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June 21, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 21, 2005, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Also, what we've added a couple items, and I didn't nobody told me this, and I was a little steamed yesterday.
I was a little steamed yesterday.
We added two items to the Club Gitmo gift shop.
You know, and I I'm checking the website yesterday afternoon or last night, and I said, Whoa, what is this?
We've added a club gitmo cap and a club gitmo coffee mug.
Jihad Java.
And uh both, of course, are in the same orange prison jumpsuit color as are the Club Gitmo t-shirts.
Uh so in it the cap, 1995, the uh the Jihad Java uh coffee mug 1695.
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Uh, what it would be like at Club Gitmo for Saddam if he were to be transferred there.
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I I didn't I didn't talk about this because I don't really care that it was any big deal.
In fact, I thought it was kind of high schoolish.
But it's backfired, so now I'm going to talk about it.
The LA Times uh ran an experiment in uh in on their on their editorial page, and it lasted just two days before they were forced to shut it down Sunday morning.
On Friday, the Los Angeles Times announced an online feature that it called Wickatorial, and it asked website readers to improve a 1,000-word editorial, War and Consequences on the Iraq War.
It was the LA Times effort to reach out and include their readers in their editorial opinions.
And they allowed the uh uh readers to edit the Times editorial as they would prefer it be written.
Uh and otherwise um make changes to it.
Readers were invited to insert information, make changes, or come to different conclusions.
And it was called the Wickatorial because the model was based on Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia where anybody can add facts or update information.
And uh, I I ran some information on Wikipedia.
We and it, of course, as a public dictionary and public encyclopedia.
It's not accurate.
I ran some checks just on me, and there's some bogus stuff that pops up uh on me if you if you enter my name at Wikipedia.
And I'm therefore not surprised that the LA Times would rely on.
It's just it's just ab Wikipedia as their model.
Go ahead and let your that would that would be no different than my deciding I'm gonna get out of here when I'm gonna do two hours of the show and I'm gonna turn the other hour over to the rest of you where you can correct whatever you think I did that was wrong, improve what you think it would be in this case it'd probably be entertaining because we'd maintain some croll's controls.
What happened to the LA Times was some readers repeatedly posted obscene photos.
You just knew this was gonna happen.
You just you know who's out there trolling the internet.
It's just like every other segment of society.
You've got your ne'er do wells, you've got you've got the dregs of society out there, and you have your upstandings, and you have these people that don't really care much about anything.
But uh you know damn well that the people that wanted to play tricks were gonna get in there and do it.
And so after two days, the LA Times wicketorial uh experiment had to be canceled.
It sounds nutty, said an introduction to the Wickatorial in Friday's paper.
Plenty of skeptics are predicting embarrassment, like an arthritic old lady who takes to the dance floor.
They say the LA Times is more likely to break a hip than B hip.
Nevertheless, we proceed.
We're calling this a public beta, which is a fancy way of saying we're making something available even though we haven't completely figured it out.
This is Michael Kinsley and his gang that run the editorial page at the Los Angeles Times.
What they didn't figure on was hardcore pornography, which the paper's software couldn't ward off.
Their software is uh open source wickatorial software, and it allowed readers to post without vetting from editors who could take down posts only after they appeared.
Any contributor who persisted in bad behavior uh could be blocked, but not until after he had succeeded in behaving poorly.
During most of Friday and Saturday, readers thoughtfully altered the editorial, but by Friday afternoon, hundreds had weighed in.
Some did add profanity, but just as quickly a webmaster from the paper took it down.
Nothing bad really happened until after midnight on Saturday, said Michael Newman, the deputy editorial page editor.
832 Saturday, Saturday night of posting uh on Slashdot.org, which bills itself as news for nerds, directed readers to the Times Wickatorial.
Uh and so what happened is that uh a bunch of porno pictures ended up being posted on the LA Times website.
Uh and so they put a note on the editorial page website explaining the disappearance and thanking the thousands of people who had logged on uh to participate in this new adventure in newspaper editorials.
Now I this does this not illustrate the problem newspapers have.
Newspapers are the the dead tree editions, and then you have the internet editions.
They didn't try this on the dead tree edition.
You know, they there's they could just as easily, and then they have total control over it.
But they weren't thinking about that.
They're trying to spur readership on their website, I guess.
But more than anything else, I think it was just a bunch of liberals trying to show how in touch with their readers they can be, because that paper is in trouble, like all other liberal newspapers are.
They're losing circulation uh uh at a rapid rate.
All right, we got some audio soundbites here I want to share with you in this hour, and we may as well start right at the top here.
Audio soundbite uh number one last night, Monday night in Boston, a party fundraiser, Democratic National Committee Chairman, Howard Dean.
I don't care if Dick Cheney likes my mother or not.
We are gonna fight back.
I will not be lectured about morals by Tom Delay and Rush Limbaugh.
We're gonna be much tougher and in your face with the Republicans when they say things that aren't true.
Keep it up, Howard.
Just be who you are, baby.
Be who you are, man, and then you are educating more Americans to who you are in the Democratic Party is than anything any of your enemies combined could do.
But I want to go back, just uh you know, for those of you that have not been listening that long.
A new tune-in factor here is phenomenal on this program from the 2004 election cycle, a montage of then Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean.
And let me just ask you, who does he still have on his mind?
I am tired of having Rush Limbaugh lay claim to the American flag that we aren't under the thumb of the Rush Limbaugh.
We are taking our country back piece by piece from the Rush Limbaugh.
We have the power to take back the United States of America, so our flag is not owned by Rush Limbo.
So that the flag of the United States is no longer the sole property of Rush Limbaugh.
You have the power to take back our country, so that the flag no longer represents solely Rush Limbaugh.
You have the power to take back our country, so that the flag never again is the sole property of Rush Limbaugh.
That flag never again will be the exclusive property of Rush Limbaugh.
The flag of the United States doesn't belong to Rush Limbaugh.
You have the power to take back our country, so that the flag is no longer the sole property of Rush Limbo.
This country does not belong to Rush Limbaugh.
I want my country back, Mr. President.
That flag belongs to every single American, not to Rush Limbo.
Move over.
I want my country back again because the flag of this country does not belong to Rush Limbaugh.
You have the power to take back the flag, so it is no longer belongs solely with Rush Limbaugh.
All I say, keep it up, Howard.
Am I a candidate for anything?
No.
Am I outraising money for anybody?
No.
I'm just I'm just some kid from Missouri who wanted to be on the radio one day.
Back after this, folks, we will continue with your phone calls, more exciting items from the uh audio soundbite roster, as well as the stacks of stuff.
Don't go away.
And we are back.
Greetings, nice to have you.
So just who is it that's on the minds of these Democrats?
We just shared with you that Dean cannot stop talking about me.
Here is a montage of uh of Dick Durbin, who appeared today on um Good Morning America.
Rush Limbaugh was the only American applauding it every day, but the American people do better.
A right wing radio talk show host.
He was so emboldened by a Rush Limbaugh, he said, you know, if we shut down the federal government, no one will notice.
Uh nope, sorry, that was not a Good Morning America today.
That was a montage of Durbin.
That's why I was confused reading this.
That was a montage of Durbin talking about me on the Senate floor.
Uh and of course, the the uh uh by the Durbin is also out there now saying I am the reason that this whole Gigmo thing came up.
I forget where he said it.
I read it today, I forget where he said this.
He it was some uh some newspaper.
But he's uh he's blaming me for getting all this going for all the phone calls.
And I uh folks, I have to tell you something.
I was not the first on the Durbin case.
There were people, uh I think Laura Ingram played that soundbite of his uh that morning on uh on her radio show between 10 and 12.
And I didn't find out what Durbin said until 2:30 that afternoon.
Uh and yet Durbin still insists that all this is because of me.
It's just it's all this well, no, no, but my my point is it I'm responsible for what he said.
As far as he's concerned, I'm responsible for what he said.
It's what I said that made people mad at what he said.
It wasn't what he said that made people mad, which and the point of that is, folks, the liberals and the Democrats still don't think you're smart enough to make up your minds about anything.
You wouldn't be mad at Dick Durbin if it weren't for people like me telling you what a louse he is.
You wouldn't be upset, and you wouldn't be calling his office if it weren't for people like me getting you all revved up because you don't have the brains to learn hear what Durbin said himself and independently on your own get mad about it.
That's what they believe.
And it's the same thing with if I can go back to it, this Hillary book.
This Hillary book, even though it's written and published by a bunch of left-wingers, this Hillary book is all of a sudden the fault of Republicans and conservatives.
Conservatives are trying to trash Hillary.
Oh, it has nothing to do with this book.
It just shows up in the stores today.
So it's it's it's just the it's the same old thing.
Democrats accuse Republicans of doing what they, the Democrats do.
Here's Fred and Schaumburg, Illinois.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
Hello, Rush.
Hi.
Rush, are you there?
Yes, right here, sir.
Okay.
Uh Megadiddos from Schomburg and my 90-year-old dad John, who's also listening.
Uh, station here about an hour and a half ago reported uh from a news conference that they had with Mayor Richard Daly, the Democratic mayor of Chicago, who said that uh Richard statement was disgraceful and that he should apologize.
Yeah, I have that uh newspaper story here.
Chicago mayor Richard Daly says Dick Durbin should apologize for comments comparing American interrogators at Gitmo to Nazis.
Daly said that Durban's a good friend, but he says it's wrong to evoke comparisons to the horrors of the Holocaust or the millions of people killed In Russia under Stalin or in Cambodia under Pol Pot.
Uh Daly also says that it's a disgrace to accuse military men and women of such conduct.
So what's uh uh I I uh somehow I think what's going to happen here, Fred, is that the Republicans will be blamed for poisoning the mind of Dick Daly.
Uh that the Daly doesn't really know what he's saying because he's been hearing about this from a bunch of right wingers.
Uh that that's not really what Durbin said.
And this is this is a this is going to be tantamount proof to how the Republicans are poisoning the atmosphere of political discourse to this day.
Look at how bad it's gotten.
Now the mayor of Chicago, Richard Daly, says that this has got to stop, that Durban's got to shut up.
This is how successful the Republican spin machine is.
The right wing media message, I think is the uh the current phraseology.
Jerry in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Uh, you're next.
It's great to have you with us.
A tier warm greetings, Professor Limbaugh.
Thank you, sir.
It's been uh it's been a long time since I talked to you back when you were here in WFNC in uh the the mid-80s.
I'm a 20-year uh veteran, most of that spent with the 82nd Airborne Division.
I've got four combat tours, including these the two current conflicts that are going on, and stuff that that uh Durban says really gets under my neath my skin.
I uh I've been over there.
Uh the the people I've got tons of pictures of stuff that we've done with the kids gathered around us, the the adults gathered around us.
I had uh I've got uh broken wrist currently that from uh an Iraqi that tried to stab me, and it was other Iraqis that let me know that he was coming up behind me uh before I ended up having to take care of that that little situation.
And when he was talking about the people sleeping on the floor and the temperatures getting over a hundred degrees and and and then they're laying there shivering because the air conditioning, I at least uh at first thought he was talking about me when I first got to Iraq, and when I got to Afghanistan, and we were laying on the ground, the temperatures were over 100 days, 100 degrees, and we're out doing patrols and things and come back at night, sweaty, no showers, and the temperature drops and we're freezing.
He thinks that the people in Gitmo got it worse than the paratroopers that were initially going into these conflicts and the other soldiers.
He's ridiculous, and he had to shut his mouth unless he goes home not for a week and tours around the city.
Let me just let me tell you something out there, Jerry.
That's why we're posting the five-day forecast at Rushlimbaugh.com for Gitmo and Baghdad to illustrate exactly what you're talking about.
But you have to understand something.
The mainstream press is starting to circle the wagons around Durban now, just as they are around Hillary.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune today is upset that Durban even tried to apologize, and they're urging him to speak out even more.
Richard Cohen in the Washington Post says that Durban needs to speak more like this, that this is just an example of what's gone wrong in this country.
Somebody can't be honest about who we are without getting tarred and feathered and this sort of stuff.
And he says doesn't understand what all the uproar is about.
And that's doesn't surprise me at all because there's a double standard.
You know, when the liberals say outrageous things, well, the whole campaign of 2004 was nothing more than one outrage after another, one lie after another, one attempt to destroy a president after another, and there wasn't one bit of examination of it by the mainstream press.
But boy, when the Swift boat vets came out.
And when they had documented evidence of the truth of John Carey, and it forced Kerry to change his Vietnam and Cambodia story two or three times, from his official biography, no less.
Guess who got attacked?
The Swift Boat Vets.
And guess what?
This Hillary book is being described as the next effort of the Swift boat vet type thinking in the Republican Party.
So just get used to this.
In fact, I've got a story from the American Spectator online today, and it's got a real interesting quote here from an unidentified staffer at the Democrat National Committee.
And it's this.
Part of the problem, too, says the DNC staffer, is that the Democrat headquarters has become a playground for fringe groups that never would have been given access under previous DNC chairmen.
You see some of the people being let in here for meetings and for coordination briefings, and you have to wonder where this uh this thing, this party's going.
There's no judgment about who the party should be associated with.
If they hate Bush, if they can raise money, then they get into this office.
That's what happened with a Downing Street hearing, and that's why we're backpedaling from it now, because the only people that are tying themselves to that are the left-wing fringe kooks.
So you've got a DNC staffer worried about what's happening to the Democratic Party.
That's why Kerry didn't go forward with a Downing Street memo.
They don't trust it.
They don't believe it.
He threatened to take take it to Congress and start impeachment inquiries over it.
And he backed off on that.
So exactly what I am telling you happening to the Democratic National Committee and Party is indeed happening.
And if they're worried about it inside that building then that means they know the American people can figure it out on their own without any urging from people like me.
We will be back.
Ladies and gentlemen I have to clarify something based on some emails I just uh checked during the break I am not attempting to uh exonerate myself apologize or extricate myself from any culpability leveled at me by Dick Durbin for all of his troubles.
I'm honored I was just making a point that it wasn't until 2.30 that afternoon and it was the day before that he said what he said 716 Eastern time on this floor of the Senate.
He's still out there blaming me for this and I will gladly accept the blame.
I'm I'm I'm proud to be the man who shot Liberty Balance uh Dick Durbin.
No, I don't don't misunderstand here.
I'm I'm just they've got me on the brain and there's a reason and I'm not even a candidate.
I'm not even out there raising money against these guys.
Now we all know why this is and we all know why this makes me a target of these guys and their allies but I'm fine bring it on.
Do not misunderstand.
I I'm not I'm not trying to extricate myself from any culpability or response.
I'm honored by it I hope they keep mentioning my name I don't understand why they do in a well let me put it this way if the s if the situation reversed I never I'm not going to say never I'm just leave them alone let them keep doing what they're doing.
I'm not in control of it anyway and I don't want to give anybody the impression that I am trying to control what they do.
Let's go on to the Bolton nomination.
Now if you're watching cable news you're seeing little slugs run across the screen that John Bolton or that that that Bill Frist is not going to schedule another vote on Bolton.
That's not true.
Frist has changed his mind after a meeting with President Bush and he said this afternoon he will continue pushing for a floor vote on Bolton for UN ambassador.
Frist switched his position after initially saying today that negotiations with Democrats to get a vote on Bolton had been exhausted.
The Democrats picked up a Republican vote in the cloture vote last night.
Voinovich said, you know, I've even learned more.
He started crying.
I've learned even more about Bolton since the last time I was here talking to you about it.
So he voted with the Democrats against cloture.
And this just frustrated Frist.
He said, out of hell with it.
I'm through talking to these guys about it.
And then all the talk about a recess appointment for Bolton began to gin up.
that's where we pick up on our audio soundbites this is dingy Harry yesterday at a press conference the president will have to make a decision whether he wants to send this flawed candidate to the United Nations under an also questionable constitutional measure which is being tested in the courts as we speak.
This questionable constitutional measure is being tested in the courts, as we speak, as the recess appointment.
And so apparently Dingy Harry is more informed than I. I don't know how that's being constitutionally tested in the courts right now.
But the argument, you know, Bush is being urged to recess appointment, to recess appoint Bolton, which would allow Bolton to serve basically through January of 2007.
And a lot of people are suggesting that.
A lot of people say, do this Mr. President you don't want to send a guy up there under a cloud you don't want to send him up there uh weakened by the fact that he couldn't get voted on by the uh by the the majority of the Senate well there's a filibuster folks that not calling it a filibuster but it's a filibuster I told you there was going to be filibuster I told you this is going to happen.
Told you there were going to be this filibuster the reason this is being filibusted I'm gonna say there's two reasons.
It's not just that they hate Bolton.
It's that the Democrats are stymied.
They think they got the short end of the gang of 14 deal.
And they've been they've been itching to pull their filibuster trigger, and they're not able to on these judges until the Supreme Court vacancy comes up.
So uh they're doing it here with Bolton, uh, and they're killing two birds with one stone.
Uh I where I come down on this.
Who cares what the world thinks of why Bolton's there or how he got there if he didn't show up with the full support of the U.S. Senate?
Screw that.
If he's the right man for the job, we haven't had an ambassador up there for how many months now.
If he's the right guy for the job, send him to hell up there and have him start shaking things up.
Who cares what anybody thinks about it?
I'm getting so sick and tired of this.
I'm really losing my patience over, well, we can't do this, what will they think of us?
Well, we can't do that.
What will they think of him?
We can't send him up there.
What will be Who gives a rat's rear end if he's up there to straighten the place out?
So that that if if if if uh Bush is still saying he wants an upper-down vote on the guy, uh, but we'll have to wait and see what is a reason.
He couldn't make the recess appointment until the Senate next goes on recess, which is not that far down the road.
They have the July 4th recess, they have the two weeks before the July 4th recess, they have the week after July 4th recess.
Um they've got the campaign recess, they've got more recesses in the Senate than you and I could count on combined on both of our uh hands.
But the next one's coming up relatively soon.
Now, last night on Hard Boiled, you had you had uh Barbara Boxer on there along with Senator George Allen of Virginia.
And I saw a little bit of this last night.
Allen handed Barbara Boxer her lunch.
Uh he calls here for Maverick Democrats to break ranks and support Bolton.
The guest host last night was uh David Gregory.
He said, Senator Allen, uh, do you think there's a deal to be had here with Bolton, or do you think a recess appointment's the only way?
I think the ones you have to look at are Senator Feinstein Lieberman and others.
I think some of the Democrats, it doesn't matter what the president does, they're not going to support him.
John Bolton ultimately should be our ambassador to the United Nations.
I would like to see senators not obstruct, but actually advise and consent or withhold their consent.
That's what we're doing.
No, you're not.
You're filibustering, and senators ought to get off the cushy seats.
All right, show somebody.
George, it was your leader who said that it is totally appropriate to have a cloture.
And you're not getting information.
And then Mitch McConnell said that, and Sam Brambach said, Yes, but you're making you're making it sound as if we're not doing our job.
And we are doing our job.
You just don't like the way we're doing it.
Uh Allen's close was you are obstructing.
Up next, this is Senator George Voinovich on the uh Senate floor during the Bolton nomination debate.
Too many of my colleagues are not gonna understand that this appointment is very, very important to our country.
But a strategic time when we need friends all over the world, we need somebody up there that's gonna be able to get the job.
And I know some of my friends say, don't let it go, George, it's gonna work out.
I don't want to take the risk.
I came back here and ran for a second term because I'm worried about my kids.
My grandchildren.
And I just hope my colleagues will take the time.
And before they get to this, well, do some serious thinking about whether or not we should send John Bolton to the United Nations.
Well, at least we know he's uh admitted that they're not doing any serious thinking, that they're just obstructing.
Uh but oh boo-hoo.
He starts crying as though John Bolton at the UN is gonna endanger his kids and grandkids.
You ever heard of Osama bin Laden?
Have you ever heard of the militant Islamists of Al Qaeda?
Have you ever heard of any of the people destroying American property and people all over the world?
Was a l I have not yet seen John Bolton accused of this.
I came back my kids and ran.
We can't send this man to the U.S. What the hell does one have to do with the other?
You know what this is.
What Voinovich is saying is if we send somebody mean up to the UN, we're just gonna make him even angrier at us, and then they're gonna attack us again.
That's what it adds up to, folks.
Well, I know uh some it wasn't it wasn't me that made him cry this time.
Uh that there's no question about that.
One more on this.
And that's from Good Morning America today, the forehead, Paul Bagala, one of the guests uh with Charlie Gibson, uh, who says that look, the president uh could uh could be in the offering of a Supreme Court nomination, would have to go through the Senate.
Does he dare get senators angry at this point?
He's got other fish to fry.
And senators in both parties don't like recess appointments because it bypasses uh the Senate's obligation to advise and consent.
So it's not a partisan thing.
It's not just Democrats who would be inflamed.
You're right.
He's, I think, strategically thinking ahead to a potential Supreme Court nomination.
If I were advising him, and I I used to work for I'd say don't don't pick this fight here on a comparatively unimportant job at the U.N., big, but not as big as the Supreme Court.
Well, it was a comparatively unimportant job at the UN.
Boy, we're stopping the presses here to keep this guy away from the U.N. But so now now with the gauntlet's been thrown down here.
The foreheads just said if you go ahead and recess this guy, then you can forget about your Supreme Court nominee.
We're not gonna take that.
I I don't know why anybody is sitting around and taking any of this from the Democrats.
They are the minority and they're losing elections, and by that measure alone, in the way our country is structured, they don't get to rule the place.
And of course, when you've got crybabies like Voinovich and your frisk, what what do you do?
What do you what do you do when you when you've got renegades like that?
Well uh no, I'm talking your frist.
What do you do when you can't control your own party like that and they're gonna run out and start crying on the Senate floor about kids and grandkids over Bolton?
I can just hear it now.
Bush recess appoints as recess appoints.
Well, what happened here?
You just heard the audio, snurdly.
You're gonna recess appoint Bolton, and what are we gonna say?
He goes to the U.N. without a mandate?
You know that's what we'd hear.
He can't do anything.
He's going up without a mandate.
Uh anyway, I got to run here quick timeout.
We will be back.
Much more broadcast excellence straight ahead.
We just had a question posed by a drive-by caller.
Uh it's a caller who cannot stay to talk with us on the air, but wanted to raise a question.
Uh the question is, who's eating it better these days?
Elion Gonzalez or Al Qaeda terrorists at Gitmo.
I think we would have to conclude, based on free rice cookers and rationing of beans and so forth in Cuba, that uh that the uh the terrorists at Gitmo are eating far better than Elion Gonzalez.
Uh uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh want to talk a little bit here before we have to go today about the Supreme Court.
Uh still a bunch of cases yet to be announced next week.
Uh and they're already decided.
They're just writing the uh the opinions here.
Uh the majority opinion of dissenting opinions.
And that may already be done, too.
The court will go on a three-month recess next week when these decisions are all handed up, but uh or handed out, but that it's already done.
They're not still in there debating these things.
In fact, they don't debate.
They take individual votes, and that's how this is decided.
But uh the Ten Commandments case is gonna come next week.
But there's also some other things coming.
Um, and there was a a ruling on Monday.
It didn't get a whole lot of attention, but it was about privacy or or not privacy, but uh uh property rights.
Uh the Supreme Court said yesterday that people who lose state lawsuits claiming the government improperly took their property, cannot count on federal courts for help.
Uh land rights, property rights, a major issue at the Supreme Court this year, and so far the justices have made it tougher for people to win lawsuits, claiming that local uh and state laws amount to an unconstitutional taking.
Now, the biggest of those three cases dealing with the government's authority to seize personal property will be announced next week.
But in yesterday's decision, the justices ruled against an historic San Francisco hotel that wanted to convert rooms.
They were previously designated for permanent residence to accommodate tourists.
The city of San Francisco had restrictions on hotel changes as part of an ordinance intended to preserve housing for the poor, the disabled, and the elderly.
When the San Remo Hotel was ordered to pay $567,000, it sued in state court and narrowly lost at the California Supreme Court in 2002.
this brings Janice Rogers Brown into the picture because she was California Supreme Court justice then.
She supported the hotel.
And she wrote a strongly worded dissent, and that dissent was used by some senators in opposing her elevation to a federal appeals court in Washington.
What she wrote is this theft is theft, even when the government approves of the thievery.
Turning a democracy into a kleptocracy does not enhance the stature of the thieves.
It only diminishes the legitimacy of the government.
Now, there were no harsh words in Monday's decision, because it was nine to zip.
It was unanimous.
The Supreme Court ruled or found that the 62-room hotel could not pursue a federal case because state courts had already addressed all the issues.
Notre Dama law professor, Nicole Garnett said this is a big victory for local governments.
The ruling was the second in a land rights case.
Last month, the court ruled that Hawaii did not overstep its authority in putting caps on the rent paid by dealer-run gas stations, part of an effort to control gasoline costs.
So if I understand it right, this hotel in San Francisco, the San Remo, and it was its property.
Of course, it owns San Remo is owned by people that own the San Remo.
They wanted to convert some of the rooms to accommodate tourists, which is what a hotel does.
You rent rooms to people who come into town.
And the city of San Francisco said, nope, you can't do that.
There's an ordinance here that uh preserves housing for the poor, the disabled, the elderly, and you got to keep those rooms for those people.
So the San Remo was ordered to pay $567,000 in fines because they went ahead and violated the ordinance.
So that went all the way to Supreme Court.
And the Supreme Court basically said, if the state tells you that you have to do with your property what the state tells you, then you've got no recourse to come to us, because the state explored all the issues.
So they didn't really lose the property.
I mean, the gu the this the city or the state didn't take the hotel away from them, but they're basically dictating to the owners how they have to run it.
So it may as well be the same thing.
So these people own a hotel, but the state says, yeah, you got to keep these rooms open.
Or did the state take it from them?
State didn't take it, but the effect is the same.
Uh and but it was a nine-to-zip decision.
Uh so uh I don't know what this bodes for the next decision on on land rights, property rights coming uh coming uh next week.
Let me go up the line two.
Ed in uh in Westchester in New York.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you.
I uh when you were talking about Mayor Daly, I remembered that his son had enlisted in the Army.
Yes.
I went and Googled it and found that he actually had.
So I can certainly see why Mayor Daly is not the only one in the position of being a prominent Democrat and being uh well, I guess basically his son is being smeared by the Democratic leadership.
Yeah, and by the Senator from Illinois.
Yes.
Uh in fact, uh Daly's son, this is from November 30th of 2004.
Uh Daly's uh 29-year-old son enlisted in the Army and uh was scheduled back then to soon report for duty in the airborne infantry.
Patrick Daly is his name, says he left West Point during his freshman year when he was 18 years old, and always remembered their motto, duty, honor country.
But I was uh I was so young, not really old enough to understand what it really meant, but now I don't, so I want to go into the airborne infantry.
And this may explain why uh Mayor Daly is sees fit to uh seen fit to um uh light into Durban, because he's he feels the personal sting of uh Durban's.
They ought to listen to Daly on this because there's a whole host of Americans that feel this, the words of Dick Durbin on a personal, deeply personal level.
Back after this, folks, stay with us.
Runaway Boy Scout News, uh CNN is saying that two volunteers have told them that uh the 11-year-old boy scout Brennan Hawkins has been found alive in the mountains east of uh of Salt Lake City.
Uh two volunteers telling CNN and and uh they're they're running with this uh full bore.
So if that's true, it's good news.
It's also good news for the Boy Scouts, because if you're a Boy Scout, one of the things you learn is uh how not to get lost out there in the woods.
Um so good news all the way around there.
We are out of busy broadcast moments here, uh ladies and gentlemen.
However, there's always tomorrow.
And in life there is always tomorrow if you're lucky, and we'll all be lucky there will be tomorrow, and we'll be back here at the same time in the same place and kick it up all over again, depending on whatever the news of the day is then.
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