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UPDATE: As recommended by Ron on today's program, for a non-partisan plan "to evict the 435 career politicians in the U.S. House of Representatives and replace them with everyday Americans just like you" see Get Out of Our House!

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Nation and international: TBD.

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When Will There Be The Moment of Truth?

Senior citizens and military and federal retirees will get no COLA, but "Obama's plan to send seniors another round of $250 payments before the congressional elections."

Who will be the first to say to the American public that enough is enough and demand a return to responsibility? Read The New York Times, The Reality Moment.

I don't expect it until a moment of crisis.

Sign of the Apocalypse

UPDATE: Who knew, there is a local club burger club. See the NW Florida Burger Tour.

The bacon cheese doughnut burger:




Maybe there should be a taste-off against The Bacon Explosion.

P.S. Is this something the BOTM club should try?

Obama Nada

UPDATE III: I'm not the only one who thought Obama should have just said no thanks. Read The New York Times, Heckuva Job, Barack.


UPDATE II: Why do few Republi-cons win the Nobel Peace Prize? Read the Miami Herald, Fla. GOP members shoot Muslim targets at gun range.


UPDATE: Once upon a time, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." However, it seems that there is a new post-modern standard -- just saying that one hopes to bring about peace at some point in the future. And Obama sure can talk, can't he, especially when the teleprompter is working properly. Read the Washington Post, Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize.

I think the award is more a rebuke of Bush, in other words an "award for simply not being Bush. That alone is worthy of an award from the world" (quoted from an email I received). If that is the case, the award should have gone to the American public.

Otherwise it should be renamed the Nobel Prize for a Promise.

Obama should decline the prize, saying that he does not believe that he has accomplished enough to merit the prize, and that surely there is someone "who labored in anonymity to promote peace worked in relative obscurity and often in grave danger on behalf of human rights, political freedom, or national self-determination" and as such really deserves the prize.

Otherwise Obama will prove that he is just another politician full of himself.

P.S. I wonder who even nominated him. Hope it wasn't someone from his staff.

P.P.S. Maybe next year I'll nominate Santa Claus, he brings peace to my house every Christmas Eve.

Final P.S. Mike thinks that Obama's win based on 12 days as president and the fact that Reagan never won the award, "coupled with Al Gore's win in 2007 is proof that the prize is nothing but a political prize from Leftists to Leftists." What do you think?

What has Obama done on global warming, immigration reform, gays in the military, limits on executive powers, torture prosecutions, closing Gitmo, withdrawing from Iraq, improving the status of the fight in Afghanistan, health care reform, etc.?

Can you say nothing:




"A drumbeat of belittlement can damage a president." Remember Chevy Chase's portrayal of Gerald Ford as a "bumbling, clumsy man who banged his head constantly."

Maybe Obama Man can't.

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Topics:

Local and regional: why was a young man killed and why will there be no prosecution for a pattern of violation of Florida open govenment laws; and

Nation and international: Obama the Talking Peacemaker.

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Is Capitalism Hanging Itself?

Lenin once said that "Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."

Maybe he foresaw the private equity firms, former executives and Wall Street investment banks that would profit by bankrupting businesses, bilking bondholders and firing employees. Read The New York Times, Profits for Buyout Firms as Company Debt Soared.

Just a part of the Republi-con war on the middle class.

Not Even a Bronze

UPDATE: Cheering America's defeat, because they "retain their belief that they, and only they, should govern." Read The New York Times, The Politics of Spite.

How patriotic of the Republi-cons.

What was he thinking? Obama should not have made in-person plea to hold the 2016 summer games in his hometown of Chicago. I always expected Rio de Janeiro to win, mostly because the Olympics have never been held in South America. But to be eliminated in the first round of voting. Now his political enemies will talk about nothing else for a week, and it makes Obama look politically weak(er).

Stupid is as stupid does.

Sub Today at NoBullU on WEBY

Usually on Fridays you can listen to me, the voice of wisdom and reason in a wilderness of partisan rhetoric -- no political insanity, no conservative hypocrisy, no liberal foolishness -- just straight talk, straight at you, and that’s no bull!!

I can't make it today but I hear that Ken will substitute. I'll be back next week to deprogram you. Until the next show, post a comment or two.

Alabama Prudishness

No sex toys for sale in Alabama. Read The New York Times, The Courts and Privacy.

If you can't buy them, I wonder if it is against the law to possess them.

Mistaking Media for Reality

Could it be that Rusty, Sheeeepish, Sewage, and Bonkers are just a lot of hot air? Read The New York Times, The Wizard of Beck.

Republi-cons, who are generally rude, petty, disingenuous, counterproductive and fundamentally dishonest, have always had a problem with reality, prefering to rely on faith, assumption, or ideology.

Fire the Liar

UPDATE: "Could it be that the conservative culture warriors who portray Hollywood as a cesspool of moral bankruptcy have been right all along?" Read the Washington Post, Hollywood's Shame.

The Washington Post should fire columnist Anne Applebaum.

Her defense of Roman Polanski was outrageous.

Further, she should have disclosed that her husband is a Polish official advocating on behalf of Polanski and failure to do so was an inexcusable breach of public trust.

I expect such conduct from the right-wing media.

E-Mail the Post's Ombudsman and demand that the Post fire Applebaum.

The FIrst Thing We Do, We Kill All the 'Other' Guys

UPDATE IV: Fear, Anger, Hatred + Radical Right-Wing Media = Delegitimize Then Kill the President. Read The New York Times, Where Did ‘We’ Go?


UPDATE III: Watch who you threaten. Read the Washington Post, Blogger's Case Could Test the Limits of Political Speech.


UPDATE II: Should Hitler and Nazism be used as a metaphor? Read the Washington Post, At the Town Halls, Trivializing Evil.


UPDATE: Will all the Republi-con pandering to fear, anger and hatred backfire? Read the Washington Post, A Price to Pay for the Town Hall Rage.

Some call it the return of Karl Rove:



But the truth is he never left, Republi-con DNA is Rovian by nature.

More on how Republi-con Fear, Anger, Hatred = Violence, a Virginia Republi-con candidate's fierce call to resist President Obama's political agenda -- with bullets, if necessary :

"We have a chance to fight this battle at the ballot box before we have to resort to the bullet box," Crabill said. "But that's the beauty of our Second Amendment right. I am glad for all of us who enjoy the use of firearms for hunting. But make no mistake. That was not the intent of the Founding Fathers. Our Second Amendment right was to guard against tyranny."

Republi-cons are awash in grievance, self-pity, resentment, and anger. Does that sort of leadership style appeal to anyone, or does it just make them seem like poor losers?

Maybe they need to read Christian Mommies, The Poor Loser Ailment Seven Tips to Cure Unsportsmanlike Attitudes in Kids.

How to Change Case Law

After our discussion last week with Tim Baldwin, you might want to read the Washington Post, The Old Secular Cross?

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UPDATE: As discussed on the show, here is a copy of the Consent Decree and Order:

Consent Decree and Order

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Was the 'Victory' Really a Defeat?

After the not guilty in the criminal contempt trial against Lay and Freeman (see the Pensacola News Journal, Lay, Freeman found not guilty), I noted that there was no Roy Moore defense, rather as I predicted the defense used the prayer was "an old habit" defense.

It made me wonder if God was thrown under the bus to get the not guilty. Seems I'm not the only one who thinks so. Read this week's Chuck Baldwin Live column (written this week by his son Tim Baldwin), Another LAY Case.

Tim Baldwin will be a guest today at 4:30 p.m. at NoBullU on WEBY.

Milking Murders for Money?

Is Ashley Markham trying to cash in on her parents murders? She is the the daughter of Byrd and Melanie Billings and it is reported that she will fly to Chicago to tell Oprah her family's story and "let people know they're going to need help providing for the children."

You might remember that $160,000 was found in a safe inside the home, but that money "will be going toward estate taxes" says an attorney.

But the estate tax exemption for 2009 is $3.5 million.

One commentor wrote: "What BS this is. No way there will be any taxable estate OR Estate tax--no way. I'm betting that these folks raked in at least 100 grand a year in FL adoption assistance and SSI from the feds, and that's why these children are where they are."

With "FL adoption assistance and SSI from the feds," why does Ashley need more money?

How Will Parent Embarrass Their Kids?

Read The New York Times, Are Bathtime Photos Pornographic?

I'd like to know if the state took the kids from the parents before any court hearing. I've seen that done in Florida, and unless the situation is an emergency, it is illegal.

Time for the Principal's Office

After years of warnings, $196,500 just to be forced to finally admit wrongdoing. Read the Pensacola News Journal, Schools to pay ACLU.

Bet this will be an issue during the next elections.

Did Your Egg Stand?

Urban legend says that you can stand an egg on its end on the spring and fall equinox.

Happy autumnal equinox! Now where is the fall weather, when does the Christmas music start, and will I get a refund on my hurricane insurance?

P.S.

The egg standing thing is an urban legend.

Malpractice Reform

There has been talk of limits on medical malpractice lawsuits, but shouldn't the objective of health care reform be to reduce medical malpractice. Read this good, but somewhat misleadingly titled, artice in The New York Times, Medical Malpractice System Breeds More Waste, which notes from a recent study that:

"The direct costs of malpractice lawsuits — jury awards, settlements and the like — are such a minuscule part of health spending that they barely merit discussion, economists say. But that doesn’t mean the malpractice system is working.

The fear of lawsuits among doctors does seem to lead to a noticeable amount of wasteful treatment. Amitabh Chandra — a Harvard economist whose research is cited by both the American Medical Association and the trial lawyers’ association — says $60 billion a year, or about 3 percent of overall medical spending, is a reasonable upper-end estimate. If a new policy could eliminate close to that much waste without causing other problems, it would be a no-brainer.

At the same time, though, the current system appears to treat actual malpractice too lightly. Trials may get a lot of attention, but they are the exception. Far more common are errors that never lead to any action.

After reviewing thousands of patient records, medical researchers have estimated that only 2 to 3 percent of cases of medical negligence lead to a malpractice claim. For every notorious error — the teenager who died in North Carolina after being given the wrong blood type, the 39-year-old Massachusetts mother killed by a chemotherapy overdose, the newborn twins (children of the actor Dennis Quaid) given too much blood thinner — there are dozens more. You never hear about these other cases.

So we have a malpractice system that, while not as bad as some critics suggest, is expensive in all the wrong ways.

Of course, the debate over medical malpractice isn't about reducing medical malpractice, but don't try to explain that to the Republi-con's unholy alliance.