welcome, leonard. finalists. welcome to morrison. winner city lights.welcome to belief in winner jennifer wilson. and welcome to the finalists in poetry, criticism, autobiography, biography, nonfiction and fiction. one second. at this time, i'd like to invite all of this year's finalists and winners to stand. you all knew what to do. thank you. thank you. to those of you in attendance tonight. we are so happy you could make the journey. and to those of you who wanted to be with us but could not. you are missed. thank you to those who participated in our virtual finalist reading, which premiered last night on youtube, where it remains for your viewing pleasure. this is a program of 1 to 2 minute readings by a vast majority of the authors and translators were honoring tonight. there's nothing like it. i wholeheartedly encourage you to check it out. thank you to the brilliant, indefatigable marion winik for coordinating. for coordinating and emceeing the virtual finalists. reading. thank you to wild ben live for producing this and all of our special virtua

what happens if leonard leo, if paul singer does not respond to you? sen.urbin: well, in fairness to harlan crowe, i don't know personally, his attorney got in touch with us and we're negotiating, and there was an effort made there in that situation. the other inquiries are relatively new and hopefully we receive responses from these very wealthy individuals as to the questions that we've sent to them. but of course, there's, as i said, everything is on the table and there is an option if they fail to cooperate on a voluntary basis. the issue is a subpoena from the judiciary committee. leigh ann: and do you plan to send inquiries to the colleges or the institutions that sonia sotomayor's staff asked to purchase a large sum of her books during her press tours? sen. durbin: everything is on the table regardless of the justice involved in it. we want to treat them all fairly, give them an opportunity to explain the situation. some of them have already done it. justice alito preempted the disclosure of charges against him with his own personal column , i believ

our favorite grocery store owner, stu leonard jr. of stu leonard's.siness, though. food prices have been coming down, but still elevated. in what ways are shoppers looking to save? >> ed, what we found is that we have more customers now than ever for fourth of july. so people are coming out and they're shopping. they're putting one less item in their shopping cart. i loved ashley's little thing about all the different food. i would say burgers and meat, people love it. okay? they want to go from the grill, a cheeseburger at fourth of july, and a hot dog, almost americana right there. here's what you can do. if you want to go in inexpensive, go with a hot dog. seventy-five cents each. if you put a bun on it, another quarter, $1 for a hot dog. $1.25 for a frozen patty. your chuck patty, $2 each. you got a kobe burger right here at $4 each. >> that's the one i want. stew, are you seeing customers make those choices, spending on what to buy based on price? >> what we're seeing -- what i mentioned, going toward chicken more. okay? but they're adding chicke

what happened if leonard leo, if paul singer does notul respond o you? >> well, inn fairness to harlan crow, who i don't know personally, his attorney has been in touch with us and we are negotiating we are a long way from agreement from disclosure but there was an effort that was made in that situation. the other inquiries are relatively new and hopefully we received responses from these very wealthy individuals as to questions that we have sent to them. but, of course, there is as is that everything is on the table and there is an option if you fail to cooperate on a voluntary basis, the issue of subpoena from the judiciary committee spirit and the plaintiffs and inquiries to the colleges or the institutions that sonu stoudemire staff asked that sonu stoudemires staff asked to purchase some of her books during her rescuers? >> everything is on the table regardless of the justice who didn't want to treat them all fairly and given the opportunity explained the situation. some of our delivered justice alito preempted the disclosure of the charges against

leonard: it's the strength that she has. that's what keeps the the family going, and so-- maybelle: when i'm out here, i can feel their spirit. i can feel my sister's breath because she will always be sitting in the back of my car, and she would joke with me, and i could feel her breath on the back of me, and i really do feel their spirit, and it makes me happy and strong out here. when i get down and start thinking about them, i come out here and then spend the whole day out here, and their house in back of me, i want to keep it up as long as it can stand up and let it fall by itself. [wind whistling] i belong here. that's why this land is very important to me. it releases all my stress and my pain, and it makes me stronger again. [birds squawking] [birds chirping] statz: randy and i have known each other since school. we went to school together. we actually went to prom together. a lot of people in the community knew of randy because they had build a new free stall. everything was good, and then his depression hit. roecker

there is a little guy, leonard. he had a lot of issues. leonard was ten and he would come in and he was being bullied but he knew he could come in and he would sit by my desk. it, say i have to put leonard to work now if it's going to be every day. this was back with the card catalog and stuff, i let him sort out the cards or something. he found that place and other staff and everything. it was wonderful to see, that when he got to about 12 and he was feeling much better, he would just wave at me through the window. that's a okay, leonard, you're all right. you can always come back in here when you need to. the young people in particular need that safe space to find out about others. find out about themselves. librarians, we've been called feisty fighters for freedom. >> i love that. >> we got t-shirts. tracey hall who is the executive director of the american library association was just named one of time magazine's most influential people of 2023 because she talks about library acts as an equity issue. you have to have the informed citiz

two of the three hits off of dutch leonard so sam would have a great a great year. i also learned from the best times of stories that the bethlehem like they made up the rules on the sly so one team back then there were no outfield fences and some of the places so the crowd form the outfield fence. so they had to declare if a ball bounced the crowd, that was an automatic double. so one team forfeited a game when the umpire declared it an automatic triple. another team was another game was forfeited because of an so an alleged illegible ineligible player. most of these games were benefits for world war one, red cross, you know, and all of that there are only 19 games played during the bethlehem steel league. another reason why it's very hard to document it since was a shed such a short time, so the players during this time because they didn't want to play such a short schedule they joined other leagues, played other teams. the best team, for example, played a -- league teams. they also played other teams at military bases, include camp merritt in jersey. there was a

his daughter tells him his name >> austin leonard kriser. >> what?ious? >> lawson leonard kriser, his grandson named after him >> that's his name, dad. >>> take a look at this long line, oakland, california. a community coming out in force after this ice cream vendor named juan was robbed. over 200 people showed up. buying every last one of his frozen treats. >> you want to let juan know that the community is big and is there for him. he is not alone. >>> and this is 8-year-old cooper on stage at a concert near boston. he's now cancer-free his dream was to sing alongside country star luke combs. and the make a wish foundation made it happen he's nervous at first, but then ♪ i remember when we were driving in your car ♪ ♪ i had a feeling i belonged, i had a feeling believed ♪ >> he did it >> i honestly, i don't have words. and it was -- it was incredible. ♪ i remember when we were driving in your car ♪ >> he had all the courage to take that walk out, there and it was great. >> cooper, what do you remember about that >> everybody was shoot shouting. >>

and there are all sorts of links among them and with the ubiquitous leonard leo. so many justices, so many billionaires, so many gifts. but there's even more. alito was not the first justice to stay at this particular lodge. justice scalia also took a private jet to the lodge courtesy of bill their arkley and also did not disclose the gift. in one memorable bit of color from that propublica story, scalia was described as mixing martinis made with ice chipped off of a glacier. there, you thought i'd forgot that but i didn't. the evening before the aload toe billionaire travel story ran -- alito billionaire travel story ran, the wall street story comes back into the picture again. alito took to "the wall street journal" editorial page. in the op-ed, alito argued that he didn't need to disclose the private jet travel under federal law because the private jet should be considered a facility and that his seat on the private jet would have otherwise been empty so it was free and there was no gift. i won't go into how laughable these arguments are. that is a separate cas

i was like ok leonard. you are all right. you know you can always come back when you need to. >> so young people in particular need that safe space defined out about others and find out about themselves. librarians have been called the feisty fighters for freedom. they have t-shirts. tracy hall who is the executive director of the american library association was just named one of time magazine's most influential people of 2023. because she talks about library access as an equity issue. and you have to have the informed citizenship, that's why those institutions were built. i have to quote something. not word for word, but alberto bagwell and his history greeting has a chapter on forbidden reading. and the start of the chapter has a photograph of a woman who you could tell she is african-american, she might recently have been a slave and she has a book. and he says in their as tyrant slaveowners and dictators and other illicit holders of power have always known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule. if you cannot preven

he sent letters to leonard leo and another billionaire about justice alito. this is before you had sent a letter to harlan crow and the trips that he is received. harlan crow did not respond to you. what happens if senator leo or they do not respond to you. >> in fairness to harlan crow who i don't know personally his attorney has been in touch with me and we are negotiating to make an agreement onch exclusio. the other are relatively new and we have received responses from these wealthy individuals as to questions we have sent them. of course as i've said everything is on the table. there is an option if they fail to cooperate on a voluntary basis. they are issued a subpoena from the judiciary. >> do you plan to send inquiries to the colleges of institutions that sonia sotomayor staff asked to purchase a large sum of her books during her -- >> everything is on the table regardless of the justice involved in it. we will give them an opportunito to explain the situation. justice alito wrote his own personal call my belief in "the wall street journal" and some

david rifkin also wrote a letter on behalf of leonard leo to the senate judiciary committee claimingany authority to investigate alito's relationships and financial support of judges and justices. because of the first amendment claiming that an investigation like that would violate leonard leo's first amendment rights. an interesting assertion to consider given the needs that leonard leo recently had a protester arrested for calling him and effing fastest in public. akok apparently, to literally, out the first amendment allows him to have somebody arrested for saying nasty things about him, but does not allow the congress of the united states to open an investigation into his 1.6 billion dollar dark money machine. >> also pro, tiffany no lawyer, but if somebody calls you a fascist, best not to call for them to be arrested. just a pro tips. mark joseph stern, as ever, thank you for your analysis and report. >> thanks so much, mehdi. >> coming up, rhonda sanchez goes to war to defend the upside of slavery. some republicans, specifically black republicans, aren't having it. having it. a

i'm proud to say i kind of broke the leonard lee leroy story to the daily beast several years ago, ando this day who has under his massive campaign. now we're talking about money in the billions of dollars. there's been fantastic reporting, incredible investigative reporting for a number of outlets, but we still don't know who is paying for this, and that is not on the left. that's extremely troubling. >> i appreciate all of your information, friends. how do colleges achieve diversity now that the supreme court says they can't use race? one california school has become the most diverse in the country by using something called an adversity score. an admissions officer explains, next. sleepovers just aren't what they used to be. a house full of screens? basically no hiccups? you guys have no idea how good you've got it. how old are you? like, 80? back in my day, it was scary stories and flashlights. we don't get scared. oh, really? mom can see your search history. that's what i thought. introducing the next generation 10g network. only from xfinity. >> the california medical school has b

i'm proud to say i kind of broke the leonard lee leroy story to the daily beast several years ago, andea to this day who has under this massive campaign. now we're talking about money in the billions of dollars. there's been fantastic reporting, incredible vest investigative reporting for a number of outlets, but we still don't know who is paying for this, and that is not on the left. that's extremely troubling. >> i appreciate all of your information, friends. how do colleges achieve diversity now that the supreme court says they can't use race? one california school has become the most diverse in the country by using something called an adversity score. an admissions officer explains, next. here's how toy lost 30 lbs on noom weight. i'm tom. noom helped him use psychology to lose weight. the mindful aspect made me feel more conscious about what i was eating and why i was eating it. it's actually working. lose weight and make it last with noom weight. ♪ when you have chronic kidney disease... there are places you'd like to be. like here. and here. not so much here. if you have chronic

if anybody needs that defended, corrected, rehabilitated, it's clarence thomas. >> yeah, so leonard leo, who is still as we speak the co-chair of the federalists society fronts a massive multi-billion dollar dark money network that he puts into action in various ways, and one of the chief modes of operation over the last few years has been to try to launder and bolster clarence thomas's reputation. the "post" reporting tells us a lot of new stuff, but some we already knew. it's no surprise he was one of several republican donors to fund that ridiculous piece of propaganda created ee kwa that actually aired on pbs to the shame of that channel forever, i think, and tried to show clarence and ginni thomas who stand for the constitution. he's got the federalists society, a bunch of yore nations that were supporting trump's judicial nominees that runnades against joe biden's judicial nominees and they're taking money from this bucket as well, which is another reason it's no surprise they're vociferously looking at shining a light. >> speaking of ethics, i want to ask you about this reporting

[cattle lowing] leonard: my wife here, she raised about 4 calves. they're at that age where they're having babies now. that was worth it... [cattle lowing] and that makes her a little bit prouder, stronger, and the will to go ahead and care for her animals. she wants to carry on the tradition that her mom and dad did, her grandpa, her grandma. that's how strong of a lady she is. maybelle: we use it for food. we don't profit off of it. when we get together, we'll butcher sheep, and the cows, i take some to the market, but i don't profit off of that, either. i have to go back and buy whatever they need--protein, salt, hay. that's where it goes. it's our custom that we have livestock. taking care of them, looking after them, to me, it's very important because it was from generation to generation like this. we're in now. close the gate. it's my responsibility now. i love being around animals, and it helps me in so many ways because at times, i'll struggle. mindwise, i'll struggle, and it helps me pull through day to day. i don't know whose land it is. i

that bring in leonard, senior credit analyst at lou correa analytics.joins us from singapore this morning. leonard, obviously we've seen the optimism fade quickly when it comes to what we heard from the bureau. we are short on specifics but how are you weighing the nuances that we heard, especially when it comes to the property sector? >> regarding the property sector, i think the messaging is more supportive than expected. in particular, the slogan properties for leaving speculation is noticeably absent. this suggests that the government is aware that property speculation is in no longer the issue and rising home prices is no longer worrying, and that they recognize that supply and demand mix has fundamentally changed in the sector. but we expect further measures to be more targeted in nature and a continuation of current ones, reducing home down payment ratios. abolishing housing restrictions and exhilarating open redevelopment. we are not expecting to see any tight stimulus to be introduced into the sector. yvonne: is it enough, these measures or the

we are in the village of executioners here , the personal secretary of aginsky leonard was born at leaste spot. only a memorial boulder remained at his house, and nearby it once stood, the church of st. luxury. rotated people from the noise of cholera of such thieves, which were open 16-17 stages, and themselves on the radius of france in the city of montpellier. and that's it. uh, by the way, already bochkova trapium italy is somewhere easier for people with prayers and a roof arrangement. yes, the thirty-ninth year , the territory should be under the civil fret of belarus. poland is the ninth year since there was a message about him. here the great purified war was trembling, true war people went to pray, not only orthodox catholics as far as it is at home, but the war went on, and he was pressed and he went on his own in a circle to collapse. well, what was left of him only under the flour. here he stood here the church. and it's like a person. weapons what he was fenced in, it's uh original, yes original so it's original. here we are, behind the capital , standing over the gravestone

daughter tells him his name >> lawson leonard kriser >> his grandson named after him. >> that's hislong line in oakland, california a community coming out in force after this ice-cream vendor named juan was robbed. over 200 people showed up buying every last one of his frozen treats >> try to let juan know the community is big and there for him. he's not alone >> and this is 8-year-old cooper on stage at a concert near boston. he's now cancer-free his dream was to sing alongside country star luke holmes. and the make a wish foundation made it happen he's nervous at first, but then -- ♪ ♪ i could be someone be someone be someone ♪ >> reporter: he did it. -- he did it >> honestly, i don't have words, and it was incredible he had all the courage it took to walk out there, and it was great. >> cooper, what do you remember about that? >> everybody shouting. >> a moment this family will never forget >> it was a great night, great experience and something that cooper will remember forever. >> i think it will live on with us for a long, long time. >> cooper's parents say he can't wait to se

just this week, the washington post detailed the public relations campaign that leonard leo helped torence thomas. joining me now is stern, it's great to see a. thanks for making time for us again. why does it only appear that democrats care about these supreme court ethical issues? what is chief justice john roberts, a man who i guess claims to care about a great deal about the perceived legitimacy of the court, cares about his reputation, its image, its perception not see them as a grave threat to his institution? >> well, you know the chief justice always wants to be calling the shots for the entire judiciary and for his court. remember, he's not the chief justice of the supreme court, he's the chief justice of the united states as he likes to remind people. he sits at the head of the entire branch. and anytime he smells even a whiff of interference from congress, he gets his hackles up. he does not want to even create the perception that another branch will be intruding into the judge dish aries prerogative. of course all the while, he's deeply striking down various laws passed by

joey: here to show us how tow grill the perfect burger, stew leonard jr. sorry, that's why i stuttered. [laughter] rachel: he's the chef. will: yeah, we've got chris back with us who's going to give us some grilling tips, and i'm excited to learn about -- you've brought with several different types of meats here for us for our burgers this morning. >> we've got the the king of burgers, our 80/20 the chuck, you'll find that any grillout this holiday season. that's to going to be 4-6 minutes on each side, only flip once. overflip it, it's going to turn out dry. but with we've got our filet burger, our kobe burger which is brand new, definitely going to be at my grillout -- rick: you talk about this 80/20, i think for a long time you want the leanest meat ever. that's not really the case. >> we tried selling the 90% -- rachel: who wouldn't want that? >> people complain it's too dry. they want tom juices, and that's why chris has done some great burgers. chris, just show everybody, how do you tell -- do the touch test on the burger -- rachel: when it's time to

aginsky's personal secretary leonard khotkovo was born here on the spot. his houses only a memorial boulder remained, and once stood nearby, the church of st. rotated people from the noise of cholera of such thieves as were found cheaper by the space of the seventeenth, and themselves on the radius of france in the city of montpellier. and that's it. oh, by the way, bochkov's ears are a ladder. oh, the same italy is easier for people with prayers and the arrangement of heifers. yes, the thirty-ninth year sharks, which belarus is more, that this is the ninth year, as if the message is here trembled the great beginning of the war, the truth of the war people went to pray, not only the catholics of alla orthodox as far as it is at home, but after the war he was dispersing, damn it, went by itself in a circle to collapse. well, what was left of him was only a selection, as you can see, here he was standing here as a church. and it's like a person. weapons what he was fenced in, this is uh original. yes, this is the original. well, here are most of the tombston

leonard, you'll never guess who i just found online-- hey! nice shot.h, his giant head did most of the work. very mature. you're lucky i'm out of silly string. as i was saying, leonard, you'll never guess who i just found online: professor proton. (chuckles): you're kidding. he's still alive? yes! who's professor proton? he was the host of this great-- hey! yes! sorry, tell me about professor proton. professor proton hosted my favorite science show when i was a child. i never missed an episode. he demonstrated scientific principles using everyday objects. it was pretty cool. aw, so cute when you use the word "cool" wrong. like when kids say "pasghetti." oh, dear lord! leonard, look! he's still available for parties and events. we should hire him. hire him to do what? well, whatever we want. hang out, do experiments, make him take 12 pictures with us so we can make a calendar. it would be pretty awesome to hang out with him. i just used "awesome" wrong, didn't i? well, i'm e-mailing him right now. do you remember his old theme song?

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and recent reporting shows ties among right-wing operative leonard leo, billionaire megadonor, harlan crow, and justice thomas. again, often implicated in the filing of amicus briefs without links disclosed. to these concerns and others, the response of the court has been secrecy, and silence. when my bill would end the practice of supreme court justices judging their own conflicts of interest. require better disclosure and transparency so the public knows when justice has a connection to a party or in a case before the court. and require judges to explain their recusal decisions for everyone to see. as we hear from today's witnesses about why these reforms are needed, we should all keep in mind a maxim so old that it is in latin. name oh -- [speaking non-english] no one should be a judge in their own case. with that, without senator kennedy, here i won't yield to him for his opening remarks, but the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, senator durbin, is here, and i would invite him to make any opening remarks he should care to deliver, thank you for being, here mr.. chairman

judiciary committee and said that they are violating the constitution by issuing this inquiry against leonardand use either the first amendment and over the asking for constitutional violations of bill of rights violations have been admitted. >> was soon if you have mentioned, the sp production is related to 15 -year-old fishing trip. and there's absolutely nothing wrong with this fishing trip which by the way, the way it was handled disclosure arises fully consistent two, as a justice points out, and his op-ed in the most wall street journal consistent with the rules that existed also violates legal protection of any process because of the fifth amendment also correctly argued that use of investigator a power cannot be any greater than these the legislative authority and there's no supported her because congress really cannot regulate the supreme court, that's especially mentioned in the constitution and is a coordinate branch of government deeply is a verse upon the judging sweetie well it sounds like an intimidation campaign to me and a lot of americans they got after conservatives supreme

paine's fellow delegate from taunton thomas leonard, is a loyalist who would certainly tip off governor gage about the impending vote. but paine comes up with a ploy to prevent it. he tells eleanor that an urgent matter requires the immediate removal and presence in taunton. off they go and in their absence, the vote takes place. when gage hears he to promptly dissolves the legislature and massachusetts has its duly elected representatives proceeding to philadelphia thanks to pay on the way to philadelphia, they stop at milford, connecticut, where bob paine says, i suppose you're all curious why i'm the only guy in the carriage who has a middle name. well, let me explain to why i'm called robert treat paine. i'm name for this puritan governor you've probably forgotten. was the governor of connecticut, but he was the guy who saved the connecticut charter from that despot 90 years ago, named governor andros. he was the one that saved the charter and headed in the charter oak tree that robert tree. so on. they go to philadelphia having listened to robert treat paine go on and on about his

richard leonard has lived in this unit at littlewoods for 33 years and he shares it with his half brother darrell pike , but neither has any idea how it could be moved. >> they said they were going to aw. we did not know where they were going to take it! >> reporter: they are called mobile homes, but net many woul not be able to be moved even if the owners had somewhere to tak them. >> i have no other place to tak my house. i don't have another place. many people do not have place to go with their houses. >> reporter: in a letter, the park owners talk about the cost of maintaining the infrastructure, but they also add another possible reason, quote, that park owners conclud they can no longer continue to afford to operate the park base on measures taken by state and local government. that is a reference to eviction protections for mobile homeowners. most units here are covered by rent control and som believe that the threatened closure is meant to scare peopl into voluntarily agreeing to pa more. >> you have to sign this, but when you read between the lines it says by signing this you are

so this news story of this additional pr campaign he runs accentuates a much larger scheme. >> leonarde list of supreme court justices that donald trump put out in 2016, when he was campaigning, came entirely from the federalist society, and that's a point that he emphasized to conservatives, saying if you elect me, even evangelicals specifically, i will get this done, and lo and behold. >> and lo and behold. thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. >>> coming up next, the pentagon gave an update on the u.s. soldier who appeared to defect to north korea. what they can report on his condition. plus. >>> a stunning win on opening day of the women's world cup. you're not looking at the win right there because that's old footage of the u.s. we've got new footage of new games that happened today. the highlights in a moment. games that happened today. the highlights in a moment for colon cancer.♪ ♪it's time to use my voice,♪ ♪i've got a choice, more than one answer.♪ ♪i sat down with my doc.♪ we had a talk. ♪knew just what to say.♪ ♪i asked for cologuard and did it my way.♪ cologu

it's the lawyer that's arguing the case is on the board of the heritage foundation and leonard leo'sttle oligarchy of a few dozen people are making the rules for the rest of us and we have to live with them and it's not clear those rules are based on the constitution. it might be based on this small group of rich people's preferences. is there a law that you all could pass that would fix that? that's the perception a lot of people have. >> i think the thing that will fix that is proper investigation. and of course that's the last thing these billionaires want. we've heard from the one billionaire's lawyer that he won't answer our questions because it would violate separation of powers for us to ask this billionaire questions. it doesn't take much constitutional scholarship to know that separation of powers protects legislative branchs of government from each other. >> right. >> it doesn't have any effect on a billionaire unless this billionaire in some weird way thinks that he's now a fourth brank of government. >> but aren't they? aren't they, senator? >> in a weird way this crude b

richard leonard has lived in this unit for 33 years. he now shares it with his half brother, darryl pike. but neither has any idea of how it could be moved. >> they said they were going to take it 50 miles away. we didn't know where. many of them could never be relocated even if the owners had the money to do it. where do you take this? >> nowhere. i don't have any and many people don't have another place to go with their letters. >> reporter: blame the cost of maintaining the aging infrastructure. but they also add another possible reason. the park owners conclude they can no longer operate the park based on measures taken by the state and local government. that's a reference to recent laws and regulations, accomplishing rent controls, and most units here are covered by rent control. some believe the threatened closure is meant to scare people into voluntarily agrees to pay more. >> oh, you have to sign this. but if you read between the lines, it says by signing this, you're giving up your rights to rent control. i'll keep fighting it

he's also the lawyer for leonard leo -- >> of course. >> running the opposition for leonard leo, to answer from the judiciary committee. and if you will remember, all of these justices come before us for their confirmation, and their questions. and what they say more than anything else? i would like to answer that question but it would be unethical to offer my opinion because that's a manner that might come before the court. and here is justice alito offering his opinion on something that might come before the court with no valid city whatsoever, that that's actually an ethical standards for our committee. and that's you don't even get to the merits -- >> let me ask you this question very quickly. who provides the budget for the supreme court? >> congress does. >> who provides the budget for their security? >> congress does. >> just checking because he seems to think you all nothing to do with him. we in our previous segment talked about the mulligan case in alabama, where in the republican party in that state defied the court because they would like to go back to the supreme court, and ha

leonard, you're the tiebreaker. i don't have a problem with stuart., he gives us a 20% discount at his comic book store. well, i don't sell my friendship that cheaply. i can go 30. welcome aboard, old chum. okay, the nasa web site says howard's final descent has begun. (sighs) he left a boy, he returns a boy-sized hero. (wolowitz screaming) (loud rumbling) loops, calm down! ♪ baruch atah, adonai, eloheinu ♪ ♪ melech haolam, hamotzi ♪ ♪ lechem min haaretz... ♪ what's that? the jewish prayer for eating bread! (laughs): we don't have one for falling out of space! (booming) (gasps) (rumbling stops) we did it! (laughing): we're on the ground! we survived! that was just the parachute. we still have another six miles to go.