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go on to you tube to video response or to twitter for fun the questions that we post on you tube every monday and on thursday the show is going responses and we let your voice be heard. art it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight it goes to the attorney general of virginia ken cuccinelli now since being elected because you know he's trying to make a name in the g.o.p. ranks as a hard line conservative he's suing to stop the federal health care reform law from being an actor in virginia he's filed a brief supporting arizona's papers please immigration bill but here is one of my favorite cuccinelli actions he altered of version of the state seal because it veered to so roman god is on the seal of her left breast exposed and i'm not even making that up yet pins made up with a new seal but backed down from the plan after an uproar so you see where i'm going

here cuccinelli is absolutely desperate to prove that he is the most conservative of them all so as latest action she has absolutely no surprise when asked by state lawmaker if it was ok for someone to carry a gun to religious event or church who chanelle he said in his legal opinion it's totally fine to bring a weapon to church that's right you can now pack heat when heading to church this sunday according to the state's general authority attorney general now there's a current law in virginia that says the anyone who carries a firearm to a place of worship while a religious meeting is being held without good and sufficient reason can be found guilty of a class war mr meter a conviction carries a maximum fine of two hundred fifty dollars but ken cuccinelli says that if someone carrying the gun for personal protection all that that constitutes a good anticipation reason so all you have to do is claim that somebody out there might be threatening you when you're free to strap on your six shooter before heading to worship just grab your. rival your sunday best and your gun but my

question is why the hell do you need a gun a church isn't a place of worship also supposed to be a place of peace what do you do flashy to the guy sitting next to you say it isn't encroach on your praying space this is just another move by gun lovers to flex their muscles with a politician who is all too eager to help and who surely is again seeking the media headlines as he tries to further his own career and that's why we've made him two nights to a time where. we can now add the u.n. to the growing list of people complaining about the treatment of u.s. army private bradley manning u.s. military officials blocked a u.n. official from meeting with manning on monday manning as we've told you has been held in solitary confinement at a military prison in quantico virginia since last july he's charged with leaking classified documents to the web site wiki leaks including those thousands of state department cables the un's one mendez said that he was deeply disappointed and frustrated that he wasn't allowed to have an unmonitored visit with manning

tremendous one to visit manning to determine if his can buy confinement the military brig amounts to torture that's something the u.n. is trying to investigate manning has reportedly been forced to stay in a cell in solitary confinement for twenty three hours a day he's asked every five minutes if he's ok and he must answer so it doesn't allow him to sleep and most recent reports say that he's also been forced to strip naked and don't forget all of that is without being convicted of a crime now after being denied to visit the u.n. issued a reprimand to the u.s. government but let's not forget that this is the not the first time the access to manning has been tonight congressman dennis consider shasta c. manning and was tonight amnesty international asked to see manning and they were tonight so if the military claims that this confinement is within their regulations why are they so scared to let anybody see him and this official reprimand does directly in the wake of a controversy created by the u.s. state department's annual human rights report. the document attacked

a number of countries around the world for human rights violations including china and pakistan but it gave the u.s. a glowing report now upset with that report china fired back with their own calling attention to america's border laptop searches and perhaps more importantly its attitude towards wiki leaks all professing a fundamental belief and the freedom of the internet i don't matter what you think about china pointing fingers on human rights you know that they do have a point when it comes to this and when asked about the un reprimand by its reporters at a state department briefing spokesman struggled to answer their questions. well ok so if you've been taught what you're talking about he says i'd like to i'd like to visit him and i mean i do is i believe in the absence of those conversations i just say we have but i believe in a state where you can show that you're being forthright about it if you if you refuse to talk about it and if you don't talk about it at least forget about the actual conditions of this treatment or what if you're not prepared to talk about your thoughts asians with

a special report sure that's being even less than not being forthright because you're not telling us what you told them that you understand the legal constraints that i'm operating under because this is an ongoing legal process plays but i think . so while the u.s. continues to point fingers call out other countries for their human rights violations we continue to violate a u.s. citizens rights daily treat him in a way that constitutes torture by our standards by international standards and when asked to prove the critics wrong they deny any access to manning and when questioned about the violations the state department seems lost it's really scary to think that these people are the ones that are looking out for our interests around the world. and now today is a significant day in the realm of space travel fifty years ago today sylvia caused a guide in maine history as the first human being in space introducing a new era of exploration and that first flight is still being honored today archies marina arena portnoy i reports. i historic accomplishment by one brave soviet

caused it commemorated at the united nations fifty years later got it first man in space for the exhibit unveiled to a crowd of one hundred guests among them americans honoring a cold war era photo whose achievements in becoming the first man in orbit delivered a huge space race victory to the u.s.s.r. i thought it was fantastic and i thought it was about and i was very jealous that this is a showcase for soviet science and technology and it's nice. from the russian perspective . that the russians opened up space for the rest of the world still images and film document yuri gagarin's preparation for the first flight the world theme of han his return and the trail for further soviet victories followed over the next three decades as the first cosmonaut is russian the first person to go into space is ours

the first is ours so there really seems to be produce this is an instance where. the guardians of monumental achievement is now officially marked world wide the un general assembly has adopted a resolution that clearing the twelfth the international day of human spaceflight just south of the international stage. new york is hosting a yuri's night themed dance party to mark the anniversary american fans clad in costumes. of the gehring elastic dream thank you seen as a hero because what he did with something nobody had ever done before nobody knew what would happen whether he would come back in one hundred eight minutes the twenty seven year old orbiting the planet and return to earth as an international hero. artsy new york. fifty years ago he

became the big. became the first man in space the first man to enter the final frontier forty one years ago man walked on the moon and now it's two thousand and eleven and you would have thought that we'd be colonizing other planets by now the ratings we're calling a let's face it the space race is over and we do see today as the dawn of commercial space flights rovers landing on mars and probes orbiting mercury so are we still on the right track or will manage space exploration become a novelty of the past joining me to discuss this jeffrey manber commercial space entrepreneur jeffrey thanks so much for joining us today for starters let's go back a few years ago to guidance flight into space and obviously this was the space race here right the soviets b. the u.s. so there was some envy but at the same time really was he just looked at as a hero that the entire world could embrace the first man in space and i'm reminded of what a person or an act of trying to do this was reminded of jonathan swift's and it was

it was a great man first oyster and what he did this. no one else would and so first of it was. individual and certainly you know i remember years from now four years from now. first we remember. this is the. year and this is the one we know. so the fact that it's becoming international. and it's a beautiful interview is really a day to celebrate like i said the space race is over and you know we would have stopped by now that we would have been colonizing at least to the moon the rate that things were going but it's really really slow down so unless there's that type of political pressure put on something political pressure for governments to actually spend that much money on something you know are we just going to see space

exploration really drastically slow down. you sure want to put me in a bad mood. but my feeling is we've talked about this the government funding is going to allow the commercial sector to get up and i don't this difficult time with immigration lower cause i mean finally it's not was so any more it's not russian it's not being there and we went down during a period where true entrepreneurs can get in and that's wonderful and that's really you know it was appropriate in here and when it's a government official and neil armstrong went to space as a government official in the next generation private citizens. or government officials for private companies and they have to me is a lovely look evolution space exploration ok well i know i know that you are a fan of the commercialization of space travel here but you know i do have

a few questions for example gogarty and was the son of peasants right and he got to achieve he got to be the first man in space which was incredible but these days you know if you want to be a space tourist now you have to pay millions of dollars to these companies it's not just something that anybody can enjoy and i also wonder if commercial spaceflight is going to make exploration really a thing of the past or they're just going to focus on fun joyrides around you know earth's orbit or something or perhaps passing the moon but we're no longer going to be trying to go to that final frontier and you know do morse research. where it's coming because it's the role of government so bravely when no one has done before and there will always be a role for government to go to go to mars that's the role of government but now that we understand low earth orbit matter we spent fifty years going from low earth orbit it's time for the commercial sector and i love how you turned it around and

you may even find that yuri gagarin but hasn't done it with a lot of opportunity i think the price that you think the fact that you can pay for it now opens it up to all of us and you don't have to be in the military of the air and what. all right all right. well i do hope that we still see you know a man going to space one thing that we have seen with new technologies is that you don't necessarily need a person to go out there and do the research do the science we have rovers we have probes these days and so i hope that you know the flash of man going into space doesn't just become a novelty thanks so much for joining us tonight sure thank you thank you now it's only tuesday but we need a little fun we have happy hour and we return our t. producer jenny churchill and lucy coughing up join me to discuss some of the stranger stories making headlines this week.

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well ladies and gentlemen we've spoken about it at length here on the show the fact that congress put our government on the brink of a shutdown and then last friday reached an eleventh hour deal a deal on a number that is but they didn't let us know what was in the thirty eight billion dollars worth of cuts until today so let's break down the bill didn't have a good look at where our government's priorities lie shelly twenty billion would be cut from discretionary spending programs while seventeen billion would be cut from mandatory programs i would for we get into all the details we should point out that there's eight point two percent reduction for all programs across the board except defense in fact defense was not only not cut at all this budget they got an increase of five billion dollars so like i said you want to know where the priorities of your lawmakers lie right now let's get to the real number crunching of what actually got hit areas hit the hardest because budget or health care labor and education which totaled up to

a billion dollars in cuts making up fifty two percent of total projections of this entire budget one of the most notable health cuts hiv aids and tuberculosis prevention programs because who needs prevention right now all in all about fifty five health labor and education programs are going to be terminated but there are a few crucial ones that were spared and we should know that they're the ones that president obama probably fought hard to keep pell grants designed for poor college students to keep five hundred million dollars the race to the top obama's signature education reform effort will get an extra seven hundred million dollars in funding back to the cuts the bill would cut eight billion dollars to the u.s. state department and a large portion of those cuts would go towards their economic supports supports fund which supports efforts in countries undergoing rebuilding efforts meanwhile u.s. contributions to the u.n. and other international organizations would be slashed by over three hundred and fifty million dollars iraq the republicans are all about that part now homeland

security isn't spared either they're facing a small two percent. which is most likely a fact first responder grants on state and local levels and it's clear that the government is trying to find money to cut every nook and cranny here for example and use census money left over federal construction funds and on who's money from pro forma program providing health care to children and low income families all of that's been cut to that's ten billion dollars right there however the democrats did except if you spending reductions in areas like community health programs state police departments even the e.p.a. that agency alone got stripped of over a billion dollars in federal funds and after the republicans had been pushing for for years so it looks like another win for them there and believe it or not there were a few policy provisions including in the spending bill they included measures to prevent get modi's haney's to be transferred to the us under any circumstances and eliminated funding for obama's sars although frankly i don't really understand why

three of the four of those sars have already left their positions and the provision that caused the biggest outcry here is the one that directly affects washington d.c. our federal and local funding for abortions with the band it brought out a few d.c. council members and even the mayor vincent gray himself yesterday who ultimately got arrested for protesting these provisions. you're. you're. so as you can tell all these elements are leaving several lawmakers uneasy and if you have even come forward to clear that they won't vote in favor of this new budget bill so that means that we just might be on the brink of a budget shutdown again government shutdown excuse me if they don't agree it's now becoming that this never ending battle for you at home now that you know what's going to get cut and what will be spared i'll let you decide for yourself how you feel about this bill.

well it's happy hour and it's tuesday and just wondering have you ever heard that saying that you may come to the party with a bottle of wine but you may have left with something else i think some people might be a little familiar with that and now there's a way to perhaps solve that problem at least to tell people if you left with something else and maybe other people should know about it now you can send e-mails a friendly little e-card if you have an s.t.d. they just passes it on to a person basically saying like hey might want to go get tested do you think that's a good way or is that the kind of you know the wimpy way it's like surprise nothing says i have gone real like an animated flash card which makes me wonder do the people that have i pads left out of this whole thing but now i think this is great

you know because if you have an s.t.d. or whatever that's that's them barest saying you know using condoms that can be annoying so this totally solve that entire issue you send a little e-card freak out your friend if you want to play a prank you know let your loved one know who it is that they're screwed without actually informing the fact that you're the kinky code that infects of these cars not actually tell you who the person is your identity going i mean i already know the answer to this like and i do it because of you if you gave me it as you better own it screw that yeah it was on my society i think you have to realize that like a lot of people get to see these don't tell anyone and then everyone they pass along to you has no idea so i think it is a good thing however i would probably not believe it if i got one of these cards i would definitely think it was one of my friends playing it wouldn't be in the back of your head i was writing about beauty that's well that's even the worst part is that people are now going to start sending these things is praying and you know it's like the girl the cried wolf and the one time i actually get sent. somebody

realistically as you might actually have an s.t.d. they're just not going to listen. to you suck in bed cards anonymous once. more into let's move on to a story considering that today is the hundred fiftieth anniversary of the that is the civil war began here in the u.s. this story has got a lot of people little pissed off a fourth grade teacher in norfolk virginia decided to hold a fake slave auction to teach her kids i guess you know what it was really was like back in those days but instead of just dividing the class i don't know any way randomly giving people numbers or having and raise their hands she actually divided the white students from the minority students and then have the light students purchase the minority students i would say that's a little left up yeah i'm actually glad that this story came up because it just reminds us again how terrible teachers in america are about addressing race it's like i need to cover race for whatever reason so i'm going to do it in the worst

possible way i'm all for you know getting students to care about the stories and trying to break through and you know make them feel something but yeah that was probably the worst way possible to approach was you know i'm all for experiencing the burden of having been a horrible human being as unfortunately our history tells us and human beings have been but like life up there you know let's play concentration camp i don't know gas chambers and go back in history and do crucifixions and you know go back even more in history and burn witches at the stake i mean where does the line but i think it'll be interesting because you remember jenny it was a while back we did a story about a teacher that had half of her class play the taliban essentially she was trying to describe this kind of conflict and that there is just a huge uproar fox news was all over it you had every right winger speaking out against it saying that it's deplorable it's just so wrong and yet something like this you know gets a little bit of an uproar we think it's mad. for the right wing doesn't care at all

if you make all the minority kids play the slaves and obviously you know the right way to go here if you were definitely going to do this would have been to randomly or maybe have the white students be the slave so maybe they could feel that there's time to put the evil a try to a little bit you know i have to say that this happens time and time again and we just have to ask our educators getting enough you know experience about how to deal with these delicate issues and i think the answer is obviously now instead of making everybody feel what it may have been like you know what a horrible feeling that is to just reinforcing the racism and the stereotypes and saying so you're still the ones that have to feel that way and fourth graders are mature enough and you know there was a fourth grader running around like i own you two black kids are so inappropriate let's see this last story very quickly to school in chicago really doing this for six years but i just found out about it bam students from bringing their own lunches from home because they might be unhealthy they might have big sweet or

salty in it so they have to eat the school's food oh nannies think it's awesome i love the nanny state i think they should have gone a step further and made is a little children work the fields for their food like we used to but on the olden times the oil away and they would appreciate the effort that it takes to get there and yet if you you know our kids are fat anyway please let's just give kids a set amount of food say this is what you're eating not teach them anything about nutrition not you know force them to actually do some physical activity god for a bed you know i mean instead of addressing the problem or just like oh you know what we'll just make them eat this we don't we're not teaching them anything they learned nothing but that you gave us here isn't a teacher even using a well this is a public school so this is not some rich private school that buys only organic it has the best produce and is probably feeding their kids the actual healthiest alternatives they could probably get that maybe their parents can't afford in this wonderful i actually had to trust a public school lunch to have better judgment than i am not but there are a lot of bad parents out there with bad judgment to do. feed their kids crap i mean

i know you don't have the right to feed her children or children like below and you know for grog duckling want to be is and force lard and butter but you know what yes absolutely little bit of an odd approach the fact there's a public schools a little bit weird but you know what i think up in the day if teaching people gently doesn't work and yes they know it was supposed to work fine to the students saying i'm not going to yell let's not teach them anything instead so that when they're older they don't know at any age because their whole life they've just been presented with food to eat at these sailors then as he got out of the latter part well it's definitely it's very quiet today all across the us ladies thank you for joining us for a happy hour this evening that's it for tonight's show thanks for tuning in make you guys come back tomorrow we'll have an experience of the young turks on the program to discuss the fact that for the first time student loan debt has surpassed credit card debt for america and meantime go forget to become a fan of the a lot of show on facebook and follow us on twitter and if you missed any of tonight's show or any other nights you can always catch it all the you tube dot com slash stealing the show for you post the interviews as well as the show in its

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