Off The Top with Red Kingman

How does one prepare for a major snow storm?  By purchasing everything insight!  Thats what people in Denver were doing as a  powerful winter storm moving across Colorado Friday has dumped more than a foot of snow in some areas.

The storm has prompted a blizzard warning for the northeast, forced flight cancellations and school closures, and calls from highway officials to slow down on icy roadways.

National Weather Service meteorologist Bob Kleyla says the snow began falling Thursday night and by 3:30 a.m. MST Friday, six inches had fallen on downtown Denver, more in suburban areas and up to 15 inches in the foothills west of the city.

I'm sure glad that we here in Michigan have been having a mild winter so far.  No hording of Froot Loops for us!  

                Susan G. Komen For the Cure founding chairwoman Nancy Brinker.

The Susan G. Komen Foundation, which recently announced that it is ending grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening because of a controversial investigation launched by an anti-abortion Republican congressman, currently funds cancer research at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center to the tune of $7.5 million.

Like Planned Parenthood, Penn State is currently the subject of a federal government investigation, and like the Planned Parenthood grant, the Penn State grant appears to violate a new internal rule at Komen that bans grants to organizations that are under investigation by federal, state, or local governments. But so far, only the Planned Parenthood grants appear to have been cancelled.

So why cancel grants to one and not the other?  Couldit be because PP also provides abortions where Penn State does not?  Why do you think?

UPDATE:  The foundation has reversed their decision.  I wonder why?

What is the coin of the realm in a country filled with sanctimonious liberals like Michael Moore, Matt Damon and Jay Z? Find out as Bill Whittle talks about the unearned moral superiority of American liberals, and their demands to redistribute American wealth.

Here is Afterburner host Bill Whittle as he explains the hipocracy...

What are your thoughts?

There's a new segment that debuted in Reds Place, the WHTC morning show on January 25th 2012 called Africa's Child.  It features Rob Murphy who along with his wife run the Africa's Child thrift store which is dedicated to raising money for missions to Africa to help African children in dire need due to disease, war, or whatever.  All the money they make at the thrift store goes to support their efforts. Here Red introduces the listers friends to Rob and his mission.  

Those were the words of CBS correspondent Harley Carnes from his expose on February 2, 2012 that again looks into President barack Hussein Obama's citizenship.  Except that he has added a new twist that hasn't been talked about too much in the left-wing media.

Listen to his report and try and refute his findings that Obama's Father was NOT an American citizen. The fact finding website SNOPES.com says on the subject:

Although his Mother was herself a natural-born US citizen, his Father was a Kenyan national and his parents may or may not have been legally married in the eyes of  U.S. law. Moreover, his parents split up when he was but a toddler, and his Mother soon afterwards married another foreign national and moved to Indonesia.

The item quoted above posits that Barack Obama does not qualify as a natural-born citizen of the U.S. because the law in effect at the time he was born specified that "if only one parent was a U.S. citizen at the time of your birth, that  parent must have resided in the United States for at least ten years, at least five of which had to be after the age of 16." Since Obama had only one U.S. citizen parent(his Mother), and his Mother had not been residing in the U.S. for at least five years after the age of 16 when Barack was born(because she herself was only 18 at the time)    

Then consider the President's SSN.  Where did it come from?  Are their improprieties?  An independent investigator Susan Daniels of Ohio seems to think so.  

What she and fellow investigator Neil Sankey unearthed was a nugget that could have ended the career of a George Bush or a Sarah Palin: Barack Obama had been using a Social Security number issued in Connecticut between 1977 and 1979, a state in which he never lived or even visited at that time in his life.

Read more about her findings here.  

So here are my questions: 1) Why won't the President release his school documents?  2) How did he obtain his Conn. SSN when he never lived there?  3)  Why Obama won't answer his critics on the various controversies swirling around his background.  And if it is determined that he is NOT eligible to be President would you want him to step down, or, just finish out his term, or, reelect him?

In this episode Diane and Red ramble on about race.  February 1 marks beginning of Black History month and raised a few questions from Diane asked of Red who is an American of Negro heritage.  

Diane gets Reds take on the holiday and what it means to him...Among other questions she asked him if he thought that Black History month helped or hurt Black Americans?  And they took a couple of calls that are a true reflection of both sides of the Black History month coin from a Caucasian perspective.  Let me know how you feel about the holiday, and be honest won't you?

Why is controversy swirling around NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg's announcement that there won't be any welcome home parade for Iraq War Vets?  Doesn't he want to honor those who stood in harms way on his behalf?

The mayor said on his Friday appearance on WOR Radio officials in Washington "think a parade would be premature while we still have so many troops in harm's way around the world."

Bloomberg says Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Martin Dempsey and other Army officials "made it clear" to the city "they do not think a parade is appropriate now."

A Pentagon spokesman in December said the nation's largest city had yet to make a formal proposal for a parade. He said officials were grateful communities were finding ways to recognize the sacrifices of troops and their families.  St. Louis held a parade for the Iraq Veterans..why not NYC?

So which is it, Mayor Bloomberg saying no, or, the Military?  And why the different accounts of the situation?  What is your opinion?

Once again global warming is coming under fire and this time it's from NASA scientists. Can they be believed?

David Rose from the dailymail.com.uk writes that the supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years.

The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century.

Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. It confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997.

We are now at what should be the peak of what scientists call ‘Cycle 24’ – which is why last week’s solar storm resulted in sightings of the aurora borealis further south than usual. But sunspot numbers are running at less than half those seen during cycle peaks in the 20th Century.

Analysis by experts at NASA and the University of Arizona – derived from magnetic-field measurements 120,000 miles beneath the sun’s surface – suggest that Cycle 25, whose peak is due in 2022, will be a great deal weaker still. 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2093264/Forget-global-warming--Cycle-25-need-worry-NASA-scientists-right-Thames-freezing-again.html#ixzz1kwkdmXbf

Last night (1-29-12) I watched a little of the Screen Actors Guild awards on television live from the Shrine exposition Center in Los Angeles.  It was actually a pretty good show from what I saw mostly because there was no master of ceremonies or host.  There was a looseness and playfulness that permeated the atmosphere at the Center--maybe because it was a room full of people who love to perform, without the rigidity of one single host to lead them.

At any rate the Screen Actors Guild Awards featured some unexpected winners, including "The Help" for best overall cast performance and Jean Dujardin for best actor in "The Artist" alongside some of the longtime favorites in movies and television.  

Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer continued to cement their front-runner status in the actress and supporting actress categories, respectively, for their formidable work in "The Help." Both women play black maids in 1960s Mississippi who dare to go public about the bigotry they've endured.

"I just have to say that the stain of racism and sexism is not just for people of color or women. It's all of our burden, all of us," Davis said, accepting the ensemble prize on behalf of her "The Help" co-stars.

In September of 2011 I had the pleasure of interviewing Octavia Spencer about her role in the movie "The Help" where we talked about her award winning performance and her reflections on the making of "The Help".  Listen to it again here and leave your thoughts on the interview and on the movie "The Help".

There has been a lot of talk about the latest Liam Neeson movie called "The Grey".  When I first saw the trailor I thought "there's no way that I want to see another movie about men in the woods battling wolves.  From what I understood this story line is the reverse of 1991's "White Fang" and more like the opening stanza of Mr. London's classic “White Fang” details the struggle of two frontiersmen against a hungry pack of wolves, using some of the same savage imagery that confronts “The Grey” starLiam Neeson in the movie.

Now I have a completely different take on the flick after I paid attention to the trailor a little closer and now I understand the story line much better.

In The Grey, Liam Neeson leads an unruly group of oil-rig roughnecks when their plane crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness. Battling mortal injuries and merciless weather, the survivors have only a few days to escape the icy elements - and a vicious pack of rogue wolves on the hunt - before their time runs out.  In the movie Neeson's job is to protect the riggers FROM wolves using high powered rifles.  Unfortunately after the crash all they had were sticks and stones.  

I definitely want to see THIS movie ASAP.  Another good one is "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

The following micro-documentary produced by SGT Report: The Corporate Propaganda Antidote gives us yet another insightful look at what may really be going on behind the scenes.

Well, is there something afoot, or, is this just another conspiracy theory?

Here from the Cato Institute is their analysis of the President's State of the Union Address January 2012.  

Let's see if you agree with their assessment.  Conservatives yes, liberals no?