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“Caberet” John Kander and Fred Ebb
Interesting tape. I don’t know what to think of Jeb. I like his parents. I think Jeb did a terrible job of keeping track of his family while he was in office. Out, of office, anyone involved in South Florida real estate to the extent he is has a special burden requiring dissection and disclosure. Bottom line, I think he should look for a nice condo in Naples.
harborw… I read Ratigan’s email earlier this morning… I’m totally bummed! I’ve learnt so much watching his show. Now there’ll be no one on giving voice to those subjects…. or a voice to all the people accomplishing so much despite the economy, Wall St., and or the government. His show was the only cable show I watched with regularity.
I do understand a need to move on though. I wish Dylan much luck in his next venture.
BTW… the Car Talk guys, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, are ending their show this fall after 25 yrs on NPR.
We need good and unique voices on tv and radio… perfect time for Craig to start a show.
I agree, Renee. If Craig could manage an hour show once a week pontificating on the week’s events it would fit nicely on the NPR format. Could supplement the hour broadcasts with 15-minute daily shows as part of the NPR morning sequence.
He could bring in homespun stuff about our cars and CBobs creations. Watch out Magliozzi Bros and their reruns.
Craig:
I’m hoping craig can tell me what’s wrong with my truck……
george got the gold mine and jeb got the shaft….
June 11 is the anniversary of the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.. Alexander died in the afternoon, in the palace at Babylon, leaving the fate of his kingdom in the hands of his Macedonian generals.
the gop have jumped so many sharks they’ve got shark-burn.
I’d say nice appearance, Craig, but they always are. I tend to agree that it’s about time for you to get back on the air on a more regular basis. Your more down home style and humor would be a terrific counterpoint for all the “serious” guests you could draw.
doesn’t it still boil down to how many folks get off the couch, go to the polls and pull the lever? altho’ $$ do come in handy for driving them there and for paying for field staff to help the huge nursing home contingent and other absentees voters to have their’s counted.
The Daily Run-Mouth with Chuck Todd.
balz’ column this week on growing political divide had some meat in it to chew over. especially this morsel:
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20120610/OPINION04/306100022/Dan-Balz-Political-divide-grows?nclick_check=1
Great segment. I still think that Obama can win this thing, and I think that he will.
All this money, and the recent results in Wisconsin,
cause me to fear that house and senate candidates are in for along hard slog.There is simply no way that someone like Elizabeth Warren can compete financially with these super pacs. They can drop two or three or five million into negative advertising in a heart beat.
I hope that I am wrong. Will watch the race to fill Gabby Giffords seat here in AZ that may tell us something. Republicans want this seat badly, and are willing to spend what it takes to get it.
Both Bill Clinton and Jeb Bush like to think of themselves as the adults in the room. That is easy to do when your name is not on the ballot.
“June 11 is the anniversary of the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C..”
Sturg,
They just don’t make conquerors today like they used to.
speaking of ms warren
http://www.politico.com/blogs/charlie-mahtesian/2012/06/netroots-go-gaga-for-elizabeth-warren-125742.html
jeb bush
Dylan Ratigan- “94% of the time the candidate raising the most money wins! That’s an auction!”
pogo… I wish your Miami Heat and the OK Thunder much luck in their pursuit of the NBA title.
It was sad watching the last few minutes of the game Saturday night… not because it was obvious the Celtics would lose… but because I’m sure it will be the last time we see this team together. It’s been a fun ride.
Renee, thanks for the words. Yes, it was a good run for the Celts’ big 3 lineup. It was pretty obvious that the Celts just ran out of gas halfway through the fourth quarter. When Allen and Pierce couldn’t produce points, that was it. Their shots were short -- a sure sign of fatigue, and they couldn’t pull it out. Regardless of the outcome of the finals, it will be an interesting off season for both Boston and Miami (considering that Boston will likely lose either Pierce, KG or both, and Miami is already $8M over the salary cap.)
pogo… Pierce is still under contract for 2 more years.
But both KG and Ray Allen are free agents.
I knew they wouldn’t make it when the score was tied at the end of the third period.
Renee…thanks for the Ratigan post. His voice is such a loss.
signe wilkinson cartoon befits today’s thread
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20120611/OPINION03/306090125/1016/OPINION/Signe-Wilkinson-rich-folk-song-society?
Senator Elizabeth Warren..it has a nice ring
I watched Herman Cain and Sean Hannity being ridiculous — they think calling Obama a socialist is going to scare people.
The best come back fight is pointing out that The Affordable Health Care Act is Republican-capitalist work at its best and single payer would have been the socialized and preferred approach…
and I like that someone finally pointed out that we do require people to buy health insurance Medicare
And for the first time in history people are viewing the supreme court as political in its decisions --thank you republicans
tony, tho’t you’d enjoy this downtown abbey parody i stumbled upon
KGC, Socialist is a scary word to some Rw reactionary types who think it means communism I guess. Frankly, they either understand that well or don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. You also said, “I like that someone finally pointed out that we do require people to buy health insurance Medicare”
That’s exactly what Craig and I talked about in one of the first TM Radio chats -- that the ACA mandate is not unprecedented -- it just pushes the age downward. We also noted (I think) that employed folks have to “buy” unemployment insurance and retirement and disability insurance (SS).
“we do require people to buy health insurance Medicare”
No we don’t. We do require wage earners to pay a tax to support the system. But signing up for the fee based part B and D is purely voluntary. So no cigar.
Jack
Sorry Pogo try and justify Obama’s crappy system as much as you want and (evidently you really want too) that was a stretch that won’t work.
Paying a social insurance tax to the government is not the same as buying a private insurance policy
Jack
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/06/11/Supreme-Court-rejects-birthers-appeal/UPI-81031339433097/
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/11/154776888/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-guantanamo-appeals
jack, speaking of mandatory and not so mandatory insurance laws, are tennessee and wisconsin still the only states that don’t mandate auto insurance?
thanks anyway. response not necessary. found my answer here
http://www.autoinsuranceremedy.com/auto-insurance-state-by-state.html
Any of those familiar with the high degree of accuracy in my prognostications should be disheartened when I predict that some serious socio-economic shit is going to hit the fan, on a global scale, within the next 5 years, due to issues like the ones discussed in today’s blog post.
rats.
that definitely qualifies as a “discouraging word”.
I guess that means the skies will also be cloudy all day.
whispering: (It was I who thumbs-upped your “rats” comment, as I find humor in the prospect that a singular word could be designated as a popular comment, especially out of context.)
whispering even more quietly: (I may have some issues, as accurate prognosticators typically do, with the gravity of their accurate prognostications weighing heavily on their psyche, but they make for a good joke every now and again.)
whispering almost inaudibly: (Have a good day, sunlight is over-rated, especially the oppressive summer variety.)
Persian General: Our arrows will be so thick as to blot out the sun.
Leonidas: Good. Then we can fight in the shade.
wrote a song oncet which went: “If that sun don’t rise again tomorrow / I guess it will be dark all day”.
it was a song of lassitude, and seemingly endless cycles of aimless wandering. kind of like the flying dutchman dude, or “The Man Without a Country” guy.
nobody could say “Rats” like WC Fields could….
the enrico caruso of underbreath curses….
GODfrey DANiels Mother-of-Pearl!
Pogo
I’m sorry I missed your trailmix appearance or I would have said how brilliant you were in pointing out that mandates are certainly constitutional.
Republicans are big fat liars --
again what is wrong with the main stream media that they do not point out when people are flat out liars
“Socialist is a scary word to some Rw reactionary types”
Pogo,
All those RW reactionary types did not think that we socialists were so scary when we were bailing out their asses from stupid and crooked business practices with our socialist tax dollars.
http://craigcrawford.com/2012/06/08/chattering-with-imus/#comment-291022
Moveon,
Thanks for your response! I don’t agree that the voter’s of Wisconsin don’t want union worker’s to have collective bargaining rights.. I think its more a question of how much money the ANTI-UNION Right wing nuts spent to keep their boy Walker in power! As Renee’s Dylan piece showed earlier, 94% of those who raise the most money wins..So very nice to read you though and i hope you keep posting often..
http://craigcrawford.com/2012/06/11/money-money-money/#comment-291079
Pat,
Thank you! Oh i loved it! That show is one of my favs! Was nice to see Kim Cattrell as well…
Dylan Ratigan Dumps Cable
by Taylor Marsh
Net Worth Plummets
by Taylor Marsh
“Dylan Ratigan knows and wasn’t afraid to say that Democrats and Republicans suck equally. Partisans and networks don’t like to hear things like this, because it confuses, even depresses, people if you lay out the obvious that something is needed beyond the status quo.”
This would be a description of the Craig Crawford radio hour. A one hour free wheeling, equal opportunity party abusing, no bullshit show hosted by a host with a great sense of humor,a laid back personality and serious understanding of just how fucked up things really are.
I want to produce it now more than ever.
Hey Jace,
Yep! Wished you were producing it, Craig would be and is terrific!
champ, on the sunny side of the street
grab your worries and get your hat
leave your keys beneath the door mat
shit can be so deep
when your life is in a heap
Tony,
Thanks. I think that one hour is enough, the standard 3 hour format is simply too long. After the first forty five minutes, there are simply too many commercial breaks and too much rehash of the same subject.
Depending on air time the one hour show might stand a better chance of being carried live in more markets, as opposed to the 3 hour which are generally only live in the time zone of origination.
One of the reasons I don’t listen to a lot of talk radio is because I am generally listening to to a recorded program. Highlights if there are any have already appeared on the internet somewhere.
Hey C-Dub,
Glenn Beck just got a $100 million deal, so if you end up doing a radio show, make sure you’re strident, unintelligible, and cry a lot.
“On Point with Tom Ashbrook” is the best show on NPR, if you like talk radio.
http://onpoint.wbur.org/
“Wiretap with Jonathan Goldstein” from the CBC is a funnier, less pretentious ‘This American Life”.
http://www.cbc.ca/wiretap/
(I find the CBC to be more engaging and less pretentious than NPR all across the board… it’s all online, these days)
Jeb Bush Questions G.O.P.’s Shift to the Right
By JIM RUTENBERG
A nice article about our Emmy
http://marthasvineyard.patch.com/articles/islander-wins-all-american-sailor-for-second-year