Daily Topics - Wednesday June 15th, 2011
By shawnt56
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Join Thom tonight at Netroots Nation Drinking Liberally at the 331 Club in northeast Minneapolis
Please welcome Sam Seder - host of Majority Report & Ring of Fire Radio - in for Thom today
Hour One: Latest on the war on Labor - John Nichols, The Nation Magazine
Hour Two: New rules for whistleblowers - Stephen Kohn, National Whistleblowers Center
Hour Three: Who is the real Michelle Bachman? Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation Magazine / Plus, Elizabeth Warren vs. the banks and what was missing from the GOP debate? Andy Kroll, Mother Jones Magazine
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I note that Bastille Day (July 14th) is a month away . . . It is French.
We inspired them; they inspired us. Bastille Day is about the institution of good governance and the rule of law after a long bout of wasteful kleptocracy by a wholly self-centered ruling class. It is one all too rare example of the people winning over the economic elite in the wealthiest’s unending warfare against the people. It is pointing out that the whole of French history is not how quickly the French surrendered at Verdunin World War ll.
Frankly, if I have to celebrate a battle in Mexico every fifth of May, I think Americans should have a greeting card holiday that reminds us that America means more to the world than what Rondog Raygun sold us short into being.
Yes, the whole thing ended poorly for some . . . But I like being reminded that three men can enter a pub and a nation can be changed to the positive forever.
What does that Bastille Day (July 14th) mean to you?
#3
Welcome Sam!!!!
#4
SAM!!!! I urge you to spend a little time looking into ALEC.ORG . . . They are the fount of evil pre-producing all the recessivist legislation being dumped on every state.
JUSTICE.ORG dishes on them at: http://www.justice.org/cps/rde/xchg/justice/hs.xsl/15044.htm
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Given that Governor Christie just got caught outsourcing (privatizing in Smurfy fascist terms) his state's education system to his wife's company . . . I think his decission to not run for President is a good thing as he may have to flee the country to avoid indictment.