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Mandatory Wednesday Malloy Truthseekers check in!! Church Night!! Blind Man’s Bluff
These 3 stations say they have Mike on from 9pm to midnight eastern & It seems as though these 3 links work
http://radiotime.com/station/s_45192/KTLK_1150.aspx http://www.green960.com/main.html <1 to 3 am pacific? http://themic921.com/main.html < 12-3am central http://www.ohiomajorityradio.com / It says it has Mike on from 9pm to midnight
http://www.mikemalloy.com /
http://www.sirius.com/siriusleft http://stream.am950ktnf.com:8000/listen.pls
http://www.am1090seattle.com /
Here's the Malloy stream link- http://server2.whiterosesociety.org:8000/truthseeker.m3u
http://www.mikemalloy.com/members/member.php
http://www.mikemalloy.com/stations/
http://tunein.com/radio/Progressive-Voices-s189055/
http://netrootsradio.com
For a more low key Chatroom try- http://headonradionetwork.com/chatroom / Here's the HORN Chatroom link- http://client0.sigmachat.com/sc.php?id=137054
Mike's Blog Picks
http://www.fairywoodland.com / http://candorcandy.vox.com / http://www.unknownnews.org/ http://www.pbsblog.com/ http://www.americanfilms.com / http://www.officialwire.com / http://www.justcoffeeart.com / http://www.democraticwarrior.com http://www.markmarshall.com / http://www.democracyinteractive.com / http://www.redpill8.blogspot.com/ http://www.switch2green.org http://www.superbeans.com /
Blind Man's Bluff
http://www.mikemalloy.com/2013/09/blind-mans-bluff/
Watch out, Iowans – it’s now legal for blind citizens to carry loaded weapons. No, this isn’t a joke. The LA Times has more:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-blind-carry-guns-in-public-20130911,0,1495884.story
People around the world in general, and CNN’s Piers Morgan in particular, went crazy this week after Iowa’s premier newspaper, the Des Moines Register, published a story about how the state’s new gun law allows blind people to own and carry firearms in public.
You read right: Blind people may not be able to drive to the gun store, or even sign the permit application without assistance, but they may legally carry a gun in public.
The Register story, which included video of a blind Altoona man named Michael Barber gun shopping with his wife, was part of a much bigger series that looked at the effect of the state’s new gun law, which prohibits sheriffs from denying weapons permits except in very limited cases. Previously in Iowa, sheriff’s could deny gun permits at their discretion.
Iowa won’t issue a driver’s license to a blind person, but it’s perfectly fine to hand them loaded weapons. Why not?
Of course we support the Americans With Disabilities Act. It’s pitiful that it took an act of Congress to mandate that differently-abled Americans should have equal access to public facilities and equal opportunities for employment and other rights, but that’s just another comment on our long history of discrimination (but I digress . . . . )
That notwithstanding, does anybody - other than Ted Nugent – think it’s a good idea for blind persons to carry loaded weapons?
In other news, the NRA is celebrating another victory in their effort to make things dead. It’s now legal to carry loaded weapons into Starbucks coffee shops. As in: “There’s not enough foam on my latte . . .. BANG! BANG! BANG! . . . . Whadda ‘ya mean you’re out of Pumpkin Spice?! POW! POW! POW! POW!”
National gun rights people named Friday, Aug. 9, “Starbucks Appreciation Day.” They did so because Starbucks refuses to ban guns in its venues, preferring to hew to local policy. The Washington Post reports.
If a state or jurisdiction allows weapons, concealed or otherwise, to be carried into retail stores, the Starbucks franchises in that state will allow that, too.
It gets worse. The NRA rallied it’s knuckle-draggers for a pro-gun rally at a Starbucks in Newtowm, Ct. The WP continues:
(Starbucks Appreciation Day) was a chance for gun activists to come not just to any Starbucks but to the Newtown Starbucks, a mile and a half from Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 26 people – the large majority very young children – were gunned to death eight months earlier.
They came on Friday packing heat. Why? Why come brandishing guns to a pleasant little coffee-and-snack place where parents take their children after school? Was that so necessary? The act was – there is no other word for it – sadistic.
“How can they even think of being here? It’s so disgusting and heartless! It’s so in-your-face!” said a local woman, Barbara Kraushaar, who was part of a counter-group of Newtown residents who came to meet the gun-toters in the parking lot told the New York Times. “Our community is still healing, and we find it reprehensible that they are picking Newtown to rally,” was the response from the Newtown Action Alliance, which is devoted to making sure that what happened there on Dec. 14 never happens again.
Such compassionate conservatives. Such good Christians.
Greg Palast said it best, we’re living in an armed madhouse.
-KBM
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(And many thanks, Truthseekers, for helping us with our Kickstarter campaign).
We are sure that Malloy:Uncensored will be a great success and we are excited to get started! Until that takes off, however, we are depending on our Truthseekers to support the program with your paypal donations, sponsorship hours, and podcast subscriptions. We will not give up the fight, but truly need you to help us keep it lit.
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video : Blind Man and wife buy gun
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/videonetwork/2656810767001/Blind-man-and-wife-buy-gun?nclick_check=1
Michael Barber, who is blind, buys a handgun at Bass Pro Shop in Altoona with the help of his wife, Kim. Both the Barbers have passed a safety course and plan to pratice with the gun on a shooting range.
Update on Kickstarter
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s to the NJ catz
The kids thank you for the
s! How are you, Olivia, and the grandbabies doing tonight? Please give them the usual from me and the NJ catz!
We're all ok thanks! Big
s for you and my fuzzy buddy Crook! Please give him lots of ear scratches and tummy rubs from me and the NJ catz! Hi cal04. Hello Everyone.
s to crook
that's adorable LOL
I love the new gif! Puppies!!!!
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That video's hilarious!! I had a kitty client who would say "nom, nom, nom" when he drank from the bathroom faucet.
The critters make me smile! 
Hoping that everyone is well!
Last night was our county party's fundraising event, The Kefauver Dinner, (Estes Kefauver) and it was a wonderful evening. Rep. Mike Turner, chair of the Democratic Caucus (who has been in papers a lot for basically calling the Tea Baggers who have overtaken the Gen.. Assembly cra cra) spoke and he lit up the house!
I think the only openly gay elected official in the state, Chattanooga City Council, spoke and he was inspiring, other young up and coming Democrats spoke and they were inspiring. Dressed up and out with the mr., and I never had a profile pic on facebook, but I now have a kiss pic with the hubby as my profile pic.
I was tasked with seating people, and I don't like shoes, much less heels, thus I have been barefootin' most of the day today. 
Hoping you're well!
Sounds like a blast! Hope you're well!
Hoping that all is well with you and the NJ Catz!
It was just great to hear more left leaning Democrats in a fighting mood, against the repubs! Not everything was wonderful and hubby stood up at one point and turned his back on a recipient of an award. I'd only asked him in advance not to boo or throw rotten tomotoes, so I'm cool with it!
Sounds like you had a great time. Sounds a lot like Alan Grayson
Love when other people post pics on facebook LOL
Well, he was introduced as being a pit bull!
If I knew how to pull the pic in this thread I would gladly share it!
Hugs to you and Crook!! Those puppies are makin' me kinda dizzy, lol!
Hoping you're well!
Have a great tomorrow!
