Saturday Show 7-8-17
Memorandum to DOD
Under existing DoD policy, such accessions were anticipated to begin on July 1, 2017. The Deputy Secretary directed the Services to assess their readiness to begin accessions.
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GOP Senator Proposes Transferring Sanctuary Cities’ Federal Funds to Border Wall Budge
One Republican senator is proposing a new solution for sanctuary cities that do not follow the law: take some of their federal funding and transfer it to a budget for President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall.
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Cambridge Offers ‘How-To’ Legal Guide For Illegal Aliens
Late last month, one of the Bay State’s most progressive cities quietly started offering a new service on its website, an “immigrant concerns” resource page aimed at assisting “undocumented people living in Cambridge.”
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ICE Director: ‘We Do Not Conduct Sweeps’ Or ‘Raids’
During Wednesday’s White House press briefing, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Tom Homan, said that ICE does not conduct sweeps, raids, or roadblocks to remove people who have illegally immigrated into the U.S.
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Judge Denies Hawaii’s Motion on ‘Travel Ban,’ Says Supreme Court Right Venue
A federal judge in Hawaii has denied a motion filed by that state seeking to limit the scope of President Donald Trump's so-called travel ban, parts of which were cleared to be implemented by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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First of 100 ‘Police-Stations-in-a-Box’ Arrive in Iraq: ‘Nothing Says Normal Like a Policeman’
Nothing says normal like a policeman,” Anderson told reporters. He said the temporary, relocatable police stations will be set up in all five of Iraq’s liberated provinces (Nineveh, Kirkuk, Saladin, Diyala and Anbar) “to establish a visible police presence as soon as possible.”
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Trump to Three Seas Nations: If You Need Energy, ‘Give Us a Call’
In a speech at the Three Seas Initiative Summit, President Donald Trump on Thursday touted the United States’ energy independence, telling Central European leaders that America exports energy and if they need energy, they should “give us a call.”
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Franks: If Senate Strips Planned Parenthood Defunding From Health Bill, It Will Blow It to 'Smithereens'
On Twitter last Friday, House Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) warned that if the Senate takes the "pro-life components out of" the health care bill, it will blow the bill "to smithereens" in the House. Franks' remarks came several days after he signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) that the defunding of Planned Parenthood in the bill was essentially non-negotiable.
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New holes in Loretta Lynch’s story on the Hillary probe
When former Attorney General Loretta Lynch testified last year about her decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified information, she swore she never talked to “anyone” on the Clinton campaign.
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DNC WON'T RELEASE EVIDENCE OF SETH RICH'S WIKILEAKS TIES
Jack Burkman, a lawyer and GOP lobbyist who is funding the Profiling Project, wrote the letter on behalf of the group. He called on the DNC to turn over any evidence that would substantiate Rich’s ties to WikiLeaks.
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Tech start-up event pulls flier featuring topless robot, lingerie show
Silicon Valley is reeling from charges of sexism and discrimination. But that didn't stop a tech start-up networking event at San Francisco's swank W Hotel from advertising itself with a poster of a topless female robot and the promise of a "summer seduction lingerie fashion show" to follow.
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Hybrid Driving-Flying Robots Could Go Beyond the Flying Car
Whether they're swooping in to deliver packages or spotting victims in disaster zones, swarms of flying robots could have a range of important applications in the future, a new study found. The robots can transition from driving to flying without colliding with each other and could offer benefits beyond the traditional flying-car concepts of sci-fi lore, the study said.
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Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Saturday Show 10-22-16
Christian Bakery Sued by Lesbian Couple Closing
An Oregon bakery has been forced to close down after losing a legal battle brought by a lesbian couple who sued the owners for refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding because of their Christian beliefs.
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Demolition of Controversial Migrant Camp in France to Go Ahead; Protests Continue
Demolition of a controversial camp for migrants on France’s Channel coast is imminent, but the plan to disperse inhabitants to reception centers around the country continues to draw a strong public response.
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Pope Francis denounces Christians who don't want refugees
Roman Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia published a column slamming anti-Catholic emails exchanged by members of the Clinton campaign.
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Curt Schilling questions CNN's Jake Tapper why Jews support Democrats
Days after the former Boston Red Sox pitcher expressed a desire to run for a Massachusetts Senate seat in 2018 opposite Elizabeth Warren, Schilling asked Jake Tapper on CNN's The Lead why Jews support the Democratic Party.
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EPA Spends $10.8 Million for Teacher Training on ‘Environmental Education’
The Environmental Protection Agency is spending over $10 million in taxpayer dollars for a five-year program to train teachers to “deliver high-quality environmental education in formal and non-formal education settings.”
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What Time Warner-AT&T alliance means for you
Superman, Bugs Bunny, Larry David and Wolf Blitzer could have a new corporate home soon, and depending upon who you ask, that’s either really bad for consumers, or a golden opportunity.
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How your DVR was hijacked to help epic cyberattack
Technology experts warned for years that the millions of Internet-connected "smart" devices we use every day are weak, easily hijacked and could be turned against us.
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Here's what the average American owes after college
In case you haven't heard by now, there's a major student loan crisis brewing, and the average American borrower is graduating with more debt than ever before. In fact, student debt is rising faster than inflation, and it doesn't just affect recent graduates.
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Support for Higher Teacher Salaries Drops When People Find Out How Much Teachers Earn
Americans consistently underestimate how much is spent annually to educate children in the nation’s public schools, including how much teachers are being paid.
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U.S. Combat Casualties in Iraq Rise to 3,693
The U.S. serviceman killed by a roadside bomb north of Mosul Thursday is the fourth to be killed in action since the mission against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) was launched in 2014 – and the 3,693rd American soldier, sailor, airman or Marine to be killed in combat in Iraq since the war there began in March 2003.
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Iraqi leader says no thanks to U.S. push for Turkish role in Mosul fight
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter arrived in Baghdad on an unannounced visit Saturday, hoping to push Iraq to allow Turkey to play a role in the battle against the Islamic State for Mosul, but Iraq’s prime minister said no thanks.
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Christian Bakery Sued by Lesbian Couple Closing
An Oregon bakery has been forced to close down after losing a legal battle brought by a lesbian couple who sued the owners for refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding because of their Christian beliefs.
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Demolition of Controversial Migrant Camp in France to Go Ahead; Protests Continue
Demolition of a controversial camp for migrants on France’s Channel coast is imminent, but the plan to disperse inhabitants to reception centers around the country continues to draw a strong public response.
Read More
Pope Francis denounces Christians who don't want refugees
Roman Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia published a column slamming anti-Catholic emails exchanged by members of the Clinton campaign.
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Curt Schilling questions CNN's Jake Tapper why Jews support Democrats
Days after the former Boston Red Sox pitcher expressed a desire to run for a Massachusetts Senate seat in 2018 opposite Elizabeth Warren, Schilling asked Jake Tapper on CNN's The Lead why Jews support the Democratic Party.
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EPA Spends $10.8 Million for Teacher Training on ‘Environmental Education’
The Environmental Protection Agency is spending over $10 million in taxpayer dollars for a five-year program to train teachers to “deliver high-quality environmental education in formal and non-formal education settings.”
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What Time Warner-AT&T alliance means for you
Superman, Bugs Bunny, Larry David and Wolf Blitzer could have a new corporate home soon, and depending upon who you ask, that’s either really bad for consumers, or a golden opportunity.
Read More
How your DVR was hijacked to help epic cyberattack
Technology experts warned for years that the millions of Internet-connected "smart" devices we use every day are weak, easily hijacked and could be turned against us.
Read More
Here's what the average American owes after college
In case you haven't heard by now, there's a major student loan crisis brewing, and the average American borrower is graduating with more debt than ever before. In fact, student debt is rising faster than inflation, and it doesn't just affect recent graduates.
Read More
Support for Higher Teacher Salaries Drops When People Find Out How Much Teachers Earn
Americans consistently underestimate how much is spent annually to educate children in the nation’s public schools, including how much teachers are being paid.
Read More
U.S. Combat Casualties in Iraq Rise to 3,693
The U.S. serviceman killed by a roadside bomb north of Mosul Thursday is the fourth to be killed in action since the mission against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) was launched in 2014 – and the 3,693rd American soldier, sailor, airman or Marine to be killed in combat in Iraq since the war there began in March 2003.
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Iraqi leader says no thanks to U.S. push for Turkish role in Mosul fight
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter arrived in Baghdad on an unannounced visit Saturday, hoping to push Iraq to allow Turkey to play a role in the battle against the Islamic State for Mosul, but Iraq’s prime minister said no thanks.
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Friday, July 29, 2016
Show Notes 07-28-2016
Thursday Show 7-28-16
As Obama speaks, chaos and arrests outside DNC
As President Barack Obama took the stage at the Democratic National Convention inside the Wells Fargo Center on Wednesday night, a chaotic situation erupted nearby that led to seven arrests.
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DNC hiring actors to fill convention seats?
A Bernie Sanders delegate says that the DNC is replacing Bernie supporters with paid seat fillers in order to create a fake image of “unity” as the convention goes into its final day.
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Portland doughnut shop criticized for job posting
At Pip's Original Doughnuts & Chai in Northeast Portland, owner Nate Snell is hiring. “I want people who are passionate about what they sell,” said Snell. “If you can't eat it, how can you be passionate about it?”
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Brazilian Doctor on Rio Games: ‘Foreign Athletes Will Literally Be Swimming in Human Crap’
Olympic athletes competing in the waters off Rio’s shore dodge human feces, the invisible rotavirus, and dead bodies in pursuit of gold. This game ranks not as an official Olympic sport but as a necessity for athletes competing on the open waters during the August event in Rio.
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REFUGEE ACCUSED OF RAPING U.S. GIRL FLEES AMERICA
A 49-year-old Iraqi refugee who came to the U.S. in 2003 has fled the country 48 hours before he was to stand trial in Kennewick, Washington, for allegedly raping a grade-school girl.
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US Troops Move Down to Battalion Level with Iraqis
U.S. troops have gone forward with Iraqi forces for the first time on the battalion level in a prelude to the expected assignment of more troops closer to the front lines in the effort to retake Mosul, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.
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Army Announces 800-Soldier Aviation Unit to Deploy to Afghanistan
The U.S. Army has announced an 800-soldier aviation unit will deploy later this summer to Afghanistan.
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As Obama speaks, chaos and arrests outside DNC
As President Barack Obama took the stage at the Democratic National Convention inside the Wells Fargo Center on Wednesday night, a chaotic situation erupted nearby that led to seven arrests.
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DNC hiring actors to fill convention seats?
A Bernie Sanders delegate says that the DNC is replacing Bernie supporters with paid seat fillers in order to create a fake image of “unity” as the convention goes into its final day.
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Portland doughnut shop criticized for job posting
At Pip's Original Doughnuts & Chai in Northeast Portland, owner Nate Snell is hiring. “I want people who are passionate about what they sell,” said Snell. “If you can't eat it, how can you be passionate about it?”
Read More
Brazilian Doctor on Rio Games: ‘Foreign Athletes Will Literally Be Swimming in Human Crap’
Olympic athletes competing in the waters off Rio’s shore dodge human feces, the invisible rotavirus, and dead bodies in pursuit of gold. This game ranks not as an official Olympic sport but as a necessity for athletes competing on the open waters during the August event in Rio.
Read More
REFUGEE ACCUSED OF RAPING U.S. GIRL FLEES AMERICA
A 49-year-old Iraqi refugee who came to the U.S. in 2003 has fled the country 48 hours before he was to stand trial in Kennewick, Washington, for allegedly raping a grade-school girl.
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US Troops Move Down to Battalion Level with Iraqis
U.S. troops have gone forward with Iraqi forces for the first time on the battalion level in a prelude to the expected assignment of more troops closer to the front lines in the effort to retake Mosul, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.
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Army Announces 800-Soldier Aviation Unit to Deploy to Afghanistan
The U.S. Army has announced an 800-soldier aviation unit will deploy later this summer to Afghanistan.
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Friday, May 06, 2016
Show Notes 05-05-2016
Thursday Show 05-05-16
Seattle May Day protests marred by Molotov cocktails, violence
May Day protests in Seattle turned violent on Sunday, as protesters lit fireworks and threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at police, Seattle Police said.
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Green Beret who tackled Afghan child rapist won't have to leave the Army
The U.S. Army has reversed a decision to expel a decorated Green Beret for beating up an Afghan military officer who repeatedly raped a boy he kept chained to his bed.
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Armed Services Committee Rejects Amendment to Allow Abortions at Military Facilities
The House Armed Services Committee voted down an amendment Wednesday evening that would have allowed “service members and their dependents to receive abortion services at defense medical facilities (MTFs) if they personally provide funding.”
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Five years after Usama bin Laden's death, new info -- and a new nemesis
Five years ago, Rob O’Neill chomped on a sandwich watching television at Bagram Airfield. Usama bin Laden’s dead body lay on a table next to him.
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NC Gov. on DOJ Claim That Bathroom Law Violates Civil Rights Act: Privacy Around the Nation ‘Now in Jeopardy’
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory issued a statement on Wednesday after receiving a letter from the Department of Justice (DOJ) informing him that HB2, the law he signed requiring state employees to use bathrooms and other public facilities according to their biological sex, violates the Civil Rights Act.
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USDA And EPA To Help Communities Use Internet to ‘Improve Walkability’
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have announced five communities that will participate in their Cool And Connected broadband internet program to "revitalize downtowns, diversify local economies, and improve walkability."
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Gov't Buys $4K Inflatable Smokey Bear Costume
The Department of the Interior has awarded a contract for a 10-foot inflatable WalkAround ‘Smokey Bear’ costume for $4,999.
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FDA Launches $35.7 Million LGBT Anti-Smoking Campaign
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have just launched an anti-tobacco campaign focused on young adults who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.
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Stiff Fines Proposed For EU Members That Refuse to Admit Asylum Seekers
Under a new proposal by the European Commission (EC), members of the European Union (EU) would be fined 250,000 euros ($285,000 USD) for every asylum seeker from the Middle East and North Africa they refuse to accept from a fellow EU country.
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Londoners Look Set to Elect a First-Ever Muslim Mayor Despite 'Extremism' Controversy
As a tumultuous, often sharp-edged campaign comes to a close, polls predict that residents of the British capital will elect human-rights lawyer Sadiq Khan as their first Muslim mayor on Thursday.
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DOD: 'Largest Group' of U.S. Forces in Iraq There as 'Security Protection for Advisers and Assisters'
President Obama has sent a growing number of troops to Iraq to protect the relatively small number of American advisers and assisters he deployed in the first place to help the Iraqis fight Islamic State terrorists.
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Seattle May Day protests marred by Molotov cocktails, violence
May Day protests in Seattle turned violent on Sunday, as protesters lit fireworks and threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at police, Seattle Police said.
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Green Beret who tackled Afghan child rapist won't have to leave the Army
The U.S. Army has reversed a decision to expel a decorated Green Beret for beating up an Afghan military officer who repeatedly raped a boy he kept chained to his bed.
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Armed Services Committee Rejects Amendment to Allow Abortions at Military Facilities
The House Armed Services Committee voted down an amendment Wednesday evening that would have allowed “service members and their dependents to receive abortion services at defense medical facilities (MTFs) if they personally provide funding.”
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Five years after Usama bin Laden's death, new info -- and a new nemesis
Five years ago, Rob O’Neill chomped on a sandwich watching television at Bagram Airfield. Usama bin Laden’s dead body lay on a table next to him.
Read More
NC Gov. on DOJ Claim That Bathroom Law Violates Civil Rights Act: Privacy Around the Nation ‘Now in Jeopardy’
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory issued a statement on Wednesday after receiving a letter from the Department of Justice (DOJ) informing him that HB2, the law he signed requiring state employees to use bathrooms and other public facilities according to their biological sex, violates the Civil Rights Act.
Read More
USDA And EPA To Help Communities Use Internet to ‘Improve Walkability’
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have announced five communities that will participate in their Cool And Connected broadband internet program to "revitalize downtowns, diversify local economies, and improve walkability."
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Gov't Buys $4K Inflatable Smokey Bear Costume
The Department of the Interior has awarded a contract for a 10-foot inflatable WalkAround ‘Smokey Bear’ costume for $4,999.
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FDA Launches $35.7 Million LGBT Anti-Smoking Campaign
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have just launched an anti-tobacco campaign focused on young adults who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.
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Stiff Fines Proposed For EU Members That Refuse to Admit Asylum Seekers
Under a new proposal by the European Commission (EC), members of the European Union (EU) would be fined 250,000 euros ($285,000 USD) for every asylum seeker from the Middle East and North Africa they refuse to accept from a fellow EU country.
Read More
Londoners Look Set to Elect a First-Ever Muslim Mayor Despite 'Extremism' Controversy
As a tumultuous, often sharp-edged campaign comes to a close, polls predict that residents of the British capital will elect human-rights lawyer Sadiq Khan as their first Muslim mayor on Thursday.
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DOD: 'Largest Group' of U.S. Forces in Iraq There as 'Security Protection for Advisers and Assisters'
President Obama has sent a growing number of troops to Iraq to protect the relatively small number of American advisers and assisters he deployed in the first place to help the Iraqis fight Islamic State terrorists.
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Tuesday, May 03, 2016
Show Notes 05-01-2016
Sunday Show 05-01-16
Iraqi protesters pour into Green Zone, storm parliament
Anti-government protesters tore down poured into the Iraqi capital's heavily fortified Green Zone on Saturday, where they stormed parliament in a major escalation of a political crisis that has simmered for months.
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Coalition: Park Ranger Uniforms ‘Threatening’ Latinos - Have ‘Cultural Implications’
A coalition of legislators and civil rights groups say the National Park Service needs to focus on increasing inclusion on public lands, including possibly changing the “threatening” uniforms of Park Rangers.
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11 year old boy shoots home intruder
An 11-year-old Alabama boy says he opened fire with a gun and wounded a man suspected of breaking into his home. Chris Gaither tells WVTM-TV he was home alone in Talladega on Wednesday when he heard a noise and realized someone else was inside.
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Kentucky Confederate monument to be removed after 120 years
The stone monument honoring Kentuckians who died for the Confederacy in the Civil War will be moved to another location, University President James Ramsey and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said during a surprise announcement Friday. The monument is capped with a statue of a Confederate soldier.
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Starbucks faces 5 million over amount of ice in its iced beverages
According to The Telegraph, Stacy Pincus filed a 29-page complaint in Northern Illinois Federal Court in Chicago last week. Pincus alleges that Starbucks customers are being misled because the company’s iced drinks contain just over half the drink they are paying for.
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Why many retirees will run out of money
Saving for retirement is hard enough these days, with wage growth lagging and more than 40 percent of workers lacking access to a workplace retirement savings plan.
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One Top Taxpayer Moved, and New Jersey Shuddered
Our top-heavy economy has come to this: One man can move out of New Jersey and put the entire state budget at risk. Other states are facing similar situations as a greater share of income — and tax revenue — becomes concentrated in the hands of a few.
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Animals get to use their own bathrooms at JFK airport
Little Simba couldn't wait to check it out. The toy poodle was among the first to try a special bathroom just for animals at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, among a growing number of "pet relief facilities" being installed at major air hubs across the nation.
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Elephants to perform for final time at Ringling Bros. Circus
Elephants will perform for the last time at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus on Sunday, as the show closes its own chapter on a controversial practice that has entertained audiences since circuses began in America two centuries ago.
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Iraqi protesters pour into Green Zone, storm parliament
Anti-government protesters tore down poured into the Iraqi capital's heavily fortified Green Zone on Saturday, where they stormed parliament in a major escalation of a political crisis that has simmered for months.
Read More
Coalition: Park Ranger Uniforms ‘Threatening’ Latinos - Have ‘Cultural Implications’
A coalition of legislators and civil rights groups say the National Park Service needs to focus on increasing inclusion on public lands, including possibly changing the “threatening” uniforms of Park Rangers.
Read More
11 year old boy shoots home intruder
An 11-year-old Alabama boy says he opened fire with a gun and wounded a man suspected of breaking into his home. Chris Gaither tells WVTM-TV he was home alone in Talladega on Wednesday when he heard a noise and realized someone else was inside.
Read More
Kentucky Confederate monument to be removed after 120 years
The stone monument honoring Kentuckians who died for the Confederacy in the Civil War will be moved to another location, University President James Ramsey and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said during a surprise announcement Friday. The monument is capped with a statue of a Confederate soldier.
Read More
Starbucks faces 5 million over amount of ice in its iced beverages
According to The Telegraph, Stacy Pincus filed a 29-page complaint in Northern Illinois Federal Court in Chicago last week. Pincus alleges that Starbucks customers are being misled because the company’s iced drinks contain just over half the drink they are paying for.
Read More
Why many retirees will run out of money
Saving for retirement is hard enough these days, with wage growth lagging and more than 40 percent of workers lacking access to a workplace retirement savings plan.
Read More
One Top Taxpayer Moved, and New Jersey Shuddered
Our top-heavy economy has come to this: One man can move out of New Jersey and put the entire state budget at risk. Other states are facing similar situations as a greater share of income — and tax revenue — becomes concentrated in the hands of a few.
Read More
Animals get to use their own bathrooms at JFK airport
Little Simba couldn't wait to check it out. The toy poodle was among the first to try a special bathroom just for animals at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, among a growing number of "pet relief facilities" being installed at major air hubs across the nation.
Read More
Elephants to perform for final time at Ringling Bros. Circus
Elephants will perform for the last time at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus on Sunday, as the show closes its own chapter on a controversial practice that has entertained audiences since circuses began in America two centuries ago.
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Friday, September 18, 2015
Show Notes 09-17-2015
Thursday show 09-17-15
Constitution Day
On September 17, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time to sign the document they had created. We encourage all Americans to observe this important day in our nation's history by attending local events in your area.
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Constitution Day and Citizenship Day
Constitution Day and Citizenship Day is a combined event that is annually observed in the United States on September 17. This event commemorates the formation and signing of the Constitution of the United States on September 17, 1787.
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The new definition of mental disorder
No one really doubts the phenomena of birds and bees. But to call birds and bees miracles and to create a miracle-maker god who created them is a certain kind of fraudulent leap.
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Texas town erupts over plan for Muslim cemetery
Residents of a Farmersville, Texas, a town located about 25 miles from the site of a Garland attack by two radical Islamists – who were then shot by local police – say they’ll do whatever it takes to keep a Muslim cemetery away from their county, even if it means dumping pig parts on the requested property site.
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Obama's Syrian fighter plan implodes
President Obama just found out how many good anti-ISIS fighters $500 million buys: five, at most. Gen. Lloyd Austin, who leads the U.S. military’s Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday there are only four or five Syrian fighters left out of 54 who were trained as part of a U.S. program.
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Obama set to deport 12 Iraqi Christian refugees
Nearly half of the 27 Iraqi Christians the Obama administration has been holding for the past six months at an ICE detention center in Otay Mesa, California, are set to be deported in coming weeks, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday.
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Chinese hack of government network compromises security clearance files
Fox News reports that according to private security firm CrowdStrike’s founder, Dmitri Alperovitch, the Chinese are compiling a massive ‘Facebook’ like database on American federal government employees for use in espionage and blackmail.
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Obama rushing to bestow citizenship on immigrants
The White House announced a new campaign Thursday to get the 8.8 million legal immigrants in the United States on U.S. citizenship rolls – a message presidential staffers are sending across the nation just in time for voting season.
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Ex-judges bolt legal journal over ban on term 'illegal alien'
A pair of veteran immigration judges have left a widely read legal journal over its ban on the term "illegal alien," calling the decision a case of the "political correctness word police" taking control of the immigration debate.
Read More
Antidepressant Paxil is unsafe for teenagers new analysis says
Fourteen years ago, a leading drug maker published a study showing that the antidepressant Paxil was safe and effective for teenagers. On Wednesday, a major medical journal posted a new analysis of the same data concluding that the opposite is true.
Read More
Constitution Day
On September 17, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time to sign the document they had created. We encourage all Americans to observe this important day in our nation's history by attending local events in your area.
Read More
Constitution Day and Citizenship Day
Constitution Day and Citizenship Day is a combined event that is annually observed in the United States on September 17. This event commemorates the formation and signing of the Constitution of the United States on September 17, 1787.
Read More
The new definition of mental disorder
No one really doubts the phenomena of birds and bees. But to call birds and bees miracles and to create a miracle-maker god who created them is a certain kind of fraudulent leap.
Read More
Texas town erupts over plan for Muslim cemetery
Residents of a Farmersville, Texas, a town located about 25 miles from the site of a Garland attack by two radical Islamists – who were then shot by local police – say they’ll do whatever it takes to keep a Muslim cemetery away from their county, even if it means dumping pig parts on the requested property site.
Read More
Obama's Syrian fighter plan implodes
President Obama just found out how many good anti-ISIS fighters $500 million buys: five, at most. Gen. Lloyd Austin, who leads the U.S. military’s Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday there are only four or five Syrian fighters left out of 54 who were trained as part of a U.S. program.
Read More
Obama set to deport 12 Iraqi Christian refugees
Nearly half of the 27 Iraqi Christians the Obama administration has been holding for the past six months at an ICE detention center in Otay Mesa, California, are set to be deported in coming weeks, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday.
Read More
Chinese hack of government network compromises security clearance files
Fox News reports that according to private security firm CrowdStrike’s founder, Dmitri Alperovitch, the Chinese are compiling a massive ‘Facebook’ like database on American federal government employees for use in espionage and blackmail.
Read More
Obama rushing to bestow citizenship on immigrants
The White House announced a new campaign Thursday to get the 8.8 million legal immigrants in the United States on U.S. citizenship rolls – a message presidential staffers are sending across the nation just in time for voting season.
Read More
Ex-judges bolt legal journal over ban on term 'illegal alien'
A pair of veteran immigration judges have left a widely read legal journal over its ban on the term "illegal alien," calling the decision a case of the "political correctness word police" taking control of the immigration debate.
Read More
Antidepressant Paxil is unsafe for teenagers new analysis says
Fourteen years ago, a leading drug maker published a study showing that the antidepressant Paxil was safe and effective for teenagers. On Wednesday, a major medical journal posted a new analysis of the same data concluding that the opposite is true.
Read More
Friday, August 14, 2015
Show Notes 08-09-2015
Sunday
show 08-09-15
Black
Lives Matter activists push Sanders off stage at Seattle event
Black
Lives Matter activists stole the spotlight away from Democratic
presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Saturday in Seattle,
prompting Sanders to leave without giving his speech.
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LOUISIANA
CUTS OFF PLANNED PARENTHOOD FUNDING
Louisiana
Gov. Bobby Jindal has cut off state taxpayer funding to Planned
Parenthood in the wake of shocking videos showing the organization
harvesting baby organs for profit.
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Texas
judge tells defendant in assault case sentence is marriage or jail
A
Texas judge decided to mete out justice in an unusual fashion when he
offered a defendant up for sentencing in a minor assault case the
choice of getting married or going to jail for 15 days.
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Iraqi
Christians who fled IS living in limbo while in exile
A
year after tens of thousands of Iraqi Christians fled communities
overtaken by Islamic State militants, their lives are on hold in
exile: They won't go back to Iraq, saying it's not safe for
Christians, but as refugees they're barred from working in temporary
asylum countries such as Jordan.
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Perry
County Sheriff Jimmy Dale Smith told WDAM-TV that the soldiers were
training at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center near
Hattiesburg.
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Chattanooga
Shooting: Navy Plans Armed Guards for Reserve Centers
After
a gunman killed four Marines and a sailor at a Navy Reserve Center in
Chattanooga last month, the Navy plans to station armed guards at all
of its reserve centers across the country, NBC News has learned.
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Feds
gun grab plan sparks protest in Idaho
Dozens
of people, including the local sheriff, gathered outside a Navy
veteran’s home in Idaho this week because of their worries a
federal gun grab program may have authorities confiscating his guns –
in what may be the first public protest to a strategy on which WND
has been reporting for two years.
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Pope
urges compassion for divorced Catholics who remarry
Pope
Francis' call Wednesday for a church of "open doors" that
welcomes divorced Catholics prompted speculation over whether he was
signaling support for easing the ban on Communion for couples who
remarry without a church annulment.
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A
group of black pastors sent a letter to the director of the
Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery asking that the
bust of Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger be removed from
the museum’s “Struggle for Justice” exhibit, citing her support
for eugenics and the targeting of minorities by the nation’s
largest abortion provider.
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Saturday, May 30, 2015
Show Notes 05-28-2015
Thursday show 05-28-15
GDP changes coming in
July as US addresses weak first quarter
The way some parts of
U.S. gross domestic product are calculated are about to change in the
wake of the debate over persistently depressed first-quarter growth.
Read More
Tsipras Urges Euro-Area
Creditors to Compromise for Greek Deal
Greek society can’t
absorb more austerity, and the country’s creditors must compromise
to break the impasse over the release of funds for its cash-strapped
economy, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said.
Read More
Venezuelans look to
unload bolivars as currency continues to tumble
Venezuelans are dumping
their rapidly-depreciating currency at a quicker pace, leading to a
staggering plunge in its free-market value, as the crisis-plagued
economy edges closer to an outbreak of hyperinflation.
Read More
Worth a shot: Former
Pennsylvania police officer's vending machines sell ammo
You can buy snacks,
condoms, fishing bait, marijuana and even gold from vending machines,
so Sam Piccinini figured, “Why not bullets?”
Read More
Police officer 'dragged
into the woods to be killed by three men' saved when his K-9 chases
after him and sends the attackers running
Deputy Todd Frazier of
Long Beach, Mississippi, a K-9 officer, pulled over last Monday night
to check on a car when he noticed that the man in the front seat
appeared to be passed out and the lights were off.
Read More
White house ban on
militarized gear for police may mean little
This week, the White
House announced a series of steps intended to address the kind of
policing issues brought to light by the violence in Ferguson and
later in Baltimore. One of those steps bans police from obtaining
some military-style equipment -
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'There's evil in this
world': US vets risk all to fight ISIS with Kurdish forces
Aaron Core thought he
had seen enough of Iraq during a U.S. Army tour that ended in 2010.
But the image of American journalist James Foley being murdered by an
ISIS executioner prompted him to leave Tennessee and head back, this
time as an unpaid volunteer in the service of the Kurdish Peshmerga.
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White House: US won't
be 'responsible' for 'security situation' in Iraq
The White House on
Thursday, in no uncertain terms, put the onus on the Iraqis to fight
and defeat the Islamic State -- even as a new report warned foreign
fighters are flocking to the battlefield at a historic and dangerous
pace.
Read More
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Show Notes 04-26-15
Sunday show 04-26-5
Seven lawsuits now pending against FCC over net neutrality
The number of lawsuits filed by industry groups against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over its new "net neutrality" rules continued to grow, with a seventh organization joining the pack last Friday.
Read More
Protest over police custody death becomes violent
Baltimore was under siege Saturday following a march by thousands on City Hall to protest the death of Freddie Gray, 25, who died from injuries while in police custody.
Read More
British pop stars team with Iraqi clergy to condemn ISIS in song
A British pop band and an Iraqi Christian leader have teamed up for an emotional music video dedicated to thousands of refugees forced to flee from ISIS. "We Are One,” a song by the band Ooberfuse, is accompanied by a video that details the plight of Christians and other religious minorities, and features footage of the band members visiting refugee camps.
Read More
VA wastes millions still want more
Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald says his department is so cash-strapped that it’s struggling to accommodate the massive number of veterans seeking treatment from the health system.
Read More
Church scraps people vs pis wrestling event after outcry
A Wisconsin church is trying to save its bacon. St. Patrick Catholic Parish, in Stephensville, is canceling its annual parishioners vs. pigs mud-wrestling fund-raiser after critics launched an online petition campaign against the event that garnered more than 81,000 signatures.
Read More
GoFundMe block fundraiser for Christian bakery
In the wake of what many are viewing as a crushingly punitive and unfair judgment, former bakery owners Aaron and Melissa Klein were ordered by administrative judge Alan McCullough to pay $135,000 in fines to a lesbian couple. The Kleins declined to bake a wedding cake for the couple due to their religious beliefs.
Read More
Sentencing of Christians explodes to 10000 in China
China’s sentencing of Christians exploded more than 10,000 percent from 2013 to 2014, according to a new report from China Aid Association, an organization that exposes religious freedom and human rights abuses.Read more at
Read More
No juniors show up to take SBAC at Seattle high school
Not a single 11th grade student showed up to take the SBAC test at Nathan Hale High School this week, a Seattle Public Schools spokesperson confirmed.
Read More
Parents fighting secret government tests
Parents are pulling their students out of Common Core testing procedures by the droves, and now someone has leaked test material onto the Internet. It’s just the beginning of the resistance to the federally orchestrated management of children, according to the author of a new book on education policy.
Read More
Girl who battled cancer is dismissed for missing school
12-year-old Michigan girl who just made it through the biggest fight of her life has been dealt another blow. In August 2012, Rose McGrath, of Battle Creek, was diagnosed with leukemia. But last week, her family received a letter from her school that would turn her world upside down.
Read More
Seven lawsuits now pending against FCC over net neutrality
The number of lawsuits filed by industry groups against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over its new "net neutrality" rules continued to grow, with a seventh organization joining the pack last Friday.
Read More
Protest over police custody death becomes violent
Baltimore was under siege Saturday following a march by thousands on City Hall to protest the death of Freddie Gray, 25, who died from injuries while in police custody.
Read More
British pop stars team with Iraqi clergy to condemn ISIS in song
A British pop band and an Iraqi Christian leader have teamed up for an emotional music video dedicated to thousands of refugees forced to flee from ISIS. "We Are One,” a song by the band Ooberfuse, is accompanied by a video that details the plight of Christians and other religious minorities, and features footage of the band members visiting refugee camps.
Read More
VA wastes millions still want more
Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald says his department is so cash-strapped that it’s struggling to accommodate the massive number of veterans seeking treatment from the health system.
Read More
Church scraps people vs pis wrestling event after outcry
A Wisconsin church is trying to save its bacon. St. Patrick Catholic Parish, in Stephensville, is canceling its annual parishioners vs. pigs mud-wrestling fund-raiser after critics launched an online petition campaign against the event that garnered more than 81,000 signatures.
Read More
GoFundMe block fundraiser for Christian bakery
In the wake of what many are viewing as a crushingly punitive and unfair judgment, former bakery owners Aaron and Melissa Klein were ordered by administrative judge Alan McCullough to pay $135,000 in fines to a lesbian couple. The Kleins declined to bake a wedding cake for the couple due to their religious beliefs.
Read More
Sentencing of Christians explodes to 10000 in China
China’s sentencing of Christians exploded more than 10,000 percent from 2013 to 2014, according to a new report from China Aid Association, an organization that exposes religious freedom and human rights abuses.Read more at
Read More
No juniors show up to take SBAC at Seattle high school
Not a single 11th grade student showed up to take the SBAC test at Nathan Hale High School this week, a Seattle Public Schools spokesperson confirmed.
Read More
Parents fighting secret government tests
Parents are pulling their students out of Common Core testing procedures by the droves, and now someone has leaked test material onto the Internet. It’s just the beginning of the resistance to the federally orchestrated management of children, according to the author of a new book on education policy.
Read More
Girl who battled cancer is dismissed for missing school
12-year-old Michigan girl who just made it through the biggest fight of her life has been dealt another blow. In August 2012, Rose McGrath, of Battle Creek, was diagnosed with leukemia. But last week, her family received a letter from her school that would turn her world upside down.
Read More
Friday, February 13, 2015
Show Notes 02-12-2015
Thursday show 2/12/15
New Mexico Sheriff
stands against IRS
In a case reminiscent
of the Cliven Bundy land standoff in Nevada, a New Mexico sheriff is
refusing on constitutional grounds to allow the federal government to
sell the property of a business owner embroiled in a dispute with the
IRS until the owner receives due process of law and his appeal is
heard.
Read More
Terror suspects
arrested every day in UK as police call for extra funding to cope
with Islamic threat
Metropolitan assistant
commissioner Mark Rowley revealed fanatics were being detained on a
daily basis following a sharp rise in arrests because of the growing
threat from Islamist jihadists.
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Earnest,
Psaki Take to Twitter to Clarify Position on Terror Targeting of
Jewish Store
White
House and State Department press secretaries took to Twitter Tuesday
to underscore that the administration believes a terror attack on a
kosher store in Paris last month was anti-Jewish, hours after both
appeared reluctant during daily press briefings to acknowledge that.
Read More
VA secretary asks Iraq
War veteran: 'What have you done?'
Veterans Affairs
Secretary Robert McDonald on Wednesday asked a Republican lawmaker
who served in both Iraq wars, "What have you done?" as the
two men sparred over huge cost overruns at a troubled Denver VA
hospital.
Read More
PA town packs hear and
wants visitors to know
Drive into tiny Conoy
Township, Pa., and you'll see the standard "welcome" sign,
but it also comes with a warning: "THIS IS NOT A GUN FREE ZONE."
Read More
Beretta Pushes Back on
Army Rejection of M9A3 Pistol
The U.S. Army has now
formally rejected Beretta USA's proposal for a modernized version of
the M9 9mm pistol. But Beretta is not giving up just yet.
Read More
Abraham
Lincoln
Abraham
Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin in
Hardin County, Kentucky to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln.
Thomas was a strong and determined pioneer who found a moderate level
of prosperity and was well respected in the community.
Read More
Saturday, May 03, 2014
Show Notes 05/01/2014
Thursday Show 5/1/14
National Day of Prayer
In 1775 the Continental Congress allocated a time
for prayer in forming a new nation. Over the years, there have been
calls for a day of prayer, including from President Abraham Lincoln
in 1863.
What is May Day all about?
In the late 1800s, workers in different parts of
the world were fighting for the right to work no more than eight
hours a day. At the time, it was common for them to have to work 11
hours or more each day. They chose May 1 as a time to protest in
favor of a shorter
workday.
DOJ now pressuring banks to refuse service to gun
stores
For the past several months, the U.S. Department
of Justice has been pressuring banks to refuse service to businesses
the DOJ is targeting politically, such as gun stores, in a program
entitled Operation Choke
Point.
Iraq War Veteran reunited with bomb sniffing
Military dog in Chicago
April 30, 2014: Sgt. Jason Bos was reunited with
MWD Cila M389, a Labrador Retriever, at Chicago O'Hare International
Airport.MyFoxChicago.com
Ranchers and Empire in the American West Mises
Daily: by Ryan McMaken Part One
The militarized siege of a cattle ranch near
Bunkerville, Nevada has drawn national attention as dozens of federal
agents, armed with machine guns, sniper rifles, helicopters, and
more, have descended on the ranch to seize cattle, people, and
generally show everyone who’s
boss.Saturday, January 11, 2014
Show Notes 01/05/2014
Sunday Show 1/5/14
Special Guest: Lawrence Roberge; Associate
Professor of Anatomy & Physiology at Laboure College, Milton,
Massachusetts.
Below-zero
temps push into Midwest, Northeast
Snow-covered roads, high winds and ice were
creating dangerous driving conditions Sunday from the Dakotas to
Missouri to Delaware ahead of a "polar vortex" that'll
bring below-zero -- and possibly record-breaking -- temperatures not
seen in years to much of the
nation.
Utah gun maker turns down $15m deal with Pakistan
A Utah-based gun manufacturer has turned down a
$15 million deal to supply Pakistan with precision rifles, citing
concerns they could eventually be used against U.S.
troops.
Al-Qaeda Largely Takes Over Fallujah and Ramadi in
Iraq
Two Iraqi cities that were strongholds of Sunni
insurgents during the U.S. war in the country are battlegrounds once
more after al-Qaida militants largely took them over, fending off
government forces that have been besieging them for
days.
Say It With Shrubs? EPA Wants You to Love the
Earth on Valentine's Day
Why say it with flowers, when you could send your
love a shrub? The Environmental Protection Agency is offering
Americans "Tips for February Fun," encouraging them to
think outside the flower box on Valentine's
Day.
Friday, August 09, 2013
Show Notes 08/04/2013
Show: Sunday 8/4/13
Lindsey Graham: I Will
Run as Conservative in GOP Primary
South Carolina Sen.
Lindsey Graham compared himself to Ronald Reagan when asked about the
growing number of Republican challengers seeking to unseat him in his
bid for a third term.
Impeachment still and
option says GOP Congressman
Earlier this week,
Chaffetz was interviewed by the Salt Lake Tribune, and was asked if
impeachment were within the realm of possibilities.
Citrus growers use
predator wasp to fight disease
The pest is wreaking
havoc in Florida’s 32 citrus-growing counties. In California, it’s
been detected in nine counties, most of them south of the commercial
growing areas in the Central Valley. Farmers are hoping the Tamarixia
wasp can help keep it that
way.
http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/citrus-growers-use-predator-wasp-to-fight-disease/#uyHZ0DehvSkM8Zlv.99
Competing Currencies in
Somalia
For years a debate has
raged in monetary economics over the credibility of the theory that a
more stable monetary system would emerge were the system to allow for
concurrent currencies operating under no legal restrictions.
Kerry to Recognize
Same-sex Marriage for Travel Visas
Same-sex married
partners seeking U.S. travel visas will now be recognized as legal
couples under a new rule put forth by Secretary of State John Kerry,
the Advocate reports.
Garden of Eden to
become Iraqi national park
THE "Garden of
Eden" has been saved, even as chaos grows all around. Last week,
amid a wave of bombings on the streets of Baghdad, Iraq's Council of
Ministers found time to approve the creation of the country's first
national park – the centrepiece of a remarkable restoration of the
Mesopotamian marshes in the south of the country.
Christians lose out to
atheists for senior jobs as religious people are 'held back from top
positions'
Christians are less
likely than atheists to be promoted to top jobs, official figures
show.
Nearly a quarter of
people with no religious belief live in homes headed by someone with
a senior executive position or a job in one of the professions.
Friday, May 16, 2008
House defeats bill for more war funding
From the boston globe:
The Democratic-led House yesterday rejected more funds to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; many Republicans angry over the majority party's tactics sat out the vote. It did approve more money for the jobless and an expansion of GI education benefits.
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In a rapid series of votes on the war-funding bill and accompanying components, Republicans withheld their votes in protest, leading to the defeat of the Iraq-funding legislation by a 149-to-141 tally. Nearly two-thirds of the House's Democrats voted against continuing to fund the war.[snip]
A total of 132 Republicans withheld their votes for the troops-funding bill in protest, saying the strategy by Democrats to load the war-funding measure with unrelated provisions would unnecessarily delay getting funding to service members in the field.Don't worry this will be temporary it will be back and the troops will be funded. I cannot believe the dems will want to be hit with not providing for the troops. However...
"We're playing political games on the backs of our troops - you know it," said the House minority leader, John Boehner, Republican of Ohio. "All this bill's going to do is delay the process for weeks and weeks and weeks while we play political games."
A total of 132 Republicans withheld their votes for the troops-funding bill in protest, saying the strategy by Democrats to load the war-funding measure with unrelated provisions would unnecessarily delay getting funding to service members in the field.The politics behind this is to remove the Iraq war issue from the discourse in the general election. However on a positive note...
"We're playing political games on the backs of our troops - you know it," said the House minority leader, John Boehner, Republican of Ohio. "All this bill's going to do is delay the process for weeks and weeks and weeks while we play political games."
Thirty-two Republicans joined with Democrats on a 256-to-166 vote to sharply boost education benefits for Iraq-Afghanistan veterans under the GI Bill, despite an accompanying tax surcharge on the wealthy and small businesses, and voted to provide a 13-week extension of unemployment benefits.[snip]
The White House weighed in again yesterday with a promise to veto the bill over the rejection of war spending, the new tax surcharge, and restrictions on President Bush's ability to conduct the war in Iraq.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
U.S. Says New Find Shows Iran Still Sends Arms to Iraq
Iran has it's own agenda and they do not care about the western countries or the U.N....
From The Wall Street Journal:
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From The Wall Street Journal:
The U.S. military says it has found caches of newly made Iranian weapons in Iraq, leading senior officials to conclude Tehran is continuing to funnel armaments into Iraq despite its pledges to the contrary.show of hands, who thought Iran was going to be helpful to coalition forces in Iraq? Her's your sign...
Officials in Washington and Baghdad said the purported Iranian mortars, rockets and explosives had date stamps indicating they were manufactured in the past two months. The U.S. plans to publicize the weapons caches in coming days. A pair of senior commanders said a presentation was tentatively planned for Monday.
This month, Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Iranian support for Shiite extremist groups had grown. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said for the first time that he believed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad knew about the shipments.Interesting? Let us continue...
Iran has long denied that its government knowingly funneled weapons into Iraq or trained Shiite militants there. It has derided the U.S. claims as propaganda. Several senior U.S. military officials said the weapons caches would undercut the Iranian denials and provide new evidence of continuing Iranian support for Shiite militants across Iraq.
"You can see the manufacturing dates right on the armaments themselves," one senior commander in Baghdad said. "These are very clearly weapons that were made in the last month or so."
Rear Adm. Gregory Smith, the top American military spokesman in Baghdad, said U.S. officials were "working on a briefing that we hope to be able to deliver in the next week or so." He said he would not be "disclosing the substance of the brief."
Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, focused his recent congressional testimony almost exclusively on Iran, which he said was playing a "destructive role" by funneling advanced weaponry to Shiite militants in Iraq.I rest my case.
Within the State Department, views about Iran have also been hardening. Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, told reporters last year that there were signs Tehran was "using some influence to bring down violence from extremist Shia militias." Earlier this month, by contrast, he said Iran was playing a "highly dangerous" role in Iraq, and directly accused Tehran of providing the deadly rockets that slammed into the U.S. Embassy compound where he lives and works.
Mr. Crocker also said that recent talks between U.S., Iraqi and Iranian officials had made little progress and failed to persuade Iran to change its behavior in Iraq.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
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Rule Number Two
by Heidi Squier Kraft
One of the toughest lessons of her deployment was perfectly articulated by the TV show M*A*S*H: "There are two rules of war. Rule number one is that young men die. Rule number two is that doctors can't change rule number one." Some Marines, Kraft realized, and even some of their doctors, would be damaged by war in ways she could not repair. And sometimes, people were repaired in ways she never expected.
RULE NUMBER TWO is a powerful firsthand account of providing comfort admidst the chaos of war, and of what it takes to endure.
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Major Offensive Targets Insurgents
Just a bit of an update...
From WaPo:
Technorati Tags: news, politics, Iraq War, al-qaeda, terrorism
From WaPo:
ZAHMM, Iraq, Jan. 8 -- The U.S. military launched a major offensive early Tuesday against one of the largest known redoubts of al-Qaeda in Iraq, part of a new nationwide campaign to destroy remaining pockets of the Sunni insurgency.Why does WaPo insist on calling it an insurgency, when the locals tell us they are FOREIGNERS? They are TERRORISTS plain and simple.
The unusually large attack by 5,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops in volatile Diyala province reflects growing concern that success in rooting the group out of Baghdad and Anbar province to the west has driven its members to northern areas such as the Diyala River Valley and the city of Mosul.
U.S. officials said an estimated 200 fighters from al-Qaeda in Iraq created a mini-state here in what Americans call the Bread Basket, a 50-square-mile, shoe-shaped region northeast of Baghdad that stretches from the northern Diyala River to a parallel canal to the east. Residents said the fighters, whom some described as foreigners, imposed curfews and strict interpretations of sharia, or Islamic law.
The U.S. troop buildup that began last year and success in fighting al-Qaeda in Iraq elsewhere in the country have, for the first time in two years, freed up enough troops to wage a full-scale assault and establish a continued presence in this area, U.S. commanders said. They said the Iraqi military is sending up to a full battalion from Anbar in the coming days to help hold the territory.
The offensive was intended to surprise al-Qaeda in Iraq, a mostly Iraqi insurgent group that the U.S. military contends is led by foreigners, and to prevent its fighters from escaping by deploying troops to surround the area.
But Lt. Col. Rod Coffey, 45, of Anne Arundel County, who leads the squadron that first attacked the area, said initial reports from villagers indicated that many of the Sunni insurgents, fearing a U.S. offensive, had left more than a week ago. He estimated that 50 to 75 fighters remained.
"They created a sharia anti-state that terrorized the Iraqi citizens here," Coffey said in Zahmm, a village where he and his men spent the night in a crumbling, unoccupied house enclosed by a mud wall.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Reid says Iraq funds tied to troop pullout
They are playing politics with our troops again...
From the boston globe:
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From the boston globe:
Senate majority leader Harry Reid said yesterday that Democrats won't approve more money for the Iraq war this year unless President Bush agrees to begin bringing troops home.This is B.S. they are trying to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory. They know we are starting to succeed in Iraq and they cannot allow that to happen. These cockroaches are politically invested in defeat in Iraq. The whole thing makes me sick.
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By the end of the week, the House and Senate planned to vote on a $50 billion measure for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill would require Bush to initiate troop withdrawals immediately with the goal of ending combat by December 2008.
If Bush vetoes the bill, "then the president won't get his $50 billion," Reid, Democrat of Nevada, told reporters at a news conference on Capitol Hill.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, made a similar statement last week in a closed-door caucus meeting.
The tough rhetoric does not necessarily foretell another veto showdown with Bush on the war. Similar legislation has routinely fallen short of the 60 votes needed to overcome procedural hurdles in the Senate. It is possible the upcoming bill will sink, in which case Democrats would probably wait until next year to revisit the issue.
But their remarks reflect an emerging Democratic strategy on the war: force congressional Republicans and Bush to accept a timetable for troop withdrawals or turn Pentagon accounting processes into a bureaucratic nightmare.
If Democrats refuse to send Bush the $50 billion, the military would have to drain its annual budget to keep the wars afloat. Last week, Congress approved a $471 billion budget for the military that pays mostly for nonwar-related projects, such as depot maintenance and weapons development.
The tactic stops short of outright blocking money from being used on the war, an approach that has divided Democrats and fueled Republican criticism that Democrats are eager to abandon the troops. But forcing the Pentagon into a painful budget dance spares Democrats from having to write a blank check for the unpopular Iraq war.
"We will and we must pay for whatever cost to protect the American people," said House Democratic leader Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland. "But tragically, unfortunately, incredibly, the war is not making us safer."
In a recent letter to Congress, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England warned that the Army was on track to run out of money by February.
A White House spokesman said Bush would veto any legislation that sets a timetable for troop withdrawals.
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The Surge is Working in Iraq
Just some good news...
From The Washington Times:
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From The Washington Times:
No one is declaring victory, but cautious optimists on the U.S.-led war in Iraq suddenly find themselves armed with a growing number of indicators that the fighting has taken a new, more hopeful turn.I just thought it was important to report the good news in Iraq the Lame Stream Media will not report without spin.
U.S. military fatalities are down sharply, from 101 in June to 39 in October. Iraqi civilian deaths also were down sharply, from 1,791 in August to 750 in October, according to the Associated Press. Mortar rocket attacks by insurgents in October were the lowest since February 2006, as were the number of "indirect fire" attacks on coalition forces.
Iraqi officials say they plan to reduce checkpoints, ease curfews and reopen some roads in and around Baghdad because of the improving security situation. Sunni Arab tribal leaders in western Anbar province, now allied with the U.S. military, say al Qaeda is "almost defeated" in their once-chaotic region.
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Thursday, November 08, 2007
Iraq war not covered in $460B bill
The Dems are playing games with our National Defense and the troops...
From USA Today:
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From USA Today:
House and Senate negotiators agreed Tuesday on a $460 billion Pentagon bill that covers weapons systems and bomb-resistant vehicles, but not overall combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Republicans such as Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska said the omission would impose a strain on troops. Democrats said the bill wouldn't leave the military in the lurch. "We'll take it step by step," said Rep. John Murtha, chairman of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. "The public wants this war over." House Democrats said they were considering separate legislation that would allot $50 billion in additional war spending — a quarter of what President Bush sought. Murtha, D-Pa., said the measure also would likely impose restrictions, such as demanding that troops leave Iraq sometime next year. Murtha said negotiators also denied funds requested by Bush to build interceptors in Poland as part of a European missile-defense system. The House planned to vote on the two bills Thursday.Dirka Dirka Murtha Jihad can kiss my backside. You have been shown for the ant-military jackass that you are for convicting our troops wrongly and refusing to apologize. Why anyone lets you talk anymore is beyond me. Stop playing politics with the men and women of the military!
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