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Friday 12-06-24 Bill Meyer Show Guest Information
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6:35 Today’s DC Swamp update from Rick Manning, President of Americans for Limited Government, www.DailyTorch.com
7:10 Outdoor Report from www.RogueWeather.com Mr. Outdoors, Greg Roberts
8:30 Oregon 2nd District U.S. Congressman Cliff Bentz checks in with the latest legislative update from DC. Topics include election integrity, should there be national election rules. How will the Republicans and Democrats get a budget passed. Can spending REALLY be reined in, given the tiny Republican working majority?
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Thursday 12-05-24 Bill Meyer Show Guest Information
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6:35 Todd Sheets More on Todd: https://www.encounterbooks.com/authors/todd-sheets/
2008: What Really Happened – Understanding the Great Financial Cris
The Presidential election resurfaced issues related to housing affordability, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Federal Reserve, all of which can be traced back to the 2008 financial crisis. And yet, over 15 years later, the American people still lack an understanding of what caused this nearly catastrophic event. In his new book, 2008: What Really Happened, financial expert/investment banker, Todd Sheets presents extensive original research that unveils what triggered the sudden and historic upsurge in home prices in 1998, the critical mistake that caused prices to accelerate so dangerously in the early 2000s, and how the housing bubble then led to the financial crisis.
- What Americans and the new Trump administration can learn from the Financial Crisis and how to apply these lessons to today’s key issues, including Trump’s “unfinished business” with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac;
- The critical mistake made by the Federal Reserve that blew the bubble to such dangerous proportions;
- The critical measure that shows why some institutions survived and others failed during the crisis;
- The role played by the long history of government bailouts that frustrated so many and led to the Occupy Wall Street movement;
- How the Financial Crisis fits into a debate over the proper role of government in the economy that dates back to the founding of the country; and
- What investors, executives, board members and policymakers can do to protect themselves from and prevent another crisis.
In addition to debunking many myths, Mr. Sheets presents compelling histories of the people, institutions and timeless issues involved. He also sets forth measures that homeowners, investors, executives, board members and policymakers can take to protect themselves, our financial institutions, and the system as a whole from a repeat. 2008: What Really Happened is must reading for all those who want to truly understand the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
7:10 Matt McCaw from the Greater Idaho Movement www.GreaterIdaho.org matt@greateridaho.org,
Leaders of the Greater Idaho movement are asking President Trump and his incoming administration to get involved in supporting border talks between Idaho and Oregon. In a letter released today, Citizens for Greater Idaho praised the former and future President as a “practical problem-solver” whose support could bring a “peaceful resolution to Oregon’s longstanding east-west divide… and cement (Trump’s) legacy as a peacemaker and transformational president”.
“It’s become clear to the people of eastern Oregon that our own state government is not going to listen to us and enact what we’ve voted for, which is moving the border,” said Matt McCaw, Executive Director of the movement. “But we believe that President Trump, whom the people here overwhelmingly voted for, can help us achieve the self-determination we have a right to by bringing attention and support to our cause.”
President of the movement, Mike McCarter, agreed. “For the last four years we’ve been going directly to the people to hear what they want.
They’ve made clear they want to start border discussions. We’ve also reached out to the Oregon Legislature and Governor Kotek but gotten no response. Oregon state government hasn’t been willing to listen to eastern Oregonians, but we believe the President will.”
The Greater Idaho movement began putting votes to counties in 2020 and seeks to move the Oregon/Idaho border westward so that the traditionally conservative eastern counties would join the state of Idaho, which the movement says better matches eastern Oregonian values. So far, 13 counties have passed their measures. The group believes that moving the border would create a win-win situation for both Oregon and Idaho by better matching voters to state governance and would lower political tension across the state. State lines can be moved through a process called an insterstate compact. The change would require the approval of both states’ legislatures, as well as the US Congress. In 2023 the Idaho house passed a Memorial resolution inviting the state of Oregon to begin border talks, and the Governor of Idaho has publicly supported border talks as well.
A copy of the letter to the President can be found at
https://greateridaho.org/view/104
7:35 Mike Dillon, Founder of www.AirWaterHealing.com and we talk INDOOR AIR QUALITY. He’s invented a special filter using UV and we talk that too. Along with the surprising number of hidden and not so hidden toxins in our homes.
BIO: Having spent decades in the health and wellness space inventor Michael Dillon is the Founder of AirWaterHealing.com.
He is passionate about applying his expertise to help people improve the air quality of their homes, and thus their quality of their life and health. Having worked in the HVAC Industry for decades and having minored in Medical Microbiology, Dillon has worked with doctors all across America and his own team worldwide.
Wednesday 12-04-24 Bill Meyer Show Guest Information
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6:15 Alek Skarlotos, Representative-Elect House District 4, and one of the heroes of the Paris Train Terror Attack.
6:35 Eric Peters www.EpAutos.com – Wheels Up Wednesday talk on the Kia PHEV review, Trump Picks, license plate cams, your calls and more!
7:10 Dr. Jerome Corsi – His non-profit re election integrity – www.GodsSevenStones.com
In a controversial move that threatens to escalate tensions with Russia, President Biden authorized Ukraine to use long-range U.S. missiles capable of striking 186 miles into Russian territory on November 17, 2024. This decision comes just months before President-Elect Trump’s planned inauguration and his stated intention to negotiate peace with Putin.
In his recent article for American Thinker, NY Times Bestselling Author Dr. Jerome R. Corsi dissects Biden’s move and more:
7:35 State Senator Dennis Linthicum – www.ElectDennis.com – Can Republicans Win statewide?? What about the special session next week?
8:35 Randall from Advanced Air, www.MyAdvancedAir.com on Today’s “Open For Business”
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Tuesday 12-03-24 Bill Meyer Show Guest Information
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6:20 Curtis Houck with MRC Newsbusters
The Bulwark said, “In Defense of Hunter Biden Pardon, consider what Trump’s weaponized Justice Department would have done to Biden’s son.
- CNN’s Jeff Zeleny celebrates this “monumental moment” for President Biden to pardon his son, Hunter and “culmination” of his presidency that will be “part of [his] legacy going forward”
- CNN’s Arlette Saenz, is BEAMING from ear-to-ear over President Biden pardoning son Hunter
- CNN’s MJ Lee says the discussion over whether to pardon Hunter Biden was a “very human question” and “a decision he made…as Hunter’s father” and “that raw politics had infected the [legal] process.”
The leftist media are continuing their attacks/outcries on President-Elect Trump’s cabinet picks. Most recently, Kash Patel, who was selected to serve as FBI Director.
At ABC, Jon Karl opened This Week with the customary overwrought editorial, loaded with appeals to authority, diminishment of Patel’s qualifications, and fearmongering over the scope of Patel’s mission at the Bureau. At CNN, Kasie Hunt opened State of the Union, freaking out over the designation.
6:50 ANNIE ZALESKI, author of WE FOUND LOVE SONG BY SONG: THE STORIES BEHIND 100 ROMANTIC HITS
ABOUT WE FOUND LOVE SONG BY SONG
Love songs are for everybody and so is this book. In We Found Love Song by Song, award-winning author and music journalist Annie Zaleski delivers a beautifully illustrated keepsake that tells the fascinating history and behind-the-scenes stories of the 100 most popular and cherished love songs of all time.
What moving song did Paul McCartney pen as a love letter to his wife and record in one day? What iconic tune about cheating and piña coladas ends with a relationship being saved? What popular ballad was written from the perspective of Juliet and led to hundreds of in-concert proposals? Spanning musical genres and decades of classics and modern hits, featured songs include:
Etta James, “At Last”
Elvis Presley, “Can’t Help Falling in Love”
Sonny and Cher, “I Got You Babe”
Queen, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”
Foreigner, “I Want to Know What Love Is”
Marvin Gaye, “Sexual Healing”
Tina Turner, “The Best”
Elton John, “Can You Feel the Love Tonight”
Shania Twain, “You’re Still the One”
Rihanna, “We Found Love”
John Legend, “All of Me”
Taylor Swift, “Love Story”
And many more!
7:35 A look at the recall election for Commissioner John West through the eyes of Josephine County Commissioner Herman Baertschiger. We go through the recall petition’s grievances and dig in. We also discuss
8:10 Kevin Starrett, Oregon Firearms Federation. www.OregonFirearms.org Do we ALL need to become RINO’s to function in Oregon (Or, at least be more honest about it)
8:35 Victoria Marshall, incoming Grants Pass City Councilor – what is up with tonight’s council meeting regarding the MINT land purchase?
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Monday 12-02-24 Bill Meyer Show Guest Information
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6:35 Bill Walton, aka The UnWoke CEO, is host of The Bill Walton Show, chairs the Resolute Protector Foundation, a 501(c)(3) media production company that creates and produces original, educational and entertainment content. Today Bill and I talk the Biden Pardon, some Trump economic Plan, and why the FBI and CIA can not be reformed.
Bill has served as a leader and board member of leading national policy, economics and business organizations: Heritage Foundation, American Conservative Union (CPAC), American Enterprise Institute, Media Research Center, Council for National Policy (President), US Chamber of Commerce, National Venture Capital Association, National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship and the Financial Services Roundtable. In 2015 he served as Chairman of the Tea Party Patriots.
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7:10 Josephine County Commissioner John West discusses the lawsuit against the recall election. Also discusses is why he and his attorney believe they’ll prevail in throwing out the election. West says state law requires all petition signatures to be verified on recall elections. Only about 10% were verified in this case.
8:10 Dr. Dennis Powers, retired professor of business law at SOU and author of “Where Past Meets Present” – more at www.DennisPowersBooks.com
The Oregon Community Foundation
By Dennis Powers
The Oregon Community Foundation (“OCF”) dates back to when logging and wood products were the backbone of Oregon’s economy. Bill Swindells Sr. earned a civil engineering degree from Lehigh in 1926, married his sweetheart Irene Gerlinger, and later worked with her father’s lumber company (formed in 1906), then bought into the ownership of the company, Willamette Valley Lumber Co. When George Gerlinger died in 1948, Swindells became the president of the family’s company interests, consisting of extensive timberlands and different wood-product mills.
Bill built these operations up as its CEO and leader from 1948-1976 into a large, integrated forest products company with 51 plants in 10 states, manufacturing lumber, plywood, particleboard, pulp, corrugated containers, paper bags and business forms, employing 7,300 workers while earning $42 million on sales of some $550 million in his last year.
His son, Bill Swindells Jr., took over as its CEO and further increased the operations. In 2001, Weyerhaeuser initiated a hostile buyout attempt, but was forced to increase its offers. In January 2002, Willamette Industries agreed to be bought by Weyerhaeuser for $55.50 per share, or a total cash equity value of $6.08 billion. Willamette then was the seventh largest forest products company in the world with over 90 facilities across the United States; foreign operations in Mexico, Ireland, and France; and the company had $4.6 billion in annual revenues.
With a grant of an initial $63,000 in 1974, Bill Swindells Sr. formed the Oregon Community Foundation, which was headquartered in Portland. At the same time, he asked friends from around the state to join him with donations and work as volunteers. Community leader Otto Frohnmayer of Medford was an early board member. From its early days and initial gift, OCF grew in 50 years to more than $3.4 billion under management through near 3,000 specific charitable funds. It has granted $2.2 billion while operating with 10,000 donors and 5,000 volunteers.
The Swindells were important forces in the development of OCF, both serving long terms on its board, and OCF was the recipient of a $75 million endowment from the Ann & Bill Swindells (the son) Charitable Trust, bequeathed as part of his estate. Other Swindells family members are involved with the OCF as donors, advisors and volunteers.
In a community foundation, donor funds are pooled under shared management to maximize benefits and growth. Unless requested to be used for a specific purpose, the OCF Board–a diverse group of 14 volunteers–govern distributions. Through these funds, OCF in 2020 awarded more than $225 million in grants and scholarships. OCF is the 6th largest community foundation in the U.S., but our population is only the 27th largest. OCF’s offices are located in Portland, Bend, Eugene, Medford and Salem.
Although this varies from year to year, OCF grants and scholarships in Southern Oregon total some 10% of its overall in any given year, but there is no specific guideline. The size of this region’s grants makes OCF one of the largest foundations in size for our region.
The Reed and Carolee Walker Fund (which supports children in poverty in Jackson County) is OCF’s third largest discretionary fund statewide and the largest fund in Southern Oregon. When the Walker fund was created in 2003, it was the largest single gift OCF had ever received (this has since been eclipsed) and was the largest single gift to charity in Oregon. The fund started with $29 million, has nearly doubled in size, all while now distributing approximately $2 million per year.
One can make a donation to a fund at any time–and to any qualified nonprofit within the U.S. Over the lifetime of the fund, at least 50 percent of ones giving should go to Oregon nonprofits. International grants can be made when the organization has nonprofit status in this country.
This is a standout charitable organization—for donors and potential recipients alike—with a strong presence here.
Sources: The Oregon Community Foundation at OCF; Wikipedia: Willamette Industries at Willamette_Industries; World Forestry Center: William Swindells Sr., 1905-1985 at Bill Swindells Sr.; University of Oregon: “UO mourns following the passing of William Swindells, Jr.” at Bill Swindells Jr.