Episode #623: July 2-3, 2003

Topics covered:

• The Swiss population is more accepting of euthanasia

• Alex reports that half of the deaths in Switzerland are due to suicide. This is definitely not true

• A caller is mad about Walmart adding sexual orientation to its list of classes that are protected by discrimination rules

• A new survey says that women are becoming more anti-abortion access. This does not seem to be in line with some of the broader opinion polling on the subject

• Dr. Kevorkian did lose his license in Michigan and California, but I can find no evidence it was because he was inappropriate with corpses

• Alex seems to think that Ahmad Chalabi and Hamid Karzai are the same person, just different pronunciations of one name

• Churches could act exactly how Red Beckman wants them to, it just would violate their tax-exempt status

• Alex is trying to lure his audience into buying silver from Midas Resources by offering them access to a secret DARPA document

• This DARPA document is just a posting that was made to recruit research entities to bid for a contract for a program called Combat Zones That See. This is not a declassified document, and if this is a super secret thing, it’s strange that the project lead has it on his resume

• Alex confuses the PNAC document with The Grand Chessboard