Daily Topics - Tuesday September 14th, 2010
By shawnt56
Quote of the Day: The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on. — Walter Lippmann, American journalist, author and public philosopher (1889-1974)
Hour One: Why Are Young Women Earning More Than Their Boyfriends? Thom challenges Carrie Lukas of the Independent Women's Forum www.iwf.org
Hour Two: Will the housing market ever recover without a strong middle class recovery? Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist/Senior Vice President for the National Association of Realtors, will be here www.realtor.org
Hour Three: "Liberaltarianism" - are we seeing a fundamental shift in the political landscape in America? Conservative David Frum, editor of the Frum Forum, spends the hour with Thom www.frumforum.com
Comments
#2
Even though I am not an American citizen, I love America for her transparency of stupidity.
#3
MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN THE AMERICAN BRAIN???
#4
High Fructose Corn syrup is on the run eh, so now I need to look for Corn Sugar on the list of ingredients. Here's a nice link to a fluff piece about the name change. The New York Times article is actually trying to play it off as the public being confused about what High Fructose Corn Syrup is, and they state that some of the more damaging studies on it are inconclusive. Its a load of crap, I figure that the paper gets a lot of ad revenue from the high fructose corn syrup...er I mean the "Corn Sugars" conglomerates.
Take this article with a grain of salt!
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/a-new-name-for-high-fructose-co...
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#5
can I take it with a salt substitute?
#6
harry you can do whatever you want to do. Whether you wish to do it out of ignorance or knowledge is completely up to you. ;-)
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#7
NAZI is becoming a big time N-word in political debate. Using it seems to reveal your ignorance.
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#8
THOM, please comment on Chris Hedges most recent article.
"The menace we face does not come from the insane wing of the Republican Party."
http://www.truthdig.com/report/print/do_not_pity_the_democrats_20100913/
“The corporate state is the ultimate maturation of American-type fascism,” Ralph Nader said. “They leave wide areas of personal freedom so that people can confuse personal freedom with civic freedom—the freedom to go where you want, eat where you want, associate with who you want, buy what you want, work where you want, sleep when you want, play when you want. If people have given up on any civic or political role for themselves there is a sufficient amount of elbow room to get through the day. They do not have the freedom to participate in the decisions about war, foreign policy, domestic health and safety issues, taxes or transportation. That is its genius. But one of its Achilles’ heels is that the price of the corporate state is a deteriorating political economy. They can’t stop their greed from getting the next morsel. The question is, at what point are enough people going to have a breaking point in terms of their own economic plight? At what point will they say enough is enough? When that happens, is a tea party type enough or [Sen. Robert M.] La Follette or Eugene Debs type of enough?”
http://www.truthdig.com/report/print/do_not_pity_the_democrats_20100913/
#9
Bannerman's Castle on the Hudson River was what Thom was talking about
#10
Tariffs! Tariffs! Tariffs!
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#11
A 26 minute Max Keiser clip to view!
[KR76] Keiser Report – Markets! Finance! Extradition!
Source: maxkeiser.com
#12
Our son emailed the Max Keiser clip and I wanted to share it with you.
#13
**Reflection of the Week** “This, then, is salvation: When we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.” - Meister Eckhart
#15
O’Donnell doesn’t even understand the profanity she is peddling . . . Adultery is NOT about the sin of sex (there is no sin of sex) and by biblical definition is a property crime. A dude diddling another man’s wife is denying the husband of his right to be doing the nasty naked with the gal he accepted dowry for. The wife and the other man are stealing from the husband (and yes gals, this is sexist as any married or unmarried dude diddling an unmarried woman is just the dude trying out his next potential wife AND American law blurs the gender issues . . . ).
Most folk base their spurious reasoning for inflicting their personal distaste touching their own body parts on other folk through faulty interpretations of either the divine commandment for folk to “go forth and multiply” or the Tamar storyline. “Going forth” is “going forth” and does not preclude a little recreational monkey spanking. The sin god killed Onan for was “spilling his seed upon the ground.” This does mean that god killed Onan because he whacking willy and wasting sperm . . . This was about Onan intentionally withholding his sperm to subvert Tamar’s right to have a child and deny Tamar’s right to family membership by violating levirate marriage prescriptions. God is about enjoying life and having a party in one’s own pants is enjoying life.
Additionally, carrying god’s name before one’s self when entering into earthly (vain) pursuits is actually blasphemy (by definition) and it spelled out twice in the bible, please see Shemot (Exodus) 20:07 and Devarim (Deuteronomy) 05:11 SO Ms O’Donnell is actually sinning to beat folk up for something that is not a sin in a forum that should preclude the asshattery of false piety for personal gain.
This is the problem with co-opting some other people’s religious book and splicing one’s death cult onto the backend and the backwards-arse logic gymnastics idiots have to do to justify defiling a perfectly good religion based on life and living. The attempt to fuse two divergent logical points . . . Collapsing logic streams . . . is piss-poor rhetorical practice and wholly fails to prove any point. You can not prove any point by suspending the rules of proving stuff . . . Reason and logic matters.
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Today is September 14, 2010. Actually it is the first full day with the realization that I am not an American citizen. I am a man without a country. I am also a man without any rights. I have no freedom of speech, no due process, no possibility of a trial with a jury of my peers, no voting rights, etc. Being a man without a country is a strange feeling. I must now move forward as a man without a dream of a better America. As a non-American citizen the adjustment may be difficult and slow.
Even though I am not an American citizen by my father’s birth record, I will still share information until federal gestapos storm the doors of our home or I will have to pay a tax for using the internet. The internet is the last bastille for learning in America.
Voters favor a GOP Congress 50% to 40%. Who said that we are not a stupid people?
Matt Dillon said on Gunsmoke that he went to bed mad and he awoke madder. Let me paraphrase his words with some of my words. Americans went to bed stupid and they awoke more stupid.
http://original.antiwar.com/kelly/2010/09/13/the-unseen-slaughter/
http://www.fff.org/comment/com1009c.asp