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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	No, no, no.
	It's all posing.
	They're not getting anything done here.
	They're just hopscotching from event to event to event saying, look what we're saying about it.
	Oh, good, because we're going to go to New Orleans 12 days after the spill happened.
	Oh, yeah.
	And we care.
	We really care.
	Meanwhile, Robert Gibbs is out there saying about British petroleum.
	We're going to keep the boot on their throat.
	So BP is an adversary.
	No crisis is too good to waste.
	A crisis is the playground of a tyrant.
	Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
	It seems like only yesterday was Friday.
	Rush Limbaugh here behind the golden EIB microphone at the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	Somebody says, folks, this oil spill out there, they're now saying this could go on for 90 days with 15,000 gallons a day.
	And some people are saying, don't panic here.
	The sea will take care of it.
	It'll break it up on its own and so forth.
	Then somebody says, what happens if this stuff is still in 90 days?
	That takes us well into hurricane season.
	What happens if a hurricane comes along in 30 to 60 days?
	You get the surface, you got oil on the surface and water and wind and blow.
	It could be an absolute disaster.
	And meanwhile, British Petroleum, the tyrant loves the crisis.
	And here's an enemy, British Petroleum, made to order big oil.
	Rather than work with British Petroleum to try to solve this and fix it, they are the enemy.
	Audio soundbite time.
	Maybe if you find this thing, let's see.
	Well, I've got a sound.
	I can't find it.
	You've got a soundbite here where it actually blays.
	Here it is.
	Number eight.
	This is Obama yesterday afternoon, Venice, Louisiana.
	Let me be clear.
	BP is responsible for this leak.
	BP will be paying the bill.
	But as President of the United States, I'm going to spare no effort to respond to this crisis for as long as it continues.
	And we will spare no resource to clean up whatever damage is caused.
	They're not getting anything done.
	Folks are just saying things like this.
	It's all posing.
	Obama racing around doing what he thinks people want to see.
	Not actually accomplishing anything from topic to topic, jumping all over the place.
	And it's almost beginning now to look like slapstick as if saying something means anything.
	And of course, it did.
	Saying something is how he got elected.
	But it's all brainwashing.
	It's all storyline.
	Working day and night on the problem.
	Will not rest.
	Justice will be done.
	Meanwhile, nothing is being done about this.
	You just go from one bogeyman to the next.
	The banks, Wall Street, the insurance companies, now the oil companies.
	And then doctors, repeat.
	The banks, insurance companies, Wall Street, the oil companies.
	Doctors, repeat.
	The banks, insurance companies, the oil companies.
	Don't do anything.
	Don't solve anything.
	Say you're going to.
	Blame everybody else for the problems going on.
	And then try to get credit here for caring so greatly and so deeply about all of this.
	I went back.
	I wanted to find something because I remembered a debate that Obama had had during a campaign.
	It was with Tim Russert.
	It was Rodham Clinton, John Edwards, Barack Obama.
	It was in Las Vegas.
	And very revealing answers that Obama gave here.
	Question.
	Senator Obama, you gave an interview to the Reno Gazette Journal, and you said that we all have strengths and weaknesses.
	You said one of your weaknesses is, quote, I'm not an operating officer, unquote.
	Do the American people want someone in the Oval Office who is an operating officer?
	Now, I made this point where I remembered this, and I went back and looked at this because I remember him saying he's not a chief executive, and he doesn't want to be.
	While all this is going on, he is still implementing his transformational agenda of redistribution, destruction of the private sector, and every crisis that pops up is an opportunity.
	I think it was James Madison who said it, and the quote is paraphrased the quote, but a crisis is the playground of the tyrant.
	And we're seeing it here.
	So here's Obama's answer to Tim Russert.
	Well, I think what I was describing, Tim, was how I view the presidency.
	Now, being president is not making sure that schedules are being run properly or the paperwork is being shuffled effectively.
	It involves having a vision for where the country needs to go.
	It involves having the capacity to bring together the best people, being able to spark the kind of debate about how we're going to solve health care, how we're going to solve energy, how we're going to deliver goods with good wages, good jobs, good wages, how we're going to keep people in their homes here in Nevada, and then being able to mobilize and inspire the American people to get behind that agenda for change.
	That's the kind of leadership that I've shown in the past.
	That's the kind of leadership that I intend to show as president.
	He wants to spark debate.
	He doesn't know how to do anything.
	He admits here he's not a chief executive.
	So something like the oil spill comes up or this bomb scare at Times Square and Pittsburgh.
	Notice how the regime and its media are just excited as they can be that somebody in a surveillance video has a middle-aged white guy changing shirts, looking furtive in an alley.
	You know what furtive means?
	And every media outlet's using it.
	Furtive means trying to hide what you're doing.
	He's not been named a suspect, yet all the news agencies say he's a suspect.
	Law enforcement authorities say he's a person of interest.
	So here we have a potential horrible disaster in Times Square.
	And the media and the regime are folks.
	How can we blame this on the Tea Party?
	When the fact is, the regime's security apparatus failed to prevent the SUV from getting into New York in the first place.
	This is what I mean by posing and talking and trying to make a political point, score a political point out of every event that happens.
	Well, the Taliban's taking credit for it, but I know because we want the Tea Party to be responsible for it.
	Taliban, oh, that's another.
	Biden went out there.
	Taliban leader killed by drone services on the internet.
	We haven't killed the Taliban leader.
	Biden announced that he was dead, that we got the guy.
	The Taliban desperately wants to claim credit for it.
	We're saying, no, we're not going to give it to you.
	We're going to give it to the Tea Party.
	Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, we had riots.
	And in Santa Cruz, we had riots over the week.
	Santa Cruz, as progressive, liberal as you want.
	And I'm thinking, where's the Tea Party?
	Bill Clinton and Obama warn us that the next example of civil disobedience will come from the Tea Party.
	So they're engaging in all of this rhetoric, anti-government rhetoric, and yet every time one of these protests happens, the destruction comes from people on the left.
	And these protests, it doesn't matter.
	They're animal rights wackos to environmentalist wackos to anti-globalist wackos, anti-NAFTA, whatever the left has to protest, they all just are smorgasbord.
	Show up and have their own pet causes.
	Well, the Grecian protesters, too, but that's even after a bailout.
	The Grecian protesters are setting people on fire or setting things on fire over there.
	They even got bailed out.
	And I don't think any Tea Party people were sighted in Greece.
	Nobody said that they saw anybody over there in Greece.
	But this quote from Gibbs on Air Force One, the way back to Louisiana, on Obama's approach to British petroleum.
	I point you to what Interior Secretary Salazar said.
	I think the phrase was, at least the phrase I heard earlier in the week, was with him to keep the boot on their throat.
	So I think that kind of sums it up in that Western Colorado way, what we are trying to convey.
	See, business clearly isn't to be seen as a partner in solving a big problem, especially in the crisis.
	They are an adversary.
	There is something ironic.
	You have to laugh at this.
	There was an awards ceremony scheduled today for, honest to God, in Washington, I think it was in Washington, an awards ceremony for the companies that have done the best to promote cleanliness, anti-pollution, and so forth in the Gulf.
	And British Petroleum was going to win an award.
	They've canceled it.
	They were a finalist.
	The results haven't been announced, but they canceled.
	Obama administration canceled the thing.
	Anyway, well, I'm up against here.
	I got to take a quick time out here, folks, but you get the drift of where we're headed today.
	Obama, I'm not an executive.
	No, no, I'm not.
	I'm here to move an agenda.
	I'm here to transform the country.
	I'm here to promote change.
	By the way, I have an idea.
	They're looking for experts to try to find out what happened here with this bomb.
	Bill Ayers.
	Obama knows somebody with actual experience in blowing things up in this country, Bill Ayers.
	If they're going to appoint a blue ribbon commission, Bill Ayers ought to be the left-wing co-head of the commission.
	Back after this.
	You know, I've got a little monologue coming up here, folks, in due course over the real problem that the state-controlled media finds themselves in reporting on this oil slick in Obama and reporting on the bomber in Times Square.
	They've got a huge press.
	It would be easy if Bush were in the White House.
	It'd be easy.
	But he's not.
	Obama is in there, and it is really fascinating to look at how they are dancing around the edges of this to avoid mentioning his name.
	The French news agency, however, seems to have no problem.
	Headline, Obama talks as oil laps at Gulf of Mexico shore.
	Obama talks.
	Exactly right.
	And then repeats the talking, posing, accomplishing nothing.
	So Obama says, and pledges a relentless effort to clean up the slick.
	Now, experience, ladies and gentlemen, tells us that this is a worthless pledge.
	What do you mean, Rush?
	How can you say that about the president?
	Very easy, folks.
	Experience.
	If President Obama is as successful controlling the oil slick as he has been with creating jobs, the Gulf Coast is screwed.
	It's just that simple.
	Did not Obama pledge a laser-like focus creating jobs?
	Yes, he did.
	You don't need to answer.
	I just did it for you.
	Did he say that with the porculus money, that unemployment would never get above 8%?
	Yes, he did.
	All right.
	Here's what he said about the slick after it was too late to do anything meaningful about it.
	Obama warned Sunday the vast oil spill nearing the Gulf coastlines of potentially unprecedented disaster, opportunity for him, as he and other top officials defended the government's response and pledged a relentless federal effort to clean up the slick.
	That is not, folks, a comforting thought considering what Obama has pledged in the past.
	That has not happened.
	He said Thursday, February 11th of this year, until jobs are being created to replace those that we've lost, until America's back at work, my administration will not rest and this recovery will not be finished.
	Well, he's resting.
	He's playing golf.
	Waited 12 days to head down to Louisiana.
	I don't know how many rounds of golf, how many pickup basketball games he's played since then.
	Do we have an EPA?
	We do, Environmental Protection Agency.
	And I've looked into what the director, the administrator, has been doing during these 12 days, and the answer is not much to do with the slick.
	I'll just ask it point blank, what has the EPA been doing after an American oil rig, well, a BP rig, exploded in the Gulf of Mexico?
	What have they been doing?
	What's the EPA done?
	What have they done?
	I'll tell you what the mission of the Environmental Protection Agency is, from their own website, is to protect human health and the environment.
	The budget and its purpose.
	The fiscal year 2011 budget request supports the administration's commitment to ensure that all Americans are protected from significant risks to human health and the environment where they live, learn, and work.
	This mission is being achieved through collaboration with states and tribes, tribes, to implement air, water, waste, and chemical programs.
	The EPA will carry out its mission based on the core values of science, transparency, and the rule of law to address the complex, interrelated, multidisciplinary challenges to environmental protection today.
	The EPA fiscal year 2011 budget requests $10.02 billion in discretionary budget authority.
	This request will support EPA's efforts to focus on developing common sense steps toward clean air, addressing climate change, protecting our nation's waters, cleaning up communities and ecosystems, strengthening EPA's scientific and enforcement capabilities.
	This budget also includes actions to improve EPA's internal operations to deliver environmental results for the American people.
	Okay, so that's the mission statement.
	Lisa P. Jackson is the administrator.
	She leads EPA's efforts to protect the health and environment for all Americans.
	She and a staff of more than 17,000 professionals are working across the nation to usher in a green economy, address health threats from toxins and pollution, and renew public trust in EPA's work, as though it was destroyed under the Bush administration.
	Okay, that's just a little from the website.
	That's their commitment and the amount of money, 17,000 staffers to do it.
	Now, I happen to have her schedule.
	April 22nd, this is a day after the rig blew up, from 11 to 11.45 a.m. Earth Day 2010 event with Green for All, Riverside Valley Community Garden, West Harlem, New York.
	4 to 5.30 p.m., April 22nd, day after the rig blew up.
	David Letterman show taping, Letterman Studios, New York, New York, closed press.
	So April 22nd, not one word from the EPA administrator about the Gulf oil rig explosion.
	She's out bragging about Earth Day, EPA, super funds, climate change, the coal mine disaster.
	Nothing about the Gulf.
	April 23rd, 1.30 to 2 p.m., meet and greet with winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize, EPA headquarters.
	And this is day two after the rig blew up.
	3.15 to 4 o'clock, meeting with Norwegian Minister of the Environmental Eric Solheim, EPA headquarters.
	Closed press.
	April 24th.
	Still not a word from Lisa Jackson on the oil rig.
	Three days after the rig blew.
	12.15, 12.30, remarks to Earth Day attendees, National Mall EPA tent between 4th and 7th Streets Northwest, Washington, D.C. 12.30 to 1 p.m., meeting with Marina Silva, former Environmental Secretary of Brazil, National Mall, Washington, D.C. Three days, not one mention.
	April 25th, four days after the rig blew.
	5 to 6 p.m., remarks at an Earth Day concert.
	National Mall Earth Day Network Stage, 8th Street Northwest between Independence and Constitution Avenues.
	April 26th, five days after the rig.
	Lisa Jackson schedule, 9 to 9.45 a.m. EPA NASA, MOU signing, Howard University Middle School of Mathematics and Science, Washington, D.C. 5 to 7 p.m., Daily Show taping, Daily Show Studios, New York, New York.
	There is a YouTube video available of her performance on the Daily Show.
	Not one word was mentioned about the environmental disaster that was going on in the Gulf, but she had a great time yucking it up about Earth Day and other things with Jon Stewart.
	That's April 26th, five days after the rig.
	April, oh, 1.45 to 2.30 p.m., meeting with Archer Daniels, Midland Chairman and CEO Pat Wertz, EPA headquarters.
	April 28th, seven days.
	Lisa Jackson of the EPA schedule, 9.30 to noon, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Energy and Environment hearing.
	Not a word about the rig.
	12 to 1 p.m., Congressional Club First Ladies Luncheon, Hilton, Washington Hotel, 2 to 2.45, meeting with health organization leaders to discuss TSCA reform, EPA headquarters.
	5 to 6 p.m., meeting with members of the Connecticut delegation, Hart Office Building, closed press.
	This is April 28th, seven days after the rig blew.
	Not yet a word from Lisa Jackson.
	April 29th, 8.45 to 11 a.m. Memorial Service, Dr. Dorothy Height, National Cathedral, Washington.
	12 to 12.45, White House press conference, the White House.
	2 to 3, meeting with administration officials, the White House.
	May 1st, Saturday, White House Correspondence Dinner, 7 to 9.30 p.m.
	May 1st, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson flew over the Gulf.
	Oil spill on Saturday, later telling people at a meeting in New Orleans that it's like all five of the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes are oil sheen.
	Jackson spent much of her time dealing with residents' memories about Hurricane Katrina and the slow federal response to the disaster.
	That's what they say on their own website.
	On this is the second, May 1st or 2nd.
	This is the third.
	May 1st or 2nd, she flies over the oil slick.
	Lance spent much of her time dealing with residents' memories about Hurricane Katrina and the slow federal response to the disaster.
	A good nine days after the rig blew up.
	We have all kinds of stories in this stack here.
	Video shows federal officials.
	This is from a Mobile, Alabama newspaper.
	Video shows federal officials knew quickly of potential for massive oil flow in Gulf spill.
	But remember, my friends, crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant from the Washington Examiner.
	Former NOAA oil spill cleanup boss says Obama waited too long in Gulf disaster.
	Hi, we're back at Rush Limbaugh serving humanity simply by being here on the EIB network at a Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies AP.
	One day ago, U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson says the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has spawned a huge environmental challenge, but not yet a catastrophe.
	She told community leaders gathered at a New Orleans church on Saturday, the spill is a challenge, complicated by the wellhead being 5,000 feet below water.
	So she's meeting with community organizers in New Orleans.
	EPA Administrator wraps up tour of areas impacted by a spill.
	U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson concluded her tour of areas that could be impacted by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico today.
	Story from yesterday.
	The administrator joined Obama at a briefing with NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenko and Coast Guard Commandant Fad Allen and held a conference call with New Orleans officials to discuss the importance of coordinating response efforts while they all point fingers at British petroleum.
	Pose, pose, pose.
	Say, say, say, solve nothing.
	May you look like you're on the case.
	Mark Tap Scott, Washington Examiner.
	Why didn't federal officials implement an oil spill cleanup plan they've had on the book since 1994?
	As soon as possible after crude began pumping into the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion and sinking of BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 53 miles south of Louisiana.
	The Mobile Register reports that Ron Gouget, who formerly managed the oil spill cleanup department, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is criticizing the Obama White House's failure to act according to existing government plans in the event of a spill in the area now being deluged with thousands of barrels of crude every day.
	Gouget said that he was at NOAA.
	The agency created a plan that required burning off an oil spill in the region in its earliest stage if the prevailing winds would not push the smoke and soot from the operation inland.
	Plan still in effect, but it was not activated last week.
	They had pre-approval.
	The whole reason a plan was created, 1994, was so we could pull the trigger right away instead of waiting 10 days to get permission.
	10 days waiting to get permission.
	Why didn't federal officials implement an oil spill?
	This is another story about Gouget and what he says that they waited too long.
	It was Earth Day seminars.
	Earth Day mattered more because it's not about managing America's problem, not about being president, not being executive.
	It's about implementing an agenda.
	It's about transforming American life, the way of life, American culture, the American economy.
	And anything that happens that helps us do that along the way, what we're going to take advantage of.
	So the president's spokesman said, yep, we got our boots on BP's throat on this one.
	And the president says, be peace, Vault.
	They're going to pay for it.
	It's be peace, Vault.
	Nevertheless, I have to do something about it.
	Well, he does.
	Nothing about even the New York Times, even though they did it on a Saturday.
	Unanswered questions on the spill.
	A White House as politically attuned as this one should have been conscious of two obvious historical lessons.
	One was the Exxon Valdez.
	Other was George Bush's hapless response to Hurricane Katrina.
	Now we have another disaster in more or less the same neck of the woods.
	It takes the administration more than a week to really get moving.
	New York Times, although they buried it on Saturday.
	The timetable is damning, says the Times.
	The blowout occurred on April 20th.
	In short order, fire broke out in the rig.
	11 lives lost.
	The rig collapsed.
	Oil began leaking at a rate of 40,000 gallons a day.
	British Petroleum tried but failed to plug the well.
	Even so, BP appears to have remained confident it could handle the situation until Wednesday night, when at a hastily called news conference, the Coast Guard quintupled its estimate of leak to 5,000 barrels or more than 200,000 gallons a day.
	Only then did the administration move into high gear when they could blame BP.
	I added that.
	That's not in the Times editorial.
	In addition to a series of media events designed to convey urgency, including a Rose Garden appearance by the president, the administration ordered the Air Force to help with chemical spraying of the oil slick and the Navy to help lay down oil-resistant booms.
	What we do know is that we now face a huge disaster whose consequences might have been minimized with swifter action.
	New York Times.
	This is what I mean.
	I mean, they're having trouble there at the drive-by media state control media.
	See how do we treat this?
	It's a very uncomfortable position that we find ourselves in here.
	They are very uncomfortable.
	They're twitchy, talking about the media here, but they are trying to smile while being totally uncomfortable because the poor babies are conflicted.
	See, it would be easy if a Republican were president.
	Be easy.
	They have so much practice.
	They don't even have to think much to do their jobs if a Republican is president.
	It was so easy for eight years just to blame everything on Bush.
	Everything from the delay in action to the actual explosion to attending the White House Correspondents Dinner, all while poor sea animals are being marinated in oil, but not for dinner.
	Obama yucking it up.
	Oh, by the way, his reviews on this.
	Did you watch the White House correspondence dinner?
	He's what?
	He's getting great reviews, great reviews as a comedian, great reviews from the stand-up left, you know, from the left, but a lot of veterans of the White House correspondents' dinner saying, you know, this is not what presidents do.
	They make fun of themselves and they make fun of their own party.
	They try to promote unity and so forth.
	Obama just got a bunch of joke writers together from the Daily Show.
	Yep.
	Obama's joke writers came from the Daily Show and went out there and just attacked Republicans.
	Because that's what they're all about.
	That's why the left was cheering left and right in that place.
	I wouldn't be caught dead at that dinner.
	I don't care what the circumstances.
	But anyway, now, now it's their beloved Obama who's not doing anything.
	It's their beloved Obama who sits and fiddles while the oil slick expands and poses a risk that nobody can really get their arms around yet.
	The Obama media is, yeah, we love the world.
	We love the earth.
	We love Earth Day.
	We love Dumbo, too, meaning Obama.
	But, gosh, why did he wait?
	Like, you see the New York Times editorial.
	Why did he wait?
	12 days.
	I mean, rivulets of oil head toward the sacred, fragile wetlands of Louisiana, the sugar-white beaches of Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida.
	Why did he wait?
	Oh, please, there must be an answer because he's so much smarter than we are.
	There must be an answer we don't see.
	Why did he wait?
	If it were Bush, they wouldn't be waiting.
	They would already be firing up impeachment hearing demands.
	Should be like, comment?
	You're asking themselves in all their editors' meetings.
	Should we comment on this?
	It's kind of uncomfortable.
	I mean, the guy really didn't do anything for 12 days.
	There's got to be a reason, though.
	He's so much smarter than we are.
	I mean, he went to Harvard, Columbia, and so do we, but he's got to know more than we do.
	There's got to be a reason.
	Even the New York Times story does not mention Obama's name.
	They have kept his name out of it.
	They just talk about the slow government response.
	Newspaper Raleigh, North Carolina, over the weekend, a laid story's headline, Wetlands Survival Threatened.
	Two years ago, that headline would have been something like, Bush threatens wetlands survival.
	But no mention of Obama.
	And that video that we talked about makes it even a little tougher for the ditzes in the drive-bys.
	There's that pesky little video from the NOAA office in Seattle all over the blogs now that shows from day one the feds knew precisely what this disaster was.
	It was biblical proportions, and yet the president diddled and fiddled.
	The EPA administrator went to Earth Day ceremonies.
	So all those reporters, editors, national desk editors, they're in a real uncomfortable, itchy spot here because their eyes are not lying.
	Their president has done nothing.
	Zilch Zero, not a diddly squad.
	He's making lots of speeches.
	He's ripping into BP.
	They love that.
	He's going to rip into pharmaceutical companies pretty soon.
	He's going to rip into doctors for not being around to help the people who are affected and not enough veterinarians.
	Whatever.
	He'll rip everybody, the private sector, for blaming this and making this happen.
	But the drive-bys are looking at this and they're saying, geez, you know, I mean, FEMA and Bush actually did more than what Obama's done.
	God, what do we do?
	What do we do?
	What do we do?
	They keep using the phrase, Obama ordered this and Obama ordered that as though he's leading a non-existent effort.
	You can go to EPA website right this minute.
	You'll find no mention of the oil spill.
	He has 17,000 people at work there and not one mention of the oil spill on the EPA's website.
	Not one mention of what to do if you're about to be inundated with oil.
	Not one mention.
	Yeah, it's a challenge, not a catastrophe.
	That's what Lisa Jackson said after flying over it after 10 days of saying nothing about it.
	So the drive-bys and the editors, they send their photographers and their camera people down to the Gulf to highlight all of the grease.
	Oh, they have EPA response to the Gulf.
	This morning there was nothing on it.
	So now the EPA's got something on their website.
	EPA responds to Gulf Crisis.
	What else?
	12 days after the fact.
	12 days and maybe 30 minutes of a radio show on Monday.
	This one.
	Top of the page.
	So, meanwhile, you got the drive-bys and their editors.
	And they're sending their photographers down there, still and video.
	I want pictures, the editor's saying, give me all the goo, give me the grease, give me the glop.
	I want the destruction.
	I want the mayhem.
	I want to see everything you'd show me if a Republican were in office.
	We just won't mention Obama's name.
	Just focus on BP, but you, everything except Obama's name, everything that you would rip Bush for.
	If you can find some rapes going on, that is even better.
	Find some rapes going on, go to the superdome, see what's happening there.
	Who knows?
	Maybe oil's in there, whatever.
	We got to tie this to Bush somehow.
	We can't tie it to our guy.
	But how long can we keep going like this?
	They're asking themselves.
	Back after this.
	Whoa, Mahmoud Ahmadine Zad unleashed today at the United Nations.
	Apparently, ladies and gentlemen, Obama's letters to the Supreme Leader are, I say, not working.
	Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadine Zad today called for the states that threaten to use atomic weapons to be punished.
	A clear reference to a new U.S. nuclear strategy released last month, speaking at a meeting of the 189 signatories of the 1970 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
	Ahmedine Zad urged considering any threat to use nuclear weapons or attack against peaceful nuclear facilities like his as a breach of international peace and security.
	The delegations of the United States, Britain, and France all walked out of the U.N. General Assembly chamber during Ahmedine Zad's speech.
	Hmm.
	It's not working out there, folks.
	Our approach here with Ahmedine Zad isn't working.
	Peace in his time will not be peace.
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	This is Ed.
	Thank you for calling, sir.
	Great to have you on the EIB network.
	I'm glad to be on it.
	I'm glad I got through because from the day that oil well blew out, I was wondering when EPA was going to send down their ocean survey vessel BOLD, one of the best survey vessels in the country, in the world, and manned by super EPA environmental scientists.
	And not one word came out that the Bo was going down there to do that work.
	How do you know about the boat?
	Well, I was ship manager for EPA's Ocean Survey, Peter W. Anderson, and we sent that ship to Campiche when the Mexican oil rig blew up.
	Oh, yeah, the Bay of Campiche spill.
	I remember that.
	Right, and the Anderson joined NOAA survey vessels and the aircraft to track the spill, and we did environmental assessments with it.
	We've got the best scientists to do it on that ship.
	And I sent that vessel right away as soon as I could get it out of the survey it was doing.
	So I never heard anything about the bold.
	This is the first I've heard of it.
	All right, now I called on the 29th of April to Lisa, the administrator, Lisa Jackson's office, to ask them if they were going to send the bold or had they sent the bold.
	I got blown off.
	And I was asked by the person that answered the phone to call EPA, probably a division director, Carol McDonald, about the bold because I couldn't get anybody else.
	They blew you off?
	Yep.
	Just asking about whether or not this boat had been deployed?
	You called on April.
	Did he say 29th?
	They're still doing Earth Day celebrations on April 29th or something.
	I got Lisa Jackson's schedule.
	She hadn't even mentioned the spill by then.
	Thanks for the call out there, Ed.
	Okay, I went out there and looked it up.
	The ocean survey vessel BOLD.
	The BOLD is the name of the ship, the EPA's only ocean and coastal monitoring vessel.
	And they've got the schedule on the website.
	It was in Miami, April 19th through the 23rd, doing a dredged material dump site survey.
	They were surveying dredged material from probably the intracoastal waterway or inlets or whatever.
	Before that, it was in April 10 to 16, Miami at a coral reef study, the 19th, 23rd.

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