show links: costa rica, recession link one, recession link two, north korean video, airline fee list, airline fees, honey bee, pink is the color of boobs, rick sanchez, parker/spitzer, the facebook movie, sexting/texting numbers

show links:  tea party, palin, double dipping, romney, consumer protection, corn sugar, light bulbs,  bombs!, up skirt, stewart and cobert, borat to play mercury,  godaddy, trek phone, wally world phone, FPS helps, Lotro, the granata

(note: I might have been drinking during the making of this episode)

show links:  boob bracelets, book burner, pipes coming right for us, little blue different, twitter death, texting effects your mom, volvo city saftey, CA sellout, grow that tooth, facebook burnout, king has left the building,  free to play orc

Hope your summer is fun (which is to say full of drunken debauchery.

Jim Kirks

show links:  World Cup,  Oil World,  Joint Strike shoot’um up, Tweet Times, Rush ties it again, AM Radio, Flickr/Facebook

These show links will now be numbered so you can follow along during the live show.

show links: 1.) Oil an Politics ; 2.) Oil and Nukes;  3.) Immigration (Arizona); 4.) North and South Korea / Wiki; 5.) Vitamin D; 6.) Shortcut to TV; 7.) LoTro Free/FaQ; 8.) Global Agenda; 9.) iPhone Data Cap

show links: big bathroom, 3D porn, allergy deadly, wall street reforms,  fuel joke, processed meat, avatar bluray, 3d coppla, movie ticket prices, summer movie list, pac-man, red dead theft auto, afgan deaths, double troops

Summer Movie List I

• Iron Man 2 (out)
• Robin Hood (out)
• Prince of Persia - (May 28)
• Sex and the City 2 (May 28)
• A-Team –  (June 11)
• Karate Kid - (Jun 11)
• Toy Story 3 - (June 18)
• Jonah Hex – (June 18)
• Last Airbender –  (July 2)
• Twilight Eclipse (June 30)
• Inception (July 16)

show links: playboy 3d, girl with the dragon tattoo, oil, healthcare, nra, euro in trouble,  drilling without a permit?, food killing us, iron man 2, fast wifi, cell phone data shocker, swtor, natal, roller coaster movie, space shuttle memories

show links: channel ad,  oil, fringe, iphone home button, starcraft 2, sex bloggers

show links: AZ and the brown people, financial sleepy time, gm, american cars,  the pope, vat, hollywood sign, mega airline, abortion nominee, summer shows, good guys, iphone4, plam/hp

show links:  history of tax, immigration, gays hospital, volcano’s, land for sale, hollywood sign, bill & hilldog, crazy heart, 3d tv, opera mini iphone, wow mount, splinter cell, nba playoffs, space, space, and more space

show links: us postal cutbacks, scanned mail, fast food addiction, healthcare talk, tea baggers, rnc resign,  russian/american nukes, date/night, glee,  southpark,  iphone, hdmi cables, civilization V, GM

show links: pope on a rope, tattoo op-ed, census 2010, health reform top ten, political gains for dems?, high fructose kills,  coffee good for chicks, pot in CA, the pacific on HBO, txting diapers

show links: catholic church scandals, health care cost est., health care over the years, fandango on your phone, blockbuster doom, greatest film scenes, playstation motion, iPad, battlefield

On this weeks show we have a very long intro with the who/what/where of this podcast.  We talk health care at length and take a short look at the US 2010 Census.   Movies, TV and of all things Books find time to entertain us at the mid point and we finish with the evil that is video games.

Take time to click through the various links at the bottom of the page for follow up to what was discussed this week.

Thanks for listening and please comment.   I want to know what you like/dislike about this new venture of mine.

Check back at the end of the week for show topics for this coming Sunday night show and make sure to join us live 8pm Pacific time @ www.tinychat.com/jimkirks.

show links: single payer health, public support, census wiki, census 2010, fox redeye, girl with the dragon tattoo, the lovely bones, game death, everyquest suicide

Hello folks it is your old friend Jim Kirks.  Some of you know that I have a profound love/hate relationship with politics.  Which is to say that most of the time I am sitting in front of the television yelling at the talking heads. Not very constructive.  A few weeks ago I was talking with a friend about the state of the health care debate and she said, “I wish you could give me a weekly update on the state of the nation”. I asked her if she had been listening the last 30 minutes because that is what I had just given her.  I think she was looking for something she could fast forward through during the boring parts.

This conversation and others got me thinking again about doing something political in the form of a podcast. Over the last three years I have been working on The Clip Show and other projects  and have always wanted to do something more political/talky but I just never found the time. With the Clip Show on semi-permanent hiatus and my job prospects light the time I think is now.

Rhetoric Nation to start will be a weekly podcast on Sunday nights. You will be able to video/call in and chat with me about the state of the nation and the world.  This podcast is for me. I have always wanted to do it and be able to chat with people who share my opinion but also hash it out with the lost and delusional.

Join me this Sunday or just subscribe to the feed to listen and fast forward at leisure.

Jim-