The Fat Lady Sings

“Soylent Green is People”!!!

 

Offered ‘as is’ without further explanation.  All you really need to know is Glenn Beck is a pettifogging little clerk who sees communists under every rock and Olbermann fancies himself the second coming of Edward R. Murrow.  Enjoy.

It's a Great Day to Whup Somebody's Ass

For those days when just saying "Fuck It" doesn't suffice.

   

Paul Thorn, ladies and gentlemen

CSI Stand Aside

Jed Clampett’s got nothing on North Carolina’s Sheriff Ed Brown.  After a month of botched investigations, marginalized dismissals and outright incompetence, Sherriff Brown and his crack team of criminalists located the body of Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach.  Where?  In the back yard of the man who raped and impregnated her.  How?  With a dowsing rod, of course.  Mr. Tesander take note.  On the heels of the body’s discovery, Sherriff Brown had this to say:

"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand if there's a cavity out back and blood on the inside, that's probably going to be a key location for where this crime may have taken place," Brown said.

Uh-huh.  I think I can safely say that the terms ‘rocket scientist’ and ‘Sherriff Brown’ are never likely to have anything to do with one another – in this lifetime or the next. 

Now – I lived in North Carolina for a number of years.  I’m sorry to say Sheriff Brown’s unique methodology isn’t, well, all that unique.  In point of fact, I could regale you with a host of similar tales.  Now - I’m sure local residents find Sherriff Brown’s 19^th century forensics ‘folksy’ and ‘down home’.  I have to say I rather doubt Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach’s family sees it in quite the same manner, however.

My heart goes out to the victim's family and friends. 

Gonzales vows to fix Justice Dept

Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said yesterday: "We are confident that the men and women of the department are working distraction-free, protecting our neighborhoods from violent gangs, preventing acts of terrorism and protecting our children from predators."
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The point is, We The People are NOT confident that the employees of We The People in our Justice Dept are actually DOING the work of the People rather than serving as hacks and flunkies for Codpiece and Darth Cheney.

WE DON'T CARE how much you have learned, the Attorney General of the United States is NOT an internship position.

I say to you Mr Gonzales, YOU are the problem, and until you are replaced, the politization of the justice department cannot be addressed.

RETIRE It's the right thing to do.

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*click here for the original article.

**Cross-posted  at The Gypsy's Caravan

Quote of the Day

"If you don't believe that abortion affects you... I contend that it affects you in imigration. If we had those 40,000,000 people that have been killed(aborted) over the last 30 years... we wouldn't need the illegal imigrants to fill the jobs that they're doing today. Think about that."

Tom Delay, at the College Republican Convention 2007

I am thinking about that, and it stinks. If you go the way of forcing those 40 million to give birth (I suspect this is a gross overstatement, but will accept it for the sake of argument), then you have 40 million americans being raised by parents who didn't want them, probably resent them, and don't want to parent them. Many would overcome these emotions to go on to love their children, but many won't and will raise children only to abuse them..... and then they would be free to do the "work that americans don't want to do" - like bending over picking vegies for ten hours a day at minimum wage, or flipping burgers, or giving out change in an all night gas station for minimum wage.  We would still have porous borders with illegals pouring over - 'cause the conditions in South America would still be nasty,  but the misery here would be all USA.

Hey, way to tear apart american families! Go Delay!

Holy Warriors

Looks like the "War Against Christmas" is heating up:

Wal-Mart said Tuesday it will test sales in some stores of biblical action figures whose makers say they are aimed at Christian parents who prefer their children play with Samson, David or Noah rather than with a comic book character or Bratz doll.

One2believe Chief Executive David Socha said his products were part of a "battle for the toy box" with dolls and figures that he said carry negative messages.

"If you're very religious, it's a battle for your children's minds and what they're playing with and pretending. There are remakes out there of Satan and evil things," Socha said.

I'd say I was flummoxed - but nothing America's 'fringe contingent' does these days rates anything more than a raised eyebrow.

Hat-tip Crooks and Liars

Anatomy of a disaster

In the new WP article about Cheney's excess of partisan zeal in reducing our environment to a polluted, hothouse mess, we find this scenario:

'Let the water flow'
There was, as it happened, an established exemption to the Endangered Species Act.

A rarely invoked panel of seven Cabinet officials, known informally as the "God Squad," is empowered by the statute to determine that economic hardship outweighs the benefit of protecting threatened wildlife. But after discussing the option with Smith, Cheney rejected that course. He had another idea, one that would not put the administration on record as advocating the extinction of endangered or threatened species.

The thing to do, Cheney told Smith, was to get science on the side of the farmers. And the way to do that was to ask the National Academy of Sciences to scrutinize the work of the federal biologists who wanted to protect the fish.

Smith said he told Cheney that he thought that was a roll of the dice. Academy panels are independently appointed, receive no payment and must reach a conclusion that can withstand peer review.

"It worried me that these are individuals who are unreachable," Smith said of the academy members. But Cheney was firm, expressing no such concerns about the result. "He felt we had to match the science."

Smith also wasn't sure that the Klamath case -- "a small place in a small corner of the country" -- would meet the science academy's rigorous internal process for deciding what to study. Cheney took care of that. "He called them and said, 'Please look at this, it's important,'" Smith said. "Everyone just went flying at it."

William Kearney, a spokesman for the National Academies, said he was unaware of any direct contact from Cheney on the matter. The official request came from the Interior Department, he said.

It was Norton who announced the review, and it was Bush and his political adviser Karl Rovewho traveled to Oregon in February 2002 to assure farmers that they had the administration's support. A month later, Cheney got what he wanted when the science academy delivered a preliminary report finding "no substantial scientific foundation" to justify withholding water from the farmers.

There was not enough clear evidence that proposed higher lake levels would benefit suckerfish, the report found. And it hypothesized that the practice of releasing warm lake water into the river during spawning season might do more harm than good to the coho, which thrive in lower temperatures.

Norton flew to Klamath Falls in March to open the head gate as farmers chanted "Let the water flow!" And seizing on the report's draft findings, the Bureau of Reclamation immediately submitted a new decade-long plan to give the farmers their full share of water.

When the lead biologist for the National Marine Fisheries Service team critiqued the science academy's report in a draft opinion objecting to the plan, the critique was edited out by superiors and his objections were overruled, he said. The biologist, Michael Kelly, who has since quit the federal agency, said in a whistle-blower claim that it was clear to him that "someone at a higher level" had ordered his agency to endorse the proposal regardless of the consequences to the fish.

Months later, the first of an estimated 77,000 dead salmon began washing up on the banks of the warm, slow-moving river. Not only were threatened coho dying -- so were chinook salmon, the staple of commercial fishing in Oregon and Northern California. State and federal biologists soon concluded that the diversion of water to farms was at least partly responsible.

Fishermen filed lawsuits and courts ruled that the new irrigation plan violated the Endangered Species Act. Echoing Kelly's objections, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit observed that the 10-year plan wouldn't provide enough water for the fish until year nine. By then, the 2005 opinion said, "all the water in the world" could not save the fish, "for there will be none to protect." In March 2006, a federal judge prohibited the government from diverting water for agricultural use whenever water levels dropped beneath a certain point.

Last summer, the federal government declared a "commercial fishery failure" on the West Coast after several years of poor chinook returns virtually shut down the industry, opening the way for Congress to approve more than $60 million in disaster aid to help fishermen recover their losses. That came on top of the $15 million that the government has paid Klamath farmers since 2002 not to farm, in order to reduce demand.

The science academy panel, in its final report, acknowledged that its draft report was "controversial," but it stood by its conclusions. Instead of focusing on the irrigation spigot, it recommended broad and expensive changes to improve fish habitat.

"The farmers were grateful for our decision, but we made the decision based on the scientific outcome," said the panel chairman, William Lewis, a biologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "It just so happened the outcome favored the farmers."

But J.B. Ruhl, another member of the panel and a Florida State University law professor who specializes in endangered species cases, said the Bureau of Reclamation went "too far," making judgments that were not backed up by the academy's draft report. "The approach they took was inviting criticism," Ruhl said, "and I didn't think it was supported by our recommendations."

So, they threw $75 million at the problem, had the worst fishkill in history anyway, and the problem remains and will get worse as the glaciers in the american west disappear and global warming dries out the breadbasket of North America.

How much does it cost to build a desalination plant??  How many could we have built with $75 million and a functioning army corps of engineers?

The Hate Crowd Has Arrived

It's always only a matter of time.  Check out the comments to S.B. Gypsy's post on the Opie and Anthony show.  Such intelligent, erudite, well-educated folk.  Keep in mind they kiss their mother's with that mouth:

Action Alert

Looks like Shakesville and The Fat Lady Sings now have a whole lot in common:  Some people are so frightened of our websites they try and intimidate us into shutting up.  Not gonna happen, children.   

Action Alert

Sharpen your pencils, folks. Buff those fingernails and get ready to write some emails, 'cause there are two dumb@sses on the radio who are jonesin' for unemployment.

Opie and Anthony Radio POgram (sic) has decided that it would be Hi-larious if Condoleeza Rice and the Queen of England were raped to death.

Shakespere's Sister has the video, and exerpts, over at Shakesville.

Here's a list of # Radio Stations (AM/FM) that broadcast their show in the following markets:

New York City: 92.3 FreeFM WFNY (online stream available)
http://www.923freefm.com/pages/63860.php

Philadelphia: 94.1 FreeFM WYSP (online stream available)
General Manager - David Yadgaroff 215-238-4768
Program Director - Gil Edwards 215-625-6527
[email protected]

Dallas: 105.3 FM KLLI (online stream available)
http://www.1053freefm.com/pages/1533.php

Boston: 104.1 FM WBCN 
Dave Wellington - Program Director ([email protected])

Pittsburgh: 93.7 FM WRKZ
http://www.937krock.com/pages/326182.php

Cleveland: 92.3 Fm WXRK (show airs from 3pm - 6pm)
Main Office Number: (216) 861-0100
            Fax Number: (216) 696-0385
[email protected]

West Palm Beach: 103.1 FM WPBZ
Business Office: 561.686.9505

Detroit: 97.1 FreeFM WKRK (show airs from 6am - 9am)
http://www.freefm971.com/pages/1534.php

Rochester: 94.1 FM WZNE (show airs from 2pm - 5pm)
Adam Drexler    Marketing Director  (585) 399-5795
[email protected]

Washington, DC: 106.7 FreeFM WJFK (show airs from 10am - 1pm)
Chris Kinard, Interim Program Director - [email protected]
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Reply :

Thank you for listening to WJFK. I wanted to let you know that we are reviewing the situation. I also wanted to make you aware that Opie and Anthony do two radio shows... one for CBS Radio including WJFK, and a separate show for XM Satellite Radio. The segment you are referencing did NOT air on WJFK or CBS Radio in any way, shape, or form at any time. It was broadcast on the XM show. Again, I appreciate your feedback.

Chris Kinard

Program Director-WJFK FM

Executive Producer-The Junkies

FREE FM 106.7 WJFK

Washington, D.C.

office: 703-279-2841

10800 Main St.

Fairfax, VA 22030

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Chicago, IL - 105.9 Free FM WCKG (online stream available)
http://www.1059freefm.com/pages/1532.php

San Francisco, CA - 106.9 Free FM KIFR (show airs from 10am - 1pm) (online stream available)
http://www.1069freefm.com/pages/1542.php

Providence, RI - WSKO 790 AM and 99.7 FM
Jim Brinson, Program Director    [email protected]

New London, CT - WMOS 104.7 FM Woe Ho! this one is "powered by the Mohican Sun"

Grand Rapids, MI - WKLQ 107.3 FM
Business Phone:  616-774-8461

Albuquerque, NM - KBZU 96.3 FM (show airs from 4pm - 7pm)

Phone: (505) 767-6700

Fax: (505) 767-6767

www.963thebuzzard.com
EMAIL:OPIE & ANTHONY HOTLINE: 866.313.3733

Buffalo, NY - WEDG 103.3 FM  Owned by Citadel Broadcasting Corp

Write us:
7201 W. Lake Mead Blvd.          Call us: (702) 804-5200
Suite 400
Las Vegas, NV 89128                  Fax us: (702) 804-5936

Baton Rouge, LA - KRDJ 93.7 FM  Also owned by Citadel Broadcasting
Tucson, AZ - 107.5 FM KHYT (online stream available)
http://www.rock1075.com/article.asp?id=57055

Cape Cod, MA - 102.9 FM WPXC Pixy 103 owned by Nassau Broadcasting
http://www.nassaubroadcasting.com/contact.htm

Las Vegas, NV - 107.5 FM KXTE XTXREME ROCK RADIO (show airs from 10am - 1pm)
Program Director  Chris Ripley  [email protected]

Flint, MI - 1330 AM WTRX Sports Xtra (show airs from 6am - 9am)
Also owned by Citadel Broadcasting
http://www.wtrxsports.com/contactus.asp

Syracuse, NY - 95.7 FM WAQX 95X (online stream available)
http://waqx.com/contactus.asp

Please email them and tell them just how you feel about these bozos advocating Rape and violence against women in general, and highly visible political figures in particular. These scum do not deserve to be paid to open their mouths on US airwaves.

*Check in later, I will be posting email addys as I discover them

No Pizza For You!

Fer crying out loud, people!  At least let the troops have a slice now and then!