Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 50 for Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 50 (64 kpbs .mp3 9:43 4.6 Mb)

Throwing stones at Snoopy.



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A DAILY ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT .



http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/13/issa-contractors/

Republican Representative Darrell Issa asked a pretty screwed-up question at a hearing last week, according to the Think Progress blog. It was the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee investigation into why mercenary supplier and contractor Blackwater USA stonewalled the mothers and widows of their employees who got themselves killed, burnt, dragged through the streets and hung from a bridge in Fallujah, Iraq in 2004. The relatives read a prepared statement, as everyone does who speaks before a congressional hearing. They think Blackwater is trying to cover up its own wrongdoing in the mercs deaths.

So this Darrell Issa character pipes up. He asks the ladies as soon as they've finished their statement, "I don’t think your testimony today is particularly germane to the oversight of this committee.” He added, “One question I have is, the opening statement, who wrote it?” Think progress reported the mercs relatives said it was a compilation of the four of them touched up by their attorney.

Issa's colleages thought his question was, to put it more bluntly than they could, fucked up. What does he have to gain from jacking around grieving mothers and widows? On the committee, Illinois Democrat Jan Schakowsky defended the ladies, saying: “I think clearly the implication was that somehow these wonderful women couldn’t possibly have written that wonderful, heartfelt testimony and that it took a lawyer in order to put it together, and I resent that very much.” Another congressman on the panel was more direct: Stephen Lynch of Massachussetts observed, “I’ve only sat through several hundred, maybe 1,000 hearings, and that is the first time as a member of Congress that I have heard any witnesses asked who wrote their opening statements.”

Who is this jackass Darrell Issa? Well, conservative columnist Debbie Schlussel has a lot to say about him. Now, I think Debbie is a painfully awful conservative screecher, but even a broken clock is right twice a day. In one column at political U-S-A DOT COM entitled Darrell Issa: Traitor, or useful idiot?, Schlussel details the represenative's long-time defense of and praise for the the terrorist group Hezbollah - "I have a great deal of sympathy for the work that Hezbollah tries to do," she quotes Issa saying, one imagines referring to WHEN THEY BLEW UP 241 MARINES IN BERIUT IN THE EARLY 80'S. IN ANOTHER SCHLUSSEL COLUMN IN WORLD NET DAILY, WE GET THIS: A multi-millionaire car-alarm magnate who bought his election, Darrell built a long, solid record of dishonesty,...His "rise to wealth had been accompanied by questionable events," the Washington Post reported. In his youth, he stole cars for a living, culminating in a 1972 grand jury indictment for car theft. A damning 1998 Los Angeles Times article reported that Issa allegedly threatened a former business partner at gunpoint and that arson was suspected in a mysterious 1982 fire at Issa's well-insured Ohio plant. Issa practically admitted holding his associate at gunpoint. "Shots were never fired," he said as justification in the San Francisco Examiner. Okay, so that's the kind of jackass we have in cute, cuddly Darrell Issa -- the guy who speNT TWO MILILION DOLLARS TO GET CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR GREY DAVIS RECALLED SO HE COULD RUN, ONLY TO COME IN DEAD LAST IN THE PRIMARY, ACED OUT BY AN AGING ACTION-MOVIE ACTOR FROM AUSTRIA. ISSA'S RESPONSE? TO WEEP OPENLY IN PUBLIC LIKE A SPOILED CHILD.



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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070213/ap_on_re_as/koreas_nuclear
POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW EDITOR MOJO CELEBRATES THE NEW SIX-COUNTRY AGREEMENT THAT HAS NORTH KOREA PROMISING TO DISMATLE ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAM. HE SAID We're giving them eight years of free oil--enough to run the country--in exchange. And by "we" I mean the U.S., Japan, China and Russia. THE AGREEMENT COMES AFTER THE WEIRD, ISOLATED LITTLE COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP DETONATED ITS FIRST NUCLEAR BOMB IN NOVEMBER. THERE'S TALK OF JAPAN AND THE U-S NORMALIZING RELATIONS, AND OUR STATE DEPARTMENT AND WHITE HOUSE ARE PLEASED WITH THEMSELVES, WIRE SERVICES REPORT.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/02/former_ambassad.html
GUESS WHO ISN'T SMILING? THAT WOULD BE OUR FORMER UN-CONFIRMED U-N AMBASSADOR, BULLY AND NEOCONSERVATIVE CONSPIRATOR TO START A PRE-EMPTIVE WAR IN IRAQ, JOHN BOLTON, ACCORDING TO THE U-S-A TODAY BLOG. OLD YELLER -- WHO ONLY TOOK THE JOB OF U-N AMBASSADOR SO HE COULD DISMANTLE THE U-N -- WHO WAS SO POORLY RESPECTED THAT WHEN HE TOOK UP THE ROTATING CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE U-N SECURITY COUNCIL THE OTHER MEMBERS BLEW OFF HIS FIRST MEETING -- WHO WAS SUCH A DISGUSTING CHOICE FOR THE JOB EVEN THE MINDLESS RUBBERSTAMP REPUBLICAN ZOMBIE SENATE COULDN'T HOLD ITS NOSE HARD ENOUGH TO CONFIRM HIM -- IS BESIDE HIMSELF AT THE IDEA OF ...WELL... DIPLOMACY. BOLTON CALLED THE NORTH KOREAN AGREEMENT "a charade, a hollow agreement" and SAID IT "might lead to an increased chance of war on the Korean peninsula," ... "It covers only a very narrow aspect of North Korea's nuclear program ... rewards bad behavior ... (and) is everything the administration criticized in President Clinton's 1994 framework." BUT THE FUNNY THING IS, JOHN...NOBODY ASKED YOUR SORRY, EX-AMBASSADOR ASS.



http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Cheney_wont_testify_in_Libby_trial_0213.html

RAW STORY REPORTED THAT ATTORNEYS FOR IRV LEWIS "SCOOTER" LIBBY DECIDED TO NOT HAVE LIBBY NOR HIS PUPPETMASTER, VICE-PRESIDET DICK "SHOOTER" CHENEY TESTIFY AT LIBBY'S PERJURY TRIAL. IN MY HUMBLE OPINION, Either they figured that lying on the stand UNDER OATH was too risky, or that taking the Fifth would be too damaging (that's what I was pulling for). LIBBY IS ACCUSED OF LYING EVERY SINGLE TIME HE OPENS HIS MOUTH, ESPECIALLY WHEN DENYING THAT HE SPREAD THE WORD THAT VALERIE PLAME WAS A C-I-A NON-OFFICIAL COVER UNDERCOVER AGENT.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=435523&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490

AN ENGLISH TEACHER AT A CHURCH SCHOOL IN THE LANCASHIRE TOWN OF Accrington ENGLAND HAS ONLY NOW FIGURED OUT THAT WRITING EROTIC FICTION ABOUT STUDENTS DOING DRUGS AND HAVING DRUGGED VAMPIRE SEX MIGHT NOT BE AN ASTUTE CAREER MOVE. ACCORDING TO THE DAILY MAIL ARTICLE, Gabriele Caccini, WRITING under the pen name Paigan Stone, RAN A WEB SITE CHOCK FULL OF "adult content with vampire eroticism, violence and blood lust". PARENTS HAVE EXPRESSED COCERN. OUR OWN MOJO SAYS: The best part of this story ONLINE is the reader comments after it, wherein the readers react with surprise and alarm . . . . that the school would care what kind of fiction the teacher writes in spare time.



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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/12/BAGV4O3F8R4.DTL
SOMEONE HAS STOLEN THE MALTESE FALCON -- AGAIN! S-F GATE DOT COM REPORTS THAT A COPY OF THE FAMOUS BIRD STATUE WAS SWIPED FROM A LOCKED CABINET, ALONG WITH SEVERAL BOOKS BY AND ABOUT AUTHOR DASHIEL HAMMETT. The black statue was signed by actor Elisha Cook Jr., a San Franciscan who played the role of Wilmer the Gunsel in the movie.





http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11172&feedId=online-news_rss20

NEW SCIENTIST DOT COM TELLS US OF A SATELLITE THAT WILL ATTEMPT TO DISCOVER ALTERNATIVE DIMENSIONS RESULTING FROM THE AFTERGLOW OF THE BIG BANG. THE OBSERVATIONS COULD GO A LONG WAY TOWARD SUPPORTING STRING THEORY, THE LATEST UNIFYING SO-CALLED THEORY OF EVERYTHING. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PHYSICISTS SAY THE EXTRA DIMENSIONS MIGHT LEAVE A MARK ON THE UNIVERSE'S COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND, CREATED 370,000 YEARS AFTER THE BIG BANG.





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OTHER STORIES WE COVERED TODAY AT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE:

Colbert's Word of the Day: Inappropriate

Isaac Asimov on the "Reagan Doctrine"

CNN keeps attacking atheists

The Prometheus Plume of Io

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