 Love him or hate him, it seems everyone has an opinion of Al Franken. This week, on "The Allan Handelman Show" Al Franken takes your questions in a rare long form interview. A writer-performer who helped launch NBC's Saturday Night Live three decades ago, today Franken has been more identified as a political humorist with the best-selling books
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, and
Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations .
The Al Franken Show, heard live each weekday from noon to 3 p.m. Eastern on Air America Radio, will go on display in a one-hour edition on Sundance each night at 11:30 p.m. and 2:30 a.m., executives at both networks told The Associated Press on Monday.
 On September 21st, Artemis Records will release Al Franken's The O'Franken Factor Factor: The Very Best of The O'Franken Factor. Culled from Franken's hit radio show on the Air America Radio Network, the album features approximately 80 minutes of hysterical social and political commentary, as well as skits from the first months of the show's existence. New episodes of the show can now be seen nightly on the Sundance Channel (11:30PM-12:30 AM).
Here are some great Al Franken links:
The official site - Al-Franken.com,
and
the unofficial site - AlFrankenWeb.com
Audio Archives, Blog, Streaming Audio from Air America
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 Also, welcomes back presidential candidate Ralph Nader. Although controversial and upsetting to many Democrats who fear this will assure another Bush win, Nader is bringing to the campaign some very important issues that other candidates are ignoring. The Bush Administration and the Democratic Party, in varying extremes, are putting the interests of their corporate paymasters before the interests of the people. In the Nader campaign, the people rule. Mr. Nader takes seriously a government "of, by and for the people" within a deliberative democratic society.
Ralph Nader supports industrial hemp as a renewable resource with many important fuel, fiber, food, paper and other uses. Industrial hemp is a commercial crop grown for its seed and fiber and the products made from them such as oil, seed cake, and hurds (stalk cores). Industrial hemp is one of the longest and strongest fibers in the plant kingdom, and it has thousands of potential uses. In need of alternative crops and aware of the growing market for industrial hemp - particularly for biocomposite products such as automobile parts, farmers in the United States are forced to watch from the sidelines while Canadian, French and Chinese farmers grow the crop and American manufacturers import it from them. Federal legislators, meanwhile, continue to ignore the issue. They have failed to hold a hearing or introduce a bill that would remove industrial hemp from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration list of illicit substances. The United States should implement a licensing system, similar to the one that Canada has in place, that ensures only legitimate farmers are allowed to grow industrial hemp from seeds certified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The certified seeds would guarantee that the psychoactive substance in the plant is so low that it has no effect (analogous to the negligible amount of psychoactive material in poppy seeds).
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