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SEIU President Andy Stern: "Workers of the world, unite!"

Promising “transparency like you’ve never seen before,” The White House released its visitor log this evening under a new voluntary disclosure policy. The log chronicles 481 visits to the White House from individuals ranging from Jay-Z to Bill Gates from January through July. The list includes William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Michael Moore, Robert Kelly (R. Kelly), Malik Shabazz, and Michael Jordan.

The Man Behind the Curtain and his Drones. ...."In a November 2008 in and interview with Spiegel, Soros made some comments that accurately outlined precisely the course that President Obama's administration would eventually pursue in 2009: "I think we need a large stimulus package which will provide funds for state and local government to maintain their budgets -- because they are not allowed by the constitution to run a deficit. For such a program to be successful, the federal government would need to provide hundreds of billions of dollars. In addition, another infrastructure program is necessary. In total, the cost...

Statement of Andy Stern, President of SEIU WASHINGTON DC--Andy Stern, President of the Service Employees International Union, issued the following statement today regarding recent attempts of right wing extremists to silence working families by attacking progressive individuals and community organizations: "This is a moment of profound change for this country--from kitchen tables to town halls to the floor of the Senate, this nation is engaged in a vigorous and heated debate about how we rebuild our economy, solve our national healthcare crisis and restore the American Dream. "As has always happened when progressive change is in the air, the backlash...

( Surprise: ACORN audit to be conducted by panel full of leftists and cronies.) From this profoundly warped announcement (via ABC who engages in daily, early-morning information huddles with the Obama “White House”) from ACORN itself, it’s announced that ACORN is, uhh, going to “investigate” ACORN, with this group of Lefties-at-hire to go onto the media-stage and do the “Let’s Investigate” routine: In a press release, ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis says, that as “a result of the indefensible action of a handful of our employees,” the group will immediately stop accepting anyone into ACORN office for service programs, will conduct...

UPDATED: ACORN, calling the actions of some of its employees "indefensible," has suspended advising new clients as part of its service programs and is setting up an independent review to see what happened.

They led the most powerful forces in healthcare -- the trade groups representing doctors, insurance companies, hospitals and drug makers. Any one of them could stall, if not derail, President Obama's hopes of overhauling the U.S. healthcare system. Instead, they stood with Obama before TV cameras at the White House and pledged their cooperation. For Obama, the show of unity gave momentum to perhaps his most ambitious domestic goal. But the moment was a victory, as well, for another man invited to the event that morning in May. Andy Stern heads the SEIU, the union that helped corral the industry...

SNIPPET: "“The time has come for the United States to reclaim its rightful role as a diplomatic leader within the U.N. framework of climate change,” Kerry said. At the end of the first panel, Kerry defended the lack of detail in Stern’s testimony. “In fairness – I said this to Sen. Corker – Todd Stern made it clear to me prior to coming up here that not all of the T’s were crossed and I’s dotted,” the Massachusetts senator said. “I knew he was coming here today without the ability to fully flesh out every single component,” Kerry said. “I...

The Obama Administration's full-court-press to push their radical Global Warming Agenda continued today with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton naming Washington lawyer Todd Stern as a "Climate Envoy" to represent the United States on the issue of "Global Climate Change." This video shows Clinton making the annoucement, and Stern making brief remarks as well. Stern casts his mission as essential to the future of our children! After all, the future existence of our planet depends on what the Obama Administration does in the next four years! . . . . . . . (watch video)

News hit yesterday that Stern Pinball, Inc. has laid many of its line workers and several designers. No official press release from Stern yet, but the internet groups are a buzzing with comments from various sources talking about the devastating news. Does this signal the end of Pinball as we know it? Sadly, with a good chunk of Stern's revenue coming from private collectors and the economy doing a headstand right now, it's probably a safe guess that Stern might be a casualty of these trying times. Word is that Stern has been stockpiling machines for a few months now,...

This link offers two minutes of soundbites from voters interviewed on the Howard Stern Show. They identify as Obama voters and validate their reasons for supporting him by agreeing with an interviewer who is giving them McCain's positions. I put this in 'society' and 'education' because these registered voters in the streets of New York have no idea of what they are talking about and it is our fault.

Howard Stern Interviews Obama Supporters In Harlem . . . Hilarious.... the Obama supporters are given a list of McCain's positions, but attribute them to Obama, and the Obama supporters agree with every one of them. They even agree with Obama's decision to select Sarah Palin as his running-mate. This video is hilarious - and sad. They get to cancel out our votes!

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators have formally approved the merger of the nation's only two satellite radio operators, ending a 16-month-long drama closely watched by Washington and Wall Street. Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.'s $3.6 billion buyout of rival XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. will mean 18 million-plus subscribers will be able to receive programming from both services. Executives say it will mean huge cost savings that will lead to a first-ever profit for the relatively nascent industry.

Sirius Satellite Radio host Howard Stern supports the merger of his network with XM Satelitte Radio and is fuming at Democratic opposition on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) panel. After FCC commissioners announced they have reached a deal to approve the merger of Sirius (NASDAQ:SIRI) and XM (NASDAQ:XMSR), Stern ranted about Democrats’ ‘gangsterism’ and ‘communism’ and the obstacles to the merger.

MELROSE PARK, Ill. — Being inside a pinball machine factory sounds exactly as you think it would. Across a 40,000-square-foot warehouse here, a cheery cacophony of flippers flip, bells ding, bumpers bump and balls click in an endless, echoing loop. The quarter never runs out. But this place, Stern Pinball Inc., is the last of its kind in the world. A range of companies once mass produced pinball machines, especially in the Chicago area, the one-time capital of the business. Now there is only Stern. And even the dinging and flipping here has slowed: Stern, which used to crank out...

Good riddance to Stern Posted: February 27, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Howard Stern is a filthy, profane, vulgar, obscene disgusting pig. He shouldn't be on the radio. He should be in the zoo. Three cheers for Clear Channel Communication's decision to pull his show off the air temporarily. It's late, after all these years of smut-peddling on the radio, but the decision should be applauded. It's a smart move. It's the right thing to do. It's a good business decision. Anyone who believes in right and wrong ought to know that a slimebucket like Stern has no place on the...

HOWARD STERN makes fun of the developmentally disabled. He's repeatedly featured a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan as a guest on his show, allowing the N-word to soar about like golf balls on a driving range. Stern hasn't lost his top-rated radio job. (Well, not lately.) Charley Barkley ridicules people of all colors and sizes. He once tossed a man through a window and said his only regret was that it was from the first floor. He recently admitted he has a gambling problem and once tried to spit on a heckler, hitting a little girl instead. He's...

Shock jock Howard Stern is no fan of embattled Don Imus, but he said he knows what his fellow talk show host should have told critics: "F**k you.” "He's apologizing like a guy who got his first broadcasting job,” Stern told his Sirius Satellite Radio audience after Imus apologized for his derogatory comment about the Rutgers women’s basketball team. "He should have said, "F**k you, it’s a joke.” Former radio host Bob Grant – no stranger to controversy – also weighed in on the Imus flap, according to the New York Daily News. Grant was fired from New York radio...

LOS ANGELES: He's the weakest singer with the best hair and the cutest smile. He is mocked on late night chat shows and the target of anti-American Idol forces. But Sanjaya Malakar has lived to see another round of American Idol, prompting a passionate debate over whether America's most watched TV show has lost its credibility or unwittingly created another media superstar. "Will Sanjaya kill American Idol?" asked one fan in a posting on the Idol-mania.com website. Malakar, 17, was easily voted through by the public to the final 9 of the 6th season of the singing competition after becoming...

NEW YORK -- For months, former New York Post scribe Jared Paul Stern was at the center of unseemly accusations that he tried to shake down billionaire Ronald Burkle in exchange for good press in the newspaper's gossip pages. Now Stern has fired back in a lawsuit filed Thursday against Burkle, the Post's archrival Daily News _ even former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, whom Stern accuses of attacking him in an effort to suppress negative stories about themselves. Represented by a longtime critic of the Clintons, Stern alleges the defendants defamed and inflicted emotional distress on...

I couldn't find a discussion thread on these hearings but this case has everything--money, paternity, sex, validity of wills, international law, jurisdiction between three different states, rights of families, intent of a grieving mother, drugs, attorney/client privilege. I followed the OJ case, the William Smith rape case, Clinton's testimony--but this has the potential to make precedent-setting history. It may be that between the Supreme Court case and these actions, Anna Nicole may have more of an impact on the legal system than on pop culture, even if this judge is ITO II.

While the principals involved in the battle for Anna Nicole Smith's body duke it out in a Florida court, a stunning new video has surfaced showing a barely functional Anna Nicole Smith, stammering and stuttering, as Howard K. Stern rhapsodizes about how much money the clip will be worth. The tape, which aired Monday night on Greta Van Susteren's show on FOX News Channel, shows an eight-months pregnant Smith, her face painted like a clown, and clearly stoned out of her mind. As she talks to a doll in a baby carriage as if it's real, Stern repeatedly says,...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - As with most gossip, the full story of the New York Post writer investigated on suspicion he tried to extort a billionaire to keep his name out of the paper may never be known. Nine months after Jared Paul Stern, a contributor to New York's premiere gossip column Page Six in the Post, himself became tabloid fodder, federal prosecutors have dropped the case. Stern and his lawyer said on Wednesday they had been told by the U.S. Attorney's office that prosecutors will no longer pursue the investigation. That clears Stern legally, but he says his career...

NEW YORK — Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) paid shock jock Howard Stern a bonus worth nearly $83 million on Tuesday for surpassing subscriber goals set in a 2004 contract that had already turned heads with its $500 million compensation package. The freewheeling and ribald Stern joined Sirius one year ago... His defection marked a turning point for the nascent business of satellite radio, with both Sirius and larger rival XM Satellite Radio (XMR) paying millions more to sign on other talent and attract listeners to their subscriber model. Sirius had roughly 600,000 subscribers when it signed Stern in 2004 for...

PARIS (AFP) - France fully backs the findings of a British government report warning of economic catastrophe if global warming goes unchecked, French Environment Minister Nelly Olin has said. The report's author, former World Bank chief economist Sir Nicholas Stern warned that, without urgent action, the fallout of climate change could be on the scale of the two world wars and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Singling out current and rising economic powerhouses the United States, China and India, he said the world must be prepared to pay now -- in the form of green taxes or emissions trading...

Howard Stern, the self-proclaimed "king of all media," moved to satellite radio in January 2006 to be free from government decency regulations. However, the president of the American Decency Association says the notoriously profane radio host's newfound freedom has apparently come at a cost. Stern predicted that millions of so-called "terrestrial" radio listeners would follow him to satellite and pay a monthly subscription fee to hear his show. Sirius Satellite, which now carries the well-known shock jock's broadcast, put its money on him in the hope that he was right. In addition to Stern's show, Sirius also offers Playboy Radio,...

'NY Post' Radio Writer Mainelli Leaves After Conflict of Interest Cited NEW YORK John Mainelli, a writer who has covered the radio industry for the New York Post for nearly eight years, has left the paper after a dispute over consulting relationships with radio stations and owners that have been cited as a conflict of interest. The conflict of interest was first cited by representatives of Sirius Satellite Radio shock jock Howard Stern. Stern was reportedly upset about Mainelli's article Tuesday about rumors that the talk show host would return to terrestrial radio. In response, Stern's PR agents got word...

Debbie Schlussel is doing a show on Sirius Satellite Radio tonight, on the Howard Stern Channel (Howard 101) until 11 o'clock. She's a riot when she's on Stern, or maybe Howard makes her a riot by mocking her. At any rate, she IS informative and worth a listen if you have Sirius.

Eran Sternberg, director of Arutz Sheva's televised programming, was forcibly detained and questioned by General Security Services (GSS) on Tuesday. They warned him that he "had best be careful." The GSS (Israel's domestic intelligence agency) claimed that Sternberg engaged in violent incitement against officers of the law. Sternberg, who was the former spokesman for the Gaza Coast Regional Council before the uprooting of the Jewish communities of Gaza, vehemently denies the allegations. Sternberg, 31 and a father of four, currently lives in Yad Binyamin, between Beit Shemesh and Ashdod, together with his expelled neighbors from the former northern Gush Katif...

Stern Gets Rights to Tapes In Settlement With CBS Sirius Agrees To Pay $2 Million CBS Corp. and former employee Howard Stern have settled a lawsuit brought by the network claiming breach of contract when the shock jock left for Sirius Satellite Radio at the end of last year. In the settlement, Sirius agreed to pay CBS $2 million. In exchange, Stern gets control of the master tapes of the past 20 years of his shows on CBS, meaning the company cannot broadcast archived Stern shows without paying him.

HOWARD Stern says he's been offered a "major deal" to come back to regular radio via satellite radio - just like his longtime enemies Opie & Anthony. "The joke could be on them if I get good and worked up [because] I got offered a major deal to go back to terrestrial and stay on satellite at the same time," Stern told his Sirius listeners in comments replayed and mocked yesterday by "O&A." "Can you imagine if I go across town against them in all those markets and just kick some a-? That would really be cool," said Stern, who...

NEW YORK - Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. reported Tuesday that its first quarter loss more than doubled, due largely to expenses of $225 million in stock-based compensation to its star shock jock Howard Stern. Revenue nearly tripled as the company expanded its subscriber base. Sirius reported a net loss of $458.5 million, or 33 cents a share, for the January-March period compared with a loss of $193.6 million, or 15 cents a share, a year ago. By far the largest factor affecting the results was costs for stock-based compensation, which all companies had to begin recording this year under new...

Well, that didn't take long. Rocker-turned-radio host David Lee Roth, who accepted the no-win task of replacing ratings king Howard Stern in January, was bounced from the airwaves Friday after barely three months on the air in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and four other markets. "I was booted, tossed, and it's going to cost somebody," Roth said on his last show, intimating that his lawyers would go after CBS Radio for the full compensation due from his reported $4 million contract. The timing of the move was interesting: It arrived just days before the Roth show's first Arbitron numbers. CBS...

"Fox News is gone," said one of our readers. "Last evening, I saw Howard Stern being interviewed by Sean [Hannity]. Howard Stern has nothing of worth to say to anybody." Stern is a foul-mouthed "shock jock" who specializes in talking about lesbians and strippers. It is a mystery why Fox News Channel (FNC) would devote major parts of two shows to Hannity interviewing Stern, while Stern appears in front of a big poster board telling people to sign up for his satellite radio show. It was a new low. Then I heard that Hannity had Stern on his radio show...

Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern were the two most widely identified radio talk hosts in the U.S. [94%] and [89%] according to a recently released study by the Benchmark Company. But there was a general decline in the ability of regular talk radio listeners to identify other nationally syndicated hosts. “With the exception of a few, well-established icons like Limbaugh and Stern, it may well be that the number of nationally syndicated radio hosts has gone past the point where the average listener can absorb all the names,” said Dr. Rob Balon, CEO of Benchmark. The study of 1120 regular...

Sirius has announced 4 million subscribers, and I haven't heard a word from the Howard Stern detractors. Even if he's only responsible for half of the increase since he signed on (600,000 then) and it stays where it is, that's worth more than a billion dollars over five years. That $500 million is a good investment.

Currently on Drudge Report:Howard Stern on CBS 'LATE SHOW'.... Stern goes after CBS in off-the-hook, wild rant during taping; Letterman kept him on for 3 full segments, something he never does. What will CBS edit?...From the Mercury News blog:Howard Stern says it's not true that his appearance tonight on David Letterman was planned in January, despite what the CBS show's press office says.Stern_3 Stern says he is appearing on the show to blast the head of CBS, Leslie Moonves, who has sued Stern for allegedly breaching his contract with CBS radio. "I've got something to promote, that Leslie is a...

Stern, who is known to revel in having lesbians and strippers on his show, was asked if he'd like his own daughters to strip professionally. "A stripper would be a big problem," he responded. "Because I'd want something better for them than be a stripper. I think stripping is a really tough life. I know enough strippers to know that most of them are unhappy. It's really sort of a sad life. ... I am fascinated by strippers, not because they're naked. ... What's fascinating to me is how do you get into that life? How do you accept that...

Roth airs wrath after bosses' Stern lecture Morning host David Lee Roth of WFNY (92.3 FM) spent four hours yesterday telling his bosses where they could stick their ideas for improving his low-rated show. "They want me to copy Howard [Stern]," Roth said. "But I refuse to regiment this show. ... I told them I would quit if they will not let me do what I was hired to do, which is create something unique." He referred to station manager Tom Chiusano and programming vice president Mark Chernoff, who met with him Tuesday, in terms that included "social retards," "beige...

Stern Takes His Case to Hannity & Colmes Faced with legal action from CBS Radio, Howard Stern is taking his case to the court of public opinion, beginning with an exclusive interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity on Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes show (9-10 p.m. ET) Tuesday and Wednesday, March 7-8. It's Stern's first TV interview since CBS filed suit against Stern last week. Stern is expected to speak with Hannity about a number of issues, including the multi-million-dollar lawsuit against him and his experiences since he left terrestrial radio to join Sirius Satellite Radio. Among the allegations...

New York -- Shock jock Howard Stern claimed that his former employer CBS Corp. is "bullying" him and threatening to sue him for financial damages. Speaking at a hastily arranged news conference in New York Tuesday, Stern said CBS accused him of reaching a "secret agreement" with his new employer, Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., even though he disclosed it to CBS executives and discussed his intentions to move to Sirius on the air. Stern also disputed CBS's claim that he caused them financial damages by discussing satellite radio on the air, saying it was a legitimate story about the media...

Coming Soon To The Stern Show Beetlejuice, G. Gordon Liddy, Donald Trump, Joan Rivers, Andrew Dice Clay, Lisa Lampanelli, Joanie Laurer, Anna Benson, Jon Stewart, Roger Ebert, Gilbert Gottfried, Bernie Mac - and more! Not a prank call... Tune in at Sirius Channel 100After seeing a notice at Mark's Friggin that Liddy was on the "Howard Stern 'Coming Soon'" list, I e-mailed LiddyShow Producer, Diana. She e-mailed back. Liddy is expected to be on Howard's show, Thursday, 2/16, between 7:30 and 8AM. She said it was OK to pass the word. That's one soundbyte I hope I can get.

Howard Stern Brings Big Ad Dollars To Sirius and Its Advertisers Although satellite radio boasts commercial free airtime, satellite talk stations are finding both listeners and advertisers want commercials in a big way. Thanks to Howard Stern, Sirius Radio is the big winner in this new universal radio ad game. Albany, NY (PRWEB) February 9, 2006 -- Although satellite radio boasts commercial free airtime, satellite talk stations are finding both listeners and advertisers want commercials in a big way, and thanks to Howard Stern, Sirius is the big winner in this new universal radio ad game. When Stern debuted on...

Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., which liberated radio shock jock Howard Stern from the federal decency standards that he felt had shackled him, is finding that freedom's just another word for $500 million to lose. Since Jan. 9, when Stern debuted on Sirius, pirated versions of the shows have been made available for free via several online file-sharing networks just hours after Stern signs off. The New York-based broadcaster signed Stern to a five-year, half-billion-dollar contract in 2004. Now, Sirius is, in a word, furious. "We don't condone the stealing of Howard's show, or any of the content on our more...

Howard Stern might have a new bone to pick now that he’s moved his risque show to Sirius Satellite Radio. And this time it isn’t with the Federal Communications Commission. The King of All Media is fighting some feisty subjects who don’t want to pay to hear the popular shock jock. Sirius and Stern’s production company, One Twelve Inc., fired off a cease-and-desist letter to at least one Web site that was rebroadcasting the radio host’s show — billed the “Show” — as an audio stream. The letter, which was e-mailed to the administrators of www.hearhoward.org and www.hearhoward100.com, called the...

Stern weighed in yesterday with the confession that he had a nose job nine years ago — right after the filming of his movie, "Private Parts" — and liposuction not long after to suck out the waddle of fat under his chin. He explained that, while he'd always hated his nose, doctor after doctor told him not to touch it. Finally, he said, one sketched out a simple fix that would pare away his speed bump, so he decided to have the surgery.

The biggest gamble in the short life of satellite radio hits the table at 6 a.m. today, as Howard Stern starts what he calls his creative rebirth at Sirius. The most prominent morning host on commercial radio for 20 years, Stern joined Sirius because he says the FCC's vague content guidelines made it impossible for him to do his "real show" any more. Because satellite listeners pay a monthly subscription fee, like cable TV watchers, the FCC does not regulate content - though Stern's arrival has amplified calls for such regulation to be authorized. Stern's switch to Sirius, with his...

Our market lost the broadcast from WFNY (KROCK) during the post Stern transition. How was DLR's program this week? What are his leanings on the day-to-day news issues? If it matters, we've inherited Grover's Morning Glory and it's horrible ...... Is DLR a practicing Jew and/or does he discuss the middle east?

Sirius sees 6 mln subs by end of '06 XM misses '05 subscriber target By David B. Wilkerson, MarketWatch Last Update: 4:10 PM ET Jan. 5, 2006 CHICAGO (MarketWatch) - Sirius Satellite Radio, days away from the long-anticipated arrival of popular radio host Howard Stern, said Thursday that it will grant Stern more than 34 million shares of Sirius stock worth nearly $220 million because it exceeded its subscriber target for 2005. The company said it ended 2005 with 3.32 million subscribers, with a gain of 1.14 million net subscribers in the fourth quarter in the run-up to Stern's debut....

For at least the third time, The O'Reilly factor is repeating his interview with Howard Stern.Is O'Really fishing for a contract with Sirius satellite? Or is this strictly an attempt to boost ratings?What say you? And please be pithy. Also no bloviating, that's my job.