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Progessive radio is very important for our mind and brain to grow. The brain is a muscle. You must use it or you will lose it. Serious issues must be discussed seriously and comical issues can be a comedy act to lighter our day.
Thom, Ed, and Stephanie
In Detroit we have progressive radio on 1310 AM, Stephanie Miller from 9 AM to 12 Noon, Thom Hartmann from 12 Noon to 3 PM, and Ed Schultz from 3 PM to 6 PM.
I can listen to Thom for three hours. I will listen to Ed for about the first 30 minutes. After that time period I have other things to do. I watch the Ed Show on MSNBC at 6 PM. I seldom listen to Stephanie. I have listened to her but her three hours is more like a comedy act. She may know the issues but with verbal interruptions from her team and laughter I have difficulty following her.
I do not oppose comedy because laughter and a sense of humor are important. After awhile one person does not know what are the serious issues that Stephanie is discussing or is everything a comical act? Serious discussions of the issues are imperative.
I did email Ed and I asked him to have Thom on his television show to discuss Thom’s ideas on health care reform. Egos will interfere in the process. Similar to the politicians but money is also a factor in the fact that the politicians seem to have been bought for their no vote on health care reform. Some things will never change in a cesspool that is named Washington, D.C.
In listening to Thom he talked about Lewis Powell and his Memo prior to becoming a U.S. Supreme Court justice. The Nazi Party is following many of his ideas to indoctrinate adults and students. In Clinical Psychology there is a belief that people who criticize someone about indoctrination are themselves involved in the practice of indoctrination. This indoctrination by the Nazi Party has been effect since 1971.
I hope that everyone had a safe and enjoyable Labor Day. Remember labor creates wealth and the wealthy horde the money!
You must go to antiwar.com and read two articles. These articles are in the antiwar.com website for September 8, 2009. One article is written by Andrew Bacevich and the second article is written by Fred Reed.
For eight years under Bush II and now for Obama we face everyday as a BOHICA day. Bend over here it comes again!!!!!
The fact that these right-wingers are completely blind to the crimes committed by the Bush/Cheney administration gives a whole new meaning to the concept of "cult" leadership. And that goes doubly for the Reagan "cult." How can you deal with one of the nation's most despised enemies, keeping U.S. citizens imprisoned in exchange for political considerations and weaponry, breaking U.S. law by using money from the sale of those weapons to illegally support a corrupt right-wing regime in Central America--and not call it treason? The cult of Reagan is also blind to his failure to support U.S. domestic manufacturing and labor, or the fact that this failure led to an irreversible decline in manufacturing and middle-class jobs--which hurt African-Americans disproportionately, perhaps deliberately; while white unemployment finally began to decline in 1983, black unemployment continued to rise to over 21 percent. The "cult" of Reagan also apparently approves of the destructive policies that of his criminal Interior Department, which set back environmental and energy restructuring with an eye to future problems at least 30 years.
Should we have low expectations in advance of the specifics of President Obama’s speech on Wednesday, just so that we won’t be “disappointed,” in order to permit ourselves to be pleasantly “heartened” if he decides to be the president who defies the political winds and tells the American people in no uncertain terms what needs to be done on health care? To lay out the issues unambiguously, and throw down the gauntlet and do battle with the forces of ignorance and reaction?
Will Obama finally announce that “I’ve heard what the Republicans have say, and beyond than fear-mongering, deception and falsity, they have brought absolutely nothing to the table. I have compromised my own principles repeatedly in order to satisfy them, and in return they offer nothing—nothing but more stonewalling and inaction. It is now time to put away childish things, and tell the American people straight and clear that the necessary steps needed to reform health care will come with some cost, because it requires us to do something. It is a cruel fallacy to suggest that doing nothing at all comes without cost; it only insures that the cost will be even greater in the future.
“I have heard the arguments against a public option; I have waited in vain for the health insurance industry and its political backers propose a plan that will insure universal coverage at affordable cost. I have not heard another plan that will lower costs while insuring necessary care for all. I have not heard another plan that will insure that people will not be forced into bankruptcy or lose their homes the first time they get sick. I have not heard another plan that will insure that people will not be denied coverage for pre-existing or post-conditions. The fact that the health insurance industry and its backers have all but stated their opposition to the concept of universal coverage, and prefer to keep a third of the population uninsured or underinsured, requires that someone else must make the moral choice. Since the insurance industry and its backers refuse to make that moral choice, the federal government by default has the responsibility to make that choice. I will make that moral choice by demanding a comprehensive public health insurance option that refuses no one care, and I enjoin Congress to follow me in making this critical moral choice.”
Am I dreaming? Is this fantasy? Should I even bother wondering?
Here is some bio-information of the co-founders of NSP.
http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/article.php/bios
Another good source for information is "The Network of Spiritual Progressives." Rabbi Lerner is co-founder with Sister Joan Chittister and Dr. Cornel West.
As I scrolled down, a post said men are 14 years old. There is a saying that the difference between men and boys is the price of their toys. The reason why men love wars is because nuclear weapons are the most expensive toys.
Here's a wise, rational editorial by Rabbi Michael Lerner: "Has President Obama Abandoned You?"
http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/sept_oct_09_lerner_editoria
fete is a French word for holiday. "Pet" is French for fart. Mathboy, the "T" is silent in "Pet".
mathboy,
Thanks so much! I've got a new toy! LOL
mathboy
Dang, they didn't show up. Maybe in reverse order: > <
DDay,
It's what I got a degree in (among other things) and why I originally went to live in NYC several lifetimes ago!
Angle brackets:
I have worn a "respirator" for work. It was not something to help me breath, it was to filter the air, so that I didn't inhale asbestos.
And since Thom asked: "fete" is pronounced like Boba Fett's last name. You can probably pick up a dictionary anywhere you do a book signing.
That's good we need all farts on deck at the same time.
Quark,
You sound like an expert on this stuff. Did you get a merit badge too? By the way shouldn't that have been inflatuated?
[b] mathboy /[b]
Thom, Obama will sell us out because he is a corportist. We only have to look at his appointments.
On the topic of lighting farts! It can be done. I was a sophomore at Western Michigan U. in Kalamazoo. I was living in the dormitory. The practice was to knock at the door before you entered. As I entered the room a friend of my mine did light a fart. He jumped out of his bed in a split second. He had underwear on because he knows of someone who lit a fart without his shorts and the hairs on the person's behind were shinged. I tried to emulate his fart lighting skills but I was unable to actually light a fart. Yes, lighting farts is a possibility.
/b/ mathboy /b/
mathboy,
/b/Thanks./b/ --- Trying again.
Can you tell me how to insert a photo?
Loretta,
You don't need a mirror (unless you're infatuated with yourself!)
Thanks for the great laughs here. I think I can make it through the day now!
mathboy,
Thanks for uncovering one of the mysteries of "the blog" for me! /b/ Thanks! //b/
Loretta,
You are not only sweet...considerate...and a caring person but also brilliantly sick. I love that in a person. I'll go to D.C. if we get 1000 people to join. We can call it the True.... Thousand Points of Light!