Now I present to you James P. Madonna and the Rep. Dr. William J. Eisenman. We're here. Welcome to Progressive Discussions. I'm your host, James P. Madonna of Progressive Discussions in Megalife 21, the hardest-hitting Internet Talk radio station on the planet. And it is Saturday afternoon. It is the, I guess it's still the beginning of October 2015. Yeah, it's not the middle yet. My favorite month, October. And I would like to introduce my co-host and mentor and the founder of Newsletter Censored in 1977. The Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman. How are you feeling this week, sir? Tired. Yeah, I'm tired and quite aggravated by some things, but, you know, some days are smooth and some days are not. And I would say 99... Well, not really. About 95% of most problems are people induced. They're caused unnecess... They're avoidable problems caused by humans. Humans with things like emotions like selfishness, ego, vanity, people having...they need to be right. They need to... Like I was debating with Bill Moro, William H. Moro III, was insisting.  Don't trust that man. It's a lie. It's a lie. I believe in American mainstream media propaganda that Putin is bombing anti-Assad rebels or something. I don't know what he said, but...   He probably is, and I give him two thumbs up for doing it.  They have agreements. Now, I'm not sure who the good guys are, the bad guys. That's correct. In this world. I mean, is Assad the good guy? No. He's a bad guy. He has killed his people. Where do you think all these refugees are coming from? You mean that slim man in a good-looking suit that's very mild-mannered when he speaks? He's a goofy head. He speaks so mild-mannedly and gently. He's a murderer? He's a dictator. And who the heck... Well, we know ISIS are not the good guys. No. But Americans seem to believe that the U.S. are always the good guys. Like Bill Moro, because his father was a Republican in anti-union, and he was an IBM executive, and he believed everything his father told him.  He says, yeah, that is a possibility, yeah. But why do you automatically assume the United States government are the good guys, the heroes, the godly ones, the right ones? You know what I mean? I says, you don't believe in the corporate oligarchy at all? You know, fascism? No, no, he just won't accept the fact that he has been lied to like we have as we grew up. Neither does the Republican Party. So... You know, my grandfather was kind of ahead of his time when I was a kid. My grandfather was a Democratic Socialist, and he used to tell me many things that we discuss now at God Rest His Soul. And you know what? I believe my uncle Phil with his conservative propaganda as a teenager. And do you know why? Because uncle Phil was the financially successful one in the entire family. He was financially independent. So everybody looked up to him because he had the degrees and he had the business, his own business, so they believed him when he was calling grandpa Kami Pinko. But the Kami Pinko was right. He was right.  I salute, therefore I salute. My grandfather also used to tell me about Edgar Cayce and Genie Dixon and he told me a lot of things. He was a pretty advanced guy for a man that wasn't a college graduate, and he was very well read. So I want to dedicate this show to my late grandfather, Mr. John Nicolosi. John Nicolosi and that he was correct. He was promoting and teaching me pretty much. A lot of what Bernie Sanders talks about today in his campaign. So I salute him. I want to say hello, greetings to my near dear friend in Osaka, Japan, Miho. Hello, Miho. Sash Boyle, my number one Facebook group administrator, Mr. Ken Thiessen, personal trainer and former WWE superstar. I say greetings to you. I started a new group on Google called Progressive Discussions because I'm getting pretty sick and tired of the drama and the nonsense that I encounter on Facebook. I really am. But unfortunately, the Google group is, you can't doll it up. You can't customize it, you know, with a fancy cover and a background and this and that. It's all content.  It's 100% content with no aesthetics.  Allow people to doll up their group. You know what I mean? Allow them to doll it. Everything we talk about politically is part of our series. Capitalism in a conch shell. There's the conch. And everything you've heard about trickle down economics was a lie. It was never meant to work. What we have is siphon up to the top 20% and then the 1%. Economics, siphon up economics, the devil's economics. Not God's economics. That's a siphon, by the way. Okay, now let us sink our teeth. Oh, before we sink our teeth into these readings, because I know we'll be in a democratic debate on Tuesday. They're way behind schedule. You're kidding. Bernie Sanders and those other miscellaneous guys. And Hillary. Really? Oh, I have to watch this. What time do you think it starts? Probably nine. Oh, this is going to be good to watch Hillary slip up and sound corporatist. She's against the TPP now. Yeah, now she's a flip flopper. Hillary is a flip flopper. She reminds me of... She put her finger up to the wind and saw the way it was blowing. Well, and against the TPP. She's like a chameleon. Chameleon. So she went against Barack Obama and the TPP. Well, I'm surprised Barack Obama went with the TPP. No, I'm not. Corporate... Corporate, baby. Barack Obama, he has proven to be corporatist, without a doubt. Just like the Billarys, Hillary and Bill. And what's his name? Secretary of State John Kerry, the man who wants to arrest Edward Snowden. I'm sure he's a corporatist too. As well as many sell out demon crats. I used to say dummy crats, but I think they're smarter than we think.  You know, and plus Obama, instead of targeting the enemy and wiping them out, like Vladimir Putin does, he is more in favor of the drone attacks where you have innocent civilians dying, the collateral damage. But anyway, yes, definitely watch the debate. I will. Hillary... I tell you, Hillary has that NASCAR jacket. Just like the others do with all the corporation logos all over it. She's in bed with Monsanto, the most evil company that ever existed. ExxonMobil. But the feminists out there are obsessed with putting a woman in the White House. There are people like the ugly, very annoying Ellen DeGeneres. She's a Hillary gal.  She wants a woman in the White House, period. Period. No other logical reason. She just wants a woman to be president. So I didn't watch the video of the... Apparently it looks like Donald Trump hired some Hispanic woman to get up and jump up and down and say, Yippee, I love Donald Trump. To make himself look good to the Latinos. Donald Trump is a showman. Many things are staged. But of course, Billy Morrill's friend, John, isn't a funny... He was a long-shore union member his whole life, but he's a Republican. I'm trying to figure that out. A union man being Republican. Well, it's not hard to figure it out.  There's a post that comes up on Facebook all the time. I'm a poor slob, but I vote for billionaires. Oh, like that Joe Diploma jerk? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so John says, oh no, no, no. There were 30,000 people showing up for a Donald Trump's rally. Don't believe what you read. Those are the Democrats lying. I said 30,000. I said you must be thinking of Bernie Sanders. He goes, oh no, it was Donald Trump. They just don't tell you all the people waiting to get in, you know, people standing outside and standing room only. What do you think? Do you think Donald Trump is getting that many people? No, he's getting a lot of people for a Republican, but, you know, not that many. No, I said you have to be thinking of Bernie. You know, that they have to get a bigger venue for him.  They want to blame everything on the immigrant of color. They want to blame everything on the po-folk. The po-folk is in the po-folk bed and, you know, and blah, blah, blah. And they never acknowledge the real mooshers, which are the fat cats and the elitists. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Those are the true mooshers. Anyway, let us sink our teeth into these readings. Let's see what time it is. Because certain individuals probably led by Beelzebub caused me to get here late. Okay, so we have a half hour before lunch. Okay. With all the, with all these shootings going on lately, I thought I'd just add this little thing here. An 11-year-old boy has been charged with murder after he killed his eight-year-old neighbor. Little girl, yeah. And witnesses say it was because the girl wouldn't let him see her puppy.  Well, obviously, they need a little anger management to control, don't they? Even our children. Yeah, but actually carrying out, carrying out of the murder for something as trivial as not seeing a puppy, you know, it seems like little boys turning into monsters today is proof that the modern-day parenting doesn't work.  Now, it doesn't work. Deputies were called to the neighborhood in White Pine, about 40 miles east of Knoxville, Tennessee, on Saturday night. A red state. The boy shot the girl from inside his home with his father's 12-gauge shotgun. Wow. The 12-gauge shotgun and the little girl was eight years old. Correct. He apparently knew how to use it. Yeah, apparently, huh? A 11-year-old kid knew how to use it. How to, you know, use it without anger. That's the point. That's a big gun for even an adult to master. But here you have an 11-year-old boy. I wonder what the kickback, did the kickback throw him in the next room or what? Yeah, an 11-year-old boy in a gun-totin NRA red state. He sure knew how to use that big old gun, that 12-gauge shotgun. So I think he got a little training there, coaching from some redneck teabag or father. A 4,800-pound, 10 Commandments Monument that had been ordered off the grounds of the state capital was installed outside the offices of a private conservative think tank on Thursday after it was removed from state property under the cover of darkness. And with at least two dozen state troopers standing by, the move ended along the culture war in which state lawmakers tried to save the monument. But in the end, only opened the door to other groups, including Satanists and the Church of the Flying Spaghetti. Excuse me? Monster. The Church of the Flying Spaghetti. Spaghetti monster? Spaghetti monster? Why, you got something against that church? What's a spaghetti monster? Who cares what is? It's a legitimate church, and it has the right to put its monuments on state property also. What about the Church of the Fonzie from the Family Guy cartoon? He created a... Well, there was a satire against all these churches and cults, so he created the Church of the Fonzie. When everybody goes, you know, they all go, hey, hey, the Fonzie.  They have pictures of Almo and Arrow and Patsy and Richie Cunningham and Tom Bosley and all the photos around. They were making fun of all these cults. And they're all tax exempt, pal. The Church of the Fonzie. Hey. Okay. They're all tax exempt. You see, oh, now what's with that...  I thought she was real progressive. Ann Barrett. Her last name is Barrett. I put up the banner on the Uncensored, Hard-Hitting Truth, a Facebook group about they show somebody living in a dilapidated house paying taxes, and then they show a mega, it looked like a super mega church that pays no taxes.  Not if they're, you know, they're greedy mega churches. Joel Osteen should not be exempt. None of them should be exempt. What is it about people in the south? They come across as being progressives, but they're not 100% progressive. Hey. Why? Why should a mega church be exempt from paying taxes? It shouldn't be, but the tax system believed that they were doing society good, good will. So that's what they've done. They gave them a break. Because they control the population? The savage beacon. Who knows what it is? Religion is a good thing, that's all. That's how they feel. Apparently, even the cults. Even the spaghetti monster, the flying spaghetti monster. Legally. Can I ask you a question? Legally, the national church of Satan? Are they exempt? Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. Okay. Absolutely. Mike is happy about it here, this guy. I'm not happy about anything like that. Absolutely. I'm saying what is. Yeah, and it is. And it is what is. Yeah, that's what it is, and it shouldn't be. But it is, isn't it? Now, these are little things that we should work on. We don't. So we can call, we can start a cult and come up with some cockamamie name. That's correct. What do you do? You register with the county or something? You've got to, well, you've got to get a watch from a college before they've got them, you know. The tax, you've got to fill out. The tax of them status, absolutely. But there are certain criteria to prove. Yes, you're not supposed to involve yourself in politics if you're a kind of church. They do it all the time. Yes, they do, don't they? Because the Republicans are in charge of the house. So in other words, the law only applies to people that are not right-wing. It doesn't apply to them. Or to whomever we want to force it against. Like maybe Eugene Debs back in the day when he was thrown in jail because he was a socialist. A socialist in America. It's under the 1917 Espionage Act. Of the demonized socialists. So it's the same thing with John Kerry like you said before. He wants to use the law against Mr. Snowden and put Mr. Snowden in jail. But Mr. Snowden is a hero. Mr. Snowden put the United States Constitution first and he did his job. And his oath that he took to protect against enemies both foreign and domestic. Isn't that sort of how the oath goes? Yes. I have pomegranate peel. We, my people, he chose over we, the House of Representatives, we, the Senate, we, El Presidente. No, he chose we of the people to be informed of what your government was doing to you. He's kind of like a young Bernie Sanders sort of. Yeah, he was, you know. It's called doing the right thing. Anyway, I have pomegranate peel in my medicinal tea because I've read so many wonderful things about pomegranate peel. Anyway, all these other religious organizations, everything, wanted permission to erect their own monuments on the capital grounds. It's only fair. Where does it end? It's only fair, isn't it? It'll look, it'll be so many monuments, it'll look like a cemetery. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You'll have statues everywhere. A lot of pigeons would be happy, though. As recently as July, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallon said the monument would stay put despite a state Supreme Court ruling that it violated the state's constitution ban on the use of public property to support any sect, church, denomination, or system of religion. Fallon said the court got it wrong. Nevertheless, Nevertheless, workers began removing the monument late on Monday night well ahead of the court-ordered removal date of October to 12th. John Estes, a spokesman for the Office of Management and Enterprise Services said the decision to remove the monument in the dark was made to avoid safety and security issues. We wanted it removed as quickly and safely as possible with little interruption as we could, he said. We didn't want a disturbance that could have complicated the removal. The state paid the same group that installed the monument about $4,700 to remove it and install it outside the offices of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, a few blocks away. The six-foot tall, three-foot wide slab of stone shaped into two tablets was financed privately and installed on the capital grounds in 2012. Does it actually have the Ten Commandments on them? Yes, they are written on there. Do they realize that people could not keep the law? I mean, it's almost impossible to keep the law. I don't know if it's impossible to keep the Ten Commandments. What's impossible about them? Name one law that's impossible. Well, apparently people are sinning at least once. Yes, they don't keep it, but don't say it's not keepable. Of course it's keepable. It was made so that it would enhance your life so you wouldn't have problems in your life. That's why God did it. Well, it also identifies and verifies what sin is. Well, it tells you what it is. It shows people what sin actually is. Sin is, as John said in the Bible, the transgression of the law. So simply as that. It's not wearing makeup. It separates you from God. The Satanic Temple had constructed a statue weighing about a ton to sit alongside the Ten Commandments Monument if it were allowed to remain on public property. Oh, they want to put it alongside the bathroom. The devil needs equal time. The bathroomette. The bassinet. I forgot how the word is. The bassinet. You mean for the baby? No, the goat. The winged goat statue. Winged goat or winged horse? Pegasus. No, we're talking about the image that history assumes what Satan looks like. Not when he was Lucifer. But he still has his rank. He's still an archangel. Endlessly divided House Republicans pleaded with Representative Paul Ryan on Friday to rescue them from their damaging leadership vacuum. But the GOP's 2012 Vice Presidential nominee showed little appetite for the prestigious, yes, thankless job of Speaker of the House. Yeah, he didn't exactly quit voluntarily. We're not talking about Boehner. We're talking about Paul Ryan. They want him to be Speaker.  No shit! But that's the only one that they can all coalesce around. The muppet face. It's Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan, yeah. But he doesn't want the job. No, he doesn't want to be under a frigging microscope by the whole house.  Even though he's definitely a right winger. Well, yes, and he will please those 40 or 50 teabaggers. And that's what it's all about. Why do you think Mr. Boehner is going bye-bye?  They don't want to do anything. John Boehner is not the only Republican that has admitted that the party has drifted too far to the right. There have been a few others that admit that not only has it drifted too far to the right, but is going crazy.  It's already been crazy, but now it's off the wall. Yep. The Wisconsin Republican, who is Chairman of the Tax Writing, Ways and Means Committee, his dream job, he has declared repeatedly declined to comment as reporters chased him around the Capitol a day after Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy shocked his colleagues by withdrawing from the Speaker's Race moments before the vote. Now, it may be just a rumor, but it is being said that Mr. McCarthy is having an affair with one of his either staff or something of that nature. My grandfather used to say, stiff prick has no conscience. Well, he is a stiff prick, that's for sure. It's a wonder Republican dicks work. Hold on. The levity bells. These are authentic old-fashioned jingle bells, by the way. How many kids on your block have this? Do you know that the Mongolians ride on reindeer? Yeah, well, the Scandinavians, it's a caribou. A reindeer is a caribou.  They, you know, you ride them, they carry stuff. They don't fly. They don't fly. They don't fly.  What? The American reindeer don't fly?   Yes, I do. I used to sing Rudolph the reindeer. That's just to get you to spend money around that time of the year. It's not even Jesus' birthday. Are you familiar with a legend that is still practiced in Germany called Krampus? It's a custom Krampus is the flip coin. Krampus is a demon that he's the flip side of Christmas. It's almost like all Hallows' Eve is to All Souls' Day. It is the flip side, or Mardi Gras is to Lent. For every Christian, celebrated Christian holiday, there is a flip side to it. Opposite, yeah. Opposite. Krampus is... Like the mass and black mass.  McCarthy's abrupt decision came just two weeks after the current speaker, John Boehner of Ohio, announced his own plans to resign. Seven bells for Krampus. At month's end, citing opposition from the small, but strident block of hard-core conservatives who almost immediately turned on McCarthy. Really? Boehner's number two guy. Interesting. They don't waste time turning on him, huh? No. That left Republicans in chaos with a yawning void at the top of their leadership ladder, even as they confront enormous fiscal challenges and budgetary deadlines that could threaten the government shutdown and unprecedented default in the months to come. So GOP lawmakers from Boehner and McCarthy on down turned to Ryan, 45, the only figure in the House seen as having the stature, wide appeal, and intelligence to lead Republicans out of the mess they are in. I think they're so deep in quicksand that they only have their nostrils above the sand. He'd be an amazing speaker. McCarthy declared, Amazing, to a bank of TV cameras that the Republicans met behind closed doors to discuss their predicament. I wouldn't call any Republican amazing. I would call them maybe less evil and less corrupt than the other Republican, but not amazing. But he's got to decide. Said Representative Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia, himself a potential candidate for the job, he's the only guy who can unite us right now. Their pain is my pleasure. Not long after Ryan rushed out of the Capitol, refusing to talk to reporters, with Congress heading into a week-long recess. Another one. Another one. Another vacation.  Congress is in recess. Yeah, they're taking a big break, man. Big long coffee break.  Congress of baboons. Congress, that's correct. Yeah, that ban has been around for a while. But it happens to be true. Anyway, he's going home to Janesville, Wisconsin, to his wife and young family. I'm sure Paul Ryan is buddies with Scott Walker. Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck said, Chairman Ryan appreciates the support he's getting from his colleagues, but is still not running for speakers. Why not? Possible reasons include the presidential ambitions he may well still harbor. Yeah, sure. It means a raise in salary, right? Correct. Mr. Boehner gets over 200,000. Gee, too obstruct Obama for eight years. The speakers' post, highly prestigious, and second in line to the presidency, I guess it is second, vice presidents first, then here, then the president pro tem of the... Secretary of State is not number third. No, Mr. Hague was wrong under Reagan. When Reagan was shot and he came out right away, I'm in charge, I'm in charge. General Hague. You don't remember that? Were you too young in Reagan's day? I was just thinking about partying in the 1980s. Partying in girls. But Republicans were determined to do what they could do to get Ryan to reconsider. Representative Darrell Issa of California said he carried Ryan's gym bag for him Friday morning in an effort to persuade him to run. He carried his jock strap, too? On his mouth. And Ryan even fielded a call from his presidential running mate, Mr. Mitt Romney. Oh, God. The mitten. Romney, a later issued and effusive statement declaring, Paul has a driving mission to get America back on path of growth and opportunity. Growth and opportunity, for who? For the top 20%. That's great. With Paul, it's not just words, it's his heart and his soul. His heart and soul is pretty involved in greed. No doubt about that. The clamor for Ryan dominated Republicans' interest while Democrats watched with a mixture of fascination and trepidation concerned about the challenges just ahead for Congress. The good thing about Republicans is it's not complex to figure them out and explain them. They are very obvious, very easy to explain.  The same people who wanted to take down John Vayner, who wanted to take down Kevin McCarthy, are going to want to take down the next guy, too, said Representative Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania. Charlie Dent, where does he come from? A long line of auto body professionals. He's dead, that's all I know. I want to say greetings to my friend in Portugal and Master Indian Club and Persian meal maker and old-fashioned wooden toy maker for children. Helder. Love those wooden toys. Helder Chandra. Oh, yeah, he makes all the classics. He's even a wooden top expert, as far as, like, demonstration. You know, he, like, spins it and it's on his hand. It goes up his arm.  Yo-yo, man. The Dunkin' Yo-yos. I wish I had an old-fashioned wooden butterfly Dunkin' Yo-yo. Wooden. Probably worth some bucks. When I was a kid, I had one. And guess what? I saw the wooden tops in the dollar store. The dollar zone in Salterbrook and in different colors. I should have got it. Because you don't see this in Toys R Us. Wooden top with stainless steel tip. Absolutely.  You can't debate too much. No, because you never know if you're going to see it again. Anyway, it's time for lunch break. We're joining, we're going to be joined with How to Defeat a Conservative Bible Versus and William Hamill tomorrow the third with Promo. And we'll see you for the balance of the show. Wake up, people, because the truth is often, very often, a very, very hard pill to swallow. This is William H. Morrow. The best way to join our organization is to get your free annual subscription to Newsletter Censored with your gift to support this work. The newsletter of hard-hitting truth and news fighting censorship and conservative propaganda since 1977. There is nothing out there like the Newsletter Censored in the mainstream media or the press. This newsletter is the very best way to join and be a part of our organization. We're living the end times, so you need Newsletter Censored. Go to www.newslettercensored.com. Hard-hitting truth, you need Newsletter Censored. And now, back to the show, by the way. Okay. We're back. We are back. We are back from lunch almost.  Very important. We are back from lunch. And thank you, William Hamill tomorrow the third for doing promo.  And I had wrote down that they, if that's the case, they should not call this product that they make, they should not call it medication, they should just call it drugs because they are legal, they are legal drug pushers is what they are. They are legal, Big Pharma, high-end drug pushers. Do not call any prescription drug a medication because medication comes from the word medicine, right? I don't consider it medicine if all you care about is shareholder profit which CEOs always put the blame on the shareholder. Well, you can see that very blatantly with that issue that came up the other day with that young punk who bought the rights to that drug that only cost $13.50 and boosted it up to $750. He's just being a good businessman. Are you mean the former hedge fund manager? Yes. That young punk, yuppie looking guy with the douchebag face? Yeah, he jacked up the HIV drug to over $700, normally $13, I assume, per pill. $13.50 per pill.   You're purchasing shares of stocks at risk. You must assume risk when you buy stocks. As a CEO, my loyalty is to put out the very best product that my company can put out and to my customers. My customers come first, not guaranteeing you shareholder profit, you know?  I mean, it's true. It's a security. It's this common stock. They're supposed to be inherent risk. Yeah, well, these rich bastards who do the investor class, they don't want to assume any risk. Don't buy a stock. That's what Wall Street was all about. Get a bond. What do you think the derivatives was all about? There's no risk with these things. And buy blue-chip bonds. They ended up being worthless. Buy blue-chip bonds if you don't want to risk. No, there's not enough interest paid on those. Not enough interest on the safest investment in the world today, the Treasury bond. Because they're wealthy people or close to top 20% people, they demand guaranteed profit when they buy shares of a corporation. They demand guaranteed profit. Oh, how special we are. Yes, I was just watching. They want a sure thing. They want the resource. That's correct. They want their resource to win by making sure the other jockeys hold back. That's not how life works. That's how America works. Yeah, America. America. Anyway, I was watching CNBC before. And, of course, they were down on unions, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And the unions, they're the things that are keeping us back from growing and from people investing, et cetera, et cetera. Here we go. Trickle down again.  You know what that is? That's old-fashioned Reagan trickle down. Yes. They're not the job creators, not in the U.S. But that's what they continue to sell.  And they continue to sell just like the... You read that article about religious organizations being exempt from paying taxes, right? Yeah. That was before. I forgot to show you the evangelical serpent.   Taking up serpents, they just make up their own rules. Yes. Because they have the money and they buy off people. That's simply all they do. And then they hold the Bible in this hand. Like Donald Trump, he's been waving the Bible. Not that he reads it, but he's been waving it. No, he can't say one scripture. Taking up serpents. He can't say one scripture from the Bible. How many can? Not that that makes you understand it. But you should at least know one. I mean, everybody, when they were young, learns the Lord's prayer. But guys like Pastor John Hagee and Mike Huckabee, these people make up their own interpretations to suit the right-wing agenda. Pat Robertson. They have their own God. What do you think God has pissed at them for? Well, their idolatry God is money. That's what God says in the Bible. Their gods can't walk, they can't talk, they can't do anything. Well, the God that the Republicans claim to talk to all the time is not the God of the Bible. It's the other one. The God of this world. Corinthians 4-4. Well, you know the big thing today now, there's several books out. And I've seen a kid, someone else. Everybody's going to heaven today and coming back.  That's an old one. There's a couple of new ones now. Oh, there's new ones now? Now everybody's going to heaven coming back. They're going to heaven and coming back.  They see grandpa and then they come back. Could be demons in disguise of grandpa.  And Wybel also said, remember Mr. Camping? He continuously wanted to put a date on when Jesus comes back. But the Bible says no one knows except the Father. Well, somebody new is doing it now. Oh yeah. Well, the business ain't going to fall if there isn't. End time predictions. Oh yeah. But the angels don't even know. So how do they know? But people give them money. There you go. You know, Dr. Bill, this oatmeal is proof that you don't need any added sugar. The only thing I put in here besides the Himalayan pink salt and coconut oil, organic virgin coconut oil, the only thing I put in here is dried dates and mangoes. It's sweet. It's sweet, man. I don't need any sugar. Now the American food industry has the sugar, everything down. Sugar and salt. That's all we can taste. The American tongue. Right. And toxic, well, now a lot of foods are not putting trans fats in, which is a good thing. But the sugar's got to go.  Unfortunately, I saw the other day a sugarless cake with trans fat. Partially hydrogenated. Oh God. Really? I think it was, I think it was a soybean oil. Oh geez. Oh my God. Probably GMO soybeans. Yeah. I see corn oil and soybean oil all the time. And it'll say trans fat free, but it doesn't say anything about whether it's GMO or not. Nope. And if they're not going to be required to put it on the label, they're not going to do it. Yeah. Well, anyway, thank you for the Chinese colon cleansing tea and the slippers. And the slippers, by the way. You see this slipper here? Yeah. It's supposed to be a 10. It ain't a 10. What do you think it is? And it compresses my foot. We do the smalls. It's a nine. Yeah, there is no half sizes in slippers. It compresses my foot and makes the ball of my foot hurt. Because the other slipper that I tried to fix had a hole in it from where the ball of the foot was. So it sensitized it. So now with the compression here, it's sensitizing it even more. And I can't even move my foot within the slipper. That's how compressed it is. So if you have too much room, you get the calluses. If you have not enough room. No, the callus was from just wearing out the bottom of the shoe. So I used this stuff from Germany, this patch stuff, put it on the patch. But I got to put something inside the slipper because if the patch itself contacts the ball of my foot, it's like rubbing against metal. The patch turned into like metal. It's not good. So I got to get something to put in that and then I'll wear that a beat-up old slipper, which is, you know, it's like shirts and shoes. When they are old, they are comfortable. Well men have a tendency to wear things until they dissolve. Exactly. You know, underwear, until underwear looks like Swiss cheese. I don't wear underwear. I mean, I wear it, but I just wear it until it's full of holes and then I throw it out. I'm a swinger. You mean your pendulums are always a swing. Back and forth, baby. You're Balinese. I'm very sorry, viewers, if we're not being hard-hitting here. We're being a little light. But let us sink our teeth. Let us continue. Sink our teeth back into these readings. Excuse me. Yes. Well, it's good enough for Howard Stern to burp his heart. It's good enough for me. Bridget Harrison's column shows again how disastrous Governor Christie has been for our state of New Jersey. Oh, yeah. But according to him, he's a hero. He saved New Jersey. New Jersey is one of the wealthiest and most educated states in the country. Yeah, and most congested. Yet our quality of life is stagnating and our bond rate ranking is plummeting. And the job market is atrocious and getting worse. Well, I'm sure welfare doesn't understand that. If you go to a New Jersey state or federal government website for job seekers that are on unemployment and you click on them, you know, from what I was told, more than three-quarters, no, actually it was like more than, it was almost as high as 95% where it didn't exist anymore. Those jobs did not exist anymore. So why do they keep them there? It's just like the government website that tells you what jobs and careers are in high demand, are marketable skills. A clothing design is a high demand marketable skill. I received an email the other day. Highly wanted job opportunities for billing and, you know, medical billing and coding. Medical billing and coding, yes, yes. They're only hiring people with like five years plus experience and unfortunately it's usually women that they hire for that. You know, they're not, it's not in demand, you see.  They're put together by Mr. Stupid Clinton and Newt Gingrich in 1996 when they changed their welfare as we know it. You know why I think they said it was, it's not that it wasn't in demand. It's not that it wasn't in demand, it's that it might be very much in demand if the United States at that time would have went for the universal single-payer healthcare system. Yeah, but that would have been handled under Medicare. Right. It would have been Medicare for all. In other words, it doesn't guarantee that clinics and doctors and hospitals will be hiring more medical bills and coders. They should. They should, but everybody wants, the Republicans don't understand that their wonderful American companies want everything. They want the degree or diploma or certificate. They want experience. They don't want to train anybody that they hire.  The internship program where people work for free. Students work for free every semester, every year. New students go in. They get school credit for it, but they work for free. So between the internship and the privatized prisons that seem to be loaded with African Americans and frivolous crimes, you know, like maybe that's why they don't want to legalize marijuana, they're Republicans, so they can load up those privatized prisons for free labor. That's when it started out in the 60s. Free slave labor. Nixon and etc., that's what they did. It was a deliberate way to calm the cities down by putting those blacks in jail. Putting the rowdy blacks in jail. They were deliberate tactic. Right, they automatically assumed that they were rowdy troublemakers. So they were profiling. Yeah, you will see in the new newsletter, How to Defeat a Conservative, I do the Edwin Mies porn commission. And how he was in California where they targeted protesters and they took their license plates and they took their pictures and they did this, that and the other thing so that they could target them so that they wouldn't protest. Yeah, please remind me when you get up, at least by noon or 12.30 about the newsletter, please, just leave me a message or remind their message. Because I have a lot on my plate at home and a reminder would be much appreciated and then I'll just drop it off. But anyway, you're right, I do remember the Mies situation, the Mies case. You know, it's the same religious nuts that started prohibition. Christie does little to develop and repair our rusting infrastructure. People, especially seniors and businesses, are leaving New Jersey. That is true. I knew some New Jerseyans that moved to Virginia, North Carolina, you know, Charlotte, North Carolina, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, you know, these are the people that don't want to go to Florida, Georgia, you know, Atlanta is a growing city. They're leaving the state, yes. In his quest for the presidency, Christie has vetoed hundreds of bills to appease the Tea Party wing of his party. These are bills regarding gun control, women's health centers and pro-job and pro-business proposals such as the Made in America bill. Made in America?  They ain't interested in making things in America, the Republicans. Fat chance. What about them spreading this propaganda about Planned Parenthood selling embryo parts or baby parts? It's all been a sham. Baby parts? Admitted by the guy who made the video. The religious nuts.  Yeah, the religious nuts that are obsessed with abortion and a woman's right to choose. Obsessed with it so much, they make up stories, lies about Planned Parenthood. They're still doing it. Of course, because they wanted to try to stop those abortions. Because they insist. Women belong in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant. They insist that the fertilized egg is a human baby. Well, that too. Which is total nonsense. That too. Where would I leave off here? Many bills had Republican support. Sometimes Republicans had even taken the initiative. But their backing always disappeared in fear after Christie's veto. Yeah. We can quickly take a major step toward overriding the irrational vetoes by electing a few more Democrats in the upcoming November 3rd assembly election. We need humane, creative, energetic and hard-nosed representatives who can work with others, including responsible Republicans. Yeah, right. It sounds like an oxymoron to me. Yeah, I know. I tell you the story about this woman, a young lady that called recently that wanted to do a survey with me. And the survey ended up bashing the Democrats running for state assembly. You know, Unik. Eustis. Eustis. Eustis and Lagana or something. Lagana. Lagana saying that they're in favor of the Planned Parenthood baby parts selling. I said, I got mad. I said, I see where the survey is going. I said, tell your Republican tea bag or employer just where to go. And I hung up. I said, I'm a Bernie Sanders man. And I said, this is to slander and demonize the Democratic candidates for state assembly. That's the job that's upcoming? State assembly? New Jersey state assembly. So I saw where it was going because it was constantly an untruthful negative expose of Mr. Eustis and Lagana. There you go. All right. And anyway, we need the Democrats to make New Jersey vibrant again. Vibrant? Yes. I guess that means prosperous. Yeah. Nah, it's not vibrant at all. It's not vibrant. You know, it would be really cool if they gave a really good break to local New Jersey farming so we can be the garden state again. Like local organic farming by local, you know? New Jersey still... Yeah, but all of our farmland is disappearing. You know what I mean? Putting up all kinds of oil tanks and cement everywhere, asphalt everywhere. Yeah, I mean New Jersey had or still has many small family-owned farms and dairies. Yeah, but the one up and been around for years and years up in Demarest is going down the tubes. It's true. See? This is what happens. And that farmland gets paved over and never comes back. Oh, yeah. Once it becomes a strip mall.  Not only trees do many great things to the environment. Many great things. Change of pace. Tomato paste? Oh, change of pace. I am working as a health care aide. Where I am working now, I love my job. But the lady's husband is touching me inappropriately. Yeah, well, it's a lot of seniors feel that they... because they're seniors they have the right to grope and expose themselves. I don't like that, but I don't know how to tell them this stuff. It's a magazine. I said, look, but don't touch. I can't quit my job because I really need to work. I am someone who is really shy and about saying anything to anybody. Please tell me what to do. I'm freaking out. She's got to say something to maybe the children of these people. She has to say something. This is Amy Dickinson's answer. I understand that when you are shy, it seems impossible to confront someone even if he is doing something bad. Yeah, because you don't want to be disliked. Please tell other people about this. Friends, family members or anyone else you can think of. The more people who know about this, the braver you will feel because of their support. It's like when an incident happens, you always get a police report. You always start a paper trail.  Same thing in this situation. Tell other people ahead of time or it gets out of control. They can't turn tables on her. You know, blame her. Part of this man's power is in the secrecy and the silence. You will take these away from him by telling other people about it even if you can't manage to confront him directly. The child and the senior automatically has the right of way. They believe the child and the senior before anyone else. Just like they believe the woman over the man. If you work for a company, you must tell your supervisor about this. Absolutely. She's making a big mistake. Your company cannot put you in the home of someone who will assault you. It should find another assignment for you. Because if she doesn't tell her supervisor, it will make it look like she likes the consensual fondling. Sexual harassment. Whenever you are working in this home, do everything possible to avoid being alone with this man. Keep your phone with you at all times. How old is this guy? Does it say? I don't know really. No. The number for the national sexual assault hotline is<PHONE_NUMBER>. They actually consider groping and fondling to be sexual assault.  It is. Rape is, but I think they're overreacting. You see what they do with rape. They turn it around to the victim. Yeah, but assault is a heavy-duty word for a grop. Well, a grop, an assault, et cetera. It's touching or doing something to the person's body that they don't want to do. An unwanted sexual advance. It may not be a sexual assault. Suppose someone comes up to you and starts poking their finger in your chest. That's not sexual. That would be somebody going into my personal space and touching me. That's assault. Don't touch me. Well, it's aggressive. As soon as you enter someone's personal space, it's an act of aggression. That's great. But the word assault is the carrying out the act. Like you said, poke, poke, poke, grab, grab, grab. Yeah. Program this number into your phone and call if you feel nervous. A phone counselor can help. The most important thing is what was said at the beginning is file the report with her supervisor. Correct.  No pun intended.  Oh, let it be both. I am shocked. Shocked, I say. You are? To find out that executives at the company received payouts, I'm going to sneeze, before filing for bankruptcy. Interesting. A&P. The Great Atlantic and Pacific. God bless you. The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. A&P. Well, not really. I'm sure that they were also receiving bonuses for meeting mythical target goals and a myriad of other long-term incentives such as stock options, restricted stock options, I mean stock and more. The problem is that they enriched themselves while telling the rank and file, we have to cut costs. They sound a lot like Republican congressmen and senators. And that doesn't include cutting executives or their pay. In fact, when a CEO wrangles contract concessions from employees, he typically gets a bonus for cutting costs. Yeah, but an employee wanting a living wage, a $15 an hour living wage. That is communism. That's a big problem. It's communism. Call out the national guide. We got to get rid of these communists. I salute socialism and communism. Okay? Not totalitarianism. I salute socialism and communism. Top executives can get away with this because they are backed by a board that permits and even encourages it. They all have no shame. How much is enough? That, a bankruptcy judge, would allow retention bonuses into this grace.  Yeah, gee. Well, it's funny how the corporate CEO is so identical to the conservative politician. Well, it all goes back to the Washington Consensus which says everything shall go up and not down to the consumer, up to the 20% all benefits of all nature, etc. Well, that's what a businessman told me about having a discussion about a company that purchases modern computerized automated machinery which can mass-produce a product as opposed to the old-fashioned machine which does not mass-produce a product. And what I said is that should lower the cost and lower the overhead overall and he says, no, no, that doesn't mean it will lower the price of the item. I said, yeah, because if you're greedy, scumbag, you won't lower the price. No. But if you're an ethical businessman... Increases the profit margin. That's probably how he was looking at it. Yes, that's what they do. Increases the profit margin. Did you see that video the other day on Facebook about that machine that cuts the tree down and then divides it up into... Oh, yeah, it's a robot. You know how many men are out of business because of that thing? Paul Bunyan and all the lumberjacks don't work. No more lumberjacks. It's an automated, self-propelled robot that cuts the tree down, shaves the branches and the leaves off, processes the log, and stacks the log in a pile. So, Paul Bunyan, you might as well... God bless you. Go with your blue ox. You might as well take your blue ox babe and go join a retirement community in Florida and play shuffleboard or whatever the hell they do there. You know, play checkers because lumberjacks will be out of work because the robotics will replace humans in many, many occupations. You know, you just better hope they can't think and reason for themselves and then turn on us. Yeah, but so if a businessman is honest, he would say, no, a quick mass production of my product should lower the prices for the consumers.   You can see it. I mean, that's what they do. They do it because they can because they are not regulated. That's correct. And this is why not only regulations are important, but consumer organizations are important too to blow the whistle on people. Oh, that's a union. We don't like unions. I salute all unions. May you regain the power you once had and more. Donald Trump said on Sunday that if he falls in the polls, he will drop out of the race. Yay, yippee! I am not a masochist, Trump said. On NBC's Meet the Press. Meet the Depressed. And if I was dropping in the polls where I saw that I wasn't going to win, why would I continue? Please drop out and take that horse-faced Fiorino with you. Trump remains ahead in Iowa and New Hampshire but his lead has shrunk in the past month according to the NBC News Wall Street Journal Marist poll. Well, has anybody investigated that Pope Francis photograph of kissing the hand of the Rothschild and Henry Kissinger? I heard nothing further. The Rothschilds? That makes me want to remove every image of him from the hero's Hall of Fame album. I have nothing.  Speaking of Carly Fiorino. Although two-thirds of minimum wage workers and three-quarters of low wage workers are women, Carly Fiorino is against a raise in the minimum wage. Except for her salary. She collected $100 million during her six-year tenure at Hewlett Packard, laying off 30,000 U.S. workers. HP broke U.S. sanctions and sold millions of dollars of computers to Iran on her watch. While aggressively opposing legal or abortion, Fiorino agrees with the Supreme Court ruling that allows corporations to deny insurance coverage for contraceptives. She opposes the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would help close the gender pay gap and cut the poverty rate in half for working women. They don't want to cut the poverty rate in half. They want those desperate slaves. Exactly. You see. In her argument to defund Planned Parenthood, she described a 19-month-old stillborn fetus as an aborted fetus being sold for body parts. Propaganda video? The video was doctored and had absolutely nothing to do with Planned Parenthood. When confronted about her blatant lie, she doubled down and continued to lie. I think certain Asian countries roast fetuses and eat them. How do they do it? How do Republicans find women who are against helping women? Yeah. Fox News is loaded with them, aren't they? Yeah. Now, being that the holiday seasons are approaching, I put up a banner that I've seen before, but as a reminder, think really hard before you donate to your favorite charity because... Don't donate to any of them. You'll be shocked.   Ever! March of Dimes. March of Scams actually. March of Dimes used to be great. Years and years. Goodwill, United Way, American Red Cross. Every one of them has miserable, greedy blood-sucking CEOs making a fortune and every one of them has these so-called administrative costs. Charities should have volunteer employees because it's a charity, it's a fundraiser. It's like almost a few cents on a dollar. That goes to the cause. It actually goes to the worthy cause. Plus, with the Catholic Charities, the Catholic Church is worth billions, right? Why should we donate to their fundraiser when most of our money won't go to the children? Why should we have to feed the children while they are multi-billionaires? Why can't they feed the children? You know what I mean? Yeah. And talk about evangelicals and everything. What about all these TV evangelists, megachurch crooks? They need new cars and planes to get around, man. What do they donate to? Who do they help? Themselves. Do they donate? Do they build a shelter for the homeless? Do they donate money to the soup kitchens? What's the habitat for humanity? Habitat for a humanity. Yeah. Just built a house for some woman, right? Yeah. Poor woman. Right. But the mortgage is going to be a thousand dollars a month.  I mean granted. So who the hell cares about giving her the house for free? Granted. Part. Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of empty, foreclosed homes. But do you think the banks are going to set up homeless people? No. For free? Of course not. First of all, you've got to eradicate poverty in America the right way. Not giving breaks to companies and corporations that do not create jobs in the United States. That's not the way to go. Raising more tax revenue from the corporations and the rich is the way to go. And like you said, the best idea might end up being, you know, if it's under Democratic socialism would be an annual, a basic annual income for all. As well as education and healthcare being free. Because it's going to get to the point where, well, there's no jobs out there now. There's 97 million people who want to work in America and don't have jobs today. And people with awesome resume. That's almost one-third. People with awesome resumes too who can't find work. And what about the people who gave up? Like Bernie Sanders said, they're not counted in the figure. No. The people who have given up searching. Amen. Accused of inappropriately touching two female Ryder University students while they slept in their dorm rooms faces numerous charges. Ryder University, he wanted the girls to ride him at Ryder.  Lawrence police told New Jersey dot com that John Cannon, 24, was arrested on Friday. William Conrad? No. Oh John Cannon. He was charged with criminal sexual contact for allegedly touching a student's breast. Breast. On September 27. And harassment. Offensive touching for allegedly touching another student's shoulder. Oh they're making a big thing about a shoulder touch. I think it's getting out of hand.  I mean it's getting out of hand. This is too politically correct. In both instances authorities say Cannon fled when the women woke up. They were asleep when he touched the shoulder and the breast.  Well he shouldn't have touched them at all. He shouldn't have been in their room. Why was he creeping in their room? He was looking for a little booty. Little booty claw. A jury has convicted a Rutgers University professor of sexually assaulting a man in her office. Now nobody really complains about that. Really. Well somebody must have. And you know what? They arrest female teachers for seducing young boys. Well let me tell you something. You cannot traumatize a teenage boy. He will thank you for the educational experience. Thank you.  A load? Yes. A load. Hold on. Where's my belt? He will have a loads of fun. And unfortunately he will tattle tail and brag to all his friends who will in turn tell their parents and then it will get back to the principal of the school. Because my hot looking teacher seduced me and I banged her. And that's it. That is the problem. The loose lips. We haven't gotten the full story yet. Six ships. Okay. The Essex County jury returned a guilty verdict on two counts of aggravated sexual assault on Thursday against Anna Stubblefield. Stubblefield? Stubblefield is 45. Does she shave her pussy? Stubblefield? Oh the bells have seen a lot of action today. And had contended during the trial that the 34 year old cerebral palsy victim consented to the sexual activity by communicating through assisted typing on a keyboard. They're disabled. Very disabled. Like something like Stephen Hawking. Now this story is different. The drama is... See you went off on a handle there. Because you got me all... You didn't get the full story. You got me all excited. Stubblefield and now I'm finding out these poor souls are very, very handicapped. Disabled. No, no, no, no. She's a louse, man. She's a louse. They're very vulnerable. Dr. Bill? Presidential politics. Okay, we're off that other subject. It's as easy as... Well there's not so much to say after that. After that conclusion. My bells have seen a lot of action today. Presidential politics is as easy as ABC. And the skeleton is dancing. Even he's happy. Anyone but Christy... Well not all that easy. When you look at the field of candidates in general it has to make you wonder.  Bash women? The contenders look at social programs for health, education and people in need as pariahs. The espousal of religion is used as a cloak when spouting angry and mean platitudes. Whatever happened to the tenants of America regarding freedom? Justice and helping those in need. You see, Americans, Murricans have a habit of scapegoating their problems. They need somebody to blame but none of them blame the real culprits for their problems. Which are the ones up there in Washington. The ones that they put there.  It's easy to blame all these people. All the people, homeless people. You're talking only 1% of the total budget. But they scapegoat, but they never blame who really is responsible for their plight. There are more than 300 million people in the United States. Why is it so difficult to find a handful of people to run for the presidency who can espouse the best sentiments of this nation? And show intelligence, kindness, courtesy and compassion. Oh, there is one. His name is Bernie Sanders. Feel the burn? And perhaps even some dignity. That's Bernie Sanders. Feel the burn? Dignity. Integrity. All the above. The qualities of it are decent human being. Last one? Yeah. Donald Trump's long-awaited tax plan would end income taxes for Americans at the bottom of the earnings ladder. That's what he says now. It hit Wall Street in the wallet and scrapped some popular tax breaks. Not if it's a consumption tax it's not going to help the little guy. Assuming he gets it through a Congress that has shown little stomach for tough choices his plan would seem to add to the federal deficits and the debts. Trump unveiled his plan on Monday at a news conference saying he'd collapse the current seven tax brackets into four 25 percent 20 percent and zero. And he'd take away favorable tax treatment for some managers of hedge funds which pool money to invest for this super wealthy.  They should not a person working in McDonald's or any minimum wage individuals should not pay any income taxes. What about a guy who's unemployed not unemployment insurance.  You didn't pay the taxes? No. Absolutely no. With the peanuts that they give him they call that income. Yeah. And if you win the lottery oh the welfare sure wants to be paid back. You know the gentleman Steve called me and said the welfare system in northern New Jersey has not paid him his cash assistance. Everybody got food stamps but they did not get there whopping $140 a month yet. And and welfare admits is a glitch. Really? There's a glitch? I think it's deliberate. I think it's something that wouldn't put a pass to Republican Chris Christie doing. Trump would take away the favorable tax treatment for some management I said that. A single earner with annual income under 25,000 dollars or a married couple filing jointly and earning about 50,000 would pay no income tax. Sounds reasonable. Some 75 million households according to his published plan would be removed from tax rolls and would get a one page tax form to send to the IRS. See the true consumer is the little guy the poor in the middle class the true consumer needs more money in their pockets. Yeah, but so that he can give the breaks to the wealthy. How do you get the tax where do you get the revenue?  But under that system you raise enough revenue to run the country. You don't, that's why it said it will add to the deficit. If you're not making the rich pay their fair share but you want to give big huge breaks to the poor in the lower middle class because that is lower middle class two people making 50,000 is lower middle class. If you're going to give them huge breaks and then you're going to give the rich huge breaks will the people in between I mean there won't be enough money where are you going to get the revenue? It won't be enough. It will provide major tax relief for middle income and for most other Americans Trump said there will be a major tax reduction it will simplify the tax code and grow the American economy. Well really while providing he penalizes outsourcing. Tax experts said on the face of it Trump's plan would provide relief to lower income earners it certainly will provide some relief for some people said Eric Toder co-director of the Tax Policy Center jointly run by the center left think tank Brookings Institution and the centrist Urban Institute people without kids will get a tax cut Trump's plan would save about $1,000 for single filers earning up to $25,000 for married couples it's more complex there always is Trump's plan would create savings for those without children and without joint income of up to $50,000 if they have children they already pay little tax on top to $50,000 of income because of the credits and exemptions the Trump tax plan would also lower the corporate tax rate to 15% from the current 35% bad idea see who's benefiting there don't you bad idea make sure him and his buddies will continue to get the tax breaks no, it's no good no one that Jesse Ventura changed his mind and said he didn't like his tax plan but in doing so it would end popular deductions Trump offered few additional details the four page plan offered no overall cost estimate nor estimates for how much it would cut or raise debt and deficits it wasn't paired with a plan to cut spending we appreciate Mr. Trump's willingness to talk about offsets and his emphasis on the importance of not adding to the debt but with the detail we have here it's very difficult to see how this plan will close enough loopholes tax preferences to offset his proposed tax cuts well despite his popularity he is running as a republican and he is a multi-billionaire so you cannot expect him to be a Bernie Sanders out by a long shot but he is entertaining and I do thank him for providing me with entertainment people don't forget to watch the first democratic 2016 campaign debate this Tuesday I am sure it will be in the evening any particular station no you will probably get them on all unless Fox doesn't want to carry it of course they won't carry it they carry the republicans they are fair and balanced that insane asylum that was like that was very entertaining watching republicans duke it out is very entertaining and watching them fight the best part is donald trump exposing their asses that's the best part and the thing with megan kelly misogynist misogynist high cherish women he cherishes their their pussies he is a cunny he has a degree in cunny linguistics ok thank you for joining us for progressive discussions we'll see you next time feel free to join our new google group called progressive discussions because it's just way too many glitches just too much drama with facebook unfortunately there's no email address that i know of where i can contact google and say hey you let me you let me you let me dress up my google profile you let me dress up the youtube channel but you won't let me dress up the google group it's just plain old content it's a snoozer i like to at least put a front cover on it anyway see with big corporations there is no way to personally they arrange it so you cannot personally contact them well they don't want to be bothered with your little trivialities my friend well in their opinion they're the boss you made them the boss you are one of multi millions of people like in other words there are pre it sends you to a page with pre made questions and answers pre made q and a's and you have to find to see if your topic is in there and then if your topic is not in there they'll ask you on the bottom was this helpful oh yes and you'll either say yes or no if you say no nobody gets back to you even if they allow you to tell them why when shopping had a week or so ago right for some vitamins and they were out the particular company was out of the vitamins so they said well give us your email address and when it comes in we will notify you well I waited a few days and I had to pick up something else so I went shopping again lo and behold the original things that I went there for were there but I received no notification see when things are on back order out of stock back order they're supposed to send you a notification that it's in stock on the words they will lose sales and not only that when I went to the page where these vitamins were that I ordered it actually said it would notify me when they come back in stock now the problem with that is what if you would have went to another company and purchased it I did that already with another company they lost money so they're hurting themselves their incompetence is hurting themselves yes but it happens oh absolutely absolutely it definitely happens there just seems to be a whole lot of incompetence with businesses today they just hire they don't hire the experienced qualified American they outsource they pay cheap and this is what they get and the consumer suffers that's about it we'll see you next time I'm suffering well the consumer you know the consumer suffers but you know what you're not obligated to just deal with them you know you go somewhere else and they lose money yeah but if I had a regulation to put them on the right path that would be much better you should tell their customer services hey you may you never let me know you know so anyway bye bye


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Welcome to Anticipating How Knowing Will Lead to Action, part of the Research and Assessment Cycle Toolkit Project offered by the Association of Research Libraries and made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. This presentation is part of a module that focuses on identifying the needs, context, and goals of library assessment projects. It describes strategies for beginning library assessment projects with the end in mind to increase the likelihood of actionable results that lead to positive outcomes and impact. We hope the content is useful to library practitioners seeking to conduct assessment projects. At the close of the presentation, you will find a link to a feedback form. Please let us know what elements were useful to you. One of the first steps in identifying the needs, context, or goals of a library assessment project is anticipating how the results of an assessment may lead to action. Through a process of answering basic questions, articulating outcomes, and planning ahead for impact, library assessment practitioners can develop well-thought-out assessment plans that better ensure that projects will result in effective decision-making and action-taking at their close. First, let's start with a guiding tenet and some basic questions that can help assessment practitioners think through ways an intended library assessment can lead ultimately to positive actions. Perhaps the most important idea for guiding an assessment project through to a meaningful and successful close is this. Begin with the end in mind. For assessment practice, this means a variety of things. First, keeping a focus on the outcome or impact of an assessment process is essential. What is the overall intent and purpose? What learning do we expect to gain? And what positive purposes can we serve without learning? Second, beginning with the end in mind means anticipating possible final scenarios for the assessment results right from the outside of a project. What various scenarios might appear in the assessment results? One might not be able to anticipate all of the possible resulting scenarios. And of course, one must remain completely and carefully open to ensure that one's expectations don't bias the assessment process or results. At the same time, thinking about possible results can help assessment practitioners look ahead to how the results may be used and use that awareness in ensuring that the assessment method and process will provide results that are relevant, valid, and useful in achieving positive change. Given the importance of beginning with the end in mind, a few questions can help center that focus throughout the early steps of the assessment process. One question that can help library assessment practitioners keep the end in mind is, what do you hope knowing will enable you to do? Possible answers include engagement and communication with users, positive decisions and actions, service resource and space improvements in libraries, which might involve increasing their effectiveness, improving equity, or decreasing costs. Aligning library work with values and user needs and goals, and generally making a positive difference through increased understanding. A second question that helps us shape assessment projects with possible result scenarios in mind is, what consequences might occur if you don't learn or know more than you already do? This question puts into relief the gap between action without additional information gained through assessment and decisions and actions that result with more information at hand. Without the assessment, might there be missed opportunities to make connections and differences for users? Might we fail to walk our talk, our values, and our commitments? Might we waste time, resources, or labor, both for ourselves and for our users? Might we miss out on partnerships or collaborations, continue harms or exclusions that we are or perhaps are not even yet aware of, but could learn about and redress through the assessment process? Thinking through these questions helps assessment practitioners design processes that ensure that these negative consequences can be avoided altogether or in part through careful assessment design and deployment. Finally, assessment practitioners can think through actions that they might be able to encourage through increased understanding gained as a result of assessment. Like the first question, this one focuses on what assessment can make possible, but further focuses the goal on specific actions, such as co-creating library offerings with users, improving marketing and communication, defining problems and ideating solutions, monitoring progress toward goals, informing ongoing strategic planning, ensuring careful stewardship, aligning library worker effort with maximum beneficial impact, and so on. In thinking through how information gained through an assessment will lead to positive decisions and actions, another important step is to articulate outcomes. In this section, we will focus on outcomes based on user benefits from engagement with library services, resources and spaces, but it's worth pointing out that outcomes could also be used or based on individuals and groups other than those we typically describe as users or even center on the library offerings themselves. One way to think through outcomes for library assessment is to borrow from backward design, which is often associated with instructional design. The basic structure of backward design, as popularized by Wiggins and McTie, is arranged around three questions. First, what do we want users to learn, experience or engage with? Second, how will we know if they've in fact learned, engaged or experienced the things that we hoped they would or in the way that we hoped they would? And third, what activities will help them learn, experience or engage? For our purposes here, we want to focus on those first two questions. What do we want users to gain from library engagement with our services, resources, spaces and so on? That gives us our outcome. The second question of how we'll know if they've had that experience points us toward an assessment approach. For now, let's expand on the first item. What is the outcome we want users to come away with? By focusing on outcomes, we prioritize users from the start of an assessment project. When we clearly articulate an outcome, we clearly state the goals that we want user engagement with the library service, resource or space to accomplish. This clear statement of benefit serves as a focus for the assessment. We then ask, did the user's experience with the service, resource or space accomplish that outcome? Or stated another way, was the user able to achieve their outcomes through the experience with the library, service, resource or space? It's important to clarify that this outcome focused assessment approach is different from other assessment approaches. Outcomes are not inputs. Inputs are resources libraries use to provide services. Outcomes aren't outputs either. Outputs are what libraries do with the resources. They aren't process measures like how much time or money was allocated. Inputs outputs and process measures are all library-centric or staff-centric and generally focus on effort and efficiency. Those measures are valuable in their own right and can be essential for managing library resources. But from an outcomes assessment perspective, the focus is on the user and the outcome of their experiences. Therefore, assessments that are intended to lead to action for or on behalf of users may best be guided by outcome statements. These outcome statements can serve as a guiding focus for assessment. Other outcomes in this context are statements of what a user will know or be able to do or feel as a result of the library engagement, likely in the form of library services, resources or spaces. Outcomes can also be used to express what the library, service, resource or space will accomplish in terms of impact on the user. Generally, these statements can be written according to a formula, often structured as the user will be able to, followed by an action verb. You can continue the statement with an explanation or measures or indicators. So you might expand that formula to the user will be able to do a thing in order to why they'd want to do that or what they might get out of it. You could also add some additional language around specific indicators of the user, whether they are able to do what they are able to do as a consequence of library engagement. So how does this help? Learning outcomes related to the user experience and the outcomes of engagement with library services, resources and spaces help focus library assessment on the ways in which library offerings should or do impact users. These outcomes can be used to emphasize user feelings, perceptions, gain knowledge or skills, behaviors, condition or status. The focus here is on effectiveness for users, not efficiency or effort from a library-centric perspective. Because traditionally so many library measures have focused on inputs and outputs, a bit more time might be needed to think through and structure assessments that focus on how library services, resources and spaces impact users. And writing outcomes explicitly and clearly can really help an assessment of this type stay on track. Now what can we do with assessments guided by a focus on user outcomes? First, we can begin to answer so what questions about library services, resources and spaces. We can learn more about what difference libraries make for users in a variety of ways. Knowing about the difference made, so to speak, by libraries and librarians gives us practical information for service improvement and meeting user needs, allows us an opportunity to clarify our aspirations around support for users, provides us with information that is essential for building partnerships and maintaining effective user communications. This kind of assessment keeps us on track toward our goals and what we hope our services, resources and spaces will achieve and, importantly, by centering users, we keep our mental doors open to getting new information and perspectives. Having said that, librarians seeking to use outcomes as a focus for assessment work should be aware of a few common outcome mistakes. These include using verbs that aren't active and therefore not, judgeable, measurable or observable. Being short on the expected outcomes for users, usually out of a fear that the user experience won't deliver on a more ambitious or desirable outcome. Or missing the outcome focus entirely, usually due to focusing on something perceived as easy to measure. For those who wish to include measures or indicators of an outcome in guiding the assessment project, a bit more should be said about how to do this well. First, outcomes should be focused on the intended result of library engagement. The indicator piece describes to what degree the outcome, that is result, is achieved. Adding indicators can help clarify what meeting an outcome looks like, makes clear how we as librarians or assessors know an outcome has been met, or provides details about what we will measure or judge to know the outcome has been met. If desirable, a target can also be added to an indicator embedded in an outcome. Target setting can be tricky for a number of reasons. First, targets must be able to be observed in some way. Second, setting a reasonable target can be hard. Finding the Goldilocks, that is, not too easy and not too hard, of targets is challenging. Historical data, if it exists, can be helpful to get a sense of what a reasonable target might be, and setting a stretch goal might be, at least at first, means setting the target at a bit more than normal. Without historical data, staff experiences and observations or input from users are also incredibly helpful for setting reasonable targets. Whatever the targets that are initially set, they can be updated in subsequent rounds of assessment. The key, for the first time, is to be able to explain why the targets are set as they are. After that, past observations will help you set new targets. A third way to work through anticipating how an outcome will ultimately lead to action and beneficial change is to plan, from the outset, for making an impact. This changes, this takes the process one step past outcomes to a more lasting change. While not always possible to do perfectly or predictably, keeping impact as a value helps one identify the needs, context, and goals of library assessment projects. In order to design assessments that have the potential to make an impact, one needs to plan for and anticipate that impact from the start. This project begins with outcomes. This process, rather, begins with outcomes but doesn't stop there. Outcomes, in general, are defined as more specific, concrete, and immediate than impact. Impact, as a term related to assessment, is broader and more comprehensive. It's more about long-term growth, change, development, and improvement, and usually takes longer to emerge. To simplify, impact is a long-term cumulative effect of outcome achievement. It's also important to convey that many outcomes can converge to create one larger impact. The process from outcome to impact is not necessarily, or even usually, one-to-one. There are a variety of models to use to internalize the idea of impact and use it as a guiding framework for assessment projects. Nearly all are based on the notion of a continuum. Here you can see a continuum from inputs and resources to activities, to outputs, to outcomes to, eventually, impact. The logic in this model is based on if-then statements. Let's walk through it. This model begins with resources or inputs used to create a program of some kind. To get to the next level of the model, activities, you use an if-then. If you have access to the resources, then you can use them to make activities, and it continues from there. If you accomplish the activities, then you can deliver the service output you intended. If you deliver the service output you intended, then users will benefit in certain ways, that is, attain outcomes. If users attain outcomes, then over time changes for the users might be expected to occur. Let's look at this a slightly different way of expressing the same basic idea. In this model, there's a differentiation between planned work and intended results. Again, starting with resources. If you have access to resources, then you can use them to accomplish activities. If you accomplish activities, then you will deliver a service. Again, this is the output you intended. If you deliver the service, then users will benefit by attaining outcomes. If users attain those outcomes, then you might expect long-term changes and benefits to occur. This can be hard to internalize, so let's go through it two more times. Like the previous framework, this impact model also separates planned work and intended results. This one provides definitions, so to speak, of each element, followed by suggestions of the form these elements come in. For instance, resources are usually nouns, such as staff, facilities, time, money, etc. Outputs are often expressed as a quantity of work accomplished, and outcomes and impacts are typically changes, with the difference being largely a scale issue. This last version of an impact model is more complex, but perhaps more helpful as well, at least once you have an idea of the basic idea of an impact model in mind. This version includes the situation or context and priorities that frame or feed into the model to begin with, as well as assumptions that are being made and external influencing factors. It also clarifies inputs as investments, separates outputs into activities and participation, and subdivides outcomes and impact into short-term, medium-term, and long-term results. Outcomes and impact are further clarified into learning-focused outcomes and action-focused outcomes, with change in condition being the emphasis of the impact element of the model. I find this to be the most helpful of the set of logic models, as it really can serve as a guide in thinking about the intended process and products of a particular library service, resource, space, or even assessment activity. And going through that process is essential in anticipating how a project will lead to action. Thank you for viewing this presentation on identifying the needs, context, and goals of library assessment projects. 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I personally never heard of CIOR until I received an invite to try out, but I quickly learned in my first year that CIOR is more than just a competition. These events allowed me to create new relationships, work on leadership skills, train with our allies, and get a better understanding of international, political, military, economic, and even cultural issues in a very immersive international setting. You hear time and time again that iron sharpens iron, but when you get in the room with Team USA and other nations and you see the caliber of people you're amongst, it's an amazing feeling. I mean that starts day one entering training camp and just seeing the distinguished staff who dedicate their time and expertise to train and select the best to represent Team USA. You're training and you're competing alongside other countries and everyone's eager to share their best practices and cheer each other on. I won't ever forget the adrenaline rush. Getting up on the starting block to a swim and hearing the chants for USA just echo throughout the building.  And for a split second, just complete silence.


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French economist Thomas Piketty has made a big splash with his book, Capital in the 21st Century. In this book, he tries to make the case that there's growing economic inequality in the western world, specifically the United States and Europe. Now, Austrians, of course, would disagree with this general proposition, and especially Piketty's call for a world wealth tax and higher marginal tax rates on income in the United States. And generally speaking, rising economic inequality is actually associated with prosperity and economic growth. And during these periods of time, the lower income classes are not worse off, they're actually better off. In one case, Thomas Piketty shows the change in income distribution in the United States, where he shows that in 1971, the top 10% of income earners earned 33% of total income in the United States. And by 2011, the top 10% of income earners earned 48% or almost half of all income. But of course, the people who were in the top 10% in 1971 were not the same top 10 people in 2011. As a matter of fact, they were almost an entirely different group. So what caused this change in income distribution? Were the top 10% now taking in almost 50% of all income instead of one third? Was it perhaps the opening of the Nasdaq composite stock market in 1971? I don't think so. Was it the U.S. ending its embargo on China? Again, that doesn't seem plausible. Or maybe it was the constitutional amendment that lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. Now, all of the events of 1971 have very little impact on income distribution in the American economy. However, on August 15, 1971, Richard Nixon closed the gold window, abandoned the gold standard, and put us on a system of paper fiat money and inflation. And Austrians know that paper money and inflation help the big banks, they help the financial classes, they help government contractors, and paper money and inflation hurt wage earners, laborers, and savers in the economy. So the turn towards paper money and inflation is a real cause of this growing disparity in income outcomes in the U.S. economy. And therefore a return to the gold standard would give us stable economic values, would give us a stable monetary unit, and would address and eliminate this subsidy to the big banks and to the financial classes. And that's the Mises View.


My name is Ulka Vaishimpayan and I am the chair of the GU multidisciplinary team at Barbara and Carmina's Cancer Institute in Detroit, Michigan. This cancer center is an NCI designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and affiliated with Wayne State University in Michigan as well. My practice and focus is genitourinary cancer specifically within kidney cancer. My clinical practice is focused on kidney cancer along with as well as my clinical research is focused on kidney cancer as well. Patients get the awareness of not just new treatments because new treatments are frequently publicized all over the press, TV, newspapers, whatever. But they also realize or can the information is transmitted about how we are fine-tuning the existing therapies to serve them better. And the optimal treatment is still being decided for an individual patient and we are really at the beginning of getting different genetic markers that may help us predict response. My presentation today is focusing within patient management issues of the disparities in treatment of kidney cancer. So even though we've improved outcomes tremendously the last few years in kidney cancer, that in itself has caused a huge disparity gap to widen between the different people who don't have access to treatment, who have multiple other comorbid conditions that interfere with them receiving the optimal treatment. And of course, you know, race and socioeconomic factors as well as the biological factors within the cancer that induce all of these disparities. I think what patients should ask first of all is what is going to be the overall treatment plan. So not just the type of medication but how are different modalities going to be integrated into their treatment. So probably the question needs to be is am I a candidate for both surgery as well as receiving treatment by in terms of different targeted therapies or is it just going to be targeted therapies or some kind of systemic therapy first followed by the consideration of local therapies. So I think patients should be more aware in asking questions about consideration of multidisciplinary care. The other thing I think patients should become more aware of and be asking about is are there any clinical trials that are appropriate to my situation. Because typically what we find is that clinical trials in kidney cancers especially in the last few years have represented the most cutting edge type of treatment and has benefited majority of the patients who have enrolled on it. So I would say those would probably be the top two questions I would recommend patients ask.