Le Show, February 19, 2012 by Harry Shearer | Free Audiobook

Listen to full audiobooks for free on : https://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Le Show, February 19, 2012 Author: Harry Shearer Narrator: Harry Shearer Format: Original Recording Length: 49 mins Language: English Release date: 02-19-12 Publisher: Century of Progress Productions Genres: Comedy, Satire Summary: About Harry Shearer: He co-wrote and starred in the seminal rock mockumentary, This Is Spinal Tap; he's the voice of Mr. Burns, Smithers, Ned Flanders, Kent Brockman, and nearly a dozen other characters on the long-running FOX-TV hit, The Simpsons; and he was a cast member and writer on Saturday Night Live. Le Show, has been on the air since 1983. Contact: [e-mail]

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boxer of California. Rand Paul of Kentucky, he's holding up
the nomination of Thomas Bostick. He loved his staplers. Why
would to be the new head of the Army Corp
of Engineers Because he's upset with the Corp's culpability for

(00:25):
the flooding of New Orleans and its refusal to acknowledge
that it's installed defective pumps in the new improved eleven
billion dollar system. No. Rand Paul is expressing his displeasure
with its performance, the courus performance in Kentucky, where repairs
on a dam at a popular lake have taken longer

(00:48):
and cost more than expected priorities people. Senator Paul's concerned
about many things the KORPS is doing or not doing,
as the case made, and he's seeking answers and modified behavior,
said his spokeswoman. Yes, Bostik was nominated by President Obama

(01:10):
last spring. He had a confirmation hearing last week. I'm
sure the Senate Armed Services Committee grilled him on the
New Orleans situation. We just didn't see a report about that.
News media was busy with Grammys. The Core Project in

(01:30):
Kentucky is long running. Repairs to Wolf Creek Dam, which
impounds Lake Cumberland, the largest man made reservoir east of
the Mississippi. It's a more than half billion dollar project
plugging fractures in a rock foundation. If the dam fails,
it could flood communities down the Cumberland all the way
to Nashville. The southern Kentucky Lake has long been a

(01:51):
haven for boating and fishing, but its water level has
been lowered forty feet during the repairs, which began five
years ago. The water level dropped to relieve pressure on
the seeping structure, just as the safe water level in
the out Vaul Canals and New Orleans has been dropped
because of the fact that those walls were never repaired,
even though those are the walls that failed in two

(02:14):
thousand and five resulting in the flooding in the city.
But no, there's a marina owner representing local marina operators
at a recent meeting because with the lowered water level
in the lake. You know, the marina owners, the boat
owners are experiencing reduced income. Nobody's died. Don't worry about it.

(02:38):
Priorities people as you were, let us and now ladies
and gentlemen use of the Olympic Movement produced by Jim
ebers All Junior first today the multi million pound contract

(03:04):
to print the tickets for London's Olympics has been won
by an American firm, sparking fury among British companies. Weldon,
Williams and Lick, based in Fort Smith, Arkansas, landed the
UK's biggest single ticket order for a sports events. The

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biggest games organizers came under fire over the golden deal
to produce eleven million Olympics and Paralympics tickets. The consignment
will be air freighted FORWDY five hundred miles from Fort
Smith to a warehouse in Britain in a huge security operation.

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The tickets will then be mailed at a cost of
eight dollars per order to arrive at UK addresses in June.
British businesses demanded to know why they were not offered
the contract. Previous Games in Seoul in Barcelona gave the
deal to their national equivalent of the Royal Mint. Games organizers,

(04:12):
who have common or Fire for sourcing much of its
one and a half billion dollars worth of merchandise from
the Far East, insisted the Games remain good business for
homegrown firms. Tony Hallett, one of the UK's leading print brokers,
said he did not believe any British companies had been

(04:33):
asked to pitch for the contract. It is typical of
our country, he said. Integrity, one of the countries leading
print companies, which has provided tickets for Championship football games,

(04:54):
that is to say, soccer games in the UK and
major rugby matches, said they had been