Patt Morrison for Monday, 12/6/2010

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Monday, December 6, 2010

1-3 p.m.

 

CALL-IN @ 866-893-5722, 866-893-KPCC; OR JOIN THE CONVERSATION ONLINE ON THE PATT MORRISON BLOG AT KPCC-DOT-ORG

 

1:00 – 1:30

The Fate of Prop 8

The fate of Perry v. Schwarzenegger – the lawsuit challenging Proposition 8’s constitutionality – will be decided by a three-judge panel in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which convened this morning at 10 am (Monday, December 6). Some gay marriage advocates worry that Perry v. Schwarzenegger seems fast tracked for the Supreme Court, forcing a national showdown on gay marriage. We hear about those arguments and the judges’ reactions from our KPCC reporter, Julie Small, who was in courtroom.

 

Guest:

Julie Small, KPCC reporter in Sacramento

VIA ISDN OR CALL HER:  TBD

 

NOT CONFIRMED- DO NOT PROMOTE

Attorneys arguing the case.

 

 

1:30 - 1:50

CA Legislature likely to ignore Schwarzenegger’s budget efforts

In his waning days in office, Governor Schwarzenegger is making one final-ditch effort this morning to balance California’s budget and close the ever-expanding deficit with a special session.  But Democrats are likely to ignore the lame-duck governor’s special session pleas and instead wait for incoming governor-elect Jerry Brown to bring in a more sweeping approach when he takes office just under a month from now, rather than working in a piecemeal fashion to approve Schwarzenegger’s stopgap proposal this week.  Brown’s proposal has the added incentive for Democrats—they hope—of being a bit less painful in terms of ugly cuts.  Does that mean raising taxes?  The current $25.4 billion deficit is comprised of last fiscal year’s $6.1 billion deficit that resulted from overly optimistic projections by state leaders in their record-late October budget, combined with the projected $19.3 billion deficit in the coming 2011-12 fiscal year.  The pain keeps coming and meanwhile, incoming Governor Brown has invited every member of the legislature to a budget briefing this Wednesday to talk about just how we got ourselves here and where we go now.

 

Guests:

Evan Halper, Sacramento Bureau Chief, Los Angeles Times

CALL HIM

 

NOT CONFIRMED:

Governor-elect Jerry Brown or member of his transition team

 

 

1:50 – 1:58:30

SpaceX flexes its muscles with its Falcon 9 demonstration launch

NASA has decided to cut its in-house space shuttle program, but never fear – this doesn’t mark the end of U.S. space flight. Hawthorne, CA based company SpaceX has landed a 1.6 billion dollar contract with NASA to provide twelve spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station through 2016. SpaceX has set the date of its first of three demonstration launches for December 7^th. The company’s rocket Falcon 9 will be sent into low Earth orbit where it will release SpaceX’s Dragon capsule to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere from orbit, a first time event for any private firm. So could this be the beginning of a space travel revolution? What does SpaceX’s attempt mean for commercial space flight?

 

Guests:

TBD

 

2:00 – 2:30

OPEN

 

2:30 – 3:00

Adam Carolla: comedian, angry, middle-aged, white guy, and social commentator

Why should a rough, tough, bearded man clearly old enough to drink be asked for ID at a bar? And why did public schools decide to remove the climbing rope from gym class? Famed radio host, actor, and angry man extraordinaire Adam Carolla asks these questions and more in his new book, In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks. Carolla rips into the absurdities of American culture hilariously commenting on our society’s uncanny knack for taking once simple things and turning them into huge ordeals and litigious fights. “What we used to settle with common senses or a fist, we now settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers,” Carolla observes. And when he’s not complaining, he gives readers a glimpse into his personal life, from football Sundays at Jimmy Kimmel’s to making it big and raising his children in such an absurd atmosphere. Adam Carolla stops by the studio to vent to Patt. Don’t even get him started on the traffic he had to battle to get here…

 

Guests:

Adam Carolla, comedian, radio personality, professional grouch, and author of In Fifty Years, We’ll All Be Chicks… And Other Complaints from an Angry, Middle-Aged, White Guy

IN STUDIO

 

Coming up this week –

Join LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, LA County Sheriff Lee Baca and me for an inside view of law and order in the southland, Wednesday evening, December 8th, at 7:00pm in the Crawford Family Forum. Come early and meet the four-legged members of the LAPD’s K-9 unit and find out about special programs like Lock It, Hide It, Keep It; iWATCH; Team Sheriff Racing; and the Sheriff’s bicycle safety program called BEAR.  RSVP on the Patt Morrison page at KPCC–dot -org.