Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 70 (64 kbps .mp3 10:41 5.0 Mb)
A daily roundup of things that seemed important.
This is what we do in our room at night with the lights off making those wet slappy noises.
THIS IS POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW FOR FRIDAY, MARCH SIXTEENTH, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN.
A DAILY ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6442293.stm
http://www.slate.com/id/2161712/
WRITING ABOUT A B-B-C REPORT ON CHILDHOOD OBESITY, POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE EDITOR FRITZ SAID: So, a series of serious peer-reviewed government-financed studies in the UK have shown that how much a child runs around (either in sport or on their own) has no relationship to their Body Mass Index, or the measure of how fat they are. Here, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN researchers have found a strong relationship between a child's BMI and how early puberty occurs.
But what are we to do?
FRITZ GOES ON TO SAY THAT GOVERNMENT BOTH FINDS IT EASY TO TAKE THE FOOD INDUSTRY'S MONEY TO NOT LOOK INTO WHAT MAKES OUR KIDS FAT, AND ALSO EASY TO TAKE MONEY FROM THE SPORTS INDUSTRY TO PROMOTE ACTIVITIES THAT WON'T KEEP KIDS FROM GETTING FAT.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/business/14light.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
FRITZ ALSO COMMENTED ON THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE ABOUT HOW THE UNITED STATES NEEDS TO REPLACE FOUR BILLION INCANDESCENT LIGHTBULBS WITH FLOURESCENT ALTERNATIVES TO SAVE ELECTRICITY. HE WRITES: IT'S AN effort to cut national energy consumption (I kid you not) by a maximum of about 3 percent. If we turned off every incandescent bulb in the country, and simply went without that extra light, we'd only cut energy consumption by 9 percent.
It's ultimately a depressing article.
But 4 billion light sockets!? There's a very big, generation defining joke there somewhere. How many. Screw in light bulb. Kind of people. Polish people. Alternate ethnic or social groups... the material is here people!
PLEASE SEND YOUR ENTRIES FOR THE "HOW MANY BLANKS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE FOUR BILLION INCANSECENT LIGHTBULBS" JOKE-WRITING CONTEST TO ALAN -- THAT'S A-L-A-N -- AT POORMOJO DOT ORG.
http://consumerist.com/consumer/riaa/npr-vs-the-riaa-244318.php
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/13/warner_music_sues_pa.html
WHAT MORE COULD THE RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA DO TO MAKE PEOPLE HATE MAINSTREAM RECORDING ARTISTS AND RECORD COMPANIES? LET'S SEE. HAVE THEY SUED SINGLE MOTHERS FOR THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR THIER 12-YEAR-OLD KIDS MISTAKES? CHECK. HAVE THEY SUED THE ESTATES OF DEAD PEOPLE? CHECK. HAVE THEY FORCED COLLEGE KIDS TO DROP OUT OF SCHOOL TO PAY THE JUDGMENTS AGAINST THEM? CHECK. AND NOW, THEY'VE GONE AHEAD AND SUED A STROKE VICITIM WHO CAN'T MOVE HALF HIS BODY AND WHO LIVES ON A DISABILITY CHECK AND WHO WASN'T LIVING IN THE STATE WHERE THE ALLEGED FILESHARING TOOK PLACE, ACCORDING TO BOING-BOING. AND NOW, ACCORDING TO CONSUMERIST, THEY'VE GONE AHEAD AND INCREASED THE FEES THEY CHARGE NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO TWENTY-FOLD -- WHEN NPR SPENDS TONS OF TIME AND EFFORT PROMOTING NEW ARTISTS TO ITS AUDIENCE. SO, WHAT COULD THE RIAA DO NEXT TO PROVE THEMSELVES WORTHY OF OUR LOVE? DOUSE AN ORPHANAGE IN KEROSENE AND LIGHT IT AFTER NAILING THE DOORS SHUT? RAPE KITTENS ON LIVE TV? SERIOUSLY, GUYS...YOU ARE WRETCHED ASSHOLES.
THIS IS POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW!
http://rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.antiwar.com%2Futley%2F%3Farticleid%3D10661
SURE, I. LEWIS SCOOTER LIBBY, CONVICTED LIAR, IS A BAD GUY, BUT HE'S A SAD LITTLE HENCHMAN STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF TRUE CRIMINALS, LIKE FORMER ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE DOULAS FEITH. ANTIWAR.COM HAS AN EXCELLENT RE-CAP OF FEITH'S AWFULNESS, FOCUSING ON HIS PERSONAL AUTHORING of the orders to disband the entire Iraqi army and destroy the civilian government infrastructure. FROM THE ARTICLE: I was a student in Germany after the Second World War. Even after ousting the the Nazis, America did not dismiss every school teacher and village administrator, but that's what the U.S. government did in Iraq. ...
Was Feith trying to provoke a Shi'ite-Sunni civil war? What other disasters did Feith have a hand in?... Feith's actions are comprehensible if one connects them to his LOYALTIES TO THE ULTRA-RIGHT-WING ISRAELI Likud PARTY.
Polls in Israel show that most Israelis want to trade the West Bank for peace. A recent Gallup Poll shows that most Jewish Americans have strongly opposed the Iraq war, despite the Israel Lobby's enthusiasm for it. Feith was not merely sympathetic to Israeli concerns; he acted on behalf of an extreme faction inside the Israeli government. This all demands an investigation with congressional subpoena power.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/opinion/13juhasz.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
FROM DAY ONE OF THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ -- ACTUALLY, FROM 1991 AND THE FIRST IRAQ WAR -- CRITICS HAVE SAID THE WHOLE POINT OF THE EXERCISE WAS STEALING IRAQ'S OIL. AND THE MAINSTREAM POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT AND MEDIA SAID THOSE CRITICS WERE TINFOIL-HAT WEARING NUTCASES. WELL, EVER HEARD OF PRODUCTION SHARING AGREEMENTS? ANTONIA JUHASZ BREAKS IT DOWN FOR YOU IN HER NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE -- WHOSE OIL IS IT ANYWAY -- WHICH WE FOUND VIA THE RANDI RHODES SHOW. THERE'S A BILL WHICH HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE IRAQI CABINET AND WHICH NOW GOES TO THE COUNTRY'S PARLIAMENT THAT HANDS CONTROL OF IRAQ'S OIL OVER TO FOUR OIL COMPANIES FOR THIRTY YEARS. FROM THE ARTICLE: Until about 35 years ago, the world’s oil was largely in the hands of seven corporations based in the United States and Europe. Those seven have since merged into four: ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and BP. Ever since they lost their exclusive control of the oil to the governments, the companies have been trying to get it back. The Iraq hydrocarbon law would take the majority of Iraq’s oil out of the exclusive hands of the Iraqi government and open it to international oil companies for a generation or more.
HERE'S WHAT I'VE GOT TO SAY ABOUT IT: If the Iraqi Parliament is forced to make this bill law AND hand control of Iraq's oil over to four private corporations WHILE ITS COUNTRY IS OCCUPIED BY FOREIGN FORCES -- then you really will have, as an American, waged a war of choice on a sovereign nation to steal its treasure. CAN WE NOW STOP ALL THE PRETENSE ABOUT SPREADING DEMOCRACY TO THE ARAB WORLD?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1505832.ece
AND WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS IRAQ TODAY? IT'S A PLACE WHERE RAPE IS APPARENTLY USED AS A WEAPON OF WAR, NOT MUCH SURPRISING ABOUT THAT. BUT EVER HEARD OF A RAPE VICTIM BEING ARRESTED FOR TALKING ABOUT BEING RAPED? THE TIMES OF LONDON STORY SAYS THAT Sabrine Janabi Shocked Iraq last month when she appeared on Al-Jazeera television and accused three policemen of detaining her and then raping her in their garrison. JANABI HAS BEEN ARRESTED BY IRAQ'S GOVERNMENT FOR INCITING VIOLENCE -- SHE'S BLAMED FOR A WAVE OF SECTARIAN KILLINGS IN THE WAKE OF HER ANNOUNCEMENT. Shia officials have accused her of being a proxy for Sunni militants who want to sabotage a security plan for Baghdad, while Sunni politicians have pointed to her story as proof of the sectarian nature of Shia Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Government.
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http://www.bentcorner.com/2007/03/13/did-wizard-take-advantage-of-insider-information/
Did Wizard magazine engage in insider trading? YOU DECIDE AFTER HEARING THIS FROM THE BENT CORNER BLOG: Newsarama’s Vaneta Rogers talks with comic book retailers about Captain America #25. It’s an interesting read. Especially when the topic turns to how Wizard Universe, which is owned by the same company as Wizard Magazine, sold hundreds of issues of Captain America #25 on ebay on Wednesday at prices from $10 to $50 an issue.
It’s as though Wizard Universe had some kind of inside information from Marvel Comics that Captain America #25 would include the death of Captain America. That’s something no other comic retailer was privy to.
That Captain America was going to be killed.
Did anyone over at Wizard Magazine with information concerning what was going to happen in Captain America #25 advise their counterparts at Wizard Universe to stock up on copies so they could quickly post them on eBay?
It sure seems like it. It also seems highly unethical.
DO ALL STORES CHARGE THE SAME AMOUNT FOR GENERIC DRUGS? HELL, NO, ACCORDING TO THE FREAKONMICS BLOG. THEIR INVESTIGATOR began snooping around and found that two chains, Costco and Sam’s Club, sold generics at prices far, far below the other chains. PRICES FOR 90 PROZAC TABLETS RANGED FROM TWELVE DOLLARS AT COSTCO TO $117 AT Walgreens. SO, SHOP AROUND AND ASK QUESTIONS.
SACRED PUBLIC-RADIO BORE GARRISON KEILLOR MUST HAVE A BLOOD-CLOT IN HIS BRAIN THAT HAS DAMAGED HIS ABILITY TO HIDE HIS SMALL-MINDED HOMOPHOIA. THAT'S THE ONLY EXPLANATION FOR THIS DRIVEL, FROM AN ARTICLE IN SALON, VIA FEMINISTING:
The country has come to accept stereotypical gay men -- sardonic fellows with fussy hair who live in over-decorated apartments with a striped sofa and a small weird dog and who worship campy performers and go in for flamboyance now and then themselves. If they want to be accepted as couples and daddies, however, the flamboyance may have to be brought under control. Parents are supposed to stand in back and not wear chartreuse pants and black polka-dot shirts. That's for the kids. It's their show.
Oh, thank you, Garrison Keillor, for making it acceptable to hate fucking Garrison Keillor. Now take that hackneyed, precious, droning, self-important radio abortion and shove it sideways up your grey, wrinkled ass! Maybe we'll be able to listen to our NPR stations on Saturday evening again.
DAN SAVAGE OF THE SAVAGE LOVE COLUMN POINTS OUT THAT KEILLOR IS A SERIAL ADULTERER, WHO LEFT HIS WIFE FOR HIS LOVER THEN LEFT HIS LOVER FOR HIS SECOND WIFE AND THEN LEFT HER FOR HIS DANISH LANGUAGE TEACHER AND NOW SAYS THAT HIS EYES ARE OPENED EVERY DAY TO THE WONDER OF PARENTING -- IN WHAT MUST BE HIS 60S -- HIS NEWEST BABY GIRL WITH HIS THIRD WIFE, WHICH I'M CERTAIN MAKES HIS CHILDREN FROM HIS FAILED MARRIAGES FEEL LIKE SHIT. GARRISION, SHUT THE FUCK UP!
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