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two comments on you tube and said the reason the media won't cover it is because obama is their guy and they don't want him to look bad if bush for president you can guarantee you the media would cover the story now i've got a feeling that. it's true not necessarily that obama is the entire media guy i don't believe that but if bush had been the one to pass the n.d.a. there would have been a much stronger response especially from the channels out there like i said we see parts of the other hand oh we know we're there into that kind of thing so i don't find all that shocking but back to the person point it goes over a lot of the things that obama has done in his presidency in the shadow war is the assassination of american citizens all of which the more left leaning media has been largely new to with the same thing of happen under bush i really don't think so i think there's some sort of collective hopefulness of the media of the obama administration really has our best interests at heart they say they will detain americans ok the military says don't talk about the shadow words or for your own good ok now the reality is that what is good for americans is knowing what the

government is doing in the name of their safety max i want to respond to a viewer who tweeted out this time component said show president obama also has a new ad calling mitt romney a big oil crony he is giving more to obama than anyone so now first i'm just so you guys the ad that's being referred to here. and i approve this message under president obama mystical oil production is at an eight year high so why is big oil attacking because he's fighting to end their tax breaks he's raising money standards and doubling renewable energy to get all these fights. tax breaks attacking higher mileage standards and renewables so when you see this remember who paid for and what they want. and the numbers that our viewer here is referring to are from twenty ten when yes b.p. did give more money to obama than any other candidate obama received

a total of seventy seven thousand and fifty one dollars during his time in the senate and while running for president as president not so much b.p. actually stopped giving donations altogether for nine months post spill and he only recently come out of hibernation and started donating to politicians and none of that money so far seems to be going to obama as of late two thousand and eleven b.p. has given tens of thousands of dollars to both republican and democratic congress members but none to obama and whether or not i continue throughout the campaign think our mates to be seen and finally t three six zero four tweeted this show dude change your profile picture stop everyone from whining about it anymore make sure it has a lot of hair this time we know we know guys we're working on it we've already changed our facebook picture and the twitter picture will be uploaded by the end of the week i promise so that's it my rantings tonight but we've got with more we. well today is the day nearly two hundred marines arrived in australia and the

chorus of what will be twenty five hundred american troops deployed out under it's part of an agreement the president obama and also brilliant prime minister julia gillard dillard signed last november now for now we hear the marines will be engaging in training exercises and are going to be around for humanitarian help but the consensus around the world is that clearly this is part of a strategic shift of the u.s. military to focus more on china and the asia pacific region and the australians seem more willing to admit it joining me to discuss it is robert farley sr professor at the university of kentucky and blogger at lawyer friends and money robert thanks so much for joining us tonight and for starters do you know more about the timeline here like i said today we have about two hundred marines that arrives at the end of the day they're supposed to be twenty five hundred do we know when they're supposed to get there. i think it's really over the course of the next few months i'm not sure of the exact time of mourning are there resources that in the works for several months since president obama's visit to australia and it's

going to kamber and so forth and i think you're right that the australians seem very excited about it they're talking about it in different terms than the americans are talking about it well yeah let's give let's give the viewers an example right so first we have australian defense minister minister stephen smith and he said we see this very much as responding and reflecting the fact of the world is moving into our parts of the girls the world is moving to the asia pacific and the indian ocean we need to respond to that. then we have the us ambassador to australia jeffrey glacier said there's this kind of sexy fun narrative that you hear from pundits and others trying to suggest this is about china but it's not so i was so that's kind of interesting right why do you think about is going on we have the us trying to downplay and then australia and i guess they're just enjoying the time you know in the limelight or saying you know are important everyone's going this way well i think the. they're trying to ensure that the united states makes as much of a commitment to australian defense and to australian security as they can and so

they i think they're talking about this. and sort of the most grandiose terms because when they talk about grandiose terms the radically it will commit us to do do things that is in their favor but i mean let's be frank it's about china i mean it's mostly about china it's also about the tremendous amount of world trade that goes through the area of maritime trying to go through the area the increasing importance of india and indonesia and so forth but the military aspects of it are mostly about china what about the thing that we heard from the prime minister this week when he said that the us and also i are currently in a passion for maybe having relevance on australian soil as well. i think that's really interesting. i mean i haven't seen that exact about i do think that it's very interesting in terms of how those drones would play out in a. any sort of military scenario between china and the united states i mean everybody expects the drones are going to play

a large role and that is exactly sure where they're going to be based drones are going that australia would probably manage a few piracy campaigns they would probably carry out all kinds of surveillance and the chinese and the other actors in the area so that's pretty interesting they want to be sort of scouring the outback and i guess it would be all that shocking but in the meantime we don't really know it's just up for discussion haven't exactly been been decided on but you know if you were china how would you respond to that. it wasn't china has responded to it by expressing its suspicion and by chastising both the united states and australia for especially militarizing diplomacy in the region and i think this got a reasonable response by china the australians for their part see this as a response to the fact that china was taking what a lot of people were going to do and that was a much more assertive and aggressive diplomatic tack around two thousand and nine in two thousand and ten and so the australian seem to think or what one of seeking

to suggest that this is in response to show the chinese are sort of suggesting that this is an escalation by the united states and the united states is regional allies and one of the things that we hear all the time when it comes to military planning . and strategy planning here is that our generals very preparing for yesterday's war they're never quiet and human with what exactly it is you know that we need to focus on and if you hear the hear do you think that they're actually doing the opposite are are they really thinking ahead. absolutely i think that they are they navy and the air force has for a very long time one had to move away from the focus on the middle east and wanted to move away from the iraq and afghanistan. under robert gates gates was very clear that the united states had to fight the wars that it was fighting right now before it moved on to the next war but now that we've moved on to secretary of defense panetta and we've moved mostly out of iraq at. the time want to get into some

certainly seems to appear there the navy and therefore very eager to think about what the next conflict might look like and they're happy to have the focus back on them and back and look they can too. i saw the navy the air force are excited maybe not so much the army there but so in that sense as we look at this strategic shift and actually see that happening right now there's actually action in it how much do you think we still are going to have you know how many resources are we still going to have focusing on the middle east. we're going to see a reduction but a lot of the resources that can be applied to conflict with china can also in sort of a lesser included case be applied to the middle east so especially naval assets that are part of pacific command are pretty easy to shift over to the middle east if there's any kind of crisis and this includes carrier battle groups that includes submarines and so forth. that could respond in a sort of crisis in the middle east what i doubt you'll have in the middle east

after there's some kind of we're all going to drawdown in afghanistan and as you probably know how large scale deployments u.s. ground troops in the region but you know instead you'll have air and naval assets that can check between the two theaters if that turns out to be necessary i think up plenty of jets and plenty of ships out there to cover the glow of robert thank you very much for joining us tonight thank you for having me. well time for our last break even but when we come back that romney presents to be normal that you and i pulled side i don't have another happy hour session clearly thinking you're drunk does not make you think you're sexy at a campaign here to get facebook users to post their existence as for the greater good life is going to be waiting for you after the break.

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all right guys it's time for tonight's total time award and tonight we're going to get to the g.o.p. presidential front runner mitt romney he celebrated last night's primary win in wisconsin surrounded by fellow g.o.p. ears and of course the speech and aside from thanking voters for choosing him he started throwing some crunches at obama here's one of the traps enough to make you

think that years of flying around in air force one surrounded by an adoring staff of true believers telling you that you're great and you're doing a great job it's enough to make you think that you might become a lot of church. yet he says that obama's been spending too much time on the official presidential plane with his adoring staff and that's led him to be out of touch with voters i mean really find this new vision and if romney gets the golden ticket to the white house then he'd probably make some pretty big changes over at six hundred pennsylvania avenue if that's how he thinks for sars obviously airports want to have to undergo some serious remodelling like he said it just gives the president the opportunity to become out of touch with americans so maybe grow but then decals on it like don't tread on me hell throw in a few sponsors to perhaps those nascar team voters that he's buddy buddy with or better yet we can scrap a whole plane give him a blimp and as a safety measure well just attach some machine guns to get the job done right and

he'd clearly have to change up the white house mansion as well after all mansions they just scream disconnect so we'll replace it with a much smaller home with a huge cross and a bright yard and a coal burning grill in the white house lawn it's too bad romney doesn't drink because he would definitely have space for an ice keg or in the backyard but let's get serious here wrongly of all people is trying to call obama for being out of touch i mean this is almost too easy but here it goes pot meet kettle. so i drive a mustang and a chevy pickup truck and drives a couple of cadillacs actually ten thousand bucks. ten thousand all of it. corporations are people my friend we can raise taxes and of course they are i like being able to fire people decide services to me doing some renovating of his own tearing down his old house and lawyer california to build an eleven thousand square

foot mansion he is installing a car elevator to a four car garage his campaign thinks there's no optics concern here telling the new york times it's quote just a mechanism for storing cars in tight spaces. yeah the guy who knows nascar owners has a lawyer home expanded it for a car elevator and his wife owns a few cadillacs that he's the one who really understands the real america how for monday evening you know you can't identify with anybody out there but the one percent and when you try to act like you're an everyday guy you still come off as fake. go for it. and i know that work. so romney my officially be unemployed is still counting twenty one million dollars in two thousand and ten and i'm sure that real americans

would give an arm or a leg for that kind of money but i'd also like your mind made about something else calling out obama for using air force one is ridiculous because guess what that's how every president since the fifty's is traveled not just obama even ronald reagan used the massive plane he was commander in chief and in reality the presidential plane the white house those are all things that mitt romney is working towards that's his goal that's his finish line and those are the things he's been campaigning to get for almost a decade so it's a weak sauce and it really wants the job he's going to work a lot harder on getting his stance straight on tough issues and at least that members of his own party on his side if you want to pick a fight with obama i suggest he digs a little deeper next time there's plenty out there to criticize so for now we will gladly give myths and i it's tool time war because his a poverty and sister fund overlook.

are you guys it's time for happy hour joining me this evening are two producer jenny churchill and alex sites all this is an editor of being arrested or. thanks for joining us thanks for having me. you know sometimes when people drink the law it's then funny things happen to them they might think that there or. they might start hitting on people. kind of things sometimes mixing it with stuff. but of course. all right well here's the interesting part is it might not even be the alcohol it does it but just the knowledge or thought that you're drunk there's a new study out there that basically says they did some placebos just thinking this just thinking you're drunk can make people think that they're more attractive and

so the people that they actually gave alcohol to but than they weren't drinking anything they still had low self-esteem and the people they actually gave placebos to who thought they were drinking alcohol just decided. i mean is it really any shock that we're all a lot greener i mean was it all so much of a no then we want to admit and not only thing holding us back from talking about how fabulous we are is society and their judgment if that's why they chose a six pack of jewels right before i came here and that's why you put this not to spoil any. carried on the merry tina story these very real darshini is here on this to make me feel more trouble to say i mean sometimes when i go to the met you are attractive ok well then you know mission accomplished i mean when i write home after happy hour on this show it's always a lot more awesome because i just exude confidence i guess that would be you know because you just think about the effects of alcohol and everyone talks about how lowers your inhibitions and so it's easy to blame it on the booze and in reality

it's just you can't some of the stuff you can't blame on the most try to but if you think about it maybe it's not actually lowering people's inhibitions it's just making them feel like social norms don't matter anymore like here it's not socially normal to talk about how hot you are or how hot you think you are so when that norm is taken away because you're drunk you can talk about it but it's not socially normal hook up with someone you know on a one night stand basis but after you've had a few drinks well then it's really cool and you can still blame it on the booze whether you're actually drunk or not exactly if you think you are. so you're saying basically there's a lot of closet sluts out there that aren't even getting drunk that are having one night stands and pretending like they were blacked out. ok let's move on to this next story shall we basically a researcher thinks that facebook can help you figure out you know what the chances are that you might get an s.t.d.

and so he envisions an app that could alert you to your risk of catching one based among its prevalence prevalence excuse me amongst your friends so they're saying that if you just say that you haven't asked. see that it will help figure out the statistics of what the chances are you know that your friends probably have it and we all know this isn't going to hurt because one person in their right mind it's like i have clemente you let me tell everyone i know that you put that on your profile which. i could not do that alex we do actually happen to know that you probably are as free because you never have sex because you for. this is a really good one for ted we thought it was so funny last time you were on the show we were talking about this study that some people said they would give up sex for a year had access to the internet and the washington free beacon and. they were really shocked about that i mean you know i was trying to be provocative a little bit here but your back and i fell in line and are now back on the show

admitting a line or am i lying about admitting that i'm lying. doesn't have any what the washington free beacon thinks is you know really worthwhile to write about. let's move on to our next story shall we. explain this. administration they haven't been all that nice to some of the federal agencies that are actually trying to implement some of the things that the obama administration has been asking for it's a ban when the agencies actually start working on it they end up kind of clamping down and basically the reason that they're doing this in political and often because you know maybe they get a little scared that things like fox news will attack them for. you know there's always a zillion dylan right there's when time was fats and everything was not five and it was soft and everything was low sodium now it seems that this is moved to sugar so

dr london is this something we really need to be concerned about that's different than the other cycles or is this sort of the pattern of picking something else that we should watch in our diet. and it's very scary regulations now we just kind of want to talk about this not necessarily because there's something going on in the news today but let me give you an example of the f.d.a. twenty time they have proposed as part of the health care law to require the movie theaters post calorie counts for pot court so that when people go they can just see the calorie number before they order it and the administration actually thought that this requirement was unnecessary they thought it would probably be lamb who and on fox news and so and so they fought over it i don't think of you know it's kind of unfortunate that you see the administration backing off on things like this who is it really going to hurt that's not you know that we have a number up there you're not forcing anyone to do anything. yeah i mean closer to

thirty because because there are people like fox news and all the entire right wing echo chamber that will go nuts i mean they could propose a regulation that says cars shouldn't explode when you drive them and that would be job killing regulations across the auto industry so it's like you know they want to make this concession on the small of movie industry thing in order to save the bigger health but it is unfortunate that politics is trumping that science or i just can't agree with you on that because what we're talking about here is you have the f.d.a. whose purpose is to gather information to consult with experts and make decisions based on that and then the white house says oh i'm sorry your decision based on information isn't popular so we're going to strike you down i think that's the epitome of letting politics take over where i mean i think that's actually insane mike oh fox news might have a field day with this that means that it's actually not better for americans to now know it's totally possible when movies are part but you know part of the problem here too is that i don't even necessarily think that it wouldn't be something that's popular is they just don't know how to message it and they don't know how to

sell it so they let fox news because to me that just seems like a really logical thing right. you know birth control is maybe a more divisive issue around the country calorie counts i don't really see the being you know sort of i said no i mean i think calorie counts definitely can be to visit because i can definitely see fox news saying oh nanny state they want to tell us you know what we can and cannot do even though they're not actually doing that they find a fabulous way to spend everything so i don't think that it's that crazy for them to want to keep that in mind i do have i think if you're going to put people in positions to make decisions like this and have these agencies then you have to let them do what they were put there to do yeah the f.d.a. is theoretically an independent agency that's not you know not like h s or any other part of the justice that's part of the administration is technically independent but the white house is going to be the one that's dragged before the court of public opinion for whatever. the f.d.a.

does so it is unfortunate it's true i wish we had more of those calorie counts everywhere we went because i want to see what i like to like killed myself then do these things you know like i want to see the number of calories just so i know you know how much fake out of a hot story or maybe i would get some on here because i used to be a guy so i like knowing just me i know it totally changes things there's one place where i found out what the calorie count for something was and was like i'm never getting that again so i mean it sounds like a different look at the business killing regulation right there you know the regulation i guess so sometimes. maybe it is business telling because people stop buying stuff but i don't necessarily stop ordering the product or stop buying it i kind of like to know that it's ok about it i'm just. like to get started i've already thought i wasn't going to try to deny things if you're doing it i make sure that you come back tomorrow so

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