tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post2364477587344850048..comments2024-02-24T11:50:55.413-08:00Comments on Lydia Cornell: OPRAH and OBAMA TOGETHER AGAINST THE WAR!Fans and Friends of Lydia Cornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01512357844572930333noreply@blogger.comBlogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-15211968156710180762007-12-18T23:07:00.000-08:002007-12-18T23:07:00.000-08:00EVERYONE - VERY SORRY. Blog was down due to massiv...EVERYONE - VERY SORRY. Blog was down due to massive power outage from ice storm. <BR/><BR/>New thread is up.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for hanging inFans and Friends of Lydia Cornellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01512357844572930333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-31014081275100578802007-12-18T21:28:00.000-08:002007-12-18T21:28:00.000-08:00Kevin Martin needs to go when the Democrats take b...Kevin Martin needs to go when the Democrats take back the White House we need regulators who look out for the interests of the majority of this country not just the wealthy elite lobbiests and Bush cronnies.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08956882396669105125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-46021903160511611672007-12-18T19:47:00.000-08:002007-12-18T19:47:00.000-08:00More of the Bush fascist police state.More of the Bush fascist police state.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08956882396669105125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-10298797029305338192007-12-18T19:46:00.000-08:002007-12-18T19:46:00.000-08:00Police Brutality Cases Rise SharplyBy Kevin Johnso...Police Brutality Cases Rise Sharply<BR/>By Kevin Johnson,<BR/> <BR/>USA Today<BR/>Posted: 2007-12-18 13:15:56<BR/>Filed Under: Law News, Nation News<BR/>(Dec. 18) - Federal prosecutors are targeting a rising number of law enforcement officers for alleged brutality, Justice Department statistics show. The heightened prosecutions come as the nation's largest police union fears that agencies are dropping standards to fill thousands of vacancies and "scrimping" on training.<BR/><BR/>Cases in which police, prison guards and other law enforcement authorities have used excessive force or other tactics to violate victims' civil rights have increased 25% (281 vs. 224) from fiscal years 2001 to 2007 over the previous seven years, the department says.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Mel Evans, AP<BR/>Police subdue a man later identified as Robert Davis in New Orleans on Oct. 8, 2005. A former police officer who was accused of beating the man was acquitted in July.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>During the same period, the department says it won 53% more convictions (391 vs. 256). Some cases result in multiple convictions.<BR/><BR/>Federal records show the vast majority of police brutality cases referred by investigators are not prosecuted.<BR/><BR/>University of Toledo law professor David Harris, who analyzes police conduct issues, says it will take time to determine whether the cases represent a sustained period of more aggressive prosecutions or the beginnings of a surge in misconduct.<BR/><BR/>The cases involve only a fraction of the estimated 800,000 police in the USA, says James Pasco, executive director of the National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), the nation's largest police union.<BR/><BR/>Even so, he says, the FOP is concerned that reduced standards, training and promotion of less experienced officers into the higher police ranks could undermine more rigid supervision.<BR/><BR/>"These are things we are worried about," Pasco says.<BR/><BR/>For the past few years, dozens of police departments across the country have scrambled to fill vacancies. The recruiting effort, which often features cash bonuses, has intensified since 9/11, because many police recruits have been drawn to military service.<BR/><BR/>In its post-Sept. 11 reorganization, the FBI listed police misconduct as one of its highest civil rights priorities to keep pace with an anticipated increase in police hiring through 2009.<BR/><BR/>The increasing Justice numbers generally correspond to a USA TODAY analysis of federal law enforcement prosecutions using data compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.<BR/><BR/>Those data show 42 law enforcement prosecutions during the first 10 months of fiscal year 2007, a 66% increase from all of fiscal 2002 and a 61% rise from a decade ago.<BR/><BR/><BR/>U.S. military not told of Turkey bomb plan<BR/>Colombian rebels pledge to free 3 hostages<BR/>ECB move, Goldman profit help carry stocks higher<BR/>Jamie Lynn Spears says she's pregnant<BR/>No. 3 Kansas survives last-minute scare at Georgia...<BR/>More Stories<BR/>David Burnham, the co-founder of the TRAC database, says prosecutions appear to be increasing, but "more important" are the numbers of cases prosecutors decline.<BR/><BR/>Last year, 96% of cases referred for prosecution by investigative agencies were declined.<BR/><BR/>In 2005, 98% were declined, a rate that has remained "extremely high" under every administration dating to President Carter, according to a TRAC report.<BR/><BR/>The high refusal rates, say Burnham and law enforcement analysts, result in part from the extraordinary difficulty in prosecuting abuse cases. Juries are conditioned to believe cops, and victims' credibility is often challenged.<BR/><BR/>"When police are accused of wrongdoing, the world is turned upside down," Harris says. "In some cases, it may be impossible for (juries) to make the adjustment."Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08956882396669105125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-189730336226775952007-12-18T13:49:00.000-08:002007-12-18T13:49:00.000-08:00Testing?Testing?Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08956882396669105125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-24786439991158759112007-12-15T19:28:00.000-08:002007-12-15T19:28:00.000-08:00In what may be the first break in the Hollywood wr...In what may be the first break in the Hollywood writers' strike, David Letterman is pursuing a deal with the Writers Guild of America that would allow his late-night show on CBS to return to the air in early January with the usual complement of material from his writers, even if the strike is still continuing.<BR/><BR/>Executives from Mr. Letterman's company said Saturday that they are hopeful they will have an interim agreement in place with the guild as early as this week. That could potentially put Mr. Letterman at an enormous advantage over most of his late-night colleagues.<BR/><BR/>Jon Stewart of Comedy Central's "Daily Show" has also been urging an interim agreement and would begin working toward getting one in place the first thing Monday morning, according to a representative. But Mr. Letterman is in a stronger position because, unlike Mr. Stewart, his show is not owned by a network but by Mr. Letterman's independent production company, World Wide Pants. (So is the show that follows it on CBS, "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson," which would return with writers under the proposed interim agreement.)<BR/><BR/>The news of Mr. Letterman's potential deal came at the same time the union took a new tack that could potentially throw the negotiations into procedural chaos. The writers' representatives said they planned on Monday to exercise a legal right to insist that the major studios and network production companies bargain with the guild individually rather than as a group.<BR/><BR/>In a letter sent to members on Saturday, negotiators for the Writers Guild of America East and the Writers Guild of America West said: "Each signatory employer is required to bargain with us individually if we make a legal demand that it do so. We will make this demand on Monday."<BR/><BR/>The writers' move was aimed at breaking what has been, at least in public, a united front by a small number of media conglomerates — General Electric, News Corporation, Sony, Time Warner, The Walt Disney Company, Viacom and CBS — whose entertainment units dominate the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, an industry bargaining group.<BR/><BR/>In a statement, the producers alliance immedately dismissed the move as "grasping for straws." J. Nicholas Counter III, president of the the alliance, said in an interview that his group remains the bargaining agent for each of the represented companies, whether they proceed individually or together.<BR/><BR/>The alliance "represents all the companies both individually and on a multi-employer basis," Mr. Counter said. In all, about 350 production companies are represented by the alliance, whose stance is controlled by representatives of the big corporations.<BR/><BR/>Even if forced to bargain separately — and representatives from both sides said they expected the unions' position to be challenged — the companies would remain free to deal through the alliance and would be permitted to let other companies monitor their separate talks, allowing them to remain on common ground.<BR/><BR/>Since the alliance was formed in 1982, no Hollywood union has tried to force individual bargaining across the board. But Anthony R. Segall, general counsel for the West Coast guild, pointed out that interim contracts with various companies have been reached during prior walkouts. Such contracts, said Mr. Segall, typically use "most favored nation" arrangements that promise signers final terms as at least favorable as those signed by any other company.<BR/><BR/>No agreement had been reached with Mr. Letterman's proposal as of late Saturday afternoon, according to both Mr. Segall and reprentatives of Mr. Letterman's company. Rob Burnett, the chief executive of World Wide Pants, said in a statement, "Because we are an independent production company, we are able to pursue an interim agreement with the Guild without involving CBS in that pursuit." He said the company had been seeking a separate deal with the Guild since the start of the strike, adding, "We're happy that the Guild has now adopted an approach that might make this possible."<BR/><BR/>All of television's late-night shows have been off the air for six weeks since the strike was called. The hosts have been paying the salaries of their non-writing staffs over the past several weeks.<BR/><BR/>The hosts have been debating when they might be able to return and it has been expected that at least the two chief NBC late-night stars, Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien — both of whom are the longtime ratings leaders in their time periods — would announce early Monday a plan to come back, probably on Jan. 2.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-39441305973209634292007-12-15T17:53:00.000-08:002007-12-15T17:53:00.000-08:00a question of competence<A HREF="http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/image.php?..%2Fcartoons%2FDon_Wright_PointTaken.jpg" REL="nofollow">a question of competence</A>clifhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01789324243613548212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-82126192270799741242007-12-15T12:07:00.000-08:002007-12-15T12:07:00.000-08:00Tom, I agree that he should not have been excluded...Tom, I agree that he should not have been excluded,m but consider that Dennis could have easily rented a store front for one week to put himself in complience with the debate criteria, which were announced well in advance. I wonder if he intentionally chose not to meet the standards to generate outrage among supporters. That may be absurd, but no more so than he was by endorsing that racist wing-nut, Ron Paul.TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11397335545286040472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-8680202876879947392007-12-15T11:16:00.000-08:002007-12-15T11:16:00.000-08:00I always thought Kucinich was too far out on the f...I always thought Kucinich was too far out on the fringes (in the public consciousness) to have any chance at all. But if the Des Moines Register is pulling stunts like this, maybe the Powers That Be are afraid of Kucinich. Maybe he does have a chance.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">Who Hijacked Our Country</A>Tom Harperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05610417770240609022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-84870671236622146832007-12-15T03:46:00.000-08:002007-12-15T03:46:00.000-08:00Enigma,I liked your "Treasons Greetings" you left ...Enigma,<BR/><BR/>I liked your "Treasons Greetings" you left the White House. Very appropriate.<BR/><BR/>Catch the great blog of Enigma's and her unique approach to writing at:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.watergatesummer.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">Watergate Summer</A>Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-56322322507400094972007-12-15T01:43:00.000-08:002007-12-15T01:43:00.000-08:00Okay a few things..(1) Lydia- thanks for encouragi...Okay a few things..<BR/>(1) Lydia- thanks for encouraging we write to the Register about Kucinich being excluded- but here is my question why didn't DEM leadership say anything- like John Dean ?<BR/>(who we have barely seen)<BR/><BR/>(2) Also WHY could KEYES who is not a candidate that I know of be on the debate and not Kucinich ? I don't get it ....<BR/><BR/>(3) Larry- thanks for all of the great new and articles....<BR/><BR/>(4) I saw that Oprah is taking Heat for her Obama support- I don't understand why....I heard it on I think it was Daytime MSNBC and Hardball- they claimed it was emails- but I went to her site and did not see any mention of it- actually on her site she does not include her Obama activity- that is smart that she is keeping it seperate....<BR/><BR/>thanks for the fine work that you all do here...keep it up... we are grateful...<BR/><BR/>( I do have some new posts on Watergate Summer- and one is about the Hillary Negative issue- and how it relates to women...and also Dana Post as well...and how it relates to women....It seems the MSM wants ALL women to look act and dress like Dana and Vote for Hillary, and I have a problem wit that....and they also have been feeding her reckless attacks on Obama....thanks for letting me share those...)<BR/><BR/>( On the Lighter side...I asked my teenage son why Kucinich was not allowed to debate the other day and he said" Because his wife, The Goddess is too hot for Iowa"....sorry but it did make me laugh)<BR/><BR/>"Treasons Greetings " to the White House....<BR/>and may their stocking be full of SOMETHING....<BR/><BR/>have a good weekend all...<BR/><BR/>thank you again...enigma4everhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06589997090173140019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-4123038866580377112007-12-14T21:12:00.000-08:002007-12-14T21:12:00.000-08:00Oops the sub-prime, credit crunch just hit Califor...Oops the sub-prime, credit crunch just hit California, in ways that can't be good;<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.nbc11.com/news/14858065/detail.html" REL="nofollow">Schwarzenegger Will ‘Declare Fiscal Emergency’ In Weeks</A><BR/><BR/><I>Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday he will declare a “fiscal emergency” in January to give him and the Legislature more power to deal with the state’s growing deficit.<BR/><BR/>(snip)<BR/><BR/>California is struggling with shrinking state tax revenue from the meltdown of the subprime housing market and the credit crunch on Wall Street.<BR/><BR/>State spending also has increased by more than 40 percent since Schwarzenegger took office after the 2003 recall of then-Gov. Gray Davis.<BR/><BR/>Schwarzenegger in August signed a $145.5 billion budget that increased spending 11 percent due largely to the increased cost of bond repayments and special funds. General fund spending for day-to-day operations increased less than 1 percent, from $101.7 to $102.3 billion for the budget year that began July 1.</I><BR/><BR/>An 11% increase in the budget, with ONLY a 1% increase in real spending on the people of the state?<BR/><BR/>This means they have to pay out that much money to bankers for credit that is getting more and more expensive.<BR/><BR/>Didn't a bunch of clueless idiots claim deficits don't matter?<BR/><BR/>I guess they were wrong on that one also weren't they?<BR/><BR/>The avalanche is getting larger and spreading further.<BR/><BR/>Florida, Maryland, Norway, among others, but now California? <BR/><BR/>California, which if it was a country would be the 8th largest economy on the planet, good luck to countries smaller then California. <BR/><BR/>The id-jets in Washington and the Fed think the problem will go away with a few snow shovels?<BR/><BR/>This fiscal mess is going to grow much worse as it unwinds, and many people who haven’t a clue about it will be feeling the effects from it for years to come.clifhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01789324243613548212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-60023077395640357412007-12-14T18:50:00.000-08:002007-12-14T18:50:00.000-08:00:DMerry Christmakawnzanukkah:D<BR/><BR/>Merry ChristmakawnzanukkahMeet the Worfeushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16488142527364797150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-7876228643218165652007-12-14T18:02:00.000-08:002007-12-14T18:02:00.000-08:00Yet, the Des Moines Register allowed that lizard-e...Yet, the Des Moines Register allowed that lizard-eyed, radical rightwing kook, Alan Keyes to stand with his fellow GOPers?<BR/><BR/>Even though I'm an Obama supporter, Kucinich belonged in the debate.<BR/><BR/>Shameful. Truly shameful.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15788931352232874850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-74409621544435322652007-12-14T17:11:00.000-08:002007-12-14T17:11:00.000-08:00Patriot - what do you mean "Oprah's taking heat?" ...Patriot - what do you mean <BR/>"Oprah's taking heat?" You mean her fans don't approve? tell me more...FUTURE LYDIA CORNELL BLOG https://www.blogger.com/profile/01982609052975771387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-81694300156049718232007-12-14T14:38:00.000-08:002007-12-14T14:38:00.000-08:00Right or wrong and I don't think it will matter bu...Right or wrong and I don't think it will matter but Oprah is taking a lot of heat for backing Obama.jmsjoinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-32745640385835726312007-12-14T12:17:00.000-08:002007-12-14T12:17:00.000-08:00Re: Kucinich.There are rules. They're meant to be ...Re: Kucinich.<BR/><BR/>There are rules. They're meant to be followed. Sorry, but if he doesnt follow them he shouldn't run.<BR/><BR/>What i f he violated campaign finance reform laws? We'd be right to ban him then, so how is this different?Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03664920037425489644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-5581557724791152242007-12-14T04:44:00.000-08:002007-12-14T04:44:00.000-08:00Newsweek:For the past few years, America has been ...Newsweek:<BR/><BR/>For the past few years, America has been alienated from the world. We have all read the yearly polls with the same damning numbers. But on one issue, the United States and the world agree: majorities everywhere expect things to improve markedly after George W. Bush. Whether it's in Europe or Asia, the refrain from politicians, businessmen and intellectuals is the same. "We don't hate America," one of them told me recently. "We hate Bush. When he's gone, it will be a new day."<BR/><BR/>But will it? The question will be put to the test in a year, when a new president enters the White House.<BR/><BR/>There's little doubt that the style and substance of U.S. foreign policy over the past seven years has provoked enormous international opposition. What is less clear is that the style and substance were unique products of the Bush administration. Some part of the global response was surely the product of longstanding unease with U.S. dominance. After all, France's foreign minister coined the term "hyperpuissance" to describe America under Bill Clinton, not George W. Bush.<BR/><BR/>Then came 9/11. Ever since the attacks, the United States has felt threatened and under siege and determined to carve out maximum room to maneuver. But where Americans have seen defensive behavior, the rest of the world has looked on and seen the most powerful nation in human history acting like a caged animal, lashing out at any and every constraint on its actions.<BR/><BR/>At the heart of this behavior is fear. Americans have become scared of the new world that is emerging around them. As long as this atmosphere of fear envelops U.S. politics, it will surely produce very similar results abroad. Washington's real task, therefore, is to combat such unthinking emotion.<BR/><BR/>Yet the opposite is happening. Republicans are falling over each other to paint an atmosphere of dire threat that requires strong, even brutish action to protect the American people. Democrats, while far less guilty of fearmongering, have been afraid to combat this hysteria.<BR/><BR/>Consider the top GOP candidates to replace Bush. On the campaign trail, Rudolph Giuliani endlessly repeats his mantra that "we are facing an enemy that is planning all over this world … to come here and kill us." Mitt Romney has explained that while "some people have said we ought to close Guant?namo, my view is we ought to double [the size of] Guant?namo." And John McCain sometimes sounds cavalier about bombing Iran—despite the fact that, if it happened, it would be the third U.S. war against a Muslim country in seven years.<BR/><BR/>Since 2001, Washington, with bipartisan support, has invaded two countries and dispatched troops around the world, from Somalia to the Philippines, to fight Islamic militants. It has ramped up defense spending by $187 billion—more than the combined military budgets of China, Russia, India and Britain. It has created a Department of Homeland Security that now spends more than $40 billion a year. How then would Giuliani go on the offensive? Invade a couple more countries?<BR/><BR/>To recover its place in the world, the United States should first recover its confidence. It remains the world's only superpower, the only big country with a total portfolio of military, economic and political dominance. Most major states are either well disposed toward it or, at worst, neutral. The challenges America confronts come from small, faceless terrorist organizations and a few rogue nations. This is not to minimize the challenges. Today's asymmetries of power mean that small groups can do big damage. But it is to put things in perspective. When President Bush speaks of Iran's nuclear program as the road to World War III, one wonders if he has noticed that Iran's total GDP is just one sixty-eighth that of the United States, or that its military spending is less than 1 percent of the Pentagon's.<BR/><BR/>The real challenges that the United States faces come not from globalization's losers but from its winners, not from yesterday's bombs but from tomorrow's factories. The crucial project for the next president will be to change the basic focus of U.S. foreign policy, away from the Middle East and toward the Far East. When the history of these times is written, surely the great trend that will dominate the accounts, far larger than the war in Lebanon or the tensions over Iran, will be the rise of China and India and how they reshaped the world.<BR/><BR/>This power shift is having broad and benign effects around the planet; global growth is a marvel to behold. But it is also producing massive complications and dislocations. It creates high demand for raw materials and energy. Countries that possess such resources—Iran, Russia, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia—have become powerful islands of exception to the rules of markets and trade that are sweeping the world. Thus global capitalism is producing its own well-funded anticapitalists. Environmental degradation proceeds in much of the world on a colossal scale. And these problems get exacerbated by changes in climate, rainfall and habitation. Scarcities of water and wheat and other grains might turn out to be the fault lines of the future as populations move in search of secure and arable land.<BR/><BR/>There is no way to turn off the underlying global growth, nor should one try. Every previous expansion of global capitalism has led to greater prosperity across the world. But this is a massive, complex process that requires enormous focus and attention. And while other nations around the world, from China to Chile, are playing to win, the United States as a government has barely focused on any of the major challenges or opportunities they present. The Bush administration is too busy settling disputes between Sunnis and Shiites in downtown Baghdad.<BR/><BR/>The world we are entering will need new solutions to its problems. There are too many new players for the old structures to work. Asia is rising, but not only Asia. Economic activity and political confidence are also growing in Latin America and even Africa. Nongovernmental actors are becoming more powerful every day. New media sources—from Al-Jazeera to India's NDTV—are presenting diverse and contrarian narratives of current events. Welcome to the post-American world.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-85292661664829123402007-12-14T03:32:00.000-08:002007-12-14T03:32:00.000-08:00(Reuters) - Congressional Democrats on Thursday cr...(Reuters) - Congressional Democrats on Thursday criticized the U.S. government's labor relations board under the Bush administration as hostile to workers' rights, while Republicans complained of political grandstanding.<BR/><BR/>Amid controversy over a wave of recent decisions by the National Labor Relations Board, a committee questioned NLRB Chairman Robert Battista and member Wilma Liebman at a joint hearing of Senate and House of Representatives panels.<BR/><BR/>The NLRB "is supposed to protect the voice of American workers, but the board is no longer fulfilling that responsibility," said Sen. Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat and ally of the labor movement.<BR/><BR/>California Democratic Rep. George Miller said, "Workers' rights have been under near-constant assault in the years since the start of the Bush administration."Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-23327689694409896762007-12-14T03:30:00.000-08:002007-12-14T03:30:00.000-08:00Union officials representing striking Hollywood wr...Union officials representing striking Hollywood writers said Thursday they filed an unfair labor practices complaint claiming studios violated federal law by breaking off negotiations.<BR/><BR/>The Writers Guild of America also demanded that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers return to the bargaining so the six-week strike can be ended and thousands of workers idled by the walkout can return to their jobs.<BR/><BR/>Negotiations broke off Dec. 7 when the alliance refused to bargain further unless the union dropped a half-dozen proposals that included the authority to unionize writers on reality shows and animation projects.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-5358387993562459572007-12-13T23:28:00.000-08:002007-12-13T23:28:00.000-08:00BARTLEBEE said...Merry Christmas everyone.And Happ...BARTLEBEE said...<BR/>Merry Christmas everyone.<BR/><BR/>And Happy Hanukkah and Kwanza too.<BR/><BR/>And Happy Festivus too."<BR/><BR/>Yeah, Happy Holidays Everyone!Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08956882396669105125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-11964477419704573612007-12-13T23:27:00.000-08:002007-12-13T23:27:00.000-08:00Larry said...Updated 12/10I thought this one was w...Larry said...<BR/>Updated 12/10<BR/><BR/>I thought this one was worth passing along. It's a highly unsubstantiated rumor, so take it for what it's worth.<BR/><BR/>The rumor comes via R.S. Janes at BartBlog (a.k.a. Bartcop). It claims that MSNBC may have found that host they've been looking for. And it ain't Rosie O'Donnell. This rumor claims that MSNBC regular and Air America Radio host Rachel Maddow may get the nod. Here's more:<BR/><BR/>Finally, a note under the door says Air America Radio’s Rachel Maddow will be offered the hour following Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, but only with a ‘funny’ co-host, as it appears increasingly unlikely that The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart or Bill Maher and others will step in for the kind of unimpressive money and short-term contract that are on the table. Rumor is the cable channel’s execs are impressed with Maddow, but she’s not perceived as ‘funny’ enough by herself for the uptempo news/comedy format they’re seeking. Paul F. Tompkins and Joel McHale, that guy Keith has on who hosts E!s “The Soup,” have been mentioned as co-hosts, as well as Rachel’s AAR colleague Randi Rhodes, although Randi is seen by some as too partisan and combative. If this goes through, the prime-time weekday line up for MSNBC would then be “Hardball”; “Countdown with Keith Olbermann”; the as-yet-unnamed Rachel Maddow show, and “Live with Dan Abrams.” Expect a press release in January."<BR/><BR/><BR/>Lydia, just like I said there are going to be MORE and MORE opportunities for Progressive tv and radio shows and Progressive hosts..........there has been a cataclysmic shift away from Conservatism towards Progressivism just like what occured during the Great Depression.<BR/><BR/>The Conservative Revolution is dead and the Progressive Revolution is just getting startedc and gathering steam...............during the next decade you are going to see many more Progressive tv and radio shows and tax reform favoring the working class rather than the few wealthy elites. The corporations will lose much of their power and we will get programs, laws and taxation that benefit the vast majority rather than the few.<BR/><BR/>The only caveat is that it is always usually darkest before the dawn and the bad times neccessary to bring about positve long term change and sound policy will likely be quite painful.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08956882396669105125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-22608747956337600762007-12-13T23:11:00.000-08:002007-12-13T23:11:00.000-08:00Wow, those are some powerful articles Larry, it lo...Wow, those are some powerful articles Larry, it looks like the house of cards is crumbling for the treasonous Bush Administration.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08956882396669105125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-37062863136363138562007-12-13T20:26:00.000-08:002007-12-13T20:26:00.000-08:00Here is something for your Christmas Shopping:Cons...Here is something for your Christmas Shopping:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.conservativesexscandals.com/" REL="nofollow">Conservative Sex Scandals</A>Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-19238076843190521712007-12-13T19:35:00.000-08:002007-12-13T19:35:00.000-08:00Merry Christmas everyone.And Happy Hanukkah and Kw...Merry Christmas everyone.<BR/><BR/>And Happy Hanukkah and Kwanza too.<BR/><BR/>And Happy Festivus too.Meet the Worfeushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16488142527364797150noreply@blogger.com