baxter black is >>> baxter black is brought to you by the beef checkoff. if you have questions about how your beef checkoff is invested, who makes the decisions and what is the return you will find all the answers and so much more on my beef checkoff.com. >>> baxter has a story to tell about a fast flying goose and a wayward rope. >> the cowboys see a lot of these big birds. he was demonstrating his ability with his rope as they pushed and pulled up the alley. the other cowboys respected him and knew that his team rope and buckle was real. while displaying the proper angle he lost control. the rope slipped from his hand and shot straight up in the air. the lead gander heading in for a lunch break flew right into jim's loop. honest. there rur witnesses. the goose was slapped to the ground. he rose in a squawk and charged. jim was riding buck who was only 3. though he had adjusted the the roar of the mill and the bucket loader he had never been attacked by a maddened water fowl. buck approached the end of the alley at the speed of a tiger woods tee off. whil

this is baxter black. >>> next week baxter as the story of one tough cowboy. >>> when we come back it'sor tractor tales and our country church absoluteu salute. we're off to the sunny skies of southern >>> we are off to the sunny skies of southern california this week have tractor tales. darwin shows off his 51. >> when i first heard about this tractor it was green and yellow just like a john deere. and a friend of mine had seen it up on a farm and kept driving by and went toot the farmer and asked if he could buy it. he thought he was buying a john deere. when he picked it up it was the funniest looking john deere he had ever seen. i said i'll take it because he didn't want it. it was my first tractor. it has been the best tractor i have ever had. they are pound for pound stronger than most other tractors. you can always tell the moline engines because the heads come off the block and the pistons, if you can see, there is a place here that comes off and there is no pan like on the regular engine. you pull this off and then you have your rods connections and your bearing and everything

baxter isn't the voice of the gecko, he's the real service, real savings guy. partiers. >> hi, there. i'm doing a paper about freedomworks and i was wondering if somebody could give me a call back. i'm wrapping up and i just have one more piece of information i need to get from you guys. i just need to know what the percentage is of people that are mentally retarded who work for the organization, and are members of it. and oh, one final thing, wondering what your plans are, how to spin it when one of your members does actually kill somebody, wondering how, if you've got an actual pr spinning routine planned for that or are you just going to take it when it happens. just curious, so give me a call when you get a chance. thanks so much. >> hey, that is a really good voice. mr. baxter writing about the message on his blog. yeah, i know. stupid. and certainly not constructive. unfortunately, in my haste, i used the phrase mentally retarded, which ultimately drags me down to their level. mr. baxter also gave his phone number on the voicemail, which got posted on the

that sent baxter stock to new lows for the year. the new health care law expands rebates for drugs purchased through medicare and medicaid, cutting into baxter's top line. more trouble from the world of wireless. today it was a disappointing results from nokia. that took nokia stock down more than 13%. it was among the most active stocks today. it came as the market took down wireless chip company qualcomm for its disappointing outlook last night. and motorola got caught in the turbulence as well. speaking of telecom, verizon stock is less than $1 away from a new 52-week low. it was one of the leading losers of the dow industrials today. first quarter results came in as expected. wireless subscriber growth was driven by pre-paid customers signing up through partners like walmart, which means less money for verizon. cost cuts and price hikes were the first quarter recipe at hershey, leading to much better than expected profits. hershey easily beat the street with earnings doubling from a year ago. the firm also upped its 2010 forecas

his name is lance baxter, he's also known as d.c. douglas. he left a voicemail for freedom works which is a tea party group. we'll play you the 50-second video. listen to the tone of his voice. >> i'm doing a paper about freedom works and i was wondering if somebody could give me a call back. i'm wrapping up and i just have one more piece of information i need to get from you guys. i need to know what the percentage is of people mentally retarded who work for the organization. and are members of it. i just need the percentage of people who are mentally retarded who are work for freedom works or following it. and one final thing. wondering what your plans are how to spin it when one of your members does actually kill somebody. wondering how if you have got an actual p.r. spinning routine planned for that or are you just going to take it when it happens. just curious. give me a call when you get a chance. thanks so much. >> reporter: not only was the voicemail posted on big government.com, but the president of freedom works posted douglas' pers

now baxter's gig is up.uditions and the gecko is still trying to fit in and the caveman is still demanding respect. >>> kwame kill patrick would be einsteieeinstein einstein. the by who was a sexter when sexting wasn't each cool. the shenanigans cost detroit $8.5 million. money the city could ill-afford to choose. he owes $1 million for lying in court. guess what? kwame needs cash to help pay that bill. what's he going to do? ask for donations. his team is drumming up cash from supporters. best of luck, mr. former mayor. >> we have a lot going on in the cnn newsroom. let's check in with our correspondents beginning with mohammad jam joon in baghdad, mohammed. >> a navy seal facing a court marshall in the beating of an iraqi prisoner learns his fate. i'm mohammad jamjoon in baghdad. >>> we'll see multiple reports for the next couple of days. severe weather setup as we get into prime time tornado season at the top of the hour. >> thanks, guys. >>> remember the mind-altering map the ra of the '60s, tune in, dro

thomas baxter told you in no way was the idea to make lehman brothers a poster child for a moral absurd but do you believe that is not true? >> i don't know how to respond to that question. i did not find any evidence. nothing was said to me to indicate somebody was deliberately trying to subvert lehman brothers's the ability to survive. we went through twenty-five million e-mail documents. there was nothing to suggest any of that. the interviews we had with individuals, nobody gave us any testimony suggesting that. >> what do you think was so much more stable about bear stearns than lehman brothers? >> in connection with lehman brothers the opportunity to lynn to of lehman brothers was dependent on collateral which was sufficient to justify the loans and they did not as of september 15th have that type of collateral. >> i get the sense that the fed fog that something could be done but since they weren't regulator in charge they stepped back. how do you feel about that? >> i am not qualified to and to that question in terms of what we were trying to do. over that weekend there were effo

larry baxter from the geico ads.the voicemail after hearing about the slurs yelled at members of congress during the run-up to the health care vote. he said leaving the voicemail was stupid and doesn't blame geico for giving him the axe for leaving the message. >>> footbally, illinois ex-governor rod blagojevich to speubpoena president obama to speak at his trial. remember by the way, b-rod is up on charges of trying to sell the president's old senate seat. the white house isn't commenting. >>> now for the number, the white house is said to have ten names on its short list to replace supreme court justice john paul stevens -- who is leading? current solicitor general, elena kagan, with 41%. she's also a former harvard law dean. kagan's odds are almost even to make it to the supreme court, 41%. >>> up next, congressman ron paul and the future of the movement he helped create, the tea party, the libertarians. you're watching "hardball." somewhere in america... there's a home by the sea powered by the wind on the plains

the trouble is we are never baxter and over again and we won't ever be. and right now if the state were to back out there would be the following problem. it would be like closing the store because the gays and lesbians were about to go to the store. this happened. the close of the swimming pools to prevent immigration of swimming pools and some districts closed public schools to prevent integration so that was declared unconstitutional and i have the feeling of the state suddenly said aquino more marriages, it would be like that, a kind of spike lee and things we have to get to that in a different way having already accepted gays and lesbians but that is and where we are so i tickets at least one prediction that might be made -- michael made his of focusing on marriage would lose a lot of mileage with respect to anti-discrimination and other areas where progress could have been made. that hasn't been made because focus on marriage has made all the rest easy and when her marriage wins then you've got everything but even when mayor richard lewis is of cour

listen to lance baxter or aka, dc douglas. yes, two names at work. >> hi there. i am doing a paper about freedom works and i was wondering if somebody could give me a call back. i am wrapping up and i have one more piece of information i need to get from you guys. i just need to know what the percentage is of people who are mentally retarded who work for the organization and are members of it. i need the number of people who are mentally retarded working for freedom works and following it. and one final thing also, wondering what your plans are, how to spin it when one of yo are members does kill somebody. wondering how if you have an actual pr spinning routine planned for that or are you going to take it when it happens. just curious. give me a call when you get a chance. thanks so much. >> what a delivery. he sounds sexy. freedom works publicized the message and now geico dropped him like a bad policy. meanwhile, you remember jason levin? he was the oregon teacher behind the tea party movement. he has been placed on leave while the district investigates whether

baxter.efore that incident they changed their labels to help doctors identify the right drug and dose. cedars-sinai medical center where the quaid twins were being treated weren't using the newer label at that time. the quaids later settled out of court with the hospital. they put forth a national patient safety goal regarding blood thinners. pay attention to this, because it might affect you. the guidelines include standardizing how the drugs are administered, screening patients beforehand and taking into st any other drug interactions, and one more simple one, not using the letter "u" for units. because that can easily be mistaken by a pharmacist as a zero. in 2009 the food and drug administration set a new standard for how the amount of heparin is determined in u.s. products. >>> turning now to a look at what's going on with the weather, chad. are you missing d.c., sir? >> i'm always missing d.c. >> are you missing the magic wall? >> i'm missing the magic wall. >> nice down here in atlanta

and meanwhile, baxter international is seeing its stock take a hit. it saw the first earnings grow, and cut the outlook with weak demanded on the plasma-based products. and the company said late wednesday night that queststar may spin off the production business. and now we have moved into positive territory and have a half hour to go here on the thursday afternoon, and up 6.5 points for the dow jones industrial average, and the nasdaq is good for up 13 points and key earnings coming after the bell today. microsoft, and amazon, and american express as well. and up next we will get more on the pulse of the consumer with the ceo of office depot, and find out if the spending is getting back on track. plus, we will look at why the stocks are not posting a strong rally in the recent slew of positive earnings we are seeing. is it time to rethink the investments. in american express, and microsoft and amazon all set to report after the bell. we will get the "fast money" trade later on. we are back in a second. >>> welcome back to another busy day in bond pit

did you see baxter today? it was off almost $8. let's go to bonnie in arkansas. bonnie?ller: hey, mr. cramer, how in the world are you? >> thank you, i'm darn good. how about you? >> caller: i'm great. listen, before i ask my question, i would like to invite you, yours and even tim to mountain home, arkansas. >> what do you got there whitewater rafting? >> caller: we got everything, two big lakes and rivers. buffalo river, the white. norfolk and bull shows lake. it's beautiful. >> my buddy joe, one of my favorite waiters at roots just came back from arkansas. he said it was a sportsman paradise, no offense to louisiana. so let's make some money together. >> caller: mountain home is beautiful. you need to come up there. >> all right. i accept the invite i'm going to work with my friend regina. we'll go down to arizona, regina. razorback country, you know that school has loved our show. and i've got a big football from razorback. >> caller: wonderful. listen, i'm going to ask my question. >> go ahead. >> caller: i would like your opinion on eldorado. >> ego, ego, you know

getting them today, whether you've talking about abb or even credit suisse, ebay was disappointing, baxters disappointing, qualcomm was disappointing. six, eight companies that kind of disappointed on the street. just didn't make the numbers. a lot of these stocks have run up rather nicely today. if you don't get close to what people want in the numbers, they sell off pretty hard. i think the president's comments overall were not as harsh as some anticipated. that might have helped the markets a little bit. >> bob, right now the two-year in greece is yielding close to now 11%. that's unsustainable for them to have to service that debt at 11%. >> right. >> the word that's going out is we actually may be looking at a sovereign debt default. what are the implications of that? greece, as you mentioned, has been overhanging here but these kinds of situations very infrequently end on a happy note. this one doesn't look -- portugal lost 2%, almost 3% today. spain is on the downside by -- on the close by better than 2%. those are not good signs. >> right. you just answered your own question there,

. >> bob carpenter: your guy ted baxter, knight, his nephew and the kid's whining, i want -- >> rob dibblell get nothing, spalding is his name. you will get nothing and like it. >> bob carpenter: we get quotes with complete context. very impressive. that is the strike to billingsly. one and two. top of the order next. raphael for a call. baltimore trying to break a 5 game losing streak. 1-0 lead in the fourth at boston. minnesota winning again. they are 13 and 5. 2-1 at kansas city. ball three. toronto under way at tampa bay. no score down there. tampa bay and minnesota, best balls in baseball. and olsen walks the pitcher. had him 1 and 2. missed 3 times in a row just about the same location. first walk of the day. >> rob dibble: wow you don't want to walk the pitcher. a little extra special. giddy up right there. >> bob carpenter: raquel tough to double up. you will face martin. >> rob dibble: i take my chances make billingsly run the bases a little bit. >> bob carpenter: adam dunn will hold him. tapping the grove to let him know he is here. >> rob dibble: there is other ways to get pitch