Just Deserts

As Phil ( I got a multi million dollar job with Banc Suisse so F$ck you elitist democrats) Gram said: yinz guys around Pittsburgh are Whiners.

You don’t need WPTT anymore 'cause you have the phallic font of Republican bullshit KdicKA to give you the company line.

First we had that Dumbass they imported from the Carolinas to play the part of Honsbergers missing stomach, going on CNN to defend Michael Savages "90% of Autism is an act" comment as being "taken out of context", now we have the keepers of the "50,000 watt blowtorch" giving platform to John McCains own predictable brand of self immolation.

Yea, you heard right; self immolation, He wants you to have a Vietnam image; McCain as POW in his lonely cell, ( a terrible thing to happen to anyone, John used to think it was a terrible thing to happen at Guantanamo, not no more) McCain has the 'POW line' as a bumper sticker, he keeps a 6 inch stack of them in his back pocket and every time the questions get tough, he whips one out and slaps it on. The origin of this line was the Jay Lenno Show, where john at least had a germane place to stick it (it is after all, roughly defined as a housing question). Hey john, how many houses do you have? "Well with all due respect Jay, for 5 1/2 years, I didn’t have a house...", circumlocutious, but he got to house. Now the line is flopping out as a nonsequitor so often, and so unpredictably that these "POW line" bumper stickers are pileing up on Johns body to such a great extent that he would be considered a fire hazard in many municipalities. He might go poof like that infamous Buddhist monk who doused himself in gasoline then burned himself alive as protest to the savagery of the war, there’s yer Vietnam image, Bud.

If you don’t believe me, check this out http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/29/pownd-you-lose/

this contains a link to a KDicKA interview with McCain in which he slaps on the sticker "because Obama won’t do town hall meetings'. Good thing Obama wears a flag pin now or we would get another sticker. Not that I wish to torture anyone with exposure to this crap, but listen to the disconnect of McCain, its like he has his suit jacket covered in post-it notes of one liners, just rip one off and read it, get called on the incongruity thereof ? "Well with all due respect xxx, for 5 1/2 years, I didn't have a house...".

Some credit goes to John Shumway for at least bringing up the plight of the middle class, which McCain bats down with "were have you been? At my town hall meetings I have said things about the plight of the middle class.

Say some more things John, it gets us off to know you feel our pain.

This only a test

Joe Bageant wrote me this morning to say that the outage of his website was of innocent origin, a switch in server providers. But this was the first time that one of my bookmarks came up dead (although temporarily) it scared me about the subject of Net Neutrality.

Would the "Your desired site is closed, try these alternatives" message i saw, be the same I would see if access to sites were controlled by corporate or ideological affiliations?

This is all my roundabout "space cadet" way of saying Net neutrality should be discussed. But first a "state of the website.

If you look back thru the archieves have a number of fairly well written messages on a variety of topics. but if you look at Joes website: http://www.joebageant.com/ you will see that the input of the writers is put right up front and of high quality. That sites such as crooks and liars http://www.crooksandliars.com/ and this modern world http://www.thismodernworld.com/ are sustained by contributers and guest writers.

That is what i want for the future of teutonicjihad. More participation from YOU, dont be shy, this is all written now with plenty of time to research and think things out, so dont be shy.

up next; resources for the post WPTT era

clue #1 I am listening to WCPT Chicago which has a great liberal line up, including Thom Hartman, Google it today!

Peace thru Bravery
CET

The dawn of internet censorship?

From about 11:00PM to 11:00AM I was having trouble getting Joe Bageants web site:
http://www.joebageant.com/ did anyone else have this problem. It came back on this morning, but reminded me how fragile the "alternatives" can be.

This is the lifeboat

I sit here, drained from the last show,it was a hell of a ride thanks to you.

Keep an eye on this space for future updates.

Put new flints in your Zippos kids

Its time to give these lyin' sacks of shit a hot seat!

Peace thru Bravery

CET

Holy America

If it seems that Dennis Kucinich is the only democrat with balls it may be because he is. Yes, we have seen Christopher Dodd throw his "body upon the gears" of the machine that was destroying our civil liberties, by putting a "hold" on the latest FISA bill, but at least there are a few thousand ACLU types and libertarians who support him. Kucinich, by contrast, is going to bat for "atheists in foxholes" who, by popular slogan, do not exist. So Kucinich, by forming an organization to combat the fundamentalist christian takeover of the U.S. military will have EVERYONE, save the ghost of madeline murry o'hare, pissed as hell at him. For information of how lonely this must be, I refer you to a poem by the welsh poet Halden Caufield; "the ballad of the breadman" where he uses the words "no man was THAT mans freind" to describe the isolation of Jesus, just before he got capital punishment.


In the same light, a freind sent an e-mail forward of merriments, one of which was read by Jay Lenno (solidarity to the writters strike!) in which Jay said essentually; "with all these floods and wild fires are you sure we should be taking God out of the pleadge of alligience?".


The following screed was a responce to this popular foolishness

As to Jay Leno, theologian, I would be the last to deny the need of divine providence, but his support of such incantations shows the power of flimflam and a lack of history, not withstanding that these positions are very popular they are still wrong.

The pledge to the flag was composed by a person beyond the present American imagination, a Christian socialist who was also a Baptist minister. Long ago, Baptists were among the greatest defenders of religious liberty and the separation of church and state, as they had been abused by the Episcopalians and other majority religions. American Baptists today eat at the same table as the president of the United States, an ample user of religious slogans, with now, Episcopalians and other former majority religions licking at their feet like so many puppies, such principles can fall by the wayside. Anyway, Francis Belamy, the writer of the pledge, did not see fit to include G-d in the pledge. Such inclusion did not come until the Eisenhower administration, when in a moment of national crisis, we set out to differentiate ourselves from our former World War 2 allies; the Russians, by tagging them the "Godless" victors over the" axis of evil" whilst we were the "Godfull" victors over the" axis of evil". Thousands of innocent schoolchildren awkwardly piled "under God" on top of "indivisible" on our behalf, to stamp out Godless communism. To this day, millions of innocent schoolchildren in China express their gratitude for this victory of Christian Capitalism over Godless communism; they express it just after lunch, when they have to leave school to go sweat in the fireworks factory to pay for their books.

Could we perhaps stack up enough national introspection to consider that the prevalence of fire, earthquake, wind and pestilence May be a sign that God is a bit pissed with the way things are going and our insistence on dragging his name into it? Being as innocent schoolchildren have emerged as a point of focus; consider those of Iraq, who over the years have viewed the United States as “the evil bastards who sold arms and poison gas to our oppressor Sadam” to “the evil bastards that got rid of Sadam, along with running water, electricity, sewage and civil society. Would the sweltering shit-stink of 100 degree high noon Baghdad be swept clear as a fall mountain breeze by a Blackwater helicopter, festooned with the stars and stripes and blaring Lee Greenwoods “God bless the USA”? Call me a surrender monkey, but I think not. Beyond that I think that the present scheme of national Godly incantation is a constant irritant to the master of the universe and that these natural disasters are Gods form of “cease and desist” orders, which I fear, will grow in proportion to the continued divine insult. So if someday, you hear thundering from the skies (with the sartorial tones of Charlton Hesston, no doubt) “You F#&*$rs keep it up and I’ll put a volcano where Colorado used to be”, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Gratitude

Thanks to all who made the radio show such a blast today, Matt will have the podcast up on the WPTT web site in the next day or two. Thanks to Matt for lots of good, timely comments. Every time the ball was placed he kicked it thru the uprights. cet1360@yahoo.com if you have comments.
a post on the pledge of alliegence comming soon

Sunday Sermon

A family member, smart enough to have employment as a research scientist, once cautioned against my poking around in my computers registry trying to fix things;” its like a great big ball of spaghetti, start cutting strands and it will never go back together right”.

The integrity of this serpentine starch could be held as metaphor of the complex components of our nation’s reputation among the nations of the world, the snippets seem unrelated at first, but none to long, the unraveling starts.

Listening to KXOT, they ran “as it happens” pretty much the Canadian equivalent of “All things considered”. Interview was with the Canadian photographer who shot the infamous photo of a dead US soldier being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu Somalia. He spoke of the Personal responsibility he felt for the pictures effects on US policy; the flight from Somalia and the blind eye turned to Rwanda. He had nightmare filled, mental illness provoking RESPONSIBILITY for what he had done and its EFFECT ON OTHERS. Could we, perhaps inoculate some folks in Washington, with this absent strain of simple humanity.

The other snip is explanation of why we don’t have to give a shit and why God is kicking our ass for it.

Listening to KUHF Houston TexaCUTION, one of the sponcers of NPR programming was a local company specializing in offshore drilling and national defense.

Was there not an American president, viewed both as warrior and humanitarian, who warned of the dangerous power of the “military industrial complex”.

Allowing private industry to get powerful enough to hijack our foreign policy. Allowing an image, no matter how poignant to cause us to turn our backs on the humanitarian interventions necessary in Africa. Both, in my Sunday morning morallism, sins.

Photo/Africa is a sin of simple fear, well practiced as of late; the industrial complex is an outgrowth of greed and pride.

And in this light we have the balls to wonder, why anyone on this planet would be pissed at us.

May God help those who deserve it.

May we work toward being deserving.

Another accidental internet discovery

The Vanity Fair article concerning the BS which the republicans crafted against Al Gore, and how the "liberal media" reported these as "gospel truth" had my antenna up for this trick.

So when this Letter, Written by the then 23 year old Bill Clinton dropped in my lap (thank G-d Gore invented the internets) I just had to check it out.

Before being bespoiled by the truth, what is your (media shaped) memory of this?

I was still doing the talk show at Jeanette, reading the NY Times, wall street journal, Trib and Post every day, I would listen to NPR while delivering pizza and would sample as much Limbaugh as I could stand.

My memory is of a proud and elitist Clinton, proclaiming the military to be a task "beneath him" and stating that HE, PERSONNALLY "LOATHED THE MILITARY"

I never remember ANYONE, not NYT, not NPR, putting this statement in to the context of the letter.

The most charitable treatment I remember hearing, is of an "older wiser Clinton" disowning his "youthful indiscretion"

Here is the letter, read the letter!

The “loathing” “smoking gun” is in the final paragraph

The media treatment of this issue was, as usual; Bullshit!

http://historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/clinton.htm

Poetry of Life

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!!!

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

the following is a promotional announcement

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 Pennsylvania director of Governor Rendell’s office, to discuss the governors plan to reduce the size of the legislature, Allen, as a state representative, sponsored a bill every session to reduce the size of the legislature, so he may know a few things about that. Allen is also the former State Senator from the now infamous district 39, but to preserve the dignity of the show, we won’t be asking him a damn thing about that.

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 Amberson Avenue in Shadyside.

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 Clinton administration officials giving sworn, non-scripted, C-Span recorded testimony on everything from travel gate to blowjobs, the pResident thought him self entitled to distorted and ahistorical powers; as the WashPost characterized:

”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 Iraq war

http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2004/01/30/frum_perle/index.html

Pacem et Terra!

CET

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 CLINTON administration officials will be ignored.

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”

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.

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 Dubai

G-d Bless Amerika!!!

http://prairieweather.typepad.com/big_blue_stem/2007/03/walter_reed_hal.html

KAREN KWIATKOWSKI former air force general and Iraq war critic

On how bush bushitted us into Iraq and will now bushit us into Iran

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 5^th estate has nothing better to watchdog these days than the morals of a person who can’t sing well, are we expecting Miss America here?

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

http://simplyleftbehind.blogspot.com/2007/03/porn.html

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!!!!!

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.

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!!!