Allen Bishop show notes

The Allen Bishop Show
Monday, May 26, 2008 - Memorial Day

Misc
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killer twisters rip through Oklohoma and Iowa this weekend.


Politics
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You may remember I predicted Obama would claim victory as his party's presidential nomination. Well, he made the trip to Iowa last week to bring his nomination fight to, symbolically, do just that.

Defending staying in the race, Clinton brings up the June '68 RFK assasination in California. Media feeding frenzy ensues & predictions are that she spends the rest of her Presidential run on the defense. She has one hope left; that something terrible will happen to Obama before the convention.

Obama & McCain will exchange barbs through November. But neither have a sustainable healthcare plan, effective economic package or a realistic foreign policy.

Ron Paul nailed healthcare, saying we don't have free market medicine (or government medicine), but soft fascist or corporate healthcare -- which needs to change...like yesterday. Paul also understands the currency crisis; problems with fighting an undeclared war and he knows the constitution.

Bush Attack Dog Karl Rover had guts appearing on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos. He's accused in playing a role in Attorney-gate, the firing of select US Attorneys who didn't play ball with the White House, and dozens of other throat-cutting missions for the neo-cons. He's also accused of corruption in the railroading of Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. Now Fido (Rove) is under Congressional subpoena to appear on these matters, but he's hiding under executive privilege. Rove says the matter of subpoenas will be faught and decided in court. He says he heard about the Don Siegelman indictment, read about it, learned about it for the first time by reading about it in the newspaper.

Technology
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VIACOM, YOUTUBE, FIGHTING
Why is it that you never see clips from MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount, Deamworks or shows like Comedy Central's The Daily Show? Little lawsuit between Google's YouTube and Viacom is most likely. To the tune of a Billion Dollars. Google said YouTube was faithful to the requirements of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, saying the federal law was intended to protect companies like YouTube as long as they responded properly to content owners' claims of infringement. Viacom said YouTube consistently allows unauthorized copies of popular television programming and movies to be posted on its Web site and viewed tens of thousands of times, that it identified more than 150,000 unauthorized clips of copyrighted programming — including "SpongeBob SquarePants," "South Park" and "MTV Unplugged" episodes and the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" — that had been viewed "an astounding 1.5 billion times." And that only scratches the surface. And furthermore, Viacom says making available a vast library of the copyrighted works of plaintiffs and others is the cornerstone of defendants' business plan," Viacom said.

IPHONE GEOTAGGING IN NEW FIRMWARE
iPhone's newest firmware is expected to possess geo-tagging function. That is, adds location data to a photos & other media files. While a GPS receiver is not present in the current iPhone, it is expected to be part of an upcoming 3G iPhone. However, the current iPhone can approximate a user's location by triangulating with cell phone towers.

DIGITAL INDY
18 years have paassed since the last Indiana Jones movie. The first three were gritty, sweaty and tactile and everything onscreen physically existed. But Crystal Skull is mostly present in the digital realm.

Exclusive footage of The Miz in Des Moines

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The Miz came down the the KXnO Studios May 20, 2008, before his appearance at wells Fargo Arena.  Contains exclusive footage of The Miz performing for our cameras as he left the building.

Bush rails on Obama

Bush says those who want to negotiate with terrorists are taking the false comfort of appeasement. Sen Joe Biden didn't care for that remark. He appeared on This Week telling George Stephanopuoulos "This is raw, raw politics, demeaning to the presidency of the United States of America".

Can Obama claim it yet?

ABC asks if Obama's delegate lead create an insurmountable problem for Clinton's campaign. That lead and powerful symbolism may provide Obama with an opportunity to claim victory this week over Clinton.

Kennedy seizure causes earthquake

Sen. Ted Kennedy is in the hospital after he had a seizure at his Cape Cod home Saturday. His condition is serious, but he's not in imminent danger. Doctors original thought he was having a stroke. By day's end, Kennedy was watching the Red Sox and joking with family members and friends who were summoned to the hospital. ABC reports the event sent an earthquake across the political world.

Colbie Caillat - Bubbly

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Colbie Caillat performed at Capital 106.3 (KPTL-FM, Clear Channel Radio) "Studio C" in Des Moines, Iowa courtesy of Universal Music Group.

Colbie Caillat - Realize

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Colbie Caillat performed at Capital 106.3 (KPTL-FM, Clear Channel Radio) "Studio C" in Des Moines, Iowa courtesy of Universal Music Group.

Colbie Caillat - Little Things

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Colbue Caillat at KPTL in Des Moines, Iowa.

Baldwin for President

Which of the Baldwin Brothers wants to be in politics?

Alec, the outspoken one that is said to have promised to move out of the country if Bush was elected president. Bush was and Baldwin didn't -- and now he claims he said he simply would have been a good time to move.

Baldwin was on 60 Minutes with Morley Safer and says acting is not his life and he could see himself running for an office.

It's over for Hillary

Once Indiana and North Carolina were tallied up, Obama firmly positioned himself as McCain's opponent -- not Clinton's.

Never the less, Hillary continues to act as though she has a fighting chance.

Does she know something the rest of us are missing? Do the Clintons have an ace in the hole they haven't brought out yet? Is there a gotcha moment in Obama's near-term future?

Doesn't appear so. The supers are all lining up behind Obama and it's pretty much a sealed deal. In fact, she's done all the damage she can do to the party, as long as Obama continues to fix sights of MacCain and stays clear of mixing it up with Clinton, and it's really her own position that will falter as she continues to fight this losing battle.

And when you look at McCain's abortion flip and add that to his scam healthcare plan, I think he's washed out too.

Random Show Notes

EXPORTING WEALTH
Are the Chinese siphoning off American wealth?

DEBT
Why isn't the $9.5 T national debt part of political discourse? From 1980 to 1992, the national debt rose from $1T to $4T. In 12 years, it quadrupled. From 1992 to 2000, its growth slowed and began to decrease, settling at $6T in 2000. From 2000 to May, 2008, the debt once again climbed by another $3T, leaving us $9T in debt.

ANTIQUATED COMBUSTION ENGINES
Why aren't presidential candidates offering non-combustion alternatives to the discussion on gas & oil prices?

NUCLEAR ENERGY
With nuclear power, there is the question about spent fuel. Energy companies won't deal with it, so tax payers fund cleanups, transportation and hiding of radioactive waste.

US OCCUPATION OF FOREIGN NATIONS
It's a gross understatement to suggest that many in the Mideast don't particularly care for US military occupation.

CRIMINAL REFUSAL TO RENDER AID
Refusing to render medical aid is criminal and morally repulsive unless perpetrated by an entire industry.

THE PROBLEM WITH CAPITALISM
Name a large company that doesn't name growth as a major aim. But isn't the whole concept of growth unsustainable?

INSURANCE AMOUNTS TO RACKETEERING
Who invited insurance companies to sit at the table? In the health care field and auto industry, instead of paying as you go, you hand decision-making authority to a third party whose only aim is to extract the highest possible profit from your paycheck in an organized fashion.