Why do you not read his book??

http://www.magnificentmontague.com

You can see the book there.

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And how right he was! No troubling questions about safety workers or crappy radios, just a few years of modivational gigs with “America’s Mayor!” I’m sure you’ll agree, Rudy still “owns 9-11!”

I think you know where to put your engine.

Why, thank you K. And you can do it too. Just keep reminding yourself every American disaster is not a good time to separate us.

Remember the little engine that could.

Yet despite these numbers, and they’ve been dismal from the beginning a few years ago, he is still on and there seems no plan to replace him. So tell me again about how programming is market driven. The big boys at Time-Warner must have another agenda because it sure isn’t making money.

And that is why we should be talking about something much more important and that is a decision coming down the pike from the FCC that would allow monopolies in any market of any size. Yes, one person (Rupert? Ted?) could own all the TV and radio stations in LA plus the newspaersd and the cable systems and , well you get the idea.

And what news would we get? Hey forget Beck. The “News” people at FOX spent all morning yesterday blathering that the fires which had suspicious origins in San Diego were terrorist acts by AL Queda! Their proof? A four year old field memo from the FBI in phoenix saying that an “AQ Operative” said that was the plan. The FBI said it had no evidence but FOX led with it.

Forget all you read here. This is the coming status of the news!

Wonder, if we might flip over Mr Beck’s pejorative view that the ‘America hating/bin Laden lovin’ Californians are instead, a very resilient, very optimistic, don’t freak out in crisis, lot. Sure, we’ve got plenty to criticize, even lampoon here in the Golden State. Maybe California has too much ‘experience’ with mayhem…Wonder how the folks in _______ would have handled all these fires.

http://witnessla.com/environment/2007/admin/fire-weather-vi-air-support/#comment-5009

Ted Rall rocks, as does Mike Judge>

http://www.rall.com/uploaded_images/10-22-07-703888.jpg

I haven’t seen the right wing sources this week, but I would predict that the next fire-related issue they raise will be the contrast between the orderly and effective evacuation of San Diego and the chaos two years ago in New Orleans. There is good reason to note what So Cal learned both from Katrina and past fires, particularly the 2003 Cedar fire in San Diego county. But there are vast contrasts between the two events as well, making comparisons as dangerous as they are inevitable.

Btw, Gov. Arnold has been ubiquitous. A lot of it is just photo ops, but he has also shown a lot of common sense and it appears that his staff has been effective as a hub of the communication network. From what he has said as well as how the White House has behaved, it is apparent that Gov. argued Bush into coming to visit tomorrow–Thursday–late as usual. And though people aren’t saying it, you know virtually no one really wants him bringing his Joe Btfsplk dark cloud here to poison the everyone’s-in-thiis-together feeling [much like the immediate wake of 9/11 attacks] that is necessary to heal the damage to this community. And his statement before some right-wing defense institute demonstrated that he was not anxious to do so. I’m guessing he does not want to occasion any inquiry as to why only a few hundred National Guardsmen are available to provide support in this most horrible natural disaster [and those are only available because they have been engaged in our War Against Mexican Invaders at the border].