The Gut Reaction Journal
By Jim Smith
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A weekly (more or less) program devoted to the issues we should be paying attention to, but we don't, because partisan loyalty, spin and deception too often gets in the way of objective thinking. Too many people simply ignore what's happening around us in government and society and that's the sole reason for the Gut Reaction Journal. It's a program made to get you to sit up and notice these things, one issue at a time. And hopefully it'll be entertaining too. Go to http://www.gutreactionjournal.com to see the home site
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(Issue 39) Outsourcing and Political Games | (10/03/2010) Recently, the Democrats put out a bill supposedly to help keep American jobs in this country, and the Republicans kept it from coming to a vote. To me this shows NEITHER side gives a damn about the American Worker because, while the GOP predictably killed a vote on the bill, the DEMOCRATS waited until almost the last minute to introduce this bill.This government has been encouraging companies to move their facilities overseas for FOUR DECADES, and the Democrats didn't think to introduce this bill until a week before they all went home to campaign!Also, why are the Liberals starting to call themselves "progressives" now? Like the Republicans, they seem to think what they do is all about packaging rather than substance.Plus: Our Good Guy is an upscale restaurant owner who is making a LOT of dinners for underprivileged kids | 10/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 38) The 2010 GRJ Guide for the Skeptical Voter | (9/27/2010) This is the 2010 extended (30 min) edition of the Gut Reaction Journal. The Gut Reaction Journal's Guide for the Skeptical Voter is our small effort to make our listeners wise to the many sneaky and subtle ways the two parties get us to vote their way, often without us noticing we are being influenced at all.In this edition, we point out several methods politicians, their parties and supporters use the media (Radio, Television, Newspapers, Magazines and the Internet) to inundate you with spin, misdirection and outright lies to put the idea into the back of our minds that make us think these people are better than their opponents when we pull the curtain.Politicians and their supporters are constantly competing for your free brain space and it's become a BIG industry. Hopefully, this guide will better prepare you to avoid the army of people out there trying to get you to think their way, instead of yours. We want you to pick your own favorites and not somebody else's.Also: This weeks Good Guy is a group called "Sew Much Comfort", a non-profit organization making "adaptive clothing" for wounded service men and women who otherwise cannot wear normal clothing.We hope you can get some use from this guide, and please tell your friends. | 9/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 37) Why we need more independents in Congress | (9/20/2010) The Democrats and Republicans have had a stranglehold on Congress for far too long. You know I would prefer we get rid of both parties and start fresh, but if we can't do that we need to at least vote in a good number of Independents who will vote between RIGHT vs. WRONG rather than RIGHT vs. LEFT. The Democrats and Republicans have been giving the people a phony choice for too long, and if we can't get rid of them, the only other option is to dilute their absolute power and total control of the government with as many new politicians who are not beholden to either party. Plus, this week's Good Guy is Ernie Colwell, a man who started a summer camp for the children of National Guard personnel. Make sure you listen in next week, when we present a special. Expanded Issue of the Journal and the first annual Gut Reaction Journal's Guide for the Skeptical Voter Tell your friends. | 9/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 36) The state of the American worker. | (9/12/2010) Things are looking better for big corporations in this country, but they still aren't hiring many people. Salaries are cut, benefits slashed, more people are forced to do the work of the people these employers laid off while still doing their own jobs and job satisfaction is at the lowest level in almost 25 years.So why is the situation still so grim for the American worker now that big companies are getting back on their feet after help from the government, and the still-employed taking on the extra burden to help the companies (and their jobs)? Because they CAN is the answer! Job security, upward mobility and a piece of the "American Dream" is history for the Middle Class.Plus, a hero who stared down the barrel of a .357 Magnum of a killer in a Kraft Foods plant in Philadelphia is this weeks Good Guy. | 9/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 35) GOP Obstruction and How McCain Lost the Election | (9/5/2010) This week we look at why the GOP blocks everything the Democrats propose. If they think everything Obama wants will fail, why don't they let him get his way so he can look so bad in 2012 the people will BEG the Republicans to take over? Plus, why John McCain lost to Barack Obama. I explain why it sure looks like he took a dive to make sure another Republican didn't follow President Bush. Also, this week's Good Guy is a group of motorcycle riders who support the troops in a very unique way. | 9/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(issue 34) More "Ground Zero" mosque and Social Security under attack. | (8/29/2010) The Gut Reaction Journal (#34) is online.This week is two-for-one. I discuss a little more about the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" in New York City. For one thing, it's not a mosque, and the recent anti-Muslim behavior of Non-Muslims has created a national embarrassment that can be seen all around the world, particularly in Muslim countries. The very same countries we are trying to convince we are NOT anti-Muslim!But what we ARE showing the rest of the world is that no one can trust anything we say. We are pretty good at bragging about what a great and open-minded nation we are, and crediting our Constitution, and our absolte devotion to it for that "greatness". However, because of our childish fear of Muslims we have ignored that great document and shown the world an ugly side of us that I for one find abhorrent and as an American, painfully embarrassing.Our second topic is based on the recent, uncalled for and completely misguidedcomment from Alan K. Simpson, former US Senator from Wyoming (Dick Cheney country) and current co-chairman of President Obama's debt commission. Simpson had the gall to say in an e-mail to Ashley Carson, the executive director of the National Older Women's League Simpson compared Social Security to "a milk cow with 310 million t**s". A real class act, that Simpson.But the politicians want to (suddenly) show their concern about the debt mess they themselves created. So what do they do? They go after Social Security again, just like they go after everything else the middle class sees as important while takiong the usual "hands off" attitude towards the masters in the top 2% of the country as well as ignoring their OWN rampant waste and fraud that is really what is bleeding this country dry.Also: This weeks Good Guy segment is a little departure from our usual format. Instead of a group or individual that goes the extra mile to help others, we focus on several website dedicated to helping injured servicemen, ex-servicemen and their families to help them cope with life after one or more tours in the Middle East. There's also a great video about a program called "Pros vs. GI Joe" that pairs professional athletes with injured soldiers to help them with their rehabilitation. | 8/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 33) Right Wing Fear of a NYC Mosque? | (8/23/2010) This week's edition focuses on the national uproar over the construction of an Islamic Community Center two blocks away from "Ground Zero", the location where the World Trace Center was destroyed on 9/11/2001.My take on this issue is that if you're upset with this, and you're not a New Yorker, you really shouldn't be all that upset by it at all. And I believe you weren't. At least you weren't until the right wingers in this country blew it all out or proportion. Look, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the guy behind the building, and his group didn't just fall out of the sky a month ago. This project was in the works for years, and the City of New York had approved the project, proving the city itself had no problems with it.So all this national attention is based on fear, bigotry and mainly because the right wing Republicans wanted to make a political issue of it. This manufactured outrage is also in direct conflict with the United States Constitution which mandates 100% freedom for all Americans to practice ANY religion, ANY time and in ANY location they so choose provided it conforms to the laws and regulations of the area in which it's located. And it did, well over a year ago.Once again, uncrupulous politicians, and their misguided followers have succeeded in hijacking the fears and uncertainties of a lot of otherwise good, rational and intelligent people and pushed them into an irrational, and unconstitutional emotional reaction to a completely legal and accepted building in lower Manhattan.The whole story is in this weeks Gut Reaction Journal, as well as this week's Good Guy profile of Karen Shirk, a lady with Myesthenia Gravis who took her inability to secure a service dog to help her live a better life and turned it into an organization that helps others get service dogs for themselves.As always, many thanks to all the people who have supported the Journal, and please tell your friends. | 8/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 32) Republicans STILL Blame the Unemployed | (8/17/2010) I thought Issue #29 pretty much covered how the swine in Washington were blaming the unemployed for wrecked economy, when THEY actually caused this collapse. But it looks like the Republicans are RELENTLESSLY attacking the victims by implying THEY are hurting the economy by refusing to go back to work. They are NOT refusing to work! Six people competing for one, low-paying job doesn't seem to bother them and they expect the unemployed Middle Class to accept close to minimum wage jobs and shut up about it, while they, as well as the banks that caused the problem are richer than ever. There is NO bailout for the Middle Class!Plus: Our Good Guy is a lady from Wilmington, Delaware who takes on the job of making sure people know our fallen soldiers may be gone, but they are not forgotten.Please tell your friends to give the Gut Reaction Journal a listen. | 8/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 31) Had Enough of Political Lies? | In this issue, we return to the liars. Specifically, the politicians and other influential people who have no problems with ignoring the truth and lying through their teeth whenever it suits them. We are surrounded with lies and the people who tell them to the point where we are in danger of losing our ability to properly function as a society because it has become too difficult to GET the truth from these people any longer. Also, this week's Good Guy is Jorge Munoz, a school bus driver from New York who provides daily meals to the homeless and unemployed. Munoz, a naturalized citizen from Colombia, has been recently awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal, the second highest medal awarded to a civilian, by President Obama. | 8/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 30) Where Has All The Money Gone? | (8/2/2010) This week we take a look at the recent revelation of how 96 percent of the $9.1 billion for Iraq went missing. This is nothing new for this government and the billions lost in Iraq is only the tip of a very large iceberg. I have a feeling this money isn't really missing.Plus: This week's Good Guy is a double amputee who helps children with their need for prosthetic limbs. | 8/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 29) Why the GOP Thinks the Unemployed Don't Want To Work | (7/26/2010) This week we look at the issue of unemployment again, specifically the growing attitude of the Republicans and their supporters toward the people they helped BECOME unemployed. The Democrats, of course had a hand in creating the financial meltdown that forced millions of people out of work. But seriously, how low can they sink to be so callous and cynical that you would say the people out of work will stop LOOKING for work if we continue to give them a paltry $300 a week? That's what Republicans have been trying to sell to the American People. I get a little angry in this one.Also, Ben Stein seems to think that most of the people out of work got that way because they have bad personalities. Unbelievable!Plus, this weeks Good Guy runs an organization in San Diego, California that helps people get a "second chance" to turn their lives around and on the right track. And if you have a "Good Guy" story to share, we have a specialmailbox for you to use. | 7/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 28) Is Bribery Legal In Washington? | (7/20/2010) This week we take aim at lobbyists, the highly paid professionals who spend Billions on our elected representatives in order to influence their votes. Since you know people don't spend money without getting something in return, you know that that huge sum of money not only gets them access; it gets them what they want. While a natural reaction would be to ban all lobbyists from infesting the halls of Congress, we can't do that. We just have to educate ourselves and take it one bribe at a time. We'll explain why in this issue. Also, this week's Good Guy is a Swiss Banker who blew the whistle on a very big and influential bank. What he got for his trouble may surprise you. | 7/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 27) Are the Unemployed getting a Free Ride? | (7/11/2010) In this issue I talk about the unemployment situation in the United States. As you all know, the numbers are bad, but what's worse is some politicians and their partisan followers are starting to cast blame on the people who receive unemployment checks. There's a sickening talking point going around that says people won't look for work if the government keeps sending them those small (but needed) checks.What's sickening about it is that the same people who CAUSED the financial disaster in this country which caused more than 14 million people to lose their jobs are starting to look at the people they screwed as the "bad guys". And NOW, they pretend to be fiscal conservatives and say we can't afford these Unemployment extensions. he Democrats are just as bad, and have equal responsibility for the mess we're in, but the Republicans are using this crisis as a cheap political trick to divert any scrutiny of their part in this by telling us the people who loost their jobs through no fault of their own are hurting the economy.Plus: This weeks Good Guy is a former bartender from North Carolina who is helping people get clean water to drink. | 7/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 26) The GRJ First Anniversary Edition | (7/4/2010) This is a special, extended issue (24 minutes) to celebrate our first anniversary of The Gut Reaction Journal which was launched on the Fourth of July 2009. Instead of our 15 minute, single issue podcast we're listing some of the reasons we do this program, and why we say that the Democratic and Republican parties have had their chance to work for the people and have only harmed this country in too many ways to list. This issue of the Journal lists only a few reasons, but in our opinion they are more than enough to prove the point that we must replace the current gang of people in the House and Senate. Plus: This weeks Good Guy goes into a hole for a dog. | 7/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 25) Big Money, Politicians and Influence | (6/27/2010) This week's program takes a look at the influence big money from big corporations has on the United States government. For a long time, the politicians in Washington have been conning us into thinking they work for the people, when it gets clearer every year that they work primarily for the people who foot the bills for these increasingly expensive campaigns, and that ain't us.But hopefully the people are wising up to their obvious support for the people who pay over the people who vote.Also, this weeks Good Guy is Don Ritchie, a retired insurance saleman from Sydney, Austrailia who intervenes when people come to a nearby cliff to commit suicide. | 6/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 24) Crude Oil. It Ain't Just for Gas! | (6/22/2010) In keeping with our oil themed 3-part series, we look at just how many things we depend on in our daily lives are made with oil. It's a stark reminder of why we MUST stop wasting it on motor fuel, which makes up almost 70% of our oil usage. To put it in perspective, all the oil from the BP disaster is about equal to what the United States uses in a day or so.We also take a look at pollution the refineries themselves produce.Plus: This week's Good Guy is Annie Leonard, an environmental activist who made a video called "The Story of Stuff" which is an eye-opener about the hidden costs of making all the stuff we buy. Links are all on the Links page on the website. | 6/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 23) BP and the Government Pt.2 | (6/14/2010) This issue is about who is more responsible for the BP diaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The incompetence, mismanagement and greed isn't all on one side. BP caused the spill, but it looks like the Government helped it happen.Also: The government has been collecting an eight cent tax on every barrel of oil since 1999, and it was supposed to go to the Oil Spill Liability Trust fund, which is capped at 2.7 Billion dollars. So where did all the extra money go? We could sure use it now!Plus: A woman from Michigan fought the politically connected Kennecott Mining Company to keep them from ruining some local land. She failed, but she comes up a winner in this weeks "Good Guy" segment. | 6/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 22) The BP disaster and the government | (6/5/2010)You all know about the BP Oil Company's disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. But do they deserve 100% of the blame for it? The Journal looks at how the government was involved, especially in the leadup to the Oil Rig explosion. Ignorance or a lack of oversight by the MMS was partly to blame. And how disgusting are those photos of sea birds covered in chocolate syrup-y crude oil?Also: As an antidote to the nausea caused by the disaster and the effect it is having on sea birds and other animals, this week's Good Guy is doing GOOD things for animals. | 6/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 21) Why are Supreme Court positions for life? | (5/28/2010) I know it's been this way since the country was founded, but why do we still appoint US Supreme Court Justices for life? I say there's no good reason for it and we should have a retirement age for justices.Also: Our Good Guy is helping a lot of people get wheelchairs when they otherwise couldn't have the freedom and mobility they offer to the handicapped.Plus: We introduce a new segment of the Journal. Send us an e-mail and tell us what you think. | 5/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 20) Do we really need a law against flag burning? | (5/15/2010) Flag burning as a means of protest. It hardly ever happens and it doesn't hurt anyone physically or economically. So, do we need a federal law protecting the American Flag from people who would use it as a protest against the government? Or is it more a case of the government needing protection from protesters? They create enough of them, after all. Plus: Our Good Guy this week is a quick-thinking Australian doctor who came up with a new use for the old Black and Decker power drill. | 5/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 19) Cell Phones and the Do Not Call list | (5/6/10) The other day we got an e-mail about how the government was creating a directory of everyone's cell phone number in the Unites, and giving that list to telemarketers. That e-mail has been around for years, and we get to the bottom of it on this weeks Journal.Also in this weeks Gut Reaction Journal: It's been 15 years since the April 19th Oklahoma City Bombing, and May 6-12 is National Nurses Week so this weeks Good Guy of the Week spotlights two heroic nurses who risked it all (and one didn't make it) to help the innocent victims of that horrific attack.Plus: This week we open up a new page on the website called The LINKS Page, where you can get links to more information on the topics we cover on the Journal. | 5/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 18) Compromise and is government too big to fix | (5/1/2010) When did the parties that control our country lose the ability to compromise? I believe politics has changed over the decades, but too slowly for a lot of us to notice the two gangs in the playground don't play well with each other anymore.Also, we seem to think the government is too big or too complicated to bother trying to fix. We just don't realize it's just like how you eat an elephant...one bite at a time.Plus: This weeks Good Guy is a courageous teacher from Reno, NV. The original story is a few years old, but I'm sure you'll be impressed by what she did. | 4/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 17) Why bother with political news on TV? | (4/20/10) Why doesn't the News Media ask the tough questions any more? Why it's a waste of time to follow the political shows on TV and what happened to Sam Donaldson? And we're trying a little audience participation this week. Figuring there must be at least ONE honest, responsible politician in Washington, this is a call for anyone who has ever written a letter to his/her politician and gotten a REAL letter back.Also: This week's "Good Guy of the Week" teaches kids how to make a garden, and for a very good reason. Plus, I get to play DJ this week and play the full verson of Dave Latchaw's "Day Job", The Gut Reaction Journal theme. It's a wonderful Jazz piece and you won't want to miss it.In this issue: Dr. Thianda Manzara is our Good Guy this week http://healthyfoodsforhealthykids.giving.officelive.com/default.aspx Dave Latchaw's page: http://www.latchmusic.com/ | 4/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 16) The grab bag edition | (originally presented 3/11/2010) This is the first "grab bag" edition of the Gut Reaction Journal, where we throw out the playlist and discuss various issues that just came to mind. The economy, GM and Toyota, domestic terrorists, the News Media and whether or not I'm crazy.Hint: I'm not crazy...yet. | 4/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue 15) Congress and their war with Toyota | (originally presented 2/28/10) Recently, the Congress was up in arms ofer a few recalls by the automaker, Toyota. This seems odd, especially considering how the automanufacturers worldwide have put out about 500 recalls every year since 2000 and Congress didn't seem to be bothered by them.I figured there WAS a reason for Congress to try and nail Toyota, and why the American people didn't see to get it is unusual. | 4/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(issue 12) The Christmas Program | (originally presented 12/19/09) The Gut Reaction Journal's first Christmas edition. A thought for the people down-on-their-luck and why does the supposedly richest country in the world have such a problem with charity. | 3/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(issue 13) What's wrong with the FDA | (originally presented 2/27/10) The FDA used to be a respected (by us) and hated (by drug makers) for a long time. However, lately they have become a shill for the big pharmaceutical companies, allowing potentially dangerous drugs to go to market and relying too much on the drug makers own testing.Pay attention to the disclaimers and warnings on TV ads for these prescription drugs. | 3/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(issue 14) Military Suicide and what we can do | (originally presented 11/30/09) Too many of our troops are dying, and not just on the battlefield. Suicide in the ranks and after they leave the service is on the rise and I believe there must be something we can do to prevent this. There are too many of our former troops homeless, jobless and facing a very uncertain future, and that's AFTER they've served their country, and some have taken their own lives as a way out. The Pentagon recognizes this, but there's only so much they can do. What the politicians are putting them through needs to be addressed as well. | 3/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(issue 11) So, we're not going to the Moon now? | (originally presented 2/14/09) The Obama Administration has now seen fit to meddle with NASA's budget and decide what NASA ought to do now. Another example of misdirection, where a politician goes for points for being cost-conscious while not doing anything about REAL waste in government spending. Can anyone think of another government agency that can do something like take us to the Moon and give ALL Americans a sense of national pride? I didn't think so. | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(issue 10) Political Correctness | (originally presented 11/9/09) Why is it that "politically correct" people seem to have no sense of humor, or at least a severely limited one? It used to be that sticks and stones broke bones, but now, the "wrong" kind of SPEECH is seen as being just as bad. Have we become SO thin-skinned that we can't even take a joke? Lenny Bruce would surely be spinning in his grave. (18:07) | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(issue nine) China's influence / The National Debt | (originally presented 10/11/09) Is China taking advantage of the fact that we owe them almost a Trillion dollars? When you look at the recent tainted toy fiasco and Obama looking like he was blowing off the Dalai Lama, it seems so.Plus: How could we allow our government to put us all in debt to such a huge extent? It's not like it was a secret. | 3/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(issue eight) Where did all this political hatred come from? | (originally presented 10/4/09)You don't have to be all that old to notice how the politicians in Washington have ratcheted up the politicial discourse from argument to outright hatred, which has never really gotten us anywhere. Yet it's growing, and it's taking a lot of us with it..Maybe it's time for the voters to tell these people to tone it down a bit. | 3/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue seven) Why I hate the GOP | (originally presented 9/15/09)These days it's almost too easy to list reasons to hate the Republican Party, and since this is only a 15 minute program I only scratch the surface. Not to worry. I'm all about equal opportunity so I'll have an "I hate the Democratic Party" program in an upcoming issue of the Journal. | 3/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(issue six) Should we put up with hypocricy? | (originally presented 9/9/09)How is it we can never suffer a hypocrite in our daily lives yet not only LIKE a hypocrite in elected office, but keep VOTING for them? (the secret word is "partisanship") | 3/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue five) How about third parties? | Originally presented 8/28/09 Do you see our two political parties as actually ONE party, but with two very different public faces to give us an illusion of choice? (hint: we once had the "Democratc-Republican" party back in 1792 and it was started by Thomas Jefferson himself) Are the so-called "Third Parties" worth a look? I say they are. It seems to me that the two parties now in power aren't even trying anymore and they seem to assume running our country is a birthright. | 3/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue four) The "Birthers" | )originally presented 8/17/09)This is about the "Birthers", the folks who stubbornly believe President Barack OBama wasn't really born in Hawaii. How is it that some people hang onto a conspiracy theory despite having no evidence, and/or facing a mountain of credible evidence to the contrary?***Caution, spoiler alert***We really went to the Moon. George W Bush didn't personally order hijacked planes to fly into the World Trade Center. The "Baloon Boy" never got off the ground. Paul McCartney isn't dead, and well, you know the deal with the Easter Bunny. | 3/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue three) Are we as free as we think we are? | (originally presented 7/19/09)Are we truly a free people? Most of us believe that, but sometimes we think that because we've never put some of those freedoms to the test.This is the story of an Iraq War vet who ran afoul of the local government when he flew the Stars and Stripes upsiode down in protest of local government action, or actually INaction. | 3/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue two)The Right and the Left | (originally presented 7/4/09)This is program #2 of the Gut Reaction Journal and was originally presented 7/4/09. In this issue I take a hard look at the right and left in politics, their place in politics and why they don't deserve to have a place in much of anything. | 3/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Issue One) GRJ_Program1_6.24.09 | (originally available 6/24/09) Hello, and welcome to the Gut Reaction Journal. This is a program that takes a look at the problems and issues we all face in the United States. This is our very first program, so bear with us as this IS our very first podcast. It's a little unpolished but I promise you they get better as we go along. This issue of the Journal is "just WHO is to blame here" and it looks at the root of why things are the way they are now. This is foolowed by out "Gut Reaction Journal "Good Guy of the Week" segment, putting a spotlight on people and groups who make a difference in this country. The program is designed to run around 15 minutes, but sometimes it may run a little long (like this one).We also have a new website. The old site was "gutreaction.us" and the programs refer to the e-mail address as 'journal@gutreaction.us" . That's still a good address, so if you want to send a message, feelfree to use that one for now, but thebest way to send a comment is to use the new e-mail address, which is jim@gutreactionjournal.com.As I write this, I'm porting over the last 15 issues of the Journal from the old site to here. I hope you enjoy the programs and Iask you to tell your friends about this, as I truly believe we have a lot of problems with the issues we face, and the biggest reason is we are hypnotized by TV and Radio pundits and incomkpetent (or lying) politicians and we need to use our OWN eyes to see what's going on and make up our own minds.Thanks for listening,Jim SmithHost: The Gut Reaction Journal | 3/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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