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Aug. 10, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 10, 2005, Wednesday, Hour #3
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America's anchor man, America's host for life, Rush Limbaugh, all combined in a one harmless, lovable fuzzball.
Little fuzzball, right here behind the golden EIB microphone at the distinguished Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Our telephone number, if you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882.
And if you want to go the email route, the address rush at eIB net.com.
So Yeah, folks, this environmental stuff, uh it it comes up, you know, sporadically, and then over the course of this program's he's thwa, which is uh we're now starting our 18th year.
Uh we've talked about the environment in bits and pieces, but you know, it is such a seductive issue for people, or two people.
Uh the environmentalists have set uh you know very brilliantly set things up.
If you oppose them, you must be for dirty water and dirty air, and uh it's all predicated effect, nobody wants to destroy what it is that sustains life and so forth, and so emotion takes over and there's not a whole lot of reason left.
But look at oil.
Uh oil is called a fossil fuel, correct?
For the longest time, remember when I was growing up, uh, when I was in school, I was told that uh the reason that we had a finite supply of oil was that it was actually the result of dinosaur decay.
I mean, how many of you heard that?
You heard that too?
It was dinosaurs, and of course there were only so many dinosaurs.
And then, of course, you know, the dinosaurs, I guess they too much flatulence or whatever, but they caused a meteorite to hit the planet and destroy them.
Oh, I'm sorry, the dinosaurs didn't have any meteorite hit the planet and wiped them out.
That's the story anyway.
But uh never that's a good thing it happened, see, because then the dinosaurs all died and that gave us oil, which we wouldn't discover for gazillions of years later, because it took a while for the dinosaurs to decay into oil.
Then I started saying, wait, did dinosaurs roam the sands of the Sahara?
Were the dinosaurs roaming the sands of Libya, Saudi Arabia, and all these other places have oil?
I know they were in Louisiana and Texas, but I didn't know they were over there in the Middle East.
Uh so I started being dubious of that.
And then I said, by the way, if if if if it really was the result of just decaying dinosaurs, we certainly would have used it all up by now.
And then finally somebody said to me one day, Rush, what would we do with oil if we didn't use it?
I mean, it's it it's created naturally, it exists naturally.
We do not manufacture it.
In fact, do you know what, folks?
We don't even know how to make oil.
Oh, we can make mobile one, the synthetic oil to make sure our automobile engines run properly, but we have no ability to run out and create the massive stocks of crude oil that exists naturally on the planet.
It's always puzzled me and amused me when we have an oil spill.
Oh no!
Pollution!
Pollution is the oil.
It's natural.
I mean, it's as natural as the water on the surface of the planet is.
So it ends up in the sand.
Yeah, you get some tarballs, yeah, and you get some otters with it in there and then birds, but it's not the first time such things have happened.
Do you know that there is oil underneath the ocean floor?
I've had a big education of the whole oil industry on this.
And there are constant uh you know, there are breaks in the ocean floor called fissures, and oil, crude oil, leaks through those fissures.
But you know what?
If you go out on the ocean, you won't see oil bubbling up on the surface.
Why?
Because somehow it dissipates or is destroyed.
The salt water is pretty powerful stuff.
Um but what will we do with it if we if we didn't burn it?
What will we do with it if we didn't refine it and use it for plastics?
I mean, we we we use it for a lot more than just fuel, but what will we do with it if we didn't do that?
And yet, oil is an enemy.
Oil has become the enemy.
It's the tool of the environmental movement to make us think that we are destroying the planet based on something that the planet has naturally created.
And probably continues to create.
Same thing with coal.
What would we do with coal if we didn't burn it?
Well, we could just leave it where it is, but then there wouldn't be any coal miners.
And there might not be an industry in West Virginia, and there might not have been a Senator Bird.
That's a tough bet.
But what would we do?
I mean, we have all of these natural things that are supposedly Being used by man to destroy the planet, and man didn't even invent them.
Man didn't even create them.
But man invented the combustible engine rush, the internal combustible engine, and that burns the oil, and that creates the pollution.
Really?
Really, uh, well, okay, so we're back to my first question.
What would we do with the oil if we didn't use it as we use it?
What would it what would we leave it in the ground, but what will we do with it?
You think somebody wouldn't come up with the same usage for it that we have now at some point?
What would we do with it?
What would just sit there?
Yeah, Rush, we should have known.
We should have known a hundred years ago that this was going to cause destruction of the planet.
We should have left that oil alone.
Oh, really?
Go back and examine what life would have been like had we not invented the internal combustion engine.
And ask yourself if you really want to go back to the horse and buggy days and relive your life that way.
You want to talk about pollution?
Go back to the town of Deadwood, that HBO series, it really existed.
The streets were paved with manure.
The horses occupy.
All of this is just so ridiculous.
All these arguments that the Earth manufactures things that humans can use to destroy the Earth.
In the meantime, we can't cause any of the problems that are said to exist.
We can't solve any of the problems that are said to exist.
We can't.
If it's 20 below zero on January 2nd in my hometown of Cape Girarde, it's gonna be 20 below zero until it isn't, because there's nothing we can do to warm up other than go inside and burn some oil or natural gas and warm up and stay alive.
So what do we do?
At the same time, it's 20 below or it's 20 degrees, and we wish it were 40 or 50.
We can't make it warmer.
Yet somehow we're causing global warming.
So much so that we're gonna destroy the ice caps.
Ladies and gentlemen, may I pose a scientific project to somebody?
Let's assume that um it was a good thing to melt the ice caps.
Let's say that it had to happen.
Would somebody tell me how we would do it?
How would we go do it?
Call me.
Tell me how we would destroy the ice.
I mean now.
I mean it, you know, tell me how we would do it in a hundred years.
Where would you light the fire that would melt the ice?
What would you do to warm the water that surrounds the ice at the polar caps?
What would we do?
Answer's nothing.
We couldn't do diddly squat about it.
If there were no polar ice caps, but we decided there needed to be some polar ice caps, so Santa Claus would have a place in the North Pole.
How could we create the ice caps?
Well, Mr. Snerton, yes, all right.
If you want to bring nukes into it, yeah.
We could nuke.
Absolutely.
We could nuke.
We could nuke the ice caps, and we'd probably cause some damage up there.
We might cause a hole in a couple of them.
Whether we would melt them all, I'm not so sure, but yeah, we'd do some big damage.
But nobody's advocating the use of nuclear weapons.
By the way, we did nuke uh Japan, it's still there, isn't it?
Uh we nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and last I looked, it's uh still there.
Well, I'm looking, I know some of this may be a little hard-hitting for some of you.
I'm not advocating the use of nukes, but I'm saying even nukes, and they were small compared to what we have now.
But they didn't destroy Japan.
I mean, it didn't sink into the sea.
Did it?
Didn't.
Japan's more powerful after the nukes than they ever were before the nukes.
Why?
Well, because the nukes uh enable them to change their way of life in government.
They became uh, for the most part, a democracy.
They hold on to the emperor for showcases and so forth.
Look, folks, the bottom line here is yeah, we could use a nuclear weapon and we cause a whole lot of damage, but you know what?
Life would go on.
We might not recognize it.
25-legged caterpillars or cockroaches, they'll survive anything.
But life would go on.
The idea that we're gonna destroy this planet is absurd.
We could destroy ourselves, and we can destroy ourselves, but it would take something like nukes to do it, not automobiles and barbecue pits.
And natural gas lines and air conditioners.
The idea that these kinds of things are destroying the circumstances necessary for us to live is just patently absurd.
Patently absurd.
I gotta go.
Quick timeout, we'll be back and continue in mere moments.
Don't go away.
Alright, I want to go back, ladies and gentlemen, to the head to turn back the hands of time to the program archives.
Here I'm not going to replay something.
I'll tell you what happened.
This goes back what?
Has to be 93, 94.
Every Saturday during the summertime, Roger Ailes hosted at his home up at Croton on Hudson.
He no longer lives there.
Uh, water volleyball games.
And a whole bunch of friends of his that came up.
They brought their crumb crunchers and uh it was fun.
Uh and then after we'd have lunch and so forth.
Uh well, lunch was just a catered shrimp during the volleyball game, which always angered me.
We're here to play volleyball, are we here to eat shrimp?
You know, because the waiters are run around and cater the shrimp and it interrupt the volleyball game.
You know, you don't you don't serve food while you're engaged in athletic activity.
You don't spectators eat it, but the players don't.
Anyways, Lucy Goosey would all have a barbecue afterwards, hamburgers, hot dogs, and so forth.
One after one of these days are talking.
A bunch of people were there, etcetera and talking, and there's 26-year-old uh female school teacher, and she's wringing her hands this day.
Talk about how we're just pushing our school kids too hard, we're forcing them to learn too fast too soon, we're working them too hard, making them do too much homework, making them study too much, of course.
Me, being who I am, lit into her.
I said, This is crazy.
Why do you think that this is where it happens?
This is where the kids of the human beings have the energy and the capacity that's necessary.
That's when the greatest learning period is for absorbing mass information.
And if you start letting the inmates run the asylum and tell you at the speed they want to learn, guess what?
They're not going to learn very much because most of them would rather not be there.
If you had your choice of being anywhere you wanted to be your school, where would you go?
The last place I would go is school.
I, for one, despised it.
But I understood precisely because of that, I was not in condition, I was not, I was not in shape to run it.
So I always made the made the point that we don't push kids enough, that we're getting too kidglish, that we're getting too protective, that we're they're getting too fragile.
Oh no, we can't push these kids too hard.
That's so desperate out there.
We must loving compass compassion with our children and so forth.
And I just, you know, my instincts and my experiences in life at that point told me that if you look at the people that got ahead in life, they were not the ones being coddled and treated and sheltered and all that uh during the formative years.
They were forced to bust their rear ends and learn things, and it sunk in with them and they did it.
Well, now that's that's going, that's at least 12 years old.
And I've told this story before, but the thinking has been out there for a long time, as articulated by the 26-year-old teacher.
So I have this story here.
The campaign, it's an AP story, amazingly.
The campaign to make Hascruel more demanding seems to be picking up support.
Yeah, and it's picking up support from the people who have the biggest stake in the matter, the students themselves.
Why imagine that?
Almost nine out of ten students say they would work harder if their high school expected more of them, according to a survey.
Less than one-third of students say their school sets high academic expectations, and most students favor ideas that might add some hassle to their life, such as more rigorous graduation standards and additional high-stakes testing.
That good old times in high school are being replaced by good old hard work, said Peter Hart, whose Peter D. Hart research associates conducted the survey for the state of our nation's youth support released yesterday.
There's a recognition among students they have to be more ready to compete.
The nonprofit Horatio Alger Association, which provides college scholarships and mentoring to needy students, issued the annual report on youth attitudes.
The findings are based on a phone survey of a thousand five students in Hascruel last May.
Doesn't surprise me a bit.
What are we getting, though?
What are we getting?
We're getting a whole bunch of adults, liberals, worrying that school starts too early.
That the natural, what are these things?
Cicadic rhythms or some such thing?
Circadian rhythms, whatever they are.
Why don't you people know that kids can't get up early?
Their natural rhythms mean they stay up late, and so school should start later.
And we but you can't test these kids.
That's too much pressure.
We should have the focus on learning.
And okay, well, let's focus on learning.
We'll come up with outcome-based education where nobody learns anything.
Two plus two is five as long as you think so.
And it's going to be five until you realize it's four.
But we're not going to humiliate you by pointing out you're wrong.
And students in the upper track of learning not going to get promoted because that would humiliate those beneath them.
And yet, here we've heard more and more stories of students graduating, unable to read their diplomas.
And we hear students having to spend second and third grades together and then go through them two and three times.
And we hear this Florida ridiculous story about how they're going to replace letter grades with a one, two, and three system.
Which, by the way, I think is as bombed out, hasn't it?
It hasn't.
Oh, okay, so they're gonna do it.
It's silly.
And yet here's a survey of students.
What have I always told you?
What have I always said?
This is such a great letter day, I'll tell you.
I've told you, I don't care whether you're talking about a young person, a middle-aged person, a family member, an employee, an employer, people re-on respond and react to high expectations.
If you're a parent and you let your kid know that you expect excellence, and I don't mean lauding it over the kid and demanding that he do it or else he's gonna be thrown out of the house.
Just high expectations.
You can do it.
I know you can do better than you do, because most people, folks, are not self-starters.
Most people need motivation.
Most people need an objective to meet, and if it's pleasing somebody or if it's meeting somebody else's high expectations, everybody in life remembers their best teacher at some point.
And you know who your best teacher always was, your favorite teacher and best teacher may be two different things.
The best teacher, when you think back on your educational experience, the best teacher you had was the one who showed you that you were smarter than you thought you were, or you had more ability than you thought you had.
The teacher that pushed you beyond where you would normally stop and say, I can't do any better than this.
But somebody came along and say, Yeah, sure you can.
Of course you're better than this.
Show me.
Well, you had somebody to show, and they inspired you rather than punished you.
They motivated you rather than shot you down.
Bam!
I'll bet you outperformed a whole lot of expectations in your life, including your own.
And that kind of thing never stops throughout all of life.
When you get out of school, when you go to work, they can always do better.
One of my good friends, George Toma, who uh is the official groundskeeper for the NFL, ran the uh Kansas City Royals and Kansas City Chiefs Stadiums grounds groundskeeping for years.
I was at the Super Bowl in Atlanta uh in, I guess it was 1993.
It was the Cowboys and the Buffalo Bills.
And I'm I'm with Steve Sable, NFL Films.
I'm his guest, and we're at the high in the stadium press boxes you can go with the top level because that's where their high fifty fifty-yard line camera is.
And it's about it's about half hour before the game.
And I'm looking down, there's George Toma, the official groundskeeper of the NFL on his hands and knees, and he looks to be crawling on the floor of the um of the stadium.
It was at that time it was artificial surface, astroturf.
The Georgia Dome.
And I'm looking down, I said, what the hell is I grabbed the binoculars?
They just seem to be crawling on his hands.
And this on the sidelines.
He's not even out on the field.
The players are out on the field or the pregame's out there.
So I told Sable, I want to go down and say hello.
So I went down there and he was still down.
I said, George, what are you doing?
And I think he had tape.
He had he had masking tape or some kind of electrical tape on his hands and on his knees.
I said, What are you doing?
He said, I'm getting up all the lint and the garbage and the residue from the sideline.
I said, George, nobody can see it anyway.
He says, I can.
I said, You're on your hands, why don't you get a vacuum cleaner?
Vacuum cleaner won't get this stuff.
You got to get it up with tape.
He's crawling around.
He's the head groundskeeper.
He could have had somebody else go do it.
He said to me, I have an active philosophy, Rush.
Always do everything you can, and then a little more.
Well, that's that's what these kids here are saying.
They can do more.
They know they can do more.
Their standards have been lowered so much that even the inmates in the asylum Know that they can do more than they're being asked to do.
And they're worried that they're not being asked to do enough because they know it's competitive out there and they want to excel, at least the kids in this survey.
I hope the adults listen to this.
Because push it's it's it just making kids learn and giving them uh goals to shoot at high expectations.
That is not pushing anybody too hard.
That's a great gift to help somebody be better than they think they can be otherwise.
That's uh what we do here, make the complex understandable.
A couple more things here, and then we'll go to the phones.
You know, last Friday we had the story of the NCAA demanding at all colleges that had Indian mascots and uh names and logos could no longer use those mascots, names, and logos in postseason play, but they couldn't do anything to stop them during the regular season.
And this caused a uh of a reaction.
And the Florida State University Seminoles say, screw you, NCAA.
The Seminole Nation loves the fact that we're called a Seminoles, and we're not going to change anything we do, they're thinking of suing them.
Well, it's what this is, folks, all of this this haranguing about Indian mascots and so forth is just it's a it's an offshoot of multiculturalism, which has as its umbrella political correctness.
Now, again, I'm going to tell you who the multiculturalists are in this country, as I've, as I've said for many, many moons here.
A little Indian lingo, in fact.
Multiculturalists are failures.
The multiculturalists are people who have failed to make it in this abundant uh economy and culture, and they are bitter, and they are taking it out on everybody else.
They're just basically in common schoolyard parlance, the nerds, who never made it and never counted and never mattered, and it's get even with everybody time now.
So they get their multiculturalism and their political correctness, and this Indian business is pretty much the same thing.
But here's a development on this that is just is just enrages me.
The U.S. Canadian military commands, responsible for protecting North America from terrorists, have changed the names of key readiness exercises to more politically correct words that do not offend American Indians.
The U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, which is NORAD, at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, have struck the word warrior from one major exercise and replaced it with Phantom.
This, according to a July internal message from command headquarters, the message went to Secretary Rumsfeld, a joint chiefs and other senior leaders.
A copy was obtained in the Washington Times, a NORAD spokesman, Air Force Master Sergeant John Tomasi, said that warrior and other words were changed with Indians in mind.
He said they've been using these names for quite some time, and I don't know of any complaints.
An exercise named Amalgam Chief has been changed to Amalgam Arrow, the message states.
And an exercise dubbed amalgam fabric brave is now amalgam fabric dart.
Fabric Indian was deleted in favor of Fabric Saber.
Northern Command and NORAD are keeping exercise labels of Northern Edge, vigilant shield, ardent sentry, amalgam mute, and vital archer.
But the bottom line is that warrior, chief, brave, and Indian are out, phantom, arrow, and dart are in.
Can't use the word warrior?
You ever heard how soldiers describe themselves?
They think of themselves as warriors.
There's nothing negative about it.
Piece by Andrew Klein, Racist Paternalism at the NCAA.
After NCAA busybodies spent time snooping around Tallahassee, Florida to gather evidence for their case against Florida State's use of the Seminoles nickname.
The Seminole Tribal Council voted in April unanimously to affirm the tribe's support for the university's nickname and mascot.
Nonetheless, came August.
The NCAA decreed that FSU's use of the name was hostile and abusive.
The silly Indians, they obviously don't even know what's good for them.
Also banned is the nickname of the University of Illinois, the Alini.
Alini was the name of the Tribal confederation that once ruled the land that's now called Illinois.
It is the root word for the state name and the name of its people, Illinois.
It is hard to see hostility in a name the white people use to describe themselves, but the NCAA sees it.
University of Illinois basketball jerseys say Illinois, not Alini.
In its eternal wisdom, the executive committee of the NCAA will allow jerseys printed with Illinois, but not ones printed with Alini.
What will the committee members do when they learn that Illinois is simply French for Illini?
That's all Illinois is.
It's the French word for Illini.
Allowing jerseys to bear the French name for the Alini Tribal Confederation, but not the name the Confederation gave itself is the logical end point of multicultural sensitivity.
One wonders whether the University of Illinois student newspaper, the Alini, will be allowed to cover future NCAA tournaments.
Indiana University, whose athletic teams are called the Hoosiers, escape the NCAA's nickname ban, but Indiana's jerseys don't say Hoosiers.
They say Indiana.
You know what that means?
Land of Indians.
We're going to have to change the state of Indiana.
We're going to change the name because it's the land of Indians, except it's not, because we took it from them.
By the way, the NCAA is headquartered in Indianapolis.
City of the land of Indians.
How can the NCAA do this?
Their headquarters are in the city named the Land of Indians.
Indianapolis.
The NCAA has banned the University of North Dakota's fighting Sioux nickname.
Sioux is the name for a current confederation of smaller tribes, including the Dakota.
Now, if the University of North Dakota removes the hostile and abusive Sioux name from its jerseys and replaces it with North Dakota, it'll still have a tribal name on its jerseys.
Obviously, the NCAA executives have not thought through their plan.
Get this.
The University of Oklahoma's football team wears jerseys sporting the university's team nickname, the Sooners.
You know what Sooners were?
You don't know what the Sooners were?
Well, good.
I get to inform you and educate you at the same time.
The Sooners were people who illegally occupied land confiscated from the Indians.
They got there sooner than the law allowed.
Have you seen the musical Oklahoma?
It's all about the Sooners.
When Oklahoma was made free, the Sooners were the first out there to stake their claim to the land, and they took it in matter whose it was.
They got there sooner than the law allowed them to get there.
Well, the university's basketball team wears jerseys bearing the state name Oklahoma.
You know what Oklahoma is?
Oklahoma is the Choctaw Indian word for red people.
Both of these names are okay, while Seminoles, approved by the tribe, is banned.
Well, Mr. Snerdler, you've got some Choctaw in your heritage.
Well, then Oklahoma is ridiculing your heritage.
They don't have the guts to call themselves Choctaw United States.
It's the Oklahoma, they call themselves Oklahoma.
Simply Choctaw for red people.
Here's a thought to consider.
If Cherokee Parks becomes a basketball coach, a college basketball coach, or if Dakota Fanning plays a varsity sport in 2012, will announcers be permitted to mention their names on the air?
A college referee I know wonders whether Billy Packer and Greg Gumble will be able to allow, allowed to say fighting Sioux or Seminoles.
Play by play certainly will be clumsy if nicknames cannot be used.
It is unbelievable that this is multiculturalism run amok combined with political correctness, and it's just folks, it's a bunch of losers that are trying to get back at the rest of society for the fact that they are losers.
I don't know if Disney's had to get rid of Pocahontas yet or not.
I don't know if Pocahontas has been in a postseason tournament.
And...
But I mean, you could you could keep going with these examples here of Indian names that are used throughout America.
Uh yeah.
Half of New York towns are named after Indians, exactly right.
And not it is it's it how about Shinecock?
Shinecock Golf Club where the U.S. Open has played.
Shinecock Indians used to own the land.
You know, a bunch of elite white guy golfers came and stole it from them.
But I don't know.
I'm making that up.
I don't know what the story is.
But should we change the name of the golf club Shinecock and make it something else because it's an Indian name?
But look at what's underlying all this is that the Seminole Nation is endorsed Florida State University using their name as a mascot.
And still the NCAA is coming.
Doesn't matter what the Indians want, you can't do it.
We're more sensitive than the Indians are, the NCAA is saying, while headquartered in Indianapolis, which means land of the Indians.
Quick time out.
We'll be back after that.
Stay with us.
I got another Indian word for you.
Chappaqua.
You know what that means?
Stained blue dress.
We cannot afford these names.
We can't we can't avoid them, uh, folks.
Uh NCAA is just whacked.
Just totally whacked.
All right, one more story, and I'm going to grab some phone calls.
A U.S., get this, Brian.
A U.S. border patrol agent, accused of being an illegal alien and smuggling other illegals into the U.S. faces a bail hearing today in federal court in San Diego.
Oscar Antonio Ortiz, 28, a Mexican citizen born in Tijuana, is charged with using a fraudulent birth certificate to obtain a job with the border patrol in 2001.
And he's also charged with alien smuggling.
The numbered certificate claimed that he was born in Chicago, although authorities have since discovered it belonged to a man born a month earlier.
Oscar Antonio Ortiz, who was assigned at the agency's El Cajon Field Station, 35 miles east of San Diego, pleaded not guilty to the felony charges during a hearing on Friday was ordered held until today's bail review before U.S. Magistrate Judge Anthony Batalia.
Law enforcement authorities said Mr. Ortiz and another unidentified border patrol agent became the targets of an undercover investigation after they were overheard on intercepted phone conversations discussing on many occasions the smuggling of migrants into the U.S. through a border area near Ticate, or Take, I don't know how you pronounce it, which they which they patrolled.
So this is a clever twist on things.
Immigrate illegally to the United States, then get hired by the border patrol, and then start smuggling your friends through the through the border into the country.
This is inspiring, isn't it?
Whoa.
Uh all right, Ray in uh in Putnam, Connecticut.
Welcome to the uh EIB network.
Hi.
How big chief, how you doing?
Sorry, I got you in trouble.
That's oh no, but no, no, no.
Listen, I'd like to go back to the oil and uh environmental issue.
Yeah.
Remember when the Exxon Valdez leaked in Prince William Sound?
Hell yes, I remember.
Okay.
We went into an uproar over that.
Yeah, that's right.
But how many people raised cane over all the ships doing down in World War II in the Pacific and the Atlantic leaked trillions of gallons of crude oil and fuel and everything else?
Well, but they didn't wash up on Prince William's Sound where we could see it, and there weren't a lot of sea otters there that were with oil, you know, all through their bodies and so forth.
Yeah, but I think I get your point, but you're making mine at the same time.
I mean, sure, they sunk all these World War II battleships and so forth, all kinds of oil went down with them.
But the things Russia, I think, is that Mother Nature took care of it.
Yeah, that's absolutely right.
And that's how we don't have that problem.
Yeah, well, I don't we don't we sink ships somewhere to create coral uh for for fish to have an environment in which to uh l live and live and play and and uh and and grow.
Yeah, they've got little jungle gyms down there off the course of uh off the coast of Florida.
Ships down there.
It's a people are whacked out idiots, folks.
I'm just telling you, all it takes is common sense to weed your way through the the BS of liberalism.
Life's a lot more pleasant, too, if you don't let yourself be affected by these clowns.
Uh Mike in Redbank, New Jersey, welcome to the program.
Hi.
Well, well.
Thank you, Tonto.
Nice, nice to have you on the program.
Hey Rush, uh uh earlier conversation, you brought the subject about the uh military intelligence unit known as uh Abel Danger.
Yeah.
As I recall at the time of that operation, uh the terrorist, the counter-terrorist, was Richard Clark.
That's right.
And uh what I want to know is if Richard Clark knew about this information, if he even got the information, uh how far off the chain of command did that go.
You know, that's that's an excellent question.
I'd like to know if Richard Clark knew it, too.
The 9-11 Commission saying they didn't know it, but Kurt Weldon says their staff knew it because the staff was told.
Folks, look the two things here that that more than Richard Clark.
Because I think Richard Clark's days in the sun are gone by.
Uh nobody hears about him anymore.
He's a commentator on ABC, I guess now and then, but don't see much.
The two people I'm interested in in this are Jamie Gorellick and Sandy Burglar.
I want to know if Sandy Burglars taking documents out of the National Archives has anything to do with this.
And I want to know why in the world Jamie Garelick was on that committee instead of being made a witness.
Because she created the wall, and I want to know what the real reason the Clinton administration wanted that wall for.
I mean, the ongoing theory is they wanted the wall to prevent intelligence agencies from connecting the dots by sharing information because they were they were they were prosecuting terrorists in court, going to grand juries, presenting evidence and getting uh indictments.
So once you go to the grand jury, the evidence is uh sealed.
It can't be used, can't be leaked.
And so you can't share it with one information, one agency to another, which silly way to go about fighting terrorism in this case proves it.
Here you had Abel Danger, group of defense intelligence people a year before 9-11, keeping track of Mohammed Ottawa for crying out loud, and they weren't allowed to tell anybody.
And pay no attention to the news stories today, which tell you that the the Pentagon sat on it.
The New York Times and the AP trying to make it look like it's a Pentagon's fault, because they didn't do anything with the information, but they was passed on to 9-11 Commission.
They weren't allowed to share the information with anybody by statute during the Clinton administration days.
That's what we got to find.
Why would that why would that wall really exist?
Why did Gorelik really create that wall, that wall?
I have to think it with that bunch, it had something else.
They had something else in mind, other than just making sure that the FBI and the CIA couldn't share information.
What could have been going on they didn't want the Justice Department to learn, or investigative agencies to learn, or if the investigative agencies learned about it, they couldn't share it with anybody.
What was going on that the Clinton administration wanted to protect itself that way?
Hmm.
X yourself that.
Michael in Jacksonville, I got about 30 seconds.
I wanted to get you on because you've been waiting a long time.
I appreciate it.
Rush, this is a great honor.
Thank you.
Um, Rush, at the age of 54, four years ago, I found myself out of work.
Uh I didn't cry, I didn't moan, I didn't go to the government.
I went and learned how to drive an 18-wheeler.
I got my CDL.
Uh there are companies out there that will train, they can't get enough drivers.
The economy is booming.
They are adding trucks to their fleets, and now I currently own five trucks that I have leased on to a major carrier in this country, and I am doing better than I ever did in the 18 years of being in the accountant field.
Okay, but here's the question.
Even though you're doing well, do you still feel optimistic about the economy in the country or not?
Absolutely, sir.
Okay, because the the the polling data out there suggests a lot of people like you.
I mean, they know the economy's doing well, but they don't trust it.
They're worried.
The war in Iraq.
Terrorism, it's not gonna last.
We're all dead.
Uh that's the attitude the mainstream press is attempting to convey to people.
I gotta go.
Quick timeout.
I appreciate your being with us, folks.
We'll close it out here in just a second.
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The federal government used hurricane aid money to pay funeral expenses for at least 203 Floridians whose deaths were not caused by last year's storms.
Uh, this, according to the state's coroners have uh concluded one of these funerals was of a Palm Beach Gardens millionaire recovering from heart surgery.
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