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Plus: Who’s says serving 2 years in Iraq isn’t enough to prove your commitment to service? ...Meet the Keyser Soze of the Bush White House...the EPA sees toxic rocket fuel in the water, shrugs and gets back to its game of GTA4...guess which country is only 27th in child health care (hint: it rhymes with the Bunited Kates)...find out which governor is like a “Volvo with a gun rack"...and does incarceration for felony drug charges hurt your chances as a future Federal Agent? Find out in the Wednesday, May 7 edition of Mic Check Radio. Is this thing on?

Celebration Excuse

Jazz, literature, and symphony orchestras. Grab a martini and stay classy with MicCheck.

1789

First Presidential Inaugural Ball in NYC. The party favors? A portrait of George Washington.

1824

Beethoven’s 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna.

1912

Columbia University establishes Pulitzer Prize.

1941

“Pardon me boys, is this the Chattanooga Choo Choo?” Glenn Miller and his orchestra record the classic song in Hollywood.

1945

Play Ball! U.S. Negro Baseball League starts with six teams.

1945

Germany unconditionally surrenders in World War II.

1984

Vietnam War vets reach settlement over Agent Orange.

2000

Vladimir Putin inaugurated as Russia’s president, and eight years later, leaves office the same day.

Cupcakes for All

1833: Johannes Brahms, composer
1840: Peter Tchaikovsky, composer
1919: Eva Perón, Argentine political leader and wife of Juan Perón

1950: Tim Russert, TV journalist

Daybook

POTUS

President Bush delivers remarks at the Council of the Americas’ 38th Annual Washington Conference on the Americas.

STUMPIN

John McCain: Fundraiser in NY.

CONGRESS

SENATE

10:00 AM

Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee: Aviation Operations, Safety and Security Subcommittee hearing on “The State of the Airline Industry and the Potential Impact of a Delta/Northwest Merger.”

HOUSE

10:00 AM

House Foreign Affairs Committee: Full committee hearing on “U.S. Foreign Policy in Pakistan: Implications for Regional Security, Stability and Development.”

WATCH MORE TV

TIVO

Oprah: Week in review.

Tyra: Glamour Magazine comes to life.

The View: Cindy Crawford, Barbara Walters.

Ellen: Drew Carey, Alicia Keyes.

Regis & Kelly: Ashton Kutcher.

LATE NIGHT

Kimmel: Christina Ricci from ‘Speed Racer’

Letterman: Emile Hirsch, ‘Speed Racer’

Conan: Liam Neeson

Leno: Jimmy Carter.

 

Eavesdrop

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Who: NYT reporter Steven Greenhouse

Doing What: Talking about his new book “The Big Squeeze: Tough Times For The American Worker”

Why: You Care: Greenhouse goes behind the scenes to tell the stories of software engineers in Seattle, hotel housekeepers in Chicago, call center workers in New York, and janitors in Houston, as he explores why, in the world’s most affluent nation, so many corporations are intent on squeezing their workers dry.

When/Where: Yesterday, May 6, at the Center for American Progress.

Buy The Book: Amazon Link

Book Him, Danno: charvey@amprog.org

The Audio

  • If there was any general theme in the book, it’s something from what this great Republican president Teddy Roosevelt once said. “Our aim is to promote prosperity and then to see that prosperity is passed around.” Now, unfortunately, American corporations don’t seem to be passing the prosperity around as much as they used to.
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  • Unfortunately, many well-known, respected, multibillion-dollar corporations break the law. It’s good that the press has written about how Enron and other major companies have ripped off their shareholders. And That’s terrible. But many many companies very quietly do the same thing with their employees. And I think that deserves as much attention.
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  • In the 1980s, globalization only hit the Bud crowd, the Budweiser crowd. Now globalization has also hit the Starbucks crowd. By that I mean by that was that in the 80s it was blue collar workers, factory workers, the folks in Indiana and Ohio and Pennsylvania. Who were really hit by globalization in the form of steel imports and auto imports and tire imports and apparel imports and shoe imports. And they really felt it. And only in this decade did white-collar workers really start to feel the sting of globalization as well.
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Popularity Contest

You were watching the North Carolina returns. We were watching the top news sites and tracking their most popular stories (to keep you up on non-political news when you come up for air.)

ABC: Forbidden Love Between Siblings

CBS: Gay Governor, Estranged Wife Face Off

CNN: Britney Spears back in court

FOX: GI’s Graphic Afghan Firefight Recorded on Family’s Voice Mail

NBC: Chrysler touts gasoline deal to win buyers

NYT: For the Elderly, Being Heard About Life’s End

WP: Who’s More Red, White and Blue-Collar?

USAT: Illinois man designs beer can coffin

LAT: 96 arrested in San DiegoStateUniversity drug probe

BBC: Breastfeeding ‘helps to boost IQ’

REUTGeorgia says “very close” to war with Russia

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