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Bartiromo.
errata: her last name is Bartiremo or something like that.
I'm watching corporate whore Maria Bartolomeo of CNBC talking about her new book about rules for success. This is on Tavis Smiley. she;s obviously just back from vacation, sun burned face except where her Foster=Grants sit. Im not listening, just watching. Now Im listening. Im planning on e mailiing Smiley excoriating him for having such a sleeze on his show.
Her first rule of success: "Suck like your life depends on it."
I think Karzai is doing what he thinks is his best option to survive and prosper.
speaking up for cops, yeah, they are under tremendous pressure from their bosses not to MISS something that later proves deadly.
@Radlof - Sorry, Richard, but isn't JohnnyMac the guy who promised no MORE co-operation with the White House and the Democratic agenda? So, I doubt there's any "water carrying" goin' on here.
Ya gotta love the irony of that McCain statement, though - is LESS co-operation than has been shown thus far even POSSIBLE?
Why do I get the woogie-woogie hair on the back of the neck standing up feeling that hetro-lifemate Senators LIEberman and McInsane are simply caring the water for the White House again?
@mstaggerlee: you wrote:"On the Shoulders of Giants?"
My favorite was 5'6" Martin Van Buren.
"The government is best which governs the least" - Henry David Thoreau.
The right would have you believe this statement is true when applying government to the oversight of business.
However, I'm certain Thoreau had in mind the same topic Thom has been discussing today. That a government that shows the most respect to its citizens, and does its upmost to protect its rights, is the best form of government.
Thoreaus' Civil Disobediance is an excellent read, if such topics interest you.
So McCain and Leiberman want to return the U.S. to a monarchy - where the king can put you in the dungeon to rot. Great going, guys!
Do they realize that THEY are subject to their own law? Of course not - that would require a brain.
I have been raging about President Obama running the third term of George W Bush for a little over a year now. If it weren’t for the amount of factual evidence, I would swear that I should be wearing a tin-foil hat. Other than better press handling, there is little difference between the DLC White House and the Chimp-in-Charge's.
On the Shoulders of Giants?
Here is a statement that I think all Americans, on the left, in the center, or on the right, can agree with - "We stand on the shoulders of giants." Any disagreement with regard to this statement, I think, may begin with the identity of the giants. We ALL think we know who they are ... but we tend to think differently.
Progressives recognize that whetever new and wonderful technology is in development today is based upon inventions of the past. Would we have smart phones today without the works of Bell and Marconi, without the pioneering early work of the developers of television and computer technology? Of course not! The left recognizes these men as the giants upon whose shoulders we stand - their work made the items we depend upon today possible. If you doubt that, then the next time you take a seat upon a toilet, ask yourself if YOUR presence on the Earth will have anywhere near the positive impact of a man like John Crapper's?
The American ruling elite, however, identify the giants quite differently - they see THEMSELVES as the giants, upon whose shoulders EVERYBODY ELSE stands ... and ungratefully so, at that. Monsanto really does believe that we'd all starve to death without their GMOs - they feed us, we depend on them to, and yet we hate them for holding the food supply hostage. The owners of the businesses that comprise our Health Care Infrastructure (Hospitals, Drug Companies, Insurance Companies, etc.) somehow believe that THEY are completely responsible for keeping us healthy, and yet we resent them for it. And on and on it goes, the "elite" believeing that the rest of us exist only by the sweat of their brows, and that they are derided in the media and punished by taxation for their efforts.
We on the left recognize that taxation is NOT punishment - it's the price of admission into society, and it's the debt that we owe to the REAL giants, who came before us.
Fascinating show. I had a recent encounter with the Detroit Police, and while they didn't drive a tank to my house, they did come beating on my door in the suburbs to question 'suspicious activity' in which I was apparently engaged. I am an amateur photographer and often visit Detroit, taking pictures of the city wrecked by the auto industry. Apparently while in an area of mostly abandoned warehouses taking photos, a utility worker took down my plates and gave them to the cops. The officer called and left a message, I called back and he spent about half an hour questioning me, two separate calls. He wanted to know what I was doing, what I was going to do with the photos, why I take pictures, etc. Then when he called back a second time, he wanted a lot more personal information, who I am, where I went to school (I grew up in Detroit), am I married, am I employed, etc. Then he wanted me to send him copies of the photos. I'm guessing he created a file on me and now my name floats around in some government databases as someone to watch.
If you want to know more about intrusions on our rights, check out www.beatthechip.org. Sheila Dean does a podcast when she can (blogtalk radio has possibly been interferring with her broadcast.) Naomi Klein of "The Shock Doctrine" has endorsed this program.
Seriously . . . Ex-Governor/Ex-President Reagan is worse than the clap . . . He keeps giving and giving AND can’t be eradicated with penicillin even from the grave. His cold hand is strangling public education in California yet again AND this crapola and the economy . . .
And I'll finally feel safe in my bathtub!
Mysterious FIoating Head said: "I sooooooooo want an amphibious troop carrier!!!!! for FREE!!!
Me, too! Finally I'll be able to bring peace and democracy to my aquarium!
Thom mentioned the short wave radio stations picking up on the McCain Liebermann bill, they did when it was first introduced a few weeks back. My local cops look like they are geared up for battle in Baghdad. I bet if I asked where the insurgents are hanging out I would get a laugh because I don't think that they are all that happy about it.
In Kent, WA I saw what I knew to be an unmarked police car, with an officer watching riders off load the buses at a park and ride. I walked toward the car, which was gray with a black grill that stuck out like a facemask on a football helmet. The officer inside was watching me, and so I waved at him at yelled out "You aren't fooling anyone." This officer got out of the car and demanded to know what I said. I told him what I said, and kept walking. He told me to "come over here;" but I kept walking, pretending not to hear him. I guess he decided he didn't want to have to explain roughing me up by taking the matter further. I also recall a "Get to know your police" event in Republican Bellevue some years ago, in a mostly minority and immigrant neighborhood. It was more like "Get to know all the firepower we can threaten you with," showing observers all manner of weaponry big and small.
Farging Ron-Dog Reagan yet again . . .
Since I have Anthem Blue Cross I am very angry about this. She is nothing more than a scam artist and crook. Someone once asked on the message board what the rich had done to us, this is a very direct example that does effect me.
re: How does it feel to have 15 guns pointed at your head?
Like living in the land of the free, home of the brave!
I sooooooooo want an amphibious troop carrier!!!!! for FREE!!!
I used to live in St Pete/Clearwater FL and the police are truly scary there. It's one of the reasons we moved out of Florida.
I'm beginning to feel that I'm living in Joe McCarthy's ideal world. I suppose I should pretend that's ++good
I'm glad that Thom is pointing out that public paranoia has allowed an atmosphere conducive to a militarized police, as long as the "right" people are targetted. But as the woman in the audio Thom played found out, the police can pretty much do anything against anyone they want so long as it isn't a public figure or a billionaire who has the money to hire lawyers who can take the police to the cleaners or provide unwanted publicity. We may not want the president to have such powers to authorize the police and military to go about using unmitigated power against anyone, but unfortunately that is what an unduly fearful public allowed the Bush administration to implement, and even now much of the electorate still thinks this is necessary.