Thursday show 11-12-15
Obama administration: Transgender boys must be allowed to shower with girls at school
When it rains it pours. This morning Howard Portnoy wrote about a landmark referendum vote in Houston to repeal that city’s LGBT-friendly Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, or HERO.
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School to homeschoolers: Sign up or face criminal charges
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/school-to-homeschoolers-sign-up-or-face-criminal-charges/#urpd84O2J0h2ehye.99A number of homeschool parents in Florida have been ordered by a public school district to register their children in classes within three days or face “criminal prosecution” under state law.
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U.S. state draws line in sand against Islamization
A third South Carolina county has barred the door to any Third World refugees being resettled in their community, and at least two others are considering the same move.
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‘Free the Nipple’ is so yesterday; meet campaign advocating female bottomlessness
Back in the day, people who were squeamish about mothers breastfeeding in public were denounced as prudish. When a new generation of women came along and demanded “topless equality” — the right to walk around bare-breasted in public — the prudish label was dropped in favor of sexist.
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Fema can't account for up to $456 million in Sandy fuel funds
The Federal Emergency Management Agency can’t adequately account for more than 70 percent of the money spent on fuel for New York in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, a federal audit released on Friday found.
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New Temple Mount restrictions: no feeding babies
Jewish visitors to the Jerusalem's Temple Mount - the holiest site in Judaism - have long been subject to a list of restrictions demanded by Muslim authorities.
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$134,730 NIH-Funded Study Explores ‘Risk of Obesity in Food-Insecure Children’
The National Institutes of Health awarded $134,730 in taxpayer funding to the University of California San Francisco to understand the “risk of obesity in food-insecure children.
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Friday, November 13, 2015
Monday, September 23, 2013
Show Notes 09/22/2013
Show Sunday 09/22/13
Autumn Equinox
The word equinox comes
from the Latin words for "equal night." The fall and spring
equinoxes are the only days of the year in which the Sun crosses the
celestial equator.
Former Special Forces
Commander: Now It's Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell for Christians
Many commanders in the
Department of Defense are violating the religious rights of service
members, forcing them to be quiet about their moral opposition to
homosexuality and gay marriage, for instance, and, in effect,
imposing a Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy on Christians, said Lt.
Gen. (Ret.) William “Jerry” Boykin, the former commander of the
U.S. Special Forces Command.
Swiss region to set ban
on full face Islamic veil
Switzerland's
Italian-speaking region was on course Sunday to ban the full-face
Islamic veil, projected results from a referendum showed.
Animal group sets out
to count Detroit’s stray dogs
It doesn't matter to
Jessie Clarke how many stray or loose dogs are roaming the ruins of
Detroit. After the 65-year-old was attacked by two pit bulls outside
of her east side home in April, even one or two is too many.
Charles Starkweather
Charles Raymond
Starkweather (November 24 or 25 1938 – June 25, 1959) was an
American teenaged spree killer who murdered eleven people in the
states of Nebraska and Wyoming in a two-month murder spree committed
between December 1957 and January 1958.
China may be hiring
hackers to access us drone technology
The Chinese government
is aggressively pursuing U.S. leadership in drone technology – even
possibly enlisting hackers to access American classified information.
The New York Times cites cybersecurity experts in reporting
Shanghai-based hackers have targeted at least 20 foreign defense
contractors over the past two years in an apparent attempt to obtain
technology “behind the United States’ clear lead in military
drones.”
EPA head says climate
change is most significant public health threat
EPA Administrator Gina
McCarthy on Friday discussed the agency’s 493-page proposed
regulation that would, for the first time, restrict carbon emissions
from new power plants, including coal plants.
Gov't spends 379k
texting kids to take a walk
The National Institutes
of Health (NIH) is spending $379,500 on a study that sends texts to
adolescents encouraging them to walk. The “Txt Me: Texting
Motivational Messages Encouraging Adolescent PA” (physical
activity) is being conducted by the Baylor College of Medicine. The
study began in January of 2011 and will be funded through the end of
this year.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gov-t-spends-379k-texting-kids-take-walk#sthash.t3S9vah7.dpuf
Saturday, June 02, 2012
Show Notes: 05-31-2012
Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Thursday 5/31/12
What is “Swatting”?
Swatting is an attempt to trick an emergency service (such as a 9-1-1 dispatcher) into dispatching an emergency response team. The name is derived from SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics), one type of such team.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting
CNN contributor targeted in swating attack
Erik Erickson, editor-in-chief of RedState.com and a CNN political contributor, reports that he is the latest conservative to be "SWAT"ed. Local police received a call from an individual claiming to be Erickson, stating that an accidental shooting had occurred at his home. Says Erickson, "Tonight, my family was sitting around the kitchen table eating dinner when sheriffs deputies pulled up in the driveway."
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/27/cnn-contributor-targeted-in-swating-attack
Summary of NIH Grants (“List of Horribles”)
http://traditionalvalues.org/data/sites/73/pdfs/_Summary%20of%20NIH%20Grants_01_FINAL.pdf
New policy could change role of border patrol agents
EL PASO – Border Patrol agents might soon switch from sitting in trucks along the U.S.-Mexico border to helping traffic move more efficiently on the international bridges in this Texas city. http://usopenborders.com/2012/05/new-policy-could-change-role-of-border-patrol-agents/
Resourceship: Expanding 'Depletable' Resources
Mineral resources, not synthetically producible in human time frames, are fixed in the earth. As each is mined, less supply remains, suggesting that cost and, thus, price must increase as production cumulates.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2012/Bradleyresourceship.html
What is “Swatting”?
Swatting is an attempt to trick an emergency service (such as a 9-1-1 dispatcher) into dispatching an emergency response team. The name is derived from SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics), one type of such team.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting
CNN contributor targeted in swating attack
Erik Erickson, editor-in-chief of RedState.com and a CNN political contributor, reports that he is the latest conservative to be "SWAT"ed. Local police received a call from an individual claiming to be Erickson, stating that an accidental shooting had occurred at his home. Says Erickson, "Tonight, my family was sitting around the kitchen table eating dinner when sheriffs deputies pulled up in the driveway."
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/27/cnn-contributor-targeted-in-swating-attack
Summary of NIH Grants (“List of Horribles”)
http://traditionalvalues.org/data/sites/73/pdfs/_Summary%20of%20NIH%20Grants_01_FINAL.pdf
New policy could change role of border patrol agents
EL PASO – Border Patrol agents might soon switch from sitting in trucks along the U.S.-Mexico border to helping traffic move more efficiently on the international bridges in this Texas city. http://usopenborders.com/2012/05/new-policy-could-change-role-of-border-patrol-agents/
Resourceship: Expanding 'Depletable' Resources
Mineral resources, not synthetically producible in human time frames, are fixed in the earth. As each is mined, less supply remains, suggesting that cost and, thus, price must increase as production cumulates.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2012/Bradleyresourceship.html
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