According to BusinessWeek, Bank of America is pushing back when offering loan modifications to people who are complaining publicly. The catch is the borrower must stay quiet and remove any previous criticisms of the bank from public records, like tweets or facebook. According to one borrower the bank included this language, "The borrower "will remove and delete any online statements regarding this dispute, including, without limitation, postings on Facebook, Twitter and similar websites," and not make any statements "that defame, disparage or in any way criticize" the bank's reputation, practices or conduct, according to documents filed in state court in Phoenix."

Right now - at this very moment - someone is getting on an airplane with a condom full of heroin or cocaine shoved up some hole in their body. That's happening right now - as we speak. And TSA security has no chance of finding it - none at all...unless they want to bust out the KY and latex gloves. But think about this - that balloon could just as easily be filled with C-4 plastic explosive instead of heroin. And once that person is on the plane - he could go in the bathroom - pull out the balloon - and...you can imagine what would happen. And like the drugs - TSA Security has no chance of finding the explosives. That's because those high-tech X-ray scanners that are in airports all around the nation shooting doses of radiation at us and displaying our nude bodies to TSA agents only look at the outside of our bodies. They are not keeping us safe from a terrorist attack. So why the hell are we using them? Because we're scared stupid. We're scared stupid because Bush and Cheney made us that way after 9/11. We got hit pretty bad - but instead of telling Americans that we'll be ok - and we'll come out of this stronger than before - Bush and Cheney freaked out - and so did the rest of the nation. Instead of treating it like the crime it was - and working with our allies to find those who committed it and bring them to justice in the same way Clinton brought Tim McVeign to justice - we went on the warpath. We started a war in Afghanistan that we're still fighting today - we ...

Craig Aaron, Free Press.net joins Thom Hartmann. After Americans saw over $300 million in outside corporate cash flood the 2010 midterm elections - we know full well who benefited the most from the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. And that was the Republican Party and their deep-pocketed corporate donors. Meanwhile - average Americans who don't have as much money - and therefore don't have as much speech, according to the Supreme Court - are screwed. But what no one seems to be talking about is who else stands to gain from the Citizens United decision...and that's commercial TV Broadcasters. After all - all these SuperPAC's need to pay TV broadcasters to air their negative ads and hit-piece documentaries. And already - we've seen more than 12 million bucks spent on TV advertising during the Iowa Caucuses - and 14 million bucks last week in the South Carolina primary. So what effect do corporate SuperPACS handing huge amounts of money to commercial TV broadcasters have on that branch of the Fourth Estate, and on our democracy?