Rush Limbaugh Program - June 10, 2005, Friday, Hour #1
Aired: 2005-06-10
Duration: 07:53


=== Animal Rights Activists on Trial (03:14) ===

[00:00:00]  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.
[00:00:08]  Well today I have good news from New Jersey.
[00:00:11]  Six animal rights activists will go on trial this week charged with animal enterprise terrorism.
[00:00:17]  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.
[00:00:27]  Now according to prosecutors, the so-called activists invaded Huntington offices, damaged property, and stole documents.
[00:00:33]  They sprayed cleaning fluid into the eyes of employees.
[00:00:36]  They went to employees' homes.
[00:00:38]  They smashed windows.
[00:00:39]  They threatened to kill or injure family members.
[00:00:41]  They also targeted companies doing business with Huntington.
[00:00:44]  They swamped their phones and launched email attacks designed to shut down their computer systems.
[00:00:49]  The activists called themselves SHACK, Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty.
[00:00:53]  They now face a quarter million dollars in fines, three years in jail on the animal terrorism charge.
[00:00:58]  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.
[00:01:06]  Now, these activists, these domestic terrorists, they have a defense.
[00:01:10]  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.
[00:01:17]  They say this is a frightening step in the Bush administration's path to war on domestic dissidents.
[00:01:23]  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:01:24]  It's Bush's fault.
[00:01:25]  No, there you have it, folks.
[00:01:26]  Animal rights activists, no.
[00:01:28]  Bird brain kook vandals, pure and simple.
[00:01:37]  My friends, what sounds like a story about illicit activity is actually something quite different.
[00:01:41]  Lindenwood, New Jersey police conducted a sting of escort services, which were fronts for prostitution rings.
[00:01:48]  They discovered that one of the rings called August Playmates was run by a seasoned citizen, quite seasoned, Vera Tercy, the madam, is 80.
[00:01:57]  Grandma Vera ran the enterprise from her apartment.
[00:02:00]  She charged clients $160 for an hour with a call girl.
[00:02:03]  She kept 60.
[00:02:04]  Cops began wondering about her age when they called during their undercover operation because grandma appeared to have trouble breathing.
[00:02:11]  State Police Detective Sergeant Thomas Cornerly said, you get a feel for how old someone is when you talk to them.
[00:02:17]  She sounded like an 80-year-old woman.
[00:02:19]  Because of her poor health, the police didn't take her to the lockup when they arrested her.
[00:02:23]  Now, I said this story is something quite different than it appears, and it is.
[00:02:27]  You see, Grandma Vera told police that she had to work as a madam in order to supplement her social security check.
[00:02:34]  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.
[00:02:45]  I mean, I actually feel sorry for this poor woman.
[00:02:47]  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.
[00:02:57]  I mean, they might even provide you with health benefits.
[00:03:00]  That is, if you're able to stay out of jail.
[00:03:03]  Think about these private accounts, folks.
[00:03:05]  Private accounts are prostitution.
[00:03:06]  What's for you?
[00:03:13]  All right, now I don't want to alarm you there.

=== Democrats And School Lunch Safety (04:38) ===

[00:03:14]  There's no specific threat here, but government officials are concerned that terrorists might target school lunches.
[00:03:21]  An FDA administrator says the school lunch program is particularly vulnerable to tampering, but he says steps are being taken to improve safety.
[00:03:29]  Now, if you're worried that your kids' government-subsidized lunch might be targeted by terrorists, I have comforting news.
[00:03:34]  It's estimated that your kids throw away over $600 million worth of school lunch food every year.
[00:03:40]  But if you're still worried, here's a novel approach.
[00:03:42]  Fix the lunch yourself.
[00:03:45]  It has been done in the past.
[00:03:46]  Works when it's tried.
[00:03:49]  But even if you do that, there's another threat.
[00:03:50]  It's really bad out there.
[00:03:51]  17 states have banned or are in the process of banning soda and junk food because it makes kids fat.
[00:03:58]  And okay, give them milk.
[00:03:59]  No, can't give them milk.
[00:04:00]  Turns out that milk makes them even fatter than sodas.
[00:04:04]  Study published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Medicine found that the more milk children drank, the fatter they got.
[00:04:10]  They surveyed 12,000 kids.
[00:04:12]  Children who drank the most milk gained more weight, and it didn't matter.
[00:04:16]  Skim milk, 1% milk, they got even fatter.
[00:04:19]  Found out it's not the milk, it's the calories in the milk.
[00:04:22]  So where are we?
[00:04:23]  Terrorists are targeting your school lunch for your kids.
[00:04:27]  Soda and milk are making your kids fat, but it's no big deal because kids are throwing $600 million worth of food away.
[00:04:34]  We got an obesity epidemic.
[00:04:36]  Give them water, folks.
[00:04:38]  They'll throw that away, too, in the trash can, like the rest of the government-subsidized lunches they're getting.
[00:04:48]  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.
[00:05:02]  And that was just his latest rant.
[00:05:04]  Not long ago, Dean said that he hates Republicans and everything they stand for.
[00:05:08]  Now, Richardson said he wouldn't have made those comments.
[00:05:10]  Biden and the Breck girl have made clear they don't consider Dean the party spokesman.
[00:05:15]  But overall, there isn't much outrage among Democrats, and there's a reason for that coming up.
[00:05:20]  But Dean isn't backing off.
[00:05:21]  On the Today Show, Chairman Dean defended his remarks and went on to assert that Republicans are pretty much a white Christian party.
[00:05:28]  Howard Dean, the former governor of the state of Vermont, 98% of that population, white.
[00:05:33]  A greater percentage of minorities, including African Americans, voted for George Bush than live in Vermont.
[00:05:40]  Now, the reason Dean's ravings don't trouble Democrats much is because their base agrees with him.
[00:05:44]  They are Howard Dean.
[00:05:46]  They're just as livid they're no longer in power.
[00:05:48]  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.
[00:05:59]  And he is the spokesman, despite what Biden and Edwards say.
[00:06:04]  He is the guy articulating what Democrats want to hear, want to be said.
[00:06:09]  You don't see anybody demanding he be gotten rid of, do you?
[00:06:11]  The kooks in the Democratic Party define the mainstream of the Democratic Party today, and Howard Dean defines that base.
[00:06:25]  In 1916, Anthony Crawford, a black cotton farmer, was arrested.
[00:06:29]  He had accused a white buyer of cheating him by giving him less than white farmers were receiving for cotton.
[00:06:35]  Hundreds of South Carolina residents hanged Mr. Crawford from a pine tree and then riddled his body with bullets.
[00:06:41]  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.
[00:06:58]  The resolution, sponsored by Virginia Republican George Allen and Louisiana Democrat Mary Landrieu, notes that nearly 200 bills were introduced and seven presidents asked Congress to end lynching.
[00:07:10]  The Senate blocked all efforts and they used the filibuster to do it.
[00:07:14]  Ms. Johnson says it'll be nice to have an apology from the same body that blocked legislation.
[00:07:19]  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.
[00:07:33]  Yep, the same party whose Senate leader was once Robert Byrd, former Klansman.
[00:07:37]  Same party that blocked civil rights legislation in the 60s using the filibuster.
[00:07:42]  Same party now fighting personal accounts for Social Security, which would benefit blacks immensely given mortality rates.
[00:07:49]  Friends, there has never been a true accounting of the damage caused by Democrats to blacks in America.