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Hello and goodbye to Art Bell

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Art Bell's Dark MatterI used to listen to Art Bell (now 68) when I worked graves in Patrol, or occasionally to and from work on other shifts.  He primarily left terrestrial radio in 2007.

Now, Art Bell has returned with his show “Dark Matter” — one week ago — and is now only heard on Sirius XM radio.

Art Bell’s website indicates he broadcasts Monday through Thursday, starting at 7 PM Pacific.

Seeing that, I thought it would be a simple matter of visiting Mr Bell’s website and clicking on some kind of streaming audio link.

Not hardly.  Here is where the website indicates you should — can only — listen to Art Bell.

First, disabuse yourself of any of that “free” stuff.  You’ll not be listening over the internet — unless you wish to either purchase one of three Sirius radios from $57 to $80 (plus subscription), or specifically, from his website:

These are 2 ways to listen to Art Bell on SiriusXM radio, with a Satellite radio receiver, or on your computer or mobile device via the Internet, or both. Either one will also allow you to listen to many other SiriusXM channels. So the cost of a monthly subscription is spread across many other potential programming choices. The cheaper $14.49 a month “Select” subscription will include the channel Art Bell is broadcasting on, among others.

You want to listen to Art Bell?  At minimum, it’s $14.49 per month.  That’s $174 a year.

And so, with that, I say hello to Art Bell.

More pointedly, I say, goodbye to Art Bell.

You ain’t worth that much.

BZ

 

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One other slight difference between Germany and the US:

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French Socialists Elect Hollande May 2012

Jubilant French Socialists elected Hollande in May of 2012.  Something changed.

From Josh Gerstein at Politico.com:

Germany, ‘Veggie Day,’ and Michelle Obama

BERLIN—The elections set to take place here in Germany Sunday are expected to turn largely on the country’s solid economy, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s handling of the European debt crisis and social issues like women’s role in the work force. But add to that plate one more thing: Germans don’t want the government telling them what to eat.

In what could be a cautionary tale for First Lady Michelle Obama’s efforts to tweak Americans’ diets, Germans look set to punish the Green Party for urging that public cafeterias go meat-free on a designated “Veggie Day” each week in order to help the environment and reduce cruelty to animals. Borrowing colorfully from English, German newspaper Bild described public reaction to the idea as a “shitstorm.”

Imagine that: “Germans don’t want the government telling them what to eat.”

Top that with this, from an older post of mine:

Germany’s Angela Merkel has the temerity and courage to state the obvious.  Germany has “had it.”  A pull quote: German Chancellor Angela Merkel: “lmmigrants should learn to speak German.” Read the article here.

The article I referred to in October of 2010 is entitled: “Merkel says German multicultural society has failed.”  How heinous, how overbearing, how insensitive of her to insist on a national language being embraced by immigrants!

Germany clearly has had it.

The French say multiculturalism is a flop as well, from my February 12th, 2011 post entitled: “Even The French Admit: “Multi-Kulti” = FAILURE.”

So the Germans did the proper thing and re-elected a person who has made them stronger in the face of weakness, more determined in the face of waffling, and more fiscally solvent in the face of budgetary EU failure and bankruptcy.

You won’t see that happening here because this country possesses what I term “Historical Alzheimers.”  We learn nothing from history.  Leftists are obviously historically ignorant.  Obama Socialist?  Indeed.

Everyone seems to think they can “do” Socialism better than the prior guy.  Including Obama.  He just doesn’t have the courage to say what he really means or wants.

But tell me, as one fellow reader at work said to me a day ago: “Show me successful liberalism.”

Key word: successful.

Chicago?  Detroit?  Even DC?

BZ

 

 

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Mocking Leftists, Angela Merkel wins Germany again

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Bundestagswahl 2013Because, apparently, having a strong economy — stronger than the rest of Europe — and refusing to be the butt-boy of the EU plays well with Deutschland’s electorate.

From Bloomberg.com:

Merkel Sees Biggest Victory Since Kohl’s Reunification Vote

 By Tony Czuczka & Brian Parkin – Sep 22, 2013 1:11 PM PT

Angela Merkel won an overwhelming endorsement from German voters, putting the country’s first female chancellor on course for the biggest election tally since Helmut Kohl’s post-reunification victory of 1990.

Merkel’s Christian Democratic bloc took 41.8 percent in today’s election to 25.5 percent for the Social Democrats of Peer Steinbrueck, projections on ZDF television as of 8:57 p.m. showed. Earlier forecasts had her group with a one-seat majority in the lower house for only the second time since World War II after Konrad Adenauer in 1957. The euro gained even as her lead later shrank below a majority.

Please note that, even as the rest of the EU bellowed at Merkel “no more ‘austerity’ you ignorant slut,” the German electorate didn’t buy the phrase.

Imagine that.  Fiscal responsibility and a bit of austerity seems to do much better for an economy.

Take that, Obama, you ignorant slut.

BZ

 

 

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After day-long search, suspected rapist Charlie Christopher ‘Chris’ Bates shot to death in shootout

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From ABC, WFTS in Tampa, Florida:

Tampa FL Shoot Out 1Tampa FL Shoot Out 2After day-long search, suspected rapist Charlie Christopher ‘Chris’ Bates shot to death in shootout

The man suspected of several rapes and armed robberies in the north Tampa area has died following a high-speed chase and shootout on Highway 301 just north of I-4.  

According to Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee, Charlie Christopher Bates, 24, fired shots through a back windshield of a stolen car as officers pursued him.

Bates was on the run after a series of home invasions Thursday night and Friday early morning, near USF.  Officials said Bates fired shots, raped four women, and forced some 20 people at a football game-watching party into a bedroom.

Clearly, a situation that ended well and will save taxpayers thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars.

One genetic mutant down; many more remaining.

BZ

 

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‘Disgraceful:’ University suspends prof who hoped for murder of NRA children

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Guth Tweet Leftist IdiotFrom CampusReform.org:

By Katherine Timpf

Administrators at the University of Kansas have suspended the journalism professor who suggested on Monday he would like to see the murder of the children of National Rifle Association (NRA) members.

KU’s chancellor, Bernadette Gray-Little, announced the suspension Friday morning, according to a local radio station, KMBZ.

“In order to prevent disruptions to the learning environment for students, the School of Journalism and the university, I have directed Provost Jeffrey Vitter to place Associate Professor Guth on indefinite administrative leave pending a review of the entire situation,” he said.

Guth turned to Twitter on Monday in response the a crazed gunman’s rampage at the Navy Yard in Washington D.C., in which 12 perished.

“#NavyYardShooting The blood is on the hands of the #NRA,” tweeted David Guth, who is an associate professor of Journalism at the university’s William Allen White School of Journalism.

“Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters, he continued. “Shame on you. May God damn you.”

Once again, as with my Friday post regarding a Demorat in Sacramento who wished death and pestilence on Conservatives:

Allan Brauer, the communications chair for the Democratic Party of Sacramento, Calif., told an aide to Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Tex.) on Friday that he hoped her children “die from debilitating, painful and incurable diseases.”

Ah, those loving, understanding, compassionate, sensitive, tender, kind and all-inclusive Demorats and Leftists, embracing and considerate of all persons’ feelings and opinions.

Isn’t it odd that when one doesn’t abide with the philosophy of a Leftist, said Leftist wishes death and destruction upon those Conservatives who disagree?

And isn’t it odd that the reverse isn’t true? Because, if it were, you fully realize the American Media Maggots would plaster said comments throughout the American media sphere for days on end. Do you see this occurring?

I thought not.

BZ

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