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at the Sound of the Tone 10 a.m. From Deep Inside Your Radio. Ladies and gentlemen, this would be the day that marks the beginning of year 25 of this broadcast. What a frightening idea that is. What an absolutely appalling notion. And yet it's true. But the truth can be appalling. Can't it? Now, this will be maybe the start of another copyrighted feature. Who knows? Certainly not our copyright lawyers. A feature called, did I miss it? Did I miss where somebody announced that our ports were now totally secure from possible terrorism threat? Did I miss that? Because this week on Friday as a matter of fact,

the Bush administration announced it plans to slash counter-terrorism funding for police firefighters and rescue departments across the country by more than half next year, according to the Associated Press. Administration doesn't think that the Homeland Securities $23 billion worth of aid to states and local government so far has been well spent. And thanks to this nation's highest risk cities have largely satisfied their security needs. Among the parts being slashed, the plan calls for outright elimination of programs for port security and transit security. We're good. I missed it, but we're good. We're cool. Of course, the Democrats are ticked off about it, but even Republican Representative Peter King, Congressman from New York said, this would be a very grave mistake,

and I will do all I can to stop it. All he can means is showing that press release. So I guess I missed that. Now, I know I missed where FEMA tested the FEMA trailers for the formaldehyde fumes because they haven't done it yet. Still, now, not having done it. It is December. Hey, happy December to you. And so probably all the people living in those trailers have opened the windows by now, because it's not hot and they don't have the air conditioning on anymore. And another month or two, those those trailers will be fully vented. Then you go test, see, then you get some nice results. And did I miss the change in Pentagon policy? In the last few weeks, ladies and gentlemen, you and I have heard stories from the administration and its supporters about the success of the surge, the surge. And one of the

arguments advanced for the success of the surge is that Iraqi civilian casualties have gone down way down. Did I miss where the Pentagon started counting them? Dayline April 16, 2003. Pentagon says it has no plans to determine how many Iraqi civilians may have been killed or injured or suffered property damage as a result of U.S. military operations in Iraq. And it was Tommy Frank's the first head of our thing over there who said, quote, we don't do body counts. So I guess I missed where they decided, yes, we do. Because now the numbers are good. So now we'll count them or announce them or whatever it is we're doing. And just clearing clearing the table at the beginning of year 25, when the administration decided that the country that had invaded its neighbor that had weapons

of mass destruction and that harbored terrorists was Iraq and not Pakistan. We invaded Iraq and made Pakistan our ally. We know what's happened in Iraq, what we think we do. Now Fred Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute, according to the British newspaper The Guardian, is concocting a set of contingency plans for securing Pakistan's nukes in the event that things go bluey over there, including maybe sending American troops. It's never too late. And the money sentence in the article is, quote, the political and security crises in Pakistan have led the Bush administration to conclude that Pakistan has become a more dangerous place than it was before Musharraf took over in October 1999. I guess I didn't miss that. Hello, welcome to the show.

We're called as put as put candy. I've had an excellent time so far. There's only one thing that I've been. I've been in love so much on this Pakistan. It could be all downhill. It could be all downhill. I've been in love. I've been in love. I've been in love. I've been in love. I've been in love and I've been bad. Most that I've been bad. I've had an excellent time so far. There's only one thing that I've

been. I've been in love so much on this Pakistan. It could be all downhill. It could be all downhill. I've been in love so much on this Pakistan. It could be all downhill. I've been in love. I've been in love. I've been in love. I've been in love. I've been in love. a beautiful girl friend, sometimes we stay here, I've had an ex a long time so far, there's only one thing that I've had, I've been up so long on this buggy stop, oh, oh, oh,

I couldn't be all around here, it couldn't be all around here, I couldn't like you came back, Joely and I sit next to that john hat, we're part next to God more, we're singing when he gets dark, I had an ex a long time so far, there's only one thing that I've Oh, there's only one thing that I've had. I've been up so long on this bucket stop. Oh, oh, oh. It couldn't be all downhill from here. It couldn't be all downhill from here. It couldn't be all downhill from here. From the edge of America, from the home of the homeless I'm Harry Scherer.

Not John Scherer, not the inventor of the video professor. Welcome to this edition of the show. And I have my eye peeled ladies and gentlemen for General Musharraf's uniform. He took it off this week. It should be on eBay very, very soon and we'll start the bidding just as soon as it is. I can't wait for that. He's now just president Musharraf, no longer general president Musharraf. But maybe he'll reenlist, start all over again, be private president. And now a feature too long, absent from the broadcast, making its triumphant return at the beginning of year 25, tails of airport security. This one's from Brandon in Mission Viejo, which is not so Viejo, really. Don't be fooled. It's actually pretty Nuevo when you take a look at it. He writes, Dear Harry, my girlfriend and I were traveling from Orange County,

California to Atlanta to visit her family Thanksgiving, because Orange County has such a small airport and it's usually a five minute walk from the ticket counter to any gate. We plan on getting there only 45 minutes before our flight, which has always been plenty of time on every other occasion. I flew from John Wayne Airport. Our flight for Delta was scheduled to leave at 7.5 a.m. We arrived on time, according to the parking ticket. There were three people in line ahead of us, so there wasn't much worry. Despite the fact that the woman ahead of us was also on our flight, spent about 10 minutes chatting with the ticketing agent. While we stepped up at 7.20, we were informed by the self-check-in that we were not allowed to get our boarding passes. We asked why and we're told it was due to a new federal policy, which we had not been informed of on our itinerary or on any signs up until this moment. The new policy prohibits anyone from checking in less than 30 minutes before their flight

as a security measure. I began making arrangements to re-book the flight while my girlfriend told the agent that we were here more than 30 minutes ahead of time, but were waiting for one of their staff to become available. The attendant responded there was nothing they could do to waive the $100 reticketing fee because it was a federal security policy and not a company policy. And that if we wanted to get faster service, we should have used the ticketing phones when we arrived, which she indicated as being a counter on the other side of the room completely obscured by a rack of brochures. The re-booking agent told me that to get on the next available flight at 11, I'd have to come back at 8 when they began taking reservations due to the seats

only being available three hours before flight time. When I got back in line at 750, I was told they had already sold those seats and to the next flight I could get was at one that afternoon. Brandon had a good day at John Wayne Airport. Cale's of airport security latest gentleman at copyrighted feature of this broadcast. I actually myself ran into the 30-minute thing when I was trying to fly back from San Francisco to Los Angeles but of course they have much more frequent flights on that route. But yes, it's a new security thing. Less than 30 minutes, get out of here. You're a terrorist. I'm sure it's a good idea. I'm sure it's well thought out and well considered. As well thought out as the fact that our ports are now totally safe.

You heard that, right? Didn't begin any of this broadcast. Just checking, you know. Because we're entering year 25 and now it is in gentlemen, the apologies of the week. First from Aaron Burnett of CNBC, who called President Bush the monkey in the middle when doing a live commentary on MSNBC's Morning Joe describing video of him arriving with some guests at the Annapolis Middle East Conference. Here's Aaron Burnett. No, that's so not Aaron Burnett. Earlier this week I was on MSNBC on Morning Joe and I made a bad attempt at humor Chris. I was talking about some world leaders. They did of course include our President. I said something stupid. I just want to make sure I apologize. If I offended anyone, I do have the utmost respect for the President. I hope he is a great weekend and Chris, I hope you do too.

I'm not Chris but thank you Aaron Burnett. And the cable news apologies continue. Venezuela's volcanic president Hugo Chavez has claimed for years that people were trying to kill him without much evidence. Now thanks to CNN, he finally has some proof. CNN in Espanyol, the Spanish language version of the network mistakenly ran a photograph of Chavez this Tuesday next to a caption that read, Who killed him? It aired for only a few seconds. But Chavez noticed it. It's weird and it needs investigation. He said on Venezuela television Wednesday. He also called on his attorney general to launch a probe into the incident. CNN apologized and blamed the snafu on a technical mix up. The caption referred to a story about the Washington Redskins football star Sean Taylor. More television apologies, television talk show host Montel Williams threatened to find and blow up the homes of three Savannah Morning News reporters this week. While he was in Savannah, Georgia promoting free prescriptions for poor people.

That bus exists. I thought they made up that bus. The incident took place at the Weston, Savannah Harbor after an event in Johnson Square for the partnership for prescription assistance's help is here express. Before the event, Montel took exception to a question asked by a high school intern for the newspaper and abruptly ended a videotape interview. Later, the intern and another intern and a web producer for the newspaper went to the hotel for an unrelated assignment featuring gingerbread houses. Williams and his bodyguard were there too. As we were preparing to film Montel walked up with his bodyguard and gotten the intern's face pointing his finger and telling her, don't look at me like that. Do you know who I am? I'm a big star and I can look you up find where you live and blow you up. At this time, he was randomly pointing at all of us and web producer Joseph Coasey. Two interns corroborated the statement. Late Friday, Williams issued a statement through a representative of his TV program.

That's Balsey. Quote, I apologize for the misunderstanding the statement read. I mistakenly thought the reporter and photographer in question were at the hotel to confront me about some earlier comments. I was wrong and I apologize for my overreaction. He needs some prescription assistance. Send the bus. The Chinese manufacturer of a toy that was found to contain a powerful chemical that metabolizes into a potent date-rape drug when consumed as they shoot an apology. The toys sold under the name Aquadots in North America and bind these in Australia. That should be the tip off. Included beads made by Hong Kong's J.S.S.Y. Ltd. Spinmaster Ltd. has recalled about 4.2 million Aquadots toys in North America. The incident has given Maiden China brand a negative impact during the Christmas season company director Li Aujuan. Told reporters in Shenzhen.

I have to deeply apologize. The toys were coated with 1,4 butanetial. Butanetial. Just think of Needy. Butanetial. Which when ingested can cause unconsciousness, seizures, droughtiness, coma, and death. I saw a prescription-dug drug which had as one of its side effects listed death. I wouldn't think of that as a side effect. I think of that as a front and center effect, but that's just me. Yahu's checkout service for nearly 40,000 online merchants went on the Fritz for nearly 11 hours. This past Monday, so-called cyber Monday. Yahu described the problem as shoppers receiving an error message indicating system unavailable during the checkout process. The glitch not only threw off online shoppers, but also infuriated quite a few of the merchants. The company has since released an apology to merchants stating that, quote, Yahu's relationship with our merchants is extremely important to us and we value their loyalty. Now, to a series of apologies about the loss of, or the inadvertent loss of millions of data files on people in Britain.

Her Majesty's revenue and customs, HMRC, found that the, or announced a couple of weeks ago that the discs had, I think, 23 million people's data files on them went missing, as they say. Well, yeah, 25 million people. A woman in Warwickshire, Manjit, Mojaria, said she had received seven apologies from the agency, intended for other people and containing their personal information. When she informed the agency of the mistake, Ms. Mojaria said she was given the impression that, quote, she was not in the minority. Another woman in Branbury, Oxfordshire, said, was sent a letter containing personal information that was not hers.

She said, quote, not only did they cock up the missing discs, they're also sending out families' personal data to other families. She said, the leader of the opposition, the agency can't even apologize without breaking people's confidences. And a Worcester family, whose details were among those lost by the government in Britain, were astonished to receive their apology letter in an unsealed envelope. Alan and Trudy Oakman received a letter from revenue and customs. It contained Ms. Oakman's insurance number, child benefit number, name and address, all the personal information that was on the missing discs. The envelope was just tucked in, not sealed properly. Mr. Oakman said, anyone could have opened it and had access to our personal information without us knowing. I just can't believe in light of what the letter was apologizing for, that this could happen. The spokesman for revenue and customs apologized for the mistake and said it was an isolated incident. And his apology was unsealed. Alan DeGeneres apologized on her talk show this week for calling bachelor star Brad Womack, the bachelor, Brad Womack.

Hello. Calling him a bar owner, he yells from Austin, Texas, a jerk earlier in the week. I think she's still pining for the dog. Under pressure from users as well as advocacy groups, popular social networking website, Facebook has decided to change the way its beacon advertising technology operates. The beacon technology was intended to tell a user's friends when they shopped online for books music and even read it a movie. Many users were aghast at this intrusion of privacy. Move on.org, launch a petition urging Facebook users to protest. Facebook bowed to the pressure and decided that beacon will be a strictly opt-in service. Users must grant permission for beacon to scan their profiles. Facebook is now apologized for its action. We're sorry if we spoiled some of your holiday gift-giving plans, the post-read. We're really trying to provide you with new meaningful ways to help you connect and share your information with your friends. We're also trying to find a way to monetize the whole deal.

Arkansas State Senator Denny Altese issued an apology this week for racially charged remarks on immigration he made in an email made public the day before. In an email to former Fort Smith Mayor Bill Vines, Altese reportedly said we're being up-populated by the blacks. We called for sending illegal immigrants home to their home countries. Altese told the Associated Press said he did not consider their marks racist, but he said I apologize and I'm sorry if it aren't anyone's feelings. I'm sorry if it offended anyone. David Beckham. Soccer star remember him he was going to be big in this country. Yeah, he was going to make the game big. He's not apologizing for that yet. But this week he honored a promise to a young cancer sufferer after security concerns had seemed to ruin her dream of meeting him in Sydney, Australia. 14 year old Emma buyers the first person to suffice to consecutive bone marrow transplants at Children's Hospital Sydney was due to welcome Beckham on. A morning this week but was left in tears when the stars Minder's insisted he was brought into the hotel via a back entrance and whisked to his room.

Last night at Sydney football club game or the sorry the night after with Queensland Beckham took time to meet Emma and private and left the young girl beaming with delight. After he was told what happened to contrite Beckham, he used to press conference to apologize to the girl and other fans who had been with her and had promised to make a man's. I didn't even see any children when I arrived at the hotel this morning. I went in the back way. He said, but that's not what I do or what I'm about and I apologize to them. The City Council of Cardiff Wales has formally apologized to 88-year-old Betty Davies after a street cleaner wander against sweeping leaves off of her porch. She admitted she was all the lost for words when the street cleaner told her she could be fine after seeing her sweeping leaves from her porch in her home in splot. Yes, there's a part of Cardiff Wales called splot. I'm sure they don't pronounce it that way. I'm sure they pronounce it slightly.

The apology extended to Davis was after the street cleaner told the 88-year-old woman, I'm giving you a warning this time. She said, I went back inside and sat down and thought, what a blim and cheek. I'm 88 and although I can look after myself, I'm a pensioner and quite old. Local City Councilor said the street cleaner was totally out of order. The council apologizes for the reported comments made to Betty Davies, the council would not find people for sweeping leaves on the highway from the front of their home, even in splot. Another Catholic apology makes our list this week, Cardinal Mark Uye of Quebec. I apologize for the past sins of some Catholics in Quebec. Some have described it as risky but prophetic act of leadership. Others have called it a calculating political move in his battle against the mandatory ethics and religious culture course. Quebec plans to impose on private and public schools next fall.

Others say the apology did not go far enough. Uye, a couple weeks ago, writing his archbishop of Quebec and primate of Canada, is a primate. So are we all. You should have an open letter to Quebec papers inviting Catholics to perform an active repentance and reconciliation. He continued, I recognize the narrow attitudes of certain Catholics prior to 1960, favored anti-Semitism, racism, indifference toward first nations, i.e. Native Americans, and anew its, and discrimination against women and homosexuals. Yeah, that's all over. He continued, the behavior of Catholics and certain episcopal authorities with regards to the right to vote, access to work and promotion of women hasn't always been up to par with society's needs or conformed to the social doctrine of the church. I also recognize that abuses of power and cover-ups have for many tarnished the image of the clergy and its moral authority. Youngsters were subject to sexual aggression by pre-C notes and religious figures causing great injury and traumatism. Traumatism.

It's an ism. It's not just a trauma, it's a traumatism. Dr. Frederick Tobin this week gave an apology in the federal court of Australia for being in contemptive court by continually featuring Holocaust denial material on his Adelaide Institute website, gave the apology during a contempt hearing of the federal court. It's a qualified apology. When the justice said it was, his comments were inconsistent with the real apology Dr. Tobin gave a full apology without embellishment undertook to remove all Holocaust denial material from his website. By December 5, and not to replace it. Depends bad boy boxer Daiki Kameda launched his comeback bid by offering his first public apology for fragrant foul play during a October title match that shocked the Japanese public. He's become notorious for his aggressive bluster, but he bowed in front of the cameras in an unusual show of humility as a resumed training in the ring. I'm sorry for causing trouble the 18-year-old told the news conference at his gym. I'd like to start again, not from 0.1, but 0. Fans, please give a support, he added.

He kicked, choked, and repeatedly tackled World Boxing Council Flyway Champion Daisuke Naito last month in a failed challenge. He shaved his flamboyant dyed hair to show repentance and visited Naito's home to offer a private apology. Let's have more public headshaving. What do you say? The apologies of the week ladies and gentlemen. A copyrighted feature of this broadcast. Thank you. The contest is taking place Saturday. If you believe in Combine, if you're fit, if you're strong, if you're in big plots.

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Be happy, be happy If you have faith in dance, be happy Use your chance Use your chance If you have faith in dance If it's your safety, if it's not your safety, it's the truth of the jury. If you want to know, you want to know, you want to know, you want to know. If it's over with Gelly, if she won't get tired, if she doesn't feel bad, and被 she scrapped and never broke, found out your brave heart. And wants to the retouches forest. I can't give up, I don't want to. Love is evidence! I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you

This is Lesho entering its 2050 year of disservice to the community. And now it is in gentlemen, speaking of which, news of the warm, won't you? By the way, the station recorded me is saying that no longer carries this broadcast. Just thought I'd point that out. The battle's not a big college town. Woodland birds that once flourished across England and Britain are vanishing, according

to a new study. Popular species such as the Nightingale, the lesser spotted woodpecker, and the reinec, have dwindled almost to the point where they would be classified as endangered. A study of bird populations, studied them across 20 European countries, reveals that some woodland bird numbers have been falling by up to 20% in the past two decades. A separate, smaller study suggests that the situation is even worse in Britain, populations falling by more than 25%. Experts believe that changes in the management and type of woodland combined with warming, temperatures and climate change have made it harder for many forest birds to find food and nesting sites. There's identified 11 species that had reached critical levels and are a need of urgent conservation, Richard Gregory of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, warned that species such as the lesser spotted woodpecker and the reinec are no longer breeding in the UK. These birds are in danger right across Europe.

He says they're not just disappearing in the UK, but on a much wider scale. They are quite different birds, the 11 species, with different specialisms. So we've had traumatism and specialism today. My horizons have been broadened. The report appears in the scientific journal IBIS. Uses data from bird conservation charities and ecology centers across Europe. A third of the 94st birds examined have declined since the 1980s. Most birds, like the woodpeckers, have fallen by 18%, more common species, like the night and gale by 13%. The second study by the British Trust for Ornithology reveals worst-hit areas in the UK. Chris Husson of the British Trust for Ornithology says these declines are not just a random problem but symptomatic of something far more widespread. Those woodpeckers are good at eating. The news of the warm latest in gentleman copyrighted feature of this broadcast.

How's the justice system going for the detainees in Guantanamo? Good question, Harry. Glad you asked it. Defense lawyers preparing for the war crimes trial of a 21-year-old detainee. He was 15 when they brought him in. The defense lawyers have been ordered by a military judge not to tell their client or anyone else. The identities of the witnesses against him, that's become known this week, according to New York Times. The case of the detainee Omar Ahmed Kader is being closely watched because it may be the first Guantanamo prosecution to go to trial. Maybe as soon as May. Defense lawyers say military prosecutors have sought similar orders to keep the names of witnesses secret in other cases before military commissions. The order says three weeks before the trial, prosecutors can abandon the secrecy protections

or ask the judge to extend them. Prosecutors have also suggested they may ask the judge to bar all information even identifying witnesses from the trial. Wrote the prosecutors in a legal filing quote, providing the witnesses to identities will add nothing to their testimony, unquote, what, like credibility, Kader is the only Canadian detainee at Guantanamo. He's charged with killing an American soldier, giving material support for terrorism and other offenses. The documents released by the Pentagon this week are nearly 700 pages of previously unavailable records of arguments and ruling in his case in recent months. It's a battle underway over how much information is to be revealed in public. Most of these arguments, by the way, didn't take place in open court, but rather via email as did the judge's rulings. Kader was 15 at the time.

He was badly injured after a firefighting win in which an American Special Forces soldier was killed. In an email message to the judge and the prosecutors, an attorney for the defense noted it was argued it was notable that the entire discussion of whether witnesses would be permitted to shield their identities was being conducted without anyone in the public oppress able to observe the arguments. It appears that the government is trying to keep the secrecy of the proceedings a secret. That is so wild. That is so complete. From parts of the trials themselves will be conducted in closed courtrooms. For discussion of classified evidence, military officials say some witnesses might testify in open court, behind a screen, or perhaps in disguise, or perhaps... Yes, can I help you? Yes, Skye Steele, I have a 10-15 appointment with...

Just signing, please, and have a seat. You got it. Yeah. Have my resume and my glossies, if... That's fine. We'll just put them in the shredder. Okay. Thank you. Hey, welcome to the club. Strikes on, man. Got to be somewhere. Yeah. What are you here? Well, my sister's cousin works at NBC. He says, at least January. Wow. Hmm. I'm Corey. That's Skye Steele. Did you get sides? You'll get the script when you go into the room. No, that's fine. That's usually... You know, I'd like to prepare, you know, so that I can give obviously not a fetish performance, but, you know, something with a little bit of polish to it.

And... You'll get the script when you go into the room. Got it. Thanks. They're a little uptight here. Hey. At least they're hiring. We'll see. Hmm. Yeah. How long have you been here? 20 minutes. It's not bad. Don't rest on once. Get me waiting for two hours. Then I walked in. He said, you're all wrong. That was that. Yeah. Rough business. Hmm. You know anything about this gig, all my agents, that was the part of witness. Yeah. That's all I know. Yeah. What is it? Stage, film. And, you know, no sweat. I've done plenty of both. Never did the film adaptation of a part I created on stage, though. That would be a kick. I think it's not film. You're okay. No. I hope they don't put my resume in the shredder before they notice all the dance experience I have, because, you know, you know, better than anybody, probably on stage, all movement is basically dance.

Yeah. Yeah. That's what they say. What I've heard is that the auditions are for the role of actual witnesses. Actual witnesses. I mean, sort of, like, reality TV type deal, except... Except not in TV, yeah. Huh. Well, look at this production's going now. How do they do it with the strike and all? I hear these are real trials. I've been trying to get them started up for years. Huh. So, just good timing, huh? Yeah. I hope we're not for the same part, because, you know, I don't want to blow my own horn too loudly here, but I don't normally even audition, so... Oh, don't worry about it. Well, I'm just here to keep the actors company. Sorry? I'm just playing a role of a guy here for an audition. I never go in there.

Got it. Got it. Good idea, because if we were sitting here by ourselves, just with the reception... You can go in, no, Mr. Steen. Thank you. Thanks very much. You're not wearing a name tag or anything. No, I'm not. Well, nice, nice to... Huh. Welcome to the audition for trial number one. Mr. Steen. Yes. You guys, uh, been a booths? Yes. We're on the secure video connection from elsewhere. Oh, because, uh, I can't see you. We can see you. Cool. That's what it counts. So, uh, this is location work? You can say that. Yes. Okay, because I have Perdida. You didn't get the pages. That's right. Good. You'll just see the lines on the screen in your room.

Give them your best reading. Oh, could I just take a moment to kind of make them my own? Memorization is not required. Or allowed. Oh. Okay. Just, uh, cool reading, huh? Well, you know, that's, uh, that's how I got my speaking part in Independence Day. I'm the soldier who yells, don't shoot my horse. Actually, I improv the line. Originally, it was just... I'll read your cute lines. Can you tell us where you were on the evening of June 11th? I was just outside in... I was just outside. Is that... Kabul? Kabul? Okay. That's... That's where I was when I saw this... This young guy acting very suspiciously. Do you see that young guy in his courtroom today? Is he still...

Don't you have the next line? No, sorry. I was just looking around the courtroom before I... Just say the line, please. Yes, he's...he's the fellow in the prison suit shackles and hood. Thank you. Can you try it with just a little less melodrama to it? Oh. I didn't think it was melodrama. Just a little bit of a dramatic intensity, but sure. Just keep going at it. And when you say very suspiciously, what was this young man doing? He was engaged in terrorist type activity. And you saw this activity? I did. You know, if you have any tape of the real witness character whose lines I'm doing, that would be just so great. It would be great. Have you ever worked blindfolded, Mr. Steel? Interesting question. I'm trying to... I don't think so. I ride and I swim, though.

Thank you. You'll hear from us within today. I only do one callback, but good to great, great. Now, does this character just sit because I have tap jazz all sorts of... If you're selected, a car will pick you up on Thursday morning. You should prepare to be out of town for at least two weeks. Cool. Alright, I'll call my cat center just in case. Hey, lovely...almost meeting you. Your participation in this audition indicates your approval of the non-disclosure agreement and your waiver of any appeal event of a violation of that agreement. Okay, sounds cool. Thank you. Next. I dreamed I walked in heaven just the other night. There was so much beauty, so much light.

Don't you wish it was true? Don't you wish it was true? An angel took my hands and said you don't have a very... Got all the time in the world, don't worry, don't you wish it was true? Love, don't you wish it was true? But it tomorrow, everybody was your friend. He didn't want to take you in, no matter what the way you've been. But it tomorrow, everybody had enough. The world wasn't quite so rough. Now don't you wish it was true? He said the world's gonna change and it's starting today. I'll be no more armies, no more.

Hey, don't you wish it was true? I don't you wish it was true? And now the little children who live happily, every sign in it left their sweet harmony. Don't you wish it was true? No, don't you wish it was true? But it tomorrow, everybody under the sun, who's happy just to live as one. No borders or battles to be won. But it tomorrow, everybody was your friend. Happiness would never end. But don't you wish it was true? I've got it. But it tomorrow, everybody under the sun,

who's happy just to live as one. No borders or battles to be won. But it tomorrow, everybody was your friend. Happiness would never end. No, don't you wish it was true? No, don't you wish it was true? Happiness would never end. And now ladies and gentlemen, news from outside the bubble.

And there's still more government data lost in Great Britain, according to the telegraph government officials of all to the transfer of personal data of millions of people after admitting they've lost more computer disks. The Department for Work and Pensions has suspended all data exchanges with local authorities because disks containing details of tax and housing benefit claimants have been misled. They were not properly laid. The loss of information including national insurance numbers, addresses and birth dates was confirmed in a confidential memo from the local government association to local councils.

At least 45,000 names in personal details are known to have gone missing from just one council. And the government department admits that more authorities have lost disks. And government department had Britain to admit losing data. Government spokesman said we think the disks are still somewhere in the system, but we don't know where. From the Sunday telegraph, tanning salons face a major crackdown as the government redoubles its efforts to tackle Britain's soaring skin cancer problem. The government isn't ordering an investigation into the use of tanning booths, but an interview to introducing tougher regulations to deter people particularly teenagers from using them. Incidences of skin cancer arising more rapidly in Britain than any other form of disease

despite the fact the sun never shines there. In case of malignant malinoma, the most dangerous kind of doubled in 15 years. The investigation will look at how many teenagers are using sunbeds and whether the introduction of coin-operated booths and unsupervised salons mean that so-called tanorexics, people hooked on having a tan, are able to use the facilities with lethal regularity. So, specialism, traumatism and tanorexics. You have built your vocabulary beautifully today, ladies and gentlemen, just by listening to this radio broadcast. Current guidance says under 16 should not be allowed to use tanning beds, but there are no laws backing that advice. In June, a 29-year-old died from skin cancer after using a sunbed twice daily from the age of 14. And finally, from outside the bubble, also from the British newspaper,

the telegraph, how's the war affecting their military? We keep hearing some disturbing reports about ours. While the Royal Navy can no longer fight a major war because of years of underfunding and cutbacks, a leaked report has revealed. With an under-resourced fleet composed of aging and operationally defective ships, the Navy would struggle even to repeat its role in the Iraq War, and now is far more vulnerable to unexpected shocks, according to the top-level Ministry of Defense document. The report was ordered by the Defense Secretary, who had intended to use it to counter criticism on the state of the Navy, in the media. But in a damning conclusion, the report states, quote, the current material state of the fleet, is not good the Royal Navy would be challenged to mount a medium-scale operation in accordance with current policy against a technologically capable adversary. The document adds, the Navy is too thinly stretched, its fighting capability is being eroded, and the fleet's ability to influence events at the strategic level is under threat.

So the Iraq War has been good for the British Navy as well as... News from outside the bubble, ladies and gentlemen. A copyrighted feature of this broadcast. In the aviation, the heardful comments on the boss. I just prayed by the weekend, I can't earn enough for us.

From a house that won't be buried, it's self-wrestling with us cracking at a roof, held together through the holes. I just want to say, just because we're on the bottom of the ladder, we shouldn't be sadder than others, like us who have the goals for the betterment of life. Glad that you want to be my wife, but I'll just have been praying all the weeks through that whole map we're going on the bus. I've been praying, I can keep you and to earn enough for us. So you're saying that we're going to be between our fathers while we don't get the wrongs? Proud with the films already tied right, I'll get another job at night, but I'll miss.

I can't take you to the aviation, the heardful comments on the boss. I'm just praying by the weekend, I can't earn enough for us. Just because we're on the bottom of the ladder, we shouldn't be sadder than others, like us who have the goals for the betterment of life. Glad that you want to be my wife, but I'll just have been praying all the weeks through that whole map we're going on the bus. I just pray by the weekend, I can earn enough for us. I can't earn enough for us.

I can't earn enough for us. I can't earn enough for us.

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But still, the answer they report has to do with the virus itself, the flu virus. It's more stable and stays in the air longer when the air is cold and dry. It's more likely to be transmitted during winter on the way to the subway than in a warm room, says Peter Polesey, a flu researcher at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Good reason to be in your own car then, huh? Screw that rapid transit. Dr. Polesey published details of his findings last month. The crucial hint that allowed him to do a study came from paper published in the aftermath of the 1918 flu pandemic. The doctors were puzzling over why it had spread so quickly and been so deadly. As long as flu has been recognized, Gina Collada writes, do you like Gina Collada? People have asked why winter? Oh, so I wasn't the first, okay. The very name Influenza is an Italian word that some historians say originated in the 19th century as Influenza di Fredo or Influenza of the Cold. In the tropics, there's not much flu at all and no real flu season.

Anyway, that's the, apparently that's this week's version of the story. There is one correction worth noting in the media, it is a Los Angeles dog trainer correction, of course. James, an article in last Sunday's calendar section about actor James McAvoy said he received an Oscar nomination this year for the last king of Scotland. He was not nominated. Well, it's almost an honor to be not nominated. Speaking of which, thanks to the Academy for my Grammy nomination, now maybe you'll buy it. Now, see, it's Grammy nominated. Now it makes a really good Christmas gift. And ladies and gentlemen, not talked about much on this broadcast, basically because it's relatively confusing, is the subprime mortgage mess that is resulted in a credit crisis around the world, like as Wolf Blitzer likes to say, it's reached Australia, it's reaching

the United Kingdom, hasn't reached the non-English speaking countries, which is interesting. And it all started with these new fangled mortgages, mortgages being given to people who could never qualify for mortgages before because they got rid of the qualifications. That was the new thing. That was the innovation. These qualifications, we don't need these. And the way they defended that was that they sliced and diced up the loans and then resold them as part of a package of securities, they're so called because they're so insecure. And so they spread the risk around the world. And now as these mortgages, mortgage holders going to default, banks far afield are writing off billions of dollars in bad loans that in many cases, they didn't even know they had. Or many cases, the guys who ran the company while they got the bad loans, like the head of Merrill Lynch walked away with a $50 million dollar golden handshake after leaving the

company to write off billions of dollars in bad loans. But that's business. Anyway, there's a lot of blame to go around. I personally think it all started when they started to call loans, products, financial services companies, despite their name, began to describe what they did for living as products. Now, you know, there's something real about the idea that a loan is a service. If I lend you money, I've done you a service, I haven't given you a product. But they started calling these things products and then, you know, what do you do when you make products? You figure out new products. You don't figure out new services. I don't know if you do. But we were warned, ladies and gentlemen, less do you think we weren't warned? This from dug up by the Australian newspaper, The Age, in April 2005, Alan Greenspan, The Great Imminons Grease of the Federal Reserve, was speaking to a Fed employees working in

the field of community engagement. Quote, innovation has brought about a multitude of new products, such as some prime loans, where once more marginal applicants would simply have been denied credit, lenders are now able to quite efficiently judge the risk posed by individual applicants and to price that risk accordingly. These improvements have led to rapid growth in sub-prime mortgage lending, fostering constructive innovation that is both responsive to market demand, and beneficial to consumers unquote, the warning from Alan Greenspan, in 2005, was kind of a warning. Oh, fire is a threat to me, my brother, my brother, my brother, my brother, my brother, fire is a threat to me, my brother, my brother, my brother, my brother, my brother, my brother,

my brother, my brother, my brother, my brother, my brother, my brother, my brother, You want me to sing you the way Oh! Children! It's just a show the way It's just a show the way Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

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Maybe it's the time of man. And his woman. We got a couple. And that's an epidemic. Grant writes, I had a bit of an adventure a few weeks ago in Atlanta on the return engagement of a trip to Atlanta from San Diego. I noticed that my driver's license, the only official form of ID I was carrying, was missing. We went to the Delta counter and explained my predicament to the attendant. She told me, I would not be able to fly. I told her, I couldn't believe I was the only person since 9-11 to have their ID go missing on route. I showed her my ticket stub for the incoming segment, but she was not impressed. I was able to get her supervisor involved.

And it soon came to light that there is no ID requirement to be issued a boarding pass. It's only a courtesy to help reduce problems downstream with the TSA. I was told that I would need to go to the business office and get an affidavit from someone who could swear to me being me at the cost of around $50. I'll do it for $25, babe. On the way to the office, I asked directions from a TSA agent directing people to the gate. I mentioned my predicament and asked if there was anything I could do to expedite the matter through security. He told me there was no need for the affidavit that all the booking agent has to do to stamp the boarding pass with a secondary inspection stamp. Back I went to the counter. The agent was at first unwilling to provide this service. But after an OK from her supervisor, I was on my way. I prepared myself for the worst expected to be stripped,

searched and interrogated in a dimly lit room by grim face TSA in investigators as water dripped in the background, but no such horror. They swabbed my bag for explosives. And that was it. It turns out I had dropped my ID at the San Diego checkpoint and was able to recover it when I got back home. This one from Sarah, my Indian, I believe that's dot-not-fether sister-in-law's sister just died and to help ease the pain she invited her father to travel from India to share thanksgiving together. This meaningful event was forced all to buy airport security who barred the elderly gentleman and his cane from the plane because he did not have a transit visa. Evidently because his flight made two connections in Europe, he was required to obtain a visa. Had there been but a single connection,

this would not have been necessary. But because this 90 pound octogenarian was afforded the possibility of ditching his atinerary twice, the visa was a necessary security blanket. The gentleman was never advised of this requirement either by the travel agent or the airline before purchasing the ticket. So he was turned away at the airport and failed to make it for thanksgiving. Although I'm not positive about this, I believe he was assessed a penalty for having to retake it. Sarah concludes, I feel safer. Tales of airport security led us gentlemen to copyrighted feature this broadcast. And now news from outside the bubble.

It's wall to wall copyrighted features this week, isn't it? In the past five months, more than 40 women have been murdered and their bodies dumped in the street by militia men in Basra. British Army is formally to hand Basra over to a rocky control in less than two weeks, claiming it had done all it could to stabilize the southern port city. But Britain appears to be leaving Basra ever more firmly in the hands of lawless gangs and strict morality police. Messages are scrawled in graffiti, warning women not to venture out without observing Islamic dress codes. Quote, whoever disobeys will be punished. God is our witness. Says one scrawled in red paint on a wall. A huge advertisement for mobile phones featuring a mother and child has been defaced to blot out the uncovered woman's head with a slogan, no, no, to unveiled woman.

At a university in Basra, SUNY students complained of being harassed by shea militias. A 19-year-old SUNY freshman was told they had to grow beard but keep his hair short. He said that boys and girls who try to sit next to each other will be told to stay apart and given a lecture on Islamic virtue. Self-appointed morality police also grab people's cell phones and scroll through them looking for immoral video clips, music, or pictures, according to the same student. Despite Basra's increasing similarity to the repressive Iranian theocracy, which many believe has exerted influence over the city, Britain says its work in Basra is done. Meanwhile, two possibly conflicting stories about that other war in Afghanistan and on drugs. From the Garnian, the U.S. government has conceded defeat in its attempt to persuade the Afghanistan government to begin aerial destruction of poppy fields

as part of its opium eradication strategy. We have decided to stop pursuing the aerial spraying of poppy fields in Afghanistan. It says Thomas Schwaich from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement. U.S. officials have climbed down the face of widespread criticism from the Afghan government and other coalition partners, including our pals in Britain. What? Are they pro poppy? Will they wear them, you know, once a year on Veterans Day? But that's a different poppy. Although attempting to destroy poppy crops from the ground can be dangerous, the Afghan government is against the aerial spraying because of fears about the herbicide glyphosphates, effect on the environment, other crops, and people's health. That's how primitive they are. Get with it. The United States has always indicated we would not pursue any counter-narcotics activity in Afghanistan that would not have the full support of the government of Afghanistan, says the State Department.

Schwaich is now terming Europe, good soldier, to explain the change in policy and to drum up support for other counter-narcotics initiatives. What? Spring and from underground? Ground-based eradication will continue. But the decision on whether to proceed with ground-based spraying is still under discussion with the Afghan government. On the other hand, this from the times of London today, where opium poppies used to color the plains of northern Afghanistan, towering marijuana plants, now sway in the wind. Farmers in Bach province were banned from cultivating opium last year and have switched to another cash crop, a rich source of income that is tolerated by the authorities. Bach's burgeoning hushish industry does not pay farmers quite as much as the heroin factories used to for good quality opium. But the rich black cannabis resin produced around the northern city of Mazar, E. Sharif, still pays about four times the price of cotton or wheat, which would answer that question. It's highly prized by Afghan users.

They get all the hash. Oh, and it's exported in large quantities to Pakistan, our ally, and Europe. The opium clampdown has transformed a minor cash crop into big business. It's a 40% rise in marijuana production, or hashish production this year in Afghanistan. The switch is the latest embarrassment to Western attempted eradication. It also illustrates the desperation of poor farmers. Afghanistan already produces 93% of the world's opium, which must tick off the Burmese. Didn't they used to do that? Wasn't that that triangle? It was down there. Farmers were busily harvesting their marijuana plants this week. Roadstides stores keep hashish hidden among the onions and biscuits. So in case you have an onion and a sudden desire for hashish, it's right there.

Hashish says one shopkeeper with a lazy smile according to the Times of London, owned by Rupert Murdock. Hashish is good business. Unlike opium cannabis, Hashish is smoked by some farmers without serious social consequences. The only thing is there seem to be more layabouts now that we grow so much cannabis, one said. Government has stopped us from growing opium says one farmer, so what can we do? Go to Corolla. It is one world. News from outside the bubble ladies and gentlemen can I be right a feature of this broadcast? An interesting story, a nuclear waste. A couple of them, actually, this week. One is that the Department of Energy has been fined $500,000 by the state of Washington for a hazardous radioactive spill

at the Hanford nuclear site, most contaminated nuclear site in the world, or at least in this country. The spill occurred last July when workers were pumping waste from an underground tank they tried to unblock a pump by running it in reverse, but 85 gallons of waste spilled onto the ground. Quote before the spill was discovered a series of poor decisions put workers in grave danger from exposure to the tank waste end vapors said the manager of Washington State's Department of Ecology's Nuclear Waste Program. 63 workers were identified for ongoing medical monitoring. 13 have already complained of symptoms. Removing waste from aging tanks is one of the energy department's highest priorities at Hanford. So you got to make mistakes. I didn't say that. And here's a little thing that just became known this week. The U.S. may be storing a large amount of French nuclear waste. Why didn't we hear about this when it was all the French bashing

at the beginning of the war? That would have been good. That would have been a good contributor. French nuclear waste, which we now call freedom waste. This was suggested in a keynote address at a conference in San Francisco by Dr. Yogi Guswami, former president of the International Solar Energy Society. He says a large majority from the nuclear waste from France has actually shipped to the United States stored in South Carolina. Because when initially the French started building nuclear reactors, the U.S. was suspicious of the French. How time has flown? There's a contractual relationship that all of the waste comes to the U.S. and is stored in Savannah River Laboratory, which is a U.S. Department of Energy lab for nuclear waste. Well, there can't be any mistakes made there. It's run by the Department of Energy. News of Inspector Generals, Inspector's General, sorry, put my plural where it belongs. Howard Cookie Cronguard, the embattled Inspector General of the State Department,

announced this week he's stepping down, ending his turbulent tenure. He came under fire from employees, sorry employees and lawmakers, accused he was of impeding key investigations related to Iraq, including one looking into black water, because his brother, it turns out, he didn't know this, it turns out, was on the board, advisory board, black water. He is staying until January 15th to complete a project he calls his impossible dream, establishment of a Middle East branch of the Inspector General's Office. And Baghdad? No, in a month. He wouldn't want to put in Baghdad. And federal officials say they will investigate why a $1 billion insurance fund created by Congress to cover claims of sick ground zero workers after 9-11 is fighting the cases in court rather than paying out the claims.

I'll tell you why, because they're acting like an insurance company. News of the Inspector General, ladies and gentlemen, it's not copyrighted. Maybe someday it will be. Maybe when the lawyers have nothing else to do. And wouldn't talk about an impossible dream. I'm getting ready to go. I'm living for the nighttime. Shining up my favorite shoes.

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. . . estimate that Iran doesn't have a nuclear program, shut it down in 2003, Dana Perino, the White House spokeswoman said, well, President Bush really didn't know about this till last week. So when he said World War III in October, he wasn't, you know, he didn't, he wasn't, and then at the end of the week, the CIA revealed in advance of a New York Times revealing that it had destroyed tapes of a couple of interrogation sessions at which reportedly waterboarding, you know, that non-torture was practiced way back in 2005. And in case you wonder why Americans don't trust Congress, there were two days of members of Congress stepping in front of every available microphone and camera to say, oh, I am so outraged, why, we didn't know, and we would never have, and this is so, and why didn't

they tell, and why didn't they ask us, and then Sunday's Washington Post reveals that the CIA did brief the heads of the intelligence committees on these interrogations, and I believe on the taping of them. And officials who were at the briefing said, nobody asked any questions, nobody asked if they were waterboarding. In fact, the whole demeanor was, go team, you sure you're doing it rough enough. And in the wake of this revelation, Dana Perino, the White House press spokesman, once again had to come out and say, the president didn't know anything about this. I thought the reason you run for that office is so you could know everything that's going on, at least in your government, if not in Iran, let's say. It might be a cause, as a matter of fact, for a certain phone call next here on the show. Yellow, hey 41, any time you want to call off your rot burgers, it's okay with me, at 43,

just thinking about you. Of course, I'm at Brut Boiler's, around me said the nicest thing the other night said he hoped his wife would look as presidential, as Laura, yeah, first lady wife. You know, 41, all the small talk in the world is not going to keep me from getting to the point of this call. Listen. Oh, you're calling the brag about the surge, and of course, it's always good news when there's less violence here, less, of course, it's our violence, and we're trying to prevent greater possible violence, you know, just trying to be fair, but don't get me wrong. I'm very proud of General Patrace, and I'm fond of the guy. Those ridiculous amount of stuff about the American League, am I dear father figure? I'm suggesting that your friends over at the CIA have done just about enough to try to sabotage my achievements, and it's really about time you calling your chips with your old pals over there, while they're still over there.

Sprout, this is something we talked about back in 2003, I know it warned you that the company wasn't going to take being the fall guy sitting down, and never could quite figure out that warning. Totally a couple of years ago, they'd take a bullet for you on the rocket tail, but they wouldn't take a entire clip of bullets, yeah, that was a little clearer, just know that place a little bit, I always thought there was just so far you get pushed in before it started pushing back, like I could understand being sidelined by that new NIE, I mean, I keep telling Dick Cheney, and let me know earlier next time, and sometimes I think that fella keeps his cards so close to his vest, he can't even read him, he got a GIF CIA credit for playing a new cycle like a Stradivarius on the new estimate, and never saw him play, so I wouldn't know. But man destroying the tapes of the extremely robust interrogation practices, extremely

robust. Yeah, the Chancers word or words, but I mean, yeah, destroying those tapes and leaking that to their pals at the New York Times, that's damn close to treason-esque behavior, probably kind of subtle pushback for outing one of their agents and leaking it to Dick's pals at every paper in time. See, maybe we just have a different view of the function of leadership and of followers ship. Yeah, every effective leader knows how important it is to share credit and to send it down the ladder. It's only the leader who understands how to preserve his power, who knows how to send blame down the ladder too. Is this some of your business school stuff? I have a looting of it. So for me to be able to keep my stroke, sometimes that's sure for people at CIA or elsewhere to shoulder some or more of the responsibility for some decisions, maybe they didn't make

too bad. You know, this petty retaliating doesn't help anyone, it's loose, loose. I think from the agency's point of view, it puts the planet back in their proper orbit. It's kind of win-lose, maybe even if you learn from it, win-win. See, if I was trying to be optimistic, like Carl Rove used to tell people I was, I'd say maybe win-win-lose or win-lose-lose, but frankly, it's got a hope that the two shoes that drop this week were all the shoes that are going to drop. Well, I'd have to grow more feet, I guess they would. Hey, but you know, there's something a little bit disturbing about people over there putting themselves in the position to make certain national security decisions, according to the Constitution, I'm supposed to let Dick Cheney make. Well, listen to you think, President, I'm a dinner, Jay, I'm going to take away from this

little epicenter, probably take away the lesson that you don't mess with CIA. Not a bad lesson, but surely the company briefed somebody over there about the day. Yeah, they briefed somebody over here, but they know as well as I do that I'm compartmentalized for my own deniability. It's their job to counter-compart, mentalize me on something that's important. I mean, I got everybody in Congress thinking that we were waterboarding these people. Will you were? Just saying, that's the kind of thing that they should know how to stove type up to me. I mean, 41 it boils down to this, if I can't trust my own spies, who am I supposed to trust? I guess it does boil down to that. Look, 43, not really wired into the new people, and I'm just by reputation and secret dossier, but really don't think they want an ongoing war with you. Science, you don't have too many other initiatives available for them at Torpedo at this point.

Now, that's true, well, there you go. Where's the challenge for them and that? So look, congratulations in the surge, and Talora said so as well, we'll do, we good. Here we have, we're good, you take care, 41, you too, Sprat. May I list a few, the way you wear your hat, the way you sip your tea, the memory of all that. No, no, they can't take that away from me, the way you're a smile just beats.

The way you sing off key, the way you haunt my dreams. No, no, they can't take that away from me, we may never, never meet again on that bumpy road to love. Still, I'll always always keep the memory of the way you hold your knife, do, do, do, do, do. The way we danced until free, the way you've changed my life. No, no, they can't take that away from me, no, they can't take that away from me. Ladies, gentlemen, news from over there.

First of all, we've had these reports that violence is going down in Baghdad. Robert Gates, our Defense Secretary says, well, guess what? It's going up in Afghanistan. The overall level of violence in Afghanistan this year has been the highest since the US military led the campaign to house the Taliban. Unprecedented casualties among US and other coalition troops, Afghan security forces and civilians, suicide bombings, cross-border strikes have increased, more foreign fighters affiliated with al-Qaeda are infiltrating into Afghanistan. So you win when you lose one. We've heard that the refugees, some of the refugees are coming back to Baghdad particularly. There are some reports that that's because they couldn't get visas in Jordan and Syria, so they were sort of kicked out. And when they come back, the Iraqi government is advising them not to.

The Iraqi government advised refugees not to go back to their homes yet saying the country is unprepared to accommodate their return. We cannot handle a huge influx of people, says the Minister of Displacement and Migration. They got a Minister for that. A Minister of Displacement. You figure it out. Iraqi say they're not able to deal with the fact among other things that there have been squatters in the homes of refugees. And there's no official way to kick the squatters out. Let's do that. It'll just make for some more bloodshed. While the United States government this week announced it was stepping up its efforts to recover less than a billion dollars paid by FEMA to people who didn't deserve it for relief in the Katrina and Rita hurricanes. A $5.2 billion fund used to train and equip Iraqi security forces can't be shown to have been used properly according to US military auditors.

This according to the BBC sloppy accounting by the US Army meant there was no paper trail for much of the spending. High levels of violence made it hard to oversee management of the fund. Well, next time spend it in a peace zone. The Army could not provide reasonable assurance that the money was not wasted. Could not always show that equipment services and construction had been delivered property. The inspector general's office called for improvements. There was a paper trail available for only 12% of arms ammunition and other purchases worth more than half a billion. The paper trail available for only 1% of a separate series of purchases worth almost 100 million. Only less than a third of heavy track recovery vehicles worth 10 million could be accounted for. Only 12 of 18 rubbish trucks worth nearly a billion could be accounted for.

And no proof that almost all of the generators worth $7 million have been received by Iraqi security forces. Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how'd you like the money? News from Iraq. It's the good news. And now news of the warm. The organization for economic cooperation and development says the impact of climate change and urban development could more than triple the number of people around the world exposed to coastal flooding. By 2070. And Earth's tropical region is defined by rain and wind patterns expanded north and south over the past few decades and other sign of global climate change researchers reported this week. You don't have to go to the tropics. They're coming to you. The tropics have moved toward the poles at a faster rate than existing models have predicted.

That's what you get for asking Tyra Banks, which, oh, I see, computer models, this according to the journal Nature Geoscience. This may broaden the area affected by hurricanes and change precipitation patterns in sub-tropical regions. An ongoing expansion would shift the sub-tropical zones, which is the Mediterranean, the southwestern US, Mexico, South Australia, South African parts of South America. A pole word expansion of the tropics is likely to bring even drier conditions to those heavily populated regions, but may bring increased moisture to other areas. It would be the long, when they, when Stephen Hadley, the President's National Security Advisor this week talked about the long pole, Iraqi, sorry, Iranian enrichment of uranium being the long pole into the tent. I don't think he meant that. Be the other way around. Computers, servers are at least as great a threat to the climate as SUVs or the global aviation industry, according to a new report. A UK-based environmental organization publishes a report drawing attention to the carbon footprint of the information technology industry.

Computers, this, our scene is quite benign things sitting on your desk, says Truin Restorik, director of the group. But one server, in our charity, says Truin, has the same carbon footprint as your average SUV doing 15 miles to the gallon. Yet, whereas the SUV is seen as a villain, and the environmental standpoint, the server is not. More than 1 billion computers on the planet, the global IT sector is responsible for 2% of human carbon dioxide emissions, a year similar figure to the global. Airline industry. And, scorching heat waves linked to climate change have caused thousands of Australian bats to drop dead after flapping their wings in a desperate effort to cool off. This, according to a study, on one day alone, in 2002, up to 6% of the flying foxes in 9 colonies in New South Wales died when temperatures went over 107 degrees. Most alarming to the biologist was the mortality rate among young bats. See what you always hear about the old bats?

As high as 50%. The bats, ladies and gentlemen. News of the warm, copyrighted feature of this broadcast. Vice President Dick Cheney gave an upbeat assessment of the Iraq war this week. He said, uh, we'll have a democratic government in there. By January 2009. He said, uh, that was, it was in the cards. He gave this interview to a political, oh, yeah, by 2009. Yes, sir, he replied. He gave this interview to Politico, the online political magazine, but the sort of the headline from the interview. Aside from his saying, you know, don't withdraw from Iraq, because that'll bring further attacks.

But the most interesting part to a lot of folks were his taunting remarks about two men he described as friends from his own days in Congress. Democratic representative John Dingell and John Murtha. He scoffed at the idea of these two guys who spent years accumulating power in the House of Representatives, showing so much deference to the new speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in the spending and energy debates this year. Murtha, quote, and the other senior leaders marched to the tune of Nancy Pelosi to an extent I had not seen, frankly, with any previous speaker. Like Newt Gingrich didn't, quote, I'm trying to think of how to say all this in a gentlemanly fashion, but in the Congress I served in, that wouldn't have happened. And then he drops his attempt to speak in a gentlemanly fashion, when asked if these men had lost their spines, Dick Cheney responded, quote, they are not carrying the big sticks I would have expected.

Some say, in that remark, the Vice President went too far, some knowing him, does back these about to go even farther. Murtha, quote, if you want to swing one, but you better bring one, it's what makes a lead to take. Take a fun big take.

The pansies are in season now. This huge risous are limp. These Democrats are putting the winger back in wimp. Maybe they need sea Alice to be ready for Nancy's call. If they're gonna get in their legs, guys just need to bring their big sticks. Big sticks, big sticks, gonna be cold December's for these flaxed members. To strike gold, sling a sturdy pick, take a fun big take. Be packing serious timber now, if you want to take me on.

Cause I'm the Woody King of Washington, and not some fancy hairdo charm. You won't serve to the bad guys, with a soggy strip of wood. If you want to pull crap that clicks, you just need to show me big sticks. Big sticks, big sticks, gonna need an Niagara of heavy duty Viagra. If you bleed me, do I not prick? You heard it from big dick. Yeah, you heard it from big dick. You took it from big dick.

Big sticks, big sticks, gonna need an Niagara of heavy duty Viagra. Please don't leave me, baby, please don't go. Please don't leave me, baby, please don't go. Cause if you're gonna leave me, then you're gonna hurt me so. Yes, I love you, baby.

Tell all the world I do. Yes, I love you, baby. Don't tell all the world I do. And if you're gonna leave me, don't know what I'm gonna do. Yes, I love you, baby, gone. Tell all the world I do. And if I'm gonna leave you, then you're gonna hurt me so.

And if I'm gonna leave you, I love you baby, gon' tell on the world I do. Yes, I feel now. Yes, I love you baby, gon' tell on the world I do. Cause if you go and leave me, don't go to God, I'm gonna do. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Cause if you go and leave me, don't go to God, I'm gonna do so. And now, ladies and gentlemen, the apologies of the week. Cuban officials have apologized to the Roman Catholic Church for a police raid in the

Paris Church in eastern Cuba this week to arrest dissidents, only to the Archbishop of San Diego. It's a kind of refreshing thing. Somebody apologizes to the Catholic Church. It's kind of a switcheroo. Jillian Gibbons, the British teacher who was arrested in Sudan for allowing her students to name a Teddy bear Mohammed, has apologized. I was very upset to think I might have caused a fence to anyone, very, very upset, as she said. The drummer for the British rock band, the police, has apologized for Marks implying the president of Argentina is more attractive than the leader of Chile. He wrote a letter to Chilean president Michel Bachelet for the marks he made during interview with a newspaper in Chile. Looked the future president of Argentina, Christina Kirchner would be good for one beer, you'd be good for four. Yours, that is to say, the Chilean president. Copeland reportedly told the magazine, I was mortified to learn this from Mark, reached you and you were asked to comment on such a trivial matter the musician wrote to her. If it by chance you were able,

staying Andy Summers and I would welcome the opportunity to personally express our admiration for you and your wonderful country by extending invitation to you and our guests, you and your guests to attend our performance. She has yet to respond to the apology. The pastor of American martyrs church in Bayside, New York has been stripped of his duties as a priest after acknowledged sexual abuse allegations. He plebiqued against him for true. None of the victims were his parishioners. He will be permitted to celebrate mass privately. As Bishop in a moment half of the diocese of Brooklyn, I sincerely apologize to the victims for the emotional sufferings they've endured by sexual abuse. Says my senior John Mahoney, Maloney. Gross Restorant Manhattan, Balducis, made of food faux pas advertising hams as, quote, delicious for Hanukkah. Signs were changed as soon as the error was noted. Apology was issued on behalf of the company. The NAACP chapter in Baltimore has apologized to city firefighters. The president of the NAACP chapter called them racist over a

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