Show Notes: 04-29-2012

Links for Uncooperative Radio Show: Sunday 04/29/12

We start with a prayer God Is Our Hope
http://www.godweb.org/prayer/prayersforhelp.htm

Largest donor of Obama's super PAC calls Mormonism a cult
Maher has given the president's super PAC a cool one million dollars. "The biggest individual donor revealed Friday was hedge fund billionaire James H. Simons, who cut a $1 million check to Majority PAC at the end of last month," Politico reported.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/largest-donor-obama-super-pac-calls-mormonism-cult_642210.html

Gun sales skyrocket during recession
The economic impact of the firearms industry is up 66 percent since the beginning of the Great Recession, providing an unexpected shot in the arm for the economy, according to a new study.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/19/gun-sales-skyrocket-during-recession/print/

Nugent says he's insulted by concert cancellation
Ted Nugent said he was insulted by the cancellation of his planned concert at an Army post over his comments about President Barack Obama.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gRaGew4STcBde0O2iirg7sa1U5fA?docId=642c380482634975b279995957d9a330

Foster kids connected
De'Jerica Michaels became pregnant at age 15, but friction at home became so tense that she left. She wound up in foster care, placed with a Noblesville family.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-04-29/foster-kids-connected/54618514/1

Candidate Kens attitude to Jews may be key in battle to run London
Is London about to elect a mayor who has been accused of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism? Until last week, former mayor Ken Livingstone was trailing the incumbent Boris Johnson in opinion polls by as much as six points. But now, only days before the election on Thursday, May 3, the two are neck-and-neck, separated by just two percentage points, according to pollster YouGov.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/candidate-kens-attitude-to-jews-may-be-key-in-battle-to-run-london/

Self-defense: What are you prepared to do? Part Two
Part of being prepared in your self-defense is thinking about your daily routine and what you can do to be ready to defend yourself. What's more, it's also useful to think about how you'd respond given a variety of events.
http://selfreliantinfo.blogspot.com

The Midnight Ride Of ...Sybil Ludington
Wait a minute. Isn't Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem titled, "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"? Don't the rousing stanzas recite the story of Paul's daring nighttime gallop through the Massachusetts countryside to warn Minutemen about a British invasion?
http://www.jcs-group.com/military/war1775fought/ludington.html

Antibullying speaker curses and mocks Christian teens
As many as 100 high school students walked out of a national journalism conference after an anti-bullying speaker began cursing, attacked the Bible and reportedly called those who refused to listen to his rant “pansy assed.”
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/anti-bullying-speaker-curses-mocks-christian-teens.html

Obama advocates student-loan plan offering class in Disney's women and girls
President Obama this week advocated his plans for federally subsidized student loans and his desire to keep college costs down at the University of Colorado, a school whose Women and Gender Studies program includes a course on “Disney’s Women and Girls,” and where the full cost for an on-campus in-state student this year was $26,877.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-advocates-student-loan-plan-u-offering-class-disney-s-women-and-girls

Judiciary panel approves Mukasey

Michael Mukasey nomination has been approved out of committee despite all the drama surrounding it. It was approved by a vote of 11-8. Why? Simple, the president stated he would not send another attorney General appointee to congress. So, they looked for an out and got it with the assurances of Mukasey, that if congress passed a law against waterboarding, he would enforce it. They know they are not going to get that law passed, but they took their out in this political stand off.

I predict he will be approved by the Senate.


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Democrats Fight Sam Fox Nomination, Charge He Cannot Serve Without Pay

Ya know as a minority party the Democrats whined, complained, stamped their feet and held their breath like a petulant child. Now as a majority party, i don't see much of a change...

From FNC:

Democrats opposed to President Bush's nomination of Sam Fox as the new U.S. ambassador to Belgium posed a new challenge Thursday, charging that the fact Fox will serve without pay makes him a 'volunteer,' and that the government cannot accept his unpaid services.

Democrats are vehemently against the appointment and are investigating a new twist in the former Swiftboat Veterans for Truth contributor's appointment.

It is possible Fox might now be, as a "volunteer", in violation of another U.S. law, Democrats charge, in his new position as an ambassador.

In a letter sent today, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Democrats Chris Dodd, John Kerry and Bob Casey ask the General Accounting Office, the nonpartisan watchdog arm of Congress, to expedite an investigation into a conflict between competing U.S. codes that could, if resolved as Democrats hope, leave Fox without a job.

In a Democratic memo obtained by FOX News that made the rounds on Capitol Hill last week when the nomination was pulled by the White House, an analysis of GAO recess appointment research shows a possible conflict in Fox working for free and the government being unable to accept unpaid services from a person in a position, like ambassador, that has a fixed salary in federal statute.

My problem with the democrats, on this one, is that is the petty politics behind it. So what Fox gave his money to Swift Boat Vets for truth? That is a contribution involved in politics and should have nothing to do with his appointment. Do you want either side to make decisions on who to approve for positions in our government based on what political contributions they make?

From USA Today:

When President Bush decided this week that the Democratic-led Senate was playing politics with his nominees, he once again used powers as old as the U.S. Constitution to make recess appointments.

Bush ranks fourth among modern presidents in granting such appointments, bypassing the Senate 165 times to get his nominees in place, according to the Senate historian's office. Ronald Reagan holds the record with 243 appointments.

The Constitution authorized recess appointments so presidents could fill key vacancies during long periods of congressional inactivity, which was the norm in early U.S. history....[snip]

The Senate has been on break for a week.

I just thought that was interesting.