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Al Franken is finally the Junior senator of Minnesota. Minnesota has been a hotbed of republican quackery for the past few years. Finally, some good news from Minnesota. I love Al Franken. I listened to his show on Air America from beginning to end. If any man ever loved America, it's him.

 

Then there's affirmative action, a topic that continually angers me, because it's mis-characterized by the left and the right. The right looks at affirmative action as quotas, and always places it in the context of lesser qualified non-white males, particularly in the university of Michigan case of 2003, where the white plaintiff only sued the lesser qualified blacks who made it into the 100 or so special slots for people, black, white and other, who otherwise would slip through the cracks. They didn't acknowledge or sue on behalf of the black students, and there were some, who were more qualified than the white plaintiff, and still didn't gain admission. It's always when the blacks are less qualified that they whine. And I really don't blame the white plaintiffs. I blame the right wing echo chamber that behaves as if there has never been a less than qualified white guy such has George W Bush, C student, drug addict, convicted drunk driver along with his Vice president, long-term drunk and convicted drunk driver, making it all the way to the Whitehouse, doing a terrible job from day one, attacking the wrong country, making whatever happens in Iraq America's fault, getting re-elected, and then bringing down the economy. Cheney shoots a man in the face and avoids the police long enough for his blood alcohol level to come down to legal levels. Right wingers still say he will go down in history as a great man.

 

Then we have an A student, over achieving, qualified black guy, such as Obama, with all the scholarly and government credentials in the world, who can't even get the right to acknowledge that he's kinda bright. He was top of his class in Harvard, Editor of Harvard Law review, Constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago, prolific State Senator and prolific US Senator. How many bubbles in a bar of Soap Mr. Obama? He's just a community organizer who, despite writing more legislation that's been signed into law than any President, he has written nothing. He is just an empty suit. Even Hillary Clinton, a fellow democrat, says he's done nothing ever legislatively. Anyone care to tell me how much legislation Hillary Clinton has written since 2000? No one asked her to quantify her achievements. No matter how many times Hawaii's board of health says he was born in Hawaii, he simply wasn't. The right, and even Geraldine Ferarro, say that Obama, despite his stellar achievements, is only there because he's black. Millions of people still claim that he wasn't born in America. He's never done anything either. This is how blacks see affirmative action. The other side picks which end of the binoculars to peer through when looking at candidates.

 

The left ignorantly defends affirmative action as a leveling of the playing field. That's not what affirmative action is. Affirmative action is what happened in the Ritchie case, not by the city, but in the courts. The term “affirmative action” was coined in the Nixon Administration. Affirmative action is not written into law. It is an old quote that goes something like this. If there was provable discrimination in the work place, there should be affirmative action in the courts. I've seen this intellectual laziness before. If a million right wingers believe that the sky is polka dot, instead of arguing that the sky is blue over and over, the left says the sky is blue and white polka dots. It was the same with Ebonics, an Oakland school district workshop for teachers only that would give them encyclopedic knowledge of the day's black slang in order to correct what they heard into standard English. The right claimed that it was giving legitimacy to slang, merely because it was black slang. They actually claimed that Oakland was adopting and teaching black slang to students instead of stamping it out. The left came back with excuses for doing just that. I caught one of Bill Clinton's secretaries on CSPAN lazily going with the flow. Someone called and challenged her on Ebonics and she completely caved. She was beaten, agreeing with the caller that Ebonics was terrible. I emailed in the truth, that Ebonics was a class only for teachers, giving them the glossary to correct the day's slang. It was read on the air. She shrugged her shoulders and acknowledged the truth, but didn't want to do any more than say that the email was correct. No one asked her why a few moments earlier, she wimped out and agreed with a wing nut, reinforcing a republican lie.

 

I'm all for bipartisanship, but not when we force ourselves to lie. Would we ever accept that women are on average less qualified? Would we ever argue that the playing field be preemptively leveled because of this hardship? No! The argument that the playing field has been leveled is a terrible argument. Affirmative action simply means that when discrimination is found, it's handled decisively in the courts. The notion that there is a preference for women and minorities is an argument of the right. It is cynical and not codified into law. The firms that systematically weed out minorities and women and then just hire a few tokens when warned by lawyers, are not practicing affirmative action. They are breaking the law when they pass over qualified blacks, and they are breaking the law when they decide to hire the next few blacks who apply.

 

I listened to the Mark Levin show, where a man sat in for the normal bastard, and whined about Jim Crow, saying that Jim crow was turned into crow jim, to oppress whites with affirmative action. Jim crow had nothing to do with affirmative action. Jim crow was a separate set of laws for non-whites. It was illegal for blacks and whites to sit on the same row of a bus. Rosa Parks had to stand because a white man sat across from her, not even next to her. It was merely the same row. That was a Jim Crow Law. It was illegal for blacks and whites to be in the same room after entering through the same door. This is how civil rights organizers were arrested. They'd be caught in homes and churches together without clearly marked Black and White doors. The people who defended Jim Crow called it separate but equal. Oddly enough, I agree with the Supreme court on the recent ruling. New Haven had every right to change its test, but they should not have set aside the results of the last test. Fear of lawsuits isn't reason enough for that. We can not rule by cynicism or fear that blacks will sue. If I were white, I'd sue over that one. In my opinion, it was pertinent to look at the tests and maybe change them in the future, but stupid to toss out the results.

 

Republicans think you're stupid. This truth about the GOP is becoming a recurring theme on this podcast. Republicans say false things, and hope that you believe that they are really going on. And, like the devil, they say half truths and hope you misunderstand what's really going on. You can't even trust them when they tell you the truth. They will say 100% truths, and just hope you'll rely on the memory of decades of twisted definitions and propaganda. All in all, they want to win you over by fear. The sky is falling. They swear the whole country is going to hell. They have an incredibly ignorant constituency that really believes that Obama has already raised their taxes and has doubled the national debt. That would mean that Obama has to have spent ten trillion dollars in five months! They say we have to do something to stop the democrats, Pelosi, Clinton, Obama, and all the other socialists, from destroying the country! Obama and the Democrats aren't just mistaken, they are really evil America-hating, imps. Obama and the Democrats really want to trick you into being slaves under communism.

 

One way they will supposedly do this is by giving you something addictive. Let's look at healthcare. Our health care is supposedly the best in the world. And yet over 100,000 Americans die every year from medical negligence. A recent study by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences estimated that as many as 100,000 patients may be killed each year in hospitals alone as a result of medical errors. This has long been a trend. I first heard this on an episode of Phil Donahue, 20 years ago, when the number was only about 80,000 deaths per year from medical negligence. Mind you, this is just the known negligence in hospitals. It doesn't include people who went home to die, or were treated in clinics. It doesn't include all the times, even in a hospital, where a doctor or anesthesiologist simply screwed up in the operating room, killed your spouse or child, and came out to tell you there were complications, and by the way, here's your bill! Complications just means that it's the fault of the patient's crappy body that they died. It doesn't cover the people who got inadequate care and died too early outside of hospitals. It doesn't cover children in America dying from advanced tooth infections that spread to the brain because they could not afford a dentist.

 

Worst of all, it doesn't cover the people who didn't die, the people maimed for life. People who are mangled, without sight, smell, hearing, wrong organs removed, breasts mangled, botched liposuction, botched medical procedures that don't lead to death. Their numbers are legion also. Republicans say adamantly that medical negligence claims should be capped at $250,000. No one needs more than $250,000. That's all your life is worth. It's all your pain is worth. It's all your child, spouse, brother, sister, or mother, is worth. Anyone who wants more than $250,000 is just fishing for money to buy a new car.

 

Well, one of my best friends has a daughter who was left in the birth canal for 45 minutes while the doctor was on the phone. This often happens to poor people. They get sub par care. My friend was poor then. Oddly enough, he's a millionaire republican now. That's another story. He's not a millionaire because of his daughter's settlement though. He only got $250,000 for her. His daughter will never be able to operate beyond the level of a two month old. She's over thirty years old now. She can not walk, talk, can't sit up. She can't even swallow. She has to be fed by tubes. After thirty plus years in a bed, her back has curled, and she's had to have a rod placed in her back to keep it somewhat straight. The $250,000 they won in a lawsuit way back in the late 70s, is all spent now. It was mostly spent when I met him in 1988. Now, the special vans, the doctor visits, all the extra care that is the fault of a doctor who simply didn't care, or was too sleepy, or too stupid, all that, is on my friend and his wife. If they had won a few million dollars in an annuity, they still might have had help left. This man lived in a trailer when I met him. Now he's a millionaire entrepreneur. Guess where much of his newfound success is going.

 

If left up to republicans, a doctor can accidentally amputate Tiger woods' arm, and Tiger could only sue for $250,000. It's easy to see Tiger's potentially lost earnings, but for many people it's not a loss. Its a cost, the cost of further medical care, brought about by the negligence.

 

In the face of all this, Republicans claim that Canadians hate their system and prefer the American brand. I've never met a Canadian who didn't think our system was 100% insane. Sure, there are some bad Canadian doctors, and you can find Canadians with horror stories, but again, our horror stories are legion. Republicans claim that anyone in America can get health care. It's there. In order for them to claim it's not broken in that way, they have to rely on Medicaid and the Hill Burton act, which helps the indigent pay medical bills. Welfare, which they want to abolish in the first place. They have to say that it's perfectly fine for the indigent and the under insured to abuse the emergency room as their primary caregiver, and they have to say that the government should pay 100% of the bill for those who fail to pay.

 

Republican liars claim that if we had a public option, there will be rationing and long waits. They keep saying this in the face of the truth, that we all have to wait right now. They can't hold up the example of the emergency room always being there. First of all, the Emergency room can refuse to see you if it's not an emergency. You absolutely can't go into the emergency room for a breast exam unless there is a bullet in your breast. Well, if I called my dermatologist right now, it would take me approximately 5 weeks to see him. I always have to wait.

 

My daughter had fainting spells in her senior year. Every time she fainted, the school called an ambulance. The Emergency room warned us that the emergency room is the wrong place for fainting spells. She was always fine by the time she saw a physician there because it took 4 hours to be seen. And, if she fainted one time too many, she'd be declared a narcoleptic by the state, and would never, ever, ever, be able to get a driver's license. Meanwhile another doctor thought it might have been a rare blood pressure condition, but the specialist would not pencil in my daughter for about a month. Meanwhile the school was threatening to call child protective services if we didn't call the ambulance every single time she fainted, and they demanded we show that she was under a doctor's care right now! Problem was, she was indeed under a doctor's care, just waiting and waiting and waiting. She had seen two doctors, the second doctor was seen because we merely had to see him on order to have him refer her to a very cantankerous specialist. The specialist would not see my daughter unless another doctor had referred her. So we had to wait for one needless appointment, pay for it, and then another. So even with blue cross blue shield of Texas, there was a seven week wait before my daughter could be placed on a tilt table for 45 minutes, and then be prescribed the medicine that stopped the fainting in its tracks. My daughter hasn't fainted in two years, not even close, but the appointment took so long that either I would have been reported to child protective services or, worse for my daughter, my daughter would never be able to drive.

 

Was the problem the school? Partially, but it was perfectly logical that if my daughter was smacking her head against the floor every other week, that her parents should do something about it. The problem was the wait. The wait that Americans with insurance supposedly don't have. It was a wait so long that my daughter's school thought we were doing nothing about her situation. And the problem here is not money. It's not insurance. The doctors simply would not see my daughter for weeks, insurance or cash, or not. The Emergency room doctors merely gave us a sheet of paper that explained what fainting was. That was it. My daughter wasn't in distress. They didn't have to stabilize her, so they sent us packing every time.

 

Then there is rationing and choice of physician. Republicans like this codeword, rationing. Trouble is, no one challenges them on rationing and choice. My healthcare is currently rationed. Under my insurance, I get one pair of glasses per year. I have no choice in which doctor I can see. I'm given a list of doctors I can use. The doctors are then given a list of labs they can use to make the glasses, even if they make them in house. I like Vision 4 Less. They cost less and give me 2 pair of glasses, but they haven't been on my list of so called choices for at least ten years.

 

I can have my teeth cleaned once per year, and again, from a list of dentists given to me. I am clearly told what is covered and what is not covered. Sounds like rationing to me. And my provider will routinely deny claims that they know are covered, in an attempt to trick me into paying more than I should. And to top it off, even for the covered care, there is a cap on care per year for certain procedures, and an overall cap for catastrophic treatment if I were to suffer with cancer, and then aggressively tried to treat it.

 

No one can deny that our healthcare is rationed except for the republicans. But listen to george Herbert walker Bush's position on health care in 1992. From www.faqs.org, President George Bush's health care reform program was presented to the public in Feb 1992. This plan upholds the private-public partnership that the US health care system is based on, but tries to address the problem of insured individuals. Despite the fact that the US spends more than any other country in the world on health care, 15% of US citizens do not have private or group health care insurance. The president's plan proposes a transferable health insurance credit or tax deduction. Low income families or individuals would receive a tax credit that could be applied towards the purchase of a health insurance plan. They could either purchase a private health insurance plan or a plan developed by their state government. President Bush disagrees with proposals by Governor Bill Clinton and Democratic members of Congress that involve significantly more government intervention in health care provision.

 

As you can see, Bush was for a public option, which Republicans seemed to have no problem with. Unfortunately, when Bush lost to Clinton, the health care system suddenly became 6% of our economy, and it wasn't broken, so don't try to fix it.

 

On the Iranian front, there's not much to say because it's simple politicking. Republicans continually deliver the Klingon message that today is a good day for someone else's child to die. For 30 years they have called Iranians insane radicals who wanted to destroy America and advocated turning their entire nation into a glass parking lot. Bomb bomb bomb Iran, right? Axis of evil. The whole country has been pure evil since 1979, when they rejected our installed dictator. Now, all of a sudden, republicans are holding candlelight vigils for the Iranians. We are all Iranians. They want nothing less than for Obama to call for all out insurrection followed by a threat of war with Iran if they cracked down on the dissidents. Let's go back 20 years to Tienanmen Square. When the Chinese slaughtered as many as 10,000 Chinese dissidents, during George HW Bush's first June in office. Bush suspended military sales and visits, but there was no official “up yours,” from the president. The republicans weren't going on all the talk shows decrying Bush's civility and calm. The democrats very well may have, but I have no recollection of it.

        

This will be a lesson in semantics and english. Since I have a new computer and no mic, the entire podcast will be read by my computer  

I think anyone with half a brain would understand that Sotomayor was not suggesting that a “wise Latina woman” would be better. She would only hope a wise Latina woman would make better decisions than a white man who had not lived that life. Even in that statement, she wasn't talking about all white men. There are millions of white men who have indeed lived that life.

It is agonizingly annoying to hear liberal after liberal talking head try to defend her out of context statement, which is indefensible, that being Latina makes her better, rather than reed the freaking speech like I did, understand it, and defend her flawless logic.

I also take apart Republican hatred for Obama.

 

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This week I make two calls to a local conservative radio show and take on the fairness doctrine plus socialism. Then I take apart G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Savage, Senator McConnel, Sarah Palin, and a stupid republican ad about spending 1 million dollars a day since Jesus' birth. Hint: You can spend two million dollars a day since Jesus' birth and not pay for the Iraq war.

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Leave Rod Blagojevich Alooooooone!!!!

I discuss the way Democrats are circling Blagojevich like vultures while Republicans are surprisingly quiet for now. I discuss the war crime that is Gaza.

I lament the war on the war on Christmas (no. that wasn't a typo).I think Liberals are too gleeful when they attack the notion of a war on Christmas and attack Christmas instead of Billo the Clown, thus inadvertently proving Bill's point..  I was so angry over the war on the war on Christmas that it made me scrub two recordings. I actually used the words "kiss my black ass!" That's a sure sign that I was pissed.

I discuss American cars.

Plus, another plane crashes and another Republican, Carl Rove, sighs with relief because his chief IT guy, who stated that he feared for his life, now can't testify about elections he helped steal -- because he's dead now.

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I reminisce about the election and my aspirations, and play some audio from a chat room called "Barrack Obama Is a threat To America."

These idiots believe to the point of tears that Obama is a threat. On Anderson Cooper 360, the mainstream media is actually saying that there is universal goodwill toward Obama. Just goes to show that the media only watches the media. It's not difficult to find people who hate Obama. and feel that he was delivered to us by the Kremlin.

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This week, I go to a Republican chat room and a Liberal chat room. Notice how the republicans behave themselves when they are not in control. That's where they belong: out of control. When they are in control, they become Klingons.

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I review the week's news and debate with really stupid republicans.

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Can you believe Wachovia is gone? Merrill Lynch? Names we've known forever. Big names! All gone, thanks to the Republicans, who in 1999 passes, with a veto-proof margin, the bill that made legal most of the things that caused this collapse.

BTW, I apologize for the misspelling of Phil Gramm's name. There just wasn't time to fix it.

RIP investment banks

        

I heard two talking heads, Bob Scheer and Emily Bazelon, say something I thought was strikingly obvious this week. They suggested that it would be cheaper to just pay a few million month to month until the crisis is over than to bail out the banks. What do you think?

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I discuss Sara Palin's failure to answer a simple question about The Bush Doctrine. The question wasn't to test her on the meaning of the doctrine, but to get her opinion of it. But since she don't know what it was, Republicans have shifted reality again, and the Bush doctrine is now a thing that has never been defined or settled upon.  Lying deceptive conservative pundit after lying deceptive conservative pundit has sworn on his or her mother's grave that they also have never had any idea what the Bush Doctrine is.

We also discuss aids again, and wages, and trickle down. We also celebrate our first ever donation to the site. Pizza for everyone!



Excerpts from Ring Of Fire, WILL Media Matters, MSNBC and ABC News.

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We discuss, Sara Palin, BET, and Republican Neanderthals. I had only intended to listen to the Republicans talk among themselves, but they spoke so viciously about Affirmative action that I had to join. Trouble was, by the time I joined and recorded, they calmed down, but even a calm Republican is usually a bigot. To call any debate with a Republican civil is to put lipstick on a pig.
 

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I had another debate with republicans Please note what happens throughout when they are confronted with questions. FOX Noise must be failing them.

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I spoke with Larry Nichols, last week. It's amazing to hear Clinton haters bemoan the presidency of George W. Bush. Nichols also makes an amazing admission: While governor of Arkansas, Clinton actually wasn't a drug dealer!

I also rant at the end about the schism between Obama supporters and Clinton supporters. I've actually lost two and a half friends over my refusal to denounce Obama. The odd thing is, one of my friends, a former Clinton hater, now things Hillary is the best thing since sliced bread. Of course, he hated Clinton right up until the time it seemed she wouldn't win. Now, just to diminish Obama, he loves her.

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I spoke with stop the ACLU dot org today, and was unimpressed. Of course they were unimpressed also, because I believe in preserving American freedoms. They want to get the terrorists at all costs, including my freedoms.

        

How many 47 year old politicians do you hear being called a "young man" on a daily basis. Obama is three years shy of 50. The average age at election is 55. Only 8 Presidents were elected over the age of 60, and most of them weren't very memorable.

There are rather successful Presidents who were elected at an even younger age than Obama:

Ulysses S. Grant at 46
Theodore Roosevelt at  42
John F. Kennedy at 43
Bill Clinton at 46

Obama will be sworn in older than all these people. So why do we constantly hear this grown man referred to as a boy? Why are people constantly interviewing him and asking him what he's learned? How many candidates have had to tap dance with a wide grin and assure everyone that he and his wife don't actually hate America?

Everything Obama or his wife is accused of is analyzed on television. The latest lie is that Obama removed the flag from his plane, a rumor that the talk show host Moon Griffon admits when pressed is not true, yet he spreads it blatantly. McCain's wife not only stole prescription drugs, she fired people who discovered her. How much is that analyzed? Laura Bush killed her ex boyfriend, Michael Douglas with her car. Do you think Michelle Obama could live that little ooopsie down? Obama's treatment on the television is atrocious, and once he's President and stops tap dancing,  people will say it's gone to his head.

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This is  my worst of show, published long ago, but not on this feed. This feed doesn't carry every podcast I've done, but I may condense some other older podcasts here too. the promos herein may be out of date. They refer to me as Slack and Maybe Fly as contractions of my screen name. Listen to this and understand why it's an evil act to become a Republican or vote for one.

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This is the second installment of the Obama/Clinton debate.

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A debate between an Obama supporter and a Clinton supporter.<< MORE >>

This is scary. When you hear me debate these republicans, you hear them making up false facts, and defending the indefensible. Let a republican hear this recording. I guarantee they will shock you by agreeing with the idiocy you will hear.

I debated alone with a guy at work, and alongside Shelly, of Civilianism, against O-zone. a nice guy but a terribly wrong guy. If I can say one thing good about this republican though. He believes we shouldn't beat up detainees. On the other hand, he thinks we should waterboard them. O-zone is a prolific podcaster, but a terribly incorrect one at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/DemocratsareLost

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I listen to this song while I work out at the gym. It's called Kemo-Kimo by Webster Lewis. I first purchased this 45 in 1981 for probably under a dollar, and again this year from Ebay for about 20 times as much. Listen to how the man worms his way into the heart of the woman, and then think about how Bush catapults his propaganda until he gets what he wants.

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