Don’t Waste My Time Chasing Sleep
By Mitch Berg
Today on the Northern Alliance Radio Network:
- Volume I “The First Team” – King joins Chad (as John and Brian are out on assignment). They’ll kick things off from 11-1. I’m guessing there’ll be jabbering about the Super Bowl
- Volume II “The Headliner” – Ed is off at CPAC, so I will be doing our thing from 1-3. Expect post-Super-Di-Duper Tuesday talk, plus interviews some some local movers and shakers; tune in!
- Volume III, “The Final Word” – King and Michael will talk with Ben Golnick, of the Minnesota McCain campaign.
So tune in to all six hours of the Northern Alliance Radio Network, the Twin Cities’ media’s sole guardians of sanity. On the air at AM1280 in the Metro, or streaming at AM1280’s Website, or via podcast at Townhall.
(Along with the Stroms, from 9-11, natch).
February 10th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Maybe you can ask Mr. Strom (aka shill for elitist rich folk who lavishly fund his psuedo-citizen org) how he expects the State or Federal governments will cover the expected MASSIVE shortfalls in tax revenues. Oh, I know the trite answer is that we’ll just cut spending, but Mitch, honestly, after 5 plus years of Tpaw and 7 plus years of GBu, there really can’t be much left to cut – outside of a scant dozen billions in ear-marks. What’s more, despite your hand-wringing, the fact is, unless we cut out Social Security, Medicare, the massive subsidies to corporatioins, cut the military budget by about 2/3rds, and public education, we’re never going to be the nation you envision, and there is 0.0000×1,000,000 percent chance that the people of this nation will agree to do so, not in your, your children’s or your grandchildren’s lifetimes, because fundamentally they don’t agree that a prosperous nation should have the social fabric and the public infrastructure and safety net of Mexico. You’d agree of course to kill off Social Security, Medicare and public education, but despite rhetoric, you NEVER advocate or rail against the massive subsidy to business, and you have never even voiced a quibble with spending more than the rest of the world combined on a military which is just about pointless as currently structured.
So instead, we’ll continue down our road to become Mexico, and Strom’s only answer will be Pawlenty’s too, call debt bonding, and call taxes fees. For Bush, it will be yet more debt heaped upon our future because we’re too childish and immature and propogandized to pay our own way. Strom, like you, is a propogandist of the first order, and that he will bitch about the government while offering no meaningful solution as well as not understanding that WE are the government, that it’s a tool of our chosing, so it looks like what we want, well those are the only natch (natural) things about your conversation with him.
If I were a neo-con, I’d ask you why you hate America so much that you want to turn it into Mexico, or encourage you to move there. However, I’m not a neo-con, I happen to not only believe but applaud the fact that you’re entitled to disent and seek to improve your country, and work against those people who you perceive as responsible for it’s ills, without being called a traitor, or seditious, or pro-dictatotorship. I wonder if Strommie and you are as magnanimous in your treatment of non-neo-cons, Mr. Civil?
February 10th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Actually, Peev, Strom has a blog and a radio show and – for that matter – the Minnesota Free Market Association has a phone number, and he’s there pretty much all the time.
So ask him yourself.
Since I don’t think anyone gets more than a line or two into your screeds.
Seriously, PB, why don’t you start your own blog? You obviously have – and I say this with only a primer-coat of irony and sarcasm – plenty to say, and an apparent need, desire or compulsion to say it.
February 10th, 2008 at 11:58 am
“plenty to say,”
Only when measured by the number of run-on sentences.
February 10th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
I’m a uniter, not a divider.
February 10th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Since I don’t think anyone gets more than a line or two into your screeds.
A paragraph at most. After that I could write it myself.
February 10th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
It is critical that peev be prevented from speaking out. Let me be clear. Peev must not be allowed to express himself. If he does succeed in making his views known, he must be labeled a seditious, pro-dictatorship treasonous traitor who hates America.
These orders come from PNAC. The success of the neo-neo-con project depends on peev being silenced at any and all costs.
February 10th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Good show, as usual. (And not just the minute or two I was on.) I think the discussion of how conservatives have to think about the implications of sitting on their hands and getting President O’Hillary was particularly good.
That said, unless the obvious matters are taken care of before November, I’m going to be making a protest vote for President. Minnesota will, reliably, go for the Democrat, but until Pawlenty fixes the reciprocity mess, the Republicans don’t get a penny, or a vote, from me. (And if that means that we end up getting Al Franken rather than Norm Coleman in the Senate, perhaps it’s time for Senator Coleman to make a short, urgent call to the governor and tell him, with regard to the reciprocity issue, to keep his campaign promise and follow the law.)