Tuesday 13 December '11 show notes

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Tuesday 13 December '11 show notes

Dec. 16, 2011 9:25 am

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Stephen Moore, The Wall Street Journal. Surprise...guess who supports Newt's tax plan?
Governor Gary Johnson, Former Governor of New Mexico (R). Gingrich ‘proposed the death penalty for marijuana’.
Wayne Root, Libertarian National Congressional Committee. "I Am the 1%".
Bumper Music:
- You're A Mean One, Newt Gingrich, Adam Kontras.
- It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Gingrich, Christopher Duva.
- Turn On The Radio, Reba Mcentire.
- One Toke Over The Line, Gail Farrell and Dick Dale on The Lawrence Welk Show.
- I'll Be Stoned for Christmas , Bob Rivers.
- Don't Bogart That Joint, Country Joe and the Fish.
- Occupy All Streets, Moss Henry.
- Grand Canyon, Dmitriy Lukyanov (you need to search for it) (with additional sounds by Jacob).
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.

Thom's blog

Does Newt Gingrich want you executed for smoking pot?

Republican Presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich doesn’t just want to throw you in jail for smoking pot – he wants to execute you! As Speaker of the House back in 1996 – Gingrich introduced the “Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1996” – a bill calling for the execution of anyone convicted more than once of carrying two ounces of marijuana across the border.

Defending the bill – Gingrich said, “I have made the decision that I love our children enough that we will kill you if you do this.”

Currently – more than half of all Americans support the legalization of marijuana – yet Gingrich is calling for the execution of those who carry it. How out of touch can you be?

-Thom

(What do you think should happen to anyone with marijuana? Tell us here.)

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Congress decides how to spend...$662 billion (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Need to Know: Congress decides how to spend...$662 billion

Screwed: Keystone XL...zombie pipeline?
- Anthony Swift, NRDC

The Best of the Rest of the News...

GOP's love affair with Dr. Strange...Newt
- Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future

Police...drones, lasers and tasers...oh my
- Joshua Holland, AlterNet

Would you eat...mystery meat?
- Todd Tucker, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch

Daily Take: Liar, Liar...are Politifact's pants on fire?

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The Daily Stack

Hour One: Surprise...guess who supports Newt's tax plan?
- Stephen Moore, The Wall Street Journal

Book: "Return to Prosperity: How America Can Regain Its Economic Superpower Status" by Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore.

Book: "The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy--If We Let It Happen" by Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, Peter Tanous.

Article: "Gingrich’s Tax Plan Would Give Millionaires A $600,000 Tax Cut" by Pat Garofalo.

Article: "Lowe's pulls advertising from TLC's 'All-American Muslim'" by CNN.

Article: "Perry’s New TV Ad Perry Takes On Obama’s ‘War on Religion,’ Gays in Military" by Arlette Saenz.

Article: "Rick Perry wore same jacket in anti-gay ad that Heath Ledger wore in Brokeback Mountain" by Leon Watson.

Instant Karma Alert: "Man prints fake obit of mom to get time off" by AP.

Article: "Rep. Peter King: There are "too many mosques in this country”" by Daniel W. Reilly.

Article: "House, Senate strike deal on defense bill" by Stephen Dinan.

Article: "Gay Veteran Confronts Mitt Romney On Marriage Rights (VIDEO)" by Pema Levy.

Site: "Occupy Grand Junction".

Hour Two: Gary Johnson: Gingrich ‘proposed the death penalty for marijuana’
- Governor Gary Johnson, Former Governor of New Mexico (R)

Article: "Gary Johnson: Gingrich ‘proposed the death penalty for marijuana’" by David Edwards.

Site: "Americans for Fair Taxation".

Event: Thom is on Fox's "Power and Money" 10pm ET tonight.

Article: "Gingrich signs pledge forbidding adultery" by Andrew Jones.

Conservative alert: "Republican politician secretly donated sperm to NINE women in New Zealand (including a lesbian couple) - and hid truth from wife back home in Alabama" by Daily Mail.

Site: Move to Amend

Article: "A Petition to Support the Saving American Democracy Amendment" by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "My Mother-in-Law’s One High Day" by Marie Myung-ok Lee.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief

Article: "Report: U.S. Drone Crashes At Seychelles Airport" by TRNS.

Article: "Snowe taking to Senate floor on Balanced Budget Amendment" by Jonathan Riskind.

Article: "Balanced budget amendments to face off in the Senate on Wednesday" by Josiah Ryan.

Book: "Self Empowerment: Nine Things the 19th Century Can Teach us About Living in the 21st " by B. Anne Gehman and Ellen Ratner.

Hour Three: "I Am the 1%"
- Wayne Root, Libertarian National Congressional Committee

Book: "The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold and Tax Cuts" by Wayne Allyn Root.

Article: "I Am the 1%" by Wayne Root.

Article: "Gary Johnson: Gingrich ‘proposed the death penalty for marijuana’" by David Edwards.

Article: "SOI Tax Stats - Tax Stats at a Glance" by IRA.

Article: "The State of Working America’s Wealth, 2011" by EPI.

The good: "Broward mulls request to ban body scanners at airport" by Brittany Wallman.

The bad: "Romney Admitted Stat About Obama Regulations Was A Lie, Keeps Using It Anyway" by Pat Garofalo.

The very, very ugly: World Net Daily: "Birthers Fly Aerial ‘Where’s The Real Birth Certificate?’ Ad Over NFL Game" by Jillian Rayfield.

Article: "In U.S., Fear of Big Government at Near-Record Level" by Elizabeth Mendes.

Article: "Obama on ‘Trickle Down’ Economics: ‘It Doesn’t Work, It Has Never Worked’" by Travis Waldron.

Article: "Republicans offer payroll tax cut in exchange for pipeline approval" by Bryn Weese.

Article: "Swiss Re : 2011 second most expensive for catastrophe loss" by Barbara Karouski.

Article: "Occupy halts some Western port operations" by AP.

Article: "Police to test laser that 'blinds rioters'" by Matthew Holehouse.

Article: "OECD detects world economy slowing down" by AFP.

Crazy alert: "" by .

Article: "Woman Leaves $13M Fortune to Pet Cat" by Kevin Dolak.

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Hour Two: "Inequality in Perspective"...
Thom challenges economist, Dr. Ron Ross

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