- Carl and Christine from the morning show on KPOJ guest host today.
- Quote: "It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it." - Eleanor Roosevelt.
- Guests:
- Stephen Kanter, Law Professor, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR.
- Award winning American documentary film maker Ken Burns.
- Lauren Weber, author of "In CHEAP We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue".
- Ellen Ratner of Talk Radio News.
- Topics:
- New SCOTUS session and the cases they'll be reviewing.
- "The National Parks: America's best idea".
- "In cheap we trust".
- Bumper Music:
- Lawyers, Guns and Money, Warren Zevon (video).
- The Gambler, Kenny Rogers (video).
- Jai Ho, A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire Soundtrack. (video)
- Magick, Ryan Adams (video).
- Rockin' in the Free World, Neil Young.
- Listen To The Radio, Nanci Griffith.
- Pocket Full Of Sunshine, Natasha Bedingfield (video).
- Call Me, Blondie (video).
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
- Today's newsletter has details of today's guests and links to the major stories and alerts that Thom covered in the show, plus lots more. If you haven't signed up for the free newsletter yet, please do. If you missed today's newsletter, it is in the archive.
- Clip: "Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Speaker of the House Of Representatives, and Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-MD., House Majority Leader, hold a media availability on health care legislation".
"We're in the midst of a very exciting House Democratic caucus, where we're getting down -- as I said, I'm a Marylander, so I always have these racing -- I think we're going around the bend. We're not in the stretch yet, but we're coming around the bend, and we have to make our decision about what form the public option will be in the bill. There will be a public option in the bill.
The principles that members have to decide this on are: middle -- middle-class affordability, security for our seniors, and responsibility to our children, that as we do this, we must come up -- it has to add up to zero, so that it is deficit-neutral and there is no additional debt heaped onto our children.
It must come within what the president has called for, $900 billion in coverage. It must be paid for. It must reduce cost over time. And so we're very near to some of our final -- well, decisions needed for us to send something to the CBO that will inform how we go forward.
I'm very excited about the fact that members want reform, that they have all been constructive in the conversation about it, and that they're all reaching for consensus on it."
- Carl's Mystery Buttons.
- Article: "New Oklahoma law will publicly post details of women’s abortions online" by Amanda Terkel.
On Nov. 1, a law in Oklahoma will go into effect that will collect personal details about every single abortion performed in the state and post them on a public website. Implementing the measure will “cost $281,285 the first year and $256,285 each subsequent year.” Here are the first eight questions that women will have to reveal:1. Date of abortion
2. County in which abortion performed
3. Age of mother
4. Marital status of mother
(married, divorced, separated, widowed, or never married)
5. Race of mother
6. Years of education of mother
(specify highest year completed)
7. State or foreign country of residence of mother
8. Total number of previous pregnancies of the mother
Live Births
Miscarriages
Induced Abortions
