Hey seekers!  I had the most AWESOME of interviews at the station tonight (well at this point it is last night), and I want to introduce the band to you!  It was really great- Steve is quite a guy and I loved his thoughts about getting back to a more cultural music scene. 

All songs are by Bad Dog No Biscuit, an R&B/Funk/ Blues/ Latin band.  You can find out more about them at their website:

http://www.baddognobiscuit.net/

And hear tunes on their myspace page:

http://www.myspace.com/badogrecords

The recording is a bit choppy- I let it run here at home when I was at the station.  The whole thing is about 45 minutes- and it completely rocks.

So, enjoy the brake from politics!

Police in Tempe tell two men to rap their way out of a ticket.
Oh yeah....

Time: 2 min. 19 sec.

The annual flu outbreak is expected to hit the west earlier this year than last year.
Well, good thing I'm heading east for Christmas!

Doctors say the best defense is a flu shot- but I just dunno...

Time: 2 min 12 sec.

Back by popular demand- it's the Truth-seeking supplement!

Ok.. really my sister was wondering what had happened to them, but she is popular in my book!

The results of the voter turnout here in Arizona are in, and it's quite positive for a non-presidential election.  Though I'm such a perfectionist, why can't it be 100%?

Time: 1min. 43 sec.

A Jr. High in Chandler is trying out same-sex classes. From an educational point of view, could this be a good thing?

Time: 2 min.

You think the machines are the only problem?  Here are some other problems reported on election day.

Time: 2min. 09sec.

Yay, Canada!  I wonder if American Post Office workers would protest the same.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1029canada-mail1029.html

Time: 2 min.

The print with allofmp3.com is so fine, they seem unstoppable.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1029russiaTunes1029.html

Time: 1 min. 33 sec.

Good for them.
They know the "war" in Iraq is wrong, and they have the experience to back it up.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/15839367.htm

(sorry about the crappy quality on this one.)

I certainly agree that a flu shot is necessary if you are in a high-risk group, but is not getting one actually endangering others?

*Who should be vaccinated?

This is one of the best reason's I can think of.  This goes beyond dirty politics, it's offensive and insulting.

It's sad when you have nothing to run a campaign on.

(Can you tell this has pissed me off?)

Slow the dumbing-down process- eat more vegetables!
Just watch out for that spinach. ;-)

Someone pass this info on to the White House, please... oh Hell Congress too.

Pat Tillman's brother Kevin's amazing letter to the public- and is worth putting the entire text of here.  Also, third party candidates are not allowed to participate in congressional debates.  Bad form Hillary, really bad form.

After Pat's Birthday

Posted on Oct 19, 2006
Pat and Kevin Tillman
Courtesy the Tillman Family

By Kevin Tillman


It is Pat's birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military. He spoke about the risks with signing the papers. How once we committed, we were at the mercy of the American leadership and the American people. How we could be thrown in a direction not of our volition. How fighting as a soldier would leave us without a voice� until we get out.

Much has happened since we handed over our voice:

Somehow we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium from Niger, or had mobile weapons labs, or WMD, or had a need to be liberated, or we needed to establish a democracy, or stop an insurgency, or stop a civil war we created that can't be called a civil war even though it is. Something like that.

Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.

Somehow our elected leaders were subverting international law and humanity by setting up secret prisons around the world, secretly kidnapping people, secretly holding them indefinitely, secretly not charging them with anything, secretly torturing them. Somehow that overt policy of torture became the fault of a few bad apples in the military.

Somehow back at home, support for the soldiers meant having a five-year-old kindergartener scribble a picture with crayons and send it overseas, or slapping stickers on cars, or lobbying Congress for an extra pad in a helmet. It's interesting that a soldier on his third or fourth tour should care about a drawing from a five-year-old; or a faded sticker on a car as his friends die around him; or an extra pad in a helmet, as if it will protect him when an IED throws his vehicle 50 feet into the air as his body comes apart and his skin melts to the seat.

Somehow the more soldiers that die, the more legitimate the illegal invasion becomes.

Somehow American leadership, whose only credit is lying to its people and illegally invading a nation, has been allowed to steal the courage, virtue and honor of its soldiers on the ground.

Somehow those afraid to fight an illegal invasion decades ago are allowed to send soldiers to die for an illegal invasion they started.

Somehow faking character, virtue and strength is tolerated.

Somehow profiting from tragedy and horror is tolerated.

Somehow the death of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people is tolerated.

Somehow subversion of the Bill of Rights and The Constitution is tolerated.

Somehow suspension of Habeas Corpus is supposed to keep this country safe.

Somehow torture is tolerated.

Somehow lying is tolerated.

Somehow reason is being discarded for faith, dogma, and nonsense.

Somehow American leadership managed to create a more dangerous world.

Somehow a narrative is more important than reality.

Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.

Somehow the most reasonable, trusted and respected country in the world has become one of the most irrational, belligerent, feared, and distrusted countries in the world.

Somehow being politically informed, diligent, and skeptical has been replaced by apathy through active ignorance.

Somehow the same incompetent, narcissistic, virtueless, vacuous, malicious criminals are still in charge of this country.

Somehow this is tolerated.

Somehow nobody is accountable for this.

In a democracy, the policy of the leaders is the policy of the people. So don't be shocked when our grandkids bury much of this generation as traitors to the nation, to the world and to humanity. Most likely, they will come to know that somehow was nurtured by fear, insecurity and indifference, leaving the country vulnerable to unchecked, unchallenged parasites.

Luckily this country is still a democracy. People still have a voice. People still can take action. It can start after Pat's birthday.

Brother and Friend of Pat Tillman,

Kevin Tillman

*Truthdig.org
*Howie Hawkins Protest Video

Also from Tuesday's show.
A current lawsuit is put on hold for the November 7th election.

*Thank you, Washington Post

Some quickies from Tuesday night- the Democrats really could win Congress back on November 7th, and what is UP with that Obama guy?

*Thank you, Democracy Now!

Still third to China and India.  A mere 5% of the world population, yet the US still uses a quarter of the earth's energy... go fig.

*Too big for our britches
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a6rGP_zpSR.0&refer=worldwide_news

Proposition 203, putting your bad habit to good use.

*First Things First Initiative
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/1017campaignwatch1017.html

Should we raise it? AZ voters to decide whether to raise it to $6.75, up from $5.15.  My own district congressman opposes it. 

Well, I didn't vote for him anyway...

*Proposition 202
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/1017campaignwatch1017.html

There are two segments meshed together here, to get the entire article.

We can't reverse it, so let's slow it down people.
And I have to stop recording these things with my email account open.  Please ignore the new mail sound, hehe...

Good conversation about this article on the Truth Seekers message board.

*The temp is a-rising
http://www.ryze.com/posttopic.php?topicid=762075&confid=1031

Total bans are spreading throughout the world.  Is it really effecting the marketplace in a negative way?

*When in Ireland...
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1015tobacco-irish1015.html

Next part of the article that hopefully can give a different perspective of these two propositions and what pass or fail means for either of them, or both.

*Choose the better ban
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1015tobacco-initiative1015.html

Great article with the bar's perspective of the two propositions on the ballot in AZ regarding smoking.  An attempt to clear the air.

I didn't get to the rest of it on Monday's show, but it will be continued tomorrow!

*Choose the better ban

Yes folks, if you're married, welcome to the minority.  But at least it's not uncool.

I'm back- a week away and too many thoughts to organize.  Here goes nothing.

*AZ Republic Article
*KQCX.com

My last quickie for tonight.  Schools in my community are encouraging students to walk or bike to school rather than taking the bus. 

It's a good thing, especially with cooler weather supposedly on the way...

kqcx.com

A little information about two local propositions on the November 7th ballot, both involving what to do with State Trust Lands.

Props 105 and 106

Yes, I had to say something about this "new" information about the Bush administration being warned of impending attacks on our soil months before September 11, 2001.

Thread on message board

Back from the PME in Ontario, CA and right back into the game. Please ignore the exhausted voice.

We take another look at the Memorial in DT Phoenix that may be seeing its last days.

Article
KQCX.com

Last one for the weekend...

A hate crime happens too close to home, and awareness needs to remain in the forefront.

Enjoy the segments, and please tell me what you think!  I'll be back next week with more!

A couple more segments to keep you entertained until I return from the Podcast Expo. :-)

Life as we know it is slowly being effected by the rising temperature of the earth, a new study tells us.

How many more studies will it take before we as a human race take drastic action?

One last quickie from Tuesday's show. 
A little controversy over a 9/11 memorial just unveiled on the 5th anniversary.

The anti-war quotes are seen as anti-American, of course.

*Article
*kqcx 99one FM

Dani gives you a quickie. :-)

Do you know what books are on the "To ban" list?

*kqcx 99one FM
*Banned Books Week

I am working on the next show- but I've been a busy little dissenter.  Say hello to the voice of the evening (hey it's better than lady!) on kqcx FM here in a town just a little south of the spiderhole, Queen Creek.  Mostly bringing an awesome and very eclectic mix of alternative music, I do get the occasional chance to get some politics off my chest.  I thought I would add them as supplements in the podcast feed. 

It will probably be local Arizona news for the most part, but true to the term "show notes", I will give you the head's up so you can decide whether to satisfy that curiousity or not.

Tonight, I spoke a little bit about the Protect Marriage Arizona Act, which basically make marriage between a man and a woman.  The ramifications, however, go much further than a gay marriage ban.

*KQCX 99one FM
*Information on Prop 107