Showing posts with label student loans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label student loans. Show all posts

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Show Notes 12-17-15

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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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

Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: 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