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i feel that the greatest life condition for people is one based on compassion by taking actions for others. working for social justice. when we see injustice in society ,we take actions to correct the injustice. to live our lives in total freedom based on truth and justice.
Since Thom Hartmann is soooooo concerned about the Lockerbie bombing terrorists, the current terrorists who are being harbored by the American government, he should also be concerned about the terrorism and the collateral damage (in the form of Palestinians) that are being killed to harvest their organs in the name of zionism.
Wouldn't it figure that the since Hartmann is so in love with Scandinavia and their left leaning social minded governments he would highlight this story?
ooops....NO !!
Thom Hartmann's allegiance to the zionist slow genocide and cowardly buttered bread outweighs his allegiance to the truth, human rights and democracy. It all stems from his Calvinist KKKristian cult beliefs whereby the Dominionists are entitled to whatever land and resources indigenous people currently hold.
give us a "Sieg Heil" just for old times sake ...OK Thom?
Swedish Article Spurs Palestinians To Seek Organ Theft Probe
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wires/2009/08/25/palestinians-seek-organ-t...
"Mel Gibson is no brave heart anymore, since he is now a cradle robber and ditched his wife and family- just as a typical Republican – which character in Braveheart would Gibson play now, that he has been exposed for what he is…."
Girolamo Savonarola would be a good role for him.
what is the mindset that needed to be changed that president obama spoke of during the election?
The USA 's commitment to judicial rule of law is hardly exemplary....OUCH
and Mel Gibson is no brave heart anymore, since he is now a cradle robber and ditched his wife and family- just as a typical Republican - which character in Braveheart would Gibson play now, that he has been exposed for what he is....
I've said this all along. Please forward this letter to both President Obama and to liberal sites like Huffington Post and Move On.
We stood together to get you elected, Mr. President, and we will stand behind you to get healthcare. But why not work within the system? I'd be perfectly happy being allowed to buy into Medicare. The insurance industry could revamp itself as supplemental policies instead (which I'd have no problem with) and everyone is happy. But STOP trying to reach across party lines. They don't want you, they don't want me, they don't want anyone to be healthy except for their apparently wealthy and perfectly insured constituents. And that's not good enough!
Ir's not just in the preamble to the Constitutuion. Article 1, Section 8 clearly states:
"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;"
I don't understand why Thom isn't telling this libertarian that individual success doesn't come from a vacuum, unless you win the lottery. "Success" comes from knowing the right people, getting breaks that some other people might not receive, hiring people to labor to make your product, convincing enough people to buy your product., and trying to avoid paying taxes. If we lived in just world, it is people like Root who get over-paid for doing nothing but mouthing the corporate line who should be "penalized" for their "success."
Our government is our neighbors Colburn you NUT We the People you sick twisted creeps.
REP Maxine Waters calls Blue Dog Senators and those against health care reform Neanderthals. FOX NEWS reports Maxine declined to be on the show and so they play a tape of Rush No Brain commenting on Maxine - oooohhhhh America is about to see who has been lying to them and who lied to them about sending its children off to fight an in just war against an imaginary bogey man, in which they tortured, and killed and murdered innocent civilians.
http://iheartradio.com/pages/whitehousebrief.html?an=VIDEO-Maxine-Waters...
ALERT MADISON, WISCONSIN A gal called into the Stephanie Miller Radio Show this morning to say that ABC’s 2020 is planning to film an event full of only Dick Army’s Freedom Works – [those supporting the Health Insurance Industry] She said the only way to sign up for the event is to sign up at http://www.freedomworks.org/.
JOIN NOW! http://www.billionairesforwealthcare.com/HOME.html
Why do I have to call your Billionaire in order for me to go to the DR. How free is that- how libertarian is that! [you paid off schill nut]
Wayne is on Cocaine!
Get this a hole Thom! We dont have the money to feed the Health insurance PIGS!
i want a strong government that protect s its citizen from corporate greed ,anger and folly.
A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cartoon reprinted in The Week smartly summed-up the health care reform dilemma: There are three skydivers, one without a parachute. One skydiver, identified as “Obama,” is imploring the second, identified as “Congress,” to “Hurry.” Congress wants to know “What’s the rush?” He’s too busy immersing himself in a thick tome entitled “How to Make a Universal Health Care Parachute.” The third skydiver, identified as “The Uninsured,” is trying to get their attention. Naturally, he is the one without a parachute.
It is a simple matter, really. While Congress dithers, people continue to suffer. Worse, Congress—unless the president decides to advance into the fray with a baseball bat—may not figure out how to make a “parachute” that will open, or make one that contains too many holes to prevent the uninsured and under-insured from ending-up being a greasy spot on the ground.
While I am disillusioned by many Obama Administration actions and policies so far, I saw this article in yesterday's NYTImes and thought, "those dam_ right-wing Republicans":
"Obama’s Team Is Lacking Most of Its Top Players"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/us/politics/24confirm.html?_r=1&scp=20...
Obama is also without Sen. Kennedy and Daschle, upon whom his pregame healthcare reform relied and counted as very valuable assets in achieving reform.
I guess I won't talk about "stars" not being aligned, but this is starting to feel like a sisyphusian task.
Thom,
BTW, I will try not to sound in despair, tho one of the guests you had on yesterday (don't know who --- I only listened a short time before I couldn't take it anymore) certainly dropped the "makings" of despair like a ton of bricks (predicting Sarah Palin as the next president if Obama doesn't come through with healthcare reform.)
'Seems to me that the "Left" can be just as hyperbolic as the "Right."
Add 4 More to the Palestinian slow genocide body count. Thom Hartmann and his allegiances to murder and killing must be pleased to hear the news....
4 Palestinians Killed in Israeli Attacks
In Israel and the Occupied Territories, four Palestinians have been killed in a pair of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. Three Palestinians died earlier today when Israeli warplanes bombed a tunnel along Gaza’s border with Egypt. A Palestinian farmer was killed and another Palestinian wounded in a separate Israeli attack. The killings come as the Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has unveiled a plan to declare a provisional Palestinian state within the next two years. On Monday, Palestinian Authority spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh said the Israeli government is preventing meaningful peace talks.
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/8/25/headlines#9
U.S. Chamber of Commerce seeks trial on global warming
The nation's largest business lobby wants to put the science of global warming on trial.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, trying to ward off potentially sweeping federal emissions regulations, is pushing the Environmental Protection Agency to hold a rare public hearing on the scientific evidence for man-made climate change.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-climate-trial25-200...
There are a few problems with such a concept though. If we can choose to buy into Medicare at any given time, how do we keep people from buying in only when it benefits them? Also remember, Medicare offers almost no wellness and prevention. Just a few tests. Medicare also does not cover alternative medicines (such as chiropractic) many people feel works for them, and quite often, are far cheaper. No dental. Just think of the plans you could get on the private market if such an option existed? They would blow away the Medicare option...for the healthy. "Just a few lines" sounds so easy, but keeping such a program solvent would be quite a task. I heard Dick Morris (I know, get past the source though, this makes sense) talking about the Clinton health plan days. He was making suggestions to Hillary about aspects of her plan he felt he could get support for. Morris claimed that Hillary protested, saying if it's not all, it's nothing. She likened health coverage to squeezing a balloon, if you just push on some areas, the bulge just moves. I think she is right.
I also like how one of the first posters likened The White House message to three card monty, there is no trust on what "reform" will look like. Frankly, I feel if Obama came head on with a catastrophic health plan all Americans had to pay into, he could have sold it. Negotiated with insurance companies the roll they would play in a redesigned wellness and nutrition market, an area many are making money in already. Tell business and individuals head on, I will raise your taxes, but your health premiums will drop and stabilize. Incorporate Obama's concept of listing what health services should cost. Make everyone seeking care an auditor. The possibilities are exciting. Most American's are for health care reform...it's just too bad we are not seeing it. That's not the fault of right wing talkers, the blame resides in the Oval Office.
Will KPOJ web site leave old podcasts posted and available for download simply not adding new ones (because of loss of betterworldclub.org as a sponsor and no replacement) or will old podcasts be removed after today Aug 28?
I hope you get to read this before confronting the libertarian about health care. Every time you are debating someone on this they always bring up the profit motive in supplying better health care. Occasionally they also mention how foreigners will come to the States for treatment.
I live in Minnesota, home to the Mayo Clinic where so many of those very rich foreigners go (as well as Reagan) because it is arguably one of best medical facilities on the planet. Also we are home to Hazelden, rehab of the rich and famous. And the University of Minnesota Hospitals, birthplace of open heart surgery and of course a government run facility.
What do all these places have in common besides MN? They are all non-profit. As far as I can tell all the hospitals in Minnesota are, as is primary care insurance (despite being the headquarters of UnitedHealth). As the Harper's article that you mentioned a while back pointed out, health care costs here are relatively low. Also, we have one of the lowest rates of uninsured in the country, and some of the best hospitals in the world. And profit had nothing to do with it. Quite the opposite. And those government emergency workers and county hospitals did a hell of a fantastic job when the I35 bridge fell. (In a way it was kind of the anti-Katrina.) And they didn't do it for profit.
Don't let him get away with that profit-makes-it-better nonsense.
Re hr 2 TX schoolbooks indoctrinating students in conservative versions of history:
Mel Gabler and his wife pressured textbook companies to follow conservative memes for years. One or both is dead but the Gabler's cause still has legs. TX, as a state, may buy books for all its local districts. Instead of following conservative view supporting local control of schools by letting local school districts decide for themselves what books to buy and the state supporting the districts as a support of local control of education.
Fights over textbooks below college level here are similar to the first post by Mark of passionate pro-Israel views (called dispassionate only to appropriate a good-sounding term to one side of an issue to make partisan appear factual) that Jews are less wrong in the conflict and Jews have a stronger attachment to land Israel now controls than non-Jews that is enforced by folks in the 'Israel academic lobby' like Daniel Pipes campuswatch.org, Morton Klein's 1991 criticism of a college textbook An Enduring Vision and standwithus/Michigan's attempt to stop publication of Overcoming Zionism that still resulted in Bard College firing the author Joel Kovel because of the resulting controversy that made Bard afraid of student enrollment and alumni donation drops but those two fellows are by no means alone.
Re any discussion of Thom being pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian or neutral: Thom is afraid of losing his affiliates and ultimately program from controversies started mostly by those on the Israeli side that twist the expression of views with which they disagree and fears of influence it may have on events into 'bias' accusations (telling reporters and even radio show hosts how to do their jobs). Look up the article called "Keeping Talk Radio Pro-Israel" in the NY Jewish Week by Jonathan Mark. Mike Malloy read it on his July 16, 2007 program. He has been, falsely imo, called anti-semitic or anti-Israel for his talking about the Israel-Palestine situation much more than Thom does. His show is on much fewer stations and he has to self-syndicate since Nova M went bankrupt and Air America fired him without paying him full salary owed (about $100,000). Thom is probably taking Mike Malloy's experience as a 'don't let this happen to me' cautionary tale whenever Thom considers bringing up 'the situation' as people in Israel refer to what we in USA call the Israeli-Arab-Palestinian conflict.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXL998q7skI
John Pilger - Obama and Empire, recorded july 4th, 2009
If we continue to offer terrible health care or no health care to the American people, we will kill off the American population. Who will be left to to fight to expand the American empire? Or, will the American government commence a nuclear war with a preemptive attack against our so-called enemies? Will the religious right be truly glorified with the end time and the rapture so near?
Our son works for a European company. He must have a full medical examination every two years as preventive health care. This full medical examination must be scheduled in Europe. His company believes that the American health care is too expensive. European health care is as good or even far better than American health care.
Our son also talks to various people in Europe and Asia and he has said that European and Asian companies are reluctant to open up offices in the U.S. because American health care is three and four times more expensive than European and Asian health care costs. The U.S. is losing jobs with foreign companies unwillingness to open offices in the U.S.