Thanks guys!

?

Looking forward to the next Maron v. Seder. ;)

Feel kinda gutted, anyways.

We seem to be in indefinate limbo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEK9z4ww4dM&feature=related

If you can't post the Mylaclipz (or, alternatively, want to make big ringtone $$$ off 'em instead), pleezpleezpleez at least get Lauren to scan her cartoon of you and her on the Sammycam and post it here. I wanna t-shirt, dammit, and if the scan's good enough, I'm making one.

Hoping that the AAR ineptitude I mentioned swings your way for a change and that we hear you 3-6 pm soon...

Ugh. Here we go again. Hopefully Sam will be somewhere we can see/hear him soon.

Doris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bB2NJXJ_ZE&feature=related

Thanks for all the great work you've done for liberal talk radio. This isn't goodbye; it's just a temporary hiatus. Keep us informed on whom to contact to get you back on the air.

All you have to do is say the word.

We hear and obey.

;-)

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Little Feet - All That You Dream

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

Pigasus

n.b. Ad astra per alia porci.

p.s. Remember to close your tags.

Long time no see..

I hope your doing fine. :)

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmPFLMUXaZ8

You know... if you really don't want to get a "real" job (or frankly, be a hypocrite) you probably shouldn't dis my fair city. You can slot nicely into L.A. again-- you have the lying part down pat.

I like you, Seds. You're a bright man... but you tend to be tre's boring, my friend. Maybe you should have taken a few lessons from Marcster.

www.sigzone.blogspot.com

or for real at Red Sky (just checked out the website - it might become my new favorite place as it's in my nabe)

or if anyone's going to Town Hall Tuesday night, i'll be there for True Crimes: Jeremy Scahill, Seymour Hersh & others. . .

I wish i could go, but I don't think the weather is going to allow me to hop into the city tomorrow - am still feeling the results of the major storms and change we just went thru here.
But - where is Red Sky Kat - and is it near a Path stop by any chance?

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

From BookExpo America 2008 in Los Angeles, an author panel featuring Michael Moore, author of a yet-to-be titled book, Jon Krakauer, author of "The Hero," Richard Engel, author of "War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq," Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, author of "Taking on the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era," and Christopher Buckley, author of "Supreme Courtship: A Novel." BookExpo America is an annual trade show for the publishing industry that includes author events, educational panels, and information on soon to be published books.

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

>>Maybe you should have taken a few lessons from Marcster.

the only thing Sam could learn from Marc is how to file an unemployment claim.

instant message! But I don't know how that's done....:<

I, too, want a dvd of Sam's movie "A Bad Situationst"!

And Sam -- Blueberries ARE substantive! (And they need acid plantfood or you can work some peat moss or aluminum sulfate powder into the soil.) And FREEZE some blueberries, too; it's the easiest! (I freeze figs and plums & they are great in icy smoothies, just like blueberries are!)

And SAMMY CAMCASTING? -- sign me up!

Can we have some interactive emails from you, SAM? Howabout polling us on stuff? Maybe just things in the news, or delve into the preferences of a possible on-line show (day of the week, best time of day, or whatever seems interesting at the moment). Please stay a presence in our lives as we watch the current events unfold. Send us a "blogmail" of what you consider the news story of the week, or something. In short, keep in touch REGULARLY (and I mean as dependably as the tides). Pleeze! Prutty pleeze! Prutty pleeze with the Bill of Rights and blueberries on top?

We salute you!

Looks like penitent Scotty is making all the right moves...it's nice to see this from a once loyal Bushie. Now, will this get the coverage it deserves? ......enough to force a NeoCon reaction, maybe?

McClellan promises to donate portion of book profits to Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America

hiz cumin back 'sho!! Sam!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR_kO6gbIMo&feature=related

Did anyone get a screencap of it that they could share?

I saw it there...

Red Sky is at 47 East 29 Street bet. Park Ave. & Madison Ave.
I haven't taken a Path train in years - I think the nearest stop is 33rd and . . .6th Ave.? Penn Sta.??

anyway, Sam's gig is listed on the top right, under the Sun.show list - I clicked on Dem.Leadership, and then on the Red Sky link (www.redskynyc.com), and it looks like a really interesting place

Dr. Paul Farmer Challenges Profit-Driven Medical System While Bringing Healthcare to Poor Communities Worldwide

Excerpt:

Paul Farmer is not your ordinary doctor.

In going to the poorest places on earth, he is not only treating patients, but challenging whole healthcare systems.

More than twenty year ago, Dr. Farmer co-founded the charity Partners in Health to provide free medical care in central Haiti.

Today, Partners In Health provides healthcare for people with HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other conditions in Haiti and eight other countries around the world.

We spend the hour with Dr. Farmer on his work, his remarkable background and the challenges of pursuing healthcare with a social justice perspective.

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Recommended book:

Listen/Watch/Read -

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/5/28/dr_paul_farmer_challenges_profit

For more information:

http://www.pih.org/

54 former state attorneys general support Siegelman

"A bipartisan group of 54 former state attorneys general from across the country has filed a federal appeals brief supporting former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman’s bid to overturn his criminal conviction."

"yellow cab" pakistani driver and all!

i walk everywhere all the time, and take a cab about once a week - and the subway about once a month only!

Yes Path is not anywhere near there and I am the queen of cabbing it. That is why I asked if it was near a path stop - my locaters....other way for me would be the ferry then the ferry bus... Just too much travel after a full day of house stuff that I HAVE to do now that we went to permit at the town.

give Sam a hug from me OK?

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

Yes Path is not anywhere near there and I am the queen of cabbing it. That is why I asked if it was near a path stop - my locaters....other way for me would be the ferry then the ferry bus... Just too much travel after a full day of house stuff that I HAVE to do now that we went to permit at the town.

give Sam a hug from me OK?

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

How are you?

"I missed the cartoon by Lauren
new
Submitted by ShelaghC on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 8:43pm.

Did anyone get a screencap of it that they could share?"

last thread near the bottom is a screenshot.

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3189#comment-212302

so that means ima see you there tomorrow?

Submitted by fly fisher on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 7:56pm.
We seem to be in indefinate limbo.
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The preceding message has been brought to you by the letter I and the letter L and has been underwritten through funds provided by the Department of Redundancy Dept.

Oh it's bad here y'all.

Watching chick movies kinda bad.

I just took my blood sugar...55!

I better eat before I pass out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMrm7ZQ0aMA

and yes Neffer, I'll hug Sam [unless his bodyguards block me:)]

So Lu, I'm picturing you as a small but powerful dynamo of a woman, with a wild, distinctive speaking voice to match your writing style . . . yes?? am i far off?

I enjoyed the show, but I do feel saddened that this is the last show. I hope that Sam will get a new show soon on AAR or elsewhere.

Sam, do not underestimate the importance of what you have done. Getting out the progressive message is an important part of the effort to build a progressive movement that can help create a better America and a better world. You have brought people together and brought on several people who have offered not just insights into our problems as a nation and a world but offered solutions.

So, Sam, be proud of everything that you have achieved. I don't know what is next for you, but thank you for all that you have done.

I would also like to thank everyone here at this blog. While I have not been active here in a very long time, I am impressed with the people here. May this online community continue to grow and soon be able to celebrate some good news with a great host.

"If I am not for myself, who will be. If I am only for myself, what am I. And if not now, when?" - Hillel

Not! towering inferno---HA!

I had to say it again.

On to NovaM, I hope. :)

LiberalOasis

This is Bill's blog for June 1. Reading it made the hair stand up on the back of my neck...

>>I have this feeling of dread [listed in Elections]
Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama. DNC Rules committee. Saturday. Yesterday. Did you see that? Unity my butt. It was WWF, winner take all. Let's get ready to fumble!!!

The Democratic party is on the verge of doing a Leon Lett. Leon Lett was the talented defensive tackle for the Dallas Cowboys in the early to mid-90's. In the Super Bowl, Leon picked up a fumble and ran about 60 yards to a sure touchdown. He held the football out in his right hand to begin the celebration. Don Bebe, one of the fastest men in the NFL, came from nowhere and swatted the ball out of Leon's hand and thru the back of the endzone. No touchdown.

The country is sick and tired of George W. Bush and the Republicans. We, Americans, are ready to vote for almost anyone who doesn't have an "R" after his/her name. A fight on the floor of the Democratic convention will be a deal breaker. I don't know how we are going to choose a Democratic nominee. I thought we were going to choose by elected delegates but maybe I'm wrong. I have gotten to the point that I really don't care any more. We have to choose. We can choose someone else. Dennis Kucinich or Mike Gravel. We can do it by flipping a coin or by Ouija board. We just have to choose someone and choose NOW before we end up like Leon Lett, fumbling the ball at the 1 yard line.<<

it's a great plot turn.

i want dibs on this part of the film writing when we do Sam's life story film.

next phase? Sam goes organic? Ross Brockley was right?

Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 9:14pm.
...i want dibs on this part of the film writing when we do Sam's life story film...
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Suggested working title:

Seder. Seder Run. Run, Sam, Run.
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The other working title suggestion is the other most famous opening line in a book:

It Was A Dark And Stormy Night.

If blueberries isn't already a euphemism, it should be.

(Or a metaphor for a euphemism. I'm not picky.)

Joan Armatrading - and of course, that IS Joan!

hey, can you sing like that?

Remember, these twelve issues represent the tip of the political iceberg. There are many more where these came from.

1. Adopt single payer national health insurance
2. Cut the huge, bloated, wasteful military budget
3. No to nuclear power, solar energy first
4. Aggressive crackdown on corporate crime and corporate welfare
5. Open up the Presidential debates
6. Adopt a carbon pollution tax
7. Reverse U.S. policy in the Middle East
8. Impeach Bush/Cheney
9. Repeal the Taft-Hartley anti-union law
10.Adopt a Wall Street securities speculation tax
11.Put an end to ballot access obstructionism
12.Work to end corporate personhood

Read these over?

Every one of these issues is OFF THE TABLE with McCain, Clinton and Obama.

Only Ralph Nader has these as platform planks.

http://www.votenader.org/issues/

Just thought this is interesting.

"Surfing the Intertubes"

Blog Gestalt and good recipes vs the corporate crime flagsuckers!

when i dream ja!

The owners son who I rent from decided to move

the digital router for our Internet/phone/cable

into his room..Ofcourse he figured out that he doesn't know
what the hell he's doing !

So he had to move everything back to were it was..
Sorry but,he's a Mullet !

Just fun times..

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

Only his hairdresser knows for sure.
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(This joke rates a 10 on the obscurity scale. You have to know about Seder's infamous caller and you have to know ancient television advertisements to get it.)

Gonna provide recipes and a site for folks to share how it's going.

dada,

Have you been working recently for any of the campaigns and candidates in the Working Families Party?

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Progressive "Movement" - Working Families Party

Fusion -

In New York, election laws allow fusion, -- candidates for any public office can run as the nominee of more than one political party.

The votes candidates receive are tallied separately by party, then combined.

Fusion is powerful.

Voting in the Working Families column is no wasted gesture -- every ballot counts.

It sidesteps the Nader Effect, since voters can show their support for a progressive party agenda without spoiling the chances of a candidate -- usually a Democrat -- who has a shot at winning.

Schneiderman (who is the former chair of the New York Democratic Senate Campaign Committee) sez:

There's a lot of concern among progressive activists that the Democratic Party is too much in the grip of consultants who are always suggesting that they slide to the right and take conservative positions to accommodate swing voters, rather than exciting our own beliefs and animating people...

The hope is that the Working Families Party can empower progressive Democrats within the Democratic Party.

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The Power of Fusion Politics

Link:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050912/katz

For more information:

http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/

I'm a Asshole !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTN3h-b9nU

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

Terrible regional destabilization behavior was just normal operating procedures for Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon back during The Vietnam Incursion: They sent a full force of equipment and troops and support into Cambodia ILLEGALLY.

One mission was to destroy the town of SUNOL. It was leveled and napalm (white phosphorus) dropped on the survivors and wounded. After that, the word 'Sunol' entered the soldiers' vernacular as a VERB, and they 'sunoled' other communities.

What has changed? Is our military capable of performing with integrity or is there a direct line from the illegal destruction of Sunol to the obliteration of Fallujah?

"I Want You Back"

I'm still going to enjoy Hal Sparks this week but

Seder, Maron, Garofalo and Senator Franken - is the real Air America

along with Rachel and Kent.

I enjoyed the show, but I do feel saddened that this is the last show. I hope that Sam will get a new show soon on AAR or elsewhere.

Sam, do not underestimate the importance of what you have done. Getting out the progressive message is an important part of the effort to build a progressive movement that can help create a better America and a better world. You have brought people together and brought on several people who have offered not just insights into our problems as a nation and a world but offered solutions.

So, Sam, be proud of everything that you have achieved. I don't know what is next for you, but thank you for all that you have done.

I would also like to thank everyone here at this blog. While I have not been active here in a very long time, I am impressed with the people here. May this online community continue to grow and soon be able to celebrate some good news with a great host.

"If I am not for myself, who will be. If I am only for myself, what am I. And if not now, when?" - Hillel

10PM IS NOT THE PROGRAM FROM BOOK EXPO IT IS THE REPEAT OF SCOTTY MCCELLEN FROM MORNING CSPAN EARLIER LAST WEEK.

THEY PULLED THE ORIGINAL PROGRAM TO PUT HIM ON AGAIN.

WHICH I do understand - but dammit - they didn't show the original program yet from bookexpo yet.

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

Submitted by nora on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 9:54pm.
...napalm (white phosphorus)...
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nora,

In the interest of keeping the horrific record straight, napalm and white phosphorus are entirely different albeit equally awful weapons.

May you be blessed in many many ways. Your words are wise and your quote in your sig line is well chosen. Peace 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

If you can afford it..Become a Nova M founding member..

So maybe it will help Nova M decide to give Sammy a job..

It couldn't hurt..

Plus you get Malloy & Randi podcasts..

Nova M is the future..In case ya haven't noticed. ;)

This commercial is over..Go about your normal blogging.. :)

http://www.novamradio.com/live/register.php

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

between a vanilla phosphate and white phosphorus...

..."viewers are calling GRITtv "journalism as it should be." "

That would be me!On Digg (second from the top).

___
bluerootsradio

A great show but a sad day
Submitted by will in chicago on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 10:01pm
*******
A very nice post.. :)

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

The blog is still loading slower than my typing..

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

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

Great memories...

I was here from day one. You done good. I am quite sure some exciting new opportunities will come to fruition quite soon. Looking forward to it!

Must be Incubus day off,aye ?
Submitted by MMRules on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 10:21pm.
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Okay. Somebody has to ask so it might as well be me. Why would Incubus take a day off and what would he do for recreation?

incubus: (ĭn'kyə-bəs, ĭng'-)

n., pl. -bus·es or -bi (-bī').
An evil spirit supposed to descend upon and have sexual intercourse with women as they sleep.

What's GRITtv?

**

..."viewers are calling GRITtv "journalism as it should be." "

**

was fun watching him grow into a superb interviewer.

Having you along for the ride is a treat too!

blessings on you my friend!

I like the planks but I couldn't vote for Ralph Nader unless my vote would be re-cast should he lose.

Barack's WE is better than Hillary's ME -- and both of them are better than McCain. I wanted John Edwards who would have been more closer to the Nader planks. But in truth in our corporatized country no one sounding off on those planks is going to be elected. The corporate money would decimate him or her.

We need real campaign finance reform to reduce the impact of corporations AND preferential voting to allow Americans to vote their hearts first.

And we need Sam Seder FIVE DAYS A WEEK!!!

Maybe he's actually bi? Or gay?

So... I'm a little out of touch...
Submitted by Catharine on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 10:39pm.
What's GRITtv?
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Decide for yourself.

http://grittv.blip.tv/#956281

has had terrible insomnia?

Likewise, my friend!

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Oh Laura is gooood!

As usual:

http://grittv.blip.tv/#956281

Laura has a show called that i believe.

watched part of it this morning.

good interview with a gay

Iraqui man. it was a

moving if some-what

brutal story

h/t Paddy

I'm so ashamed of our President. How many more indignities are we expected to endure?

Thanks, Neferkitti!!

It is hard to have faith in AAR's management, but I want to give them a chance. As things stand, I believe that many of AAR's programming decisions have undermined the network.

Regardless, I think we will hear Sam soon. Sometimes in life, you have to take a leap of faith. I will take one on Sam's future in radio.

"If I am not for myself, who will be. If I am only for myself, what am I. And if not now, when?" - Hillel

Maybe the one girl he really likes
Submitted by gloryoski on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 10:44pm.
has had terrible insomnia?
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I'm imagining an incubus who carries a recording of Perry Como singing Hush-A-Bye.

KNOT!

I just finished watching American Masters PBS 2 hrs on Pete Seeger. So at the moment I am feeling quite hopeful..but AAR - I dunno. about Sam...1000% hopeful. I know he will be back on air because he is the future of independent voices that speak the truth about all subjects - not talking left or right - just truth in all its forms. He has the chops and the intellect - mix it in with the humor and its a winning combo.
And of course he has US...built in...and I think he really knows this now...which will allow him to take the risks necessary to do whatever is next.

Nice to have you posting Will.

Thanks, Neferkitti!!

It is hard to have faith in AAR's management, but I want to give them a chance. As things stand, I believe that many of AAR's programming decisions have undermined the network.

Regardless, I think we will hear Sam soon. Sometimes in life, you have to take a leap of faith. I will take one on Sam's future in radio.

"If I am not for myself, who will be. If I am only for myself, what am I. And if not now, when?" - Hillel

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

Billie Holiday - Am I Blue

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

http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/2008-06-01-voa2.cfm

Could Women Solve the Food Crisis?
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(Write your own joke.)

I am listening to this...

http://grittv.blip.tv/#956281

This is exactly "journalism as it should be"!

All the comments by everyone on the panel are terrific. Even Mark Green's.

It gives me the feeling that AirAmerica did when it first started. It makes me so happy, it actually brings a tear to my eye. And I'm not an overly sentimental type.

Brilliant.

WA GOP calls for repeal of 14th Amendment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INY3kQJbylc

A great show but a sad day
Submitted by will in chicago on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 10:01pm.

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will in chicago,

Good to read your post on the blog.

I remember you from the days of the Majority Report Radio Blog.

It has been too long, will.

Do you happen to post on any other progressive blogs under the same name?

Recently, I ran into another will in chicago on a progressive blog.

I wondered if he was the same Will in Chicago who posted on the old Majority Report Radio blog. (No worries -- if you don't wish to comment here.)

Indeed, it was another great show from Seder.

I am sad to see my favorite radio personality finally removed from the air. Maybe Sam can return through NovaM.
Thanks for everything Sam, from "Ethan from Portland" to the caller who created "Iraq Car-bomma". I'll never forget walking home listening the the Sam Seder show--the daily-- after the 2006 elections when you offered to let conservatives call in and cry on your shoulder.
I'll track you on the net, but miss your intelligence, irreverence, insight, and general enjoyment of life coming to me through the radio.

no posts since 11:17pm??

time to shut down the 'puters

AWB - Pick Up The Pieces

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

Seder was funny in his last live segment today.

The Final Shows of Sam Seder

(Name of Seder's next show)

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n.b. Crank Bait - It reminded me of your post about The Sam Lazarus Show.

Reference:

The Sam Lazarus Show

Submitted by Crank Bait
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Submitted by Star Vox

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...How many last Seder shows have we listened to now?
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None. So far.

(Combining New Testament Lazarus, whose miraculous resurrection from death convinced some Jews to convert to Christianity, with Old Testament Sam Seder...is probably blasphemous. So sue me.)

______________________

Where is the Court of Blasphemousness, Crank Bait?

(I envision a civil action with some legalese in Latin, of course.)

yawn! stretch!

feels good!

Frank Zappa - Peaches en Regalia

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

we learn not to post embedded youtube clips.

i only posted a few of them. sorry it f'd up the blog for some people. i didn't know! i swear!

Were you having dreams of getting that Old Sitka Spruce

and turning them into Guitars & Mandolins ? ;-)

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

Some are cool..Just Not a Shite Load ! :)

Today was probably just bad because there were a ton of
people on the blog..

I have to check out your myspace radio thang..

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

not so many implants, blog fucked up all day.

Damn!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcQI-QlTQFI&feature=related

got about 800 board feet of quartersawn white maple with figuring too.

i love the smell of woodworking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiA-K6Egm5U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVI2VFCmXzU&feature=related

a favorite 'slow dance' tune my R&B cellar band used to play.

good one Luce.

that you folks in the picture?

looks like having fun to me!

Boy did I miss something...

June 2, 2008 - The Truth Hurts Edition

This week Scott McClellan's Former Friends (1) are shocked - shocked I tell ya! - to learn that McClellan is apparently capable of telling the truth. Meanwhile, John McCain (2,3,4,5) continues his campaign misadventures, and George W. Bush (2,8) is a tool.

Free Democracy

Got any jokes ? :)

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

Has Barry 'Big Head' Bonds signed with anyone ? ;)

Hope you like the tunes.. :)

Chuck Parr - If I Had My Way

Good Hearted Man - Tift Merritt

Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey

Billy Joe Shaver - Old Chunk of Coal

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

eyes crossing,

time for a snooze!

love ya all!

:)

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

But this is the oldest trick in the book (corporate PR and all)! ;)

He refuses to say what portion. Book sales are helped. At some point he says what portion, and it's like .0002 per cent.

Didn't the MoveOn petition I signed say ALL the profits? (Maybe not, thought so though.)

Anyway, it needs to be a lot, and he needs to say the amount. They should keep pushing on that front.

I don't say that this guy has no actual desire to atone. He may have, the way he "over shared" confessing to KO (Randi noticed this as well). But I think he has no idea of the extent of what's needed to do so (kind of like a giving up golf sense of proportion only not quite that bad) and/or he was looking forward to the upside (the profits) as well.

Great choice for tonight, MMRules... thanks!

:)

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

Frank Zappa - Dancing Fool

Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools

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

And The Wheel Goes Round & Round..
Throw Somebody in Jail or Impeach Somebody, Already !

By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - President Bush broke his promise to the country by refusing to fire aide Karl Rove for leaking a CIA agent's identity, said Scott McClellan, the president's chief spokesman for almost three years.

Con't

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

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

In the press release, Mark Green says the show "will once again provide Sunday listeners with commentary on the networks..." WTF?? What else has Sam been doing all these months but provide commentary on the networks? If you ask me, sounds like a "shot." I'd jump ship if I were you, they are not in your corner.

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

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

Opus

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

http://marcmaronrules.blogspot.com/2008/06/peosi-that-impeachment-thang.html

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

Instant Run-Off Voting?

But,when in doubt google. :)

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

The 14th amendment has been bastardized to allow a corporate entity personhood.

That was the beginning of corporate unaccountability.

Even I have called for the repeal of the 14th amendment. It was written to give citizenship to former slaves, but the Robber Barron elite corrupted even that magnificent motivation.

http://airamerica.com/samseder/blog/2008/may/31/seders-last-show

There are some very well thought out comments, some heart felt comments, and a few rants.

The World Needs More SEDER!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7428833.stm
[...]
The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic has listed 22 separate breaches of privacy law in its country.

Clinic director Phillipa Lawson told the BBC that, with more than seven million users in Canada, "Facebook needs to be held publicly accountable".

Facebook rejects the charge, claiming some of the highest standards around.

The complaint, filed with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, states that Facebook collects sensitive information about its users and shares it without their permission.

It goes on to say that the company does not alert users about how that information is being used and does not adequately destroy user data after accounts are closed.
[...]

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The World Needs More SEDER!!!

Not true. Corporations have prostituted immigrants since day 1 but person hood has more to do with the first and fifth amendments from what I read. The 14th is ancillary in a comment apparently.

A recent article on the Straight Dope Web site says that in a famous 1886 case the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations are "persons" having the same rights as human beings based on the 14th Amendment, which was intended to protect the rights of former slaves. Not to nitpick, but the Supreme Court made no such decision. If you look at the case in question, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, you see that the court itself never rules on personhood. A court reporter by the name of J.C. Bancroft Davis (a former railroad president) snuck that "ruling" into the books. --bex, via the Straight Dope Message Board - Straight Dope

Straight Dope has how others say it to really happened, pbtrue1. Though it may be that it has an affect on corporations, absent the 14th Amendment, I am not convinced corporations would lose person hood.

CNN saying Ted Kennedy will have brain surgery this morning at Duke Unniveristy Hospital

Best Buy testing free e-waste recycling program By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer
Mon Jun 2, 12:40 AM ET

Under pressure to help dispose some of the electronic waste it helped create, Best Buy Co. is testing a free program that will offer consumers a convenient way to ensure millions of obsolescent TVs, old computers and other unwanted gadgets don't poison the nation's dumps.

The trial, expected to be announced Monday, covers 117 Best Buy stores scattered across eight states that will collect a wide variety of electronic detritus at no charge, even if the Richfield, Minn.-based retailer didn't originally sell the merchandise.

The pilot stores are in Best Buy's Northern California, Minneapolis and Baltimore markets, as well as parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

Depending on how the test goes, the nation's largest electronics retailer may expand the recycling program to all of its 922 stores in the United States.

"We want to take the time to learn if we can handle this before we go any further," said Best Buy spokeswoman Kelly Groehler. "We know the need is there and the waste stream is there. We think everyone needs to bear some responsibility for this — consumers, retailers and manufacturers."

As it is, Best Buy's test is believed to be the most extensive free electronics recycling program to be offered by a major retailer so far.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080602/ap_on_hi_te/best_buy_recycling_5&pri...

I know this is one of Hartmanns pet peeves.
http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/tncs/2003/0415person.htm

It was written to give citizenship to former slaves, but the Robber Barron elite corrupted even that magnificent motivation.

A court reporter by the name of J.C. Bancroft Davis (a former railroad president) snuck that "ruling" into the books.

http://www.raken.com/american_wealth/railroad_barons/railroad_tycoons2.a...

Robber Barron elite corrupted = J.C. Bancroft Davis (a former railroad president) snuck

I hope you have a pain free day.

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The World Needs More SEDER!!!

Thanks! Hope your day is a good one too.

Texas energy deregulation leading to higher prices
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The Republican economic model at work. Notice the common theme of big talk about savings before it becomes law and then higher costs when rubber hits the road. This is precisely the kind of economics that McCain and his lobbyist friend Phil Gramm want to expand in Washington. Corporate profits increase and the once-promised customer savings disappear.
Average monthly bills for summertime usage have made a steady climb and are now at about $220 in Houston.

Compare that to the national average for the same usage: about $160.

That means electricity in Houston is 38 percent more expensive. Consumer advocates call the difference startling.

“And that is to us is why deregulation is a failure and we ought to think about ending this experiment,” Slocum said.

A failure for consumers but for the electricity industry?

“The industry looks at Texas as a success story,” Platts Energy News reporter Tom Tiernan said. “If you’re a generating company, Texas is a good market to be in.”

It’s simple economics.

http://www.khou.com/business/stories/khou080528_ac_energyprices.35063d4b...

The Michelle Tape
by BooMan
Sun Jun 1st, 2008 at 11:57:57 PM EST

My old friend, Larry Johnson, knows about manipulating elections from his training with the Central Intelligence Agency. He doesn't want Obama to win the nomination for whatever reason, and he's in full propaganda mode to do everything he can to frighten the superdelegates. He claims to have a shocking tape of Michelle Obama ranting in some anti-white diatribe. He promises to produce this tape tomorrow at 9am.
From what I understand, it is a tape of Michelle Obama criticizing the Bush administration.

How you'd write it:

Why did Bush cut folks off medicaid?
Why did Bush let New Orleans drown?
Why did Bush do nothing about Jena?
Why did Bush put us in Iraq for no reason?
How you'd say it:

Why'd he cut folks off medicaid?
Why'd he let New Orleans drown?
Why'd he do nothing about Jena?
Why'd he put us in Iraq for no reason?
How Larry Johnson wants you to hear it:

Whitie cut folks off medicaid?
Whitie let New Orleans drown?
Whitie do nothing about Jena?
Whitie put us in Iraq for no reason?
I'm going to be honest with you. Both SusanHu and Larry Johnson have been friends of mine. They have both done a lot for me and I am grateful and indebted to them. Any issues I've had with their activities in this election I have kept private. I haven't visited their site in four months because I found it too personally painful to read what they were writing and I did not want to be tempted to respond. I thought I owed them that. But loyalty can only go so far. If they publish this allegation tomorrow, I will no longer speak with them. And I say that with great sorrow.

This election has ruined a lot of friendships. I have tried hard not to let it ruin mine. But smears of this type are unforgivable. I have been forebearing. Perhaps, in retrospect, I have been too forebearing. That's all I say. This is too painful to me.

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2008/6/1/235757/2325

Texas energy deregulation
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Submitted by toniD on Mon, 06/02/2008 - 7:29am.
Texas energy deregulation leading to higher prices
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Ditto what pbtrue1 said to you Toni.... :)

Is Texas Crazy ?
Look what happened to California !

It must be the Rethug majority in Texas
Paying off their Corporate Sponsors !

I wonder if Fernando has any insights into this..

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Taylor Marsh and Reconciliation
by BooMan
Sun Jun 1st, 2008 at 10:21:04 PM EST

There's a lot of talk about reconciliation and how long it is going to take to put things back together so that we have a united party. I could write a really long piece about the subject, but I'm tired. So I just want to focus on two points. First, we have the ravings of Taylor Marsh, which is really representative of a subset of the Democratic Party coalition.

Could you be more out of touch? Seriously. Have you not talked to any Hillary Clinton supporters, read their emails in your inbox?
For 4 lousy delegates? How small are you people? Could you not understand what was swirling enough to allow Clinton her due in Michigan? Four lousy delegates?

You have no idea what you've done. The fury you have unleashed. Your arrogance is topped only by your ignorance and the sheer stupidity of this "compromise," which sends a message that you just don't get it. Oh, and by the way, you've also likely just thrown the 2008 election.

Taking myself out of the equation, as well as my support for Clinton which is unending, and to encapsulte the carnage wrought by Saturday's idiocy, you have simply given Hillary's supporters the reason they were craving. Outraged already, many of Hillary's supporters were waiting for a reason to raise a ruckus, and you just gave them one. A righteous one. They were already screaming for Clinton to go to Denver. Now the decibel level is ear shattering.
"McCain will be the next president..."
..."Two winners in 40 years."
Over 4 delegates?

Look, let's call this what it is: insanity.

I don't really know if Ms. Marsh believes what she's writing or not. But if she doesn't, and she's willing to feed other's insanity with this tripe, and she actually cares about her reproductive rights, then that qualifies as its own form of insanity.

Encouraging this kind of grudge-holding with this measly set of lies is dangerous and, in this case, it's self-destructive. We all know that the rules committee just handed Clinton five net delegates from Michigan after promising Obama that the contest would not count. Even taking his name off the ballot wasn't enough to protect him from this injustice. And he had the votes on the committee to get an even split of the delegates and turned it down. Why did he turn it down? Well...one interpretation is that he turned it down as an act of magnanimity, so that there would be a larger margin in favor of the decision, and as a gesture of good will. The other interpretation is that if he went along with calling the primary valid in any way, the Clintons would insist on counting the popular vote. But they're doing that anyway. Taylor has inverted the entire meaning of the decision on Michigan. Why are the Clintons throwing a tantrum over 4 lousy delegates? Why did Obama have to suffer any disadvantage at all after the Rules Committee promised him that the primary would not count?

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2008/6/1/22214/12098

OMG I hate Neo-scum

and all their enablers.

The Great American Ripoff

i missed the show yesterday so am listening to the podcast now. sam's live segment starts about 9 minutes before the end. just heard sunshine jim...

i was really hoping to hear some significant news given the lead up to catch sam live in the last 30 minutes. sounds like aar just doesn't know how to fish or cut bait.

whoopie. big woopie. BIT FUCKING LATE BUDDY. Where was he at Texas? Speaking late is exactly like not speaking imo.

and late but still important...

While I'm no fan of polygamy, and definitely oppose the sexual abuse of anybody, I don't recall any kind of similar raids on Catholic churches or parish houses, where the abuse of kids happened for generations, and was, if anything, an open secret. - Mumia finally speaks up to defend the Constitution, not so much FLDS.

in Open Mic you will find his 45 minute SammyCam feed.

Well, I don't have to listen to AAR anymore. There are other options. And I don't like the direction they are going anyway.

true. i find myself streaming kphx a lot more than anything else lately.

its hard to understand how someone who wants to own and profit from a progressive talk radio station can be so effin stupid and intentionally walk away from things that would make them successful. like they say, this is no way to run a railroad.

booman had it figured awhile ago. He was trying to be loyal to someone who helped him but could not any more. I guess everyone has their last straw.

But his blog has always been for Obama.

This just goes to show you how dishonest the Clintons have been. I have not seen any vitriol from the Obama campaign but the Clinton people just want the fight.

It has nothing to do with gender. There will be a woman as president, but it has to be the right woman.

I'll say this again. I don't like Hillary. I don't like what her campaign has done to the democrats. The way she is running her campaign. She wants to be president so badly that she doesn't care that she is deviding people. This has gone on too long and has done an injustice to all voters.

If she wins, I will hold my nose and vote for her in the general only because she is an inch better than McCain. But I will not expect much from her presidency.

What we need now is a veto proof majority in the two houses of congress. They are the ones that will make the changes anyway.

I'm sick of this! I'm sick of the primary race and I am sick of what has happened to Sam. And all because of greedy, power hungry people that are taking advantage of a situation.

Red State Update has the story.

Don't we have to declare drinking Budweiser as a campaign contribution now?

I also had regard for his work on Obama's own blog. The Marsh's and Johnson's of the world showed themselves a long time ago and have zero tolerance even from close personal friends for that kind of crap. We all learned a lot about the way they work from the Randi days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRtwTY93fvc

You said your boss was leaving.
Will you be promoted?

Super Delegate out for Obama early this morning.

& Hillary supporters will vote for Obama. Even I who was so against Hillary would have eventually come to my senses. In fact, if she wins the nomination by theft today, tomorrow or in August, I'd vote for her over McRidiculous.

Hillary Clinton to be offered dignified exit
By Tim Shipman in Washington

Hillary Clinton will be offered a dignified exit from the presidential race and the prospect of a place in Barack Obama's cabinet under plans for a "negotiated surrender" of her White House ambitions being drawn up by Senator Obama's aides.

The former First Lady would get the chance to pilot Mr Obama’s reforms of the American healthcare system if she agrees to clear the path to his nomination as Democratic presidential candidate.

Senior figures in the Obama camp have told Democrat colleagues that the offer to Mrs Clinton of a cabinet post as health secretary or to steer new legislation through the Senate will be a central element of their peace overtures to the New York senator.

Mr Obama said on Thursday that he believed he would have secured the support of enough delegates to make him the standard bearer of his party in November’s presidential election by the end of this week.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/democrats/2058...

US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships

An amphibious assault vehicle leaves the USS Peleliu, which was used to detain prisoners, according to the human rights group Reprieve. Photograph: Zack Baddor/AP

The United States is operating "floating prisons" to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees.

Details of ships where detainees have been held and sites allegedly being used in countries across the world have been compiled as the debate over detention without trial intensifies on both sides of the Atlantic. The US government was yesterday urged to list the names and whereabouts of all those detained.

Information about the operation of prison ships has emerged through a number of sources, including statements from the US military, the Council of Europe and related parliamentary bodies, and the testimonies of prisoners.

The analysis, due to be published this year by the human rights organisation Reprieve, also claims there have been more than 200 new cases of rendition since 2006, when President George Bush declared that the practice had stopped.

It is the use of ships to detain prisoners, however, that is raising fresh concern and demands for inquiries in Britain and the US.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/02/usa.humanrights

The rest of the delegates from Puerto Rico, 5 I think, have gone to Obama. Brings him closer .

Take this more than generous deal, and tell your supporters get behind the Dems, NOW.

Members of Hillary Clinton's advance staff received calls and emails this evening from headquarters summoning them to New York City Tuesday night, and telling them their roles on the campaign are ending, two Clinton staffers tell my colleague Amie Parnes. - Ben Smith

morning pb who needs a job promotion when i can get promoted on a daily basis here on the blog. (just kidding) NO! i am quite content doing what i am doing

'services rendered'

by Luke Ryland

So, former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds is again proved right. For more than a year Sibel has been predicting that Dennis Hastert will join a lobbying firm involved with Turkey, and now we learn that Hastert is joining Dickstein Shapiro.

In the "Representative Engagements" section of Dickstein's website, we learn that they represented "the government of Turkey in connection with the development and financing by private sponsors of the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline and TransCaspian gas pipeline spanning from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean."

Dennis Hastert, who is listed in Sibel's "Rogues Gallery," was caught on FBI wiretaps accepting bribes from Turkish criminal elements associated with the Turkish government, as documented in Vanity Fair in 2005 and elsewhere.

The following clip from Kill The Messenger, a documentary about Sibel's case, discusses some of Hastert's involvement as mentioned in Vanity Fair.

In researching the Vanity Fair article, journalist David Rose interviewed various congressional staffers and counter-intelligence officials who are familiar with the case. He reported that there were three separate types of bribes paid to Hastert:
1) "(T)ens of thousands of dollars to be paid to Hastert's campaign funds in small checks."
2) "(T)ens of thousands of dollars in surreptitious payments in exchange for political favors and information."
3) "(A)t least $500,000"

Con't-Opednews

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For those of you who don't listen to the rumblings, the speculation is growing that he's Muslim now that he's no longer a member of a Christian church. I've had several conversations (I listen, they talk) with people thinking just that. Doing anything that causes uncertainty like this during a campaign is never a good idea. It would have been better to do nothing.

Say what you want, but resigning from that church without joining another is not a good thing to do in the middle of a campaign.

Payrolls Probably Fell for Fifth Month: U.S. Economy Preview

By Shobhana Chandra

June 1 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. lost jobs for a fifth month in May and manufacturing contracted, signaling the economy is stagnating, economists said before reports this week.

Payrolls probably dropped by 60,000 workers, according to the median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News before the Labor Department's June 6 report. Figures tomorrow may show the Institute for Supply Management's factory index fell to 48.5 in May.

Credit restrictions triggered by foreclosures, along with soaring food and fuel prices, have caused spending to slow, prompting banks, construction companies and manufacturers to fire workers. Rising joblessness heightens the risk that consumers will keep retrenching, further hurting growth.

``The job market is really emphasizing how bad things are in the economy,'' said Lindsey Piegza, an economic analyst at FTN Financial in New York. ``Payroll declines will further weaken consumer spending.''

The projected decrease in May payrolls would follow a decline of 20,000 in April that brought the total number of jobs lost so far this year to 260,000. The jobless rate likely rose to 5.1 percent from 5 percent, according to the survey median.

Factory payrolls probably shrank by 40,000 workers, reflecting automakers' efforts to trim costs, according to the survey median.

General Motors Corp., the biggest U.S. automaker, said last week that 26 percent of its union workforce accepted the latest offer to leave the company and help clear out its highest-paid factory workers. About 19,000 of GM's United Auto Workers members signed up for the buyout packages, and most will stop working by July 1, the company said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aUYG2fgTYF8s&refer=h...

Richard Clarke on c-span now

Murdered by Mugabe's mob

Tonderai Ndira will not be campaigning when Zimbabwe votes again. He will not rally his neighbourhood, as he did two months ago, for one last push against an unwanted regime. Instead, he is buried in an unmarked grave in the Warren Hills cemetery in Harare. A week on from his funeral, only his brother knows for sure which of the mounds is his. He will not leave a marker because he believes state agents are still not finished with the murdered activist. They would like to dig up his brother's remains to remove the incriminating evidence.

Mr Ndira's body was only found by accident in one of the capital's morgues a fortnight ago. His eyes had been gouged out and his tongue cut off. The 30-year-old was so badly beaten his father had trouble identifying him. A distinctive ring confirmed the identity of a man compared by some to South Africa's murdered rights activist, Steve Biko.

Mr Ndira, a lifelong campaigner for political change, had been arrested more than 30 times but kept up his opposition to the government that has led Zimbabweans to the lowest life expectancy in the world. His remains – a crushed skull, a bullet wound through the chest and blood-stained shorts – are a depressing metaphor for Zimbabwe in the aftermath of a stolen election.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/murdered-by-mugabes-mob-8...

repeat on AAR.
*TLL*

word is Drudge might endorse Obama... WTH? Obama's a uniter!

“The MSM is already sending love letters to Obama,” said a GOP operative who worked for the Bush-Cheney re-election. “That’s something that has traditionally been countered on the Republican side with talk radio, blogs to a lesser degree but especially Drudge. If those tools are not part of the Republican vehicle for message delivery that’s crippling.”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/

You think Ol'Boney will shed a tear?

Less than a mile from the mournful place in Lower Manhattan where the World Trade Center came crashing to the ground, in a hushed federal courthouse, a small band of Philadelphia lawyers is prying loose secrets of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

It is here that the Cozen O'Connor law firm has filed an 812-page lawsuit on behalf of U.S. and global insurance companies alleging that Saudi Arabia and Saudi-backed Islamic charities nurtured and financed the al-Qaeda, the author of those deadly attacks.

Led by its flinty chairman and founder, Stephen Cozen, the firm has invested thousands of hours and millions of dollars to scour the world for witnesses, documents and other evidence in its attempt to hold the oil-rich desert kingdom liable for more than $5 billion in damages.

Among the companies represented in the lawsuit are Chubb, Ace, Allstate, One Beacon, and nearly three dozen other insurers.

"Our concern was whether there was a viable case to be made against the defendant," Cozen said, "and whether the defendant could pay."

Round 1 in this titanic legal battle went to the Saudis and their high-powered lawyers three years ago when a U.S. District Court judge removed the government and Saudi royals as defendants.

Defense lawyers have declined repeated requests for interviews, citing the pending litigation. But in court papers, they describe Cozen's allegations as "fabrications" and note that the 9/11 Commission found no evidence of official Saudi involvement. Moreover, they point out that Saudi Arabia itself has been an al-Qaeda target.

"The showing that the plaintiffs purport to make is complete and utter garbage," said Michael Kellogg, a top Washington appeals lawyer representing Saudi Arabia and members of the royal family, during an appeals argument in January. "It is a collection of newspaper articles, and reports and press releases that show at most the kingdom exercises some supervisory control over the charities."

http://www.military.com/news/article/saudis-hit-with-5b-lawsuit-over-911...

WASHINGTON -- Pointing the way to a peaceful end for the tumultuous presidential primary campaign, some key supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that they accepted a new finish line in the race for delegates, a threshold Barack Obama could reach as soon as this week. - LA Times

Moreover, a number of Clinton backers signaled Sunday that they were wary of the kind of protracted fight that some of her aides said they might wage in the coming months.

Come on Hillary..

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UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. - Firefighters patrolled fire-scarred Universal Studios early Monday guarding against flare-ups while authorities wondered if the blaze that gutted some of Hollywood's most famous backdrops was made worse because of low water pressure. - Yahoo

That studio was really a piece of American history and it was lost due to our crumbling infrastructure.

did he get a non-white boss or something goofy like that? He touts his experience but we really don't know what that is all about do we?

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel announced plans on Sunday to build hundreds of new homes in an area of the occupied West Bank the Israeli government considers part of Jerusalem, despite U.S. and Palestinian calls to halt settlement expansion.

The announcement came two days before Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sets off for Washington for a three-day visit where he will meet U.S. President George W. Bush.

The 2003 peace "road map", reaffirmed by Israeli and Palestinian leaders at a conference hosted by Bush in November, requires a halt to all settlement activity on occupied land where Palestinians seek statehood.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL0161682420080601

At least eight people have been reported dead and dozens injured after a large explosion outside the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.

The suspected car bomb in the embassy's parking area caused extensive damage to the building and left a huge crater in the area on Monday.

Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder, reporting from the scene, said that a number of bodies could be seen on the streets outside the embassy.

He said that the explosion happened at about 12.10pm [0710GMT] and security forces and ambulances attended the scene.

"Dozens of bodies are littered all over the place. The blast could be heard all over the city, and has literally taken the leaves off the trees ... and broken all the windows in adjoining areas," he reported.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FBF7CF51-F736-4381-951C-2F04C7F8F...

Phoenix's arm worked great, being the person getting to play with the controls for the arm, now that would the coolest job!

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander reached out and touched the Martian soil for the first time on Saturday, May 31, the first step in a series of actions expected to bring soil and ice to the lander's experiments.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20080601.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl3i1GMuyeU

unless he become's a southern baptist or whatever it is that falwell and robertson preach it doesn't really matter.

it really says a lot for how phony right wing religion is, the way that obama has been forced to quit his church.

Al Jazeera has discovered that thousands of children, some as young as aged four, are being forced to work in brick factories in Afghanistan.

In the Sokhrod district in the east of the country, which is well known for producing bricks, there are about 38 factories and about 2,200 children are believed to be working in them.

In video

Teresa Bo reports on Afghan child workers

"I don't want to do this with my life. I want to go to school, but I cannot because I am poor," 10-year-old Shafiq Ola told Al Jazeera.

"My family is in debt for $800 and I have to work."

Many of the children were forced into the brick factories after their parents became indebted to the owners.

"They are bonded labour, I am holding them," Mohamed Gul, the owner of one factory in the area near Jalalabad, said.

"They don't have any other option they have to, like a slave, work for me. Each family owes me thousands of aghanis [the Afghan currency]. They have to pay me with their work."

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/41BE2BEB-61C9-4AF3-BC6D-253403116...

Taken somebody else's food out of the break rooms fridge.

The Fed's hate that!

Michael Hayden, the head of the CIA, has said al-Qaeda is essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and is also on the defensive elsewhere.

Hayden told the Washington Post newspaper that a campaign to destabilise al-Qaeda's core leadership, believed to be in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan, had also been successful.

Hayden said on Thursday that major gains had been made against al-Qaeda's allies in the Middle East and Osama bin Laden, the group's leader, was also losing the battle for influence in the Islamic world.

Bin Laden had lost his ability to exploit the Iraq war to recruit new members, he said.

"On balance, we are doing pretty well," Hayden said, while warning that al-Qaeda remains a serious threat.
Hayden said both al-Qaeda in Iraq and al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia were facing "near strategic defeat".

In video

CIA: 'al-Qaeda on the run'

The CIA chief said that globally, al-Qaeda had suffered "significant setbacks - as a lot of the Islamic world pushes back on their form of Islam".
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/61F48FD4-B843-4453-BDA0-DD443103D...

joined Rev. Hagee's church.

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So, is one for videos, one for comments, and one for the road?

so we have to choose between 2 and 3....

you start

spot on!

can be for show biz/videos ????

Submitted by toniD on Mon, 06/02/2008 - 8:15am.
...I don't like what her campaign has done to the democrats. The way she is running her campaign. She wants to be president so badly that she doesn't care that she is dividing people.
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Some portion of her campaign tenor is attributable to being behind. It is generally true that candidates who are ahead have less incentive to be nasty and negative while candidates who are behind find themselves grasping at straws.

I'm not making excuses for Clinton's tactics but the campaign system, along with its tactical precedents, sucks. It is capable of turning friendly folks into ogres.

Whatever you think of Hillary Clinton, I think that it is reasonable to apportion some of her negative campaign methodology to the fact that she has been running from behind.

Who knows how an Obama campaign would have been waged if the circumstances had been reversed? No one. One of the advantages of being ahead is not having to reveal what a prick you can be.

((NO VIDEOS ALLOWED ON THIS BLOG)) or that one--get it!!!!!

la la la la!!! jealous?