Le Show; 2006-02-19

From deep inside your radio. Ladies and gentlemen, once again, from New Orleans, Louisiana, from the French market and the Pittsburgh desk weighed in with a, a demoral when I mentioned last week that this is, that proclaims itself the oldest city market in the United States while I check the sign downstairs on my way in, 1791 is the date to beat and by babe, I mean, ma'am, the, the news here in New Orleans, I'm just, this is such a great place to be doing a broadcast because right out the window is a statue of Joan of Arc mounted on a horse, Joni on the pony, as they call her here, and a pile of garbage. It's the trash cans fold. Yeah, please, but here's the news, waste management, the company that handled garbage collection in New Orleans before the thing will resume that task starting tomorrow, daily in the French quarter and central business district and once a week in other parts of the city.

So that's the task of picking up trash has been handled since Katrina by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, ladies and gentlemen. So no wonder there's trash sitting outside on the street right now and the other thing that we're getting back in New Orleans is mail service, which has been very erratic. Magazines are still embargoed, but the US mail is saying they're, they're gearing up. So if they could just deliver the mail directly to the trash trucks and say the rest of us, the middleman responsibilities, I think, now you're talking efficiencies of scale. So the speaking of cleaning up trash, the part of the federal government that really works hard at picking up the trash has decided that the chainy shooting story is over. Nothing to see here folks. Move on. Uh-uh, not so fast. Please, I'm batting clean up on this one. I got to take my wax. First of all, the Houston Chronicle notes that there are contradictions between the official sheriff's report on the incident and accounts from the vice president, the

account from the vice president. He's given only one to Fox News in Chinese account to Brithume. He said he turned to his right to shoot the quail as it was rising. And he said, did not know that Harry Winnington was standing in the shallow depression. In the sheriff's report, the vice president is described as turning to his left counter clockwise to fire at the bird attempts to contact chief deputy sheriff Gilberto San Miguel about the discrepancy was according to the Houston Chronicle unsuccessful. All right. But then now they're bitter, you know, how about the associated press? They do a whole story about the discrepancies that have plagued the story that have peaked people's interest despite the seeming trivial nature of the whole deal. Or maybe because of it.

There's no evidence that beer impaired Chinese judgment says the associated press, initial denials that he had consumed alcohol were wrong. No one was drinking said the hostess at the beginning, no, zero zip. She said the hunters washed down their lunch with Dr. Pepper. Later she qualified her comments and said beer might have been in the cooler, but she didn't think anyone drank any. The victim explained to the investigating officer foremost, there was no alcohol during the hunt. But Cheney acknowledged Wednesday I had a beer at lunch. And of course there were discrepancies in the victim's condition, most notably the failure to note early on that one of the shotgun pellets had lodged in his heart, little place called the heart. The Republicans are the law and order party. We know this. We remember this from the 90s law, the rule of law ladies and gentlemen, what do you teach

your children? It's not the rule of law. So in the last six months we've learned that Republican governor Arnold Schwartz and Edgar of California has never had the proper driver's license for driving a motorcycle, something he's been doing for years. And Dick Cheney did not have the proper license to hunt quail in Texas, didn't have the $7 stamp. I know it's just $7. It's the rule of law, babe. And by babe, I mean, sir, finally, at the top, there was the Washington Times, no enemy of the administration, quote, experienced hunters said vice president Dick Cheney alone bears the blame for the weekend mishap. Every local hunter interviewed by the Washington Times said the vice president violated hunting's cardinal rule, which is don't shoot cardinals. No, sorry, never pull the trigger unless you're 100% sure of your target. Any violated number two rule number two as well, never swing on game outside the safe zone of fire.

He apparently was overzealous or too excited about the shot and he didn't practice safe measures to make sure he didn't shoot his friend. He was wrong, said James Harris, a hunter and taxidermist from Mechanicsville, Maryland, which beats being a mechanic from taxidermistville, Maryland, doesn't it? Really, now, hello, welcome to the show. We're going to break it down, baby, look, we're going to throw it up, baby, now, I'll make it shoot it before we run down.

What I did, I did not mean it was an accident. But I did, I could not dream it was an accident, I took her to the dragon for a little job. Now she made me have a little baby boy, it was an accident, although if it was an accident, I didn't mean it. I didn't know what I did, you were there. I'm right here, thanks for noticing, I'm Harry Scheer, ladies and gentlemen from the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, and this is this edition of the show, as opposed

to the others, which this isn't for your listening information and edification. More about this story that's over, because I contest its overness on your behalf, still from this Washington Times, again, fan of the administration, a piece about hunters, Robert Beale of Waldorf, Maryland, home of the salad, though, has been hunting since he was nine years old, has never known anyone who was hit by bird shot, quote, I have never sprayed anybody and never nor have I ever been sprayed and if I ever was, I'd never go hunting with that guy again, he said, he questioned why the hunting party would split up and they shouldn't have left a hunter struggling, struggling back behind them. They should have got dogs over there or they should have gone over there to help find the bird. I don't care if you're the vice president, go help. And then they should have all regrouped.

They should have stayed abreast, he says, Mr. Cheney spokeswoman dodged, this is the Washington Times word dodged questions about the hunter's comments, quote, the vice president has made his comments on what happened. He said, so story really is over then, ain't it? But more stories, always, for example, ladies and gentlemen, much, much to do now about Iran and its nuclear program and whether they can be trusted with enriching uranium. And the question that might arise if you hear the next, the following two news stories is, can we, can anyone be trusted with this stuff? Dateline Washington, the energy department no longer has an estimate of when it can open the nuclear waste repository that it wants to build at Yucca Mountain, northwest of Las Vegas and it may never, once that word never have an accurate prediction of the cost says the

energy secretary, Samuel Bodman said in a nuclear power industry conference, his department is redoing research and design for Yucca, which was supposed to start accepting civilian nuclear waste in 1998, but it's a first of a kind project, making it difficult, you see. Last week, the deputy energy secretary hit it for the first time that the money, the energy department has been collecting from the nuclear industry since the 1980s might not be enough to pay for the project. The last published cost, sorry, yeah, $60 billion, but that was in 2001. And we're so far beyond that, that's pre-9-11 money. The department is facing lawsuits from utilities that want to recover extra costs created by the delay. Bodman was speaking to a nuclear industry executives and a lawyer in the audience axed him, as we say down here, how the industry could build new plants like the president

wants them to without assurance of a place to store the waste, which is required, you see, by the law. Bodman did not answer the question, but started describing the problems at Yucca Mountain. Government scientists and their commercial contractors were trying to cope with research work that was done poorly by the United States Geological Survey, really, was Mike Brown or Churdoff at charge over there. Now, the problem is a court decision that forced the United States environmental protection agency to publish standards governing leakage of radioactive waste for one million years. That's the so-called Rackel Welch lawsuit. No, it's not. Instead of the initial estimate of 10,000 years. So lie bigger, be the result of the court decision. And the project managers recently decided, according to our energy secretary, they had to space the waste more widely apart to prevent temperature inside the mountain from reaching

the boiling point because the effects of steam are difficult to predict. Yeah, you don't want your nuclear waste boiling, really. If you stop to think about it for one second, let alone 15 years, this is us. How about the Brits, operators of a nuclear reprocessing plant called Cellefield were this week ordered to keep a closer eye on atomic material to prevent it from falling into hostile hands. Well, that's a good idea, they haven't been doing that. The European Commission issued a formal warning to British nuclear group Cellefield, which is abbreviated B-N-G-S-L for your convenience. Don't mind me, I'm just pushing buttons. The order follows a series of inspections of the plant, which resulted in a report stating

that accounting and reporting procedures do not fully meet European atom standards. So can't trust us, can't trust the Brits with this new stuff, ladies and gentlemen, maybe. I don't know what we should do with it. I can't even get a CD machine to work, let alone a nuclear plant, what do you want? But now, ladies and gentlemen, it is time. For a copyrighted feature of this broadcast, news from outside the bubble. It's right here. Despite reports of growing tensions and even occasional clashes between Islamists and nationalists, the predominantly Sunni insurgency in Iraq appears increasingly united and confident of victory, this according to a report released on Wednesday by the Brussels-based International

Crisis Group. And published in the Asia Times. The 30-page report, based primarily on analysis of the public communications of insurgent groups, as well as interviews and past studies about the insurgency, also concludes that rebel groups have adapted quickly and effectively to changing US tactics, which brings up, or at least it might, the rationale for keeping people in Guantanamo, you know, the UN criticized Guantanamo this week. And we heard the rationale won't be still getting useful intelligence from prisoners in Guantanamo all about the structure of al-Qaeda. Here are reports that, not for the first time we hear, al-Qaeda changes its structure, and as does the insurgency in Iraq, to deal with changing US tactics. So that's got to be good intelligence now, these four-year-old intelligence from these

guys who have been hung by their heels. Quote, over time, the insurgency appears to become more coordinated, confident, sensitive to its constituents' demands and adapted learning from the enemy successes and its own failures, said the report. Not let them run FEMA. They sound like the bright people for that job, don't they? But wait, there's more. Tony Blair, this week, said the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay was an anomaly that would have to be dealt with. I would prefer he added in a television interview, I would prefer that Guantanamo was not there. I would prefer it was closed. Yes. Our ally, Tony Blair, ladies and gentlemen. But wait, there's more. The, and there's still more. After the revelation of new photos of torture from Abu Ghraib, the Iraq human rights minister

is demanding that the United States turn over control of all prisons in Iraq to Iraqis. But there have also recently been revelations about Shiite death squads inside the Iraqi police. The Americans think it's the Iraqi prison and police system that needs American supervision. CIA jets suspected of flying terrorist suspects to secret prisons for torture have landed at commercial British airports and received help from you, knighted Kingdom air traffic control. This admitted for the first time this week. From the issue of extraordinary rent, extraordinary rendition, don't you know? It's the first formal acknowledgement that British authorities were aware that CIA flights associated with extraordinary rendition have traveled through the United Kingdom air space. Members of parliament say it shows that ministers could no longer claim they had no knowledge of CIA flights that have been linked to the policy of sending terrorist suspects for interrogation in countries that carry out torture.

Good news from Iraq. She a leader Mukhtada Al-Sadir, who's kind of the kingmaker in the current Iraqi government. Now says he rejects the Iraqi constitution backed by his partners in the biggest parliamentary block. I reject this constitution which calls for sectarianism and there is nothing good in this constitution at all he told Al Jazeera this week. You know that there have been new photographs from Abu Ghraib thanks to the Australians. They were our allies weren't they? Thanks babe. And by babe I mean mate. News from outside the bubble latest gentlemen. It is totally copyrighted. This is Lesho and ladies and gentlemen just a little follow up from last week I told you

about a little incident, little incident where a stewardess leaning over me to pour wine into my neighbor's glass just to refresh him, spailed the wine all over me and killed my computer. I don't think last week the death notice was in on the computer but it's official. So I've been now investigating you know like you do to find out how they train stewardesses to pour wine you know to find out if this was in the words of British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaking about Guantanamo Bay if this was an anomaly and we wish it weren't there. So I asked the flight attendant excuse me I said stewardess I'll go I asked the flight attendant on the way back to Los Angeles this week.

How are you people trained to pour wine wouldn't it be wouldn't it make more sense especially if it's white wine and the bottle is cold and maybe a little wet and maybe a little slippery wouldn't make more sense to take the glass from the passenger to a lighter object easier to hold and control bring it to your cart and then pour the wine refresh it whatever you want to do with it there from the bottle keeping it safe keeping the bottle safely on the cart and then returning the glass to the passenger for his enjoyment and she said no no no that's not the way we're trained at all no we're trained that once the passenger has drunk from the glass it's impolite for us to touch it. Now I'm I'm not the politest guy in the world but I'm not the most impolite guy in the world either and I'd never heard of that I'd never heard of that as an as an article of politeness and then I'm happened to be sitting next to a united captain a pilot captain

on the way back here and I said is that how they train the stewardesses on your airlines no so ladies gentlemen I I'm sure that there are flight attendants male and female other people who might know how you train how you how you are trained to pour wine in the air just wondering not that I'm going to sue or anything you know it's just I want to use it as a learning experience and now ladies and gentlemen the apologies of the week Deadline Tucson manager Ozzy Gullin Gillin admitted his first mistake and the eve of the White House White House's White Sox's first training workout he issued a lengthy apology to Alex Rodriguez for calling the New York Yankee star a hypocrite and a recent issue of sports illustrated magazine but he's not going to stop making candid comments quote I

apologize to Alex his family his fans the New York Yankees organization to the White Sox organization because that's the first time I feel I did something wrong Gillin said I've done a lot of controversial things before but I started this one and I'm going to finish it he clarified his use of the word hypocrite saying the word isn't perceived as harshly in Latin America as it is in the United States this is over whether a rod should play it for the United States or the Dominican Republic in the world baseball classic that were also a Twitter about Deadline Halifax Nova Scotia's Minister of Economic Development resigned this week after admitting he was in a conflict of interest regarding a government loan to a potato farm this is a candidate away the $260,000 Canadian loan was paid this week to a potato farm company that leases land from the Nova Scotia minister's family quote on reflection this week I

now believe I violated the ministerial code of conduct by being in a conflict of interest I realize now I've made a mistake and I apologize to Nova Scotians and to my colleagues in the legislature. Dayline Brazil a coalition of American churches sharply denounced the US led war in Iraq this week accusing Washington of raining down terror and quote that's a quote and apologizing to other nations for the violence degradation and poverty our nation is showing the statement issued at the largest gathering of Christian churches in nearly a decade comes from the representatives of the 34 U.S. members of the world council of churches. Deadline Finland the decision by Prime Minister Mutti Van Hanen tuition apology for the appearance of the on a finished website of the Danish cartoons particularly the picking the profit Muhammad was his own in his statement issued on Tuesday oh sorry this is the

foreign minister no well Prime Minister was attending the winter Olympics he used stronger language than many foreign ministry civil servants would have considered sensible according to the local newspaper they've been talked for some time of a statement expressing regret over the dispute and that the statement might be made public so now we have Norway Denmark and Finland apologizing he fledger is explained his camp behavior at the screen actors guild awards insisting he was suffering from stage fright ledger placed his hand on his hip and giggled as he joined his broke back mountain co star Jake Yellen Hall to introduce a segment on the gay cowboy film after his body raised body language raised questions among critics ledger slammed speculation he was mocking the serious topic of his movie insisting he was just uncomfortable on stage he says quote I am so I am so sorry and I apologize for my nervousness I would be absolutely horrified if my stage fright was misinterpreted as a lack of respect for the film the topic and for the amazing filmmakers unquote he says

he discovered he was doing a presentation just minutes before going on stage and was shocked by the script he adds how can you say all that stuff to brave cowboys with a straight face it was just so surreal I've stood like that with my hands on my hip since I was a kid after 61 years an official of the Japanese government this week finally apologized to the victims and relatives of the estimated 100,000 non-combatant Filipinos who perished in historic battle for the liberation of Manila speech was delivered by the Japanese ambassador the most awaited part of the commemoration of the historic event the terror that each Filipino man woman and child must have experienced a man of 61 years ago he says is beyond the imagination of any human being with this historical fact in mind I would like to express my heartfelt apologies and deep sense of remorse over the tragic fate of Manila the ambassador said in an emotional speech about 100,000 Filipino civilians were killed many

of whom suffered atrocities by the Japanese military he added closer to home the council of American Islamic relations have received an apology from Los Angeles radio station and KFI its morning host Bill handle on January 12th satirized the Islamic Hodge then underway in Mecca specifically lampooning an incident which several hundred pilgrims were trampled by the surgeon crowd handle said he to apologize as soon as the council for Islamic American Islamic relations denounced terrorism and recognizes the right of Israel to exist KFI by management has issued their thoughts on the station's website kept quote KFI does not condone making light of the deaths of people engaged in religious observances we regret that listeners found the comments of one of our on air hosts to be insensitive I thought that was the whole idea of the radio station but that's just me ladies and gentlemen the

English magazine maximum in the eye of a storm over publishing a photograph of actress Kushbuh in a bikini this week had apologized telephonically and in the mass media and offered two more options to her to arrive at an amicable settlement Kushbuh is name of an actress magazine is offered to carry an apology of the same size as the 100% fake piece that is distressed the actress in a future issue I'm just looking up Kushbuh she sent legal notices to the editor in publisher the magazine seeking compensation and says she's not willing to accept any apology from them Kushbuh ladies and gentlemen an actress the control comptroller to say to Maryland William Donald Schaeffer issued a handwritten apology to a 24 year old aide to the governor whom Schaeffer appeared to ogle in a public meeting this week just hours earlier the 84 year old comptroller continued to insist and reporter to reporters there was no reason to apologize he did a a 360 ladies and gentlemen the head of australia's wheat export agency I told

you about this story a couple weeks ago has apologized to an australian senate committee for his misleading testimony about millions of dollars and kickbacks allegedly paid to Saddam Hussein's regime under the u.n. oil for food program Tim Bessley the chairman of the wheat export authority apologized to the senate committee for telling them last November that he knew nothing of bribes allegedly paid to a rock by australia's monopoly wheat export company the australian wheat board back to Maryland Montgomery County officials are apologizing after two local homeland security department employees tried to prevent people for searching for pornography on the internet in a public library when you wonder what homeland security is up to as a trailer still failed to arrive in New Orleans that gives you some idea the chief executive of texas based radio shack corporation is apologized after making miss statements on a job resume did you have the help of michael brown

michael brown no i was me made made that up the michael brown was going to resume consultancy business because he done such a good job on his resume uh... the resume of the radio shack executive david edmondson claims he earned two university degrees that his school cannot place or trace he's also being investigated by the board of radio shack which is looking into the legal aspects of the situation quote the contents of my resume in the company's website were clearly incorrect edmondson said in the statement i clearly misstated my academic record the responsibility for these miss statements is mine alone and finally ladies and gentlemen sir elton john has accepted undisclosed libel damages from the london newspaper the sunday times owned by rupert murdoch over claim in the newspaper regarding the star's behavior at a charity ball the allegations caused him distress an embarrassment the paper erroneously repeated an entirely false rumor that he acted in a rude self-important and arrogant manner his lawyer told the court she added the paper falsely said sir elton issued an absurd edict to guess not to address

him until spoken to he said he sued the sunday times regarding the uh... publication which first appeared in the daily mail times newspapers acknowledge that the allegation should not have gone to print publicly withdrew it and apologized for the distress that it caused sir elton the apologies of the week ladies and gentlemen is copyrighted feature of this broadcast now the uh... the story that so over has one other uh... interesting anomaly the story of the the dick chainy thing and that is exactly the status of harry wedington the man that was shot here is dick chainy on the fox news with the brit hume

whom he apparently called that's that's how the interview happened brit hume says he received a call from dick chainy set up the interview this after uh... chainy reportedly received some pressure from somewhere in the white house to uh... do this anyway here on the interview is dick chainy this is unedited ladies and gentlemen listen to how harry wedington status changes in the course of this brief bite it's a great man he's uh... in great shape and good friend or thoughts and prayers about to you and his family all of the money first met him uh... in veil caloretta i worked for jerry for about thirty years ago which you described as a close friend family acquaintance acquaintance good friend good friend starts that bite starts out he's a good friend by the end under question under the harsh questioning of brit hume he admits the quains ladies jaman to get any

any real insight on this not this story that's now over i think we have to go underground next intimate tales of america's first underground vice president the action-packed diary of a man who's just a heartbeat away from history dick cheney confidential confidential there are two kinds of people in the small town masquerade capital city notice washington dc the benaded individuals in the political media we think it's a sign of success when you get your name in the paper those of us in the private upside of town we know that when that happens it's a sign of failure

this week by the preponderance of the evidence i've flopped more repeatedly than a striped bass and a barrel with a face full of bird shot one thing is little sojourn in the spotlight is taught me was how smartly and was to insist that after the initial terrorist threat period ended we never gave up the secure and disclosed i stopped to think about what this week might have been like with everybody for bretium to michael more camped on our driveway makes me want to have one beer and go shooting for a guy likes to call his own shots no pun intended but maybe intended more than i know for a guy likes to be the button pusher not the pushy this was a more humbling experience than having to applaud at somebody else's state of the union speech normally the only cause i get from the other half of the executive brancher those that are asking me what's up

but last Tuesday i was invited to Karl Roe's office his people made it very clear that the invitation was not transferable Tuesday morning ten seventeen a.m. or i think let's let's dispense with the pleasantries is having been vocalized okay fine by me my bad mobiles double-part you enjoy your autonomy don't you Richard i think it's served both my country and myself pretty darn well certainly be the alternative are you going to funerals and waiting for g.w. to die well i think the president if he were to focus on the past for a moment instead fixing his gaze totally in the future i think he might have reason to feel as if like your autonomy is the it's the elephant he's busy cleaning up after car look i didn't spend my adult life and half of my wife's climbing up to the top of this particular greasy pole just to wind up being ordered around by an

operative candidromatics point extra i didn't know you look down on operatives dick but all right no dramatic just a clear and ambiguous suggestion by your commander in chief that you break the silence on this little shootout of yours and go out and make a contrite plausible statement about how sorry you are and everything except of course you know not everything of course carl appreciate the consideration look pal maybe you haven't read the nexus file and me lately but word has it that i'm not the make a contrite statement kind of guy that's not why you hired me that's not why i hired on if you wanted a camera ready pretty boy you should have insisted that i not choose myself in the first place what is this miss the obvious day at the secure undisclosed brain mr. vice president for your information the vast majority of this shop's energy this week has been expanded on a rather bizarre activity of yours

i know the war is going very well i'm not talking about the war now i know a senior coordinator for the Katrina recovery and senior counselor at the white house it really isn't any of my business whether the president continues to believe that executive privilege protects your activities with and through mr. liby and earlier on with the energy advisory council but you know it's not a slam dunk it may not even be a finger roll just so i can be sure my secretary gets his all down right should this be filed under threats oh not a threat well not an imminent threat or maybe a a grave and gathering one i think you remember those look nobody's going to buy the hallmark card dick chainy collection a statement like that will look as phony as a democrat war hero now you don't do it as a statement you do it as uh an interview with a friendly what am i supposed to pick up the phone and out of the blue call brid human say hey brit doing anything this afternoon

sounds a little broke back and a lot pathetic you know dick the the president and i seem to have a closer relationship with the bible and maybe you do all due respect to side but the profit says there is a time to reap and a time to sow i'm familiar with the concept well maybe this is a time for you to be pathetic be sure and take some white house water with you for the trip back just my luck there wasn't a cubby of quail flying behind Carl's head just about then i did the statement and the folks in the chainy press criticism blowback account worked hard to work at hard then i smoothed out the rough edges by kicking back a frosty like one shooting holes in my waist basket when i got old i pleased to call to my close friend harry wittington just to catch up on development since i peppered him in the face and heart

wednesday six twenty seven p.m well it still hurts a little bit when i breathe but i i'm working on that mr. vice president i really am that's great old friend has your wife but you know i'm sorry to say i'm so traumatized i don't remember her name at the moment it's Mercedes huh like the vehicle and that's right so the doctor says the bruises are going to disappear in six eight months so i guess there goes my cover story in Texas monthly yeah pity i was kidding sir i'm sorry well what did you just say harry i said i was sorry for for kidding at a time like this when i'm in the hospital and you're calling to do whatever you're calling to do you said you were sorry gave me an idea when's the doctor say you can go home he said friday at the earliest so here's what your country needs from you old pal on the way out of the hospital make a little

statement of contrition for the trouble you've caused me by letting me shoot you give it all the plausibility inherent in your role as a Texas lawyer and political leader and most important of all don't take any questions the time it takes you to do that they'll have brought a government limo around for you enjoy it for the rest of the day i don't know if i'll be able to do that sir i'm i do look pretty bruised up facially and like i said it it still hurts to breathe a little well we'll get the doctor shoot you up real good don't worry about the pain my friend as for your face my people here say max factor Egyptian number nine to do the job just fine well but sir in all due respect and in galley i am sorry that the incident ruined our first ever time together me too old buddy but just to continue my train here who's going to believe me apologizing to you i mean of course i don't remember the incident all that clearly but don't gonna harry we're happy to let you do whatever it is you do in your field let the experts and believability worry about that

look my friend you agree with me that the country has far more important things to focus on oh absolutely well when you make your statement the story ends the press corps goes back to sleep the nation moves on that's a contribution sometimes when people make important contributions they get other important contributions back sonny whirl these things happen mr. rise president i suppose i'm not really in a position to bargain with you not really but what's on your mind well if they could make sure the injection is demoral that would sure make it easier for me to face that little ordeal carry me amigo we'll see what we can do carls squeezing in my plenary executive power felt like a new pair of shoes one size too small

but talking to my old friend harry that was like putting on some comfortable slippers and having only one beer in the partial diary for early february 2006 sincerely viewers i heard a rhythm from some drumming that was coming from within i was melding catfish fry you know sultans cookin' back to social social in a pleasure putt and ladies and gentlemen at this time of mounting

tension with iran it's nice to know that we have really basically so much in common iranians says the associated press love Danish pastries okay but from now on when they look for the flaky dessert at the bakery they have to ask for roses of the prophet Muhammad that's right they've changed the name of the dish bakeries across the capital were covering up their ads for Danish pastries this week after the confectioners union ordered the name change in retaliation for caricatures of the muslim prophet published in the Danish newspaper given the insults by Danish newspapers against the prophet as of now the name of Danish pastries will give way to rose of Muhammad pastries says the union this is a punishment for those who started misusing freedom of expression to insult the sanctities of Islam said a cake shop owner in northern terran one of terran's most popular

bakeries Danish pastries covered up the word Danish on the sign with a black banner emblazoned oh Hussein a reference to a martyred saint of Shiite Islam banner is a traditional sign of mourning and the shop owner declined comment so we did it to the French the iranians are doing it to the Danish we are brothers and the financial cost the US military for discharging and replacing gay service members under don't ask don't tell are nearly twice with the government estimated last year taxpayers covering at least 364 million dollars in associated funds that's broke that's so broke back ladies gentlemen that concludes this edition of the show the program returns next week at the same time over these same stations over NPR worldwide throughout

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