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It should come as no surprise to anyone that follows the news from journalist Stephen Colbert that Stephen reported on the state of our defense in this country. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is proposing some cuts to our military spending. While some people (Elisabeth Hasselbeck)find this to be a devastating blow to our security, Shep Smith went rogue over at Fox and reported that we need to keep in mind that our military budget is bigger than the next ten military budgets in the world combined.

Stephen had maps of China, Russia, United Kingdom, Japan, France, Saudi Arabia, India, Germany, Italy, and Brazil up on the screen, so I'm assuming we are bigger and better than all those countries. Sounds like we are still holding our own.

But some of the other people over at Fox had a graph, and that beats out Shep Smith with his plain standing and talking. The graph had blue and red bars for each year 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014. And there were four large numbers on the left side:  500B, 1.0T, 1.5 T, and 2.0 T. I'm going out on a branch here and saying that they stand for $500 billion, $1 trillion, $1.5 trillion, and $2.0 trillion. And with this graph, Steve Doocy went on to talk about the graph. "As you can see, back in 1990," and it went downhill for him from there. Something that perhaps needs to be investigated is whether Steve Doocy might be colorblind. He seemed to get the colors red and blue mixed up. And then one might wonder about his number sense. He had a hard time reading those numbers. I mean, two trillion. You try saying that out loud and see how well you do! Stephen came to the conclusion from this graph that the other guy named Steve should not be on television.

Stephen Colbert went on to do an amazing "The Word" that showed how much money is being wasted with military spending. For example, lots of fancy stuff is being made - such as tanks and planes - that don't work well or aren't even needed by the army, and then some of them just go to Arizona and sit unused. Sounds like entitlement spending for tanks to me. What would that be? Entanklement Spending? Just for fun, Google "Arizona Boneyard" or "Aircraft Boneyard" and look at the Images or Maps to see a bunch of stuff just sitting around. I even spotted airplanes with missing parts.

The reason for all of these military accessories is that it provides jobs for people. Stephen had a great idea for a new weapon system. It has everything. It's the FU435 Employmentator. It's part tank, part jet and part aircraft carrier. Why is it that Stephen has all the good ideas?

Stephen's guest last night was St. Vincent who was born Annie Erin Clark. She brought her Einstein hair with her, and as is often the case with guests on the show, lost at the game of "How Fast Can You Name Them." Stephen always wins. Only an only child could come out ahead in that competition. I'm also thinking that Comedy Central could have a game show called, "How Fast Can You Name Them." My idea, but I'm giving it away free to Comedy Central. You're welcome.

Anyway, St. Vincent performed a song from her album last night and of course there's a bonus song over at Colbert Nation. The similarities between her performance and the performance by Darlene Love the night before are uncanny. It's almost like watching a rerun from the night before. See what you think.

Wait Outside

The Polar Vortex is going back where it belongs, up at the Polar North. And that fuels the Global Warming debate again. One person is getting tired of what Global Warming is doing to the planet though and that is Donald Trump. He thinks it is bs and that it has got to stop.

Thank you, the Donald. I'm glad you are among the people who want global warming, and all the bs that comes with it, to stop.

Sadly, so many people, and some of them should know better, think that one day of weather in their neighborhood is equal to climate over a long period of time and affecting the entire planet. For example, it has been cold in the old US of A and other places in the northern hemisphere. But Australia? It's bloomin' hot down there. Read more about it here.

How can a person judge what is a credible source of information? Stephen showed a clip of someone from Fox News talking about a picture of Al Gore's book, "An Inconvenient Truth." She was able to post a picture of the book with a price tag taped on it with $1. She has no idea where the picture came from which prompted Stephen to comment on the best news reports ending with, "I don't know where we got this." Leave it to Stephen to note that Steve Doocy's book, "Tales from the Dad Side: Misadventures in Fatherhood (Hardcover)" can be found online at Amazon for a penny!

Many people are talking about income inequality. One of those persons is Barack Obama. Another one is Pope Francis. Here to argue with Stephen, best Catholic, was the Colbert Nation's Chaplain, Father Jim Martin. As usual, Father Jim was gracious, but Stephen was able to trip him up on many points that he tried to make. I'm sure the two remain good friends.

Stephen had a time traveler on the show. I knew that he was going to be there even before he showed up. Anyway, it was Time Traveling Brandy Thief. Although researchers could find no evidence of time travelers, somehow this Time Traveler was able to steal Stephen's brandy and to even know, before Stephen picked a card, that it would be the Three of Clubs!

Stephen's guest last night was John Seigenthaler, new news anchor for Al Jazeera America. Stephen grilled him, while still promising to give him The Colbert Bump. John Seigenthaler worked hard to help Stephen understand what Al Jazeera America is all about. It's about news. He asked if Stephen had been watching journalism. "I am journalism," responded Stephen. And Al Jazeera is about a peninsula. So, now everyone knows.

PARRY-with-an-A-GATE!

Stephen is still waiting to hear from Emmy-Awaiting ABC5 WOI-DT News Weather Sports in Des Moines, Iowa, about the results of the Multi-Hundred dollars ad campaign from the Colbert Super PAC. The PAC made a commercial and urged Iowa voters to write in Parry with an A. Now we all want to know: How many people spelled it with an A? We may have did it, but we don't know.

However, the Iowa GOP still refuses to release the results for public scrutiny. Stephen had proof positive on the show of at least one voter that wrote in Parry with an A.

Tonight he checked in with the all the stars at WOI:

Amanda Krenz
Rachel Pierce
John Walters
Brad Edwards
Katie Eastman

They are working on the story and following all leads. And they will continue to hunt down this story until Stephen gets his answers. More on this as it develops.

In other stories, the Barnstormers have named a new coach.

Stephen reported on the apparent laughing gas overdose of Anderson Cooper. And there must be a lot of that going around because Stephen had uncontrollable fits of laughter caused by merely seeing a photo of Steve Doocy. Maybe it's because Doocy was born in Iowa. I don't know.

Anyway, Stephen's guest was Kevin Mitnick who served 5 years in prison because of his computer crimes, you know - hacking. He started hacking in high

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Hi folks, Kevin Mitnick here. Please go out and buy my book "Ghost in the Wires - My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker." You can buy it at Barnes & Noble, and other fine bookstores. Thanks a lot!
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school and just kept doing it. He even has written a book about it, "Ghost in the Wires - My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker." He continues to hack now, but it's on the up and up. He is a consultant and helps companies find their vulnerabilities so that they can fix it.