Thursday show 12-17-15
HEY GUN GRABBERS: Here Are 8 Times ARMED Civilians Stopped Mass Murderers
Islam declared war on unarmed civilians. It is the Muslim way, after all. What should we do? Despite their heartfelt desire, Police and Sheriff’s Deputies cannot be everywhere to protect us.
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Who's Profiting From $1.2 Trillion of Federal Student Loans?
Jody Sofia borrowed $92,500 to get a degree from Florida Coastal School of Law. Now she’s in default, her outstanding balance having ballooned to almost $144,000, and she spends her days fielding calls from government-contracted debt collectors.
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Merriam-Webster Declares 'Ism' as Word of the Year for 2015
Merriam-Webster has picked a small but powerful suffix as word of the year: ism. But not just any ism. The top isms to earn high traffic spikes and big bumps in lookups on the dictionary company's website in 2015 over the year where socialism, fascism, racism, feminism, communism, capitalism and terrorism.
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DEAFNESS WAS NO BARRIER TO BRILLIANCE
Twenty years after composer Johann Sebastian Bach died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, and baptized on Dec. 17, 1770.
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Showing posts with label student loans. Show all posts
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Friday, November 21, 2014
Show Notes 11/20/2014
Thursday Show 11/20/14
PROGRESSIVES PLOT TO
KILL 'HUMAN WEEDS'
The underlying premise
of the eugenics movement was that the undesirable traits of parents
would invariably be passed on to their children. While the scientific
basis for this assumption had little data to support its conclusions,
the new “science” was quickly embraced by the American
progressive movement and many of the wealthy.
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Bride of paraplegic
veteran gets surprise of her life on wedding day
Bride of paraplegic
veteran gets surprise of her life on wedding day. As Michelle Johnson
rested in the bridal suite per her relatives’ suggestion, her new
husband Joey Johnson’s friends rigged a harness system that would
allow him to stand and dance with her without his wheelchair, the New
York Daily News reported.
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Pentagon's religious
guidance spurred tsunami of confusion
Pentagon guidance on
religious accommodation has sparked a "tsunami of confusion"
among military commanders, chaplains and personnel, lawmakers were
told Wednesday by witnesses on both sides of the debate over
religious practice versus proselytizing in the military.
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Students promise to walk out on newest tests
Testing is running amok
for students these days. Besides the college-entrance ACT and SAT
exams, there are Common Core assessments, state education and school
assessments, district evaluations and teacher-effectiveness ratings.
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Two States eye repeal of
Common Core
On the heels of
Republican victories last week, attempts to replace Common Core with
homegrown standards are resurfacing in states across the nation. Most
prominently, elected officials in Wisconsin and Ohio are spearheading
efforts to reclaim more control of education.
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A Third of All Federal
Student Loans Could Go Bad, Treasury Advisory Committee Warns
Four years after the
federal government took over the student loan program, nine percent
of student loans are in default and another 23 percent have the
potential to go bad as well, according to a report by the Treasury
Borrowing Advisory Committee (TBAC).
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Show Notes 09/08/2013
Show Sunday 09/08/13
Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah occurs on
the first and second days of Tishri. In Hebrew, Rosh Hashanah means,
literally, "head of the year" or "first of the year."
Rosh Hashanah is commonly known as the Jewish New Year.
Promises made promises
broken: The betrayal of pensioners and taxpayers
Comprehensive research
into the funded status of state level defined benefit public pension
plans reveals that public employee retirement promises are
underfunded by $4.1 trillion. Combined, state public pension plans
are just 39 percent funded.
Early turnout appears strong in Colorado recall effort on gun control legistation
Colorado residents go
to the polls Tuesday to vote on whether to recall two state senators
who supported stricter gun laws in the aftermath of two 2012 mass
shootings.
JP Morgan Chase pulls
out of the student loan market
This is not a good
sign, as one may glean from the title of the CNBC post from John
Carney, “The Student Loan Bubble Is Starting To Burst.”
California city
welcomes doomsday bunkers amid concerns over safety use
Part of a small but
vocal group of survivalists in Menifee, some 80 miles east of Los
Angeles, Jones, 46, has pushed for the right to build a bunker on his
1-acre property for nearly a year. He wants to be ready for anything,
be it natural disaster or a nuclear attack.
Senate votes to stop US
from joining UN arms treaty
In the last batch of
amendment votes to the budget, the Senate voted on several foreign
policy proposals.
Monday, June 03, 2013
Show Notes 05/30/2013
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Thursday 05/30/2013
Hawaiian Monk Seal Management
NMFS is proposing to remove a limited
number of Galapagos sharks from French Frigate Shoals (FFS) because
the sharks are annually killing up to 30% of the Hawaiian monk seal
pups that are born there.
Hawaii Filmmakers Investigate 'Honor
Killings' in US
Hawaii-based Smart Lips Productions is
in the final stages of making their new film documentary, The Price
of Honor, set to release in March 2014. The Price of Honor reveals
details never before seen or heard about the murders of Sarah and
Amina Said, two teenage sisters from Texas who were killed in a premeditated “Honor Killing”
planned and executed by their father Yaser Said back in 2008, who is
still at large and remains on the FBI’s Most Wanted list.
Olive Oil 101: How to choose oils with
most health benefits
It is well known that extra virgin
olive oil is good for the body – boosting heart health and even
lowering the risk of certain kinds of cancer. But not all olive oils
are created equal.
Student loans to subsidize Obamacare
Recent speeches by Tennessee Republican
Sen. Lamar Alexander highlight a connection that has yet to be
reported in the media and is yet to be understood by the young people
struggling with high interest rates in the hopes of financing their
college education.
Britain wants its guns back
Last Friday the Daily Telegraph,
Britain's most widely read broadsheet newspaper, issued an online
poll asking members of the public which proposal they would like to
see introduced as a Private Members' Bill in the UK's
Parliament.Private Members' Bills are introduced by Members of
Parliament or Peers who are not government ministers.
Genetically modified wheat mysteriously
discovered in Oregon Field
Genetically modified wheat was
mysteriously discovered this spring on an Oregon farm – and no one
knows where it came from.
Obama transforms mission as Military struggles to remake itself
In two major speeches, President Obama
sent strong signaled last week about what he envisions for the
military in a post-Sept. 11 era, a new path which can be described in
a word: downsized.
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/24/18471459-obama-transforms-mission-as-military-struggles-to-remake-itself?lite
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