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Monday, July 16, 2007 04:18 PM
Original article: Goodbye to Audiofile

Daily Blogs

You are obviously too busy to write a daily column. (Jab)

I could care less about audiofile, really. What I do care about is the Constitution. Please run articles that explain the uses the framers of that document meant for impeachment.

You are the new media. You are now in the unenviable position of having to balance the MSM's deraliction of duty. When the Executive Branch and the Congress fail to address the misuse of power and the breaking of laws by our leaders, you, the honest journalists have to pick up the mantle.

The men who created our government expected the press to expose this kind of lawlessness. Impeachment is not a dirty word and cannot legally be left off the table by the Congress. It is in the Constitution six times. It is the ONLY way we can reclaim our democracy from these monarchical ideologes.

We, the people, demand to know why these men, even when everyone knows they have broken our laws, continue to get away with it.

As John From Cincinnati would say, "I got my eye on you, Joan!"

Friday, July 20, 2007 09:49 AM

"Their wrongdoing is extreme, and only equally extreme corrective measures will suffice."

You can say it, you must say it: Impeachment

Wednesday, July 25, 2007 07:55 AM

Democracy NOT

Though I like totally agree, the NYT's has it's collective head in the sand or up it's collective corporate colon--the YouTube Debate was the same kind of fraud that YouTube itself is. (I have an account on YouTube) Neither is democratic, both are corporate controlled, both use predominantly sex to amass viewers and both pretend they allow the "people" decide what is seen.

It was CNN that decided which of the 3000+ questions were used and how they were used (incredibly poorly for something scripted as John Stewart easily satirized).

These are not debates. They are question and answer shows that seldom give us anything substantive. These are the parties’ and the media corporations’ creations and do us very little good.

Tuesday, August 7, 2007 07:46 PM
Original article: Art movies: R.I.P.

Camille

First, I couldn't read anything but the title, I do so Not enjoy her writing and for the life of me cannot figure out why she is here.

Second, the medium of moving pictures is changing much faster than she can recognize, her Professordome seems only to insulate her from those changes. Art movies are not the least bit dead, in fact they are growing asymptotically.

If Camille is here because she is edgy, is that really something this venue needs? Wars, healthcare, Corporationism, etc. are all the edge I need, thank you.

Thursday, September 20, 2007 02:27 PM
Original article: Hey, senators, condemn this

Dead Soldiers' Bodies

The bodies should be stacked in front of Congress so they would have to see what they pay our money for.

Saturday, September 29, 2007 10:40 PM

The Future

We don't know what we don't know. The future's not ours to see, que Sera Sera, no matter how smart we think we are or how smart someone else seems to be. Since we will all soon die, nothing is really all that dangerous. Since I know I am wrong about everything, it makes it much easier to not believe anyone else.

The future is a waste of now. Rosy that.

Friday, December 21, 2007 08:41 AM

Watch For Parking Meters

In a Representative Democracy we elect "Representatives" not leaders. They are supposed to represent their constituents’ desires and not "lead" them to their own.

Most of us are now aware of who congress actually represents.

Like John Edwards says, to really change things will take a war (actually just the continuation of our country's long history of battling those who would pervert the Constitution and take the power it guarantees American citizens..

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:43 AM
Original article: CNN's John King responds

John King

My opinion of John King was solidified when he appeared on The Daily Show. He will never be fired for saying anything his trainers object to. He will never, ever have an Imus moment—because he will never be hired as a journalist by anyone but a media conglomerate corporation.

King is to journalism what margarine is to dairy products; it looks similar and appears when the real thing should appear, but it just is not made from the real stuff.

Friday, January 25, 2008 09:26 AM

Bill

Depression has filled our home. I am having a hard time watching John Edwards be ignored when we really need his vision and clarity about corporations and their lobbyists. Believe me, I am with John Lennon when he pointed out that women are the nigers of the world, but I cannot listen to Hillary. My animal male brain just recoils from her voice.

But my wife is so disappointed with Bill. She is depressed by his willingness to do or say anything to get back in power.

I am not sure anything or anyone can stop this country from disintegrating, but we should give it a try and Bill and Hillary evidently will do and say anything to keep the game theirs.

Bill Clinton's ability to twist anything anyone says is amazing and terrible. Hopefully it will not work.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 04:04 PM

Cal E For KNEE YA

Come senators, congressmen

Please heed the call

Don't stand in the doorway

Don't block up the hall

For he that gets hurt

Will be he who has stalled

There's a battle outside

And it is ragin'.

It'll soon shake your windows

And rattle your walls

For the times they are a-changin'--Bob Dylan

That now includes journalists.

I am 59 and still young enough to feel the wind

Californians watch national TV, they are not immune

Thursday, March 6, 2008 12:42 PM

How She Won

Soft sell: SNL and The Daily Show media blitz

Hard sell: The Canada NAFTA story, still unfolding, was lied about. That was a BIG deal in Ohio.

Why she will lose it: She had been running for Prez since she started running for the Senate. She voted against the interests of her party and positioned herself as a hawk for the general election.

I believe many Democrats feel the way I do; we felt sorry for her before last Tuesday--having run into a much better candidate with a real message of change and hope. But after the last two weeks of Rovian politics we are no longer sorry for her, we are disgusted with her. She has divided us to win. If she wins we lose.

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