HOUR 4:The BRAD SHOW's Big Gay Hour! Featuring Jim Key, the spokesman for the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, who's asking Microsoft for their award back, and then closet-buster, Mike Rodgers, the blogger at BlogActive and the Managing Editor of Raw Story Q.

Listen LIVE via the Web! Saturday from 7p-11p ET (4p-8p PT)!
Repeating Sunday 12noon-4p ET (9a-1p PT)

Quick and easy access to LIVE listening links, archives, upcoming guests, donation links and ad info (not to late to advertise!) and more via www.BradShow.com!

More links...
Direct streaming links via RAW STORY!
Donate here to help defray costs!

Discuss this hour of the show and our guest via the comments button...

HOUR 3 GUEST: Washington State Attorney, Paul Lehto, who is suing Sequia Voting Systems and Snohomish County in WA!
Details of the lawsuit (in PDF format) here!

Listen LIVE via the Web! Saturday from 7p-11p ET (4p-8p PT)!
Repeating Sunday 12noon-4p ET (9a-1p PT)

Quick and easy access to LIVE listening links, archives, upcoming guests, donation links and ad info (not to late to advertise!) and more via www.BradShow.com!

More links...
Direct streaming links via RAW STORY!
Donate here to help defray costs!

Discuss this hour of the show and our guest via the comments button...

HOUR 2 GUEST: Former U.S. Congressman, Chris Bell, the man who filed ethics complaints against Tom Delay last year, before such a thing became so very popular.

Listen LIVE via the Web! Saturday from 7p-11p ET (4p-8p PT)!
Repeating Sunday 12noon-4p ET (9a-1p PT)
Quick and easy access to LIVE listening links, archives, upcoming guests, donation links and ad info (not to late to advertise!) and more via www.BradShow.com!

More links...
Direct streaming links via RAW STORY!
Donate here to help defray costs!

Discuss this hour of the show and our guest via the comments button...

HOUR 1: Election Reform-apalooza! This week in the Baker/Carter National Election Reform Commission (and on The BRAD BLOG)! What happened, and what didn't!

Listen LIVE via the Web! Saturday from 7p-11p ET (4p-8p PT)!
Repeating Sunday 12noon-4p ET (9a-1p PT)
Quick and easy access to LIVE listening links, archives, upcoming guests, donation links and ad info (not to late to advertise!) and more via www.BradShow.com!

More links...
Direct streaming links via RAW STORY!
Donate here to help defray costs!

Discuss this hour of the show and our guest via the comments button...

HOUR 4 GUEST: Tribute Syndicate Editor & Columnist, Robert Koehler!

Listen LIVE via the Web! Saturday from 7p-11p ET (4p-8p PT)!
Repeating Sunday 12noon-4p ET (9a-1p PT)
Direct streaming links via RAW STORY!
Donate here to help defray costs!

Discuss this hour of the show and our guest via the comments button...

HOUR 3 GUEST: RawStory.com Deputy Managing Editor & Investigative Journalist, Larisa Alexandrovna!

Listen LIVE via the Web! Saturday from 7p-11p ET (4p-8p PT)!
Repeating Sunday 12noon-4p ET (9a-1p PT)
Direct streaming links via RAW STORY!
Donate here to help defray costs!

Discuss this hour of the show and our guest via the comments button...

HOUR 2 GUEST: Vote Fraud Investigator, Andy Stephenson!

Listen LIVE via the Web! Saturday from 7p-11p ET (4p-8p PT)!
Repeating Sunday 12noon-4p ET (9a-1p PT)
Direct streaming links via RAW STORY!
Donate here to help defray costs!

Discuss this hour of the show and our guest via the comments button...

HOUR 1 GUEST: Vote-Rigging Software Whistleblower, Clint Curtis!

Listen LIVE via the Web! Saturday from 7p-11p ET (4p-8p PT)!
Repeating Sunday 12noon-4p ET (9a-1p PT)
Direct streaming links via RAW STORY!
Donate here to help defray costs!

Discuss this hour of the show and our guest via the comments button...

Guest Blogged by Winter Patriot

Steve asked for a new open thread ...

Hey, Steve: You're welcome!

Guest Blogged by Winter Patriot

It will be interesting to see how long this will last:

Good luck, George! We'll be watching!

Guest Blogged by Winter Patriot

Peg C doesn't have to ask more than ... um ... twice!

Open Thread!

Guest Blogged by Winter Patriot

He's preaching the spread of democracy all over the world, and especially in the Middle East. Sounds great, doesn't it? He wants you to think so! But he doesn't want you to realize this: George Bush [or his inner circle] will decide which governments are democratic, which are autocratic; which will stand and which will fall. And the decisions will have nothing to do with democracy.

One case in point was mentioned recently by fellow guest-blogger Jaime in his excellent item, News You Might Have Missed. Here's another example for your consideration:

Pro-Democracy forces in a Middle-Eastern country turned out more than ten percent of that nation's population out for massive and peaceful demonstrations. It happened a week and a half ago, in Bahrain. Did you hear or read anything about it? Don't feel badly if you missed it; the way it was played in the major media, it's almost as if they wanted you to miss it!

Never fear! The Brad Blog is here! You haven't missed anything!

Guest blogged by Winter Patriot

In a few recent posts, I have mentioned Russ Kick and his twin websites, The Memory Hole and The Memory Blog. The most recent [February 4] item on The Memory Blog looks very interesting...

This would be bad enough, of course, even if Enron and Bush were not like this [holding two fingers very close together].

Click here for more details on the so-called president's close friends, and their high moral values...

UPDATE: Brad here, jumping in with a quick update to Winter Patriot's post. It's a quote from comments on this thread posted by Nana, but it deserves to be front and center. The fake California Energy Crisis of 2001 being a pet bugaboo of mine...Thanks, Nana.

Guest blogged by Winter Patriot

USA's new Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, has begun a week-long tour of Europe, during which she has been assuring foreign leaders that an attack on Iran is "not on our agenda".

Do you believe her?

Guest blogged by Winter Patriot

Early this afternoon, the lead story on CNN's main page was headlined "Critics question Pentagon news sites".

It began:

That story is now gone, and not a trace of it can be found. The CNN search engine can't find it. Google knows nothing. Interesting, no?

Why do you suppose CNN pulled it? You don't suppose they got any heat for it, do you?

And what do you make of the shift-of-tense? The first sentence says "[DoD] plans to add more sites", but the second sentence says "the sites are run". Is this story about sites that are already up and running? Or about sites that don't yet exist? Or both? I can't tell. Can you? We may as well assume the worst.

Further, what do you suppose it means by "journalists"? What do you suppose that word means in the context of the phrase "President Bush's pledge not to pay journalists to promote his policies"? How about "partisan hacks pretending to be journalists"? Do you think his pledge extends that far? Do you suppose Jeff Gannon qualifies as a "journalist"?

I still say we may as well assume the worst. We may as well expect more "information warfare". We may as well expect more "battlefield deception". We should never forget that "the home front" is considered "a battlefield", where those who can see through the propaganda, and who dare call it by its proper name, are considered "the enemy".

I wish I had saved more of that story. I wish I had read more of it.

Oh well. We'll find out soon enough. But not from CNN.