wednesday morning in the saratoga hills. city officials say coyotes are not uncommon in saratoga.. and if you come across a coyote, you should avoid eye contact and try to leave the area calmly. but they say you should do the opposite if you see a mountain lion. in that case it is best to yell, make noise, and try to appear larger than they are. (grant) in the east bay. a 10-thousand dollar reward is being offered to catch a masked gunman . who sotrmed an oakland coffee shop. and made off with evey customers laptop. the armed robbery yesterday was at the world ground cafe on mac-arthur. police are looking at security video from nearby businesses. they say a blue pickup truck may have been involved in the robbery. a 10-thousand dollar reward is being offered for information that leads to an arrest. (grant) in the north bay. police in santa rosa are asking for help identifying this woman. they say she burglarized the home of an 89-year-old woman in the oakmont neighborhood. o
energy actually is the leadership group with oil touching that five-year low and then getting a little bit of a bounce and energy names with it. let s talk about the markets. joining us now is dani hughes and kenny pulcari, diane gartnick and our own rick santelli. dani, what do you make of today s move? it occurred to me months now we have one story of the stock market. it s great. commodity and bond market tells us there s manager to worry about. what does today tell you about where we come down on the question? we don t know. we have seen the market fall off dramatically today and come back dramatically, as well. the underlying issue of oil and oil prices is big one and you see the dichotomy, as well. consumers are benefitting and you see housing prices rising, as well, so they have a lot of juice in that and then the job recovery, as well. but then you see oil producers getting hit very hard and the concern about the price of oil and domestic oil producers and how to
host: set five, salman rushdie, one of your favorite books and authors. guest: that s right. satanicber the first time i rad i heard about it and never got around to reading it. think. i had heard about it obviously never got around to reading it. i thought only friends bookshelf and i thought was a big deal. let s read this thing. it was incredible. the idea you could write about the deep spiritual ideas in a work of fiction to make it come alive in the narrative that he did, it really and what to me as a writer. probably a lot with garcia marquez are the three sort of authors i thought this is what i want to do. this is who i want to be. host: guest: it d save hook by not a very well-known political philosopher who teaches at iowa. it is a book about the way we can start thinking about money as a secret day, the way it used to be. he makes a very important argument, which is the creation of what we call money arose to facilitate gift exchange. in other words,
host: reza aslan company probably rocks the world comes the christian world with zealot: the life and times of jesus of nazareth. but you do right this in your book. he said the most obvious reason not to dismiss the disciples resurrection experiences out of hand at the cell messiahs before and after them. it was precisely the fervor with which the followers believed in the resurrection that performed this time is that into the largest religion. while the resurrection itself is an ahistorical phenomenon. another was something historians have no business talking about one way or another. the claim to the resurrection by the disciples is an historical phenomenon reason unquestionable historical phenomenon. it is just a fact that very soon after jesus death, his disciples believed and preached he was risen again. i personally estimate he believes in god so i m not going to deny jesus was raised from the dead. i ll just say it s not my business as an historian. what cannot b
host: reza aslan, where does the phrase no god but god come from? guest: it is the first half of the muslim profession of faith. there is no god but god and mohammed is god s messenger. it is essentially the phrase that initiates a convert into the muslim faith. host: you also write it not look that now, islam is available to all muslims and every muslim can speak for islam. .. and so it becomes a great shouting match. again, i keep paralleling judaism and is on. the problem of course is there s about 15 million after jews. when you look at the conflicts in the middle east commodious muslim democrat and was some autocrats fighting against each other, muslim peacemakers and the software makers are doing against each other, what ewers is precisely the result of this reformation process, this individualization of islam, in the process the authority to decide if faith is being removed, seized ashes back from the hand that these institutions that have gripped it from