save KLSD (petition link)

Clear Channel in Texas is trying to kill the only progressive voice left in San Diego, the station that carries Air America Radio programs, along with a Jones radio program and a NOVA M program.

I'm highly suspicious that it's more than the bottom line (big sponsor is opening new stores ) that is out to kill KLSD . PBS' Full Focus is already dead. I did not go to the rally, nor do I go to the listener parties, or call the station during my favorite show-- the Stacy Taylor Show. I'm uncomfortable in crowds, and speaking on the radio. I am a very loyal listener, most of the time up to eight hours a day. I've noticed that the advertising is geared toward big ticket items and a lot of them for home owners. What, do the grocery store chains think liberals don't shop where union employees work?

I was thrilled to hear Bree Walker (Bree, I've been a fan since you were a DJ on KPRI) and Mike Aguirre. at the rally. I think that Mike Aguirre is one of the best things that ever happened to San Diego politics. San Diego politics are ugly and dirty. Remember Dukie? Just the tip of the iceberg, folks.

Makes me wonder if increasing the signal, which would increase sales in the North County where there is more money) is out of the question because Camp Pendleton is in North County. Getting the boys ready to fight Iran?

Trying to kill a progressive voice before the 2008 elections?

I for one, have had enough of the Texas manure that has spread itself all over this country and the world.


I love KLSD. I love San Diego. I am sick of the crap.


Oh, and Buh Bye No sé Nada Torquemada.

Reading now

Just for shits and giggles. I needed a break from non-fiction. I'm also reminded by Larry to review this article:

The Man Who Sold the War
Meet John Rendon, Bush's general in the propaganda war
JAMES BAMFORD
Posted Nov 17, 2005 4:25 PM


Prelude to an Attack on Iran - TIME by Robert Baer

Hmmmmm, Bob and Larry don't work for the CIA any more. Could be part of the reason this country's headed in the wrong direction eh?

Just a thought.

Bush administration tries to scuttle lawsuit over White House e-mails

No George, those won't help you with your legal troubles, and the Hurricane was in Mexico, you doof.

Kucinich Wins Debate Poll, ABC Covers Up Results

Surprised?

I'm not.

God I hate the MSM.

Top twenty books and movies for me in the last 6 years

Since September 11, 2001 I have been on a quest. I do not have much of a formal education. My high school education was kind of a joke and that's another whole story and I'm not going there. I took a few community college classes. A bachelor's degree seems like just another of my parent's unrealistic expectations for me.

The quest has been for knowledge. I know I'm not he only American who wondered "Why do they hate us so much?" during the aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center. I was pretty sure I had a clue about why the attack on the Pentagon.

Obviously I'm not well traveled. A few trips to Mexico does not a world traveler make. Until 2002 I had seen very little of my own country. That's not to say I hadn't met and developed working relationships with immigrants from many different countries. It's amazing how poorly we treat our immigrants. I worked with people with advanced skills and experience who were forced to work in unskilled labor jobs in this country because their English skills weren't sharp enough to pass the licensing exams here. I've never been to New York but I've heard the New York cabbie stories.

I've been reading, watching documentary DVDs and trying to find out why they hate us enough to blow us up every chance they get made me wonder which ones that every jr. high kid should watch or read. I started out with a list of ten, which quickly grew to twenty, with a regular TV show thrown in for maintenance purposes.

Top twenty media sources that helped this American pull her head out of her butt, and not be such an ignorant clown.

1. The Corporation (DVD documentary)

2. I'm sorry I can't remember the name of the book, but it was a book on the modern history of Israel. Something striking to me was one page that had four maps on it that showed the growing territory of Israel, the shrinking Palestinian territories. You know, shit that ain't on the six o'clock newz here in Murika. Like most of these, it was available through the City Library system.

3. The Arms of Krupp 1587-1968: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty That Armed Germany at War by William Manchester.

4. Planet of Slums by Mike Davis (along with realistic sex education of course, this book will make the little shits think before they start breeding)

5. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

6. Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond (the book, I never saw the PBS special)

7. The Prize by Daniel Yergin (yeah, I missed the PBS special on this one too)

8. Killing Hope by William Blum

9. The End of Suburbia (DVD documentary)

10. Secrets of the American Empire by John Perkins

11. Fahrenheit 9/11 DVD by Michael Moore

12. Why We Fight a documentary by Eugene Jarecki

13. The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast

14. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

15. The Opium Wars The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another
by W. Travis Hanes, Frank Sanello

16. The Sorrows of Empire by Chalmers Johnson The trilogy is important, but if you only can buy one of the three, this is the one.

17. The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond

18. Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast

19. Breaking Rank by Norm Stamper

20. And finally, save Friday night (oh Tivo it fer chrissakes) for PBS NOW , and Bill Moyers Journal.

$25M Punitive Award Against Texaco Tossed in Mont. Pollution Case

Big Oil wins again.

Online voters pick Kucinich as winner of debate

Yup, if more people had access to information (right there on their teevee, would be good) on Kucinich, his numbers would be even better.

Iraq, Iran, & the Vanishing Context in American News

This is why Americans look like fucking retards to the rest of the world.

My watering can inhabitant

This morning I filled up this watering can, rinsed off the patio, and then discovered that the watering can had an inhabitant. Click on the pic if you're not sure what it is, and no, I didn't get bit. (the time is incorrect on the camera).

Somehow this seems fitting for today. Leona Helmsley died today.

Remember her?

Here's a hint-- "Only the little people pay taxes."

So, a couple of neurotoxic widows died today.

Religion sucks 2

This might be the easiest weekly feature, ummm, well ok, the ONLY weekly feature here.

Christians Alarmed at Non-Hindu Ban around Indian Shrine

The state government of Andhra Pradesh in India has announced plans to impose a 110-square-kilometre ban of non-Hindu religions around a Hindu shrine.
by Maria Mackay
Posted: Saturday, August 18, 2007, 11:36 (BST)

Oil price up on hurricane fears
5:00AM Monday August 20, 2007

CIA and Vatican edit Wikipedia entries
August 18, 2007 - 5:50PM
A US hacker's homemade program to pinpoint origins of Wikipedia edits indicates that alterations to the popular online encyclopedia have come from the CIA and the Vatican.


Where Does Money Come From ?



“In Debt We Have Trusted,” For over 300 years
What is money: Where does money come from?

Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created.

"Shareholders and top executive management"

I missed this last night. I'm watching it now. NOW.

I'm also thinking about the ten most important documentaries and books that I've discovered since September 11, 2001. I need to add a TV show to that list, and I think it's going to be more than ten books and DVDs.

Follow up

Something I noticed, but haven't mentioned till now, is that I'm hearing advertisements on the radio for Border Patrol agents.

I figured this would happen, I just didn't mention it at the time.

CNN God's Warriors

Hmmmmm. I hope I can watch it online after it airs next week. I don't know why, I don't need an excuse to loathe these fuckers any more than I already do. I am curious to see if the birthrate is higher among these frightened, angry assholes.

Isn't that always one of any religious teaching? Go forth and squirt out as many brats as you possibly can for the cause. Just what the world needs, more frightened, angry assholes.

Here's an example of the type of person that just doesn't need to be raising any more kids. Watch for the terrified look on the youngest kid's face in this clip of God Warrior from one of those stupid trading spouse shows.

It's not like humans are an endangered species, right?

Voting machines

YouTube videos

Dan Rather discusses voting machine failures on CNN
from Brad.


Voting machines in jail from Black Box Voting

Sen. Barbara Boxer: Stop the GOP Electoral Power Grab in California

(Since it's hot for the third day and my brain hurts, most of today's links are YouTube videos)

Senator Boxer takes to task

Kevin Martin FCC chairman, partisan hack and Bush bootlicker

I'll admit it.

I love Barbara Boxer, and I'm glad that she's my senator.

I'm considering one of these Draft Barbara Boxer bumper stickers .

I think this country is ready for a female president, but Hillary ain't it.

However, I won't be surprised if Hillary ends up being the nominee

It's all show anyway.

They just pick two flavors of protectors of the rich.

Tonight on PBS NOW, a show that will hit close to home for me, literally.

Home Insurance 9-1-1

People who lost their homes in the Cedar fire in San Diego County still can't rebuild.

I'm irritated

It's hot. I don't have air-conditioning OR a cross-breeze. The neighborhood BOYS are running around screaming like banshees. I just want them to shut the fuck up long enough to get a 20 minute nap, little bastards.

Oh Jeez, what am I bitching about?

I don't live in Peru.

Is the USS Comfort goig to help the earthquake victims?

They need to be asked?

By whom?

And, yeah, I don't live in Baghdad either.

Or anywhere in Iraq.


Ingenious people, those Iraqis.

Bob Murray: Mine Owner, Lightning Rod, "a face people want to spit on"

NYT: August 10, 2007
Bob Murray: Mine Owner and Lightning Rod
By Patrick J. Lyons

If one more fucking moron says to me "You get what you pay for"

They better not be within smacking range.

Income Inequality

(PBS NOW video)

Media Dissector on Democracy Now

Subprime loans, debt, and the AT&T censoring of Pearl Jam live (YouTube video).

I'm listening

to Stacy Taylor this morning, and he's filling in for Randi Rhodes later today.

At Three PM here, noon in LA, Phoenix and Three PM in New York.

Not my point. Point is that a caller had been to the Burt Bacharach Summer Pops show last night and he played some very mild protest song about the Bush Administration. Burt is 79 years old and I would love to be able to personally apologize to him. You see, the caller said that Burt was booed when he played his mild protest song. He said he's never been booed for playing that song before.

Guess Burt doesn't realize how many defense contractor employees live in San Diego, does he?

update: here are the lyrics to

Who Are These People?
Lyrics by Burt Bacharach and Tonio K.

Who are these people that keep telling us lies
And how did these people get control of our lives
And who’ll stop the violence cause it’s out of control?
Make em stop


Who are these people that destroy everything
And sell off the future for whatever it brings
And what kind of leaders can’t admit when they’re wrong?
Make em stop


This stupid mess we’re in just keeps getting worse
So many people dying needlessly
Looks like the liars may inherit the earth
Even pretending to pray
And getting away with it


Who are these people that keep telling us lies
And how did these people get control of our lives
And who’ll stop the violence cause it’s out of control?
We’ve got to make them stop


Who are these people that keep telling us lies
And how did these people get control of our lives
and who’ll stop the violence cause it’s out of control?
Make em stop


See things really have to change
Before it’s too late


This song was worth booing to these idiots? Once again, the RepugnantThuglicans in San Diego make me ill.




Karl Rove quit today , so I'm never going to get to see this.

Bummer.

Religion sucks 1

I get hits at least once every couple of weeks wherein the search term uesd is "religion sucks." Since this blog doesn't get much traffic unless skippy sends some my way, that says something to me.

It's not hard for me to find articles that prove that point to ME, anyway.

Here's an example:

Malaysia's convert marriage ilegal

Hmmmm, Sunday might be a good day for that, and this might be a regular feature here.

Oy, here we go again

with the pathetic local newz reports:

County to push absentee ballots in wake of electronic voting ban

San Diego County officials said voters would see paper ballots in February's presidential primaries. They also said no decisions had been made to challenge Bowen's decision or to break out of the county's 2003 agreement to spend $31 million on the again-decertified Diebold machines.


Tiny bubbles that are our votes that are counted on hackable Diebold optical scanners.

No reminders in the article of who Deborah Seiler and Michael Vu were before they came to San Diego.


Note: in all fairness, Gig Conaughton of the North County Times has reported on these two, and their possible conflicts of interest before. Kudos to Gig.

And Kudos to the people who wrote letters to the editor in Sacramento:

Letters: Electronic voting, prisons, environment, etc.

Don't blame her for e-vote mess
Published 12:00 am PDT Saturday, August 11, 2007Story appeared in EDITORIALS section, Page B6

My question is, how much longer are do we have to put up with these electronic charades they call elections?

We the people know WTF is going on.

Gee, I wonder why the US has no more allies?

Well maybe if we didn't kill our allies with cancer from DU exposure during wars for oil company greed, then we would have more of them.

Heh.

Alrighty then.

Federal reserve does a fancy dance

NEW YORK — Wall Street closed out a difficult week with a mixed finish Friday after the Federal Reserve injected billions of dollars into the banking system to calm markets torn by worries about evaporating credit.







Oh whoops, my bad, here's the article

John Hiatt & Sonny Landreth "Circle Back"

John Prine --- Flag Decal

Yesterday I posted this:

Nope, more genius reporting in the San Diego newz wurld:

Today Media Matters confirms my diagnosis nationwide.

Numerous outlets publish misleading atacks on decision to limit electronic voting.
Thu, Aug 9, 2007 5:54pm ET

Summary: While reporting on California Secretary of State Debra Bowen's decision to decertify the state's electronic voting machines in light of a study that found the systems are vulnerable to security breaches, numerous media outlets attacked the study's "unrealistic" methodology or uncritically reported criticism of the study's premise, without noting the researchers' explanation for their methods.

Alrighty then.

Who says the Grey Lady isn't good for laugh?

This is the best laugh I've had all day----
Bridge Hero Gets Offer: Paid Tuition
New York Times
August 7, 2007

Among the dozens of wrenching accounts to come out of the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis, the actions of 20-year-old Jeremy Hernandez were a bright spot: Trapped in a tipping school bus with 50 children, he kicked open the back door and began helping them one by one to safety.

Within a day, news outlets across the country were repeating the story of the school bus, along with a sad footnote — that Mr. Hernandez had recently been forced to drop out of an automotive repair program because he could not afford the $15,000 tuition.

That has changed. On Saturday, Mr. Hernandez learned that Dunwoody College of Technology had offered him a full scholarship toward a degree in applied science. He has also received offers of help from dozens of strangers across the country, said Molly Schwartz, communications director for Pillsbury United Communities, which employed him as a gym coordinator for one of its summer programs.

You're right, that's not funny, that is really a great thing. So where's the humor?


...When President Bush’s staff contacted him to request a photo opportunity, “He was just, like, ‘Nope,’ ” she said.

It is impossible to prevent voting machine hacking

August 7, 2007 at 16:50:28
by Woody Smith Page 1 of 1 page(s)
OpEdNews

...When I tell you the following you can take as the genuine truth: There is NO POSSIBLE WAY UNDER THE SUN to "fix" voting machines to ensure their accuracy or their immunity from penetration from a party seeking personal gain. They are ALL, regardless of what "generation" they are, past, present or future, utterly unfixable in this context, whether or not they contain paper trails, and whether they're used merely to mark ballots or cast votes or are used to tabulate votes cast by other means (as with optical scanners). Every computer ever built is vulnerable to attack, and there is no possible way to render any computer genuinely invulnerable. ...

Nope, more genius reporting in the San Diego newz wurld:

Decision comes after ban on touch-screen machines.
By Craig Gustafson
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
August 7, 2007
The county is planning an aggressive push to get as many voters as possible to cast absentee ballots instead of heading to their local polling place for the Feb. 5 presidential primary.

We use optical scanners to count the absentee votes in San Diego, Diebold optical scanners.

SD Electronic Voting Systems To Be Extensively Modified
POSTED: 11:45 am PDT August 4, 2007
UPDATED: 12:05 pm PDT August 4, 2007
...A review of the Diebold equipment showed it was vulnerable to malicious attack that could change the vote tallies, among other deficiencies.

Diebold Election Systems Inc. is headquartered in Allen, Texas. One of its product lines is equipment that scans paper ballots, circumventing some of the concerns that have been expressed about touch-screen systems...

The concerns were circumvented by whom, the pathetic excuse that passes for news reporting in this county?