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228: Gassed in Boston

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	This is bogus.
	Yeah.
	You can find out who's doing it.
	He's got the CIA working for it.
	He's the president!
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, August 22nd, 2010.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 228.
	This is No Agenda.
	Coming to you from the Hilltop Watchtower, Crackpot Command Center, Gimel Nation West, and the People's Republic of Southern California.
	Kind of in the morning.
	I'm Comcast Cares Guy, Adam Curry.
	It's in the morning somewhere all the time.
	And it's sunny here in northern Silicon Valley.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Hot Pockets.
	Hey, John.
	Hey, guess what happened?
	Gee, Comcast went down.
	Well, I got up at 6.30.
	Yeah, as we do, we all get up early on show day, on school day.
	Yeah, and so I go and the thing is dead.
	It's got one light.
	It's just kind of blinking, blinking, blinking.
	And when I see that, it looks like, oh, great.
	Yeah.
	So I finally called Comcast and got a message that the whole area, Berkeley, Albany, El Cerrito, Richmond, and Kingston.
	Kingston, Jamaica?
	I guess, because there's a town called Kensington.
	They said Kingston?
	But they said Kingston, so I figured something was wrong in Jamaica.
	Right.
	And they said there was an audition that would be fixed, but they don't know when.
	So they went on.
	It didn't get fixed until just now, which is noon.
	Now, did you speak to anyone at all?
	No, it was all a message.
	As soon as you pushed a button to ask for somebody, a message came up because they obviously scan your phone number and say, why else would they be calling?
	Right.
	And so they probably got a huge bill for their 800 number today.
	Because normally you'll get someone on the phone and they say, okay, here's what I want you to do.
	I want you to cycle the power on your router.
	I hate that so much.
	That's so annoying.
	Okay, then what?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Alright, so we're still a little discombobulated, but I have the clips.
	We don't have the spreadsheet yet, so we're going to wait.
	We have executive producers, actually?
	Yeah, we have a couple of executive producers and a couple of associates, so we'll get to them probably when we thank everybody for sending their help to No Agenda.
	Show.com.
	Then I can at least do some PR initiatives that have come in.
	Yeah, do that.
	Okay, so Brad bought a couple of domains, and I kind of like them.
	And, of course, they're forwarding to NoAgendaShow.com.
	He has Let's Vote for Jobs.com and TrainsGoodPlanesBad.com, which I think is outstanding, because that meme will, of course, propagate.
	I want to thank Mark, the donation dude, who has been running banners.
	And these banners, John, are just outstanding.
	Yeah, I need to get some of those banners so I can put them on my blog.
	Okay, well, these are great.
	It's a blue and white banner, and it kind of looks like an ad for...
	It's a Google ad.
	It kind of looks like an ad for soap, just the color scheme.
	And it says, in the morning, don't send blankets.
	Okay.
	That has a little button, value for value.
	And so he's been sending people our way.
	And then, oh yes, noagendapr.com is up and rolling.
	Which is about time.
	That's another great site.
	It needs some help to propagate the formula, but you can check that out.
	And I just wanted to say that we have a new show at NoAgendaStream.com, which actually premiered in prime time, seeing as Comcast was letting us down Marcus Couch's earthquake machine, which is pretty hard-rocking for a Sunday morning.
	Did you get my note about SupportNoAgenda.com?
	Yeah, I did.
	But I didn't focus on it.
	Okay.
	So what do you want to do?
	Well, we should thank him for thinking about this idea.
	I'll tell you what.
	What we'll do is we'll get...
	This just came in.
	Yeah.
	It's an idea that we'll...
	What we'll do is we'll go back to him this weekend and we'll talk about it on Thursday.
	Okay.
	So, we will, I guess, thank our executive producers momentarily, but first we have to help everyone wake up a little bit.
	Go out and propagate our formula.
	It is simple.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	New!
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	World!
	Order!
	All right, chat room, let's say it now.
	Shut up, stay!
	Hey, the Duck Call is back.
	So a big in the morning to you, everybody, to all ships at sea, and to all the human resources who are charged up and ready listening live now at NoAgendaShow.com and in the chat room at NoAgendaChat.net.
	John, last night, you know what I did?
	I could guess.
	Now you know what I did.
	Uh, no.
	We talked about it on the previous show.
	You warned me.
	You said don't do it.
	Oh, don't even bring it up, but you're going to bring it up anyway.
	You went to go see Love, Hate, and War.
	Eat...
	Wait, what's it again?
	Love?
	Eat, pray, love.
	Boring, hate...
	What was those three words?
	I can't remember.
	Boring, stupid, and lovely?
	Something like that?
	I can't remember.
	Eat, pray, love.
	Oh, yeah.
	Which, of course, is being merchandised to death on the Home Shopping Network.
	Do you remember, John, when they used to have intermissions during the movies?
	Yeah, they needed that during this one.
	We needed to bring back the intermissions.
	So there are some books that just should never be made into a movie.
	This one is a prime example.
	And now I can actually understand why Atlas Shrugged will never be turned into a movie.
	Because when you read a book like Eat, Pray, Love...
	Did you read the book, too?
	No, I do feel compelled to read it now.
	But this movie, for me, totally fell entirely flat.
	And here's the worst part.
	So there's eat, pray, and love.
	So this woman, she gives up on her marriage.
	She wants to go discover herself.
	It's like a total chick thing.
	And she goes to Italy to learn about food and eating.
	Then she goes to India to learn about praying.
	And then she winds up in Bali, and that's where she finds love.
	It's kind of that simple.
	I can see where the book would be a lot better.
	I can't.
	What was outstanding, I have to say, was Rome...
	You know, it's very hard to make food look good on camera.
	That's one of the hardest things to do.
	The food looked so good.
	The pasta and the prosciutto.
	And Nikki and I looked at each other, and this movie's only 20 minutes into it, like, God damn, I'm hungry.
	It's like, I need something to eat right now.
	And it was so bad that by the time the movie was over, it's a long sit.
	It's like two and a half hours.
	Oh, no.
	You're kidding.
	And she's on a diet.
	We looked at each other.
	She said, let's go get some Italian.
	We went and we pigged out on Italian.
	We had pasta and salad and...
	You know, dessert and everything.
	It was great.
	But Mickey also thought the movie did not live up to its potential.
	And I think the audience was...
	Would you give it a rotten tomato?
	Three.
	Three.
	Yeah, I'd give it a three.
	That's bad.
	By the way, I did pay attention to the executive producer credits because, you know, it's the same thing as on our show.
	And Brad Pitt, one of the executive producers.
	Oh, really?
	Just listed in there casually?
	Yeah, just, oh, Brad Pitt.
	There's like eight or nine of them.
	But the whole theater, man, it was dead.
	There were a couple of funny moments at the beginning.
	One or two funny jokes.
	But after that, I was just like...
	And, no, did not work.
	Oh, and very annoying for me was the product placement throughout the movie.
	Oh, I hate that, especially the long...
	So she pays for something with her American Express card, and the shot is like, you know, that nanosecond too long when she's handing over the card.
	Heineken and Amstel beer, the only beers drunk in the movie, and the incessant use of Sony Vio laptops.
	It's like, you know, the gayest, weirdest, stupidest, Clunkiest things to carry around the world, and yet she has one, and then all her friends who were at home and emailing her back have one.
	It's like, okay, enough.
	It makes it too obvious.
	It does, and it's Sony Pictures, obviously, so that's why it's a Sony bio, which is like, ah.
	But the credit card really bothered me.
	I was like, stop that.
	What was with the credit card?
	Well, she was paying for something with a credit card.
	It was an American Express card.
	And they showed the card real close out?
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	They show the whole handover, you know, of course.
	Well, this sounds like a piece of crap.
	Well, I will say, it brought Meek and I even closer together, if that is even more possible.
	Yeah, I doubt it.
	Yeah.
	But I would say, if you're going to go, eat before you go, because you'll be starving by the end of this thing.
	After that Rome thing hits, and you've still got to sit through India and Bali, it's like, uh...
	That's your stomach growling.
	That's my instant movie review.
	Yeah, well, it sounds like it's a movie to avoid.
	Which is what I said to begin with, but you went anyway.
	Well, of course.
	It was the director's guild, so it's always nice.
	The temperature is right.
	There's no one farting around.
	The sound is good.
	The picture is good.
	It's the way you should see a movie.
	When that pasta hit the screen, I just wanted to walk out to the concession stand and get something to eat.
	I was like, ugh, that was bad.
	So...
	Anywho, most emailed article of the past few days, which you'd think intuitively would fall under planes good, trains bad, but does not, is what started with an article in the Spanish El Pais.
	I saw this come out, I think, late Thursday afternoon, and I was wondering how long it would take for people to translate it and for it to go around and what it would actually wind up being.
	But the story goes something like this.
	There was a Span Air, I think it was an MD-11, that crashed almost exactly two years ago.
	Into a train.
	No.
	The story goes that this could have been avoided.
	However, the central computer had a Trojan virus on it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Right?
	Yeah.
	And so I'm like, what?
	This doesn't sound right.
	And it's so poorly reported by everybody.
	CNET, ZDNET, even the register.
	And they're just like, oh yeah, you know, could this cause more plane crashes in the future?
	And then I start to look into it.
	And then say, NTSB reports?
	Well, the NTSB has no authority over this crash.
	They did have a preliminary report when it happened in 2008.
	And what I think was really, it was maintenance.
	It's always a combination of maintenance and or human error.
	Rarely is it weather, interestingly enough.
	In fact, I would say it almost never is.
	But they tried to take off without their flaps.
	That's not a good thing.
	And there's all kinds of technical reasons why the warning didn't go off.
	But this thing had been in all kinds of maintenance for its sensors, for its RAM air temperature sensors.
	And so what they're saying is, well, if only this computer hadn't been bogged down by a Trojan virus, then it probably would have given alert that it had had maintenance on three different issues.
	And, you know, it's like...
	Total bull crap.
	It's the responsibility of the air crew, primarily, and also the ground crew.
	And I think they just messed it up.
	But this was an internal report, so I think they're trying to distract the attention away from the fact that they actually messed it up.
	They really did a bad job, and a lot of people died because of it.
	But then when you see how this propagates to, I think it's MSNBC, this report just really pissed me off.
	I'm bringing it up now.
	Thank you.
	They're now pulling this all the way into cybersecurity.
	Oh, yes.
	So they don't even have the facts straight.
	Didn't we do a piece about two or three months ago kind of pre or seeing this in advance of cybersecurity?
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, there's a lot more.
	I forgot what the one specific one was.
	Well, there's a couple of them.
	Yeah, so MSNBC says, So that's, like, factually almost incorrect.
	But then the malware on the Spanair computer has been identified as a type of Trojan horse.
	And then they talk to this guy, Yams Yaniza.
	Head threat researcher at Trend Micro, who of course make antivirus software, and he's going to say, well, you know, the most likely way this happened is a USB stick.
	This is what happened with the International Space Station virus infection in 2008, or through a remote VPN connection.
	And then they talked to some other jabroni, Sami Saijari, president of the Cyber Defense Agency.
	Which, I think, it should be illegal to name your company anything agency.
	Because this makes it sound like they're part of the government.
	And he's saying, oh, any computer connected to a network is vulnerable to malware infection.
	Standards have not been set to protect critical infrastructure.
	It could happen again and most likely will!
	Somebody out there can now go get the domain name No Agenda Agency.
	Yeah, that's a good one.
	That is a good one.
	So, yeah.
	Okay, let's start from the beginning.
	Is this a PC? Well, this is unknown.
	This is unknown.
	Is it a PC? It's not a PC. I really doubt it's a PC. I think it's a mainframe, obviously.
	It's not even a mainframe.
	It's an embedded systems type of computer that's probably very specific.
	No, no, no.
	It's not on the plane.
	It's at their office.
	Someone has to manually enter a log that says, okay, this was a problem, and they put it into their computer.
	No, I'm talking about the machine on the airplane.
	Yeah, but that didn't have a virus.
	That didn't have a virus.
	That's the whole point.
	Oh, the virus?
	Oh, you're kidding me.
	The virus is at the office!
	This is why it's so ridiculous.
	There's some sort of bogus virus on the...
	No, no, this is why it's so bogus, because...
	Oh, this is even more bogus.
	Yes, this is my point.
	It's in a computer where they enter, they manually enter issues, and normally it would go, ding, ding, ding, we've had three issues, three critical issues with this aircraft, you know, you need to look at it.
	What viruses are up to?
	Because the hard drive was slowed down.
	And maybe it might have been Windows.
	Who knows?
	Well, it probably was Windows, but it's bullshit.
	Yeah, of course it's bullshit.
	But there's an internal report from Span Air who, of course, want to distract attention from the fact that it was an error.
	It was an error.
	Yeah.
	Is there a checklist they're supposed to go by and they check it off?
	They actually have the cockpit voice recorder and it was like, flaps okay?
	Yeah, flaps okay.
	And then there was some distraction.
	I think they took off with their flaps up.
	And you know what?
	It happens.
	However, the aircraft normally would have given off a warning, but because of the ram air temperature, they had pulled a circuit breaker.
	This is always so funny.
	There was a warning, so we just pulled the circuit breaker so it wouldn't beep anymore.
	You know, so we talked about that exact problem with the global, you know, the, whatever, the drill rig.
	Right, right.
	About the guy saying that there was no...
	But they had disabled the alarms because it was going off all the time and they got blue screened.
	Because we thought that guy was a little sketchy.
	Mimi, apparently her father used to work on these rigs.
	Mm-hmm.
	working for Global Marine because they disabled so many of the safety things so they wouldn't be honking at him all the time.
	And a bunch of guys were killed from an H2S burst that nobody was warned about.
	Then he just bailed out.
	He left the industry.
	And what is he doing now?
	He's dead.
	I'm sorry.
	I didn't mean to laugh.
	I was taken aback by that.
	Heartless bastard.
	I was taken aback by that.
	So, no, the point is that, no, he went off to do some other business, but the point is that apparently, the way it was told to me that these guys were these old oil guys, just a bunch of Texas cowboys, and nah, Yeah, what do you need?
	Oh, a man's not going to have a...
	You've got to be a man about this.
	This is not going to do...
	You don't need a warning.
	Yeah.
	So, anyway.
	So that probably was true.
	What, did they pull the circuit breaker?
	No, I mean, did they pull the circuit breaker on the plane?
	Did they pull the thing on the drilling rig?
	They turned off their alarms?
	And that's what these guys do.
	Yeah.
	It's like, whatever, just stop it already.
	I don't want it anymore.
	So on the heels of this, we know that there's a huge cyber terror defense thing.
	Yeah, we should get some work doing stuff like that.
	Hey, since you're going to be on the trains, planes, bad, good, did you see the thing that happened in China?
	I only saw a report on the BBC about the train that went over the cliff.
	No, no.
	Should we play the jingle?
	It sounds like it's worth it.
	Go ahead.
	All aboard!
	Trains good, planes bad.
	Woo-hoo!
	Yeah, this train was going across the calvert or some sort of a trestle, and the thing broke in half, not the trestle, and so the train goes over it and is like hanging there, and people have to crawl up from one car to the other to get out of the thing before the whole thing creams into the drink.
	Oh, damn.
	Like a movie set.
	You know, it looked fake.
	Yeah, no, I haven't seen any reporting.
	This is what you're going to get with this Chinese high speed.
	This will be very interesting.
	I do know that Siemens, part of the high-speed rail cabal, is really trying to push it on the public.
	They're advertising everywhere, and they've even had Orange County Chopper make a Siemens Smart Chopper, which looks like a bullet train and runs on batteries.
	What?
	Yeah.
	They had the Orange County chopper guys, you know, from the reality show, make a chopper motorcycle.
	Oh, a chopper.
	I thought you meant a helicopter.
	No, make a chopper.
	Motorcycle.
	Yeah, that runs on batteries.
	A battery-powered motorcycle that looks like a bullet train.
	Yeah.
	Oh, brother.
	We wanted to build this unique chopper to raise environmental awareness and reflect what the 69,000 employees of Siemens USA are doing to help America stay on the cutting edge of tomorrow's green economy.
	Siemens is already very much a part of the fabric of America, and our portfolio is one of the greenest in the business.
	Green is not marketing hype for us.
	No, it's in our DNA. Well written, Hill and Knowlton.
	Well written.
	So the Obama administration, we'll just get off planes and trains, announced a $2 billion fund, which I guess is money we don't have, to combat bioterrorism and pandemic threats, of which $822 million will be for the development of influenza vaccine.
	I mean, can we not get off this shit already?
	Unbelievable.
	I guess these guys are diehards.
	Well, and I think what caught my eye was the bioterrorism attack.
	Because you know how we're always a little worried when they're doing some kind of simulation.
	And on Friday...
	Boston had a simulated terror attack on the subway.
	And I did a little research, and it kind of is a little disconcerting, but you know a lot about the chemical industry.
	So, hold on.
	I have Eric the Fed sending me a file.
	Where does it show up?
	Incoming file transfer.
	This is the file with our...
	But the problem is that apparently the notes didn't come through, so we're going to have to open that separately.
	Anyway...
	So we're going to have our bumbling thing as usual.
	Well, anyway, so let me read this to you.
	Scientists were releasing gases and fluorescent particles into Boston subway tunnels on Friday to study how toxic chemicals and lethal biological agents could spread through the nation's oldest subway system in a terrorist attack.
	So, of course, whenever something like this happens, you know, they're always nearby and, you know, a false flag can take place.
	We're always a little bit suspicious about this.
	Because we've seen it over and over.
	What caught my eye is what they were actually spreading, John.
	Sulfur hexafluoride.
	Do you know what sulfur hexafluoride is?
	I used to.
	So first of all...
	Where's my Merck index?
	Oh, I moved it.
	According to the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, it is the most potent greenhouse gas known to man.
	Did they make an explanation for why they were...
	Yeah, because they wanted odorless and invisible gas to test how it would propagate through the subway tunnels in Boston.
	That's their story.
	But then you read on about this sulfur hexafluoride, so besides it being completely against the entire Obama administration's idea of putting greenhouse gases into the air, it is not just a greenhouse gas, it is the most potent greenhouse gas, there's also psychological effects.
	Another effect is the gas's ability to alter vocal sound waves.
	The gas can be inhaled in a small, safe amount and cause the breather's voice to sound very deep, effectively the opposite of inhaling helium.
	Oh, yeah, you can get that effect with any heavy gas.
	Okay.
	So, then they also shot into the Boston Tunnels perfluocarbon.
	Do you know what this is?
	You might as well tell me.
	Well, common side effects...
	Doesn't sound good.
	Common side effects...
	Hold on a second.
	I got the wrong piece here.
	Hold on, let me just pull up the wiki page.
	It's not good.
	You know it's not going to be good.
	They use it in operations.
	They use it when they're giving you artificial blood.
	And it's...
	What's the side effects here?
	The side effects occur when the body is excreting, eliminating the fluorocarbon.
	Excreting depends on the vapor pressure.
	It gives you, here it is, flu-like symptoms.
	Wow.
	So, you know, like, this is not okay.
	And, of course, no one questions this.
	You know, the Associated Press just reports this.
	Oh, yeah, we just put some perfluorocarbon in the air, which can make you sick, like you have flu-like symptoms.
	Literally says flu-like symptoms.
	And some sulfur hexafluoride, which is like inhaling helium in the opposite.
	And they're just throwing that into the air.
	Oh, it's okay.
	Don't worry about it.
	In fact, people asked, oh, if it has to do with security, I'm all for it.
	Right here in the article.
	I think at certain times...
	This is how stupid the public's becoming.
	Oh, it's got to do with security.
	Well, better safe than sorry.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I think at certain times we do get into a comfort zone.
	Americans are like that.
	We don't think something like that will happen.
	We have to get out of that mode.
	Well, guess what?
	Your government is poisoning you.
	Right there.
	And they're admitting it and laughing at you.
	No, they're definitely laughing at idiots that make these comments.
	Yeah.
	So, I just thought that was outrageous, and the fact that no one is even questioning these.
	Well, don't worry, it's invisible, and it doesn't smell.
	The point is, why would they put that in there if it's just a test?
	What are they gassing people for?
	It's a week-long study commissioned by the Department of Homeland Security to figure out ways to quickly minimize the impact of an airborne assault on the nation's 15 subway systems and protect the nation's infrastructure.
	So why are they gassing people?
	What's the point?
	Do they take everybody and come out and say, hey, how do you feel?
	What's the point of the gas?
	Well, perhaps to start a new flu pandemic, because you get flu-like symptoms.
	Remember, I just told you there's a $2 billion fund to fight bioterrorism in a pandemic.
	It goes hand in hand.
	You know, I'm very annoyed now.
	I didn't know about this.
	I wouldn't have been able to do the show today.
	Good.
	I'm glad you're annoyed.
	It's horrible.
	It's bordering on the ridiculous.
	But this is all about the...
	How about why don't you go through...
	Let's have another test in the Boston subway system.
	You know, you send a bunch of terrorists and cut everyone's nuts off.
	It's just a test of possibility.
	Just to see if they'll bleed.
	Meanwhile, of course, it's creeping back into the vaccine because it's about vaccines and they still got all this H1N1 vaccine they got to get rid of.
	By the way, producer John, remember his dad works at Purdue University and they're putting the H1N1 into the annual flu vaccine and they're like, you know, don't take it.
	And he says, oh, well, it turns out it's a requirement for all Purdue human resources to get the flu shots.
	Otherwise, they're not allowed to work there.
	We're being forced to take the H1N1. And then it's back into the culture on the USA Network, Royal Pain.
	Have you ever seen this program?
	I've seen one, I think, one half episode of Royal Pain.
	Okay, well, this is the one you didn't see.
	There you go.
	So, Doc, how's the old man doing?
	Better.
	Much better.
	It's a good thing you stuck around long enough to see his rash.
	Now, there's a sentence you just don't hear very often, though.
	I am curious how Maddie got whooping cough and the other kids didn't.
	Well, Teddy and Grace were immunized, but when Maddie was born, there was a lot of controversy over immunization.
	So we decided to err on the side of caution.
	Right.
	Why ask a doctor?
	And Dr.
	Phillips was susceptible because...
	Because I've outlived my immunization.
	Another wonderful bi-product of grown older.
	But how did Maddie get it in the first place?
	She could have easily picked it up on one of your off-the-beaten-path adventures.
	So when do you think she'll be well enough to travel?
	At least six weeks.
	I'm afraid your family trip is going to have to wait.
	Of course it will.
	We'll continue our adventure here.
	All of us.
	Together.
	Should be a great adventure.
	So, tons of little memes in this.
	Just tons of them.
	You know, I'm sickened by this clip.
	So first it's like, why ask your doctor?
	Because your doctor knows best.
	Then it's like the old geezer, because it's basically the grandpa, he had outlived his immunization.
	For whooping cough.
	So this is a message to you, John.
	We're looking at you.
	Yeah, sure he did.
	Son, you got to go back and get some shots against whooping cough.
	You got to get your shot.
	You got to get your shot.
	And then it's like, well, you know, you can't travel.
	Six weeks, you can't travel.
	That...
	Slave.
	Slave.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Slave, you cannot travel, slave.
	It's bad, right?
	It's terrible.
	Yeah.
	I'm sorry we started doing the show even though it's late.
	We should have, yeah.
	Well, I'll just finish up because, you know...
	Bring out the last depressing piece of information you dug up this week.
	Okay, well, no, this is just staying on this vaccine stuff.
	So the superbug that was found in the United Kingdom due to medical tourism...
	Oh, yeah, I forgot about that.
	Whatever happened to that guy?
	Well, no, it's now spread to Canada.
	So now it's been found in Canada, in someone who actually had some medical work done in India.
	So, you know, you've got to stay here, and the insurance companies have to soak you here, and you can't go anywhere else.
	It's got to all happen here.
	And in Wales, news now leaks out that the Welsh government was so worried about the pandemic, That they had actually prepared mass graves for 40,000 people.
	It's not like they have closed those graves up, by the way.
	Really?
	Part of the Wales Mass Fatalities Plan...
	This was acquired under Freedom of Information request, and of course this is all coming out days after the flu pandemic has been deemed no longer a pandemic by the World Health Organization.
	But they essentially expected, or they actually had the number, 37,074 victims of the Welsh population to die of swine flu.
	As we know, that was a big scam, and there was all kinds of Insider stuff at the WHO who had links to the pharmaceutical companies.
	And the document says Welsh councils were in the process of identifying areas that offer cooling, security, and dignified storage.
	How dumb are some of these governments?
	No wonder, yeah, I think the will should re-evaluate their leadership.
	It also suggested local joinery firms could be commissioned to construct simple coffins in the event of a coffin shortage.
	Or, if the event is extreme, body bags could be used instead.
	Yeah, I like to go to Canadian Indian reservations.
	Yeah, just some hefty bags, man.
	Just throw the slaves in some hefty bags.
	But it's not like the plan is still there because, you know, obviously, obviously it can come back at the drop of a hat.
	It can happen at any moment now.
	They're working on a better version of that bug now in a lab someplace.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, they're mixing it with the H5. That's what they really want to do.
	Yeah, they're mixing it with the bird flu, absolutely.
	It'll happen.
	It's just a matter of time.
	Don't take those shots, people.
	So, on a similar note, I went to the theater.
	Why do we actually do this show?
	We just sit here and piss each other off.
	Bedbugs Attack, play it.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	I wasn't prepared for that.
	It's a teaser.
	Ooh, nice.
	Yeah, I've actually seen some of these reports.
	Coming up, it's a feeding frenzy on the move.
	Bed bugs are giving people nightmares.
	Over the last 10 years, their population has been exploding.
	Tonight, we know why the insects are crawling out of beds and into movie theaters, classrooms, and more.
	I've seen a couple of these.
	Do you feel itchy?
	Yeah, I've seen a couple of these.
	I think the mattress industry is behind this.
	I'm wondering who's behind it because there's somebody behind it.
	There's too much of this publicity.
	It's making this huge threat.
	Yeah, maybe there's bedbugs all over the place, but they seem to be getting a lot.
	The bedbugs seem to have a PR agency working for them.
	Yeah, well, not the bedbugs per se, but I keep seeing local news reports showing mattresses.
	Oh, you should get a new mattress every seven years, and yada, yada, yada.
	Well, if there's no bedbugs in the mattress after six years, and there's no bedbugs in the mattress after seven years, why would you get a new one?
	Why take a chance?
	Yeah, well...
	But there's a lot of stuff going on.
	There's that.
	There's the egg recall.
	Half a billion eggs recalled!
	And this is the one that...
	And I figured it out.
	I mean, this is very obvious.
	This is just to make you afraid of your eggs.
	And to force small farms out of business.
	And the CDC is on this.
	Well, they've already done that in California.
	The small egg farmers in California that used to produce eggs for the local markets.
	I mean, of course, none of these places we're talking about are that small.
	They have, you know, hundreds of thousands of chickens.
	Yeah.
	You know, the real small farmer would have, you know, a few dozen chickens and sell to his pals.
	But this small egg farmer in California has been run out of business basically, and I think in many states, has been basically run out of business by environmental laws and you can't do this, you can't do that, cruelty to animal laws, all these kind of laws against doing just about anything a commercial egg layer needs to do.
	And so they've all moved to Iowa where nobody cares.
	Most of the big...
	The production is there.
	That's why we have eggs.
	You know, they said a lot of the poison eggs were in California.
	Why are they coming from Iowa?
	I thought we're supposed to eat local.
	Yeah.
	So anyway, so the Safeway and all these chains have got these eggs from Iowa.
	So the whole thing is just designed to create these massive companies.
	Yeah.
	You know, there are acres and acres of chickens laying eggs and then shipping them.
	Shipping a dozen eggs.
	A dozen of these cheap, crappy eggs...
	Cost about, you know, $1.50.
	You know, they're almost next to nothing.
	I think they're like $2 for 18 eggs at Costco.
	And it's like, how can you afford to have the chickens, lay the eggs, put the eggs in the packaging, put them in a truck, haul the truck all the way to California, put them in a store and sell them for $1.50?
	What's wrong with this picture?
	Right.
	These eggs must be garbage.
	But also, you know, they make it...
	So I'm looking at the CDC, I'm looking at the FDA, and I'm looking at, was it foodsafety.gov?
	And they're literally talking about a salmonella outbreak.
	Like this is some monkey virus or something.
	First of all, here's a tip.
	Don't lick raw chicken, okay?
	This has never been a good idea.
	You know, the salmonella is inherent to this poultry, and you need to cook your eggs.
	You need to cook it.
	When you cook it, then you kill it.
	You kill the bacteria.
	They're saying nothing new here, except, well, you know, a runny egg could get it.
	Possibly, possibly, mind you, they say possibly hundreds of people, of half a billion eggs, possibly hundreds of people are affected by the salmonella outbreak.
	Oh, you might not even know it.
	You may just not feel good for 24 hours.
	And then they have a podcast!
	A podcast!
	Listen to this!
	This podcast is presented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
	CDC. Safer, healthier people.
	Hi, I'm Jennifer Mitchell.
	With me today is Dr.
	Casey Barton-Barevish, a veterinary epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
	We are discussing ways to reduce your risk of getting a salmonella infection from eggs.
	Welcome, Dr.
	Barton Berevesh.
	Thanks, Jennifer.
	It's a pleasure to be here.
	Welcome, John.
	How are you today?
	I am good.
	It is a pleasure to have you on the program.
	It is absolutely fantastic.
	So it's completely scripted.
	It's funny when you listen to it, actually.
	It's just funny.
	And it's just fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
	It's what the software industry, computer industry, uses all the time.
	Or used to use.
	Used to be effective.
	You know, almost any place in the country you go, there's somebody selling, you know, fresh eggs from their own chickens.
	Yeah.
	And that should be encouraged.
	Well, they actually...
	I was going to say, they actually say, if the eggs are dirty, don't eat them.
	Oh, that's bull.
	All eggs are...
	When a chicken lays the egg...
	It's dirty, I know, I know.
	It's a dirty egg because it comes out of the butthole.
	Yeah.
	I don't know if it comes out of the same orifice.
	It does.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	Well, that's awkward.
	Yeah, well, so the chicken's got some chicken shit on it, or the egg's got some chicken shit on it, generally.
	I thought it came out of a different orifice, and there was just some extra, you know, like, I squeeze an egg out, and I pooped a bit on it.
	Nope.
	So it actually comes out of the poop hole.
	It's a dual-purpose hole.
	Yeah.
	It's a three-input chicken.
	This is awesome.
	That's why it's covered with chicken shit.
	I mean, what other reason?
	So it said, don't eat dirty eggs.
	Like, don't eat the brown acid.
	Don't eat dirty eggs.
	Seriously.
	They're saying, do not eat dirty eggs.
	Well, generally speaking, when you have a lot of eggs and you have your own chickens, the eggs are...
	Not all of them, by the way.
	Once it was a real clean egg laying around.
	But they're generally a little grimy.
	You put them in some water and you soak them.
	And then you scrub off...
	There's also a little weird coating that's on the egg that seals it that you don't want to scrub off so you don't want to use soap or anything.
	But you just want to scrub off the chicken shit.
	Yeah, of course.
	And then you put the eggs in a cart and put them in the refrigerator and they're good to go.
	After a few days, you cannot eat a fresh egg.
	Restaurants are now being strongly advised to use pasteurized eggs in any and all recipes.
	Oh, that's disgusting.
	Yeah.
	Just make a hard-cooked egg.
	Actually, I think what this is...
	Okay, here we go.
	I'm getting it now.
	I'm getting the...
	It's salmonella entertitis.
	I'm getting it.
	I'm getting what we're headed for.
	CDC outbreak.
	Investigation of salmonella entertitis.
	Outbreak.
	It's an outbreak.
	We've got chicken shit making you sick.
	I've got who's behind it.
	Okay.
	There's a number of large corporations that make gamma radiation equipment that is used to sterilize food.
	And it's been a known fact that the public...
	Unfortunately, gamma radiation is pretty safe in terms of...
	It doesn't irradiate anything.
	It just kills anything living.
	And it also maybe alters enzymes and does things like that.
	Isn't that what they use at the airport to scan you?
	No.
	God, no.
	No.
	It dropped like a fly.
	Okay.
	So gamma radiation has been used in Europe a lot.
	When you buy milk or dairy products, they say ultra-pasteurized.
	That's what pasteurization is, is they nuke it?
	Yeah.
	Ultra-pasteurization is a process of nuking it with gamma radiation from one of these pieces of equipment.
	Very expensive gear.
	And the food goes in, it gets nuked, and then it comes out, and it doesn't have any...
	All living things that have anything associated with that food are dead.
	But the food is not radioactive, but the industry for years has been...
	You know, there's a bad...
	It has a bad rap.
	Because it's got big radiation signs all over the place, and people think that if they irradiate the food, then it's going to come out radioactive and glowing, and it's going to give you cancer, which it's not going to do.
	I mean, not from radiation, that's for sure.
	So they've been trying to scare the public as much as possible into adopting these pieces of equipment.
	It would be perfect for the egg industry, and the beef industry wants to use it.
	And I always thought that the best way to sterilize things is to let this gamma radiation stuff come through.
	But then I slowly realized, and it's the same thing with raw milk.
	I slowly realize that if you let, like, the beef industry, for example, and so I'm against the radiation.
	Yeah, I would understand that, yeah.
	I'm against the radiation for the reason is that if you let these guys irradiate everything and kill everything, you're going to be eating shit, literally.
	Yeah.
	Because they're not going to do anything.
	It's dead.
	The food is dead.
	The food's dead.
	Well, the food is dead, A. But the fact is they don't give a crap about keeping it clean.
	If it falls on the ground and lands in a cow turd, what difference does it make?
	It's dead.
	It's going to go through the radiation gear.
	Nobody's going to get sick.
	They're just going to be eating shit.
	You're just eating carbon, essentially.
	Dead carbon.
	No, you're not eating dead carbon.
	There's no difference in the protein structure after it goes through the radiator.
	Or radiation device.
	The radiator.
	So, it's a safe process, except the problem is it'll give these unclean facilities too much leeway.
	And we'll be eating, literally eating crap.
	So, the way they determine this is they have an epidemic curve, better known as the EPI curve, And between May 1st and July 31st, 2010, a total of 1,953 illnesses were reported.
	However, some of these cases may not be related to this outbreak.
	The word outbreak pisses me off.
	Based on the previous five years of reports, we would expect approximately 700 illnesses during the same period.
	So it's doubled to, yeah, more than doubled to 1,900.
	So then all of a sudden it's like, recall the eggs, outbreak, outbreak, warning, warning.
	Well, anyway, something's fishy is going on, and I believe it's the radiation industry.
	I do like that the firm is Wright County Egg, located in Galt, Iowa.
	Ha ha!
	That's just a nice little extra tidbit they throw in there.
	You know they're just doing it just to piss us off.
	You know, there's a bumper sticker you see in the Midwest every so often that says, where is Galt?
	Yeah.
	And it refers to both the book and the town.
	You mean the Gulch?
	The Gulch?
	Gulch Gulch.
	I've never seen any Gulch Gulch.
	Well, Gulch is not a town in Atlas Shrugged.
	No, no, but Gulch is a town in Iowa.
	Right.
	Whatever.
	Anyway.
	I've never been there.
	So, anyway, that's nice.
	No more egg.
	No egg for you, slave!
	Shut up!
	Well, they don't want, you know.
	I have a good egg vendor here in the Bay Area that is a Japanese egg company, and the eggs taste like farm fresh eggs.
	They're dynamite.
	I've never had as good an egg.
	And unfortunately, the packaging is all in Japanese.
	So I go out, I'm checking out, and I wanted to translate.
	There's all this Japanese all over.
	The friend and the woman at the counter, she looks at it, and she looks at it, and she says...
	I said, what does that mean?
	She says, fresh eggs.
	That's what it says.
	There's another weird thing that is popping up on the news about circumcision in the United States, John.
	I haven't seen too many reports.
	I see a report about that every so often.
	Well, there was a new report that came out a couple days ago saying that the U.S. circumcision rates are on the decline and there's a new push for circumcision in Washington for some reason.
	That'll be Washington State, actually, I should say.
	And, yeah, it's kind of weird that these, you know, and actually this report, so they're saying, well, in sub-Sahara Africa, Clinical trials, and I don't understand how this works, this sounds like total crap, show that circumcised men were 60% less likely to acquire HIV. Like, that doesn't, to acquire HIV, if you, I mean, isn't that the giving portion?
	And not the receiving?
	It's like, how do they come up with these statistics?
	And it's the CDC again.
	Yeah, something's up with the CDC. They're trying to push the public.
	They got agendas.
	I don't know.
	I'll keep an eye out.
	I haven't heard that.
	I've got a place in Washington.
	The only thing I can think is that this is part of Obamacare, and they want to make sure that they're doing more cutting.
	Yeah, that could be.
	More money.
	Yeah, more money.
	That's the only thing I can think of.
	Just like, wow, this is pretty weird.
	So, you know, we got the spreadsheet, so I think we should probably get, because we have to now do our executive producers and thank yous.
	Yes.
	I think we should do them side by side.
	Do you want to do it now?
	We'll just do everything all in one go?
	I think we should do that all in one go.
	The problem is this has been a fail day, by the way.
	I want to discuss this before I get going, which is my E71 Nokia phone has failed.
	My favorite phone.
	It just reboots itself constantly.
	I mean, it comes on for a while.
	I can make a call and then all of a sudden it reboots.
	Did you install any software?
	I tried to do an upgrade sometime back.
	Ah, there you go.
	Fool.
	Yeah, seems to be part of the problem.
	Did you have to get that crazy Nokia software loader that you load on your PC? No, it's the worst.
	And then you have to connect the cable.
	My wife has another Nokia phone and she could never get the thing to work.
	That software loader is the worst thing imaginable.
	They should just go back to making boots and tires.
	They should give up.
	They may have to.
	And phishing material.
	I'm sorry to say it.
	It's just the fail.
	Complete fail.
	Except for the throwaway phones that they supply all of Africa with.
	I guess that's good still.
	Yeah.
	So that failed.
	Comcast failed.
	What else failed?
	There was some other thing that happened.
	It was like another fail.
	Oh yeah, the PayPal.
	So PayPal, I have to, you know, we're trying to do these thank yous.
	So I send the CSV file over to Eric and he says that the comments, all the comments that people said didn't come through at all.
	Which makes no sense, because it's part of the file.
	Somebody put a really long one in, but I didn't see it.
	Which sometimes screws things up.
	So that's another one.
	So I figure this is just a fiasco of a day.
	And, uh, yeah.
	Okay, so we don't have any comments.
	That sucks.
	No, I can go ahead and pull them off the real original file.
	Oh, so what you did is when you say to PayPal, send me an XLS file, that's when it didn't spit out the comments.
	That's what you mean?
	Yeah.
	So let's thank our executive producers in this case.
	We've got...
	Sir Paul Couture, of course, at the top of the list.
	Yeah, and he has a comment.
	He says, this is for executive producer credit this week, holding back reserve, blah, blah, blah, from the coins.
	Mention that the coins will be shipped to those that order on the 30th and 31st of August.
	Nice.
	And ask people that want a second coin design...
	Contact him and ask people that want a second coined, I think is what he's meant, designed.
	Contact webmaster at noagendacommunity.com or tweet to No Agenda Fans.
	Right.
	In the morning.
	So, is he going to do another run?
	In other words, if you want him to do another coin, different design for the second batch, send him a note.
	Cool.
	We're very appreciative of everything Sir Paul Couture has done for the show.
	And he gave us absolutely 33333, so he's the executive producer.
	And a patron.
	And patron, I guess, to say the least.
	And he's given that executive producer to himself, Sir Paul Couture.
	And then Jacob Smith from Tacoma, Washington, is the associate executive producer at 222.
	And I don't have...
	Do I have a note from him?
	I'm looking on this thing.
	I don't see one.
	So that's it, huh?
	Yeah, that's it.
	Just the two.
	Yeah, he has a note.
	This is my lucky number, 222 in Hebrew.
	It means the voice of God.
	Really?
	Yeah, you two are the voice of truth.
	Oh, I was going to say, please, you know, easy on the God stuff with us.
	I mean, we're good.
	We're good.
	We're not that good.
	That wasn't the only funny line from the movie last night, Eat, Pray, Love, where her marriage is in shambles and she kneels down and she says for the first time in her life she actually prayed to God voiceover.
	And then she says, God, I've never spoken with you before and I don't know what to say, then I love your work, man.
	Like a real Hollywood thing.
	If you're ever in Hollywood at a party with actors or producers, anyone in the business, they always say, Hi, nice to meet you.
	I really love your work.
	I do that too.
	I really admire your work.
	And I was like, You've never heard my work, douchebag.
	Shut up.
	So then we have some regular contributors that we want to mention, including Matthew Carey of Eastwood South Australia.
	Hello.
	And we have Chris Engler, Double Nickels on the Dime, Milton, Ontario, Christopher Descato, Las Vegas, Double Nickels on the Dime, Trent Phillips, Kilbourne, South Australia.
	You've got a lot of Aussies this week.
	Good.
	Well, they're in dire straits down there because their elections are all messed up.
	Double Nickels on the Dime, Scott Williams, Miramar, Florida, $50, and Chris Lind Hartson from, where is he from?
	Richland, Washington.
	He gave us $52.20 and he says he wants to give a douchebag call out at The Real Canadian.
	Okay.
	Douchebag!
	For reasons I guess he doesn't donate.
	But he gave us $52.20 because that's how much weight he lost in the last number of months.
	Is that stone?
	$52 stone or $52 pounds?
	No, $52 pounds.
	Okay.
	So I think that's another possible excuse to donate.
	Give us your weight loss.
	Oh, yeah.
	Weight gain is good, too.
	Either one.
	Either one is okay.
	We're okay with it.
	Let me just see if there's any comments here that I can pull off the main sheet.
	Let's see.
	We got...
	Trent Phillips says, hello, he's treating myself to a de-douching for his birthday on the 23rd.
	He just voted in the Australia federal election.
	Let's just say that no matter what happens, we are fucked.
	Either way, keep up the good work, Trent.
	Well, it's interesting, you know, although I normally, since it's a kind of messed up day anyway, there is something very nasty happening.
	There's this guy, Alan Milburn, who was in the UK, and in 2003 he resigned.
	He was a minister.
	He was a minister.
	And he resigned because there was this article that was printed that he had a 12-year-old boy from Clapham South called Sean, who was his pet.
	His boy toy, essentially.
	And so he resigned.
	And then he pops up in Australia, first as an advisor to Kevin Rudd in 2007.
	And now we learn that he's set to become, I think, the mobility czar back in David Cameron's government.
	This guy is like a total pedo bear, and he's bopping back and forth between Australia and the UK, I guess skirting the law.
	And so they've got all these weirdos who are trying to get into government in Australia.
	And it's frightening.
	And people are in disarray there.
	They just had Rudd resign.
	They got Gillian in.
	Gillian Gillian, whatever her name is.
	And now, although it's kind of funny, when you look at the ballot for Gitmo Nation down under, they've got the Australian Sex Party, the...
	What is this other party?
	I have a picture of it, actually.
	The Climate Skeptics Party.
	It's all on the ballot, which is kind of cool.
	Are you still there?
	Yeah, no, I was just listening to that.
	It's kind of weird.
	I don't know what's going on in Australia, but I guess we have to start addressing it because it doesn't seem to be heading in the right direction.
	No, no, I'm all over it, and I'm happy that our friends in Gitmo down under are helping us out, supporting the show.
	So send us some.
	You're producers as well.
	You're not just supporters.
	You've got to send us information.
	I'm looking at you, Maynard.
	So, Trent Phillips and another one is Scott Williams needed de-douching.
	Scott says he reeks of vinegar.
	I don't know what that means.
	Alright, here you go, Scott.
	You've been de-douched.
	I think you do understand the pun there.
	Huh?
	Anyway, so if there's other notes in there, we missed them because of the nature of the day.
	This is just a fail day, so it's just the way it goes.
	I do have an idea.
	So first of all, Dvorak.org slash NA. Please show your support with either a one-time donation.
	There's a couple of campaigns and programs you can get on if you go to the page, which is also linked from NoAgendaShow.com.
	But even joining up for a $5 a month subscription really helps.
	That sustains.
	If you are a $5 a month subscriber and supporter of the show, check it to make sure your donation is still going through.
	PayPal has this nasty habit of not only dropping your notes and your comments, but unsubscribing you from the program.
	And I had an idea, John, because you were talking about the magic date 10-10-10, which is just around the corner.
	Right.
	It's not going to happen again for a long time.
	Right.
	And it's a very, very lucky date.
	It's considered a very lucky date in, what is it, China?
	China, yeah.
	So I was thinking about, you know, is there any karma in this for us?
	Now, we're not Chinese, so that clearly doesn't work.
	And then it hit me.
	10-10-10 is binary for 42.
	And 42, anyone should know that according to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the number 42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.
	So I'm thinking maybe we can set up some massive extra karma on this fantastically special date and everyone can get in on the action by donating $42.
	And then I start to do some research on 42.
	This is an amazing number.
	We do a lot with numerology.
	33, the 3's are always important.
	But 42 is, mathematically, it's a very interesting number.
	A primary pseudo-perfect number.
	It is, let's see, it is the perfect score on the USA Math Olympiad.
	It is the expected number of throws until two sixes show up successfully for the first time.
	It is, well, of course, 42 in ASCII is Asterix.
	The Asterix, commonly known as the wild card.
	I mean, I never knew this about 42.
	In fact, I'm thinking of getting a 42 tattoo.
	I think you should.
	42 is the result given by Wolfram, Alpha, Google, and Microsoft's Bing when the query has entered the answer to life, the universe, and everything else.
	In astronomy, there's lots of 42s.
	In religion, 42 is the number with which God creates the universe in Kabbalistic tradition.
	42 appears in various contexts in Christianity, in Judaism.
	But of course, screw all that.
	It's in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
	That's what it is.
	Alice in Wonderland has 42 illustrations.
	I'm searching now.
	Well, I think we should document all this, put it on the page, and we'll do our 10-10-10 special...
	Will you put that on the page?
	Contribution, yeah.
	Yeah, it should be...
	I think we should do like...
	I think we should have a page dedicated to it.
	That's a good idea.
	Well, there's a huge wiki page, which is just unbelievable.
	I had no idea.
	Yeah, okay, we'll take this generously from the page.
	It's a wiki page.
	And we'll make it our autumn promotion.
	Fun drive, fundraising drive, using this 42 theme, and target everything for 10-10-10 day.
	I like it.
	I like it.
	What's 10-10-10?
	What day of the week is that?
	Oh.
	Let's take a look.
	I don't have a calendar open.
	10-10 is, guess what?
	It's a Sunday.
	Yep.
	Cool.
	Oh my God.
	That's a good omen, John.
	That is a good omen.
	So we can do the show.
	We'll do a special 10-10-10 show.
	42nd Street.
	42nd Street.
	Lots of hookers and blow.
	That's good luck.
	This is really bad.
	There's so many references to level 42.
	Oh man, 42.
	It's just an amazing number.
	I think we need the Jeff Smiths or Jeff Smith to do a song for us.
	A 42 tune or something.
	Okay, so you'll get a donation button up for the Lucky 42 Super Karma, which will pay off for you on 10-10-10, which is a Sunday.
	It couldn't get any better than that.
	I didn't even realize that.
	That is awesome.
	Alright, so back to the show.
	But before we do that, we should, one more plug out there, dvorak.org slash na, channeldvorak.com slash na, and noagendashow.com will get you to one of the donation sites.
	It's a beautiful thing.
	So anyway, let's see what we got.
	Well, you got some clips and I got a couple other things.
	Let's take a look at these clips.
	Maybe, just kind of like real news, but not real enough to play the jingle.
	Well, we have some sort of a level of real news.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, we do have kind of a level.
	Here's what happened.
	We had the N-word discussion with Dr.
	Laura Schlesinger a couple days ago.
	I actually had some good email conversations with people.
	Really appreciate all the feedback people gave.
	Both positive and negative, but there was no hate and there was a lot of good discussion, which I always like seeing.
	But then this pops up this week.
	This is Jennifer Aniston and the R word.
	If you don't know what I'm talking about, take a listen to what she said.
	She was on live with Regis and Kelly.
	She's talking about her issue in Harper's Bazaar, a photo shoot where she was posing to look like Barbra Streisand.
	Take a listen.
	That's one of her classic poses, and that is Jennifer Aniston.
	And with all these fun wigs, and it was, you know, that funny girl.
	And so it was just like, it was just fun.
	You play dress up.
	I play dress up.
	I do it for a living, like a retard.
	Yeah, she said it.
	Yeah, you know, the audience didn't respond.
	Regis and the co-host, they didn't respond.
	But people, they are responding.
	Advocacy groups are saying it was extraordinarily offensive and inappropriate.
	And she's been in the headlines a lot.
	I mean, this Bill O'Reilly thing with her saying, you know, this is the new form of mothers referencing to the movie The Switch.
	Which comes out this weekend, right?
	So all this publicity.
	Because it kind of reminds me of when President Barack Obama said about Special Olympics when he's making fun of his own bowling and that calls it up.
	We've heard Rush Limbaugh say it.
	We've heard Howard Stern say it.
	People say it a lot.
	But she is under a lot of criticism right now.
	So she's got a movie coming out.
	So this is, of course, actually really good.
	But the people from rword.org...
	They're calling them out.
	And I'm thinking, this is actually really good because the people who are talking about this on CNN, local news, they are retards.
	The people who look at this news and think this is news, you put actual retards to shame.
	They're smart.
	They're out there in the Special Olympics doing shit.
	Everyone else is a retard sitting there going, oh, wow, there's 50,000 troops left, but the combat troops are out.
	And we're there because of some lies from some more retards in Congress who lied about weapons of mass destruction and were there to protect the Iraqis.
	I'm telling you, we are retards.
	We're absolutely, we are more retarded than the people.
	The Special Olympics people are brilliant compared to us.
	They're smart.
	Play it, play it, play it, play it.
	The pet peeve theme.
	Oh, yeah, here we go.
	I'm Steve Curry's Petty Holiday.
	Just, you know, it's like, it's a double slam on people who are in the Special Olympics because they're great!
	They're out there doing high jumps with, you know, and they're crazy, and we are retards!
	I was hoping we wouldn't do that story, but I did have it kind of clipped into the showbiz tonight's thing.
	I have a clip that mentions it, but it doesn't go into it.
	Well, should we have a listen?
	I just thought the whole thing was pretty lame.
	Let's go to some, do I have any real news?
	I don't think so.
	Oh, yeah, I do.
	There's a thing going on.
	Well, hold on, hold on, hold on.
	And now, back to real news.
	Okay.
	Oh, well, we're going to go to the real, real news.
	Yeah.
	We're getting the neoprohibitionist...
	The demon drink again?
	...showing up with the Kardashians.
	You might want to play that.
	Oh, boy.
	Do I know about this.
	Was this Larry King, by any chance?
	Yeah, with...
	I'm in the vodka these days.
	Whatever's in the house.
	That's right.
	Oh, boy.
	Whatever you got.
	They're kidding.
	Yes.
	Bruce, you...
	No, I'm a beer.
	One beer is my limit.
	I don't really drink.
	I've been married to him for 20 years and I don't think I've ever seen you buzzed.
	No.
	Ever.
	And a great word, buzzed, by the way.
	What a great new episode.
	Being a mother, has it changed your desire for alcohol?
	I'm still breastfeeding, so that solves that.
	Which is a lovely visual, by the way.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	For the show.
	Yours is so sick.
	Now when she's got the pump going.
	I was pumping that.
	Do I really have to listen to all of this?
	No.
	They go back into the alcohol thing again.
	Lopez is perhaps the worst interviewer in the world.
	He makes nothing but kind of lewd, sexual innuendo.
	Yeah, it's like, oh, that's a great visual.
	I'm thinking of your breast.
	He's so sleazy and he's got a sleazy look.
	He just looks like he's greasy.
	He's a douchebag.
	So, um, Mickey follows, uh, this is like her crack.
	She follows the Kardashian shows.
	And I can't help but watch because, you know, immediately you're into alpha state.
	No, I can't.
	You can shoot yourself.
	I might have to.
	But we had this discussion just the other day.
	I said, you know, I don't even believe that her husband is an alcoholic.
	I don't believe it at all.
	He's in some fake therapy with a fake therapist.
	And what kind of therapist lets him actually tape the therapy session?
	Where he's going like, well, you know, you have to give yourself permission to heal.
	It's like bullshit.
	I think the whole thing, particularly the drinking thing with Scott, her husband, is fake.
	But the movement continues, John, because now everywhere I'm seeing drunk driving ads with motorcycles.
	Have you noticed this?
	No, not here.
	Oh yeah, no.
	This is the sound of a popular American motorcycle.
	It's the sound of freedom.
	The open road.
	Really good times.
	And this is what it sounds like with a drunk guy on it.
	How do you like the sound of that?
	Cops are cracking down on drunk motorcycle riders.
	If you ride drunk, you will get caught and you will get arrested.
	Drunk riding.
	Over the limit, under arrest.
	Paid for by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
	Why is the U.S. Department of Transportation wasting the taxpayers' money on this?
	Because, apparently, there's an epidemic of drunk motorcyclists out there.
	You know, all the things in the world you want to do on a motorcycle is drive drunk.
	I mean, this just sounds like I don't think it's true.
	I don't think so either.
	Maybe there's something coming against motorcycles now.
	By the way, that doesn't sound like a Harley.
	I just want to say, I know it sounds pretty good.
	It sounded more like a rice burner, one of those fake, like, Honda things.
	It's supposed to look like a Harley.
	Much attention to it.
	Slave Mark from Colorado writes in and says, I've been amazed the greed of the crime industry supported by government to keep us slaves in line.
	In Colorado, over one-third of our population has an alcohol violation.
	One-third.
	Now you can get two days of mandatory jail for having one drink and walking to your car with your keys in your hand.
	The trial lawyers, interlock companies such as Guardian, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, BI, and others snuck through increased penalties a few months ago.
	But of course the sheeple don't care.
	Anyway, Mark lives just a few miles from BI.com and...
	And he's going to go record it.
	No, the people in Colorado are essentially under attack by their own government.
	Go to the blog, Dvorak.org slash blog, and look back a few days, and you'll find...
	If you haven't seen the two cops who beat the crap out of some dog walker...
	Yeah.
	This guy's walking his dog...
	Casually across a little bridge.
	And these two cops pull over some guy, supposedly, and the guy's within earshot of hearing this.
	These two cops pull over some guy who they claim ran a stop sign.
	And the dog walker says, hey, I saw you.
	You stopped.
	You didn't run the sign.
	And they tased him, right?
	Let me guess.
	They tased him?
	No, they just beat the crap out of it.
	Really?
	And it's on video?
	How did the video get made?
	Apparently there was somebody that was filming it, or it was one of the city videos that somebody got a hold of the tape.
	I'm not sure.
	But the video shows that clearly the guys take it.
	The two cops push the guy, push him up against the bridge edge, and then one of them gives him a knee to the groin and starts smacking him.
	Smacking him around.
	And the other guy's, you know, beating him, too.
	And so the two guys...
	And meanwhile, of course, these cops are still, you know, they're, well, you know, administrative, full pay, and, well, we're looking into it, and the district attorney's going to do nothing.
	This is the situation happening in Colorado, which has become one of the worst police states.
	I never liked that state.
	You know, speaking of video recordings and stuff, so I was watching, and I don't know exactly what I was watching, but it was some guy, some retired admiral or journal, general or colonel, whatever it was, And he was talking about how the war in Iraq basically upgraded our military infrastructure.
	We went in with poor flak jackets.
	Now we've got great flak jackets.
	We went in with shitty cars and trucks and tanks.
	And now we've got fantastic armored vehicles because of all these IEDs.
	And then they're showing all this footage.
	And it's, you know, shot from a hilltop, and you see like a tank move along and boom, it blows up with an IED. Then you see a personnel carrier, it's like boom, it blows up with an IED. Who's filming this?
	And how is that video getting onto CNN? And it looks to me like it's military footage.
	Are they just sitting there waiting for something to blow up?
	Or is it staged?
	I mean, it doesn't look...
	I have no idea.
	I would guess staged in some instances.
	It's not shaky cam Al-Qaeda shit.
	That's not what it is.
	I mean, it's like static.
	It's there.
	It's pointed.
	It's like right in the road.
	And then, you know, a jeep comes along and boom, it blows up.
	You know, it's a shocking sight.
	I'm just like, who is filming this?
	Where does this video come from?
	Al-Qaeda posted it on the web somewhere.
	It's pretty good quality.
	Yeah, it seems unlikely.
	Well, you know, there's a lot of setup stuff going on.
	We were watching a news report last night, and the clip here is troops.
	And it was showing a bunch of guys what they think about now leaving.
	And this was so staged.
	And the guys were so stupid.
	It was weird.
	There were three different guys, and they were standing there extremely well lit, professionally lit, in the middle of nowheresville.
	bill but and each three of the each three of the three guys had the exact same t-shirt on that was a gray t-shirt that said army across the front the kind you could buy in you know different places right did they have makeup on as well i would think so yeah but listen to this little report and listen to the one guy who's just i mean i don't know why they couldn't find somebody that could actually be could enunciate but and then again to train iraqi forces last year It's all excitement.
	There's one more step to get home.
	We came, we saw, we helped people, and now I feel good.
	It's been a reward to see the Iraqis really take things on their own.
	This boggles the mind.
	We went into Iraq because Colin Powell held up like a biological vial of stuff of anthrax and there was weapons of mass destruction.
	Saddam Hussein was a horrible guy.
	And now we came, we saw, we helped people?
	Veiny Vidi, we help people.
	I feel good.
	I mean, I'm sorry.
	I mean, our servicemen and women have been hoodwinked.
	You've been put in harm's way by bastards who are just out there to make more money on building more crap.
	And, oh, we have to manufacture better vehicles.
	We need better flak jackets.
	It was a scam.
	From beginning to end.
	And no one is saying anything about it.
	I actually woke up at like 2 this morning and this got me all riled up.
	I was thinking about this.
	Like, jeez.
	We were there to help people.
	What are we helping?
	Stupid.
	It's ridiculous.
	It's inhumane.
	So there's a couple other things going on besides the crazy war.
	And of course, the big news this week, and I have no...
	Actually, I had one clip and I decided I didn't even send it over.
	Which I might send over later because it's kind of a weird clip from Donald Trump.
	But the big news this week, of course, was triggered.
	And we talked about it when it first broke.
	We didn't think much it was going to make mainstream at all.
	It's the G word.
	It's...
	What's the G word?
	Oh, this is not Geraldo?
	No, I got a Geraldo thing, though.
	Okay, then what was it?
	No, no, that's it.
	Oh, the Lockerbie Bomber.
	No, no, I don't have the clip, I told you.
	Yeah, you got the Lockerbie Bomber clips here.
	No, I don't have the clip of what I'm talking about.
	Oh, okay, sorry.
	The mosque.
	Oh, there is no mosque.
	And so the mosque...
	There is no mosque at Ground Zero.
	It's a community center.
	So this was...
	This has got completely out of control.
	It's ruining both right-wing talk radio and left-wing talk radio and the news and the CNN and Fox and everything in between because that's all anyone's talking about.
	And I find it just ridiculous because whatever happens is going to be localized anyway.
	So anyway, so we avoided that even though we were on it way before anybody else.
	And so the next thing that's coming up, the kind of, the Moss thing is kind of morphed a little bit, especially with Fox News, into this new meme that Obama is not a Christian.
	Right, he's a Muslim.
	Yeah, well, nobody actually wants to say he's a Muslim, and nobody really thinks he is.
	And so we got this really, this is a very long clip, but it's worth listening because there's a number of little nuggets.
	Now it gets all throughout it, and this is the Obama's not a Christian report about how, you know, so we were talking about this, by the way, last night, and it was, what is Obama?
	He's not a Christian.
	He's not a Muslim.
	He's either an agnostic or an atheist, and he just doesn't want to admit it.
	He's a Hawaiian.
	There you go.
	Play there, Obama.
	He has seeped into the president's political base.
	Now, less than half of Democrats say the president is a Christian.
	Less than half of African Americans say the president is a Christian.
	Less than half of people who give Obama positive job approval ratings say he's a Christian.
	In Washington, of the 12 people who talked to a Fox News crew, eight called the president a Christian, three Ron Schur, one labeled him a Muslim.
	There's no practical demonstration of that fact that he is anything other than Christian.
	There's no question or doubt about it that he's Christian.
	The American public would like to know a little bit more about where he stands on his faith.
	A Time magazine poll taken after the Ground Zero mosque debate flared found 47% believe Mr.
	Obama is a Christian, but 24% believe, again incorrectly, that he's a Muslim.
	The president has attended Christian services sparingly and given up on a vow to find a permanent church in Washington.
	This after a campaign season decision to quit his Chicago church...
	Wait a minute, did he just say incorrectly that he's not a Christian?
	I didn't hear that.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it just dawned on me.
	Listen to this.
	Hold on.
	No, he said incorrectly Muslim.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, so he's basically saying that he's not a Muslim.
	Yeah.
	It's incorrect.
	Right.
	Okay.
	But 24% believe, again, incorrectly, that he's a Muslim.
	The president has attended Christian services sparingly and given up on a vow to find a permanent church in Washington.
	This after a campaign season decision to quit his Chicago church and sever ties to longtime pastor Jeremiah Wright.
	Mr.
	Obama now prefers private Christian services at Camp David.
	Also, Mr.
	Obama plays a lot of golf on Sundays.
	Still.
	I know.
	He prays at Bohemian Grove.
	So he said, he's got to, there's a couple other things that come up.
	He plays golf on Sundays.
	He plays golf on Sundays.
	But he, the mention of Jeremiah Wright, and this also comes up in the conversation, is that, you know, all this right had these horrible anti-American sentiments, and Obama was, Obama, I don't think, ever went to that church.
	He probably showed up once in a while.
	And that was that.
	He doesn't go to church, hello?
	But anyway, there's a funnier nugget coming up just a little further along the line here.
	Scholars find these new poll numbers baffling.
	It just seems ridiculous to me that he would be considered a Muslim by anyone.
	I mean, we're in the middle of Ramadan right now, where Muslims are fasting from dawn until dusk, and we have our president stuffing his face full of...
	Ice cream.
	In addition to that ample visual evidence, the White House says, the President receives an email, prayer devotional every day.
	And turkey.
	Turkey stuff, yeah.
	So anyway, the whole thing...
	It's a distraction, John.
	It's just a distraction.
	This is because these guys are just looking for something.
	They're just trying to slam this guy.
	But the point is that Obama brought this on himself by even just saying anything about that mosque.
	To be fair, the idea of putting a mosque next to ground zero, I think Americans have put a lot of ground zeros next to mosques.
	Okay, well that's an interesting argument.
	You should get on one of these shows and say that.
	Yeah, that'll go a long way.
	Anyway, somebody pointed out that it looks like Gibbs and Rahm Emanuel and all his advisors have been on vacation for the last week or so, and Obama took it upon himself to give the pro-mosque speech and then have to back down the next day.
	And he's just made a botch of it.
	I mean, the guy should just do some real work and stop yakking about things.
	The guy can't stop talking.
	So I did watch our president's little show yesterday.
	I caught the end of it.
	You caught the end of it?
	You mean of his speech to the nation?
	No, no.
	Yeah, the little one he does on WhiteHouse.com.
	How can you catch the end of it?
	Is it broadcast anywhere?
	It's on C-SPAN. Oh, really?
	Yeah, it was on C-SPAN 2, I think.
	I just caught the end of it.
	And then I got to see some crazy, some guy trying to rebut it.
	He had nothing to say about what the speech was really about.
	Well, it was kind of annoying.
	Maybe we should just listen to a minute or two of it.
	Because, you know, once again, he's like, all he's talking about is Republican bad, Republican stopping me, Republican bad, not good, ooh, very bad, secret groups.
	The political season heats up.
	Americans are already being inundated with the usual phone calls and mailings.
	Yeah, from Barack Obama dot org.
	That's what I'm getting mailings from.
	He adds from campaigns all across the country.
	But this summer, they're also seeing a flood of attack ads run by shadowy groups with harmless sounding names.
	We don't know who's behind these ads, and we don't know who's paying for them.
	That's weird.
	Is that really true?
	We can't find out who's behind the ads?
	This is bogus.
	Yeah.
	You can find out who's doing it.
	He's got the CIA working for it.
	He's the president!
	He's the president.
	This is whining.
	This is pathetic.
	Yeah, it gets worse.
	The reason this is happening is because of a decision by the Supreme Court in the Citizens United case.
	A decision that now allows big corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence our elections.
	Is this maybe...
	Kagan's already in, right?
	Is she being confirmed?
	Yeah, she's done.
	Okay, so maybe it's just like, oh, we're going to change this.
	We're going to put our girl in.
	They can buy millions of dollars worth of TV ads.
	And worst of all, they don't even have to reveal who is actually paying for it.
	You don't know if it's a foreign-controlled corporation.
	Listen.
	You don't know if it's BP. You don't know if it's a big insurance company.
	Wow.
	You don't know if it's BP. Oh, my God.
	This is not a leader.
	This is a whining bitch.
	Wall Street Bank?
	A group can hide behind a phony name like Citizens for a Better Future, even if a more accurate name would be Corporations for Weaker Oversight.
	We tried to fix this last month.
	There was a proposal supported by Democrats and Republicans that would have required corporate political advertisers to reveal who's funding their activities.
	However, when special interests take to the airwaves, whoever is running and funding the ad would have to appear in the advertisement and take responsibility for it, like a company's CEO or an organization's biggest contributor.
	And foreign-controlled corporations and entities would be restricted from spending money to influence American elections, just as they were in the past.
	You would think that making these reforms would be a matter of common sense.
	Well, let me be clear.
	You'd think that reducing corporate and even foreign influence over our elections wouldn't be a partisan issue.
	But the Republican leaders in Congress said no.
	In fact, they used their power to block the issue from even coming up for a vote.
	What power?
	What power?
	They don't have any power.
	The committees are run by the Democrats.
	The Congress is run by the Democrats.
	How do you block it?
	I guess they're talking about the filibuster again.
	No, this isn't what he's talking about.
	This is bull crap is what it is.
	Yeah.
	Yep.
	So I just look at that.
	He's always whining about the Republicans.
	But the Democrats have the House, they have the Senate, and they have the executive branch.
	I don't get it.
	Well, obviously, they need more than that.
	I don't know what you can do.
	If you're a Democrat, what more do you want before you have to stop complaining about the Republicans who have zero power?
	All they do, the Republicans can do, they can complain and moan and groan, but they can't do anything.
	Right.
	Well, somehow they're using their power.
	By the power of Greystoke, I block this legislation.
	You would agree with me, John, that when Warren Buffett makes an investment in something, usually it's something you kind of want to follow, because somehow he seems to always be right, the Oracle of Omaha.
	Let me see.
	He invested $5 billion, I think, in Goldman Sachs before Goldman got all this TARP money, and he made double his money.
	He invested, of course, in trains.
	And now, Warren Buffett has made a big bet to the tune of $2.4 billion on buying 17 million shares of Johnson& Johnson for their medical practice, for their medical division.
	Because, of course, Obamacare is going to make him rich!
	Rich, I tell you!
	Sounds right.
	Yep.
	You know, Obamacare is going to make a lot of people rich, but it's going to break the public.
	Things have gone up in price.
	There's different...
	I mean, as soon as they passed it, you can see anyone who gets prescriptions and they have a medical plan.
	Because, you know, you still pay the same $10, but if you look at the base price of the product, in many cases it's doubled.
	So that's who gets, you know, and of course that's what the insurance companies, they put it through that way.
	And it's just chemical goop.
	It's just an obvious scam.
	Well, so General Motors filed to go public.
	Now, of course, they haven't even paid back their borrowed money yet, or they lied about it.
	And you know me, I love reading S1s.
	I've done an S1 myself, and it's fun.
	You have the business part, you have the marketing part, and then you have the risk part of the S1 filing.
	So this is very important.
	The S1 is a public document, any company that goes public.
	And of course, you and I own 85% of General Motors right now, John.
	So far.
	Yeah, we own it.
	So I'm going to get a payout when they go public?
	I get some cash?
	Yeah, you'll get tons of cash.
	So I was reading through the risk document, and two things were interesting.
	One...
	The ability of our new executive management team to quickly learn the automotive industry and lead our company will be critical to within the past year.
	Within the past year, we have substantially changed our executive management team.
	That would be the president fired the guy.
	We've elected a new chief executive officer who will start on September 1, 2010, and a new chief financial officer who started January 1, 2010, both of whom have no outside automotive industry experience.
	So that's one of the risks.
	But the real risks that I found interesting, our management team for financial reporting, under the supervision and with the participation of our CEO and CFO, conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our internal controls.
	Because of the inability to sufficiently test the effectiveness of remediated internal controls, we concluded, our internal controls over financial reporting is not effective.
	June 30, 2010, we concluded our disclosure controls and procedures are not effective at a reasonable assurance level because of the material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting that continues to exist.
	Until we've been able to test the operating effectiveness of remediated internal controls and ensure the effectiveness of our disclosure controls or procedure, any material weaknesses may materially adversely affect our ability to report accurately our financial condition and results of operations in the future in a timely and reliable manner.
	Well, that's no good.
	No, this is an outrage.
	It's a freaking outrage.
	In other words, we don't exactly know.
	We don't know what's going on.
	We don't know what's going on.
	Here we are.
	Let's say we're buying our stock.
	This is just crazy.
	We could be losing tons of money for all we know.
	Yes, it's crazy.
	And they just put it in there.
	Gee, I wonder when will Don Lemon do that report on this?
	Never.
	Yeah.
	Nobody ever does S1s or all the rest of those things.
	It was just read it.
	I mean, you understood what I said.
	It wasn't that hard, right?
	Yeah, what it said was we're screwed up.
	We got guys who don't know how to run a car company, and we don't actually know how much we're making, or losing, for that matter.
	Losing, which is more like it.
	Oh, my goodness.
	It's just, wow.
	Thank you, Mr.
	President.
	Yeah, well, of course, nobody will pay any attention to that.
	By the way, I sent you one more clip, and you should probably pull it down, because I might want to play it.
	Okay.
	In the meantime, I've got a couple here that would be worth discussing.
	I found a new meme.
	It's kind of a real news meme, but it's mainly because of the discussion.
	And it seems like there's a pre-nup mania going on and it's being played up on a lot of news and entertainment shows.
	Pre-nup mania, you say?
	Pre-nup mania.
	If only I had known about the meme two years ago.
	Or longer.
	Yeah.
	On half a pre-nup, Tom and third wife Katie Holmes, who married in November 2006, it appears due.
	Their prenup reportedly pays Katie $3 million a year for being married to Tom Cruise, up to 11 years.
	So with a cap of $33 million, if she makes it for the long haul, past 11 years, she gets half of his worth at that time.
	Going through a divorce is one of the hardest things to go through.
	But the blow for Denise was perhaps softened by a prenup, which reports claim netted her as much as $40 million.
	In the contract, there was also apparently a $4 million infidelity clause, a clause not unusual for celebrities.
	Catherine Zeta-Jones, who has been married to Michael Douglas for almost 10 years, could get a $5 million payout for any infidelity.
	Come on!
	They got married just a month after they began dating, and Khloe Kardashian reportedly had a list of prenup demands for Laker Lamar Odom when they wed last September, including $500,000 for every year they're married, $25,000 a month in general support, $5,000 a month for shopping, and $1,000 a month for beauty care.
	And that's not all.
	The weirdest thing that she asked for is season tickets to the Lakers for her entire family.
	John, if you ever cheat on me, I want all your hoodies.
	So the thing that, you know, Mimi pointed this out, she said people are all upset about gay marriage and all this, and nobody's outraged by this.
	This is essentially, you know, it is making a mockery of marriage.
	I mean, setting it all up, it's like, hey, if you get a blowjob, that'll be half a million.
	If I continue to blow you for 11 years, I get 33 million.
	It's a bunch of hookers.
	It's legal prostitution is what it is.
	I don't see it any other way.
	Contracted prostitution.
	Well, that's just awesome.
	Unbelievable.
	No, it's not unbelievable, but yeah.
	It's unbelievable, but in that sense.
	It's pretty out there, for sure.
	Damn.
	So I'm watching Geraldo.
	You know, the Fox Weekend, I would recommend this to people who are bored stiff.
	If you're looking for some entertainment...
	High entertainment value shows.
	They're all on Fox on the weekends.
	It's all these second tier guys, wannabes, guys who couldn't carry a mass market or can't do a show five days a week.
	So you get a lot of wacky shows.
	Huckabee, Stossel, and you get a bunch of guys you've never heard of that do weird stuff.
	It's highly entertaining.
	It's highly entertaining.
	Geraldo shows are amongst the worst.
	And he only does one a week, right?
	It's Friday.
	Yeah, it's a weekend show.
	And he comes on the other shows, but he can't get any traction for this show either, because he's not very good when you see him as a host.
	No, he needs to go back to opening up Al Capone's vault.
	So he was on there.
	They're bitching and moaning about True Blood.
	One guy thinks it's the worst thing and it's an abomination.
	This other guy, these two TV reviewers, the other guy, who appears to be gay, which I'm saying because it's going to affect what he says.
	You mean the G word, John.
	And by the way, when he starts to discuss what he thinks about True Blood being a gay show...
	Peraldo, instead of saying, wow, this could get me some numbers, he chokes and cuts off the conversation.
	And I consider this like ridiculous on his part because it was actually getting interesting once this guy brought this issue.
	I've never seen the True Blood show.
	And who was the guest?
	Who was this guy?
	I have to get their names.
	But I just figured there's two guys arguing with Geraldo.
	It's about Geraldo blowing it, as it were.
	I got all these puns I don't even mean to do.
	Yeah.
	Stop.
	You're killing me.
	You'll be here all week.
	Let's listen to the clip.
	It's a highly intelligent, very clever indictment of the very conversation that we're having right now.
	And it's an allegory to our time.
	It's highly clever and ironic.
	I mean, they're depicting murder and rape as if it's something worth being glorified.
	I mean, there was an episode just this season where one of the main characters literally turned a woman's head around 180 degrees.
	I saw that in the exorcist, Nathan.
	Wait, I saw that in the exorcist.
	Nathan.
	Nathan, why didn't you have a problem with the violent movies like Transformers and movies where women are sexualized like Megan Fox?
	Nathan, did you see Salt?
	Did you see how many times Angelina Jolie offed somebody with a gun?
	Why aren't you going after movies and products like that?
	The old sex and violence argument, Nathan.
	There are certainly arguments to be made against the glorification of violence across the board, but this is a particularly extreme case where you're glorifying a really horrifying combination of sex and violence at the same time.
	I mean, you're showing people in a mainstream publication covered in blood and naked.
	I think you're taking it way too seriously.
	Where do we stop writing things off as simply ironic instead of sewer diving?
	That's what we're doing.
	And I think we need to talk about something that is the real issue here.
	I guarantee you, if none of those vampires were gay vampires, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
	What's upsetting so many people is a lot of the vampires are gay.
	I have to say, most of my vampire friends are gay.
	And that is absolutely true.
	Who's talking about the media?
	You haven't been watching the show if you haven't been seeing that.
	It has nothing to do with that.
	Well, like I said, I completely disagree.
	I mean, certainly that heterosexual sloppy scene we just saw was not gay.
	Anyway, guys, I guess it's a kind of circular debate.
	Those who like it will watch.
	A circle jerk is what he was thinking.
	Circular debate.
	Continue to watch it.
	This would have been actually kind of interesting.
	Yeah.
	I never thought about it, but obviously, you know, this guy was thinking in those terms, and I thought, well, that's an interesting angle as critique.
	And then Geraldo's like, oh, God, I don't know, maybe I'll get in trouble if I let this conversation continue.
	He likes the G word.
	He closes the conversation and leaves.
	It's unbelievable.
	But anyway, this is the kind of crap you get on TV. Black.org slash NA. Help us out.
	Keep us on the air.
	Keep us going.
	Exactly.
	Before Comcast, I was thinking about that.
	There's Comcast Cable, Time Warner, AT&T, and what else?
	You see what happens, right?
	It's like Comcast goes off the air.
	Boom.
	Show over.
	It's like you have no alternative.
	They won't wait until noon.
	Leave it off.
	They'll never make it.
	Make them do it Monday.
	Bastards, yeah.
	Make them do it in the afternoon so they can't see that in the morning crap.
	I think we'd be remiss if we didn't briefly speak about the WikiLeaks rape accusation and immediate withdrawal.
	I actually have a...
	A little bit of a clip.
	And I'm going to go to the end of it just so you can hear the anchor.
	I'm not sure who it is, but it was on CNN. And this is an amazing story.
	This is just outrageous.
	These past five hours have been just riveting.
	I mean, it's just been fantastic.
	Literally was posted five hours ago saying the charges are without basis.
	This was almost immediately after the charges came to light.
	So, Atika, I don't know where we are going to go from here.
	It has been a five hours, a strange developing story throughout the day.
	Atika, we appreciate you.
	If you get anything else, by all means, get back to us.
	But again, to our viewers, it has been, again, an odd five hours to see the man go from facing very serious allegations on the possibility of charges.
	An arrest in absentia, as they call it, has now been revoked, no longer wanted in Sweden on these charges.
	See, I think what happened is these charges came out.
	They probably got it off of Twitter, is where they do most of their news sourcing.
	Actually, Robert Gibbs' Twitter.
	And then they blew it up, big story, and then it turns out to be not true or withdrawn or whatever, and then they've got egg on their face.
	And then they're like, oh, well, this has been really strange.
	You know, it's really strange.
	This is weird five hours.
	Yeah, I don't understand.
	You know, this is Tika.
	Please come back to me when you have more information.
	It's the CIA. Oh, yeah.
	But I think somebody blew it.
	I also think it was an intelligence agency of some sort.
	I don't know which one.
	But I think somebody just decided to do this.
	And they said, what the hell are you doing?
	We can't do this now.
	It's too early.
	We don't have the Photoshop done yet.
	We're going to put him on pedophile charges.
	We're going to plant some stuff on his machine.
	Yeah, it's too early, you bastards.
	You can't do this, you stupid idiots.
	Get back into the mailroom, you idiot.
	Ugh.
	And, okay, so here's the funniest one, because I did a little bit of research.
	Wyclef Jean, the future president of Haiti, and this was the same thing.
	It was like, well, you know, it's...
	Yeah, his bid is illegal.
	He's not living in Haiti.
	Back and forth, back and forth, all of this stuff.
	And then he finally comes on the air.
	It sounds like he's on a satellite telephone from Port-au-Prince.
	For all I know, he was just calling from Skype.
	And I want you to listen to what he says about him not being eligible, because there's some amazing things in there, and I think I can kind of predict what's going to happen next.
	And there's another puppet on the scene.
	Here it comes.
	Yeah, the electoral council just gave their list of candidates.
	I was one of those that was rejected.
	We did not make it.
	Our party did not make it to the forefront.
	I know there's been a lot of back and forth and you've had a lawyer representing you in this case.
	What was the criteria that you didn't have in order to get onto this ballot?
	I mean, we had five lawyers representing us on this case.
	We produced every piece of paperwork.
	So, first of all, nice folk hero flying in Gulfstream 4s and a whole team of lawyers representing him and a whole team and a whole party.
	I just thought, oh, he's just a singer.
	He's like a hero of the people, which, by the way, you'll hear he still thinks he is.
	It's possible within the Constitution and within the Electoral Council.
	And we'll be printing those shortly online so everyone can take a look at them.
	But we just want to thank, you know, the youth of Haiti and the people of Haiti for believing in the movement, Fata Fas, and the political party.
	Viva Assam live together and stress to the youth for them not to act with violence.
	Okay, very interesting.
	You hear what he said?
	I couldn't understand it.
	He's saying, we stress to the youth of Haiti, do not...
	Commit any acts of violence about this news.
	I'm paraphrasing.
	So that's...
	Right there, I'm like, huh.
	Okay.
	So you're telling people not to riot, which is...
	And I'm going to get somewhere with all of this.
	But basically, he's saying, oh, you know, hey, I'm so happy people are not rioting that I've unfairly been thrown out.
	Because he doesn't say that there's...
	In fact, he says quite the opposite.
	He says there is no merit.
	There's no reason.
	He has all the documentation.
	Everything is all set.
	Everything is clean as a whistle, and he should be able to run.
	Wyclef, do they give you a specific reason why you've been rejected?
	No, there's no specific reason.
	Our lawyers went today.
	We went over all the paperwork, and every paperwork, every piece of document cleared.
	Right now, I think it's passed.
	The paperwork in our constitution, I think, you know, the Haitian constitution, the laws that are on there, we've listened and we've proved and we've shown every piece of paperwork.
	So this has come to our party and to our group as a total shock.
	So, essentially, straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak, it's not true.
	It has nothing to do with anything.
	There's no reason for him not being able to run.
	Is there an ability for you to appeal this process?
	And if you're talking to political candidates, aren't you supposed to say Mr.
	Jean?
	Since when do you get to say Wyclef?
	Wait, I go to school with you or something?
	Or is that a final decision?
	Well, we're going to talk about, in a couple of hours, with my lawyers right now, and see the technicalities, what they're playing.
	It's important that, as a Haitian citizen, that the rights of the Constitution is respected and the Electoral Council is respected, and if they act You know they got a gun at the guy's head.
	Read from this paper.
	So Time Magazine writes the following article, Wyclef dumped from Haiti's presidential ballot.
	And it starts right off with, before he announced on August 5th that he was running for president of Haiti, Wyclef Jean was still listing his age as only 37.
	But after declaring himself a presidential candidate, the Haitian-American hip-hop star also decided to come clean and confirm that he's actually 40.
	If you're going to lie about your age, you've got to do a better job.
	Three years.
	I mean, why the hell, right?
	What's the point?
	And why start the article off with that?
	Well, the article, I saw that article.
	It's a pretty sketchy article.
	It fails to mention his concert in Belgium.
	They had him hiding out in a cave somewhere, according to Time Magazine.
	So they were paying no attention.
	So this Time Magazine piece was obviously scripted by somebody else because there was no reporting that I could see.
	Well, let me take you all the way home.
	So, in this article it says, since he was widely viewed as a frontrunner before the CEP's ruling, his popularity will loom over the 19 candidates who did qualify, including Jude Celestine.
	That is the pick of current President René Preval, who of course is no longer eligible to run.
	So, a quick Google search on Jude Celestine, and I have here...
	July 10, 2010, Jude Celestine convicted of bank fraud in the United States.
	This guy is in Haiti.
	He should be extradited.
	He embezzled a million dollars in bank fraud, was convicted in the United States, and this is the guy that the current president is throwing up as the guy he wants to run.
	How did he get out of the country after he was convicted?
	Well, he's part of the cabal.
	So I think there's one of two things going on.
	So this will come out.
	The Celestine, and I've put a link in the show notes to justice.gov, where the June 11, Bank Insider and Runner convicted for roles in counterfeit check ring.
	And that's this guy.
	And I think what's going to happen is, so there's two things.
	One is, it's a total setup, and they want to ensure that Wyclef gets in.
	So it's going to be, he's out, they're going to push this convicted felon forward.
	The youth of Haiti will revolt.
	Of course, we know how that works when the jackals come in and they just stir up the pot.
	And then Wyclef is going to come out of the heavens in his Gulfstream IV, owned and operated by the Arabs and Clinton, and he's going to calm everybody down and he's going to save the day.
	That is one option.
	The other option is, it's actually true, I'm going to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, and they're trying to screw him out of running for the presidency, and they want to put this evil guy in, and they're just going to flip on the earthquake machine again, just to shut the damn slaves up.
	I don't think so.
	I think the first thing, the fact is that we got Clinton involved, so we know something's up.
	They're using the same jet.
	I don't know why you'd go through such an elaborate...
	I mean, you could just push the guy in and he'd win right away.
	If you want to make it so he's more of a folk hero by what you described, which is kind of a...
	It's a classic.
	It's a classic way to do it.
	It's a classic.
	But it's possible...
	It's a combination of these two things.
	In other words, they actually are trying to screw him, and Clinton's boys are now coaching him on how they're going to prevent that from happening, because Clinton's a politician par excellence.
	He says, here's what we're going to do.
	Don't worry about it.
	But the first thing you've got to do is you've got to keep the youth from doing anything right away, and then we'll take care of it later kind of thing.
	I think there's both things in play.
	In other words, they are trying to fuck him, but he's going to make the comeback and screw them back.
	But I don't think they're all in cahoots together.
	That's what I'm saying.
	I was just giving an alternative possibility.
	I mean, obviously, I think it's the first one.
	And how hard was it for Time Magazine to, you know, they write about this guy.
	It's a recent article.
	And two months ago, the guy was convicted of check fraud.
	How hard is it, Time Magazine?
	The Time Magazine article.
	How hard is it just to, like, put a little link in there?
	Google.
	Google.
	How hard can that be?
	I did it this morning.
	No problem.
	I'm laughing.
	There's tons and tons of articles about this guy.
	Well, it's the same thing with the...
	As soon as they didn't have the Belgian...
	You know, the fact that he was hiding out in Belgium.
	Yeah, host of all places.
	As soon as they left that out, I knew the thing was a sketchy article, so it was obviously planted by somebody.
	I don't know who.
	And the reporter obviously didn't do any work at all, because you would have caught the...
	I mean, a high school news kid...
	Does better.
	Does better.
	Yeah, because you would have got the check-kiting guy.
	Yeah.
	Which is not mentioned at all, which is just an embarrassment to Time magazine.
	So something's up.
	No, it's not an embarrassment.
	Time Magazine did their job.
	They did exactly what they're paid to do.
	It's an embarrassment that anybody has any pride in works there.
	Ministry of Truth.
	I don't think anyone has any pride there.
	If you work for Time...
	Douchebag!
	You should quit.
	Quit if you work for Time Magazine.
	Anyway, so we'll see as that unfolds, but one thing's for sure, it has nothing to do with the fact that he hasn't lived in Haiti for five years.
	It has nothing to do about his fudging with the age.
	I mean, that's just all bull crap.
	Yeah, he didn't fudge with his age in the official documents.
	And it's almost like a threat for him to say, well, you know, I'm really, really happy and I want to reiterate to the youth of Haiti, don't revolt.
	No, violence is not the answer.
	Please.
	That's so obvious.
	So I have only one more clip.
	And I want to...
	And I only have it here because I want your take on this because we have been going back and forth with two or three different theories about Lockerbie.
	And now it's shaking out in all kinds of weird ways because...
	There's a bunch of messages in here.
	I still stick with my theory, and I think if you listen to this clip, I think my theory is still correct, which is that they were ready to bust out the documentation and information that shows that this guy never was the Lockerbie bomber, and it was either some Syrians, or all the reports were done right after the bombing of the Pan Am jet.
	The CIA was involved in that, too.
	And the CIA had something to do with something.
	There was definitely a bunch of intelligence agencies and this and that.
	But this guy was an innocent guy, by our thinking.
	And they had to finally let him go because they didn't want to retry him with all this new evidence, which would have documented all kinds of wrongdoing.
	So they came up with this bogus thing to ship him off.
	But unfortunately, since he apparently never really had this cancer that he was dying from, the unfortunate part is they keep celebrating his birthday.
	Right.
	And making a big deal about the fact that he's not dead.
	Another year!
	Yay!
	And so they're throwing it back in our faces.
	And so now all hell's breaking loose about getting this guy to shut up or retry him if you don't like it or make a mess of the whole thing.
	I think he's going to end up shot.
	Well, no, he'll suddenly die of complications.
	Or something.
	But anyway, listen to this.
	You'll see all this stuff kind of unfurling.
	It's very interesting.
	Now, a year since the man convicted for the Lockerbie bombing was released from prison, President Obama's counter-terrorism advisor has said he should be returned to Scotland to serve out his sentence.
	According to John Brennan, the White House emphatically disagrees with the decision.
	Two U.S. senators have again called for an inquiry into why Abdel Bassett Ali al-Megrahi was returned to Libya.
	And Britain's foreign officers urged Libya not to celebrate the anniversary.
	Matthew Price reports now from New York.
	It's a year now since Libya celebrated the release of the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.
	Today, he is still alive.
	So too are the questions surrounding his freedom.
	Scottish officials say Abdel Bassett Ali Al-Megrahi was treated like any other prisoner.
	His medical records were reviewed by the head of the prison medical service, who gave him three months to live.
	But critics, such as this leading expert in the field, say no prognosis can be given with any certainty.
	I was quoted in the Glasgow Herald saying exactly that a week or so after he was released and here we are a year on, he's still alive and this is embarrassing for the Scottish Government and causing all sorts of problems in the US and elsewhere.
	Mr McGrachy has terminal prostate cancer, the decision stands.
	Everybody knows somebody who was given a prognosis of short life expectancy who then outlived that prognosis.
	It's more than two decades since Flight 103 was blown up on its way here to New York's JFK Airport.
	The grief may be less raw today, but Abdel Bassett al-Megrahi's release has only increased the anger.
	There is rarely political consensus in the US these days, and yet, on this issue, there is.
	He should not have been let out of jail.
	Most of the 270 people killed were Americans.
	Today, the White House reiterated its disappointment with the decision to release McGrawi.
	We've expressed our strong conviction that McGrawi should serve out the remainder, the entirety of his sentence, in a Scottish prison.
	We will continue to reiterate this position to the Scottish and Libyan authorities.
	And the President extends his deepest sympathies to those affected by that reprehensible act of terrorism.
	Yes, hold on, I'm going to...
	Also questioning the decision are Mary Kay Stratis and her daughter Sonia.
	Tomorrow morning Sonia is getting married, but her father, who died in the Pan Am bombing, will not be here to see it.
	I'm definitely sad.
	I miss my dad.
	I'll be carrying a picture of him on my bouquet, and so in essence he will be walking with me down the aisle.
	Here, they know they can't force British officials to release more information, but while McGrachy remains alive, they will keep looking for answers.
	Matthew Price, BBC News, New York.
	BP has rejected accusations that it repeatedly ignored requests for information about the explosion that destroyed the deep water horizon.
	Break it down for me.
	Well, I think that they're putting everybody on alert that if this doesn't go away, in other words, this guy either gets killed or shuts up or moves to some village and doesn't start celebrating every year that he's got away with it, which embarrasses everybody.
	I think this is just putting everyone on notice.
	It's a screwy story.
	It's going to happen again next year.
	If it doesn't happen next year on the next anniversary, then we know it's been taken care of.
	I think somebody violated part of the deal.
	I think somebody said, look, we're going to have this guy back.
	Just get him out of the, you know, we don't want to hear from him anymore.
	Shut up already.
	But now every year in Libya they have a big party.
	Yeah, I think they don't want to reopen any investigation because that whole Lockerbie thing, there's pedo bear stuff involved in that, the people hushed up, the CIA. It's a huge pit of horse manure.
	Yeah, it's a disaster.
	Yeah.
	Breaking news, John, as we wind up the show here.
	Breaking news, breaking news from CNN. Hip-hop singer Wyclef Jean said Sunday he will contest a pronouncement from Haitian election officials ruling him ineligible to run for president of Haiti.
	I cannot surrender now.
	Listen to the fighting words.
	Oh, we're going to be so right on this.
	I urge my countrymen to be patient throughout this process, he says.
	Oh my god, this is great.
	This is exactly...
	Check it out.
	I'm just reading through this really quickly.
	I cannot in good conscience give my quest to lead Haiti to the greatness I know in my heart we are capable of...
	We in Haiti are united in our struggles, and we will be united in our victories and triumphs.
	Now is the struggle.
	Let us peaceably bear it and look forward to the time when our efforts will pay off.
	For all my fellow Haitians, thank you for your love, understanding, and support.
	It's the folk hero thing.
	So this is what's going to happen, and of course, obviously, he could have done this a little earlier, but he didn't have Clinton's speechwriter yet.
	And so Clinton got him the speechwriter, so he's going to have all his professional sounding things that he's going to say.
	And it's going to be, yeah, he's in.
	And he's literally saying...
	Just go to Vegas and bet on him.
	I cannot surrender now simply because an obstacle has been set before me.
	Now is the time I must stand up and show Haiti and the world that my vision of a nation renewed and redeveloped is a vision for which I am willing to fight.
	Okay.
	Keyword redeveloped.
	Oh yeah.
	Big keyword.
	Boy.
	You know what?
	Here's what happened.
	So first they cut your Comcast connection.
	Then we actually trump them by waiting and getting them back on the air.
	And then they're holding back this CNN release.
	Like, oh, jeez, they're talking about it.
	Well, put the release out now then.
	So before they can predict it, let's put it out.
	Because, of course, there's only limited people that listen to the show live.
	So now, of course, we'll sound like we're just behind the news.
	Good try, guys.
	Good try.
	Good listeners know better.
	Anyway, okay.
	That's it.
	Wow.
	Now I'm actually really tired.
	At least we didn't end on a depressing note like the beginning of the show.
	Terrible.
	Yeah.
	We had some good real news in there.
	So I think I'm going to go drink a fifth of Jack and hop on my Harley.
	Good idea.
	We will return to you on this Thursday.
	Hopefully the tubes will be up and running so we can continue in peace.
	We appreciate everyone who is a human resource sticking with us and staying in the chat.
	A lot of fun.
	And remember, Dvorak.org slash NA. Hopefully sometime tomorrow we'll have the lucky $42 donation button set up for 10-10-10 Super Karma.
	Coming to you from the Hilltop Watchtower Crackpot Command Center in Gitmo Nation West, I am Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, the sun shining.
	It's going to be a hot day, a hot week perhaps.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll talk to you again on Thursday right here on No Agenda.

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