Daily Topics - Friday February 10th, 2012
By shawnt56
Thom challenges guests from the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.
Anything Goes on Townhall Friday
Hour One: "Brunch With Bernie" - Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) takes your calls
Hour Two: Keystone XL Pipeline...it's back - Charles Drevna, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers / Plus, is Prop 8 unconstitutional? Dr. John Eastman, National Organization for Marriage
Hour Three: CPAC, the TSA and "Dispatches From Bitter America" - Todd Starnes, Fox News & Commentary
Comments
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Marriage not for procreation? Gay couples could get married in order to adopt children together.
#3
The concept that Thom mentioned of marriage being between a rapist and his victim in Biblical times goes even deeper than he said. There's a part of the Bible that allows a war bride to divorce her husband under some circumstance on the presumption that the husband raped her. So the Bible condones the marriage, and because of the aforementioned presumption, it also condones spousal rape.
Trump is Broke: Has He Already Sold Out America To Get the Money He Needs?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Back in the day, Donald Trump's niece alleges, he stole hundreds of millions of dollars from his father's estate, screwing his other family members and the IRS (you and me).He then went on a massive spending binge, pouring that money into airlines, steaks, vodka, Trump-branded games, casinos, a fake university, etc. Virtually all of them failed, and he experienced multiple bankruptcies.
Images of Thom
Thom & Louise at a "private audience" with His Holiness Pope John Paul II at his summer palace, Castle Gandolfo, Italy
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"Thom Hartmann channels the best of the American Founders with voice and pen. His deep attachment to a democratic civil society is just the medicine America needs."
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"Thom Hartmann is a literary descendent of Ben Franklin and Tom Paine. His unflinching observations and deep passion inspire us to explore contemporary culture, politics, and economics; challenge us to face the facts of the societies we are creating; and empower us to demand a better world for our children and grandchildren."
From Unequal Protection, 2nd Edition:
"If you wonder why and when giant corporations got the power to reign supreme over us, here’s the story."
Catholics restrict how paycheck spent?
The Catholic church's restrictions on contraception has been viewed as women's rights, health, or religious issues; but there might be another way of looking at it. I don't know all the particulars and whether this applies; but employer-provided health care is an employee benefit, it's part of an employee's compensation. So, in a way isn't the Catholic church ---based on religious beliefs--- trying to restrict what women can use their compensation/paychecks for?
Dan From Mira Mesa (San Diego)