Daily Topics - Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Monday April 7th-12th 2010 - Thom is traveling to Germany
By louisehartmann
Wednesday - Carl & Christine from KPOJ are filling in as Thom flies to Germany. Lamar Waldron will drop by to talk about how the division of the 60s is back.
Thursday - Thom is live from Germany with Matt Taibbi on the show - Looting Main Street.
On Friday - It's Anything Goes! Peter B. Collins is hosting & Senator Bernie Sanders is here.
On Monday Carl & Christine host once more as Thom flies home. Thom is back on Tuesday.
Comments
#2
It makes no sense, not even the fact that the BBC announced the demise of WTC 7 twenty minutes before the fact...
#3
Yes, Peter B - shouting is the Republican method of communication. It's all they know.
#4
re: 911: I think the gov't was at least guilty by omission via stupidity and incompetence. I don't think the buildings had demolition charges set in them. They fell like I would have expected them to fall.
#5
www.pahrumplife.org writes: I would like to share an email letter written to Nevada’s Senator Reid after a missed opportunity to speak with him due to weather conditions and his subsequent late arrival to a Meet and Greet session at the local Democratic Headquarters. And I was thinking that it would be educational and constructive if others would share letters they have written to their congressmen and others in government, especially on these “anything goes” Fridays. Cutting, pasting, signing and sending letters en masse to government offices on key issues is a way the people can change government.
Here’s my unmade speech emailed to Senator Harry Reid:
Hi Senator Reid
Sorry I missed you on Monday, April 5, at the Democratic Headquarters in Pahrump. The weather-induced traffic coming over the hill made a long day for you and your supporters. I thank you for making the effort and hope to be able to talk with you on some future occasion. I was hoping to get to talk to you on Monday about some of our concerns here in Pahrump but was unable to do so because of previous engagements. We had a good time chatting with the folks at the Democratic Headquarters here in Pahrump for a few hours awaiting your arrival. I am including the statement that I wished to make to you on Monday, the following:
My question is where do we go from here? But let me tell you why I ask that question.
- We believe that the majority of the town is against the prison being foisted into the midst of Pahrump without sufficient notice and through preparing the way via changes in the Nye County code and effecting new zoning prior to the first Scoping Meeting, the beginning of the NEPA process.
- I would like to see a government investigation into the local and state political scene that has made this happen. This railroaded prison is going up on our fan. Our potential Beverly Hills.
- I would like to see our local government take action to clean up the pestilent retention ponds at Willow Creek Golf Course before someone gets sick and dies. Instead of pointing fingers, powers that be should eliminate the problem and clean up the contamination, and then go after the culpable parties through the courts, if necessary, for reimbursement. People who live around the golf course are gagging and embarrassed to entertain guests because of the fetid stink.
· We are worried for the future of Pahrump. Neither the privateers nor the government can handle the contamination now. How do they purport to handle the much greater problem of the tremendous load of sewage, rife with high BOD (Biochemical Oxygen Demand) coliforms and antidepressant drugs and other psychotic drugs that would come from the prison? We are worried about our aquifer and about what might be blowing in the wind as effluent sprays dry on lawns and are cast into the air.
- This whole scenario has been a travesty complete with a media circus smearing those concerned for the health, safety and welfare of Pahrump citizens, and deserves a special investigation by a higher government.
- For a more detailed understanding of what we have been through in Pahrump, I urge you to visit the website www.pahrumplife.org. What is happing to us here in Pahrump is insufferable. So my question is again: Where to we go from here?
- Thanks for listening.
All the best
#6
Our breathless friend trying to convince us all to not attack Iran by calling progressive radio has it all wrong. One he is preaching to the choir and two it is not the question nukes that will be the bloody flag that causes any potential invasion. It will most likely be a stupid statement about switching from oil-dollars to oil-euros.
In spite of the “Brave beyond the point of foolhardy” posturing of Iran’s tin-pot version of GWBush, nothing said either way the idiot will ever mean that Iran won’t figure out what goes into making a nuke. It only takes crude tech and high school calculus to produce a true nuke. It takes even less to pack a conventional warhead with low to medium-grade radioactive materials. The issue is that the technology cat is outta the bag . . . AND this is not about Iran or any bad actors at the national level. Nations have reason to not piss off other folk . . . Like their own destruction or the loss of their own dirt.
Now it is about keeping radioactive materials outta the hand of non-governmental types.
Focus needs to be directed at the fear-filled folk of an authoritarian bent especially those in office . . . He NEEDs to call Coburn and McChinless . . . Of course, they won’t be listening BUT it is fearful tiny-hearted fear-posturing wimps like that need to get the message.
#7
Harry,
I initially thought that the idea of controlled demolition of the WTC towers was part of disinformation campaign made to cover up the bin Laden-US connection.
However, the buildings did not fall as one would have expected. They fell into the steel infrastructure, or as Richard Gage puts it, "into the path of greatest resistance."
Prior to 9/11 no steel framed highrise had ever been brought down by fire. That day three steel framed highrises failed. The fires were not hot enough to melt steel, especially at the lower floors.
Check Richard Gage's presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8wSquKIBog&feature=PlayList&p=CC38E1B63B3EA74D&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=6
#8
@Zero G: Im still not convinced. I can see steel beams weakening with thousands of gallons of flaming fuel cascading down them. One floor falls onto another, pancaking. I assumed that the burning fuel was cascading down the beams. Assuming that, it fell exactly as I would have expected. WE had a high rise with a fire here. It didn't fall, but it was felled because it was no longer safe. And that involved a lot less heat and flaming fuel than did 911,
#9
My old computer died on me and so I needed a new computer. It seems more complicated and intricate for me but I will try to adjust.
#11
Is this activity a truly Christian way of life?
#12
Frank Rich had a wonderful column in the Sunday NYTimes. It expands on comments by Monday's first guest:
"No One Is to Blame for Anything"
#13
WAMU Investigation Critical to Financial Reform:
"U.S. Faults Regulators Over a Bank"
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/business/12wamu.html?ref=business
#14
Paul Krugman continues to argue that "small" is just as dangerous as "big" if banks aren't regulated:
"Georgia on My Mind"
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/opinion/12krugman.html?ref=opinion
Excerpt:
"
And for all the concern about banks that are too big to fail, Georgia suffered, if anything, from a proliferation of small banks. Actually, the worst offenders in the lending spree tended to be relatively small start-ups that attracted customers by playing to a specific community. Thus Georgian Bank, founded in 2001, catered to the state’s elite, some of whom were entertained on the C.E.O.’s yacht and private jet. Meanwhile, Integrity Bank, founded in 2000, played up its “faith based” business model — it was featured in a 2005 Time magazine article titled “Praying for Profits.” Both banks have now gone bust.
So what’s the moral of this story? As I see it, it’s a caution against silver-bullet views of reform, the idea that cracking down on just one thing — in particular, breaking up big banks — will solve our problems. The case of Georgia shows that bad behavior by many small banks can do as much damage as misbehavior by a few financial giants.
And the contrast between Texas and Georgia suggests that consumer protection is an essential element of reform. By all means, let’s limit the power of the big banks. But if we don’t also protect consumers from predatory lending, there are plenty of smaller players — both small banks and the nonbank “mortgage originators” responsible for many of the worst subprime abuses — that will step in and fill the gap."
#15
Arbiters Wait on Declaring End to Recession
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/business/economy/13recession.html?ref=business
"For the record, this recession isn’t over yet."
'Ya think?!
#16
Careful with the prepositions there, Carl!
You asked the Mother Jones guy about "reform that works FOR Wall Street". The current system works JUST FINE for Wall Street, thanks.
What we NEED is reform ON Wall Street that works FOR Main Street!
#17
to Karl and Christine: Evangelicals haven't become 'green' as much as the younger evangelicals have read the Bible and see the reality of environmental destruction as an abomination of desolation upon creation. The environment is another area where the so-called 'ends of the spectrum' agree: except for profiteers and maniacs no one will speak against protecting the envronment = our Mother Earth.
#18
"Watchdog Groups Call for Criminal Charges Against U.S. Chamber of Commerce Director Don Blankenship for Homicide"
#19
Over the weekend, I was involved in a conversation with a few friends in which one topic was "who would be the best SCOTUS nominee that Obama could NEVER get approved by the Senate. I had the nominee that ended the conversation in near hysterical giggling by all participants -
ELLIOT SPITZER! ;-)
#20
To Karl and Christine: Thanks!
Reason and Passion... Awesome!
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has cancelled a planned trip to Washington next week for President Barack Obama's 47-country nuclear security conference.
He made the decision after learning Egypt and Turkey intended to raise the issue of Israel's assumed atomic arsenal at the meeting, a senior government official said on Friday.