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Friday 9-13-24 Bill Meyer Show Guest Information
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6:35 Rick Manning, Americans for Limited Government, www.DailyTorch.com DC swamp update on the seamy deal re the SAVE act and what will likely REALLY happen with funding and avoiding the dreaded “government shutdown”.
7:10 Greg Roberts from www.RogueWeather.com with today’s Outdoor report and salute to the late Ron Boutwell/Matthews, my former morning partner from KBOY days in the mid-1990’s.
8:10 Jackson County Commissioner Colleen Roberts and we’re digging into a number of local topics needing local public input/commentary from you…including:
- Oregon State Marine Board meeting here 10-2 regarding the Rogue River/jet boats, taking public comments at the meeting, or written comments until October 16.
- Our Board approved a letter on Tuesday to send to all commissioners/boards in Oregon to join us signing on the letter to be sent to the legislators/governor to Repeal SB 762 and 80
- Thursday the board met with USFS supervisor Molly Juillerat regarding National Old Growth Amendment, Public comment ends September 20, 2024.
Here is the link for submitting comments for the national old growth amendment: https://cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public/Commentinput?Project=65356
The comment deadline is September 20th. .
Here are some talking highlights from Jackson County’s letter that might help your own comments:
- does not address the most severe threat to our forest, wildfire. Living in Oregon, wildfires are a constant threat to both our citizens health and the communities we live in. The USFS needs policies that take an active approach to forest management. Extra bureaucracy will not save our forests. It already takes years for the USFS to implement forest health treatments and this Amendment adds regulations and red tape by applying a one-size-fits-all land management plan for all national forests across the County.
- Addressing the “one-size fits all”: the scale at which this Amendment is being applied is too broad. A one-size-fits-all management plan for all forests across the United States National Forest System discounts the local social and environmental impacts of its application. As County Commissioners in Oregon, we have many concerns specific to the National Forests in Southern Oregon, but especially the constant threat of wildfire. This nationwide Amendment does not allow these regions or forest specific-concerns to be addressed.
- While the USFS is not proposing an outright prohibition on commercial timber harvest within old-growth forest, there are constraints and regulations imposed on the FS which will hinder the ability to harvest timber and manage in or around old growth forests. This strategy constrains local decision-making by setting unnecessary standards and guidelines. The Forest Service should be focused on removing barriers and constraints to forest management, not adding new ones. Our national forests need local and active management, not red tape and national control.
- The findings in the USFS threat assessment do not support a need for change.
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Thursday 9-19-24 Bill Meyer Show Guest Information
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6:35 Steve Milloy, founder of Junk Science Dot Com and Senior Fellow at the Energy And Environment Legal Institue www.eelegal.org
After last night’s debate, President Trump’s response to the climate questions were perfect— focusing on jobs. VP Harris’ anti-fossil fuel agenda will kill them more than it already has in the auto industry.
Trump warned Pennsylvania voters not to believe Harris’ voiced support of fracking when her actual record is 100 percent against fossil fuels. He also pointed out that his energy dominance policies prepared the oil industry to save our economy from the disastrous Biden-Harris anti-fossil fuel policies that have been causing record inflation.
Check out this memo that serves as a fact sheet on all the top climate/energy issues from Harris’ radical agenda.
7:10 Jack Cashill, author of ASHLI: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6.
Trump at debate says Ashli Babbitt lost her life by an out-of-control police officer
Read debate transcript below:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/11/harris-trump-debate-transcript/75168681007/
The real question is not why thousands of women went to Washington on January 6. The real question is why the rest of us did not.
Unlike the women who descended on Washington in 2017 to protest the inauguration of President Trump, the women of January 6 did not come as women. They came as Americans, as patriots, as defenders of the republic. They did not wear pink hats. They wore MAGA hats. Their issues were indistinguishable from those of the men in their lives—the rule of law, free and fair elections, and the preservation of constitutional rights. They brought no laundry list of special needs like, say, “reproductive rights,” because they understood that no one was challenging their right to reproduce. In fact, many had reproduced abundantly.
There was not a single celebrity in their midst—no Ashley Judds, no Gloria Steinems, no Madonnas threatening to “blow up the White House.” These were Hillary’s “deplorables” in the flesh, a whole heaping basket of them, “irredeemable” to the last woman. On January 6, the very presence of these intrepid women at the Capitol so offended the natural order of things that many would be gassed and beaten. Two would never return home.
If resistance to government oppression has a face, it is that of Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, a determined patriot and an enduring martyr. This is her story, and that of the other gallant women of January 6.
BOOK: ASHLI: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6
BIO: Jack Cashill, author of ASHLI: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6,is an independent writer, documentary producer, and media consultant.
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Jack Cashill, author of ASHLI: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6.
8:10 Carolyn Gorman, Policy Analyst with the Manahattan Institute
New Report: Evaluating School-Based Mental Health Initiatives
Using the education system to administer mental health services poses challenges and consequences
NEW YORK, NY – In recent years, bipartisan efforts have committed billions of federal dollars annually to bolster mental health initiatives in schools in response to increases in school violence and reports of youth emotional distress. But are these programs an effective solution to improving youth mental health conditions? In a new Manhattan Institute report, Paulson Policy Analyst Carolyn Gorman finds evidence that school-based approaches to “improving emotional wellness,” such as mental health awareness and social-emotional learning, have fundamental drawbacks—and a decades-long track record of inconsistent-to-poor implementation.
Gorman finds that the implementation and funding of mental health services in schools is often an incoherent strategy, as the programs primarily serve youth who are not specifically in need of mental health treatment, while insufficiently serving those with mental disorders. Expanding mental-health services into schools has fundamentally set back accountability in both the education and mental health systems without benefit to the hardest cases of mental health disorders among youth—all while exposing more kids unnecessarily to an increased risk of low-quality and potentially harmful interventions.
The report recommends the following reforms to improve services for youth suffering with the most serious and acute mental health disorders:
- Roll back universal programs on mental-health literacy, mental-health awareness, suicide awareness, emotional wellness, social-emotional learning, and screenings.
- Allow schools to refocus on the core responsibility of providing academic teaching by eliminating funding requirements that reduce flexibility in favor of mental-health programs.
- Deprioritize promoting “emotional wellness” for all and refocus on supporting treatment access across a full continuum of care to youth with current cases of serious emotional disturbances or high-intensity acute needs.
- Implement structural practices in schools, like setting school-wide guidance on behavior expectations and attendance, maintaining full in-person school days, and keeping doors open after school.
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Monday 9-09-24 Bill Meyer Show Guest Information
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7:10 Commentator and film maker Matt Walsh – In theaters FRIDAY
Am I Racist? Movie Synopsis:
From the white guys who brought you “What Is A Woman” comes “Am I Racist?” Matt Walsh goes deep undercover in the world of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Prepare to be shocked by how far race hustlers will go and how much further Matt Walsh will go to expose the grift, uncovering absurdities that will leave you laughing. “Am I Racist?”. Only in theaters September 13th, 2024.
8:10 Dr. Dennis Powers – “Where Past Meets Present”. More about Dennis at www.DennisPowersBooks.com
P.K. Hallinan
By Dennis Powers
P.K. Hallinan was born in Los Angeles in 1944 and spent his youth in Bethesda, Maryland, and the San Fernando Valley. By his early twenties (1967), he was a toy department manager for a major retailer (Sears and Roebuck) with two young sons. And bored to death: “I needed to make a change,” he wrote much later in his book, A Life That Matters. He was earning a living but then paying it all out for bills. He thought that night about how to make something of his life: He decided to be a “famous novelist” and write the “Great American Novel.”
“Well, it also helps if you know how to write, but that didn’t stop me. I plowed ahead and churned out two really terrible manuscripts that are now in a landfill in Kearny Mesa, California, where they belong.” And to do this, he left his retail job for another that gave him better working hours.
Christmas was drawing near and his wife asked him to write a “little children’s book” for their kids as a Christmas present. Over the next two weeks, he scribbled out a story and drew some pen-and-ink cartoons of his kids. Much to his surprise, his kids, family, and friends liked it and said he should write more children’s books. He did.
While he worked on his books, P.K. also worked as a project scheduler for Lockheed (1970-1973); in 1972, a publisher wrote that it wanted to publish one of his children’s books. They hired an illustrator, however, paid him more than P.K., and the author was aghast at the illustrations. He decided to never let anyone else do the drawings on his books–which meant, he had to learn how to draw.
He started on his next book, and a publisher accepted this one on his terms. But P.K. continued working to pay the bills while he created different children’s books. From 1973 – 1985, he worked for a company in San Diego as the Director of Marketing Communications, but lost his position when a large Chicago company bought the business. (“This after twelve long years of sort-of loyal service,” he wrote later.) He had published five children’s books by then, but still needed to have a day job; P.K. worked in corporate America for more than twenty years after he had sold his first children’s book.
Then the time came. A publisher asked him to send one in, as it didn’t have enough books for its spring catalog. How Do I Love You? Soon became published and went on to become his best-selling book ever, now over the two-million-copies-sold mark. “It was simply a matter of preparation and opportunity crossing.” He and his family moved in 1990 from San Diego to the Rogue Valley “for a change of scenery and to enjoy the seasons.”
P.K. didn’t feel successful two years later, even though he was: He questioned, “Is that all there is?” Feeling there was a “spiritual hole” within himself and his marriage, he and his wife Jeanne began their spiritual search. After visiting different churches in the area, friends invited them to the Applegate Christian Fellowship in Ruch, where P.K. “found himself sitting with 5,000 Christians in the outdoor amphitheater.” Liking that they played their guitars “well”, he went back. “I went for the music, but I stayed for the Word,” he often said.
His true conversion to Christianity did not happen until one year later. It was November 4, 1993. Scheduled to do book sales and signings during school visits in Central California, he was concentrating on reading the bible in a Fresno hotel room. The readings crystalized his conversion that night. A few weeks later, Jon Courson asked him to start a men’s morning Bible study.
P.K. became the assistant pastor in Green Springs in the mountains above Ashland; when the pastor left for a fellowship in the Salem area, Hallinan was asked in July 1995 to be the new pastor there. He accepted. As strange as it may seem, “I was offered the position of pastor even though I had been a Christian for only eighteen months,” he wrote in his book. After this and another pastor position out of town, he founded in 1999 and became the pastor for the tiny Joy Chapel Christian Fellowship in downtown Ashland. Held in the Community Center across from Lithia Park for some fifteen years, P.K. at the same time was creating more books.
All in all, P.K. has written and illustrated nearly 100 children’s books, selling more than 9,000,000 copies worldwide. His children’s books are filled with rhythm, rhyme, and life lessons about love and kindness–covering topics of inspiration, friendship, love, relationships, and life values. Early Childhood News recognized his book For the Love of Our Earth (1992) as one of America’s “100 Best Product Picks for Children.” We’re Very Good Friends, My Mother and I (2015) and We’re Very Good Friends, My Father and I (2015) made the “Top Five” of Waldenbooks National Bestsellers list. One of his favorite awards was when Focus on the Family named his Let’s Be Kind as “One of America’s Top 10 Children’s Books” in 2008.
P.K. still helps others in coming to senior-living and assisted-living communities to play upbeat songs with his guitar. He lives with his wife, Jeanne, a “little dog named Sadie” with a “shy cat named Kitty,” and still in the mountains above Ashland, Oregon, with a summer home in Brookings. What more can you say…
Sources: See Amazon.com: P.K. Hallinan” at P.K. Bio and Books; P.K. Hallinan, “It’s about what we give out,” Mail Tribune, January 11, 2015; Angela Decker, “Children’s author P.K. Hallinan upbeat amid adversity,” Mail Tribune, April 8, 2015; P.K. Hallinan, A Life That Matters: Five Steps to Making a Difference, Kregel Publications: Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2012.