Thursday 4 February '10 show notes
Guests:
Topics:
- Is the economic ship sinking and are the rats deserting the ship and taking all the food with them?
- "Everything You Know is Wrong": "Are Gayle and Ted Haggard charismatic opportunists?" (Have the Haggards moved from a multi-million dollar ministry to a multi million dollar anti-gay industry?)
- "Economic vampires...who really sucked the life out of America's workforce?" - Vampires are everywhere these days...the movie "Twilight", the cable series "True Blood"...but did you know they exist right here, right now in our jobs market and economy?!
- Protesting the Tea Party Convention in Nashville
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Quote: ”This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -- Abraham Lincoln.
On this day in history in 1789, George Washington became the first official President of the United States having been unanimously elected by the electoral college
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FROM THE NEWSLETTER
Hour One: Is the economic ship sinking and are the rats deserting the ship and taking all the food with them?
Article: "President Obama Discusses China, Trade and Jobs With Democratic Senators".
Article: "Dodd Vents Over Handling of Bank Proposal" by Damian Paletta.
Article: "Pelosi Taps Task Force To Counter Supreme Court's Citizens United Ruling" by Ryan Grim.
Article: "GOP Chases Wall Street Donors" by Brody Mullins And Neil King Jr.
Article: "Lazard bucks trend among rivals by accelerating cash bonus payments" by Justin Baer.
Article: "Moody's warns on US rating" by Michael Mackenzie and Gillian Tett.
Article: "Rush Limbaugh on Rahm Emanuel 'retarded' comment: Liberals are 'retards,' Where's Sarah Palin?" by Neil Nagraj.
Site: "Move to Amend".
Site: "Fix Congress First!".
Article: "US mortgage sector braced for end of Fed help" by Michael Mackenzie.
Article: "China clamps down on share raisings" by Jamil Anderlini.
Article: "Toyota Says Cup Holders Still Working Great" by Andy Borowitz.
Hour Two: "Everything You Know is Wrong": "Are Gayle and Ted Haggard charismatic opportunists?" (Have the Haggards moved from a multi-million dollar ministry to a multi million dollar anti-gay industry?) - Thom confronts Gayle Haggard, speaker, teacher, wife of deposed evangelist Ted Haggard, author of the new book "Why I Stayed: The Choices I Made In My Darkest Hour".
Article: "Report of the American Psychological Association Task Force on Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation".
Article: "Evidence suggests people can't 'pray away the gay'" by Wayne Besen.
To watch out for: Tomorrow -Friday, Feb 5th at 4pm Eastern - Discovery Channel - "Did the Mob Kill JFK" with Thom Hartmann and Lamar Waldron.
To watch out for: Sunday & Monday, February 7 & 7, 2010, 8 and 11pm Eastern - C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb presents Q & A with Thom Hartmann.
Twilight Zone alert: "Woman admires webcam sunset, spots German man trapped on North Sea ice(AP).
Hour Three: "Economic vampires...who really sucked the life out of America's workforce?" - Vampires are everywhere these days...the movie "Twilight", the cable series "True Blood"...but did you know they exist right here, right now in our jobs market and economy?! I'll have a rumble with Andrew Langer of the Institute for Liberty to find out who really sucked the life out of America's workforce!.
Article: "Obama Policies Likely to Continue "Job-loss" Recovery" by Kerri Houston Toloczko.
Book: "The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money" by Timothy P. Carney.
Protesting the Tea Party Convention in Nashville; also comments about Supreme Court's corp personhood decision - Thom talks with Shane Brooks, Pilgrim; former member of the Tea Party.
The Good: Obama and Clinton. "Obama condemns Uganda anti-gay bill as "odious"" by Reuters.
The Bad: "Morris fearmongers about financial regulatory reform: "Castro would have loved to have had" that power"
The very, very ugly: "Another Filibuster? Senate Republicans Mulling A Filibuster Of Jobs Bill" by Brian Beutler.
