Daily Topics - Tuesday August 3rd, 2010
By shawnt56
Quote of the Day: Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Hour One: Should big business get to play big brother by spying on their customers? Newsflash: they already are!! Thom has a rumble with Katherine Mangu-Ward of Reason Magazine www.reason.com
Hour Two: Should anyone born in the United States be a citizen automatically? Thom challenges Benjamin Johnson of the Immigration Policy Center www.immigrationpolicy.org
Hour Three: If you're going to do away with Obamacare, what will you replace it with? Thom mixes it up with Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute www.cato.org
Comments
#2
Seems that Howard Zinn was a project of J. Edgar Hoover. No real threat besides teaching history, which is always in conflict with the ruling class.
#3
@Jeanie, I applaud your restraint, with those protesters, in just using the thumbs down gesture... I woulda' messed up and used a different digit and pointed it up.
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#4
I love Homer Simpson's answer(my favorite line of his) : the kids want to spend the night on the sidewalk downtown so they can get a good view of Crusty the Clown's parade the next morning. Marge sez "Oh, that's too dangerous! Homer, you go with 'em!" Homer sez: "Doh! Can't they just take the gun??"
#5
Isn't is interesting that China is concerned about unfettered growth in population, but the "free market" advocates pay no attention to resources? Limits are for idiots.
Earth First! We'll strip mine the others later!
#6
I should go on welfare, it must be paying a lot more than I thought it was, it sounds like the best deal around.
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#7
@Maxrot: The best way to go on welfare is to become a corporation that deals with military weapons.
#8
The mastodons would argue that the Siberians who came to North America were illegal immigrants. Their problem was that they couldn't type.
#9
@Gene, hmmm perhaps I can sell rocks to the Government, proclaiming that they are classic and universal ammunition. But my rocks are of high quality and the cost reasonable, in fact for a special fee, I'll license the military to be able to use any rocks they deem suitable in whatever theatre of operation they may be in (wouldn't want them to pick up the stones and use them illegally).
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#10
@Gene, well the biggest problem with the Mastodon constitution was it based its borders on the North American Ice Sheets and Glaciers. As those disappeared, it was hard to argue where the borders were. Stoopid Mastodons.
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#11
A mammoth mistake....tusk, tusk!
#12
mmm... mammoth steaks mmmm
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#13
@Maxrot: The borders were laid down by gods of some sort. Probably based on astrological readings and tectonic plate positions. The Mastodons and Siberians weren't very good at record keeping. The Europeans didn't bother so much with record keeping, but they were excellent at genocide and plunder.
#14
Genocide and plunder or Diplomacy
To-may-to, To-mah-to
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#15
No one even cares about privacy anymore. It all started with the real world and people wanting to be on that show and fans actually watching it,then the floodgates opened and the reality shows took over.Then years down the line here come myspace ,facebook and twitter now anybody can tell eveybody what they are doing at all times.Privacy means nothing to lots of people nowadays and it is disturbing.
#16
Thom,
What about children of legal immigrants to the US, born in the United States. Many legal immigrants never become naturalized citizens - should that bar citizenship to their children?
#17
War, war, war!!! The glory of killing and the glory of murdering God's children that is the American way and the way of the United States of Damned Souls!!!!!
I have dropped America from the United States and replaced it with either Hell, Numb Nuts, Sodom and Gomorrah, Where Shit Rises to the Top, Devil's Disciples, or Damned Souls, such as the United States of DAMNED SOULS.
The destiny of the United States of Hell is the eternal abyss of hell. Now, that is the American way!!!!!
#18
@gerald, why don't you try to make at least a sensible acronym substitution? Like how about the United States of Anguish, the United States of Assholes, the United States of Anger, the United States of the Apocalypse, the United States of Ashes, the United States of Animosity, the United States of Antipathy, the United States of Antagonism, the United States of Abusiveness, the United States of Abhorrence, the United States of Abominations... heck you were so close in your last line, the United States of the Abyss, so close, so close.
Just saying, pick up a thesaurus, you can express your zingers with more poignancy.
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#19
The chips should be included with your papers, which we now know are increasingly important to have with us at all times, so they can be detroyed with us in the event of a disaster.
One benefit from this is that crowds won't have to be estimated anymore. Folks won't be able to inflate the size of their crowds to match their egos.
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Perhaps I can just put a tattoo on my kids neck saying they're chipped, that way would be kidnappers wouldn't bother. Then I wouldn't really have to chip my kids and they can have an honest to goodness tattoo too. Win win.
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