By SueN
- Guests:
- Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR).
- Conservative columnist/author David Frum.
- TV news correspondent and author Rita Cosby.
- Topics:
- Will financial reform be real or lipstick on a pig?
- Is BP now in charge of America?
- Geeky Science rocks!
- With Rand Paul's election & Karl Rove's new job...is the Republican party dead, replaced by shadowy corporate interests?
- "QUIET HERO: Secrets from My Father’s Past"
- Bumper Music:
- Change, Bart Crow.
- Take the Money and Run, Steve Miller Band.
- Rawhide Frankie Laine.
- Make Me Lose Control, Eric Carmen.
- Crazy, Gnarls Barkley.
- Science Rocks!, Rock Chick & Science Geek.
- Move it On Over, George Thorogood and the Destroyers.
- Do You Believe Me Now?, Jimmy Wayne.
- All 'Bout The Money, Meja.
- Grand Canyon, Dmitriy Lukyanov (you need to search for it) (with additional sounds by Jacob).
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
- Catch the Reading Bug, Monty Harper.
- Today's newsletter has details of today's guests and links to the major stories and alerts that Thom covered in the show, plus lots more. If you haven't signed up for the free newsletter yet, please do. If you missed today's newsletter, it is in the archive.
- Quote: "Bankers own the earth; take it away from them but leave them with the power to create credit; and, with a flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again... If you want to be slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers control money and control credit." -- Sir Josiah Stamp, Director, Bank of England, 1940.
- Member of the day was gypsylauren, who won a copy of "Threshold: The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink" for blogging on the Thom is a sexist pig? thread:
Ask any TRANSGENDERED person who is on hormone therapy, Testosterone is a very powerful drug that causes one to be aggressive, Estrogen has a calming effect.
