Smarty, I explained what I'd like to see.

Besides, what "anger?" I'm a jazz musician, I blow all my anger away LOL.

The last time I flew, I was not given the choice. Both on the outbound and inbound flights I had to go through the machine and the men would not even listen to my questions. This whole thing is a total invasion of rights.

• The TSA is always looking for popular games and ways to check out people and it seems as if the perverts of the world have found a way to legally do their dirty deeds.

Hi Kassandra - what state are you in?

Every dollar counts. This is the funding for the so called Medicare trust fund, that we all suspect does not even exist. It is Obama playing politics. That is all it is. He does not care about the working class. He is more concerned with raising his billion for reelection. Why doesn't anyone talk about that on here?

We women are born with our ovary's full of eggs, we don't produce them (as men do, w/sperm) on an egg by egg, day by day basis. We are born with every egg we will ever have, already in our bodies. X-ray, reguardless of it's orgin, builds up in the human body. Please explain to me....why would any woman allow anyone...to X-ray her body, where she stores her entire life's worth of eggs, when we are seeing birth-defects, and our beloved children struggle and deal with learning disibilities, that we are told is either from unknown orgin, or genetic.

One thing about Ron Paul. He can not be bought. He looks like a president, talks like a president and Dr. Paul is very intelligent. He has love for our freedoms and respects our freedoms and wants to keep it that way. He wants to put a stop on these military invasions.." No one is perfect . One does not have to agree with everything he says. But we need to start somewhere and turn this thing around, that is ending these wars pollutions, bring back law and order etc for our freedoms to ring once again now if not sooner. I can not imagine why anyone would not vote for Ron Paul. Its the times!

I disagree with you, Thom, saying, "Vegetarianism is Non-Violent". Vegetarianism is NOT non-violent. You must read the book, "THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS". Tests are done with electrodes connected to plants. When a person walks in the room with a knife and just an INTENT to cut the plant, the plant knows it, and reacts with big fluctuations in the electric field, the equivalent to screaming.

So, "ripping" carrots out of the soil, chopping and grinding and masticating, is very violent to the vegetable. Ripping tomatoes off the umbillical cord of the Mother plant IS VIOLENT. Cutting open and "gutting" a pumpkin, peeling the "skin" off a potato that has been dug out of its home, mashing, steaming, boiling these life forms that have a very real reaction.

Electronically, these plant forms are screaming. It is documented with factual data. Just because you don't hear the screams, does not mean there is no violence to these life forms.

All are sacred, all are alive with multi-dimensional consciousness. Let me tell you my experience. We raised ducks, and always blessed and thanked the duck when it was butchering time. We held it to love it, and said "Fly free of this body and be a Canadian Goose, be free!". Within two years, a mated pair of Canadian Geese with 7 newly hatched goslings came into our backyard where we fed the ducks, and these wild Canadian Geese raised their young in our yard. We watched the babies get their feathers. We watched the parents teach their young how to fly and land on solid ground. We watched them learn navigation by honking back and forth to one parent left on the ground. When they were all flying as a group of nine Canadian Geese, they left to LIVE FREE! A little message that what we did, works!

So, was it violent to love the ducks, bless, butcher, give them a new dream, and eat their sweet and healthy meat? We participated in Evolution and fed our bodies in a sacred, natural, ancient way of eating meat. We were completely self-responsible. We saw the miracle of on-going life. It never ends. These animal spirits came back into life.

It is all the same, eating plants or eating animals. We have to do this very consciously just like the Native Americans taught us to do. All are sacred life forms. None greater or lesser than another. Please be clear about this. Vegetarianism is like a fad, misconstrued, misunderstood. It is not cleaner, more spiritual, or more holy than eating meat. Vegetarians and Vegans have become fanatical in their thinking, and now, teach children to be afraid of life! Little children taught to be vegetarians are timid and afraid to explore and investigate life. They think it is wrong or bad before they even know anything about a huge supply of beautiful food. What will these children do in a disaster if they are starving? They have been taught that so much available food is bad.

It is our consciousness that makes it clean and sacred or not. If we are unconsciously consuming vegetables or meat that has been yanked from its home, skinned and cooked, we are violent, too.

And a word about mono-cropping Big Agra vegetables..... huge big agricultural corporations are growing your vegetables without combining with animals present, using petro-chemical fertilizers instead. The soil is becoming so depleted of real nutrients that it is really a desert, completely dependent on irrigation to hold the soil. One crop planted as far as the eyes can see, no diversity, no animal parts returning to the soil the necessary minerals and nutrients, has destroyed the farmlands of this country. If the electricity goes off, we will see a US Sahara desert instead of rich soil to grow food. Without animals, say bye-bye to vegetables!

And so, those pretty vegetables in the supermarkets do not have the minerals to maintain life. We have to have balance, healthy behavior towards our food, not fanatisicm. A fanatical attitude like vegetarianism or veganism has its own violence toward life.

I love how much the Republicans have shot themselves in the foot with the teleprompter thing. Sarah Palin writes on her hand, Michele Bachmann reads from an iPad.... It's hilarious.

well were coming to a closer resolution of being a police state big bother is taking over and right is pushing it

There are border checkpoints at that distance from the actual border at numerous places in New Mexico and Arizona. I am not sure about Texas, but would guess that they have them there, too.

I haven't flown since 2005, so the opportunity hasn't come up. Anyone know where I can get a t-shirt with the text of the Fourth Amendment on it?

From www.bradsblog.com Seems thom's radio show will not be aired live in San Francisco, but late at night, which will prevent anyone calling in, and most from hearing it. Read on.

The latest move in the strange back-and-forth saga follows on radio giantClear Channel's announcement just over two weeks ago, that Green960 --- the only AM Progressive Talk Radio station on the dial in San Francisco, one of the nation's most progressive cities --- would be banished from the popular public airwaves and sent to the radio-ghetto of the little-known and even lesser-received HD2 band. Its progressive programming --- featuring the likes of popular lefty-ish talkers such as Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, Randi Rhodes, Norman Goldman and Mike Malloy --- would be replaced (with the exception of Rhodes, who is syndicated by Clear Channel's Premiere Radio) by yet another so-called "conservative" talk station, featuring extremists such as Beck and other Fox "News" regulars.

The move by the media conglomerate, now owned by leading GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's Bain Capital, LLC, was to occur on January 3. The move would have left Rhodes as the only progressive voice on the entire AM dial in San Francisco, as of the first business day of the new Presidential Election year.

But a funny thing happened on the way to 2012 on Bay Area talk radio...

'Uncanceled'

As The BRAD BLOG reported in our follow-up last week, plans to move programming from Clear Channel's "Fox News Radio" KNEW 910 in San Francisco over to the 960 spot, where Green960 currently is, and to shuffle off the progressive 960 talkers into Radio Nowhere Land came to a quiet, if sudden pause last week.

CC, we were able to confirm, had decided to rethink its plans in the wake of the sudden sea change of programming at KGO, a long-time staple talk station in the San Fran market, featuring a well-loved mix of conservative, libertarians and moderate talkers. That change was announced just days after CC's original announcement.

Overnight, Cumulus-owned KGO released virtually all of its talk show hosts --- several of whom had been on the station for decades --- to flip the station to a more inexpensive all-news format. The move resulted in a lot of angry KGO listeners (to add to the already-angry Green960 listeners) and put a whole bunch of Bay Area talk radio ratings and talk show hosts up for grabs in the major broadcast market.

The result led to reporting at industry outlet All Access that "several sources" had informed them that "several of the shows scheduled to be dropped" from 960 had suddenly been "uncanceled."

Through our own reporting and information from insiders very familiar with Clear Channel's plans, we were able to confirm that their previously previous intentions had come to a full stop as the move was being reconsidered.

Yesterday, CC finally announced its newest plan in a press release published by All Access.

According to the statement, virtually all of Green960's current line-up will now be allowed to stay on the air in San Francisco, though the brand-name will still be changed and both Beck and Right-leaning financial talker Dave Ramsey will be added to the schedule in place of the current morning drive-time shows on Green960.

Beck is also syndicated by Clear Channel's syndication arm Premiere, and Ramsey is, according to one insider (though we've not been able to confirm it with Clear Channel) is now paying to be on the air in that time slot.

The new "KNEW 960" will use the tag line "Opinions. Finance. Advice."

Beck is scheduled to replace Stephanie Miller's very popular morning program from 6a-9a PT, with her live show scheduled to be delayed for evening broadcast instead, from 7p-10p PT. Thom Hartmann, who currently airs live from 9a-Noon in San Francisco, will also be delayed, running late-night from 10p-1a, though he is not mentioned in the release at All Access. His live slot will be replaced with Ramsey.

Similarly not mentioned in their release is the fate of Mike Malloy, whose show is currently broadcast live from 6p-9p on Green960. We're told that he will now be shuffled into the early morning hours of 1a-3a, with one hour of his three-hour broadcast lost to San Francisco entirely in the bargain. [FULL DISCLOSURE: I have been Malloy's regular fill-in guest host for several years, and am currently scheduled to once again be on board for him this Friday night before Christmas, and the following Thursday and Friday as well.]

The Malloy move is a strange one for Clear Channel as well. In 2010, Green960's then Program Director had told us that Malloy was his "best performer" on the station, presumably referencing the show's standing against other stations during the 6p to 9p hours.

Most of the other progressive talkers on the current line-up, including Randi Rhodes from Noon-3p and Norman Goldman from 3p-6p, will be allowed to stay where they are now, in their live time slot.