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Charges against former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens have been dropped.
Prosecutorial misconduct.
Sorry about that, Ted.
Your seat's gone, though, Ted.
We're really sorry about that.
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Have you seen the protests over the G20 today?
I mean, these are whacked out people, and they are seriously angry.
And I, folks, I have to be honest here with you, as I always am.
I'm shocked.
I'm stunned.
I mean, most of these people are anti-capitalists.
Don't they realize that they have one of the premier anti-capitalists leading the G20?
And that would be our president, Barack Obama.
These people are shouting some of the craziest things like ban money.
They're throwing rocks and bottles at buildings.
They're gaining entrance to these buildings to trash the inside.
It's sort of just interesting to watch this because I've been under the impression that the United States is now thought of differently around the world, that the people of the world love the United States.
We got rid of George W. Bush, and we don't even have an American president, according to them.
We now have a European president.
And yet these people are still fit to be tied, and they're angry as they can be.
And it just, it's perplexing to me.
Now, the Obama administration, what is President Obama at the G20 to do?
I want you to keep this in mind as we go through the audio soundbites they have coming up here in mere moments.
He is there, is he not, to advance U.S. interests?
That's traditionally why leaders of these things go to these meetings to advance the interests of their own countries.
As you will hear, however, from the audio soundbites, and exactly as I predicted to you yesterday, President Obama is doing the exact opposite.
He is once again criticizing the United States.
He's accepting the blame and apologizing for the financial distress that the world has faced.
And he has promised the meeting that the United States will no longer be the voracious consumer that it has been, meaning the United States will no longer usurp and steal and take its unfair share of all the world's resources.
Those days are over.
While this is happening, he's being lectured on spending by the CHICOMs, by the French, by many in the European Union.
They're pointing fingers at us, and they're saying, you guys started this.
You created the world problem.
And Obama's sort of winking at them and saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, you may have a point there.
It'll be interesting to see as this thing goes on just how extensively President Obama does indeed project U.S. interests or advance them.
Now, before getting to the audio soundbites that back up all this, I want to share with you here, ladies and gentlemen, just some news stories off the top of the stack that we're going to get into in greater detail as the program unfolds.
I have two headlines here.
I want to read both headlines to you, and I want to ask you if these two headlines go together.
First is Reuters.
Clinton offers olive branch to Taliban.
Oh, somebody else, it might be Hillary in one of the soundbites complaining Taliban's higher paid than the Afghanistan military is or some such.
We'll get to that too.
But here, the headline, Clinton offers olive branch to Taliban.
And then, in a CBSAP story, Taliban leader vows to attack D.C. soon.
Do these headlines go together?
I ask you, ladies and gentlemen.
Clinton offers olive branch to Taliban.
Taliban leader vows to attack D.C. soon.
We were talking, and we have spoken frequently on this program.
And for those of you new to the program who are Tune-In Factors Large, the way to understand things before you've listened enough to be able to place this program in context, the way to understand the real focal point and the foundation or the content here under the umbrella,
you have to understand that every item that I choose and every news story I talk about is concerned with the loss of freedom and individual liberty in the United States and how it is slowly creeping upon us, in some ways very rapidly.
San Francisco, a Northern California woman, has been indicted on federal charges accusing her of illegally importing guitar picks made from endangered turtle shells.
An indictment unsealed Friday says that 54-year-old King Song of Santa Rosa imported picks or raw shells of the Hawksbill sea turtle from China, sold them in California.
It's illegal to trade endangered wildlife without a permit for scientific research or other approved non-commercial use.
She's been charged with two misdemeanors, a felony count of trading in endangered species.
She's accused of selling 74 picks and possessing another 899.
Now, musicians prefer shell picks over plastic because they believe the shells produce a superior tone and they last a little bit longer.
But nevertheless, she's been invited.
Have you heard about what's going on?
Oh, the coolest story, coolest story, Fox had it today.
Some sea turtle got sick out there somewhere.
Do you see this?
And the sea turtle swam to the only turtle hospital in the world or in the country.
The sea turtle knew, Rachel.
The sea turtle knew out there when it got sick, and then it knew where the only sea turtle hospital was and it swam there.
And how do they know this?
The sea turtle told them.
How can they possibly know this?
Sea turtle comes up on the beach, happens to coincide that there's a hospital for turtles thereby.
Therefore, we assume the sea turtle knew it.
But can we ascertain this with ontological certitude?
How the hell does a sea turtle know where a sea turtle hospital is?
Other sea turtles told it.
Fine.
Well, then the other sea turtles must have been there.
I mean, some sea turtle had to have been there to tell this sea turtle where it was.
Or this sea turtle just has awesome powers swimming out there in all of the gallons and gallons of ocean water, just happens to know, uh-oh, I'm sick, and uh-oh, I know where the sea turtle hospital is.
And then somehow, this sea turtle has to be able to convince the liberals at the sea turtle hospital that it knew where the hospital was so that it can be reported on Fox News.
I mean, it's amazing what's happening in our planet.
If you only open your mind and have the willingness to believe, have you heard what's going on in Spokane, Washington, or the whole state of Washington?
The environmentalist wackos there banned the sale of dishwashing detergent with phosphates.
And as they come up with substitutes, replacement products, seventh generation dishwashing detergent, e-cover dishwasher detergent, Trader Joe's dishwasher detergent, there's only one problem.
It doesn't work.
None of the new dishwashing detergents work.
Eager citizens, eager to help the planet, eager to save the planet, went right along with another restriction on their freedom.
They accepted the ban on phosphates.
And then they used these new miraculous eco-dishwasher detergents.
And they found out at the end of the washing cycle that the grease and the crud and the crumbs was still there in such a substantive amount that they had to do the dishes by hand.
As a result, in the state of Washington, there are now phosphate smugglers.
The quest for squeaky clean dishes has turned some law-abiding people in Spokane into dishwasher detergent smugglers.
They are bringing Cascade or Electrosol in from out of state because the eco-friendly varieties required under Washington state law don't work.
Spokane County became the launchpad last July for the nation's strictest ban on dishwasher detergent made with phosphates.
Now, the ban on phosphates is aimed at reducing water pollution.
The ban will be expanded statewide in July 2010, the same time similar laws take effect in several other states.
But it's not easy to get sparkling dishes when you go green.
They claim here the culprit is hard water, which is mineral-rich and resistant to soap.
That's not, well, and the phosphates can reduce the hardness of the, that's not, the culprit is the environmental movement.
This is a microcosm of what your life would be like if they got their way on toilet paper, if they got their way on food.
None of it would work.
The compact fluorescent light bulb scam already now surfacing as a scam.
They don't work.
They don't last very long.
All kinds of disposal problems.
If one of them breaks, you got a hazmat problem.
And people are recognizing this.
As a result here, there's been a quiet rush.
You noticed you, Rachel is here acting as our transcriber today.
Rachel, have you noticed you can't read a news story today without my name in it?
I mean, everywhere, including in this one.
As a result, there's been a quiet rush of Spokane area shoppers heading east on I-90 into Idaho in search of Cascade or electrosol.
Now, the ban applies to the sale of phosphate detergent, not its use or possession.
Can you believe this?
Possession of phosphates could cause the state to come out because the state, as usual, unintended consequences.
They ban the sale, but they don't ban the use.
So the smuggling is, quote-unquote, legal.
Now, the state legislature is going to figure out we need to do an addendum to this legislation placing use of phosphates, dishwashing.
They're going to ban Cascade.
Before this is all over, they're going to ban Cascade, and they're going to turn people into Buy Cascade into smugglers.
Now, my question, at what point, certainly there has to be one.
At what point are people, either in Spokane, the state of Washington, or anywhere in this country, going to finally stand up and say to these people in these legislative bodies, enough.
Stop.
This is ridiculous.
And look at all the water that's wasted now in these dishwashers that don't work anymore.
Look at all of the water that it's like we've thrown $20, $25 billion down the drain at General Motors because now we're going to go bankruptcy anyway, right?
The new CEO said it yesterday.
The Obama administration is eager to go, let's go soft bankrupt.
$20 billion, $25, whatever the total bailout at General Motors now thrown down the drain.
We should have done this at the get-go.
That's exactly what I said.
I'm serious, folks.
This is hilariously funny, this story, Cascade.
And people in the state, we're talking phosphates, we're talking dishwasher detergent.
We're not talking drugs here.
We're not talking contraband.
We're talking dishwasher detergent.
The citizens of Spokane, how much gasoline are they wasting to drive all the way to Idaho and back just to get dishwasher detergent?
And why?
Because a bunch of idiot state legislators have banned the sale of phosphate, not its use or possession.
And while this is going on in California and elsewhere, there's a big push to legalize marijuana.
For medical purposes, of course.
Legalize marijuana and criminalize phosphates.
Criminalize Cascade.
And to see if these two headlines go together.
And I've told you every day, every day, the drive-by media or some special interest group is going to treat us to an apocalyptic news story designed to create chaos, fear, and depression, confusion too, in the minds of as many people as possible so that people will be conditioned to turn to government for the solution, for the answer, for comfort.
A Reuters story by Maggie Fox, the Reuters Health and Science Editor.
People who eat the most red meat and the most processed meat have the highest overall risk of death from all causes, including heart disease and cancer.
This from the National Cancer Institute.
And the study is one of the largest to look at the highly controversial and emotive issue of whether eating meat is indeed bad for health.
Who made it controversial?
The environmentalist wackos and the militant vegetarians.
And believe me, there are militant vegetarians behind this.
Meat?
Who made it controversial?
Who made the SUV controversial?
A bunch of special interest libs who are not satisfied to eat their bean sprouts and watercress.
They want you to eat it too.
They don't want you enjoying life.
They don't want you eating what they don't approve of.
A bunch of control freaks who use panic, fear, and crisis.
The headline of this story, red meat raises risk of all kinds of death.
All kinds of death?
You eat red meat, are you more prone to auto accidents?
If you eat red meat, are you more prone to prostate cancer?
If you eat red meat, are you more prone to restless leg syndrome?
Why does life expectancy keep going up in this country if everything out there is going to kill you?
Here's the next headline.
This from Sky News in the UK.
Piping hot tea can give you cancer.
Study.
Now, see, Snerdly, Snerdley, who is a vegan, rejects this one, but he's out there, he's applauding the meat story.
Everything, I mean everything in the world is going to give you cancer.
Can we just stipulate that and forget it and move on?
Scientists have urged tea-loving Brits not to give up their favorite beverage because of a health scare.
Researchers found drinking tea with a temperature above 70 degrees centigrade increased the risk of cancer of the esophagus eightfold.
But if you let your cup cool for five minutes, it should be safe.
Now, folks, this is just patently stupid.
It is ridiculous.
And it's all happening and being reported under the rubric of controlling you via fear and panic, confusion, and chaos, and ultimately forcing you to turn to government for protection and solution.
And by the way, how long is it going to be before somebody goes into some highbrow tea shop, you know, wherever they sell tea, wherever liberals go in to buy tea, somebody's going to go in there with a thermometer, going to put it in there, and they're going to sue whoever made it and sold it to them because it could have killed them, could have caused cancer of the esophagus.
Quick timeout here.
We'll be back with audio soundbites from the drive-by media describing the protests at the G20 after this.
Here's the headline from Fox News and the Sea Turtle.
It's even better than I thought.
Sick Sea Turtle checks herself into animal hospital.
She was, I don't know that she has insurance.
I don't think that was asked.
When you show up to the emergency room by federal law, you get covered.
So I don't think that matters.
Now, the Sea Turtle Hospital is down in the Keys.
It's only 90 miles away from us here at the EIB Southern Command.
A sick loggerhead swam to the dock of the only licensed veterinary facility in the world that just treats sea turtles.
Whoa!
Now, the truth of this is it is sea turtle season, and we're getting to that time of the year where the sea turtles arrive on South Florida beaches to lay eggs, and then the hatchlings, you know, surface after a couple of months under the sand, and then they head on out.
A sick sea turtle checks herself into animal hospital.
Get this.
The 73.
Now, look, it's April 1st, and there's a story out there that Obama has banned General Motors and Chrysler from NASCAR, which is not true.
There's a story that Obama said that he wasn't going to have any more bailouts at the G20, and that's an April Fool's joke.
And the way this thing is written, the only question I have is, why didn't the sea turtle hit to Cuba?
Better health care there, right?
So I got a quick question, folks.
What would the penalty be for smuggling in boxes of Cascade dishwasher detergent to clean your illegal turtle shell guitar pick?
This story on the sea turtle checking herself into animal hospital, I don't believe it's an April Fool's joke because Fox did a video story of this with an interview of the veterinarian.
And here are the details.
The 73-pound turtle arrived at the Florida Keys-based Turtle Hospital Sunday.
Was not immediately treated, just like you.
You go to the emergency room and you sit there for four hours.
So the turtle shows up, was not immediately treated because the staff at the Sea Turtle Hospital thought it was just lost.
The turtle stuck around for several hours, just like you do in the ER, and finally, the staff eventually treated the turtle for a bacterial infection.
This from NBCMiami.com.
And guess who's back?
I got to grab a phone call here first.
But No Cirque is back.
I first informed you of No Cirque, the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers.
They're a San Francisco group.
I first informed you of, well, I first learned of them in 1985.
I first informed you of them in 1988, and they're back.
And they've got a spokesman.
Get this now.
No CERC National Organization, Circumcision, Information Resource Centers, and a spokesman is Dr. Wang.
But first, he did.
The guy just hung up.
He wanted to know.
We had a caller who wanted to know what happened up in New York 20, and we don't know yet because the election is not over.
It's too close to call.
There are some thousand, 6,000 absentee ballots.
Yeah, no, it's actually, it's either 59 or 65.
I'm not sure which it is, but it's the Democrats had 59 to 65 votes.
Now, who was it that put all their resources into this race?
It was the Democrats.
This Democrat candidate, Scott Murphy, ran flyers.
He emailed flyers that had pictures of me, pictures of Sarah Palin, pictures of George W. Bush.
The Democrat candidate in this race ran against me.
He did not spend time telling the people of the New York 20th District anything about him and what he was going to do.
They even had an endorsement from President Obama in the form of an email.
Obama didn't go in there because he didn't trust the guy's chances.
You know, you're president.
You can't go in there and endorse somebody that's going to lose.
To me, this is a slam dunk loss for the Democrats in Obama.
But however, the official recount starts April 13th, a little less than two weeks from now.
And that gives Acorn and the Democrat lawyers a chance to gin up and try to disqualify a whole bunch of absentees.
Yet to me, you've got the president of the United States.
And look, folks, I mean this in the bottom of my heart.
They thought it was a slam dunk putting me in all the campaign literature.
They believed that putting me out there would rally the Democrat base because there's such hatred of me and the Democrat base would be so eager to show up and vote that they would need to be restrained.
It turns out that the turnout in this race was average, if not a little bit below.
And the Democrats ahead by 59 votes.
They should have won this in a slam dunk, and they did not, and they may very well lose it.
Now, here is the Politico.com story.
There's no winner yet in the upstate New York special election.
It might be mid-April before the race is settled, but a few things are clearer.
None of it welcomed news to the Republican Party.
The first election to take place during the Obama administration was a push with neither side winning big or losing big, but that in itself ranks as a defeat of sorts for the GOP, which invested heavily in the race.
So did the Democrats.
How in the world, you people at Politico ran all of the stories on how I was the great Satan.
I was the magic elixir for the Democrats.
Put my name out there, put it on a billboard, put it in emails, and you're going to win in a landslide because I am so hated because I am the leader of the Republican Party.
You people at Politico are dishonest, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
This should have been a slant with the president of the United States.
I didn't even go up there and campaign.
I didn't mention this race Friday or Monday.
I purposely stayed out of it.
I didn't mention it Tuesday.
I could have hyped it.
I could have swallowed the bait.
I could have tried to make this about me, but that's not my ego.
Jim Tedisco is going to win or lose this on his own.
Scott Murphy is going to win or lose this, not on his own.
Scott Murphy is going to lose this or win this on the basis of me, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama.
Had I wanted to, folks, I could have gone up there.
Had I wanted to, I could have spent a lot of time Friday, Monday, and Tuesday urging a get-out-the-vote effort.
But I don't think everything is about me.
The Democrats try to make everything about me, but I don't.
So this, to me, I mean, this is a huge defeat.
I'll tell you what's really sad to me about this.
Todisco may not be the best candidate in the world.
And by the way, his assembly district, the people that vote for him for the New York Assembly, are not, a lot of them couldn't vote in this race because the districts are not quite the same.
But this outcome shows me Tadisco could have won this big time.
He did have a double-digit lead.
And what pared down the double-digit lead was all the Democrats' spending.
They say Republicans were heavily invested in this.
But that's the spin.
The drive-bys are going to spin for the Democrats.
Here is, here, one more paragraph from Politico.com.
In the end, the Democrats' strategy worked because even if Tadisco is ultimately declared the winner when all the votes are counted, the delayed result will have diminished any momentum that a clear-cut election night victory would have provided.
So even if the template is that even if the Republican wins this, it doesn't count.
It doesn't matter because nobody will remember it because there's no momentum.
And this is the way the left and the drive-bys and their willing allies do the scorecard on all of this.
Now, No Cirque.
Now remember, we still have the audio soundbites of the drive-by media analyzing the G20 and the protests, and they are raucous.
They are riotous.
You don't want to miss these.
Now, No Cirque, let me explain what they are.
They have an organization that seeks to stamp out, well, that may be a bad word.
They want to eliminate circumcision.
National Organization, Circumcision Information Resource Centers.
And they have videos.
They have DVDs that they will send you, and they have pamphlets.
And they have a guy that runs the organization.
And I'll just repeat, when I first heard of No Cirque, San Francisco group, and I forget the guy's name that was the leader at the time.
I kept thinking, what did this guy tell his parents when he was a teenager when they asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up?
Hey, little Johnny, what do you be?
What do you want to be?
And you want to be a fireman?
You want to be a lawyer, doctor?
What do you want to be?
No, dad, no, dad.
I want to stamp out circumcision.
How does somebody end up as the grand poobah, the head honcho, the hatchet man, if you will, of a circumcision, an anti-circumcision organization?
Here are the details of the story.
This is from Men's Health.
Now, again, you have to read all these stories within the framework that it's April 1st today.
And we still have a lot of childish, immature, practical jokers.
If you're going to do a practical joke, don't do it on April 1st.
Every professional practical joker, such as myself, know that if you really want to pull something off, don't do it on a day where people are going to immediately doubt it.
Like, it's absolutely silly.
Carin Driver has a phony page on the website saying Obama has banned Ford Chevy and a bunch of others from NASCAR.
Well, now, who's going to believe this?
Well, that's not the quite proper way to, because all good comedy requires an element of truth in it.
And obviously, there are people that believe this could come down the pike, but it hasn't yet.
Run this story tomorrow if you want to play a practical joke on people.
At any rate, this is from Men's Health.
It's by Charles Hirschberg.
Should all males be circumcised?
Some U.S. doctors are reconsidering their position.
The day your wife gives birth to a baby boy, the kind, bespectable, bespectacled face of Marvin Wang, MD, is one that you want to see coming through the recovery room door.
Co-director of newborn nurseries at Mass General in Boston, Dr. Marvin L. Wang, M.D., has a perky, conversational bedside manner, puts everybody at ease.
I have to hustle the keep up with him as he strides energetically between hospital rooms.
Right now, he's congratulating a pair of new parents.
Dr. Wang jokes with the new parents a bit, then says, I understand you may want to have a circumcision on your baby.
Parents don't answer immediately.
And one of the parents eventually says to the father, well, we don't know.
Dr. Wang smiles.
He's familiar with the befuddled expression on Larry's face.
Let me read to you a paragraph from the story.
Pain, of course, is the first question that comes to mind whenever the words cut and penis are used in the same sentence.
Ask Marilyn Fay Milos about pain, or better yet, don't, the founder of No Circ.
Oh, they got a woman now.
Oh, that's even better.
When I first heard of No Circ had a guy running the show, now they have a woman running the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers.
Marilyn Fay Milos first witnessed the procedure in 1979 while training for her nurse's degree.
The unlucky baby, she later wrote, was strapped spread eagle to a plastic board, struggling against his restraints, tugging, whimpering, and then crying helplessly while awaiting the knife.
I'm sure the baby remembers every minute of it and was able to call No Cirque later and describe the horrible circumstance, just like the turtle showing up at the Turtle Hospital in the Keys had got tired of waiting in the emergency room at the Turtle Hospital, continued to hang around, and finally the dumb staff down there figured out Turtle was sick and fixed it.
I'm sure that this little baby has recounted the gory details to No Cirque so that they can write this story.
The unlucky baby was tugging, whimpering, and crying helplessly while awaiting the knife.
And then as the doctor, using no anesthesia, began the procedure, the baby began to gasp and choke, breathless from his shrill, continuous screams.
And so there you have it, No Cirque.
And Dr. Marvin Wang, if you're parents of a newborn baby, boy, you haven't made a decision yet.
Suggest you get in touch with Marvin Wang on this at Mass General back.
I just heard, I haven't been able to confirm because there wasn't enough time when I heard in the beginning of this segment of award-winning content on the EIB network, but I am told that among the 500-plus staff members Obama took to the G20 are 12 teleprompters.
12.
They must need a lot of decoys.
Either that or some teleprompters are protesting what they're being forced to have the president say.
I don't know.
We're going to try to confirm this.
By the way, we have a third headline to add to the Hillary Clinton Taliban series.
Here moments ago, I shared with you two headlines.
I asked you if these two go together.
Clinton offers olive branch to Taliban.
The next headline is, Taliban leader vows to attack D.C. soon.
The third headline now, Taliban call reconciliation offer lunatic.
This is a headline in reaction to Hillary Clinton offering an olive branch.
This happened at the UN over at The Hague, a conference on Afghanistan.
She said yesterday that Taliban members in Afghanistan who abandoned extremism must be granted an honorable form of reconciliation, a little olive branch.
They call this reconciliation offer lunatic.
You know, if I'm Hillary Clinton and I make this big-hearted, compassionate offer and the objects of my affection call me a lunatic, I might have to start reconsidering them and myself in this whole thing.
What?
Well, now, Snerdly, let's not go that far.
You know, this is why people say, how come you don't let Snerdley speak when he's talking to you?
Folks, trust me, our radio station licenses are very valuable to us.
And just like Snerdley just say, she's used to this kind of abuse.
And so it probably, if that's true, then she's, she's, something's got to offend her.
If this doesn't offend him, she offers an olive branch to the Taliban and the Taliban calls her a lunatic.
Now, this has got to have some impact.
By the way, Ant Zatoudi, Ant Zatoudi has been granted a year's reprieve from deportation.
This is Obama's aunt from Kenya.
She can remain in the U.S. until an immigration hearing in February when a judge will consider her latest argument against deportation back to Kenya.
She used a cane and she wore a curly red wig and only said, praise God, after she stepped out of a closed hearing before the same immigration judge who twice has ordered her deported back to Kenya, which, by the way, is where Obama's half-brother lives in the hut.
Still there.
George Onyongo Obongo Obama living in a hut.
No signs been sent yet.
No hut, sweet, hut sign.
And the other half-brother over there with, what is it, cholera, we reported the other day.
And Austin, the Austin American statesman newspaper, is reporting in the past six years, eight people from Austin and one from Luling, Texas racked up 2,678 emergency room visits in central Texas.
This cost hospitals, taxpayers, and others $3 million, according to a report from a nonprofit made up of hospitals and other providers that care for the uninsured and low-income Central Texans.
One emergency room, one emergency room in six years had 2,600 visits from nine people.
That's just one emergency.
If you want to know why health care costs are so, because those costs have to be covered by federal law, you show up in the emergency room and you have to be treated.
That's just astounding.
And that's just one emergency room.
2,678 visits from nine people over six years.
Okay, a brief timeout.
We're going to get to your phone call soon in the next hour, but I promise you, because I intended to do it this hour, but this show, very little of what happened in the final half hour of this hour was part of show prep.
Things are happening and breaking that fast.
And it's a rare host, me, who could keep up and incorporate fast-breaking instantaneous news items with a program that's been in the process of being prepped for hours prior.
From thepolitico.com, union urges Obama to oust bank CEO.
Service Employees International Union urging Obama to oust the Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis.
How about firing Ron Gettelfinger of the UAW for hurting big auto then?