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June 7, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 7, 2005, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Katrina Vandenhoov in the Nation magazine.
Republicans act like addicts.
Remember, we started the program today talking about when when so many you people were bent out of shape about Hillary, and I was so upset that you were upset because I think it's a waste of time.
But one of the things we discussed in that in that tortuous for me first hour was how I have noticed over the past three weeks, maybe even longer, that the Democrats are using a talking point about absolute power, consolidating power, uh mad rush dash for power.
All of these attempts to make people in this country think that the Democrats uh are going to be subjected to dictatorship, that Bush and the Republicans are setting up this this mad power regime.
We're not going to let anybody else do anything.
Well, no matter where you look, you find it, and that's why I'm bringing to I wouldn't otherwise uh bore you or waste your time with your average Katrina Vandenhoovle column, but she she pretty much gets all the talking points here in one little piece.
She writes, I'm beginning to grow concern for the Republicans.
They can't stay on message.
They can't pass any reforms, they can't support their president, they can't whip count, they can't get along.
They're starting to act like well, Democrats.
The seven moderate Republicans who compromised on the filibuster were savaged first as traitors and then as dupes.
There have been threats of reprisals and primary challenges.
Lindsay Graham has been mockingly nicknamed the Senator from New York.
And anybody but McCain movement looks to be gaining momentum within the party's base.
Uh, Katrina, that movement got started in 2000 and it's alive and well.
The relationship between Congressional Republicans and the White House doesn't look much healthier.
Congress has refused to deal with Bush's privatization reforms.
A teary-eyed Senator Voinovich wouldn't switch his vote on Bolton delaying a vote.
And despite the president's strong support for the zygote, Congressional Republicans defied his veto threat and voted in significant numbers to pass funding for stem cell research.
Power seems to have made the Republicans mad.
They are behaving as erratically as drug addicts, but I know a good way to make Republicans write as rain again, bracing trip back to minority status.
Let's plan the intervention for 2006.
So addicts, power mad, crazy, insane, all of these things.
It's become uh uh I think a talking point for the uh for the Libs as they as they attempt to inculcate even more fear into the uh hearts and minds of people.
When in fact, this is what happens when you win elections.
You consolidate power uh and you try to implement your agenda that you sought re-election or election on.
And thereby, when people vote for you for those specific reasons, you implement them.
All right, more health news for you.
Uh children, as you know, are urged to drink plenty of milk, but a study published Monday suggests that the more milk that kids drink, the fatter the kids grow, and skim milk is a worse culprit than home whole milk is.
Uh, survey of more than 12,000 children age nine to fourteen showed that those who drank more milk weighed more than those who drank less.
Children who drank the most milk gain more weight, but the added calories appeared responsible.
The team at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard University in Boston wrote in their report, which has been published in the journal Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
But there was a surprising finding.
Contrary to our hypotheses, dietary calcium and skim and one percent milk were associated with weight gain.
But dairy fat was not.
It could be that the youngsters drink lower fat milk more freely, thus it may not be milk itself, but the calories in milk that are to blame, said biostas statistician Catherine Burke, who uh led the study.
Dr. Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health who worked on the study said he was concerned about the heavy advertising of milk.
The basic beverage should be water, he said.
We know that in many parts of the world kids don't drink any milk at all, and they end up with healthy bones.
Come on, we get it straight, Harry.
I thought they were starving all over the world.
Because they don't have enough milk, or they don't have enough this or that, because we're too stingy.
We don't even send them water treatment plants and facilities.
What is it?
Kids are getting fat all over the cur over the world, or they're not.
They're starving all over the world or they're not.
And now we've got a doctor saying, I think there's too much milk advertising going on out there.
Hey, I can't wait to see this.
I want to see the ban milk movement.
I want to see it.
I want to see, okay, what what kind of milk are we going to ban?
Are we going to ban breastfeeding?
What kind of milk are we going to ban?
How is this going to happen?
We're going to start suing big milk.
We're going to sue Big Dairy.
I will bet you that every one of these overweight kids, I'll bet you every one of them at one time or another has had rice or French fries.
I will bet you they may have even had carrots.
Do you know how deadly carrots are, folks?
Have you heard the survey results on carrots?
Everybody who died in a dramatic and violent automobile accident has been shown to have had carrots within six months prior to the accident.
People who have gone blind, people who have lost their hearing.
It's been discovered, have eaten carrots within months of losing their sight or hearing.
People who have come down with cancer.
You'd be astounded at this one.
The people who have come down with cancer of all kinds, all reported eating carrots numerous times and frequently throughout their lives, even when they were kids and their parents made them when they didn't even like them.
The number of people who have fallen on ice and broken a limb also report consuming carrots.
Did you know this, Brian?
Carrots, it's it's it's not reported sufficiently, but carrots, and they're not even advertised.
Can you imagine how bad it would be if carrots were advertising?
When's the last carrot commercial you saw?
You don't see it advertised because the carrot crowd, they know.
They've been operating under the radar for you don't know how long.
They know how deadly carrots are, but somehow they have managed to get carrots stuffed into the good food groups out there that these medical people come up with.
They use cartoon characters.
That's how they bugs Bunny, a lovable little rabbit, who's always screwing around and making a joke and jerk out of Elmer Fudd.
What's he eat?
Eats carrots.
Makes kids think they can escape the next door neighbor.
Makes kids think that they can outrun the neighbor with a shotgun.
Do you know how many kids who have broken their legs were wearing Nikes?
Have you read of a connection between Nikes and broken legs?
No, you haven't.
Nike has power.
We haven't even talked about lima beans.
We haven't talked about green beans.
This the carrot news is bad enough.
But now I think we're starting to get to the bottom of all this, folks, because the lid has been blown on the cover of big dairy.
We now know that milk, if it's leading to obesity among kids, it's also leading to what?
Heart attacks.
It's leading to high blood pressure and diabetes.
And I'll bet you that some of these kids are being made by their mothers to eat carrots right along with it.
Compounding the danger, compounding the risk.
It's a dangerous world out there, and these people peddling all of these substances, foods, and nutrients that are related to dramatic health problems, are getting away with it.
But thankfully, folks, scientists are on the lookout now at Harvard.
Thanks to Dr. Willett, who is finally raising the caution flag and telling us there's too much advertising of milk in this country.
And you know who these people are, Hollywood dupes.
You've seen the pictures.
They sit there with a milk mustache and a full page four-color ad on your newspaper.
What does it make you want to do?
You go out.
What is the winner of the Indianapolis 500 do?
Drinks milk.
Does he drink milk before the race?
Nope.
Only those who have accidents drank milk before the race.
The winner does not get his milk until after he wins the race, and then he only takes a sip because he's got a race the next week.
Thank God for these scientists, folks.
Unlike uh many of you, I am happy they are around safeguarding my health and my future.
Back after this, don't go away.
Hi, how are you?
Welcome back, New York Times today.
Two things here before we go back to the phones.
Uh here's the headline: most will be mentally ill at some point.
Studies says.
Okay, what the hell?
What are we doing here?
What why why why are we even bothering to live, folks?
We're all gonna go nuts.
We're all gonna be nuts at some point or all of our lives, starting at some point at our lives, in our lives.
More than half of Americans will develop a mental illness at some point in their lives, often beginning in childhood or adolescence.
This is what researchers have found in a survey that experts say will have wide-ranging implications for the practice of psychiatry.
Yes, it's a way to get more patients.
Go out and tell everybody they're nuts and their wacko and bamboo, you have increased your patient base.
The survey is the most comprehensive in a series of census-like mental health studies undertaken by the government.
The findings of those studies are frequently cited by researchers, advocacy groups, policymakers, and drug manufacturers to emphasize the importance of diagnosing and treating mental illness.
Dr. Thomas Ensel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, the primary sponsor of the study, said in a conference call with the reporters, the key point to remember is that mental disorders are highly prevalent and chronic.
Oh, then they're out.
Once you get it, it's over.
You're doomed.
Chronic, and they're out there.
They're all over the place.
The study, he added, demonstrates clearly that these really are the chronic disorders of young people in this country.
On the other side of psychiatrists who say they believe that the estimates are inflated.
50% of Americans mentally impaired.
Are you kidding me?
said Dr. Paul McHugh, professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins.
While the new survey was carefully done, Dr. McHugh said the problem is that the diagnostic manual we're using in psychiatry is like a field guide and it just keeps expanding and expanding.
Pretty soon he said we're going to have a syndrome for short, fat Irish guys with a Boston accent, and I'll be mentally ill.
And he's right.
We're coming up with syndromes for everything.
To explain why you don't feel right.
Well, well, Mr. Snurdley is trying to get me to go political with this, but I'm going to be above that.
He says that almost half the country is Democrats, and that that might uh explain it.
Uh I uh that's cheap humor, Mr. Snerdley of virtually any young, aspiring radio person in some small market could come up with that.
I refuse to uh to uh to go there.
But the the bottom line here is that you're we're mining for patients.
We've come up with a syndrome for fur virtually everything.
You go to a doctor and say, describe whatever symptoms, and we'll create a syndrome for it.
We'll we'll create a syndrome.
We'll come post-traumatic stress, something or other.
Post-traumatic this, post-traumatic that, pretty soon, there's gonna be a whole syndrome for post-birth.
You are screwed up because of your birth.
Shocking to come out of the womb and into the world.
You're not old enough to realize it, the effects that it has on you play out the rest of your life.
What would you rather be cocooned in the womb for the rest of your life or face all this evil that's out there?
But you have no choice.
You are just you just pop out there, and then it's up for grabs, and you can't do anything about it.
Post-birth syndrome, identified here by me on the EIB network to explain why a hundred percent of us are all screwed up.
Brad in San Diego, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Yeah, hi, Rush.
Uh, greetings from the left coast.
Thank you, sir.
great to be greeted.
Yes, I'm uh uh been listening to all the rhetoric and and uh you know that's going on back and forth on either edge.
It seems like the two parties in Washington do nothing but represent the two polarities that exist in the country.
When I'm pretty through my travels around that uh most of America is pretty much in the middle.
There might be a little right of center or a little left center, but what we're seeing in Washington is the extreme polarities.
And that's what I think people are sick and tired of, and that's what I think is being reflected in the uh, you know, the the polls where we're seeing the president's popularity and effectiveness on the decline.
May I ask you a couple questions?
Certainly.
Could you you've described yourself as somebody in the middle along with the vast majority of Americans, they may be a little left or a little right.
That's correct.
Can you give me some examples of of these positions that are centrist positions, maybe a little left, maybe a little right that you hold or some of these Americans that you've met uh hold?
Well, I I think one of the best examples, if I might um offer one of the extremes as opposed to one of the middles is stem cell research.
Clearly, the majority of Americans favor embryonic stem cell research.
Um we see it as uh an opportunity to advance medical science to save current human lives and to advance the the capability of medical science to move forward.
And uh I think this is an area where the Republicans are uh have taken it way out to the right.
Okay, let me let me let me ask let me ask you again.
Could you give me a couple of positions that are in the in the middle, uh little left or a little right that are exemplified by you and and uh most of America?
Um, can you give me an extreme position of the left that you uh find Americans uncomfortable with?
Oh.
Not off the top of my head.
Thank you.
I knew that you were a fraud from the moment you uh got into your diatribe.
I knew that the when I saw stem cell research of there, I knew exactly who you were, sir.
You many people have tried to trick the host.
Uh we've even tried we've even had trick the host days where we've actually thrown it open to people to try, and nobody ever has.
Uh you can't name a centrist position because there aren't any.
And you can't name an ultra-liberal position because you don't think any are.
What you basically are is an anti uh right winger, you you don't trust evangelical Christians.
You think the Christians are upsetting all of America because of stem cell research.
Were I to ask you, do you favor conceiving fetuses for the purpose of killing them so that you can get the stem cell from the embryo?
I don't know what you would say, but I doubt that you would agree with that, even though that's what it is.
You say you claim to maintain a position that is the majority position of the people of the United States of America.
I don't know whether it is or not, but if it is, it just means they're not fully informed.
Because there are plenty of other ways to get stem cells, such as from the umbilical cord blood than killing a fetus than killing a human being.
I've never understood this point that it's okay to kill one human being to study what you get from that death to maybe save another one, when there are other options to get stem cells.
And especially this is the only president's authorized stem cell research in the country.
George W. Bush is the only guy that spent any money on it.
George W. Bush is the only president that's established an existing line of stem cells and said go research them and go to town and have all you want at it.
Now the House has uh overrule what he wants on this, but that's politics.
You know, one thing I don't I I think you liberals have got to learn here that you don't just get what you want anymore because of who you are.
You are in a political battle.
If you want something to pass, you don't go to the Supreme Court and say rule on this for us.
You go to the American people and make your case, and you try to persuade a majority of Americans to agree with you.
Those that disagree with you are going to be doing the same thing.
And then we vote.
And if you lose, you keep fighting, and you keep trying to persuade a majority of Americans to agree with you.
That's our system, and it ebbs and flows.
Some win, some lose.
We all win, sometimes we all lose.
Our candidates all win, our candidates all lose.
We all gain ground in our issues, we all lose ground with our issues.
But you people seem to want to have an absolute control over where certain things go simply because of who you are, because you're liberals.
You don't want to have to fight for them because you never really had to.
You got whatever you wanted because you had presidents in Congresses that were 40 years Democrat and liberal and a press that was a bunch of slaves to whatever you believed, and then just echoed it all over the world.
Now you're in a fight and you don't know how to fight and win.
Proven by the results at uh ballot boxes all over America recently.
So you don't want to fight and lose, so you're trying to get around the fight.
And you're doing that by saying your other side is dangerous, power mad, abusing power, evangelical Christians, trying to thwart democracy or whatever panic-oriented diatribe you come up with.
But you're still losing with all of it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you, thank you.
Your host for life, having more fun than a human being, should be allowed to have here on the EIB network.
I have morning update today dealt with this story.
Let me uh let me feature it for you if you missed the morning update today.
You might have, you might have heard this story already.
It's a couple days old, but uh you haven't heard our treatment of this story.
The police in Lyndonwood, New Jersey uh conducted a sting of escort services.
Uh these escort services, the cops thought were basically fronts for prostitution rings.
Whore houses, if you will.
And they found that one of these prostitution rings called uh August Playmates was run by a seasoned citizen, quite seasoned, eighty years old, her name Vera Turcy, and she was the madam.
Grandma Vera ran the enterprise from her apartment.
She charged the clients 160 dollars for an hour with one of her girls.
She kept $60.
The cops began wondering about her age when they called during their undercover operation because grandma appeared to have trouble breathing when they come into the 80-year-old woman, they call her up and they think they're calling a, you know, a whorehouse, and they and they get this 80-year-old woman with labored breathing.
State police detective Sergeant Thomas Cornelly said you get a feel for how old someone is when you talk to them, and she sounded like an 80-year-old woman.
And so because of her poor health and her labored breathing, the police didn't take her to the lockup when they arrested her.
They did arrest her.
They uncovered her operation.
Now this story, though, is different from all of the other madams that they rounded up in this sting operation.
And it's actually quite different than it appears, because you see, Grandma Vera Tursey told the police she had to do this.
This is the only way she could supplement her social security check.
She's 80 years old.
Social security is not enough.
She had to become a madam.
She had to have a ring of call girls.
She had to do her own version of Sydney Middle Barrows in order to make ends meet.
It's either prostitution or dog food for Grandma Vera Turcy.
Now, on the one hand, we have Democrats opposing the whole notion of private accounts because there's nothing wrong with Social Security.
It's healthy as it can be.
Why, it's fabulous.
And Bush wants to destroy it.
Because he's power mad.
He wants to consolidate power.
He's never had, we've never had a president with such a desire for absolute power, and he wants to destroy Social Security.
Now I've always wondered how in the world the Democrats have any credibility whatsoever because during an election cycle, they're always complaining social security's not enough.
They're always complaining a Republican's going to take it away.
We've had stories over the years that Social Security and Medicare are so strapped that people like Vera Tursey are being forced to choose between dog food and medicine.
They really can't afford both.
The benefits just aren't there.
Then they turn around on the next day, practically, and claim that Bush or whoever Republicans running for office wants to take their social security away from them.
Well, how can you take away something that's not sufficient anyway?
So here you have an 80-year-old grandmother to supplement Social Security, which a Democrats say is just in great shape, doesn't need any fix whatsoever.
It's been saved, it's solvent.
I mean, it's it's there.
I mean, it's everybody.
It's gonna be fine and dandy.
Bush is gonna destroy it, but otherwise it's okay.
Here's this woman admitting that she can think of nothing else but prostitution to supplement her social security.
But just think of this.
If Vera Turse, the 80-year-old madam who was arrested, could have set up a personal savings account 50 or 60 years ago, she'd be living large.
She wouldn't have any problems with social security being insufficient.
She wouldn't have needed to turn to prostitution, corrupting the lives of her girls.
We don't know how old they were or are.
That would be interesting to find out.
But the truth is, if she'd had a private account, her own personal savings account, she would be living large.
She would have more money than whatever her social security monthly benefit is, and she would not have to depend on booking call girls to make ends meet.
Meanwhile, the woman still needs to work.
And I think what are they gonna do?
Put her in jail.
They're really gonna put an 80-year-old woman in jail, especially one who can't make ends meet on social security.
You know, with the way we're going in technology in this country, you got phone calls, the internet, there's any number of ways this woman can continue her work to supplement her social security, any number of ways that she can continue to run a call girl ring.
She can apply for the job that does this at the Clinton Presidential Library and massage parlor.
Hell, they they might even provide health benefits uh at the Clinton Library and massage parlor.
But I think we all have to ask our cells a question, ladies and gentlemen, when it comes down to the decision we all must make on social security reform.
Do we want private accounts?
Or do you want your grandmother hiring a bunch of call girls and becoming a madam?
Prostitution or private accounts.
That apparently is the question that we Americans now face.
And I want to thank Vera Turse for bringing the stark cold reality of the situation to the American people.
She is due a great debt from this society.
It's not dog food, folks.
It's not cat food, it's not medicine or that.
It's social security, reform, or prostitution.
I might say, since so many of you love Cuba, many of you think that Cuba has the greatest health care system in the country.
Do you know what most Cuban or very, very many Cuban women do?
What Cuban wives do, they are prostitutes.
That's how they earn extra money.
Because they're only rationed, what, 14 beans a month?
What is the what is the device uh Castro gave him out there?
Oh, yeah, uh rice boilers or whatever it is, rice cookers or whatever, rice rice cookers.
Apparently it's not enough.
They still have to turn to prostitution.
And so did Vera Turse at 80.
And we don't know how long she's been doing this, but because she did, let me tell you what else.
Because she turned to her own devices.
She was self-reliant.
She didn't run around the country demanding more benefits.
She didn't run around demanding bigger tax increases.
She apparently wasn't feeding off of her grandkids or her own kids.
She went into business for herself.
She was self-reliant.
She started a call girl ring.
It was either that or starve.
It's a question we all face as we reach our seasoned citizen years.
Benton City, Washington, Jerry, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you so much, Russ.
It's uh it's an honor to talk to you.
You bet, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Yeah, I just wanted to make a comment.
Uh oh, a little oh, just a few minutes ago, you were talking about the milk and making kids and people fat and that type of thing.
Right.
You know, I just and I kind of cut back on milk because if you look at a label on milk, it's in one cup of milk, there's 11 grams of sugar.
Yeah.
But that, hey, wait a minute, it's natural sugar.
That's natural sugar.
Oh, okay.
Why you I mean, just say go have you looked at the natural sugar in in uh your average piece of fruit?
There's a lot of it.
Yeah.
Okay.
Did you see the have you seen the amount of sugar in an eight-ounce glass of orange juice?
But they always say it's natural sugar.
Mm-hmm.
It's not, it's not labeled natural sugar on the milk.
It says sugars, eleven grams.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But it's, I mean, they don't add any.
It comes out of the comes out of the other that way.
Okay.
No, I'm being facetious with you.
I'm I'm the but the because people natural sugar, that's okay.
What we don't like is fructose.
We don't like granulated sugar.
We don't Mr. Sterley, you don't believe me about sugar and orange juice.
Let me tell you how much sugar is in orange juice.
If a diabetic who needs to shoot up insulin makes the mistake of shooting up too much and goes into insulin shock, the cure for insulin shock is a massive, massive dose of sugar, so that the insulin can go to work on it and soak it up.
Orange juice is what you give somebody for a in if they're at home.
Give them orange juice.
It's it's it's it's not glucose, but I mean it's as close to it as you can get.
Now, if you go to the hospital and this happens, they'll shoot you up with some glucose.
But orange juice, eight ounces of it, take a glass, and you feel like a million dollars within seconds of going into insulin shock.
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Uh Barry in Houston, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Uh hi, Rush.
Yes, sir.
I I have a comment.
Uh, you had mentioned before about stem cell research.
Um I happen to have a daughter uh that has juvenile diabetes.
She lives on a needle, she lives on uh insulin uh to stay alive.
Um the only potential cure for her that's out there is uh stem cell research.
Um whether it be embryonic, whether it be cord, whether it be any or adult, whatever it is.
The problem that I have is that uh I happen to call, my wife happened to call one of the drug companies uh that manufactures insulin.
Uh according to their annual statement, uh, I think last year, the year before, they did about 12.8 billion dollars in revenue.
Twenty percent of that twelve point eight billion dollars of revenue went for insulin with insulin sales.
Um my question uh is is that uh when my wife called the president's office of the drug company and asked them if they were donating any money for stem cell research or to find out what they were doing, um she was told basically that by by the president's office that they don't want to see a cure for juvenile diabetes because quote, it will affect their bottom line.
And I'd like to uh and and personally I don't I am not convinced that this is a uh uh a right to life issue.
I think that that uh we need to uh as a country look at these diseases, look at the money that's being spent on drugs to maintain these diseases and not cure these diseases.
And if stem cell research uh holds holds the the future for some potential cures, I think that's where uh uh the the Bush administration uh uh needs to uh Well, see you just you you you just said the key word if there have been so many false hopes raised with this whole stem cell argument.
We don't know what we're gonna find, but so many people believe that there's a cure for virtually anything at the end of the rainbow when it comes to stem cell research.
Uh and I'll tell you what, it is a life issue because the pro-stem cell crowd is not interested in cord.
They want embryonic.
If you think this is a separate issue from the pro-abort crowd, you have you you've got the you've got to be more open-minded about the political realities of uh various interest groups in this country.
Now I've heard all my life such things as, hey, you know what?
General Motors, Ford, they've all got a 250 mile a gallon engine.
The oil companies are paying them billions to not produce it, because it put them out of business.
I've heard there'll never be a cure for cancer.
Because there's too much money treating it.
Too much money in the radiation therapy, too much money in the chemo industry, too much money in the hospital industry.
They need this business.
There'll never be a cure for cancer, even though we've cured some.
Even though we've cured a lot of diseases, uh we have we have made uh head have headway on a lot.
Some of this stuff is not easy.
I I think we've had so much medical success that people have uh high expectations here.
But the uh, you know, the this is this is one of the most do you know how much we know?
I mean, we're talking, we map the human genome.
Do you know how much we know?
We don't know a smit, folks.
We know so little about what all this is and why it happens and how to fix it.
Uh we're we're the progress is slow.
You know, I've heard people say that um, well, you know, we really will never cure cancer, uh, because if we did, look at the population problem we'd have.
Nobody would die.
They'd die of other things, but they wouldn't we we need we need alcohol.
I've heard people we need all these diseases as population control.
I've heard people say that's why the disease exists.
It's all part of national uh natural selection.
You hear all these things when you're when you have a family member that's impacted personally by this, I think you're more susceptible to believing these things.
But somebody in the president's office of a drug company is telling you this, I would be suspicious of it.
Uh I uh that that's if if that were true to be the last thing they would admit, unless you've got a malcontent employee in there who didn't get a raise yesterday or the day before you called, and you're just getting an opinion.
Uh but you know, the the the I I think this is an another uh classic case where conspiracy uh theories are attractive because they seem so simple.
Whereas the truth seems so complicated.
Maybe it's the other way around.
The truth is so simple, and yet people can't accept simplicity.
It's got to be complicated.
There have to be all these other reasons why this isn't happening.
Whatever it is.
Things that people cannot explain can be easily explained by a conspiracy because it doesn't take a whole lot of brain power to conceive one of those.
Uh, and it's it's uh it's just simpler to do it.
But I don't I don't frankly think that's the case.
I in fact I think the pharmaceutical industry is under assault in this country.
I think the pharmaceutical business is under siege in this country.
Uh and I I and I think they do some of the we have the best health care system in the world.
And we feed and we clothe and we provide medicine and we provide more health care for people in the world than any nation ever has or any nation ever will.
And uh, you know, we we we've we've never had experts before tell us that we're gonna get cures from X, Y, or Z, but all of a sudden here with stem cell, we've got paraplegics and quadriplegics thinking they're gonna walk with stem cell research.
John Edwards is out there saying if he and John Kerry have been elected, Christopher Reeve would be walking.
I mean it's irresponsible.
It's utterly irresponsible.
And yet, because people want these things so desperately, they are they're they're I mean prone to believe them all, but I think a more rigorous examination of some of this stuff would prove valuable to uh a lot of people.
I gotta run because of the constraints of time.
We'll be back in just a second.
Wrap it up.
Stay with us.
Let me leave you with one news story in case you haven't heard this.
Here we go.
It's more on the globalization front.
And I'm gonna tell you right off the bat, the liberals will love this, and sadly some of our own justices will as well.
A Spanish judge in Madrid wants to question three U.S. soldiers as suspects in the death of a Spanish cameraman who was killed when a U.S. tank fired on a hotel housing foreign journalists during the 2003 assault on Baghdad.
The Pentagon has found no fault with the soldiers, but high court judge Santiago Padraz wants to question the three men who were in the tank.
So a a Spanish judge wants to question three soldiers about an act of war.
I don't know what's gonna happen.
Well, Pedrez on Tuesday agreed to send a request for U.S. cop cooperation in the investigation, but he is still only in the initial stages of the criminal investigation and uh several steps away from bringing any charges.
His investigation stems from a complaint brought by a family of one of the journalists that was uh that was in the hotel.
Uh so you know if our courts are going to apply foreign law to our citizens, why shouldn't our citizens be subject to foreign law?
I mean, if you're if you're gonna sit there and say, well, we ought to bring in foreign law.
I mean, it's a worldwide thing we live.
Fine.
All right, well then let's go ahead and send these three soldiers over to Madrid and let them be tried for a crime in an act of war.
I mean, that's what's happening, folks.
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