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The Irate Blogger Calls Lionel!!!

LionelShow — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:44:12 -0400

Obama as Hack Radio DJ! And More!

LionelShow — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:40:43 -0400

Lionel: Controversy on the Blog!!!

LionelShow — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:29:31 -0400

The Thom Hartmann Program - July 25th 2008

Louise Hartmann — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:51:29 -0400

"AnythingGoes Friday"

HourOne - "Brunch With Bernie" Senator US Senator Bernie Sanders www.sanders.senate.gov

HourTwo – Former Governor Don Siegelman www.donsiegelman.org

Thom'sTravel & Events Coming Up…

A few things

Avedon from the Sideshow — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:30:17 -0400

The House Judiciary Committee is having a hearing today on dealing with Dennis Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment of George Walker Bush and Richard Bruce Cheney. Kagro X has details. Perhaps you want to make yourself familiar with Committee Caller. After Downing Street plans to live-blog the hearing.

"Every single Democratic Senate challenger supports Net Neutrality" - Silent Patriot conveys some good news from Matt Stoller, who has been compiling statements from Dems: "I'm happy to report that every single Democratic challenger with more than $500k in cash on hand has announced their support for net neutrality. This is a milestone for the fight for internet freedom. I included statements reacting to this news from Senator Byron Dorgan, Speaker Pelosi, FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, Google public policy director Alan Davidson, and Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu."

Thoreau on anti-regulation alarmism: "Anyway, I'm not here to argue in favor of regulations, just to observe that our ability to adapt to regulation (up to some level, of course) is similar to our ability to adapt to non-governmental factors in the marketplace. Indeed, this resilience of human behavior is one reason why regulators often fail to shape human behavior as much as they'd like." (Also: On the two foreigners we have running for president!)

This week on Ring of Fire!

Ring of Fire — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:26:47 -0400

This week’s Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio:
Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern

Air America’s Sam Seder will be filling in for Mike Papantonio this week.

Congressman John Yarmuth (D-KY) will join us to talk about why releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve will help to temporarily lower gas prices.

Author Dan Gardner will be here to tell us about how our irrational fears cause us more harm than the things we actually fear.

Jane Mayer, author of the new book “The Dark Side”, will tell us how the Bush administration destroyed the constitution, and what we can do to get it back.

And author Thomas Madden will explain why he thinks that American imperialism is a good thing, in spite of what history has shown us about empires.

We’ll also be responding to your listener emails, so send your questions or comments to us at info@ringoffireradio.com, and if we pick yours, we’ll send you a free GoLeft TV T-shirt!

Find us at http://www.ringoffireradio.com/ and http://goleft.tv/

Punk is a feeling: The Gits

Dennis Hartley — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:23:52 -0400

Viva Zapata: Mia and her fans, circa 1991

Is Obama secretly Amish?

Gen. JC Christian — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:14:59 -0400

Dear General,
Is Obama secretly Amish?

Pamela
Atlas Shrugs Blog

Dear Mrs. Shrugs,

Your Sunday post was an excellent example of what patrio-blogging is all about. With nothing more than a few graphics and a lot of very technical-sounding jargon, you and techdude persuaded a lot of people that Barak Obama forged his own birth certificate. That's impressive.

But why stop there? Shouldn't we take the next step and use the same technique to create a reason why Obama would fake such a document?

I certainly think so. That's why I'm submitting the following highly technical evidence suggesting that Barak Obama is actually an Amish man named Erik Gruber.

Before we begin, let's take a look at actual photographs of both Obama and Erik Gruber's twin brother, Henry.

{pictured above right}

Notice how amazingly similar they appear. Other than a few minor differences in skin coloring, hair texture, eyes color, and body fat, they are spitting images of each other.

Now let's examine the photos using a number of fairly basic forensic techniques.

Special Guest Update, Everybody!

LionelShow — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:01:38 -0400

In the third hour, Lionel will be joined by Cesar Millan, better know as The Dog Whisperer. As host of the Emmy-Award nominated series on the National Geographic Channel, Mr. Millan works with disturbed dogs of all backgrounds, coaching them out of their various canine discontents. Lionel digs this show, majorly. This oughta be fun.

Doin' Laundry with Juice Yuen, Everybody!

LionelShow — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:39:21 -0400

SOUND CLIPS FOR FRIDAY, JULY 25, 2008

OBAMA’S DAY

1. THE WALLS – OBAMA (:40)

Senator Barack Obama delivered a speech at the Victory Tower in Berlin, Germany in front of a crowd of 200,000 krauts, according to German newspapers. His message of a new day, new time, and new hope was well received. In this clip, he channels President Ronald Reagan.

Dr. Evil Vision

LionelShow — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:24:14 -0400

Very Well, Where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium, with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My Mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Lionel Vision with webbed feet.

Today on Lionel - Friday July 25th.

LionelShow — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:56:09 -0400

The Presidential campaign coverage in the United States is starting to remind me of another time-tested feature of television news – bizarre health warnings and ominous medical reports. Allow me to explain.

You know how one night you’ll be watching the news, and they’ll say something like “Red wine promotes heart health and can increase your lifespan by up to 4 years!”….and then two weeks later, the same dead-behind-the-eyes newscaster is telling you “Red wine slowly dissolves the human heart and has been directly linked to bone cancer and rabies”. HUH?!?! Same thing with milk – one week, it’s the familiar and trusted source of calcium, the frosty friend of cookies everywhere. The next week, milk is shot through with some terrifying hormone or chemical, and you find that all these years milk has been thinning your blood and insidiously undermining your public speaking skills. What’s a terrified citizen to do?

VIDEO: TRMS Headlines, July 23, 2008

Dorsey Shaw — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:55:37 -0400

Headlines for July 23, 2008.

Strange brew

Avedon from the Sideshow — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:15:16 -0400

John McCain has said and done so many ridiculous things in the last week that I honestly can't keep track of them all.

Don't you find it interesting that when a genuine Al Qaeda hard man who was in US custody was identified, they let him go? It's funny how people who were close to bin Laden seemed to be the people who were the least interesting to our leaders and their minions. Or maybe it's not all that surprising considering that the people who are closest to them are actually in the Republican leadership and the White House.

Joseph Stiglitz says just say no to free lunches for Fannie and Freddie's management, shareholders and bondholders.

Tell me what you see

Avedon from the Sideshow — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:30:15 -0400

So all of these news organizations have reporters travelling with Obama, and suddenly the reporters are receiving strange queries from their news editors about an allegedly chaotic "mob scene" at an Obama appearance. Now, you might wonder why these editors are asking about something that none of their reporters who were actually there have reported. Why?