Le Show; 2010-07-18

From deep inside your radio and from the historic Lishodome and and because it's historic they've torn it down because that's the LA way, ladies and gentlemen, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, you've heard a lot about them if you've been listening to this broadcast for any length of time, you'll hear a lot about them in the forthcoming documentary film by the host of this program called, well, the film is called the big uneasy, but really what's the core of engineers up to now? Well sir, a plan by them to use coal ash to fortify flood protection levies on both sides of the Mississippi River is being debated in St. Louis. Environmental groups oppose the plan, you know, like environmental groups always oppose the plans of the Army Corps, the ashes known as fly ash is the residue of coal combustion at power plants.

It contains, oh, you know, your your average toxins, arsenic and mercury, and it has been closely linked to cancer. So why wouldn't you use it to line a waterway? Kathy Andrea, president of the unfortunately named American bottoms conservancy, I don't name them. The American bottoms conservancy says coal ash is highly unstable and degrades in the presence of water, making it a bad choice for levy construction. So bottoms down to that, but in an environmental assessment issued in May, the core determines that the mixture of lime and coal ash it plans to inject into the levies is both safe and cost effective, core wants to use the mixture to reinforce levy embankments in Mississippi in Missouri and Illinois, over a 200 mile stretch of the river between Alton and Gale. You know where that is near Alton. And in Los Angeles, how does the core deal with dissent subject tackled in the big uneasy?

But here we have an example in Los Angeles. Heather Wiley was a 29 year old biologist with the core of engineers. What's biologist doing in the core of engineers? First of all, she lost her job because she commandeered the shallow waters of the Los Angeles River in a kayak to prove that the Los Angeles River was a navigable waterway. In last week, the EPA ruled it traditional navigable waters entitled to the protections of the Clean Water Act, a huge victory for the activists who've worked for decades to protect the river from developers and polluters without Wiley and that boat trip which defied the law at the time might not have happened. The EPA cited the boat trip as proof the river is navigable. It was something that the core of engineers opposed.

Core found two internet images of her on the river. They threatened to suspend her for 30 days, saying the expedition, quote, undermined the core's authority, unquote. I got treated as some kind of disloyal trader. She told the LA Times they still put that on paper. They killed trees to do that. Her leaked documents about the boat trip reached Congressman Henry Waxman and the EPA invoked its authority to supplant the core of the agency that would determine whether the LA river was protected under the Clean Air Act. So thanks, core of engineers for trying to stop that. Meanwhile, ladies and gentlemen, the story of formaldehyde in your life continues. The California Air Resources Board has granted a one-year extension of sell-through dates to give retailers another year to clear their inventories of furniture and other stuff that doesn't comply with the state's strict new formaldehyde emission standards.

In other words, retailers have one more year to sell you this stuff that can fill your life with formaldehyde. The standards affect composite panel, a commonly used product in wood furniture and a poultry frames. So buy up your wood furniture and a poultry frames now and breathe in, breathe deep, composite panels not to be confused with death panels unless you breathe in deep. And ladies and gentlemen, this is your brain on the war on drugs. Grenades and made in the United States and sent to Central America during the Cold War, you know, for our age to the right wing governments in Guatemala and Nicaragua and Panama. Those grenades have now resurfaced as new weapons in almost weekly attacks by Mexican drug cartels. See how it goes? Sent generation to go to battle communist revolutionaries in the jungles of Central America.

US grenades are being diverted from dusty old armories and sold to criminal mafia's or using them to destabilize the Mexican government and terrorize civilians. That's according to US and Mexican law enforcement officials. The redeployment of US made grenades by Mexican drug lords underscores the increasingly intertwined nature of the conflict. The gangs also have a brand new military style assault rifles purchased in the United States and munitions from the other side in the Cold War too. So spreading joy wherever we go ladies and gentlemen, hello, welcome to the show. Now that you've risen to glory on your camera friendly cheekbones, you don't get in

to make up less than 20 Gs, maybe 30, you're quiet and impossible to flatter, that's right, it really doesn't matter, you smile and half the world is on its knees, now why is that? Because you're a little too good looking, a little too good looking when they hand it out, the jeans you shouted bingo, because your parts all work together, they all work together with the synergy of John Paul George and Ringo, you can't relate, you make little jokes about the weight, of us normal folks, you might be slightly out of touches true, wouldn't be if they were you, you could be just a little too good looking, on TV you proselytized back your own brand of exercise, how I crave the dynamism of your fast metabolism,

go here, you're there, you're everywhere, you're like a constant femur dream, my friends are you up, down, small rough, and now you're flawless as you see, isn't that magazine, you came all free, go as a queen, oh sure some, but it's mountain crew, you were totally, totally, totally nude, as if they could turn away from you, nuclear, I feel your consummate loveliness, it's nothing less than the American ideal, you're a teenage goddess when you first hit Manhattan, you and your mama got off the bus from Crested View, before you had the

opportunity to ride a single post card, you got the notice of an auspire de la renter suit, before you knew it, you were braiding down the camp walk, done up in almost nothing you could look up your destiny, you know the man I want to meet you, although they're wrong they're gonna treat you, as if you simply couldn't have a brain, because you're a little too good looking, a little too good looking, with the closet twice the size of color red, oh, because you call to vain your beauty, it's a sacred duty, late at night you smear your body, with avocado, front cover news, your name might high, high level schmutz, parley and watch, got into what you choose, here's gonna be a day, it all slips, lines away, but

last year god knows how much you took in, just because you're so good looking, guess you can't be too good, if they asked you, you could ride a book, a book about how good you look. From the edge of America, from the home of the homeless I'm Harry Shira, welcoming you to this edition of the show, kissed by sea breezes ladies and gentlemen for your listening pleasure and now, it's time for me to read the trades for you, first, from advertising age, the Bhagavad Vita, the advertising industry, how the bronze entourage got his decision on ESPN, oh yeah, I'll read it for you, so I'm here. By now you've heard the offense against basketball star LeBron James, one hour TV special to announce

his team choice that was narcissistic, sell it his brand and blurred the journalistic line for ESPN, but what you haven't heard is the defense of the man who helped put the show together, Uber agent Ari Emanuel, who says the decision forwarded the paradigm for advertiser programming. In an exclusive interview with Advertising Age, Emanuel helped fill in some of the gaps on the backstory of how the program came together and addressed the naysayers, everybody can say what they want, it was the wrong decision, there was too much hoopla, whatever, but for me, it was about doing the event, getting the advertisers to participate and doing it for charity, Mr. Emanuel said, this was a major success for advertisers and we're getting closer to pushing the needle on advertiser content programming. Emanuel said all sponsors who were approached had the choice to advertise on the program

or contribute and did not comment further. ESPN donated the block of time and agreed the ad revenue would be donated charity. All told, the program generated $6 million in ad revenue. The eight brands featured in the show received $2.9 million in equivalent ad time. The show began when Emanuel was sitting with media mogul David Geffen at an NBA finals game in Los Angeles and was approached by LeBron James Business Manager Maverick Carter. The group talked about how best to announce James' team choice and settled on the concept of a TV show. Emanuel looped in William Morris partner Mark Dowley. He and Maverick Carter began contacting advertisers and looking for a home for a show, but the idea that the proceeds from ad revenue would go to charity.

Originally discussions were with ESPN's Walt Disney company sibling ABC, but a date could not be found. The plan was then to have James make his announcement in a special on ESPN prior to the network's annual award show. He would then walk on stage during the live telecast and present the night's first award. But Emanuel and other executives indicated that the way NBA's free agency was structured made it not suitable to wait until July 14th. Not to mention the media cycle would make it difficult to keep a lid on the news. Once July 8th was chosen as the date all ESPN exec, VP, John Skipper had to do was clear the space. But even that wasn't quite so easy once the network began receiving backlash about blurring the journalistic line. When Skipper and I had a long, long conversation about this Emanuel said, we went through everything. Emanuel did not discuss the possible Hollywood-Bruhaha or the fact that he and William Morris

helped broker the deal when LeBron James is a client of rival CAA. So thank our Emanuel, ladies and gentlemen. I know I do every day. And this, for Australia, skin care group Vaseline has reignited debate over the issue of skin lightning in India with an internet application released in India that lets social networkers make their profile pictures appear paler. The skin lightning industry has been estimated around $172 million in India. And writes campaigners argue that advertisements for such products reinforce age-old prejudices that skin color determines future success. In 2009, a poll of nearly 12,000 people revealed that skin tone was considered the most important

criterion when choosing a partner in three Indian states. More and more, there's an anxiety in the mind of men about having fair skin since a sociology professor at Nehru University. The Vaseline widget promises to, quote, transform your face on Facebook with Vaseline men in a campaign, fronted by Bollywood actor Shaheed Kapoor, who is depicted with his face divided into dark and fair haves. The app was created to promote its new skin lightning cream. Half a dozen foreign brands have piled into the male skin lightning market in India, including L'Oreal and Nivia, which promote the seemingly magical lightning qualities of their products in ubiquitous advertising. Indian cosmetics giant Imami launched the first skin whitening cream for men way back in 2005 called Fair Enhancing. It came 27 years after the first such cream for women.

You see, that's not right. Indians believe that if you have fair skin, you belong to the higher cost. The Brahmins says the sociologist. Hongkhaj Parihar from the advertising firm Omnicom, which designed the campaign. The response has been pretty phenomenal. Lighten your skin on Facebook. Just another modern marvel you wouldn't know about had I not read the trades for you, copyrighted feature of this broadcast. Thanks to Arium Manual for that, too. Thinking about it makes my skin lighter. Ladies and gentlemen, I've just returned from New Orleans, Louisiana, and a lot of people

are still curious about the former mayor, and well, they should be. I mentioned a few weeks ago from New Orleans that the mayor does have his lasting legacy in physical terms, the collapsed concrete grand entrance to Louis Armstrong Park. News came last week that the construction firm he had given the contract to redesign the park and add some new statues in addition to Louis Armstrong, some other jazz heroes. That company headed by a gentleman convicted of a felony for bribing a school board member, but hey, that company now is off the job. One of their last efforts in addition to setting and having to dig up the concrete three different times because it, you know, concrete, not easy to, they apparently broke the statue of Louis Armstrong in Armstrong Park.

But what else is Ray Negan doing now? Well, he's open a consulting business, business, and even though visits to his 26th floor office by a reporter for the Times Pick You and found the door locked, a phone number not listed on the electronic directory in the lobby. But the service is the offers in case you're interested, ladies and gentlemen, political consulting, public speaking, how to, how to, you know, make a splash with your own chocolate city comment, internet communication, radio TV and movie development, and most important disaster recovery advice. So if you don't think you're getting good enough disaster recovery advice from former FEMA director, Mike Brown, call Ray Negan, and he'll be Ray Negan on you. And now, ladies and gentlemen, news from outside the bubble. Further adding to the evidence that BP might, in fact, be a British company, this from

the Financial Times. David Cameron this week will defend BP on a two-day visit to Washington, insisting the company must have a stable and strong future for the sake of the UK economy and the pensioners who rely on its dividends. BP is concerned that the pressure from US politicians, which have accelerated this week with allegations over the company's role in the release of the convicted Lockerbie bomber BP concerned that the pressure could cripple the company, leaving it vulnerable to a bid from Exxon Mobile. We wouldn't want that. That's a US company. Karl Hendricks-Svonberg, BP's chairman, met Prime Minister Cameron on Friday to urge him to help counter the attacks being directed against BP from Capitol Hill. Cameron told Svonberg he did not want to inflame the row, but he would deliver a firm reminder to Barack Obama and congressional leaders of the importance of BP to the UK economy.

In another move to support BP, Sir Nigel Shinewald, UK Ambassador to Washington, rejected the accusation by some US senators that BP had lobbied the UK government to release convicted Lockerbie bomber Almagraki from jail in an attempt to win new contracts in Libya. Sir Nigel said inaccuracies were, quote, harmful to the UK. BP has acknowledged it did lobby the UK government to speed up a prisoner transfer agreement with Libya. I guess I know what the B stands for. And from the observer, BP ordered the owner of the deep water horizon rig, whose explosion led to the oil pluck in the Gulf, to overhaul a crucial piece of the rig's safety equipment in China. The blowout prevented the last line of defense against and out of control well subsequently failed to activate and is at the center of investigations into what caused the disaster. Experts say that the practice of having such engineering work carried out in China rather

than the US saves money and is common in the industry. There is no evidence that the significant modifications to the blowout preventer, which were carried out in China in 2005, caused the equipment to fail, but industry lawyers said BP could be made liable for any mistakes at a Chinese subcontractor made carrying out the work. It's almost impossible to secure damages in China where international law is barely recognized. International law, you know, like the conservatives do right. It's understood the lawyers for the manufacturer of the blowout preventer will argue the device was so significantly modified in China that it no longer resembled the aboriginal component and that that manufacturer, Cameron International, should not be held liable. Trans ocean, the owner of the rig, which bought the blowout preventer from Cameron, has already told congressional hearings that the modifications were carried out at BP's request and under its direction.

So there you go. Where the tainted dog food comes from, that's where you should send your blowout preventers ladies and gentlemen for servicing because that's what the oil companies do. News from outside the bubble, it is a copyrighted feature of this broadcast. It is clean. It's safe. It's cheap, too cheap, too cheap to be safe, too, too safe to meet her. Some of all that. It's nuclear power. Deadline Washington, the amount of plutonium buried at the Hanford, nuclear reservation in Washington state is just three times what the federal government previously reported. So when you would analysis indicates that a cleanup to protect future generations from the plutonium, then they used to call it the single most dangerous substance on the planet. Yes, they did. Thank you.

That cleanup will be far more challenging than planners had assumed. Human waste is much more prevalent around nuclear weapon sites nationwide, not just in Hanford, than the Energy Department's official accounting indicates, as according to Robert Alvarez, a former Energy Department official who in recent months re-analyzed studies conducted by the department in the last 15 years. The problem is most severe at Hanford in South Central Washington. By the time production stopped in the 1980s, Hanford had made most of the nation's plutonium. You are sent her for plutonium. It doesn't pose a major radiation hazard now, so forget about it. Because it is under institutional controls, like guards, weapons, and gates. Well, nobody will be cutting back the budget for guards, will they? Government scientists say even in minute particles, plutonium can cause cancer because it takes only 24,000 years to lose half its radioactivity. It's certain to last longer than the controls. You guards are going to stay there, right? Oh, you got lunch? Okay.

The fear is that in a few hundred years, the plutonium could reach an underground area called the saturated zone, sounds like a new nightclub at the L.A. live, where water flows, and from there, enter the Columbia River. Columbia jammer the rivers, because the area is now arid, contaminants move extremely slowly, but over the millennia, the climate is expected to change, according to experts. The cleanup will be more complex, perhaps requiring technologies that do not yet exist. More than 20 years after the Energy Department vowed to embark on a cleanup, it is still not characterized or determined the exact nature of the contaminated soil. Government officials recognize they still have a weak grasp of how much plutonium is contaminating the environment. The numbers are changing, says a radiation expert at the Washington State Department of Ecology. Well, who isn't changing? You know, it's a dynamic universe. To jump in, the European banks are now undergoing their own stress tests. You remember those we had them in this country about a year ago, last spring, to try to determine

if the banks can withstand another little thing, the questions become central in the debate about how to reform the global financial system, and congratulations to the United States Congress for passing financial regulation reform. Now as I remember, the key problems that were highlighted at the time that things went bluey were toxic assets on the books of the banks, which nobody could value, so banks didn't know what they had and the value was plummeting. So the proposal was made at that time. Let's skim those toxic assets off the books of the banks and put them in a separate bank, a so-called bad bank, and then the so-called good banks could recover more quickly. That never happened. What did happen was that the big banks, the ones that were too big to fail, were encouraged by the federal government to take over the weaker banks, and so they got bigger.

The two things not addressed in the financial regulatory reform bill passed by Congress, toxic assets, and banks that are too big to fail. Anyway, next week, European regulators will announce the results of the tests on the 91 European banks, designed to see how they'd respond to another round of economic shock. The results could well show that the European banks need tens of billion dollars in help that could dim growth and force banks and their host governments to present a clear plan for paying the tab. Most banks have not raised as much new capital as US firms since the crisis. They've been slower to write off bad loans and have been entangled in local and regional problems whose overall impact remains unclear. The International Monetary Fund has criticized European banks' reliance on government funding delaying an inevitable reckoning. It's finally time to sing the praises of the bad bank.

It's better than a room full of badsets, one of our stand-out badsets, couple tons of toxic assets. Keep the dollars in your closets, because we don't take care of deposits where the bad bank, but we don't mean to be a poster, but we're the bad bank, even make you give us a toaster. All our funds were highly rated, just a bit intoxicated, now they're all emaciated, now it is willing to do your crevice, because we'll piss away your savings, we're the bad

bank, we make you buy it for low-charging, we're such a bad bank, don't even offer free bargain, we'll get your funds in our head like this, we're weaker than Vegas, we're locked, here's a whole conspiracy as purity, you get everything as security as we're the bad bank, labor than a you go, lazy, what a bad

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reform passed by Congress. Congratulations, you guys. Really, man. New York Times reported on Friday. Hey, it's Sunday. New York Times reported on on Friday that most of the new regulations that affect banks that will not allow them, for example, to charge as much as many fees on debit cards and other kinds of restrictions on their fees will be banks have already figured out that they'll just charge more somewhere else like goodbye to free checking. So that that's really going to hurt. They're saying customers are going to pay for most of this. Now, if they'd broken up the too big to, oh, who knows, who knows what that happened then. But now, news of the war, won't you? Yes, we can. Oh, a new study concludes that an old fundamental and widely accepted theory of how and why phytoplankton bloom in the oceans is incorrect. The findings challenge more than

50 years of conventional wisdom about the growth of phytoplankton. They're just the ultimate basis for almost all ocean life and fisheries. And they also raise concerns that global warming rather than stimulating ocean productivity may actually curtail it in some places. The analysis was published in the journal ecology by Michael Barronfield at Oregon State, one of the world's leading experts in the use of remote sensing technology and examine ocean productivity. It concludes that a theory first developed in 1953 called the critical death depth hypothesis offers an incomplete and inaccurate explanation for summer phytoplankton blooms observed since the 1800s in the North Atlantic. These blooms provide the basis for one of the world's most productive fisheries. The old theory made common sense and seemed to explain what people were seeing. Barronfield said it was based on the best science and data available at the time, most of which was at pain during the commerce seasons of late spring and early summer. But now we have satellite remote sensing technology providing us with much more comprehensive view of the oceans on literally a daily basis. And they strongly contradict the critical depth hypothesis. That was that phytoplankton bloom in temperate

oceans in the spring because of improving light conditions longer and brighter days and warming of the surface layer. Warm water is less dense than cold. There's a problem. A nine-year analysis of satellite records of chlorophyll and carbon data indicate this long-held hypothesis is not true. The rate of phytoplankton accumulation actually begins to surge during the middle of winter, the coldest, darkest time of year. Figure out the consequences of yourself on your own nickel. In a pioneering use of CT scans, scientists at Woods Hole Ocean ographic Institution have discovered the carbon dioxide induced global warming is in the process of killing off a major coral species in the Red Sea. How do we care what happens in a communist ocean? I don't understand. As summer sea surface temperatures have remained about 1.5 degrees Celsius above ambient over the last 10 years, growth of the coral has declined by 30 percent and could cease growing altogether by 2070 or sooner. They reported in the July 16th issue of the journal

science. The warming in the Red Sea in the resultant decline in the health of this coral is a clear, regional impact of global warming, says Neil Cantlin at the Woods Hole Institution. A new report attempts to quantify the impacts from climate change by looking at very, that's a little, little dance even for me. Last month was the hottest June ever recorded worldwide and the fourth consecutive month that the combined global land and sea temperature records have been broken according to the US government's climate data center. 2010 is now, of course, to be the warmest year since records began in 1880. The trend to warmer world is incontrovertible. According to Noah June was the 304th consecutive month with a combined global land and surface temperature above the average of the 20th century. The last month with below average temperatures was February 1985. There were temperature anomalies, Spain experienced its coolest June since 1997, and Guizhou, and southern China, which had the coolest

June on record. In a further sign of a warming world, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic was at its lowest for any June since satellite records started in 1979, and the Jocob is spray glacier. Sorry about that. I apologize to you. Glacier. I'm apologizing to a glacier on the radio. One of the largest in Greenland lost a seven square kilometer chunk of ice between July 6th and 7th to one of the largest single losses to a glacier ever recorded, and from science, from the proceedings of the National Academy of Science, although preliminary estimates from published literature and expert surveys suggest striking agreement among climate scientists on the tenets of anthropogenic man-caused climate change, the American public expresses substantial doubt about both the cause and the level of scientific agreement. A broad analysis of the climate scientist community itself, the distribution of credibility

of dissenting researchers relative to agreeing researchers, and the level of agreement among top climate experts has not been conducted and would inform future discussions now, and publication in the proceedings, they use an extensive data set of 1300 climate researchers and their publication and citation data to show that 97 to 98 percent of the climate researchers, most actively publishing in the field, support the tenets of anthropogenic climate change, and the relative climate expertise and scientific prominence of the researches unconvinced of it, are substantially below that of the convinced researchers. News of the warm, ladies and gentlemen, copyrighted feature of this broadcast. Let's get a little tabloid, shall we? I imagine most of you are aware, especially since there was a negative mail received by all things considered when they did a story on this, so even those of you who don't want to be aware or aware that some tapes have surfaced, of telephone conversations between

Mel Gibson and his current girlfriend, or once current girlfriend, Oksana, I don't remember her last name, because that's how I roll. And the tapes reveal kind of a, I don't know, petty, angry, disturbing relationship. They don't provide the whole story, however, there, there've been much more serious conversations between the two, and fortunately we've gotten our hands on a partial tape of one of those. You freaking think current certainty makes one freaking shred of sense? I think General Petraeus has a chance of making it work. What? What? General Petraeus wrote the book on counterinsurgency tactics. He wrote the book on being an A-hole, a freaking A-hole.

That's the book he wrote. How dare you tell me he wrote the book. He wrote up manual on counterinsur- I told you, the only little counter you should be talking about is the way you're looking behind where you're not giving me freaking web service. The point is simply we should give his strategy a chance. The whole contingent of troops, the surgery, isn't even there yet. You wouldn't know counterinsurgency strategy, and I can't keep getting that screaming out of your freaking tagliants. That's not true. That's not true. I've ever heard of the freaking special forces. Yes. Staff Sergeant Barry Savler, bowler of the Green Parades, just that ringer, stupid, freaking pal. You're talking nonsense. I'm trying to talk strategy. I know how to talk strategy. You want to talk strategy? Here's some strategy, Missy. We dropped 2,000 Delta Force mothers over there, and we walk away. Benito, Dasta, that's all she freaking wrote. Do you understand me? What I understand is that we either do this now, or we do it 30 years from now.

You know what you sound like? What? You want to know what you sound like? What? You sound like Walter Whitman, freaking Rasto, you horrible. That's true. I'm like, have me freaking kissin' you cow. Why I'm no freaking national interest in being and freaking Afghanistan day one, or star by. I understand you. I disagree with you. You're not. Does that go in there? You do stupid, that doesn't go in there. You think you're just like I would be. So you're saying let the warlords just take over again? They've taken over. They took over. What do you read? Just the freaking ads and freaking foreign affairs. I read the articles. You don't read the articles. You don't even look at the pictures. There are no pictures. There's no freaking excuse for not having a policy of counterterrorism except that, yeah, any of friends. We get fined to spend my money building a freaking nation. I don't have a freaking mountain range for a freaking opium weavers and toparts smokers.

You're losing the threat of the argument. Hi. It's never. It's lost its risk. Have any heard of it? When we argued about whether the fed should end its easy money policy, I never once lost the freaking threat. You did. You even forgot Ben Bernetti's freaking name you are. You said you thought we were in danger of inflation, which is absolutely untrue. Because you're saying it. No. You said you've seen my Nexus Lexus bill. You think it hasn't gone up in the past two years since I've had to be informed enough to have a freaking conversation with you. Yeah, I'll be. Do you want to get back to the subject of counterinsurgency? It cannot work. It won't work. It never worked. It will never work. Your work before it works, you blood-sucking sponge for all. And I disagree.

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A New Delhi Indian Environment Minister Jair Rahm Ash has publicly apologized for the secret dumping of some 40 tons of toxic waste from the Union, carbide pesticide plant at Bhopal to an infiltrator at Pitampur two years ago. Talking to reporters, the minister said, I admit, as a minister that it was wrong to have brought those 40 tons of waste to Pitampur, whatever we do needs to be done with adequate transparency. I am ready to admit publicly that transporting that waste from the Union Carbide factory secretly during the night hours was wrong during his recent visit to the incinerating site angry villagers greeted the environment minister and demanded immediate closure of the facility. He said the secret dumping was wrong and assured there would be an open cleanup of the site.

Suddenly, you can't beat a funny name department, a member of parliament from Kent, the United Kingdom, has apologized for being drunk in the House of Commons and missing a vote on the budget, or missing a vote on the budget. Minister, member of parliament, Mark Reckless, absolutely said he did not feel it was appropriate to take part in the vote in the early hours of Wednesday because of the amount he had drunk. He told BBC Radio Kent, I made a mistake. I'm really sorry about you. Reckless is one of 227 new members of parliament who started work following the general election in May 6. He said, I'm terribly terribly embarrassed. I apologize on the reserved day and I don't plan to drink again at Westminster. I should cross the bridge to do my drinking. No, he didn't say last. He denied claims that he fell asleep on a terrace outside the library of Westminster or that he got a taxi back to his constituency. He added, quote,

I remember someone asking me how to vote and not think he was appropriate, given how I was, you saw it. Fast and thought of a situation generally where I thought I was drunk, I tend to go home. Mark Reckless, ladies and gentlemen. The Alain Marlboro, Massachusetts, a candidate in this week's special city election apologized for violating a state law regarding voter bribery, Robert Tonera, a candidate for a city council seat sent campaign postcards to about 1,500 residents. It included a coupon for ice cream, a violation of Massachusetts general laws. It was an innocent mistake said, Tonera. First time candidate didn't cross my mind that I was violating any laws. The Alain Wellington New Zealand, television New Zealand has been ordered to broadcast an apology for a breakfast program presenters on air comment that British singer Susan Boyle was retarded. Presenter Paul Henry, good die, had already apologized personally for his comment in December when he laughed as he read a magazine article about how Boyle was starved of oxygen at birth and suffered an intellectual disability.

He's apologizing. Tom Jones has gotten apology from the record label executive called the singer's new album, a sick joke. Jones, known for pop songs ranging from it's not unusual to his remake of Princess Kiss, left EMI last year and signed with Ireland records. Who owns Ireland now? One of the big five. It's not Ireland records. It's just an imprint of a big record company. Anyway, Ireland thought it was going to get another album of dance songs from the 70-year-old star instead. Jones delivered an album of blues-flavored gospels and spirituals called Praise and Blame. This didn't sit well with Island Vice President David Sharp. He fired off an email to his colleagues that was leaked to the British media, the email read in part. Imagine my surprise when I walk to the office this morning to hear him's coming from your office. It could have been Sunday morning. My initial pleasure came to an abrupt halt when I realized Tom Jones was singing the hymns. I've just listened to the album in his entirety and want to know if this is some sick joke. We did not invest a fortune in an established artist for him to deliver 12 tracks from a common book

of prayer. Jones did not take the criticism lightly. He told the Welsh paper, The Western Mail. It's not coming from the creative people in the record company. The what? I mean, they're thrilled with it. So I don't understand it. People tell me all publicity is good publicity. That's what I've been told. People say to me, well, it's being talked about. But to me, it's being talked about a negative way. According to Billboard magazine, Jones said they've apologized. They can't apologize enough and they've said, we'll make good on this. Uh-oh. Tom, you owe them big time. Don't make good on it. All right. After days of stony silence, Facebook has indirectly apologized to Sydney, Australia, Joel, jeweler, Victoria Buckley, who's been at the center of a global media frenzy after launching a battle with the site over censorship. Last week, she lashed out at Midwest American Puritanism on Facebook after a threatened again, action against her for having pictures of nude porcelain dolls on her fan page. They were posing with the jeweler's products. After a week of global media coverage, Facebook has apologized for censoring the images

and said Buckley could re-upload the images if she wished, which she has. The British actor who played Darth Vader and the original Star Wars trilogy has been banned from attending official fan conventions. Friends of David Prouds, now 75 say he's being punished after annoying George Lucas. Prouds's website said he could not attend a fourth coming conference or any Lucas film associated event. The only thing I've been told is I've burnt too many bridges between Lucas film and myself. Since zero apologies to all my fans who are hoping to meet with me, I shall miss you too. Says Darth Vader. Germany has apologized to fans who were denied a glimpse of their heroes when they made a low-key return home after finishing third at the World Cup. The players decided they didn't want a big reception. After their semi-final loss to Spain, they landed in Frankfurt on Monday and separated individual destinations without greeting fans. Now the team says it deeply regrets the displeasure and incomprehension caused. It said it hadn't expected fans would go

to the airport and did not intend to anger them. But wait, there's more. They'd line Vancouver. British Columbia, British Columbia, mining minister Bill Bennett apologized to Jews this week for an email calling ardent proponents of a national park, eco-fascists. He poses, does he, does Mr. Bennett, turning a large portion of flathead valley into a park? He wrote, we either stand strong together against the loss of the flathead valley to the eco-fascist or we will lose the flathead I am there if you are there. He supports logging into the commercial uses of the valley. He regretted the use of what he called a very unfortunate term, laying the blame on a staff member. Also, up north, Canadian tire. A has apologized for a mistake on how it supplied the controversial new eco-feed to one of its products. A Toronto location charged 13 cents per bottle for the biodegradable and an earth-friendly product, Mrs. Myers Clean Day Shower Cleanier. The store charged customers more than it cost to recycle the product.

Canadian tire blamed a programming error. What? They didn't want this show on the air? No, computer programming. Time Magazine is issued an apology for a July 2 op-ed piece by writer Joel Stein, which lampooned Indian culture in Edison, New Jersey. Quote, we sincerely regret that any of our readers were upset by this humor column of Joel Stein. It was in no way attended to cause offense at the magazine. That's all we need to know about that. Head of the British, actually, the Irish discount airline, Michael O'Leary, has made a full-blown apology to his rival, the founder of the European discount airline EasyJet, Sir Stelios Haji Yonu. All right, then. You're welcome. The outspoken chief executive of Europe's largest budget carrier apologized unreservedly to the other guy, with the long name. For portraying

him as a Pinocchio figure in newspaper advertisements that alleged he had deliberately withheld data about EasyJet's punctuality performance. The controversy surrounding the release of the man convicted of the lock will be bombing, reignited as you know. Oh, yes. So Nigel Steinwald, the UK ambassador to Washington, says the new British government is clear that McGrawhe's release was a mistake. It deeply regrets the continuing anguish that his release has caused the families of McGrawhe's victims in the UK as well as in the US. Kind of an apology. Kind of. Republican Senator David Vitor of Louisiana has apologized to MSNBC host Rachel Maddo after gesting on a radio program that she only looked like a woman, quote, a long time ago. Regarding my remark during a radio conversation today, I apologize. Vitor wrote in a letter to Maddo. The hosts made their comment and I obviously chimed in. While we do not usually agree on the issues, I do not think you deserve that comment. I'd quote Vitor's comments came during an

appearance on radio station in New Orleans Friday morning during which the radio host joked about a high school photo of Maddo with long blonde hair. The NBC host currently a short brown hair must have been a long time ago. Vitor joked when the host said the photo portrays Maddo as looking like a woman. Maddo has accepted his apology. ESPN officials say that analyst Rusty Wallace will not be suspended for a derogatory comment. He made an reference to Kyle Bush. Wallace was heard to say dumbass after Bush's victory lane interview. Wallace issued a statement through ESPN apologizing for the remark. Apple has apologized to STEO. Apple Steve Jobs has apologized to people who are less than satisfied with the iPhone 4 offering a free bumper. The apologies of 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 Lesho.

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