From the high desert and the great American Southwest, I bid you all.

Good evening, good morning, good afternoon, wherever you may be in the world's time zones.

Very prolific indeed, every single one of them covered by this program.

Coast to coast to coast a. I'm Mark Bell. It is my pleasure, my honor to be escorting you through the weekend.

Boy, we touched a few nerves last night, didn't we?

Well, I'll tell you, this is a place where nerves are going to get touched.

And we don't do the kind of talk radio around here that everybody else does. And some of the nerves we touch are pretty sensitive ones indeed.

But that's what we do, lest anybody out there may have forgotten.

Let's look at the world news.

The Senate passed a bill

that could prolong terry chival's life while house republicans stalled by

democrats scrambled to bring up lawmakers back to the capital for an

emergency vote early monday

our president rushed back from his texas ranch for a chance to sign the measure that could

trigger a federal court review and a quick, very quick restoration of the feeding tubes

needed to keep brain damaged Terry Schiavo alive.

Now, this would be one of those stories where you could say it takes the wisdom of solomon

you know but it doesn't

i uh... i think that

in the absence

of a signed declaration from terry shivo

and they don't have that all they've got is somebody else saying that she had once said what she wanted.

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