Daily Topics - Tuesday March 26th, 2013
By shawnt56
Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm ET M-F!
Hour One: SCOTUS-Prop 8 review - Shane Farnan, Talk Radio News Service / Plus, "The Top 10 Harms of Same Sex Marriage" - Peter Spriggs, Family Research Council
Hour Two: Has Kim Jong Un seen "Olympus Has Fallen?"
Hour Three: Healthcare lottery...may the odds be forever in your favor
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Something caller Wayne said is interesting. He doesn't want government to tell him what he has to do for other people. As an aspiring science fiction writer, I've been working on a fictional constitution, whose preamble mentions the right to do as one will in the absence of obligation to society. Paying your taxes is the basic way of fulfilling one's obligation to society. And the use of that money on welfare programs (those that work) is how government fulfills its part of the process. People like Wayne just seem to want no responsibilities, but that's not how life works unless you're a hermit.
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Thom & Louise at a "private audience" with His Holiness Pope John Paul II at his summer palace, Castle Gandolfo, Italy
From Unequal Protection, 2nd Edition:
"Beneath the success and rise of American enterprise is an untold history that is antithetical to every value Americans hold dear. This is a seminal work, a godsend really, a clear message to every citizen about the need to reform our country, laws, and companies."
From Screwed:
"Hartmann speaks with the straight talking clarity and brilliance of a modern day Tom Paine as he exposes the intentional and systematic destruction of America’s middle class by an alliance of political con artists and outlines a program to restore it. This is Hartmann at his best. Essential reading for those interested in restoring the institution that made America the envy of the world."
From Screwed:
"Thom Hartmann’s book explains in simple language and with concrete research the details of the Neo-con’s war against the American middle class. It proves what many have intuited and serves to remind us that without a healthy, employed, and vital middle class, America is no more than the richest Third World country on the planet."
Not only have most Christians not read the Bible, but most aren't deep enough thinkers to examine basic facts of their belief. The imminence of Easter provides an extra reason for me to bring this up now: Most Christians think that Jesus was dead for three days, even though it's actually only 36 hours from sunset on Friday to sunrise on Sunday. They're off by a factor of 2.
The unexamined belief is not worth believing.