Thank goodness this is our last posting for the year, as we suspect the many others we have opposed over the past 12 months would agree. From Hillary Clinton, to Rudy Giuliani, to George Bush, to Dick Chaney to Alberto Gonzales, and the main stream media, we are sure our silence for the next two weeks is more than welcomed.

For those that have enjoyed our spicy, salty, in your face approach to news and commentary about the failings of our government and the lawmakers we place our faith and trust in, fear not for we shall return ready to do battle with the forces of the status quo and intellectual stagnation shortly after the first of the new year.

Our Podcast show today is chock full of goodies, including positive movie reviews and recommendations of I Am Legend and Alvin and the Chipmunks, weekend recommendations of local New York City artist, along with our final slam of the FCC for forcing the public’s acceptance of their rule change on cross ownership by media conglomerates.

Lets get down to business:

Black Box Theater Recommendation: Queens of Heart, written and directed by Sabura Rashid previewing this Thursday through Saturday 8:00 pm at the Theater for the New City155 First Avenue(between 9th and 10th Streets)New York, NY 10003Telephone: (212) 254-1109Fax: (212) 979-6570

For local comedy, we recommend some old friends, Eric Vetter and his No Name and Bag O’ Chips Show now playing regularly at the Collective Unconscious 279 Church Street NYC, NY 10013 TICKETS: 212.352.3101 VENUE: 212.254.5277

Eric and company will perform tonight at 7:00 pm, with a $5.00 cover charge. The No Name Show can also be caught Saturday night at The Pit 154 W. 29th Street between 7th and 8th avenues. The cost is a mere $8.00 for the late night 11:00 pm start. The Pit is recognized as a mecca for New York City comedy and a perfect fit for the No Name crew.
Click here to download our final Podcast of Issues Under Fire this year or on air to stream. We also hooked you guys and gals up with another episode of Phillip Marlowe called Heart of Gold.

Today’s movie is a premier podcast of Charlie Chan in Panama here at RetroVision Theater, running 67 min and starring Sidney Toler. If the quality of this video file sucks give us a shout and we’ll replace it straight away. Click here to download or on photo to stream

And lastly, we got a double episode of never before podcast vintage Amos and Andy. Click here to download or on photo to stream.

Finally, we thank you for your loyalty and unwavering support over the last 12 months and we sincerely wish you and yours a safe, happy and prosperous New Year!

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C-YA Next Year

The Clintons, clearly disappointed with the support and boost Barack Obama received this weekend past from Oprah Winfrey, went on the attack through political surrogates and their media flunkies at MSNBC to savage the Illinois Senator over admitted past drug use. While staying above the fray, Hillary’s people let it be known that she is the best pick to beat the Republicans in 08, as the Republicans would undoubtedly use Obama’s past drug transgressions against him.

MSNBC’s Joe “tongue kissing cousins” Scarborough, Mika “the bewildered liberal” Brzezinski, Willie “the Punk Ass” Geist, David “”the wannabe shyster” Shuster along with political hack Pat “I am proud to admit my forefathers were slave owners” Buchanan, tag teamed to batter and damage Obama’s imaged for an entire segment, all under the guise of Hillary ;is far enough ahead in the national polls not to have to stoop so low.

When this bought and paid for media trash finished with Barack in their slick backhanded stabbing of his character, the image they intentionally left America with was a doo-rag wearing, topless & tattooed, blue/red gangster hankie hanging out his back pocket, dope dealer, selling crack in the school yard. It was the most professional political sliming of a credible presidential candidate we have witnessed thus far.

We knew tactics were going to get ugly, but we were caught off guard how ugly and how soon. Apparently those in the Clinton camp along with the media and moneyed powers are feeling the tide flowing toward real change and can no longer count on the cultivated, Aunt Jemima/Uncle Tom vote they thought they had locked up when Bill Clinton set up shop amongst the natives in Harlem, whilst Hillary headed upstate to soak the coffee clutch crew for cash.
We think everybody should be forced to take the drug test, if that is the way this filthy game called politics is going to be played.
Hence, if nobody has asked if Hillary Clinton ever smoked a joint, snorted a line of blow or for that matter, was a virgin on her wedding night with big Bill; we are doing it now. Why should those questions not be asked of her? Clearly this would shed light into her moral character. And, if not a virgin for her honeymoon, how many pre-marital dalliances did occur?

For that matter, does oral sex count as real sex before marriage? We already know how Bill would answer the oral sex question, but since Hillary is all fired up about turning up the heat on everybody else we thought turnabout is fair play.

Some may think us rude and off base to develop such crude imagery of the first female president giving head, but when a women candidate engages in the blatantly unfair character assignation by proxy to maintain a shrinking lead, she looses the protections a gentleman generally affords a lady. But by now America knows, that’s no lady, that’s Bill Clinton’s wife.

The unfortunate lesson the nation is learning from this scum slinging campaign is, it don’t pay to be honest. Click here to download or on air to stream

Oh my goodness, we for got to mention our movies for today. We got the Crime Boss starring Telly Savalas and The Sell Out Starring Richard Widmark

Fingers are beginning to point in all directions over the recent revelations of the destroyed CIA interrogation video tapes. As the heat begins to rise on anyone even remotely involved in the “high value” detainee interrogations process or the discussions of what to do with any and all documentation; which now can viewed evidence is probably shaking shitless over the prospect of future war crimes charges.

This is tough stuff, when our government is caught with it’s collective pants down on an issue as ugly torture at a time when the nations is taking one major blow to its character after another. More and more we look like a bunch of thugs and gangsters marauding through the world determined to strike fear in the hearts and minds of anyone even thinking of opposing us after 9/11.

Things were rough after the Twin Towers went down and perhaps the nation as a whole went a little nuts in the immediate aftermath to satisfy the public’s thirst for some legitimate payback. Maybe that is how we went to war in Iraq with the blessings from a majority of congress signing on.

Maybe the country was ripe for a fight. A fight with anybody, just as long as we responded and responded quickly heavy-handedly and victoriously. Well we got two out of the three right.
However, we are losing the most important battle of all, the battle for respect. We have clearly went to far in exacting our pound of flesh and are forced now to hide behind keeping the definition of harsh interrogation techniques as blurred as possible to avoid to charges of war crimes against our government leaders at all levels.

This country is simply looking at the results of a lynch mob mentality that overtook rational thought, laced with a strong dose of fear and lies. We as a country lost our heads with anger and looked the other way when we saw and heard of people being treated unjustly just because looked like they were Middle Eastern. We were all a part of the madness. It is hard to say whether our congress show little spine when the time came to assess the treat to this country sensibly or they had just lost their heads like everybody else did.

Now that things have somewhat settled down and we have a chance to look at the facts, many are wondering what the hell did we do, what the hell were we thinking or were we thinking at all? In the heat of the moment, we leaked CIA names for payback, we went to war in the wrong country and fought that war incompetently, we set up private prisons world wide, we started spying on our own citizens, we grabbed people off the streets, hid them in strange countries and beat the hell out of them, while denying them access to legal representation, or even charging them with any crimes. And all that was apparently okay. But is that who we want to be seen as? Is that who America is in wartime? If so, how do we get back to the America pre-9/11? Or, were we ever really the vision the world had of America pre-9/11?

There is one sure fire way to find out what America stands for and what it won’t stand for; let those or force responsible, no matter how far up the chain of command the responsibility goes, stand up and acknowledge the vast mistakes. Nothing short of that will do.

The second most powerful action the country can take to repair this fall from world grace is to vote for the candidate that exudes a fresh start a new beginning an open mind a willingness to talk and the strength to admit to the world that we F-D Up !
Click here to download Today’s podcast includes another episode of Phillp Marlowe (The Hard Way Out)

We Got movies too
Without photos today, we got The Phantom Express and A Scream in the Night! Click on the titles to download

We apologize for the rushed look of today’s posting, but it’s that time of the year