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Dec. 12, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 12, 2005, Monday, Hour #3
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Yes, I'm gonna do it now.
I'm gonna do this this shuttle story now.
I I really I'm not trying to tease you people uh uh and get you to hold on for the story.
It's just we're spontaneous here, you know, things just happen.
We don't run according to a format or a or a layout or a storyboard or whatever.
We just do what what what happens.
Greetings, and welcome back.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program of this is the EIB Network.
I am America's anchor man, America's truth detector, America's doctor of democracy.
Still an honorary member of the freshman class, the 1994 House of Representatives.
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All right, now you may have watched this on TV today.
This was amazing.
The uh astronaut Stephen Robinson had to go outside the shuttle, and they've never done this.
They've never they've never tried such a repair, and they've and they've never had a spacewalk quite like this.
The uh the robot arm of the space station uh has a platform.
Astronaut Stephen Robinson was on it and went to the underside, the belly of the space shuttle, because they had uh a couple of gap fillers there that were protruding between these heat-resistant tiles that protect the shovel on re-entry.
And the uh the these these gap fillers had come loose on liftoff, and they're protruding about an inch each from the surface of the shuttle, and they didn't want to take chance on a re-entry that those things, they're not heat protected.
They want who knows what aerodynamic effect they would have.
Shuttle comes in without power.
Shuttle, there's no engine.
Uh that thing, it it it's it's a glider, but it's more like a rock.
And what's always amazed me about the shuttle, whatever they are, 150 miles, I don't know what this trip's orbit is.
150 miles, and they land pinpoint on a runway at Cape Canaveral with no engine.
Now, it's that's a testament to computers, but boy, it's also a testament to the fact that those computers have to fire whatever they fire the retro rockets or whatever at the exact split second.
Because you you don't get to go around if you miss the runway.
Uh and I I know a uh shuttle astronaut, uh Captain Kevin Chilton, was once in my TV show audience, and I uh asked him about that.
Ah, that's nothing.
He said, that's that's that's that's that's routine.
Well, because the the computers are flying the shuttle is why it's routine, but uh up until I think 500 feet, then the pilot takes over because you've got a glide.
But you know what the glide ratio of a shuttle is?
It's not it's like a rock.
I forget what it is, um uh, but the glide ratio is expressed as a 10 to 1 or 15 to 1.
That's for how many feet you drop for every foot that you uh go forward.
Uh I think it's in feet.
But this craft's I mean, this is not a glider.
It it it's it drops like a rock.
And so they don't know what effect these two uh gap fillers that are protruding about an inch would have on aerodynamics nor on the heat uh situation.
So they had to go out there and take them out.
Uh and it'd never been done before, and they had to make shift tool to do it.
Uh it turned out they didn't need the tool.
They were able to um uh I think it was his hand I saw uh able to pull both of them out of the gap, but if the hand removal system hadn't worked, they were gonna try forceps, and if the forceps didn't work, they were going to try a hacksaw that they had uh made out of uh you know a bunch of loose parts and equipment that was on board the shuttle.
But it worked.
It was a flawless spacewalk, and this this complex repair mission worked.
Today, I came across this news item, Dateline Cleveland.
In its most brazen assault on organized labor to date, the Bush administration ordered space shuttle repair work not only offshore, but sent off planet.
An AFL CIO spokesman called the mission a clear attack on the tw- is this for real?
Is this for real or am I being scammed by another parody spot?
In its most brazen assault on organized labor to date, the Bush administration ordered space shuttle repair work, not only offshore, but sent off-planet.
An AFL CIO spokesman called the mission a clear attack of the 12 million workers in the ranks of organized labor.
Space repair should mean jobs here at home, not in space, where right-to-work laws are the norm, he said.
Duke Mullen, the shop steward for the local 666 tile workers, complained.
What gives, Mr. President?
First you send jobs to Latin America with CAFTA.
Now you send jobs to your buddies in big space.
White House sources say the decision to use non-union workers was made at the highest levels of the administration.
Mullen asks, how many children will go without health insurance because of this?
Rebecca Underwood, unemployed machinist and mother of four, was outraged.
She said it's ridiculous.
OSHA standards aren't even enforced in space.
One wrong move, and you're cooked.
Good luck trying to sue.
They'll just leave you behind in the space station with the Russians.
The Union is demanding all future shuttle repairs be made by union workers or not at all.
Local 666 will protest today outside the Mills Bay Machine Complex in Lancaster, Ohio.
Jason Blair and Stephen Glassman contributed to this report.
Thank you.
So in a related story.
CBS News has named its first two participants for journalists of color training program.
CBS News has named the first of its two participants for journalists of color training program.
Have we gone back to 1965?
What year is some let me look at the calendar.
I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone all of a sudden.
CBS News has chosen the first two participants for its journalists of color training program.
James Black will report for WBNS TV, the CBS affiliate in Columbus, Ohio, and Arturo Rhimes will be a producer for CBS NewsPath in New York.
The announcement was made by Andrew Hayward, President CBS News, and Linda Mason, Senior Vice President Standards and Special Projects, CBS News.
This journalist of color program is designed to develop a pool of highly qualified producers and correspondents for which CBS affiliates and stations as well as CBS News will be able to draw talent.
CBS News hires the journalist to work for two years at participating CBS affiliates or at CBS NewsPath.
Now what does Ed Bradley think of this?
Does this story not read like something you'd find 1965?
I wonder if CBS do blacks have to use a different water fountain.
This is folks, I honest to God, here.
I'm I'm I'm stunned at the You mean this is the first they've done on this.
Are they saying that the only way they can find qualified black reporters is to start this program and give them shots at little uh unknown CBS affiliates around the country.
U.S. death toll in Iraq surpasses 1,800.
How do we know?
Because the American media is keeping it tally.
Right here I have it, my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, Samir Yakoub.
The AP, seven U.S. Marines are killed in two separate attacks west of Baghdad, where American forces are trying to steal a majority or major border infiltration route to foreign fighters.
The deaths push the U.S. military death toll in Iraq past eighteen hundred.
People are keeping a body count on this.
As uh as we mentioned yesterday.
All right, a brief timeout.
We'll be back.
We will continue.
You know, I may do this, may as well do this story next, given the two stories we've started with today.
Man dies after sex with horse.
There is a whole lot of depravity out there.
It's a story from San Francisco, and we'll have it for you when we come back.
By the way, we just learned something else about this CBS story.
If you just joined us and you missed out on this, CBS News has it, has named the first two participants of its new journalists of color training program.
Uh the journalists of color program designed to develop a pool of highly qualified producers and correspondents From which CBS affiliates and stations will be able to draw talent.
CBS News hires the of color journalists to work for two years at participating CBS affiliates or CBS News Path.
The first two participants.
The first two.
It's 2005.
The first two participants in its journalist of color training programmer James Black, who will report for WBNS TV, the CBS affiliate in Columbus.
And Alturo Rhymes will be a producer for CBS NewsPath in New York.
What I didn't know when I shared this news with you is that there's a name for this program.
It's the Robert C. Byrd Grand Cleague News Project at CBS News.
The Robert C. Bird Glan Grand Cleague project at CBS News.
All right, where's this horse story?
All right, here we go.
I promise you this, I'm not going to keep you waiting.
Turning into this kind of a day.
A man died of internal injuries.
Dateline San Francisco.
Have to clear my throat for this one.
I'm sorry, internal injuries from sex with a stallion at a ranch used by a bestiality ring.
Police in the Northwestern United States state of Washington said on Monday.
Well, it's Dateline San Francisco.
I guess it happened in the state of Washington.
The man suffered fatal trauma while being sodomized by a stallion at a stud farm that catered to men who wanted sex with animals, said the police commander up there, Eric Sortland.
This is actually a story from the French news agency.
From the medical examiner's office to the sheriff to the police detectives, we have never seen anything remotely close to what we have in the past two weeks, said Eric Sortland, the police commander.
The shocking events of the ranch were exposed after a man's body was dropped off at a hospital southeast of Seattle on July 2nd after his encounter with the stallion.
Basically, his colon was ruptured along with his lower organs in that region, and he bled out, said Eric Sortland, the police captain or commander.
A cache of hundreds of hours of videotape man on beast sex sessions was found hidden in a field, said the police commander Eric Sortland.
The animals kept at the farm included ponies, horses, goats, sheep, and dogs, according to Eric Sortland, the police commander.
Images of the flock of offerings on the bestial dude ranch were relayed over the internet, and records indicate that men had come from throughout the United States, according to police commander Eric Sortland.
Unfortunately, these people were very diligent in filming their activities, said police commander Eric Sortland of a viewing task detectives have found unpleasant.
I'll bet.
Police were still reviewing the recordings to determine the range of activities, according to police commander Eric Sortland, because sex with animals is not barred by law in Washington State.
No arrests have been made, according to the police, who nonetheless continued to investigate Monday to determine whether any illegal activity had taken place.
Oh, geez.
Want to do an update on this, Mr. Smedley?
The case is being used by state legislators in Washington.
Back a bill that would make it illegal to have sex with beasts, said police commander Eric Sortland.
You wondered why I read the whole story to you.
It's not illegal in the state of Washington.
Sex with animals is not barred by law there.
So no arrests have been made.
So why are they watching the videos?
Who you gonna arrest anyway?
They can't arrest the animals.
What do they know?
Sue in uh in Bedford, Pennsylvania.
Hiya, welcome to the EIB net.
Nice to talk with you.
Thank you.
My husband and I were discussing this AFL-CIO complaint that they aren't able to do the repair work.
I'd like to know are they the ones that perhaps uh did the work on the spaceship that uh failed?
Uh you got a good point.
You know, you raise a I had not, I hadn't considered that when I was reading that story.
Well, I you know, it would be something to continue.
You know, it would it fits with union people, though, doesn't it?
They go make the mistakes and then they try to pass the buck.
That's what we were thinking, right?
Yeah.
Well, I'm glad you called because I I hadn't I hadn't considered it.
Well, it would be nice maybe to look it up and just see who was doing the work.
Now, the Snurley, look it up.
Find out who did the original work on these gap fillers, and find out if it was this tile union up in Cleveland.
That's a great question.
Yeah.
Sue, thank thanks uh th uh for the uh call.
Uh another associated press story here for you, folks in Birmingham, Alabama.
It's by Jay Reeves, the Associated Press.
Portraying Democrats as the people of real moral values.
I wonder how many people at this stud farm out there uh having sex with stallions were Democrats.
Just a question.
We'll never know.
Betraying Democrats as the people of real moral values, Howard Dean addressed Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights organization, uh, What was this?
Guess that's today.
Oh, yesterday, amid complaints that his party has taken black voters for granted too long.
In a swipe at Republicans who campaign on a conservative agenda that includes opposition to abortion and gay marriage, Dean told the Southern Christian Leadership Conference that Democrats believe in moral values like feeding hungry children and providing health insurance to everyone.
Now, see, here they're trying to redefine morality.
Here they're trying to redefine what moral is.
Howard Dean says, they say we didn't win the election last time because of moral value.
No, you said it.
All of you Democrats were the ones saying you had to shore up your whole position here on the values question.
We didn't say you did.
If the election had been held on moral values last time, Democrats would have won.
Why is that?
says Dean, because more people agree with our moral values.
Okay, let's see what their moral values are.
Abortion.
Euthanasia, employer sexual intimidation.
Clinton and Monica.
Bigotry.
Anti-Catholicism.
High taxes.
Is this the morality that the Democrats think they're going to win elections on?
You uh Democrats understand why we are laughing our asses off at you.
Every story today.
Every story we've had.
Try this.
This is Los Angeles Channel 9 K Cal.
Study links tobacco smoke with belly fat.
Exposure to cigarette smoke raises the risk among teenagers of metabolic syndrome.
That is a disorder with excess belly fat that increases the chances of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes, according to a study.
Researchers said that it is the first study to establish such a link in teenagers.
The study found that one percent.
We're doing a news story here.
Over one percent.
One percent of those uh unexposed to smoke develop the syndrome.
One percent of those unexposed to smoke develop fat.
What is it?
Uh excess belly fat syndrome.
Five percent of those exposed to secondhand smoke had the disorder, and nine percent of active smokers had excess belly fat.
So now the just I mean, the question should be uh, folks, what is there that is not caused by smoking?
The list would be a lot shorter.
This is just it's hilarious.
The study here was done by a guy named Michael Weitzman, executive director of the American Academy of Pediatric Center for Child Health Research in Rochester, New York.
And Whitzman said it is not clear what it is about smoking that appears to make teenagers more susceptible to this metabolic excess belly fat syndrome.
Well, then if it isn't clear, how can you draw any conclusion from it?
And yet they have.
So folks, uh I think it's time to take a break here because I need to regain my composure, and I need to blow my nose.
It always happens when I lose my composure.
Uh I get teary-eyed moisture in the mucous membranes of the uh nasal cavity and so forth.
So I'll do that.
We'll be back.
We'll continue here in uh in mere moments.
You believe this stuff, Miss I. And welcome back, folks.
Uh here we are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rush Limbaugh, the golden EIB microphone is now adorned uh with decoration.
For those of you watching at the Ditto Cam.
What this and this really this is this is smells good.
It's uh Club Gitmo uh uh soap on a rope.
Uh a new addition to the Club Gitmo gift shop, along with the Club Gitmo car flag right over my right shoulder, and this.
The Club Gitmo's Jihad Java Cafe travel coffee mug.
All except the soap in uh burnt orange of jailhouse uh of colors.
So thought I would adorn the microphone with the with the soap on a rope.
Uh no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Give give give me uh give me Mary and Tacoma Washington.
We've got to get this straightened out.
Mary, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello, Rush.
You won't remember me, but I remember you.
I listen to you and your personal.
You know, hold it, but before you say another word, before you say another word, I was just gonna ask you.
When I saw Mary from Tacoma up there, you you were listening before we made it into Seattle.
You actually listened to a station.
We were on Tacoma at first back in 1988, and you were and you called and you were very concerned about Bruce, what was his name?
Ritter, the uh the the guy who ran the uh Covenant, the the uh the Covenant House.
Right, in in New York City.
I do remember you as the point.
Well, good.
And I also told you about dumpster dining, too.
Yes, you did.
Exactly right.
Go on, it's glad to know that you're still out there listening, Mayor, after every day.
Seven days.
Well, thank you so much.
But I want to put you right on one thing.
Bestialty is not illegal in the Washington State unless you can prove the animal didn't enjoy it.
Believe it or not.
That's the law.
That's the law.
If the animal didn't enjoy it, if you can prove that, then it is illegal.
Right.
Okay, now uh are there in the law, Mary, is is any uh instructions here on on finding out whether or not the animal uh enjoyed it.
I don't know who does that, Rush.
Uh that's up to the authorities, I presume you can't ask the animal unless you get it out of the horse's mouth.
Uh yeah.
No, but you're being serious?
Yes, I am.
Because the story is real, folks.
That was not a fake story.
This is a real story.
Oh, it is.
Mm-hmm.
And and uh and the and the story says that bestiality is not illegal, but you're saying it is if the animal can prove or can be proved the animal didn't enjoy it.
The action we're reading is bestiality is not illegal in Washington State unless you can prove the animal didn't enjoy it.
Hmm.
Hmm.
I uh I'm at a loss here.
I I I mean I love animals and so forth, and I think I know when they enjoy eating and things like that, but I I how would you find this out?
I'm not a lawyer, and I don't even play one on the radio, but that's what it says.
Well, a lawyer could probably tell us.
That's uh the lawyer would probably know when an animal enjoys sex.
Um maybe it's if the animal smoking a cigarette afterwards, Mary.
Has that is that you know that's that's then the traditional sign that it's been a good time as you light up a cigarette afterwards.
Well, I'm glad you know I'm still out here listening to you.
Thank you.
It's great to hear from it.
Really, I haven't heard from you.
It's probably been ten or maybe more years, ten or twelve years.
Absolutely.
Well, I appreciate it.
I love you, and I'm glad you're still out there.
Thanks so much.
You bet.
All right, uh Jeremy in Austin, uh, Texas.
You're next on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hello, Megadetto's Rush.
Yes, sir, Rebopkins.
Got a quick uh comment for you about the smoking study that was just done.
And an excess belly fat syndrome.
Yeah, it seems like they're making a pretty basic statistics area here.
Um they're assuming that just because someone smokes that they're automatically going to get or are exposed to it, that they're automatically going to get fat.
Excess belly fat, not fat all over, just excess belly fat, the old, you know, pot gut beer gut type thing.
Well, that's the you just you just said it, the old beer belly.
I mean, maybe people who smoke drink a lot of beer too.
Maybe people who smoke don't eat well.
Maybe they don't exercise that much.
No, no, no, but see, this is about our children who are who are imprisoned in the homes of these dastardly parents who smoke and nothing you can do about it.
And it is these innocent children who are in the in the confines of uh first and secondhand smoke that are getting excess belly fat syndrome.
And it would have nothing to do with playing a lot of video games and not getting any exercise.
It's probably smoke.
It has to be.
The thing, the thing that correct me if I'm wrong on this.
Correct me if I'm wrong on this.
But didn't is hasn't there been a study recently that women, pregnant women who smoke give birth uh to underweight babies?
That's that's what I've heard.
Okay, now my my my my question is this.
If the woman who smokes give birth to underweight babies, what changes when the baby pops out of the oven?
Why in the womb does a woman who smoke cause an underworth uh underweight baby, but all of a sudden a baby's born in Bam it gets excess belly fat?
I'm as confounded as you are.
Well, we're gonna have to remain confounded because I don't think there's an answer to this because it's lunacy.
It's just absolute nanny state.
This is no different than that wacko at the Center for Science and the Public Interest.
And uh and all of his uh nanny state activities.
Here's Eric in Springfield, Illinois.
Welcome to the program.
Bora, how are you doing?
Good.
Hey, uh I I need your help here.
I'm I'm I'm really confused, and I'm I think you're the only one that can do the math for me.
Regarding the smoking in the children, yeah.
Wasn't there a study that that came out not too long ago that basically said uh the majority or or the vast majority of our children are obese these days?
Oh, yes.
So how do we get how do we get from there to only one percent of the kids have excess belly fat, and then 10% of the kids who are around smoke have excess belly fat.
I don't I'm a little flummoxed.
Well, that the that one percent uh excess belly fat is among kids eat that were not even exposed to smoke.
Uh those that are exposed is five percent and ten percent or or some such thing.
The thing that that that's the surprising to me is um that fewer and fewer Americans are smoking, isn't that true?
Or is it?
I I just assumed that all the yeah, and fewer and fewer Americans are smoking.
This is a strange time to be r uh bringing up the fact of excess belly fat.
Why wasn't excess belly fat a rampant disease uh 20, 30 years ago when uh so many more Americans were smoking?
Uh it it folks, it's just it's silly.
It's it's it's this is what I say too many people in this country with too much time on their hands, and there's too much federal money being spent on all these grants so that people can waste their time doing these kinds of surveys.
Uh it is and it's I'll tell you what it is.
If you want to get serious about it for just a moment, it is once more up the scientific community basically saying we're a bunch of robots, that things happen to us and they're not even within our control.
Like a kid with second hands, and all it is designed to do is to punish people, make them feel guilty, and stop certain activities.
It's uh it it's a it's it's nanny-statism uh and and it's it's uh eventually gonna lead to more loss of freedom.
You can't do this because of that.
Can't do this because of that.
And and of course, the libs never ever, folks.
This kind of science, be it environmental wacko science or or uh food science or what they never reject any of that.
They won't reject any of that science, but you let the president talk about the science of creative intelligence.
And they don't even want to consider that's his word for creation.
You know, he he does think that the selective intelligence needs to be taught.
Creative intelligence needs to be taught in schools alongside evolution.
Intelligent design, sorry, intelligent design, new way of saying creation.
Oh, you can't do it.
Why that's just joke science.
Well, you can't do it.
Evolution.
Everybody knows evolution.
You can't.
So I mean, they'll they'll glom on to some of the most wacko science out there.
But then other science comes along and they just they kick it down the road.
Here's a story from the Los Angeles Times.
California's San Joaquin Valley for some time has had the dirtiest air in the country.
So Monday officials said that gases from ruminating dairy cows, not the exhaust from cars, are the region's biggest single source of a chief smog forming pollutant.
Well now, this is something that's being recycled.
This is methane, and methane is part of cow flatulence.
And that was one of the original targets of global warming or the greenhouse effect or whatever.
And that's why you had all the animal rights people suggesting that we ought not be eating beef, because beef produces cows.
We have to have cows to get beef, and these cows run around the steers and they and they flatulate, and that causes methane.
And now these guys in California say not only that, it's causing smog more than the cars.
Every year, the average dairy cow produces 19.3 pounds of gases called volatile organic compounds.
The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District said those gases react with other pollutants to form ground level ozone or smog with two and a half million dairy cows, uh, roughly one of every five in the country.
Emissions of almost 20 pounds per cow mean that cattle in the San Joaquin Valley produce more organic compounds than are generated by either cars or trucks or pesticides, the air district said.
The finding will serve as the basis for strict air quality regulations on the region's booming dairy industry.
How in the world are they gonna do that?
How do you regulate cow flatulence?
It's a it's it's about the same thing as going up to an animal.
Did you enjoy the sex or not?
Look, cow, stop flatulating.
Well, what are we gonna do here?
Here's another contradiction for you.
According to the animal rights people and the environmentalist wackos, it is humans causing all the problems, right?
Humans in our lifestyle and our barbecue pits and our automobiles and our smokestacks, our factories, our technological advanced lifestyle.
We're causing all this.
If we would just get out of the way and leave the planet to the pristine animals and plants of nature, well, here you go.
A God created animal, pristine, you can't get more God created and pristine than a cow, is out there destroying the ozone or creating ground level ozone and destroying all the uh uh uh the well creating all the greenhouse gases and at the same time producing smog.
Now, there's gonna be something that follows from this.
Now granted these are dairy cows, but you know you gotta say the same thing about steers.
Uh the same kind of anime flatulence is flatulence, and these animals are these animals.
And at some point, you're gonna see some move to reduce production of beef.
And then this is gonna dovetail very nicely with the fact that milk is a killer.
Milk is too fatty.
We have too many kids drinking too much milk.
We don't need as many dairy cows.
What a day.
What an absolute day.
Back after this, folks, stay with us.
And we are back.
Great to have you along for the ride today, folks, as we've um very much covered the gamut today on the EIB network, Rod in Houston, uh, Minnesota.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hey Rush, glad to talk to you.
Generation X Ditto's from Flyover Country.
And then it's very much.
I can't believe I'm talking to you, but when you said that story on the radio, I just had to call in.
I was at uh a dairy nutrition meeting a couple weeks ago, and there's a professor from Maryland there that did uh talk on the EPA trying to become involved, they're gonna try and take over for the DNR and a lot of the resource management on some of these dairy farms and and EPA DNR stuff,
and if we call them damn near Russia where we're from, and EPA is gonna be even tougher, but they want to put these they want to do a test on putting air emissions out on dairy farms to see they're not sure what they're looking for, but if they find something they told the dairyman that he wouldn't get sued right away.
So it's kind of a weird thing, and they're trying to also limit nitrogen and phosphorus uses and uh just on the manure produced by the cows, and they're not limiting nitrogen on what people buy for their lawns and wait a second, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait just a minute.
Are you telling me that the EPA is looking at limits on manure?
Well, yeah, they're gonna they're trying to limit the amount you put on an acre, so you have to spend a lot of people.
How the hell are they gonna do that?
Through law.
I mean, they're just gonna tell the guy you've got to have.
For crying out, so you pass you.
So a farmer's gonna only be able to have so much manure on his on his on his farm, so he's gonna have to get rid of a bunch of a number of cows, maybe, or whatever animals if he surpasses the manure limit.
Yeah, and like now, a lot of dairy farms when manure is liquid and they knife it in the ground right away when they when they apply it to the case.
The EPA, they want to get rid of the uh the ammonia emissions.
They want the guy to spread it up in the air so it lands on the field and then come and knife it in.
So then it would get rid of the ammonia emissions and the nitrogen.
I don't know what it was, but it was the most acin I think I've ever heard of.
And the EPA is gonna be awful if they do that.
I'm not surprised.
You know something about the EP.
I there there is a there's a uh a theory going around that EPA rules actually may have caused the shuttle Columbia disaster.
It goes like this.
They used to use Freon in the ingredients of the foam that uh they spray on the that that solid fuel tank.
It's that foam that fell off, that chunks of it fall off, and on the land and a second ago shuttle mission uh created a hole in the wing and led to the disaster on re-entry.
They can't use Freon anymore.
They had to use something else to cause the foam to bond to the uh to the uh uh fuel tank, and it was not nearly as good as Freon was.
And that's why the chunks started coming loose.
And so they came up with uh some other substance that is a little stickier and causes the stuff to bond better, but it still doesn't work as well as Freon did.
So maybe a lot of people are beginning to think that's the the banning of Freon actually caused the shuttle accident, the Columbia shuttle accident, two uh two flights ago.
And I'm inclined to believe it when I hear this.
Limits on manure on a farm for crying out loud.
We've gotten along just fine with all the manure that happens naturally on a farm.
This is this is what happens, folks.
Bloated government, big bureaucracy, a bunch of people oops.
That was the Club Gitmo's soap on a rope uh falling from its perch above the golden EIB microphone.
We'll be back here in just a second.
Stay with us.
Okay, there folks, there's not enough time here, really to be fair with uh another caller, but I I do have I do have one more wacko story here.
This is from uh from Live Science or Live Science, I don't know how they pronounce it.
Men whose masculinity is challenged become more inclined to support war or buy an SUV, according to a news study.
Their attitudes against gays change too.
Cornell University.
The researcher there, Rob Willer used a survey to sample undergraduates.
Participants were randomly assigned feedback that indicated their responses were either masculine or feminine.
The women had no discernible reaction to either type of feedback in a follow-up survey, but the guys' reactions were strongly affected, said Willer.
I found that if you made men more insecure about their masculinity, they displayed more homophobic attitudes, they tended to support the Iraq war more, and they'd be more willing to purchase an SUV over another type of car.
There were no increases in desire for other types of cars.
Okay, so you people who support the war, you men support the war and drive SUVs.
It's only because you were made to feel feminine.
Yeah, your masculinity is insulted, and so you're trying to show everybody what a tough guy you are.
And so Cornell University participates in the emasculation of normal red-blooded guys.
We be out of time.
See you back here tomorrow, folks.
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