Daily Topics - Wednesday January 7th, 2015
By shawnt56
Join Thom in our chatroom during the program!
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
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
From Screwed:
"If we are going to live in a Democracy, we need to have a healthy middle class. Thom Hartmann shows us how the ‘cons’ have wronged this country, and tells us what needs to be done to reclaim what it is to be American."
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"Never one to shy away from the truth, Thom Hartmann’s collected works are inspiring, wise, and compelling. His work lights the way to a better America."
From Unequal Protection, 2nd Edition:
"Hartmann combines a remarkable piece of historical research with a brilliant literary style to tell the grand story of corporate corruption and its consequences for society with the force and readability of a great novel."
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.