Dear nancy,
Happy New Year! And they're off! Here we
go; we are finally in the election year!
Iowa down and NH is on the way.
Please note that we have a very
important event this Friday in Dallas;
make sure you plan on attending the 2nd
annual Shut down Guantanamo
action in Downtown Dallas on Friday
afternoon! See ya there!
Thanks to our sponsors! Tune into
Errington's wonderful AAR program from
Asheville (it's ok he's originally from
Dallas) and buy your tickets now for the
amazing H4P&J Maya Angelou program.
We sure need newsletter sponsors! We
have weeks open in February! Thanks,
Nancy
dallasairamerica@gmail.com
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A Few More Best/Worst lists ! |
A few more "best of / worst of " lists !
The Most Valuable Progressives from the
Nation
Let down by a dangerous Republican White
House, a compromising Democratic
Congress and a distracting and
dysfunctional mainstream media,
progressives persevered in 2007, laying
the groundwork for what we can only hope
will be the different and better
politics of 2008. The list of heroes and
champions is endless, but here are some
of the MVPs -- Most Valuable
Progressives -- from the activist,
political, media and cultural spheres of
the last full year before the last full
year of the Bush-Cheney interregnum
Read on here
20 Annoying Things About 2007
Whew, has this been an annoying year, or
what! I figure 2007 has been the most
annoying year of my 62. I even did up a
list of just the top 20 things I became
sick and tired of during the past year.
Here they are, in no particular order:
Read on
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Demonstration to Shut Down Guantanamo |
 Friday,
January 11, 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.
On the sixth anniversary of the first
prisoners being brought to Guantánamo,
join other human rights activists in
Dallas and throughout the nation in
demanding that the prison be shut down.
A demonstration will take place in front
of the Earle Cabell Federal Building,
1100 Commerce St. in Dallas. (Visit
http://dallaspeacecenter.org/Gitmo to
sign up if you are willing to wear an
orange jumpsuit and a black hood. We
have 10 women signed up already - guys,
we need 20 more.) Sponsored by the End
the Occupation of Iraq Committee.
January 11th 2008 will mark six
years of indefinite detention for
the prisoners at Guantanamo. This
year, with mounting domestic and
international pressure on the Bush
Administration, might be the year we
succeed in shutting down Gitmo!
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Top Liberal Talk Radio Hosts Article
Headline |
From
Liberal Talk Radio Blog
In
any kind of field, genre or category,
there is always one lingering question,
one that nearly everyone is always
wondering. Namely, who is the best?
To rank someone the best is often rather
subjective, and as a result, the outcome
may be disputed. Last year, this very
blog decided to rank
the top
liberal talk radio hosts of 2006.
Criteria came in the way of a
combination of voting and personal
analysis based on who made the biggest
impact in the genre throughout the year.
The choice of Ed Schultz for the top
position was a rather controversial one,
but he did seem to have the biggest
impact of all of them for the year.
For 2008, all control was turned over to
the readers of LTR. An online poll was
set up and ran throughout the fall. No
ballot box stuffing was allowed, since
the poll limited voting to one per IP
address. Thousands of votes later, an
interesting picture has evolved. And we
do indeed have a Top 10 list of the
biggest liberal talkers of the past
year.
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Looking at America -
NYT editorial - and some responses |
If you missed this rather amazing
editorial printed on new years Day -
read it and then take a look at some of
the responses
Looking at America - NYT editorial
There are too many moments these days
when we cannot recognize our country.
Sunday was one of them, as we read the
account in The Times of how men in some
of the most trusted posts in the nation
plotted to cover up the torture of
prisoners by Central Intelligence Agency
interrogators by destroying videotapes
of their sickening behavior. It was
impossible to see the founding
principles of the greatest democracy in
the contempt these men and their bosses
showed for the Constitution, the rule of
law and human decency.
Read on
Some responses from the blogosphere
From
Proud Liberal
Bitch Blogspot
From Smirking
Chimp
Bite Me, New York
Times
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The New Hampshire factor- Boston Globe
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Audio / Video you don't want to miss !
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Maher Schools
Letterman on Iowa, Ethanol and the '08
Candidates
"All these
candidates go out to Iowa and pay homage
to ethanol, which is not going to solve
our global warming problem," says Maher.
Jim Hightower: Gifts for a Happier New
Year
Wait till you hear
about the gifts I gave to some of
America's power elites for Christmas.
Bill O'Reilly's Sexual Harrassment
Lawsuit Sung Like Handel's "Messiah"
You can get the
double CD set for $20. A great present
for the classical music lover in your
life.
CIA Jet Carrying Four Tons of Cocaine
Also Made Trips to Gitmo
Perhaps the reason
why the CIA's well-documented role in
the global
The Ron Paul Phenomenon
PBS' NOW
investigates Ron Paul's incredible
following on the internet and his
unconventional campaign for the
Republican presidential nomination.
"Look": The First Major US Film Made
Entirely With Surveillance Footage
"Who is watching
this footage and who is keeping it safe
from public distribution? Who has access
to it and for how long? What safeguards
exist to make sure highlights of YOUR
ass are not making it onto the most
viewed list on YouTube?"
VIDEO | Craig
Unger on the Rise of the Christian Right
and Neoconservatism
Craig Unger, a
contributing editor for Vanity Fair,
garnered national attention with his
previous book, "House of Bush, House of
Saud." In "The Fall of the House of
Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of
True Believers Seized the Executive
Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still
Imperils America's Future," Unger turns
his attention to neoconservative
officials and theorists. Truthout's
Jason Leopold recently sat down with
Unger and discussed the influence of the
religious right on our current
government.
VIDEO | Naomi
Klein on the Shock Doctrine
In a wide-ranging
interview with Truthout's Geoffrey
Millard, bestselling author and
investigative journalist Naomi Klein
discusses the catastrophic failures that
have ensued from the free-market reforms
that have spread throughout the world
over the past few decades. Klein
explains that the rise in "disaster
capitalism" is also leading to an
increase in worldwide violence that will
only get worse. She refers to the issue
as "The Shock Doctrine," which is also
the title of her groundbreaking new
book.
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"It's the War," Says Iowa to
Hillary -- And a "Happy Blue Year" To All!
...from Michael Moore
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January 3, 2007
Friends,
There was no doubt about it. The message
from Iowa tonight was simple, but
deafening:
If you're a candidate for President, and you
voted for the war, you lose. And if you
voted and voted and voted for the war -- and
never once showed any remorse -- you
really lose.
In short, if you had something to do with
keeping us in this war for four-plus years,
you are not allowed to be the next president
of the United States.
Over 70% of Iowan Democrats voted for
candidates who either never voted for the
invasion of Iraq (Obama,
Richardson, Kucinich) or who have since
admitted their mistake (Edwards, Biden,
Dodd). I can't tell you how bad I feel for
Senator Clinton tonight. I don't believe she
was ever really for this war. But she did --
and continued to do -- what she thought was
the politically expedient thing to
eventually get elected. And she was wrong.
And tonight she must go to sleep wondering
what would have happened if she had voted
her conscience instead of her calculator.
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Maya Angelou
with
Voices of Peace Chorus
New Texas Symphony Orchestra
Male Chorus, First Baptist Church
Hamilton Park
Voices of Peace
on
the 5th anniversary of the Invasion of
Iraq.
March 1st 2:00 p.m.
Meyerson Symphony Center
Tickets $30 - $100
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Listen
to the Errington Thompson Show
Saturdays - 9am EST
Air America - Asheville, NC
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