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November 25, 2007It is a very small group of us thus far, but I am very interested in your comments about LiberalLand, about my radio show, or anything else you care to post. Thank you for taking the time to come here and to comment.
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Where All States Are Blue, But Some Are Bluer Than Others
I give you Kudos for starting a blog what ever those are worth. I always seem to start one and give up now that I look forward to reading yours don’t give up like I did. Thanks for keeping it interesting.
John in Dallas,TX
You Liberalland graphic/map should show Liberal Canada as well!
Hey Alan,
The site really needs a good makeover! It looks like it is out of 1992. You need a different site designer, your current lot are really bad, all of their sites.
Try and get some beta testers too to test out the site,
What would uncle Gerney say?
Liberal Canada would be welcome, but I believe Alan is parodying Jesus Land, which itself is a name intended to mock the Christian Right’s view of America. It’s a co-mocking of the C.R.
Alan,
Thank you for trying to understand all religions.And I think the question needs to be what would the Father do.Jesus did the Fathers
will.Thank you.Frank
Thanks for doing this blog and for giving us three hours of great radio every weeknight. It’s the reason I keep my XM.
Dell in Waco, TX
Alan,
please look into getting your whole show podcast. Instead of just the first hour. I can only listen to the podcast as I live in Australia. Give it a go!
This is a very good idea….especially for those of us who love to listen to Alan’s radio show…but are not necessarily FNC watchers(I have had just about enough of Natalee Holloway,Anna Nicole Smith and Stacy Peterson…which FNC tends to do at nauseum) I agree with much of your views Alan..and this blog is a great way to not only communicate….but commiserate and vent..Thanks Alan~!!
Dear Alan,
Thank-you so much for your common sense. I heard you on Air America last night and I had been wondering what happened to the man. I thought perhaps someone else was going to do something about it, and he would be asked if he would like to stay. He saved a boys life, he should not be asked to go to Iraq, I could not believe what I heard the callers say. It’s a shame that the very government that touts they preach tolerance, and professes to be trying to destroy stereo-types, are at the same time fostering new stereo-types.
Is there anyway, that, perhaps a letter writing campaign to the legislature could grant him citizenship? We could have him extradited, like they did to that fool drug dealer who testified against the Border Patrol, and be nice to someone like him instead.
If an Iraqi saved the life of a visiting American diplomat, you can be sure he would be offered Citizenship. It’s just not fair!
I don’t know what the other blogger’s are talking about. Thanks again!
Mike….we are looking to add the other two hours to the podcast very soon. Thanks.
LiberalLand: the next best thing to punching Hannity’s lights out! The only thing missing is Joe “the Womanhater” from Brooklyn! No, wait! We need a link to FactCheck.Org so we can actually learn something of a factual nature about the people running for President of the United States! Facts, you say? What a radical concept! I arrest myself in the name of National Security! And no doubt I’m now on the Terrorist Watch List (a million names and counting) for taking an irreverent attitude! Show your patriotism and sign up for the Watch List now! And why are my intials in lower case, dammit? Is this eecummings.com?
Ya, keep exposing Rudi for what he really is…I’m watching the debate, Cooper asked him about his ‘protection’ issue but he slithered out of it…make him squirm I say!!!
Oh ya, how about Larry David as a guest sometime?
Cheers
That’s excellent news Alan. The feed is not working correctly at the moment with yesterdays show coming through again instead of a new episode.
Anyways, Thanks for letting us know.
Republicans are cutting each other up at their debates.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071129/pl_nm/usa_politics_republicans_dc
All well and good, it’ll be like a school yard sqabble compared to the ‘fear and smear’ campaign that will be targeted on the Democratic candidate once the conventions are over, not that they’ll wait that long.
Smears against Hillary(hitlary) have been zinging around the internet and message boards for a wile now.
It will get nasty.
Your radio show is getting to be the same old same old, Q and A’s. You give the same idiots too much air time.
Now there’s a point, because actually it does seem to me as if the show attracted significantly more thought-provoking callers back in the W-EVD days, and lately the Radio Graffiti segment seems populated by knee-jerk nonsense.
Your radio show peaked my interest, so I peeked into liberalland and nosed around.
Now I am a blogger, too.
Thanks
Mickey
Tucson
I think that judge should be appaulded. People today have no respect, and even worse yet they act like children and can’t own up to their mistakes. The idiot in the courtroom with the cell phone should be punished for inconviencing the rest.
Alan, please adjust the blog’s time, it’s off by 3 hours, since you’re based in NY.
Just thought you’d like to know this blog is currently
33% evil, 67% good http://homokaasu.org/gematriculator/
Hey, the caller who said that the Clinton hostage taker was obviously a liberal, because a conservative would have had real dynamite, was making a pretty funny joke.
I like it when conservatives can find a way to make their points with humor. It makes for a more civil exchange. For instance, the caller the other night who proposed National Hair Care. It’s funny and it makes a point about what might or might not be covered in a national health care plan, like elective surgery.
Cool idea liberal blog wish I’d have thought of it.[lol] We’ve lost More rights under GW Bush than ANY Presinent EVER.Jerry,Grand Blanc,MI.
Alan,
Thanks for taking my call. How are you doing tonight? Hello? Alan?….
You have a lot of fans! I’m a hardcore conservative and Hannity and Colmes is nothing without you despite Sean’s sometimes overbearing personality (though you are almost always incorrect…naturally). Your opinions and humor have been greatly appreciated for the last decade.
Your radio show is excellent as well. I caught the end of your WEVD days streaming online and was happy when you got your current radio gig. Entertaining political radio theater at its best. You’re also one of the few radio hosts who can do radio hours without guests and it doesn’t get boring. Well, most of the time. :D
A loyal listener
Stephen, TN
@mike beckham
I think that both this and Alans primary site look bad. I would suggest switching to WordPress to make it look better, because there are thousands of themes for WordPress. As for Alan.com, I would suggest doing a redesign, and if you want it to lookm cheap and beautiful, you can email me and i can do it for a hell of a lot less than anyone else. Also, Mike, you can goto FoxNewsTalk.com, and it has a live stream, but over there in Australia, its probably really early, I would really like the whole show as a podcast.
@Kris Z
Yeah, I am usually busy at the time (11amish).
I tend to avoid FoxNews.com sites as well. They all look fairly bad…
What is Tina talking about?
She did “get lucky” tonight.
What an incredible amount of airtime for a first time caller to get!
Today must be a slow news day…
Alan Clolmes, what’s up? It amazes me how you and your liberal lackeys trivialize situations that are happening around the world. I listen to your show and am quite taken aback by how rude you are to those who son’t agree with you. You cut them off before they can finish their statements and if you really don’t like their comments, you just hang up on them. You are an example of what is wrong with this country. Several weeks ago you had a woman on your program who had the audacity to say that Jesus never existed. Moreover, you express every now and then that you don’t believe in God and that those of us who do are suffering from dementia of some kind. Anyway, this woman goes on to say that Christianity was forced on certain people throughout the course of history. NEWSFLASH: Those people were not Christians. They bore no semblance of the compassion of Christ. They may have said they were Christians. However, if you’re standing in a hangar and you call yourself an airplane does that make you one? No more does it make me a Christian just because I call myself one. If Jesus never existed, then we have a hole in the history timeline. If Jesus never existed then who existed during the time he was supposed to have existed? I’ve heard you say you read the Bible often, but I belive you read it with an air of skepticism. You want to find the tiniest flaw and then blow it out of proportion. If the Bible isn’t true then we shouldn’t quote it or trust it. Also, if you don’t believe it then why read it? I would advise you to read the Good Book with an open mind; then you would see what those of us who believe in it are talking about.
Vince. Thanks for reading my blog. Unfortunately, it appears you don’t have any idea of my views in spite of the fact that you denounce them. I never said I don’t believe in God, and I have never said that those who do suffer dementia. I present people with all points of view on my radio show and take more calls from those who disagree than almost any other talk show host.
Not only have I read the Bible, I’ve had years of religious education. And the wonderful thing about America is the freedom with which was can consume such information, or not consume it as the case may be.
You seem quite angry about hearing a view that doesn’t comport with your own. But I thank you for coming here and expressing yourself.
I found Palagia to be rather condescending. Listening to her talk, you’d think abstenant people were lepers.
As for Alan, he’s overall a good guy, but also human.
I really just skim-read what you said, Vince, as I’m sure using the word audacity to describe letting the woman who challenges Jesus’ existence tells me more than enough about you. I’m actually disappointed that I missed that episode.
I’m a supporter of Ron Paul (RP), and definately not one of those whacko 911 conspiracy people, and neither right/left/dem/rep. I do however, believe he is the best presidential candidate in a long, long while. That aside, to my point-
One of your callers and you had a “discussion” about RP and abortion…
RP’s view on abortion is the view that should be taken whether you agree with abortion or not - its not a federal issue, as the federal gov’t was never given any right to regulate such a thing unless that thing results in the infringement on another’s rights. The issue should be left up to the states, which shall act in accordance to federal law defining what is a human being (Title 1, Ch. 1, Sec. 8, U.S.C.). RP’s views on whether abortion should be legal or not would be irrelavent if we followed his views on who has jurisdiction over regulating it.
Now for a personal perspective, and I won’t go into whether I think abortion is right or wrong because that is completely irrelavent…
All laws concerning unborn/fetus/etc and abortion MUST BE IN HARMONY. One law cannot make it a crime to cause harm or death of a fetus, when there are laws that allow for abortion. For example, a person who kills a pregnant woman shouldn’t be held accountable for for the fetus also; while a woman can go and get an abortion with no penalties. The reason it cannot be done like this is that it gives special “rights” to one group of people (pregnant women), mainly the “right” to determine what is a human being and what is not. This determination should ONLY be made by the consensus of the general public, then applied to all cases involving these issues. Defining a human being has already been done by Congress (Title I, Ch. 1, Sec. 8, U.S.C.) however various statutes conflict with it (mainly Title 18, Part I, Ch. 90A, Sec. 1841), and other statutes too - Congress can’t determine that a fetus isn’t a human being in one part of the U.S.C. then enact a statute that protects it as a human being would be protected. So whether you agree with abortion or not the fact is that all laws concerning the subject must be in harmony to be JUST AND EQUITABLE for ALL Americans, and not cater to a specific group(s) of Americans. If a fetus is considered human then abortion is illegal and harm to it by ANYONE is harm to a human; if it isn’t considered human then harm to it cannot be harm to a human under ANY circumstance.
Nate “Nateholio”
Southern Californian stationed in Omaha, NE
Caller:
“They are taking God and prayer out of our schools!!!”
I noticed a group of students dragging god handcuffed and gagged out of a school building.
“They are taking prayer out of the schools.”
Although you can pray 5000 ft. on the ocean floor in a submarine wearing a straight jacket.
“Without the Ten Commandments we would have rampant crime.”
Just watch the news every day and see how much influence the 10 commandments have in our society.
Religions give preachers an accepted form to spew hatred. This is the nonsense we hear people calling in on your show.
Check out< http://www.follow the money project.org> about $ wasted on the war. Possible show segment. Jerry,Grand Blanc,Mi.
Alan: I understand your objection to callers to the radio show starting off with a typical “how ya doin’?” greeting, except there are probably people who think of you as a personal friend, since you visit them at home and go places with them in their cars, and that’s why they do that, and yet you turn around and say the very same thing to “guests” of the show, which seems a little, hi ho, contradictory?
Also, just wondering (if you decide to continue with the blog) maybe you could provide a separate section where the “Colms’ Irregulars” could post links to stories FYI, in the event someone stumbles over something that might interest you.
The pro “Christian” pander in Congress today is a baby step towards a theocracy.
It seems like an insignificant resolution with no teeth of any kind; but it sets a dangerous precedent.
I wonder if there’s any way to challenge it in court?
By my lights, such a “resolution” geared specifically to the praising of one particular religious sect (no matter that it is the largest one) has to be unconstitutional.
I want to hear Alito’s justification for this one.
This seems so absurd as to be some kind of surreal joke. Then again, this isn’t really a laughing matter is it?
Alan, I suggest you look into obtaining a constitutional expert to render an opinion on this for us.
I suggest you read from any interesting blog comments on the air in real time.
That would add another dimension to the show and motivate folks to read/sign up for/contribute to the blog.
Thank you for bringing up the topic of “unschooling”.. we have a very narrow view of education in this country.
Both of my children attended an “alternative” (philosophy school– it’s public, and more than 35 years old) that gives no grades and does not have a specific “curriculum.” In stead, students are engaged in topics of their choice, involved in internships, travel, and must complete six independent projects to graduate.
My daughter went to a top private college with the “presidential” scholarship and graduated magna cum laude, and at 23 has completed her master’s degree, and is fully employed in the field of her choice–art history–at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York).. My son is a musician who has just returned from a month-long trip to Germany and is planning his summer there..
They’ve learned a passion, how to make choices, how to learn, and how to set goals and accomplish them. These are all important parts of growing up that our schools refuse to teach… and since they’ve accomplished their academics in the process of pursing their own interests they have proved to me that what we DO teach is trivial in comparison.
Thank you (again) for promoting conversation about how education could truly be different.
Love this blog–I have it bookmarked–I think just having started out–it looks very nice–and love all the information on it. You are doing all of us Liberals a huge favor–with your radio show–and now the blog–where I live, I don’t get much Liberal media–this is very refreshing.
Jenlr….thank you very much. This is a labor of love at the moment, and I am glad it is meaningful to you. I feel compelled to use this forum to expand on what we do on radio and tv.
What a bunch of sickos..God help you all ’cause I sure can’t
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I thoroughly enjoyed your questioning of Romney on H&C tonight. Your more aggressive and targeted questioning made the show more interesting and as a Romney supporter from day one I feel more confident than ever that he is the best candidate the Republicans have this election cycle. I am sure Huckabee will fall apart as quickly as he rose, or at least I hope he will. If you could chose which Republican the Dems would run against who would it be (Guliani, Romney, Huckabee or McCain) and why?
Hey…”anonymous” (how about a name, big guy?) I know this is a cheap blog. As I’ve said many times on radio, this is a beta which will eventually move over to alan.com, which is being redesigned. As for the Paris Hilton picture, I’m sure you can’t stand it. In fact, I bet you’re looking at it right now.
I have never blogged before , and I am trying to respond to a comment I heard on the radio a little while ago as to why the goverment should be involved in the christian religion and not healthcare. The reason goverment is to be guided and inter twined with the christian religion is because what is at stake is truth.Healthcare is an opinion, not truth . Truth is a starting point for a righteous goverment, and when our nation and goverment leave truth, there is trouble.
Alan:”I know this is a cheap blog.”
Glad to see you agree with me, and that I got your attention.
Alan, you can do much better than this free Blogger blog…my gosh, it’s almost 2008, you are waaaaay behind the blogging curve.
Did you only want to practice with blogging for yourself? If so, then why advertise this beta blog on the radio? I think it might have been better to have kept this beta blog private to a small test group. Oh well, it can easily be deleted.
Why do you even need a beta blog? Blogs and their construct have been around for a long time. You ought to be able to launch the redesign of alan.com with a blog included without first putting up this free beta blog. HIRE SOMEONE WHO KNOWS WHAT HE/SHE IS DOING. Start your new blog ready to go big time the first time.
Don’t you even have liberalland.com? Instead you’ll be using alan.com for the blog and your web site? Guess http://alan.blogspot.com/ was taken! You have not put up any information about yourself or J.M., come on - that would take all of about 20 minutes.
Alan: “As for the Paris Hilton picture, I’m sure you can’t stand it. In fact, I bet you’re looking at it right now.”
Ahhh, there’s the juvenile, cheap shot I thought would be somewhere in your reply.
You are the one who put up a stupid Paris Hilton picture on your beta blog. Any visitor could not help but see it as he or she looked through your posts. I did not want to see it, but thanks to your choice of a post topic - there she is. It’s an unnecessary and unwarranted picture of Paris Hilton, and YOU put it on your beta blog.
As for as the “anonymous” for my name, if you don’t welcome or want anonymous comments (you do provide the option) then get yourself a professional blog and moderate the comments. Hire someone to manage the blog if you can’t. This cheap, beta blog allows anonymous comments and so that’s what you’ll sometimes get.
Require comments to have a real name behind them if that’s what you want. It takes only a few hours, a day at most, for a competent web developer to put a hosting paid-for WordPress (there are other blog systems too) blog up and live these days, and this person could could arrange things so there are no anonymous comments.
Alan is a dope as usual
Radical Evangelist Christians are are no different than radical muslims. They blow up abortion clinics killing doctors, nurses, and anyone else who gets in their way. They are those who drove the mormons out of Illinois and Missouri running for their lives. They murdered their prophet and suffered no legal consequences. A Christian Governor made it legal in Missouri to murder mormons! It is that same hateful biggotry today that is saying that mormons are not Christians, and that they are a cult.
Who is it that joins the KKK. Its not Mormons, Jews, or Muslims, but RADICAL EVANGELICAL CHRISTIONS.
Mormons should be glad that they are not grouped together with the Evangelicals!
Alan, I think you and your readers will dig out blog as well. It’s http://www.blahmerica.com. You’ll get a kick out of it.
Also, great interview with Romney. I listen to the show late night in LA. Came to check out the blog. Thanks!
greetings from pittsburgh! great job alan. fyi, i named my little boy alan. but that was 11 years ago. i wish more women listened and called your show. i can’t believe there are so many stupid people out there, and your show seems to draw them in. anyway, i listen to you most nights, except when i don’t. best wishes and keep up the good work.
I mean it! George bush and Norman Bates have Alot in common. “they are enriching uranium again”
NO MOTHER !!!! I WONT !!!
I CANT !!!
Please don’t talk about this baseball BS tonight. It’s almost all I’ve heard on the news today and it’s so boring that I might just vomit in my ball cap. :-p
Hey Alan what’s going on with the podcast feed?
Reruns keep getting piped through? No new episodes? Can you check it out?
Yo, Alan. Thanks for entertaining me 37 minutes 5 days a week.
I also forgot to ask about something. Is it possible to get your full show on podcast? I live in Norway so podcasts are the only way for me to enjoy your show.
Mo
We hope to have the whole show available via podcast in ‘08.
For all you Convolutedservatives, here’s a little test on how much you don’t know.
How many Founding Fathers were there?
How many were members of a church?
How many were slave owners (Christians?)
How many were gay?
How many were divorced?
What churches did they belong to?
What was their position on abortion?
How much airtime is H&C going to give Rudy? Especially if he won’t face you? It’s basically a promotion for him having Hannity do the ‘exclusive’ “interview”.
It must be frustrating….
Will George Bush be the 21st century’s Herbert Hoover? The way people in the finance industry talk, we could be headed for real trouble! Debt way up, people who shouldn’t be buying houses buying houses because the banks let them and a war with no end in sight. Yikes!
Quack!! “Mmm…oh yeah…mmm…may I grab your biscuits?…mmm….smack…oh! Oh Sidney!!…Oh Joseph!!!…the biscuits!!!” Quack quack!!
I remember some time ago you had a caller say that the Crusaders were fundamentalist Christians who murdered, pillaged, and forced unbelievers to convert to Christianity. NEWSFLASH: this just in-the Crusaders were CATHOLICS. MORE BREAKING NEWS: Catholics are NOT Christians. What a revolting development! So for those of you out there who want to push the fact that Hitler was a Catholic and, therefore, Christian, have no idea about Catholic doctrine. The Catholic doctrine and Christian doctrine are mutually exclusive. So go ahead and push the lie that Christians were responsible for some of the most heinous massacres in history. However, these people were “Christian” only in the nominal sense of the word. Therefore, they weren’t Christian at all. I know you hate the Bible, but check out Matthew 15:8-9 and also Titus 1:16. Think about that the next time you want to make false accusations against the REAL followers of Christ.
I read your comments, rcchopper and I have to say you have it wrong. Real Christians don’t blow up abortion clinics, join the KKK, or run people out of town. These are nominal Christians which mean they are not Christians at all. The word “Christian” means “like Christ”. Look at these so-called Christians and see if you see the personality of Christ in any of them.
What is the deal with Edwards and his “love child.” Over the last several hours the internet has exploded? Is this the end of pretty boi or a bunch of nothing? DrudgeReport initially posted the front page image and here is the news story: http://www.nationalenquirer.com/john_edwards/celebrity/64424
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/john_edwards/
celebrity/64424
I wonder if the guy who called in about the government poisoning their citizens with jet trails also believes that 9-11 was an inside job….
Here it is:
MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Finally, weapons of mass destruction. Key goal of the military campaign is finding those weapons of mass destruction. None have been found yet. There was a raid on the Answar Al-Islam Camp up in the north last night. A lot of people expected to find ricin there. None was found. How big of a problem is that? And is it curious to you that given how much control U.S. and coalition forces now have in the country, they haven’t found any weapons of mass destruction?
SEC. RUMSFELD: Not at all. If you think — let me take that, both pieces — the area in the south and the west and the north that coalition forces control is substantial. It happens not to be the area where weapons of mass destruction were dispersed. We know where they are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=2185
Yes!! Ann Coulter is on H&C tonight
Go get ‘em Alan
Why do conservatives seem to think you are the “Merry Christmas” nazi?
Like everytime they say “merry Christmas” to you, you are supposed to have an obligation as a liberal to react violently?
Allen, Thank you for being a voice of reason in the vast wasteland of bigoted, ignorant,imature,illiterate, attention seeking lemmings out there. Keep up the good work. Lynn
Go Liberalism. Why do conservatives need the government to tell them how to live? Aren’t they smart enough to figger things out for themselves?
I just have to laugh at all the gay-hating, commie-hating, “get him off Fox” commentary. If that isn’t proof Fox isn’t fair and balanced I don’t know what is.
I just wish my podcasts would download smoothly, daily, without incorrect date labels EVERYDAY. Must be a conservative running the show!!! LOL
“If that isn’t proof Fox isn’t fair and balanced I don’t know what is.”
Unless those opinions come from the management of Fox News, than it isn’t proof at all, it’s an assumption by anti liberal types who assume they own Fox News. At worst, it’s suggestive of what FN is.
I do think FN needs more liberal voices, and that they are biased to the right, though I’m not sure about the far right, but your example isn’t proof of that.
Alan, Huge Fan of yours just wanted to say that its funny how we’re called ‘Libs’. I actually wish that the name-callers would follow that line of attack. That way Progressives would be the ‘Pros’ and Conservatives the ‘Cons’!-JWO
Alan: better kick-start the spell-checker. Search the front-page for “mroe” and “granade.”
Alan I love your show! Your are the only person on radio that isn’t crazy. I don’t know how the right brainwashes their kool-aid drinking sheep, but it’s nice to hear a sane man talking. I also enjoy how you let the Bush supporting idiots dig themselves in a deeper hole instead of just hanging up on them, which is what I would do. Great show!
Alan: I heard your promo for the guest coming up tonight on women and submission. I am a “help” columnist in a South African newspaper and addressed this issue a few weeks back. Here is the reader’s question and my response. I trust your guest will probably refute my theology. Nonetheless, I wanted you to consider my approach with her:
READER: “You advise women to stand up to their jealous or controlling husbands. Don’t you know the Bible says wives must submit to husbands?”
MY RESPONSE: I do. Paul says, “wives submit to your husbands,” and one can safely assume Paul is addressing all of his writings to both men and women. A husband who loves according to Paul is both safe and worthy of submission! But, beware of any man whose knowledge of Scripture begins, and ends, with “wives submit to your husbands.”
Loving men (leaders, bosses, teachers) have no desire (craving) for the submission (obedience) of others.
Submitting (“giving in”) to jealousy or controlling or abusive behavior is certainly not very helpful to the marriage, the husband or wife.
The Bible doesn’t require anyone to submit (accept, obey) anyone’s pathological behavior, whether it is from a spouse, pastor, or any leader.
To resist (stand up to) pathological behavior, however (wherever, whenever) it rears its ugly head, is to do the perpetrator (spouse, pastor, leader) a loving service.
Submitting to damaging behavior can hardly result in enduringly helpful outcomes.
Sadly, I have seen many a woman hang onto the hope that the husband will eventually change (stop drinking, beating, swearing, and go to church!) if she could just learn to really “submit.”
I know women who believe their husband’s abuse is deserved - a “reward” for the failure to really submit.
If abusive men (yes jealousy and control are forms of abuse) were as interested in Paul’s injunction to men: “love your wife as Christ loved the Church,” we’d be pleasantly engaged in a completely different discussion.
No. The monster (jealousy) will not go away if continually fed. It only gets more demanding.
Rod. E. Smith (Rev)
You know, now that Liberalland has grown a bit, it occurs to me that my main complaint with blogs is that the frontpages are twenty miles long and go on loading forever, and inevitably the “drag button” on my browser’s scroll bar ends up being so narrow I need a magnifying glass to position my mouse pointer to grab hold of the dang thing.
Hey Alan
You are a very smart guy. How did you get so smart?
Allan,
In vein of the great Hulk Hogan, “Whatcha gonna do brother when Ron Paul and the paulmaniacs when wild all over you?” MERRY CHRISTMAS to my favorite Jew.
In vein of Hulk Hogan,
“Whatcha gonna do Alan when Ron Paul and the Paul-a-maniacs go wild all over you!?
Merry Christmas and whatever else, you’re my favorite Jew,
Travis R. Mook
Let’s just get together and celebrate the birth of Jesus the father of liberalism and forgive the deluded servants of Satan and his philosophy of conservatism. It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. You can’t switch that around to mean anything else. Discuss.
Alan, are you hosting the Live XMAS show or is someone guest hosting/
@valley streamer
you are starting to sound like Alan. I don’t agree with you, therefore you are worse than me. I guess its part of the disease of Liberalism, thank God I don’t suffer from it.
You can just hear the hate whenever a conservative calls in–BUT–they are the great Christians–ya right! What a bunch of hypocrits–and by the way–even tho I do not subscribe to everything the Bible says–it does make mention the Jesus hated hypocrits! He also was not in favor of organized religion. When you look at this country now–you can see why!
Alan why don’t the auto industry put the 200 mpg carburetors on the new cars instead of bitching so much about lossing money,maybe they will make some money if they do.Also Tesla at the early part of the 20th century made an electric car that ran all day without a battery. All that made it run was a box he made up with 12 vaccume tubes,some wire,some resistors and 2 metal rods that pulled the power out of the air,but wasn’t hooked up to the motor which sat on the seat next to him.If you want to check this out go to the Tesla web site about the electric car.The other thing about the 200 mpg carb. it’s been around since the 1970’s in fact there are 2 carbs one gets 100 mpg and the other 200 mpg there are patents for both and the 200 mpg carb is made in late 1980’s there was a man that was bragging about how great his mileage was when he took it in to be serviced the dealer took the carb off and sent it back to headquarters they don’t want the general public to know the carbs exist.
Alan, I don’t know if you got a chance to see Ron Paul on Meet the Press this morning, but he seemed to dodge most of Tim Russert’s questions.
Do we really need another president like that?
I wonder how the Ron Paul cult will react?
Alan, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, God Bless you. Jerry, Grand Blanc,Mi.
I cant find any details, but I know its someone from the Justice Dept.
But last nite I was listening to a repeat broadcast of The Randi Rhodes Show, and in this program,
one of the Phone-in guests was telling Randi that effectively Bush & Cheney have been impeached, and effectively Americans are just waiting for 1/20/2009,
when the law & the constitution throws them out. The evidence for this can be found in; 1] the polls wich show this administration has a very low
approval rating, and 2] The waning potency of this president when he, or any other high official of his administration, come before congress seeking legal
approval for a proposed action. He must put-up a struggle, just to be heard. Many dont take him seriously. And with poll approval ratings under 30%, hes a
joke. NOBODY takes him [or them] seriously.
Now I cant remember, nor find, who this guest was from Randi Rhodes website. And I do know it wasnt his main topic. AMF, it was just a parting shot,
but it sure pacified me against any hopes of Public Insurrection or Mass Protest. Just the work going on right now by Air America & Moveon.org are good
enuff to get some feces flying.
Mike…Jay Diamond hosts tonight.
“This nation is founded on Christianity!”, the neocons and history challenged others insist when hawking their “values” and values driven candidates, “And we need a Christian leader!” Have they even heard of a man named Thomas Jefferson, who wisely demanded and worked for a secular Constitution and the government it was meant to govern? Do they have so much as a clue that most of the Constitution’s framers shared his concerns about keeping religion out of government?
I find it amazing how unintelligent
some of the people appear to be on the liberal front. It seems there is no sense of history,patriotism,
or common sense. Whatever happened
to trusting your president? What ever happened to believing in the honor and integrity of our armed forces? Whatever happened to believing your own government over blogs and foreign governments? What happened to believing the CBS,NBC,ABC,CNN,MSNBC,or other unworthy news agencies? What happened to questioning all these groundless conspiracy theories? What happened is that there is too much information out there that is not true and most people don’t do their own research of trustworthy authors or researchers. People simply buy everything that fits their own agenda whether it is true or not. What a shame!
I just wanted to say this is an excellent blog source that I intend to use often and to thank Alan & Staff for producing such a great show. Keep LiberalLand open as long as they allow us to speak the fricken truth!
Also get me my 3-hour podcast please … my web recording software is groaning along with my hard drive.
Alan, I always wanted to ask you this question, how can you stand working with Sean Hannity. I mean his ego is bigger than Bill O and Clinton put together. He’s hardly ever there, all the stories are the ones he wants to talk about - I mean you do your cause an injustice by always being put down.
Unlike what you wrote in your book Alan, your DID NOT “grow up” in the Viet Nam era. You were in high school then. That’s not growing up in the era.
I can’t believe all these people that call into your show over the past few months and just have to slip in a “Ron Paul is the next president!!!” crap.
Ron Paul is an outright racist… Check this out:
http://ryanfagan.net/blog/?p=324
hey alan
i think its great you have a blog but i think it looks a bit too plain… it needs a few more ooh’s and aaah’s on it and stuff. ;)
Kate…this is kind of a beta blog; when it is folded in to alan.com it will be sleeker. Thanks for coming here.
alan
i wanted to hear your thoughts on joe lieberman backing john mccain…
personally i appreciate lieberman alot for his terrorism and war positions — which of course is why mccain got his nod. but at the end of the day senator lieberman is still quite liberal on all other issues. do you forsee a mccain/lieberman ticket??? ;) i am just musing….
Alan,
Thanks for the ’shout out’ on the blog yesterday after I sent you the link about Ron Paul’s racist past. I really think that is so cool that you gave me recognition. Love you radio show. I listen to it every night. I put a link to the post you made about Ron Paul on my blog and mentioned how I am an avid listener.
Have a great day!
There is one line of reasoning that is consistent and persistent throughout the Western world and it’s puppet governments everywhere, and it is that Islamic fundamentalists are the problem. The truth, to Islamic fundamentalists they are the solution against a world that is overtly pro Israel; against a world that has abused the Islamic world since before the first world war. Moreover, Islamic ‘extremists’ have been aided and abetted by the Western powers, at one time, solely to act as contrary forces against Communism with no thought as to where it would lead. It was a short-sighted blunder by the U.S. and allies who are paying for it now. When one is bullied and abused by a strong tormentor one needs to, and is justified, in utilizing whatever is necessary to end it, that is irrefutably true, only the hypocrites and liars and evil perpetrators refuse to admit that.
I was listening to your show last night and I could not believe one of the statements you made. You, in so many words, said the reason we entered WWII and the reason for today’s War on Terror are different because we entered WWII because we were attacked. So, let me get this straight: Deliberately flying two jetliners into two buildings doesn’t constitute an attack? Deliberately flying a plane into the Pentagon is not an attack? Do you understand what an attack is? These people are dedicated to the demise of Israel and the USA, whom they call “The Great Satan”. (Yes, that includes you). You also have the audacity to say we have no business in the Middle East because the Muslims are in the middle of a civil war. Against whom? Israel? the US? If there is a civil war going on, they chose to involve us in it. What did we do to them to get them to enter this country illegally, obtain pilots licenses under false pretenses, and with great intention fly two planes into the WTC, another into the Pentagon, and the fourth was diverted into a field in Pennsylvania, altogether killing more than 3,000 people? I say we go in there and wipe the rascals out, just as we did the Japanese in WWII. Alan, I really think you need to check out your morals involving this situation. The only thing these people will respect is a show of force because that is how they choose to deal with us.
vince, 9/11 was an attack by a group of crazed extremists and NOT a country…
World War II had us being attacked by a country…
We shouldn’t go invading counties, such as Iraq, when they had NOTHING to do with 9/11… They were a SECULAR country, and because of them being a secular country, Osama Bin Laden wanted NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM before we invaded…
The death of Bhutto came as no great shock. The shocking part to me is that she made it more than two months since returning to country. What i find extremely disturbing, however, is the war hungry rhetoric coming from GOP candidates, particularly from Rudy. Yes Rudy, we’re all aware that you lived through 9/11, (so did the entire rest of the country) but your blood thirsty comments on Bhutto sounds as if you were hand picked by Bush to carry on the torch of war. no thanks. And Romney? “Pakistan has always played a key role…” what role would that be, Romney? the role of breeding grounds for terrorists? that’s what it looks like to me. sanctions? yes. more war? hell no. A vote for a republiCON is a vote for war. Remember that on election day.
Alan-you are a great American, thanks for the show and the site. Do you ever sleep? i notice you’ve stopped the crickets, as well as lefty the entitlement hound…please bring ‘em back. you know what they say about people who can’t take a joke, don’t you? As for the blog, the comments section needs to be more forum like, with the ability to create new topics and respond individually. also, a feature to allow regrouping of posts from newest to oldest. scrolling to the bottom of a hundred post page is super annoying. hey, 1994 called, it wants its comments page back, haha! keep on keepin on, and thanks again for the show.
L-i-b-e-r-a-l. What a beautiful word. How easily it trips off the tongue. It has such a refreshing ring to it.
Haven’t you heard? After years of trashing by the Right, it is back in favor again. Americans are no longer falling for the “attack the word” policy, where Conservatives obfuscate the true meaning of a word or concept and enshroud it in lies and propaganda.
Go on, I challenge you, Rove, Hannity and the rest of you Right Wingers out there. Keep it up. Keep hitting the word liberal and you will bring about the opposite of what you are intending. You have said the word so many times, (whatever the scurrilous context); people are beginning to like the sound of it again.
I say it again: L-I-B-E-R-A-L. What a wonderful word! What a wonderful sound! It is the bell of liberty, and the marker for everything honest and humane in our society.
I shout it from the rooftops, LIBERAL, LIBERAL, LIBERAL.
It means what it says: LIBERTY!!!
It is what the Bill of Rights is all about. Petty minds and squalid politics will never destroy it.
Do you know what the new dirty word is? What, have you been out of town?
I’ll tell you. The new dirty word is “c-o-n-s-e-r-v-a-t-i-v-e”.
This blogspot is pretty cool, Alan. I wouldn’t watch Fox News if it were the only show on tv (it’s still on?), but this venue seems a much less shrill way of finding out that you do have something to say. Plus I can speed past the nasty bits from the illiterati.
Drew
Well, joined wordpress.com. Even if Alan doesn’t go with that, or is it .org that was suggested to him and he spoke of?, I figure I might as well join one of them. I am such a joiner.
Odd, I thought it was going to post under wfg? Ok then.
Boots on the ground
Why don’t you do something worthwhile, like interviewing Naomi Wolfe?
I think Bhutto’s death is troublesome but this government is so obviously white is black and black is white when Bush tells Musharif he can’t be head of the government and military at the same time. Go in depth with Craig Unger and his book the House of Bush The House of Saud.
Elevate yourself, be a MAN! And calling this LiberalLand is so Archie Bunker. Why not call it MeatheadLand
Dear Alan, your show is fantastic .Hannity Blows and is a great liar for the Republicans. Please keep it up ,your radio show is the best. Keep the pressure on the liars, (Republican party) and the Democrats are on their way to a VICTORY,08……I AM A VIETNAM COMBAT,DISABLED VETERAN, who voluntered did his time for his country. Please keep giving the Republican Party Liars the mexican CHORIZO>>>>>>>>>> jerry cortez San Antonio,texas
Alan,As a conservative NH Republican I enjoy your show as it provides food for thought to balance what I hear in conservative radio land. Glad you are available in NH. Last night’s radio show pushed too far with Rudy and “911″. I am not a Rudy follower but 911 is still not something to joke about. As far as Mitt,(you got me here he is my vote) I did understand what he was talking about..Leadership.You should give equal time to Hilary. Maybe you can explain what she did for the past 35 years as per her ads. The Union Leader ran a cartoon of her acting as a surgeon with a caption indicating she was not a surgeon but was married to one for 8 years as she prepared to cut into a patient. Food for thought. Keep on Truckin…..
alan,
you should start raising awareness about a core liberal agenda - one that focuses on liberty. the current administration has used fear as their primary tool (through media outlets like fixed news) to further their assault on liberty and, perhaps more distressing, further advance their friends’ corporate and large financial interests. there are many of us who are growing very weary of partisan politics and the coke vs. pepsi choices most mainstream candidates represent. please use your platform to bring attention to the underlying systemic flaws that cause most of our problems, like market fundamentalist global hegemony, the xenophobia and lack of genuine empathy caused by religious fundamentalism (particularly christian in the US) and our failure to honestly evaluate global resource scarcity (i.e.; oil, declining marine fisheries, and most importantly drinking water.)
How can anyone be expected to get through to folks who think Bob Dylan is a purveyor of “traitorous
hippie music”? And you can bet the poor guy still thinks Saddam Hussein and Iraq deserve everything they’ve gotten for attacking us on 9/11. I’m afraid it’s hopeless.
Every few posts there’s a swipe at Fox News, an attack on Alan for asking valid questions, etc. From what I can tell, both political sides have people severely lacking in maturity.
Instead of repeating your loathing for each other, with unoriginal snide remarks about your “enemies,” perhaps some of you sadly angry people can stick with debating the presented before you, you know, by pointing out the fallacy of ideas you oppose and promoting the merits of ideas you propose.
I hope this isn’t a news flash, but no person here is the absolute representative of a conservative, liberal, libertarian, etc. As Alan’s said, he represents himself, not you, and he may call himself liberal, as he has chosen to, if he so wants. If you want to disagree, maybe you can explain why you do, past inventing a litmus you’ve chosen for him. And the remarks about F.N. are boring, as they would be if The Gaurdian were being attacked. I wonder how many of you have even watched F. N? Here’s one for you, the BBC has had internal reports critical of itself, and I’ve not gone and attacked the channel. The reason I haven’t is because I have little experience with the news programming it presents, so not only am I not using second hand sources to go after them, I’m not even letting myself come to an anti BBC mentality.
Grow up.
*debating the issue presented to you.
Sorry, I have mild dyslexia, or at least I sure as hell seem to.
Ok,I’ll succumb to your style.
The BBC hates America and wants to eat your puppies and sleep with your spouses. I base this on having watched a half dozen of their news shows and some reports and opinions I didn’t look closely at, which is good enough as a basis. Do I need to elaborate with specific examples? Of course not, and you’re naive and evil for questioning my vague “evidence.”
Why does the BBC hate America??
Alan,
Ask Senator McCain, why he laughed, and found it amusing, when a supporter asked him, “How do we stop the B—h? (Hillary)
Why are Republicans so mean spirited? I wonder if Hillary would of laughed, if someone would of asked her, “How do we stop the A–h–e?”
Thanks Alan
Yeah they didn’t have an out of office Clinton countdown clock, they just removed him from office! Republicans can always dish it out but can’t take it.
Dear Allen, after listening to some of your callers,I know why we ended up with Bush and Cheney for the last eight years. I think you should ask them who their senators and representatives are for the state they live in!!!
when are ya going to knock the hell out of Hannity..how can you sit next to that piece of trash. Shalom
Hello Alan!
I listen to your show daily and appreciate your fairness to all no matter what they believe.
Thanks,
John in Virginia
Independent Conservative
Alan,
In regards to that yahoo that wanted to know the formula to bend light. It’s a Newtonian law.
Here it is.
In Classical Mechanics, the formula for gravitational acceleration is :
F = Gmm’/r²
According to Newton’s second law, F = ma, we find :
a = Gm’/r²
This equation does not imply the attracted object’s mass. So, even if a photon is massless, according to this last equation, light should be curved by an astronomical object. After calculation, we find that light should be curved.
GR introduces some corrections (relativistic effects). Compare GR light curvature to classical light curvature and you find a quotient equal at 2.
Tim De Groot
Grand Rapids MI
Listening live on WTKG 1230 AM
Keep up the great job!!!!
Hey Alan
You think that the assassination of Bhutto was a result of our interventionist foreign policy? Strange, so does Ron Paul.
Hi Alan,
I’m a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania and I wanted to let you know that you are one of the few people I am really delighted to listen to on television. You offer a refreshing relief from the trash that I usually hear from bloviators like Bill O’Reilly and Brit Hume.
I just wanted to say that I am Ron Paul supporter, and that this is the first person who has really motivated me to become politically active. I was an Obama supporter, but when I heard Ron Paul, I was moved by what he said. The reason I’m saying this is I wanted to let you know that he does have real supporters out there, and we aren’t all rabid nutjobs.
Forget the NeoCons, Alan. As I recall, we have First Amendment rights in this country, and Freedom of the Press.
We have every right to question any government, whether the NeoCons like it or not.
I laugh when NeoCons think Sean has control over you. NeoCons should be comedians because everything they say is hilarious.
The only problem with Sean is he is very defensive and can’t take criticism very well. But it’s fun to tease him!
ALAN, SENT YOU EMAIL A FEW YEARS AGO, ASKING, “DO YOU SLEEP WELL AT NITE’ INFERRING YOUR WORKING FOR F0X. YOU ANSWERED, I APPRECIATED VERY MUCH.
YOU HAVE ENTERTAINED ME, PROVIDED ME WITH A LOT OF CHUCKLES ON YOUR BLOG, KEEP IT UP, I AM ON YOUR SIDE OF ALL ISSUES, ENJOY YOUR HUMOUR, THANX, TOMAS DRYDEN
Most whites have never experienced black leadership. Most have never had black teachers,cops,doctors,therapist. Therefore the average white person will not vote for black leadership because it is an unknown. As a society we need to get better at promoting more minorities in business, school systems, police departments etc. Once we do this we can work towards the presidency. WAKE UP PEOPLE.
Love the blog Alan! It’s quite amusing to read the “hate” mail which seems to generally be a one way street of thinking: they all think you should think their way or the highway!
Did you see the report from a conservative think tank that Fox News is THE most balanced news station? Yeah, it made me laugh too.
From: Perry Sakkaris - Republican voter in California
I am a supporter of Dr. Paul, Fox has decided to EXCLUDE him from the republican forum in New Hampshire on January 6. Alan, as a so called Liberal is this not censorship? I have been watching Fox for the past 6 years, I don’t agree with Fox all the time but I did think they made an attempt to honor their slogan: “We report you decide”. This exclusion of Dr. Paul is a travesty. His comments in the debates have all been backed by history and facts and is the smartest and most consistent republican candidate. How does it feel to be part of an organization that is trying to silence the one man who speaks the truth?
Alan,
I know that you are the only thing on the left side of fox’s fair and balanced scale but why don’t you move your radio show to the Jones or Air America network? That way all of these throwbacks from the shows before you won’t be calling to insult you throughout the show and you can get on with what you have to say.
Love your show,
Brett,
Fountain, CO
I really like that you are posting radio notes from previous shows.
But maybe you could put a page up with your upcoming week’s schedule now?
http://www.cracked.com/
check this out, it’s right up ur alley.
It would be good, I think, if in the final redaction of Liberalland we the unwashed could post comments which include links that actually function as links.
And, BTW, the spell-checker underlines Liberalland as a spelling error.
hi alan
this is the first time I have had a chance to post something about your interview last week with Sen. McCain. thanks for asking him about a possible mccain/liebermann ticket!!!! even though i was musing in my post to you, it was quite fun to here my thoughts outloud on your show. we appreciate you and sean.
McCain have a HOT daughter Megan. Go and check out her blog site. I am voting for him now.
A chatbox and poll would be nice additions.