(2011/12/05) The meaning of life (Feminism Adjacent)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 6 December 2011
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Edition #554
The meaning of life
I'm organizing a monthly Dinner & a Movie event on the north side of Chicago! First event is Dec 13th, check out the details: www.facebook.com/events/301053213258551
Act 1: Right Wing Wants to Occupy Your Womb in Mississippi - Majority Report Air Date: 11-7-11
Song 1: Living in America - James Brown
Act 2: Should Women Flaunt It at Work for Fun - Profit - David Pakman Air Date: 8-30-11
Song 2: Parade - Pretty Girls Make Graves
Act 3: Mississippi's Repressive Initiative 26 - The Progressive Air Date: 11-7-11
Song 3: Girls - The Beastie Boys
Act 4: Lactate Intolerance - Daily Show Air Date: 8-11-11
Song 4: Suffer - Stretford End
Act 5: Mississippi Personhood Crazy Implications - Majority Report Air Date: 11-8-11
Song 5: Complicated - Avril Lavigne
Act 6: NYC Mandating Sex Ed For Students - Young Turks
Song 6: Loser like me - Glee Cast
Act 7: Rise In Teen Sexual Activity Comes As Surprise To Area Teen - The Onion
Song 7: The way I feel is sexual - Amber
Act 8: Let Mississippi be the Petri dish for Right Wing Craziness - Majority Report Air Date: 11-8-11
Song 8: Animal - Miike Snow
Act 9: Gloria Steinem - Colbert Report Air Date: 8-11-11
Song 9: Pretty - The Cranberries
Act 10: Mississippi Votes No on Radical Anti-Choice Contraception Personhood Amendment - David Pakman Air Date: 11-10-11
Song 10: Fantasy - Anya Marina
Act 11: Area Kindergartner Tackles The Shit Out Of Dream Girl - The Onion
Song 11: As long as the grass grows - Randy Wood
Act 12: Satan Wins in Mississippi Personhood Vote - Majority Report Air Date: 11-9-11
Song 12: Stop breaking down - The White Stripes
Act 13: Pregnancy Centers Lying to Women, Tell Jewish Women She Needs to Convert - David Pakman Air Date: 10-27-11
Voicemails:
Thoughts on police actions during crowd control - Policeman Jeff from Florida
It's the politicians job to fix the problems - Alex from Texas
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Final Comments on how the Occupy Movement is headed towards a horizon rather than a point
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.6 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with clips today from the majority |
| 0:12.8 | report, The David Pakman Show, The Progressive, The Daily Show, The Young Turks, The Onion |
| 0:17.0 | Radio News, and The Colbert Report with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android |
| 0:21.6 | app users also from The Colbert Report. |
| 0:30.1 | Let's get to that Mississippi parent personhood law. |
| 0:36.2 | Well, these bat-crap crazy right-wingers are added again, ladies and gentlemen, |
| 0:42.9 | in an attempt to exercise their control over women's bodies, |
| 0:51.3 | right-wingers in Mississippi, and in that I conclude |
| 0:58.3 | the Democrat who is running for governor there. |
| 1:02.8 | These backward-ass people in Mississippi, |
| 1:09.5 | tomorrow, November 8th, they will vote on a change to their constitution |
| 1:16.8 | to declare fertilized human eggs to be a legal person. |
| 1:24.8 | So abortion, well, that's murder, because you're killing a person. |
| 1:32.8 | Are you these? |
| 1:35.8 | Yeah, birth control? |
| 1:38.1 | Well, that's murder, because you're keeping a fertilized egg from becoming a person. |
| 1:45.9 | Or I guess, no, not from becoming a person. |
| 1:49.1 | A fertilized egg is a person. |
| 1:52.4 | Morning after pills, murder. |
| 2:00.4 | On top of this, now, of course, now if this constitutional change in Mississippi actually passes, |
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