Daily Topics - Thursday December 9th, 2010
By shawnt56
Quote of the Day: In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. -- Aristotle
Hour One: Will Obama's tax deal make him a one term President? Former Congressman Rick Nolan (D-MN), Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR, 4th District) - http://defazio.house.gov - and Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA, 7th District) - http://mcdermott.house.gov - will all weigh in
Hour Two: Why don't conservatives understand that Government provides the soil in which businesses took - infrastructure, eductations, courts, etc...? Thom challenges Jackie Gingrich Cushman, author of "The Essential American: 25 Documents and Speeches Every American Should Read" - www.jackiecushman.com
Hour Three: Julian Assange Captured by World's Dating Police?! Naomi Wolf, author of "The End of America" and "Give Me Liberty" will be here http://naomiwolf.org
Comments
#2
I have split the same exact hair with you that the Gingrich brat just made . . . Cartels act essentially monopolistically through collusion and conspiracy; they are not monopolies. Precision in language is our strongest weapon against the idiocracy PLUS the collusion and cartels makes it all so muck more filthy (and illegal).
#3
Isn't Trust the more correct label?
Though in fact such large companies walk in lock step, and though not technically a monopoly, they are in effect just so. Down to the same fees, interest rates, penalties, etc...
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#4
HELP!
I just called Jane Harman, my congressional rep from California. The person that answered the phone was very interested that Obama's tax cut bill was a republican strategy for the elections of 2012. I told him it was an article in the Washington times by David Fernuso (sp?). The help I need is to let me know if that is the correct source.
#5
This article truly warms the cockles of my heart!!!
#6
We don't need a stinking revolution because Satan's disciples are killing our fascist Nazi America by themselves.
#7
#9
What casualties??? There are NO CASUALTIES IN VIDEO GAMES!!!
#10
I can see fascist-Nazi Americans licking their chops at the sight of American and foreign dead bodies.
#11
ABOMINATION!!!!!
#12
Obama's Grand Betrayal!!!!!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-s-Grand-Betrayal-by-Michael-Collins-101208-494.html
The end is here for the United States of Mortal Sin!!!!!
#13
A Grandmother Wants to Know!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-GRANDMOTHER-WANTS-TO-KNO-by-Joan-Wile-100907-743.html
#14
THINGS TO PONDER!!!!!
http://original.antiwar.com/don-robertson/2010/02/21/before-you-enlist/
#15
A Poem By Fr. Ed Hayes
Advent Peace Psalm
O Prince of Peace,
whose advent we seek in our lives,
come this day and show us
how to beat our swords into plowshares,
tools of life instead of instruments of fear.
May your love strip us naked
of all weapons and strategies of conquest
which are not the tools of lovers,
wise ones and God's children.
Let us not lust for power
but rather strive for the insight
to be guided on the Way of Peace
Let us not yearn for a victory
that requires a sister's sorrow
or a brother's shamefaced defeat.
With tears, black suits and dresses
and tolling funeral bells,
let us attend life's victory parties
That are won at such a cost
Let us be Advent adventurers and peacemakers,
hammering swords into shovels,
filling holes and leveling peaks.
Let us be disarmed and vulnerable,
for only through such open hands and hearts
can Emmanuel come.
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Well if the House stands firm, one thing will become quite apparent.. where exactly Obama does stand. Though his support of Blanche Lincoln did seem to show that as well as his pre-negotiating away the Health Care Option... and uh, well his inability to shut down Guantanamo... and er... uh... well his vote on the Telephone Spying previous to his PResidency... and.... damn if you've paid attention to Obama at all I guess you do already know where he stands, definitely to the right of center... and seemingly he's getting further out each time I look.
It can only mean one thing he's standing on a floating platform that is drifting to the right, in the sea of politics, all the time.
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