Wow!

There's still a huge untapped audience for AAR that simply doesn't know it exists, yet.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 10, 2006 08:58 PM

Janeane could've squeezed some juice from 'WW,' surely, worn a T-shirt or snuck in a coffee mug or something.

My son's Smart car costs $12 Canadian to fill with diesel, and the mileage is astonishing. They don't sell Smart cars in the US.

Posted by: Lunare at May 10, 2006 07:59 PM

I think I saw one of these in Italy in 02. Real little guys. No wonder theyy fill up with $12 dollars Canadian!

I have a question; how come MR doesn't seem to have done anything on Hookergate? Or have I missed it?

trub- In my intermitten listening patterns lately, I think Sam hopped hookergate front in center. Jane Ann did, too...

Energy crisis? Venezuela gas is cheaper than water
Wed May 10, 2006 6:02pm ET169
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By Brian Ellsworth

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Taxi driver Jaime Tinoco works the streets of Caracas in a 1976 Chevy Nova that guzzles 19 gallons (72 liters) of gas a day. But he doesn't worry about fuel efficiency -- filling his tank costs just

$2.30.

While U.S. consumers struggle with soaring energy prices, Venezuela's gas is now the world's cheapest at 12 cents a gallon and Washington's regional foe, President Hugo Chavez, vows to maintain subsidies that keep fuel dirt-cheap.

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Nice job, Hugo!!

(I wonder how long it'll be, before we attack...)

Hartman just explained in essense what I've been telling the stupid Right Wingers

They believe the rich are entitled to keep their money and not have to pay extra taxes just because their rich

But the way Tom just described the Bush Tax cuts, if the middle class was only taxed 15% on their income and anyone under 20,000 be tax exempt

The working man could get ahead and maybe even move up

Stop voting for these millionaires, right wingers---trickle-down doesn't work for your working broke arshes

Exactly, trickle down is ridiculous. Let's trust billionaires to not put money in the Caymen Islands.

US General: Taleban Influence Up in Some Areas
By Al Pessin
Pentagon
10 May 2006

The American commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan says the Taleban has increased its influence in some southern areas, but he predicts that as NATO increases its forces in the country during the next few months the situation will change. General Karl Eikenberry spoke to reporters at the Pentagon Wednesday.

General Eikenberry says as the weather improved this spring, Taleban elements showed their influence in some areas in the south, where NATO is to take over most military operations by July.

"In southern Afghanistan, there are several districts that are located in northern Kandahar Province, northern Helmand and Uruzgan [provinces], where it's fair to say the Taleban influence in certain areas is stronger than it was last year," he said.

General Eikenberry also says the Afghan insurgents have changed their methods, using tactics that have been successful for insurgents in Iraq, including roadside bombs and suicide attacks. Still, he expressed confidence that as NATO forces continue to arrive the international coalition and Afghan forces will be able to bring the situation under control.

"NATO, collectively, will have a much larger presence on the ground in southern Afghanistan than we do to date," he noted. "So, increase of violence in the south, the enemy has changed tactics, [but] I am confident over the course of the spring and the summer and the fall, with these transitions that are under way, that the situation will improve by the end of this year."

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While U.S. consumers struggle with soaring energy prices, Venezuela's gas is now the world's cheapest at 12 cents a gallon and Washington's regional foe, President Hugo Chavez, vows to maintain subsidies that keep fuel dirt-cheap.

Maybe when you have the decision to transfer much of your energy consumption to (corn) ethanol, like Lula has done in Brazil, this goes a long way to keeping fuel dirt cheap, eh?

Rove has gotta be having sex with him.

Venezuala's gas is cheap because it has been socialized. The Government in Venezuela now controls the 3rd largest oil exporting economy in the world. THE OIL IS FOR THE PEOPLE. Isn't that the way it should be?

This is organized crime now.

posted by: Daniel at May 10, 2006 09:13 PM

It's more like, oil is for the people who learn to become responsible with energy consumption.

Posted by: MJP at May 10, 2006 09:09 PM

By Mary MacElveen, May 3, 2006

12 cents a gallon gasoline: feel the mob mentality rising in the United States?

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Yes, President Chavez charges his citizens 12 cents a gallon for gasoline.

* They may begin to see President Chavez as a demon and a threat to their economic welfare and wonder just how can CITGO stations here in the United States charge equally high prices as other companies such as Exxon/Mobil, Shell and others.

After Katrina, someone on an Internet news site asked that very question. So, while that site did not know the answer, I took it upon myself to write Fernando J. Garay who is the manager of Public Affairs & Corporate Secretary of CITGO. This was his response back to me: "In terms of market prices, this is what I can tell you: CITGO does not own, operate or control any retail locations. The company sells gasoline to its distributors. CITGO by law cannot dictate prices to its customers. With that being said, the individual gas stations set their own price since under law, CITGO cannot influence what price is charged. As we have seen many gas stations in the wake of Katrina have price gouged the customers and that is up to the individual states to address if they have laws on the books to deal with it."

In Newsday's piece this passage really got my attention: "Venezuela, which is sitting on the largest crude oil reserves outside the Middle East and possibly in the world, has the cheapest gasoline prices on the planet."

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Did Thom ever say where Sam and what's her name are?

Th US is quickly becoming (or is now) a

third world country...which is great if you're rich

and have the morals of a potato...

In Newsday's piece this passage really got my attention: "Venezuela, which is sitting on the largest crude oil reserves outside the Middle East and possibly in the world, has the cheapest gasoline prices on the planet."

Enter, an administration who's next stop after "democrasizing" the middle east is SOUTH AMERICA.

....While Columbia is a right wing fascist who we're propping up, the neocons can go after the "leftist".

Makes one want to spit up, does it not?

eya gang!

some good posts above )

Posted by: A. at May 10, 2006 09:16 PM

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Thanks, Shell...

I did'nt know this aspect.

SJ!

Glad to say, "eya doin?"

I want that man for PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That list Thom and Wesley Clark too!

Thom is having Lou Grant (Ed Asner) on his afternoon show tomorrow. I forget what the topic is, maybe it's just Asner's hatred of Bush. Some show needs to have Streisand on once. Hey, AAR could use a rich buddy like her. She ought to throw a few fund-raiser concerts for them. She's said she'll only sing live again to raise money for liberal causes, as she's done with benefit concerts previously.

We,ve already tried to overthrow Chavez(twice) now we decided to go the back door route. We are sending special ops forces into Central America via Nicaragua El Salvadore in the guise of quelling the uprising caused by the crminal sandinista political party that has grown to become a critical opposition to the Right Wing Governments that Reagan and Bush1 put into place in the 80's

eya MMM!

busy days lately,

but satisfying and fun work.

Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Hillary Blasts House Leadership, Bush

NEW YORK (Jan. 17) - Sen. Hillary Clinton on Monday blasted the Bush administration as "one of the worst" in U.S. history and compared the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to a plantation where dissenting voices are squelched.
Speaking during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event, Clinton also offered an apology to a group of Hurricane Katrina survivors "on behalf of a government that left you behind, that turned its back on you." Her remarks were met with thunderous applause by a mostly black audience at the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem.
The House "has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about," said Clinton, D-N.Y. "It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard."
"We have a culture of corruption, we have cronyism, we have incompetence," she said. "I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country."

Chávez to snub No 10 on private visit to Britain

Thom is having Lou Grant (Ed Asner) on his afternoon show tomorrow. I forget what the topic is, maybe it's just Asner's hatred of Bush. Some show needs to have Streisand on once. Hey, AAR could use a rich buddy like her. She ought to throw a few fund-raiser concerts for them. She's said she'll only sing live again to raise money for liberal causes, as she's done with benefit concerts previously.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 10, 2006 09:26 PM

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Asner, is 9/11 savy.

I wonder if he'll discuss it.

Posted by: GG at May 10, 2006 09:28 PM

Now she's praising him....geesh....

Sam, Janeane, are you sure you want to support this idiot?

Mary Cheney, in fact all the Cheney's, are proof the that worms do have more soul than some people.

i wonder why so many people-celebrities and non- dislike Bush?

Its they know stuff the FOX heads don't.

Just strange. Why does FOX news adore Bush and everyone else in America does not.

I just can't put my finger on it. Its truly the greatest mystery of modern times.

Chávez to snub No 10 on private visit to Britain

Posted by: A. at May 10, 2006 09:28 PM

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hahahahaha!

"...culture of corruption, we have cronyism, we have incompetence,"

Posted by: GG at May 10, 2006 09:28 PM

We have a buzzword overdose, she continued....

Every morning, when I wake up, I think "what is going to happen today?" What will this admin do to destroy more of America today? What will this admin do to destroy more of the world today.

What a depressing way to wake up in the morning!

I cannot in good conscience vote for nor support Hillary Clinton she does Not represent the true democrat party, she has flaunted her favours to the corporate beast that has so damaged our Republic that any hint of co-mingling would result in a hybrid party that would destroy any hope of restoring sanity and ethics.

Posted by: toniD at May 10, 2006 09:34 PM

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They usually do it late at night, when nobody

is lookin'.

Hillary Clinton Says Bush Has Charm and Charisma
By DEVLIN BARRETT, AP
WASHINGTON (May 9) - Asked to say one nice thing about President Bush, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton went one better: She named two things.
is someone who has a lot of charm and charisma, and I think in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, I was very grateful to him for his support for New York," Clinton said Tuesday night during a talk at the National Archives about her life in politics.
Clinton, a potential presidential candidate in 2008, said that despite their "many disagreements about many, many issues," she has always had a good personal relationship with the president.
"He's been very willing to talk. He's been affable. He's been good company," said Clinton, D-N.Y.
The junior senator from New York, who is up for re-election this year, said she is still thankful for Bush's personal commitment to helping rebuild lower Manhattan after Sept. 11, 2001.
She recalled how the president, in the grim days that followed the terror attacks, pledged in a private meeting with New York lawmakers to help rebuild the shattered city.
"It was a very personal, very emotional discussion and when we asked him for the help that New York needed he immediately said yes," said Clinton.
At that meeting, Bush pledged more than $20 billion in aid and tax incentives. Some New York Democrats have since charged the Bush administration has fallen billions of dollars short of that goal because some of the programs were underused, but Clinton said the president kept his promise.
"He always kept it on track," she said. "He made sure we got the resources that we needed and I'm very grateful to him for that. ... I am very appreciative in the time when the people I represented needed his help, he was there for us."
05/09/06 21:09 EDT

This guy's gotta be fuckin' kidding, right? The liberals are responsible for Katrina? OK, who's responsible for the recent twisters in Texas?

Posted by: CeeCee at May 10, 2006 09:37 PM

I wonder if the people of New Orleans can say anything like that.

Ed Asner and Ted Knight hated each other because they were political polar opposites. Apparently there was a lot of Ted Baxter in Ted Knight, it wasn't all an act.

How in the hell did they do that Limbaugh song????

What really must be hillarious is Bush having these staged shows

With rich people and

Telling them to get signed up for the new perscription drug program

As if...

What a JOKE.

Posted by: CeeCee at May 10, 2006 09:37 PM

Man, something is rotten in the den of the Clintons....

Apparently there was a lot of Ted Baxter in Ted Knight, it wasn't all an act.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 10, 2006 09:39 PM

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Yeah, I've heard this as well.

Damn funny show tho!

Gov. Buddy Rohmer, D.La. circa 1982 signed the "Right to Work" Bill and immediately plunged Louisiana into a downfall of wages and Union representaion, combined with Reagan's Amnesty all that was left of New Orleans was poverty. When you combine that with Republicans refusal to enact legislation to get people off welfare and back into the workforce(like Clinton did) you have clinical poverty.

Randy "Duke" Cunningham said to be uncooperative; not been helping federal authorities as they continue to probe the former congressman's web of corruption. Perhaps Rove got word to Duke's prison mates about what might happen if he fingers his GOP buddies.

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How about the impact on the 500th generation? How do you communicate across 500 generations? How do you warn future generations about the dangers of nuclear waste in the year 12006? Will future tourists visit the nuclear waste monuments that we are creating? Will future generations believe great treasures are hidden within the nuclear waste storage sites?

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"An Alert Unlike Any Other"

Excerpts:

"A nuclear waste vault in New Mexico will long outlive our society. Experts are working on elaborate ways to warn future civilizations.

Roger Nelson has a simple and unequivocal message for the people of the year 12006: Don't dig here.

Computer projections predict that within 1,000 years the ceilings and walls will collapse in a crushing embrace that seals the plutonium in place. But plutonium remains deadly for 250 times that long - an unsettling reminder that some of today's hazards will outlast the civilizations that created them.

Trying to communicate across 500 generations posed an unprecedented challenge of linguistics, semiotics and materials science, so the government first asked scientists, futurists and historians to envision what the far-distant future might be like."

"No culture has ever tried, self-consciously and scientifically, to design a symbol that would last 10,000 years and still be intelligible," said David B. Givens, an anthropologist who helped plan the nuclear-site warnings. "And even if we succeed, would the message be believed?"

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http://tinyurl.com/jka9x