American Socialism For the Rich - #1 PILOT Part 1

American Socialism For The Rich - #1 PILOT Part 1 (ASFR)
This is a show taped in Vermont weekly so, feel free to call in Sundays from 7PM to 8PM EST. The phone number is (802)651-0589.




Filmed on July 20th of 2008, hosts Marek Hirsch and Matt Cropp discuss monetary policy, fiat currencies, and the role of government in stimulating the economy. You can see the other parts here at my youtube page.

The show is on Tuesdays @ 4:30pm, Wednesdays @ 7am, Saturdays @ 5:30pm and Sundays @ 7pm (LIVE) on Channel 15 (VCAM) on Burlington Telecom and Comcast (Burlington, South Burlington, Essex Junction, Essex Center, Williston, Winooski, St. George, parts of Colchester, Shelburne, Charlotte, Hinesburg, Ferrisburg & Vergennes). Feel free to call in, and please post a comment.

The show was produced with help from VCAM studios in Burlington, VT.

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Driver hits pedestrian, bar in Burlington

A 77-year old man backed his small Kia sedan into two vehicles, hit a pedestrian standing on a Main Street sidewalk and crashed through the wall of a Burlington bar Tuesday afternoon, police said. The pedestrian, Kevin Neary, 42, of South Burlington, was taken to Fletcher Allen Health Care for "serious but apparently non life threatening injuries" after being hit by vehicle, police said. The 4:02 p.m. collision damaged the front wall of Esox bar on Main Street and left the back window of the Kia smashed. The car was driven by Donald Wilder of Zellwood, Fla. People passing by the accident scene were puzzled about how the accident occurred. "How did this happen?" and "How did he do that?" were some of the comments from people who watched police clear the scene. Police said the driver "had trouble with the vehicle controls and held down the accelerator."

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Reid Genauer & Jamie Maisfield Playin' 9 Pound Hammer @ Higher Ground

Reid Genauer and Jamie Masefield performing live at Higher Ground in Burlington, VT on April 24 2008.

Members of Phish Seen Playin' Get Back On The Train, Farmhouse, Sample In A Jar, Alaska & Meat @ Rothbury Music Festival - July 6th, 2008

My Cousin from Connecticut Eric Hodska Won The 8th Annual Lake Waramaug Sprint Triathlon

	"Swim 2.4 miles! Bike 112 miles! Run 26.2 miles! Brag for the rest of your life!"
	— Commander Collins, (1978)

I haven't seen my cousin Eric since a wedding back in the 90's when I was like 13. From what I see on the web, he apparently is quite the athlete. He competes every year in the Iron Man race in Hawaii. Also, he has his own website and executes training camps for people that attempt triathlons. Pretty awesome since there are not many Hodskas. Here is a quote from a Milford Spectrum news article.

"Eric Hodska of Monroe (CT) captured first place over a course starting and finishing high in the hills overlooking the lake. The 42-year-old veteran clocked 1:05:09 to edge former champion John Hirsch of Block Island, R.I. by 32 seconds."

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And yes, he took www.hodska.com before i could, but that is fine with me because he's got a business to promote.

Reid Genauer Singing The National Anthem @ Shea Staduim

I am not in the mood to be very patriotic about the current state of our country's political affairs, but to be festive, I thought this was appropriate. Here is Reid Genauer of that band I like, Assembly of Dust. Enjoy!

And if we get to play Russia in an Olympic hockey game soon. Go America!!! But ya, boo America too! Boooooo!

Phans Hosed By New Oldies Radio Station In Burlington

Were you listening to WUSX 93.7 FM @ noon today? Did you know that there were rumors a new channel in Burlington dedicated to Phish?

Although a nice thought, it never came to be phriends. I was listening and I gotta say I am very disappointed. I really expected something fresh, new and targeted to young people. Burlington needs an eclectic jam band channel to rival The Point's boring and "radio friendly," progressive rock channel that plays the same songs on repeat. However, to the chagrins of many listening phans, instead of something new and fun, Burlington just got another oldies station.

Tuesday at noon the repeating Phish studio songs changed to oldies, and the first song they played was 409 by The Beach Boys, which left me feeling pissed off and unamused. It was pretty obvious that there was not gonna be an exciting addition of music to the greater Burlington area. After the realization had permeated my brain, I also heard Simon and Garfunkel's Sounds of Silence and then Guess Who's American Woman. Meh...I'd rather hear Phish's Rift and then Spine of a Dog by moe., or at least Bob Marley's Exodus and then Up On Cripple Creek by The Band. There are enough channels around here devoted to being predictable and ordinary. In my opinion, they missed out on an opportunity to add that missing piece of the music on the radio that Burlington has been dreaming about for a long time.

Regardless of the big letdown, you have to say that it was a good advertising move on the part of WUSX to use the music of Phish as they did. One may ask, will the Phish listening demographic attention that they grabbed help them with their ratings as they go forward? I would say that I doubt that was even their motive. Rather, I think they wanted to use the buzz of Phish for five days to promote a format change, not gain a fan base, which could have happened if the new format wasn't so freakin' lame. And just to let ya know, for those that want to hear Phish on the radio, there is Gone Phishin' on Jam On, which is weekdays @ 9pm on Channel 17 of Sirius Satelite Radio.

Chris Murphy's Blackwater Bill Passed House

Freshman Rep. Chris Murphy finally managed to turn his "Blackwater Bill" into a law that will require companies and non-profits that get most of their revenues from the government to disclose their senior officers and how much those people get paid.

"My bill seeks one simple thing – transparency. If there are people out there making millions off of government contracts, profiting off of this war, we should know about it," said Murphy.

After trying various methods of pushing his bill through Congress, Murphy managed to link it to the Iraq and Afghanistan war funding that President Bush signed today. This is Murphy's first law that stems from a bill he authored and introduced. The idea of the law is to shed light on the compensation of people running companies reliant on government contracts, and it stems from congressional frustration over an episode in which the chief of the Blackwater security firm wouldn't disclose salary information, even though his company relies on U.S. government work. Because it and similar companies become quasi-governmental organizations, Murphy argued, people should know how much profit they are bringing in for their executives. The law effects organizations making more than $25 million a year and at least 80 percent of it from government sources. The salary information for each organization's top five officials will be posted online at www.usaspending.gov.

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