Tonight on “The David Goldstein Show”, 7PM to 10PM on News/Talk 710-KIRO:
7PM: The Stranger has a science writer?
A promising HIV vaccine trial based out of Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center goes awry, actually increasing some subjects’ chances of developing AIDS. Stranger science writer Jonathan Golob (yes, The Stranger actually has a science writer) takes a break from explaining hangovers and female orgasms to join me by phone to discuss the ramifications of this failed trial.
8PM: Saturday night comedy with Justin Rupple
We continue our experiment with live comedy as local comedian Justin Rupple joins us for the hour to give us his unique take on current events and the world around us.
9PM: TBA
The usual liberal propaganda.
Tune in tonight (or listen to the live stream) and give me a call: 1-877-710-KIRO (5476).
The Stranger actually has a science writer? I’m sure his/her credentials are as credible as those of the scientists on the Christian right.
Probably better. There are no scientists on the Christian right. The people on the Christian right are the kind that lynched Jesus in the first place.
Lefty scientist are good at one thing, if they predict something you know the opposite will happen. hehehehe
@3 Ok, Dipstick, Science isn’t political. Morons like you want to recreate the “Darkness at Noon” that reigned during Gallileo Gallilei’s time.
Wingnut scientists have no other goal than to try to prove the earth is 6000 years old. They always fail. hehehehehe
Tree Frog Farmer says:
@3 Ok, Dipstick, Science isn’t political. Morons like you want to recreate the “Darkness at Noon” that reigned during Gallileo Gallilei’s time.
11/25/2007 at 1:22 am
Moonbats have always made science political. We never experienced the coming ice age or the population explosion, global warming will be no different. Why people listen to you is beyond me.
For the 7 of 12 listeners still hanging on to your whine at the 9pm slot talk about how America hates Hillary Clinton and Co… “…But Crossing America reminded us that the most influential voices in the 2008 election – the most open contest since 1928 – are those in flyover country. Once the parties choose their candidates, these are the people – cynical and anxious, unimpressed and disillusioned – who still have to be persuaded.“ and the death it means for the dumbass liberals in 2008.
For the remaining 3 that haven’t commited suicide after hearing about Hillary in the 9pm slot you can then discuss the fact that the most open, most ethical Congress in history took another hit late last week when it was announced that the U.S. Justice Department is leveling new bribery accusations against embattled U.S. Representative William Jefferson, D-LA…. “The charges against Jefferson eclipse the legal troubles of former Republican Congressmen Randy “Duke” Cunningham, R-CA, Bob Ney, R-OH, and former Democrat Representative James Traficant, D-OH, all of whom are serving prison sentences on bribery and corruption charges.“.
If that doesn’t make the last 3 anxious and eager to off themselves move on to the story about how another of your crooks KY freshman Democrat, U.S. Representative John Yarmuth could be in violation of federal criminal statutes… and the death it means for the dumbass liberals in 2008.
“to discuss the ramifications of this failed trial”
Employment for lawyers! I love it! Another windfall for Democratic trial lawyers, who will use some of it to support liberal candidates and causes.
Hey Goldy, instead of using the 9 PM slot for liberal propaganda, why not devote that time to telling America the truth about how badly Bush is fucking up the economy? Follow the falling dollar; the devaluing dollar is the key to understanding how Bush has turned America into an economic has-been.
The Bush Economy: An American Catastrophe
Executive summary: Bush has fucked up the U.S. economy for the rest of your life.
This article is from the current issue of Vanity Fair, and is written by Joseph Stiglitz, who has a Ph.D. from MIT, is Professor of Economics at Columbia University, has also taught at Yale, Duke, Stanford, Princeton, and Oxford, is a Fulbright Fellow, chaired the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and won the Nobel Prize. In other words, he knows more about economics than Mark the Welsher, Puddybutt, and Crackpiper put together.
“When we look back someday at the catastrophe that was the Bush administration, we will think of many things: the tragedy of the Iraq war, the shame of Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, the erosion of civil liberties. The damage done to the American economy does not make front-page headlines every day, but the repercussions will be felt beyond the lifetime of anyone reading this page. …
“The economic effects of Bush’s presidency are more insidious than those of [Herbert] Hoover, harder to reverse, and likely to be longer-lasting … our grandchildren will still be living with, and struggling with, the economic consequences of Mr. Bush. …
“The first major economic initiative pursued by the president was a massive tax cut for the rich, enacted in June of 2001 … compounded by a second tax cut, in 2003 … skewed even more heavily toward the rich. … In breathtaking disregard for the most basic rules of fiscal propriety, the administration continued to cut taxes even as it undertook expensive new spending programs and embarked on a financially ruinous ‘war of choice’ in Iraq. …
“You’ll still hear some — and, loudly, the president himself — argue that the administration’s tax cuts were meant to stimulate the economy, but this was never true. The bang for the buck — the amount of stimulus per dollar of deficit — was astonishingly low. Therefore, the job of economic stimulation fell to the Federal Reserve Board, which stepped on the accelerator in a historically unprecedented way, driving interest rates down to 1 percent. … The predictable result was a consumer spending spree. …
“All of this spending made the economy look better for a while; the president could (and did) boast about the economic statistics. … The president undoubtedly hoped the reckoning would come sometime after 2008. It arrived 18 months early. …
“The war in Iraq … has cost the country dearly in blood and treasure. … The official numbers do not include … relevant expenditures hidden in the defense budget, such as the soaring costs of recruitment, [or] … the lifetime of disability and health-care benefits that will be required by tens of thousands of wounded veterans … [or] the cost of the equipment that has been used in the war … that will have to be replaced. If you also take into account the costs to the economy from higher oil prices and the knock-on effects of the war — for instance, the depressing domino effect that war-fueled uncertainty has on investment … — the total costs of the Iraq war mount … to at least $2 trillion … so far. …
“It is natural to wonder, What would this money have bought if we had spent it on other things? … The president made a big deal out of the financial problems facing Social Security, but the system could have been repaired for a century with what we have bled into the sands of Iraq. Had even a fraction of that $2 trillion been spent on investments in education and technology, or improving our infrastructure, the country would be in a far better position economically to meet the challenges it faces in the future …. For a sliver of that $2 trillion we could have provided guaranteed access to higher education for all qualified Americans.
“The soaring price of oil is clearly related to the Iraq war. … It seems unbelievable now to recall that Bush-administration officials … suggested not only that Iraq’s oil revenues would pay for the war in its entirety … but also that war was the best way to ensure low oil prices. …
“The continuing reliance on oil, regardless of price, points to one more administration legacy: the failure to diversify America’s energy resources. … [T]he administration has pursued a policy of ‘drain America first’ — that is, take as much oil out of America as possible, and as quickly as possible, … leaving the country even more dependent on foreign oil in the future ….
“America’s budget and trade deficits have grown to record highs under President Bush. … During the past six years, America — its government, its families, the country as a whole — has been borrowing to sustain its consumption. Meanwhile, investment in fixed assets — the plants and equipment that help increase our wealth — has been declining.
“What’s the impact of all this down the road? The growth rate in America’s standard of living will almost certainly slow, and there could even be a decline. … As confidence in the American economy has plummeted, so has the value of the dollar — by 40 percent against the euro since 2001.
“The disarray in our economic policies at home has parallels in our economic policies abroad. … Not surprisingly, protests over U.S. trade practices erupted … [b]ut America has refused to compromise …. This intransigence led to the collapse of talks designed to open up international markets. As in so many other areas, President Bush worked to undermine multilateralism … and to replace it with an America-dominated system. In the end, he failed to impose American dominance — but did succeed in weakening cooperation. …
“Globalization means that America’s economy and the rest of the world have become increasingly interwoven. Consider those bad American mortgages. … The originators of these problem mortgages had already sold them to others, who packaged them, in a non-transparent way, with other assets, and passed them on once again to unidentified others. When the problems became apparent, … it was discovered that billions in bad mortgages were hidden in portfolios in Europe, China, and Australia, and even in star American investment banks … global risk premiums soared, and investors pulled money out of … emerging markets, looking for safer havens. It will take years to sort out this mess.
“Meanwhile, we have become dependent on other nations for the financing of our own debt. … Cumulative borrowing from abroad during the six years of the Bush administration amounts to some $5 trillion. … [T]he Bush administration’s fiscal housekeeping has eroded our economic authority. …
“Whoever moves into the White House in January 2009 will face an unenviable set of economic circumstances. … [P]utting America’s economic house in order will be wrenching and take years. The most immediate challenge will be simply to get the economy’s metabolism back into the normal range. That will mean moving from a savings rate of zero (or less) to a more typical savings rate of, say, 4 percent. … Money saved is money not spent. … If households curtail their spending quickly … this could mean a recession; if done in a more measured way, it would still mean a protracted slowdown. The problems of foreclosure and bankruptcy posed by excessive household debt are likely to get worse …. And the federal government is in a bind: any quick restoration of fiscal sanity will only aggravate both problems.
“Think of the interest we are paying … on the almost $4 trillion of increased debt burden — even at 5 percent, that’s an annual payment of $200 billion, two Iraq wars a year forever. Think of the taxes that future governments will have to levy to repay even a fraction of the debt we have accumulated. And think of the widening divide between rich and poor in America, a phenomenon that goes beyond economics and speaks to the very future of the American Dream. In short, there’s a momentum here that will require a generation to reverse.”
Quoted under fair use; for complete article and/or copyright info see http://www.vanityfair.com/poli tics/features/2007/12/bush2007 12
@7 You know what’s funny about your spew? Americans DO dislike Hillary! Even very few Democrats like her. But you know what? She is going to thrash the GOP nominee. That’s how radioactive the Republicans are.
@8 When dozens of Republican congressmen were involved in corruption, the GOP leadership covered it up, blocked investigations, and interfered with prosecutors.
When Rep. Jefferson got caught, the Democratic leadership stripped him of his committee posts — the maximum discipline they could impose. (They couldn’t expel him from the House, because the GOP controlled the House, and the GOP leadership didn’t see fit to expel him.)
That’s the difference between our party and your party.
In 2006, voters across America repudiated the Republican Culture of Corruption. Dozens of GOP congressmen and senators were defeated, while not a single Democrat lost his seat in Congress.
In 2008, America’s voters are going to repudiate the GOP’s entire criminal enterprise.
The Bush presidency will go down in history as the most corrupt era in America’s whole history.
When Rep. Jefferson got caught, the Democratic leadership stripped him of his committee posts — the maximum discipline they could impose. (They couldn’t expel him from the House, because the GOP controlled the House, and the GOP leadership didn’t see fit to expel him.)
That’s the difference between our party and your party.
BULL FUCKING SHIT.
you fucking bastards lie, protect, desseminate (and cover for the fucking intern semenator)… WE demand ours resign, not their committees, their fucking seat.
Roger Rabbit says:
The Bush presidency will go down in history as the most corrupt era in America’s whole history.
11/25/2007 at 2:03 pm
Dems think by repeating this lie it will become fact. The fact is that no one comes close to the corrupt Clinton administration. Here is just a tidbit of the known corruption:
Admited Perjury
White Water
Travel Gate
China Gate
Rose Law firm billing record
Trooper Gate
Monica Lewinski
Vince Foster
Juanita Brodrick-RAPE
Paula Jones
Lincoln Bedroom Gate
FBI file gate
Pardons for donations
Vandal Gate-Trashing of White house when leaving
And this is one guy and I can name more.