Daily Topics - Friday September 3rd, 2010

I've been promoting an idea similar to Bernie's for over a year now that needs your support.

Sign my Green Jobs petition.

Spark a new Green-jobs economy by renovating government buildings and ordering hybrid mail trucks.

I need 1,000 signatures. Please help.

Educating the public cannot be left to the Democrats in Congress. That responsibility lies with all of us.

Too many times I've watched as progressives and liberals stand silently by when Right Wingers spew their nonsense. They are allowed to say some of the most ridiculous things with no one calling them on it. In fact they rely on.

We've got to stand up and call them on it, preferably citing facts to dispute their claims. When their nonsense is routinely disputed and their ignorance is highlighted, they won't be as brazen with their words. And others around them won't be so quick to take what they say as gospel.

Thom, thank you for your book "Cracking the Code". That book and your daily show have helped me to take on the Right Wing crazies intelligently and effectively.

Bernie Sanders said we are moving to an Oligarchy

I think Bernie is out of his mind,we are already in an Oligarchy

John from Mass.who called in lamenting why did the Prez not cap interest rates ?

Bernie replied,"I could only get 20 Senators to go along with that proposal."

Well what else do you need to see to know that we ,you..me and all other ordinary Americans

are being screwed by our Govt.....And these are the guys you can hear Thom demand day after day

that you must go out & vote ..vote for what ...the legitimate "knee capping & beheading" of yourself.

Yeah! that's right go vote for people who don't care about ya!

Remember that healthcare they keep saying they passed...well I am going to the DR.

and I called ahead and ask what my portion of the bill would be......Well,it's a whooping $650.00

for this 1 visit.

Yeah so much for Health Care Reform...they are lieing to us day after day folks.

I'm reminded that FDR allowed his Administration to be influenced by the ravings of Father Coughlin and America suffered mightily for it just as relief was needed most . . . FDR learned who the enemy of America was and still is BUT President Obama seems immune to learning lessons from history and to reason.

Pablito, I understand your frustration. I feel it too. We all do. But we can't just give up and stop voting. If we do "they" get exactly what they want and we get screwed. We've got to get angry and we've got to get active. Remember when Thom says "Despair is not an option". Now is NOT the time to throw in the towel.

I have young children and I fight for them as much as for myself. Maybe more.

Jerry Brown is expected at Labor Day events on Monday including Sacramento's Labor Day Picnic & Race for Democracy at William Land Park . . . Meg Whitman has other ideas . . . http://www.wallstreetwhitman.com/index.php/game

Why do wealthy, pretend-populist, astroturfers have to pretend to be victims?

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/why_is_freedomworks_really_moving.php

I apologize for the picture of Dick Armey in a cowboy up front.

Sooth said: 

http://www.alternet.org/news/148058/the_dems_need_to_speak_to_progressive_values,_or_else_lose_badly_come_november/

Turdblossom circumvents the law by creating a Shadow GOP

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/rove-group-drops-four-new-senate-race-ads-video.php

Sharron Angle continues her crusade against the unemployed.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/03/sharron-angle-unemploymen_n_704709.html

Watch the cheesy expose' about a cheeseball . . .

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/dems-recreate-vitter-prostitute-encounter-in-new-web-video.php

Tragic & magic:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/3a0115c21c/betwixt-the-music-jewel-sarah-palin

The Real Story - By PAUL KRUGMAN

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/opinion/03krugman.html?src=tp

Great game you got there rladlof, going to send that link out in an e-mail to friends and family.

N

When it is business as usual (which is most of the time) there are no leaders, just the people on top (a handful of oligarchs and their minions) and the people underneath (the rest of us).  The only time that reality can be changed is when the people underneath stop looking to some politician from above to come along and lead them.

When people stop looking outside themselves for a leader, when people decide that they are going to have to get off their butts and do the leading themselves, that’s when they start getting together and organizing themselves into a movement to press for their own common interest.  And the interesting thing is this, once the people are organized enough to lead their own movement, then (and only then) is it possible for political leaders to emerge.  This is because a political leader is simply a politician that has realized which way the prevailing wind is blowing and that it is good politics for him to be moving in the same direction.

Case in point the civil rights movement produced leaders sprung out of the people, movement leaders like John Lewis, Medgar Evers and MLK.  Only then did a politician like LBJ decide it was safe enough to show political “leadership” by passing the civil rights legislation.

We need to stop looking to Obama to lead us, and start leading ourselves by building our own grassroots movement.

DB

www.pahrumplife.org writes:Sometimes Things are Exactly as They Seem Updating pahrumplife’s report posted 7/23/10, here is a very recent report by the Phoenix AZ, Channel 5, KPHO investigative news team on the latest sinister developments in the CCA/Governor Brewer exposé.

Video: http://www.kpho.com/news/24834877/detail.html

Atheism, is the belief of unbelief. Its sort of like when you choose not to make a choice, you're by default making a choice.

N

Atheists can run for higher office, just like a Democrat with a spine and espouses the party platform. Running and getting are two different things though. :-(

N

If I utter the prayer "Thank you" daily, I'm afraid sometimes it would come out with a sarcastic tone. ;-)

N