Daily Topics - Friday November 5th, 2010 & Tonight on The Big Picture...Thom Hartmann talks to Larry Beinhart "Wag The Dog"

Today on the Big Picture...Thom Hartmann talks to Larry Beinhart "Wag The Dog"

Quote of the Day: "Remember remember the fifth of November...the gunpowder, treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot..." -- author unknown

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orlbucfan's picture
orlbucfan 15 years 22 weeks ago
#1

I can't get the live streaming for Thom's show today (Friday). I've logged in and followed the instructions for the UStream broadcast. I've never had problems getting it before. Nothing. HELP! I'm missing Sen. Bernie Sanders' show right now. My email address is: orlbucfan@cfl.rr.com. I'm on a PC which has just been upgraded. Please help via email. I thank you in advance.

Sincerely,

Debbie aka orlbucfan/orlbucfan@cfl.rr.com

DWDAN15's picture
DWDAN15 15 years 22 weeks ago
#2

What was the name of the book you talked about yesterday? It was about the 3 stages of a childs brain and learning ability.

pahrumplife's picture
pahrumplife 15 years 22 weeks ago
#3

Please check this out: http://www.alternet.org/investigations/148646/ , predicted in so many words by pahrumplife.

And also check out this verifiable unhappy discovery: http://www.texasprisonbidness.org/lobbying-and-influence/cornell-companies-gets-close-obama

Please let the president know that you care that he takes care of business, the people’s business. Being a nice guy and friendly is one thing, selling out (the people, humanity) in a friendly way to be part of a Machiavellian crowd is quite another thing. Personally it’s hard for me to believe that the president actually wants to be that second kind of friendly nice guy. I, and I think most of us, want to believe that he is the nice guy who won the election and who really wants to do something, as promised, about immigration reform and not make it worse.

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PBSD - Post Bus... 15 years 22 weeks ago
#4

The Republicans are using numerous paradigms and layers of overt and covert attacks on The Obama administration; thus, moving the US down the tracks towards poverty in order to anger Americans enough they will all vote the Corporate owned Republicans in office.

Rhetorical Syllogism in paradox‏ is a very successful argumentative tool that uses verbal aggressiveness which involves attacking President Obama's concept and also includes character attacks, competence attacks, ridicule, and threats (fear). along with one or more minor premises that are left unstated creating confusion and deletes any true commitment and is a very powerful argumentative approach.Get out your boxing gloves as this is a fight for our lives....

gerald's picture
gerald 15 years 22 weeks ago
#5

@PBSD - Post Bus..., What we are in is not just a fight! We are in a war that will enslave ninety percent of Americans.

gerald's picture
gerald 15 years 22 weeks ago
#7

George W. is trying to come across as human in making mistakes. He is trying to set the stage for another whack job from the Bush family to be the candidate for president and the next president in 2013. The name of this whack job is Jeb Bush.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101105/pl_yblog_upshot/former-president-bush-calls-katrina-photo-a-huge-mistake

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gerald 15 years 22 weeks ago
#8

We Are Tied

This comment is from a tearfrul Gerald, a Christian, a liberal, a pacifist, a progressive, and a socialist. He is sharing this information with you from his hideaway bunker deep inside enemy territory, the United States of Mortal Sin.

His perceptual opinion believes that the United States of Mortal Sin is an evil, vile, and wicked nation and she is one of the triad of nations who is doing Satan’s work in the killing of God’s children.

Here is my mission statement from the words of St. Ambrose.

I SHALL PASS THIS WAY BUT ONCE. ANY GOOD THAT I CAN DO LET ME DO IT NOW BECAUSE I SHALL NOT PASS THIS WAY AGAIN.

The title of my comment is “We Are Tied.” I did it; I finally did it! I have finally tied Thom Hartmann with four terrorist files in an office complex between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. My friends in the Republican Party who had worked with me as a deep undercover operative for the party have shared with me that the American government has added me to two more terrorist files. As a deep undercover operative for the party we would go on search and destroy missions to discredit the progressive persons. I was a deep undercover operative until 1984. In 1984 God spoke to me. His words were all I needed to change my wrongful ways.

You know by now that I had two terrorist files in the office complex under the names of “Stinging Words” and another file with the title of “Breaking Wind Exploits.” Stinging words is a file that rants against our nation and the killing of God’s children in immoral and wrong wars. Breaking wind exploits is a file about a marinated four bean salad with marinated Brussels sprouts and broccoli added to the salad. The other two terrorist files are on the information that I have shared with you on the benefits of adding Kim Chee to your diet and the fourth terrorist file is a Lay Minister file.

Kim Chee in your diet is important because most Americans live in a constant state of constipation. With long periods of constipation the toxicity that is lodged in the bowels will rise to the brain and Americans will be inflicted with “sinking thinking.” Kim Chee flushes out the toxicity that is lodged in your bowels. The fourth terrorist file is about a lay minister terrorist file. This terrorist file has been in the office complex for many years but it was through my lay ministering to you on the Holy Bible, especially with emphasis on the New Testament and Jesus’ words that forced the American Shadow Government to dust off this terrorist file and make it an active file. The conservative crazies have preached for years on God in the Old Testament. They believe in a punitive and vengeful God in order to justify their evil, vile, and wicked sinful ways. In the New Testament God is revealed as a loving, merciful, and forgiving God. The conservative crazies with their Ponzi schemes and shell games cannot have God as a loving, merciful, and forgiving God. They seek to keep the poor the working poor, and the middle class Americans in constant fear from some outside source and from God.

Plus, I have shared with you some homilies from Saturday evening Masses. From the Gospel these homilies have attempted to bring God’s words into our present daily lives.

The four terrorist files on me are files on my stinging words against our nation in the killing of God’s children in immoral and wrong wars, my breaking wind exploits from a marinated four bean salad with marinated Brussels sprouts and broccoli added, my praise of Kim Chee as part of our diet to eliminate Americans’ constant state of constipation that will release an obstructionist mentality with stinking thinking. With Americans being free of obstructionism we will feel better and we will have more energy to love all of God’s children. And finally the last terrorist file is me as a lay person ministering to you on the New Testament of the Holy Bible that reveals to you a loving, a merciful, and a forgiving God.

I am presently doing research on a super secretive weapon. I do not mind people fainting from my breaking wind exploits with only a marinated four bean salad but my hope is to develop a super secretive weapon that will give a knockout punch with one smell. I am doing research on the perfect recipe for such a knockout punch. I am willing to share with the ingredients for such a weapon. What is needed is the perfect blend for such a weapon!

Here are the ingredients. You are welcome to do some research as well. The ingredients for the recipe are to make a meal from a marinated four bean salad with marinated Brussls sprouts and broccoli added, from Kim Chee, from a homemade marinated red cabbage, and from a homemade lentil soup. What is important about the lentil soup is that the breaking wind exploits come out like the rattling of a machine gun. In about fifteen seconds two dozen farts can be released from the human body. Lentil soup farts are not as noisy as regular farts. Hopefully, a more silent fart will not draw as much attention to the culprit. Remember, what is needed in this recipe is a perfect blend of the ingredients!

My hope is also start a third party movement, known as the “Stench Party.” Hopefully, members of the Stench Party will piss off the conservative crazies and their bed partners, the lunatic politicians in Washington, D.C. Maybe at some point most Americans will come to realize how much the conservative crazies and the lunatic politicians have hurt America and Americans.

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