Daily Topics - Thursday July 29th 2010
By shawnt56
Quote of the Day: “Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.” -- Abraham J. Heschel
Hour One: Is continually talking about race an effective electoral strategy for the Fall? Thom confronts Former Reagan White House political director and author Jeffrey Lord http://spectator.org; Plus, Dr. Mike Newcomb, host of the Mike Newcomb Show on 1480AM KPHX Phoenix, AZ will be here with the latest on Arizona's new immigration law www.1480kphx.com
Hour Two: What do Jeffrey Dahmer and gay cannibals have to do with second graders in Montana? Thom challenges Dr. Judith Reisman, author of "Sexual Sabotage" www.drjudithreisman.com; Plus, Geeky Science - if one cup of coffee a day is good for you, wait til you hear what ten can do!!
Hour Three: If the police protect us from insane drivers, why can't they protect us from Twinkies and Ding Dongs too? Thom has a rumble with Julie Gunlock of the Independent Women's Forum www.iwf.org; Plus, "Taking Our Country Back" - Diana Shaw (D-CA) running for Californina Assembly District 38 against a Republican AND a Libertarian www.electdianashaw.com
Comments
#2
One minute delay? What ever happened to the 7-second delay? How paranoid.
#3
The Sherrod debacle did not materialize out of thin air . . . NPR deserves the open briefing room seat, NOT FUAX Noise: http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/nprbeatfox/index.html?rc=hlinko_20100728_nprfox_FB_ad1
#4
@N8CHZ RE “What happened to the seven second delay?: Me. I’m sorry . . .
#5
I was on food stamps for a while a couple years ago. It paid just enugh to provide food for 20 days each month. The other 10 days I was feeding off of my social capital at the table of friends. I was lucky that I had people that cared enough about me to help me through my rough patch. I can not imagine what people totally on their own do.
DB
#6
“Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof” - John Kenneth Galbraith
We say that we want the truth, what we mean is we want to be correct” – Mihnea Moldoveanu
“Rationalizing over Rationality”
#7
The lady from the IWF obviously does not go near any poor people. She should donate some of her time to the shelters and find out just how many homeless women and children are in them. How do you make a peanut butter sandwich when you live in a car? She should go down to the parking lots in many cities, (Santa Barbara) designated for the homeless to park their cars at night, so that they can be safe. Give her a dose of reality, right now she is living in a bubble. If she can't be bothered to donate her time to the poor, then maybe she shouldn't bother talking about cutting food programs for the poor.
#8
You all may want to check out Melissa Fox for California Assembly, 70th A.D. . . . She’s good folk:
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=90628476440&ref=mf
http://www.votemelissafox.com/
http://www.votemelissafox.com/video.php
Contribute: http://www.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/22529
#9
Thankx Thom for the tip on justcoffee.info---IWW bug no less!
#10
@sanguine Well said.
#11
I went searching for this study, and all I could find were links calling it a hoax, including this one from Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/breasts.asp
#12
Sex education isn't going to be enough. If anyone cares to read a valuable book on the subject -written by a Christian conservative no less, I suggest Unprotected written by a university campus psychiatrist(written as Anonymous M.D.).
I'm not a conservative just so you know, but I've never been able to call myself a liberal due to their generally positive association with pornography and sexual promiscuity as a form female empowerment. I say this because I really do recommend this book as a person concerned with humanitarian, feminist and sociological topics.
I tend to read books opposed to my view point so I can better understand why people(libertarians for example)think what they think. In Unprotected, I was expecting to find the usual conservative talking points on morals etc.. but I was more than suprised by what I found. I couln't argue against any of it.
I'm not religious, but I was not put off by the authors beliefs, which are mentioned pretty main in a chapter on the subject. The author is an Ivy League trained psychiatrist but also has a deep understanding of biochemestry which was a highlight of the book for me as new nothing about it before.
Thom, if you're reading this I really think you would benefit from checking this book out as it's perspective on issues you've descussed several times on the show(I listen every day!)are quite profound. It's obviously written anonymously for that reason. That being said, the book targets no one and has nothing directly to do with politics or parties. And she's not even a very good writer. Nevertheless I found the information invaluable. HIghly recommended.
#13
Comment about reforming food stamp program
Prohibition does not work…we need to be careful about limiting goods to be purchased with food stamps. We do not want to create a black market for food stamps.
I like the idea of credit card food stamp program that will only work at major supermarkets and limits the purchase of certain foods to include candy, king crab legs, top cuts of steak, lobster tails, soda, ice cream, potato chips, crackers, etc.
Of course they could still buy flour and make their own, but why should tax payers pay for them to buy junk food.
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Maxrot: Certainly technologically feasible. The point of sale is informationally more than sophisticated enough. Big Retail will piss and moan, but at the end of the day there's money in it for them. What about small non-chain retailers, though? That could be an unintended side effect.