We have arrived at another Casual Friday. Cliff Schecter (@cliffschecter), from Libertas LLC, joins Sam for a review of the weeks news. Also Isabel Gillies (@IsabelGillies), will give us some movie ideas.
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Sam Seder Joins Ring of Fire Radio!
12:04 pm
morning gang!
life is good!
12:12 pm
He said ‘If the telegraph speaks right’ – that’s how we learned the news about Lincoln’s election – ‘If the telegraph speaks right, a slave – the slave has elected the president of the United States.’ And then he said ‘Lincoln is not an abolitionist. He’s not an anti-slavery man. He’s really a pawn on the chess board. And like a pawn on the chess board he can be moved up, moved up. We could convert him’, Phillips said, ‘into a knight or a bishop, and into a queen’ – queen has, as you chess players know, queen is all —powerful. ‘Move the pawn, make him a queen, and sweep the board.’ Interesting, that’s the situation. Obama is there on the chess board and he can stay where he is and he could, or Wendell Phillips said, I think I left out a phrase. He said ‘With fair effort’, that’s the phrase he used. ‘With fair effort we can move him across and sweep the board.’
http://zinnedproject.org/posts/8567#.UDekhaE1jBA
12:26 pm
Cliff Schecter @cliffschecter
Call #NRA what is: Terrorist Organization. Members of Congress who do thr bidding shld b attackd 4aiding & abetting murder of Americans #p2
12:27 pm
http://www.historyisaweapon.org/authors.html
1:23 pm
Romney Jokes: ‘No One’s Ever Asked To See My Birth Certificate’
Evan McMorris-Santoro
At a campaign stop in his home state of Michigan Friday, Mitt Romney made a joke referencing the continued doubts about President Obama’s birth certificate raised by Romney supporters like Donald Trump.
“I love being home, in this place where Ann and I were raised, where but the both of us were born,” Romney said after introducing his wife, fellow Michigan native Ann. “No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place where we were born and raised.”
An Obama spokesperson watching the speech tweeted Romney was “keeping it substantive & classy” with the line.
Video at link
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/romney-jokes-no-one-ever-asked-to-see
Don Millard @OTOOLEFAN
Love how @MitchellReports trots out @markhalperin to try to say Romney’s birther comment was a joke. No, Halperin is a JOKE.
1:27 pm
Talking Points Memo @TPM
Romney accused of going full birther after joke at campaign stop: http://tpm.ly/SwSjNY
11:02 pm
Let this one ring across this great nation, where marijuana is the biggest cash crop. Let the proud people of this country reclaim our own soil, and the consumers are more than willing to foot the bill and pay the tax. Let freedom ring!
http://allthehypocrisy.com/potheads-are-cool/