A Very Progressive Conservatism Chistmas (Late Edition)

The holidays are quite good at messing up a man's schedule. We did the show the afternoon of Christmas Eve and as soon as it was over I had other things to do to get ready for a Christmas roadtrip with my family and I couldn't post the show notes right away. But here it is now, better late than never.

The show went well. John and I have a good flow and we can catch each other going to long with segments so we don't go overboard with any one subject. The beauty of cell phone text messages is that we can send each other production notes while the show is going full blast.

The first half of the show always seems to go by too quickly with the monologue, theme musics (which finally worked more or less properly) and the first 1 or 2 serious bits. I usually start to panic at about 1:00 PM because we still have lots of show to do and we're running out of time to do it. That's what happened with the Liquid Coal bit and somewhat with Ahmadinejad and the Miss USA twitter. We go really long in the beginning and then I have to give the bums rush to later segments. Though I figure it this way, I can introduce the information to people and if they want to learn more, they can look it up just as I did.

Lastly, some of the feedback I got was that it sounds like I'm insulting my audience when I say nobody cares about Iran. Here's the thing, I realize that many average people who pay attention to the news do in fact know about Iran...but that pales in comaparison to the MSM who happens to take the lions share of attention in the news business. When I say nobody, I mean them and the average American who isn't paying attention to the news at all. People listening to my show probably to do know and should not take offense because I didn't mean you per se. By the by, if you think I'm bad, you should listen to Michael Savage on the radio who screams at his audience on a daily basis.

The other issue is the song I played at the end. My wife questioned what news reports about MLK and Vietnam had to do with Iraq and some others asked me if I knew that Silent Night by Simon and Garfunkle was a protest song. The answer to the latter is yes. As for the relevance, I explained before I played the song that I felt it represented how the media is marring the job the soldiers are doing in Iraq and for me the song was symbolic of that. I wanted to pay tribute to the troops while expressing my distaste for their treatment by the media. Maybe it didn't come off that way but that was my intention.

Here the links from the show:

Time's person of the year
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1570707,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/2006/people/

BUCGAW REPORT
A faulty gene responsible for causing inherited blindness in chickens could hold the key to understanding not only blindness but also heart disease, diabetes...
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=59198
http://www.moneyweb.co.za/blogs/community_blog/527416.htm

Liquid Coal
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061217/bs_nm/coal_fuel_dc_1
http://energy.seekingalpha.com/article/22719
http://www.liquidcoal.com

Deuchbag of the Week
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ELLISON_QURAN?SITE=MABOC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-12-20-18-36-29

Iran vs. Miss Universe
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342489,00.html
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/20/061220094102.ixs3bo81.html
http://www.accesshollywood.com/news/ah3204.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/20/earlyshow/leisure/celebspot/main2284784.shtml

Kucinichwatch
http://www.nytimes.com/cq/2006/12/15/cq_2044.html

(sorry, don't have time this week to link properly)