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Dec. 24, 2024 - Rudy Giuliani
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America's Mayor Live (566): Illegal Immigrant—Paid, Fed, & Housed by US Taxpayers—Burns Woman Alive
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Good evening, this is Rudy Giuliani with America's Mayor Live, two days before Christmas, two days before Hanukkah, and we come to you on a On a day and a period of time where the whole world seems to be in some kind of,
well, there seems to be some crazy thing going on, some dangerous thing, some violent thing going on all over the world.
And this Biden administration and the Biden cabal, really, because it's hard to know who's running things, is coming to a horrendous It was hard to believe that it could get worse, but we've got wars going on in Europe and we've got wars going on in the Middle East.
We have terror attacks in Germany.
We have The subway burned up in New York.
You've got cities all throughout America with more crime than ever before.
Cities that are being destroyed.
And we have the strangest, weirdest, most perverted things going on.
People are fighting over what does it mean to be a man and a woman?
Men are competing in female sports, including even boxing, and if you question it, you're considered to be the strange one.
Well, maybe Christmas is just what we need, huh?
The birth of Christ, when I say Christmas.
Well, in Germany, there was a terrorist act, but when we go into it, it's a strange one.
We're going to have to make head or tail of it.
And in New York, we had another example of the price we are paying because of the Biden invitees and then the Adams Drawing of them by offering Mitch more than other cities to New York.
Remember, Adams is now opposed to something.
We don't know exactly what he's opposed to.
The Sanctuary City.
But he was a very, very big defender of not only Sanctuary City, but of trying to make New York the uber Sanctuary City better than any place else.
This goes back to when Biden did his first invitations when he opened the border and lasted until...
Well, I mean, part of it still lasts.
I think he's still giving him credit cards.
He was promising them more than they got in other cities and was telling them that New York is the most friendly city to immigrants, not really making the distinction between fully and completely legal immigrants and the wide-open border that attracted even more criminal elements than you would normally have with illegal immigration because there's usually some kind of vetted.
And this is something that no Democrat, no left-wing media, and nobody else It's completely illogical, it's completely ignorant, and it has to be on purpose.
They're trying to pretend that this wave of immigration was like the great immigration waves of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century, or that it was similar even to the illegal immigration of the 70s and the 80s.
When, in fact, you could say that the people coming over maybe didn't commit as many crimes as the people that were here.
There were criminals coming over.
By and large, people were coming over for other reasons, because the immigration was controlled.
But once you just said anybody that can come in can come in, well, then the criminal elements took over.
The drug dealers, the smugglers of children, the smugglers of women, the fentanyl, the fentanyl people, and the terrorists.
I mean, you could bring anybody in you wanted.
There was no limitation on it.
Well, one of those people put a woman on fire in a subway car near Coney Island.
You know, Stilwell Avenue, one of the most famous subway stops in New York.
The man is an illegal from Guatemala who may have come back one or two times.
In other words, if we didn't have illegal immigration, This crime would not have taken place.
This woman would be alive if we were just stuck with our domestic criminals.
It always seemed to me to be extraordinarily foolish to argue, even when the illegals committed less crime than the Americans, which is not true now.
Please, please understand that.
It's not true now.
It used to be true.
But even then, it was kind of stupid because we're stuck with the crime that we have here in America.
But we don't need to import it.
When we were operating Ellis Island and similar facilities, we never let criminals in.
Now we let criminals in with everybody else.
First of all, very often we never check.
Many of them are gotaways or never-seens.
More are gotaways and never-seens than people that we actually check.
And the people we check You've got plenty of situations where they moved them in so fast, they forgot to do the vetting.
And even when they do, all the person has to do is say, I'm fine.
And in most of the cases, you can't even check.
The ones who were causing trouble for Venezuela, every single one of them wasn't checked.
There's no way to check in Venezuela.
This guy's from Guatemala.
And...
I don't know.
I think Ted can play it for you.
He is playing for you now.
And I think you can see the thing that troubled us tremendously is the fact that it seems like a police officer passes right by.
Now, they do say in the description of it that he makes a radio call.
Now, maybe we're being unfair.
I mean that.
Maybe we're being a Monday morning quarterback of the worst kind.
I don't know.
But it is a fair question to ask.
Why didn't he take his coat off, his jacket off, and throw it over the woman rather than just make a call for help?
And then it seems like The way it looks on the video, and again, that could be unfair.
He casually walks by.
He sees her and he continues to walk.
He sure as hell doesn't seem like a Daniel Penny.
Maybe Penny should get an award for what he did.
I don't know if it would have helped.
It's remarkable how much of a person's body can be burned and they can still be saved.
I had firefighters with half, 60%, 70% of their body burned.
And one firefighter, Captain Dresdner, who had 80% of his body burned, he lived for four months.
Now, I don't know.
I can't tell.
I mean, there's no question when you first see her, And he first sees this.
It looks like a fair amount of her body is still not burning.
Unfortunately, it does seem, and this could have made it fatal from the beginning, that her upper body is burning, which would include her face.
Well, he got away.
The killer got away.
uh and um but he was caught he was caught on another uh subway uh train not very very far away at Herald Square uh well that is far away actually think about it and uh when they found him He was wearing the same grey hoodie, the wool hat and pink spatted pants that he had when he torched the woman.
Apparently he used a lighter to put her on fire.
It does look like he did more damage than that.
This happened in Brooklyn on Sunday morning.
Innocent victim, 7.30 in the morning.
The train was stopped at the Coney Island-Steelwell Avenue station.
They say he walked up to it and he just put it on fire.
Hard to watch that.
So I probably should have warned everyone beforehand about it, but when we come back, we will talk about We'll talk about Donald Trump, the expansionist.
Kind of exciting.
We'll be right back after this message.
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So, as I pointed out, in Germany on Friday, at a Christmas festival in the town of Magdeburg, I think you might be able to see it on the map right in I think you might be able to see it on the map right in Magdeburg.
I'll make it bigger for you, right there.
Magdeburg.
Northern Germany, you can see it's halfway between Hanover and Berlin.
So that would be in the north-eastern part of Germany.
I think it would have been in the communist part of Germany.
But it doesn't really matter anymore now.
In some ways the eastern part of Germany has become I'm more conservative in some ways than the western part of Germany, which has become sort of European atheistic and nihilistic and whatever else you want to call it, woke and silly and Germans don't even work anymore.
Well, in any event.
So this Islamic man So immediately you would think it was some form of an attack by an Islamic extremist on Friday at about 7 p.m.
went smashing with his car into one of these beautiful Christmas villages in Magdeburg.
And he was Tunisian and he drove through the No, I'm sorry.
In 2016, there was a Tunisian who did this in another Christmas market in Berlin, in this case.
This is a little further west than Berlin, and this was at 7 p.m.
He left five people dead, more than 200 wounded, and it seemed like it was a repeat of a terrorist attack of 2016. But this guy who was a 50-year-old Saudi national named Talib al-Abdul Mohsen.
Talib al-Abdul Mohsen had been in Germany since 2006. He was a psychiatrist and He was very opposed to Saudi Arabia and its restrictive laws against women,
its punitive interpretation of the Muslim religion, and he was angry at Germany for being too tolerant of all of this and becoming very accommodating to what he regarded as the extremes of the Islamic religion or interpretation of
the Islamic religion.
Now, why did it exactly attack a Christmas festival?
I mean, obviously, we're dealing with an act that doesn't bear rational interpretation, I guess, right?
It is quite a thing to have happen at Christmas time.
President Trump looks like he wants to start the negotiations with everyone over the United States being treated fairly and tariffs and everything else on the offense.
There's no better defense than a good offense, I guess, and there's no better offense than a good defense.
But you want to do both.
So he has now made what appears to be a serious claim for Greenland.
Now, I say serious because he's made three in the last, well, less than a week.
First, more than a week.
First, of course, it was the, seemed like fooling around about Canada, about Canada becoming the 51st state.
And I wonder if Canada would be one big state or it would be split.
It could be.
It's, what, 20 plus millions?
So we've got states that size.
California's probably bigger in terms of population.
On the other hand, it's an awful big geographic expanse for one state, but I don't know how serious he was about that, nor does anyone else.
It did seem like he was tweaking the government...
In particular, Castro's alleged son.
I was having a discussion with a Canadian about that, and he told me he thinks he looks an awful lot like Castro.
But neither here nor there, except for the fact that he seems to share the same communist view, Trudeau seems to share the same communist viewpoints.
And then the claim for Panama It seemed somewhat more serious because of the way he feels that we're being held up.
Highway robbery.
Here we built the darn thing and we're being charged exorbitant amounts of money to go through the canal that we built and that we kind of gave away for nothing, for no reason.
I think it was against the will of the people.
It was against the will of the people in the sense that Ronald Reagan's the big opponent of it.
Ronald Reagan got elected promising he wouldn't do it, but Jimmy Carter did it before Reagan got elected, kind of like Biden is now pardoning all these people against the will of the people.
I can't imagine that the American people wanted all of these murderers set free.
These are pretty vicious animalistic murders we're talking about here.
But in any event, Cardi gave it away at the last minute in a treaty.
And of course, the president of Panama has already said in no way are they going to give it back.
We'll have to see what his strategy is.
The third one, Greenland, of course, would be one that would have a great deal of significance in terms of our national security.
It's not truly a protector, I think is the right way to describe it.
It's a protectorate of Denmark.
It's not a colony.
It's not part of Denmark.
It's not a colony of Denmark, but it's a protectorate of Denmark.
So, for example, do they have an army?
Greenland does not have an army.
Greenland would be defended by Denmark.
He's not talking about tech, he's talking about buying it.
And there have been two prior attempts by the United States to do that.
This is not the first time the United States has sought to buy Greenland.
It would make an awful lot of sense as an acquisition for us.
If you think about a possible nuclear war or aerial attack on the United States, it certainly is in a very, very prime position to protect us with bases.
Also, it's a place that's become very, very popular as a vacation land.
I would imagine Iceland is more popular.
You know, it's strange.
Iceland is green and Greenland is icy.
Of the two, Iceland tends to have a more moderate climate than Greenland.
And the two of them, although at one time sort of vaguely connected, Iceland is a completely independent country.
It was also controlled by Denmark, but they became completely independent, whereas Greenland is part of Denmark.
He said nothing more than it would be in the national security interests of the United States if we controlled Denmark.
And I don't think anybody disagrees with that.
The question is, how do you get it?
We know that the last time he said this, the political leadership of Denmark was very opposed to it.
I assume they are again, but I wonder about the people.
I wonder about the people of Canada, don't you?
I know in the Western part of Canada, and when I say Western, I don't mean the woke West, like what would be considered to be their California, Oregon, and Washington.
I mean more like our West, the cowboy part, where they have the rodeo and the stampede, and they are extremely American-ized.
And in the Eastern part, where you have the French influence, and of course the English and American influence, That'd be a close one.
A lot of affection for the United States.
A real discouragement with their government right now.
We haven't seen any polls.
Wouldn't be shocked if somewhere near a majority of Canadians would want to be part of the United States.
I would not be shocked.
I'm not sure of that.
I've never done a Any kind of even informal survey.
But I know a lot of Canadians, I've been to Canada a lot, and it is extremely friendly to the United States, and you feel like you're in the United States.
And given the problems they're having with their, I'd say, socialist, communist, silly government, you would think They'd benefit from it greatly.
And we would benefit too by expanding.
We'd certainly benefit with Grantland, that's for sure.
And Panama we would benefit, but only because of dollars and cents.
And if we can work out some reasonable toll and some extra consideration for the fact that we built it and we gave it back to them for nothing, It would seem to me that that's maybe what Trump there is negotiating for,
some consideration for the historic role that we played in creating Panama and the fact that we gave it away for nothing, which probably annoyed him from the times that happened.
What the hell are you giving it away for?
At least let him pay for it.
So of the three of them, I would say Canada is the biggest The most impossible situation.
No, sorry.
Panama is probably the most impossible situation.
I think given the South American sort of irritation of the big bad Americano, it might be hard, if you could do it by a popular vote, to have the people of Panama vote to be part of the United States.
I think the best place we'd have a chance to vote to be part of that is Canada.
And I think that Greenland, I just, I'm sorry, I've never been to Greenland, I've been to Iceland, and I don't know, I don't know how, when you say Denmark, Sweden, countries like that who are going through a transformation, you are talking about countries that are pretty woke, but have gone through tremendous transformation and are in the process of rethinking a lot of that.
They went through a real crisis with COVID and came to the conclusions that we came to without the censorship and persecution that went on in the United States.
So it's just hard to say how that would all come out.
But it's exciting.
Instead of talking about, you know, America is finished and America is over.
It's always good to go on offense.
List your spirits.
And we don't have to feel that any country wouldn't benefit by being part of us.
We're the greatest country on earth.
Witness the fact that we just had 20 million people come here, right?
No place else.
And I think in each one of those cases, you're dealing with adding a lot of productivity, which might be necessary given the fact that we've We really hurt our productivity with the numbers that came in, and necessarily because of the open borders, the kind of people that we drew.
So we'll take a short break and we'll be right back.
Want to call, Jake?
You're still on.
Yes, you're still on.
You're still on.
I'm still on.
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This is Rudy Giuliani and I am back with America's Mayor Live.
And unfortunately, the The screen is not bright enough for me to show.
I wanted to show you, I mean, if you look at it from the perspective of the Earth being round, you realize that Greenland would almost be a necessary route for Russia to attack us.
Now, I know you're going to say, well, they're going to attack us over the Arctic Circle from China coming the other way.
That's the Arctic Circle.
Greenland is very close to Russia in two ways.
This way and that way.
You can fly over the Arctic Circle.
So it is a very, very prime position.
And It used to be Iceland, of course, used to be the stopping-off point for the transatlantic flights before they all became, you know, one-stop shopping.
They used to be a very famous, very inexpensive way to go to Europe on Icelandic airlines.
But you would have a stopover in Iceland.
And many kids, I never quite did, I almost did it a few times, some of my friends did.
And a lot of kids went to Europe the first time that way, because you'd get a much big reduced rate if you did a stopover in Iceland.
So I never did that, even when I went over to Israel, Because of the bombing and I went over with Governor Patanke and Mike Bloomberg, we actually stopped in Ireland.
We went a little bit further.
We used Donald Trump's plane, believe it or not.
I wonder how Mike Bloomberg feels about that now.
So tomorrow we'll try to get a little bit more.
I'm extremely interested in this acquisition thing.
I should tell you my mother, who was a very, very big history buff, studier.
Her subject was really English, but she loved American history.
She always had this tremendous...
She always would say, America should have taken Canada in the 19th century.
It would have been good for them and good for us.
And then she had a lot of reasons and I can't remember them all.
Room for expansion, I guess?
Sure.
Canada would probably be considerably more of an industrial power had they been part of the United States.
And they'd probably be going through a similar transition.
Remember, 60% of our energy comes from Canada.
So although it doesn't take advantage of its Wealth the way it should, because it's been unfortunately in the throes of a lot of emphasis as a sort of almost a socialist economy.
Bill Clinton is ill and he is in the hospital.
They didn't mention which hospital, I think probably for security reasons.
He's in George Washington.
Oh, it's George Washington.
I mentioned it now.
George Washington Hospital.
Very, very big, very good hospital right on Pennsylvania Avenue.
And he had a fever.
That's the hospital that operated on Ronald Reagan when he was shot.
He developed a fever on Monday.
And it is said that he's in good spirits and he appreciates the good care that he's getting.
And the best way to know if he's ill or not, if he's not talking, then there's something seriously wrong.
I think even with 103 degree temperature, he'd be talking.
And they expected, we hope, that he's out of the hospital for Christmas Day.
When I was the mayor, I worked.
Very closely with Bill Clinton.
You'd be surprised at how much we worked together.
It was a different era, wasn't it?
Yeah, very, very different era.
Well, I want to end tonight on a good note because we're going into Christmas Eve, but I have to talk about the Biden pardons.
I can't let this go by.
What else is he going to do that proves to us he's an awful man?
I think, if I have this correct, he pardoned...
God bless you, that's Dr. Maria.
For a doctor, she better take care of herself, huh?
He pardoned a guy named Daryl Lawrence who killed Officer Brian Hurst in cold blood.
Now, I believe he killed him in 2005 and There are 40 people on death row in the federal prisons.
He pardoned 37 of them.
The only three that he didn't, there were political reasons for not doing it.
Now, he shouldn't have pardoned any of them.
But what a horrible human being he is.
He didn't pardon the Boston Marathon killer.
But he pardoned people who killed little children.
He pardoned a guy who killed a cop.
I'm not making an argument for pardoning.
He commuted.
He commuted who?
Tell us, Doctor.
He's commuting, not pardoning.
Oh, yeah.
He's commuting.
Yeah.
He's commuting their sentence, which means...
Maybe they have to serve life.
Maybe they don't.
Community can mean they let them out of prison, too.
Remember, please, the minute you take a sentence and it's not death, the odds are they getting out.
In New York, since 2019, 28 police killers have been released by a combination of Cuomo and Hockel.
28. Released to the city of New York or the state of New York.
28. That's a lot.
And in New York, there's no such thing as life in prison.
I don't know if all of them will get out.
I imagine almost all of them will get out.
If some of them aren't getting out right away.
But he kept the Boston Marathon guy there because, politically, that'd be a tough one.
He'd be finished.
There'd just be another Democrat city to return against in Boston, right?
And the other two also, I think, have very serious political ramifications for him.
He did commute the sentence of Thomas Sanders, who shot and killed a 12-year-old girl after murdering her who shot and killed a 12-year-old girl after murdering her mother in 2010.
Jorge Avilo Torres sexually assaulted and stabbed to death an 8- and 9-year-old in 2010.
2005, in the case of Lawrence, the one who killed the police officer, the prosecutor said he planned to do it.
It wasn't just a felony, basically a felony murder.
What else are you going to do?
Would you...
Could everyone just stand up and agree that he is a horrible, horrible person?
a horrible human being.
This is, this is, and the family, of course, the families affected by this, those children, the police officers' family, the police officers' family, all the police officers that were affected by it.
I'm trying to see who were the others guided, this is what he said, but guided by my conscience.
And my experience, I guess as a fellow criminal.
I am convinced that we should stop the death penalty.
But we're not.
He's done 1,500 commutations, 39 more pardons.
Of course, he pardoned his son.
which is completely lawless and completely as a co-conspirator.
In a co-conspirator.
Well, the Boston Marathon killer was not part...
But Dillon Roof, convicted for the shooting spree at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, was not pardoned.
And Robert Bowers, who was convicted for the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue, where he falsely claimed he went, in Pittsburgh, wasn't pardoned.
In each case, there's a political constituency involved.
Democratic Boston, the Black vote, the Jewish vote.
Now, I think that they all should be fried.
Bye-bye.
But I'm sure that I can't go through every single one of them.
I don't know if there aren't any here that aren't worthy.
But the ones that we're talking about, the ones who killed the little children and the ones who killed the police officer, man, you are undermining the rule of law.
Not only have you created a situation in America where we don't have justice, including me and all the people like me, and you've treated us like we're citizens of a communist or Nazi government, but now you make up crimes against Trump,
you make up crimes against Professor Eastman, you make up crimes against me, you make up crimes against 14, 15 people For just defending Trump in an election that, yes, was stolen because for you, stealing an election is one of your lesser crimes.
You're walking out of the White House having taken millions and millions of dollars from our enemies and having sold us out to China in terrible ways, giving up the Bagram Air Base 400 miles from China after getting $31 million from China.
And we're supposed to believe it wasn't connected.
And then you keep lying.
There's no evidence you got money.
Sure, there's evidence you got money.
It's called your son's admission, which is on record.
That's evidence, despite the lying effing press that sucks you up.
What a mistake.
You were the biggest political mistake in my lifetime that America ever made.
We've never elected a president that even comes close to being as bad as you.
Here you are like hiding somewhere.
You take a month to respond, Biden, to the drones.
You give an explanation that is patently false.
You leave the American people with no explanation.
Trump has allowed as, if it were a foreign power, you would do something about it.
And because Trump said it, I would say maybe he has some information about it, and therefore he wants people to understand that we're not in as much jeopardy as we think.
On the other hand, He hasn't given a reason.
And whatever it is, it's just very, very hard to believe that it's that sensitive, that there isn't a method or a way in which it can't be disclosed to allay people's fears.
And maybe something tragic is going to happen as a result of this.
Somebody's going to shoot down something they shouldn't shoot down or The president is supposed to be open with the American people.
Do you have any idea what the word transparent means?
Huh?
Transparent.
I could write it out for you.
Well, I feel very, very bad that one of the best baseball players I ever store Died on Friday at the age of only 65. And that was Ricky Henderson.
Ricky Henderson was one of those few ballplayers, whether you rooted for him or you didn't, and I rooted against him and I rooted for him because he played a lot of his career for Oakland, more of his career for Oakland than any place else.
But he played some of his career with the Yankees and I think he ended it with the Mets.
He was stealing bases in his 40s.
Not just, I mean, stealing bases prolifically in his 40s.
I mean, but there was a time where he could do everything.
He could, he's a great, great center fielder.
He was the best base stealer in baseball.
He had power for a, they describe him here, Jason Gay, who wrote a beautiful Beautiful.
It's not really a eulogy.
It's not really a eulogy.
It's sort of a wonderful, wonderful story about what an exceptional talent he was and a very interesting guy.
Remember how close he was to Billy Martin?
That's how I got to know him when he played for the Yankees in the 80s.
And he said, "Ricky was an offensive nightmare." You couldn't help but put him on.
And once he was on, he was going and going and gone.
You know where he was going and it didn't matter.
He wore out pitches and catches mentally as much as physically.
He was a Michelangelo of making something out of nothing.
Ricky once stole five bases and scored four runs in a game in which he went He didn't get a hit.
He walked four times.
He walked four times and he scored four runs without ever getting a hit.
But, oh yeah, he could hit two.
He wound up with 297 career home runs.
Four, as I said, a relatively small man, but massive forearms, if I recall correctly.
Very, very powerful forearms.
81 of his home runs was leading off the game.
Isn't that great?
Right from the start, you know, you come out, you're ready to go.
You're the pitcher, you finish your warm-up, and the first guy hits the ball over the fence.
Well, I hope you got a chance to see him play.
And if not, he played, let me see, he played for...
He played for the Oakland A's four separate times.
He was a Yankee, he was a Blue Jay, he was a Padre, he was an Angel, he was a Mariner, he was a Dodger, and he was a...
Dr. Murray's not paying attention.
Red Sox, yes I know.
Ricky scored on Joe Carter's legendary home run to win the 1993 World Series for Toronto.
He hit home runs in four different decades.
He was hit by a pitch in his final major league appearance.
He scored, of course.
And he's an athletic, but it is wonderful that he played for so many teams.
He did at one time call himself the greatest of all time.
He played with confidence.
But he wasn't that kind of guy.
He said that, I guess.
Maybe people would put him down or he was just having some fun.
But that isn't the kind of guy he was.
He was a humble man and a really wonderful guy.
And here's what Jason ends it with.
This is what he said at his Hall of Fame induction.
When you think of me, I would like you to remember that kid from the inner city that played the game with all his heart and never took the game for granted.
Boy, is that true.
When you see guys that don't run it out to first base, If you were on his team, he'd give you a little kick in the backside.
He or Billy Martin would.
Very, very close to Billy.
And played really well for Billy.
I think that's one of the reasons the Yankees traded for him.
So God, you take care of Ricky and make sure he gets a prime place on your all-star team up there in heaven.
To get to play in the field of dreams, right?
Remember they all come down, come out of the corn.
I'm gonna watch that movie after Christmas is over.
I'm into watching Christmas movies now.
Watch the Nativity the other night.
It's just about the story of Mary's birth, virgin birth and the magi and the shepherds and eventually the fight into Egypt.
So here we are coming upon two wonderful feasts.
And as we close, we'll say a few things about them just to remind you to what to think about.
I know I'm going to close on time because you may still have some Christmas shopping to do.
Well, you may be watching it as a podcast and I don't want to interrupt your Christmas shopping tomorrow if you're in the car.
But The Feast of Hanukkah, of course, is a much older feast, and it isn't the central feast in the Jewish religion.
I would say the High Holy Days is really the central holy time with the New Year and with Yom Kippur.
But this is a very, very important feast at various times in Jewish history.
It's been more important than others.
And it's probably the most important, like when they're in situations like this, because people think of the Jews as being subjugated.
Well, the Maccabees weren't subjugated.
They won a war against all odds.
And they reclaimed the temple, the great temple, which is now the source of so much friction with the Arabs, with the Islamists.
The temple is right, the ancient temple, which is a temple that they won back, the Maccabees won back and the reason The reason for the miracle of Hanukkah is when they wanted back,
they had to clean up the temple and remove all the graven images in the temple that had been put there by By pagans who worshipped the sun and the moon and animals and whatever.
So they had to remove all that because craven images, of course, were a big issue in that era because there were so many of these pagan religions that worshipped strange things.
So they cleaned up the temple and they wanted to rededicate it.
And they were going to have a ceremony for eight nights, seven nights, seven or eight nights.
And they wanted to light a candle for every night.
But they only had oil for one night.
So they lit the first candle the first night.
And then all of a sudden, miraculously, The oil appeared for all eight nights.
God granted them the oil because of their victory.
So that's why they have...
We'll do it on...
We'll do it on...
They have a menorah.
So the one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
So they take...
So each night they light one candle.
They have a main candle, and then each night they light one candle.
Oh, can't see it?
There.
Isn't that beautiful?
It's called a menorah.
That's called a menorah.
And over each of these nights, gifts are given, exchanged, And there's a little toy called a dreidel that children play with.
And there are special Hanukkah cookies.
And the food is wonderful.
I've been to several Hanukkah feasts.
It doesn't always come exactly at the time.
It doesn't always come on Christmas Day.
Maybe every 12, 10 years, 12 years.
It's two different calendars that are used to determine.
Christmas is on a fixed day, but Hanukkah, like Easter, works on a liturgical calendar.
And then, of course, tomorrow is a solemn day.
Christmas Eve, always a very solemn day, particularly as you get into the evening.
And this is an important Christmas, but they're all important.
But I do think there's an opportunity this Christmas to bring God back.
Let's have him born in the United States again, because he's born in the whole world.
Let's us in the United States take it really seriously that Jesus was born in order to save us from our sins and to give us a path to eternal life.
To give us a path to a good life where the core of a good life and the core of Jesus' practical teaching was to be good to other people, to serve.
You're going to have a happy life and you're going to be rewarded by God the Father if you serve other people.
If you've served the least of my brethren, you've served me.
And it's a complete contradiction to the nihilism and the selfishness and the desire to Have everything for yourself that afflicts our world that
has been, whether it knows it or not, taken over by Marxism.
Because Marxism is the antithesis of Christianity, not only as an atheist versus belief in God, but totally contrary moral systems.
Whereas Christianity and Judaism which have the same core moral system originally based on the Ten Commandments is a religion that teaches you to live by principle that there are principles that are more important than your own happiness and your own safety in Marxism there's nothing more important well there is something more important than
you and that's the state But to get you to that point, they want you to give up everything else, including your parents.
And you can see that going on in our society.
And I've always believed, and Christmas is a good time to contemplate this, that without God we're lost.
If I were an agnostic, I'd be a big fan of people believing in God, because I would say that, sure, sure, if you don't believe in God, there's a chance you can be a good person, but there's nothing that organizes that for you.
There's no worldview around which you can organize it.
It's so easy to slip into, I might as well just enjoy myself Because there's nothing afterwards.
And when the view is that this is something much bigger, a lot of things happen.
You feel that you're striving to have a good life because there's a reward and punishment.
But you also feel a sense of humility that you're part of something that you don't understand completely.
And I say if I were an agnostic because I think I could never be an atheist because I'm too smart to be an atheist.
An atheist is certain there's no God.
But there can't be any way to be certain of that.
There can be no way to be certain, since God is beyond human understanding.
And the atheist has no scientific explanation for the beginning of this universe.
We could go on and on and on and on.
I reread the Gospels, the nativity stories the other night.
And because of watching the nativity and it's really, it's really Matthew and Luke that really provide the details of the nativity.
Mark skips almost right ahead to John the Baptist and John too skips right ahead to John the Baptist but Matthew begins with Jesus's lineage going back to Noah but then begins with begins with Jesus And the Immaculate Conception of Mother Mary
and the story of Jesus' birth and the flight into Egypt.
And Luke, of course, has the famous Midnight Mass Gospel about their all being called To their home country by Caesar to, well, it's sometimes translated as to pay taxes or to register to pay taxes.
But Caesar wanted a census of his empire and that forced Joseph to go from northern Israel to southern Israel because he was from Bethlehem.
And that's what Christmas Eve is all about.
So tomorrow we'll have a Christmas show on and you tune in.
We'll have a show on about Christmas.
God bless you.
God bless America.
Some folks say it isn't cool, but she says the players are legions anyway.
Red, white, blue, flying high on a farm Semper Fi tattooed on his left lawn Spent a little more in the store for a tag In the back it says USA He won't buy nothing that he can't fix With WD-40 and a craftsman wrench He ain't printed dust He's just reigned in America Born in a hot land Raised up a family A King James and Uncle Sam Who
can say where the road goes Where the day flows Only time And who can say if your love grows as your heart shows only time?
We are there.
Who can say
why your heart sighs As your love flies Only time And who can say why your heart cries When your love lies Only Who can say why your heart sighs As your love lies only in time And who can say why your heart cries When your love lies only in time Who
can say why your heart cries When the roads weave God love might be in your heart
And who can say when the day seems If the night leaves It's our purpose to bring to bear the principle of common sense and rational discussion to the issues of our day.
America was created at a time of great turmoil, tremendous disagreements, anger, hatred.
It was a book written in 1776 that guided much of the discipline of thinking that brought to us the discovery of our freedoms, of our God-given freedoms.
It was Thomas Paine's Common Sense, written in 1776, one of the first American bestsellers, in which Thomas Paine explained by rational principles the reason why these small colonies felt the necessity to separate from the Kingdom of Great Britain and the King of England.
He explained their inherent desire for liberty, for freedom, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, The ability to select the people who govern them.
And he explained it in ways that were understandable to all the people, not just the elite.
Because the desire for freedom is universal.
The desire for freedom adheres in the human mind and it is part of the human soul.
This is exactly the time we should consult our history.
Look at What we've done in the past.
And see if we can't use it to help us now.
We understand that our founders created the greatest country in the history of the world.
The greatest democracy, the freest country.
A country that has taken more people out of poverty than any country ever.
All of us are so fortunate to be Americans.
But a great deal of the reason for America's constant ability to self-improve is because we're able to reason, we're able to talk, we're able to analyze.
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