Election Day 2006 is November 7, eight days from
now.
The next week will be very nasty. Pedophile
Republicans and Sphincter Conservatives will sling mud, whine and
lie. Especially, they will lie. They don't know how to do anything
else.
No matter what the outcome, the Pedophile Republicans
and Sphincter Conservatives will spend the next two years whining,
finger pointing and refusing to face reality. They simply do not
have the mental capacity to accept responsibility for their own
mistakes. Especially, they will lie. They don't know how to do
anything else.
The shame of being a conservative has never
been greater... and I've been saying that for a long time. It's more
true every year. At some point, you have to sink to their level just
to get their attention. Sad, but true. We must save their souls.
There are some for whom it is too late. Ignore the Lost Souls and
Nine Commandment Christians. Talk to the ones who have a
chance.
To take back America, you should volunteer to help
get out the vote, and watch for voting irregularities. Also watch
for non-irregularities, as the radicals will claim problems
when there weren't any. Republicans don't believe in Democracy, and
will do anything to win. Conservatives don't believe in America, and
will subvert the Constitutional right to vote in their pursuit of
power and money. Especially, they will lie. They don't know how to
do anything else.
I don't want to sound like a shrill
right-wing hate radio asshole, so I won't repeat too much of previous
posts on the subject. Just be aware that the empty barrel makes the
most noise, and the far right has had forty years to perfect their
mud-slinging and hate-filled rhetoric. Let them get the last word,
so you can mull over a proper response to the real questions that
should be asked.
In the meantime, here are some political CDs
to tide you over. All of these contain iPodWorthy songs that will
still be relevant for 2008.
Hail To The Thieves, Vol. III: Songs To Take Our
Country Back!
George Mann and Julius Margolin have been
singing the truth for many years. Julius has been a lefty and a
labor activist for many of his 80+ years, and George has continued
the tradition. The first in this series was Hail To The Thief!
Songs for The Bush Years, a pre-9/11 indictment of the gang of
thugs which I reviewed
earlier.
Hail to
the Thieves, Volume III: Songs to Take Our Country Back! is the
third in their series about the Bush administration and cronies, with
many guests. The songs are dead on target, performed beautifully
with just the right amount of outrage and amusement. My favorites
include: Royally Oily, by Colleen Kattau about the Bush family
dynasty based on oil and a lack of morals. Deadeye Dick, by
Steve Brooks, about Dick Cheney's lack of gun control. If There's
a God In Heaven, by George Mann, about how Bush and co. are
doomed to hell. Friends like Utah Phillips and Billy Bragg have
their turn.
Highly recommended, even after the
election.
Thieves III is a new CD. The 2004 election spun
out numerous political music. Perhaps cowed by the slimy right wing
attacks on people who tell the truth, fewer musicians have been brave
enough to release new stuff this year; perhaps I'm just not seeing
it. To be sure, much of the outrage at Bush and co. in 2004 seems
almost prescient, and the criticisms then still hold.
And
it's hard to sing about the most pressing issue of our day: Global
Warming (aka Climate Change). There is no other issue where you can
say, unquestionably, "Liberals were right an conservatives were
wrong." But I digress.
Total Myshkin Awareness
I talked about
Total Myshkin Awareness a few months ago, so I won't repeat
too much. It's so new, it's not even officially out (according to
their webs site). But you can listen to many of the songs for free
as mp3s, (Prince Myshkin
site, click on mp3s). I especially recommend The Ministry
of Oil.
Roy Zimmerman
I was simply going to talk
about Roy Zimmerman's discography of political humor music, but going
to the Roy Zimmerman Web
Site (which didn't exist last time I checked) I note he has a new
CD! Whee! I don't know anything about Faulty Intelligence
but I'm going to recommend it anyway. I recognize a few songs, such
as Defenders
of Marriage, which goes back a few years and was covered on
Thieves III. His new version is nicely done. I still highly
recommend Homeland and Security (get them both
together) and I have all the Foremen albums and can recommend The
Best of the Formen as a good selection.
Election Day USA
Election Day
USA was commentary for the 2004 election. They made little
effort to sell the CD, and all the tracks are available as free
downloads. Many of the songs are relevant if not prescient. Duct Tape
(streaming audio), by John McCutcheon, about the idiotic fanning of
the flames of terrorist fears, seems almost tame given the death of
Habeus Corpus. codePINK
(streaming audio), by Pat Williams and Sandy O, is a good view from
the women's perspective. Peace
Inside (streaming audio) is a long song about how the Iraq war is
not our fight. And so on. If it's dated, it's because the situation
is so much worse.
Pull No Punches
Another old favorite CD
from an old friend is Pull
No Punches, by the Android Sisters. The Android Sisters are
characters on the various Adventures of Ruby The Galactic Gumshoe,
available from ZBS, and
have a few CDs of their own. In 2003, Meatball Fulton/Tom Lopez got
fed up with the Bushies and pulled no punches in their outrage. It's
not necessarily great sf, or even great political commentary, but
when it lands it lands hard. Hey, Monster Maker, about the
manipulation of media buzzwords, and Cowboys and Arabs, about
playing childish but deadly games, are two iPw favorites I play on
the air.
Coda: The reason to vote Democratic this year and in
2008
One of the biggest lies by the conservative news
media is that the Democrats will win this election because the
Republicans have screwed up, not that the Democrats have a plan to
govern. This is half right: The Republicans have screwed up. But
the Democrats have a plan once they take the House of
Representatives. The media isn't covering it, since it's not a White
House Talking Point, but it was mentioned here a few days
ago:
As
in the first 100 hours the House meets after Democrats -- in her
fondest wish -- win control in the Nov. 7 midterm elections and
Pelosi takes the gavel as the first Madam Speaker in
history.
Day One: Put new rules in place to
"break the link between lobbyists and
legislation."
Day Two: Enact all the
recommendations made by the commission that investigated the
terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Time
remaining until 100 hours: Raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour,
maybe in one step. Cut the interest rate on student loans in half.
Allow the government to negotiate directly with the pharmaceutical
companies for lower drug prices for Medicare
patients.
Broaden the types of stem cell
research allowed with federal funds -- "I hope with a veto-proof
majority," she added in an Associated Press interview
Thursday.
All the days after that: "Pay as
you go, " meaning no increasing the deficit, whether the issue is
middle class tax relief, health care or some other
priority.
Republicans will lie. They don't know
how to do anything else. It's up to you to tell the truth.
Character matters.
Okay now: Vote! Help get out the vote in
your district. Let's show the tide has turned.
I thought I'd take time out from precinct walking and phone banking to
send a note to the E! page. You are my morning newspaper!
I'm active with the political committee of the teachers' union and I'd
like to share my perspective on local CA issues for next week's
election-
Not only is Phil Angelides' campaign stinking up the place, but other
than the fact that voters are very stupid and have very short memories,
here's why. Last year, labor went all out against Ahnold's propositions
and beat him, but it took almost $100 million dollars. That was their
plan all along-bankrupt us last year so we couldn't fight him now. Phil
had to get early ads out pounding the Groper but he didn't. You have to
define your opponent before he defines you.
As to the propositions, we aren't as involved as before, but there are
some red herrings out there. 83 (sex offenders) will pass in a
landslide and we are staying away from that one. 85 is a stinky
anti-abortion wedge issue to bring wingnuts to the polls and we hate
it. 84, 86, and 87 are progressive ideas associated with bonds and
taxes that we like, but they may go down because of the general "vote
no on everything" mood. It is fascinating to listen to ads against 87
(alternative energy research from taxing oil companies). They are all
over Air America Radio, sponsored by concerned citizens against blah
blah blah, the little old lady on the street corner, and CHEVRON. I
guess AAR wil take money from anyone, and they are still broke.
The really interesting ones are the last three. 88 sounds good on the
surface (raising property taxes by $50 to fund schools) and you would
figure that the teacher's unions would like it, but we say NO NO NO. It
is funded by an out of state gazillionaire, and helps mostly charter
schools. Doesn't help public schools at all.
89 is about public financing of campaigns. Phil is for it, because he
doesn't have money, Musclehead is against it, because he does, and the
teacher's unions are against it and agree with Musclehead. WTF? Big
labor agrees with Phil on everything else, but public financing of
campaigns would take away our clout with the state leg. I guess we want
to reserve the right to bankrupt ourselves! I'm personally for the
concept of public financing but I'm not sure 89 is written very well.
90 is another that sounds good on the surface. Eminent domain, we hate
it. Isn't that how Smirk built the Texas Rangers stadium at public
expense and walked off with the money?? Let's get rid of eminent
domain, yea! Hold on a minute, grasshopper. Once again this is written
by a right wing nutcase from out of state. I makes it easier for
corporations to sue for the income they would have made if they had
been allowed to build. Imagine stopping a Walmart in your neighborhood,
and then having to pay them, with tax dollars, for the profits they
would have made. Noooooo! A similar measure only cost the state of
Oregon about $5 billion dollars.
In November 2005 the very best that could happen was that things would
stay the same.
In November 2006, we won't win everything, but something's GOTTA change!
Teacher Ed
Mission Viejo, CA
Thanks, Ed!
Was looking over the propaganda from Di-Fi's campaign and noticed the CA Dems are saying 'NO' on 87.
Funny both Bill Clinton & Al Gore are stumping for the 'YES' side.
Froma Harrop: IGNORANCE AND THE AMERICAN VOTER
In a famous 1950s study, researchers made up a piece of legislation called the Metallic Metals Act and polled the public on it. Some 70 percent of the respondents offered an opinion about something that didn't exist.
Molly Ivins: Bush's Economy 'Doing Remarkably [Un]Well'
When Bush took over in 2001, he had predicted a surplus of $516 billion for fiscal year 2006. Last week, the administration announced a 2006 deficit of $248 billion, missing its projection for this year by $764 billion. Bush said the numbers are "proof that pro-growth economic policies work" and are "an example of sound fiscal policies here in Washington."
David K. Johnson: Purging the gays, McCarthy style (advocate.com)
The scapegoating of gay people in light of the scandal surrounding disgraced former congressman Mark Foley is nothing new. It is a tactic honed in the dark days of the Cold War during the McCarthy-led "purge of the perverts."
Larry McDonald: Mary Renault's Trailblazing Gay Fiction (afterelton.com)
James Baldwin. E.M. Forster. John Rechy. Andrew Holleran. Those are some of the names that come to mind when the topic is writers of classic gay fiction. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of another classic gay novel - The Last of the Wine - however this tale of same-sex love in ancient Greece wasn't written by a gay man, but by a woman.
Shauna Swartz: Catie Curtis Reconnects (afterellen.com)
As a teenager she once performed with a traveling theater group that had a run in her hometown in Maine. When the troupe held a yard sale before packing up the van and heading to the next town, one member gave Curtis a leftover guitar for free, asking only that she promise to learn to play. "I felt guilty for the first six months because I didn't learn right away," Curtis says.
Halloween on Beliefnet.com
Dip into Beliefnet's goodie bag--you'll find plenty of tricks and treats in our annual Halloween roundup. And learn why for a surprising number of Americans, magic is serious business.
David Letterman didn't try to hide the fact Oct. 27th that he just plain doesn't like Bill O'Reilly. He wasted no time bashing FOX News and doing what few people can do â€" ridiculing O'Reillys ratings (Letterman's audience is more than 2x as large .) While sparring over Iraq, Letterman interrupted the giant talking head saying he "doesn't care" what Bill has to say. When Bill O, in typical FAUX form, tried to suggest that Dave believes "Bush is an evil liar" and that "America is a bad country" Letterman comes back with the line of the month:
"You're trying to put words in my mouth just the way you put artificial facts in your head."
Sunny and cooler - the wind has died down and the humidity is returning.
Tonight, Monday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a RERUN'The Class', then a RERUN'2½ Men', followed by a RERUN'Old Christine', then a RERUN'CSI: The 2nd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Sacha Baron Cohen and Beck.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Kim Raver, Bob Saget, Deana Carter and Heart.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Deal Or No Deal', followed by a FRESH'Heroes', then a FRESH'Friday Night Lights'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Tim Allen, 8-year-old opera singer Gwyn Mackenzie, and Carrie Underwood.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Charles Barkley and Cat Power.
On a RERUNCarson Daly (from 9/6/06) are Robin Tunney and Craig Shoemaker.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Wife Swap, followed by a FRESH'The Bachelor', then a FRESH'What About Brian'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 9/29/06) are Eva Longoria, Artie Lange, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
The CW offers a FRESH'Everybody Hates Chris', followed by a FRESH'All Of Us', then a FRESH'Girlfriends', followed by a FRESH'The Game'.
Faux has a FRESH'Prison Break', followed by a FRESH'Justice'.
MY has a FRESH'Desire', followed by a FRESH'Fashion House'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', another 'CSI: The 2nd One', still another 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'Gene Simmons', and another 'Gene Simmons'.
AMC offers the movie 'Exorcist', followed by the movie 'Hellraiser', then the movie 'Hellbound: Hellraiser II'.
BBC -
[2:00 pm] As Time Goes By - Episode 8;
[2:40 pm] Are You Being Served - Cold Store;
[3:20 pm] Keeping Up Appearances - Episode 7;
[4:00 pm] The World Stands Up - Episode 20;
[4:30 pm] Footballers Wives Overtime - Episode 1;
[6:00 pm] BBC World News;
[6:30 pm] Masterchef Goes Large - Episode 6;
[7:00 pm] The Benny Hill Show - Episode 26;
[8:00 pm] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 5;
[8:30 pm] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 5;
[9:00 pm] Cracker A New Terror;
[11:00 pm] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 5;
[11:30 pm] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 5;
[12:00 am] The Benny Hill Show - Episode 27;
[1:00 am] Cracker A New Terror;
[3:00 am] Murder Prevention Unit - Episode 1;
[4:00 am] Murder Prevention Unit - Episode 2;
[5:00 am] Murder Prevention Unit - Episode 3;
[6:00 am] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Inside The Actors Studio', 'Six Feet Under', and another 'Six Feet Under'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', an old 'Jon Stewart', an old 'Colbert Report', 'Chappelle's Show', 'South Park', 'Scrubs', and another 'Scrubs'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is LeBron James.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Barry Manilow.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Alien Engineer', 'Engineering An Empire', and 'Lost Worlds'.
IFC -
[07:30 AM] Paper Chasers;
[09:05 AM] Sleep with Me;
[10:35 AM] Nine Queens;
[12:30 PM] Shadow of China;
[02:15 PM] Paper Chasers;
[03:50 PM] Sleep with Me;
[05:20 PM] Nine Queens;
[07:15 PM] Shadow of China;
[09:00 PM] The Ninth Gate;
[11:15 PM] House of 1,000 Corpses;
[12:45 AM] Short: Missing;
[01:00 AM] The Ninth Gate;
[03:15 AM] House of 1,000 Corpses;
[04:45 AM] May. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Thirteen Ghosts', followed by the movie 'Jeepers Creepers'.
Sundance -
[07:45 AM] Foxes;
[09:35 AM] Tapeheads;
[11:10 AM] In Short: Jan Svankmajer;
[12:00 PM] Tom Dowd & the Language of Music;
[01:30 PM] Underdog;
[01:45 PM] Hoover Street Revival;
[03:30 PM] The Yes Men;
[05:00 PM] Within a Play;
[06:30 PM] Tom Dowd & the Language of Music;
[08:00 PM] The Hill: Episode 4: What Should Democrats Be Saying?;
[08:30 PM] House of Boateng: Episode 3;
[09:00 PM] Bowery Dish;
[10:00 PM] Karl Lagerfeld is Never Happy Anyway;
[11:00 PM] Iconoclasts 2: Episode 1: Eddie Vedder on Laird Hamilton;
[11:45 PM] Underdog;
[12:00 AM] The Yes Men;
[01:30 AM] Face (1997);
[03:30 AM] Memento Mori;
[05:15 AM] Bowery Dish. (ALL TIMES EST)
Jon Stewart and staff from Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" fielded questions from Ohio State University students at a special appearance Saturday, but the comedian also had a query of his own.
"A buckeye is a gay acorn, right?" Stewart asked about 12,000 people gathered at Value City Arena.
The topic turned to politics, with Stewart being asked if he would be disappointed when resident Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld left office and no longer provided fodder for the comedian's act.
"No," he said bluntly, then launched into his impression of Cheney.
Michael J. Fox laughed off criticism of his appearance in recent political ads in support of embryonic stem cell research, but said his mother was not as amused.
Fox, who has Parkinson's disease, said his mother, Phyllis, was with him when he shot the ads and knew that he "was struggling to stay still. Because I truly wanted to stay still. It's more comfortable. It's not comfortable to be moving around."
Fox, who supports embryonic stem cell research as a possible cure for Parkinson's, drew some conservative republican criticism after a Missouri ad began running during the World Series. It showed Fox visibly shaking while urging viewers to vote yes for stem-cell research and for a Democratic Senate candidate over the Republican incumbent.
From the front lines of Iraq and Afghanistan to here at home, soldiers blogging about military life are under the watchful eye of some of their own.
A Virginia-based operation, the Army Web Risk Assessment Cell, monitors official and unofficial blogs and other Web sites for anything that may compromise security. The team scans for official documents, personal contact information and pictures of weapons or entrances to camps.
The oversight mission, made up of active-duty soldiers and contractors, as well as Guard and Reserve members from Maryland, Texas and Washington state, began in 2002 and was expanded in August 2005 to include sites in the public domain, including blogs.
The Army will not disclose the methods or tools being used to find and monitor the sites. Nor will it reveal the size of the operation or the contractors involved. The Defense Department has a similar program, the Joint Web Risk Assessment Cell, but the Army program is apparently the only operation that monitors nonmilitary sites.
Cabaret, the musical set in Weimar Germany that made Liza Minelli a star, has opened at France's most famous nude revue in one of this year's most heavily hyped theatrical productions.
The French language version of the Broadway show transforms the Folies Bergere, a venue famous for its revealing numbers since the 19th century, into a heavily stylised version of a 1930s Berlin bar.
The production, designed by British theater director Sam Mendes, relies more on suggestion than actual nudity to create its effect but there is a heavy emphasis on seduction and glitz.
Music producer Clive Davis, left, and musician Barry Manilow arrive at the 17th Carousel of Hope Ball benefiting the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2006.
Photo by Matt Sayles
Don't feel like standing in line on Election Day? In Denver, you can get a limo ride to the polls if you take advantage of early voting Saturday.
Fearing that new voting machines, new voting centers and a ballot full of measures could create gridlock Nov. 7, a coalition of advocacy groups is offering door-to-door service to the city's six new voting centers.
"We're expecting a lot of confusion, voter fatigue and, because of the long ballot, we're expecting long lines on Election Day," Lindsey Hodel, a spokeswoman for the limo effort, said Friday.
Michael Jackson will make a rare public appearance at the World Music Awards in London next month, organizers announced Sunday.
The reclusive king of pop will receive a Diamond Award, given to artists who sell more than 100 million albums, at the industry ceremony on Nov. 15.
The World Music Awards were held in Monaco for 15 years before moving to the United States in 2004 and 2005. This year's event at London's Earls Court Arena is to be hosted by Lindsay Lohan, with performances from Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Katie Melua and Andrea Bocelli.
Actors Hugh Jackman (R) and Kate Winslet slide down a large inflatable toilet slide for the premiere of the animated feature 'Flushed Away' in New York City October 29, 2006.
Photo by Lucas Jackson
The setting was California, but Georgia was on the minds of virtually all at the Museum of Television & Radio, as Dixie Carter, Jean Smart, Annie Potts and Delta Burke - the original stars of the sitcom "Designing Women" - gathered for a tribute to the show.
Airing on CBS from 1986-93, "Designing Women" followed the full lives of four Atlanta interior designers. Thanks to reruns, the show has rarely left the airwaves.
"Well, it was really funny," noted Smart. "And I've said this in every interview and it never seems to end up in print, but (show creator) Linda Bloodworth was writing for sitcoms what no one else was doing anything like... And I'm not sure if she ever got the credit for it that she deserved. She was pretty amazing and ahead of her time."
A folk artist holds up a display of mini 'Maohou', a kind of Chinese folk art made from cicada slough and other Chinese medicine, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province, October 28, 2006.
Guinness, the dark Irish drink known as the "black stuff", could soon be turning red.
Manufacturer Diageo plans to produce a version at its Irish brewery using lightly roasted barley, which will have a reddish colour, and give it a trial run across the Irish Sea in Britain.
Diageo plans to test Guinness Red on drinkers in British pubs in the coming months but has no plans to launch it more widely, either at home in Ireland or in about 150 other countries where Guinness is sold.
Visitors walk by 'The artist who swallowed the world when it was still a disc', a resin, acrylic and fabric sculpture by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm, which is presented at the 33rd International Contempory Art Fair (FIAC) at the Grand Palais museum in Paris, October 29, 2006.
Photo by Regis Duvignau
The original version of the plastic flamingo may be singing its swan song after inspiring countless pranks - and being alternately celebrated as a tribute to one of nature's most graceful creatures and derided as the epitome of American pop culture kitsch.
Union Products Inc. stopped producing flamingos and other lawn ornaments at its Leominster factory in June, and is going out of business Nov. 1 - a victim of rising expenses for plastic resin and electricity, as well financing problems.
The small privately held firm has been in talks with a pair of rival lawn ornament makers interested in buying the molds and resuming production of the flamingos, designed in 1957 by local son Don Featherstone.
Other companies' knockoff versions of the Featherstone original remain in production. But the uncertainty surrounding the original has aficionados of kitsch snapping up what they can via the online auction site eBay and elsewhere in case Featherstone versions go out of stock for good.
Songwriter Marijohn Wilkin, who co-wrote the classic ballad "Long Black Veil" and other hits, died at her Nashville home at age 86.
In addition to penning hit songs over a career that began in the 1950s, Wilkin recorded as a backup singer and founded Buckhorn Music publishers, where Kris Kristofferson got his songwriting start in 1965.
Wilkin's songs were performed by stars including Johnny Cash, The Beatles, Patsy Cline and Rod Stewart. She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975.
Wilkin was born in Kemp, Texas and worked as a music teacher after college. She began her writing and performing career in Springfield, Missouri, then moved to Nashville where she and John Loudermilk wrote "Waterloo," which topped both country and pop charts in 1959.
"Long Black Veil" was co-written with Danny Dill in 1959. Honky-tonk singer Lefty Frizzell recorded the song within days of it being written and it was a top-10 single.
A pop hit, "Cut Across Shorty," recorded by both Eddie Cochran and Carl Smith in 1960, was revived by rocker Rod Stewart in 1970 and again in 1993.
After a religious conversion in the 1970s, she and Kristofferson wrote the enduring gospel favorite "One Day at a Time," and she devoted her songwriting to gospel music. Her 1978 autobiography is called "Lord Let Me Leave a Song."
Two two-month-old lion cubs enjoy for the first time their outdoor enclosure in the Tierpark Hagenbek Zoo in the northern German city of Hamburg October 12, 2006.
Photo by Morris Mac Matzen
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David Letterman didn't try to hide the fact Oct. 27th that he just plain doesn't like Bill O'Reilly. He wasted no time bashing FOX News and doing what few people can do â€" ridiculing O'Reillys ratings (Letterman's audience is more than 2x as large .) While sparring over Iraq, Letterman interrupted the giant talking head saying he "doesn't care" what Bill has to say. When Bill O, in typical FAUX form, tried to suggest that Dave believes "Bush is an evil liar" and that "America is a bad country" Letterman comes back with the line of the month:
