we could activate it as a marionette hand that could go on its own.did its job and came back to uncle fatso. >> at your mass gatherings, your mass pageants, the end, the burning of one of the puppets. what was the significance and who was the puppets? theseng a lot of pageants, we build some evil knievel gigantic thing that was meant for burning. giant pieces of meditation gigantic machinery or horses.electri apocalyptic they were set ablaze by mother earth who comes in. she is a big puppet the takes about 60 to 80 people to operate. she comes and has a torch in hand. then she gets lit and to that monster thing that did all the killing before and she burns it. and then people do dances around it as a bonfire. >> what is the power fire for you, the symbolism of fire? >> this particular fire is the opposite of the bread oven fire. i love my bread oven fire. i sit there and smoked my cigar all night. .ou be by yourself i think in india, there is a proverb that says humans will never tire of watching fire or elephants. and that's what it is. can never tir

keach: barbour has discovered that many of the fragments were actually the parts of marionettes.their arms and legs would have been attached by string. large figures are called "hosts" because the body always contains one or more "guests" inside. archaeologists think that at first each family made their own figurines by hand. but then, barbour discovered, an important change took place. barbour: between 250 and 350 a.d., the mold was introduced into figurine making in teotihuacan, slowly replacing handmade figurines completely. during the later part of the city's life, you have a combination often of handmade and moldmade together. but by the end, we have a type called the half-conical that are very elaborately painted representations of perhaps deities, and perhaps high-status individuals. keach: unlike the earlier versions, this figurine was completely moldmade. nevertheless, it is highly detailed, but only on the front. barbour: no care was taken in the manufacturing of the back after they were pressed into the mold. you can see nicks and dings, and often you find fingerprints

so one year she had gotten marionettes.he lights were just perfect. these marionettes, she had placed them in such a way that the light was hitting their face. it looked like a dream. i will never forget it. it was the most incredible thing. i was so enchanted because the whole experience basically. >> i think as a kid it was probably rock 'em sock 'em robots. i had seven older brothers. i was always wanting to be cool with them. it was probably that. as i've gotten older, the best gift -- you negotiation i've had this fantasy of having rock 'em sock 'em robots on the set of my show for when congress is going at it. anyway, i digress. >> as for me, my best holiday gift ever is my daughter who was born in december. >>> next hour, our worst gifts and holiday wishes for our loved ones and for you, our viewers. >>> a look inside a company that received a lot of criticism during the iraq war. i'm going to ask the man who started black water if he has any regrets, next. big meeting when we land, but i am so stuffed up, i can't re

and now insurance companies find themselves essentially the marionettes of the obama care. >> jimmy p, i have no brief against the insurance companies, but tell me what's going on here. do i have this story wrong? >> listen, the point was supposed to be that insurance companies would subsidize those companies that had really bad risk pools. all right, so this is going to be budget neutral. not involved with tax payers. what they did not anticipate was that wasn't going on the an isolated problem, but an industry wide problem so then who comes in? the government. i'm sorry did i say if government? i mean the taxpayer. it's a bailout to make sure they don't leave the program after 2014. if they flee the program, the whole edifice begins to collapse. absolutely a bailout. >> as of monday, a good report from "the new york times" and others, as of monday, they're lowering the so-called individual threshold. it used to be $60,000 losses and then the government would help them out and now it's only $45,000. the enrollment is not going to favor the young people. this is a democratic thing. wh

big stock that is sent higher or lower by ben bernanke and janet yellin and it's the market as a marionette. my favorite credo is the opposite. the stocks represent companies and the companies march to many different drum e not just the fed drummer. some companies do better than higher interest rates and like the minerals and oils and most important, many companies do better because their managements are smart or incentive to create value. if you spend all of your time waiting for the fed to tell you what to do -- you missed so many positive restructures, mergers, spinouts, breakups. ♪ hallelujah ♪ you might have missed the revolutions from tablets to smartphones or the oil and gas markets domestically because of new technologies that allow them to get oil and gas out of stone. these were all secular changes that occurred during the last three years unimpeded by any form of washington intervention, washington, congress or the fed. most of the time people had to pay up toy bah these winning stocks, but every once in a while, what you get in on better prices and unfortunately, the market sale