@Mysterious Floating Head: does anybody REALLY know what day it is??

There has been a lot of discussion today about the loss of jobs. Late last week, Tessla Motors announced that they are partnering with Toyota, and reopening the NUMI plant in Fremont, CA. This is not all good news, because when Toyota and GM shut the NUMI plant down, 5000 jobs were lost, and when it reopens, only 1000 jobs will be created, but hey, it is better than nothing. A fast, high milage electric car is an interesting new product. They are hoping to drop the price of a Tessla from $100,000 to $50,000. I am hoping that Tessla will teach Toyota how to build a pluggable Prius. Here is something to watch for. This Wednesday, President Obama will be visiting a new solar panel plant that is under construction next door to the NUMI plant.

Thom, a point needs to be made. Those young men who staged a sit-in at the Woolworth's lunch counter... they *did* serve black people, just not at the lunch counter.

That day, all the booths were full. But even though the counter was empty, they were denied the right to sit there. In protest, they sat at the counter and refused to leave... similar to Rosa Park's refusal to move from her seat on the bus.

So the argument that businesses should be allowed to discriminate is nonsense and completely misses the point. This was an issue of EQUAL ACCESS, "equal treatment", not about barring "service". Your caller (and Mr. Paul) are going WELL BEYOND the established behavior of the time. Paul believes that if you deny people service, "the Market" will force them to change their ways. Problem was, they WERE serving blacks, just not treating them equally. And only just enough not to significantly impact their business.

(If 100 years following Emancipation wasn't enough time for "Market pressure" to force busineses to change their ways, what makes these Libertarians think it ever would?)

Thom, you missed an opportunity.

When Mr. "I got my PhD from Columbia studying selfishness" challenged you regarding his time on air, you should have told him: "Well, it's my show."

Not the fairness we'd expect, but it fits right into how he perceives a business can act toward specific customers.

Am requesting votes and help. The question of the day for our regional newspaper The Independent in Grand Island, NE is -- Should Nebraska adopt an illegal immigration law similar to the one in Arizona? The vote as of now is 497, 84% yes and 92, 16% no.

We have an active tea (baggers) party in the area and would like to see a more rational response to this poll. One member from St. Paul. where we are from, was on televison news program and called Spanish Americans "wet backs". Please help if you can.

The Libertarians need to put down their copies of Atlas Shrugged annd The Fountainhead, and pick up any book by Carlos Castenada. Their claim that reality is a completely objective phenomena is ABSOLUTELY flawed. The reality of MY life, as a gainfully employed engineer, living in a quiet suburban village is NOT the same as the reality of the life of an unemployed, lifelong ghetto-dwelling male of the same age. Much of what I can depend upon in my life is simply unavailable to him in his. The objectivist, libertartians will tell you that all the opportunities I took advantage of in building my life were also available to him to build his. Do YOU buy that line of crap? I sure don't!

ottomine is our member of the day

He wrote on our daily blog that he's requesting votes and help.

"Am requesting votes and help. The question of the day for our regional newspaper The Independent in Grand Island, NE is -- Should Nebraska adopt an illegal immigration law similar to the one in Arizona? The vote as of now is 497, 84% yes, 16% no.

We have an active tea (baggers) party in the area and would like to see a more rational response to this poll. One member from St. Paul. where we are from, was on televison news program and called Spanish Americans "wet backs". Please help if you can."

Here's the site - http://theindependent.com

LINK to documentary!!

Here is the link to the PBS page for the documentary I stayed up till 4AM watching-I HIGHLY recommend it!! The similarities to WHERE Republicans could take us are horrifying!! (ie: income disparity, un-affordable healthcare and un-affordable privatized educational system, as well as unregulated manufacturing leading to irreversible pollution)

http://www.pbs.org/kqed/chinainside/about.html

Pentecost

There are two Pentecosts – one for the Jews and one for the Christians. Pentecost is fifty days after the Passover and Easter. The fifty days are used to thank God and renew our faith. I find that renewing of faith in Israel and America is an impossibility, especially with the hatred, corruption, and lies that are so prevalent in these two countries. How can the Jewish and Christian faiths thank God on one hand and slaughter His children with the other hand? Pentecost makes no sense to the true disciples who follow God. True disciples of God will not kill His children.

The Latin American bishops in Medellin, Columbia in 1968 declared that to be a church is to be an agent of social justice, an instrument of liberation, and a defender of the poor and the oppressed. I say that to be a Christian we need to work for social justice, liberation from hatred, and a defender of the poor and the oppressed. We must believe in the Golden Rule and we must practice the Golden Rule.

Forgiveness

Poetry and Quotes to Inspire


Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
- Jack Kornfield

Between a stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. The last of human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
- Viktor Frankl

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
- James Baldwin

The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you're knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
- Jack Kornfield.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
- Bernard Meltzer

Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-- worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Desmond Tutu

FORGIVENESS FOR YOURSELF:

Just as I have cause suffering to others, there are many ways that I have hurt and harmed myself. I have betrayed or abandoned myself many times in thought, word, or deed, knowingly or unknowingly.

Feel your own precious body and life. Let yourself see the ways you have hurt or harmed yourself. Picture them, remember them. Feel the sorrow you have carried from this and sense that you can release these burdens. Extend forgiveness for each act of harm, one by one. Repeat to yourself:

For the ways I have hurt myself through action or inaction, out of fear, pain, and confusion, I now extend a full and heartfelt forgiveness. I forgive myself, I forgive myself.

@Golden: The 'un-left' to carry is a choice and and action. Skin color is a state of being. Broken logic is NOT Reason.

Rand Paul, like Ayn Rand, is a sociopath committed to disassembling society.

Please play again later.