. >> huntsville, maryland, democrats line. >> caller: huntsville, alabama. >> yes, sorry. >> caller: i'm on disability, medicare and -- which is $95 a month. i pay a 10% penalty, and it's been since '92. i want to know why is this penalty here. they don't know if it's a penalty or what? and how long do these penalties last? nobody said how long they last. it's got to be a time limit, they are making go all the way, as long as you're on it. i'm going to hang up and hear what you have to say. >> the one with penalty i'm aware of in medicare is, they do want medicare folks to sign up as soon as they're eligible. if they put off signing up for some parts of medicare that are voluntary, when you finally choose to sign up, you may face higher premiums. >> better win with, illinois. you are next, james, independent line. >>> i'd like to know, it seems a bit contradictory, this health care plan to me. you want to get 30 million people that are uninsured insurance. yet they have no money to get the insurance, now the irs comes in and taxes them or penalizes them, whatever how do you get money

fourth of july prated huntsville, utah north of salt lake city causing controversy. take a look at the pictures. one of the floats mocked president obama there is the mask. signings on the float saying welcomes obama farewell tour. assault plan call eric holder. sheriff of the county actually called the secret service about the situation. here now monica crowley author of the big new best seller what the bleep just happened and alan colmes has upcoming book thank the liberals for saving america. [ laughter ] >> bill: we'll deal with that -- >> bill o'reilly statement on the front. >> bill: let's hold the drama there. just looks like freedom of speech to me. colmes. >> it is freedom of speech. it's supposedly parody and is a fire. these people have satired the left and the right. biggest offense is bad humor. it's not funny. but, you know, they have the right to do it. secret service should investigate it. if there is question about it. why waste taxpayer money on the secret service coming in to investigate? >> i don't see it as a threat. if the secret service service

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huntsville does great.g great at growing its economy. >> we have a chance to grow in the next 20, 30, 40 years. if we crack the code on an energy source that's cheap enough and economical enough that we can produce it on scale and run the economy, you will see smaller college towns just like richard is talking about absolutely explode. instead of some oil taxes in sau saudi arabia or some natural gas fields in pennsylvania, you will actually have smaller college towns across america research way patent, with money, flood in from all across the world. >> michael steele wants to jump into the conversation. michael? >> i do. i found this work very interesting, and my question really goes to do you see this whole idea as being creative as elitist? and even from that, how about genderfication? does this connote some kind of genderfication? when i look at my hometown of d.c. which was once mocha city is now cafe ole. how do they fit into this creative process? >> there's been great debate on this. first of all, i

i was looking at that map behind you and looks like ashville and huntsville may get the effects from but there will be another flareup later on today. you sh you saw how intense it was. it was a pretty large complex, not as big as the derecho that knocked out power from illinois to delaware. there's where the smokey national park is. you can imagine, rvs and tents, not a lot of places to hide when you have winds barreling through toppling tall old growth trees. much more tranquil this morning. the complex drove down to the south. the heat and humidity has built up. you get the ball rolling and things explode in this environment with temperatures at and over 100 degrees in many spots. we expect thunderstorms across this front which will eventually be on the move and drive down to the south and east slowly over the weekend, ushering in more tranquil air, until that, more heat. temperatures will be hot enough to have heat advisories and warnings again today. well over two dozen states from south of minneapolis to the delmarva, dangerous heat expected. where the thunderstorms do pop up,

. >> host: huntsville alabama enjoying both on our independent line.>> caller: thanks to c-span. i would like to offer some consolation to the american people. we were calling in to shows like this because we are very frustrated and very -- almost we feel pulverized by the whole situation that we are now faced with. we have two candidates and everyone thinks they are going to one of them or any positive outlook for the future. now, i would suggest to everyone that this is contrived and this purpose to get us to a place where we would look at the fact that these are our representatives. the people that we select and send to represent us and for the rest of the world, these people represent the american people, and this is what we need to be concerned about how we appear to the rest of the world and see how we are going to put forward in what is supposed to be a system of government that is governed by the people. our representatives and is very obvious are not representing us as a people. people are frustrated so we need to ask ourselves how did we get