Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Things to Know - 23 November



mike112311


1.  Thom Hartmann with the text and video of the news.  Easy:

http://www.truth-out.org/news-thom-hartmann-occupy-wall-street-bringing-down-big-banks-and-more/1321984652

2.  Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone on the shameless conduct by police in dealing with a non-violent group of Occupy protesters.  It is from events like this that the reconstitution of OWS will change the fabric of our future:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/uc-davis-pepper-spray-incident-reveals-weakness-up-top-20111122#ixzz1eSrFLnFe

3.  Here is the profile of a destructive member of the super committee who really had no intention of negotiating:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jon-kyls-search-and-destroy-mission/2011/11/22/gIQA5BZVmN_print.html

4.  For those of you who are interested, here is the collection of video and sound bites of the GeeOpie "debate" last night:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-national-security-debate-highlights/2011/11/22/gIQAcNDmmN_video.html?hpid=z2

5.  Oregon's governor has stopped killing people on death row.  See, it's easy.   It's more humane, and its a whole lot cheaper:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/11/oregon-governor-kitzhaber-executions-death-penalty.html

6.  Steve Lopez, no stranger to the down and out in Los Angeles (remember the "Soloist"?), explains how help is need for those at the zero percent level:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-1123-lopez-home-20111123,0,2015386.column

7.  As has been said before, whenever Bozo PorkieGrinch blows out a bombastic blast, he is asking for trouble.  His comment on child labor laws will haunt him forevever:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-ed-history-20111122,0,1667371,print.story

8.  Gregory Rodriguez is now contributing a piece about every 6 weeks.  This one on the illness that is a pallor over our nation is worth waiting for:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rodriguez-decline-20111121,0,2504277,print.column

9.  Thomas Friedman comes out BIG for Obama, but only if he follows Tommy's suggestions:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rodriguez-decline-20111121,0,2504277,print.column

10.  The writer of this column is a Senior at Pomona College, and I consider him to be extremely bright and articulate (he's in the Politics class that I audit).  He brings forward the anxiety that college students feel about the collapse of Wall Street, the dim light ahead in the future, and what this all means to him and all those in college today:
http://tsl.pomona.edu/articles/2011/11/18/opinions/793-fear-and-fretting-in-an-economic-crisis

--
Juan Matute


"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some
kind of federal program."
       -- George W.Bush (Nov. 2, 2000)
"As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me."
       -- H. Rider Haggard
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."
       -- Robert Frost
"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."
       -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today."
       -- Herman Wouk


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