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STRENGTH = RIGHT-WING VIEWS

Reading that physically strong men are more likely to have right wing views, and they don't believe in the welfare state and income redistribution. I'm thinking this explains why the weak liberal bands together to destroy the strong. They'd rather there be a "fair" shared level of misery.

I'm laughing, and at the same time crying for the remnant of the Republic.

GUEST INFORMATKION 05-17-2013

6:35 Nikki Goeser - "Denied a Chance" her new book (more info HEER) explaining how her husband was murdered in front of her inside a Tennessee bar in 2009. Even though Nikki is a concealed carry person, state law prohibited being in a bar with her gun. Of course this didn't stop her stalker from murdering her husband. (She worked to change the law) BUY NIKKI'S BOOK

7:10 Klamath County Commissioner Tom Mallams - more on the water

7:35 - State Senator Alan Bates talks taxes and PERS reform.

8:10 Dale Matthews discusses his lack of trust in the Jo County Commission, against Measure 17-49.

8:45 State Rep. Mike McLane , HD 55 - Republican response to the tax hike/PERS reform "Grand Bargain".

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DALE MATTHEWS in JO CO - speaking against Measure 17-49

We'll talk further with him tomorrow, 8:10. Will Measure 17-49 Pass?

GUEST INFORMATION 05-16-2013

6:35 Dave Dotterer, budget analyst for the state Republican senate and house caucuses.

7:10 Becky Akers, freelance journalist (more HERE), historian, author of the historically novel "Halestorm". We discuss the rise and tyranny of administrative law, how it was designed to kill the constitution, and strip you of your rights, and why the agencies must be dismantled.

8:10 Dr. Art Robinson, former house candidate, passionate about education, for sure. He speaks next Thursday at the Josephine County Republican Women's meeting, 12  noon at Elmer's in Grants Pass. Read more on the "Robinson Self-teaching Curriculum" we were talking about.

8:45 Ron Gibson - interim chairman of the Jefferson Mining District - lays a cease and desist on the legislature, and those working to strip miners from their property rights.

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Is it just me, or are we seeing 2 or 3 of these police state abuse videos a day?

These folks were brutalized for defying "authori-teh". They demanded a warrant, didn't matter, they kicked in the door anyway, and tased the couple into submission. All over a "Suspicion" of domestic violence. (Full link to the original SHTF Plan story HERE)

Our soldiers in Afghanistan treat house searches with more common courtesy.

HEADS UP - BUSY day Thursday - 6:30a, Dave Dotterer and GOP reax to Gov Kitzhaber's talk of a bipartisan "grand bargain" to hike your taxes. Historian Becky Akers at 7:10 - How "progressives" foisted administrative law on the people, how it strips your liberty, and why rolling it back is Priority #1. Dr. Art Robinson completes a great morning - school vouchers, and his new self-teaching curriculum.

GUEST INFORMATION 05-13-2013

6:35 Kyle Olsen, Education Action Group News Foundation (eagnews.org) IRS scandal, how it's affected them and others.

8:10 State Rep. Dennis Richardson, revenue forecast, tax increases coming?

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Abortion Dr. Keith Gosnell was convicted recently of 3 counts of first degree murder. He's portrayed as an "anomaly". But what if he's not? Following video is VERY disturbing, be warned.

GUEST INFORMATION 05-14-2013

6:35 Mike S. Adams, professor of criminology, describes the anti-American attitude promoted in progressive colleges and universities across the country in his Blaze.com post "The Enemy Within".  Dr. Adams expands on this theme in his new book "Letters To A Progressive: How to Avoid Wasting Your Life Protesting Things You Don't Understand".

7:10 State Rep. Sal Esquivel discusses bills, including one which would allow water rights owners to sell unused water in their right to other users, ignoring junior water rights farther down stream. Hmm, sounds like it could've been written by KS Wild.

8:10 John Martinez - Former Executive Director of Economic Development for the Karuk Tribe and a former candidate for the 2nd Assembly District of California. Gary Lake - Former Tribal Councilman for the Karuk Tribe of California, served five years as Vice Chairman for the Shasta Nation. We talk about how tribalism is used as a front for radical environmentalism, stripping of property rights, and will destroy southern Oregon water and property rights. Gary and John are organizing United Shasta, to get tribes and property owners on the same page and united to fight this battle Email Them for more information.

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IT'S MONDAY, I'M STRESSED - CUE THE CAT VIDEO!!

(Ah, much better)

GUEST INFORMATION 5-13-2013

7:10 Cory Crebbin - Medford Public Works Director - We discuss sewer, how not to get in gtrouble with all the regulations. Temperature of water is the "new pollutant".

7:35 Jeri Karcey, Americans for Prosperity - Climate Politics are deeply embedded in every level of our city and county governments and dominates our public school curriculum. An overview of the Rogue Valley Council of Governments (RVCOG), which each city maintains membership, reveals that it is rife with Carbon-Reduction policies and mandates all endorsed by State Legislation.It’s time to take back our Local Communities and insist that these unsubstantiated policies are abated. Please join them tomorrow, Tuesday May 14^th at 6:30 PM at the Medford Library for a meeting where they'll formulate an action plan, not just education about the problem.

8:35 Curt Ankerberg, Medford School Board position 3 candidate - Good talk.

8:10 Dr. Dennis Powers, "Visiting Past and Present" and today, the history of Boatnik.

The Boatnik Celebration of Grants Pass

By Dennis Powers

The Grants Pass Active Club since 1959 has held its Boatnik every Memorial Day weekend along the Rogue River at Riverside Park (Highway 99 and East Park St). As its sole fundraiser and numerous volunteers, taking all year to plan, this five-day event has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past fifty years for children and youth programs. The highlight of Boatnik (named for Sputnik, the first satellite) is its widely known hydroplane race that takes place on Memorial Day. 

The activities start Thursday evening at the park with food, rides, games and activities. Friday usually includes a fireworks display on the river. Saturday starts with the Boatnik parade that ends at Riverside Park; activities continue there over the weekend with sprint and drag boat racing, carnival rides, arts and crafts, a pizza eating contest, Bingo, food vendors, and numerous other events. On Memorial Day, the Tom Rice Memorial White Water Hydroplane Race is on. This event is named after Tom Rice, a local State Marine Deputy who very well liked and regarded--and lost his life in a helicopter crash on the river in 2002. More activities, a free sundae giveaway, and a second night of fireworks follow.  

All of the funds raised by the nonprofit Grants Pass Active Club from Boatnik are earmarked for an impressive list of recipients. In supporting different programs, donations are made to the 4H program, for individual children, Pop Warner Football, the Boys and Girls Club, Girl and Boy Scouts of America, American Little League baseball, DARE, high school scholarships, youth soccer programs, and school programs. The club has purchased playground equipment for local parks; helped needy children and families during the holidays by providing toys and coats; and has provided nearly a hundred thousand dollars in scholarships to area seniors since this program’s inception.

One of Oregon’s largest festivals, the big draw is the hydroplane racing. The drag boat racing “exhibit” on Saturday and hydroplane time trials on Sunday focus attention on the coming Memorial Day hydroplane, white-water racing contest. With timing lights and a scoreboard, sheer speed shows when the racers and their boats perform on Saturday and Sunday. The drag boats race in a range from 120- to 170-mph (rare) and can finish the 1/4-mile course in 6-1/2 seconds. the sprint boats can travel up to 80 mph in their races, but with tight turns through the buoyed course in front of Riverside Park. 

The Tom Rice Memorial is the biggest race for the annual Oregon-California River Racers Series and is two laps between Riverside Park and Robertson Bridge, thirteen miles down the river. Whether speeding over the Rogue River filled with rocks, rapids, tree limbs, other racers, or racing around a tight buoy course, a certain amount of fearlessness is definitely in order. And all of this is for charity.   

Sources: “Purpose of Boatnik” at Boatnik; “About the Active Club” at Grants Pass Active Club; Larry Cathey, “Hydroplane Race Should Be One Wild Ride,” May 27, 2011, Daily Courier at About Hydroplane Racing; “Cal-Ore. Hydroplane River Racers; Boatnik 2011 Whitewater Race,” at Youtube Hydroplane Video.

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Something to considering the 5/21/13 School board elections coming up.

My heart wants to believe the right people in school boards will help address such dysfunctional teaching. My head tells me nothing changes until the top-down state and unionized control of schools collapses.

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"BUT THEY'RE WORSE OFF THAN WE ARE!"

Will Reishman and I were talking this morning about how Europe's big money problems will likely lead to the "appearance" of a rising market and healthy economy here in the U.S. for the next year or two, because that money is hot, and leaving those markets, and coming here in search of returns. That, along with Ben Bernanke's "Put" with Q.E. to infinity, just about guarantee some appearance of prosperity. It doesn't change the underlying sickness of debt infecting the system, but could buy we here in the U.S. some time.

So things here, in some sectors at least, are looking better. What happens if, God forbid, it were to ever not be so good? A couple of articles you can read, excerpted and linked below, are good "teachable moments".

One year in Hell…

I am from Bosnia. You know, between 1992 and 1995, it was hell. For one year, I lived and survived in a city with 6,000 people without water, electricity, gasoline, medical help, civil defense, distribution service, any kind of traditional service or centralized rule.

Our city was blockaded by the army; and for one year, life in the city turned into total crap. We had no army, no police. We only had armed groups; those armed protected their homes and families

When it all started, some of us were better prepared. But most of the neighbors’ families had enough food only for a few days. Some had pistols; a few had AK-47s or shotguns.

After a month or two, gangs started operating, destroying everything. Hospitals, for example, turned into slaughterhouses. There was no more police. About 80 percent of the hospital staff were gone. I got lucky. My family at the time was fairly large (15 people in a large house, six pistols, three AKs), and we survived (most of us, at least). READ THE REST OF THE STORY

GUEST INFORMATION 05-09-2013

7:10 Alex Newman, WND.COM, Israel confronts China over organ harvesting.

7:35 Charity Barrueta, RN, has been the Stroke Program Coordinator for the Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center Primary Stroke Center since October 2010.We talk about this National Stroke Awareness month, symptoms, prevention, treatment.

8:10 Will Reishman, Strategic Financial in Medford. Undollars.com, How Ben's "easy money policy" hurts the real economy.

8:45 Amy Rose, updates Art In Bloom for this weekend.

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SOME BAD LANGUAGE, BUT A GREAT MESSAGE re "MAGAZINE CAPACITY"

GUEST INFORMATION 05-08-2013

7:10 Damian Idiart, CPEP, Central Point Educators and Parents, discuss the CP hiring issues with the district's choice of Lynn Scott for Mae Richardson Elementary principal.

7:45 Bonnie Ell from the American Cancer Society.  ACS is in the final month of enrollment for their latest long term research project.  Each of these projects tracks people over the course of 20-30 years and they are now preparing for their third cancer prevention study. 

8:10 State Rep. Dennis Richardson - Health discussion and how a recent study indicates Oregon Health Plan doesn't always help you be healthier than not being in the plan.

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GREAT INTERVIEW WITH CHARLES RAMSEY - love how the reporter responds when he starts talking about the "white woman/black man" comment near the end. A real hero, and what a personality!

GUEST INFORMATION 05-07-2013

6:35 Kate Geagan and Chef Lorenzo Boni, Barilla.com, (Pasta Company) quick hit on new medical journal reports saying good things about the Meditteranean diet and good health.

7:10 State Rep. Sal Esquivel and a good talk on the issues.

7:35 Media critic, attorney, commentator James Hirsen - "Jay Leno Speaks Truth With Late Night Humor".

8:10 Roger L. Simon - PJ Media, Benghazi - taken seriously now.

SOME BAD LANGUAGE, BUT A GREAT MESSAGE re "MAGAZINE CAPACITY"

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Scary - He pops 37 shots from an AK at Middlefield, OH Police officers, says "kill me". (Suicide by cop) Next time someone asks "how many bullets do you NEED?" say "Enough to put the threat down".

GUEST INFORMATION 05-06-2013

7:10 Wayne Allen Root - former libertarian VP candidate, capitalist evangelist, and author of "The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide: How to Thrive, and Prosper during Obamageddon".

7:35 Jeff Painter, Indian Education staff member for seven school districts in Jackson & Josephine counties, we discuss the tribal histories in the valley, casino issue.

8:10 Dr. Dennis Power "Visiting Past and Present" - Great talk on the Willy Boats founder.

Willie Illingworth's Driftboats

By Dennis Powers

Willie Illingworth was a fishing guide on the Rogue River and thought that an aluminum driftboat would certainly be easier to work with. Maneuvering a twenty-foot, heavy boat made of cedar or plywood was tortuous to row or handle in the rapids, not to mention the constant maintenance due to splintered wood, rot, and leaks. The design in use then was from the McKenzie River near Eugene with a pointed bow at both ends.   

His design of a high flared bow, low squared stern, and steep curves would work well in the Rogue’s swift, shallow rapids--but welding aluminum was a difficult task at best. Willie asked the acclaimed Glenn Wooldridge, then building his boats with wood, to make an aluminum one. Wooldridge said “no”. Although he had no money, no welding experience, and only one hand (due to an accident as a child), Willie decided to do it himself.

He convinced Jim Parsons--an Ashland sawmill owner and fishing client--into loaning him $4,000 to build six driftboats. Illingworth then spent the first three months in 1971 in shearing out patterns and welding the first aluminum boat in his Medford shop. When it proved to be a success in being lighter and easier to handle on the Rogue, Willie set up in White City his boat-building company, Alumaweld--just as the name implies. He had figured out how to leave cedar planks behind and use welded aluminum. 

He sold his interest six years later and in 1981 formed Willie Boats that continues to the present. Illingworth was as much a maverick in person, as he was in coming up with the idea that he could build an aluminum boat with nothing in his favor. Bill Monroe--for the Oregonian and whose article is linked below--wrote that Willie was: “A loud, mischievous, party-hearty, hard-drinking and often profane exterior (that) masked a private generous, caring and delightfully intelligent personality.”

When Willie knew that he was dying from brain cancer, he held his own living wake in January 2007. Passing around a signup sheet for vials that would contain his ashes, he said then, “I don't want to miss my own party.” More than sixty friends signed up. After he died in March 2007, his friends still take the vials of his ashes when fishing on the Rogue, guiding clients, traveling outside Oregon, or even halibut fishing in Alaska.

Willie Illingworth is credited with being the first among the many new aluminum boat manufacturers of the 1970s. His determination and approach created a huge boat-building industry in the Pacific Northwest with Medford still being a center of the aluminum driftboat and powerboat industry. Willie Boats now manufactures 300 driftboats annually at its Central Point facility, and Willie would still be proud.     

Sources: “Willie Boats: History” at Willie Boats History; Mark Freeman, “Willie’s Legacy,” Mail Tribune, April 14, 2010 at Background on Willie; Bill Monroe, “Where's Willie? Everywhere, and always with us,” The Oregonian, May 29, 2010, at  Willie's Vials (and Image). A fine driftboat article is Bob Woodward, “The Oregon Driftboat,” Oregon Magazine, October 1, 2010, at Driftboats.                

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GUEST INFORMATION 05-03-2013

6:35 Klamath County Commissioner Tom Mallams - They send a bill to the feds for 4 million bucks in lieu of timber payments. READ THE RESOLUTION.

7:10 Colin Flaherty - Award-winning reporter at WND.com, and author of "White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence to America and how the media ignore it.". We discuss what happened last week at Beach Week.

7:35 State Senator Bates takes listener calls on the issues.

8:10 Ted Dole, VP of the Eagle Point School Board. He talks w/Bill about the battle for control of the school board. Problem with conflicts of interest.

GOOD WEEKEND WATCH ON THE JO CO LEVY

Josephine County Townhall: Public Safety Levy Measure 17-49...or not! from US~Observer on Vimeo.

TODAY - The president told Mexicans he'll "keep guns out of the hands of criminals/dangerous people". So, are we to assume Attorney General Eric Holder and other feds are to be arrested and disarmed soon? ;-0

JUST PLAIN FUNNY

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WORTH WATCHING AND SHARING - LARKEN ROSE responds to the "It Can't Happen Here" mentality.

GUEST INFORMATION 05-02-2013

6:35 Robert Romano, Sr. Editor at NetRightDaily.com, we talk "17.1 billion bill for Cyprus", and could we see this here?

7:35 Arlene Wedstead from the MDA, Dutch Bros putting half it's take toward ALS research tomorrow.

8:10 Jim Ludwick, Oregonians for Immigration Reform. the illegals drivers license bill, and other aspects of the issue.

8:45 Kelsey Masse, Southern Oregon Helps Veterans. Big fundraiser end of the month READ MORE.

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YEAH, SURE, SEEMS LEGIT - Jackson Dempsey, the county psychiatrist accused of sabotaging the bike trails, cops a plea. Dempsey's actions could've hurt people, so he gets 60 days in the hole, Gary Harrington, who violates probation over his illegal water hole, gets 90 days. Oh-Kay....

AMAZING STORY - Army Green Beret captured during Vietnam War 44 years ago - Found Living in a remote Vietnamese village. Can't help but recall that Senators McCain and Kerry blocked investigations into these "conspiracy theory" stories. Nothing to see, move along sheeple. UPDATE: Telegraph , sister insists he's her brother. Hmm..

AMAZING VIDEO - from the civilian 747 cargo plan crash at Bagram Air Field north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Happened 4/29, and killed 7 people. You just don't see something like this happen everyday...a 747 falling out of the sky.

GUEST INFORMATION 05-01-2013

6:35 Steven Camarota, Center for Immigration Studies - How the new immigration law makes security worse.

7:35 Crimestoppers with MPD's LT. Budreau.

8:10 State Rep. Dennis Richardson on SB833, and the house vote in favor of drivers licenses for illegals. Dennis voted against it.

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A SNEERING, CONDESCENDING, YET INTERESTING READ:

Lee Siegel on the Daily Beast - "Memo to the South - Secede Already".

Siegel says good riddance to those who wish to leave: "Just think what America would look like without its mostly Southern states. (We could retain “America”: they could call themselves “Smith & Wesson” or “Coca-Cola” or something like that.) Universal health care. No guns. Strong unions. A humane minimum wage. A humane immigration policy. High revenues from a fair tax structure. A massive public-works program. Legal gay marriage. A ban on carbon emissions. Electric cars. Stronger workplace protections. Extended family leave from work in case of pregnancy or illness. Longer unemployment benefits. In short, a society on a par with most of the rest of the industrialized world".

What Siegel fails to note is the major win for a seceding state - the ability to be left alone and be free. This is next-to-impossible in today's regulatory democracy. Being free can be messy, sometimes uncomfortable and unpredictable...But at least it's real - a far cry from our current governance: "Whatever isn't permitted is required". Siegel and other of his ilk are far more comfortable with being well-kept slaves to the state.

GUEST INFORMATION 04-30-2013

6:35 - Dr. Benjamin Wiker, author of "Worshipping the State", (BenjaminWiker.com) How liberals got us here, including why the smackdown of Christianity, but utter silence in criticism of radical Islam.

7:10 State Rep. Sal Esquivel, and we talk the drivers card for illegals bill.

8:10 Lance Izumi, report from the Pacific Research Institute, "One World School House, vs Old World Statehouse", how to fight the bureaucratic resistance to digital learning.

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GUEST INFORMATION 04-29-2013

7:10 - "Mr. X", discussing the manufacturing of consent which allows 2000 unelected "stakeholders" to effectively control 4 million people in Oregon. Wondering what's up? A good starting point is The Policy Consensus Initiative, and see that even though global warming theory is trashed and burning out, we're still moving forward with this control of people via state policy. Read The Oregon Global Warming Commission's Interim Road Map to 2020.

8:45 - BUSINESS GUEST - Richard Rogers, American Hearing Aid Systems. Today we talk about his Nu-Ear remote-controlled hearing aid. VERY cool, and Richard has 25+ years experience. Office is 3512 Excel Drive in North Medford (Behind Lowe's/Costco off Delta Waters) Free consultations and more info at 541-772-4365.

8:10 Dr. Dennis Powers "Visiting Past and Present", and here's today topic!

Lost Creek Lake (and Jess Dam)

By Dennis Powers

Bill Jess and his brother began cattle ranching in 1952 near Eagle Point by the Rogue River. A few months later, a flood swept away part of their ranch, although this one wasn’t as bad as previous ones. In 1955, the raging Rogue River again jumped its banks and caused $9 million in damages, including taking away more of Jess’s land.

One month later, a group of 14 people met in Grants Pass to push for dam flood control, and they chose Bill Jess as their chairman. With support from others with this concern--including better water management--the “Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Resources Association” was formed in February 1956 and later that year became a nonprofit organization. Ben Day was a Valley rancher, attorney, and Oregon legislator (1949 to 1955, first in the House, then in the Senate); he joined and gave needed help to the movement.

Groups such as fishermen, guides, and tourist-based businesses, however, historically opposed dams and especially one on the Rogue River. With assurances that river flows and temperatures would be better controlled to help salmon runs and spawning, some of the opposition dropped. With the potential for more uncontrolled floods, momentum gained in convincing state and federal legislators.

Although Congress approved the dam in 1962, funding wasn’t appropriated until four years later, pushed by the disastrous 1964 flood, the Valley's worst ever in damages.

With more funding delays and time required for surveying, permitting, and planning, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers didn’t start construction until 1972.

Located nine miles above Shady Cove and approximately half-way between Crater Lake National Park and Medford, construction was completed in 1977. The dam--345 feet high and 3,600 feet long--is of earth and rock-fill construction with gated spillways on the south end; the outlets and powerhouse with two 26-megawatt generators are located on the north.  

The intake tower controls water releases by a unique technology that allows water temperature regulation by combining lake water from different depths in a mixing chamber before releasing it downstream. This cools the normally warm summer waters of the Rogue in improving conditions for the migrating salmon and steelhead. When part of the lake, the Rogue River still receives water from different streams, including lost Creek from one side and a second Lost Creek tributary from the other.

The Corps of Engineers at the same time built a fish hatchery, and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife operates this. The Cole M. Rivers Hatchery (named for a long-time Rogue River biologist) is one of the largest in Oregon and can annually produce 425,000 pounds of chinook and coho salmon, rainbow trout, and steelhead. The upstream barrier dam delivers the water that operates the hatchery, which is also open to the public and built to mitigate fish loss owing to the dam.

The dammed Rogue River created a lake with 315,000 acre feet (674 square miles) that is 10-miles long with a combined shore length of 30 miles. Its surface elevation is from 1,750 to 1,870 feet. Lost Creek Lake has over twenty developed parks that include campgrounds, picnic areas, trailheads, boat ramps, and fishing/shoreline access points. The Army Corps of Engineers maintains thirty miles of trails that surround the lake.

The river below the dam is popular with summer fishing, rafting, and tubing when the water is relatively warmer. Stewart State Park is along the southern shore, and the Oregon State Parks system operates it with over 200 campsites, a marina, store, café, and other amenities. Casey State Park is located on the Rogue River below the dam.

William Jess died in 1995 and one year later, Oregon Senator Hatfield oversaw a bill the enabled Congress to rename Lost Creek Lake Dam as the “William L. Jess Dam and Intake Structure.” With the removal of dams such as Gold Ray and Savage Rapids, the magnificent Rogue River now flows freely from Lost Creek Lake for 157 miles to the Pacific Ocean.

Sources: US. Army Corp of Engineers, Portland District, “Lost Creek Lake” at Lost Creek Lake and Jess Dam (Including Images); Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, “Cole Rivers Hatchery” at Cole Rivers Hatchery; Miller, Bill. “A River Runs into It,” Mail Tribune, April 14, 2013, at Role of Bill Jess.

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TAKE THAT, EARTH DAY

SOME OF THE BEST ANALYSIS OF IMMIGRATION and BOSTON - Ilana Mercer - "Boston (And America) Betrayed" - VERY good read.

GUEST INFORMATION 04-26-2013

6:15 Dr. Charles Jacobs, founder of Americans for Peace and Tolerance. We talk of  the Tsarnaev brothers and homegrown terrorism. Jacobs is Boston based, and has warned of the danger of the Islamic Society of Boston for many years, which the brothers attended.  The mosque has previously sued Jacobs for defamation but dropped the lawsuit.

7:10 Dave Dotterer, liason for the republican house and senate caucuses discusses the PERS and budget impasse.

7:35 State Senator Bates with HIS take on the PERS and budget impasse.

8:10 Terry Welburn, Welburn's Weapons - How's ammo supply, gun supplies?

8:40 Dave Richardson - Superior Marine on Justice Road off Hiway 62. More on last-minute boating maintenance, rules and regs.

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FROM MY 7AM GUEST, DALE MATTHEWS - A BIT OF JOCO RUDENESS GOING ON?

GUEST INFORMATION 04-25-2013

6:35 Jason Silva is most known as a modern performance philosopher and digital DJ with multiple videos that have gone viral. He is also the host of the National Geographic Channel series, Brain Games, airing Monday nights at 9 on the National Geographic.

7:10 Dale Matthews of Josephine County - Citizen watchdog. (Record the video posted above)

7:35 Tim Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research...today the myths behind "Gastown II"'s anti-fracking agenda.

8:10 Economist, author, blogger, Carl Schramm. What should we do with our failing cities? Carl writes about this - "Helping Cities Heal Themselves".

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WARNING - DISTURBING FOOTAGE

I post this only because I'm getting a steady stream of people telling me the Boston Marathon attack is not all it seems. These days you have hundreds of thousands, if not millions of "amateur video and photo analyzers" who pore over the photo evidence, looking for inconsistencies. You think there's anything to it?

GUEST INFORMATION 04-24-2013

6:10 Steven Yoder, The Fiscal Times dot com, "7 New Tools That Can Stop a Backpack Bomb".

7:35 Crimestopper with Lt. Budreau

8:10 Rep. Dennis Richardson talks SB833 licenses for illegal aliens.

8:45 BUSINESS INTERVIEW - Dentist and Dr. Judd Larson, on Pine Street in Central Point, (behind U.S. Bank) And we discuss the amazing techniques available for dental implants. Free consultations, and get your smile back!

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LAND OF THE SHEEP?

4th Amendment: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

This what concerns me most about last week's marathon bomber search. One suspect effectively buts several million people under martial law.And people in Boston clap for the domestic armies which imprison them. I'm thinking this is what happens when your living in a disarmed urban environment.

GUEST INFORMATION 04-23-1013

7:10 State Representative Sal Esquivel takes listener calls on the water bills of note.

7:35 Steve Buckstein, Cascade Policy Institute. Top 5 techniques for Oregon to achive "reality-based budgeting".

8:10 Mitchell Zuckoff, former Boston Globe special projects reporter, and his new book is amazing - "FROZEN IN TIME: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II" more info on MitchellZuckoff.com This time he brings readers to Greenland's Ice Cap, the scene of three military plane crashes and a harrowing mission to rescue the survivors.  Some of the men spent 148 days of an unforgiving Arctic winter living in the tail section of their broken plane.

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GUEST INFORMATION 04-22-2013

6:15 Richard Weitz, director of the Hudson Institute's Center for Political-Military Analysis and expert in international security and counter-terrorism talks about the Boston Marathon attack and the Chechen roots of the suspects.
 

7:10 DONALD CRITCHLOW,  co-author of  Takeover: How the Left’s Quest for Social Justice Corrupted Liberalism.  Explains the sharp break in the history of liberalism that began in the 1960s and has gotten more extreme in the decades since. Only by understanding that break-- and the radicalism that accompanied it -- can we fully understand our current political situation.

7:35 Kevin Starrett, Oregon Firearms Federation - The gun bills passed out of the senate last week...and what's next.

8:10 Dr. Dennis Powers "Visiting Past and Present", and today the really interesting history of "Dogs for the Deaf".

Dogs for the Deaf

By Dennis Powers

Roy Kabat worked with exotic and domestic animals in Hollywood for movies and television. He trained the animals, for example, in “Dr. Doolittle,” “Swiss Family Robinson,” Elsa the lioness in “Born Free,” and the cougar for the Mercury automobile commercials. He also produced syndicated children's TV shows as “Chucko the Clown” and “Circus.” In 1971, Roy retired from the entertainment industry.

After moving to the Applegate Valley in southern Oregon, the American Humane Association (“AHA”) in Denver contacted him to help it out. A Minnesota deaf woman had had a dog that had trained itself to let her know what was happening around her. As she lost more and more hearing, the dog alerted her to more and more events. After her dog died, the woman realized how much she depended on the dog for help and needed someone to train a new one. The AHA wanted Roy's advice. After spending two weeks in Denver, Roy returned to Oregon and started “Dogs for the Deaf.”

Beginning initially outside Jacksonville, Roy began training 20 or more dogs of all sizes and types at a time, most saved from nearby Humane Societies, saying, “They're the dogs that otherwise might be put to sleep.” He trained “Hearing Dogs at Home” to alert an owner to important household sounds: buzzing fire and smoke alarms, ringing telephones, oven timers, alarm clocks, doorbell/door knocks, and name calls (sometimes even a baby’s cry). Once placed with their deaf partner, the dogs learned to respond to other sounds--a microwave, tea kettle that boiled dry, or washer/dryer--and take their hearing-impaired owner to the problem. For a “Hearing Dog in Public,” additional training was given for specific sounds such as a siren or honking horn, and to react so that the dog’s deaf partner was aware of the danger.

Dogs in training initially are given food when they react properly to the noise of an alarm clock or telephone. But over the four to six months of training, they gradually are weaned from food to a kind word or pat on the head. By the 1980s, his nonprofit organization with the help of volunteers was delivering 50 dogs a year free to deaf people throughout the United States. The operation grew from this base. Roy died in 1986 at age 65, but his daughter, Robin Dickson, succeeded him and is the current CEO/President.

In 1989, the facilities moved to its current 40-acre site at the base of lower Table Rock (10175 Wheeler Road) in Central Point. Placing thousands of dogs over time free of charge to the hearing-impaired, the investment in just one is approximately $25,000. This includes the dog’s selection, initial veterinary care, training, placement, and follow ups for the life of the team. Dogs are also trained to watch out for autistic children, as well. “Career Change Dogs”--happy and healthy but not suited as a program dog--are adopted out as regular pets to area homes. Our region can be justifiably proud of his accomplishments.  

Sources: See “Dogs for the Deaf” at History (Including Images). See also, “Animal Trainer Roy Kabat Dies,” Los Angeles Times, November 7, 1986, at More on Roy Kabat.

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SUSPECT #2, DZHOKAR TSARAEV, IN CUSTODY

FOX NEWS CONFIRMS that the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing is in custody. Police found him hiding in a boat covered by a tarp behind a house in the Watertown section of Boston. Police moved in on Dzhokar Tsarnaev late this afternoon (Friday) after citizen tips led them to a home on Franklin Street in Watertown. He was taken into custody around 5:50pm PT.

Earlier, Boston was locked down after the big shootout, carjacking, explosive-throwing car chase in Boston's  Watertown neighborhood with Dzhokar and his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev. It all started with the duo robbing a 7-11 store in Watertown, shooting and killing a MIT police officer, and then hijacking a Mercedes SUV.

26-year old Tamerlan Tsarnaev died in the late Thursday night shootout. Tamerian was apparently run over by the SUV driven by his younger brother, and was also reported to have had a bomb strapped to his chest. Both have origins in the Russia region near Chechnya, and have lived in the U.S. for many years. 

Will NPR "walk back" this reporting?

GUEST INFORMATION 04-19-2013

6:35 Stephen DeMaura, Americans for Job Security president, and he's advocating for the Marketplace Fairness Act, which would require online marketers to collect sales tax due their out of state customers. Says it would help grow the economy, I'm a bit more skeptical, but we'll see.

7:10 Trent Nistler, local businessman, should Oregon require mandatory sick pay, like Portland will do, starting in 2014?

7:35 State Senator Bates on the issues, and gun bills, gun bills, and more gun bills.

8:10 Joseph Farah, CEO and editor of WND.com, who is calling for a national day of prayer and fasting on 9/11 this year. SIGN THE PETITION.

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DEMS VOTE FOR ANTI-GUN BILLS

Kevin Starrett at Oregon Firearms Federation says all four anti-gun bills pass out of the Senate. Roblan caved.

(from their alert) In addition to other things, the bills will make it a crime to give a firearm to your niece or a friend of 30 years. They will make you a criminal if you have a concealed handgun and take your daughter to soccer practice at a school.

It VASTLY expands the meaning of “public building” which greatly limits where you can have a firearm. (Tip of the hat to an NRA staffer who pointed that one out.)

Online firearms instruction for CHL's will also be forbidden.

The bills now move to the full Senate or consideration.

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GUEST INFORMATION 04-18-2013

6:35 Betsy McCaughey is former Lt. Governor of New York and author the new book," Beating Obamacare." We talk about the part of immigration reform which would practically bankrupt Obamacare.

7:10 Michael Connely, constitutional attorney with United States Justice Foundation - Vets already having guns seized and losing firearms rights.

7:35 Dan Gainor, Culture and Media Institutie, part of the Media Research Center, and we kick around how Dr. Kermit Gosnell (abortion house of horrors) story has received so little mainstream coverage.

8:10 Will Reishman, Strategic Financial in Medford. (541-773-7774) Has the gold bull run its course?

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THE SENATE FINALLY GETS IT RIGHT

BUT BIG WORK IS STILL NEEDED AT THE STATE LEVEL

Oregon Firearms Federation says Oregon State Senator Arney Robland is moving to support some or all of the horrible state anti-gun bills.

Get in touch - Senator Arnie Roblan, 503-986-1705, Sen.ArnieRoblan@state.or.us Sample message on OFF's Website.

GUEST INFORMATION 04-17-2013

6:35 Walid Shoebat, author of "The Case for Islamophobia". More at his site Shoebat.Com.Talked of the marathon bombing. Walid thinks it's Saudi-connected.

7:10 Tom Partin, American Forest Resource Council, how is that bi-partisan Timber Bill Doing?

7:20 Klamath Co. Commissioner Tom Mallams - More on their declaration of drought emergency, and its effect on the Rogue Valley.

7:35 Crimestoppers

8:10 State Representative Dennis Richardson with a Salem Update.

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BOY, THAT "BLAME THE RIGHT-WING THING" DIDN'T TAKE LONG

WHY GARY HARRINGTON SHOULD LAY DOWN THE SWORD, and DRAIN THE PONDS

 I was at the courtroom yesterday when Judge Mejia sentenced Gary Harrington (Eagle Point water "criminal", rain water gatherer) to an additional 90 days in Jackson County Jail, and full 5-year post-prison supervision for probation violations connected with his illegal rainwater ponds in Eagle Point. Harrington essentially threw himself on the mercy of the court. Mejia seemed most concerned with what he called Harrington's "willful disobedience" to the court order to open the gates and drain the ponds.

Judge Mejia is right.

Much of the courtroom discussion centered around the trust that currently controls the Eagle Point property. Harrington did transfer the property after the sentencing, still lives on the property, and controls the property through the trust. So to claim he "doesn't own it" is, as Mejia noted, "a sham".

Gary is a better man than this, and in my opinion, loses moral standing by claiming to "not have control over the property, hence he can't comply with the order to drain the ponds". All that this legal wrangling will lead to is a never-ending threat of jail for Harrington, and continued disregard for the root of Gary Harrington's problem.  This problem affects us all, and it's the real legal "sham" of a state law that claims rainwater falling on our property is not ours to collect in any way we see fit, but only in the way the STATE sees fit.

It is also ridiculous that Medford has claim to water running off Harrington's property, give the flow is below where Medford grabs the water. It is physically impossible for them to claim this water, but in law, that's the story. 

Much better for Gary to drain the ponds, stay out of jail, and raise legal funds with his high moral ground standing to work toward changing these insane water gathering laws.

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BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING - What we know at this point...Fox News reports 2 explosions just before Noon Pacific this afternoon near the finish lines. Two are confirmed dead, 2 dozen hurting, many with amputated limbs. One suspect in the bombing is reportedly under guard, and i2 additional explosive devices are being disarmed. There was also an explosion at the JFK library. It's unknown if this is or isn't  connected to the Boston bombings.There is also 1 "person of interest" under guard in this case.

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Stay with AM-1440 KMED and KMED.com for the latest updates on this story at the top and bottom of the hour - and pray for the victims.

GARY HARRINGTON SENTENCED - I was at the courtroom this morning as Judge Mejia sentenced Gary Harrington (Eagle Point water "criminal", rain water gatherer) to an addition 90 days in Jackson County Jail for probation violations connected with his illegal rainwater ponds in Eagle Point. Harrington essentially threw himself on the mercy of the court. Mejia seemed most concerned with what he called Harrington's "willful disobedience" to the court order to open the gates and drain the ponds. I'll have more on this story tomorrow on my show.

GUEST INFORMATION 04-15-2013

8:10 Dr. Dennis Power - "Visiting Past and Present", plus we talk business and gold today. Here's his post:

Ben Hur Lampman: A Man for the Ages

By Dennis Powers

Following his brother, Rex, to Gold Hill in 1912, Ben Hur Lampman became over time a nationally acclaimed poet, writer, and author. Following his father’s passion for owning and operating newspapers from Wisconsin to North Dakota, the self-educated Lampman also pursed this profession.

His wife, a young high-school teacher by the name of Lena Sheldon, lost a child in infancy and had health problems. As his father and brother then were living in the Rogue Valley due to its better climate, it was natural for the family to relocate here. Brother Rex was also the editor of the Gold Hill News, although his parents had retired from publishing newspapers to try farming.

Ben Hur sold his North Dakota newspaper and headed to the Rogue Valley and discovered that the climate was indeed better. When his brother sold the Gold Hill News to him and moved to Portland, Ben Hur became the Gold Hill newspaper’s new owner and editor. He loved the town, its famed fishing, and the people he served.

Four years later, he moved north to join the staff of the Portland Oregonian. Over time he became a renowned editor, essayist, short story writer, and poet; Ben Hur won an

O’ Henry award, authored six books, had a movie made about his life, was published in national magazines from the New York Times to the Atlantic Monthly and Saturday Evening Post, and was honored as Oregon’s Poet Laureate.

Year after year, he would return to Gold Hill to continue his passion for fishing on the Rogue and keeping up with old friends. In recognition of its “native son” who returned so often, Gold Hill held Ben Hur Lampman Day in his honor on June 21, 1947. Governors, ex-governors, and even Clark Gable, Tyrone Power, and David Niven--who had been fishing on the Rogue--joined an estimated 2,500 people who were there. A long parade (with fire engines, trucks, bands, marchers, and floats), baseball game, horseback stunts, horse race, and a barbecued salmon feast were part of the festivities. A tract of land three-quarters of a mile long opposite Gold Hill was dedicated as Ben Hur Lampman Park—which is still in use—and alongside the road named for him.

He died on January 24, 1954, and is buried in Portland. But his works live on. One of his best-known articles was a reader’s inquiry on where was the best place to bury a dog. He wrote a long article which ended: 

“....There is one best place to bury a dog.

If you bury him in this spot, he will

come to you when you call – come to you

over the grim, dim frontier of death,

and down the well-remembered path,

and to your side again.

“And though you call a dozen living

dogs to heel, they shall not growl at

him, nor resent his coming.

“People may scoff at you, who see

no lightest blade of grass bent by his

footfall, who hear no whimper, people

who may never really have had a dog.

Smile at them, for you shall know

something that is hidden from them,

and which is well worth the knowing.

“The one best place to bury a good

dog is in the heart of his master.”

Powers, Dennis M. Gold Hill: Images of America, Arcadia Publishing: Charleston, South Carolina, 2010, pp. 121-122; Gold Hill Historical Society: Nuggets of News, September 1992, pp. 1-5. For the complete article, see (for example): Where to Bury a Dog.  

OTHER GUESTS:

6:35 Demian Brady - National Taxpayers Union - The president's budget and spending plans on TAX day.

7:10 Jeff Wolf and Salvadore Corona, discussing the Jo County Crime problem, promoting property tax levy Measure 17-49.

7:35 Leslie Graves, president of the Lucy Burns Institute, the growth of citizen initiative measures. She has written “Local Ballot Initiatives-How citizens change laws with clipboards, conversations, and campaigns”. Go to Ballotpedia.org for more information on this and how you can get a copy of the book.

8:35 Sam Nichols - Citizens against Crime. He's part of the "posse" in Josephine County patrolling their neighborhood in O'Brien.