Rick Perry is wasting no time resorting to violent rhetoric in his campaign for President. While speaking to a crowd in Iowa – Perry weighed in on the Federal Reserve – and Chairman Ben Bernanke’s monetary policy saying, “If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y’all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas.” Perry went on to say, “Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treasonous in my opinion.”

Of course – people can be put to death if convicted of treason. So here we have a guy running for President who just hinted at dragging the Federal Reserve Chairman down to Texas to be executed. Economist Nouriel Roubini tweeted about the comment saying, “The Texan thug is making murder threats on the Fed Chairman.” Looks like Rick Perry is really running for America's executioner-in-chief, and he's already there as the Governor who has killed more prisoners - at least one who was innocent - than any other Governor in history.

Rick Perry apparently loves killing people as much as he loves threatening it.

-Thom

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The Daily Stack

Quote: "Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy." -- Woodrow Wilson, 1912.

Hour One: Latest on the war on democracy...WI Democrats face recall John Nichols, Washington Correspondent - The Nation Magazine

Article: "Wisconsin Recall Elections: Sens. Bob Wirch, Jim Holperin vs. Republicans".

Article: "Voters go to polls in Wisconsin's two final recalls" by Reuters.

Site: "Democratic Party of Wisconsin".

Article: "How Michele Bachmann Bought the Ames Straw Poll" by Paul Krugman.

Article: "Colbert Super PAC releases first ad: Vote ‘Rick Parry’ at Ames" by Eric W. Dolan.

Article: "Perry on Bernanke: ‘I dunno what y’all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas’" by Scott Keyes.

Crazy alert: "Island man claiming to be vampire is arrested" by John DeLapp.

Article: "Ron Paul Breaks With Mitt Romney: ‘People Are Individuals…Not Companies’" by Scott Keyes and Travis Waldron.

Site: "Progressive Voices App".

Article: "Bachmann wins Ames straw poll" by Domenico Montanaro.

Article: "Can the Middle Class Be Saved?" by Don Peck.

Article: "Citigroup's Shocking 'Plutonomy' Reports" by kpete.

Hour Two: Why do conservatives think "shared sacrifice" is socialism? Peter Ferrara

Article: "Stop Coddling the Super-Rich" by Warren E. Buffett.

Article: "Fox host asks if Warren Buffett is ‘completely a socialist’" by Andrew Jones.

Book: "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.

Article: "Right rejects Buffett’s good advice" by Steve Benen.

Article: "Top 10 Things Texas Gov. Rick Perry Doesn’t Want You To Know About Him" by Scott Keyes.

Cheesy news alert: "Iowans Thought They Were Voting for ‘Batman’" by Andy Borowitz.

Article: "Perry Admits Higher Taxes On Millionaires And Billionaires ‘Isn’t Going To Affect Anything’" by Tanya Somanader and Scott Keyes.

Site: "Rethink Afghanistan"

Book: "Threshold: The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink" by Thom Hartmann - now in paperback!

Talk Radio News Segment: Ken Bazinet

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Article: "Obama Urges Congress to Embrace a New Recovery Plan" by Kenneth R. Bazinet.

Article: "On Day Two Of Midwest Bus Tour, Obama Blasts "Bickering" Congress" by Benny Martinez.

Article: "Obama Administration Releases Funding for Small Business Loans" by Claude R. Marx.

Article: "Perry: Military Wants a Veteran as President" by Newsmax.

Article: "Robert Gibbs Slams Sincerity Of Rick Perry’s Secession ‘Turnaround’: Ask Him!" by Tommy Christopher.

Article: "Authoritative National Report Condemns Secure Communities Program" by Center for Constitutional Rights.

Hour Three: Mitt Romney says "corporations are people"...are they? Bradley Smith, Chairman/Co-Founder, Center for Competitive Politics

Article: "Adventures In Freedom Of Speech" by Jonathan Chait.

Article: "Rand Paul Rushes To Romney’s Defense: ‘All Of Us Are Corporations’" by By Scott Keyes and Travis Waldron.

Article: "Dartmouth College v. Woodward".

Case: "Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad", 1886.

Article: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" by Justice J Stevens.

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.

Article: "Norway Christian Terrorist Reconstructs Heinous Act on Crime Scene".

Article: "Virginia Plan".

The good: "GOP Presidential Candidate Buddy Roemer: End A Tax Code That Incentivizes Outsourcing Of American Jobs" by Zaid Jilani.

The bad: "With Government Job Losses Slowing The Recovery, Romney Promises To Lay Off Even More" by Travis Waldron.

The very, very ugly: "Beck: Obama Is "Fundamentally Transforming The United States Of America" With "Deception, Bullies And Lies"" by Media Matters.

Article: 1 Timothy 6:10 "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs".

Article: Matthew 6:24 "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money".

Article: "Billionaire's role in hiring decisions at Florida State University raises questions" by Kris Hundley.

Article: "How the Koch Brothers Backed the End of Desegregation in North Carolina Schools" by Adele M. Stan.

Article: "Global food prices near record high, warns World Bank" by Ahram Online.

Article: "Pair of House Dems urge colleagues to reject the trade pact with South Korea" by Mike Lillis.

Article: "Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz: Don't contribute to politicians" by Melissa Allison.

Article: "Student Loan Debt Climbs" by Justin Lahart.

Article: "The Emergence of the $15 Town Hall Meeting" by David Dayen.

Article: "Hacking 'discussed' at News of the World, Clive Goodman letter says" by BBC.

Hour Three: pipeline could spell "game over" for the environment Bill McKibben, Environmentalist / Founder of 350.org campaign

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