some are veneer on the news
you need to know that's one day after downgrading our own spread a rating to
junk status moody's investor service turn in sight
on the united states an ounce of relations today mood he said that the
u_s_a_ is in danger of losing its triple-a credit rating
as put our nation under review for friday on break
fred downgrade for the united states
could be
the first step toward other nations dropping a dollar as their reserve
currency pushing our nation toward collapse just like what happened the
british empire after world war two global clock confidence in the pound was
lost and financial calamity around the corner republicans have no argument
whatsoever this topic debt limit deal as a new poll by gallup shows the
seventy-four percent of republicans agree that a good deadline a deal
includes both spending cuts and tax hikes just like what about president
obama has proposed
yet after more testing negotiations last night at the white house
public and still won't play ball
president obama seems to be losing his patience
with the republicans dangerous game reportedly telling congressional leaders
on the right i've reached my limit this may bring my presidency down but i will
not yield on this
alley with it willie ford bring down the presidency but it'll also bring down the
nation and unfortunately appears republicans are willing to accept that
trade off
a nationwide hunger strike is continuing in thirteen prisons across america has
more than seventeen hundred prisoners are nearing starvation
the protest inhumane conditions a hunger strike is now in its fourteenth day and
family members reporting the many prisoners are nearing death and refusing
medical attention
as one prisoner argued
no one wants to die yet under this current system or what amounts to
intense torture
what choice do we have
a few weeks ago the u_s_ supreme court ruled prisons in california were
inhumane
for prisoners had little access even detroit's
this is the result of a for-profit prison industry has lobbied for years
stricter laws
and longer sentences
his every new american is locked up means more profits it if we threesome
pastries and jailed injector for the presence
and then prisoners to be given the humane conditions they deserve
and we will see prisoners died of starvation
in the best of the rest of the news base to a sputtering economy ben bernanke you
testified on capitol hill yesterday
admitted
defense considering taking action to boost the economy
that has already spent trillions pumping money into the economy and offering
nearly zero interest loans america's biggest corporations corporations that
are now setting
onto trillion dollars for the cash thanks to the fed yet are hiring one m
first
this trickle-down approach to economic recovery has produced no real results so
far other than making
the already rich guys
even richer
unfortunately there's not much else the fed can do to turn the economy around
other than manipulator supply of money
until we change the structural problems of our economy
repealing the reagan tax cuts
jumping so-called free trade that our economy will continue to stagnate and
ben bernanke you won't have the tools to fix it
a group of house democrats and civil rights advocates gathered at the capitol
yesterday the blast new voter i_d_ laws they're springing up in a
republican-controlled states
around the country
easy laws require photo i_d_'s in order to vote
us disqualified many students poor people elderly people you to attend a
vote democratic
don't drive the most don't have a valid driver's license
congressman steve cohen said the laws were obvious republican attempt person
for about twenty twelve
and i heard the president of the united states has chance of reelection
which of course is the entire goal of the republican house
public and say the history of vote suppression is republican strategist
paul waiver request let slip
republicans know that low voter turnout
raises their chances of winning
republicans won big in two thousand ten midterms promising to turn the economy
around a reign in government
one of the related doing during that time
launch an assault on women
as part of their larger culture war in the united states
as the bill barker institute is reporting in just the first six months
of this year
republican controlled states have passed over a hundred and sixty pieces of
legislation to restrict women's reproductive rights
in fact eighty lots
specifically restricting abortion in the past
more than twice the previous record of annual abortion laws that back in two
thousand five
and we're only halfway through the year
i guess campaigning on less government
in scaring government more power to meddle in a woman's warm
someone please explain to me
our entire borscht legislation creates jobs
heat is about to get turned up in minnesota
for the state government has been shut down for a record thirteen days
about three hundred bars restaurants or risk of running out of beer is
government shutdowns preventing them from acquiring the license necessary
replenish their beer stock
executive director of the minnesota licensed beverage association
so the government shutdown is crippling alcohol retail industry
republicans have been willing to furloughed tens of thousands of
government please cutoff critical public services and cost the state millions of
dollars today just to protect millionaires billionaires tax cut
but are they willing to part with their beer
priscilla rick
the return of the flying spaghetti monster
a nation of austria is now officially tolerant of different religion
the church of the flying spaghetti monster
three years ago nico all
like for drivers license and submitted a photo of himself wearing a pasta
strainer amistad typical headgear of worshipers of the church of the flying
spaghetti monster
people who call themselves
pasta fairy is well after three years of review and a mental examination to see
if it's good to drive a car
biko finally got approved to receive his driver's license
complete with a photo of him and his strainer
only a matter of time before michelle bachman herman cain
begin or international impending threat of pasta ferry and sharia law
that's the way it is today
july fourteenth
twenty eleven
i'm tom harkin