make the top 50. But Mr. Kovner earned $100 million, and Mr. Rothstein earned $170 million, according to Alpha. Spokesmen for the hedge fund managers either declined to comment on Tuesday or could not be reached.
Since 1913, the United States witnessed only one other year of such unequal wealth distribution — 1928, the year before the stock market crashed, according to Jared Bernstein, a senior fellow at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. Such inequality is likely to impede an economic recovery, he said.
“For a recovery to be robust and sustainable you can’t just have consumer demand at Nordstrom,” he said. “You need it at the little shop on the corner, too.”
Despite the explosive growth of the industry — about 10,000 hedge funds operate worldwide — it is relatively lightly regulated. On Tuesday, two panels appointed by Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. advised hedge funds to adopt guidelines to increase disclosure and risk management.
And Mr. Gross, the fund manager, warned that the widening divide among the richest and everyone else is cause for worry.
“Like at the end of the Gilded Age and the Roaring Twenties, we are going the other way,” Mr. Gross said. “We are clearly in a period of excess, and we have to swing back to the middle or the center cannot hold."
When this happens it's all over.....
Chatty Crowd Forces Clinton to Cut Speech Short
(CBS)
From CBS News' Fernando Suarez:
PHILADELPHIA -- Hillary Clinton was forced to cut her normal stump speech short when a chatty and meddlesome crowd kept her from grasping their attention. Clinton, who was addressing the Philadelphia County Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, spoke for just over five minutes, despite having the press arrive almost two hours beforehand.
The crowd never settled down during her remarks. A spokesman for Clinton denied that she cut the speech short, and told reporters that Clinton was advised by her Pennsylvania team to deliver “a short speech" given the set up of the event.
In previous party dinners, most recently in Butte, Mt., Clinton spoke for almost an hour to a crowd that seemed to be paying attention. The aide said this was a “different type” of J-J Dinner, primarily because people were not seated at tables, and were “milling around” the banquet hall.
Whether or not Clinton’s reception at the dinner had anything to do with her recent attacks on Barack Obama remains unclear. Clinton has never delivered a formal speech in such a short amount of time. The most recent abbreviated speech was back on February 15 when Clinton spoke to a crowd at a Lockheed Martin plant in Akron, Ohio. The speech lasted for just 12 minutes, with the first applause line coming 11 minutes into the speech.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/04/14/politics/fromtheroad/printable40...
Venezuela raises foreign oil tax-------Go Chavez!
Foreign oil firms operating in Venezuela will pay higher taxes on profits made in the country, under laws approved by parliament.
They face a 50% tax when a barrel of crude is priced at $70 or more, rising to 60% when average prices tops $110.
It is President Hugo Chavez's latest attempt to get greater control over his country's oil.
In 2006, he enacted laws making foreign oil firms hand over at least a 60% share in their Venezuelan operations.
[...]
'Diminishing opportunities'
Oil prices are currently around $110 a barrel and income from the new tax could reach $9bn (£4.5bn) a year, according to oil minister Rafael Ramirez.
Analysts said that the move would make foreign firms think carefully before making any further investments in Venezuela, which is one of the world's most oil-rich nations.
"Their opportunities to turn a profit are diminishing," said Juan Carlos Sosa, editor of Venezuelan oil industry magazine PetroleoYV.
The tax comes months after President Chavez's nationalisation drive forced out two of the world's largest energy companies: Exxon Mobil Corp and ConocoPhillips.
Exxon is seeking $12bn in compensation from Venezuela after its oilfields were nationalised last year.
[...]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7349986.stm
mhappenow
thanks. Sam is most valuable during the election. Real shame he's not on daily.
Chinese fund snaps up stake in BP
A China has spent £1bn buying a 1% stake in BP, the UK's largest company by market value.
The investment was made by the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, a unit of the Central Bank managing $1.6 trillion in foreign exchange reserves.
The move is the latest purchase by China of strategic stakes in leading European and US firms such as Total, Blackstone and Morgan Stanley.
Critics of this approach say China must be more open about its intentions.
[...]
The Kuwait Investment Authority already owns a 1.7% holding in the oil giant.
[...]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7347950.stm
bush plans a 21 gun salute for the pope
how appropriate for a man of peach
Write-downs dent JP Morgan profit------awwwwww
JP Morgan Chase has said that profits fell in the first three months of 2008, in part due to write-downs as a result of the credit crisis.
The New York-based firm made $2.37bn (£1.2bn) in the quarter, down from $4.8bn a year earlier.
The results were roughly in line with analysts' expectations.
JP Morgan last month agreed to buy rival Bear Stearns following its near-collapse as clients lost confidence and withdrew funds.
Long-term damage
The firm's investment bank arm wrote off about $2.6bn between January and March, which included $1.2bn from mortgages and $1.1bn on loans to fund corporate buyouts
And despite the bank's "solid business momentum", chief executive Jamie Dimon was downbeat about the future.
"Our expectation is for the economic environment to continue to be weak and for the capital markets to remain under stress," he said.
"These factors have affected, and are likely to continue to negatively impact, our firm's credit losses, overall business volumes and earnings - possibly through the remainder of the year, or longer."
JP Morgan bought Bear Stearns after it got into trouble when other banks refused to lend it money because of fears that it had too much exposure to US mortgage debt.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7350504.stm
Thanks Sam
I keep hoping this is all going to work out for the best - you get your 5-day a week radio show and we get to hear you. Keeping my fingers crossed.......
Give Sam Seder a Daily Show
http://bravenewfilms.org/petitions/show/16-give-sam-seder-the-chance-to-...
Obama Surges on Electability,Challenges Clinton on Leadership
ABC NEWS
Barack Obama has knocked down one of the three tent poles of Hillary Clinton's campaign for president, surging ahead of her as the candidate Democrats see as most likely to win in November. He's challenging her on leadership as well, leaving only experience as a clear Clinton advantage in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll.
On the eve of their debate before the Pennsylvania primary next week, Democrats by a 2-1 margin, 62-31 percent, now see Obama as better able to win in November -- a dramatic turn from February, when Clinton held a scant 5-point edge on this measure, and more so from last fall, when she crushed her opponents on electability.
Click here for PDF with charts and full questionnaire.
The poll finds other pronounced problems for Clinton. Among all Americans, 58 percent now say she's not honest and not trustworthy, 16 points higher than in a precampaign poll two years ago. Obama beats her head-to-head on this attribute by a 23-point margin.
The number of Americans who see Clinton unfavorably overall has risen to a record high in ABC/Post polling, 54 percent -- up 14 points since January. Obama's unfavorable score has reached a new high as well, up 9 points, but to a lower 39 percent.
UN calls for farming revolution
A UN-sponsored report has called for urgent changes to the way food is produced, as soaring food prices risk driving millions of people to poverty.
The Unesco study recommends better safeguards to protect resources and more sustainable farming practices, such as producing food locally.
More natural and ecological farming techniques should be used, it says.
[...]
The authors found:
* Progress in agriculture has reaped very unequal benefits and has come at a high social and environmental cost
* Food producers should try using "natural processes" like crop rotation and use of organic fertilisers
* The distance between the produce and consumer should also be reduced
The BBC's Nick Miles says that with food prices at the top of the international political agenda, this is effectively a blueprint for the future of global agriculture.
Unesco says wheat prices have risen 130% percent since March 2007 while soy prices have jumped 87%.
"The status quo is no longer an option," Guilhem Calvo, a Unesco expert, told a news conference in Paris.
"We must develop agriculture less dependent on fossil fuels, that favours the use of locally available resources."
[...]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7348728.stm
Rewards for the Incompetent----It's the GOP way
Cayne to receive another $4.6m from Bear Stearns sale
Shanny Basar
15 Apr 2008
James Cayne, chairman of Bear Stearns, is due to receive $4.6m (€2.9bn) after selling more than $61m (€39m) of Bear shares last month just one day after JP Morgan Chase raised its offer for the stricken investment bank.
In return for their restricted stock units and the shares they held in the bank’s capital accumulation plan, Bear Stearns’ executives and board members will receive an equivalent number of JP Morgan shares.
Cayne will receive $4.6m worth of JP Morgan Chase stock based on the bank’s share price on April 4, according to a proxy filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
He stepped down as chief executive in January and was replaced by president Alan Schwartz after Bear Stearns suffered its first quarterly loss in its 83-year history as a public company.
Schwartz will receive $4.4m in JP Morgan Chase shares, according to the filing.
The filing said: “Bear Stearns and JP Morgan Chase have agreed to consider providing holders of restricted stock units and cap units with the right to elect, prior to completion of the merger, to have outstanding awards distributed in cash (rather than stock) at the same time the units would have been settled absent such election.”
JP Morgan Chase has also agreed that if the merger is completed it will indemnify each present and former director of Bear Stearns from liability for matters arising at or prior to the completion of the merger for six years after the deal. The deal is expected to close at the end of this quarter.
On March 16, JP Morgan Chase agreed to buy Bear Stearns for $2 a share and guarantee the stricken bank’s trading positions supported by US Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which agreed to provide $30bn in financing backed by a portfolio of assets.
A week later the offer was increased to $10 per share.
After the offer was increased, Cayne sold the remainder of his Bear Stearns shares at $10.84 each. Cayne had previously sold shares at roughly $80 each in February.
In its quarterly filing yesterday, Bear Stearns said net profit fell to $115m in the first quarter from $554m a year ago.
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http://www.financialnews-us.com/?page=ushome&contentid=2350362776
dan 8:01 am
man of peace (the pope)
or man of impeach[ment] bustard
freudian slip, or typo ? :-)
good morning to all
Kat
oops - bushtard (my typo)
it's too early :-)
McCain's GOP critics in Arizona continue to press their case
By JACQUES BILLEAUD
Associated Press Writer
PHOENIX (AP) -- Sen. John McCain's status as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has done little to ease the criticism he faces from a small but vocal group of conservatives in his home state.
A week ago, Republican activists living in the same state legislative district as McCain rejected nearly all the names his campaign submitted as candidates to become delegates to the party's state convention on May 10.
Six people on McCain's slate eventually became delegates, said Rob Haney, the district's Republican chairman and McCain's most prominent critic in Arizona.
"The people who know him like him the least. He is a media darling, so the general population doesn't know his record - and conservatives do," Haney said, though noting he doesn't believe the development could derail McCain's campaign.
The group of conservatives has dogged McCain since he first ran for Congress in 1982, objecting to his views on illegal immigration and campaign finance, among other issues. They rallied around him during the "Keating Five" scandal but were turned off by his moderate positions in the 2000 presidential race.
[....]
MCCAIN_ARIZONA_CRITICS
The Village Voice's Top Conservative Idiot Bloggers
A confederacy of dunces
Example:
HINDROCKET, THE BIG TRUNK, THE DEACON (Power Line; powerlineblog.com)
ORIENTATION: Grassroots Establishmentarian
TONE: First-draft-of-right-wing-history important
FUN FACT: Named “Blog of the Year” in 2004 by Time. (“I don’t put much faith in anything that comes from Time magazine.”—Hindrocket, 2003)
CANDIDATE: McCain
STUPID/EVIL RATIO: 30/70
HISTORY: Powerline was founded in 2002 by lawyers John Hinderaker, Scott Johnson, and Paul Mirengoff, all fellows of the right-wing Claremont Institute and contributors to conservative publications. The genesis of their cognomens is unknown, but they’ve been widely mocked (“Assrocket”) and were eventually soft-pedaled by the authors, who favor lengthy dissertations on moral and political topics (“the Clinton-Gore lack of seriousness about issues”), personal essays (“Being a child of the ’50s, I don’t recall a time when Sammy Davis was not a celebrity . . .”), and the occasional attempt at investigative journalism, some of which were howlingly unsuccessful (“Bin Laden is dead. More leaks are starting to come out . . .”—July 27, 2002). Sometimes they struck pay-dirt, however, including the “Rathergate” controversy over George W. Bush’s alleged military service, which figured in the blog’s 2004 Time award. Thereafter, Powerline sometimes attempted to recapture the old magic, most notably by unsuccessfully debunking the damning “Schiavo memo” from Senator Mel Martinez’s office, which was laid to rest with the admission “Real Memo, Fake Story” (“While [it] . . . didn’t turn out to be a Democratic dirty trick, the media’s treatment of the memo was misleading at best”). Mostly covered other people’s reporting from a right-wing Republican perspective, like Fox News with a scroll bar.
MODUS OPERANDI: Having built their reputation and traffic sufficiently, the authors appear to be coasting (“Will Bush Rebound in 2008?”). They do sometimes attempt to hold John McCain’s feet to the fire (“Those of us who want to preserve the interrogation device that apparently caused Khalid Sheikh Muhammad to break down in minutes . . . remain free to punish McCain and/or Graham at the polls for their underlying efforts to ban waterboarding categorically”), but their heart obviously isn’t in it (“Stop attacking McCain for his ‘impurities’ ”).
WHAT TO EXPECT: Pro forma boosterism, with frequent breathless dispatches on whatever scandal the GOP is pushing in October.
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0816,right-wing-blogosphere,411897,1.ht...
For Lucille :)
Spyro Gyra - Morning Dance
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
Fight Leaves Democrats Questioning Prospects
“It seems he’s kind of ripping on small towns, and I’m a small town girl,” said Becki Farmer, 32, who lives in Rochester, Pa., another Ohio River town hit hard by the closed steel mills. “That’s where your good morals and good judgment come from, growing up in small towns.”
Indeed, advisers to Mr. Obama concede, his job has been made that much more complicated by his remarks about bitterness among small-town voters.
Though it remains unclear what effect the episode will have in the long run, it has suddenly prompted a series of questions — and worry — from Democrats about whether Mr. Obama could weather a Republican onslaught in the fall, should he win the presidential nomination.
i just have to say -
iv'e been reading this blog for 6+ months
and i can't believe Lucille was so hurt by being asked to describe the subject of her links (yesterday)
LUCILLE - you are such a STRONG and FUNNY woman !!!
as a newbie - i'm asking you to comeback !!!
Kat
Let's turn up the Heat Tonight !!!!
Clinton, Obama on collision course tonight
Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
The demolition derby that now defines the Democratic presidential primary race looks headed for another smashup tonight when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama meet for a debate in delegate-rich Pennsylvania, site of the nation's next big primary on Tuesday.
With the Democratic presidential hopefuls locked in open warfare as the last primaries wind down and the battle for delegates heats up, the questions now are: How much intra-party bashing will voters tolerate, and how much will the Republicans benefit?
Although past one-on-one debates between the New York and Illinois senators have been virtual lovefests, the terrain is different this time because Clinton is running out of room. Many political observers believe she must put the pedal down hard tonight if she hopes to convince all-important superdelegates that she alone has the muscle to take the Democratic fight on to the general election.
"It has been an enjoyable primary season," laughed Sacramento-based GOP strategist Rob Stutzman on Tuesday on the recent developments that have had Obama and Clinton pouring on the vitriol in the last week. Between the brouhaha over the "bitter" comments from Obama in San Francisco and the beer-and-gun-loving displays by Clinton as they have courted Pennsylvania voters, Stutzman notes, the Democratic presidential contest is "becoming the political equivalent of Vietnam. At some point, one of them catches a helicopter off the roof, but it's not clear who it will be - and how it will happen."
With just six days until voters go to the polls in Pennsylvania, Stutzman's obvious delight in tonight's debate (starting at 5 p.m. PDT on ABC) is a measure of just how much the presidential race has shifted - and just how impossibly tangled it looks for the Democrats right now. Just weeks ago, the veteran Sacramento GOP consultant was a senior adviser to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and was engaged in a bitter battle with the team of Arizona Sen. John McCain for Republican hearts and minds.
Blogs and Politics Survey 2008
http://ms.cc.sunysb.edu/~lhuddy/pidsurvey_4.htm
Stony Brook University Department of Political Science
LUCILLE - you are such a STRONG and FUNNY woman !!!
This blog is just as much yours as anyone here (well it might be more mine) and if you are going to let some Elitist Bloggers tell what to post you don't understand why Sam created this Blog.
It's about Free Speech!
Post exactly what you like!
I know you are reading this, so Butch Up and show these whiners that they can't run you out of here.
The Terrorists win if you run and hide!
It's about Free Speech!
No it isn't. It is about exercising responsibility and
common sense. You don't give us free speech. You give us
shit disturbing and spamming. There's a difference.
Hey Lucille!
We need you back on the blog.
Fernando just embedded a video clip.
We need you here to call him on it!
I miss you :)
Ratzi The Nazi and Bush The Fascist
shaking hands on TV. Something to see, for sure. Bad guys
rule!
The 97% loves America and The Conseratives are Happy !!!
Obama was speaking before a San Francisco audience, so it's understandable that he'd morph into a liberal progressive. Nonetheless, his attitude is problematic.
It betrays the mindset of intellectual elites who assume they know how to perfect society and think politics is about grandiose social engineering schemes.
Inevitably, they regard those who oppose their salvational schemes as, well, bitter and resentful and reactionary.
Such a mindset tends towards the undemocratic. Those who aren't with the program are ignored, sidelined or, in extremis, eliminated. Elites, in short, incline to totalitarianism.
Free Democracy
You give us shit disturbing and spamming
You see how this works Lucille?
This Little Nazi would like to control the blog by telling me what I can and can not post.
He thinks that because he is in the majority he can create the rules and control thought!
Sam disagrees, Sam gives me the right to tell this tiny oppressor to go Fuck Himself!
Don't let the Blog Terrorists Win!!!
Obama has changed his theme from Hope to Anger !!!
The 3% is dragging Obama down!
First there was the 3% Rev...
Now the attack on Small Town America.
Obama should have stayed with Hope, Happiness, and the 97%.
Maybe Hillary can explain this to him tonight!
This Little Nazi would like to control the blog
Lucille knows that I am not little and I am not a Nazi.
I don't want to control anything. As I've said to you
many times, hiding behind the free speech issue is phony
and disingenuous of you. You are the guy yelling FIRE in
the crowded theater. You are the one who engages in shit
disturbing and spamming.
man of peach
actually it was a typo but i was in a hurry to get out the door for the morning school drop off. at best describing the a conservative pope as a man of peace is sarcastic at best. i look at pictures of him and i see the evil wrinkled emperor from star wars. to illustrate the point, consider the following:
it was never about telling
someone WHAT to post, merely to describe what's in a link
imagine - a troll comparing itself to Lucille !!??
excellent point dan
or - Your Excellency :-)
i'm off to work too
but i would really appreciate someone addressing my post from yesterday morning
should we be contacting AAR's advertisers ?
http://www.samsedershow.com/node/2892#comment-184070
Thanks!
have a good day to all
Kat
For Lucille :)
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
Obama will be forever Linked to Rev Wrong !!!
Hating the USA: Obama's pastor strikes again
9 hours, 48 minutes ago
Speaking of racism, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright made the news this week with another hate-whitey, hate-America speech.
Wright is Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor. He is "former" only because Wright retired, not because Obama left the anti-American preacher's huge church, which is a networking dream come true for a Chicago politician.
Wright, at the wake of a friend, of all places, pronounced that the founders "planted slavery and white supremacy in the DNA of this republic." So you see, white supremacy is in America's DNA, and DNA cannot be changed, so the struggle for racial equality here is hopeless.
Obama put up with this kind of talk for 20 years? Twenty minutes would have been too long.
Only in GOP Official Talkers
Obama will be forever Linked to Rev Wrong !!!
Submitted by Part of the 97 .
Clinton is forever linked to NAFTA, and Walmart.
And McCain is forever linked to WAR CRIMES
Even if you overlook the Keating 5 scandal, his links to organize crime in Arizona, his philandering on his first wife, and even if you overlook his stance on lifting the US imposed trade embargo against Vietnam against the wishes of the majority of the POW/MIA families; and even if you overlook his stance on normalization in direct conflict with the POW/MIA Families; and even if you overlook the way he gutted a bill in the Senate that would protect future potential American Prisoners of War; you cannot overlook the fact that John McCain is so influenced by his time spent in captivity that he still considers himself an "air pirate" which is how the North Vietnamese referred to captured American pilots.
McCain: "I am a war criminal; I bombed innocent women and children."
http://www.ojc.org/powforum/capital/mccain/trnslate.htm
merely to describe what's in a link
AAR is dying.
This Blog is dying.
Let folks post whatever the like and be thankful anyone is here at all!
This used to be an inclusive free thinking forum, there were hundred of bloggers.
Now the Bitter few that remain want to be the thought police!
The Hippie Mayor of the Blog used to welcome new bloggers and tell them "All posts welcome"!
Now the Haters want it to be their Little Clubhouse!
Is it any wonder so many folks have left!
Twenty minutes would have been too long.
isn't there some applicable saying here, like the pot97 calling the kettle black?
The Christian will always make it to the polls !!!!
"Faith vote" big in Pennsylvania primary
Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:24am EDT Email | Print | Share|
MECHANICSBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Darwin McAfee is a white evangelical Protestant who is opposed to abortion and likes the great outdoors.
This makes him a prototype Republican. But he's a registered Democrat who plans to support New York Sen. Hillary Clinton in next week's crucial Pennsylvania primary.
"I'm a registered Democrat and I'll probably go for Hillary. I think it's a change, I'd like to see a lady get in there," said McAfee, 50, a Pennsylvania resident who works for the water department in the neighboring state of Maryland.
Analysts say the "faith vote" is in play in the April 22 primary, the next big fight in Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's battle for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The Democratic rivals answered issues questions about faith and policy on Sunday at a forum held at Messiah College, near the state capitol of Harrisburg.
Joe American from Smalltown, USA says...
Twice I've voted for Bush and all I've gotten is unemployed, lost my home, lost my insurance, a boy who lost his leg and 3 fingers in Iraq and now my daughter has lost her husband to that damn war that I forget why were even fighting it. No, he didn't get killed but he came back from his 2nd tour broken. She tried but couldn't put him back together. They started going steady in the 8th grade, but that wasn't enough, he just left her and his two daughter 2 and 8.
He seemed OK after the first tour, but I could tell he was starting to break then. When he got back this time there was a hollow empty look in his eyes, like he didn't care about himself or anyone any more. I don't know what they did to him or made him do over there but it must have been hell.
It could be worse. My daughters sister-in-law husband did 4 tours. He got shot up real bad and got that brain damage they talk so much about. He's not suffering any more. He killed himself in the VA hospital.
And I just heard on the radio John McCain does not support the new G.I. Bill.
..and he and Hillary say I have nothing to be bitter about.
Yeah, right what the hell do they know? I don't think I know any bitter millionaires come to think of it.
Over 'n Out
-Joe American
Smalltown, USA
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Hillary's Faith is POWERFUL
http://www.samsedershow.com/node/2731
Hillary Clinton's Prayer Group, The Family
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2003/03/0079525
And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
—Matthew 10:36
[...]
“The Cedars has a heart for the poor,” they like to say. By “poor” they mean not the thousands of literal poor living barely a mile away but rather the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom: the senators, generals, and prime ministers who coast to the end of Twenty-fourth Street in Arlington in black limousines and town cars and hulking S.U.V.'s to meet one another, to meet Jesus, to pay homage to the god of The Cedars.
There they forge “relationships” beyond the din of vox populi (the Family's leaders consider democracy a manifestation of ungodly pride) and “throw away religion” in favor of the truths of the Family. Declaring God's covenant with the Jews broken, the group's core members call themselves “the new chosen.”
Hillary is chosen to be the LOSER
Elitist Recognizes Profile
Submitted by Kevin © on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 3:40am.
...Shawn Erfman lives in a trailer park, listens to Rush Limbaugh and voted for George W. Bush -- twice...
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I am shocked, SHOCKED!
hey, there is a poll at nova m
about programming. I just signed up for the month and voted for sam of course...since I quit premium I told them I was willing to sign up for a year if they hired Sam...join and vote in the poll
http://www1.novamradio.com/msgbrd/viewtopic.php?p=5140#5140
It's like this
PissPot97..
If Lucille was here
She would probably tell you to Go Fuck Yourself !
And,by the way..
Sam thinks your a Sad,Pathetic Troll Too !
Have a nice day,Buttcheeks !
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
You are the one who engages in shit disturbing and spamming.
Well thank you for telling me what should be in an acceptable post.
Without your help Lucille and I would have no idea what we should think.
Lucky for us we have you to make sure our post content is acceptable.
Do you think you are the first Tiny Nazi to try to control content?
Sam is the one of the very few True Liberals on this blog.
I doubt if Sam would agree with any of the Conservative Posts.
Yet he encourages debate and free thought and allow folks to post what they like.
You only want posts that YOU like!
How very 3% of you!
Sam Mentioned Favorably On "Clout"
I've been harsh on Richard Green heretofore, but after last night, I think that he's a really nice guy! He opened the phones and asked people to give suggestions about the future direction of Air America. THREE callers gave plugs for Sam! And Richard said nice things about Sam. OTOH, I'm starting to think that Lionel should be the one to go. He really disrespects callers and that's a 'no-no.'
If Lucille was here
And had she not been told what to post, she would be here.
Oh Wahhhhhhh...
You are the one who engages in shit disturbing and spamming.
new
Submitted by Part of the 97 ... on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 10:15am.
Yes Sam does, encourages debate and free thought
But,He Doesn't Encourage Endless Rethug talking points and Shit Disturbing ! !
That's all you do Buttcheeks,that's all you do !
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
Wesley Clark
I think Lawrence O'Donnell is trying to push Clark as VP to keep a Clintonite in the Obama administration.
On or about the same day O'Donnell posted about General Clark there was another post on Huffington pushing Clark as well. I thought it was Richard Clarke but now I can't find the post.
Can We Get Rid of the Trolls in Here?
I don't waste my time invading right-wing blogs, asshats! BEGONE, TROOLS (a combination of 'trolls' and 'tools').
P.S. Lionel sucks so bad I had to turn to Stephanie Miller for relief.
He Doesn't Encourage Endless Rethug talking points
Sam started this blog in 2004.
He has never banned Conservatism in 4 years.
That hardly supports your position.
Morning all
MSNBC just reports that our illustrious Supreme Court is allowing lethal injections for the death penalty. Even if it makes you suffer.
We have to get rid of these monsters!
invading right-wing blogs
This is a blog for a Radio Show.
Did you think it was KOS?
McCain Purchases Votes By The Gallon
Speaking of elitists, McCain is pandering to idiots with his proposal to temporarily eliminate the gasoline tax.
When was the current economic energy hardship predicted? In the Sixties? In the Seventies?
For decades experts in various fields have recommended that the gasoline tax should be RAISED to reduce consumption, to encourage automobile industry innovation, and to divert funds to alternate energy research and production.
Oh, well. Politicians are chickenshits who have an energy policy horizon limited to the next election and voters are morons who would have ousted any politician who would have successfully raised the gasoline tax when it would have made a difference.
So...instead of paying ourselves to buy gasoline over the past several decades, we have sent our cash to global producers...and we have sent cash to our military to protect global production...and the U.S. dollar has been replaced by a barrel of oil as the standard for determining international valuations.
Despite the facts outlined by recent history, McCain wants to make it cheaper and easier to burn more gasoline. Fuck conservation! Burn more gas! Fight more wars! Go backwards!
if they think torture is ok, then this isn't a surprise...
Supreme Court Allows Lethal Injection for Exection
By REUTERS
Published: April 16, 2008
Filed at 10:19 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday rejected a challenge to the lethal three-drug cocktail used in most U.S. executions during the past 30 years.
By a 7-2 vote, the high court rejected a challenge by two Kentucky death row inmates who argued the current lethal injection method violated the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment by inflicting needless pain and suffering.
Submitted by Part of the 97 ... on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 10:25am
Rove is so very proud of you POT.
Spinmeisters...meet your competition.
Speaking of sucking
Somehow I came across a clip of Richard Green (Clout) saying that he thought only informed citizens should be allowed to vote. There was a caller saying he couldn't believe Green was saying that because of the history of African Americans in this country and poll taxes, voting tests, etc. Green replied, "this has nothing to do with African Americans"
Gawd, AA, if you give Richard Green, a dim witted democrat, a microphone and keep Sam Seder off the air you are hopeless!
PissPot97
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
S.P.I.T.
S.P.I.T.
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."
Wash Post/ABC News Poll:
Wash Post/ABC News Poll: Clinton "has lost trust among voters, a majority of whom now view her as dishonest"
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 4/16/2008 08:23:00 AM ET · Link
Discuss this post here: Make a comment · reddit · FARK ·· Digg It!
I won't make any comment on this finding from the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll because the thing speaks for itself -- and it should be speaking to superdelegates:
Lost in the Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign's aggressive attacks on Barack Obama in recent days is a deep and enduring problem that threatens to undercut any inroads Clinton has made in her struggle to overtake him in the Democratic presidential race: She has lost trust among voters, a majority of whom now view her as dishonest.
Her advisers' efforts to deal with the problem -- by having her acknowledge her mistakes and crack self-deprecating jokes -- do not seem to have succeeded. Privately, the aides admit that the recent controversy over her claim to have ducked sniper fire on a trip to Bosnia probably made things worse.
Clinton is viewed as "honest and trustworthy" by just 39 percent of Americans, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, compared with 52 percent in May 2006. Nearly six in 10 said in the new poll that she is not honest and trustworthy. And now, compared with Obama, Clinton has a deep trust deficit among Democrats, trailing him by 23 points as the more honest, an area on which she once led both Obama and John Edwards.
The poll showed Obama leading Clinton by a ten-point margin: 51% - 41%.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/15/AR200804...
Does Bush FDA own
Does Bush FDA own responsibility for Vioxx deaths?
by Chris in Paris · 4/16/2008 03:03:00 AM ET · Link
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It's hard not to pass on at least some of the blame to the Bush administration and GOP who have systematically cut funding and resources to the bone. In addition, they've also made it a point to let industry "self regulate" instead of providing the oversight that Americans want and need. People expect business to get away with whatever they can and yes, they do exactly that. Even if information was passed to the FDA it's hard to see them even giving a damn because that might slow business. Merck is in a world of trouble but the Bush-FDA is certainly not looking very competent either. For all of the talk about how precious human life is by the GOP they sure don't treat it that way in the Bush-FDA.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080415/bs_nm/merck_vioxx_dc_4
mornin gang!
waffle time!
i was recycling old japanese motorcycles yesterday.
a running 650 for a 100 bucks, rebuilt engine too.
i love craigs list. this one is a 82 nighthawk.
AAR has learned that they can not be a 3% Radio Network
AAR has learned that they can not be a 3% Radio Network.
Sam knew that all along.
When Jeanane would go off the deep end, he would not follow.
Sam allows free speech on the Blog.
Sam invites Debate on the show.
These are all ideas foreign to the 3%!
Jap Bike Poker
Sunny J,
I'll see your Nighthawk and raise you two Hodakas.
new thread
and funnies
We *can* get rid of the trolls here, you just hafta..
croll
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13April2007
Sam's last 9-12, M-F, show was April 13, 2007, not 14th. i have the whole week saved for posterity.
sydney
Any SydneySiders seen Maron yet? He put on a great show on Tuesday, his preview gig.
The crowd loved him, Maron stayed on way after the bell rung. One girl said "keep going, the staff can go we can lock up". I know Marc would have been happy as i know he some trepidation before the show.
It was a good gig as Maron was testing out his material. Overall just a good vibe. I am leaning towards putting my hat in for the open mic night next week introducing Maron.
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i'm not beyond shameless self-promotion. visit punditfight.com to see Sam battle it out with the rest of the pundits. left and right!
Sam I was with you from the start and will be until you are 90!
I figure you can finally put your microphone down when you are 90 and quit the business. I mean hell by that time I'll be around 100 and probably dead. So just stay on the radio and Sammycam until then!
We have your back!
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