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	I always keep a bottle of helium in the house.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, May 17, 2012.
	Time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 409-er.
	This is No Agenda.
	Testing my head lag here at Camp MoFo in the capital of the drone star state, Austin Tejas.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's gloomy, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Wow.
	With a stinger.
	Stinger.
	Opening with a stinger.
	So, it's gloomy here.
	Donna Summer died.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	You told me that a couple minutes ago.
	Yeah, that was a shocker.
	I think that was, and of course my comment was, it was the cover of the Mary Kennedy assassination.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's real nice.
	That's real nice.
	That wasn't an assassination, John.
	I heard it on the news this morning.
	She died due to lack of oxygen because of the rope around her neck.
	Yeah.
	That's literally the same.
	How many women actually hang themselves?
	Ooh, that's a good question for a statistic.
	For one thing, it takes a lot of effort.
	It's like a lot of crazy work.
	You have to be kind of nutty.
	And it's ridiculously showy.
	It's so selfish.
	Well, I mean, no, it's not selfish.
	It's just showy.
	Someone's got to cut you down.
	You know, it's like pain in your ass.
	And you're hanging there, you know.
	It makes an impression that the kids see it, they get ruined for life.
	I mean, it's not right.
	I mean, isn't it just a really old-fashioned way of committing suicide?
	And I think she was no stranger to pills.
	I think that might be exaggerated.
	I mean, maybe she was a rich woman that was wasted all the time on something or other.
	It just seems like there's so many other easy ways to go.
	Yeah, typically women will slit their wrists.
	Do you have some scientific proof of this, or are you just making this up as you go along?
	I'm just saying.
	Look it up.
	Look it up on the Google.
	I've got to tell you, I'm a little depressed, John.
	Why?
	Well...
	Has the weather turned sour there in Austin?
	No, I'll say the weather is really beautiful today.
	But we were in Los Angeles for a couple days.
	Oh, that would make you depressed.
	Well, for a number of reasons.
	Did you take a vaccination against douchebaggery?
	I should have.
	Actually, what happened is we were staying with a guy who used to work at my first company, New York, and he was an art director.
	And I kept in touch with him over the years.
	And when I was in Amsterdam, one time he came to visit.
	Very creative, crazy kind of guy.
	And, you know, we had a kind of a down donation show on Sunday.
	And so for now, for today, which you'll find out in a minute, it's also down.
	So, you know, I'm already...
	So you're down.
	Well, I'm okay normally, but I'm his ex-boss, you know.
	It's like, hey, come on, we've got a great place in Malibu.
	And he's got some mansion.
	Dude.
	Dude?
	No, dude.
	Not only a mansion on the beach...
	He's got, you know, he's got a brand new Ferrari.
	Not that I crave a Ferrari.
	But I'm like, and I won't mention his name.
	Like, dude, what are you doing?
	He says, oh, well, I have a website.
	Type this into your browser.
	Okay, hang on.
	You ready?
	Yeah.
	x-art.com.
	If you're doing this, if you're playing along on the live stream and you're listening to the show, this is not safe for work.
	No, this is a porn site.
	Yeah, but look at it.
	It is high-end.
	Yeah, it's kind of more...
	No, high, high-end.
	Yeah, it's slick.
	Yeah, he's doing stuff with red cams, and he's printing money.
	Yeah, you can do that.
	We could have gotten into the porn business and done quite well.
	This is my point!
	Now you know why I'm so down!
	I'm like, really, you make movies of people having sex, and you make millions and millions and millions of dollars.
	I, on the other hand, read government legislation, and I'm just getting by.
	Well, the difference is that you won't find yourself with your head on a stick because you didn't cough up some money to some mob boss.
	No, this is a very clean operation.
	So far.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, and these girls are all from Czechoslovakia, and they shoot it in...
	I'm sure one of them is a Russian mob boss's girlfriend, and when he finds out, this guy's going to have his head on a stick, and the Ferrari's going to be burning in the garage.
	Oh, thank you, John.
	You know how to lift my spirits, don't you?
	You're welcome.
	Besides that, I was very happy to return back home to Austin.
	You're in Malibu, you look up at the mountains, and there's smog in Malibu.
	Isn't that pathetic?
	And we drove into town, obviously, to see Christina.
	You can't see town.
	You can't see the city.
	You literally cannot see it.
	October is just as bad, too, which is funny.
	I mean, it's an interesting effect down there.
	It's essentially, even if there was no cars down there, they'd have smog because of the way the land's laid out.
	Yeah, I remember when we lived there, there was one day, and you actually looked at the city, and you saw mountains behind it.
	You're like, huh, I didn't know there were mountains there.
	It's amazing, actually.
	One time I was in Pasadena, where it's really beautiful if there wasn't smog, and the mountains were all around the place.
	It was like, wow, this is really pretty.
	It's like once in a lifetime, apparently.
	It really is.
	We only saw it once in like the two years that we were there.
	Anyway, I did learn something interesting from my buddy.
	You know, because, of course, I was like really interested in the business.
	His wife actually is.
	She runs it.
	She runs the whole thing.
	It really is.
	So, you know, their biggest problem is BitTorrent.
	Because, you know, their movies are the number one pirated movies on BitTorrent.
	And I said, so does that really...
	If it weren't pirated, he'd have two Ferraris?
	Is that what you're saying?
	Well, this is what I asked him.
	He said, you know, no, I don't believe so.
	He believes it's the community aspect.
	I was like, whoa, hold on a second.
	And, you know, because there is...
	The people who are members of his site...
	They know all the girls.
	They know what they're doing, what the next movie is.
	Just like hookers.
	Yeah, exactly.
	They're your friend.
	They are.
	They're totally your buddy.
	Yeah, they're your friend, those hookers.
	But here's what happened.
	So he got a call.
	From one of these law firms that does...
	They do it for the MPAA and the RIAA. They go after people who BitTorrent stuff.
	And here's how it works.
	Basically, they have single stringers all over the country.
	And they'll do a conference call.
	It'll be like, yeah, this is your lawyer in Mississippi.
	Yeah, here's your lawyer in Jersey.
	And it's one guy sitting in his bedroom office.
	So the way it works is they subpoena the ISPs for the contact information of the IP addresses, which, you know, when you have a swarm of BitTorrent traffic, you can get the IP addresses, obviously.
	Or unless it's a magnet link, it's getting harder, thank goodness.
	And then they contact these people, and then they essentially pressure them, like mob, into settling.
	And the owner of the content gets 10%.
	10%.
	So they once got a check for, check this out, $300,000.
	And they're like, whoa, hold on a second.
	And then they stopped doing this because they thought it was inherently kind of wrong.
	But the interesting part of the story is that there was one person who had settled for like $100,000.
	And they say, well, most of these people are settling for $3,000, which is also outrageous, of course.
	How did that happen?
	Turns out that one person, that was a woman who was an executive at the Screen Actors Guild.
	Yeah.
	And they were so worried that that would get out, and of course they were pressured by these mob-like lawyers, that they settled for $100,000.
	It's a complete mafioso operation.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Of course.
	And I'm like $300,000.
	And we're giving it away, John.
	You and me.
	Yeah, well, we're not hookers.
	Not yet.
	Well, you might be.
	I'm too old for it.
	I'm over the hill for being old.
	Oh, come on.
	There's always room for a gilf.
	A gilf.
	Anyway, in the morning to you, John C. Devorak.
	In the morning to you, Adam, and in the morning to all ships at sea, boots on the ground, subs in the water, and feet in the air.
	And all of our human resources all charged up, ready to go in our chat room, noagendastream.com, noagendachat.net.
	Good to see you all.
	I'm depleting your human resource value of $9.2 million.
	And welcome to the show.
	Best podcast in the universe.
	I tried to get on the Joe Rogan show, too, but I got no answer.
	You'll get on.
	Yeah, no, but I was in L.A., you know.
	I was like, here I am.
	Oh, right, right, right.
	Well, you have to let him know way in advance.
	Ah, okay.
	I mean, like a few days at least.
	I did, I did.
	Hey, Joe, you home?
	I did.
	On like Saturday, I said, how about Tuesday?
	I didn't hear back.
	Oh, well, you didn't.
	I didn't.
	I know.
	I screwed it up.
	I did it wrong.
	I got some BBC press for us, though.
	What?
	Yeah, I got some BBC press for us.
	All right.
	No, it was the BBC called me and said, yeah, we wanted to, I don't know, some really bogus thing about, I guess...
	Did we get a plug in it?
	Yes, yes, yeah.
	Flipboard was doing a...
	I got it here.
	Hold on a second.
	Flipboard did a deal with, like, SoundCloud or something.
	Oh, God.
	Yeah.
	And I was basically like, I thought I did pretty good, actually.
	Where is it?
	Flipboard starts integrating.
	Here we go.
	It was the number one, it was on the homepage of the BBC. Let's see.
	Mr.
	Curry, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	It's a win for consumers without a doubt, Mr.
	Curry noted.
	You now have a very interesting model which surpasses the traditional media organizations are doing, which I didn't say, of course.
	But he questions the business angle.
	I don't know where the money comes from yet, other than a typical advertising play.
	And then I go on to slam Spotify.
	Spotify or Pandora or any music service, it's apples to oranges, Mr.
	Curry added.
	Both have yet to prove their model actually works.
	Right now, everyone's losing money.
	And then here it comes.
	Mr.
	Curry co-hosts his own podcast, No Agenda, with technology pundit John C. Dvorak.
	The show is 100% listener-funded and is profitable, despite there being no ads, Mr.
	Curry says.
	Of course, one dollar is not...
	Yeah, we're going to get profitable with our overhead.
	Yeah.
	But it is profitable.
	It's profitable, so I thought that sounded pretty good.
	Yeah.
	Of course, they didn't put a link to No Agenda.
	Oh, well, they just put No Agenda.
	Did they say the name?
	Yes, it is.
	No Agenda.
	Okay, well, then people can Google it.
	We've got nine pages of returns.
	Unless they're idiots, they should be able to find it.
	Although...
	You still run into people that will ask you the dumbest questions that you've just...
	All they have to do is type it into Google.
	And they won't do it.
	They just don't think to do that.
	There are people that do not think to use Google.
	Really?
	You haven't noticed this?
	Apparently not.
	No.
	I think...
	Well, yeah, maybe.
	Maybe.
	People always say, how do I find it?
	That's what they always say.
	How do I find this thing?
	You type it in.
	Type in No Agenda into Google.
	Although, you know, Google changed their algorithms.
	And on the first page of the No Agenda results, at the bottom...
	We've got...
	Uh-oh, we have a lurker.
	Yeah, we've got no Bini.
	Oh, we've got to get our guy back on this.
	Let's check this out.
	Yeah, no Bini agenda against Oshimol.
	It's like some African dude.
	No agenda.
	But then page two, we're back.
	The show.
	Oh, my God.
	There's no Bini agenda.
	No Bini agenda against Oshimol.
	Get him on.
	Get Omobohol off of our page.
	Omoboroso Omojo is the special advisor to Governor Adams Omoholshahol.
	What is this guy doing here?
	Get off our page!
	I don't know.
	Someone SEO'd him.
	Yeah, no kidding.
	Special advisor to Governor Adams Osimolohol.
	It's on Vanguard.
	Vanguard...
	It's a weird web address.
	It's not even spelled...
	It's not even Vanguard.com.
	How is that possible?
	VanguardNGR.com.
	It's like a newspaper.
	Yeah, this has got to be one of those big PR companies doing SEO. Yeah, somebody screwed with us here.
	And they suckered...
	This is how we lost the top thing for a while.
	They suckered some African nation into SEOing their guy.
	That's how it works.
	Yeah, it's not even...
	This isn't even American!
	Yeah!
	Get off of our Google site, you!
	You're not even American.
	Stop that, you.
	Anyway, despite the low turnout, I did some work, man.
	Yeah, well, you got anything good?
	I got one thing at least that's particularly interesting to me.
	Oh, good.
	Let's hear it.
	Let's hear it.
	Well, you might as well bring it up right away because it kind of does relate to the non-American guy.
	So...
	One of the big news items this last week was the guy at Facebook who was going to renounce his American citizenship.
	You know, he was a Brazilian.
	Came here, got an American citizenship, made a billion dollars.
	But he's been living in Singapore and he doesn't really want to be an American.
	But everybody, all the pundits and everybody, you see it all over, especially on Twitter.
	Oh, he's an American.
	He's an American.
	How can anyone do such a thing?
	So, I have a friend, associate correspondent who had gone through this process.
	He's worth about a half a billion dollars.
	Oh, this is the guy that kind of had...
	I'm not going to say it.
	He had to do it?
	So he didn't have to do it.
	And you complained about my friend, the porn producer.
	I sent him a note about this guy.
	He says, and this is interesting.
	First, before we go into this, I want you to go to Wikipedia and look up FACTA. FACTA? Yeah, FACTA. The Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act.
	Yeah.
	Do you see anything in there that looks remotely onerous?
	It's supposed to protect it.
	It's just like the Child Protection Act.
	It's going to protect the public for fair transactions, right?
	Yeah.
	Let me read the note.
	It's a little long, but it's interesting.
	You're asking me to analyze an entire wiki page in three seconds.
	There's nothing there.
	Let me tell you in advance.
	As I see it, the main reason the number of renunciations are exploding is not due to any desire to avoid taxation, but rather the fact that the so-called FACTA law has made it almost impossible for U.S. citizens or green card holders abroad to live their lives.
	The reporting requirements imposed on banks and other financial institutions for routine bill-paying accounts opened by U.S. citizens are estimated to be in the thousands of dollars per year, and those institutions have responded by simply refusing to open accounts for U.S. nationals, and in some case, preemptively closing accounts opened years ago.
	That's true.
	That's true.
	You can't have that anymore.
	That's true.
	By the way, none of this is on the wiki page.
	Now, suppose you're a U.S. citizen on a foreign assignment on a branch manager or a branch manager or a European subsidiary.
	If you cannot open a local bank account, it's extremely difficult to receive your salary, pay bills, or pay your tax obligations to the local authorities.
	Even worse, some U.S. banks have now taken the step of refusing to open or maintain the accounts of U.S. citizens with foreign addresses.
	In this environment, you can find yourself unbanked.
	Wow.
	Unbanked.
	Unbanked.
	Effectively a financial pariah simply because you carry the wrong passport.
	Now, people on a foreign assignment who intend to return to the U.S., when it's done, may put up with this somehow, although I expect it to be increasingly difficult to find candidates to take any of those positions overseas once they understand the difficulties.
	Those who have permanently established themselves in other countries, severed all ties with the U.S., bought property, in some cases married, and obtained this other citizen in their new domicile.
	If they have no intention of returning to the U.S., the burden of maintaining a U.S. citizen is increasingly difficult to justify.
	Well, I had part of this problem.
	Remember what happened to me?
	Yeah.
	I was over there, and I'd left the country at the end of 1999, lived abroad, and then in 2005, I started showing up because of the Mevio payroll, and then the IRS came into the office with their guns and said, we've been looking for you.
	And I said, another case of idiots who can't use Google.
	I wasn't hiding or anything.
	I spent tens of thousands of dollars proving that I hadn't lived in America.
	I did not have any liability because I couldn't find my report.
	You have to report every year and report how much you own in foreign companies, if you have a bank account.
	It was not a fun time.
	Well, he goes on to say it could cost you $3,000 a year when you're overseas to prepare your U.S. tax return.
	And if they should fail to file one of the disclosures for, say, the account you keep at the post office to pay for your stamps and train tickets, you can be sought for frightful penalties lined up.
	Sorry?
	Yeah, penalties.
	Yeah, that's what they were hammering on me.
	I had the same thing.
	If you come back to the U.S., they'll throw you in the green room and maybe arrest you.
	This is very close to what happened to me.
	It is true.
	Well, it's apparently gotten worse.
	Yeah, no, with the bank things.
	This letter goes on and on, but he finishes it with...
	I'd say anybody who believes that the U.S. still offers the best freedom and opportunity in the world today needs to get out more.
	Well, well...
	Okay.
	Now, along with that, there's a bunch of websites because I said, what is this?
	I said, this is amazing because it doesn't indicate any of this on the wiki page.
	But I found a Canadian site that talks about the fact of laws.
	It's called Sovereign Investor.
	The fact of law applies to every conceivable type of offshore account or investment and, in effect, blackmails foreign banks and financial companies trying to force them for the first time to identify their American customers to the IRS regardless.
	Mm-hmm.
	privacy laws in other countries.
	They're just doing it by saying, look, we're not going to do, says essentially by the time the requirements fully take effect in January 2013, every foreign financial institution must enter into an information sharing agreement with the IRS.
	Those that don't will effectively be barred from accessing U.S. markets.
	Yeah, because you know, what, where I think this stems from is the screw the rich people who have their money offshore.
	It can only be rich people that are doing that.
	Where, of course, there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of expats who are just working for American companies overseas.
	Yeah, and by the way, getting paid in dollars, which is not that advantageous, although these days it's getting better, Although it tends to be by agreement.
	They can be paid locally or in dollars.
	I know a lot of guys who have worked overseas and they make deals.
	Not me.
	Let's put it that way.
	Okay, well.
	I was hurting.
	Anyway.
	Yeah?
	So, no, I mean, the whole thing is bullcrap.
	So this guy, this guy who's living in Singapore doing all his business there, he has to renounce his citizenship.
	He's called a douchebag for doing it, but he's forced to do it from the way I read all his other documentation and the guy who knows.
	Yeah.
	No, but it's, you know, what's going on right now is, I don't know if you've noticed.
	It's what Ron Paul said, the fence is designed to keep people in.
	Keep people in, yeah.
	But just regarding Facebook briefly, I mean, there are so many hit jobs.
	I can't believe that no one is reporting on the coverage of the Facebook IPO. Yeah, this is what's interesting.
	I know.
	Isn't it weird?
	You've got all the mainstream publications just saying, well, that advertising thing don't work.
	And of course, we know it doesn't work.
	We know display advertising is bogative.
	Duh.
	But now they're all coming out.
	They're trying to make them look bad.
	GM pulls their advertising.
	It's like...
	Yeah.
	By coincidence.
	Yeah.
	How did that happen?
	And they didn't even spend that much.
	You know, they were spending, what, maybe $3 million a year or something?
	And Chrysler used to be my client.
	I built Chrysler.com back in the day, and Dodge.com, and I think, yeah, those two.
	And we know that it doesn't work.
	The way advertising for automobiles works is you see the flashy ad, and then it's like your local dealer with his deal.
	That's how people buy cars.
	They don't look at a car and go, wow, I need that.
	Just some ad on some banner.
	No.
	Yeah.
	And that may even be some kind of pricing scam in itself.
	You know, to get the pricing numbers down.
	Maybe the underwriters are happy.
	Yeah, I don't know, man.
	Tonight is pricing.
	If you don't know how an IPO works, that'll be the number that the share opens at on the stock market.
	And the lower it is with a popular IPO, the more money the underwriters make.
	So it's very possible that these guys set it all up just to, you know, hey, hey, GM, guess what?
	And once you pull your advertising so we can go at the bottom range of the band, as they call it, and come out really low, because of course it's going to be a popular IPO, because people are idiots.
	All the dentists and doctors.
	Oh, yeah, no, I've My writing about this has always said this is going to be a very popular IPO because you're right.
	It's the people who use Facebook are going to be the investors.
	Yeah, they think it's valuable.
	And I love it.
	I think the bigger the blow-up of this IPO, the better, because eventually people will realize it's just the Internet.
	It's just the dumb Internet interface.
	It's nothing special.
	No one's ever made any big money off of people sharing stuff.
	I got a like.
	What's the value of the like?
	Well, nothing.
	Duh.
	Get a thumbs up like.
	Where were these incredibly smart advertisers and marketers when the whole idea came out of paying for likes?
	Stupid.
	Paying for likes.
	Stupid, stupid, stupid.
	Idiotic.
	It really is idiotic.
	But I'm hoping it's a big success because it will boost the economy locally.
	No, it's not going to happen.
	It's not going to happen.
	I think it will be.
	I think it's going to come out.
	I think it's going to go up at least 30% on the opening.
	I think the underwriter is going to make a shitload of money.
	And then I think it's just going to keep climbing until it kind of levels off and then it'll collapse.
	But these guys are smart.
	They'll do what all these dot-com guys have done over the years.
	They get a collar.
	No, they get a car, they buy a couple of houses, and the way they do it is they go, they take their lump of, you know, they say, look at the stock market, they take their lump of stock, they take it to the bank, say, I want to borrow against this.
	Yeah, a collar, that's what I said, the collar.
	Well, no, there's a borrowing against this.
	It's different than a collar.
	They're not going to sell it.
	These guys don't know how to even get a collar.
	They're very difficult to do, and you have to know somebody that can do them.
	All right.
	So that's not going to happen.
	No, so you just pledge some shares and then you get a loan against it.
	You say that's collateral.
	Shares are worth so much, the bank looks at that and says, okay, we're stupid.
	We'll give you some money.
	And they loan you the money.
	You buy a car and a house or two houses.
	And then the stock falls through the floor and you're broke.
	Yeah.
	Hey!
	Perfect.
	That's what happened in 99.
	I ran into a number of guys who are worth $100 million one day, and because of the stupid way they handled their money, they were literally broke.
	Yeah, broke.
	Oh, I know lots of guys.
	By the way, my buddy in Malibu, not one of them.
	You can always make money in the porn business if you have any chops.
	You can go do that and give up on the show.
	And then you're going to be...
	And then you're pretty soon going to be walking around with the open shirt.
	You're going to have the chains.
	You can look like a douchebag.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me just consider that for a moment.
	I mean, I think you could go for it.
	I mean, no one's going to see it that much different.
	Oh boy.
	Well anyway, I did some value for value work today.
	And we'll wait until we've thanked some of our producers because I didn't know this was going to happen.
	It came at me by surprise.
	But just when we had figured out...
	The NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act, it turns out that was the National Defense Authorization Act 2012.
	Already now, in the House, the National Defense Authorization Act 2013.
	Yeah.
	So there's a whole new document.
	Yeah, isn't that funny?
	And I read it.
	Oh.
	Oh.
	You won't believe it.
	Okay, I'm looking forward to that.
	But as a teaser, I do have a clip kind of about it.
	Oh, okay.
	This guy, Adam Smith.
	Adam Smith, the lone voice.
	He's a Democrat with the name Adam Smith, which has got to be hilarious when you're in college.
	Yeah.
	He was bitching about the NDAA, the parts that are onerous to take away our rights, and he just makes this comment, thinking it's actually going to come up for an actual debate and things.
	I mean, it just sounds like the optimistic, you know, town idiot, but you can play it.
	...that we've developed over the course of 230 years is an enormous step for this Congress to take.
	So we have to ask ourselves the question, is it necessary?
	It clearly is not.
	We have arrested, prosecuted, stopped countless terrorist attacks over the course of the last eight years.
	Over 400 terrorists arrested, convicted, and imprisoned in this country.
	From Abdul Muttalib, who was the underwear bomber in Detroit in December of 2008.
	He was stopped, arrested, interrogated, prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison.
	We have a justice system and a law enforcement system in this country that is more than adequate to meet the threat.
	We do not have to undermine the Constitution to do that.
	That will be the core of the argument.
	I'll look forward to those who are opposed to it, arguing why that doesn't keep us safe.
	I think it'll be a great debate.
	I'll urge people to vote for it.
	But I hope we'll have that public debate on the floor tomorrow.
	It's an incredibly important issue, no matter which side of it you're on.
	Yeah.
	What's going on now?
	Yes.
	Of course, we know it's going to happen.
	This guy is nuts.
	Let's thank our producers, and then let me just run through this document, because there's a couple of gems in here that warrant discussion.
	Okay.
	We do have two executive producers and two associate executive producers for today's show, 409.
	I'm surprised somebody hasn't donated 409.
	That's a 409er, to be correct.
	Well, it's also the 409 cubic inch engine that was in the Chevy.
	There's the 409 cleaning spray.
	Giddy up my 409.
	Yep, 409 cleaning spray.
	Right.
	Sir Robert Goschko in Sherwood Park, Alberta, came in before 2007, which is a vote for the slide whistle also.
	In the morning, John and Adam, from Gitmo Nation, back bacon, eh?
	With this donation, I'll complete my wife's 12-12-12 damehood, and with my 11-11-11 knighthood, I guess that makes us a 23-23-23 family.
	Hey!
	I also threw in my seven cents from the pro slide whistle side.
	If it feels good, do it.
	It's a long weekend up here and I'll be busy drinking at the lake and celebrating Queen Victoria's birthday.
	Do we have a holiday coming up this weekend?
	But I didn't know we were celebrating Queen Victoria's birthday down here.
	Well, we are now.
	Can I get a war on chicken huntsman karma combo for the good weather?
	Hopefully there'll be more donors than boners out this weekend.
	Let me give it a try.
	The war on chicken.
	You've got karma. - Hmm.
	A winner.
	Philip Meeson in Welshpool Paws.
	Paws.
	Uh, 33333.
	I'm donating the money so I can hear John butcher the pronunciation of Paws.
	He gets my name right, which many do not.
	But fails to pronounce pow-us.
	English spelling pronounced pow-us as in hiss or piss.
	Keep up the great deconstruction of the lame stream.
	Keep out of light aircraft and duck if you hear helicopters.
	Okay.
	Dame Janice Kang 250 07.
	I should look her up on email.
	I'll do that and we'll give her if she has a message.
	We'll run it at the break.
	And Sir Dirk Modrow In Western Australia, 201.
	My donation's late.
	Actually, I tried to donate in the last three weeks, but I've failed.
	I'm humbly shamed as Black Knight has failed in his mission to spread the lover dollars.
	I listen to many shows before I donated drunk, and I guess I am the godfather of drunk donations.
	My siblings make me proud of my small offering.
	Oh, he is drunk, boy, he's writing this.
	Let me try to read it.
	You're the drunk boy.
	It works better that way.
	It made me proud of my spa offering a Shabesbee.
	Work has been bad of late.
	I gotta go.
	ATO equals IRS. Get off by back.
	In three weeks, I'm almost damn ready to give all the figures I'm earning about 60% of what I can get by, need to get by right now for the last four months.
	So you can imagine when the Greeks Greeked me, my few remaining shares became homophobic.
	And I had major shrinkage.
	Resources low, but I figure it's love and sharing when I drive 300 kilometers from my job on Sunday.
	I will hear you.
	It's time.
	Of his tits.
	Must donate.
	People may laugh donating drunk is no joke.
	And should not be tried by anyone.
	It takes 90% of any boodle of 750 milliliter, 40% strength.
	For me, creating the danger is getting wee.
	I want to play Left 4 Dead now!
	Come on, come on to the lesson.
	It says, I tick snore.
	Wow.
	Anyway.
	Let me give him a karma.
	Let me just give him a karma.
	Let me give him a karma.
	You've got karma.
	Mickey and I both agree that when you read the drunk donations, that's when they really come to life.
	You know, and I can't get a job as an actor.
	No.
	Or as a hooker, for that matter.
	Yeah, it goes without saying.
	By the way, I don't feel all that bad.
	You know, NPR. It was pretty funny.
	Headline in the Washington Post.
	You know, I'll read it to you.
	NPR. You ready for it?
	NPR sees sharp downturn in advertising revenue.
	All right!
	Leading to talk of cuts.
	The scam is over.
	Yeah, Knell, or Nell, that's the guy who used to do Sesame Street.
	He's the new CEO. He had a meeting with the NPR employees, and he almost said that they would have to cut some staff.
	But he didn't go quite that far.
	And, you know, why do they face higher expenses this year?
	Because they have to cover the Olympics in London.
	That's bogative bullcrap.
	NPR doesn't have to cover the Olympics in London.
	They have to cover the Olympics.
	They can send some reporter a stringer.
	Not even that.
	Yeah, who cares?
	What has it got to do with the public good?
	It's a huge commercial organization.
	Right.
	Yeah, it shouldn't even be covered at all.
	The NBC have it.
	Is it NBC or ABC who has it this year?
	It's NBC. They always have it.
	Anyway, so we do appreciate all the help we can get, but obviously we'd like to have a little more value for what we're putting into this, otherwise we'll just have to turn to a life of porn.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. You can also go to ChannelDivorek.com and NoAgendaNation.com.
	And there's also, in the PR segment, it doesn't really work on audio, unfortunately.
	There's a video of, let's see, little No Agenda producer Damien.
	And it's really cute.
	I tweeted it the other day.
	And his dad videoed him.
	So you hear No Agenda playing in the background with the whole shut up slave bit.
	And you see the kid listening to it.
	And he's like two.
	Or maybe three.
	And then all of a sudden...
	Hey, I'll play it.
	See if you can get the idea.
	So he's listening to that segment.
	And then all of a sudden he starts singing along with it.
	Here, let's see if we can...
	I'll crank it up to see if you can actually hear it.
	Hold on.
	Oops.
	Is that flash crashing again?
	here we go shut up slave shut up slave He says it right on cue, though, and he's so cute.
	He's so cute.
	It's catchy.
	I'm telling you, let me just indoctrinate the kids for a second.
	Hold on.
	Hey, kids, go out and propagate the formula.
	It's real simple.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Get ready, kids.
	Sing along with your Uncle Adam and John.
	Come on, say it now.
	Shut up, slave!
	Little Damien even had the whole shut up slave thing right.
	Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful America's youth.
	Shut up, slave.
	They're kids.
	They get used to it.
	All right, you want to do NDAA Part Deux?
	Yeah, go.
	All right.
	So this is Hangs Resolution 4310.
	And this, of course, is to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2013 from Military Activities, Department of Defense.
	And just so you know, in the news, what they're talking about, and this is how all the good stuff is being covered up, President Obama, the White House has already Threatened to veto the $642 billion 2013 defense authorization bill passed last week by the House Armed Services Committee.
	That doesn't mean it's passed the House, but it came out of committee.
	Because it spends too much on national security.
	They're talking about $15 billion over five years.
	So it's total cover-up of the actual issues.
	So this act, of course, may be cited as the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2013.
	A couple of highlights.
	First of all, we're going to get a missile defense site on the East Coast, which shall be operational by no later than December 31st, 2015.
	I thought that was kind of nice.
	A new entry in Section 222, Development of Advanced Kill Vehicle.
	What?
	RoboCop?
	Well, let me see what it is.
	This is part of the East Coast missile defense system, is the advanced kill vehicle.
	And defense will provide the new advanced kill vehicle on the standard missile three-block IIB interceptor, and it shall have the capability of being used for ground-based mid-course defense programs.
	And of course along that, a description of the technology of and concept behind applying the former multiple-kill vehicle concept to the new vehicle.
	I don't know, I just like the idea of having one.
	I like it too, it sounds cool.
	It sounds good, doesn't it?
	Alright, then we have, and this is one of my favorites, we will have a report no later than 180 days after the enactment of this act on...
	New directed energy weapons.
	I love me some directed energy weapons.
	So we need thorough assessments on the maturity of high energy laser, high power microwave, and millimeter wave non-lethal technologies.
	Yeah, the ones that hit you with at the airport.
	That's the body scanner, exactly.
	Millimeter wave non-lethal technologies, yeah, but they will fry you.
	Apparently, I mean, how does that work?
	The millimeter wave is not dangerous unless they turn it up enough?
	I don't know.
	Missions for which directed energy weapons could be used to substantially enhance the current and planned capabilities of the U.S. military.
	Potential for new directed energy systems to reduce requirements for expendable air and missile defense weapons.
	This is all very, very cool.
	And here it is.
	We need to have a summary of actions.
	That the Secretary is taking to ensure that our military will be the global leader in directed energy capabilities.
	In light of this, we'll have...
	Jeez.
	Check it out.
	Check it out, dude.
	These guys have gone nuts.
	That's awesome.
	We'll have...
	Yeah, the budget has gone up.
	Of course it's gone up.
	Obama wanted for the military is up by $8 billion.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's unbelievable.
	I thought we were supposed to be cutting back here.
	No, no, no.
	It's been more.
	So, in light of the suitability of surface ships to support a solid-state laser weapon, and the Department of Navy should be designated as the lead service for fielding a 100 to 200-kilowatt-class laser to defend surface ships against unmanned aircraft, cruise missile, and fast-attack craft threats.
	Can you imagine getting fried with that?
	100 to 200 kilowatt laser.
	Yeah, just cut you right in half.
	But in addition to that, the Air Force will be designated as the lead service for integrating high-power microwave weapons on small air vehicles, including unmanned aircraft.
	Whoa-ho-ho-ho!
	We're going to have lasers on the drones.
	Oh, gee.
	It's going to be a bonanza.
	Oh, it was an accident.
	Sorry your house caught on fire.
	I'm so sorry, sir.
	Okay, then we have...
	Counter space programs.
	I've always told you that we're doing stuff in space.
	Yeah, you've always said this.
	And now they're just funding it.
	And by the way, I'm looking at this thing, this multiple kill vehicle.
	Yeah.
	It's like something on the end of the missile.
	It gets fired off and it shoots out all kinds of weird shit.
	It's like one of those movies.
	It ejaculates all kinds of stuff?
	Just shoots all kinds of stuff all over, apparently.
	Nice.
	Military activities in cyberspace.
	Congress affirms that the Secretary of Defense is authorized to conduct military activities in cyberspace.
	The authority as described will be, A, includes the authority to carry out a clandestine operation in cyberspace.
	This is kind of new.
	It's not really, but it's new that they codified it.
	Yeah, they codified it.
	And in support of the military operation pursuant to the authorization of use of military force against a target located outside of the United States.
	We kind of knew this.
	They can use force to defend against a cyber attack.
	So if you're hacking, then they take that laser...
	On the drone and fry you.
	Exactly.
	And here, of course, is the important bit.
	Section 1031.
	Counterterrorism.
	Findings on detention pursuant to the authorization for use of military force enacted in 2001.
	So this is the explanation and recodification of Of the indefinite detention as codified in the NDA 2012, as well as being able to drone you as an American citizen.
	And what they've done, John, and I won't go into all the details, but they have...
	They've brought in all these court cases, including Hamdi v.
	Rumsfeld, where the authorization for use of military force authorized the president to detain certain individuals, including a United States citizen captured in Afghanistan.
	So this is a whole legal document that says if you had any doubt that we have the right to grab you and to detain you, Without due process, then here is the explanation.
	And it comes from 2004.
	This is the Hamdi v.
	Rumsfeld case, where the...
	Until the end of hostilities.
	So it shouldn't be never.
	Yes, exactly.
	We understand Congress grant of authority for the use of necessary and appropriate force to include the authority to detain for the duration of the relevant conflict, and our understanding is based on long-standing law of war principles.
	So this is Congress saying it's okay.
	An enemy combatant must receive notice of the factual basis for his classification as an enemy combatant and a fair opportunity to rebut the government's factual assertions before or after being droned.
	No, no.
	But before a neutral decision maker.
	This is new.
	Oh, yeah.
	So that's not a judge.
	Who might that be?
	It's a decision maker.
	A neutral decision maker.
	Well, has he got an MBA from Harvard?
	Probably.
	Oh, goodness.
	Here we go.
	In 2011, with the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, Congress and the President affirmed the authority of the armed forces of the United States to detain pursuant to the AUMF, that's the authorized use of military force, a person who planned I think?
	Any person who has committed a belligerent act or has directly supported such hostilities in aid of enemy forces.
	So that is basically saying this is what we agree to.
	The interpretation of the detention authority in the NDAA for 2012 is the same as the interpretation used by the Obama administration in its legal filings in federal court.
	And, by the way, is nearly identical to the interpretation used by the Bush administration.
	So this is how they're going to try and get around Republicans fighting against it.
	And there was one new term in here.
	That works.
	Yeah, there was one new term in here.
	Let me just find it, because that was the one that kind of caught my eye.
	Hold on a second.
	Here we go.
	Findings regarding habeas corpus rights.
	So this is your right to due process.
	It's a body of evidence.
	Your right to prove that you did anything.
	I mean, did a crime exist?
	Did it happen?
	Well, hold on.
	I have a new term.
	It transpires.
	That in Article 1, Section...
	You like that?
	That's my new term for as it turns out, it transpires?
	No, it's terrible.
	Okay.
	As it turns out, Congress finds the following.
	Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution states, The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.
	So they're pulling the Article 1, Section 9 card on this whole deal.
	So it's defined as a rebellion when you send...
	Oh, I don't know what you could even do, but it's probably a million different things.
	Say you do a blog post saying, you know, I think it was unfair what they did to that Al-Qaeda guy.
	You are a rebel!
	So you're now a rebel, by definition, and they can just grab you.
	Either that or invasion, and I guess you could say that, yeah, we've been completely invaded by terrorists all over the place.
	Oh, according to them, there's one under every bed.
	It's just like it was in the 50s with the communists, by the way.
	So I think this is a genius move, and what defines a case of rebellion?
	Apparently anything.
	No, but seriously, this is important because this is what it comes down to.
	It'll be very, it'll be broad, it'll be broad brushstrokes.
	And, you know, as far as I can tell, Matt Drudge is in Rebellion.
	Yeah, well...
	You should go pick him up.
	First they came for the Drudge Report.
	Right, exactly.
	Well, let's just see if the Book of Knowledge has anything.
	Case of Rebellion.
	Definition.
	What is the definition of rebellion?
	Hmm...
	Okay.
	I mean, most teenagers in this country are rebellious.
	Here it is.
	Descent from an accepted moral code or convention of behavior or dress.
	Hey, if you've got your underwear hanging out, we're going to drone you.
	Oh, boy.
	This is starting to shape up, then.
	They're going to do that.
	Anyway, the marked-up PDF of House Resolution 4310, you can find in the show notes at 409.nashownotes.com.
	And I hope you enjoy reading about the space weapons, the cyberspace, and, of course, the fact that habeas corpus is now suspended.
	And I think we should actually see a legal briefing, and the president should just say it.
	Habeas corpus is suspended due to cases of rebellion.
	Yeah, he hasn't got the guts to say that.
	But he does have the guts to do this new executive order, which I guess you looked over.
	The Yemen executive order?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	I have a theory on that.
	Well, I read it over and I said, well, you can explain what it is, but I was thinking it's just a cheap way to keep people from sending money back home if they happen to have Yemeni's parents.
	Well, it's another money-stealing operation.
	But, you know, there was another attack.
	There's this great blog called Tracking Energy Attacks, which has my name written all over it.
	And in the past year they've had, I think, 17 attacks.
	All these attacks in Yemen are on gas pipelines and the liquid natural gas refineries or storage tanks.
	And this has now resulted...
	According to Boston.com, in a drop in supplies of liquefied natural gas in the Boston area.
	So I'm thinking, is it possible that all of this Yemen droning and all of that that's going on and the pipelines continuously being blown up is really just a way to get the price of gas up so that they can finally make some money off of all this stuff?
	That's always a possibility.
	I think the gas price or the oil prices are dropping like a rock, so I think that game is over.
	Maybe they can crank it back up.
	Well, maybe this will help you with a clue.
	I don't know anything about this, and you probably do, so listen to this report.
	Helium is in short supply tonight, but there's more at risk than keeping your balloons afloat.
	Helium is used in MRI scans, fiber optic cables, and wind turbines.
	Because of that, the U.S. Senate is now considering changes to the U.S. Helium Reserve.
	Now, before I play the rest of this report, what is up with helium?
	Well, I mean, for years we were essentially the world, you know, some people have rare earths, we have helium.
	We have the most helium, I think, of any country.
	And I guess we've been using it.
	Well, in 2010 there was a report that said we still have plenty of supply for the next 25 years.
	Do you know what the other two countries are that provide helium?
	No, I don't.
	Russia and Qatar.
	Oh, really?
	Cutter?
	Yeah, I thought that was interesting.
	Wow, that's weird.
	So, is helium a byproduct, or is it discovered as a part of oil or gas discovery?
	I think it's part of a, when you drill a well, I think sometimes helium comes out.
	I don't know.
	I didn't know.
	I'm going to look it up on the Book of Knowledge.
	I had no idea that it was necessary for MRIs.
	Oh, it's got a lot of uses.
	Besides balloons.
	But balloons is the best use.
	Listen to the rest of this report.
	Of course, you're like, wow, MRIs?
	I had no idea.
	And of course, they're going to go interview a balloon guy.
	Congress set low helium prices back in 1996, and that's what created the shortage.
	Our Washington, D.C. Bureau spoke to a balloon supplier who saw costs rise 45% in the past month.
	Now, what do you think the solution is for a balloon supplier who can no longer afford helium?
	Well, they can use hydrogen.
	No, no, no.
	It's better than that.
	I hope that Congress can do something to help free up some of that helium that is available for this industry because it's going to reflect on a lot of businesses and hurt them very badly.
	He said the company is looking into alternatives like suspending balloons from the ceiling.
	He's a genius!
	The guy's a genius.
	Now we have a string shortage.
	Hey boy, I got an idea.
	Let's just hang in from the feeling.
	It'll be almost the same thing.
	Helium is extracted commercially by a low temperature separation process and it's extracted from natural gas in areas where you have a decomposition of thorium and uranium somehow.
	So it's decaying.
	And it's called a fractional distillation.
	You can get it.
	And we have so much natural gas in this country, which...
	It kind of belies the shortage because, you know, as long as they keep fracking and finding more gas, there should be more helium.
	They just probably don't process all of it.
	Ah, so you can frack for it, huh?
	I mean, it's in natural gas.
	The radiogenic helium is trapped with natural gas.
	Okay, so it could be a natural gas play somehow.
	We need more balloons!
	No, I know.
	I always keep a bottle of helium in the house.
	A big one, a big bottle.
	Really?
	I keep two gases in the house.
	I keep helium and argon.
	Argon?
	You have to be a little more careful.
	What's argon?
	Argon is like nitrogen.
	It's another neutral gas.
	It's inert.
	John, stop.
	I need to ask a very essential question.
	Why do you have helium and argon in the house?
	Well, the helium, because we do have parties once in a while, we like to fill up the balloons, and occasionally, as amusement, we'll fill up a big garbage bag full of helium and launch it.
	It's quite funny, the kids get a kick out of it.
	So we have some helium, but the argon...
	I'm familiar with the effects, yes.
	Yeah, it's very funny.
	The argon is used because it's heavier than air, which is why you have to be careful once in a while.
	There's too much argon in the house.
	You can't breathe.
	You have to put yourself on a couch.
	By the way, if you were on argon, put yourself on the couch and then kind of hang upside down and then exhale a lot to get that.
	Because if argon gets in your lungs, it kind of sits in there.
	Wait, are you just getting high at the house?
	No, no, no.
	This is for...
	No, you won't get high on argon.
	But it's for sealing wine.
	If you have a big bottle of wine and you decided that you can't drink it, you don't want to drink it, you jerk in some helium.
	And by the way, Ridge Vineyards in California uses...
	So not helium, but argon.
	Ridge Vineyards uses argon instead of nitrogen.
	Most of the wineries, before they put the wine in...
	First, they evacuate the bottle with...
	Nitrogen.
	Blow the wine in and then cork it.
	And there's like a little bit of nitrogen left.
	But that'll leach out.
	Oxygen will get in the wine.
	If it's argon, it's heavier than air.
	So it always sits on top of the liquid.
	It just sits there.
	And it protects it from oxygen.
	So do you have an argon injection system as well?
	No, I don't need that.
	I just have this big thing.
	I turn it on and it starts blowing argon and I stick the bottle up against the hole and then it fills it up.
	I know it sounds crazy.
	Yeah.
	Just a little.
	Is that legal?
	Is that legal to have that?
	Once you get the bottle and you get the valves.
	The valves are like $100.
	Do you have test tubes at home?
	I bet you you do, don't you?
	The valves are like $100.
	And once you get the valve and the bottle, then you can just swap out the gas.
	And it doesn't cost that much.
	A bottle of helium is like, I don't know, $20, $30.
	Fascinating the things you have at home.
	Fascinating life you have.
	You've got to find a gas place locally.
	It's like Saturday night at the Dworak.
	Hey kids, let's suck on some helium and argon.
	I'd like to get a big giant bottle of helium.
	Can you sell me a bottle?
	I need to buy the container, which is the bottle, you know, the big cylinder.
	And then I need to get a valve.
	Because all the valves are different for all the gases.
	Yes.
	Oh, I hate that when that happens.
	I hate it when my valve is wrong.
	Pfft.
	You are an extraordinary man, John C. Dvorak.
	I thought everybody had a bottle of helium in the house.
	It's clippity-clop.
	The message is clear.
	Joe's clippity-clop.
	All right, who's clippity-clop talking to this week?
	Here she comes with her hooves, the cloven one.
	Clippity-clop. Clippity-clop.
	Listen to those hooves.
	We're delighted to welcome Minister Zarifi here.
	I had a wonderful visit.
	Do you know who she's talking to?
	The new guy from France?
	No.
	Tajikistan.
	Tajikistan.
	The Tajikistan guy or what's up there?
	Oil.
	No, of course we know Tajikistan is all...
	No, it's gas.
	Tajikistan is all the natural gas.
	But what was interesting is...
	You should really get some helium out of there.
	Well, there you go.
	Tajikistan just had an earthquake of 5.7.
	And then I was like, you know, is it typical?
	Tajikistan has an earthquake every day.
	It's like in the 4 to 5 range.
	Oh, that's where they're getting all the gas from.
	Yes!
	They're fracking the crap out of it.
	But listen, it's like...
	Contaminating everything.
	So May 12th, 5.7.
	April 30th, 4.0.
	April 30th, 4.0.
	April 27th, 4.6.
	27th, 4.6.
	27th, 5.0.
	26th, 4.1.
	I mean, April 23rd, 4.6.
	There's a place in Nevada that has this problem.
	The place is just shaking.
	It's shaking.
	It's just shaking the whole time.
	So anyway, so there must be some kind of deal, and I guess we'll find out soon whenever Lucifer Clippity-Clop is hanging out with somebody, the guy from Tajikistan.
	And what are we talking about?
	Let's hear it.
	And an opportunity to meet with the president and the government about a full range of issues in our bilateral relationship as well as regional issues.
	So I'm looking forward to the conversation with the minister today where we can review the progress we're making in our dialogue between our two countries and explore other ways to deepen and broaden.
	You're such a lying sack of crap, Clinton.
	Bilateral issues to deepen and broaden.
	You're saying absolutely nothing when all we know, all you care about is getting that gas out of Tajikistan to sell to India.
	Everyone knows it.
	And then I go look at the State Department press conference.
	Not a single question.
	Not a single question about the meeting.
	Our press is so phony.
	So phony.
	Unreal.
	Anyway, you've got to keep your eye on Clippity-Clop because when she's talking to somebody, stuff happens.
	I thought it was the earthquake, but it turns out that's just unrelated.
	So we're heating it up somewhere.
	We're always heating it up.
	And I think, by the way, that the thing that Clinton's, or Clinton, Obama, Obama's executive order about Yemen was essentially another declaration of war.
	Of course it is.
	We have boots on the ground.
	We've got a combat team training in there.
	There's been no declaration of war.
	How many of these things are we going to continue to do?
	Why do we have so many of them all of a sudden?
	I mean, this has been going on now.
	It's just like we're just attacking everybody.
	Well, hello, we know the list.
	We need Lebanon.
	Still hasn't happened.
	Was Yemen on the list?
	Do you have that clip?
	I can listen to it.
	Let's see.
	About 10 days after 9-11, I went through the Pentagon.
	Yeah, this is Wesley Clark.
	It's important.
	Let's tick off the list again, because I keep forgetting.
	We should write the list down, maybe.
	I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz.
	I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the joint staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in.
	He said, sir, you've got to come in and talk to me a second.
	I said, well, you're too busy.
	He said, no, no.
	He says...
	We've made the decision we're going to war with Iraq.
	This was on or about the 20th of September.
	Notice he says Iraq correctly, by the way.
	That's of note.
	I said we're going to war with Iraq.
	Why?
	He said, I don't know.
	He said, I guess they don't know what else to do.
	So I said, well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?
	He said, no, no.
	He says, there's nothing new that way.
	They've just made the decision to go to war with Iraq.
	He said, I guess it's like we don't know what to do about terrorists, but we've got a good military and we can take down governments.
	And he said, I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail.
	So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan.
	I said, are we still going to war with Iraq?
	And he said, oh, it's worse than that.
	He said, he reached over on his desk, he picked up a piece of paper, and he said, I just got this down from upstairs, meeting the Secretary of Defense's office today, and he said, this is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years.
	Let's write them down, John.
	Will you write them down, please?
	Yeah, I'm writing them.
	Starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off Iran.
	No, there's no Yemen on the list.
	No.
	Interesting.
	But Lebanon's on the list.
	Yeah.
	Right now, it looks like that's going to bust up shortly.
	So we've got Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan, Iraq.
	Iraq, and did you say Iran?
	Iran.
	I don't know.
	He said something that ends with Iran.
	Iran.
	Iran.
	He said Iran.
	Iran?
	Yeah, okay.
	He used the code.
	Iran.
	Iran instead of Iran.
	Well, we're getting closer to Iran.
	Excuse me.
	The fantastic, highly rated...
	I'm only counting six.
	What did I miss?
	Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan, Iraq, and Iran.
	That's one, two, three, four, five, six.
	What's the seventh?
	What'd I miss?
	I got rid of the clip already.
	Maybe someone in the chat room knows.
	Who cares?
	Play the clip again someday.
	So before I get into the report by Aaron Burnett about Iran...
	Yes, Iran...
	I'd like to read to you the latest ratings numbers from CNN. We had sweeps week.
	Oh, jeez.
	You ready for this?
	Those poor bastards.
	This is great.
	May I mention something before you do that?
	Because I know how these are going to come out.
	The irony here is that...
	Murdoch.
	I watched this.
	There was a very good documentary on Rupert Murdoch.
	Very good.
	And it says apparently he was just one inch away from buying CNN, but Turner, you know, Turner, Ted Turner, the grump, he...
	He thought it was a horrible idea to sell it to him, and he made sure that the Time Warner deal went through, so Time Warner ended up with it.
	And that's when Murdoch said, well, screw it, I'll just start my own cable network.
	He already had Fox on TV, and see what happens.
	Anyway, go on.
	I'll give you two ratings numbers.
	These are the primetime sweeps rating numbers from CNN. Anderson Pooper's AC360. How many viewers do you think between 8 and 10 p.m.?
	I would say 400,000.
	90,000.
	What?
	Now, Pierce Moron tonight?
	So we're talking demo numbers here.
	So that's between 25 and 54.
	And there's really nothing else outside of that that even matters.
	How many viewers do you believe in the primetime sweeps week...
	Watched.
	Piers Moron tonight.
	Well, if AC360 was 90,000, I would have to say he has to be at 50.
	39,000.
	Wow.
	We have more listeners than that.
	Barely, but I think so.
	So all of a sudden, I'm not too worried about him calling what's-his-face an MTV legend because no one heard it.
	Well, 39,000 people did, but they probably were asleep.
	Yeah.
	No, it's that bad, it doesn't matter.
	But of course they make 48 cents from each cable subscriber, so that's how they're making their money.
	Erin Burnett lays it on, and listen carefully, and then tell me what you saw on the screen when she brought us this report.
	...indications of possible nuclear weapons development.
	Indications like this picture from the Associated Press in today's Washington Post.
	Now, let me just explain exactly what you're looking at here, because I looked at this and said, what is this something that could be in my backyard?
	It's a drawing of what's believed to be a nuclear explosion containment chamber, hidden at a secret Iranian military base, perhaps near a site called Parchin, that the government in Iran has refused weapons inspectors access to.
	Experts say a chamber like this is what you use to test a nuclear weapon, and we talked to them.
	They confirmed that.
	Important to say, though, that this picture is not a picture that we have confirmed the authenticity of.
	So what do you think that picture was?
	Well, it was obviously some sort of a...
	I have no idea.
	It was a drawing!
	It was a drawing of...
	It was a drawing?
	It was a drawing of like a big circular drum.
	I would think it would be a photograph of something.
	No!
	She even says this is a drawing.
	Something just draws something and they claim that Iran's got it?
	A drawing, I tell you.
	Didn't you hear her say it?
	And they got it from the Associated Press!
	...indications of possible nuclear weapons development.
	Indications like this picture from the Associated Press in today's Washington Post.
	Now, let me just explain exactly what you're looking at here, because I looked at this and said, what is this something that could be in my backyard?
	It's a drawing of what's believed to be...
	It's a drawing of what's believed to be.
	And she got it from Associated Press.
	Must be true.
	Unbelievable.
	That's hilarious.
	A drawing.
	Be very afraid.
	They've got drawings there in Iran.
	They've got drawings.
	Apparently, if you do...
	You can't test one of these bombs without shaking every seismograph in the world, and it has a very distinctive look, and everyone knows what happened.
	And it looks like just a big oil drum with a door.
	It's actually a barbecue.
	No, it's a mulching bin.
	It looked like one of those compost bins.
	It's a compost bin.
	They found it outside.
	Yeah.
	Compost bin.
	I'll tell you one thing, though.
	That is pathetic.
	All the people that I met with in L.A., you know, some friends and stuff and hanging out.
	They're so oblivious.
	They have no idea what's going on.
	They're like, hey, man, who do you think you're going to vote for?
	We think we should vote for Obama because he'll be lenient on the porn industry.
	That's your porn buddy.
	This is what happens to you if you get in that business.
	Yeah, totally no touch with reality.
	And take it from me, Romney's not going to be any better for your business.
	But he's a crazy Mormon.
	Ugh, okay.
	This is how people think in America.
	So doomed.
	No, no, we've lost it completely.
	So doomed.
	So you sent out...
	It wasn't for this humor show we do.
	I don't know what...
	I don't know how people can get by without listening to this show.
	This entertainment program.
	I did get a note from somebody saying, you know, it's so depressing to what you guys talk about, but the way you handle it is just at least we come away with kind of a laugh about it.
	We get to laugh about it.
	Of course you got to laugh about it.
	Now I got I'd say easily 50 emails All with varying points about our Gaygate conversation and about rights and privileges.
	Actually, I got one beautiful PDF, which I've put in the show notes, 409.nashownotes.com from Dr.
	Jones, Ph.D., J.D. And he took five pages and explains...
	Here it is.
	An essay on rights, privileges, and the problematics of marriage under American common law.
	It's a very thoughtful piece.
	He has a judicial degree.
	He has a Ph.D., Dr.
	Jones.
	And he listens to our show, and it's marked up with links.
	And he says, please post this, because I think it's a legal perspective of what we're talking about.
	So have a look at that in the show notes.
	But then I got a lot of other interesting emails, and I'd like to share a couple of points from Sir Jim from Boston.
	Now, we met Sir Jim on our Hot Pockets tour.
	And he says, and Sir Jim is married, is he married?
	Can you get married in Massachusetts?
	Yeah, you can get married, right?
	Yeah, Massachusetts is one of the places.
	And by the way, it's Massachusetts nuts.
	Yes, Massachusetts nuts.
	So he's married to his husband.
	And he says here is what he wants is equal treatment under the law.
	And that made some sense to me.
	He says the issue is, and I'll tell you why it's so problematic, because when I read this list, I'm like, oh, now I know why the government doesn't want to give you equal treatment under the law.
	Some equal treatments under the law I would like to claim include filing federal income taxes as married rather than single.
	Because I'm working and my partner is retired, my taxes are thousands of dollars higher each year than they would be if we could file jointly.
	Okay, so that makes sense.
	Passing on higher Social Security income benefit to my partner in the event I die before him.
	So, of course, he can't do that, and that's because of the Defense of Marriage Act.
	Passing on my estate to my partner with him having to pay inheritance taxes as if he were a stranger.
	Again, the Defense of Marriage Act prohibits federal tax laws from recognizing the marriage exemptions in the estate tax.
	Next one.
	Tax exemption for the cost of paying the premium for my retired partner's health insurance.
	He's not old enough to qualify for Medicare.
	If my partner were my wife...
	My premiums and the company's matching premiums for her health insurance would be tax-free.
	But because of DOMA, the cost of his premium and my company matching premium are taxable.
	This alone adds about $2,000 in federal taxes.
	So when I saw this list, I'm like, well, dude, everything you're asking for is going to cost the government money.
	Of course.
	No wonder they don't want to give it to you.
	I have to say there was a funny Bill Maher show because he had two Republicans.
	He had Hoover, Margaret Hoover, the granddaughter of Herbert Hoover, who was on the Fox all the time, and Grover Norquist.
	And I have to say there was a logic to somebody who called Grover Norquist out saying, why are you guys against gay marriage if you always keep wanting the lower taxes because this will do it?
	They didn't really have an answer to that.
	Really?
	Yeah, because it caught them off guard.
	Nobody thought in those terms.
	They're just against, you know, whatever.
	Gay marriage for whatever reason.
	But it would actually lower taxes for these people.
	Well, that's the whole problem.
	That's why the government doesn't want to do it.
	It'd be billions in revenue.
	Billions.
	They don't want to lower taxes on anybody.
	Anyway, so very, very, very interesting.
	And then you sent out, which I did, I mean, we would have had like no money, I guess, if you hadn't sent out your newsletter yesterday.
	And this was about the Newsweek, which I picked up a copy of the Newsweek.
	Oh, you have a copy?
	Yes, I do.
	Oh, man, you should have bought two.
	I wanted to get one.
	It's a collectible.
	President Obama is on the front page with the headline, The First Gay President.
	You want to talk about what you wrote for those of you who don't subscribe to the newsletter?
	If you don't get the newsletter, you're kind of missing out because some of these things we're not going to talk about on the show.
	Yeah, I tracked down the genesis of this, and I'm now convinced that it's a cabal of Hillary Clinton lovers, and it was very carefully outlined in this lengthy newsletter.
	The three people involved, and I wouldn't include Andrew Sullivan in that, who was a gay Republican, or was, I think he's an independent now, they were the ones who decided on this cover line, and I think they were leaking the rumors that are going around, which I link to, Yeah.
	which will make the black community turn on him.
	He's got to be a minister.
	So you're saying that this Newsweek article was meant to hurt the president?
	Yeah.
	Oh.
	I think it was meant to hurt him.
	So Hillary has a last-ditch shot.
	In fact, we had a clip about how Bill still says she should maybe think about running in 2012.
	And we've talked about this on the show forever.
	And so I think it was a hit shot.
	Because if you look at the people involved, they're all Hillary people, essentially.
	Except for Sullivan.
	You don't know what the heck he's doing.
	but they gave him the article to write.
	And the whole thing is a scam.
	And so to make it worse, the most recent thing that's happened, and people can get the newsletter, they can read all the details.
	There's a lot in there.
	What happened on Aaron Burnett's show about Obama is the first female president, which just makes this even worse because now he's being portrayed as a woman.
	I mean, this whole thing is just this piling on.
	And I would say that since one of the women at the Newsweek is on the Council of Foreign Relations, and she's got a weird background, and so does Aaron Burnett.
	So I have these two clips.
	I've got two of them.
	First play Obama, the first female president.
	Erin, by the way, cannot keep a straight face while she's doing this piece.
	Oh.
	Our second story out front.
	President Obama up nine points over Mitt Romney among women voters.
	This is according to the latest Gallup poll.
	And you may remember last night we were talking about the CBS New York Times poll, which had showed Romney up by three points among women, which was within the margin of error, but still surprised both the people on the left and the right on the panel.
	They didn't think it would quite be that way.
	And it is right now nine points in the president's favor according to Gallup.
	But does that mean he's the first female president?
	I mean, you say, what, are you crazy?
	Well, I'm not the one who said this.
	This is what an op-ed in the Washington Post said the president is as he launched a major new appeal to those coveted women voters.
	Referring to the president's commencement speech at the all-female Barnard College, Anna Milbank writes, See, the first female president was the Ted line, and it said Monday's activities veered into pandering as Obama brazenly flaunted his feminine mystique.
	Something about it is just, I don't know, his feminine mystique?
	Okay.
	Obama also appeared on The View today, where he talked about getting teased by the First Lady and coaching his daughter's basketball team.
	Now, before you continue with that, John, I want to say there is a possible other explanation for what's going on here, because I think you even mentioned in the newsletter, the Ulster Report had a whole insider-related story about how this woman had seen what she believes President Obama having...
	Before he was president.
	Before he was president.
	Even before he was senator, I guess, having gay sex, and she got killed.
	And, of course, there's tons of rumors.
	We've got Larry Sinclair.
	We've got two of his so-called former lovers in the Jeremiah Wright Church who were also killed.
	And, of course, there's always been rumors about Rahm Emanuel.
	It's possible.
	That this is all to build up a huge cover so that when someone else comes out saying something perhaps credible, that they'll say, ah, it's just none of these nut jobs.
	You know, this is just, you know, the president comes out and does something humanitarian, something really nice, and they get all these wackos coming out of the bushes.
	I like that.
	I like that a lot.
	But I think it may be too complex.
	I mean, it's definitely a possibility.
	Well, we'll have to see if someone comes out and says something really nutty.
	It'll have to be good.
	But the setup is there, and I think it's already done.
	I like your theory, but I think the damage has been done in the gate.
	Not the gay community.
	The gay community.
	I mean, their original thesis was just a...
	And which is a fact that gays have been throwing money at Obama now.
	And I think it was just a money grab at first.
	But it's hurt him in the black community.
	And it's going to result in a lower turnout at the polls.
	Because blacks aren't going to vote for Romney ever.
	No.
	And so they're 95% for Obama because he's black.
	Just that simple.
	But it's 95%.
	And somebody, I think it was Juan Williams on one of those shows, says, you know, it's still going to be 95% of the black vote is going to go to Obama, but the black vote is going to be down.
	Much lower.
	Because people aren't going to go vote at all, which is a very common thing in the United States.
	You know, people just don't vote when they think both candidates suck.
	Chat room reminds me of Reggie Love, by the way.
	And Reggie Love, right, which somebody says, a couple people have sent us notes on that.
	So anyway, something's amiss.
	But the one thing that was, it's kind of maybe a little bit off topic, but the second half of this clip, which is the second clip, the first one should be done.
	It was just annoying to me, and I'm just going to say, I know you're going to hate me to even bring this up, but I am not...
	But play the second clip and then I'll tell you what my pet peeve is.
	We're celebrating 40 years of Title IX. And it shows when girls are given the opportunity and they're competing and they're working as a team, it makes them stronger, it makes them more confident.
	It's one of the great things that's happened during the course of my lifetime is women's sports becoming just as important, just as powerful.
	What?
	So he's on the view.
	On the view, yeah.
	Let me just say, Title IX is a law that was passed by some idiot, I think it was Clinton, I'm not sure, that makes it so if you have a football team at a major college university which has this big stadium, if you ever notice, and you spend like millions and millions of dollars on the football team, you have to spend the same amount of money on women's sports.
	Which nobody cares about except the women playing the sports.
	And they'll still be playing the sports without the money.
	They like to play sports.
	Everybody does.
	But nobody's going to go pack the auditorium at a basketball court to watch women's basketball.
	They get, you know, 10% of the place is full.
	And so this whole thing is galling to me.
	And then to cater to it for a guy who supposedly likes sports is ridiculous.
	Does he watch women's basketball?
	I doubt it.
	Anyway, that's the end.
	I'm done.
	I did have one other.
	We had a nice dinner with our Jewish lesbian power couple friends.
	Oh, yeah.
	And, of course, all of this came up.
	And they're students of...
	Actually, they're friends with Geert Wilders and...
	Who's the Somalia chick?
	Ayan Hirsi Ali.
	She's a big activist in Holland.
	She got kind of booted out of the country because she was saying, hey man, Islam is no good.
	Her genitals were mutilated as a Muslim girl.
	Right, click-directomy.
	Yes, exactly.
	We're talking about all this and And they said a couple of very interesting things.
	They said, you know, Hillary Clinton is evil.
	I'm like, wait a minute, isn't she on your team?
	She said, oh yeah.
	And she's using our team, the LGBTC. Remember, C is for curious, like me.
	LGBTC rights in order to shepherd in Sharia law.
	And I'm like, what?
	What?
	Yeah, and according to them, all the advisors to the State Department and Obama, they say there's just tons and tons of pro-Sharia law advisors.
	And they gave me some propaganda, like some booklets, which is almost like underground anti-Nazi stuff.
	It's crazy.
	From the Freedom Institute and David Horowitz and all these little booklets, and I'm reading them, and they're like...
	How the word Islamophobia is now entering.
	And we talked about this.
	How the word Islamophobia is being used to further the agenda of Sharia law.
	Because, of course, when you put phobia behind something, and someone else pointed this out to me with homophobia, you have an irrational fear.
	So they're saying, oh, you're an Islamophobe, so it's irrational.
	But meanwhile, they claim that the real mission is to shepherd in bits and pieces of Sharia law into the American judicial system.
	It's a fascinating discussion.
	And it's all being done under the political correctness of let's be sensitive to LGBT rights.
	Huh.
	Well, that'll be worth following.
	Well, you know, they're lovely, lovely women.
	I mean, they are a true power couple, and it's interesting to have that combination to be the Jewish lesbian power couple, because they travel in, like, you know, upper board of directors type.
	So this must be a point of discussion amongst their milieu.
	Big time.
	Big time.
	Yeah.
	So I'm going to read all the propaganda.
	Speaking of which, John, you know what else I read?
	One of our producers, I can't remember, someone said to me, you have to watch this documentary.
	It's a German documentary called The Net.
	And The Net is, I'm reading here from the description, fascinating German documentary exploring the bizarre life story of Ted Kaczynski.
	The Unabomber.
	And so I watched 15 minutes.
	It's like an hour and a half.
	I watched 15 minutes.
	I'm like, oh my God, I've got to go read his manifesto.
	Remember we were talking about the Unabomber and how the manifesto got published, and then his brother saw some words recognized.
	Have you ever read his manifesto?
	You know, I think I may have read part of it, but it's like the kind of thing you read, the kind of thinking has always been around Berkeley.
	And I didn't read it for a while.
	I haven't read it since we started doing the show, so I'm sure my attitude would be a little different.
	But what is in there that you think is interesting?
	He's basically saying pretty much the same thing about political correctness that Breivik was saying and all these people are saying, but he takes it a step further.
	He says technology is going to imprison us.
	It's not going to set us free.
	Yeah, we discussed this.
	That's what Bill Gates said.
	Once thought about software, we'll be its pets.
	Right.
	Well, but in hindsight, and it's not a long manifesto, it's like 50 pages or so.
	In hindsight, because this was written in what, 95?
	I don't remember.
	I think it was 95.
	I can check it.
	I'll check it on the Book of Knowledge.
	It's all about leftism.
	And he starts off by saying, let me just find the relevant passage.
	He said, when someone interprets as derogatory almost anything that is said about him or about groups with whom he identifies, we conclude that he has inferiority feelings or low self-esteem.
	Yeah, it ran in 1995, the manifesto.
	This tendency is pronounced among minority rights advocates whether or not they belong to minority groups whose rights they defend.
	They are hypersensitive about the words used to designate minorities.
	Now listen to this.
	The terms Negro, Oriental, Handicapped, or Chick...
	For an African, an Asian, a disabled person, or a woman, originally had no derogatory connotation.
	Broad and chick were merely the feminine equivalents of guy, dude, or fellow.
	The negative connotations have been attached to these terms by the activists themselves.
	Some animal rights advocates have gone so far as to reject the word pet and insist on its replacement by animal companion.
	And so he goes on to explain how he feels that this extreme leftism, which I think we're seeing, is bad for the development of society.
	And he was a mathematician.
	Right, and let's bring it back to your thesis that this is all an attack on free speech.
	Yes, exactly.
	At the base, at the base level.
	At the base level, it's all an attack on free speech until basically you're in a prison, you can't say anything anymore.
	Right, you can't be critical.
	And while, of course, I cannot condone what he did to get this manifesto published, because this is kind of the beginning of Internet days and no one was really on it, he says, you know, we need a revolution.
	It does not have to be with bloodshed.
	We had to kill people, the Freedom Club.
	We had to kill people in order to get our manifesto published.
	Sorry about that.
	But I'm so fascinated by someone who has the capability to look so far into the future and possibly be correct about how technology is really not setting us free but enslaving us.
	And to see that it can go to such degree and be so bad that he feels he has to kill people to make his point.
	I'm fascinated by that.
	Yeah, well, I'm in agreement with the technology issue.
	In fact, I have advocated, and people can vouch for me, although this is ludicrous, but I've advocated just shutting down the Internet.
	I think it should be shut down.
	I'm starting to think it's not a bad idea.
	Just shut it down.
	We don't need it.
	Just shut it down, yeah.
	And look at all the problems it's causing.
	I mean, just, you know, I was in line for the humiliation tunnel at LAX. Oh, yeah.
	How did that go?
	On the way out, we got magnetometer.
	Oh, that's nice.
	We got lucky.
	On the way back, there was only one tunnel, and they had a magnetometer, and they had the backscatter, the one that they just crank up.
	An x-ray machine.
	Yeah.
	So Mickey says, I'm opting out.
	We have an opt-out, we have an opt-out.
	And I'm right behind her.
	Yeah, I'm opting out too.
	Mail assist, mail assist, mail assist, opt-out, opt-out.
	And then someone gets shuttled right through the magnetometer.
	And Mickey, bless her heart, says, hey, you didn't have to go through the scanner.
	And the guy literally said, I didn't see that.
	Well, you just went through the magnetometer.
	No, I didn't see no one go through there.
	Okay.
	You ran into a lying sack of crap.
	Unbelievable.
	Another fine government worker.
	So we got a little pat down.
	A little pat down.
	So you're opting out of the scanner?
	What did they say to you?
	Did you have a conversation about it?
	Yeah.
	Are you opting out of the scanner?
	And now they have someone.
	Someone has to watch when you do it.
	Watch when you do what?
	Patting you down, the other one's watching?
	Yep.
	Oh, that's sick.
	That's the bennies of the job.
	I guess one guy has to make sure that you're offered the opportunity to have a private screening.
	Did you tell them that Politano won't go through one of those machines?
	Why should you?
	That's my latest.
	No, no, no.
	I'm doing the same thing.
	When you're allowed to wear a dosimeter, I'll go through.
	That's always a good one, too.
	I'll go through.
	What?
	They're so dense.
	Yeah, they don't even know what a dosimeter is.
	A dosimeter is not.
	Now, does this TED speech somehow fit into this whole political correctness thing?
	Yeah, totally.
	Tell me about it.
	Well, it's actually...
	Okay, there's a TEDx speech that has been, and I think I'll have it on the blog, I sent you a, it's in the show notes.
	Yeah, under cultural Marxism.
	One of the guys came and gave a speech at TEDx which was censored and removed from view so you can't watch it.
	And essentially the guy said that it's actually not as much political correctness as it is anti-banking.
	And they said it was because it was pro-Republican or something.
	I read the whole thing and I didn't see anything in there that was even political, to be honest about it.
	But he says that his argument is that big business and small business, neither one of them are the people that create jobs.
	This doesn't create jobs.
	It's just a chicken and egg phenomenon, but he knows where it's really...
	Where it's really functional, which is in the middle class.
	He says the large middle class, when they get a bunch of money, they spend it and they force people to crank up production so they can sell them the products that they want.
	And then just because of the nature of a capitalist business, they can't make enough of it knowing they can make more money, they'll start hiring people.
	Because they have to, not because they want to or because they're job creators.
	It's because the middle class has got a huge demand and they're demanding stuff and that's the big consumer group in the world is this group of people with a lot of income that they can drop on crap.
	And so that's where the money should have gone instead of to the bankers because that would have cranked the economy back up and gotten a lot of full-time jobs.
	But they've essentially gone out of their way to shrink the middle class.
	And there's a lot of charts out there, by the way, that shows the middle class is down to really like 45 percent of the public as opposed to the normal 65.
	Where are we on that chart?
	We're in the lower, at the bottom?
	But anyway, the point is that that's all the speech was about.
	It was very simple, and it was, I guess, politically incorrect because it wasn't following some precepts of what we can actually talk about.
	And in fact, it's one of the tamest things ever.
	So I would say, yeah, if you want to put political correctness on it, it's really pathetic because there was no reason to kill this speech.
	You could have let it slide and been in the video queue, and people said, oh yeah, it makes sense, and that would be that.
	Now it's getting attention.
	I think I've got to write me a manifesto.
	I think you already have.
	No, I have not.
	You know, I just remembered something.
	Wow.
	This is very personal that I'm going to tell you.
	Something personal that I'm going to tell you right now.
	But it's relevant to the conversation.
	So, I was out with my buddy, Dr.
	Ryan, and he has one of these boat memberships on Lake Austin, so you can, you know, it's like a timeshare.
	It's like a club.
	It's like a drinking club.
	Yeah.
	Well, yeah, so you get a boat, you get a nice speed boat, and you go out on the lake, and you drink some beers, and you come back.
	And so we'd gone out.
	We'd gone swimming.
	And first of all, because I'm sitting on my ass all the time, it's always a problem.
	But the wet bathing suit, and I was steering the boat.
	I don't know.
	We're doing 40 miles an hour or whatever.
	We're racing along over the waves, and it's choppy.
	And so my bathing suit is rubbing into my loin.
	You know, right there by your groin area.
	And so it became irritated.
	And I've had this before, and so it's kind of a sensitive area for me.
	And then it becomes essentially infected under the skin, right?
	And I've learned from previous experience, the only thing that helps is if you take some cotton and you put it in...
	What's the salt that...
	Help me out here.
	I have no idea what you're talking about, but go on.
	Well, what are those salts?
	I don't know what's salt.
	Epsom salt?
	Epsom salt, thank you.
	Oh, okay.
	So you dilute some...
	I said Epsom.
	That's all this black cake is all over my guts.
	Epsom salt.
	Epsom.
	And so you dip a couple of cotton pads in that.
	All right, go on.
	Well, it's important.
	And then you pull your underwear on.
	Because, of course, when I'm about to travel on the plane, then the underwear is going to ride up and it's going to cut in.
	And eventually, it can become like a boil and burst.
	You've got to be really careful.
	I think I'd get different underwear, but go on.
	I'm still wearing the Hema's, but this is just because it got really irritated.
	I just realized on the way back...
	I had like three cotton pads jammed up there in my crotch and they didn't detect it on the pat-down.
	Oh, you still had...
	Oh, that's interesting.
	You had a crotch bomb.
	That could have been an underwear bomber and they didn't even detect it.
	How lame is that?
	It's lame.
	I'm just saying.
	And I said it.
	Yeah.
	Anyway.
	So, just a quick couple of clips before we go to our donation segment.
	Yes.
	Tell me what's wrong with this.
	If you listen to this clip from Ed Schultz, tell me what you think is kind of like the way he words things.
	You know, Ed Schultz, the crummy, I don't, this guy's ratings must have been a dynamite, like 25,000.
	But tell me where, the way he words things, it's not kind of, especially the way he puts it, it's not kind of a little weird.
	Yeah.
	And find workers in the workplace who are basically getting screwed.
	O'Reilly, the next time you get on an airplane, as I got one on this morning from New York to Washington, I thought about the flight attendants.
	What?
	As I got one on, I thought about the flight attendants.
	What does that mean to you?
	That's what he said!
	Short clip, play it again.
	I kind of like that.
	As I got one on, as I'm rubbing one out over here, I was thinking about the flight attendants.
	Hold on, here we go.
	And find workers in the workplace who are basically getting screwed.
	O'Reilly, the next time you get on an airplane, as I got one on this morning from New York to Washington, I thought about the flight attendants.
	Yeah, that's a Freudian slip.
	And he starts with the word screwed.
	They're getting screwed.
	I got one on over the flight attendants.
	I'm telling you, these guys are all pedo bears, man.
	They think about nothing else.
	Well, the flight attendants aren't girls, so it's not the case.
	Some of them could be.
	One other thing.
	Well, I'll do this after the break.
	There's a couple of things here that came out.
	Just one other light piece.
	I got this Chris Matthews actually admitting to not being fair.
	Even his time running the Olympics in Salt Lake.
	But let's be fair.
	I don't want to say let's be fair.
	Hold on.
	I didn't hear it.
	He said let's be fair.
	Wait, I don't want to say let's be fair.
	He admits it.
	I'm taking these really short two-second clips now.
	I'm getting a lot out of them.
	Yeah.
	I'm going to show my school by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	Let's get one on!
	In the morning.
	So, let's see what we got here.
	Okay.
	We have a few donors, and we want to thank them.
	$117.17, which is another vote for the slide whistle, which you haven't been hearing a lot of.
	Beep!
	Christian Herzog in Elwood, Illinois.
	1117.
	I'm good with the slide whistles.
	It can be a little heavy at times, but I like it.
	The latest runs of shows have been jam-packed with great stuff.
	Except this donation to keep doing it.
	Oh, except.
	Can I get a war on chicken for myself and some job-changing karma for my wife?
	The War on Chicken.
	Music You've got karma.
	Signed, Sir Zog.
	William Patterson in Lawrence, Kansas.
	$100.07.
	I should look him up and see if there's something he said.
	Unfortunately, I haven't got my email open.
	Link.me in Winterville, Georgia.
	It's my birthday on Friday.
	I'm sending you money.
	Why?
	Because this is the best podcast...
	In the universe.
	Shout out for my WordPress plug-in, link, L-E-E-N-K.me.
	I'll have to check that out, since I'm always looking for a good plug-in.
	I'd ask for some more karma for my adoption, but last time I got a six-week delay because the lawyer screwed up some paperwork.
	7777.
	So he doesn't want karma.
	He thinks it worked against him.
	Link.me.
	What does this do?
	Publicize your WordPress content automatically.
	Hmm.
	I guess it...
	What does it do?
	Well, let's take a look.
	Creating a LinkMe account is extremely quick and easy.
	If you visit the membership pricing page, you'll want to select the account type that...
	I think if you then post something to your blog, it'll tweet it and stuff.
	That's what it sounds like to me.
	I think it does that anyway.
	I don't know.
	Anyway, that's his plugin.
	You were looking for a plugin?
	There you go.
	Yeah, I'm looking for plugins, but not that one.
	All right.
	Onward.
	Oh, here we go.
	We're back on scratch with the following.
	Let me see.
	How many are there here?
	The following three, four, five...
	Is it six?
	Six.
	The following six donors all gave $69.69, setting a one-day record for the $69.69 donation.
	Actually, it's only five because the first guy gave $69.96 for some reason.
	This is Lucas Salvatore in Wilton, Connecticut.
	I'm donating $69.96.
	I should point out the six at the end is a vote for Adam to continue to say, turns out...
	Alright, turns out that's...
	Turns out it allows him to explain.
	I listen to your show on my three-hour trip home and occasionally we'll completely zone out.
	But the second Adam says, turns out, my ears instantly perk up and I listen.
	Because my program knows that what he's about to say is very important.
	Oh, alright.
	It's good.
	It's neural networking.
	I love it.
	Past two episodes have been filled with some seriously amazing history lessons.
	Also an explanation of federal versus state laws for gay marriage.
	And I want to thank you for that with my long-awaited donation.
	I want to...
	Please give me a de-douching for waiting this long.
	Followed by an old clip that had me laughing out loud.
	The original Rick Perry tweeter clip.
	Can you even find that?
	Yeah, keep going.
	Thanks.
	Lucas from Connecticut does just get me a podcast license, my email, and he's got the whole thing on there.
	So if you can get tweets...
	So he doesn't even want karma.
	He wants a de-douching tweeter.
	I don't think I have the tweeter anymore.
	Well, you have it.
	You just don't know where it is.
	Well, it's been so long.
	No, no, no.
	I'm sorry, man.
	I don't have it handy.
	I can give him an adios mofo.
	Would that be...
	How you do that?
	Would that be close enough?
	Alright, so here we go.
	You've been de-douched.
	Adios.
	You've got karma.
	Kevin Webb, Carrollton, Texas, 6969.
	Please give my lovely wife Stephanie some career karma and call out my co-worker Tim New as a douchebag.
	You've got karma.
	Matthew Frank in Mentor Ohio.
	Would you like to get some getting laid karma for this upcoming weekend to keep up the awesome deconstruction of the media?
	You've got karma.
	On route with more 6969s from Matthew Frank, I'm sorry, from Francis Penny Plus Company in Greensboro, North Carolina.
	He payment for the privilege of emailing Adam to share a thought on gay marriage.
	He wants to marry you, Adam.
	Love the show.
	Is that a proposal, honey?
	You've got karma.
	Trent Smith.
	Swanborn, Western Australia.
	Perth, actually.
	Our favorite town in Australia.
	Just a quick note to let you know, unlike so many listeners from those failing economies in the Northern Hemisphere, Perth listeners are getting plenty of action in the bedroom.
	Probably because Perth is chock full of hot babes.
	Hey, hold on a second.
	We gotta go there.
	In my case, it's due to my smoking hot milf girlfriend, even though she suspects I may be a closet crackpot.
	Shout out to karma to her, please.
	Also, our police have this week started a trial drone program, but probably just to protect the children.
	Some karma for you.
	You've got karma.
	That's true.
	Michael Shoemaker in Rancho Cucamonga.
	6969.
	I'll look him up in a minute.
	Ludger Rinsch.
	I would say it would be Ludger Rinsch.
	Rinsch.
	Okay.
	Anyway, why don't you read that for a second?
	I've got to quickly do something.
	Now we all want to know what you're doing.
	I'm looking up Janice Kang because I forgot to do that.
	All right.
	Ludger is from Berlin.
	In the morning from Munich, Doucheland.
	I'm listening to the best podcast in the universe for several months now, but I've never donated, so please de-douche me.
	I've waited very long with this donation because on almost every subject, my opinion is the complete opposite of yours.
	Thank you for bringing some discourse into my thinking.
	Very often I have the feeling that you guys are simply against the mainstream just for being against it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Because it's so successful.
	It works so well for us.
	That's why we're just against it.
	Well, after you listen to us enough, you'll realize that that's not true.
	We're not just...
	Being against the mainstream media.
	The mainstream media is corrupt.
	Yeah, my favorite example is nuclear power.
	Nobody loves nuclear power more than big energy.
	We love it.
	Every nuclear plant is a mega project which in itself suppresses small competition.
	In addition, they get huge subsidies because they don't have to take care of the waste and don't have to ensure all the risks.
	Just check who pays for Fukushima and who will pay for the safety of the nuclear waste repositories in 100 years.
	Nuclear energy is the best example for privatizing earnings and socializing costs and losses.
	Please, I disagree with that.
	I think A said it.
	Let me plug my latest project, SpokenLink.com.
	It enables you to create short links which are easy to share vocally, combining pictures and colors.
	Please give baby, that's one hot milf, you've got karma in the morning, karma, to my beautiful fiancée, Louisa.
	She'll be furious that I wake her up at four in the morning to listen to this.
	Wow.
	I don't have to listen live, you know, but okay.
	Okay, one hot milf, baby, you've got karma in the morning.
	Okay.
	That's one hot milf, baby.
	You've got karma.
	So it's a good thing I looked up Janice Kang, one of our executive producers, because we have to put her on the birthday list.
	Uh-oh.
	Shout out for a contribution to the Thursday show.
	John M., I hope the e-check clears blah, blah, blah.
	It'll be a milestone birthday for me and a dual slide whistle serenade.
	We don't do those during the birthday call because there's a bunch of them, but we'll give you a slide whistle.
	Hold on.
	It's Dame Janice Kang?
	It's Dame Janice King, right?
	Dame Janice, I'm sorry.
	I spotted yet another scheme to harvest personal information from the general public.
	I'll send more later.
	Thanks for your hard work.
	Living the American dream, just getting by.
	Yep.
	Okay, so she's on the list now, I hope.
	And let me slide back down.
	Where were we?
	Carl Hadel, 5912, Madison, Mississippi.
	Greg Steerly, Santa Monica, California, 5555.
	Needs a dedouching.
	I only started donating in November, and there's a slight fishy smell.
	You can always follow me on Twitter.
	You've got karma.
	Was there a dedouching in there as well?
	Yeah, he wants a dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	That was gratuitous karma.
	Sorry.
	Well, I found the tweeters one, so.
	I see it.
	Yeah, Wayne Hyman, St.
	Petersburg, Florida.
	Fifty double nickels on the dime.
	I'm off to Gitmo Nation East for a few weeks to sample real ales in the beautiful Derbyshire countryside, eat roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, and drink PG Tips tea.
	I could use some naked body scanner opt-out karma when I have to explain to the TSA agent why I refuse to get x-rayed.
	You've got karma.
	Bye.
	I do have a make good from a week ago or from the last show actually.
	This is from Sarah Milligan who I'll read her note.
	I've embarrassingly only listened to your show and my husband has it blasting in our house or car but I always find it entertaining.
	I donated 50 bucks.
	Can you guys give karma or whatever it is you do to my husband Matt Milligan and my brother and sister-in-law for their total dedication for helping Ron Paul Take Nevada delegates over the weekend.
	All right, so I think what we do is we do a karma with a slide whistle duet, since it's a May good.
	All right?
	Okay.
	All right.
	You've got karma.
	That's what we do, baby.
	That's what we do.
	Them and all the others were at the convention until 2am Saturday night fighting a bunch of lying and cheating Romney supporters.
	Duh.
	Then I woke my husband up at 6 a.m.
	to set up for our daughter's third birthday party.
	Well, you know what the big problem is?
	You saw what happened with Ron Paul, where he said, you know, we're not going to campaign.
	We're just going to go after the delegates.
	And then every mainstream media, Ron Paul calls it quits!
	He's quitting!
	He quit, everybody!
	He quit!
	Yeah, this is why we think the mainstream media stinks.
	Yeah, we're not just against it.
	They've been after Ron Paul since the beginning of this whole thing.
	And let me just point out, he does this the day after his breakfast meeting with Bernanke.
	That was a little weird to me.
	Yeah, something's up.
	Anyway, okay, onward.
	Melody Man.
	Jim and Melody Man wish their son Ben a happy birthday.
	We're going to put that on.
	Yeah.
	We don't usually endorse hitting children in the mouth, but in the instance, we make an exception.
	As a poor college student, Ben lacks the funds to support the show, but he propagates the formula wherever he can.
	And she'd like a clippity-clop karma.
	Oh, wow.
	Okay, here we go.
	It's clippity-clop.
	The message is clear.
	Just clippity-clop.
	You've got karma.
	All right, onward.
	We have, well, this spreadsheet, I need a bigger monitor.
	Joan.
	Joan, what do you think you pronounce?
	This is a French name, Audifray, I think.
	Audifray.
	Jean Audifray.
	Hey, from Motown.
	Motown!
	Morgantown, West Virginia.
	Motown.
	I used to go to Motown.
	You used to be in West Virginia.
	Yeah, Salem.
	Huh.
	Okay.
	Morgantown, West Virginia.
	Hey, John and Adam, here's my modest donation.
	Vote to definitely keep the slide whistle, both of them.
	I'm trying to decide whether or not my relocation karma from about a month ago worked out or not.
	We're not moving after all, but in the process, I have clean closets and lots of fresh paint on my house.
	I guess it did work.
	Yay!
	That's what I do when I think, yeah.
	Every once in a while, you think you're doing something and then you don't, but you've got a clean car or something.
	I'm very impressed that John pronounces my last name properly.
	Did I? It usually gets butchered.
	Well, it's actually, you know, that name is a very famous wine importing name from some years back.
	Very famous wine or exporters.
	Bordeaux.
	Maybe it's all that time you spent in Paris drinking French wine.
	Yes, that's exactly it.
	Douchebag call out to my shitbag accountant.
	Douchebag!
	He screwed up our 2010 taxes, which resulted in a little surprise letter from the IRS, and I came dangerous close to having my firstborn, losing my firstborn to Tiny Tim today.
	Chris Slowinski.
	Sir Chris Slowinski, to you, in Sherwood Park, Alberta, $50.
	Jason Burke, Richmond, Texas, $50.
	John Tirada, Pasadena, $50.
	Hey, Adam, can I send some job hunting karma?
	I need to find a new job.
	You've got karma.
	And finally, Jason Fortune in Geneva, Illinois, $50.
	And that'll be our donors for today's show.
	409.
	Giddy up my 409.
	Nobody came in with a 409 donation, which I find disappointing, but that's the way it goes.
	We've got a 426 coming up for you, car enthusiasts.
	You know...
	Right.
	Well, it's like, you know, we work really hard on this show, and it's been two down shows in a row, and usually on Thursday it picks up, and it didn't pick up, so I don't know.
	I mean, are we on the wrong track?
	I thought we were, you know, we get all kudos, you know, great information, you're doing a great conversation.
	They were boring the public.
	Well, something.
	Or I think maybe it's the summer coming up.
	I mean, you're going to start to see the reruns on TV. That's usually one of the donations.
	Well, along those lines, Brandon, who kindly offered his 35-foot trailer.
	So we got all the specs in.
	Did you try driving it?
	No, no.
	We got all the specs in.
	And the Dodge Ram is rated, a 2002 Dodge Ram with a 5.9 engine.
	It's rated to pull 7,500 pounds.
	That is not enough.
	How much does this sucker weigh?
	Almost nine.
	Oh, you can't manage it.
	You blow it up.
	So either someone has to swap...
	You'd be like a semi to pull that thing around.
	He says a Ford F-150, but preferably a F-250.
	So if anyone wants to trade trucks, then that's one way we could do it.
	You could have my truck, which is a fine truck.
	Yeah.
	I thought that truck of yours had enough with a big engine like that.
	You can't pull nine grand?
	No, I think the problem is the...
	Transmission.
	Yeah, clutch or transmission.
	It could burn out.
	And we're going to go through Colorado.
	Oh, yeah.
	That's the problem the way I see it.
	If you're going to go through Colorado, which is really nasty on a car, especially if you're hauling something, you need some guts.
	So do we either, A, look for another trailer, or do we...
	I think you should look for another trailer.
	I think that trailer's...
	It might have been a little too big for us.
	Yeah, I think it's too big.
	You don't need a trailer that big.
	I mean, that's a trailer you take, you drive it to Sarasota, and you live in it for two years.
	Yeah.
	It's called practicing for the future.
	So we're still on the lookout for, I think, you know, a 25-foot trailer would probably be good for us.
	I don't think we need anything bigger than that, do we?
	Well, yeah, we have to at least thank him for helping us.
	Oh, no, it's fantastic.
	He's very, very kind, but it just won't work.
	And I think, you know, for the Rockies and everything, it's just going to be overkill.
	So that will be for the Hot Pockets Tour 2009.
	A lot of people are all geared up about it.
	They're all hyped.
	You know, we've got meetups.
	Ms.
	Mickey is starting to schedule, so if you want to...
	Actually, you can go to itm.m slash tour09.com.
	That's a zero, numeral zero and nine.
	That's a website?
	It forwards to the Facebook page.
	She lives on Facebook.
	This Facebook thing has got to end.
	Yeah, it will eventually.
	So what is it?
	ITM.IM. Yeah.
	In the morning, in the morning?
	Itm.itm.im.
	So it's in the morning dot in morning slash tour09.
	Here it is, in the morning, the Gitmo Nation URL shortener.
	Yeah.
	Where's the Facebook page?
	Well, you didn't do the slash tour09.
	Oh, oh, sorry.
	Slash 209?
	Yeah.
	No, 09.
	Hello?
	209.
	Is this on?
	Get that crud out of your ears.
	I thought you said 209.
	I said 09.
	Tour, tour, tour, tour.
	Oh, tour.
	Like Latour.
	You're mumble-mouthed today.
	It's because I'm disappointed I'm not in porn.
	Well, it's funny because I just put in 09.
	Why did I show up here?
	Channel14.com slash news.
	Why the Richter scale is no more.
	You did something wrong.
	No, I'm telling you, I put itm.im slash 209.
	Tour!
	Tour!
	No, no.
	I know what it is.
	I'm telling you what happened.
	Because it's a URL. I don't care about tour anymore.
	I'm on the Richter scale page.
	How does that work?
	It's a URL shortener.
	Type it into the URL. I typed in.
	No, I understand, but that's probably a URL that was shortened.
	Duh.
	Oh, I see.
	Oh, light bulb.
	Hello?
	Why should I consult the book of knowledge?
	That makes no sense.
	Hiya!
	The moment magnitude scale is much more useful than the Richter.
	It's called the moment magnitude.
	Yeah, yeah, we know about that.
	Anyway, I'd like to point out that as NPR's advertising revenue has dropped, because they're so stupid and so bogative, now the FCC has adopted a notice of proposal that will allow them to alter their normal programming so that they can do fundraisers for third-party non-profit groups.
	What?
	Yes.
	To all these bogative 501c3 corps that we're always highlighting, now NPR will be allowed to do fundraising for them.
	So if you're going to give your money to any broadcasting outfit, give it to us.
	This is crazy.
	Yeah.
	Meanwhile, they're still asking people to give them money.
	Yeah, and you get a tote bag, like you're doing something.
	I know, of course it's crazy.
	Anyway, we are doing the work.
	We did a Cinco de Mayo.
	Please help us out for the next show, because it's becoming a little bit depressing.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. It's your birthday, birthday!
	I've no agenda!
	And we congratulate Dave Janis King.
	Thank you so much for helping us out on this episode of The Greatest Podcast in the Universe.
	And Melody Mann congratulates her son Ben with his birthday.
	And that is from all of your buddies here at the No Agenda Show.
	And then we do have one...
	Well, it's actually a knighting of a dame today is what we have.
	Yay.
	Yeah.
	Yay.
	About time.
	So put away the slide whistle and draw your blade.
	Here it comes.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Mrs.
	Goschko, please step forward.
	I don't know.
	We've never had a dame whose name was Mrs.
	before, I don't think.
	Thanks to your hubby, Sir Robert Goschko's donation in the amount of up to $1,000, actually bringing to 23-23-23, we hereby proudly pronounce the Dame Goschko, Dame of the Knights of the Noah Jenner Roundtable.
	I think you might like some Chardonnay and Rent boys.
	Who knows?
	Hookers and Blow might be for you as well.
	At any rate, we welcome you to the very prestigious club, and you'll be receiving your knight-slash-dame ring as we're ending that at the end of this year.
	I did get a recommendation, John.
	Someone said we might want to consider belt buckles as a new premium.
	Yeah, what are the women going to get?
	A belt buckle.
	Yeah, I'm sure that's what they'd want.
	Maybe.
	I'm going to put it on the list of things to consider.
	Belt buckles look pretty hot on chicks.
	With our two heads on there?
	Looking in.
	Or like looking down.
	Our two heads looking down.
	Let me go back to this.
	Sorry I got distracted here, but I got to go back to this.
	This moment magnitude scale, which is also called local magnitude.
	We've done this a million times.
	There's nothing new.
	No, but this is different.
	There's other stuff going on here.
	I want to read this.
	It says we call it local magnitude scale, but when you put it on the thing, you got to put ML. How's that?
	ML, like magnitude local?
	Is that what that means?
	And then at the end of this, it says the formula for...
	Magnet for moment wave.
	What's MW? This whole thing is confusing.
	What's MW? I don't know.
	Anyway, what they say at the end is that the two scales, the old scale and the new scale, are adjusted so the two numbers roughly correspond.
	So what's the point?
	It's bullcrap.
	There's something up with this.
	Well, we've known that for years and we gave up on it.
	Yeah, I know, but it's just every time I read about it, I get irked.
	So I've been tracking the pharmaceutical industry, and there's a couple things going on.
	But it's obvious that now that we already know that all of the big pharma companies want to push people towards vaccines, there's really an unhealthy push towards giving people medication in general who are just not sick.
	They're just not sick.
	And the latest, here's a report from the BBC, and I'm amazed that the BBC broadcast this stuff.
	More people should be prescribed statins to prevent heart attacks and strokes.
	That's the finding of research published in The Lancet.
	The Lancet, by the way.
	The Lancet?
	Yeah, this is the one that they blindly rely on, The Lancet.
	Scientists looked back at previous studies and concluded that 2,000 lives could be saved every year if more people were given the drugs which lower cholesterol.
	Professor Colin Bajant is a consultant in public health at Oxford University and one of those behind this latest study and he's here in the studio.
	Good morning.
	Now, doctors up until now have been reluctant to prescribe statins for people who don't have high cholesterol, not least because they are cholesterol-lowering drugs, and also because of the risks or the fears of risk that have been associated with them.
	That's right to some extent.
	We've had great success in reducing the risk of heart attacks and strokes over the last few decades.
	But the problem we still have is that over half of heart attacks and strokes come out of the blue in people who were previously healthy and had no problems.
	So if we're going to have some impact on that, we've got to consider offering treatments to healthy people.
	I will remind you that Lipitor...
	You've got to cut that little piece off at the end.
	We have to consider treatments for healthy people.
	Treatment for healthy people.
	What an unbelievable gall.
	And this, of course, is mainly for Lipitor, which has gone out of patents.
	So, you know, it's just like, how can we sell this?
	I know.
	Let's get a bunch of guys at the Lancet to say that, you know...
	We should give it to you if you don't have any cholesterol issues, if you don't have high blood pressure.
	And that's not the only one that I've found.
	Alzheimer's.
	Here we go, ladies and gentlemen.
	In a clinical trial that could lead to treatments that prevent Alzheimer's, people who are genetically guaranteed...
	To develop the disease, but do not have any symptoms, will for the first time be given a drug intended to stop it.
	Federal officials announced on Tuesday, the FDA is funding this clinical trial.
	Genetically guaranteed.
	Genetically guaranteed.
	It's being funded by Sebelius of the Health and Human Services and Genentech.
	This genetic stuff?
	Oh, we've got to be so careful with this.
	Before you know it, it's going to be like, oh, congratulations, Mrs.
	Walker.
	It's a boy.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	We just tested his genetics, and he's going to be a terrorist, so why don't we just chop his head off now?
	Oh, yeah.
	This is very, very...
	We've got to be very...
	And by the way, Unabomber warned for this.
	Then this other thing, and this one irked me, because I saw the story highlighted on, of all programs, Morning Joe.
	Morning Joe.
	And you know what Morning, who sponsors Morning Joe?
	I don't know.
	I never watch Morning Joe.
	Starbucks.
	Oh, well, of course.
	Morning Joe, I get it, I get it.
	Big story, ladies and gentlemen.
	Big story.
	Oh, yeah, I saw this story come across.
	Uh-huh.
	The caffeine is great for you.
	Coffee helps fight disease.
	That's right.
	Coffee drinking linked to longer life.
	So, you know, there's all this stuff on and on.
	I'm like, let me just find the actual study.
	And the study was done by the New England Journal of Medicine, which is a respectable outfit, I think.
	And I looked at all the disclaimer forms.
	Unless they're lying, everyone on the study has no incentive to lie about this.
	But here's the conclusion that this story is now based on.
	In this large prospective study, coffee consumption was inversely associated with total and cause-specific mortality.
	Whether this was a casual or associational...
	This associational finding cannot be determined from our data.
	In other words...
	They don't know anything.
	They don't know anything!
	It's just like...
	So how do you come up with the other conclusion?
	How does that work?
	Well, people...
	Because the coffee...
	Have you looked at the coffee future?
	Did anything happen?
	Take a look at the chart.
	I didn't look at it.
	Something must have happened.
	I don't think so.
	I think it was just Starbucks wanting to sell more coffee.
	If the Starbucks is behind it, you're right.
	I think you hit it accidentally at the beginning.
	I don't know if they're behind it, but they're usable for sure.
	Why wouldn't they be?
	That's what I would be doing.
	I'd be doing pumping.
	Starbucks has got to promote coffee.
	Yeah, I know that.
	But this study is like, there's nothing there.
	It's like, so people who drank coffee didn't necessarily die earlier or faster.
	That's their conclusion.
	You know, people who pick their nose.
	I mean, it could be anything you want.
	Yeah.
	In fact, we should do that study.
	All nose pickers live a long life.
	Yeah, if you pick your nose, you live longer.
	We also found out that if you pick it in public, you live even longer, so we recommend it.
	And then we have, on the HPV front, in Australia now...
	They've had, here we go, 720 girls received the cervical cancer vaccine at a metropolitan school in Melbourne.
	26 girls reported symptoms including dizziness, weakness, palpitations, and tics.
	And of course, immediately everyone comes out.
	Dr.
	Buttery, that's a great name.
	My name is Dr.
	Buttery.
	This is conversion disorder.
	We already know that from American tests.
	It's mass hysteria caused by social networking.
	That is now the meme that is cemented forever.
	Now tuberculosis.
	Oh, yes.
	Teenager died of tuberculosis after a string of doctors failed to spot condition.
	One even branded her lovesick.
	This is a good one.
	So Alina Serac died after a GP allegedly advised her that she had a mental health problem of lovesickness.
	Where was this?
	In the UK. And then in California, health officials arrested Armando Rodriguez of Stockton Because he had active pulmonary tuberculosis and did not take his meds.
	Oh, yeah.
	And apparently, as it turns out, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said laws to control the spread of tuberculosis have been in use for more than a century.
	Only recently enforced on that guy.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Hey!
	Just take your medicine.
	Just take your mad slave.
	And I'm going to get to the kicker in a minute.
	First, let me tell you that, unfortunately for you, John, you have a mental disorder.
	I've known that.
	Do you know which one you have?
	Nah, it could be any number.
	I think laziness is one of them.
	Oh, that might be in there.
	I've been looking at the DSM-5 for the proposed revision of the American Psychiatric Association for what they deem to be mental sickness.
	Yeah?
	See if you can guess the name of the disorder.
	Persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of their actual value.
	Hoarder dissociation order.
	It's hoarding disorder.
	Hoarding disorder.
	Well, I've got that.
	Exactly.
	You are so screwed, man.
	I am.
	I need meds.
	You're going to get him.
	I'm telling you, you're going to get him.
	There's one more.
	I don't want to keep that anymore.
	This is a good one.
	Conduct disorder.
	A repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or major issues age-appropriate societal...
	Now listen to it.
	Or other major age-appropriate societal norms or rules are violated as manifested by the presence of at least three of the following 15 criteria in the past 12 months from any of the categories below with at least one criterion presented in the past six months.
	So you have to have done at least three of the following 15 things.
	This is like getting a speeding ticket.
	You can only get so many a year and one point's deducted.
	Yeah, because...
	Oh, man, I'm so lucky.
	I did that, like, right outside the boundary.
	So here are the...
	You only have to have three of the 15, and at least one of them the past six months.
	Let's see if we qualify.
	Number one on the list.
	Often bullies, threatens, or intimidates others.
	Okay, we do that.
	Often initiates physical fights?
	No.
	No.
	Has used a weapon that can cause serious harm to others, i.e.
	bat, brick, broken bottle, knife, or gun?
	You shot a gun recently.
	Yes.
	I'm already on two.
	Two for three.
	I'm only on one.
	I haven't shot a gun for a while.
	Has been physically cruel to people?
	No.
	Has been physically cruel to animals?
	Well, that's open to interpretation.
	Do you eat an animal?
	Yeah, you know, kicking a dog is like humping your leg.
	Is that bad?
	Oh, John, I think you got two now.
	Have you kicked the dog who was humping your leg?
	No, I haven't.
	I just say it's just theoretical.
	Has stolen while confronting a victim?
	No.
	I'm sorry, I missed that?
	Has stolen while confronting a victim, like mugging, purse snatching.
	Has stolen?
	Yeah.
	While confronting a victim?
	Yeah, like mugging, purse snatching, extortion, or armed robbery.
	Oh, John, armed robbery.
	We got you there.
	I didn't do any armed robbery.
	Yeah.
	I'm just trying to up my ante on the bullying.
	Has forced someone into sexual activity?
	Oh, not me.
	Okay.
	So far, we're good.
	You're one for three.
	I'm two for three.
	Has deliberately engaged in fire setting with the intention of causing serious damage?
	No.
	Has deliberately destroyed others' property other than by fire setting?
	No.
	Has broken into someone else's house, building or car?
	No.
	Often lies to obtain goods or favors or to avoid obligations.
	I haven't done that recently.
	Six months?
	Well, you know, sometimes you fib about your bill paying.
	Hey, the check's in the mail.
	That would count.
	I think you're two for three.
	Has stolen items of non-trivial value.
	It sounds like a typical teenager.
	Stolen items of non-trivial value?
	What does that mean?
	It's like somebody's iPhone, I guess?
	Yeah, like, no, no, shoplifting.
	Yeah, we haven't done that.
	It does sound teenager-ish.
	It's like a teenager.
	Oh, often stays out at night despite parental prohibitions beginning before age 13.
	That's a preteen thing.
	Yeah.
	Has run away from home overnight at least twice while living in parental or parental surrogate home?
	How do they determine this crap?
	I don't know.
	And it seems to me as though there's other issues involved.
	Like maybe the parents are screwed up if this person's stealing and trying to run away.
	Anyway, I think the whole point is a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms and rules are violated.
	Yeah, it's just free time.
	It's a bullying thing.
	It's about bullying, and you're going to have conduct disorder, and you're going to get dosed up with Ritalin, kids.
	Get ready for it.
	But then the best one.
	Now, we all know that we've changed the autism to something called the autistic spectrum disorder.
	And ABC News is out on the forefront because, of course, what do we want you to do?
	We want you to get your kid to the doctor as soon as possible.
	When that kid pops out of your vagina, take it straight away to the doctor because the kid might have autism.
	And we have a test, John.
	Do you know the simple test?
	We have a test now.
	We have attention.
	Yes, we have attention.
	And now, we have news in the battle against autism.
	As you know, one out of every 88 children in this country diagnosed by the age of 8.
	And the best hope, early detection.
	Early detection!
	Today, the top autism experts in the nation.
	The best hope for what?
	For hope.
	For hope.
	Just have hope.
	It's not curable.
	What's the hope?
	Why is early detection got anything to do with it?
	Listen to it.
	I'm asking.
	I don't know, because they just want to get you in there and test your kid with drugs and stuff.
	I don't know.
	This is nuts.
	Not that autism isn't real, but they're taking it to an extreme.
	Your kid may just...
	Well, listen to the report.
	...diagnosed by the age of eight, and the best hope, early detection.
	Today, the top autism experts in the nation announced they have broken new ground.
	They say there is a simple way to find a red flag in children as young as six months.
	Six months, John!
	We can test your kids!
	This is bullcrap.
	Oh, what is the test?
	The test is a very simple one.
	...thing parents can detect, and something that could change lives.
	Here's ABC's medical editor, Dr.
	Richard Besser.
	Babies can tell you a lie without speaking a word.
	Benjamin's six months old.
	I'm going to do the head lag test.
	The head lag test, John.
	It's the head lag test.
	Watch his head as I pull his arms up.
	It comes right up with his body.
	That's normal for his age.
	But this is head lag.
	So, I've got to paint the picture for you.
	You've got this baby lying on his back.
	You take his arms, and you pull the baby up, and he's supposed to keep his head straight.
	If his head goes back, like he would do, like, oh, the world's upside down, that's cool looking.
	Then you have head lag, and therefore, you're on the spectrum.
	And today, the startling news.
	At six months, it could be the earliest possible sign of autism.
	Startling news.
	Startling news.
	That's been decent.
	The way he dramatizes it.
	Oh, the end of the report is the best.
	In research video, look again.
	See how his head stays back?
	Pediatricians have known head lag like this can be a sign of developmental delays.
	But today's study is the first to connect it to autism.
	Because early intervention is key.
	Early intervention is key.
	You gotta get the kids doped up quick.
	Doctors say it could make a huge difference in treatment.
	You know what?
	There's no cure.
	No treatment.
	It's all about the treatment.
	Listen, it's treatment.
	Wait until after their first birthday, until first words aren't emerging.
	We can go ahead and take action now to help the child develop better.
	Dr.
	Rebecca Landa tested a group of babies who had an autistic sibling.
	Babies at high risk.
	75% of babies with head lag, like Ben, ended up diagnosed with autism at age 2.
	And without that clue, Ben's parents would never have suspected it.
	I would have told you going into that day that everything was normal.
	When we see these kinds of indicators that development is disrupted so early in life, we really have a huge advantage to help children's brains connect themselves in a healthier fashion.
	Families can start therapy sooner.
	That's what happened with Ben, with intensive speech and occupational therapy.
	Here he is today.
	I'm going to blow your hat down.
	I have a very loud, boisterous, wonderful three-and-a-half-year-old son.
	Ben is now considered only borderline delayed.
	It's like yellow flowers.
	An amazing glimpse of what early intervention can do, beginning with a simple test.
	Good job.
	Good job.
	Now, before I play the end of the report, which is where it really all gets paid off, I think that actually, if I had a kid, I'd say, oh, it's got head lag.
	Because you get to put them in a cool school where they actually pay attention to the kids.
	That would be an interesting little game.
	No wonder these kids are turning up.
	You know, my kid had autism because he had head lag.
	I got him into a special school where they really pay attention and love the kids and let them be nutty and spin around and do all kinds of crazy crap.
	And the kid turns out great!
	I don't see why people don't see this.
	Yes, there is an autistic scale, an issue, and whatever.
	I'm not saying there isn't.
	But maybe your kid's just a genius.
	And give him some special attention.
	I'm sure Einstein would have been drugged up.
	Now, listen to the end of the report, because that's where it just becomes hilarious.
	All right, finish it off.
	Hilarious.
	Oh, it is great to see the difference it can make.
	Oh, so great.
	Let me have another drink.
	Let a drink.
	Why is there head lag, do they think, in a lot of autistic kids?
	We know that children with autism have delays in a lot of their motor development, sitting, walking, running, but we don't really know the why.
	And I don't want parents to panic here because you were telling me in your practice, you see head lag and it does not necessarily mean autism.
	Exactly.
	I mean, every parent who sees this who has a six-month-old is going to do the headlight test, and that's a good thing.
	But I see children all the time with this.
	By nine months, it's gone and they develop normally.
	But don't ignore it.
	You want to make sure that your doctor, if they see this, they're following up on it.
	Ah!
	If you see something, see something.
	Just get your kid to the doctor early is disgusting.
	You're going to get your pediatrician.
	Pediatricians are supposed to see the kids anyway, so this whole report is bullcrap.
	Yeah, but it's propagating.
	It's what they do.
	So, let's go to real quick real news.
	Really?
	Okay.
	Yes.
	And now, back to real news.
	Since last night was the final, or was it Monday?
	I don't know, it was Monday.
	It was the last episode of your favorite show, Smash.
	Oh, don't tell me.
	I haven't seen it yet.
	We recorded it.
	I'm not going to tell you what happened.
	You have clips from it.
	I have two clips that you have to play.
	Oh, that's horrible.
	One of them is the, just to get it, show that they're part of the propaganda machine.
	Is it going to spoil the episode?
	Is it going to spoil the episode?
	No, no, no.
	know just play it it was frankly ridiculous it's not about bullying there's just no time well let's buy ourselves some more time you know how much that's going to cost half a million dollars i'm not talking about a week i'm talking about one day we have a rough melody we have some lyrics what we don't have is a maryland delay and the press is going to annihilate it more than annihilated enough wow that's acting i can't
	So anyway, so I got this clip that it turns out that the entire show has been summarized by one very small scene.
	I know the show as well as you do.
	I stayed up with you night after night helping you with it.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	Fuck you.
	She said it.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	It's idiotic.
	Alright, we'll close that out.
	Very good.
	Thank you.
	And now, back to real movies.
	I like the show.
	And we have the season finale.
	You call me whatever you want.
	And we have the season finale, darn it.
	And that season finale is, I'm looking forward to it.
	If you liked it so much, you would have watched it by now.
	No, because, no, I got home late last night, I went straight into reading government legislation.
	Hello, I've got a job here.
	Hey, so I saw something on the Bill Maher show that was a meme that's come and gone, but it keeps cropping up every once in a while.
	I want to comment on it, which is the food desert, which I think is a myth.
	The American public about what foods are better to eat and what our healthy lifestyle.
	But also, we're all assuming that people have a choice.
	A food choice.
	Correct.
	A lot of people don't.
	People who live in poverty live in food deserts.
	They don't have the option to buy broccoli.
	That's right.
	They don't go to Whole Foods.
	They couldn't afford it, and there's not one near them if they could.
	It's cheaper to buy a 10-pack of tobacco.
	And maybe we can cut the health insurance companies out of this and save a lot of money, too.
	Ah, food desert.
	So I was just listening away there.
	It was like the crappy show that it is.
	But then it was, uh, Langoria was a guest on there.
	She's the one that says, oh, and then people, poor people don't have a choice.
	They have to eat crap because there's, it's a food desert in their area.
	And I started thinking about this.
	And I realized that one of the grocery stores I go to, which I think is called Mi Hacienda or Mi Rancho, I think it's Mi Hacienda, it's one of these big Mexican stores.
	It's in the so-called food desert.
	It's in the worst part of the ghetto of Oakland.
	I go there because they have a number of things that I can only get there as a matter of fact.
	And they have a huge fruits and vegetable area.
	It's a monstrous Mexican store that is bigger than any Safeway.
	They got more fruits and vegetables than any Safeway.
	The Latinos in particular eat quite well.
	They know how to cook.
	They know how to use an avocado properly.
	They got all that stuff in there.
	And I'm thinking this whole food desert thing was always bull crap.
	I don't know what the point of it was.
	These guys obviously never go into a ghetto area and look around at the grocery stores.
	There's plenty of them, and they're big.
	I will contradict you on one thing.
	When we were on a Hot Pockets tour, we did run into what I would classify as food deserts.
	And the main place would be when we visited Rhino the Bearded in Mississippi.
	And the only choices they have is food shopping at Walmart, which I would say the food there is probably crap, and the gas station, because they would buy falafels from the gas station.
	All right, let's back up a notch.
	Have you ever been to a Walmart grocery store?
	Yes.
	I've been to one.
	There's one in Squim near Port Angeles up north.
	The thing is huge.
	It's got all kinds of stuff.
	I mean, it's monstrous.
	In fact, it puts the little stores out of business.
	It's a real problem.
	And generally speaking, in Mississippi, they'll have farmer's markets.
	I'm not buying a word of this.
	You can get good food anywhere with very little effort.
	Well, that's john at dvorak.org, ladies and gentlemen.
	Yeah, send me if you're living in a food desert.
	I'd like to know about it.
	Well, what was the tie-in to health care there that they were talking about?
	Because that's maybe the angle that they're trying to push with the food desert.
	Because this is a Michelle Obama term.
	She started this whole thing, so you know there's got to be something behind it.
	I didn't see the connection.
	It was a really weird show because Marr was overpowered.
	Grover Norquist was there and all he was doing was sneering the whole time.
	He never cracked a smile.
	And every time Marr said one of his stupid things, he'd jump in and jump all over it with unique sarcasm that Marr didn't even get half the time.
	I mean, it's extremely sarcastic.
	And Marr was saying, well, you can't be serious.
	Oh, oh, oh.
	And the guy, Norquist, at one time, after Marr didn't get one of his sarcastic comments, Norquist sarcastically said, I thought this was a comedy show.
	And it backed Marr up.
	He really had Marr on the ropes.
	I think, you know, when we have fine programming on C-SPAN, why are you wasting your time on the Bill Marr show?
	I just caught this by accident.
	The Euro.
	So I think we should do a little trip around Euroland just to make sure that we know what's happening for the slaves in the United States of Gitmo Nation and in other parts of the world where this is just not being reported on.
	You don't know what's happening.
	I will start with El Presidente of the European Commission, Barroso, who was very clear about the Greeks.
	Of course, the Greeks could not come to an agreement.
	They have until, I think, the 17th now, and then they're going to vote again.
	And it looks like they're not going to vote for more painful, odious debt-based lashings.
	And Barroso had this message.
	In a democracy new elections are the natural consequence of the impossibility to form a government out of the existing elections.
	It will now be for the Greek people to take a fully informed decision on the alternatives.
	Having in mind the alternatives, which will be complete annihilation by Death Ray.
	You know, the thing that I'm noticing, because I have one clip about some of the action going on there, but the thing I'm noticing is more, I mean, we've talked about this on the show, but it's starting to crop up in the conversation more and more, which is that the problem with all this, you know, this Greek and they want to drop the EU, the problem with the monetary union is that you need, to make it work, you need a political union.
	Yeah.
	And that's the meme.
	And that's, of course, obviously Germany taking over the place without having to shoot people.
	Correct.
	Let's listen to Barroso kind of say that.
	...be indeed a historic election.
	We will, of course, respect the democratic decision of the Greek people.
	At the same time, the Greek citizens should be aware that there are other 16 democracies in the euro area and that democratic decisions taken by the euro area must also be taken into account.
	Here he's setting them up, saying if you screw the pooch...
	On us, then you were not being...
	You did not have solidarity.
	You did not take everyone else into account.
	And therefore, if we see a Greek person, we're going to kick your ass.
	Greece is part of our family.
	Family.
	Greece is a very important member state in the European Union.
	Since when are they an important member state?
	We want Greece to remain a part of our family, of the European Union, and of the Euro.
	The European Commission has been working tirelessly to fuck you to that end, and we'll continue to do so.
	What?
	We will continue to do so.
	Except...
	He sounded like he's...
	Okay, never mind.
	What did he say?
	Go ahead.
	It sounded like he said, fuck you, and we'll continue to do so.
	I think that's what he said, actually.
	Let's listen again.
	And we'll continue to do so.
	No, back.
	I didn't really say that.
	That'd be funny.
	Greece is a very important member state in the European Union.
	We want Greece to remain a part of our family, of the European Union and of the Euro.
	The European Commission has been working tirelessly to that end and will continue to do so.
	This being said, the ultimate resolve to stay in the Euro area must come from Greece itself.
	No, he didn't say.
	But I think that was the underlying idea.
	Well, maybe it was the Skype connection.
	Might have been.
	So, Merkel was a little bit more clear.
	She says, you know, put up, shut up, or get out.
	Yeah.
	Of course, we've had over a billion euros withdrawn in one day from the Greek banks.
	And this is just off the press.
	In Bankia, Bankia in Spain, which is a big Spanish bank, at this moment there's a run on the bank, according to Mr.
	Oil.
	1.3 billion has been taken out, dollars that is, so about a billion euros, and they've been forced to report this, so there's a run on the bank in Spain.
	So we're looking at, obviously, civil unrest and all kinds of bad things happening.
	And here's an example.
	And this is from something Baron Stafen Pelsmacher sent me.
	There was a 78-year-old Dutch guy living in Greece.
	He'd been living there for 10 years.
	And a couple of Greeks...
	We're drunk.
	That's about the only thing left to do in Greece.
	I said, hey, you're Dutch?
	You're one of those guys who are forcing us to pay up.
	And they beat him up.
	Oh, God.
	Yeah.
	Oh, this is just the beginning.
	Because this is what Barroso is doing.
	World War III we're looking at here.
	Oh, yeah.
	And this is not just a financial Armageddon.
	This is an actual huge...
	I mean, we need a no-fly zone over Europe, as far as I'm concerned.
	We're going to need one.
	In Italy...
	The Italian tax offices now have armed soldiers because, of course, people are going to start attacking the tax offices.
	In Gitmo Nation lowlands, interesting things happening there.
	They've done a deal.
	Now, you remember the cabinet fell and the remaining five coalition parties, they put together the Dutch austerity package.
	Hey, Dutchies, bend over.
	Here it comes.
	You ready?
	We've done it, said Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager, who, I will repeat, is a total moronic a-hole.
	He used to be a Microsoft IT integration guy, and all of a sudden he winds up being the Minister of Finance.
	The deal includes 12 billion euros worth of cuts and tax increases.
	Hey now!
	Details have not been made public, but value-added tax rising to 21%.
	Limits on mortgage tax relief.
	Cuts in health service spending.
	And a new state pension age of 66.
	There you go.
	You're screwed!
	So, I thought it was amusing.
	I have this clip where the British who are...
	Half the British are kind of on to this and they kind of like to chide everyone.
	I thought this was kind of funny.
	It was a BBC reporter describing some of the problems in the EU and then sticking it to Germany by saying, you know, if these cheap bastards would just cough up some more money, it might improve them.
	There are escalating fears that Greece will leave the euro and that the ensuing turmoil will force a more serious fracture of the currency union.
	The big indebted economies Spain and Italy look considerably weaker, the borrowing costs for their government soaring again.
	These crises have been met with firefighting, which for a period have put out the flames.
	The big question now is whether the currency union is up for the kind of fundamental reform that's necessary to ensure its long-term survival.
	What may be needed is a greater willingness by Germany to deploy more of its fearsome financial resources to help the weaker economies such as Spain and Italy in their period of painful transition.
	Yeah, good luck with that.
	Yeah, right.
	It's almost like chiding them.
	And I love this EU observer.
	The finance ministers are about to endorse a report, which is not out yet, but it's 470 pages.
	I can't wait to read it.
	You know I get off on this stuff.
	It's the 2012 Aging Report, drafted by the EU Commission, and the headline here on the conclusion of the report is, Aging Europeans need to work longer and expect less.
	And shut up!
	Shut up, slave!
	Get back to work!
	Shut up!
	Work longer, expect less!
	It's the European way!
	Oh, I love it.
	I have to give props to Geert Wilders, though.
	He is suing the Dutch state for ratifying the European stability mechanism, and I warned everyone about this.
	It wasn't supposed to happen until 2013.
	This is the agreement that the finance ministers ratified in July of 2011.
	That basically says, okay, whenever there's a cash call, everyone has to pony up.
	And Wilders is now taking the state to court over it, which is very weird because he's in the government.
	But he's saying, you know, this never should have happened.
	And it was Case Young, Young Case the Yacht.
	It was that same finance minister who signed off on it because Brussels now has 100% autonomy to just say, hey, we need some more money.
	Pay up, slaves.
	And it's going to come from people like the Dutch.
	What do you give it, John?
	First it was the bicycles, now it's their money.
	What do you give it?
	How much longer before this is just done?
	I think it will probably be either at the very end of this year or first quarter of 2013.
	And then what do you expect it to actually be?
	Oh, just an unbelievable depression.
	In Europe, there's going to be riots in the street.
	Anti-German sentiment will be cropping up.
	All hell's going to break loose.
	I mean, we won't even know how bad it's going to get.
	It's already breaking loose in small ways, but it's not reported here.
	Only these countries that are out of it.
	Switzerland, Norway, those guys will come out smelling like a rose.
	Yeah, and is there anything we can advise to our...
	Farmland.
	Farmland.
	Can I say?
	No, I don't know what to do.
	I mean, this is horrible.
	I can do advise one thing.
	They need to get as much information and perspective as possible, and they need to donate to the No Agenda show.
	That would be the way to go.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. That's my advice.
	And I might want to point out that we have our own issues.
	The state of California, where you live, John, did you see the most recent little announcement by your governor, your Merkel there, Jerry Brown?
	Yeah, we're a bit in the hole.
	Tax is going up to 13.3%.
	Yeah, I gotta get out of here.
	Ha!
	It was 10% and now it's 13.3%.
	That's state income tax above your federal income tax.
	It hasn't been passed.
	It hasn't been approved.
	And then sales tax going up.
	Yeah, no, it's a complete scam.
	It's a rip-off.
	Are you going to get out?
	It's all to pay the salaries of a bunch of middle administrators that don't do anything.
	What's going to happen to California?
	Well, I think anyone in their right mind will get out of here if you're going to pay that kind of money.
	Stay away from Texas.
	There's no good here.
	Go away.
	It's totally crap.
	It's too hot.
	You know, in Washington State, there's no personal income tax, so I can just scarf my subway and get up there.
	Yeah, you sell that place and get out.
	Get out, John, I tell you.
	Get out while you still can.
	All right.
	I have an end of show clip, but I see you have one as well.
	Do you want to...
	Well, what is yours?
	I have Chris Matthews on Jeopardy.
	Why aren't you going and watching C-SPAN and this kind of crap?
	Does he make some kind of a funny blunder?
	He gets nothing right.
	Oh no!
	It's like two minutes of him being a total idiot on Jeopardy!
	And he was up against Robert Gibbs.
	So he actually beeps the thing and gets it wrong?
	He gets everything wrong.
	Alright, play your clip.
	Mine can go next on Sunday.
	This, by the way, is the man who said...
	Let me see.
	I have his quote here somewhere.
	Here he is.
	About Sarah Palin.
	Is this about her brain power?
	Do you think cute will beat brains?
	Do you think she'd do better on the questions on Jeopardy or the interview they do during a halftime?
	My suspicion is that she has the same lack of intellectual curiosity that the President of the United States has right now, and that's scary.
	And that was about George Bush, obviously.
	Yeah.
	So he actually said Sarah Payland would suck on Jeopardy.
	Yeah.
	You have to be careful what you say.
	So that'll be your end of show clip.
	And we will continue to enforce our tedious burden of watching C-SPAN, reading government legislation, and pulling apart all kinds of bull crap so you don't have to.
	And I do that here from the Camp Mofos in the capital of the Drone Star State, Austin, Texas.
	In the morning, everybody, my name is Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where the garbage trucks are going by, the wind is blowing, the sun is trying to get out, and it's not the best day I've seen.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Support what we do at Dvorak.org slash NA. We'll talk to you Sunday right here on No Agenda.
	Let's go back to, what is crossword clues E? I mean, I'm sorry.
	Let's go $200 for the category, crossword closing.
	All right.
	Pay attention now.
	At blank, soldier.
	Four letters.
	Chris.
	At ease, soldier.
	What is at ease, soldier?
	All right.
	What is ease, soldier?
	What is ease, soldier?
	Ease, yes.
	All right.
	Less than a minute to go now.
	Select.
	Finish it out for $2,000.
	Full name of the U-2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960.
	Chris.
	Who is Gary Powers?
	We need the full name.
	Who is Gary Powers?
	No.
	Lizzie?
	Who is Francis Gary Powers?
	That's it.
	Yes.
	Full name.
	Lizzie benefits.
	She selects.
	Law and order for 800?
	A USDC is one of these, charged with the jurisdiction of a specific region.
	Chris?
	What is a US attorney?
	No.
	Lizzie.
	What is a district court?
	That's it.
	Well, let's do it again.
	Law and order for 2000.
	In 1986, the Supreme Court ruled that the hostile environment type of this can be sex discrimination.
	Lizzie.
	What is a work environment?
	No.
	Chris.
	What is a hostile workplace?
	No.
	A hostile environment type of sexual harassment.
	Let's do it again.
	Six letter words for capitals for 800.
	St.
	Basil's Cathedral is there.
	Chris?
	What is Istanbul?
	No.
	Lizzie or Robert?
	Six letter capital?
	Moscow?
	And Robert Gibbs, congratulations.
	The Pine Hills Liberty Project will be $50,000.
	I love the show as well as you do.
	I stayed up with you night after night helping you with it.

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