12⧸29⧸17 - The Concepts of Freedom Are Lost
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In the final Glenn Beck Radio broadcast of the year, Dr. Michael Thompson reminds us that the pendulum swung too far the other way in 2017, and that 2018 is going to be a landmark year in many areas of American history, including the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage.
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The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, love, courage, truth, Glenn Beck.
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This is the final Glenn Beck radio broadcast of 2017.
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Glenn, of course, is off for the holidays, and I am pinch hitting for him today.
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It's Doc Thompson from the Blaze Radio Network.
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2017 will be remembered by many people, certainly by me, as the year of all of the sexual harassment allegations,
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the sexual assault allegations, and the year the pendulum swung too far the other way.
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The year that everybody went crazy, saying we must believe any allegation.
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I'm hopeful that at some point the pendulum will swing back and level off and we can get to a point where people will say,
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yes, if somebody makes an allegation, we investigate it.
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If there is substance, we will continue to investigate.
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And if there's evidence of wrongdoing, we will prosecute when applicable.
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And if not, in the court of public opinion, we will all say, ah, that was obviously just an allegation and there was no merit,
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and I will hold or harbor no grudge or bias to the person who was accused.
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2018, we're going to see more of this, a lot more, far from over.
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And something else is coming in 2018 that is going to be huge.
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A landmark decision is coming down in 2018 by the Supreme Court that is going to affect life in America for decades to come.
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And we are going to decide, and by we I mean the Supreme Court is going to decide for us,
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whether or not we are a country that truly values freedom,
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or whether we're a country who is going to social engineer.
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The case I'm talking about is the gay wedding cake case.
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The Colorado baker in 2012 refused to bake a cake for a same-sex couple.
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And he cited his religious values that say he did not want to take part in a religious ceremony.
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I'm sure you remember the story, and you remember similar stories that have happened since then.
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A couple of weeks ago, oral arguments were heard.
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I speculate this will be one of the last cases that they actually hand us the verdict.
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Usually, I think it's the end of June, the final cases come down before they recess.
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And usually, the big ones come down then, so they can kind of get out of town before we find out how they ruled.
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And this has very little to do with same-sex marriage, with gay couples,
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with the rights of people to live their life and be served at restaurants or bakeries,
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and has everything to do with the First Amendment.
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The First Amendment guarantees us five rights under the Constitution.
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If you don't know those five rights, you probably should.
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Remember, though, that the Bill of Rights were added later as amendments
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because there was a different attitude about the Constitution.
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A smart, nuanced, wonderful attitude that also had some potential flaws.
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And the attitude was, and this became a debate,
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why do we have to spell out what a person's rights are
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when the whole point of the Constitution is your rights are unlimited
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So we don't have to put in the Constitution that, yes,
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you have a right to freedom of speech and freedom of religion
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and freedom of the press and peacefully assemble
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Unless it specifically says elsewhere in law you cannot do this,
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It doesn't say in the Constitution you have the right to jump up and down.
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And some people said, hey, that's very nuanced.
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They said, man, as soon as you head down that road
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they're going to say those are your only rights.
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Well, they came up with a pretty solid compromise.
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And the compromise was, yeah, let's put the Bill of Rights.
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The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights
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shall not be construed to deny or disparage others
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Now, of course, Tenth Amendment specifically powers to the states.
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that just because we're putting the First Amendment in there
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doesn't mean that you don't have all those other rights.
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where the concept of rights and freedom are lost.
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I couldn't come up with 14 new ones if you knew them.
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By the way, it's not like for the last 14 years,
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It's not like, you know, we haven't passed the law
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They are the fifth state to now raise the minimum age
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Obviously, it is the most 18 year olds will not be smoking.
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They'll tell you it's more addictive than alcohol.
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And you're going to be like, darn, I guess I'm a I'm
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Yeah, by the way, New Jersey, it's not like you're far away
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Because you can easily just go over in New York and Pennsylvania.
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If it comes with the Whip, I think you're cool.
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They never did that at the Ashtabula Country Club when I worked there
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They have a new expanded motor voter law in Oregon.
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you automatically register to vote and so on and so forth.
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And then they'll say there's more voters than actually are there.
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But the other thing is, younger people vote more progressive, more Democrat.
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The upcoming election, you're already registered.
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They don't have to say, oh, go back to the DMV.
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Or you're going to get your driver's license when you're 18 or 17?
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A couple of other interesting laws in Oregon I want to tell you about.
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And a bunch of other states and interesting laws all across the country
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I'll share those coming up next on the Glenn Beck Program.
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We're sharing some of the crazy new laws that are going into effect as of January 1st.
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If you've been around for hundreds of years and you still need this many laws,
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yeah, this is more about you than actually creating a society where we can all live
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and just go about our business and try to excel.
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Also in Oregon, family members or law enforcement will be able, as of Monday,
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to go to a judge and ask them to remove the firearm from somebody
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who is deemed a danger to themselves or others.
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Family members or law enforcement can go to the judge.
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But I don't know if it's the family member, if it's their standard.
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And then even that professional, what type of professional?
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I guess it's like getting a subpoena from a judge.
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If I go to the police and I say, hey, my Uncle Bob's a bit of a kook and we think he's a danger to himself,
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plus he's got guns, I'd like you to check it out.
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It's more of they can put him in an asylum or for a certain amount of time.
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And there are standards of how long they can be in and all this stuff.
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And the judge then can say, you can't possess a firearm for a year.
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They say you can't, but of course, you could still just go get one.
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Remember, Adam Lanza, who shot up the kids at Newtown at Sandy Hook.
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So this will do no good for what they hope it will do.
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Also in Oregon, they're expanding free reproductive health treatments for women.
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Even for women who are in the country illegally.
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Now, they don't do so much for men's reproductive health.
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Because they obviously should get everything else, you know.
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Using a drone to interfere with law enforcement, harass someone, or peep inside of a home is now a class A misdemeanor on Monday.
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It's punishable up to a year in jail and $5,000 fine.
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This is one of the few areas where I make exceptions and say we need some new laws and some adjustments or tweaks to old laws.
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So you need to get together for the budget as a legislature.
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It's a technology that's advancing and changing.
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As of Monday in Indiana, anyone who uses force to rescue a pet from a locked vehicle is immune from criminal penalties.
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For example, if you go up to the car and it's really hot and you see the dog suffering and you break the window, no criminal charges for breaking the car window of the car you don't own.
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Provided you have called the cops and you remain at the scene while the cops are getting there.
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Fido's in the back of the car and it's really hot.
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And you stand there and you go, you break the glass.
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However, you are still liable for half the cost of any damage of the vehicle.
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If you're someone who's, I guess it also comes down to what is, you know, suffering or not.
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But if someone leaves their pet in the vehicle, it could be die or be harmed.
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I thought it was a suffering pet and it was a stuffed animal.
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So now they're only responsible for the half the window and it's my car.
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It should include if you get it wrong, you pay the whole damn thing.
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Plus my time and effort to get on there and get it fixed.
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I don't want to even have to make the call and I don't want to be without a car.
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Well, we need to leave something for next year.
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Protection orders in Indiana on Monday can be issued by a judge and they can now include
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an explicit prohibition against harming a family pet.
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These are protection orders for like domestic disputes.
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Taking custody of a pet away from the abuser with police assistance.
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In fact, one of the ones that they're continuing to push and you're going to see this have a
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They are going to push this idea of domestic abuse against pets.
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There's animal abuse in some in some areas and they vary.
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But what they're going to do is put this under the umbrella of domestic.
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Cops can press charges even if a spouse says they don't want to in many areas.
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So if you punch me and the cop goes, all right, Doc, he punched you.
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If a spouse does that, the officers have the right to press charges because so often people
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were afraid and they said, no, no, we're going to go ahead and push this thing through.
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They want that to include pets now because they want people to conflate humans, human
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So this is going to expand in the future where you see domestic disputes can include, well,
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And you're going to be locked up for that stuff.
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We're going through a list of, of new laws by state that take effect Monday, January
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Every year, there's a bunch of new laws that go into effect stupidly.
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There, there are, they're just mainly unneeded.
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And a lot of times there's some pretty bizarre and interesting ones.
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Please follow at doc Thompson show at doc Thompson show.
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We just, um, in fact, I just retweeted, uh, the link to Brian Bresnahan, the former Marine.
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I guess that that makes sound like you retired after 20.
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I never know what to say there, but formerly active Marine who was also a police officer
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We told you his story yesterday and, um, it's a tragic story of him suffering with mouth
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Doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, doesn't use tobacco, anything like that.
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He has a brand new baby that, uh, just came home a couple of days ago and he's in the
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hospital all throughout the holidays, having at least part of his tongue removed and possibly
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Um, we told you about it yesterday and thank you so much for donating.
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And nowhere near what this family is going to need, probably even just for their bills.
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So even five bucks here or there, I'd love to see it, you know, get to 50, $60,000 because
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then that'll take care of some bills and, and maybe help, you know, cause he's, the guy's
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If anything, if he doesn't have the ability to speak, if they've removed a good portion
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of his tongue, he can't, how can you be a police officer and do, I mean, maybe like
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desk work, but you know, it's, and even if, even if he has some sort of disability, which
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some of us have short-term disabilities, not all of us do short-term disability doesn't
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pay a hundred percent of your salary or anything like that, unless you've been paying
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gobs into it, um, I would think that's not the case.
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So every little bit, this is an opportunity for, for people who don't want the government
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to do the work to, you know, stop taking our money and redistributing it.
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This is an opportunity to say, this guy, I know needs help.
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They just take the money and they're like, well, a bunch of people need help.
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So it's, um, gofundme.com slash Bresnahan dash family, B-R-E-S-N-A-H-A-N dash family.
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And I just tweeted a link to it again, but just say, $20,000, thank you so much for donating.
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Even if it's only a, you know, $5 or so, every little bit helps back to some of the new laws.
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One more to tell you about in Indiana, in the Hoosier state, as of Monday, public and private
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colleges and universities are prohibited from designating themselves sanctuary campuses
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and must comply with federal immigration officials to the extent required by law.
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Thank you for somebody standing up and saying, not only are we not going to be a sanctuary
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state or city, we're going to fight against this nonsense.
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The hypocrisy of people on the left to constantly tell me when I mentioned states rights and states
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are the laboratories of democracy and there should be differences by state where you are
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with like-minded people, even if you're the bat crap, crazy people in Massachusetts right
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The majority of you are the over emotional hand rigging progressives that want more control.
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And I should be able to get the hell away from you and find a state with people who think
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And I don't want the people of Massachusetts saying, we got to pass this federal law to
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stop people from those flyover states from dot, dot, dot.
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But you do what you want in Massachusetts, you do what you want in Oregon and let the people
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When I say, when I say those things racist, no, you want to break up families is what you
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This, this is not the battle over slavery in the 1860s.
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This isn't the battle for, for, uh, for civil rights and justice of the 1960s.
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This is me saying I support all people having the same freedom and I will not support with
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my tax dollars, organizations, businesses, or peoples.
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I do not agree with, but I ought to have the right to open carry in my state.
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If people said that state say it's okay in as a majority.
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And if you don't want that in Massachusetts, I support your right to say, no, you don't
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And I'm not going to Massachusetts then that's how it should be.
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But when I bring these things up, they say you're a racist and that's all that mean.
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But when it comes to immigration, you're like, well, we got to, we do this at the state
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Then they're all about local community and local law and local control.
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Do you remember when president Obama said, no, we can't have a patchwork of immigration
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laws in response to Arizona 1070, six, whatever years ago, Arizona 1070 did certain things
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where they were going to get tough on immigration because they're on the front line.
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If you really agree that why the hell do you support sanctuary cities and states?
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By the way, California is now officially a sanctuary state as of Monday.
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It forbids the new law state and local police, because this also covers local jurisdictions
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from cooperating with immigration customs enforcement.
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ICE law enforcement, local law enforcement will not have to comply with ICE.
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And local law enforcement will not be able to ask immigration status, period.
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And it prohibits, same law, they blanketed this in too, it prohibits landlords from reporting
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So if you're a landlord and you know somebody is illegal, you are forbidden from reporting
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What if you have some sort of issue or they don't pay their rent or they're, you know,
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I'd be bet that I'll, I would bet that they would claim racism somehow and try to use this
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I don't think it, it mentions that specifically in the law, but I bet you they could use it.
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The reason they put that in there about landlords, it seems kind of disconnected, even
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though it's about illegals, is the claim by illegals that over the years, landlords have
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not, uh, provided the service in their apartments that they needed, save homes, save home, fix
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things, repairs, uh, uh, constantly charge them more or whatever, because all they have
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But if you don't want them to have that power over illegals, there's another much simpler
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Also in California, as of Monday, ammunition purchases must be made in person through an
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You can purchase online still, but you gotta go pick it up.
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They must be shipped to a vendor, an authorized firearms and ammunition vendor.
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Will people still be killed with firearms in California?
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All this does is say, Hey, gun owners, it's just going to be worse for you.
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Now you're just going to have to do a lot more.
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Oh, by the way, it's going to cost you more too, because of your shipping to that licensed
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They're going to have to take a handling charge, right?
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People are no longer required to choose either male or female on their identification documents
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Yeah, there you, uh, you're no longer required.
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Transgender people will have a third option, non-binary, if you don't identify as a male
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Now, based on what other claims about gender and how we identify and 182 supposed gender
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identities and probably even more on the way, do you think there will be any tweaks to this
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So the way I understand it, you're not required to choose male or female, so you may not have
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to check the box at all, but it also said there's a third option in non-binary, meaning
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What's coming immediately is people going non-binary.
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Mine should be represented the same as male and female.
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The fact that I'm a double cis, lesbian, non-trans fat, uh, toaster oven, latte toaster oven should
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Well, so what's going to happen is there's going to have to be a whole bunch of other boxes
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added or, you know, why don't you just write what your gender is?
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And then that opens up Pandora's box because then people are going to put all kinds of crazy
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And your driver's license is going to have to be like extended onto the back.
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You think you're doing something nice and it's only going to get worse.
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Then you're going to have to add all that category.
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And then you're going to have the aliens and which alien are you?
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Uh, even like the Indiana ones I have, that's not all of them.
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Uh, diaper changing stations will be required in both men's and women's public restrooms
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Just being a, uh, a father with, uh, you know, two kids, uh, with a five month old.
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I can't tell you how many times I'm in a bad, I'm in, I'm in an establishment with my, my
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But the, the, the flip down changing stations, aren't you always kind of grossed out by them?
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I bring every, like I cover like a hazmat before I put the baby down.
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I, which we do as well, but then as you roll that back up, I'm rolling up all that funky
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Then you throw it in the wash when you get home.
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Uh, I just feel like we still have not, technology is not caught up to our needs.
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Somehow you care with you and it's disposable and you drape it over that or something.
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They call those blankets, towels, they're called bring towels, bring them with you.
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I feel like there's still some other option that we have not come up with yet.
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That's a technology I'm looking for, by the way, on our morning broadcast, the blaze radio.com.
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We always, uh, feature businesses and we give people free commercials because we're all about
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We've got some really cool stuff coming up in 2018.
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And we're also being selfish about it because we want to make money, but we offer ideas
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This might be one of those ideas, some sort of better device or thing that doesn't skeeve
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you out so much when it comes to changing kids in restaurants or other public establishments.
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It's building America at the blaze.com more laws that take effect all across the country
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starting Monday, coming up next on the Glenn Beck program.
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New law is going into effect as of Monday, January 1st, 2018.
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Connecticut has a law for ride share services like Uber and Lyft.
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Ride share services like Uber and Lyft, not the individual drivers, but the service must
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register annually with the Connecticut Department of Transportation and pay licensing fees, a
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non-refundable $50,000 in initial fee and then annual review fees of $5,000.
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Do you think it's going to stay, the annual renewal fee at $5,000?
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Do you think the initial is going to stay at $50,000 very long?
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It's just a money grab and secondarily to try to protect the local cabbies.
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Let the free market run and stay out of my wallet.
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Also in Connecticut, a new law as of Monday requires individuals and group insurance policies
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to cover medically necessary inpatient detoxification services for people diagnosed with substance
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Your insurance company must pay for your detox or my insurance company must pay for your
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So you got to pay for all the, uh, the drunk people.
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The people that are, listen, I understand addiction and it's horrible and I know it's not as easy
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I get that it's serious and it's difficult, but it doesn't mean everybody else should be
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And it's, it's like you, you got to pay for my, uh, my leg transplant or whatever it is.
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And number two, at least on that one, it started with you making a bad choice.
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At some point you made a bad choice to initially pick up that bong or drink that beer.
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Hi, it's Doc Thompson pinch hitting for Glenn on this, the last of the Glenn Beck radio programs
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I think I believe another week, a little bit, something like that.
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It's kind of a weird week since the holiday falls on Monday, New Year's day on Monday.
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A lot of people are saying, okay, I'll take Tuesday off too.
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I'll take four, get a full week plus two weekends.
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So yeah, I'll be off my regular radio broadcast a couple of days next week.
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And we're talking about new laws that go into effect with the new year.
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As of Monday, and we're just going through a handful of laws in various states.
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Parents who allow female genital mutilation to be done to their children, their daughters,
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FGM is a horribly unnecessary torture to children.
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But on the other hand of that, many people say that circumcision is the same thing.
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But what about the people who claim that's their ritual when it comes to females then?
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I'm saying, I don't think you should necessarily do it to men.
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I mean, there's arguments back and forth, the benefits and the disadvantages.
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And I don't think any of it's conclusive at this point.
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So there does seem to be a disparity between the two.
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Also in Michigan, high school coaches will have to undergo special training every three years.
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Oh, I thought you were going to say like gender awareness training.
01:13:19.760
What do you think about all of the concussion awareness with the NFL and we need, you can't hit certain ways and you got helmets and different protection.
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It's definitely an important subject because, yes, a lot of people suffer.
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The damage that is done is significant and the science proves that now.
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So I definitely think that it's the education should be out there about it.
01:13:47.500
And on the high school level, because a lot of kids play high school football and they want to make it to college and things like that.
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Somebody brought up a friend of mine a couple months ago when one of these stories came up.
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And specifically about the NFL changing rules and equipment and said, you want to fix this.
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It's not stronger equipment, more padding and helmets.
01:14:13.280
All that has done is give people the ability to hit and not have to worry about their head.
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Seemingly, they don't realize the damage is done inside, but it doesn't hurt because I got padding or whatever.
01:14:27.820
He goes, you go back to leather helmets and you'll see it go away.
01:14:38.680
Right, because who's going to who's going to hit somebody when your head is exposed that way other than so the leather is keeping the, you know, a contusion from you, you know, getting it hit on somebody's cleat or something like that.
01:14:51.520
But you're not going to go head to head because it hurts.
01:14:56.040
I wonder what the rugby statistics are for the concussion.
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I was going to say, because they wear they wear like no protection at all.
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But you don't get concussions because concussions are when your brain keeps traveling, when your head stops.
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So, OK, my head doesn't hurt when I hit it because I got padding because of the helmet.
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So I was like, maybe that would work in New York City.
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When I got married and had kids, I had to go to the suburbs or anything like that.
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In New York, employees are going to be eligible to take up to eight weeks off of paid family leave.
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You can take it off for birth of a child to take care of a close relative, a loved one, serious health condition to help a spouse, domestic partner.
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You'll be able to take eight weeks off paid leave as mandated by the state.
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You know, are you going to say, well, we got to prove that you really have a sick loved one?
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Maybe it's a mental health eight weeks off, right?
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Right, you're forcing employers that now they have to pay their employees.
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Workers to pay for this are required to pay into the state's paid family leave program.
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By 2021, it'll be 12 weeks you get to take off.
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You pay into this, but you're not taking the time off.
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So how long before you, as the worker who's paying in this every week, goes, wait a minute.
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I'm paying to do it, but I don't get the benefit.
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I'm not saying it's not needed when you have a kid.
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One of them's young, and that's nice to be able to do.
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But what that means is people are going to start saying, I want that benefit that I pay into.
01:17:55.440
If you're going to have this nonsensical plan, then you ought to just say you're free to
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Dude, that's bad because I'm going to be ticked.
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I'm going to find a way to make sure I get why.
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And this is not including your normal vacation time.
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So you get 12 weeks of time off or whatever for a personal time paid family leave, paid
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And then you've got, you know, most companies will give you two weeks on top of that.
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So I'm going to be really ticked off if I don't fit one of these conditions.
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And meanwhile, Joan chose to have seven kids over the last 12 years.
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She's gotten to take 12 weeks every time she has a kid.
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It's not fun to have a new baby, but I'm paying into it as well.
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Oh, I got a sick domestic spouse and my dog's sick.
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Which is, I think it's fair if you're paying for it.
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And if you, because some people work in New Jersey and then commute into New York to
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work, sorry, live in New Jersey and commute into New York to work.
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Because you have to pay, if you live outside of New York City, but work in New York City,
01:19:37.860
you got to pay not your own, not only your state local tax, you also got to pay New York
01:19:42.080
I'm pretty sure this is work in New York State.
01:19:45.880
They wouldn't, if you're a resident and you're working somewhere else, it wouldn't apply.
01:19:49.620
If you're, if you live in New York, but work in New Jersey, first of all, what's wrong with
01:19:57.180
So everybody who works, who lives outside of New York, which is probably majority of
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people that commute into New York City are basically having to opt into this.
01:20:12.040
Murder defendants can no longer use the gay panic defense.
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Apparently murder defendants have used, and I don't know if it was one of them that spurred
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this and people were outraged or it became common in Illinois or elsewhere, but people
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claimed, well, I murdered him because I was triggered, triggered.
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The violence was triggered when I found out he was gay.
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Well, they say you can't use it anymore and sexual orientation can't be considered
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for a provocation for any second degree murder.
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No sex, sexual orientation, even if it's not gay.
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If you've committed crimes committed at places of worship can be tried as hate crimes in Illinois.
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At first glance, at least this is consistent with hate crimes.
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So finally, crimes against Christians, like the guy who shot up the church in Texas or against
01:21:09.000
Muslims or Sikh when they go in and, okay, at least you're being consistent.
01:21:13.460
It's a hate crime because in the past they've excluded certain religions.
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But the bottom line is hate crimes are still that term, that idea, the concept is still
01:21:25.340
Motivation only matters when determining if you're guilty or potentially on some level
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But for punishment, if I were to attack your wife or children, does my motivation for doing
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it make the attack less serious to you or more serious to you?
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Yeah, yeah, I did it because you make really good guacamole and I don't like guacamole, Cal.
01:22:10.480
Other than let's try to avoid those things in the future.
01:22:14.860
Transgenders in the state of Illinois can more easily change their gender on birth certificates.
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It's now used to be if you were trans just trans transitioning and you wanted to change
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it officially on all state records, you'd have to have a doctor submit.
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I made the, I made the cuts and now they are this different gender.
01:22:38.280
Now, according to the new law, you can change if a medical or mental health professional
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confirms that of the person in question, the transgender has received, quote, clinically
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This is the identify Cal and I, although we have strong opinions about transgender and people
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And if you think trans transitioning is right, I'm not going to stand in your way.
01:23:21.820
Having said that we have strong opinions on what makes a man and what makes a woman.
01:23:26.260
Can you as a man suddenly say, I feel like a woman and therefore you're a woman.
01:23:30.340
And Cal has reluctantly said, once you have the operations, you're willing to concede
01:23:35.440
that that person has trained, has changed genders, right?
01:23:38.700
What this law says is you can officially change it on state documents in Illinois.
01:23:43.620
Once a professional said you got clinically appropriate treatment.
01:23:59.580
So there are going to be people walking around with male appendages legally identified as a
01:24:10.380
Now, we have reciprocity in America when it comes to and I've always had things like marriage.
01:24:16.200
That's what started some of the gay marriage dominoes to fall.
01:24:19.520
Once it's legal in one state, all states recognize you're married.
01:24:22.720
Does that all things like that also apply to gender?
01:24:27.500
I mean, so it says on my driver's license that I'm a male.
01:24:32.920
Driver's license are accepted by other states, right?
01:24:39.640
Well, that means on your driver's license, you are physically still a male, but you had quote
01:24:48.820
Those other states will, will this force other states to recognize that?
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If, I mean, if they have go, if they go by your ideas as, you know, factual.
01:25:02.540
Health insurance companies are barred in Illinois as of Monday from denying coverage for people
01:25:09.900
This is a, an attempt to sure up some of the parts of Obamacare, at least on the state level.
01:25:16.560
Harrison Cal, what is the problem with health insurance?
01:25:19.120
Last week on our radio broadcast in the morning, I went off on one of the biggest problems.
01:25:26.240
You can't tell what your procedure is going to cost before you go in.
01:25:33.400
I won't know until they bill me and what my insurance paid.
01:25:41.000
Shouldn't that be something we should fight for?
01:25:45.220
What they are fighting for is prices to be displayed when it comes to hair salons, barbers,
01:26:16.800
So the idea, Illinois has said, hair salons, barbers, dry cleaners, and tailors as of May,
01:26:23.520
or May, as of Monday, will be required to provide customers with a price list for services
01:26:35.020
How many people go into a barber, dry cleaner, or whatever, and go, all right, I want all
01:26:48.060
After we're done, I'll turn it over to your insurance.
01:26:51.440
They'll send you a bill, let you know whatever else you owe, what they don't cover.
01:26:59.880
They're trying to combat what they call the pink tax.
01:27:03.120
No, not the singer, not that bad progressive singer.
01:27:08.080
The pink tax is when women are charged more for services.
01:27:18.120
Yeah, first of all, to listen to their blah, blah, blah, while they're dropping off the
01:27:41.500
Or yours, where it's big, thick, full, lusterous hair that you're getting dyed and a permanent
01:27:59.500
They even have new laws governing health insurance and the health industry in Illinois as of
01:28:06.200
But they didn't think to say, let's try to promote the idea of health insurance or medical
01:28:19.080
They're going to recognize Barack Obama Day starting Monday.
01:28:24.220
His birthday is going to be Barack Obama Day in the state of Illinois.
01:28:33.340
The Department of Natural Resources in Illinois will allow, as of Monday, legally, via the
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state, designated areas in state parks for a specific purpose.
01:28:44.380
What specific purpose will they set aside an area in state parks for?
01:28:59.800
A space where people can spread cremated remains.
01:29:10.400
After a while, isn't that section of the park going to get a little dirty?
01:29:15.320
You know, kids, we were going to picnic over here, but I think maybe we go upwind.
01:29:24.620
That's going to be bad when you cut into that key lime pie.
01:29:38.360
And second of all, do you really want to dump your...
01:29:39.940
You got someone's Uncle Bob in your tuna salad.
01:29:47.240
Would you want to, if you're that driven, to spread the remains in an outdoor place,
01:29:51.780
do you really want it to be in a place where everybody else is spreading their remains?
01:29:56.100
And you think you're really going to be able to enforce that?
01:29:59.720
My wife would spread them with some progressive that's already been spread there.
01:30:29.100
New laws going into effect across the country as of Monday.
01:30:32.040
Lots of states have new minimum wage laws going into effect.
01:30:37.620
A bunch of states have said, we want a higher minimum wage.
01:30:48.320
But to the extent that we are going to have minimum wages, of course, states should be able
01:30:55.120
In fact, the federal government should leave it on states.
01:30:59.800
The federal government doesn't need involved in this.
01:31:01.780
Eighteen states are going to have a new minimum wage beginning Monday.
01:31:07.760
Eight states are inflation-adjusted, where they're going up because of previous laws that tie it to inflation.
01:31:14.880
New Jersey, Ohio, Florida, Alaska, Montana, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Missouri, all inflation-adjusted.
01:31:21.640
Other states are seeing an increase because of specific legislation.
01:31:27.260
Colorado and Hawaii, New York and Vermont, all had higher or will have higher minimum wages because of the legislature.
01:31:37.140
Rhode Island, Arizona, California, Washington, and Michigan, all going up.
01:31:56.080
If you feel like you're being taken advantage of, don't work for the company.
01:32:04.760
If enough people said, I'm not going to work for them because it's too low,
01:32:08.820
they would be forced to, if they wanted to hire people, raise the salary.
01:32:19.040
As evident by the fact that does everybody on the planet,
01:32:23.600
now let's just go to America, does everybody in America only make the minimum wage?
01:32:38.120
For example, after they passed the new tax bill,
01:32:43.840
Wells Fargo, AT&T, somebody else, I think Fifth Third Bank,
01:32:51.520
we are raising our in-house minimum wage to, I think, $15 an hour,
01:32:57.480
significantly higher than whatever their state or federal minimum wage is.
01:33:04.260
We're talking for hourly employees at the lower end who would be the ones most likely to have
01:33:14.900
Walmart, who gets a bum rap for, you know, such low wages and so on and so forth.
01:33:21.180
Walmart, for years, has had less than 1% or 2% of all of their employees making minimum wage.
01:33:28.780
And they made a commitment a year or two ago that by right about now, probably,
01:33:47.320
So there's the fallacy number one that it wouldn't happen without the law.
01:33:58.380
we need a livable wage, $15 an hour, minimum wage, $15.
01:34:11.100
Lots of these people that say that are living in places like New York City.
01:34:16.640
Even if you're working 40 hours a week, that's $600 a week.
01:34:29.680
$15 an hour times 40 hours a week times 52 weeks out of the year.
01:34:37.100
The average rent in New York is $2,000, maybe $2,500 a month.
01:34:45.160
So obviously, and remember, $15,000 they were saying was the livable wage.
01:34:51.020
At the minimum wage at the federal level, it's, what is that, $14,000 a year if you work 40 hours a week.
01:35:10.440
It's just a way for progressives to say you've got to pay more.
01:35:13.640
And then every day, they constantly say it's not enough.
01:35:17.540
We've got to amp that up, amp that up, make it higher, make it higher, make it higher.
01:35:22.120
And if minimum wage was such a good idea where it finally helps people because they cannot live making less of this, it's an insult,
01:35:29.540
then why don't we just make the minimum wage $1,000 an hour?
01:35:34.120
Because now you're just being unrealistic, Doc.
01:35:36.380
Ah, that's what I've heard from others when I suggest this.
01:35:45.960
Who's going to pay $100 an hour for a burger flipper?
01:35:49.460
So you realize at some point the company can't afford that.
01:35:52.980
But you think randomly, you can just mandate $15,000 without knowing any of these individual companies' profit margins, what the books are.
01:36:00.420
You can just go in and say, you must pay $15,000 because you think they're making enough to cover that?
01:36:09.360
Companies don't pay more and then just say, well, we're going to make less.
01:36:14.400
They have bills they have to pay and stockholders to answer to and profit margins and all kinds of things.
01:36:21.040
So they have to try to maintain that same profit margin.
01:36:24.000
They simply say, you, the employees, are going to work fewer hours.
01:36:29.880
And the work that we need done that won't get done because you're working fewer hours, we're now going to say, Cal must do double the work.
01:36:38.880
We expect more from you in the same amount of time.
01:36:41.520
They cut hours, they cut full-time employees, they cut other benefits.
01:36:51.620
If it is a good idea at $7.25 an hour based on their logic, then why not pay everybody a million dollars an hour?
01:36:59.460
Just after a few weeks, everybody's rich and all of our problems are solved.
01:37:05.800
They know it won't work that way, but somehow they believe they can do a little bit of it at the other end.
01:37:10.900
I have an example from an obvious progressive how this is a failure.
01:37:17.680
Over the week, last week, a bunch of people reporting on the new minimum wage.
01:37:21.120
And somebody sent me a story from Yahoo Finance.
01:37:26.760
Ah, the great financial brain trust that is Yahoo.
01:37:35.920
And the story is reported and then they're all talking about it.
01:37:38.480
And they have a couple of chicks there and some dude and they're talking about this.
01:37:41.420
And the main reporter, the woman, she's given a bunch of the facts and figures.
01:37:45.400
And this is like a 30-40 second clip I want you to hear.
01:37:51.800
He is also a reporter, writer there, whatever, Yahoo Finance.
01:37:56.020
And he starts defending the idea of a minimum wage and challenges the woman on her suggestion that AT&T and these other companies said they're going to pay more and give bonuses now because of the new tax law.
01:38:10.720
But I think you'll realize that he talks squarely out of his backside and contradicts himself multiple times.
01:38:20.280
Listen to his arguments based on minimum wage and then you'll realize, but wait a minute, then your other argument doesn't necessarily make sense or mean anything.
01:38:30.000
The states are taking control of this issue, which used to be kind of a federal issue.
01:38:34.440
I mean, there is still a federal minimum wage, but it's so low.
01:38:43.260
President Obama wanted to raise it up to $9.00 or $9.50.
01:38:47.460
And the Republicans don't seem likely to raise it at all.
01:38:53.480
So to the states' rights points, he sounds like he's glad states are going to, local communities,
01:38:57.740
because cities, some cities have higher minimum wages, too, that he's happy they're doing this.
01:39:02.500
Hey, they didn't get it done at the federal level.
01:39:09.900
Do you say the same thing about states' rights when it comes to other issues?
01:39:16.880
Kind of saying, well, we're just going to take care of it in our own states.
01:39:24.500
I mean, we know that depending on where you live, the cost of living could be astronomically higher
01:39:28.620
if you're in the Northeast compared to, say, somewhere in the Midwest.
01:39:31.600
I mean, I think the shift here is that the federal government is becoming a backstop.
01:39:35.900
And if there's enough political motivation in the states to do it, and in cities, cities can do this, too,
01:39:43.900
Of course, the way you want people to get ahead is not by earning minimum wage.
01:39:48.300
The way you want people to get ahead is to have more skills so they can actually demand
01:39:54.520
So you want people, minimum wage is not going to get them ahead.
01:40:06.600
By earning minimum wage, the way you want people to get ahead is to have more skills so they
01:40:14.000
And that's kind of an ongoing problem, which is a different problem.
01:40:20.100
And it's interesting to see the corporations that are now taking a stand as well.
01:40:25.680
Wells Fargo just announced that it will be raising its minimum wage to $15 for its employees.
01:40:30.180
So companies are taking it into their own hands, and many of them are crediting the tax
01:40:34.160
bill, saying that because we are saving money, we're going to be giving it back to their employees,
01:40:45.820
The companies have announced that's why they're doing it.
01:40:52.100
Okay, they've told you this is what they're doing, but you don't believe it still.
01:40:59.280
Wells Fargo just announced that it will be raising its minimum wage to $15 for its employees.
01:41:03.780
So companies are taking it into their own hands, and many of them are crediting the tax
01:41:07.760
bill, saying that because we are saving money, we're going to be giving it back to their
01:41:11.240
employees, which is a big question that we are wondering.
01:41:16.680
The reason they're doing it is for the right reason economically, which is they have to
01:41:29.720
He won't give any credit to the Republicans and the tax bill.
01:41:36.860
No, they're doing it because that's how you get better workers.
01:41:46.080
They're just taking it on their own to get better workers.
01:41:48.840
Doesn't that then show you that you don't need a minimum wage?
01:41:55.360
Hey, he just talked himself around and goes exactly against why we need a minimum wage from
01:42:07.300
The reason they're doing it is for the right reason economically, which is they have to
01:42:14.480
And we're basically getting into a labor shortage in some parts of the country and some parts
01:42:20.040
That's great news because then workers get raises for the right reason because the economy
01:42:31.040
Talked himself into a corner and realized he was being an outright hypocrite and was
01:42:37.260
going to be called because of his business like, oh, but there's still be some people
01:42:46.840
We got a labor shortage and this is going to get it done.
01:42:53.320
You believe that 725 is enough for them, right?
01:42:59.760
Okay, well, if 15 is good, isn't a million better?
01:43:07.120
You're just an over-emotional, illogical, hand-wringing progressive that will not let
01:43:15.000
free markets go because you're ultimately about control.
01:43:31.100
As of Monday, California will officially be a recreational use marijuana state.
01:43:42.200
It'll be the eighth state to have legalized marijuana for recreational purposes as of
01:43:51.600
Within five, ten years, the federal government's going to be forced to do something.
01:43:57.200
Meanwhile, cocaine and others are a Schedule II drug.
01:44:00.540
Cocaine, I mean, Schedule I is the most significant.
01:44:04.400
And it's because of the alcohol industry and these others that say they don't want to make
01:44:09.400
it legal because it's going to cut into their sales or so they think.
01:44:15.520
And you have Bob Marley's family have licensed his name and likeness for a strain of marijuana
01:44:23.980
Snoop Dogg has something, Snoop Leaf or something.
01:44:31.280
Whoopi Goldberg is lending her name and financial backing to a new line of medical marijuana products
01:44:54.920
No, it's it's that's like saying I'm going to start a pizza franchise.
01:45:12.200
Maybe this one, you know, makes you feel really emotional and.
01:45:25.600
Maybe if maybe it stops with the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
01:45:30.060
Oh, then it would be specifically designed for.
01:45:39.960
And although men don't do very many things wrong.
01:45:51.840
And don't forget, if you want to find out more about me, you can do so by going to theblazeradio.com, theblazeradio.com.
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