In a confirmed report from CNN and other news services, 72-year-old Sen. John McCain has picked the scandal-tinged, 44-year-old Alaska
Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate on the GOP ticket for the White
House. McSame has thrown the long ball, hoping for a touchdown by
picking a female governor as his running mate.
Dumb.
My reasons:
1. Alaska, long a rock-ribbed Red State, is reeling from longtime Republican Sen. Ted Stevens' alleged criminal misconduct, and is polling more "purple" than red these days. It's also not that big in electoral votes: only three--the same as Joe Biden's Delaware.
2. It's stunt casting. He picked the lightweight gov for the alleged "wow" factor of picking a woman. What does she really bring to the ticket beyond the novelty factor?
4.
Perhaps they think Palin will scoop up disaffected PUMA voters from
Hillary? Don't count on it. The Cllintons blunted that movement with
their dynamic endorsement speeches of Obama/Biden at the convention, I'd say.
5.
Choosing Palin totally destroys McCain's "pick me for my experience"
strategy. Where he alleges Biden was chosen to shore up Obama's foreign
policy and D.C. bona fides, McCain obliterates that argument (said
pundit Keith Olbermann: she makes Obama look like John Adams) by
choosing for his running mate one of the least experienced politicians
in the country he claims to "put first." Worse, he hardly knows this
person, he met her once six months ago. Instead of picking a solid
partner for governance, he has chosen a trophy veep. McCain must have
taken a page from the George H.W. Bush playbook for this one. Gov. Palin, the new Dan Quayle. The stellar, record breaking Democratic National Convention
must have scared the crap out of the former maverick, making him into a
desperate old man who has just made one terribly dumb decision.
6. If McCain were to, God forbid, succumb to old age or cancer, does anyone really think Palin could be an effective president? Joe Biden could easily take the reins if a tragic or unforeseen development arose that made it a necessity. Palin has admitted she doesn't even know what the "vice president does every day." Imagine her as president. Sadly, Sarah Palin would be a worldwide laughingstock and a disaster for our nation.
Bottom Line: Nice try, Senator. Enjoy your retirement.
We Yold You So! It's Biden! Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:39:00 GMT SoonerThought is over the moon at the prospects of the Obama/Biden Dream Ticket. So is Our Karl Rove
and I'm sure millions of Americans who now can see the leaders who will
take us out of the dark wilderness we have endured the past eight
years. The nightmare will end soon--but we have to get these guys
elected. And yes, we will say it: WE TOLD YOU SO!--Editor
New Updates Daily at the Mothership Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:22:00 GMTAuthor: soonerthought@gmail.com Yup, we're behind in our production schedule again. We hope to do a EuroSatan Convention Special if scheduling allows. Until then, don't forget to visit the mothership for daily news, views and crap like that.
Episode 66 Alex is Back June 22 2008 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:05:00 GMT After a brief hiatus, Alex returns to beg your pardon and make some big announcements.
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Encore of Episode 21 Tribute to RFK Fri, 6 Jun 2008 01:36:00 GMTAuthor: soonerthought@gmail.com In this encore presentation from 2006, Alex shares clips of Lawrence O'Donnell expressing his dislike of Al Gore, Scott the Movie Guy reviews Over the Hedge and X Men 3, EuroSatan feels better, and Alex has a special tribute to RFK.
Having been born on the day Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, I have always taken a special interest in this great man
and his times. It is also tasteless when you consider that Sen.
Kennedy's younger brother Edward just received a terminal illness
diagnosis--I mean really, how crass can you get? Senator Clinton's dumb
remark sullies his memory by using his murder as an election talking
point. Whether she meant to imply that Obama could also be assassinated
or not, this is simply the point where she should fold up her tent.
Apology is not enough. It is time for Sen. Clinton to stop embarrassing
herself and our Party and go away. BBC coverage excerpt below. Keith
Olbermann is doing a Special Comment tonight.--Editor
US
presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has apologised for evoking Robert
Kennedy's 1968 assassination as she argued to continue her nomination
bid.
Senator Clinton said she had been attempting to point out that previous campaigns had also continued into June.
Democrat Robert Kennedy was running for his party's presidential nomination when he was shot dead in June 1968.
A spokesman for rival Democrat hopeful, Barack Obama said Mrs Clinton's comment "has no place in this campaign".
Back Soon Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:38:00 GMT Hi. If you're a regular listener to The SoonerThought Show, you have likely noted we have been on a very irregular schedule lately. Well, long story short, your host Alex has a new job, is working on a new book and also has a baby on the way!
As John Lennon said, Life's what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.
So, as they say, something's gotta give. We'll be back soon, and we hope you'll keep your subscription. The SoonerThought Show will be back. Talk to you soon!
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Episode 65 Euro's Secret Hideaway Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:21:00 GMT Euro gets away from it all in his secret underground hideaway, and Alex drinks too many Warp Core Breaches as they discuss politics, midlife crises and more.
New Show On The Way Sun, 2 Mar 2008 22:40:00 GMT Really, really tied up lately. Have a lot of audio in the can, but no time to put the show together. I promise we'll be up and running soon. In the meantime...
Call our listener line at 206-333-0500 and ask your questions of Our Karl Rove and Euro.
Coming soon: More from Our Karl Rove...and My Dinner With Euro II!
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Episode 63 Call us 206-333-0500 Tue, 5 Feb 2008 03:20:00 GMTAuthor: soonerthought@gmail.com Alex on the military industrial complex. Euro calls in three times, and some kids make fun of Alex when he's doing the pledge drive on TV. Call our listener line at 206-333-0500 and let us know what is on your mind!
Euro makes excuses, Alex mourns Bidenâs aborted presidential
bid and Nick gives us his number. Want to sound off? Donât suffer in silence;
call our listener line at 206-333-0500 Visit the mothership.
Music by: .22 from the Podsafe Music Network. Special featured
musician is Dan Coyle. In this show you can hear two of Danâs great songs:
(Peace) In America and Nobody Really Understands. For more about Dan, touring
info or to buy a CD, check out Danâs website at http://www.dancoyle.com/.
And donât forget to call in to our NEW listener line, dang
it: 206-333-0500!
We welcome best-selling author and Sam Spade of Journalism
Greg Palast back to the show for a quick interview. Support the Palast
Investigative Fund and finish your Christmas shopping by clicking here.
Want to sound off? Donât suffer in silence; call our
listener line at 206-339-4328. Visit
the mothership.
Music: Conspiracy Theory by Mark Smith; SoonerThought Show
theme is Busted Frog by .22 from the Podsafe Music Network.
Next week, Euro returns!
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Episode 59 Oklahoma Centennial Sun, 9 Dec 2007 23:27:00 GMT Alex celebrates the Oklahoma Centennial, featuring an interview with Oklahoma Interfaith Alliance President Rev. Jeff Hamilton about the Koran Flap. Also: the Okie Tour Guide. Call our listener line today 06-339-4328. Visit the mothership.Remember: Joe is Right!
Episode 57 November 7 Thu, 8 Nov 2007 04:44:00 GMT Alex interviews Biden for President New Hampshire Steering Committee Member Nathan Empsall.Visit the new website SoonerThought.Blogspot.com and call the listener line:206-339-4328. Click here for SoonerThought merch.We need your vote on Podcastalley!
SoonerThought supports Biden for President. Check him out at www.JoeBiden.com.
NOTE: We apologize for the abnormal sound quality of portions of this episode. We are working on the issue.
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Episode 56 EuroWeen Special 2007 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:26:00 GMT Euro returns for EuroWeen! Also, a spooky story "Headstones" and more! isit the new website SoonerThought.Blogspot.com and call the listener line yourself! 206-339-4328. Click here for SoonerThought or Euro merch.We need your vote on Podcastalley! We support Biden for President and hope you will check him out at www.JoeBiden.com.
You
probably didn't hear or read about four soldiers from an Ottumwa-based
Iowa National Guard unit being wounded in Iraq a few days ago.
It
rated only four paragraphs in the paper, which is probably
understandable given there were not many details available - including
the soldiers' names.
The Iowans were wounded when an improvised
explosive device - a roadside bomb - exploded next to their vehicle
during a patrol near the Iraqi city of Samarra. Two of the soldiers
were injured seriously enough to be flown to a military hospital at
Landstuhl, Germany. The two other members of the 833rd Engineer Company
were treated in Iraq and returned to duty.
Here's what initial news reports didn't say:
"They
were in an RG-31 armored vehicle," said Lt. Col. Gregory Hapgood, chief
spokesman for the Iowa National Guard. "If they'd been in a Humvee,
they would have been killed. A Humvee couldn't have withstood the
explosion."
You could call it "Exhibit A" in the argument over
whether to build more of the state-of-the-art armored vehicles for use
by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not that you would think such a
thing would be a point of political controversy. But it is, and you can
ask Joe Biden if you don't believe it. More
than any other member of Congress, the Delaware senator has pushed for
funding and construction of thousands of Mine Resistant Ambush
Protected (MRAP) vehicles - including the RG-31 - the type that saved
the Iowa soldiers last week.
Why would championing these things cost a politician, when they are certain to protect American troops?
Well, Biden is
a Democrat running for president. Democrats, particularly party
activists who will attend the caucuses, are loathe to back anybody they
even suspect might support the war in Iraq.
Biden opposes the
war, and it's not just jabbering. He's come up with a plan to divide
Iraq into three semi-independent regions with a strong central
government and a fair split of oil revenues. It may be the best idea
yet to resolve the ugly situation and get U.S. troops home.
Biden's
political problem: He cast a Senate vote in May in favor of a
supplementary appropriations bill to continue funding the war. The sole
reason is because the bill included funding for buying MRAP vehicles.
There
was, as they say, hell to pay. Especially because Democrat presidential
candidates Sens. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Christopher Dodd all
voted against the bill. Those candidates support appropriations for the
MRAP, just not when it is specifically tied to an Iraq war funding
bill. Their spinning translation? Biden voted for the funding,
therefore he supports the war.
Biden says the vote made him "the
bastard at the family picnic." Anti-war activists held "Impeach Biden"
signs when he visited Iowa City. His staffers warned he would "get his
skin ripped off" if he attended an event in Council Bluffs.
All because of the vote. And he says he doesn't care.
"As
long as there's one American kid over there, I'm voting the money for
these things," Biden said in a chat the other day during a stop in Des
Moines. "It's the one way we can save lives before getting them out."
He
got an education a couple of years ago, during his fifth trip to Iraq,
when he saw one of the relatively few MRAP vehicles in the country.
Then he talked to some soldiers about an MRAP that had been hit by a
roadside bomb. It was a large vehicle known as a Cougar and it had
taken a direct hit. Soldiers explained to Biden it had been thrown 25
feet straight up and sustained massive damage. The soldiers inside were
shaken, but all walked away.
Like the situation with the Iowa soldiers, the vehicle saved their lives.
The
MRAP vehicles are built with a V-shaped undercarriage that deflects
shrapnel from mines and roadside bombs from the passenger compartment.
The
military estimates that MRAP vehicles would prevent from between 68
percent and 80 percent of deaths and injuries from the roadside bombs,
as compared to armored Humvees.
"Seventy percent of all the kids
killed or wounded are from IEDs," Biden said. "If you can extend life
expectancy by 80 percent by having MRAPs, how can you not fund it?"
Then he pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket, checked the numbers, and gave a startling bit of information.
"From
March of 2003 to July 19, 2007, if we'd had MRAP vehicles in Iraq it's
reasonable to say that between 938 and 1,120 Americans who were killed
by IEDs would still be alive."
Manufacture of the new vehicles
is under way, largely because Biden became such a pain in the neck to
his congressional colleagues on the issue. So far, $23.6 billion has
been appropriated for building and deploying 18,000 MRAPs in Iraq.
Ideally, they would replace all of the Army's up-armored Humvees in the
country.
Biden promises to keep up the fight to see that funding continues.
"It's cost me politically," Biden said. "But some things are worth losing elections over. This is one."
You can bet the four Iowa National Guard soldiers who were wounded last week and their families would agree.
Columnist John Carlson can be reached at (515) 284-8204 or jcarlson@dmreg.com
DES
MOINES, Iowa - Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden on Saturday
was endorsed Saturday by a small Iowa newspaper, which praised him for
"the only workable plan to get us out of harmâs way in Iraq."
The
Delaware senatorâs campaign said Biden was the first Democratic
candidate to be endorsed by a newspaper this election season.
Biden,
chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, advocates limiting
the power of Iraqâs central government and dividing the country into
three semiautonomous regions of Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis.
Danny
OâBrien, Bidenâs Iowa state director, said the endorsement shows that
Biden is gaining momentum in Iowa as "more Iowans recognize his
leadership and experience on the most important issues affecting us at
home and abroad."
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Episode 54 Oct 7 2007 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:49:00 GMT We take a look at Joe Biden as our presidential candidate, Euro espouses on airport bathroom stall etiquette and more. Visit the new website SoonerThought.Blogspot.com and call the listener line yourself! 206-339-4328. Click here for SoonerThought or Euro merch.We need your vote on Podcastalley!
Episode 52 Oh Mexico Sat, 8 Sep 2007 18:40:00 GMTAuthor: soonerthought@gmail.com Go south of the border with your host, then wake Euro from his nap. Vote for us on PodcastAlley.com and visit our new mothership at soonerthought.blogspot.com! Call our listener line today!Your message may be played on the show. 206-339-4328.
Euro returns and talks music with Alex. Buy your Euro
t-shirt here today!Please vote for us on Podcastalley.com. Sorry for the sound
quality of this episode. We will record in a better place next time. Any
contributions you can make appreciated--just send them va PayPal to
Soonerthought at Gmail dot com or go here. Thanks for listening!
PLEASE NOTE: WE HAVE SOME REAL SOUND QUALITY PROBLEMS WITH THIS EPISODE, BUT IF YOU HANG IN THERE YOU CAN HEAR EURO'S INTERVIEW. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.
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Episode 50.1 Nick Needs A Ride Sun, 5 Aug 2007 19:56:00 GMT We've been so busy driving Nick around we haven't had time to upload a new podcast. Sorry! We'll be back soon with a brand new journey into audio silliness and political outrage. In the meantime, vote for us on PodcastAlley.com will ya?
New Show Coming Soon Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:31:00 GMT Sorry to be tardy in getting a new show out...just bought a new house and it is tough getting packed and moving, etc. But we'll be back soon. Stay with us!
50th Episode with Special Guest Wordfaery! Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:59:00 GMTAuthor: soonerthought@gmail.com Wordfaery Poet Marge Merrill joins us as our guest on the 50th Episode! Also we feature lots of calls from well wishers, including Euro, Nick Nolte and more!
Music by .22 and Alexye Nov from the Podsafe Music Net. Vote for SoonerThought on Podcastalley.com.
This show is a member of the Progressive Podcast Network. You can also review us on iTunes, and it would be greatly appreciated! Call our listener line today!Your message may be played on the show. 206-339-4328. Wear us with pride and help keep us online! Buy your SoonerThought gear here.
Shortly after the first accused terrorists reached the U.S. naval
prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Jan. 11, 2002, a delegation from CIA
headquarters arrived in the Situation Room. The agency presented a
delicate problem to White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales,
a man with next to no experience on the subject. Vice President
Cheney's lawyer, who had a great deal of experience, sat nearby.
The meeting marked "the first time that the issue of interrogations comes up" among top-ranking White House officials, recalled John C. Yoo,
who represented the Justice Department. "The CIA guys said, 'We're
going to have some real difficulties getting actionable intelligence
from detainees'" if interrogators confined themselves to treatment
allowed by the Geneva Conventions.
From that moment, well before previous accounts have suggested,
Cheney turned his attention to the practical business of crushing a
captive's will to resist. The vice president's office played a central
role in shattering limits on coercion of prisoners in U.S. custody,
commissioning and defending legal opinions that the Bush administration
has since portrayed as the initiatives, months later, of lower-ranking
officials.
The
vice president's office pushed a policy of robust interrogation that
made its way to the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, above,
and Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. More Cheney photos...
Cheney and his allies, according to more than two dozen current and
former officials, pioneered a novel distinction between forbidden
"torture" and permitted use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading" methods of
questioning. They did not originate every idea to rewrite or
reinterpret the law, but fresh accounts from participants show that
they translated muscular theories, from Yoo and others, into the
operational language of government.
Join Us on Episode 50! Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:01:00 GMT Episode 50 looms! Wanna send us your congrats, wisecracks, critiques, requests or whatever? Call our Listener Line by June 19--and we'll put your message on the show! CALL: 206-339-4328.
Come on, give us a call!
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Episode 49 Alex Phones It In Wed, 6 Jun 2007 23:59:00 GMTAuthor: soonerthought@gmail.com Alex phones it in on his birthday and enjoys calls from Euro, Nick Nolte and other listeners. Music by .22 and Alexye Nov from the Podsafe Music Net. Vote for SoonerThought on Podcastalley.com. This show is a member of the Progressive Podcast Network. You can also review us on iTunes, and it would be greatly appreciated! Call our listener line today!Your message may be played on the show. 206-339-4328. Wear us with pride and help keep us online! Buy your SoonerThought gear here.
Alex:
Only from you and Harry Shearer am I hearing anything about New Orleans
these days.
Greg:
Cooper Anderson did his little cry thing.
Alex:
Oh for God's sake.
Greg:
He did his cry op as they call it in the biz.
Alex:
Cry op!
Greg:
He did his cry op, and now he's on to Angelina and Brad. It was really
upsetting though. He's a Vanderbilt, Anderson Cooper. And it was very upsetting
for him to see the way they were treating those people who cut his grass and
take care of his illegitimate children. Oh did I say that?
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Episode 47 Greg Palast Returns! 5.4.07 Fri, 4 May 2007 19:22:00 GMTAuthor: soonerthought@gmail.com This episode welcomes back our friend New
York Times bestselling author and master muckraker Greg Palast, author of ÃïïArmed
MadhouseÃïï (Penguin Paperback 2007). When Palast, an investigator of
corporate fraud and racketeering, turned his skills to journalism, he was
quickly recognized as, ÃïïThe most important investigative reporter of our timeÃïï
[Tribune Magazine] in Britain,
where his first reports appeared on BBC
television and in the Guardian
newspapers.
Author of another New York Times
bestseller, The
Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Palast is best known in his native USA as the
journalist who, for the Observer
(UK), broke the story of how Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black Florida
citizens from voter rolls before the 2000 election, thereby handing the White
House to his brother George. His reports on the theft of election 2004, the
spike of the FBI investigations of the bin Ladens before September 11, the
secret State Department documents planning the seizure of IraqÃïïs oil
fields have won him a record six ÃïïProject CensoredÃïï for reporting the news
American media doesnÃïït want you to hear. ÃïïThe top investigative journalist in
the United States
is persona non grata in his own countryÃïïs media.Ãïï [Asia Times.] He returned to America to report for HarperÃïïs Magazine.
PalastÃïïs Sam Spade style television and print exposÃÂÃïïs about elections manipulations,
War on Terror and globalization, as seen on BBC Ãïïs Newsnight and Amy GoodmanÃïïs Democracy Now! His writings have won the
Financial Times David Thomas PrizeÃïïand inspired the Eminem video, Mosh. ÃïïAn
American hero,Ãïï said Martin Luther King III. In the BBC documentary, Bush Family Fortunes, Palast exposed
George Bush Jr.Ãïïs dodging the Vietnam War draft. Greg Palast, says Noam
Chomsky, ÃïïUpsets all the right people.Ãïï
Palast won the George Orwell Courage in Journalism Award for his BBC
documentary, Bush
Family Fortunes.
Also in this episode, former CIA Director George Tenet
squirms and we take calls from old favorites like EuroSatan and new ones like
the Drunk Tax Lawyer and the Yokel. You, too can call the Listener Line: 206-339-4328.
Music on this show, including our theme song by .22 is from the Podsafe Music Net. Want your daily fix
from Alex and the gang? Visit Soonerthought.com!
Help keep us onlineÃïïdonate today!
Episode 46 Gettin' Robbed 4 .24.07 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:18:00 GMT Alex talks with Mr. Mike about getting robbed by "the Man". Alex tells his tale of being robbed by common street thugs. To make things interesting, EuroSatan calls in on the listener line. You can too by calling 206-339-4328. Music on this show, including our theme song by .22 is from the Podsafe Music Net. Want your daily fix from Alex and the gang? Visit Soonerthought.com!
Alex
plays a clip from the Progressive
Geek podcastÃÂÃÂÂÃÂÂproud owner of a new EuroSatan CD! Also, commentary from Col.
Jack Jacobs of Imus in the Morning, and our FIRST call from our new Listener
Line!
Call our listener line today!Your message may be played on the show! 206-339-4328.
Also, please vote for us on Podcastalley.com.
Music from the Podsafe Music Network. Visit the mothership!
Episode 43 March 24 07 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:06:00 GMTAuthor: soonerthought@gmail.com EuroSatan returns with tales of his trip to Vegas. Music from the Podsafe Music Network. The Euro CD is still on sale email us at Soonerthought at Gmail dot com. Visit SoonerThought.com.
Please Stand By Sun, 25 Feb 2007 13:47:00 GMT Due to technical difficulties, we have been unable to post a new show. We are working on it, and appreciate your patience. Please check back here and at SoonerThought.com for updates. Thank you.
Episode 38 Happy New Year! Fri, 5 Jan 2007 20:49:00 GMT A New Year, A New Congress and Predictions from a man with a bad accent! Music from the Podsafe Music Network. This show is a member of the Progressive Podcast Network. Please help us out and vote for SoonerThought at www.Podcastalley.com. Buy your Eurosatan CD now! Email us at SoonerThought (at) Gmail.com to order! Thanks for listening!
Featuring EuroSatan and SoonerThought Show Host Alex G. Vol. I 2006
This CD features one hour and ten minutes of some of the best bits and pieces from EuroSatanâs first year of appearances on The SoonerThought Show. ORDER NOW!
EuroSatan riffs on Thanksgiving...and we hear a word from the President. The SoonerThought Show is a member of the Progressive Podcast Network. Visit SoonerThought.com for more.
Happy Thanksgiving from Alex and the Gang.
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Episode 35: Nov. 19, 2006 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:46:00 GMTAuthor: soonerthought@gmail.com Alex returns to weekly episodes; discussing the Democratic Victory in the Midterm Elections, the passing of a literary legend, and the new James Bond. This podcast is a member of the Progressive Podcast Network. Visit SoonerThought.com!
Our biggest show of the year tackles pre-election topics, featuring the Stupid Conservative of the Week, a scary reading by WordFaery and an excerpt of Alexs novel, Pilates Cross.
It is also Euroween as EuroSatan talks about his favorite holiday and weighs in on Halloween costumes, candy, Mr. Furley and the Stick of Butter.
Dont forget to vote STRAIGHT TICKET DEMOCRAT Nov. 7!
The first-ever SoonerThought Spooktacular! Besides our usual political roundup, we will hear from EuroSatan along with scary readings from WordFaery. A special added bonus: Alex will read an excerpt from his new suspense thriller novel, Pilate's Cross!
This will be just the thing for your Halloween listening!
New Episode Tomorrow...Stay Tuned! Sun, 3 Sep 2006 18:26:00 GMTAuthor: soonerthought@gmail.com Sorry...been swamped with the new novel and some serious personal stuff...back on Labor Day with a special "Bad Bosses" episode. Stay tuned!
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Episode 30 August 20, 2006 Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:51:00 GMTAuthor: soonerthought@gmail.com Alex is Vegas-bound...and lightning strikes! Some Limbaugh and Bush idiocy also included. Visit www.SoonerThought.com for daily updates.
Alex talks about the Lamont/Lieberman battle and shares comedian Rush Limbaughs vies on the anti-Semitic actions of Lamont supporters. Alex has a rant (see below) about yet another loss of liberty as a result of a terrorist scare, and Gore Vidal reflects on President Jonah.Have You Had Enough by Ricki Lee Jones is featured along with music from the Podsafe Music Network.
Please understand: I respect the need for security on airliners. We must try to screen bad guys from doing bad things on our planes.
But I have to ask: where do we draw the line for reasonable security?
Nineteen murderous bastards allegedly used box cutters to take over the planes of 9/11. So now we cannot bring fingernail clippers on planes. Okay.
One idiot tries to set off shoe bombs, so now we have to have remove our shoes to be checked. Lucky it wasn't an underwear bomb, I guess.
Now, its liquids you will not be allowed to bring any liquids of any kind (except medicines and baby formula) onto the plane and this will be a permanent rule (see below). What really pisses me off are rumors that they also want to ban my iPod. This is just ridiculous, stupid overkill.
Precautions are understandable, but really, where does it stop? I am fully willing to sign a form that says I understand flying is risky and that I will take my chances withreasonable security precautions. How about you?
What I am not willing to do is sacrifice my dignity for ridiculous personal searches which add hours to the airport check-in. I am just not willing to get on this slippery slope to eventually losing all personal liberties right down to having a cup of Starbucks on the overcrowded, smelly, poorly-operated planes I must ride.
I know, I know, If I don't like it I can just drive; and I do drive now, whenever possible. But you and I know that airliners are simply indispensable for most business and vacation travel.
Therefore, I offer this: Life is risky. Suck it up.
We should demand our government stop imposing hysteria-induced security measures on us. As trite as it sounds, with every liberty lost, with every silly precaution imposed that changes our way of life, the bad guys win.
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. Benjamin Franklin
Writer, Actor, Inventor of the Chill Pak, 9/11 Skeptic and star of The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen, Dean Haglund goes one on one with Alex for an enlightening interview!
Episode 27 July 23 2006 Mon, 24 Jul 2006 03:00:00 GMTAuthor: soonerthought@gmail.com Interview with a Democrat who has left the Party...or is it the other way around? Music and More. Visit the Progressive Podcast Network for more great podcasts. Visit SoonerThought.com for daily updates.
You know what really pisses me off? That these flag waving, America-first, Jesus is my co-pilot NeoCons who have their noses so far up Bush's ass they won't admit that Valerie Plame has a legitimate case against the Administration. She was a covert agent who was outed because her husband, a decorated Republican-appointed ambassador, had the temerity to tell the truth.
It seems NeoCons can get behind and even lionize as heroes convicted criminals like G. Gordon Liddy, Ollie North, Elliot Abrams and numerous others with no apparent irony or sense of hypocrisy; but when a person who is a legitimate hero happens to disagree with their Dear Leader, they Swift Boat them. They are also the first to say that dissent is hazardous to our troops; unless our troops oppose the president or when our spies tell the truth.
Note to NeoCons: If you love this country (a sentiment you practically salivate over on Fox News), you have to play by the rules. You do not take up arms against a brother. You do not expose a CIA agent in the name of political gotcha. You do not attack the mother of one our fallen soldiers because you don't like her politics. Americans should not be doing this to each other, even under the reign of the divider/decider in Chief.
I am also incensed by people who virtually worship NYC over 9/11 (which is fine), but laugh off disaster victims in New Orleans as godless or fools (how stupid of them to live in a city that is below sea level! They deserved to drown!). This is an historic American city, a crucial seaport and the home of American citizens. Stop laughing about the disaster, you assholes. If other Americans had done this kind of bullshit to Oklahoma City when the American terrorist McVeigh attacked us, I can assure you I and several of my fellow Okies would have tracked them down to kick their asses.
Down is up, up is down with NeoCons. Thank God America is waking up to just how corrupt the entire movement is. To the 33 percent or so of Americans who are too A. Stubborn B. Dumb C. Mean to admit the truth, I say: There's always Mexico. Go south...you can still steal an election down there, ya bastards.
In this episode Alex interviews Scott the Movie Guy about Superman Returns; discusses SWIFT and the terrorist funding mechanisms; reads an excerpt from Greg PalastÃ??sArmed Madhouse and wishes the U.S. a happy 230th.
Music from the Podsafe Music Network--including "Busted Frog"--the SoonerThought Podcast theme song by .22.
New Cast on the Way Tue, 13 Jun 2006 01:55:00 GMT Hey subscribers...we will have a new podcast this week. I have been traveling. Look for new EuroSatan, news, and more. Stay tuned!
In honor of the soldiers, sailors and marines lost in the Iraq War, Alex reads the names of every fallen serviceperson from the beginning of the conflict until May 26, 2006. (With apologies for any mispronunciations.) Alex dedicates this podcast to his grandfather, a United States Navy W.W. II veteran. Names read from http://icasualties.org/oif/US_NAMES.aspx
At Greg's site, Hear Larry David, auteur of HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and principal writer of the "Seinfeld" series, and Greg Palast reading Palast's new book, Armed Madhouse, Chapter 4: The Con-Kerry Won.
We will be transcribing his interview with Alex and posting it on www.SoonerThought.com next week--stay tuned!
That's just the beginning, folks...this episode also features some new stuff, like:
Scott the Movie Guy reviewsMI:III, Revenge of the Thetans and TheBRAIN (an Army paratroop veteran who was stationed in Haiti and other hot spots) talks about geopolitics through the eyes of a soldier.
We also have great music from the Podsafe Music Network located at:
This episode features artists .22 (Their song "Busted Frog" is the official SoonerThought Podcast theme music), Retail, The Sheckies, Bowler, The Recordist, Gunther, Alexye Nov and others.
We are taking a brief vacation, but will be back with more late next week.
EuroSatan's personal invitation to you to listen to SoonerThought.
Attention Podcasters: We would be happy to trade spots with you! Send your spot to us at soonerthought@gmail.com
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Episode 16 More with EuroSatan Sat, 6 May 2006 19:41:00 GMTAuthor: soonerthought@gmail.com Alex covers the waterfront with the latest news, as well as another conversation with EuroSatan. Music from the Podsafe Music Network. Visit SoonerThought.com for more info.
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Episode 15: Politics & Religion Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:20:00 GMTAuthor: soonerthought@gmail.com Alex interviews former State Representative, author and Oklahoma Interfaith Alliance President Rev. Jeff Hamilton. Music from .22, John McCutcheon and others from Podsafe Music Network. Frapper Map http://www.frappr.com/soonerthoughtreadersandlisteners
Alex learns about the softer side of EuroSatan, listens to Bill The Gambler Bennetts latest crackpot idea, plays an ode to Scotty Mac, and talks about something deep down inside him. Music by .22, Bowser and Blue, DJ Black Acid, Jupiter and Teardrop, Two Star Symphony and Harris Bieroff from the Podsafe Music Network. Hat tip to www.crooksandliars.com. Sign up for our Frappr map at http://www.frappr.com/soonerthoughtreadersandlisteners and visit www.SoonerThought.com for updates.
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