On Demand - Show Highlights 02-17-25

in our building where he can accept us. We're the We're it, you know, we just we're just always here. And it said Chiley start of the morning. When I walked out of the garage this morning, the wind still hadn't died down at the house. Is it just me or it seemed like we've been awfully breezy this winter more so than usual. I've had more days of higher wind gus do we We had that yesterday and certainly whipped up yesterday morning early, Yes, it did that thing

blew on through it. Now. Of course the forecast was going to be a wash out of weekend. Didn't get much of that action. And uh, if you're curious about, well, what's coming this week A colder rare. Yes, by the time we hit Wednesday, the high will be low forties and that's the day when we get rain coming in here. Will it be rain or something else? Still, the possibility of a wintry mixed but any winterry mix looks like

it's at least for the Midlands. Will be the Northern Midlands county, so you have to be aware of that. But everybody else Columbia area, Lexington area South not looking anything but a cold rain. They tell us, well, they could get maybe a couple of inches of snow up in places like Charlotte out of this system, but it looks like Central Midlands just cold, cold rain. But yeah, we're getting ready to get our tenth and coldest polar

of vortex this winter here across the country. It has been a cold one, it has been, and some power outgis yesterday when the system moved through here yesterday morning. This is a system. By the way, they left nine people dead in Kentucky with the massive flooding there. So yeah, we have had some serious weather events earthquakes. They're back to Elgin with a magnitude two point zero that happened

about seven forty five Saturday morning. Okay, I'm kind of used to all that run down big stories, hot topics. I almost don't even bother to mention this because it seems like it just is the story that never ends. Now, more than two years after a judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit that was brought by a Midlands school board member, I'm going to give you two guesses as to who it is. Yeah, if you guessed Ken Lovelace, you were correct. A lawsuit that was brought against a constituent who ran

a Facebook page that was critical of the board member. Well, now he wants that lawsuit and revived traffic around here. Yeah, pretty bad. How does it rank though, when it comes to traffic congestion across the country, well, number one twenty one. Huh, we're like the as far as a media market is concerned, We're in like in the nineties or like number ninety two, ninety three or so. So maybe it's not quite as

bad as we thought it would be. The city of Columbia, based on a worldwide ranking, is at number six thirteen out of more than nine hundred cities. So uh. You know, everybody's got their own definition of bad, right right, A lot worse than a lot of the place.

out and back into the States. That's the whole idea, right, whole idea. The State Department set to designate cartels as terrorist groups for total elimination, and somehow this upsets the Mexican president somehow. I'm not really sure how it is. Tom Holman upset with AOC AOC Comrade Cortes may be in some trouble for advising illegals how to deal with ice. Homan calling for an investigation into the New York City Congresswoman, We'll have more doge fun and frivolity to pass along today. Man,

they are uncovering stuff, and quickly too. Latest is HUD Housing and Urban Development HUD Secretary of Scott Turner announcing late last week that well, they've found to nearly two billion dollars in HUD money that had been recovered as of Friday. These were funds those says, were misplaced during the Biden administration. A lot of money was misplaced during

the Biden administration. We'll have some more examples coming your way today, and more layoffs probationary workers in the federal government, including the IRS, who will lay off thousands of probationary workers right here in the middle of tax season. Not clear how many will be affected, but the IRS wanted a big hiring freeze under the Biden administration. Some of

those jobs aren't going to make it. Fortunately, this was another potential tragedy Averted, an Indiana teenager who cops say identifies as transgender, planned a school shooting, one inspired by the killer behind the Parkland massacre, Trinity Shockley, an eighteen year old arrested last week. Partland Part two said this

transgender team claimed they've been planning it for a year. Fortunately, somebody who was aware of this person and maybe their intent drop a dime on him, slash her or slash whatever. This popped up during the pandemic, and it's still a problem. High prices for used cars. Wall Street Journal with why there's no relief ahead when it comes to used cars and their prices. You had a thought we've been past that by now, but no we're not. And hey, here

here to this the Trump administration. This was last week too. We didn't get around to it as let's call it official now ended the Biden era War on American appliances. Lee Zelden, the Secretary of the EPA, now has been directed to start reversing water standard regulations on sayings dish washer, showers and washing machines. Thank you, of course, you know, none big, no bigger news last week than the whole

paper straw thing. Let's get rid of those please that more coming up on this the President's Day, Monday edition of Columbia's Morning News. Good to have you on board. We appreciate that your morning news. Getting ready for work.

on EMPs. He sat down with Fox News Digital in an interview designed to tell us all how we can prepare for the existential threat that an EMP attack opposes. I'm not sure there's any way we as individuals can prepare for that, but we've talked about this before. You are probably aware of the potential an EMP attack has.

He cited congressional reports from two thousand and two and two thousand and eight saying that eighty to ninety percent of Americans would be dead a year later if an EMP s occurred, eighty to ninety percent of us would die within a year. Again, if you're not familiar with what this is, it's the detonation of a device in the atmosphere that just messes with anything, electrical power grids, anything. A guy that a Peter Pry, who is a nuclear

weapons expert. He passed away a few years ago. He was the former staff director at the Congressional EMP Commission. He warned a couple of years ago before his death at Kim Jong Yun's lunch of a launch that is of ballistic missiles were a test of North Korea's EMP capabilities against US, cars would be paralyzed, airplane could follow the sky. You'd have natural gas pipe one explosions, nuclear

reactor overloads, and worst of all, a protracted blackout. We had a hard enough time around here back when Helene came through and we lost power. Some folks lost it. I think we had. I think we were out of the house for maybe twelve hours. Others were out for twelve days or more and em P the power would not come back on. So here's my point in bringing

it up this morning. During the first Trump term, back in twenty twenty, Trump issued a study with the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, and in the last few days the Trump White House is again talking about it. Now a few weeks back, you know, Trump started talking about an iron dome similar to what Israel has, and of course you think, oh, that's to deflect missile attacks, which yes it is, but maybe more

importantly it's to deflect something like this. Again, here's the point I'm bringing this up. What has happened since twenty twenty when Trump issued these studies to be done, and today, five years later, has anything been done on this or are we still just in the well we'll take a look at it stage. Was there any movement under the Biden administration to try to keep something like this from happening or not? I sure hope so. I hope so too.

In addition, in the interview, forced to argue that our electrical grid needs to be updated for the twenty first century. It's scary to realize that almost all of our electricity is pumped out of systems that are thirty even forty years old, and that our grid is a desperate need of investment and modernization. Yeah. I hope that something over the course of the last five years since Trump first issued these studies has been done. Is it going to

take an iron dome kind of thing? And an iron dome, well, you know, we've got the technology to do it. The Israelis have the blueprint for it. But still it's not something you can just say we're gonna put up an iron dome and boom, We've got an iron dome. It's going to take a bet. Trump has ordered the construction of it, but even back through the campaign he mentioned by the next term, we'll build a great iron dome over our country, meaning his term if he were to win,

and he did. But the question is how long will it take to construct such a dome and will it be effective against something like an EMP attack. You want to kind of get an idea of what that would look like, Well, just again, look up to the mountains of North Carolina and see what people are still going through up there, what they still don't have access to.

Imagine that spread all across the entire country. And you know what, you know why eighty to ninety percent of us would die within a year of one Well, because we turn on ourselves.

cold rain. So it appears to be right now, but what's the highwayesday? The high temperature is forty two, So you talk about the cold rain home and again this is this is always the chance that just could move a little bit further south. I mean, so that's a possibility, but it doesn't look likely right now. So yeah, you know, if you're up around you know, the northern Midlands counties, Fairfield County, Newberry County and certainly as you head more

towards the upstate and up towards the shard area. You have a potential for some wind remix, So FYI keep that in mind, my friends.

is a Lensky is not convinced. You know. There they started talking, you know, potential ceasefire and the Russian Ukrainian war here, that the US will have talks with the Russians on bringing this to an end. Okay, that's all right. You know that ain't gonna happen anytime soon. But the point is is, we never heard of any discussions like this when Joe Biden was in office. How is it? And this this the the you know, as much as we knew that nothing was getting done under the prior administration.

If nothing else, the last four weeks has just put a big old spotlight on that. And not to say that a lot has gotten done, well, avoidn't for the courts and you know, activist judges, maybe a lot would have gotten done. But still, just the idea that there's so much in the works really again highlights the fact that under the Biden White House they were asleep at the wheelman. Either that they just had no ideas. I don't know what well, well we know what kind of

ideas they had. They weren't good ones for this country. Well. Now, latest here the CEO of Nissan suggesting now that the idea of Trump's reciprocal tariffs could force them to shift their production outside of Mexico, from Mexico to the US. The CEO says, we're exporting a significant number of cars this fiscal year. That number, by the way, some three hundred and twenty thousand, and if the high tariffs are imposed, we need to be ready for this and maybe we

can transfer the production of these models elsewhere. If this decision, if this were the decision, and we're monitoring the situation, now, okay, this is what Trump said, Hey, listen, if you're a business, you want to avoid these tariffs, that's simple, build your stuff here. Oh you can't do that. Oh woe for the American consumer and the higher prices are going to pay. Again,

let's just look at the recent history here. When Trump threatens something, you know, typically he gets a positive response. Typically we've seen it with illegal immigration. You know, even even folks out there like Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela sending planes up here. Yep, load them up, we'll bring them back. Same thing with the tariff thing. And this is what we've talked about. Okay, everybody's gonna freak out, the Democrats in particular of course in the mainstream media'na all gonna

freak out. But you know, the other day last week, when Trump then finally came out and officially announced what he had alluded to on Super Bowl Sunday, the reciprocal tariffs, did you notice the Wall Street just kind of not only did Wall Street not even shrug, they came close to setting record highs that day. Why, because you know, when it comes to this sort of thing, maybe the countries that we're talking about here don't get it and don't want to cooperate but the businesses doing the business

in those countries, they get it. Business is business, right. It's not as though what Trump and what the United States now is trying to do is to rip off other countries and put them in some sort of economic jeopardy. This is a situation. Well, remember, these are reciprocal tariffs. This is not a tariff imposed by Trump on some country that has been not imposing tariffs on us. And what is wrong with that? So yeah, I mean, yeah, I get it. Trust me. It's hard to keep up

with all this. But what we're seeing big movement in already here is on this on the economic front when it comes to international trade. We're seeing big movement on the immigration front, when it comes to more and more countries who claimed they wouldn't cooperate now saying they will. And oh, by the way, more and more blue city mayors who claimed they wouldn't cooperate are now well, okay, yeah, I guess with the exception of that nut job mayor

in Chicago, I don't know that dude's number is. But now you go to other places, even the mayor in Denver, who's yeah, well, even the governor of Michigan, and well, by the way, don't count AOC amongst those, not that she has any say so, but she may find herself in some hot water because now Tom Holman is looking at her for having given advice to illegals on how to dodge ice stay class at AOC. Just keep it up,

keep it up. Oh, by the way, since we're on that topic, San Diego, the migrant shelter there now is closed. There haven't been any new arrivals in that migrant shelter in San Diego since Trump took office a month ago. None. That's going to be a welcome relief for them, don't you know it. Huh? And their budget and their budget, Oh yes, they and their budget, all right, So things are happening, and much more will. So we get these

activist judges out of the way. Celebrities who know not a darn thing other than you know, singing and dancing on stage.

Von Martin Morrison who was arrested and accused back in November of murdering a twenty year old. His charges were murder and tampering with physical evidence. His bond was set at eight hundred thousand dollars, but here in the last few days that bond was dropped to one hundred dollars for each charge, reason being there's no good reason being here, So one hundred dollars bond for allegedly murdering a twenty year old and one hundred dollars bond for tampering with

physical evidence. Oh yes, he'll have to wear a GPS monitor. You'll have to stay at her house, arrest and not contact the family of the victim or any potential witnesses. Wow an eight hundred thousand dollars bond reduced to two hundred bucks. Needless to say, the president of the Austin Police Association is beside himself over this, as is the

governor of Texas. The Police Association president said, this is not the first time that judges and magistrates in Travis County have drastically reduced bonds for a person accused of murder or sexual assault. It's not exclusive to one judge, says, it happens all the time in different courtrooms in this county. Governor Abbott outraged. There is an emergency bail reform bill going through the Texas State House, and well, cases like this will probably make sure it actually happens. But it's

not just happening in places like Texas. Does it happen here in South Carolina? Well, yeah it does. We've seen it before. Now, this particular case doesn't involve murder, but if you read fits news every now and then, you may well know the story of Bowen Turner. Bowen Turner is now twenty two years old, and he's got quite the criminal record. He was arrested last week for violating terms of his conditional release and for failing a drug

test that he was administered earlier this month. His most recent arrest occurred after he was alleged to have been drinking to it excess at a golf club. Sources indicate he's been observed publicly consuming alcohol at this same golf club multiple times this year alone. This is the guy Boen Turner who has been charged as a miner. He's kept his nose cleaned for the last couple of years, but charged as a miner with three different rapes in

three different counties in South Carolina. And somehow he's continually able to just walk the streets.

stay on the registry, young man. He's twenty two years old and already accused of raping three different girls in this example, in three different counties here in South Carolina, and dude is still not only walking the streets but getting drunk at a golf club, apparently on multiple occasions according to sources. Yeah, it does happen here in South Carolina. It happens all the time. Unfortunately. So the question these judges, whose side are you on anyway? And who are they doing a favor? Two?

time dude is let out again. There is no explanation, rational or otherwise for that to happen, but it's happened right here in South Carolina.

don't know. We've given up on the idea totally of ever reducing the national debt. I mean, we've done it before, we've we've had it. It wasn't that terribly long ago historically speaking, where we didn't run a national debt, what mean thirty seven some odd trillion dollars now, give or take a few trill thirty thirty six trillion. Thirty six trillion.

Housing and Urban Development. Scott Turner, the new secretary there, announcing late last week one point nine billion dollar dollars in HUD money had been recovered as a Friday, and Turner is saying the funds were misplaced during the Biden administration and were earmarked for the administration of Financial Services but were no longer needed. Misplaced, how many funds were misplaced? And we were what were we talking about last week?

So I can't remember which agency it was now, but that billions had been put into banks, Money had been put into banks to sit there, obviously, money that didn't really need to be spent. Your your opinion was, yeah, they probably Democrats were kind of, you know, just harboring this money over there for a while so they could get back in power. Get it, get it back out.

What is that money for? So HUD the latest and Turner saying during his announcement that they'll get their own task force over their HUD, their own DOGE task force. They'd already identified over two hundred and sixty million savings. But yeah, the bigger number was the one point nine

billion that was misplaced during the Biden administration. Well yeah, what about the Pentagon though, huh so if you brought that up too, the sacred cow for Republicans, Well, Pete Hagsath is committed to cooperative with DOGE to cut wasteful spending a DoD and we know it exists. I'm gonna tell you heard the story of the ridiculous amounts of money that the government spends on things like, oh, I don't know, a sink for an airplane, it's a toilet.

It's just it's ludicrous. So one point nine billion for HUD, EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency fighting twenty billion dollars they say we're being wasted during the Biden administration. Twenty billion dollars. We talked about that last week. FEMA, well we talked about this too. The fifty nine million dollars they were getting ready to hand over to New York City hotels for housing illegals, the luxury hotels that is, I mean, a motel six isn't good enough for an illegal, You

got to put up in the ritz Carlton. Well, most of that money they say it was was was was pulled off and not going over there. But a New York City Hall spokesperson says of that fifty nine million given, nineteen million was for direct hotel costs, the rest for food and security. Okay, how many immigrants were being housed in these hotels to where forty million dollars was for food in security.

what about a year ago under the Biden administration. Now, whether or not this has any impact on you getting your taxes done, or you're Welsh speaking, you probably don't get a refund, you're probably like maybe whichever, We'll see how that impacts the situation. But this is again, these things will cause some short term pain, in particular for

the people holding these jobs. I get it. But you know, if you're making taxpayer dollars and getting a pretty decent salary and really not doing much, well, I have a hard time feeling too terribly sorry for you. I'm sorry the rest of us out here busting our butts trying to get it done. All right, So yeah, check out the dose clock and let's get things moved. I think, moving faster and higher as soon as we possibly can.

eye opening. Anyway, we'll believe that that it's President's Day, and of course the left is out to prote yes the current president. This is a movement called the fifty five oh one movement, or maybe they call the fifty to fifty one. I don't know how they refer to this as it stands for fifty protests fifty States one movement response to what they claim are the anti democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration. They held an

event back on February fifth, a couple of weeks ago. Well, the turnout wasn't well, it was somewhat short of spectacular. We'll leave it at that. Remember, there are and we saw this during the demonstrations on college campuses, the anti Semitic hate that we saw spewed there. There are people. This is their career. They make a career out of

organized demonstrations. And quite honestly, since most all these demonstrations are leftist causes, they didn't have much to demonstrate when when Biden was president other than the whole, you know, anti Semitic demonstration. So they're out there doing their best trying to drum up mass protests against Trumping. So far, they haven't been doing a very good job of it. But there'll be some more today. Okay. An Indiana teenager who cops say identifies as transgender behind bars, Trinity Shockley,

an eighteen year old, are rested last week. Police say Shockley planned a school shooting and was inspired by the

killer behind the Parkland school massacre. A tipster, thank you to hold a police This was a friend, A friend, Yes, said this Shockley was planning a school shooting on Valentine's Day and noted this transgender individual admired Nicholas Cruz, the convicted school shooter who killed seventeen at Marjorie Stillman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on as you may recall, Valentine's Day back in twenty eighteen, by the way, totally unrelated.

But I didn't even realize this. You know, one of the person who persons who gained celebrity status after that was David Hogg, okay, who became an activist against the guns. So how did I miss the fact that David Hogg has been elected the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee Because it happened the week you were on vacation. Okay, that's why? Yeah, wow, we talked about it then. Uh, Okay. Apparently the DNC hasn't learned the air of their ways.

a massive problem on their hands. There have been at least five major random attacks in Germany caused by a Middle Eastern national in just the last nine months. Hm hmm. Somebody's got to talk some sense into these people. And and Marco Rubio with Margaret Brennan on CBS, can anybody figure out where Britain was coming from, and Rubio criticizing her for this, trying to trying to say in this interview that jd vance support for free speech in Germany

mirrors the star of the Holocaust. Has anybody in their right mind figured out where she was coming from with that one, Well, she said he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide. I think was that just kind of the opposite. I'm

not sure where Brennan thought she was anyway. Okay, And last week, in case you missed it, to Trump announcing he was directing lee Zelda the EPA to start reversing water standard regulations on household appli and says, thank you all the Biden crackdowns on things like sinks, dishwashers, showers, and washing machines. Back off of them, terminate them. Trump says,

thank you. Of course, this was I know, overshadowed last week by the announcement that he was doing away with the plastic straw band that was the one that had the paper straw Put them in a museum somewhere. One of the worst inventions ever. My goodness. At least we were on the cruise last week or whenever. It was two weeks ago they had. I don't know what they were made out of, but the straws you can eat them, I think made amount of sugar you can actually were edible,

unlike the paper straws you usually get a restaurants these days. Well, good luck with those