Century. And especially lay consumer culture. We talked about the motor behind the story, and i think we settled on one word. Desire. Desire was the kind of engine with the story. Wanting what you cant have. Always being able to see what is ahead of you that is elusive that youre trying to grasp. And thats what makes things happen in the novel. Remember that carrie is never satisfied. And recall the department store, right . Where he felt as he tells us the claim of each trinket and valuable upon her personally. We talked a little bit too about the moral of the story. A moral for the 20th ench ri maybe that there is no moral, right . Things happen to people. Good things happen to bad people, right . People arent punished for bad deeds. In fact sometimes like carrie, theyre rewarded. So what he8f kind of Success Story at vik torn period. That victorian ladder of virtue. The changing of fortunes was not the result of strong character or even of planning and preparedness. Think back to th
Why we are going to have a supposedly Freedom Summit with this guy. I appreciate your time. The politico newspaper story on this event from steve king and the democrats looking to highlight some of his views on immigration talks about some of the issues you bring up across the street from todays event. A press conference to call on republicans to condemn kings statements on immigration. They note that king is compared to undocumented immigrants king has compared undocumented immigrants to dogs. Some of his statements on immigration. Office of left bob is up next on the line for independents. Good morning. Caller i wanted to make a comment about the summit today. I am an African American independent. I have been watching the republicans on some of the cable networks. I have been watching some of the republicans that come on some of the cable networks, and it seems like to me that republicans im sure an assignment today is going to be dealing with bashing the president and his policy as
Said, investments in Early Childhood education pay big dividends but states often dont require that. You also recognize that white there may be a cap on ensuring that only the students with the most severe cognitive disabilities are classified as such schools now will use various methods to allow more students to be classified as having disabilities for purposes of avoiding a kind of rigorous adherence to standards that we would like. 6. 4 million kids with disabilities in the country. And what we have found i mean, obviously those living in poverty would have a huge problem. Well what we have found from the draft that we have seen. And by the way, im drawing this from a council on parent attorneys and advocates representing persons with disabilities and from organizations representing persons with disabilities within the leadership conference. And they have really stressed the importance of trying to adhere to standards because what they have seen is students with disabilities are oft
And it was an attempt as a professor at the university of chicago i came back from the meeting piaster i had been and i told him that i had been called by hayek to try to bring together some believers in free and open in society to have them to have interchange with one another. He said reading of the veterans of the wars of the 20th century. [laughter] i thought that was wonderful and we were fostering is essentially the same set of ideas. The road to serfdom published 50 years ago, was really an amazing event when it came out. It is hard to remember now what the attitude was 1944. The Movement Toward centralization, planning, it also started with a society late 19th century with George Bernard shaw. And so on. But the war itself you have to have government control. But after the war you needed a rational plan and, organized society that was the atmosphere. Those of us who did not agree with 19th century liberalism works for quite a number of us. But for the rest of the world they wer
The Police Charged at them with Water Cannons. Shouldnt the government know this much that at least our rate will not be our rates will not be washed with Water Cannons . Then another New York Times expose on the safety conditions of the bangladeshi factory or a fire killed at least 111 workers. The factory made clothes for walmart. How the factory caught fire, i dont know that. When we heard fire, we were all turned get out of the factory. One of the workers pulled me through a broken window. We will speak with steve greenhouse, his latest piece is, as walmart makes safety vows, its seen as obstacle to change. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. U. S. Drone strikes have killed 15 people in pakistan including a taliban commander, according to officials there. Mavi nazir was killed along several other people in the strike in south missouri stand wednesday night. A second strike this morning in north was har