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Sam Seder Joins Ring of Fire Radio!
11:07 am
Morning gang!
11:15 am
pre-show vid:
Our Favorite Senator talks about responsible ways to fix the Deficit.
Bernie Sanders is eloquent and to the point. No one does it better staying on the true issues.
(from Toni D)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iv9FduXCZU&feature=player_embedded#!
11:38 am
Thanks for the plug SJ
11:34 am
no audio so far?
11:35 am
we have show!
11:39 am
Eya Jim!
Everyone must be on the Ustream chat.
I am not listening b/c of shits and fucks at work.
How’s your eye?
11:41 am
Well you can tell me now or tonight when I try to talk to you about the hole in my house.
Later.
11:43 am
And I use the word _try_ advisedly of course.
12:12 pm
eya G.
eye is fine, just clicking along, making some coffee.
not used to this “back scrolling”. PIA really, i hate missing comments.
11:37 am
Morning,
This in late yesterday from truthout. Could be an false flag op unconvered…
http://www.truth-out.org/the-iaea-and-fraudulent-iranian-nuclear-documents65241
11:38 am
Sam Adams “Moo” beer? from change.org
http://animals.change.org/blog/view/an_evil_brew_samuel_adams_puts_cow_hearts_into_new_beer
11:41 am
Also from change.org and Kevin Bacon
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/join_kevin_bacon_and_do_some_good_-_get_10_for_your_favorite_cause?alert_id=aZBpWBKKuJ_MYPWBGSIYJ&me=aa
11:42 am
no sound again. the player is being cranky this morning
11:44 am
i had to refresh the home page to get the player to work.
11:52 am
My sound was fine. Maybe a router along the way.
11:51 am
heh! “Member Moment”
Sam needs a spot on him from the front for the Ustream web cam.
11:53 am
Hey gang!
11:55 am
Hey Sandy!
11:56 am
eya Sandy!
life goes on.
11:58 am
Jansing & Co. (Chris Jansing-MSNBC) just announced Sam Seder will be on Monday!
11:59 am
Just thought about it….she’s on at the same time as this show.
Will Sam be late on Monday?
12:04 pm
Sam should be getting out of the studio at 11AM, so we’ll be on the air as usual.
12:22 pm
Thanks for the feedback, Evan.
12:04 pm
Mornin T.
sammy cam is up
http://majority.fm/sammycam/
12:16 pm
Yeah, I have both windows open. Thanks SJ
12:08 pm
Wonkette is reporting this: (Bristol’s younger sister)
OH NOES!
National Enquirer: Willow Palin Had a ‘PREGNANCY SHOCKER’
Read more at Wonkette: National Enquirer: Willow Palin Had a ‘PREGNANCY SHOCKER’
The comments are great too!
12:16 pm
Wonette good um!
12:15 pm
From Jack Clark: http://podcast.therationalradical.com/
Budget Deficits & The National Debt: Right-Wingers Spend Wildly And Slash Taxes (For The Rich), Then Scream We Can’t Afford A Social Safety Net
Transcript also available there. Excellent education on deficit vs debt. Budget surplus – when we had ‘em, when we lost ‘em, whose fault…
Answers all the questions that Sam is pondering today.
Sources include: the New York Times, mediamatters.org, the Washington Post, newbusters.org, talkingpointsmemo.com, the website of the Congressional Budget Office, whitehouse.gov, commondreams.org, and foxnews.com.
Listen to the whole podcast, well worth your time. I just discovered this guy recently. He’s apparently been around awhile, had to change his name sometime in the past on account of right-wing death threats?
Some snips from the transcript:
“The deficit relates to the budget. The budget deficit is the shortfall between what the government takes in in revenue any given year, and what it spends that year. If the government takes in $2 trillion and spends two and a half trillion, then the deficit that year is half a trillion dollars. The government will borrow the difference to cover the shortfall. The debt relates to the historical total of all that governmental borrowing. It’s usually called the national debt.”
“It’s necessary to clarify another bit of terminology again. You need to know that the federal fiscal year runs from October 1 through September 30.”
“So before Obama even took office, before he could or did do anything, the CBO said the fiscal year 2009 deficit would be $1.2 trillion. Since both the fiscal year 2008 budget with a $459 billion deficit, and the fiscal year 2009 budget with a $1.2 trillion, one thousand two hundred billion dollar projected deficit were all on George W. Bush’s watch, it’s Bush who actually tripled the deficit in one year. Not Obama! At worst, Obama’s policies added $200 billion to the initial $1.2 trillion dollar estimate, a rise of one-sixth, not tripling.”
“The bottom line of all this: if a right-winger tells you Obama tripled the deficit, tell them they’re 100% wrong: the deficit was tripled by their guy, George W. Bush, in his last year of office.”
“Back from year one, until Ronald Reagan took office, the national debt totaled less than $1 trillion, less than a thousand billion dollars. Other than being a mass-murdering terrorist and a racist, Reagan, that right-wing icon, must have been good for something. I’m sure — aren’t you? — that the financially conservative, fiscally responsible Gipper must have cut that near trillion dollar national debt he inherited, in half. Why, Super-Ronald probably wiped the whole darn thing out!”
“According to this chart (http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2011/assets/hist.pdf), when Reagan left office, the national debt was around $2 trillion. It more than doubled under Reagan. Reagan ran up more debt than all the Presidents of our nation before him combined!”
“The elder Bush inherited about a $2 trillion national debt from Reagan, and when Papa Bush left office, the debt was around $3 trillion. Not good.”
“Ok, we’re up to three trillion. Obama inherited 8. Where did the other five come from? That liberal bum Bill Clinton, I’m sure. Let me check. No, the national debt sort of stayed the same from the beginning to the end of Clinton’s presidency.”
“Let’s see hear. Yup, it was under none other than George W. that the national debt went from the three and change trillion he inherited from Bill Clinton, to the 8 trillion he bequeathed to Obama. What this means is, that of the $8 trillion dollar national debt that Obama spoke of facing when he came into office, $7 trillion of that $8 trillion was run up by Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. Apparently the Three Stooges of financial irresponsibility.”
12:17 pm
eya Evan!
good afternoon to you and the crew.
wheres the scwagg access?
12:18 pm
We’re still working out a system. For now send requests/questions to MajorityReporters@gmail.com, but we’ll let y’all know soon as we streamline the process
12:26 pm
tanks Evan!
i’ve been after a coffee mug to replace my broken one for years.
is it possible to call you folks in the studio? i like to yak with the crew occasionally.
12:32 pm
We’re still pretty bare-bones over here. No phone lines and no separation between the control booth and the on-air booth. So no, not yet
12:40 pm
let me know when you can.
BTW. the stream on the home page needs a refresh to work.
12:19 pm
Is there an existing real-time group chat?
I created an aol chat room named majorityfm if anyone would like to jon.
12:23 pm
mornin utilitopia!
this is it for most of us. i avoid AOL personally but i’m sure many would like the option. you’ll have to plug it every show to get some interest
12:24 pm
You can use the chat session over on Ustream, at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-sam-seder-show
12:25 pm
Here’s a direct link to the detached Ustream chat window… http://www.ustream.tv/channel-popup/chat/16967
12:28 pm
There’s a chat on UStream at Sammycam
http://majority.fm/sammycam/
12:25 pm
The Food Modernization Act is not a good thing. It was introduced a couple years ago and then went silent. All the grassroots research was done back then and is now also back-burner. My point is, this is one of the ways THEY sneak “big brother” on us. We forget the dangers and the “spin” gets refined and the whole thing comes whoosh-bang before we can regroup and remember why…
Mt memory is telling me there are some small print things that are the danger.
You need to diagfree with Mike Pollock. He’s forgotten too!
DANGER, DANGER, DANGER!!!
12:25 pm
Morning, all.
12:31 pm
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12:34 pm
Alright let’s look at this Food Modernization Act from another angle.
We live in the worst neighborhood (US) with the worst gangs (both parties both houses), and you still want to leave your fron door unlocked?
Remember another “modernization act”?
The Commodity Futures Modernization Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton in December 2000.
Remember what that got us?
12:44 pm
I keep trying to think of how our Congress has done much of anything that hasn’t ultimately been a benefit to big corp and a tragedy for everyone else.
What has changed about that? Especially now after this Tea Party electoral victory???
This is our food supply we’re talking about and once this is done it will be hard to reverse. Follow the money (Monsanto, DOW, DuPont)
And when was the last time any of our departments worked for the people and not for the corporations? Follow the money…
12:35 pm
I’ll just paste these as I find them…
Senate Bill S 510 Food Safety Modernization Act vote imminent: Would outlaw gardening and saving seeds: http://www.naturalnews.com/030418_Food_Safety_Modernization_Act_seeds.html
12:40 pm
Will the Food Safety Modernization Act harm small farms or producers?:
http://www.grist.org/article/food-2010-11-15-food-fight-safety-modernization-act-harm-small-farms
12:41 pm
Crap ..Late again !
12:44 pm
Sammy Cam is live.
Sam sure needs some lighting on him.
12:46 pm
Food Safety Modernization Act Controversy for Small Farms: http://www.motherearthnews.com/happy-homesteader/food-safety-modernization-act.aspx
12:46 pm
If you need a player, you might want to take a look at this:
VLC: free, multi-platform, open-source multimedia framework, player and server
I dunno if “It plays everything!” but I like it.
12:51 pm
Didn’t know that bout Juan Cole …..
12:52 pm
Love his blog! Very honest (Juan Cole)
12:55 pm
Now I’m getting petitions urging this Act to be passed and that Repugs are fighting it… This is what I mean. No one has tiome to go back through this bill line by line and see what’s it’s really all about.
Doens’t affect USDA either or Dept of Ag or Forestry.
12:55 pm
What in the hell is MOO-Ham-id??
1:03 pm
MOO-Ham-id’s Radio..
A Warren Zevon song..
Hi,Sandy..
1:00 pm
Disclose Act petition:
http://www.commoncause.org/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=6396133&auid=7388935
11:07 pm
good job Rolin!
1:40 pm
The pod is now available at: http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/include/404_user.php?username=fm
3:40 pm
Empire Burlesque is http://www.chris-floyd.com/. Linking offa Google was a little hinky last week even tho same address but now from but GG’s blogroll link works OK.
Also, looks like he will be a regular on OP-Ed Now…Hoo-RAY!
You all looked this up already, I am sure.
3:41 pm
I listened to a few seconds…luckily no fuck.
6:22 pm
eya Jim!
Stop by the ranch!
8:18 pm
OK,
good to see ya here.
Sam and crew are shapeing up fine
11:26 pm
BTW Sam at last to see you regularly on T.V. … even in an appearance in a comedy.
… … but I need to brew more tea …
Tea Cheers … just sea’n
*poof*
5:42 am
Yay! Just Coffee is sponsoring Sammy! This is really good coffee and good people, folks, and they support our peeps. But Sam, maybe you can come up with a more work-safe coffee mug tagline than “Pow! I just shit my pants!”? I mean, I adore both you AND your erstwhile vodcast partner, but seriously…you can’t take a mug like that to work.