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Wednesday, 3-10-2010


Hey, I've just conducted a salary study....and have discovered that my salary at KMED, while good, is below the median salaries for the other talk show hosts on the station doing the same kind of work.  Let's see, Rush is at 50 million a year, Hannity about 20 million, Beck is roughly 15 million a year.  A 5,000 percent raise oughta' be alright.  Think I should get it....YOU DO?  Well then you must work for the City of Ashland. ;-) or some other governmental body.

Those salary surveys are one HECKU'VA scam. Tell you what, when we have evidence that public workers are headed for the exits, then maybe we start bumping up salaries. During recessions, during times of tax revenue decline, wages don't go up, and sometimes they actually decline. Oh, that only happens in the PRIVATE sector...I forgot, sorry.

GUESTS 03-10-10

6:20 Paul Campos, Law Professor at the University of Colorado. Fat discrimination, time to fight it?

7:10 Jim Ludwick, Oregonians for Immigration Reform. We talk about the county lockup illegal issue, and calls for a national ID. (MAJOR FAIL)

8:10 Steve Blanton from the RV Association of Realtors on the latest house sale stats and market direction. Always interesting.

8:45 Business Guest - Steve Johnson from Goldsmith's Diamonds and Design. Great people, even better prices and value. 

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Tuesday 3-09-10

Bill Sizemore was on the show today for the full 7am hour. If you missed it, listen here. We talk about it all, the good, the bad, and the union ugly. Bill is an honest man, which is a difficult characteristic to have when running for Oregon governor. The state needs his fiscal sanity, and drive to disentangle the state from the public employees union plunder and control. Will the state listen? I don't know...but I like Bill a lot.

A Bill I'm not so fond of - Bill O'Reilly. Tonight on FOX he and Lou Dobbs calmly discussed the "great idea" of a national I.D. card complete with your DNA/biometric profile. It'll stop illegal aliens, ID theft, terrorism, it slices, it dices, it jullienes the constitution. What statist crap.  I'm sure this ID will be so foolproof as to render our spies' fake IDs unusable? Don't make me laugh.

It's all so simple - Merely require "your papers please" on a card, soon a chip implant. But you'll be "safe"...to submit to the state.

How will it feel to be trackable government property, huh?

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GUESTS FOR 3-09-10

6am - Eric Zorn with the Chicago Tribune, writes an excellent piece on the USPS trouble, and how the Saturday mail delivery elimination is actually a pretty old idea, which may happen this time.

7am - Bill Sizemore, friend of the taxpayer, wants your vote.

8am - Open phones, but listen later in the hour for county assessor Dan Ross take us through how "shall not increase by more than three percent from the previous tax year" (your property tax assessment)  magically becomes "shall raise assessed value 3% per year" no matter what.  I guess all the assessors are doing it, so they must be right, right?  Time for a court challenge, IMO.

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Monday, 3-08-10

I watched Napolitano's whole series this weekend - What a constitutional gem.

Listen for the "Gitmo Smackdown" of Bill O'Reilly. Good stuff.

3-08-10 GUESTS

7:10 Loren Hooker For Senate - Loren is a farmer from Glendale. A self-described conservative Democrat, and is challenging Sen. Ron Wyden for the nomination. I wish most GOP candidates in Oregon were this conservative.

8:10 Robert K. Wilcox talks about his latest book "The Truth About the Shroud of Turin: Solving the Mystery". Just a great story. He first wrote about this subject 30 years ago!

8:35 Dianne Raymond with Southern Oregon Goodwill - new youth-oriented store opens tomorrow on Fir street across from the donation center.

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Friday, March 05, 2010

GUEST INFO

6:35 Gavin McKiernan with Parents Television Council - New study indicates kids playing violent video games are more....wait for it...it's coming....VIOLENT!

7:10 Sally Pipes with Pacific Research Institute, lived under Canada's health system, has a good bead on President Obama's "Line in the Healthcare Sand" speech earlier this week.

7:35 Rep. Dennis Richardson - Can we elect him president, hmm?

8:10 Listener Dave has a big time election problem - He has trouble getting his vote counted.

WEEKEND RELIEF
Have you seen OSF's new version of Hamlet?
(btw - some "naughty" language)

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Thursday, 3-04-10

I LOVED This..(not the financial message, just the parody).

(Hat Tip to Don Hurley)

INTERESTING, BUT LONG READS

Supreme Court Arguments on the McDonald Gun Case

Heritage Foundation has a new study detailing
Just how dependent folks are on government now.

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Wednesday, 3-03-10

I chatted this morning with listener John who was at last night's J'Ville city council meeting on what to do about increasing the size of the Fire Department, mostly for medical calls.
 
Listener "Tim" Writes:  It's painful to listen to you guys discuss a topic you know little about. The state requires everyone in the state to be covered by 911 ambulance service. The counties are divided into ambulance service areas (ASA) Mercy covers most of Jackson county and has as many ambulances as the ASA will support. Jacksonville is in Mercy's  ASA and Mercy will come to every 911 call in Jacksonville now. Since the ASA will only support X number of ambulances  and Mercy covers a large area ambulances can't be in every town of 2,500 people.

When grandma falls out of bed the closest ambulance may be miles away. The idea of using fire departments as first response teams is that they can be close to the person in need. Until grandma is checked out you don't know if she is injured or has had a stroke, heart attack,or some other serious problem.There are several other calls to 911 where a few minutes of early intervention can make a big difference in outcome for the victim. If you see a family member on the floor unconscious the minutes waiting for help will seem like hours. If you look into it I think you will find the big diesel fire truck puts on a few hundred miles a year .

Tim,

You're right about the requirement, but we are not required to provide gold-plated 911 service. Otherwise the council by their "magic paper authority" would impose the service & fees, and the citizenry would promptly have to "shut up". ;-)

The serious question in towns like Jacksonville, Phoenix, Gold Hill, Rogue River, etc., is what can be reasonably supported?  Unfortunately, I don't think what the council proposes will fly with the voters. ($1.29 per thousand of assessed value, and 240 dollars a year on the water bill fee) My father in law would have to cough up around $650 a year just to increase the size of the fire department in order to handle medical issues. I know how he'll be voting!

Sure, we'd all love to see everyone have uniformly fast ambulance service, but where one chooses to live determines the level of risk assumed in such matters.

The day of reckoning is fast coming for folks with serious medical issues. If you demand big city services, you better be prepared to live in the larger city with the tax base and economy of scale to support that level of service.

Jacksonville isn't one of those places. My mom, by contrast, lives within a few blocks of Providence, and it's a good thing, too. It would be unreasonable to expect anything even resembling her access to service in J'ville, or farther out in the county. I believe we have to stop kidding ourselves that it's possible. Better to come up with the best plan available using the existing resources.

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CONGRATS TO KEN SWENSON - He won the "Show us Your Sty" contest - And is headed out to see Tim Conway at the Chinook Winds Casino this weekend - His neighborhood "sty" got the most online votes:

I think the tractor tipped the vote in his favor.

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Tuesday, March 3, 2010


How's that "Hope and Changey Thing" Working out?

GUESTS FOR 3-02-10

6:15 Chris Owens, of the National Employment Law Project - She rakes Sen. Jim Bunning over the coals for not voting for the unemployment bailout, etc.

7:35 Dr. Jerome Corsi, World Net Daily columnist - his excellent RED ALERT NEWSLETTER HERE, and we talk about his latest on the dollar, and George Soros working to take down the E.U. first, next the U.S.

8:40 Jens Larson and Son Josh from the Medford Little League. On March 6th at 7 p.m. in the South Medford Auditorium,  Broken Sky Films and Medford National Little League will present a one night only showing of the new film “Calvin Marshall.” Click to buy tickets HERE

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Monday, 3-01-10

From my viewpoint, the shutdown of Joesph Winan's Furniture after many decades of faithfully serving southern Oregon, was very predictable...but still extremely sad. How many stores are really needed to fill the McMansions in foreclosure, given many of its occupants are un or under-employed? Well unfortunately for the Pedrojettis, there will be 1 less around here. But Winan's was certainly helped along in it's journey to the dustbin of history.

I consider Winan's yet another victim of the Greenspan/Bernanke/Federal Reserve fiat-currency-created bubble. A mouthful, right?  Think about it - The Fed, at government request, prints loads of electronic credit and cash, pushing people to bid up the prices of homes to buy. (which they couldn't really afford) and when all those homes came into existence, business folks supporting and supplying this mania (through loads of cheap credit) were told in effect "EXPAND, THE GOOD TIMES WILL NEVER END"

Winans, like so many businesses and individuals, believed the Government/Wall Street lie, and expanded far beyond true demand. Of course we're told even today that the fed needs to "stimulate" this fake demand to ensure "prosperity".

What a fraud this money system is. It gives me no pleasure that I and many of my financial guests over the last few years have been predicting the end results of this folly to "borrow our way to prosperity".

This evening, in honor of Winans, I hoist a glass of fine Syrah.  You gave it a good run. See you at the going out of business sale.

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GUESTS FOR 3/01/10

7:10 - John McLaughlin, with Borders McLaughlin and Associates. John is a former Law Enforcement expert and his firm has created a new Family Violence Risk Assessment program which is gaining support among many state court systems. It's all about making sure the judge has a better idea of who is abusive, and which parent, if any, has a higher propensity toward abusing children.

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Wed/Thu 2/24-25/2010

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INTERESTING READ - Detroit Mayor fights to Shrink the City

DID THEY DO THE RIGHT THING? A number of local mayors not happy with the County Commissioners choosing not to fund the Southern Oregon Historical Society. I'm no fan of the com's fat raises for themselves and other PERS parasites, but I think they did it right this time. SOHS is a nice thing to have, but I'm not convinced it's a necessity. Maybe we can talk about that soon. (And maybe we better start lining up some private $$ for SOHS, eh?)

In other county news, sheriffs deputies arrest three White City clowns, Justen Allen Blake, Zachary Ryan Orvis, and a 15 year old (name withheld) who admit breaking in, stealing stuff from, and trashing Ling's restaurant in White City.

I say put 'em in stocks and put them to work as Ling's slaves. I'm thinking we need more shaming and peer pressure brought down on these sorts. 

While we're on the subject of clowns, we talked a bit about the weird mug shots at county lockup...Melissa sent me this one from a January Meth Arrest:
Yep, I'm sure her parents are REAL proud.

THURSDAY 2-25-10 GUESTS

6:35 - Dr. Jane Orient from the America Asociations of Physicians and Surgeons, who talks the potential of an obamacare "nuclear option".

7:35 TSA Nonsense taken on by John Wohlstetter from the Discovery Institute. He's editor of the excellent "Letter from the Capitol" blog, and The Long War Ahead, and the Short War Upon us.

8:10 Will Reishman from Coby Lamson Capital Mgt., We talk about Bernanke's testimony at Congress this week, and what it means to you...especially the open discussion in DC of nationalizing your 401k and IRA, and other retirement accounts.

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Tuesday, 2-23-10

Random Thoughts - Are you as annoyed by Toyota's biggies testifying before the politicians? I am. Most of those pols couldn't run a car company at any price. And the tear-stained testimonies of the woman and her Lexus accelerating to 100 mph - Uh, how about stomp the brake, put the car in neutral. Are we that pathetic?

MY FAVE PALEOCON!: Pat Buchannan pens an interesting piece on Empire U.S.A., Do you think the modern GOP will learn the lesson in time?

Along that same line, Cong. Ron Paul points out where we may be headed.

Will the country learn the lesson in time?

2-23-10 GUESTS

6:35 James Lansberry, President of Alliance Health Care Sharing Ministries. A free-market faith based health system that works. Why can't we all do this?

7:35 Oregon Firearms Federation's Kevin Starrett - Last minute gun bill cram-down and other Capitol Craziness.

8:10 - Jerry McCauley with Americans for Prosperity and I talk about JAC1 and JAC2, ballot measure petitions designed to bring power back to the county from the bottom up!
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Monday, February 22, 2010

Ron Paul wins the CPAC presidential poll. GOP is peeing it's collective panties today. Too bad - Had the GOP listened to "Dr. No" back in 2008, maybe we would've been spared President Zero.

Tom DeWeese sent me a great article "Destroying America Within", all about government school indoctrination.

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Friday, 2-19-2010

A Weekend non-political fun break

(Thanks to Kathy Lehmann)

Guests for 2-19

6:15 Jennifer Hill, Executive Director of the Alliance to End Homelessness. New report indicating a big rise in suburban/rural homelessness.

7:10 Listener Mike has a big problem with his local bank - It won't help him figure out who ripped him off.

7:35 State Rep. Dennis Richardson - a legislative update, and a lot of talk about foreclosure fraud in Oregon.

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Thursday, February 18, 2010


DO YOU HAVE A "PIG PERSON" NEIGHBOR?

It all started this morning with our talk on the Mail Tribune's latest pig person problem . Every few months these issues pop up.

Tell you what, if you have a pig person neighbor, snap a photo of the mess, email it to me by Monday, 2/22, 5pm with your name, and I'll put it up on the website next week, and let listeners vote on the worst-looking mess.  Let's call it "SHOW US YOUR STY" ;-)

The photo with the most amount of votes will win a trip to the coast to see Tim Conway at the Chinook Winds Casino. You'll get show tickets, overnight hotel and dinner! Well, at least you won't have to look at the neighbor's mess for a day.



If Glenn Beck thinks Debra Medina (Tea Party candidate for TX governor) is a kook for allowing people to consider a 9/11 conspiracy, shouldn't he also throw Sarah Palin under the bus for calling for a new 9/11 investigation? C'mon Glenn....be fair and balanced, otherwise it just looks like you're shooting down constitutionalists who are running against standard GOP hacks.  I'm sure you'd NEVER do that, right?  Just thinkin'....

Random Notes

Have I every told you how much I respect Walter Williams?...what a brilliant defender of the free market. He's also a defender of freedom, and just wrote a new piece on resisting the census.

SHOW GUESTS 2-18

6:35 Richard Vigilante, author of PANIC, Capitalism Betrayed. Interesting talk on the ideology which led to the meltdown!

7:10 Neal McCloskey from the Cato Institute - new report indicates national curricula standards won't make the kids any smarter.

8:10 Kevin Starrett with Oregon Firearms Federation. How the A.G.'s "Government Transparency" movement may be a wolf in sheep's clothing for gunowners.

USELESS VIDEO OF THE DAY

SHOW GUESTS 2-17-10

8:10 Richard Herman, author of "IMMIGRANT, INC" - Interesting take that LEGAL immigrants enrich our job-making potential.

Friday, 2-12-2010

I was recently interviewed by All Access, a broadcast industry publication, and you can read the interview here.

 BTW, Calistoga, CA is a beautiful little town...but boy are the groceries expensive. Sherm, where are you?? We need Food For Less Here! :)

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Wednesday 2-10-20

Note: On vacation for the next few days, back on Wednesday 2/17. Time for a little R&R in California. I'll tell you how it goes.

BTW, am I the only person in southern Oregon irritated over the shut down of the Copeland gravel site in Provolt? The property owners didn't get a permit from the state water tyrants. So apparently, freedom in America translates as having to beg a state Mandarin for permission to 1) Dig a hole on your property and 2) Fill it with water.  Sheesh, if you can't do that without begging for permission, what CAN you do?  Yet another productive economic activity stopped by government. I tell you, this is coming to a head.

GUESTS for 2-10-10

7:10 State Rep. Dennis Richardson with another legislative session update. Hold on to your wallets, folks!

8:10 Will Reishmann, from Jackson County Local Action Coalition talks the Joel Salatin event a week from this Friday, and why conservatives NEED to get into the farming freedom movement. The tea party revolution starts at the dinner table, reall. Joel's tickets, by the way, are just 15 dollars in advance. Buy them on the JCLAC website. Can't wait to see you there!

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