JB,

Like the tie. Do not wear it to the mall.

JD

John - What can you tell us about recent renewed reports about news blackouts in the affected spill area - beaches as well as off-shore. I've been suspecting a news blackout from the beginning. This comes mighty close to confirming it.

http://www.wdsu.com/video/23877998/index.html

With regard to Netanyahu's visit to the White House, Obama's motives could not be more transparent. Will Jewish voters and contributors fall for it again? It's possible. Even in Israel, the left-leaning MSM is constantly advocating for policies that would ultimately bring defeat to the nation. Netanyahu himself has in significant ways yielded to the pressure.

I love this show....only the final hour offered in Dallas / Fort Worth but I always find time to get to the web site for more.

Lou,
Yes, but it doesn't matter. As in "Correction on p. A27 doesn't matter." The Obama administration did what the unions told it to do: crush the non-union opposition. That it was only a temporary rescue is moot. Author William Weir, with an eye to irony, calls that a "Fatal Victory," wherein if the unions had lost the battle, they would have made salutary changes, but having won, they will proceed with their rear-guard actions trying to hold back the consequences of 150 years of rigid opposition and extortion. In the unions' case, it means continuing to squander their members money, duely extorted from them under government mandate, on political goals rather than trying to help them adjust to a world where unskilled labor belongs to the past or to unambitious immigrants.

Nice feature John, hope this continues.

John, I could not tell if you were trying to be ironically provocative or sincerely provocative. If the former, then please disregard. If the latter, then you have fallen prey to the statistical association race fallacy. That is, statistical evidence of a relationship between racial group (e.g., white versus non-white) and some social characteristic (e.g., the probability of being a third base coach) is not in itself reasonable evidence that there is racial discrimination at work. Such an association would support racial discrimination only if one assumed that all racial groups were identical in every way (and thus that any discrepancy in their social characteristics would have to be due to some sort of "external" racial discriminatory force). Thomas Sowell has railed eloquently numerous times against this fallacy, its effect on racial discrimination court cases, and its use by race-hustlers in American politics.

Re: Your Brain Online - A small, seemingly insignificant example of what John is describing - two years ago when I first started listening to the JB Show it was Sunday Night and it was on KFI, which I could pick up out in the Mojave and would listen to as I was riding back into LA, dehydrated from yet another one of my famous "Vulture Hikes". That was special - that was something that made Sunday Night worth looking forward to. Now, KFI dropped the JB Show, but no matter - I can listen to all 4 hours of it (or 4x36) on the podcasts next day. I used to get my wife to listen to most if not all of the 3 hour Sunday show. Now she's "John Batchelored Out" and so I just listen to the show, every day, online. Another ritual gone; another time to be together with a loved one, gone; another reason to be addicted to the internet: arrived.

I don't believe we have inflation and deflation happening at the same time. We have the Fed pursuing monetary policies which will eventually lead to inflation. However, unless and until the prices actually go up, we don't have inflation. People tend to be too eager to put a tag on something. We're in uncharted territory. We're in bad shape. But we're not in inflation (yet.) When we are, you'll see gold and nominal interest rates shoot up, among other things.

John,

Just listened to you with Michael Vlahos on Friday September 10, 2010. You both ended your conversation by mooting the hypothesis that "we created the enemy". To clarify, you meant that we as a nation have essentially aggrandized to ourselves an actually impotent and, ergo, harmless enemy.

I find Michael erudite and quite interesting to listen to, but he occasionally lapses into erudite nonsense, and you occasionally follow him. In the process you ignore, with some glee it seems, the evidence you yourself have spent hundreds of hours discussing on the air about the chauvinistic, militaristic, and barbaric Islam that lies not only without but also within our borders. That you two wished to use the straw man that the enemy is simply "al Qaeda" (and not some much, much larger proportion of Muslims of which the militants are simply the militant arm) suggests to me that you were in a silly, perhaps hypoglycemic, mood. Otherwise, today's headlines that Rauf raised concerns (on Islamo-apologetic CNN, no less) about our safety unless the "moderate" mosque is built, and about the Indonesian imam who threatened a violent rising of "Muslims across the world" against the United States if Korans were burned would have been fresh in and heavy on your mind. The response of our executive branch to this imminent Muslim "explosion" was to throw freedom of speech under the bus, and alternately beg and browbeat Jones into not offending the ummah. Were Obama and his coterie of appeasers (who have never been nearly so strident in condemning the murder of Christians qua Christians by Muslims qua Muslims) also making something out of nothing? And what about the no-go areas in France? Or the Muslim riots there? Or the Muslim insurgency in Russia? Or nuclear Iran? Or the fact that Jews are openly hated in nearly all of the areas controlled by Muslims? Or that there are thousands of Muslims who marched in England in recent years carrying signs reading "slaughter all those who insult Islam"? Or, as Andrew Bostom reported on your program recently, that only 2 out of ~150 mainstream (it is not even clear if the ironic use of quotes rates anymore) Muslim clerics in the US would agree to condemn the murder of apostates from Islam? You know that one could go on with no end in sight.

So, just al Qaeda, John? Have a granola bar and a glass of milk and shake it out.

"from going back to their liberal ways" ... sorry .. English is my mother tongue, really.

I agree, on the other hand, it's kind of nice to find some fresh messages you'd forgotten to check for, kind of like finding a chocolate rabbit in some closet two weeks after Easter. (They still taste good, in case you're wondering.)

Re: WABC museum. I've been there throughout, starting in 1960 when I came to the U.S. from Switzerland. I still remember my transistor radio under my pillow at night and falling asleep to the music. By morning my batteries were dead.

When WABC Radio first changed to talk, I switched stations. Then I came back when my job required me to spend more and more time in the car. Rush was amazing and still is today. 'Batchelor and Alexander' was a refreshing change from the talk-back format. I once again found myself falling asleep with the radio on. I literally grieved when Batchelor went off air. Then, one night, I happened to hear John substituting for Drudge. I thought I had died and gone to heaven.

...and now, here we are: Batchelor on seven nights a week - with a website, no less. It's all too much!!!

The only interest I have in the Chasin murder case is to know why Batchelor is interested in it.

Is AQ, AQAP, drug cartels, Putin, or Mossad involved? If not, why the interest?

LOLOL

It's obvious Batchelor cares because he devotes so much air time to it. I mean it's much for the kind of program his is. If this were ET, it wouldn't be enough. I remain puzzled. What does he think is going on there to warrant such concern?