I saw a bumper sticker in a car window today.

It was one with the American flag and the words “These Colors Don’t Run”. The sticker was so old that the colors were faded to white.

The revelations of the minutes of Dick Cheney’s Energy Meetings would have been an anti-climax. I say this on the heels of the court decision to proffer up Closed Government. To figure out who he met with, it’s pretty much a matter of looking at who the Energy Bill, and any Bush-Administration legislation dealing with Energy matters, benefits and who pumped money into Bush-Cheney. The corporate coffers write the laws. We all know that. (We also know, thanks to documents uncovered by the Principaled Conservative Outfit Judicial Watch, that they were looking at maps of Iraqi Oil Fields.)

But, to make lemonade out of our Closed Government, I say everyone oughta speculate to the nth degree on the most outrageous of scandal mongering. Who did Dick Cheney meet with? Forget Enron officials and Saudi Princes. Dick Cheney met with Osama Bin Laden to flesh out the final stages of 9/11. Also at the meeting was Saddam Hussein, to go over the plans of the American Invasion and Saddam’s theatrical disappearance, and uncovering in a hole 9 months later (part one of the real goal: Iran.) Also meeting with Dick Cheney was Dick Clarke, for reasons that elude me but will likely be uncovered as time goes by.

There you go. Closed Governments must serve some purpose.

Zell Miller heralds from rural Georgia. It’s a big part of his political identity. His 1992 Democratic Convention keynote speech speaks to his Appalachian upbringing. His book A National Party No More is full of lombasts against “liberal elitists” who look down their nose at the rural South. He has attacked various items of popular culture: the Snuffy Sniff comic strip and the reality tv version of “The Beverly HillBillies”.

Comments made by Neal Horsley recently:

AC: “You had sex with animals?”

NH: It has historically been the case. You people are so far removed from the reality… Welcome to domestic life on the farm…”

Would someone please get me a response from Mr. Miller?

Just a thought:

The real danger with the new chairman of Kenneth Tomlinson (and subsequent hiring of a Republican Party hack to weed out “liberal bias”), the old Reader’s Digest president, isn’t so much his affect on the news content — Frontline, NOW with that guy who replaced Bill Moyers — but with Masterpiece Theater.

Can you imagine all these adaptation of Reader’s Digest “Abridged Versions” of classic literature that will be floated around? Yeeesh.

Yes. The East Waynesville Baptist Church in North Carolina needs to lose their tax-exempt status RIGHT NOW.

Statement of Incredulity found here:

Chandler could not be reached for comment today, but says his actions weren’t politically motivated.

A former church treasurer says she’s at church to worship God and not the preacher.

UPDATE: Sometimes message boards and Internet blogs get the story out first and in a more relevant fashion. This is the case with this story. Tales from the bog found here. (Relevant video: here.

My general impression with a debate over Syndication over Network Radio in regards to “liberal radio” is simply this: you needed a whole block of programming in order to get a basically new format on the air. Thus, at least at the start, you needed a network.

The syndicated Ed Schultz needs Air America at the moment for the simple fact that he needs programming to bump up against. (You could probably toss his show, and for that matter a number of “Air America programs” into a basic right-wing talk station here and there, but you probably can’t have it that way everywhere.)

Whether any of this succeeds or not, I can’t tell you. I imagine local programmers shortly being able to drop in these local home-brewed talk radio hosts from the “Democracy Radio” somewhere before Franken or after Randi Rhodes. Or at least that option would help that syndicate succeed.

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In other radio news, I get the feeling that Portland’s 970 AM is being transformed into a transported 910 AM:

Consider:

OK..Let’s get right to the radio news, since that’s what’s on the minds of many at the moment. Tom Leykis makes it official.

These are ALL the changes at the moment.

Note while you are at it that the Phil Hendrie sight no longer has the time of his re-appearance in Portland as being at 9:00 pm, suggesting that the block of Tom Leykis to Phil Hendrie from 3 pm to 10 pm remains in tack.

Notice this comment as well:

i just got an email from 970’s P.D here is his response:

Thanks for the input. I’m hoping to meet with Rick and discuss the possibilities with 970am.

The signs are there. All you need now is to throw Clyde Lewis in as a package deal, and we’re all set.

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One last bit of curiosity. (And here’s the link to my odder blog.)

Tony Blair and the Labour Party: 100 fewer seats. Tony Blair gave a concillatory speech, more or less acknowledging his unpopularity amongst the British public.

The Conservative / Tory Party: Still considered a joke, nobody thought Howard and company had a chance in this election, looking ahead to post-Blair disappointment where they may not be able to compete against Blair’s successor — Gordon Brown.

The Liberal Democrat Party: Hoped to gain a number of seats from disaffected Labour voters, picked up a fairly minor and disappointing number.

That weird Scottish Party: I haven’t seen the results, but I imagine the C-SPAN coverage of the “Prime Minister Answers Questions” will still show this odd character or two lobbying Blair for the glory of Scotland… everyone else in the room rolling their eyes.

Congratulations to everyone! You all lost!

And that’s what Democratic Elections are all about: determining winners through attrition rates.