Greetings, you're listening to Podcasts No. 140 of Blast the Right.

I'm your host Jack Clark, great to have you on board.

Today we'll start off the new year with some questions you can use as conversation starters

for those special right-wingers in your life.

They won't know what hit them.

Let's get right into it.

Perhaps you have a regular debating partner at the Watercooler, and you want to start off

2009 by rocking them back on their heels.

Or maybe there's a right-winger you've been meaning to engage in dialogue, but just haven't had a good icebreaker for.

Old right-winger, new right-winger, doesn't matter.

Jack to the rescue.

Here are five questions you can pick and choose from.

All guaranteed to set you up for a nice argumentation victory over that special person of the right-word persuasion.

The questions encompass the areas of consumer safety, health care, human development,

economic power, and the survival of our very democracy.

Sound intriguing?

Here you go, question number one.

Are you happy that one-third of the toys sold in the U.S. are contaminated with dangerous chemicals harmful to children?

Sources for this question are the environmental, new service, and the New York Times.

Chemicals like lead, mercury, cadmium, and arsenic, quote, have been associated with reproductive problems, developmental and learning disabilities, hormone problems, and cancer.

Close quote, or have been singled out by regulatory agencies as problematic.

Well, a Michigan non-profit, the Ecology Center, tested 1,500 toys this holiday season.

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