Daily Topics - Thursday December 20th, 2012
By shawnt56
Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE M-F from 3-6pm ET!
Hour One: "Newtown tragedy...different outcome if men were in charge" - Charlotte Allen, Contributor-National Review Online / Plus, America's Political Prisoner...Don Siegelman - Dana Siegelman, Free-Don.org
Hour Two: Time to throw NetFlix into the Boston Harbor... / Plus, Geeky Science - Will your next burger be ground-up mealworms?
Hour Three: Why is Obama Shooting Santa Claus?
Comments
#2
If I might paraphrase the caller's joke: Men are better in a fire fight because when they're in a dangerous situation in which bullets might penetrate them, their bodies have ways to try to shut that whole thing down.
#3
Abortion and Newtown:
Some of the religious right have blamed the shooting in Newtown on Americans who embraced abortion. Using that kind of twisted logic ---or lack of logic--- you could say that those innocent 6 an 7 year-old children would still be alive if the spineless coward who shot them, had been aborted.
#4
Oh mealworms. I wondered what mealworks were. (Typo in the daily post, which has been corrected. Thanks.)
#5
Hmm, it does make sense that the CPI would be based on total spending, but there's a limitation to that. If people would like to spend more but can't, the actual spending won't reflect that. So I think that's the ultimate problem with the Chained CPI, since allowances wouldn't be made to encourage expanding spending to get the economy going.
Thom's Blog Is On the Move
By webmaster
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
At Mondragon - both the mountain and the cooperative city - in Spain (written about in "Threshold" book)
Thom & Louise at a "private audience" with His Holiness Pope John Paul II at his summer palace, Castle Gandolfo, Italy
From Unequal Protection, 2nd Edition:
"If you wonder why and when giant corporations got the power to reign supreme over us, here’s the story."
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"Thom Hartmann seeks out interesting subjects from such disparate outposts of curiosity that you have to wonder whether or not he uncovered them or they selected him."
From Unequal Protection, 2nd Edition:
"Beneath the success and rise of American enterprise is an untold history that is antithetical to every value Americans hold dear. This is a seminal work, a godsend really, a clear message to every citizen about the need to reform our country, laws, and companies."
Thom, I expected you to point out to Charlotte Allen that Louise is a gun-toting liberal woman.
Also, you should be careful not to conflate schizophrenia with multiple personalities.