Daily Topics - Tuesday - June 1st 2010 - Live from NYC
By louisehartmann
Hour One: Should Americans continue to be forced at gunpoint to subsidize Brian Fischer and his ilk about Hitler and pink swasticas? Thom confronts Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association afa.net
Hour Two: Israel's High Seas Disaster and more on the Volcanic Oil Spill...Where is Big Government when you need them?
Hour Three: Isn't the oil blowout PROVING the stupidity of Objectivism, in that it's always remedial and never preventative?? Isn't WalMart and Miley Cyrus just a smaller version of the same thing, that we'll see over and over again until millions are dead from your philosophy? Thom has a rumble with Alex Epstein of the Ayn Rand Institute www.aynrand.org
Plus, how to take our jobs back from China - Scott Paul of the American Association of Manufacturers www.americanmanufacturing.org
Comments
#2
Thom:
I have to urge a little caution about blaming all the right-wing male anti-homosexual hate on closeted gay men. While that is sometimes true, the vast majority of men who hate gays are straight and just hateful. Blaming it on gays rather unfortunately makes it gays' own fault that they are dealing with this hate, and that's not fair. It removes the responsibility of straight men for their own hate. It's a bit of what I"m sure is unintentional victim blaming, so maybe you'll want to think a bit more about that theory.
- Heather
A straight female who doesn't have a dog in this fight, but has heard a lot of similar arguments about women
#3
Listening to Thom on time delay ...
The ACLU is actually two separate corporations, the ACLU Foundation - which is tax exempt and does not engage in political activities, and the American Civil Liberties Union, whis is not tax exempt and engages in political activities like lobbying which tax-exempt "Religious" organizations like the AFA also engage in despite their tax exempt status.
#4
Quote mstaggerlee:@LeMoyne - OK, so if we take BP out of the cleanup picture, who do we turn to? Halliburton??!!
- sorry for the delay I was in the chat room today...
I think that BP should lose the well and the lease too but that is a different issue.
The cleanup involves over 1/4 of the US federalized Gulf Of Mexiconow closed to fishing and all the inshore areas next to that open ocean. BP has contracted with other parties to do clean up under the Oil Pollution Act = OPA. What the govt can do is replace BP as the manager/holder of those contracts - the US can then pass contracts on to states to empower them to get equipment and manpower to defend/clean their shores and empower the states to expand those contracts and bill it all back to BP. If BP denies the subsurface oil plumes they will Never Do Anything about the ocean pollution. Really no one can clean the ocean but after Hayward's statement there is no excuse for pretending that deniers like BP will even just look at/study/measure the problem.
#5
The person to ask is Antonia Juhasz-- if anyone knows the definitive answer to this question/issue it would be her. http://www.tyrannyofoil.org/ She also does a great job of outlining the history of US big oil companies earliest origins and how they came to evolve into this sickening symbiosis with globalized Arab kingdoms in her earlier book "The Bush Agenda: Invading the World One Economy at a Time"-- an oft overlooked must-read for ANYONE who wants to understand WHY the US ("we") is/are at war in Iraq and Afghanistan... Sad. ( http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-0060846879-0 ) ps. No, I have no vested interest in selling books, just a big fan of Ms. Juhasz-- She'd be a great guest for the show, Thom, Sue, all... Love y'all, TriangleBill ;-)
#6
(The question/issue being re whether or not Big Oil operating in the US enjoys legal exeption from anti-trust laws.) TBill;-))
#7
BP stands for Bubba Pumps Shrimp Co. We made it into a t-shirt with $2 from everyone sold going to "Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary" for their clean up efforts.Hre's the link http://www.opinionapparel.com/blowups/bubba_pumps.html
Have an AWESOME day!
#8
Dear Thom Blog Listeners,
Anyone can criticize but too many people will criticize without offering any constructive resolutions for problems. The goose-stepping Republicans are great for criticizing and obstructing the efforts of the progressives. The reason why people do not offer resolutions for problems is because they can come under fire for their criticism and resolutions for problem and so they will not stick their necks out for anyone or anything.
Bryan Fischer, like other neocons, won’t answer questions. He kept talking about gays in the military. Since Fischer and many neocons are straight, let them serve in the military and keep our military straight.
Obama is gutless. All he needs to do as commander-in-chief is to sign an executive order and say that gays are now part of the military services.
I predict that gays will become part of our military services. It is an issue now because it is a voting wedge issue to elect the goose-stepping neocons.
#9
Bobby Jindal and his goose-stepping Republican morons are dunces.
#10
How is the Gulf OIl spill, the State of Florida and Al Gore related? The answer is not global warming, the answer is the 2000 Presidential election and the theft of the American presidency by George W. Bush and the U.S. Supreme Court (and the Repbilcan Party in the State of Florida). If Al Gore was elected President in 2000, there would have been no secret Dick Cheney energy meetings or watering down of environmental/gas exploration regulations. As an environmental advocate, a President Gore would have stood for stricter regulations and oversight on oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere minimizing the likelihood of a catastrophy like the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Unfortunately for the (Republicans and others in the) State of Florida, which is now in the pathway of the giant oil plumes, the chickens have come home to roost. Maybe the Florida Republicans have saved some of those dimpled chads to soak up all the oil coming their way.
#11
@pursuitofhappiness, you make a compelling and a provocative case for Gore as president. Although I would have preferred Gore over Bush, it seems that the presidency changes people. Once in office the president has to take orders from the Shadow Government in the United States of Hell.
#12
http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2010/06/01/living-in-the-51st-state-of-denial/
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Miranda and the Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court has made yet another decision against the rights of individuals, and for the rights of institutions.
When does continued questioning become coercion? After three hours? Twenty four? Forty eight? When does it become sleep deprivation?
How many hours of questioning does it take, while a suspect remains silent, before the courts appoint him a lawyer, another constitutional right? At what point is a suspect's right to remain silent become declared implicitly?
Do an individual's constitutional rights evaporate simply because they don't utter a few words? By their ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has declared that we are no longer a society ruled by law, but a society ruled by men. If our constitution is so meaningless that the utterance of a few words by a single individual changes it, then we are truly a nation in dire trouble.