Daily Topics - Thursday January 26th, 2012

Hour One: Indiana...the right to work for less state

Hour Two: Is the Tea Party dying out? Kevin Jackson, The Tea Party.Net / Plus, Geeky Science Rocks - psychadelic treatment for depression?

Hour Three: Latest from Walkerville...new felony charges against 2 Walker aides - John Nichols, The Nation Magazine

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mathboy's picture
mathboy 14 years 27 weeks ago
#1

So Pres. Obama is basically shifting the military toward special forces to do things more precisely, rather than trying to bomb our problems away. <sarcasm>What an elitist! He wants our soldiers to be elite.</sarcasm>

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Sailorman 14 years 27 weeks ago
#2

Depression, is there an evolutionary purpose to depression? If the answer is yes, then by bypassing the biological design of depression with drugs, a psychiatrist is not curing an illness, but covering up a crime and prolonging the incarceration of the patient whose emotional system has been injured and no longer working as evolution has intended. What is the biological function of the emotional system? This question must be answered before a psychological or psychiatric program can be prescribed. In a biochemical sense, the emotional system gives a person a conscious awareness to their chemical balance. In a NORMALLY FUNCITONAL INDIVIDUAL, the worse a person feel’s, the more out of harmony the person’s biochemistry and, the greater a person feel’s, the more in balance the individual’s biochemistry. But, the greater awareness of emotions is their ties to the thought and mental activities of the mind. It is within this emotion-mental-biochemical triad where depression should be defined as a necessary function of a living being and not as an illness to be covered up with drugs. Depression and the emotional system should be used as nature intended, to amplify the harmfulness of the individual’s thought process. Should an individual’s emotional guidance system give off a false-positive – where good feeling emotions correlate neither with the mental cognition of strength and ability, nor with biochemical and physiological wellbeing – then the principle of the survival of the fittest identified in Darwin’s theory of evolution will strive to eliminate that individual’s line of erroneous thought and emotional feeling from the gene pool.

mathboy's picture
mathboy 14 years 27 weeks ago
#3

We should have a bumper sticker for Democrats this year that says, "I'm voting for the real Obama."

ctr5000 14 years 27 weeks ago
#4

I was listening to your interview with Tea Party guy Kevin Jackson and I don't think you called him on some of his statements. First of all, we shouldn't say Chinese workers will work for less than American workers. We should say Chinese wage slaves are forced to work for long hrs and less money. I'm pretty sure the slaves weren't given a choice to live in dorms and work 18 hour days. The suicide rates in those dorms are so high that Apple took steps to attempt to reverse it. Steve Jobs didn't decide to go to China solely because of the wage slaves either. China trained the wage slaves for him. China built the dorms the slaves live in. China feeds the slaves. China gave Apple the land to build the factory on. Well 'gave' is too strong a word. Apple doesn't own the land, but they use it for nothing. Heck, China built the factory. China also built the factories around the Apple factory that provide Apple a supply chain. That is why Apple made $400,000 per employee last year. Their profits are enormous. If we taxed Apple imports to the tune of the wage differential, Apple would see slightly less enourmous profits without raising the cost of a single Iphone or Ipad etc.

China isn't treating Apple special either. I went to a wine tasting featuring Chinese Wines. The gentleman facilitating the wine tasting was the owner of the winery. He said the 'workers' are paid $200 per month. What he didn't say but what I strongly suspect is true is that China built the dorms, wine vats and warehouse. I doubt they are charged much if anything for the land where they plant the vineyards. The wine costs $13 per bottle and that includes shipping and it was decent wine.

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alp227 14 years 27 weeks ago
#5

Thom, please note that Gary and parts of northwestern Indiana can hear your show on tape delay at 2PM Central on WCPT-AM 820 and the Chicago's Progressive Talk FM affiliate WCPQ-FM 99.9. But you are correct that no prog talk stations exist in the state of Indiana.

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