Truth Seekers Podcast
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Part 2 of weeding through the health care debate, which has turned into a part 1 of 2 on it's own!

Lazy show notes... will fill in the blanks later today or this evening!
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Update: Fillin' in the blanks:

- Matt Taibbi talks about his new article on health care in Rolling Stone Magazine
- who knew "Hitler" was a buzz word?
- headlines from Democracy Now
- More from Matt
- Feedback:
 - Nobilis gives me another angle
 - Michael thinks any sort of real reform just isn't going to happen
- SO glad it's not my job to read that damn bill
- Balanced sites for health care information:
 - Fact Check
 - Politifact
- Some of the lies floating around:
 - covering abortions
 - Death panels
- Bill Maher has some thoughts about Sarah Palin and Facebook
- More falsehoods, like health care for illegal immigrants
- and once more from Matt, and why he thinks this bill won't work

I cut this off halfway through, but there is plenty more to talk about and will be up within the next week. Thanks for listening!

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Direct download: ts79pod.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:20 PM
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Health care. That's what it's all about this episode, which is really a part one because there is just SO much to cover on the topic. I bring out my inner socialist in this one, which I'm sure will make me many friends...

-Promo: Tunnel Scene Blog
-Summer, it can be over now.
-Headlines
-Myths Concerning Canadian Health Care
-Dani starts reading the health care bill, and goes crazy.
-Link to the bill for your own light reading
-Things to point out in the first 50 pages
-5 Freedoms we could lose under this plan
-Link to forum topic
-Would this really be as big of a problem if we just took the market out of it?
-Who does the government work for? You and me.
-Bill Kristol loves government health care! If it's good enough for the troops, it must be awesome!

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Next time: Uncovering some of the lies out there regarding the health care bill. Things that are just plain not true, yet no one (at least in the mainstream) calls them out on it.


Direct download: ts78pod.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 7:15 PM
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