 okay it just happens to be Saturday afternoon October the 5th 2013 we're all here the other week is flown by welcome everyone welcome to progressive discussions I'm your host James P Madonna and I'm coming to you from the newsletter-sensored research center in northeastern New Jersey and I will well before I officially pipe aboard my illustrious co-host and mentor I would like to say we are having a very unseasonably warm beginning of October summer weather hazy hot and humid where is my me trusty Bosun's whistle authentic Bosun's whistle that I got Newport Rhode Island and back in the I think early 90s I think or late 80s ready to pipe my co-host and mentor aboard our progressive liberal Starship ready are how the one and only the Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman how are you feeling this week sir okay you have enough beverage I got water okay you have enough I got enough otherwise I have to make a pee-pee yeah you don't want to go you don't want to go to too high volume on that I know what that's like especially if I drink beer okay I had a little beer good 12 dogs of Christmas three dog night 12 dogs 12 dogs of Christmas you know I'm so I was telling Dr. Bill I'm so happy concerning the the popularity and the rapid growth of craft beer a real good old-world style high-quality craft beer from micro breweries and I would say all over the world and every state in the United States has their own top micro brewery they all they're all over the place some states have several but there's always a micro brewery locally that you can visit drink local just like food should be produced locally and you can Google it they have websites that tell you to give you the location of the micro breweries in your state so and they have the funniest names the most unusual names and the most unusual labels a lot of them are real cute like actually there's a there's a micro brewed ale I think it's an India an IPA India pale ale called the Bosun's whistler with a cartoon of a blonde dressed in a sailor outfit with large breasts and cleavage what does that have to do with well they gotta they gotta add sex to to a to petal liquor it's like it's like car car commercials and liquor it's always a hot-looking young female about what about Mr. Doseki Doseki now now he's doing a commercial about with two women and he's talking about getting their clothes off you know the two women with the black Zoro masks yeah Doseki he's getting a little risque now you know that's the the most interesting man alive got the great beard stay thirsty my friends that's that's what I'm saying yeah first after talking about the beer oh I want to correct something that I should have done in last week's show I did not mention the CEO's name but it is Nancy Brinker founder of the Susan Coleman Foundation who stepped down from being the CEO I believe in August but still takes a whopping $684,000 per year in salary that much of it should be going towards breast cancer research most of it in my opinion should be going to the charity just like the miss all the salaries of these presidents and CEOs of all of the major charities should be ashamed of themselves taking in such astronomical salaries with a fundraising organization shame shame on you they have no remorse they don't really care about the cause do they know in reality you know and the cause is them and it should be voluntary work and this massive administrative fee is totally bogus I mean with some of these charities like five cents goes to the cause on a dollar give or take your money it's absurd it's absurd their cause is themselves their mortgage and their Mercedes speaking speaking of a cause being at being all for themselves and selfishness let us switch over to the poster boys and girls of selfishness and stinging us with the Republican Congress Congress woman a Republican I believe she's from North Carolina Renee Elmer's not the Elmer's glue she spells it with two L's although I would like to put Elmer's glue on her teeth and glue her jaw shut her mouth shut Congress woman Republican Congress woman Republican Renee Elmer's of the Carol Lannis answered a reporter when she was asked if she would be willing to give up her paycheck during the government shutdown that she helped cause and her answer was myself and all the other Republicans in Congress well we need our paychecks and that's the bottom line period that's the way it is that's about a we need all but the 800,000 government workers that got laid off they don't need their paychecks they don't they don't need I told you how many times and the people these people are elitists why do we have to accept because they say so exactly not not for any logical reason right any logical reason any logical reason not our part so they think they're better on their part they think they're better than everyone else yes because they say so yeah because they have the more need their paycheck they need it even though they don't really work you don't they don't work you hear me two or three days a month to and 42 times to repeal Obamacare not once did they put up a law to bring back glass eagle nope yes so they are they are repeal the cans they don't work they do not work the two or three days per month that they show up at the Capitol Building they repeal and they just bitching complain you know and they never have enough money and according to Renee Elmers who is the this week's inductee into our official hall of shame she just needs her paycheck and that's the bottom line she needs it but I guess mainstream America doesn't need anything and the kids on wick they don't need their food and they and the kids on on on wick and with food stamps a snap right yeah snap and head start right all the all the all the low-income children I mean children of low-income families and children of veterans they don't need any they don't need it but Renee Elmers needs her income she I would I would take it Renee Elmers is loaded with loot with dough feel the alukra well ill-gotten gains if she's a Republican congresswoman feel gone there's a good chance that her her high income is composed of ill-gotten gains and that includes for any of those conservatives even in the Senate good news is let's see the March against Monsanto is doing quite well we have state of California let me salute Governor Jerry Brown Governor Jerry Brown has legalized industrial hemp in the state of California I salute Democratic governor the legend Jerry Brown Moonbeam Brown he legalized industrial hemp it's about time that we get at least one major state to legalize industrial hemp and then and of course there are some states that passed the law concerning labeling good for them I'm not sure which ones did there's not a lot of them but they you know slowly but surely the protesting and the outrage seems to be working but it takes a progressive liberal governor like Jerry Brown to use some common sense and intelligence to legalize industrial hemp and you know of course you know medical marijuana might as well throw that in now last on my little tirade New Jersey's minimum wage just went up one dollar to a whopping eight dollars and twenty five cents an hour big damn deal how did Christie allow that and the Republicans are complaining about it to eight dollars and twenty five cents an hour is still far below the cost of living far below it whatever happened to the required eleven dollars and change an hour that the country is you know pushing for oh no that's not good for Christie right that's no good not good for business well yeah because even though wages are what tax deductible you hear that people tax you hear that crybaby conservative Republicans tax deductible and you know they forget the fact that the employee is kind of the backbone of the income of their business and without the employees where where are your business you know I mean they're providing a service for you and you want to pay them a measly eight thousand twenty five cents an hour it's not gonna profit it's not gonna cut it bigger profits less taxes here we there we go again about selfishness I have mine and I don't care if you have yours or not it's a miracle way you're on your own American way that's the evil way that's the devil's economics you hear me they don't recognize that I don't care what they recognize it's reality it's what is now what not what you go by what is not what they perceive to be what is it's what is turn on Fox News and you'll see they perceive don't go by what is they perceive everything like I told someone on Facebook last night yeah we may be entitled to our own opinions right but we are not entitled to our own facts that's what I say that I remember seeing that and that's very intelligent but that's what they do they come up with their own facts you see Billy bones over here mr. La Parker he's I'm touching him he's tangible he exists he's hanging here clinging and clanging away so for Republican comes around and says oh you got Kermit the frog hanging up here why because the rich Republican says that's Kermit the frog I have to accept that that's Kermit the frog seems the way it is over on Fox News yeah it does doesn't it oh I heard somebody had Mitch Mitch the bitch McConnell turtle face and another Republican on video expressing that they really they lie to the American people and they really don't care they yeah there's somebody caught him like like they caught Mitt Romney back then trouble is what is the trouble as I've been saying for years and years and years yes these Republicans tell us what they want to do for instance they want to destroy the United States government they want to make it so small they can drown in the bathtub they've been telling them telling us this for years now when they try to do it we don't believe them we want to blame the Democrats we want to blame Obama Obama Obama caused the shut they haven't stopped scapegoating and nitpicking on Obama ever since he got elected ever since he was sworn in they really read they were they're relentless the Republicans and they got a good going impeach him impeach him for what what about throwing out Benghazi fizzle what about IRS fizzle what about impeaching all the dead wood in commerce that that doesn't do any work for the hundred seventy five thousand dollars salary no they just like the impeach people for getting a blowjob and and lying about it that's their idea of impeachment yeah they don't have no idea of high crimes and mrs. demeanor did you see that banner of President Jimmy Carter where he says to the Republicans he says that don't it you don't believe in helping the poor if since you don't believe in helping the poor and stop saying that you represent a Christian nation or that you want that you want a Christian nation exactly because they're Christianity is made up because it's not come from the Bible it's hypocritical does not come from Jesus they're Christianity it's it's a phony hypocritical counterfeit Christianity Greg and it's about time that we start calling a spade a spade calling out these people and exposing them for what they are well on that on that note let us sink our teeth into these readings don't don't read any that you already read from last week we'll cut out like five minutes before 3 p.m. we'll cut out a little just a little they are just looking for a place to cry this winter all that's required it is a little heat tell me it's another bird article and a tiny space to hang their antennas they're not even asking for one lousy meal no yes it's October which means stink bugs are looking to get out of the field and into your home I I heard I heard this on the news last night the stink bugs are here why don't they all migrate to the Capitol building where they're unpleasant odor may occasionally walk through your house you wouldn't notice the stink bugs in the Capitol building believe me because it stinks to begin with a large number of stink bugs were reported this summer infesting farms in South Jersey yeah according to ruptures scientists you can't crush them because then they stink whether there will be an overwhelming home in Beijing at the Little Critters this autumn in North Jersey is still being determined a warmer than usual spring this year may have contributed to the high numbers expected in the coming months due to the federal government shutdown this week the US Department of Agriculture is great stink bug count is on hiatus really um I I've seen them they kind of look like a like a weevil with a bold weevil whatever a weevil which is I have a pointy face pointy little pecker and a rounded body make the cure oh all right like a beetle except they're flat yeah yeah yeah well they're they're they're bait they're pretty much harmless unlike the killer giant hornets in Asia Japan and China who have they've been attacking people as of late I don't know if you have something on that that's been in the news CNN this story on it and they're they're really big they're like they don't even look real they look like a Japanese monster movie they're huge they're hornets and they're they're like hornets on steroids very surprised that they there's no reading on this but uh yeah you imagine a regular hornet they'll chase you and they'll sting you over and over but this is a big sucker and they look mean so I never knew they existed but they do I'm always learning something new every time aside from the hornet sting I just want to add one more inductee into the chiseless Hall of Shame and it is of course the predominantly Republican Congress I want to induct you people for actually applauding the execution of a an unarmed single mother and you know what I'm talking about Dr. Bill the woman who crashed into the White House gate and they and they and this unarmed single mother who had mental health issues was shot by by the big macho men with the sophisticated use their car as a weapon rifles huh she used her car as a weapon does she try to hit somebody a run over somebody yeah police she tried to run over the police yeah did they ever think of shooting out the tires yeah this yeah this woman well this woman got fired from her job as a in a dental dentist's office right never heard of that I did she didn't get fired she did why well then why they lie on on the news they said she got fired incomplete no Stanford Connecticut right she's from Stanford no she's they say that she had suffered from postpartum depression okay and that she had her boyfriend about seven months ago called up 9-1-1 that she was delusional and he was afraid of the baby which was five months okay now did 9-1-1 did they send anybody over to check on her whatever then it is reported that she had delusions that Obama was communicating with her and was stalking oh she's she's she was gone man she was out there and I heard nothing of being fired she's she's lonely man but they could have shot out the tires well why they held she in the morning the drives from Connecticut to Washington DC to do what she did who the hell knows you know they there is a rifle that will take out that would stop a vehicle when you fire it into the grill and they believe it's called a Barrett 50 caliber rifle at the military all you have to do was just shoot at the grill man the woman's unarmed apprehender and put her in a booby hatch put her in a straight jacket well I'm sure they got the big excuses because it was like 12 shots oh really oh but they wanted an excuse to plug to plug somebody probably yeah they wanted an excuse yet there they're bullets were collecting dust so they wanted needed a target around target practice this is this anyway the surveys participants who record how many stink bugs are camping on homes in exteriors have no place to send their results because the USDA website has been dark since Tuesday we don't have enough data to compare year to year right now it's unfortunate that the shutdown happened right now in the middle of the count good news is that when stink bugs get into your home all they want to do is hi Bernie well yeah well the stink is just probably merely a defense they don't breed or feed during this period they're not an invasive species it's not like the the infamous German cockroach and they don't carry disease harmful to humans they're just they're harmless insects that are not considered pestilence they're not pests I've killed about five of them and proud of it who is this idiot who is this jerk that said they're proud I said it oh you said it yes what do you mean you're proud of it what what what do they have a duty you one of them fell off the plant cares fell down do you kill spiders some why because there might be too many I just killed one in the same well they're predatory a baby but they're I killed a baby but they're good they're predatory I leave one or two they find their way out there's one right over there they're not going to look in the window over there you'll see what do you leave him alone but what do you think they're like a brown recluse or black widows they're not gonna hurt you I don't know I leave him alone for any other bugs that come in the house but he can eat up well usually they like to make their their home base in the in the pothos ivy up here you know which is a smart idea because that's where the lights are with the retreat when they congregate together they can secrete odorous chemicals a defensive mechanism that has been described as everything from a strong cilantro that's good I like cilantro to a skunk when they really get scared I don't like skunks I love cilantro homeowners are advised to cock any gaps in seals around the house and doors and windows that's how they get in well the older homes definitely have gaps as well as bad insulation and make sure the attic vents are fully screened otherwise stink bugs will fly in more squirrels would decide to make a giant squirrel house out of your attic if they make it into your house avoid crushing the insect which will give off a strong odor man use a small vacuum to collect them and release them outside or flush them down the toilet larger vacuums could crush the bugs in their rotors and release the smell I see a lot of centipedes in the basement sick you know these harmless northern centipedes they come up through the pipe yeah unlike the venomous giant centipedes of the tropics which my brother-in-law is Vietnamese giant centipede mysteriously just passed away oh show some respect for the giant centipede but you can't they're nasty they're nasty animals they're like they're for their fur a display creature they're not for cuddling or handling but they'll nail you they got like these mandibles these big sharp mandibles that they'll eat a mouse for god sakes yeah well actually a praying mantis which happened to love the praying mantis a large praying mantis can eat a an inverter break I mean a mouse or a small lizard or a goldfish I see I seen a video where the mantis just scooped a goldfish out of the water and started eating it alive not that big oh they're not that big what the mantis mantis you kidding me the Chinese green mantis the Chinese green mantis that's it no way they had maybe as big as my little fingernail these shit