Rice Qeen seeks fellow mided GAM’s… smile…

Georgia Dems

Stick with it. You are absolutely on message.

Immigration And Socialism

“Bush sides with business leaders who want legislation to let some of the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants stay in the country and work for a set period of time. Others, including Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, say national security concerns should drive immigration reform.”

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20060325-1757-immigrationrallies.html

12 million Undocumented Immigrants.. Imagine if we could get all these people to pay taxes.. Whats the average amount of tax people pay? I don’t know.. Lets use 1000 as a round estimate just for numbers sake. Thats a shitload of money.. 12,000,000×1000= 12,000,000,000 (laugh that number exceeds the maximum number of digits for my cellphone calc.) That looks about right though… Alot of fuckin money.

Now if you really want to get into it.. When the US entered into the North American Free Trade agreement with Mexico, In order to grease the wheels so to speak the Mexican government reneged on a land agreement they had with their Indigenous populations. This agreement held that these people would not be taxed on land they used for communal sustiance. This land was not farmed commercially, but as a livelyhood for Mayan familes. Upon the change in legislation, many of the indeginous peoples in southern mexico lost their farmlands to commercial developers who were able to pay the taxes but using the land for commercial Farming. This pushed the indigenous peoples further and further into the rain forest and further on to less viable farmland. There was a huge protest lead by Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatistas to restore this communal land to its rightfull owners who demonstrated in the 1920’s through original documents predating the spanish conquistadors that this land was rightfully owned by the Mayan people. NO provisions were made for these people. In the United states Native amaericans now have protected lands, their own governing bodies, tribal police forces, and tribal socal services such as health care that is provided to them through their respective tribal affiliations. Mexico has none of this. They have poor Mayan Indians who are having their land stolen from them.

Just a brief Synopsis of Mexican Indigenous Politics..: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapatista_Army_of_National_Liberation

The events on January 1, 1994 Highlighted the hardships that many mexicans are working to escape from. These local communities work on a cargo system, in which the community will lend individuals money on the condition that it be paid back to the community. The family sometimes must leave the community to earn enough money to repay the Cargo they have borrowed. This brings them to the United States. Aside from the living conditions and other hardships they face, these people are still trying to care for their home communities. These people have enough to deal with trying to live under the mexican govenrmental reign, much less being denied civil liberties in the United States.

The truth is, We need them. We need them to contribute to the tax base to fund social programs such as health care and social security. Having 12million people in this country essentially working under the table is whats hurting us. The Medical Community suffers because no one can pay outrageous medical bills. We NEED socialized healthcare to pay the doctors off. No one person can pay this kind of bill, and taxing a wider base of people will relieve the pressure on the public as a whole. I am just 1 mind, But it all seems simple enough to me.. We help them have a better life.. They help us have better quality of lives as well.

Those are my thoughts.

Al’s biggest fan in NE Minnesota!

Can’t wait to see Al speak at the 10th District Caucus April 22nd in Bemidji!

love the blog, love Al.

On an AOL message board, Hakumele wrote:
Americans are not stupid; they will throw out the Republicans in Congress in November because of all the Bush/Cheney lies.
I replied: I hope you are right. Unfortunately, the Republicans will lie, cheat, steal, and sell their souls to win an election. An excellent book on the subject is “The Truth (with jokes)” by Al Franken. He is more widely known as a comedian, but in this book he lays out the facts like a scholar. We can only hope that the truth will out this time around.
I graciously provided the link to Mr. Franken web site.
I also provided links to two of my web sites.
I am not reticent.

Forgive me if this is old news as I’m new to this site.. but has anyone read the Wikipedia profile of Bill O’reilly?
It’s very.. well.. let’s just say it feels like a warm fuzzy hug with a creepy uncle who holds on to long.
Who ever submitted it left it open for editing.
Silly oversite

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_O%27Reilly_%28commentator%29#_note-15

Recent comments by President Bush offering concern toward the gas crisis are disingenuous and insincere.

The current gas crisis is right in line with the Bush agenda to drill in the Arctic National Refuge. I believe the high price of gas play directly into his plan to break down Americans who are against the drilling in the Arctic National Refuge, changing popular opinion to one of pro drilling.

Just as his personal and business ties to the Saudi Royal family been in direct conflict of interest of national security, so have most of his decisions made during this presidency been laced with a slant toward personal gain.

History will show that George Bush has been allowed to undermine national security and put every American at risk for personal gain, during his reign as President of the United States.

Thank you

Hi,
Just received an evening phone questionnaire from DOVE, a christian group who wants to clean up the “Hollywood media”. Web site www.guidestar.com or call 800-679-0336 out of Grand Rapids Michigan. They are using a script to “clean up family values in the media.”
Keep up the good fight.
Love you guys,
Pat
Santee, CA

glad to have this group alive and kicking.

Al, I was thinking of writing a book titled”How To Speak To Ann Coultier” but so far I only have one line; Bite Me! Do you have any suggestions?

I really love Al Frankin & would like info. when he is on TV or other links to his point of view. Thank you

I really love Al Franken , But I leave in Italy , so the only possibility to know him is to read him . So I would like info where to read him much as possibile.

Sometimes it’s lonely being a liberal jew in New York City. But Al makes me know that there are others out there.

I’ve heard Al is thinking about running for the Senate to represent Minnesota. GO FOR IT, AL! I live in Wisconsin and that’s close enough to Minnesota to feel the effects of a good Senator in Washington. In fact, there’s not a state in the union too far away from Minnesota too feel the effect from a good Senator.

Franken Rules

Al Franken rocks!

Please take 15 minutes to visit and read these links; http://www.iosonhold.com/take5/YoungPatriot.html
and
http://www.iosonhold.com/contact/index.html and
you’ll discover many items that will help you with your own activism.

I’m just quite curious about this. While I agree with most of what I’ve read, I’m not ordinarily much of a joiner. Let’s see what happens.

Hi Al:
Keep up the good work, you are our only hope. Anything I or my group can do to help. You are the best.
Regards,
Marty

way to go, al. keep it up.

Al im in Hallowell,Maine ,i have written a book about drinking and procreation ,” Hallowell as seen through a beer bottle ” would love to send you one ,do you have a mail adress ,understand you have rels in Portland

As Bill Maher said, I wouldn’t %$#^ you with Ann Coulter’s dick Keep up the good work My fellow deadhead Al.

You got my vote Al, unless I’m disenfrankensized! atb Skip

Hey al its me julia Neeley. I believe that this is the forth e-mail that i have sent to you. Let me just tell you a little about my self. My name is julia neeley im 15 years old and im the sophomore class vice president. I just want to say think you so much for standing up for us young democrats. There are so many republicans that bring our spirits low i dont want to name any body but his initals start with a BR so figure it out. please write back at jndem67@yahoo.com Thanks for everything
Hiliary for 08

Al the world needs about 15 million more just like you. its kind of sad there can only be one

Good work!!! Keep us going.

Please tell me how people can be so narrow-minded and believe the Republican bs. My heart is heavy for the soldiers and their families. So unnecessary. Keep our shores safe.

Keep fighting the good fight. GWBush, bad president…...or WORST president??????

Annexation of Mexico, although not an origional idea, would solve immigration and out-sourcing, reduce drug interdiction and provide a new “Louisiana Purchase” of exploitable resources including oil and beaches. Is there precedent for this? We already know how to water deserts, and Cheney could have Haliburton update Mexico’s infrastructure. This would give us something to do instead of taking on the evil axis, which is going to happen if dems don’t pull off the November elections.

The three major issues for the 2006 election:
1) Healthcare
2 )Healthcare
3) Healthcare

Interesting idea

I am a US citizen living in Australia. I am quite disturbed about the mix of religious fundamentalism, irresponsible foreign adventurism, disregard of international cooperation and organizations built by former administrations, lack of regard for environmental consideration, subservience to oil and other corporate interests, fiscal irresonponsibility and paranoid secrecy which characterize the current administration.

I am a US citizen with a Spanish decent. I am amaze by the disregard this administration is giving to issues like emigration reform, Irak war, and more important I am embarrass the we let this president and its administration the power to choose what document to declassified in order to help there issues. The CIA leak is a perfect example of the way this administration behaves in a MAFIA STYLE presidency.

Hi, Al. Thanks for all that you do!

You are the person that should be running for the White House!! What we need is COMMON SENSE and ETHICS. You keep up the good work

Dear Al,

I read in the Bible that sooner will a camel get through the eye of a needle than a rich man get to heaven. Does this mean that all the rich Christian MEN are going to hell, but their wives can still go to heaven? Or, did someone downsize camels so they can fit through the needle?

Don’t believe what you read in the Bible ! It was written about 200 yrs after the supposed death of a MAN named Jesus. Read the Nag Hammadi Library or the Gnostic Bible. I just finished “The Jesus Papers” I’ve read most of the books on that same subject. It’s fascinating to find out the TRUTH. I don’t believe in organized religion and I personally think that religious fanactics are the root of all evil! It needs to be taken out of politics.

“Call on God, but row away from the rocks” – Hunter S. Thompson

Bush is an IDIOT SAVANT and the Republicans are mindless lemmings!

Dear Al, Good going for coming up with MVP. We must take back our beloved country before there is nothing left.

Bigtommy

I enjoy listening to you and Jerry Springer on Air America. MVP is another great way to reach out. Thanks.

I am reading your book Truth, and I am finding it a fascinating stroll through the muck of recent history. It makes reliving it all somehow more palatable – like listening to the 2004 RNC as filtered through Air America.

One criticism, however:
I would strongly recommend using the term “anti-choice” instead of “pro-life”, rhetorical terminology that grates like fingernails on a blackboard, and reinforces a moral falacy that in recent years has contributed to give zealots a moral high ground that they don’t deserve. I resent any implication, however unitended, that my pro-choice stand makes me anti-life, or even pro-abortion for that matter. Of course I’m still looking for the bumper sticker “Choice = Life”.

But thanks for writing this valuable book (and all else that you do). You have a unique way of cutting through alot of crap to tell it like it is.

After reading this CRAP it is very obvious that you people belong on Jerry Sprnger and with the IDIOT CULT of Alfred Frankinstien. WOW! No wonder we keep winning elections. Still alot being said, but, STILL no solutions offered. Stay in the basement if you have no valid solutions and STOP WHINNING!!!!

Ron, hope you enjoy your rising gas prices and your declining wages ,thanks to Bush. You can both BITE ME!!!!!

I feel like I’m in Nazi-Germany with the NSA as the Gestapo and Bush is Hitler!!!!!

Ron is the problem with America. FREAK.
Al, why o why do you have to be married?

im a 15 year old democrat hopefully by the time im 18 im able to elect you as president of the US
Franken for 08
Hey you have at least one vote

Fox Sucks

Hey. Im a 14 year old hippie in Atlanta. I was watching the O’Reilly factor today, and I decided that I should e-mail him with some fake hate mail, even though I hate him. But, when I tried to email him, it said that I had to become a “premium member” in order to email him, and in order to become one, you have to pay him either $5 a month or $50 a year. Just thought I’d let you know, in case you wanted to rip on him for making people pay money to look at his website and email him, kind of showing that he’s just a wee bit greedy.

By the way, I agree with Julie, FOX SUCKS

BUSH SUCKS!

Al –
Just heard you on Air America regarding Wal Mart and their effects on local communities. Specifically, I wanted to add something about this.

About a year ago, my husband and I were house-hunting in Bella Vista, Arkansas – a “retirement”/”resort” community near Bentonville, global corporate home of Wal-Mart.

Anyway… I found out that Wal-Mart requires EVERY single vendor rep to become a resident of Benton County. Interesting. They won’t contribute to the communities they build in, yet they demand you contribute to theirs by becoming a resident.

On a side note – we decided to move Vancouver, Washington, which proved to be a wiser choice.

P.S. I was inches from buying a home until I found this out – in fact the house we were thinking of making an offer on was NEXT DOOR to one of the CEO’s for Wal-Mart. Talk about being too close to comfort…

Great job AL! Keep it going!

they are to worryed about some poor guy with $100,00 in his frezzer and not about some some old gray bastard that got $100,000,000 back on income tax because he used to have something to do with Halaburtan

Keep up the good fight! Thank you for standing up for change!!

Welcome home, Al!

Can’t wait to see the ad:
Vote for me, Al Franken!
:-)

Al, please run for senate in 08. The seat that Norm Coleman has is disgracing the memory of the still leader of Progressive Minnesota, Paul Wellstone. Take it back, and give us the seantor we deserve in Washington.

Norm Coleman vs. Al? Is that a trick question?

After reading three different versions in Wikipedia of where Bill O’Reilly grew up and looking at his “Deed” in Levittown, I decided to help out Bill by verifying his story. We went to the local library, called up the 1958 Nassau County phone book, and found Bill O’Reilly senior listed – as a resident of Westbury. Not Levittown. Oops

Mr. Franken,

I saw you the other night on David Letterman. You did not live up to his indroduction at all. Witty-only half right, intelligent-maybe somewhere, bright-only in a very small room. Oh, yes, you are also humerous-in your mind this only seems to involve ridiculing your wife. Your skills at political analysis: George Bush is a jerk. It is no wonder the left cannot get the foothold that the right has in talk radio. You are one of the best things the right has going for it!!!

Dear Al, I have just read a book by Paul William Roberts called “War Against Truth.” Mr Roberts is a Canadian who writes for Harpers and other periodicals as well as an author of books. Briefly, the book I am talking about is about his experiences as an un-imbedded reporter in Iraq during the first 6 months or so of the current action there. The book is both sad and at times very humerous. The humor is of a dark sort, just to your liking. Because of his truthfull reporting Mr Roberts is not allowed in the US as per DHS. If you would like his email addy please contact me at my email addy and I will pass it along to you. I have not heard Mr Roberts interviewed on any Air America program nor on NPR. I think that he would be an excellent interview on the Al show.
By the way ignore the jerk in the message above this one. He obviously just got a new radio which finally allows him to listen to something besides el rushbo. Funny how these folks complain and hate but seem to be able to quote you and critique your show, hmmmm?
I do love your show but I hate when you eat and talk while on the air, that is not entertaining.
Grins!
Gary
PS from one Deadhead to anotha, Muchas Garcias Amigo!

“BITE ME !!” hmm…. Great arguments! And wow, I had no idea I was so powerful to be the sole problem with America. I STILL see no valid solutions being offered to your complaints, (which is normal for all Liberal lefties) So it is to be expected.

I think the guy above was talking about him being on David Letterman, NOT from hearing his radio noshow.

Also, Sandra, anyone with a brain knows that it is EDUCATION that determines wages NOT one man. I suggest you get out more, maybe go to a local community college, ANYTHING to increase the knowledge (or lack of) that you appear (not) to have. As for the gas problem, I suggest you sell your ford taurus, they were not built to pull mobile homes. No wonder you pay so much.

Good Day!

I leave you with this thought, again,

STOP WHINNING !!!

Ron M.

ron talks about education yrt several times he has misspelled the word whining. along with several other words. I guess he never passed mcspelling.

The worst thing that is destroying my community and all other minority communities is gang violence. Gangs are being glamorized and lionized by corporate Music and other media. Gangsterism is spreading even to other countries. No matter how much money is given to social or educational programs the problem will grow. That is because no one talks about how the corporate media is not reporting how ignorant and horrible Gangsterism is. At one time Gangsterism was a only a small part of my community, but now it is growing as it is now considered “cool” to be a criminal and thug. Our leaders in the minority community are blaming racism and economics, but it is because the media is getting rich off the misery of people of color. Now a days education in the minority communities is considered “acting white”. This is true and education is the only way for our people to advance themselves. Remember Gangsters don’t vote and don’t educate themselves about the what is good for the community.

Good Going Al

Has Al learned the difference between Guyana, the site of the Jim Jones Kool Aid massacre in 1978, and Ghana, who beat the U.S. in World Soccer today?

Hey Al, why don’t you ask your guest(s) who want the USA to have a military presence in Iraq in perpetuity the following: If the new democratic Iraqi Parliament, the Iraqi PM and Iraqi President all agree and pass a resolution that asks the USA to leave Iraq – do we leave?

Dear Al,
Really enjoyed your latest book. Also liked your last one. I was amused, appalled, and energized to join your efforts. If only a small percentage of what you said really is “The Truth,” hopefully other people like you will get the word out and everyone will listen. I am totally convinced that we need to do all we can to defeat Bush and the right wing Republicans.

I am a 45 yr old lifelong Democrat. So you are “preaching to the choir.” Hopefully your book will change some people’s beliefs.

I am also a lifelong Al Franken fan. I loved your work with SNL. And I once saw you in person when you and Tom Davis hosted the Grateful Dead Halloween concert at Radio City. What a blast!!

Keep on givin’ us the truth Al.

Dear Al for you ammendment ideas
How about every time the Pres. or
V.P. tells a lie, we raise the Flag at
1/2 mast, or better yet upside down
to show America is in morning or
in a state of emergency.

Greetings,
I just finished Lies and suggest an extension of the book’s powerful message. Google video gives us the opportunity to upload clips; why not upload clips of lies, pulled from press footage and point them out as such, drawing attention to interesting patterns – republican or democrat, it seems it would be fun for the whole family—oh, and it would increase accountability in government… that’s probably good, too.

I hereby unburden my conscience of this project and leave it in the able hands of this community.
Cheers,
-Justin

I am a fan of Al and have read most of his books. I am proud to be the minority in my town. An open minded and accepting person.

Has anyone heard the news about Gitmo?

Dear Al, Why don’t we raise a little hell over the new energy bill?? One of the advisors during the meetings with Dick Halliburton Cheney was Ken Lay- a convicted felon. His conviction was set aside however we should take up a petition to repeal that part of the energy bill which was his contribution. Congress is doing absolutely nothing and if you think Enron’s billions of dollars in losses is a lot what do you think the entire population will be paying for Ken Lay’s input to our energy bill. Please start a petition. We will generate sufficient signatures to wake up our sleeping Congress and maybe even take back both houses this November. How about it Al???

Al Frankin JULY 12th 2006

The comment above reminds me and about 90% of AMERICA where/why we continue to know ole Alfred.

Yes, he made a joke on SNL, and today,
He STILL IS A JOKE!!

Re: Grateful Dead holloween hosting, When it comes to knowing polItics, Al is brain DEAD and has a face only radio and holloween could love. It’s all appropriate. Lets just say we are all GRATEFUL he is in radio.

So, We are GRATEFUL Al is DEAD on…..on being OFF when it comes to mainstreem thinking.

THANKS DEAD AL !!

Oh Yeah, ..... keep talking serious, you just crack me up.

WRONG ON BABY !!

p.s. GET WISE, READ ANN COULTER, BOW TO HER, AND VOTE RED WITH THE MAJORITY OF HANNITIZED AMERICA !!!

Are you serious?
Al is one of the only writers around who can both make fun of himself and bring to light serious topics that many other people are afraid of even THINKING of! I have way to much respect for someone such as him to even comprehend your remark.

Thank you Al Franken, for being able to show the way of the goverment and Bush while giving it a twist no-one else could

In reading the retarded comment by scott, I must say that all the discussion in the world really doesn’t matter. When you get down to it, simply compare the nation to democratic rule and republican rule. Starting from the great depression. It started during and after Hoover, a republican. Was cleaned up by FDR, a Democrat. Of course Nixon needs no mention. The Regan and Bush company…...6 trillion deficit changed to 600 billion surplus by Mr. Clinton, a democrat. Now we have…..12 trillion, gas prices through the roof….the arab world hating Americans more each day. Oh yea the war! History speaks the truth which is undeniable regardles of what your church paster and Sean tells you!

Ed

Thanks for your efforts Al. You are an inspiration.

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