Daily Topics - Wednesday October 20th, 2010
By shawnt56
Quote of the Day: The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman--and each nation--must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem. -- Lyndon Baines Johnson
Hour One: Get ready for President Palin?! Thom talks with Reporter Lee Fang of Think Progress www.thinkprogress.org
Hour Two: Wear a condom...save the planet? Thom has a rumble with Dan Gainor of the Business and Media Institute www.businessandmedia.org
Hour Three: What's so good about sending American jobs to China? Thom challenges Jason Clemons of the Pacific Research Institute www.pacificresearch.org
Comments
#2
Was President Johnson a Malthusian??
#3
Lets end the charade once and for all. Ask the teabaggers, conservatives and/or Republicans who hate George Soros if they want to defang the fascist, socialist, communist liberal billionaire by increasing taxes on him and people like him 74%?
#4
Dear Thom,
Here are some comments from your October 20, 2010 show. How can a person say anything to Dan and the Coke brothers? They have a rock for a brain. Thom, please limit your show to one conservative crazy calling you. Listening to conservative crazy callers discombobulates my comfort zone.
Farmers have an animal for a sex partner is truly asinine. Conservatives have a rock for a brain. Thank you for aggressively challenging the conservative crazies to name one person or a group of progressive billionaires who favor an increase in taxes and they benefit with their belief that the rich need to be taxed more. Thom do not take the crap from conservative crazies who talk to you and filibuster your show.
Yes, the conservative crazies want 100 billionaires in the United States of Mortal Sin to control ninety percent of the wealth. Thom, in my comment on the Secrets of Oz, from the time of George Washington the Republicans have always favored helping the rich to get richer. Personally, I believe the Republicans and the conservative crazies are terrorists. They want ninety percent of Americans to live in fear so they can manipulate Americans with ease.
Sincerely, Gerald
P.S. Does any one recall my comments that Jeb Bush will be the GOP candidate for president in 2012 and HE WILL BE ELECTED THE NEXT PRESIDENT???
#5
Do you know what really frightens me about me? I AM NOT ALWAYS RIGHT BUT I AM NEVER WRONG.
#6
All of my comments are directly posted from me and I want you to know that I am a Christian, a liberal, a pacifist, a progressive, and a socialist. The United States of Mortal Sin can only survive by becoming a socialist nation. Jesus was a socialist because He wanted all human beings to be included in the sharing of God's gifts.
#7
Richard Wolff has replaced Ravi Batra as a regular on the THP? While I miss Ravi Batra, Dr. Wolff is easier to understand vocally and content wise. He is able to condense macro issues into concise statements without a thick accent So, could you have him on more often? Also, can you get him to make some predictions like Dr. Batra used to do? It's the economy stupid.
#8
To our stupid Americans
From Gerald, a Christian, a liberal, a pacifist, a progressive, and a socialist
Jeb Bush is brilliant. He is staying away from the limelight in order to come out as the Great White Hope for the Fourth Reich, aka the United States of Mortal Sin. Jeb Bush will be the next president of the United States of Mortal Sin on January 20, 2013. I have also commented that a Bush would become king in the United States of Mortal Sin. Elections will be eliminated and we will live with martial law forever. The United States is evil, vile, and wicked. We must never forget that our country will be involved in perpetual wars for profit and to keep Americans in fear so the American government can manipulate them with ease.
These comments come to you from my hideaway bunker deep inside enemy territory.
#9
Why is the video on your homepage re-running the show from August 24th 2010? I just clicked on it thinking that I was listening to today's show and after listening to the whole hour I realized that it's a show from August! I must admit it all sounded like the same old story. Which brings me to my point: NOT Enough Has Changed!!! All the news sounds the same to me. It's all just a blur of corruption stories. What will it take and where will it end? Electing Progressive Candidates will be too little too late.
#10
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
I know what you are thinking--what dirty, but rotten godless socialistic liberal scumbag said this? Well, it was the champion of conservatives across the land, General Dwight D. Eisenhower on April 16, 1953 before the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Read that quote again, after all President Eisenhower's administration was during America's Golden Years. Does today's Tea Party rhetoric match these words?
#11
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/obamas-cynicism/
An interesting comparison between two presidents with similar DNAs.
#12
Here's the video. ----------------
Press Sec Fleischer using "Operation Iraqi Liberation" (OIL)
#13
What no daily blog for Thursday?
On the subject of means-tested Social Security, I've been fighting it out with this Australian laissez-faire ideologue.
Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Turley: Obama administration attempt to set new precedent is 'disgusting'
A Supreme Court ruling could grant "absolute immunity" to former US Attorney General John Ashcroft and set a dangerous precedent in a 9/11-related lawsuit, according to George Washington University constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/turley-predicts-supreme-court-give-ashcroft-absolute-immunity/