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Andy left a hardcopy of the W.W.G.W.B.D.? flowchart on my desk the other day. It was so hilarious that I had to share it with everybody!

Nineteen of the 43 Democratic senators voted with Republicans to end debate on the nomination of Samual Alito to the Supreme Court. We, the people, will bear the brunt of their lack of spine for years, if not decades, as this radical member of the highest court in the United States subverts Congressional authority in favor of a “unitary executive“. (Our founding fathers simply called them “kings”.)

The wall of shame (by state):

• Arkansas: Lincoln, Pryor
• Colorado: Salazar
• Connecticut: Lieberman
• Deleware: Carper
• Florida: Nelson
• Hawaii: Akaka, Inouye
• Louisiana: Landrieu
• Montana: Baucus
• North Dakota: Conrad, Dorgan
• Nebraska: Nelson
• New Mexico: Bingaman
• South Dakota: Johnson
• Washinton: Cantwell
• Wisconsin: Kohl
• West Virginia: Byrd, Rockefeller

I honestly expected no better from some of these people. Lieberman, the Republican in Democrat’s clothing, is obviously the first to come to mind. But Robert Byrd’s vote shocked me. Another of my heroes struck down before my eyes…

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My wife and I usually wake up to Air America Radio, broadcast in Sacramento by KSAC, Talk City 1240 AM. But on Monday, Oct 3, the clock-radio woke us up with music instead of Morning Sedition with Mark and Marc (Mark Riley and Marc Maron). I thought maybe the kids had been messing with radio, or maybe there were “technical difficulties” at the station. But today the same thing happened, so I started scouring the ‘net looking for answers.

First stop was Talk City 1240’s web site, which wasn’t encouraging. Their “On-Air Schedule” has all the previous Air America time slots listed as “To Be Announced.” They still have an Air America Radio logo on their banner, but none of the programming.

Next stop was Air America Radio’s web site. I searched for “Sacramento” on their station locator page, but the only station listed is KSAC 1240 AM.

I found a post by bonniesac which talks about Air America changing frequencies and moving to 1320 AM on 1 Nov 2005, but this doesn’t explain the absence of programming today. bonniesac is blogging on the Sacramento for Democracy site, which unfortunately doesn’t allow unregistered users to post comments. (Perhaps a pingback from this post will get through, but I’m not hopeful.)

There is another post, this time on the Morning Sedition blog, which also discusses the frequency change. It also has some theories on the lack of official information from both Talk City 1240 and Air America. (And again, this blog doesn’t allow unregistered users to comment. Closed blogs suck, but that’s a subject for another post.)

I haven’t found anything else yet, but this seems to explain what’s going on. I guess all us progressive/liberal types will have to get Air America programming via the Internet for the rest of October, before switching to the new station next month.

Andy let me know that the Sacramento Bee ran an article about this recently.

The VoteToImpeach/ImpeachBush site has been around since before GW was elected. For some reason, they haven’t been getting much attention from the so-called “liberal media”. But since the Downing Street Memo came to light on 1 May 2005, things have been getting a little less comfortable for “the President Quayle we never had”. And bloggers have been one of, if not the, main reason for the whole brouhaha.

In this article from 17 Jun 2005, the “Sacramento Bee” reports, …the memo … got scant attention in U.S. newspapers or broadcasts until liberal bloggers castigated the U.S. press for not exposing inconsistent Bush statements on the war. Yay, liberal bloggers! (If you are asked to login or register for the articles at the SacBee site, just go to BugMeNot.)

And opposing the liberal bloggers, is… the “liberal” media?!?. In this article, (also available on Common Dreams), Molly Ivins has some pretty sharp things to say about how the mainstream media has been trying to bury the whole DSM story.

Just like Watergate, the longer the spotlight stays on, the longer that more embarassing information comes out. On the DowningStreetMemo.org’s blog, a post which reports that at least one person in the British government knew that the WMD claims used to justify invading Iraq were “totally implausible”. (Of course, nowadays the reason given for invasion is “spreading democracy”. Don’t ask me how foreign occupation==democracy. Perhaps the Poles, Belgians, Dutch, French, et al, understand this based on their experiences with Germany in the 1940’s.)

So HOORAY for the liberal team. Keep up the heat! VoteToImpeach (among others) is planning demonstrations on 24 Sep 2005 in Washington DC, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. With Republicans controlling both houses of the legislature, I doubt that impeachment will actually happen. But the radical right has already shown that a President doesn’t have to actually be impeached in order for their party to suffer at the hands of the voters. Let’s give the wing-nuts on the extreme right a taste of their own medicine!