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Community Service of Santa Monica College. Sutter Theatre Group presents Sydney Kingsley's Dead End. See the play that changed American history with one of the largest casts ever assembled at the Amincent. An orchestra pit filled with 10,000 gallons of water to simulate New York's East River. Don't miss the awe-inspiring stage production of this rarely-produced Broadway hit. Dead End begins August 28th for seven weeks only at the Amincent Theatre. For tickets call 213-628-2772 or visit Amincent Theatre.com. An orchestra pit filled with water, ladies and gentlemen. I am so there. And they say the theater is, hey ladies and gentlemen, there is more news from National Public Radio here on KCRW. It comes in the form of weekend all things considered and it comes your way. Can you guess when? That's right, this afternoon at five. Now stay tuned.

Around the world and elsewhere for the Lesho program, it's next at the Sound of the Tone. From deep inside your radio. It's all good news now, you see? They were saying, why don't you report the good news to the people who report the news? So here's what they report. It's all good news. Shiite and Kurdish militias, often operating as part of Iraqi government security forces, have carried out a wave of abductions, assassinations and other acts of intimidation. And solidating their control over territory across northern and southern Iraq, deepening the country's divide along ethnic and sectarian lines, according to political leaders, families of the victims, human rights activists, and Iraqi officials, the Washington Post.

Paul Wolf would say there is no history of ethnic strife in Iraq. Yes, he did. God bless him for saying it, because it took guts to say something to utter a whopper, that big man that takes kahones back to the story now. While Iraqi representatives wrangle over that constitution, the militias and the Shiite and Kurdish parties that control them are creating their own institutions of authority unaccountable to elected governments, according to the officials and the activists. Many residents have said they are powerless before the growing sway of the militias, which can still acclimate of fear that many see as redolent of the era of former president Saddam Hussein. Yeah, 200 billion and a bunch of people dead so we can bring it back around to where people are afraid to walk the streets, ladies and gentlemen, don't you see? The parties and their armed wing sometimes operate independently, other times as part of Iraqi army and police units trained and equipped by the United States.

The growing authority has enabled them to control territory confront their perceived enemies and provide patronage to their followers. Well, that's a good thing, patronage. Their ascendance has come about because of a power of vacuum and Baghdad and their own success in the parliamentary elections. Basra, Iraq's second largest city has witnessed dozens of assassinations, which claimed members of the ruling former ruling of party, Sony political leaders and officials of competing Shiite parties. Many have been carried. Few folks, first of all, before we do anything else, get rid of the double vowels down there. That would just help us all very, very much. Many have been carried out by uniformed men in police vehicles according to political leaders and families of the victims with some of the bullet-ridden bodies dumped at night in a trash-strooned parcel known as the Lot, Tom. The Lot. There you go. The province has governor said in an interview that Shiite militias have penetrated the police

force in Iraqi official estimated as many as 90% of police officers were loyal to religious parties. So maybe we had the right idea by not training them after all. See how it goes? Hello, welcome to the show. The United States. You would have called me with your sweet intent And we could give it a red

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I'll be over tonight if you put you high And I don't change the way that's entirely our decision And I know you don't, you always say that you are Never let the riches that may end And I know you don't need to give you Show some concern for all the love that you must live through If you have some right to plant your life ahead Instead of waiting till you're all fully given

If you say you're fine I'll be over tonight if you put you high And I'll be over tonight if you say you're fine I'll be over tonight if you put you high I'll be over tonight If it's at your mind I'll be over tonight I need to put you right I'll be over tonight If it's at your mind I'll be over tonight I need to put you right From the edge of America, from the home

Of the homeless, I'm Harry Sharer welcoming you to this edition of the show And now, news from outside the bubble It's bubbleicious today British soldiers in Iraq are being killed by advanced infrared bombs supplied by Iran that defeat jamming equipment This, according to military intelligence officials in the British newspaper, the telegraph The passive infrared devices whose use in Iraq is revealed for the first time in this story are detonated when the beam is broken as when a intruder triggers a burglar alarm Coalition officials see the disturbing development as the key part of an aggressive new campaign by Tehran to drive coalition forces out of Iraq so that an Islamic theocracy can be established We wouldn't want that, will we? Stay tuned American and British intelligence officials

believe that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is training, supplying and funding part of Iraq's insurgent Shia network and that its activities have been stepped up since the spring Links between Shia and Muslim and Sunni Muslim groups we think they're fighting, but this says they have links Or patties, usually via training by criminal arms dealers mean that expertise quickly spreads across Iraq Said an army bomb disposal officer in Iraq, British Army Quote, these guys have picked up in two years would have took the IRA a quarter century to learn Quote Yeah, but the IRA would drink it British intelligence reports indicate that complete infrared devices carefully machined in military workshops are being delivered to Shia militants in Iraq Iran's interference threatens to inflame sectarian sect intentions in Iraq really, when the Shiites and Sunnis are working together

get your story straight telegraph and hasten what coalition officials dread most Civil War Iranian policy had already been boosted by Iraq's January elections which returned a Shi-a-dominated government rather than the secular iad al-awi the candidate preferred by Washington before the introduction of infrared devices bombs in Iraq were usually set off by remote control which could be blocked by electronic countermeasures developed by the British Army in Northern Ireland but those are powerless against infrared beams you see yes, so you see oh speaking of the theocracy which we wouldn't want unless we do the careful negotiations over the Iraqi constitution appeared this past weekend

to be leaning further towards making Islamic law the main source of law for the country rather than a source after U.S. diplomats apparently gave way to the concerns of Iraqi officials Sunni Arab negotiator Saleh al-Mutlakh those are those are warm in the winter aren't they those mutlakhs said a deal with struck which would mean parliament could pass no legislation that contradicted Islamic principles this is according to the Glasgow Sunni Harrel one quoting one secular Kurdish politician quote we understand Americans have sided with the Shiites it's shocking it doesn't fit American values they've spent so much blood and money here only to back the creation of an Islamist state I can't believe that's what the Americans really want or what the American people want unquote U.S. Ambassador Zalmeh Khalizad said there was a accord on a bigger role for Islamic law than Iraq had before

the Kurdish spokesman said Kurds opposed subjecting all legislation to a religious test U.S. diplomats now declined a comment on the progress of negotiations hey if we can have a religious democracy in this country we can have one in Iraq that's what I say if it's good enough for us nearly four years after a U.S.-led military invention intervention toppled them from power Dateline Kabul the Taliban has re-emerged as a potent threat to stability in Afghanistan yeah that job's done case closed six what though it's a far cry from the mass movement that overran most of the country in the 1990s today's Taliban today's Taliban is fighting a guerrilla war with new weapons including portable anti-aircraft missiles and equipment bought with cash sent through the Osama bin Laden al-Qaeda network is according to night-ritter newspapers al-Qaeda is channeling money in equipment according to U.S. Army spokesman

the Taliban is now a disparate assemblage of radical groups estimated to number several thousand operating small cells that occasionally come together for specific missions they're unable to hold territorial defeat coalition troops it's the good news it's all good news they're linked by a loose command structure and the aim of driving out U.S.-led coalition and NATO troops and toppling President Hamid Karzai back by the United States the Taliban and surgeons have adopted some of the terrorist tactics that their Iraqi counterparts have used stoke popular anger at the U.S. military they've stalled reconstruction and fomented sectarian tensions in the country their tactics include attacks with homemade explosives and those good old beheadings set a former State Department analyst Marvin Weinbaum al-Qaeda are opening a second front these are people who see this in broader terms he said a western diplomatic couple agreed

saying Taliban propaganda links the insurgencies in Iraq in Afghanistan an American official sorry an American defense officials said he and other U.S. officials were concerned about the lessons the Taliban was drawing from Iraq quote it would be extremely naive of us not to believe that the enemy is a thinking learning adapting enemy the American defense official who requested anonymity they're certainly learning that is going on and we have to remind ourselves of not falling into the trap of not understanding it yeah that would be a bad trap the new Taliban ladies and gentlemen well if there's a new Iraq why not a new Taliban the movement transformed itself after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan when this nose melted this past spring the Taliban surprised to Afghan and U.S. commanders with its renewed insurgency Afghan and western officials alleged that the escalating insurgency is being

aided by hello here's our friend Pakistan's powerful military intelligence agency the ISI you knew we couldn't get too far into this story without our old friend Pakistan Alamabad this according to Afghan and western officials seeks a weak government in Afghanistan its next door neighbor that it can influence it also wants to keep tensions boiling in pashtun dominated areas on the frontier to block the settlement of a decades old border dispute that the new Afghan parliament might try to end Pakistan is fanning the flames says the chief spokesman of the Afghan interior ministry the Pakistanis do not want to see a strong peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan the Taliban is being allowed to maintain arms deposed training camps and sanctuaries in the tribal belt on Pakistan side of the border the Afghan interior minister charged but Pakistan denies the charge saying check this out ladies and gentlemen you're like this

it's the last sentence of the story but you like it Pakistan denies that charge that it's supporting al-Qaeda remnants in its border territory saying it stopped supporting the Taliban after 9-11 hello is this thing on that means they were supporting al-Qaeda right up till 9-11 Pakistan was ladies and gentlemen that's why we attacked Iraq because up till 9-11 it's a cute it's a very cute thing it's a lovely it's it's all good and just wrapping up loose ends since nobody else seems to this from the army times a December remember that suicide attack an army dining hall in northern Iraq according to the army times it was likely the work of an Ansar Olsunah terrorist group member who somehow sneaked through the base security

security at an army dining hall at an army base guys snuck through and we we knocked the Iraqis for their poor security work this according to army major general David Rodriguez commander of coalition troops in northwest Iraq this is the most detailed explanation yet as to how the bomber made his way into line at the dining hall and blew himself up Rodriguez had the investigation which is complete was unable to determine whether the bomber was a member of the Iraqi army so he was wearing an Iraqi uniform during the attack it's also unclear where the guy came from had an Iraqi army uniform on though we shouldn't be training these people the uniforms the uniforms just go flying around might as well not train him news from outside the bubble ladies and gentlemen but if that doesn't show you up this will it's good this week the new editor isn't having that much control

obviously an article in Thursday's California section about local Chinese activism stated that the Japanese consulate in Los Angeles is in little Tokyo it is in California Plaza in downtown Los Angeles bottom mile away from little Tokyo but you know where would you put the Japanese consulate if you were writing for a newspaper you wouldn't put them in little Tokyo you telling me that an article in Wednesday's calendar section about Iraq war imagery and pop videos and songs said that Barbara Streisand was wearing an evening gown in her new video a publicist for the record company says she's wearing a knit top and slacks the obituary of former Los Angeles County Superior Court judge Robert while in Tuesday's paper said that when he was a lawyer in private practice

he specialized in litigation in fact he handled out of court transactions litigation of course only occurs in court you see it would be the difference hey it's an obituary an article on uh... an article in a Tuesday about the motorsports hall of fame said Troy Rutman was the youngest winner of the Indianapolis 500 when he won the 1965 race at age 22 he was 22 when he won the race in 1952 it's just a decade the hot and cold stocks table in Tuesday's business section showed shares of IAC interactive corporation falling by 47% over a four-week period in fact this doc declined by two and a half percent in that period still went down a little bit an article an editorial about the Central American Free Trade Agreement said representative Howard Berman is from West Hollywood

his headquarters is in Valley Village doesn't even include West Hollywood an editorial friday about security issues in Saudi Arabia said 11 of the 15 hijackers of 9-11 were Saudi there were 19 hijackers of whom 15 were Saudi that's just math see when you get into this numbers gain ladies and gentlemen an article in Tuesday about Fox News chairman Roger Ailes being given the additional title of chairman of Fox TV station said that Ailes while advised Fox News chairman Roger Ailes being given the additional title of chairman of Fox TV station said that Ailes while advising former president Bush's 68 election campaign drew fire for his hand in an advertisement that referred to felon willy nor it willy horton in fact the commercial was made by an independent group included people who used to work for Ailes yes see something else Los Angeles dog trainer corrections for you ladies and gentlemen

just a little bit happier kind of a deal would there be a conflict of interest or am I just imagining it president George W. Bush this week nominated Northrop Grumman Corporation executive Donald Winter to become secretary of the Navy both a vice president of Los Angeles based Northrop and president of the company's missile system division winter was the president chief executive officer of TRW before Northrop acquired that Northrop plays a leading role in developing the DDX a new warship that has come under scrutiny by Congress for staggering cost growth a program whose fate winner would help decide if he gets the Navy job keep those costs staggering I say and as if there's not enough to be worried about ladies and gentlemen the great lakes of the United States the planets largest constant the planets largest concentration of fresh water did you know that I did not it's thawing earlier each spring according to an analysis of ice breakups dating back to 1846 this from new scientist

Barbara Benson of the University of Wisconsin Madison and her colleagues have no names apparently studied the timing of the ice breakup on 61 lakes in Minnesota Wisconsin, Michigan, New York and Ontario in 2004 during which time the average global air temperature rose by 0.4 degrees on 56 of the lakes the spring thaw showed an earlier trend occurring two days sooner each decade on average though the thaw has been happening ever ever earlier since 1846 the rate of change is now more than three times as fast as it was before 1975 says team member John Magnuson oh he has a name quote what's happening around us is big enough and so far out of our control that it is affecting the whole great lakes region it's out of our control relax enjoy the thaw out of date out of style sounds as if it's been around a while there's no excuse

it's just a useless once play it soft play it loud this is never going to draw a crowd why introduce another useless waltz well itself could maybe some payola hype it off the ground who can tell it could become tomorrow's standard disco sound so play it once and then once more figure out what we can use it for but what's the use it's still a useless once well itself could maybe some payola hype it off the ground

who can tell it may become tomorrow's standard disco sound so we'll take it up I have a tone and overdub electric valve trombone it's well produced with no apparent faults but what's the use it's still a useless waltz hey thaws are good you know it's more swimming time this is let's show news of slogans now ladies and gentlemen Houston has become known nationally as the quote city of syrup unquote because of the abuse of coding fortified cough syrup among the city's use is so widespread this according to a local researcher city of syrup sounds sweet sounds sounds too sweet for Houston if you ask me but did you ask me I don't think you did

and florida wants to part way florida wants to ditch its current slogan and get a new one executives at visit florida the state's tourism agency said this week they're preparing to retire flaw USA FLA USA as the logo in favor of something more direct namely using visit florida as a slogan I like it says jab bush the governor pointing to the FLA USA pin on his jacket but I'm not sure someone in Detroit knows what it means uh oh is he dissent Detroit is he this Detroit city a non USA logo could also distance the state from the nation amid industry worries that ad i american sentiment abroad has soured foreign travelers on vacationing in the united states aha this from the Miami herald florida is seceding slogany slogan wise

don't they have wouldn't wouldn't the fact that they have a governor bush remind people have to do something about that the travel industry association of america was holding a seminar in Idaho this week oh I missed it title turning around america's image abroad even the president is aware our image isn't the best in some corners of the world says the president of the great our Miami convention and visitors bureau pointing to the appointment of Karen Hughes to assist the boosting of the country's image in the Arab world Karen speaks Arabic doesn't she she'll learn the florida brand talbert says is extraordinarily flaw a strong but visit florida the agency says FLA USA simply hasn't aged well since its 1997 debut I know the problem I know the feeling it's a dinosaur says nicky grossman Broward county's tourism director it didn't sell

hey the dinosaur hey nicky the dinosaurs sold really well for a very long time don't don't get that wrong the slogan led some to think that the tax funded state agency is actually named florida USA rather than visit florida according to Vanessa welter spokeswoman for visit florida switching the name and the logo to visit florida would also offer a boost to florida's official website for tourism visit florida dot com you see how about state of syrup sound sweet I go visit ladies gentlemen news of the media they it has been they've been a lot of reports about CBS trying to find a new way of doing the evening news I think the New York Times this week reported on the taping of several variations on a new format for the evening news but the New York observer a weekly newspaper had the most to to me interesting report this week noting that

you know like so many companies CBS news has summer interns young kids who work for free man that sounds good work for free to gain valuable job experience and then at the end of the summer they go back to college so CBS according to the New York observer was quizzing doing some in depth investigating with these interns as to what they thought would make a make for a CV CBS evening news broadcast that they might watch see the the worry is that not only is the audience going down but it's old it's an old audience ladies gentlemen you know you've seen the commercials the denture stuff and the arthritis pills and stuff why do you think those advertisements are there because the advertisers for anything else say no we want young viewers

as if older as a people over 40 don't have money but you know we'll get into that at other time anyway that is the that is the thing so here's CBS news asking their interns to help them design a program that might be more appealing to young people and fortunately for the last of these encounters the show is there okay folks kids no folks this is kind of your your last assignment with CBS news before you go back to your collegiate lives we just want your reactions to some bits and pieces of what might or might not be part of the new version the new mix you might say of the CBS and we're looking for your feedback not only through the electrodes that we've attached to your eyelids to measure frankly to measure flutter rate but through your actual conscious words which we're videotaping for your protection

so I've got an 1130 let's get started if we may okay this is a piece of raw footage from Iraq any reactions any useful feelings yeah yeah mellow man dude yeah director dude keeps cutting away just as it's getting really cool you know I mean make him stop doing that you know we're the generation that's fighting this war we want to see all the gourd stuff you know dude you know dude I mean that's our right okay anybody else feather maybe if there was a reporter or a correspondent there to explain you know who this was happening to or or why or something feather let me follow up if I can would it would it make a difference to you if if the dude was a man or a woman reporter

you know really either as long as they're cool looking you know no fatsoes okay okay well he haven't actually had a fatsoes his Charles Carole died but a good reminder oh okay here's the next podlet Bob he was asked about it at a news conference today and the president expressed strong support for the troops who were he said making good progress okay any feelings or etha I'm not really interested in what he's saying okay but I'm like I'm distracted by his hair it's it's either too unreal or too real or do something okay that we can use melaman again dude can he call the guy dude instead of you know Bob I mean like Bob is so undue okay we are getting all this down all right good all right one more the kitten turned out to belong to

teenage singing star Jessica Simpson the X Marine got a thousand dollar reward and a chance to lip sync on Saturday night life okay was that an interesting story a dull story what do you think feather I love the shot of the kitten and I couldn't believe how like tired Jessica Simpson looked okay deep yes I thought the X Marine angle was interesting I wanted to know more about him okay deep did you like John the the guy who was telling you the story yeah he was okay but I really like the X Marine he was a tough man you know John was okay dude you know for an old dude I mean what is he 40 yeah you know at least okay I'm I'm tempted to say thank you but there is one policy we never change CBS news we never thank the interns have have have a good afternoon

the Indian sent signals from the rocks above the paths the cowboys take position in the bushes and the grass the squirrel is with the cool push he is tied against the tree she doesn't mind the language is the thing and she don't need she lets loose all the horses when the culprit is asleep and he wakes to find the fires and arrows in his acts and David Crockett rides around and says it's cool for cats it's cool for cats the swing is doing night because they've got the word to go they get a gang of villains in a shed out the e-frog they're counting out the five is when he handcuffs up again in and out I was with the numbers on their names it's funny at a miss it's always looks a bit insane and meanwhile at the station there's a couple of lightly leds who's well I asked your father and they're very cool for cats they're cool for cats to change the mood a little I've been posting down the pub I'll see you in my reflection I'm looking slightly rough

I fancy this I fancy that I want to be so fresh I'll give a little mess or when I'll spend a little cash but all I get is bitter and a nasty little rash and by the time I'm sober I've forgotten what I've had and everybody tells me that it's cool to be a cat cool for cats cool for cats shake up at the disco and I think I've got a port I ask a lot of questions as she acts

onto the wall I kiss her for the first time and then I take her own I'm invited in for coffee and I give the dog a bone she likes to go to the disco but she's never on her own I said I'll see you later and I'll give her some more chat but it's not like I'm the TV when it's cool for cats it's cool for cats cool for cats cool for cats cool for cats Ladies and gentlemen Chuck Hagle Republican Senator is among those who is

criticizing President George W. Bush for not meeting with anti-war protestor and a mother of a slain American soldier in Iraq Cindy Shehan she's been camping out at Crawford Texas vowing to stay there until the president meets with her the president has vowed to not meet with her and the encampment started by Shehan has grown dramatically in the intervening period with the aid of some organizations as I say there have been even those in the Republican party who suggested this is not the best strategy in the world and the president is as you know in the middle of a five-week working vacation and that that's drawn its own criticism as well as those with long memories recalling that years ago as he prepared for the Gulf War

the first president Bush was criticized for his golfing and fishing vacation in the New York Times columnist Marine Dowd recalls he the first president Bush said he kept the telephone in his golf cart and his boat so he could easily stay on top of Saddam's invasion of Kuwait he said I just don't like taking questions on serious matters on my vacation he said on the golf course at the time so I hope you'll understand if I when I'm recreating will recreate it it sounds like there might be a phone call in the office I don't want to talk about you

I appreciate it I really do but you know I've been using this machine ever since January so in a chance of a I don't know a problem I'm not worried about that I'm worried about you now your mother and I haven't seen before and she still hasn't like I know where she's going you're going to start with the I warned you not to get the United Nations and the CIA on the Dusty side of your hiding at the same 43 can boil it down towards of one syllable you always prided yourself undoing the opposite of what 41 did that was your idea of learning from his or I should say my so-called mistake look I don't care about the words of Ward Dunstable or whoever you're quoting and the one mistake I really did make taking that vacation during the

build up to the golf or you're repeating worse you know like a like a smudged carbon copy I guess the kids would say a defective clone anyway the point is 41 listen my friend and father this has been a working vacation from day oh no you don't think I got this this fresh cut on my thumb from sitting around watching NASCAR on TV do you know I haven't been out working so many crowds each day since we did the election so you know it kind of it does kick me the wrong way when people compare me making good progress here in Crawford with you know with that endless golfing and fishing trip you took a nine to one you were shipping troops out toward it you know let's let's say it if you finished it maybe we could have gotten Social Security reformed this year so you know Hashmah your mother is fine she sends her love look spread yeah he got folks in your own party say it publicly why don't you just have the protest of whirlman in take a nice photo op with her squash and while it's still just

a bug last time I looked Chuck Hagle is not in my own party you know I mean he's technically he is in my party but probably you know party party sense you know the folks I'm gonna meet in heaven I don't think Chuck it boy makes that a list know what this is say because was guilty of it myself this is bush pride you look bigger when you're not hiding behind curtain windows from a fallen vets mom bush pride no bar tried to squeeze all of that out of you okay please tell her Laura and I miss her down here I know this was never her idea civilized place to spend this summer no no no we both been there when it's been you know most beautiful in that you know that's a lot kind of way but see the problem with hard liners yeah is that got to be hard line about everything now yes sir I know that they go can't fly on just one wing either right on the left now matter of fact we got a friend

who's an avian biologist apparently he goes can do pretty damn well on one wing I think that's bar pulling up with the driver you know it just beats me that you guys think going to a fundraiser in Tulsa looks better than a day full of a not that terrible around the golf that just amuses a heck out of it after all I said that the words of war done stable aren't aren't sound so bad after all but it's because Carl has to be playing ferocious defense right now the reason why you have you're never weaker than when you're afraid of looking weak of course when you weak and you look weak then you know that's really the worst of both worlds but you know here we are we're winning or we're we're making good progress or we're doing something worthwhile and if you don't act like a big winner you're going to you just look like a big loser what did you do take a management manual on the boat with you mister let's have an emergency staff meeting to deal with the

Wimp issue sometimes nothing looks stronger than then strengthen self you know that's also true the American people aren't looking for somebody who's going to outthink the enemy they're looking for someone who's going to outtuff them if it means you know taking a couple of days a yelp and from the Michael Moore crowd hey this is this this one course we really can stay you know mine as well doer you know is you you an atwater at the time we're saying to me it sends the wrong message to look out of touch with your own war we're doing a veteran's dinner I'm visiting the the fellows and gals at the Galveston ship repairer facility I personally pick up some of the musical acts for the Pentagon 911 marks that is now what I'd call a man who's out of touch with his own anything well like they'll mean to be a working vacation pooper hey 41 I know you wouldn't be calling unless you care and and and maybe it's just you know matter like like a dad a matter of care and just a little too much don't think

so sprout I think I can assure you that well sir I got bone fish to deal with detail at a lot of yours we miss her too well did come on down to DC and after Labor Day let's you and me take in a national game if the if the security people give it the okay might just do that be careful 40 I am 41 I mean careful careful I will I will bye a diamond necklace plays upon hand in hand some drum to long to hand to man in the top like a like a upline class aristocracy back through the opera glass you see the pin in the pendulum I can call the native ruins down and on can there's the town and brush the background are you sleepy

I'm helping for taking me dim chandelier awake me to song to something I'm using all the cost about the music all this was for now to amuse the trumpets can there's the town and brush the back are you sleepy the nest of towers the hour strike the street

to the moon carriage across from far to step to land I tell her to the land come hurry long next time the glass will raise the fire goes before this other one the gym has toasting what I want to do or die a chunk of grief are hard and I beyond me a broken magenta to cry search up me a board of tidal wave

come about hard and join the young and often spring you gave I heard the word wonderful thing a children song I'm using all the cost about the music I'm using all the cost about the music I'm using all the cost about the music

and now ladies and gentlemen the apologies of the week I think I should have just shut up said Florida State University Trustee Richard McFarland as officials of the university made last week to counter NCAA criticism that the mascot the seminal is hostile and abusive to American Indians McFarland dismissed concern by Oklahoma seminals quote they got run out of here by who was Andrew Jackson or somebody like that the veil of tears the real seminal stayed here he said the trail of tears is the term often used to refer to Cherokees forced from their homes and driven west in the 1830s I made some comments that I realize in retrospect were insensitive to many people in members of the seminal nation of Indiana

of Oklahoma in particular McFarland now says I have great respect for the seminal people of Florida and Oklahoma and I did not mean to cause offense I apologize for my comments and I look forward to having a positive relationship with the seminal nation of Indiana of Oklahoma as we do with the seminal tribe of Florida unquote lots of luck two Comcast cable customer service employees were fired for changing an Elgin Illinois woman's name to quote bitch dog on quote on her August bill have tissue repeatedly complained about poor service we are appalled by this treatment of our customer and want to extend our sincerest apologies said the company this is not the way Comcast does business the woman noted the apology and firings came only after her story was published in the Chicago Tribune and gained widespread media attention hey sometimes you got to break some eggs the Dutch government has officially apologized to Indonesia over its colonial rule and military actions in the past especially those carried out in the wake of Indonesia's independence proclamation

which claimed many lives of Indonesians former Yonkers mayor John Spencer candidate for the U.S. Senate in New York apologized Friday for using an offensive ethnic remark saying he doesn't see why it would be offensive but if it is and it is and it doesn't matter what I think the remark was I don't think there is a Chinaman's chance that she could get the conservative party line referring to Jeanine Perreault you're not supposed to say that he found that out and he's sorry he polishes the weak ladies and gentlemen copyrighted feature of this very broadcast farewell to the great vassar clement and that's going to put a cap on this edition of the show the program it turns next we get this

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Join me this Labor Day for a special homage to the working world. Our jobs are bosses earning some dough, doing what you love or doing what you hate. We'll cover it all tune in for finest works on a special music celebration Monday, Labor Day morning from 9 to noon on 89.9 KCRW in KCRW.com Next news from KCRW National Public Radio will be here at 5 p.m. weekend all things considered. Now stay tuned just moments from now for the show program. Ladies and gentlemen, I've looked forward to and dreaded the approach of this broadcast. It's not going to be the usual program. That's for sure. It's not for laughs. And it's not going to be about sadness and anger.

There's plenty of that everywhere else. Although when you see a city that is among other things known around the world for its cuisine on its knees begging for food, it's hard not to feel both. But at a time when the city is on its knees and when some around the country, including the Speaker of the House and at least one writer in the Los Angeles Times are basically calling the death now for the city. One thing I've learned in New Orleans, you know this broadcast is originated in New Orleans many times over the past few years. And I've never really stopped to explain why. So one of the things I've learned about the culture of the place

is that when a loved one passes, yes, there's some grieving and some mourning. But basically there's a celebration. I'll tell you a little bit more about that as we go along. But as I say, as some around the country are calling the death now for New Orleans. This broadcast today is a celebration of the place. And it begins with this which was intended as just a list of this guy's favorite things about the city. And this broadcast will be similarly a list of what I know about the city. Nobody knows the whole city. It started out as a list of his favorite things. Today it's a list of the missing.

Hello, welcome to the show. Pick this up. What is New Orleans? What is New Orleans? New Orleans is red beans and rice on a Monday night. What is New Orleans? New Orleans is Creole Gumbo. Phile Gumbo. Cowan Gumbo. Chicken Gumbo. Smoke scientist Gumbo. Hot scientist Gumbo. What is New Orleans? New Orleans is Grits. We're level smudged and onion with brown graphing.

Two sunny side up egg with a little biscuit on the side with cheese on the top of the head's brown. What is New Orleans? What is New Orleans? New Orleans is hot sizes on the grill every day of the week. What is New Orleans? New Orleans is fish grits and eggs. What is New Orleans? Any kind of meat you want with some grits and eggs, y'all? What is New Orleans? New Orleans is... New Orleans is Roots Colesy Coles. New Orleans is Jones Colesy Coles. The little people place y'all. New Orleans is the Trimney Music Hall.

New Orleans is Christos. New Orleans is the Climax. New Orleans is, New Orleans is Fonds on the Thursday night. New Orleans is Dinos Point Grits. New Orleans is the Preservation Hall. New Orleans is Jackson Square. New Orleans is, New Orleans is Maximum. New Orleans is Roots of Bell. When you get nice and home meal on a Thursday night, y'all? What is New Orleans? What is New Orleans? New Orleans is Clyde and Bulbyshire. The same one always. New Orleans is the Popeye Young. Jeans, or wherever you want to take, the same one. What is New Orleans?

New Orleans is the Sixth Ward. Sixth Ward Young Felt. New Orleans is the Night Ward. New Orleans is the By Ward. New Orleans is the Third Ward. New Orleans is the Seven Ward Young. New Orleans is Eight Ward. You better believe it. Somebody say the Seventeen. For Shiggity, what is New Orleans? What is New Orleans? New Orleans is Tubal Facts. New Orleans is the Rebreak Brands Band. New Orleans is the Little Rascals Brands Band. The New Break Brands Band Young. New Orleans is the Trimby Brands Band on the Sunday night by Joe's closing call.

What is New Orleans? New Orleans is the pinstripe with mom. Way across the street playing the tune. What is New Orleans? New Orleans is the Sidewalk Steppes. New Orleans is the Money Wasteer. New Orleans is the Black Men of Level Young. What is New Orleans? New Orleans is the Fuck Jumpers. New Orleans is the Lady Fuck Jumpers Band. New Orleans is the Trimby Spokes. New Orleans is the High Roller. New Orleans is the... The Golden Thruppet. What is New Orleans? What is New Orleans?

New Orleans is the Triple Tina. Try, try, try, try. Peep the Zell Young. What is New Orleans? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What is New Orleans? New Orleans is the two-way park away. He said, Brad. New Orleans is the Apple Doodle. New Orleans is Brother Fred.

New Orleans is the Tyrone Miller. New Orleans is the Kentucky. New Orleans is the Peep the Zell. Thank you. Music . . .

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The city is full of writers, not just Anne Rice, not just Richard Ford. Photographers, artists, doctors, nurses, who have been heroes this week, along with people in the Coast Guard. But it's one of a kind.

That concludes this edition of Let's Show the Program. It turns next week at the same time over the same stations over NPR worldwide over the U.S. and 440 cable system in Japan around the world for the facilities of the American Forces Network up and down the east coast of North America via the shortwave giant WBCQ, the planet 7.4 and 5 megahertz around the world via the internet on your computer at two different locations live and archived. And you might feel green. And you might feel green. And you might feel green.

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