Capt Ron Johnson's 2am press conference

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Tuesday August 19, 2014 · 3:22 AM PDT

2014/08/19 · 03:22

Captain Ron Johnson, the Missouri Highway Patrol officer who has been giving his all to bringing peace to Ferguson, Missouri, this week, gave a press statement at approximately 2:21 A.M. CDT this morning, Tuesay, August 19, 2014. Captain Johnson was visibly tired, and his emotions showed through clearly as he promised that, working together, we will make Ferguson, and specifically make the West Florissant/Ferguson Ave. neighborhood, whole again. He urged peaceful protesters to make their voices heard in broad daylight, so that their protests cannot be used as an easy cover for violent criminal acts. Many of Capt. Johnson's comments were specifically directed at the media, including those of us who fall into the "smaller media outlet" category.

I've put up a transcript of the press conference, on my personal blog, and here's a link to the video on KMOV-TV St. Louis.
transcript http://j.mp/...
video (KMOV-TV St. Louis): http://www.kmov.com/...

WH Petition to reinstate Maj. Jason Wright

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Thursday June 26, 2014 · 1:16 PM PDT

2014/06/26 · 13:16

Rachel #Maddow used her last segment yesterday (http://on.msnbc.com/...) to highlight the case of US Army Maj. Jason Wright, a JAG attorney assigned to defend accused terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM). However, Wright's superiors have ordered him to a "retraining" course ( a period requirement for JAG attorneys), and have declined his request for a deferral to allow him to complete the KSM case. Because Maj. Wright's legal ethics demand that he remain on the case, he faces a conflict of interest, and has had to resign from the Army, effective at the end of the summer. I have created a White House petition (http://wh.gov/...), urging the President to reinstate Maj. Wright immediately.

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Thursday October 14, 2010 · 11:14 PM PDT

2010/10/14 · 23:14

Citizens United — yes, that Citizens United, the group whose trip to the Supreme Court opened the floodgates of unlimited nearly-anonymous corporate money into our elections — has a TV ad to promote their new propaganda film, Battle for America. The ad features political mercenary Dick Morris opining:

The stakes on November 2nd are just unbelievably important. [Obama] has no understanding of how to be President. About anything that requires doing his job, he's totally at a loss about it. You're trying to control your own destiny, you're trying to protect your family, and you're trying to save your own country. Elections have consequences.

The existence of the movie is no surprise. Neither is the ad for it. What I found remarkable, though, is that the ad ran tonight on MSNBC during both Countdown with Keith Olbermann and The Rachel Maddow Show (at least on my cable system, Comcast in San Francisco, CA; it did not run in tonight's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell).

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Wednesday October 13, 2010 · 11:52 PM PDT

2010/10/13 · 23:52

Well, yes, that would be Lawrence "No Relation" O'Donnell on MSNBC, on his new show The Last Word (10pm E/7pm P), remarking on Sarah Palin's interview on NewsMax.com, in which the ex-gov showed off her knowledge of foreign policy and social issues. I've got a link to the original Palin interview and video link and transcript of the MSNBC clip, below the fold. The "share" link from MSNBC.com came with this introduction:

Lawrence [O'Donnell] and Sarah Palin agree?

It's shocking, we know. The former governor of Alaska makes a strong statement on the separation of church and state, earns herself the Last Word re-write.

My own comments follow at the very end.

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Tuesday May 11, 2010 · 8:37 PM PDT

2010/05/11 · 20:37

I've been seeing a lot of TV ads lately, including on shows like Countdown and Rachel Maddow, pushing Pacific Gas & Electric Co's pet political project, Proposition 16, the so-called "Taxpayers Right to Vote Act." It is a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would require a TWO-THIRDS public vote before any state or local government could go into the electricity business, including as a "community choice aggregator." PG&E is trying to muddy the water to permanently block all public power initiatives, thus protecting its own corporate interests, while pretending to protect the public. Their arguments are as slimy as the proposal itself.

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Monday November 30, 2009 · 10:10 PM PST

2009/11/30 · 22:10

On tonight's Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel's first guest was Dan Rather, fresh back from Afghanistan. Her second guest was Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, talking about connections of The (C Street) Family and other American evangelicals to the proposed Ugandan death penalty law for homosexuality, which would also imprison anyone who knowingly failed to report a homosexual to the police. Specifically, Pastor Rick Warren (of the Saddleback Church and of the Obama Inauguration ceremony) and Senator James Inhofe (R–OK) have strong ties to Ugandan politics, but have pointedly refused to denounce the proposed law. [update: links added]

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Tuesday October 27, 2009 · 2:04 AM PDT

2009/10/27 · 02:04

On Monday night's NBC Jay Leno Show, Doctor Phil McGraw showed up to talk with the host about current events. [video link, time index 23:44] Inexplicably popular TV psychologist Dr. Phil quite rightly pointed out that the family of the "Balloon Boy" certainly looks pretty dysfunctional, but then Jay asked Dr. Phil his view of legalization of medical marijuana. Dr. Phil said that he is opposed, because of the risk of abuse — citing as evidence the high levels of abuse of OxyContin® in Florida, where he said it is relatively easy to get a prescription because of relaxed local requirements.

There's just one thing, though: OxyContin® is an extremely addictive opiate drug and marijuana has a very low addictive potential. It's an exaggeration to say that marijuana is completely non-addictive, but it is clearly less addictive than alcohol or tobacco, not to mention OxyContin®. Not only is there no rational reason not to permit medical use of marijuana, there is simply no rational reason not to permit recreational use.

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46 votes Show Results

Marijuana should be legal because

46 votes Vote Now!

Marijuana should be legal because

Bill and Ted

2 votes

Cheech and Chong

15 votes

Topher and Ashton

3 votes

Froot Loops and Count Chocula

9 votes

hee hee, umm, uh, what was the question?

17 votes

Rush gets schooled by CNBC

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Thursday January 29, 2009 · 11:43 PM PST

2009/01/29 · 23:43

There was an item on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann tonight about an interview that Rush Limbaugh did on CNBC, talking about his "bipartisan stimulus plan," as he called it in today's Wall Street Journal. The interviewer — hardly a wild-eyed commie pinko on what is unmistakably the least liberal of the NBC siblings — made clear his contempt for Limbaugh's sudden epiphany of bipartisanship. Oddly, though, the transcript shows up not on CNBC's web site (video) , but on Rush's own site.

My favorite quote, by Mark Haines to Rush Limbaugh:

I hear hypocrisy. You're saying in this — in this piece, you say, uh, you know, "our economy doesn't know the difference...this is about jobs now...leave politics aside," and yet the first thing out of your mouth is politics! About liberal and conservative, Republican and Democrat!

An executive summary of the interview, with some expanded analysis of Rush's "plan," below the fold....

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How should Obama respond to Rush's plan?

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How should Obama respond to Rush's plan?

Explain to the American people, "those tax cuts would not work"

73 votes

Cave in and give even more corporate/cap-gains tax breaks

2 votes

Change the formula so that only payroll taxes are cut

22 votes

A chicken in every pot, childcare, infrastructure, healthcare...

81 votes

Earthquake in Afghanistan

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Sunday January 04, 2009 · 10:53 PM PST

2009/01/04 · 22:53

No, I'm not speaking in metaphor. There was a magnitude 5.8 earthquake tomorrow morning in Afghanistan, near the borders of Pakistan and Tajikistan. It occurred at 3:43 a.m., 2009-01-05, local time, which was 3:43 p.m. Sunday here on the US West Coast. So far, no one is reporting any significant damage or injuries, although some minor damage will doubtless come to light through the day. Still, as any Californian can tell you, a 5.8 is strong enough that you know you've just been in a quake, and in places like Afghanistan, a magnitude 6 will often have fatalities. There is another reason that I took notice of this quake: the specific region of Afghanistan where it happened, Hindu-Kush.

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An earthquake in Afghanistan is more important to me than....

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An earthquake in Afghanistan is more important to me than....

the latest gossip about Paris Hilton

2 votes

the latest gossip from Perez Hilton

0 votes

the latest rides at Disneyland Paris

4 votes

the keno payouts at Paris Las Vegas

1 vote

What I would do with $700,000,000,000.00

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Monday September 29, 2008 · 3:07 PM PDT

2008/09/29 · 15:07

I'm still reeling from the fact that Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson had the gall to put on paper a proposal that would give him absolutely unchecked authority to dole out 700 billion dollars from the U.S. taxpayers pockets. The infamous Section 8 of the Paulson Plan provided that Paulson's decisions about what to do with his jingling money "may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency," much less subjected to any scrutiny before the deal is done. It got me to thinking about what I would do with unlimited authority over $700B, without the worry of ever answering to a court. I'm a basically honest, law-abiding person, but they say every person has his or her price, and I can't think of anyone — myself included — that I would trust blindly with that kind of money.

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With $700 billion and absolutely no oversight, I would...

41 votes Vote Now!

With $700 billion and absolutely no oversight, I would...

rescue failing financial institutions and save the economy

3 votes

rescue my friends on Wall Street

0 votes

give every American family $5,000 in cash

9 votes

throw a party with an ice sculpture of Dennis Kozlowski

0 votes

flee the planet and build a new house on the moon

4 votes

fill an entire swimming pool with $100 bills

7 votes

buy Jamaica just for the ganja

18 votes

More Nauseating 9/11 Symbolism

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Thursday September 04, 2008 · 7:00 PM PDT

2008/09/04 · 19:00

I watched the "tribute" video to the victims of 9/11, and greatly appreciated Keith Olbermann's comment that, if any tv network had run that footage, they would have been quite rightly excoriated for exploitation of people's grief and loss. Something else in the crawl at the bottom of the screen nagged at me, though: "McCain will give his acceptance speech at 10:11 PM ET." Why on earth such a specific time? Oh, yeah: Minnesota isn't in the Eastern time zone; it's in Central. In other words, John McCain will accept the 9/11 party's nomination at 9:11, a week to the day before the 7th anniversary.

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Wednesday July 23, 2008 · 9:33 PM PDT

2008/07/23 · 21:33

My parents live in the historic small town of Goliad, about 120 miles (200 km) almost due south of Austin; after leaving Netroots Nation on Sunday, I went down to visit for a few days. As I write this, Hurricane Dolly is pushing inland, a bit farther south. A couple of minutes ago, I was surprised by a sudden gust of wind that blew open my bedroom door. The last couple of hours, we've had brief bursts of high winds and torrential rains — nothing like what they're getting in Corpus Christi and farther south, but impressive all the same, especially when the rain falls almost horizontally. We're about 50 miles (80 km) from the coast, in the flood plain along the San Antonio River. Twice in the last ten years, we've had "hundred-year" floods, which can easily leave the center of town completely cut off from the rest of the world, with bridges flooded in all four directions. On the other hand, the locals, most especially the farmers, have been suffering from an unusually dry summer, so some rain is more than welcome.

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Natural disaster I am most frightened by...

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Natural disaster I am most frightened by...

Hurricane/Tornado

4 votes

Earthquake

2 votes

Flood

1 vote

Plague of Locusts

1 vote

George W. Bush

24 votes

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