If You Want Me, It’s Really Out Of The Question

Hosting the Strategy Room, which I’m now doing Thursdays at 2PM, has engendered some strong responses.

From: Tom
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 2:07 PM
To: StrategyRoom
Subject: Go stick your head in a toilet

I thought we were getting rid of you. You left wind idiot.

Uh, Tom, that’s left “wing” idiot.  Please call me by the proper name.

From: Bright Blue
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 2:08 PM
To: StrategyRoom
Subject: ***** YAAY For Colmes ********

From: Bruce
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 2:16 PM
To: trategyRoom
Subject: OUT W/ ALAN

WHY …

On Thursday’s Radio Show…

• Republicans want Napolitano out: Alan asks Rep. John Carter (R-TX) why he’s calling on the Homeland Security Secretary to resign.

• McClatchy Newspapers reporter Jonathan S. Landay discusses his report that “harsh interrogation” techniques were used to seek a link between 9/11 and Iraq.

• Are we not alone in the universe? The sixth man to walk on the Moon, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, explains why he believes the government is covering up the truth about UFOs.…

Why Marriage Equality Is So Important

Those who laugh in the face of gays who want equal rights ought to take a moment and read the story of Peter Dubuque (right).  A devoted reader of Americablog, Peter had a loving husband, Steven Kleinedler, who writes eloquently of what he experienced when Peter died, including how things are changing.

In 1994, I was arrested, handcuffed, and spent the night in jail for dancing with another man in suburban Chicago. (Not kissing, not even touching : just dancing.) But on March 24, 2009, the EMTs, police officers, and detectives on the accident scene were extremely professional, respectful, …

Thank You, Mr. President

For the first time in over five years, more Americans than not say the country is on the right track.

In a sign that Barack Obama has inspired hopes for a brighter future in the first 100 days of his presidency, an Associated Press-GfK poll shows that 48 percent of Americans believe the United States is headed in the right direction – compared with 44 percent who disagree.

The “right direction” number is up 8 points since February and a remarkable 31 points since October, the month before Obama’s election.…

We Can’t Get Out Of Iraq Fast Enough

We’re still there, and we’re not leaving fast enough.  During the campaign Obama said he’d get combat troops out in 16 months. That’s been upped a few months as a compromise with the generals on the ground.  But no matter how long we stay, we’re never going to create the democracy BushCo thought it could.  And now, more tragedy in a country we’ll never be able to control.

At least 75 people were killed and 120 injured in two Thursday explosions.

In the first attack, a woman wearing a suicide belt exploded herself in the Karada district of Baghdad …

Dick Cheney Continues To Blast Obama

The former VP has no problem attacking BushCo’s successor. He claims he never personally attacked the new president and says it’s wrong to do so.  He goes after Obama saying we went to other countries to “apologize profusely”, questions whether Obama  is perceived as “weak” and “standing up for America’s interests.”

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On Wednesday’s Radio Show…

• Alan discusses why America should hold itself to a higher standard than countries that torture.

• Actor Charles Grodin sits down with Alan to discuss his hiarious new autobiography, How I Got to Be Whoever It Is I Am.

• Think you can survive the cut? It’s Sudden Death Radio!…

Republicans Suddenly Love Transparency

Representative Dana Rohrabacher is now calling for release of the documents Dick Cheney is asking be released to save BushCo’s legacy.  Rohrabacher gets a bit testy with Hillary Clinton, especially after the secretary of state says Cheney isn’t a reliable source.  Then he demands transparency.  Does that mean the GOP is happy torture memos were released?

via Hoffmania

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US Used Communist Chinese Torture Methods

Remember the days when we used to talk about how evil communist regimes were because they tortured people?  Well, it turns out that these methods are the basis for what became our modus operandi, embraced in 2002 without any dissent from the Bush administration or member of Congress.  Our government approved gruesome interrogation techniques without ever looking to see where they came from.

According to several former top officials involved in the discussions seven years ago, they did not know that the military training program, called SERE, for Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape, had been created decades earlier to give …

Is Blogging Dead?

I would prefer “evolving” to “dead.”  Andrew Keen attended “The Next Web” conference in Amsterdam and reports back.

When blogging was invented in the late Nineties by my dear Berkeley friend and neighbor Dave Winer, it represented an easy self-publishing tool, a simple way to publish dirty great lumps of one’s own static text. But just as the Internet has dramatically evolved over the last ten years from a self-publishing into a real-time broadcasting platform, so blogging is transforming itself with equally dramatic vigor.

As we move forward on Liberaland, we are always tweaking and …

And You Thought Miss California Was Bad

Miss California, Carrie Prejean, continues her whining tour of defeat, blaming political correctness for her loss, bragging that she wasn’t politically correct, but was biblically correct.  We’ve already pointed out that the winner, Miss North Carolina, Kristen Dalton, waxed poetic about the ’50s because “those were the golden years” (unless you were female, black or gay).  And Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times, highlights the response of Miss Arizona, Alicia-Monique Blanco (pictured), who was asked about universal health care. and may have had the most puzzling response of all.

Judge Kenan Thompson from “Saturday Night Live” asked, “”Do …