LiveBlog for Monday, April 19, 2010

John Fugelsang joins Steph in the NYC Bureau at 9am ET / 6am PT for an edition of “Fridays with Fugelsang” on Monday.

Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) calls in at 9:05am ET / 6:05am PT to talk about financial reform, the Supreme Court, and the upcoming elections.

The Rude Pundit (Lee Papa) calls in at 9:35am ET / 6:35am PT to wax rude about the news of the day.

Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 10:05am ET / 7:05am PT to co-host Right Wing World.

David Bender, co-host of “Ring of Fire,” joins Steph in the NYC Bureau to talk about financial reform, the Supreme Court, and the Tea Parties.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the economy is growing faster than the Obama administration expected. He tells NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the country is on the way to sustained job creation. But he acknowledges that unemployment may remain high, close to 10 percent.

Former President Bill Clinton says angry anti-government rhetoric has led to a worrisome increase in threats against the president and other elected officials. Clinton says people should be careful that the words they use to criticize officials don’t demonize them.

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it's only prejudice if you way, "Women can't do this because they lack the upper body strength" or "Latinos can't do this because they are illegal aliens." Everyone should be given the opportunity to succeed or fail. It's when you shut off the opportunity to fail that you indulge in prejudice. Everyone who thinks he can make it should be allowed in college. If he fails, he fails. Everyone who thinks he can do a good job should be given the opportunity to try--again, if he fails, he fails.

#270 - Good point, still stereotyping can be accurate and be accused of being prejudice, "like women are generally not physically as strong as men", or "men are not generally as emotional as women", (lots of other besides sex). Personally I don't like prejudice/racism just as most of USA and there seems to be a fine line, even if just for arguments sake (by the righty's).

279: maybe not. trim the eyebrows and weigh yourself again.

We need more of David Bender. G'day everybody!

Have a great day, everyone!

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Yes we already have Esmerelda

#268 - there is a brand called "Mommy's Time-Out" -- I haven't had the time to Photoshop the "Mommy" to "Momma" -- maybe Steph is an owner?

I'm 300 pounds. am I too big to fail?

270: or the most amazingly brave.
lookin at you, christiane.

We need Uncle Arthur in the Senate!

268: "Steph should sell her own brand of wine – Doggy Drool brand?"

http://www.droolingdogbarbq.com/

#226 Of course, once you've collapsed a couple of floors (due to the failure of supports in the fire zone) the floors below are each going to fail mechanically since they have exceeded their structural limits.

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Thank you.

I'm sure you've caught some of Professor Tom's live appearances on YouTube.

Red headed step child here. please watch your language.

Keep the pimp hand strong Obama.

if it were an assumption, it would be stereotyping. But it's accurate. If you're a physician or college professor, you can come through normal channels. Only the most impoverished people, like day workers, must go through the indignity of being sneaked over the border

#162.

At least someone got it.

P.S. It was good to hear you on the radio!

Steph should sell her own brand of wine - Doggy Drool brand?

260/262: hmmmm..... so iffn the owner found him some messkins who could get the whole job done in about 10 hours, and for less money....

The fires were confined to a few floors around the impact zones. Yet _all_ the 30-foot beam sections (that were never subject to that degree of heating) disappeared into the pile above the bottom 10 stories or so.

#256 All you need to do is soften steel to compromise it's weight-bearing properties.

Jim, Remember even if the steel did melt it was in a corner of the building so it should have fallen at an angle not into its own foot-print. And let's not forget building 7!

Just thinking out loud here...Isn't assuming immigrant workers only work as laborers (mocking the "mostly made up fear" of immigrants stealing Americans jobs) suspect to a racist assumtion?

259 except controlled demolition that is

the impact knocked the insulation off the ibeams, or so people say.

the building was partially held up by a rigid tube outer layer, but the full weight of the building could have been held up by a complex of ibeams at the center, around the elevators.

no one can tell me how a building without explosives can be "pulled" after the owner approves it?

And no thoery has EVER explained Building 7

255: i heard of that. i love reading about the donner party.

all film shows the fire was huge. black smoke was being forced out thickly. there was no small fire. there was a fully raging inferno.

Temperature has to be EXTREMELY hot to bend steel

my family arrived, sans passport or visa or even permission of the government, in 1620.

Didn't think I had it in me to make an ass comment. Boy am I getting perverted.

how's that hopi navajo thing workin for ya ?

#250 Not only brave, but patient. I would have lost my composure out of frustration with those idiots.

and if you need to experience an injection of the great outdoors, they even have a space needle.

Kenny-Pick infiltrated -- well, went to a Tea Party to interview some attendees. Interesting audio.

Brave man :)

Ain't gonna happen, John

Made my phone call, back from lunch. :)

239: "doling out mere spics" / "there's a chink in the distribution" / "not exactly a wopping portion" / "dago way too lite on the servings" / "haole survive on so little"....

Mama, pile the boys and the dogs in the VW bus and come to Seattle! We have wine AND a Bark Park!

her dad has an RV, but elwood p dowd has a HARVEY!

I like it. John! Blue Collar Tour for Smart People

238: i really dont see how that proves one way or another whether the plane slammed into the pentagon.

Trojanrabbit is on the air!

236: "very dangerous to drink or take drugs before making a personal appearance. it’s killed a lot of performers."

true, but if the kamikazes werent hopped up on crank, their screaming would have scared the japanese at the airbase out of their minds.

it's from norwegian. means cheap. but i can stand seeing it disappear--there are plenty of synonyms.