If You're a Man, Please Identify Yourself

Greetings to my audience of three, Maxi, Bella, and someone sucking on Twizzlers as we speak. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Anyway, I thought it would be interesting to do an informal study on really getting to the heart of what's wrong with men. Seriously. Is it the altitude? Is it me? You can't commit because the world bank and catholic church are positioning for the antichrist to take power and the underground forces need your help? Lindsey Lohan/girl that jogs by your condo just MIGHT be "THE ONE"? Well whatever your problem is, just figure it out. Because waiting around for a man to show up is like waiting for 100 monkeys in a roomful of typewriters to somehow come up with an encyclopedia.


JULY 12, 2007
GLENN BECK PROGRAM
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GLENN: Is Tania on the phone?
STU: Yes, she is.
GLENN: Hi, sweetie pie.
TANIA: Hi.GLENN: How are you, honey?
TANIA: I'm fine.
GLENN: Would you say, who runs the pants in the family?
TANIA: I do.
GLENN: Okay, wait.
TANIA: No. No, no, no. Neither of us do. It's -- you know.
GLENN: Wow.TANIA: A partnership.
GLENN: I got to -- let me tell you something. It is a party. It is a party at my house. Seriously it is. It is, neither of us are wearing pants at any time.
TANIA: That's right.
GLENN: So wait a minute. Neither of us wear pants in the family?
TANIA: Well, it depends on what you're talking about, but for the most part when we make decisions, we make them together.
GLENN: Yes. If we were in a situation, if we were in a situation where we had to act and both of us felt strongly about it and somebody had -- we had a gun to our head and we had to make a decision and we disagreed, who would make the decision? Who would be left with the final decision?
TANIA: Probably you would.
GLENN: Because?
TANIA: As the man of the house.
GLENN: I am smarter and better and more wise and that comes through genetics.
TANIA: Uh-huh.
STU: Not to mention older.
GLENN: Not to mention --
TANIA: Older and wiser - ya maybe.
GLENN: I don't think that we really need to go here, but... hmmm. Okay, honey.
TANIA: All right.
GLENN: I love you.
TANIA: I love you.
GLENN: I love you so much. I love you, love you, love you. (Kissing).
TANIA: I love you.
GLENN: Let me ask you this. If we both have a gun to our head, okay, and somebody has to make the decision.
TANIA: Yes.
GLENN: But the decision is, is the air conditioning on or off, who makes the decision?
TANIA: I do.
GLENN: See? See, this is the problem. This is where your belief in scriptures and everything else just goes right out the window on air conditioning.
TANIA: That's right.
GLENN: I love you, honey.
TANIA: I love you.
GLENN: Bye-bye. I don't know about you. Am I the only one that's thermostatically challenged with my wife? That will be the end of all marriages. She's got to have it like 180 degrees at night. She's like, I'll be coming to bed and it will be so hot and so humid and she'll be like, it's so cold in here! Honey, it's 4,000 degrees. I don't know if you've noticed this. You're actually sleeping in the fireplace, and I've got to have, on my side -- I'm not kidding you. She can have an electric blanket on and I will have a fan. Am I the only one like that?
STU: No, that's, I think, the prototypical male complaint on temperature. I've noticed it during the -- I have a weird situation because during the day she's always cold and I'm always hot, which is the typical guy thing. But at night it goes the complete opposite. She wants -- she opens the window in the middle of February, in the northeast. It's 9 degrees inside.GLENN: That's me.STU: And I'm freezing and she's fine.
GLENN: May I make a recommendation? May I make a recommendation?
STU: I don't know if I want --
GLENN: I'm just saying.
STU: I don't know if I want --
GLENN: During the day, during the day, during the day we're with our perspective wives. At night you sleep with Tania, I sleep with your wife.
STU: Do you have that martini music or --
GLENN: No, it's purely platonic.
STU: Oh.GLENN: Actually that won't work because probably -- I could guarantee it would be that way with Lisa with me, you know?
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Never Forget

KIEV, Ukraine - A mass grave holding the remains of thousands of Jews killed by the Nazis has been found in southern Ukraine near the site of what was once a concentration camp, a Jewish community representative said Tuesday.
The grave was found by chance last month when workers were preparing to lay gas pipelines in the village of Gvozdavka-1, near Odessa, said Roman Shvartsman, a spokesman for the regional Jewish community.
The Nazis established two ghettos during World War II near the village and brought Jews there from what is now Moldova as well as Ukrainian regions, Shvartsman said. In November 1941, they set up a concentration camp and killed about 5,000 Jews, he said.
"Several thousand Jews executed by the Nazis lie there," Shvartsman told The Associated Press.
Efraim Zuroff, director of the Israel office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said the finding was no surprise: "It underscores the enormous scope of the plans of annihilation of the Nazis and their collaborators in eastern Europe."
"The scope is enormous, the number of places where murders were carried out is very large and that is why even now at this point, so late after the events, graves are still being discovered," he added.
28,000 Jews were held nearbyYitzhak Arad, a Holocaust scholar and a former director of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, said his research indicated some 28,000 Jews were gathered in the area from surrounding towns. He said 10,000 of those died at a rate of around 500 people a day.
Shvartsman said that Jewish community knew about the mass killing but did not know where the bodies were located.
Anatoly Podolsky, director of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, said there are believed to be some 250-350 mass grave sites from the Nazi occupation, during which some 1.5 million Ukrainian Jews are believed to have been killed — including those massacred near their homes and those deported to camps elsewhere. He said most of the sites have been discovered, many of them since the Soviet collapse of 1991, but others have not.
"Ukraine was an enormous killing field, hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered and the entire region is literally filled with hundreds of mass graves," Zuroff said.
Ilia Levitas, the head of Ukraine's Jewish Council, put the number of mass Jewish graves in the country at over 700 and said more than 100 are without monuments to the victims.

Plans to ID remains According to Shvartsman, the names of 93 Jews killed at the Gvozsdavka-1 site have been established. He said Jewish community members plan to conduct studies at the site to identify more victims.
"We must figure out their names. It is our debt before victims and survivors," he said.
Odessa's chief rabbi, Shlomo Baksht, hopes to fence the site off and erect a monument to the victims by the end of the year.
Ukraine's Jewish population was devastated during the Holocaust. Babi Yar, a ravine outside the capital Kiev where the Nazis slaughtered some 34,000 Jews over two days in September 1941, is a powerful symbol of the tragedy.
About 240,000 Jews were killed by the Nazis in the Odessa region, according to Shvartsman. He said a mass grave with remains of about 3,500 Jews was found in the region last year.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.