Gambling, prostitution, and now pot? Organizers of a Nevada ballot measure hope voters in a state where almost everything goes will go one better and legalize marijuana.WEED.
If it passes Nov. 7, Nevada will be the first state to allow adults to possess up to an ounce of pot that they could buy at government-regulated marijuana shops.
The Committee to Regulate and Control Marijuana, which has pushed medical marijuana and decriminalization laws around the country, thinks Nevada — with its embrace of certain vices and its streak of Western independence — is a perfect venue.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
WEED
WEED:
I REFUSE to Believe This
It's that whole ends justifying the means thing majjigy:
Of all the great material I've read, this quote may take the cake:
White House officials realized they had a problem, former staffer David Kuo writes in his new book, "Tempting Faith," when they saw how a panel rated the first applications for grants under the "faith-based initiative," President Bush's vaunted effort to help religious charities.Government is a bad thing, unless of course, it can be used to supplement the hats being passed around the pews.
On a scale of 1 to 100, respected national organizations such as Big Brothers Big Sisters of America scored in the mid-70s to mid-80s, "while something called Jesus and Friends Ministry from California, a group with little more than a post office box," scored 89 and Pat Robertson's overseas aid organization, Operation Blessing, scored 95, according to Kuo.
"It was obvious that the ratings were a farce," he writes, adding that he and other White House aides feared that if the list became public, "it would show once and for all that the initiative was purely about paying off political friends for their support."
Portions of Kuo's explosive book, which formally went on sale yesterday, were leaked last week by MSNBC. They brought heated denials from White House press secretary Tony Snow and other current and former Bush administration officials.
Of all the great material I've read, this quote may take the cake:
Kuo, 38, recounts that in college, he was a liberal who interned for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.). But he got a girlfriend pregnant, and they went together to an abortion clinic. "We regretted it. We were relieved. I knew what we'd done. I had no idea what we'd done," he writes.What can't the church do!?!?!
Haunted, Kuo became an antiabortion activist. When he moved to Washington to work for the National Right to Life Committee and, later, for the CIA, he began attending First Baptist Church in Alexandria. It was there, he said in an interview yesterday, "that I learned that being a good Christian means being a conservative Republican."
Monday, October 16, 2006
So Cute
Sam Seder just wrote me an email, misquoted and all.
I'll spare you most of the details, but the gist was: his producers didn't like me...thought I'd be hard to work with. He did want to hire me.
In other words, producers with no experience outside of producing for an inexperienced host tell Sam what's going to work. And to think, the money is running dry over there.
They could all use the Muay Thai clinch.
I'll spare you most of the details, but the gist was: his producers didn't like me...thought I'd be hard to work with. He did want to hire me.
In other words, producers with no experience outside of producing for an inexperienced host tell Sam what's going to work. And to think, the money is running dry over there.
They could all use the Muay Thai clinch.
Why AAR is Bankrupt
Yes, Air America Radio, the juggernaut of broadcasting, is broke. How could this happen, one wonders? Well, you should wonder how they even lasted this long.
While AAR has terrible management, you can lay the blame at the feet of the hosts. Then again, I guess you have to blame management for hiring them in the first place. It's the circle of death!
First off, lets put Randi Rhodes aside. She has done a very good job, and is a radio professional who has a proven track record. She's talented, smart, entertaining, even though her show sounds the same almost every day. Regardless, she gets it. She's a pro. She learned the ropes by doing radio in a smaller market, then grew to be big time.
After her we have, uhhh, NO ONE! The geniuses at AAR decided to put on people with ZERO radio talent. Afterall, Franken is a good writer, and a funny comedian, Garofalo is a decent actress, Seder was a...uhh, I have no idea, Jerry Springer was a joke television host and former politician, and the rest of them are just, again, whatever.
It's as if radio is so easy anyone can do it!
I interviewed with AAR twice. Once to produce and be partially on air with Sam and Jeneane, and then to produce for Randi. Not getting the Randi gig was surprising, but not getting the Seder gig was just RIDICULOUS.
This is AAR in a nutshell:
I interview with 5 people, all asking me questions. Sam and I have a discussion about politics, Republicans, Bush, etc. It was as if he was doing a show for me. 4 other people in the room sat there and nodded their heads as Sam spoke. After asking me a list of questions, he asked me if I have any questions. My first was this, "So, just curious, where have you all been working before you came here?"
A chuckle filled the air. As if there was an inside joke.
Guess what? NO ONE HAD ANY RADIO EXPERIENCE! That's right! Wait, one guy did, he has a semsester at Columbia under his belt. Uh huh. A semester at Columbia. Well, I'm definitely getting this job, right? Afterall, I've done talk radio as a progressive just outside NYC, and the show had major ratings increases. MAJOR! I had experience. I had written for big name hosts, and had success. No brainer, right?
BZZZZ! WRONG. It was not to be.
The one-semester producer emailed me telling me I did not get the job. Now, he didn't send me a professional email, but rather, replied to my email asking what the story was. Very professional. I then emailed Sam telling him how surprised I was. He told me that I was "the most qualified" but that he felt I'd feel "stifled" on his show. Riiight. Having spoken with the staff, they didn't think I'd be a good fit. What a surprise. You mean to tell me that 4 people with no experience didn't want me working with them? I wonder why. Talk about protectionism! These people all feared for their jobs, Sam included, and didn't want someone with more experience in the house. That was the reality. I don't blame them. They are clueless.
This email obviously bothered me for a host of reasons, so after two months I emailed Jon Sinton, the man in charge, telling him of this. He told me he'd look into it. He did. He then got back to me and said, "We think it's best to let the shows hire the people they are comfortable with..."
Really? You mean, you think it's a good idea to let the shows hire people of lesser ability so they can protect their own asses? I can understand if the shows were at all succesful, but they weren't. I can understand allowing Rush to hire his own people. That I get. They were failing, and this was his take? Nice job. I'm shocked the ship sank. I'm shocked he was let go, or left, or bailed, or whatever.
Now we have the problem of ENTERTAINMENT, something AAR knows nothing about. They know about complaining, they know how to read blogs, they know how to regurgitate, but when it comes to entertaining, not a clue. Again, Randi aside.
People do not want to be taught. People do not want a civics lesson. People do not care about "the hypocrisy!" People care about being entertained. Take a look at Neil Rogers' success in Miami, FL. This is a raving lunatic liberal ENTERTAINER. He's not some whiney little bitch complainer who's upset about "what the Republicans are doing..." He's an entertainer.
Do you know AAR cannot entertain? It's because they hired people who do not know what radio is, or how it works. They hired TV personalities, comics, and writers. They hired people who were succesful in other fields, who didn't have their paychecks resting on their success. They hired THE LIBERAL ELITE that the Republicans make fun of every day.
There's a reason Randi is the only real entertainer, and it's because she's the only true radio professional!
It's a smart move to overpay non-radio hosts who demand a lot of money because of their fame. Good call. AAR should have been grassroots. With no names. With hosts people learned about. People have opinions of Springer, Franken, and Garofalo. No one who disliked them already was going to tune in. No names, starting from the ground up, that would have been a different story. And these people would have worked RELENTLESSLY. THey wouldn't have written books, and gotten big liberal guests. They would have become great radio hosts.
I'm going to stop right here because you get the point. Crap management, people who don't know how to entertain, blah blah blah. It's a bunch of boring complainers, and that's it.
Oh, and tell me this, why has no one been FIRED from AAR? And I mean the hosts. They've had shit ratings for years, and yet the same cast of characters remain. WHY IS THAT? How many producers have been fired? I'd really like to know.
The conservatives have earned their air time. From Savage, to Rush, to Bortz, to Hannity, to all of them. They've have become radio professionals. That's why they succeed. If they were failing, they'd be fired. Unless they worked at AAR...
(not editing)
While AAR has terrible management, you can lay the blame at the feet of the hosts. Then again, I guess you have to blame management for hiring them in the first place. It's the circle of death!
First off, lets put Randi Rhodes aside. She has done a very good job, and is a radio professional who has a proven track record. She's talented, smart, entertaining, even though her show sounds the same almost every day. Regardless, she gets it. She's a pro. She learned the ropes by doing radio in a smaller market, then grew to be big time.
After her we have, uhhh, NO ONE! The geniuses at AAR decided to put on people with ZERO radio talent. Afterall, Franken is a good writer, and a funny comedian, Garofalo is a decent actress, Seder was a...uhh, I have no idea, Jerry Springer was a joke television host and former politician, and the rest of them are just, again, whatever.
It's as if radio is so easy anyone can do it!
I interviewed with AAR twice. Once to produce and be partially on air with Sam and Jeneane, and then to produce for Randi. Not getting the Randi gig was surprising, but not getting the Seder gig was just RIDICULOUS.
This is AAR in a nutshell:
I interview with 5 people, all asking me questions. Sam and I have a discussion about politics, Republicans, Bush, etc. It was as if he was doing a show for me. 4 other people in the room sat there and nodded their heads as Sam spoke. After asking me a list of questions, he asked me if I have any questions. My first was this, "So, just curious, where have you all been working before you came here?"
A chuckle filled the air. As if there was an inside joke.
Guess what? NO ONE HAD ANY RADIO EXPERIENCE! That's right! Wait, one guy did, he has a semsester at Columbia under his belt. Uh huh. A semester at Columbia. Well, I'm definitely getting this job, right? Afterall, I've done talk radio as a progressive just outside NYC, and the show had major ratings increases. MAJOR! I had experience. I had written for big name hosts, and had success. No brainer, right?
BZZZZ! WRONG. It was not to be.
The one-semester producer emailed me telling me I did not get the job. Now, he didn't send me a professional email, but rather, replied to my email asking what the story was. Very professional. I then emailed Sam telling him how surprised I was. He told me that I was "the most qualified" but that he felt I'd feel "stifled" on his show. Riiight. Having spoken with the staff, they didn't think I'd be a good fit. What a surprise. You mean to tell me that 4 people with no experience didn't want me working with them? I wonder why. Talk about protectionism! These people all feared for their jobs, Sam included, and didn't want someone with more experience in the house. That was the reality. I don't blame them. They are clueless.
This email obviously bothered me for a host of reasons, so after two months I emailed Jon Sinton, the man in charge, telling him of this. He told me he'd look into it. He did. He then got back to me and said, "We think it's best to let the shows hire the people they are comfortable with..."
Really? You mean, you think it's a good idea to let the shows hire people of lesser ability so they can protect their own asses? I can understand if the shows were at all succesful, but they weren't. I can understand allowing Rush to hire his own people. That I get. They were failing, and this was his take? Nice job. I'm shocked the ship sank. I'm shocked he was let go, or left, or bailed, or whatever.
Now we have the problem of ENTERTAINMENT, something AAR knows nothing about. They know about complaining, they know how to read blogs, they know how to regurgitate, but when it comes to entertaining, not a clue. Again, Randi aside.
People do not want to be taught. People do not want a civics lesson. People do not care about "the hypocrisy!" People care about being entertained. Take a look at Neil Rogers' success in Miami, FL. This is a raving lunatic liberal ENTERTAINER. He's not some whiney little bitch complainer who's upset about "what the Republicans are doing..." He's an entertainer.
Do you know AAR cannot entertain? It's because they hired people who do not know what radio is, or how it works. They hired TV personalities, comics, and writers. They hired people who were succesful in other fields, who didn't have their paychecks resting on their success. They hired THE LIBERAL ELITE that the Republicans make fun of every day.
There's a reason Randi is the only real entertainer, and it's because she's the only true radio professional!
It's a smart move to overpay non-radio hosts who demand a lot of money because of their fame. Good call. AAR should have been grassroots. With no names. With hosts people learned about. People have opinions of Springer, Franken, and Garofalo. No one who disliked them already was going to tune in. No names, starting from the ground up, that would have been a different story. And these people would have worked RELENTLESSLY. THey wouldn't have written books, and gotten big liberal guests. They would have become great radio hosts.
I'm going to stop right here because you get the point. Crap management, people who don't know how to entertain, blah blah blah. It's a bunch of boring complainers, and that's it.
Oh, and tell me this, why has no one been FIRED from AAR? And I mean the hosts. They've had shit ratings for years, and yet the same cast of characters remain. WHY IS THAT? How many producers have been fired? I'd really like to know.
The conservatives have earned their air time. From Savage, to Rush, to Bortz, to Hannity, to all of them. They've have become radio professionals. That's why they succeed. If they were failing, they'd be fired. Unless they worked at AAR...
(not editing)
No They Didn't...
I love the NY Post. Today they wrote about the sanctions we're enacting against N. Korea, led by the Bush Administration's top team of Bolton and Rice. Here's a piece:
So lets review: Clinton appeassed Kim Jong Il, and at the time he may have started a nuclear program without us knowing. But Bush, being so much tougher, took the hard line (even though that hard line was one that involved 5 other nations, and got us nowhere). Now he has nuclear weapons, and is testing them. Fear not, for the Bush team is taking away his favorite beverage, which I'm sure he has no other way of getting.
Like all things they've attempted, this is going to work out really well...
The new U.N. sanctions, which target equipment for weapons of mass destruction and even luxury goods like oddball North Korean President Kim Jong Il's beloved cognac, have "probably gotten their attention," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice noted.That's right, as the post reports, the loss of cognac is going to change everything!
So lets review: Clinton appeassed Kim Jong Il, and at the time he may have started a nuclear program without us knowing. But Bush, being so much tougher, took the hard line (even though that hard line was one that involved 5 other nations, and got us nowhere). Now he has nuclear weapons, and is testing them. Fear not, for the Bush team is taking away his favorite beverage, which I'm sure he has no other way of getting.
Like all things they've attempted, this is going to work out really well...
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