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By Vanessa Silverton-Peel

Rachel is back in the saddle today after being carted off to TeeVee Land to fill in for Keith Olbermann yesterday.  So thank you to David Bender for filling in and thank you to all of our callers.  If you want to hear more of David you can catch his show Politically Direct every Sunday on Air America Radio.

On today's show Rachel will be talking to sports writer Dave Zirin about how he became a target of state police surveillance and the unceremonious way in which he found out about it.  And then Paul Rieckhoff will be here discussing his latest story up on Huffington Post right now: the ongoing saga of the Pat Tillman cover-up.

Comments

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Tillman report

I'm glad that Rachel and Rieckhoff will finally talk about last week's report from the House Oversight Committee into the coverup of Pat Tillman's death and the fabrication of Jessica Lynch's story.

See also:

http://airamerica.com/node/80611/457923#comment-457923

Am also glad that the namesake of the show will be today's host ... although I won't be able to listen live as I usually do - I'll be at tonight's Yankees-Twins game with Chemdad.

By chemgirlJuly 22, 2008 - 4:31pm

And I'll be at...

...writers' group. :frownie:

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."--Pete Townsend

By capn_crustyJuly 22, 2008 - 5:00pm

Which writer's group?

This one, oh VP Crusty?

By cool_princessieJuly 22, 2008 - 5:56pm

We named it after the initials of our last names

So it's the "SOB"s.

:cheese:

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."--Pete Townsend

By capn_crustyJuly 22, 2008 - 9:10pm

It is SO cool Rachel subs for Olbermann

It is SO cool Rachel subs for Olbermann...

we just miss so much here when she's gone.

David Bender's pretty cool, too.

By rgonzoJuly 22, 2008 - 6:02pm

You know....

.... there is something about hearing Rachel telling me that she did research in the skin aging process that really does NOT sound right. ESPECIALLY when her ad is followed by another anti-aging skin serum ad. Ayayay!

By cool_princessieJuly 22, 2008 - 6:03pm

messiah?

what was that Obama in sandals thing on rftwh? tacky and rude~I don't know how Rachel puts up with this stuff. I had liked David Gregory before this show started. I thought he asked some tough questions at white house press conferences and I respected that. Of course there was the whole dancing with Rove thing, that was gross.

By KthCJuly 22, 2008 - 6:16pm

Ironically

There is a HUGE school of thought that believes that Jesus was a black man. This is no PC talk or empowerment anything. Scholars have been arguing about this since the 19th Century!

By cool_princessieJuly 22, 2008 - 7:48pm

>> There is a HUGE school

>> There is a HUGE school of thought that believes that Jesus was a black man. This is no PC talk >> or empowerment anything. Scholars have been arguing about this since the 19th Century!

I grew up programmed to see Jesus as white; with Charlton heston (or some other white actor) playing Jesus in the movies (and seeing the white Jesus pictures all over the place).. But when you think about it, its kind of silly to believe that from the indigenous people that lived in that part of the world, that the immaculate god child would be born white, LOL. As a freethinker, I cant say one way or the other if Jesus ever existed.. Much less if anyone can say his/her color.. If one goes by the Christian bible, I believe it says he had the hair of the ram.. I went back to my home town (Chicago) after 10 years, and noticed the sign at father and son pizza was obviously changed so the father and son were both spanish looking.. I believe 2000 years of people making things up about the Jesus figure shapes peoples perceptions (not fact)..

bobblerft
(Freethought Society)

By bobblerftJuly 22, 2008 - 8:33pm

Hair makes sense

It must have been SO messy! If you think about it, they traveled by foot and my guess is that showers and baths were not readily available in the middle of the dessert. Not to mention getting a deep tan from getting baked in the sun. But as you said, our folklore paints him white, and apparently recently showered.

I once went to mass to see a priest friend of mine. During his sermon he spoke about a battle between the Jews and I-can't-remember-who, where every time Abraham raised his arms the Jews did well. When he dropped his arms, the Jews took hits. Since Abraham was too old, two young men helped him keep his arms up. This is where my priest friend pointed out that people didn't bathe as often back then. They were also in the middle of the desert, so you can imagine that it was hot! So, my friend said, you can only imagine what Abraham smelled like! It was hard to keep from laughing.

I never thought of that... and only points out how sanitized our perceptions are.... which begs the question: is "sanitized" automatically white?

By cool_princessieJuly 23, 2008 - 11:23am

Nobody Noticed Abraham's BO - Haven't You Ever Gone Camping?

Funny how quickly you stop noticing things like oily skin and BO when everyone around you has them, isn't it? Mind you, I'm as far removed from Mr. Nature as you can get (I HATE camping!), but from those times when I've been forced into it by family or friends I've noticed you get past those issues before long....

BTW, the Romans in Jesus's time did have baths complete with hot water, and expected everyone who considered themselves "civilized", Roman or not, to bathe regularly. What they didn't have was soap - they used scented oil, and a scraper called a strigil to scrape the dirt off them.

By drdarkenyJuly 24, 2008 - 1:33pm

On THAT note

Look at what I found on Drudge:

The Jesus in the background was soooooooooooooo left there on purpose.

By cool_princessieJuly 23, 2008 - 2:28pm

Wow, metaphor anyone?

Actually, I find that photo kinda creepy and I am an Obama fan (all in all).

By Polly TicsJuly 23, 2008 - 6:21pm

the "surge"

Just because things improved in Iraq does not imply the surge caused the improvement. Two things occuring at the same time does not necessarily imply causation.

Babies who drink milk cry. Does that mean milk causes babies to cry?

By kjgp25171July 22, 2008 - 6:18pm

Surge

We know the surge works because of the facts that came directly from the field. It isn't a mere assumption.

Love,
HR

By Half RepublicanJuly 23, 2008 - 3:15pm

And as for you,

You, sir, are a reminder to the rest of us to watch what we say because this is an open forum.

By Buxtehude_BarbarossaJuly 23, 2008 - 3:18pm

countdown last night

Ooh, almost forgot to give Rachel props for the smooth taking over the show last night. It was a thing of beauty!

By KthCJuly 22, 2008 - 6:20pm

KthC: Ya mean this one? "25799429"

.

'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for Monday, July 21
www.snipr.com/CountdownTranscripts

updated 11:07 a.m. ET July 22, 2008 ...

MADDOW: Right now, we‘ve got the Iraqi people, the American people, the Iraqi government, the man who is most likely to be the next United States president and, honestly, the U.S. military, all saying that we either should or need to leave or at least drastically scale back very soon. The only people on the other side of the equation right now: John McCain, George W. Bush [ DONT FORGET BARNEY & FAUXnoise FRIENDS ], and the Cheney family.

...

OLBERMANN: Extraordinary.

Rachel Maddow, we‘ll do this differently this time. I‘ll be back tomorrow from here, but right now, I have to get back to this convention of TV critics and answer more questions about your eye shadow choices. So, congrats. You get promoted from guest to host. Take it from here.

MADDOW: All right. Thank you, Keith. Sorry about the eye shadow questions.

www.snipr.com/33d0f aka msnbc.msn.com/id/25799429/print/1/displaymode/1098/

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAT WILL HAUNT POTUS/CINC BHO:

In "The Government Against the People:

The American Police State," author David Wise wrote, "Under Nixon, an attempt was made to institutionalize ….a blueprint for a police state in America ." (page 154)

He quotes a Huston memo [ aka Houston PLAN aka COINTELPRO on STEROIDS ] that said, "We are now confronted with a new and grave crisis in our country – one which we know too little about. Certainly hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Americans – mostly under 30 – are determined to destroy our society ." (page 270)

http://airamerica.com/blog/2008/jul/22/batman-v-spiderman#comment-460654

BTW:
Dave Zirin, (Press Action's 2005 and 2006 Sportswriter of the Year, has been called "an icon in the world of progressive sports" and Robert Lipsyte says he is "the best young sportswriter in the United States.") could be Cenk's cousin, ya think?
www.edgeofsports.com/bio.html#LeftColumn

By SingSingJuly 22, 2008 - 9:12pm

EOM

PLEASE.

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."--Pete Townsend

By capn_crustyJuly 22, 2008 - 9:28pm

capn_crusty: As U wish. Take care in what you wish for next time

By SingSingJuly 22, 2008 - 10:35pm

Admit it

This is all just a sociological experiment of yours, to discover what people's responses are to endless disassociative ramblings.

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."--Pete Townsend

By capn_crustyJuly 23, 2008 - 5:53am

And yet...

And yet, you read it.

By Jason M. BryantJuly 23, 2008 - 11:18am

Not even close

All it takes is a glance.

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."--Pete Townsend

By capn_crustyJuly 23, 2008 - 11:30am

That still means you're

That still means you're paying more attention to him than everyone else combined.

By Jason M. BryantJuly 23, 2008 - 12:02pm

And you know this how?

I think from the content of other posts there are some people actually reading these things. Besides, I just post at the end of his only to break them up; otherwise, he keeps adding and adding until they get to be miles long and take up the whole page.

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."--Pete Townsend

By capn_crustyJuly 23, 2008 - 12:14pm

Cap'n's Public Service Contribution

Cap'n responds to the nonsensical egomaniacal posts to put the rest of us TRMS blog posters out of our misery -- so that said posts cannot be continually edited (and expanded), making them seem "new" to the rest of us. He performs a valuable community service. His relentlessness and vigilance - rather, "Vigilance!" - is both admired and appreciated.

By chemgirlJuly 23, 2008 - 12:16pm

It's all part of my...

..."community service" plea bargain.

:cheese:

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."--Pete Townsend

By capn_crustyJuly 23, 2008 - 12:45pm

Agreed

Thanks to the good captain I don't need to read SingSing. Granted, below is a reply of mine to SingSing proper... meaning that I read one of his posts... but I was replying to an image on his post, not his post proper. LOL. For that, I have cap'n_crusty!

By cool_princessieJuly 23, 2008 - 12:49pm

Keeping him from editing

Keeping him from editing posts isn't so great, it just makes him start another post. I'm not sure why having his stuff spread out over the thread is better than having it all in one easily skippable spot.

Here's the point: He's a troll and responding to his posts is paying attention to him. Even if you're not reading, you talking to him. Trolls are attention whores and you're giving him the attention that he wants.

If you enjoy battling him, then posting responses will probably feel very satisfying. Personally, I'd rather he gave up, so I'd prefer if people would just ignore him. That's the only strategy that's ever gotten a troll to wander off.

By Jason M. BryantJuly 23, 2008 - 1:57pm

Attention to the troll

Like the attention you are giving him right now? Look at the lengthy thread that was created on this topic alone.

By cool_princessieJuly 23, 2008 - 2:26pm

Give us credit for a little intelligence

We've tried ignoring; he just keeps posting. I don't think in this case it's attention he's looking for, it's just a place to post his wandering, disjointed thoughts. As therapy it may work for him, but it makes the forum unpleasant for the other posters. So, by your leave, I will continue to cut into his lengthy tirades. And you can think what you will about the practice, and argue as much as you care to.

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."--Pete Townsend

By capn_crustyJuly 23, 2008 - 2:34pm

Unteleigence?

What ar ye talking obout? Me was think dad we wur stoopid...... 'member?

By cool_princessieJuly 23, 2008 - 2:46pm

Dawk

Memory is the second thing to go when you get older. I forget what the first thing is.

:rimshot:

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."--Pete Townsend

By capn_crustyJuly 23, 2008 - 3:02pm

There's always one.

Every village needs its friendly neighborhood schizophrenic. My little German college town had three, fully integrated into the commutiny. Frau Muth, who would stomp around the cathedral bellowing in a special rhythm; a middle-aged Ophelia; and a beautiful woman with a real knack for silk scarves (who used to hang out mysteriously in cafés but later took a turn for the worse and lurked in doorways yelling "FOTZE!" in a ruined voice). Everyone knew them.

I miss Frau Muth: "You! You! You! Must rePENT! Re-PENT! Of your sins! Of your sins!..." She used to be an elementary school teacher.

Take care of yourself, SingSing.

By Buxtehude_BarbarossaJuly 23, 2008 - 3:04pm

Here in the Eugene/Springfield area...

...people who aren't schizo stand out.

And do I want to know what "fotze" means?

:winky:

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."--Pete Townsend

By capn_crustyJuly 23, 2008 - 3:29pm

Well, maybe not

Errrr, perhaps not, BUT I believe it usually refers to a woman's "special" part. How's that for being discreet?

Am I at all accurate Buxtehude_Barbarossa

By Polly TicsJuly 23, 2008 - 6:19pm

So entsteht Bildung :)

dict.leo.org, a very useful website.

By Buxtehude_BarbarossaJuly 23, 2008 - 7:34pm

Decisive Tirade-Carvin'...and limes for scurvy!

That's why 'tis you who be the Cap'n... Looking out for your crew and their beverages and cutting a fine figure at the helm. Thankee.

By ndatmoJuly 24, 2008 - 5:34am

It's a DRIVE-BY...

As I mentioned elsewhere to the dreaded Sing Sing...It's not really 'reading' anymore than looking a rows of crops out the car window on a family trip. It's carsickness, not edification.

By ndatmoJuly 23, 2008 - 6:05pm

Where did you get those numbers of viewers?

Hey SingSing,

I saw that you are quoting number of viewers for Olberman and O'rally. Where did you get those numbers from?

The ratings are usually in favor of O'rally. Take a look at the TVNewser scoreboard:
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/the_scoreboard_monday_july_2...

By cool_princessieJuly 22, 2008 - 11:23pm

Reprehensable Tripe

How can Rachel be associated with this sewage? Obama has a Jewish problem and the surge is working. This is the first time I had Air America on recently and I need to take a shower after 5 minutes.

By The5thWJuly 22, 2008 - 6:51pm

Inviting Reverse Peristalsis...

Mentioning sewage, tripe, and ,surge in one small area.

By ndatmoJuly 23, 2008 - 6:00pm

Mint is O-K!

Hey Rachel,

A lot of people in the Middle East use spearmint as a seasoning, very much like we use black pepper. I've eaten at some things that I thought made no sense at all (namely, boiled eggs, potatoes powdered with mint) and they were simply DELICIOUS! Not sure you should judge the tomato/mint combo that quickly.

By cool_princessieJuly 22, 2008 - 7:14pm

Spearmint

Spearmint flavor = a problem for me because people at my high school spit spearmint-flavored tobacco into the drinking fountains.

Of course, real mint is never "ew." Those Middle Eastern combinations sound fascinating. Tabouleh contains mint leaves and tomatoes.

By Buxtehude_BarbarossaJuly 22, 2008 - 7:34pm

Yeah, that statement from

Yeah, that statement from Rachel was a weird one. Assuming that someone would try to sell a bagel that he intentionally made taste bad? That's a weird leap. When I heard the ingredients I thought they sounded odd, but so does peanut butter in chili, and that's surprisingly good.

I even love a peanut butter and bacon sandwich. Mmmm, heart disease.

By Jason M. BryantJuly 22, 2008 - 8:50pm

Rachel, I know they have Middle Eastern restaurants in both MA

and NYC - and that's where I've encountered that tomato-mint combination, in salads and as a condiment. It's not MY personal favorite taste sensation, admittedly - but it's in a lot of Middle Eastern cuisine.

Yeesh - stop being an Air Force Brat for a sec, and broaden your culinary horizons. Have a falafel - just don't take one from Bill O'Reilly! ;)

By drdarkenyJuly 24, 2008 - 1:52pm

Media favors Obama; I cant believe what Im hearing

Media favors Obama; I cant believe what Im hearing.
www.fair.org has a truckload of examples how the media has been favoring mccain.. Unless I am misunderstanding something.. I am surprised an AAR host would not call them on this..

I thought it was well known among liberals, that the money interests (who own the media) what their boys elected (bush and Mccain).. This should be easy math for liberals..

bobblerft
(Freethought Society)

By bobblerftJuly 22, 2008 - 7:39pm

KO commenting about the eyeshadow question was funny.

Did he read my comment on the Facebook group Why Doesn't Rachel Maddow have her own show on MSNBC?

-----------------
Cue Imperial Death March!
Impeach Bush!

By HoneyBearKellyJuly 22, 2008 - 7:59pm

Because she is a no talent

She is a no talent, crooked face, swollen tongue lisping HACK.

Her significant other cannot even focus a camera.........

She should be fired and go back to western Mass (where the gays marry) fade away.

By dike_on_the_tubeJuly 23, 2008 - 5:03pm

dike_on_the_tube

I see that ad hominem is your specialty, but you should know that is usually a sign of a brain malfunction. If you aren't happy with what Rachel says, than say that instead of your nasty and snide retorts. Ugly is something from which such comments sprout.

By Polly TicsJuly 23, 2008 - 6:04pm

her own show ?

If you did not read the post before the question was why does she not have her own show ?
Reason: She is to ugly to look at for a 1/2 hour. Some of her talking points are sanguine.

Also there already is a hook faced host on the TV in Greta Van Susteren, and she has a hour show
and a bigger lisp.....

I also notice that you did not disagree with any of my observations, because they are true.
Instead you did exactly what you accused me of. Can you say hypocrite ?

By dike_on_the_tubeJuly 24, 2008 - 7:17am

Can you say Excuse Me?

I disagree with ALL of your comments of Rachel and find them to be unnecessarily denigrating and lack in any sort of actual substance worth discussing. Actually, MSNBC has already written about giving Rachel her own show as it seems she is at the top of a very short list for the next open slot.

As for Greta, I may not like her politics, but I think that it was a shame that her bosses at FOX forced her into plastic surgery in order to be on television. This emphasis on "beauty" is ridiculous and will only be continued unless people begin to revolt. But it seems you buy into the ridiculous and shameful policy of denigrating women if they do not conform to your own standards of beauty.

By Polly TicsJuly 24, 2008 - 12:49pm

We agree.....

So we agree Rachel needs plastic surgery.
With that cresent moon face she must have painful TMJ.

I think it is good that some ugly people are getting on TV.
Look at the mess that is Keith's Olbermann teeth. And that string of spit that goes from his top teeth to the botom, and yet none of his PA's tell him to brush or get some mouth wash....
The whale that is Candy Crowely on CNN.
It would take a 12 pack for someone to sleep with Dee Dee Myers, but then she would drink it all.
Even Brian Williams has a picket fence for that mess of teeth. You would think that with that money he could at least fix his teeth..
The home wrecking whore Lara Logan, knocked up on assignment, has let herself go from her Bikini modeling days.

So there are enough ugly people on TV, Rachel has a face for radio !!!!

By dike_on_the_tubeJuly 24, 2008 - 1:52pm

We do NOT Agree!

Shesssh, can't you read what I said? Rachel is just fine the way she is and needs no embellishing nor surgery.

Please, enough of your nonsense!

By Polly TicsJuly 24, 2008 - 2:34pm

Somewhere in the world...

there is a shallow, pathetically hostile individual with a dental fixation, an inability to focus on contents instead of packaging and a toxic leakage of thinly-veiled phobias and biases. Are jealousy, homophobia, anti-semitism, misogyny, envy,desire, an over-heated computer and a cutesy/angry user name in the mix?

Don't forget to Vote and Floss, d_o_t_t y!

By ndatmoJuly 25, 2008 - 7:09pm

father was a dentist

I just cannot believe that these "talents" don't take the time an invest in the teeth or jaw.

I know Rachel must have TMJ, templar mandibular joint syndrome to the ignorant.
This can lead to a long term Arthritic problem. With Rachel non symmetrical face she must suffer from this. I have noticed when on MSNBC she know hoe to hold her head as to not show or diminish her congenital deformation. She easily could have had orthodontia in her teens to repair this. Her jaw broken then straighten and would have been wired shut for about 3 month. This also would have made room for that swollen tounge of her and reduce she lisp.
Oddly most lisps like that appear in gay men from opening there jaw to wide to accept their partners member and damaging the nerve at the top of the vocal cords. This is not the case in Rachel, I am sure she has never excepted a penis anywhere near her mouth.

Also Rachel should get though 2 big mole looks at by a professional. Possible removed, or at lease the long black curly hairs plucked out of them. (HDTV has some negatives). Yikes.

It is good she plucks he Bert's eyebrow in the middle, but she need to thin out each side as not to look so Cro-Magnon.

Poor oral hygiene speaks volumes allot a person. If they don't care for their teeth how can they care for others ?
It is even shown to be linked to heart problems later in life. I would say 50 percent of the online TV host have poor to bad teeth.
A few examples, Lou Bobs, bottom crowded, also Brain Williams, Mylie Sirus has a snaggle tooth on the bottom right, now Billy ray should have
put braces on that tooth in cross-bite years ago. And don't tell me she does not have the money. Jewel has the snaggle tooth up top.
Greg Gutfeld, Andy and Bill all have poor teeth, yet they don't make the big buck yet because "Red Eye" is only on a 3am.
Dan Abrams teeth look like sharpened points and he deliberately hides them with his upper lip. He defiantly has had them whitened.
Joe Scarborough has some spaced out peg like teeth. Enough said about Greta's crow / under bite mess in her mouth. Bill O'Reilly's teeth are a crowded mess.
Now that Robin Meade has great teeth (allot of work), but she did not get that deviated septum fixed, that is why she talking in that lower octave husky voice. Some find that sexy, I just hear that she need to clear her throat from that phlegm.
Lou Dobbs has more black gaps in his teeth (more veneers) that the fence he wants to put up to keep the Mexicans out has less gaps....
McCain teeth are ok for a 70 something year old mouth. Obama's bottom teeth are messed up, top probably veneers, but again a public figure maybe 2 years in braces yet he never fixed them, I believe this causes his lisp or the lisp was because he is on down low, no Michelle would have caught him.

Next blog entry will be on the epidemic of lisping by news casters. It is rampant...

By dike_on_the_tubeJuly 26, 2008 - 2:01am

Dear dyke_on_the_tube

I have to say - my first reaction to your post was anger and disgust. But those feelings quickly gave way to puzzlement, followed by a really uneasy sadness.

I do not understand a person who comes onto blogs and derives joy from slapping people around. I really don't get it. And I'm absolutely not the only one on the blog who wonders about this. You had to go to the trouble to create a login and then craft a lengthy diatribe designed pretty carefully to hurt someone -- someone you don't even know. I really struggle with why people do this.

The best I can come up with is this (and I have no idea if it's true): a person who goes to such trouble to kick strangers in the teeth must be very angry -- maybe to the point of rage -- and must feel very powerless. If that's true, then something very bad has happened to you along the way, more likely many very bad things. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm going to pretend for a minute that I'm right. In that vein, I'm going to say I'm sorry that bad things have happened to you.

An ex-boyfriend, a Buddhist, once told me that I should not seek to harm the man who holds a gun on me and steals my car. He said that it is a very sad truth about the world that most people are -- most of the time -- doing the very best that they can in life. The simple fact is that there are people who can't do any better than brandish pistols and steal cars. This is the sum total of their power in the world. The longer I've thought about that over the years, and the longer I practice law, the truer I think it is. It gets demonstrated to me almost daily. And that's where the sadness sets in.

If you can't do any better than write posts like the one above, then I truly hope life gets better for you. I hope you can find a way to rise above the stuff in your post.

If you can do better, why don't you?

By essicJuly 26, 2008 - 6:51pm

Ezio Pinza!

There are monkey boys in the facility.

By Buxtehude_BarbarossaJuly 26, 2008 - 12:00am

BTW..

Bobbi Brown heather.

-----------------
Cue Imperial Death March!
Impeach Bush!

By HoneyBearKellyJuly 22, 2008 - 8:02pm

YOU ROCK

Has anyone ever told you that. You need your own show on MSNBC

By pewpewmigooJuly 22, 2008 - 8:35pm

Senator McCain's Comments

Tonight I heard Senator McCain state that Senator Obama would rather lose a war and win an election.

I reminded myself that my bedroom set was made in Vietnam. That fact brought to mind the 58,000+ names on the black wall in Washington where of course we "honor" them. How much richer would our lives and those of their families have been if they were still with us? What might their contributions have been or the contributions of their children? Alas we will never know. My bedroom set marked "Made in Vietnam" tells me they died for nothing.

When McCain admits the Vietnam war was a mistake and stops running on his war record he will indicate to me that he has learned something in 70 years. Today I think of those kids drafted off the streets, trained for 3 or 4 months and sent off to a jungle to "fight communism"

Too many of them died too far away from home for too little. There is no honor in that.

Shame on you Senator McCain.

By torittoJuly 22, 2008 - 9:43pm

No need to go that far...

.... both in time and space.

Remember how for a number of years now every time Republicans are in the hot seat or an election is coming up the terror alert would go up. Talk about using the war on terror as a political tool. Naturally, after we all caught up to the trick they stopped using it.

And on Vietnam... have you thought that the contribution of the children of some of those 58K+ soldiers may be your bedroom set?

By cool_princessieJuly 22, 2008 - 11:17pm

Vietnam...

I feel so bad about Vietnam. The U.S. hasn't even begun to deal with the effects of *that* attempt to shore up political support and steal defense budget at home by bombing foreigners... I try to loan a tiny bit overproportionally to Vietnamese and Cambodian women at Kiva.org (no Laotian opportunities have come up yet).

By Buxtehude_BarbarossaJuly 23, 2008 - 12:28am

What the media brodcast is not always the views of the majority

Just like the Sen. Obama media entourage, it is maniacal how grown men and woman alike, have swoon over this guy like he's already the CAC, when he just some Senator who has taken us for a ride down the slippery slope of campaign valleys and pundit word fest. I am not easily swayed by the words and photo ops of Sen. Obama, he has really taken advantage of the word hope and really pushed it like dope on the masses as if we will not hear his real words, because the cheering of new believers are as load as a Mylie Cyrus concert in a town near you.

If you really want my vote as you say you do, Sen. Obama, I ask that you get back here and clarify your recent senate votes, and I have yet to hear any input on how you dealt with your state on the conditions after the floods and loss of habit along the river. we pointed fingers at GWB for not reacting to Katrina, well your state needed you and you didn't even show up (during that floods).

As far as Sen. McCain, he is not on my list of better choices, but at least he is not bullet proofed by media and other vain remedies.

Addressing the other topics, I do not like the fact that the keyboard I use is made in Hong Kong (Microsoft), the CPU is made in Indonesia(microsoft), and the fact that the mother board is made in Taiwan - dell/Foxconn/MSI), my Westinghouse Plasma Monitor-made in China.

The last item I used made in the US for my computer was a mouse, label Microsoft, made in usa patent pend. the circa 1980 ...and it's our fault, you! Me! all of us, we'll buy a European cars pay 4x the amount it's worth, but we won't fork over any money for goods made here because we think it's too expensive, well making sure each of us has a job, seems to be a very low price to pay in the big scheme of things...

So when we tell the Manufacturing companies to bring back out jobs here in the states, please make sure you pay full price for that hat, car, baseball glove or even the cup of soup... or your words are as empty as the box I am typing in had I not log in today. I am not on either side of the platform, just a realist.

By finnperkinsJuly 22, 2008 - 11:28pm

Pipetting?

Who knew...?

By cool_princessieJuly 22, 2008 - 11:06pm

AGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!

You slay me!!!! Oh damn! Damn! Ess... I need botox to deal with the rictus...

Cor, blimey! Ess. Okay, okay...

Eppendorf is IT for pipettes, at least from my Germ perspective. And that boy band is totally affiliated with a Hessian radio station that hires its own talent: http://planetradio.de/

(planet radio is well worth a free Internet listen. We're better at music than they are, so we automatically feel superior, despite everything. No obscenity rules, gives you the louche feeling that you're integrated into the Germ teen disco scene, and their repetition rate is so high that you don't have to waste too much time before you've heard today's playlist. Plus, if you're lucky, you won't understand the ads.)

By Buxtehude_BarbarossaJuly 23, 2008 - 1:51am

Employment opportunity

By the way, a lot of the fun Americans abroad I met in Germany were musicians helping media center Cologne while helping themselves (and getting ffffuuuullllll health insurance coverage, even drugs and teeth). Beautiful thing.

N.B.: www.planetradio.de > live hören > windows media (dsl)

By Buxtehude_BarbarossaJuly 23, 2008 - 2:08am

All I know.....

... is that watching CSI will never be the same again.

(For you non-CSI watching people and those with no TVs, they use pipettes in the lab scenes A LOT)

By cool_princessieJuly 23, 2008 - 11:30am

Eppendorf

I can't use "The Eppendorfs" in my research, but seeing this video may well convince me that biochem/molecular bio is where it's at!

http://www.eppendorf.com/int/hawkpopup.php?contentid=13

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RM, thanks for the shout-out. Long live TRMS-SAB!

By chemgirlJuly 23, 2008 - 12:55pm

The best part

is that you can download the mp3, get the wall paper, AND the lyrics so that you can sing along!... 'cuz it iiiiisssss epMoooootioooooonnnnnnn.....

Ah, pipetting and hunky men dancing on the beach and pointing to the sky singing about no more pipetting late at night... makes perfect sense.

By cool_princessieJuly 23, 2008 - 12:55pm

Another science music video

We Are The World-style ... about PCR:

http://bio-rad.cnpg.com/lsca/videos/ScientistsForBetterPCR/

Enjoy!

By chemgirlJuly 23, 2008 - 12:56pm

OK

You're geeking out too much now. LOL

I wonder how these artists feel about singing about these things... such as "it's amazing what heating, and cooling, and heating can doooooooo."

By cool_princessieJuly 23, 2008 - 2:13pm

It's possible to geek-out *too* much?

Never.

And in that vein, my best chem buddy (college pal who now also is a chem prof, back at our alma mater) very astutely pointed out that the epMotion video alludes to A-Ha's classic "Take On Me" video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUod3jGQt0U

By chemgirlJuly 24, 2008 - 9:22am

I feel like I am falling....

..... into a time vooooooorrrrrrrteeeeeeexxxxx, peppered with the right dose of geekiness. :)

By cool_princessieJuly 24, 2008 - 8:23pm

Magic.

Today is a very good day.

By Buxtehude_BarbarossaJuly 23, 2008 - 3:13pm

so like the american public and media...

the look for who said it first, who made it first, and who claim victory first...
being first isn't what i's cracked up to be.

Like Sen. Obama, really isn't the first African American to be a candidate for the Commander and chief, did we for get he did not received the amount of delegate needed to be the automatic nominee for the DNC, in Denver they will still do the roll call. And although he is saying and doing thing in the middle east as if he were already the nominee and the elected pres, but under our constitution we can only have one president, and even though I do not care for president bush and his methods (into madness), I do not feel that Sen. Obama's actions are in the best interest of national security. if there ever was a time for Pres. Bush to speak up and do a little talking it's now.

Back to the topic I started, Sen. Obama is not the first or will he be the last African American to run or be a nominee. I guess I am really up to here (pointing to my ears), with all this first stuff... If we ourselves stop segregating everyone, maybe the masses will follow into a cordial acceptance that no matter where you are from here you are and if you are qualifies then you will be hired or elected .

BTW - while I was watching the cnn specials about MLK and also the BBinAmer. I notice that MLK was wearing a rolex, back then they were about 600 to 700 dollars (I am not saying the watch is worth that), I also notice in old tapes of Bill Clinton, that he work a Timex. So if this person wanted rights for all then why did he seem to live a more elitist life style than the people he was marching for... brings Sen.Obama to mind also when I ask this question.

So if this presidential election does not involve race, then why did CNN and Soledad O'Brien air their piece during this election season... did the idea of these two programs never cross anyones mind in the past 20 years???

again I am just a realist... (race-Korean).

By finnperkinsJuly 22, 2008 - 11:19pm