things go unchallenged in the climate of extremes.ple accept the strangest things without really fact-checking. and i'd like to begin on may 22nd, 2007, the larry king show. this is one exchange that lasted only a mere few minutes, if we could. there we go. "larry king live" on 2007. one exchange that lasted a few minutes contained an incredible of unfactual statement. it says. >> so the implication is that global warming is increasing drought in the united states. fine. this statement went completely unchallenged. how hard is it to check? it turns out it's six mouse clicks away. on the upper graph here is the percent of the united states experiencing drought conditions. this is something called the palmer drought severity index.

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yet iran is allowed to continue its nuclear pursued virtually unchallenged. additionally, iran continues to develop chemical and biological weapons and ballistic missiles while arming and bankrolling violent islamic extremists worldwide. we must bear this in mind when we determine what is the appropriate response to the iranian regime's policies and actions. but today we must focus on the hopes of the individual iranians who have been robbed of a better future for almost 30 years by a regime which only promises nothing but misery and malaise. now is the time for all responsible nations to stand four square with the people of iran as they seek freedom, as they seek true self governance at home, as well as to live at peace with the world. we must send a clear signal today to the iranian regime and all this proxies' and affiliate's that free nations will not tolerate further efforts to silence the voice of the iranian people through violence and coercion. with that, mr. speaker, all like to reserve the balance of our time. >> the speaker late thilays befe house

four hours from the capitol, five trucks with militants totally unchallenged had arrived and were in charge. >> host: of course, gang gore ya and swat where the pakistani army is trying to take it back from the taliban. you got even deeper in the taliban world than swat which is, again, just a few hours from the capitol city of islamabad. can you tell us more about -- for instance, there's a marvelous passage about your summer camp day with the talibs. >> as a quick interlude there the guy who we were going to meet was this fellow named icabahan. he was a local taliban commander but not a hard core commander. there is a difference one the old generation in the new generation. so the night we met up with this guy he made a call. he toldes afterwards he called ahead, described our, gave our license plate, and the talibs parted their ways and let us through. this was so indicate testify of the important of relationships, particularly in the northwest frontier. we got to this guy's house, and we broke the fast, it was during ramadan, and then we start talk about life in swat, and he star

unchallenged assumptions. this one is a whopper. atmospheric methane.ond most important green house gas that we put in. and it has generally thought to result from four sources. one, bovine flatulence. you think that's funny. but the new zealand government is spending an incredibly amount of money to try to get sheep that produce less methane because new zealand has an awful lot of sheep and there's a lot of pressure to reduce emissions in the cap-and-trade program or something like that. bovine flatulence is not going down and there are an increasing number of bovines. rice paddy agriculture. the last i heard more people are eating more food. coal mining. well, that's not going down. people might think it is but it's not. and there's a lot of methane that's released at the face where you mine the coal down there. or leaky pipes. it was thought that the soviet union's pipes were so -- natural gas pipes were so leaky that methane was leaking in the atmosphere but that was a long time ago so we've got to end that. let's take a look at the assumptions for

yet iran is allowed to continue its nuclear pursuit virtually unchallenge. additionally, iran continues to develop chemical and biological weapons and ballistic missiles while arming and bankrolling violent islamic extremists worldwide. we must bear this in mind when we determine what is the appropriate response to the iranian regime's policies and actions. today, mr. speaker, we must focus on the hopes of the individual iranians who have been robbed of a better future r

pitts: one area of smoking prevention remains unchallenged. smoking in the movies. studies have shown that viewing smoking in the movies normalizes smoking among youth. it glamourizes smokes through the attractiveness of the characters and actors who smoke. it leads to experimentation which in turn leads to harmful and addictive habits. tobacco is still depicted in 3/4 of youth-related movies and 90% of r-rated movies. it should be the last place for gratuitous smoking imbadges. up to one half of the youth smoking initiation is explained by exposure to smoking in movies in their study. parents should know they are not exposing their kids to glamourized depictations of smoking as they see smoking in youth-related movies. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from the northern mariana islands rise? mr. sablan: i ask to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. sablan: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize a remarkable gentleman from the northern mariana isla

unchallenging the team as we have been participating in hurricane exercises to not merely define a response by our capabilities but to find a response by what is needed to support what an impact of state and local government recognizing there are many parts of that partnership with but as an example it doesn't seem to me to be very and search and rescue operations that if we're not reaching the answer quickly demobilizing staging in assessing and is still three days into the event and have a rich people, we haven't changed that outcome. so i would rather take the approach of fighting with the outcome should be, was then working partnership is a rather than wait for a disaster and bring it from the outside that we build the capability within the communities within the state's and where the federal government response, had we do that, but stabilization has to be based upon not what we can build capability to and say that is what the response will be a look at what could happen and know if that does have we got all the parts the team working together including air support from the national gua