The Thom Hartmann Program - July 24 2008
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. Theactivist is the man who cleans up the river- Ross Perot
HourOne - Don Corace www.doncorace.comTopic: "Government Pirates" re: "eminent domain abuse and othergovernment regulations"
HourTwo - "Taking Our Country Back" Daniel Bliss www.danielbiss.com Topic: Running forstate rep 17th district Illinois
Hour Three - Christy Harvey www.americanprogress.org Topic:News under the Radar
Thom's Travel & EventsComing Up…
August 2 & 3 - In Madison, WI with our affiliate station The MIC 92.1(WXXM) - Thom is speaking Saturday- NonStop Radio Symposium, Exhibition Hall, Alliant Energy Center, 1919 AlliantEnergy Center Way www.nonstopradio.com
Barack Obama Live Stream from Berlin
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The Livestream LINK from ARD Germanies largest TV Station
http://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/livestreams2/index.html
English Version 19.00 hour Berlin
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By StarschyJuly 24, 2008 - 11:32amObamas speech
Obamas speech in front of 200'000 People in Berlin was rather conservtiv for europeans.
He's approach for more international cooperation is not wrong but sound rather easy. Cooperation between
equals ?
Hard points like Security and Data Protection act - Homeland Secutiry Gestapo Obama didn't even mentioned
for at least improvents.
Europeans keep their eyes more to the east (Russia) and not to the west (USA). Unilateral undiplomatic
actions against UBS as example are far from a State which use the word legal.
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By StarschyJuly 24, 2008 - 2:41pmEminent Domain
Tom,
I have to disagree on the spotted owl issue. I agree we need to save the ecosystem and it is necessary to control logging for the common good, but consider this situation.
Someone wants to buy some land that has $1,000,000+ worth of timber and a $100,000 house on it. The seller wants $1,100,000 for the land and house. The buyer puts $100,000 down and goes to the bank to finance $1,000,000 over fifteen years planning on slowly timbering the property to pay back the loan. Then the government rightly decides that the property should not be timbered "for the common good"
The government has essentially "TAKEN" $1,000,000 worth of value from the buyer of that land. Also, because they can not timber it they will not be able to repay the loan and their property and house will be repossessed by the bank so they actually would lose the entire $1,100,000 and could end up homeless.
The government SHOULD compensate for the $1,000,000 value of the lumber they have taken.
You could have many different scenarios for something like this to happen. Say a young couple buys 1000 acres and pays for that acreage over the next 30 years planning on timbering it when they reach 65 to pay for their retirement. Then the government says they cannot timber it and the couple loses X amount of money and all of their retirement money. Again the government has TAKEN that value and the couple should be fairly compensated.
I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on this.
Thank You,
Kevin McCaffery
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By KLMcCafferyJuly 24, 2008 - 3:05pmI'm AGAINST a national 55 mph speed limit,
but I drive my Prius at 55 and I am getting 55-60 mpg (and when I drove the standard 65 or so a few months back, I was getting about 46 mpg, thus my mileage has increased about 20% which is just about the difference in air resistance at the two speeds.)
If everyone HAS TO go 55 mph, how am I supposed to show off my intellectual superiority, green cred and moral virtue! Ever since I slowed down, I feel so smug, puffed-up and holier-than-thou that my previous sense of self-doubt has been thoroughly trounced. When most people are driving 55 because they fear a speeding ticket, my recently-attained habit -- done for smart, honorable reasons -- will become invisible.
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By macFanDaveJuly 25, 2008 - 3:25pm