Le Show; 2016-11-20

From deep inside your audio device of choice. Ladies and gentlemen, I do need luck just to say ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, it's been a week for notable for the passing of some notable people in public life in America. A newswoman, back when I admired news people, I admired Gwen Eiffel more than most, the formidable soul sister Sharon Jones, and two piano men who in their very different ways injected just a little more of the darkly magical brew of the south into American music. Leon Russell and Mohs Allison will be playing some of their music today. On my way here to the studio in New Orleans, I drove a route, I've driven hundreds of times, but it was today that I noticed that the side streets I crossed in this order,

as part of my route were named law, hope, duels, and industry. It's the way streets are named here in New Orleans, but I realized law, hope, duels, industry. It was the plot of the musical Hamilton in just five seconds. Hello, welcome to the show. I love situation.

It's sure enough getting worse. Everybody, Gwen Justice, just as long as there's business spread. Total, total, touch and go. Give it to you, get your sooner. People running around in circles. Don't know what they're headed for. Everybody, Gwen, peace on earth, just as soon as we win this war. Straight ahead, knock them down.

Pack your kit, choose your little hip grip. You don't have to go to our Broadway. To see something plain absurd. Everybody, Gwen, mercy on earth, when they don't know the meaning of the word. Nobody knows it. From New Orleans, Louisiana, just, just this close, just spitting distance from Lake Pontgetrain. Don't spitting Lake Pontgetrain.

I'm Harry Scherer, welcome you to this edition of the show. It would reduce the salinity of the water if you do that. Speaking of the New Orleans area, Louisiana, you remember the big spill by BP? Not a British company. It's more Americans than any. Anyway, a new study by NASA. Suddenly we're out of space. Suddenly the Gulf of Mexico is out of space. What? NASA? Yes. And the US Geological Survey has found widespread shoreline laws along parts of Louisiana. Parts of Louisiana's coast that were heavily oiled after the deep water horizon. They compared the spill, sorry, the erosion from the spill with coastal changes caused by a hurricane in 2012, Hurricane Isaac. A pattern of dramatic widespread shoreline laws along the coast caused by the oil spill has been revealed by the study. Researchers used NASA's mapping, I guess they do it by satellite. Or just ubers with cameras.

To analyze shoreline laws across most of upper Barataria Bay, that's on the western side of Mississippi River Delta. The study looked at shoreline imagery taken a year before the spill and then images taken during a 2.5-year span after the spill. Scientists also compared shoreline losses from storm-induced erosion with losses linked to oiling. The team found that although storm-induced erosion did occur at isolated shoreline sections, the pre-spill shoreline from 2009 to 2010 was largely stable. But in the first year after the... From 2010 to 2011, the erosion pattern changed dramatically with widespread erosion occurring throughout the Bay. It's all fixed now, the fishing's great, the tourism is great. You remember those commercials? The erosion rates were highest along shorelines, documented with heavy to moderate oiling, and were lower along shorelines that experienced low oiling, like it's correlated or something. In the second post-spill year, 2011-12, the higher lost rates extended to areas that experienced less oiling. Funny, interesting, funny.

Some of the shorelines studied received treatment to reverse or stop environmental damage from the spill. There was no measurable difference in their erosion compared to non-treated shorelines. So, once it's done, once it's oiled, can't oil, un-oil it. Apparently, can't un-oil a bell. The wetland impact to the spill documented by the team included both shoreline erosion and wetland fragmentation. That's a process where small islands are broken into even smaller islands. Land-lost and fragmented areas is unlikely to be reestablished because there are no new sediments flowing into replenish what's lost to erosion. Thanks to the loving of the Mississippi River and the thing and the thing and the thing. This creates a higher possibility that natural coastal defenses against flooding will be reduced, because as several experts have pointed out on this radio show in the documentary, film I made elsewhere, wetlands act as a natural buffer against both the wind and storm surge velocity of a hurricane approaching New Orleans. That's our safety zone here.

I don't know what's your safety zone, that was ours. I speak of it in the past tense because we've had just spilled. But, you know, I think the main thing is that Tony Hayward did get his life back. And now, ladies and gentlemen, news of the war are more important. He ran BP just for those of you who forgot. I don't assume you forgot, just in case. A growing body of evidence suggests that the power plants, buildings, cars, trucks, ships, and planes in use today are likely to emit enough carbon dioxide over their lifetime. For the world to miss the two-degree centigrade target that has been agreed upon by the nations of the world in Paris at the last climate change conference. Coal plants alone could blow the so-called carbon budget for 1.5 degrees Celsius.

That's the lower threshold also mentioned the agreement, unless the coal plants are shut down early. The war on coal, coal's winning. For 1.5 degrees, we would have to start retiring things like crazy, and we wouldn't be able to build anything new. It says, University of California, scientists, Stephen Davis. Two degrees, he says, is starting to look equally bleak or bleak-wally-eak. That hasn't quite sunk in among the fanfare surrounding the Paris Agreement, fanfare, which entered into force with record pace. Temperatures have already risen by about 1 degrees centigrade since the start of the Industrial Revolution. That's when a human started burning fossil fuels for energy, not just bars, energy. In 2010, Davis, the scientist from the University of California, estimated the world's existing energy infrastructure had locked in 496 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions if left to operate for their expected lifetime.

That's what they were going to spew into the thing. By 2013, as hundreds of additional power plants came online in Asia, the number rose to 729 billion tons. That's what we're already locked into emitting. By now, Davis's latest calculations were close to 800 billion tons. That's roughly what's remaining of the so-called carbon budget if we keep the temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius, that's according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. That budget is significantly lower for 1.5 degrees. There's uncertainty surrounding the estimates partly because it's unclear exactly how sensitive the climate system is to increase in atmospheric CO2. Davis's research shows that assuming an average lifespan are 40 years, the world's coal-fired power plants will emit 280 billion tons of CO2. That alone exceeds the budget from 1.5 degrees, and that doesn't even count the hundreds more that are under construction or on the drawing board primarily in China, the killingists, China, and other Asian countries.

These things wouldn't be able to operate over their normal 30-40-year lifespan, as Davis instead, they'd have to be closed down after 10 or 15 years, and so it's a matter of paying for them. That's a lot of life on those power plants that we basically have to throw away. Unquote. The war uncalled. This is what's happening already in the United States, and a few other places where coal plants are being shut down, mainly because of competition from natural gas, which is cheaper and has somewhat lower emissions. But that even here, that's not fast enough to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, as globally, Tom. Global. More coal plants are built every year than are retired. That's according to Greenpeace and the Sierra Club. What do they know? Global energy demand, of course, is also growing, meaning renewables are adding power capacity, because the world's transition to a low carbon economy is underway. Renewable sources like wind and solar are expanding, but energy demand growing, so renewables are only adding to meet the new demand rather than replacing existing capacity from fossil fuels, according to a researcher at the Center for Environmental Climate, International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo.

Very few of the scientific projections count on countries retiring fossil fuels fast enough to meet the Paris targets. Instead, they assume the world will find a way to suck vast quantities of CO2 from the atmosphere in the latter half of the century. I'm doing my part right here right now. Come on, everybody. Join me. Let's suck some CO2. Come on. You can do it. If we just in this one hour, no, forget it. Political people in the United States are watching Washington at the moment, but some people in the science community are watching somewhere else, the Arctic, according to the Washington Post. It's polar night there now. That's when the Arctic is supposed to get cold when the sea ice that covers the vast Arctic Ocean is supposed to grow in second, but this fall has been a remarkable year for the region, multiple record set for low levels of monthly sea ice.

Something is wrong. The Arctic Arctic is very hot, relatively speaking, even as a vast area of cold polar air has been displaced over Siberia. It's supposed to be cold in Siberia. What's their beef? Well, they want a warm gulag. At the same time, one of the key indicators of the state of the Arctic, the extent of sea ice covering the polar ocean is at a record low. The ice is freezing up again, but it isn't doing so as rapidly as usual. The ice's area is even lower than it was during the record low year, 2012. It's about 36 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal over most of the Arctic Ocean, says an Arctic specialist at Rutgers University, along with cold anomalies of about the same magnitude over North Central Asia. The Arctic warmth is a result of a combination of record low sea ice extent for this time of year, probably very thin ice. Yes, we are.

And plenty of warm moist air from lower latitudes being driven northward by a very wavy jet stream. Yes, among our problems, ladies and gentlemen now, is a wavy jet stream. The Arctic specialist at Rutgers, Jennifer Francis has published research suggesting that the jet stream, which travels from west to east across the northern hemisphere in the middle attitudes, is becoming more wavy and elongated as the Arctic warmth faster than the equator does, relatively speaking, because the equator started warm. That's why you go there. Don't you? Never been. It's nice there. It will be fascinating to see if the stratospheric polar vortex continues to be as weak as it is now, which favors a negative Arctic oscillation and probably a cold mid-late winter to continue over central in eastern Asia and eastern North America. The extreme behavior of the Arctic in 2016 seems to be in no hurry to quit, Francis continued. Another researcher has linked odd jet stream behavior with cold air over Siberia.

Still another Arctic expert with NOAA says the jet stream at the moment is well configured to transport warmth northward into the Arctic. Both the persistence and magnitude of these temperature anomalies, Tom, help me out here. Anomalies are quite unusual, says one of the researchers. Normally warm air has flooded the Arctic since October. The average temperature in the Arctic during the year was about four degrees Fahrenheit above the record set in 1998 since the beginning of November temperatures have risen even higher. The head of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, we have one. That's what makes us exceptional. We have a National Snow and Ice Data Center.

Agrees something odd is going on, not only are air temperatures unusually warm, but water temperatures are as well. There are some areas in the Arctic Ocean that are as much as 25 degrees Fahrenheit above average now, says that head of the National Snow and Ice Data Center marks a raise. It's pretty crazy, he says. News of the warm, ladies and gentlemen, copyrights feature this broadcast. And there's more, of course there's more. We have some news of the godly, I believe, coming your way, at the sound of the musical thing which sounds something like this. And you would sound it like something. A former Anglican Bishop, yes, spotlight on another church this week, not the Catholic Church. A former Anglican Bishop has told the Child Abuse Royal Commission in Australia that the power to discipline clergy needs to be removed from the church because it's morality, that of the church.

Quote has been compromised. Interesting. Brian Farron held the position of Bishop of Newcastle from 2005 until his retirement in 2012. He's been questioned about widespread abuse carried out in that diocese, the Anglican diocese of Newcastle. In Australia, they have one in Australia. They named everything after somewhere else, of course, as we did in America. Carried out over several decades, Bishop Farron told the commission of how he agonized over whether he should defrock his longtime friend, the former Dean of Newcastle, Graham Lawrence. Lawrence was ultimately defrocked in 2012, along with two other reverents, over what were described as disturbing allegations of abuse from the 70s and 80s. The former Bishop made a recommendation to the Royal Commission that an independent body be set up to deal with disciplinary issues.

There was really huge potential of conflict of interest, and I experienced that. He said it did not think it was possible for the Anglican Church to come together to develop its own body to deal with abuse allegations. That's where the morality of the church has been compromised. Quote came from. He was asked about his time as a student at St. John's Seminary Training College in the 1960s. The commission has already heard the college was nicknamed Satan's playground. Satan's playground, ladies and gentlemen, because of the widespread abuse that has known to have been carried out there over many years, according to ABC News of Australia. The questioner gave the names of at least half a dozen known pedophiles who attended the college. Is it remarkable, she asked, that so many child sex offenders attended the one theological education institution? The Bishop agreed it was remarkable, conceding selection processes were, quote, quite poor. College was later closed down by the diocese.

He was asked about his decision to go public in 2010 about abuse committed by another late priest, Peter Rushden. The sexual abuse, while he worked in the diocese starting in 1963, the abuse, he committed was only acknowledged by the diocese after his death in 2007. People were furious with me, the Bishop said, for publicly acknowledging the abuse, quote, they said I had defamed the dead, unquote. He defended the time it took him to become aware of that abuse, blaming a lack of, quote, corporate memory. So I guess we're all defaming Jimmy, Jimmy Savile now, those of us who know about him. The Superbugs thing is continuing to pace. A new report from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control. Hey, they stole the name of the thing reveals that a resistance has continued to increase across Europe and biotic resistance to medications.

That is, in spite of attempts to raise global awareness of the danger to the fundamentally important antibiotic class of drugs without them, some infectious diseases can become untreatable. Some forms of major surgery would again become perilous. Antibiotic resistance continued to increase over the last three years across Europe for most of the bacteria and drugs that are being monitored. Particularly worrying is the increase in resistance to antibiotics that are considered the last line of defense. That's where there are no new drugs to treat patients with certain serious infections. Antibiotic use went up in hospitals across Europe. It doesn't say here whether it went up, whether they're still fattening pigs and cattle with antibiotics, which is what we've been doing for many years. Antibiotic resistance is one of the most pressing public health issues of our time. If we don't tackle it, we go back to a time when even the simplest medical operations were not possible and organ transplants, cancer, chemotherapy, or intensive care, even less so.

That's according to the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety. There are concerns about the strains of E. coli that are resistant to antibiotics. That's a freaking cause of inflections to the bloodstream and urinary tract, but you don't need those. Wide spread publicity about the Super Bug MRSA in efforts to increase hygiene in hospitals brought the levels down between 2012 and 2015. Eight out of 30 countries still have levels of resistance of 25%. That makes it a priority. Multi-drug resistance is worrying, says the acting director of the ECDC. We have some reports of combined resistance against the so-called last line antibiotics. Those are usually kept in reserve for infections that other drugs can no longer treat. There are reports of resistance to the last line antibiotic, Colliston, in the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, and Romania. Hey, it is a union.

Whenever we have something like this and don't take good care, the head of the European CDC said, it spreads. Superbugs. Superbugs. Well, I think it's time to look at something that makes us proud to be human, something that is a tribute to the spirit of human accomplishment. And that, of course, is the Olympics. News of the Olympic Movement. Produced by Jim Eversall, Jr. Well, this week, the International Olympic Committee got to work. They stripped 10 athletes of their medals from the 2008 Games.

Yes, this is 2016. That was eight years ago. Here's what happened. Banned substances were found during retests of blood samples from the 2008 Games. Those retests were taken on by the never too late department. The IOC says the 10 athletes, nine of whom hail from former Soviet nations, all tested positive for various steroids. No gold medalists were among the 10. There were three silver medalists from weightlifting and wrestling. Figures. No, track and field was also hit. A triple jumper from Greece and a pole valtre from the Ukraine lost their bronze medals. That the Ukrainian valtre's loss could elevate Derek Miles of the United States to the bronze medal position.

I hope Derek has been doing something. Well, I hope he's been in training all this time, waiting the eight years for his bronze medal. Six athletes who did not win medals in 2008 were also disqualified. You never know who won the Olympics really until some time has passed because it's a movement and we all need one. Every day. The the annals of the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Let Us Try people continue about 200 dead adult steelhead have been found just below a dam on the north fork of the Clearwater River in Idaho. During the past week, according to the Corps of Engineers, the Clearwater joins the snake, you know, the Washington Idaho State Line.

The steelhead, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service were killed when they likely hit structures of a turbine unit at the dam, according to the Corps, like bladed to death, apparently. There injuries coincide with an upgrade of a turbine at the dam, new sharper blades, new steelhead slicing blades. The Corps says it will continue to investigate the exact cause of the fish deaths and you can trust them because they try the US Army Corps of Engineers. Sometimes I get impatient, but she calls me without words, and she comes so sweet as only my mother. And have you heard that I thought my life had ended?

But I find that it's just me, because she gets me where I live, I'll give all I have to give. I'm talking about that about me. Oh, she's a little answer about me, too much for words to say when I see her in the morning sleep. She's a little answer about me, too much for words to say when I see her in the morning sleep. When I'm feeling wild and lost, she knows the words to say, and she gives me a little understanding.

In her specialty, and I just have to say, in my life, I love the world, because she's more than I deserve. And she gets me where I live, I'll give all I have to give. Oh, she's a little answer about me, too much for words to say when I see her in the morning sleep. Don't flow away.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. From New Orleans, this is Lesho, and now. Oh, yeah. News of Inspector General Ladies and Gentlemen, and they are hard at work to tell you what's really maybe going on. Oh, and we don't have to have again.

The Inspector General monitoring billions of U.S. spending in war-torn Afghanistan reported this week that $85 million in government-backed loans to construct a hotel and apartment building. Not a Donald Trump hotel and apartment building, mind you, just a hotel and apartment building. Well, it could be now. Hey, near the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, that $85 million has vanished, because construction projects were never completed. That's before Trump, you see what I'm saying. Both buildings now appear to be abandoned, empty shelves, both loans are in default, possibly as a result of fraud. Says John Sopco, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, the C-GAR. He sent a letter to that effect to the CEO of Overseas Private Investment Corporation, OPIC. That's a U.S. government institution that coordinates private investments in unstable or developing countries where private banks and insurers are unwilling to go. Come on, guys. Come on. It's not that bad. The shooting doesn't go on all night. Well, actually it does. But it doesn't go on all day. Well, the Inspector General also said that not only was the investment and construction project a total failure, well, okay, some credit.

It's a total failure. These partial failures really. There's no... The U.S. Embassy is now being forced to provide security for the building site at additional cost to U.S. taxpayers because the construction site is so close to the embassy building. According to the letter, inspectors for the Inspector General, he's their general, found structural cracks in the roof and walls, damaged fireproofing on steel beams and columns, demolished wall sections, incomplete wiring, unfinished masonry, and a host of other problems. And maybe even a co-host. Because OPIC did not have an on-site supervisory or monitoring presence at either construction project, OPIC had to rely almost exclusively on representations made by the loan recipients regarding the status of the projects and how the proceeds of the loan were spent, says the Inspector General. OPIC has this government agency that, come on, guys. It's a war area, but it's good. You'd be willing to money to the thing.

OPIC retained the firm of Gardner and Theabald, an international construction management company to monitor the apartment project. The company apparently never visited the apartment project, according to the Inspector General. Well, you can monitor from afar. There's satellites. It's no surprise that with about half a million employees, some U.S. postal workers are enticed by the prospect of free marijuana when the drugs tell-tale odor. It used to be described as Acrid back in the battle days, the sweet Acrid smell of marijuana. That was seeps from a package, but when the postal service Inspector General's office looked into the handling of such packages, at seven facilities around the country, across the country, excuse me. It found few safeguards to prevent internal theft. That is to say, internal to the post office. These aren't people reaching into down their own throats. At one facility management was unable to explain why a cage used to store suspected potmail, potmail, had its lock broken.

A cage did. Management couldn't explain that. At another facility, the suspect packages were left in an unlocked office. Well, nobody's gonna, at a third they sat unguarded on a table. The audit was completed last month after onsite visits earlier this year. This comes amid high profile instances of postal workers stealing drug mail, potmail, or using their positions to profit from it. Who? I'm just gonna interrupt to say, who sends marijuana through the mail now? Still? Yet? An Illinois postal worker was charged with knowingly delivering potmail in September, busted by a tip to the postal Inspector General. In May, two workers were charged with stealing drugs from at least 16 packages at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. And in Washington, DC3 workers were accused in August of taking bribes to deliver pot. The report of the Inspector General, its existence, was noted last month by a public internet posting.

But said it would not be released due to concerns that some of the information was sensitive and thus protected under the Freedom of Information Act. Indeed, the document was thoroughly redacted when offered following a Freedom of Information request to U.S. News. The ratio of withheld content on the document about the investigation of the potmail thefts. The ratio of withheld content rivals the censorship of FBI notes on Hillary Clinton's email investigation and the release of the legal reasoning behind killing Americans with drones. Just to show you how serious this really is. Potmail! Three FOIA redaction codes are applied to the text of the document. One claims protection of law enforcement investigations, another protection of individual safety. And the most common code is a catch all specific to the postal service that protects information of a commercial nature, including trade secrets, whether or not obtained from a person outside the postal service, which under good business practice would not be publicly disclosed.

Tales of workers taking home marijuana if those tales exist are covered by yellow redaction boxes. The takeaway, the recommendation for the report was not redacted. The recommendation is postal service adopts a nationwide policy for handling, tracking and providing additional security for packages suspected of containing marijuana to reduce the risk of these packages being lost or stolen. The spokesman for the Inspector General Office of the Post Office says we cannot comment above and beyond what was released in the Freedom of Information document. Potmail, ladies and gentlemen, news and inspectors general copyrighted feature of this program. So we've seen the flurry of stories at the beginning of the week here in the United States about the disarray, the conflict, the discord inside the transition team at Trump Central, wherever that may be. And then we saw a flurry of appointments announced later in the week.

In the meantime, many people traveled to Trump Central, either Trump Tower or later in the week, the Trump Golf Course in New Jersey to meet with the president elect, elect notably among them, of course, Mitt Romney. But getting less notice for whatever reason was Henry Kissinger. Of course, he was notably cited by Hillary Clinton in one of the debates with Bernie Sanders is one of her foreign policy advisors. So, you know, it's a two party system, whichever way you vote, you get Henry Kissinger. Mike Pence, the vice president elect, has replaced Chris Christie. Chris Christie is, you couldn't be more out than Chris Christie is now, and Donald Trump, who reportedly values law, well, not reportedly, he said it in an episode of the prime minister values loyalty above all else. Chris Christie was one of the first people who opposed Donald Trump during the primaries to turn around and endorse him.

He's out like a, like a bad dream, like a, like out like a wet candle. He's, he and everybody he was associated with, everybody he brought into the operation has been excused from further participation apparently. And then, of course, at the end of the week toward the end of the week, Donald Trump settled the three lawsuits that were going to come to trial, either co-terminus with or shortly after the inauguration regarding Trump University for about $25 million. I got that on me. And sort of taking a little notice away from that, Mike Pence, as I said, the, the vice president elect and the head of the transition, transition team now that Chris Christie has gone, went to see the Broadway play Hamilton. Now, he could have just visited those four streets that are on my route here, but he wasn't in New Orleans. He was in New York.

So he went to see Hamilton and the crowd booed him a little bit as he entered with his family. And then as you know, the cast delivered some remarks to him at the end. To which Donald Trump tweeted furious responses and the news media focused on that. And so the week went. Now, that all sounds kind of, I know kind of ordinary and whole hum when recited as just stories in the news. There is a way to make it seem more exciting. This week, for the first time, the challenge begins again. And each week more people arrive at New York's gleaming Trump tower to take up the challenge of the presidentists. Steve.

Steve Bannon. Yes, sir. They say your anti-black and anti-semitic. I'm aware of that, sir. What do you say? I'm not anti-you, sir. You're hired. Mike. Mike, you've taken over the transition team. How's it going? Very smoothly, Mr. Trump. I see stories there's chaos. We planted those. Good. Mike, you challenge this week is to go see a hip-hop musical. Can you do that? Do you think you can listen to people rapping for two hours plus? Yes, I do, Mr. Trump. It won't be easy, but yes. Killian. You have done a very impressive job so far. Frankly, I don't think I got a lot of help from Steve. Steve can't get in the way of your task for this week. Yes, sir. You have to go out and be the female face in a traditional white male operation.

I need extra lipstick. You think you might want to look into helping out the chest a little bit too? I can definitely do that. Henry. Obviously, you're not here to compete. Not at my age. But your task is to simply show I'm not a male man. You do it just by being here for a few minutes. I do have some experience with non-medmen, sir. And you're no madman. How are you flattering me? I do have some experience with flattering madmen, too, sir. Ivanka. Now, you know, you can't get voted off the team. Right. You can't be fired. Right. That's a huge exemption. So your task this week is to sit in when I meet a foreign leader or two. Right. And then afterwards, very confidentially. Tell me how it looked.

Of course. And then we can talk about my child care plan. Actually, that's part of your next task. Which is going to Steve. Mike. The audience booed you. My team paid some of them to boom me. That's very clever. But why? We just owned another news cycle. New team. New tasks. Same mission. We are going to make this format great again. And at the end of the crucial week. Okay. You've all completed your tasks. Who is the weak spot? Nobody. Okay. And what's the verdict? Mr Trump, you're re-hired. The learning curve was never curveer. We are presidentists this week. Try to avoid it.

You're quoting figures and dropping names. You're telling stories about the days. You're over-living. When things ain't funny. You're trying to sound like a big money. You know if Todd was criminal. You would lead a life of crime. Because your man is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime. You know that a life is short.

Talk is cheap. Don't be making promises that you can't keep. You don't like this little song I'm singing. Just grinning bad. All I can say is if the shoe fits a word. And you must keep talking. Please try to make it work. Because your man is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime. And now it isn't gentlemen the apologies of the week. We're so sorry. Selectman, which I guess are council people, in Foxboro, Massachusetts have officially apologized to the victims of William Sheehan's alleged sexual abuse. This is not an attorney request or negotiated, said one of the selectmen. It comes from the hearts of the selectman.

She inserved as a Foxboro teacher, scoutmaster, and swimming director at Co-Casit River Park in the 1960s, 70s, and early 80s when he was alleged to have molested dozens of children. What you're doing is standing up for something said in alleged victim after the apology. Sheen abruptly left Foxboro for Florida in 1981. At least one Florida man has come forward with allegations against him. Over the course of four summers at Boy Scout Camp, that eventually resulted in Sheen getting kicked out of the Boy Scouts and having his teaching license in Florida revoked. But authorities in Foxboro were never notified. The allegations against him only became widely known in Foxboro when a group of alleged victims brought them forward at the meeting of selectmen four years ago. We feel our town is stronger now, said one of the selectmen. Sheen, by the way, was never charged because by the time a warrant was issued, he was suffering from late-stage Alzheimer's. Twitter's crackdown on hate speech isn't turning out to be easy. CEO Jack Dorsey apologized this week after the micro blogging site hosted an ad

that promoted a white supremacy group earlier this week. The promoted tweet spotted by a user and publicized by an online publication called Motherboard. Link to an article titled, The United States was founded as a white people's republic on the website of the new order, a neo-Nazi group. Apparently took three days for Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, as well as of Square, to apologize. But the account was suspended. The ad was removed in an hour of going live according to his Twitter. Spokesperson, Twitter's ad policy prohibits promotion of hate content sensitive topics and violence globally. David Sanguesa said he was having a bad day. He's had many bad days according to Miami Herald. Wednesday was just the latest. That was the day he was captured in a video angrily yelling Trump. And I voted for Trump at a barista at a Coral Gables Florida Starbucks when he felt he didn't get his latte quickly enough because he's white. Then he demanded his money back calling the barista trash and garbage. I had a bad day.

I was wrong for screaming at her. I've since apologized. Sanguesa said. Then in a second interview, he said, my attorneys want to file a lawsuit. That's a non-pology. Wait a second. A week after the American Institute of Architects pledged to work with President-elect Donald Trump, the organization walked back at statement and apologized. The message that went out was a mistake and it shouldn't have happened, said the president of the institute in a video. We will continue to be at the table and be a voice for the profession, especially when it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion. They don't want to design the table. Well, that would be designers. I guess not architects. The initial statement was sent out soon after the election cited Trump's call to significantly increase infrastructure spending. That would be good for architects, wouldn't it? It quickly caused a backlash, though, from local chapters, architecture organizations and publications calling some for the organization's chief executive to resign. In the video apology that chief executive called his initial statement,

tone deaf. Hmm? Data on San Antonio, two tenth grade students at a San Antonio High School and their teacher have been reprimanded for the performance of a skit portraying the assassination of President-elect Trump. The San Antonio Express News reports the skit entitled the assassination of Donald Trump, was performed last week at Marshall High School. One of the boys used a gunfire sound effect from a cell phone, the other boy playing Trump, fell to the ground. A spokesman for the district said the appropriate action had been taken against the three and that the teacher had apologized. Two parents of a student who viewed the skit had complained. They said they're dissatisfied with the apology and had hoped for harsher measures. The head of WADA, the world anti-drug doping agency, apologized to Olympics officials. They were furious at the timing of an announcement that the main drug testing analysis lab in Qatar has been suspended by WADA.

Or as, you know, an old TV comedy would refer to it, WADA, WADA. The world anti-doping agency revealed this week that the laboratory's work would be suspended for four months just as more than 1,000 officials descended on the capital of Qatar, Doha, for the annual meeting of the Association of National Olympic Committees. That's got to be fun. Officials said the timing of the announcement of this suspension of the Qatar drug lab threatened to overshadow the summit. That's where Budapest, Los Angeles, and Paris are presenting their bids for the 2024 Olympics. We don't want that to be disrupted, do we? Or overshadowed in any way. I apologize fully that this happened. It was not, I promise you, intentional said the head of WADA. Data line Snyder, Texas. A school official in a small North Texas town, Snyder, has apologized to the administrators of a Texas-Mexico border school district after his students had a volleyball match between teams from the two districts

and his students chanted, Build a Wall. CD Noblok said he apologized to administrators. He said heated emotions after the election were probably a factor and said, quote, the whole community is torn up about it. Unquote. Some invisible reweaving might help. Data line Windsor, Connecticut. The Connecticut school superintendent has apologized to parents who are upset after a mural that featured a silhouette of President Obama was removed from an elementary school in election day. This country's on fire. Windsor public school superintendent Craig Cook said the mural at Oliver Ellsworth School was painted over to make way for something that would showcase student work. He said it was done the election day when the school was closed. So students and staff wouldn't have to inhale harmful odors in the paint. The 2009 mural featured student signatures and other historical events of that time. Cook said the timing for replacing the mural couldn't have been worse and apologized for the mistake.

He says now district officials will work to replace the mural. I'm going to get those signatures back. I want to see that. A Montreal Film Festival is issued an apology a year after its screen to film that inuit people panned as a proliferation of negative stereotypes. Organizers of the Montreal International Documentary Festival apologized for having presented a film with a colonial perspective that perpetuates racist stereotypes. A 74 minute collage film about modern day life in Northern Canada was screened at the festival a year ago. The mid-festival apology, according to musicians, says it follows them putting on pressure on the festival through a boycott and a public letter. The original version of the film was made up of publicly available clips called from the internet showing images of snow, skidows, and hunting with clips of inuit appearing drunk, crashing ATVs and throwing up. Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagak took the festival to task

for showing the film what she called painful and racist. She also said her music was used in the film without her consent. It was later taken out. Columbia University says it would polish members of its wrestling team who'd shared loot and racist text messages and the remainder of the team had been cleared to resume competition. The University said an statement its investigators had found messages were written, seen and viewed by a distinct group within the wrestling team. Those responsible have been suspended. And they were members of the wrestling team apologized for their inappropriate vulgar and hurtful speech. Dateline Fondelike was constant. Police say they have taken no action but are continuing to review a recent incident of only one of their law enforcement officers and a Facebook post that drew national attention, Detective Villager, a veteran of the force. So he's heard from people all over the world who offered them support. After it was learned that Halloween costumes he and his wife were while handing out Kennedy to kids. She was wearing a pigtailed wig, a sweatshirt that made a repair pregnant

and blackened blue makeup around her eyes and mouth. He is posed to holding his fist up to her face, wearing a long-haired wig, a flannel shirt, and jeans rolled up. And the text above the photo read, don't talk back to the boss. It was a Joe Dirt Halloween costume that all it was. Ledger said, I was hoping David Spade would hear about it and contact me. Unquote. An apology followed from the police department. And a man who admitted damaging Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame last month to make a political statement pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of vandalism. Upon reflections after my arrest, I had said I was proud and felt very good about destroying Mr. Trump's star. However, I realized now I was wrong that I shouldn't have done it. I apologize for that. I hope no one else will affect and hurt the Hollywood Walk of Fame stars. I think that really does conclude the apologies of the week ladies and gentlemen. A copyrighted feature of this broadcast. Well, that's going to conclude this edition of the Show the Program in Turns next week at the same time

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