Since we were all accused of being Marxists over here (even a Bourgeoisie running dog capitaist pig like ChanX (just kiding buddy, you know the proletariat loves you)) I thought I’d post the most recent E-mail I received from Comrade, errrr…I mean, ahem, Senator Sanders of Vermont.
The Collapse of the Middle Class, Letters from Vermont and America — 06/06/2008
By Senator Bernard Sanders
The official unemployment rate in the United States surged to 5.5 percent last month, the Labor Department announced this morning. The biggest increase in more than two decades will be on the front pages of the Saturday newspapers. Statistics are one thing. Real life is another.
As gas and oil prices soared and as the nation slipped into recession, I made a request to Vermonters on my e-mail list. I asked them to tell me what was going on in their lives economically. That was it. Frankly, I expected a few dozen replies. I was amazed, therefore, when my office received more than 700 responses from all across the state, as well as some from other states.
A Vermont mother wrote, “We have at times had to choose between baby food and heating fuel.” A 55-year-old man from rural Pennsylvania said, “I am just tired, the harder that I work the harder it gets.” A retired couple in Vermont asked, “Does anybody in Washington care?”
It is one thing to read dry economic statistics which describe the collapse of the American middle class. Since George W. Bush has been in office 5 million Americans have slipped into poverty, 8 million have lost their health insurance and 3 million have lost their pensions. In the last seven years median household income for working-age Americans has declined by $2,500. Our country, for the first time since the Great Depression, now has a zero personal savings rate and, all across the nation, emergency food shelves are being flooded with working families whose inadequate wages prevent them from feeding their families.
It is another thing to understand, in flesh-and-blood terms, what that means in the lives of ordinary Americans. The responses that I received describe the decline of the American middle class from the perspective of those people who are living that decline. They speak about families who, not long ago, thought they were economically secure, but now find themselves sinking into desperation and hopelessness.
These e-mails tell the stories of working families unable to keep their homes warm in the winter; workers worried about whether they’ll be able to fill their gas tank to get to their jobs; and seniors, who spent their entire lives working, now wondering how they’ll survive in old age. They describe the pain and disappointments that parents feel as they are unable to save money for their kids’ college education, and the dread of people who live without health insurance.
In order to try and break through the complacency and isolation inside the Washington Beltway, I have read some of these stories on the floor of the Senate. I also assembled some of them in a booklet that I have distributed to every other senator because it is imperative that Congress and the corporate media understand the painful reality facing the middle class today so that we can develop the appropriate public policy to address this crisis.
The letters are not easy to read.
“We only eat two meals a day to conserve,” one e-mail said. “My husband and I are very nervous about what will happen to us when we are old,” wrote a woman from Vermont. “The pennies have all but dried up….Today I am sad, broken, and very discouraged,” lamented another. “Some nights we eat cereal and toast for dinner because that’s all I have.” One man summed it up this way: “My mortgage is behind, we are at risk for foreclosure, and I can’t keep up with my car payments.”
Many of the e-mails have been about gasoline prices. “How devastating it has been for folks who travel great distances to get to their cancer treatment,” one wrote. “I don’t go to church many Sundays, because the gasoline is too expensive to drive there,” said another. One man put it this way: “It costs me so much money in gas that my wife and I live on $6 per day to eat.”
In straightforward, plain language, the e-mails tell a truth that all the economic statistics sanitize. “We are barely staying afloat,” is how one writer summed it up.
More of the letters from Vermont and America are posted on his Web site here. http://www.sanders.senate.gov/qa/meetingqs.cfm
Read the emails from hard working middle class Americans. This is what this upcoming election has got to be about. As you make up your mind on which candidate to vote for let this be your sole determining factor.
Don’t be distracted by the smoke screen issues of gays, guns, abortion, etc. Don’t be scared by the boogy-men terrorists. Keep the candidates focused.
It’s the economy stupid. Education, Jobs, Housing, Healthare, Food and Fuel. Those are the issues of value to your family.
I resemble that remark!
Believe the Economy, Jobs, Housing, Healthcare, Food and Fuel are best resolved by markets not big government.
PT,
Vermont? You can find a better example of the “Economical Misfortunes of Americans, re Vermont, like Iowa where people’s politics as far as I can tell are right down the middle- the bread basket is underwater right now. I would like to hear from those folks.
Vermont the state that gave us Leftest Eugenics as in “Breeding Better Vermonters” available on Amazon.com The state that won’t pass Jessica’s Law at least one judge is into restorative justice. Yes these people would expect a “Socialist” solution to their problems. Wasn’t there a movement up there to impeach Bush? and another movement to Seceed from the Union? I was watching the Factor and Bill O’Reilly was asking what he could do to help secession movement…was that Vermont? They want to be pink so bad then why not off load them on Canada? Win Win.
You know Montana’s economy stays the same no matter what the rest of the Country’s enconomy is like, it has alot to do with Geography, they don’t attract alot of industry that requires alot of energy to run plants ect…those Industrys usually end up in the Sun Belt. Does Vermont’s geography have anything to do with their particular Economic situation?
Thanks for waking me up 🙂
Breeding Better Vermonters: The Eugenics Project in the Green Mountain State (Revisiting New England: The New Regionalism) (Paperback)
by Nancy L. Gallagher (Author)
This was a “Progressive” movement it did alot of harm and they say you can still find the old eugenics codes in Vermont schools. This isn’t well known, how deep this “progressive” social experiment and it’s results on modern day Vermonters, ***read the book reviews.
Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Eugenics — the study of human racial progress through selective breeding — frequently invokes images of social engineering, virulent racism, immigrant persecution, and Nazi genocide, but Vermont’s little known adventure in eugenics shows the inherent adaptability of eugenics theory and methods to parochial social justice. Beginning with genealogies of Vermont’s rural poor in the 1920s, and concluding in the 1930s with an expose of ethnic prejudice in Vermont’s largest city, this story of the Eugenics Survey of Vermont explores the scope, limits, and changing interpretations of eugenics in America and offers a new approach to the history of progressive politics and social reform in New England.
Inspired and directed by Zoology Professor Henry F. Perkins, the survey, through social research, political agitation, and education campaigns, infused eugenic agendas into progressive programs for child welfare, mental health, and rural community development. Breeding Better Vermonters examines social, ethnic, and religious tensions and reveals how population studies, theories of human heredity, and a rhetoric of altruism became subtle, yet powerful tools of social control and exclusion in a state whose motto was “freedom and unity.”
I would argue that the situation we are in with regard to the Economy, Jobs, Housing, Healthcare, Food and Fuel is the direct result of government interference in the markets.
Food for one. The government is deeply involved in the production of food through subsidies and tariffs. In fact the congress has just completed work on a new farm bill. To what extent will that bill reduce the price of food?
Here’s my favorite question. Why is the federal government subsidizing the cost of water for rice growers in the deserts of California. Does it make any sense to be growing Monsoon crops in the desert?
Or how about fuel. Why are we using corn as a fuel alternative in the face of global food shortages? The idiocy is compounded when you consider the amount of energy and water (environmental issues) that goes into the production of ethanol.
Why is the US sitting on 100 years worth of fuel? No drilling, no new refineries, based on government policy.
Nationalize oil refineries? The government is hard pressed to run the postal service, schools, parks, housing you name it. What makes the congress think they can run an oil refinery?
Then there is education. The government has been responsible for education since the beginning of time. When politicians point the finger at education there are 3 fingers pointing back to them.
Government doing more will lead to less…
Ignore the Promotions.
If you missed Rev. Teflon last night:
http://chickenhawkexpress.blogspot.com/2008/06/quick-hits-sharpton-haditha-and-obama.html
ENJOY!
My final Imus on the Nines up here on ImusTimes. Bernie does an alright job, however without the back and forth banter between Charles, Tony, Karith, Lou and Bernie the Producer. It’s a hard show to follow.
Channel has informed me that I-Mash found below my link to the presentation, My Yahoo Presentations are present.
Enjoy. And Enjoy the first day of summer.
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http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=MhBjYzxa3BGIowJsEpPZnA
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Later friends.
http://jaylizotte.com/2008/06/19/controversy/
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
— Bill Clinton
Looks like Rev. Teflon should take his advice:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06202008/postopinion/editorials/the_rev_doth_protest_116418.htm
ENJOY!
The lack of oil refineries in the United States is due more toward the attitude of free market policy, as well as strict EPA restrictions and regulations.
A good article on this subject:
“The Great Refinery Shortage
America needs oil. You’d rather have a beach condo.”
http://www.slate.com/id/2102031/
Also, as the major oil companies here domestically were given more relaxation on drilling for oil…they did not pump the oil out after drilling and locating it. They capped the wells…and sat on them. Why? Hedging on price levels. It makes no sense for the oil companies to open those domestically tapped and capped wells and produce the oil domestically for one reason…$$$.
As long as Americans will pay what the global price for oil is on the global markets and that oil is still available for purchase on the global markets…they aren’t about to release domestic drilled oil onto the domestic markets. They are about profits. During these very difficult times for America and it’s citizens, they have been able to make record profits. They are capitalists first, Americans second.
If the government said to the oil companies “Hey, ok, drill anywhere you please in the United States” and they did…you wouldn’t pay one cent less then than you are paying now. You may not believe that, but that is the truth.
The free market that dictated the policy that if you can manufacture overseas, and not here domestically making a larger profit, that became their prime objective and preferred way to “do business”.
The downfall? Reduced manufacturing capacity here at home, as well as other outsourced domestic jobs is now affecting the economy here, and across the U.S.
Every time a person loses their job: a city loses city tax, a State loses State tax, and the U.S. loses federal tax.
Where will they ever find the money to take care of our Countries’ (first and foremost) neglected infrastructure all the way down to finding relief to artificially inflated property taxes, taxes that have been raised for one reason alone: loss of personal income taxes due to people now working for less, or unable now to even find work.
It never ceases to amaze me that some economists still believe in “trickle down” economics. It Doesn’t work, it never did and never will.
You don’t “grow” a plant by watering just the flower. You feed the roots, the plant becomes stronger and will produce more flowers.
You have to “grow” an economy from the bottom up, not from the top down.
It’s unfortunate that in todays climate of greed led by the example of CEOs and Corporations, that they just love the “Flowers” and have absolute disdain or interest in the “Plant” that produces them.
One other thought:
Get off petrol. Completely. The cost ratio is getting close enough right now to start mass producing Hydrogen powered vehicles. In two months, the first ones will be available for lease here in America. Were they pioneered here in America or made here in America? Nope. They are coming from Japan. As demand rises, prices will come down.
The domestic automakers, while designing “home away from home houses on 4 wheels” instead of building things like economic and radically superior VEHICLES (simple transportation) that run not on polluting petrol instead of hydrogen fuel cells whose by product is simple H2o…
…those same domestic auto corporations (shortsighted by big profit while it can be made)…will once again be left in the dust with their pants down, and will no doubt be blaming the unions along with unfair trade policies for their own simplistic short term thinking.
When I first entered the job market here in America, I started out in the steel industry…and worked my way through just about every manufacturing aspect of our manufacturing based economy.
Here, today, some40 years later, I can personally attest to that unfortunate downfall. Put pure and simple: GREED.
While the money was there to be made, no one invested it into revitalizing and upgrading the manufacturing plants and facilities…
…no one put that capital into newer technologies relating to those manufacturing areas or plants….
…until it became too late. You tell ME: what DID they do with those huge profits?
Now, we have found ourselves in a huge mess. Col. Jack Jacobs last week on Imus adressed the very reaso why we are in the mess we are in…and he spoke of it perfectly.
(SHOUT OUT TO BRUCE): If you can post a Youtube of that interview with Col. Jack Jacobs, that would be awsome. He spoke to the point and hit the nail right on the head.
The problem is this:
Whether it’s the price of oil, or any other imported goods…
the American Dollar is in the toilet. It’s just about worthless overseas. WE DON’T MAKE ANYTHING ANYMORE! It’s no longer based on anything of substance or value.
If any of you missed Col. Jack Jacobs interview with Imus last week, I encourage you to get the podcast, or if Bruce can get the interview up here for us on the site, please listen to it. He really summed it all up quite nicely, and easy to understand for all.
Col. Jack Jacobs is one hell of a smart, sharp thinking man.
This is the lowest rated Congress in history. Who is leading in the Senate and the House – Reid and Pelosi who is the head of the DNC Howard Dean. How about the Democrats take back the Democrat Party and the majority rule and not the “Progressive” wing? A Liberal and Progressive are not the samething. I read that Liberals make up 19% of the voting electorate it is going to take more then 19% to get Obama elected, and if they paint him as a far left radical like they have been trying to, he is not going to appeal to the rest of the voting electorate. This is the General Election, he needs to move to the middle to get the most Votes.
McCain isn’t helping himself up in Canada singing the praises of NAFTA. One of the reasons my husband intially was going to vote for Obama was his position on NAFTA. Here is the thing you can’t renegotiate NAFTA either you keep it or you get rid of it. I take from both canidate’s speeches, neither is going to do anything but talk about NAFTA.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/108142/Confidence-Congress-Lowest-Ever-Any-US-Institution.aspx
We need Leadership and I only see Managers, running for President it is the difference btw your Government- Governing you or Ruling you. Americans don’t like to be Ruled.
I agree with you there Ree.
The ones’ that will be deciding this election will BE the “Middle Class”, and they have been stomped on and beaten down badly for the past 12 years…and they are NOT happy campers.
Americans, indeed do NOT like to be ruled. Being “led” by some intelligence, foresight and compassion would be a refreshing change. One thing we DON’T need is another career politician. The hunger out here in America is for a genuine STATESMAN that will LEAD.
I’m tired of the chasm of partisan bickering and NOTHING EVER getting done. No real solutions, just a few band aides.
When all the wealth, control and power gravitates to the top of the most elite of the country…that is a recipe for disaster.
According to Spike Lee it has nothing to do with the Economy it is all about “Flavor”
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/06/20/spike-lee-on-obama-theres-gonna-be-a-real-chocolate-city/
The United States of America is a Republic with Majority Rule and Minority Protection, the form of Government is Democracy. where was Spike Lee in high school civics class? IF Spike Lee is correct and this is a minority thing, then Hispanics are the largest minority now so what are we looking for in a Government a “Hot Tamale City” LMAO. Spike Lee will do anything to get his name mentioned in the newscycle.
I mentioned this before a big web-a-thon for the troops 5 more days.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/06/20/six-more-days-til-the-from-the-frontlines-web-a-thon/
Oil is critical to every aspect of our lives from agriculture, distribution, processing, manufacturing, transportation. The only off switch is to return to an agrarian economy. BTW that was no great shakes as our forbearers were at the mercy of weather, long days, little down time, dust bowls etc.
As a nation we need to face up to and set an agenda for an energy policy which creates jobs and opportunities. Oil, coal, shale nuclear, wind, solar, and alternative energy must all be in the mix. Recommit the US to production of basic goods starting with energy to provide the building block for manufacturing and production as a job engine.
“Recommit the US to production of basic goods starting with energy to provide the building block for manufacturing and production as a job engine.”
Since we have “allowed” the “free market place” to do just the opposite…I am not at all at ease with that statement. It will be a huge undertaking of the “free market place” to lead the way towards that goal.
As the past 40 years have shown us…the “free market” in the United States are more interested in “capital gains” and “profits” to render our nation to the lower level, in comparison to other countries that have seized upon exploring new technologies, putting their resources and money to do just that. We HAVE no money…and our country has squandered it’s most opportune time for a “new revolution” towards achieving that very goa…l for the sake of profit alone.
It’s a sad time, that other countries have advanced and taken advantage based on the very lessons that our Country once was at the forefront.
“that very goa”…
sorry…GOAL.
“towards achieving that very goa…l for the sake of profit alone.”
…achieving that very goal…for the sake of profit alone.
Have to quit for today…between Meds and pain…having “technical difficulties”… 😉
Strongest economies on the globe are market based. No other system comes close.
I might be one of those “glass is half full” kind of guys. Fact is the US is still the worlds largest economy and enjoys the highest standard of living for its residents. Proof? People from all over the globe migrate to the US for jobs and a better life.
US government has sat on top of the energy industry for decades limiting exploration and production of energy including oil, coal, shale, nuclear and yes even wind and solar.
A weak dollar isn’t a bad thing. It is good fiscal policy for US exports for example. Imagine today a Caterpillar bulldozer costs a developer in India 30% less then a year ago. All of a sudden US manufacturers are more competitive on a global basis. (Hint, leads to jobs) Conversely goods imported into the US are 30% more expensive then US produced goods. Offshoring is 30% more expensive. Means US produced goods are more competitive in US. (Hint, leads to jobs).
The US has the second highest corporate tax in the world. Providing global competitors with a pricing advantage here and in home markets. This is a policy which encourages US based Corps to leave profits offshore. (Hint, profits do not come back to the US for investment.)
People invest to make money. Capital gains and profits are the motivation behind technology improvements. Just ask Edison what was the key to developing the electric distribution system or Bell for the keys to the development of the phone system. Go to Silicon Valley and ask any venture capitalist or entrepreneur. (Hint, ask those guys who are working on hydrogen cells what their motivation is.)
“Just ask Edison what was the key to developing the electric distribution system ”
A good read on that very subject can be found on the below link. It also will show you, in detail, why the initial free market system floundered on this crucial aspect of what we now mostly take for granted, and why the States and the Federal Government got this massive undertaking up and running in a fair and equitable manner for all American citizens.
“History of the U.S. Electric Power Industry, 1882-1991”
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/page/electric_kid/append_a.html
Not even the great mesiah Obama will be able to repeal the law of supply and demand. Though many of his followers wish it.
“History of the U.S. Electric Power Industry, 1882-1991″
is a good example of what needs to be done to get us off petrol, and into a new and renewable form of energy for the entire country.
It will be an enormous task, involving partnerships with the private sector, State and our Federal Government. It will be the most expensive venture ever undertaken…yet if it is not done, the alternatives are not pleasant to think about.
The bottom line is: it will take a huge amount of MONEY and FINANCE.
Where are we going to get the funding? Will the major energy corporations take their massive profits that they have accumulated, match up with Federal funding and get it done?
Will they commit to something that HAS to be done, and actually get it up and running for the sake of the future needs of our Country…which will also include future capital gains and profits? Or, will they stay in the “comfort zone” that they now in…until the energy structure we presently have is gone…and the window of opportunity slowly closes before us?
I don’t see where ” the law of supply and demand” is up for change or repeal.
Supply (replace petrol with hydrogen power ( virtually inexhaustible, hence plenty of supply) and demand (the demand is already here and has been).
It comes down to a great shift in technologies and, again, reinvesting into a new power infrastructure.
It’s like saying, hey…candles have always worked fine for me. I don’t need an electric light bulb.
Unfortunately our government has put off the energy problem too long, thanks to rolling over to the environmentalists and the courts. The environmentalists very effectively learned how to use the court system and law suits to get their way.
All solutions need to be persued including nuclear. It’s so sad that the nuclear option has been put out to pasture. Look no further than France to see the benefit.
Hydrogen is indeed cool stuff. However, at minimum it is 10 to 15 years away. Honda is way out in front of hydrogen, but as the article below explains, it’s a long ways away. The car they just introduced costs $100,000 just to make.
This is why I agree with the POV that all options need to be explored full steam ahead including drilling like crazy, nuclear, hydrogen, etc. Biofuels like ethanol are just stupid, however, IMO.
My personal favorite idea is the following. There is enough coal in Montana to provide for our oil needs for 800 years. The technology exists already to turn coal into oil. I say pass a constitutional amendment and turn Montana into an environmental waste land and just have done with. And no I’m not kidding. 🙂
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/21/eveningnews/main4200339.shtml?source=mostpop_story
‘Spose Brokaw will show up on Imus?
If our nation has an old festering sore it is “eugenics” this is Malkin blogging but this isn’t that old a practice. George Allen when he was the Senator from Virginia helped pass legislation to right some of the wrongs of Walter Ashby Plecker enforcing his own eugenics agenda…that was pre WWII and eugenics has had that kind of social effect, the same with Vermont from what I have read you can still find the old eugenic’s code in their public school system.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/06/21/the-radical-intellectual-roots-of-the-eugenics-movement/
Congress needs to stop pretending they are not responsible for the energy situation. It’s time to face up to the damage they have done by placing excessive regulations and implementing moratoriums on energy development in this country. With $4 gas they are now approaching the tipping point to the average citizen’s patience with this nonsense.
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You reminded me of a book I read along time ago, (Congress needs to stop Pretending) I still have a condensensed copy o “Pillar of Iron” I may read it again this summer. There was another Republic that was lost and in decline at the mercy of tyrants. I don’t recognize any modern day “Cicreo” trying to save our Republic today.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/taylor-caldwell/pillar-of-iron.htm
No to drilling, No to refineries, No to coal, No to shale, No to nukes. No, No, No, No. Whose fault is it?
In all of life there are trade offs. Between being hostage to the middle east and the likes of Hugo Chavez and having to take some hits to the environment —- I choose taking the hits to the environment.
If done as well as possible the environmental hits can be held to a minimum. I recognize some damage will be done to say otherwize would be dumb.
We need to get this country back in control of its future!
It looks like there are people up in Vermont that have been having this same discussion.
http://futureofvermont.org/5Questions/Submissions?page=3
The oil companies have something like 60 million acres that they have yet to drill. Let them start there. I was appalled at the ugliness of the pipeline in Alaska. Humans are so arrogant, thinking that everything in this world is ours to use and abuse. The oil companies have a grip on everything and I wouldn’t be surprised if they are behind the price rise so the American people would get behind them and let them spoil all the unspoiled places left. Look at their profits! We need to invest more time and money into getting newer fuels and more efficient cars on the market pronto. And pay better attention to the environment so we don’t screw up more places. Prince William Sound is still not back to normal — still more clean up has to be done. I will protest to my dying day the sacrifice of our environment for the sake of big oil and our big appetite for oil.
Everything in life is a balance. If we’re broke we can’t take care of the environment because we won’t have the money. Problem with this country is there is no cohesive plan that has any logic or understanding of anything.
Skiwolf,
Isn’t that the definition of Bureaucracy?
This one really hurts me personally.
I just happened to be up when it came in.
Another I-fave gone.
Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Monday, June 23, 2008 — 1:15 AM ET
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George Carlin, the Comedian, Is Dead at 71
George Carlin, the Grammy-Award winning stand-up comedian and actor who was hailed for his irreverent social commentary, poignant observations of the absurdities of everyday life and language, and groundbreaking routines like “Seven Words You Can Never Use on Television,” died in Los Angeles on Sunday according to his publicist Jeff Abraham. He was 71.
He was one of my heroes. He showed me at young age the powers and possibilities of words. Not to mention laughter. And if you combine the two…
RIP George.
George Carlin is gone. God rest his Irish soul. I’ve already said a Hail Mary for him. Old habits never die – we were raised the same way ~ Irish Catholic. Speaking of Habits ~ who can forget Sister Mary Elephant’s – SHUUUUUUUUTUP! {I was raised by the Sisters of Mercy}. Whenever Imus would press that button, to interrupt a speaker, it cracked me up. Back in the day, George was so funny as the Hippy Dippy weatherman. God! George was a riot! He will be missed – but there are so many funny joke footprints he left behind – he’ll always be here. Bernie McGuirk has to be as sad as I am today ~ as are so many who read these postings. God Rest Your Irish Soul George.
Energy is more then cars it is the means of manufacture, production, distribution and transportation of goods. In a nutshell it is the lynchpin of the economy. No energy, no economy!
Carlin on the Seven Words…
EXPLICIT LANGUAGE
YOUTUBE CLICK | HERE
Monica Crowley is also promoting the web a thon for the troops. Check under her podcast. I thought Monica was supposed to be on IITM last week?
http://monicamemo.typepad.com/weblog/
Carlin had great influence on me I guess becuase I loved his rants about all things government and politics so much.
My son got introduced to the seven dirty words at well much too early an age and has been hooked ever since. Many I time he’d be up at 3:00am watching one of Carlin’s HBO specials and we’d have to have a couple of words about it.
One of my favorite early bits was about Catholicism and started, “Well I used to be an Irish Catholic but now I’m just an American, you know you grow.” Too funny for words!
Here we go again…………..
http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0608/A_new_Imus_controversy.html
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George Carlin brought the “inane” and “insane” aspects of culture and language to the glaring eyes of reality and honesty to the mind for reflection.
Exposing hypocrisy, along with the idiocies of language for what they were on the face of it all…
… that is what George Carlin did best.
Another treasure gone. Thank you, George Carlin…for making us look back at ourselves, our culture and our words…and making us think…and laugh.
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Why I loved George Carlin…and his “honesty” (explicit language).
I hope this works…lol.
FreeHi-Q 6-23-2008_2 (2586KB)
It didn’t work…lol. Maybe Bruce can help me out. 😉
WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS…….
http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/06/23/fanhouse-interview-jemele-hill-on-her-hitler-comment-don-imus/
Guess I mis-spoke when I said George did the Sister Mary Elephant routine – Oh well – I must have been stoned while listening to both Carlin & Cheech & Chong back in the day. {Smoke em if ya got em} LOL.
No problem Stdomsgirl…
… they came about on the same scene and era. Bruce has emailed me and has said he will put the Youtube of the clip of George Carlin I was “trying” to put up. In advance, thank you Bruce…a better friend I could not have hoped for. 😉
Imus in trouble again? What say you?
Bloggers are going wild. I don’t think that I can go through this again.
IMUS RESPONDS:
http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/there-he-goes-again-more-racial-comments-from-imus/
ENJOY
REV. AL WEIGHS IN:
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?
section=news/entertainment&id=6223130
No, please not again!! I can’t stand this! I know most of you feel the same way, but I just…
Is this the BS they are talking about?
http://www.faniq.com/blog/Don-Imus-Makes-Racist-Comment-About-Adam-Pacman-Jones-Blog-9784
No references. Was it today? Will look into it.
What comments? Whats up? Why is that CREEP Sharpton involved?
Yes Bruce thats the one…this is just too much!!!!!
Imus responds
http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/there-he-goes-again-more-racial-comments-from-imus/
Imus responds:
http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/there-he-goes-again-more-racial-comments-from-imus/
IMUS RESPONDS:
http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/there-he-goes-again-more-racial-comments-from-imus/
IMUS RESPONDS:
http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/there-he-goes-again-more-racial-comments-from-imus/
ENJOY!
http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/there-he-goes-again-more-racial-comments-from-imus/
The Donald Inks Link will not be on You Tube.
But if you have Pando you can download the 3:44 seconds here.
http://cache.pando.com/soapservices/Package/package.pando?id=1147D4E470D6A62D5E340AE8165B3A247C734F62&key=806AF7B5A75D5C927134B0CEF3EB8E22328B5212D8A09018FA9901AD44C40C07&tt=S2W&embedId=97F3CF3F1384E9E1AD0258AC4CE72DA8
Well I cannot find Sharp-Tongues comments because the link Harley gave me I cannot get to.
Need a re-do please.
Will be reviewing the entire first three hours in about a 1/2 hour.
Whatever it was MMFA didn’t catch it. So it couldn’t have been that bad.
Here it is Bruce:
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?
section=news/entertainment&id=6223130
ENJOY
http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/watchdog/blog/
Lots of interesting stuff on Neil’s blog today including comments re: Iman and Pacman, Sid (who is going to host live on-line chat Tues.), and the Francesa/Maddog whoha as well as lots of Carlin!
Is it summer is the media trying to change the focus is Obama falling in the polls? Is there a distraction in the works? Imus isn’t going to fall prey to another slow news day. MSM Making news out of nothing at all. Except there is no Phil Griffin that is going to put Imus on the Apology Tour. This is pretty typical of the Scalp Hunters it’s not “original” but then again it may give Imus a bump in his ratings…tune into bad boy broadcasting live from his Ranch for Children with Cancer the nerve of Imus’ LOL!
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/23/imus-steps-in-it-again/
Oh Great now Sheppard Smith is going to come back after the commercial break and explain to everyone what Imus said, Really, I guess we all know the answer don’t we, they are being monitored still, like this is Communist China.
http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/there-he-goes-again-more-racial-comments-from-imus/
#65…
Well, sorry to hear a person of George Carlin’s nature to “tell it like it is” has passed. I guess we have been regulated to a bunch of PC Pussies that are hell bent on stripping us all of Freedom of Expression…and Thoughts….or worse.
Hell, we have to settle for “Pando” instead of Youtube”.
Very sad indeed.
Don’t worry. Neil Best is on the case. Also Imus Truth has got a thread going already with a link from the NYT’s.
http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/there-he-goes-again-more-racial-comments-from-imus/#comment-37405
My comment along with the other will appear. Any time Al Sharpton is involved with something, you know it’s stupid.
Let’s all please calm down. Tomorrow is another day. All will be fine.
But just in case get your battle gear ready.
A Tribute to George Carlin
Last heard on Imus December 14, 2007
BrucesYahooTubes
Well Ree,
Understand your frustration. But don’t know if the “F” word would be acceptable on You Tube. Or Yahoo Video’s.
Pando is free and easy to use. And Ginger use to get my 9 O’Clock hour. Not quite sure you were aware of that.
Give her a shout and get my address again if you want them. I am doing the entire 3 hours of Imus Today as we speak.
Sorry Donald. I did the best I could do.
Sorry Ree. Mis-read or mistook the avatar as yours.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/06/don_imus_draws_fire_again_for.html
Well
I am arguing with someone on Hot Air who doesn’t like it when they refer to Imus as a Conservative really that is what this person is focusing on. And if Imus thinks that Black people get signaled out more then other ethnicities he is INSANE then. Yeah black folks don’t get profiled by the police-authorities more then anyone else…If you white when was the last time security followed you around in a store? I know, it like starting at ground zero first you have to get someone to agree that Black people get signaled out more often but according to this person on Hot Air commenting you would have to be INSANE to believe that. You know I really think Human Evolution is really going in reverse.
It’s like starting at ground zero….alrighty then.
New thread…