Show Notes 05/19/2013

Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Sunday 05/19/2013

WELL REGULATED AMERICAN MILITIAS Recruiter has invited you to the event 'Stand with Colorado Sheriffs: Independence Institute event May 28th in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Time: May 28, 2013 from 6:30pm to 8pm
Location: Freedom Financial Expo Center
Organized By: Independence Institute

Sheriff Joe to Congress: Investigate Obama's eligibility

Hey, while Congress is investigating the use of the IRS to harass conservative activists, is trying to find out what the Obama White House covered up about Benghazi and is looking into why the Justice Department went after reporters’ phone records, why not include a check into Obama’s eligibility, too?

http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/sheriff-joe-to-congress-investigate-obamas-eligibility/#UmxkuifdZKITYakY.99

IRS Commissioner on Scandal: ‘We Provided Horrible Customer Service’

Tiberi asked Miller who oversaw Lois Lerner, the woman who worked for Ingram and publically apologized at a recent public event for employees giving greater scrutiny to conservative groups seeking non-profit status.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/irs-commissioner-scandal-we-provided-horrible-customer-service

To boldly go in a Biblical direction

As a film, “Into Darkness” is a summer blockbuster of the best sort, with a clever, laugh-out-loud script, plenty of action, fun and curious characters, a fantastic villain and entertainment value to the max. Especially for Trekkers, I daresay it’s even better than first in this recent reboot of the franchise. Yet even for those not a fan of the original TV series, “Into Darkness” packs plenty of entertainment value for the dollar.

http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/to-boldly-go-in-a-biblical

direction/#jOyVZO1Xt16oQ7Lx.99

First Lady expands anti obesity campaign museums

First Lady Michelle Obama has expanded her anti-obesity campaign to museums, enlisting them to offer “healthy food options,” and change their menus.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/first-lady-expands-anti-obesity-campaign-museums

Tactics to improve drug compliance

For months, Lars Osterberg, MD, MPH, struggled with a patient whose blood pressure seemed to fluctuate randomly. The man was on three antihypertensive medications, and Dr. Osterberg was thinking of adding another.

http://www.amednews.com/article/20111003/profession/310039938/4/

VA lauches overtime surge against backlog

The Department of Veterans Affairs is mandating overtime for claims processors in its regional offices across the country as part of its effort to bring down the backlog that has frustrated hundreds of thousands of veterans and infuriated members of Congress.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/05/16/va-launches-overtime-surge-against-backlog.html?comp=7000023317843&rank=7

Georgia Governor orders bibles returned to State owned parks

When Ed Buckner and his family went to a north Georgia state park to celebrate his son's birthday, he was surprised and concerned to find Bibles in the state-owned cabin he had rented.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/19/georgia-gov-deal-orders-bibles-returned-to-state-owned-park/?test=latestnews#ixzz2TmOT41XZ

Pope Francis answers new calling: Catholic Church ipad app

This apple has nothing to do with Adam. The Catholic Church unveiled a new iPad application this week, intended to keep the faithful abreast of Vatican comings-and-goings, as well as other news from the church’s missions throughout the world.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/05/19/pope-francis-answers-new-calling-catholic-church-ipad-app/?intcmp=HPBucket#ixzz2TmV9TNCb

Ely high school teacher suspended

A Broward reading teacher has been suspended for 13 days without pay after her overly permissive classroom environment led to rampant student misbehavior and students feeling emboldened enough to ask the teacher about her past sexual encounters.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/14/3397548/ely-high-school-teacher-suspended.html#storylink=cpy

Show Notes 05/16/2013

Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Thursday 05/16/2013

Spain's economy is now as bad as Greece's

The unemployment rate in Spain recently hit an astounding 27.2 percent for the first quarter of 2013, which is the highest it's been in decades and higher than unemployment was in the United States during the Depression.

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/rick-newman/2013/04/25/spains-economy-is-now-as-bad-as-greeces

OECD's down beat on Italy

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has just delivered yet more bad news for Italy’s new prime minister.

It is now forecasting that the eurozone’s third largest economy will contract by more than expected this year.

http://www.euronews.com/2013/05/02/oecd-downbeat-on-italy/

UK joblessness up again

The latest unemployment totals from London underscored how weak Britain’s economy remains.The number of people without jobs continued to rise.

http://www.euronews.com/2013/05/15/uk-joblessness-up-again/

IMF board approves Cyprus bailout

The EUR1 billion IMF loan program is part of a EUR10 billion joint bailout with the European Union. Euro authorities have already approved the deal, paying out the first tranche earlier this week.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2013/05/15/imf-board-approves-cyprus-bailout/#ixzz2TQzqKtHZ

FDR Sowing the Seeds of Chaos

The long-lasting imprint from FDR’s famous “Hundred Days” did not stem from the bank holiday, national industrial recovery act, the farm adjustment act, the Tennessee Valley Authority, or the public works administration.

http://mises.org/daily/6429/FDR-Sowing-the-Seeds-of-Chaos

Show Notes 05/12/2013

Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Sunday 05/9/2013

Happy Mother's Day!

Kirsten Powers on Benghazi: Bill Clinton would not have gotten away with this.

Kirsten Powers said something Saturday that should deeply embarrass so-called journalists across the fruited plain. Appearing on Fox News Watch, Powers - who was Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Public Affairs in the Clinton administration - said of the job the current White House is doing with the Benghazi cover up, "Bill Clinton would not have gotten away with this.”

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/05/11/kirsten-powers-benghazi-cover-bill-clinton-would-not-have-gotten-away#ixzz2T3BQnhKw

IRS inquisition update

Along with targeting tea-party groups, the IRS may also have given extra-special attention to the tax-exempt status of some Jewish groups for political reasons

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/348013/irs-inquisition-update

Grassley: Baucus Retiring Because He’s ‘Fed Up’ With Obamacare

Democratic senator Max Baucus is retiring because he is “fed up” with the Affordable Care Act, according to his Republican colleague Chuck Grassley. Speaking at Friday night’s Lincoln Day dinner in Iowa, Grassley told the audience the Montana senator is leaving office” because he’s so fed up with the possibility of the implementation of Obamacare being a train wreck.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/348039/grassley-baucus-retiring-because-hes-fed-obamacare

Giant solar wave erupts from the sun

The sun celebrated May Day with a spectacular solar eruption last Wednesday, unleashing a colossal wave of super-hot plasma captured on camera by a NASA spacecraft.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/05/02/giant-solar-wave-erupt-from-sun/?intcmp=HPBucket#ixzz2SASR6Rgb

Darrell Issa and Jim Jordan's letter to the IRS from 2012 starting with an intro from: Weasel Zippers

http://weaselzippers.us/2013/05/11/10-top-crazy-intrusive-things-the-irs-asked-tea-party-groups-applying-for-tax-exempt-status/

http://media.aclj.org/pdf/issa-jordan-letter-to-irs-regarding-intrusive-tea-party-questionnaires.pdf

Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform

The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating on Thursday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/immigration-reform-dossiers/ 

Show Notes 05/09/2013

Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Sunday 05/9/2013

Sorry that we have not had a show up in a very long time, but we have had major computer issues, but we are back and this first story and link is very important so please read it and PASS IT ON!!

Battle of Athens, Tennessee

On August 1-2, 1946, some Americans, brutalized by their county government, used armed force as a last resort to overturn it. These Americans wanted honest open elections.

http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/athens.htm

V-E Day

On this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/v-e-day-is-celebrated-in-american-and-britain

Educational Freedom

Most of us went to school when we were younger, and we cannot imagine otherwise. However, it may be worth contemplating radical alternatives to the notion of school. The conflict between schooling and libertarian principles appears to me to have widened in the age of the Internet.

http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2013/Klingeducation.html

Show Notes 04/28/2013

Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Sunday 04/28/2013

Gosnell's Attorney: 'Ludicrous' 'To Say a Baby is Born Alive Because It Moves One Time'

The defense attorney for late-term abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who is on trial for murdering babies who survived abortions, told a Philadelphia a court Thursday that it is "ludicrous" to claim that "a baby is born alive because it moves one time without any other movement."

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gosnells-attorney-ludicrous-say-baby-born-alive-because-it-moves-one-time

Major leftist group now linked to domestic terrror

A key leader of the Washington-based Family Research Council, the pro-family organization attacked by “gay” terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins, II, last year, says he is asking the government to stop utilizing the organization that likely influenced Corkins’ decision to attack innocent workers at FRC’s Washington office.

http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/major-leftist-group-now-linked-to-domestic-terror/

In Florida food stamp recruiter deals with wrenching choices

A good recruiter needs to be liked, so Dillie Nerios filled gift bags with dog toys for the dog people and cat food for the cat people. She packed crates of cookies, croissants, vegetables and fresh fruit. She curled her hair and painted her nails fluorescent pink.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-florida-a-food-stamp-recruiter-deals-with-wrenching-choices/2013/04/23/b3d6b41c-a3a4-11e2-9c03-6952ff305f35_story.html

Shortage of pizza-makers as Italians are too proud

But with a slice of pizza an increasingly popular lunch time option in times of economic hardship, the pizza sector is booming - and an estimated 6,000 new "pizzaioili" are needed, according to FIPE, an Italian business federation.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10023741/Shortage-of-pizza-makers-as-Italians-are-too-proud.html

TransCanada Lashes Out at EPA Over Keystone, Asserts Canadian 'Sovereignty'

The Canadian builder of the Keystone XL pipeline has lashed out at the Environmental Protection Agency for recommending that the United States and Canada work together to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases from the tar sands crude that the pipeline would carry to refineries on the U.S. gulf coast.

http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130424/transcanada-lashes-out-epa-over-keystone-asserts-canadian-sovereignty

Republican Senators embrace State and local sales tax on internet purchases

You don’t see this very often: a majority of Senate Republicans voting to make people who buy stuff on the Internet pay state and local sales taxes.

Anti-tax guru Grover Norquist isn’t happy about it and the conservative Heritage Foundation is questioning the senators’ conservative credentials.

http://www.therightscoop.com/27-republican-senators-embrace-state-and-local-sales-tax-on-internet-purchases-find-out-who-they-are/

The Spanish American War

On April 25, 1898 the United States declared war on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898.

http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/intro.html

DHS denies ammunition purchases aimed at civilians

Officials at the Department of Homeland Security denied Thursday that its large-scale ammunition purchases were an effort keep bullets out of the hands of private citizens. At a hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday, top DHS training officer Humberto Medina said he could "say categorically that was not a factor at all" in the purchases.

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2013/04/25/dhs-denies-ammo-purchases-aimed-at-civilians

Army says no to more tanks, but Congress insists

Built to dominate the enemy in combat, the Army's hulking Abrams tank is proving equally hard to beat in a budget battle.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TOO_MANY_TANKS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-04-28-08-58-08

Show Notes 04/25/2013

Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Sunday 04/25/2013

Doctors urged to pause before they post, text or e-mail

Doctors should not "friend" patients on Facebook, should text them with "extreme caution" and should use e-mail only with patients who understand the risks of lost privacy, says the latest set of guidelines to help doctors navigate the online world.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/11/doctors-online-guidelines/2074235/

The War On Drugs Is Still Not Working

Four decades ago, President Nixon launched the US-led global War on Drugs. It has cost the nation over a trillion dollars. 50,000 people have lost their lives to shootouts, bombings, torture, and execution, and that's only counting six years in Mexico.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/04/mexican-drug-cartels-increase-agents-presence-united-states

Immigration bill would spark surge of legal arrivals

While much of the debate over immigration has focused on the fate of the estimated 11 million people in the U.S. without legal authorization, one of the biggest immediate impacts of the reform bill being prepared in the Senate would be a sudden, large surge in legal migration.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-legal-immigration-20130414,0,5787920.story

Show Notes 04/21/2013

Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Sunday 04/21/2013

Special guest: Allen Scholl Executive Director of Freedom Project Education

Freedom Project Education is rooted firmly in Judeo-Christian values, FPE’s live, online school offers a classical education for students from Kindergarten through High School, an education similar to that received by America’s Founding Fathers, promoting liberty, citizenship, and independent thinking.

www.FreedomProject.com

Background check plan in trouble as Dems call votes on gun bill

The Senate on Wednesday defeated a vital background check amendment seen as the linchpin to Democrats' gun control bill, dealing a major setback to President Obama -- who lashed out at opponents in unusually blunt terms during remarks from the Rose Garden.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/17/background-check-plan-in-trouble-as-dems-call-votes-on-gun-bill/#ixzz2QqUZwUBx

Kerry 'Not Aware' of State Dept. Impeding Congressional Probe Into Benghazi

Secretary of State John Kerry reminded the House Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday that he was "on the other side of the podium" when U.S. interests came under attack in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, and he said if the State Department is trying to impede the committee's investigation into embassy security, he's "not aware" of it.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/kerry-not-aware-state-dept-impeding-congressional-probe-benghazi

Reversing policy: US will sell Israel aerial refueling planes

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will finalize a huge arms deal with Israel during his visit starting Saturday, under which Israel will for the first time be permitted to purchase US aerial refueling planes and other ultra-sophisticated military equipment that could prove vital to any Israel strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/reversing-policy-us-will-sell-israel-aerial-refueling-planes/

Yuan reaches record high against US dollar

The yuan reached a record high yesterday as the central bank fixed its midpoint against the US dollar at the strongest level ever That sparked anticipation of further appreciation this year and stoked inflationary pressure on the mainland and Hong Kong.

http://www.scmp.com/news/article/1213468/yuan-reaches-record-high-against-us-dollar