This is from the September 10, 2003 program.
Daily Show On The CA Recall 9/10/03 (Small – 10 MB)
The Daily Show (The best news on television.)
Daily Show Update On The CA Gov Recall – September 10, 2003
1 Reply
Morny mornin’ to ya!
Okay so I’m not going to be doing much more with the Presidential Debate stuff unless somebody emails me this morning and wants something specific before I erase it from my hard drive. There’s too much else to do. (Oh, alright, I’ll get the Dean clips separated out and uploaded first — I’m not heartless…but otherwise I gotta MOVE ON, so to speak.)
I say this because Dick Cheney was on Meet the Press yesterday morning in rare form, dodging questions with answers that don’t make any sense, as per usual, about the war mostly — and I think putting those clips up has to take priority right now.
So that’s how I’ll be spending my day after I catch up with an old friend over lunch.
But first, the rest of last week’s
Daily Show clips. My friend Jeff Suttor is going to loan me his camera next week while I’m sending mine away to be serviced, so I won’t miss a beat.
So you can all say: “Thanks, Jeff!”
Back in a flash!
PBS Democratic Presidential Candidate Debate – September 4, 2003
Good Morning Folks,
So I’ll be blogging this in more detail later (note: I’ve since backed out of this task), but I really wanted to get it up for you this weekend so you could check it out before the work week starts. (Yes, I realize that many of you will have to wait ’till the work week starts so you can get your hands on a high speed connection…so this way the files will be ready for you too on Monday am.)
Here is the Democratic Candidate Presidential Debate that aired on PBS on September 4, 2003.
I’ve made the files available in two or three parts.
These files are all huge. The “2s” are about 100 MB each, and the “3s” are about 60 MB each. I’ll have them split up by candidate eventually, but, like I said, I thought I’d give you a chance to spend the day with them if you are so inclined.
I’ll be gone for the first part of today and then back this afternoon to finish my weekend rampage. (I’m actually getting caught up on my blogging todo list!)
Enjoy!
Howard Dean On Good Morning America — Reaction To The Shrub’s Sept 7 Iraq Speech
Here’s Howard Dean on the Sept 8, 2003 program of ABC’s Good Morning America. (No website available.)
Howard took the opportunity to clarify several inaccuracies in the Shrub’s September 7, 2003 speech regarding Iraq, where he states that Iraq has always had links to Al Qaeda. We know that, in fact, links between Iraq and Al Qaeda before the war have never been substantiated.
(In fact, there is evidence to the contrary.)
Howard Dean On Good Morning America (Small – 9 MB)
New Song Available! Something Better
I’ve just uploaded a new song I wrote with my guitar player, Ron Taylor.
We’ve just reunited after a 4 year hiatus, and it feels so good!
We’ll be playing around in San Francisco soon under our “band” name: Park and Ride.
(He’s “Park” I’m “Ride” 🙂
Hope you’ll come check us out.
Like all of my music, it’s released under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
That means, in a nutshell: “Take it and run (baby) BUT give us credit.”
(Spelled out: Distribute, Display, and Perform at will — Derivative Works and Commercial Uses OK)
And now, I bring you
Something Better.
Ron and I wrote this song many years ago right after I’d talked him out of joining the Navy. He was joining the Navy because he felt he had nothing better to do with his life. I convinced him that even flipping burgers would be better than potentially dying in some stupid war.
Now he’s happily married with two beautiful children and he still thanks me for helping him out on that fateful day. (Although, I must admit, at the time I was being purely selfish: I didn’t want to lose my guitar player!)
Ron and I have recently reunited (August 2003) and we just recorded this track last weekend by playing into the microphone on my video camera. I played it for some friends, and they all liked it a lot. So I’m taking their advice.
It’s rough, but I think they’re right. It’s good enough for rock n’ roll!
Hope you like it!
Jimmy Kimmel’s Version Of The Shrub’s Football Speech
The Shrub took time out from his busy schedule to give a speech launching the new football season.
Jimmy Kimmel took time out to chide him a bit for it. Thanks, Jimmy.
This is from the September 4, 2003 program. (I was just lucky to catch it because I came on after the Patriot Act Nightline with Ted Koppel.)
The Shrub’s Football Speech (Small – 2 MB)
Jimmy Kimmel Live Official Web site
Scientists To Work With Dalai Lama To Study The Physical Manifestations Of Meditation On The Brain
Dalai Lama visit provides a subject for scientists
By Gareth Cook for the Boston Globe.
(Thanks, Jon!)
For more than 15 years, the Dalai Lama has been inviting small groups of top Western scientists to his Himalayan home for private discussions about science and its potential links to Buddhist thought. At an MIT auditorium tomorrow, the Tibetan leader will begin presiding over two days of intense discussions — the first ones open to the public — aimed at understanding what happens inside the meditating brain, and what it can reveal about the broader workings of the human mind…
Prominent Western scientists have already begun to find that meditation can have a profound effect on the brain and the body. This month, University of Wisconsin professor Richard J. Davidson published a paper showing that people who meditated were able to mount a stronger fight against the flu — suggesting that teaching the technique could help boost their immune systems.
Meditation, his study showed, appeared to moderate the activity of a part of the brain, the right prefrontal cortex, associated with negative emotions like anger and fear. The meditators who experienced the greatest reduction of activity in this area, the study showed, created the most antibodies to fight the flu…
Such a project could hold the potential to expand the field of neuroscience, suggesting whole new areas of study. Davidson, for example, has embarked on a research program to study compassion, an emotion that is a central concept in Buddhist psychology, but which Western science has largely ignored. If the Buddhists are correct, then Western researchers have missed an important part of the brain’s emotional machinery, one whose cultivation could have profound effects on society.
“We want to place compassion center stage as a focus of legitimate scientific inquiry,” said Davidson. “These guys can turn it on at will.”
Estrada Pulls Out Of The Race!
We won this one guys! Estrada has removed himself from his bid for the judiciary.
Let this be a lesson to the Shrub Administration that you can’t just instruct people to refuse to cooperate with Congress if you want to be an appellate judge.
This is from the September 4, 2003 program.
Here’s an interview with Adam Schiff (D-CA) of the House Judiciary Committee on Fox News.
Profiling Taken To New Low: Color Coded Passengers
Note: As with any effective Dictatorship, this time around, the public will not be informed as to which airlines will be implementing the CAPPS II program. Such information will be kept secret from American citizens.
Soon passengers will be receiving one of three “color codings” based on things like who you’re traveling with and where you’re going. (What’s that got to do with your risk? Your guess is as good as mine.)
I wonder if wearing one of John Gilmore‘s “Suspected Terrorist” buttons bumps up your rating a notch? 🙂
Here’s the Washington Post story on it, and a video clip from KRON news in San Francisco.
In the most aggressive — and, some say, invasive — step yet to protect air travelers, the federal government and the airlines will phase in a computer system next year to measure the risk posed by every passenger on every flight in the United States.
The new Transportation Security Administration system seeks to probe deeper into each passenger’s identity than is currently possible, comparing personal information against criminal records and intelligence information. Passengers will be assigned a color code — green, yellow or red — based in part on their city of departure, destination, traveling companions and date of ticket purchase.
Most people will be coded green and sail through. But up to 8 percent of passengers who board the nation’s 26,000 daily flights will be coded “yellow” and will undergo additional screening at the checkpoint, according to people familiar with the program. An estimated 1 to 2 percent will be labeled “red” and will be prohibited from boarding. These passengers also will face police questioning and may be arrested…
The new system, called Computer Assisted Passenger Pre-screening System II (CAPPS II), has sparked so much controversy among both liberal and conservative groups that the TSA has struggled to get it going. Delta Air Lines backed out of a testing program with the agency earlier this year, and now the TSA will not reveal which airlines will participate when it tests a prototype early next year. If all goes as planned, the TSA will begin the new computer screening of some passengers as early as next summer and eventually it will be used for all domestic travelers.
“This system is going to be replete with errors,” said Barry Steinhardt, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s technology and liberty program. “You could be falsely arrested. You could be delayed. You could lose your ability to travel.”
KTVU and Jimmy Kimmel On The CD Price Drop
These two go together. Watch them in order:
(1) a clip from KTVU Channel 2 News on Universal’s announcement of dropping CD sales
and
(2) a clip from Jimmy Kimmel’s new show making a comment about that announcement.
KTVU’s Official Web site
Jimmy Kimmel Live Official Web site