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Travel Advisory: The United States Is Not Safe (4-29-14)

This article was written and originally posted on Sept 18, 2013. It's re-posted and slightly updated today, and includes my interview with former Australian Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer, who helped enact gun laws in Australia after a 1996 massacre in which 35 people were slaughtered, and who warned Australians not to travel to the US following last summer's shooting death of Australian baseball player/college student Christopher Lane. This graphic shows the Mass Shooting/Killing incidents since President Barack Obama took office in January 2009 through the time The Atlantic published it on Sept 16, 2013. At that time, we had just experienced [...]

By nicolesandler|April 29th, 2014|Tags: Australia, Christopher Lane, Ft. Hood, gun laws, guns, massacres, Newtown, NRA, Sandy Hook, Tim Fischer, travel advisory|1 Comment

Radio’s Goddess Retiring

As you likely know by now, The Randi Rhodes Show is ending in a few weeks. I'm guest hosting for her for one final week - beginning today. Then she'll return Monday to finish off her last two weeks. I sent the following out to my email list this morning. (Scroll down for the form to subscribe to our emails). Radio's Goddess Retiring Sorry it's been so long since my last email update. I try not to send too many of these, but if ever there was a time to check in, it's now. The Randi Rhodes Show is ending on May [...]

By nicolesandler|April 28th, 2014|Tags: progressive talk radio, Randi Rhodes, The Goddess|Comments Off

When Is Enough Finally Enough? (04/24/2014)

I honestly don't know what it's going to take to get people mobilized to fight back against the madness. Let's just look at some of the events from just this month, shall we? April began with the Supreme Court doubling down on it's heinous Citizens United decision by ruling in favor of McCutcheon in doing away with individual caps on contributions in any election cycle, giving us the ridiculous "money equals speech" paradigm. Unfortunately, the simple "If A=B, then B=A equation is proven false, as the IRS won't allow me to use speech to pay the $5750 penalty they're charging me [...]

By nicolesandler|April 24th, 2014|Tags: Ban Boss, Cliven Bundy, FCC, fracking, FreePress.net, Guns everywhere, internet, militia, net neutrality, racism, sedition, TPP|Comments Off

Whining About Women, and Song (04/23/2014)

Jon Stewart almost nailed it last night when he ended his segment on the right wing double standard for women by saying "It's alright to be a pussy as long as you've got a dick." But he left off the last four words that would have made that statement 100% correct: "if you're a Republican." Susie Madrak of Crooks & Liars sent me this clip to discuss when she joined in during the first hour of the show today.... Their double standard really is astounding. They demean Dianne Feinstein and Hillary Clinton as "too emotional" - yet applaud the [...]

By nicolesandler|April 23rd, 2014|Tags: Crooks & Liars, Dottie's Charms, Jill Sobule, right wing hypocrisy, sexism, Susie Madrak, women|Comments Off

Saving the Planet – And Ourselves (04/22/2014)

It's Earth Day, and the prognosis for our planet isn't great. We've passed 400 parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere, high above the 350 ppm from which 350.org took its name - signifying the maximum levels we can sustain if life is to survive on earth. As Dr. James Hanson, former head of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. and one of the most respected climatologists in the world, said of our situation: “If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that [...]

By nicolesandler|April 22nd, 2014|Tags: 350 ppm, climate change, Desi Doyen, Earth Day, GottaLaff, Green News Report, journalism, Keystone XL, Randi Rhodes|2 Comments

Whose Airwaves? (04/21/2014)

Radio is a sound salvationRadio is cleaning up the nationThey say you better listen to the voice of reasonBut they don't give you any choice'cause they think that it's treason.So you had better do as you are told.You better listen to the radio.I wanna bite the hand that feeds me.I wanna bite that hand so badly.I want to make them wish they'd never seen me.Some of my friends sit around every eveningand they worry about the times aheadBut everybody else is overwhelmed by indifferenceand the promise of an early bedYou either shut up or get cut up;they don't wanna hear [...]

By nicolesandler|April 21st, 2014|Tags: Clear Channel, Fools on the Hill, Glenn Beck, Nicole Belle, Premiere, progressive talk, radio, Randi Rhodes, Rush Limbaugh, talk radio|Comments Off

Girl Power! (04/20/2014)

My dear friend Amy Simon is visiting today, so I figured we'd focus today on women! Mostly fabulous females, but we also exposed one not-so- wonderful woman who was being touted as the great Hispanic female hope for the GOP. Not any more! Mother Jones, the magazine who gave us the infamous Mitt Romney 47% hidden camera video, has done it again. This time with some secret audio of New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez putting her foot so far into her mouth she's giving Sarah Palin a run for her money. We needed to hear from an inspirational woman to [...]

By nicolesandler|April 17th, 2014|Tags: Amy Simon, Crowdnetic, crowdsourcing, Luan Cox, right wing talk radio, She's HIstory, Susana Martinez, tea party, women's history|Comments Off

I’d Take Away The Guns

Earlier this week, on the eve of Passover, a well-known and well-documented racist anti-Semite opened fire on two Jewish centers in Kansas, killing three people. And this week, egged on by the "Patriots" at Faux News and hate talk radio, scores of gun nuts showed up, weapons in hand, to fight back against the gubmint officials who dared to try to collect the million dollars in fees owed by a crazy rancher in Nevada for 20+ years of allowing his cattle to graze federal lands and ignoring the fees. Susie Madrak of Crooks and Liars pointed out that Sean [...]

By nicolesandler|April 16th, 2014|Tags: anti-Semite, Crooks and Liars, Elliot Fineman, gun violence, guns, Kansas, militia, National Gun Violence Victims Action Council, Nevada rancher, sedition, Susie Madrak, travel advisory|Comments Off

Death & Taxes (and FloriDUH too)

We trot out the wisdom of Franklin each year as we pay our share of keeping this country going. I believe any patriot would be more than willing to pay their taxes to insure that the infrastructure is kept up, and the citizens protected. Unfortunately, those priorities seem to be low on the totem pole that has military spending taking up a ridiculous percentage of the hard-earned dollars most of us fork over every year. It's sad and maddening that the wealthiest people and corporations in the US get the biggest tax breaks, while those of us struggling to get [...]

By nicolesandler|April 15th, 2014|Tags: Boehner, Cliff Schecter, depression, Florida, FloriDUH, GottaLaff, guns, IRS, penalties, sadness, suicide, taxes|1 Comment

Tomorrow

Tomorrow is April 15. It's s double-whammy this year. Not only is it tax filing day, but it's also the first anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing. It's easy to understand why I just want to crawl back in bed and pull the covers over my head. This year, I got my taxes done early. Unfortunately, I owe the IRS a lot of money. The reason why is might surprise you. Due to financial hardship, I had to take my savings out of my IRA. Obviously, I saved that money fully intending to use it after I retired. Unfortunately, life [...]

By nicolesandler|April 14th, 2014|Tags: Boston Marathon bombing, Crooks & Liars, Delta Rae, Fools on the Hill, IRS, Nicole Belle, Rock the Ocean, russ baker, taxes, Tortuga Music Festival, whowhatwhy, Ziggy Marley|Comments Off

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