The Con Man Cons Them Again
We spent most of the program talking about the election. We've been held back from talking about Donnie Bonespur Trump for months and months, but we got to say something about him on this program. We'll most certainly have opportunities to talk about him again in the future. R. Paul talked about this month being the 43rd anniversary of his coming to WBAI as a producer. There's only a little more I can add to this page, but I plan to update it a little bit, so you might check back for the update.
You can now listen to this program on the official WBAI Archive.
The next regular WBAI LSB meeting will be held on Wednesday November 13, 2024, at 7:00 PM. That meeting will be held on ZOOM, even though ZOOM compromises privacy and security. That will be the final meeting of the 13th WBAI LSB, and it will be my final LSB meeting as a member. I term out this December.
Some years ago the WBAI LSB voted to hold its regular meetings on the second Wednesday of every month, subject to change by the LSB, so we have the following schedule:
These meetings are set to begin at 7:00 PM.
WBAI has a program schedule up on its Web site. The site has gotten many of the individual program pages together to provide links and such, so check it out.
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Here is WBAI's current Internet stream. We can no longer tell if the stream is working without testing every possible stream. Good luck.
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WBAI is archiving the programs! WBAI has permanently switched to yet another new archive Web page! This one is more baffling than the previous one. For some time I was unable to post archive blurbs, then I could, and then I couldn't again. Now I can again and there are a whole bunch of archive blurbs up there now.
This is a link to the latest version of the official WBAI archive. The archiving software appears to have been at least partially fixed. To get to the archive of this program you can use the usual method: you'll have to click on the drop-down menu, which says Display,
and find Back of the Book on that menu. We're pretty early in the list, so it shouldn't be too difficult. Once you find the program name click GO
and you'll see only this Back of the Book program. Management has fixed some problems that we'd been having with the archives.
For programs before March 23, 2019, we're all out of luck. The changes that took place once WBAI Management took control of the WBAI archives seems to have wiped out all access to anything before that date in March. You'll have to click on the same drop-down menu as above, which says Display,
and find Specify Date
, it's the second choice from the top. You are then given a little pop-up calendar and you can choose the date of the program there. Then click GO
and you'll see a list of programs that aired on that date. For those previous programs you can get the audio, but nothing else, since I can't post anything to those pages anymore. Good luck.
Since the former General Manager banned Sidney Smith from WBAI he's not alternating with us on the air. As of November 2020, Back of the Book airs weekly.
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R. Paul and Pickles of the North talked about the election that was just concluded. Since the election is over we're no long constrained by §399 of the FCC regulations. We can talk all about the people running for public office again.
We were amazed and disheartened by so many American voters falling for the scam that Donnie Bonespur
Trump had pulled. Does this mean that most American voters are stupid? How could they have not seen through his blatant lies, and clearly false promises? Perhaps this shows why phishing scams are frequently so successful. And many people have been taken in by the Grandma Scam.
We also talked about the likelihood that racism and misogyny played a role in some people not voting for Kamala Harris. She would have been such a good President!
Trump is dishonest. He is, of course, a convicted felon. And now he'll be president again. This time he'll have a corps of right-wing bad people around him who won't let things fall between the cracks of a disjointed presidency, as happened in Trump's first occupation of the office. There is also the Project 2025
plan that was drawn up mostly by right-wing cronies of Trump. It's a blueprint for dismantling democracy in the United States of America.
We spent most of the program talking about this development and some of the terrible things that may happen because that demagogue has succeeded in fooling so many American voters.
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R. Paul talked about having first become a part of WBAI 43 years ago this month.
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There are a lot of issues that are considered hazardous to talk about on the air at WBAI, even though the gag rule was lifted in 2002. However, there is the Internet! There are mailing lists which you can subscribe to and Web based message boards devoted to WBAI and Pacifica issues. Many controversial WBAI/Pacifica issues are discussed on these lists.
One open list that no longer exists was the WBAI-specific Goodlight
Web based message board. It was sometimes referred to on Back of the Book as the bleepin' blue board,
owing to the blue background that was used on its Web pages. This one had many people posting anonymously and there was also an ancillary WBAI people
board that was just totally out of hand.
In June 2012, I ended up having to salvage the bleepin' blue board, and so I was the moderator on it for its last seven years, until it got too expensive.
Sometimes we used to have live interaction with people posting on the Goodlight Board
during the program.
Our very own Uncle Sidney Smith, whose program Saturday Morning With the Radio On used to alternate with us, has a blog these days. You can reach his blog here.
There used to be a number of mailing lists related to Pacifica and WBAI. Unfortunately, they were all located on Yahoo! Groups. When Yahoo! Groups was totally shut down in December 2020, all of those mailing lists ceased to exist. One year earlier their file sections and archives of E-mails, had been excised leaving only the ability to send E-mails back and forth among the members. Now it's all gone. Older Back of the Book program Web pages tell a little more about those lists.
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