Show Notes 06-25-2017

Sunday show 6/25/17

Trump Administration Rejects UN Human Rights Council’s ‘Safe Abortion’ Text
What a difference a year makes. Last summer, the Obama administration not only supported a text at the U.N. Human Rights Council that included a call for access to “safe abortion where such services are permitted by national law” but also co-sponsored it, despite not then being a member of the Geneva-based body.
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Pelosi Claims Republicans Attacking Her Are Really Attacking San Francisco
During her weekly press briefing on Thursday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that Republican attacks on her are really about attacking her district encompassing the city of San Francisco.
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Trump supporters hold sit-in at North Carolina Starbucks after woman mocked for shirt
Trump supporters flooded a North Carolina Starbucks on Saturday for a sit-in after they said a woman was mocked for wearing T-shirt supporting the president.
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A German-based company is bringing a $12 million aviation-related plant to Auburn
The Winkelmann Group will begin production at its first United States production facility in the Auburn Industrial Park, the Opelika-Auburn News reported. The company expects to create approximately 50 jobs over the next five years.
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Dakota Access review to re-examine impact on tribe
A federal judge's order for more environmental review of the already-operating Dakota Access oil pipeline has several potential outcomes, all of which could spark even more wrangling in a Washington, D.C., court room.
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Democrats’ Hoodwinking of Blacks
Ask any black person which political party has been black people’s political ally. With near unanimity, blacks would answer the Democratic Party.
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After More Than 20 Years as Conservative Leader, Paul Williams Comes Out as Transwoman
Paul Williams, who led the conservative church planting organization Orchard Group for 20 years, has publicly come out as a transgender woman named Paula Stone. Williams.
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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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Show Notes 09/19/2013

Show Thursday 09/19/13

Reassigning State Dept workers does not equal accountability

Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put four State Department employees in Washington on administrative leave in December, after the department’s internal Accountability Review Board issued a report on the attack.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/reassigning-state-dep-t-workers-does-not-equal-accountability-gop-lawmaker#sthash.p1mIetyp.dpuf

Proof Chester A Arthur concealed he was a British subject at birth

http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/urgent-historical-breakthrough-proof-chester-arthur-concealed-he-was-a-british-subject-at-birth/

Elderly disabled woman uses 9mm glock to fight off intruder high on drugs

We always like to say that guns are the great equalizer. They allow people like the elderly to level the playing field against younger, stronger assailants.

http://gunssavelives.net/self-defense/elderly-disabled-woman-uses-9mm-glock-to-fight-off-intruder-high-on-drugs/

Starbucks' progressive ways draw fire on guns

Starbucks has always set itself apart by taking strong positions on progressive political issues. Now that reputation has landed the company in the middle of the heated national debate over gun laws.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/starbucks-progressive-ways-draw-fire-guns#sthash.EmmPS8Ka.dpuf

California college bars student from handing out copies of the Constitution

The Constitution guarantees the right to free speech, but don’t try to pass out copies of it at Modesto Junior College in California.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/19/california-college-bars-student-from-handing-out-copies-constitution/#ixzz2fNYGrKIp

Appeals court overturns conviction on ex-US house leader Delay

A Texas appeals court overturned the money laundering conviction of former Republican U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on Thursday, saying there was insufficient evidence.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/19/appeals-court-overturns-conviction-ex-us-house-leader-delay/?intcmp=latestnews#ixzz2fNcatcXb

Poll: Republicans’ Regard for the UN Falls Sharply

Republicans’ views of the United Nations have grown significantly more critical over the past year, with a new poll finding the proportion of those with a favorable impression of the world body has dropped seven percentage points since 2012, and is now at its lowest level since President Obama’s election.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/poll-republicans-regard-un-falls-sharply#sthash.JlsNXxwb.dpuf

Wetback comment by Maine juror leads to new trial for Mexican restaurant owners

A federal judge ordered a new trial for the owners of a Mexican restaurant in Maine — previously convicted on immigration violations — after it was revealed that one of the jurors in the case allegedly used a racial slur against them.

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2013/08/22/wetback-comment-by-maine-juror-leads-to-new-trial-for-mexican-restaurant-owners/#ixzz2fNihlzyJ