Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Dawkins and Myers Discuss New Expelled Doc Plus Related Toon
And kind of related: Richard Dawkins and PZ Meyers discuss the new pro creationist film "Expelled".
Labels: atheism, Mr. Fish, Richard Dawkins
Other Ways to Protest the Olympics
You know, instead of boycotting the Olympics, you could show your unhappiness about what's happening in Tibet in other ways. There is a precedent for that sort of thing. I'm making the presumption that China won't shoot you and send payment for the bullet to your family, at least not with the whole world watching. I'm of the opinion that these kinds of boycotts only punish the athletes and don't really change anything politically.
Labels: olympic protest
Leaving My Cable Channels Behind
So I got the three in one cable deal a year or two back and I ended up paying about 100 dollars a month initially. Then when the reductions and rebates wore off that ballooned to about $150. So I got rid of most of my cable channels (I pay nine bucks a month for local channels, plus BET and the Golf channel, pretty much two of the most useless channels ever.) I kept my Internet service and my phone. It was actually cheaper to keep some cable channels as opposed to getting rid of it completely, although it looks like I may have been given some incorrect info from my helpful Comcast service provider.( An aside: I was originally told that if I got rid of all my remaining cable channels I would be paying about 110 a month for my two remaining services where if I kept some channels it would be 55 dollars a month for all three services. So I chose option two naively enough. I later found out that my bill would be closer to 80 bucks a month. Like I said: helpful, if you define "helpful" as a lack of accuracy or candor. Looking into Vonage as I type this...)
I have to admit I don't miss cable at all. I'm actually physically angry over what happened to BET on Jazz ( And Goddamn you Reginald Hudlin.) where they turned one of the most interesting music stations ever into the usual mediocre BET nonsense. I guess the white corporate owners just couldn't stand all those articulate black men who weren't in jail playing their instruments at a high level. We wouldn't want that, especially since for some reason they're not in jail as outlined in The Plan. Another reason, aside from bitterness, I don't miss cable at all is that I can pretty much watch all the television I want online. Here are some of the services I found and this is by no means a complete list.
Choose and Watch
(Not the usual cable fare but over several hundred channels. Plus free porn. You shouldn't watch it because it repeats too often.)
Online TV attempts VEOH and MIRO.
I haven't even attempted to check out their vast libraries yet.
Hulu
New attempt by Fox and NBC to put most of their television content online. There are shows here that I haven't seen in years and are especially cool to watch at night. Watching the Night Gallery right now.
Surf the Channel
Doesn't seem entirely legal. Should I be able to watch Jumper or American Gangster online... I'm just not sure.
Smashing Telly
A place to find online documentaries.
Better Humans TV
A great place to find bleeding edge science documentaries.
List of Online TV Stations from Zeropaid
Again, not totally legal I'm sure but it's hard to regulate those Asian Youtube stations.
The Acid Jazz Channel
The best music channel that I've ever made. I play mostly music at my music channel. Crazy huh?
And that's not even a complete list. I even found Farscape. This week, two of the shows that I would have missed, Smallville and South Park (which puts all their shows online anyway.) I found online. Notice I haven't even had to use Bittorrent yet. Besides, that would be wrong.
I guess this is the future.
Labels: Comcast, internet television
Dave Stevens Tribute
Dave Stevens, the creator of the Rocketeer, passed away. More of his good girl art over at my classy porn page The Red Light District. (Classy!). From the Comics Journal message board and the Comics Journal Blog. My fave Dave Stevens cover below.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Questions About Working America at Indy Media
Sincerely,
Philip Shropshire
www.threeriversonline.com
PS: I'm also curious about the other year round canvass as well: The Clean Water Action Project.
Labels: Jenn Jannon
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Congrats to Walter Ray Watson or We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful
Bloom County character Oliver Wendell Jones and NPR Senior Producer Walter Ray Watson: Separated at birth? Actually, it was a closer resemblance before Walt got the dreds...
Morrissey was right. We hate it when our friends become successful. My former New Pittsburgh Courier colleague Walter Ray Watson is the recipient of a Nieman Fellowship. I think that means he gets to teach and write for a year or a summer and he still gets to go back to his job at NPR when he's done. One of the great crimes of this world would be if Walter was unable to finish a book--I mean, any book--before he leaves this plane. One of the most gifted natural stylists I've ever seen, let alone worked with. Congrats. I should note that this gives me another opportunity to take a shot at my old union busting Courier boss Rod Doss. Keep in mind that not only did Rod not hire Tony Norman, arguably the most interesting essayist in the local corporate media, he wouldn't give Walter a recommendation. True, that's because he sort of supported the union I organized down there. I guess that's the kind of thing that angers a pro life republican. But, and I do so hate giving Rod any credit at all, perhaps its best to have a bad father than no father at all. Rod at least hired you when the white papers in this town wouldn't. I have to also confess I'm also interested in the topic he's studying which is: "will study how the new media will affect communities that lack access to the changing way news and information are delivered." Welp, as Walt used to write, I think the answer is that the new media will probably supplant and replace most of what now constitutes the mainstream media or at least that's my sincere hope. I do hope that NPR is the last to fall, however, in that they do represent excellence. One snarky point: shouldn't someone who's writing about the New Media actually have a blog or two? Then again, I suppose you could talk about my Morrissey impression among other embarrassing hijinks that we had at the Courier, which we once joked about turning into a sitcom proposal...
Labels: walter ray watson, we hate it when our friends become successful
Thursday, April 03, 2008
New Get Your War Ons
What Should Have Appeared March 20
Sorry for the light posting. I can only logically conclude that its cause was...Satan! Satan I sez. New Get Your War Ons. Related to the cartoon above: New piece at the Black Agenda Report about the Black Prison Gulag and the Prison State. I might note that the Black Agenda Report and independent African American bloggers are what a real black press should look like. Or a black press that doesn't have to cater to conservative white advertisers or the local Republican Party. Yes I could be alluding to the New Pittsburgh Courier, run by pro life republican Rod Doss last time I checked. Not unlike a "Jewish" paper being run by Palestinians.
Labels: get your wars ons
Two Blasphemous Toons
The Israeli Lobby Targets Obama
The "Lobby" might be targeting Sen. Obama. From Muzzlewatch:
In (Some) Jews Against Obama, the Nation’s Eric Alterman has the most in-depth roundup I’ve seen yet of charges leveled against Obama by various American Likudnik Jewish leaders including Mort Klein of the the Zionist Organization of America, Malcolm Hoenlein of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and a counsel at the American Jewish Committee.
During the past few months a small group of neoconservative Jews, many of whom hold key positions in the world of official Jewish institutions, have been working to undermine the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama with a series of carefully planted character assassinations and deliberately misleading innuendo.
Alterman quotes Matthew Yglesias:
“First Obama was an anti-Semite because Zbigniew Brzezinski is an anti-Semite. Then Obama was an anti-semite because Robert Malley is an anti-semite. And now according to [Commentary’s Noah] Pollack [sic] it’s Samantha Power who’s tainted by Jew-hatred.”
As usual, attempts at painting Obama as anti-Israel have had almost no traction with the majority of American Jews, whose liberal views comport with Obama’s with quite nicely.
What exactly are they so scared of? Alterman writes:Perhaps it is honesty about the issue. Speaking to a largely Jewish audience in Cleveland, Obama explained, “There is a strain within the pro-Israel community that says unless you adopt an unwavering pro-Likud approach to Israel, you’re anti-Israel and that can’t be the measure of our friendship with Israel.” Then came his kicker: “One of the things that struck me when I went to Israel was how much more open the debate was around these issues in Israel than they are sometimes here in the United States.” No wonder he scares them so…
Related: One hour Dutch documentary about the Israel lobby, features Mearsheimer and Walt and another black politician that was targeted by AIPAC. You know, if we had a legitimate black press that would be a big story. If we had such a thing...
Labels: AIPAC, know your enemies, Obama
The Return of Return to Forever
One of the greatest bands, ever, is reuniting this summer. They say the time is right. I think the time is right and they won't be able to play these songs for much longer. These aren't tunes for old men. Kneel before their greatness here and here and here. Kneel! And avert your eyes...This is, by the way, completely a Youtube phenomenon because Tony Mowad and WDVE don't play this kind of music. They just don't. But if you want to hear Harrison Bergeron players who aren't allowed to jump higher and dance better on commercial and even non commercial radio--also featured on the Acid Jazz Channel-- go to Youtube. Watch this and this. Related: If you're looking for a kewl band name, then you can't go wrong with "Death Camp for Cats".
Labels: return to forever
Democracy Now Piece on Joseph Stiglitz's Three Trillion Dollar War
Most shocking news story I've read in awhile. Get the transcript and the audio and/or visuals here.
Labels: democracy now, joseph stiglitz
Harlan Ellison On Early Days of Science Fiction and Scientology
Labels: harlan ellison, robin williams, ron hubbard, scientology
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
11 Notes That I Would Attach to Bricks I've Thrown Through Bank Windows
May 3
11 Notes I Would Attach to Bricks I've Thrown Through Bank Building Windows
I was reading this interesting Uncle Scam post and it got me thinking what note would I attach to bricks or pieces of concrete that I've thrown through bank building windows. Here's what Social Youth Chaos wrote:
“No entry was gained and nothing was taken, so it appears this was the delivery of some kind of message by the perpetrators,” Andy Oakley with Bremerton police said.
Police said the content of the notes were all the same and read as follows:
“Directions: Attach to brick and throw through window”
“Here is your brick back."
"Recognize it? You should.”
“It is part of the wall that you, as one of the elite upper class, have helped to build between the minority ruling class, and the majority working class throughout history. By flaunting your decadence, you have made yourself a target.”
“Get used to it!”
“Social youth chaos-f___ s___ up!”
I came up with 11 such notes. This certainly isn't an endorsement of perhaps justified vandalism against the state. As I've been saying quite a bit lately: I have the same respect for the rule of law as does the current president of the United States, perhaps even slightly more, which probably isn't saying much. (Note to ineffective local hooligans: Notice they attacked banks and not eco friendly food stores.)
Look, I read the financial reports, its not as if you'll be standing here a long time anyway...
I'll turn myself in as soon as the attorney general I appointed charges me.
I would appreciate it if you would ignore this brick just like you ignore impeachment and a million dead iraqis.
Hey, I tried voting...
If life was fair, I'd get a parade and you would be locked up for usury you bankin' bitches...
Hey, you said you wanted the house back because I couldn't pay the mortgage...
Redline this!
And I'm not too thrilled with the insurance industry, either.
There might be some anonymous people out here who aren't just only upset about scientology. Just sayin'...
This is in no way a modern day cointelpro psyop meant to trigger massive detention camp arrests, followed by subsequent rioting and thereby a legitimate "shock doctrine" excuse to cancel elections and permanently keep Bush in power. But if you need more explanation call me at NSA headquarters, across the street from the book deposity and remember the codename is "Operation Grand Slam".
- I'll have you know that despite this latest attack against the evil institutions of the state I still have more respect for the law than the current president of the United States. I mean, at least I haven't killed anybody, yet.
Labels: and so it begins, social youth chaos
My Endorsement of Obama or Anybody But the Clintons
Booman, the Anti-Kos, seems to think that Obama has it in the bag. I agree.
Anyone that reads this blog knows that I am pulling for Barack Obama and that I have low personal regard for Mrs. and Mr. Clinton. So, yeah, I am biased. But Obama won the night tonight by every available measure. Chuck Todd on MSNBC has done the national delegate estimate (using the most optimistic Clinton campaign projections for California) and got: Obama 841 Clinton 837. It will probably be a slightly larger lead for Obama, but not more than 15-20 additional delegates.
Obama didn't just win the delegate battle, he won the states battle. Obama won (14) Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Alabama, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Minnesota, North Dakota, Idaho, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Alaska. Clinton won (8) New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Arkansas, California, Arizona, and Oklahoma.
Then there is the expectations game. Obama had two big upsets in Connecticut and Missouri, while Clinton had none.
The next set of primaries favors Obama. Of course, it will never be an inevitable win for the first viable African American candidate. Even The Great Orange Satan has it right:
So how will this shake out? Beats me. But task one is for Obama to survive this Tuesday. If he does, task two is for Hillary to survive this month. If she does, then they both have to survive the mini-Super Tuesday on March 4th. If they do, this thing goes to Pennsylvania. Or to North Carolina.
Or to the convention.
You know, when I was growing up as a young black man, other older African Americans would say something to me at various times, usually at church or a social function. And what they often said was "We are not loved." Just out of the blue. I always wondered what that meant as a young person full of optimism, back then anyway. Now, as a grumpy older black person, and winner of about $20000 grand from discrimination lawsuits against two allegedly "liberal" institutions, I now realize that was a slightly more subtle way of saying "We are a deeply hated people". Last hired, first fired. Watch as black men with college degrees get turned away from the job while the white man who uses yinz as a noun and no high school diploma not only gets the job but also gets the promotion. If you're a lucky black person, you might even get to train him. I live in a country where black men are, really, if you look at it, groomed for the prison system and/or low grade wage slavery where you never ever get to get out.
That's why I didn't originally endorse Obama. We're not loved. Really. I still think the safest bet was John Edwards. You run a risk nominating either a woman or an African American to the presidency. But if it's a choice between the Clintons and Obama, then Obama is clearly the better choice. Both have strongly hinted that they're corporate dems which means, probably, very little changes in the lives of ordinary Americans. On the other hand, I think that when the Democratic Party controls the White House then things can get a little better. Sane people on the courts would be nice too.There would be no Americorps if Bill Clinton hadn't become president. True, when I worked for Americorps I worked at a church which is as symbolic of the Clinton legacy as anything (I never told any of my students to pray though. I told them to think their way out of problems). Remember: The Clintons left the country in the hands of fascist republicans and a cave in mentality that has really turned both parties into the servants of the Republican ruling classes. I guess I've seen what the Clintons have done--and I also have this sneaky feeling that they didn't mind losing democratic party majorities in both houses because it strengthened the presidency and their own personal war against the party's base--and I think its time to give a family other than Bush or Clinton a chance to do good or even ill. Couldn't do any worse quite frankly.
One more thing on why the Edwards choice wasn't only the most progressive choice, but the safest. If you were appalled by the tactics of the Clintons (okay mostly Bill. He loves his hawt wife. Who knew.), then just wait for the GOP onslaught. Expect Obama's middle name to be used in all of those unauthorized yet effective 527 ads. Horrible stuff. I mean, I think the country is ready for a big change but it won't be easy. Not to mention that the country's real terrorist threat comes from the American right. They're the ones who kill with impunity. I like to think those Nazi Stormfront groups will just sit on their hands and blog about it, terrified of secret service protection but I doubt it....
Mittens dropping out isn't good. Mike Huckabee is a nightmare candidate in that he's completely likeable, strikes me as authentic (non McCain trophy wife and all...) and the Republican wall streeters hate him. Now Mike gets a one on one race with McCain, or Bob Dole II, who I think is a very beatable candidate in a general election. I'd much rather face Bob Dole II in a general election than Mike Huckabee. Not that I would vote for MIke. See here and here. More GOP awfulness...Related: Why Richard Dawkins is a mean ol' atheist.
Labels: Obama
Have I Mentioned That I'm Suing Jenn Jannon?
Oct. 11
Have I mentioned that I'm suing Jenn Jannon, (featured in the video above)Tim Gray and Working America (again) for Refusal to Hire? I applied for this job again. This is simply a neutral observation of fact or "reporting". For the record, I'm probably the most qualified canvasser in Western Pennsylvania. I ran a canvass for three years and in fact I'm pretty sure it was one of the few canvasses to work against NAFTA. This is my thanks, again, that's just critical assessment or "critique", offered in good spirits certainly.
This is public record written before our settlement agreement, where Jenn Jannon and her management style is discussed. This is offered in the productive positive spirit that Working America's hiring practices are above board, rational and that Jenn Jannon would certainly have nothing to hide or be ashamed of. And as we now know, if information is in the public arena this trumps confidentiality agreements. The public has a right to know. This is called "reporting". You could even define it as "constructive assessement" or "critique", certainly offered in a positive light. Goodness knows Working America would want to know if one of its actors was engaging in illegal practices. And then do something about those illegal practices. That would certainly be a good and positive and constructive thing to do, that reasonably all people could agree with, perhaps possibly on a jury or at some court of law.
I might note that there is an editorial component to the online press. If anyone from Working America wishes to comment, then please go here. I promise not to edit what you say. By the way, I've already emailed you numerous times to get your side and a deeper explanation for some of the things that you have said but you have refused. Therefore, I must use the information that I have before me, like any good reporter. But please respond. No one is stopping you. I might note that this entire post is offered in the productive positive spirit of hoping that Working America hires on merit and ability and experience, not race or age.
Labels: I will have Justice, Jenn Jannon
Decent Americans Acting Decently Featuring Cindy Sheehan
In the very short feature I call "Decent Americans Acting Decently" (also see above post) Cindy Sheehan wrote a piece called: "Pro Democracy Means Anti-Fascism". Here's what she thinks the next congress should do:
There are just a few measures that we can use to stop this slide and Rowthorn articulates what has become an important part of my platform. Only vote for candidates that promise the following things…for president, or any other federal elective offices:
* Repeal the Patriot Act
* Repeal No Child Left Behind
* Scale down the Department of Homeland Security and rename it so it loses its Nazi
tone and is brought under civilian control.
* Restore habeas corpus and close all torture camps by repealing the Military Commissions’ Act.
* Repeal all contracts with paid mercenary killer companies.
* Restore the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878.
* Repeal all BushCo-Presidential directives (especially Directive 51) and review all laws that contain signing statements.
* Restore the 4th Amendment by enforcing warrants for spying on Americans.
* Impeach Bush and Cheney-post presidency so they can’t receive federal benefits.
* Bring all troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan and review military needs for other bases around the world.
* Repeal all free trade agreements.
* Kick AIPAC and other lobbyists out of the halls of Congress where they have no business.
Labels: Cindy Sheehan
Why I Read Marx and Support the Real News
We have a token libertarian over at Amsat (Trevor. See Post below.). He questions the wisdom of Marx. Of course, I find that Marx works best when you look at his writings and writings of his followers as accurate criticism of how capitalism works. Not necessarily as a system to follow. In fact, hardcore capitalists I'm told read Marx for that very same reason: to better understand how capitalism works. I suppose its not much different than when the old bad East Germans used to read 1984 for tips on what to name their organizations and rooms and so forth.
I just find that Marx's description of the ills of Capitalism to be pretty much right on the mark.
So, in today's episode of "Sure, I'm a Marxist" contrast this statement written by Lenin:
The present "freedom of assembly and the press" in the "democratic" (bourgeois democratic) German republic is false and hypocritical, because in fact it is freedom for the rich to buy and bribe the press, freedom for the rich to befuddle the people with venomous lies of the bourgeois press, freedom for the rich to keep as their "property" the landowners' mansions, the best buildings, etc.. The dictatorship of the proletariat will take from the capitalists and hand over to the working people the landowners' mansions, the best buildings, printing presses and the stocks of newsprint.
With this Youtube video about the Real News. It just strikes me as being a correct view of how the press works in a capitalist society. That's why I read Marx. I want to understand how the world works.
Labels: marx was right, support the real news
Obit for Joseph Zawinul or Saying Goodbye to Mr. Gone
Sept. 12
Joe Zawinul b. 1932 d. Sept. 11, 2007
Whenever noted jazz police fascists like Wynton Marsalis or Stanley Crouch talk about all that "bad" jazz that doesn't meet their pre 1962 standard they usually refer to people like the late great Joseph Zawinul. Unfortunately for them and yet fortunately for us Mr. Z produced a lot of demanding world class work that the entirety of the imagination/vision starved Marsalis clan will never ever touch in the forever Kind of Blue continuum that they're hopelessly trapped in. (And what's sad is that they don't realize its a trap.) Z even wrote better trad standards than Wynton or what's a Marsalis tune that's as memorable as "Mercy Mercy Mercy", or "Country Preacher"? I still can't believe a white dude from Austria wrote those tunes.
Zawinul understood that the beauty of jazz is in its growth and reach. You're supposed to improvise and experiment in jazz. Bebop and smaller than Big Band ensembles used to be heresy too. Thank you Z for music that expanded my ear and blew my mind. I never needed drugs thanks to you. Not to mention music so futuristic fluid and cool that 30 years later it still sounds futuristic fluid and cool. By the way, Z isn't only the father of acid jazz but he was one of the first samplers. A fuckin' genius.
Thanks to the Youtubes you can visit the entirety of the Z canon from his days with Cannonball Adderly:
to his peak work with Weather Report and even, and I admit this as a fan, his somewhat disappointing work with the Zawinul Syndicate. Just about every song from Heavy Weather, definitely their masterpiece even though Night Passage is a beautiful album as well, is online. You can find tunes from Heavy Weather here, here, here, here and here.
As for showcase pieces, I think these two songs from Mr. Gone kind of catch Z at his best. I just wish someone had taped the 79 Weather Report that I caught at the old Stanley Theater with Jaco. Still one of the most memorable concerts that I had ever seen. I was actually not a big fan of Mr. Gone when it came out but these tunes have aged very well or maybe its Jaco's sinewy live bass lines. Z or Weather Report was never as good post Jaco. Just an opinion. (Another opinion: He probably needed another heavyweight like Wayne Shorter to occasionally tell him no.)
and River People:
You'll never be forgotten Z. I can't imagine my life without your sound.
Labels: Joseph Zawinul, Saying Goodbye to Mr. Gone
Friday, February 29, 2008
BPEP Press Release on School Board Decision to Shut Down Schenley High School
And we get local Pittsburgh school board press releases. This one is from BPEP. I predict that the majority white members of the school board will outvote the minority black members of the school board but I could be wrong. I also used to think you couldn't elect a black guy president so what do I know. Here's Tim and Celeste:
Superintendent Mark Roosevelt and Board President, Bill Isler
Board Members: Heather Arnet, Mark Brentley, Theresa Colaizzi, Jean Fink,
Sherry Hazuda, Bill Isler, Floyd McCrea, Thomas Sumpter, Randall Taylor
Pittsburgh Public Schools Board of Education
341 South Bellefield Street
Pittsburgh , PA 15213
Dear Superintendent Roosevelt, and Board President Isler, Members: Heather Arnet, Mark Brentley, Theresa Colaizzi ,Jean Fink, Sherry Hazuda, Bill Isler, Floyd McCrea, Thomas Sumpter, Randall Taylor
For many years, B-PEP, the Black Political Empowerment Project has been very concerned about and involved in the issues of reforming Pittsburgh Public Schools so that all of our children, in particular African American children receive a high quality education. Our involvement in school reform became even more heightened as a result of the announcement on October 31, 2007 that called for the closing of Schenley due to students and staff being exposed to asbestos where conditions were continuing to deteriorate and the cost to remediate was prohibitive. Well since that announcement we have learned that there are other options that can allow Schenley to stay open without ignoring safety and weighing the cost with other proposed building renovations. On October 31st we also learned of other high school reforms that didn’t come with as much details or public process that should have existed for such dramatic proposals to be successful.
Our position today has been influenced by attending many meetings, public hearings, information provided by the Superintendent, his staff and administration, Board members, PPS website, PA Department of Education, principals, teachers, students, parents, news media, concerned community members, in addition to independent building engineers, legal and finance experts. After weighing all of this, we respectfully request that board members Vote NO or table all the items regarding moving Schenley students separately and making expenditures to renovate other school buildings. We ask that you Vote NO or table all aspects of this proposed High School Reform plan and not move ahead with making any other expenditures until there is a comprehensive approach to programs that address the needs of all students associated with the 9 High Schools that failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress. Can you please share with us where you are with that? Maybe those plans are somewhere in the ever growing and changing documents connected to high school reform and we just don’t know where to look for it or maybe it was in the information you received between February 20th and today?
We agree with you and understand the fierce urgency of now to ensure that ALL of our children receive a high quality education, especially the many that have been denied that opportunity for so long. It is good to see the A+ Schools plans for community forums on high school reform beginning Thursday. In addition to this we must focus some of our energy on figuring out a way to reach and teach our students where they are at NOW. It will be a shame to use the excuse that we were not able to make any improvements for many of our students over the next couple of years because we spent so much time devoted to only discussing not so well laid out plans.
Respectfully submitted,
Tim Stevens, Chairman and Celeste Taylor, Vice-Chairperson
"Moving From Complaint To Possibility,
From Planning To Implementation"
The Black Political Empowerment Project (B-PEP)
Tim Stevens, Chairman
Celeste Taylor, Vice Chairperson
Phone:412-758-7898
Email: b-pepinfo@b-pep.net
Web Site: www.b-pep.net
c/o Hill House Association, 1835 Centre Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Related: Everything you needed to know about "The Tyranny of the Majority". More about Lani Guinier here and she just published a new book and she's interviewed at Dollars and Sense about it.
Labels: bpep, celeste taylor, same as it ever was, tim stevens, tyranny of the majority
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Brilliant Youtube Vid About Very Realistic Voter Suppression Effort in 2008
Bradblog is onto something when it comes to the irresponsibility of the Daily Kos about
the election integrity debate. The record of Markos and his gang of election fraud denialists
(phrase courtesy of Mark Crispin Miller) is simply horrible. We've tried the DNC
establishment/Markos technique of simply ignoring the problem and hoping that it will go away in
both 2000 and 2004. That simply didn't work. Democrats, or at least democrats who don't secretly
like the results of the 2000 and 2004 election that screws the working fella base of the party,
should assume the election process is guilty until proven innocent by both verifiable ballot and
open auditing that we all can see. In fact, you should be pissed off about it and you should even
"hyperventilate" some.
Now, thanks to the Youtubes, which we can find on the Internets, someone explains the problem in a
simple way that even Markos Moulitsas and his election fraud denialist attack hack Dana Houle can
easily understand. God knows they won't read and probably can't comprehend the half dozen
excellent largely unrebutted books written by Bob Fitrakis, Mark Crispin Miller, Greg Palast and
a number of statisticians and even one Kennedy. Here it is in moving pictures.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwrcZTvbwIs
You know, this is pretty funny but from what I've seen I'm pretty sure it isn't a joke.
Bottom Line: If you've lost two consecutive presidential elections because of voter suppression of
the DNC base, then you might want to counteract those efforts in 2008. That means not calling
election integrity movement leaders "nutters" and not banning people who bring these issues up at
your "forum". You might even take a hand in pushing for a stronger Holt bill. Both Fitrakis and
Kathy Dopp have outlined solutions. Unless you're on the other side of course. And, I have to
admit, I sometimes wonder if Markos did take that CIA job. There were old school media persons who
were Company Men in the past, why not New Media men, who were once republicans, on the payroll as
well? Remember: all of the glitches seem to benefit republicans and/or the most conservative Democratic Party candidates. It would be nice if the Great Orange Satan could catch a clue.
Philip Shropshire
www.threeriversonline.com
Bio: I have worked as a reporter, media watch columnist, ran a consumer group for three years
and been an occasional pro se attorney. I've sold everything from vacuum cleaners to
satelite dishes to computers. I am a huge fan (literally, I'm 6' 5") of comics and
science fiction and am a Pop Culture addict in general.
Labels: Our Man on the Internet, prolefeed
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