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April 14, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 14, 2006, Friday, Hour #3
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Hi folks, and welcome back.
We uh we're racing through today's excursion into uh broadcast excellence.
All the while having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, and that's because I am the host.
And when I have more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, it's infectious.
You do too.
Except the libs, it just it just it just destroys them because nobody's supposed to be happy.
There's too much misery out there, but just like when they have a recession, we don't participate in misery or recessions, we choose to opt out.
It's Friday, you know what that means.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And we are back.
And the telephone number, if you want to appear today, 800 282-2882.
The uh email address is rush at EIB netcom.
Let's see.
I got some audio sound bites here.
I haven't, you know, I don't care to hear about Howard Dean.
I'd say, well, let's do number two and three here because this is instructive, because it is a uh a see I told you so.
Uh yesterday on this program, I want you to listen to what I said uh explaining how the Democrats have given strength to that wacko Iranian president Mahmud Amadinejad.
There is obviously no fear of our military, otherwise uh Mahmood and the Iranians would not be doing what they're doing.
With our troops on two of Iran's borders in Afghanistan and Iraq, they don't care, they're not intimidated because they know that there's been enough unrest and dissension and uh searching for a little stronger.
They know that the Democratic Party in this country is their ally.
The Democratic Party and the American left and the kooks have sufficiently seen to it that there's no national unity here on the war in Iraq or the war on terror, and that there's no way the people of this country are gonna sit back and watch us go after Iran.
Not if it's ever announced in advance that we do the debate like we did leaving it leading into Iraq.
So let's go to Hardball last night.
Uh Chris Matthews interviewing uh the Senate uh presidential hopeful uh Joe Biden.
Question, if we woke up tomorrow morning and the president's already taken the action, would the senators would Hillary Clinton stand up and salute like she did in the last war?
Would all the Democrats, sort of the regular Democrats, say we got to back the president rally around the flag?
That's what I fear that he knows he can get away with that, that your party won't challenge him because Hillary won't challenge him on Iraq yet.
Just wait for somebody to stand up and say, You can't act, Mr. President.
I like this is a dictatorship.
You like this as a dictator.
You just can't act on your own in Iran.
Well, I'll say right now you can't act, Mr. President.
If you do act, Mr. President, it is clearly against our interest for you to do that.
This is a nation of 70 million people, Mr. President.
You already have us in deep trouble because you're the incompetence of your civilian leadership, Mr. President in Iraq.
In Iraq, we're a long way from being able to be victorious, Mr. President.
For God's sake, don't make another stupid mistake.
So thank you, Senator Biden, for giving me another brilliant see.
I told you so.
Standing up.
Matthews is goads him right into it.
You knew you guys gonna stand up and say, Don't do it, you can't act.
Well, yeah, if you want me to say it, I'll say it right now.
You can't act, Mr. President.
If you do act, it's clearly against our interest for you to do that.
So uh once again, the Democrats make it clear that the biggest threat in the world is George Bush rather than uh Mahmood and the mullahs in Iran and their uh uh nuclear development uh program.
This is um this is a story that uh it's got people on both sides of it.
Uh pretty passionately, too.
It's from Lincoln, Nebraska.
Uh but it's actually about Omaha.
The uh in a move decroyed by some estate-sponsored segregation.
The Nebraska legislature voted Thursday to divide the Omaha screw system into three districts, one mostly black, one predominantly white, and one largely Hispanic.
Now, these used to be called neighborhoods uh back back in the old days.
Uh now they're called districts.
And it used to be that you went to school in your neighborhood.
But then along came to the liberal say, no, no, no, no, no, we're gonna bust people half the day to get to and from a school because we want diversity.
We want we want people in disadvantaged schools to have better opportunities.
Well, it clearly in Omaha it isn't working.
Supporters said that this plan would give minorities control over their own screw board and ensure that their children are not short-changed in favor of white youngsters.
Now I'm I'm really confused here because I thought the Dr. King and the civil rights movement were all about integration because it was felt that uh minorities were being short-changed by being left out of the establishment anything establishment, school establishment uh businesses and so forth.
Now, after decades of the civil rights movement, what we have found is that you know it happens in universities, it happens in a number of places.
The minorities uh successfully integrated, and then once they got inside, segregated amongst themselves within the new integrated place, like uh uh the uh I don't know, can't give you an example right off the top of my head, uh black students against economics at Yale.
I don't know, it's something like that, even after they got in.
Uh or or women.
Uh they were part of the minority too.
They finally integrated and then they separated amongst themselves as feminists and feminazes and all that.
Now we're reading that integrated schools result in blacks being shortchanged.
Am I reading this right?
Yeah, that's exactly it.
So have we not we just we've we've turned back the clock here forty years.
With this attitude, not the move in in Omaha, but with this attitude.
Plan would give minorities control over their own school board and ensure that their children are not short-changed in favor of white youngsters.
So they want to go back to to the segregation days.
Well, it's that sounds like they do to me.
Uh Republican Governor Dave Heinemann signed the measure into law.
Omaha Senator Pat Borden decried the bill saying we're going to go down on history as one of the first states in twenty years to set race relations back.
History will not and should not judge us kindly, said Senator Gwen Howard of Omaha.
The Attorney General John Bruning sent a letter to one of the measures' opponents saying that the bill could be in violation of the Constitution's equal protection clause and that lawsuits most certainly will be filed.
But the backers, the supporters of this, said at the very least, its passage will force policymakers to negotiate seriously about the future of schools in the Omaha area.
The uh breakup would not occur until July 2008, leaving time for lawmakers to uh come up with another idea.
Omaha Senator Ernie Chambers, the legislature's only black senator and a longtime critic of the screw system, said this is no intent, there's no intent here to create segregation.
He argued that the district is already segregated because it no longer busses students for integration and instead requires them to attend their neighborhood school.
Chambers said the schools attended largely by minorities lack the resources and quality teachers provided others in the district.
He said that the black students that he represents in North Omaha would receive a better education if they had more control over their district.
And coming from Chambers, the only black member to legislature, the argument was especially persuasive to the rest of the legislature, which voted three times this week in favor of the bill before it won final passage on the last day of the session.
The 45,000 student Omaha screw system is 46% white, 31% black, 20% Hispanic, and 3% Asian or American Indian.
The boundaries for the newly created neighborhoods, uh districts would be drawn using has scroll attendance areas.
That would result in four possible scenarios.
And in every scenario, two districts would end up with a majority of students who are racial minorities.
The way they're going to redraw this.
Passage will force policymakers to negotiate seriously about the future of schools in the Omaha area.
When I read this business, uh Chambers said that schools attended largely by minorities lack the resources, and quality teachers provided others in the district.
Now we're talking about public schools across the board here.
Now, why is this the case?
And why is why is it now going to require minorities controlling their own schools for them to have quality schools?
Uh it it seems to me like that this is a uh uh a backwards move.
Uh and it's well now, Mr. Snurdley, who is black, is saying, no, it's it's a it's about it's about damn time.
Well, I'm I'll be interested in your perspective.
Will you tell me during the break here why this is about damn time?
Because I obviously something I'm not getting here, because this this this seems like the only thing we're missing here is George Wallace at the schoolhouse door or something.
Uh back in just a second, folks.
Stay with us.
All right, back to this Omaha school split along racial lines business.
Mr. Snurgley, who is uh black, says that basically the integration didn't work because the blacks never had any power once they were integrated, it was still the uh uh resources uh were were allocated by people who still had the power, and even though the integration of the students took place, integration of uh administration and and so forth uh uh didn't to the extent that it uh it created any power.
And so basically what you have here is the failure of the public school system, which is as we all know, run and controlled by teachers' unions and liberals out of Washington.
So the fact that the people in Omaha are having to admit here, hey, certain people aren't being educated in a liberal public school system, even after clamoring for integration, is a is a tantamount admission that liberal ways of dealing with problems again are demonstrated not to work.
You know, I also remember I've had a couple of well more than that.
I've I've I've had a lot of discussions with Dr. Sowell, Dr. Thomas Sowell, who's uh also black.
He grew up in Harlem and a lot of other places, and I'll never forget him until one time he told me that uh when he grew up in Harlem, uh before Harlem became what it is today, he said it was it was black, but you had you had black professionals, including teachers,
uh uh, and they were educated, they had values, they were all oriented around the church, and everything with a culture was intact, it was superb, uh, and they held their own in academic contests with kids from white schools around New York and so forth.
And once the integration came along, all that all that just disintegrated for some reason.
Uh and apparently what what's happening is that they've finally owned up to the problem in Omaha.
And uh so they're they're gonna go back and try to fix it by turning back the hands of time.
Here is uh Luke and Raleigh, North Carolina.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hi, how are you doing?
Fine, thank you.
I just wanted to comment a bit about about that movie, the night flight ninety-three.
I've uh I've seen the the uh little things on the internet and it's breathtaking just to watch the uh intro.
I can imagine what the movie's like.
I've experienced uh hijacking, I've been hijacked.
In fact, I was the last hijacked airplane in the United States before 911.
That was in 1978.
You were flying?
Yeah, I was the I was a crew.
But that's another story.
Some other time I'll tell you that.
But what I wanted to talk about was right, I was stuck in Amsterdam uh for six days.
We were grounded uh during that uh attack on 911.
And I remember when we flew back, flight attempts were pretty nervous, as you can imagine.
And we had uh, you know, really pick our passengers and shake them down pretty good, make sure we had you know people that we could trust.
But I remember telling my fight flight attendants after that 9-1-1 thing was over, we'd have our briefings in a cabin before the pastors boarded.
And I said, Don't worry about uh ever again being hijacked like that happened.
And they said, What do you mean, Captain?
I said, if you have a problem in the cabin, I said you get on the PA, you make an announcement.
Flight attendants being assaulted in row ten.
I said, then get out of the aisle quickly.
I said, Well, well, Captain, why why should we get out of the aisle?
And I said, Because if you don't, you're gonna get stampeded to death by the men that are gonna come running to your rescue.
I said, the American male is alive and well.
And the militia is alive and well inside his heart.
The patriot heart of the American mail, and I've talked to passengers as I've traveled as a civilian in civilian clothes.
I'm retired now, forcibly retired.
By age, of course.
Yes.
And uh I asked him, Well, we what are we gonna do if this happens, or what are we gonna do if that happens?
What would you do if there was a hijack or somebody stood up with a gun or a knife?
He said, Well, uh, you better move fast because I'll be right behind you.
And not to to every male I've ever talked to, sitting in the waiting room in any airport, they have all said we will go die before we'll let that ever happen again.
And so the spirit of Flight 93 lives on.
Well, you were very prescient with that.
At the time that you said that to your crew, six days after 9-11, Had you heard the story of uh United 93, did you know that that's what had happened on board that plane?
I didn't.
I did I heard I I heard excerpts of it because uh I knew CC Lyle and I knew Jason Dahl, the captain, and and uh the airline industry is a small fraternity.
Yeah.
And so uh emails were coming back and forth, and of course there was follow-up stuff on the news, and uh like I said we were stuck in Amsterdam, but we had the internet, so we were able to really access some newspapers, and we were pretty aware of what happened.
And uh I in fact to this day I have a uh all my cars in my driveway.
I have a sticker in the rear window, it's a little American flag, and underneath it written into it, uh it was designed by one of our pilots.
It says, Remember the heroes of Flight 93.
You're gonna go see the movie?
Oh, definitely.
And I know I'm gonna come out of it all pumped.
You will.
You you you you you'll come I mean it's it's you you you you come out of it breathless, uh uh you'll come out of it exhausted because it's suspenseful from the moment it starts, and especially somebody like you, uh who's who's been involved in a hijacking as a as a crew member, and uh but they do a great job of portraying ATC.
They have a great job of what goes on at uh and the ramp uh getting ready uh for the passengers to board and so forth.
They d it's it's dramatic uh from the from the from the opening moment.
Uh but the the scene, and I don't want to describe it too graphically here because I don't want to take away you know, you can talk about these things too much, you can build expectations up and people go see it, and it no matter how good it is, the expectations can't been met can't be met if you overdo it.
Right but the scene where the passengers uh they're all on the phone and they learn from their relatives that they're calling to say goodbye.
Oh they learn what's happened about the World Trade Center being hit.
Uh you you can see they this is portrayed, I hope it's as accurately as anybody knows that it happened because they are angry and they are determined and they are committed, and they're not gonna let this plane hit its target.
And uh the uh the the it's just the the the the way they get into the cockpit uh and and overpower the uh the two terrorists that are that are dispensed to watch them while the other two are in the cockpit uh is is just is one of stand up and cheer.
Yeah, the cheer, in fact, I know the cheering, like you said, you wanted the ending to end differently.
But the good thing about this movie, Rush is you'll cheer at the end of the movie, but you you you know that it you can't change the ending, but you know what, it's gonna change what we do from now on.
People are gonna come out of that movie and realize, yes, these are our enemies, and this is what they did to us, and we've got to support our troops who got to support.
And that's why the libs are all crazy about this movie.
I know.
And fire up the heart of the American mail again.
And it's you are dead right on both counts.
And I know just seeing the trailers got me fired up.
Now, you know, Cece Lyles was a cop.
Uh the one flight attendant, the black flight attendant, sweet girl, Christian girl, mother.
I was a cop.
We had a lot in common.
We talked a lot when we flew together about being police officers and being also being a pilot.
And I mean, I hope they portray her.
I'm I'm looking forward to seeing her portrayed because I knew her.
But even if uh I it's semi-fictitious, I'm sure it's gonna be an honorable portrayal.
Uh I heard I heard the director talk.
He he's an Englishman who has a real understanding of what what went on 911.
He doesn't have all this political uh he doesn't have any political axe to grind.
So he made the movie as truthfully as possible.
And that's good.
And glad it wasn't an American uh director.
Yeah, that's why I say the political axes here are gonna be provided by every viewer uh based on their own context and where they are in all this.
But you you couldn't be more right about about the uh uh the reason the left doesn't want this scene.
They don't want it uh established in the hearts and minds of people that there's an enemy still out there uh th and and that that there's valor and heroism possible here because it contradicts their entire message for the past four years.
Exactly.
Uh since uh well, actually five since we started a war on terror.
But anyway, look, I'm glad you uh I'm glad you call Luke.
I give you a humorous aside at the end of this real quick.
Thirty seconds is what I got.
I don't need that much.
One of my flight attendants was French.
And after I said the American mail will come to your rescue.
She says, What about the Frenchman?
I says, Well, I can't speak for the French mail.
But I know The Americans will come.
And uh she kind of got mad at me, but she knew I was right.
Well, and that was pretty mild.
I mean, you could have been honest, and other Frenchman will surrender.
No, I didn't think of that.
That's why you're the boss.
Yeah, it would have been quick mind.
Well, okay, look.
Have a uh great Easter weekend, and thanks very much for the uh call.
That's Luke of a retired United Airlines pilot commenting on the uh movie United 93.
He hasn't even seen it, he's just seen the trailer.
Quick timeout.
Back after this.
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That's an interesting story, and I think this is from the Los Angeles Times.
It's uh it's about Lieutenant General Michael Rifle DeLong.
Top gun tells all, takes on armchair generals, retired after thirty-six years.
This lieutenant general was bothered by what he was hearing on television and wanted to set the record straight.
Michael DeLong, Lieutenant General, wanted to bust the TV.
He burned when some armchair general, his name for certain military men turn TV talking heads, analyzed events irresponsibly from their living room.
Few people know more about waging war on global terror than DeLong, a three-star Marine Corps lieutenant general now retired after thirty-six years of service.
His last post, deputy commander, U.S. Central Command at McDeal Air Force Base, made him number two to General Tommy Franks from 2000 to 2003.
As second in command, he briefed Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld daily as they conceived and implemented Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
He personally put together a coalition of fifty-five nations, an entity he feels is more powerful than the fight against terror itself.
Compelled to set history straight, DeLong wrote inside CENTCOM, the unvarnished truth about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It was published in the summer of 2004.
Quote, I was hearing things that needed countering, and the administration wasn't doing it.
I wrote it for Middle America, for Kansas and Iowa to know what I saw, why we went to war, why we were successful.
DeLong admits the military made mistakes in his 200-page book.
Um details the intelligence available at each step.
He reveals that pantyhose save soldiers on horseback in Afghanistan from chapped legs.
I've been shot down three times in Vietnam.
I've dodged sniper rounds in Somalia.
And in the last six months seen IEDs, improvised explosive devices, explode in front and behind me on the road between the airport and Baghdad.
So he's uh he wrote this book uh Inside Sitcom, Unfurnished Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I wonder what he thinks of these retired generals now running around saying uh what they're saying.
Here's uh Chris San Diego.
Chris, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Thanks, Rush.
Mega Ditto's to you, and uh good Friday.
Thank you, sir.
I have been listening since October of eighty-nine.
Well, you're almost uh a lifer.
Yep, I intend to be so.
Say, I wanted to talk um about these two science stories that came out this week that um you've previously mentioned on the show.
And those are the one about the study about possibly a quarter of the the uh planet's plant invertebrate species being gone by 2050 year, and then the story that came right behind it about the new species that they found in the Himalayas.
Yeah, that's a third such discovery of new species this year.
Right.
But we didn't even know existed.
Right.
So it's the in a way it's similar in a way, it's similar to the 9-11 situation where we're dealing with on one side hard facts, and then on the other side we have whatever theory you want to come up with.
And it's all based on global warming, by the way, so it's all part of that push.
Yeah, the one thing interesting in the article about the the species uh vanishing is they didn't throw the U.S. under the bus in any way.
They actually didn't mention that.
They were talking about the potential where everybody was going to vanish from, and it didn't mention North America.
But uh Well, no, they don't have to.
It's understood by now.
We are the reason the Arctic ice caps are melting, even though our smokestacks and cars aren't even there.
It And that's pretty cool to watch those ice caps melt, isn't it?
Yeah, when you know that hell's gonna freeze over again someday and they're gonna come back.
That's the history of the planet.
You know, the point is to always stay focused on the facts, because we you can get all balled up about anything that you want, and you know, this all these these crazy stories about nine eleven and blowing up the the World Trade Center and and uh you know picking a magical year, everybody's got their doomsday year as to when something is gonna vanish or we're gonna run out of whatever.
But it's typical liberals.
I mean, that liberalism that they they are they are just they're obsessed with death.
However it happens.
In your SUV, uh hunting, uh global warming, they're just obsessed with except abortion.
Then they're all for it.
Right.
Strange is bunch of people.
I I uh we love chronicling them here.
Thanks very much, Greg in Cincinnati.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Yes, uh growing up in the Midwest Ditto's T Rush.
Thank you, sir.
Listen, I wanted to just bring up a quick point with these generals.
It it it almost seems as though they're a little upset that they're not allowed to go out and win this thing.
Um and and it's come across to the media, you know, uh that it's turning back to Rummy, but it's actually the left who's who's not allowing us to go win this thing like they have been trained to do.
I just wanted to get your...
You know, that's a pretty good point.
That's a pretty good point.
I don't know if these guys wish they were there...
Some of them were.
Uh Batiste was there, uh commanded the first infantry division, the big red one.
Uh and Zinney was was uh well I'm forget his timeline, but he was at CENTCOM uh during the Clinton years at least.
Uh but I don't know that they wish they were there uh because they want to participate in the victory.
Uh but the point that you make about the fact who is it that's standing in the way, it's people over here trying to decimate and ruin the effort.
Um Victor Davis Hanson have writ has written of this that uh we're winning over there, we're losing here at home.
What with the drive-by media's uh alliance with the Democratic Party and its investment in defeat.
Uh Mike in San Jose, you're next.
How are you doing, Mike Buddy?
Hey, Huddled Mass is ditto from not so sunny California right.
Thank you, sir.
Very great to have you with us.
Hey.
Now I'm I'm sensing a little contempt for these retired generals from you today.
Don't you think that when these guys are wearing camouflage out there in the in the battlefield uh, you know, protecting our freedom, uh they're not at uh at liberty to uh oh, they have to walk the walk and talk the talk, and they're not at liberty to to expose their true feelings.
I knew there were gonna be I knew there were gonna be people who thought this way.
I've even told a previous caller that uh that attitude or opinion that you've expressed would be uh uh uh felt by a lot of people to be used to defend these guys.
I don't know that I have contempt for them.
I I I um I I just I it it's to me it's it's silly.
By by doing what they're doing, they're ensuring what happened today.
Bush has to come out and support Rumsfeld and Rumsfeld can't quit if he wanted to, so they they said Rumsfeld needs to resign, Rumsfeld needs to resign, and and what they've done is secure Rumsfeld as a Secretary of Defense for quite a while longer.
So y y well then well w what if there is something wrong with Rumsfeld strategy, don't you think it's worth a uh a review by the president?
Maybe there is somebody better that could do the job.
But see, the idea that it hasn't been reviewed is what's crazy.
Rumsfeld himself is quoted.
I mean, let me let me find this.
Uh if I put it in the right place back in the stack, if I can find it quickly enough.
I may not be able to find it quickly enough.
What but Rumsfeld, I had a quote here from uh from an American thinker piece uh from 2003.
Rumsville ran it by everybody, ran it by the generals, ran it by the commanders, ran it by the president.
Everybody signed off on it.
Everybody thought it was a brilliant plan.
Rumsfeld said he thought it was a brilliant plan.
What you have now are people apparently coming around who gave thumbs up to the plan is now ripping the plan.
Your theory would be they're ripping it because this is the first time they can be honest.
That they had to go along with it when they're in the Pentagon.
The caller previously said no, you have a duty to speak up to your superior if you don't think the if you're being asked, and it's being run by you, and you have a duty to speak up and be honest if you don't think it's sufficient, because we need honesty and we need if if somebody's proposing a military plan, commanders don't think it's gonna work, they have a duty to speak up.
Apparently these guys didn't speak up, but they are now.
Uh but you have Mike, look, uh things don't happen in a vacuum here.
You don't just have a drive by media hit of six generals in two days, coming out saying Rumsfeld should resign.
And by the way, this is not isolated.
They've been trying to get Rumsfeld to resign since before Abu Ghrab.
They've been trying to get Cheney to resign.
They've been trying to get Bush impeached.
Or they're planning to.
They have suggested Condoleezza Rice is no good, that she needs to go.
Nobody in this John Bolton wasn't any good.
It's incredible.
Not one person in this administration is worth diddly squat.
And that's been the theme among many of the drive-by media.
So what happens is one general calls a reporter and says, you know, uh Rumsville's got to go.
I'm got a book out, but Rumsville just has to go.
I mean, this is just and uh I'm by the way, I'm not the only one.
And the drive-by media guy starts panting.
Who?
Who?
Well, you know, you can't quote me.
I don't know.
Zinny thinks he ought to go, and Batiste thinks Batiste So the media calls all these guys.
I've just heard that you think Rumsville, yes, I unfortunately bam, you got a you've got a uh you've got a drive-by media hit.
Mortar fire being lobbed into the crowd.
Uh Bush has to go and clean this mess up.
Rumsfeld has to clean it up, and next week they'll be on to somebody else ought to resign, or they'll still be on Rumsfeld.
Uh but like to prove the drive-by media uh link to this, Bush comes out and defends Rumsfeld, it's a it's a stop the press's bulletin.
As though that's news.
What do you think he's gonna do?
The bulletin would be if Bush says, you know what, I hear you, ex-generals, and I'm firing Rumsfeld today.
Now that would be a bulletin.
That'd be breaking news, developing story.
But for the president to come out and support his guy, they still stop the presses because damn it, they're still not listening to us.
We need more generals, so they'll probably find some next week.
Be back after this.
Just got a quick flash instant message from a buddy down in Miami, says he just paid three dollars per gallon for the first time.
Gasoline, I said, Did you smile?
Said felt great.
All right, before we get out of here, I I've been I've been promising this.
Here's how you just love these college Republican groups.
They're just they're just they're just these rush babies.
They're just they're they're sprouting up all over the fruited plane.
A college Republicans at Penn State wanted to enter the debate about the nation's borders by playing a catch an illegal immigrant game.
People would be invited to catch group members wearing orange shirts symbolizing illegal aliens.
Amid the student outcry that ensued, they softened their plan to an illegal immigration awareness day, in which leafleting and speech making would let both sides air their views on immigration policies.
That hasn't entirely erased the bad feeling over the event, which is now planned for next Wednesday.
Yesterday, about 150 students and some faculty opposed to the idea, rallied in the student union building, and the university itself joined the fray, urging the college republicans to rethink their approach as a step toward fostering civility on campus.
The way you foster civility on campus is to suppress the conservatives.
You think the club Gitmo line of outerwear might have had some influence here on the choice of color, of clothing, for they catch an illegal immigrant game?
By the way, let's see.
A big rally in Kansas City in response to the pro-immigrant marches that have drawn hundreds of thousands of people across the country, Kansas and Missouri proponents of cracking down on illegal immigrants or organizing a rally Monday.
Among the speakers will be Chris Kobach, uh law professor from Overland Park and former congressional candidate.
Invitation invitation to the rally from Kobach is making the rounds of conservative email lists throughout Kansas.
Now, you know, May 1st is May Day.
That's a Marxist national holiday.
Uh and uh and a pair the the this answer group, uh the the pro-Marxist anti-American group that's organizing all these other uh illegal immigration rallies that planning a giant boycott of shopping and and work and everything else on Monday.
So uh a lot of people are trying to spread the word this is the excellent opportunity for conservatives to go shopping.
When everybody else boycotting, you own the malls, you will own wherever you want to go, so it it uh people are planning all kinds of responses in uh in that regard.
This I told you the jump the shark moment has been reached.
A couple of immigration stories, a proposal in Congress to legalize millions, um listen to this.
A proposal in Congress to legalize millions of undocumented migrants in the United States could backfire by slashing the amount of money they send home.
Mexican economists war.
Mexican economists are concerned about the immigration bill because it'll mean less money going back home to Mexico.
The argument goes like this.
Mexicans who have permission to work in the U.S. will want to bring their families north to live with them, which will eliminate the main reason they send money home.
That would hurt Mexican businesses that have come to depend on the money sent down from the United States.
Miguel Cervantes Jimenez, an economist at Mexico's National Autonomous University, said remittances could drop by as much as 40%.
Holy!
It just keeps getting better.
Now some Mexican economists are waving the the red flag.
Hey, wait a minute, this is not a good idea because now we're not gonna get money.
Senator McCain, Senator Kerry, Kennedy Reed, are you paying attention to what's really happening in here?
President Bush.
By the way, the the illegal immigrant community is very hurt, too, that the Hollywood left has not joined their protest.
They've sent out invitations to people like Susan Sarandon, Ed Begley, Ed Asner, Tim Robbins, and they're not even replying.
The Hollywood left doesn't want to get anywhere near this.
This is Nadine in Sebring, Florida.
Hi, Nadine.
Welcome to the program.
Oh, it's great to speak to you.
Thank you.
And uh and two things.
One thing I think you ought to run for president.
Pay cut.
I can't I couldn't deal with the pay cut.
I couldn't even pay my property taxes on a presidential salary.
Okay.
All right.
And next thing, just keep telling it like it is, because we only learn the truth from you.
Anyway, what I wanted to tell you about, you know, you always hear young people nowadays, oh, it's all sex and sex before marriage and everything.
Yeah, yeah.
Common practice out there.
Yeah, I know a young couple that just got married last week.
They courted for a year when they the day they the night they got married was the first time they kissed.
They how long did it take?
You know, I I've I've I once dated a Catholic girl, well, there's nothing in Pittsburgh who said to prove herself to me and to God she wasn't gonna have sex for a year after she got married.
Oh dear.
Not even a kiss.
Oh, well.
Just yeah, for a year.
That was that's how she was going to prove her worth and and well, you know, just to just to tell you a little bit, this this young man is an entrepreneur, 22 years old.
His dream was always to marry a girl who was wanting to have a family, be a mother, be a wife, and take care of a home.
And so this girl, she that was her dream ever since she was little, that she always wanted to marry a guy, just have a settle down, have a family, take care of a home.
And so my son and daughter-in-law put these two together.
Because she came to work for my daughter-in-law, who has seven children, and she wanted to learn everything my daughter-in-law was teaching, you know, and everything, and uh so they finally, you know, they started dating, and they didn't even they didn't even hold hands for the first two months.
That is that is that is discipline.
No, y it is, and they never either that or safety, one of the two.
Yeah, they never put themselves in compromising uh situations.
They always I I you know, I rejoice in hearing stories like this.
I wish I'd have gotten your call sooner.
I'm sadly here out of uh out of out of time.
I know that you're gonna ask me a question.
I probably I don't know what the question is, but what what do I think about it?
I I think it's f I think it's actually good.
I think it's fine.
If these people found what they wanted in each other, that's actually perfect.
No quarrel from me.
Back in a moment.
I do think it'd be wise to kiss somebody before you marry them.
I mean, it you can learn an awful lot, just like the appetite.
Women who are finicky eaters finicky elsewhere too.
You just never know.
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