george carlin, again, says you can make fun of anything. anything will make you laugh. i think he brought up the concept of rape. he said you can even joke about rape. somebody said, "how?" he said, "well, consider minnie-- "porky pig raping minnie mouse," you know. you got to give him a few things. so it's how you address it and with, i think, with what end in mind you address it and what kind of heart you have in trying to deal with a situation rather than just bluntly going out there and being abusive, which is one form of music that's going on today. it takes a certain heart to address the difficult topics with an idea toward accomplishing something, you know, that--that's worthwhile. thank you for joining us today. my pleasure. our guest today has been paul kantner. i'm ken paulson, back next week with another conversation about free expression, the arts, and america. i hope you can join us then for speaking freely. [applause] captioning provided by the first amendment center, funded by the freedom forum. captioning by ben at captionmax www.captionmax.com

democrats it's obvious most of washington cater to the rich it's a big club and you ain't in it george carlin you know i really just feel like george carlin nails it on the head there and the longer i live in washington d.c. the more to. that i realize it the fact is that caving to the wealthy the holy bipartisan affair yes the republicans might be a little worse at it but you can't depend on either party system is corrupted by money that both parties are simply beholden to and not the american people and what can be more indicative of this reality and the mad rush to create super lobbyists this way that's well congress members are going to put on the recently formed debt super committee who cares what the american people want or need the power is in the hands of those with the money to buy influence plain and simple and lastly i want to respond to a viewer who has a guest suggestion for a happy hour segment blue-green eleven thirty eight but as you do i'd really like to see the alone show invites even cold air to be on the happy hour after interviewing him about his super pac his quick wit w

live at the new york stock exchange, i'm cali carlin.berg news. >> thank you. >>> scientists at stapford say they made a breakthrough that could protect electrical grids, satellite and radio communications on earth. even astronauts in space. after spending years studying the sun, researchers now believe they can predict sun spots two full days before they appear. the material can wreak havoc with electronics in orbit and on the ground. researchers say they made the discovery measuring the acoustic activity of storms at the sun's interior. i don't know how they got speakers in there. but somehow they did. >>> that is a big microphone. >> it is a big microphone. >> hey, waiting for the sun? keep waiting this morning. mike? >> wait longer. this afternoon, and that means cooler weather on the way. may have to wait longer tomorrow as the coolest weather on the way tomorrow afternoon. >> but here comes the sun. we'll see it. >> eventually. if you are at 1,500 feet you can see it now. how many of us live that far up? this is what it look like u

. >> cali carlin has the bloomberg business report. >> good morning.ank of america planning to cut 3500 jobs this quarter. that is on top of the 2,500 cut already this year. the new round of firing begun. b-of-an is struggling with the 50% stock drop and legal costs related to the mortgage business. meantime, slump in consumer sales had h.p. trying to get out of p.c. business, at the same time they are talking about buying british software company called autonomy. burger king is dipping in the guacamole trend. they say the hamburger chain going to are out the california whopper nationwide on monday. in test markets in florida and california. it's a burger with guacamole and bacon. and sources say there is talk to introduce music service for blackberry to allow them to share music with friends. at the new york stock exchange, i'm cali carlin with the bloomberg business report. >>> 5:54 is our time. toyota and the company that ran the nummi auto plant in fremont agreed to pay to settle discrimination lawsuit. workers on medical leave before the plant shu

. >> all right, george carlin. followed by light. followed by dark. take a look outside to show the darkness that's now starting to turn over to light. we can see some of the clouds down there. astute observations by eric thomas. he is here all week, ladies and gentlemen. that would be tomorrow. [ laughter ] the clouds are going to cause flight arrival delays at s.f.o. but they have not announced them yet. we'll keep an eye on that for you. beautiful sunrise if you are above 2,000 feet around the bay. heading inland, one sliver of clouds moving in the east bay valley. beautiful silhouette of mount diablo in north peak in contra costa county. let's talk about the temperatures and the fog around santa rosa. visibility is quarter to a half mile, 52 there. 50 in san rafael. most of us in the mid-upper 50s. around the monterey bay, inland, we have low to mid-50s. a little more drizzle to be found in your neighborhood. by the afternoon hours, is upny and mild today. but around the coast, it's cloudy and cool again. mostly cloudy. and drizzle tomorrow mornin

>> jon: once again george carlin says in a sen tins what took us three and a half minutes so either megyn kelly exposed the hypocrisy of the deuponization of workers and working class or-- oh my god it's worse than we thought, megyn kelly is suffering from post partum compassion. (cheers and applause) >> jon: it will pass. we'll be right back. you didn't get a miller lite? no. what's the difference? miller lite has more taste. i don't care. i just got one of these. well that's the second unmanly thing you've done today. what was the first? ahhhhh! get me off this thing right now! get me off this thing! get me off this thing! yeah, i guess that was unmanly... [ male announcer ] man up. choose a light beer with more taste. grab a miller lite vortex bottle. taste greatness. hey, look. i made t-shirts! awesome. (cheers and applause) >> jon: welcome back, my guest tonight best selling author his new book is called david crockett, the lion of the west. please welcome to the program michael wallis. (cheers and applause) >> nice to see you. thank you so much for joining us. now this is an excitin

>> jon: once again george carlin says in a sen tins what took us three and a half minutes so either megyn exposed the hypocrisy of the deuponization of workers and working class or-- oh my god it's worse than we thought, megyn kelly is suffering from post partum compassion. (cheers and applause) >> jon: it will pass. we'll be right back. (cheers and applause) >> jon: welcome back, my guest tonight best selling author his new book is called david crockett, the lion of the west. please welcome to the program michael wallis. (cheers and applause) >> nice to see you. thank you so much for joining us. now this is an exciting night for me because not only do we have the david crockett book, rarely i do get a guest who is an author, be of great renown promoting a book and can also promote an animated film. you were in cars. >> i was, indeed. i was-- i was the high sheriff of radiator springs looking for-- (cheers and applause) >> jon: unbelievable. >> and i can see that there are a lot of tractor tippers out there in that audience. (cheers and applause) >> jon: awesome. david crockett. david. >>

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comedian george carlin always spoke frankly about his nation the only true american value that's left. by people spending money they don't have on things they don't need today country long driven by borrowing and consuming is in desperate need to cut it spending it was defense and security spending has remained untouchable soaking up seven hundred five billion dollars were twenty percent of federal funds every year since two thousand and one for the one point two trillion dollars have been spent on the wars in iraq and afghanistan but now with fourteen point four trillion in the hole some economists say it's time for the u.s. to compromise world domination for domestic stability also probably have to see a significant question more questioning and downsizing. of the several hundred foreign military bases we have given the size of the budget problems and the growing issues around the national debt and the debt ceiling it is fairly well assured that the budget will be cut for defense and it probably needs to be cut more than is presently proposed for the pentagon priorities may be diffe

children should be on the villains a great way to tow the brand imperial truly george weston george carlin until you can a word which will close with the joke saddam did to go and. read this in the kernel was her job as a school retreat. she's top stories london's engulfed in violence for its not as riot police try to control what the government calls a wave of shared criminality and the west has spread to banning them and made it more with unconfirmed reports that obvious issues and also that. that sinking feeling us stocks deep sharply in the first trading session off to america's credit rating downgrade it says eurozone debt continues to wreak havoc with investors spearing italy and spain could be the next economies to fail. and three days after georgia's aton sophos setting out remembrance ceremonies are held for the victims of the conflict rushing to viens to protect its citizens that after it's been said recently tried to regain control of its former republic. and picking up on one all top stories that next takes a look at america's financial woes stay with us.

hostage and we're not going to put up with it yeah well first i got to give credit props for the george carlin reference. but yeah you know i think you know if the temperature gets any cooler at the white house you know they're going after it's going to become like like some star wars and i think like. walker's coming in there it's the president is already cool enough and he stays cool i think he stays cool i mean you dream of member a couple weeks ago when he got a little bit a little testy at press conferences at all my god look out run for your lives obama's pissed off i think you know i don't think i should run a marathon but yeah you know i mean special time like this i said this to carney yesterday you know it's not i with the president not saying you know what at the outset we're not going to mess around with this with the full faith and credit we're not going to risk a default based on some policy aims that conversation is not going to happen when you put the pen back in the grenade then we'll talk about. this appears now to be the republican approach to governance hostage taking and i

. >> cali carlin has the bloomberg business report. >> verizon communications threatening to suspendast year, 200 signed up for the traditional class. they won't get grades or credit. it's one to offer the fall quarter to make stanford courses accessible. >>> many people take pain relievers for headaches like tylenol but they believe it may soon emotional pain as well. doctors at the university of florida measured brain activity in people that experienced emotional rejection. they used mris to identify the avenlthed neural path ways and they then took acetaminophen, the active ingredient in tylenol. that blockened reaction to emotional pain. they stopped short of recommending tylenol for emotional distress but hope it will improve the understanding of how the brain responds to emotional pain. >>> 5:56. just ahead on abc7 news at 6:00 -- why a san jose teen says mcdonald's is to blame for stabbing attack that almost cost him his life. >>> plus find out how a deadly dog attack out of the peninsula could now lead to a dog ban in another bay area county. >> thieves can't get enough of th

. >> we'll check in now with the bloomberg reporter kali carlin from the new york stock exchange. >> good morning. for perspective, we had the biggest three-day rally since 2009 but that is not continuing this morning. we got a report showing that the europe economic growth asked for decline more than thought. hewlett-packard and boeing on there now. but they say the united states triple-a rating, that we have the rating and it has stocks off the lows. the outlook on the long-term rating for the u.s. credit is stable. i want to mention the silicon valley index is lower now. in time for the back-to-school season, target is offering a store credit at 1,500 locations. plus, they are adding the calculators, dvd, ipad, ipod, video games. they are evaluated on site. the service is available online at networth.com. live at the new york stock exchange, bloom business news. >> thank you. have a great day. >>> i am not going to say thank you because it may come as a surprise, but it appears that mean people earn more money than nice people. that's at the annual academy of management. men t

single wall street banker for bringing it all down the first time in two thousand and eight called carlin called unfair or just call it what it is corruption and say imagine avi's an excellent piece in rolling stone that shines light on the tide of corruption at the securities and exchange commission according to an f.c.c. whistleblower over the past two decades the agency has destroyed records of thousands of investigations into words white washing the files of some of the nation's worst financial criminals as you see created a policy spelled out by. it's own internal website for any m u i's which stands for matters of inquiry for those that don't develop into full blown investigations all the documents be destroyed which is exactly what was done thousands of times and it makes me wonder if there had been a paper trail if the investigators could have seen patterns emerging if the financial collapse could have been seen before it hit but also shows the continuous revolving door between top level officials of the government's regulation agency and the very banks and wall street firms that

it was taken saturday from the rich carlin hotel lobby of d. >> and whether it is going to be 90 degreesareas later on this afternoon '70s are around the bay area and '80s it looks nice as we head into the weekend >> in other kron 4 morning news more on that hotspot george's telling us about wore top stories coming up as the kron 4 morning news continues. ! man: we need a good night's sleep. woman: which means a little heat to keep us warm. and a good dose of support for my back. some over-the-top comfort couldn't hurt. and our perfect dream factory's been built. you're feeling sleepy already? nighty-night. [giggling] we are tracking hotspot in san mateo this is from our west bound 92 and we are taking a closer look at the map of big rig that was traveling west bound was trying to take a connecting ramp 21010 was going too fast the trailer has overturned and the triangular is on 101 southbound the connecting ramp has allot of debris the ramp from westbound have up shut down. you will have to use

. >> bloomberg reporter cali carlin has more on that. she is live at the new york stock exchange.going on? >> yeah, big selloff underway. stocks are sharply lower on concern about the european debt problems. let me show you how it is looking 15 minutes in trading. we have the dow down 343 points. the s&p 500 down more than 3%. the nasdaq off 4%. your silicon valley index is also lower. obviously, tech particularly weak. one thing hurting stocks, the "wall street journal" says the u.s. regulators are giving the u.s. branchs of the european banks the once-over to see if they have enough money to fund day-to-day operations. that is not inspiring confidence about finances this morning. the bank of america among shares under pressure. down 9% right now. along with other financial stocks. this is again about europe. plus, the comments from morgan stanley says the u.s. is dangerously close to a recession. that is not helping either. we have new data out this morning from the government showing that the jobless claims increase more than expected. consumer inflation accelerated more than f

cali carlin joins us live from the new york stock exchange with a look at early trading. >> signs arehat the economy is improving. they are out with quarterly result that came in better than they expected. they cut the forecast and blamed the slower spending on pc and consumer technology. the dow, nasdaq, and s&p higher right now. we have green arrows across the board with the dow up 67 points. the silicon valley index is lower, pressured by two attackers and google. meanwhile, a new product may be on the way from apple. apple's online store has been down for a while this morning. leading to speculation on gizmoto that apple may unveil new products related to the apple tv. watch out for development. we are tracking that story. you know how expensive smart phones are. they're so fragile they seem to break the first time you drop them. amazon hopes to solve that. they say the chief executive to apply as a patent to use air bag that will deploy if the phone is dropped. other ideas are springs or jet propulsion to put phone in position for air bag to deploy properly. live at the new york

at the new york stock exchange, i'm cali carlin with the bloomberg business repor report. >>> if thenternal revenue service says it has $23 million in undelivered refunds. if your paper refund check was returned as undeliverable by the post office, the i.r.s. is waiting for you to call. the agency uses the taxpayers' last known address. officials say many people move without notifying the i.r.s. money is waiting for 16,000 california taxpayers alone. >>> 150 children with chronic illnesses are arriving in san francisco today for a special week-long vacation. these are kids from other states, canada and israel. they're medically supervised adventure will take them to six flags discovery kingdom, raging waters, alcatraz, oakland a's game, jelly belly factory, circus show and more. the fire department will welcome the children at sfo this afternoon with a water cannon salute. vacation of a lifetime is free and sponsored by non-profit kids of courage. >>> doctors are encouraged by the medical process of the beaten giants fan bryan stow. he is still in serious condition but he is able to