Daily Topics - Tuesday October 26th, 2010

Quote of the Day: "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." -- John F. Kennedy

Hour One: Have the tea partiers become like Cyberdyne's Skynet in The Terminator?

Hour Two: Alaska's 3 way senate race heats up - Thom talks with Alaska Senator Mark Begich http://begich.senate.gov; Plus, Alaska candidate for U.S. Senate, Scott McAdams will be here www.scottmcadams.org

Hour Three: Do things really go better with 'Koch'? Thom challenges conservative journalist Michael Barone www.washingtonexaminer.com; Plus, 'Taking our Country Back' - Bill Hedrick, candidate for Congress (D-CA, 44th District) will be here www.hedrickforcongress.com

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j.sea's picture
j.sea 15 years 39 weeks ago
#1

Let him who has eyes to see - see.

Let she who has ears to hear -- hear

speedbird9's picture
speedbird9 15 years 39 weeks ago
#2

Obama referred to the GOP as 'the enemy'? Well it's about time!

Grace-WestSeattle 15 years 39 weeks ago
#3

I just donated $40 to McAdams, I'd love to see that annoying, self-promoting, self-important, rancid Palin eat her un-American, anti-family, dishonest, hardly grassroots (more like astroturf) words.

rladlof's picture
rladlof 15 years 39 weeks ago
#4

"Drifting Towards"?!?!? THOM! Dude, you gotta verb tense issue . . . A more accurate assessment would be:

Close to a third of Americans have mindlessly rushed into and wholly embrace Fascism as a preferred state of being.

rladlof's picture
rladlof 15 years 39 weeks ago
#5

Hey, I just got this video about you. Seriously, you're in it, so you really need to see it. Basically, the future of the free world is in your hands:

http://cnnbc.moveon.org/?rc=cutpaste.pulse1073428

Richard L. Adlof

Oh P.S. Olivia Wilde is in it, too.

rladlof's picture
rladlof 15 years 39 weeks ago
#6

Did I hear correctly? Did Michael Barone just declare himself an even-handed corporate wh@rə? How is slanting EVERYTHING towards the recessivist right being "even-handed"?

MichaelStahlberg 15 years 39 weeks ago
#7

Fashism in a nutshell: Hitler was elected on a wave of anger and frustration and the economic failure of the Weimar republic, but he was financed by Banks and Industry - There is where Citizen's United comes in. But he still needed to change the court system. Is the US drifting into a fashist state too? If you asked me, the laws for fashism are already in place to give absolute power to the government. Under the label of the 'war against terror', the president can now legally assassinate American citizens without due process, and then there is the military commission's act, the Patriot act … . Who is to say who is a terrorist and who isn't. The seat is so to say being warmed, but the new dictator has not arrived yet. I doubt it will be a democrat.

Then there is the absence of a free press: Fox News and the systematic disinformation campaign already turned the US into projection of Orwell's 1984. ("War is peace and freedom is slavery" almost sounds like a Tea Party Slogan: "No social security is strength, and National Healthcare is sick"). If a somewhat trigger happy President is elected under strong corporate mandate, the next terrorists on the block could very well be Union Leaders or even teachers, and if you just look at where the pendulum is swinging right now, it's not hard to imagine that in two years the US will look much like Chile in the 70s, or even Germany in 1935.

gerald's picture
gerald 15 years 39 weeks ago
#8

In listening to Thom's interview with David Cay Johnston he finally left me the impression that his optimism for our hell-hole and rat-hole nation is waning. Thom is finally converting to reality.

gerald's picture
gerald 15 years 39 weeks ago
#9

Perfectly Legal

In reading David Cay Johnston’s book, “Perfectly Legal”, he discusses the covert campaign to rig our tax system to benefit the super rich – and cheat everyone else. Pages 236 and 249 mention that George W. Bush and Dick Chaney, as Director of Harken Energy and CEO of Halliburton, respectively found offshore tax havens in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying American taxes.

On the day, Mr. Bush spoke that American companies ought to pay taxes and be good Americans, a news story broke and said that when Mr. Bush was Director of Harken Energy, an oil drilling company in Texas, his company set up a Cayman Islands subsidiary to escape paying American taxes. Halliburton has twenty offshore tax havens.

So much said for American patriotism on the part of George W. Bush and Dick Chaney!

Every thirty seconds is born a stupid American, more cannon fodder to fight to protect the lifestyles of the rich and famous and to protect the pathology of American corporations. It means that we can die to keep the corporations from paying any income taxes with their offshore tax havens, such as Halliburton. If you refuse to fight, you are called un-American or unpatriotic and the corporations are called American and patriotic. When will the stupid Americans ever learn that wars are fought to protect corporations and the rich and famous at the expense of the poor and the middle class?

gerald's picture
gerald 15 years 39 weeks ago
#10

Information is power. Americans must start to use their brain. Use it or lose it!

http://www.tax.com/taxcom/taxblog.nsf/Permalink/CBEN-7QNVB9?OpenDocument

stopgap's picture
stopgap 15 years 39 weeks ago
#12

I find the Rand Paul "Tea Party" "A-Paul-ing".

gerald's picture
gerald 15 years 39 weeks ago
#13

Why is our country more into BOHICA Moments and not Sacramental Moments (doing good deeds for our neighbors both near and far)?

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Gene Savory 15 years 39 weeks ago
#14

Did I just hear someone refer to "traitors on Wall Street"? Maybe I shouldn't be wearing my Freudian Slippers.

gerald's picture
gerald 15 years 39 weeks ago
#15

The Democrats will be thrashed on November 2, 2010. GOP braces for a huge win in the midterm elections. Obama will not run for re-election in 2012. He is finished as president. Mitch McDonald and John Boner will be in control of the WH.

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1010e.asp

gerald's picture
gerald 15 years 39 weeks ago
#17

Who maimed the economy?

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Who-Maimed-the-Economy-an-by-Richard-Clark-101026-993.html

There is an article on the internet that says God that has no place in politics. I vehemently disagree. God needs to be at the center of our lives. We must vote for a politician who will do the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Being a one issue voter insults the person and the voting process!

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