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True Confession - My friends in high school were either so regularly drunk, high, speeding or you name it while I worked, was on all the extra curriculum, and aced all my classes. So, for my very first presidential vote, I voted for Reagan thinking as exactly Thom's Theorem about the matter, that some structure and discipline and old fashioned morality and pride in workmanship would be brought back into the country. The 70s did get a bit too Cheech and Chongish.
I believe people should wear clothing that is comfortable. I see some Muslim women look fashionable in their dress. I can see that their dress can come to be fashionable in time.
Higher education costs in California has set increases in tuition at 32%. This reminds me of the 1920s when only the rich were able to go to college. We are heading back to the 1920s. Thom has continuously said that our higher education should be more like several European countries that view free higher education plan as an investment plan to help educate our citizens. Employed citizens can pay taxes to help stimulate our economy.
Fire Geithner and Summers, prominent Democrat says
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/fire-geithner-summers-democrat/
GOP senators block effort to freeze credit card interest rates
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/gop-senators-blocking-effort-freeze-credit-c...
Mark, what are you even talking about? Do you expect to see Muslim women sobbing because of their dress as they go about their work? Lots of them like to dress that way because they believe it is proper. Some do not and are forced to do so or they’ll be hurt or killed. THAT is what’s bad. I don’t know how you can make a judgment about what’s going on with a person based on your interpretation of how they appear to you as you head to work. How is that any different from what others ascribe to the treatment of women worldwide? And a few bad women = no such thing as oppressed women anywhere in the world?
http://www.iwj.org/index.cfm/buddhism-and-wage-theft
The above article is interesting.
Just watched a fantastic documentary from the BBC by Adam Curtis (per Thom's advice) Called "The Trap"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7QtzHjj-bg
Tells the whole story about the rise of game theory and it's impact on the Milton Freidman philosophy of free-markets.
It's worth the 3 hours!
Stephen Lendman has an article that needs to be read.
His article mentions that single-payer health care plan can be a stimulus plan. The date of this article is November 18 I believe.
I believe that only divine intervention can intercede for me to post comments on the Thom blogs. For some strange reason I have been able to have November 19, 2009 show up. I have not been able to read cooments from Thom's regular contributors. For some reason only November 17, 2009 would show on my screen. I do not know if I can be able to leave a comment for November 19. I have not stuck to the script of certain guests. I have tried to share information that I have read. I can never get through to Thom by calling him and so I have tried to leave a comment on articles that seem important.
If you can, please read Stephen Lendman's article on Single Payer Health Care, a Stimulus Plan. Thank you!
This is from the Sundance site....
THE GREAT GLOBAL WARMING SWINDLE
Director - Martin Durkin
Provocative and controversial, this documentary by Martin Durkin makes the argument that scientific consensus about global warming and climate change is incorrect, with evidence supporting an alternative viewpoint. When broadcast in England by Channel 4, THE GREAT GLOBAL WARMING SWINDLE became one of the most debated films of recent memory, earning approbation from the conservative press ("Devastating" -- The Washington Times; "Brilliant" -- Mail on Sunday) and condemnation from Greenpeace and much of the scientific community.
(2008) Color (52 mins)
TUESDAY NOV 17 12:15AM | TUESDAY NOV 17 5AM
Janaki,
You and your dad should introduce yourselves to snopes.com. There you will learn that the Bakken Formation "may" hold as much as 4.3 billion barrels (about equal to 1 years imports) of oil, not 500 billion barrels. Sorry about that. Better luck next time. http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/bakken.asp
Very strange your entry about the "Great Global Warming Swindle". I've visited the Sundance Channel web site and they do not have any listing for this film as currently showing. Yes, it is listed in their library but it is not scheduled so I guess it is NOT "now showing". Maybe you could post when it is scheduled to be shown.
I have personally visited the Sundance Ranch on a project and met Robert Redford many years ago. He didn't seem to be the type that talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk. I suspect that this film is in their listings because it is important to see what the other side is saying. We too often get wrapped up in just looking at what we agree with.
Will Obama listen?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Democrats-to-Obama-Get-Ou-by-John-Nicho...
Is Wolf Blitzer a typical American?
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/11/17/iran/index.html?source...
How many more American soldiers will die to protect a corrupt government???
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/11/17/afghanistan-about-as-corrupt-as-they-...
Thom has studied various religions and he may have some background on this religion.
http://www.iwj.org/index.cfm/buddhism-and-wage-theft
Maybe Thom will be able to read this great article? I have a couple more that are good as well!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Universal-Single-Payer-Hea-by-Stephen-L...
A caller on Wednesday, conveying thoughts often heard on liberal talk radio, has inspired the following thought in me: Why is what we know about the thinking of women from other cultures comes from gender activists in this country, and Western-educated women from those cultures seeking to be accepted in the Anglo world? Every day I go to work I see Muslim women from Somalia wearing head scarves and skirts down to their toes working on the ramp. I don’t know what lurks beneath the surface, but I know what I see. I see people who don’t seem to act particularly unhappy or oppressed; they just go about their daily business like their men do, or anyone else for that matter. Yet you can bet your last dollar that there are people who will assume because of their dress that this is symbolic of oppression. Frankly, if the people making that assumption want to dress in dull shabbiness, that’s their business.
The media often reports cases where women are harshly punished or even killed, to avenge offenses against “family honor,” and such cases are clearly examples of cultures whose ideas in that regard have not progressed much since the dark ages. But making assumptions based on that, and what women from other cultures are supposed to think, doesn’t explain why a Muslim woman would strap a bomb under her garments, walk into a crowded marketplace, and kill dozens that include other women and children. Nor does it explain why women in Rwanda joined men in committing genocide, or why the “saintly” Winnie Mandela—even after her soon-to-be ex-husband became president of South Africa—ran her own little mafia operation, deploying her “boys” to beat or kill people she didn't like. Nor does it explain why a woman in this country would put an infant in a plastic garbage bag and toss it in a dumpster (and then we’re supposed to feel sympathy for the “mother,” not the “victimizing” baby).
Nor should it be disregarded that many of these countries where there exists cultural mores we criticize have limited resources and/or harsh environmental conditions, where “opportunity” is largely limited to political and military elites. The fact is that when we judge other cultures by Western standards, we tend to miss such subtleties—if not deliberately ignore them for politics’ sake. Our way is not in every case the “better” way; in Jordan, there are increasing complaints against U.S.-trained police, who like many of their U.S. counterparts are apparently “trained” to beat and kill unarmed people who have not committed a crime.
While we have been hearing of the sneaky tactics of credit card companies raising their finance charge rates ahead of the due date of changes that end many of their parasitical practices, drug companies have been busy raising prescription drug prices ahead of health care reform. That these price hikes are seven times the CPI makes clear that this is a deliberate attempt to circumvent the intent of reform, and is in direct contradiction of the pharmaceutical industry’s “promise” to the Obama administration to cooperate in cutting costs. Drug companies claim that they need the extra money for research, but the reality is that pharmaceuticals are not tied down to their “promise” to reduce drug costs by $8 billion a year over the next 10, and will suffer little penalty if they do break it. But at least the drug companies are up front about it when confronted with the evidence; the insurance companies choose to conceal their activities behind shadowy “front groups” doing their anti-reform bidding.
For some reason I cannot get Wednesday, November 18, 2009. Only Tuesday, November 17, 2009 comes into my computer.
Re: David Barton
http://www.liarsforjesus.com/
A few recent victories over the hatetriots - sometimes humor is more effective than anything else - is here:
http://shoqvalue.com/punkin-the-teabaggers
Although I would add the excellent Robert Erickson speech to a Minnesota Tea Party - I gaurantee you'll get a good laugh starting around minute 2:30 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O66qDqfZm7k
Tim - "of their peers" just means that nobles try nobles, commoners try commoners. So just about everyone in NYC is a peer of KSM.
Getting an unbiased, untainted jury will be a problem. But it's doable; there really are people who will set aside what they've heard outside the courtroom and rule on the evidence presented ... or at least who will say convincingly that they will.
If not for the AT&T divestiture, would we have cell phones, the internet, and other services on the scale that we do today?
Before, you were required to lease you phones from the RBOC, and for data communications, you typically used acoustic couplers because you weren't allowed to connect anybody else's equipment to Bell's phone lines, and you would have been lucky to have a 300 baud connection speed.
And if it weren't for the ability for other carriers to compete, how motivated would AT&T/Bell been to provide cellular service at a rate that was affordable to the typical subscriber?
And in response to the caller's claim, if I remember right, to get competition, carriers were required to sell services to resellers at a 20% discount off of their tariffed rates after divestiture. So the argument about the costs for the lines would not be a big concern.
Why is it that we as a society believe it when the upper classes tell us that they are morally superior? We don't need government involvement in the market place because the market is owned by the upper classes. We need government involvement concerning the police and the military because the lower classes are morally inferior.