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June 6, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 6, 2005, Monday, Hour #2
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Now the reason for all of these attacks on interrogators, and all these attacks on on essentially our prisons that are holding uh suspects in the war on terror, prisoners of war, is simply all these attacks are simply going on because the war in Iraq has and is succeeding.
Liberation, free government, broad support of the people, spreading liberty everywhere.
This is troublesome to the left in America.
Now they seek to smear us since they lost on policy.
They're just changing the subject from their past criticisms to creating new issues and controversies.
There has to always be something that they're doing that has one purpose, and that is to gin up anti-war support among as many Americans as possible.
That's what this whole Amnesty International report is.
Well, there's some fundraising involved in that, as I mentioned to you last week.
For example, if you're George Soros or any other big-time lib and you're giving a bunch of money to Amnesty International, you just can't keep issuing reports that say third world nations and North Korea and China have some of the worst human rights abuses.
You got to throw America in there because some of your big contributors are the hate America crowd.
So you gotta throw America in there to keep your money coming in.
Well, the problem is it's backfired on them.
The head of Amnesty International's American branch yesterday acknowledged that he doesn't know for sure what's going on at Guantanamo Bay Prison, although Amnesty International Secretary General has called the terrorist prison at Gitmo a gulag.
William Schultz defended the description made last week by Irene Kahn, saying on Fox News Sunday yesterday that America's archipelago of prisons throughout the world are similar in character, if not in size, to the Soviet gulags, where millions of political prisoners were killed.
And in fact, uh we have audio sound bites of this uh in our roster today.
Well, I thought we did.
I could have sworn I saw them when I went through the uh.
Hmm.
Maybe I'm missing a page here or something.
Nevertheless, uh, no, I bet we know is reading something else.
But the bottom line is they're now pulling back.
They uh they are withdrawing.
Schultz said, we don't know for sure what all's happening at Guantanamo, and our whole point is United States ought to allow independent human rights organizations to investigate.
He added that Amnesty International was careful to use the word alleged when accusing high-level Bush administration officials.
Schultz said, we we try to hold up one universal standard for all countries.
He added that the report accusing the U.S. of running a gulag was written by Amnesty International researchers in London.
It has nothing to do with John Kerry.
Oh, it doesn't, does it?
That's because Schultz was asked if he supported John Kerry, was asked if he contributed money to John Kerry, and he did.
And of course, Amnesty International has a leftward tilt.
They do.
They have an anti-American bias, just as John Kerry has an anti-Bush bias.
And by the way, that this is the week he's going to present his uh his papers to Congress on getting the impeachment of George W. Bush started.
Make no mistake about this.
I predicted that that would come down to Pike, and uh, and it is.
Uh, this is also the week where uh two more judges will face their votes, and the Republicans are thinking about throwing up Mr. Hines as well.
Uh William Jane, I'm a Haynes, I'm sorry, William James Haynes, to test just where the uh seven Republicans on the gang of fourteen stand on the filibuster deal that they cut three weeks ago.
Conservative Republican senators plan on pressing the nomination of defense depart defense department general counsel William James Haynes.
Now Haynes is one of the nominees, and this if you believe the Democrats who cut the deal, Haynes is one of the nominees, not officially part of that gang of fourteen agreement.
However, several Republicans in the negotiating room, including Lindsey Graham, claimed that Haynes was one of the nominees that all fourteen agreed would be released for a vote by the full Senate.
The GOP staffer in the leadership said, we want to hold Graham and Susan Collins and the Collins and the rest of them to their word.
One of the reasons we went along with this deal to the degree that we did was because they promised nominees like Haynes would get an up and down vote.
They gave us their word.
We assume their word to fellow Republicans is as good to their word to Democrats, but we'll see.
This is a senior Republican staffer in the senior in in the leadership of the uh of the Senate saying this.
So uh, you know, there's a lot of potential fireworks to come down the uh pike this week.
In addition, everybody's waiting on the Supreme Court decision on the uh on the Ten Commandments.
So it's uh a lot of things going on.
But I want to go back one more point before we go to the break to this Amnesty International business.
It's sort of a funny soundbite.
Joe Biden, uh, our second bite from him on Stephanopoulos's show yesterday in ABC this week.
Uh Stephanopoulos says the president is saying that we're making real progress and we have a clear strategy in Iraq.
Is that what you found in Iraq this week?
It's my fifth trip to Iraq.
Same message privately on the ground.
We didn't have enough troops to begin with.
We don't have enough troops now, and the only hope now is to train up Iraqis as quickly as possible.
Um, and that's the problem.
Senator, we must have had this conversation half a dozen times over the last year, and every time you come back with exactly the same message, what can we do right now to speed up this training?
Even Stephanopoulos is getting fed up with the talking points.
Biden, this is his fifth trip to Iraq.
He comes back, it isn't working.
There's no success.
This is meant to dovetail with his criticism of Gitmo.
We just ought to shut it down.
It's a propaganda tool being used against us, thanks to people like Senator Biden, who join with the criticism unfounded and unknown, only alleged by Amnesty International.
Does it not strike you as humorous?
Frustrating, whatever you want to say, that whenever enemies of America launch criticisms of this country, the American left is right in there to echo them.
And even amplify them, and that's what Senator Biden is doing.
Yet he comes back from five trips to Iraq, and he says we need to up with trading up.
It's going to hell in a handbasket over there.
And Stefanov says, that's all you ever say when you come back.
That's all you ever say.
Because the point is, folks, there will be no success stories told by leftists after they visit Iraq.
They have to continue to be critical because their whole point is to drum up anti-war support among as many Americans as possible.
That's an electoral strategy for 2006 and 2008.
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So uh uh I'm just I'm just hoping that some of you uh eager beaver uh uh podcasters out there, ditto pods, if I can call you or not stealing iPods in order to be able to hear this program.
There's not much you're gonna be able to do to help you if that's the case.
There's also another uh uh objective of those who are constantly criticizing our interrogators.
It's not just a dredge up a bunch of anti-war sentiment among the American people.
Make no mistake about this, folks.
There is an effort on to impede our intelligence gathering.
There are people who are attempting to stop our ability to gather intelligence necessary to prosecute the war on terror, and I'm not accusing the U.S. media of it per se.
They're more like useful idiots in this, because they they are so enamored with any critic of the Bush administration that they just without thinking well, I won't give them that much, but they just reflexively echo it and uh and amplify it.
Make no mistake, Amnesty International has no cause for the United States of America in our brief.
And anything anything these leftist groups around the world can do to harm our intelligence gathering uh is is also part of this agenda.
Brian in Charleston, Missouri, just south of where I grew up.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Mega Ditto's from the heartland, Russ.
Thank you, sir.
Honor to speak to you.
I've seen you once again, even though you don't know who I am, so I will get straight to my point.
I've been listening to you, and what I have gathered from what you said, the left is trying so hard to pin something, a terror attack on Bush, just to erase what Clinton didn't do in the 90s.
Do you agree with that?
Um, basically they want to let seems like they want to let the detainees go, shut down the terror camps, everything's bad, bad, bad, and let go all these people so there will be another attack, and they can pin it on Bush.
Well, you know, I I'm hesitant to make that claim.
I mean, I I can understand how people would think it.
Uh uh I but I I would I don't think that I would I would necessarily say that that's the purpose here.
I think the strategy is more forward thinking.
I think the strategy is an electoral strategy for 2006 and 2008.
I think that's why they're trying to drum up as much anti-American support as possible to defeat Republicans in 06 and in 08.
Remember what the Democrats are all about here, folks, is to do everything they can to delegitimate or delegitimize these whole eight years.
The Democrats' objective here is to, when they're these eight years are over, that they never happened.
That not enough happened policy-wise to have mattered with George Bush in office.
They're trying to limit what they think is the damage to the country done by conservatism.
Now, there may be some some sickos out there who uh will do anything they can to build up Bill Clinton's legacy uh and to establish uh, you know, something like another attack to show that Bush isn't doing anything about it.
But I we've talked about that before in this program.
I actually think that would backfire.
I I I think if there's another attack on this country, you take a look out there at the political landscape.
Who is it that seems to be taking this war on terror seriously, and who is it that doesn't seem to be?
And it's clear that Bush is.
It's clear that Bush and Rumsfeld, the Republicans, are continually warning us about this.
The director of CIA said in public testimony three or four weeks ago that his biggest fear is a nuclear weapon being brought into the U.S. via our southern border border, which is too wide open.
It got hardly any mention whatsoever.
Here you have the 9-11 Commission.
The 9-11 Commission was all about these warnings, all about what we missed, all about who didn't connect the dots.
So here's the CIA director.
So I'm not gonna let this happen again.
This is what I'm afraid of.
This is what we got going, this is what's cooking, this is what I'm gonna mention, and nobody says a word about it.
Nobody reacted in any way, shape, manner, reform, particularly as it might relate to shutting down or getting even tougher on the borders.
Meanwhile, the 9-11 Commission and another story today is all upset that not enough of their recommendations are being followed.
The 9-11 Commission wants to be empowered to make sure That their recommendations are enacted into law.
I mean, it's it's it's incredible what's going on.
They're feeling ignored.
Nobody's paying attention to them anymore.
It's because they're big mouthpieces, Richard Clark and the others were discredited along the way.
But I I think that uh to the extent.
Now, let me let me modify it.
To the if you ask me the question this way, do you think the left in this country would be upset if there were another attack?
Now, if you ask me that, I'd say, well, that's a better question.
Because I think if there is another attack, the left in this country are gonna be able unable to contain themselves, point fingers at Bush, say we've been going about this the wrong way, Bush caused this, Gitmo caused this, Abu Ghab caused this.
Our continued search for bin Laden caused this, overthrowing Saddam caused this.
I know damn well that that's what the left would do.
Now, the question is the American people gonna go for this.
Remember, we don't live in a media monopoly anymore, and the mainstream press can echo the set sentiments of the left should this hypothetical happen.
But the bottom line is the case can be made from sun up to sundown that one of the reasons why this attack happened is because not all Americans on the political spectrum have decided to take the threat seriously, and the president doing his best to protect the country has been stopped at this turn and that turn from trying to do what he thought best.
We can clearly make the case that the Democrats in this country wanted to turn over our defense to the UN and our sovereignty to the UN, the French and the Germans and so forth.
I think they'd be skating on thin ice.
But would they be eager for the political opportunity that they think another attack uh would would present them?
No question about it.
Do they want the release of these prisoners so that that attack will happen?
I no.
I I uh there's no guarantee.
The only way you guarantee that is if the left mounts the attack itself.
And if you really want an attack, you gotta go out there and cause one to happen.
You're not gonna sit around and hope that the circumstances uh give you what you want.
And I just I'm I'm not gonna believe that we're to that point uh yet.
Uh, ladies and not not not yet.
By the way, the state of Washington, uh, the governor's race there will stand.
There was, I I guess the case has been made here for for electoral fraud uh as as valid in the election of uh of a well I should say that the court found no evidence of fraud.
The Washington state uh governor election, uh Gregory stays, Republicans are going to appeal to the state Supreme Court now, but the uh ruling says this court is not in the position to fix the deficiencies in the election process.
However, the voters are in a position to demand their legislative and executive bodies that remedial measures be taken immediately.
So the Republican challenge thrown out, they're appealing in the state of Washington, they are now appealing to the uh state Supreme Court there.
Steve in Marquette, Michigan.
Glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you very much, sir.
How are you?
Fine, never better.
Yes, my question to you was um you've been uh besmirching Amnesty International lately for their um comments on Abu Ghrab.
And I was just wondering, you know, when Don Rumsfeld was citing some of the reasons to go into Iraq, he cited reports by Amnesty International that you know were at least I guess legitimate at that point.
Do they Do they don't don't those two things kind of conflict in your mind?
When did uh when did Rumsfeld quote Amnesty International?
Do you remember the date?
Oh, no, sir, I don't.
It must have been before we went to war, however, I wouldn't imagine.
I mean, the Amnesty International, I no, I I don't think it's conflicting at all.
I mean, uh, when Amnesty International says the U.S. is the modern equivalent of a gulag, I don't care what they've said before, they're wrong.
It's absolutely absurd.
Now, uh, Amnesty International did say they do say they do cite some other places around the world where there are terrible human rights violations.
They'd be silly if they didn't.
If they want to have any credibility whatsoever, they've got to cite places like the Sudan.
They've got to cite places like North Korea.
They have to cite Saddam, particularly after all of the intelligence gathering that was produced to show just what kind of human rights violations were going on in Iraq.
Um and so I don't blame Rumsfeld for citing them.
He was trying to persuade the left to go along with us.
The real question is, why isn't the left listening to Amnesty International when they are honestly critical about Saddam?
How come the left Only cares about Amnesty International when they're criticizing the United States.
I mean, I I the burden of proof is on you guys.
I I continually am amazed here.
You can't you try to shift the premise on me.
I've been doing this 16 years.
You think you can pull this trick?
You can't put me on the defensive anymore.
You're the ones that have explaining to do as far as I'm concerned.
You guys are out there saying Iraq was worthless.
We needn't have gone in there.
The people under Saddam were better off than they are now.
Yet you call here and quote me, Rumsfeld, quoting Amnesty International, how bad Saddam was.
Seems to me you guys have the ones that have to do the explaining here.
You won't accept them when they call us a gulag.
You ignore them when they're accurate about Iraq and Saddam Hussein.
But don't try this anymore.
You might abused to have been able to get in away with this with other hosts, but not me.
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It is amazing.
Hey, Rumsfeld cited Amnesty International.
How come you got a problem with that's not the question?
When they're right, they're right.
You ever heard me rip Amnesty International on a regular basis in this program?
They are a bunch of leftists.
But when they're right, they're right.
And they were right about Iraq.
So Rumsfeld quotes them.
If they're right about Iraq, how come the left isn't out there agreeing with what Amnesty International said about Iraq and Saddam?
That you talk about selective application.
It is the left that wants to believe Amnesty International when they accuse the U.S. of being a gulag, which is preposterous.
The only thing, the only possibility that can explain why that kind of criticism would work is a horrible public education system in this country which is not properly explained the Soviet Union and what a real gulag is.
Because we've never had a real gulag.
We are not capable of it, and we're never even close to one.
But to say that what we have at Gitmo is a modern-day gulag, I mean, I'm telling you, Amnesty International is trying to please some big-time leftist contributors with this to keep their money rolling in.
Never forget the words of Mark Felt, ladies and gentlemen.
Follow the money.
Never ever, ever forget the words of deep throat.
Follow the money.
He should have followed his own advice.
He didn't get diddly squat.
Woodward's a multimillionaire.
Bernstein is, he tagged along at the right time.
But Bernstein's only a multimillionaire because they sold their Watergate papers last week at the University of Texas at Austin for five mil.
And Bernstein, by the way, or Woodward admitted they did it, they did it because Bob needed some money.
Woodward admitted that's why they sold her paper.
Yeah, Bob needed some money.
But Mrs. or Ms. Felt, the daughter is out there now having to justify why her family wants, you know, some pocket change out of all this.
We went it covered all this last week.
I don't want to I don't want to go through it again, but I just I find it I find it hilarious.
But I'm telling you, follow the money on Amnesty International, you will find I'll bet you some big-time contributors, and Amnesty International needs the money rolling in, pure and simple.
So you give them what they want.
An email from a subscriber at my website, Dear Rush, it's me again, the guy from Gitmo.
I was there from 2003 in February to June of 2004.
Uh referring to Brigadier General Hood's comments about Koran mishandling.
I'm very familiar with one of the incidents that occurred nearly two years ago.
My boss and I counseled him regarding the incident.
The detainee sort of bragged that when he prayed, bad things would happen to the MPs.
Illness, sprained wrists, etc.
The interrogator took his own personal Quran, not the detainees, and stood on it and said, Well, let's see what happens to me now, to the detainee.
Word got out it put the camp in an uproar for a while.
To the detainees, it was denied that it ever happened because it was the interrogator's personal Koran.
The military didn't even need to mention it.
This was a stupid decision on someone's part.
Not only that, the military inferred that the Quran issue had something to do with his firing.
It's not true.
This guy I'm talking about was fired within the past couple of months for other reasons unrelated to the Koran incident that occurred about two years ago.
Thought that you might like to know.
I'm sorry.
So you've got this wacko terrorist saying that every time he prays, bad things are going to happen to his captors.
And so the captor says, oh yeah, well, let me let me stand on my Koran here.
Let's see what happens to me now.
And apparently the camp was in an uproar over this, but it was the guard's own Koran.
It was not the detainees.
Can I read to you what Clarence Thomas wrote?
I've had a little bit of time here to read the decision.
This is this is in the marijuana pot case that I led the program uh off with today, uh, Clarence Thomas writing the uh uh dissent here.
If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything, and the federal government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.
That's exactly what I said.
If Congress, via now the Supreme Court, and this 1942 case that really gave us the new deal, if interstate commerce can be declared to occur when commerce within one state takes place, then Congress can do anything at once.
There's no then the courts can do whatever they want.
There is no limited enumerated powers on the federal government.
That's what Thomas wrote in his dissent.
And I'm I'm I'm proud to mention this to you because it means my interpretation was right.
How many times have we seen this?
I've got I've got two stories here, folks, and they're both old, older than I am.
Well, one of them's not older than I am, but it's probably maybe 12, 14 years old.
The other one is older than I am.
But both of them are being recycled and recirculated because the left is out of ideas.
They have no new pages in the playbook.
Here's the first one to get the easy one out of the way.
The early start to classes causes American teenagers to lose much needed sleep, puts them at risk of becoming moody and performing poorly in school, according to researchers today.
A survey of students aged 12 to 15 years old found they lost an average of two hours of sleep on the nights before a school day, affecting their work and alertness in class.
More than one-third of Has Scruals rang the bell to begin classes at 7.30 in the morning or earlier, a separate 2003 survey found, and 85% of high schools begin the day just before 8.15, the report said.
Students living long distances from school face even earlier wake-up calls to catch rides to scruol.
Sleepiness is associated with moodiness and poor school performance, and a chronic shortage of sleep correlates with a greater propensity to take up smoking or to be involved in car crashes.
I'm surprised they didn't add oral sex in the list.
At the time, adolescents at her high school, their bodies are undergoing changes to their biological clocks.
This is called circadian rhythms.
They govern when they become sleepy and when they're fully awake.
The changes tend to make them go to bed later and wake up later, said the report published in the journal Pediatrics.
In the study, 60 teenagers kept sleep diaries during a month in summer when scrubles were closed and again during a few months of the scrual year.
While they lost sleep on scruel nights, they slept 30 minutes longer than usual on weekend nights during the scrual year, and on summer nights indicating they were not just using weekends to catch up on sleep during the scroll year.
Now, how many times this is at least the third time I've seen this story since I've been hosting this program.
That we're making the kids get up too early, we're sending them off to school too early, it's resulting in bad grades, and something's gonna be.
In fact, I think some California Congresswoman might have even proposed legislation to uh move back the start of the school day there.
I'm not sure it was California, but I think there has been some uh proposed legislation on this.
And now some of you are saying, well, too bad for them.
That's right, because uh when you get out of the adult workaday world, if you don't get enough sleep and you show up late for work, it's your fault.
Your your boss, your business is not gonna change your operating hours to accommodate when you want to go to bed and when you get up.
Uh-huh.
But the researchers have an answer for you.
That's why they included talk of the circadian rhythms.
You see, it's not the teenager's fault, ladies and gentlemen.
Teenagers are naturally inclined because of circadian rhythms to stay up late and to sleep late.
So we need to modify our scrual schedule to accommodate the circadian rhythms of teenagers, because after all, we want them to learn.
And we want them to behave.
And we don't want them to be moody.
We want them to be happy.
How can there be so much moodiness out there with as much Ritalin as there is out there?
I want to know where this how can there be so much fatigue with all the drugs these kids are given when they're diagnosed with ADD, ABB, ADD, ACD, whatever all these things are.
How many kids are taking drugs, and might that not be one of the problems out there when it comes to moodiness and fatigue and so forth?
But what once again, I mean, it's it's letting the inmates run the asylum.
And it's it's it's it's preposterous.
And why do I say this?
I know a lot of, well, Rush, you know, you seem to be stuck in the past.
You're against modernizing anything, aren't you?
It might improve something.
You're really against.
No.
I'm just saying we have studies on kids all the time.
And we're diagnosing them for this problem or that problem.
We're prescribing this or that.
As we've been doing this.
Performance is going to be downhill, test scores are going downhill, general knowledge accrued, going downhill.
Teachers don't want to administer tests because they don't want it shown how poorly, in some cases, the students are doing.
We all know we got a problem when we got high school graduates who can't read their diplomas.
Does that even connect?
How do you graduate?
We got arguments about kids being held back a grade when they can't read.
Promote them anyway, and move them through the system.
We've had outcome-based education where if a kid does, you know, two plus two is five, it's okay until he learns is two plus two is four, whenever that happens.
We have outcome-based education where the high achievers in school are held back so as not to humiliate those who aren't learning as fast.
But back in, and I hate to say this, you know, I guess I'm getting to the age where some people are going to consider me an old fogey.
But back in my day and even before.
School started when it started, same old early time, first class for me in high school, 758.
Same thing with junior.
I hated it.
It was tough getting up, but you know, my last year of school, I got up at four in the morning because I worked from six to eight in the morning before I went to school.
And you know what?
I didn't have any problem getting up.
And you know why?
Because I loved what I was doing.
I was doing a radio show by last year in high school for two hours before I went to school.
I didn't have any problem getting up, and I didn't go to bed any earlier.
I was a teenager.
I didn't need as much sleep.
I didn't even know about circadian rhythms.
Okay.
Get up if you want to.
It's all a matter of discipline.
But it's happened from time immemorial.
My grandfather, my father, your grandparents, they all went to school stand.
Look at how much more they learned than apparently is being learned today.
So as we keep letting have I ever reminded you of this story, I once Roger Ailes, when he was producing my TV show at a little volleyball game every day at his estate in uh uh upstate New York.
And I had a whole bunch of people out there every weekend.
We went out there play water volleyball and eat shrimp and have a barbecue and this sort of thing.
And after one of these, and we'd always sit around for a couple hours after the uh water volleyball game was over, and I'll never forget some 26-year-old female teacher was uh was part of the group that we were talking about education, and she's just I you know I just we're pushing these kids too fast.
We're pushing them too hard.
We're just and uh you know, I'm sitting there listening to this, and I I'm now seeing part of the problem.
We're pushing them.
I said, What do you mean, push it?
Well, they just too much stress.
We're demanding they learn too much too soon.
I said, but that's when kids are capable of absorbing.
How many people in college in their 40s do you see?
This is when kids are capable of it.
That's when you do push them.
Why do you think the military is made up of young people?
Why do you think athletes are primarily young?
That's when the energy, the ability, that's when it, you know, they say youth is wasted on the young.
Well, some people believe it.
I don't know, but the bottom line is that's when you have the energy.
That's when you have the absorptive capabilities.
So apparently we had this transition somewhere we decided we needed to baby these kids.
We needed to understand their suffering.
We needed to understand that they definitely can't do it so fast.
We're making them grow up too soon.
And the same people who said that wanted to teach them how to put a condom on a cucumber in the second grade.
And in the same breath they say we're teaching them too fast.
Now for the third time in my stellar 16-year career as your host on this program behind this microphone, we're getting oh woe is a students have to get up too early to get to school.
Well, maybe if you didn't have forced bus is forced busing still around or that okay, maybe you weren't bussing kids 20 miles outside the school district or 30 to achieve some kind of balance and let them go to a school closer to home, they wouldn't have to get up as early.
I mean, there's all kinds of answers to this, but it's just silly.
We definitely pushing these kids too hard.
And we wonder why the Asians and the Indian kids are running rings around us.
The answer's all wrapped up in these little leftist touchy-feely do-gooders getting their mitts all over education.
Back after this.
Back to the phones to go.
Tiburon, California, just to the Bay Area here.
Great place, by the way.
Larry, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Thank you very much, Rush.
Uh, your w words of wisdom helped keep me sane in this land of liberals.
I totally understand that, sir.
I appreciate your comments.
Thanks.
Um, in reference to uh what you were just talking about, uh, the San Francisco Chronicles editorial page today was talking about how the kids can't get up a half an hour early for a free hot breakfast because there's just not early risers.
So now the uh school district wants to give them a grab and go breakfast that they can just grab as they're walking into the classroom that they can eat right there in class.
Ha ha ha.
We had your call on halt, so I went to the Chronicle website.
We got the piece here, and I I have it in my formerly nicotine stained fingers is school breakfast too early, kids missing it.
Uh it's it's entitled Breakfast in the Classroom, and he basically summed it up.
Uh when kids are coming to school drinking a quart of orange soda for breakfast, you know you've got a problem, not only a health problem, but an educational one as uh as well.
Uh so the idea here uh is that students will be able to pick up a simple cold breakfast in the cafeteria, cheriosa banana and milk or a bagel, orange juice and milk, other variations.
They'll be able to take the box breakfast with them to their first period class where they'll have 10 minutes to eat it.
My grandmother was a teacher in San Francisco and a principal.
She must have taught there for about 40 years and a principal, and um I am sure she is rolling in her grave on what's happened to that school district.
Well, you know, you one thing you could say, if if all these modernizations and all of these touchy-feely sensitive improvements had actually led to better performance among our school children, then maybe we would have a sympathetic ear to this, but it's just the opposite.
If you go back to earlier times in this country, you didn't have these kind of rampant dropout rates, you didn't have graduates that couldn't read diplomas.
You didn't have nearly the poor performance that we have today, and you had a different set of standards.
Now the standards are being watered down.
If we if we start school later, because this isn't gonna work, I mean, kids eating in class, I mean you you well, use your imagination to figure out what's gonna happen here.
You know, girls are gonna have oranges poured on their hair by this punk punk prankster sitting behind them.
Uh bagels are gonna be ripped up and thrown across the room or what have you.
It's what I would do.
Uh it's what I this is crazy.
You guys get to take ten minutes off the first class period for eating.
Think of the mess.
But at any rate, uh, if we start school later, you get out later.
You get home later.
Is the theory that kids are gonna stay up till midnight doing homework?
Is that what we're given to understand?
Because if that's what some of you people think, it's time to get out of the education business.
Back after this, stay with us.
One of the uh lead plaintiffs in the medical marijuana case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court today says to hell with it.
She's gonna defy the ruling and continue to smoke pot.
Her name is Diane Monson, and she says, quote, I'm gonna have to be prepared to be arrested.
She smokes marijuana several times a day to relieve back pain.
They're gonna be flouting the law out there, ladies and gentlemen.
Flouting the law.
What are we gonna do about this?
Much more straight ahead.
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