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Ralph Nader… that was wasn’t allowed to deabte…  will be your DJ

Enjoy some pretty good Cuban music.. in honor of the election

http://www.batanga.com/es/artists/cubanismo

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Kinda Like Cuba…Cept Different

Ask the Cubans in Miami how they enjoyed CHANGE several decades ago when they fled to the states.

Their property and businesses were re-distrubuted by a fresh new candidate bringing CHANGE.

And here’s the latest shocker from Fidel Obama…

Civilian National Security Force?   WTF… I had missed that one… Welcome to Cuba

Or maybe Chavez in Venezuela?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s

And of course this particular brand of change will let me be more enlightened by reading “Steven Has Two Daddies”

Then there’s  the surrounding cast members…

Nancy Pelosi and the “Fairness Doctrine”?  Really?

O, and you remember Janet Reno…. Ruby Ridge?  Waco?

Elian Gonzalez?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%C3%A1n_Gonz%C3%A1lez

Extracted at machine gun point… Nice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgaacrxsS4c

And then there will be… Gay Weddings…. O yeah…. Good times.

All 50 states…

And then there was Joycelyn Elders…

Howard Dean… and then we’re goin to Dallas, and then we’re goin to Denver… BeeYeaaaaaaahaaaah!!!

What else…

Legalized drugs?… Open Borders?…  New World Order?…

So… Good TImes… Vote for Jimmy Carter…. and get ready for Cuba…

O, and he won’t tax your broke azz…  At $250,000, he will tax your boss’ boss.

So the jobs… will dry right up…

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The Stink in Farts Controls Bloodpressure…

Hydrogen Sulfide…  I always thought I gave off methane… haha.   This evidently is given off by cells in your blood vessels… which helps relax them and lowers blood pressure…  interesting…to see where this leads…

http://www.livescience.com/health/081023-farts-blood-pressure.html

Now I can feel better about a big “paint peeler” fart….  Just lowering my blood pressure… the old fashioned way.

Props to Edythemighty for the scoop on this one.

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Nancy Pelosi on Charlie Rose 10/16/08

Very interesting but I went off to sleep on it.   This is a good one to check out the podcast if it comes to

http://charlierose.com

Nancy outlines some of the timeline of recent Bailout plan events.

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The New Wall St Bailout… I Mean Ressscue.

Now it’s sweetened with pork barrel spending.

Wooden arrows for children?  Race Track?  Rum in Puerto Rico?

And something about investments in American Samoa?

Oh and don’t forget… Buffet invested $5 Billion in what’s left of

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I guess the phone calls and emails weren’t plentiful enough Monday?

Here are representatives on the fence.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/financial_meltdown

Credit to Savage website for referencing these links.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10022008/news/nationalnews/piggy_pols_in_hog_heaven_with_pork_packe_131770.htm

http://www.taxpayer.net/resources.php?category=&type=Project&proj_id=1429&action=Headlines%20By%20TCS

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Warren Buffet on Charlie Rose 10/01/08… Hmmm

Ok, Secretary of the Treasury Paulson… former CEO at Goldman Sachs…K

Warren Buffet just made a $5 Billion dollar investment in what’s left of Goldman Sachs… hmmm … K

Charlie and Warren yucked it up with Warren’s message seeming to be that Congress better hurry up and pass that bailout (which $700 Billion might be too small) or credit and market confidence was gonna dry right up.

Hmm,  The Dow was up about 500 Tuesday and only down like 19 Wednesday.

The markets seem relatively calm given all that we’ve been through.

I’m still leaning toward… those that made poor investments in various risky financial instruments, and things related to risky mortgage lending practices, should accept their losses with their wins.

And… some investment banks were allowed to accept their losses and collapse…  hmmm

Now then Senate has added inducements to pass the Bailout Bill (I mean rescue…) of Goldman Sachs?

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Charlie Rose 9 29… Charlie, We Aren’t That Dumb

First the audio feed was off and I just had to close my eyes to just listen to the audio.   Then, Charlie just acted as if he had no clue about the content of the defeated Bailout Bill HR 3997

What oversight?  You mean the Fed Chairman, SEC and HUD secretary?

You didn’t mention that Paulson coulda bought securities of any kind, foreign or domestic.

Umm Charlie, there wasn’t even a compensation cap on Golde Parachutes… just a 20% tax.

Really?  How come you didn’t ask any details Charlie?

Charlie, we expect better from you.

And further more, it was all hype on how we better hurry and pass something.   With NO evidence of any kind to support that.

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AIG Bailout

Now AIG is in trouble and will be bailed out.

Lehman Brothers allowed to fail into bankruptcy but Bear Stearns was bailed out… AIG , Freedie Mac and Fannie Mae were bailed out…

Ummm when do we hear about how there will be congressional hearings to see who made money on these situations?  Yep, there needs to be some hearings…

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Charlie Rose 9 15 Lehman Brothers

Black Monday or 9/15.  Lehman Brothers… one of the five big investment banks was allowed to go into Chapter 11 bankruptcy when just recently Bear Stearns was bailed out as were Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac… Hmmm

The ad for careers at Lehman Brothers is still up…  odd

http://www.lehman.com/careers/workatlehman/index.htm

At any rate, the Charlie Rose show led off with Lawrence Summers, former FED secretary and now a professor at Harvard.  He looked kinda like a recent William Shatner and sounded kinda like Bill Gates.  I was bored to tears and was glad this dude wasnt currently in charge of anything.  Charlie looked equally bored.

Charlie also had on the worst blue pin striped suit ever.

The second half was finally the good interviews on what happened.  Nouriel Roubini was very sharp albiet “right to the point” about how bad things are and that it’s about more bad investments that just home mortgages.

http://www.charlierose.com/guests/lawrence-summers

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McCain Picks Palin as Running Mate

Not Michael Palin from Monty Python…  Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

Savage was convinced on Friday that McCain and/or his handlers were trying to throw the election.   One bad move after another.  Her lack of experience was cited as making the “electablity” of this ticket weak.

Others have cited her stands on other issues as a plus.   We will see…

More to come as this unfolds.

***  Now the 17 year old daughter is unmarried and 5 months pregnant, but is gonna marry the boy.  Drama?

You just know she is gonna be on The View at some point.  The word “vetting” keeps coming up and with any more “unknown” information or oops…  Then we are back to McCain’s judgement.

But, please…that was lost when he wouldn’t make a commitment to even try to return the invaders… even the incarcerated ones…

So, this will end up as some “who is least liberal?” race.

And NONE of the media… (Not even Savage) is giving Nader a fair shake.   Please, this is a race FULL of novices now.

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Charlie Rose… Bear Stearns… and You

Firstly, I had a terrible day, but not as bad as Charlie..who was sporting a black eye on the left side. His comment was that he tripped and fell on the pavement. Yikes.

He did a show on how over the weekend JPMorganChase has agreed to buy a failing BearStearns bank for $2/share in some super conference call involving the FED and other major banks.

Something about liquidity (available cash) being in jeopardy as some had demanded their money investments back from BearStearns.

The word “recession” keeps getting said but now “depression” and “run on banks” is creeping more and more into these discussions.

It seems that everyone is in a “wait and see” mode as more and more of the foreclosures in the housing markets come to completion.

Frankly, I didn’t come away with much hope about the economy for the next few years. Not good…

I would love to hear Bill Maher or Michael Savage discuss this…

*** This just in… the blogsters are reporting that Charlie took a fall and saved the new “Mac Air” and instead landed on his face…  Ouch. 

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Job Ad Tip-off…

that THIS job would suck.

“There are two paid 10-minute breaks and one unpaid 18-minute lunch break”

Yes, that’s 18 stop watch minutes..

Any moron would have the decency to call it a 20 min lunch.

Let’s see $4.20 gas in California, this jewel of an employer and Hil or Mex McCain…. Good Times….

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Huckabee, Paul and McCain…

I continue to be MORE than annoyed as our worthless biased media tries yet again to freeze out Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul.

Mitt Romney has taken his hat out of the ring…

Romney supporters will likely go to Huckabee and some to Paul MUCH to the chagrin of the media…

We DONT want straight Mex McCain…. or Hill

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Our Crooked Ass Political System…

First the democrats in SC just decided that Stephen Colbert couldnt run because they said so…

Now the media and the debate promoters are trying to freeze out Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul from the Republican nominee process…

Knock it the F off!!!!

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The State of the Union…

The Democrats did a lot of up and down, standing and clapping for Bush,,, that seemed odd…

Then…. there was Darth and Nancy… Nancy Pelosi had her head down quite a lot… reading the commencement flier?…looking like a whipped pup. She stood and clapped right along with the other Dems…

although…her timing to get up and down always had an annoying delay like the “Applause” sign for the audience was broken.

… then there was President Bush. He kept smirking and seemed just way too giddy.

… In recent speeches, especially the angry Bush ones from the Rose Garden, I keep thinking Bush is gonna bust out,,,
…”Live form New York,,,It’s Saturday Night!!!!!”

One dude in the audience… was Mr. Jowls.

I don’t recall any boos this time. Matter of fact I kept hearing what sounded like drunken frat boys going ….”Hey!!!!!……Ho…
…”Hey!!!!!……Ho……… Hip Hip,,Hoorey,,,,Ho….Hey …. Ho…..

… and then as Bush left, he signed like every person theres lil commencement flier…. He gave out more autographs than LaBron James…. and to mostly Democrats… so these are going on Ebay?

and the Democrat Response from Governor Kathleen Sebelius… Started out nice and calm and stayed so with…
Mr. President… Let’s all get to work… and then just turned into random words from the Thesaurus

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It Was Sobering and Sickening to See…

It was more than sobering to see a Sheriff’s Commissioner’s Sale notice on a house in my neighborhood today. In all my years I’d never seen one on a property near me. (and yes there certainly have been those sales throughout the years)

I’m not sure if it was a case where this person got sucked into one of those horrible ARM (Adjustable Rate Mortgages) or if there was a job loss, bad decisions or bad health… The property was evidently financed by Citigroup Financial. But, I don’t any of the particulars of this situation.

It was however a sharp kick in the stomach to remind me just how bad things are for what used to be a middle class in the United States.

It does sicken me to see the media just spin a lot of the bad situations as a mortgage crisis. It’s just not that simple. And certainly I know how bad the job market is and has been for at least the last 10 to 15 years.

And certainly when 12 million of anyone invades the country and further loads down an economy that already was predicting that the next generations won’t have medicare, pension or retirement… …. that I see an elderly parent and relatives count on for survival….

Then to further have to listen to someone like Bill Clinton and Bill Gates and others blather on about what they are “giving back”…. except it’s in some other country….(not usually the one that raised them up…by the way)

Yeah the whole evil mess just leaves me with a pit in my stomach…. and my prayers go out to that family…

This is no longer politics.

Writer’s Strike…Day 2 of…

On day 2 of the WGA writer’s strike and it’s settling in how bad this is gonna suck with TV shows in or near to being in reruns for the foreseeable future.

Thank God for news,

Charlie Rose,

http://www.CharlieRose.com

Leo Laporte’s podcasts

http://www.twit.tv

and Adam Carolla’s radio show…

http://www.971freefm.com/pages/1247.php

More to come on this as I have time.

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Tavis Smiley and Cornell West…Charlie Rose (PBS)

It was a treat (even though I didn’t see all) to see most of an interview of up and coming talk show host Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornell West, professor of Religion at Princeton on the Charlie Rose show on PBS tonight.

Items that struck me included…

Tavis cited a philosophy of… You can’t lead people if you don’t love people, you can’t save people if you don’t serve people.

The 2008 election in light of that philosophy, left many in both main parties looking like hollow, “pretzel”-like transformer typical politicians….

Tavis noted several “empty podiums” in recent debates (Republican) and that the “empty podiums” would likely come back to haunt these candidates later in the election cycle. One of these situations was a Republican Forum that Tavis moderated at Morgan State University.

Dr. West went on to admonish candidates from both parties to “find your voice” and”be who you are”.

Tavis agreed and cited a hunger in the voting public looking for “authenticity” in a candidate.

I didn’t realize that Tavis had a radio show on PRI that airs on some NPR stations in addition to his PBS talk show. Dr. West is a long time friend and appears on his show and has a current book with SmileyBooks company.

http://www.charlierose.com

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/

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Alan Alda on Charlie Rose (PBS)

Alan Alda had a great segment on Charlie Rose. Wity as always, and he and Charlie reflected on recent health calamities that nearly ended their lives and how they re-assessed the important things in life and how those situations changed them.

Can you believe Alan is like 71? Get out. You would guess 50’s. Maybe it’s his contageous smile and laughter.

He has a new book, “Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself”

And I think there will be some more Scientific American Frontiers although they didnt really say.

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Heart Disease… The Charlie Rose Science Series (PBS)

A very interesting show on 9/19/2007 with a panel from the medical research community.

A few things that jumped out at me were:

- the things we already know to reduce our risk factors that aren’t being implemented well.
(ie Make sure you are getting a reasonable amount of exercise. I know I am guilty of putting off exercising, yet my eating stays on track or increases.)

- almost no mention of “heart attacks” before 1900? (That ties to the exercise that people had to get before we had all of our “modern conveniences” So we’ve traded less physical work for more stress and it’s killing us. Awesome. Less axe swinging and more phone jabbering and computer blogging huh… See one of my other posts…
http://mrobvious.wordpress.com/2007/09/01/make-a-log-cabin-you-wimps-and-babies/

- the importance of people being more knowledgeable about CPR and that some hand chest compressions (even if not perfect) was better that not doing it when someone had a heart attack.

- the idea was discussed about requiring some amount of CPR training (say in 9th grade) as some other countries have done to get people to be more knowledgeable and less afraid of trying to help someone with cardiac arrest.

- the wider availability of portable defibulator machines and the difference in survival if that is quickly done when someone’s heart has gone into that fibulation and blood isn’t flowing.

- some re-examination of using stints and focus only on narrowing arteries. They were noting that heart attack often doesn’t happen at the place where narrowing of the artery, but in other places because the plaques are throughout.

Check out the clips on… (after you get off your butt and exercise first…)

http://mrobvious.wordpress.com/2007/02/25/charlie-rose-talkshow-pbs/
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Tavis Smiley (PBS)

A few words to pay tribs to a relatively new talkshow on PBS that I like a lot.

Tavis Smiley has a one on one interview show and reminds me a great deal of Charlie Rose. He has a very hip, relavent guest line up.

Very cool show check it out!

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley

It seems to be a on a weird and changing schedule so I haven’t watched this show as much as I would like.

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Nancy Pelosi…on Charlie Rose (PBS)

I must give Speaker Pelosi credit for a decent (and frankly more thoughtful and more coherent) interview with Charlie Rose than I expected last evening.

However, while apparently making some headway in rallying some bi-partisan legislation in many domestic issues (minimum wage and Vet benefits), she failed in the two hot topics (The war in Iraq and Immigration reform).

On the war, she is convinced if we just had more dialogue with the Iraqis and those in the gulf region, and we reduced our presence, that this would all magically get better.  She was quick to admit, that we just can’t pick up and leave.  Matter of fact, she said we would have to stay (and we might stay longer if the Iraqis met certain benchmarks) to fight Al queda, defend the embassy).  Her point was that we have to get out of the “civil war” part.   That’s where reality didn’t seem to be coming together.   Somehow if we just dialogue more, we can stay out of the civil war part and still fight alqueda.  Do the al queda members wear special uniforms or patches or helmets so that we could in practice do that?  Do the al queda members only go in certain parts of Iraq?  Nancy didn’t convince me that there is any practical way to do what she idealistically envisions.

Secondly, she was all peachy and even praising the newest Liberal Democrat, George W. Bush on his Immigration efforts (I mean Amnesty).   Oh no, it’s not amnesty when we “forgive”12 million people that invade the country and would soon lay legal claim to all our tax and spend social benfits.

I bet they don’t even know how many illegals are even here.  Is there anyone even left in Mexico now?

Somehow Nancy envisions surrounded by 12 million (or is it 20) mexicans will be like her culturally diverse life in San Francisco.  Really?  I envision every Walmart and McDonalds in the entire country with a 70% or more spanish workforce, some dude in broken english saying Señor, fries with that? and most of the signage in the the new national language…and it isnt English.

By the way, I speak out now and will vote as often as I can because after 12 million invaders start voting…..

Bill Maher

Just a few words to pay tribs to a very sharp and funny comedian and talk show host Bill Maher.

Watched his show for years when it was “Politically Incorrect”, and even saw a live taping at Television City in Hollywood.   I haven’t seen the new one on cable, but I’m sure it’s even better.

Just saw his interview on Charlie Rose.  Great interview.  Minus his jazz cigarettes, Bill is very cool and almost a combo of George Carlin and Adam Carolla and his monologues are very very remenesque of the Johnny Carson monologues.  Good stuff.

Charlie Rose (talkshow PBS)

A few words to note one of my fav talkshows.

Charlie has surpassed Ted Koppel in interviewing some very cool guests from CEO’s to politicians to scientists to actors to…you name it.

His show is a wierd but cool mix of Ted Koppel era Nightline and the Tom Snyder talk show from some years back.

… And I can’t forget the cool jazz theme music on this show.

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His show is now available as a podcast?

http://www.charlierose.com

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Charlie frequently poses the…”What question is it that you most want the answer to?”
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Interesting show on 3/28/07 with increasing longevity of life (assuming it to be healthy). (Reduced calorie intake and also Resveratrol ( from grapes used in red wine and some other plants)

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