Eat my notes like Ling Ling does Adam curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's September 6 2009. Time for your gizmo nation audio
publication episode 128. This is no agenda coming to you from the
17th century canal house crackpot command centre in
Amsterdam Gitmo nation east where we'll happily recycle your
old metal joints. I'm Adam curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley where the train just went by him
John C. Dvorak. crag, London Buzzkill.
Almost not in the morning anymore.
It's 926. But what what's the morning anyway? Yeah, good
point. It's always the morning someplace.
Yes. And happy hour somewhere else.
Okay, so you got this week, Adam, how you doing? Yeah, I'm,
I'm doing a football game yesterday and watch the
University of California beat the crap out of the University
of Maryland 52 to 13. But unfortunately, also ran into the
student newspaper where I read a disturbing article.
You ask me how I'm doing and you're off
to the races? Yeah, well, that's okay. We'll get to the
disturbing article later. So how are you doing?
I'm doing good. I only got one thing to say
he's a mack daddy. He paps white women and black women. Obama has
a long leg mack daddy.
I am just enjoying this pastor so much.
He doesn't like Obama.
People since since we turned our audience on to Pastor Manning,
they've been finding all kinds of really choice quotes from
them.
It's just fantastic.
Yeah. And of course, I posted on the blog, his definition of long
legged mac daddy, and where he which he takes forever to
explain. Yeah, but he does explain it. And it's it's a very
interesting definition, I have to say,
Well, I found actually someone linked to the original. One of
his original, I guess speeches where he goes into the long
legged mac daddy. And he said he does have a very interesting
point as to why and I don't think it's the video that you
put onto devora.org/blog But this is where he explains why
he's calling him a long legged mack daddy, that's about 45
seconds worthless is a
mack daddy Obama pimps white women and black women. He got
started. You didn't notice him till he brought out those big
chested white women with their tight T shirts and their short
pants. That's what a pimp does.
So he's referring to Obama Girl. And he has an interesting point.
That is kind of when Obama really went mainstream is when
Obama girls started coming out on YouTube right?
Well, I never thought about it until you mentioned it but
listen to the rest of us that's good. Let's back up for a second
before we played too much of this guy and explained because
not everybody went and listen to the vorak.org/blogs you know
little video on his with the mack daddy is a just right,
defines the king of Pimps. The Mad Max is a is a is an Uber
pimp usually has a bunch of you know, people working for him and
the mack daddy is the best of them all. He like runs. He's a
kind of guy that these people do exist, they actually run a
hookers worldwide. And by the way,
they should be very proud of themselves. I find service
data tends to be that level it tends to be overpriced hookers.
But anyway, so and then the long leg it doesn't refer to the fact
that Obama's tall it's refers to the fact that he has legs as in
he can, you know, he sustains being a mack daddy a a or SATs
king of pimps for a long time. And so that's the long leg and
mack daddy is this guy's phrase, which is just has a nice it has
a nice ring to it
does I'm using it all the time. I can't help myself long legged
magmatic
so that's definitely what it's all about. And this guy is a
black minister who apparently doesn't like Obama being an
effective he's very he's a he's an interesting character because
he's very moral is immoral when these moralistic black preachers
that but he also has the black preacher style where he you
know, starts to scream every so often and it's a pacing thing,
and if any does more, I'm not going to play a play on all but
he talks about Nancy the witch Pelosi and Harry the hen pecking
read. And I was just fascinated by his his theory about Obama
getting his start in in the president Until race by pimping
out white women, I'll continue this clip another 30 seconds.
You don't get your campaign started with a big Justin white
woman up she must be a 50 fold d double D. White Pass shot zone.
That's what started his campaign. He put his name on too
big 54 That's why you first saw his name at first place. I saw
it on two great big old
guys awesome. And he's standing there in his preacher outfit.
And he's you know, he's got his ministry signed behind him. He's
at the pulpit there. And it's just it's
phenomenal. mack daddy, he's a man, white women and black
women. Obama has a long leg mack daddy.
So he like the way this guy says a couple of the mastering 54 ds.
And then he does that he does a beat and he goes double D
like, Wait a minute. I missed that one.
Thing that Yeah. Guys, fantastic.
Yeah, that's a clip of the day. Well, maybe because
of course, the news hit this morning that Obama has I think
it's the green jobs czar.
Oh, yeah. That's been in the G. He's a local boy from the San
Francisco Bay area. So he's been in the news for the last two or
three days. Yeah, we're
talking about Van Jones. And he's been in the news for three
reasons. And he resigned this morning as czar. And I actually
have a list of 40 there 44 czars that our President has appointed
us to? Oh, yeah. And in the end, in the end, yeah.
I'm just saying I have to listen to. And
so the first the first one is that he was brought into
question because apparently he was arrested during the riots in
South South Central Los Angeles, which he says he was just an
observer for the police and others say while he was actually
leading the riot leading some of the rioting, then there is this,
I think this this may be, there may be something to this, that
he apparently signed his name to a petition or a letter of people
who stated that the government the Bush administration was
behind the 911 attacks, and that the attacks were used to get us
into Iraq and Afghanistan. And what I understand is, some
spokesperson came out and said, Well, you know, he didn't read
the petition carefully enough. Was my face.
Oh, yeah. Right. sign everything that you
didn't read it. But I think this quote, of which I have a
soundbite is probably what, what did our man in here anyway? Is
this not? Oh, man, please. I have this all queued up. Hold
on. What happened? Yeah, timing. Oh, wow.
Well, tell us why don't you tell us about?
Well, you know, one of the things turns out it one
interesting character who shouldn't be in the Obama
administration, it seems to me just for his political savvy,
because apparently Obama's boys have been screwing up left and
right, whether it's from all these idiots czars that are
boneheads, or phonies, to this guy who's just should have been
vetted better. And I have a theory about why this is
happening. But one of the guys that you think would be in the
administration, at least, preventing this sort of thing is
our old's head of the assembly in California and former mayor
of San Francisco, the extremely politically savvy Willie Brown,
who's essentially been snubbed by the Obama administration. So
Brown has since he's been on the news, so brat, but Brown is like
one of these unforgiving characters. And so they asked
him about this Van Jones guy and brown being a good Democrat,
slammed him real saying that guy has always been a troublemaker.
He's, uh, you know, you kind of implied that the guy was no
good. And but he didn't send some very interesting way. And
it was just very, it was a very subtle piece of propaganda that
I just thought was just amazing, because Brown is so slick. And
they used to call slick Willie Brown. And he drives a Ferrari.
I mean, what kind of the assembly time and a Ferrari?
I have the I have the clip. I have the clip that that I think
did Van Jones in this is at some question and answer session. And
there's a question and just while the question is relevant
to his answers,
they had a majority wasn't 60
So the question is basically how come the Democrats did?
I don't think this is the one that did admit this is a good
one for sure why the crack pipe one is the one who did it. Well,
let's
listen to this one first.
But they push through all of these bills. But when we have,
you know, 58 You seem to not be able to move things, as
progressively as many of us here would want as Obama wants. And I
don't I know that he has a strong interest in
bipartisanship when nobody in our Republic, the Republicans,
so
essentially why can't the Democrats get it together like
the Republicans can?
How are the Republicans able to push things through when they
had less than 60 senators but somehow we can't Well, the
answer to that is there Apple
now, but he says more, that kind of shocked me a bit. So he says
the Republicans are assholes.
So now, I will say
but here comes, some of us who are gonna have to start getting
a little bit of
that kind of blew me away.
Well, they're saying op ed is probably the one of the keys
there, but I still think it was when they dredged up the old
crack pipe. I got it. George Bush, you have that one?
Yeah, got it here. Hold on a second way to
try to bring the price of energy down to simply to increase the
supply. Just begin to drill more to drill offshore to drill here
to drill there to liquefy coal to go with oil shale and tar
sands, do whatever you can to get more petroleum into the
system. And we heard our president saying just that,
that's what he wants to do. And I hate to say this, I hope I
don't offend anybody. But the President of the United States
sounded like a crackhead. He said just
Oh, is the expressions that are priceless. He's doing stand up.
Yes, he's what he thinks is Chris Rock. He's physically
watch a little too much Chris Rock and whoever else he sees in
the, you know, Def Jam comedy. He's thinks he's funny. Yeah.
You know,
he's funny. That was definitely funny. But you know, that's not
really the way czar. That's not very Sar. Like, is it?
Yeah, no, that's the problem. I mean, even the guy was the only
actual professional comic in the Senate. Al Franken is not doing
materials.
In fact, he's kind of boring. Like, I'm waiting for him to
crack a joker toy. Yeah,
no, he's actually gone the other direction. He is extremely
serious. And he doesn't want anyone to mocking him for you
know, being a clown.
But the Czar's that's Have we ever had this many czars in, in
an administration ever 44.
And all these guys have had these guys that you know, did so
it looks to me as though these aren't even real jobs. These are
just like, some sort of way of passing out money to friends.
Yeah, I mean, the whole thing just looks I mean, I looked at
that list. And it's just like, Give me half a million,
including someone was sketchy. I mean, you know, I think it is
funny that a niq or a nice show bra and is a czar of technology.
He's never had to have zero technology experience period.
And that and his buddy vet coonara, who's his boss is a
czar of info tech, which is what is that? I know what that
is, it sounds like a conference that cost you $2,000 today to
attend.
What sounds like get
my nation east. Big story from The Daily Mail which of course
you can bank on him. But this is right along with the ministers
of Parliament and all of their their crazy deductions that they
were making are not just deductions, but the you know,
they're just taking money to build duck houses and their
moats and having their moats cleaned. So they have an 82 day
summer break, which is pretty much on par with all of Europe.
They always have these long breaks, but even normal people
in Europe don't get that much time. And here's what some of
them are doing. Let's see. Greg Barker made 5000 pounds for
working into summer vacation summer job for the US investment
firm Pegasus capital. John Gummer former Tory cabinet
minister let's see he worked during the summer 20 minutes
made 1600 pounds for equity release firms sovereign
reversions limited while these guys are doing consultancy work
on the side the policy chief for the Conservatives 35 hours for
Rothschild Bank. All these guys wasn't working for banks and for
financial institutions during the summer. I
mean, I must make the British public happy. Yeah must make you
feel
real warm and fuzzy. And then they you know, here's Patricia
Hewitt and underwhelming the well known name worked for the
pharmacy chain. Alliance boots during the summer, May 21,000
pounds working for British Telecom, who of course have
plenty of government contracts including the multibillion pound
failure known as their electronic
the way let me go straight what you're trying let me get
something straight here because I find this Yeah, I think it
must be making a mistake. Because it seems to me that a
member of parliament can't be taking just straight up bribe
money from large corporations who they have oversight. Well,
let
me read the article is very short. It makes no sense. This
has got to be a lie. Ministers of parliament are pocketing up
to 5000 pounds an hour and outside earnings during their 82
Day summer break. It was revealed yesterday figures
slipped out by the parliamentary authorities revealed for the
first time dozens of MPs have registered huge sums and private
earnings since the commons broke up for summer on July 21. The
revelations undermine claims by many MPs that the long recess
which continues till October 12, is devoted to constituency work.
Yeah, they're their personal constituency of one. And they're
likely to deal a further blow to the public image of Westminster
which has been heavily tarnished by the expensive scandal among
the big earners, number of MPs criticised for making lavish
expense claims. So they're actually they're almost missing
the point. They're saying, Oh, these are some of the same
people who had large expense claims, but the whole point is
their work. Yeah. It's they're essentially taking bribe money
for doing consultant work during the summer. With commercial
institutions,
yeah, it's corrupt. It's the worst kind of corruption. Well,
and the British public puts up with this.
I think they will. You know, big brother. This season is really
good. Oh, I have a feeling that they're just gonna take it. Take
it again. Bend over. Oh, what do they say?
Bow heka.
Oh, heka? Thank you bend over here it comes again. Thank you.
Yeah, exactly. Right. Taxpayers in Sweden aren't so easy. There
are up in arms. What didn't back in the day, John in the 70s when
you were in your 30s? Wasn't Sweden considered to be kind of
like the place where all sexy movies came from and kind of
where porn came from?
Yeah, I think so. Well, they've done a complete
one ad. You know, there, Sweden just seems to be clamping down
now. Although I will say that I can understand where they're
coming from when the government the Swedish Film Institute,
which apparently is funded by the government sponsored a
female porn featuring women's facial expressions at the point
of orgasm, the 500,000 kronor about $69,000. And everyone's up
in arms. And you know, this is ridiculous. And this shouldn't
happen. Of course, it's complete art. I mean, I think it's a
fabulous project. And I'd love to get my hands on a copy of it.
But hands Thank you. Yeah, they're really, really angry.
Well, you know, there's a political correctness movement
going on in Sweden, that's actually I think, embarrassing
to the culture. And a lot of it has to do with assuaging the
huge Muslim population that is pretty much taking over south,
the southern part of the country, including the city of
Malmo, which is where the most of the immigrants are centred
around, not necessarily in and it said it's having an impact,
you know, the, it's just like everyplace else, that you have a
bunch of moralists that come in to an area and then they start
throwing their weight around that, you know, you know, they
do represent votes. Well,
the the same thing just kind of happened in the Netherlands
where, you know, the, the let's just call them the native
population is just lazy, doesn't vote, let alone run for office.
And then you get you know, foreigners in and they
nationalise foreigners, they nationalise and then they become
citizens and then they run for office and they get voted in and
then you turn around you wake up one day, it's like hey, wait a
minute.
What happened? Well, that's why the the Danish or the
interesting group in this in the Scandinavian Nordic area because
they have pretty much limited the the amount of exposure they
have to do immigrants coming in and taking over the place.
Well, that's that's the big the big push. That is, I think,
going on in the United Kingdom. Certainly the Netherlands is too
late. aid. We want to limit how many foreign workers can come in
how many people can can immigrate into the country?
Yeah, it's about 10 years too late really to start, you know,
to start.
Yeah, you might as well just start counting the days as far
as I can tell.
We have a little song we forgot to play on last week's episode,
if there's anything that we love about doing this show, it's what
the fans do is just outstanding.
Well, let's give it back the This background is a bit last
Sunday, we had a guy that sent us some money from Mahna Mahna,
Mahna, Mahna. Bahrain, who we thank profusely and so somebody
picked up on the fact that we had slightly referred to the
Muppets tune.
And lo and behold, and lo
and behold, he put it to music. Yeah, it's pretty
good. It's short. And that's why I like it so much.
Madonna, to to to do Mahna Mahna Mahna Mahna doo doo doo doo doo
doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
doo Mahna Mahna Mahna Mahna Mahna Mahna Mahna Mahna Mahna
Mahna Mahna Mahna Mahna Mahna
doo doo, doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
phenomena. That was wonderful. I
loved it. Oh, it's great. Oh, it was pretty good. Well, it wasn't
bad parts of it. They weren't very good. It could have been a
lot better. I didn't really like it. It was pretty terrible. It
was bad. It was awful. It
was fun stuff it
will never forget when nomina
Bahrain so then who did that for us?
I don't know. I feel stupid now. But there's all kinds of good
stuff there's, you have to credit. Yeah. Well, you were the
one that reminded me and sent me the song. Yeah. And so I think
about the radio guy.
There's also and this is not to be played because it's a visual
gag. And I've actually this is kind of a meme I've seen this I
guess this is from Valkyrie I think the scene with with Hitler
in his in his briefing room and he's got all his guys there and
notch from a new movie called the disruptive recent movie.
Somebody sent me a link to it. It's really people are people
all over the world, especially Europe or making these this
particular type of Gag, which is to just sub site. Yeah,
yeah. And there's a a no agenda, subtitle spoof, which is pretty
damn good. The problem I had is actually understand German so I
had to turn the sound way down. So I almost it was almost
entirely unintelligible it's not the word. When audible in
audible Thank you. Because otherwise it's kind of confusing
to kind of tune it out. But it's very, very funny. And I love the
way RSS synchronises with s s. s cool.
So that is cute. Yeah. All right. Let me see if I can find
our friend. Yeah, well, you will you do. Look look good kid fill
some time.
Yes, I'll fill some time with a little report from Lake Charles
where Gitmo nation is closing in on the citizens there as we are
taking off our bread a trach taking. We're actually following
the footsteps of our brethren in Gitmo nation East in the United
Kingdom where we have 20% of the world's CCTV cameras now soon to
be found in a bar near you
soon if you plan on going to a bar you may want to think twice
before starting trouble. Lake Charles police chief Don Dixon
is pursuing a plan that's going to make it safer to go into a
bar. You'll remember recently off duty sheriff's deputy Logan
Armistead was leaving Nate's place in Lake Charles and two
men allegedly attacked him beating him nearly to death. And
while deputy Armistead is making progress, Lake Charles police
chief Don Dixon is doing everything he can to prevent
this from happening again. He's pushing for a city ordinance
requiring all bars where more than 50% of business is an
alcohol sales to instal surveillance cameras inside and
outside.
We feel that it would be very proactive to mandate that if you
own a bar or run a bar that you'd be responsible.
At a city council agenda meeting chief Dixon laid out his
proposal for council members. It's something we need and it's
something that we need a face good somebody that owns an
establishment deserves more than that. She's all good. wouldn't
take it upon themselves to do that anyway, in the response to
the councilmember, it's an asset to solving for that 100%,
as the city council looks into the legality and possible
implementation of this proposed ordinance.
Yeah, that's a really nice trend. Thanks, cameras in your
bar.
Unbelievable.
Did you find his name?
No, here's the problem. He I'm going to find the name before
the show's over. And he or he's going to write us a nasty note
or send us another clip that's less friendly. But is when you
forward it I have this like a sent box and an inbox. But when
you forward a message, it doesn't show up in the sent box
I showed you have to send it. It's ridiculous. I think you
could actually set that somehow.
I don't know, once. Once that was forwarded, it doesn't seem
to it. So I have to go and do the same search I did when I
found it the first time when you lost it? No, actually, there was
that too. You did have. I did send it to you,
I'd like to. I'd like to just we got to hit swine flu, John,
because we're getting closer to October. And of course, that's
when the vaccinations will come out. And there's a lot in the
news. And there's a lot of things being discussed. But
we're also preparing our children. And if you have not
seen this website, which I'm Skyping to you at this very
moment, please take a look at FEMA for kids. Because this is
just a fantastic website, where we prepare our kids through
great little games and quizzes like help FEMA, Freddy through
the disaster maze. This is unbelievable. How we are
preparing our kids for the for the black helicopters. And for
every type of disaster. I mean, this is not what you want your
kids doing.
You know, I'm starting to begin, or I'm beginning to think that
there was some study or something that came up, where in
the 50s for example, there was a movement afoot to scare the crap
out of kids duck and cover, right, I can cover and we
there's a tonne of stuff on on the Google and on the YouTube,
that you can find that some of these movies that the would show
kids is just to scare the crap out of them. And, and I think
that, you know, I don't know if it's a way of making the public
more docile or, or distracting them, but it just seems to
almost that it's a scheme that somebody on earth from the 50s
to to browbeat the public into putting up with a lot of stuff
they shouldn't I mean, I think the British are the worst
examples of people put up with an amazing amount of crap.
Well, I you know, this FEMA for kids site, which had
fema.gov/kids There's even a little story here. It's a cute
little tale of Herman P I see which I don't know what P IC
stands for. But it's Herman P IC, and the hunt for a disaster
proof shell. Hi, I'm Herman. I'm a hermit crab. I know what
you're thinking hermit crabs can't talk. We can talk although
we usually just talk quietly amongst ourselves. But I'm
speaking up now because I have a story to tell. I've learned a
lot since I was a little hermit crabs searching for my first
shell. Let me tell you about it. And he goes on to tell you how
he found a disaster proof shell it what is this bout what is
what is the point? I have no idea. He's nice. The disaster
area okay, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis,
thunderstorms. Let's choose one. John, would you like wildfires
winter storms national security emergencies. Until the terrorist
attacks of September 11 2001, FEMA responded mostly to natural
disasters such as floods or tornadoes. But on September 11,
when terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Centre in New
York, the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia and the countryside of
Pennsylvania, the nation's focus changed, suited famous focus.
And this is all done with with little like cutesy drawings. And
so what is terrorism? Terrorism is the use of force or violence
against people or property to create fear and to get publicity
for political causes.
Well, I think this brochure should be called terrorism.
Thank you.
Terrorists are criminals. And when they are caught, they're
put on trial.
They should put the people on trial. They put this brochure
out, they throw them
into Gitmo. acts of terrorism include threats of violence,
assassinations, kidnappings, hijackings, bomb scares, and
bombings, and the use of chemical biological and nuclear
weapons. Now Let's all hold hands and tell each other a
secret.
You know, this this definition of terrorism they keep making it
broader and broader I don't think in Excel you know, like,
for example, Russia in the United States back in the
whenever shot nukes at each other and they, I wouldn't call
it that would be of terrorism we call war. also kidnapping most
of the time is done for the purposes. I mean, yeah, there
could be terrorist kidnappings like in the Middle East but
generally speaking is from for some dummy trying to get some
money. Yeah, we're
trying to get go clinical distortion of Tinago. Bill
Clinton to have a Cabernet with you.
Whatever. So the point is, is the something something's amiss.
It's either the radio guy, R E y Ray, the radio guy who gave us
that and I want to thank him for it. Oh, good.
Terrorism is a scary thing. Before you go any further on
this page? You need to have permission of an adult? Check
with your parent or yeah, oh, no, listen, check with your,
with your parent or teacher if you're at school, or another
adult to make sure you have the okay to learn more. Do you have
the okay to continue? Yes or no? John, do I have your okay.
But I think you can maybe handle it since the cartoon levels
around second grade.
My God, stay alert. You don't have to be afraid. But it's
always a good idea to be aware of your surroundings. That means
notice if something around you doesn't seem quite right, know
where exits are in the building of brother.
So as it was, I'm looking at the site now and people should go
and check it out. It's fema.gov/kids very easy to get
to. It looks like it was done by some guy was that was on LSD.
The colour scheme that blue and green and yellow. And again, the
hermit crab with a kind of a blue crab with high balls with
blue eyeballs and as a blue was a blue shell. It was just it
just looks weird. And then the pictures like the you look at
this one says becoming a disaster action kid. This guy
looks like he's on speed. The math? Doesn't he looks like he's
on speed. And the other kids are you know that. They're kind of
cowhide with their eyeballs going every which way this is
this is I think encouraging the use of drugs. I think that's
what this is all about.
I just thought it was rather interesting that the site even
exists at all.
Well, you know, it's probably another $18 million down the
drain. Yeah, I can see I've never seen so many websites. And
as soon as Obama got in these websites, this gov that gov,
this gov that gives us so many websites. It's unbelievable. And
you know that if they're going to spend the $18 million on one
website, they're spending like probably a million per
Well, there's another website coming and I have a sound clip
from CNN, from the programme homeschool, which by itself is a
very fascinating programme. Particularly if you listen to
the host, the person who's interviewing, I think it's very
clear who the audience the intended audience is. This is
about the new cash for clunkers. Of course, the cash for clunkers
for cars, I believe is now absolutely closed. They spent
the the total $3 billion.
Well, they promised it Yeah, it's closed, but they haven't
the firt Well,
the first billion was spent within a week than they had to
they've ever
spent in a promissory note, sort of where most of these deals
haven't gotten a nickel. Really. It's my understanding.
Well, anyway, it certainly boosted the economy. The all car
companies reporting production is up. Yeah, no kidding. If
you're pumping 3 billion into the car industry, for people to
go buy new cars, that'll certainly keep your numbers good
for a little while. So what's next is refrigerators, toasters,
boilers, all kinds of durable goods, I guess that would be
called. And this is the cash for clunkers. Part two is a fine
explanation of what it is and and how you can get in on it.
All right, we gotta do some homeschooling here. We got we
got Clyde and with us good to see you this morning. usually
talking about home and stuff like that, but still kind of
talking about the home.
Now this really caught my attention because this is
definitely jive.
You think
like, wow, okay, my mind Clive is here. My main client is going
to tell us all about homeschooling. He's a
mack daddy. He pairs white women and black women. Obama has a
long leg mack daddy,
are we talking about appliances in the home for clunkers very
popular programmes that will sell cars, we've got a programme
now for appliances we do now do we know for sure this is going
to happen. It's not in place just yet. It's going to
happen. It's coming in the next 30 days, it'll be here. And so
pretty much you really have to look at it's a great opportunity
to get some money for those old appliances. Let's get it
on the cash for clunkers for the cars. That was a federal
programme. This kind of sort of is but still the individual
states are getting to make their own rules exactly.
Still using some that stimulus money. So it's still coming from
the same pool but the states are making their guidelines.
Okay. Which states are we talking about here? We have a
lot that already do have some what so a similar rebate
programmes are totally from exactly federal one. So which
states I guess we got a graphic here to show which states we're
talking about the several states already have their own
programmes. We don't have that graphic. We'll try to get that
graphic up but several states and people might want to check
on this When we were talking about the Cash for Clunkers, but
still you might have seen a lot of states already do this.
Exactly. And so what's gonna happen? I mean, the cash for
clunkers was huge I think 600,000 people used it. So this
is a great opportunity again, we're still trying to stimulate
the economy. But now you got an opportunity to get rid of those
old appliances that may not be helping our carbon footprint
we listen really closer to the information that's being given
out because it's not exactly like the cash for clunk which
ones
are we talking about? Which appliances I mean, anything in
the kitchen?
Yeah, for the most part, the list is pretty long. I mean, you
got frigerators you have washers you have dryers um, there's
several things that you know that that help us to be green
and to reduce our carbon footprint
How do we know how will people at home know which appliance is
eligible?
I think you really just gotta go out there to check on the net
find out which products if there's a long list or several
sites that tell you all you have to do is go in and look at it
cash for appliances but
that trade in kind of a thing with the cars you don't have to
get a car that was so fuel efficient and whatnot do so do
you have to get an appliance or buy a new one that's also the
ENERGY STAR
that's what you're looking for you
This blew me away anything that is ENERGY STAR you will be
eligible for a rebate and ENERGY STAR John it's not just like
some kind of industry based branding thing isn't it on
computers as well ENERGY STAR
Yeah, it's a that was started by this guy. I can't remember his
name it was back in the 90s and it was I think it's a you know,
it's almost like the Mara Taj wines that you can get from the
Napa Valley it's it's a trademark I think you have to
apply for to use it you had to join a club. You can't you know,
it not just any winery can put meritocracy, it's of trademark
and I think I think ENERGY STAR is a trademark that you have to
you just can't Bandy about.
Well, actually, no, no, it's John. There's a website
energystar.gov
Another million dollars and
look at the banner at the top join the Lorax which is actually
a Dr. Seuss character and ENERGY STAR and fight global warming.
Oh, there's another kid's website. Oh, cool.
If they licenced The Lorax properly. Oh, they must have
this. There's no There's another kids. Oh, there's another kids
energy star. The planet needs you find out why you can make
big changes find out how
just made me the reason that one of the biggest things going on
in the news around here nowadays is the holy crap. just clicked
on that lower star thing. There goes another million dollars on
the big game with a bunch of flashy thing. Yeah. You click on
the arrow and it flies around factoid. factoids child gets to
mental energy flux, that brain of yours with some energy info.
Oh, yeah, that'll do it. That'll wake you up. Let's click on
that. Wow, this is a ritzy site. That's nice, isn't it? Oh, yeah,
this is this is good. Good for 20 million. I think so to get
the fact what is energy where does energy come from? Well,
that's a good one. I mean, click on where does energy come from?
Loading is flashes. Oh, brother. That's a woman sitting in a
field a car driving by a big building a plane flying over.
Let me click on the woman sitting in the field looking
like she's bored. Our bodies can change the food we eat into
energy. Okay, now I click on the house. The electricity in your
house comes from different types of fuels. The energy is often
produced far away and is sent along wires into your home for
your education. Here it is I would never know
special offers and rebates from Energy Star Partners to
encourage customers to buy energy efficient products.
Energy Star Partners occasionally sponsor special
offers such as sales tax exemptions, or credits, or
rebates on qualified products. Partners also occasionally
sponsor recycling incentives. So they've got this whole thing.
clothes washers, dishwashers, refrigerators, freezers,
residential decommit, dehumidifiers, water coolers,
ceiling fans, boilers, ceiling fans, but on these products
aren't necessarily going to be made in the USA.
No, none of them are not. So did you have the tab where it says
meet the Energy stars?
No, no, I'm wherever that tab
is. Used as Energy stars Bowlby, which is one of those crappy
fluorescent bulbs that you know that come from China with animal
friendly. This one has a face and bubbles, which is a washing
machine with a big smile on it. Say saline Flanagan, which is a
Fan Fan again, saline fan again, Larry laptop, Larry laptop,
Larry and Chaley who I don't know what that is. But by the
way, those bulbs those crappy little fluorescent bulbs that
come from China and are loaded with mercury, although not quite
as much mercury as a coal plant gives off. Anyway, those things
go Jim. Yeah, like three.
Yeah, and you know, so now, officially all beauty bulbs. and
all 100 watt bulbs may no longer be sold in and get my nation
east in Europe that went in as of September 1. And so now we're
kind of stuck to the the mercury bulbs. And yeah, it turns out
they're not quite as bright as, as everyone said they would be.
We
have a long, long life is on some of them is true. But I've
put three of these things up and some cans in the ceiling. And
you turn these things on and they have running I think,
everybody maybe I don't know, a year old, and you've turned on
the lights and they all light up, they still work. So I guess
the life expectancy stays the same. Just like five watts
coming off at each one of the stages. There's like being in a
good. This is like being in a Moscow airport. There's no blue
buttons. And in
fact, they give off about 1000 volts per metre, I think, you
know, these things actually radiate electricity. People have
been known to get we actually didn't we have a clip a while
back maybe a year ago where people getting migraine
headaches when they were near these light bulbs because they
actually, they actually exude energy, you can hold up a you
know, a multimeter next to it. And it just it registers because
there's electricity, it's wireless electricity going the
wrong way.
Yeah, as somebody who didn't capture it, I'm sure that the
things are still sucking up the same amount of energy and
they're just delivering no lumens. Yeah,
Energy stars,
these things are crap. Energy stars. You know what, I've gone
back to buying incandescent bulbs, because he sees I just
assumed change the bulb a lot.
If you won't be able to anymore, John, that's the whole that's
the whole scam. They're going to they're going to that's what's
happened here, September 1, no more 100 watt bulbs, no more
flames and no more of new things that look like candles. So
you're also gonna have to change your lamps.
Yeah, and these by the way, where are these bulbs made? Can
you tell me it
was made by GE? In what country? China? Probably? No, not
probably definitely,
the Chinese somehow dreamed up this little idea. And this
started about five years ago or so. Or maybe even a little
sooner, they they were experimenting with these bolts
for a while. These are small fluorescent bulbs that you know,
don't have to, you know, they sit there, they have a little
like a ballast that starts on and they've discovered they can
make them pretty small and get some juice out of them. And then
they finally got to these twisty ones, the first ones that came
out, were just kind of a loop. And they weren't very good.
Although I have one of those too, I think to things 10 years
old, it gives off like a wad of light. It's like it just it's
like a nightlight, you turn it on, it's just blinks a few times
and comes on and then it's got gives off kind of a grim,
yellowish, kind of a sickening colour light. And mean, then
they upped the ante with these curvature, these ones that are
all stared they form like a spiral inside and they're there
when you first get them. Yeah, they're bright, they're
fantastic. And then you know, you use them and they just get
dimmer and dimmer, but they stay, they still work work, they
work forever.
So cordless phones can actually also have an Energy Star rating.
Let me see the requirements to receive this fantastic rating.
Let's see. You have to comply with the ENERGY STAR eligibility
criteria define the performance criteria that must be met for
use of Energy Star certification markets on telephony products.
It's very hard to find out how energy efficient you actually
have to be other than what they say is 10 At least 10% more
efficient than the federal standard. Wow, big deal. Yeah,
really. But what else? John, it seems like anything can be an
ENERGY STAR. And now these federal rebates are going to
given on additional handsets, cordless phones, answering
machines, multi handsets. Oh my gosh,
you know, maybe there's somebody out there that can answer this
question for us who may be living in some area in Iowa
wherever they make, or someone that worked for Whirlpool.
During the Clinton administration, out of the blue
as part of this energy star thing, they ban top loading
washing machines. And they banned them. So Maytag who makes
the you always made this fantastic washing machine was a
top loader, you can still buy them you actually still get them
refurbished, and they last forever. And then they made all
the washing machines had to be front loading. Like they like
you'd find in like commercial ones, or sometimes you'll find
them in these laundromats
energy thing or was that a safety thing?
No, no, it was never a safety thing. It was an energy and
water saving thing. For some reason. I don't I personally
died. I thought that thing was sketchy. I thought it was just
some sort of Bill Clinton corruption where he was given
some money by somebody to screw Maytag or they were Republicans.
I have no idea because Maytag was the number one at this. And
I think Whirlpool set up some nice top loaders, which is where
the property but the service is the front loaders came in. It's
like the last thing but generally, you know somebody who
actually wants a washing machine in their house. Once you don't
want it, because you can't for one thing once the wash starts
you can't like throw something in at the last minute.
Because because then the water comes out. Yeah, right?
You'd open it up, boom, you'd flood your house. So you know so
you say Oh, I forgot this other sock so the synergy and say like
run wash load yeah is ridiculous and it's never made any sense to
me Why would something that's that's that's tumbling be any
more efficient than something that's like in a bucket that
where you have the agitation going it just the whole thing?
Seemed like a scam? You
so make a very good point there, John. Very good point. No, but
the point,
but somebody has to explain to me what the scam is, because I
don't know what it is. There's a scam here.
Let me let me finish the rest of it another 40 seconds on the
explanation here for for people who really need to know energies
and getting on the programme, get some money Star appliances,
so they're gonna have the Energy Star logo on there. And so
that's what you want to make sure those are the fuel
efficient or carbon, you know, low carbon footprint appliances,
fuel efficient,
the hell is that? fuel efficient, okay. Now,
I guess they're easy to find. I mean, that's probably out there.
A lot of people probably not even aware that this stuff is
Energy Star. Well, you have to take your old appliance in
your car, you don't. You don't have to drag your refrigerator
in and take it down and turn it in. You don't have to do that.
But you
don't worry, we'll just ship that shit off to China. Just
leave it on the on the curb Thursday morning, we'll take
care of
and turn it in, you know, and they can recycle it or do
whatever they need to do with it. But you don't have to do
that. Alright, last thing, how much money we talked about, we
could possibly get back $50 to $200, generally, is what they're
talking about for the plants. So it's definitely not as much as a
car the 4500 that they have for that. But it's still something
you're thinking about getting a new washer and dryer and you
know, you may be able to get a little money off other than
making sure that it's energy stock. All right,
Claude Anderson knew the new look. Claude Anderson is still
him. He looked a little younger than me.
jabroni he's really that's how we educate the public.
And they'll do it. Yeah. Anyway, yeah. So there's something
there's something. I mean, there's nothing wrong with
running energy efficient stuff. I mean, it's a good thing,
because you don't have to, what's your point of giving all
this money to your gas and electric company, but there's
something there's some something behind this energy star thing
has always bothered me? Well, it's a government programme, the
logo the the why me what's the point? You know, it's like the
joining the club. It's like that maritime wine thing. It's just
you know, somebody's idea of getting something that makes
them more on budget, create another institution that makes
it you know, that takes more taxpayer money and ferrets it
away.
So we kind of strayed from from the swine flu topic there for a
second totally my fault. I do want to say that finally now the
word is out. The first mandatory vaccinations have been announced
John, all uniformed US military personnel, immunisation starting
in early October, announced by the Department of Defence, and
if you're in the military, you're gonna get poked.
First in line for the vaccine will be healthcare workers,
deploying troops, those serving on ships and submarines and new
recruits. And, of course, families will have have an
option and easy access to the vaccine families of military
service personnel. But that kind of blows man mandatory, you
can't you can't refuse it, you got to take it.
You gotta you know, you signed up. They can do whatever they
want to you. So I found something disturbing. I got
nothing against the military. But I don't think it should be
encroaching on every part of civilian life to the extent that
it is. And let me just tell you what the story is. I went to
this football game yesterday, which was when the University of
California beat Merrick Garland 52 to 13. And at halftime, I
mean, first she had the, you know, they have were short of a
flyover before the game, but they did have you know, at the
beginning, the National first aid played some America the
Beautiful than the national anthem, then the Marines came
out and unfurled some flag that was the size of the stadium and
ever seen anything quite like it. And they're all you know,
marched off, and I said, Well, you know, the millet I've always
had some objections to this only began recently, by the way these
having this do the pledge, you know, the stand for the national
anthem at at a commercial at a commercial sporting event as
though this was some government function.
But don't we always do that when the national anthem plays? Don't
we always stand? Yeah, no,
I'm not talking about the standing. I'm talking about
playing the national anthem in the first place. Why are we
playing the national anthem at sporting events, which are
commercial enterprises? Do we play the national anthem when
you when you go to a restaurant, I'm going in to have dinner Hold
on a second, here comes the national anthem, and everybody
stands up and they do their respects and they sit down to
eat I don't get it.
So okay, well, we still pledge allegiance to the flag at
schools in the morning. That's
I don't care. I think that's fine. I mean, but it's like I
don't think it should be in pinching to such to the extent
that it is on commercial enterprises now, but but I'm
okay with it. Fine. You know, we're stuck with it. You have to
go to a baseball game.
Or John, come on, it's
it's new. You'd want to find this in the 1920s during bait
when Babe Ruth was hitting 60 home runs. They were playing the
national anthem at the Yankee Stadium,
all my life all my life. I cannot remember any sporting
event, except for NASCAR. That did not even NASCAR, I think
starts with the national anthem, or no, no, no, do they? My
country?
You can hear it with all that racket.
Yeah, there's someone always thinks the national anthem
before Indy. Yeah. Yeah, it's
fine. I know we're stuck with it. Because it's it became a
commonplace. So everybody does that. I'm just I just think I
just question it. Because it's like, what's next? You know,
little league games. Do they do it there now? I don't know.
Maybe they do. Well, anyway. So here's the what bothered me
wasn't that, you know, I think it's actually kind of
interesting. At least, you know, the game is going to start. But
halftime, they brought a whole bunch of recruits out and in
front of the stadium full of 60,000 people. They swarm into
the Army, the Navy and the Air Force in front of everybody in
the middle of the field. Wow, this is at the University of
California, Berkeley. I was my jaw dropped.
They swore them in Hmm, wow.
Yeah, right there in front of them. And they did the whole
thing with a guy says, do you agree that Yeah, but you know,
he had he had this long spiel and they constitution. Yeah.
Yeah. And they also Yes, and you know, and then they all you
know, they did? Wow, five or six minutes and they marched them
off, and it literally marched them off.
Which game was this?
The University of California and Maryland game in Berkeley. Wow.
Wow. I just thought it was like what are we doing this for? I
mean, this is just baffling to me. I just found the thing
offence. I find that offensive. I'm not there to to watch guys
get sworn into the army. Yeah. What's a football game? For
God's sake?
What happened to hookers and blow damage? Better but anyway,
now
we'll get some letter. Oh, I think great. The military. No,
we don't hate you know, sorry. My whole family is military.
Yeah,
there you have it now. My dad was in World War Two.
Short so no, it wasn't a World War One.
I don't know though. You know, those jokes get old. Yeah. So
no, I never get it. I want it back. I did not to you. But I
want to back up to this kids. Energy efficient start this
energy. So I found something on the site. I just have to mention
it. Okay. I think this they should probably pull this. It's
a for the kids again, it's a factoid. Okay, I'm going to I
should make do it. I'm gonna do a guessing game. Because I
actually didn't know the numbers. Were this extreme.
Just make sure I get off the swine flu before before I
forget.
Where does our electricity come from?
Our electricity comes from I do it's a multiple choice.
No, there's a bunch of different sources in other words, you
know, renewable
other Okay, right. It's it's a tree it skip logic.
skip logic. Yes. Okay. Well, okay, what do you think number
one is, I think you can guess that. Oil.
Coal 49%. Okay, so you think number two would be what? Oil?
Natural gas 20% Okay, so So, what's number one? Your logic
number three. What do you think? Oil? Nuclear 19.4% There's no
more now we get down there. Now we're getting down. There's only
like 10
Okay, okay. Can I guess now?
Number four? Water? No. Yes, you are you found the site? No, no,
I'm not looking. I just guessed that hydro electric 7% And the
last on the list oil 3%. Wow. Other gases 2.3 percentage of
which I don't know what other gases are I guess a methane and
then other renewables point 4% and other other point three?
Wind I thought wind was supposed to be so successful. That would
be it probably under other renewables the point four right.
Yeah, when we have not exploited wind very well. Yeah, you're
right. Hydro Electric was water. I'm sure Roger was hoping you're
gonna stick with the theme. It's a funny gag. But you know, I had
to
I had to mess it up. Yeah, yeah. Alright, so. So I flew back.
Yeah, back to swine flu. The article circulating circulating
the circles. On the World Health Organisation website. There's an
article that's been placed about how they released mock up
vaccines. In order to come up with the actual let me let me
read it to you. Essentially they it sounds like they they put
some of the virus intensity into the population. According to the
website waves are sought to shorten the time between the
emergence of a pandemic virus and the availability of safe and
effective vaccine vaccines. This is the fast tracking so we can
all shoot up our military in October. One such method used in
Europe is to conduct advanced studies using a mock up vaccine
that contains an active ingredient for an influenza
virus that is not circulated recently in human populations.
When testing these mock up vaccines is very possible to
release the novel influenza virus into the population as its
purpose is to mimic the novelty of a pandemic virus and quote
greatly expedite regulatory approval. What so, yes. So it
seems like they actually have a version, a new version, a novel
version of the h one n one, release it into the into the
population,
that that the one that's out there now is called h1 and one
novel,
right? That's why the words are so interesting. GlaxoSmithKline
clinical trials will be limited due to the need to provide the
vaccine to governments as quickly as possible. Additional
studies will therefore be required to conducted after the
vaccine is made available. Thanks. So we're going to we're
going to do all the studies after we have the vaccine in
your body and the World Health Organisation time constraints
mean that clinical data at the time when pandemic vaccines are
first administered will inevitably be limited. Further
testing of safety and effectiveness will need to take
place after administration of the vaccine has begun. Ladies
Gentlemen, these guys are and gals and that crazy woman who
leads the who are literally shooting up a shit they don't
know what's going to do to you. And the rolling skies are out of
control and the rolling out big time. mass vaccination hubs are
part of the District of Columbia swine flu plan, according to The
Washington Post. District officials said on Friday they're
working to set up mass vaccination centres potentially
at City recreation centres as a part of a broad push to minimise
the number of people sickened by swine flu this fall and beyond a
network of doctors offices, schools, clinics, hospitals,
it's also being put together for the vaccinations. The city will
update its flu website with the case counts and recommendations
were a lot further than few just a few short weeks ago, we're
monitoring what other states are doing said Mayor Adrian Fenty.
And they even to even plan to set up a centre at Mary's centre
where they can do a whole bunch of vaccinations in one pop, they
are out of control, John, and you know, the
quality audit control that is going crazy. They finally
figured it out that the public doesn't care and doesn't want
and the media isn't telling anybody anything, and especially
not in some way that would panic them. And so they're just saying
you look at we can get away with this. I mean, look, we tried
something like this back when and nothing happened. Nobody
cared and ya know, it killed a bunch of people all but it's
still what, and now the government is giving everybody
kind of a carte blanche, you know, you can't sue, you can get
a shot from some company with an experimental vaccine and you
can't sue the company. And then they can require you to take the
shot. And nobody seems to say, well, this is crazy.
Well, even worse than that, the World Health Organisation
actually changed their definition of a pandemic. It
used to be, you know, a new a new virus or new influenza virus
that that is going around, that causes great numbers of death
and ill and they change it to a new virus. Literally, a new
virus that is going around the world and there doesn't have to
be tonnes of dead or sick people. It's just a new virus.
So if for all intents and purposes, it could literally be
a seasonal flu could be deemed a pandemic.
I'm surprised that you haven't done that. So for that, you
know, pump up some more sales for the flu vaccines and
billions of dollars involved here. Back to School ritual
quarantines This is an article in The New York Times it looks
like a typical college dormitory the functional single cuts to
students lazing in pyjamas and sandals and laptops and iPhones.
Click the Facebook but Turman, South dormitory at Emory
University is what administrators call a self
isolation facility or as students called the swine flu
dorm. The leper colony clubs while leper colony clubs Why is
my favourite? It's a holding pen at Emory for the coughing,
wheezing hand sanitizer. Seeing souls who return who's returned
to call college coincided with their infection by a serious in
a highly contagious virus. More than 100 strong and Emory they
belong to a growing number of students at colleges across
America experiencing a bizarre start to the year the on campus
quarantine.
Oh my god. And now that, you know, Merck pretty much failed
at their worldwide vaccination of all girls 12 to 18 with
Gardasil, the so called cervical cancer shot. Mark has found all
of a sudden according to Bloomberg, it also prevents
genital warts in boys.
One of the main these things are they got like six, okay, we'll
get back up fine and be
like, Wow, guess what, we just happen to inject that into a boy
and he didn't get no genital warts. Wow, he's only 12. The
agency released its review today in advance of a meeting next
week on whether to recommend expanded use of the products now
approved in women. And in the United Kingdom, it gets much
worse. A woman questioned, I'm gonna see if I can get it right
here. My mother, a 13 year old girl who became partly paralysed
after being given a cervical cancer vaccination. And this is
unfortunately, what's been happening to many young girls,
says social workers have told her the child may be removed if
the mother continues to link her condition to the vaccination.
What? Yes, in fact, a couple had all six of their children
removed from their care after the disputed the necessity of an
invasive medical test and the eldest daughter. So what's
happening now is if you question and this, of course, is the
national healthcare service, this is the UK version of
Obamacare. If you question it, then your kids can be taken away
from you because you're an unfit parent.
You question the government you will obey.
But that IQ and the fact that the British public Well, I mean,
the American public is just, you know, obviously, just as bad,
but it's almost like the British is a testing ground for how far
you can go.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's funny. It's just funny.
Okay, well, we got away with it in England. So we can do it here
now. Yeah, well, of
course, it's a testing ground. There's a couple more things
being to actually there's there's a very disturbing trend.
We have spoken about part of this, but let me let me find the
links. This is about digital money, which of course,
governments would love to have you on digital money, because if
you don't, then we could just turn off your money. So the
Chicago Tribune reports, although this was, I think,
pretty much known and already implemented. Social Security, as
well as Supplemental Security Income, I'm not quite sure what
that is John, but it's an addition to Social Security is
now going to be switch to prepaid debit cards. Now, here's
what's interesting, because of course, whenever a debit card is
used, a fee is processed. If you buy a product as a fee
everywhere, you may not see the fee as the consumer but a
portion is going somewhere else, usually to the network that's
applies. This. The programme is called direct Express is aimed
primarily at the 4 million Social Security and Supplemental
Security Income recipients who don't have a regular bank
account. But it's available to anyone of course, it's built a
safe convenient way for consumer consumers not they call them
consumers mind you, to get their government not not civilians,
consumers to get their government income while
preventing fraud, theft, and loss of choice. But it gets
better.
I think having some money in my pocket a better chance of not
getting fraud or theft. This is an inviting a course. Especially
with old folks. It's inviting identity theft, and when you
write it by the way, it's about 2% Typically, and it's not
necessarily by the cardholder, although they'll have some fees
tacked on to this which will rip the card. Well here comes
the Treasury had quote worked hard to keep the amounts lower
than the typical debit card for for fees. By the way, if you
want a paper statement, you have to pay a fee, noting that the
direct Express ATM withdrawal fee is about 90 cents. So
there's 90 cents when you withdraw money on your Social
Security debit card to have a debit card compared to the
typical $3 per per transaction. However, if you use it at a
Comerica Bank ATM because that's who Uh, who was issuing
scammed us to make this happen? That's just
one of the scams. Yeah Comerica Bank. It can be an I don't know,
I've never seen a Comerica Bank ATM. I have no idea what that
looks like.
I've never seen one either. Yeah, sounds like it can be used
without charging any of any of its banks. And you're entitled
to one other free ATM withdrawal a month after that it's 90 cents
a pop. So that's social security. And then by
coincidence, which you got to kind of ask if it is
coincidence, I find this little ditty Hold on.
Well, you've been a busy bee.
Yeah, I've been very busy be Walmart. The largest employer in
the United States, who employ I don't know how many hundreds of
1000s of people has decided to go paperless when paying
employees is switching to direct deposit and debit cards. And
they are tied into First Data Corporation. And they offer will
offer will also offer one free ATM transaction per pay period
to users. Now Now they're not consumers now their users
looking to take money out. So when you have Walmart not paying
you, they're not giving you a check. But giving you a debit
card. Someone is making a crapload of money. 1.4 million
employees Walmart has.
So in the San Francisco Bay Area just for your information.
There's 1-234-567-8910 11. Co America, ATMs. One in San
Francisco. And then one on wood looks like to be on the freeway
somewhere down on highway 101. To Texas bank, I
believe right?
I don't know I didn't look at that thing is a Texas bank.
Well, good work for America. This should be sounds like you
know, they're doing their job. Good scam. Excellent. Excellent.
So
unemployment rose to 9.7%.
Of course, 17%. Real Yeah. 16.8. Real.
And the President spun that as he just spun that beautifully.
So here's the here's the next scam, which I just love. This is
the President Obama's speak to the nation his radio address,
which is basically his YouTube video. It is user generated
video he does every single week. And he is now implementing or
working on implementing a scheme to make you almost force you in
a way or very least to trick you into putting money into 401 K's.
Of course, 401k retirement plans are often matched by by your
employer. But essentially you put it into a bank, and it could
be one, it's a Wall Street scam. And then they invest in all
kinds of stocks and bonds. And you can say I want a risky
portfolio. I want a very safe portfolio. But essentially more
than $2 trillion of citizens 401 K money went poof,
and most of them became 101 Ks.
And yeah, really done down at 25%. And now the President wants
to make it easy for all kinds of money to flow into your 401 K ie
back into Wall Street because we have to save the economy have a
listen, we
cannot continue on this course. Then we certainly can't go back
to an economy based on inflated profits and maxed out credit
cards, the cycles of speculative boom and painful busts a system
that put the interests of the short term ahead of the needs of
long term. We have to revive this economy and rebuild it
stronger than before
that to me is doublespeak. For it we need more money in our
Wall Street
says well the other thing doublespeak thing is the
interest of the short term is bull it's not always in the
interest of the short term rising interest of these of
these schemers, these credit card companies, these scammers
who charge 18% Or they charge they make you sign up for low
interest rates and then you go over by $1 and next thing you
know you got a 40% interest rate bill, essentially usury, that
kind of thing that used to be illegal these ridiculously I
mean, this is why there's no loan sharks anymore. They put
the mafia out of business. And why was that? What's it got to
do a short term long term?
Well, listen, listen on and you shall
enjoy and making sure that folks have the opportunity and
incentive to save for a home or college for retirement or a
rainy day is essential to that effort.
Rainy Day would be now Good
day your responsibilities. This country is going to honour our
collective responsibility to you to ensure that you can save and
secure your retirement now
listen, how easy will make it to take your money and not actually
give it to you.
That's why we're announcing several common sense changes
that will help families put away money for the future into Wall
Street. First, we're going to make it easier for small
businesses to do what large businesses do allow workers to
automatically enrol in a 401 K or an individual retirement
account.
That to me, by the way, John sounds like they're going to set
up some kind of government 401k. I mean, I understand how easier
it could be. I mean, you can choose from a million different
401 K plans as a company.
We know that automatic enrollment has made a big
difference in participation rates by making it simpler for
workers to save. And that's why we're going to expand it to more
people. Second, will make it easier for people to save their
federal tax refunds. So
your tax refund can go straight into a 401k. Please listen on
which
100 million families receive today, if you have a retirement
account, you can have your refund deposited directly into
your account with this change will make it easier for those
without retirement plans to save their refunds as well.
And I take it this is only for federal because of course if
you're in a state like California, your your tax refund
was actually an IOU I'd love to put my IOU in a 401 K and put it
to work while I sit there and wait for being a worthless piece
of paper
to be able to check a box on your tax return to receive your
refund as a savings month
savings bond. Wow, a savings bond. That's not even a 401 K.
That's a That's a savings bond.
Well, I didn't know they still had them.
Third, will make it possible for employees to put payments for
unused vacation and sick days into their retirement plans. If
they wish. Right now most workers don't have that option.
And fourth, the IRS how do
they how does the government get involved all of a sudden in my
business? How are they going to do that? How are they going to
make that possible through my company that people can put
their sick days into into a savings bond
commissar I'll be jumping by in the morning
and the Treasury Department are creating a plain English easy to
follow guide, as well as a website to help folks navigate
what are often very complicated waters, especially for workers
changing jobs, who often are unsure how best to continue
saving for retirement, because the rules ought to be written to
encourage people to save instead of discouraging them. We'll also
build on these steps by working with Congress. As part of my
budget, I've proposed ensuring that nearly every American has
access to a retirement savings account through his or her job.
This plan would make it possible for workers to automatically
enrol in IRAs through payroll contributions. And the budget
simplifies and expands a tax credit for millions of families
matching half of the family savings up to $1,000 per year
and depositing the tax credit directly into a retirement
account.
He is a magnetic white women and black woman Obama has a long leg
magnetic.
Oh, man. So this is exactly thinking that yeah, this is
exactly the kind of stuff that that we'll be discussing. And
our first no agenda, no agenda, no agenda, no agenda roundtable
dinner on the official day of Thanksgiving, October 3 in Las
Vegas, Nevada. And a number of spots have already been taken.
It's a limited unlimited runway. How many people are coming John
1012 including us?
Yeah, and the thing is, of course by the way, if we if the
thing is the event gets cancelled because we missed one
person or are we I think is gonna be oversubscribed to be
honest about but say something happens. It's a totally
refundable. So it's not like you know, actually we lose a little
money on the refund or just give everybody their money back. But
and there's a link now on the no agenda.squarespace.com and
divorce that org slash and a site that you can click on. And
it's going to be October 3 It's going to be probably at Florida
Lee are one of the one of the high end restaurants.
Of course, your donation pays for that you get a great dinner,
you get a great will it be a couple bottles of wine, but
it'll be a one.
It'll be enough wine for everybody out John will
personally select
and we're gonna have just a good time and we'll chat about stuff
and any enjoyment booked?
No. You never know. I have a dancing girls. So but anyway,
you guys, we want to get this thing booked up by within a week
and a half or so because I otherwise I don't want to lose
the room. And because we had to book it and there's
unfortunately what's going on right now is that everything all
of a sudden, the all the restaurants around the country
or business is starting to boom that I was talking to the
restaurant tour the other day and they said they said the same
thing that a lot of other people would notice which is including
the Silicon Valley folks, this may not be true around the
country, but it definitely is true on the West Coast, which is
that the economy really did bottom and in March and which
was actually a double bottom because of that She bought him
in november two. And then and it's it was really dead. In
fact, Adam and I, when we're going to restaurants, we could
always get reservations. And it was very easy to do on a
Saturday, Friday, you could always get into the prime hours.
But now, as of the last couple of weeks, you can't get into any
good place in San Francisco on Thursday, Friday or Saturday
unless you go at 530 or 10. And it's almost, it's roundly
consistent. And I've talked to these guys, and everybody knows
this picked up now this could be like the beginning of the end.
In other words, people are all partying visited as the Titanic
sinks
because the derivatives are about to pop. And that's when
that's when it all comes tumbling down. But yeah, we
might as well you know, get it while the goings good.
And so we want to book this thing. So go to divorce.org/n A,
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this week. In terms of just numbers. It was funny because we
had a lot of the 50 and 100 style, but the number of people
subscribing does seem to be particularly low for some
reason, but let me name out if you guys, Theo Bergkamp? I'm not
sure or Birkin. I'm not sure we didn't do him last week, but
he's from Kitchener, Ontario and he gave us $127.03 Can you
figure out why
2703 That's isn't that why isn't that the house of the Ron Paul
House Resolution?
Maybe? I don't know. I got one here. confuse you. Brett
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Which refers, as far as I'm concerned to the Intel 8008 chip
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was what he really means Chris England, Milton, Ontario 50,
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In CO does love this town, David Sandler gave us $100 And he's in
one of these great towns called luxury Lone Tree Colorado. My
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It's lol D not LOA N.
Well, that's good. Stephen E. Taff, Marietta, Georgia. $100.
Frederick Bolliger. I think we made may have mentioned to me I
think he's giving us a couple of times North Haven, Connecticut
$50.01. Matthew Kerry mayor, Marriott's Ville, Australia. He
gave us 50 Mariette Seville, that's great. Gerald can dolphin
tufin Buck, Austria. tufin Buck, I think it's pronounced right te
EUF en BAC Trifon by using his toy toys and toys and Vikas
Yeah, yeah. Sorry. Ryan buff. 50 is Gerald canned off, Marcin?
Biggest isn't? Okay, Marcin Beck. Kisa b e KIESZ. I think
people just are putting names that we can't pronounce. in
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Jonathan creed, which I think is a great name by the way. collied
West Hollywood 75. John Kilbourne Houston 100 Daniel
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stuff $50 Aeon Smith in red car Red House. Red Car Cleveland UK
sent right 60
red car.
D car.
Well, that's the way it looks. Maybe not.
Maybe it's Birmingham. The notes have you been eating your notes
again, John.
Eat my notes. like ling-ling does. Travis win in Hemet. I
think we mentioned before it 50 William Casey golden Colorado.
50 Nicetown. Okay, here's the one Fenimore Johnson San Diego
gave us $56.83 What does it mean?
$53.83. Yep. 5383. Yep, that's gotta be type it in. That's got
to be another house resolution.
Nope. It's the code that you would use when texting on a
phone to spell out the word love.
Ah, that doesn't makes no sense. No 5683
On a regular phone when you definitely five as an L.
Oh, you said 5383 No, I said 5683. No, because on my Nokia
five is G six is H No, it's more than G. No. Oh, I will
straighten this out later. How much was it? 53 bucks. I don't
care.
It's good.
Like Westerfield Tristan Lennon. Mike Westerfield has been you
know, there's
just a lot of phones that don't have the letters on it anymore.
I know as well. That's why you can't use these, you know, like,
one 800 Adam.
Yeah, no, you can't figure it out anymore.
All right. We got Mike Westerfield from Parts Unknown
Tristan Lennon. I don't know how to do it looks like Tristan gave
us money again. And I think only because he's in Tristan is a
guy's name or a woman's name. What do you think? Guy name? in
Wagga, Wagga. Wagga Wagga, John Matthews, a Parts Unknown
$111.10 Beth which and he's been giving us oddball amounts of
money every so often. Beth GFX, l Kumar, New Zealand 70 and Eric
man and parts unknown 51 thing I left anybody else at current
divisor, who is now our patron night wanted to go to the dinner
or canteen. And Kent is one of our early nights.
Right? Yeah. Of the no agenda roundtable. Yeah,
he's out in Clovis, New Mexico, I guess he owns half the town.
And he and his wife, and he couldn't make it to the dinner.
So he gave us $500 instead. Wow. So he's a patron night now.
Well, wait a minute. So this would be the opposite of greedy.
We could take his $500 donation since he's not coming. And we
could give one seat
away. Yeah, we could. But the fact is he that was not what it
was designated for. And we honoured the designation of the
money. But if somebody wants to do that I'm in.
Yeah, it's a great thing. It's a great idea. Yeah, we can come up
with some kind of contest with that lamp thing from ENERGY
STAR.
Yeah, how long will your lamp actually last giving up at least
five lumens?
Well, thank you very much, everybody for your donations
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you had to watch all the commercials until you finally
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yeah, the worst part was the fact that I think at least twice
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cable to have the same you know, kind of oversight that the
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They go to Oberman who teases that same Glenn Beck clip, and
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And it's I mean, even with TiVo, you're getting like repetitive
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And I will say that in the very beginnings of the internet's
that people were actually were saying, you know, wow, you know,
I pay money just not to have commercials where Here you go.
There's certainly enough of you out there where we could
actually make some real money with commercials. You don't want
him. This is one way to make sure we never get him. And
we're just calling the bluff of the public. Yeah.
Let me just do two quick stories here. John, just before we
before we sign off.
Well, I still got my college story to do. Okay,
you do the college story after I do Wall Street's new business?
Because, of course, the mortgage business blew up. They've got a
new one. And this is actually I think ties right into swine flu.
Have you heard of these life settlements? John? These are
basically reverse life insurance policies. So
to selling your life to Wall Street? Well, yeah,
life insurance policies that ill and elderly people sell for
cash. So 400,000. I have heard of this? Yeah. $400,000 for a $1
million policy, depending on the life expectancy of the insured
person. They will now be securitizing these policies by
packaging hundreds or maybe even 1000s together into bonds. They
will then resell the bonds to investors like pension funds,
who receive payouts when people with the insurance die. But
here's the kicker. Of course, the sooner the policyholder
dies, the bigger the return.
Wow, this is a really cool derivative. Yeah.
So if you invest dreams, this stuff up. If you invest in
Credit Suisse, if you invest in, in one of these securitized life
insurance policy bonds, and you invest in GlaxoSmithKline, you
can't go wrong. Because you're on both ends of the hedge. It's
a beautiful thing. We get more swine flu vaccine filled with
adjuvants, they're gonna get killed appeal people. And then
you get a higher payout is they die earlier fix
straddle.
It's a straddle beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. And then I
just wanted to tell you two quick things about how your US
government works. John, I am so sure that you've seen this
picture, you've probably blogged it. If it's not Photoshop is
just unbelievable. It's a picture of House Minority
Leader, Lawrence confero, Jr. Who's speaking to colleagues at
a budgeting meeting for the fiscal year in Hartford,
Connecticut at the Capitol. And it's from behind. So you see on
the laptops, what the, what the administration there is actually
doing. Two of them are playing solitaire on their computer. One
is looking at a baseball game. It is the most fantastic picture
of your government at work, even if it's local. Have you seen the
picture?
No, no, I Skyped it to you know, when we look, this is
I'll just read from the article to Devon Democratic legislators
were playing solitaire on their state issued computers Monday
night, late night debate on the state budget.
I question this picture, by the way I do as well. But
you know, no, I haven't heard anyone rebut it at the moment.
And then finally, before you get to your college story,
it looks by the way as though the woman on the left is playing
the extremely elaborate game of spider which I think is the
greatest solitaire game, especially with Bill the suits
mentioned that before. Yeah, that's what it looks like she's
playing. That's the only thing that she could possibly be
playing, which means she lives lives a life of frustration.
So we've been wondering why Justice Sonia Sotomayor was
voted in and why she was so important. I think I might have
a clue. The Supreme Court will be holding a rare special
session, which marks the debut of Justice Sotomayor At issue is
whether prior rulings limiting corporate spending on federal
elections should be overturned. The justices could decide to
erase the subtle but important distinction between corporate
donors which are subject to regulation and individual donors
who are largely not and I think we should keep our eye on this
because if it if it's overturned I guess then well then then it's
just a free for all then then corporations can just donate
directly into politicians pockets without any limitation
whatsoever.
Yeah, it's a bonanza.
So all of these links that we've discussed today will be in the
show notes at no agenda show.com Or no agenda.me veoh.com. And
now your story about
Well, first I want to do a correction from Last show,
Alexander, who's now our Russian cultural attache, set a note in
mentioning to Adam in particular, you were probably in
Chicago and the only Moscow American Airlines Flight was
departing. That's where you saw so many Russians.
It was actually KLM. But okay,
nobody windy, we had a flight was departing.
It was an honour for KLM.
And they were in line there. Yeah. tonnes of them.
But okay, I, I'm sure they were, they were just transferring in
Amsterdam to move on to Russia. They didn't have the direct
American Airlines flight because of course, it was filled with
Russians.
No, he went, he went, the point he's making is that the, these
Russians are not the Russians with all the money that are
growing crazy says they're all in, made it clear that they're
in New York and the Bay Area. Find that a little weak?
Yeah, I didn't know that.
Anyway, so he's gonna keep us apprised of what the Russians
are up to. So my thing, so I'm going to this does football game
and pick up a copy of the Daily cow. And in it, there is a
article on the front page. Faculty discusses campuses
future. And it looks like the University of California which
has been out of control for a number of years, in terms of
their spending. And a friend of mine who taught there mentioned
the fact that, you know, the average salary in that the
University California administration, the average
salary is 30 $300,000 for any administrator, which means that
some people making like, you know, million now, but the
professor's themselves are making like up to 300 and more
1000 fenders a listen 2005 in the SF Gate about some of these
guys making 350 Plus, in terms of they get overtime for some
unknown reason. And they get housing allowances they get, I
mean, it's just just amazing. And we're not talking about
famous people, we're just talking about, you know, the run
of the mill types. So they're the But meanwhile, the states
broke. And the University of California is moaning because
they've built build a bunch of expensive new facilities and
wait, who wants to take up,
they don't tell me that they're gonna get some stimulus money,
or they
know, what they decided to do is they're going to crank up,
instead of serving the state of California, by the way this is
going on throughout the country, these universities have gotten,
you know, they get a tax free deal, they get free property,
and they have all this, you know, they're supposed to be
serving the public, but now they're going to change, they
want to increase the state out of state, which means China by
the way, student admissions from the current 10%, which is pretty
high to 22% because they can get they can gouge these kids and
besides the fact that they're already gouging the California's
I ran the calculation on this website. And if you were making
50 If you're a family making $50,000 a year, you can expect
to pay 26,800 plus dollars to send your kids public university
of California which is a state institution and that's for one
year, that's for one year. And by the way, look at how much
they learn my goodness,
we got this and these can now these guys are saying and they
apparently say well, you know we only get $4 billion from the
state we get you know that's only you know, something like
20% of what we use because we get a lot of free money from all
over the place and all these these ridiculous
we have a great health care plan to so that way
they used to but that they don't anymore I mean the good but yeah
the professors do but when you I was a student there we had free
health care at them they had a hospital on campus that we'd go
there and it was free you can go to the slide club the swine but
now understand is not anymore of course. So anyway, so they've
decided to you know, the now they're talking about kicking
the state out of their business even though this is a state
state but the state
they're gonna get the state out so we can go it alone wait money
I don't I don't understand how that works. And I'm
thinking what the first thing I would say to these people and I
would like to know anyone who's got some insight in the
University of California system and said had some complaints
that we can air here on the show is I'd like to know you know,
why don't ya Why don't you guys just do that. And then we'll
take a look at that tax exempt property you're sitting on all
over the state which is worth billions and just tax the crap
out of it. Well, you know, let's turn it around instead of
getting you know getting $4 billion
from them. Yeah. money from them so we can pay the firefighters
who are fighting fires and and service workers are getting IOUs
instead of checks.
So anyway, I just found the whole thing a pourraient. And I
could go wrong with it. Nothing to see. Look at back. Sorry. You
know, one of the things that happen I will do a friend of
mine is the on the call Have you Letters and Sciences advisory
board or the board I guess? And he says, he says to me says,
several years ago I said, Mike, I'd like to get my son wants to
go to University California. He says not You're not he's not
going to get in. I said, why? So it's not like when you and I
were kids, he says they you can't even get in now to
colleges, letters and sizes, unless you have at least a 4.4
grade point average
or your NASA. Your last name is Bush, Clinton or Cheney. And
I've seen 4.4
grade point average, how do you get 4.4 4.0? Scale?
4.4?
Yeah. And so he says, No, it's because it would happen is a
scam that's evolved over the years it used to apparently I
did some research into and it used to exist when I was a kid,
but nobody paid attention to it, because you didn't need to call
the you know, advanced placement system, which is essentially a
money making scheme to give you all kinds of credits that jeez,
it's after it's off the books extra credit that you pay for
essentially, as part of a corrupt system that is made it
so you know, you can't even go to the public school anymore.
Unless you would like are in on the gun this crazy.
Wasn't this this president supposed to make education
really easy for everybody and everyone? And how about our
previous president, No Child Left Behind? I mean, how did
this get so out of control?
It's completely it's beyond our control. And the worst part is
the arrogance of these of these universities at this level, to
you know, in bed I still get overtime for for professors. I
mean, what kind of overtime? worked a lot. I had to read a
book last night. I mean, what is overtime?
Because they're all reading Atlas Shrugged. John, it takes
forever to get through it. Yes, he's done it once again.
He slipped. Okay. I will have further gripes but I would like
anybody out there with horror stories about college
experiences around the country, and scams that they are
perceived scams that you see something that doesn't look just
right, hey, email me putting the NA or no agenda in the subject
line. And I'll collect this stuff. And we can just complain
bitterly because I think a lot of this stuff is going under the
radar. I mean, do this stuff. It was done by SF gay, the San
Francisco Chronicle where they were moaning about this really
ended around 2005. It's gotten worse since then. But I think
the Chronicle because of the nature of the newspaper
business, they got no feedback saying yeah, we want more
stories like this, so they dropped it. Unbelievable.
Anyway, alright, let
me wind up with with one more quick clip and I believe this is
real, it could be doctored. It's a YouTube video, it's of John
Murtha and he is taking a vote in a guest the house and this is
how democracy works, I guess and there's some questions about it
that come from the floor.
Those in favour of a vote will stand and remain standing
approval of the journal those in favour so this is
not really an important thing is the approval of the journal
whatever the hell it is but basically the document right
okay whatever the document is I don't have the context I will
say no. pinion the chair the speaker
those favouring a vote buddy Asia days will please rise.
Number have arisen yeas and nays ah, rule 24. The procedural
question
Is this from C span by the way, now they're gonna ignore that
get some questions. Everyone's just on
the carrot. How many members rose to request the recorded
vote and the total number of members present in the house
upon which the chair made his decision? It's up to the chair
and let me take let me tell you this. The vote will show that
the approval will be approved by the house as it has been. Mr.
Speaker further parliamentary inquiry. That's not a
parliamentary inquiry. Mr. Speaker further parliamentary
inquiry. Does not the Constitution require that in
order to get a BA enabled, there has to be 1/6 of the members
present requesting a 1/5 Excuse me 1/5. Gems Greg. Further
parliamentary inquiry does not a recorded vote in the House
require the second 44 members to quorum is present. Further
parliamentary inquiry did 1/5 of the members present stand and if
so, how is it possible to challenge the call of the
speaker
it comes
on the air accuracy of not subject to question. Speaker.
Mr. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speaker, I make a point of order that 1/5
of the members present were did not support the demand for a
recorded vote or a year and a call.
I love it. You just got to look at this video. You hear twice as
many Nays. And he says, oh, it's past the eyes have it.
This beautiful.
Yeah. Well, you know, you can do that. I'm surprised they can't
get anything else done.
Yeah, like health care. As an example. All right, John, I
think we did go a little bit over our quota today on time,
but hey, everyone's getting their money's worth.
Yes, and go and guide to take part in the dinner. Which will
be on October 3. Go to divorce.org/and a sign up
immediately.
Yeah. And I will be leaving for the United States tomorrow,
flying back to San Francisco. So we'll be doing the show in close
proximity. And maybe we can do a dinner this week, John and do a
review. It's been quite a while. Yeah, there's
a bunch of places
that we haven't been to yet. Yeah, a couple. Okay, excellent.
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