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guys it's time for it you said it i read it right take time to respond to brilliant engaging viewer comments from facebook twitter and you tube because when you've got some to say i listen so tonight we have some urgent business to discuss and that is the winner of our lookout contest last week we had a fun little story with a story out of west virginia where the fusion center which works with local and national groups on national security issues rolled out a new mobile app that will let the people of west virginia submit tips on suspicious or terrorist activity and what they said that they were looking for was quote any activity incident or behavior the reporting individual feels could be a threat risk or concern to the public safety and is not to be limited to known criminal activity so that seems a little bit broad to us to say the least so after taking some pictures of our own we asked you guys to send us your best non suspicious suspicious pictures with a hash tag lookout so here's some of what we got frank to the pick at us say happy alone to show women on my t.v.
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working very suspicious activity indeed calling the feds hash tag lookout. now have your own asses posted this pic on our facebook wall with a very alarmed because scription say why is this puppy alone whereas the other dot is someone running around kidnapping other dogs the puppy sleeping where is he today if he's sleeping why is he so tired i hear all the training camps are pretty exhausting as a real puppy or a robot full of spyware god help us all. now i just didn't get tons of posts of this pic on our wall which says if you can read it this way to china accepting applications tim david posted the following pic on our facebook wall explaining now this is suspicious i'll three has three items on a three sided sign three three three do i need to spell it out double that you got six six six people trial and travel sounds like terrorism to me and body lotion try taking that on a plane this story is obviously a front for a terrorist group the drop location is probably in this section for pete's sake so
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i really like the commentary on that one too but last but certainly not least our winner for the most suspicious looking suspicious picture is price steven who posted this pic on our wall simply saying look out making material so congratulations price you get a sinaloa show mug will be in touch to figure out how to get back to you now moving on to more serious matters last night we interviewed the young turks and despair in the new data released by the department of education which revealed that minorities especially black boys face punishments and much harder in school than other students and one of our viewers commented on youtube saying he could boost said i hate race baiting like this it's stupid and dishonest race doesn't directly play a role only socio economic status i.e. poverty plays a role. you know i would wholeheartedly agree with our viewer here that poverty is the biggest factor in the type of education that a child receives in this country that's a horrible thing but what ann and i were doing last night was not race baiting but
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discussing statistics and data which back up another very sad conclusion that in districts where black students made up only eighteen percent of the population they counted for thirty five percent of those suspended and forty six percent of those suspended more than once so this isn't a mass sample these are numbers from the same districts in the name same schools are minorities are being targeted within a school more than their white counterparts and finally i want to respond to a viewer wants to know where all the fun went the evo osmani posted on our facebook and said i like your shows in two thousand and ten and still do now back then you would put these funny clips in big into it that made it very interesting so i have a really good news for you is a bit of fun is coming back in a few skits in the works so stay tuned that's my rantings tonight but i'll be back with more next week. now while comprehensive immigration reform or even federal laws like the dream act are all a back burner in this election year or members of congress have already admitted that nothing will get past states are still actively legislating on immigration
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related matters and georgia just this week the senate passed as four fifty eight which would bar undocumented immigrants in the state from attending any university college or technical school currently undocumented immigrants are barred from attending the top five universities in the state have to pay out of state tuition fees to attend the others but if this bill passes through the state's legislative body then where will the students go well there is one option that's called freedom university it's located in athens georgia and according to the mission statement on the website freedom university is a volunteer driven organization that provides rigorous college level instruction to all academically qualified students regardless of their immigration status so let's find out more about it joining me is bethany norton assistant professor at the university of georgia and a professor at freedom university and the sabah magical undocumented youth in georgia and a freedom university student i want to thank you both so much for joining us tonight and i guess so i want to start with you and i just want to get your opinion
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on what you think is happening within the state why you think that lawmakers there are already clearly restrictions for undocumented immigrants there in attending university so why do they want to take it even further and bar it and how does that make you feel. well i believe that's the reason why they wanted to get you going further you know come top of. your cities. as a there's real problems going on in the state that be you don't want to address and they want to scapegoat undocumented students and immigrants like me and say oh it's the person you know it's their fault that we're going through there's the police problem success and we're going to deal with them instead of the feeling with the real causes and the real problems that exist here in the state and the way it makes me feel the way it makes me feel it's you know i don't i don't feel cuban i guess i don't feel like going to certain education but i mean being down i know that you
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know i'm a human being and i do that sort of education specially when i do want why i bethany why don't you tell us a little more about freedom university about how it is that you know that it got started people like yourself got involved. well it was just a sort of sense that something had to be done at the level of just continuing to keep students connected to higher education at a moment where the state was making moves to and says that they had no business and are publicly supported colleges and universities at the time just at the most the five most competitive campuses which include. georgia and now through this new bill that will be extended across the state so i have full of us who simply. know i'm documented people our neighbors and and occasionally i think potential students decided that there were at least one thing we can do and that was continue to offer coursework while the students. now did this extraordinarily effective and brave
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protest and push back against these policies are so it's an amusing honor to get to teach people who want so badly to you know classroom and there's only so much we can to. we reach about thirty five students but it does help keep people who really what it involved in learning while we look for a more permanent solution. at the state level and at the national level gustavo is are there any risks for you and terms of trying to attend freedom university you know do people know where it is going to be easy for the operators to come in and say hey we have an entire classroom full of undocumented students let's go get them . yeah i mean i don't i do the risk i mean you know the risk is always there we could always going to class and you know and get hit by the tea party or you know the people behind the cell be smashers but for me
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you know i mean undocumented student i mean we've got community activists i've been our prison my community person is going to state of georgia for now and so he has that risk you know sorts of this disappear. over time and you know it's like i can't remember what the second question was a first question was. just asking about you know whether you think that might be easy for an easy target for operatives because they know that this is a university where i don't know if all of the students but where a majority of the students are undocumented yeah well obviously they can come and try to do something they can't they can't do anything. you know you know being undocumented you know here in the state of georgia you know i know that they know how bad it will look for them if they come into the room and they say ok you guys
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are undocumented we're picking you up because you want to study because you want an education and that's something that we've seen nationally with all these coming out of the shadows where people who are undocumented immigrants come out and say they're undocumented in front of a court case and you know sometimes they do civil disobedience sometimes they don't but you know the police know that when the cameras are around and you know we've been covered before that they can't really do anything to people who are undocumented. bethany. you know tell us more too in terms of this school if indeed this legislation does get passed where there is this statewide ban on attending any of the universities do you think that you're going to see more students you think you might see more professors volunteer i mean this is your volunteering so you're not getting paid to do it you're taking out your free time to do it and at the end of the day the students don't get a degree from an accredited university that's going to help them get a job although i guess that being an undocumented student always faces that
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challenge right. you know exactly i mean this is is a band-aid on a huge plumes but what we had seen is more miss analysis support from other educators from universities in the state of georgia from residents in georgia and people all over the country saying this is terrific we want to help keep this going we exist entirely on donations that have come in through our website or university georgia dot com and gifts of books all the books for elizabeth donated all the time we have yes acres who are on their own nickel will fly down to georgia and the class people who are are part of national level academic conversations and who want to help keep students connected and learning and still these legislative their ears have been removed so yes if this passes are you expanding the pool of people who
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are directly affected and i think what we've seen is plenty of people in the state clearly of educators who are delighted that there is a way to address this and understand what this is doing to the state that this is trying talented students everyone in this who is not in this who teaches should be so lucky as to have a student like this scuttle in a classroom at some point in their career and this is a young man who is not going to be allowed on to a public campus. in the state of georgia and people like him are going to be driven out of the state and take their talents and take their years in georgia institutions. primary and secondary education with them and have to invest those elsewhere and i think what has been so encouraging for those of us teaching at least i don't know how often the students get to see this but it's just how much support there is and how you educators think that this is anything but outrageous and i have to hope. and will prevail i couldn't agree more with my.
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about what the sort of political drive here is is to use these students to bully these young people and use them as scapegoats for huge system wide problems with funding and allocation of resources when in public both in georgia and elsewhere right but sure there are limits to what we can do as song tears and frankly none of us is interested in trying to replace the real need here which is for the students to attend colleges and universities in the states where they and their parents work and live and pay taxes and i get a comprehensive immigration reform one point where green eyes as well i want to thank you both so much for joining us tonight and it really sounds like a great a great project to a lot of respect to all the people that are involved thanks so much for joining us . you. are with her last break the night we come back it's the return of the lobbyists and another broken promise from obama which are told time
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of war but on a happy hour not just japanese men that are over having sex seems like their alligators are too and sleep deprivation causes you to be more distracted idea that . people can only like you said for free and fair elections. again we're still reporting from the planet earth as you can hear behind the loud explosions. we keep.
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i got the time for tides to all time award ads and i recommend to the main man himself president obama think back when obama was on the campaign trail he was really outspoken about putting a stop to the corruption in d.c. once he became commander in chief one of the things they made sure that everybody knew was that he didn't like the lobbyists the workover on k. street. this waste of third tell the lobbyists in washington that their days of setting. all. funded my campaign they will not work at my white house but if you look at my terrific work not only do i not say. it's money in this campaign.
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and that. your voice is that when i am president of the united states she hit all right so i think he made his point pretty clear obama's administration would not be run by lobbyists it seems so straightforward took it to our attention that obama's appointed steve or cheri as a counselor to vice president biden now for sure he is very well known amongst washington politicians because he spends a lot of time in the nation's capital as a lobbyist and obama knows it so he has had some pretty big clients like fannie mae g.m. eighteen t. just to name a few and are the words of dana milbank over the washington post he's also been through the revolving door more than a bellhop at the doubletree hotel so check this out for the eighty's he worked in the private sector lobbying on behalf of firms like blue cross blue shield and the ninety's he was the federal government employees serving as a deputy chief of staff to president clinton until he left office then rich said he
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went back to the private sector where he start his own lobbying firm with his brother and i stayed on that side of operations until his most recent appointments so you did he shifted gears quite a few times in the past few decades and in fact she was originally hired to work as a part of clinton's presidential campaign in two thousand and eight and then senator obama was giving hillary hell for not following his lead on the no lobbying front. in the recall three recognizing the special interests and lobbyists. the better drug companies. joe. it was the only way that you were. so that ordinary people to voice her it is if you stop for the obvious like i will do. so no how is it possible that this well known lobbyist as a new gig in the white house well because he knows how to play the game so keeping to his word team obama made
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a rule that any lobbyist allowed to switch teams and work on the political side had to be out of the game for two years or apply for a special waiver and that rule was one of obama's first priorities as president ever shady being the smart man that he is technically withdrew his name from all lobbying gigs in two thousand and eight even though there is ample evidence that he was still pulling all the strings for his lobbying firm behind the scenes but hey as long as his name is not on the paperwork and obama gave him the i'm sorry but i just don't get it the president began his own rules these simply choose to ignore them when they're no longer convenient we have an idea obama i want you to back your own website whitehouse dot gov read up on the earth executive order one three four nine zero and specifically it like to direct you to sections two and three which elaborate on the limits that you set on lobbyists explaining what they can and can't do we even put the web address on the screen in case you forgot so you're welcome why would you waste everyone's time by actually writing out this labrat set of rules if you're not going to follow them makes you look foolish and worse
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disingenuous so for everyone who's watching at home or should he isn't the only member of the president's staff who is listed as a lobbying firm listed a lobbying firm as their previous employer either i can picture is an image of obama saying hey you can't beat em join em so far over looking is going executive order and yet again going back on one of his campaign promises president obama is tonight's told time warner. our guys it's time for happy hour and joining me this evening r.t. web writer andrew blake and mike riggs associate editor at reason magazine and reason dot com. we go in pretty good mike i think you and i are always talking about the t.s.a. for some reason every time my mind and he has a lot of that of that right so this blog or basically he's posted
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a video online saying that he's figured out a way around those really pesky and basic body scanners take a look and the samples of individuals are concealing metallic objects that you can see as a black sheep on their light figure again late figure black background and black threat items yes that's right if you have a metallic object on your side it will be the same color as the background and therefore completely invisible. i says name jonathan corbett he was the first person to sue the t.s.a. over these machines and he also tried this so a pocket into the side of the shirt took a metallic object excuse me and then just did the whole thing and then walked right through the body scanner at the airport what do you think. i do buy it actually blogger bob at the t.s.a. his blog responded today saying obviously we can't we can't yet blogger but that's just to say a name i. totally understand why it is not his last name on there because like who
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wants to be the guy whose job it is to explain t.s.a. he said you know they won't explain their practices because it's top secret scanners are only one of thirty security practices they have such as training complete idiots and high school dropouts and how to spot a terrorist so i think that like by refusing to engage the argument of can you put something on your side it's like a tacit admission that you can. for whatever outside his new know how because so many people don't like those images because they show the full body outline now they have these other images that are just kind of this weird little like generic thing and i had to go through what i mean brace on there is just a big white circle that stuck out apparently i mean does that change it at all i wonder because the whole thing is always a game. try to bring stuff on the you have the time just to see what happens on ash and security is a game and a little bit later we're going to join you know. whatever happens the old fashion
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we're just putting it up there but yeah yeah yeah exactly like yeah oh that's cruel yeah i mean i don't think the backscatter machines can catch stuff in your colon from what i've read from what i was searching experience but what i mean let's move on to the next story here. so last night was not only super tuesday in terms of the presidential election but we also had to say goodbye to someone who has been on the show many times. many of you in this room. i've known you for years and you know. that i've lost campaigns before. and there's always tomorrow you know. you know don't cry any tears for me. so thanks to some redistricting without losing his seat to another democrat marcy kaptur. well i mean a lot of people don't realize that the first election he lost was to be viceroy of mars so i personally think those dissensions going over this and he can go home now
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and go back to his own planet but the spatial. dimension is incredibly told wife who's actually an alien bodyguard and you're going to go back to your yeah that's not my strong little lot of sympathy career politicians who lose their jobs like he should be temporary i'm sure that's true i don't think that you should be capitol hill forever but it was nice to have somebody at least that was hilarious that captured trying to actually claim that he was pro-war but he is pretty antiwar and it was nice to see like a real lefty not that he didn't also side with the party line but wins now by war anti-drug war which i loved him for pro aliens i don't really care you know i like aliens i think i was sympathetic until i saw that he wore a pink tie on election day if he's going to win like that it's not powerful who's going to tell you that he also he also sued over the olive pit in his name which. i
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want you. ok here is another lawsuit which is kind of interesting take a look at. lindsay blank liar file suit saying room great sex life affected her mental health she appealed to administrators to move out and got nowhere her attorney writes blank wire phil into a dark and suicidal depression after months she eventually moved back to new york state finished class work and graduated. i doubt the school disputes that they say you know they tried to offer her her lodging after that a private room that she never explained that it was because of the sexual stuff but it's just kind of an interesting complaint to make. you know she said she became suicidal eventually had to go into a hotel because her roommate. can just tell you are making you stop having so much that just like sleep on the floor of your dorm in the hallway like i did my entire freshman year of college i mean come on there are steps you can take to make sure
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that i don't have to listen to your roommate run game twenty four hours a day you know no i didn't say the same i said same problem yeah actually i spent a lot of time sleeping on the hallway of my house during my freshman year but it was you know a great it made me stronger it was a good learning experience were you sleeping or you know no i was just sleeping i took a pillow out there and my pill yes i took a pill i. looked out of it are you depressed because you're the roommate that's not having as much sex yeah maybe i don't know that wasn't me i don't know getting me i'm not saying i didn't know what sex was until my freshman year oh you know but yeah i don't buy the story i don't buy i think what do you think it's like a liar to me looks like a liar i didn't see it looks like probably a liar ok. thanks for joining me today. thank you for tuning in to make sure they come back tomorrow but meantime got to get to my fantasy list on facebook on twitter there's anything you ever miss you can catch the. flash ilona show the fine interviews as well as the show in its
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