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Quote from: b_dubb on February 13, 2011, 09:35:57 PM
fortunately i had my .357 Magnum and shot my radio while I ate my e-foods direct oatmeal and horse hooves breakfast

unfortunately, the e-foods caused me to spontaneously spray festering diarrhea shit all over my deceased mother's persian rug and my uncle jib's dirty syringe collection.

Quote from: Lena on February 13, 2011, 10:37:13 PM
what does that have to do with JFK?

anyway... back on topic.

Quote from: Lena on February 12, 2011, 08:45:23 PM

Ron Paul wins 2011 CPAC Straw Poll

that correspondent almost seemed like she was afraid to lose her job at fox by announcing dr. paul's victory.

Quote from: Lena on February 12, 2011, 01:52:16 PM
I only know Rush from youtube clips.
It seems to me that he is still trapped in old party thinking "us vs. them", and is an apoligizer for everything bad the GOP does,
but who I really can't stand are cretins like Bill O'Reilly and slimeball Chris Matthews.

Ron Paul will run for Senate, not for President. My guess.

oreilly is the WORST.  if i were to begin articulating the reasons why i feel that way about him, it would cause my blood pressure to rise.  since i'm already battling the onset of the flu, i don't need any more problems.

Quote from: b_dubb on February 13, 2011, 11:31:44 AM
they don't have any backbone either. no wonder they can only thrive in slackademia

that's just it.  these people start out in college as students, and then find a way to STAY in college for the rest of their fucking lives until they're old enough to collect some sort of undeserved retirement.  they produce NOTHING to contribute to the GNP.  they strike me as empty vessels of condescension, consumption, and indifference.

forget whether or not the bombs in japan saved lives or were morally right or wrong.  a better use of your time is to consider the american mindset at that time... a mindset capable of unleashing such misery on our fellow man.


there is plenty of evidence to suggest america did not need to drop the bomb.  i get it.  the point is, i think the bomb was more about retribution than anything else, and for me, retribution is not too difficult to understand or accept as a reason.  the american people HATED the japs for what they did at pearl harbor.  they HATED the japs for what they did to american POWs.  americans hated their culture, their appearance, their food, their clothing, their military, and their general existence.  our hatred was utterly visceral.  i routinely talk to my grandmother about WW2, and i'd recommend you find someone in their 80s or 90s to talk with about it.  even in 2011, almost 70 years later, my 84 year old grandmother still speaks with a tempered rage when discussing the japanese.  intellectually, she understands today's japan is not THAT japan... but the rage is still there.  i can sense it.


while it is true there were elements of the japanese government making overtures of surrender through the russians in the period leading up to the dropping of the bombs, there also were equally powerful and exceedingly vocal forces within the japanese government/military who simultaneously were singing a very different tune publicly because they just could not believe the americans would be willing to absorb a land invasion.  what they didn't know was that the americans would not need to.  worst of all from the american perspective was the fact that the japanese were FAR from offering an unconditional surrender. 


i know a man named paul who is 90 years old.  he was on a ship headed for the japanese mainland when word came to abort mission and stop the ship.  the bomb had been dropped.  he says it was the happiest moment of his entire life.  up to that point, he'd been floating about the pacific in a dense fog of depression and inevitability.  from the time they learned they'd be invading japan to the time they were told to abort, he lost 40 pounds.  it was a really, really awful thing for a small town kid from missouri to endure.  is paul evil for having been relieved by that?  or the thousands of others just like him?  or their families?


it's nice to sit here with 70 years of historical separation from these events and confidently pontificate about what was right and what was wrong as if you're an arbiter of truth, justice, and human decency with your finger on the pulse of something the rest of us would see but for our childlike ignorance... but it's all shit, if you don't mind my saying so.


hindsight is a great drug.  it's made many a dummy feel like brain surgeons.


the fact is, these were very different times 70 years ago, and you can not grasp the anxiety... the environment... the fatigue... the smells... the pain... without having lived through it.  condemning the america of 1945 for dropping those bombs is an easy position to take.  it's like suggesting you're against throwing babies from trees.  well... good for you.  way to stick your neck out there.  it requires some real historical objectivity and personal wisdom to consider the difficult.

Quote from: b_dubb on February 10, 2011, 09:33:55 PM
no i said i wasn't going to argue with you.  and mine was a serious question.  speaking of promises being kept/not kept ... you've said more than once you were going to leave the forum.  since you're keeping score


and thanks for showing your ass again.  metaphorically speaking

if i can be made to feel confident that trump is not a "free trade at any cost" zombie or a member of the bedroom police, i'd support him.  i also want the patriot act scrutinized and rolled back where appropriate.

Quote from: anagrammy on February 12, 2011, 01:07:02 AM
Yeah, this board is a fun one--it's now my favorite of several I post on.

Anagrammy

how many others do you post on?  you're already a rather consistent participant here, so you must spend a considerable amount of time on the message board front.  i have a hard time just keeping up with this one.

thanks for posting these videos.  i'm a big ron paul supporter.


i'm surprised the same conference that would have rush limbaugh would also have ron paul.  if given the choice of watching rush deliver the same speech he's been giving for 25 years or listening to dr. paul's wisdom and common sense, i'd have to pick dr. paul every time.


rush's stock dropped many, many points with me during the 2008 election because of the dismissive attitude he took toward dr. paul.  i'm sure a lot of people believe rush and his imitators were responsible for the whole tea party movement over the course of recent years, but in reality, it all started with a humble physician/congressman from texas... the same man who is routinely dismissed and marginalized by the likes of rush.

Quote from: Lena on February 12, 2011, 12:17:49 PM
I wonder what kind of cretins listen to a dumb fat sack like Limbaugh anyway.

15 million of them do weekly.



if it hadn't been for rush limbaugh, i'd never have found art bell.  without rush, there was nothing to get people to turn to the AM dial.  AM was dead until rush singlehandedly saved it.

Quote from: mib12890 on February 12, 2011, 12:20:51 PM
Could someone attach that show? I can't seem to find it on any of the torrent sites.

users are no longer allowed to attach coast to coast shows due to the DMCA notice sent to me by premiere radio's attorneys.  however, you ARE allowed to upload the show to a file sharing site and then provide a link to that file here in the forums.

Quote from: Evil Twin Of Zen on February 12, 2011, 12:21:19 AM

cool. most people i know don't know of Renaissance. my intro to them came in 1977 in Japan. hell, i think i still have the LP jackets marketed for the Japanese releases. nice to know that annie haslam still has her voice these days.

oh, so that's not relf's sister in the vid?

lesbian tupperware parties... god damn.

Quote from: JustOneFix on February 11, 2011, 10:56:03 PM
I primarily smoke Marlboro Reds, but have a few Arturo Fuentes and Rocky Patels put away for special occasions.

you should give the marlboro blend 27 a shot.  very nutty.  the perfect coffee cigarette.

why am i attaching audio of me, woefully intoxicated on new year's eve, singing karaoke on a pirate FM radio station?  i don't know.


not for the faint of heart.

Quote from: Evil Twin Of Zen on February 11, 2011, 01:18:20 AM

Renaissance - Carpet of the Sun

is keith relf playing in this?  or was he already dead?


edit:  oops, never mind.  relf died in '76... so he's not in this.

hey, justonefix.  already gave u the initial shoutout elsewhere, but no harm in round two.  thanks for joining, and hopefully you'll be a regular.

Quote from: JustOneFix on February 11, 2011, 03:56:47 PM
A few weeks back he was reading some news pertaining to "Hy-Undies" and "Uhhh-Cure-uh" Hyundai and Acura. After he said that I sat there at my desk for a minute and thought to myself "Did he really say that? You've got to be shitting me!" If he did that for a laugh I have to admit it worked!

haha, i've heard others mention his pronunciation of those same two words in the past.  it must be true.


welcome to the forums, brother.

Quote from: valdez on February 11, 2011, 05:48:07 AM
    "Are you in awe of the universe?"   He asked this at the tail end of the show, after listening to someone go on an on about the wonders of space and science.  George knew the answer.  Why ask it?  Why?

what would be epic is if the guest simply responded, "no."

Quote from: valdez on February 11, 2011, 05:48:07 AM
    Steven Quayle thinks that Armageddon may be a few weeks away.  Great.  There goes my vacation.

valdez... i don't know if you mean to be as humorous as you are, but i constantly chuckle at the tone of your show recaps.  god damn.  you're a funny bastard.

Quote from: RealCool Daddio on February 09, 2011, 11:51:29 AM

Probably the best post ever on this thread, Mike, nicely done. 

oh, and thank you.  almost forgot.

Quote from: Fort Rock on February 11, 2011, 07:36:21 AM
TO THE GROUP: I think the problem we have here is that Art, when he returns, will be forming a semi-new network of stations! He's limited to how he talks to the fanbase. Also in the past all he's had to do is throw the switch so to speak and return to Coast! Now it's going to be all new! Anagrammy is right that Art more fits into where Talk Radio is, and is headed these days, so getting station support will not be the problem! The more both Art Bell and Alan Corbeth are silent, and not commenting, the more I know a major announcement will be coming before Summer!

i really do WANT to believe you're right, but i think i'm going to stick with my previously articulated suspicions:
http://www.coastgab.com/index.php/topic,2136.msg33570.html#msg33570

Quote from: RealCool Daddio on February 11, 2011, 10:35:32 AM
No problem, I got a laugh out of the joke with Aziz - may borrow it myself!

you may, but i ask that you kindly remit payment of appropriate royalties.

Quote from: fabucat on February 10, 2011, 11:12:15 PM
...he had on some loser who allegedly was a Middle East specialist.  Said specialist was a diehard righty mega-Zionist Islamophobe who claimed that the Egyptian protesters were all Islamist maniacs who hated the USA & Israel.

it's strange to think anyone is coming away from the whole egypt thing with that take on the matter.  i've seen nothing to give me that feeling.  i haven't seen a single american flag being burned in the protests (although i know that doesn't mean it hasn't happened).  the situation in egypt seems pretty simple to me:  tens of millions of people are poor, tired, and disgusted with their corrupt, nepotism driven government.  they want regime change, and best of all, our tentacles are touching none of it.

Quote from: Black Kitty Robot on February 10, 2011, 07:50:01 PM
Hello, found this site through an Android app called "A Online Audio".  Want to say hello and thank you for the station.

Anyone know when the Coast to Coast Android app is going to be released?  They keep saying soon...

hi there, and welcome to the forums!


is "a online audio" a stream player?


i don't know anything about a c2c android app.


what type of android phone do you have?  i have a droid x, rooted, running liberty rom v1.5.

Quote from: Fly By Night on February 10, 2011, 09:18:36 PM
If nothing else I do wish he would come back one more time and apologize to me for Snoory and send me a check to cover the money I wasted on streamlink.

hahaha

anyway, i don't mean to derail this thread.  back to the kennedy stuff.

Quote from: RealCool Daddio on February 10, 2011, 11:31:34 PM
In fact, the Republicans are still trying to undo the things he brought into place almost fifty years ago - like public broadcasting.

and i say good riddance to NPR if the republicans ever succeed. 


i'm not interested in the preservation of any organization that would fire a man (juan williams) for saying he gets nervous when muslims wearing djellabas board the plane.  anyone who says he's crazy for thinking that way is a dishonest shit. 


people are always complaining about jesse jackson and al sharpton and the threat they pose to free speech in america, but the fact is, it's usually cowardly, guilty, white, corporate assholes who limit what you can say and about whom you can say it...  guilty white assholes like this one:

Nice pantsuit, dummy.


my saudi friends laugh at the silliness of white american thinking.  no sense of humor or sense of self preservation (at least, none that can be publicly expressed).


this morning i dropped aziz off at the airport.  just before he walked into the terminal, i placed my hand on his shoulder and said, "aziz, i'm afraid i'm going to have to ask that you not blow up the plane."  we had a good laugh, nobody was fired, and no investigation was initiated. 


fuck 2011 america.

Quote from: The General on February 10, 2011, 05:02:12 PM
To me, Oswald had the motive.  He was an avowed marxist Soviet sypmathizer who killed Kennedy for his anti-communist policies.

the problem with this contention is that it simply has too many holes for me to buy it.  it sounds like something somebody (conspirators?) would WANT me to believe about oswald. 


first off, if the document lena posted is genuine (and i have no immediate reason to doubt its authenticity), oswald had a documented, irrefutable history of cia affiliation.  as far as the government's intelligence infrastructure was concerned, oswald was a known quantity (and asset) well prior to november 22, 1963.  if he weren't, he'd never had made it to russia (and back).


second, when oswald was handing out communist literature in new orleans (the purpose of which seems suspicious AT BEST considering his past cia affiliations), his leaflets contained the address of a building entrance that led to the offices of guy banister, a career fbi man, private investigator, and unabashed anti-communist with documented, irrefutable mafia ties and a lengthy history within the intelligence community.  was oswald "sheep dipping" as a communist in new orleans under the guidance/sponsorship of banister and/or others?  he'd almost have to be, it seems to me.  due to his past cia affiliations and his physical proximity to the new orleans intelligence community (and guy banister himself) while handing out the leaflets, i'm nearly incapable of being convinced he was acting on his own or doing so as a result of any genuine convictions he held. 


furthermore, according to the warren report, oswald met with an anti-castro leader days before handing out the leaflets, and oswald offered to join his group.  when this anti castro leader saw oswald handing out the leaflets, he came unglued and went after oswald physically.  a scuffle ensued.  oswald obviously set the guy up, and the "fight" was engineered to draw further attention to oswald's activities and lend credibility to his actions.  numerous people on the scene suggested oswald's body language suggested he was neither surprised nor disappointed by the circumstances of the confrontation.  if i'm not mistaken, there is film footage out there somewhere of this very incident.


finally, i'd like to say god bless jim garrison.  a true american hero.  i don't give a shit what anyone has to say about that man.


i hope i articulated these points in a coherent, worthwhile manner.  i'm very fatigued.