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Right-wing terrorism: did bill o'reilly inspire a killer?

A fine, Christianist patriot killed Dr. George Tiller as he attended his Wichita Lutheran church on Sunday.

The 67-year-old late term abortion doctor was shot in the church's vestibule and in the head because the shooter knew that's where he'd be and because he knew Tiller always wore body armor... even to church where he served as an usher, and his wife sang in the choir.

Severin to return to boston radio

  Jay Severin will return to the WTTK airwaves Tuesday.

"He understands that we will not accept this type of commentary on our airwaves in the future. Based on this understanding, we have agreed to conclude Jay's suspension and he will return."

(photo: more rodential than consequential)

The weasel-toothed Boston Republican was suspended after he tried to salvage his flagging radio ratings by turning up the slime against Latinos: calling Mexican immigrants "criminaliens," "the lowest of primitives," "leeches,"  "women with mustaches and VD.'' During the swine flu scare, he called emergency rooms ''condos for Mexicans.''

Open thread: rest in peace

"After a long battle with obviousness, subtly has died." ~~ Rachel Maddow

What happened to shannon burke?

It might have begun when he agreed with his Clear Channel handlers to switch from being a liberal Texas talk host to a right-wing Central Florida "mouthpiece."

What happens to a man after he swaps out his soul to fill a market niche?

Talk host Shannon Burke walked out of the Seminole County Jail, Wednesday.

The judge let him out on condition he post $25,000 bail, gets psychological help and stays away from drugs, alcohol, guns and his wife.

The Dori Monson Lifetime Goals List

A young man dreams his dreams. And Tuesday Dori Monson, former King of Seattle Talk Radio (KIROFM m-f, 12-3p) announced that he''d he go to zero gravity on a Celebrity Space Flight, June 27th.

(photo: maximum dorkitude)

With oodles of the feigned emotions he's famous for, Dori admitted he felt all "quivery" about it but allowed that he'd man-up to the challenge because it's for charity (Fred Hutch) and that space flight had been on his lifetime goal list for 29 years!

When I was about 18 years old, I started my lifetime goals list. I wrote down about a hundred things that I wanted to accomplish in my lifetime. At the time, most seemed impossible. The list has evolved over the years. I've added many new goals - and eliminated those that are no longer important to me. But I have accomplished about 40 of the things on that original list.

From a source we got an old hard drive and Dori's and found this historic, early version of The Dori Monson Lifetime Goals List [with new goals and some eliminated because they've been achieved or are no longer important to him]

• Ride my bicycle without the t-wheels
• get a bike that's not pink
• tell a girl something
• meet JP Patches
• 4 feet tall!
• change my name to a boy's name

• learn to dribble
• tell a big boy something
• Make a basket
• change my name to Craig

• tell my mom to "get bent"
• touch a girl NOT on the arm
• my own subscription to Playboy!
• ride my bike to Wallingford
• Change my name to Jason
• 4'2"!

• Talk to a girl
• learn the Bugaloo
• have sex with a girl but not with her arm
• Change my name to Wolf
• Be 5 feet tall!!

• cancel my Playboy subscription
• change my name to Philip
• shoes with lifts

(photo: a young man & his dreams)

• Buy a Harley
• Change my name to Harley
• Buy a Vespa
• Change my name to Vespa

• make the big guys talk to me
• Boots?

• Join the Marines
• Join the Army
• Join the Coast Guard
• Join Costco

• Make a million $ a year
• Become a celebrity
• Become a Rotarian

• Be on TV
• Be the new JP Patches
• Be the new Bruce King
• Be the new Wayne Cody
• Be the King of Seattle TV
• Change my name to Bart

• talk to nuns on the radio
• get my own talk radio show
• Be the King of Seattle Talk Radio
• Be the King of Gutter Helmet
• Be the Voice of Bartell's
• kick Dave Ross's ass

• Get a turtle
• get a Labradoodle
• get a Pitrador
• Get a Chihuahuan Husky
• score free dogfood

• Jump out of an airplane
• Jump out of a hydroplane
• Meet Randy Mantooth
• go bungee-jumping
• learn balloon animals!

• Fix my lip
• fix my hairline
• Vasectomy!!!
• lose 20 lbs.
• Make Seattle sorry for everything they ever said about me
• Make all those big guys sorry for everything they ever said about me

• Get out of Ballard
• move to Mount Lake Terrace
• move to Lake Forest Park
• go into MySpace

 

Limbaugh: sotomayor is a racist and I hope she fails

He did it again, he served himself, leaving nothing on the platter but bitter scraps for starving Republicans desperate to rebuild national face... not to mention live and do business in a post-Obama landscape. 

UPDATED: seattle radio ratings

Seattle listeners, according to the new PPM survey have stars in their ears, and music in their hearts. The news and politcs are way down there on the listenables.

Music radio rules ... especially Fisher's KPLZ (Star 101.5 FM). The market's all fuzzy tunes and almost no talk.  Note public radio KUOW kicks news and news talk ass at #11 but still can't overcome the shit-kickers, the oldies and the Charmin soft rock; progressive robo-talk KPTK, and hard right talkers KTTH and KVI are nowhere to be seen in the top 20. Sports talk isn't much of a factor, re: the low standings of KJR-AM and KIRO-AM.

PPM's put KIRO, KTTH in the basement

We have seen some of the new 25-54 (money demo) ratings in this first rating book using the new PPM (portable personal meters) technology.

It ain't pretty.

Remember KIRO AM/FM and KTTH who enjoyed 1st and second (or 1st and 4th) places in all Seattle-land?

Lest we forget: war of choice; war of necessity; the human cost of occupation

American Military Casualties in Iraq

American Deaths        
Since war began (3/19/03) 4300   
Since "Mission Accomplished" 4161 (5/1/03)
Since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03): 3839   
Since Handover (6/29/04):    3441   
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 72   

American Wounded
Official 31285   
Estimated Over 100000
Latest Fatality May 23, 2009

List of U.S. Service members killed since 5/1/03
Source Antiwar.com

Turning out the sexist vote

 The right-wing scheisse generators have no problem turning to knuckle-dragging sexism to do their demonization of Nancy Pelosi, whom they're trashing because they're afraid of President Obama's popularity.

The latest is the GOP video that juxtaposes 69-year-old Madame Speaker to Pussy Galore, the amply endowed villainess from James Bond's Goldfinger.

Politico:

The wisdom of equating the first woman speaker of the House with a character whose first name also happens to be among