By SueN
- Guests:
- Scientist/Adventurer/Author Mark Moffett, author of "Adventures Among Ants"...
- Dan Gainor, Vice President & T. Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow at the Business and Media Institute.
- Topics:
- Is McChrystal only a symptom of what's really wrong with the war in Afghanistan?
- Everything You know is Wrong...about Ants?!
- Why are America's unemployed being held hostage by Republicans while they argue about preserving tax breaks for the wealthy and benefits for rich fund managers?
- Bumper Music:
- One Day, Matisyahu.
- How About You, Staind.
- War/No More Trouble, Playing for Change (video).
- Ants Marching, Dave Mathews Band.
- Lady Loop, Animal Liberation Orchestra.
- Complicated, Avril Lavigne.
- You can leave your hat on, Randy Newman.
- Dirty Cash (Money Talks), Adventures of Stevie V (video)
- Grand Canyon, Dmitriy Lukyanov (you need to search for it) (with additional sounds by Jacob).
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
- Today's newsletter has details of today's guests and links to the major stories and alerts that Thom covered in the show, plus lots more. If you haven't signed up for the free newsletter yet, please do. If you missed today's newsletter, it is in the archive.
- Quote: "Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both." -- Abraham Flexner.
- Article: UCMJ article 88: Contempt Toward Officials.
Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
- Clip: "As a matter of fact, in interviews in 1999 with respected journalist, and long time Bush family friend, Mickey [David] Herskowitz, then Governor George Bush stated: ‘One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade, if I had that much capital, I’m not going to waste it. I’m going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I’m going to have a successful presidency'." Cindy Sheehan, My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings, June 16 2005.
- Member of the day was rfee01, who won a copy of "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" for posting in the Thom asks - Why can't we get off of oil? thread on the message board.
