Daily Topics - Tuesday - June 8th 2010
By louisehartmann
Quote: It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations -- Christine Gregoire, Gov. of Washington
Hour One - Is health care reform beginning and will it satisfy progessives? Ron Pollock Executive Director, Families USA www.familiesusa.org
Guest: Why we're falling into a double dip recession? Robert Reich http://robertreich.org
Plus...Will Goldman Sachs return the $13billion? Cenk Uygar The Young Turks Radio Program www.theyoungturks.com
Hour Two - Can disaster be a catalyst for change? Explorer Jean Michel Cousteau www.oceanfutures.org
Hour Three - Is the BP disaster mean the end of greed or the end of the planet?
Plus...What are the secrets still being about RFK's assassination? Lamar Waldron www.legacyofsecrecy.com
Comments
#2
@ Foodfascist: Sure, the writing's the thing, and I do love it. Just started recently and need motivators to do more of it. Thanks, susy
#3
Censorship-------My, my,my
#4
@ suzyc56, re: #40, "she may be better off without us."
I have no doubt that she'd be better off without us. Never fear - soon enough, she WILL be without us.
#5
re: Dewey, Cheatem & Howe - I think I first heard this in a Marx Bros. movie.
#6
@moonb, what are you talking about on #53?
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#7
American dollars are funding the killing of Americans. Stupidity reigns in the United States of Hell!!!
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0608/kucinich-war-critics-rebuke-usfunded-bribes-afghan-militants/
What is there not to love about our stupid country?
#8
If he doesn't know by now, then he should not be president.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/president-obama-i-want-know-whose-ass-kick
#9
Obama can finally make a no brainer decision.
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/president-obama-supports-lifting-liab
What took him so long to decide?
#10
Echoes of Mengele!!!
Welcome to the real Christian nation called the United States of Hell!
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What are we teaching America's Children?
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100607/SPORTS31...
The link above is to an article from my local paper about a guy who's worked an umpire in scholastic and little league baseball for the past 20 years, and was a past president of the county umpire's association. He retired last week, after being chased off the field following a close call by irate parents.
Does this model "sportsmanship" for our children? Of course not! In fact (and quite surprisingly, IMHO), last week's botched Perfect Game by Detroit Tiger's pitcher Armando Gallaraga (ruined by umpire Jim Joyce's CLEARLY mistaken call) presented a FAR better model. I'd never have believed that Major League ballplayers, who are paid obscenely high salaries, simply because they are very good at playing a child's game, could provide a better life-model for America's children than their own parents do, if I hadn't seen it myself.
Sportsmanship is among several important things that today's American parents fail to model for their children. I would also include responsibility, neighborliness, and citizenship as other ideals that we fail to teach or model.
The parents I see today seem to believe that their children are somehow ENTITLED to a life of material wealth and comfort, of never experiencing a challenge to their self-esteem, a life better that that of their parents. Our parents did their best to ensure such a life for us - they sweat and they bled for it. Somehow, we seem to think that it "just happened", that it's somehow guaranteed that the next generation will be better off than the last.
Wake up, folks - if you teach your child that he's entitled, don't be surprised when he grows up to be an angry, bitter adult, who grows to feel that he or she has somehow been cheated. Unless you're descended from a bankster, you get nothing that you don't earn in this world.