Le Show; April 30, 2023

From deep inside your audio device of choice. Ladies and gentlemen, this I don't know if this is something you happen to know. It's clearly more interesting to me than to you. But this program is no longer broadcast on what's it called radio in Southern California. It's available of course via the internet, but you know it's the internet. Anyway, so I can I think tell a tale on Southern California with a clear conscience today. I grew up there. Yes, I know. But I passed the time that would be devoted to growing up there. Let's put it that way. And it was built as a one story city, you know, one little squat, one story, stucco buildings painted any of a variety of bright light colors.

When assumed, I don't think I ever recall being told that the colors were a response to the climate. It's very warm and sunny there in Southern California much of the year, except during rainy season. And so the buildings were painted in these colors light and bright that would reflect the sunlight. There by keeping the interiors of the buildings, little less warm, maybe a little cooler than they'd otherwise be. That has all changed since the place got hipper the last few years. That is to say, you can go around L.A. and its suburbs now. And on the shopping streets that are hip, chic, whatever, adjective you choose to describe, you know, something that's more alcohol raw.

The same buildings are there if they haven't been demolished for a high rise, which is happening daily. Reminds me of when in the 90s you would visit, I would visit San Francisco and hear people say, well, it's never going to get Manhattanized. I invite you to go to San Francisco now. They got everything but the accents. But back to Southern California, those buildings still exist, but they've been repainted in a wave. I think it's fair to say of hipness or hotness almost literally, they're now painted Matt Black. You remember him? He was on NBC. Matt Black, just not even reflecting in the glare or glaze spectrum, absorbing as much of the sun's heat as humanly possible all over town.

So anytime somebody tells you that the people of California are, you know, nuts about this climate stuff, just point to the heat absorbing buildings that just by their paint jobs require about 20% more air conditioning. Then they otherwise would. The truth is about California. When I first went to New York, this just sprang into my mind. When I first went into New York City for a summer, the National Enquirer was on the new stands. They had new stands, they had newspapers, and among the papers that you could buy there was the National Enquirer. And I remember the first headline I ever saw in the Enquirer. The truth about West Coast barbecues, they cook and eat dogs and cats.

And that was a friend of Trump's. Hello, welcome to the show. I'm the first of May, it is moving day. Spring is here, so blow your job, throw your job away. Now's the time to trust to your wanderlust in the city's dusty weight. Just you wait in a mountain greenery where God paints a scenery just to crazy people together. While you love your lover let blue skies be your coverlet, when it rains will laugh at the weather, and if you're good, I'll search for water so you can cook.

While I stand looking beans could get no key to reception. It'll be replaced by mountain greenery home. Simple cooking means more than French cuisines. I have a bank with plant witches, sandwiches and beans. Coffee is just as grand with a little sand. Eat and you'll grow fatter boy. Smatter boy. At a boy. In the mountain greenery where God paints a scenery just to crazy people together. We love sequestering where no pests are pestering. No deer mama holds us in tether.

Muscat is here, won't bite your deer. I let them sting me on the finger. Beans could get no key to reception in the greenery. Bless our mountain greenery far from lies for scenery. Bless our mountain greenery home. From New Orleans, Louisiana, I'm Harry Scherer, welcome you to this edition of the show. Now ladies and gentlemen, news of nice corp, nice people doing nice things. Tucker Carlson was taken off the air by Rupert Murdoch, who, yes, he does run Fox News as well as Fox everything else. That was going to be an issue in the trial that never happened, at least one of them.

He was taken off the air by Rupert Murdoch because of overly religious remarks he made during a recent speech, and according to Vanity Fair, this is part of the apparently near endless search for the real reason, as opposed to the obvious reason why Tucker Carlson was taken off Fox News. You know, just a weird little thing. Carlson was dropped less than a week after Fox News settled at lawsuit with the voting machine manufacturer Carlson's show which brought in more than three million viewers, according to the British newspaper, the telegraph, featured prominently in that lawsuit by the ballot counting industry, specifically that one company. There's going to be another one coming up by Smartmatic, still another voting machine company.

The decision in that case to settle for a huge amount of money wiped more than five hundred million dollars from Fox Corporation's value, according to the stock market, within hours. Speculation was rife that the legal entanglements involving Carlson, Tucker Carlson, had brought about his demise. He's also named in a lawsuit from a former Fox producer, but according to this report from Vanity Fair, Carlson's remarks at a speech on Friday night is what rattled Murdoch. He was alarmed by the religious language and found it, quote, to extreme. To extreme, according to Vanity Fair, not just extreme enough. Carlson opened his remarks at the Heritage Foundation's 50th anniversary gala by encouraging everyone to, quote, include the country in your prayers, unquote, that's too religious for Rupert Murdoch. His assessment of the state of the US was laced with religious language, framing America's partisan battles,

as a division between good and evil, describing the debate over abortion and transgender rights. He told the audience, quote, what you're watching is not a political movement, it's evil. I'm not calling for religious war, he continued, far from it. I'm merely calling for an acknowledgement of what we're watching. He said, engaging in debate no longer works. I've tried that doesn't work, he said. He went on to suggest that he had concluded that praying for the future could be more powerful, saying, maybe we should all take just 10 minutes a day to say a prayer about it. I'm serious, why not? Unquote, Tucker Carlson, quoting one source close to Murdoch, the language drove his decision to remove Carlson, quote, quoting that source, close to Murdoch, speaking to Vanity Fair, quote, that stuff freaks Rupert out.

He doesn't like all the spiritual talk. Now, the report was by the same journalist who claimed earlier this month that Murdoch called off his forthcoming engagement to Anne Leslie Smith, you heard about that, right? Because he'd become, quote, increasingly uncomfortable, unquote, with his fiance's outspoken evangelical views. According to Vanity Fair, Murdoch had witnessed Carlson and Smith, the Murdoch fiance discussing religion, source told Vanity Fair the Carlson reportedly a favorite of Smith, had dinner with a couple at Murdoch's Belair Vineyard in late March. The only vineyard in Los Angeles County, ladies and gentlemen, during the meal, Smith reportedly produced a Bible, and read passages from the book of Exodus, like you do at a dinner.

He produced a Bible, I don't know if she directed it. Murdoch simply sat there and stared, the source said, days later, he called off the engagement to Smith. Vanity Fair noted by taking Carlson off the air, Murdoch, had also cut his former fiance's favorite show from the network. In his address at the conservative think-tack carriage, Heritage Carlson also said he got almost every single call wrong during last year's midterm elections. He said he later took Tom off, quote, to think about why I was so unbelievably wrong. I typically don't weigh in on races because, you know, what do I know? I don't actually cover politics. I'm not that interested, unquote, Tucker Carlson. And also from Nice Corp, or about Nice Corp, Prince William of the Royal Family that's going to have a coronation next week.

He settled a phone hacking claim with a Rupert Murdoch's then group of newspapers, called NGN News Group, news papers, for a very large sum three years ago. That's according to lawyers for William's brother, Prince Harry. All the brothers were talking about each other. According to Reuters, Harry's legal team said a deal had been agreed between NGN, not MGM, NGN, and Buckingham Palace, on behalf of Prince William to hold off any claims. Until other outstanding phone hacking litigation was settled, the claim it has had to make public the details of this secret agreement. As well as the fact that his brother, Prince William, has recently settled his claim against NGN behind the scenes. That's Reuters' view of the document.

NGN settled with Prince William, the heir to the throne, for a very large sum of money in 2020 Reuters reported. William's office said it couldn't comment. His father is busy being crowned. The documents of an unearthed as the LA-based Prince Harry is suing the very same NGN at the London High Court. Over multiple unlawful acts allegedly committed on behalf of the Sun newspaper, and it's now defunct news of the world tabloid from the mid-1990s until 2016. He accuses those tabloids of phone owned by Rupert Murdoch of phone hacking and containing and obtaining private information about him by deception, including getting a hold of Meghan Markle's Social Security number. Ouch! News of the world was closed down following the phone hacking scandal, saw millions paid out of damages,

and Harry, along with celebrities including Elton John, Sir Elton John, and Elizabeth Hurley, is suing the publisher of the Sun's rival, the Daily Mail, for breaches of privacy, including the hiring of private investigators to secretly place listening devices inside their cars and homes. Can you hear me, Elton? Oh, listen to him, I see. Nice cooperation. Nice people. They are doing nice things. And now, news of the world, won't you? The scientists have obtained their best satellite assessment yet, of the status of the world's glaciers, Europe's cryosat tracked a 200,000 or so glaciers on Earth, according to the BBC, found they've lost 2.72 billion tons of ice in 10 years due to climate change, and buildings being painted black.

No, that's equivalent to losing 2% of their bulk in a decade. It's not the world's best diet. Monitoring how quickly glaciers are changing is important because millions of people are relying on them for drinking water, and farming. They don't actually farm on the... The world's glaciers are distributed across all latitudes, not just at the poles, a few hundred are routinely measured at ground level, the best way to assess them. But for the vast majority observation of space, it's the only way to keep an eye on how they're responding to climate change, which is important, like the broader ice sheets, their whiteness reflects sunlight, and helps cool the planet. And in many parts of the world, glaciers also function as critical water reservoirs.

More than 20% of the world's population is thought to be dependent in some way, on summer melt waters that flow from glaciers for drinking, sounds like this. For agriculture and to drive hydro power stations, I don't know the sound of that. Cryosat is a veteran European Space Agency Earth Observer. It carries an instrument called a radar altimeter, which sends down microwave pulses to trace variations in height along the planet's surface, in particular the changes in elevation of ice fields. This type of instrument works really well by monitoring the gentle undulations in the interiors of Antarctica and Greenland, more tricky to measure the ice that runs across rugged terrain. But advances in data processing have enabled scientists to effectively increase the resolution and robustness of cryosat division, so it can now track developments even in those hard to see locations. The study was reported this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, applied this new approach to the spacecraft's entire data archive to produce a global glacier assessment.

The vast majority of all the ice loss scene between 2010 and 2020 was due to melting in an ever-warming atmosphere. Only 11% of the loss was the result of glaciers melting or increasing flow because their fronts terminate in warmer ocean or lake waters. Alaska's glaciers, the biggest losers, more than 80 billion tons a year. Very much in effect, reports the BBC of warmer air temperatures. Places where glaciers appear to be eroding and moving faster because their fronts and in warmer waters include the Arctic and in the Russian sector of the Barrens and Kara seas. This is a consequence of what's called the Oblantification of the Arctic, explained researcher from Edinburgh University in the UK.

Usually the surface waters of the Arctic Ocean are cold and fresh, but increasingly in some of these places the surface waters are becoming more salty and warmer, who isn't, as currents move up from the Atlantic. And this means glaciers are dumping more ice into the ocean. This means this will add to sea level rise, which already threatens. Your low lying communities, news of the warm ladies and gentlemen, it's such copyrighted feature of this broadcast. We're still, I know it seems like spring, but we're still in the middle of crypto winter. The first and only Belgian cryptocurrency lending platform, bit for you, said it was suspending its activities after coin loan, one of its main service providers, was declared insolvent by an Estonian court. It's lovely when this stuff gets so international, isn't it? We all share in crypto winter.

Coin loan is a crypto lending company based in Estonia. It also no longer has the required registration as a custodian of virtual currencies, bit for you, said in a statement on its website. Quote, today we have no indication that the virtual currencies held on behalf of our customers with coin loan cannot be recovered. We have no indication that they cannot be recovered. That's reassuring if you're holding some of those virtual currencies. Coin loan holds around 85% of ripple XRP coin, ripple coin. If only you could drink it, about 81% of top cryptocurrency, Bitcoin and 62, sorry, 67.32% of Ethereum. Those are the proportions of the customers of this lending cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency platform, which is suspending its activities.

A court in Estonia unexpectedly ordered coin loan to halt all operations, including withdrawals this week. The company had limited user withdrawals last year to $5,000 per 24-hour period. Why? To stave off a run on its funds. Yes, semi-banks can have runs too. So say goodbye to bit for you, Belgium's only cryptocurrency platform. Because, ladies and gentlemen, while it seems like spring, it's crypto winner. The great days of Europe had gathered on the show. They conquered almost behind them, but now they wanted more.

So they looked to the mighty ocean, they took to the West and see the great days of Europe in the 16th century. Had your wives and daughters had the groceries too. Greatness of Europe coming through. The grand scenario islands, first land in which they came, they conquered all the canaries there, which gave the land its name. There were nannies there called launches, launches by the score. But for this disease, the Portuguese, they weren't dead anymore. Now they're gone, they're gone. They're really gone. You never see anyone so gone, they're pictures of the museum. Some lines written in a book, but you won't find a lover no matter where you go. It's happy pleasures too. Greatness of Europe coming through. The love myself for him, he sounds sour and dull and scared.

He shook hands with some Indians there, soon they all were dead. They got TV and time for that. At least what you pay and the flow, excuse me. Greatness is going through. They got both out of the Pacific, down the trail one day. He met some friendly Indians, whom the church told him, what day is so? He had them told apart by dogs and religious grounds he said, the greatness of Europe, but while holding their weight, now they're gone, they're gone. They're really gone. You never see anyone so gone. Some bones hidden in the canyon, some paintings in the cave. There's no here's trying to save. There's nothing left to see. Hide your eyes and daughters. Hide your sons as well. The greatness of Europe you've never came to.

You and I stand at the dawn of the century. You're so sprung everywhere that anyone can see. But they're on the rise as a possibility. Some bum from out of Africa, my company, you and me. Destroyed everything in its path from sea to sea. Let the greatness of Europe be the sixteenth century. From New Orleans, this is Lesho. And now, ladies and gentlemen. Tessla's lawyers say that Elon Musk's past statements about the safety of its self-driving feature can't be trusted.

Because they could be deepfakes. That's according to court findings seen by business insider. The electric car company is being sued by a gentleman named Wang. No, sorry, the lady named Wang, whose husband Walter died in a car crash in 2018. The lawsuit, which was first submitted to the Santa Clara County Superior Court, way back in 2019 alleges the Tesla's autopilot feature was defective and accelerated Wang's car into a concrete barrier. After misreading, I said, highway lane markers, Wang's lawyers want to interview Musk about statements he made promoting the capabilities of the self-driving hardware, which would be, you know, useful to him in prosecuting the case. That excludes includes of speech from a 2016 conference when Musk said, quote, a model S and model X at this point can drive autonomously with greater safety than a person right now.

Unquote, Tesla's lawyers say they don't know whether or not Musk actually said any of those things. Quote, at first glance, it might seem unusual. The Tesla could not admit to deny the authenticity, authenticity of video and audio recordings, purportedly containing statements by Mr. Musk. They wrote in a court filing. The reality, it continues, like many public figures, he is subject of many deep fake videos and audio recordings that report to show him saying and doing things he actually never said or did. This past week, Judge Yvette Penny Packer, I just read him, said these arguments were, quote, deeply troubling and tentatively ordered Musk to be interviewed under oath for three hours about whether he made the statements. That's according to Reuters. Their position, send the judge, is that because Mr. Musk is famous and might be more of a target for deep fakes, his public statements are immune. In other words, Mr. Musk and others in this position can simply say whatever they like in the public domain, then hide behind the potential for their recorded statements being a deep fake to avoid taking ownership of what they did actually say and do.

According to Judge Penny Packer, speaking of judges, Tesla broke, speaking of judges and Musk, Tesla broke US labor laws yet again, according to a watchdog. This time, not by suppressing labor organizing, but by prohibiting workplace discussion of wages and complaints and blocking employees from appealing to higher level managers. As a result of a national labor relations board judges ruling this week, Tesla will have to cease and desist from violating labor laws and will be required to post notices in the appropriate areas of Tesla's Orlando workplace and mail them to all current and former employees. These notices will state, it's okay to talk about pay at work. There appears to be no other punishment. Tesla does have to promise to not break the law.

In the future, the saga started around the end of 2021, according to the NLL Ray, national labor relations board, when several employees at the Florida Tesla Collision Center, fixing the electric cars, fender benders, became concerned the new staff were being hired to the higher rate of pay, then the existing workers at the body shop, despite Tesla's own quote, open floor policy, which the NLRB noted gives employees the right to fairly discuss their wages, benefits and terms and conditions of employment, and to raise complaints internally or externally. A manager at the shop responded to employee pay rate concerns by telling employees in all hands meeting not to discuss such matters. Same supervisor also told employees in the meeting not to complain about pay or any other issues to anyone higher than the regional manager.

One employee decided that was on satisfactory, elevated the issue to the VP of Sales Service and Delivery. They have service at Tesla? Huh, he was suspended the employee was other team members at the shop were told in another all hands meeting that they weren't allowed to talk about the suspension. The suspended employee was later fired. The NLRB response to the complaint filed by the terminated employee was that Tesla had pretty much done everything it was possible to do wrong in the situation, including posting a deficient notice to employees when it was first informed of the NLRB probe. This isn't the first time Tesla has been found guilty of firing of violating National Labor Relations Act earlier prior complaints have mostly centered on unionization efforts. I think it was the Henry Ford Playbook of 1932 and America's Federal Aviation Administration has grounded space exes starship in order to conduct a safety investigation.

You may recall the heavy lift launch vehicle rocket destroyed a chunk a chunk of the launch pad and exploded during a test last week. But it did not poop on the area. You do know that Tesla now its default reply to any inquiries from the press is a poop emoji, so I wasn't bringing the subject up. Out of the blue, SpaceX was unable to get starship said to be the world's most powerful rocket into orbit during that launch, according to the register. The rocket started rotating mid-air when it failed to break free of its booster shortly after takeoff began falling uncontrollably back to Earth. It was detonated over Boca Chica, Texas within minutes of launch.

Before it even got to that point, starship had damaged the pad and nearby space center infrastructure during blast off and scattered ash and dust over both wildlife areas and a nearby town. A video recording of the flight showed chunks of concrete being kicked up by the launch and smashing the windows of a car and creating a cloud of ash and dirt. The mess descended onto Port Isabel, where residents reported feeling the ground shake. All future test flights of the starship rocket are on pause for now as officials probe the fallout, the impact of the latest explosion and any additional damage to the launch pad is not clear when SpaceX will be allowed to resume launches. Elon Musk CEO of SpaceX said the company started building a water-cooled steel plate to go underneath the vehicle's launch mount, which would have protected or reinforced the pad from the powerful machine above it. But it wasn't ready in time.

Got a launch. Got a launch. SpaceX would be ready says Musk to launch starship again in one or two months. Based on the FAA determining that any system process or procedure related to the mishap does not affect public safety. The FAA spokesperson. SpaceX doesn't have a great track record for starship flights. Most of its rockets have exploded, the only one that is managed to successfully fly and land safety in one piece. It was built to send heavier payloads in space, including a crew of astronauts for NASA's Artemis mission to the moon, maybe scheduled for 2027. And SpaceX scrubbed its latest Falcon 9 flight tasked with carrying its latest batch of star-link satellites into low-earth orbit due to landing concerns with the rocket. Somebody's paying attention to Twitter.

News of Musk. Ladies and gentlemen, it is a copyrighted feature of this broadcast, and now news of the godly. Seven years after the last undertook a major restructuring, the Catholic diocese of Eerie, Pennsylvania, who knew, is launching another plan to reshape its parishes. Have you reshape your parishes lately, ladies and gentlemen? Apparently it's always a good idea. The project is in its early stages, as Bishop Lawrence T. Perseco, not Serpico, not PepsiCo, but Perseco, said in a letter to the faithful earlier this month on the process, known as Pastoral Planning. My goal in beginning another more formal round of pastoral planning for parishes is to create communities that are vibrant and dynamic, and in a position to extend a sense of welcome and belonging to all, said Perseco.

He's led the 13 county diocese since October of 2012, says the latest restructuring is necessary to address the same issues that the region's Catholics have been dealing with, declining population in general in northwestern Pennsylvania, declining attendance at mass, and a persistent priest shortage. Members have continued to drop forcing the diocese to act, Perseco said. A Catholic radio station in Poland has launched a campaign challenging women to quote, abandon men's clothes like your trousers, and to instead wear more, quote, beautiful feminine dignified dresses and skirts during the month of May in honor of the Virgin Mary. She hated pants. Take the challenge 31 days without trousers, reads the appeal by a radio station run by Franciscan monks. Dear ladies, May is an extraordinary month in which we can honor the mother of God, including through our clothing. We encourage you to take up the challenge, and wear only dresses and skirts for the immaculate Mary, unquote.

The campaign is being run by the radio station, collaboration with only for women, a Catholic women's organization, and Marion skirts and dresses in online community. The challenge begins on May 1st, the organizers advise women to check their wardrobe before they make sure, before then to make sure they have prepared the clothes they planned to wear. Let's also prepare appropriate shoes, tights, and blouses so that no small thing will prevent us from putting on a skirt. The campaign has been met with a mixed reaction on social media, some welcoming the idea others could have sized again. Do you really reduce feminine piety to dresses? Do you think God cares about clothes? Wrote one commentator, the church is shooting itself in the foot with such actions. Fewer and fewer people go to church, young people are withdrawing from religion classes in schools, more and more people commit apostasy, and all this is not without reason.

Said another commentator, said a male commentator, as far as I know, St. Joseph and Jesus didn't wear jeans either, so why don't we men all put on ankle length robes? And Quebec's Court of Appeals has approved a $28 million Canadian settlement in class action lawsuit filed against the clerics of St. Via Tour of Canada by sexual assault victims. The dealers reached January a year ago. Last July, Spirit Court Justice in Quebec said the $8 million Canadian in legal fees was excessive. Said that despite the fact that the lawyers for the $375 sexual assault victims did remarkable work, he wanted a new agreement with more reasonable fees.

New to the godly, copyrighted feature of this broadcast. I'm trying to find my daddy, where that broke down piece of junk, ask everyone to help me, cry help me if you can, you know my daddy, he's that trauma playing that, oh, where's my daddy? Tell help me with my daddy with a big long sliding thing.

I even asked a man that played a still guitar. He said that you don't need him to be moved to the bar. He brought his amplifier and he hitched it in my plug. He planked it and he plunked it, but it wasn't good enough. Oh, of course I need my daddy. I need my daddy with that big long sliding thing. Then I came out my door. I said, hmm, my daddy's back. I opened up the door and there still be an object. He said, I came to do some tankling on your piano keys. I said, don't make me nervous this ain't no time to tease junk. Send me my daddy, my daddy with a big long sliding thing.

The first time that he played, I asked him how it was done. He said, I blow through here and I walk my fingers and my song. I slide it right off. Then I slide it back again. That is my daddy with that big long sliding thing. If you want to see more of that in the New Orleans area next weekend, Judith Thullen will be at Jazzfest next Saturday afternoon. Now.

News of our friend, the Adam, U.S. nuclear regulator, the U.S. Union nuclear regulator, said this weekend has launched inspection to examine ground settling at various places around the Davis-Bessie nuclear power plant in Ohio. The commission said in a release it determined that a special inspection was necessary after learning that a failure in October two years ago. No, last year. Of a pipeline meant to supply water for firefighting, the failure in the pipeline was likely caused by stress from ground settling at the plant in Northern Ohio near Lake Erie. Well, settling near Lake Erie sounds appearing.

Sounds appealing. Last month the NRC also learned of additional fire protection, pipeline failures and multiple occurrences of ground settling at the site. The operator of the reactor didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. The construction of the plant began in 1970. A five-person and special inspection team will establish a timeline related to ground settling zones and assess the actions to evaluate, monitor or mitigate the phenomenon and its potential impact on equipment, key to plant safety. The inspectors at the plant was safe and that the owner had promptly restored fire protection after the piping failures. The NRC find Davis-Bessie more than five million dollars. The largest in the regulator's history for violations after workers in 2002 discovered a football-sized void caused by corrosion in the reactor Vesselhead.

The agency will document their findings of the ground settling inspection. The operator of the trouble-fook plant in Japan says the melted fuel debris likely created holes in the pressure vessel of one of its reactors. The vehicle reported their findings to a meeting of the nuclear regulation authority. It is missing and there's a dark space where the bottom should be. The officials said cooling water is cascading down towards the spot just under the bottom. They added the devices that remain inside the reactor appear to be covered with fuel debris. These findings led them, the officials say, to conclude that heat from fuel debris created the holes after cooling failed after the thing.

Capco says it will analyze the footage further. Always more analysis is a good idea. Following comments from more than 200 people around the U.S. Department of Energy says they're changing the process of selecting waste disposal sites. The department will consider input from communities as they work to select the site to store the nation's nuclear waste as opposed to the previous policy of ignoring the communities. There's no site in Yaka Valley, yet, or ever. And now, apology the week.

The Minneapolis star tribunes publisher apologized this week after Muslim lawmakers described a cartoon as quote blatantly racist. First panel of last Sunday's cartoon shows a man telling a woman that quote broadcasting the Muslim call to prayer at all hours will make Minneapolis too noisy. Unquote, the next image shows masked gunmen firing outside of the home they're in. Lawmakers held a press conference this week to address the recent attacks on mosques. It was there that Muslim legislators condemned the cartoon. We're not laughing said state representative hold on Hassan. This community is not laughing, especially when the star tribune is putting out a cartoon that incites this that gets people riled up. Star Tribune CEO and publisher Steve Grove said in a statement that the cartoon drawn by a recently hired cartoonist was intended to support the recent decision by the city council to allow expanded use of the Muslim call to prayer.

But it was perceived by many to have missed the mark. I agree that the cartoon didn't achieve its goal, but instead brought pain to readers and communities who felt targeted and mischaracterized. I'm sorry that the star tribune published it unquote. He's in his second week on the job as publisher. By Louisville Kentucky the old national bank gunman's parents profusely apologize to the Louisville community for their son's actions earlier this month. The emotional interview on today with Lisa and Todd Sturgeon reveal more about their son's state of mind. Leading up to the shooting his parents said still there's no provocation of justification. No rationalization at all for what he did. The mother said her son called her earlier in the month saying he'd had a panic attack. That was the same day he legally purchased an AR-15.

We are so sorry we are heartbroken said his mother. We wish we could undo it, but we know we can't. He did this to totally innocent individuals. There is no provocation or justification. No rationalization at all. They lined Brazilia the Brazilian government apologized on Thursday for mistreating Afro, Brazilian families that were forcibly moved from their coastal home in northern Brazil for decades ago to make way for the construction of a spaceport. This is Brazil. The Alcantara base run by the Brazilian Air Force is the rocket launching site of Brazil space program where the country hopes to draw private companies putting small satellites into orbit. But in 1980 some 300 families or members of communities started by runaway slaves were relocated by the Air Force and their land was expropriated. They were never given title to the land where they were later taken.

The Brazilian state publicly declared its apology to the communities that remain in Alcantara, the government setting an statement announcing that funds would be made available in reparation for the mistreatment. The apology came as a complaint by the communities reached the Inter-American Human Rights Court, which held a public hearing in Chile on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. A spat between two olive oil startups has gone viral on social media after one founder took to Lincoln to accuse the other of copying his squeeze bottle design. Andrew Benin, founder of Olive Oil startup Grazza, wrote in a link in post that rival oil and vinegar brand Brightland copied his design after the company announced its own squeeze bottle olive oil product to be drizzled on pizzas.

In the post Benin calls out Brightland CEO on claims for company participated in copycat culture, the post which was edited to include a subsequent apology later that same day stirred up debate, unlinked in and beyond overuse of the squeeze bottle. And Shell, the oil company, in Potter's Township, Pennsylvania, hosted a virtual community meeting this week, I'm in growing frustrations of operations at the Shell cracker plant in Potter Township, Pennsylvania. The recognized transparency is important when it comes to building trust, said Shell Polymers General Manager, so that's why we report all our malfunctions to the regulatory agencies and we communicate to the public as quickly as we can.

Earlier than the day, people who live near the plant said they were eager to get some answers after a number of reported flares and violations in the last few months. Dr. Clifford Lau, with a watchdog group called Eyes on Shell, is concerned about high levels of benzines in the area. Colorless highly flammable chemical can be dangerous and even caused cancer. Shell is required to operate passive air monitors, must investigate anything with concentrations of nine micrograms per cubic meter of pollutants. They are from Shell, ending a two week span last week, found levels of size 110 micrograms per cubic meter. The Shell spokesman apologized for the odor during city council meeting this week.

And, Dayline Monroe, Louisiana, state senator Stuart Kathy of Monroe is apologizing after he swore at fellow lawmaker, Senator Regina Barrow of Baton Rouge. I'm competitive, and then my competitive juices get the best of me. Kathy told the local TV station, I really don't know what happened to him, but certainly that behavior was unbecoming for a senator. Barrow explained, kind of got really in my face and put his finger in my face and told me that they effing lied to me. His tone, his body language, was very threatening. Unquote said the recipient of the comments from the guy whose competitive juices got the best of him. The apologies of the week, ladies and gentlemen, copyrighted feature of this broadcast.

Well, that's it for this week's edition of the show back next week. You'll show back next week the same time over these same radio stations or on your audio device of choice whenever you want. And it'd be just like Donald Trump showing up for his own trial, if you'd agree to join me then, which you already thank you very much.

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