Action Point with Cynthia Black 10-21-2007: The Reference Shelf

Today's article and item links:

• Beyond MOVEON: First: MoveOn.org Didn't Invent BetrayUs- The Troops Did! Then, Moveon created: Americans for Exit. THEN, Limbaugh got busted with his "Soldiers who don't go to Iraq to die are 'phony' faux paux. LAST WEEK, Michelle Malkin took a shot at MoveOn.org with "Sue me"! And this week, we're back to "[W]e're going to find out where your kids go to school" Limbaugh!
  

• From the Rudy "Broomstick" Giuliani File: The Real Rudy: Brave New Films keeps the truth comin' -- this time a film on Rudy giving 9-11 firefighters mobiles that did *not* "phone home."
  

• The Arizona Cowboy Justice File? Remember last week -- TB Patient Flees U.S. "Abuse" For Russia: "A tuberculosis patient, whose months-long incarceration in an Arizona hospital jail ward led to sharp criticism, has left the United States, unable to "take the abuse" any more..."? Oh, and this the week before? Family Blames Police in Airport Death: "Gotbaum's body bears several bruises and marks, including a neck bruise that could have been caused if the shackle chain asphyxiated her. Manning, a high-profile lawyer who represented the government against failed savings and loan executive Charles Keating, has previously won settlements against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in wrongful-death lawsuits." Well, now there's this: Sheriff's Deputies Arrest "New Times" Owners: oh, and Joe wants the online readers of New Times too. Huh. All that and spying and average citizens reading habits too... still wondering what an "imperial" Giuliani presidency will look like?
  

• MUST READ: Dems Fume About the Tyranny of the Tiny Minority and The Invisible Culture of Corruption: from David Sirota:

  "...the letter now blanketing Capitol Hill is a masterpiece of deceit. Forty-three former Democratic officeholders signed this letter, which demands Congress pass trade deals with Peru, Panama and Colombia —pacts that will expand the job-killing, wage-destroying NorthAmerican Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)."

• From the "Gore's Nobel Prize" File: Erring on the Side of Tabloidism: I may not want him for my president, but that has nothing to do with covering news properly!

• ENVIRONMENT -- Report on the Slow Heat Death of the Human Race: Top 100 Ways Global Warming Will Change Your Life: We're going to pick one today, to discuss. What's your favorite?

• Framing the Debate --How To Talk About Blackwater: "The Prince" from Jeffrey Feldman, FRONTLINE: "Private Warriors" from Bill Moyers and "Blackwater Down": by Jeremy Scahill.

• UPDATE ON The 5%'ers Own 'Lil Moveon.org: Freedom's Watch Watch: Founding Donors Get Name-Dropped By GOP Frontrunners HUFFPO reporter Michael Roston brings us the skinny on the group investing in things like the the invasion of Iran, among others...
  

Action Point with Cynthia Black 10-14-2007: The Reference Shelf

Today's article and item links:

• Beyond MOVEON: First: MoveOn.org Didn't Invent BetrayUs- The Troops Did! but the Senate voted to "censure" 'them' (all 3.3 million) instead. Then, Moveon didn't balk but instead created: Americans for Exit: "...a powerful new project that will remind our representatives that those of us against the war are America." THEN, Limbaugh got busted with his "Soldiers who don't go to Iraq to die are 'phony' " diatribe and winger talkers like Glen Beck pee'd all over themselves trying to carry his water! THIS WEEK, Michelle Malkin is the whining winger peeing in her panties to take a shot at MoveOn.org! "Sue me" she taunts. Still trying to take the heat off Rush? How sweetsie.

• Today's Guest Michael Erard: from his article The Beast Within:

  "Though we might make 7 to 22 slips of the tongue a day, we typically only notice about one a week, and the majority of disfluencies don't even register to our ears. This suggests that we're evolved to perceive a message despite any "noise" in an utterance, and that we filter out most distractions automatically. So noticing someone's "uhs" and "ums" says as much about your filter as about the speaker's style."
  

• Torture on Trial: Immoral, Not Inept:

  "Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly, human rights attorney William Quigley, Fr. Louis Vitale, OFM and Fr. Stephen Kelly, SJ will speak next Tuesday evening, October 16, at a public program in Tucson, Arizona. The two Roman Catholic priests are due in U.S. District Court in Tucson the following morning to face federal and state charges resulting from their arrest last November at Ft. Huachuca, in Sierra Vista, Arizona, during a protest of the Fort's connection to U.S. military use of torture."

• ENVIRONMENT: Rachel Carson Calendar: from a little blog named What Would Rachel Say?

  "Your generation must come to terms with the environment.Your generation must face realities instead of taking refuge in ignorance and evasion of truth. Yours is a grave and a sobering responsibility, but it is also a shining opportunity. You go out into a world where mankind is challenged, as it has never been challenged before, to prove its maturity and its mastery -- not of nature, but of itself. Therein lies our hope and our destiny. In today already walks tomorrow." --Rachel Carson, Scripps College Commencement, June 12, 1962

• I Just Want to Scream File: New Security Strategy Emphasizes Disaster Preparedness: remember "We have to fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here"? Well, now it appears we have to fight them here:

  "We remain particularly concerned about the employment of improvised explosive devices (IEDs)" in the United States, the report says, echoing a February presidential homeland security directive."

• Remember When People Fled Russia for the USA?! TB Patient Flees U.S. "Abuse" For Russia:

  "A tuberculosis patient, whose months-long incarceration in an Arizona hospital jail ward led to sharp criticism, has left the United States, unable to "take the abuse" any more..."

• From the OH MY GOD!! File: Do You Know Jesus Loves You? just follow the link, hit play. Make ab-sol-ute-ly certain you are sitting down, first.

• MUST READ: Confronting the Hollow Men: from David Sirota:
  

  "...Roll Call, the tiny-circulation Washington newspaper, reported that Republican senators were fretting about "new polling data showing tax cuts are no longer priority No. 1" with voters. One senior GOP aide admitted that when it comes to tax cuts, "We've worn out the message."

• Quiz For Choice: NARAL Pro-Choice Quiz: I was shocked how little I knew about the candiate's stands on choice!

• Gore's Nobel Prize: Well-Crafted Phoniness: from this week's topic on The Campaign Frame with Jeffrey Feldman.

• Amanda Terkel, Deputy Research Director at Center for American Progress joins us to discuss some of this week's most pressing legislation, War Profiteering Prevention Act and the Restore Act and irksome behaviors; Right Wing Attacks 12-Year Old Boy.