Adam curry, John C. Dvorak coming to you live from opposite
corners of Gitmo nation. It's Wednesday, March 25 2000. Nice
is no agenda emanating from the crackpot command center
somewhere in South London and get mon nation east. I'm Adam
curry.
I'm John C. Dvorak, where it's nice and sunny here in Northern
Silicon Valley. 75 degrees. Yeah, we're
part of Gitmo nation.
Gitmo nation. Silicon Valley, button Buzzkill.
To the whole idea is that you end up with I'm John C. Dvorak
so that I kind of have a q&a
I did. I said, I'm John C. Dvorak right off the bat, and I
didn't know what to make of it totally hosed me. So it was I
was listening to a couple old shows of ours. Yeah, cuz they
had to do a clip I they make a I had to do a I'd take some some,
you will hear about that later. In fact, we'll hear about that.
At the one hour, 10 minute point in the show.
Isn't it one hour, 10 minutes and 37 seconds just to be exact.
Something like that. So that is actually 124 was when we reached
that point, I have to play something. Anyway, so what's
new?
Oh, it's so first of all, doing the show on Wednesday instead of
Thursday. Of course, for people on the stream. I'll be repeating
the show tomorrow at the exact same time. So it kind of keeps
my snooty.
Good idea. But it's like I can't do my Twitter's not working. I
got Twitter, and it just won't take the Reply button doesn't
work and you have a
broken tweet.
Doesn't make any sense. Your tweet. So I can't tell anybody.
So they if the people who are listening to the stream can't do
it. I can't tell my folks.
Can you DM?
Can you drain them? What what 48 Make?
It it's a troubleshooting exercise, John, you know, can I
do? You can direct message me then maybe there's something
else going on? I
don't know. It's fine. Yeah. Let me hit the Direct Message
button, please
give it a shot. So while John's doing that I received in my
email this morning, several sound clips which John has
apparently he's got some form of an agenda today. And has
prepared something and the note said for the show. Please don't
listen. So I did not.
Of course, here's interesting. So I go to direct messages and
you get the little icons on the right of the Send to some Wait a
minute.
Hello. Welcome to troubleshooting Twitter, a
program
of all things we're going to tell you about Twitter. The
least of them. Nope. That doesn't work either. Doesn't
work. All right, good.
So I'm acting us
on me vo today today. You got a whole thing about you know,
Chris Dodd trying to do your best to embarrass him.
Yeah, I think I did. Okay. You did. Okay. So
have you left out the part about Chris DODDS wife?
What was that? Again? She was Was there a conflict where she
was dad's
wife, a former director of Bermuda based IBC holdings and
AIG controlled company, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, but I
didn't have any video of that. Oh, so that's the thing is, you
know, you gotta go looking around for video. And in order
to make it work. And this the same thing kind of for this
show, you know, from time to time, you got to you got to hear
the real people saying the real words instead of us just reading
it. And that makes it that makes it actually like work, which as
you know, I hate actual work involved.
Yeah, well, it should be minimized.
But yeah, thanks for promoting that media today. On the
homepage,
and just go to media.com. You can see Adam going ballistic.
I, what did you think of the last bit there where I morphed
god? Yeah, it was cute. That was direct inspiration from this
show.
Well, you know, it's it's cute, except for the fact that you
have a hair color difference that banks should actually do
you know, if you
were Yeah, if I had John Stuart staff. I do it. All right. Okay,
thanks. That's exactly what you're trying to say. Yes. Well,
I don't have 40 people. But I think we get
Jim mentioned that Chris Dodd received $280,000 in campaign
contributions from AIG.
Well, did you did you just watch the video or not?
I missed that part.
It's the I put up the whole list. In fact, I even said it
looks like AIG is better at picking their politicians than
their insurance deals. Okay. Thanks. You didn't actually
watch our shows. You're eating breakfast. You were munching
away. I sat here and listen to you watch it. John. I sat here
and I'm listening to
it drying to Twitter trying to eat and so I'm not necessarily
you know, you know what? I was eating I was eating like real
chicken eggs.
So yeah, is that a cue for me to tell you I have a goose egg?
You have a goose egg? Yeah, I
bought a goose egg yesterday. Patricia and I forced her now to
go shopping at moons moons I think is way pronounced the
butcher right around the corner who has they also have
vegetables and they had goose eggs like yeah, let's give me a
give me a goose egg. I want to try one. I never tried it.
We have a lot of goose eggs up in Washington. We got a dozen
and right now we don't know what to do with them because
everybody's sick of eggs. And these eggs are so delicious
especially the real dry eggs you know chickens that out there eat
and everything and goose and ducks. So we have like we're
caught up to a dozen eggs my wife found you know, she said
Why did goose start the geese geese only lay by the way for
part of the year they don't lay all year round like a chicken
lay for three or four months and that's it. And so she says why
guess the goose geese have stopped laying and she goes and
finds a pile of six of them because the geese are like a lot
of birds. They know pile their eggs up someplace that's the
funniest thing.
Don't look over here nothing to see move along.
No eggs here. No way there's there's a whole pile of goose so
she's she's rolls her eyes. But anyway the goose eggs are unlike
duck eggs which I consider to be pretty hard to take. Yeah,
the to the to this tastes like canal because they're chalky,
chalky, that's it canali
they have a they have a funny texture and they're rubbery and
they're just they just do not feel right in the mouth. There's
everything's wrong with the duck eggs are good for making breads
and things. goose eggs are also good for baking with and they
make a terrific customer but a goose egg is tastes exactly like
a chicken egg only about, say 10 times more intensely egg
flavored. But with none of the bad parts of like a duck egg. So
you have to be to do something you're thinking of scrambling
the thing.
Yeah, I mean, I think if I fried it, it might be a little you
know to get that joke and it might be kind of disgusting.
Like, Oh God,
my egg say it's impossible.
Don't say it's impossible. Don't dare me it
wouldn't be good. Now if you're going to scramble a goose a you
have to cover it up with a lot of other stuff. In other words,
you would have to be cooked French style with a bunch of
mushrooms and maybe cheese or chocolate in an omelet. You
loaded up with everything but a egg.
Because of the egg taste is just going to be too strong for me
and I won't be able to handle
this is gonna be so into and it's also a very filling.
Yes, well looking at that thing. If I get
two and a half eggs. Okay, or three depends on the size of the
goose. But anyway, the you can't you can't just say if you're
going to scramble it straight up. You're not going to it's
going to be too funky. Now what what we've been experimenting
with and I've been encouraging because I believe the French do
this. And everything has to be based on the French is make a
custard from the egg. And it becomes as an intense
beautifully flavored ag custard that can you would find in a
shop in Paris, because we think that they differentiate using
goose eggs to make customers are cheating. That's why there's
eggs. If anyone's gone to Paris, and they've gone to the shops
you have this custard is like really yellow. Yes.
I know what you mean. Yeah. Yeah,
it's delicious. Yeah, it is good. That is goose involved.
Onto the Real News.
That is real news.
And now back to real. Top Gear is getting credit crunched? Lee
mean, they've been told to bail out. They've been told Yeah,
they do. They've been told they've got to cut their budget
by 200,000 pounds. And the suggestion was perhaps they
could test drive cheaper cars.
No. Yeah, I
got the article right here and what is it
that doesn't cost them to test drive a car they've good
manufacturers, let them borrow that's how
stupid that but remember, this is a government operation.
Hey, we did this a fact somebody actually said they can test
drive cheaper cars. Not knowing that their lands
share the likes of a Lamborghini, Ferrari and Porsche
have been axed because of the budget squeeze from the BBC.
Maybe it's the insurance. I'm sure I'm sure there's it's not
just like a free car, you know, a lot of stuff that goes on and
they put these these guys behind the wheel. Anyway, Jeremy
Clarkson says, We're gonna spend the money until it's all gone.
Right? Like he has something to do with it.
Like he actually like his bravado, like, Yeah, well,
he's a real English bloke, you know, you just gotta love the
guy for it. I am actually prepared a number of things
because of course
in a second hold on a second. I'm thinking maybe this is just
all the public To the stunt to get more attention to the show
since he now defies them. What do you think? I think he's
always out to promote himself. Yeah, but don't Yeah, but don't
you think maybe this whole thing is a scam?
No, no, no, I I'm pretty. I'm quite sure that the budgets are
being tightened at the BBC. So I and it's very expensive show. I
don't think you know, again, of course, the fact that Clarkson
is going on record saying all this, of course, it's a
promotional bid. Now are the President of the United States
appeared multiple times on television? So we have 60
minutes occurred after the last show? We did. And of course,
last night, there was the point what was that build as? Because
I watched it, obviously. And I've also recorded press here
was a second press conference. Is that what it was called,
though? Press Conference? Yeah, was a press conference. They
could have just called in. Did you just turn this into a show?
Because once again, beautifully those Chavez he doesn't want
Yeah, right. It's like the Hugo Chavez show featuring Barack
Obama. Where did you see that the reporters who were asking
questions that they all had if Beeson
now let me I didn't know that I didn't see that. That's funny.
And I have B is one of those little earpieces that you have
in and I think that's part of the reason when he called on the
recall on Sue or whatever. A woman who was shocked and
actually I have the I have the link somewhere yeah. Because
probably what happened is they all had these I have bees in and
they're probably it was so tight and so well orchestrated. That
I'm sure there was no okay. Oh, and was her name. So okay, we're
coming to you and in just a minute.
Hey. You sound surprised. I am surprised. I am because right I
was supposed to be the third would
you call me out of turn?
So a call a bunch of people? Well, let's go over my clips I
got here for you.
Let me just say one thing. I laughed my ass off.
You may say two things.
Thank you. But I'm trying to keep in the President's
vernacular. Let me say one thing about that. I love look. I loved
following on Twitter, there is someone you must follow. It is a
teleprompter one. By the way, this t o t u s the teleprompter
of the United States it's a meme now and there are webs I put
them in links in the show notes their websites with the
president playing golf with his teleprompter using the
teleprompter as a shovel the military guard instead of
holding em six teams they're holding teleprompters and this
teleprompter one it just cracks me up because it was the
teleprompter talking back to the President and reacting to to
each of his his statements of course the what they did
properly although it seemed like he had a little bit of trouble
with it is they now positioned one teleprompter in the middle
near the central camera. So there was no more No more left
and right looking but you can see that that was a little more
troublesome for its he's not quite as comfortable with it.
I felt Yeah. But he has to get used to that and I think that
prompters right on the lens
is right. Yeah. Honor. I think it's it's a huge one of those
really big ones that they use for award shows. Yeah, so So if
anyone in the press corps look behind them they could read
along
with oh, I don't think it's that one in the back of the room
style.
Yeah, I think it is. No, I
think it was on the camera to camera prompter. Regardless,
there's no way because they always burn the guys when they
have one in the back of the room nowadays. I think they've
noticed this, that some joker is always gonna stand in front of
it. No, no. Well, there's that but there's some joker in the in
the what do you call it the pool? Who handles the cameras
that will get a shot?
So there is a shot there is a shot and it's a big like plasma
screen.
Shot. Yeah. Was anything.
It was a picture picture not not a video shot, but a
photo of it. Yeah. Well, that's ridiculous.
So anyway, I got some clips. But let's go through your clips
because I'm curious. All
right. First of all, let's go over this one. I have. This is a
clip from Lenovo. And this is the one this is the Lenovo clip.
And this is the first his first appearance and this is the
reason I brought this one up because it refers to every other
clip. I've got a and b it contradicts your comments last
week where you said that the order of Obama's Trinity Yeah, I
always say ends with and reduce our reliance on foreign or
dependence on foreign oil. I thought that was always his
back.
The Trinity goes as follows. It's we have to, like do health
and then we have to do energy then we have to do education.
That's the 123 punch and he brings it up and this is the
first time he brings it up in loan. He does it in a much more
showbusiness way doesn't really get into much detail but he does
the Trinity Bang Bang Bang right there. And so
I ran for President because I thought we needed big changes in
I do think in Washington, it's a little bit like American Idol,
except everybody has Simon Cowell.
That by the way, it was funny. Yeah, that was funny.
Everybody's got an opinion. Yeah. But that's, that's part of
what makes for our democracy, you know, it's contentious, and
people are the hidden back. And I do think, though, that the
American people are all in, in a place where they understand it
took us a while to get into this mess, it's gonna take a while
for us to get out of it. And if they have confidence that I'm
making steps to deal with issues like health care, and energy and
education that matter deeply to their daily lives, then I think
they're gonna give us some time. Let me ask you about this. Yeah,
that's
the long drawn out.
That's the order. So wait a minute. That's the order in that
specific order. Now, at the press conference, he did
something interesting, besides saying, you know, look, number
of times, and he has a couple other bits I, by the way, I
spotted that he does over and over again when he's annoyed.
But he's decided, and I think I don't know whether this is a
good idea or a bad idea. And if you if you listen to as we
listened to a couple of these clips I've got you'll find that
he keeps bringing up the you know, the health care, energy
and education in that order over and over again, but he's added a
fourth Ah, yes. And I don't know whether he added the fourth as
part of a meeting or he decided the add the fourth because
there's something elegant about a, you know, a Trinity and
everybody writers are always kind of taught this, that you
you if you want to express certain kinds of emotions, you
do certain series of connections, if you want to say
the guy is crazy, and he's nuts, you know, you do two things. And
that's considered a high level of emotion to to make a point.
To do a reasonable point making process, you use three items.
The guy is nuts. He's crazy. And he's oblivious, you know, just
three things is all in three is the key to make you sound kind
of reasonable in your assertions to get a point across, then if
you use four or more things, or you just have a series of guys
crazy Nazis bromination he's an idiot. He's a phony, but that
weakens you, doesn't it that that makes us that weakens you
and makes you sound like a lunatic. As we play the clip,
it's ill advised No, not yet. Well, yeah, we can play that
clip. But the this clip these clips are a couple of these
clips are a little long. What's interesting about these clips,
and we're gonna play clip. One is that a question is asked that
Obama never answers. And instead, he goes into the same
crap about we need to fix health care. And we need to fix the
energy problem right.
Now, I have not heard these clips. Let me just guess this is
the question that was asked, but he didn't answer any of the
questions, I believe. Are you going to sign a bill if it
doesn't include? Okay, that's what I thought. Jake.
Thank you, Mr. President. Right now on Capitol Hill, Senate
Democrats are writing a budget. And according to press accounts
and their own statements, they're not including the middle
class tax cut that you include in the stimulus. We're talking
about phasing that out, they're not including the cap and trade
that you have in your budget. And they're not including other
measures. I know, when you outline your four priorities
over the weekend, a number of these things were not in there.
Will you sign a budget if it does not contain a middle class
tax cut does not contain cap and trade?
Well, so the reporter only mentioned to actually
the curious thing is a reporter doesn't mention the four which
is what Besides, those two aren't, aren't the four,
two not equal four.
Those two are not even part of the not even part of the four.
Okay, here we go
emphasize repeatedly what I expect out of this budget. I
expect that they're serious efforts that health care reform
will care and that we are driving down costs for families
and businesses and ultimately for the federal and state
governments that are going to be profitable. If we continue on
the current path. I've said that we've got to have a serious
energy policy that frees our cells oil ways to and makes
clean energy the profitable kind of energy so it's always
healthcare energy, right? Yeah. We've got to invest in education
K through 12 and beyond to upgrade the skills of the
American workers so we can
now what will number four be I wish I had a drumroll I gotta
get one competing
in the international economy. And I've said that we've got to
start driving our deficit numbers now.
Ah, okay. The deficit the deficit question
Yeah, that's new number four.
Can I just play a quick clip regarding kind of jump on as
shit? I won't do that. I don't want to jump around.
Well, yeah, sure.
Because on that, on that deficit later, he comes back. And he
says, when talking about health care, I was very amazed to hear
the things he said, check this,
then we would have already had it done and the budget would
have been voted on and everybody could go home. This is hard. And
the reason it's hard is because we've accumulated a structural
deficit, that's going to take a long time. And we're not gonna
be able to do it next year or the year after or three years
from now, what we have to do is bend the curve. I love that
bend the curve. Yeah. Yeah, well, there's one piece that
comes after this, which is even more astounding,
on these deficit projections. And the best way for us to do
that is to reduce health care costs. That's not just my
opinion.
Now, how do we reduce them? Listen to this, how do we reduce
health care costs single
person who has looked at our long term fiscal situation now?
How do we, how are we going to reduce health care now? Because
the problem is not just in government run
programs. Now, it's a private sector as your falls
in the private sector as well. It's experienced by families,
it's experienced by businesses. And so what we've said is, well,
look, let's invest in health information technologies. Let's
invest in preventive care. Let's
okay. So I now understand what he's doing. So we're not
actually going to put in more nurses or, or improve situations
on a global scale we're going to do is pour billions of dollars
into it, which has an ancillary benefit of getting everyone's
DNA in the database. Preventive care, by the way, preventive
care is of course, a total Gitmo nation term for we're going to
tell you what you can eat and what you can't eat.
I'm not going to argue the point on the heels of
this if I can just move away for one second, we got an email
about this it and it really, really struck home from Rick
Deckard, who, who found out some information member the company,
dying port, and we just have to keep coming back to us that
distributed bird flu live bird flu virus with flu vaccinations
mixed together in a nice handy little shot to kickstart this
bird flu epidemic from Baxter Yes. So he says, you know, these
guys were acquired by CSC which you and I determined was a
basically a government IT organization that gets all
government contracts to implement it. Now it makes total
sense. Of course, they acquired the flu vaccine company, because
these guys are healthcare now. IT services, his coin to become
healthcare, and it'll just pop up on the database are Mr.
Dvorak, you've not had your live bird flu infested flu shot yet
thinking you need to have it? So that's what that's what that
investment is all about. I feel good. Could
be. I feel good. All right. So let's go to a couple more clips.
By the way, he says he goes well, and he says now and he
uses the word now, which is a substitute for the word look.
Yeah, there's a couple of them well, is he's using that more
and more. Yeah, we'll only the only one save and create,
actually.
And so he was now with a long pause. And it and it was the
same as look, it's it's kind of interesting. But PLAY CLIP B,
which is a long clip, but this is the one you just kind of
played I'm just gonna play the beginning. Because this is where
a guy asked asked the questions that Obama he unfortunately
asked a two part question. Obama decides to take part two and
start answering it without never addressing part one. Yeah, at
all. At first, I thought he actually misunderstood the
question. And this is about
PLAY CLIP me flipping to Henry.
Was it?
Hey, Ed. Hello, Ed is your if beyond? Ed, can you hear me Q
and Q,
by the way? He does. Where's that? Where's that? Yeah. Is she
here? And he does that. And then he also has two people at his
uses by their first name. Yeah.
Well, the ed is like that, hey, it's the ISP work. And Ed, can
you hear me? Yeah. Okay. So
you spoke again at the top about your anger about AIG? You've
been saying that for days now. But why is it that it seems
Andrew Cuomo seems to be getting more actual action on it. And
when you and Secretary Geithner first learned about this 10
days, two weeks ago, you didn't go public immediately. With that
outrage? You waited a few days. And then when you went public
after you realize Secretary Geithner really had no legal
avenue to stop it. And more broadly, I just want to follow
up on chip and, Jake. You've been very critical President
Bush doubling the national debt. And to be fair, it's not just
Republicans hitting your Democrat Ken Conrad has, you
know, said, quote, when I look at this budget, I see the debt
doubling again, you keep saying that you've inherited a big
fiscal mess. Do you worry, though, that your daughter's,
not to mention the next President will be inheriting an
even bigger fiscal mess if the spending goes out of control?
No, of
course I do. Which is why we're doing everything we can to
reduce that deficit.
Actually, I thought this was pretty boring, pretty boring
answer that he gave. What's the part that you liked?
The part I liked? You don't have to play the rest of it. Well, he
actually goes into look, look a couple times. But you have to
play the rest of us. You actually already played part of
this. Go to clip three. Yeah. Which is where the guy comes
back and says, Hey, you never answered my question.
Yeah, I have this clip. Those
are reflected in our budget playing playing. Yeah, this is
because the savings we anticipate would be coming in
years outside of the 10 year budget cycle.
Mr. President, sir,
Gee, why did you wait, why did you wait days to come out and
express that outrage? It seems like the action is coming out of
New York and the Attorney General's office. It took you
days to come public with Secretary Geithner and say,
Look, we're outraged.
It took us a couple of days, because I like to know what I'm
talking about before I speak.
And then listen to all the reporters laughing. You got
slammed? Down? Yeah, that was a good one. The big question,
which leads into yesterday's news about China was actually
asked and I thought it was interesting. It kind of got
snuck in there about the global currency. As you know, China in
in the Financial Times yesterday, China said, hey, you
know, we think we should be a new global reserve currency
shouldn't be the dollar Russia says, Hey, Comrades, we think we
think that's a pretty good idea. So one of the reporters snuck
the question in.
I don't believe that there's a need for global currency.
There you go. I don't think there's a need for a global
currency. However, yes. Well,
you know, what's interesting about that question, was a
financial question. And again, who was it asked by was asked by
Fox News, really? Which brings me to the last clip I really
want to need to play which is the one that's from Shepard
Smith, which is on there. I think it's clipped for
four or five. We haven't done four. So five. Is this thing?
No, that's the Mexican question.
Yes. Shepard Smith. Shepard Smith. I hear it before I'm
gonna set this one up. Okay, so I'm watching this thing on
Channel, locally, channel two, which is a fox affiliate. So
they bring Shepard Smith who I really find spies.
Everybody in Studio B Shep Smith in the morning, man. He's a
puker, dude.
So he comes on and yeah, sure. Yeah, he's what you would call a
puker. And he comes on and I want you to this is not a short
clip, but he brings on somebody who says nothing. And then he
makes did, he decides to editorialize. And I have to
comment on the editorializing after he after he does clip
plays, go play it just failing,
but are too big to do so because they would affect our economy.
The president said tonight, and I quote, we should have obtained
it much earlier so that any institution that poses a
systemic risk kit that can bring down the financial system, we
can handle and we can do it in an orderly fashion that
quarantines it from other institutions. He went on to say,
we don't have that power right now. That's what Secretary
Geithner is talking about. And I think there's going to be strong
support from the American people in the Congress to provide that
authority. The question is, is it constitutional? Our senior
judicial analyst, Judge Andrew Napolitano says it's not. But
for the economy, we turned to Alexis Glick, the Senior Vice
President of Business News for the Fox Business Network on
satellite and cable, and the host of their morning program
money for breakfast. His
first talk is scripted talk is that right after bitches for
breakfast on Fox News,
and his questions are largely about different things. It was
actually pretty fascinating. We thought this was going to be a
speech largely about those economic issues, the AIG
bonuses, that a lot more about the federal budget deficit, what
they plan to do in terms of getting private capital to help
rescue the financial institutions. We only saw a
handful of questions about that at the very top. You know, if
you were to put this baseball terms, I would say there was a
lot of softballs thrown tonight, not a lot of curveballs, not a
lot of business organizations asking questions, one has to
wonder what it will look like going forward. He's got a lot
more challenges this week ahead. In fact, no business
organizations a little inside baseball for you because we like
to denote who the President calls on. He called on Stars and
Stripes. He called on Politico he'd called on ebony. He called
on the French press agency did not call on the New York Times
The Washington Post or The Wall Street Journal or any of the
financial networks. Interesting.
Interesting, my but this guy, if they had if he had called London
New York Times in the wash would have been burned he would have
gone on and on about all totally ever call on these people. The
joke is he called on Fox. What's he got to complain about? Fox
was called on Fox asked a financial question. Why is he
saying this? He called on the Washington Times a right wing
newspaper? What is he got to complain about? He wants him to
call on the New York Times. How disingenuous how phony can this
guy Shepard Smith be? This is the most bogus complaint I've
ever heard in my life. Obama goes out of his way to call on
obscure publications and call on Fox and call on CNN and call on
the Washington Times and then they complain He's not calling
on the New York Times what
Shepard Smith is plugged in man if he unplugged it, just put him
in the corner in the evening. I don't understand why you're
upset about it.
It's because I you listen to this stuff as though they've got
something on him. Oh, we've got him now. And this is what's
going on. You'll run into this with Rush Limbaugh to these guys
are just complaining about anything they can think of
whether it's mean means anything where there's meaningful or
whatever, instead of looking behind. No, they never say hey,
look, the guy's repetitive. He kept bringing up the same four
things over and over what you asked he'd say the same stuff.
They never do any deconstruction they just complain they look for
some something to pick about, like Oh, he didn't call on the
New York Times. This is terrible. What some calling on
the New York Times it's just I just watched this going well
would we might as well just throw this this you know this
just right, these right wingers, the fox people, they the Murdoch
people and just throw them under the bus because they're useless.
Let's move away from the clips for a moment. I do want to bring
your attention to a name change from the Ministry of Truth. The
Global War on Terror is no longer what it's called John.
Oh, they've changed the name. Yes, they've changed the name
Peter or zag member, this guy, the goofy guy who sits in some
of those meetings. He's the oversight Management Budget
Director. He's now calling it the following. He said quote,
the budget shows the combined cost of operations in Iraq,
Afghanistan, and here comes other overseas contingent
contingency operations may be necessary. And there is a memo
that has been circling to Pentagon staff saying the
administration prefers to avoid that using the term long war or
Global War on Terror please use Overseas Contingency Operation I
love it
doubles. The Global War on Terrorism is over.
We can we can declare that one finally gone. We we got a
comment from a German listener, which relates to that global
currency which I wanted to share with you.
Yeah, Adam. Hi, John. Um, here's Chris from Germany and found an
interesting fun fact about the SDRs. The Special Drawing
Rights.
You know what this is about, right? This is these we've
talked about these, the International Monetary Fund, who
will become the global bank is creating money, billions of it
and they're called SDR Special Drawing Rights.
It's the SDR is something China is now going for, and Russia is
going forward. It's like a beta version for a new world currency
like that.
A Beta version for a new world currency. So
beta in American lingo, yes.
But the tomato tomahto
The interesting fact is that this SDRs are already old. They
were they were introduced in 1969. And when you think about
the word currency, and you think about JRR, Tolkien with the One
Ring to rule them all, it's quite interesting that the Lord
of the Rings was released also in 1969. So maybe there are some
kind of Zeitgeist that is now coming to the real world. I
think it's a fun fact to think about and you find more and more
of these little things that are like a fractal maybe a little
bit that is now coming into place. Thanks a lot keep on with
the show. I contributed to the library maybe just $5 dollars
but it will help you out. And and I hope this fun fact is also
nice for your audience. Yeah, have a good time. Bye. Thanks
for the fun fact.
So there's a a war on meat.
You know, my Twitter penis size is like 800 inches. I'm sorry.
Yeah, there's some. You can measure the size of your E penis
and you give it your Twitter name, and then it gives back a
page with the size of your E penis.
Really, yes. Honey, I was just mentioned meat and you'd come up
with that kind of connection. Uh huh. So what is the what is the
link to that people out there? Want to know?
I tweeted it yesterday. I can't remember. Yeah, you
don't want me to check mine.
You'll be poking me in the eye with that thing across the
ocean, man. I don't want that. That's freaking dangerous. I
think, John before you do anything, it's. And now back to
real. I found this one. An 18 year old has secretly painted a
60 foot drawing of a phallus on the roof of his parents $1
million mansion in Berkshire. It was there. He was there for a
year before his parents find out. The picture is phenomenal.
Every little plane, he should have flown over it. I've only
I had no. Well, he has to scrub it off. So that's when when he
gets back from traveling, so maybe it's still there. I can
fly over Berkshire. I find it. Google Earth probably. By the
way I am. I'm laughing my ass off here in the UK,
particularly, but in the rest of Europe. So now Google Streetview
is available. And I think we talked on the last show that
there was a guy who was coming out of a porn shop and he said,
I don't want that sticking around for the next couple of
months. I want that taken off. But it's so funny that
particularly the Brits, that their outrage, their privacy is
being hurt by Google Streetview when there's 10 million cameras
everywhere, it's crazy. Well, that is fun, just stupid. It is
Google Street View. View is one snapshot taken once in a
lifetime showing you know nothing, and the cameras are
live 24/7 And by the way, you know as a part of the the new
terrorist, you know, in the UK and get mo nation east. They're
upping they're upping the work on on that. I'm sorry, on the
Overseas Contingency projects, whatever. And now there's a
list. And if you're even looking at CCTV cameras, the
Metropolitan Police the match, as they call it, have said you
should probably report people who are looking at CCTV cameras.
They are suspect.
Brother, that would be look, there's a camera. What is it
looked? I don't know what brand is. This is gonna arrest that
guy.
It's creating the answer. Everyone's yelling about Google.
That shows you how pathetic the British public is, or has become
or has been made into.
Yeah, well, I still have hope that there's some something
lurking underneath there. By the way. You can also follow the TSA
on Twitter, which is a hoot. TSA blog team.
That's always fun. Yeah, that would be funny. Yeah, that's,
that's a good one.
Some interesting stuff going on in the European Parliament. And
there's two clips that are floating around. Gordon Brown
visit I think was in Strasbourg, it wasn't in Brussels, Gordon
Brown visited the European Parliament. And for some reason,
it seems to be a lot easier for the European politicians who are
or the British politicians who are Europe in the European
Parliament to yell and scream at Gordon Brown when he's not in
the UK. So there's two there's Daniel Hannan, which you might
have even seen this video and John who starts off by you're
the most devalued Prime Minister of a devalued government. He
just hammers and Gordon Brown just sitting there smiling. But
the one that I'd like to play a bit of is from Mike. I think
it's Michael Faraday, Nigel Farraj. He's from the UK
independent party. Yeah, I'm sure you've seen this guy around
on YouTube videos. And a lot of people he gets a bad rap for
some reason in the UK, but I want you to listen to him.
complain. This is yesterday, completely drilled Gordon Brown,
and asshole the size of the Lincoln Tunnel. It is just
beautiful work. And I wish it was on television because people
need to hear this kind of
stuff. It's not on television, because in Canada, they
televised those little humans,
years of cooperation. And as a first Gordon Brown does, he's
doing his little speech about how great everything is in the
European Union rocks and we're fantastic
together safer together than ever we are apart. On behalf of
the independence and democracy group Nigel Farage three minutes
ministers you received some criticism this afternoon for
your comment British jobs for British workers. But you can
brush that aside, because from the moment you've said it, I
don't think anybody seriously thought Oh, you shouldn't see
this video Brown. Nigel's gonna make a little show
that you would have a difference common there.
This is common, but I haven't said I haven't rarely seen this
In the in the British Parliament, but in the European
Parliament and Farraj does this a lot, but just listen to how he
blames Gordon Brown for everything, and in most most
cases, justly so Prime Minister put the interests of British
workers above that of your European dream. And my goodness
me, you've showed that this afternoon. It's just a pity that
apart from UK, virtually nobody seems to bother to turn up to
listen to you know, you're very popular here. You're very
popular indeed. Because within a few days of the Irish saying no
to the Lisbon Treaty, you had rammed that treaty through the
British Parliament, and you've done it breaking a specific. You
see, I said you were popular. You did it breaking a specific
mesto pledge that you would give the British people a referendum
on the constitutional treaty. Shame on you, Prime Minister for
doing that you have devalued democracy in our country, you
have devalued the trust that voters have gotten you as a
British prime minister. But of course, we know the reason why.
The reason why is that we would have voted no. You said in your
speech, that number those on the extremes oppose European Union.
Well, that may be right, amongst professional career politicians.
But a clear majority of the British people want us to have
friendship and free trade with the European Union, but do not
want to be members of this political union. You cannot you
cannot continue against public opinion to build this European
here. If you do it, this is just the winder people you are
storing up enormous social and political problems for the
future. Please, please let the peoples of Europe decide their
destiny don't have it done in Parliament's like this and
Parliament's like Westminster, it won't work. And as far as the
economy is concerned, you've told us that somehow you're the
economic guru, you're the man that can save the world? Well, I
remember very well, your first big act as chancellor, when you
sold 400 metric tons of gold on the world's exchanges at $275 An
ounce at today's valuation, that would be $10 billion higher. But
it isn't just the fact you've got it wrong, because we can all
get it wrong. It was the fact that you announced in advance
that how much you were going to sell. And on what day you were
going to sell. It was an era so basic, that the average a level
economics student, even in these educationally devalued times
wouldn't have done I love it.
Yeah, they're a little more blunt there. We don't do
anything like that.
But that's but it's not it's untelevised, you know, doesn't
really make any difference. No one ever sees it. No one ever
hears it. So did it really happen? I don't think so.
Hey, by the way, I got a list of stuff from Obama's a press
conference. I noticed that he's also doing it a Reagan thing
where he he brings in these anecdotes he says he met with a
man yesterday who builds windows. Yeah, Bill gag is to me
is what is he meeting with this guy for? How does this guy get
the meeting with the President? But anyway, he's got a new term,
by the way I want people to look out for besides the fact that he
now has four items in his agenda for items, new terms coming?
Yes. The new term is blue chip forecasters.
Well, that's that's on par with working families. John. What's
the working family? And what's the blue chip forecaster,
and I don't know but a blue chip forecasters hot. It's the new
mean, me was also by the way, go ahead. He's also attacking
critics to an excess. He's mentioning the critics, critics
critics as those are
the other guys we inherited this it's all by the way, he
inherited everything. Everything is inherited. So while Obama was
doing 60 minutes, which was also that was kind of a fun, a fun
interview. Although he doesn't actually write to the President
doesn't write to the parents of dead soldiers. He just signs
them. He just signs the letters. Did you catch that? On the 16th?
No, I
didn't catch it. That's fine,
because there's so many demands and decisions that are pressed
upon you. What's the hardest decision you've had to make in
the last 60 days? Well, I would say that the decision to send
more troops into Afghanistan, that, you know, I think it's the
right thing to do. But it's a weighty decision because we
actually had to make the decision. Prior to the
completion of strategic review.
I love that we made the decision before we had the frickin plan
that we were conducting when I make a decision to send 17,000
Sounds like a marriage, Afghanistan. Exactly. You can
understand that a lecture to the new boss, but understanding what
that means for those families or those young people. When you end
up sitting at your desk signing a condolence letter to
not like you'd actually write one. Have someone else write it
and then you do assign it.
He doesn't feel like he would have time to write all those
letters.
I mean, yeah, it's several 1000 I mean, forget about it. Not to
be outdone, by the way in the spectrum of getting ink getting
press and on television, Barney Frank appeared made an
appearance on gay 365.
Thank you for joining us. Let's start with DOMA the 12 year old
defensive Marriage Act recently coming under fire
attention and what he says about the Supreme Court, by the way,
Barney Frank, who is the he's on the Senate Banking Committee,
he's the chairman, isn't he? He famously says, Yeah, Barney
Frank, I got some I got some nastiness on Barney Frank,
several points. First two federal judges in California now
saying that employees in their courts are in fact, despite DOMA
entitled to health benefits for their same sex partners. What
are your thoughts on that? And can that alone really do much?
As much
as I just liked that? Well, I got the fight against it, I
don't think it's appropriate to say that the President should
pick and choose what laws he defends. On the other hand, I do
think there's argument that it is unconstitutional for the
federal government to pick and choose as to which marriages it
will accept, because you got to at some point, that's gonna have
to go to the United States Supreme Court. I wouldn't want
to go to the United States Supreme Court now, because that
homophobe Antonin Scalia just got too many votes on this
current court.
I think that's hilarious that homophobe.
Skelly should hold them in contempt.
Yeah, I mean, that's, that's out there, man.
is pretty bad.
Oh, my goodness. You know, by the way that we were talking
about all these problems that the President has inherited, you
know, how those are categorized. Now?
I don't know. What's the Newton other term? Yes. I'm
a big believer in persistence. Oh, yeah. I think that when it
comes to domestic affairs, if we keep on working at it, if we
acknowledge that we make mistakes sometimes and that we
don't always have the right answer, and we're inheriting
very naughty problems.
You know, he started that persistence thing at the end,
almost as an ad lib, you know, because persistence is going to
be his mantra, which I came to that which is the same and
what's the difference in that and George Bush is still
nothing,
nothing. All you got to do is say it with a different voice?
And you're on the money?
Yeah, he's got a much better voice. There's a fact you know,
talking about the teleprompter is that the Letterman did a bit
that I thought was amusing. He it's called, you know, key
defended the Obama's use of the teleprompter with a segment
called prompter or no problem, like, will it float? And see
exactly, so he brings him out, and there's Obama giving this
role. And then he says, then no prompter. They go to the no
prompter segment, and it's a subsection of with Bush,
stumbling through somebody, prompt or no prompt. So he's
trying to like can't get, you know, he used to do this thing
called great moments in presidential speeches. But Bush
is gone now. So he's trying to keep him in the attitude.
He's got to do something. There was one piece, and then we
should start with the sound clips. President Obama said
something yesterday, which I believe can be used against him
with this whole climate change bullshit. And it relates to the
question about stem cell research. And it was a great
follow up question. And I just think it's very useful.
But what I don't want to do is predetermine this based on a
very rigid scientific, ideological approach, here comes
the question, and that's what I think is reflected in the
executive order that I signed. Do you think that scientific
consensus is enough to tell us what we can and cannot do?
No, thank you. Just wanted to hear it. scientific consensus
not enough to tell us what to do. including climate change,
though, yes,
that's funny. Good catch. That's nice. I didn't have a use for
it. But yeah, climate change what scientific consensus get
through with anything.
Al Gore is coming out with a new book. Oh, he's
got to do some. Yeah, well wrote this one.
Let's see from Al's webpage, it's called our choice. It will
be published by Rodale in the US and by other publishers
internationally, November third. 2009. Picking up where An
Inconvenient Truth left off. Our choice utilizes Mr. Gore, Mr.
Gore's 40 years of experience as a student, policymaker, author,
filmmaker, entrepreneur, Grammy award winner, I made that up and
activist.
Why is it being poached by Rodale?
I've known nothing about Rodale.
It's like a, you know, a small publisher that does a lot of
health books and things like that. It's a very specialized
group.
Maybe they pick those first one maybe they had no, I'm sure he
got to Got a good deal on it?
Yeah, but I mean, you get a lot more money from a random house
in terms of millions, maybe.
Maybe he's got a back end on all that shit. Yeah, he must
have some special royalty or something in
Colorado is now illegal to catch rainwater.
Now that we blogged this like over a month ago, it's been
illegal to catch rainwater in Colorado for decades. How does
that work? It's, in fact, in most states, when you started
looking it up, it's illegal to catch rainwater. That's crazy.
Yeah, tell me about it.
But I mean here that it's actually encouraged and you can
buy what they call a garden, but
I'm not quite sure why they call it a but but why? Why would that
be outlawed? Why would that be illegal?
Well, we're wondering ourselves, but it's they would say that the
water resources people say, look, we've calculated the
runoff and the drainage and we did this and we can't have it
interfered with with a bunch of people with barrels, which is
just a bullshit argument I've ever heard one, but it's, it's a
matter of it didn't didn't nobody's that I don't think
there's anybody although I think we did block somebody who did
get a ticket for collecting rainwater. It what the problem
is, is that in certain certain of these drought prone areas,
and this came to to my attention after I'd written a poor we
complained about the fact that in Bermuda where there's no
natural source of water, right people have these roofs made
with this, you know, Bermuda built for
the purpose, but for to regulate rainwater is from God, you can't
regulate that screw that.
So, you know, it's like, you can't do one of these roofs and
with a cistern in Los Angeles, where they're always moaning
about their lack of water, and instead of just goes into those
big trenches and out to the ocean, and when they're there,
people are sold water at a very high price. Instead, it's just
corruption. Thank you.
And the only one of the true glimmers of hope in the European
Union, the current the member state that holds the presidency
the Czech Republic Well, you know, the of course the
president of the Czech Republic doesn't believe in climate
change story. And his government fell conveniently oops. So now I
have to say I'm playing ball he's not playing ball you are
not playing ball check ski
watch what we'll do now. Should Use that you should make that a
clip.
It's so true carbon footprint labels should be displayed on
all new products a ministers of Parliament and get mo nation
east of course. Of course they should know I'm all for it.
I wonder how many people like in the United States especially who
don't pay much attention to this political stuff like that we
live in North Dakota and don't really care about any of this
think everything's bull would pick up a package and they'd see
this carbon footprint say that what is this?
What is this carbon footprint thing?
And then they look around for a footprint on the ground saying
is this like a footprint around here?
You really got to understand you got to listen to this show. Tell
your neighbors tell your friends
in the Belfast Telegraph I'm so glad this is coming to light
they keep talking about the the biggest Ponzi scheme in the
world and it is all going straight back to Iraq $125
billion are missing
is a great article. It's not a Ponzi scheme that's in our notes
register rip off. Yes. Miss labels their money back?
Well, no, it's literally being shipped out on pallets. And you
know, that's not just not it's just not a good policy to send
money on pallets. I don't care what you say I don't care who's
touching it. It's just not a good policy. And this article is
very good. You'll find it in the show notes. At no agenda of me
veoh.com currie.com And cage match.dvorak.org. And just the
ramp and it's our money. In fact, someone sent me a clip of
Senator Dorgan and this is a it's a clip from a couple months
ago. And I'll just fast forward to this one bit where he's
talking about where some of this money is going to an end. He
uses pictures just present on one other subject. I'll just
fast forward this here we go to this bit is funny. And the
pictures are even better. Have a firm that was awarded $300
million dollars in taxpayer contracts to provide weapons to
the Afghan fighters in Afghanistan are so he's showing
a picture of a 22 year old kid and he says this kid receive
$300 million to provide I'd weapons. Our State Department
our military said the American taxpayer shall pay for weapons
to be given to the Afghanis the fighters in Afghanistan. Well,
that's probably another debate, but one I think most people
would say anyway, he goes on and he shows another kid, his, his
colleague, because this guy is the CEO. And then he's got the
chairman of this company, which is located in a shack in
Allegan, Florida. And this is where the money is going to $300
million being sent to these punks. And then they show the
here's what they actually deliver the show like a case of
old Chinese bullets. It's a complete frickin scam.
Unbelievable. And I saw you pull that that clip from the Mexican
clip from the press conference last night, Obama pretty much
said it right there. He said, Well, you know what we've got to
stop is all these illegal guns and all this money going to the
drug cartel? Well, yeah, it's the government sending the money
in the guns. And then then we get dope in return. It's, by the
way system.
Before we forget this one, I gotta mention this because it
crops up here in there. Did you know that Barack Obama's mom
worked for Geithner's dad? No, you're kidding me. Check it out.
Go on. You can get you guys can Google it and find out the
details. So Obama's
mom worked for Geithner's dad.
Yep. And that's, you know, there's your connection. There's
your dad looks like a kind of a shady character. By the way.
There's your Manchurian mentoring, Manchurian Candidate.
And, of course, Chris DODDS wife, was a board member of an
AIG subsidiary company.
Now, I got an answer to the 79.9% of AIG. And then we were
talking about that, why don't we own all of it? Right? Well, the
reason is, because first of all, we don't actually own it. We
have warrants, that would be the US government for this money
that we gave them, we have warrants. So that can be changed
into, I guess, common stock ownership for 79.9%. Because the
minute you hit the 80% mark, then the company's debts are
have to be consolidated onto the budget of the acquiring entity,
which would be the people of the United States. So that's the
trick there is keep it off, keep it off the books. However, at
any moment. They can pull the old switcheroo and then we
would, we would own it. And I have a new girlfriend. Oh boy.
I'm in love.
So you've dropped the Erin Burnett.
Erin Burnett is is is off the list, man. My new baby. My new
baby. Is Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. Have you ever seen
her?
Yeah, I vaguely remember members seeing her.
She's from Minnesota and she from sources folder. She has
that hot Minnesota twang. And she is super, super duper MILF
Hold on, I gotta say
Chairman, thank you for this opportunity. These truly are
extraordinary times in our financial service sector since
one year ago. So she's
she's got like the librarian glasses on and she's holding the
mic tenderly between her four finger ring finger and thumb.
And it's and but she's she's so smart job she is so and I want
to play two pieces, but just just the reserve open
the Feds discount window, open your mouth
so I can kiss you
for Bear Stearns. The American people are looking at the
so beautiful. You got a picture ever yet. And they are
wondering,
I'll picture I've got it. She's an older woman. Yeah, she's
milk older woman, she's Melfi. And then she takes her glasses
off. And she's looking straight into the camera. She's just
a different one. It is a different. Barbara, you spell
your last name be a CH
M A N I think is what it is. So anyway, so she asked the
treasury of the Secretary and the Chairman of the Federal
Reserve, if there was going to be if they think there should be
new global currency effects of financial collapse. And let's
just
listen seeing both China, Russia and Kazakhstan make calls for an
international monetary conversion to an international
monetary standard as soon as the G 20. And I'm wondering, would
you categorically renounced the United States moving away from
the dollar and going to a global currency, as suggested this
morning by China and also by Russia?
You imagine waking up in the morning and you've got this
beautiful woman next to you saying, you know, can
you just do what she looks like? Send me a picture.
God, I will in a minute. Let me just I'm getting into her here,
man. And magical right click. Wake up in the morning and she's
like, Wow, do you think there will be a global currency? Baby?
I don't know.
Secretary. I would. Yes. You are categorically Federal Reserve
Chair. I would also
do, could you anyway, so she's uncovered something which I
think is beautiful and I I just want to play what happens in the
congressional hearing when she asked the question. So
guiding you to have a jingle for all our clips. Yeah, we do this
clip day.
This is clip day, so Geitner has now presented or has announced
his plan, what we're going to do to basically solve this
quadrillion of derivatives, which is sitting out there in
AIG, mainly. And the plan is a you've heard this, and I'd like
to break it down for you the public private partnership, the
public private partnership investment program or some shit
like that.
So I've got to pick k. She's like, she's got like, the plants
in Ba Wow, she's got one big square jaw. Yeah, it looks like
Maria Shriver. No, she's
much hotter than Maria Shriver sand. So what So the idea is, or
the, the illusion is given that private companies are going to
participate in buying up these bad assets. But the way it works
is the FDIC is going to guarantee and in fact, actually
pay for 90 to 95%. Of all of that, and that the trick now is,
and there's a there's a link in the show notes, the way to make
money on this is you if you have bad assets, you want to sell
them for if possible, like 80 cents on the dollar, you're
going to make 15 cents, because the government is going to
ensure up to 95% of the bad assets. And that's coming right
off of the taxpayers. So it's a complete scam. This Geitner
scheme complete from beginning to end, and she knows it, my new
baby, my new Bae per minute notes from Minnesota, and she
asked the question, and, and so she's hammering right down to
the core of the bullshit that is coming next, which will bankrupt
the United States, for sure. And she gets cut off by Twinkletoes.
Listen,
Mr. Secretary, as I understand it, approximately 90 to 95%. In
the new program that you've just announced yesterday, of the
funding would come from the taxpayer. Is that true? Or
perhaps the leveraging is a six to seven to one leveraging on
the purchasing of the public private partnership, the toxic
assets that are available, when the returns come back to the
American people? Well, the American people be receiving 90
to 95% of the benefit or will it be another figure?
The gentleman's time has expired? And Mr. Chair, could
I have an answer from No,
no, no, no, no. Is that outrageous or what? She called
members you can't do that. She asked the question. The question
she can ask it again. So I don't agree with it. He's obviously on
the on the ball. Yeah,
I'm looking at her wiki page. You know, we would have some
differences but that might make for some really hot sex.
But there's something from Buzz flash.com which is obviously a
Obama's site. They call it the next Sarah Palin. She's a crazy
she's a abuse of power. She's a born again, balls the
best kind. They're wild,
they huge family. So yeah. You know what she's been doing? I've
actually seen her a couple times. She is quite sharp. She
she'll be hell yeah. Until they find a way to sidetrack her
somehow. Well, they
might have to take her out back. Well, maybe they can put her in
a private plane with some icing convenient in the area. A couple
more planes went down this week. Man is
going well before he do that. Yeah. What is the Hold on a
second? Well, well, shall I Okay, no, go ahead. Good. The
plane thing because I was reading something but it's just
gonna
say the plane thing. You know, there's all this shit that is
happening on final approaches. It's it seems, you know, we had
the
and we also had this to Bush ships. Another couple of ships
bumped into each other. I know last week.
We talked about Sunday, the submarine and the tanker. Yeah.
So now we have a FedEx plane. Which boy that that was that was
a frickin nasty bounce they made in 2008.
This is Michelle Bachman. Not sure I'm sorry. I said Michelle.
No, you said Barb. No,
I did not. That was why she's from the Dukes of Hazzard. You
said no, she's from Dallas Barbara Bachman was Wasn't she
the mom on Dallas.
So here, I'm looking at this thing from buzz flash and this
guy that's why I couldn't find her as Michelle and Michelle I'm
sorry. I've known Michelle for over this is a comment on this
blog. I have known Michelle for over 15 years personally and
politically without a doubt she is the most willfully ignorant,
doesn't see the stop sign and runs it and irrationally stupid
sees the stop sign and runs it on purpose. There is almost no
connection between their brain as small as it is on her mouth
incredibly big. Rarely, if ever does she think before she speaks
but loves the limelight in the mic. But alas, the poor empty
headed woman couldn't analyze an issue on any topic rationally
and constructively as a resident of her district voted for sneezy
grumpy or sleepy. Unfortunately, only dopey was on the GOP line,
where she nods her head straight guys funny, I love it goes on
and on. I mean, this is how that's good. Now the next the
next comment, she's certainly insane. Yes, I
like her even more now. But she's, she's got her chops. Did
you hear the question? She was asking. I mean, she's got her
show. Yeah,
no, that was a good Yeah, but this is did she's obviously
gonna be attacked by these,
because she's beautiful. As usual. It's all the beautiful
people who have to bear the brunt.
Michelle Bachman, Queen of the ultra right plutocracy, she
would be able to take like this woman in Congress thinking about
the mental state of the voters who center their
offense. I did. She's great. She is great.
Wow, this is the most vitriolic thing people should go. Look up
Michelle Bachman and then go to buzz flash.com and just check it
out. It's hilarious to comment chairs are just like mean.
On Twitter under the internet on Twitter question. He's Barney
Frank Scooby Doo. Question Time, time is up. So the FedEx plane
that bounced hard, that sucks. But this horrible accident and
the minute I read the news report, I'm like what? So it's a
politesse. Pac 12 with a whole bunch of kids on board crashed
in Montana. Everyone perished. And I was reading this 17 People
14 People I'm like, what it's called the PAC 12 for a reason.
The maximum amount of passengers in any configuration is 12,
including the two pilots. Right? And they had they had kids on
lap belts and oh, it's any of these things. You got to be very
careful, particularly with these big sent single engine machines,
you know, you can get a snap, you can get a snap stall, all
kinds of weird shit can happen if your center of gravity is off
and if you have too many people on board.
I know that it's so sad. We can put two more and can we get two
more out Derek and Cameron did it take a second trip NASA save
us some money.
It's like the it's like the biggest nono in the world. You
know, and just cheese we plant
a big single engine puddle jumper from Boeing Field to Port
Angeles. And it's run by which one of the great airlines little
airlines called Kenmore, who's been in business since World War
Two and I don't think they ever had a fatality it's amazing
little place and and we find these there they actually soup
them up so that things are like you know, got more horsepower
than usual. And this like a caravan and there's a couple of
these different planes in a bucket. You know, they come in
that pile looks around says okay, you have to move to that.
See, yeah, there's
like a weight and balance absolutely balanced.
This is your probably should go to that.
Mr. Dvorak. Yeah. Would you mind just squatting in the aisle for
us, please?
They did have one one time on the flight I took they had some
woman that was so incredibly large that they had to like make
special provisions for her to put her in a certain spot in a
plane you know, and yeah, it's centered. But yeah, yeah,
they're very conscientious about that. I mean, normally so yeah,
I was kind of Yeah, that's what they say. They said they plan
was overloaded.
Yeah is very very sad.
Put the flaps on it thing just nose dived into the thing.
Now I think it's snap rolled in this particular plane you have
to be kind of careful with a couple of things because it will
kill you. You know that's what they say great aircraft. You got
to follow a couple of simple rules because it will bite you
so sad. J Rockefeller Hold on a second Hey. DAMN IT people don't
give a shit that I'm doing a show I think they do give a shit
yeah. J Hall of needs sorry about that. It's nice being next
to the There you go. Now
we got the Shelley Berman moment ladies and gentlemen, the
Shelley Berman moment.
I don't I don't understand this reference.
There'll be like two old farts that are listening to this show
that go That's hilarious. Does anybody remember that?
Please email me when you get that joke. Part of the the evil
elite who actually run the globe, of course are the
Rockefellers and Jay Rockefeller, who I believe is a
senator. More congressman. He's part of the lineage. He came out
the other day and said something just fantastic. Which
tomorrow full committee hearing on cybersecurity.
This guy by the way, is the epitome of reptilian. Have you
ever seen Rockefeller
Oh, yeah. And
this comes within our purview on this committee. And it mean not
trying to be dramatic about it. When the when the internet was
invented by Al Gore, I'd like to point out, everybody fell flat
on their face. They were so thrilled. And the world began to
do.
Everyone fell flat on their face and the world was so thrilled.
Don't you recall John, us falling flat on our faces.
Gets better business in a different way. Now, both the
President Bush's Director of National Intelligence Mike
McConnell, who I greatly respect, and
like that, like that gives him some credits
to President Obama's Director of National Intelligence, Admiral
Blair, who I greatly respect, have labeled cybersecurity
perpetrated through the internet as the number one. National
hazard
is funny, I haven't heard the President say that. Have you
heard that?
I don't know what he's talking about.
Well, he's getting to a point of attack
on the homeland in West Virginia, in West Virginia, and
by the way, the homeland is West Virginia, anywhere else.
So I mean, it really, it really, almost makes you ask the
question, would it have been better if we'd never invented
the internet? What a douche.
Tom thing to say. That's it? Yeah, I
wish we had that goes on. And we shouldn't have invented the
internet. If we could turn it all back, we would you know,
it's like, ladies and gentlemen, you don't have to connect your
sensitive databases to the internet. Okay, if you don't
have to do that. It's not a necessity, please. And now, back
to real.
Actually, instead of real news, we have to take a break here.
And because this is the moment, it's the last Thursday of
February, we had after I had just pitched people to donate to
the show. We had our best response. And it
came after we paid it came after he played the real news jingle?
Well, no, I'm just saying it was at this time. And that show that
I said the following, I'm going to want you to play the Donate
section, which is a plug to to get people to contribute to our
show.
So we're gonna play we're gonna replay what worked previously.
Yeah, play it. I mean, I kind of glossed over the article, I just
thought it was interesting to Jackie Chan was was piping up
there. But
talking about piping up, by the way, we do need some more people
to donate to our library. So I can write, and I'll have the
slash library thing done this week. But the point is, is that
it doesn't, you know, if you, if you listen to this thing, we do
an hour and a half, you know, twice a week, so it's three
hours, doing $2 a month.
And notice. There's no commercials, there's no ads in
here, it's all we don't dance.
It's very dense. So I don't think it would hurt go to
divorce.org/in. A,
donate to the curry divorce library project,
right, which is just fund our publicly funded this publicly
funded, we're testing the idea, we don't want to do ads, they
interrupt the flow of, of our thoughts. And I think it
interrupts and I don't want to do these promotions anymore, I'd
like to stop doing them. But it's not going to, we're not
going to for a while because we need to get a lot more people
involved. And we have a lot of listeners and you know, it's
just a matter. But again, you know, somebody's listening to
this, and they're not necessarily at the computer. I'd
be listening on iTunes on a iPod and then they forget, because
I've, I've always found it very difficult to get anyone to
connect a, like a TV show to a website or podcast to a website.
If they're not actually on the computer at the time. You just
forget to go to divorce.org/and. A.
And if you can't afford it, if you know if we don't feel like
it yet, you know, we'll be happy with some link, love. Give us a
link
that also helps. Yeah, something that you found that is weird,
or just linked to us just linked to the show that also helps.
LinkedIn does actually have some great little Google link juice,
baby. Hey, that was me. Maybe just touch on that briefly.
Because I know you're so anti cloud and boy, I was on your
side the other the other morning when? Right? So that's in the
end? Well, that's an interesting, interesting
experiment, John.
Well, you know, that's the end of the tip. By the way, I had to
get the cloud thing there because that's the only time
you've ever agreed with me. So I left that in.
I agree with you lots of times babies so
now on last Sunday where we downplayed this promotion. We
got like the number of people sent it since Sunday. that had
gone to our to has 90%. Right? At least Yeah, it was like total
of three people as opposed to 25 we're getting from that
particular one. And so I was you know, that was because I think
that guy wrote us and bitched about the fact that we harp on I
kind of the timeline that by the way, there was one minute 58
seconds of a total of like, 90 minutes or more.
We're not harping by any means of the imagination,
right? I mean, we are a little bit now but generally speaking,
let me just let me just offset
that please. If And now, back to real. The word is sleeve gait,
John.
No, I haven't heard that one.
If nothing else, the hullabaloo over Michelle Obama's
occasionally sleeveless attire has reached a fever pitch this
month, unleashing a torrent of clever puns from headline
writers. She has got a nice shoulders. I have to say
it. Yeah, she was a good look on it. She she I think she lifts
weights. Oh, yeah.
She and Barak go to the gym every morning. He said yes. No,
I think she's she's pretty hot. Actually. Yeah, but I would I
would prefer to have Michelle Bachman on her body that would
be that would be when you're talking to a woman man.
That's a little too much woman. Pupils
will no longer have to study the Victorians or the second world
war on your proposals to overhaul the primary school
curriculum and Gitmo nation East according to the Guardian Oh, I
like it so in other words, Great Britain is going to issue its
own history. Yes
of course. Why would you want to learn about them when the draft
plans inquire require children to master Twitter and Wikipedia?
The end is nigh
Queen Elizabeth rolling over in her grave.
I can hear her orange if you're interested I have I have a
couple of those new directives. You may be a terrorist if and
this is from the my AK that we talked about. Has that Yeah. Has
that been gotten any ink anywhere?
Monks nutcases like ourselves and you know the right wing
media yeah, here and there but now not generally
well let's just do a little checklist for our for our
listeners, then
shall we might be who you might be attendees are finding it.
This is not a joke. No, no, because you could do you could
imagine a Kuma bit you might be a terrorist if and then you do a
bunch of humor, right? But these are actually real things people
are looking at. Hold on a second I got I got a sound effect.
And why not? Right. Where's my sound effect?
Oh, there is it's called feedback. Stop.
It opened an iTunes piece of crap. That's not feedback.
That's a bling.
Bling. It's like feedback. Oh,
I missed another one. How about this one?
The Bling stinks.
You probably can't even hear that. All right, you may be a
terror. You can check along with these at home, you can play
along with the game. If you're against abortion against illegal
immigration against gun control, if you're just against paying
taxes, you could be a terrorist. Unless of course you're a member
of the presidential cabinet or congressional representative
then you're excused. If you're against RFID universal service
programs, you're probably a terrorist. If you're for the US
Constitution for property rights for national sovereignty and
Christian ideologies, here probably a terrorist if you've
seen Aaron Russo's America freedom to fascism, Zeitgeist or
vie for vengeance your which is also enlist you're probably a
terrorist. This is unbelievable.
What's it what's the source of this?
This is from the memo that was sent to the the mic was at
Minneapolis I don't know Hold on a second I've got I've got it
here this is the memo that was that included the wording that
if you are supportive Ron V
for Vendetta
Hey, good point. It is V for Vendetta Wow, that's a big
mistake. Well then I can't read the rest of the article because
it couldn't contain more crap so it's gone.
They're all contains crap. That's a bunch of bull the
excuse to put more people on the terrorist watch list to harass
them. This is all political harassment. It's got nothing to
do with terrorism.
Go Johnny.
You know you guys some guy is gay. We must be a that means
he's obviously a conservative Republican put him on the watch
less make his life miserable.
And of course you can't own a gun. If you're on the watch
list. That's what Rahm Emanuel wants. If you're on the watch
list, yeah, you didn't know that.
No, this is news to me. Are you
kidding me? This has been around the internet for ages. Well, I
wasn't I
missed it. I can't remember read the whole internet.
What else do you do in your free time? Then I can just see you
sitting there in your underwear with your with your eggs.
Reading an internet. John, John, it's dinnertime. Hold on honey.
I'm reading The Internet
is another good voice you use for a clip
hold on Robin man you all and guns let me just
so this is just a gun grab this is another. This is not gonna
get anywhere. What is wrong with the Republicans out to put up
with this crap?
Well, I think this is the one thing this is the
now what do we got to do? Cuz let's be um, and Sarah.
Daughter, we got to do Hey, I'm pointing my half a finger at
you, buddy. People's intimidation on this issue is
not defined by just Republicans that are Democrats intimidated
by this issue. wrongly but intimidated. They think oh,
that's not the one. Yeah, it's from the same speech. But yeah,
get it clipped, and we'll run it and on Sunday. Anyway, so he
says that he says, I believe people who are on the watch list
who were on the watch list for a reason, which includes two year
old babies.
They're on there for a reason. Yeah, of course they fucking
terrorists, man. They should not be allowed to purchase guns. It
is you're right. It's the big get the guns out of the people's
hands. I do want to put in a plug real quick. For Congressman
Ron Paul, who does have a house resume?
If you like Ron Paul, you're on
that list? Yes, you are a terrorist. And if you I guess if
you sponsor his bill 1207 to audit the Federal Reserve, which
there was an amendment put in place, I believe in the 50s,
which stopped that practice. But if you want to overturn that,
repeal that then you're a terrorist.
I want to give you an update on HR 1207, the bill to audit the
Federal Reserve. We're making great progress. Because a lot of
you have helped encourage your member of Congress to co sponsor
the bill. We now have about 39 co sponsors the bill has been
introduced in the Senate, and we're picking up a lot of
momentum and
that's pretty good, isn't it? 39 yet,
that's gonna it's gonna end once they these guys realize that
they've now become terrorists.
Oh, should I can't co sponsor that I'll be a terrorist.
When a terrorist not because when when all of a sudden the
terrorists not be members of the various Islamist movements,
designed to reestablish a caliphate in the Middle East
gained that connection between abortion and Federal Reserve and
these kinds of Hold on a second caliphate in the Middle East,
which seems to me where the terrorism stems from into hatred
of Israel.
Well, you've you've clearly exposed the evil elite, John,
you've experienced you, you're on to them now. I am Yes, you've
done it. You've done it. Hey,
you know, George private planes for me,
you know, George Weber. Does that name Duncanville? George
Weber?
No,
I would think it would ring a bell to you. George Weber was
the guy who he was a San Jose Mercury News reporter. I think
70s or 80s. And he exposed the golden drug deal drug deals.
Yeah, the government deals so he was found dead in his Brooklyn
apartment with a stab wound to his neck. And a parent's
suicide. You know, they don't know they spokeswoman for the
City medical examiner off
dozen times in a suicide attempt.
autopsy results are expected the Monday but he did quite a lot.
He really did expose a lot of that a lot of that drug running
on government planes. And
yeah, I know they've always found it turned out he got him
fired. That it made his life miserable. He had to leave the
Bay Area and then later when he didn't certainly vesicle
investable, rational investigations. It's funny I'm
making them up as I go along. Some Congressional
investigations that some other reporting done later years yet
later proved the guy to be dead, right with all kinds of
evidence. You know, meanwhile, I know what he did after that. I
didn't know he was in Brooklyn. Yep. He's probably murdered.
Yeah,
probably. I bet you he was all over the Afghan situation.
I could be who knows maybe retired. I don't know I've ever
heard. Is he got any bylines floating around out there?
I haven't done enough investigation on it.
Is there a book that he was just finishing and they had to kill
him? It
could be we're gonna find out I'm sure.
Well, at least one good thing about we're going to call it
good. If you murdered in generally in the New York area
they have competent as opposed to like, say you're in Denver,
competent homicide departments that using at least you have a
shot at catching the guy.
There's a transcript floating around from the Munich Security
Conference. Man. We pulled some clips from that a couple shows
back. Yeah. And in the transcript US national security
adviser Jones. What's his name again? Was this for well, Jones.
Here's his quote. Thank you for that wonderful tribute to Henry
Kissinger yesterday. Congratulations as the most
recent national security adviser of the united in the United
States. I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger filtered down
through general Brent snow Croft, Scowcroft and Sandy
Berger, who was also here we have a chain of command and the
National Security Council that exists today. There you go. So
if you want to know who's running the show,
Kissinger that's always been Kissinger. But
there was there was there was a time when you were very and
within this program you were very skeptical about Zbigniew
Brzezinski and Kissinger
I've never been skeptical about them not
and thank you everyone for sending the ideas on where to
get the perfect lighter. Just so you know, even if you buy
refillable butane is not you can't sell that to minors. You
have to be 18 to buy a lighter refill and get more nation East
so what is the lighter you bought? What's so good about it?
That is I attain lighter? No, I
just I just got another one of those throwaways. No, because I
can't get him I know which ones are good as the oval because the
oval books are the best. And they're not relaunches,
just get hold of the big company in town to get by a case
not tell him to send us $100,000 We'll give him the disinfo
moment of the day.
That would be nice.
We could do that on the stream even
getting a lot of $6.60 and $66.60. We didn't use we were
gonna get $666 And you're gonna get a good big mansion and
mansion. Oh, and I haven't done it all show. I'd like to throw
it into your court, just to wind it up a lot of technical
analysts of the markets which of course have been rallying nicely
say that we have reached the Fibonacci Confluence levels.
Which of course is is a fractal isn't it?
I don't know how the Fibonacci thing works in horror which uses
it I don't know what the formula is. Well, it's got to do with
anything. I have no idea. It's beyond me. At that point. I met
my at the end of my ability to comprehend stuff.
Okay, you have to know your limits.
Like every good pilot, you've got to know your limits. All
right. Got plenty of stuff we'll keep for are we gonna do a show
on Sunday? Well, why wouldn't we? I don't know. I just want to
make sure you're around.
You're gonna be around. Yes. Then I'll be around.
Yeah. Tomorrow. We've got our big. We've got our big meevo UK
producers day, which is cool. Moody flew in for that. So it's
always fun to see him. And oh, I also wanted to mention there has
there's a no agenda iPhone app which has been submitted to the
iPhone store. So the I guess the apple people have to check it
out or something. Not? You it Yeah. It's called no agenda
mobile and on it. You can there's a button for the stream
button to access the most recent podcast. There's a button that
will help you tweet or directly onto the stream, you know, stuff
like that. It's kind of cool.
All right.
And Obama has asked for Kanye West tracks for Air Force One.
Oh, real news from CNN.
That's good stuff.
Alright, John, how about you what you're doing today? Oh, you
have to do a tech five top five today.
No, no, that's tomorrow. I do cranky geeks. I'm off my way to
the city to do cranky geeks. And there's also the Game Developers
Conference, which I'm going to check out.
Oh, that sounds cool. Oh, by the way. You mentioned something
about cranky geeks and I watched the show last week show which
was pretty good one. The brilliant quote from yourself
that you couldn't remember because let's face it, your
short term memories pretty crappy was how come these
newspapers are so brilliant yet they couldn't To see their own
demise
Yeah, well I've that's actually I've been saying that for a
while. That's not a new one.
But isn't that what you were talking about? That's what you
were.
No it wasn't no, that was the only brilliant moment I could
pick up from the show. Except for now all this you missed. It
was even one you mispronouncing
Yulan offs name every time was cool. Yeah, yeah,
he thought it was funny too. Oh, really? Oh, good.
Is he a nice guy looks kind of like a dick.
Like some really nice guys great guy to planning out with very
down to earth. Okay, I like probably would appreciate the
comment. Yeah,
so please don't come over here. April 30. Because I do have a
board meeting can we can you please just hang in San
Francisco?
Yeah, I'm gonna be in the Queen's Day. Sorry. No,
no, no, no, your naps are no please don't go a week early.
I'm gonna be there for a week. Oh,
wow. John, but then I'll never see you over here. Now well,
I'll go back and now you don't care. You don't care to
have all those frequent flyer miles intended score at a
discount.
All right, next show Sunday. The stream continues. Keep the
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keep improving it. Coming to you from the crackpot Command Center
in South West London, and Gitmo nation East I'm Adam curry,
and from the buzzkill bunker here in Northern Silicon Valley,
a place that really doesn't exist, but we think it does. I'm
John C. Dvorak.
And we'll talk to you again next week right here on no agenda.
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