 Over the past decade or two, from the days when compromise was accepted and things got done, the answer is quite obvious, as I suspect even Whitman would agree. Compromise between a Democrat and a Republican, they may call it bipartisanship compromise, but guess what, the people end up losing. It's like a union contract, every year the union members get less and less, the new people getting higher, get less and less. Except in Europe, and Australia, and New Zealand, and the Netherlands, and Belgium, and... All of Scandinavia. Who have their set up with their unions, and they both agree on this stuff. And wage hikes and etc. etc. But right-wingers over here say, oh Europe is old fashioned and... And they make an excuse that the population in a European country is too small to compare it with the United States. Oh shit. Northern... The problem is the United States, with their set up, as far as the European corporations are concerned. Labor laws are strictly enforced in Northern Europe. Yeah, they don't even want our meat over there. I wouldn't accept US beef. I wouldn't accept US produce with Monsanto in charge. With the factory farms? Gee they have a hissy fit if you try to sell certified raw milk. Snake experts. Snake experts. From the Bronx Zoo have rescued this year old Indian cobra. Oh yeah, I heard about that. Which stowed away on a container ship headed to Port Elizabeth. The crew discovered the poisonous snake in the hold on December the 10th. Perpetologists took it to the zoo. Wow. It was under weight and obviously a little worn for the trick. Yeah, it was stuck. Who knows how long the ship's voyage took and it hasn't eaten. Granted a snake, there are creatures that do not have to eat. I think a snake was probably dehydrated too. Dehydration would do an animal in long before starvation would. Howard Stern. Howard Stern. He's a very smart man. And Sirius XM announced this week an agreement under which the broadcaster will continue to produce and host the Howard Stern Show on Sirius XM for the next five years. The deal includes plans to launch video programming with Stern. Under the new agreement, Stern's program will continue to be broadcast live on Sirius XM's Howard 100 channel from 7 to 11 am weekday. So the satellite radio is FCC free from what I understand. Are you out of your mind? No. Are you out to pay a subscription? No, you have to pay to listen to satellite radio, but is it FCC free? In other words, do they have to- I guess Howard's getting away with it. Because Howard had many problems with the FCC. And that's why he went to satellite radio, but to pay to listen to a radio station, I am not going to do that. No. It's bad enough they force people to get cable TV now. Yeah. Gone, gone is our free television. Gone, gone is our free radio. Because you won't see anything if you turn your new television set on without cable. You won't see anything. Additionally, Stern will continue to produce his Howard 101 channel, which includes current and classic episodes of the radio program, as well as original programming throughout the day. Oh yeah, the best of Howard Stern. Sure. Why not? Video plans will be announced at a future date and will include video of the radio show, as well as the archives and special programming. Do you know that- not to change the subject, but did you know that true TV still maintains a conspiracy theory with Jesse Ventura Facebook page, even though they don't even play the reruns? Very strange. I mean, you could see the episodes on YouTube, but maybe they forgot to go up and delete it. But it's been here for a while and they maintain it. They post things, but if you're not going to play the reruns, unless they play the reruns in other countries, and not the US, I don't know. It's such a heavy-duty show that would bring viewers to true TV without a doubt. I have no idea why they don't just play the reruns. It seems like any show that is part of the mainstream media cable, they're all wimps, they're all wissies. They told the line. The pussies, yeah. They know what side their bread is buttered on. The side of the mula. So the sponsors and the source of their income tells them, don't play Jesse Ventura's reruns. We don't like that show. Don't do it. And they don't do it. So anyway. Pope Francis. Yeah, he wants a one-world government now. What the hell is up with that? Well, the Roman Catholic Church has always wanted to dominate the world. Yeah, but he's supposed to be Mr. Nice Guy, Pope Francis. You know. The kinder and gentler pope. He has entered his 80th year Thursday amid hopes among his critics that it will be his last, at least as pope. Oh, oh, he turned 80? Yeah. He sure is alert and in great shape for 80. Wow. He's a Sagittarius, a fire sign. Well, Francis remains enormously popular among most rank and file Catholics. A small but vocal group of conservatives who have never much cared for his agenda. Who cares about that? Have grown increasingly strident in criticizing the pope. Fuck them. They criticize Bernie Sanders, too, you know. Everybody's got to count out to the friggin one percent all the time. They have taken aim at the just concluded synod on family issues. Where the divisive issue of common communion, excuse me, oh, for the civilly remarried took center stage. They have raised alarm at Francis's call for a more decentralized church and his loosening of the Vatican's marriage annulment process. They have winced at his environmental concerns, wondered what's in store for Catholic orthodoxy in this holy year of mercy and blasted as sacrilege. The recent screening of nature photos on St. Peter's Basilica, the remnants. A small traditional US newspaper last week penned an open letter begging Francis to change course or resign, arguing that his papacy was causing grieve harm to the church. Organizers say a few thousand people have signed a petition. So the right wing prefers the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages, perhaps? Perhaps. Perhaps. You have given many indications of an alarming hostility to the church's traditional teaching. Discipline and customs and the faithful who try to defend them while being preoccupied with social and political questions beyond the competence of the Roman pontiff, the newspaper said. Maybe there's a reason why Pope Francis was like kissing the hand of one of the Rothschilds in the photograph and Henry Kissinger was standing there too. This appalling situation has no parallel in church history. To put it more simply, many people in the Vatican want Francis dead. People in the Vatican, in the Vatican. So we have a right wing cultist working for the Catholic Church. We have right wing cultists in the Vatican that want to revert back to the original evil, wicked Catholic Church. Said Francesca Choucoy. Maybe Francesca is one of those right wing witches. The woman at the heart of a leaks scandal currently convulsing Francis's Vatican. In an interview with Italy's La Stampa newspaper. La Stampa. Choucoy said Francis says in house reforms and nominations had emboldened his enemies. Many of whom were in the Vatican when Francis was Archbishop of Buenos Aires and had a less than pleasant relationship with Rome. How come nobody, even an international journalism, like nobody calls out any of these people and tells them off? You know what I mean? Yes, because they believe as Newt Gingrich has tried to teach people. It's only one idea against another. That's all politics is on. One idea against another. In other words, nobody's hurting anybody. Regardless how factless or preposterous a person's interview or comments are, news is news to these people. In other words, they take it, they post it. And if Snopes ain't around, or fact check or something, how do you know when a goddamn person is lying? Well, Snopes rubbed me the wrong way when I noticed they were very anti-nutritional supplement and a kind of pro-big farmer. So his consumer report? Very anti-supplementation. So I suspect that they might be corporate horrors. Honey, for years, what's the name of that group? What do you call this group? The physicians for a... I know which one you mean. Yeah, the nutrition group. Every time they brought something out that this was bad, this was bad, everybody else made fun of them. All the traditional stuff, the official crap, all of it. Well, because drugs are toxic and they have many negative side effects. And a living creature was not meant to take drugs, especially for the rest of their life. Even involving nutrition and vitamins and stuff. Nutrition, nutrition was here for hundreds of millions of years before any pharmaceutical company. And actually, homeopathic medicine was probably the first pharmaceutical, right? Herbal medicine and homeopathics. Way back. Yeah, actually the old-time doctors learned homeopathy. They learned some homeopathy in medical school, which they wouldn't dare teach now. Well, the homeopathy only came about in the 1800s. 18... with Hottiman. Hottiman. You know? Yeah. Well, I told you that Esmeralda's father, who's a very popular pediatrician in his city, Cartagena, Colombia, knew a lot about homeopathy because when he went to medical school in... I think he went to medical school in Mexico, he learned about homeopathy in medical school. Well, we had like a hundred medical schools here in America way back and allopathic medicine got rid of them. Yeah. You know, that's what happened. Because they became glorified drug pushes. Well, they killed George Washington with mercury, you know, with bleeding and the death. I mean, mercury, bleeding, these were the top medicines at one time. Bloodletting? Yeah. But mercury? And mercury, yeah. He poisoned the poor guy. He would have been better off with old-fashioned herbs. Yeah, whatever. What did he have, an infection? Who the hell knows what he had? Maybe he needed new wooden dentures. Maybe he got that termite syndrome or something. I think that... Little levity, little... I think I read somewhere that the dentures were not wooden. Were they? I shall never tell a lie. Porcelain? I don't know what they were. I thought they were made from the cherry tree chopped down. More levity. Some of these cardinals and bishops are openly resisting his reforms. Yeah, especially the ones in St. Louis. While others inside and out of the Vatican are simply waiting out his pontificate under the argument that popes come and go, but the curia remains. Pope Francis is no longer trusted by many conservative Catholics. And the number who don't trust him has grown enormously since the Synod. Conservative columnist Damien Thompson wrote, in Britain's spectator... So that means that amongst Catholics there are many Catholic counterparts to those evangelical lunatics on the Protestant side of the fence. There are Catholic counterparts that are also right-wing. Of course. Zealot nuts. All traditionals are usually right-wing. And what they're professing, what they're promoting is cultism because it's not part of the Bible, the original Bible. It's not part of the Bible. He said he doesn't see the dust settling until the next conclave, which lots of conservative Catholics want to happen as soon as possible. The Argentine Jesuit, who has rarely backed down from a fight, seems unfazed and possibly emboldened by the criticism. And there is no indication that it poses any real threat to his broad popularity. Since the public concern has been confined to mostly Anglo-Saxon and Italian pundits in predictably conservative publications. Antonin Scalia and Rick Santorum are examples of conservative right-wing cultist Catholics. Would that be accurate? Clearly. Claiming to speak for a growing number of otherwise anonymous Catholic laity and clergy. Monday will be a good litmus test to show just how far Francis is willing to push the envelope when he gathers the curia for his traditional Christmas greetings. Francis is an independent free thinker and he's going to say what he wants to say, I predict. I predict, you know. You've got to look at percentages now. How many of those right-wing zealot Catholics are there in comparison to the people that love Francis? Yeah, but the people who love Francis are not in control. Are you talking about the cardinals? Yeah. Which is like a Senate or Parliament. That's right. It was at that usually jovial affair last year that Francis issued a blistering public dressing down of his closest collaborators by diagnosing the 15 ailments of the curia. He accused the cardinals and the bishops of the Vatican bureaucracy of using their careers to grab power and wealth. Sounds like he was exposing the wickedness of the Catholic Church of old. And he was... he was... old. He was criticizing the ones that are powering out. Well, I mean all the negativities attached to the Catholic Church for hundreds of years. Francis was pretty much... just, you know, exposing all of them. Calling them out, calling them out, man. Calling them out, lock, stock and barrel. Calling them out, right. Of living hypocritical double lives and forgetting due to spiritual Alzheimer's that they're supposed to be joyful men of God. See, and what he's saying also applies to all Christian pastors, even on the Protestant side. In America. Evangelicals and all that. Yeah, he's hitting hard. Below the bell. They don't like hitting the balls. It didn't go down well. Since then, the murmuring of criticism of Porre Mario Bergoglio has grown. Italy's veteran Vatican analysts and frequent Francis critic Sandro Nagisperer said many are wondering what he'll say. Many are wondering what he'll say this time. Yeah. It's like the people that have power and money in a dishonest way it sounds like they don't want to give up their gravy train. They don't want to be exposed. The goose that laid the golden egg they want that goose to keep on laying golden eggs for them. You know, the same thing with the Republican Party in the United States and the corporates as Democrats in the United States like the wicked Wasserman shits. It's actually shits, but I say shits. I see nothing. The wicked Wasserman shits. Actually, that's pretty clever of me. With billionaire investor Warren Buffett nearby. I wonder if Warren Buffett ever goes to a buffet. Get it? Buffett buffet. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday the Medusa wants to raise taxes on the wealthy. Yeah, sure. And expand the Buffett rule. Come on guys, cut it out. Pushed by the Obama administration to raise that's rates on the richest American. Wait a minute. Obamas has been in for almost two terms. That's correct. And I never heard him mention raising taxes on the rich. Yeah, not in that sense. He did say something to the effect that you know, Warren Buffett's secretary paying a higher rate than he is. That we've heard before. But he didn't push the issue. He can't. Who makes the laws? Yeah, but he can go public and tell the American people that your elected Republican Congress is screwing up this country and selling you out, brother. They would rather vote 47 times to repeal Obamacare than to do the real work of Congress. Yeah, they have an obsession with the little people, the poor, having an existence or being happy or they, it's almost like they want you to be either an actual slave to the rich or die. It seems like they want one of those two things for the poor. Honest, mate. They're lazy poor. They have an obsession with the poor. They just can't let it go. And these are multi-billionaires, some of them, right? The vital says they have disdain for the poor. They have the poor in their sights. How much fucking money does one need? Oh, gosh. Oh, if they're the Walmart people, they need more. They need more. It's like a hoarder when you think about it. It's like an obsession, like a hoarder. It's a disease. It's not a disease. I want to go even further because Warren is 100% right. Clinton said at a rally in this city that featured a public endorsement from Buffalo, the famed investor and one of the wealthiest people in America. I want to be the president for this struggling, the striving, and the successful. Oh. She has to be the president for the successful too. They're successful. I've been getting away with a lot. With robbing from us. Come on, say it. The Reagan era has not ended, my friend. The taxification, with the taxification for the rich, they don't need a president to be behind them. They need the president to tax the hell out of them. Introducing Clinton Buffett's offered a litany of statistics describing a growing chasm between the nation's rich and the poor. Lamenting, millions and millions and millions of Americans have been left behind. Oh, yeah. But out of doubt. And the veterans, which is very despicable. Buffett was the namesake for the push by the Obama administration to seek a tax rate of 30% on goals earning $1 million or more. That's a drop in the bucket. That's a drop in the bucket. That's not enough. That is good. The oracle of Obama, I've said, he would be delighted if Clinton takes the oath of office, asserting that she will not forget about the little class in America. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Hillary Clinton that wants students that can't find a decent, permanent, full-time job, college students, she wants them to pay off their student loans. No free education or free health care for all Americans. No, no, no. Clinton wants to keep the privatization in America. Make those banks richer, Dave. Make those banks richer. Yeah. Buffett said he had watched all of the Republican presidential debates.