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all right it's time for you said it i read it right take time to respond to my brilliant and engaging viewer comments from facebook twitter and you too because if you've got something to say i listen and i want to dedicate today's you said i read it to address in the piece written about r t by ben smith of politico it started off as hit piece with the opening lines the russian government propaganda station russia today sometimes does something resembling news reporting and sometimes offers something closer to ham handed soviet style hit these it's let me just start off by inviting ben spencer to my program tell me what soviet style hippies i managed to churn out because i consider what i do here r t what mr smith would call real reporting and fact i regularly bring up topics and questions that ben smith and his friends in the mainstream media don't seem to care much about such is why democrats and republicans can't seem to agree on anything let the fans through extending the most dangerous provisions of the patriot act for which they're happy to come together in a show of unity or continuing to allow the military industrial complex to always

keep growing and i was also one of the only news programs to follow the occupy wall street movement from its first day on mr smith and his mainstream media cohorts were content to sit back and mock the protesters as dirty hippies that is of course tell the story became too big for even them to ignore now just to name a few let's continue on this topic of real news reporting dive into the rest of this little jet the smith why did you critique a story that a reporter or t had done so he continued his real news reporting by saying the following in this one in which reporters mispronounce virtually every proper noun and at one point referred to ronald rumsfeld yes criticizing a non-native speakers english accent that's the really hard hitting journalism that i look for politico because reporters accent is certainly what makes the story so the best part here is that he didn't have bother following up that cheap shot with any real critique of the report. classy and not done with all of mr smith's real news reporting that included in this blog post he also ended by saying the channel

also occasionally gets mainstream commentators to appear in part because it's one of the few that pays reporters to appear now the car is patently untrue with you alone or so don't pay for our gas our t. america doesn't pay for its gas and i should know that the original pieces since been corrected after myself and my colleagues kindly informed mr smith the r.c. does not in fact pay if he has to appear although i guess he could just found that one out by making a phone call doing some real reporting so i thank ben smith for correcting the error but let me suggest the next time you want to write a piece calling somebody else propaganda maybe you leave out making fun of people's accents and get the facts straight first after i thought that's what real news reporting was all about i said my ranting and i have more for you next week. well it's a big milestone for one of the most important and detrimental laws of the last decade the patriot act turned ten years old today and that's not a happy to see since it was signed it's fundamentally changed the way that u.s.

law enforcement in the united states and it's eroded protections to our civil liberties signed into law by george w. bush after the september eleventh attacks the patriot act reduced many of the restrictions against law enforcement when it came to tracking people of the computer and telephone without warrants ease restrictions on foreign soil and intelligence gathering and gave law enforcement more discretion when it came to detaining or deporting immigrants suspected of terrorist acts now it's undoubtedly contributed to the heightened state of security it's become the new normal here in the u.s. and skew thousand and one and pave the way for huge increases in surveillance against americans as much as the patriot act was marketed as a way to protect the united states from outside terrorist threats it's now been found a legal justification for much of our domestic security apparatus against foreigners and american citizens alike if they were being used by law enforcement for drug investigations and other low level crimes which certainly cannot be classified as terrorist threats in fact recent data has shown that late notice search warrants have been used one thousand six hundred times for drug cases i'd only fifteen times

for terrorism cases so it makes it feel really safe doesn't it you know over the years mounting evidence has also shown that law i haven't done much in the name of protecting us from foreign terrorist attacks it simply eroded our remaining civil liberties but stayed virtually untouched since it was signed back in two thousand and one and in fact president obama renewed three key provisions of the patriot act first the roving wiretap clause that allows the f.b.i. to obtain a warrant from a secret intelligence court associated with the foreign intelligence surveillance act without providing details about how that suspicious person will be tracked there's also the lone wolf measure which allows law enforcement to obtain a pfizer warrant without providing proof of the targeted person is a terror threat and lastly there is the business records provision which means that it finds a warrant. passed out for law enforcement to search through any type of personal records whether banking or medical or about any proof of the targeted person engaging in terrorist activities that any of those seem constitutional to you and one of the provisions are set to expire earlier this year senator rand paul was one

of the few who spoke out against those elements and of course he was quickly accused of siding with terrorists. he refused to relent the government will be unable to fully pursue these leads that would increase the risk of a retaliatory and terrorist strike against a whole month and ability to deal to the stable blow tides are rise in response to a scurrilous accusation i've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack america can we not have a job date on a higher plane and a debate over whether or not there should be some constitutional protections so and rand paul was certainly in the minority because those three provisions were renewed with a bipartisan vote who cares about important make your right to privacy who cares about the whole concept of innocent until proven guilty now we live in such a heightened state of panic that our own government is going to break the rules all

the time supposedly in the name of safety so here through the patriot act a law that helps your government spy on you it's been quite a decade ten years of i'm necessary wide sweeping surveillance by the u.s. government against its own people. now the repeal of don't ask don't tell you could say that the u.s. military is undergoing some big changes progressing toward the modern age but are they still far behind when it comes to its chaplain program and the role that religion plays in counseling one man's pleading for atheist strapon to be accepted so that those without a religious background get the same services as everybody else so how hard a cultural battle is that and is to show that there's too much religion in our military has discussed this with me is jason torpy president of the military association of atheists and freethinkers case and i thank you so much for joining us tonight thanks for having me now first start off by telling me why it is that you think that they need to have chaplains right what is it that those who don't have religious background who are christian are missing out on for two hundred years chaplains have been very focused on their mission to pray with troops in

moderate chaplaincy in the modern military you have a diversity of religious based religious backgrounds and beliefs and conscience including atheists but the chaplains just aren't resources on aren't trained to provide for and what i'm doing is reaching out to those chaplains three thousand senior officers to help them to help the troops that they don't have any training about so far now how many people would you say are in the military that are atheists or free thinkers as your organization is named well between ten thousand and forty thousand depending on the most recent survey forty thousand of the most recent defense equal opportunity management initiative survey identified you know that many so forty thousand that's number two behind all the christians put together by head of jews buddhists muslims hindus and what i want to do is make sure that there's overt policies that say chaplains have to provide for those service members and to ensure that there's training so that they know how to properly provide for them but give us you know give us

a hypothetical or just tell us i guess how it actually works when you're out in the field when you are in a war zone they can turn you down a chaplain can say that i won't provide counseling you know i can help you out because because you're not a person of faith but what happens is if i. you know jewish or mormon for example i'll go in and find probably a chaplain that's not my own faith they'll point me in the right direction maybe connect me with a chaplain that is there provide materials and draw from the training that they've had you know kind of world religions and diversity training to help me out and what i what i get if i'm an atheist or a humanist you know they might talk to me but they're going to talk to me without understanding what is science what scientific naturalism is about it was human base craft and rational ethics are about and they might say well you know you guys don't like to use the term religion so so well that's not really our thing you have to go to some other agency and that's what we want to get away from idea are you ok though with i mean you mentioned chaplains been around for what two hundred years in the military but do you think about finally whatever happened to just certain

basics right when you talk about the separation between church and state why is it that our military even has a clergy essentially of its own well this that's really a concern that i think the chaplains need to recognise in order for them to stay relevant in a modern military they have to provide for all service members and in the past they could do that with just the protestants and the jews and now since nine hundred ninety they started at the muslims in the buddhists and the hindus they're doing a great job recognizing the diversity of their military so long it's as if the the istic diversity what they haven't done is said ok we recognise that almost twenty five percent of the military is chose no religious preference they haven't recognized the number two demographic after christian is self identified atheists in order to stay relevant and to ensure that they can continue to receive the power and the influence and the monies that the chaplaincy has they need to provide for everyone equally and provide for them well but do you think that there is you know too much religion in our military because there have been

a lot of stories you know there are organizations out there dedicated to trying to remove that because there are stories from men that might have been at certain bases you know or training and you know claim that they were forced to listen to some kind of a christian outlier bryan singer. and they feel like they're being forced into and they're in pressure in people or people who are rightfully concerned about spiritual fitness training for example where military has decided that they want to teach people how to be spiritual and promote spirituality and what in this is an example of how they totally missed our demographic you know i might be able to do some mental gymnastics to understand how atheism can fit with spirituality but you know what that shouldn't have to happen i should be able to look in that training as an atheist or as a humanist somebody with a naturalistic perspective and see things that are going to help might help me out because if i don't what i see is privilege in priority for religious personnel and i feel ostracized and marginalized in the further it's of my you can say causes more harm than good and we when they don't ever reach out to atheists and humanists

that are represented within within the chain of command i mean so when you talk to troops things days and you mention it there could be these attitudes where you feel like somebody else has privilege the right to get more attention and how much of a role do you think religion plays in terms of the wars that are fighting a proxy fighting in muslim countries fighting against religious radicals and you have. a lot of conservative commentators in this country that will constantly try to push the idea that we are engaged in a religious war that this is christianity islam and so when you talk to troops is that something that's in the back of their minds here's what i hear so if i talk to the troops and they talk they hear people talking about christianity versus islam they say hey thanks a lot for really make and our friends in the middle east angry and making our enemies even angry what that is that's a recruiting call when they see bibles with special forces logos on them and when they when they see christian concerts and then when they see when they see the religion and spiritual fitness centers and generals talking about how associated

they are with their christian heritage and when they when they line that up too closely with the military mission then our enemies have recruiting power from that they say ok it is a religious war let's. the muslims against the christians and that's. what you think you're going to win this cultural battle yes yes i do but the power right now rests with the chaplains and i reached out to them they know i'm out here and what i'm wondering about is why is there a deafening silence from the chaplaincy about this so i hope they they speak out about some official policy so i know they have it in the military you know has most advanced weaponry and machinery in the world but i guess in terms of policy is still the case and i thank you so much for an hour i thought of your ship. so calm presidential candidate complains about the. heart. and happy hour. kind of a hot debate plus your tax dollars hard work a trial over dog was decided by

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i design for tonight's tool time award and tonight goes to texas governor rick perry after announcing that he was running for president in august he instantly became the g.o.p. star the front runner but thankfully that status didn't last very long and national polls right now he's fourth or fifth way behind her and say that romney ron paul sometimes even newt gingrich so you know it's been a rough couple of weeks for the governor but this week his campaign decided to reset so he bought air time for t.v. ads in several early voting states and he started to do more t.v. interviews so last night he was asked what mistakes he's made so far in his presidential run and get a lot of his answer. well i don't think anybody's ever run the perfect campaign and

actually. these debates are set up for nothing more than the carrot and the candidates it's pretty hard to be able to sit lay out your ideas and your concepts with a one minute response so you know if there was a if there was a mistake made it was probably ever doing a lot of the. ever doing one of a campaign to and elder interested in is stirring it up between the candidates instead of really talking about the issues that are important words so rick perry think that it's a mistake to take part in the debates i mean really great if you want to be president you need to be able to communicate with the american people this requires that you take part in debates the challenged on your views by both the moderator and your opponents and let's face it to be honest the questions your opponents they haven't really been all that challenging this year and every four years americans do tune in to watch the debates see a different view and style of a leader that they just might elect as a career politician you should understand that the party of big boy pants got complaining you signed out the tryout for the job nobody put

a gun to your head and made you run for president and we all know the texas governor isn't really a skilled debater in fact he really sucks at it. is it the mitt romney that was on the side of against the second amendment before he was for the second amendment was it was before he was before the social programs from the standpoint of he was for standing up for roe versus wade before he was against verse roe versus wade he was for race to the top he's. for obama care and now he's against it. in florida i just never get all and i got to keep playing it but just because you're not good at debating doesn't mean that they don't have any value and i'm i'm not really sure why you so worry the candidates rick included have target of a tension scripted answers they cut it down to thirty seconds of talking points and

they like it no matter what question the candidate is asked they slip into their contrived message case and point rick perry at last week's debate and then let me ask or some governor heard every word fourteenth amendment allows and he's anybody a child the illegal immigrants who's born here is automatically american citizen should i change let me address month's issue that should really rather you give it i'd rather you ask a question and answer that i understand that you get to ask questions i get answers like i want to and herman arming talked about that's actually a response that is very good issue. see what i mean so the bottom line is he can't handle yourself on a stage with other candidates being out softball policy questions and you probably should just stay in texas running for president is the big leagues rick you've got to pick on your feet you have to answer unscripted questions so that's why we're giving rick perry rides tools on a war. our

guys it's time for happy hour and joining me tonight is artie correspondent christine and jim hansen retired special operations master sergeant and military blogger at black dot net thanks for joining eyes and saluting really nice blues going on over the. colors so apparently you know why the story cracks me up so much man boobs are in a really big issue at you tube with the it's a total debate over whether man boobs should be something that has to be censored just the way that. you are not whether they could hurt. or children's eyes and we're going to show you a clip of one that well i think it might form your opinion take a look. oh. oh oh. oh. oh. oh. oh i

can't watch i'm right what is your take on man boobs and whether whether their favorite. think this is a great figure to show in classes in schools kids stay in school be healthy so you don't have to become like this guy he's obviously on the part of the problem with with man boobs those there's you know some people posted videos because it depends what medication they're taking and screws their you know their hormones and they just develop and. i blame first of all seinfeld for the moods episode but the bottom line is the funny part of this article was that the you tube guys are saying it's keeping them up at night trying to decide how long a man can be on t.v. before it's something you do leading they were so adamant about explaining how this is a major source of to bait for them and they wanted to make sure the public knew that this was something they took very seriously i thought it was interesting to think they should get back to thirteen year old girls complaining and singing about obama and leave the man boobs alone just let it go people well at least we know. you know

the you tube and google people. and now it's making you wish bess is actually as. i said speaking of which but we earlier told you about the story about the blogger who was traveling who had a vibrator in her bag when she opened up her bag turns out that somebody from the t.s.a. had written out a little note get your freak on girl and now that's actually been animated because the story went so viral i think we have a clip take a look julie public was trying to double check one of her bags at newark airport. that was open for inspection by it you see now that i'm british and wrote a message to the. very miss now she's been more to lies i guess you can say animations but what actually ended up happening is the t.s.a. apparently hired the person they went look who was on the shift who did a google and lost her job think. of course that's

a firing offense i mean come on that's a private issue and i think the funny part is they didn't leave a phone number so i'm going to go to the trouble of making a ridiculous comment like that leave your phone or be manned up. if it was a man or woman oh i just i guess i sexually discriminated against you writing looks like a man who was in all the chatter. that is here i don't know i actually thought it was really funny and you know if that was me or one of my friends bags and i saw that on one hand you don't want to think that the people inspecting your bags are thinking about what you're wearing or what lingerie you brought or what sex toys for that matter you brought but apart from that i just thought it was funny i think that that person was probably trying to be funny i don't know if they quite deserve to get fired but they do deserve some disciplinary action because they need to separate their sense of comedy from what they're supposed to be doing whether you separate their sense of comedy from realizing that people still want to think that they have some sort of privacy with my own i have

a sense of comedy i mean. the t.s.a. gets to grope you i would feel you know you locker room. yeah that is the let's just let us return to you know high quality body cavity searches something you know it was but let's move on to this next story which is absolutely ridiculous and i don't know where your tax dollars are going to court battles that are fought just like this one. the court also came to court with photos taken of kim and baxter and what they claimed was baxter's on scooped who taken out dipendra brooke condo complex where they all live some pose even came from a camera the cornell's have mounted in their third floor window to keep an eye on the ground below they say kim didn't scoop baxter's poop on purpose to make them angry. i don't know why this crack the only reason people obviously have nothing better to do with their time with the first sit there for three days with the cameras mounted and watch every time a woman takes her dog out for

a walk it proves to see if she scoops it or not look at expert commentary the live you actually own the dog said she had poop waiting in the car to bring you in because baxter doesn't poop that big old guy she won because she won the case and you know and i'm guilty i'm a dog owner and it totally irks me when people don't clean up their dogs because i always clean up my dogs and sometimes i clean up other people's poop clearly there was an issue between these two. the i know that's wired a bit like a government with either people dogs because there was hands that are whores and ari i don't know i mean just because you know you try to keep your neighborhood clean and all that but i think that there was clearly an issue between these two women it sounds like drama the fact that they were going around with cameras and if they were going to pick it up as evidence and i only just pick it up and let it go you know what i mean two sisters living together with cameras documenting this quakes definitely craig's sense agree with you. really have nothing better to do ok let's move on to something else these are intelligent street signs and this is

where farmington hills a suburb of detroit where they get their home and thirty dollars are being spent on something that could be cool could be creepy take a look. control the streets is a digital. protest repopulated high profile. under system can be a key component to maximizing should become weirdness through every charge and coming up the road with. the system links to the amber alert center is well. i what do you think is that cool or is it creepy you know how there's a wireless network inside the pole it has sensors to monitor foot vehicle traffic can transmit all kinds of information for emergency routes bubble was basically the poles have eyes. i mean that's what it seems like and that's a little weird who knows if you've got the same t.s.a. agent writing these funny you know it's also you know those type of people working and surveilling and watching what's going on a little aware of i don't want to polls out there i only have one question how long

before the neighborhood kids the little smarty pants is hacked the phones are posting videos of may. they have beautiful you're right you're right no matter how advanced our technology gets there's an always respected member of the boy band moves into some kind of corner of make up where are you guys thanks for joining me tonight. so thanks for tuning in make sure the fact morrow and asparagus to be back on the shelf i mean time to forget the fan of the you are still on facebook and follow us on twitter missed any of tonight's show or any other night you can always catch all the you tube classic understand where you find the interview as well as the show in its entirety and coming up that is the.

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