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	These dogs are trained to lie.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, January 8th, 2012.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, episode 372.
	This is No Agenda.
	Tapu Tadi Aljididia Ching Ching from Cam MoFo here in Austin, Texas, the capital of the drone star state.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's unseasonably warm, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Hey, here we go.
	Crack Vaughn, you're just killed.
	What the?
	Sorry.
	I don't know what happened there.
	What was it?
	Something didn't fire right.
	I don't know.
	It's software, baby.
	I'm having software issues after the first of the year.
	Yeah.
	As we discussed this on the last show, Skype is crashing.
	You claim, just for people out there, techies out there, you claim that you've done nothing to this machine.
	It's running Windows 7 Beginner.
	Starter.
	It came installed on the netbook.
	Yeah.
	I've done nothing.
	I reinstalled Skype since, the latest version, and then you called this morning and it crashed right away.
	And I do nothing on this machine.
	Yeah, and it crashed last week, last show, a couple times in a row, two or three times.
	Yeah, who cares?
	And there's been nothing changed on this machine ever since its inception.
	No.
	Have you upgraded Windows?
	Have you gotten a patch?
	Oh, yeah.
	I do all that crap.
	Yeah, of course.
	Must be something to do with that.
	Yeah, of course.
	Of course it has something to do with that.
	You think that one department of Microsoft is talking to the other?
	You fool.
	Anyway, in the morning to you there.
	In the morning to you, Adam Curry.
	In the morning to all ships that see boots on the ground and feet in the air.
	Yes, and of course to all of the human resources who are in our chat room loyally.
	We've got a good showing today, which is nice.
	That's noagendastream.com, noagendachat.net.
	Everyone's there when we do the program live Thursday and Sunday mornings.
	That would be 9 a.m.
	Gitmo Nation West time.
	You know, I had a guy here on Thursday after I did the show.
	He was putting in some shelves.
	And I walk out, he says...
	Hey man, do you got a card or a web address for that show?
	Because Mickey was listening to it.
	That's pretty cool, man.
	Picking up listeners.
	We got another one.
	One more.
	One more listener, everybody.
	That's how we do it.
	One at a time.
	So the overnight ratings are in, John.
	And?
	Guess what?
	Nobody watched the Republican debate.
	That's too bad.
	It was actually one of the more interesting ones.
	It was somewhat entertaining.
	I have the numbers here.
	NBC dominated primetime with a whopping 19.2 rating of 33 share.
	That's like...
	So a third...
	By the way, note the magic number there.
	A third of all sets in use were tuned to the football game.
	What was ABC thinking?
	And they got a 3.7.
	Were they putting it up against the foot?
	Idiots.
	The game that it was up against was the only interesting game in the playoffs.
	It's totally idiotic.
	And they got a 3.7 rating of six share, which is...
	So that's about three and a half million people watched.
	That's nobody.
	They didn't want anybody to see Ron Paul because they knew they'd have to give him some time.
	If you remember, ABC was the operation that gave Ron Paul 60 seconds.
	Well, they did it again, I felt.
	They were cutting the commercial for him, but then wouldn't cut for Mitt Romney.
	But I will say, our lineup to the T, the way we said they should put him on the stage, they listened to us in that regard.
	Yeah.
	The only thing that they didn't take our advice is the musical and comedy entertainment blocks.
	I mean, this is what they should do during the show.
	Have like a comedian come out, do a little quick stand-up.
	Hey, I gotta tell you something.
	Hey, I'll be here all the week.
	Yeah, or have Taylor Swift come out and do a little patriotic American doodly thingy.
	That's what they should do.
	Then it would be really interesting.
	Now it's just like, ugh.
	And Diane Sawyer, really?
	She is the worst, isn't she?
	What is this?
	We salute you!
	She's like she's plastered or something.
	She kind of slurs.
	She's really talking slow.
	I don't know.
	I've...
	I like her less and less and less the more I see her.
	But she keeps saluting everybody, you know, the troops, and we salute each and every single one of them.
	What does that even mean, we salute the troops?
	Are you in the military, Diane Sawyer?
	You salute the troops.
	And then at the end, she salutes everybody in the audience.
	We salute you.
	What is that?
	This is as dumb as that's a good question.
	It's not dumb.
	Don't salute me.
	She's saluting everybody.
	It's stupid.
	It's the stupidest thing I've ever seen in my life.
	And we salute you.
	Every single one of them.
	Why don't you do 80,000 salutes and we'll get back to you right after this.
	One big giant right arm.
	So I did think there was one moment where both Romney and Huntsman lost major league points.
	Major league points.
	And it was subtle, but anyone who was watching lost points.
	And it was this moment.
	As they would say in China, he doesn't quite understand the situation.
	So there's two things here.
	First of all, it's a great shot of Huntsman doing this Mandarin thing, which, by the way, I've now just made into a jingle.
	It just sounds so awesome.
	And then you see Romney throwing his hands up going, like a little idiot schoolboy, like, that's not fair, he speaks Chinese.
	So it shows, A, that Romney is like a little spoiled brat.
	You think?
	And it shows that Huntsman is clearly a foreign asset for the Chinese.
	The guy's a spy.
	And a douchebag.
	Total spy, I'm telling you.
	You know the guy's on the phone talking to the Reds.
	The Chinese say that all the time.
	I actually thought at the very end of the show, I thought also Huntsman essentially shot himself in the foot with a bunch of bull crap.
	Did you notice that everyone had received similar advice, including Ron Paul?
	Just hang back.
	Don't get in any trouble.
	Everything will be okay.
	And so Ron Paul was, you know, they didn't come to him, which actually was in his favor, I think.
	They didn't come to him on a number of issues.
	Yeah, like the Tenth Amendment one.
	They had Romney tied up.
	That, I think, because, of course, we know ABC, particularly ABC News, is completely compromised.
	The news president, his sister, is personal advisor to Obama.
	So this whole thing is rigged.
	And it was Stepanopoulos.
	I think...
	His mission was to show the crazy Mormon Romney and to discredit him.
	It was completely ridiculous because Romney just wasn't having any of it, but it was so uncomfortable and convoluted.
	Play the Romney douchebag Ron Paul call-out clip.
	Hold on a second.
	Near the bottom.
	Uh, near the bottom.
	Okay.
	Oh, this one, yes.
	Do you believe that states have the right to ban contraception, or is that trumped by a constitutional right to privacy?
	George, this is an unusual topic that you're raising.
	States have a right to ban contraception.
	I can't imagine a state banning contraception.
	I can't imagine the circumstances where a state would want to do so, and if I were a governor of a state or a legislator of a state, I would totally and completely oppose any effort to ban contraception.
	So you're asking, given the fact that there's no state that wants to do so, and I don't know of any candidate that wants to do so, you're asking, could it constitutionally be done?
	We can ask our constitutionalists here.
	I thought that was actually a win for Ron Paul.
	I thought it was in a very subtle way, but I don't think the panel thought so, and I think the people on the stage, none of them believed that was the case, but I agree with you.
	I think they were like, yeah, that's right, Ron Paul is the only guy who is down with the Constitution.
	Yeah, and they never went back to him, by the way, to ask him, because he would have said, look, it's up to the states, you know, the 10th Amendment, the 10th Amendment.
	And that's when Stephanopoulos interrupts him and then throws it to Perry, who, by the way, I liked Rick Perry last night.
	Not for what he stands for.
	Because he only spoke five times?
	He's just a...
	Well, that helped.
	That helped.
	But he was...
	He's taking...
	Cinderella Story, you watch.
	We're going to start calling this What's Going to Happen Tuesday.
	Now, I have not...
	I've recorded the debate this morning, which is probably just pretty much a replay from what I've seen so far.
	But I think that we're going to see Newt Gingrich drop off the radar completely.
	We're going to see Rick Perry move up.
	People are liking him because he's just a teddy bear likable guy, even though he's a total douchebag.
	And that kind of showed up at the end there where they did their...
	So if it was Saturday night and you weren't at this god-awful debate, what would you be doing?
	I've got that clip, actually, and it's worth playing, but I have to set it up.
	Okay.
	It is...
	It starts off...
	That's the question.
	What would you be doing on Saturday night?
	And Rick Perry begins it and sets the stage by saying, well, I'd be out shooting.
	Okay.
	Wait, which clip is it?
	You have to help me out here.
	Oh, let's see.
	If you were a tree...
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah, that makes...
	Thanks for the production notice.
	Sorry.
	That'll be a shot at.
	Yeah.
	Speaker Gingrich?
	I'd be watching the college championship basketball game.
	Da!
	Idiot!
	What an idiot!
	Football game.
	I'm a football game.
	I'd be doing the same thing with my family.
	We'd be huddled around and we'd be watching the championship game.
	Afraid it's football.
	I love it.
	I'd be home with my family, but if they all went to bed, I'd probably read an economic textbook.
	There you go.
	Yeah, that's what I want my president doing.
	I want him working.
	I want him doing stuff for the country.
	And then comes the douchiest answer.
	I'd be on the phone with my two boys in the United States Navy because they're a constant reminder of what is great about this nation and awesome about the emerging generation of this country.
	Let me say something.
	So, Huntsman, totally.
	He's a CIA spy.
	He's a Chinese asset.
	Get the hell out of here.
	Just go away.
	Yeah, we heard you.
	Commie.
	Commie rat bastard.
	But let's talk about Santorum for a second.
	Oh, by the way, Gingrich will be kicking himself for days over that comment.
	Because you know he's a fat kid in school, never played sports, had nothing to do with him.
	And just threw that out and realized what a gaffe it was when the audience dropped dead.
	So, remember the kid in school Who would never get picked for dodgeball because when he was on your team, he always got the ball thrown in his face and would cry.
	He got hit a lot.
	That is Santorum.
	That is Santorum.
	He's the guy who got the dodgeball in his face all the time.
	And he has no lips.
	He just has a hole, like a poop hole in his head.
	He has no lips.
	And he's always sneering.
	He seems to be sneering constantly.
	And by the way, I did catch another, and I think it was throughout, I only caught one because I couldn't stand listening to the guy.
	By the way, this is what we do so you don't have to.
	I know you all were watching football and thinking, this is a great game.
	And by the way, Saturday night, the championship game's on Monday night, just for the record.
	So they didn't get that right.
	But anyway, Santorum's still at it.
	See if you can catch the little phrasing.
	Hold on.
	Oh, I know.
	I understand what I'm doing wrong.
	I'm sorry.
	I didn't have it sorted by alphabetical.
	Now I can find everything.
	Okay, here we go.
	...public policy center and wrote on the cause of Iran and wrote and lectured all over this country.
	I got involved with a health care company.
	Why?
	Because I was afraid of what was going to happen and I was asked by a health care company to be on their board of directors.
	Directors.
	Directors.
	Why because?
	I was.
	Why because?
	I got a note from one of our producers mentioning how this mechanism works.
	The neuro-linguistic programming.
	As soon as he says why because, he's supposed to ask for donations.
	That's right.
	Why?
	Because you need to donate to the No Agenda Show.
	Because we need the money.
	Why?
	Because we do.
	We came up short again.
	In fact, we should mention our executive producers.
	Okay.
	Well, we'll do that and then I want to continue because I have a few other things.
	Oh, yeah.
	Extraneous.
	All right.
	If I had anything on the ball, why?
	Because then we would be asking for more money.
	Good one, John.
	Very nice.
	I like that.
	You're doing well.
	You're doing well.
	Alright, we do have a couple of executive producers and one associate executive.
	We've got two.
	We've got Guy Boise.
	I think it's Boise, isn't it?
	Boise.
	Boise.
	Guy Boazi from Israel.
	He's the guy that sent Mickey the emergency OB tampons when they were no longer available in stores.
	I know she's cringing right now, by the way.
	Oh!
	336.93.
	You have his note.
	I do.
	Oh, you don't?
	I didn't know I was supposed to save his note.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, I have his note.
	Hold on a second.
	I have it.
	I just wasn't...
	Oh, no, because I... Oh, no, the Gardner knows what I'm thinking of.
	Sorry.
	Anyway, Guy who...
	He's finishing his knighthood.
	That's what the note was.
	This is his...
	Yeah.
	He says 2011 just ended a few days ago, made it clear that freedom is now under serious attack in all of Gitmo Nation.
	I think we can agree to that.
	Mm-hmm.
	So now as 2012 starts with a new project I just received, I'm finally able to complete my nighthood and offer some value back to you guys.
	I've been forced into being a boner rather than a donor for too long, and sending this donation clears the debt from my conscience.
	Thanks for creating the best podcast in the universe.
	It would be great if you could de-douche me and offer some karma up for his Gitmo gambling visit this week.
	Absolutely, and we appreciate it and we'll be very happy to welcome you to the coveted Knights of the Knowledge in the Roundtable later on in the program.
	You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	Tight.
	Tight, tight, tight.
	And the $300 also came in from Zohir Ilhamri from Dublin.
	Dublin, Ireland?
	Yeah.
	It says Dublin, Dublin.
	Maybe it's...
	Dublin, Ohio?
	There is a Dublin, Ohio, I think.
	But it's probably...
	I think it's Dublin, Ireland is my guess.
	I don't have a note from him.
	And finally, associate executive producer for today's show...
	Excuse me, 372 is Mark Thiring.
	A new donor on the scene.
	Yeah, from Brooklyn.
	This is a collaborative donation in the name of our good friend Tom Starkweather from Derek, Mark, Matt, Max, Pete, and...
	Joseph.
	Joseph.
	Tom's birthday is on the 10th.
	We'd like to give him a birthday shot.
	We'll do that today.
	Some karma and a reminder to mind the beanbag stark weather.
	Alright, mind the beanbag stark weather.
	Here's your karma shot.
	You've got karma.
	And by the way, karma is a real thing.
	Apparently.
	People like it.
	People want it.
	People enjoy it.
	It works for them.
	We're not going to argue.
	I actually think it's the sound of the bell.
	Oh, it's the harp.
	It's the harp, without a doubt.
	Well, it's one of the two.
	Maybe it's the woman's voice.
	So I think our campaign of donating is loving is failing miserably.
	Well, as Buzzkill Jr.
	mentioned, you haven't used it right.
	Oh, I haven't used it right.
	Now it's my fault.
	Just so you know, whenever donations are down, John will always send out an email to me saying, donations are in the toilet.
	It must be because you did this, that, or the other.
	It's always something I did.
	You spoke about that.
	You played that on the pre-stream.
	I did that once.
	You do it all!
	Don't make me publish all the emails, Jean-Claude Dvorak.
	Okay, maybe a couple of times.
	See?
	See?
	You're a horrible man.
	And I know why you do it.
	You do it just because you've got nothing better to do.
	We want to remind people to go to dvorak.org slash na, channeldvorak.com slash na, noagendashow.com or noagendanation.com.
	And yeah, the donations are down.
	And I think it's just the time of year.
	I think this time of year, it always starts off slow.
	We haven't got any good promotions.
	I blame myself for that.
	I haven't sent out an update email to anyone, and neither one of us, I have to give a say, have been promoting people to get on the mailing list.
	Oh, I have it in every single show notes.
	It's right there at the bottom of the list.
	I have it on my website, too, but you should tell them to do it.
	People are like, oh, I've got to click something.
	That's like a lot of work, man.
	I have to type my address in this.
	We sat through hours of bullcrap debate.
	We're going to sit through more after the show today.
	We're going to listen to whatever they said this morning.
	We have to continue.
	I mean, we're doing the work.
	Please.
	And we want to mention to people that we do, what?
	Five hours a week minimum.
	This is what we do.
	Which is 20 hours a month.
	That's just the show.
	And compare that to what you get for going to a two-hour movie that you'll spend.
	I took people to see the movie recently.
	It's $35 for three people.
	And that's minimum.
	Plus all the crap you can buy to eat, which I avoid.
	And it's just, you know, just think of it as a form of entertainment that you pay for.
	You know, it's a $5 subscription or just send in some extra money, the leftover money in your PayPal account.
	Or you don't go on a date one night and figure out what the hundreds of dollars that you were going to spend.
	Not getting laid.
	And not getting laid.
	Think about that.
	Send us money when you're not getting laid.
	Just think of us.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And it'll be just as satisfying.
	Guaranteed.
	You'll get screwed some other way.
	So when you get screwed by the government, then that's what we point out to you.
	So you're getting screwed somehow.
	But listening to this program and participating in the many programs we have and the Karma program should, without a doubt, make you more interesting at cocktail parties, at that office party, because you'll have something to say.
	And we teach you how to say it and not to come off like a total douchebag.
	And we help you out.
	We give you sound clips, show notes.
	We're constantly on the tweeters.
	And we're doing research.
	And there's a lot of one-liners you can steal from us.
	All of them.
	Please.
	It's open source.
	You can do whatever you want.
	You can print up t-shirts and sell them.
	Not give us anything if you want.
	Yeah, you can do whatever you want.
	It's open source.
	Exactly.
	Which is the only open source show.
	True.
	Everybody else is all freaked out.
	Oh, they're going to steal my name.
	Our brand.
	Our brand.
	Who's going to steal a no-agenda name and get away with it?
	It's not going to happen.
	But what is the value of our brand, really?
	Apparently not much this week.
	Alright, here comes time for the brain programming.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. Donating is loving.
	Donating is loving.
	Let's do it again.
	You stepped on me.
	Hold on.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. Why because?
	Donating is loving.
	A couple of PR associates did check in for this program with a couple of domain names that are forwarding to the NoAgendaShow.com website, kicking it right off with DonatingIsLoving.com.
	Well, there you go.
	That makes a lot of sense to have that domain name.
	So that actually forwards to Dvorak.org slash NA, which is where it should be forwarding to.
	Then we have ProstateOfTheUnion.com.
	Do we have a prostateoftheunion.com coming up?
	I guess so, huh?
	We got a State of the Union address coming up?
	Prostate?
	Yeah, that's the domain name we have.
	Prostate of the Union.
	Then we have yourscrewed.us, which I like.
	Oh, that's a good one.
	Well, wait until you hear the last one.
	Now, we made a promise to ourselves that in 2012, 2012, which I can't say 2012.
	I've got to say 2012.
	I can't get into 2012.
	Really?
	2012 is what rolls off the tongue.
	It has more weight, I feel, when I say 2012.
	Anyway, one of our resolutions was we're actually going to do something with a couple of these domain names.
	Here's one I'd like to work on.
	That's notagreatquestion.com.
	I saw that one.
	That's not a great question.
	You know, all you have to do is put up a wiki on that page and let people just find these not-agreat questions.
	The model is the following.
	Somebody asks somebody else a stupid question that's usually pretty obvious or mundane, and the other person replies with, that's a great question, but not in the cynical voice I just gave.
	Right.
	And it's just, I don't know, it's a pet peeve, what can I say?
	At least more people are starting to notice it.
	Well, I want to do it like RonPaulWontWin.com, which you check that website out.
	There's a little link there, and you can just forward.
	It fills out an email, everything.
	All you have to do is just paste in the link, and then you send that off to me, and then I put it.
	The list is growing, by the way.
	It's a pretty big list now.
	Did you see the site, RonPaulWontWin?
	No, I have not seen it.
	Take a look at it.
	I'm going to take a look at it.
	Look at the header graphic that I put out.
	It's called Ron...
	RonPaulWon'tWin.com Won't Win.
	Look at the graphic.
	He's got a picture of Andrea Mitchell.
	Oh, that's a beauty.
	Isn't that great?
	Yeah, one of the worst pictures of Trump imaginable.
	Yeah, perfect.
	Anyway, everyone else out there, of course, you know these are real credits.
	This is something you can put on your resume.
	We will vouch for you, unlike the phonies in Hollywood.
	In fact, all the way up to the knighthoods, I was on Maynard's program, Dirty Disbelievers, there in Australia on Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
	I think it's going to be on the stream today.
	I linked to it a couple times in the show notes as well as I tweeted out the link.
	It's a good show, Dirty Disbelievers.
	He took an hour and a half of the interview with me and basically chopped it down to four and a half minutes.
	But still, there's a good promotion for us, that's for sure.
	So that's a bona fide network guy.
	That's real mainstream media.
	An hour of talking, you get like two minutes max.
	And it had to run through ABC Legal.
	Yeah.
	Right, it's got to go through legal.
	But he, I mean, it's really funny.
	In fact, he's put it out there, so maybe we'll play it right after the show.
	Well, we might as well play the, since we're talking about...
	Well, let me do this first, because people always expect to know that they also can go out and propagate the formula.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	New!
	New World Order Oh yeah, shut up, slave crying So while on the topic of Ron Paul won't win, I've got this.
	Andrea Mitchell is an old network hack married to the old Federal Reserve guy.
	Paulson?
	No.
	No.
	Oh, Greenberg.
	Greenberg.
	Yeah.
	Greenberg.
	Not Greenberg.
	Greenspan.
	Greenspan.
	She's Greenspan's old lady.
	Hey, listen to us.
	Aren't we the experts, huh?
	Yeah, we're...
	Hey, we have to get up at seven.
	Hey, but she...
	Well, she used to be kind of hot, but now she's like...
	Well, she's older.
	She has to wear those...
	She's in the turtleneck phase.
	She has to wear turtlenecks.
	She apparently was given a script to slam Ron Paul.
	Oh, yeah.
	Of course.
	She's decent.
	I mean, you've seen her broadcast.
	She reads from a prompter while she does everything.
	She's slick.
	But I guess when she had to memorize the script, it was so confusing to her that she stammers and stutters and she just doesn't sound like a pro at all.
	And you have to say, this is bull crap.
	This has obviously been scripted.
	And here she is blasting Ron Paul on one of the morning chit-chat shows.
	They're so difficult.
	They're so difficult.
	And when you feel that anger, it's that long track number that we see.
	It's the anger against Washington.
	Ron Paul, early on, tapped into that.
	I think he really hurt himself on foreign policy and on making himself not electable.
	The sense in the polls that we saw, starting with the polls on Wednesday, then our poll on Friday and yours today, he's just not acceptable to so many people because of his foreign policy And going into South Carolina in particular, that's going to be a very big problem.
	My gut is an old Paul.
	It's always been the Ron Paul thing is overrated.
	And I'll go on the dangerous prediction limb and think he'll be the surprise disappointing finish.
	Oh, man.
	I need to add this link.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Well, CBS did a great job.
	Listen to this poll that they did.
	And this is all, of course, also with video.
	Expectations are high in what has become Romney's adopted home state.
	A New Suffolk University poll shows him with a commanding lead in New Hampshire at almost 30 points above his rivals.
	At the same time, Newt Gingrich and John Huntsman have faltered.
	Rick Santorum, who polls in single digits here, is looking to give Romney a run in the Granite State after his near victory in Iowa.
	Excuse me?
	Where's Ron Paul in your poll?
	They didn't even put him on the screen.
	They didn't even mention him.
	This has been going on since the beginning, and they still do it.
	It's absolutely crazy.
	Now, a couple of things.
	But Santorum and Romney, I got some video of them as they were out and about before the debate.
	Now, tell me if Santorum, when you listen to him talking about...
	Because the unemployment numbers, the fake numbers, went down a little bit.
	Now we're at 8.5% of the fake numbers.
	Because really what happens is people just fall off the face of the earth and become bums and are holding up the sign on the street corner.
	But they're not unemployed.
	Exactly.
	They're not...
	But listen to how Santorum explains this minor change, which of course, if you're honest about it, just say, this is bull crap, these numbers are bull crap, and people are just off the radar.
	But listen to what he says, and tell me the guy isn't insane.
	Let me just share with you a couple of thoughts.
	Let me first just share thoughts on the unemployment numbers that just came out today.
	And I'm very gratified to see that in spite of President Obama's policies that the job market is beginning to pick up a little bit.
	I think there might just be some optimism that maybe Republicans are going to take the White House and maybe that's spurring people to start taking some risks.
	And I'll take that as a reason.
	There's a lot of concern still that a lot of people are just staying out of the job market.
	People are staying out of the job market.
	They're staying out.
	I'm voluntarily staying out.
	I don't count.
	But you think he doesn't stop there.
	He continues this idiotic rant.
	One of the reasons you see the unemployment rate go down is because the labor participation rate is not going up, which means that people are not as hopeful as we'd like them to be and engaging in the workforce.
	Yeah, so let me just get this right.
	So, you know, I don't like the way things are.
	I'm just not going to look for a job.
	It's not time yet.
	It's not time yet.
	Santorum, you are the biggest douchebag in the universe.
	Douchebag!
	What an idiotic thing to say.
	It's unbelievable.
	But then we have Romney, and he got called out by an AP reporter.
	This was actually quite exciting.
	Of course, you didn't see this on the news.
	Where Romney's saying, you know, I'm not attached to lobbyists.
	And the AP reporter jumps on him.
	He's like in a general convenience store.
	In fact, behind him is a sign that says, ballpoint pens, which is like, whoever framed this shot should be shot.
	And Romney lays into him, and there's an interesting second part to this.
	I don't have lobbyists running my campaign.
	I don't have lobbyists that are...
	That's not true, Governor.
	That is not true.
	Ron Kaufman is a lobbyist.
	Did you hear what I said?
	Did you hear what I said, Glenn?
	I said I don't have lobbyists running my campaign, and he's not running my campaign.
	He's one of your senior advisors.
	He's an advisor, and the person who runs my campaign is Beth Myers, and I have a whole staff of deputy campaign managers.
	Has Beth Meyers been on the plane with you?
	Beth Meyers has been on the plane with me and Beth Meyers is running my campaign.
	Absolutely.
	Do I know that?
	There's window dressing.
	He's a potted plant.
	Rod is a wonderful friend and advisor.
	He's not paid.
	He's an advisor like many others.
	So, what's going on here is the AP journalist correctly says, you've got a top lobbyist as one of your advisors.
	Yeah, but didn't you hear what I said?
	He said he's not running my campaign.
	Which is like, really?
	I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
	And then afterwards, this is the thing that blew my mind.
	His press secretary, Eric, whatever his name is, a total douche knuckle, comes up and starts berating this journalist about how unprofessional he is and how he should conduct himself.
	So first Romney comes up to him and says, hey man, this is not true what you're saying.
	He's not running my campaign.
	He's not running my campaign. - I think you'll make it back.
	He's not running my campaign.
	Listen to my words.
	Listen to my words.
	That's the matter.
	Running your campaign and giving me advice.
	Come on.
	He's on the plane.
	He approaches me, Eric.
	Let's talk.
	Let's see when I talk.
	I'd be glad to talk.
	It's high.
	Here you go.
	Just a little bit more professional than being argumentative with the candidates.
	No, he shouldn't stand there until a total of a total. - Good.
	So now he's telling me to tell the cops here.
	Save your opinions.
	Save your opinions.
	It's not an opinion.
	It's a document. Save your opinions. Save your opinions. And act professional. Act professional. Act professional. Save your opinions. Don't be argumentative with the candidates.
	Shut up, you slave!
	That's how it's run.
	That's how your media is supposed to behave, and normally they do.
	Did you see it?
	Yeah, normally they do.
	They very rarely...
	Did you see...
	Sorry?
	No, I'm sorry.
	I didn't want to step on you.
	Go ahead.
	No, I'm saying normally they do.
	I'm looking up...
	Who is this press guy?
	Andrew something or other.
	You really want to know?
	Because I can find you.
	No, no, no.
	I'm going to look him up.
	Meanwhile, Donahue.
	Phil Donahue, a long-time talk show host who...
	Yeah, I'm glad you got this clip because I did blog it, but I never...
	Yeah, I think he essentially got fired because he was against, I don't know, killing brown people in sand.
	Didn't he come out and say, hey, we shouldn't be doing this war stuff?
	And it was Iraq.
	And then he got pushed out.
	Yeah, no, he was...
	He's always been a kind of a peacenik.
	Yeah.
	Well, so are we.
	We're peaceniks.
	I don't want war.
	Most people don't want war.
	They're not like up on the stage like these Republican guys.
	Let's bomb around.
	We don't know what they're up to.
	They got a nuclear weapon.
	So I shortened it up significantly.
	And by the way, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, Moran, which is McCain's humorous note years ago, is also disgusting.
	So Donahue actually says, you know, this is crazy.
	Everyone just wants to go to war, wants to kill people.
	Yeah, when the roads need fixing.
	I'm going to take a video of this little entrance of the freeway up here.
	I'm telling you, if you take this entrance of the freeway, it will break your axle.
	I think Nicky broke my axle last night.
	I don't know why Phil Donahue was on, other than to deliver this message, which I'm fine with.
	But here it is.
	It looks like we've become a warrior nation.
	We bombed Grenada.
	Grenada.
	We are dropping bombs on crowded cities at night where old people and children are sleeping.
	And we're watching it on CNN. And the only voice that's spoken up at all in this campaign about this is Ron Paul.
	Why are we so interventionist, he wants to know.
	What are we doing with all these wars?
	How are we safer?
	These are very commonsense observations, and no other candidate can possibly speak those words.
	It would be, they believe, politically fatal.
	Now think about that.
	You can't use an anti-war platform to get elected.
	So, maybe that explains why it's so easy for us to go to war.
	Norman Solomon has written a book, which is War Made Easy.
	Essentially, he says, if a president of the United States wants a war, he can have one.
	And I believe that totally.
	Yeah.
	Just as a...
	Side note, just to promote the warrior culture, I do have a clip, which is the clip that's Red Tail.
	I saw this.
	George Lucas has come out of semi-retirement to produce a movie, which is mostly CG, of a bunch of, I guess it's a World War II scene or something, glorifying.
	I mean, people should go watch the movie All's Quiet on the Western Front if they want to see a situation where the glorification of war meets reality.
	Glorifying war in some sort of, almost in a Star Wars kind of way.
	But it's like, was this World War II or a high school pep rally when you watch this crazy film and there's a beautiful clip within it?
	You have not assigned a single forward mission.
	We need to change the way we fight.
	Can you help save lives?
	We count our victories by the husbands.
	We return to their wives.
	By the fathers, we give back to their children.
	How you like that, Mr.
	Hitler?
	From the last plane, to the last bullet, to the last minute, to the last man, we fight!
	We fight!
	3DPD13. America!
	Unbelievable.
	It's like, guys are doing a cheer in front of the cards section at the college.
	I apologize for the culture of what is being disseminated.
	It is not like all of us here.
	I'm going to just drop the stream and reconnect for a second.
	People are saying that something's choppy, so that's not going to affect our broadcast.
	Here we go.
	That should change something.
	Meanwhile, C-SPAN has this program, it's a series called The Road to the White House.
	Have you ever watched this?
	You've come across it, obviously.
	Oh yeah, I watch it all the time.
	Well, did you see the other candidates who were speaking?
	Yeah, there's a bunch of them.
	There's a slew of them.
	They can't even get any traction.
	They had a whole hour where there was actually some serious people asking serious questions, serious candidate questions, and the farce of it The people asking the questions are real political analysts.
	They're in the parties.
	And they actually go into the programs by these alternative candidates.
	Although the one I'm going to play for you is a Democrat.
	And he wants to get on the ballot, I guess.
	I'm not quite sure how it works.
	And the guy...
	Well, I'll tell you what he looks like after you listen to this little Q&A. This is not the first time you have run for president in the New Hampshire primary.
	And President Romney has been accused, and I'm not taking a position.
	By the way, notice the guy says President Romney.
	Romney.
	But he says President.
	That's what he said, exactly, yes.
	He says President Romney, which is interesting, because this is one of the guys, so probably he's already, this guy, the fix is in on him.
	But it doesn't matter, because that's not the humor of the clip.
	Yeah, well, that's in our book, anyway.
	Yeah.
	President Romney has been accused, and I'm not taking a position one way or the other, of taking different positions on different issues.
	I'm asking you right now, do you still stand by your pledge made in 2008 to provide a pony for every American?
	Yes, I do, sir.
	Free ponies for all Americans.
	One of the overlooked issues.
	This guy, Vermin Supreme, is wearing a boot on his head.
	I kid you not.
	A boot upside down on his head.
	And his platform is...
	A free pony for everybody in America today.
	My free pony platform is, of course, a jobs creation program.
	It will create lots and lots of jobs once we switch over to a pony-based economy.
	We'll also lower our dependence on foreign oil.
	We'll also be able to turn all that pony poop into methane gas and wonderful compost.
	So we'll be able to re-up our soil that is being depleted by agrochemicals, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
	And, of course, the important thing to realize is that it is a federal pony identification program where you will need your pony with you at all times.
	Thank you very much.
	So tell me, John, I mean, obviously the guy, I mean, he's not insane because he's doing this for a reason.
	Is this to show how ridiculous everything is, or what do you think it is?
	I think it's a, well, yeah, I mean, it's a satire, so it's the mock.
	He actually has a really good idea.
	Which is?
	The ponies?
	Pony poop?
	Well, he follows up on his pony platform with a brilliant energy independence plan.
	But first, of course, we have to have a serious question to follow up on the pony platform.
	Beth, your next question is for Mr.
	Supreme.
	Mr.
	Supreme, I wanted to follow up on Ambassador Shoemaker's question.
	Actually, an ambassador asked that question.
	That's great.
	Yes.
	Regarding the ponies.
	Yes.
	Is that the only government entitlement program that you support?
	What other entitlement programs are you for?
	Just that one.
	That's enough.
	But in the vein of energy production, I'd also like to address my harnessing the awesome power of zombies for energy sources.
	It's not just to run away from anymore.
	No, we have giant turbines that we're working on, and we will have lots of zombies, and we'll just sort of dangle brains in front of them, and then they will turn the giant turbines, creating energy to lessen the dependence on foreign oil in America here today.
	God bless America.
	I love that idea.
	Vermin Supreme.
	Vermin Supreme.
	Guy's awesome.
	Yeah, a Democrat from New Hampshire.
	I see his picture now.
	I mean, it's either that guy or it's...
	I mean, I'd rather have the zombie guy.
	I think part of this is another way, since he's kind of a crusty-looking character, I think there's a potential here to mock Ron Paul on the Democrat side.
	Oh, totally.
	Totally.
	Oh, absolutely.
	Gold standard, pony standard.
	Why are so many people so against Ron Paul's hunkering towards a return?
	I don't think he necessarily says the gold standard, but back to a gold standard.
	Why do people say that's crazy, it would kill us?
	Would you say that that would break everything and ruin the whole universe if that happened?
	No, I think it would stabilize the price of gold.
	Obviously.
	But wouldn't it stabilize the dollar and other currencies?
	You can't...
	It would change the...
	The economic structure is not designed for this sort of thing anymore, and it wouldn't be necessarily a good thing.
	But you don't know.
	I mean, I don't know.
	I'm not...
	I wasn't crazy about the idea when we went away from the silver standard and the silver certificates, which used to say on a dollar bill when I was a kid, actually until recently, kind of, all the bills said one of three things.
	They either said U.S. note, Federal Reserve note, or silver certificate.
	Silver certificate, right.
	I remember those, yeah.
	And the difference was the ink color.
	The U.S. notes were red, printed with a red stamp, and the Federal Reserve, the green stamp that we see in the front, the little stamp thing.
	And the silver certificates were blue.
	And then they took all the silver certificates off the market, and then they took the U.S. notes off the market, and all you had for currency was Federal Reserve notes out of the blue.
	I think it was in the 60s or 70s, maybe the 70s.
	Yeah.
	And I'd have to look it up.
	So 73, 72 or 73, I think.
	And that was during the last depression, which was 40 years ago.
	And I don't know what they're going to do now.
	I don't know that it did any good.
	More war.
	So the only two things just to wrap up this Republican X Factor reality show.
	Stephanopoulos, I just wanted to say that Stephanopoulos really is making moves.
	He, of course, was the spokeshole for Bill Clinton.
	And he has now taken back this week on ABC News from Christiane Amanpour.
	Because nobody could pronounce her name.
	Exactly.
	Well, she sold out, of course.
	But I guess she still tried to be like a serious journalist on ABC, and they went, I'm sorry, we're not having any of that.
	But now they've actually brought back John Banner, who was going to be producing this week.
	So, you know, the big fix is in.
	And that will not help any candidates other than whoever is determined by the powers that be.
	Well, we already know that.
	And then a final thing, which I need to...
	This came in very late, just before the show.
	One of our producers sent me this note.
	That Rick Santorum, I'm quoting verbatim, thought enough of Jerry Sandusky nine years ago to sponsor the former Penn State Defense Coordinator for a, quote, Congressional Angels in Adoption Award, citing his work with a non-profit group he founded to provide care for foster children.
	Right, which shows you what a dipshit Santorum is, and he doesn't get it.
	I have a clip, by the way, that I have to say, the whole family's watching this, everybody, and Buzzkill Jr.
	caught this, and I'm irked that I didn't catch it.
	But listen to the Santorum commentary on gay couples and see if you can catch the gotcha in here.
	That's just too funny.
	Then this issue becomes moot.
	If we don't have a federal law, I'm certainly not going to have a federal law that bans adoption for gay couples when there are only gay couples in certain states.
	So this is a state issue, not a federal issue.
	You know, we have no gay couples in Texas.
	I just want you to know.
	There's only gay couples in certain states?
	That's funny.
	Let me hear that again.
	So, let's see.
	This is what an out-of-touch idiot this guy is.
	Well, and how about Diane Sawyer?
	Shouldn't she be saluting him and saying, hey, I salute you on recognizing that there's no gay couples in certain states?
	Then this issue becomes moot.
	If we don't have a federal law, I'm certainly not going to have a federal law that bans adoption for gay couples when there are only gay couples in certain states.
	So this is a state issue, not a federal issue.
	I wish they had come to Ron Paul on that, because he would have said the only thing that's correct.
	Because they made it all sound like marriage, according to the Constitution, is between a man and a woman, which is factually incorrect.
	And Ron Paul, it's not in the Constitution at all.
	Ron Paul says the government should get out of the business of marriage altogether, which is the only correct answer.
	But they, of course, didn't want to come to him on that.
	Of course not.
	There's a really good article in Salon Magazine on progressive...
	I can't stand the ads.
	Oh, I hate these ads.
	You turn on Salon Magazine, this thing comes up and takes over the whole screen.
	Here's what you do.
	Here's what you do.
	By the way, I've talked to editors around the country about these different publications, and they all...
	Well, we don't like it either, but the advertising department insists.
	And then you say, well, look, the studies show that you're going to lose readership, you're going to lose this, you're going to lose that, you're not going to have as good an audience.
	I know, we show them that data, but they insist because they like it.
	Do you know of readability?
	What about Readability?
	Install the browser plug-in from Readability.com.
	Okay.
	And whenever you hit a page, so whenever I'm linked to a salon page, I'm like, ah, you immediately hit the tilde key.
	So you don't even have to do anything on the browser.
	Just hit the tilde key and immediately converts it without the ads.
	Beautiful sepia background, nice big letters, really nicely formatted.
	If it's multiple page, you know what they do?
	So you hit more stupid ads.
	It already has one page with all the pages on it.
	That is the way...
	These guys, of course, are going to be sued into oblivion eventually.
	I don't think you can sue them.
	You can sue anybody for anything.
	Well, you can harass sue them.
	Yeah.
	But you've got to install readability.
	And even those sites where...
	You know, another thing I hate...
	You used to do that, by the way, until we discussed it on the show and you got rid of them.
	Those double underline where you...
	I did that for a very short time as an experiment, and it was so annoying that I just dropped it.
	I made the money, though.
	I made like a couple of 50, 60 bucks.
	What?
	You make almost nothing.
	The whole thing is a total scam.
	It's a house of cards.
	And the worst ones are the ones where when you're mousing over it, it lights up.
	Yeah.
	And the other one that kills me is you're on a web page and a little box shows up.
	And then it follows you up and down the web page and there's no way of turning it off.
	You look around because they hide the close button.
	Yeah.
	Oh yeah.
	And if you try and hit the close button, it opens up the full page app.
	Anyway, we digress.
	So anyway, the story in Salon.
	Yeah, well, it's about progressives and how they...
	I should actually open it up and read a graph from it because it discusses the progressives and how they refuse to even listen to anything Ron Paul has to say.
	Oh, yes, I saw that.
	I have it in the show notes, actually.
	Oh, good.
	One lone thing that he says, and then the guy who wrote the column goes on with a rant about, meanwhile, these same progressives, and let me see if I can find the paragraph, these same progressives don't seem to care about the fallacy of this reasoning is glaring the candidate supported by progressive Obama.
	Kill him!
	Not uncertainties, but continuously sought to overturn global ban on cluster bombs, institutionalize the power of presence and secret note checks to target American citizens for assassination by the CIA, far from any battlefield in Yemen.
	He has waged an unprecedented war against whistleblowers, the protection of which was once a liberal sibileth.
	He rendered permanently irrelevant a war powers resolution, a crown jewel of the list of post-Vietnam liberal accomplishments.
	It goes on and on and on with all this crap.
	And these quote-unquote progressives, you know, they put up with this.
	But, you know, Ron Paul's newsletter 20 years ago made some assertion about being mugged by a black man in downtown Chicago.
	Sorry, Chicago.
	And you can't listen to the guy.
	He's nuts.
	He's crazy.
	He's old Dr.
	Paul according to Rachel Maddow.
	He's a codger.
	He's an old codger.
	It's really a good article.
	It is a good article.
	Just lashes into this crowd of hypocrites.
	It's linked in the show notes.
	372.nashownotes.com I have one more, just like one of those clips where you go, oh wow, Fox and Friends.
	Which, by the way, I've looked at all the cable news ratings.
	Fox and Friends does very well.
	Now, every single cable news show does very well with people.
	Who's the Fox?
	Yeah, with people up to 64 years old.
	In fact, 34-64 is the biggest audience, except for one that is split evenly, which is Aaron Burnett.
	But she has the smallest audience of all, and it's like 184,000 in the 24-34 demo and 190,000 in the 34-64 demo.
	So no one's watching her.
	Total failure.
	But Fox by far is bringing in the big old audience.
	And they have Huckabee on via Skype or whatever.
	And listen to what he said about, just listen to this.
	President Obama's New Year's resolution for 2012 attacked Congress as part of his re-election strategy and so-called disengage.
	Will this really work?
	Governor Mike Huckabee is back with us.
	Governor, this is an interesting strategy of the President because, obviously, Congress's approval ratings are at an all-time low.
	They're at 5%, according to the new Rasmussen report.
	However, as we'll recall, President Obama on the campaign trail was going to be this post-partisan president.
	He was going to rise above the fray.
	He was not going to...
	He was going to make Washington work.
	He was going to make Washington work.
	He was going to seek compromise.
	So what do you think is going on here?
	Well, first of all, you know, if you notice Congress approval ratings, just barely above a pedophile.
	I mean, it's terrible.
	It's dismal.
	Is he insane?
	I mean, so Congress has a 5% approval rating.
	Please tell me which 4% of the American people approve of pedophiles.
	The 4% who are pedophiles, I guess.
	What is on his mind?
	You have to remember that Huckabee is a wannabe stand-up comic.
	He was a Baptist minister in the pulpit.
	He got very popular because he did material when he was in the pulpit.
	And he tries to be funny as possible.
	When he was running for president in 2008, he was the only guy with a sense of humor.
	It's a little perverse, his sense of humor, but he does have a sense of humor.
	And he can actually tell jokes.
	And when he has his show, his weekend show, he does some material on there.
	Yeah, so he thought that was a hilarious line.
	He probably wrote it.
	Well, he's an idiot.
	I mean, he obviously wrote it.
	But I mean, he wrote it...
	In advance of the question so he was ready to rock with it.
	Well, he's an idiot.
	I mean, of all the things to say, that's just like, really?
	You are such a douche knuckle.
	Anyway.
	Yeah.
	I got plenty of other cool stuff, but I want to see where you're going, where you're headed today.
	What?
	JC wants to know if the stream's back up because he's saying no.
	Look, I'm not in charge of that.
	I'm connected and Gitmo Slay.
	He says it is.
	People are having problems.
	Blame it on the...
	Blame it on the rain.
	Hey, hey.
	I don't know what's going on.
	It's SOPA. So I have a couple clips.
	I was listening to...
	I had this assertion before that the...
	People, when you're on the network and there's a lot of action going on and people are on the floor, you have to realize what's going on behind the cameras.
	There's a bunch of...
	You're generally not listening.
	But the best example of not listening on Fox was this woman who's on the weekend, the weekend news show.
	There's this guy, he decides to drop in a kind of an old term from the 60s, 70s, 80s.
	Nobody uses it anymore where you just add, oh yeah, the guy's a douche-nick.
	You know, or you just add Nick to the end because it was referenced to Sputnik.
	Oh, like a Beatnik, Sputnik.
	Oh, really?
	Is that where the Nick came from?
	Was it originally from Sputnik?
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	Words do matter.
	Thank you.
	That helps.
	So this guy says something and this woman hears it and she thinks that her hearing of what she thought she heard was funnier and then she rides it right to the end and it becomes this farce.
	So play no goodnicks.
	And you're just sitting there minding your own business.
	Yep.
	Suddenly some no-goodness ran right into you.
	Some no-goodness.
	There were some no-goodness.
	Stunning new information about a new toddler in the man.
	You're fired.
	You're fired.
	You idiot.
	No-goodness!
	That was a great remark.
	No-goodness.
	Unbelievable.
	It's so sad.
	And you know what?
	I try to watch, like, PBS NewsHour.
	I try to watch, you know, the nightly news, like the big Tiffany Network news, and it's a million times worse.
	It's just crazy.
	Yeah, and the worst part of it, they have this one guy, what's his name, the Spanish and Latino guy with the big square head.
	Geraldo?
	His is not as big as this guy's.
	I'll think of it.
	But anyway, they give him these long segments where he interviews somebody, and it's obviously mistimed.
	Every time the segment should have ended, it goes on at least two or three minutes longer.
	Oh, he's cutting the commercial break.
	See, you can't do that.
	So he goes on and on and on with these stupid questions.
	I find that the NewsHour has got a lot of fluff.
	Well, I was watching the NewsHour, and I don't know if you've heard of this outfit, but I've done quite a bit of research into them.
	A couple people also emailed me about it, thinking it was great.
	And at first brush, you might think it is.
	Here's the setup as the two founders of this new organization were on PBS NewsHour.
	No third party candidate has won a U.S. presidential election since 1860.
	But with unemployment staying high, worries about another recession, and mounting public disapproval of Democrats and Republicans alike, could voters be frustrated enough with Washington to upend the way they select their president in 2012?
	Well, one new group thinks so.
	Americans Elect is a non-profit organization that wants to change the nominating process by holding the first ever non-partisan political convention in cyberspace.
	Voters can weigh in on their top issues and use an online voting system to nominate a candidate to place on the presidential ballot in all 50 states.
	For more on the effort, we're joined now by Elliot Ackerman.
	He's Chief Operating Officer for Americans Elect and a decorated veteran of both the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
	And former Clinton advisor and Democratic pollster Douglas Schoen.
	He sits on the group's Board of Advisors and it's great to have you both with us.
	Elliot Ackerman, to you first.
	Our political parties have been around since the birth of the country practically.
	We have a stable system of government.
	Why circumvent them?
	Well, I think what's important to realize is this isn't another political party.
	This isn't a third party.
	This is a second nominating process.
	And the vision here is that in November of 2012, when American voters go to the poll, there'll be a third ticket that they've directly nominated themselves.
	So the Americans-elect will be holding the first ever nonpartisan online nominating convention.
	Any registered voter can be a delegate to that convention.
	And the ticket that comes out of the convention is going to be on the ballot in all 50 states.
	So I'm very interested by this americanselect.org.
	And have you gone to the website yet?
	I'm sure you're already cruising through it.
	Yeah, I'm looking at it now.
	So the CEO, Chief Executive Officer is Khalil Bird, a member of Council on Foreign Relations.
	So already, of course, my hair starts to stand up.
	They're like, we're the most transparent, but they're a 5031C4 corporation, which means they do not have to disclose their donors.
	They do have their Form 990 online, which I took a look at, and they have one donor of a little over $5 million, and that is the Webster Group.
	And the Webster Group is a fundraising group who also do dinners and stuff.
	And it looks kind of like the wives of politicians who have really nothing better to do.
	They raise money for breast cancer awareness.
	The president's CEO is this woman named Linda C. Webster.
	Who is wife to former CIA Director William Webster.
	So these are huge fundraisers.
	And if you look at the $5 million, they raised that $5 million through personal contacts and telephone outreach.
	Because that's something you have to check off on Form 990.
	So they basically called in a whole bunch of favors.
	Or did they?
	Because I'm looking at this website.
	If you go to WhoWeAre.com You'll see Chief Leadership Officer Wendy Drake, who of course is the president of the Webster Group, makes so much sense that they're actually working together.
	But then look at this list of leadership.
	I mean, there is just, I mean, right down to Rothschild, I mean, there's this Douglas Schoen guy, everyone's on this thing.
	Yeah, they're all internationalists.
	But I noticed some names.
	I'm like, this is interesting.
	And it turns out, many of these names show up on the International Crisis Group.
	Which, of course, is the Open Society Institute George Soros-funded outfit that is trying to, you know, get the shills into Egypt.
	And this thing is...
	Total bogative.
	Yeah, I think it's set up to get a third party to submarine any possibility that a Republican can win because they've got to keep Obama in because it's perfect for them.
	You know, he does what he's told.
	He's like, you know, big pro-patriot act, creating wars everywhere.
	He's got a lot of money flowing through the system because of his, especially outside the U.S., where you can scarf up as much as you can.
	It's a scam.
	It's awesome.
	It's an obvious scam.
	Yeah.
	But people are taking it seriously, because you can do this thing like, you can take this poll, and you answer all kinds of questions, and then it'll tell you, basically, that according to their system, they spent a million dollars on their platform, according to their documentation.
	Why?
	Techno-experts cost a lot of money to make this platform.
	That 68% of Americans love the drone program.
	So, yeah.
	So I'm really all on board with this.
	So you've got to boycott this thing, whatever it is.
	The Ackerman family, they're all over the place.
	Ackerman's dad, his mom, his sister.
	It's like, it's disgusting.
	This Khalil Bird guy.
	He's running the whole thing.
	And it's out of his bedroom.
	He's the only one making money on it.
	It's just, it's a scam.
	Yeah, no, it's a total scam.
	Obviously a scam.
	So we had a presidential memorandum come out.
	Uh-oh.
	Oh, yes.
	And, you know, there were some...
	Did you read about the report that, you know, there were mass killings in southern Sudan?
	Yeah, I did hear about that.
	Bummer, right?
	Oh, yeah.
	Downer.
	Yeah, if you're Sudanese, southern Sudanese.
	So the president comes out on, what is this, Wednesday?
	January 6th?
	Monday?
	Yeah.
	I guess.
	Whatever.
	No, no, today's the 8th.
	So Friday?
	6th would be...
	Yeah, Friday.
	Friday.
	Memorandum for the Secretary of State.
	Lucifer, this is for you.
	Subject, presidential determination on the eligibility of South Sudan to receive defense articles and defense services under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 as amended and the Arms Export Control Act as amended.
	In other words, we can send services...
	Which I guess means, what does that mean?
	Contractors or whatever.
	Yeah, contractors.
	And guns.
	And defense articles.
	That's guns and stuff.
	Yeah, totally.
	Guns and bombs.
	And he has the audacity To say this in his memorandum, I hereby find that furnishing the defense articles and defense services, which means weapons and people who train people how to operate it, to the Republic of South Sudan, because it will strengthen the security of the United States and promote world peace.
	Really.
	So send more guns to promote world peace.
	Unfortunately, Unfortunately, something backfired because the UN came out on Saturday, the day after, and said, well, we went to South Sudan and we find no evidence of reported mass killings.
	No evidence whatsoever.
	It didn't even happen.
	It was, quote, according to the UN, a false alarm.
	Or a false flag.
	Thank you.
	Yeah.
	So that's your current president, the warmonger.
	You know, a lot of people get in office and their power goes to their head.
	Essentially, we've elected Hugo Chavez.
	Well, he has his own little show.
	Although, man, the presidential...
	And?
	What show do you like to watch?
	West Wing Week.
	But it's so boring.
	And whose show is that?
	It's Obama's show.
	Yeah, but it's boring.
	At least Allo Presidente is funny.
	I don't know that it's any better.
	The only time we've ever seen it is when they bring clips from it that make the funny parts.
	I mean, I'm sure we should call it Allo Obama.
	Yeah.
	Just Allo Presidente.
	Allo Presidente Obama.
	He can use the same graphics.
	There's funny moments in that show once in a while.
	No, I have not played anything from the West Wind Week in months because it's so boring.
	It's always the same, like, Obama, great, funny, awesome.
	If they'd hire a Curry Dvorak Consulting Group, we'd get some ratings.
	You could sell that thing to Bravo in a heartbeat.
	Yeah.
	We'd be on Bravo.
	Oh, boy.
	Probably making half as much money.
	I did have a laugh, though, at Lucifer's little department over there.
	What is she in charge of again?
	Oh, yeah.
	The state.
	Department of State.
	So they've decided they're going to do Twitter press conferences.
	And the way it works...
	How do you do a Twitter press conference?
	Well, let me explain.
	So they have, it turns out, I think she'll mention it in this clip, 135 Twitter feeds.
	135.
	I mean, I'm okay with one.
	And you have to tweet your question to the Twitter feed in your country in your language.
	And then that question, they show it on the screen, and then that question is answered by the spokeshole there at the State Department.
	So you can imagine that this is obviously 100% propaganda.
	We need a lot of people to follow this whole thing and do a lot of NoAgendaShow.com, ITM, have you listened to Dvorak and Curry, just all these sorts of things.
	Hire Curry Dvorak Consulting Group.
	Hire Curry Dvorak Consulting Group, that'd be good.
	We're going to get a gig out of this yet.
	One of these days.
	People want to know.
	This is all we're really about.
	This whole thing is a setup.
	It's just one big open solicitation for work.
	So you have to hear the question about Iran, which is a beautiful setup.
	And the answer just was like confirmation of the techno experts we know about.
	But wow, to have it just so brazenly told with numbers and figures, this is just crazy.
	Our next question comes from our Farsi feed, at USA Dar Farsi.
	It's a two-part question from at Amin LV. Ask State, Iran is about to cut off the internet.
	What's the status of the suitcase internet?
	And what is the US procedure on the new threat to the US Navy?
	I assume you mean Amin LV, the threats that the Iranian government's been making.
	So first of all, what a setup.
	Iran is not about to cut off the internet.
	Where did she even get that from?
	It's, you know, the question is rigged.
	To U.S. freedom of navigation in the Straits of Hormuz.
	First of all, with regard to the internet, I'd like to say that Iran is more adept at blocking the free flow of information to its citizens than almost any other country in the world.
	It's a fact.
	It's a fact.
	That's bullcrap.
	Farsi is the most written language on the internet.
	That's the fact.
	Farsi is number one.
	Am I incorrect on that?
	I don't know that you're correct.
	I think so.
	Hold on.
	Let's see.
	Most spoken language on interwebs.
	It has to be English or Chinese.
	No, I think it's Farsi, my friend.
	Top ten internet languages.
	Let's see.
	No, you're right.
	It's Chinese.
	I always thought that Farsi was at the top.
	Where did you get this false information, my friend?
	The Book of Knowledge.
	And we are deeply concerned about new reports of measures that Iran is taking to curtail Internet freedom, including draconian surveillance techniques.
	Like the ones we use on you in America, on 2nd Street in San Francisco, where we suck up all your data, that draconian method that we're selling them.
	Sorry, that was my email when I was recording this clip.
	Of a national internet, which would essentially cut Iran's citizens off from the global internet.
	Does she really believe this crap?
	That they can cut off the entire internet?
	Well, actually, I wrote a column about this.
	Oh, tell me about it.
	I'm predicting that...
	Actually, Belarus and Iran have both discussed the possibility of...
	Belarus will do it first, of creating what they call a national internet, which means that they essentially cut out all – you can cut out all outside packets.
	You just close off everything and you just make – you keep the internet.
	But my thinking is that that's what we're going to do.
	With the SOPA and all this other stuff because it's easier for us to do it and get away with it because no one will notice.
	I mean, how many people actually go to Alibaba?
	Or how many people go to hit the websites in the UK? And you can also have them licensed.
	You can have licensed sites.
	In other words, a UK site from the Telegraph or the Mirror.
	Sanctioned.
	Sanctioned, approved, licensed advertising, whatever you want to call it.
	And you can have those, so it still looks like you have an international link.
	But you can have the internet just nationalized, just a national internet, because when the internet began, as you recall, it was really mostly in the United States.
	So what difference does it make?
	Well, of course, where it kind of breaks now, all you need is one...
	and just creating a gateway.
	It's not easy.
	It's not a simple process.
	I mentioned in the column, which is in PCMag, by the way, if anyone wants to read it, I mentioned in the column that, yeah, there'll be hackers and other people that will worm their way out through VPNs.
	There's all kinds of ways of doing it, not just that way.
	And, yeah, people will be able to get up, but But no, the public at large, you think the United States, if we walled off the internet and made it a national internet so we weren't talking to China and the Chinese couldn't get in.
	After the argument, the president would come and say, well, we're doing this because most people just go to the Amazon.com.
	Hey, man, TMZ.com's not working, man.
	The internet's down.
	They go to Wikipedia.
	They go to all the local stuff.
	You're right.
	And this will keep the Chinese from a cyber war because they're going to kill us if they get in somehow.
	Because they eat babies.
	And so I just think this is the way it's headed.
	Well, meanwhile, we're pretty busy over there.
	Check it out.
	When you create these kinds of national intranets, they generally have pre-cleared information and they cut people off.
	And these kinds of efforts at surveillance with cameras and collecting of personal information is only available in the United States.
	No, they don't.
	Yeah, which no one watched except us.
	Creating digital barriers would be disastrous, not only for Iranians, but for the global freedom that the Internet represents.
	She cautioned that breaking the Internet into pieces would just create little echo chambers rather than creating a thriving marketplace of ideas.
	And by the way, the Internet is a collection of little pieces, you douche knuckle.
	Yeah, and echo chambers.
	Now, what do you think we're spending on these techno experts that we had that we're outfitting with internet suitcases?
	I know that they're not spending a lot of money on that freeway entrance over here that's got the...
	How much money would you need to fix that up, to patch that in?
	Probably 100 grand max.
	So we're probably spending...
	We couldn't possibly be spending more than that.
	Oh, boy.
	And we want to see the people of Iran be able to participate fully.
	In that global marketplace of ideas.
	So, we are working very hard to assist the people of Iran in challenging and bypassing their government's efforts.
	Which is an act of war as far as I'm considered.
	To draw an electronic curtain down around the Iranian people and to block communication with the outside world.
	To protect the people who use some of these programs and techniques.
	I'm not going to get into the specifics here.
	Oh, because they're spies working for the State Department.
	But I will tell you that we fund a range of programs and initiatives that empower Iranians to access unfiltered information, to speak freely and to speak safely online.
	We spend nearly $70 million a year on these programs.
	What?!
	$70 million a year.
	We're dropping $70 million a year into Iran, into their spy network.
	The techno experts.
	The techno experts, the ones that show you how to use the internet cafe.
	They're also going to put cameras in the internet cafes.
	No wonder the Iranians are so freaked out.
	And we brag about it.
	Here's what we're going to do next to these bozos.
	How many techno experts do you think we've trained so far?
	Well, let's see.
	It would take a crew of about seven people to fix this freeway on-ramp, so it would probably be twice that many.
	Both in Iran and around the world.
	At the same time, we're also developing and distributing new technologies, more than 20 of them, Twenty new technologies.
	I can't wait to find out what those are, but you can't talk about that, obviously.
	So let's find out how many techno-experts we have trained.
	To empower activists around the globe to access uncensored content on the Internet and to communicate with each other and to tell their stories.
	And to date, we've funded the training of more than 7,500 activists around the world in these programs.
	What?
	Good job, everybody!
	7,500!
	On the American tit.
	That's bigger than our entire audience.
	Unbelievable.
	And it was 7,499, and they added Andy Carvin.
	So I have a clip.
	Play this one.
	This was on a Charlie Rose show.
	They were discussing the Iranian situation.
	And I don't have the whole clip.
	I cut it down.
	But play sticking it to Iran's financial war clip.
	Now the sanctions are going to be about cutting government revenue.
	And I think the Iranians think the sanctions are moving into a whole new arena, and therefore that's a problem.
	Jay, add to that.
	I think what we're seeing, and I know there's a lot of fear amongst a lot of people, is that the financial war now on Iran really is in some ways unprecedented.
	I mean, basically their entire financial system is being cut off from the global economy.
	And as of the end of this month, there's going to be a European basically embargo on all oil sales.
	And I think there's a concern that you could have like a situation like Japan, you know, going into the Second World War where you had the A full embargo on Japanese oil coming in from Indonesia, and they lashed out with Pearl Harbor.
	A lot of people forget that this was kind of what happened before the Japanese move, but the amount of the financial pressure on Iran is so intense now.
	He mentions that essentially we've declared war on their central bank.
	He says that it's an act of war by anybody's definition, but here we are again with an undeclared war.
	Done by the president with his assistant, Hillary.
	Lucifer.
	Lucifer.
	And it's just astonishing that nobody, you know, well, you know.
	Those bastards in Iran, they fucked us.
	I mean, what did they do, I mean, specifically?
	Besides sit there and, you know, weave rugs and shake their fist.
	Stop that rug weaving!
	Berber carpets, by the way.
	I gotta tell you.
	Something good there.
	John, I think based upon the amount of feedback, I think we have a new segment on the show.
	Okay, what would that be?
	The Outstanding Food Product of the Week.
	Are we going back?
	You got more carrots?
	No, I have now.
	Check this out.
	I have a carrot down.
	Check it out.
	Check it out.
	This is...
	A bread and butter pickle from the Otmer Family Farm here in Austin.
	Otmer?
	Otmer.
	O-T-T-M-E-R. An outstanding product.
	It is so good.
	Because of course there's no high fructose corn syrup to sweeten it.
	So they use a little bit of real sugar and a bell pepper in there.
	And it just drives you nuts.
	You can't stop eating these things.
	Outstanding food product of the week.
	Huh.
	Well you've got me topped.
	We go to the farmer's market every Saturday morning.
	When we do this segment, does the food have to be crunchy?
	I think it must.
	Yeah.
	Well, if it's not crunchy, then it doesn't quite work.
	I also had a vegan brownie that was made with a little bit of chipotle.
	And what was her name?
	It was made with a little bit of chipotle.
	But it doesn't sound good on the show.
	No.
	Anyway, the farmer's markets here in Austin, they have a whole sustainable food community, and they're very serious about it.
	You get some eggs on the carton of the eggs.
	It has the name of the chicken.
	That's nice.
	You get real eggs down there.
	Yep.
	And so we bought a whole chicken.
	And he says, you know, this chicken's name.
	Well, I forgot the chicken's name.
	We ate it.
	He says, you know, I've handled this chicken 16 times over the past nine weeks.
	And, you know, they've got pictures.
	They're walking around, you know, hanging out.
	I don't know if that's such a good thing if you have kids in the family.
	I'll tell you this, kids don't like eating animals who have names.
	No, I like it.
	I think it's...
	No, it's you.
	I think it's a good idea.
	Yeah, this is grace.
	And we got honey made here locally in Austin.
	But the produce itself is just so outstanding.
	The carrots and the spinach.
	And you walk away at the end of a shopping spree, and it's like a third of what you'd pay at Whole Foods or some other crazy place like that.
	Oh, yeah.
	And you're quicker.
	You're done much quicker.
	Yeah, and you're better off for it.
	Actually, at community events, it's fun.
	Yeah.
	It is.
	And they always have a band playing, you know, or a musician.
	It's just great.
	Love it.
	So happy we moved here.
	How are you doing up there in northern California?
	We have fresh fruits and vegetables here.
	We're in California.
	It's the breadbasket of the country.
	The broke breadbasket of the country.
	Yeah, well, that's that.
	I'm going to show myself the world by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on your agenda.
	Donating is loving.
	In the morning.
	So I think the real meme, by the way, you can explain this, but because the research has shown that explaining it doesn't change anything.
	I don't think donating is loving, even though JC hasn't corrected me on this, because loving is not the same as love.
	So you're saying it should be donating is love?
	Yeah.
	Hmm.
	Because the word itself, love, seems to have some associative thing.
	This is based on research for people who wonder why we keep saying this.
	We're experimenting.
	We're always experimenting, trying to get people to, you know, to love us more.
	Yeah, we tried the drunk thing.
	How's that working out?
	The drunk thing didn't, you know, that's crapped out.
	It's another one of these things.
	We've done these things before in the past.
	We come with this great idea.
	We think it's going to be fantastic.
	Two guys take part.
	They get drunk and they give us 50 bucks and then they ramble.
	And then it's all over.
	Nobody else cares.
	I'm not going to humiliate myself.
	We've tried, like, empty your PayPal account.
	That didn't last very long.
	Or take money from a date.
	You know, the one guy did that.
	And then another guy.
	Then it was it.
	Two guys.
	So the best thing we got going is what?
	Douchebags.
	Douchebag call-out is the only long-term thing that's ever worked.
	And karma.
	That's the only two things.
	So that's it.
	It doesn't matter what we do, by the way.
	Yeah, I know we put a lot of effort into this show or no effort or just do one-liners.
	You know, it doesn't really...
	People are listening on their car as they drive.
	Anyway, let's give some kudos to some of our donators, lovers.
	Devin Ostendorf in Ostendorf.
	Ostendorf.
	Ostendorf.
	Yeah, Ostendorf.
	Ostendorf in Arvada.
	It's a little long note.
	He says, I've listened to the No Agenda show since episode one, and I'm ashamed to admit that this is my very first time donating to the cause.
	First of all, don't be ashamed.
	That's okay.
	If it takes you 370 episodes, it's fine.
	We're happy.
	Thank you.
	He enjoyed the clip show and went on to say, please accept the donation of 121.21, a palindrome from which multiple meanings could be derived.
	It is now 2012.
	Some of my pair of consecutive digits, the magic number of three, etc.
	As a first step toward making amends for my long...
	Termed douchebaggery.
	Hopefully this will stave off my excommunication from the first church of no agenda.
	If you spare some, please dish up some co-karma to Gary Johnson and Ron Paul, apparently the only two candidates for president who aren't outright bloodthirsty.
	Here we go.
	Gary Johnson and Ron Paul.
	You've got karma.
	And he says that means you to GW Obama-ya.
	Well, you know, the karma is good for a week, so this could actually help Ron Paul for the primary on Tuesday.
	It won't help Gary Johnson much, unfortunately.
	I think he's pretty much out.
	Yeah, the blowjob or something.
	John.
	What did I say?
	I don't know, but it sounded sexual.
	That's my job.
	Tim Gillen in Randwick, New South Wales, $120.
	Janus Seem, I guess.
	J-A-A-N-U-S-S-I-I-M. Intel in Estonia, I believe our first Estonian listener.
	Some amazing things have happened after I switched to 1111 monthly plan, but a small karma boost is still needed.
	In other words, he got good karma by subscribing to 1111, which a lot of people are doing.
	This donation is also to celebrate his birthday, which we'll credit in a few minutes.
	So give him a karma.
	Call out.
	Here we go.
	You've got karma.
	$67 comes in from Sir Michael Miller in Tiburon.
	He needs some karma for a little more of a big project.
	He's coming to a close.
	Hey, here we go.
	You've got karma.
	And then in Bad Dober in Deutschland, Hans, do you have a hammer?
	You know, this one's a bunch of crazy letters.
	I need to put a new font on this machine.
	It's probably Hans Jurg, if I remember correctly.
	Hans Jurg Schultz.
	He says this is a double nickels on the dime, a Rick Santorum style less less donation.
	Beautiful.
	We'll take it.
	It's a less, less donation.
	Less, less.
	That's what we're going to call it.
	Scott Carbon in Waterford, Michigan.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	First time donor.
	Just started listening to a few months ago.
	Love the show.
	Keep it up.
	Also, can I ask for a little comment for Gary Johnson and Dr.
	Paul again?
	You've got karma.
	Wow, you know.
	Seems like the media is trying, people are starting to notice.
	The media is trying as hard as they can to shut them up and twist their message.
	Hello.
	I think we've been pointing that out for, I don't know, five years.
	Something like that.
	Jeffrey Gerlach, Sir Jeffrey Gerlach to you in Alamo at 5150 needs job karma.
	Mm-hmm.
	You've got karma.
	And the Knights are coming in and helping us.
	Sir David Lee from Williamsburg, Virginia, $50.69.
	Needs a de-douching for calling Adam out on Twitter.
	The.69 is for good times I hope he had in the hot tub last night with Mickey.
	What?
	I told you she broke my axle.
	What?
	Yeah.
	He needs some karma.
	No, it's okay, David Lee.
	He took offense to a link I tweeted, but he hadn't really read it properly, and he's like, oh, okay, oops, sorry, I was wrong.
	That's okay.
	It's not a problem.
	You've been de-douched.
	Not a problem.
	It's okay.
	I'm a big boy, by the way.
	I don't get offended that easily.
	Milk in the kitchen from Marysville, Kansas, $50.01 from your milk in Kansas.
	Mother, I'd like to kiss.
	How's that?
	I lived 40 plus years without knowing what a MILF was and now I'm a little less innocent than Before your show.
	We popped your milk, Carrie.
	Oh, no.
	But after listening for three months, I'm still with you.
	I used to cringe at the whole karma thing, as I would usually ask for a prayer in similar situations.
	But precarious times, and Ron Paul makes strange bedfellows.
	So now I'm asking for karma for my husband, who has an interview on Tuesday.
	If he actually gets the job, I will probably faint, as we have been looking for a way out of town for about ten years now.
	I won't know what to do or say then.
	That's kind of the way she was expressing herself.
	Happens to get a kick out of giving to the show because if money is speech, as Stephen Colbert often says, then this is the closest thing I've come to experiencing that.
	And if donating is loving, donation is love, here is some love for the two of you fellows who make the best talkers in the universe.
	Maybe someday I'll even be doing this while drunk.
	That'll be fun.
	Anyway, please start my husband on the sir plan with the last donation.
	And this, if he gets the job, well, you know the rest of the story.
	All right.
	Well, okay.
	Here comes some special job karma for Tuesday from your milk.
	You've got karma.
	By the way, the back channel is closed somehow.
	If Gitmo Slave is listening, hopefully he can drop in, right after we sign off, he can drop in Maynard's show from ABC, because in that show, he explains what MILF means.
	And according to Maynard, it's music I'd like to forget.
	I thought it was pretty funny.
	I like it.
	Yeah.
	Okay, we only have a few left.
	Yeah, I don't like it.
	Unfortunately, that's why I'm stretching the segment.
	Anastasia Perov in Toronto, Ontario.
	By the way, in television, I would be next to the camera doing the stretch motion.
	So John would know, like a stretch motion.
	Yack away.
	Stretch the segment.
	Stretch the segment.
	Stretch it, you dummy.
	That's what it really means.
	Toronto, Ontario.
	Now, I think she's made a mistake here.
	I'm going to read what she says.
	She says, D-douche Dennis Peroff, please, for being a cheap bastard and not donating on time.
	Americans, vote Ron Paul.
	Be awesome again.
	So, does she really mean D-doucheing or does she mean douchebag him?
	I think douchebag.
	Well, maybe he...
	Did he donate?
	If he donated...
	No, he says he's a cheap bastard and he didn't donate on time.
	Douchebag!
	Sorry.
	Sorry, my friend.
	She can get back to us if we made a mistake.
	Don Schwartz in Rockville, Maryland.
	Hi, John and Adam.
	Please wish, wish, wish, wish Tom Starkweather a very happy birthday.
	He's a loyal listener of the show, and we know that, and we will.
	Justin Jovic in Howell, New Jersey, $50.
	And finally, Sir Ray Jacobson in Ashland, Virginia, $50.
	Add my birthday Friday the 13th.
	That's interesting.
	Yes.
	Oh, 962 to the birthday list.
	I'll be 50.
	I forwarded yourscrewed.org to noagendashow.com, which is a good one.
	I'm in need of some karma.
	Absolutely.
	Anything for the Knights.
	You've got karma.
	Because they do come in.
	We're going to skip the last one because she is going to be wishing her husband a happy birthday and I want to keep that as a surprise so she knows who she is.
	Okay, so we have to have a little serious chat.
	February.
	We do have to have a serious chat though.
	Meeting?
	Well, yeah, a meeting with our listeners.
	Um...
	And I know we have a lot of Ron Paul newbies.
	We're not new to Ron Paul, but new to the show.
	Because on RonPaul2012.com, they link to my blog post about us accurately predicting the outcome of the caucus.
	Yeah, right down to the vote count.
	So I'm a little wary of doing a new prediction because we've got a debate I haven't seen yet, etc.
	But I know that there are new Ron Paul people in and whatever you want to do, however you want to support the show, do it.
	But the way it works is we do the work.
	It's all we do.
	John writes a couple of columns for, I don't know, some things with mouse over ads and stuff.
	We put a lot of double underlines.
	Double underlines.
	But this is basically what we do.
	And we don't have any commercials.
	And we tried to accentuate that on the last show, which obviously failed miserably, where we showed that PBS is just taking ads and then pretending like they're not taking ads.
	So they're compromised.
	And we're not compromising.
	We're the only guys who can call it as we see it.
	We're not always right.
	We have an open dialogue with our listeners, and we think we're providing some entertainment.
	We have entertainment value, and we also do have interaction.
	We are close to the audience.
	We listen to them, and a lot of them bail out on us.
	They don't like us.
	There's some people that are upset by some of the revelations, I should say, that we come up with.
	Like last...
	I thought we should be getting a lot of money after Adam digs up the fact that you can now be expunged of your citizenship and then thrown in Gitmo for no apparent reason.
	For supporting terrorism.
	Which is vague.
	It doesn't mean anything.
	What does supporting terrorism mean?
	If you write a complimentary article on something that happens to be related to something else, who happens to be related to someone giving money to terrorists, are you...
	Can this happen to you?
	Yes, it can.
	Yes, I think our production of the Terrorist Music Television Awards is going to get us that status.
	Good.
	Could happen.
	Good.
	It could happen.
	So, we typically ask for any donation.
	We have a number of plans, and you can find all of those at dvorak.org.
	Why?
	Because?
	Donating is love.
	Oh, you said that very well.
	And it is love.
	Noagendanation.com is where you can also find an archive of the show in case something happens.
	We've had, you know, we never talked about the iTunes debacle.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, we got screwed.
	We got bumped from iTunes for, I think, two shows, two, three shows.
	That didn't help.
	But it was only on the iOS.
	So it was only on, because they have the new iOS 5 upgrade or whatever.
	And what Apple does, and of course...
	But that's the dominant platform for listening to these things.
	Well, of course, we do have a sysadmin on the inside, which is great, and he immediately figured out that it was indeed an Apple problem.
	What they do is, when they get the MP3 file, they strip out the image and resize it so that it'll look good on all of their devices, because you have to have different sizes for different players, I guess.
	And something was failing in that process with them.
	And that's why the downloads on the iPhone were failing.
	And he was in tears, basically.
	He's like, I heard you guys ragging on us about the free service we provide you of resizing your images.
	I felt really bad, but he's up 24-7 to make sure that it comes through.
	I don't know how I got on that tangent.
	You wanted to call the guy out for being a good guy.
	He's a very good guy.
	And we have good guys and gals all over Gitmo Nation.
	Inside, on the inside, they're flying the drones.
	They're doing all kinds of stuff that they hate doing.
	But we know that when we finally call it, when we push the big bat signal button, the sysadmins will save the universe.
	If for that reason alone, subscribe to one of our $5 a month programs.
	That way the public will always know that they can get to Amazon.com and buy something.
	And TMZ, man.
	I never go to that site.
	It's so awesome, man.
	And it's the junkiest site.
	It's TMZ rocks, dude.
	What's she talking about?
	Andrew Gardner.
	I said, hey, you guys read my email, explained the weird donation, but forgot to ring in my karma last week in Euroland so I could use it.
	Could you please do it for me?
	Because I really do need it.
	Of course, Andrew, we really apologize that we messed that up.
	Here's your karma.
	You've got karma.
	And the good news is you're not dead when you emailed this, so your karma is now good for a week and you're good to go.
	So I got a letter from Joe Hawkins and Joe Cool Designs.
	Disaster in Canada.
	I just came in.
	Isn't he the dish slave?
	Yeah, slave.
	I just bought a couple of No Agenda shirts yesterday because I was wearing my slave t-shirt while cooking some back bacon.
	He's in Canada.
	And spilled maple syrup all over my slave shirt.
	The maple syrup came right off due to the high quality of the shirt and the No Agenda karma woven into it.
	But I... Thought that you would get another slave shirt and protecting the shit out of you shirt as well.
	I had to order 2XL, also called programmer size, because of a serious medical I have developed recently called early onset FLB syndrome, fat lazy bastard syndrome.
	Okay.
	We hope he gets over that.
	So, did the karma...
	Back down to XL, my friend.
	Yeah, did the karma leak out of the shirt, or did it stay...
	I think it got into maple syrup and ended up on the pancakes.
	So, essentially, the karma sauce that we have is like a Scotchgard.
	That's very good.
	Scotchgard.
	Karma guard.
	Karma guard.
	Alright, once again, it's...
	Why?
	Because...
	Donation is love.
	Yeah, something like that.
	Whatever.
	Yeah, close enough.
	It's your birthday, birthday!
	On no agenda!
	Mark Thiering congratulates his buddy Tom Starkweather with his birthday on Tuesday.
	That'll be the 10th.
	Janice Sim congratulates himself as his birthday is on the 8th, that being today.
	Don Schwartz.
	Also, congratulations Tom Starkweather.
	It's a little No Agenda family there.
	And Sir Ray Jacobson wants a little birthday celebration.
	Shout out for himself.
	He'll be turning 50 on Friday the 13th.
	Happy birthday on behalf of all your buddies here at the No Agenda Show, the best podcast in the universe.
	Yes, you do!
	And then we're very happy to have one inductation into the...
	It's rusted shut.
	We haven't used it very often, have we?
	Guy Boazi!
	Thank you so much for fulfilling your duty to become a Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	Your donations equal...
	$1,000.
	Actually, you've gone overboard with some of the help you provided, the Curry family specifically.
	So we are proud to hereby, Knight V, Sir Guy Boazi, Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	Please, my friends, step right up over here.
	We've got your hookers and blow, your red boys and chardonnay, and your hot pants and booze ready for you at the table at your beck and call.
	And that will be that.
	Something weird happened in this little family, a family, this little town.
	Let me open up the page here.
	In Gitmo Nation East.
	And I immediately, when I saw this news report, I immediately knew what had happened.
	Villagers in Hampshire, near the world famous Watership Downhill.
	Now you know this, of course, from Watership Downhill.
	Yeah.
	Fear they have become the latest victims of a mystery which has hit other parts of Britain.
	One family, the Smiths, were baffled when their heating, shower, doorbell, and even their car's remote door locks refused to work.
	And they discovered similar problems were being experienced by their neighbors.
	They spent much of the festive season without heating and lights after the failure of household systems.
	Now this...
	This Hamlet...
	Hold on, before you finish the story.
	What newspaper did this appear in?
	Daily Mail.
	Oh!
	Well, the Daily Mail's...
	Okay, go on.
	What is it?
	Is it any better than the New York Times?
	Really?
	Well, I'm not saying it is or isn't.
	It's just the Daily Mail.
	Go on.
	I heard this story, too.
	It seems to me that this would have gotten a little more coverage.
	Well, not when we're talking about an EMP strike.
	So, you know, there is a military base, a top-secret military base, right near this village.
	And all of a sudden, everything stops working.
	All electrical, all RFID stuff, everything just got fried.
	I'm saying EMP. The problem with this story, if you read the whole thing, and you can read it, is that they blew out the power for like a week or two, and then it came all back on, and EMP strikes, fries the electronics.
	It doesn't come back on after a while.
	After two weeks?
	I think that's quite a while.
	But beside the point, it never comes back on.
	When a circuit is fried, it's fried permanently.
	Well, here's the clue.
	In the article itself, what can cause RF interference?
	It is likely that electromagnetic interference of some sort is causing the failure of the electronics, but the source of this could be anything from an electrical circuit to radiation hitting the earth from the sun, or possibly a military source.
	And then right there in the article, electromagnetic pulses fired by microwave generators can be used to disrupt magnetic fields, which in turn causes massive voltage surges that paralyzes equipment.
	Nuclear weapons produce huge EMP waves, but of course, that being the source in this instance is out of the question.
	But really?
	You don't know what's being blasted off above our heads.
	We don't know what's going on.
	I like tracking this stuff.
	Well, I think you should, and I'd like to see a follow-up on this story when somebody actually develops a thesis that actually can be proven one way or the other, or even makes sense, because it doesn't make sense the way it reads.
	Well, it's the Daily Mail.
	But I'm sure it happened, though.
	Something happened, I'm sure, yeah.
	Something probably happened.
	Well, we're in the second half of the show, so I think I get one more.
	What, are you going to do a double?
	I'm going to do a double.
	You didn't do much last week, so I guess this will be okay.
	Residents on Long Island are trying to pass a bill in their local community to stop the practice of persistent jet contrails.
	Over their community.
	And there's a fabulous video of the actual hearings where they're trying to get this bill passed.
	I have a 45-second clip of one of the residents.
	And these seem like fairly intelligent, educated people.
	It just goes on.
	It's like I'm listening to the No Agenda audience sitting there talking to their council members saying, we have to pass this bill.
	We do not want to be sprayed anymore.
	And we have no idea who is spraying us.
	With what?
	We have an idea of with what, but we don't have any idea, really, who is flying these planes.
	And the average, low-abiding citizen can't even get on a plane without being harassed.
	This is insanity.
	There's science behind the alternate sound.
	Anybody with a functioning set of eyes, a critical thinking process that has spent any significant amount of time reviewing this evidence could see it as sound.
	And it's clearly the will of the people that's educated on this matter that an end is put to this.
	Please give us the unanimous decision to pass this bill so that we can show the world that America's taking freedom back and we're not going to be sprayed like a bunch of bugs.
	Hell yeah!
	We won't be sprayed like a bunch of bugs, you elitist bastards.
	Bunch of bugs.
	This is what's happening.
	This is exactly what's happening.
	So I was thinking about this, and the coolest thing would be to develop some new drone technology to do the spraying.
	Because you can get down lower.
	Yeah.
	You can do it on a house-by-house basis.
	And give different dosages.
	So, oh, that's Curry's place.
	That's Camp Mofo.
	Open up the valve, suckers.
	Yeah, drop it in on him.
	Let's see what the next show's like with him doped up.
	He'll be so doped up he won't even know what's going on.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Sad.
	So I have a clip to change the pace here a little bit.
	This is from the Ellen show I was kind of amusing.
	She decided to bring on some of the women from the Jersey Shore and do a quiz show around simple political quizzes of the day.
	Of course, this is a joke segment.
	It's a joke segment.
	Anyway, play it.
	What is a caucus?
	Sorry?
	A caucus?
	She knows what this is.
	What is a caucus?
	You mean the part of the body?
	I think that's what I would think.
	A carcass?
	A carcass?
	A caucus.
	Let me get a spelling on this.
	C-A-U-C-U-S. Caucus.
	I thought it was what you were thinking, but it's not.
	Wow.
	Yep, that's entertainment, ladies and gentlemen.
	I'll be here all the week.
	And the crazy thing is, the season opener, 7.8 million viewers.
	A cable show?
	A cable show.
	7.8 million viewers.
	Yeah, well, I guess apparently people like to tune in and sit there.
	And by the way, if you watch any of those types of these syndicated shows like this, they're about 50% commercials.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, but still people will be happy to watch it.
	Yeah, they sit there, watch it, and get the kick out of it.
	But I just gave you the gist of the whole show right there in 30 seconds.
	Yeah, that's good.
	Thanks.
	So the girl returned from Columbia.
	Oh, you're following that story?
	Yeah, so I got a couple.
	I actually have two clips, but I got one clip here, which kind of gives me the...
	There's a couple of new factoids in here which need discussion.
	This is the girl returned from Columbia clip.
	Yes.
	Questions this hour.
	In the case of an American teenager who was mistakenly deported to Colombia, the 15-year-old is now back in the U.S., but investigators want to know how she could have been sent out of the country in the first place.
	Julie Banderas live in our New York City newsroom with more on this.
	Hi, Julie.
	...to Colombia because she told them she was an illegal immigrant.
	Upon arriving in that country, the girl was even given Colombian citizenship.
	U.S. and Colombian officials now pointing fingers over who exactly is responsible.
	Jekedrian's saga began when the teen ran away more than a year ago in November 2010.
	Now, Houston police say the 15-year-old was arrested in 2011 for misdemeanor theft and claimed to be Tica Lene Cortez, a Colombian woman born in 1990.
	Well, after being jailed, a sheriff's office employee then recommended an immigration detainer be put on her and an immigration judge ultimately ordered her back to Colombia, where she said she was from, even though she wasn't even fluent in Spanish and had no ties to Colombia.
	After spending months in Colombia, she was returned to the U.S. Friday evening and reunited with her family at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport What is the point of this story?
	Well, the point of this story is that this is...
	I don't know what it is.
	I think it has something to do with the holder hearings or something.
	This is a covered up weird story that makes zero sense and every time you hear it reported, it's reported exactly the same with information that makes zero sense.
	One...
	She said her name was Tika LeMay Cortez, which seems highly unlikely.
	And every one of these reports says the exact same thing.
	The reporters say the exact same thing.
	They say a Colombian woman born in 1990.
	How would anybody know this?
	Hmm.
	A Colombian.
	And why would she use this name if you're some black chick from Houston roaming around stealing stuff as a shop?
	Why would you all of a sudden claim that you're not from the United States, you're illegal, and your name is Tika LeMay Cortez, a Colombian woman born in 19...
	This is bull crap.
	This whole story is a scam.
	And the weird thing about it is that why did she get...
	They sent her to Colombia and they gave her automatic citizenship?
	This is like a great way to get dual citizenship.
	So what you're saying is you don't actually know what's going on, why this is being propagated in the media so much.
	No, I have no idea, but I... Is this a ploy?
	It's a distraction of the week.
	Wait a minute.
	Well, hold on a second.
	That's for sure.
	It's a distraction of the week on the Woods' gender.
	Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's Crackpot here from Camp Mofo.
	This one going out to Tika LeMay Cortez.
	You know we brought her back.
	She is reunited with her family, baby.
	I was a fool.
	That's right, sound of the nation.
	You remember this song, don't you, Big JCD? Five years in prison after SOFA passes.
	Adam Curry has been arrested and he's in prison for five years.
	Sing along with me everybody now because this is going out to Tica LeMay Cortez.
	Woman born in Columbia in 1990.
	I was trying to get to the hook.
	Hold on, where is it?
	Here we go.
	It'll be worth it.
	Reunited and it feels so good.
	Reunited and it's understood.
	Alright, that's enough.
	Okay, we can drop that story.
	So now the Supreme Court is going to rule on whether or not, I guess, it has to do with if somebody smells dope or something.
	Anyway, there's this kind of controversial story floating around about a dog smelled pot, and so the cops went in without a warrant.
	Play Dogs in Search 1 and maybe get a little feeling for it.
	Okay.
	Everybody's home, sniffed, smelled drugs inside, and of course there was a warrantless search then perpetrated.
	Is that an unreasonable violation of the Fourth Amendment, Keisha?
	I say not.
	Really?
	I say not because in this particular case the police officers had a reasonable suspicion.
	And that reasonable suspicion was that they received an anonymous tip that this home had marijuana being grown in it.
	And when they went to the home, the dog detected the odor from outside of the house.
	So that's not an intrusive violation of privacy.
	What if it were police outside, Keisha, listening in with parabolic microphones?
	That's a totally different issue.
	How is that different than drug-sniffing dogs?
	Aren't they almost identical?
	No, it's not, because with the microphone, they're listening on either illegal and legal activity, whereas with the dog, these dogs are trained to detect marijuana, which is an illegal activity.
	So this is a big scandal.
	So we have a guy that contradicts all this, but even the guy who contradicts it overlooks the obvious thing, and I think we've discussed it on the show.
	These dogs are trained to lie.
	Yeah, of course they are.
	The stupid mutts.
	And you can't bring them in front of a judge and they can't testify.
	Did you really smell the marijuana or was there a code given to you to sit and act like you smelled marijuana?
	This is like CSI. Zoom in, rotate, enhance.
	So this woman's defending this, by the way.
	She should be ashamed of herself.
	By the way, growing a plant, illegal activity in the United States, ladies and gentlemen.
	So somebody gives an anonymous tip, which could be bullcrap.
	A dog supposedly smells it, which could be bullcrap.
	There's no way of knowing what the dog's smelling.
	And so you can bust into the house and arrest the people without a warrant.
	That's essentially what This guy who contradicts the whole thing, the dog and search number two clip, doesn't even bring this up, which I think is really the key thing that's being overlooked here.
	Dogs are trained to detect marijuana, which is an illegal activity.
	Is she wrong, David?
	She's absolutely wrong, Greg.
	The police have no business being on this porch in the first place.
	There is a Fourth Amendment.
	There is a Constitution.
	There's probable cause, not reasonable suspicion.
	There's got to be probable cause to enter that house, and by the dog sniffing on that porch, outside that house, that constitutes an illegal search and seizure in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.
	But David, Absolutely, Keisha.
	You're forgetting that they did not go into the house.
	The dog gave them a probable cause to do the search.
	So it was not a violation of the Fourth Amendment, right, when the dog was outside of the house and detected the odor.
	And remember, they were doing surveillance of this home.
	Our government is there for one reason, and that's to have the dogs perform this illegal search.
	That porch area is an illegal search when it comes to these dogs.
	Let me make a prediction, John.
	Do you have the book?
	Uh, yes I do.
	So we already have dogs who can sniff out drugs.
	We have dogs who can sniff out food.
	Like, you know, if you ever fly into the United States, they got the agriculture dog sniffing for bananas and nuts and stuff.
	We have dogs that can sniff out money.
	I guarantee you, we'll have dogs that can sniff out terrorists next.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	The dog was like...
	Terrorists!
	You watch.
	Oh, and I forgot.
	Explosive dogs as well.
	Well, they do have explosive dogs.
	Yeah.
	No, I know.
	That's not a prediction.
	That's a fact.
	Oh, yeah.
	And who's this douche knock-a-loo who's saying, the dog sniffed him out.
	If I see a police dog on my porch, I'm shooting him.
	Yeah, right.
	Talks cheap.
	Okay.
	Talks cheap in Texas.
	I got nothing to hide.
	So apparently there is a Supreme Court case about this situation as it's going to be coming up in the next week or two and it's going to be interesting to see how they come out on it.
	But I think the overlooked aspect of the whole thing is that the anonymous tip and the lying dog.
	The lying dog!
	Bullshit!
	The lying dog.
	I'm totally down with it.
	They do treat these dogs, they're seen as officers of the law.
	So if an officer of the law is on your porch, that by definition is illegal search.
	Well, if he's determining you've got something going on, he busts in, sure.
	Yeah.
	But it was the one guy, I mean, we brought up the dog thing some time ago, and I think we kind of treated it lightly, and so one of our producers wrote in complaining about the lying dogs and the fact that these dogs are extremely well-trained, and they can be trained to sit where they, you know, sit there, just pretend there's something going on.
	Oh, look, he's sitting there.
	It must be drugs.
	It must be drugs.
	It must be something going on.
	Bombs, drugs, whatever.
	Bring in the drone.
	Bring in the drone.
	So, anyway, I just thought that was kind of an interesting side clip.
	Well, what are we going to do?
	There's no goodness.
	No goodness.
	There's no goodness whatsoever.
	I'm afraid this is not good.
	I got an O'Reilly douchebag clip here that I'm not absolutely sure...
	Oh, this is kind of interesting.
	Yeah, play this O'Reilly douchebag.
	Unresolved Problem segment tonight.
	The ACLU has issued a report card ranking President Obama and all of the GOP presidential candidates on civil liberty issues.
	And are you ready?
	Ron Paul gets higher marks than Barack Obama.
	And that's a scandal.
	Scandalous.
	Scandalous.
	Because the code in here, you have to remember, the right-wing talkers have made the ACLU the enemy.
	They're a bunch of communists.
	Right.
	American civil liberties.
	And so if they rate you high, like Ron Paul apparently was, you know, a commie.
	You're a commie.
	Anyone who doesn't know that he's a civil liberty, I mean, he's the most for civil liberties, this is a scandal.
	Speaking of...
	Because it's even higher than Obama.
	Obama should be at the bottom of the list.
	Yeah.
	Well, don't say that too loudly because he might drone you.
	Well, it's clear skies out, too.
	I have to be careful.
	Well, you have to remember...
	I have two words for you.
	Predator drones.
	That's right.
	He's not kidding, either.
	Speaking of Ron Paul, this was also on C-SPAN. A lot of people captured this and sent it to me.
	And I saw it myself.
	This is the hot mic.
	Hot check mic.
	Mic check.
	John, mic check, mic check.
	Mic check, the two, two, two.
	Two, two.
	Mic check, two, two, three.
	This is at the Pentagon, where they had a mic open.
	This is one of the reasons why we watch C-SPAN, not only to be able to see wonderful people like Vermin Supreme, but also to catch these open mics.
	It's fantastic when they leave the sound up.
	Two journalists waiting for the press conference and talking about what will happen to them when Ron Paul becomes president.
	We've approved over the last 10 years.
	I said repeatedly, we can only do one at a time.
	We can fight you all.
	We can fight you all.
	This is all getting ready to do anything.
	Ron Paul, who's president.
	See this room?
	Two-thirds of us laid off when I'm calling it.
	So the question is, do they already know that Ron Paul is going to become president and they're just waiting for the other shoe to fall?
	Why are two-thirds?
	Oh, it's because we won't have to do any...
	I don't even know what that means.
	Why don't you tell me what that means?
	Oh, it's because the Pentagon will be...
	Oh, right, the Pentagon will be folded.
	Yeah, only one-third of the budget will be left, so only one-third of the reporters will be left and needed to report on it.
	But I took it in a different way.
	I took it as like the press already knows that Ron Paul is truly going to be the winner.
	Do you want to make any predictions for the outcome of Tuesday's New Hampshire carcass?
	Well, if I was going...
	I'm not going on by the scripts that you like to go by, which makes you more accurate.
	Pure television.
	Speaking on these things.
	Yeah.
	But from a perspective of someone who might be a professional in the field that's analyzing what they've seen so far without hearing the last debate, I would suspect that Romney will win...
	With a large portion of the vote and the three other guys will kind of split the second half.
	In other words, I think Santorum, maybe Gingrich and Paul will each have about the same amount and then twice as many votes for Romney.
	He's a local boy.
	It's a local election for him.
	Yeah, because he's from Massachusetts.
	Yeah.
	Well, if I were to produce this And by the way, I'd have some of the Hooters girls at the convention during the caucus just walking around.
	But if I were to produce this and I want to have a good news show, I agree.
	I'm going to say Romney 40%.
	Then I'm going to say Ron Paul 2nd.
	And it will be, you're right, it will be a significantly smaller percentage, and this will show...
	Sub-20.
	Yeah, sub-20.
	I'm thinking somewhere in the 15-18% range.
	Gingrich falls off the radar, but right behind Ron Paul will be Santorum.
	It'll be a race between Santorum and Ron Paul, and then Upset will have Huntsman as third.
	So write this down.
	40% Romney.
	Ron Paul, let's just say 18%.
	Just 15 to 18.
	It has to be 15, actually.
	15.
	Then we're going to have either Tide, another one of those, like Close Call, 15, but maybe 14% Santorum, followed by John Huntsman, and Gingrich off the radar down there fighting with Perry.
	That's the way I would do it if I were going to produce it.
	Well, I would say it's probably kind of interesting.
	They definitely have to keep Paul in it because they're not going to be able to sustain ratings, and they're not getting the ratings up that high anyway.
	The best ratings they've had is when they had the little battle between Perry and Romney, but then Perry wasn't part of this main script, so they had to take him out of the play.
	They're kicking out of SAG, I think.
	Yeah, I think he lost his benefits.
	And I don't know.
	This is getting pretty crummy.
	I mean, they're going to have to shake it out.
	There's really only two more events left.
	There's South Carolina and Florida, and then it's done.
	After that, it's just these huge one day.
	How many electoral votes are up for grabs in this?
	Five or six.
	It's almost none.
	There's no real votes involved here.
	It's just to set the stage for the Super Tuesday where you had something like 25 states going all at once.
	I'm so worried that Santorum is...
	People were booing him.
	The college they were booing him.
	People were booing him wherever he went.
	I just don't see a turnout.
	I think people are just on to him.
	I don't think they're on to him because he does this neuro-linguistic chatter that I think may work for him.
	I mean, he's a bit buffaloed to people in Iowa.
	Well, listen, call Santorum's people and tell them that we will be happy to bump him up, but he has to get rid of the stupid jumper.
	That sweater thing?
	Oh, he loves that jumper.
	No, that's no good.
	He has to, like, dress differently because it's just...
	Oh, the sweater vest.
	The sweater vest.
	Yeah, the jumper has got to go.
	I like jumper, though.
	It's like little kids wear.
	Did you notice, by the way, that they made Ron Paul look his real height, finally, on the debate last night?
	Yeah, he's the same height as everybody.
	He's like 6'1".
	He's 6'1".
	But they finally made him look tall.
	Yeah.
	I thought it was kind of interesting.
	Okay.
	Now, of course, this is a tough prediction because we haven't seen the debate that took place this morning.
	But forget all that because who gives a crap about us?
	The real problems are over in Gitmo Nation Euro land.
	Some interesting things happening there.
	First of all, what is not on the news is that the euro is now at a 16-month low, down below $1.27.
	This is big.
	This is a critical level.
	Take a look at what it is right now.
	What is it right now?
	It's got to be below $1.29.
	Oh yeah, it was $127 last time I looked.
	Right now it's $127.17.
	Okay, so it's very, very close.
	Very, very close.
	That's a big deal, and of course this is because we now know that Super Mario has essentially forced this bond auction of the ESFS, and they're printing money.
	They're actually printing money.
	What's interesting, and I've been following for the past year, I guess, whenever the euro would go down, gold would go down.
	This is now reversed.
	Now, gold goes up when the euro goes down.
	So there's something real fundamental.
	Well, as you say that, the euro just went down.
	.0074 and gold went down with it.
	330.
	But that's not the overall trend over the past week and a half.
	The overall trend is...
	Gold is what, 1640 now?
	1616.
	Okay.
	But it's got a corkscrew going on with this chart.
	It has this going up and down.
	It slows down.
	And now it's pretty much stuck.
	It looks like between 16-17 and 16-18, it looks like it's going to stay there from the chart.
	We shall see.
	That can lead to an up move or a down move, by the way.
	It doesn't mean anything.
	It's like a wedge.
	Yeah, the real gold, of course, is worth much more, but that's irrelevant.
	Chinese are investing in the Portuguese power grid.
	Give us a little phrase in Chinese.
	Oh, I happen to have one.
	Chica-ching-ching, everybody.
	The sound of a cash register in China.
	Chica-ching-ching.
	That'll be $13.95, please.
	Yeah, so they put 2.7 billion euros into the EDP, the Portuguese power grid, which, wow, that's pretty brazen.
	That's great for Portugal.
	And by the way, if you don't pay us back, we're going to turn off your lights, bitches.
	But the crazy one...
	So we've been saying this would happen, and of course this gets no play.
	Greece is now going to sell some bonds because they've got to raise money to start paying off their debt.
	They are now going to sell bonds backed by state property.
	Oh, they're starting to sell off the country.
	It is.
	Let me tell you what they're selling off.
	You know, Governor Brown here in California has been trying to do the same thing.
	It's a great plan.
	I think it's fantastic.
	Sell off Yosemite.
	We got Yosemite.
	That's a national park.
	We can't sell that off.
	Oh, can we sell off Mount Tam?
	That's got to be worth it.
	Yeah, you can sell off Mount Tam.
	You could sell off the state parks.
	There's a bunch of state parks.
	They're closing a few of them.
	They should just sell them.
	Yeah.
	You got some old adobes, you know, from the 1600s.
	They used to be state parks.
	Just sell them.
	Sell them to Larry Ellison.
	He'll buy them.
	How about the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
	Let's sell that.
	Sell it.
	Sell it.
	Get rid of it.
	So here's what Greece is selling.
	First of all, they sold four Airbus 340 jets.
	Wow.
	For $40 million apiece.
	That's a super...
	What do they retail for?
	Is that the Blue Book?
	What do they retail...
	Hold on a second.
	Blue Book...
	Blue book value of Airbus, what is it?
	A340. Let's see what the book of knowledge says.
	Aircraft appraisals.
	I guess, well, there's an A340-200.
	They cost about, oh my goodness.
	I'm getting $38 billion on my show.
	That seems to be a bit high, doesn't it?
	I think they're like $200 million.
	Well, let's see what a new one costs.
	No, no, no.
	What does a...
	Oh, you'd be surprised.
	A new Airbus A340 costs.
	But these are relatively new, I think.
	Yeah, the jet's only been out for less than a year.
	List price, $203.6 million.
	Oh, okay.
	That's the list price.
	Remember, this is the wide body.
	I'm fooling myself.
	Yeah, no, this is the monster jet.
	Yeah.
	This is bigger than a 747.
	So that's a steel!
	No, that's the A380. No, that's the 380.
	The 340 is big.
	I think Virgin flies those, don't they?
	That's a Ford Jet job, I think.
	No, it's two.
	I think it's two.
	Yeah, it's the two huge Pratt& Whitney's.
	No, I don't think so.
	I think it's a Ford Jet.
	Let me see.
	330.
	Where's the 340?
	Hold on.
	Here it is.
	I'm on Airbus.com.
	Yep.
	Four jets.
	Four?
	Okay.
	I flew on this once.
	Do they have the retail price on Airbus.com?
	No.
	If we wanted to pick one up, can we buy this on eBay?
	Well, maybe.
	But if they're normally $200 million plus and they're selling them for $40 million, that's a good deal.
	It's a fantastic deal.
	Let me see.
	Although apparently the Icelandic Air or one of these guys have bought one of them for $38.6 million.
	Well, it depends on how old and how many hours it has, obviously.
	I was thinking of the new 380s.
	This thing could be old and beat up.
	I mean, of all the airlines I've ever flown, the Greek Olympus Airlines is the worst.
	They smoke on it.
	They don't tighten any screws.
	I'll take it, but take that Olympus sticker off, because I don't want anyone seeing that.
	Anyway, they also are selling their ports.
	Is it Olympus or Olympia?
	I think it's Olympus.
	I think it is too.
	The privatization list includes ports, regional airports, utilities, motorways.
	It's Olympic.
	Yeah, Olympic.
	Olympus Air.
	They got both here.
	Utilities, motorways, a leading casino.
	A casino inside the jet?
	Public-owned defense, train and mining companies, and a key stake in Greece's Monopoly gaming operator.
	The Lotto, essentially.
	So guess what's going to happen?
	Yeah, all the douchebags are going to buy up all this stuff.
	That was the whole idea to begin with.
	That's where the EU formed.
	Time now for our national Greek lotto!
	The first number!
	Bingo!
	Yeah, the Chinese are going to buy up Greece.
	Well, the Chinese and the Russians.
	Oh yeah, definitely the Russians.
	And the Russians.
	A couple of weird two-to-the-head stories that came by.
	First, this is the two Top Gun pilots who shot each other and then the guy shot himself in the head.
	It's like completely weird.
	Once or twice.
	Yeah, and the gun in the left hand.
	It was like one of those deals.
	Navy SEAL accidentally shoots himself in the head.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	Yeah, because they're incompetent.
	They don't know what they're doing with a gun.
	I mean, no, of course.
	He thought it wasn't loaded and he was playing a joke and said, oh, watch, I'll put it against my head and I'll pull the trigger.
	Yes, that's how well trained we are.
	Why do we still believe these stories and go, oh, okay.
	That's amazing.
	I'm sure that happened.
	Yeah, that's right.
	But the best one.
	Is Dario Lele Mora, celebrity talent scout, who was at the Bunga Bunga parties for Berlusconi, tried to kill himself in prison.
	Yeah, sure he did.
	He was the guy who was, he was the recruiter.
	He was getting the chicks.
	And he's been in jail since June.
	And he's on trial with Nicole Minetti, Anglo-Italian former showgirl who was propelled into politics under Mr.
	Berlusconi's patronage.
	And Dario Fede, a television presenter on a channel belonging to the former Prime Minister.
	So he's in there for fraudulent bankruptcy with his LM management company.
	And he tried to...
	I don't think the story says how he tried to kill himself.
	How do you kill yourself in jail?
	Was it hanging?
	Is that kind of the best way to do it?
	Banging your head against the bars, maybe?
	Yeah.
	Letting Bubba have his way with you until you drop?
	It doesn't actually say.
	But attempted suicide.
	So at least they are eating each other at this point.
	Which is good.
	Because somebody's got to.
	I got distracted by this interesting website, privateislandsonline.com.
	Oh, they sell jets there as well, right?
	Well, that's how I got there from the jet site.
	But it's like, there's a lot of islands for sale in Greece.
	And they sell them pretty cheap, but the good ones are not cheap.
	This one here is just outside of Athens.
	It's 150 million euros.
	It's a 643 acre island.
	I called the island of Patroclos.
	And I just imagine some, you know, I've run into, this is weird, but you run into when you're hanging out with these hyper-rich tech people and then you start talking to them because they've changed the people they hang out with.
	Oh, of course.
	They're douchebags.
	Yeah, all the other douchebags.
	But they'll tell you a couple of interesting things.
	One is that many of them, and I don't have a list in front of me, but I should reveal this list.
	I can get it.
	Buy islands.
	It's like there's some island collecting thing going on with the hyper-rich.
	They all own two or three islands around the world.
	It's not just like they own a big resort or a castle in Spain.
	No, that's old school, man.
	They own an island.
	Do you get to rename the island?
	No.
	You own it.
	You can call it whatever you want.
	But they own these islands and they collect them.
	And so there's a big community of island owners amongst the hyper-rich.
	I'll try to get some names of some of them and some of the islands they own.
	I think it's mostly findable.
	And these are the guys that...
	This is my little annoyance of the week.
	Not a pet peeve, but annoyance.
	So some douche knuckle...
	I think on CNET... Oh, you know, what would happen if Google turned off and Facebook turned off?
	First of all, I'd be like, that would be the happiest day of my life if that happened.
	And this has turned into a meme of sorts where people are now saying, January 23rd, man, Google's going to turn off and Facebook's going to turn off and that'll show them bastards in Washington what the internet will be effectively done, man!
	No, it won't.
	Why were you getting this?
	I haven't heard this.
	Oh, this is all over the place.
	Just do...
	Okay.
	Consult the Book of Knowledge.
	Do internet shutdown January 23.
	And here, internet may shut down.
	SOPA blackout could shut down internet.
	Major websites to shut down in protest of SOPA. You know, there is no way...
	Hell will have to freeze over before Google and Facebook and Twitter will shut down.
	There is no way.
	And I can't believe that this meme is propagating.
	And now it's gotten so bad where people are saying that there's an actual date.
	And there's no evidence of Google or Facebook ever saying this.
	It's just some guy who started this over at CNET saying, wouldn't it?
	That would show them, wouldn't it?
	They won't show anything.
	It would be great.
	Shut down Google.
	Fine.
	Good riddance.
	That's funny.
	No, I missed this completely.
	You're on Twitter today?
	Yeah, I am.
	Okay, so you are guaranteed, guaranteed this will come up with, hey man, there's like some internet shutdown on the 23rd.
	I'm not going to bring it up.
	No, you won't bring it up.
	You won't have to bring it up because it'll be brought up by the panel.
	Who's on?
	Jerry Pornell and Silverman, Dwight Silverman from the Houston Chronicle.
	Well, maybe Leo will bring it up.
	Dwight's pretty well-researched, and Pornell is...
	I don't know, man.
	He's on a different planet.
	Now, major sites like Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon, eBay, Wikipedia, Yahoo, PayPal, and more are planning...
	That would be great!
	Bullcrap!
	Bullcrap!
	Shut it down.
	Black out their services?
	That's not possible.
	It's against their own terms of service.
	They can't do it.
	And their own charter.
	They've got shareholders.
	They have to make money.
	And Amazon.
	Please.
	It's not going to shut down.
	They're going to shut down and instead display a message urging users to contact their representatives to speak out against SOPA. Why have a SOPA store?
	Please, we have to talk about this because, first of all, I've not been able to see any actual legislation.
	You know, when there's a real bill and there's something I can read, I'll be all over that.
	You should go to the Stop Online...
	That's the Stop Online...
	You should go to the...
	What's the other one?
	IP... Protect IP. Yeah, Protect IP Act, yeah.
	I'm talking to some lobbyists in Washington, D.C. about who are against all this stuff.
	And I'm told that one of the things that may be going on is that SOPA is a complete red herring.
	It's a bull crap.
	It's just to draw attention to it.
	The fact is they're going to pass Protect IP in the Senate while everybody's talking about SOPA. And the SOPA people are going to go...
	Oh, you know, everyone's so upset about this.
	We're going to drop it.
	We quit.
	You win.
	You win.
	Soap is dead.
	We're canceling it.
	And then meanwhile, Protect IP is going to go get through and then get just rubber stamped by Congress because that's the Senate bill.
	So the whole thing could be a complete scam because it's exactly the way it looks like it's lining up because nobody's talking about Protect IP. And it's the same bill.
	No, you're right.
	Yeah.
	Okay, so there is a leaked copy of Protect IP, which doesn't mean...
	How do I know that that's real?
	Is there an actual...
	Is there a full-on bill?
	There has to be.
	Senate bill...
	I got the number somewhere.
	Senate...
	.gov.
	Hold on a second.
	I want to find it.
	This will be my homework.
	This is what I will do.
	I thought everything that I've seen so far has not been an official text of the bill.
	I don't think that's been presented anywhere.
	I don't think it's published.
	Legislation and records.
	Last major action.
	Bills introduced.
	So it would be a bill introduced, I presume?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And sponsored and co-sponsored by every imaginable, horrible person.
	Let me see.
	Protect.
	Does the chat room have anything?
	Chat room is usually pretty good at that stuff.
	Or is everyone just bitching and moaning and complaining and not actually reading what this is about?
	Protect IP Act of 2011 reported in Senate.
	S-968.
	Okay.
	It's a Patrick Leahy bill with every co-sponsor, Matt.
	S-968, you said?
	Yeah, S-968, Protect IP Act of 2011.
	Okay.
	All right, I'll read through this.
	There's a lot of...
	Oh, this is all marked up.
	This is all chopped up.
	Everything has been...
	Wow.
	Wow.
	And it's very disappointing some of the people that are supporting this.
	These are the co-sponsors.
	I'm going to name them.
	You should vote them out of office.
	Lamar Alexander, Kelly Ayotte, Michael Bennett, Richard Blumenthal, Roy Blunt, John Boosman, Benjamin Cardin, Robert Casey, Thad Cochran, Christopher Coons, Bob Corker from Tennessee, Richard Durbin from Illinois, Michael Enzi, Dianne Richard Durbin from Illinois, Michael Enzi, Dianne Feinstein, Al Franken, Really?
	Al Franken?
	The big libertarian?
	Yeah, the big libertarian bullcrapper.
	Christian Gillibrand.
	Lindsey Graham, of course.
	Anything that Lindsey Graham's in you know is bad.
	Chuck Grassley, another one.
	Kay Hagan, another one.
	Orrin Hatch, another one.
	Amy Klobuchar, I don't know her.
	Herb Cole.
	Joe Lieberman, hello.
	No, pfft.
	John McCain, hello.
	And get this one, Marco Rubio.
	Oh, no, I saw his name.
	Because there's a SopaOpera.com.
	SopaOpera.
	Charles Schumer.
	Janine Shaheen.
	Tom Udall.
	Sheldon Whitehouse.
	And Jerry Moran, who bailed out.
	He withdrew his support, and now he's against it.
	So I'm looking through this bill, and it's all crossed out.
	When does it, like, this whole, this is crazy.
	Everything's redlined.
	Oh, here we go.
	Wow.
	This act may be cited as the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011.
	Whoa.
	Okay, the term domain name has to, okay, oh, Lanham Act.
	Interesting.
	That's what MTV sued me under.
	The Lanham Act.
	The Lanham Act?
	Mm-hmm.
	That's when there can be confusion amongst consumers.
	Oh, right.
	The lawsuit between them.
	They're confusing you with MTV? Yes.
	You are the face of MTV, my friend.
	The face.
	That's right.
	And now I've been scrubbed from history.
	Yeah, you're not even mentioned anymore in their retrospectives.
	No, never.
	And then it was Headbangers Ball with Ricky Rackman.
	Curry wasn't a part of that.
	Screw him.
	Bastard.
	He stole our property.
	After they said, don't worry about it.
	You can use that internet thing.
	We're going with AOL. We think keywords are more important.
	Stupid idiots.
	The lawsuit between MTV Networks and Mr.
	Curry has been settled out of court.
	Neither party has any further comment.
	I probably already said too much.
	I ain't grouse.
	Who cares?
	They don't know who you are.
	All right.
	Some other cool stuff in the show notes just to look at, which is part of the service we provide to you.
	We have an update from one of our producers who is in Gitmo.
	What is Pakistan?
	What is Pakistan's Gitmo status?
	Gitmo Nation what?
	Poppy Stan?
	Gitmo Nation goat meat?
	Possibility.
	Well, he says that one of his cousins maintains a very high position in the NWFP provincial government, but things are crazy right now.
	He says that prices have gone up four to five times, but only government people can afford food now because they make so much money.
	But he says, today I am en route to Abbottabad to visit family from my mother's side.
	I'm hoping to get some photos of the infamous mansion Osama was supposedly hiding out in, as well as hear the locals' accounts of those nights and the aftermath since then.
	One of my cousins was stationed in Abbottabad as a trainer slash officer for a long time, and it's strange such a sensitive location would have housed Osama without really any luxuries, without any other agencies in the area knowing about it.
	So we've got a guy on the inside.
	Cool.
	Take photos.
	And another cousin from...
	Hey, do some graffiti on the side of Obama's outside wall.
	Put NoAgendaShow.com.
	Exactly.
	NoAgendaShow.com.
	Write it there and take a picture.
	Yeah.
	Or posters works to anything.
	Just get it up there.
	Another cousin from Peshawar.
	That would be great.
	Yeah.
	Another cousin from Peshawar was the director general for the primary hospital in Abbottabad for some time as well.
	I have to confirm the timelines.
	Anyway.
	So he's from Canada.
	And he's visiting family.
	He says it's hard to even get his iPhone to work there.
	It's so bad.
	That's why we're droning him.
	Who cares?
	Yeah, drawing the iPhone factory.
	Anyway, on Tuesday, fascinating book coming out, which I will be reading for you so you don't have to.
	I'm sure you've heard of this book.
	Yeah?
	The Obamas.
	The Obamas, you betcha.
	I've already pre-ordered it on my Kindle.
	I cannot wait for it to arrive.
	A lot of Valerie Jarrett material in there for you.
	I told you, my favorite biatch.
	And, you know, so I have the New York Times actually is running excerpts from the book, which is pretty interesting, and not such nice ones.
	As we already have discussed, that Michelle Obama is just a raging maniac, and is just yelling at everybody.
	And, uh, I'm really looking forward to reading this book.
	Who is the author of this book?
	Aging maniac.
	Well, don't you think she is?
	I just, just the image of, I just imagine her running around with her arms in the air, waving them and screaming.
	In a circle.
	Fast in a circle.
	I can, uh, I can see it.
	I can see it.
	I think the author's a...
	Yes, here's a little one.
	You come on up.
	that is a uh that is a clip from the obamas available on audible uh That's Obamas.
	Jody Cantor is the writer.
	Okay.
	What has she done for me lately?
	Nothing.
	She's written nothing?
	She's a New York Times veteran reporter.
	She abandoned her journalistic senses, according to the Washington Post opinion, Eric Wemple.
	This is a trending topic.
	But she hasn't written any other books?
	I don't know.
	Let me take a look.
	No, not on Amazon, no.
	No other books.
	This is her first book.
	Oh, and it was obviously written by the CIA. Yeah, duh.
	Yeah, what am I thinking?
	Yeah, they fed her all the stuff that she needed, and she pieced it together.
	Probably half of it was already pre-written, and boom, we got a bestseller.
	So I keep an eye on her in the years ahead.
	Alright everybody, have a great carcass on Tuesday and we will have a book review for you on Thursday of the Obamas along with all the other media assassination that we do for you so you don't have to.
	Coming to you from Camp Mofo here in the Drone Star State.
	In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
	And I'd remind you to bring a highlighter with you and highlight the best passages and we'll be rapt listening to the review.
	I'm John C. Dvorak in Silicon Valley.
	And remember, John, on today's Twit, I'm old school, man.
	Talk to you on Thursday right here on No Agender.

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