LiveBlog for Tuesday, June 2, 2009

I've written to George Stephanopoulos and other sunday morning hosts suggesting that they not invite people back as guests when they have been shown to lie on the show. Once you know someone like Cheney is a pathological liar, that nothing he says can be taken at face value, what is the purpose in interviewing him? I'm sure there are a dozen or more people more interesting than Cheney who don't lie and who could shed much more light on any topic Cheney will talk about. Also, if you make it known that you will not have guests back when they have lied on the program, there is an incentive not to lie and to explain any lie that is uncovered--the equivalent of a followup question with NO TIME LIMIT. So if, a year from now, something is discovered to be a lie, it will have to be explained before the guest may reappear. If guests don't appear on the program, the viewer will know why--because he is a confirmed liar who could not justify or explain away his lies. Viewers would then understand why a given guest isn't around anymore. Perhaps a second tier program could be used to have the guest back to attempt to explain his lies. Appearance on that program would be a last chance for that guest. Once he fails to appear and explain, or appear and his explanation is rejected, he should be banned from the network. A nonperson. Not discussed, not mentioned in passing, not asked about. Please write to Meet the Press and This Week and Face the Nation (and any other program you can think of) and suggest this.

I am so sick of cheney getting softball questions, lying in response, and NOBODY in the press calls him on those stinkin lies! I'm listening to his interview with greta, in it he admits that Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11. And she NEVER asks him why he lied when he continued to claim there was a connection.

I cannot see a single reason that would keep cheney from a VERY long sentence in a super max. In fact, having cheney in a situation where he is trading cigarettes for his life is too nice for him. I would like to see him kept in a stress position 23 hours each day. Just as he made sure many of the "Detainees" were kept in the very same position for doing MUCH LESS to our people, our nation and our shared livelihoods.

just about any kind of dust atomized enough will explode if a spark is introduced. Grain elevators regularly explode. Even iron filings will explode.

We aren't talking about REPLACING the onboard black box, but having the recordings backed up on a spare on land via satellite uplink. If you lose contact, you lose contact--it's probably inevitable and will happen frequently. But usually you will have a backup. People could run diagnostics on the characteristics and discover repeated patterns of certain events--turbulence, loss of hydraulic pressure, vibration, or whatever--indicating a needed maintenance on the plane.

544. They also found pools of molton steel. Airplane fuel can't do that.

#537 Once you start putting the rights of yet-to-exist individuals above that of their hosts, it's a slippery slope to the host having no rights, not even a name.
On a message board discussing the Duggar family (18 kids and counting) they often refer to Michelle Duggar as Ofjimbob.

Buh Bye, Bloggoes! :mrgreen:

See ya sometime in the future.

Luvya!

My high school chemistry teacher used to brew up thermite all the time. Good fun.

ciao all y'alls!

Um, do you know what nanoparticle thermite is?

It's aluminum dust and ferrous oxide (iron rust) dust. Not exactly uncommon chemicals.

good "day" that is.

Wow, a busy day (on-air and on-line). Way more fun than yesterday.

Have a great day, everyone!

Have a good everybody!

Well, show's over. I've got to get out of here and drive to Pueblo. See ya'll in another few days.

#534 Precisely why I mention it as a redundant system. The planes are engineered with multiple redundant systems for on board systems such as hydraulics, fuel, and oxygen, why not implement the same theory to the recording device?

"something we've live with for a long time"

like it's a disease

by all have a great day

I may have to add "The Handmaid's Tale" to my Netflix queue. All of this pro-life talk reminds me of the film.

533. Thermite at nano-particle size was found in the dust. High-tech explosive. The elevator shafts underwent "maintenance" in early Sept.

The old exploding paint trick.

530 -- might be OK for a backup, but if the land-based server or whatever loses contact with the plane it's assigned to, then what? The reason there needs to be a black box on the plane is that the recording is going to be the most dependably recovered.

Speaking of black boxes, did you know that Jesse "the Governor" Ventura thinks the black boxes at the World Trade Center were found, but the goverment is covering it up, so they reported that the black boxes couldn't be found?
And the buildings were brought down by explosive paint. Yup, since they can't justify the demolition idea (because people workign inthe building would have noticed the demolition preparations), now they've got exploding paint. The government used exploding paint to bring down the World Trade Center. Ooof.

amy - you could form it in a question ..... such as "Isn't being pro-life actually "forced birth, because . . . ?"

Amy I was afraid my rw friends would be upset that I posted the Dr. Tiller vigils times on my facebook page yesterday ... but they said nothing

Re: Black box - it just seems to me the sub retrieval from the ocean is good, however, if there was a redundant land-based recording setup then there would not be the need to scramble and find the black box on the ocean floor, send out the sub, and hope the information is able to be retrieved.

I kinda want to put Forced Birth on my facebook page, but I think some people I knwo are pro-life and it would offend them. But it's so true and such a great way to describe their side of the abortion debate.

Life started 4 billion years ago, and has never been uninterrupted since. The sperm is life, the egg is life, the blastocyst is life, the zygote is life, the fetus is life. It grows, it metabolizes, it undergoes cellular division.

Life isn't the issue. Personhood is.

The only thing that isn't life is my social.

No caller, they aren't anti-choice, it's FORCED BIRTH.

Cause they don't care what your choice is, they want to force a woman to give birth. Once they secure that, they'll start to force women to specific prenatal care. Next thing you know, bars won't serve woman for fear of being sued for damaging a fetus if the woman is pregnant and doesn't know it.

noooooo forced birthers!

Pro-Life quoad partus.

(pro-life until birth)

#518, if murder were legal, it wouldn't be murder.

520 -- OMG, wouldn't it be fantastic to see O'Reilly have to pay consequences for any of the outrageous crap he says?

gabby - if he were typical he wouldn't have stood out

Was anyone else here under the delusion that Gandhi was a fairly typical Hindu?

from twitter

americablog O'Reilly ambushed Tiller twice: No wonder O'Reilly is freaking out. Media Matters reports that O'Reilly's crew a.. http://tinyurl.com/nuw6xh

No one would survive but quakers who can hide really well.

I think murder should be legal. In very short order, we would be a much nicer group of people.

re: land-based black box: I think they do have some information relayed to land-based places. That's how they got the information directly from the plane that there was an electrical problem, isn't it?

What do I know. I am still rooting for the aliens.

I am actually OK with the idea that abortion is killing...I just want to have the right to decide for myself if the killing is justified, not have the government do it. Just like I can decide my own-end-of-life choices, or at least only my immediate family has those rights. These people don't understand social contract, esp. that in the US we don't act as the Morality Police over each other. We have to respect that a person making the choice to end a pregnancy does so with reasoning and self-awareness, and that one person's choice may not be the same another person in the same situation would make. Families make those life-altering choices every day. So does the government...it allows drunks to remain on the road until they wipe out a family, allows wars, deadly pollution levels, etc. I just want the same right when it comes to my personal progeny.

spiffy is gone. Who gets his gizzard?

Cheney, rove, limbaugh...they were all separated at birth

They quite often find and retrieve black boxes at the bottom of the ocean. we have robot subs now to help salvage chunks of airplane. I like the idea of having a black box on land storing the flight characteristics of the plane in the air.

Levin unloads on Cheney (video)

no he just leads the charge to out a CIA agent

It'a obvious dick is just practicing a little cya. Leading the charge?More like trying to keep your butt out of jail.

OK, I always mean to stay for only a half hour. Then someone says or writes some that gets my gizzard and I overstay. Have a good day peoples!

nooooo the other option is to hold them LEGALLY

Who the @#$% is still interviewing Cheney???? STFU!!!!! STFU!!!! STFU!!!

When it comes to reality shows, the term "celebrity" loosely used. Dr. Drew's Celebrity Rehab included Rodney King!

A good facilty? Only if your a Nazi wanna be.

sanjaya is still a teenager. he could have a huge career in front of him. He's already world famous.

495---facts confuse them.