Le Show; 2010-11-28

From deep inside your radio. From just overlooking Leicester Square, ladies and gentlemen, home of the electric icicles. Apparently, more HD stuff, because it's an HD world, ladies and gentlemen, even though it means nothing at all. A listener submits this. Jumping on the HD bandwagon, Bausch and Loam, now marketing Crystal End's HD inter-ocular lenses and Pure Vision 2 HD contact lenses. It came to his optometry clinic to promote them. HD lenses, ladies and gentlemen, so you can see. So the whole world looks like a flat screen TV. And here in London, HD traffic, yes, I don't know what that means. I mean, does it mean that you can actually, well, the little arrows on the map are sharper.

I don't know, but it's a slogan and that's good enough for those people. Now news of the F bomb foreclosure, the whole thing. First of all, the quote of the week comes from of all people, Mervyn King, he of the Bank of England. Is his name on the money? Here? No. I don't know if anybody, and I don't have, you know, I'm like the president, I don't have money on me. Anyway, Mervyn King of the Bank of England, who says, and this is not a paraphrase. This is hit. These are his words, quote, of all the many ways of organizing banking. The worst is the one we have today, unquote. I guess it's because they care too much. A top treasury department official said this week that federal investigators looking into

problems with mortgage foreclosures throughout the country have found widespread and, quote, inexcusable, unquote, breakdowns in basic controls in the foreclosure process. That's all just that. Quote, these problems must be fixed, said assistant treasury secretary Michael Barr. By the way, don't look to Michael Barr to fix him. He's leaving his post to resume his academic career and spend more time with his family. He's wishing us good luck with this, I guess. The extensive foreclosure problems which range from flawed and fraudulent paperwork to questions about improper or incomplete loan transfers for service way back in September when Bank of America and ally financial abruptly halted foreclosures for just a little while. Barr said regulators have been conducting onsite examinations of some of the latest nations largest mortgage servicers.

The exams are designed in part to ensure that filed foreclosures meet legal requirements and that affidavits the firms are filing in the nation's courts are accurate. Investigators are expected to complete their fieldwork by the end of the year. Now, ladies and gentlemen, there's Thanksgiving, well, there was Thanksgiving, there's Christmas, and they're going to do that all that by the end of the year. No wonder he wants to spend more time with his family, although administration official says Barr is still under consideration for a different post, perhaps office of controller of the currency where he can spend less time with his family. And news of how's it going over there in Afghanistan? Well, according to the US military, violence there in an all time high in recent months, nine years after the arrival of foreign forces, we have now been there as long as the Russians. Pentagon said all types of combat, all types of violent incidents in Afghanistan increased

from April through the end of September up 300% from 2007, except for the use of roadside bombs. The Pentagon's latest Congressional mandated report painted a grim picture of the situation in Afghanistan, corruption undermining the fight against the Taliban and only halting uneven improvements to Afghan's lives have been achieved. The Pentagon depicted a resilient opponent where the Taliban enjoys a steady stream of funding at home and from other Islamic states. Insurgents have fanned out across the country. Insurgents, tactics, techniques, and procedures continue to evolve in sophistication said the Pentagon. And it said while the government of President Karzai is making some efforts to combat corruption, there was a questionable commitment to ending impunity and prosecuting corrupt officials. And I guess by that they mean in Afghanistan because the impunity here is working out just fine.

Welcome to the show. There's belonging. There's belonging. There's belonging. With the grass out there on the riverside, don't act to grow. Oh, out into this very spine, you're eating what you sow. Don't be in this dung of deep, a smile won't catch my eye.

So goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. To heaven. Let's be loving. Let's be loving. Let's be loving. Let's be loving. Let us be loversly. Keep on, keep on, keep on, keep on, keep on, keep on, keep on, keep on. Keep on, keep on loving. Keep on, keep on, keep on, keep on. Keep on, keep on, keep on, keep on living. From London, England, home of the $7 billion, $7 billion pound royal wedding, yeah, a good

thing to have in these times, that on the Olympics will break it. I'm Harry Scherer. Welcome you to this edition of the show. And now he's not a general, he commands no truth. He's not an inspector, he picks up no stoop season, inspector general, yeah. After the United States has doled out about 24 billion during almost eight years of recruiting training and mentoring and women to and furnishing weapons and equipment, the Iraq Ministry of Defense, sorry, Ministry of Interior and the Army and police units they support, do not have a supply system capable of maintaining readiness of the Iraqi security forces, job well done.

That's the finding of a defense department inspector general's report released recently that assessed U.S. efforts to develop the logistical sustainment capability, sustainment is a word now that is in gentlemen of the Iraq security forces. The report says the defense ministry is quote, generally dysfunctional when it comes to planning, programming, budgeting and execution processes. Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, they're doing fine. The interior ministry has matured in its budgeting processes, it could not quote effectively plan and contract to procure repair parts to support the Iraqi police vehicle fleet, unquote. And the interior ministry requested the purchase of a $200 million helicopter fleet. It did not provide for spare parts. Uh oh. Development and support are required infrastructure facilities. Iraq needs about $600 million annually to maintain its military equipment, according to the defense IG, but the defense ministry allocated only $40 million for maintenance. But you know, we test the training wheels off, what do you expect?

Defense investigators also found Army Iraqi Army commanders are reluctant to send vehicles such as armored personnel carriers to repair facilities for fear they won't be returned for a year or more, and that then they may not be working or may be stripped of parts. It's working with young democracy. The interior ministry's federal police sustainment brigade, all there is that word again, is supposed to conduct anti-insurgent and anti-terrorist operations. The ministry has provided only 25% of the logistics personnel the brigade is supposed to have. So only one of its four divisions has a logistics group. The US arranged for all trainers and mentors assigned to the brigade to leave last June because it's a brigade and not a larger unit. The IG recommended that decision be reassessed. Not accomplishing the mission could have significant consequences with respect to Iraqi security

forces ability to provide for Iraq's internal and external defense. There's an understatement from the Defense Departments Inspector General and hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal stimulus grants for victims of rape and sexual assault were misspent or squandered. The California agency responsible for the funds knew about the problems but did little to fix them. That's according to the California Inspector General, Laura Chik, Laura changed her name to woman. It's time. She said the spot check of two agencies that received a portion of 13 million in federal grants to help victims of sexual assault reveal the problems and set ultimate responsibility lies with the California Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, which told out the money. When the groups that received the grants reported to the agency, they had not made progress to response in one instance with simply to strike out a requirement, included as part of the grant.

Their silence should be not just crossing out the objective said, Chik, it was a worthwhile goal. That's why the grant was given. She said the one of the agencies that received federal dollars the California Coalition against Sexual Assault had not met three of the four objectives outlined in its grant and that it spent $48,000 on expenses such as office rent and supplies that are not allowed under the grant. Stimulus money? Okay. And ladies and gentlemen, US government drivers trusted with transporting nuclear weapons are sometimes getting drunk while on duty, said a Department of Energy Inspector General's report. Drivers were involved in 16 alcohol related incidents from 2007 to 2009 with one agent arrested by police three years ago and two others handcuffed in this same last year.

The Office of Secure Transportation, OST, oversees the shipment of nuclear weapons, weapons, parts, and special nuclear material. It has a workforce of nearly 600 agents. All incidents such as these indicate a potential vulnerability at OST's critical national security mission, said the Energy Department's Inspector General and another possible understatement. The government has taken steps to address drinking by agents or candidates in training. Concerns expressed by some managers and the number of alcohol related incidents occurring over the past three years suggest that further action may be needed. Two of the 16 alcohol incidents took place when convoy trucks were in safe harbor status and the agents had checked into local hotels. In 2007, an agent was arrested for public intoxication and in 2009, two agents were temporarily detained by police after an unspecified incident at a local bar. Under new rules, agents are barred from drinking alcohol eight hours before reporting for duty.

And candidates are prohibited from processing kegs of beer. The Inspector's General's Office launched the probe after hearing allegations of alcohol abuse within OST and of incidents at a training facility at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. They heard Fort Chaffee, what do you expect them to do? It's Arkansas. Come on. News of the Inspector's General, ladies and gentlemen. Copyright a feature of this broadcast and while we're on the subject of its clean, its cheap, it's safe, it's too clean, cheap, safe to meter, there's this EPA, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and FEMA, are struggling to determine which agency and with what money and legal authority would oversee cleanup in the event of a large-scale accident and a nuclear power plant that disperses radiation off this reactor site into the surrounding area. And it gets fine.

Somebody will, the effort which the agencies have not acknowledged publicly was sparked when the Regulatory Commission recently informed the other agencies that it does not plan to take the lead in overseeing such a cleanup. Nuclear Regulatory Commission won't take the lead in cleaning up a large-scale nuclear accident. What would they clean up? That question not asked, not answered. Money in an industry-funded insurance account for nuclear accidents would likely not be available according to the NRC. And that's according to documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Well, that's the problem right there, ladies and gentlemen. That damn act. Environmentalists concerned with nuclear safety and cleanup issues say the documents indicate the government has no long-term cleanup plan in the event of an emergency. That casts down on the nuclear power industry's ongoing efforts to revive itself. The industry currently has 22 applications to build new nuclear power plants pending.

And it's marketing itself as a source of carbon-free emissions. A spokesman for the Nuclear Energy Institute, however, which represents the industry. As officials believe such cleanups would be handled by the insurance fund, despite assertions in the documents to the contrary. The spokesman also downplays the likelihood of such a cleanup being necessary. You might want to chisel this, quote, into a nearby piece of stone, saying nuclear accidents are, quote, highly unlikely to occur, unquote. Nuclear incidents are unlikely to occur, the widespread breaching of hurricane protection system in one of the nation's major cities. That was totally unlikely to occur. Just happened. The NRC officials also indicated during their meetings that industry-funded insurance accounts established under the Price Anderson Act would likely not be available to pay for such a cleanup.

It could likely be used only to provide compensation for damages incurred as a result of an accident, such as hotel stays lost wages and property replacement, leaving federal officials unsure where the money to pay for a cleanup would come from. This summer EPA staff began drafting a paper on the issue in preparation for emergency drills. The paper was never completed amid disagreements between EPA staff over what authority the agency may or may not have to clean up after a nuclear power plant incident. In July, a draft of the paper cited superfund, let's call superfund as a possible source of cleanup funding, but EPA staff disagree on whether superfund is applicable to cleanup after a nuclear power plant accident, calling it a question of its viability as both a source of funding and cleanup authority. So you know, it's very unlikely, but you're on your own, clean it up yourself. You got brooms and deadline metropolis Illinois, a town so small, they called it metropolis.

Replacement workers being coached and testing materials out in the open, and you report by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission found a number of troubling violations at Honeywell's metropolis nuclear plant. More than 200 union members of the United Steel workers are locked out of the plant in the past couple of months. NRC inspectors tested replacement workers on the job. And according to the report found the evaluator coached the candidate several times during task performance, adding the evaluator helped the candidate follow the procedure. NRC made nine inspections. It also reported a small leak of deadly uranium hexafluoride gas at the plant on September 6th. Now, who's going to clean that up? Honeywell said the plant began addressing the NRC's concerns even before the inspections were finished. Well, see now some people will blame unions, some people will blame nuclear power, some

people will say, why are you playing the blame game? That's the wonderful thing. People can say whatever they like. It's clean. It's thing to save the phone. It's nuclear phone. Let's all get drunk and then clean up the nuclear plant. What do you say? And now, ladies and gentlemen, tails of airport security. George writes, dear Harry, this weekend I was dining in a restaurant at Seattle Tacoma Airport in Seattle, best place to put Seattle to Tacoma Airport, in my opinion. But I discovered an unattended bag under my table. A few moments later, I noticed that a group of three uniform TSA agents were walking by.

Wanted to catch them before they left my field of vision. I grabbed the bag and walked over. After explaining about how it was left unattended, the three agents began to awkwardly talk amongst themselves about who would deal with this sudden interruption to their conversation. After a few moments, one of the agents told me to bring the bag back to the restaurant and to tell the waiter to call the police. I asked if they could do that directly. And he just told me to return with the bag to the restaurant, which was full of people. As I started walking back, they continued their conversation and walked away.

It turns out the backpack belonged to a kid who had forgotten it earlier in the evening. I was able to give it back to him, nobody was harmed. George, San Diego, and now more on scanning and padding. Remember, Pat Down is for now, radiation is forever, and on that subject, U.S. Representative Rush Holt, yes, there's more than one American named Rush. He's a scientist and chairman of the House Select Intelligence Oversight panel, has written to the administrator of TSA, reiterating his concerns about the use of body imaging technology, notably about potential health effects and the effectiveness of the screening to detect

the full range of explosive threats known or anticipated. Earlier this year, the Congressional Biomedical Caucus, Holt's co-chairman, hosted a briefing by Dr. David Brenner of Columbia University on the potential health effects of the backscatter X-ray devices. According to Dr. Brenner, the device is currently in use and proposed for wider deployment delivered to the scalp, 20 times the average dose that is typically quoted by TSA and throughout the industry. Dr. Brenner has pointed out the majority of the radiation from X-ray backscatter machine strikes the top of the head, which is where 85% of the 800,000 cases of basal cell carcinoma diagnosed in the United States each year develop. According to Dr. Brenner, excessive X-ray exposure can act as a cancer rate multiplier. And on the other hand, we know the opt-out suggestion fizzled.

At Newark Airport, Newark Airport on Thanksgiving, the choice between a virtual strip search and a group was strictly academic, actually on the day before Thanksgiving. The majority of Newark's full body scanners were idle throughout much of Wednesday. That's according to report from New Jersey News. Does that mean there were no threats to the New Jersey area? Or they weren't working? Or was just a way to speed up the lines? Don't know, do I? Tales of Airport Security latest gentleman of copyrighted feature of this broadcast and on a related subject. Of course, there has been all this talk about enhanced patdowns. And the media have gone, I'd say, ballistic on the subject while totally ignoring the

radiation matter. That's why I go ballistic on that. And it's clear that the moment when that one individual, I believe in San Diego, man, San Diego's in the news, reacted to the, the imminence of an enhanced patdown by telling a TSA screener, don't touch my junk, has become sort of iconic for this whole story as the media has covered it. Now of course, you and I know that a testy confrontational approach to TSA screeners, as with Mr. Don't Touch My Junk, just ends you up in a lot of trouble. I think he's, he was arrested, he's facing charges, yeah, it's just, they don't, they don't take well to a testy confrontational approaches.

But you got to do something. So here's, it, it, my suggestion is a little bit of psychological, psychological jujitsu. Turn the thing around. Well, I'm the straightest dude you'll find this side of NASCAR. I only kissed a man when I was drunk. But if I have to fly to Vegas or Madagascar, well, come on, baby, you can touch my junk. Come on, baby, you can touch my junk. My clothes don't draw the least bit of attention. No baseball scorecards are all to fill my trunk. But if you have to fill me up to earn your pension, I say, come on, darling, you can touch

my junk. Oh, yes, third, darling, you can touch my junk. You want to do some fishing? That's just what I've been wishing. Got a fishing hole that's taken for a friend. Let my eyes do the talking while your fingers do the walking. We might meet again right around the band. My wife and kids will tell you, I'm no swinger. More into classic rock that bounce or crunk. But the disco balls here, if you make me linger, come on, girl, step up and touch my junk. Oh, come on, girl, pick a chance and touch my junk. That protest bit is just a pile of munk, even that uniform, you're 18 kinds of hunk.

So what you're craving is an enhanced spillunk. Oh, come on, baby, just touch my junk. Come on, come on, come on, and touch my junk. Squals I can't erase, looks I try to hide. I'm never always lost. I'm never always lost. Well, I'm never always lost.

I'm never really curious. I'm trying to stop. It's hard to hear myself when I'm listening with my heart. I'm never always lost. I'm never always lost. Well, I'm never always lost. I'm never gonna be safe there. I'm gonna be found. I'm never gonna be safe there. Well, I'm not safe right now. I'm never always lost. I'm never gonna be safe there. I'm never gonna be found. I'm never gonna be safe there.

Well, I'm not safe right now. I'm never always lost. I'm never always lost. I will defeat the ones I've done right. Squals I can't erase, looks I try to hide. I'm never always lost. I'm never always lost. I'm never always lost. I'm never always lost. I'm never always lost. I'm never always lost. I'm gonna be looking for safety. But there's no safe ground.

This is Lesho and ladies and gentlemen following up on a couple of things mentioned in last week's broadcast. Last week there was a report from a panel investigating hospitals that were covered by Medicare said bad things happen in hospitals sometimes. A new study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine says that efforts to make American hospitals safer over the past decade have any guesses? Fallen short would be the winner. Team of researchers studied a reported 2300 patient admissions records from 10 North Carolina hospitals selected at random like you do. They discovered in 588 cases patients were somehow harmed as a result of medical procedures, medications, or other related causes. That would be slightly more than one in five. Some of the 588 harms that were identified,

41% were temporary, requiring intervention, 42% were temporary harms requiring initial or prolonged hospitalization. Hospital hurts you. Got to stay in the hospital. Sounds like good for the hospital business. An additional 2.9% were permanent, 8% were life-threatening, 2.4% caused or contributed to a patient's death. That they reported that 63% of the incidents were avoidable. These harms are very common. There's no evidence they're improving, said one of the researchers. The problem is the methods that have been best proven to improve care. Have not been implemented across the nation. Methods include computerizing patient information and prescription records limiting the number of consecutive hours that nurses spend on the job

and implementing checklists for surgical operations and other medical procedures. All I know is last time only time. I've had surgery. I had shoulder surgery a couple years ago. I think I may even have mentioned it on this program. It may have even set out. The guy who was going to perform it, I think his nurse had me actually write an X with grease pencil on the shoulder to be operated on. Just in case, just in case he goes, I can't keep my left and my right straight, which is checklist for surgical operations. The most common incidents involved procedural error, medication-related problems, and hospital-acquired no-so-comial infections. Do you know what a no-so-comial infection is? No, neither do I. Resulting from medical care was common.

There was a little evidence that the rate of harm has decreased substantially from 2001. The researchers said. Their findings validate concern raised by patient safety experts in the US and Europe that harm resulting from medical care remains very common. The results said one of the researchers were disappointing, but not entirely surprising. Hey, that describes so much of what's going on. Disappointing, but not surprising. Or amazing, but not surprising. And following up on the Better Business Bureau, alleged to give higher marks to firms that pay dues to the Better Business Bureau, the Better Business Bureau gave a lowest grade possible to staples, which is refused to become a dues-paying member, and gave its competitor Office Depot an A minus rating, and then the Bureau withdrew its operating of staples.

Now listed as having no rating. Office Depot, despite having a much worse record, continued to have an A minus rating. Office Depot is a dues-paying accredited member. That's taking care of business. The BBB insists that paying dues has little impact on a firm's grades, and deny critics claims that it changed from its 96-year-old satisfactory slash unsatisfactory rating system to letter grades as a way to pressure businesses to pay up. Better Business. For the Better Business Bureau, ladies and gentlemen, and now news from outside the bowl. The BBC reports that the more TV a toddler watches, the higher the likelihood they will do badly at school and have poor health at the age of 10, according to researchers.

The study of 1,300 children. By Michigan and Montreal, universities found negative effects on older children rose with every hour of toddler TV. Performance at school was worse, consumption of junk foods was higher. UK experts said parents could allow young children to watch some high-quality TV. They still have that? Our findings make a compelling public health argument against excessive TV viewing in early childhood. Dr. Lidda Pagani at the University of Montreal. Higher levels of TV viewing at 2 was linked to a lower level of engagement in the classroom and poor achievement in mathematics. Researchers also found a decrease in general physical activity but an increase in the consumption of soft drinks and in body mass index. Dr. Pagani said early childhood is a critical period for brain development and formation of behavior. High levels of TV consumption during this period

can lead to future unhealthy habits. Common sense would suggest that television exposure replaces time that could be spent engaging in other developmentally enriching activities and tasks that foster cognitive behavioral and motor development. Although we expected that the impact of early TV viewing would disappear after seven and a half years of childhood, the fact that negative outcomes remained is quite daunting. Let him watch video games much better for him. Now, Hammond Carzai's desperation for a good Friday agreement for Afghanistan led officials to good Friday agreement was what ended the fighting in Northern Ireland. Led officials to ignore repeated warnings from their own spy chiefs that they should not trust a man who orchestrated a humiliating face-to-face meeting

between President Carzai and a shopkeeper who pretended to be the Taliban's second most powerful leader. This is from the Guardian. Amrula Saleh, the former head of Afghanistan's spy agency, said his agency first vetted the man who claimed to be a representative of Mula Mansur, one of the highest ranking figures in the Taliban, and mid-2008, but rejected him after he was unable to prove his credentials. However, the go-between who said he was a Taliban leader from Kandahar subsequently approached the Interior Minister of the following year and was enthusiastically embraced by an Afghan government desperate for a breakthrough in peace talks. Saleh, the former head of this spy agency, who was fired by Carzai earlier this year, said all his warnings were ignored. I tried timing again to convince my colleagues in the ministry and subsequently at the palace that he is not a genuine representative of anybody. He told the observer newspaper. Meanwhile, those peace talks conducted with an imposter who posed as a Taliban leader,

and which led to a meeting with Hamid Karzai in Kabul, and thousands of dollars in goodwill payments, by the way, being given to the man, believed to be a grocer. We're started by the Afghan government and approved by the former American commander, General Macrystal. The Guardian has learned. I wish I'd known this when General Macrystal was New Orleans for that big leadership conference a couple of weeks ago, and I got to meet him. I introduced myself as a head of the Taliban. In fact, the overriding desire to find a negotiated end to the conflict, particularly on the part of Prime Minister of Britain. David Cameron appears to have generated credulity on all sides. This account sharply contradicts claims made by the Afghan presidency, which has put the entire blame on Britain, apparently supported privately by US officials. That's nice. Working together, teammates. This overriding desire to find a negotiated end led to an embarrassing debacle,

says the Guardian that has lessened trust and set back hopes of meaningful negotiations in the near future. Sources close to the contact said the imposter, who claimed to be Mullah Mansur, the Taliban's deputy leader, was originally introduced by an insurgent commander in Kandahar to the then Afghan Interior Minister. The Macrystal asked the British spy agency MI6 to develop the contacts rather than go to the CIA, which was not empowered by the necessary White House directive to enter into direct talks with the Taliban. The absence of such a presidential finding is seen by many diplomats on both sides of the Atlantic as an obstacle to progress towards a political settlement. MI6 delighted to have been given the mission, appears to have gotten carried away with enthusiasm for the breakthrough, brushing aside doubts raised by both US and British officials, as well as the former Afghan spy chief about the credibility of the supposed Taliban.

Our friends got very excited when official involved in the discussions recalled. I remember everyone being very pompous and secretive about this. Now the US head of the military admiral Mike Mullin says the US had suspected this self-described Taliban leader was an imposter. There were very early initial suspicions that took a little while to verify who he was or who he wasn't. And in fact, it turns out he wasn't the guy he was claiming he should be. So the US and the Britain, arguing about who's to blame, what are the Afghan saying at the moment? Let's tune in. From Afghanistan public radio, where you give us the tote bag. From the magnificently reared restored presidential palace in Kabul, this is cars I talk, I'm Wallid and I'm Hamid, we're the carpet brothers. I thought the carpets came from Iran, not Afghanistan. To the enclosure every day.

Today's show is presented with the help of private security firms who are governing our studio right now. We hope otherwise short show. And we're coming to you today from the newly appointed green room at the palace. That's right, it's called that because Wallid walked in about 15 minutes ago with several hundred dollars dropping from his pockets. Well, even the corrupt guy has got to eat. If you're serious about eating, change those dollars into something that isn't falling faster than my approval rating. But seriously, I keep telling my younger brother, get out of the heroin business and into something with the future. And I keep telling my older brother, don't touch my junk. It could be a bumper sticker. It could, if we had bumpers. If I run the government the way my older brother does, I wouldn't be wholesaling heroin, I'd have to be using it. Will you stop?

Hello, you're on cars, I talk. Hi, first time caller, love the show. Thanks, that makes one of you. I was just wondering when you're opening peace talks with Taliban officials. If? Not when. Why? Not if. We're thinking of opening very preliminary talks with Taliban. Just you. Was an individual? Let it be peace on earth and let it begin with you. No, no, no, no. I'm provincial official in Helmand. It's my job. Where then? How come you're calling us up on the radio? It's the only way I can get to do. My older brother is not that good with technology. He thinks a smartphone is what you use to call a professor. Anyway, how do you determine that the people you're having talks with are who they claim to be? In other words, are they real bad guys or just bad guys pretending to be real bad guys? I guess that's what I'm saying. My brother can tell you all about this. No, not really, I wasn't part of the whole thing.

He walked into the room where the Americans were meeting with the Taliban official, which is how he was introduced to me until I looked at him and I realized that he couldn't possibly be who he said he was. And you knew this how? He was supposed to be the guy we paid off for safe passage to Pakistan last year. And he wasn't? No way. I would have recognized him anywhere. He had this little nervous tick. So there you go, caller. No tick. No Taliban. Okay, guys. Thanks so much. We really didn't answer his question. He called our format. But you know, I really blame the breeds. They should know better. The Americans shouldn't. The breeds have been through these all once before trying to run the world from London. You know, my older brother is the right. Thank you. The Americans aren't trying to run the world from London. I'm not defending them, you know. They keep telling me things are getting better, things are getting worse. Tell me something I don't know. I'll give him up to 50 this week.

Hello, you're on cars, I talk. Hi, I'm calling from Pakistan. Uh-oh. You're offering us sanctuary because you're giving it to everybody else. I'm just wondering if you could tell the Americans to knock off the drone attacks over here. I haven't had a good night's sleep in six months. We would be good match for my little brother. He hasn't slept more than five minutes a night since he went into business. Hey, hey, you can sleep when you're dead and in my business, if you do, you are. But you know, every time I complain about something over here, my American friends look at me like I'm either crazy or cowardly. How did they look at you the rest of the time? That does nothing to do with the latest question. But seriously, if we could get some Pakistani help in restricting the flow of jihadists across the border, we'd certainly be able to reciprocate by asking our American friends to cut back the drone attacks. What my older brother doesn't realize is that if the jihadists weren't coming across the border,

they'd be staying in Pakistan and Pakistan would need more drone attacks. What my older brother does not realize is that we are out of time. Thanks for the call. Thank you. Legal services for cars I talk were provided by Ketchum and Nukum. Opium smuggling services provided by me. You don't have to give yourself credit. I know, but I like to. Join me and my little brother Wally next week for another edition of Cars I Talk. This is APR Afghanistan Public Radio. You go right in the circle, you lost driving, heavy load, feels like a monkey on your back. Don't you worry, pretty baby, honey child, don't you mind? When a dark night is over, there's going to be a brand new dawn.

No motivation, there's an aggression. You lost your sense, there's an agent, but don't you worry, pretty baby, honey child, don't you mind? When a dark night is over, there's going to be a brand new dawn. One goes up, goes up, must come down. There's an old world, spinning around, spinning around. Don't you worry, pretty baby, honey child, don't you mind? When a dark night is over, there's going to be a brand new dawn.

When a dark night is over, there's going to be a brand new dawn. Your money, all gone. Friends, you got none. Don't you worry, pretty baby, honey child, don't you mind? When a dark night is over, there's going to be a brand new dawn. But don't you worry, pretty baby, honey child, don't you mind? When a dark night is over, there's going to be a brand new dawn.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, the apologies of the week, think of it. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Benjamin Netanyahu has apologized to Republican Congressman for having praised Fidel Castro after the former Cuban leader made positive remarks about Israel. In an interview with the Atlantic, Castro defended Israel and Jews and criticized Iran, leading to praise from Netanyahu. Representative Iliana Ross Lichtenen of Florida, the most senior Republican woman in the house, represents part of Miami-Dade County with its large Cuban immigrant community.

On hearing about Netanyahu's praise for Castro's remarks, she contacted several Israeli officials asking to urge the Prime Minister to retract his remarks. On his visit to the U.S., the Prime Minister called the lawmaker by phone and apologized. The Church of England Bishop, who made deeply offensive comments on Facebook about the royal engagement, has been suspended from his public duties. The Bishop of Willston, the right reverend Pete Broadbent, said the union between Prince William and Kate Middleton would last about 70 years. He apologized for the remarks but has been asked by the Bishop of London to withdraw from public ministry until further notice. The Northern Michigan man, who said he was humiliated recently by a Detroit mayor, Metro Airport Security, got security pat down that ended up spilling urine onto a shirt and pants from her eurostomy bag under his clothing, says he got Nicole from the head of the Transportation Security Administration apologizing for the incident. Of course, I was very gracious and accepted his apology, said Thomas Sawyer.

This is not about anger at all. The head of the TSA John Pistol pledged to require more training of screeners and to investigate the incident. Two Israeli police officers apologized to Jordan Shahzadeh Fair in Israel after allegedly assaulting two Jordanian embassy employees. According to the Jordan Times, police officers visited the Jordanian embassy and have expressed their deepest regrets regarding the assault. Because the IDs and passports didn't exactly match. An attempt to get into the Thanksgiving spirit backfired on a twin city's Minnesota sports bar, station 280 sports bar in sight. Paul advertised their weekend drink specials with a poster that many found offensive. The ad shows a scatly clad woman dressed in a polka hauntus costume and cartoon images next to her of a Native American and a cowboy sitting drunk on a floor. And it reads, drink like an Indian party like a pilgrim. Jessica Norton, manager of the bar, said, quote, we definitely apologize over and over and over to everyone that was offended.

That was not our intention at all. I just want to make sure that's very clear that was not our intent. Unquote, tent-wasting for you to get drunk and maybe drive some nuclear now it wasn't. And conservative member of the House of Lords Howard Flight has issued an unreserved apology for saying child benefit changes would encourage the poor to breed. The apologies the week ladies and gentlemen a copyrighted feature of this broadcast. Well, ladies and gentlemen, that's going to conclude this week's edition of the show.

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