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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Friday  4 March 2016 / Hour 1, Block A:  Daniel Henninger, WSJ WONDER LAND, in re: It's Time for the Speech   C-PAC had so many opposing Trump and booing references to him that his campaign decided he couldn't dare to speak there on Saturday morning.  . .  .  “A Time for Choosing,” R Reagan, 1964 – his half-hour speech that laid out  clearly the travails of the nation at that moment and what he offered as resolution.  Messrs Rubio or Cruz – or even Trump or Kasich – could, were  they able, could deliver such a speech now and calm the national alarm while [much improving] the public notion of the GOP.
Friday  4 March 2016 / Hour 1, Block B:  Gene Countryman, Gene Countryman Show, KNSS Kansas, in re: Here's what you need to know before the Kansas caucus  Republicans will caucus at 103 sites Saturday, including one set up at a St. Louis hotel to accommodate Wichita State University basketball ... / Kansas Caucus locations / Kansas Caucus is just a day away / Saturday Kansas caucuses: answers to frequently asked questions  /  Campaign 2016: How Kansas caucuses works
Friday  4 March 2016 / Hour 1, Block C:  Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, in re: refugees in the US? Not yet.  Statue of Liberty?  - shall we return it to France?
 
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It’s Time for The Speech Like JFK, Nixon and Obama, the moment is now for a big, campaign-saving speech. Readers who have spent a lifetime absorbing the melodramas of America’s presidential election politics, such as this one, will recognize instantly what I am proposing here. It is time for Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz to deliver The Speech—or lose. Lose the campaign, the party, the Supreme Court and an already diminished country’s next four years.  Ronald Reagan giving his 1964 speech ‘A Time for Choosing’ on behalf of GOP presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. “The Speech” is the title history has conferred on Ronald Reagan’s 1964 speech called “A Time for Choosing.”  Reagan delivered the speech in October 1964 on behalf of the foundering presidential campaign of the Republican Party’s nominee, Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Goldwater suffered a historic loss to President Lyndon Johnson, but the televised, roughly 30-minute speech, launched Reagan’s political career. It was an electrifying—and accessible—definition of conservatism in America’s politics then.  An understanding of when the moment has arrived to give The Speech requires naming three other masterpieces of the art: Sen. John F. Kennedy’s address in 1960 about his Catholicism to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association two months before the election; Sen. Richard Nixon’s 1952 Checkers speech, also less than two months before the election; and Sen. Barack Obama’s speech on race, “A More Perfect Union,” in March 2008.  Their purpose: to rescue a campaign on the brink of dying for reasons seemingly beyond the candidate’s ability to control. All these speeches accomplished what no one thought possible. They overcame an enormous political obstacle, reversed the candidate’s fortunes and reopened a path to victory.  The political obstacle now is Donald Trump and a roiling base of support for Mr. Trump—revealed again in Super Tuesday’s results as about 35% of those voting. The Trump candidacy is . . .
Ronald Reagan giving his 1964 speech ‘A Time for Choosing’ on behalf of GOP presidential nominee Barry Goldwater.
Friday  4 March 2016 / Hour 1, Block D:  Mark Greaney, in re: Back Blast, A Gray Man novel (published by Berkley)
 
Hour Two
Friday  4 March 2016 / Hour 2, Block A:  Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re: The U.S. just sent a carrier strike group to confront China  A carrier strike group and the 7th Fleet flagship have sailed into the South China Sea in a massive show of force. ... The carrier John C. Stennis, two destroyers, two cruisers ... /  US Navy deploys small armada headed by USS Stennis to South China Sea / Navy aircraft carrier group moves into contested South China Sea  (1 of 2)
Friday  4 March 2016 / Hour 2, Block B:   Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re:  Russian MoD Accuses Turkey of Ongoing Hostilities in Syria's Aleppo, Idlib  "Truck convoys with materiel and weaponry cross the border from Turkey to Syria round the ... / PressTV-'Syria militants get arms daily via Turkey' / Syria divisions aside, Turkey eyes closer ties with Iran (2 of 2)
Friday  4 March 2016 / Hour 2, Block C:   Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs, in re: Russian MoD Accuses Turkey of Ongoing Hostilities in Syria's Aleppo, Idlib / "Truck convoys with materiel and weaponry cross the border from Turkey to Syria round the ... / PressTV-'Syria militants get arms daily via Turkey' ; Syria divisions aside, Turkey eyes closer ties with Iran
Friday  4 March 2016 / Hour 2, Block D:  Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs, in re:  Dispute Over Kurds Threatens US-Turkey Alliance  Escalating tensions between Turkey and the United States, which now jeopardize their alliance in the Syria conflict, can be traced to the Kurds, ... / Turkey at odds with Russia and now the US on Syria / Turkey violence: 'PKK attack' kills two police officers - BBC News  Violence has intensified in Turkey since a ceasefire between the government and the PKK ... /  After Ankara bombing, questions over PKK-TAK ties resurface / Two officers killed, 35 wounded in massive car bomb attack - CRIME
 
Hour Three
Friday  4 March 2016 / Hour 3, Block A:  Gene Marks, Washington Post, in re:  http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/04/us-nonfarm-payrolls-totaled-242k-in-feb-vs-190k-estimate.html  /  Amid fears that the U.S. could be joining a global slowdown, the economy added a better-than-expected 242,000 jobs in February while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.9 percent. Economists were expecting 190,000 new positions and no change in the jobless figure.
Despite the strong headline number, the closely watched average hourly wages actually declined for the month, falling 3 cents and equating to a 2.2 percent annualized jump, down from 2.5 percent in January. Fed policymakers are looking at wages for evidence of inflation. The average hourly work week also declined 0.2 hours to 34.4.
The bulk of the job gains came from health care, retail and bars and restaurants, which added 57,000, 55,000 and 40,000 new positions, respectively. Construction added 19,000 but mining-related industries lost 19,000 jobs.
Job quality was titled toward part time, which the household survey indicated grew by 489,000, while full-time positions increased by just 65,000.
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/03/04/economists-react-to-the-februa...
“The February employment report was a mixed bag. While the results will not accelerate the timetable for Fed action forward, they show that concerns over recession are overblown and it is premature to conclude the Fed will not hike again this year. The headline payroll gain was strong, with 242,000 jobs added in the month (net upward revisions over the prior two months totaled 30,000). However, the work . . .
“This report shows more people going to work, but no burgeoning inflation. While the headline numbers in the report are important, many Americans are most eager for better pay gains…Some slack remains in the job market. With 242,000 jobs added to payrolls, employers added more than twice the number needed to absorb growth in the workforce or population, meaning births and immigration. Remember, the U.S. economy is sailing in rough waters made so by the strong dollar and weak demand abroad.” —Mark Hamrick, Bankrate.com
U.S. small business borrowing at lowest level since 2014: PayNet http://reut.rs/1oLzcEc
Here’s the biggest issue on the minds of small businesses this Super Tuesday http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2016/02/19/what-nevada-s-c-small-businesses-have-in-common.html
5 huge challenges facing small business voters right now: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/2016/01/25/gene-marks-five-reasons-why-2016-will-be-a-challenging-year-for-your-business/
President Obama gets a "C" on small business - how will this affect the Democrats?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/2015/11/16/gene-marks-president-obamas-small-business-scorecard/
Why Trump's tax plan is better for my small business https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/2015/09/29/gene-marks-why-trumps-tax-plan-is-better-for-my-small-business/
5 ways a Trump presidency would affect your business and mine
http://www.inc.com/gene-marks/five-ways-a-trump-presidency-would-affect-your-business-and-mine.html
Why is Hillary getting killed so far? http://www.inc.com/gene-marks/why-is-hillary-getting-killed-so-far.html
Why Hillary could be a good president for small business. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/2015/10/22/gene-marks-why-hillary-clinton-could-be-your-small-business-president/
Why would a sane businessperson vote for Sanders?  OK, here's why. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/2016/01/27/gene-marks-why-would-a-sane-business-person-vote-for-bernie-sanders-heres-why/ (1 of 2)
Friday  4 March 2016 / Hour 3, Block B:  Gene Marks, Washington Post (2 of 2) 
Friday  4 March 2016 / Hour 3, Block C: Joe McGregor, Science Magazine, in re: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6273/590.short / Holocene deceleration of the Greenland Ice Sheet, Science  05 Feb 2016: Vol. 351, Issue 6273, pp. 590-593 /  Keeping a stiff upper layer.  The interior of the Greenland Ice Sheet is growing thicker, in contrast to the thinning that is occurring at its edges. Why? MacGregor et al. conclude that more snow is accumulating and that the ice in the interior is flowing more slowly than it did thousands of years ago (see the Perspective by Hvidberg). During the last glacial period, higher rates of atmospheric dust deposition produced softer ice, which flowed more readily than cleaner ice. During most of the Holocene, though, atmospheric dust concentrations were lower, and the less-dusty ice that formed was stiffer, meaning it did not flow or thin so rapidly. Thus, the thickening seen today in the central regions of Greenland is partly a response to changes in ice rheology that occurred thousands of years ago.
Abstract: Recent peripheral thinning of the Greenland Ice Sheet is partly offset by interior thickening and is overprinted on its poorly constrained Holocene evolution. On the basis of the ice sheet’s radiostratigraphy, ice flow in its interior is slower now than the average speed over the past nine millennia. Generally higher Holocene accumulation rates relative to modern estimates can only partially explain this millennial-scale deceleration. The ice sheet’s dynamic response to the decreasing proportion of softer ice from the last glacial period and the deglacial collapse of the ice bridge across Nares Strait also contributed to this pattern. Thus, recent interior thickening of the Greenland Ice Sheet is partly an ongoing dynamic response to the last deglaciation that is large enough to affect interpretation of its mass balance from altimetry. (1 of 2)
Friday  4 March 2016 / Hour 3, Block D:   Joe McGregor, Science Magazine (2 of 2)
 
Hour Four
Friday  4 March 2016 / Hour 4, Block A:   Robert E. Michael, Esq., Robert E. Michael & Associates PLLC; Chair, Committee on Middle Eastern and North African Affairs, New York City Bar Association; in re:  ISIS AND ISLAM (1 of 4)
What Are Islamic Law and Shari’a?
I. Sources of Islamic Law
The Quran
- Unquestionably the highest source of all laws, rules and modes of conduct for all Moslems.
- Revealed orally to the Prophet Mohamed by the Archangel Gabriel in private appearances from 610 to 632 A.D.
-  By its terms, the second amendment that corrects and amplifies both the Jewish Bible and the New Testament,
which is then the first such amendment. As a result, Jews and Christians have elevated status as “People of the Book.”
-  Two main parts: the Meccan Suras ( 610-622 A.D.) and the Medinan Suras (622-632), based on time living in each city by Mohamed in his original home city (Mecca) and then after he sought refuge in Medina (literally just means “City” after Madinat Al-Nabi, City of the Prophet).
- Dispute between ‘Creationists’ – who believed it was similar to the Jewish and Christian Bibles in that it was divinely inspired but only the literal Word of God when it specifically said so – and ‘Revelationists’ – who believed that every word was the literal Word of God – won by Revelationists in late 9th early 10th century, making every word the literal Word of God.
- Concept of ‘negation’ to solve inconsistencies.
Friday  4 March 2016 / Hour 4, Block B:  Robert E. Michael, Esq., Robert E. Michael & Associates PLLC; Chair, Committee on Middle Eastern and North African Affairs, New York City Bar Association; in re:  ISIS AND ISLAM (2 of 4)
- Classical Islamic law or true traditional Shari’a is not the law in ANY country, and has not been since at least Colonial times. Even where it is their organic law that all law is based upon Shari’a, such as in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran, the law today is an amalgam of classical Islamic law and modern Western-inspired laws based upon, usually, either UK/US common law or French or German civil law. These hybrid systems also involve aspects of modern international law, often from multilateral treaties and conventions like the WTO and TRIPS.
- There is no bright line separating religious, ecclesiastical, family, interpersonal, commercial or penal law, and underlying all is a contract, whether between individuals or with God.
- Social justice and fairness is required to be an element in all dealings, both family and commercial.
- One aspect of that is in its anti-capitalist elements, such as the lack of concepts for the time or risk value of money, speculation, limited liability or almost all forms of intangible rights and assets – and the rule that you cannot finance what you are not permitted to do yourself.
- On the other hand, there are strong anti-Socialist elements as well: profit and personal, not communal, ownership of tangible assets are strongly supported.
- As noted above, among the Sunni there is no hierarchy; nor has there EVER been, since the time of the Prophet, a Caesaropapist ruler or single legislative or judicial body competent to set or adjudicate definitively the law or rules for all Moslems.
- Apostasy is a capital crime; those who believe that either the Shi’a or the Sunni are heretics may
also believe them guilty of apostasy.
Friday  4 March 2016 / Hour 4, Block C: Robert E. Michael, Esq., Robert E. Michael & Associates PLLC; Chair, Committee on Middle Eastern and North African Affairs, New York City Bar Association; in re:  ISIS AND ISLAM (3 of 4)
Friday  4 March 2016 / Hour 4, Block D:   Robert E. Michael, Esq., Robert E. Michael & Associates PLLC; Chair, Committee on Middle Eastern and North African Affairs, New York City Bar Association; in re:  ISIS AND ISLAM (4 of 4)
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