Meet The New Press Podcasts - 6/30/07
Podcasts
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Hour 1
Intro - Quick notes on Global Cooling and effect on arable land, ethanol effects on food
prices, robotic vegetable pickers
Jorge Mesa-Tejada - SB2, the road from Columbia to American Citizenship, the old (and
better rules) for immigration, Rule of Law, Sanctuary State, absolute vs relative
moralism, result of "picking and choosing" laws to not enforce, the loss of common
values
Dawn Lincoln - NH Liberty Alliance - rating NH Reps and Senators to see if, by analyzing
their votes on bills, if they increase or decrease the the "amount" of personal liberty.
discussion of "good ideas" by nanny-staters encroaching on personal liberty,
"freedom" is all about who makes the behavior decisions for individuals (gov't or the
person) - minimum wages, seatbelts, insurance, the effect of taxes / fees on
personal liberty,
Hour 2
Concord Monitor - (MP3, article)
More with Jorge - the need for common language and values for a functional society vs
personal "rights", "leave" the "old country", dysfunctional State Dept., potential danger
of translators, why doesn't the US act like other countries - immigrants must be able to
communicate with the majority, Anglosphere,
John Hawkins of RightWingNews - defeating the amnesty immigration bill (clay pigeon, the
effect of blogger bill analysis, constituent calls crashed the Senate phone system,
analogy of old style to new style politics to mainframe to minicomputer to PCs to
paralled processing), Blue Star Mom's email for Duncan Hunter question of Captured /
Missing back to POW/MIA, Chamber of Commerce crowd and illegal immigration (the
CoC sticking the social costs of illegals upon taxpayers to get cheap labor)
Catching Doug off guard.
Still more with Jorge - Marine Corps (esprit d'corps, a society that is diverse yet is
successful because it has a common set of values)
person on the phone - that audio is not yet available to the SchlubCam - we're working on
it! This will be sometime soon - it is 2 hours long and 700MB in size.....
