TODAY'S SHOW: THURSDAY AUGUST 2ND 2007
Today's show is going to be a little different. We are going to spend the entire first hour talking about the Minneapolis bridge that collapsed last night. This issue-- public safety and American infrastructure-- is one that Rachel has been particularly dedicated to and one that seems to get lost in the aftermath of tragic episodes such as this. But not here.
So today we are going to the experts-- the people we feel are three of the best advocates for improving the infrastructure of this country, the people who know how important it is that America not merely be able to forcefully attack, but also be able to take a punch when hurricanes and terrorist attacks and the like occur.
Rachel will be talking with Rick Perlstein, a senior fellow at the Campaign for America's Future. You may remember him from a few weeks ago when we talked to him about the steam pipe explosion in Manhattan.
And then Rachel will be joined by Stephen Flynn, the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of the book "Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation"
And then in the second hour of the show we will talk to Nick Coleman, a columnist at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, who has written a passionate, scathing column today on what happened to his city yesterday and why we should all be outraged.
MENTIONED ON TODAY'S SHOW
The Republican Party's lawyer in California has proposed a ballot initiative that posed the biggest hurdle we've seen yet to getting a Democrat in the White House
New Al Qaeda Ad-- wait, what? It's an ad?
Another amnesiac from the White House testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Leahy was having none of it
The FDA has cut its safety inspections by 47% in the last three years, but one department that didn't suffer cutbacks? The department of quadrupling cash bonuses to top officials
You still are shooting at the WRONG TARGET!!!
LOOK AT THE SHINY OBJECT. WOW!!!
HOW'S THAT S-CHIP WORKING OUR FOR YA???
If you don't have a democracy you will never be able to get your BRIDGES fixed!!!
As you bitch and moan about things that you cant change unless you get the PROTO-FASCISTS out of the way, they are continuing to erode the legal system, the integrity of bureaucratic infrastructure, the moral of the BROKEN military with any true sense of honor left, etc. they are scheming another Gulf of Tonkin by clustering carriers near the Gulf of Hormuz, and instituted all of the ENABLING ACT directives to shut down mass dissent when it becomes necessary to suspend elections and institute mandatory consignment to address Iran who will retaliate for the BOMBS that the US will drop to respond to the FALSE FLAG New Pearl Harbor VERSION 3 allegedly instigated by Hezbollah Ahanegeinigad Syria for the PNAC SECURING THE REALM plan that Rummy still has an office in the Pentagon to "observe".
You haven't even agreed to TRASH DRE Diebold COUNTER EXIT POLLING SYSTEM.
Right here in NY taking pictures without $1M of insurance is about to become illegal, screw the 1st Amendment under Bloomberg.
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The 12 BILLION BEING SPENT IN IRAQ PER MONTH, that we can talk about later. ( It's just funny money. Print some more to fix the bridges, give everybody health insurance vouchers, full college grant vouchers, VERI CHIP IMPLANT NATIONAL ID CARDS for their own protection, why don't cha? )
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By SingSingAugust 2, 2007 - 5:46pm