Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts

Sunday, August 20, 2017

Show Notes 08-19-2017

Saturday Show 8-19-17

Standing Ovations for Triumphant Dennis Prager, Conducting at Disney Hall
Conservative talk radio host Dennis Prager received a standing ovation from a near-capacity crowd the moment he walked on the stage Wednesday evening to conduct the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Read More

Pelosi Calls for Resolution to Censure Trump for His ‘Repulsiveness’
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi issued a statement today declaring her support for the Congress to pass a resolution censuring President Donald Trump for “the repulsiveness” of his “words and actions.”
Read More

Case against Wasserman Schultz’ ex-IT aide expands with 4-count indictment
The federal case against Imran Awan, a former IT aide for Democratic Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, expanded Thursday with an indictment on four counts including conspiracy and making false statements.
Read More

Apple Donates $1 Million to SPLC, Claims Trump Equated ‘Nazis and Those Who Oppose Them’
In a memo to employees of Apple, Inc., CEO Tim Cook announced that the tech giant would be donating $1 million each to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Anti-Defamation League (ADL), matching donations by employees “two-for-one,” and allowing iTunes users to directly support “the work of the SPLC.”
Read More

Texas about to legalize open-carry of big knives and swords
The katana once was the weapon of the samurai. But a new law soon will make it perfectly legal for Texans to publicly carry the warrior blade – along with a range of swords and other long knives.
Read More

America's 'Confederate infrastructure:' Too big to hide, move or raze
Although a few communities are removing a few statues, the nation’s Confederate memorial infrastructure — estates, plantations, battlefields, graveyards, birthplaces, shrines and at least two huge obelisks — is too vast and diverse to be moved, hidden or destroyed.
Read More

Tuesday, March 01, 2016

Show Notes 02-28-2016

Sunday Show 02-28-16

Bill to shield cop who killed LaVoy Finicum falters in Senate
A bill to shield the identity of the officer who killed Oregon standoff spokesman LaVoy Finicum probably won't clear the Senate before session ends.
Read More

$3.3 million and counting: The cost of the Malheur occupation
The 41-day occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge cost taxpayers at least $3.3 million to cover the massive police response, a week of shuttered schools and a long list of supplies ranging from food to flashlight batteries, according to an Oregonian/OregonLive analysis of public and tribal budgets.
Read More

Woman, 66, fights off robber in home
A 66-year-old woman took on a robber and won. Wednesday afternoon, Karen Long told deputies she saw a man walking toward her home. Long rushed to the front door to lock it, but it was too late.
Read More

Atheist Group Abandons Fight Against ‘Big Mountain Jesus’ on Montana Ski Slopes
A statue of Jesus dubbed “Big Mountain Jesus,” which stands on a Montana ski slope as a World War II Memorial, is now safe from removal attempts by the atheist group, The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), which claims that the statue’s presence on federal land violates the First Amendment.
Read More

Greece becoming migrant warehouse as refugees slowly trickle into Macedonia
Hastily setup camps for refugees and other migrants are full. Thousands of people wait through the night, shivering in the cold at the Greek-Macedonian border, in the country's main port of Piraeus, in squares dotted around Athens, or on dozens of buses parked up and down Greece's main north-south highway.
Read More

Lynch: Federal Prisons Must Now Hand Over Illegals with Deportation Orders to ICE First
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch told a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Wednesday that the administration is changing how the Federal Bureau of Prisons handles illegal immigrants with deportation orders, allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take custody first instead of turning those prisoners over to local and state authorities to face prosecution.
Read More

GOP Senators introduce bill ensuring prompt return of unaccompanied minors
Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) introduced a bill that would “ensure a prompt return of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) who illegally cross the southern border” after their numbers more than doubled during the first four months of the current fiscal year.
Read More

JOHN MCAFEE: The US may be violating the 13th amendment if it forces Apple to create a back door
Cybersecurity expert John McAfee, who has vehemently opposed the FBI's attempt to force Apple to create a back door into its iOS software, is taking his defense of the tech giant one step further.
Read More

Salem gives goats boot
It seemed like an environmentally good idea at the time: Set 75 rented goats loose on 9.1 acres of city park to chomp and chew invasive plants such as Armenian blackberry and English ivy that were choking native flora out of Minto-Brown Island Park.
Read More

'Super lice' outbreak hits 25 states
A strain of so-called ‘super lice’ has hit a reported 25 states, causing concern and frustration among parents because the bugs can’t be killed with most over-the-counter treatments.
Read More 

Transgender Inmate’s State-Funded Sex Reassignment Surgery Order Stands
Attorneys for a paroled transgender inmate say California has agreed to let a court order stand that could have provided their client with state-paid sex reassignment surgery.
Read More