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I seem to remember a show back in the 90s when a substitute (Hilly Rose?) was hosting for Art.  They had a guest on the phone, went to a break, and when back on the air, they got no response from the guest.  They tried hanging up and redialing the guest, but got a busy signal.  This was before the widespread use of cell phones.  They went to open lines for an hour or so, and finally got the guest back.  It turned out the guest was at some sleezy motel on the motel phone, so the producer called the motel and badgered the manager (who also called in the cops) into going to the room and checking on the guest.  It turns out there was a phone problem of some kind, and the guest was sitting there waiting to come back on the show. The fill-in host actually thought "they" had silenced the guest.  It must have been a UFO show.  Anybody else remember it?

Maybe it was the same show where the guest and Hilly admitted that Bill Clinton had just lost a war with the space aliens and had hidden our last 350-UFOs near a lake in Canada.

What's even worse is the cutesy way of spelling those pussy names - Jarad, Awestin, Tieler, Reece, Ryley, etc.

On Dec. 21, 2012, I sent Mr. Little Noory an email congratulating him on reaching retirement, as he had promised to retire on that date.  He sent back an ellipsis-filled, all lower case reply that said he was not going anywhere.

Quote from: Morgus on June 29, 2013, 11:46:53 PM
global warming caused by mowing grass lawns too short...

Makes as much sense as the bill introduced in Congress, a part of which would require all buildings to have white roofs to reflect sunlight.

I picked a Rollye show at random and gave the podcast a listen.  She's good as ever.  The first caller, however, a guy from South Carolina, sounds like a refugee from one of sNoory's shows. 

Oh, my.

The people across the street, who sit outside all day drinking beer and yelling, and who don't appear to have jobs, are already shooting off fireworks.

Quote from: West of the Rockies on June 28, 2013, 02:35:36 PM
I wish we could come together and get some truly necessary legislation passed on all manner of issues, but it seems damn near impossible to me at present.  The Senate passed an immigration bill.  The House appears poised to piss all over it.

Silly boy, don't you know how political ass covering goes in DC?  The Senate passes a bill.  Everyone postures.  Including the Speaker who says they will not even vote on the Senate bill.  Instead they will have their own bill.  It doesn't matter.  Both houses will pass a bill.  Everyone postures again.  Then the conference committee meets in secret, puts together a bill and both houses pass it before we find out what was in it.  Lots of bribes, or what normal people would consider bribes, will be paid.

One of my grandmothers never drove over 15 mph.  The other never drove under 70.

The final caller epitomized the degradation of Coast.
Caller - Hello Mr. Little Noory.  I love you.  Hello Ms. Molton Howe.  You are so extremely intelligent.  Mr. Little Noory is very intelligent, too.  I wish you would use your intelligence to explain to me what you mean by at the center of the core of the earth.  Does that mean at the poles?  You are so intelligent.

Mr. Little Noory said nothing.  Linda seemed to flash anger at such idiocy, then explained that the earth was a sphere, 8000 miles in diameter and 25,000 miles in circumference.  And the center of the core would be at the center - 4000 miles in.

Luckily, Inca Dance had begun to play so Mr. Little Noory only had to read the closing credits, stop by the convenience store for a turkey sandwich, and drive home.

Quote from: onan on June 27, 2013, 12:47:35 PM
The cancer here is not the politics. It is the money in politics that has the kiss of death. If we can all agree that money isn't speech and take the lobbyists out of the equation, we may be able to bring some semblance of decency back to political discourse.

I think people, not an inanimate object like money, are the problem.  The politicians are open to bribery - that's the real trouble. But then, that's human nature - for a lot of humans, anyway.

Quote from: Sardondi on June 27, 2013, 11:06:53 AM
No honorable prosecutor with a shred of integrity

Unfortunately, Angela Corey and the prosecution staff are from my town of Jacksonville.  They were appointed as special prosecutors by Governor Rick Scott.  All are Republicans.  She was fired as an assistant by the previous state attorney (what a district attorney is called in Florida.)  She ran for election with the support of the police unions.  The head of the Jacksonville police union is now in federal custody on a multi-million dollar scam to defraud veterans.  During her time as an assistant, she tried many homicide cases.  Corey reminds me of Nancy Grace without the charm. There have been numerous cases in which I think she has shown a lack of integrity. 

For instance, she once had a 12-year old charged with 1st degree murder and threatened him with the death penalty.  After having him locked up in the adult jail for about a year, she finally allowed one of her assistants to work out a plea.  He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and will serve his time in a juvenile facility until he's 19.  The kid was guilty of killing his brother, but does a 12-year old have the mental ability to be charged with first degree murder?  At one time, in many states, one had to be at least 13 to be charged with a crime.   Under 13 was a juvenile status offense. 

She also prosecuted a woman and got a mandatory minimum sentence of 20-years.  The woman was married to a man with a past history of domestic violence including one incident that put the woman in the hospital. She obtained a protective order from court, but the man came back, they quarreled, and the woman fired a pistol into the ceiling to frighten the man away.  Corey chose to prosecute.

She also chose to prosecute a 65-year old veteran who fired 2-warning shots into the ground to frighten off some young people he thought were trying to force their way into his friend's house.  Corey sought a mandatory 20-year sentence in this case, too, and the trial judge called the required sentence "a crime in itself", declared the statute unconstitutional and gave the vet a 3-year sentence.  Corey appealed and had the 20-year sentence imposed by the appellate court.

Despite what the media report, the Zimmerman case is not a stand your ground case and never has been.  It's old fashioned self-defense. 

That I can't set up a second account here under the name "Creepy-ass Cracker."

Quote from: onan on June 26, 2013, 06:38:21 PM
We are using the "oil standard" these days. Any country that buys oil from the opek people have to buy that oil with american dollars. Which means other countries have to buy our dollars. When that falls apart have your bomb shelter stocked.

Yes.

Aren't we all being investigated by the FBI?  Surely we are.  They wouldn't let agencies like the NSA out investigate them.

As for Hastings, the "theory" I hear now is that he was driving a new car with one of the new computers in it.  The computers allow "them" to remotely take over control of the car.  The Toyotas with the sticking fuel pedal were actually equipped with these computers and the "sticking pedal" was a real world test of the computer.  Hastings' car was taken over, driven at a high rate of speed, and intentionally crashed into the tree.  Hastings himself always drove like a grandmother.

I seem to remember $10-million, too.

Capitalism is, indeed, broken.  Far too much corporatism has taken its place.

I'd ask, and I don't know the answer - did those hospitals in Raleigh actually make more profit?  Or did they have additional expenses they had to cover and that's the reason for the reduction in staffing? 

As for corporations having no concern for safety and welfare, I think workers comp is partly to blame for that.  Workers comp was supposed to be a deal in which the employee gave up his right to sue the company for negligence in return for guaranteed fast medical care.  Companies have worked over the state legislatures to reduce claims while arguing there is a lot of fraud.  The companies say they want to eliminate Workers comp - I say let them do so.  Open up worker injuries to personal injury suits (including punitive damages) and see how quickly the insurance companies force corporations to adopt tough safety standards.  As famed Georgia lawyer Hank O'Neill once said, "Give me a good damage suit and I'll show you consumer protection."

Time Warner, at least the cable division, is another example of a corporatist monopoly.  Why do city governments restrict who can provide cable service?

According to what WBZ reported from today's hearing, the cops were able to trace Hernandez's locations on "the night in question" by tracing his cell phone tower records.  I don't know exactly what the technical terms are, but the fact that his cell phone "logs on" to a cell tower as it passes within the zone.

Yes, kiddies, we are now all carrying our own tracking device.  We've chipped ourselves.

George: Too bad you've never gotten to ride in one of their ships.
Christine: But, I have.

Dead air worthy of two John B. Wells.

George:  How fast did you go?

No, you idiot.  When an interviewee says something like that, you ask a broad, general question - "How did that come about?"  "Tell us about that."  Something like that. Or even an Art Bell, "Oh?"

George Noory sucks.

Quote from: slipstream on June 25, 2013, 09:17:23 AM
Does Facebook actually have staying power?

Probably for awhile.  My friends in their mid-60s to mid-70s are just discovering it.

So, (ha) Stan Gordon is describing the crashed UFO that's half-buried in dirt. He says that the outside is completely smooth metal.
George: "No portals, no windows?"

No, you idiot. You would think someone who served 9-grueling years in the U.S. Navy would know the word is porthole.
George Noory sucks.

I haven't decided whether he's a saint or sinner, but we'll see what he gives to other countries.  If it's nothing - everything he says is public - I'd compare him to Daniel Ellsberg who leaked the Pentagon Papers.  The government had a fit and accused him of being a traitor, but what he told was only news to the American people.  The commies already knew it.

Since I live in Scott Spiecher's home town, I've followed his story for more than 20 years.  Amy Waters Yarsinske added a lot.  In brief, he was shot down on the first night of the Gulf War by friendly fire, ejected and landed in the desert.  He hid, set out markers, made radio contact, but our forces never went in to rescue him.  Though we did go in and take sensitive material off of his FA-18.  According to Yarsinske, Spiecher lived with Bedouins, and continued to leave markers for about 4-years until Saddam caught him. 

I remember the 2003 Iraq invasion. Senator Bill Nelson, one of many legislators who kept the story going, released information that made us think Scott would be found by US forces.  In fact, within months after the war, Nelson inspected a cell that had initials left there by Scott.  Unfortunately, Scott's body was eventually found, near the site of his crashed plane, and the Pentagon insists he died in the crash.

What a shameful episode.  One of my high school classmates, Captain Bobby Jones, M.D. is still MIA in Vietnam after a cargo plane crash.  While his identification was found intact decades after the crash, there's been no trace of him.  I had hoped that the Pentagon treated its soldiers, sailors and Marines better, but it seems politics is as corrupt there as across the 14th Street bridge.

Bobby "Blue" Bland - dead at 83.

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Quote from: nooryisawesome on June 22, 2013, 04:52:20 PM
Maybe they will add a "b" level host to the rotation.

I can't imagine them upgrading.

What a bizarre series of calls.  First from a woman who wanted to discuss Obama's "$100-million" trip to Africa.  Noory had heard nothing about it.  The woman said the media, specifically CNN and Fox, had failed to report on it.  She didn't say how she heard about it.  After Noory again expressed ignorance, she was cut off.  Noory laughed, and then said "They do have a kill switch."  He later said that Coast did not cut off the woman, but "they" did.
Next call was from "Rico" who claimed to be calling from Brazil. Noory was well informed about the turmoil in that country and asked several relevant questions.  Tommy did not appear to be working - someone named Gina was, so maybe she prepares better cue cards. 
The next call brought up choking, and Noory again said he didn't understand why someone choking would sit quietly, embarrassed and not say anything or ask for help.  As a previous poster pointed out, when you choke, you can't talk.
George Noory sucks.

When Art received his award, his new wife by his side, he still spoke lovingly of Ramona and her value to the show.  Grief expresses itself in many ways.

As for Ramona's death, I have asthma and I'm warned by my doctors that it is a chronic, incurable disease that could kill me one day.  I take precautions, but it's possible something could blow in through my window, trigger an attack, and I could drop dead at the keyboard.  I don't find anything odd about the description of Ramona's death that Art gave.

I've read the blogs of lawyers who practice immigration law.  They say the Arizona decision is not how it is portrayed in the media.  The lawyers say the plaintiffs wanted federal law (Motor Voter) to overrule state law.  That's not what happened in this case.  The court ruled only on the use of a federal voter registration form.  It allows the states to substitute their own forms and continue to require proof of state citizenship. 

Two victims of gun violence, along with an undetermined number of accomplices, broke into a Jacksonville home two nights ago, brandished a shotgun, and ordered the inhabitants of the home to the floor.  A young man who lived in the home pulled out his 9mm and emptied the magazine.  One of the victims of gun violence died at the scene.  A second victim was found dumped in a parking lot a few blocks away.  Police are searching for the remaining accomplices. 

One of the hottest Hispanic women I've ever seen was part of a group of Witnesses who came to my door one day.  The men did not appreciate me quoting a Blues Brothers movie line - "How much for your women?"