S03E05: The Rise of the Empire

This week, we discuss a school choice victory, being locked in prison and not charged or convicted, death penalty, war machines, and the loss of the electoral college. Featuring Hosts: Matt Carano, Tom Hudson, and Nick Boyle Engineered by: Matt Carano Produced by: Tom Hudson, Matt Carano, and Nick Boyle News School choice court victory http://www.unionleader.com/education/litchfield-parent-wins-rare-school-choice-case-20180521 Man who has committed no crime, locked up for 23 hours a day because he has a mental illness http://www.unionleader.com/state-government/House-Senate-at-odds-over-future-of-prisons-psychiatric-unit-05092018 Death penalty foes petition Sununu with 50,000 name http://www.unionleader.com/article/20180518/NEWS0621/180519238 NH Dems want to change to popular vote in electoral college. http://www.insidesources.com/n-h-dems-push-popular-vote-compact-endanger-fitn-primary/ Sununu wants Congress to pass right to try bill http://www.unionleader.com/article/20180522/NEWS06/180529815/-1/mobile?template=mobileart The ridiculous celebratory masturbation caused by the sight of US weapons of war http://www.unionleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=UL&Date;=20180521&Category;=NEWS10&ArtNo;=522009999&Ref;=PH Events Freecoast Liberty Outreach Meetup Dover - 1st Thursday Exeter - 2nd Thursday Hampton - 3rd Thursday Rochester - 4th Thursday Brentwood - 5th Thursday Freecoast Festival (festival.freecoast.org) Sept 7th through the 9th in Portsmouth, NH Tickets on sale now! Special Segment - Autocrat of the Week Sununu unless he signs death penalty repeal into law (MC) Jeanne Shaheen, official sponsor of the USS Manchester, 1 of ten ships in a $3.5 BILLION contract to Austal shipyard in Mobile, AL. Will be commissioned the Saturday May 26th 2018(NB) NH History Alan Shepard, first American in space. Born in Derry, NH in 1923 Earned a Bachelor of Science at the US Naval Academy Served on a Navy ship in the Pacific ocean during WWII After the war, entered flight training, then graduated from the Naval Test Pilot School and the Naval War College In April 1959, Shepard was selected as one of NASA’s first group of seven astronauts On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space. He flew on a one-person Mercury spacecraft that he named Freedom 7. It launched on a Redstone rocket. On this flight, Shepard did not orbit Earth. He flew 116 miles high and then returned safely. The flight lasted about 15 ½ minutes. After his first flight, Shepard developed a medical problem. An inner ear problem stopped him from flying in space. NASA named Shepard as chief of the Astronaut Office. He helped select new astronauts, plan missions and make sure astronauts were ready to fly. Later, he had surgery to fix the ear problem, and he was able to fly again. Almost 10 years passed between his first and second flights. Shepard's second spaceflight was on the Apollo 14 mission to the moon. He was commander of a crew that included Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell. The Apollo spacecraft was launched on a Saturn V (5) rocket. On Feb. 15, 1971, Shepard and Mitchell landed on the moon. (Roosa stayed in orbit around the moon while the other two landed.) During two moonwalks, Shepard and Mitchell collected more than 100 pounds of moon rocks. They conducted scientific experiments on the lunar surface. Shepard also became the first person to hit a golf ball on the moon, showing how far it would go in the moon's lower gravity. After his second flight, Shepard returned to his job as head of the Astronaut Office. He retired from NASA in 1974. Shepard worked in private business. He also did volunteer work to support education and to help people learn about spaceflight. Shepard died of leukemia in 1998. My favorite quote from him, “It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.” https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-knows/who-was-alan-shepard-58.html   Suggestions/Feedback Do you have a topic that you would like for us to discuss? A correction and additional piece of information that we may have overlooked, please send it in to [email protected] While you are here, follow us on Twitter @freecastpodcast and like our Facebook page.   References The Innocence Project