Daily Topics - Friday - May14th 2010 - Anything Goes Friday!
By louisehartmann
Hour One: "Brunch With Bernie" Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spends the hour with Thom discussing the issues and answering listener questions www.sanders.senate.govComments
#2
If you haven't seen Lewis Black ripping into Glenn Beck on the Daily Show, then I have a gift for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMOh9L60FKw
Best Lewis Black I've seen, f'n hilarious.
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#3
@harry, I heard about the last half hour of that Democracy Now segment.
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#4
@maxrot: you can podcast it later.
#5
I could watch it on free speech TV later too, but I probably won't.
N
#6
two thoughts on the oil spill
1. why aren't the super Christians upset at the oil companies for destroying God's Green Earth?
2. when the Space Shuttles blew up they stopped flights until the problems were fixed. why can't this policy work now? fewer people were killed and less ecological damage was done during either one.
#7
Ditto on the Democracy Now! Ironically, I had just come here to post this:
Amy Goodman interviews Antonia Juhasz. Antonio says any time you drill at depths of 500 feet or lower offshore there is a very good chance of triggering a methane bubble. Antonio also expresses the relationship between America's Wall Street and the price of oil.
Democracy Now! October 7, 2008 http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/7/the_tyranny_of_oil_antonia_juhasz
#8
And now....for my next trick:
Did BP take my idea? I emailed them a copy of my suggestion that I emailed both Norman Goldman and Ring of Fire Radio May 10, 2010 with this suggestion to remediate the oil gusher:
Couldn’t Big Pig create a vacuum like a sump pump and slurp the oil up? The
heavier density fluid in the lighter density water and given a heat source beneath a lesser temperature would help drive and separate the fluids like as in a lava lamp.
Sorry in advance, just brainstorming.
To email your suggestion to BP enter here: http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/inquiry/2931/
Think I will tell them to take the $$$ they spend on lawyers and marketing to just clean up their fricking mess! And to hire some real environmental scientists. hrummph!
#9
@newtrev re #6: answer #1:the super Christians don't want to run out of oil.
#2:the politicians dont want to run out of oil.
#10
@harry, don't forget, NASA doesn't produce record breaking profits either.
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#11
Ferget NASA, they;re way out there.
#12
Thinking minds are socialists.
This post is for Senator Sanders.
#13
We keep fighting to protect our freedoms. Give me a break!!!
http://original.antiwar.com/tom-mullen/2010/05/13/fighting-for-our-freedom/
#14
French and Germans are on the same page? OMG OMG OMG, the end times are near, these two countries have been getting cozy since Bush times. Soon Dog and Cats will break out in spontaneous friendships.
N
#15
Love Senator Sanders, think he is like 1 of maybe 6 in the senate that actually work for the people 95% of both parties are just bought and paid for hacks.
Responding to the Senators comment that we need a president who will stand up for the American people, I agree with him. But if anyone thinks that Obama will due that, they are still deluding themselves. Look at how he wasted his first year, Look at who's at treasury, look who he put at justice, he and his administration is just much in bed with the powers that be as any of them. He was never some brilliant outsider. He is and was a cold calculating politician that encourage way to many to create a fantasy candidate that he was not. So glade I didn't vote for him.(voted for Ralph by the way)
#16
If the Hedge funds are attacking the stability of Soveirgn Nations could they be considered Terrorists? America deems all entities actively seeking to bring about our downfall as Terrorists...
oh, wait - not the rich... I forgot. Sorry, nevermind...
#17
@Maxguy; amen. We Americans keep looking for a savior. No matter how many times I try to tell people about public campaign financing, their eyes glaze-over, they pretend to understand; 5 minutes later they're again saying "If we could just find the right candidate who won't sell out". Sigh :(
#18
Here's a link for everyone here that doesn't want to sleep for the next few days. Its in regards to the BP Oil Spill as posted on the Huffington Post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/13/wheres-the-oil-your-gover_n_575...
N
#19
Public financing! OK so like who in Washington would ever allow that to go through? They make to much money off the current system. It's like actually having a code of ethic's with an outside review board, never going to happen.
#20
@Maxguy: they could handle it like they handle other similar situations...make it take effect in the future!
#21
@maxguy8, you're right Washington wont let it happen, but thankfully all politics are local, so we keep the pressure on our states first. Instant Runoff Voting is a good way to start.
N
(As Thom is talking about as I'm writing this)
#22
Let's Pimp Hemp.
N
#23
Pimp himp? In this temp? Don't be a simp. :)
#24
Newtrev
Re: why aren't the super Christians upset at the oil companies for destroying God's Green Earth?
Haven't you heard, Jesus is coming back soon? Therefor there are fundamentalist Christians who believe it doesn't matter.
#25
@Drichards: and this time, we'll ALL be able to walk on the "water".
#26
Bold prediction of the week -
Demand for Alaskan seafood will rise to it's higest level since the Valdez leak.
#27
I love listening to KTLK, our governor race has brought the Republican Meg Whitman to campaign on this station. I guess her answer to tanking polls is to push hard against illegal aliens... I'm guessing she really wants to make sure she loses.
Freakin' hilarious to listen to it. I can't imagine California electing her, if we do, we all deserve to be horse whipped.
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#28
If I could afford an Electric Car, I'd buy one in a heart beat.
N
#29
TransOcean says the critical information is missing... that doesn't sound suspicious at all.
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#30
It seems to me that the is a vast difference between the "local" democratic party and the "national" democratic party.
#31
Day 2 without Quark... haven't seen Zero G. today either, blog didn't even roll over to a second page during the show.
Depressing.
N
#32
@MaxNels -
You're depressed - I'm suspicious.
They're taking the network at my office down this evening to install "upgrades".
Probably something to block streaming applications. This means you're probably losing me, too.
If I'm not here Monday, y'all will know why.
Peace.
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