Le Show; 2011-05-15

From deep inside your radio how deep how deep I ask now not overloading the microphone how deep deep in Columbus Ohio that's how deep ladies and gentlemen where you know apparently there is a Newtonian thing going on you can either have a ridiculously successful screening and Q&A of the big uneasy at a local theater or you can have spring weather you can't have both so we had we had a but boy springtime in Columbus it's time to light those fires now you'd think after spending all this time making up with the with with his maker and learning how to be a good dude from his third wife a Newt King rich would have learned a few things about defending himself in public now fortunately when he

was on one of the Sunday act shows today the moderator did not say you and Osama Bin Laden have something in common three wives that didn't come up in in quite that way but the moderator of that Sunday act show did confront Newt with a quote from Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma which was published last fall in the Tulsa world which I believe is a newspaper in Tulsa otherwise it's the entire world as seen from Tulsa here's the quote of Senator Tom Coburn quote Gingrich is a super smart man sorry but he doesn't know anything about commitment to marriage his life indicates he does not have a commitment to the character traits necessary to be a great president and that that was you know

displayed in front of Newt for him to parry which Gingrich did by you know saying well I've I've had to discuss things with my maker and never said never occurred to him to say excuse me I'll say it not just in Newt's behalf but in behalf of common sense Senator Tom Coburn man who judges others on the basis of their knowledge of their commitment to marriage when Senator John Ensign who recently announced his resignation from the Senate because of a little marital thing he was having where he was having an affair with the wife of his closest aide who was in fact a girlfriend back to high school days of his wife no not too messy when he was having trouble disentangling all this and trying to figure out how to make you know make nice with his aid like to get him a job a

lobbyist job or something that would you know provide a revenue stream that might compensate for the for the thing and that was turning into trouble that negotiation was turning trouble some and and Nettlesome who stepped in what housemate at the Seastree House the House of prayerful members of Congress who stepped in to negotiate the deal to get the husband of the mistress soothed monetarily Senator Tom Coburn of course that Newt didn't didn't occur to Newt to point that out but Newt you're welcome now let us jump some things that we have been told were okay might not be okay fresh doubts of a risen according to India today because India yesterday is behind us fresh doubts of a risen about the safety of genetically modified

crops with a new study reporting the presence of BT toxin used widely and genetically modified crops in human blood for the first time the genes extracted from bacteria to make them resistant to pest attacks are what make genetically modified crops so attractive to farmers they make crops toxic to pests but are claimed to pose no danger to the environment and human health one of them toxins as a soil bacterium called basilis Theranjiannis Theranjiansis BT till now scientists and multinational corporations promoting genetically modified crops have maintained BT toxin poses no danger to human health because it breaks down in the human gut pardon me pardon me ladies but the presence of this toxin in human blood shows somebody was asleep at the gut scientists from the University of Sherbrook canada have detected the insecticidal protein circulating in the blood of

pregnant as well as non-pregnant women they've also detected the toxin in fetal blood implying it could pass on to the next generation research paper has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication in the journal reproductive toxicology damn my subscription lapsed the study covered 30 pregnant women and 39 women who'd come for two beck to me at a hospital and Quebec none of them had worked or lived with a spouse working in contact with pesticides they were all consuming a typical Canadian diet I'm guessing having in carbs but that's just me that included genetically modified foods such as soybeans corn and potatoes the toxin was detected in 93% of the and well now now they get to the figures and it's very confusing now 93% and 80% of maternal and fetal blood samples there we go respectively and in 69% of tested blood samples from non-pregnant women all right then that's from India today and from the Philadelphia Inquirer Duke

University study has found that methane levels in private water wells are on average 17 times higher in wells that are within 1,000 feet of a natural gas drilling site they sample the water from 68 wells in northeastern Pennsylvania and New York found methane in 85% of the wells the methane was fingerprinted sergeant prided doesn't know how to do that the signatures matched the methane of the gas from natural gas wells in the region at least some homeowners who claim that their wells were contaminated by sale shale gas extraction appear to be right according to the peer review study the author said it was the first systematic evidence of methane contamination of private drinking wells in areas where gas extraction pardon my expression was occurring so that's supposed to be safe you know where can you turn for certainty in such an unsure world how about Disney because it's it's wholesome what could be wrong with the

wholesomeness of a of a Disney thing well nothing really except you may be getting in line to try to get some money from them because the Walt Disney Company has trademarked the name of the Navy seal team that killed Osama bin Laden the Disney Company has trademarked seal team six the trademark application came on May 3rd two days after bin Laden was killed and two days after seal team six was included in thousands of news articles and TV programs focusing on the operation Disney's trademarked application for seal team six covers clothing footwear headwear toys games and entertainment and education services so give me some of those seal team six hats and seal seal team six study guide if you'd please and by the way make the check folks at Disney make the check payable to

the federal taxpayer won't you because that's the way capitalism seems to work hello welcome to the show for why so so early why tell A facilitation of what breaks and the wind of separation To know about suggestions

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That you can't come back Because you know the flowers that are born on the path But you can't come back Because you know the flowers that are born on the path If my path is alone, it's nothing

I'll get mad at you Live from WCBE in Columbus, Ohio and Harry Scherer And I didn't mean to suggest that there's anything wrong with Disney Copywriting, Trademarking, SEAL Team 6 American taxpayers invested some money in the whole SEAL Team deal And SEAL Team 1-5, which didn't pay off And in the same way Let's put it that way Didn't Tang pay royalties to NASA?

I'll look that up Isn't Google paying royalties to the Defense Department for the Internet? I'm sure they are And now ladies and gentlemen He commenced no troops, he's not an inspector He peaceeth no suits, he's an inspector general Oh yeah Funny how that kind of works out That he is an inspector general after all Ladies and gentlemen, nursing homes are unnecessarily administering powerful anti-psychotic drugs To many elderly residents, including residents with dementia According to a new report by the Inspector General for the Health and Human Services Department Because over-medicating kids just takes care of one extreme of the human age scale The Food and Drug Administration in 2005 mandated the drug makers issue warning labels on A typical anti-psychotics noting that the drugs which are approved for treating schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

Increased the risk of death for elderly patients with dementia Yet when the government examined a million and a half Medicare claims from 2007 for those drugs for elderly and nursing home residents The government found 88% of the time the drugs were prescribed to individuals diagnosed with dementia Doctors in nursing homes aren't the only ones to blame according to the inspector general The report does not specifically examine ties between doctors, pharmacies, and nursing homes But in a statement accompanying the report the IG, Daniel Levinson, Faulted drug companies for aggressively and illegally marketing these products to doctors for treatment of dementia and other off-label uses Not illegal for doctors to prescribe drugs for off-label uses But it is illegal for drug companies to promote them as such That's why they're off-label Quote, despite the fact that it's potentially lethal to prescribe anti-psychotics to patients with dementia, there's ample evidence that some drug companies aggressively market to their products towards such populations Says Levinson

You know, the number of drug companies have been accused of illegally promoting these drugs off-label to doctors and pharmacies including those that serve nursing home residents Those lawsuits, some of them have been settled Levinson said those settlements alone don't negate the effects of years of off-label promotions Money, he says, can't make up for years of corporate campaigns that market drugs with questionable benefits and potentially deadly side effects for vulnerable, elderly patients Ending the quote His report also pointed a finger, always finger pointing time, I hate that At the center for Medicare and Medicaid services, the agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid, or maybe it just overlooks them We're failing to hold nursing homes accountable for unnecessary use of anti-psychotic drugs Federal government paid $116 million or more than $116 million for claims that violated Medicare reimbursement criteria for the first half of 2007 He recommends that the CMS assess its safeguards for preventing unnecessary psychotic anti-psychotic drug use in nursing homes The agency acknowledged better controls are needed

You got us busted Hundreds of millions of dollars lost to fraud at Afghanistan's biggest bank, this again, could have been saved if foreign consultants hired by the US government had not ignored obvious signs of trouble Well, maybe they were troubling ignoring consultants Maybe that was their job, did you ever think of that? Oh, the US government watchdog, the Office of Inspector General at the US Agency for International Development, finds highly paid Western contractors working in the Afghan Central Bank, failed to raise the alarm even after they received death threats when they tried to audit the Kabul Bank I guess they just cared about living The bank nearly collapsed last year after revelations that most of its money had been lent to its potentially, sorry, politically powerful managers and shareholders and their associates to fund reckless investments and beachfront mansions in Dubai Somebody's got to buy beachfront mansions in Dubai, I can't, I, not me, with losses estimated up to $850 million in an economy with a GDP of only $12 billion

It has been likened to a pyramid scheme and described by Western officials as, quote, the biggest per capita fraud in history So Afghanistan has made it into the record books ladies and gentlemen, we're busting our buttons over here with, is that pride? A report by that officer of Inspector General reveals the private consultants employed by the US government repeatedly stumbled across red flags, which they ignored Even picking them off the floor, I guess, they include an incident in November 2008 when an expatriate advisor employed by bearing point received two death threats after participating in a regular central bank inspection of the offices of Kabul Bank The company responded by banning its consultants from taking part in any more inspections and limited its technical assistance to classroom training because, of course, nobody would bring a gun to class The report said it had inspections not been halted, the fraud could have been detected earlier and the magnitude of losses would have been smaller

But then there would have been fewer beachfront houses in Dubai Do the math, babe? The following year, the consultants failed to report the incredulous response of central bank officials when the foreign advisors told them that they, as regulators of Afghans banking system, had the legal powers to remove the chief executive of Kabul Bank On the contrary, said the officials, he can remove us Thank goodness, things don't work that way here In other incidents, the central bank governor raised serious concerns to consultants picking up rumors about the Dubai property investments which were ignored Dubai, Shmubai, they were not heard to say The criminal fraud said the US, one of the US contractors was deliberately concealed by channeling illegal loans to individuals through fictitious companies Oh, well, we would have no way of following that up

Thank God nobody else uses that ruse or we'd be in big financial trouble Even an audit by an affiliate of Pricewaterhouse Coopers, the respected accounting firm failed to find any signs of trouble Which is one reason why they're so respected, I guess But that report, which I just shared some items from with you Maybe the one that's fingered in the in the following story An eye opening report on corruption in the Afghan central bank Oh, I see this was Kabul Bank In the corruption in the Afghan central bank, that was the bank that's supposed to regulate the Kabul Bank where they said, oh, no, no, he can fire us That bank, a report on that that was issued last March by the Inspector General for the US Agency of International Development Was recently removed from that agency's website because the agency decided to classify some of the contents that had already been published on the interwebs They now classified report focused on the failure to discover a widespread pattern of fraudulent loans at the Kabul Bank

All right, so that's the same basic mess In the past week or so, that report was abruptly withdrawn from the AID's website At the time, our report was issued as written using utilizing information from non-classified sources The chief of staff of the Office of Inspector General after our report had been issued, had been issued, the US AID subsequently classified two documents that were cited in our report The action resulted in the entire reporting classified and we removed it from the website The classification of information that's already been officially released into the public domain is either discouraged or prohibited, according to secrecy news, not to mention futile A spokesperson for US AID did not respond to requests for comment on the decision to classify the information Hopefully that's the response and not that his statement has been classified, but we don't know The suppressed Inspector General report remains independently available in its original form elsewhere on the internet

The AID says we plan on publishing a non-classified version of the report which we will place on our website It's magic, it's almost magical, it's this close to magical, which is why we love it News of Inspector General ladies and gentlemen, it is, as you know, a copyrighted feature of this broadcast And now, and there's so much of this Willaku came to Columbus, Ohio, our friend Addy, the Adam Hello, it's cold

This shouldn't be cold, you make your own warmth Don't you? Yeah, he's sulking now News, ladies and gentlemen, of our friend, the Adam, because there's so much of it today Start with this, Japan won't be building anymore nuclear plants Prime Minister Naoto Kahn said Tuesday, Japan would abandon plants to build more nuclear reactors Saying his country needed to quote, start from scratch in creating a new energy policy That announcement came as Japan allowed residents of evacuated areas around the Stric and Fukushima plant to briefly revisit their homes Just to get a dose The decision will mean the abandonment of a plan, the Kahn government released just last year to build 14 nuclear reactors by 2030 And increase the share of nuclear power in Japan's electricity supply to 50 percent Japan already has 54 reactors The cancellation of the plan, nuclear plants, the second time Kahn has suddenly announced big changes in Japanese nuclear policy without the usual long committee meetings and media leaks that characterize the country's consensus-driven decision-making process

He appears to be seeking a stronger leadership role after criticism of this government's sometimes slow and indecisive handling of the Fukushima incident That's that nuclear barn door he's closing The operator of the Tsuruga nuclear power station in central Japan said this week a minute amount of radiation leaked from the plant Japan atomic power said the radiation was released from Tsuruga A week after the operator found higher levels of radioactive substances in coolant water The two incidents, those are two separate incidents at this plant, nowhere near Fukushima In eight days took place amid growing public concern in Japan about nuclear plant, the Tsuruga plant is located on the west coast of Japan some 500 kilometers Anybody know what a kilometer is? Southwest of Fukushima was not affected by the disaster Meanwhile, here's an interesting little twist in Atty's race across the world

In Japan and the US are in negotiations according to this report Negotiations with the Mongolian government over the possible construction of a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel In answer to the question, why don't we just put it all in outer Mongolia? The answer is we're thinking of that Officials from Japan's administrative economy trade and industry in the US Department of Energy held informal talks with their Mongolian counterparts To build such a facility shortly before Japan's earthquake, according to a Japanese newspaper, the Minichi Daily The plant would enable Japanese and US nuclear plant exporters including GE Well, it's Mongol imagination To better counter the challenge from Russian and French companies in the global nuclear market by selling reactors and nuclear waste disposal services together As a set, it's a match set, the plants and the dumps in Mongolia

In return, Tokyo and Washington would provide nuclear technology to Mongolia Except for one thing, Mongolia says it's not true Mongolia has not been in talks about importing nuclear waste from other companies, according to its Embassy in Vienna The country's 2009 nuclear energy law, quote, does not envisage import of nuclear waste from other countries Said the statement from the Embassy So I guess that means price wasn't high enough Try again, boys One of the reactors at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has a hole in its main vessel That's a good thing, right? Following a meltdown of fuel rods leading to a leakage of radioactive water, its operator said this week But that's a good thing, seriously, isn't it? It's gotta be

Otherwise, why would they? The disclosure by TEPCO is the latest indication that the disaster was worse than previously disclosed, making it more difficult to stabilize the plant The discovery of the leak provides new insight into the sequence of events that triggered the partial meltdown The battle to bring Fukushima under control has been complicated by repeated leaks of radioactive water Workers have been pumping water into at least three of the six reactors to bring their nuclear fuel rods to a cold shutdown But after repairing a gauge, the number one reactor this week, TEPCO discovered the water level in the vessel that contains its nuclear fuel rods had dropped About 16 feet below the targeted level, which would cover the fuel under normal operating conditions, there must be a large leak, as Junichi Matsumoto, General Manager of the utility The fuel pellets likely melted and fell and in the process may have damaged the pressure vessel itself and created a new hole Nuclear experts now say the company may have to build a concrete wall around the unit because of the breach, and this could now take years But wait, there's more, there's so much more, Addy?

I'm ready Nuclear plant emergency generators like those that failed in Japan They also failed during tests at the Seabrook station in New Hampshire and 32 other U.S. plants in the past eight years According to report by a U.S. Congressman who was opposed to nuclear powers, Congressman Edward Markey This was issued during the same time frame that a federal task force vouched for the safety of the nation's nuclear plants The Seabrook incident according to report took place in August 2006 when the plant shut down because of unoperable emergency diesel generators The generators were unoperable for just one day The problem occurred when one of the two backup generators was taken down for routine maintenance and a voltage problem occurred at the other But NRC rules required the plant to shut down if a certain number of generators are not operational The New York Times reported this week that despite repeated assurances that American nuclear plants are better equipped to deal with natural disaster than there was in Japan

Regulators said this week, recent inspections had found serious problems with some emergency equipment that would have made it unusable in an accident In addition, the staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission acknowledged the agency's current regulations and disaster plants did not give enough consideration to two factors that had greatly contributed to the disaster in Japan Simultaneous problems at more than one reactor couldn't happen and a natural disaster that disrupts roads and electricity and other infrastructure surrounding a plant couldn't happen The tool it is escaping through a newly discovered opening of the Fukushima plant and development that could slow efforts to prevent further potential radiation releases from the facility And there's this, bad news for Addy No

The 440 commercial nuclear reactors in use worldwide around the world, as Wolf Blitzer would say, are currently helping to minimize our consumption of fossil fuels But how much bigger can nuclear power get in an analysis to be published in an issue of the proceedings of the IEEE, the International Electric and Electronics Engineers organization The cabinet professor of both kinds of engineering at the University of Adelaide has concluded that nuclear power cannot be globally scaled to supply the world's energy needs Global power consumption today, he says, is about 15 terawatts, we know now, terror from terabytes He estimates to supply 15 terawatts with nuclear only, we would need 15,000 nuclear reactors, he explores the consequences of building operating a decommissioning 15,000 reactors on earth And nuclear power stations resource hungry, and apart from fuel, uses many rare metals in its construction The dream of a utopia where the world is powered off fusion or fishing reactors is simply unattainable, even a supply of as little as one terawatt, he says in his report, stretches resources considerably First, simply finding 15,000 locations with enough land, near enough water is challenging

Every nuclear power station he says needs to be decommissioned after 40 to 60 years of life due to neutron embrittlement Oh yeah, I hate that! Cracks that develop on the metal surfaces due to radiation, then with 15,000 nuclear power stations, one new station would need to be built and another decommissioned somewhere in the world every day Considering it takes six and a half years to build a nuclear station and up to 20 years to decommission one, he finds this unrealistic There's the matter of nuclear waste, it's uncertain whether bearing the spent fuel and the spent reactor vessels, which are also highly radioactive, he says in his report, may cause radioactive leakage in the groundwater or the environment via geological movement Based on the accidents so far, 11 nuclear accidents at the level of a full or partial core melt, scaling up to 15,000 reactors, would mean we would have a major accident somewhere in the world A major nuclear accident somewhere in the world every month, maybe even in February

And then there's the matter of uranium The Abbott in his report says at the current rate of consumption, the world supply of viable uranium, the last about 80 years, scaling consumption up to 15 terawatts, the viable uranium supply will last for less than five years And nuclear vessels are made of a variety of exotic rare metals, we'd run out of those, he says In any future generation nuclear reactors, whether they're fueled by uranium or thorium, many of these are same problems that plague fusion reactors So he concludes, do the cost, complexity, resource requirements, and tremendous problems that hang over nuclear power, our investment dollars would be more wisely placed elsewhere What do they know? Addy, Addy got his Addy up, clean, cheap, safe, too bad to meet her, nuclear power, ladies and gentlemen Addy, are you going now? Nah, I'll just stay here, Sulk

He'll stay here, and Sulk She puts my body with next to the trash under the same girl doll with all of the cleaning supplies, and the things that we buy and decide we don't need But it's damp and it's dark and it's lonely here, next to the trash under the same, but everyone needs some time off now and there, time happy my friends don't feel sorry for me She says, if you're playing the game, I hope you know you're wooing it, and if you tell me you're next to the trash, I'll not tell you I'm been in She's driving, I mean when I'm bored, so I dig through the trash, looking for her, she can wash herself off when we miss from the pipes, we could use more of that around a year less for sure

But it seems to ever have snowed her away, has forgotten the trash under the same girl was her joke and meant to buy her some time All the citizens can make it harder to think, so I say, if you're playing the game, I hope you know you're wooing it And I'll be sorry if I threw you away, it's just it's me, didn't it? She says, boy, you better take it back and write it now, and I mean it She puts my body with the chases, my mind up to the rules, it jumps and I've got a sheet of clothes that I want

And it's all part of having a man in the house, it jumps and the gutter of a sheep holds it all And it's all part of having a man in the house This is Lesho from Columbus, Ohio, think of it, and now ladies and gentlemen news of A-P-P-P-P Changing his story, let's hope as at least as fast as he's changing his underwear

General Purvis Musharraf, Pakistan's former military ruler, now admits that rogue elements of the country's intelligence service may have helped Osama bin Laden evade justice for years before he was shot dead by a US Navy SEALs team, soon to be a Disney movie In the first high-level admission that bin Laden may have had a support network within the Pakistani military establishment, former president General Musharraf, now in exile in London And apparently liking the idea of coming on in the media with a different story every once in a while Says, quote, as a policy, the army and the ISI, the intelligence community in Pakistan are fighting terrorism, extremism, al-Qaeda and the Taliban A rogue element within is a possibility Unquote Those comments will reignite suspicions of a shadow element operating within the military's inter-services intelligence, ISI, to further the cause of Islamic extremists The links date back to the 1980s when Pakistani officers channeled arms to jihadi groups battling the Soviets in Afghanistan and continued as Pakistan armed militant groups to take on Indian troops in Kashmir

Americans have been, American officials have been convinced of the existence of a rogue, ISI have retired and semi-retired intelligence agents That's a good status since the attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul in 2008 At least at that time, one senior US diplomat said that then President General Musharraf simply cannot reign the many as no control over them And Pakistani officials denied the claims Maybe he can, maybe he can't, but you're aware that we became cognizant this week that following the operation of SEAL Team 6, soon to be a Disney motion picture President Obama called former President Bush and former President Bush said he was told reporters, not reporters, he was overheard by reporters saying to a group that he had been out

Having souffle with Laura at a restaurant called Rise when the call came in and he said he had to go home to actually take the call Which may have sounded like this Retired eagle, Mr. President, go down your souffle and do it It's great that an icon of evil is dead, but the best thing about this call is that you rescued me from having to eat that thing I mean, I'm okay with French toast and all, but you know the most of a souffle is just nothing but air? Actually, I didn't know that. I wanted to give you a brief rundown of the operation as we understand it this hour Of course, most of what I'm going to tell you will be contradicted by our people within a couple of days

Oh, I'm not going to share this conversation with anybody that's okay, but I mean, charging folks 20 bucks to eat air is so French And these people at the restaurant, they're not even real French people, they're just West Houston people putting on airs, literally So how did it go? Well, pretty standard SEAL off, firefight, human shield, resistance, shoot a kill We're ready to get it. Third floor bedroom. No, I mean, we're on him. We think he was shot in the eye And that weird shake, there was a button in the first attack on the World Trade Towers. He was blind, wasn't he? And now this tells you something, 44 Yes, it does. You're going to go into the terrorism business, you can look forward to losing an eye or two You've been very proud of the SEALs, Mr. President. I'm even proud of you. Tough call to make Yes, it was. It gave us only about a 50% chance of getting him

And another 50% was not getting him. Right, right, got it Well, you sure chose the right 50? Yeah, we saw a real time video feed from Langley, the reception problem when it was killing time Yeah, I heard back when we approved the appropriation for the helmet cams Electronic focusing on the weapons is going to screw up the reception on the cameras But you know the Pentagon people just said we'll spray some stealth juice on the helmet so we find stealth juice Yeah, that's what they told me it was called. What am I? Some jet pilot or something Actually, I am. Well, sir, you can imagine what it was like watching these very brave men enter the compound in the middle of the night Yeah, sure. Well, is it middle of the night, their time or years? There's Yeah, and I can't imagine you're still awake for it To say the least

Well, it's just a two of us. I'm cleared. Go ahead and say the most Right. Well, of course, you know, they're in tell them tell them where in the compound he'll meet Damn, in town. See, that's my dick had to keep going down to Langley and kick some keister So as they start taking fire Camera work gets very shaky. See, that's one reason we were finding the advanced Pentagon research on the special ops robots In other words, they don't flinch Camera stays steady. They secured a bunch of hard drives computers. It seems to pan-load of useful intel resources We've got an urgent recruiting call out for some Arab speakers so they can translate this stuff It bit a lot and say anything. Is there any okay fellas? You got me moment there, you know, that would have been sweet Yeah, what have been. Frankly, I don't think he had a chance to say much of anything They saw on me backed up. It happened quicker than a direct rose dunk Quicker than a who what?

I just don't think we ordered the Navy seals there to engage in conversation with a man Even if any of them could have spoken Arabic Anyway, I guess all that enhanced interrogation we did kind of paid off after all Well, you know, if anything about that Yes, you're kind of glad you didn't close gone tonimo all the new evil doers You're going to be running up after this Well, you know got to put them somewhere Yes, sir. Is that indefinite detention thing going to turn out to be a little more handy than you used to think? We we have had reasons to dial back our criticism of that down past the zero point. That's true Well, sir, don't worry about it. If we didn't learn There'd be no reason for putting pencils on the racers Well as you hear you get that tape alpha those cameras developed or whatever you sure would appreciate getting the copy down here be fun to Hit the couch and watch watch that some night get Laura's mind off Sue Flays at all. Oh, absolutely in the pipeline already

We're converting it to HD. Great. Well, 44. Thank you for all the heads upness. Well, you'll be getting a full CIA brief in the morning I'm sure if there's anything crucial in there chaniel passing on to me. I'm sure he will Good night, Mr. President. And now the apologies of the week It's so sorry Danline Martinsburg, West Virginia A Republican contender for governor of West Virginia is apologized to the NAACP and anybody else he offended when he referred to President Obama as Sambo and US House Minority Leader Nancy Tom House Minority Leader That's it House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as a bimbo Former Berkeley County delegate Larry Faircloth insisted he was only joking at a reason candidates form And told a local newspaper that he's neither a racist nor a sexist He said he was joking during your discussion about Obama's reelection bid when he suggested Obama to replace vice president Biden with Sylvester Stallone

Then make his campaign slogan vote Sambo Rambo and Bimbo Non-professionals doing comedy latest gentleman always good Southwest Airlines customers of size policy has come into fire once again You do know what that policy is Mother and daughter were stopped at a gate in Dallas where an airline employee deemed the pair too fat to fly That's the policy passenger Ken Lee Tigman and her mother will pull the side during a layover on Easter Sunday The employee told Tigman who apparently has lost 120 pounds over the last two years they were too heavy for the flight Yet the employee could not state Southwest's actual rate restriction policy that requires passengers to repurchase a second seat when of a certain size That's because there isn't any such policy The customers of size policy only states the armrest is the definitive gauge for a customer of size it serves as the boundary between seats Customers who are unable to lower both armrests and who encroach upon any portion of the adjacent seats should proactively book the number of seats needed prior to travel

Tigman announced that it recounted the experience in a long entry on her blog which also contains photos of her dramatic weight loss The account on her blog caught the attention of a Southwest executive who reached out to her and apologized for the incident In a post game comments following the heats Miami heats 97 87 win over the Boston Celtics to cement their 401 victory In the Eastern Conference semi-finals of the NBA LeBron James apologized for the way he announced he was going to Miami last year In a much ballyhooed and much ridiculed television hour called the decision He told reporters he was sorry for how this special occurred but felt the teaming up with two other players and Miami was necessary to get past the Celtics I apologize for the way it happened but I knew this was this opportunity was once in a lifetime he says They lined Beijing despite its every guard of theft took place at the forbidden city in Beijing on May 8th, seven items of stolen and spokesman for the tourist attraction

Feng Nian apologized this week to the public and made a commitment to beefing up security First I apologize on behalf of the forbidden city museum like to apologize to those who care about the forbidden city museum Also on behalf of the forbidden city museum I would like to apologize to the Madame Liang Xi Kang Museum Liang Yi Kang sorry museum and its sponsor Mr. Feng sorry The second museum was one that had lent some priceless treasures that were stolen Atlanta Braves pitching coach Roger McDowell addressed a small group of reporters this week at Turner Field They stayed back to the club after a two week suspension handed down by Major League Baseball After McDowell it allegedly used anti-gay slurs against San Francisco Giants fans last month He did not use the word gate any time during this press conference of apology nor did he admit or deny the allegations He did apologize again for his actions and said that kind of behavior whatever it was would not happen again

Dataline Frank for Kentucky State Senator Julie Denton Republican of Louisville tearfully apologize this week as the legislative ethics commission criticised her for skipping most of the ethics training required of legislators during the past four years The commission took no formal disciplining action but it's Chairman George Troutman told Denton he was displeased She missed six of the last eight mandatory ethics sessions and then told the newspaper other legislatures legislators don't take the sessions seriously Either sometimes signing in and then leaving immediately from the ethics classes Because they can they line San Diego police chief William Lansdown apologize this week on behalf of his department for record spate of officer misconduct cases and pledge to do everything possible to regain the public's confidence and repair the damage And the author of a Houston press post with the inflammatory title the ten hottest women on the sex offenders list has apologized and offered an explanation of why he would put people convicted of crimes against children on such a list

Apologies the week latest gentleman copyrighted feature this broadcast and now quickly news from outside the bubble The former communications director of the Tony Blair labor government has now been accused by a former military intelligence chief of misrepresenting the purpose of the so-called Dodgy dossier this was a dossier of materials that was brought forward by the Tony Blair government to build the case for the Iraq war in September of 2002 Major General Michael Laurie Ministry of Defense's director general of intelligence from 2002 to 2003 took issue with Campbell's saying that the purpose of the dossier had not to be had not been to make a case for war He said telling the chill caught inquiry which is looking into the Iraq war in Britain that making a case for war was quote exactly its purpose

He and his colleagues were told that a previous intelligence dossier did not make a strong enough case and for months he was under pressure to find intelligence that could reinforce the case for war His evidence the first time this is such a senior intelligence officer has directly contradicted the Blair government's official line on the dossier We'll restart the controversy over whether the Blair government sexed up the September 2002 document to persuade the public and parliament that the invasion was necessary The major general's comments were made in private last year and have only now been published by the chairman of the inquiry along with newly declassified British government memos I and those involved in the production of the dossier says the former intelligence chief saw it as exactly that to make the case for war and that was the direction we were given He said his boss the chief of defense intelligence often asked quote whether we were missing something he was under pressure We could find no evidence of planes missiles or equipment that related to WMD during the drafting of the final dossier every fact was managed to make it as strong as possible

It was clear to me that there was direction and pressure being applied on the joint intelligence committee We knew at the time the purpose of the dossier was to make a case for war rather than setting out the available intelligence and to make the best out of sparse and inconclusive intelligence The wording was developed with care There was a previous dossier that was rejected because it did not make a strong enough case And finally in news from outside the bubble ladies and gentlemen good news for people who's a cell phones may have been peaked into by tabloid newspapers Good news for anybody who just wants to get some money from Rupert Murdoch actress C. N. Miller has accepted 150, 165 at the latest exchange rate 65,000 compensation from the Rupert Murdoch own news of the world newspaper newspaper after it accepted unconditional liability for breaking into her phone

The unexpected agreement came midway through a high court battle with the paper the celebrity is the first one to settle a claim since the tabloid last month admitted hacking the phones of several public figures The settlement is the highest privacy award to date news corporation Rupert will also pay C. N. Miller's legal costs I guess there was stuff that they didn't want to have come out in a trial What you think? News from outside the bubble ladies and gentlemen it is a copyrighted feature of this very broadcast Something will happen soon like this I don't know, you gotta make a mistake, go ahead I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know

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