Daily Topics - Friday February 11th, 2011
By shawnt56
"Anything Goes on Townhall Friday" with Thom live from radio row at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C. - www.conservative.org
Hour One: "Brunch With Bernie" - Senator Bernie Sanders takes your calls - www.sanders.senate.gov
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#2
Propaganda TV taken over --
Egypitian Liberators raced to Egyptions State Run TV and liberated it. The head propaganda commentator went back on air shortly after and announced that previous statements that the revolution was the effect of foreign powers were incorrect. That in fact the people had ended the Mubarak regime.
CBS commentator Liz Palmer, live in Cairo, remarked that people in the rural areas of Egypt must surely be wondering what is going on, as this is the first they have heard anything about this.
When will the people surround FOXFAKE and liberate the media from the propaganda corporate/right -wing masters so the rural people of our great nation can learn the truth: that this is revolution of the people against corporate abuse and manipulation, and that our President not a "foreigner", but is of the people and for the people. For it is true: many rural people here only know what propaganda TV tells them, and they do not know what is really going on..... God Bless the new democratic nation of Egypt.
#3
Obama, The Moderate Republican
By Jack A. SmithGlobal Research, February 9, 2011
At 9 p.m. Eastern time Jan. 25 President Barack Obama launched his 2012 campaign for reelection as a Democratic President running with a center-right political program reminiscent of what used to be called "moderate Republicanism."
The occasion was Obama's second State of the Union address, in which he assured millions of Americans watching on television that what's "at stake right now is not who wins the next election."
Winning in 2012 is precisely what's at stake, and the presidential speech was the vehicle for candidate Obama to emerge as a hopefully winning combination of two former Presidents. Ronald Reagan of the political right and Bill Clinton of the center, the optimistic Great Communicator and the opportunist Great Triangulater all in one. In foreign affairs, add a third predecessor, G. H. W. Bush, a conservative ³realist² in international matters...
#4
February 11, 2011
I have shared with you the dramatic increase in our spending for food by 2015. There is another increase that will hit Americans hard, especially the working middle class who are working for slave wages. This dramatic increase will be in toilet paper. Average Americans will be unable to pay for toilet paper. Terrorist corporations and terrorist groups like American corporations and the American rich will be able to afford toilet paper through tax breaks and tax cuts that are given to them by taxation from average Americans’ wages.
Without toilet paper average Americans will have to wipe their behinds with tree leaves. Since the tree leaves are not as smooth as toilet paper, there will be scratches on a person’s behind. These scratches will never heal and in time most average Americans will die of rectal cancer. A new wave of immigrants will take the place of the enslaved Americans and slave wages will be passed on to the new immigrants. Another problem besides rectal cancer will be in lighter skin persons brown fingers from the use of tree leaves to wipe away the feces from a person’s behind. The feces will be embedded into the skin and no amount of soap will be able to wash away the color and the stench from our fingers.
Yes, higher toilet paper prices will bring rectal cancer and brown fingers with a stench.
#5
February 11, 2011
Here are some words from Jesus in the Holy Bible that have haunted me for years.
“The poor will always be with us.” It seems that for every one step forward in helping the poor we take two steps backward. The heartache and the frustration of a lost cause will never go away.
“Render to Caesar what is for Caesar.” If laws are passed to profit and protect the rich, these laws are Caesar and we must accept that the rich will become even richer. Are the politicians and the rich actually saints who are following Jesus’ words in the Holy Bible? Are the politicians and the rich God’s chosen people since His death on the Cross?
I find that my belief system is being totally shattered by Jesus’ words. I honestly do not know what the Son of God wants from us. His words have placed me in a state of confusion. Here is my confusion. What is right may actually be wrong and what is wrong may actually be right!
Is all life a fraudulent experience?
#6
Who is smarter man or chimps? I say chimps are smarter.
http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2011/02/11/who-is-smarter-man-or-chimp.aspx
#7
PRAY: God of Many Names
By Bill Hudson
Awesome God of the immensity of cosmic time and space.
Intimate God, at home in each human heart.
Energizing organizing God, drawing us together in global solidarity.
God of many names,
God of no name,
Father, Mother,
We thank you and we praise you.
Forgive us for every time and every way
That we separate ourselves from our sisters and brothers
In whose hearts you dwell through other images,
Other experiences, cultures, revelations.
We long for the fullness that only our solidarity can reveal.
Break us free from our idolatry of wealth and markets,
Individualism and competition and consumption.
These make, of sisters and brothers and ourselves,
Consumers or producers, competitors or markets.
God of many names,
God of no name,
Mother, Father,
Alert us to your urgency,
Your tireless struggle. Amen.
#8
"We won't bomb anybodywith this guy." - Charlotte Hayes
Expanded bombing in Afghanistan and Pakistan as well as drones in Yemen. Clearly she has no clue what she is talking about.
#9
Regarding the Koch Bros. gathering ... Elected officials in attendance would be violating campaign finance rules as defined by the Citizens United case. I recall the justices explicitly declared that these front groups could not coordinate activities with the officials or their campaigns.
#10
February 11, 2011
Yes, history does repeat itself. What goes around comes around! I will probably vote for Obama in 2012, if he does run but the Republicans will take back the Senate and the WH. Working and middle class Americans will have their assets eliminated. With no money and health care Americans will lose their homes and the few that may be able to pay the property taxes will eventually lose their money and they will either freeze to death or roast to death with the inability to pay the heating or cooling bills. Americans who are still alive will be brought to concentration camps to die. These concentration camps will be similar to the camps that imprisoned the Japanese during the Second World War. What awaits Americans is the loss of money, pensions, health care, homes, and death with the Republican takeover of the Senate and the WH.
#11
http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-02-11.asp
People who live in a glass house should not throw stones. The world has many leaders who are dumb.
#12
The United States of Mortal Sin is NOT a democracy!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/America-is-No-Example-of-D-by-Timothy-Gatto-110210-889.html
#13
#14
Deficit Hawks propose massive cuts. More Americans will be slaves for the rich. Slavery has never left the American mentality.
#15
Here are some dire statistics that our son has shared with us. From January, 2001 to January, 2011, the American work force has 1.5 million fewer jobs and the American population has increased 11.5 million. Foreign workers with skilled trade visas can enter our country without any limits in their numbers. Our American government is lying to us about our improving economy. To stop our endless wars would mean a greater unemployment percentage. That will never happen because America is a war time economy.
#16
In the greater context of trying to inform those who do not understand that they are voting against their own interests, there is one strategy that I believe will work best. Tell them they are being duped. Nobody likes to feel that they do not understand a particular issue, or are somehow less intelligent, or are being manipulated. People w/ open minds (not much hope for those who have closed theirs) want the truth - give it to them. They are being duped. This should be a rallying cry for the progressive movement - "America, you are being duped!"
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Well Mubarak has resigned, does this make Suleiman the current president? If so, will the protesters remain until he and the whole regime is removed, or are they going to pack it up?
I mean now that they got what they wanted, are they now beginning to think, damn we should have demanded a Bill of Rights too!
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