Who is that weird broad Thom Hartmann's talking with?

[devilgrrl]

Sounds like she's trying to say that Toxic Sludge is good for us. Who is she and who does she work for?

[SouthernDem2004]

1. The feminist are gonna love you. :)

[devilgrrl]

3. I regularly regard myself as a broad and I'm proud of it!

Do these "Feminists" have names?

[longship]

2. I like Hartmann, but only sometimes

He's very good when he does his Lunch with Bernie segment on Friday. I quickly turn him off at the least indication that he'd going to go into one of his shameful, self-promoting lectures.

[The2ndWheel]

4. Competitive Enterprise Institute

http://www.cei.org/

http://www.cei.org/dyn/view_Expert.cfm?Expert=31

I think that was her. I'm blanking on the name at the moment.

[devilgrrl]

6. Angela Logomasini

Do you know anything about this organization?

[punpirate]

7. It's the American Enterprise Institute...

... on steroids. They're very big on chanting free market mantras and demanding government do them favors. I've heard the founder, Fred Smith, talk, and in the dictionary, under "asshole," it says, "see Fred Smith." Under "arrogant," it says, see "asshole."

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Competitive_Enterprise_Institute

They're basically an anti-environmental, anti-regulatory front group for big business.

Cheers.

[The2ndWheel]

8. Well they say they

advance liberty, so obviously they must be good.

http://www.cei.org/pages/about.cfm

http://www.prwatch.org/improp/cei.html

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Competitive_Enterprise_Institute#Funding

But that's just a quick search. Other than they're one of the many think tanks that have been developed over the last few decades by billions of dollars being invested into "the advance of freedom, democracy, and liberty", I don't know much else, other than what's been written.

http://www.cei.org/pages/board.cfm

Haven't checked out every bio, but the ones that I did, have all written for the Washington Times.

They have Michael S. Greve from AEI, so...

Just seems to be another in the long line of institutions that see 6 billion people as tradable commodities, willing to set up a system in which we all fight against each other for our next meal, which will be thankfully given to us by our superior overlords.

[Kurovski]

5. Don't some companies sell sludge as fertilizer?

maybe she's part of that action.