>> dave: we're back frying ungoodness with great scott and talk about the things at the texas state fair and i want one of the crew guys to try the food and idle take the camera. okay. try the peanut but your and jelly and get peaches, my friends and try that... and peanut but your and jelly. >> clayton: the peanut but your and jelly and you took the piece. >> dave: how is it. >> i'll -- i saved the best to last. >> have a great day, everyone, bye-bye! >> eric: this is a "fox news alert," a show of defiance from eastern, new video coming in of iran says, the successful test firing of two short range missiles today and the revolutionary guard claiming they tasted multiple missile launcher for the i.r.s. -- tested a multiple missile launcher for the first time and they say the missile, they boast, could have the range to strike israel and the tests, iran says, meant to show iran's, quote, strong resolve to defend its national values. good morning i'm eric sean. >> jamie: i'm jamie colby. great to have you with us. this show of force happening days after the u.s. condemned tehran over secre

. >>> last week, you recall we told you about the fried butter at the texas state fair.ow the maker won the award for the most creative dish. he whips the butter, sweetens it and wraps it in dough and then drops it into bubbling grease. he flavors it with sweet cream, cherries and garlic. >> and cardiologist are on duty. >> make sure you tune in for news4 at 4:00, 5:00, and 6:00 for all the day's news. >> we'll be back tomorrow morning. hope you join us then. until then, have a wonderful day. bye.

the annual texas state fair is officially underway. is great scott, we appreciate it, any time we need a vat of fried oil we call in great! >> we'll start with down there at the fair they do this, which is -- >> everything at the fair, they fry everything and it just finished peanut butter and jelly was one of the mainly winners and peaches and believe it or not, 4-1, butter and cream cheese in the batter -- >> part with pb & j. >> wonderbread, important, trim off the ends and make sure you don't go all the way with the peanut butter, a half inch from the end and put your jelly and we put it together and take the tines of a fork and you want to seal it so no crust is key here. >> so it doesn't fall out. >> clayton: like a hot pocket. >> like a ravioli. >> like a ravioli. >> and we'll put it into the egg and the recipe is on the web site. greatscottchef.com and now we have baking powder, all-purpose flour, and, sugar. and, now, we have our oil pre-heated to 350° and we'll place that in there,. >> dave: we're safe. >> and we want to fry i

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. >>> fried butter wins the prize for the most creative dish at this year's texas state fair in dallasd deep fries it! yummy! another treat won honors deep fried peaches with cream. if you had healthy choice like deep pride peaches or deep fried butter, which would you choose? >> dr. nancy and i when we were out to lunch a couple of weeks ago we had deep fried butter. >> i doubt that. >> dr. nancy said eating fried butter prevents swine flu. it's true. no, she did. ask her. >> how about this one? if you're eating fried butter, this might be an omen that awaits you. big old bloomers. not victoria's secret but they are so to speak. enormous pair of linen bloomers, in other words, underwear if you don't know what bloomers are. they turned. in london and they measure 56 inches in the waist! they were bought from a private collector and will be on display at the kensington palace. they are date from the 18 nights and embroidered with a small crown and initials v.r. which a private collector, when we have people here who are private collectors of women's underwear, we call them weirdos! >> i

. >> texas, the nation's largest state fair. >> for some it is all about the food including gourmet treatss fried butter. but there is ride and farm animals and the entertainment which this year is american idol finalist jason castro . that is the fox watch across america. >> i never heard of fried butter. that sounds healthy. >> president obama promised to close guantanamo bay with a self imposed deadline of january. but there is new push back from the republicans and even the white house said it looks like gitmo will remain open for now. the reason why coming up. >> if you are losing to your mind lining to gadhafi speaking in the u.n. this week . his personal translator gets lost in translation. details are ahead. [bell ringing] the way the stock market's been acting lately you may wonder if you've been doing the right thing. is the advice you've been getting helping or hurting? are the fees you're paying really worth it? td ameritrade's fees are fair and straight-forward. their research is independent and unbiased. their investment consultants are knowledgeable and there when you need t

. >> texas, the nation's largest state fair. >> for some it is all about the food including gourmet treatss fried butter. but there is ride and farm animals and the entertainment which this year is american idol finalist jason castro . that is the fox watch across america. >> i never heard of fried butter. that sounds healthy. >> president obama promised to close guantanamo bay with a self imposed deadline of january. but there is new push back from the republicans and even the white house said it looks like gitmo will remain open for now. the reason why coming up. >> if you are losing to your mind lining to gadhafi speaking in the u.n. this week . his personal translator gets lost in translation. details are ahead. we're out here looking at bones just because they're inside you doesn't mean they're protected. oh, ladies. let's say you have osteoporosis. i do. you could be losing bone strength. can i get it back? (announcer) ask your doctor how to help treat osteoporosis with once-a-month actonel. actonel is clinically proven to help increase bone rength to help prevent fractures. so you c

. >>> to the state fair in texas, where the treat that clogged a very hard "oddball" last week, friedr, has headed home with a blue ribbon. takes the prize for the most creative new fried food of 2009. flavors include sweet cream, cherry and garlic. hmm. honorable mention goes to the peach that was dipped in batter, rolled in graham cracker crumbs, filled in grease or fried in grease and topped with whipped cream. talking about a piece of fruit there originally. this year's victory course setting up an arms race for next year's contest where somebody will need to offer butter fried, butter fried butter. >>> to thailand and meet swann and his house full of scorpions. 4,600 scorpions. see, in the past, swan sold the creepy crawlers as food to restaurants. so to atone he keeps the pets and meditates with them. he claims he's been stung so many times he's built up immunity to the scorpions and now finds them quite lovable. although his neighbors find the whole situation a bit strange. in a related story, the cat lady from down the street points out, see, i'm not that bad. you got one in y

the state fair of virginia and texas continue through this week.t will be wet through the eastern seaboard. thunderstorms and rains into southeast texas. scattered showers apart the parts of the great lakes. and some flakes of snow there in the west fringe. stationery storms causing some storms as well. >> high pressure under this high where you could get a frost or freeze. it just depends on whether you get a clear cold night or not through the northern states. chilly temperatures down into the central appalachians. you can see also rain and even some higher elevation snow in the northern rockies. by friday then that next system moves n another shot of cold air for the northern planes. and a pretty good area of showers and thunderstorms along that cold front. back in our next half hour with a longer range forecast. as harvest stumbles into full swing in the next few days for . >>> as harvest stumbles into full swing in the next few days for much of the country, there are almost ritual warnings to be sounded. many center on rural roads and the haza

it is being sold at the state fair in texas.g us on the telephone is the state their spokesperson. labor day is always a big day when it comes to judging these entries, right? >> labor day is a huge day even though we do not open until the 25th, we have eight finalists were two will walk away with a big award. you actually win a 10 inch trophy. juliet: and the admiration of everyone who loves to fried food. >> i guess, we have a board for the most creative and best taste. juliet: this one really caught our eye, fried in butter. they flavor the butter? tell us about it. >> it is 100% pure with butter. then they can inject it with labor. -- pure whipped daughter. -- butter. juliet: imagine some warm bread from the oven with a big butterball. then it oozes onto your bread. what other entries do we have? >> we have texas fried pecan. we better and betterbatter and fry the entire pie. we have a cocoanut macaroon that is fried and then dusted with powdered sugar. bill: why not just to beat the pecan pie? juliet: peanut butter and jell

, texas and we are joined by event organizer, adrian murray, and, pastor steven broden of the fair park bible fellowship. and i guess we start with you, adrian? how are things in -- in the great statetexas? >> well, we have planned for -- planned for 5,000 people and now we are upwards of 20,000 and we are here to send a texas sized message to washington. [cheers and applause]. >> adrian, the event organizer and what does it mean and why did you organize it and what do you do for a living and who are you and why did you organize this? >> i am just an average citizen, i have a company here in ft. worth, and i just am e very concerned about the direction the country is going in and there is about, after you made the call, glenn beck in march, which, thank god you did, because you gave us six misto get ready for this and we had a six month head start and god knows where we'd be if we were only figuring it out now and glenn beck, the american people owe you a great debt of gratitude. [cheers and applause]. >> i tell you, adrian, for a long time, i wondered if anybody would wake up and i will tell you that the calvary has come just in time and the american people just in time and for th

. >> in fairness, there are some other critics of other states like texas.amatic percentage of improvement. thank you very much. it was good having you here. a nationwide effort to protect capitalism is going through today. he might be surprised to is behind it. neil: government has been blasting government and today the private sector making its case against big government public. a group representing businesses took out a full-page ad in the "wall street journal" to say it has had enough of runaway spending and high taxes. my next guest is investing more than a million bucks of his own money for this campaign, the founder of the free enterprise nation. why are you doing this, jay? >> we started looking into the cost of government and fount out what the real cost was and decided to make that known to the rest of the american taxpayers who probably didn't know. neil: you are using as an example that they are the ones to preach about money excess, right? >> we found in a report released by the federal government itself that the average federal employee earns

bills for being considered by the texas house and actually got in a fair amount of trouble with the house leadership because i almost succeeded in dialing out into the state mainframe computer. would download bellum formation insure that with the public in that aggravated the speaker of t texas house and the leadership in january 87. no one had heard of such a thing and it was just not done but i did succeed, i did it on my own. i had to type in the information and actually that was the first also i think electronic town hall mting because i did like dial-up sessions for people coul tax me, they would typing questions and i would answer th on the keyboard and i remember there was a blind gentleman who used his computer. he had a voice recognition system that would read text of him d he sai that was the first time he was able to know what was going onn his government because like the type the information in this computer read read it aloud so was in january of '87 and i've used computs aggressively ever since. i love technology. to me it is interesting and exciting. if it is a fast big new computer i love it and so i always try to use the latest technology

state law for providing a total cap of less than $100. i believe that caps of less than $1 million such as the $750,000 in texas are effective and fair. at a minute, states should limit damages at $1 million. when wrongs are committed, compensation should be paid to shows who are harmed. but we need to arena in the run away jury awards and the opportunistic lit gapts who are abusing our system at the cost of all of us. the federal government in one form another pays, the american taxpayer, pays about one half of our health care in this country directly. and so many senators may wonder why we are making a federal case out of what has here to forebeen dealt with at the statewide level. i believe this kind of amendment, which does not preempt state law, but provide incentives to states to acopt sensible caps will have the impact of bringing down medical liability premiums. in my state it has been somewhere on the order of 30%. it has always had the beneficial outcome of actually encouraging more physicians to move to our state since they feel like they have more predictability, more certainty, and certainly the cost of their medical liabi

texas, officials taking no chances. they are placed in 1200 bottles of hand sanitizers are around the state fair and they will be refilled circus in colombia goes wrong. in man is launched out of it can and mrs. the net, -- misses the net. he is ok but he has several broken bones. steve: and we are looking at the sts demo rocket. it is on the innocent -- on a mission for the missile defense agency. gretchen: you may be paying your credit card bill every month but your credit card rating could still be going down without you knowing about it. hal is that possible and what can you do about it? brian: here to help us is david ramsey. how can this be the scenario? >> credit cardompanies are overreacting to the new legislation. august 20 new laws kicked in, and there are another said in february. in february, and they cannot raise your right, except on new purchases, so they are raising rates across the board right now while they can. basically, punching the consumer in the face. steve: a lot of people are concerned about their credit card readings. jan from florida writes -- i do not know if i can help your fico score. the o

fair number two in houston, texas. where it's been noted that houston has the highest unemployment rate of our state, the state of texas. at the georgia brown convention center in conjunction with the city of houston where we will be hosting private employers, local government, and state and federal government because the stimulus dollars are working and american people want us to create jobs. then we'll have an opportunity to celebrate in my district, the gospel music heritage legislation that myself and the senator from arkansas passed, senator blanch lincoln torques commemorate america's great history in gospel music. we'll be at the grace community church on friday, september 18 at 7:340. i say that because there is a reason to be joyful in america. it's a great country. that is why i pause now for a serious moment to reflect on 9/11 and to offer again my deepest sympathy and concern for those families and victims. and just to remind americans that we'll never forget. what brings me here today to take all of that good news or all of that wreck are nation that we are one country, not divided by republicanism or bein