let the return of Rachel be hailed with much celebrating and well mixed cocktails!

"You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one."
-John Lennon

I couldn't have missed you more on the radio, but figured out how to podcast Countdown for my morning walk! You were great on TV and I hope you do more TV. I just hope you can do your own format some day.

I can't wait to listen to you on the radio!!

"Deja Moo" - the feeling you've heard this bullsh*t before - read it on a beer cap

Welcome back Rachel! Loved you on the t.v. machine, but missed you on the radio!
--Lexie

Air America hasn't worked all week for me. I listen to novam all day now anyway since Sam is gone and Rachel wasn't here, so it wasn't an issue. Only missed the Clout Monday Power of Now webinar show which I'm quite surprised to have found wonderful! I hadn't listened to Clout at all before. There was a time though, when streaming problems were tragic! Now, not so much....sigh.

go to

http://streamingradioguide.com/radio-show.php?show=1519

Yay finally working on iTunes again...

" This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper. "

The Hollow Men- T.S. Eliot

sorry, raging lit nerd. correcting quotes is almost completely reflexive.

"You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one."
-John Lennon

Go cling to some GOD and GUNS!!!

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

- William Hazlitt 1778-1830

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

Ignorance is the mother of Devotion: A maxim that is proverbial, and confirmed by general experience. Look out for a people, entirely destitute of affirmation rituals. If you find them at all, be assured, that they are but few degrees removed from brutes.

Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small, that it scarcely admits of calculation.

Commerce, therefore, in my opinion, is apt to decay in absolute governments, not because it is there less secure, but because it is less honourable.

Here am I who have written on all sorts of subjects calculated to excite hostility, moral, political, and religious, and yet I have no enemies — except, indeed, all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

- David Hume

Do you still believe that the UBL OCTOBER SURPRISE NEW & "IMPROVED" PEARL HARBOR is a fantastic ALARMIST FANTASY, really?!!!

The stage is set for the COUPE that Smedly Butler thwarted!!!

In 1933, Marine Corps Maj.-Gen. Smedley Butler was approached by a wealthy and secretive group of industrialists and bankers, including Prescott Bush the current President's grandfather, who asked him to command a 500,000 strong rogue army of veterans that would help stage a coup to topple then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

www.snipr.com/2zsv4 aka prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/240707fascistcoup.htm

WHY, you ask? Because the Federal appeals court upholds indefinite detention ...

Circuit Judge Traxler, the only judge to vote with the majority on both determinations, outlined the 216 page per curiam opinion Tuesday, finding by a vote of 5-4 that the President is empowered by Congress to hold anybody anywhere in a military prison without charge...

www.snipr.com/2zsx9 aka jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/07/federal-appeals-court-upholds.php

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/16/headlines#1

www.snipr.com/2zsxu aka news.google.com/news?q=4th+U.S.+Circuit+Court+of+Appeals&sourceid=opera&num=75&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

NOTE:
Clinton POTUS 42 appointee Traxler wrote in his questionnaire to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee during his nomination process to the U.S. District Court in 1992 that his only previous political involvement had included distributing leaflets and putting up signs for Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond during Thurmond's 1972 and 1978 re-election campaigns.

So who's in charge? The Carlyle Group via CFR dummy!!!!!!!

Go to the video tape: www.snipr.com/2zswq aka informationclearinghouse.info/article3995.htm
www.youtube.com/v/XR9SfkVEf5o
www.youtube.com/v/pWfcZI3qALw
www.youtube.com/v/LrH_yQdutgo
www.youtube.com/v/XtsW1u2nBFs
www.youtube.com/v/uEOVIUHhNQ8
www.youtube.com/v/NWlgPtUbUU8
www.youtube.com/v/KZ9h5zbLDD4
www.youtube.com/v/1aOlKJxtVXo

www.snipr.com/NORADonEmergncyAlert
www.snipr.com/VPshootDownAuthority
www.snipr.com/gbSarasotaElementary
www.snipr.com/2001CurvebalDebunked

Just thank the DEMS for their invertebrate silence:

On Monday, Jan. 25, 2008, President Bush released a signing statement claiming the right to violate four sections of H.R. 4986, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, which he had just signed into law. These four sections: 841, 846, 1079, and 1222, Bush announced, would be "construed" in a manner "consistent with the constitutional authority of the President."

Among the measures Bush's latest signing statement declares the right to violate are: the establishment of a commission to investigate U.S. contractor fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan, the expansion of whistleblower protections, a requirement that U.S. intelligence agencies respond to congressional requests for documents, a ban on funding permanent bases in Iraq, and a ban on funding any actions that exercise U.S. control over Iraq's oil money.
www.snipr.com/2zsvy aka unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3841

The PD-51 directive specifies that, following such an emergency, an "Enduring Constitutional Government," comprising "a cooperative effort among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government," coordinated by the President of the United States, will take the place of the nation's regular government, presumably without the oversight of Congress.[4] Conservative activist Jerome Corsi and Marjorie Cohn of the National Lawyers Guild have interpreted this as a break from Constitutional law in that the three branches of government are equal, with no single branch coordinating the others.[5][6] The directive specifies that the president has the power to declare a catastrophic emergency and does not specify who has the power to declare said emergency over.

The directive further stipulates that, in the case of such an emergency, the new position of "National Continuity Coordinator" would be filled by the assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
www.snipr.com/NationalContinuity

AAR: Joining us in the first hour, eminent constitutional and international law expert Bruce Fein, to continue our investigation into the nefarious power-grab of Bush's "Directive 51," which he calls "the most important issue confronting the country." Listen here:
http://airamerica.com/clout/node/203

National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive May 9, 2007

www.snipr.com/2zsyk aka whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html

NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/NSPD 51

HOMELAND SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/HSPD-20

Subject: National Continuity Policy

Purpose

(1) This directive establishes a comprehensive national policy on the continuity of Federal Government structures and operations and a single National Continuity Coordinator responsible for

... As a result of the asymmetric threat environment, adequate warning of potential emergencies that could pose a significant risk to the homeland might not be available, and therefore all continuity planning shall be based on the assumption that no such warning will be received. ...

... Provision must be made for the availability and redundancy of critical communications capabilities ...

(16) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall:

(g) Make available continuity planning and exercise funding, in the form of ... private sector critical infrastructure owners and operators; and

(h) As Executive Agent of the National Communications System, develop, implement, and maintain a comprehensive continuity communications architecture.

(22) Revocation. Presidential Decision Directive 67 of October 21, 1998 ("Enduring Constitutional Government and Continuity of Government Operations"), including all Annexes thereto, is hereby revoked.

(23) Annex A and the classified Continuity Annexes, attached hereto, are hereby incorporated into and made a part of this directive.

(24) Security. This directive and the information contained herein shall be protected from unauthorized disclosure, provided that, except for Annex A, the Annexes attached to this directive are classified and shall be accorded appropriate handling, consistent with applicable Executive Orders.

“Naturally the common people don’t want war. But after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.”

-- Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Hitler’s Reich Marshall, at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II (18 April 1946)

Maybe Rachael Maddow can tell Keith Olbermann that the word 'library' (lī'brĕr'ē) has two Rs in it, not one. He says 'libary'.

She's actually talking and interviewing people, not taking calls and vomiting sunshine. How odd, not like the weekday version of The David Bender Show at all... but I think I like it. :)

I actually got to see Rachel on Countdown Tues. - it really made me smile to see her friendly, handsome face there - & I loved that she made those off camera laugh - & more than once = )

Love it when that 4th wall comes down.....

But I'm a bit concerned that if/when she DOES get a TV show, will her radio show go away? I much prefer radio to TV for my broadcast news/info.

I've already emailed a friend in Germany inquiring if it's a national holiday.

:cheese:

...Rachel Maddow for Vice President!!! This after catching up on my 7/16 TRMS and Countdown podcasts.

Come on, Rachel; you'd lend the rôle some dignity. It wouldn't have to be all fundraising, all the time. Think of the informational transparency you could create for the deeds of the last eight years. You could set 'em up, and the international war crimes tribunal at the Hague could knock 'em down. You'd be such an asset to Obama--you make every decent human being you talk with look/sound good.