Daily Topics - Tuesday March 30th 2010
By Louise
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds -- Samuel Adams
Hour One - Is America failing because we don't have enough socialism? Peter Ferarra www.theacru.org
Hour Two - Should citizen activism take the form of a coffee party or a shotgun?
Plus...Paul Loeb www.soulofacitizen.org "Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times"
Hour Three - Elizabeth Ames Jones Texas Railroad Commissioner, running for U.S. Senate (R-TX) www.jonesfortexas.com Why do Texas politicians always want to suck up to “Big Oil” and ignore the cost to the rest of the country?
Comments
#2
Scientists discover how to ‘turn off’ brain’s morality center
By Agence France-Presse
Monday, March 29th, 2010 -- 9:38 pm
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0329/scientists-discover-turn-off-brains-mor...
Er, well yeah, they've "tuned in", but not "turned on"...
#3
Groucho Marx, from Animal Crackers -
"I just came back from an African Safari. One morning, I shot an elephant in my pajamas ..."
I think y'all can guess the rest.
#4
@mstaggerlee: oh yeah! Uh...was the elephant doing the "funky chicken?"
#5
@ZeroG - That was Chico, not Groucho! ... get your Marx brothers straight!
" " - Harpo
#6
Or the monkey....
#7
A good dancing elephant can really pachyderm 'em in!
#8
Could be just the right therapy to check out some good old Groucho Marx films :)
#9
Bloody Marxists!
;-)
Rick
(Marxist-Lenonist; Groucho and John)
#10
lol ! Marxist I am then!
#11
http://www.wftv.com/news/22999143/detail.html - 53 Cars Towed From UCF During Glenn Beck Event
Here's what completely amazes me about this story - The tow truck driver says it took him over 8 hours to tow all these cars away. That means these people sat and watched Glenn Beck for OVER 8 HOURS!!!???
#12
@harry "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know." - Groucho marx
#13
#14
Ah, @mstaggerlee beat me to it! =)
#15
Wow- she is talking to us like we are low information voters- no doubt its who she is accustomed to addressing.
#16
re: Texas oil. yeah, its so interesting that the Railroad Commissioner decides what the price of oil is! Go figure.
"Queen Mary Having Bottom Scraped" - headline from leftwingwacko.com
#17
Duck Soup, anyone? :D
#18
hold the MSG
#19
Solar THERMAL
#20
At least Elizabeth Jones was reasonable. And she was likeable too.
#21
Be careful on those 'pull-overs' Sarah..
http://www.autoblog.com/2007/02/15/carjackers-beware-new-bill-in-tenness...
Yeah, two wrongs don't make a right.. but for the sake of the Darwin Awards..
I guess you should balance the Obama sticker with NRA or Smith-Wesson..
Good luck,
Rick
#22
A police state is a slave state.
#23
Fidel Castro said, "Its [ that America passed national healthcare reforms] a miracle."
#24
@Rick, my favorite bumper sticker used to be :Friends don't let friends vote Republican.
#25
Did you know there are now Solar Generators? We have one at the last enviornmental fair at which Al Gore headlined, It was like a big barbeque and it ran the entire San Jose Convention hall at which Al spoke.
#26
Wow- that ex limp balls listener was a great call, he was releasing so much pain in that call, that was cool that Thom let him vent like that.....
#27
Re bikes;
"Helmet laws interfere with natural selection" At Daytona; you know some guys were saying, 'yeah, that's one of my rights in the constitution"..
;-)
Rick
#28
I missed hour 2 ... I don't see it here so I feel I should post this...
After the fire burns out the inflammable dry grass
A gentle rain spurs fresh green growth:
http://www.CoffeePartyUSA.com
#29
Right on LeMoyne-
Are you an actual coffee party member? Do tell!
#30
re: ZeroG – That was Chico, not Groucho! … get your Marx brothers straight!
In a 1959 interview on BBC TV's Showtime, Chico Marx was asked how his brother Groucho got his name. Referring to the times when marijuana was legal and the Marx Brothers were a Vaudeville act (around 1920), he replied, "We used to wear a little bag around our neck, called a Grouch bag. In this bag we would keep our pennies, some marbles, a couple of pieces of candy, a little marijuana, whatever we could get...(laughter from the audience)... because, you know, we were studying to be musicians (big smile to the crowd). So that's where Groucho got his name."
http://www.veryimportantpotheads.com/site/groucho.htm
#31
I'm an instant coffee party member. The meetings only take 3 minutes.
"Mounting Problems For Young Couples" - headline from leftwingwacko.com
#32
My cousin is a de-caf coffee party member. Nobody can stay awake during the meetings.
#33
I know a woman who is an Irish coffee party member. You know what happens at their meetings.
#34
@Rick in Canadia re: Tennessee Carjacker law - Insurance policies (i. e., the private sector) have often treated one's vehicle as an extension of one's home. This would extend the protection rights one has in his home to the extension of his home.
I'm one of those rare progressives who does not support tougher gun control legislation - I believe that we have sufficient laws regarding guns on the books already, and since my basic preference is to see the rights of citizens increased as opposed to more government control over citizens, it would be inconsistent to support more gun control.
#35
The link below is to one of Glenn Miller's radio ads.
#36
Mstaggerlee,
Not aiming at that.. just thinking how some legally-armed Obama supporter might take being pulled-over as suggested by the lady who pulls over wolves from a helicopter.. ;-)
Cheers,
Rick
(well-armed Canuck..)
#37
All right- I am a Fair Trade Coffee Party member- anything goes- as long as its fair.
#38
Congress tried to reform health care and got the banks out of student loans instead... lol Have to give them credit for trying - looks like a solid reform got in the bill finally in reconciliation.
Thom thanks for the Carter clip...
It does bring tears to the eye ... sob ... 20% by 2000 was so doable.
I lived in a hand-built cement house with a R40 roof and passive solar gain
it takes <1 cord of wood to heat in winter (months of nights below 20) and
stays cool in the summer (months of highs at 80-100).
Space heating is the largest consumer of gas and heating oil in the US
Simple house designs could erase much of our energy use and CO2 emissions. The husing boom of stick houses in the last decade was outright appalling in this context.
#39
We all need electronic message boards attached to the rear of our vehicles so we can message the bozos behind us. Imagine the average rush hour...there would be about 50 road-rage shootings per mile.
#40
I have a question for this venue's resident member of the "God Squad" -
Gerald Socha - Given that you are a devout Christian (not sure whether or not you are a Catholic), where do you stand on the recent problems in the Vatican, with the current Pope's history of shielding child molesting clergymen?
Personally, I don't know if the church has an equivalent of impeachment, but if it does, I think this is the time for it. However, I've also heard it said that one reason this Pope was elected is that, in this area, his hands are actually CLEANER than those of most other Cardinals, so I don't know who they'd replace him with.
#41
@Lemoyne yeah...I miss Carter and know he got screwed by the national security state. He has been bad-mouthed constantly. He was by far the most ethical President in my lifetime. His only moral failing I know about is the continued arming of the Indonesian army to commit genocide.
#42
@Harry - In general, it's the bozo IN FRONT of me that I want a message delivered to, to wit -
GET THE HELL OUT OF THE LEFT LANE, YOU CREEP!
#43
How retarded is Boehner?Yes sarah I said retarded,he is actually asking where the jobs are,I know he looks in the mirror to put his bronzer on.
On Karl Rove,we need to email,call and fax Holders office and insist on investigations,I do it weekly and I ask that all that listen to progressive radio do the same.
#44
@mstaggerlee, yeah, you have to pass 'em first. I wish mine said "Slo Traffic Keep Right". (same thing)
#45
Apparently, the revolving door that separates the regulators from the lobbyists is still in fine operation -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/29/peter-robertson-bank-lobb_n_517...
#46
Harry,
Maybe 'Slow drivers'.. ;-)
I have one from 5+ years back; 'Hang up and Drive the Car'
Cheers,
Rick
#47
LUV your bumper sticker idea harry. It just implies so many things.
#48
Here's a link to Glenn Miller's other radio ad - this one is REALLY ugly -
#49
@mstaggerlee
No Moonlight Serenade, that...or American Patrol either.
#50
In today's show, Thom went through a list of presidents and how much debt that they would give a baby today. Does anyone have that list or the source of it? thanks!
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re: braking: ive noticed its almost always elderly people who hit the accelerator instead of thebrake. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that we elderly people learned to drive w/standard transmission, therefore 3 pedals. I learned to use the right foot for both brake and accelerator, and use the left foot for the clutch only. I wonder if most elderly, like me, learned that way. and now automatically use the right foot in an emergency, sometimes hitting the accelerator rather than the brake. Younger p eople, who learned on automatic transmission, naturally use the left foot for the brake. Maybe I ought to send this in to NTSC.