Just for a moment, [Stephen] Colbert brought a heavily sheltered President Bush face to face with the outrage and revulsion that large swathes of the American public feel for him and what he has done to our country. 
Stephen Colbert's performance was a deliberate act of     lese majeste. That means it was meant to pop the balloon of     protective ritual around Bush and let reality in, so we can     see him -- along with those in the press who have been     complicit with him -- for what he is. So now we have the sad spectacle of the media desperately     puffing air back into the popped balloon of the president's     dignity, pretending that nothing happened. The Bush impersonator was funnier! cry the pundits. Colbert bombed!   Well, they can sneer all they want about whether or not he slayed 'em in D.C. Out here in the reality-based community that increasingly encompasses the American electorate, Colbert hit his targets. And they will never look quite the same.

Next item: ive received so many letters from listeners containing this idea that its time to pass it on. Do with it what you will.
For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers.  It's really simple to do! Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL
UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.
THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

Next item: click is some sort of british news show. This article is a story by them, reported on bbc. In 2002, Gary McKinnon was arrested by the UK's national high-tech crime unit, after being accused of hacking into Nasa and the US military computer networks. He says he spent two years looking for photographic evidence of alien spacecraft and advanced power technology. America now wants to put him on trial, and if tried there he could face 60 years behind bars. Banned from using the internet, Gary spoke to Click presenter Spencer Kelly to tell his side of the story, ahead of his extradition hearing on Wednesday, 10 May. You can read what he had to say here. Spencer Kelly: Here's your list of charges: you hacked into the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Department of Defense, and Nasa, amongst other things. Why? Gary McKinnon: I was in search of suppressed technology, laughingly referred to as UFO technology. I think it's the biggest kept secret in the world, but it's a very important thing. Old-age pensioners can't pay their fuel bills, countries are invaded to award oil contracts to the West, and meanwhile secretive parts of the secret government are sitting on suppressed technology for free energy. SK: How did you go about trying to find the stuff you were looking for in Nasa, in the Department of Defense? GM: Unlike the press would have you believe, it wasn't very clever. I searched for blank passwords, I wrote a tiny Perl script that tied together other people's programs that search for blank passwords, so you could scan 65,000 machines in just over eight minutes. SK: So you're saying that you found computers which had a high-ranking status, administrator status, which hadn't had their passwords set - they were still set to default? GM: Yes, precisely. SK: Were you the only hacker to make it past the slightly lower-than-expected lines of defence? GM: firstly, there were no lines of defence. There was a permanent tenancy of foreign hackers. You could run a command when you were on the machine that showed connections from all over the world, check the IP address to see if it was another military base or whatever,. The General Accounting Office in America has again published another damning report saying that federal security is very, very poor.. Did you find what you were looking for? GM: Yes. SK: Tell us about it. GM: There was a group called the Disclosure Project. They published a book which had 400 expert witnesses ranging from civilian air traffic controllers, through military radar operators, right up to the chaps who were responsible for whether or not to launch nuclear missiles. They are some very credible, relied upon people, all saying yes, there is UFO technology, there's anti-gravity, there's free energy, and it's extra-terrestrial in origin, and we've captured spacecraft and reverse-engineered it. One of these people was a Nasa photographic expert, and she said that in building eight of Johnson Space Centre they regularly airbrushed out images of UFOs from the high-resolution satellite imaging. What she said was there was there: there were folders called "filtered" and "unfiltered", "processed" and "raw", something like that. I got one picture out of the folder, and bearing in mind this is a 56k dial-up, so a very slow internet connection, in dial-up days, using the remote control programme I turned the colour down to 4bit colour and the screen resolution really, really low, and even then the picture was still juddering as it came onto the screen. But what came on to the screen was amazing. It was a culmination of all my efforts. It was a picture of something that definitely wasn't man-made. It was above the Earth's hemisphere. It kind of looked like a satellite. It was cigar-shaped and had geodesic domes above, below, to the left, the right and both ends of it, and although it was a low-resolution picture it was very close up. This thing was hanging in space, the earth's hemisphere visible below it, and no rivets, no seams, none of the stuff associated with normal man-made manufacturing. SK: Is it possible this is an artist's impression? GM: I don't know... For me, it was more than a coincidence. This woman has said: "This is what happens, in this building, in this space centre". I went into that building, that space centre, and saw exactly that. SK: Do you have a copy of this? It came down to your machine. GM: No, the graphical remote viewer works frame by frame. It's a Java application, so there's nothing to save on your hard drive, or at least if it is, only one frame at a time. SK: So did you get the one frame? GM: No. SK: What happened? GM: Once I was cut off, my picture just disappeared. SK: You were actually cut off the time you were downloading the picture? GM: Yes, I saw the guy's hand move across.

My commnent: like so many items concerning ufo’s, this one tantalizes but doesn’t really feed me. The bit about going to the section the disclosure project nasa photo expert testified to and indeed finding a suspicious photo just where she said it would be is tantalizing indeed, but this guy searched the forbidden sites for 2 years and this is the best he came up with? That’s hard to believe. The other compelling bit is the fact that the us govt is bothering to extradite him for prosecution, and in doing so revealing the embarrassing fact that their secret computer sites are so easily hackable. Why do they allow this whole story to go public? So now ive read it to you and we still don’t have definite proof of anything. The disclosure project was fascinating, and old listnerers might recall me having dr Stephan greer on the show to talk about it, but even after several hundred very credible people testified from their own personal experience, the story never made mainstream, and until a ufo give haines ely and me a ride, I still don’t know for positive. I believe it, but id sure like more concrete proof. How bout you?

Next item: a local organization, hospitality house, serves the homeless amongst us. They are having a fund raiser. Now I know that amongst my listeners are some who vote republican, and who love our president. So its time for you to follow your president, who is cutting back on all social programs while exhorting you to support the poor on your own, cause he has other priorities. . Here is your chance. While your president says screw the poor, I need all of your tax dollars to steal oil from the middle east, you, while sitting in your comfortable homes gloating over your stock portfolios, can do something for our local people with out homes. You could give a donation to hospitality house.

Next item: Seems like mark stannert and I are having a conversation over the radio. His recent commentary on gas prices prompted my reply as follows: im not sure on this, but my understanding is that europeans pay much more for their petrol because their govts taxes them more heavily then ours does. i dont think the oil companies charge any more or less. the oil companies, true capitalists, do as you said. they charge everyone as much as they think they can get away with. to me the most interesting example of collusion and a smoking gun is the timing and how often the us refineries shut down for "repairs", "periodic maintenance", or jsut possibly because less refineries on line means less production and whoops we have to charge more because demand suddenly and mysteriously exceeds supply. europeans pay more at the pump simply because they are conditioned to pay those rates, and on a more subtle level, they recognize and accept that much of their high tax burden is returned to them in the social benefits that the american system conveniently avoids. Anyway, thats my take. Any listeners have info on why euros pay more at the pump? Is it simply higher taxes?

Next item: seems we are not the only nation sliding backwards toward fascism. Great Britain has had a centuries old tradition of public protests in front of their parliament build. Not any more. It seems parliament is so embarrassed by one mans continuing protest over brit govt lies that got them involved in the conquest of iraq, that they have just passed a law restricting public protests within a I mile radius of the parliament .bldg. of course you can protest, but only from a mile away. Got to shout pretty loud for us to hear you now, don’t cha? isn’t democracy,as practiced by the british and the American govts, simply wonderful?

Next item: I want to piggyback on a story read by tt hipp last mon morn. He reported that the Egyptian govt in its infinite capacity for stupidity, has decided to replace the mezzuins, the guys who climb up into the minarets at mosques 5 times per day to call the faithful to prayer. They plan to replace them with a recording broadcast from a central location. . Have the Egyptians never heard of computer failure ? Or electronic jamming by unfriendly forces? Can you imagine the pandemonium on the streets of cairo when, and I say not if but when, the faithful are waiting for a call that never comes, either because the technology screws up or because the Israelis or cia jams the signals? Imagine having the capacity to instantly create a riot on the streets of cairo, just by pressing a button. The pentagon and the mossad must be creaming in their pants. Further thought: I said Israelis or cia. At this point in history, im not sure there is any significant difference between the Israelis and the cia. They seem remarkably similar in both their methods and objectives. Its almost as if one controlled the other. Curious eh?