Yeah special show Excuse me now, of course the black and white Sylvester looking cat Steve did not make a sound When we were off the air, of course he has to start me out now You know cats, you know witches familiars, you know how it is Welcome progressive discussions We're coming to you From the newsletter censored research center in Northeastern, New Jersey I'm with my I am James P. Madonna of mega life 21 And I'm here with my co-host and mentor and the very founder of newsletter censored in 1977 The the one and only the illustrious of the Reverend Dr. William J. Isaman. How are you feeling this? special Halloween 2017 show sir We're gonna have a very bad day tomorrow I heard all up to 50 mile an hour winds and heavy rain here in the New York Metropolitan area where we're in Northeastern, New Jersey So we just shut up anyway Seven lucky bells and we need it for this special holiday show Seven lucky bells and we discuss politically On the show is part of our series Crapitalism in a conch shell Crapitalism in a conch shell. I have this I can't talk too fast in case we have any teabaggers Watching the show. I got to keep it really simple Yes, King that King Neptune you want to you would like to stick your tri dent into that cat. Yeah, I know That this is what they call why they call them the witches familiars The witches familiars And this one is definitely Being acting like a witch is familiar to try to sabotage this special holiday show, okay?  We are finishing up Goose Island India pale ale craft beer and There is my bottle and The Reverend Dr. William J. Isher is my cop has his mug And I definitely need a swig of this Goose Island. I was Introduced to Goose Island by the very goose very good No, I'm not by goose by the commercials which I like and I had my first Goose Island IPA on the New York City Circle line of boat tour With my near-dear friend from San Diego, California Natalia Greetings Natalia and happy since she is Latina a Mexican-American. She they do celebrate All souls day in the day of the dead I cannot pronounce it in Spanish, but you know what I mean So I salute all of all Mexican-Americans and Mexico happy day of the dead 2017 I Read a banner that I couldn't believe that Donald Trump's son would say something idiotic saying that That in 2016 He said you know the one that would that you saw on the celebrity apprentice with the slick back brown here He said that Milani a Trump is much more intelligent Than Michelle Obama because you need brains to be a successful model Yeah, right like a porno actress needs brains to be a successful porno actress Hold on I have to ring I Have to ring the levity bells on that one That was really really too bizarre and too funny Which to me it proves that the The idiotic right-wing apple does not fall far from the tree and I forgot to do something because of Steve Steve the plague on you and your and your ancestors in the in the words of Ed Norton from the honeymooners Excuse me. We're going to have to take a tad bit earlier break Because I don't know how much time elapsed Quite a few two three minutes Yeah, so you what like maybe 25 maybe more when it reaches 25 26 well, I don't want to Anyway, I got a couple of political coming from the Republican New Jersey Republican for governor candidate Of course Here's one Now Bob Gordon is a Democrat, right? Yes Career politician Bob Gordon. This is a to bash Bob Gordon. Okay, and then there's a photo of Whatever let me read this Career politician Bob Gordon New Jersey students in the United States um Illegally to pay in-state tuition New Jersey students in the US illegally to pay in-state tuition career politician Bob Gordon and Excuse my voice. There are allergens in the air Today He voted to reduce college tuition for illegal immigrants While other New Jersey students and their parents are forced to pay more of course Republicans always have to attack The so-called illegal immigrants which are as you well know Immigrants of color south of the border because Republicans never complain about European immigrants Okay, it's clear Bob Gordon is out of touch This election day vote him out of office. He's out of touch Why because he's not all for the for the elitist in the top 2% a white Lily white America Okay And then here, okay Does this sound does it does this sound fair to you about these so-called the legal immigrants, okay, so You know what it comes what it comes down to is Republicans are only anti-immigration If you're of color number one number two if they If businesses in the United States can't hire you and pay you chicken feed for a salary with no benefits Aren't there other people there running with Bob? Well, I'm sure there's the right down the Republican line is a whole bunch of them Bob is a Democrat. Oh Bob I'm sorry Bob. Yeah, um Phil Murphy is on a ticket. He's the governor, but I'm talking Bob and Eustace and Eustace and I don't know woman woman. I forget. You know, I can't remember we have a lot of politicians in New Jersey with exotic last names and I'm not a I'm not a fan that of local of local politics I don't focus a lot on local politics, but I would say governor of New Jersey is pretty important Which is coming up this November 2017 yeah, which means balloon boy He's bye-bye fill himself up the balloon will fill himself up with helium and float away But we don't want the female What the hell's her name Geo? Jim? ladano Yeah, we don't want a any Republican really to here.  Oh Too much just push it down And it's a hefty to Kelly Lang Schultz is backed by Christie's allies who oh Here's a lovely photo Ding dong the witch is dead the wicked wish the witch is dead thing down to it we kid Now look who's on the other side. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, there we go. Ah There we go. Oh my god. Look about puffy cheeks. Talk about that the the orange buffoon Like Michael LeBar calls them they the other Okay opposing While Kelly Lang Schultz is backed by Chris Christie allies who? Oppose equal pay for women Support dangerous cuts to women's health services. Very true Ran our state's economy into the ground. Hey, not to mention cutting all the Social services we used to have in New Jersey. There's no sectionate by the way rent subsidy for anyone Not even senior citizens So Kelly a Lang Schultz even belongs To an extremist right-wing group. Hey that has pushed Despicable conspiracy theories about Barack Obama and spreads racism homophobia and sexism online interesting It's not becoming of a woman To be like this right wing. They're supposed to be sugar and spice and everything nice Kelly Lang Schultz wrong for our state wrong for state Senate Trump's health care plan would force seniors to pay thousands more Yeah, those seniors that have thousands more and Kick half a million New Jerseyans off their health care coverage. Hey Republicans in Washington just kicked out. What is it nine million children off of their health care, right? But Kelly Lang Schultz refuses to oppose Trump's dangerous plan to harm our health Kelly Lang Schultz wrong for our state wrong for state Senate Here we go again wrong for New Jersey wrong for New Jersey Hey, don't forget next November people the most important November to remember 2018 very long or it's a we don't even know who's running 2018 we don't even know who's running. Yeah next November, but that's when many seats are up Yes, and the Senate and the Senate and the House of Representatives Social Security. Oh a gentleman by the name of Tom from Passaic County, New Jersey contacted me and told me something that Pissed them off and rightfully so Social Security Administration His question was Can someone who is collecting Social Security disability? When they become of age can they also? Simultaneously collect Social Security Retirement no It switches.  They're people pay into Social Security to to wreak the fruits of During when they become what is it a 61 and nine months live it was No, no, no, yes. You can collect earlier for less money. Oh, yes, but now who wants to do that? 21 years and nine months, right? You cannot go any earlier than that, right? But because of the fucking Republicans If you're collecting Social Security disability I'm raising my voice because my voice is raspy They use the bastards are using that as an excuse to steal and to jip you out of your Social Security retirement if you collect disability Social Security disability So to me of course the entire Republican Party because it's not it's not just Donald Trump and Social Security administration you are hereby in the chisel is Hall of Shame for chiseling Something that is not an entitlement a Person should be able to collect Social Security disability and Social Security retirement when they become of age at the same time Because it's only fair because like I said before Social Security retirement and Medicare from what I understand are not entitlements Steve you better not unplug that plug. They we pay a payroll tax For Social Security.   Yeah of the of the United States budget. Yeah Cut those and you're saving money Okay, here's another inductee into the chisel's Hall of Shame and rightfully so There's my black thorn shelly GNC Walmart Walgreens and Target Were found to to commit Nutritional supplement fraud when it comes to herbal supplements They they found cheap filler in the capsules Or tablets instead of the herbs that were Posted on the label of these herbal supplements.  There's your Capitalism for you without regulations snake oil Carnival hucksters back to snake oil back to snake oil. Yeah, this is what happens when you You go back in history to an America before FDR before we had corporate regulations like the times the time that According to a very good documentary I watched last night the time when Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan screwed a Nikola Tesla With his with his the tower that he built Free free electricity For all did you know that I think it was during the 1940s? I could be wrong. Did you know that the great? Nikola Tesla took a pierce arrow automobile and converted it to total electric and it was go it was flying at 90 miles an hour Nikola Tesla and and the electric Automobile first started in the 1920s Tesla took a pierce arrow and did this and he got they just blew him off They blew him off Well, he ended up ditch digging Tesla Those they screwed him He died in in in a New York City in the man in the Manhattan Hotel Living alone in a hotel room And as soon as he dropped dead before any friends or family could Well before anybody entered his hotel room government the feds were there he confiscated all of his papers Yep, J. Edgar Hoover And his boys confiscated everything, but they didn't waste any time a doctor bill confiscating No, they they barged right in there and took it off. Oh Gee, I wonder why So that's about it. So Let us on this special I don't know if we have time for yeah, maybe one Let's bang one one or ten minutes. Yeah, all right but because this of Steve The the witch is familiar. I forgot to hit the stopwatch. All right, go ahead okay question as Diamonds actually began as coal Eons ago will they burn George Reeves crushing the coal for lowest lane? Will they burn a big-ass diamond for yes Diamonds can burn. Well, they're they're the hardest hardest known substance, but they're not indestructible but the circumstances have to be right and Insurance companies can easily distinguish a false claim however Contrary to popular belief Though diamonds and coal are both forms of carbon Diamonds do not come from coal No, that was they had a They had a Integrate something into the Superman series diamonds are virtually pure carbon But coal is full of substances that prevented from becoming diamonds Also for diamonds to form Carbon requires tremendous amounts of pressure and heat Found deep within the earth Coal is formed from plant debris Near the surface Even the oldest plants are Younger than almost every diamond that has been dating. Wow Well diamonds As far as reality goes as far as the South African diamond mines goes Is is really no longer a precious stone? It's all a game a game in capitalism they they they control the exportation of Tons of diamonds they hold back to keep the price up He As the nails stick it between two stones, so does sin stick to buying and selling. Yeah Yeah, it's in the Bible For those of you that do not cherry pick from the Bible Okay, all right. We have time for one. It seems That seems the holier than vows I found their spokesman a Free time married adulterer Who says he has never asked God for forgiveness? I think the right wing evangelicals have many representatives The flag waivers who shout USA USA during the Trump rally Trump pansies have found a draft Dodger Who accuses a kneeling black athlete of disrespecting the flag? Meantime the president see a sounds the why That president Obama did not write letters or call the families of our dead warriors Hey, what wasn't the African-American widow disrespected recently?  What did it really happen? That's what the congresswoman said She overheard the conversation. Oh, okay President Trump continues to make these hateful attacks and Engage in other efforts to destroy the legacy and besmirch the character of The Barack Obama I like that word besmirch like who hoots the funny name funny word The Trump presidency is the horrible price. We are now paying for having elected Obama Well, it's karma a man Who was everything anyone could ask for in a president well Except not when he extended the Bush tax What about the the whole national security thing with that law that that they can arrest you and Stick you in a who's gal and your family may never see you again. Well, if you're on this Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, in other words take infringe upon your first amendment rights. Yeah Yeah, and he was and what about protesting? Hey, don't forget the Republicans were in charge of The House and Senate for most of Obama's six years for six years Yeah Let's wrap it up a Harvard train lawyer faithful husband loving father religious compassionate competent intelligent eloquent and all without drama or a trace of scandal It seems it was more than some people could stand having a black man in the White House Now we see crowds waving the Confederate flag and more outbursts from racists and misogynists homophobes xenophobes Somehow they always come back or they never really don't forget Barack Obama has a degree in constitutional law He was that law the professor.  He didn't Really get tough with people like Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan.  He folded like a cheap camera Well, he wanted to get things done and to do that. He had his cells things and And give things away that were important. He had to do little kissy-ass. Yeah, he had a polish the old right-wing apple That's why he he made nice nice with the bloated toad a new gingrich gingrich that stole Christmas Okay, you know what? We'll take a short break Thanks to Steve who is now she move your foot, please sir Thanks to Steve who won't get the fuck out of the studio regarding Did Martin Luther clear the path for Donald Trump the Reverend Alexander Santora Does not provide the major impact of Luther's rebellious act to wit If the church had crushed Luther as it had earlier movements E.g. the Hussites, etc. We would still be living in the Middle Ages If Luther had crushed a church We would also still be living in the Middle Ages What happened instead was a stalemate with each side claiming Claiming to have the true interpretation of the Bible and condemning the other side Thoughtful Christians had no way of knowing who was right or how to prove such a conclusion Indeed the fact that each side was dogmatic and only one could be right Established a notion that being dogmatic is no proof of anything That opened the possibility that both sides were wrong The result was a revival of ancient skepticism, which led to mon modernity The ironic conclusion is that Luther in Trying to purify Christianity actually undermined it resulting in The secularization of the West I still sighed with our without founding fathers about keeping church and state separate Because no one has proven that their God exists yet. Are we taxed enough today? Well, the middle class certainly is taxed way too much Not the rich not the rich Are we going to continue to elect politicians that appease their base? for donations with statements of lower taxes and reduced spending and Then when elected Continue to vote for higher budgets more government employment Please consider the above statements when choosing your candidates Consider taking action and voting out the candidates that are same old same old All of them consider taking action of voting on November 7th for the candidates who do not advocate for tax increases Which result in higher taxes for all? Vote for change not the same old same old The only true change would be for the rich to pay their fair share in In taxes and for the and for the burden to come off of the shoulders of the middle class And that would be a tax increase For the people that should be taxed and can afford to be taxed yet And who have been on a tax vacation for a long time for over 30 years Okay, yeah Don't forget when the rich are taxed heavily. They are still living high on the hog But when the middle class are taxed heavily they go to the economy goes Yeah, and and in the middle class become Eventually low-income and then and then they enter the poor house. Yeah, and then they can't provide jobs because that's That's who provides 70% of our jobs middle the middle class includes Main Street. Yeah Small businesses Professionals that hang their shingle up.   That's right Because the rich don't do that they invest in things that benefit only themselves Rather than investing in a company Which would benefit a lot more people that's an amazing problem. Well, don't forget don't forget though When when competition was a great thing for capitalism The more competition you have the better products are produced the better customer service is But guess what and lower Prices for your products, but guess what the person who owns that business and is competed against He doesn't like it because he wants to be the only business in town Monopoly That's what we have today monopolies. That's correct. Well, you've got six. I believe it's six six companies corporations now own the media Yeah, the whole country and speaking and speaking of craft beer. I'm pissed off that and hyzer bush That makes the cheap-ass nationally advertised Budweiser Bought out many family owned Micro breweries. Yeah, but they got bought out too By far in a country company without I'm not sure whether it was China and as a bush They send the Clydesdales know the slaughterhouse for horse meat burgers I'm sure they do when they get old enough. Hey, and I was a boy Budweiser calling themselves the king of beer is like Donald Trump calling himself the best president That ever existed and he does and he does hey, did you see last week last week on? Saturday night live Baldwin was on. Oh, I got I got to go to YouTube. I'm way behind on Alec Baldwin. Yeah, he was on last week No, I missed the last So did I yeah, I got to check them out. I got to check it out An alarming study Released on Wednesday found many baby food products Test positive for arsenic now who when he came into power Up the arsenic Levels in our food and it was GW bush Do I smell a depopulation plan by the elitist Including 80% of infant formulas Hey, might as well kill them when they first come out of the womb That's what they're doing. But if you're in the womb, oh man, they'll they'll protect you like Like no one else will the right way And that's not the only danger is contaminant found the clean label project a non-profit group that advocates for transparent labeling Tested baby food infant formulas toddler drinks snacks Purchase within the past five months The group looked at top-selling formulas and baby food using Nielson data and also included emerging national brands After about 530 baby food products were tested researchers found 65% of The products tested positive for arsenic 36% for lead It's the 8% for cadmium Well, if it was any food from mainland China, they there would be a lot worse. I guess they would remember We send our chickens to giant They process them and they send them back to us Um Let's not forget Jamie Oliver's YouTube videos on fast-food hamburgers like McDonald's. Let's not forget what they do To save money the greedy bastards You know take mystery meat Meat byproducts mystery meat roadkill whatever the hell you want to call and Disinfected with ammonia Once it's patate once it's ground it could be anything ammonia and then serve it to the public and our wonderful government the FDA and the USDA That people think cares so much about our safety and our health allows it all to happen Republican deregulation need I say more All of these chemicals pose potential dangers to developing infants Jennifer Lowry pediatrician and toxologists at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. She's both Missouri Who was not affiliated with the research said these chemicals can affect fine motor skills and cognition The kids are fucked up enough as it is today mainstream brands including Gerber Infamil Plum organics and Sprout were among the worst offenders infamil to scoring two out of five in the clean label projects report card for toxic metals plus 60% of products claiming to be BPA free tested positive for the industrial chemical Bicephal quantities of contaminants range But some products tested positive for up to 600 parts of arsenic per billion Arsenic was the most common contaminant spotted in the study The toxin is associated with developmental defects cardiovascular disease neurotoxicity Diabetes and even cancer. Oh When I hear that word toxin, I also think of another word vaccines. Oh, yeah, what happened to that young lady who Was thrown in jail because she wouldn't vaccinate her son flu shot flu shot. Yeah, I'm not I'm not getting the flu shot There's no way after I read all the articles I read, of course And what about the what is it the Gardasil vaccine for the human papilloma virus? Yeah my doctor tells me It's a lie. No, no young female has died from the Gardasil vaccine now Yeah, but if he's wrong if he's lying to me He's a scumbag because they wanted they want to vaccinate boys, too They want to vaccinate boys. Yeah, they are corporations also want to start putting the chip into people into the employees The chip the infamous chip. Here you go. Not chips. Ahoy chocolate chip cookies, either They want to be able to scan you and track you no matter where you are Know everything you're doing which by the way, yeah, is The Facebook Messenger app that Mark Zuckerberg keeps on pushing pushing pushing every time I log into Facebook They claim the articles claim that Everything you do can be spied upon Using your smartphone Yeah, everything you do Even if like you're another you're another Anthony Weiner, I guess you they'll see that too your wiener Yeah, oh my god, I'm surprised Oscar Meyer never hired Anthony Weiner They should be driving the Oscar Meyer Weiner truck now it takes old James P. Madonna to think of clever Advertising stunts. Come on. Come on. I should be rolling in dough with my ideas go ahead Jack will it Jack Jack so in Jacqueline Jacqueline. Yeah, Jack Owen Jack off Executive director of clean label project and a food safety scientist said wow three time-based foods such as snack puffs had some of the highest levels of Damn Because of our goof because the 230 now well or or we can just hang out kill time because we have to We have to Plug into that. We have to go into the power source after the second video a Letter to the editor in Saturday's paper slightly Mistakes the origins of the second amendment to the Constitution This is described to a desire by the founding fathers to allow the citizenry to protect itself from Dependations of their own government What actually motivated the founders Was a morbid fear of standing armies and a belief That a military force with nothing else to do in peacetime would concoct concoct misgivous ways to interfere with governance Hence it was the government that was the intended beneficiary of the amendment The founder's solution was an armed body of citizens who could answer the call to arms in the event of danger as Did the minute men at Lexington in Concord? Hence the prominent mention in the text of the term malicious Today it seems more important than ever to keep these principles in mind for with the preponderance of professional military types at the apex of government Who our gate to themselves a status as sacred and above reproach Our country seems to be on an inexorable slippery slope Towards status as a banana We should also remember That the wisdom of our of our founding fathers Was no more cogently displayed Then in our country's time of mortal danger during World War two When our country and much of the world was saved by the greatest generation Which was composed of ordinary? citizen soldiers sailors and Airmen even the Every great civilization was corrupted Eventually and fell the Greeks Despite all their wonderful contributions scientists Doctors Eventually fell of course the Romans And I think it's time for the United States Empire Hey, Nikita Khrushchev was right You were very old. No. No, not that part. Haha. The United States will destroy itself from within Now you look like Miley Cyrus thinking you know what Miley Cyrus recently said She said that Satan is actually not a bad guy. He's a nice guy. I think she wants to get banged by Satan I think that's what it is. He has no leak. How does how did sweet innocent Hannah Montana turn into this This Creature known as Miley Cyrus Or she or she just doing it because she's not getting any Media attention. She's not relevant anymore Most likely that one that could be it. She's not relevant.  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, all we heard was Them being mentioned every day. Yeah. Yeah. Now. They're just history here today gone to Maui I wish I was in Maui Steve Might as well incorporate Steve into the show as comedy shtick In this article Michael Medved makes a valid point that the country has prospered during administrations of mediocre chief executives Presumably this should give us hope that our nation may benefit during the term of our current commander in chief To illustrate his point Medved looks back to the period between the administrations of President's Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt He sees this as an era defined equally by presidential mediocrity and national prosperity He suggests parallels to today and asks could these recent development signal that Trump might recapture some of the magic of the gilded age By the way, mr. Muller is indicting some people today Concerning the Russian Trump, you know what? According to the Internet news and Maybe even people like Anderson Cooper and CNN Everything's under investigation Monk the month the month the month the month the month I want to see people be brought to justice member when Was it Chris welcome that all was it Chris a federal prosecutor Chris Christie that that that Caught all all of those New Jersey mayors Deeply involved in corruption and had and they were all arrested not the recent ones Was it was it was Chris the Chris Christie white may be a prosecutor did he play a role in that when they caught all the recent ones No, no, not the older ones before he ever became governor. Yeah, probably. Yeah, and they just clean house. Yeah That's what I want to see happen Clean out clean out the barn clean out the barn like H. Ross Perot used to say I Don't see the barn getting cleaned out The question betrays a stunning ignorance Or worse betrayal of our nation's history Magic Nedved points out that during this time America Welcome to more than 10 million immigrants Yeah, but fails to note the condition because they were white. You mean the ones that went to Ellis Island They were Caucasian. That's why nobody picked on them Confronting many of these newcomers Crowded as they were into tenements the Italians got picked in the shadows. What about these the Irish? Oh Yeah, the Irish and the Italians. I'm sorry. Oh, yeah, they both got picked on. Yeah They were in the tenements and in the shadows of Virgining cities across the land Virgining Virgining Meredith. He really died in the lower east side of Manhattan at this time was the most densely populated place on the planet Heat and running water were scarce. There was no mag magic time for immigrants Women could not vote.  This was no magic time for children It was during this period that reconstruction ended in the south Thus allowing the states to disenfranchise African-American voters and enact segregationist laws Collectively became known as Jim Crow Lynching for flourish This was no magic time for African-Americans During this period of federal government also pursued a policy of extermination of Native American peoples Just because the slaves were freed that that doesn't mean they were out of danger or live in a good life, you can't buy no means They know means You know when my mother's one of my mother's physical therapists from the Philippines Says that while people in the Philippines at a dirt poor come here Looking for greener pastures.  Yes, you're right forcibly removing survivors of the Indian wars From ancestral lands and exiling them to reservations This was no magic time for Native Americans Some people did indeed prosper at that time It was for sure a magic age for the Titans of corporate America There you go the Titans like JP Morgan Carnegie Cornelius Vanderbilt the the initial Capitalist scumbags the founding fathers of of capitalist scumbaggery. I just made that word up Inaction by the federal government brewed a powerful elixir fueling the establishment of monopolistic trust by Wall Street magicians Suppressing competition lowering wages promoting high prices Rockefellers Standard Oil JP Morgan's United States Steel and the Vanderbilt's New York Central System Are but three examples of the resulting widespread restraint of trade MedVed has not served history. Well, in fact, I am left to wonder if he has ever done much research of any sort If he had he might realize the term gilded age is not a positive much less a magical description Gilding is a paper-thin layer of gold applied over a cheap base In order to make the whole scene valuable this writer has sort of a poetic a Michael J. Talmo style or Or maybe or maybe surpassing Michael J. Talmo as Once the ostentatious wealth of a view covered the unspeakable misery of the many Today we confront a new gilded age MedVed's article may apply a thin denier of Respectability over inhuman policies and call it magic This is not magic. It is simple greed Yeah, and you know what? It's evil. It's wicked. Oh, I forgot to tell you the third. Okay, the third video Can be like 10 or 15 minutes long So We can pull it off. All right. All right. We're gonna take a break. We'll be back a very short break Very short I'll screw him screw Steve.  Oh, you oh, that's different. I can't get past. Oh Okay We're back Excuse me. We're back. This is the last joint before lunch. Continue. Okay Sir the Republican-led Senate Narrowly voted on Tuesday to repeal banking rule That would let consumers band together To sue their bank or credit card company to resolve financial disputes I have a whopper with With Chase when I used to have a Chase Platinum card With a wonderful like 2.9 percent interest. I was late After several years I was late like one or two days with a payment and they jacked me up to almost 30 percent interest and I basically got very very nasty with them on the phone Did they change it? No, ha, that's why I use some very foul language. Uh-huh. In other words We don't care what you did. Yeah, we don't care. We're gonna pay That's why we got you. We got you by the short hairs. That's right. We got you Vice president Mike Pence cast the final vote to break a 50-50 tie Let me guess it was 50-50 tie going in the wrong direction. That's correct. Nice nice Well, I can't blame Pence.  He was homosexual. Yes Barney Frank.  You can be straight. But anyway, he was a he was a Democrat I don't know if he was a progressive or not, but he was a Democrat Yeah, and the Republicans have been trying ever since 2008 to change this law. To undo it all. That's right. Do you remember Daniel? To repeal and replace Yeah, with slavery and death to the poor, you remember Daniel Patrick Moynihan Absolutely, the one with the eyebrows that used to go like up and down. Yeah, yeah, he died Yes, I think I think he passed away. He was a day. He was one of those old-fashioned Democrats. Oh Yes, like like Ted Kennedy Ted Kennedy like Teddy Kennedy got arrested so The Bureau had moved to ban most types of mandatory arbitration clauses found in the fine print of agreements Consumers often enter into when opening a checking account or getting a credit card. Thank God for federal credit unions Starting to advertise now. Ah, good thing starting to advertise. Yes The vote reflects the effort of the Trump administration and congressional Republicans to undo Regulations that the GOP argues harms the free market Undo reminds me of undoing sausage Kind of overpriced for a spicy sausage and the measure now moves to Donald Trump's desk for his signature White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders Said the president applauded the vote, but you know what this country's in big trouble You know, I don't know unless the unless the inbred rednecks See the lighter get pissed off enough Mm-hmm That ain't gonna happen where's what's what's gonna happen? We're in trouble. This generation must die Which generation the Millennials?  They're not their brains a shot. I I don't think you can rehabilitate them I don't think You can Regenerate their cells and their brain or they're shot.  They might as well jump into the into the super volcano at Yellowstone Park. Just jump right in the rule would harm our community banks and Credit unions by opening the door to frivolous lawsuits by special interest trial lawyers Sanders said Democratic lawmakers said the CFPB's rule Would have given consumers more leverage To stop companies from financial wrongdoing We desperately need Regulations to protect we the people Once again, we desperately need you notice. I'm wearing traditional black for the Halloween special the Halloween special show I know we do not know that They have the dead Loving couple here Sugar skulls All right, go ahead. I don't want to die. They cited the sales practices at Wells Fargo and The security breach at credit company Equifax.  Yeah to crush you but never let you crush the big boys Even though they may be multi-billionaires. They're never wealthy enough. That's how evil these people are just look at photos of Mitch McConnell and You could see the The the wickedness in the man Republicans said the arbitration system has worked wonderfully for consumers They said the payouts for the average consumer in arbitration cases are generally much larger and come more quickly Than when compared to the relief gained through class action losses. I Like that that term class action losses. Is that a real big whopper of a lawsuit? That's involving many people And that means you get less of a payment Maybe not maybe not depends on the corporation. Yeah, well that depends, you know, you know also and it means that if you've been wrong You may not have to appear in court to get that like a drug company class action lawsuit or Let's say like the Like the lawsuit against the morana IUD that embeds itself into a woman's uterus Just an example Okay What do you think you done? No, what am I done? I'm doing that. Oh, you're not done yet. Well, let's go Oh, wait. Well, you're poking that woman's uterus there. Oh, no, but I'm saying is how far are you? I got a whole column here.  We ain't gonna have time for it All right, give it a effort to try to characterize this as some Devious system that has been created to try to stop consumers from having access to fairness is simply false Said Mike Crapo Republican chairman of the Senate Banking Committee said Crapo said the average payout for consumers in Class-action lawsuits against financial companies was just 32 dollars Democrats argued that consumers generally don't have the time and means to pursue claims in arbitration And since most disputes revolve around small amounts, they typically just give up They said banks and other financial firms know that in the end They won't have to pay a real price for taking advantage of a consumer But class actions would serve as a powerful tool for consumers Once again, we're helping the powerful against the powerless said Senate Minority Leader Chucky Schumer The two republicans sided with Democratic leader lawmakers to keep the rule Lindsey Graham and John Kennedy of Louisiana The advocacy group consumers union several veterans groups including the American Legion Lobby to keep the rule They said consumers would still have the option to use arbitration To resolve as a dispute if both parties wanted to go that route Without the CFPB rule Consumers can be forced into a rigged system where they have no recourse.  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I Don't even want to mention it But because it's not a lot of time second second bottle of goose island India pale ale what I forgot to mention before about about Tom from Passaic County is that up the Social Security Administration Administration Woman said to him well, why don't you apply for your state Medicaid? Hey lady? What if you have a Republican governor and what if you have a Republican Washington, which we have and there is no Affordable care act there is no health insurance. You know, they always have quick push button Answers to everything that are not that don't apply to the real world. Yeah, you know what I mean? It's not realistic It's not the real world but anyway We're gonna see how much we can do here in a second half go ahead You write an email No reply You send another email No reply You're halfway through a third email and you stop What happened to the first two? Junk folder Was the message just ignored In the 21st century our inboxes are flooded according to the technology market research company the red dick cat a group The average adult will receive 92 email messages per day In 2017 that doesn't even count the span That pours into our accounts The longer we wait for an answer the more we wonder whether the message was seen at all Depending on your platform Here are various ways to know if someone has opened and read your email. Oh, yeah I was hacked into my Facebook account. I had to change my password. I Was hacked into by a someone from the Middle East with a Samsung Galaxy phone Uh-huh. Yeah. Hey, there you go Mark Zuckerberg's Community standards more concerned about offending someone and about nudity then they are about keeping out vermin keeping out hackers and and crooks spammers and Hookers and or whatever Yeah read receipts are much more common than most people realize Most major email platforms will give you the option to Request return read receipts with email that you send Some will also let you specify these receipts for every email you're composing Keep in mind that these requests only do have the job The recipient can still decline and you'll never receive the receipt. You're hoping for Some major email platforms like Gmail Apple mail like email for example Do not officially support the sending of read receipt requests as an alternative You can use invisible Tracking and read receipts But here you'll have to rely on the third party tracking software for the major Email platforms. Here's how you set them up Outlook to request a return receipt in Microsoft Outlook Click options on the top menu bar to bring up its submenu now Just check Request a read receipt to receive a notification when your message is open Additionally, you can also get notifications when your message is successfully delivered by checking Request a delivery Mozilla Thunderbird in Mozilla's email client Thunderbird Click tools On the top menu bar Then click options Now on the general tab click on return receipts Here you can configure Thunderbird to always include return receipts with your email. I had many issues with Mozilla Firefox, so I had to leave it. I use Google Chrome You can also send your own return Receipts and the location of your receipts when done. Just click okay You can also configure Thunderbird return receipts on individual emails While writing a new email just click on options on the top menu bar select return receipts and or delivery status notification To configure its return receipt setting Gmail in the free version of Gmail You can't request a read receipt Yeah, what the hell's wrong with the Google corporation? What's going on here? But the feature is available via Google's paid Paid excuse me business cloud software G suite Excuse me. I have an itch in the center of my forehead Google corporation Yeah, same thing with Zuckerberg that wants me to spend money to boost every upload On my Facebook page paid Hey, capitalist Is my here is my itchy forehead for you ahead if you are a G suite subscriber You can turn on read receipt requests via the G suite administration console Go to apps G Suite settings for Gmail Then click advanced settings Here you can scroll down to The email read receipt section where you'll find this wordy option Allow email read receipts to be sent to all addresses in my organization as well as the following email addresses Switch it to all With this option on you can click on the lower right down arrow On your compose window to request a read receipt for the email you are writing Use email tracking software Maybe you have a small business Maybe you do Maybe you're doing research and you just need to know which emails were open Which were untouched in this case you might turn to third-party email tracking solutions Most of these are paid services With monthly subscriptions Well, I have all of my spam automatically going into a spam folder and and and the the mail that is unread with me on Gmail is Illuminated, so I'm happy with what I what I have with Gmail a YouTube, but I'm not you too. I'm sorry yahoo yahoo yahoo was way too glitchy and and and The page was just too busy for me.  That's why I'm I'm with Gmail. All right, right finish up One basic way to track your emails and get receipts is to get notified for each message read you'll receive a notification You will be notified of the exact date and time the email was read You'll also receive the recipient's IP address Geographical location Operating system and which web browser they are using get notifies free version caps You're tracked emails to a maximum of five per day and a total of one hundred fifty a month But you can give a small donation Oh, excuse me my forehead's itchy again To remove the daily limit and increase your monthly Donation. Oh you you see that a lot with free software you see oh send us the donation to support Oh, man, oh Mail try be careful man be careful of charities this is a holiday season. Most of them are crooks. Go ahead Mail track is a browser extension for Chrome Chrome's home. Yes fire Fox and opera That's designed to work with Gmail Mail tracks free version offers unlimited email tracking But your emails will be tagged With a mail track signature for about five dollars a month. Hold on itchy for it again You can get its pro version to remove the mail track signature The pro version also provides tech support notifications usage for three different email addresses small finally small companies Can sign up for the teams plan and large companies can sign up for Enterprise I finally remember why I left Mozilla Firefox. They they don't write they don't work with Google Hangouts You know like if you want if when I when I was going live You know from my fiber optics can connection internet connection I'm able to get a good decent clear video and that's how I would have my my guests from long distances Through Google Hangouts video But Mozilla doesn't recognize it doesn't work with it.  Yeah glitches streak is a customer relationship management add-on for Gmail Their free version has basic CRM features and Email power tools You can track 200 emails a month Which should be plenty for personal use Streak also has a corporate plan for thirty nine dollars a month And an enterprise plan for eighty nine dollars a month for businesses Aside from full CRM features These paid plans Also include unlimited and emailed tracking Oh, you're actually done with that read. Yeah. How about that? um The reason why I shook my head a little bit when we went came back from lunch is because Little, I don't know No, no, that's only when you're Oh bug bit That wouldn't be the issue in other words in other words Me staring me using a freaking stopwatch would not be needed If I was able to have an unlimited power source Um, no, a lot of things have gone wrong mysteriously a lot of like bad a lot of bad luck this week with our 2017 All how those eve all souls day and day of the dead special show a lot of weird things have Happened shit has happened That can't be explained I think uh steve brought the the demon that uh, of course Now I hear there's a cat named mama. I think they're both of them Well mama's got you know what you know what they should be euthanized all the cats in this whole region Well, they're undermining the professionalism of my of this show All right, anyway Anyway, all right go ahead next like I'm another one here. All right. I know you do a key moderate republican urged president donald trump on a sunday to back a bipartisan senate effort to shield consumers from rising premiums after his abrupt decision to halt federal payments to insurers Calling the move destructive And an immediate threat To access to health care. Well, there's no doubt in my mind that that there is truly class warfare against the poor By the rich by the very rich top two percent Without a doubt i'm convinced i'm convinced of that and i'm convinced of their depopulation and enslavement plan and and jesse ventura When he used to do conspiracy theories While he still agrees that This is true with the president what the president is doing Is affecting people's access? And the cost of health care right now said senator susan collins of maine Who has cast pivotal all votes on health care in the narrowly divided senate? This is not a bailout of the insurers What this money is useful Is to help low income people afford their deductibles and their co-pays Congress needs to step in like like republicans care about Well, she's one republican Who does that cares? Okay And i hope That the president will take a look at what we are doing Her comments reflected an increasing focus on sunday On the bipartisan senate effort led by senators lamar alexander of tennessee and patty murray of washington To reinstate the payments At least temporarily to avoid immediate turmoil In the insurance market even as trump signaled he would not back a deal Without getting something he wants in return The payments will be stopped this week With sign-up season for subsidized private insurance that who start on november 1 The president is not going to continue To throw good money after bad Give seven billion dollars to insurance companies Unless something changes About obama care that would justify in this His decision last week Trump derided the seven billion in subsidies as bailouts to insurers As suggested he was trying to get democrats to negotiate And agree to a broader effort to repeal and replace former president barack obama health care plan The payments seek to lower out-of-pocket costs for insurers Which are required under obama's law to reduce poorer people's expenses About six million people To recoup the lost money Carriers are likely to raise 2018 premiums for people buying their own health insurance policies. Oh, you're like they can afford that My mechanic pays like over seven thousand seven or nine thousand A little under 10,000 a year My mechanic that runs a garage has to pay for his health insurance alexander and murray Have been seeking a deal that the tennessee republican has said Would reinstate the payments for two years in exchange alexander said republicans want meaningful Flexibility for the states meaningful The states to offer lower cost insurance policies with less coverage Than obama's law mandates Yeah, they want the poor to drop dead They want to give you a low cost insurance plan that doesn't cover anything Yeah, like the like this guy told me Working doing temporary jobs for the adeco staffing employment agency has has the shittiest crappiest And he works full-time Only pays like up to like 29 hundred dollars for the whole year That's it and the rest is a hundred percent out of your pocket.  I'm sure let me tell you something There was no way to god of the bible was behind the united states of america That is Your version of the united states of america.  It's a bunch of horseshit their their version You're talking about the rewritten cherry picked I'm talking about it all republican bible my father used to say that Religion I think it was Stalin also he said religion is the opium of the people My father used to say that religion Was what the big boys and girls Forced on you So that they can control you. Well, jesse jesse ventura says Organized religion is for wake-minded people. Exactly Because they let another people do what they're thinking for if it's organized. It's already set up and blah blah blah blah Yeah, well the hey they uh You know they The spanish conquistadors under the roman catholic church at the time They executed indigenous people in america because uh of of their pagan Yeah, they're pagan beliefs, but they're pagan beliefs were were were probably Many thousands of years old And who were they to come along and End of a better quality because they didn't want to hurt the land a you know, they used the buffalo I mean to buy some or whatever. Well, no, I mean to feed themselves all of the americas Even even the tahino even the the original caribbean Natives they were executed burnt to the stake. I know but their religions Were closer to the ground well closer to the earth. It was an earth was there to the sky It was they were at one with nature and with the with the planet closer to nature They cared about the planet. They cared about the environment. They cared about nature whereas the conquistadors and all the other conquerors That's what they were about Conquering they were looking for gold They heard there was gold the golden and mar hill the uh The legendary city of uh, um, el dorado and all that anyway finish up. I have no idea if we're offline or not congressional republicans Are divided on that effort white house budget director nick Mulvaney has suggested trump might oppose Any agreement unless he gets something he wants? such as a repeal of obama care Or funding of trump's promised wall on the u.s. Mexico board. Oh, yeah to help the hell with To help with we the people as long as they have that wall On sunday mouse house minority leader, nancy policy Describe trump's demand for a sit-down with congressional democratic leaders as a little far down the road She noted the bipartisan effort in the senate And said ultimately it will be up to a republican controlled congress An executive branch whether the federal government Can avert a shutdown by year's end And the answer to all of this before we say so long is Please everyone every everyone who can legally vote in the united states Regardless of how old you are or what race you are or what gender you are everyone must vote this november 2018 Vote out the republicans Please that's all I have to say Thank you for joining us. I don't know if we're we're being recorded or not Thank you for joining us for our special show for all hallows eve All soles day in the day of the dead 2017 have a safe um and fun autumn holiday week And keep an eye on your children Escort them, please when they trick-or-treat and check their candy Please Check their candy


I have a question. Yes.  I mean, could there ever be, it's just the nature of that itself, the separation? Because if there's no separation, then there's no bodies. Yeah, it's almost like that. That represents whether it's called birth or death. There's underneath, either one is like an individuation. It's making something individual. And one time I asked the Holy Spirit, I said, can you give me a word that's the correct interpretation of individual? And the Holy Spirit said, indivisible. Indivisible instead of individual. So, yeah, you could say that what we would call something like birth or death or anything specific in this world, you know, like a bottle of water.  You see all these specific components that pull it out of the tapestry of the whole cosmos. And it's the same we could say with birth, except it's not the dynamic of a baby being born that's the individuation. It's more the concepts in the mind that are fragmented into all these separate disunited pieces. So, you know, we were talking about Shakespeare just a minute ago and all the worlds of stage and everyone was playing their part. I said to the Holy Spirit, is that true? And the Holy Spirit said, well, all the worlds of stage and divine mind can play no part. And I was like, ah. So, if everyone was awakened, I mean, not just like having, like everyone's talked about these experiences, but this level of consciousness, then their bodies would just vanish. It would be like the disappearance of the universe. In other words, the fragmented perception was made by the ego. And so, if you forgive that, if you forgive the separation and the fragmentation, you come back to unity or unification.  We would not see the world. And we would be interacting not with form and not with words, just with vibrations in the universe. Yes. I mean, I have had people that have followed my teachings for years and they'll come and they'll say, I've followed these teachings and where it's heading, so that does happen where people follow it out.  So, it's not so much the Course isn't advocating kind of coming up with an intellectual stance or a new theology or something like that, but it's actually calling us into an experience, into that experience. And what I would say the purest of the actual experience is what we would call a light episode or revelation. It's not a miracle. It's not a perceptual experience at all. It's just blazing, blazing light. And there's been three times in my life where I've experienced the disappearance of the universe where there was only that light. It's kind of like the light that's talked about in these near-death experiences. And it talks about that and it talks about revelation. Yes, it does. It does mention it early on and it says basically that you have to really be ready for revelation. And really it's implying that most people are not, and most people in what we would say in this lifetime are not really ready for that. They're ready for miracles. They're ready for clearing away, doing that inner work of forgiving and removing the obstacles. And that's why it's called a Course in Miracles instead of a Course in Revelation. But that revelation shows you the end. It gives you a full-blown experience of the Kingdom of Heaven except it's still a glimpse. When it's complete and there's nothing else than that is what Heaven is. There's not any perception to come to waffle back and forth between.


ULLt ofical questions, ac we will move on now to our next item of business, which is a statement by Nicola Sturgeon on an apology to those convicted for same-sex sexual activity that is now legal. After the statement by the First Minister, I will ask the other parties to contribute and so there should be no interventions or interruptions." Thank you, Presiding Officer. I am grateful for this opportunity to address the chamber. The artist's show is widely available and it is an important milestone in achieving true equality for Scotland's LGBTI community. This morning, the historical sexual offences, pardons and disregards Scotland bill was published. Scotland has travelled so far in recent years to relation to LGBTI equality, that it still shocks us to recall that as recently as 1980, well within my lifetime, Llywodraethau cyfnodau a'r ffermwysig yn ei ddweud i gweithio cyfnodau cyllid yng Nghymru, ac y ffermwysig yw y ddyn nhw'n i'ch ddangos i 16 yn 2001, oedd yn y pwyntau arall, dydyn nhw'n i'ch ddyn nhw, aeth nid oes i'ch ddyn nhw'n i'ch ddyn nhw. Felly, rydyn nhw'n i'ch ddyn nhw'n i'ch ddyn nhw'n i'ch ddyn nhw'n i'ch ddyn nhw yn y pwyntau, digwn nhw, gyda'r adeiladau oakon hynny. The words inscribed on this parliament's Mace set out the values which we seek to uphold and promote, integrity, wisdom, justice and compassion. In even the lifetime of the parliament, this nation's laws have created suffering and perpetuated injustice. The legislation that we have published today addresses that injustice. felly, mae'n gallu gweldio ardalod argyffredigol aillol iawn i gaeliaeth i gyfryd y bydd cyngor ya'r bws grinddol yn ddechrau'rClif sydd wedi tystiolaeth, angen i ni fyddechrau seffol iawn i'r bwysig iawn i gaeliaeth i gaeliaeth i gaeliaeth i gaeliaeth i gaeliaethu seffol iawn i gaeliaeth o gaeliaeth y bydd cyfryd o'r liciwn, maen nhw'n meddwl iawn i'r liciwn. Mae'n dd調iadu yng Nghymru fydd ddarfod, message to anybody convicted of an offence for activity that is now legal. The law should not have treated you as criminals and you should not now be considered as such. Instead, this Parliament recognises that a wrong was done to you. The disregard has an important practical consequence. It allows people to ensure that their past criminal record will no longer have an impact on their day-to-day life, and that will change people's lives. At present, as the equality network and others have highlighted to us, there are some people who were convicted merely of showing love and affection to their partner who still have to explain their criminal record every time they move job or apply for a promotion. That is quite simply unacceptable and we are determined that that will end. The bill that we have published today writes a historic wrong. However, I want to go further today and do something that legislation on its own cannot do. A pardon is, of course, the correct legal remedy to apply for the convictions that we are talking about today. The term pardon might still, to some people, imply that Parliament sees them as having done something wrong. That is, after all, a common context in which a pardon might be granted. However, as all of us know, that is not the case here. For people convicted of same-sex sexual activity, which is now legal, the wrong has been committed by the state to them, not by individuals. Those individuals therefore deserve an unqualified apology, as well as a pardon. That apology, of course, can only come from the Government and from Parliament, not from the justice system. After all, the courts, prosecutors and the police were enforcing the law of the land at the time. The simple fact is that Parliamentarians in Scotland over many decades supported or, at the very least, accepted laws that we now recognise to have been completely unjust. Those laws criminalised the act of loving another adult. They deterred people from being honest about their identity to family, friends, neighbours and colleagues. By sending a message from Parliament that homosexuality was wrong, they encouraged rather than deterred homophobia and hate. Today, as First Minister, I categorically, unequivocally and wholeheartedly apologise for those laws and for the hurt and the harm that they caused to so many. Nothing that this Parliament does can erase those injustices, but I do hope that this apology, alongside our new legislation, can provide some comfort to those who endured those injustices. I hope that it provides evidence of this Parliament's determination in so far as we can to address the harm that was done. The final point that I want to make is that, while today's legislation does mark an important milestone in Scotland's progress towards LGBTI equality, our journey is not yet complete. Considering how recently it is that the laws that I have just outlined were enforced, it is remarkable and indeed inspiring that Scotland is now considered to be one of the most progressive countries in Europe when it comes to LGBTI equality. Indeed, one of the proudest moments of my 18 years as an MSP—and I know that one of the proudest moments for many MSPs across this chamber—was in February 2014, when people from all parties came together to support equal marriage. As all of us know, until we live in a country, in fact, until we live in a world where no young person suffers hate or fear or discrimination or prejudice, simply because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, we have still got work to do. That is why we have promised to improve our gender recognition legislation. We know that we need to ensure that it reflects the experiences and the needs of transgender and intersex people. That is why I attach such importance to the Scottish Government's work with the TIE campaign, ensuring that our young people do not have to fear bullying in school. That is also why we are reviewing hate crime legislation, to ensure that our laws provide the right protections against bigotry and hatred. That is why I hope that today's apology, in addition to its specific significance for gay men, sends out a wider signal to the LGBTI community. The Scottish Government and the Scottish Parliament are utterly committed to delivering true equality for LGBTI people in Scotland. Wherever there are societal, cultural, legislative or regulatory barriers to achieving that, we will seek to remove them. We will never again accept laws or behaviours that discriminate against you and hurt you. Although today is a day for looking back and rightly apologising for past wrongs, it is also a day that points, I hope, to a better future. It is a day when this chamber promotes and can be proud to live up to our shared values—integrity, wisdom, compassion and, above all today, justice. Ruth Davidson Thank you. At the time that this Parliament passed equal marriage legislation, I commented on how fast Scotland had changed, was changing and that the change was for the better. I am not yet 40 and the idea that in my lifetime we have gone from consenting adults being persecuted and criminalised for forming a loving relationship to those same couples having marriage extended to them also is remarkable progress, but the jigsaw of equal rights is not yet complete and today we see a significant piece being added. In Scotland, acts that were consensual, that were adult, that were innocent were once considered illegal and immoral. Attitudes in the law have advanced, it is right that we offer a pardon and help remove criminal records that still persist. It is being called Turing's law and Alan Turing's case deserves its high profile, but of course the scope and the scale extend far beyond a single man, no matter his achievements. Most estimates place the number of men in Scotland who will now be pardoned in the thousands, both living and dead. To give a sense of wider scale, Stonewall estimate the number of men convicted across the UK to be anything up to 100,000. While the UK Government estimates around 49,000 men had their name cleared by the pardon in England and Wales that passed earlier this year. We are not talking about a few unlucky individuals, we are talking about entire generations who faced the criminalisation of love. My hope for those men and their families is that they now feel a weight lifted and that, as well as criminal records formally being wiped clean, any lingering sense of legal stigma, any last shadow of unfair disgrace is firmly banished. My hope for the young men of today is that they never know what it is like to fear their love being found out. It is striking that the progression of law across those generations is still relatively recent and, based on incremental change, the 1967 act only partially decriminalised homosexuality. Legal changes of the 80s and 90s inched us forward and in recent years we have seen the equalisation of the age of consent and the passage of equal marriage. Today's change is one such foothold in that advanced. If we turn to the detail of the bill as it progresses, our focus will be on the practical implementation and on the legal detail. There are two essential components of the change, the pardon and the disregard process where individual men have their criminal records erased. I believe that both aspects are necessary and right. We are clear that the record should be set straight through an overall pardon, but it is obvious that retrospective changes to criminal records need some sort of process and have to be managed. That is the function of the disregard process. The Scottish Government's approach, in our view, is proportionate and, while we will look at the supporting consultations and propose changes in detail as they are published, at this stage we believe the approach to be correct in its fundamentals. It is also reasonable to list exemptions to note that the pardon does not apply when the act still is a crime. That is only sensible and will ensure that well-intentioned bill does not have troubling unintended legal consequences. We will scrutinise the bill in that constructive spirit as an attempt to fulfil its aims in the best way possible. It is right that we find ourselves at this place today. It is right that men who committed no offence beyond falling in love whose consensual commitment can now be recognised publicly can even be formalised through partnerships and marriage have their records wiped clean. It is right that we apologise for the harm caused and I add my unequivocal and wholehearted apology to that of the First Minister. Scotland is now a better place to be gay than at any time in my lifetime and this action will make it better still. We welcome today's statement and we back the principles of the bill that it proceeds. I apologise in this place are often offered through gritted teeth and follow a period of acrimony where one party has actively pursued and proven a mistake or a flaw, a diversion or a hidden truth, even a scandal. This apology though is very different. It is offered with warmth and in the spirit of love and inclusion. It takes a deep breath and a big heart to say sorry for mistakes of the past and an even bigger heart when those errors are not your own. So I offer the congratulations and gratitude of these benches to the Government for stepping up and saying sorry today. We are of course saying sorry to the men who have been arrested, charged and convicted of loving another man. As we have heard already, homosexuality was only decriminalised in Scotland in 1980 and the law around sexual activity only equalised in 2001. That matters because it affects men who are alive today, men whose lives were destroyed by legislation that promoted fear and hate, laws that said that the love of two men was unnatural, something other, something criminal and something wrong, feeding intolerance and homophobia. However, it also matters to those who loved and still miss the men who are no longer in their lives, men who died with criminal records, men who took their own lives because they could no longer bear the shame and isolation that they faced. Our Scotland today, however proud we are of it, still sees gay men more likely to consider suicide. Stonewall Scotland's 2017 school report tells us that one in four young LGBT Scots have considered ending their own life, a truly shocking figure. In my adult lifetime, the cause of the LGBT community has moved from fighting against homophobia and demanding human rights to fighting for inclusion and equal rights. We should be proud of that journey but not complacent. Proud of how far we have come from section 2A through civil partnerships, equal marriage and adoption rights, the lifting of the ban on the military and the introduction of hate crime legislation. However, we cannot risk complacency and that is why upholding and applying anti-discrimination laws is critical. Ensuring that the asylum system protects those fleeing violence and sometimes death, those seeking refuge because of their sexuality and why we should wholeheartedly back the Thai campaign and their calls for a truly inclusive education system. Today is a landmark day in Scotland's LGBT history. In apologising, the First Minister accepts that for Scotland to fulfil its vision of an inclusive future, it must be at peace with its past. This bill will bring that peace by pardoning all those men who were convicted of same-sex sexual activity that is now legal. I understand from the First Minister's statement that such a pardon will lead to the crucial formality of disregards, in other words, wiping the slate clean, clearing the criminal records of those convicted so that no such scars of history appear on documents like disclosure checks.  However, it is worth reminding ourselves why the apology does not apply to women. The reality is that it has never been a crime for two women to be together. The history books teach us that the law makers did try. In fact, the House of Commons passed an amendment in 1921 to make sex between two women illegal, but it was rejected by the House of Lords because they did not want ordinary women to know that such a thing existed. Very often, women had to pass as men to live their lives, and if they were caught, they were sometimes convicted of fraud. Most were not criminalised for their love of each other, but they were still punished. They were both invisible and demeaned, ostracised from their communities and their families, punished and painted out of history. Yet, through the years, women and men, gay and straight, intersex, trans and non-binary, of all ethnicities and races, all faiths and none have marched together, demanding tolerance and respect with pride and passion, and that march has led us here today. The apology is the product of their work, their sweat and tears, and I thank them deeply and personally for it. Accruciallly, it allows our Scotland to take another step of progress towards an equal and inclusive future for all. I am grateful for the opportunity to respond to the statement, and I very much thank the First Minister for having made the apology that we have heard today. I came out at a time when the age of consent for gay and bisexual men was still 21, where consenting relationships, normal teenage relationships, even as a young adult, just holding hands, would, in theory, have risked the possibility of arrest. I went to university at a time of the odious James Anderton in Manchester, God's Cop, who built a reputation for using his office to pursue his particular variety of religious extremism, calling for sex between men to be made criminal once again, and pursuing an agenda of aggressive and violent disruption of the gay scene in Manchester. Spin forward just another 10 years later, and I was working as an LGBT youth worker in Glasgow, and one of the last things I had to do before I had the privilege of joining this institution was a timeline exercise. From the earliest example, a cave art image from 8000 BC right through modern history, the young people who were working with were asked to pick a card, look at a particular moment in history and place it on a timeline. When did this happen, when did that happen? When young people drew the card decriminalisation of male homosexuality, one of the most common responses that we got was astonishment, bafflement that had ever been the case. Such a brief period of progress and yet, at that point, we had young people growing up without that thought in their head that they would once have been criminalised. I very much welcomed the progress that has been made and the support that has been shown across the political spectrum, but it is also worth remembering that not everyone will welcome this. There are those who reject the principle that Governments ought to apologise for things done by previous Governments or by previous generations. I am reminded of the last item, the most recent item on that timeline exercise, an apology from the German Government for those sent to concentration camps during the Second World War. It is an important principle that an apology issued by a Government is not merely on behalf of that Government, but on behalf of Government more generally and on behalf of our society. Parliament, too, has a responsibility to make that apology because, as Keas Dugdale reminds us, that prejudice, persecution and discrimination was not only legal, it was also societal, it was about our whole society. I offer my apology, as I hope we all do, on behalf of Parliament, just as the First Minister has on behalf of Government, because those laws, the persecution, were not merely the act of a wicked Government. While most of us would regard those actions as morally indefensible today, at the time they represented the consensus view of society at large, attitudes that were political, legal, religious and social, there will also be those who do not welcome today's step because they have not made that journey with the rest of society towards the abandonment of prejudice. There is much work still to do. The current climate of debate around the issues of misogyny and sexual harassment demonstrates to us how long our society is still capable of allowing and permitting despicable behaviour to persist. Even decades, even generations after progress, has begun to be made. Today's statement should be a reminder of this, too, that we have made great progress, but that inequality, prejudice and bigotry persist still in our workplaces, in our schools, in our media and in our politics. We still give those attitudes too much room. We still make excuses like matter of conscience for those who oppose equality under the law and equality of respect for lesbian, gay, bi, trans and intersex people. We still make too many excuses for those who even now cannot accept that same-sex relationships are equal and that the laws against them were morally wrong, not the people those laws were used against. Let us all recommit to continuing the progress and ensuring that the next generation has nothing to apologise for on our behalf. I thank the First Minister for making her statement and her apology on behalf of the Scottish Government. It is an important thing to do. For many gay people, the idea of a pardon carries with it connotations of forgiveness for a wrongdoing. The apology today from the First Minister makes it clear that it was the law, the enforcement of that law and the attitude of those in authority in our country's past who were wrong. Today we are all adding to that apology by reflecting on the wasted potential and the lost achievements of those men whose lives were limited or tragically cut short because of this injustice. People were imprisoned and fined. Their lives and families were in many cases ruined. Men became outsiders from their own families and from their own communities. Our country is poorer for the limits that we placed on those men's freedom. It is right that the Parliament stands together to apologise for that. It is easy today to imagine that this is all ancient history. Certainly when we see Alan Turing, we see photographs in black and white but the estimates are that most of the prosecutions were in the 1980s within easy living memory. With many of those arrested and prosecuted and those who made the arrests and led the prosecutions still with us today. In the summer, the BBC showed their dramatised documentary against the law, which commemorated 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality. One of the testimonies was from Professor Roger Lockyer, who lived with his partner later, his husband, for more than 50 years. He described with great humour but also great poignancy the struggle, the secrecy and the injustice of the law of this country over those 50 years and the decades before. He himself overcame all of that to have an academic career of importance and achievement, one that increased our understanding of history. However, he also lived through and made part of history. It was sad to learn that he died last week, at 89 years of age, but having lived to see his equality recognised and set into law. Today, the Parliament shows respect to all those individuals who were wronged by our laws. In closing, I would like to say that individual human rights, particularly for gay people, are not universal throughout the world. In recent weeks, we have heard of serious oppression and mistreatment of gay people in Azerbaijan, in Chechnya, in Indonesia and also in Egypt. Our country needs to stand for equality and for respect for the individual, and we will not be able to stop speaking up for that after today. We must continue that battle for people across the globe. Thank you very much, and that concludes this item of business. We will just take a few moments for members to change seats. Members, I am just going to spend businesses for two minutes.


All right good morning some traders welcome back on this lovely Wednesday. Good to see you all and just get a low low So you ready to hear me out loud and clear All right good. Good to see you all. All right perfect Well, welcome back to another morning of live pre market trading with me spousto and the staff of c2 Hopefully everybody is having a really really good morning a lot of good stocks out of moving I told you I've been a big big fan of the pot stocks and they are just Taking off also got a couple of the stocks that obviously doing like out of this world There was this SLS that we traded yesterday and then after hours that things just like blew up We'll talk a little bit about that, but just want to go over a couple of things regarding what to expect First of all a lot of you know we got phase three lesson three and four today if you're a student here at Cybertrain University, so I'm look forward to seeing you there. We had a great lesson yesterday. I know some of you You know if you made it great if you didn't You could always review it. It's on your dashboard. We went over a lot of these stocks We showed you you know one of the biggest most important things that I think a lot of people have to learn is how to take losses You know and you went to admit that you're wrong and just basically, you know buy less shares and trade more often That's what you have to do So I think that was a good lesson. So if you missed it go back to it now regarding about what to expect Going on for for this morning and what happened listen. It seems like the GameStop story started dying Typed in the wrong window here So GameStop had a nice rally yesterday. I guess I Don't know what happened Some news came out that now that certain brokerage firms a lot you trade their stock whatever small amounts But that thing just went from 80 to like 140 all the moved even AMC and All the ones on the list, but then you know that kind of fizzled out and kind of died out. Listen. I said this earlier Did you really think that GameStop when it went from 20 was worth 80? Mean seriously think about that and then went to 150 you actually are out of your mind and then it went to almost 500 okay, remember the theory I told you about the house Okay, if your house has worked a million dollars and someone's gonna offer you 50 million Why would you not sell it? Oh, you know, it's my it's in my family and My mother lived here and she gave to me guess Okay, that's not a good business decision. So get I say to a GameStop Did you really really think that it was not gonna crash? It doesn't it wasn't a matter of if it was a matter of when? okay, so It's been a really nice stock to scalp Okay, now I did do a class on scalping. You got to be careful that you got Scalping is just you just in and out in and out in and out. You're just basically shaving Okay, taking taking these buy on the bid sell the offer by the other than that stay away from it There were a lot of the stocks that were a lot better, which we're gonna talk about so before we go through the watch list Let's talk about what happened yesterday. So let's talk about what did the VX the VX RT this one was awesome. So this stock had a great run-up yesterday We killed it on this one yesterday here to side the group room. You can see it ran from 16 to 24 Just did not want to stop at the 10 o'clock great great swing tree up swing day trade Then obviously, okay parties over everybody. You what do you think it's gonna do? You know the game stop boom great short 24 dollars now. It's down to 11. All right Look at the long-term chart. Do you really think that this stock is really going to you know, 300? So this is day trading at its best But you know what one thing you learn here and what do you get to understand? If you miss the long you could always go short Okay, so and whatever goes up comes down twice as fast It took all day to go from 16 to 24 It took less than 30 minutes to go from 24 down to 11 So like I always say when it goes up comes out twice as fast another couple of stocks that did really well was the OCG entry That was like an early morning of mover ran from two to about 350. That was pretty cool SLS is just out of this world. That's saying just like $6 to 24 and then we had the NT and just looking at the watch list that we had that one also Rubble four to seven so if you're watching YouTube and Facebook live and you know, you're wondering wait a minute You guys do this every day. Yeah And like so when people like ask me like why you're not so excited about what happened with the reddit thing That is it? Listen, there's gonna be another reddit, okay? And actually there was one yesterday and I've been talking about it for the past two months When I told you that when we have a new administration come in Okay, a new presidency It's a total different agenda. All right, totally different agenda You know one is more a conservative was more progressive one thinks, you know Of the country should go one way another one sticky other way And you've in that away people all over the world and you know what it is when you have I think you vote for parties Okay, not for an actual Sometimes an individual but for a party but anyway, totally different agenda. What was the big agenda yesterday? Senator Schumer and Cory Berger said, you know what? We want to find a way how to legalize pot now, please do not get Personal and political. Okay. This is your job Okay, Wall Street you might hate them, but you got to respect them. Okay, if we had President Trump still in there Certain things will probably continue that made that rally when he first took over if you hated him You love him it made certain stocks take over but now to go another eight years You know, obviously you probably have the same things that I keep moving but now you have a new administration Not now all of a sudden it's like throw a whole wrench into it now all of a sudden everything changes You know, so now you have somebody that wants to legalize pot and these stocks are pot stocks are obviously moving Okay, and if you look at this one, we were talking about this since January. Okay, right through inauguration You can see it right there stock was $12. Okay stock ran all the way to almost $23 in what less than a week. We were trading these things and now look at it's at 27 now I only use as a swing trade are there's a couple of pot stocks out there and let me tell you something You think this looks big look at this You are I went from $23 to almost 300.  I know we have a bunch of Canadians in here, too I guess that's when that really came in and I guess that kind of like Bloop in a face because they realized, you know, taxing people, you know, obviously They found another way around it, but um, But I think that was with that rally that would where that came in But anyway, pot stocks are really good another one. I want you to keep an eye on now Remember, we just don't day trade. We also swing trade in here pins I've been a big fan of Pinterest So pins obviously after you saw what happened with Amazon yesterday Amazon Had really good earnings. They did pretty well a pretty volatile though Google all these high-tech stock Google's obviously Doing really really well here. You can see Google basically popped. Why is this chart like that? Here we go. So Google obviously broke all-time highs. So I've been a big fan of Pinterest. I think Pinterest Is I mean, we've been trading Pinterest right around $40. So if you guys still have it It looks like it just broke almost broke all-time highs. So we'll see what happens. Remember when a stock breaks all-time highs It's off to races. Okay, it's on on on charter territories. Now. What's the big news going on this week? Okay? I haven't really spoke about it, but We know it's the Super Bowl. Okay, some of you out of the country like, oh, yeah, I heard about it I watch it. Okay. So I would keep a very close eye On Draft King. Okay, so they want to legalize Draft King took off also because they're here in New York because we have a Terrible Run, you know system and they're so in debt Probably the most in debt next to California. They're trying to do whatever they can to raise money on taxes So they want to now legalize gambling here So Draft King obviously had nice little pop because of that and it's gonna be testing high So I would keep an eye on Draft King with the Super Bowl and everything else. I think it's gonna be a lot of gambling going on Listen people got nothing to do their home. It's like trading, you know, what they say about the reddit guys those kid Oh, those Millennials would they say most of the people that would got money from their stimulus We're actually which is queer kind of weird Or disturbing on a way to look at it But that's where they got this money from and that's how they all just vesting the stock market So anyway, I would look at gambling also You have a pen Obviously, he's been doing this phenomenal and just doesn't just doesn't stop Just 10 was $4 back in March. This was just oh Look at that for Dollars you want to talk about stock that had a run. This is what had a run I know a lot of I know a lot of young kids actually trade to stop I know they're still on my nephew even had it But anyway, a couple of stocks out there. So we got a couple of swing trades. I want to keep an eye on them Let's go hop on the day trade bandwagon right now because I gotta get ready for class. My god I didn't realize what time it is. All right, so we got the si no This stock just had a big runner from six all the way to 16 Built a little bit of a Thalstow flag right around after about 845 Stock had a nice little rally. We've been trading the stock. We've been watching it the stock was from $2 to $8 It's pretty volatile. Be very careful. It is a category 3 It doesn't have algorithms in it, which is cool, which is great But we do got some decent iceberg orders. Just don't trade a lot of shares of it We might be trading this stock in in in in class for your students Hnrg is another one that's actually moving in this morning. It's pre-market. We'll be more comfortable Nice level one stock for your beginners out there. That's still a little bit You know a little nervous jumping into a trade this one up 25 percent 30,000 shares I got some decent iceberg orders out there I see a 7,000 shares seller at a buck 90 that kind of explains it. Why it's been kind of hovering there to last five minutes Pretty nice little comfortable stock to trade to watch going into this open Remember the goal is when we read what we trade these stocks when you start to have volatility in it If these stocks are not moving You're wasting your time. All right, so that's the whole idea Here's a stock a z y n e It's kind of flat Comfortable beginner ish level one. It's got some decent iceberg orders not seeing a lot of algorithms in there That might be up your alley. Here's another one That came up late on my radar. I would keep an eye on this cnc a nf Another one that had a really good pre-market move from two dollars and fifty cents to a little bit over 250 You got some huge orders out there 29,000 at 234 10,000 at 233 a lot of big orders out there and you could see did that's the reason why it's holding if those buyers get done Okay, you know what's gonna happen after that. Well, you know, you all you cyber traders another one That's moving pretty cool here nice and move is this T. Y. M. E Big move this morning two to four dollars. I know a lot of you guys that came in early here in the cyber group room Around eight o'clock this morning. Yeah, this is the stock that you guys traded I know a lot of you pretty much done already With this stock, but what a nice little mover doesn't mean it's done. Listen, please You know, I don't have some people here, you know watching and I know Christopher just boarded up to the T. Y. M. E Is that don't look at this stock like oh, you know what I should have had it could have wouldn't you know what? What happened to the SLS right? You know that you could avoid it yesterday could avoid it this morning could avoid after hours You know the goal is is you're not trying to hit home runs You're just trying to hit base hits that's basically it comes down to it and then this one the last but not least is this one I like this is pretty cool the VX RT. I know who's on your shortlist, but here comes the crash Here comes the crash. Look at that bad boy coming down. That was that's that was a gorgeous short Right around 830.  Well, I'm gonna do a video on that and explain Explained it actually I did one on my YouTube channel and you could find it on my playlist But I think I'm gonna probably do another one the next couple of days regarding it But if you don't have access for for in pre-market after market, you're no different than what happened to people in 1987 during the crash, okay It's time to wake up and start using the tools to be very successful Because you got to play fire with fire and you can't be held hostage for someone else That's trying to profit from what you're profiting from you and it's trading against you when you could just do it yourself So that's gonna be a tip of the day. All right. Uh, yeah, I know that Michael the KOS. This is getting hammered. Yep I get it that I mean, listen, it's the matter of time just a matter of time. All right guys So let me get back. Uh, so you click bait 100% of the daily Of course, I could be I I don't know what you mean by that Just if you be more specific on that but the the TYME if you're talking about that one is Where is it The trend is coming down now I mean you're pretty much done early in the mornings But if it holds here, it should be it should be pretty strong As long as those buyers on the bid don't get executed on level three. All right All right guys. So listen good luck. Happy trading. We'll be back. We'll see you back here at 230 students I'll see you in the trading room In class at we'll start at 935 Cyber traders in the cyber group room. You see something you say something and once again You guys on online and YouTube Facebook if you want to have a join our trading room Just click on the bottom for $9 do a trial get in the room You'll see what we do all day come and join the original trading room They started 25 years ago. All right guys. Good luck. Happy trading. Be safe and I will be seeing you this afternoon


A new chapter in the Bemidji Brainerd football rivalry unfolded tonight as the two teams met in the section championship game with a trip to state on the line. Brainerd looking for back-to-back section titles Bemidji trying for their first trip to state since 2014. A rivalry matchup section championship game can't ask for any more than that. Scoreless in the first Bemidji driving they give it to Caleb Brandt gets pushed ahead by his linemen. He gallops in for the touchdown but no PAT they're up 6-0. Insuing drive Sam Miller opens it up hits a wide open Owen Davis for the 42-yard touchdown they would take a 7-6 lead. Second quarter second touchdown for Caleb Brandt. Bust through the seams say hide the camera Caleb it's 12-7. Brainerd ball fourth down at the 8th the end around turns into a pass Brady Anderson to Gabe Smith 15-12. After field goal ties it up Jake Bieber to Ryan Beberdorf after they faked the pitch outside 52-yard touchdown they go up 7. Brainerd would answer with a 2-yard touchdown tied up Bieber trying to drive the offense down he hits Kate Peterson for the big game to set them up but the drive would stall Cole Mills from 26 yards away the field goal is good lumberjacks up 3 one more chance for Brainerd but the defense able to make the stop Zachary we gets the interception Bemidji seals for the victory the defense comes up big they're going to state with a 25 to 22 win. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.