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Time to ban Giant Spaghetti Monster law?
On Tuesday, Oklahomans approved a ballot initiative that would forbid judges in the state from using Sharia law to consider a case. Voters supported the measure by about 40 points even though many of them cannot name a single instance where Sharia law was used to rule in a case – that’s because it's never happened in Oklahoma– or any other state in the country for that matter. On top of that, Islam isn’t even that prevalent in the state – out of a population of 3.7 million, there are only 15,000 Muslims there. Still, voters found the need to hit the polls to make sure this non-existent threat was stopped before it’s too late. Maybe that’s because in wake of the “ground zero mosque” controversy, certain media outlets and entrepreneurs have made quite a profit off promoting Islamophobia – “they’re coming to subvert our government.” This scare tactic has resonated around the country in places like Murfreesboro, Tennessee where it’s nearly impossible for Muslim Americans to get approval in to build a place of worship – basically shredding the First Amendment. While Oklahoma has never been a victim of Islamic terrorism – it was notably the site where Timothy McVeigh – a Roman Catholic – blew up the Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City. Yet there was no rush by voters to discriminate against Catholicism afterward. Since the Sharia law ballot measure passed by a wide margin – it’s likely other states will follow with initiatives of their own. Not sure which state will be first to forbid courts from considering the laws of the Giant Spaghetti Monster.
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Tonight: Boehner says work til you're 70 (to pay for tax cuts for the rich)...should we take to the streets like the French? Thom debates conservative Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute...
Plus: "Sharia Hysteria Comes To Oklahoma: Voters Approve Sharia Law Ban"...why is the right wing spreading fear again??? Corey Saylor with the Council On American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will be here |
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Quote: "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." -- John F. Kennedy.
Hour One: Best of the Rest of the News.
Hour One: Having fought corporate money, advice for candidates in 2012? with Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR, 4th District).
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Hour Three: Economy in the age of a Boehner led House with Dr. Ravi Batra, Professor of Economics at Southern Methodist University (SMU); "internationally bestselling author" of "The New Golden Age" and "Greenspan's Fraud" as well as many other books.
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Enable manufacturers to compete internationally
What we have in America today is a trend of higher profits for insurance companies, higher premiums for employers and employees and an increasing number of small business owners and entrepreneurs worrying about the health care costs of doing business.
But in every other First World country (and many that are considered below that threshold, like Costa Rica), entrepreneurs don’t have to take such risks. And the result is that the United States is being hammered in the area of innovation by countries that have stronger social safety nets. The Economist magazine, in April 2009, published a study sponsored by Cisco Systems titled “A New Ranking of the World’s Most Innovative Countries.”
The year the study was done, every country in the top 20, including No. 19, Slovenia, had a national health care system that covers every citizen regardless of employment – except the United States. Japan, Switzerland, and Finland beat us out, and right on our heels were Sweden, Germany, Taiwan, and The Netherlands. The study noted, “The high rank for three small wealthy European states reflects the fact that their economic, social and political conditions favour innovation. … The slippage of the US confirms the gradual erosion in recent years of that country’s traditional position as the world’s technological leader – a trend we expect to continue.”
The country that brought the world Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse and Andrew Carnegie has now slid in innovation, in part because of our lack of a strong social safety net.
Learn more about how to make it easier for American manufacturers to compete internationally again in chapter five, "Medicare “Part E” – For Everybody" of " Rebooting the American Dream" (On Kindle too) |
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Economic expectations hit rock bottom
"The outlook for Democrats in the November election is not looking so good for the party. One factor is the economy, with unemployment steadily remaining over 9 percent, and the Obama administration unable to turn things around. Some are calling it a cruel summer for Democrats. Radio host Thom Hartmann said republicans are playing hardball and they will do anything to destroy a Democratic president. He also explained that democracy itself wouldn’t be able to survive if the Tea Party were in charge."
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