Daily Topics - Thursday January 13th, 2011
By shawnt56
Truthout is proud to bring you an exclusive series from America's No. 1 progressive radio host, Thom Hartmann. We'll be publishing weekly installments, "Rebooting the American Dream."
Hour One & Two: President Obama spoke of healing
Plus...Are Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, and the rest of the gang guilty of stochastic terrorism?
Hour Three: Connecticut Claims Public Option Could Save State Up To $355 Million In 2014 ...could the nation be next? Thom debates Libertarian Wayne Root - www.root4america.com
Comments
#2
So stochastic terrorism is "Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?"
#3
Thom it may be painful, but to be honest with yourself, you really should review Mike Malloy and his show. Back when he was on Air America I gave his show a try, and truthfully, I found his anger to be a turn off for me. I seemed to me he wasn't much different than the angry right talkers, and just because he was on the left didn't justify my support. I also find it difficult to listen to Randi Rhodes, more so because she comes of as self centered and a bit loose with the facts. Like you, I don't think either of them are trying to activate Lone Wolves... but then again I'm not the Lone Wolf type, so I'm probably no more sensitive to the dog whistle then you are, or even the one who is blowing it. Sometimes people do so figuring since they don't hear anything, they aren't doing anything.
Consider and contemplate it.
Though I do agree, there are definitely those who are trying to activate the Lone Wolves.
N
#4
Reichwingers are the stochastic terrorists!!!
#5
Mini Formula for Justice and Peace
The Golden Rule
Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you!
Jesus’ Eleventh Commandment
Love one another as I have loved you!
Read Matthew 25:31-46!
When you do it to the least of my brethren, you do it for me.
Read Matthew 5:1-12!
The beatitudes!
St. Ambrose says, “I shall pass this way but once, any good that I can do let me do it now, because I shall not pass this way again.”
“Love the poor and your life will be filled with sunlight and you will not fear the hour of death.” - St. Vincent DePaul, the first social worker
#6
Purging Palin?
This possibility hit me yesterday.
I don't think the Republicans want Sarah Palin to run in 2012. They know she will lose.
What if her script writers inserted the words "Blood Libel" into her talk because they knew there would be a backlash that could kill her candidacy? They knew she wouldn't know what it means.
Did they sabotage her?
Just a thought.
#7
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/even_lost_wars_make_corporations_rich_20110110/
Wars are good for corporations.
#8
#9
Arizona is where the American dream died!!!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Arizona-Where-the-America-by-Will-Bunch-110112-26.html
#10
"What if her script writers inserted the words "Blood Libel" into her talk because they knew there would be a backlash that could kill her candidacy? They knew she wouldn't know what it means."
That reminds me of when Bush mangled the word "peroration" as "pirrouation". I think someone had fun saying big words around him just to see how he would misuse and mispronounce them.
#11
Move over Mother Teresa!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Move-Over-Mother-Teresa-by-Mike-Malloy-110112-15.html
#12
I would not be happy to see Robert Kennedy jr. get into the Senate, since he's part of the anti-vaccine hysteria that has led to loss of 'herd immunity' to several diseases. Although I hope that, with the recent denouncement of Andrew Wakefield by the British Medical Journal, Kennedy will change his mind.
#13
@Maxrot #1:Palin Attempts to Prove She Can Use 'Blood Libel' in a Sentence
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/palin-attempts-to-prove-s_b_...
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Of course Palin used Blood Libel with purpose, at least her speech writers did. I'd like her to explain what a Blood Libel is in her own words, I bet dollars to donuts she doesn't have a clue. Not now, not a year from now, not twenty years from now. She trained as a newscaster, she only knows how to read a teleprompter, don't expect her to understand the words she's reading. Even when their written on her hands... in crimson.
N