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kpete's JournalClear Channel just flipped Limbaugh's WPGB in Pittsburgh to country music.
Rush Limbaugh has an achey breaky heart today. Clear Channel just flipped Limbaugh's WPGB in Pittsburgh to country music. It had fallen to 11th in Pittsburgh, echoing hate radio's plummeting popularity across the country. He got picked up by the smaller WJAS in Pittsburgh, owned by Radio Partners LLC, and 7,000 watts compared to WPGB's 15,000. It is AM to boot, which likely suffers more from interference than the FM WPGB would have. Pittsburgh is considered the 25th largest radio market in the U.S.
http://triblive.com/aande/moreaande/6577457-74/wjas-wpgb-format#axzz39kG10Eze
via: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/07/1319929/-Clear-Channel-Give-Limbaugh-Bum-s-Rush-in-Pittsburgh
Obama:“If you blow the whistle-You should be thanked & protected for doing the right thing"
“If you blow the whistle,” Obama said, “you should be thanked. You should be protected for doing the right thing. You shouldn’t be ignored and you certainly shouldn’t be punished.”
hearing that kind of blew my mind
but then again:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/08/07/obama-signs-bill-giving-more-than-16-million-to-scandal-plagued-va/
The Rich Are Richer Than You Think - Check Out This Graph
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-06/the-1-may-be-richer-than-you-think-research-shows.html
It’s a good thing NYT, but it took you a fucking decade?
The Executive Editor on the Word ‘Torture’
By DEAN BAQUET AUGUST 7, 2014 5:08 PMAugust 7, 2014 5:08 pm 8 Comments
Given those changes, reporters urged that The Times recalibrate its language. I agreed. So from now on, The Times will use the word “torture” to describe incidents in which we know for sure that interrogators inflicted pain on a prisoner in an effort to get information.
MORE:
http://www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2014/08/07/the-executive-editor-on-the-word-torture/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1&
Airstrikes on ISIS Militants Have Begun, Kurds and Iraqis Say
Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON — Airstrikes on towns in northern Iraq seized by Islamist militants began late Thursday in what Kurdish and Iraqi officials called the first stage of an American-led intervention to blunt the militants’ advance and provide emergency aid to tens of thousands of refugees.
The Pentagon firmly denied that American forces had begun a bombing campaign. But Pentagon officials said it was possible that allies of the United States, either the Iraqi or Turkish militaries, had conducted the bombing.
Kurdish and Iraqi officials attributed the bombing campaign to American forces. An announcement on Kurdish television of what was described as an American intervention prompted street celebrations and horn-honking by residents of towns under seige by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
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Kurdish officials said the bombings initially had targeted ISIS fighters who had seized two towns, Gwer and Mahmour. A top Iraqi official in Baghdad close to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq said that the Americans had consulted with the Iraqi government Thursday night about starting the campaign, the government had agreed and the bombing began.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/world/middleeast/obama-weighs-military-strikes-to-aid-trapped-iraqis-officials-say.html
story keeps changing, trying to keep up...
Boehner Summer Stump Speech: “I have not 1 doubt that I’m doing exactly what God has in mind for me"
Boehner’s summer stump speech — which is just a few days old — alternates between stone-cold serious and humorous. In Taylorville, Davis’ hometown, he ribbed the congressman for sartorial miscues — one of his favorite punch lines.
It wouldn’t be typical Boehner without him choking up — which he did at the end of the speech in Taylorville, when he was talking about living the American dream.
Just before that, he said he believes that he’s doing God’s bidding in the Capitol. To that, a woman in the crowd hollered “praise God.”
“I have not one doubt that I’m doing exactly what God has in mind for me,” Boehner said. “But there are days when I sit in my office and go, ‘Hello? Hello?’”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/john-boehner-tour-republicans-109777_Page2.html#ixzz39ia6WVa9
“I’m not dying, I’m fighting,” she said as her eyes snapped open. “I’ve always been fighting.”
Agreeing to Accept and Move On
JULY 31, 2014
After my mother was told she had incurable cancer, she became obsessed with finding me a husband. One afternoon from her office, between negotiations for a client’s book contract, she called three times to tell me about a man my father had met who worked in a SoHo lamp store. My mother, a powerful publisher and literary agent who had championed Stephen King, now wanted to set me up with someone who sold lamps.
“He’s leaving for France soon,” she said. “Call him!”
Although irritated, I went home to put on my tight jeans and spaghetti-strap shirt and walked over to the store, where a handsome man talked about his coming trip to France without asking me a single question.
During my mother’s next frantic phone call, she said to look at two celebrity brothers’ web pages and choose the one I liked so she could forward my photo. I cringed but thought, “Hey, you never know.”
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the rest (Because I am a daughter, and because I have a daughter, this really hit ME hard):
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/fashion/a-mother-and-daughter-let-go.html?_r=0
"War Makes Everyone Crazy": Hiroshima Survivor Reflects on 69th Anniversary of U.S. Atomic Bombing
"War Makes Everyone Crazy": Hiroshima Survivor Reflects on 69th Anniversary of U.S. Atomic Bombing
AMY GOODMAN: What did your parents say when they saw you?
KOJI HOSOKAWA: (translated) My mother was away to the relief station. And so, soon after that, my sister came home in a coffin. She was burned all over her body, but fortunately, her face was OK. She was almost naked. Aside from her face, she was almost naked, and almost all her body was burned. This is only one of the cases, just one case of many. Many people experienced a similar situation.
AMY GOODMAN: This is almost 69 years later. It was the United States that dropped the atomic bomb. How do you feel when Americans come here to Hiroshima?
KOJI HOSOKAWA: (translated) I hate war, rather than the people of the United States. I hate war. War makes everyone crazy. So, in the war, innocent people are killed. And the ultimate case, I believe, is A-bombing.
AMY GOODMAN: Mr. Hosokawa, as a hibakusha, as a A-bomb survivor, do you feel the United States should apologize for dropping the atomic bomb on your city?
KOJI HOSOKAWA: (translated) The A-bomb was dropped in Hiroshima and also one in Nagasaki. And I think that atomic bombs were dropped not just on our cities, but on the whole human beings. And so, I have many things to talk about, about my experience of the A-bomb, but if the next one, the third A-bomb is to be dropped, then the Earth will be annihilated. I want people to understand, this is going to be—you know, the Earth is going to be annihilated. So whenever I talk, I want them to understand this.
The Peace Memorial Park, until the A-bomb, people lived here. Everything was destroyed. Everyone died around this area. The Peace Memorial Park is a beautiful park today, with so many trees. But later, they planted small trees, and after decades these trees became bigger, and now a very beautiful park today. So, I tell the visitors about this, too. I want them to understand people lived here. Please tell the people that people used to live here. War makes everyone crazy.
the rest of the transcript here:
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/8/6/war_makes_everyone_crazy_hiroshima_survivor
Kansas GOP official: ‘Offending Muslims is the duty of any civilized person. Especially with a .45.’
Kansas GOP official Gavin Ellzey said last month that "offending Muslims is the duty of any civilized person," the Kansas City Star reports.
He added: "Especially with a .45."
http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article1160420.html
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