ON TODAY'S SHOW - FRIDAY OCTOBER 5th
Richard Dawkins will be on the show today. Get ready for some atheism! Or just check out his website, with links to all of his fascinating books, like the God Delusion.
FROM THE ETERNAL CAMPAIGN:
He is not gay, and he is still a Senator. Larry Craig will not resign. Republicans are pretty upset about it, too.
Get to know your GOP candidates. “Defend America? Check. Defeat Hillary? Check. Cause voters to hold nose and vote? Check. We give you -- the GOP nominee!” From Salon.
And check out the new GOP convention logo – it’s not getting a warm reception. What do you think? What do you care really?
IN THE MÉLANGE:
Ever wonder why you see Jennifer Aniston on so many magazine covers? Because statistics prove her face sells the most magazines … see the whole top ten with photos, compiled by Forbes Magazine of course.
Woman kills husband (accidentally) with a sherry enema. And she gets away with it.
What would you do if your mayor vanished, claimed it was medical leave, but gave no details to the press or the public? Well if you live in Atlantic City, call us and let us know what you are doing about it.
Learn more about SCHIP – some stories compiled at Daily Kos.
Will Al Gore win the Nobel Prize? Odds are looking up.
And much much more on Ventilation Friday … that means open phones and lots of Drunk Dials.
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Why the Blue Elephant?
Indeed Lionel, why would the Republican Party have a logo of an Elephant in Blue, with the numbers 2008 in Red on a White Background? What an insane color combination.
DUDESTEIN
9/11 was an Inside Job by criminal elements within the U.S. Govt
Giuliani has been confronted by 9/11 truth protesters at almost every public appearance he has made since he began officially campaigning for a White House run.
Giuliani has continued to callously use 9/11 and its victims as a campaign tool, throwing fundraisers at which participants are being urged to donate "$9.11 for Rudy".
And the FBI refuses to confirm the identities of the 4 aircraft used during the 9/11 attacks.
Kevin Mcpadden a 9/11 first responder talks of his experience of the collapse of WTC 7. He heard the countdown for the controlled demolition!
"We got down to the lobby and everything was blown out, exploded, and we were the only ones in the lobby... everything was exploded, everything was gone, we're like what is going on here?" said Firefighter John Schroeder.
9/11 Is Over by New York Times’ columnist Thomas Friedman is as ignorant if not as pernicious as its misguided view of 9/11’s tragedy. It is symptomatic of the worse elements at the Times.
The Military Drills of September 11th: Why a New Investigation is Needed. Though both the 9/11 Commission Report and members of the Bush Administration repeatedly stated that the use of planes as weapons could not have been predicted, other official sources indicate that military exercises had been underway on the very day of the attacks to counteract this very possibility.
The Revised and Updated Edition of Debunking 9/11 Debunking by David Ray Griffin is now published. This new edition contains several new things, including: More quotations from former military officers who call the official conspiracy theory impossible, a report on Rudy Giuliani’s problematic response to a group of activists who asked him, with the camera running, how he knew that the Twin Towers were going to collapse, and stronger evidence that the alleged cell phone calls were faked.
Thank Sod its Richard Dawkins
Lionel; congrats on getting Richard Dawkins, be sure to let him know about AAR's new show Freethought (or something like that).
I've been an atheist since the moment I could ponder life, no one ever tought me superstition as reality.
I don't mind the label at all, and it is somewhat negative, because it is the absence of a thing, theology. You, Lionel, sure use labels, political or not, alot for somone who claims to dislike them.
Glad to be an atheist and I think you are too.
J. Mason, Lyons, Georgia, U.S. http://masonsays.blogspot.com
Outsourcing the logo
This elephant is an Indian elephant (note those fierce tusks!) and there is something in the Indian tradition about a standing elephant. I guess those tusks and the icon's wide stance are supposed to be an extension of the Republican Party's willingness to fight endless wars. Actually, the length of those tusks indicate the age of the animal, and possibly the average age of Republicans.
atheism
I self identify as an atheist because I don't think this is "one Nation under god". I don't "trust in god" and I do not think there is a god to bless america.
Christians And The Bible
"There aren't a lot of things in this world that one can be sure
of, but I do know this; anytime you go by a House of Worship, of any
size, and of any denomination, that's filled to its rafters with
people, you can be certain that the vast majority of those people
haven't actually taken the time out to read The Bible, or whatever
ancient, "Sacred Text" that they subscribe to, because if they had read
it, and comprehended it, then that House of Worship would be nearly
empty." ~Nyc Alberts, NYC, October, 2006
Why Won't God Heal Amputees?
What The RNC Elephant Represents
Since the 2008 RNC is going to be held within 10 miles of Sen. Larry Craig's airport toilet stall, it's obvious that the logo represents him.
Note, for one, its wide stance, and secondly its blue color, which reflects the sadness Mr. Craig feels at being thrown under the bus, and his sexual frustration at having his advances rebuffed.
Thinking and imagining....
Lionel- What we are missing here is the process of thinking and imagining the existence of an Omnipotent being during the time without language. When there was no language, how was belief conveyed? And how was this belief evolved in the age of communication.
By the way, the greatest part of the societal evolution in the past 7000 years is the use of written and verbal language. Without which how do we think? Think about it! How did people actually even THINK without language?
DUDESTEIN
Dead 3 days?
No. Never. There have been instances of people being bitten by snakes that use a venom with a paralysing effect that mimics death. That's it!
DUDESTEIN
dead 3 days?
Liars for Christ!
Liars for Christ!
Don't some of these 'Liars' also claim that the Fossil Record was faked by God in order to fool people in thinking the World is millions of years old?
DUDESTEIN
And any similarities between
And any similarities between the Christian hero, Jesus, and other (previous) religious heroes is Satan trying to trick us, trying to undermine Jesus in advance.
/bangs head on table
Daniel Dennet
I can't not comment on Dan Dennet's idea of "belief in belief" and how modern religions are good at getting people to profess belief rather than actually believe.
Breaking the Spell is a must read.
Did the guy....
that was dead for 3 days go through Rigor mortis?
DUDESTEIN
Is this the part of the show...
That you try to make every caller sound like a clueless idiot?
DUDESTEIN
Just when you were likeable...
you go and start acting like an ass! Lionel, grow up. Act as smart as you think you are!
DUDESTEIN
Ventilation Friday allows information to reach sleeping masses
Funny show today. As funny as some of the better Ventilation Friday shows. Too bad the Inside Job of 9/11 is so very serious, though until people wake up and begin to understand and acknowledge the plethora of documented, observed, and corroborated evidence, I guess we’ll continue the mundane.
Please consider a show at some point in the future concerning the verifiable facts and the unanswered questions of 9/11. If we all it back idly and let the real criminals get away with mass murder, we are inviting another false flag terror attack upon innocents yet again.
Why do Americans know more about Britney’s crotch than they know about the 70% of victim’s family members questions that were NEVER answered during the 9/11 commission?
Why do Americans know more about the simpsons than they know about the hundreds of dead 9/11 First Responders and the thousands that are dying today because of the lies of 9/11?
Why do we know more about a dirty politician’s bathroom stall life than we know about our own Constitution? And why are we OK with that?
Please feel free to come down to the World Trade Center site on any given Saturday to witness how dedicated citizens are taking action to educate the masses about all there is to know about 9/11.
Yes they do!
Testing for actual death...
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9406E6D6103EE033A25757C2A...
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9406E6D6103EE033A...
DUDESTEIN
Do you have any idea...
how boring the past 1/2 hour has been? At what point do you decide making every caller into a Fool has no entertainment value and isn't funny in any definition of the word FUNNY? You think you're making some greater point about HAVING to do an open call day? Well you're not. You're only proving yourself the lesser talent than those who manage to make more of the format.
DUDESTEIN
The Bush-CheneyAdminstration is Extremely Competent
The Competent Neocons...
Near full implementation of the PNAC agenda outlined in the MeinKampf-esque "Rebuilding America's Defenses" manifesto
Iraq War - check
Multigenerational War on Terror
3800+ US Iraq War fatalities, 1000+ Afghanistan War, 1.5 million Innocent Iraqi deaths
Escaping justice for numerous domestic and International War crimes - check
Escaping impeachment - check
Enriched war machine - check
gutted Habeas Corpus - Check
rationalized torture - check
"Misplaced" Trillions (Sept 10th, 2001) and later Billions of dollars in Iraq - check
"Misplaced" weapons cache in Iraq - enabling "insurgency" to be well armed - check
Reestablished record breaking opium production in Afghanistan - check
Implemented Extraordinary Rendition and secret torture camps - check
Manipulated - Stole 2000 and 2004 elections - check
Lied about Iraqi WMD's - check
Lied about Jessica Lynch-Pat Tillman - check
Working on reigniting Russian-American Cold War (Russian bomber flights, etc) - check
Gutted independent officer corps - check
Christianization of the military - check
Massive expenditures for Star Wars, exotic non-lethal electromagetic Weapons, Internet cybercorps - check
Intimidation (or cooperation) of Media - check
Permanent military bases in Iraq - check
Passed Patriot Act after convenient Anthrax and Manchurian Sniper attacks - check
Passed Military Commissions Act - check
Massive debt to break government (and public) - check
Electronic surveillance - check
warrantless wiretaps and internet - check
First-rate mercenary force enriched and empowered - check
Blinding of America to Iranian nuclear program - check
Billions budgeted for favorable media coverage - Check
Billions budgeted to silence the shill-for-hire 501c3 Churches
Decimated New Orleans post-Katrina (dry-run for martial law) - check
Coopted Justice Department for 2008 election-rigging - check
Stacked Supreme Court with Neocons with a cake-walk confirmation - check
Turned over regulatory agencies to the wolves of industry (ex. Mining, Forestry) - check
Freed Scooter Libby with no political cost - check
Bankruptcy "reform" - check
No Child Left Behind and other Orwellian named govt initiatives- check
Garnered cooperation of Democrats to enable agenda - check
Unending blank checks from Congress - check
Convenient benefiting from a "New Pearl Harbor" - check
Pulled a sham Investigation on 9-11 over on the public for a paltry $15 million - check
Conning the American public that they are incompetent - mucho grande check
What more do you want to qualify them as a success? Most people think they are incompetent because they are operating according to a different game-plan, or paradigm, than the normal person. Normal people wouldn't operate at this level of corruption and genuine evil. These people are expert Machiavellian psychopaths (with a strong dose of Straussian Noble Lie telling) and to attempt to associate normal behaviors to them is an exercise in futility. By focusing on the Mouthpiece-in-Chief for the real elite power-structure that makes policy for this defacto enslaved nation - (do you really think you're Free as the Founders fought, bled, and died for?) you are diverted from noticing the men behind the curtain.