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Today's Show: Friday, September 30, 2005

By Nazanin Rafsanjani
"Hey little Turkish child, which one of these four doesn't belong in this picture?"

UNDERBELLY:
Bush Administration specialty: dumb contracting:

Very expensive, totally useless deal with Carnival Cruise Lines.

Operation Blue Roof:
"The government is paying contractors an average of $2,480 for less than two hours of work to cover each damaged roof — even though it's also giving them endless supplies of blue sheeting for free."

Mississippi classrooms contracts in question...

FEMA signs a $2 billion dollar contract for temporary housing...only 109 families have moved in...

Bush cabinet prediction: A white New Orleans

FRONT PAGE:
Judge orders release of more Abu Ghraib, prisoner abuse photos.

Troops serving in Iraq had to purchase their own body armor....now, the Pentagon can't figure out how to reimburse them.

You can get paid if you don't kill endangered animals! The House's plans for The Endangered Species Act...

PET STORY:
Mayor...cell phone...underage girls...

EXTRA CREDIT:
How bad is your pronunciation? Probably, not nearly as bad as my spelling!

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Good Morning all!

Nauseating photo,great caption.

The picture of ignorance...

Clueless and proud of it!

Society is generally as lax as its language.

Karen Hughes photo

http://josiescranialcavity.blogspot.com/

Sing that Sesame Street tune...  One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn't belong, Can you tell which thing is not like the others, by the time I finish my song? Did you guess which thing was not like the others? Did you guess which thing just doesn't belong? If you guessed this one is not like the others, Then you're absolutely...right!

Too poor to file bankruptcy?

Financial news link on MSN's homepage. Dems need to raise more hell about the $hitty state of the economy.

They'll never do it... they're afraid of the collapse

Few in US have any idea that the nation is on global welfare; the dominance and dictates of China and Europe on our fiscal policies.  Even less are even vaguely aware how much their quality of life and standard of living has declined since 1981.  They see that there are 9 million millionaires in the US, but never consider that the USD has been halved since 2001. 

It aint the numbers that count, sucker.

Society is generally as lax as its language.

Great show, thanks!

Notwithstanding Judy Miller, Neil Diamond.

Republican Scheme Machine Tactic

Is it coincidence that Freakonomics is on Good Morning America on the same day as Bennett's supposed gaffe linking involuntary race-based abortion with crime reduction?

F. points out the statistical correlation between VOLUNTARY LEGAL ABORTION and falling crime rates -- and that this is the only demonstrable correlation. So women making hard decisions and knowing what is best for their families turn out to be much better at improving society than three-strikes-you're-out, death penalties, zero-tolerance and any number of right-wing agendas. The "compassionate conservatives" do not want that message heard. So what can they do? They send the jihadi Bennett out with his suicide belt to make the choice vs. crime topic too hot to handle.

Very clever.

Another great show

Rachel,

 Thank you for the story about the torture photographs.  While I am nauseated by even the thought of what is in them, I am angry that people in our government clearly wanted this kind of abuse to happen, but not one of them (the architects of this policy of abuse) have been held accountable.  Do these folks have any idea how much more dangerous they have made the lives of our foot soldiers?  I mean soldiers like our economic conscripts (like Ms. England) who I believe are now much more likely to be tortured if they happen to be kidnapped or captured somewhere?

 By the way, I believe Ms. England really was following orders, because there are simply too many similar stories from too many places for this to be "a few bad apples" in the ranks.  The stories about our economic conscripts (like Ms. England) are themselves heart-rending.  I sincerely doubt that Ms. England had any idea that by joining the military (to leave a place where there were few options other than the military, and even fewer jobs) and following orders, she would end her military career in prison and that she would be publically "taking the fall" for what must obviously be a large number of high ranking people whose names neither she nor we know.  

 You have convinced me that I need to get an MP-3 player so I can download your show every day and listen to it later in the day.  Here in the Bay Area, your show is on at 2 am.  I am not always up at that time, but I have heard your show, or at least part of it, many times.  Every time I do, I want to 1) catch all of it, and 2) hear your show again at a better time for me.

 Since I have only a laptop (with a DSL line) at the moment, what recommendations do the folks who read this have regarding downloading your show and listening to it at a more convenient time?  Email portable player suggestions and/or recommendations to: rgetsla at yahoo dot com.

Thanks again for a very informative show.  I like your "Front Page" metaphor.

Grand, Grand Jury Ettiquette

Grand, Grand Jury Ettiquette

Students, please study the present case of Mr. Projectile-vomit Delay and try to remember the following five simple rules of legal ettiquette the next time you have a grand jury breathing down your neck:

1) Do not go to the national media and insult the prosecutor by calling him or her a "zealot".
2)  Do not imply in the national media that the prosecutor has a personal vendetta against YOU.
Hot Tub Tom

3)  Probably do not tell the national media that you "have done nothing wrong" when you have already been CONVICTED IN THE CORRESPONDING CIVIL CASE, and there is only just one campaign finance law that you were required to follow in your state.
4)  Do not tell the prosecutor that he/she is "more corrupt than you are".
5)  Remember to check your deodorant.

Thank you, students, for your attention.

I must add my kudos to

I must add my kudos to Rachel for being the sole  broadcaster to see this story through and never to let us forget that the truth of these images of torture would one day see light of exposure.

Totally makes up for using the fart sounds yesterday.

-- ConnRon (formerly RIRon) bear02909@yahoo.com
http://www.suresha.com 

Civil Union Announcement: Oct 1

Rachel, Kent, blogkins, et al,

You're all invited!

bearhugs,
Ron 

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Civil Union Announcement: Russo / Suresha
October 1, 2005

Dr Rocco Russo and Ron Jackson Suresha, both of New London, are pleased to announce their upcoming Civil Union ceremony, on Saturday, October 1st, at the Hartford Municipal Building, 550 Main Street in Hartford. At noon, after they receive their CU license, they will be united by a local Justice of the Peace in the Municipal Building Atrium.

Russo and Suresha were legally married in Provincetown, Massacusetts, on October 10, 2004, but the new Connecticut law regarding Civil Unions does not recognize same-gender marriages from another state.

The couple, along with dozens of other couples from across the state, will be part of history as the City of Hartford opens its doors for the sole purpose of for Civil Unions. Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez says, "This is a Civil Rights milestone in Connecticut... building on the City of Hartford's long history of officially recognizing domestic partnerships, which began back in 1983."

Friends of the couple are welcome to join in the public ceremony and celebrations in Hartford.

-- ConnRon (formerly RIRon) bear02909@yahoo.com

http://www.suresha.com 

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Who is cutting off your last words?  I want to hear all of The Rachel Maddow Show!

 

South Carolina

I live in Columbia. 
I think it's time to move.
*sigh*

Blue Roof blues

This FEMA/Army Corp of Engineers "Blue Roof Program" gives this roofer the blues. I live very much hand-to-mouth and work is slow at the moment, BUT i'll be damned if i'd take advantage of hurricane victims in their time of need. Additionally, who in their right mind wants to be associated IN ANY WAY with FEMA??  

 I'm trying to get sponsors locally (WMass) to pay my way down (food, housing, etc) and hopefully cover some of the lost income while i'm away (the bank still wants their payments, right?) so i can hook-up w/grassroots groups in N.O. and the Gulf area that are doing roof repairs for people who don't have a pot to piss in. The thought of getting paid THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS to help out people in need is obnoxious. So how about a...um...Green Roof Program? If i can get local supply houses up here in WMass to donate green tarps and strapping, then i'll hook-up w/Greens and others down there and GET TO WORK!!  Calling all roofers w/a conscience

d.o.

valeoftheoaks@hotmail.com

 

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"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical world."
- Thomas Jefferson
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Karen Hughes: Bin Laden's Little Helper

 

Karen Hughes: Bin Laden's Little Helper
by Sidney Blumenthal

 

... Hughes appeared as one of the pilgrims satirized by Mark Twain in his 1869 book Innocents Abroad, on his trip on the Grand Holy Land Pleasure Excursion. "None of us had ever been anywhere before; we all hailed from the interior; travel was a wild novelty... We always took care to make it understood that we were Americans - Americans!" .... 

 

...Hughes has provided the exact proofs for Bin Laden's claims about American motives. "It is stunning to the extent Hughes is helping bin Laden," says Robert Pape, a University of Chicago political scientist who has conducted extensive research into the motives of suicide terrorists and is the author of Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. "If you set out to help bin Laden," he says, "you could not have done it better than Hughes." ...

 

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Re: Karen Hughes: Bin Landen's Little Helper

Bin Laden's Little Helper
by Sidney Blumenthal

... "Many people around the world do not understand the important role that faith plays in Americans' lives," she said. When an Egyptian opposition leader inquired why Mr Bush mentions God in his speeches, Hughes asked him whether he was aware that "previous American presidents have also cited God, and that our constitution cites 'one nation under God'." ...

I just checked The Constitution of the United States of America at senate.gov and did not find the word "God" let alone "one nation under God" anywhere in the document. Did they make changes to the Constitution without telling Congress? :roll:

re: Re: Karen Hughes: Bin Landen's Little Helper

Try the copy of the Constitution at the state department... maybe it mentions God :roll: Or check her Briefing, maybe she was quoted out of context :roll: [/sarcasm] ...

 

 

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Karen Hughes has little

Karen Hughes has little helpers in her war on diplomacy.

Magazine ad "unleashes hell" for Boeing and Bell

Seattle Times staff reporter

Boeing and its joint-venture partner Bell Helicopter apologized yesterday for a magazine ad published a month ago — and again this week by mistake — depicting U.S. Special Forces troops rappelling from an Osprey aircraft onto the roof of a mosque.

"It descends from the heavens. Ironically it unleashes hell," reads the ad, which ran this week in the National Journal and earlier in the Armed Forces Journal. The ad also stated: "Consider it a gift from above." ...

... "We consider the ad offensive, regret its publication and apologize to those who, like us, are dismayed with its contents," said Mary Foerster, a vice president of communication's for Boeing's military side.

Mike Cox, a Bell vice president, said the ad was developed by TM Advertising of Irving, Texas, and then initially released for publication by his company.

"The bottom line is that the [Bell] people who approved this didn't have authority to approve it," Cox said. ... 

...The company statements were released yesterday in response to an outcry from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington, D.C.-based Islamic civil-liberties group. The building depicted in the ad has an Arabic sign that translates as "Muhammad Mosque," according to the council.

The ad may deepen concern overseas that the war on extremists is a war on Islam, said Corey Saylor, the council's government-affairs director. "This can be used by the extremists to reinforce that — and we certainly don't want that," he said. ...

 

 

 

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  Taking Out the Trash:

 

Taking Out the Trash: Cheney Directly Involved In Leak Scandal

 

In today’s New York Times an anonymous source reveals that Cheney was directly involved in the strategy to discredit former ambassador Joe Wilson: ...

... This is an effort by the White House to reveal more details about Cheney’s role on their own terms. The information was leaked to the New York Times on Saturday, the day when the fewest number of people read the paper. Also, it is presented in a way that makes Cheney’s involvement sound innocuous as possible.

 

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Pet Story

Since I work for a small town, I could totally relate to this one.  We have had our own cell phone scandals, but they haven't tried to take them away yet!!!

Thanks for podcasting your show - I am unable to listen to the show live most of the time because I have to listen online since I totally live in the boondocks and cannot pick up a AAR station.  Even if I hear the news a few hours behind, it is better than listening to the mainstream media regurgitate talking points or talk about fluff that is not important, but keeps the masses hypnotized.

One great thing about the podcast is that sometimes when I listen to it, my husband can overhear it and he even laughs at times - we are a mixed marriage (he thinks he is a republican, but I am trying to convince him otherwise:))  We are able to discuss political topics for the first time.  Thanks Rachel, Kent and the RMS gang! 

Keep up the great work - Thanks for seeking truth! 

CGT, Summerville, GA

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