Le Show; 2007-06-24

From deep inside your radio, ladies and gentlemen, annals of selflessness. We try to salute those in our community, and I mean the community writ large, who contribute examples of selflessness for the rest of us to emulate, or at least to aspire to. This week it became known that Vice President Cheney had ordered his office not to cooperate with the national archives in double checking how the Vice President's office handled classification and declassification of documents and the handling of those documents. And the reason that was advanced for that refusal was the position that the Vice President's office was not a part of the executive branch, since he also has duty, I think as one specified

duty in the Constitution is to preside over the Senate. It's a presiding officer, but it's in the Senate, you see. So hence he's not in the executive branch. And a little noted fact in all the discussion of this is that it's not a secret, it's been well known that ever since Dick Cheney chose himself to be Vice President, he was the head of President Bush's selection committee to choose a Vice President, he said, me, hey you know what, me, his mission has been to restore the power that he served in the executive branch back in the 70s under Gerald Ford, or over Gerald Ford, if you wish, he was Gerald Ford's chief of staff. And so he's said many's the time that he witnessed the diminution in the power of the executive branch and the wake of the Watergate crisis.

And so part of his mission, if not his entire mission upon becoming Vice President, was to redress that balance and bring more power into the executive branch following a philosophy known in government nerd circles as the unitary executive. So he's been on a mission for the last six years, ladies and gentlemen. This is probably unique in the history of human power, to bring more power to a branch of government that he doesn't belong to. Analysts of selflessness, ladies and gentlemen, that is one big Cheney. Hello, welcome to the show. I see young girls with old faces, I see good girls in bad places, I see playing girls in fine green, and everyone with a death of me, only lives red, only lives red, and

with diamond, only lives red. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, I've read my name. I'm more or so in my soul, but together with a kid, I'm more or so in my soul, but a wig a blind, where she went too far, shaking all she had, at the tough listener, bright and the face, I've been a bob, for a little too much word, to

do you how? In a new light red, we're a thread, and we're done lionish rendering. And you're afraid, you're afraid, and we're down there Needs to listen. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. That's the right of my sentiment. I'm not so bad, so but together we're good Not so bad if I'm way, she took a shine But she dumped me for dye, walked down the mine

Said I was a temp, dye was a keeper He knew how to dig, boom that little bucket deeper Come here and touch, come here and touch her, hand me down my knee, let's rest Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey After I'm on my knee, let me bend I'm not so bad, so but together we're good Not funny, jean, chiment, everything She threw back my heart and rang Said she had other men who'd dig her She was holding out for something bigger Meal and fat, meal and fat, hand me down my knee, let's rest

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey After I'm on my knee, let me bend Not so bad, so but together we're good Not so bad, so but together we're good Not so bad, so but together again From the edge of America, from the home of the homeless I'm Harry Shira welcoming you to this edition of La Show Where it's time for music and for news outside the bubble

Won't you? Thousands of people who take prescription medicines for everyday conditions are gaining large amounts of weight as an unexpected side effect According to the British newspaper The Independent And scientists that they quote, researchers found some patients were putting on up to 22 pounds in a year Drugs may be contributing to the nation's rocketing obesity epidemic, that's Britain's obesity epidemic Yes, fat Britons, think of it That and the teeth All of the patients they studied on medication for conditions as diverse as diabetes, epilepsy, depression, high blood pressure And schizophrenia showed evidence of weight increase given the common and long term use of many of these drugs of the researchers It is likely they play a contributory role in the increasing prevalence of obesity All of the drugs included in the review and a review included 25,000 people, that's a big sample

Are used to treat chronic diseases by large numbers of people in the UK around 2.6 million The number of individuals in the population receiving treatment within a be-so-genic drug, nice word, is potentially quite high, says the report With many of the drugs weight gain was significant and rapid according to the researchers, just how they lead to weight gain varies in some cases unknown Some, like corticosteroids, increase appetite while beta-adrenoceptor blockers reduce metabolic rate Olanzapine and Closapine drugs used for psychiatric conditions resulted in the most weight gain And the US troop surge in Iraq is being jeopardized by the failure to launch an equivalent offensive on the hearts and minds front According to the general in charge of working with the civilian population and Britain's newspaper The Telegraph

In an interview with the paper, Lieutenant General Jack Stalts, the head of the US Army Reserve, gave a stark warning that not enough use was being made of civilian affairs officers under his command Those are the ones charged with talking to ordinary Iraqis and coordinating infrastructure projects He gave a downbeat assessment of US Iraqi military relations General Stalts also warned that cultural differences between the US regular army and Iraqi soldiers had impaired efforts to train local forces to take control of security His assessment says the Telegraph is widely shared by British commanders, but it is a remarkably frank contribution from an American general Says the paper, General Stalts served two years in Iraq before being promoted to command of the reserve He didn't criticize the surge itself, but he suggested that the increase in, quote, kinetic warfare i.e., running around and killing people should now be accompanied by more work for what he calls the reserves, warrior citizens, the doctors, lawyers, policemen, firemen, bankers, and engineers Under his command to help build roads and run clinics, schools, power plants, and water treatment facilities

He said, quote, there hasn't been a civil affairs surge We've been providing a certain level of civil affairs capability I'm not sure we're always capitalizing on the civil affairs effect as best as we can before you go in and use the hard effect There's the opportunity to go in with the civil affairs and talk to the local community Unquote, and then kill him Oh no, he didn't say it General Stalts said that when he arrived in Iraq in 2003 there was a pretty good degree of cooperation between Iraqis and the civil affairs soldiers In my command, in identifying insurgents He claimed that cooperation still existed in parts of Iraq, notably the Kurdish areas But he admitted, in some areas the population has almost become intimidated How could that be? You've got to build trust with the local people to say, help us! He says, if we're going to turn around the situation, we need to have the local population identify insurgents General Stalts

He adds, the army reserve soldier had a different perspective of how to handle the situation from the active army He said the first reaction working with the Iraqi soldiers from the active army was the traditional drill sergeant approach Just yell at the guy Just scream at him The Iraqi soldier wasn't used to that In some cases they would be offended and indignant The general said that he'd been told by an Iraqi major That those of us on the army reserve would deal with the civilian population of America Would never scream at a customer because I know he would just walk away He said some reserve officers developed a closer relationship with the Iraqi soldiers than did their active duty counterparts Quote, you can't treat everyone as if they're an American soldier Quote, headline, US must stop yelling at Iraqis, says General All another piece of news from outside the bubble, and this will be coming our way Also from the telegraph, Britain's commercial radio companies are lobbying for AM and FM radio signals To be switched off

Good night Oh and Britain, leaving listeners forced to tune into digital radio Or the internet Of course Britain like us has got a deadline for their analog TV to be shut down And like us they've started doing digital radio that nobody's listening to So the radio companies want AM and FM signals shut down Forcing listeners to have to go by digital radios They claim their medium will be left behind unless the government orders a cutoff date Many see the digital technology quoting the telegraph, Britain, as unnecessary or even inferior I'll tell you, we're digital here at my home station And what we're digital analog, and the only effect I've noticed is that if you walk from this studio where I'm broadcasting into the men's room The whole thing, well not the whole thing, not what you're doing in them

The whole radio thing is on delayed, I told you this, and asked why And they said, well, because the digital thing is delayed, so the analog thing has to be delayed to match it There is no live anything anymore, it's the point So digital, it's all on some buffer, everything's being buffered The digital radio sets allow listeners to pause And local live radio and receive news and traffic alerts Ultimately radio transmitters will be able to send images to go with the sounds Now that's not radio, is it? And, finally from outside the bubble, British commanders have brought forward the final closure of a base in central Basra That's the area of southern Iraq that the Brits have been responsible for Pacifying, gentrifying In an indication that more forces may be pulled out of South Eastern Iraq before the end of the year The Basra palace complex, which housed the British consulate and UN staff as well as military, was due to be shut down completely in August

But it's understood that by the British newspaper, the independent, the closure will take place within days Its civilian occupants left months ago after the complex came under persistent mortar fire But the British military retained a presence No British forces will be stationed when they leave The palace, no British forces will be stationed within the city of Basra for the first time since 2003 Its abandonment underlines the diminution of the British role in southern Iraq We're so very alone ladies and gentlemen, how's that coalition? You can't make a coalition without coal, remember that So, that's news from outside the bubble, copyrighted feature of this broadcast But now more about the new Iraq from sources within this country Iraq now ranks as the world's second most unstable country Give yourself a round of applause ladies and gentlemen, you helped make that possible

The world's second most ahead or behind Here's who's not as unstable as Iraq in this list And I'll tell you where the list came from The Fund for Peace and Foreign Policy magazine, this is the 2007 failed states index Okay, here are the states that aren't as bad off as Iraq Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Congo, Afghanistan, North Korea, and Haiti Those are countries that are not as unstable as Iraq Give yourselves another round of applause Iraq has declined steadily over the past three years according to the index It ranked fourth last year, but its score has dropped in almost all 12 political economic security and social indicators on which the index is based The report tells us Iraq is sinking fast, says the Fund for Peace President Pauline Baker

We believe it's reached the point of no return We believe the only choices for Iraq are how and how violently it will break up And I don't think they mean laugh Ryan C. Crocker, the new US ambassador to Iraq, has bluntly told Condi Rice in a cable dated May 31st that the embassy in Baghdad, the largest and most expensive US embassy In the history of the world, lacks enough well-qualified staff members and its security rules are too restrictive for foreign service officers to do their job Simply put, we cannot do the nation's most important work if we do not have the department's best people Crocker said in a memo leaked to the Washington Post The budget there is over a billion staff is more than 1,000 Americans and 4,000 others The embassies become the center of a bureaucratic battle between the ambassador who wants to strengthen the staff and Congress

Some members of which are increasingly skeptical about the diplomatic mission's rising cost In essence, the issue is whether we're a department in a service at war If we are, we need to organize and prioritize in a way that reflects this something we have not done thus far Says the US ambassador to Iraq Says one government official recently returned from Baghdad about our new ambassador, quote, he's panicking He's panicking, ladies and gentlemen The Washington Post also reports on a study by the government accountability office Examining the practices and rules guiding condolence payments that the US distributes to families of Iraqi civilians killed as a result of US and coalition forces actions during combat These voluntary payments known as Solatia, S-O-L-A-T-I-A That'd be the way you pronounce that

We'll just sit here and wait, no, can also cover injuries and loss or damage to property They constitute, quote, expressions of sympathy or remorse based on local cultures and customs, but not an admission of legal liability or fault That sound like it was written by a lawyer Pentagon has set the highest individual sum that can be paid for a dead Iraqi as, and he guesses, what's the value of a dead Iraqi? $2,500 That's the highest Most death payments are at that level, with a rough sliding stage of a sliding scale of $1,000 for serious injury, $500 for property damage Beginning last year, payments of up to 10 grand were possible for extraordinary cases, but only with the authorization of a division commander In 2005, the total of condolence payments in Iraq reached $21.5 million, and the violence increased last year, the condolence payments dropped to $7.3 million There is a priceless tear at the end of this article, I think

The, if a non-combatant accident takes place, the next of kin can file into the Foreign Claims Act, and those payments generally reach up to $100,000 So if a US Army vehicle hits and kills an Iraqi civilian as he crosses the street, he gets $100 grand for his next of kin does But if we blow him up, $2,500, a former charge advocate in the Army who served in Iraq for about a year has written that every Iraqi he spoke with on this issue expressed shock about this situation He notes, under the Foreign Claims Act, the full market value may be paid for a Toyota run over by a tank, but only $2,500 may be paid for the death of a child shot in a crossfire Making friends wherever we go ladies and gentlemen, hearts and minds, don't you know? We don't have to yell at them, we can shock them just with a check And how are the gals doing in Iraq? President, not lately, but used to talk about how one of the great side effects of the whole adventure was the future opening up for Iraqi women

Well, according to one British newspaper, I believe this is the independent, that future basically includes prostitution in Syria In a million Iraqi refugees in Syria, many are women whose husbands or fathers have been killed, banned from working legally, they have few options outside the sex trade No one knows how many end up as prostitutes, but the founder of an Iraqi woman's group puts the figure at $50,000 And then there's our friend Pakistan, what are they up to this week? Pakistan is building a third plutonium reactor and a major nuclear weapon center, a sign of plans increase Pakistan's nuclear arsenal significantly

We want them to have more nukes, don't we? They're good people, it's stable, there are no terrorists inside the territory of Pakistan or terrorists sympathizers and the Pakistani intelligence operations are there? I didn't think so Pakistan would be able to build a new generation of lighter, more powerful weapons to mount on missiles according to David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, he was once a weapons inspector in Iraq, I believe The new reactor which had not been public knowledge, why would they want to cover that up? It's such good news, I would be shouting it from the... This is a replica of a second heavy water reactor at Kushab, the other two reactors at Kushab are there for weapons as Albright and this is a duplicate of the second He's convinced the new reactor was intended for plutonium to be used in nuclear weapons and not for a civilian energy program The Bush administration did not react, instead it would not comment on intelligence matters. Spokesman for Pakistan did not confirm or deny the new reactor was under construction, our friends

FEMA is doing good work, FAA is for FEMA, the federal government will cover 100% of some of the cleanup costs After Hurricane Katrina, no, no they're not doing that, after last month's tornado in Greensburg, Kansas FEMA said this week it will reimburse state and local government agencies for the full cost of debris removal and emergency measures in the first 72 hours after the storm To counties that were declared disaster areas, FEMA usually covers only 75% of disaster costs as it's doing in Louisiana with the revenue-starved state and local governments Actually the state government isn't revenue-starved, it's swimming and sales tax, but the local government is, I happen to know The announcement follows a letter that the Kansas Congressional delegation sent to President Bush calling for full reimbursement of recovery costs, much like the letter that the Louisiana Congressional delegation sent to him

I guess he just likes Kansas Senator Pat Roberts, Republican of Kansas, calls the decision a boost for local agencies I'll say, and news of Inspector Generals, this is just to make you feel safer Government investigators found more than 100 people retained their top security clearances After leaving their jobs at a nuclear weapons plant and former uranium enrichment complex in Tennessee, this according to the Department of Energy's Inspector General They did a follow-up review recently to see if security access and problems with security badges found first in 2003 had been fixed The auditors focused on two facilities at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, examined four years ago, the nuclear weapons plant and the former uranium enrichment site Our recent analysis indicates that these issues persist, says the Inspector General

Government and contractor officials in Oak Ridge say there is no security risk There was no problem, there is no problem, says Mike Bennett of BWX Technologies, the managing contractor at the nuclear weapons plant The IG report made a claim about security clearances for people who no longer work here, those people have valid requirements for those clearances The report noted that other nuclear labs, Sandia, Lawrence, Livermore and Los Alamos also have been cited for failing to collect security badges of departed employees It's not a good news story when you have badges floating around, says a senior investigator for the project on government oversight He recalled his own experience, this guy, Peter Stockton, when he left, Department of Energy is a special assistant to then Energy Secretary Bill Richardson in 2001 Quote, within hours, my clearance was gone, unquote

Oh, that was under the Clinton administration, that doesn't make any sense News of Inspector General ladies and gentlemen, can we abolish them all? Dick Cheney's right Hey, you know what, let's just abolish the executive branch and be dumb of it Hey, you know what, that was under the Clinton administration, that doesn't make any sense News of Inspector General ladies and gentlemen, can we abolish the executive branch and be dumb of it Hey, you know what, that was under the Clinton administration, that doesn't make any sense News of Inspector General ladies and gentlemen, can we abolish the executive branch and be dumb of it

Hey, you know what, that was under the Clinton administration, that doesn't make any sense News of Inspector General ladies and gentlemen, can we abolish the executive branch and be dumb of it Hey, you know what, that was under the Clinton administration, that doesn't make any sense News of Inspector General ladies and gentlemen

News of Inspector General ladies and gentlemen, can we abolish the executive branch Hey, you know what, that was under the Clinton administration News of Inspector General ladies and gentlemen News of Inspector General ladies and gentlemen

News of Inspector General ladies and gentlemen News of Inspector General ladies and gentlemen From the news concept and high up scale retailing, the Beverly Hills outlet mall where everything is on availability every day at 10 to 50% over

List price, a new concept which we think walks the entire outlet mall concept so far upstairs we are in the mezzanine lounge, this is strictly from black well and black well And I don't know, I am so far gone from active participation in the scene of the fashion industry that I can just just sigh and roll my eyes and roll whatever else still rolls When I see the New York media press now announced this week that hippie chic is back, I mean this was the same look so called that gummed up fashion in the 1970s for a good 8, 9, 10 years And now we are supposed to get on a hind legs and hoot and hollab because it's back I am thinking no, I'm thinking not this decade, not this century hippie chic which was basically just taking the old schmothers we would call them

And just I don't know adding a foot or two and saying it's a granny dress hello and nothing I've seen so far makes me feel that this is going to say to the woman who only wants to feel I am special when I walk into that room It's not going to do anything for her anyway if I want a vent I'll go find a vent we have a wonderful, a wonderful guest with us today and why should I take any of his oxygen and nitrogen or whatever When he has so much wonderful information to share and so much of a wonderful aura the cast over the program which is why we love it, David Schlesinger who has been the editor and the conceiver of so many great ideas for getting the word out about, out and about about the city of Beverly Hills Now he's a latest what is it innovation David?

Well, yeah, I think you'd have the same as the black well it is innovation. It's a new idea of we took the whole concept of Beverly Hills 411 which is a print publication online with it with a telephone service at one point always just to say here is the wonderful news about Beverly Hills Beverly Hills a fashion scene, the social scene, the scene of the scene itself and here are the photos and here's the gossip and the wonderful stories The positive side of what Beverly Hills is accomplishing and now as you are suggesting we've walked it up to a new level with Beverly Hills PDA Incredible and we love David PDA means what? Personal digital assistant, it's the blackberries, it's the little trios, it's the palms, it's the iPhone, when that comes here found one that comes out It's all of these little basically computers that are on the go with him is the black one We just found that people want to know what's hip and happening in Beverly Hills which of course sets the tone for so much

We're not going on the rest of the United States and around the world it's a world city it is, they want it, they don't want to wait for it Obviously they didn't want to wait for it on news print we found that out about 10 years ago You have to eat bought and have to trace in a British Columbia but they don't even want to wait till they get home and see it on the computer They want it now in the pocket for $9.95 a mile, I was wondering what that price was going to be David I remember so for so many years you gave it away now you've gotten smart and you're selling it But I have to ask you this, you haven't gone dish, have you? The whole idea of everything I've ever done is the positive, the positive, the positive, the great good news story of there were parties There were fashion shows, there were these restaurants, there are these wonderful other things that are going on, there are these charity events And openings and odd openings and other kinds of openings and to start throwing dish into there I think I'm going to be very blunt with you

If I was ever going to do it I would frankly be charging at least $5 more, that would be a $5 surcharge, that would be a premium service We're not going to go that way right now Just stay with the standard which we think is the way they got David you have something else that's so much more interesting even than Beverly Hills PDA that we have to get to it before our feathers all malt What have you come up with now? You as an astute observer of the scene, media, social events, scene of a scene, one of a better term of description You know that there's this time of year when suddenly the great circle of award shows that is available throughout the year It stops and suddenly there are no award shows and you say to yourself, I don't know, sue me I wanted to sit down and watch a wonderful award show

And this week, this month, yeah, where there's nothing And I didn't think that necessarily I had to wait for a Donald Trump or a declare or whoever to come up with a new award show It must have been, I felt it was time for me to enter this new and exciting world with these swimsuit awards Which I knew from having read it on the card and still when you say it, it gives me goosebumps Because why hasn't anyone thought of this? Exactly I've always said that your wings would fly a lot farther than you thought they would, you tell us what I know when you say the swimsuit awards, I get a picture in my head and tell me what it is I'm seeing Okay, it's summertime

When would you rather look at live video imagery of young attractive women in swimsuits? When would I? You would the viewer Okay, good You know, it's summer, of course And you're saying this would just be women at the early stages, yeah, I think so And two of the most popular words in the vocabulary of television or publishing are swimsuit and awards You put them together, you've got the swimsuit awards I think it's a natural Let me ask you, David, just, you know, because as I'm trying to flesh this out in my eyes Inside my head I'm saying, what are the awards for? Just for wondrous swimsuits of the people who wear them That's good You know, because I could see, okay, here's a category where you're giving awards to the best swimsuit design That's great I think we're looking at the whole, I'm going to use a four-hour word, Mr. Blackwell, but the whole panoply of swimsuit culture

And to say, all right, there's a lot of magazines that do swimsuit editions What's the best one of those? There are a lot of swimsuit fashion shows who did the best one Who did? There are, as you say, a lot of new designs of swimsuits Who's the top of that particular heap? And you build and weave a show that is about swimsuit American swimsuit culture Specifically, because I think that's one of the great things we have to sell to the world And you build probably a 90-minute with the Good Lord's help Possibly a two-hour special about a lot, and you offer it live to, you know, all commas All commas And we think that's where you belong, David, in the wondrous realm of all commas Because I don't know who wouldn't want to see the swimsuit of boys It's just such a fact, have you talked about it with anybody else?

I mean, publicity-wise, you know anything I mean, is this, are we getting a scoop here? Well, and now we're getting a scoop now No, I've obviously been meeting with people in and out of the various industries that this would impinge or impact on Including fashion, television, so forth, swimsuit And I'm telling you, Mr. Bee, if I put my finger to the wind, it's so strong, it's almost going to blow my finger off That's what I'm feeling right now Has David Hasselhoff expressed interest as a host? I've heard this You've got very good sources, Mr. Bee, I can't say right now when I'm not a liberty to discuss And at the Volge, we've been discussing or divulging with But that's the level that we're aiming for Of course And I think when you turn on your TV, let's say a year from now, can you say, hey, it's summertime I want to see swimsuit awards, where can I do that?

I think it can be very pleasantly surprised by the level of quality that the show brings to the table And then takes back off the table when it's through Okay, good I want to be surprised by the level of quality David has something that so rarely happens today And I have to ask you, who is the new bird parks? Where is he coming from? No, boy, I wish I knew Mr. Bee if I knew I'd have him on the contract right now Take it from me, if we do find him, he's going to be a part of the swimsuit awards Because I think you're going to walk away from this show saying, geez, I knew it was going to be fun I knew it was going to be a great eye candy kind of event I had no idea I was going to be bold over by how classy it is How classy it is Presenters an evening with David, please say yes Or at least cocktail Okay, good, I wish we could be watching it right now And then it would be over but unfortunately we're the ones who have run out of time

The clock has said so and there is no arguing with her David Schlesinger, Beverly Hills PDA and the swimsuit awards I was going to wish you luck but you don't need luck anymore Because you have something better than luck you have Next time, instance so she can it really be as good as the real thing They'll then strictly from Blackwell, bye-bye The very thought of you makes my heart sing I can April breeze on the wings of spring And you appear in all your splendor My one and only love

The shadows fall and spread their mystic charms In the hush of night while you're in my arms I feel your lips so warm and tender My one and only love The touch of your hand is like heaven A heaven that I have never known The blush on your cheek whenever I speak Tells me that you are my own You fill my eager heart with such desire

Every kiss you give sets my soul on fire I give myself in sweet surrender My one and only love The touch of your hand is like heaven A heaven that I have never known And the blush on your cheek whenever I speak Tells me that you are my own You fill my eager heart with such desire Every kiss you give sets my soul on fire

I give myself in sweet surrender My one and only love This is La Show And Rupert Murdoch is doing work on his three-level penthouse at 834-5th Avenue in New York He didn't buy the New York observer But the penthouse bought two years ago for $44 million How can he afford that when he's paying all the people who work for him so very much? Now the New York observer reports that he's enlarging the existing exercise room in the penthouse

Cost of building the new gym? $400,000 $400,000 for the exercise room, ladies and gentlemen That's only, is that 1%? I don't know math of the cost of the thing, but anyway, how can, because he's so Now, the apologies of the week Australian reality TV show, Brigh Brother Yeah, they got it down there too, as apologized to the Mexican government They got one of those for allowing contestants on the program to throw Goofield balloons at the Mexican flag That's good viewing, and at night, the incident, which aired last Friday, was labeled offensive by the Mexican government The Mexican embassy also wrote to the Australian media authority demanding they take adequate measures to avoid this type of incident in the future What do they want in the balloons?

End of mall, which produces the show And by the way, reflects my opinion of the entire genre, and the mall Said they intended no offense to any person country or institution June 19th, Mexican night was designed as a tribute to Mexico at its vibrant cultural heritage The producers have also assured the Mexican government something like this would never happen again, unquote Goofield balloons, why can't we have that kind of TV here? What's wrong with us? Senator Barrack Obama issued a round of apologies this week for a memo generated by his campaign staff that referred to Senator Hillary Clinton as a senator from the Indian region of Punjab and criticized her record on outsourcing Pointing the finger at his campaign staff, Obama told the editorial board of the Des Moines Registry thought it was stupid and caustic He also wrote a letter of apology that was posted on the website of the South Asians for Obama group The memo, all right, that just reviews the original memo

And Senator Sam Brownbeck called and apologized to former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney for an email, one of his Brownbeck supporters sent out criticizing Mormonism, Romney's religion Brownbeck called Romney between stops in Iowa to apologize for the email And Senator John McCain's presidential campaign has apologized to Romney for comments about the Mormon Church allegedly made by a volunteer earlier this year Meaning of Iowa Republican activists in April where McCain's Warren County Chairman Chad Workman is alleged to have made negative remarks about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Mormon faith He is a Mormon The participant in the meeting says Workman questioned whether Mormons were questioned And he referenced an article alleging that the Mormon Church supports the Islamic militant group Hamas Romney's Iowa campaign manager said the campaign has accepted the apology from McCain's campaign This is going to be a regular thing, I think. I'm seeing Spinoff, the Mormon apology of the week, Serbian President Boris Todditch has apologized to all Croatian victims of war ahead of a regional energy summit

He's to attended Zagreb. Todditch addressed Croatian victims of their country's 1991-95 war in an interview on Croatian state television saying, I extend my apologies to all those Croatians who had been harmed on behalf of my people. I take the responsibility for that. Todditch, the first Serbian leader, to apologize for the war which left 20,000 people dead. Never too late. Deadline Houston, the former chief of Anorond's high-speed internet unit, which turned government witness and testified in the trial of former's in-ron CEO Jeffrey Skilling and company founder Ken Lay was sentenced this week to 27 months in prison. Before sentencing, Kenneth Rice apologized for his role in the corporate scandal. Quote, I'm sorry. I wasn't raised that way and I'm ashamed of that. He said, beginning to cry. I'm committed to turning my life around. Deadline Ipsilanti Michigan, Eastern Michigan University's president publicly apologized to the family of a woman murdered at the school. Laura Dickinson, 22, was killed in her dorm room last December.

While police said she had been murdered, the school repeatedly said her cause of death was undetermined. An independent report found the school violated a federal law that requires the school to adequately inform students and staff of a campus crime. It also said an administrator ordered the shredding of a report on Dickinson's death. An statement read at the Board of Regents meeting. President John Fallon apologized to the family for the handling of her death. We did get it wrong shamefully so. To the Dickinson family, I say, my deepest apologies again go out to you. Laura's death was nothing short of tragic and this university's actions afterward compounded your pain. I'm profoundly sorry. He also apologized to students, faculty, and staff of the university. Never again will such a confounding series of mistakes be made on my watch, she said. But now on the mistakes will be clear of the trans...no, he didn't have that. A second time in two years, a body was misplaced after it was sent to the morgue at the Cook County Medical Examiner's office in Chicago. The discovery came when the county was unable to provide Rosalie Schultz's remains to the funeral director of the funeral home.

Schultz, a woman of 64 years old, was found dead in her home last Thursday. The medical examiner's office believed she could have been mistakenly sent to one of dozens of funeral homes in the area between Friday and Monday. Dr. Scott Denton, Interim Chief Medical Examiner apologized for the mishap. I feel awful. He said, I feel bad. It is horrible. I wouldn't want this to happen to me and my family. It is just really unfortunate. Datalan Los Angeles, Los Angeles, the city's top prosecutor, Rocky Del Gadillo, whose office got Paris Hilton jailed for violating probation by driving on a suspended license. Apologize this week for keeping quiet about a 2004 accident in which his wife crashed his city-issued vehicle while driving with a suspended license. Paris, make room, babe. Quote, I realized I should have spoken up earlier. That was a mistake. Rocky told the news conference, I mishandle the situation. I apologize. Why do you think they call him Rocky? Calling it a perfect storm of cascading circumstances, Oregon cherry growers, president and CEO Ed Johnson apologized to the people of the dolls, Oregon, for the odor caused by problems at one of the company's three waste water ponds.

We want in a public way to apologize for all the impacts this has had on the community. We're expending all our efforts and financial resources to abate the problem as soon as possible. Problem began June 1st when one of the company's three waste water ponds downtown developed an odor. Jason Gianbi agreed Thursday to meet with baseball steroids investigator George Michel Mitchell and apologize for his conduct. I alone and responsible for my actions and I apologize to the commissioner, the owners and the players for any suggestion they were responsible for my behavior said the New York Yankee star. Victor Molina veteran writer who was ejected from Philadelphia Park on Monday after kicking a horse in the stomach before the third race apologized on Tuesday to everyone I may have hurt and said he would ever except whatever penalty results. Time goes by and I feel worse and worse about it. He said.

People who know me know that I would never try to hurt a horse, but it's not those people I worry about. It's all the people who don't know me. He said the Colt yes, yes, oh, yes, flipped in the starting gate before the third race striking the jockey hard in the chest and head with his head when the horse was backed out of the gate Molina could be seen kicking the Colt in the chest. I got angry and for some stupid reason I kicked the horse, he said. A company that sent a termination letter to an Indiana National Guardsman serving in Iraq has reacted, retracted it and apologized to his family, the Delta faucet plant in Greensburg, Indiana, human resources manager sent the letter last week, saying sergeant first class David, Virk Camp was being fired because he hadn't returned from a year long leave of absent. He remains deployed in Iraq. I was angry said his wife, Misty, Virk Camp. I cried at first, but it took me about two seconds and I was angry. The apologies of the week latest gentleman, a copyrighted feature of this broadcast. There is one more Connecticut state's ethics chief Benjamin Bicell issued a public apology for violating state motor vehicle laws when he failed to obtain a driver's license and registration after moving from Vermont to Connecticut about 11 years ago.

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