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Well this is one of those items passed on by a listener. I don’t have a cell phone so Im not sure if this is accurate, but for those of you with cell phones. It might be important. ., all cell phone numbers are soon being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sale calls. .YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS.... To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: 888-382-1222. It is the National DO NOT CALL list. It blocks your number for five (5) years.

Next item article by Mark Crispin Miller titled 'My advice for this year's elections'
Alright, let's pretend, just for the sake of argument, that the Repubs are right, as are most Democrats and the media, when they insist that the election was legitimate. Fine.
We're going to give them one more chance to hold elections that are credible. We're going to throw ourselves into this next election, getting out as many voters as we can.
The turn-out will be huge, especially by the standard of off-year elections. Americans will come out to vote, in part, as a way to take a stand on behalf of free and fair elections.
No early voting, and as little absentee voting as possible. The point here is to have a massive turn-out on Election Day.
We'll not only work to boost the turn-out, but we also plan to monitor this thing with an unprecedented thoroughness. We're going to watch the polls, and watch them count the votes. We're going to keep track of every wrong or merely screwy incident, every startling trend, every weird anomaly. We're also going to pay close heed to all the relevant statistics: newspaper polls, independent exit polls (we cannot trust the NEP) and so on.
And so, when the Repubs win yet again, surprisingly maintaining their control of Congress, notwithstanding their subterranean approval ratings, we will be prepared to note all the anomalies and improprieties -- and, at long last, to SAY NO. As this will have been the fourth election cycle ravaged by Bush/Cheney since 2000, Americans must finally go Ukrainian, and just refuse to acknowledge BushCo's latest "win."
Where that may take us I can't say. But it is something that, it seems to me, we have to do, or else we don't deserve to call ourselves the citizens of a republic.

Next item: I may catch some flack for this one but someone has to say it so it might as well be me. Please keep firmly in mind that my opinions are my own and don’t necessarily reflect the views of anyone else at kvmr, neither management, staff, other broadcasters or contributors. this mornings kvmr news featured yesterdays board of supervisors meeting which honored local war casualty noah bailey. I found the reportage very disturbing, especially the grandstanding of our local politicians. Point #1, noah bailey is a not a war hero, he is a war casualty. He is a tragic victim of our invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and iraq. Don’t get me wrong. His loss of limb is tragic, not only because he will go the rest of his life without something god gave to all of us, but tragic because his sacrifice was so pointless. Question: Are we as individuals or as a nation any more secure because of noah baileys sacrifice? If so, show me the evidence. There is ample evidence that the world is less secure not more so as result of American govt folly in the middle east. Saddam husain was a nasty dictator, but he and his govt had absolutely nothing to do with 911 nor did he train or export terrorists to foreign lands. He was zero threat to the united states and to speak or imply otherwise is simply to distort reality. We invaded his country and overthru him because he wouldn’t let us control his oil. if his country didn’t have oil, he would still be in power, still mistreating his people and we wouldn’t care one bit. The same is true for Afghanistan and our invasion and overthrow of the Taliban. If we didn’t want to build an oil pipeline thru their country we couldn’t care less how the Taliban treated their people. Both osuma bin lauden and the Taliban who sheltered him claimed they had no involvement in 911 when they would have benefited greatly by claiming credit. Spreading democracy my tail feathers. We want their oil. no oil, no interest. end of story. To glorify sending our children, friends, neighbors, loved ones half way round the world to invade sovereign nations so we can steal their oil is so misguided it borders on the obscene. Then when the invaded citizens retaliate in the only fashion available to them and mine their roads and one of our invading military vehicles gets blown up, and one of our loved ones loses a limb, that to me is not bravery, its folly. I always thought that bravery in combat entailed action above and beyond the call of duty. This young man signed up to go to war, a lying president sent him off to war under false pretenses, and he returns missing a limb. I have read nothing that indicates that he did anything more heroic than to be riding in a military vehicle that was in the wrong place at the wrong time. To pretend that this one soldiers actions were somehow glorious, brave, action above and beyond the call to duty casts discredit upon all our military veterans who did act above and beyond their calls of duty. If I were a combat vet I would be furious at politicians using this personal tragedy to grandstand with emotional catches in their voices about his noble sacrifice, rather than use their position of power and leadership to question why in hell he was over there in the first place, and then to do all in their power to bring all his fellow soldiers home and out of danger. True leadership would be to work to prevent more of our young men and women becoming victims of king georges oil wars, not to continue to pretend their sacrifice was for some noble cause. Invading another country in order to steal or control their natural resources is not a noble cause. It is despicable. In my opinion, this invasion and occupation of iraq is insane, and for our politicians to pretend otherwise is perpetuating the madness. The exact same is true for or invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. I have great empathy for noah bailey and his family, and am ashamed of our local politicians for using his tragedy to somehow justify, glorify and continue the folly that caused his loss. Next item: it seems that Russian strong man Vladimir putin was recently photographed lifting the shirt of a child and kissing his stomach. Some journalists later questioned whether putin was demonstrating pedophile tendencies. Not so says my local Russian émigré friend. He points out that Russians are physically demonstrative and to any Russian it was a perfectly harmless gesture. So that’s our Russian culture lesson for today. Don’t say you never learn nothing listening to rabble rousing.

Next item: local politics just may rise a bit higher on the boredom scale . this morns gv union reports that Rep. John Doolittle accepted on Tuesday challenger Charlie Brown's challenge to a debate, or a series of debates as brown had proposed. , although Doolittle's spokesperson said the event will wait until closer to the Nov. 7 election. It remains to be seen if these proposed debates will actually happen, as doolitle is a master politician and has little to gain and a lot to loose by face to face confrontation with his challenger, but at least Charlie brown finally got his picture in the paper, along of course with the obligatory photo of big john. Stay tuned to this one. Could get interesting.