New Year's Resolutions, Not My Opinion and Happy New Year!  We are back; this is just the first of many new podcasts in Season 3 of Facts on the Ground.

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We reflect on the practice of companies exploiting the sacrifice of our soldiers to make a buck.

This time we talk about whether the Bible has to be completely, 100% the inspired word of God, or worthless.  Is there a middle ground?

Our response to Osama Bin Laden's death, and thinking of yourself as a "good person."

We talk about different contexts where people hear what they want to hear instead of what we say.  The Budget (US), Unions, Education Reform, we talk about it all on this episode.

Here's the link to the citizen's united video we mentioned in the podcast:  http://storyofstuff.org/citizensunited/

 

This whole site is worth checking out.  Lots of good information.

Check out Brightsided by Barbara Ehrenreich.

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In this post-holiday time, here is an episode we recorded back in the early part of December about Annie Leonard's Story of Stuff.  Please check out her website at:  http://storyofstuff.com/

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Please boycott Amazon.com for selling pro-pedophilia books. 

 

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/pedophilia-book-pulled-controversy-amazon/story?id=12133451

 

And let's think about how we can evaluate what the most significant events of the past year are.

In today's episode we discuss the book "Being Wrong" by Kathryn Schulz.  Kent admits an error in thinking.  Is it arrogant to say that you should try to gently disappoint someone every day? 

 

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This is a question we got from the book "Godless" by Dan Barker.  He asks Christians when he debates them if they would kill him if God told them to.  A surprising number are not sure.

A refutation of various arguments against god heard at the first annual Project 42 conference held in Fargo.

 

 

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Here is the link to the Freethinker Convention: http://www.project42convention.org/

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Here is a link to the treaty article that we used:

http://www.startribune.com/sports/outdoors/93346194.html

 

 

Here's a link to a wiki article about this case:

http://www.scotuswiki.com/index.php?title=Christian_Legal_Society_v._Martinez

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This is the first of at least 3 podcasts about Health Care Reform in the US.  In this one, we define Communism in an attempt to discredit the idea that the legislation we just passed is Communism.  Stay tuned for more on Health Care.

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Here's a link to the podcasts we mentioned in the podcast:

 

http://www.therationalradical.com/podcast.html

http://www.truthdriventhinking.com/TDT2alcohol.pdf

 

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Here's a site with really good statistics about abortion in the US:

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html

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Here's a link to that story about Todd Gilly that Kent was referencing:  http://www.startribune.com/local/69927477.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiacyKUnciatkEP7DhUr

and here's a link to the story about the Harvard Law professor:  http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/07/harvard.html

Here's the book Kent mentioned in the first segment:
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Impact-Highly-Improbable/dp/1400063515

Here's a pretty good site on Mendelian Genetics, if you want more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_%28genetics%29

Here's a book for further reading about the confusion of American culture and Christianity by Greg Boyd:
http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Christian-Nation-Political-Destroying/dp/0310267315/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257721735&sr=1-1

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Here are some links from our most recent podcast:

http://www.heritage.org/research/tradeandforeignaid/wm630.cfm

http://www.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=publication_details&id=1183

http://www.fraserinstitute.org/commerce.web/product_files/generosity.pdf

Please see this wiki site for more information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants

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Inaugural episode of Facts on the Ground Podcast. Issues covered in this episode include meeting a friend on a trip to china, shouting "You lie!" to the President, and why evolution doesn't break the 2nd law of thermodynamics.