 they're sabotaging and they're relentless and the media displays it all. That's what really gets to me. The U.S. media displays every bit of it. Yeah, they display it as if it's one idea against another. There's no right or wrong here. Just one political idea against another. Yeah, just like just like obese people want to be accepted as like an alternative lifestyle. They don't want to be looked upon as unhealthy, lazy, fat, slops. They want to be looked on as an alternative lifestyle and accepted for being obese. It's the same thing. There's no rights and wrongs anymore. They're turning the whole world, the whole society into shades of gray instead of blacks and whites. So there's no wrong. It's like no fault, auto insurance or or no fault, uh, divorces. You know, everything is no fault today. Well, somebody has to be at fault. So what does that mean? Like Goldman Sachs is no fault. They were not at fault. That's correct. Everything's like no fault. Like like, you know, nobody, there's no consequences for people's actions anymore. Exactly. It could be it could be a murderer getting out on parole. It could be you got murderers that spend more or less time in jail than somebody who who kites a check, you know, three strikes and you're out. Yeah, yeah, for life. Hey, these punk criminal teenagers should should serve hard time just like an adult, but they don't. It's like people get off scot-free in America today. And nobody is held held accountable for their actions anymore. That's what it amounts to. There's no discipline for children. You know, you have to you have to treat them as an equal and negotiate with them. Meanwhile, you have to be their friends. No, you can't be their friend. You can't be their parent and their and their friend at the same time and you and they're not equal until they're 18. You know, so yeah, so this is the world we're living in. This is the size society. Also, once upon a time, when you were 18, you were an adult, you were allowed to drink. Now I was turning Miley Cyrus, as I said before, she's only 20. She's not an adult yet at 21. Now it's a 21. It's an adult. They get their liquor, but you can still get porn at 18. Yeah, and you can still go to war and die at 18. And you can vote at 18, but you can't drink until 21. Just think about how preposterous that is. You could drive at 17. 16. At 60. You could work, I guess at 16. Well, Newt Gingrich would like you to work at five. Yeah, if you get food stamps to hell with kindergarten. He wants little kids to go to work for a little shit food stamp money that the government gives them. Yeah. So, you know, it's all screwed up. You know, there are many laws on the books that are outdated, that should be revised, that should be eliminated. Their laws are not always logically and intellectually. They're never, if they're done by Alec and the corporations and the rich. Yeah, true. What the hell logic that those laws have. None whatsoever. Yeah, right now, Las Vegas is putting mentally ill people in charge of the same bombs. What? You know what you call bombs, etc. derelicts, vagabonds, giving them a couple of bucks, lunch, put them on a bus and sending them to Los Angeles. You mean they're like, they're shipping them out, they're exiling them? Well, remember with South Carolina, right? So, that's how that's the... They want the homeless to move up town, baby. So, that's the right-wing solution of dealing with the homeless and the poor is to ship them out. Yeah, make it someone else's problem. Pass the buck. Yeah. Like, they don't want to really solve the problem. Hell no, they don't even offer it. I want to defund Obamacare. I don't want to improve it. I don't want to make changes that are good or bad or ugly or whatever. No, no, no. I just want to refund that. Defund it. Come on. So, they want to... They have no solutions. They want to roll back to the days when if you're poor and you didn't have money, you just starve, you just die. Now, yeah, like with social security, before social security, hundreds of elderly people start to death. Okay. Frozen in the wintertime. Based on that thought that you just uttered and what I said, I'm looking at all the right-wingers out there right now, whether you'd be a stupid inbred Bible Belt, red state, you know, lower middle class fool or whatever you happen to be living in a cabin and or whether you'd be wealthy. Doesn't matter. What is the incentive? Where is the incentive for living in America and looking at America as being so great better than anyone else? If you don't have money, you perish. What is so great about the United States of America? If the poor end up perishing, according to Republicans, if the poor have to just die, then that means America and the American Dream is only for the rich. Yeah. And they like it that way. So all this flag waving Yankee Doodle Dandy propaganda is all basically for the wealthy. It's all front, just like the Republicans use religion, Christianity. It's a front and for God is their front and for the July comes and they have the whole, all the dramatics over in New York before the fire, before during and after the fireworks and all the speeches. And and meanwhile, if the Republicans had complete control, lock, stock and barrel, that celebration with all this patriotism, that's only for the, for people with money. And money is speech, baby. You know, so, so the more money you have, yeah, more speech, so it's the American dream lie pretty much. Well, it's always been, but it's been covered over. And they got these idiots down south believing it. Look, we got people who support and pity the billionaires in this country. They've done a very damn good job of propagandizing these poor slabs. Pity the billionaires. The FBI has been using drones to support its law enforcement operations since 2006 and has spent more than $3 million on the on man aircraft. The disclosure came in a new report by the Justice Department's Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who revealed that the department also has awarded $1.26 million to at least seven police departments and nonprofit organizations for drones. I wonder what nonprofit organizations would need drones. The Inspector General said, another Justice Department component, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives plan to use drones to support future operations. To date, the ATF has spent $600,000 from 2004 to May 2013. The Justice Department spent almost $5 million on the on man aircraft. In June, then FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress the agency occasionally used the on man vehicles but was developing guidelines in anticipation of issues that will arise as they become more omnipresent. In one instance this year, the FBI used drones at night during a six day hostage standoff in Alabama in a letter in July to Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. It's funny that the biggest scumbags in Washington seem to be from Kentucky. Well, there's two right now. The FBI revealed that it had used drones 10 times since 2006 for surveillance in kidnappings, search and rescue missions and drug and fugitive investigations. Among them was last winter's standoff between the authorities and Jimmy Lee Dykes who was shot to death after holding a five-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker in Alabama. Remember that? I remember that. You don't remember that? No. He stopped the school bus, he took the kid and he went into the storm cellar. I was there for several, you know, whatever and they put the authorities put down things through the pipe through the air vent. I remember the guy in this man, I think he was in the New York area who had young females held hostage in his basement for years. That was in Cleveland, Ohio. That was Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Ariel, he's dead. He hung himself. The one that had the girl's hostage as like sex slaves in the basement. He hung himself with his sheets in his cell. Well, he kept those girls for 10 years, prisoners, but he couldn't stay for even a month or two. It was 10? It was three, for 10 years. Oh, three girls were in his basement for 10 years? They were not only in his basement. And they couldn't, none of them could escape in 10 years. He used to, you know, tie them up or whatever. He also had a child by the one. Michelle. Yeah. Oh my God. He thought they were a family. And they couldn't, polyandry, baby. And they couldn't escape in 10 years. I think it's, I find that very hard to believe, but anyway. Well, they did. They did. When he somehow screwed up the door, something, the one got loose and came to the door and some people came to help her get out. And then she got out and they took 10 years. 10 years. You sure it was 10? 10 years. But anyway, go continue. It soon will cost you 49 cents for a step. Well, it was bound to happen. Well, it doesn't have to happen if the Congress would stop taking that $6 billion every year for pensions that don't exist. Well, that's what I mean. They want the, they want the post office, like so, like social security to be non-existent. They want to hand it over to UPS, VHL. They want to privatize it. And the federal express. They want to privatize. Well, I know like companies like UPS are a total rip-off if you want to send a heavy package. They let the post office do that. I priced like, you know, what do we cost to send 20 pounds of anything? It's expensive. It's very expensive. Postage today is expensive. No, I mean parcel shipping. Yeah. Parcel shipping of things, you know, things that are substantial. And then it's more expensive if you want a two-day delivery or, you know, whatever. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I know all about that. Express delivery, overnight deliveries. Yeah. Versus standard UPS. That's an arm and leg in a spleen. Versus standard UPS ground and yeah. The Postal Board of Governors said on Wednesday that it wants to raise the price of a first-class stamp by three cents, citing the agency's precarious financial condition, and the uncertain prospects for postal overhaul legislation in Congress. The Republican Congress ain't working on that, but they sure are working. What, it was 42 times now? They voted to defund Obamacare? Yeah, the repealicans. They don't work two or three days a month. They repeal two or three days a month. Why, you know, they want to repeal a law that is already on the book. How come they ain't going after Glass-Steagall, getting it back so that the Wall Street can't do to us what they did in 2007-2008? Why is that not on their agenda? Because those are their buddies. So we see, yeah. Cronies, the Wall Street boys, the Banksters, the Goldman Sachs, Sucky Sachs, they're all in bed together with the Republicans, the buddy boys. Of the options currently available to the Postal Service to align costs and revenues, increasing posted prices is a last resort that reflects extreme financial challenges. The rate proposal must be approved by the Independent Postal Regulatory Commission. If the Commission accepts it, the increase would become effective on January 26th as part of the rate increase request. The cost for each additional ounce of first-class mail would increase a penny to 21 cents while the price of mailing a postcard would rise by one cent to 34 cents. I remember when a postcard cost three cents. I remember when I was a little kid, a nice big chocolate malted was like 35 cents. The cost to mail a letter to an international destination would jump five cents to $1.15. Postal Service also said it would request price increases totaling 5.9 percent for bulk mail, periodicals, and package service fees. I wonder if they're thinking of charging businesses the regular price to mail a piece of mail instead of its bulk rate crap? Here, here. That's right. That's right. I can dig it. I can dig where you're coming from, Daddy-O. Cool. Sorry, Bonesy. This is a little parka. Social Security made a $1.3 billion in potentially improper disability payments to people who had jobs when they were supposed to be unable to work. The Government Accountability Office estimated that 36,000 workers got improper payments from December 2010 to January 2013. Now, I ask you just a simple question. Going to Social Security to give disability benefits is a real harassment, correct? Nowadays. But then when you got it, how come they don't know these things that are going on if they indeed are? Because I'm a little skeptical. Because like, for instance, everybody knows that some time ago, the Social Security Administration had an internal policy to deny benefits to anyone the first time around. Absolutely. Well, the lawyers of Binder and Binder have agreed with that. Oh, yeah. Which is kind of dishonest of the government to do it so. Well, let's go back to the Boston Commission. You know, they play in a numbers game. Let's go back to the CPI. Yeah. They've changed all of that to make it so the payments are less. So it's all dishonest. Well, when they deny people the first time around, they're relying on the numbers game. They know that one third of people will not come persist. They will not pursue it. That is correct. They will just drop out. So considering the fact that there's all kinds of tricks that the government pulls, not only to deny you, but they try to sucker you into getting a part-time job by sending you a letter about like some ticket to work, the ticket to work and self-sufficiency program, which Republicans love to use that term self-sufficiency. About a bootstrap. Meanwhile, there's no jobs out there. So they trick you into thinking you can get a part-time job and they tell you, you do not have to fear losing your benefits. And it's a lie because once you have the part-time job down the road, you have to go in for another evaluation and they go, oh, you had this part-time job for a certain amount of time. Oh, you're not disabled anymore. We're taking you off everything. Yeah. You suck it in. Or as Supreme Court Justice Roberts would put it, if you can brush your teeth, you're not disabled. Now, Ken create aggressively disagrees with me, but I said, Ken, and I told Bobby, I said, don't fall for this. I know for a fact that this is what they do. So if you're going to apply for social security, disability, or supplemental security income, do it. Do it with a social security law firm. Do it with a bender and bender or somebody like that. It's like with immigration. They harass you through to no end through the immigration process today. So you are forced to get an immigration lawyer. Now, some of them are crooks. Some of them are honest. Do your research, check reviews, get an honest lawyer, but you have to go in with the lawyer. And unfortunately, with immigration, they want to get paid right up front. There's no contingency, right? They call it contingency. But with the social security lawyers, they generally get paid when you get paid, when you win the case. You're retroactive. It's usually like 25% goes to the law firm. It used to be a turn. It used to be 23 in a toy. Well, it's 25. 25 sounds good. So what happens is you, 25 of your retro goes to them, which is fine, because the lawyer can probably get you more money than if you did it on your own. Well, not more money. What do you mean not more money? Anytime. There's no more money. You get what you get. Well, that doesn't sound very good. There's no scale that, you know, it depends on your disability. Another word is it's in the books. Yeah. If you're a full, if you're, if you, if you're, if you are awarded full time disability, depending on the situation, you get this amount per month. Not really. Well, how do they determine? I don't know today. Well, I imagine I do know that. What's the point in getting the lawyer? If you're not going to get maximum getting through the first try. That's the point. The point is, if I, if I apply for such a thing, I want scolata, man. I want, I want, you got to, you got to, you need money nowadays to live on in this day and age. No kidding. But I don't want chump change, but there's got to be a difference between someone who was totally disabled and somebody who lost a finger. You know, well, well, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let me finish up. I want to, I want to cut out. Everybody interrupts me. Jesus Christ. It's out of a bitch. No, what I'm trying to say is let's take the break before three pm because of speedy Godzilla over there. Well, I don't even, did you, did you synchronize that, that, that lovely clock with this, with the cable TV clock? Is it, is it correct? I have no idea. Probably wrong. I have no idea. All right, hurry up because the numbers represent less than 1% of beneficiaries and less than 1% of disability payments made during that timeframe. But the GAO said the overpayments reveal weaknesses in social securities procedures for policing the system. The report lays out clear, common sense steps that the agency can and should take in order to avoid improper payments. However, if we're serious about preventing waste and fraud and ensuring that these critical benefits get to the people who need and deserve them, Congress must also do its part and provide needed resources and access to basic anti-fraud data to the Social Security Administration. The Social Security Administration said its accuracy rate for disability payments is more than 99%. The agency noted that even small errors translate into big numbers. We are planning to do an investigation and we will recoup any improper payments from beneficiaries. It is too soon to tell what caused these overpayments. But if we determine that fraud is involved, we will refer these cases to our office of the Inspector General for Investigation. More than 8.2 million disabled workers received disability payments in 2010. A figure that has grown to nearly 9 million. Last year the agency paid out $137 billion in disability payments. Before people can receive disability benefits, there is a five-month waiting period in which they can in general earn no more than about $1,000 a month. The waiting period is to ensure that beneficiaries have long-term disabilities. Okay, we're going to take a break now. It's time for the Rev. Dr. Bill's gastronomic delight known as lunch and we'll be back for William H. Morrill III.