Oct 2 commentary.

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1^st item: Im starting to receive emails with this notice at bottom. NOTICE:  Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice. They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You have no recourse nor protection save to call for the impeachment of the current President. -- www.campdemocracy.org

next item: file this under "why politics is such entertaining stuff": mark foley is a republican congressman from florida who is chair of a quite important committee and has just resigned when it was discovered that he had been sending emails to an under aged page to solicit sex from said youth. The committee he chaired? Im glad you asked. The house caucus concerned with the exploitation of children. You know you just cant make this stuff up. That’s right. The guy chairs the republican house of representatives caucus against exploitation of children and he is caught exploiting children. Or perhaps he didn’t consider soliticing sex from an underaged boy to be exploitation of children. If so, it sort of makes you wonder what this guys definition of exploitation is, does it not? Then there is the question of how he got chosen for his position as chair of that committee? . welll, perhaps we shouldn’t ask. . Well since I wrote this, things got even more entertaining. First, in a brilliant political ploy, it was announced that the dear congressman had a drinking problem and was entering alcohol rehab. As if his alleged drinking problem explains his behavior, and his entering rehab solves the problem and everything will be nicey nice, and we can move onto other matters, such as how much money king geo is raising for his faithful calif boys Richard Pombo and john Doolittle. If I was an alcoholic I would be insulted to be linked with foley. There is a great benefit to republicans in foley being in rehab. He is unavailable to be interviewed. Whats the bet that he will be conveniently in rehab and unavailable for interviews until after the nov election? But it gets better still. The spin as of tues was that poor foley had been molested as a teenager, by a, gasp, clergyman no less, the implication being of course that that experience made him gay and resulted in his less than exemplary behavior. If alcohol wont work as an excuse, lets try his being a victim. Maybe that one will fly. And the next shoe to drop was the revelation that speaker of the house dennis hasstert had knowledge of these incriminating emails over a year ago and did….. and did…., you got it. He did nothing. Hasstert at first claimed that he only learned about foleys indescritions when the story came out last week. Only 2 problems. 2 different republican congressmen essentially called hasstert a lier by stating they each had seperatly told hem much earlier. Hasstert then changed his story and admitted he might have been told, but get this, he forgot. Right. You are speaker of the house and your informed that one of your guys is sending very sexually explicit emails to underaged males, and you forgot? That’s got to be the funniest story to come out of wash dc since geo bushs latest attempt at extemporaneous speaking. There is more. Lastest news this morn is that hasstert didn’t exactly do nothing. travus t hipp reported this morn that after hasstert got the news, months back, He met with several other gop leaders and arranged for $100,000 to be donated the fla gop committee. And then everyone did nothing. Now that’s inspiring leadership. Govt by the bush crowd, you got to love it. Like I said before, you cant make this stuff up. If you saw this sleazy scenario in a movie youd throw your popcorn box at the screen and walk out. Too unbelievable.

Next item: all regular listeners must guess by now that im a loyal republican and so it should come as no surprise that im getting really worried we might lose control of the legislative branch of govt in the nov election,. What with this messy foley scandal, the continuing revelations of jolly jack abramahof and his amusing habit of bribing our esteemed legislators, the news continually leaking out about the on going disaster of our folly in iraq, military men beginning to publicaly question the leadership of king geo and his boy Donnie rumsfeld, and now a leading republican, I think it was tom delay, first flying off to Afghanistan and then flying off at the mouth by stating what any sensible person has known for months. That being that our war there with the Taliban is un winnable. Not just going badly, but un winnable . And that’s from a republican leader. It seems that since he has decided not to run for re election, he finds himself finally free to tell the truth. So as a loyal republican, Im really worried that we haven’t purged enuff democrats from voter rolls, and don’t have sufficient secretly programmable electronic voting machines in place to steal this election. I mean lets face it, fellow republicans, Having to contest a fair election in nov could just spoil our whole next two years

Next itme: a listner sent this in off of the free market news network: Here’s their article which they labeled "high alert". A faithful reader and commentator, "A. Magnus" writes the following email, posted to FMNN General Feedback: "Do you like October surprises? Is there a big bang coming to hit the markets? If you believe that those in the know use insider information before major events then you might be interested on the HUGE number of October 6th put options for the big indexes. Check out the concentrated puts on the Diamonds DOW Trust (DIA): he then lists links to several sources. Even the Market Vectors Gold Miners has significant puts for October 6th: he then lists that link. Make no mistake - something wicked is coming this way, and the smart money has already taken preventative steps.". that’s from free market news network. Not exactly a liberal publication. Hum. Does that mean that rabble rousing is not a liberal mouthpiece? That Kvmr is not the bastion of liberal thinking that some like to believe? Labels, labels. A convenient way to marginalize and avoid critical thinking.

Next item: kvmr has lately been replaying steve bakers live interview with your elected congressional rep Doolittle and I just love the part where baker asks big john about his ties with disgraced lobbyist jack abramoff, and Doolittle explains that abramahof couldn’t be the bad guy he is portrayed to be because, get this, abramahof is a devout orthodox jew. Now if that’s not playing the religious card I don’t know what is. Yeah, that abramahof. Hes a scoundrel, but hes a devout religious scoundrel. I found doolittles non replies to bakers other questions to be fascinating. You listen and then decide for yourself. While we are on the subject, in this nov election, charlie brown is challenging Doolittle for his 4^th district congressional seat. Several months ago brown challenged Doolittle to a series of debates, so the public could get perspective on where each stood on various issues. Doolittle, being a consummate politician, took the politically correct stance by agreeing to the debates and then took the politically expedient tactic of refusing to actually debate while avoiding even mentioning the subject. Id like to report that Doolittle has finally agreed to a time and place to debate charlie brown. I like to, but I cant, because to date, Doolittle continues to avoid debating charlie brown. Doolittle has time to appear with king geo in el dorado hills to raise still more money for his war chest, but he doesn’t have time to publicly debate his opponent charlie brown so the voters can make an informed choice. Whats up cong Doolittle? Why are you afraid to debate charlie brown? The voters might remember that come this nov.

next item: a listener writes: Sometime when you've got an hour, turn off Survivor and the ER reruns, pour some coffee or wine, and let Mr. Morgan Reynolds refresh your education. Who is Morgan Reynolds, PhD – Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Labor under George W. Bush 2001-2002.  Former Director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis.  Professor Emeritus, Economics, Texas A&M University. In this 57 min video, He speaks at length about his experience in the Bush administration, his studied conclusion that 9-11 was an inside job, the history of other black ops in America, and what we can and should do to take our country back from this "rogue network" of neo-Nazi jackals. I think his assertion that the attack on Iran may unfold after some kind of provoked or staged Gulf of Tonkin incident is dead on, as is his observation that "the inert American public doesn't want to look in the closet--there might be a monster there." Exactly--and that is why the jackals are confident they can keep getting away with these deadly end runs around the Constitution, from JFK through Iran-Contra to 9-11. This time, though, they may have gone too far. The video is 57 minutes long : link is to complicated to read on air. It will be on my website. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8180123292618944278

next item: along with all the bad news, there is occasional good news. its just that mainstream media choses not to feature it. If you are a medical marijuana patient here is some good news: Drug Policy Alliance Wins Fight on Medical Marijuana Expenses in California. DPA's Office of Legal Affairs achieved a victory for California patients this week after a protracted legal battle. As a result of a court decision
on September 25, indigent medical marijuana patients in California who receive public assistance benefits through the Department of Health Services may qualify for reimbursement of the cost of their medicine.
The decision, written on behalf of the (DHS), made clear that DHS policy is to permit reimbursement of medical marijuana claims for patients who receive public assistance from that agency. DHS's administrative court also made clear that federal marijuana laws do not prevent the state agency from honoring California's medical marijuana law and enforcing department policy.
This means that medical marijuana patients receiving public assistance benefits through DHS may qualify for reimbursement of reasonable, documented expenses incurred in obtaining their physician-recommended marijuana.