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385 – The case for sport hunting / Just say know to ‘affirmative consent’ with Guest: Paul McKeever

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Jan 292015

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00:07 The ethics of hunting for sport: status of animals, recreational hunting, sports hunting, ethics of hunting, spectrum of animal life, private and government jurisdiction, animals in the wild, predator and prey, nature of the beast
GUEST: Paul McKeever – leader, Freedom Party of Ontario
12:10 Negative to affirmative consent: re-defining concepts, the issue is consent, history of affirmative consent concept, verbal not conduct, absence of coercion a moot point, reversal of onus, Wynne government to teach consent in schools, when yes does not mean yes, college and university standards, effect of the law, creating distrust, cultural Marxist agenda and the rape culture
34:25 Know about no: a revolutionary step – affirmative consent, reversal of onus – guilty until proven innocent, allegations of sexual assault against famous people, Cidra Ladd’s allegation against Cosby, focus on creating distrust in the trustworthy, allegations are all you need to destroy critical thought, changing the language, social alienation
45:40 Dinosaur concept: Womyn of Antioch, making consent a dinosaur concept, looking into the collectivist future, concept of date rape, allegers without cases, selling consent to the public, affirmative consent a legal minefield 59:37 END

373 – Choice or freedom? / Guest: Scott Williams-Oakes – Pushing the comedy envelope / A fool’s occupation

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Oct 232014

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00:07 Choice – or freedom of choice? Ottawa terrorist attack, it’s just right to prevent the threat to democracy, the way the world has been going lately, radicalized opinions, democracy’s objective is freedom, voter threats to Western civilization, trading freedom for security, growing dissatisfaction with government, we the people, John Macmurray, freedom-dignity-responsibility, Listen Little Man by Wilhelm Reich, two kinds of people, the emotional plague, voter distrust of each other, hope springs from understanding, confusing freedom of choice with choice
15:32 A plague on democracy: understanding vs belief, God, trickery in favour of truth, petty misdeeds, on the side of the persecutors, aiming at the truth, the public as dictator, rising from the mass into individuality, the process of individualization, democracy is no guarantee of freedom, Wilhelm Reich on humour, the joke’s on us
26:40 GUEST – Scott Williams-Oakes: October-Jest 2, London’s re-emerging comedy scene, for mature audiences, politically incorrect comedy, costume contest, comedy vs fear, the late great dead comedians, rise of social media, fake apologies, freedom of speech
41:24 Comedy is the fool’s occupation: Smothers Brothers, heroes of comedy, court jester, acting the fool, Lenny Bruce, breaking the obscenity envelope, Don Rickles, kernel of truth, too soon escape clause, cold war comedy, poking fun at sacred cows, All In The Family, Sanford and Son, Soap, late-night comedy 52:04 END

363 – Anti-Semitism / Green Party principles / Legally unborn / Blood Suckers / Happiness

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Aug 142014

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00:07 Jew-ish: anti-Semitism, ancient roots of tribalism, roots of hatred, the Christ, World War 2 anti-Semitism, strange beliefs, taking sides on Hamas vs Israel, left sides with Hamas, Gaza and Israel – contrasting cultures, anti-capitalism, media taking sides, Canadians siding with Hamas, Israel in the right
17:55 Relatively Green Party: Green Party of Canada, Elizabeth May, anti-Semitism, moral relativism, party of principles, Hamas vs Israel, Green Party’s six global values, Paul Estrin resignation from Green Party
29:30 Blood suckers / Legally unborn: Ontario blood supply, banning of payments to blood donors, tragedy at Costco, legally unborn, personhood, when rights begin and accrue, London grieves Addison Hall and Rhiannon, grief’s dilemma
43:30 Happiness is a warm sum: happiness, sadness, depression, a measure of happiness, measuring happiness, expectations, stimulus and response, Britain’s Great Brain Experiment, happy studies make happy policymakers 53:45 END

361 – Power grab / Forget me ought / None sum / Polar expedition

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Jul 312014

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00:07 Power grab: Ontario Ombudsman, London city council, Billy Ts, open meeting laws, power grab, hydro rate increase, flat rate hydro, smart meters, supply and demand for electricity
13:40 Forget me ought: anti-spam legislation, Canadian business reacts to spam laws, CASL, crony favouritism, spam law beneficiaries, European Court of Justice, internet search providers, suppressing offending links, on line reputation, deleting the past
29:01 None sum: Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the nones, religious demographics, religious choices, belief in God, social issues, religious and secular
40:55 Polar expedition: superstition, Pope Francis, exorcism, bible, allegory, the devil, literalism, traditional world view, modern world view, postmodern world view, polarization, reason, principle and politics 53:07 END

361 – Power grab / Forget me ought / None sum / Polar expedition

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Jul 312014

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342 – Unintended consequences / Past, present, and futile

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Mar 202014

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00:07 Unintended consequences… : unintended consequences, intentions, flat fee health care reform worse than before, unforeseen consequences of purposeful action, Adam Smith, Robert K Merton, intending social change, positive-negative-opposite consequences, unintended consequence of tipping the outhouse, Weeping consequences over the willow, coach’s rules
14:50 …With the best of intentions: Perry Spencer’s unintended chocolate discovery, DDT, Rachel Carson – The Silent Spring, unintended consequence of the DDT ban, unintended consequence of zero tolerance policies, unanticipated consequences of Terry Fox’s marathon run
28:28 Best on intentions: John Macmurray: philosophy, action, intentions, consequences through time, thought, knowledge, future-present-past, good vs evil, moral vs immoral, right vs wrong
42:20 Past, present, and futile: the determined, the existent, the indeterminate, time, causality, human action, intention, philosophy vs science, political left and right, community 55:57 END

339 – Guest: Rituparna Basu – Analyst, Ayn Rand Institute

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Feb 272014

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00:07: What’s killing American health care? Guest: Rituparna Basu (Ayn Rand Institute), health care contrasts: Canada and United States, American health insurance, no health care free market in America, Obamacare (Affordable Care Act), WWII wage and price controls, tax advantage through employer health insurance, disease killing American health care, single-payer health care, Canadians using American health care system, Canada Health Act, universal health care
13:34: What’s killing Canadian health care? Conservative Party history of socialized medicine in Canada, fear of defending free market health care, individual right to not be his ‘brother’s keeper’, ethics of socialized health care, universal health care vs helping the poor, affording expensive health care, getting real value for your health care dollars, long history of controlling health care in America, fascism or socialism, confusing health care with its financing, socialized medicine ok for ‘health care’ not for sick care
28:12: From socialized medicine to socialism: Canada already socialized, freedom needed to improve health care, stifling innovation through government control, all progress made possible by human minds working to succeed, health care insurance or just free health care?, free market rewards the right behaviours, Americans and Canadians: foreign perceptions of each other’s health care system, a doctor ‘brain drain’?
44:02: Personal pain – Universal sufferage: Tommy Douglas, public resistance to private health care options, United Kingdom’s National Health Service set as Canada’s ideal, suffering together – no dignity in suffering, state rationing in health care 54:51 END