Show Notes 06/22/2014

Sunday Show 6/22/14

Tell Michelle Obama: Help Pass the Saving America’s Pollinators Act!
Last week, First Lady Michelle Obama finished planting her sixth-annual White House Kitchen Garden. This year, she did something different. She planted a pollinator garden to attract and support 70,000 bees already gracing the presidential lawn, as well as monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50865/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13842

Health Benefits of Honey
However, the truth is that honey bees may also get affected by the extensive pesticide usage which goes on in the chemically treated farms. The issue is so severe that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, warned Barack Obama in May 2013 that if the excessive control of pesticides is not reduced, it could lead to a globally volatile situation as the bee population throughout the world becomes more and more affected.
http://www.organicfacts.net/organic-animal-products/organic-honey/health-benefits-of-honey.html

Obama moves to save the honey bees, targets pesticides
President Obama on Friday announced plans to save endangered honey bees and other pollinators, for the first time ordering a probe into new types of pesticides that some local governments and 15 European Union nations have restricted or banned.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-moves-to-save-the-honey-bees-targets-pesticides/article/2550000

Lawmakers visit Marine held in Mexico, say sergeant 'needs to come home'
Two Republican lawmakers visited a Marine sergeant held in a Mexican jail Saturday, with one of them saying that the serviceman "needs to come home." Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., and Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz., visited Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi at the El Hongo II prison in Tecate, Mexico. Tahmooressi has been held there since March on gun charges after he accidentally crossed over the Mexican border with three legally purchased guns in his pickup truck.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/06/22/lawmakers-visit-marine-held-in-mexico-say-sergeant-needs-to-come/

California man walks at high school graduation 72 years after World War II internment
A California man who missed his 1942 graduation because he was locked in an internment camp for Japanese-Americans finally walked in a cap and gown last week, more than seven decades after he was pulled out of class just a month shy of his big day.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/06/22/japanese-american-man-walks-at-high-school-graduation-72-years-after-world-war/

Summer Solstice
On or around June 21 each year, the rays of the sun will be perpendicular to the Tropic of Cancer at 23°30' North latitude. This day is the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.
http://geography.about.com/od/physicalgeography/a/longestday.htm

Three policies could cut global warming
A wide variety of policies have been proposed to help cut emissions and stabilize the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide. This profusion of options can make it difficult for policymakers to decide what to do: Which policies can achieve emissions cuts on a meaningful scale and at a reasonable cost?
http://www.livescience.com/46401-three-policis-could-cut-global-warming.html

Woman's selfie helps doctors make diagnosis
A Canadian woman may have saved her own life by recording her stroke with her smartphone, CBC News reported. In April, Stacey Yepes’s face froze and she began experiencing trouble speaking. Thinking it may be a stroke, she went to the hospital after her symptoms subsided. Doctors suspected she was simply suffering from stress and sent her home with tips for stress management.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/06/19/selfie-womans-mini-stroke-helps-doctors-make-diagnosis/?intcmp=obnetwork

Health experts: Diseases at border becoming a  crisis
Health professionals are warning of a “humanitarian crisis” festering in Texas and Arizona as a result of unchecked border crossings of illegal-immigrant children into border communities.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/health-experts-diseases-at-border-becoming-crisis/#v146AjccekRcZklv.99