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#332 The Futility of Leaning Right (Congress)
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Edition #332
Act 1: Obama crushes house GOP – Young Turks
Act 2: Doris Kearns Goodwin on weak Dems – Daily Show
Act 3: Change terrifies conservatives – Ring of Fire
Act 4: Obama nails Rep and Cenk debunks lies – Young Turks
Act 5: The word Siren Song – Colbert Report
Act 6: Killing the filibuster – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Polls show GOP are nuts – Young Turks
Act 8: Introducing the Dem Opossum – Daily Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Political Shift in D.C. – How to succeed – Daily Show
Music:
Walk on the wild side – Lou Reed
Messages – Xavier Rudd
Personal Jesus – Johnny Cash
The right thing to do – Carly Simon
Naive – The Kooks
Once around the block – Badly Drawn Boy
I can’t – Ben Sollee
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#315 Big bill bothers bought off blowhards (Podcast)
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Edition #315
Act 1: Blow hards bloviate on healthcare – Counterspin
Act 2: Bill big, bill bad – Daily Show
Act 3: GOP Continues healthcare fear tactics – The Young Turks
Act 4: Fire hot – The Onion
Act 5: Grayson on fighting back Part 1 – Ring of Fire
Act 6: Lieberman on wiggling – Wait wait don’t tell me
Act 7: Grayson on fighting back Part 2 – Ring of Fire
Act 8: Absurd Republicans caught on tape – The Young Turks
Act 9: Wisconsin city is the best place to die – NPR
Act 10: Preggers can’t be choosers – Daily Show
Act 11: Restricting abortion rights in health reform – Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Judge Napolitano Lies about Health Care Reform – The Young Turks
Music:
Tax man – The Beatles
Naive – The Kooks
Fearless – VNV Nation
World on Fire – Sarah McLachlan
In a big country – Big Country
Winter song – Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson
Brain stew – Green Day
So fast, so numb – R.E.M.
I know I know I know – Tegan and Sara
Different people – No doubt
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#309 Derailing unprecedented health reform would be unprecedented (Podcast)
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Edition #309
Act 1: Kid is denied healthcare for being too skinny – The Young Turks
Act 2: Max Baucus and Senate health reform – Bill Moyers Journal
Act 3: Medicare Part E – Thom Hartmann
Act 4: Healthcare, now what – This American Life
Act 5: Dems stopping healthcare would be unprecedented – Rachel Maddow
Act 6: The history of our healthcare system – This American Life
Act 7: Insurance company calls sick people dogs – The Young Turks
Act 8: Further reporting on anti-healthcare campaign – Rachel Maddow
Music:
Curl up and die – Relient K
Who will buy – Oliver Soundtrack
Fake Empire – The National
Doctor my eyes – Jackson 5
I go to extremes – Billy Joel
Remember Jonathan – Cyrille Verdeaux
Stop crying your heart out – Oasis
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#307 Snowe in October and other healthcare nonsense (Podcast)
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Edition #307
Act 1: Will it Snowe or wont it? – Wait wait don’t tell me!
Act 2: Bogus report commissioned by the health lobby – Countdown
Act 3: The majority leader of the senate – It’s all politics
Act 4: GOP claim healthcare costs will rise with reform – The Young Turks
Act 5: Special healthcare comment Part 1 – Countdown
Act 6: Fat baby and getting Snowe’s vote – Daily Show
Act 7: Misleading healthcare opinion research – Rachel Maddow
Act 8: Special healthcare comment Part 2 – Countdown
Music:
Tell me tell me – Burning spear
Sunday bloody Sunday – U2
Because the night – 10,000 maniacs
The world is new – Save Ferris
Ill with want – The Avett Brothers
I think we’re alone now – Tiffany
Soft serve – Soul Coughing
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#303 As the chips begin to fall (Podcast)
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Edition #303
Act 1: Healthcare polling – Counterspin
Act 2: GOP are a bunch of neanderthals – The Young Turks
Act 3: Wendel Potter on healthcare – Rachel Maddow
Act 4: Congress and lobbyists out of the closet – Colbert Report
Act 5: The nonsense healthcare debate – Mother Jones
Act 6: Public option in danger in committee – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: The profit of illness – Bill Maher
Act 8: Howard Dean on the importance of choice – Rachel Maddow
Act 9: Democratic Super Majority! – Daily Show
Music:
Let Go – Frou Frou
Smile like you mean it – The Killers
Dreamtime – Uberzone
Take your mama out – Scissor Sisters
Bouncing around the room – Phish
I just died in your arms tonight – SuperTrack
Hospital beds – Cold War Kids
All American girl – Train
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#301 Compromise catastrophe soaked in corporate cash (Podcast)
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Edition #301
Act 1: Baucus stands alone – Wait wait don’t tell me!
Act 2: Does the GOP care more about property than people? – The Young Turks
Act 3: The terrible result of the Baucus compromise – Counterspin
Act 4: Bill Clinton on healthcare reform – Daily Show
Act 5: Health insurance whistle-blower – Bill Maher
Act 6: Rick Sanchez investigates corruption in healthcare debate – CNN
Act 7: Candidate Obama on healthcare negotiations – The Young Turks
Act 8: Better know a lobby: Healthcare for America NOW – Colbert Report
Act 9: GOP fear leads to victim-blame – Ring of Fire
Act 10: Sen. Conrad outlines how weak he is – The Young Turks
Music:
Anthem, Pt 1 – Blink-182
Passing storm – Ottmar Liebert
Good – Better Than Ezra
I gotta feeling – Black Eyed Peas
If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out – Cat Stevens
Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money) – Pet Shop Boys
Sitting, Waiting, Wishing – Jack Johnson
Don’t You Forget About Me – Simple Minds
We’re simple minds – Club 8
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#298 In the wake of Obama’s healthcare speech (Podcast)
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Act 1: Details still to be ironed out – Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me!
Act 2: Bernie Sanders on stopping the filibuster – Rachel Maddow
Act 3: Pastor Incites gun-toting Obama protesters – The Young Turks
Act 4: Checking some healthcare facts – Counterspin
Act 5: Why there’s no point in reading bills – On the Media
Act 6: More fact-free arguments against healthcare – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Breaking down Obama’s speech and the reaction to it – Ring of Fire
Act 8: Healthcare lies believed shows poll – The Young Turks
Act 9: Fixing healthcare by altering patient behavior – NPR
Act 10: Having to explain how a healthcare system works – Counterspin
Act 11: Talking about the lack of respect for the office of the President – It’s all politics
Music:
Hands down – Dashboard Confessional
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger – Daft Punk
Don’t look back in anger – Oasis
Am I wrong? – Love Spit Love
The District Sleeps Alone Tonight – The Postal Service
The kids don’t stand a chance – Vampire Weekend
Shout – Tears for fears
Make your own kind of music – Cass Elliot
We can work it out – Heather Nova
End it on this – No Doubt
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#296 Distasteful discord leaks onto the floor of the house (Podcast)
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Act 1: Sen. Coburn to weeping woman: Ask you’re neighbor – The Young Turks
Act 2: Appease the wrong people… – Countdown
Act 3: Coverage of the healthcare debate – Counterspin
Act 4: GOP confirms they’re totally unwilling to be reasonable – Rachel Maddow
Act 5: McCan’t and McShouldn’t – Slate.com
Act 6: Conservatives don’t use logic in making decisions – The Young Turks
Act 7: Prepping for the healthcare speech – Le Show
Act 8: “You’re a liar!” shouted in joint session of congress – NPR’s It’s All Politics
Act 9: Barbara Boxer on Obama’s healthcare speech – Rachel Maddow
Music:
Live like you’re dying – Lenka
Middle Man – Jack Johnson
Mrs. Robinson – Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Golden Brown – The Stranglers
Sleeping in – The Postal Service
I second that emotion – Diana Ross & The Supremes
The waiting – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
One Million Miles – J. Ralph
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#295 Playing games with the climate and cheating (Podcast)
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Act 1: Coal industry mail fraud – Rachel Maddow
Act 2: ‘Astroturf’ campaign fights climate bill – NPR
Act 3: A look at post-Katrina New Orleans – Le Show
Act 4: Surviving the storm: Voices from Katrina – NPR
Act 5: Bill McKibben from 350.org – Colbert Report
Act 6: News of the warm – Le Show
Act 7: Denver’s secret – Slate.com
Act 8: Jellyfish may help keep planet cool – NPR
Act 9: Face-lift: New ‘Faces of coal’ campaign – Rachel Maddow
Music:
Buildings and mountains – The Republic Tigers
Unforgiven – Apocalyptica
Help – Howie Day
I will survive – Cake
Favorite game – The Cardigans
Beds are burning – Midnight Oil
Blowing’ in the wind – Bob Dylan
Into the ocean – Blue October
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#282 Too racist to judge, not racist enough to be a Republican (Podcast)
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Act 1: Confirmation in 60 seconds – Slate.com
Act 2: Reviewing the confirmation hearings – On the Media
Act 3: Live coverage of hearings – Le Show
Act 4: Graham and Buchanan on Sotomayor – The Young Turks
Act 5: White men can’t judge – Daily Show
Act 6: GOP’s most ironic argument against Sotomayor – Rachel Maddow
Act 7: Did conservatives give more straightforward answers? – The Young Turks
Act 8: Lot’s o’ splainin’ to do! – Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me!
Act 9: Pat Buchanan can’t hide his racism – The Young Turks
Music:
Auto-tune the news #4 – YouTube
L.E.S. Artistes – Santigold
The end is not near – Band of Horses
San Antonio, TX – Frank Black & The Catholics
Don’t dream it’s over – Sixpence None The Richer
Young Hearts – Rod Stewart
Baby please don’t go – Van Morrison
Secret heart – Feist
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#274 Supreme Court debate starts nasty, gets worse (Podcast)
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Act 1: P.R. Move – Daily Show
Act 2: The Politics industry of the Supreme Court – On the Media
Act 3: Supreme Court Executioner to retire – The Onion
Act 4: Conservatives unhinged – The Young Turks
Act 5: Supreme Court Press – Colbert Report
Act 6: Sotomayor shaped by her ‘Nuyorican’ roots – NPR
Act 7: Some GOP fed up with childish attacks – Countdown
Act 8: Discussing the nomination with Jeffery Toobin – Colbert Report
Act 9: Originalism vs. ? – NPR
Act 10: Three strikes on the Supreme Court Debate – Rachel Maddow
Music:
It’s my life – No doubt
I’m on fire – Bruce Springsteen
Overkill – Colin Hay
How – Cranberries
Mexico – The Refreshments
Suerte – Shakira
You’re wrong – NOFX
Anthem, Pt.1 – Blink-182
Solid Ground – Dougie Maclean
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Bringing aid to the weakest among us
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Act 1: Holes in our socks – Slate
Act 2: Big finance and the Big 3 – Maron v Seder
Act 3: Ruining our children’s future – Ring of Fire
Act 4: Economic crisis traced to bounced check – The Onion
Act 5: Limbaugh discovers “unfairness” – Conceptual Guerilla
Act 6: Down go the newspapers – Daily Show
Act 7: Pentions for auto workers – Maron v Seder
Act 8: Christians pray for money to a false idol – The Young Turks
Act 9: The end of food – On the Media
Act 10: Being a leader is more than nice shoes – Unger Report
Music:
More and More – Capitan Hollywood Project
Super Mario Brothers 2 – Estradasphere
Nothing Better – The Postal Service
Keepsake – State Radio
Cry – James Blunt
Take it or leave it – The Strokes
Dance with me – Orleans
The Silvery Light of a Dream – The Apples in Stereo
Hungry like the wolf – Duran Duran
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A Bittersweet Victory
My girlfriend and I jumped up and down with joy when it became clear that Obama was going to be our next president. However the night was bittersweet for gays and lesbians across the US.
Finally, we democrats are not on the losing team. Not only did we win the presidency, but we won a majority in the house and senate! I was proud that Alan Grayson beat out Ric Keller for congress here in Orange county Florida.  Some of you may remember that the homophobic Keller had made it into office last election cycle with the help from Dick Cheney who raised $250,000 for the candidate.
But Alas those tears of joy turned into anger and frustration. From California to Florida and few states in-between the GLBT community was theoretically given the middle finger.
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World Peace! What’s wrong with that?
In an excerpt from “The Maternal is Political,” Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, makes a pleading case for world peace and an end to the war we are currently fighting, and losing (according to Speaker Pelosi). From her maternal point of view she argues the senselessness of the war and the unjustified destruction it leaves in families across the US and in the Middle East.
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New Boss Same as the Old Boss?
Act 1: Comments on Pelosi’s Speech – Randi Rhodes
Act 2: Pelosi’s Speech
Act 3: Ted Kennedy interview Part 1 – Ring of Fire
Act 4: First 100 hours complete – Randi Rhodes
Act 5: Ted Kennedy interview Part 2 – Ring of Fire
Act 6: A failed revolution – NYTimes
Act 7: Money Party vs. People Party – Ring of Fire
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