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June 10, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
07:53
June 10, 2005, Friday, Hour #1
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The other day I brought you the story of a New Jersey developer who's using billboards to knock the state's anti-business policies caused by environmentalist wackos and government bureaucrats.
Well, today, I have good news from New Jersey.
Six animal rights activists will go on trial this week, charged with animal enterprise terrorism.
They targeted Huntington Life Sciences, a British firm with offices in New Jersey for conducting animal research in testing pharmaceutical products, drugs for those of you in Rio Linda.
Now, according to prosecutors, the so-called activists invaded Huntington offices, damaged property, and stole documents.
They sprayed cleaning fluid into the eyes of employees.
They went to employees' homes.
They smashed windows.
They threatened to kill or injure family members.
They also targeted companies doing business with Huntington.
They swamped their phones and launched email attacks designed to shut down their computer systems.
The activists call themselves shack.
Stop Huntington animal cruelty.
And they now face a quarter million dollars in fines, three years in jail on the animal terrorism charge.
Now, if they're also convicted of conspiracy to engage in interstate stalking, they could be hit with another quarter million and five more years in the slammer.
Now these activists, these domestic terrorists, they have a defense.
Well, yeah, on their website, they argue that the charges violate their free speech rights, and that they're victims of a government crackdown on dissent.
They say this is a frightening step in the Bush administration's path to war on domestic dissidents.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's Bush's fault.
No, there you have it, folks.
Animal rights activists, no, bird brain kook vandals.
Pure and simple.
*music*
My friends, what sounds like a story about illicit activity is actually something quite different.
Lindenwood, New Jersey police conducted a sting of escort services, which were fronts for prostitution rings, and they discovered that one of the rings called August Playmates was run by a seasoned citizen, quite seasoned, Vera Tursey, the madam is 80.
Grandma Vera ran the enterprise from her apartment.
She charged clients 160 bucks for an hour with a call girl.
She kept 60.
Cops began wondering about her age when they called during their undercover operation because grandma appeared to have trouble breathing.
State police detective Sergeant Thomas Cornley said, You get a feel for how old someone is when you talk to them.
She sounded like an eighty-year-old woman.
Because of her poor health, the police didn't take her to the lockup when they arrested her.
Now I said this story is something quite different than it appears, and it is.
You see, Grandma Vera told police that she had to work as a madam in order to supplement her social security check.
Now just think if grandma Vera could have set up a personal savings account 50 or 60 years ago, she'd be living large in her senior years instead of having to depend on booking call girls to make ends meet.
I mean, I actually feel sorry for this poor woman.
Meanwhile, grandma, since you still need to work, and since you can book girls over the phone, apply it for a job at the Clinton Presidential Library and Massage Parlor.
I mean, they might even provide you with health benefits.
That is, if you're able to stay out of jail.
Think about these private accounts, folks.
Private accounts or prostitution.
What's for you?
*music*
All right, now I don't want to alarm you.
There's no specific threat here, but government officials are concerned that terrorists might target school lunches.
An FDA administrator says the school lunch program is particularly vulnerable to tampering, but he says steps are being taken to improve safety.
Now, if you're worried that your kids' government subsidized lunch might be targeted by terrorists, I have comforting news.
It's estimated that your kids throw away over 600 million dollars worth of school lunch food every year.
But if you're still worried, here's a novel approach.
Fix the lunch yourself.
It has been done in the past.
Works when it's tried.
Uh but even if you do that, there's another threat.
It's really bad out there.
Seventeen states have banned or are in the process of banning soda and junk food because it makes kids fat.
And okay, give them milk.
No, can't give them milk.
Turns out that uh milk makes them even fatter than sodas.
Study published in the archives of pediatrics and medicine uh found that uh the more milk children drank, the fatter they got.
They surveyed 12,000 kids.
Uh children who drank the most milk gained more weight, and it didn't matter, skim milk, one percent milk, they got even fatter.
Found out it's not the milk, it's the calories in the milk.
So where are we?
Terrorists are targeting your school lunch for your kids.
Soda and milk are making your kids fat, But it's no big deal because kids are throwing six hundred million dollars worth of food away.
We got an obesity epidemic.
Give them water, folks.
They'll throw that away, too, in the trash can, like the rest of the government-subsidized lunches they're getting.
*music*
A handful of Democrats, Senator Joe Biden, John Edwards the Breck Girl, and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson have gone public with mild criticism of Howard Dean following his remark that a lot of Republicans have never made an honest living in their lives.
And that was just his latest rant.
Not long ago, Dean said that he hates Republicans and everything they stand for.
Now Richardson said he wouldn't have made those comments.
Biden and the Breck girl have made clear they don't consider Dean the party spokesman.
But overall, there isn't much outrage among Democrats, and there's a reason for that coming up.
But Dean isn't backing off.
On the Today Show, Chairman Dean defended his remarks and went on to assert that Republicans are pretty much a white Christian party.
Howard Dean, the former governor of the state of Vermont, 98% of that population, white.
A greater percentage of minorities, including African Americans, voted for George Bush than live in Vermont.
Now the reason Dean's ravings don't trouble Democrats much is because their base agrees with him.
They are Howard Dean.
They're just as livid, they're no longer in power.
They're just as angry that judges they hate are being confirmed, just as convinced Christians are a bigger enemy than terrorists are, and just as sputtering mad as the guy who is the party spokesman.
And he is the spokesman, despite what Biden and Edwards say.
He is the guy articulating what Democrats want to hear and want to be said.
You don't see anybody demanding he be gotten rid of, do you?
The kooks in the Democratic Party define the mainstream of the Democratic Party today, and Howard Dean defines that base.
The kooks in the Democratic Party In 1916, Anthony Crawford, a black cotton farmer, was arrested.
He had accused a white buyer of cheating him by giving him less than white farmers were receiving for cotton.
Hundreds of South Carolina residents hanged Mr. Crawford from a pine tree and then riddled his body with bullets.
Crawford's great-great-granddaughter, author Doria Johnson, will be an invited guest when the Senate takes up a resolution expressing remorse for not adopting legislation to halt lynching, a crime that claimed almost 5,000 victims, mostly black, between 1882 and 1968.
The resolution, sponsored by Virginia Republican George Allen and Louisiana Democrat Mary Landrew, notes that nearly 200 bills were introduced, and seven presidents asked Congress to end lynching.
The Senate blocked all efforts, and they used the filibuster to do it.
Miss Johnson says it'll be nice to have an apology from the same body that blocked legislation.
Interesting that this resolution comes so close to the end of the filibuster that kept Janice Rogers Brown, daughter of sharecroppers, victim of state-imposed segregation, off the courts by the same political party, the Democrats, that blocked anti-lynching legislation.
Yep, the same party whose Senate leader was once Robert Byrd, former Klansman.
Same party that blocked civil rights legislation in the 60s using the filibuster.
Same party, now fighting personal accounts for social security, which would benefit blacks immensely given mortality rates.
Friends, there has uh never been a true accounting of the damage caused by Democrats to blacks in America.
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