Daily Topics - Wednesday January 7th, 2015
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Be sure to check out our new videos: CARBON, LAST HOURS & GREEN WORLD RISING - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio
Hour One: Terrorism is terrorism...
Hour Two: Right wing Christian fundamentalism kills again - Rev. Bill Keller, Live Prayer
Hour Three: Thom Hartmann University Book Club - Dan Sisson, The American Revolution of 1800
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Mueller's favorite place to pray (written about in "Prophet's Way"), and the roof of the room where the Last Supper is reputed to have happened.
From Cracking the Code:
"No one communicates more thoughtfully or effectively on the radio airwaves than Thom Hartmann. He gets inside the arguments and helps people to think them through—to understand how to respond when they’re talking about public issues with coworkers, neighbors, and friends. This book explores some of the key perspectives behind his approach, teaching us not just how to find the facts, but to talk about what they mean in a way that people will hear."
From Screwed:
"Thom Hartmann’s book explains in simple language and with concrete research the details of the Neo-con’s war against the American middle class. It proves what many have intuited and serves to remind us that without a healthy, employed, and vital middle class, America is no more than the richest Third World country on the planet."
From Screwed:
"Once again, Thom Hartmann hits the bull’s eye with a much needed exposé of the so-called ‘free market.’ Anyone concerned about the future of our nation needs to read Screwed now."
The rules of each house of Congress should simply continue until changed by the standard 2/3 vote.
It's an anachronism brought to us by the fact that, originally, English parliaments were considered separate entities. When a parliament was dissolved (by the king) there was no guarantee that a new parliament would ever be called.
But now, in the U.S., Congress doesn't cease to exist every 2 years; it's a continuously existing institution, it cannot be dissolved by anyone, and it should behave that way. Even the Senate behaves anachronistically, despite the fact that 2/3 of its membership continues in the new "Congress" (meaning the 2-year term) without having to be sworn in again.