The Kramer Show with Bishop

STOP ACTA & TPP

Stop ACTA & TPP! - Never use trade agreements to mess with the Internet!

They tried to push internet censorship through Congress and we stopped them with our STOP SOPA/PIPA protests. But the companies behind SOPA & PIPA have a backup plan: secretive trade agreements like ACTA & TPP. If we can't stop these backroom deals, the internet's future belongs to SOPA's backers. DO EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER TO SPREAD THE WORD, CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES, YELL FROM THE STREET CORNERS, ALL OF IT! You can start by using the form below to send a message. Get more detail from KILLACTA.org

I urge you to vote no on ACTA and to communicate its severe problems to your colleagues. ACTA's vague language locks us into obsolete copyright and patent laws, preventing democracies from updating their laws to unlock new economic and social opportunities.It criminalizes harmless remixes by ordinary users if they achieve 'a commercial scale' (art 2.14.1) which many amateur videos do on sites like Youtube. And it criminalizes legitimate websites by making them responsible for user behavior ('aiding and abetting' art 2.14.4).Worse, it permanently bypasses the democratic process by empowering the 'ACTA Committee' to 'propose amendments to [ACTA]' without your approval. (art 6.4) In other words, it's impossible to know what you're voting for.The global movement against the US law SOPA showed that internet freedom is a crucial issue which belongs in the legislative process of each country. You should view ACTA as an attempt by a handful of companies to circumvent the democratic process, and you should vote against it.Thank you. Please reply if you have any questions.

The Kramer Show with Bishop

July 1, 2010

While Kramer is off, Bishop fills in on The Kramer Show. Catch the show live on 970 WMAY, the News and Talk of Springfield, from 3 to 6p CST. The show streams online at WMAY dot com and you can also join the chat room with live streaming video.

Hotel horror stories

With a ton of people planning to travel for the holiday weekend, surely some of you will be staying a hotel. Let's start the show sharing some of the most ridiculous, outrageous and unbelievable horror stories from hotel stays. Bishop's got a few, including staying with old friends in a suite from this past weekend to a bomb threat at a small town hotel years ago.

Celebrity garbage

To keep Kramer's listeners up to date about the latest celebrity nonsense, tune in to find out the latest on Vince Neil's DUI, the case of Led Zeppelin ripping of folk tunes, Lil Wayne's time behind bars, Tiger's divorce, and some of the biggest celebrity divorce deals out there!

Facebook great for divorce attorneys

Speaking of divorce, and relationships in general, find out how attorneys are using social networking sites in presenting adultery or other divorce inducers. Without giving too much info (you can provide all the info you want), what has been your experience with relationships and social networking sites?

Tech news

We talked about the difference between Macintosh and PCs yesterday and you guys were on the ball! Let's continue some of that today but let's bring in a bunch of different tech news. Included in the line up of news is the White House's push for online IDs, a mom is freaked out by Google's street view capture her naked toddler, and Microsoft dropping one of their crappy phones, the Kin.

Immigration: Bishop's take

Kramer brings up the immigration debate quite a bit on the show. He even went as far to offer up t-shirts with the saying "Got Papers? Los Papers Por Favor." Well, to keep the debate alive in anticipation of Obama's speech about immigration, Bishop will give you the latest news concerning illegal immigration and what is being done about it.