Le Show; 2010-03-28

Here it is from deep inside your radio. She did hear it as man was loud today. I don't know. I guess he's just, he's full of springtime. I don't know about it in the rest of the country, but in New Orleans, this was the week that I got to finally start wearing short sleeves shirts again. Congratulations to us all. On the other hand, ladies and gentlemen, I have a question for you. You might know how many staplings should a stapler be good for? I bought a new stapler this week. I know this is not the most important thing in the world, is it? And I actually stood in the aisle for a good, well, for what I would consider a womanly amount of time. Considering the purchase? I don't know. That one's great. But not to be dismissive, I was actually considering, okay, they've got all these features that they're bragging on. I just want a basic, sturdy, simple, dependable stapler. And finally, I found one looked like the staplers, you know, from 50 years ago.

Four staples came out of it before jammed. Four! Now it's a paperweight. Of course, I made the obvious mistake, I bought it at Office Depot. And I now realize I should have bought it at staples. Because if you're going to put that, anyway, ladies and gentlemen, it's now, I think, safe for me to talk about healthcare reform. You notice that this probably has been the radio or any kind of broadcast that has had the least to say on the most talked about subject of the last year. And that's by design, because I figured we'd all heard enough about that. And I didn't know anything about it. Still don't. But I've noticed that the Obama administration has now decided after the bill passed to start going around and explaining it. From the better late than ever filed, Governor Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania was on one of the Sunday morning yak shows today, and had the talking points. And the talking points are simply contrary to the Republicans saying, we're going to run again, we're going to run for repeal.

That's our platform. The Democrats are saying, oh boy, once you figure out what's in this for you, you're going to like it. The American people are going to like this bill come November, which is, you know, interesting messaging. I just think it's the wrong messenger. Get the guy from Men's Warehouse. You're going to like the way this bill looks. See, I already I'm believing more. You're going to like the way this bill looks him, although even with him, I got problems. Because of course his last line is, you're going to like the way you look. I guarantee it. And then I think I've seen that commercial 4,000 times. He guarantees it. But if everyone enforce the guarantee, I don't know his name. Who is he? Dear Mr. Men's Warehouse. On the other hand, the Republicans in addition to repeal are going for suing the government. Yes, I know.

We always, we all thought you can't do that. They'd do it. And they're suing on the most interesting basis, the federal government. That constitution doesn't allow the federal government to require you to purchase a product, i.e. health insurance. Okay. Then logically, the same constitution that forbids a Congress from forcing you to buy a product forbids the Congress from forbidding you to buy a product. So there go the drug laws, huh? You with that? You down with that? And I, you know, the number of legal scholars have weighed in already on the plausibility of this lawsuit ever getting anywhere. The one I noticed was Charles Fried, who was solicitor general under Ronald Reagan. That must have been uncomfortable. No, I mean, in the Reagan administration. And he derides the chances of this lawsuit, the plausibility of this lawsuit, the intellectual underpinnings of it as preposterous, which just made me wonder. Wasn't there a time when the Republicans were against junk lawsuits?

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From the edge of Lake Pacha Train in the Orleans, Louisiana, I'm Harry Shira. Welcome you to this edition of the show, unlike any other. Because they all are. Ladies and gentlemen, let's check on the world of the wonderful world of. I should hire Gilbert to do that now. I guess now that the government's not saying it anymore. The Pakistani government is now seeking a court's permission. This is rich. The Pakistani government is now seeking a court's permission to reopen its probe into guess who AQ Khan and his role in nuclear weapons related transactions with Iran and Iraq. Goodness gracious, he's been doing that. We must investigate.

If the court agrees the inquiry could create new headaches for Khan, like he's had headaches. Well, he's been under house arrest since detailed information about Pakistan's exports of nuclear gear first became public way back in 2004. Khan considered the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program mother unknown. Now is shepherded everywhere by security personnel and generally prohibited from meeting with foreigners or traveling abroad. Restrictions that he's protested to the court. So Dick Cheney's in better shape so far. However, he's never been questioned by Americans. Why do we want any information from him about that? The government cited two recent articles in the Washington Post about Khan in making its request. Pakistani government has blocked experts from interviewing Khan even though a bill approved by Congress to aid Pakistan calls for some funds to be withheld until Obama, the president, certifies that Pakistan has provided relevant information

from or direct access to Pakistani nationals. Pakistan is also withheld damaging allegations by Khan and his official written account of his past dealings with North Korea, Iran, and Libya, a document which we discussed here when it was made available to the Washington Post. Khan claims Pakistan's military leadership proved of his exports to North Korea of advanced centrifuges. Pakistan has always maintained he was a rogue acting alone. It widely circulated. So we'll may see more about AQ Khan. Just because he helped Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea build nuclear weapons. That's not a concern, is it? Also, from our friend Pakistan, this is so deep. It's deeper than radio. Let's put it that way.

And that's not all that deep. An American charge, this is from the New York Times. American charged with helping plan the attacks, the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Remember that two years ago? An American is charged with helping plan it. Well, he moved effortlessly. Now it turns out between the United States, Pakistan, and India for nearly seven years training at a militant camp in Pakistan on five occasions. This according to a plea agreement, released by the Justice Department. Now, you could just say, Pakistan, if we know there are terrorist training camps in your country, before you get some aid from us, maybe you might think about closing down your terrorist training camps. The Odyssey of David Hedley included scouting targets in several cities in India, and meeting with a senior operative al-Qaeda in Pakistan's tribal areas. They're so tribal. We can't do anything about that. They're tribal. These details of Hedley's activities contained in the plea agreement raised troubling questions,

say that says the times about how an American citizen could travel for so long, undetected from Chicago to well-established terrorist training camps in Pakistan. Well, he had a good visa. The document shows Hedley made two trips to North Wazirah stand, the heart of al-Qaeda operations in the tribal area. It's so very tribal. His handlers, the document reveals included a former Pakistan military commander from the Pakistani military. That would appear to be with ties to a Pakistani extremist group and even al-Qaeda. Really? Pakistani military? Maybe even their intelligence has ties to al-Qaeda. You've got to be kidding me. From there, Hedley not only helped plan the Mumbai attack, says the document he was putting contact with al-Qaeda cell in Europe, but may still be active. The document shows the cell was well supplied with weapons and money and prime for an attack until the moment Hedley was arrested by the FBI. The damn FBI.

Why don't we have military doing that? Hedley divulged details of always talking to the FBI. Really? Like he didn't need to be tortured or anything. I'm sorry. Enhanced. Hedley divulged details of his life as a spy and militant as a part of a plea agreement that will spare him the death penalty. That's what makes him talk. I thought it enhanced. I thought it had to be enhanced. It's enhanced not death penalty. See, it is enhanced. It's the enhanced life sentence. Ladies and gentlemen, we are not number one. Again. U.S. is being outpaced by China and other countries and the global race to develop green technology industries. The Pew Charitable Trusts. The Pew, the proud, the Pew. In conjunction with Bloomberg, Bloomberg is a publishing report this week that characterizes different countries and developing and adopting clean energy techniques. The U.S. were good when it comes to technical innovation. But China last year took the lead in asset financing.

That's investment in renewable energy projects. Actually building the projects with funds. It also will pass the U.S. as the country with the most installed capacity of renewable energy this year. Technical innovations do play a big role in bringing down the cost of solar or biofuels. But large-scale installation of clean energy products as in actually building the things is the key to bringing down cost compared to fossil fuel. And that's where China is in the lead. Once again, we are not number one and proud of it, apparently. The focus now turns to a world that is clean, cheap, safe, too clean to meter. Our nuclear future. There's a place down south, down south of Los Angeles, kind of San Diego way, called Santa no Frey, where there have been a pair, I believe, of nuclear power plants. I don't know if there actually could be used for bomb. No, there are nuclear power plants for a number of years now.

Operators of the Santa no Frey nuclear power plant face deceptical, public, and hard questions by regulators this week about when the plant is going to fix long-standing weaknesses in its safety culture. Fraze must make you feel good right about now. Long-standing weaknesses in its safety culture. First of all, I love just linguistically safety culture. It reminds me of, there's a wave, just linguistically. There's a wave of crime among the world. There's a wave of crime among youth. The deute in Great Britain. And of course, since guns are quite rare there, the crimes involve the wielding of knives, fairly nasty looking knives. And this has become known in the UK media as knife culture.

And I keep expecting to go to the opera and see, you know, and she pulls out a saber, or a cimitar, or just, you know, a nice grapefruit knife. Plant managers at Santa no Frey back to the story admitted that the plant has problems, but it's clean. It's safe. They told nuclear regulatory commission officials they've established new procedures to fix them. That's what we need around here, new procedures. It's those damn old procedures. I blame them. That's safe to blame. It's safe to blame old procedures, isn't it? And when we plan the blame game, I know we're not supposed to play the blame game, but you can play the blame game with old procedures. That's an exception. That's in the rules of the game. The NRC and representatives of Southern California Edison, the plant's operator held a public meeting this week at data point. Many of the people attending were plant workers. I guess they got the day off. The NRC issued two letters this month, one citing a quote chilling effect at the plant that said,

plant workers feared retaliation if they raised concerns about nuclear safety issues. That's a bad procedure. I'm going to point my finger at that. Plant workers feared retaliation if they raised concerns about nuclear safety issues. Let's change that procedure. I would, me personally, I would suggest. The other was the agency's annual evaluation letter, which said the plant is operated safely, but continues to show a lax safety culture. Meaning operators don't always follow prescribed procedures. Does dam procedures again? You know, if we could just get rid of the procedures. And managers don't always follow up to assure tasks are performed correctly. What then would the managers be doing? I thought that would be kind of what managers do. In October of the last year, the NRC placed San Anofere on regulatory response, meaning it would conduct extra inspections until the plant fixed its problems. We would call it, I guess, probation.

Chuck Cascio and NRC Deputy Regional Administrators said the plants lapses were of a low-to-moderate risk. So what would that be? Orange? I'm still on the color codes. Yellow? It wouldn't be red, I understand. Didn't jeopardize public safety. He said, but quote, we're still not satisfied with the progress the plant has made. San Anofere's chief nuclear officer opened the meeting by saying the plant is committed to protecting public health and safety. And quote, we're disappointed in the rate of our performance improvement. Unquote. This is the language leaders and gentlemen of people who don't pay a penalty. If they do stuff wrong. We're disappointed in the rate of our performance improvement. It sounds like the coach of the hornets. He also said the plant was placed on probation by the National Academy of Nuclear Training for Training Deficiencies. What more can they do wrong?

Aside from blow-up. When a plant is placed on that probation, the training its training receives increased scrutiny of the nuclear regulatory commission. Here we go again. It's a circle kind of thing. The plant manager Doug Bauder said they're focused on improving plant for his past procedures conducting more rigorous training and informed an employee led team to get workers to embrace the changes. These are the workers who are intimidated about complaining about nuclear safety. Now they have to embrace the changes. It's the workers. It's the workers ladies and gentlemen. The director Tony Vigel said after four inspections human performance at San on O for a continues to be a problem. The monkeys are working out well. The gerbals have shown improvement. But the human performance continues to be a problem. He challenged the operators to prove their methods will yield results. I don't believe we got good traction in 2008, Bauder said.

In 2009, we looked around and saw we didn't have good procedures so we put those building blocks into place. We're really focused on behavior is now. The euphemisms that grow in a garden of them. The unit two reactor at San on O for a has been shut down for maintenance since September of last year. Because it takes a while to maintain. I guess you tell me department. Don't tell me now, but later when you get a chance. Now ladies and gentlemen. News from outside the bubble. And while I do this feature, I'm actually improving my procedures. I would just want you to know that. From the independent in London, corruption desertion and drug abuse within the Afghan police are threatening its ability to take over the fight against the Taliban. And the UK's chances of an exit from the country according to you knighted kingdom government documents.

In fact, it's a series of internal foreign office papers obtained by the independent on Sunday. It lays bear the deep concerns of British officials over the standard of recruits to the Afghan national police, ranging from high casualty rates and illiteracy to low pay. The moment memos warn that building an effective police force quote will take many years. Hey, we got them. It also reveals how non-existent ghost recruits may account for up to a quarter of the purported strength of the police force. Nothing would scare a terrorist more than a ghost policeman, I think. I think that's good deterrence there. The attrition rate among police officers, including losses caused by deaths, dissertion and dismissals that dreaded 3Ds, often due to positive drug tests is as high as 60% in helmet province. That's repeatedly identified as among the worst areas for a series of problems. Half the latest batch of recruits in the province initially tested positive for narcotics. British officials also raised concerns over the police forces involved in bribery, collusion with the drug trade, but you got to get them somehow. You don't expect them to be retailed to you, intimidation of school children,

and limited engagement with the community. I thought intimidating the school children was enough engagement with the community. In a dramatic insight into the frustration felt by British officials in Afghanistan, one suggested arresting the worst defenders and handing him over to prosecutors to make an example of them. And from the Sunday Times, about our friends, the Saudis. Saudi Arabia is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Islamist groups in the Balkans. Remember them? To spread hatred of the West and recruit fighters for jihad in Afghanistan. Things going well. All over the world. According to officials in Macedonia, Islamic fundamentalism threatens to destabilize the Balkans. Again, strict Wahabi and Salafi factions. Were the Salafis the gatecrashers? No, that was the Salahis. Funded by Saudi organizations are clashing with traditionally moderate local Muslims. Fundamentalists have financed the construction of scores of mosques.

Not stores, scores. Because they need more mosques, ladies and gentlemen. Always need more mosques. As well as handling some followers up to $200, $200, $300 a month. They're expected not only to grow beards, but to persuade their wives to wear the Nikob or face veil, custom virtually unknown in the liberal Islamic tradition of the Balkans. Government sources in traditionally secular Macedonia. They were monitoring up to 50 al-Qaeda volunteers recruited to fight in Afghanistan. Classified documents seen by the Sunday Times revealed that Macedonia officials are also investigating a number of Islamic charities. Some based in Saudi Arabia. Which are active throughout the Balkans and are suspected of spreading extremism and laundering money for terrorist organizations. The leader of the Islamic community in Macedonia said a number of mosques had forcibly been taken over by radical groups.

Their so-called Wahhabi teachings are completely alien to our traditions and to the essence of Islam, which is a tolerant and inclusive religion, said the leader of the Islamic community in Macedonia. In some mosques, believers are being told that Macedonia, which sent suit 200 soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan, had been tricked. It is supporting a crusade against Islam spearheaded by Britain and America. Radical clerics have shown footage from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestinian territories to illustrate their claims that the West is waging war in Islam. Being this being funded once again, ladies and gentlemen, by Saudi Arabia. And have to say, it's from the, no, and this too. Well, that's from the Sunday Times, which now is charging, start charging for people to read it on the internet. So I'm going to ask each of you to send me a dollar for having read that to you over the air, just to defray my costs. Now, more news from outside the bubble. And we get to the story, you're going to think I'm like trying to find every possible story that deals with this matter that came out this week. And you might be right, because gosh, there've been a lot of them from the times of London.

You can pay me a dollar or read this to you too. The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland will be pressed to quit if he refuses to resign over the growing child abuse scandal there. Nothing less than Cardinal Sean Brady's resignation will diminish fury at the highest levels in Rome over his role in the cover up of the pedophile priest scandal. In Ireland, the Vatican's mad at him. The Northern Ireland Assembly prepared last night to order an official investigation into child abuse in Northern Ireland. This is Northern Ireland after details emerged of more attacks on children by members of the clergy. So both Ireland and Northern Ireland, spread it around. Brady is spending the days before Easter, considering his possession. A lovely Britishism. I'm considering my position, which means my ass is on fire. Although there is no canonical procedure to remove him, those damn procedures, if he refuses to go voluntarily, pressure from the Holy See will make his departure inevitable.

Ireland needs a fresh start, a source in Rome said, by clinging on, he's putting his own interests before the churches. Unquote the Vatican referring to the Cardinal in Ireland. The inquiry would be similar to that, which uncovered a shocking litany of historic crimes in the Republic of Ireland last year. An official investigation is expected to cost up to $60 million and take no longer than five years. By announcing an apostolic visitation to the Irish Church last week, the Pope has effectively placed it in receivership. Alright, that's Ireland. Also from the Sunday Times, pay me a dollar for reading this. New revelations about the Pope's alleged role in covering up accusations of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy has exposed the Vatican to the risk of lawsuits brought by victims around the world. To quote Wolf Blitzer's inflection.

Around the world, mounting anger at the Catholic Church's failure to act on predatory priests in the US, Europe and Mexico has plunged the papacy into an institutional crisis, described by an American Catholic newspaper last week as the largest in century. In centuries, this week the Vatican denounced the aggressive persistence of critics who were alleging to personally involve the Holy Father in the matter of abuse. The spokesman told Vatican radio the Pope's record was above discussion. It's pretty far up there. But the talk in Catholic circles was of little else as the Pope's former life as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Archbishop of Munich, came under intensifying scrutiny. Last week it was alleged that as the head of the Vatican office monitoring priestly misconduct, Ratzinger failed to punish Father Lawrence Murphy, who abused up to 200 boys at a Wisconsin school for the death. Instead of having defrauded or being defrauded to police, Murphy remained at priest until his death in 1998, buried in his vestments. We're talking about a man who before he became Pope knew what Murphy was doing and did nothing about it to Donald Marshall, a mechanic who claims Murphy, Father Murphy assaulted him in 1997 when he was 13.

The reports coincided with the burgeoning German row over Father Peter Heilerman. Heilerman, sorry, a Bavarian priest who received therapy for pedophilia in Ratzinger's diocese and then was transferred to a new parish where he continued molesting boys. The Vatican insisted this week Ratzinger had no knowledge Ratzinger, now the Pope, had no knowledge of the decision to reassign Holerman, despite reports that the then Archbishop was sent a memo with details of the case. Holerman was eventually convicted of sex abuse in 1986. Adding to the Vatican's embarrassment, the acknowledgement late this week that by a prominent Catholic order that it's Mexican founder, the late Marcial, Marcial, that's correct, Marcial, Marcial, Marcial, Marcial, they go yado, known as Father Marcial, had not only molested trainee priests, but also fathered several children. When you got to get them from somewhere, it was largely on Ratzinger's initiative that the Vatican reopened a more abundant investigation into Marcial's activities as leader of the Legion of Christ.

Marcial was a close friend of Ratzinger's predecessor, Pope John Paul Tsou, who's considered a candidate for St. Hood, but whose reputation may also be stained by the spreading sex scandal. All the latest cases involved complaints that the Vatican failed to come clean about how it handled allegations of criminal conduct. The German Justice Minister has complained of a Vatican wall of silence around the issue. Pope's alleged role in the Wisconsin case emerged only when litigants who claim to be victims of abuse obtained internal church documents as part of their lawsuit. Now U.S. lawyers and other cases are determined to sue the Vatican for access to material that may shed light on relations between Rome and American bishops, and the extent to which there may have been a policy to hush up abuse by priests. Does William McMurray, a lawyer who represents victims in a Kentucky case, I want to know what the Vatican knew and when they knew it. As a sovereign state, the Vatican has immunity from U.S. lawsuits.

He had federal appeals courts in Oregon and Kentucky have allowed abuse cases to proceed. The U.S. Catholic Church has already paid on more than $1.1 billion to victims since 2004. But money recompensation is not enough for those who represent the victims. They say the church should be forced to explain why so few priests were punished for decades of abuse. And it's not just deaf boys in Wisconsin. Latest allegations of abuse aimed at another Catholic institution are getting closer to Rome, on Friday Italian television aired allegations from men who as children attended a Catholic school for the deaf in Verona where they say they were repeatedly abused. At first the local bishop accused them of lying until one of the staff admitted the allegations were true.

The bishop then ordered an internal investigation which found some abuse occurred, albeit a fraction of what had been alleged. Advocates for the self-described victims, however, said the diocese investigation was fatally flawed because no one interviewed the former students. In a signed statement, 67 former pupils at the school for the deaf described sexual abuse, pedophilia, and corporal punishment from the 50s through the 80s. They named 24 priests, brothers, and lay religious men at the Institute for the Deaf. Only now, a year after the Italian case became public is the Vatican telling the diocese to interview the victims to hear their testimony according to the Associated Press. And the Vatican strongly defended its decision not to defrock that American priestfather Murphy accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys in Wisconsin. Documents showed that in the mid-90s, two Wisconsin bishops urged the Vatican office led by then-Cardinal Ratsinger, now the Pope, to let them hold a church trial against father Murphy.

The bishops admitted the trial was coming years after the alleged abuse, but argued that the deaf community in Milwaukee was demanding justice from the church. Despite the extensive engraved allegations against Murphy, Ratsinger's deputy at the congregation for the doctrine of the faith ruled that the alleged molestation had occurred too long ago, statute of limitations, and that Murphy, then ailing and elderly, should instead repent and be restricted from celebrating mass outside of his dioces. See, they came down hard on him. He did repent, by the way. You'll be relieved to know. The official cardinal, Tarsiso Bertone, ordered the church trial halted after father Murphy wrote Ratsinger letter saying he was ill, infirm, and simply want to live out the time that I have left in the dignity of my priesthood. Unquote, father Murphy. Deaf boys in Italy, deaf boys in Wisconsin, it's a thing.

One or two deaf boys in the next room, now they're in the closet, between me and the broom, half a dozen deaf boys, nice little crowd. They can be quiet, and I can be loud for a wedded deaf boys. Take me all day, barely got the time to eat and to pray. Deaf boys can't hear me coming. Deaf boys get my heart strings to strum and make me make such a joyful note, but just can't get enough.

I can't have a hundred deaf boys. Oh, I got ahead of Steve. I could be the coach. And let could be my team. Deaf boys. One for each key. On the piano of my longing. They playing a hushed melody. 150 deaf boys. Oh, this could get tight. A few dozen in the morning. And all the rest at night. Deaf boys can't hear me coming. Deaf boys don't you dare call it slum. It might be a drink in my pre-sleep boys, but how can I resist deaf boys? I went for half a deaf boy. Each day of the year. Three hundred and sixty-five. That would be dear. How many deaf boys have there actually been?

Why not ask how many? My dad's on the head of a pen. The world is full of deaf boys. And I'm only one man. All the God expects is. Do all that you can. Deaf boys can't hear me coming. Deaf boys don't you dare call it slum. It might be a drink in my pre-sleep boys. Deaf boys don't you dare call it slum. It might be a drink in my pre-sleep boys. I guess everything's going his way.

Darkness, darkness, be my pillow. Take my hand and let me sleep in the coolness of your shadow in the silence of your dear. Darkness, darkness, hide me your name. For the things that cannot be. Keep my hand from constant time. Darkness, darkness, be my pillow. Take my hand and let me sleep in the coolness of your shadow in the silence of your dear.

Darkness, darkness, be my pillow. Take my hand and let me sleep in the coolness of your shadow in the silence of your dear. Darkness, darkness, be my pillow. Take my hand and let me sleep in the coolness of your shadow in the silence of your dear. Darkness, darkness, be my pillow. Take my hand and let me sleep in the coolness of your shadow in the silence of your dear. Darkness, darkness, be my pillow. Take my hand and let me sleep in the coolness of your shadow in the silence of your dear.

Darkness, darkness, be my pillow. Take my hand and let me sleep in the coolness of your shadow in the silence of your dear. Darkness, darkness, be my pillow. Take my hand and let me sleep in the coolness of your shadow in the silence of your dear. Darkness, darkness, be my pillow. Take my hand and let me sleep in the coolness of your shadow in the silence of your dear. Darkness, darkness, be my pillow. Take my hand and let me sleep in the coolness of your shadow in the silence of your dear.

We're so sorry. Darkness, darkness, be my pillow. Take my hand and let me sleep in the coolness of your shadow in the silence of your dear. Darkness, darkness, be my pillow. Take my hand and let me sleep in the coolness of your shadow in the silence of your shadow. We're so sorry.

We're so sorry. We're so sorry. A Grand Rapids missionary man who left a threatening voicemail with U.S. Representative Mark Schauer's district has apologized. Bob Bapristus said he was upset over the healthcare bill and wanted to make his concerns known.

He didn't know who his representative in Congress was and so they decided to call Schauer after seeing a TV political ad that listed Schauer's name and phone number. Schauer does not represent the Grand Rapids area. I screwed up, but Prista said it was rude and I was wrong. The commander of the nation's largest organization for combat veterans has issued an unusual apology for stating that President Obama's National Healthcare Reform Initiative is betraying veterans. Thomas Tradewell, senior national commander of the VFW, issued a written apology for his earlier criticism of Obama and Democratic leaders for failing to exclude language, sorry, for failing to include language in the final healthcare reform bill that specifically exempts the veterans health system. Tradewell, a combat-owned Vietnam veteran said he apologized for using too harsh of a word, but I did not apologize for our strong advocacy on the issue. It's like the healthcare bill riled people out for some.

In a letter to two Republican senators this week Attorney General Eric Holder apologized for not listing several friend of the court briefs on the questionnaire sent to him by the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation process. Holder maintained his current position on executive power is consistent with what he expressed in the briefs. A national review column earlier this month blasted Holder for not disclosing on his questionnaire. Two Supreme Court amicus briefs in the terrorism case of Jose Padilla. He joined in signing in one of the briefs Holder and several former Justice officials from the Clinton administration argued that the danger of a too powerful executive branch outweighs the risk of losing intelligence in terrorism cases prosecuted. In civilian courts Republicans passed on the mission. Deadline Jackson, Mississippi and Illinois lawmaker visited this another Illinois lawmaker apology. There's your trend for the week. The lawmaker visited the Mississippi Capitol on Saturday and apologized took back a casual insult he flung at the Southern State three years ago. Democratic representative Jack Franks said he made a quote stupid comment when he was defending the $28 million renovation of the Illinois State House. He said back then quote certainly the chamber has to be nice and to be fit a state of our stature.

It's not like we're Mississippi. We're a rich state. Unquote evocationing Franks said he was surprised to find Mississippi lawmakers meeting in a rare Saturday session. He apologized to several and received a hat a flag pin and a tumbler from the lieutenant governor. Franks also complemented the more than a hundred year old building quote. I wish our capital in Illinois was as nice as this. Unquote. Uh oh, wait until he gets back to Springfield. Another apology coming. Who vacations in Mississippi? No, please tell me the president of the Vienna boys choir apologize this week on behalf of the famed institution is the number of. What do you think abuse allegations rose to 11 up from eight last week. President Walter Nettig also pledged a whole more in depth conversations with all potential victims and offered support to anyone who wanted counseling. And we apologize in the name of the institution. He said. He was a member of the choir in the 40s acknowledged that he recalled having exceedingly strict teachers and even hated one of them.

How strict would be the question of course. Answers forthcoming. I'm sure deadline Mexico City Mexico the Mexican government is apologized to the families of two students killed early Friday. Officials initially said they were drug gang members. Apparently they were not. Jorge Antonio Mercado Alonso and Javier Francisco Arredondo Verrudo where mechanical engineering grad students. Said the Mexican interior ministry in its apology for the shootings. Sorry about the shootings. Mexican soldiers chasing criminals who had fired on an army patrol shot and killed the students the interior ministry said some of the criminals had fled onto the college campus. The Mexican government expresses its most deeply felt condolences to the families the interior ministry said in a release on its web page. The federal government will intensify its investigation to find out what happened.

The ministry said Friday that Mexican officials had said the two dead men were part of the criminal gang the child of the soldiers university officials. Said Friday all students were safe. Apparently they weren't. Dan Lennon Acra Gana US well company Cosmos energy is apologize to the government of Ghana and negotiations are continuing over the sale of the company stake in a massive oil field there. He didn't elaborate on what prompted the apology. Most mysterious apology we've had so far ladies and gentlemen on apologies of the week. Dan Lennon Mexico City 30 years after a sharp shooter fired a single shot at Oscar Romero the archbishop of San Salvador killing him as he celebrated mass. El Salvador is president apologize this week for the assassination that helped push the country toward civil war Mauricio Funez. The first president from the left since that the 1992 peace accords ended the civil war 75,000 people were killed. Asked for forgiveness in the name of the state.

The University of California leader is apologized this week to black UC San Diego students for racial incidents recently at the campus and proposed changes in admissions policy ended boosting enrollment of minorities across the system. UC regents acknowledge that the San Diego episodes including an off campus student party that mocked a black history month had brought attention to the low enrollment of African American students on the campus just about 1.6%. When Robert Graves the director of the census bureau appeared on C-SPAN this week he found himself having to defend the racial designations on the census form a female caller said I am black I did not appreciate the black the African American and Negro. I do not like that it really hurt my feelings to me that is racist. Groves who was dealt with the quote Negro designation before apologized explaining that before the 2000 census began there were many older African Americans who called themselves Negro. He said he doubted the category would still be around for the next census. That the aforementioned Legion of Christ the Mexican religious order whose late founder was revealed to have been less than many young seminarians formally apologized to his victims this week.

And the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Dr. R. K. Pashore has apologized for the way his organization handled complaints about mistakes in its most recent report. The apologies of the week latest gentlemen a copyrighted feature of this broadcast. Epoch. Epoch. Epoch. Epoch. Epoch. Epoch. Epoch.

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Epoch. Epoch. Epoch. Now just briefly ladies and gentlemen news of the Olympic movement. The number of prostitutes working near the main Olympic site in Stratford East London has reportedly doubled already since work began on the stadium with an accompanying rise in cases of sexually transmitted diseases. The Olympic's miniature has held meetings with officials of the Vancouver Olympics where the number of sex workers increased fivefold to around 1,000 during the games and is working with the police to prevent a similar influx in London. It's a movement and everyone needs one every day. The biennial event begins at 9. Anniversary of the New York Times in London this year.

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