By SueN
- Guests:
- Marine Toxicologist Dr. Riki Ott.
- Pamela Meyer, Founder/CEO of Simpatico Networks, Certified fraud examiner & author of the new book "Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception".
- Kenneth Davis, Historian, author of the "Don't Know Much About" books series; his latest book is "A Nation Rising: Untold Tales of Flawed Founders, Fallen Heroes and Forgotten Fighters from America's Hidden History".
- Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange.
- Topics:
- Reaction to the draw down in Iraq and the President's speech.
- The well may be capped, but is life getting back to normal in the Gulf?
- Can you tell when someone is lying? We'll see!
- Everything you ever wanted to know but never knew about Labor Day
- End of Iraq war. Really?
- Bumper Music:
- One Day, Matisyahu.
- Change the World (Lost Ones), Anberlin.
- Are You Gonna Go My Way Lenny Kravitz.
- The River is Risin', Moss Henry.
- Into The Ocean, Blue October.
- Fix You, The Offspring.
- Truth, Amos Lee.
- Working Man, Rush.
- 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: "We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles." -- Jimmy Carter.
- Carl Wolfson of the KPOJ morning show and Adam Klugman are in for Thom who is on the road today. Stream Carl's show for the 3 hours before Thom is live. Adam's show is Mad as Hell in America.
- Clip:
"So I want you to get up now. I want you to get out of your chairs and go to the window. Right now. I want you to go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell. I want you to yell: "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this any more!"
"Howard Beale", played by Peter Finch, in the movie "Network" (1976). - Quote: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." Grover Norquist, May 25, 2001, to National Public Radio's Mara Liasson.
