Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 42 (64 Kbps .mp3 14:01 6.7 Mb)
A daily roundup of things that seemed important.
My Spidey-Sense ain't tingling.
IT’S POOR MOJO’S NEWS SHOW! FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY SIXTH, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN
A DAILY ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT .
A PROGRAM NOTE...THERE WAS NO PROGRAM YESTERDAY. MY APOLOGIES TO REGULAR LISTENERS, WHOM I THANK FOR THEIR PATRONAGE. I JUST HAD TO WATCH MY HOMIES, THE CHICAGO BEARS, GET DESERVEDLY BEATEN BY THE COLTS. SUDDENLY, IT WAS AFTER MIDNIGHT AND THERE WAS NO PODCAST SCRIPT.
BUT I CAN, HAPPILY, REPORT THE ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW'S FAN MAIL NOT WRITTEN BY A STAFF MEMBER! REGARDING THURSDAY'S STORY ABOUT BOSTON OFFICIALS LOSING BLADDER CONTROL AT THE SIGHT OF FLASHING MOONINITES, Julia Lunetta writes: Just FYI to Alan Benard... the MA governor's first name is pronounced "Deh-VOLL", not "devil". :) SMILEY-FACE EMOTICON. Props on the site, on the news show, and all else that the Giant Squid allows you to produce.
SIGNED, JULIA, a Boston resident who thinks there needs to be a regular "popular culture" refresher course for Boston police.
SEE, THIS IS WHY GOD MADE ME AN IMPERFECT SCREW-UP -- SO THAT NICE PEOPLE LIKE JULIA WOULD WRITE IN AND JUSTIFY OUR EXISTENCES. HONESTLY, JULIA, YOU MADE ALL THE MOJONAUTS' DAY WITH YOUR MISSIVE, WITH MOJO DECLARING US "INTERNET FAMOUS", AND DAVE-O GOING SO FAR AS TO SAY HE FELT, QUOTE, "FAMOUS AS FUCK!" NOW, ALL WE NEED TO DO IS GET BOSTON'S MAYOR TO CHANGE HIS NAME TO SOMETHING PRONOUNCEABLE, LIKE SEAMUS, OR MOISHE, OR HOWLIN' WOLF. AND NOW, ON WITH THE COUNTDOWN!
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/medtech/0,72602-0.html?tw=rss.index
WIRED NEWS REPORTS THAT BATTLEFIELD AND TRAUMA INJURIES MAY BE TREATED WITH NEW BANDAGES DERIVED FROM SHRIMP. After a long search for a better way to stop extreme bleeding, the U.S. Army has purchased more than 400,000 bandages made from chitosan, a polysaccharide extracted from the exoskeletons of Icelandic shrimp. Chitosan is a mucoadhesive, which means it gets very sticky when wet with blood.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0131-07.htm
Four months ago, Diane Baker was one of 71 people arrested during a protest in Washington for crossing a police line to sit on the steps of a Senate office building. THE EPILEPTIC GRANDMOTHER WITH A DEGENERATIVE MUSCLE DISORDER SERVED HER SENTENCE OF EIGHT HOURS SWEEPING WASHINTON, D-C STREETS LAST TUESDAY. COMMONDREAMS DOT ORG REPORTED THAT Baker, a SIXTY-YEAR OLD CHAPLAIN at United Church of Christ in Dallas HAD OFFERED TO DO COUNSELING INSTEAD.
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http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-02-01T050214Z_01_PEK227961_RTRUKOC_0_US-CHINA-USA-BUSH.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE CONTRIBUTOR JIM POINTED OUT THIS NEAT BIT OF HIPOCRACY FROM THE COUNTRY THAT BROUGHT YOU THE FULAN-GONG PRISONER ORGAN MARKET...
President Bush should scrap his unilateral approach and respect religious diversity in his "war on terror" to resolve troubles in Iraq, a senior Chinese official said in comments published on Thursday, ACCORDING TO A WIRE SERVICE STORY.
Recent anti-war protests across the United States illustrated that the Iraq war was unjust, Ye Xiaowen, director of the State Bureau of Religious Affairs, wrote in the overseas edition of People's Daily, in A rare public criticism of U.S. policy.
Wow, JIM SEZ. This is like Nick Nolte sitting you down for a long talk about your drinking.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070202/ap_on_hi_te/viacom_youtube
FANS OF ORPHANED TV SHOWS LIKE DARIA AND CLIPS FROM COMEDY CENTRAL'S FAKE NEWS SHOWS ARE BUMMING AS MEDIA GIANT VIACOM TELLS YOU TUBE TO REMOVE MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND CLIPS IT OWNS FROM THE POPULAR VIDEO-SHARING SERVICE. ACCORDING TO A WIRE SERVICE STORY, VIACOM, owns the cable networks MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon and the Paramount Pictures movie studio.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070202/ts_nm/security_boston_dc
WIRE SERVICES REPORT THAT TURNER BROADCASTING AND A PARTNER COMPANY INVOLVED IN LAST WEEK'S AQUA-TEEN-HUNGER-FORCE PROMOTIONAL DEBACLE IN BOSTON HAVE AGREED TO PAY MORE THAN TWO MILLION DOLLARS TO DEFRAY LAW ENFORCEMENT AND OTHER COSTS.
http://gaygamer.net/2007/02/harry_potter_bares_it_all_for.html
HARRY POTTER AND THE HAPPY TRAIL? GAY GAMER DOT NET HAS THE STORY...As you may or may not know, Daniel Radcliffe, star of the Harry Potter movies, is about to make his London stage debut in Equus, the 1975 award winning play about a mentally disturbed young man and his unnatural attraction to horses. The play was notable not only for it's awards and subject matter, but also for the fact that THE main character is naked for the better part of the show which, in 1975, was still rather shocking. Well, Radcliffe created some shocks of his own when promo photos from the show featuring HIM in the altogether started surfacing around the internets. Teenage girls everywhere were shocked and gay men looked, enjoyed it and then felt dirty.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/02/01/national/a140841S37.DTL&type=bondage
Ding! Time to throw your drawers in the dryer. That's the message University of Iowa students can now receive by e-mail, ACCORDING TO S-F GATE DOT COM. Thanks to software installed along with new high-efficiency washers last fall, the school's dormitory residents can receive e-mail alerts when their laundry cycles have finished. JOKES ON WHOMEVER DEVELOPED THIS SYSTEM, HOWEVER -- ANY COLLEGE KID THAT INTO BEING ONLINE IS RAIDING IN WARCRAFT AND DOES NOT WEAR CLEAN CLOTHES.
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/top-paraglider-attacked-by-eagles/2007/02/02/1169919511496.html
Nicky Moss, 38, watched terrified as two huge birds began tearing into her parachute canopy, one becoming tangled in her lines and clawing at her head 2500 metres in the air, ACCORDING TO A SYDNEY MORNING HERALD STORY.
"I heard screeching behind me and a eagle flew down and attacked me, swooping down and bouncing into the side of my wing with its claws," Moss said.
"Then another one appeared and together they launched a sustained attack on my glider, tearing at the wing."
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Hillary_heckled_at_DNC_0202.html
ANTI-WAR HECKLERS AT A DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE MEETING FRIDAY RATTLED HILLARY CLINTON SO MUCH SHE PROMISED TO BRING HOME AMERICA'S TROOPS FROM IRAQ BY 2009, IF FOR SOME REASON THEY CAN'T GET BACK SOONER ACCORDING TO A RAW STORY ITEM. Hillary doesn't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. It's blowing out of Chicago. It's called Hurricane Barack.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070201/sc_afp/russiaenvironment
Russia's emergency situations ministry said it was dispatching experts to a Siberian province to find out why yellow and orange snow has been falling in several villages, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported AND AGENCE-FRANCE PRESS REPEATED. Snow ranging in colour from light yellow to orange and carrying a distinctive "musty" odour was observed Wednesday in five districts of Omsk province, which lies in western Siberia and borders Kazakhstan, ITAR-TASS said. "Residents are advised not to use snow for their household or technical needs and to limit walking, either by people or their pets, in this area," AN official said. THAT OFFICIAL WAS NOT NAMED FRANK ZAPPA.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/4519967.html
BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DINAR? THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE REPORTED THAT AMERICANS' SAVINGS RATE IS THE LOWEST ITS BEEN IN SEVEN DECADES, AND HAD REACHED THE LOW OF NEGATIVE ONE PERCENT SEEN RIGHT BEFORE THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF THE NINTEEN-THIRTIES. THAT MEANS POOR AND AVERAGE AMERICANS ARE SPENDING MORE THAN THEY MAKE ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, WHILE THE RICH FEEL NO NEED TO SAVE DUE TO A BOOMING STOCK MARKET AND HIGH PAYCHECKS.
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http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/177547
THE EARTH IS BROKEN AND IT CANNOT BE FIXED, THE UNITED NATIONS SAID IN A REPORT RELEASED FRIDAY. ACCORDING TO THE TORONTO STAR, The warning from a top panel of international scientists is blunt and dire: “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal,” the cause is “very likely” man-made, and the menace will “continue for centuries.”
Authors of the 21-page report released FRIDAY by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change placed the onus on governments to stop prevaricating -- THAT MEANS LYING -- and take action.
“This is just not something you can stop. We’re just going to have to live with it,” study co-author Kevin Trenberth, director of climate analysis at the U.S National Center for Atmospheric Research, said in an interview. “We’re creating a different planet."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2004399,00.html
HOT ON THE HEELS OF THIS HORRIBLE NEWS WAS EVEN MORE HORRIBLE NEWS, FROM THE GUARDIAN UNLIMITED... Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine THE major climate change report due to be published FRIDAY WE JUST GOT DON TALKING ABOUT.
Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute, an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasize the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11091-bingeing-cited-as-biggest-eating-disorder-in-us.html
Out-of-control binge eating is a widespread eating disorder in the US, and more common than anorexia and bulimia combined, according to the first national survey of such disorders, QUOTED AT NEW SCIENTIST DOT COM. Binge eating afflicts 3.5% of US women and 2.0% of men at some point in their lives, the survey of more than 9000 people revealed.
By comparison, it found that 0.9% of women and 0.3% of men reported having suffered from anorexia nervosa – a disorder characterised by an obsessive desire to be thin AND BADLY PRODUCED MOVIES ON THE LIFETIME TELEVISION NETWORK.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/bush_war_funding
MONDAY, THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION RELEASED ITS BUDGET REQUEST FOR THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR, ASKING FOR another $100 billion for military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year and seekING $145 billion for 2008 ACCORDING TO WIRE SERVICE REPORTS.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070205/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_budget
FROM THE ARTICLE... Bush's spending plan would make his first-term tax cuts permanent, at a cost of $1.6 trillion over 10 years. He is seeking $78 billion in savings in the government's big health care programs — Medicare and Medicaid — over the next five years, in part by increasing premiums for higher-income Medicare recipients.
POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE EDITOR SAYS It's pretty much the most unrealistic budget ever. If the former Congress under Republican control didn't make Bush's tax cuts for the rich permanent, why would the Democrats? Why take more money from health care to give to the military? What's his game here?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/02/04/MNG9ONUKVT1.DTL
AND ON WHAT WILL WE BE SPENDING THOSE EXTRA BILLIONS EARMARKED FOR THE WARS? NOT TRAINING FOR NEW TROOPS, APPARENTLY. S-F GATE DOT COM REPORTS THAT CORNERS ARE BEING CUT SO THAT many troops are sent to Iraq with almost no training TO FULFILL THE NEEDS OF PRESIDENT BUSH'S TWENTY-ONE TO FORTY-TWO THOUSAND-TROOP "SURGE." FROM THE ARTICLE: Soldiers of the 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division had so little time between deployments to Iraq they had to cram more than a year's worth of training into four months.
Some had only a few days to learn how to fire their new rifles before they deployed to Iraq -- for the third time -- last month. They had no access to the heavily armored vehicles they will be using in Iraq, so they trained on a handful of old military trucks instead. And some soldiers were assigned to the brigade so late that they had no time to train in the United States at all. Instead of the yearlong training recommended prior to deployment, they prepared for war during the two weeks they spent in Kuwait, en route to Anbar, Iraq's deadliest province.
http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/61633
POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE EDITOR DAVE-O BRINGS US THE SAD NEWS THAT Detroit legend Joe Hunter -- Funk Brothers keyboardist and bandleader -- has been found dead in his Detroit apartment ACCORDING TO A POST AT POLTICAL GATEWAY DOT COM INFORMED BY A DETROIT NEWS ARTICLE. Although the cause of death is not yet known, it is assumed to be related to his diabetes.
DAVE-O CONTINUES... The Funk Brothers were the house backing band for Motown Records, playing on approximately four-fifths of all Motown albums ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine," "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" and "The Tears of a Clown" jump to mind as notable tracks featuring Funk Brother instrumentation.)
Joe's idiosyncratic piano style -- influenced by Rachmaninov and Nat King Cole -- became an integral feature of the "Motown sound." You might not have known Joe's name before today, but you knew Joe.
OUR THEME SONG IS AN UNTITLED PIECE FROM THE DISC "HIMNO NASIONAL" BY THE FIGURES, AVAILABLE AT FINGERPRINT DASH RECORDS DOT COM.
WELL, THAT NEARLY CATCHES US UP. THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND IF YOU WANT ME TO KISS YOUR ASS IN THIS HERE PODCAST, DROP US A LINE! AT THE TOP OF THE NEWSWIRE PAGE IS A LINK TO OUR ONLINE COMMENT FORM.
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THIS HAS BEEN POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW, I'M ALAN BENARD.
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