90.1 FM, KPFT RADIO PACIFICA, HOUSTON

PACIFICA RADIO is the reason Houston is a tolerable habitat in this end of Texas.

It used to be a great privilege and novelty to be a Texan. Now, even in rural places, it is a homogeneous flux of old burnouts and carpetbag implants.

This last gentry believes it is a majority, and minimizes everyone else, including the majority of Texicans who are the minorities.

Rich people, being the peasants with money they are, think no one else has the sense to manage their own affairs. They make modest or large fortunes without consideration for the public or commons, then, having property to loose, become paranoid and tilt at perceived windmills. They get bunker fever and use their resources to lash out at things that have changed since their last notice of reality. They donate money to demigod politicians to protect their position against the unwashed.

Largely, the unwashed is what locomotes the wealth the nobles enjoy.

In this mess is Pacifica Radio. It is a place of internal mix-up and change. Chaos, however is a producer of evolution, and tends to oppose stagnation, if it doesn't kill the vehicle institution.

It tends to have a wild mix of good and bad programming, far out and standard music, live and recorded, old and new. Talk and opinion shows that even let me call in with my amateurish radio communication skills. News you-don't-get-anywhere is daily, because there are no commercials, no ad dollars to censor content.

Haiti, Kashmir, Palestine, Iraq, Bolivia, China, Africa. Have you seen nightly news on the military overthrow of Aristid? Nope, but on KPFT you get it at least weekly. "Democracy Now", the "Five-thirty Local News", "Flashpoints".

No commercials. Listener contributions. If you listen, join in by contributing. Even www.kpft.org, or kpftradio.org on the internet.

It is the only U. S. radio transmitter that, to my knowledge, has been blown up by terrorists, and twice. Hardly made the FBI miss a coffee break.

Ask w if he would investigate that act of terrorism.

It is a good thing, as Martha would say.

-30-bobby

JUST THINK IF CLINTON OR GORE WERE LIBBY'S BOSS

Just think.

That's all, just consider the hailstorm of weapons of mass nuclear hate that would be bathing the Whitehouse, converging on the pond slime of crocodile indignation that would be oozing through the floorboards.

Nothing would be polite.

The same Senator who argued to convict Clinton defended this current ethical canal dug by this Oval Office resident.

Just think. Ethics and law are only rules against the enemies of these sociopaths living undercover as patriots. Like in Haiti, or North Korea, for example.

Just think. Rove may be undercover for despotism. Out, out, damn spot!

Just think if Clinton were the subject. It was a personal spot he was in, not breaches and outing of national security secrets. Not for revenge against truth-telling.

Just only think.

-30-bobby

CORRUPT, KICK OUT

THIS VIP AND HIS CHIEF OF STAFF: WHAT A BUNDLE OF LAUNDRY THEY ARE.

So what if they knew and led and fed the leak? They are exempt from anti-CIA law, and could never act on selfish and partisan motives. The law was written to punish liberal pacifist pinkos for outing the sainted undercover operative, not your regular patriot.

We know that Karl and George are patriots, too. I mean his daddy practically wrote the law in the '80's because somebody had outed some company agents. We know from that who the law was meant to be against, not the basic Republican.

I read in a letter to the editor that nobody outed Valery Plame since anyone could tell who she really worked for by watching her drive to work at Company HQ every day. Problem is, if she was undercover, she worked at a cover company and would never have been openly visited the CIA.

No, I say the VP and staff and GB and Roving staff must just be patriots.

Hang everybody not them.

130-bobby

ASTROS LOST, BUT PLAYED PRETTY GOOD

The Astros were pretty good, at least they got there.

We wish we had won, but it might have been past due time for the other guys, after 80 years. Wonder what history is in that?

I notice that people are more interested in sports in general than in government or history. The only sports I notice are baseball, and auto racing. Oh, and lady's beach volley ball. Now there's a sport.

The rest are not hair raisers for me.

Politics being a nasty sport using real lives for a ball and disaster for a goalpost, the public almost shows good sense ignoring it in favor of stupid football. It is a shame that the reality relief is provided and manipulated by the institutions causing the trouble. They have a racket, all right.

Distraction, just like the Roman Emperors did it.

The Astros just didn't know how to act in World Series strategic stuff.

The citizen of earth doesn't understand how to act in the world series of current events. Wrestling is the best way to look at the phony politician's version of statesmanship. Acting.

Some day we should look at a few red herrings.

-30-bobby, Redelephant

5-5 in the ninth

OK, THE ASTROS USED TO HAVE A HABIT O WINNING MOST OF THEIR EXTRA INNING GAMES....

ONE OUT CHW

BALL, STRIK, FOUL BACK STRIK 2, SWING AND 2 OUTS!

WIDGER .241--1-1, BALL, S2 F BACK, SWING 3OUT!

ASTROS UP HERNANDEZ PITCH
PALMERO BALL1, 2-0, 3-0, 4-WALK.

VISCAINO P

JASON LANE--POP UP FOUL OUT

AUSMUS 0FOR3--BALL 1, SSTRIKE1, POP UP, 2 OUT.

EVERET--B1, BALL2 , S1, 2-1, B3, FOUL 3-2, FOUL, BALL, 2 ONBASE 2 OUT.

BURKE--S1, B1, BATTER TO PITCHER OUT 3.

THE REST I WILL HEAR ON SPANISH RADIO IN THE VAN.

GO ASTROS! ...

-30-BOBBY

TIME OUT, KICK OFF YOUR SOXS

right now the flat earth is on the near mound real estate nobody move

it is below 90 degrees, and i wear socks, but never white

the ASTROS can do no wrong as long as they win the last game

i do not like wite sox and ham in a box or cream cheese and lox

i do not like them, bill, i do not like them with a fox or after under a tree

i do not like them in a grove or with a rove

i do not like them in a wood or under a bush

i do not like them in a tight or on the right

i will not like them in a day or without delay

so go away, curious george

put on sox on all four feet

but keep those sox out of my reach

i do not like them unless with a peach

i do not like them sam and bill

but if you impeach the bum i'll have some

-30-bobby

JUST REMIND ME WHEN HE'S RELEASED

TOM DELAY WAS FINGERPRINTED, MUGGED, and posted 10k$ BAIL, if you can believe it. But don't send him a jailhouse calendar yet, cause he has DeGuarin (SP).

He still has influence and the house has continued the dirty business of the special interest paymasters.


Democrats have not decided to rear up and hang donkeyprints on backsides across the aisle, and must still have the Sword of Damocles over their chicken necks, Farmer Tom at the hilt.

We cannot just wait on these corruption champs to self-ruin their hides.

Even when the Occupant pardons half the cabinet and staff, they'll still have been disgraced. It won't stop their meanness, but it'll put 'em aside awhile.

w would then maybe have pardoned a larger Cabinet group than his daddy did.

All in the tradition of Reagan.

-30-bobby

CENTRAL AMERICA, NOT CENTRAL TIME ZONE

MAJOR, or mainstream news media have ignored El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala for the last two or three weeks. Hurricanes, torrential rains, mudslides, thousands buried alive, but not on the news to speak of.

MAYBE if Karl or Stacey or another indictable would be charged, there would be reason to divert attention away from the character values we have come to know and love in this moral administration. We got a whole new Chief Justice under the Rita news storm; nearly no debate.

MIDDLE Americans, as in the average news consumer here, don't get so upset at the misfortune of Central Americans, as in the victims of nature there.

MAKING all things equal, it is not surprising that distant tragedy is not as newsworthy as the local. We just can't feel everything the same as personal pain.

MODERATING the news is a science, or political art, or editorial bias or propaganda which fills news slots with what best serves directed interests.

MAKING advertisers happy, pushing an agenda favored in Editorial, appeasing the rulers; many demands are selectively obeyed before news is aired.

MANY deaths in Central America underreported may be racist, political, apathetic, opportunistic, or just lazy reporting. Never mind why, but notice what is not front page, and ask why not.

MUNDIAL news would not ever be complete, but would at least sample the world scene for the Middle American consumer, whose capacity for understanding has not been fully probed. Mercantile interests like it local vocal.

MAKE way for smarter consumers, voters, and thinkers. Don't cry for me, Argentina, but tell me your story.

-30-bobby

THE SABOT LEGACY OF SILVER FOOT IN MOUTH DISEASE

IN THE EARLY INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION in Holland there were factory speed-ups and other kinds of modern management techniques. They wore out the workers with long hours and less pay per unit. No breaks and no safety. Open gears, shafts, pulleys and wide belts whirred inches away from child and adult workers being pushed to move faster for endless hours. Mean and stingy supervisors had incentives to push. Nasty owners and managers literally despised the workers whose misery provided them with luxury and excess.

The Dutch workers had wooden shoes. These shoes would sometimes come off, accidentally, and become lodged in the driving gears so that everything stopped.

Wooden shoes would smash cast iron gears or jam them. Removing the sabots, or wooden shoes were called, became a maintenance break for the hands. Sabotage became the weapon to force a rest, or some fairness out of the owners. Later on, many laws had to be forced on the owners to avoid sabotage and provide a more comfortable and safe workplace.

Every year the management strives to return to the good old 14-16 hour days.
People who have no idea how to actually work try to feel better than those who do. They have control issues, greed and megalomania, and no idea what it is like to work harder without hope or security.

These are the class of the silver spoon. Texas Ann Richards meant these bastards, too, when she said, "Poor George: he was born with a silver foot in his mouth." (G. H. Bush) His son would also excel in auto-sabotage, if he could only form a complete sentence.

The Sterling Sabot is alive in boardrooms globally. How directors set up systems to cheat the consumer and production worker amounts to sabotage of their own devising: see, how will people buy or produce without disposable income? Silver sabots in the long run will do the machinery in. Sustainability will require safety, security, peace, regulation, cooperation, conservation: all but security are hated utterances around board members.

Trying to talk security without peace of mind of the working producers, or workers, is kicking yourself in the teeth. Unfair working conditions just can't exist without a proportional loss of security.

Sabotage is getting what George asks for.

-30-bobby

THE VALUE OF KATRINA, RITA, PAKISTAN, INDIA, KASHMIR

THE VALUE of these events and places is that they display the power of nature, and the nature of power.

News of the current earthquakes resounds in the same words and terms as the New Orleans dilemma. Aid is offered and refused. Aid is expected and not forthcoming. Parties blamed.

One government is afraid to accept aid or offer to cooperate with another. The one thing absent, thank goodness, is FEMA, thusly reducing the incidence of incompetence.

No one expects a FEMA to do anything in Pakistan, which is a huge advantage over having hope where none lurks. FEMA has actually become the saboteur of the neediest NOLA survivors, making almost no low cost long term housing available to them. Even the existing housing inside the NOLA disaster has been delayed, obviously to avoid reestablishing the former residents in the Jewel of the South.

Racism and class resonate with the earthquake area, also. 'Nuff said.

The whole world needs separate and several governments in order to operate. To provide infrastructure, order, and peace. That is what none of us can rely on, because none can seem to deliver peace. The rest can't happen because it is too expensive: it is too expensive because of distrust, war; military expenditure.

The thing that is meant to provide, prevents.

Kashmir, if Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana must fend for themselves, may just as well be on its own. Foreign aid is better than federal aid, because no foreign government can sabotage and misdirect internal aid the way a local Kabul or Tom DeLay and Karl Rove can.

The idea here is that some day, when a section or an island or cultural group sees the need and opportunity to become legitimately autonomous, it should become sovereign. That is the only hope for the peace, to mind and allow others to mind each unto himself, their own damn business.

It means that Louisiana and Kashmir need support, not order or orders. Racism is not a thing to be tolerated by anyone, anywhere. States rights notwithstanding. Order proceeds from peace, not war, not dysfunction. So much for idealism.

Draw your own conclusions, and hope for the near impossible.

-30-bobby

CROSS THE BORDER, CROSS THE TERMS

Dear Mr Bush, if you don't mind, why did you never go outside the US until you were president? I think that it was in your first term that you used your passport to go to another country, maybe except for Mexico. You may correct me, if I err.

I happened to have lived in Central America, beginning in 1955, until after I returned from Viet Nam.

Oh, I forgot. You didn't go there, either. Or even fulfill TANG duties or reserves.

Nor have you or a lot of Americans ever lived overseas long enough to have developed a feel for a different outlook, perhaps a non-Columbo-centric view of the world. Some people might harbor the view that US policy doesn't benefit or trump their own country's needs and interests. In fact, Columbus may not have "discovered" what was always here and occupied by millions of residents. Columbus Day?

Also does the war on terrorism have another significance over the borders.

It happens that blowing up another country might be viewed over there just as we would view attacks on ours. The cross-term defines the biggest destroyer as the biggest terrorist. That makes you the biggest terrorist.

See how travel might improve one? But first, you have to have an interest in something outside your own narrow flatland selfishness.

A terrorist just doesn't have a wide world view. He only sees straight behind.

As if his head was stuck up somewhere very narrow and constricted.

-30-bobby

"NO MORE NATION-BUILDING"

THAT was what he said during the campaign.

Today, according to "The Houston Chronicle" headline, "BUSH SAYS RADICALS WANT IRAQ FOR EMPIRE".

Which do we believe? Believe the second statement first, but not in the way he intended. Radicals really do want Iraq for Empire: our radical right regressive regency wants it for Empire.

The set of extremists installed in w-ington today are killing our economy and social infrastructure in order to grab their own--not our--Empire.

Five + Billion, five thousand million plus a month is twelve times our annual subsidy to Israel, even Egypt. One month,s death and destruction of Iraqi infrastructure would have meant life and New Orleanean infrastructure saved.

On top of it, the price means removing American food and research and health and environment benefits from the deficit budget, not to improve the negative impact, but to give away future tax income at the top IRS 3%.

Who will pay the rest so that this 3% subsidy can be fed peeled grapes?

Look in the mirror, if you are in the under $100M income bracket.

War profiteering is what Empire is about. Kill the enemy, who happens to be regular earned-income taxpayers, civilians too stupid to be gout-rich, women, children, and any opponent of corruption.

No honest vote counts in Empire. The only thing that counts is our contribution to the video game that oligarchs thumb-play with our lives.

Life is worthless in Empire. Money and what it can destroy, military force that disables entire generations, slavery to auto-indulgent systems of abuse is the Empire builder's shock and awe syndrome.

He was probably right the first time, too. No more nation-building: just simple destruction.

-30-bobby

Elephant Safari: IT PAYS TO LEAD THE TALENT SEARCH

I understand the VP led the search for VP, and th new Associate Justice nominee led the search for AJ, who became Chief Justice, leaving AJ open for the searcher.

In Flatland, crony-ism is second only to corporate nepotism.

It pays and pays off to lead the talent hunt.

-30-bobby

YOU CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON BENNET TO EMBARASS

NOT THAT he really is a bigot, but he tries to act like he has good sense, too.

Whenever he speaks you get the sense that the Republicans are proud, since they gave him that job at Education, not that he or they like education, you know, but put him on a pedestal and listen to him on the radio and all and respect his wisdom.

I like when he talks, too. It makes me glad I'm not confused, because he proves the case that some folks are messed up because they don't get it.

Even though his comments were taken out of context, his words reveal a lack of appreciation of a raft of issues that his set of fellow travelers don't get. They don't get that most crime might be white collar, or that abortion is not a social policy, but a personal right. When the nation determines individual medical choice by force, that is dictatorship. That force is equal, whether applied to mandate or prohibit abortion.

The only freedom Bennet really believes in is the government's right to enforce his right to make money, no matter who's poor because of it.

Other than that, he does not understand freedom. And that makes him both a sad and ignorant specimen. He tries to make religion into law; IT DON'T WORK.

Just ask Ussama.

-30-bobby

HURRICANE RITA DEPOSITS THUNDERCLOUD ROBERTS

UNDER the cover of hurricanes, under radar, under our noses has come the clouded future we'll share living in the land of regressive legal activism.

This new Chief Justice will set the US Constitution on the rear burner for a generation. No mater what talent Bush lacks, his genius for doing the worst thing under the circumstance is unparalleled. If you think you have a civil right or right of privacy, a human right, or any other we now think you might have, forget it.

Right, and I mean right under all our little pitiful truffle-sniffers, this judicial disaster has sailed from a two-year just above intern judge to the top o' th' world.

I wonder what the other seven think, with their seniority and all?

Something about Affirmative Action, you bet?

-30-bobby