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Sept. 30, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 30, 2005, Friday, Hour #3
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I got a question.
Has anybody seen FEMA?
Out in Chatsworth, California.
Has anybody seen where's FEMA down at Southern California?
Our homes are being destroyed.
What is it?
Some some some wind out there fueling the uh fires.
Is it a warm wind that's been made warmer by Bush environmental policies?
What's that, Mr. Snerdley?
Oh, Mr. Sturdley says that FEMA's not going.
These are the homes of the wealthy being destroyed, and that's okay.
I forgot that.
That's right.
That's absolutely right.
Okay, never mind.
No FEMA in Southern California.
And I doubt that we'll have to come up with a new federal tax dollars.
I California might, you know, want to get in line behind Louisiana, say we want, you know, a couple hundred million billion here to rebuild these houses.
We'll have to wait and see, folks.
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Okay, uh I have a couple sound bites here.
Donna Brazil uh was on CNN, the uh situation room with Wolf Blitzer, and he was talking uh uh about Charlie Wrangle and a delay thing.
Now, every time I see Charlie Wrangle's name anymore, I cannot help but think this is the guy that called Bush a modern-day bull conner.
And I wonder if Wolf even knows it.
I I wonder if Wolf Blitzer even knows it.
I wonder if anybody at CNN even knows it.
As a result of their normal news gathering operation everything.
Some may know it because they listen to this program, but I wonder if they knew it without that.
A Wolf's question of Donna Brazil.
You know, Charlie Wrangle, Democrat Congressman who represents Harlem, he said this this delay thing said we have to be very careful how we handle this politically.
It could be seen as an indictment of Congress rather than Republicans.
This is a delegate issue.
Wolf says he's got a lot of experience, Charlie.
He's a smart guy.
Now you see what I mean.
Here is a man who just embarrassed himself nationwide, humiliated himself by referring to George W. Bush as the bull Connor of this generation.
And here he's a smart guy.
Oh, my smart guy, he knows what he's talking about.
Really?
They're worried that this and this is the same thing about all these trumped up ethics charges against delay.
Look at what that look at what that brought up.
Oh, the Democrats do all this stuff too.
And Charlie says, you know, we may have trouble pegging this unjust delay in Republicans.
This might this might indict the whole House, like the House Bank scandal did in the House Post Office.
Here's what Donna Brazil said about it.
Look, I think the Congressman made the right statement.
While uh the Republicans right now uh nervous about how this will impact them.
I think Democrats have to be careful in how we talk about this.
I like what Democrats are saying now that it's time to reform the culture of corruption and to end cronyism and end the pay-to-play scheme.
But overall, look, this this is an indictment on the entire Congress when they see a leader uh, of course, being indicted like this.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, let's let's uh let's talk about this uh this culture of corruption.
Well, I'm going through the stack here.
I'm seeing so much stuff.
Dawn, here's something you might be interested in.
World toilet summer lifts lid on public hygiene.
There there is there is a Dawn is screaming.
He never talks to me in the IFB.
She is screaming at me.
Calm down.
Rush people ain't gonna understand.
I won't unless I tell them, and I'm not gonna tell them.
Anyway, the world toilet summer.
But let's let's let's go through this climate of corruption, shall we?
Uh New Mexico, Governor Richardson State Treasurer accused of extorting kickbacks.
That's from the free new Mexican.com.
New Orleans, Ray School Bus Negan, Hurricane Katrina, school buses, superdome, police force, faulty levies, Climate of corruption.
Louisiana Governor uh Kathleen Blanco, failure to ask for the National Guard, failure to see that New Orleans had an adequate levy system, misspent federal dollars, whole bunch more.
Sandy Burglar, Sandy Burglar, Sandy Burglar.
John Corzine, the loan to his ex-girlfriend and union leader, and now the sale of his Goldman Sachs stock.
And yet nobody is asking him about insider trading like they are Bill Frist.
Senator Schumer.
Senator Schumer, who has two researchers from that hack website that George Soros is funding.
It's trying to nail Bill Bennett, working on his staff that illegally dug for dirt on the credit report of the lieutenant governor of Maryland, a black man, by the way, named Michael Steele.
We have Bill Clinton and the condoms.
We have Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
We have Bill Clinton and the cigars.
We have Bill Clinton and contempt of court.
We have Bill Clinton lying under oath.
Climate of corruption.
Charlie Wrangle, the corruption of spreading lies and promoting racial division, Ted Kennedy, the oil for food scandal, Dan Rather forged documents, endless made-up articles articles printed in the New York Times, the Liberal Radio Network taking money from a boys and girls club, so much so the Boys and Girls Club has kicked that boys and girls club in New York out of the uh organization.
Ronnie Earl Hillary.
What is climate of corruption business?
So that's that's Donna Brazil.
Congressman, I like what the Democrats are saying now that it's time to reform the culture of corruption.
Uh you know, uh, I can give the Democrats better advice than what they're getting from uh Wrangell or Donna Brazil, and that is if you really want to make this look like a genuine legal case, shut up.
Let the prosecutors do the talking and don't climb on board and don't start presuming guilt here and celebrating before it's over because all you're doing is signaling to everybody that this is a coordinated political attack involving this hack DA down there.
That's what you're making it look like.
You got these automated phone calls going out and out of everybody all over the country demanding that their Congress people give money back that they got from Tom Delay.
Climate of corruption.
Oh, climate of corruption.
The money that led to the indictment this week of two Las Vegas pastors and the wife of one of them came from federal grants arranged by Senator Harry Reed in September 2001.
Moving to distance Reed from a possible scandal, his spokesman Tessa Hafen said the senator sought the money on behalf of a nonprofit social service agency and not for the churches or pro what is it about liberals and nonprofits?
First you have this liberal radio network getting a basically getting almost a million dollars from a boys and girls club because they can't get money by the commercial sense of uh of selling advertising or doing successful business.
Now you've got Senator Reed giving money to a nonprofit that ends up with a couple of Las Vegas pastors.
The money was administered by the Department of Justice.
It went to the agency in Nevada, the Allegiance Collegiums Association of Nevada.
The Reverend Willie Davis, the longtime pastor of the Second Baptist Church, and his wife Emma were indicted Tuesday on fraud charges with an associate minister, the Reverend McTheeran Jones.
They are accused of spending $330,000 on federal grants on themselves, although the money was intended for half halfway houses for prison inmates in southern Nevada.
What is it about the left and and and nonprofits?
A read relationship with the second Baptist Church surfaced in 1997 when the Senator donated $250 to the church where Davis was and still is the pastor.
You know where the money came from.
You want where all this money came from, folks?
Stand by.
Does the name John Wong ring a bell?
The money came from John Wong, who was convicted of making illegal contributions to the 1996 re-election campaign of President Clinton.
At about the same time, Reed donated another $250 from John Wong to the first African Methodist Episcopal Church in Las Vegas.
Reed said he made the contributions to the churches instead of returning the money to John Wong because he didn't think Wong deserved it.
Climate of corruption, anybody?
And we are back.
Rush Limbaugh here on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Byron York, National Review Online, for the last two years as he pursued the investigation that led to Wednesday's indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Travis County, Texas prosecutor Romney Earl, has given a film crew extraordinary access to make a motion picture about his work on the case.
The resulting film is called The Big Buy, made by Texas filmmakers Mark Burnbaum and Jim Schirmbeck.
Raymond Chandler meets Willie Nelson on the corner of Wall Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in the Big Buy, a Texas noir political detective story that chronicles what some are calling a bloodless coup with corporate cash.
The film, according to the description, follows Maverick Austin D.A. Ronnie Earle's investigation into what really happened when corporate money joined forces with relentless political ambitions to help swing the pivotal 2002 Texas elections, cementing Republican control from Austin to Washington.
We approached Ronnie Earl.
He offered us extraordinary access to him to an extent to his staff.
We've been shooting for about two years.
Earl, a lot of shoot behind the scenes.
When the indictments came down last year, the first wave of indictments...
We got to follow him back to his home a couple times, which I understand he doesn't allow anybody to do.
They're making a movie hero out of Ronnie Earl.
Can you imagine if the House managers had filmed their actions on impeaching Bill Clinton?
Ladies and gentlemen, can you imagine what the outcry would have done?
They're celebrating Ronnie Earl with a movie.
It's just...
It's just too good.
I'd say this next story upsets me.
I I'm going to have to cancel my uh entertaining plans.
The United States is banning beluga caviar imports in order to protect sturgeon.
From today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is suspending imports of beluga sturgeon caviar.
For those of you in Rio Linda, that is the creme de la creme.
That's the stuff that uh well, never mind.
I'm not even going to try to explain this.
Uh the the the it comes from the Caspian Sea.
Uh Russian, Iran, uh Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan.
Those are all sources for sturgeon and beluga caviar.
Beluga, for example, was uh perfect for very intimate 11 o'clock meeting with a girlfriend to have with your champagne.
Uh, said Mr. Armin Petrozhin, uh, one of the biggest and best known purveyors of caviar.
That's got a great place there uh in New York, Patrosian.
You go in and get any kind of caviar you want.
But I would be I would be embarrassed to have people over for dinner and not have caviar.
I uh this is just gonna send us to the black market for this, too.
Dawn's in there rolling her eyes and shaking her head.
Don't sweat it, Dawn.
We're just uh we're just kidding here.
Lisa Myers, NBC.
I have to tell you something.
Every encounter I have had with Lisa Myers at NBC has been top drawer.
Lisa Myers at NBC is the best reporter I know.
She's the most honest reporter.
I've I've I've been profiled by her.
I've played golf with her in one of the pieces that we did for NBC, and she is a she's a pure delight to be around.
She's she's uh not a trick artist, no setups, no games.
Uh she's just straightforward.
She had a piece uh on the NBC Nightly News, or was it MSNB's?
I'm not sure where it ran.
But she uh uh reported that critical flaws in the New Orleans levees were known ten years ago.
That the uh the levees when they were built ten years ago, that the engineers said, yeah, this is this is not this soil's not strong enough for this foundation.
These these levies are not gonna hold in a big storm.
Ten years of go ago, of course, is during the Bill Clinton administration, not the George W. Bush administration.
Uh and and she's uh she's just done great, great work on this.
I'm gonna find more details about the story in just a moment.
Stanley Crouch, the New York Daily News.
Did you see this yesterday?
Stanley Crouch, he's skating on thin ice too, because he's out there and he's black.
He's African American, he's ripping rappers.
He thinks rap music is destructive to the black community.
He said uh in his latest column, so-called authentic street culture is just plain destructive.
When we look at the ongoing crisis in the depths of black America, it is sometimes hard to understand why there was such an explosion of outrage at Bill Cosby.
One would have thought that he did the very worst thing possible when he called on the carpet the self-destructive behavior that separates prosperity from poverty.
What Cosby showed was how dangerous defensiveness in face of the facts can be to any serious discussion of poverty.
And I mentioned in the first hour of this program, talking about the Bill Bennett situation, that uh this political correctness, it'll nail you no matter who you are.
Bill Cosby went ahead to tell the truth, and look what's happened to him, and here's Crouch writing about it now.
Poverty and ignorance have always been well acquainted.
Part of the problem at the bottom is ignorance.
Part of the problem of those who suffer from it is those in the black middle class who pretend to be engaged intellectuals that come up with nothing more than long-winded dismissals of accurate observations as some variation of blaming the victim.
I began thinking more about this when I read in the New York Times about the health problems in Nigeria that are being addressed with the hard science of medicine rather than a respect for indigenous culture that allows backward ways to maintain themselves.
Young women who are suffering from fistulas, a problem largely gone from Western life are being treated by European doctors who take the catastrophe seriously.
These young women find themselves with babies lodged in their birth canals, which result in the tearing of their bowels or their urethras.
In the backward way of people who live at least part of their lives in the world of incapacitating superstition, these girls are usually rejected in exactly the same way as the rape victims of marauding African revolutionary troops who turn available women into sex slaves.
None of these problems are determined by genetics or are explained by the superstitions of racism.
The human being is a learning animal.
Any barbaric tradition can be rejected in the face of education.
What we need in America is the same kind of hard science that has no sentimental investment in authenticity or diversity when it amounts to ways of living that are self-destructive.
He is going to catch hell for this at some point.
Stanley Crouch.
Stanley Crouch, well, there's a he's a he's a uh music critic, a renowned j jazz.
He plays jazz, doesn't he?
He's a as a he's a great historian of jazz, a critic of jazz.
Uh I I think I saw him once in my building when I first lived in I think he lived in the same building I lived in.
Uh at any rate, he said an ignorant person never represents an ethnic group or a religion.
An ignorant person represents most of all every other ignorant person, regardless of color, sex, ethnicity, class, religion, or any other particulars.
Once those facts are faced, we can get to work on changing the popularization of backward ideas and barbaric behavior that the popular media promotes is pushing the envelope, which can result in middle class black parents finding their well-reared children aspiring to be the knuckleheads and street hussies.
A belief in education, the development of skills, and the refinement of character are the best weapons against backwardness of the self-destructive sort.
It is he's continuing his assault here on what he thinks is self-destruction, uh, the self-destruction born of the rap music industry, the hip hop industry.
And he says, Well, you can't criticize it because you know it's well, it's indigenous.
They're acting out their frustrations.
Uh we we have to we have we have to cut them some slack and be understanding.
This is diversity.
We are witnessing a great beautiful mosaic here.
We must it's all bolder dash.
Because he says these people are destroying themselves.
Why in the world we sit around, let them destroy themselves.
Well, I ask, who is who's promoting all this diversity?
And no, don't condemn it.
Is it not the American left?
The great civil rights leaders.
Don't you dare be critical.
Uh we're trying to be helpful.
No, you're not your condemning.
Um Stanley Crouch has a point, but of course.
Uh and this is by no means his first column on this.
He's written many.
Uh and he's very courageous to keep doing so.
Uh another American judge, U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein has sided with our enemies.
Of Al Qaeda, pictures of detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison must be released despite government claims they could damage America's image.
Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein said terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan have proven they do not need pretexts for their barbarism.
The American Civil Liberties Union sought the release of eighty-seven photographs and four video tapes as part of an October 2003 lawsuit.
Anything you can to harm and destroy the country.
Anything you can to be critical of this country.
Be permissible on the uh wacko American left.
A quick timeout, my friends.
We've got much more straight ahead.
Stay with us.
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And we're back on Open Line Friday, America's anchor man with talent on loan from God.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Here's Erica in Charlotte, North Carolina.
I'm glad you uh waited.
I appreciate your patience.
Hi, Russ.
It's a real pleasure to talk with you.
Thanks.
I am a conservative Christian.
I'm a Republican.
I've been thinking about the allegations against Tom Delay today.
I know they're unproven.
And I'm curious, I've always kind of wondered if there's ever a conservative under fire, and truly, you know, that's guilty.
Will you stand behind that person for the party's sake?
And like the case in point would be like just say you were behind the golden EIB microphone during Watergate.
How would you have handled that?
Uh well, as let's let's I wasn't, but I am behind the golden EIB microphone during Delay, so let's deal with that, okay?
Because that's that that's your question.
Got it.
I'd be glad to talk about Watergate.
How would I have defended Nixon?
I I um there was I don't know that I would have defended Nixon as time war on, but it was clear that there was a all-out media assault to get him, that he unwittingly helped them right along.
But but in the case of Delay, uh if Delay is guilty, will I still defend him?
Correct.
I'm not defending Delay now.
What I'm trying to point out, and I'm trying to get people to be uh focused on, is the motivation behind this.
Look at the indictment.
The indictment doesn't specify anything.
It calls for one count of conspiracy.
A lot of people don't understand how indictments work, but lawyers have seen gazillions of them know that an indictment lists the specific charges and alludes to some of the evidence.
It's uh, you know, you're entitled when you're charged to know what you're charged with.
Delay still really doesn't know.
Um Delay met with Ronnie Earl's lead prosecutor two weeks ago, was assured there would not be an indictment.
He was clearly lied to.
The timing of this is very suspicious.
Look at look at Ronnie Earl failed to get any indictments out of five previous grand juries.
He impaneled a sixth grand jury, which ends its work this week and finally got one count of conspiracy.
Now, conspiracy is a charge that prosecutors use when they have nothing else.
Conspiracy is look at it this way.
For four years, Ronnie Earl has thrown a bunch of stuff up against the wall against delay, hoping it'll stick.
None of it stuck.
It all fell down to the floor.
This conspiracy charge basically sweeps up all that stuff and tries to say, well, you know, we really can't prove what he did, but he conspired to do something.
Then the media gets hold of this and starts charging money laundering.
Now I have a little experience with this because I've been accused of money laundering without ever being charged of it.
I have been accused of it, and it's not been hap, it didn't happen.
Delay's been accused of money laundering, and there's no charge of money laundering.
So you can say I'm defending delay.
What I'm actually doing is questioning the prosecutor.
I'm questioning the motivation.
And I am really zeroing in and trying to get people to pay attention to an eager beaver overzealous media, which can't wait to misreport this.
I think the Democrats are working together with Ronnie Earl on the timing of this.
We have past history of Ronnie Earl as a partisan hack, just pointing all of this out.
Let me also read to you, Erica, uh, but but I'm I'm not suggesting if Delay is found guilty, then I'm going to defend him.
What I'm and it's the same thing with Bill Bennett today.
Uh what I'm doing, I'm getting fed up with this notion that we conservatives simply because we're conservatives, we're criminals, Need to be outlawed.
I'm fed up with this notion that Republicans need to be outlawed.
I'm fed up with the idea that we've got a bunch of cowardly liberals who will refuse to debate us on the merits of ideas because they will not even be honest about what they believe.
They can only win by attempting to destroy the reputations, lives, and character of their enemies.
And I'm sick and tired of sitting around watching it happen.
And that's why I was infuriated when the White House joined this scam today against Bill Bennett when they bought into this.
I understand the president is a president of the all, all the people and so forth, but I'm not going to sit around and put up with it.
I'm not going to allow these people to put us on defensive for what we believe.
They're the ones who need to be on the defense if anybody needs to be on the defensive.
What do they believe?
What good are they suggesting?
What good do they want to do?
Show me one thing they want to do that's good for the country.
What are they doing right now that's good for the country, other than try to tear it apart for their own purposes of putting it back together in their own image?
They're the ones that have to answer questions as far as I'm concerned.
They're the ones that have to lie, mistake us out of context, report things that we didn't say.
Try to get other people to think that we're wacko crazy racist, sexist, bigot homophobe, fed up with it, a whole lifetime of this.
So I'm simply raising the same question.
What's what's going on with this?
We have an effective Republican in the House of Representatives.
They're targeting, targeting him because he's effective and they want to get rid of him.
This is not this this is this is not about the fact that they want to get rid of Delay because Delay has committed crimes against the country and our political system.
That's not what they because they don't care about that.
They want to get rid of the Republican agenda.
They want to stop the Republican agenda.
He advances the Republican agenda in Congress.
Tom Delay secured Texas as a Republican state.
Tom Delay personifies their loss of power.
Tom Delay personifies their inability to get it back at the ballot box.
They hate Tom Delay and they want to get rid of him because they can't work with him and they can't defeat him, so they want the criminal justice system to take him out.
Does it sound familiar?
It's becoming more and more the modus operandi of the left.
You can't defeat your enemies of the ballot box, then go get them at the criminal justice system, either with one of your judges or one of your prosecutors.
And I think it's outrageous.
And so I'm simply asking people to look at that possibility as this unfolds.
The editors at National Review have weighed in on this.
And I want to read to you, Erica, what they've said.
Following the indictment of House Majority Leader Tom Delay, conservatives are left wondering what to make of the charges.
The answer's simple.
The charges are absurd, and they should be thrown out of court.
There is there are no charges.
One count of conspiracy, but there's nothing specified in it.
Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earl has charged Delay with conspiracy to make a contribution to a political party in violation of the Texas Election Code.
The alleged violation involved a money swap between the now defunct Texans for Republican Majority PAC, which Delay helped found but never managed, and the Republican National State Elections Committee.
Now the Texans for a Republican Majority PAC sent a check for $190,000 to the Republican National State Elections Committee, and the RNSEC then sent checks totaling approximately the same amount to Texas House candidates in October 2002.
Ronnie Earl, a Democrat calls this money laundering because the money that the Texans for a Republican majority PAC sent to the RNSEC came from corporations, which are barred from contributing to campaigns in Texas.
Well, Ronnie Earl is wrong.
Before campaign finance reform, this kind of soft money for hard money swap was perfectly legal.
It happened all the time.
In October of 2002, the Texas Democrat Party did the same thing when it sent $75,000 to the Democrat National Committee and received back $75,000 from the DNC.
Also, as former Department of Justice official Barbara Comstock noted yesterday, had corporations sent money directly to the RNC or the RNSEC, the transaction would be perfectly legal.
How could anybody conspire to do indirectly what could legally have been done directly?
Earl considers these transactions illegal because he thinks they should be, and he's convinced a grand jury to play along with him.
In addition, Delay denies he had anything to do with the legal transaction at issue.
It strains credulity to think, as Earl apparently alleges that the House Majority Leader was involved in the day to day mailing of checks by this pack.
So, you know, I we we look at evidence here.
We don't look at the seriousness of the charge.
You know, I don't get caught up in allegations.
I've been there, and I don't get caught up in allegations.
The left has gotten away with defining this business, a seriousness of the charge for way too long at the expense of the nature of the evidence.
We were going to railroad Clarence Thomas on the basis of a charge.
Tom Foley tried to tried to get rid of George Bush 41 with a phony charge, an investigation of a trip to Paris in an SR 71 back in 1980 to meet with the Iranians to make sure they held the hostages until after the 1980 election where Jimmy Carter was bounced by Ronald Reagan.
It's called the October Surprise.
There was no evidence.
There was never ever any evidence.
Tom Foley said, Oh, the seriousness of the charge requires we investigate this.
Well, screw the seriousness of the charge.
Screw the seriousness of the allegation.
This one's not even that serious.
Six months to two years.
$10,000 fine in the world of crimes, folks, we're not talking big time here.
This is just a chump change little thing.
What they want is Tom Delay's mugshot.
What they want are his fingerprints, what they want is video of Tom Delay in handcuffs, so they can use it for the rest of his life on the liberal media.
That's what they want.
This case is probably never going to go to trial.
And if it does, Delay's probably going to win it.
But if he doesn't, if he loses it, I'm not going to sit here and defend him.
Legal system is what it is.
But there's something that really smells about this.
And they're just all of these, all of these things, the allegations.
Like I heard Terry Moran asking Scott McClellan.
What about the allegations?
What about the serious of the allegations?
Does the president care about the allegations?
No, you dunce.
The allegations are one thing.
Now go prove it.
You little twerp, instead of running around acting like the allegation does prove it.
So we're waiting here.
And what I am doing, uh, Erica is not defending delay.
I'm trying to explain to you and get people to at least consider and look at how all of this came to pass and who is behind it, and what all of this in terms of the indictment, the allegation, actually contains, and what is it that he is alleged to have done.
And as we have learned, back before campaign finance reform, McCain Feingold, this wasn't illegal anyway.
But a DA has convinced a grand jury that it is.
So it goes on.
Just telling you, when a political party uses the criminal justice system to try to get rid of enemies that it can't defeat in the uh arena of ideas, we're at war.
And I'm sorry, folks, but I'm not interested in having my enemies like me.
We'll be back in just a second.
Stay with us.
Here are the details, folks, on the uh the Lisa Myers story at NBC involving the levies.
NBC News, this is a transcript.
From Lisa Myers, NBC uh news has obtained what may be a key clue hidden in long-forgotten legal documents.
These documents that she had there reveal that when this flood wall on the 17th Street Canal was built a decade ago, there were major construction problems, problems brought to the attention of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
This document shows that the contractor, Pittman Construction, told the Corps of Engineers that the soil and the foundation for the walls were not of sufficient strength, rigidity, and stability to build on.
Her report goes on in some detail with the help of a former Army Corps of Inter Engineer workers, college professors also, to outline that it was known more than a decade ago while President Clinton was in the White House, that the Earth under many of these flood walls was not stable enough.
A link provided in the text version of this report at MSNBNBC's website shows the legal decision of the core judge concerning this matter, and that all Pittman wanted was another $89,000 plus an additional 80 days to do the work properly, and the request was denied.
$809,000 back 10 years ago might have prevented this 17th Street Canal levy from Boston.
You always sit tight.
The truth somehow worms its way out of the muck of the media.
The sex drive of women plummets sharply as they juggle the increasing demands of partners, children, and careers, researchers said on Thursday.
One in ten women questioned for a survey admitted losing interest in sex for at least six months in the past year.
The major problem was the inability to have the big O. Uh that was reported by four percent of women, said Dr. Catherine Mercer of University College London after a British study was made of over eleven thousand men and women age sixteen to forty-four.
Married women were shown to be much more likely than single men or single women to have sexual problems.
The survey showed that both sexes tend to suffer in silence when faced with sexual problems, lack of sex drive, premature uh uh di or the stuff you need Viagra for.
So I mentioned this to Snerdley.
I said, Have you heard about this?
He said, What what's the difference before marriage or after?
I don't get the story.
What a cynic.
What an absolute cynic.
Rob in Long Branch, New Jersey, your next on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hey, good afternoon.
Uh welcome from uh New Jersey.
Ditto's from New Jersey, where democratic corruption is not just a way of life, it's the state motto.
Thank you, sir.
Anyway, look, I gotta ask you about the most critical issue to any New York sports fan over the next several weeks.
Vinny Testaverdi.
Yeah.
What's gonna happen?
Is he gonna make magic happen or or is it just a dud?
You know, I I actually think given their other options, Testa Verdi is not a bad move for him.
Uh uh Testa Verdi at 44, obviously he's gonna have a stronger arm than Chad Pennicanab.
Is Pennington still wasn't right after that rotator cuff surgery.
Everybody knows this.
He couldn't go to deep out.
He didn't have any zip on the ball.
Uh uh I uh uh uh you know uh Testa Verde uh is is gonna be a veteran presence that uh is gonna prevent a much deeper slide than they would have had otherwise.
But he's not gonna start immediately.
Is he gonna have this this uh Bollinger?
Bullinger will be in there for a while.
But I think I think Testa Verdi's uh he's he's gonna be he's good he's a good roster edition uh given I mean you lose your two quarterbacks here in one game.
I mean I this is and Testa Verde, he's got a new offensive coordinator.
He's got to learn the system from this Heimerdinger guy that they brought in from Tennessee.
Yep.
But um I I you know and I've been tough on Vinny in the past, uh, but but I think in this situation he's uh he he's he's gonna be helpful to them.
Well, veterans are making it happen.
Look at Bledsoe in Dallas.
Uh I I know.
Veterans are making there's there there's no question about that.
I I think he could surprise some people here.
And he's rested, and apparently he's kept himself in shape.
Uh so we'll see.
I have I have high hopes.
I I you you know, I'm no big affection here for the Jets one way or the other, but they are in the National Football League, and you don't want them looking like a semi-pro team out there with both quarterbacks going down.
So I I uh I kind of dig this.
Here is uh Renee in uh uh Maydaville, uh Louisiana.
Welcome to the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rice.
This is a thrill to be uh be back with you.
Uh we've uh been without you now for over a month.
So it's I'm so sorry to get to talk to you and just to get to listen to you today.
Well, that's awfully nice of you to say.
You've had a tough month, and I'm we're I'm glad you're back and able to hear the program.
I know what you mean.
It's like it's part of your normalcy getting restored.
It is.
I feel like my life is finally back on track.
Uh, you don't have to sit around and listen all day about the hurricane damage and all the outgrowth of that.
You can get back to some uh normal things, take your mind off of it.
So I'm glad to be of service in that way.
Thank you so much.
It's a honor.
Uh well, that's that's nice of you to call.
I appreciate it.
By the way, folks, price gouging in Las Vegas.
Yeah Kobe steak, 12 ounce Kobe steak at the there's a place at the Bellagio, which is one of my favorite hotels in Vegas, a restaurant in the Bellagio selling it for 190 bucks, 12 ounce Kobe steak 190 bucks.
Price gouging of the rich.
Man the richer taking it in the shorts, folks.
First you've got bands on caviar.
Now you've got Kobe steak at 190 bucks in Las Vegas.
Mamon said to me, What's what's champagne cost?
That's still nothing.
We use that for mouthwash.
But you start talking about no caviar and 190 steak, and of course we can't go complain to anybody.
Prouse gouging.
Who's gonna listen?
Back in just a second.
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Hope you have a uh a great weekend.
Uh we'll uh we're gonna do that ourselves here at the EIB Network, and we'll be back on Monday to ratchet this back up wherever it needs to be to deal with those who are trying to harm us.
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