Le Show; 2019-06-09

From deep inside your audio device of choice, I think he dozed off there. Ladies and gentlemen, when I was a kid, I think it was even before I was a kid, before in my prenatal years, there was a guy on the radio out of Chicago who had one of the most peculiar network radio shows ever broadcast. Let me just say this, it was an agriculture show, you know, basically aimed at farmers with a live band, you know, those were the days, but he started every week, his name was Everett Mitchell, that I remember, he started every week the same way, like everybody, but I mean his way was, it's a, and it was not conversationally spoken, let me just make it clear right there. I'm going to be taking it down a little bit from his performance level. It's a beautiful day in Chicago, it's a little on the windy side, temperatures hovering

in the high 20s, snowfall began about four hours from now and continue through the night, but it's a great day to be alive and I hope it's even more beautiful wherever you are. That comes to my mind today peculiarly enough because it is a beautiful day in New Orleans. This early summer, the breezes have not taken off for other climbs yet, but we are just in the middle of ceremonies of remembrance for a giant and a pioneer of the New Orleans culinary scene, Leah Chase, and smack in the middle of that comes the news that one of New Orleans musical giants, Dr. John McRavenack has passed. The third of New Orleans piano giants to leave us in the last three years. First it was Alan Tusson, last year Henry Butler and now Dr. John. In addition, we're still just beginning to absorb the news that the new $14 billion

protection system for risk reduction for hurricanes built by the US Army Corps of Engineers. Now the Corps reveals even though it promoted the system as having a 50 year lifespan that it will stop affording us protection in as little as four years because of sea level rise who saw that coming and land subsidence. Now one of the known causes of land subsidence, something you'd think the Corps might be aware of, have been aware of over these years, was the levying of the Mississippi River following the 1927 flood by the US Army Corps of Engineers. It contributed to land subsidence because the Mississippi was now no longer refurbishing,

replenishing the land of the Delta in its flooding, it was no longer allowed to flood. So the land was no longer being rebuilt, therefore, yeah, but they didn't, I guess, take that and slide rule wasn't working that day. Anyway, it's a great day to be alive and I hope it's even more beautiful wherever you are. Now, let me tell you about the bees, yeah, well, it's not just one thing that's bothering the bees, it's a combination of ingredients like the best over the counter pharmaceuticals. This week scientists at the Institute of Bee Health at the University of Barron say a load of the bear when you're there and the and a Honeybee Research Association published an article in scientific reports, it's a peer-reviewed journal, that shows a synergistic but time-delayed interaction between a parasitic mite, Varroa Destructore, and our old friend's

new nicotine-noid insecticides, they together reduce the survival of winter honeybees. The article emphasizes the need to develop sustainable agricultural and epicultural, particularly raising schemes. Western Honeybee is the most important managed pollinator globally, I think they're managed by Ken Levittan these days, and has recently experienced unsustainably high colony losses in many regions of the world. Primarily responsible are believed to be synergistic interactions among various stressors, things that stress honeybees, not traffic. Because it's out of the picture, despite the clear negative impact of certain new nicotine noides and ubiquitous parasitic mite, Varroa Destructore on exposed honeybees, no data had previously existed to show synergistic effects between these two.

Now these researchers suggest a novel, possibly previously overlooked mechanism for the recent unsustainably high losses of the managed honeybee colonies, studies underlines the importance of developing sustainable agro ecosystem management schemes, reduced use of new nicotine noides and sustainable solutions for the mites. The mites came from Asia by the way, and have switched their hosts from eastern honeybees to western honeybees. You know, tastes change. They are now the most serious biotic threat to western honeybees, and of course there's been evidence all along for the negative impact of the new nicotine noides insecticides. But now honeybee colonies exposed to the two nicotine noides, those colonies did not affect honeybee worker longevity.

In combination with the infestation of the mites, a synergistic negative effect was observed both for body mass in summer and autumn, and for survival, that effect only occurred 16 weeks after the exposure to the insecticide, so that it's a previously overlooked time lag effect of new nicotine noides exposure in the presence of the mites, those mighty mites. Honeybee colonies in temperate regions must produce significant quantities of long-living winter bees to survive these observed negative synergistic effects on individual honeybee longevity during the winter, most likely compromise honey survival. So it's two, two, two stressors and one. Pretty the poor bees, hello, welcome to the show. Go ahead.

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Dogmofino, I'm dead. All right. See my read down the railroad track for back on dead. Put it here and get a check-in sack for the hot moping on it. My little boy, do it, your little boy, you do it on my own. My little girl, my little boy, you do it on my own. You do it on my own. My little girl, do it, your little boy, you do it on my own. I'm talking about here now, here now, I go, I'm dead. Dogmofino, I'm dead. I'm talking about here now, I go, I'm dead. Come on down the back of town.

Come on down the back of town. Come on down the back of town. Come on down the road. You can't do what you tell her to. Now if you don't move, you know that I'm talking about you now. You know that I'm back for I got it. You don't move, you know I'm not there. Now if you don't move, you know that I'm not there. Now if you don't move, you know that I'm not there. Now if you don't move, you know that I'm not there. From New Orleans, Louisiana, where just eyeballing is coming in today, driving in.

Yeah, still driving. No, I didn't, I didn't scooter in. Corp engineer is still working over there. Right, you know, yonder over there. From that self-same New Orleans, I'm Harry Scherer welcoming you. They're not finished yet. It ain't finished yet. And it's not going to work in four years. But there's still, I'm Harry Scherer welcoming you to this edition of the show. Now, ladies and gentlemen. I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Guess what? I ain't listening. Guess who you are. Microplastics. Think about it. What do you think about it? Guess who I will. Not said. Or maybe not. Here's the latest. A new study from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography shows that microplastics are at highest concentrations.

Hundreds of meters below the ocean surface. So good swimming everybody. Miniscule pieces of plastic are invasive, not just on the surface, but well into the deep sea. That's according to the new research published from Scripps. It says deep sea animals could be at risk of exposure to these plastics. Toxic materials. Can we make thumbs for them? Researcher Annette Annela Troy has spent more than two years studying microplastics. She's used a deep diving robot using it to scoop out water from moderate bay. I will moderate. We wanted to look at the vertical extended plastic pollution system. She found lots of this material deep below the ocean surface. We found microplastics everywhere we looked, she said. From shallow depths in the water column down to the deepest depths, we also found them in the bodies and goods. I said goods of every animal specimen we looked at. She said her study is one of the first to systematically look at how much plastic is concentrated at different levels into the deep blue sea.

She didn't look at the devil though, just at the deep blue sea. And just at their goods. No, not just at their guts. American consume more than 70,000 microplastic particles every year. From the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe. That's according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. What would they know? Scientists warn that while the health impacts of adjusting these thousands of tiny particles are unknown, so eat up. No, they say there's potential for the plastic to add a human tissue and cause an immune response, as well as release toxic chemicals into the body. The immune response would be, of course, inflammation, which if you're following this stuff, sort of is the cause of everything else, except for Donald Trump. The analysis done by biologists at the University of Victoria in Canada.

Examinated data from 26 previous studies on microplastic contamination in seafood, sugars, salts, honey, alcohol, alcohol, tap water, bottle water, and in urban air. It found that Americans eat and drink an estimated 39,000 to 52,000 microplastic particles every year, depending on age and sex. I didn't know microplastics had sex. But, no, seriously, those numbers jump to 74,000 to 121,000 when the scientists included particles that would be inhaled as opposed to ingested. Still going in. Different route, you see. The nose, rather than the mouth. And then this is a part that wrinkles me. Americans who drank water solely from plastic bottles consumed an additional 90,000 particles annually, compared for 4,000 particles, compared to 4,000 particles, where people who drank only tap water. This study therefore makes no distinction between bottled tap water, which is most of what people drink out of plastic bottles, and spring water. Just a thing.

The scientists warned their findings are likely drastic underestimates. Only 15% of a person's caloric intake is associated with the consumption of up to 52,000 microplastics annually. Researchers note that several major U.S. food groups, like your poultry, your beef, your dairy, your greens, and your vegetables, haven't been studied for microplastic contamination. In addition, the scientists weren't able to assess how much plastic might be entering our bodies from food packaging. Well, fortunately, none of our food is packed. Oh. All right then. Try not to swallow, try not to breathe. Let me know how that works out. Now some news of the smart world we're in. There was some trouble for Google users this week, as they tried to access Google owned services. Midweek Google reported several issues with its cloud platform, which in case you haven't realized this yet, is not in the sky and isn't really a cloud.

It's a math full in it. Yes it is. The cloud. Google's cloud platform had several issues, which made several Google sites slow or inoperable. Well, you can't search way. There's more. Many of Google's services, including Gmail and YouTube. Oh no. Where am I going to get my racist videos from? We're slow or completely down for users in the US and Europe. The outage also affected third party apps and services that use Google cloud space for hosting, such as Snapchat and Apple's iCloud services. Yes, Apple uses Google's cloud. Especially annoying side effect, though, was Nest smart home products for some users. Google owns Nest. They just failed to work, you know, like your smart locks and your smart lights and your smart this and your smart that. According to reports from Twitter, many people were unable to use their Nest thermostats, Nest smart locks and Nest cameras during the downtime.

Because of a cloud storage outage, people were prevented from getting inside their homes using their AC and monitoring their babies. It's not a, that's not a warning. That's not a shot across the bow of modern life, is it? The company says in that work congestion issue in Eastern USA was causing the problems, then they were then later resolved. The downtime of Google's cloud platform goes a long way to showing what can happen. When smart technology in the home requires always being connected to the cloud, that's not really a cloud. And a smart city project in Canada, also with Google. If this reminds you of anything mentioned in the last week's broadcast, good on you. The smart city project in Canada has hit yet another snag. Mounding delays and privacy concerns threatened the controversial development along Toronto's Eastern waterfront.

So they may be getting an NBA championship, but they're not getting this smart city right away. 12 acre project is a partnership between Google's sidewalk labs. Can we just experiment with your city in our lab and the city of Toronto? That's the partnership. It's come under increasing scrutiny, scrutiny amid concerns over privacy and data harvesting. I said privacy and I also said data harvesting more data. We need more data. Come on. More data. More data. Huh? Get some data for me. More data. More data. More data. We need more more. I don't know how anybody could be worried about that. This week, the US venture capitalist, however, Roger McNamey, however, warned the technology company such as Google cannot be trusted to safely manage the data. They collect unresidents. McNamey just happens to be an early investor in both Facebook and Google. That's how he might know where of he speaks.

Quote the smart city project on the Toronto waterfront is the most highly evolved version to date of surveillance capitalism. That phrase ring a bell. Ladies and gentlemen, he wrote that to the city council suggesting Google will use its algorithms to nudge human behavior in ways to favor its business. Pokemon Canada anybody? He's co founder of one of the world's largest technology investors. In recent years, he's soured on many of the technology giants and their handling of data and privacy concerns. He says no matter what Google is offering the value to Toronto cannot possibly approach the value your city is giving up. It is a dystopian vision that has no place in a democratic society. There's going to be a vote on the development. The timeline has been adjusted to make the vote happen later.

And late last year, the co founder of research and motion, which makes blackberry, called the project a quote colonizing experiment in surveillance capitalism. There's that phrase again, attempting to bulldoze important urban civic and political issues sidewalk labs won the proposal to develop a 12 acre section of Toronto's waterfront two years ago. Originally seen as a tool who wasn't for addressing affordability and transportation issues. Quaside, key side was meant to be one of the world's first smart cities, drawing on environmentally conscious design and emerging technologies to accelerate urban innovation and service of big and for cities around the world. Initial public support for the project has sagged as project has been dog by fears of data harvesting and privacy privacy concern that an overall lack of transparency. No, really. An entrepreneur, Sadia Musava, resigned from the project's advisory panel, citing that lack of transparency and saying the organization showed waterfront Toronto that organization showed apathy and a lack of leadership regarding shaky public, shaky public trust.

I don't know how you get the shaky public to trust you. The former privacy commissioner of Ontario resigned last month. I imagine just creating a smart city of privacy as opposed to a smart city of surveillance, she wrote. Sidewalk labs reject magnumies allegations adding, while a welcome public debate, he does not seem very familiar with what we're actually proposing. They disputed magnumies suggestion that they would use facial recognition technologies in the project. No, as we made clear, we believe the data collected in public space must be overseen and closely controlled by an independent and public accountable data trust, not sidewalk labs, Google or any private company said a spokesperson for the development. Kierthana rang. Strange how that phrase surveillance capitalism seems to be in the air these days because it's such a smart world.

And now it's time for me to raise the trades for you. In the, you bet you never thought you'd hear this in your lifetime department five lessons from the growing pains of cannabis brands. Legal cannabis is quickly ripening into big business, but brands and marketers are still figuring out how to navigate it. So advertising age brought together executives from Barney's, can occlusive, Cherbinski's, Green Lane and others at a conference this week to speak about the state of the cannabis industry.

Here's what we learned. Looks, experiences, but affordable prices. In March, luxury retailer Barney's opened cannabis lifestyle shop. The high end on the fifth floor of its Beverly Hills store with plans to open similar shops in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and eventually New York. Be patient, New York. Your turn will come. The store sells around 40 different ready to use cannabis-related items and high end accessories. Barney's has found that the items flying off the shelves have modest price points. Even as it sells things like the grand faked gift set, a package of cannabis accessories for almost $9,000. That's not modest. Matthew Mizuka, creative director of Barney's New York, said its $60 precious stone pipes are constantly selling out.

We're really starting to see what the consumer is reacting to, and price point is really driving that, he said. At the same time, he said customers enjoy the luxury of having a representative from the Bebo brand right there on hand. The rep is a cannabis concierge. Just let that sink in for a moment. Who can educate customers about the plant and someone they can order actual weed from at Barney's? Sasha Katie, chief marketing officer at Cannabis-related accessories distributor Green Lane, and co-founder of the Cannabis lifestyle shop, Higher Standards. Get it? Says in many ways Cannabis has always been more luxurious than a lot of traditional retail experiences. The pinnacle of luxury shopping is a personal shopper. He said, adding, sounds awful lot like a good weed dealer.

Not just for youth. Barney says Mizuka is seeing a wide array of customers to the high end from young adults to those over 60. He described how he saw a mother bring in her children to buy shoes in order to bowl and some weed for herself. I thought that was such a cool mom. I really believe he said in terms of retail surviving that there has to be authenticity. Originally Barney is considered hosting youth centered events but can reconsidered as they would alienate older customers. Mizuka said. Oh, a diversity gap hurts. Mary Prior co-founder of Cannaclusive, a program that works to support inclusion in the Cannabis industry, says there's an absence of people of color and other minorities in the Cannabis space, unquote. She says, it's not being taken seriously. And then at a chance, the fact that many minorities are still being incarcerated for using the plant is an issue.

And it's also destroying brand's reach and selling potential, she said. It's in brand's interest to do things that call out social equality and promote inclusion, she says. Reason enough. Personalizing cannabis. Customers all don't know where to start, especially when it comes to the health claims of various strains. Mario Guzman, founder of Cannabis brand Sherbinski's, is looking into creating an algorithm that would pair a customer with a cannabis strain to match what they're looking for. Cannabis and algorithms. Marriage made in 2019. Oh, and several marketers agreed that being niche is smarter than trying to be the Starbucks or Apple of the Cannabis world.

Understand the demo, lean into it, and be the Amazon of that niche, says Jackie Stang, president of cannabis brand Quarter. You want to create your own lane. Said Katie, speaking on the same panel, being the Starbucks of cannabis is the last thing anyone on the planet needs. And most people who set out to be the Apple store or Starbucks of cannabis typically end up looking like the McDonald's of cannabis. That's a mental image. You probably never expected to entertain until I read the trades for you, which is why it's a copyrighted feature this broadcast. So people think they drive me, but I know they must be crazy.

Don't see that misfortunes. Feel my brains would pause, walk through the fire, fly through the smoke, see my enemy at the end of the road. Let's blend up with the cane of the zoo loop. Tid out, butter, roll out my cough and drink poison in my challenge.

Pride begins to fade and y'all feel my malice. But greedy on your doorstep, can soon you be in the gutter. Melt your heart like butter. I can make you stutter like a corn. Make it like a corn. Won't come kill the spinner. Won't come to make it like a corn. Won't come kill the spinner. Won't come kill the spinner. Tid out, butter, roll out my cough and drink poison in my challenge. Tid out, butter, roll out my cough and drink poison.

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Probably you noticed that he went to England this past week, went to England, went to Ireland, then went to France. England was London a state visit that Queen had finally agreed to grant him. There was some kerfuffle about it not being a state visit the last time he went to London. Working visit. No, this was pomp and an overlong waist waistcoat, according to most fashion observers worn by the president. But you know an overlong waistcoat could set a new trend, really? Sticking out from under the thing like that. He had some chat time with Prince Charles as well as a good long time talking to the Queen hard own self,

about which he talked later in the week when he was at the celebration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day. He was on one of the graveyards, pardon the expression, in France, where he granted an exclusive interview to Fox News nighttime anchor. That's what you drop over the site. Oh, yeah. Laura Ingram in which she's just raved about the Queen. She's a great, great lady. We had a great chat. We had instant chemistry, he said. Just could not, could not be more fulsome in his praise of the monarch of a country that we, we fought a war together way out from under.

But that, you know, that's water, that's water under the bridge literally. There was somewhat less than the advertised protest, I think, in what I saw, at least. I didn't see the big Trump baby balloon in many shots, but I guess the helium shortage affected it. In any case, he's, he's now back in this country. And as you know, he, he often talks with his small circle of friends, large circle of friends, whatever size circle of friends he has, that's what he does in the evenings, Carl icon, the financier among them, and Rupert Murdock among them as well. So that all could conceivably sound like this. This week, for the first time, the action moves to the most somber stage of all.

And for the businessman turned chief executive, the team expands to include a foreign monarch. Did you enjoy the parade, Mr. President? Oh, oh, very much so, your Queenship. I can tell you, though, the Saudi parade and more gold in it. One believes that this point in general, the Saudis have more gold. How you got that right? Did you enjoy the time you spent with my son? There, there was Charles, right? The Prince of Wales. I mean, they give me this briefing book. It would take like a lab room to read. You know, like pictures of the whole family and everything. The Prince's one is total. This is the one with the prominent ears. Charles, yeah. Lovely kid. Reminds me of one of my sons. Really?

Just, you know, as a son thing. Yours is, if I could say this to you without stepping on your royal feet. He's kind of hung up on stuff. He has a range of intense interests. That's what I meant. I mean, he did quite a number on this climate thing. And I'm sure you'll set him straight. Now, I told him we had the cleanest air and the cleanest water, like crystal clear. You can see right through it. I take it here with some music. I'd read that character. He cops us more British than thou attitude. Which I knew it works like a charm. And him, you know, it gets real old, real fast. Not that there's anything wrong with getting real old, I can say that. When fearless, this great age can give one great understanding. Doesn't one? You know, even my doctor says I'm very young for my age. But I know what you mean. Which reminds me. Your highness or your majesty, your whatever. There is one task you could perform for me this week.

And you were talking about understanding. I think you can understand how important this is. One doesn't take on many new tasks these days. Just do a couple of primo media interviews. Nothing trashy. Tell them I'm your favorite American president since you went into the Queen business. I can get you on Fox News like that, by the way. But you know, Americans love you. You're like our favorite Queen. Easy. And what you say matters. Which is precisely why one says so little publicly. Oh, dude, respect. That's like straight from Cloud Cook will land your honor. I bet you up on a Twitter account. You'd have 10 million followers in an hour. Most people would kill for that, right? It's beggars belief. Oh, if that's what you're worried about. I can tell you this. No beggars on Twitter, believe me. So what do you think? Just a little royal endorsement. Maybe, you know, in gratitude for the whole D-Day thing. Seriously, Mr. President, you really must try your compote.

If it's all the same to your majesty, I was told there would be burgers. Donald. Rupert. What'd you think? About what? My estate visit. Not bad for a so-called bishop from Queens, right? Yeah, lovely footage. Great speech at D-Day, by the way. Well, they said just read the speech. Don't add lib, which is what they always say. But I figured we were already late getting to my golf course. Now it played very well, statesmen-like, which I know you don't want to do that often, but every once in a while. It's a changer, right? Like, what's his name used to throw? You wouldn't know him. You know cricket players, right? Donald. For me, sports is a profit center. Not a leisure activity. But great trip. Played very well. And then I get on the plane.

And we're just crap, I'm seeing. I mean, I get your channel on. And I'm scrolling through the coverage. And is this Democrat Jilla Brand? She's from New York. Very small time, a total loser. And it goes on through a half a dozen commercial breaks. Hey, we got a town hall. We've got several Democrats doing it. But it's just the brand. It's not good for the fox part of the brand. It's good for the news, part. Look, I don't blame you. It's had no good summer years. Believe me, I know how you feel. Between you and me, I'll never forgive Ivana for making me name the kids. But I don't need imitation fake news. If I want to watch Democrats, I'll turn on real fake news. Rockoon's doing a great job. I mean, he's no James, but... Rupert, you've got to task this week. You up for it. Donald, I understand the price of access to power. As well as the next mobile. What do you need? No more Democrat town halls on foxes what I freaking need. What are you, a non-mind reader?

Look, mate. There's no threat to you. Our viewers watch these things to laugh at them. See, this is what I don't get. I give Laura the most beautiful interview with this amazing backdrop. These terrific gravestones of heroes behind us. Like, forget what we're saying. Just look at how moving this all is. Probably drove your ratings through a damn roof. Although I don't have time to follow that stuff. I got tweets right on it. Back on, I think they've already committed to a few more of these. Good. I'm hitting this news button right now. Man, I'll talk to Larklin. Is it good, son? Say what we can do. Look, put him on a daytime with all that so-called news Chris Wallace is so conco about. Nobody's watching anyway. I can tell you that. That's a great suggestion, my friend. When this is all over, you might think about programming a network. Rupert. Yeah. When this is all over, there'll be more. New team, new tasks, same mission.

We're going to make the British Royal family great again. Now, the world is his boardroom. The president is this week. You won't believe you're watching it. Now, news of the godly. New questions about how Catholic leaders deal with sexual misconduct rose this week after a Texas woman claimed in a news report that church officials in Houston allowed a priest with whom she had a sexual relationship to continue in ministry at a parish two hours away at followed an associated press investigation which detailed an unsettling account of Laura Pontex, or Ponteques, who said Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, head of the Archdiocese of Galveston Houston, and the current president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops failed to

respond adequately to her claim three years ago that Monsignor Frank Rossi, a deputy to DiNardo, had begun a relationship in August 2012 after the cleric spent years as her priest and confessor. Pontex claimed that Rossi induced her to perform sexual acts in his office during spiritual direction sessions, absolving her of her sins, and eventually consummating their relationship with intercourse all while the priest argued that such, quote, holy touches, unquote, were encouraged by Paul the Apostle. Paul the Apostle was not available for comment. Rossi also allegedly pushed her and her husband to donate millions of dollars to his church Saint Mark, Michael Lee Archangel, I'll say Arch. The fact the accuser is an adult has not spared the church new scrutiny about the hierarchies slowness to respond to sexual misconduct claims, or about what experts have been quick

to call confusion regarding what constitutes consent. People make assumptions that maybe want someone's adult 18 or 19 that can consent, says a professor at Baylor who has studied abusive sexual relationships between clergy and other adults. His research says, quote, there's no ability to consent to a relationship with a priest because of the dependence that the parishioner or congregant had on the priest. The Archbishop of the Archdiocese, sorry, of Galveston Houston, acknowledged that Rossi's relationship, quote, included encounters of a sexual nature, unquote, but insisted the relationship never involved intercourse, and that the priest never heard her confession during or after the relationship became physical. You see, a priest absolving someone with whom he is engaged in sexual sin, that's a crime under canon law, you could get excommunicated for that. Ponticus and her husband George argue that not only did Rossi manipulate and betray his parishioner, but that the Archdiocese's attempts to mediate focused primarily on

financial settlements. After the relationship was revealed to church officials, Rossi was ex, no, no, he was placed in a smaller parish nearby. The diocese of Beaumont, where he's still served until recently, the diocese now says he's been placed on temporary administrative leave. Texas Law, ladies and gentlemen, says if a clergy person exploits a person's emotional dependency for sex, then it is without consent, and that's Texas. In Rossi's case, the breakdown of accountability could be seen as particularly acute while serving the Galveston Houston Archdiocese in various roles. Rossi, here's a nice twist. He handled many of the region's abuse cases. It's a system, by the way, that today's Washington Post says now suddenly, at last, perhaps,

through the medium of blogs and social media, women in the Protestant churches are starting to come forward with their own stories of sexual misbehavior by their own clergy. He was of the godly, ladies and gentlemen, a copyrighted feature of this broadcast and on a related subject, the Apologies of the Week. Yes, as I say on a related subject, here's Francis the Talking Pope who is apologized to the Roma people on behalf of the Catholic Church during his visit to Romania.

At a meeting with the Roma people on the last day of his visit, he asked forgiveness for quote, all those times in history, when we have discriminated, mistreated or looked, a scant at you, unquote, Roma people have paced persecution. Hmm, he didn't use that word. In Europe for centuries, hundreds of thousands are thought to have been killed during the Holocaust. Nowadays, Roma live mainly in southern and central Europe, make up 8% of Romania's population, many live in poverty. Quote, I ask forgiveness in the name of the Church and of the Lord and I ask forgiveness of you. The Pope said in the town of Blage, Twitter is apologized for suspending accounts that were critical of the Chinese government's response to the Tiananmen Square protests of June 1989, Twitter wrote on its public policy feed that the suspended accounts were swept up in a weekly effort to crack down on, quote, spam and other inauthentic behaviors.

When you treat, please try to keep your behavior authentic, ladies and gentlemen. Sometimes our routine actions catch false positives where we make errors. We apologize, Twitter said. It added the accounts that were suspended had not been reported by the Chinese government. The government, the suspension of the accounts both inside and outside China, elicited criticism from the US Senator Marco Rubio, nice to hear from him, little Marco. The Twitter accounts had taken aim at the policies of China's communist government and its handling of the crack down in Tiananmen Square, which that government rarely mentions, because they want the kids to grow up, not knowing it happened. A mayor in Alabama, enough said, right? No, I'll continue. A mayor in Alabama is apologized for a Facebook post suggesting that homosexuals, abortion rights advocates and others should be killed. Carbon Hill mayor Mark Chambers in a Facebook post on Friday wrote, in all caps, there's

another tip off. I think mayor in Alabama, all caps. You got it covered. Quote, we live in a society where homosexuals, lecturers on morals, transvestites, lecturers on human biology, baby killers, lecturers on human rights and socialists, lecturers on economics. Carbon Hill, city of less than 2,000 people in majority of whom are white. He faced swift backlash online for the post and for an exchange with one of his Facebook friends. The only way to change, the friend wrote to him, I hate to think of the country my grand kids will live in unless somehow we change, Chambers, the mayor, responded, the only way to change, it would be to kill the problem out. I know it's bad to say, but without killing them out, there's no way to fix it. Unquote, not just kill them, kill them out. He initially denied he wrote the remarks. I don't think I posted that. He told the NBC affiliate, I think that somebody else is post.

Question further by the station about the Facebook page which contained birthday greetings and pictures of his family and asked whether he, someone was posting as him on Facebook, he said, I don't know. And then he issued a lengthy apology on Facebook. I and I alone are responsible for the comment that was made. He wrote another now deactivated page, although I believe my comment was taken out of context and was not targeting the LGBTQ community. I know it was wrong to say anyone should be killed, he didn't apologize for saying they should be killed out though. He was elected in 2014, he says, I'm truly sorry that I have embarrassed our city, I love the city. And while in office I've done everything in my power to make this a better place for our families, he was not available for comment or commenting out for that matter. Dayline Hillsboro, New Jersey, the Hillsboro Public School District has apologized to special needs students who were dismissed from their senior prom early last month, the administration

says it's taking steps to ensure nothing similar will ever happen again. Although it didn't specify what actions it was taking, apologies come weeks after the school district aids serving as paid shaperones at the mid-May prom, told a group of seven students to leave before the 11 p.m. curfew, despite the school's mandate that no one was supposed to leave early, parents spoke to the school district, to the town, and the district launched an investigation, in addition to in-person apologies, the principal sent home a letter to the parents reiterating the apology and saying their students deserve better, they also offered a special activity to those students, remind them that their valued members of the school family and the Board of Education also apologized. Some parents of students with disabilities did ask for an early dismissal from the prom to avoid the rush when the other students left, but that was not the reason, apparently, for the forcing all of the special needs students, and they were dismissed earlier than requested

and contrary to their request to stay. The Board of Education agrees that this resulted in an unacceptable scenario, leaving students and their families with the impression that they could not stay to the end of the prom, it should not have happened, said the administrators. Did you go to your prom? Hank Haney has been, has apologized multiple times and has been suspended from his Syriac's exam radio show for predicting that a Korean golfer with the last name Lee would win the U.S. woman's open. He commented further on the matter last Sunday after a Korean golfer with the last name Lee actually did win the tournament. I knew Lee would win, he said, then he deleted the comment according to TMZ. He apologized later in the show when a form that some people were offended by his remarks. He also apologized on Twitter saying he was trying to make a point about the overwhelming success of the Korean players on the tour.

I fended people and I'm sorry. Bet Midler apologized this week after posting a fake quote attributed to Donald Trump, in which he purportedly disparaged Republican voters in a people magazine interview of 21 years ago. I apologize. This quote turns out to be a fake from way back in 1516. Don't know how I missed it, but it sounds so much like him that I believe it was true. She said on Twitter, in addition to the apology midler also included a link to the Rio Gazette journal debunking the quote. The quote was from supposedly Donald Trump about if he were to run for president, which of course he later did. But this was when it was still so hypothetical, he said, if I were to run, I'd run as a Republican. The dumbest group of voters in the country, they'd be any believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they'd eat it up, but my numbers would be terrific on quote, a fake quote.

Despite her apology, Midler has not deleted the original tweet, which has racked up more than 12,000 retweet retweet retweet retweet. The meme's provenance links back to at least 2015 with snopes fact check the quote and proved it was false. And Neil's hoagle has apologized, former German nurse used to push his patrons to the end edge of death door, injecting them with drugs to induce cardiac arrests, and then resuscitate them and relish in the resulting praise. In dozens of cases though, he couldn't bring them back, according to prosecutors. He's accused in 100 patients deaths over the first five years of the century when he worked at a clinic and then in a hospital in northern Germany. This week he apologized to the families of his victims, Thursday, a court convicted the 42 year old of 85 counts of murder and sentenced into life in prison, citing the

seriousness of the crimes. He's admitted to 56 of those 85 killing. Everybody draws a line somewhere. The apologies of the weak ladies and gentlemen. We'll be right to feature this broadcast. Once a note about our friend, the Adam, the US government this week says it will reclassify some of the nation's most dangerous radioactive waste to a lower level. Critics say that move would make it cheaper and easier to walk away from cleaning up nuclear weapon production sites in Washington State, Idaho and South Carolina. Energy department says labeling some high level waste as low level will save 40 billion

dollars in clean up costs. Up your low level, don't thank me. That was from the L.A. Times by the way, that was reported in the L.A. Times, which yes, still exists. Ladies and gentlemen, that's going to conclude this edition of the show, which also still exists and will still exist next week. Week don't rise. Same time on these radio stations, whenever you want it on your other audio device of choice. Hi, Alexa. You're looking good today. And it'd be just like, if maybe Alexa got a little Botox, if you had agreed to join with me then, would you already thank you very much, uh-huh? Tip of the Lachosha Poe to the San Diego desks.

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