So now it's "All Schiavo, All The Time" in the corporate media. A brain dead 24 hour news cycle obsessed with a brain dead woman and the brain dead people who want to keep her shell alive. The Republican machinations to pump up their brain dead base using Terry Schiavo's undead body borders on the criminal while the Democrats, too cowed or too complacent, twiddle their thumbs and wait for the subject to turn back to Social Security.

Well, execept for one Democrat. When the Republican's were putting their bill on the midnight train though Congress we were treated to the delicious irony of Barney Frank, an openly gay Democrat, standing up to denounce the bill, a bill that tries to abrogate the rights of a married man. The fact that a gay man stood up to defend marriage, an institution to which he is not entitled, is even stranger than the fact that he belongs to a party whose tepid "civil unions" stance on gay marriage is even now being quietly shunted into political limbo.

Meanwhile the world moves on; Schiavo or no Schiavo. Anti-war protests from coast to coast and around the world barely registered a blip on the national media's radar. More attention was paid to grandmaster chess champion and paranoid loon Bobby Fisher's immigration to Iceland than to the hundreds of thousands of relatively sane people who turned out to protest an insane war.

The only other story vying for media attention is straight from the "if it bleeds, it leads" file. In Red Lake, Minnesota, another teenager went on another shooting rampage and managed to dent the Schiavo obsessed press for awhile. But don't hold your breath waiting for any meaningful reporting on it. Not while a Schiavo remains uninterviewed. You might wind up in a coma.

It looks like I hit the post same time as Alan. Well, almost first. :roll:

Gotta Love Those Fundamentalists Right To Lifers!

Man Arrested trying to hold up Gun hop with Box Cutter wanting to Steal Guns to Free Mrs. Schiavo!

Main Judge, and other Judges Lives Threatened! Main Judge has to Resign From His 'Church'!

Reported a short time ago on ABC News, Man Arrested after putting out a 250,000 Dollar Bounty on Mr Schiavo's Head!

These are only a Few from the Right To Life Religious WingNuts who Oppose 'Choice', Love the 'Death Penalty', have No Problem Killing and Maiming Tens Of Thousands in Conflicts Calling them 'Colateral Damage'!!!

And Ohhhhhhh Sooooo Much More!!!!

Jim

Pete, I wasn't sure if you were down because of Unfiltered getting cancelled?

It does suck thought that it's being cancelled.

Hullo, fellow bloggers all!

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Well, almost first.
Posted by snonli on 03/26 at 06:02 PM

Eh. Call it a tie.

How long did Clinton wait to talk about Columbine?? I bet he talked about it later that day..oh but I forgot he's evil.

I am so sick of people on the right saying things like "Does the left hate Bush so much they are cheering on the death of Terry Schaivo because it isn't what Bush wants"
Its like they TOTALLY forgot about the hatred of Clinton--how the right was cheering on HIS death when he had heart surgery. Rush said he didn't die because there was no room in Hell.

Hi Pete,
Here's a link for some Articles on and from Ft Bragg as well as pic links:
http://www.ncpeacejustice.org/article.php?list=type&type=9

Jim

I sure wish theyÂ’d give Rachel 6 hours on the weekends to help fill that wasteland!!!

p smile
Posted by petemoon on 03/26 at 08:13 PM

I could just picture the promos: It's Smart Lesbian weekends on Air America Radio. ;-)

Springer is supposed to be doing a dem liberal show now for radio. The show already runs on some crap channel stations but it will be getting picked up on other AAR affiliates.

Air America Place just got trolled by someone at a computer in the US Immigration Service IT department.

OrgName: U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
OrgID: UINS
Address: Data Communications Section (HQTCM)
Address: Room 4206
Address: 425 I Street, NW
City: Washington
StateProv: DC
PostalCode: 20536
Country: US

If the producer is here, how many of the AAR affiliates carry Laura's show? I figured that since it is on weekends and there is little other live programming on that it might do better than some of the weekday shows.

Here's what I've done so far: I started working for Gov./Dr. Dean during the primaries (hosting Meetups, etc.). I have since joined the Pasco County,FL Democratic Executive Committee (yes, I live in the midst of the Schiavo debacle), was appointed a Precinct Committeewoman (I'm responsible for Prescinct 116, though I don't really know yet what that entails!), and I'm on the P.R. and Campaign committees.

Posted by ZoWie on 03/26 at 06:20 PM

Trolled how?

"Supported by your tax dollars!"

Posted a number of real hard-core KoolAid (tm) rants on peaceniks, Michael Moore, old hippies, Jane Fonda, and how we lost the war in Viet Nam because Kerry's Winter Soldier protest gave the enemy the will to keep fighting.

The usual stuff. Notable mostly for its source.

eya pete

which thread are u on at AAP?

Oh, and I forgot, the usual depiction of Clinton as the Antichrist, complete with references to his whang.

Laura asked whether anyone had spoken productively about what a just law might do in a Schiavo-like situation: see this fantastic article on Slate. The following was a really moving, surprising, and challenging piece:
because the fact is that we as a society and as individuals are always making decisions to protect some people and leave others to suffer, the author makes a case for keeping Schaivo complex while still hating the cynical and exploitative politics around it.

Not Dead at All: Why Congress was right to stick up for Terri Schiavo.
By Harriet McBryde Johnson
Posted Wednesday, March 23, 2005.
http://www.slate.com/id/2115208/

Maybe it was the same guy who called Laura last week. Remember that jerk.

What I'm about to say is NOT meant to be at ALL insensitive to Ms. SCHIAVO's predicament, nor the Already FEEDING Tube Deprived Baby, Sun HUDSON, for that matter, BUT, FASTING Self Depriving of (some) food for RELIGIOUS Purposes, IS A well-KNOWN REligious Practice, from Buddhism to BA'HAI, to Catholicism, to Protestantism, to Hinduism, all the way to ZORASTRAINISM, Fasting, this practice IS Accepted, worldwide, deprivation of one's food(Closely MONITERED, OF COURSE, by Health ProfessionalS, as POLITICAL Fasts{Dick GREGORY, a Former Guest on Laura's show, etcetera]should be as well), this IS a RELIGIOUSLY Driven Practice, throughout history!

FASTING also can be highly effective for nHEALTH reasons, to cleanse one's body of TOXICITY, for the Very SHORT TERM< only, of course, and to sometimes reverse the bodily imbalances that can cause conditions like DIABETES(Fasting, HAS helped me with this condition, etcetera), by restoring the Body's METABOLOC IMBALANCES, BACK INTO a More Balanced State, AGAIN.

E.G., WIKEPEDIA online, describes the HINDUIST Religious fast, Performed on the hindu HOLY DAY of "Ekadasi(the 11th day of each lunar fortnight) as being, IF observed strictly{and again ALWAYS have Health ProfessionalS Monitoring orr READY to Monitor you condition, if you choose to fast for a day or more, especially]. t

This EKADASI fast, "Involves taking no food or water from the previous day's sunset until 48 minutes after the following day's sunrise." (Source-Wikepedia, at URL Address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fasting )

Thanks for posting those pics of that march jimstaro. I hate how the right always paints that only "crazy hippies" go against the war, but now there's proof of veterans as well as citizens and soliders that agree that this war is wrong.Makes me feel better about this country. :-)

I keep flashing back to the 2000 debates when Shrub was talking about how many death warrants heÂ’d signed in Texas. He kept looking like he was waiting for a pat on the head. Ugh!

Posted by AlanSmithee04 on 03/26 at 08:20 PM
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Funny You Should Mention That Allan, He Don't Look For Pats, Check It Out! [A Friend posted this on a Board a few hours ago!!!

Bush rubs it- Pics > Genuinely disturbing
http://warnet.ws/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1110928890&archive=...

Oh I almost forgot to congratulate AAR for it's upcoming 1year anniversary. Here's to many more years of progressive radio and shutting down the mainstream media's conseverative bias. :cheese:

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it sounds like a strongly worded e-mail to ImmigrationÂ’s IT department head is in order.

Posted by AlanSmithee04 on 03/26 at 08:33 PM
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Oh, yeah. F**k with the Feds. ThereÂ’s a GREAT idea!!!!! big surprise

p smile big surprise
Posted by petemoon on 03/26 at 08:41 PM

Heck, they will probably just start an FBI file on you (if they haven't already).

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you. :zip:

It's in the Miami Herald - of course they make you register.

that part of the brain that Ann Coulter appeals toÂ…
Posted by MarkinVT on 03/26 at 08:44 PM

I don't think Ann Coulter can appeal to people who think with their brains unles they're reptillian ones. :cheese:

--that part of the brain that Ann Coulter appeals toÂ…
Posted by MarkinVT on 03/26 at 08:44 PM

That must be the part were the gag reflex resides. :cheese:

Howdy doodlie doo - all.

Just look at the www.democrats.org website. what resonates there? It's all broad-brush stuff. All distant and third-person talk. Not that www.GOP.com is better. But that's the point. There is such a missed opportunity.

Lets try that one again:
Bush rubs it- Pics > Genuinely disturbing

http://warnet.ws/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1110928890&archive=...

2 things--maybe it was just as well that most Democrats in DC didnÂ’t comment on the Schiavo case because theyÂ’re letting the Repugs dig their own hole? Just a thought.

It is an intriguing thought, but the history of capitulation on the part of many dems (not to mention co-opting the rethugs playbook--think Lieberman)leads me to believe that it is another bit cowardice.

I am, however, somewhat optimistic of the Dems on SS.

What I did hear was that Tom Harkin had sided with the save Terri movement because he works with some or several disability rights groups and felt that this could have consequences for them. Harkin's usually better than that.
Say, this caller is saying what I just said about Dems clamming up on this issue being a good thing.
:coolsmile:

Has anyone heard anything about the amount of ss payments that have been lost due to job outsourcing?

Just curious

I just heard that Laura's going to go on Fox News. Does she regulary go on there? Anyway if she does can someone tell me when she goes on, I want to see her tell the cold hard facts against those Fox talking heads.

maybe it was just as well that most Democrats in DC didnÂ’t comment on the Schiavo case because theyÂ’re letting the Repugs dig their own hole?

Posted by snarlah on 03/26 at 06:41 PM

I wish that were true, Carla. Unfortunately, the Repugs playing to their base isn't going to hurt them much, no matter what the polls say. On the Dem side, well, it wouldn't look to kick up a ruckus about Schiavo while the dem leadership is trying to quietly drop their pro-choice position at the same time.

Actually you should call him Dr. "Cat killer" Frist. His diagnosis was probably as accurate as John Edwards (the talk show host, not the senator).

Oh yes, let me join the chorus here on congratulating AAR. There is something in each program that I can appreciate. Thank you!!

As so many have said already, they are the pint of water in that arid desert. (Hopefully it will be a gallon before long.)

Is that you, in the tan cap with the blue bill???

I saw you several times throughout the day, but, didn’t come up and ask if were Jim ‘cause there was no sign on your back, and I thought that was how I was supposed to find you.
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Nope, Wearing a Black Cap with VFP on it and Peace Dove, if you go to that one link of Dianes and on the Second Page down I'm Partially Obscured by my VFP Flag at the Right of the Pic!!!

Jim

Posted by jimstaro on 03/26 at 06:51 PM

Sorry, I keep getting a Russian site.

OK, Laura;
I have a number of 3x5 cards in my purse on which I have attached copies of questions and answers that I got from the Demopratic Party about Social Security. I use them and their facts to answer any questions I am asked about Social Security. We could all do something like this. Especially since I don't watch the network news either.

I go to that site and see pictures of Russian women and album covers and some weird picture of a sumo wrestler.