Michael Savage and hate
Michael Savage wants all Muslims to be deported. For more information, click here.
Entries Tagged as 'Talkin' out Loud'
Liberal Oasis the radio show
Bill Scher, author and blogger, has now got his own radio show.
How much is a human life worth?
Helicopter crash in Phoenix. What the hell? So, 2 news copters are covering a police car chase. Why? That’s where I’ll start. Why? Who has ever gotten any good information about crime, security or anything by watching a car chase? So, what was the point? 4 people were killed. 4!! Over a non-story!! I have no idea what the driver did besides run from the police. I feel pretty confident that the driver wasn’t Clyde of Bonnie and Clyde or Machine Gun Kelly or Osama Bin Laden, now, that would have been a story. It is all so sad.
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Paris Hilton
I’m sorry with the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The lack of education for our children. The stagnant wages that our shrinking middle class “enjoys”. Scooter Libby and his weapons of mass deception. With the President playing word games over Global Warming at the G8, I’m just not all that interested in Paris Hilton. If she is getting a raw deal then I’m sorry. If she isn’t getting punished enough then…I don’t care.
Article about me in ACT
ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES.com
View from the top: On call and on air
Mark Barrett
mbarrett@citizen-times.com
February 13, 2007 12:15 am
Name: Dr. Errington Thompson.
Age: 46.
Position: Trauma/surgical critical care physician at Mission Hospitals, author, talk show host. (Thompson has a book out, “A Letter to America: Is President Bush Leading Us in the Right Direction?” and a radio talk show that airs at 9 a.m. Saturdays on The Revolution WPEK-AM/880)
Job responsibilities: A trauma surgeon helps direct the care of a critically injured trauma patient.
As a talk show host, I try to present the important political issues of the day in a fun and entertaining manner.
Description of your organization: As a trauma surgeon, I work in an extraordinary medical center with outstanding physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other health professionals who all work together to care for the injured patient. …
As a talk show host, I have two wonderful producers who work hard to try to get me to sound professional — Agnes Cheek and Rodrigo Schiffino. My administrative assistant, Linda, works hard to try to find local and national guests for the show. There are several other people who make my show possible, including my wife, Karen. [Read more →]
Dell, what happened?
Many years ago, I switched from Gateway to Dell computers. I had a problem and I couldn’t get anyone on the phone from Gateway. Remember Windows 3.11? Nothing was easy back then. Technical support plus self help books were essential. I remember calling throughout the day started at 6 am and finally getting someone on the line at 1 am. Since then I have bought 15 or so computers. All of them Dells. I even bought Dell stock (years too late but …) So, recently I had to sell my Dell stock because it was sitting there like a lump of coal.
Yesterday, I tried to buy a computer for my mother. Mom pays on the internet and e-mails. Not rocket science but her old computer just ain’t crunching the numbers like it use to. (This is a game that Bill Gates and other computers dudes play with us. For years we had to upgrade computers because there was some game [Quake or Doom] that required a new graphics card. Now, it is Microsoft itself that requires more and more RAM. More and more hard drive space. So upgrade or your computer will grind to a halt. Those automatic updates are part of the problem. Symantec killed my mom’s old computer. The old computer couldn’t handle SystemWorks 2006.)
Chicago, Chicago that Hot Town
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arrived last night. My cabby was from Somalia. That was kinda of interesting. What did cabbies do before cell phones? He spent most of the cab ride on the phone talking to someone about something I didn’t understand. Different language. Really a different language. I did have a couple of minutes to chat with him before he dropped me off at the hotel. He has been in the US for several years. He has not gone back to Somalia once. He said it was too dangerous. Too many warlords. Interesting or was he giving me the tourist line. I don’t know. He did say that for the first time he is thinking about going back to visit family. He believes that it is more stable now.
Also, it is hot in chicago. Hot. The Cabby told me it was 104. Doubt it. But is was hot and humid. The heat index may have been 104. The actual temp was only 94. As a dude from Dallas, that’s nothin’!!
Well Wishes
Jane at Fire Dog Lake has been at the hospital last several days with her mother. It seems that her mother has been ill. I hope and pray (yes, progressives do pray) that both Jane and her mother weather the storm.
Get Well Soon
Where’s the Outrage? 6/10/06
Tomorrow’s show will be a good one. We celebrate the music of Billy Preston who died this week.
We will discuss this week’s news in her opening segment called Lets Rewind. We will intentionally avoid discussing anything about Ann Coulter. Homeland security cuts funding for both Washington, DC and New York. Finally, some good news from Iraq.
We’ll discuss the failure of the repeal of the estate tax with Aviva Aron-Dine who is with the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.
José Schiffino will be with us from the organization Killer Coke. They are laying some serious allegations against the Coca-Cola Corporation in their practices in Colombia.
Join us this Saturday at 9 a.m. on 880 the revolution.
The Outrage Has a New Look
We have switched programs. We are trying to update and modernize. I hope you like it.
English is our official language
The US Senate voted to turn back the pages of time yesterday. They voted to make English our official language. This has nothing to do with closing our borders or balancing the budget or the Iraq War - pressing issues. This was simiply a waste of time and paper.
There is always at least 2 sides to every story. There is a group of Americans that see Spanish at the ATM, Spanish spoken on the downtown street corner and Spanish (or any other language) spoken in the back room of a restaurant. they see this as evidence that English is being challenged. What they do not see is the thousands of English classes being taught throughout the country that are all full. What they do not see are the waiting lists for all of those English classes. What they do not see is the highest English literacy rate among second-generation immigrants that we’ve ever seen in this country.
Those that want to succeed will learn English. Economic refugees come here, not to fail, but to succeed. We do not need a special law to give these hard-working people more incentive to do what they already want to do — provide a better life for their family.
Immigration debate - new side
Are Republicans looking to their base or to the census numbers? What happens if all the illegal immigrants are allowed to become citizens? Do the majority of them become Democrats? Is this behind the stalmate in Washington? I’m just asking?
South Dakota abortion bill
(CNN) — South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds signed a bill Monday that bans nearly all abortions in the state, legislation in direct conflict with the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in 1973.
The new law defines life as originating “at the time of conception.”
“In the history of the world, the true test of a civilization is how well people treat the most vulnerable and most helpless in their society,” said a statement released by Rounds, a Republican.
“The sponsors and supporters of this bill believe that abortion is wrong because unborn children are the most vulnerable and most helpless persons in our society. I agree with them.”
Although the law — intended as a constitutional challenge to Roe v. Wade — is set to take effect July 1, Rounds said in the statement that he expects legal action will prevent that. He added that a settlement of the issue could take years and might ultimately be decided by the nation’s highest court.
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Of course, the governor is wrong. The most vulnerable people in our society are not the unborn but yet the born. We have millions of children that are being kicked off of welfare and Medicare payrolls. Tens of thousands of children are being abused and Child protective services are unable to protect these children because of budgetary cutbacks. We have left millions of children behind in education. We have far more important and pressing problems than abortion. But the far right continue to bring it up over and over again to distract us from the real problems.
Outsourcing Our Future
a company in the United Arab Emirates is now in charge of security at six of our seaports? The president feels so strongly about this that he is willing to use a veto to make sure that this deal goes through. Is this not the craziest thing you’ve ever seen?
It is my opinion, that the United States should be in charge of the security of the United States. Not Great Britain, not France, not Dubai and not China.
book review: what color is a conservative?
This is a book by former Congressman JC Watts, Jr. Wow, this book was difficult to get through. I think that is important to read both progressive and conservative points of view. This book, unfortunately, is more of a self-serving vehicle than anything else.
I had the opportunity to hear Congressman Watts in Tyler, Texas in 2004. I had heard that he was a dynamic speaker. I’d heard of him since I was in college. We were both in college at approximately the same time. He was playing for Oklahoma University and was their star quarterback. I was a struggling premed student at Emory University. I had seen him play on television many times. So, I was interested to hear what insights he would have. Unfortunately, he stood up and gave a canned Republican, neoconservative lecture. Parts of his lecture had already been used by Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Bush and Dick Cheney. There was nothing new. There was nothing insightful. As a whole, it was very disappointing.
So, I decided to go buy his book. The first hundred or so pages really have nothing to do with why he became a conservative. Instead, they tell us a little bit about how he grew up. In spite of having two parents at home, who taught him the difference between right and wrong, Mr. Watts fathers 2 children, out of wedlock during his senior year in high school. Of course, each child has a different mother. He does berate himself for several pages but the bottom line, to use his own words, he’d been “heedless and irresponsible.” He did marry the mother of one of the children. The other child was raised by his aunt and uncle.
Mr. Watts uses a combination of bad analogies, non sequitur’s and illogical conclusions to make most of his points. He argues against welfare because it failed “miserably” then cites the stat of 450% increase in the number of out of wedlock births. This is the same man who fathered two children out of wedlock but was not on welfare. He also states “that my faith is an integral part of who I am” but as an adult male in his 30s he punches out a guy at the YMCA for hassling someone else. Violence? I’m not seeing the morality here.
The most interesting section of the book, in my opinion, has to do with why he now opposes unions. Mr. Watts was not a great quarterback in Oklahoma. He was a great running quarterback. The NFL was not that interested in him. Therefore, he was forced to look at the Canadian Football League. His agent negotiates a contract. Mr. Watts begins to play and begins to get paid in Canadian dollars. He is surprised by this (in spite of the fact that he’s playing football in Canada). He talks to the team about some mistake. Then, when he gets nowhere with the team, he goes to the player’s Association. They state that there is nothing that they can do for him. This is what outrages Congressman Watts. Why? He talks about individual responsibility in this book but yet in his own example he did no background work on contracts in Canada. He did not ask any lawyers to oversee the contract. He did not talk to any players. Basically, the team and his agent took advantage of his naïveté and he blames the Players Association for this.
Congressman Watts’s book is an interesting read. It is interesting to find out how logic gets twisted in order to justify one’s actions. Read it at your own risk.
Look first then shoot
So, I wasn’t going to comment on this but it has been handled so badly by the Bush administration that I really feel that I have to.
Cheney shot a high ranking, rich republican friend over the weekend with a shotgun. The exact circumstances remain unclear. They were out hunting in South Texas. the called an ambulance. Why not a copter? As a trauma surgeon I’ll tell you that in Texas copters are called at the drop of a hat. The patient is taken to a local hospital and not a Level I or II trauma center which is equipped to handle these situations. Why? (wanted to keep this quiet maybe?)
Mr. Whittington, the victim, was too much for the little hospital so the patient was transported to Corpus Christi. A level III trauma center. I don’t know what tests were done in the hospital but what is interesting is what Cheney does. If you had shot someone by accident wouldn’t you be concerned? Wouldn’t you insist on going to the hospital with that patient? If not in the ambulance then following behind in your car? Cheney doesn’t none of these. He stays at the ranch then has dinner. The local police come to interview Cheney but the secret service sends them away. What’s up with that? Cheney too sick? too intoxicated? too full of remorse to speak with the police? Explain to me how this isn’t elitism at its worst!
During the interview 2 days later with Britt Hume, Cheney states that he had only one beer at lunch. Now, this may be true BUT if I had a dime for every trauma patient that told me the one beer story I would be retired now in Hawaii!!
Did Mr. Whittington get the best of medical care? I don’t know enough of the details to comment. I can only say that if you or I had been shot and a helicopter would have been called and we would have been taken to the nearest Level I or II trauma center. That’s all that I know.
Mayor Nagin
On MLK day, Mayor Nagin had a few comments. “I don’t care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day,” he said. “This city will be a majority African-American city. It’s the way God wants it to be.” He called for a Chocolate City? What the hell? Maybe he has cracked under the pressure. That’s all I can figure. Oh, and when did God tell Mayor Nagin his overall plan for New Orleans? I’m just asking.
Terri Schiavo - Final thoughts
Now, that it has been several months, what do you think should come out of the Terri Schiavo case?
Iran blowing raspberries at the Bush Administration
How many times has Iran proved that the Bush Administration’s foreign policy has failed? Bush and Cheney have stated many times that the UN is powerless but the White House wants to take Iran to the UN security council.
Bush mo’ popular?
Is this right? According to the Washington Post today their new poll shows that more Americans are approving of Bush. 47%!! My question is…why? What has he done in the last month to get Americans to think that he is doing a good or better job?
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Errington C. Thompson, MD, is a surgeon, scholar, fulltime sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats...
