0:00:00 | JCD: “Ev and Biz?” ACC: “Ev and Biz.” JRP: “And you can always follow me on Tweeter” |
0:00:38 | JCD absent from Ms. Micky’s birthday party with Molly Wood, arrival of cops at 1:10 am |
0:04:34 | Two “coincidental” reports invite federal crackdown on marijuana producers and dispensaries, top ten negative effects including “merriment” and “heightened imagination”, ACC’s stoned “best landing ever”, JCD: “I don’t see our radicals complaining about this Republican president”, some Democrats starting to hope Obama will not run in 2012 |
0:15:01 | Spook Thomas Friedman at Aspen Institute Ideas Festival: Ross Perot won 20% of the vote in spite of the fact that “he was nuts!”, Michael Bloomberg a viable third-party carbon tax candidate; gasoline exempt from Australian “carbon price, or the carbon tax, whatever you’d like to call it”, Finance Minister Penny Wong: goal “transforming the economy”; Energy Secretary Chris Huhne predicts 30% increase in energy bills due to “green reforms” |
0:25:43 | Obama’s denial that even economists recognized recession’s severity vs Christina Romer’s “this is your holy shit moment”; “headwinds” meme resurfaces in weekly address, blame heaped on Greece; Jay Carney downplays miserable employment numbers: stupid Americans don’t “sit around analyzing The Wall Street Journal”; JCD on ShadowStats real 22.5% |
0:34:16 | Producer Segment: Justice Stephen Breyer on monitoring Libya “through the Tweeter” |
0:49:11 | Admiral radio and TV ad with catalog for a “penny postcard”, JCD: “those days are over!” |
0:51:00 | Outraged Portugal dumps Moody’s after downgrade of debt to junk status |
0:56:41 | Obama pushes for “rebuilding our roads and our bridges and our railrays” |
0:58:13 | Italian economic tensions over Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti’s feud with Silvio Berlusconi |
0:58:36 | David Cameron calls for reform of media laws in light of News of the World scandal, former communications director Andy Coulson arrested; JCD Red Book: openly gay Chris Bryant for PM; Bryant takes Murdoch to task in Parliament |
1:08:05 | Switzerland blocking Syrian assets; 7,000 blue helmets in South Sudan, CNN Senior State Department Producer Elise Labott enthuses over “really intensive US engagement in helping to nation-build!”; Libyan rebels cut off by NATO; Salva Kiir Mayardit’s cowboy hat fashion |
1:16:53 | Fox News “Muslim hottie” on Leon Panetta’s trip to Afghanistan, bin Laden “treasure trove”; Journal of Experimental Social Psychology article “Casualties of War and Sunk Costs: Implications for Attitude Change and Persuasion” with “blood and treasure” as psyop |
1:25:22 | Donation Segment: war on juries meme taking hold |
1:38:58 | John’s Gonna Hum the Sunday Times: unrest in Malaysia and Tajikistan |
1:41:27 | Stammering Thomas Friedman: “every single one of these Arab leaders is dead man walking”, Israel-Palestine “train wreck”, SNN Shaam News Network footage from Daraa Syria (CotD); Aspen Institute @ev and @biz |
1:50:43 | Nigel Farage takes Donald Tusk to task for declaring the EU “not as bad” as USSR, Barroso introduces “blue-card question” for “Mister Goebbels”, Farage: “yes I want you sacked as Mr. Schulz well, I want you all fired!”; Dutch insurance companies all-in on automotive black boxes |
1:59:26 | DHS’ Greg Schaffer haltingly dodges questions from Rep. Jason Chaffetz about spyware embedded in imported electronic components; JCD on hardware keyloggers from New Zealand |
2:06:05 | H.R.2411 Reduce America’s Debt Now Act for voluntary donations, JCD: “extortion scheme”; ACC on local Ralph’s grocery store employees screwed by Obamacare |
2:11:34 | Rep. Peter DeFazio proposes end to Pentagon’s NDAA auditing exemption, missing $2.3T |
2:16:14 | Douchebag Ann Coulter mocks John Stossel over drug decriminalization, annoying laugh loop |