Columbia Dies over Texas: story by radio host Thom Hartmann

[Ian David]

Run time: 04:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYiuqlixc-k   Posted on YouTube: May 11, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 15, 2008 By DU Member: Ian David Views on DU: 1821

 
May 09 2008 show notes

* "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.
* Guest: Medea Benjamin, Code Pink, just back from Jordan and Syria where she spoke with Iraqi mothers.
* Farm subsidies. "Columbia Dies over Texas". The goddess Columbia".
* Guest: U.S. Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ, 12th District). His recent trip to Iraq.

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.

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Farm subsidies. When the space shuttle disintegrated over Texas, there was a farm subsidy for those who found pieces. Thom {told} the story of how, when he was immersed in Jefferson research, he saw the headline "Columbia Dies over Texas" he at first thought Bush had somehow killed the Goddess of America. He told how Columbia became the Goddess of America. She's on top of the Capitol building, and with scales as the Lady Liberty that John Ashcroft covered over. Why DC has no representatives.

More:
http://www.thomhartmann.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=741&Itemid=113


Columbia (name)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Personification of Columbia, from a Columbia Records phonograph cylinder package.

Columbia (IPA: /kəˈlʌmbiə/) is the first popular and poetic name for the United States of America; it is also the origin of the name for the District of Columbia, the federal district which is coextensive with the federal capital, Washington. Columbia is a feminine form derived from Christopher Columbus, one of the first Europeans to explore the Americas after the Vikings. The moniker dates from before the American Revolution in 1776 but fell out of use in the early 20th century.

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In this painting (circa 1872) by John Gast, called American Progress, Columbia - as a personification of the United States in the implementation of Manifest Destiny - leads civilization westward with American settlers, stringing telegraph wire as she travels; she holds a schoolbook. The different economic activities of the pioneers are highlighted and, especially, the changing forms of transportation. The Indians and wild animals flee.

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(name)



See also:

How Washington, D.C., got its name
http://www.geocities.com/bobarnebeck/name.html


See also:

Columbia: American Goddess
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f34fIpTwEyw

[Xipe Totec]

1. Destroyed directly over Palestine, Texas

While the US prepared to invade Iraq under the pretext that Iraq was supporting terrorism, notably through payments to families of Palestinian suicide bombers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparations_for_2003_invasion_of_Iraq

[whistle]

2. I did not know that story about Lady Liberty a.k.a. the Goddess Columbia

...thanks for this post

[cynthia]

3. interesting photos too

thanks for posting this