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	You know, I'm sitting here thinking, I'm watching all the coverage here from the earthquake in Pakistan.
	It's got to really frost.
	The liberal Democrats and the environmentalist wackos they can't find a way to blame earthquakes on global warming.
	But I will bet you that there is a funded study and research project underway even now, and it won't be long before we will be told that in fact global warming is the warming of the atmosphere, is indeed leading.
	To uh to increased hurricane uh earthquakes, greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
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	Speaking of uh, oh, here's that New Jersey story.
	SUVs are killing more pedestrians.
	But we'll get to that here in just a second.
	I have a couple of environmental stories here that I want to share with you.
	First, in the New York Times, the headline as polar ice turns to water, dreams of treasure abound.
	The uh story is written from Churchill, Manitoba, which, for those of you in Rio Linda, is Canada.
	Uh a man of tea is the sea cow.
	It seems harsh to say that bad news for polar bears is good for Pat Bro, but Pat Bro, a Denver entrepreneur, is no more to blame than anyone else for a meltdown at the top of the world that threatens Arctic mammals and ancient traditions and lends credibility to dark visions of global warming.
	Still, the newest study of the Arctic ice cap, finding that it faded this summer to its smallest size ever recorded, is beginning to make Mr. Bro look like a visionary for buying this dereliction Bay port from the Canadian government in 1997, especially at the price he paid, about seven dollars.
	By Mr. Brough's calculations, Churchill, Manitoba, could bring in as much as 100 million dollars a year as a port on Arctic shipping lanes shorter by thousands of miles than routes to the south, and traffic would only increase as the retreat of ice in the region clears the way for a longer shipping season.
	Basically, what this story is about here is that as the polar ice cap is melting, supposedly, we are learning that there is quite a lot of value underneath it.
	Like oil and lots of fishies.
	Lots of fishies to be caught and eaten.
	Lots of food swimming around up there underneath the Arctic shelf.
	And the New York Times story is all concerned about the commerce potential of this shrinking ice cap.
	Last year, scientists found tantalizing hints of oil.
	Oil in seabed samples, just 200 miles to the North Pole.
	Folks, do you understand the ramifications of this?
	Oil 200 miles from the North Pole.
	And get this.
	According to the story, one quarter, 25% for those of you in Rio Linda, of the world's undiscovered oil and gas resources lie in the Arctic, according to the United States Geological Survey.
	Now, how is oil made?
	How's it?
	I don't know what you were taught.
	When I was taught when I was in school, and I've told you this, I was taught that oil was made from the decaying remains of our early ancestors, the dinosaurs.
	Those big things trundling around the planet and so forth, and that's why everybody thought there'd be a shortage of oil.
	It wouldn't last very long because there weren't that many dinosaurs.
	I mean, not enough to decay to the point to produce this kind of oil.
	That's why it was called fossil fuels.
	I grew up thinking it was it was it was caused by dinosaurs.
	Well, not true.
	Most geologists view crude oil like coal and natural gas as the product of compression and heating of ancient vegetation over geological timescales.
	That means quite a few years.
	According to this theory, oil is formed from the decayed remains of prehistoric marine animals and terrestrial plants.
	Over many centuries, this organic matter mixed with mud is buried under thick sedimentary layers of material, the resulting high levels of heat and pressure, cause the remains to metamorphose, first into a waxy material known as kerogen, and then into liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons in a process known as catagenesis.
	These then migrate through adjacent rock layers until they become trapped underground in porous rocks called reservoirs, forming an oil field from which the liquid can be extracted by drilling and pumping.
	You can also find this at Wikipedia.
	Just look you to Wikipedia, put in petroleum, and this is what you'll get.
	Anyway, if there was warming, it is a result of the only furnace capable of generating enough heat to affect the temperature here on Earth.
	And what's that?
	And by the way, we're talking centuries ago, folks, oil at the North Pole.
	There is only one element of heat, one source of heat strong enough to cause something like this, and it's Mr. Sun.
	But here's the real question.
	If there is oil at the North Pole, and you have to admit, folks, even with the so-called melting of the ice cap up there, still pretty cold up there.
	I mean, you still need a jacket when you go up there to visit Santa Claus.
	If there is oil where it is cold now, it had to be pretty damn hot there in the past, didn't it?
	Wouldn't you think?
	I mean, if if we've got oil reserves up there, 25%, that had to be a pretty, pretty hot, smoking place at some point in our Earth's past, don't you believe?
	And it had to be warm there, hot there for a very, very long period of time.
	And by the way, we're talking about a period of time when there were relatively few SUVs and evil corporations uh pockmarking our planet.
	Unless, of course, Tom Cruise's Scientology aliens were hard at work polluting the planet as they went about their business of populating the Earth.
	I mean, there could be a number of explanations for this.
	But I'm if if I mean that's the process by which oil is made, and it takes a lot of heat over a long period of time, and it's pretty frigid up there.
	So it must have been pretty hot at some point.
	The point there is if it's if it was really hot up there, and we didn't have all that many SUVs up there then, and we didn't have that many evil corporations, what was it that caused the heat?
	It has to be the sun.
	It can't have been humanity.
	So just wanted to pass that on.
	Environmental story number two, it's from the Wall Street Journal.
	And this, you talk about gouging.
	You you talk about evil.
	You talk about selfishness.
	You talk about just absolute carelessness and lack of sensitivity for anybody else.
	Hurricanes Katrina and Rita knocked down millions of trees.
	This story hasn't been told, folks.
	Oh, yeah, we've seen the houses that were felled, and we've seen the floods, and we've seen the people, but we haven't seen the story of the trees.
	We haven't seen it.
	There's a reason.
	There's a reason, my friends, that we haven't seen the devastation of these millions of trees.
	You know why?
	Because loggers, evil timber company employees, are scrambling against the odds to get those trees to market.
	Before they rot or further contribute to the region's wildfile wildfire danger.
	From Texas to Alabama, these two hurricanes alone toppled forests as far as fifty miles inland.
	As much as twenty-one million board feet of timber, trees, which by state and federal figures is enough to build one million homes destroyed, felled, kaput.
	State officials estimate the market value of the downed timber at about 900 million dollars in Louisiana and get this, 2.4 billion in Mississippi.
	The amount of timber debris in the forest is as much as fifty tons an acre, which is more than ten times the norm.
	And guess who's going in there and taking it out?
	The Evil lumber companies.
	These are people that would have never been allowed to cut down these trees.
	You talk gouging and profiteering.
	Are they in there helping people?
	Hell no.
	Are they in there do no?
	They're in there taking these forests which have been propped.
	And you know, what are they going to do?
	Why they're going to turn these trees into something they can sell.
	Baseball bats, pianos, houses, or whatever.
	They're going to admittedly turn them into beautiful things.
	Well, it's it's it's it was it was it it's it's not pristine wasteland anymore, Mr. Snerdley.
	It's wasteland.
	That is a good point, since it is this is what the environmentalists want.
	Why rebuild this place at all?
	This is what they tell us the earth should be.
	Just go and just go pitch a tent and live there.
	But my point is this.
	These evil loggers would not have been able to get within fifty miles of these forests were it not for the hurricanes.
	And yet, here come the hurricanes, and they go in there disguised as rescue workers.
	They go in there trying to make people think they're there to help.
	And what are they doing stealing lumber to make homes, to make baseball bets, pianos, chairs, whatever it else that they make out of it.
	It's unconscionable, this lack of concern and compassion.
	We'll be back.
	Stay with us.
	The bottom line is, folks, that Mother Nature went in there and destroyed more forests than big lumber could have ever hoped to have destroyed, and yet big lumber still moves in for the kill.
	Brian in Philadelphia, it's great to have you on the program, sir.
	Welcome.
	Thanks, Rush.
	Just wanted to uh propose one of those far-fetched environmental ideas that I read about um earthquakes connected with oil.
	They said that pulling it out of the ground and natural gas could be responsible for uh increased earthquakes.
	I guess it's like a slope pop on a balloon and it's draining out a little bit.
	Yeah, you know, I when I saw your call up there, I remember that I have heard that, that uh that oil drilling is in theorized, speculated by the environmentalist wackos is one of the explanations for the uh increased earthquake uh activity uh or now uh but now I uh I was in Afghanistan in February, and I know that they don't have any oil there.
	Uh and I don't think Pakistan has much oil.
	Now they're now India does.
	And they're trying to build a pipeline from India to Afghanistan through Afghanistan to help the uh distribution of oil once they get it out of the ground.
	But you know, the the it's it's it's it's it's it's just pure sophistry.
	Uh it's it's still it it all goes back to the fact that these secular environmentalists happen to believe in a religion.
	And as Michael Crichton pointed out, I mean, when you compare the environmentalist wackos religion, it it it dovetails nicely with Genesis.
	Starts out there was an there was a there was an Eden, and it was pristine and beautiful, and then man, Adam and Eve came along and they did the wrong things and they started polluting it and tearing it up.
	The earth is seeking its revenge now.
	You sin against nature, you sin against the earth rather than against God, but it's still a religion.
	And the uh the the problem is Crichton points out there never was an Eden.
	There never was pristine beauty.
	There never was total cleanliness uh and all this.
	And he points out a hundred years ago the the uh the infant mortality rate and the fact that most American streets were paved with horse manure, uh, because that was the primary mode of transportation.
	Uh you if you if you in 1902, if you scratch your hand with a nail, a rusty nail, you could die.
	We didn't have penicillin.
	So the idea that there was some pristine past that we should all go back to is is just uh is just sophistry.
	But whatever, whatever the environmentalists can cite that leads to technological advancement and progress and increased quality of lives, they will blame for global warming or other environmental destruction.
	Here's Walter in Queens.
	Uh, nice that you waited, sir.
	Uh great to have you on the program.
	Hi.
	Uh same here, Rush.
	Uh the devil uh did it, Rush.
	He made all that oil up there through volcanic activity.
	As you may be aware, there's an active volcano in Iceland, as well as I believe in Alaska.
	Uh so volcanoes uh heated up the uh Arctic area and created the oil, is that it?
	No, I don't think that the uh Earth was uh you know shifted polarly so that the uh you know the uh the North Pole and the South Pole were equatorial.
	It m appears more than There are some people wait a second, there are some serious scientists who believe that that indeed was the case.
	And there are some serious scientists who indeed believe that the North Pole or the South Pole at one time was equatorial.
	Really?
	Yes.
	I've been reading about it.
	There's some people that act it's not proven.
	Uh it's it's not established, but they are they are trying to explain uh how how this could happen.
	And it's it's way beyond me to be able to relate it to you here.
	Well, I know.
	And I don't know whether there's any any any any substance to the theory, but there are some who believe this.
	Well, there has been a polar shift, but that's been noted before.
	Magnetic north has moved.
	But um, you know, as they have yet to describe how magnetic north got to the north.
	Yeah.
	Well, it has magnetic north has that's one of the things that this I in fact I got so interested in this, I read a novel about it, and I forget the name of the author.
	It's his first novel.
	But it's his theory is that the lost continent of Atlantis, which is still a myth, is Antarctica.
	That we could ever dig down deep, we would find it.
	And it was as far as it goes, I mean it was just a fascinating read.
	Uh and it it it was not a historical novel.
	It was a novel, uh, but but it incorporated the theory that a lot of people well, I don't know, a lot, but some scientists have, that there has been a huge shift in the Earth's axis.
	We're looking, we're the place here's been around, you know, many hundreds of millions of years.
	And and uh so all kinds of things are being devised to explain this.
	You know, you can sit there and and say, well, I don't believe how oil is formed or this, but it there's if there's oil up at the North Pole, there has to have been some heat source for a protracted length of time for it to exist.
	Twenty-five percent of the world's supply is up there.
	I mean, there has to have been a heat source at some point, and we know that it couldn't be SUVs and smokestacks and uh and Western culture uh that have led to this.
	It's gotta be something.
	Uh Tom in Reading, Pennsylvania, glad you called.
	Hi.
	Hi, I just want to make a point about your gas prices you were talking about earlier.
	Uh you said that the gas prices are driven by our economy, and I I agree that we're a market-driven economy by our by our purchases, but the great prices going up fifty cents in the same day was not driven by just people uh buying fuel.
	Uh you know, oil companies definitely took an advantage of that.
	So you as you you you would ascribe to the theory that there is a singular czar, a singular person out there sends out the signal to raise gasoline prices by fifty cents a gallon on a on a day after a hurricane, or well, even before the hurricane gets there.
	Well, gas prices today are back down ten cents below they were before the Katrina Head.
	Yeah, wonder why that's refineries were damaged so badly.
	I mean, if the if the oil companies should co sho could so could so easily gouges, why lower the price?
	Why not keep the price up once we'd gotten a customer pay for it and continue to gouge us?
	Why is the price?
	Exactly.
	And they just can't give up gasoline like they can give up a side of beef.
	You know, it's not a commodity, it's not a commodity that we can just walk away from.
	We have to heat our houses, we have to drive our cars, well you're not as greatly as well.
	Oh, oh, oh, oh, who's heating their house with gasoline?
	I want to meet this person.
	They don't have long to live.
	Yeah.
	No, but look, the the point the point is this that you can of course you can't eliminate it, although some people could.
	Some people go, I I'm sure look at there are a lot of people in this country, and a lot of them are very strange.
	Yeah, but not overnight.
	Not something they can use drop tomorrow, and oil companies know that.
	So they can raise that price, you know, in a day at fifty cents for a dollar, and they know people are gonna come buy it the same day and the next day, because they're gonna need it.
	I don't have a lot of things.
	Yeah, but it didn't stay there.
	Wait a sec.
	The point is it didn't stay there.
	And why didn't it stay there?
	You always have to go, what is the current price?
	Yeah, it might have spiked up to six bucks.
	Yeah, it might have spiked up in certain places.
	Three or four bucks in others.
	It didn't spike at all in California.
	They raised their prices based on a prediction that the refiners are going to be down for so long.
	Well, these refineries are still down, most of them, and their prices still came back down.
	I just think they took advantage of a situation that they knew the uh population would still have to go out and buy the fuel and they got their money.
	And now their back prices are back down, and you know, what do you mean they got their money?
	If you're an American corporation, you never get your money.
	It's an ongoing quest.
	You never have enough.
	It adds to the case.
	What do you mean they got their money and cut the price?
	Well, by by raising the price so quickly in a day, knowing people are going to start the buy the next day that they just can't give it up, but they could give up going to buying a gallon of milk.
	Under your theory, if they can't give it up and they got away with raising the price to six bucks in Atlanta, why not keep it there if people can't give it up?
	Exactly.
	Why didn't they keep it there?
	I don't understand why they didn't.
	People are still in the world.
	Well, because they couldn't.
	Because they couldn't.
	They couldn't keep it there because they it was not a supported price.
	People would do with less of it.
	People aren't going to drive as much.
	The governor of the state shut schools for two days to save 500,000 barrels or gallons or whatever of diesel in in a widely criticized and laughed-at move.
	But the point is, people do cut back.
	They're getting rid of SUVs, they're out there buying little lawnmowers to drive around in.
	You're listening to Rush Limbaugh on the excellence in podcasting network.
	Let me deal with this seriously.
	I brought this whole thing of the gas price up as a joke today, and I should have known.
	I should have known that people would actually take it seriously and and suggest that there is somebody out there artificially setting the gas price or the oil price.
	There's something about this commodity.
	You people know what you're paying for bottled water by the gallon and how the price dwarfs gasoline and talk about something you can't do without.
	Water.
	But no, you taps too dirt.
	I can't turn on the tap.
	I need to go out and get my designer water.
	Then you go out and spend three bucks a bottle for some water with little sugar in it and think you're drinking an energy drink, and you don't think you're being gouged or marketed or spun at all.
	But let the gasoline price go up.
	Somehow there's evil involved, a corporation.
	The big conspiracy theorists on oil companies seem to think that the oil companies control prices.
	Well, as a caller mentioned, look at what all is involved here in the oil business.
	You've got the commodities market involved in pricing it.
	You have supply and demand on a worldwide scale, which now includes China and India on the user or demand side.
	I mean, folks, when when the when a commodity is demanded in a greater and greater quantity, the price is naturally going to go up.
	And when you start talking about the number of people in China and India who are just now modernizing to the point that they are all owning automobiles or within the realm of uh many of them owning automobiles pretty soon, you can sort of figure out what's going to happen.
	Then you've got all kinds of foreign governments involved in this on the supply side with their own regulations and their own shipping regulations.
	You have interruptions in supply periodically, like the hurricanes.
	And with with all these factors, there are still people who think the oil companies control the price.
	This is an industry.
	This the oil industry is an industry that has to go into court very often, have to sue environmental groups for the right to do more exploration and drilling and refining.
	If it were up to the oil companies, there would be more product.
	There would not be less, which runs counter to the argument they seek to control prices.
	They're in the oil business.
	They're telling that they're listening to environmentalist wackos and members of Congress and politicians the world over tell them they can't go there to get it.
	They can't drill there, they can't explore there, can't build a refinery there, can't have a shipping lane there, can't send a tanker there, it might have an oil spill and upset a few otters up in Alaska.
	Can't do that, can't do that, can't do that.
	And yet this industry is is is blamed for all of the problems.
	They're like, they want as much profit as they can get, no question, they would love to have as much supply.
	They'd love, and I've talked to these oil executives, some of them about these bottled water guys.
	I mean, look at what the oil companies have to go through just to get a barrel of oil from underneath the ground.
	Versus these bottled water guys, they probably go to some spigot and turn it on, slap a label on it, say it came from a spring, put it in a fancy looking bottle, and you guzzle it thinking you're being healthier than if you just turned on the tap.
	No exploration, no drilling cost, No regulations, no you don't even they don't even put fluorine in the water.
	Or fluoride, they don't put fluoride like the towns do.
	Then there's a conspiracy theory on that.
	That was a communist plot.
	To wipe us out.
	I mean, what business would you go in today if you had a wouldn't you try to trick people into thinking you're fancy looking water with a little sugar and a little raspberry in it and then put the word put put some sports marketing label on it and people think they're getting an energy boost when all they're doing is screwing up their blood sugar versus the oil.
	If I if I were the oil companies, you know what I'd be I'd be demanding hearings, and I'd bring congressional and Senate figures before my committees.
	And I'd bring the environmentalists up and I would make them explain to the American people why they're making it so hard for my companies to do business and why they are are sitting by idly while the price goes up and blaming us for it when in fact it's them.
	It's all these regulators and all these obstacles to progress that are causing these wild fluctuations in addition to all these natural disasters and things like that.
	And no, I'm not, I don't know anybody in the oil business.
	I'm not, I'm not, I'm not in the oil business, nothing of the sort.
	I'm but I'm just this is pure economics 101.
	It's the government, folks, it's the state and federal bureaucrats and environmentalist wackos who limit the supply of oil and then everything that gets refined from it.
	If the oil companies, I mean, just as a as a as a matter of strategy, if the oil companies limited exploration, if they limited production, if they limited refining, then you could argue that they're trying to control the price.
	But it's your own government doing that, not the not the companies.
	In fact, you know what I would if I were an oil, if I if I ran the oil companies, if I was the grand PUBA of big oil, I'd call all these CEOs in and I say, you know what we're gonna do?
	We're gonna illustrate just who the problem is.
	We're gonna reduce our production.
	We're gonna say we agree with the environmentalists, we're gonna cut our daily production in half.
	We're not gonna refine any more than half of what we're refining now because we are good stewards of the earth and we're gonna clean.
	And when there's no oil and when the gasoline supply is cut in half and the price is tripled, then we will and and and we will explain to them and let them see just who it is that places the obstacles in front of them terms of affordable energy.
	I mean, that'll never happen.
	That's one of these exercises I would love to see, but it would it would uh it would never happen.
	But in fact, it is to a to us to a certain extent, it is happening with all these restrictions.
	That's what's so great about the House Republicans passing the energy bill on Friday.
	We're gonna drill an an war if the bill ever gets signed.
	Same thing in the Gulf.
	We're gonna limit these 47 different formulations of gasoline to accommodate the various regulations in the states for pollution purposes.
	That would speed up the distribution of gasoline nationwide, have a greater effect on price than you could possibly imagine.
	Uh Ted in Shalomar, Florida.
	I'm glad you called, sir.
	Hello.
	Giga Ditto's from the great state of Florida, I'll rush bow.
	Thank you, sir.
	Uh the answer to your question, where's the heat up in the Arctic?
	It's actually due to uh, and I'm a professor of engineering with the University of Florida, it's actually due to nuclear decay.
	Nuclear decay within the North's crust, you have uh a lot of nuclear material in the uh the gamma ray radiation from that decay mechanism is actually responsible for um for generating that heat.
	Anywhere you go in the earth in the world, once you get below the earth's crust about 500 degrees, I mean five hundred feet, you have about a one-degree Fahrenheit increase for every sixty feet in depth.
	Yeah.
	And so that's you know, basically that's where the heat came from to make all this oil.
	Uh so the oil is there.
	I do believe so, yes, sir.
	Yeah, the oil is there.
	Well, interest.
	So so uh uh that's that to me is interesting in and of itself, whether or not, you know, whatever the source of warming is if you're right, and you're the professor and I'm not.
	You are at the University of Florida and I am at the limbaught.
	And so I'll I will defer to you because this is your area of uh of specialty.
	But it uh it is interesting that if that explanation is true, how oil is created, if that's true, oil's gonna continue to be created.
	Uh which I've also heard from various uh experts uh on this.
	Amityville, New York, home of sharks offshore.
	Steve, welcome to the program.
	Nice to have you with us.
	How are you doing, Rush?
	Thanks for having me on.
	Keep the conservative movement going.
	Uh I'm just saying that I think with the whole oil situation that sometimes politicians have a tendency to have let too much politics get involved.
	And oil is not a democratic issue or Republican issue, it's an American issue.
	And we should have a set of guidelines.
	Uh-uh.
	Uh uh wait, wait just a second.
	Now you're speaking as is as if you could write the script, but the fact is it is a political issue.
	Democrats are against it, republicans are for it.
	Well, that's what I'm saying is that that's the problem today, is that there's too much politics involved in everything.
	You know, like you could go to social security.
	Social Security should be good for the kid that's throwing a newspaper at 15 to the person that's going to retire at 62.
	It shouldn't be made an issue for every you know, it has to be done for everybody.
	So there should just be a set of guidelines of what we need.
	It drives our economy, and they should have an oversight committee that that watches it and let keep the politics out.
	Never happen.
	Look, it you that that I hate to say this, that's pie in the sky.
	That's everybody linking arms and going kumbaya.
	The fact of the matter is that we've got some people who consider oil evil and an enemy, and they have to be defeated.
	Because if they win, they have a direct proportionate impact on the stunted growth of this economy that would occur.
	And it's all because of who their contributors are.
	You know, a lot of people make the mistake that uh every American believes in the greatness of America.
	That's not true.
	There are a lot of Americans who don't think we're great.
	There are a lot of Americans who think we're evil.
	There are a lot of Americans who think we're polluting the planet.
	There are a lot of Americans who think that we are destroying other people and other animals and other things, and it's because of our highly technological advanced status.
	It's because of our uh prosperity.
	A lot of people don't like the fact that we have a greater and higher standard of living than most of the rest of the world.
	Don't like it.
	They want to equalize it.
	So the the idea that Americans are going to join hands and come to agreement on this, uh Americans might, but the only way that this is going to happen is if all the Americans that you can get to are educated about it and vote for the right people.
	Because these are these issues are indeed political.
	That's what that's why I think the oil companies would uh would be serving themselves well if they made a show of uh asking for hearings and to demand everybody that because the American people don't want high prices if it doesn't have to be.
	If there are high prices and prices higher than the American people feel are fair, then they're owed an explanation of why that's the case.
	They are being programmed to believe it's the big oil companies gouging them.
	It isn't.
	The people affecting price are those doing every their level best to affect supply.
	And that's the people who oppose oil.
	And those people are found in the left of the political spectrum.
	Uh the reasons for this are long and drawn out, but it basically goes back to what I said to those little college students.
	Some believe capitalism's great, and others think that it is the absolute worst system for organizing human affairs and economic matters ever come down the pike because they think it's inherently unfair.
	And so the big oil companies are big, big oil.
	And they uh the the people that don't like capitalism don't like big oil because big oil is the epitome of all that's corrupt and evil and unfair and unjust about capitalism so forth.
	So those people, you know, you find yourself in a political battle, they need to be defeated.
	They're always going to be there.
	They just need to constantly be engaged and defeated.
	That's the only way this we're we're never gonna get to the point where uh what the circumstance that you laid out happens that we have a congressional committee that organizes all of this into what's best for America because I'm there are too many differing points of view as to what's best for America.
	Quick time out.
	We'll be back and continue.
	Stay with us.
	I have some audio sunbites of Anton and Scalia before I get to them.
	I mentioned earlier in the program, and I'm gonna close that.
	I said there were two stories today that look like the reporters collaborated.
	Uh and from two different newspapers that basically wrote the same story.
	One's the Washington Post, the other the LA Times.
	The Washington Post headline for GOP election anxiety amounts, candidates need convincing for O six.
	And in the LA Times, GOP feels sting of candidates' rejection.
	It's like they had a conference call and decided to two time us with this same or to double team us with this uh same story.
	It's about how the Republicans are falling apart, folks.
	It's just the opposite.
	What's happening, as I mentioned earlier, I'm going to be exploring this during the week.
	What's happening is that the conservatives in the Republican Party are now fighting back.
	And you saw it in that vote on the energy bill in the House on Friday.
	Liberal Republicans and Democrats voted against it.
	Senate is probably going to kill it.
	But enough is enough.
	And I think like I said earlier, this Harriet Myers nomination is the thing that has spawned it.
	And it was destined to happen.
	And it's a good thing.
	Don't let them spin you into feeling bad about it.
	There's now a third element, third story here.
	I don't think this uh this guy, this is Dick Pullman, the inquirer, Philadelphia Inquirer political analyst, and I don't think this guy collaborated with the Washington Post of the LA Times.
	As Bush uh Bush slips, GOP faces major shift in 08 vote.
	And his theory is is basically that uh uh 2008, and he quotes a guy named Jack Pitney, former national security or national party official and GOP campaign aid.
	Now it looks like 2008 will be an outsider election, meaning that uh the candidate that doesn't sound like Washington doesn't look like Washington hasn't been in Washington uh is is gonna have the outside track on the Republican side.
	What's interesting about this piece is that Polman in the Philadelphia Inquirer states the facts.
	He states if you could you leave it to a liberal paper like the Philadelphia Inquire to stare the facts in the face and come to the wrong conclusion.
	After basing the whole theory that 08 is gonna be is is gonna be an outsider election, they conclude, Polman concludes, that this anoints McCain.
	Well, let me tell you something, folks.
	Speaking for all conservatives, conservatives have a distrust, deep distrust of the mainstream media, and anybody, the mainstream media touts and embraces and trumpets on our side or theirs is an immediate suspect.
	You wait.
	If the media, if the media loves John McCain and wants him elected, they will abandon him as their pet.
	If they want McCain defeated, they will embrace him and make him appear to be the savior of this country or of the Republican Party.
	It's up to them.
	But I guarantee you, I mean the sterile the facts pretty much got them right and come to wrong conclusion.
	Anton Scalia.
	He was on uh uh uh Today Show today with the CNN CNBC host Maria Barcheromo, uh, and she said, How do you feel about having a non-judge on the Supreme Court?
	Well, I think it's a good thing to have people with all sorts of backgrounds.
	There is now uh nobody uh with that background after the death of uh uh of the previous chief.
	And the reason that's happened, I think, is um the nomination and confirmation process has become so controversial, so politicized, that I think a president does not want to give the opposition an easy uh, you know, an easy uh excuse that you well, this person has no judicial experience.
	And I I don't think that's a good thing.
	I I think the Byron White's uh the Lewis Powell's uh and the Bill Rinquists have contributed to the court, even though they didn't sit on a lower federal court.
	Well, they had a they had a discernible constitutional philosophy is the difference between them and Harriet Myers.
	Uh and then uh Maria Barcheromo said, uh Chief Judge Roberts really heralds uh new era for the court.
	You think that the rules will change in allowing TV cameras in the Supreme Court?
	Not a chance.
	Because we don't want to become entertainment.
	I think it's uh there's something sick about about making uh entertainment out of real people's legal problems.
	I don't like it in the lower courts, and I don't particularly like it in the Supreme Court.
	Uh, that's good thinking.
	Quick timeout, got to go here because of the constraints of time.
	Be right back, folks.
	Stay with us.
	Folks, I gotta skate out of here.
	I have about three hours of bills to pay this afternoon.
	I got the Steelers and Chargers tonight on Monday Night Football.
	I pay bills every day.
	I pay bills every day.
	I get bills every day.
	I pay them every when they come in.
	I pay I pay them every day.
	I do them every day, mail them once a week.
	Otherwise, it'd take me five hours a week to do it.
	And I'm not going to hire somebody else to do it because I'd nobody.
	Nobody is going to do it.
	Anyway, so I got to get that done because we got the Steelers and the Chargers at 9 o'clock, and we got uh the Angels and a new Yank Yokes uh tonight, game five of the uh of whatever they're doing.
	See you tomorrow, folks.

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