Daily Topics - Tuesday June 29th, 2010
By shawnt56
Hour One: Why are the Republicans so attached to race bating politics?
Two: Who is Barack Obama really? Thom talks to Newsweek's Jonathan Alter about his new book "The Promise: President Obama, Year One" http://books.simonandschuster.com/Promise/Jonathan-Alter
Hour Three: Should we start to worry about Russian Redheads, invisible ink, shortwave radios, wifi cafes and nuclear weapons? Russia Today's DC correspondent Alyona Minkovski will be here
Comments
#2
Not that I want to claim him, but John Kyl is a senator from Arizona, not Texas. Remember, we have 2 crazies here.
#3
Republicants are showing their true character. Its revolting.
N
#4
That's the difference between Arizona and Texas. Arizona has 2 crazies only. :D
#5
Actually, both of our senators are crazy, which is 100%. And the legislature is not much better.
#6
Here in Austin, people ask me why we don't have a zoo. I explain 'cause we have the legislature.
#7
You are a funny guy, Harry.
#8
Luckily, I escaped!
#9
Did ya'll ever see "12 Monkeys"?
#10
In 12 Monkeys, pranksters released all the animals from the zoo. I plan to do the same with the legislature.
#11
Dear Jeanie, from the nose up you look like that beautiful Maggie Rodriguez on CBS. Guess you have a heavy beard, huh?
#12
I do earn good money from my parttime job as the Bearded Lady at the circus. So I accept it.
#13
I love that there are some newspeople/bloggers who follow up on statements by Republicans like Jeff Sessions and Orrin Hatch. I only wish national news organizations would show this.
#14
Steve Forbert has an incredible new song out The Oil Song a ballad for these trouble times:
#15
@harry, 12 Monkey's is a great movie, but the pranksters releasing the animals from a zoo was a misdirection, the Government was concentrating on the wrong group as the cause of the plague, and when it came down to it, it was one determined fanatic that engineered and released the devastating plague. Which is nice that you bring up this movie, because I feel that the moral of the story is keep your eyes and mind open, sometimes its the quiet and insignificant that can bring about the greatest change.
N
#16
re: 15: dear Maxrot: THAT's the moral of the story? Huh! I thought the moral was: "Never let a green mouse control your dialysis machine!"
#17
Thom, a lot of countries got dragged into WWII, Great Britain was following a policy of appeasement up through 1938. France was even reluctant to do anything that would cause confrontation. More so because these countries had the fresh memory of WWI in mind and were scarred from it. Britain also had, more or less, a guilty conscience of the heavy handed Versailles Treaty. The League of Nations tried, and in some cases was successful in maintaining peace. Its major failure wasn't just the lack of America joining, but also Russia, and Germany was excluded.
I wouldn't say Wilson fought WWI either, he reluctantly entered the United States in 1917, and the majority of our troops didn't get there to participate until late spring of 1918. Our troops were the tipping point for an exhausted Germany, they knew they couldn't withstand the increasing numbers, and agreed to a peace based on Wilson's 14 points. However, America itself didn't do anything so spectacular that it won the war, it just showed up at the end to help deliver the final blow and enjoy the spoils (not that Germany hadn't blundered into inviting this with its return to unrestricted submarine warfare).
N
#18
Secretaries General of the U.N.
1 Trygve Lie (Norway)
2 Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden)
3 U Thant (Burma)
4 Kurt Waldheim (Austria)
5 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (Peru)
6 Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Egypt)
7 Kofi Annan (Ghana)
8 Ban Ki-moon (South Korea)
#19
The Russians probably didn't "rear their heads" while Palin was watching.
#20
"I CAN SMELL THE GULF OF MEXICO FROM MY HOUSE!" - harry ashburn
#21
So is America diverse enough to evolve through this economic disaster.
N
#22
The Irish potato famine was largely due to their preference for only one potato of 12 types. No diversity was the result. The railroad barons benefited from the food crisis.
#23
OH GAWD Thom, please don't talk about M. Whitman as though she's already won. Not yet at least, I live in CA, under the guvenator, I can't stomach a captilation to another Republicant Governor right now.
N
#24
I think it is frightening that a company like Monsanto can control much of the food supply or have a huge influence on the food supply, and do so for profit and with no regard for health and safety. Last week, Anthony Bourdain said on this show that he didn't think the government should be responsible for ensuring a safe food supply. Who then? And how come I have to spend a lot more on organic fruit and vegetables for my son because there are mostly only pesticide-laden choices that are available to me? For that matter, how come I have to pay $35 a month on a water filtration system because the water out of the faucet (which we also pay for), isn't necessarily that good to drink. Safe food and water should be rights of the people and not privileges for those who can afford them. If people have the right to guns, they should also have the right to clean and safe food and water.
I am done now.
#25
Memetics lead to homogenization of cultures. Some values should die. Diversity isn't everything.
The thousands upon thousands stories of creation have been pared to the point where there are a handful remaining. When those are gone we may make some progress.
#26
@Jeanie re water: the English Bill of Rights declared that water is a right of men. There is a long history of riparian rights that is now being shoved aside because corporations, like father, know best.
Read Greg Palast's articles on water privatization in South America.
#27
re:26: yeah! and the Chinese are now doing the same thing in Africa! They even have to mimic our imperialism!
#28
Gene, I heard (maybe here) that Florida was going to sell water rights to a private corporation right before some disaster (can't remember) and then it fell through because of the disaster. Private corporations (unless non-profit and operating in the public good) should have the right to control a resource like water.
#29
There's no doubt in my mind that we have spies in, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Turkey, China, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, Austria, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Canada, .......... heck we even spy on our own citizens, I wouldn't doubt we put spies anywhere and everywhere.
N
#30
Maxrot, don't forget special forces in Somalia, Pakistan and Iran, as well as secret prisons in what was 128 countries. Obama promised to close them down, but, 'cause its black budget, no way to verify.
#31
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Sticking-the-public-with-t-by-Naomi-Klein-100628-367.html
Americans are being treated like an endless money well.
#32
Breaking News!!!
I have just received information from deep operatives whom I worked with as a former Republican. There will be one case heard by the activist United States Supreme Court this summer. They will be hearing from the neocons on Thom Hartmann as an active terrorist. With five Mafioso’s on the court you can guess how they will rule on Thom Hartmann.
Diversity
Thom mentioned briefly on diversity in our foods.
Personally, not all food should be genetically modified.
My former high school varsity baseball coach was Greek. A few years back he wrote a book on his daughter who died. He said that Greeks can have a genetic medical problem whenever they only marry Greeks over long periods of time. Nationalities do marry within their groups, such as Greeks and Greeks, Germans and Germans, Irish and Irish, etc. As with foods nationalities need some diversity so that certain illnesses do not surface within specific nationalities.
There are parents who will not attend a wedding of their son or daughter unless they marry a spouse in a similar nationality.
#33
There were a lot of incestual marriages in the european royal families of the 15th-19th centuries; which explains prince charle's teeth and ears
#34
I would like to know, is there anything we can legitimately do to decrease the power of the SCrOTUS? If so what is it?
N
#35
re: #34: ask a urologist.
#36
Dr. Squint Procto can aid you.
#37
:D
#38
Well I'm an Independent and I live in AZ, and let's be fair about both of our Senators being 100% crazy.
In defense of John McCain, even though I voted for President Obama, McCain,during his bid for president in 2008,visited the Lorraine Motel at the site where MLK was assassinated, and he issued an impromptu apology to a predominantly African American crowd, in the rain, for the vote that he cast in AZ in the 90's against a holiday honoring MLK. Can you name any other AZ politician that has publicly apologized for voting against the MLK holiday?
His apolgy was so repentant and lament-filled until grown men in the audience were brought to immediate tears. Some in the audience could be heard shouting they forgive him on MLK's behalf and that God forgives him for his vote on that fateful day.
John McCain also adopted a child that could pass for an African-American, although she is not.
Sen. Kyl on the other hand, just voiced an all out assault against Jusice Marshall yesterday.Frankly, I have never seen an example by or of Sen. Kyl saying or doing anything that resembles anyone that has even half of a soul.
Therefore, as progressives, we are bound by our high moral ground to judge a book based upon its content, not upon its cover.
Which of these two books would you return to the library 1st?
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On June 28, 2010 I posted Mary Shaw’s article, http://www.opednews.com/articles/Your-Humanitarian-Work-Cou-by-Mary-Shaw-100628-267.html. I also asked the question, “Is Thom Hartmann targeted for jail?” I said that he is targeted for jail.
Thom Hartmann is a humanitarian and so he is also considered a terrorist. No one should doubt that the goose-stepping neocons see Thom as a terrorist. Why you may ask? Humanitarians want to do what is best for the people and for the common good. Thom does a very good job of informing Numb Nut Americans. Informing human beings is contrary to the will of our federal government, the rich, our corporations, and the devil’s disciples who are overt and rampant in the United States of Hell.
These sources want to keep us begging and stupid. Knowledge is power and anyone who informs us is considered a terrorist because we have now some power. Information is contrary to the goals of the elite and the corporatists who want us to endlessly beg and remain stupid.
Thom needs to sit with Louise and put their home in order as he awaits the gestapo’s knock on the door.