We will be subverting the public order on WPTT 1360 AM thursday June 26 from 9AM -Noon EDT.(Listen live link at http://www.stationcaster.com/stations/wptt/index.php?d=AM)
Our Guest in Hour 2 will be Sam Hazo of the International Poetry forum speaking of appearance Vs. Reality.
It will be the usual blabfest otherwise, be there or be square!!!
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Corruption of the Airwaves
Thy humble blogger will be retreating to his old habits for a day, as substitute blabbermouth on WPTT 1360 Pittsburgh. this link is for streaming and pod;
http://www.stationcaster.com/stations/wptt/index.php?d=AM
Despite the best efforts of responsible adults, Clair Thomas will be heard on this program on Monday, April 9, 9AM-noon EDT.
At 10:05 his guest will be Allen Kukovich, southwestern
The guests otherwise, will be the callers and listeners who will be encouraged to surround the White House with flaming torches and pitch forks for the Bush administrations blatant disrespect for Nancy Pelosi and all other patriotic Slavic/Americans who wear BABUSHKAS TO CHURCH.
For the preservation of national security, Vice President Cheney and Dick Scaife will monitor this subversive outburst from an undisclosed location on
Sunday, March 25, 2007
the Rovian Sausage grinder
“The less the people know of how laws and sausages are made, the better!”
The pretender is caught, Rove and company fingered, complicit in the political categorization of US Attorneys along with their subsequent (and more importantly RESULTANT) firing or promotion.
The bankruptsey of their analysis is laid bare by two results
1) Mary Beth Buchanan is a wonderful US Attorney, deserving of special assignments and praise.
2) Patrick Fitzgerald sucks and is next in line to be fired, except that it would be so stunningly obvious it would get the attention of the residents of the United States of Amnesia.
Despite 34
”The White House limited the kinds of questions the aides would answer and said the interviews may not be conducted under oath or transcribed, Bush signaled a willingness to go to the courts if necessary to prevent his aides from giving public testimony. He described his plan for private interviews as reasonable”
The pResident re-enforced his petulance with this Rovian terd:
“Members of Congress now face a choice: whether they will waste time and provoke an unnecessary confrontation, or whether they will join us in working to do the people's business. We have many important issues before us. So we need to put partisan politics aside and come together to enact important legislation for the American people.”
So, we need to go along with his pornographic notion of executive power, or we are obstructionist jaggoffs?
I have a 4 word reply for that:
F*#% You, Mr President
Except that in the present circumstance, I find the utterance of “Mr. President” obscene.
What is reality?
How to change the subject when the subject is uncomfortable
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/03/24/tom-tomorrow-spin-vs-reality/
Grassley subpoena vote
Conservative Iowa republican votes to subpoena Rove & Myers, is this” partisan politics or truth?”
http://mediamatters.org/items/200703230010
The end of Evil? From 2 of the Bushitters who started the
http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2004/01/30/frum_perle/index.html
Pacem et Terra!
CET
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
King George
The Bush administration is taking on the appearance of a crack dealer caught in the headlights of a police car at the terminus of a dead end alley.
“We were never politics…those democrats are politics with their political subpoenas. I offered the truth, they want to play politics, those ahhhh POLITICIANS!!”
34 separate appearances, under oath, before congress by
Republicans are good honorable patriotic Jesus worshipers. While Democrats are politicians who want to bother the freedom fighter likes of Karl Rove and Harriet Myers with pesky questions after swearing on the HOLY BIBLE as if they would ever tell a lie!
No wonder King George the prevaricator gave a speech to that great gathering of constitutional scholars; the American people, the same bunch of Einstein’s that RE-elected him.
Inking the water with Rovian ballzspracht,” the octopus in chief”
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Not all is complaint
Being as complaint is the mainstay of this screed, I relish the occaisional opportunity to speak of the pleasant surprises of life.
Had to fix a problem with the computer, so I called up the 800 # at the "major" computer company, a technically proficient young lady patiently listened to my long winded report of symptoms, reccomemded reloading a driver, which fixed it. To top it off, the phone center was in that sweltering, low tax, right-to-work state called Ontario!
A local political windbag (Jim Roddy) was recently saying that Pittsburgh must follow the lead of right-to-work states to attract jobs, resulting in me screeming at the TV "you mean a right-to-work state like Ontario? like Toyota just did?
When the health care costs more than the steel in a car, "socialized medicine" is looking like a good deal to industry.
Had to fix a problem with the computer, so I called up the 800 # at the "major" computer company, a technically proficient young lady patiently listened to my long winded report of symptoms, reccomemded reloading a driver, which fixed it. To top it off, the phone center was in that sweltering, low tax, right-to-work state called Ontario!
A local political windbag (Jim Roddy) was recently saying that Pittsburgh must follow the lead of right-to-work states to attract jobs, resulting in me screeming at the TV "you mean a right-to-work state like Ontario? like Toyota just did?
When the health care costs more than the steel in a car, "socialized medicine" is looking like a good deal to industry.
Monday, March 12, 2007
Same as it ever was
The state of things as they are, the news is horrible but could get worse
Halliburton subcon F$%^ed up Walter reed
FLASH Halliburtan will now show their good taste and patriotic spirit by moving operations to
G-d Bless Amerika!!!
http://prairieweather.typepad.com/big_blue_stem/2007/03/walter_reed_hal.html
KAREN KWIATKOWSKI former air force general and
On how bush bushitted us into
http://www.truthdig.com/interview/item/20070227_pentagon_whistleblower_on_the_coming_war_with_iran/
Remember november2 2001, when new York firefighters fought with new York police who had told them only 20 would be allowed to search for remains instead of 300.
The firefighters are still pissed at Guiliani,they should be
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/3/9/18752/07816
Deeper story of same
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/09/AR2007030900962.html
NewsPorn
The excellent blog “Simply left behind” has apparently caught some flack for making (what I thought was) a grand slam point about the shallowness of the media.
It seems the Dianne sawyers of the world have been wagging about some young lady who was a contestant on American idol, having some photos of a “pornographic nature” about. I guess the 5th estate has nothing better to watchdog these days than the morals of a person who can’t sing well, are we expecting Miss
The same wags can be relied upon to miss stories about tons of missing YELLOWCAKE URANIUM from the DR Congo; they didn’t even pick up on the ironic time twist with the scooter Libby verdict (what did that start with again?)
Soo… Carl, the writer of said blog threw down the gauntlet and said essentially “here is the big distraction” and published the (naughty) picture with the caption “whatshername at the microphone”(3 guesses as to what the microphone is and the first 2 don’t count)
I thought it was great (check his comments) but I guess he took some heat
People are allergic to the truth.
The original (contains naughty bits)
http://simplyleftbehind.blogspot.com/2007/03/story-you-wont-read-about-in-united.html
The return
Sunday, March 11, 2007
trouble at home
Sorry for the absence,thank God for Absinthe
Rudy Giuliani has been called every name in the book by the New York Firefighters unions, They have invited everyone except Rudy(check crooks and liars for excellent posts)
Also, John McCain has a homestate rebellion on his hands, state committee has stolen his lunch for being too lllibral on campaign finance and illegal alliens
New poll says americans want a president with character, so WTF happened the past 7 years??
Look for further screeds soon!!!!!
Rudy Giuliani has been called every name in the book by the New York Firefighters unions, They have invited everyone except Rudy(check crooks and liars for excellent posts)
Also, John McCain has a homestate rebellion on his hands, state committee has stolen his lunch for being too lllibral on campaign finance and illegal alliens
New poll says americans want a president with character, so WTF happened the past 7 years??
Look for further screeds soon!!!!!
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
DaVinci Hypocracy
I assume yinz guys to be smart enough to find the first three min of the PRI program “studio 360’
The host of the program laid this out; the desire to have solid answers drives both conspiracy theory (DaVinci) and fundamentalism (religious or otherwise).
Good starting point, but I think he may have it inverted, let us multiply this equation by negative 1= The desire to fill in the blanks is the result of intellectual and spiritual impatience, the inability to contemplate, as the Nuns called it, “a Mystery”. It is the theological/philosophical equivalent of the Queen lyric “I want it all, and I want it now!”
We think it to be so brutish in the context of the materialistic or emotional desires of Freddie Mercury, but when it comes to unsolved crimes or open questions of cosmic truth it becomes our entitlement.
The conservative CEO, seeking certain answers at his local Assembly O’ God is a theological welfare queen, cue Ronald Reagan to project the image of the undeserved Cadillac.
The world is full of those who want no mysteries, to them I say tough shit!
There are always elements of nature and God and even human activity that you can not understand that you do not deserve to understand, get used to it!
Where did I learn such an un-Christian attitude toward the junkies of certainty?
Catholic school. It was a place full of adults teaching a system by which you could try to get the answers, but if you asked the right question you would be told that there wasn’t one,”it’s a mystery, my child”. A dangerous, almost anarchistic power placed in the hands of youth; adults who did not pretend to have all the answers, in a world addicted to pretension.
Which is why I get such a chuckle from the ayatollahs of American Corporate Christianity as they denounce the blasphemous celluloid exploits of Tom Hanks.
As they stand on their “rock of ages” shore of certainty, do they realize that the orthodoxy they defend was created by that strange popeish unmarried non-literalist Catholic cardinal floating by on his surfboard? Dobson, Robertson, Fallwell and the other defenders of “Simple McGod” do not go after DaVinci (and thereby the Gnostic gospels) for making Jesus too cosmic, too distant, too mysterious, They are worried that Jesus is portrayed as having a normal sex life and having some babies with Mary Magdalene, I mean who are the defenders of the un-married priesthood here? Now to be fair to the Ayatollahs of Oklahoma City, Virginia Beach and Lynchburg, it was Hollywood that gave the story the strong romantic angle, but there is still plenty for this old catholic boy to scratch his head about, very strange, very incongruous bedfellows here.
Those who made plenty of sermons, not to mention millions of dollars screaming against the conspiratorial secracy of the Catholic church, now defend against Hollywood and fiction criticiseing same, in the same manner.Its a mystery!
There is one valid parallel however between these modern ‘Know nothings” and Opus Dei Catholics; they both put the right in Right wing. They know what they are talking about ‘cause God told them so and any naysayers are liberals or communists or worse. My junior Senator is one of these Opus Dei guys and once described the type of Catholic I am as those who would ..”Sit around the campfire and sing Kumbaya” I would simply say to (p)Rick Santorum;” yeah we sing songs from Africa and elsewhere because perhaps someone else’s conceptualization of God could help us get closer to the truth and we sit around the campfire, fuel it with bricks of Afghani hash and breath real deep trying to figure out why you’re still in office.
Pleni sunt coeli et terra.
The host of the program laid this out; the desire to have solid answers drives both conspiracy theory (DaVinci) and fundamentalism (religious or otherwise).
Good starting point, but I think he may have it inverted, let us multiply this equation by negative 1= The desire to fill in the blanks is the result of intellectual and spiritual impatience, the inability to contemplate, as the Nuns called it, “a Mystery”. It is the theological/philosophical equivalent of the Queen lyric “I want it all, and I want it now!”
We think it to be so brutish in the context of the materialistic or emotional desires of Freddie Mercury, but when it comes to unsolved crimes or open questions of cosmic truth it becomes our entitlement.
The conservative CEO, seeking certain answers at his local Assembly O’ God is a theological welfare queen, cue Ronald Reagan to project the image of the undeserved Cadillac.
The world is full of those who want no mysteries, to them I say tough shit!
There are always elements of nature and God and even human activity that you can not understand that you do not deserve to understand, get used to it!
Where did I learn such an un-Christian attitude toward the junkies of certainty?
Catholic school. It was a place full of adults teaching a system by which you could try to get the answers, but if you asked the right question you would be told that there wasn’t one,”it’s a mystery, my child”. A dangerous, almost anarchistic power placed in the hands of youth; adults who did not pretend to have all the answers, in a world addicted to pretension.
Which is why I get such a chuckle from the ayatollahs of American Corporate Christianity as they denounce the blasphemous celluloid exploits of Tom Hanks.
As they stand on their “rock of ages” shore of certainty, do they realize that the orthodoxy they defend was created by that strange popeish unmarried non-literalist Catholic cardinal floating by on his surfboard? Dobson, Robertson, Fallwell and the other defenders of “Simple McGod” do not go after DaVinci (and thereby the Gnostic gospels) for making Jesus too cosmic, too distant, too mysterious, They are worried that Jesus is portrayed as having a normal sex life and having some babies with Mary Magdalene, I mean who are the defenders of the un-married priesthood here? Now to be fair to the Ayatollahs of Oklahoma City, Virginia Beach and Lynchburg, it was Hollywood that gave the story the strong romantic angle, but there is still plenty for this old catholic boy to scratch his head about, very strange, very incongruous bedfellows here.
Those who made plenty of sermons, not to mention millions of dollars screaming against the conspiratorial secracy of the Catholic church, now defend against Hollywood and fiction criticiseing same, in the same manner.Its a mystery!
There is one valid parallel however between these modern ‘Know nothings” and Opus Dei Catholics; they both put the right in Right wing. They know what they are talking about ‘cause God told them so and any naysayers are liberals or communists or worse. My junior Senator is one of these Opus Dei guys and once described the type of Catholic I am as those who would ..”Sit around the campfire and sing Kumbaya” I would simply say to (p)Rick Santorum;” yeah we sing songs from Africa and elsewhere because perhaps someone else’s conceptualization of God could help us get closer to the truth and we sit around the campfire, fuel it with bricks of Afghani hash and breath real deep trying to figure out why you’re still in office.
Pleni sunt coeli et terra.
Saturday, May 20, 2006
A journey of a thousand miles...
Disclaimer/warning to the NSA
You are wasting your time looking at this
the title is ment to be an ironic absurdity
go chase some hot head who thinks that God is on his side
it aint me!!!
With that now dispenced with(prophylaxis for the brave new world) it is introduction time. I am Clair Thomas, i spent 23 years as the news,talk, and music propagandist at radio station WBCW in Jeanette Pennsylvania (near Pittsburgh),recent experience has re-enforced what i knew then, it was better than working for a living. Not that i didnt get tired and pissed off, just as with any other job, it is just that radio is too much fun to be included with regular work. Radio, to my taste, is not as fun as it used to be, music is corporatised tasteless crap, talk radio is no longer a parade of freindly but competitious viewpoints, it has become the argumentitive equivalent of flashing, lifting apart the rain coat, imploring the world to look at what you got.
Things could be better, things could be more thoughtful. The deck is stacked against us, it will be tough to demonstrate the commercial viability of talk radio that lifts up the workers and small buisness people of america, that stands for honesty, quality, knowledge and equality of opportunity. It is imperative that we join the fray, our country has been taken over by selfish, shallow, vaccuous forces. Let them blather of how God is on their side, let us see to it that we are on Gods side.
Get off your ass and jam!!!
You are wasting your time looking at this
the title is ment to be an ironic absurdity
go chase some hot head who thinks that God is on his side
it aint me!!!
With that now dispenced with(prophylaxis for the brave new world) it is introduction time. I am Clair Thomas, i spent 23 years as the news,talk, and music propagandist at radio station WBCW in Jeanette Pennsylvania (near Pittsburgh),recent experience has re-enforced what i knew then, it was better than working for a living. Not that i didnt get tired and pissed off, just as with any other job, it is just that radio is too much fun to be included with regular work. Radio, to my taste, is not as fun as it used to be, music is corporatised tasteless crap, talk radio is no longer a parade of freindly but competitious viewpoints, it has become the argumentitive equivalent of flashing, lifting apart the rain coat, imploring the world to look at what you got.
Things could be better, things could be more thoughtful. The deck is stacked against us, it will be tough to demonstrate the commercial viability of talk radio that lifts up the workers and small buisness people of america, that stands for honesty, quality, knowledge and equality of opportunity. It is imperative that we join the fray, our country has been taken over by selfish, shallow, vaccuous forces. Let them blather of how God is on their side, let us see to it that we are on Gods side.
Get off your ass and jam!!!
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