SUNDAY NIGHT WITH LIGHTNING
Wow, do we have a show for you this week!
Actually that should be, Wow… do we have a show for you this week?
I’ve been busy working late, sleeping later, and watching America collapse all around me, and well… that has taken up the rest of my time.
So what to discuss this week? Oh, how about the idiots who have affected my life, our failing president, Scott Brown’s ascendancy to power, the Leno-Conan farce, some silly railroad tales, advertising in America, and of course one very interesting Supreme Court decision.
That alone should keep us busy and hopefully will, as I’ve got just about ZERO production in the can… so we shall chat for an hour or two, maybe three with your assistance.
We shall have an OPEN PHONES EVENING, asking you to call in any time and face off with me, or help me out as we parse and dissect the issues of the day.
As usual our exclusive little chit chat club begins chatting for real at 8PM Eastern time, with a pre game ramble starting about 7:30.
Your appearance is as always, MANDATORY, and be sure to have a friend or 12 check us out. Anyone looking for topical talk and more, needs only use the link below to access the fully rock hard, blood engorged radio show, you know as The A Little Bit Of Everything Radio Extravagonzo!
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January 30th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Just heard the show from the 25th (I get everything on delay these days) and I must say that it was a VERY interesting and VERY well put together show. I have to apologize for not being able to call in, once again busy doing the saving lives thing…
I really enjoy when all of you guys are there talking it up. Johnny you do a great show and when you do it solo I don’t know how– I could never have the stamina to do so as you do! But when you guys are “all together” that makes it even better…I suspect that as you guys engage in dialogue, more people are apt to call in…as it is so much ’safer’ to add to a discussion than be the first kid to hit the kickball, know what I mean?
I MUST chime in on the recent Supreme Court ruling! I suspect that multinational corporations will now be able to very craftily “shape shift” their ad efforts so that the ‘message’ they deliver will ‘appear’ the he public to look like a homespun company’s message instead of being in actuality generated from a foreign shore or shores. After reading “IBM and the Holocaust” one becomes quite aware of the chilling tact that a less than true blue (or would that be big blue?) corporation can take. This will be good employment for former cigarette company ad men. They will sell the “New” red and white chevron of interest to the Red, White and Blue! (while supplies last…)
It still bothers me when I see company names like “Farberware” (I.G. Farben) or “Krups” and I think of what these companies did, though I know that of course no one there now is responsible. But in my mind I still think about it, and yes, I avoid these names in the marketplace.
For that matter, tt seems that war for IBM was approached with a “business as usual” attitude. No matter who is on what side, and really no matter what the outcome, multinational corporations seem to welcome the upshot that war provides, and really, they are completely indifferent to the war itself.
Consider corporations (and let’s not forget administrations) who have violated export licenses. Daddy Warbucks is alive and well, he not only exists but thrives in the present day political wilderness of mirrors. Consider who armed Iraq in the first place, and finally, fade to Eisenhower’s speech about the Military-Industrial Complex.
Look, whether your door swings the left OR the right, this ruling is, I am sure, a dangerous one for all of us. SHAME on the SUPREME COURT. What next, will the Justices start wearing promotional ads on their robes like race car drivers do? Or in essence is that really what they are doing ALREADY?