if you ever see baby beavers and a mom, it's incredible. baby beavers.orst bite i ever had was by a beaver. look at the back foot. hold on a minute. look at the back foot. it's like a duck's foot. i meant show show you this, larry. is that amazing or what? >> larry: yeah, it is. >> look at that back foot. isn't that amazing. >> larry: here comes the screamer. >> what is this thing? >> that's actually a good question. >> where's it from? >> they're from argentina. >> i've never seen one of these. >> larry: i haven't either. >> that is a big question about them, what exactly is this bird. this bird looks kind of like a vulture. has the long legs like a stork, but they're most closely related to a duck. >> larry: a duck? who named them the screamer? >> they're named after the sound they make. they make a loud screaming call that can be deafening when there's a flock of them. in the swamps, they'll scream to attract a harem of females. >> larry: i do the same thing. >> once they do that, they protect them with these. they actually have weapons that have spur

in a beaver home they don't have any odor or anything else.re just a neat, neat creature. >> larry: i want to move it along-sleeve. >> if you've seen baby beavers with a mom, it's incredible. worst bite i ever had was by a beaver. look at the back foot. it's like a duck foot. i meant to show you this, larry. look at that back foot. is that amazing or what? >> larry: here comes the screamer. what is this, a turkey? >> what is this thing? >> that was a good question. >> where are they from? >> they're from argentina. >> i've never seen one of these. >> larry: neither have i. >> they're from argentina. they're a swamp bird. that's the big question about them. what exactly is this bird? this bird looks kind of like a vulture and has the long legs like a stork, but they're most closely related to a duck. >> larry: but who named them a screamer? >> they're named after the sound they make. they make a loud screaming call that can be deafening when there's a flock of them. actually down in the wild in the swamps they'll scream to attract a harem of fe

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vision just we he grasped the portrayed over and over again in the popular culture brother leave it to beaver in the 60s or the cause the show show -- the cause the show in the eighties but democrats did not do well. win but majority was un-young, un-black, un-poor. how badly? we know but just bear with me on two statistics. democrats won 50% of the vote to only twice since 1970. that was jimmy carter 1976 and obama's 2008. not clinton, truman, not jfk and if you go back further on the fdr, lbj, carter and obama exceeded the 50% mark. i think they're real majority the un-young, un-black, un-poor majority worked well for the republican party. it worked well because democrats succeeded. think of that for a moment. the new deal was geared to a nation that was 1/3 ill clad or ill housed or ill nourished. there was work to do and that was successful. by 1980 we had a relatively prosperous middle-class suburban country that was not worried about what government ought to be doing for them, but saw themselves as the proprietors of government that taxed too much thomas been too much and put on the gre

so in addition to that -- in addition to that, i guess the conferees were beavering away by adding earmarksnty of them. in fact 1,027 earmarks totalin totaling $4.3 billion. $2.5 billion in unauthorized and unrequested c-17's. no one outside of those who are contractors believes that we need to spend $2.5 billion unauthorized c-17's which cos cost $2.5 billion. $500 million in unrequested and unwanted funding for the joint strike fighter and presidential helicopter. that's $7.3 billion. $18 billion in new nonoffset funding for food stamps, unemployment assistance, cobra benefits, physician payments, the so-called dock fix -- doc fix and small business lending. by designating the funding as emergency, none of it's paid for. it's just another $18 billion of money that will be laid on our children, debt that will be laid on our children and grandchildren. and our national debt in 2010. i guess some americans wonder why we're going to have a debt for this year of $1.5 trillion -- trillion, "t," trillion. someone said to me, as several times has been said to me, we hope that the president never