Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 2:45:26 pm
https://rss.art19.com/episodes/e1f6b02 6-e524-4d02-b9e3-5bf86aa46717.mp3?_=1 Today's program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show: Dumdum Strength -- [Explicit Content] Jody on her Mom's 90th birthday bash and the COVID protocols. Woody revisited. The FBI resisted investigating Trump. Trump purged the bureaucracy of disloyalists. MTG says record fentanyl seizures means bad news for Biden. Fisticles. ...

Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 5:14:30 pm
Following our move to the new server (seen above, I wish), I've been fixing the bugs as quickly as they make themselves known. We upgraded from PHP 5.6 to the latest PHP 8, there were a helluva lot of changes, and some of them were of the crashing variety. Today I ...

Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 2:09:11 pm
https://rss.art19.com/episodes/8625b95 2-9d46-4b7e-b4ab-7688b366562b.mp3?_=1 Today's program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show: Fire In A Crowded Theater -- [Explicit Language] Bob vs Unmasked Guys at the gym. Americans would rather ignore Trump and ignore COVID hoping they'll go away. Poll shows 70% want to end COVID protocols. Governors tell Biden to announce ...

Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 4:26:01 pm
He's still blustering and bullshitting, but this is a cave-in, folks. I want to thank Emily Murphy at GSA for her steadfast dedication and loyalty to our Country. She has been harassed, threatened, and abused – and I do not want to see this happen to her, her family, or employees ...

Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 1:31:37 pm
Well, there's another bogus, heavily edited James O'Keefe-style propaganda video being frantically circulated all over the right wing media and blogs, attacking Planned Parenthood. Yes, again. I'm not going to embed this deceptive video, but here's a link to it at YouTube if you really think you need to see it. ...

Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:12:51 am
SoundCloud Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is giving a very controversial address to Congress tomorrow, as you've probably heard; some Democrats are reportedly considering boycotting the speech, because it's an egregious violation of the usual diplomatic protocols. And it's not just US Democrats who think John Boehner's invitation to Netanyahu was ...

Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:43:07 am
It's interesting watching the conservatives and right wingers attacking Obama over his assurances that Ebola was unlikely to get into the US on flights. For instance: Bingo, @ByronYork: http://t.co/quGtCLcLjJ pic.twitter.com/uX3LyC4w8Q — jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) October 2, 2014 Let's unpack this shall we? 1) The person who has Ebola was asymptomatic on the flight. ...

Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:22:57 pm
The CDC announced that they uncovered several vials of variola during a cleanup of a facility ahead of a move. Variola = smallpox. Smallpox is real bad stuff. In fact, it's so dangerous that the world actually got together to vaccinate the planet and eliminate smallpox in humans. Protocols were ...

Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 9:40:30 am
Here's the complete speech on proposed NSA reforms given by President Obama today, for the record. As Prepared for Delivery - At the dawn of our Republic, a small, secret surveillance committee born out of the "The Sons of Liberty" was established in Boston. The group's members included Paul Revere, and at ...

Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:27:48 pm
Marc Ambinder has a good post looking at some concrete ways in which the NSA and FISA courts can be reformed for more transparency and better privacy protection: Close the NSA's Reagan-Era Collection Loophole. Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Mark Udall, D-Colo., object to NSA's newly acquired permission to ...

Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:53:56 pm
The newest Glenn Greenwald bombshell exclusive story is out, and already people are hyperventilating on Twitter that it proves the NSA has "direct access" to Microsoft's servers: Revealed: How Microsoft Handed the NSA Access to Encrypted Messages. The claims made by the article (note that there are no source documents to ...

Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:24:12 am
Readers may or may not remember Eric Allen Bell--he's the filmmaker and former "Kos Kid" who, back in 2010, was supportive of the construction of the Murfreesboro mosque, which had become one of the lightning rods of the anti-mosque hysteria that began sweeping the nation that summer. Eric Allen Bell ...

Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:49:53 pm
We have a winner in today's Most Ridiculous Right Wing Rant contest, and once again it goes to the inimitable, reliably deranged Breitbart.com, where hack William Bigelow is screaming in all caps: THE ONION GOES ANTI-SEMITIC! So now The Onion, celebrated for their zany approach to the news, has fallen ...

Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:31:41 pm
Here's an excellent, detailed piece on the blatant lies being pushed by right wing media about the so-called "Climategate" emails, comparing the actual emails to the right's out of context, deliberately distorted quotes. The level of outright dishonesty is shocking: 'Climategate' Redux: Conservative Media Distort Hacked Emails ... Again. Here's one ...

Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:26:51 pm
Here's a look at one of America's ugliest chapters -- the bizarre antisemitic visions of Father Charles Coughlin, a Roman Catholic priest who was the Rush Limbaugh/Glenn Beck of his day. At its height, Father Coughlin's radio show boasted more than 30 million listeners -- at the time, a full ...

Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:46:35 am
The "anti-jihad" (read: "anti-Muslim") blogosphere is in full nuclear meltdown today, after the shocking revelation that there are Nazis in the English Defence League. Who knew? Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller and Robert Spencer are now under attack from the rest of the anti-Muslim gang, for posting a statement denouncing the EDL because ...

Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:48:15 pm
The two most visible "anti-jihad" bloggers in the United States are probably Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller. They both appear frequently on Fox News as "experts" on Islam; Geller writes for Andrew Breitbart's Big Government, Newsmax, and World Net Daily, and they've recently been touring the country showing their "Ground ...