Daily Topics - Wednesday May 4th, 2011
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Hour One: Latest on the war on democracy...BIG win for WI Dems! John Nichols, The Nation Magazine
Hour Two: Are liberals really the enemy of the poor?! Ryan Streeter, Conservative Home USA
Hour Three: Benton Harbor City Commission fights back...defies emergency manager! Commissioner Dennis Knowles
Comments
#2
I'm in the "show the photo" crowd. We have pictures of Mussolini hanging like a butchered pig, we have photos of gangsters shot by the FBI and other gangsters. Release the picture, there's no squeamish reason not to. I don't think people who want to commit terrorist acts are going to say, "You released his death picture, oh no you didn't, now we's gots to kill you even more!!!" They already want to sow terror, show the picture now while the wound's still fresh. If you wait six months or a year, your basically bringing up an old issue and tearing open the wound again. Do it now while the true believers are in shock about it.
If you want to argue about how gruesome such pictures are, that's fine, but its not a social taboo. That's a different issue.
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#3
More horrific than the Ryan Plan for Poverty is Senator McCaskill's Plan for Poverty by Screwing America Behind Their Backs: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/the-republican-plan-with-_b_857242.html
#4
I would like to see one or more experts on education budgets, including higher education, shed some light on where the money goes and if there is any basis to the common wisdom that we spend too much on administration. Budgets can be difficult to comprehend and I doubt if more than a tiny percent understand what is going on. The enemies of education get a lot of milage talking vaugely about waste. What's the truth? Are administrative expenses largely waste, or is it more like R&D at a company? Are sports and theatre an extravegent expense?
#5
There are no pictures of Hitler's body.
Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
Images of Thom
Thom & Louise at a "private audience" with His Holiness Pope John Paul II at his summer palace, Castle Gandolfo, Italy
Mueller's favorite place to pray (written about in "Prophet's Way"), and the roof of the room where the Last Supper is reputed to have happened.
From Screwed:
"I think many of us recognize that for all but the wealthiest, life in America is getting increasingly hard. Screwed explores why, showing how this is no accidental process, but rather the product of conscious political choices, choices we can change with enough courage and commitment. Like all of Thom’s great work, it helps show us the way forward."
From Screwed:
"If we are going to live in a Democracy, we need to have a healthy middle class. Thom Hartmann shows us how the ‘cons’ have wronged this country, and tells us what needs to be done to reclaim what it is to be American."
From Screwed:
"Hartmann speaks with the straight talking clarity and brilliance of a modern day Tom Paine as he exposes the intentional and systematic destruction of America’s middle class by an alliance of political con artists and outlines a program to restore it. This is Hartmann at his best. Essential reading for those interested in restoring the institution that made America the envy of the world."
A Monster of Our Own Creation
http://www.truthdig.com/report/print/a_monster_of_our_own_creation_20110504/
We, as a country, have become the monster that we are attempting to fight.