Good stuff, Brad. Grab a few hours of sleep whenever you can, you're gonna need it!

Thanks a lot Brad! And great to see you getting so much good public exposure. It's the best thing you can do right now IMHO!

I for one look forward to hearing the recording if it becomes available.

As Winter Patriot said though, please get some good rest! No good for any of us if you burn out man! And you will be sharper and enjoy yourself more when rested.

Thanks again, all the very best!

Just reiterating the same as others... take things one step at a time... I'm sure everyone who's followed things here for a while wants you to stay healthy and motivated rather than worry about responding instantly to every email you get!!

You, Bev (bbv), John (americablog), Reps. conyers & slaughter (and many others) have been running around doing so much against corruption... just make sure you get your rest and don't burn yourself out, people like you are needed in society.

Good luck with the crazy schedule.. and don't let the inexcusably ignorant, brainwashed, moronic wingnuts get you down! (though.. you seem to be laughing at them more than anything which is probably the best attitude to have.)

Peace!!

Hey Brad, when do you sleep???

Thom Hartmann is one of my heros! (And that was even BEFORE I knew he was a political writer!) His book, "Hunter in a Farmer's World", gave me hope and the courage to make the right decisions for my son when he was only a preschooler and the rest of the world seemed intent on crushing his wild and creative spirit and drugging him into numbness. I can't even count how many copies of that book I've given away.

Long story, just tell him one of the hunters with a hunter child says hello

Listening to you with Dave von Kleist right now. I started checking out The Power Hour after Lizz Winstead was dropped from Air America's Unfiltered. Great to hear you'll be on Thom Hartmann. I found his show after he filled in for Randi Rhodes. Good stuff. You're doing a great job! Haven't you been on RadioLeft too? I enjoy their weekend replay of the entire week of shows. Word's getting out....

Good job Brad. All your hard work is finally starting to pay off. Like the others have said, get as much rest as you can so you don't burn out. We'll keep the home fires burning here.

The federal vs state government issue brought up on The Power Hour sounds wacko at first but is worthy of consideration. I at first thought that they were alluding to the assertion popularized by Gore Vidal, that Republicans and Democrats are two right wings of the Property Party. That they are both fielded by the same elites. It's a false choice. We don't get to choose someone who represents the underclasses, rather we choose between two elites who represent corporations and elites. Notice how many democrats sided with republicans regarding the bankruptcy legislation, for the banking and credit industry to the detriment of their own constituents.

Can we use this as an open thread?

This may be politically incorrect, but could it be a fairly appropriate comparison?

Hi Cheryl. Linking bright and early, I see!

Good luck to you Brad. And thank you!

I believe that this is how a lot of Americans are feeling these days. How much longer before the others see it, I wonder?

Cheryl #10 -

That's a good read; but I wonder how someone even moderately intelligent could be quite THAT head-in-the-sand. I've been reading the handwriting on the wall since before the election of 1980. It's an ugly, inhuman script.

War on terror may breed more terrorism. How much are they paying these guys to figure that out, I wonder?

This is so hypocritical. The chemical companies paid US Vietnam war veterans because of their claims that Agent Orange affected their health, but on the other hand argued that there was no proof that it affected the health of Vietnamese people. And the court dismissed the charges. WTF? Is there nothing fair in the world anymore? Was there ever, or have I been labouring under the illusion of fairness all these years?

Hi Peg C,
With all the excitement the last couple of days I kinda feel like I've lost touch with you all. Re #11, it never ceases to amaze me how so many otherwise seemingly intelligent people believe everything they see on TV or read in the newspaper. Even though most of us, at one time or another have been featured, or knew someone who was featured in the newspaper or TV. And most of us know that very rarely do those *journalists* get the story right. Why would it be any different with really important issues- LIKE GOING TO WAR!!

Gee, what a surprise. The Pentagon investigated itself and found that there was no link between *approved* interrogation techniques and detainee abuse. That should relieve a lot of people's concerns.

Hi again, Cheryl and Peg.

That's a good article in #8. My answer to your question, Cheryl: "Damn the political correctness, let's tell the truth for a change. "

The author of the piece in #10 may seem horribly naive to some of us (such as Peg), but that's the value of it. Even the very naive are starting to sense that something might be a bit wrong here. I still believe that the harder we work to find and spread the truth, the faster that group will grow.

As for the article in #12, it's got irony dripping from nearly every paragraph. The "inside scoop" on last year's Madrid train bombings was that "the terrorists" were heavily infiltrated by the Spanish government, which staged the attacks in a desperate [and ultimately futile] attempt to get re-elected. For reasons I won't get into here, that made a lot of sense to me at the time.

But it didn't work. The Spanish people seemed to sense what was happening, and they threw the bums out of office. Fancy that!

Hi Winter!

Nice to see ya. I agree with everything you said.

And Peg C, more on #11- the horrible tragedy involving the four RCMP officers in Alberta is a good example of what I was talking about.

Newspapers are busily trumpeting that it happened because of organised crime and grow ops. And that the shooter was a horrible, evil career criminal. As it turns out, the man was a mentally ill person who had not been helped by our society at all, rather thrown out and left to fend for himself. Obviously he was not managing too well. He actually had a hassle going with the Ford Motor co. about a truck he had bought. When the bailiff came to seize the vehicle, he was accompanied by an RCMP officer. When the RCMP returned in force because they had found a chop shop, with a small personal grow-op on the side, he freaked out. Course, the other story is better.

Cheryl #17 -

I don't find a link to the RCMP story.

Changing the subject a bit, here's an amusing link I picked up at Cannonfire. Cute, isn't it?!

Hi again Peg. Here's a link to the RCMP deal ... um... er ... story, and lots of other related [disinformational?] links.

Thanks WP for providing that link to Peg. The other part of the story is that the four young men didn't have to die. They were all rookies; one had only been on the job since Valentine's Day. They were not warned about this man and how dangerous he was. They had no experienced supervisors with them. In short, the RCMP screwed up big time. Four young lives snuffed out because of irresponsibility on the part of their superiors. But the big story is the grow op, right?

Cheryl: do you have any links to the *real* story here?

I mean I know you're [probably;-)] not making all this stuff up, but where are you learning it?

Kes asked:
"Hey Brad, when do you sleep???"

That's what I'm wondering, Kes.

Thanks all for the supportive words! Onward... (And I think my 4:30pm interview has been rescheduled for another day...So maybe a nap?

Maybe two naps?!!

Hey WP,

Re #21- No, I don't have any links. My Mom and I were driving somewhere the day after the shooting and listening to the radio. We had seen the Dad ranting about marijuana turning his son into the devil the night before on TV. The radio, and I'm pretty sure it was CBC, was interviewing the mother. She's the one who said all that.

Apparently, there was a marriage breakdown. There are six or seven kids in the family. She left the kids with the Dad, presumably for financial reasons. He threatened to adopt them out. She got them back.

She was the one telling about the hassle with Ford. Apparently he had bought a new truck from the local dealer. Either it had a dent in the bed or he dented it. Anyway, he took it back and told them he wanted a new truck. They said no, they would fix it. He said if they didn't replace it he wouldn't make the payments. They said fine, we'll repossess. When the time came to get the truck, the bailiff knew about his reputation and requested an RCMP escort. They got the truck.

I'm not sure how they discovered the chop shop, whether it was at that time or if someone said something to them, but when they returned a day or two later it sent him over the moon. It was then they discovered the small, personal grow op. Weird story, huh?

Anyway, the point was how bad the press screws up the real story, all for the sensationalism and to sell more papers.

Cheryl: thanks for that. So it's another spin-a-rama! Wow! Who'd a thunk it?

Thank goodness for CBC radio!

This thread is more or less open, or at least has "Mayhem" in the title, so it's probably a good place to repost this link, List of Murdered Scientists, which was mentioned on the Lemme thread. Good eye, Merlin.

Some spooky stuff here, gang.

Hey again!

I found part of the story in the archives, but I can't seem to find the Mom's interview.

Winter,
Here's another small piece of the puzzle.

Thanks again Cheryl.

In Defense of America: The REAL Media Bias

Makes sense to me!

Since this is an open thread, I have a question, for Brad, Winter Patriot, or anyone else who might know:

Is there any way that a reader could log on and filter a certain name so as not to see any of their posts? I jump over the trolls' posts anyway but JAYZUS they can waste a lotta bandwidth!

Not a huge deal, just wondered.

Okay, okay, so I'm lazy, so sue me

Oh, and in the National Post, it turned out that there weren't 120 plants; rather 20. Here's the link. It's titled, "A Tuesday Surprise"

Further proof that you're not going to get any unbiased ANYTHING from the MSM: ABC's Boston Legal, a series devoted to exposing censorship is itself being censored

Kes asked:

"Is there any way that a reader could log on and filter a certain name so as not to see any of their posts?"

Sorry. Not that I can think of.

And never mind the nap. NYTimes coming over shortly to take my photograph...

I can nap after I die I guess. WHICH I HOPE WILL BE A VERY LONG TIME FROM NOW!!!

Brad #34...

I woudn't count on napping after you die. They say that you can end up singing and dancing forever in the paradise of the Elysian Fields. As good a boy as you have been, you might end up there. So you'd better nap now.

Peg #33,
Oh that sucks! I like Boston Legal. The orginal script would have been sooooo much better.

Wow!! You're a true patriot! I cancelled my subscription to the Orlando Sentinel Pravda after 24 years for lack of true journalism. Please keep up the good work!

I like Thom Hartmann very much. I think he is aware, well spoken, and a good man.

Once on Air America he did some dramatic reading from Mein Kempf, and it was compelling.

Wow! A picture in the NYT? The paper we love to hate?? Doggone it, that's downright mean of them, robbing us of the pleasure. When is ti scheduled to appear, or do you know?

Our own celebrity...

Teresa -

I like Hartmann too. I WISH I could avail myself of these recordings; but I'd be downloading 'til the cows came home or the 'puter died of old age or something.

Hi all,

Need a laugh?
I found this at Democratic Underground. I don't think it really happened, but it gave me a much needed smile.

:O)

And this reminds me of **sh'a foreign policy style.

Should read: **sh's

Sipersoling #42 -

God, that's good. I wonder whether the B-word's Al Qaeda "perpetrators" have found their next victims yet and notified the camera crews.

Should read: "Supersoling"

Has everyone cottoned on to this - the U.S. unit that fired on Giuliana Sgrena's vehicle, on its way to the Baghdad airport, was a "security" unit assigned to protect Negroponte? It was NOT an ordinary checkpoint. It was on "temporary" duty to protect our precious incoming ambassador. Those Italians didn't have a chance. They had alerted all standing personnel that they were coming through. This "special" unit either didn't have a clue or was exempt from the military's "instructions."

Link here

Where is the outrage?
The U.S. continues to spit in the face of the world.

Here is the latest hypocrisy, I mean, hypo CRAZY. When is the last time that Israel was forced to adhere to U.N. resolutions?

Fuckers

Linkey no workey.

Go to Anti-war.com and read the top news story for today.

Hello Good People!
I asked Mme.Zaratamara to consult the Great Book of Changes on this topic of getting out of Iraq, and the reading is as right-on and mind-blowing as ever!
( out of 64 possible hexagrams, it said "RETREAT"!)
Check out my new blog, "Mme.Zaratmara reads the I Ching", at
http://z-i-ching.blogspot.com/ (Post is first one after the introduction).
Bia Winter
Zaratamara
by Zaratamara (wintertracy@earthlink.net) on Fri Mar 11th, 2005 at 07:33:27 AM EST

Morning all! Anyone watch Desperate Housewives? Here's a light, slightly humourous reading for this morning.

As an ex-Desperate Housewife, I know where she's coming from. Cute (as in acute) and funny, Cheryl. Thanks.

Winter Patriot #49 -

Here's the same story at Editor and Publisher

Here's a link for Dredd, concerning his favorite hobbyhorse, no "Constitutional" right to vote. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., has introduced legislation for an amendment that would make the right to vote a federal statute. The Fundamental Right You Don't Have

How about this?

More from our great friend Lloyd Axworthy, this time about THE POWER OF BLOGGERRS!!

"Being blogged is something of a bewildering, if not bewitching, experience.
Shortly after my Open Letter to Condi Rice appeared in View from the West last week, my Blackberry began to hum. Since then, there has been a constant flow --- at times a flood --- of e-mails from around the world offering comments, compliments, critiques and even a few marriage proposals. (My wife wants to know what the trade-in value might be).

The explanation from those who know about such things is that I had been blogged --- my somewhat-cheeky chiding of the U.S. secretary of state had been picked up by various websites and chat-rooms, extending the reach of the written word far beyond the range of this newspaper's circulation.

I had certainly read often enough about the revolution in communication that was underway, and had even lectured about the potential that information technology offers for global education, fostering world-wide understanding and exchange. But until one is personally and directly impacted, as I was this week, the full power of cyberspace connection is hard to grasp."

Brother Loyd speaks again

Shit! >>> I mean BLOGGERS.

I REALLY MEAN BLOGGERS.

POWER TO US ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh sure Peg now you tell us.

Though the U.S. and Italian versions of what happened March 4 do not match up, ``I'm sure that in a very short time every aspect of this will be clarified,'' Berlusconi said.

Sure Silvio! You bet!
Of course every aspect will be clarified.
This is becoming official propaganda.
Another square in the crazy quilt.

Don't read more about official propaganda in The Capture That Wasn't on please don't read my blog