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Wednesday 06-26-24 Bill Meyer Show Guest Information
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6:35 Eric Peters, automotive journalist with www.EpAutos.com and today’s “Wheels Up Wednesday” discussions including:
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2024/06/26/intended-acceleration/
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2024/06/26/2024-land-rover-defender/
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2024/06/25/they-need-assistance/
7:35 Secretary of State GOP candidate (and current State Senator Dennis Linthicum – www.ElectDennis.com joins the show and we kick around the most important duty of Secretary of State – creating and enforcement of election rules, and why this it’s important to have a Republican run this after years of single-party rule by Oregon Democrats.
8:10 Josephine County GOP chair Holli Morton talks with me about the challenge of moving Republican legislators to “just say NO” to bad Democrat Party Bills. It all started with a recent conversation with a member of the legislature who alluded to it being important to “Get the Seat, no matter what it takes”. Oh, so that means lying to conservatives to get the seat and then vote with the Democrats??? Anyhow, we dig into this.
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Tuesday 06-25-24 Bill Meyer Show Guest Information
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6:35 Congressman Cliff Bentz – Some of our topics today include:
1. USDA and VA Power Grab: Addressing the recent efforts by the USDA and VA to mandate energy efficiency requirements in homes covered by mortgage programs. This could increase the cost of these homes by up to $31,000. Can Congress intervene in this matter?
- NDAA Funding: Concerns have been raised about the substantial amount of money being allocated to overseas conflicts and the potential requirement for women to register for the draft.
The Congressman is looking at legislation focused on protecting our marine environments and the species that inhabit them. Last week, the Biden-Harris Administration advanced their New Green Deal Agenda concerning the Columbia River. They have created a Columbia River Task Force, which is considering the removal of the four Lower Snake River Dams, potentially impacting the fish population in that area. You can read the White House press release here.
7:10 Nick Fondacaro is the associate editor for the Media Research Center www.Newsbusters.org
CNN could be facing a defamation liability rivaling or exceeding the $787 million Fox News paid out to Dominion Voting Systems.
MRC NewsBusters recently reported on Florida’s First District Court of Appeals affirming that plaintiff Zachary Young could seek punitive damages, in addition to economic and emotional damages, from the Cable News Network in a civil trial after they allegedly defamed him regarding his work in getting people out of Afghanistan. The total could near or exceed $1 billion.
In an interview with MRC NewsBusters, Vel Freedman, the lawyer representing Young, said that “everyone makes mistakes” but what CNN’s messages showed was a “systemic problem” inside the network. He added that their internal mechanism for accountability had “clearly failed” and opened themselves to “massive, massive liability.”
7:35 Josephine County Herman Baertschiger talks the 4H funding and the Fire Map meetings/discussion.
8:10 “Mr. X”, researcher and exposer of unconstitutional intrusions into our public process. Today it’s a follow up on Gino’s talk (Monday 7:10) about calling out the policy-consensus fraud public meetings. This includes the ODF fire map meetings and Oregon Kitchen Table “conversations” about the jetboat issue on the Upper Rogue. SPEAKING OF WHICH – read this document from the state Attorney General from 2005 concerning what the state is truly allowed to do with the river:
https://www.doj.state.or.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/op8281.pdf
Other takeaways from Ed:
The resultant “Consensus Based Process”concept of governance is in direct opposition to the central premise and foundation of our Representative Republic,
ORS 192.620 states: The Oregon form of government requires an informed public aware of deliberations and decisions of governing bodies and the information upon which such decisions were made
It is the intent of ORS 192.610 to 192.690 that decisions of governing bodies be arrived at openly. [1973 c 172 1]. Official replies and responses that “concerns will be part of the record”are deceptive and a clear violation of the protections granted all citizens by the Constitution of the United States as well as the Constitution of the State of Oregon. The lack of Public Notice and involvement leads to a strong public perception of an appearance of impropriety. and
https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_183.502
ORS 183.502 explains the actual illegal usage of any “Consensus Process” to make war on The People by attacking Constitutionally protected granted rights.
The statute states; ORS 183.502; “Authority of agencies to use alternative means of dispute resolution programs (1) Unless otherwise prohibited by law.
The Oregon Administrative Act Section 183.400 (4) (a) specifically addresses the invalidity of any rule if it finds that the rule ; (a) Violates Constitutional provisions”.
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Monday 06-24-24 Bill Meyer Show Guest Information
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6:35 Steve Milloy, Senior Energy and Environment Legal Institute Fellow and former Trump EPA Team Member
Every summer, the media publishes fake narratives that attempt to prove emissions are directly related to heat waves. In response to this nonsensical propaganda, Steve Milloy, Senior E&E Legal Institute Fellow and former Trump EPA Team Member, debunks the climate hoax by using public data and discrediting the fearmongering media’s claims of “record” temperatures.
Another topic we talk about – After deciding that the clean air movement was too successful, leftist billionaires have decided to take the climate crisis into their own hands and attempt to block the sun’s rays from entering the atmosphere to reduce temperatures. Groups like the Pritzker Innovation Fund are currently devising kooky weather devices capable of chemically altering the clouds in order to reflect heat away from the Earth—literally trying to block the sun.
7:10 Listener Gino – How to disrupt a pre-determined outcome meeting
7:35 Brad Bennington – Builders Associastion of Southern Oregon
New Energy Codes Mandate a Blow to Housing Affordability
Codes and Standards
Published Apr 26, 2024
In a move that will curb new construction and harm housing affordability nationwide, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have issued a final determination that will require all HUD- and USDA-financed new single-family construction housing to be built to the 2021 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) and HUD-financed multifamily housing be built to 2021 IECC or ASHRAE 90.1-2019.
Without adequate review and consideration of how it will affect home buyers or renters, HUD and USDA have rammed through a mandate that will do little to curb overall energy use but will exacerbate the housing affordability crisis and hurt the nation’s most vulnerable house hunters and renters. Studies have shown that building to the 2021 IECC can add up to $31,000 to the price of a new home and take up to 90 years for a home buyer to realize a payback on the added cost of the home. This unreasonable trade-off for a new home buyer will do little to offer meaningful energy savings for residential homes and apartments and in fact, will make older, less efficient homes more attractive.
“The Biden-Harris administration has set a goal of building an additional 2 million homes and this new policy runs completely counter to that objective,” said NAHB Chairman Carl Harris. “HUD and USDA are supposed to help the most vulnerable home buyers and renters — not price them out of the housing market. This senseless nationwide codes mandate will significantly raise housing costs — particularly in the price-sensitive entry-level market for starter homes and affordable rental properties — and limit access to mortgage financing while providing little benefit to new home buyers and renters.”
It is also likely that the Department of Veteran Affairs will join with HUD and USDA to only finance new homes if they are built to the 2021 IECC.
This ill-conceived policy will also act as a deterrent to new construction at a time when the nation desperately needs to boost its housing supply to lower shelter inflation costs. Moreover, it is in direct conflict with the current energy codes in the majority of jurisdictions around the country. This will lead to a host of logistical and implementation challenges in the field and will require bringing a third-party to manage the compliance process.
And targeting new home construction is the wrong approach to reduce energy consumption in the U.S. Homes built to modern energy codes are already energy efficient. According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, upgrades to the existing housing stock — 130 million homes that were built before the introduction of modern energy codes — could yield a projected reduction of 5.7% of the total annual U.S. electricity consumption in 2030.
Compliance Dates and Paths for Home Builders
At the strong urging of NAHB and other commenters, HUD did extend the compliance dates for these new requirements. The effective date of the rule is May 28, 2024, but the compliance dates for the building code mandates are:
- 18 months after the effective date for single-family homes;
- 12 months after the effective date for multifamily projects; and
- 24 months after the effective date for homes in “persistent poverty rural areas.”
In addition, the rule provides other compliance paths. Homes built to above-code existing standards will satisfy the new requirement. Programs specifically mentioned by HUD include ICC-700 National Green Building Standard (NGBS), Energy Star Certified New Homes, and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), among others.
Adoption of the prescriptive or performance paths of the 2024 IECC will also be an allowable compliance pathway.
A Top Issue at the 2024 NAHB Legislative Conference
HUD and USDA’s new minimum energy standard will be a top issue at the upcoming NAHB Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C. on June 12.
NAHB is calling on Congress to include a provision in the fiscal year 2025 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill to prevent HUD from using any funds to implement the 2021 IECC for all HUD- and USDA-financed newly constructed housing.
NAHB Chairman Carl Harris and First Vice Chairman Buddy Hughes will be on Capitol Hill on May 1 to meet with several U.S. senators, and this topic is sure to be high on
their list of concerns.
The NAHB Legislative Conference offers a unique opportunity to speak one-on-one with your elected representatives on Capitol Hill and to push for housing policies that will help your business and our industry. A strong showing can help move the needle on this vital energy codes issue as well as other top housing priorities, including the need to boost the production of transformers and ensure proper funding for workforce development to help alleviate the severe labor shortage in the construction industry. Learn more at nahb.org/legcon.
8:10 Dr. Dennis Powers, retired professor of business law at SOU. www.DennisPowersBooks.com
Rooster Crows and More
By Dennis Powers
Since 1953, Rogue River has held its National Rooster Crow Championship on the last Saturday in June; the weekend affair was started to publicize the city (more than the river), and by 1958 a record 263 roosters had been entered. Over 10,000 people attended the 2012 Rooster Crow weekend, which was the city’s 100th-year celebration. This year is from June 28th to the 30th with the local Kiwanis Club as the organizer.
Saturday morning starts off with a fun “Rooster Crow Parade,” where nearly anyone can participate. Plus, there is a whirlwind of activities, arts and crafts, food booths, exhibits, entertainment, and (of course) the Annual National Rooster Crow contest that afternoon. During the weekend, the Cal-Ore Hydroplane racers have time trials and races.
There are typically three crowing contests: for young people, adults, and then the one for the real roosters. Audience applause selects the winners of the human crowing contests. The question is always, however, which cock-a-doodle-doo fowl will crow its way into Animal Farm’s hierarchy—and be the national winner. The competition is over which rooster can make the greatest number of crows within 30 minutes.
The winner of the first event was Hollerin’ Harry, a bird that crowed 71 times and won $50 for his owner—which was great deal of money in the early 1950s. A second contest was held that September (when two contests were then held) with $100 to the winner Beetle Baum, that managed a staggering 109 crows and setting a record that lasted for 25 years. In 1978, White Lightning won with a new course record of 112 crows.
Owners of first-place roosters usually receive $150, and cash prizes typically are paid out for the top five rooster-crowers. The placers in 2012 included names such as Red Ryder (46 crows), El-Ron (38), George of the Jungle, and Mordecai. In 2015, Crow-Darr (52 crows)—owned by a Rogue River Elementary School sixth grader–beat out Slim Field (21 crows).
Nearly every town in Southern Oregon puts on its own “stand out” annual event: Grants Pass (Boatnik), Gold Hill (Gold Dust Day), Central Point (July 4th), Medford (Pear Blossom Festival), Ashland (July 4th is the big one), Shady Cove (Spam Festival) in addition to other weekend and holiday events. The Jackson County Fair, held in mid-July, brings about numbers of events with usually 80,000-plus attending over the six-day event.
Years ago, nearly every other town in Oregon held logging contests—now there are only three at best. The third week of August finds the town of Prospect on Highway 62 (past Lost Creek Lake, towards Crater Lake) conducting its annual Jamboree and Timber Carnival, which it has put on for some 65 years. From chain-saw and buck-saw contests to ax throwing, log rolling, and pole climbing, the lumberjacks keep rolling on.
Sources: Rogue River Chamber of Commerce: Rooster Crow at 2024 Rooster Crow Activities; see Randy Johnson, “You Tube: 2012 Rooster Crow.”