Wed 26 July '06 National show

• Quote for the day: "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.". Abraham Lincoln.
• Guest: David Thibault, Cybercast News Service, outraged at the idea of blocking a congress pay raise until the minimum wage is raised.
• Bumper Music: I got Friends with Low Wages, walmartworkersrights.org (cartoon)
• Guest: Jeffrey Feldman: Frame Shop. 3 Ways To Talk About 'Peace',   The 'Occupation' Strikes Back,   'W' Is For Orwell, for example the Orwellian "Setting the Record Straight" page on the White House web site.
• Victoria Jones of Talk Radio News. "Senior Iraqi Women correspondent". The Iraqi Prime minister told Congress that the status of women was fine. Victoria asked Tony Snow.
• Article: Today's cell phone system argues for retaining network neutrality by James Glass . Net neutrality is very important - it's the last great leveling force.
• Activism alert: Net Neutrality. Call your member of congress, your senator and/or your member of the house of representatives and say, "I want net neutrality and I want to know where you stand on net neutrality". Let Thom know what they say. Toll free 1 888 355 3588.
• Medea Benjamin of Code Pink was busted for yelling at the Iraqi Prime Minister. Article: Maliki Speech Interrupted By War Protestor (video).
• Story: GOP candidate calls Bush his "homeboy," says some criticism was a joke. Republican Senate candidate Michael Steele, Republican Senate candidate.
• Washington State upholds gay marriage ban.
• We need to get some adults into Washington D.D.
• Article: Mideast violence may raise odds of US attack: experts. "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration's tacit support for Israeli military strikes on Lebanon may have increased the danger of militant retaliation against the United States and U.S. interests abroad, some experts say. U.S. and European authorities have stepped up vigilance against groups including Hizbollah, which intelligence experts say has cells in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Israel's attempt to cripple Hizbollah in Lebanon may have strengthened the Shi'ite organization by winning it fresh political support among moderate Arabs and Muslims, former officials and other experts said. ... 'Even al Qaeda itself may be ready with an attack, and they may choose to use it now,' said Michael Scheuer, a former CIA counterterrorism official who ran the agency's bin Laden unit." Terrorists want Republicans in power. Bush "I don't know where he is" clips (Osama bin Laden).
• Guest: Larry Scott: VA Watchdog. Article: Give 'Em a Little and Say it's a Lot. H.R. 3082, the Veterans Small Business and Memorial Affairs Act of 2006.
• Quote: "Now, I want to say something very important to you about this issue of morality in government. ... I think it is just as immoral for the Congress to enact special tax favors into law as it is for a tax official to connive in a crooked tax return. It is just as immoral to use the lawmaking power of: the Government to enrich the few at the expense of the many, as it is to steal money from the public treasury. That is stealing money from the public treasury. ... Legislation that favored the greed of monopoly and the trickery of Wall Street was a form of corruption that did the country four times as much harm as Teapot Dome ever did. ... I don't think the "black is white" campaign of the Republican Party is going to succeed. I think the voters are going to see through this holier-than-thou disguise that our Republican friends are putting on. All the tricks of Republican propaganda cannot make the people forget that the Democratic Party has been working for their welfare.". Harry Truman, March 29, 1952 "Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner" speech.
• Guest: David Bender, of the "Politically Direct" show. David facilitated Thom being able to give away 16 tickets for the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young concert in Seattle next Monday to listeners. Discussion about the "Freedom of speech" tour. Their most political tour. Songs from Neil Young's Living With War album. Everyone sings along to "Let's Impeach the President". The show gets you fired up to speak truth to power. We need to believe in the possibility that we can take back power. If you believe that, it's going to happen.
• Quote: "And where have the Republicans been in this fight for morality in Government? Do they come out and vote with us to keep the special interests from robbing the public? Not at all. Most of them are on the other side. It's the same thing when you come to the question of the conduct of Government officials. The Republicans make a great whoop and holier about the honesty of Federal employees, but they are usually the first to show up in a Government office asking for special favors for private interests, and in raising cain if they don't get them.". Harry Truman, March 29, 1952 "Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner" speech.
• Quote: "Private selfish interests are always trying to corrupt the Government in this way. Powerful financial groups are always trying to get favors for themselves. Now, the Democratic administration has been fighting against these efforts to corrupt the powers of Government. We haven't always won, but we have never surrendered, and we never will. for all these years, we have been fighting to use our natural resources for the benefit of the public, to develop our forests and our public oil reserves and our water power for the benefit of all, to raise the incomes of all our citizens, to protect the farmer and the worker against the power of monopoly. And where have the Republicans been in this fight for morality in Government? Do they come out and vote with us to keep the special interests from robbing the public? Not at all. Most of them are on the other side.". Harry Truman, March 29, 1952 "Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner" speech..

Tue 25 July '06 National show

• Quote for the day: "Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress". Thomas Alva Edison.
• Guest: Senator Byron Dorgan, "Take This Job and Ship It: How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America". ( clip).
• Quote: "His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it." "Hitler As His Associates Know Him" from: A Psychological Analysis of Adolph Hitler: His Life and Legend, Walter C. Langer, Office of Strategic Services. Hitler spoke in Mein Kampf of "the principle, which is quite true in itself, that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility..."
• Santorum continuing to propagate the lie that Saddam had WMD, with success according to a poll.
• Parliamentary Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani said, "If we punish a person who killed an American soldier, who's considered an occupier, we also should punish the American soldier who killed an Iraqi who fought against occupation. If a person killed an American to defend his country, in another country they would build a statue of him."
• Bumper Music: Stand and Fight, James Taylor
• Article: Asian arms race heats up as Pakistan builds new reactor by Justin Huggler in Delhi.
• Article: Soldiers in Iraq say they were ordered to kill all adult males, Associated Press.
• Thom will do his national show live from WTKG in Grand Rapids, MI on Friday, and live from AM 1090, Seattle on Tuesday.
• Guest: Washington Congressman Jim McDermott. ( clip Jul 28).
• Victoria Jones of Talk Radio News. "Senior Iraq Participate Press Availability correspondent".
• Activism alert: Congress Fuels South Asian Nuclear Arms Race. Asian arms race heats up as Pakistan builds new reactor. Contact senators and congress members concerning the deal that Bush has cut with India giving them nuclear technology and allowing them to use it to build nuclear bombs. Tell them the deal with India needs to be fixed and to lean on Pakistan to not make more nukes. Also call Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA) to support him.
• Bumper Music: What Are We Fighting For?, Live, from the "Birds of Pray" album.
• Comment line. Libertarians.
• Guest: John McNally, America's Report Card. He's currently on a book tour; the next one is Portland, Oregon on Thursday.
• Iraq update.
• Article: Iraqi Speaker, Defended By White House, Claims America Invaded Iraq ‘With A Pure Zionist Agenda’.
• Article: Sectarian break-up of Iraq is now inevitable, admit officials by Patrick Cockburn in Amman.
• Mercenaries are the second army in Iraq, we still don't know what laws govern their actions.

Mon 24 July '06 National show

• Quote for the day: "It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness". Thomas Jefferson. Thom would say having a mission in life is the modern way of saying that. Something you care about, you're really working at, doing because you love it.
• Guest: Alex Epstein, Ayn Rand Institute.
• Article: A Victory for Big Tobacco--and the Rule of Law, Alex Epstein.
• Alex Epstein's definition of objectivism: "objectivism is basically the idea that there is an objective, scientific, knowable reality; that the only way we can know it is by observation and reason; that we should all live for our own happiness by pursuing our rational self-interest; and the only proper social system is one of laissez-faire capitalism that leaves us all free to think and act on our own judgment and interact harmoniously".
• Bumper Music: The Last DJ, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (from The Last DJ album). (Hear Tom Petty's "Highway Companion " free at KPOJ)
• Bumper Music: In The News, Kris Kristofferson
• Thom heard Jim McDermott speaking out against invading Iraq in the fall of 2002, which is why he's enthusiastic about emceeing for him next Monday. He's not met Bill Clinton before.
• Story: I.R.S. to Cut Tax Auditors.
• Bumper Music: War, the Kleptones.
• The war in the Middle East is great news for the neocons; they are linking it to the Saddam WMD story. The most effective way to have peace is not to start wars. Take the moral high ground, like Jesus and Gandhi.
• Article: The Reviews Are In: John Bolton Is Failing At the United Nations .
• Gas price is over $3. Invasion of Iraq was to ensure a high price for oil.
• Quote: "Your fate will depend on your actions. Do not destroy oil wells.". George W. Bush.
• Quote: "As a matter of fact, in interviews in 1999 with respected journalist, and long time Bush family friend, Micky [David] Herskowitz, then Governor George Bush stated: ‘One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade….if I had that much capital, I’m not going to waste it. I’m going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I’m going to have a successful presidency'." Cindy Sheehan.
• Victoria Jones of Talk Radio News. Victoria asked Tony Snow why the administration was not talking to Hezbollah - he said it was because it was a terrorist organization. Nick Kristof writing what Thom's been saying re handling terrorism. George Bush has been advised to get more lawyers before the elections, in case he loses. Pronunciation of Hezbolla