well back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour house republicans pass a three month extension of millions of americans on a job refused to fund the full transition and why are conservatives so opposed to mass transit and to ensuring the safety and security of our national infrastructure also thinks time has been all over the news lately more and more food stores are moving amber the full of it on their shelves every day the media history of conservative groups are still standing up for the mystery meat why and in tonight's daily intake rick santorum takes homophobia to new extremes but could it be because he's unsure of his own sexuality.

in the best interest of the news two weeks ago as a two year funding extension for critical transportation and infrastructure programs that would keep millions of americans on the job working senate bill passed in a bipartisan seventy four twenty two vote it sinks in a compromise is a bad word in the house of representatives and we're conservative republicans the tea party has refused to even vote on the senate bill and said they wanted far more right wing bills that included a bunch of sweeteners to boost profits for big oil so as speaker of the house john boehner struggled trying to gain control the tea party wing of his own caucus and he or. the tea party caucus within the republican party the deadline for passing a transportation funding. it was fast approaching with the program set to expire

this weekend running up against the deadline today i was republicans passed a short three month extension of the crucial funding before leaving town that means rather than passing the bipartisan senate bill that would have ended the debate and kept a millions of americans safe in their jobs republicans just kick the can down the road so that three months from now they can have this debate all over again and hold millions of transportation workers hostage again to push their extremist it agenda so what do today's events mean for working people around america and to our crumbling transportation infrastructure here to talk about that is at ed wiccan the president of the transportation trey's department of the a.f.l.-cio welcome thanks for having me thanks for joining us republicans kick the can down the road why what's going on that's a good question for a generation we've seen transportation bills passed with overwhelming votes on both sides of the aisle because everyone wants to get to work on time everyone wants clean air and with all the congestion and choke points on the highways everyone

wants mass transit system to get them to work and for some reason in this congress this is the first time ever they want to use the highway transit bill is a sort of a k. street grab bag literally the first time a first time in a long time i've been working on this this bill in particular a long time and i can think back to even during the game bridge years in the house some of the darkest years for a country they were able to pass a highway transit bill yeah and this is this crowd can't do it because they loaded it up with too many goodies for from private interests that are represented on k. street and as a result they couldn't get the votes to pass a bill to get loaded up in the senate you know for the front of the house house version in the house like they've been able to move a bill the senate passed an incredibly good strong bipartisan bill it funds a program even a slightly above baseline levels and it shores up some serious mass transit problems in this country one of the stories that's not be told in america is that mass transit says. we're facing huge growth in demand but they're cutting service

and jobs because they don't have the resources to deal with with with the rising demand and this bill fixes that by giving them some flexibility in how they spend their money to keep trains running it's a big deal yeah it is a big deal what what kind of. what kind of america what kind of function how can how can business even function without a transportation investor i don't understand the logic of these guys what's interesting about it is that even the chamber of commerce is completely on board trying to pass a long term bill to the a.f.l.-cio and our organization which is part of the a.f.l.-cio has been working with the business community trying to pass a strong bill look everyone wants a good transportation system in this country it's the extreme forces in the so you've got the so you've got the tea party faction the tea promptly hold the musical hostage ok and they're largely the creation of the koch brothers and dick armey you know the billionaires and the multimillionaire pastry lobbyist what agenda could they possibly have to to i just don't get it and we don't get it

either because the agenda really is about they don't want to spend any money you know people ask me this question all the time is it too much money you know it's just money they don't want to spend money on the needs of our country think about it this way it's one thing to have a debate in washington about some pork barrel item tucked into a bill late at night it's another thing to talk about investment that sometimes these investments last fifty sixty seventy five years old we should invest in the country we need to build things we're just one hundred years later we have seventy thousand structurally deficient bridges in this country and for those who care two hundred ten million trips are taken over the bridge in one hundred two largest metro areas in america every day and we saw you doing at your same hour what happened literally fell down and killed thirty five people right well i mean this is this is the kind of problem we're facing so. my my recollection is we have a two trillion dollar infrastructure deficit the united states between transportation and water septic and an electric grids and that's just to get us to

stay so it's just to a stable point and then it may not meanwhile germany just just you know they're investing eight percent of their g.d.p. in you know a new smart grid countries are investing and look at china is doing china jihads a just the high speed rail. with the equivalent of chicago to new york yeah i mean they have they have activities were all they do is try to figure out how to make the trains go faster in china and and when you have the trains you know we don't talk about as we make an amtrak run on a shoestring budget you wonder why you know we can't can't succeed at the level that it should is because we start it and then ask it to do great things so we're completely misdirected in this country and and this is sort of a right wing agenda in the house has now captured transportation up until this point they really didn't go after trees tears because they realize it was a bipartisan issue these days are over up until now they were more focused on health care right but. this is truly remarkable what kind of investment i mean i identify the turner there are the two trillion dollars what

percentage of that this bill address or does it address not it's just the senate bill is strong because it keeps the program flush for about two years hundred nine billion dollars almost two million jobs supported by that bill the president has a half a trillion dollars for infrastructure he's the first president in modern history at least since the one nine hundred fifty s. when we built a highway interstate highway system he's got a plan to literally spend more money than we've ever spent to finally build a true station system that's ready for this economy and we need to do what obama wants to do which is put the money to work and under his program six seven million americans will go to work which in this economy could sure use it definitely a good thing at banks like europe but there's resentment from gang government to hostage house republicans have made the one hundred of congress one of the least productive and by far the most unpopular in the history of america and of they'll

be asking move voters to keep them in the majority so can you think of one good reason why we the people should oblige i can't. over the past couple of weeks pink slime has been all the rage pink slime is that so-called meat filler that's made from portions of col meat that aren't even good enough for dogs and let's not forget. these pieces of meat are often filled with dangerous bacteria so they have to be washed down with ammonium hydroxide the same chemical found in common floor cleaners in light of the recent revelations over the less than healthy pinks line stores and restaurants across the nation pulled it from their shelves and their menus however conservative lobbying groups like the national media says he asian argue there's nothing wrong with that chili pink stuff there's just this there's a regular rate and one of the biggest producers and supporters of pink slime is the beef is a company called beef products incorporated headed up by olden rock who is a major donor to none other than mitt romney in fact romney is collected nearly two hundred thousand bucks in the pigs non-industry joining me now to debate the merits

of pink slime and why mitt romney wants us all to eat it is david cellared conservative commentator and pro-business aggregate david welcome back thanks for having me tom as always it's a pleasure thank you david why do you hate say food. listen i don't hate seafood the fact of the matter this the actual product isn't discussed thing it's the unappetising sobriquet pink slime that's so disgusting but it's very subjective you know like think of pickled pigs feet ok way down in dixieland they love it but jewish people and muslims would find that same products unappetizing but if you ever ate one has been around anybody eating pickled pigs feet you know that people there's actually some meat there that people eat around and then they're left with the gristle pink slime is the gristle it's the stuff that you can't you couldn't chew if it wasn't sliced and diced down to the level of of almost molecular you

know they they grind it so finally because there's no possible way you could chew it. you know it's amazing even with what you just said assuming that's correct the u.s.d.a. went ahead and they put their imprimatur on that and you know i remember when the president sort of weaseled his way around the senate during recess so we could point that elizabeth hagen to be the nation's top food safety post she was regulating meat poultry and all these other tasty morsels where she and all of this you know there has been an i pointed an awful lot of people to the u.s.d.a. and there was the u.s.d.a. civil rights initiative there was some high profile lesbians there was very qualified. other individuals and not one of them said anything you know they should really resign if this is so bad did i handed them the pink menace. this was

actually brought to us courtesy of a woman by the name of joanne smith. who was appointed by george herbert walker bush and in the last hours of the george h.w. bush administration as as undersecretary of the u.s.d.a. authorize the government to start iraq or offer to authorize the need companies to start calling what used to be called gristle only useful for dog food or words to that effect start calling this finely ground beef and thus we got a pink slime and then she went just a matter of few weeks later i'm sorry i don't have exact number here but she went to work for beef products inc the company that i just mentioned that you know is giving money to the romney campaign we're just manufacturing slime and she's made over a million bucks there i mean isn't it good for us but i got to tell you tucker her george h. bush has been out of office for a long time george w. bush has been out of office for such a long time and the obama administration couldn't write that wrong never mind the

unemployment and underemployment ok never mind the fact that we're being overrun by illegal aliens and all the other problems that we're i think the obama administration has been dealing with that the day you know grok obama has some most of them with a drone never mind any of those things they couldn't stop they were these lies the obama administration has has. this is the guy who killed osama bin ladin you're saying here you're trying to improvise i'm going to see her muslim number one number two there have been more doing what he's been told you did but i will say if you allow this to continue in other words pointing the blame where it doesn't belong and accepting this sort of malarkey and i would remind your viewing audience that because of this i believe something like six hundred fifty people up in the lead off and these aren't those millionaires of billionaires that you're always railing to these people maybe saying surprising people from some job he's a variable having rating that check coming to support their family for a day when they go on the dole watch television very much for being with us tonight it. hey thanks a lot someone's always

a pleasure thanks from pink slime to paint balls coming up and ideally take life as rick santorum may think paul's and what might his verities a formal fall be a really tell us. if we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old until the truth. i'm a contestant i'm a total get of friends that i love rap and hip hop music and. she was kind of yesterday. i'm very proud of the world without you she has played. the game. the. little.

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you stay placid planet earth. it's thursday survivor deep the science let's get the casting you know that spice that gives indian curry its kick it's called tumor and inside tumor it is this amazing bio additive compound called kirk human for centuries curriculum has been used in medicine to treat actions wounds and other health problems it's even been shown to help treat long and breast cancers but now researchers at michigan state university of found her human is also able to prevent the destructive formation in the brain of alpha sin so nuclei in proteins which show up it apparently cause many neurodegenerative diseases like parkinson's and alzheimer's team of

researchers led by bassir found that the alpha synuclein proteins are the cause of clumping or aggregation which is the first step in your degenerative diseases according to liesl pettus and associate professor of physics and astronomy at m.s. you the research shows that there are cumin binds to the alpha synuclein proteins and prevents them from clumping at body temperatures. and in another key part of the research that the team conducted was showing how proteins are built a process called folding the team of researchers was able to shed some light unfolding by determining the speed at which proteins fold and their tendency to clump together with other proteins when kirk human attaches to alpha synuclein proteins it stops them from clumping but also raises the proteins folding rate by increasing the folding rate her cumin allows the protein to avoid clumping with other proteins of her cumin looks really promising for the treatment of alzheimer's and parkinson's two of america's most common diseases as is quick to point out the

curriculums usefulness as a natural drug may be limited since it doesn't go into the brain easily where this misfolded in proteins is taking place other researchers however of found that by simply adding a helper to tumour it there cumin becomes a vastly more bio bio available just like in curry the fact that a spice that is going around for centuries and is a staple of our entire diet could help in preventing to debilitate into the deadly diseases is remarkable so the next time you complain about how spicy indian food is just remember might be helping you live a longer and healthier life. just. the. it's the good the bad and the very very end if they grapple it's way ugly they're

good jim yong kim in an op ed in thursday's financial times the u.s. domini for world bank president wrote that he would aim to lift the poorest people of the world out of poverty by forty economic growth and poor in developing countries he also said that it's clear that we can eradicate global poverty and achieve in our lifetimes what for generations has been a distant dream and of course over three billion people in the world live on less than two dollars per day or eradicating poverty in our lifetimes may seem like a lofty goal it's time we work for women and the wealth gap that exists in society who goes to mr camp looking out for the most vulnerable citizens of our planet the bad. bank of america c.e.o. brian moynihan one hand was given a seven point five million dollars pay package for last year twenty six times as much as in two thousand and ten he didn't mind he got this enormous payoff for all the company's stock was tumbling and losing its status as the largest bank in the

country oh and let's not forget according to whistleblowers one hand is the head of a bank intentionally blocking troubled homeowners from getting mortgages bank of america was also hit last year with charges that discriminated against minorities in its lending practices so what happens when you're the c.e.o. of one of the most corrupt corporations in american history you get millions or billions of dollars something bird wrong tree. and the very very ugly supreme court justice antonin scalia during yesterday's final day of oral arguments over obamacare school eocene a maine someone we expect and the rest of the court to read over the entire text of the health care law and referred to that as a cruel and unusual punishment his deputy solicitor general ed would need were followed by justice scalia. just to answer a question that several justices have asked we think that separate billeted is a matter of statutory interpretation and should be resolved by looking at the

structure and the text of the act and the court may look at legislative history to figure out what the text and structure i mean with respect to severability we've got you could what happened to the eighth amendment you really want to stay go through these two thousand seven hundred pages. and you really expect a court. to do you expect this to just to give this search function to one more clerks if it is this not totally unrealistic it we're going to go through this it's going to spill item by item and decide each one after all he's a king right basically the conservative king of the court is too lazy to read through one of the most important and ground breaking laws in american history the fate of pithy three million uninsured americans now rests in the hands of the supreme court justices and say are too lazy to give a lot of consideration needs that very very.

santorum did it again this time letting his homophobia loose to ruin a perfectly good bowling match according to a reuters reporter who was on the scene santorum made a campaign stop it was constant bowling alley on wednesday. where he chastised a young boy for using a paint bowling ball as reporter sam youngman relayed the conversation santorum said to the young boy you're going to use the paint ball we're not going to let you do that now on camera friends don't let friends use pain balls i think we actually have a photo of that kind of thing roll here on the friends don't let friends use after all if a young boy ends up using a pink bowling ball of that age they may grow up and end up doing something like this with the same pink ball rumor has it that the pink ball went on to marry a dog after the bowling match and while friends don't let friends use paint balls

friends do let friends wear pink ties the human rights campaign jumped on santorum is a latest homophobic rant by releasing a statement saying this is another example of rick santorum intentionally making ignorant statements that have a real impact on l.g.b. teen people he does have enough to worry about they don't need rick santorum telling them that using a pink bowling ball is a bad thing so from comparing same sex relationships to sodomy incest to saying that ending don't ask don't tell amounts to social experimentation in our military to now telling little kids they can't use pink bowling balls rick santorum is proving himself to be the ultimate. according to science homophobes not only have a tendency to be obsessed with gays in public they're also usually obsessed with gays in private something to think about as rick santorum takes his anti-gay tour around the nation as actress and musician katie goodman and her broad comedy troupe

exposing the dark secret about homophobia in america.

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