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Want it? From deep inside your radio, ladies and gentlemen, it's true, Affairs elsewhere in this building, where the L-A-Show is co-located with a radio station that carries the broadcast, events in this building have made it to the Drudge Report. You don't have to be a Biblis Senator to make it into the Drudge Report. It can be a public radio station, it turns out, and that's why I have to just explain at the outside of the broadcast today what I understand happened, a commentator for the station, pre-recorded a broadcast in which for comic purposes she was uttering a profanity with the intent that the engineer bleep the profanity in the eventual playback of the

recorded broadcast. The engineer didn't do it. The broadcast was aired with the profanity and the talent was let go. The engineer was suspended, reprimanded, and this, I guess this is one of the offshoots of the whole Janet Jackson thing, but it's a little embarrassing for me now because this program, which has been live for 20 years today, is ladies and gentlemen, is on 5-second delay as of now. Delay as of now. And I'm not sure I know how to operate, now that's not supposed, now that's not supposed, this is, this is incredibly, this is incredibly, I don't know if you can hear it out there in the audience, I don't know if you can hear it out there in the audience, but I'm just hearing the, I'm just hearing the, David, David Briskin, excuse me, ladies, David Briskin, excuse me, ladies, gentlemen, I'm just, David Briskin with this, can you come in, David Briskin, can

you come in here for me? Somebody get David in, David Briskin. Somebody get David engineer here at the show, don't meant, David, I got it. Okay, sit down, sit down, let's just, you all right, what'd you do? I had a microphone, all right, we'll just adjust it, you know how to, let me tell you how to adjust the microphone. So look, what happened with the delay? I was concentrating on getting the, the bleep machine working and the bleep, the bleep machine. Yeah, what do you mean? We're putting in a new system. Another machine. Yeah. David, this place is like, there are more screens in here than in the time square record star already, it's a computer, a piece of computer software that runs on our server that just generates bleeps, wouldn't you prevent accidents, my fan, a linguistic malfunction. Profanity. But I thought we had policies and I thought we had delay and it's just, it's just built in redundancy.

It's a built in suspenders kind of thing, just anything that gets past policies and the delay, the law of averages say this will catch it because it's a randomly generated beep. So well, that just, it's backup. Okay. Davey, I got a show to do, um, but isn't that a fix the delay? You put, that's it now, right now, he just heard one of those. Yes, they bleep machine is in effect. It's a Canadian company. They've had, they've had about 10 years of experience with it. It works great. Wait a minute. That just happened again, is it, is it random, is it, it's very complicated algorithm? It's not entirely random, it's randomized, randomized, but it's, that's getting very, I think we have Sunspot problems. I'm going to, Davey, yeah, go ahead. Sunspot problems with the satellite feed latest gentleman, Davey, Brisk and our chief engineer, so we'll be, I guess, part of the whole bleep machine experiment as we continue with, hello, welcome to the show, continue with, hello, welcome to the show. Remember me, boss of my love, don't forget me, boss of my dear, hold your head up, you silly girl.

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the paper by the British Foreign Secretary adds, it is important to stress that security council resolution 1441 did not revive the force authorization immediately upon its adoption, the force authorization from the earlier UN resolutions. There was no automaticity, here's your word for today, kids, automaticity, the resolution afforded Iraq a final opportunity to comply and it provided for any failure by Iraq to be considered by the Security Council. As I said last week, fortunately, we're not troubled by such niceties here, we won. The City of Atlanta suppressed thousands of crime reports for years to help land the Olympics and pump up tourism. The revelation was made in an audit commissioned by police, the reports as crime incidents were downgraded under reported and discarded. It accuses police of routinely altering or suppressing thousands of reports of crime.

The practice began during the site selection process for the 96 Olympics continued at least until 2002 when there were more than 22,000 missing police reports. Atlanta ranked first or second in violent crimes, crimes such as rape or murder in nine of the last 10 years, even despite the distorted figures. Imagine, imagine where they would have ranked. Had they not done that? Had they not cooked the books a little bit? You got to cook the books a little bit, ladies and gentlemen. That's just common sense. And, at propos of the current climate, the makers of BBC satire and comedy shows in Britain are being forced to fill in checklists to warn their supervisors whether the contents of their programs are likely to be offensive. Producers of some of the best love TV and radio comedy shows say the new system threatens to destroy the great British tradition of satire. Some even suggest the controversial programs such as the office with its jokes about disability would never have reached the screen. Monty Python co-creator Michael Palin says he deploys this attempt to control creative program making with bureaucracy.

We had more and more of it as Python became more popular in the 60s. It's depressing to see it returning, he says. I thought it was the 70s. He should know, but the checklist is three pages long. It asks for details of material likely to flout guidelines on religion, sex, race and the portrayal of real people in events. The corporation says it is trying to create an audit trail and to ensure the producers comply with existing guidelines on accuracy and taste. A spokesman for the BBC defended the checklists and the complex bureaucracy that surrounds them. The producers fill them in, they go back to the schedulers and are cleared by the heads of department at a legal advisor. It is a huge bore maybe, but better than a huge court case. One satire writer hit back saying program makers for the BBC already knew there were guidelines on the checklists were designed simply to protect managers from attack if programs caused offense. The procedure covers all program making for the BBC except for news.

And finally at the top of the week's news, ladies and gentlemen, this past week's major attacks in Iraq. Abu Musa Zakawi, a Georgian militant with ties to al-Qaeda, is now blamed for more than 700 terrorist killings in Iraq. NBC's website reported that long before the war, the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill him, but never pulled the trigger. US officials learned in June 2002 that he'd set up a weapons lab in northern Iraq producing deadly rice and, not rice, rice and. That's the northern Iraq control by the Kurds that we said was filled with al-Qaeda. The Pentagon quickly drafted plans to attack the camp with cruise missiles sent to the White House where according to the US government sources, the plan was debated to death in National Security Council.

Four months later, intelligence showed that Zakawi was planning to use rice and then terrorist attacks in Europe. The Pentagon drew up a second strike plan. The White House again killed it by then the administration had said it's course for the war with Iraq. In last January, police arrested six terrorist suspects and discovered a rice and lab connected to the camp in Iraq. The Pentagon drew up still another attack plan for a third time. The National Security Council killed it. The administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam. The United States did attack the camp at the beginning of the war, but by then Zakawi and many of his followers were gone. We're late. We're good, but we're late. Now time for the apologies of the week. So many apologies this week. It's a very sorry week, ladies and gentlemen.

The story of U.S. diplomat Luis Moreno tapping on former Haitian President Aristide's car window as he waited at the Port of Prince Airport early last Sunday morning comes from the horse's mouth, the U.S. diplomat himself. Mr. President, with all due respect, the plane is 20 minutes away. I really need the letter. Luis Moreno, the U.S. diplomat, it said, meaning Aristide's letter of resignation. President then pulled a letter from his wife, Mildred's handbag, once its contents were confirmed Moreno apologized to Aristide and his wife. I said I was very sorry to see things in this way, he said, to which Aristide replied in English. Well, that's life. British weather girl Sarah Thornton turned the air blue in a forecast during a broadcast in Britain called TV's Nautius Blunders. The 28-year-old blonde stumbled over her words and could be heard to say,

I think we can say this word in this country, bugger, which is swearing in Britain and F it as she attempted to regain her composure. Her bloopers came in the weather forecast between the two segments of a British show, all new TV's Nautius Blunders. It was a recorded broadcast, not live. Anglia TV said it had been a mistake and revealed the tape of her rehearsal had been put on the air instead of the final version. It was never meant to have been played at Anglia TV, it was a backup tape, the presenter is very embarrassed about the whole situation. It was a regrettable accident we apologize for any offense caused. There are usually a number of takes to get it right and unfortunately there appears to have been a mistake in this case. It would have been human error. The story says Sarah was reported for Channel 5 and BBC News, off screen likes to dance the tango. That's background. A Richmond Virginia judge has resigned after facing disclosure of racially charged remarks he wrote in Internet chat room, including statements suggesting that blacks have a biological tendency towards violence.

I hearted my deepest apology go out to the black community of the city of Richmond, he said. In remarks published Thursday and a weekly newspaper. Appealing to African Americans when reached at his home by the Associated Press Richmond would only say he was sorry but wouldn't comment further. In the art all legislators drunk file, Dateline Santa Fe New Mexico State Representative Joe Thompson was arrested for drunken driving Tuesday night. The Albuquerque Republican was released from the detention center on Wednesday. Hours prior to his arrest he was in the governor's office where a bill he sponsored to increase penalties on people who killer injured someone in a drunken driving crash was signed into law. He issued a statement Wednesday in which he said I apologize to my wife, family, friends and colleagues. Further I apologize to the citizens of New Mexico. While I'm terribly embarrassed by the situation I'm thankful that no one else was involved. Fresno Police arrested city council member Brian Calhoun on suspicion of drunken driving just hours after voters elected him to a second term.

He later issued a written apology. He told arresting officers he'd not been drinking. In his apology admitted he had some drinks and an election celebration and made a serious error in judgment. I'm very sorry this has happened in regret my mistake. The Irish equality authority is confirmed it's looking into the placing of a real estate ad in a gallway newspaper which stated, quote, no colored. For bedroom house no colored fully furnished furnished. Mr. Michael Fahey of city property services and gallway described the use of the words no colored as a misprint. A mistake happened he said, but I do not know where the newspaper apologized for the advertisement in a statement. What would the misprint be? More colored.

In a February 24 article from Australia about rioting after the death of an average abbern engineer baby. Sorry boy. The Chicago Tribune attributed the quality, the following quote, Graham Thorn identified as a psychiatrist. Quote, these people always complain they wanted both ways their way and our way they want to live in our society and be respected. Yet they won't work, they steal, they rob and they get drunk and they don't respect the laws. Following an email complained from a reader in Australia, Chicago Tribune editors questioned Uli Schmetzer, the freelance writer of the story. He admitted that both the name and the occupation of the speaker were made up. The quote was uttered by an Australian man of his acquaintance. The Tribune apologizes to our readers for this breach of trust. An email referring to college Republicans as a bunch of thugs was inadvertently sent to the organization. The college Republicans, by a Bates college administrator, prompting a hasty apology. He was intending to forward the email with a note to his boss, Doug Hubley, who works in the media relations office of the college.

Instead, he hit the reply button. An Oscar ad promoting House of San and Fog is being denounced for breaching campaign protocol by implicitly asking people to vote against Cole Mountain co-star Renee Zellweiger. Dreamworks has apologized for the advertisements saying it was never intended as a criticism of either Zellweiger or her film. The ad was a mistake. It shouldn't have happened since studio co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg. In a year when which everyone is pledged to take a higher road, we made a bad and ill-advised mistake. And finally, ladies and gentlemen. The Tokyo police has arrested three men on suspicion of trying to extort $28 million from SoftBank and sees DVD and CD discs that contain the entire Yahoo Broadband customer database in Japan. It's owned by SoftBank Group companies. SoftBank confirmed about information about 4.6 million customers had been stolen. In protest, one Yahoo Broadband subscribers, affected by the theft, has put his personal data on the auction site of Yahoo Japan.

He's selling his name, street address, telephone number, email address, and Yahoo Japan ID. As of Thursday, there are over 300 bidders. The highest bid is more than $13,700. The seller describes the goods as used and leaked but in good condition and easily duplicated due to their digital nature. He also said that $500 in gift certificate is insufficient. He's doing what I suggest, ladies and gentlemen, copyright your life. Then when they steal it, whether it's an inside job or an outside job, he's suing for copyright infringement. You know, you tell me it doesn't work. Meanwhile, the apologies of the week are a copyrighted feature of this broadcast. If you are interested, comment on your art list for a copy of the page log out on Facebook.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the campaign is on, John Kerry won Super Tuesday, John Edwards pulled out, Al Sharpton is getting a talk show, and the first Bush ad started running this week and a big controversy has already erupted over the use of 9-11 imagery, and it's, it does amaze me because had the image they used from 9-11, been the image of President Bush down there with the megaphone and the firefighters around him, I doubt this kind of, I mean, you

know, some people would have complained no matter what, but you know, you have the right to use a footage of your candidate, I think that's in arguable, but they didn't do that. They used footage of a flag draped coffin and so on, this is what they got for their trouble. And possibly ending, a budding story, Vice President Dick Cheney went on several cable news broadcasts this week and announced that President Bush had asked him Cheney to run for another term as Vice President and that he Cheney had agreed, that's what happened above ground. In the big casino, I like to call my life, the cards had been reshuffled, suddenly we

were in campaign strategy retool mode at the secure and disclosed location, suddenly we weren't managing our dean account anymore. We weren't looking at a sparring partner opponent, a diminutive doctor with a wife who looks goofier than my daughter, knowing now we were dealing with John and Kerry, and for the constituent chief, and those of us who keep his nose clean, this was an entirely different can of worms, now, like it or not, we were dealing with a tall man. Lynn was in the middle of redecorating the secure and disclosed kitchen, so I was almost relieved when my Navy escorts bundled me up to Oval early in the week, for a little heart to hearting with the constituent chief about my future with the organization, and what he had to say hit me harder than an intravenous martini, Tuesday 1017 AM, Dick heard

you or you went hunting recently with Justice Scalia, yeah I'm not got out, a little leak-control problem there, hey they ain't got pills for that now, I meant, Bellary Plains cover being blown type leak, oh, right, well you know what they say about to go hunting with Italians, no sir, oh, I was hoping maybe you did, anyway look Dick, this is a decisionationist time for me right now, I know that sir, got a light in the load for the journey through the perilous waters ahead, yes sir, this campaign's not gonna be the cakewalk we anticipated, George I thought we had a consensus on this, we don't abandon the cakewalk theory, just when things start getting tough, no, no, that's true, that's when we need cakewalking the

most, but well, let me just put it this way, Dick, last time I was thinking about a run and made, I chose you to head the selection committee, yes sir, and after dubious consideration you came up with the idea of yourself as vice president, and I bought into it, Mr. President I think I know where you're going with this, let me just play some cards that were necessarily in the deck here for a minute, I know I mean I'd be the prettiest face in the art gallery, and I know I can deliver a Wyoming's three electoral votes, and that's about as meaningful as a donors report to the Federal Elections Commission, but let me just pose this query, do you want to be the one who's mediating between Don Rumsfeld and Colin Powell, oh no hey Colin's a good man, we're all good men Mr. President, but some of us have a deep bit of body contempt for others of us, and one of my little jobs is keeping that kind of tension buried beneath a deep layer of benign manure, look I'm very grateful, I mean

I didn't even know benign took a crap, but you really think I'm ready to tuck my tail between my legs and slink back to my good friends at Halliburton, well Rudy pro life Giuliani or Christy save the grubs, Whitman, Snags and electoral votes that you're not even going to need, look I don't really think anything, I just let's just keep this little factoid at the top of our radar screens, certain persons have engaged in certain communications from a secure and disclosed whatever with certain leaders of certain Pakistani type countries, and that's why we've got a 24 or 7 manhunt now for a friend Mr. Ben Laden, I know all about operation October surprise, I get your memo, but certain people if they felt they were being disregarded in favor of Rudy pro life Giuliani, they could make a few phone calls, do a little energizing in the Pakistani Islamic fundamentalist movement, and make our friend General Musharraf back right down for operation October

surprise as well as Hey dick, put your sword back in its plow share, I want you as my running mate, you know, Bush Cheney ticket without Cheney would not only be superlifus, but also redondamental. George, I, you know, I'm not a guy who has a lot of feelings, but whatever the more emotional word would be for impressed, he won't be in the commercials lorison, but listen, I'm very cognizable of what you bring to the table, you know, more often than not, it's the table. So Mr. President assuming our friend Mr. Ben Laden doesn't slip out of the most technologically advanced news on the planet, come October, if it appears to be necessary, I'll have one of my little episodes again, and you'll be free to plug in, whomever you like, dick, you know, the whole gay marriage thing baffles me almost as much as, it's the whole gay thing, but you know, if I was one of them, you're the kind of guy I'd like to marry, let's stick

together partner, you got it, it's always touching to see the most religious people buying the whole free will thing, at least where their choices are concerned, but there I am getting old goopy, is because the constituent achieved it, and saved me a parcel of trouble by intimidating itself, couple of days later I'm all over the morning TV shows, proving like Larry King, that the television camera is a funny beast, more hard problems you have, the better it likes you, and a partial diary for Tuesday, March 2, 2004, sincerely yours, Dick Cheney, Conford Edge, Conford Edge, Conford Edge, Conford Edge. If it's love that you fail, if it's love that you truly fail, if it's love that you

fail, if it's love that you fail, step into the light. If it's love that you fail, step into the light, if it's love that you fail, step into the light. If it's love, if it's love that you fail, if it's love that you fail, if it's love that

you fail, step into the light, if it's love that you fail, if it's love that you fail, if it's love that you fail, if it's love that you fail, if it's love that you fail, if it's love that you fail, if it's love that you fail, if it's love that you fail,

if it's love that you fail, if it's love that you fail, if it's love that you truly fail. And now ladies and gentlemen, it's time for another occasional feature of this broadcast. Attribute to frightening news stories published in Sunday newspapers. Well this beat the Sunday deadline. This was from a couple days before, but it sure fits.

The world's second largest reinsurer, Swiss Re, warned this week that the costs of natural disasters aggravated by global warming threatened to spiral out of control, forcing the human race into a catastrophe of its own making. That's all. In a report revealing how climate change is rising on the corporate agenda, Swiss Re said the economic costs of such disasters threatened to double to $150 billion a year in 10 years. That's one Iraq war a year. We can do it. It ensures with $30 to $40 billion in claims with the equivalent of one world trade center attack annually. There's a danger that human intervention will accelerate and intensify natural climate changes to such a point. It will be impossible to adopt, adapt our social economic systems in time. Swiss Re said in the report, this is a private insurance company. The human race can lead itself into this climactic, climatic catastrophe or it can divert it. This reinsurance, I guess, is where insurance companies resale packages of risk policies

to a bigger company. That'd be Swiss Re, but there's no such thing, is there? What are they worried about? That's what I don't get. We just gentleman some news about the digital wonderland, K-A-B-C-TV engineers here in Los Angeles. We're investigating this week why several high definition TV viewers were unable to pick up the station's signal during the Academy Awards telecast. That'd be kind of a show piece HD TV telecast, wouldn't it? The Academy Awards, in many cases, high definition set owners had thrown parties to see the Oscar ceremony. But when viewers tuned into K-A-B-C's high definition feed, all they saw was static. But they paid, well, you know, six, ten, twenty thousand dollars to see it.

That feels good. The screw up was apparently caused by a software update K-A-B-C underwent Sunday with the intention of boosting the signal for its Oscar broadcast. According to users of an online forum of HD viewers, newer set top boxes were able to handle the upgrade and continue broadcasting, but owners of older boxes were left with a black screen. Some Los Angeles high definition viewers continued to have a black screen for ABC as of Monday afternoon. And oddly enough, they were grateful. No, that doesn't say that. K-A-B-C execs said they received some limited complaints about the snafu, but that the problem was limited to a certain brand of receiver and compatibility issues related to it. Hey, it's always fun to be an early adopter, isn't it, ladies and gentlemen? Always. And now finally, in today's broadcast, one more regular feature. I'm going to read the trades for you. This is from a radio industry trade called Friday Morning Quarterback. Radio chieftains break bread.

See if this makes you think of any law on the federal books. Infinity President Joel Hollander, clear channel radio CEO, John Hogan, intercom CEO David Field, citadel CEO Farid Suleiman, Susquehanna Radio President, David Kennedy, and MSCEO Jeff Smullian all went out to dinner together in New York City and, quote, talked about how we can make the industry better, unquote. Said field of intercom, there's some great opportunities for radio to pull together to invest in its future and it's very exciting to see this strong level of support across so many companies. Said Smullian, it's always the right time for us in the industry to work together. I applaud all the organizers. I thought it was a very good and productive conversation.

One piece of news from the dinner, all national advertising at both clear channel and infinity will now be invoiced electronically. Now, that's not a public policy matter, ladies and gentlemen, but when businessmen, heads of various companies get together to agree on how they're going to approach certain problems and I trust what I just want to see John Ashcroft's pancreatic full pancreatic report. That's all I want. Okay, let it not be said I didn't read the trades for you, it's a copyrighted feature. They were probably just getting together to decide who's going to fire how it's turned

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We were working with scissors and paste and making these collages, which were actually showing up in your local theater. The master film editor Walter Merch. Next time in studio 360, from PRI. Sunday morning at 11.89.9, KCRW. KCRW thanks Santa Monica's big blue bus, that's right, we're thanking a bus, providing a smooth and comfortable ride to the shopping, dining and entertainment districts all over the west side. People moving people since, since 1928, it says since twice, visit them at bigbluebus.com. Chris, what's the next news here in KCRW? I had five o'clock, all things considered from National Public Radio. Do you think the bus, too? Sure, why not? All right, we all thank the bus, ladies and gentlemen, that's Chris. In seven seconds, 10 a.m. time for the show, won't you? Come deep inside your radio. Well, ladies and gentlemen, recount, I guess is the word of the day, you know, it was,

it was, who was it that was saying it in Florida, it was a Democrats, it was a Republicans, everybody was saying recount. Then they said, stop recounting, somebody said that, I think nine guys, five guys, four guys in the gal, I don't remember, anyway, recounting is all the, the Vogue again, the Federal Communications Commission is contemplating a creative way, a creative way. That's, we look to the FCC for creativity, don't we, please? To advance the stalled transition to digital television, hey, who told you it was going to stall? Who told you to stall it? Hands? Thank you. We sell vacated frequencies for billions of dollars, while we can sell the frequencies the digital TV is on for billions of dollars. Stay where we are. Now we can't do that, we must move forward. All right, sources familiar with the plan say that here's how it works.

You see television broadcasters have to give up their analog airwaves at the end of 2006 or when 85% of the public can receive digital signals, whichever comes later, 2006 deadline of course is not going to be met. There's no estimate of when the transition will be complete. Since roughly 85% of the U.S. subscribed to cable or satellite, FCC chairman Michael Powell, son of Colin, is weighing whether to count those homes as receiving capable of receiving digital signals, whether or not their cable or satellite system passes through all the digital signals, you see. This would instantly achieve the goal in many television markets. Subscribers who have a digital television set would enjoy the crisper signals, that's from Reuters. Yes, they're crisper, unless they reduce the bit rate in which case they're crisp crap. And for the majority who do not yet have a digital ready set, they would receive a signal

that has been converted back to analog, so they're not left in the dark. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm the lucky recipient of through my cable system signals that have converted back from digital to analog. You don't want to see television that looks like that. It looks like it looks like it's been soed into a wool scarf the picture does. It looks, you know, your morning oatmeal looks less grainy than this picture. Already most local television stations are broadcasting a digital over the air, but few consumers are receiving it. The transition so far has been slowed by the high price of digital equipment, availability of programming, and the basically crappy nature of the whole idea. Oh, that's me. I'm sorry. Well, it is me, of course. The FCC has ordered the new largest van came in under the new concept. Many markets will reach the 85% threshold by 2005 or 2006. That would free up the valuable analog airwaves, which will be auctioned to wireless providers,

likely for billions and FCC spokeswoman declined to comment. The Tribal link gets shot down in a number of ways, including if the interpretation of the 85% reach cannot pass traditional muster. It says the broadcaster's lobby, we have a variety of concerns he declined to elaborate. It says the cable spokesperson, the broadcast industry's only plan seems to be to occupy analog and digital spectrum indefinitely. No, I've heard worse plans. And if you don't like the recount, don't count. The Bush administration threatened to fire a top Medicare officially if it gave data to Congress showing the high costs of hotly contested Medicare legislation, the official Richard Foster, the chief actuary of the Medicare program said he'd been formally told not to provide the information to Congress.

He said he was told the consequences of insubordination would be, quote, very severe. Senior officials of the Medicare Agency made it clear they would try to fire me for responding directly to inquiries from Congress, Foster said. He'd received that message from Thomas Scully, then administrator of the Medicare program. Scully confirms having told him to withhold certain information from Congress. A white house spokesperson declined to comment. But the spokesperson said he did not know if anyone had threatened to dismiss Foster. The House and Senate approved Medicare bills, being assured that the cost would not exceed $400 billion over 10 years, just two weeks earlier, Foster estimated the drug benefits in a bill very similar would cost $550 billion. All of our estimates he said showed the cost of the drug benefits would be in the range of $500 to $600 billion. Those cost estimates were all provided to his boss Scully. Some were sent to the White House. White House confirmed they'd received those estimates. Foster was an actuary at Social Security before being at Medicare.

William Scully told my staff, said another source that Rick Foster would be fired so fast his head would spin if he released this information to the Congress. So recount or don't count, it's all the same when you're a hello, welcome to the show. Hey, these waitress, never comes around, she's hiding in the kitchen, she's nowhere to be found, I just want some coffee, cause that too much to ask, hey, these waitress, is not up to the task, and when she found a few years, it's like she's been away for years,

it's been so long, so long, just don't you know when, this you where you're gone so long, so long, just don't you know when, this you where you're not. Hey, Lee's waitress, he's vanished once again, she's talking to her agent, she's calling all her friends, forget about the coffee, I'll just take a chick, he's waitress, you

know you'll get yours yet. It's been so long, so long, time don't you know we miss you when you're gone, so long, so long, time don't you know we miss you when you're gone, so

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to the show, hey how you doing you think NBC is going to go for arena baseball if this football thing works out, that would be cool, that would really because you know baseball looks so good inside, here's the good news ladies and gentlemen, the the Palmele rush to e-voting may have hit a big speed bump California legislators said this week they want to stop the use of all paperless electronic voting machines in the state, the chairman and vice president of the senate elections committee, senate letter to the secretary of state, not Colin Powell, the California secretary of state, urging him to de-certify all paperless touchscreen voting machines before the general election, March 2 primary was a test flight of widespread use of these machines, I think it's fair to say the test flight crashed and burned, says Don Pirata of Oakland chairman of the senate election committee, none of us want California to be the next Florida, I don't know, I wouldn't mind some old people wandering by shuffling, shuffling by some very thin models in Art Deco hotels, what about

you? The senate senate and senator cited mal functions of e-voting machines during the primary that resulted in voters being turned away from the polls, they said the presidential election was too important to leave to the new machines. Counties will be forced to use old-style optical scan machines instead, they use a paper ballot that voters mark with a pencil or pen, of course and buggy can you get, they'll be watching analog television. All counties using paperless systems are required to have backup print options, most counties possess only one or two such scan units which they generally use to process absentee ballots. The need for the moratorium became apparent after mal functioning machines in the march primary as we said, prevented many people from voting. In Orange County, about 7,000 workers got the wrong ballots, it resulted in ballots being cast for the wrong legislative districts. In 21 precincts, more votes were cast than they were registered voters, hey

that's FCC type counting. In San Diego 30% of the precincts failed to out open on time because of problems with the machines. How about paper and a thing? Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to say one more time. Are you in a hurry for the results? Am I? You know who's in a hurry for the results? CBS NBC, ABC, CNN, Fox, MSNBC. That's it. I can wait till the morning. I really can't. We're going to be stuck with whoever it is for four years. I can wait till Wednesday morning. I can wait till Thursday. I can wait a month like we did. So why don't we just all go back to taking a pen, taking a piece of paper, sound effect, going like that. I know put a lot of electronics manufacturers that they'll have to supply defective voting machines to Taiwan instead, but I'm going to say it one more time. Paper ballots, ladies and gentlemen, an idea whose time has come back. I can wait.

I really can. All right, on to bigger fish. A new classified intelligence report presented the White House last week to tell for the first time the extent to which Pakistan's Khan Research Labs provided North Korea with all the equipment and technology that needed to produce uranium-based nuclear weapons. All of it from our friends in Pakistan. We attacked Iraq. Pakistan was providing North Korea with all the equipment and technology that needed to produce uranium-based nuclear weapons. This is a CIA assessment. Confirming the Bush administration's fears about the accelerated nature of North Korea's secret uranium weapons program, some intelligence officials believe it could produce a weapon as early as some time next year is based on Pakistan's accounts of its interrogation of A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's bomb, who was pardoned by Pakistani President Musharraf in January. Because when you supply North Korea with all the equipment it needs

to build a uranium-based nuclear bomb, you deserve a pardon. Not enough. The report concluded North Korea probably received a package very similar to the Khan-Network Sold to Libya for more than 60 million. It includes nuclear fuel, centrifuges, and one or more warhead designs. But wait, there's more. No, that was it. A senior American official described it as, quote, the complete package from raw uranium hexafluoride to the centrifuges to enrich it, all of which could bore easily be hidden. Weapons inspectors than were North Korea's older facilities. The relationship between Khan and North Korea heated up rapidly between 1998 and 2002. Speaking of nuclear weapons, of course, the United States is now relying on trying to get UN weapons inspectors. We're kind of insisting on getting UN weapons inspectors

into Iran to see what they're doing with their nukes, their nuclear program. These are the same, something that was spelled down, ladies and gentlemen, don't worry about a thing. These are the same UN weapons inspectors. We didn't trust to inspect Iraq just about a year ago. I know wild how things change. Speaking of UN weapons inspectors, the United States unsuccessfully tried to pressure the UN chief weapons inspector back then to tell the Security Council that Iraq was in violation of UN resolutions just two weeks before the war began. That's according to the inspector involved, Hans Blix. Hans Blix everybody. On March 6, 2003, the day before Blix was to make his final report to the Security Council, US Assistant Secretary of State John Wolf asked, according to Blix, in a rather discurdious tone, why Blix's agency did not conclude the discovery of an Iraqi aerial drone and a cluster bomb for delivering chemical weapons were violations of Iraqi obligations. This is what Blix writes in his new book. He said Wolf tossed photographs

of them which further irritated the Swedish diplomat when it tossed the photos on the table because of the possibility the photos had been leaked by someone on his staff or that his secure facts system had been penetrated. Blix said the cluster bombs were copies of South African munitions imported by Iraq long ago and appeared to be scrapped from the past rather than something of current interest. The exchange with Wolf was one of several last-minute maneuvers at the UN that were undertaken to head off the fighting. The policy of containment was abandoned in the case of Iraq. He concludes encounter proliferation was applied. He also gave an interview this week, trying to get to this question that everybody asked, including Donald Rumsfeld. The big three made the rounds of the Sunday Morning Yacht shows this past weekend. Rumsfeld, Powell and Condoleezza Rice. Rumsfeld again said, well, why would Saddam Hussein take a chance and forego the

money he could have gotten if the sanctions were lifted just by coming clean if he didn't have something to hide, which was something we heard Tony Blair say last year. Here's Blix. The sanctions on Iraq were going to be lifted once the weapons inspectors reported that all weapons of mass destruction were gone, but Iraq didn't trust that that was going to happen. The US, according to Blix, often said that the sanctions wouldn't be lifted until Saddam Hussein was removed from power. Therefore, he had no reason to meet the demands of disarmament. Another reason says Blix, see if this sounds familiar, ladies and gentlemen, see if you heard this on some nationally syndicated radio program on your local public radio station a year ago. Another reason Blix says might be that Saddam Hussein wanted to come across as more dangerous than he actually was. Finally, Blix is asked, how did it feel to stand in front of influential world leaders who told you that you have been deceived?

Blix, we knew what we knew. Unlike Donald Rumsfeld who asked today on CNN, when you said a year ago that we knew where the WMDs were, was that right? Well, we couldn't know. He says, you don't know until you're on the ground. So we didn't know what we knew. Ladies and gentlemen, it would appear according to Donald Rumsfeld, Australia's F-18 pilots refused to drop their bombs in dozens of missions during the Iraq War. One of the pilots has revealed news from beyond the bubble, ladies and gentlemen. The pilots had each of the 14 F-18 Hornet pilots aborted three to four missions, he keeping track of the numbers during the war, often because intelligence given it preflight briefings did not concur with what they found at the target. Squadron leader Darryl Pudney described out he and other Australian pilots had to weigh up the life and death decisions in a split

second before dropping their bombs. Pilots broke off many missions after they saw the target and decided there was not a valid military reason to drop. It appears there were fundamental differences, according to Australian media, between the U.S. dominated headquarters and Australian pilots over what constituted a valid military target. Squadron leader Pudney said under Australia's rules of engagement, pilots had to ask themselves on each mission whether it was right to drop their bombs. Each guy would have made that decision once to a half dozen times in the conflict. He would not comment on the reasons missions were aborted, but it seems it was often to avoid killing civilians unnecessarily. He said most decisions were made in the air, but some were command decisions. When I decided not to attack, he said it was because there was some small doubt in the back of my mind saying, is this really what I need to be doing? Is this going to help win the war right now? He said he didn't believe the U.S. Air Force was more trigger happy, but it operates under

different laws of engagement. What's going on at Guantanamo Bay, ladies and gentlemen? Has this been, have you heard a lot about this? Four Brits, after much Heming and Haing, Tony Blair finally negotiated the release of four Brits from Guantanamo. They've been held there for two years. They were flown back to Britain this week, arrested immediately, questioned for a day, all released, no charges. And a story, thank you guys. Nice to see it. They're now telling their story while negotiating for Mucho, Mucho de Nero to tell their story again, Tarek Dergoul, and then the United States for gross breaches of human rights, which he alleged included interrogation at gunpoint, while a British intelligence official stood on the backs of his legs while he was kneeling. Ouch. The 26-year-old Dergoul from London

is a former health care worker. Former care worker, he's in poor physical and mental health after his two-year ordeal. He's believed to have had an arm amputated and have difficulty walking. His account, according to a statement, includes botched medical treatment interrogations at gunpoint, beatings and inhumane conditions. His family believe his mental health has been severely affected by the trauma he's suffered. The men were beaten, they say, but that was not nearly as bad as the psychological torture. Said the men were asked to sign a confession. They were linked to the Taliban in Al-Qaeda. Before their release, he said I would rather have stayed in Guantanamo than sign that paper. A Pentagon spokeswoman described the allegations as simply lies. Colin Powell says he believed the US treated detainees in a very, very humanitarian way. Because we are Americans, Powell said we don't abuse

people in our care. Unquote. Because we're Americans. It's just, you know, it's just the way it is. We're better. US authorities are refused to allow independent human rights observers into the military base in Cuba. Because we're Americans. Because we're Americans, we treated the Native Americans well. I'm sorry. I got that one wrong. And now, ladies and gentlemen, is it time for a copyrighted feature? It's way past time, don't you think? The apologies of the week. So many apologies this week, starting a force with this one. To the fans of hockey and the fans of Vancouver. For the kids that watch this game, I'm truly sorry. I don't play the game that way. I'm not a mean-spirited person. And I'm sorry for what happened. And he does play the game that way. We saw it. See, when you're apologizing,

you can actually say while you're apologizing, don't believe what you saw. Believe what I'm saying now. That's Todd Bertuzzi of the Bertuzzi of the Vancouver Canucks. Yes, you can call them Canucks. Apologizing for the hit, the blindside punch, and the takedown that resulted in a broken neck, broken collarbone to a Colorado hockey player. Bertuzzi faces criminal investigation and has been suspended for the remainder of the hockey season. Because he doesn't play the game that way. The American designer of Germany's long delayed national Holocaust memorial has apologized for a joke that local Jewish leader said made light of the Nazi gas chambers. Peter Eisenman, quipped at a meeting the project's trustees in Berlin last month that his dentist told him that his gold fillings came from the same German company whose former subsidiary supplied Zeichlann B. Sinai tablets for the gas chambers. Under the circumstances, it was ironic. Eisenman said in New York, maybe there's an enormous

difference between American Jewish humor and present-day German Jewish humor. I've said repeatedly that to anyone who took it as insensitive, I apologize for that. But he says I shouldn't resign. Here's also from Vancouver. Human DNA may have been in meat processed for human consumption at a pig farm at the center of an investigation into Vancouver's missing women. We can't rule out the possibility of cross-contamination British Columbia's provincial health officer. Where's these apology? There's an apology in here somewhere. Oh, yes. There is. I swear. Or not. Yes. The Corporal Gale, sorry, Corporal Kate Gallifords, folkswoman for the Royal Canadian Mount of Police, task force into the missing women case

refused to use the word remains when speaking of the potentially contaminated meat. She opened the police news conference when the apology to the families for them hearing about it on the news first. From the University of Virginia Daily Cavalier on the life page of yesterday's paper, we printed a column titled, Real Jews Get to the Front of the Buffet Line, which in retrospect falls outside the standards of good taste. We apologize. We apologize for any offense taken and we'll hold all content to hire scrutiny in the future. Argentina will compensate children who were detained stolen or born in captivity during a brutal 1976-1983 dictatorship. The President, Nester Kirchner, asked them to forgive the state. We are sorry. We can do no more than ask forgiveness. Kirchner has also campaigned to lift anasties protecting officials evolved in the dirty war. The latest in the series of unending series of city officials who drive drunk and apologized, San Jose City Council

and Terry Gregory was arrested early Friday morning on suspicion of drunk and driving. He was pulled over going 70 miles an hour and a 40 mile an hour zone. The only thing I can say is I made a mistake and I'm very sorry about it. I apologize to my friends and colleagues on the city council and the residents of District 7. I'm just thankful that no one was hurt. He said. Also in the apologetic California official department, from Santa Maria, California, home of the future Michael Jackson trial, supervisor Gail Marshall refused to resign despite impassioned pleas from two mesh Indian members and others condemning her for what they say were racist comments about Native Americans. Marshall again apologized to those offended and she questioned the tribe's political motives in seeking her removal. Marshall said the tribe was unsophisticated about government because when you get $300,000 a year for sitting on the couch watching a Lakers game not working, you model that lifestyle to the next generations. Vincent Armenta, leader of the Santa Enez band of two mesh Indians

was upset. I don't believe her apology is acceptable. Washington State officials apologized this week for mailing hundreds of letters to retired public employees about their pensions that in some cases mistakenly notified them of their own deaths. On the Larry King show Larry, how do you react to those who say you're not apologetic enough? You're apologetic but not overly apologetic. Jason Blair. I'm immensely contrite and I'm sorry for the damage I've done. I've apologized in the book. I've apologized in interviews. Some people you know, it seems to me some people would like me to crawl into a hole and disappear forever. That's not in my nature. I'm not sure what more I could do to show people how sorry I am. If you apologize to the people you've plagiarized from, I've not apologized to the people I've plagiarized from. I've apologized to why not? Well, I've apologized. One of the things I did you know in the fall of last year was make a list of people I felt had been hurt by this situation. I've slowly begun trying to make amends and I've started with friends. And as I move from friends, some of my former colleagues, some of the people I plagiarized from, I really need to understand my actions

completely, have my heart into these apologies. And you know, I wouldn't be surprised if I wasn't done apologizing over the next 20 years. A malfunctioning website may have allowed the Social Security numbers addresses another personal information of more than 2000 University of California applicants to be viewed by other students. During this year's application process, you will see officials. We're very distressed about this situation. Hope students will accept our apologies for any concern it may cause them. It says, you see these associate vice president for student academic services. J.C. Chase Hedves of InSync is sorry after a leading advocate of the Schizophrenic took offense to the title of his just release solo album. The album is called Schizophrenic. The cover art depicting a must-a-haired Chase's in a straight jacket didn't go over too well either. Bill McFee, publisher of Schizophrenia Digest and a diagnosis Schizophrenic called Chase's appropriation of the brain disorder a misappropriation and criticized his record label, Jive. I apologize to anyone I may have offended with the title and cover of my album, Chase's said. I'm truly sorry if I've

upset anyone. According to Jive, however, neither the offending title nor cover art will be altered. The British Ministry of Defense apologized to the mother of a Marine killed in the war with a rack after it took almost a year to admit publicly his death was the result of friendly fire. The head of the Christian civic league of Maine apologized for using the group's website to solicit information about the sexual orientation of lawmakers and other state officials and Taiwan's opposition nationalist party has been forced to withdraw a presidential election campaign, add featuring a picture of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler after a group protest from Jewish groups, ladies and gentlemen, a bumper crop. The apologies of the week copyrighted feature. I'm not. Sometimes I'm not. One of the world I'm going to. But not just weakness and

no completeness. I loved the dog too. I seem trouble in my life and times. But I won't let it change my mind. Still, it's still some peaceful dream I've been. But sometimes I wonder. Sometimes I wonder people. Sometimes I wonder, wonder, wonder. Sometimes I wonder. Sometimes I wonder. What in the world we're trying to do.

To visit fighting. To be the right thing. What help we go through. You must trouble in my life and times. I can't let it change my mind. Still, it's still some peaceful dream I've been. But sometimes I wonder. Sometimes I wonder. Sometimes I wonder. Oh, sometimes I wonder. Sometimes I wonder people. Sometimes I wonder, wonder,

wonder. Check this is so tied to have to be stripped of in this chair. From the grand opening, just in the back of the grand opening of the newest, most exciting place for health-conscious people in Beverly Hills to enjoy, all the most luxurious foods

without any of the guilt. From the grand opening of Soy Grah, this is strictly from Blackwell and I am Blackwell and I'm definitely going to be getting all my health-conscious patees here. They are done in such a way that you would never dream that they never went through a bird. And it is such a delight to be over with the awards season so early in the year, whoever at the Academy or wherever, thought of moving the Oscars to February out of March. Just thank you, just thank you so much, we can concentrate on what are the good things of life and not have to worry about what she is wearing to wear and what and who is going to be shocking who now. And so we look forward to the wonderful world of you and we have wonderful guests today to share that world with you.

Dr. Kim Pointer is one of our favorite figures, one of our favorite persons and people in the world of cosmetic and plastic and all sorts of restorative. We don't like the word reconstructive, we like restorative because your face isn't a construction. It's not a story, but you know what I mean. We love her and we love what she's doing and we love the message and the commitment and the passion that she brings for the message and the commitment that she has Dr. Kim Pointer. Thank you. We've never had you on the program before and I feel bad about that. You don't have to. Welcome. Thank you. Mr. Blackwell, it's so much of a pleasure to be here, you know, we had many, many wonderful conversations at the Four Seasons and all sorts of wonderful places and I've never been invited to the show before.

I know. I know. You were a naughty boy. I don't know. I do have to feel guilty. I can't keep it straight back to the point that there's so many people talking about Botox this and Botox that and I'm just wondering have we gone too far with Botox? Is this something you've been thinking about? It is indeed. Okay. Mr. Blackwell. I feel obviously in our profession, I don't know, yeah, our product gets hot and nothing has gotten hotter in the last five years than Botox. When you have John Kerry having to deny that he's had Botox, you know, it couldn't get hotter. It's being used all over town and all over the country, I imagine, I read in the journals about it being used all over the place, I read foreign countries, even Brazil of course. And you know, we're in danger of having a generation of people who can't move their

eyebrows and crinkle their foreheads even if they want to. So I've been thinking about this, I've been working on it and I'm very excited about what we've come up with. What we feel and we hear from your publicist is just the most incredible treatment that you have copyrighted, you copyrighted treatment or what? We've patented it. You don't copyrighted it. No, no, no. Treatment, of course. No medical treatment. You can. Okay. Patented it. Okay. We trademarked the name. Oh yeah. And that's bottle. And then of course we administer it. You give it available, which is the main. Okay. So it is called NoTox. NoTox. NoTox. And it's called that Mr. Blackwell because it reverses the effects of Botox. Okay. It allows the skin wrinkling and moving functions to be restored. Okay. And also because it contains absolutely no botulism, toxin whatsoever, made 100% from deactivated

salmonella organisms. Okay. And so it's called NoTox. NoTox. And so this, if you're finding that you're looking a little too much like the David Guest exhibit in the wax museum, we would go to you, we would say doctor, we want to restore some movement, some expression to the brow, the forehead area, and you would, what, you would inject. How would we take it? There would, there would be a series of injections. It's, as I say, it's perfect. It's unbelievably safe. And that's totally deactivated salmonella organisms. And we inject a series of injections right into the nasial cranial, labial areas of the face. And within six weeks, full function has been restored and believable. You can control the level of expression, you can control the level of lines. You know, women are coming to me, Mr. Blackwell, and they're saying, I don't look like a 48 year old, and I'm 56.

So maybe something's wrong here now, and maybe we should do something about it. And that's one of the real reasons that no talks is here here and came to be. And it is a wonderful example of how, yes, you can turn the clock back into you. And Jason Hegel is with us as well, and we're going to have good conversation with him, as Jason is one of the smartest, most up-to-date, most with it attorneys that we know of or know too in the Beverly Hills, the Greater Beverly Hills area. And Jason is getting into an unbelievably busy line of work these days, because Jason, you will explain everything to us. Welcome. Thank you, Mr. Blackwell. Yes. I've been a divorce lawyer in Southern California for about 22 years, and you know, divorce laws is pretty cut and dry normally in terms of in a no fault setting, in the absence of a prenup.

Of course. Yeah, assets. No, no. It occurred to us about six months ago that the gay marriage situation was just ripe. Yeah. And sooner or later, and this is rooting for marriages to fail. No, I know, I know, I know. Say that about divorce laws, but I'd be happy, I'd be a happy man if every marriage was successful. Was it? I'd find, you know, to buy companies to sue some of that, but yeah, that gay marriages were going to eventually to give them the odds in heterosexual marriage, 50% and a divorce. Some percentage, who knows if it wasn't going to be more or more less or what, are going to end in divorce and somebody needs to specialize in gay divorce and happen to be that person and that's happened to be doing that work. Okay. So you are specializing in gay divorce is how many of you, you know, and you're going to, this is very delicate to talk about.

It's new and it's, it's fresh and it's hot and it's exciting, but it's also a little delicate. You're handled, we're talking about the devil, yes. We've done two so far because there haven't really been that many marriages, you know, statistically, two is a large number and we've, we've had a lot of both. It's a very, very large number and we don't know anything about statistics, but we feel that from just what you're giving off here, Jason, and what has been different? What's different about a gay divorce, because I know what's different about a gay wedding, we used to do a fabulous business in Mother of the Bride, where now we are doing Mother of the whatever, and so what is different, but that would not figure, that would not be a part of what's different about the gay divorce, but you would.

What we find is that there are custody issues that are different because it's not a mother and a father, it's not a husband or wife, it's not an Adam and Steve situation, and also the division of property, even in the community property, say like California, is a little bit different and partly that's emotional. You have, every divorce is contentious, every divorce is unpleasant, that's what, that's why God put me on this earth, that's the deal with that. But in a gay divorce, I found in the two that we've handled so far, the level of anger is if anything greater, the disappointment, the feeling that these people were in the vanguard of something and that they let not only each other down, a movement down, just plays upon each other and I find that we have counseling and we have class, various

sorts of services in the firm, and very often we have to just sedate these people just to get them to do depositions, these are the first sedated depositions that we've done in my 22 years in business, interesting, interesting, and a deposition, we're going to find out what a deposition is, but Dr. Kim pointed, if we want the no talks, clearly we have to make an appointment, we have to make the appointment, we have to make the commitment, that we have to hide from our friends and our relatives and our neighbors, it's very subtle, it's not dramatic, that's why I say it's over a period of a month to six weeks, we just gradually dial back in the ability to move these muscles and to create the pattern of these muscles having moved on the cutaneous surface, that is to say the skin, and so it's a very

natural evolution, it's not dramatic, it's not sudden, it's not shocking, it's not frightening, it's very natural and as I say it's just the deactivated salmonella, okay, when you say deactivated, of course this is safe, we know this is safe because you wouldn't be doing it if it is, is this any, when you say salmonella, is this what, from the salmon is it from the fish, no, because there's no better fish, no there's no better fish, and that's true, but this is not, salmonella is a food-borne bacterium, and like botulinum, it's a bacterium which in different doses can be dangerous, can be toxic, but in these doses can just be so life-affirming, and the first 40 women that have, and two men interestingly who have come in for the treatment, for the no-tox treatment have just, I wish I could

show you the letters they've sent me Mr. Blanc, well because it's just, it's heartbreaking and it moves you to tears, how relief these people are to have their muscle control, and the evidence of having lived back, I'm giving them back a visual map of their lives and, you know, we, we, you don't miss it till it's gone, interesting, like the song says, we don't know the song, but we know the feeling because we used to hate those lines and now we say where are they, they are us, it's like the Toy Star Jason Hagel, everybody's saying what, gay marriage is good, gay marriage is bad, we, we love the civic union, we love the marriage, what, you know, what is your take, what is your feeling, more importantly, well, this, well, we love for you to share. Okay, obviously, if, if it's civil unions, we don't enter into, no, no, no, the dissolution

of that, that's purely a civil matter and it could be dealt with, in a court clerks office in about 10 minutes, so, which we, you know, you don't want to, for purely personal reasons, and nothing to do with my lifestyle, anybody, we, we, we're very much in favor of gay marriage, or lobbying vigorously for it, okay, because, you know, it's a civil right to do for them as, as well as for us, as well as for you, it, it, it couldn't be fairer and clearer if you actually tried, Jason Hagel, Dr. Kim Pointer, we've had such great conversation and I would love to just kill the clock, because it's killing us in return in advance. Next time, the Fall Collections Retro-Schmetro, when looking back, is almost as frightening as looking ahead. Till then, strictly for black. Well, bye-bye.

Meanwhile, back on this planet, ladies and gentlemen, there is a, a bizarre couple of stories from Africa. One involves that plane load of mercenaries, alleged mercenaries, that flew into Zimbabwe. The plane was impounded and the alleged mercenaries were arrested. Supposedly, we're plotting a coup in the scent, in equatorial guinea. Like, somebody cares, it's good news, somebody cares about equatorial guinea. Apparently, it has to do with some libanese and oil things. It's oil. And then there's the story of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, ousted or removed or self-resigned as a elected president of Haiti, exiled for momentarily in the Central African Republic. He didn't like it, they didn't like it. He is now on his way to Jamaica, still claiming that the U.S. forced him from power.

The U.S. says, well, who are you going to believe? Jean-Bertrand Aristide or Colin Powell? Harry's getting coming to Jamaica. Yeah, he'd be jamming in the sun. Africa's the mother of us all, man. But, just west of Haiti, he'd prefer to land. Just west of Haiti, where he'd take his stunt. He say, we hired clotters. He say, he hired thugs. He say,

what about the poor? We say, rise and tide lifts all bugs. He say, we're bad guys coming back now. We say this place needs an army, because we're fighting a war on drugs. War on drugs. It's getting better than fighting its fate. Aristide is coming to Jamaica. He making speeches in the sand. Africa's the mother of us all, man. But, just west of Haiti, where he'd take his stunt. Just west of Haiti, where he'd take his stunt. He say, why would he lie?

We say, we trust Colin Powell. He say, why? Well, ladies and gentlemen, that's going to jig the cap on this particular bottle of

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