 Well, it just happens to be Saturday afternoon, August the 3rd, Saturday August the 3rd, 2013. Toad. And welcome everyone. Welcome to progressive discussions. Another week has flown by quickly, as usual. Just like the months and the seasons and the years fly by. And I'm your host for progressive discussions, James P. Madonna of Megalife 21. The hardest-hitting internet talk radio station on the planet. And I am here, live and prerecorded. Well, when you see it, it's prerecorded. Coming from the newsletter-sensored research center in northeastern New Jersey. And I will now. This is my new prop because the Blackthorn Shaleli is taking a vacation, hiatus. This is an authentic deer antler. It's not taking a dirt sleep. No, no, no. It's just on hiatus. It's on hyena. I mean hyena. Hyenas are not picky at all. Hernia, hiatal hernia. As to what they will eat. My brother-in-law, the great white hunter. Deer hunter. Well, yeah, actually deer hunting. Because he claims if you hunt for any wild bird, any fowl, you have to have bird dogs to flush them out and it's a pain in the ass. He rather just- Why don't I just get in the duck car? Wait, call the ducks out. Boom! You know, the poor duck is like the poor chicken. It is mocked, it is made fun of, it is maligned. And yet it's a cute- Not daffy duck. It's a cute animal. Well, daffy ducks spits too much like Sylvester the cat. Right? I think so. I love daffy duck. Yeah, he's cute. Although I haven't seen him in years. Ducks are cute, man. Just like bunny rabbits, you know? I mean, and they're quite smart. Rhinoceroses are not cute. Well, you, my friend, do not like some of my- You do not- Insects are not cute. You do not like legatos, otherwise known as lizis, which I love. I love reptiles. I love tortoises, turtles. What is psycho again? Amphibians, and I love- What is psycho? Psycho is one of the tarantulas owned by our director- Because what is he? He's building a new- IT. environment for him? IT division. They already have a new environment. They have an automatic thermostatic-controlled heating pad- On a big cast-iron stand, rack. For a steak inch tarantula. Scorpions, too. And tarantulas, and the food that is fed to them. They're all thermostatically controlled with an automatic timer. High technology, man. Oh, my God. Tech Redneck. Oh, my God. Anyway, let me formally pipe a board with my authentic Bosun's whistle. My- No insects allowed. The illustri- The illustri- Oh, I'll be bringing the hissing cockroaches over soon. The door will be locked. When they put on bulk. I want- I need them to put on more size. They're already this long. More size. Anyway, pipe a board, formerly pipe a board, my co-host and mentor. The pulp of the internet. The illustri- The one and only. The founder of Newsletter Censored in 1977. Excuse me. And welcome aboard our progressive liberal starship. The Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman. How are you feeling today? Make it so. Huh? Make it so. Make what so? The Picard says all the time to get the starship moving. Make it so. That's a stupid phrase. Well, that's what he says to the driver, the whatever he is. You like Sulu, it used to be. I thought it was on- I thought computers was on automatic pilot or something. Well, you got to throw it in. You got to throw the trajectory in. That doesn't make sense. Make it so. Make it so. That's stupid. I like Kirk's phrases. Warp speed. Is that what he says? Warp to, warp. He mentions the warp, right? Warp, yeah. Well, whatever. Yeah. You got to go somewhere. You got to use warp drive. Well, speaking of warp, Washington sure is warped. The Congress. Now, let me start because I got a lot of things. Congress is now at 7%. Popularity? Popularity. Approval, right? Approval. Well, they deserve less. Well, they're on vacation, buddy. You see them running down the steps yesterday? They're always on vacation. I hear that they took, I think, July off. They came back for August and they're only scheduled to work two days, the Republican Congress. And they're only scheduled to work on nine days in September. Mr. Boehner says, don't worry, we'll get the job done. Yeah. Repealing. What job? Repealing Obamacare. Certainly not creating jobs. No, they're too busy repealing Obamacare. 40th time. All right. For the 40th time. Now, you know. Well, I got a lot to read, so hurry up. It wouldn't be bad if they would want to repeal the part and improve the parts that should be repealed and improved. But they just want to take away the whole thing. Yeah, they sure want to take away the whole thing except for the money going to their rich buddies and to themselves. That they don't want to take away. Okay. I just, I'll start off with something light and the rest is heavy, heavy duty, right? Who is the idiot or idiots in clothing designers, you know, in the fashion industry, who decided to put the print and the words and the logo on the back of t-shirts instead of in the front where they belong and where they used to be. It's like, it's all on the back and there's nothing in the front. And then I think about all the horrible, ugly fashion designs that they come up with for women. Most of them are hideous, you know, and I don't know who's in charge of the fashion industry if it's the same group of people that are in charge of Hollywood, but it sure sucks. I mean, the people that are getting paid really good salaries do not necessarily make the right smart decisions and are not necessarily talented. Obviously you should not go see the punk exhibition. It's who they know in America. It's who you know. It's punk fashion. Oh, well I know about that. Yeah, but it's got a big exhibit of it somewhere. Oh, okay. It's crap. Anyway, Republican Senator John Corrine of Texas. Corrine. Corrine. Corrine. You've got a Y in there. Yeah, Corrine. Yeah, well whatever. Of Texas said, there is no good reason why Detroit or any other American city ought to receive a taxpayer funded bailout from Washington, but Senator John Corrine, Republican, voted for a taxpayer funded bailout of Wall Street and big banks. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. But no. Now, Becky, you won't take away subsidies from Exxon Mobil and all the big boys. But no American city should be bailed out by Washington. Well, cities are the public sector. See, the things he likes are the private sector. They are out to destroy all in the public sector so that the private sector can control the country. Okay. Well, we all know how efficient privatization is, right? Oh, yeah. Well, it's good for them because that's where they get their money. Ha ha ha. Okay. Oh, you mean in their pockets? That's correct. Yeah. Human nature never changes over the millennia, right? It never changes. It's just as vile and wicked and selfish and sinful as it always was. Ha ha ha. Anyway, but of course these, what would you call them? Adaptive supporters, sycophants. Is that the same category? A sycophant and an adaptive supporter. Sycophant is a supporter obviously, yeah. They call us haters and troublemakers and instigators for telling the truth. I guess they called Martin Luther King and Gandhi and all the reformers of the world the same. Troublemakers. They were maligned. They were killed. They were... What about the apostles? They were maligned. I love them, madam. They were killed. They were killed, it is. Murdered. Yeah. What are you telling the truth? George Carlin was, the late great George Carlin was touching upon some things like that. I posted a very good video of him discussing right to lifers and abortion and the whole subject of abortion and he really gets right to the point about conservatives caring about the fetus, but once you're born they don't give a damn about you. That's correct. And now you see after the Supreme Court struck down the part of the Voting Rights Act all of the Republican control legislatures in the country are now putting through all of their garbage laws and of course their anti-abortion laws. Well, I'm going to get to something quite interesting that's sort of related to that. Okay, each member of Congress spends an average of $383 per month for coffee and food in their office. For them? For them. Each. And if they have a little guess. Yeah. Okay. Which is more than most families receive in SNAP or food stamp benefits. Again, how many days on average do they work in Congress? And they want to cut SNAP. Remember that. So this is funny, $383 per month for coffee and food per Congress person, in this case it's mostly Republicans, which is more than what poor families get for food stamps. And they want to cut food stamps again. And in my new, these Congress people work very little. They work far less than part-time. The word work should be not used. Yeah, not work. Or in quotes. Repeal. Everything Obama wants. That's what they do. They keep on repealing. The same thing with when you're discussing a rich person, do not ever use the term earn. Oh, forget it. Okay. Because they do not earn their money. Well, once you officially become a millionaire, your money pretty much makes money on its own. That's great. If you invest wisely, you have a real smart, certified financial planner, your money will make money. So as far as any rich person telling them, you want to tax my, you want to tax my hard earned money. That's all bullshit. Bullshit. Okay. Now, interesting. Now, this is crazy. Oh boy. Mark, this is a man, Mark Obenshain, which is the state of Virginia attorney general said, if a woman in Virginia has a miscarriage without a doctor present, be assured, they must report it within 24 hours to the police or risk going to jail for a full year. Wow. Talk about religious nuts in the red state Bible Belt area. How the hell, you know when a woman has a miscarriage, there's no cop in the bathroom standing there watching them. That's an abortion. Okay. You think a woman wants to have a miscarriage? Oh my gosh, we, all of our women, really, Democratic women, they won abortions. All I want them. So we're all demonized. Well, of course, we're demonized. What about the sins that they, they, they, they're guilty of? They... Political corruption and financial sins. They see the moat in your eye and not the beam in their own. They're hypocrites. They are hypocrites. They're the ultimate hypocrites of all time. Is it, is it, is it a conservative right wing? Okay. Interesting. Now this last section is also very interesting. It's the last inductee into our Chisler's Hall of Shame. The other inductees, of course, is the Attorney General of Virginia and, um, and, uh, you know, the, the Republican, Republicans making Assenheim statements. They never fails to amaze me every week. They just get, make stupider and stupider, uh, remarks that they, uh, they, they go public with, which is really shocking. Members of, uh, Republican Congress for wasting taxpayers' money that they say Democrats are, are known for, wasting taxpayers' money. Not their taxes, because they're rich. They don't pay taxes. I mean the middle class. So all these people, John Corrine, Mark Obenshane, members of Congress, they're all guilty. They're all inductees into the Chisler's Hall of Shame. And now the big, the big inductee, Walmart. Walmart employs 2.1 million workers. Two thirds of these are in the United States. In 2012, revenue is, or was, three times that of Apple, computer, and 15 times of McDonald's. Walmart pays employees, on average, $8.81 per hour. Okay. Four Walmart family members. We mean, I'm talking about the upper echelon, right? The muckity mucks. Four Walmart family members made $20 billion in 2012. Each. That's just, that's just 2012. That might be collectively. I don't know. They didn't specify. No, it's each. Really? 80 billion. Do you, do you, could you imagine that? And they have the nerve to pay their employees a slightly above minimum wage. That's correct. It's sickening. It's sickening. You people that walk around with a smile saying, oh, I'm a people person. Oh, I love people. Oh, yeah, yeah. Conservatives are close to God. You are an asshole because you don't have your facts. All right. Let me finish this. They do have the power, though. Huh? They do have the power. Because they, they, they, they own the media. They own the government. They own the government. Well, the government is our only bulwark against the strength of the corporations and the rich. Yeah. Well, the corporations. So they destroy the government, make it smaller. Yeah. We have no fighting force. The corporations have bought the FDA, the USDA, congressmen, senators, the media because corporations are the sponsors, correct? They, they, they bought them all. So, all right. Walmart stores cost U.S. taxpayers over $1.7 million per year because they pay their employees so little that they must rely on public assistance. And many Walmart employees are collecting public assistance to survive. Food stamps and Medicare. That's right. Because their pay is so low. Our typical American salaries, far below the cost of living, they can't afford to live on it. Once upon a time in this country, when they middle class and people were doing well. Yeah. When the corporations made profits, some of those profits went to wage hikes. But some 30-some years ago, that all stopped. And the profits became huge, and huge. And the CEO's pay sure did. And the CEO's pay got hugeer and hugeer. Yep, yep, yep, yep. And the wages were stagnant and did not grow. Even today, they are 4% lower than they were. Is it any wonder the economy is not bustling? No money for the 70% of the economy that is the consumers. No disposable income. You know, with all the outsourced jobs and all of the corporations not paying taxes and the rich not paying taxes, the mainstream that were middle class that became poor that got their homes foreclosed and they got laid off. Well, all the new poor mainstream, they don't have surplus cash to put back into the economy. Welfare, the only surplus cash they had before was because they borrowed it. Right. Okay. I mean, the poor and the unemployed and the homeless, of course, don't have anything to put back into the economy. And the middle class that are left, the people that should thank their lucky stars to still have a full-time job, so far, they don't have the surplus cash to put back into the economy. But there are people that I noticed that are driving around in expensive cars, even young people that somehow, the kids today, they don't want to start like we did with an older used car. They all seem to have to have a new vehicle. So what you're saying is all the new stuff that you see people having now are all borrowed on credit? Borrowed credit? Yeah, credit. Borrowed money. So I guess the repossess by the repo man is going to have a lot of work ahead of him. Definitely. You know, it's funny on the repo reality shows on cable, on true TV, the person getting repowed, what do you call them, the repeat, the repo victims, if you want to call them victims, they fight tooth and nail with the repo man. Like, it's almost like that vehicle belongs to them. Because they see it as stealing. But they don't own the vehicle until it's paid for. People don't understand that. We don't own our houses. We don't own our cars. If they're borrowed, if they're, you know, credit, borrowed money, we don't own them. You don't even own land that your house is sitting on. You don't own land. And we've done many stories about that. And if you paid off your land, and you do own it, the government can come and take it by eminent domain. Well, you remember that old... Give it to some big, private cook. You remember the story about the elderly, retired couple that had to get rid of their bird feeder? I think it was Allendale, New Jersey, or Ridgewood. No, I think it was Clifford. Well, anyway, they were... No, it was... One of these right here. It was a Burden County town, but they were ordered by the town that their bird feeder wasn't... Wasn't a bird feeder. It wasn't the kind of bird feeder that they wanted them to have, so they told them they couldn't have it. Meanwhile, this was probably... They probably had their mortgage all paid up if they were retired people. Maybe. And maybe, most likely, it was because when old people buy their homes, it was back in the day. And back in the day, the mortgages were low. But they may be on a reverse mortgage today. Yeah, we don't know. But the point is, you don't really own your home. That's it. I mean, if you pay off the mortgage, you may own the building, but you don't own the land. That's why you got to get a permit for this and that. Oh, you want a high stockade fence for privacy? You better not be too high. You can't even have a victory vegetable garden in your front yard, only in the backyard. I almost had grass. Right, that has to be cut. A nice manicured lawn. And it gives you nothing in return with the money you spend... Well, it does give you crap grass. And weeds. Weeds. If you're into dandelion salad, I guess. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. If you want to raise your own hens for eggs? Oh, no. The town won't let you do that unless you're in an area where the community will allow you to. But you can't do anything. But it's okay for you to pay the super high property taxes in suburbia, right? That's okay. Well, I got news for you. We pay high property taxes. Most of it goes to education. The reason we do that is because the rich don't pay their share. I thought here in New Jersey, they like closing schools and laying off teachers? Well, they're trying to do that, of course. Vouchers and all this other crap. They want to privatize education to Republicans. Once upon a time, the lottery was supposed to take an hour of education. What happened? Now they want to privatize the lottery. Casino gambling in Atlantic City was supposed to go to the needy. Yeah. Remember? Because the lottery, no money is going to go to the education anymore. No. But since they don't want education in the first place because they don't want the poor and the middle class becoming smart. They want to dumb down the mainstream. Dumb down the mainstream. But that's why only the rich kids can afford to go to private school. That's how it was in the old days, and they want those days back. Ah, the old days of what? Feudalism? The kings, the queens, the princes. Feudalistic oligarch? Feudalism, whatever you want. Well, now the feudalism is a corporate plutocracy. It's fascism. That's what it's become. The country is a fascism. Someone said on Facebook the other day, all it is socialism, socialism, socialism. There's no socialism. The country is fascist. When you got the corporations married to the state, it's fascism. Ask Mr. Mussolini. He'll tell you. You know, I once had this punk know-it-all that was, he bragged that he was part of, he was one of the leaders of this nationwide organization comprised of young republicans, young people that were conservative. Of course there were rich kids, most likely, with a silver spoon in their mouth. And he did not debate or comment the contents of our shows. Of course not. He talked about how our shows are not viral. We do not have hundreds of thousands or millions of hits. And he put us down and he says, you are beneath me. I would never debate you because you don't have, you don't have hundreds of thousands or millions of hits. I says, well, you know, thinking about it, Honey Boo Boo's, Honey Boo Boo's season opener, right off the bat, had like, I think, over two million viewers. Well, Jesus only had 120. Jesus himself had only 120. He was the best teacher in the world. Of all time. Better than Joe Olstein and Rick Warren and Pat Roberts. Prosperity preaches. Yeah. And he only had 120, you know, what you would call followers. Unbelievable. So, you know, attention, being in a spotlight, money, accumulating a large sum of money in the devil's world, it's not necessarily, well, it's not a fair world, obviously. So the more informative you are, the more educational you are, the more you tell the real truth. The less audience you will have. Mainstream audience you will have. Look at Gary, no, as brilliant as Gary is, and he's got his progressive radio network, which is awesome. No, nobody's going to fight. A lot of people listen. No station manager or sponsors are going to censor anybody on there. Okay, but he only has so much of the population. You know that you can listen to radio now. And he belongs on MSNBC. He was on it. He was on WMCA once. MSNBC? Gary made appearances. That does not suit his work. MSNBC? No, MSNBC never existed. Not then. He was on WMC. Forget about radio, I'm talking about what really grabs massive amounts of people. TV, cable, cable. Cable TV does not have the audiences, you think. MSNBC does not have the audiences, I think? Maybe over 500,000 people. You're kidding me. No. Are you serious? Yeah. So Ed Schultz, the Ed Schultz show, only has a small segment of the population. Fox has more. Well, that doesn't surprise me. There's a station that does not know the truth if it tripped over it, but it's quite professional. Has great sets, et cetera. And... And... It has gorgeous looking blonde women. Waspy looking. I don't know about waspy, but they sure are gorgeous. Well, they're not minority women. I noticed. No, they're not. They're not women of color on Fox. I think they have one or two, but... And there's no gay broadcasters on Fox at all. You know, I mean, you know... Hey. There's a pattern here. You heard what the pope you said. Who am I to judge? Who am I to judge? They're gay. Listen. Finally, somebody got into somebody's head that we're not here to be judged. Listen, the women on Fox, I affectionately call the conservative coven of witches. And there are more than you think. And yes, Ann Coulter, the snake-headed...