Open Thread: C&L's Saturday Night Podcast Round
Up

post from Crooks and Liars on 26 May 2012 11:30:41 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Happy Saturday night, folks! It's Blue Gal from The Professional Left Podcast, bringing you this week's podcast round up. Be aware that these podcasts are also available on i-Tunes, and may not be safe for work.

Citizen Action of Wisconsin: How the Walker Recall Can Win

Throwing Shade: The many ways Mississippi continues to make things harder for women and gays.

The Tim Corrimal Show: Is That a Bill in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Glad To See Me?

The Matt Filipowicz Show: Ed Yohnka from the ACLU of Illinois on what was missing from the media coverage of the NATO protests.

Open thread below....

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Texas Progessive Alliance Round-upThe Work Of
Freedom Is Up To Each Of Us

post from Texas Liberal on 26 May 2012 11:12:14 PM. © Texas Liberal

Here is the weekly posting of the Texas Progressive Alliance round-up. The TPA is a confederation of the best political bloggers in Texas. TPA members are citizen-bloggers working for a better Texas. Every Texan and every American has the ability to attend a public meeting, attend or organize a protest, write or call an elected official, [...]

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he-work-of-freedom-is-up-to-each-of-us/

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The LiberalOasis Radio Show: Switchblade 327
Edition

post from LiberalOasis : The Blog on 26 May 2012 11:00:53 PM. © LiberalOasis : The Blog

Mitt Romney pledges to create as many as jobs as economists estimate we'll create without him. Chris Christie embodies the Republican Party's defining trait: hypocrisy. Plus, a new Stabby Five theme song!

You can download the podcast at these links: (iTunes / XML feed / MP3).

Or you can simply listen below.

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Late Night: Debussy The Beauty of a Work of Art
Cannot Exist Without Mystery

post from Firedoglake on 26 May 2012 11:00:51 PM. © Firedoglake

One hundred years ago this month, Claude Debussy wrote an article for Etude Magazine titled "Musical Taste in Modern Times". "The sense for the mysterious is gradually disappearing in these days in consequence of the irrepressible desire to prove[...]

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C&L's Late Night Music Club With The Who

post from Crooks and Liars on 26 May 2012 11:00:00 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Title: Armenia City In The Sky Artist: The Who

Happy long weekend Saturday. How many songs can you come up with about the sky?

And our sister site Newstalgia has music from 1965, The Steampacket, with some musicians you might have heard of. :D

Armenia City In The Sky

Price: $0.99 (As of 05/26/12 04:06 pm details)

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Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt: Why You
Shouldnt Boycott North Carolina

post from Firedoglake on 26 May 2012 10:00:27 PM. © Firedoglake

The Mayor of Chapel Hill, Mark Kleinschmidt (who is openly gay), was confident that his town would turn back Amendment One on May 8. It did, by a whopping 86 percent to 14 percent, but he watched as we all did here as county after rural county results[...]

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Say it loud: I'm black and blue and I'm proud

post from field negro on 26 May 2012 10:00:18 PM. © field negro

How would you like to be one of those Melungeons today? For generations you did everything to claim you were not black (despite a skin tone that said otherwise) and now you find out that you actually came from those Negroes after all, due to a little "Jungle Fever" type freakiness that went on back in the day.

You even tried to say that you wee Portuguese for crying out loud! (BTW, the Portuguese can't escape their black roots, either) I suspect that there are clans all over America with similar stories, but they dare not tell it for fear of losing their white card. The poor Melungeons, unlike the rest of you, have been exposed. And, from the looks of things, they are not too pleased about it.

?There were a whole lot of people upset by this study,? lead researcher Roberta Estes said. ?They just knew they were Portuguese or Native American.?

Yes, this black thing is not a good look if after living a certain Deliverance type existence all of your life your whiteness is all you have to hold on to. I suspect that many Americans read this story and were digging up the old family albums. "Is this Grandpa Joe? Dad,why did you tell me that he got that tan from spending a lot of time at the beach when he never left Nashville?" America, it might be time to have that conversation, or at least Google Ancestory.com.

Anyway, as bad as these Melungeons are feeling today, they can't feel as bad as the blue people from Kentucky. (No Smurf jokes, please!) How do they explain their background? The Melungeons hid behind the Portuguese and Native American card. What can the blue people claim? I mean, they are blue.

Although it seems that there might be a legitimate explanation for the blue people: They were unfortunate victims of a medical disorder. (Not to mention a little inbreeding) A disorder which left their skins blue. The Melungeons cannot claim such a medical background. There are no genetic disorders to fall back on. Physically, they are just fine. Now mentally, on the other hand.....

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Bill Maher Takes a Shot at the Birthers With
Parody on Romney's 'Wiferism' Scandal

post from Crooks and Liars on 26 May 2012 09:30:53 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Bill Maher Takes a Shot at the Birthers With Parody on Romney's 'Wiferism' Scandal

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Bill Maher did his best with this parody on Mitt Romney's Mormon church and their history of polygamy to take a shot at the crazy Republican birthers who were still out there this week pretending they are not fully aware that President Obama is a citizen of the United States.

All I can say is turnaround is fair play and if anyone deserves the amount of scorn they were given here by Maher, it's the birthers.

MAHER: The media can keep giving this story oxygen, but I think they're neglecting a much bigger scandal, which is wiferism. Mitt Romney comes from a Mormon background. I don't know how many wives he has. I'm not saying I believe in that. I just say he was born in a Mormon compound, I'm not a wifer, but for some reason he has never shown his original marriage certificate and we'd like to show it to you now.
Now I'm getting a lot of my information, I must say from a book called Me So Romney, the Secret Love Life of the World's Horniest Mormom. Again, I'm not a wifer, I'm just saying that he has the blood of a nomadic polygamist tribesman, and I think that has shaped his world view.
Now this is a copy of Mitt Romney's marriage license. I specifically asked for the original. I even offered to go to the Romney house and take it out of Ann Romney's wedding scrap book, but for some reason they frowned upon that idea and instead sent me this obvious photocopy, and isn't it a little weird that they chose to only send the short form license?

And why next to Ann Romney does it say spouse and not only spouse? I'm just asking the hard questions that the lame stream media won't ask about Mitt's unholy harem of obedient sister-wives, which I really hope I'm wrong about.
But, now look at this. This I'm told is the Romney tooth brush holder. And think about that strained look on Mitt's face. That's the look of a man who has not been able to get into the bathroom since 1988.
Plus, how is it that Ann and Mitt Romney have five kids and they're all thirty years old? And here, what is Mitt pointing to in this picture? The Olympic symbol. What is it? Five rings and what else has five rings? Five wives.
And why did Mitt Romney strap his dog to the roof of his car? Could it have been because the station wagon was full of wives? I'm not saying I believe this wifer stuff. I take Mitt Romney at his word. But how do you explain this video?

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Egyptian Elections Could Lead to Mubaraks Former
Prime Minister in Runoff

Official results in the historic Egyptian Presidential elections will not be revealed until Monday. But based on early returns and exit polls, it looks increasingly like a runoff will ensue, with the choice coming down to a member of the Muslim[...]

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Sweden's Loreen wins Eurovision song contest

Sweden's Loreen just won the Eurovision song contest. This was her semi-final performance, "Euphoria."I've never understood dance music, or I think that's what it's called. The way some people feel about disco, I feel about dance. So much of it sounds the same - same sound, and not a very complicated one at that. I have similar feelings about rap. I've always been into rock,...