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June 16, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 16, 2005, Thursday, Hour #3
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Did uh did you all see where the uh the uh felt family, the deep throat family has finally inked their big movie and book deal.
They're gonna get their cool million here.
I think it's with Paramount.
And I since I applaud them.
Since Bob Woodward and Bernstein wouldn't give him any money.
I mean, where was the justice in that?
Bernstein and Woodward were stenographers, basically, for what Deep Throat told them, and Deep Throat sitting out there in his mother's garage in Santa Rosa, maybe not even know where he is anymore.
Family out there basically starving.
You see his daughter, his daughter's a stick.
She turns sideways, she wouldn't even make a shadow.
And so they hear Woodward and Bernstein, they sold their papers to the University of Texas at Austin for a cool five million some time ago, because Bernstein needed the money.
But uh, but uh but uh old Deep Throat, I mean, they didn't share a dime of it with him.
So he had to go out, his family had to go out and make their own movie deal, and apparently they've done it and got a cool mill.
Uh and congratulations.
I mean, if there's going to be all kinds of money in journalism, I think that the source ought to get some.
Damn straight.
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Don't forget our Club Gitmo t-shirts at our Club Gitmo Resort section of Rushlinbaugh.com.
We've got two um, we got we got what do we hear?
We have two t-shirts.
Uh the same kind of t-shirt.
They both say Club Gitmo on the front, but they each say something different on the back.
Uh they're 1995 regardless of size, uh, small through double X. I'm getting a couple complaints from people who uh worried that we're not making uh clothing apparel uh available for fat people.
And I'm gosh, if you can't do a 2X, uh it may be time to be looking at something else.
Or you could buy two XLs and sew them together or something.
I I will make an effort to see if we can find some three and four X's out there, but I make no guarantee.
But uh we're looking to add other items in the uh in the Club Gitmo gift shop, soap on a rope, and uh bath towels, maybe some talcum powder, uh nail clippers, uh, you know, whatever it it might be, mugs.
We could end up uh depending on how long this goes, we could we could add quite a few items to the uh to the gift shop uh at Club Gitmo section of Rushlimbaugh.com.
And I want to remind you one more time, there's a I really would like you all read this uh if you have time.
The um is this this quest by the Palm Beach State Attorney to continue to force me to give up my privacy to prove my innocence, because they've assumed my guilt.
Uh we had another court hearing on my medical records yesterday, and we filed our motion, and our motion is uh eye-opening, I think, in terms of informing people what's really going on here and what has been going on for a year and a half with this whole doctor shopping allegation.
Uh it it's it's I mean it's a it's a it's a crime that has not even been prosecuted in this county before.
The statute's been around ten years.
I think it was prosecuted one time the guy died uh before it got anywhere.
Uh but uh clearly the they the the state said in all of their appellate briefs that they didn't know what to charge until they saw the medical records.
We don't know what, if anything to charge, which is a direct quote from their brief, but so clearly that means they're fishing.
I mean, they we need to see what's in there to see if there's anything we can charge the guy with.
So uh we've posted the motion, focus on page two and pages four through nine.
It's large motion, it's about 1.9 megabytes over 40 pages, and it's a lot of legal ease in there with precedence and so forth, and you legal beagles will enjoy reading it.
For those of you who don't want to go through all that, just focus on page two and then pages four through nine, and we posted a couple newspaper stories that are pretty good accounts of the hearing yesterday from the Palm Beach Daily News and the Palm Beach Post.
So, and they're right there right under the Durban section.
You can't miss it.
Right under the Durban section at uh at Rushlinbaugh.com.
And I really I really would like for you to read this because it'll it'll uh help you understand it.
I need is I really want as many people to understand what's going on here uh as uh as possible.
And a number, you know, the the press, just to give you an illustration, the the the media was given a copy of the motion, and very few of them wrote what's in it.
Uh a couple of them did, and that's why we posted uh or did a pretty good job of it, and That's why we've linked to those two.
Uh but most of them ignored it and just you know repeated whatever the state says uh which is the way the media works with law enforcement these days.
But there is our side to this and it is on my website at www.rushlinbaugh.com uh Hillary Clinton has won what I I guess is the first presidential straw poll in the Democratic Party in uh South Carolina Richland County South Carolina Democrats held the nation's first straw poll for the 2008 presidential race yesterday and the surprise winner was uh Hillary Clinton of New York the
surprise winner the surprise winner who do you think it was going to be John John Edwards and John Carey we're simply delighted said Bob Kunst the president of HillaryNow.com traveling the country promoting uh Hillary's candidacy this uh this ought to help us in our effort gives us a nice boost Clinton's victory uh at the sparsely attended event was a mild upset former U.S. Senator John Edwards of North Carolina a
native South Carolinian, and last year's Democratic vice presidential candidate have been considered the favorite.
Why?
Why would anybody consider Edwards the favorite?
He didn't carry South Carolina or North Carolina.
He was born in South Carolina, lived in North Carolina, didn't carry either of those, even in the primary.
Did he win South Carolina in the primary?
Did he win one of these two in the primary?
I don't recall.
Not that it matters.
But here's, this made huge news, but here are the numbers.
Clinton got 44 votes in the straw poll.
I can't believe I'm even talking about this.
Edwards got 34 votes.
Virginia Governor Mark Warner came in third with 32 votes.
And Senator Biden of Delaware got 24 votes.
John Kerry was not even a factor.
John Kerry, who desperately wants this nomination again, folks.
He desperately wants to give it another go as the party's presidential nominee not even a factor in South Carolina.
But of course not under that that is understandable carry during his own campaign in 2004 said we don't need to win the South who cares about that we don't need the South to win the presidency and the South will remember statements like that by people from the Northeast they'll never forget them.
House of Representatives yesterday defied President Bush and voted to make the first changes to the Patriot Act by prohibiting authorities from obtaining records on a library, that would be library for those of you in Rio Linda, and bookstore patrons.
The change, which passed 238 to 187 as an amendment to a larger spending bill, comes as both chambers of Congress are debating the future of the Patriot Act and whether to extend 16 provisions that will expire at the end of the year.
of this year unless both houses and the president approve their extension yesterday's vote indicates that the president will not win extension of all the provisions when Congress votes specifically on reauthorizing the 16 provisions later this year.
In a statement to the president of the United States and to the Republican leadership that you have a strong tripartisan coalition that's saying we're going to do everything we can to protect the American people from terrorism but we're going to do it in a way that does not undermine our rights as a free country.
These are the words from Bernie Sanders Vermont Socialist and the amendment's chief sponsor Frank Wolf representative Frank Wolf a Virginia Republican said it was better to err on the side of caution than to risk another terrorist attacks I don't want to make a mistake that may very well lead to something else happening he said urging the House to wait and let the Judiciary committee finish its examination of all sixteen expiring Patriot Act provisions later this year.
So this is the provision that deals with the uh ability of authorities to obtain uh library records uh and uh bookstore uh records uh how did they forget medical records uh in this?
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We have more audio sound by some Dick Durbin.
He just will not be quiet this morning on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
Senator Durbin said, and this is almost laughable that we need to attack energy efficiency in this country like we did World War II.
Can we over the next 20 years reduce our dependence on foreign oil by 40%?
No.
It's a challenge.
It's not as great a challenge as putting a man on the moon, but America did it.
Hell yes, it is.
Hell yeah.
Stop the tape for crying out loud.
Senator, your party's against what you're proposing.
How are we gonna do it?
You won't let us drill for oil and war.
You won't let us explore new regions off the coast of the United States.
Where are we supposed to get this oil?
Oh, I know.
We're supposed to go hybrid.
We're supposed to go helium.
We're supposed to go methane, whatever the hell we're supposed to use.
Excuse me, methane always does that to me.
So we're supposed to go alternative, are we?
Yes, Senator Durban.
We got to attack this like we attack World War II.
Hey, Senator Durbin, how about attacking the war on terror the way we attacked World War II, huh?
Is the Manhattan Project when President Franklin Roosevelt said develop an atomic bomb that will end World War II?
But we did it.
And I am confident with the creativity and ingenuity of America, we can meet this challenge.
Forty percent reduction in dependence on foreign oil over the next 20 years.
Okay, you're confident with the creativity and ingenuity of America.
You're gonna tax the people that come up with this idea, you're gonna tax their achievement, huh?
You're gonna punish them, Senator.
They make too much money coming up with ideas to implement your plan.
You're gonna punish them?
Find this amazing.
We got to attack this the way we attack World War II, but how about fighting wars like we fought in World War II, Senator?
Hmm.
Uh then Durbin said anybody, he's anybody who drives a Hummer should join the Army.
People drive these Hummers.
Have you ever seen them?
I personally think if you want to drive a Hummer, you ought to join the Army.
But people want to buy them, want to go on the road and get five or six miles a gallon.
And Detroit keeps churning out these big heavy cars.
Well, from my point of view, we ought to step back and say as a nation, isn't it worth something for us to have more fuel efficient vehicles so we don't get drawn into foreign conflicts over oil?
It is more important to me to drive a sensible car and to spare someone's son or daughter from serving in the military in the Middle East in a war.
That is not a great sacrifice on my part, and it's certainly a great reward if we have fewer and fewer times where we're entangled in this Middle East problem that that continues to this day over our sources of oil.
Are we are we are we given to understand here that he thinks we're in Iraq and the war on terror is really about oil?
Is he is that the message he's sending these kooks?
That's what he's saying.
He's he's recur- he's regurgitating more kook uh conspiracy theories.
This is all about this is all about war.
And you people, you driving these Hummers five, six miles to the gallon, you ought to go join the army.
You shouldn't be able to drive what you want to buy.
I think he'd be advocating higher gasoline prices then.
The higher the prices go, the people, uh the lower uh people uh will demand their more mileage they'll demand to get uh smaller cars.
That's the theory.
You know what I'll always pointed out, it's true.
It is absolutely true.
As gasoline prices come down, what do people do?
Testing, one, two, three.
They drive more right, Mr. Snurley.
Wait to be way to be.
They drive more.
Exactly.
They drive that.
They and then and what happens then?
They use more fuel.
Uh so you know the answer here is not just conservation, and it's not just alternatives.
This is an oil-based world economy, and it's not gonna change any time soon or thereabouts.
We've got hell, what was the Saudis or OPEC today?
They said they got enough oil for the rest of time they they they said there's enough oil for the rest of human existence that they have it and and I'm sure the world does too all this talk about shortages is a crock anyway here's uh here's Jim and Fort Mead I'm glad you called sir welcome to the EIB network.
Hey Rush this is uh mega dittoes I'm uh been a longtime and I miss your TV show.
Thank you, sir.
Hey um you know I'm really concerned uh I'm I'm really pleased that the American people that despite the left's best efforts to paint me and my fellow soldiers as Nazis and members of the Khmer Rouge that the American people still overwhelmingly support what we do.
Well, they do.
There's no question they do.
And you ought to be, you know, the American people are not only supportive, but they're proud of what you and your compatriots are doing.
And people like Durbin are not speaking for the majority of Americans, and you know that, right?
Yeah, I do, Rush.
And I think that the more that the left hammer at it, I think the more that the American people are going to leave the ranks of the...
the left and join the right thinking people of America.
Well we would hope something like that will happen.
I think it is hell I think that's why the Democrats are the trouble they're in.
I I I think their theirs is a last gasp for existence uh as they have always known it their their playbook and their template is old old old and they really do I think Ralph Peters has a point.
I think they really would like to go back to where we're fighting a cold war and the intellectuals have a chance to set up a dictatorship where the intellectuals run the world intellectuals of the world would run the world and and and they're just fed up that Reagan succeeded they're fed up that the seat of world intellectualism which can be some strain of communism or socialism has gone down the tubes can't win in elections.
You know the thing is liberal ideas when honestly put forth do not win and this also frustrates them to no end Jeff and Laffey at Indiana hello sir welcome to the program it's great to have you with us super mega dittoes Rush how are you fine sir never better thank you been with you since 1988 the first day on WLS.
Well that goes back a ways I'm honored to have you that long I could not believe you brought up the Hummer a while ago I'm following a Hummer down the interstate right now and on the winch on the on the back window carry Edwards for a strong American bumper sticker.
That just doesn't make sense does it you got a bunch of liberals on the highway you're following they got a carry Edwards sticker on the back of their Hummer.
I hear you man they do yeah yeah I'll get right to my point here Rush yeah um I think if the Senate can censure Trent Watt for for what he did I think Dick Durbin should be censured by the Senate.
You know it's a good point a lot of people have made that point that Trent Watt was simply out there making a comment at a birthday party to joke about about Strom Thurman and it was it was really harmless and here comes here comes Durbin with this business of comparing American troops to Nazis in Pol Pot and Soviet gulags and his refusal to apologize.
And by the way you know that it's uh it it's an excellent point but it it have you seen Jeff have you seen any outrage anywhere other than on this program or other conservative talk programs but you haven't you haven't seen any outrage over this on CNN CNN's not even talking about this you won't see this on the evening news it's not it doesn't even raise their dander it doesn't even cause a ripple in their backyard swimming pool.
It's not a big deal to them.
So, and all of you people, but I keep getting email.
You're calling Durbin's office demanding that he apologize.
No!
He's not going to apologize.
And we don't want him to apologize.
He meant this.
We need to urge him to keep saying it and stand by it.
That's what we need to do.
Talent on loan from God.
All right.
I understand many of your are continuing to call Senator Durbin's office.
I I wouldn't waste my time they're not gonna listen to your complaints at Senator Durbin's office and they're not gonna do anything based on what you say and they're just gonna think that it's a bunch of right wing kooks calling anyway the the the best thing could happen is is for Durbin's people to think that uh uh well I'm look the the point here is not to get people all riled up about Durban and we're not continuing to talk about this in order to get people riled up as Senator Durbin.
That's not the point here.
The point here is simply to inform people this is who the Democrat Party is become, or what they've become.
He epitomizes what they believe.
That's the lesson here, folks.
Uh and I think if you're gonna call Senator Durbin's office, call them be nice and say thanks.
Try that.
Call them up and say, and I'm not gonna give out the number.
You want to do it, look it up.
But call them up and say, I just want to thank Senator Durbin for letting people know who the Democratic Party today really is.
He's done a great service, and I urge him to speak out more.
You know, be positive.
You know, be supportive.
Call up Durbin's office, say, you guys, you're really you you are doing more than any other Democrat alive today to identify who you are and tell people what you stand for.
And we thank you.
And we applaud you and we urge the senator to keep speaking like this.
If you want to call and complain and moan at them, they're just gonna hang up on you and they're not gonna they're gonna take you seriously.
If you if you call up all positive and compliment them, why they'll love you.
Our old buddy uh Sal at Patsy's, the uh the chef at Patsy's, uh just sent me an email.
He's he's gonna be on QVC tomorrow for a uh a six minute segment between eleven and noon Eastern time to sell frozen eggplant parmesan.
And uh he he wanted me to uh mention this on the radio today that Sal's gonna be on QVC tomorrow to sell frozen eggplant parmesan.
I'd be happy to tell everybody you're gonna be on TV tomorrow, Sal, since you're not on at the time this program's on, I'd be glad to tell them.
So it's between eleven and noon on QBC to QVC tomorrow.
Uh people at Patsy's are the finest people on earth.
If you ever if you ever get to New York and you want to have some some old Neapolitan uh Italian cuisine, Patsy's is on fifty-sixth uh between eighth and Broadway.
Here's Bill in Jefferson uh City, Tennessee.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, it's Johnson City, Tennessee.
What an oh what oh I said Jefferson, I misread that.
You're right.
Jefferson City in Missouri.
I take it back.
If if you don't detect uh a Southern accent, I'm a refugee from Massachusetts, and I don't have to explain to you why I left there.
Um what I wanted to say, Rush, is that my my son and his wife and my two grandchildren, they uh they live in Gitmo.
And they they they live there.
Yeah, well, they're my son's in the Navy.
Yes Okay, your son's in the Navy, so uh your son and his wife, your two grandkids live at Gitmo.
Yeah, they live in Cuba.
Guantanamo Bay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, what I'm saying is and and this will strike a nerve, not with a major of the country, but with the people that are going through the same thing that that who have children there, I just want the American people to know that there are young American children there.
My grandpa are they being tortured too?
Well, I'll tell you, it isn't easy for them.
You know, my granddaughter's 13 grandson seven, and we have to send them packages because there's a lot of things they can't get there.
Uh all the things that the American kids take for granted.
This takes the cake.
Wait, you are sending care packages to your son who's in the Navy and his family.
Well, they can't get some of the things.
No, I understand.
I understand.
They're in the U.S. armed services and they're not they're probably not eating as well as the uh prisoners are eating.
That that's what that's what that's it turns my stomach, Rush, to know that a prisoner could probably ask for phil you know, Felet Mignon and get it, and I have to send my kids Oreo cookies and fruit roll ups.
They can't get there.
Actually, the the prisoner be are even being treated better than my grandchildren are.
And you know, there's there's not a lot for kids to do in foreign countries.
They're so restricted, but they don't complain, Rush.
The kids don't complain.
My son doesn't complain, his wife, they they believe in what they're doing, and I I've never heard a complaint out of their mouth.
You know, I'd be careful who I admit this to if I were you, Bill, Because what'll happen, Senator Durbin will hear about this, for example.
And Durbin will accuse you of sending torture toys to your grandchildren to teach them how to how to be prison guards.
You gotta be you gotta be careful who you admit this to.
Yeah, well, I just hope I don't see Senator Durbin crossing the street on my way home from work tonight.
So what do you drive?
What are you driving me?
What kind of car do you what kind of car do you drive?
Oh, I drive a little Ford Taurus.
A Ford Torres.
It's not a it's not a Hummer.
So if you if you saw Senator Durbin crossing the street, he'd be he'd be kindly disposed toward you.
I listened to your previous caller, and honestly God rush.
I I work where there's a lot of parking lots, and all the Hummers.
All the SUVs got the carry stickers on them.
I swear.
I know it's the first ones to complain about the environment.
It's the far left that's owning all these private jets and flying around in a save the turtles conventions and and uh stop burning fossil fuels conventions and so forth.
Well, well, my and and their and their excuses, well, we're filling the jet.
It's a very efficient way to get around.
It's not just a bunch of empty seats up there, but that's what they say.
But you did you say you work you work where there are a lot of parking lots?
Yeah, I don't want to give away my uh my my job because I'm kind of like working now.
But uh I just wanted to let the American people know that there's not just servicemen and women in in foreign countries, there are also American children there.
Families down there.
They don't have it easy.
You know, I call the kids on the weekends and I say, what are you doing?
No, they don't have a lot to do.
It's it's a it's a foreign country, you know, and they're so restricted.
Let me get serious for a moment because you're exactly right.
M Mr. Snurley, what what is the uh Frankie uh from uh somewhere in Flam Frankie Mayor in Florida?
She Mayo, Frankie Mayo, uh, some years ago, after we went into Iraq, started this nationwide effort to send air conditioners to the troops in Iraq.
They send air conditioners, because they're not provided with the army.
And a number of people have contributed to her cause.
It's ended up in a lot of air conditioners that get sent to Iraq.
It's 130 degrees some days in the summer over there.
Uh I'll bet it doesn't get that hot at Gitmo.
And uh, of course, nobody has to send air conditioners to the prisoners at Gitmo because it's uh provided.
Don in Tampa, welcome to the program, sir.
Yeah, Rush.
SUV Ditto's good to talk to you again.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah, uh about this.
Hummer uh saying uh Durbin's talking about, you know, he's trying to have it both ways because the liberals complain when they drive hybrids because they're they're they're not using enough gas because they and then they don't get enough gas taxes, and then you drive a Hummer, whoa, that's too much gas.
Uh how are they complaining that we're not using enough gas because of the hybrids?
Well, then they if they get such good gas mileage, they don't get enough fuel taxes.
Oh, yes, yes, yes.
I remember that we had that we had that story.
The the state of uh Oregon, state of Oregon was urging people to drive these more fuel efficient cars, and so people were doing it.
And they were they were uh the the using less gasoline and the the uh the the gasoline tax receipts were going down.
So they were gonna change the whole method of taxation, how many miles you drive are gonna put sensors on on uh the gas uh pumps uh that was you know coordinate with your odometer and charge you by the mile you've driven rather than by how much gasoline you buy.
Uh and California's looking at uh and incorporating the same system.
So that's true.
Uh and the states, you know, forget to think about this when they're urging everybody to start these conservation methods.
Uh and it is that is funny.
Couple other stories here before we go to the break.
Will Lester, AP, the public's image of the Supreme Court has eroded it over the past seven years.
Just over half of those in a new poll saying that they have a favorable view of the high court.
With major changes expected as aging justices leave the bench.
Fifty-seven percent of people had a favorable view of the court in a poll by the Pew Research Center for the people in the press.
Uh only Justice Clarence Thomas, who is 56, is under the age of 65.
Nominations of new justices are likely in the coming months and years.
So uh people are starting to get sensitive here.
Of course, the liberals will say, we don't care what public things because court is insulated from uh newspapers.
Uh court are not supposed to pay attention to public opinion.
Uh court uh not not uh not not supposed to read the newspapers and so forth.
So they have an explanation and an answer for everything.
Uh From the uh news service Prince Latina, a California university study suggests that oceans will solve global warming in the long term.
This is actually from Science Magazine, the latest issue.
Experts say that carbon dioxide that comes from fossil fuels will be absorbed by oceans, and that will eradicate the problem of global warming.
However, the problem with that long process is that it'll take a thousand centuries to be complete.
I didn't pre-read this thing, but I just I just saw the headline and I put it in the stack.
What about the thousand years that led up to where we are now?
Didn't it didn't the oceans work then?
That's they say that the oceans uh uh solved the warming problem the last time it happened 55 million years ago.
Uh the the scientific hypothesis is based on the analysis of marine sediments deposited during the global warming called the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum, otherwise known as PETM.
Brian is amazed I can so fluidly pronounce such big scientific terms.
The uh sediments reveal an abrupt change in the chemical composition of the sea, which uh started to develop at the beginning of the PETM, again the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum, a period followed by a long and slow recovery.
Uh U.S. University Earth Science teacher James Zakos explained that when investigating the ocean sedimentary uh layers, he was able to observe the effects of a quick acidification during the Paleocene Eocene thermal maximum.
According to the teacher, the CO2 dissolved in the water creates that acidification uh to expand on the ocean's bottom.
The latest research confirms that nearly half the CO2 produced by man went to the oceans in the last two centuries.
So we're gonna be saved by the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum.
It's gonna take thousands of years.
We it could only be pronounced this way.
It's it's it's it's uh four words, Dawn.
It's not one word.
It can only be pronounced that way.
Paleocene Eocene thermal maximum.
If you look at it, if you have any kind of scientific background at all, you'll know there's no way other way you could uh you could pronounce this.
I gotta run, folks, a quick time out.
We will be back after this.
In audio sound by number 12, which we recently played for you, Senator Durbin uh was talking about you people at uh Drive Hummer's uh well, this actually said that in audio sunbite 13.
And in Soundbite 12, he proposed over the next 20 years to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by 40 percent, and he said, hey, we can do it.
We we said it may not even be as great a challenge as the Manhattan Project when President Roosevelt said develop an atomic bomb that'll end World War II.
Did I wonder if some president today said let's if we didn't have a nuclear bomb, and some president said let's make one, would Dick Durbin be in there supporting him?
And by the way, if we can have the Manhattan Project and get credit for it, to create the nuclear bomb, Senator Durbin, why can't we have the Manhattan Project II to really get going on nuclear energy in this country?
If you want fuel efficiency and you want to reduce dependency on foreign oil, hey pal, let's go nuclear.
Oh, FDR doing nuclear is okay, but we can't do nuclear now.
We can do nuclear bombs in the Manhattan Project.
We can't do nuclear power.
Oh no, because Jane Fonda made a movie once called The China Syndrome, and that's that.
You know, um everybody's talking about Senator Durbin, everybody Michael Duffy and all these people worried about the temperature at Gitmo.
Air conditioners being turned on and then turned off, and the prisoners so beside themselves are laying in the fetal position and pulling their hair out.
I will tell you that no matter what, no matter what the temperature gets to at Gitmo, it's definitely cooler than it was at the branch Davidian Compound in Waco when the Clinton administration burned it to the ground.
And come to think of it, I don't remember Durbin saying anything about that when it had.
He may have, I just don't remember it.
And I think they blasted music for weeks when they tried to get the branch Davidians to come out of that compound, did they not?
And I thought they brought in big lights to shine on the compound during the night, all intended to keep them from sleeping.
Didn't they do that at Waco?
Where was Dick Durbin when this domestic torture was going on?
These were U.S. citizens the Clinton administration was targeting, including women and children and babies.
And they eventually burned them out with tanks.
The Waco invasion.
I'm telling you, Mr. Sturdly, much hotter there than it ever is at Gitmo, wouldn't you?
Wouldn't you say?
Some guy in the New York Times today, his name is Norman Augustine.
He's the retired chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation.
And he says it's time to raise the price of fame.
He says, you know, when we change tax law in this country to make only the first million dollars of CEO salaries deductible.
We didn't do that across the board of Hollywood or any other athlete that makes big money.
He says, why don't we?
Why do we now tell movie studios and professional ball clubs, football and baseball, basketball, that you can pay these guys whenever you want to pay them, but only the first million is deductible.
You have to pay corporate taxes on everything above one million dollars that you pay for them.
He wants to call this the Robin Hood Tax Act of 2005.
He said the beauty of the Robin Hood Act is not what these funds could do for our country, but what our country could do with these funds.
The added revenues would not be used to reduce the national debt or modify social security or even pay for premium pork.
Rather, these revenues would underwrite just three initiatives, providing merit bonuses for public school teachers, implementing the wages of nurses working in public hospitals, and increasing the pay and death benefits of American soldiers serving in combat zones.
The Robin Hood Tax Act of 2005.
Only the first million of any entertainer or athlete's big salary would be deductible.
All the rest would be taxable.
And uh you know how you know how CEOs got around this, don't you?
Yes, it's real simple.
Okay, so the CEO, have you seen these reports?
CEO's salary of $627,000.
Bonuses, $425 million.
The same thing.
They'd find a way around it.
They always do, unless they just say, we're just, you know, whatever you pay these stars and athletes, we're gonna take it.
We're just gonna take it.
Which is what somebody will suggest at some point.
Back after this.
The crack up on the left continues.
Five unions yesterday took a step toward leaving the AFL CIO labor federation by forming a coalition uh that'll support joint efforts to boost membership.
The unions are frustrated that the strategic, the AFL CIO leadership to bolster the labor movement, indicated their departure from the Federation could occur if the president John Sweeney is uh re-elected next month.
200 million dollars uh a year, they want to spend one billion over five years, 200 million dollars a year to recruit new Democrats.
And this has got some people upset.
And I don't blame them for wanting out of the EFL CIO.
Folks, you gotta go.
Have a great Thursday.
It's already Friday tomorrow, is that right?
Unbelievable.
We'll be here and uh be looking forward to seeing you then.
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