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April 24, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 24, 2006, Monday, Hour #3
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Our little programming note, ladies and gentlemen, I will not be here tomorrow.
I have a uh just scheduled list just a half hour ago, schedule a day off tomorrow.
I call I have called the sun will come up tomorrow.
Yes, some will come up, but I will not be here.
I uh I've just made an appointment with a therapist to go deal with my newfound pessimism on the future of America.
He says it's gonna take at least six hours.
I've been listening to you today.
Uh this.
Snerdley's not buying us.
No, I have a scheduled uh schedule day off tomorrow.
But and who's who's who's a guest host tomorrow?
Is it uh Oh, that's right, that's right.
Paul W. Smith.
Paul W. Smith from uh from our great great affiliate in uh in Detroit, WJR.
Paul W. Smith will be here.
Uh and we'll be back on Wednesday to uh get it revved back up all over again.
Well, this is this is really uh this is really encouraging news.
Uh uh just just when it looked like the political climate couldn't get worse.
For President Bush and the Republicans, more storms have gathered.
This month's abrupt rise in gas prices, fueling new worries about the party's prospects in the fall elections, which have been roiled by controversy over GOP policies on immigration, the federal budget, and Iraq.
Republicans worry that because their party is dominant in Washington, they will bear the blame for high gasoline prices.
And so the Republicans are determined to take a straight take charge pose, even if there is little they can do.
Uh to provide short-term relief for motorists.
So on Friday of last week, uh senior GOP congressional aides met with White House advisors to strategerize.
House Speaker Danny Hastert, House Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist are gonna send a letter to President Bush today, demanding an investigation of possible price gouging by big oil.
Appearing yesterday on late edition on CNN, Senator Arlen Specter even suggested that Congress consider a tax on oil companies' profits.
So these Republicans, they're not gonna let grass grow under their feet.
They're gonna get to the bottom of this.
They're gonna lead the effort to bring big oil up there and find out just who it is and where the gouging is taking place.
So be confident, folks.
Be comfortable and breathe easy.
The Republican leadership in Congress is on the case, and they will make sure that big oil comes up and has some explaining to do.
Even though uh there's not a whole lot to be done.
I mean, uh big oil doesn't set the price of um the barrel price of oil, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
In fact, I got an email from an expert in this.
Uh, on, I guess it'd be Friday or Saturday, uh, subscriber email.
Dear Rush, you were dead right today.
None of the major oil companies have any influence over the price of a barrel of oil.
The world market for oil is a commodity market.
It is nearly perfect competition.
There are over 1,000 companies applying oil to the market, or supplying oil to the market.
Some, like Aramco and Sitgo, are owned in whole or in part by governments.
On the demand side, there are seven billion consumers.
In both cases, demand and supply, no one is large enough.
No one is large enough in the marketplace to significantly impact the price of oil in the market as a whole.
India and China have doubled their demand for oil in the past ten years.
This has substantially increased demand.
Unless Congress is willing to declare war on India and China and use nuclear weapons to bomb them back to the stone age.
Demand will not decrease any time soon.
Nigeria normally produces three percent of the world's oil supply.
They're totally closed down by terrorist rebels.
The oil rigs destroyed by the hurricanes.
About a hundred plus of them have not yet been Replaced.
All twenty-five refineries on the Gulf Coast were shut down by the hurricanes.
Only two of them are back to full production.
We have not built a new refinery since 72.
Supply is weighed down.
Unless Congress permits drilling on a Gulf Coast, drilling in Alaska permits more refineries to be built, supply will not increase any time soon.
When demand goes up, the price increases.
When supply decreases, the price goes up.
No one can stop this.
That doesn't matter, folks.
It doesn't matter because Hastert and Frist are on the case.
And they're going to be holding here.
You're going to send a letter to Bush, and they're going to find out exactly who's gouging and how and why.
And they're going to see to it that you know they care.
But Russia, they're going to stop it.
They can't, but they're going to see to it that they know that you care.
Now, along the same lines.
Our old buddy here, President Mahmud Ahmadinejad hinted today that Iran was considering withdrawing from the worldwide nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
And he said he didn't think the UN Security Council would impose sanctions on him.
Those who speak about sanctions would be damaged more than Iran, he told a news conference.
But no particular event will happen, so don't worry about it.
He also renewed criticism of Israel, calling it a fake regime that cannot continue to exist.
Israel has long identified Iran as its biggest threat.
And these concerns have grown, and uh repeated calls by Ahmad uh uh well Ahmadinejad has continued his calls for Israel's destruction.
Some sixty years has passed since the end of World War II.
Why should the people of Germany and Palestine pay now for a war in which the current generation was not involved?
Okay, now it's interesting.
If you if you analyze old uh old Ahmud, Mahmood Ahmadinejad, it's interesting here.
The guy keeps up his credibility with the Islamo fascists by denouncing Israel, by denouncing the United States, while lining his pockets and the pockets of every oil producer in the world.
I'm sure he means what he says about Israel, but every time he threatens Israel's annihilation, he adds another five bucks to the price of a barrel of oil.
This guy if you want to know why the oil price is going up, take a look at what old Mahmood's doing.
Guy bashes Israel, the markets go nuts.
This guy starts pouting up, I'm gonna bury you or I'm gonna knock you.
If you attack us, we'll destroy you.
The next thing you know, the barrel price of oil's up three or four bucks, and the market analysts say, yes, because of the feared conflict, the coming conflict between the United States and Iran, uh, which is uh threatening the future oil supplies, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So Mahmoud's getting his oil price up.
You think a you think Russia wants to shut him up?
Hell no.
Russia loves the price of oil going up.
Everybody produces oil loves the price going.
You think the Saudis are gonna shut him up?
Hell no.
No way.
The Democrats too.
They love this guy.
The price is going up, it's gonna put him back in office.
Democrats may hate the sinner, but they love the sin.
Let's admit it, folks, high gasoline prices are the Democrats' ticket to ride here.
I mean, poor old Cindy Sheehan, she's she's not needed anymore.
Step aside, babe, maybe make room for President Ahmadinejad.
If you want to know who is price gouging, if you want to know why gas prices are high, it isn't big oil, and it isn't a bunch of powerful Jewish people calling the shots.
It's the anti-Semite nut job running Iran.
This guy, every time he threatened, you market, every time he threats to attack Israel, bam!
Price goes up.
And what's, you know, uh Iran has quite a lot of oil out there.
So he's profiting from it, the Saudis are profiting from it, the Russians are profiting from it.
Everybody that grows oil, per se, everybody that has it is making out and the Democrats love it too because that's resulting in higher gasoline prices.
You're gonna blame Bush for it.
And uh the Democrats win the House and Senate in uh in November, back in just a second.
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All right, this is interesting.
This is from LiveScience.com, and I found this over the weekend.
Top ten ways to destroy the earth.
Now the reason for this is that last Saturday was Earth Day.
And do you know April 22nd was chosen as Earth Day by a specif for specific reason.
You know what April 22nd is?
It's the birth date of Vladimir Lenin.
I kid you not.
Earth Day occurs on April 22nd, which is Lenin's birthday.
And everybody was dinner Saturday or somewhere talking to somebody.
It was Sunday, I forget where, but we're talking about Earth Day.
And I said, This is nothing more than a new home for a displaced, lost, wandering, aimless communists out there since the Soviet Union went south.
If you listen to these people, we're destroying the planet, right?
They've been saying this for uh at least the last twenty-six years and uh and maybe thirty.
So a man by the name of Sam Hughes has uh written a piece, the top ten ways to destroy the earth.
Destroying the earth, he says, is harder than you may have been led to believe.
You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the earth.
You've heard people on the news claiming the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests, or persisting and releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere, threatens to end the world, but they're fools.
The earth was built to last.
It is a who knows how many gazillions of years old ball of iron.
It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had uh hot dinners.
And lo, it still orbits merrily.
So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be earth destroyer, is do not think this will be easy.
By any means necessary, this is the mission statement by people who want to destroy the earth, by any means necessary to render the earth into a form in which it may no longer be considered a planet.
Such forms include, but are most definitely not limited to two or more planets, any number of smaller asteroids, a quantum singularity, a dust cloud.
To make the list of the top ten ways to destroy Earth, uh a method must actually work.
That is, according to current scientific understanding, it must be possible for the Earth to actually be destroyed by this method, however improbable or impractical it may be.
Methods are ranked in order of feasibility, with the least likely listed first and the most likely likely being number ten.
Now here is the current Earth destruction status.
The number of times the Earth has been destroyed, zero.
The number of plans currently in progress with the final aim of bringing about the Earth's destruction, zero.
The number of scientific experiments currently underway with the potential to bring about the Earth's destruction, zero.
Minimum amount of time until the earth is destroyed by natural means, discounting total existence failure, uh twenty-five years.
And that's that's that's like the the first estimates of the earth being destroyed for global warming or whatever, twenty-five years.
Minimum amount of time until the earth is destroyed by artificial means fifty years.
This is not a guide for those whose aim is merely to wipe out humanity.
I can in no way guarantee the complete extinction of the human race via any of these methods, real or imaginary.
If total human genocide is your ultimate goal, you're reading the wrong document.
There are far more efficient ways of doing that than destroying the planet, many of which are available and feasible right now.
Nor is this a guide for those wanting to annihilate everything from single cell life upwards, render Earth uninhabitable, or simply conquer it.
These are trivial goals in comparison.
Number one.
And I I mean the each one of these things has a long paragraph, but the number one best of the well, these are the descending orders.
So the top ten.
Uh number one reason ways to destroy the earth, hurl it into the sun.
You will need earth moving equipment.
Method?
Hurl the earth into the sun, sending Earth on a collision course with the sun is not as easy as one might think.
Even though you don't actually have to literally hit the sun, you just have to send the earth near enough to the sun within the roach limit, and tidal forces will tear it apart.
It's surprisingly easy to end up with Earth in a loopy elliptical orbit which merely roasts it for four months in every eight.
Be careful because planning can avoid this.
If you're going to aim your earth to the sun, make sure you hit it, or you're gonna be most uncomfortable.
Number two, eaten by von Neumann machines.
You will need a single Von Neumann machine.
A von Neumann machine is any device capable of creating an exact copy of itself, given nothing but the necessary raw materials.
Create one of these that subsists almost entirely on iron, magnesium, aluminum, and silicon.
The major elements found in Earth's mantle and core.
Doesn't matter how big it is, as long as it can reproduce itself exactly in any period of time.
You release it into the ground under the Earth's crust, allow it to fend for itself.
Watch and wait as it creates a second von Neumann machine, then they create two more, then they create four more.
As the population of von Neumann machines doubles repeatedly, the planet Earth will, terrifyingly soon, be entirely eaten up and turn into a swarm of potentially sextillions of von Neumann machines.
Number three.
Pulverized by impact with blunt instrument.
You will need a big heavy rock, something with a bit of a swing to it.
Maybe Mars would work.
Essentially anything can be destroyed if you hit it hard enough, anything.
The concept is simple.
You find a really, really big asteroid or a planet, you accelerate it up to some dazzling speed and smash it into Earth, preferably head on.
But whatever you can manage.
The result?
An absolutely spectacular collision, resulting hopefully in the Earth and most likely our Q ball too being pulverized out of existence.
Number four.
Meticulously and systematically deconstructed.
You will need a powerful mass driver, or ideally lots of them, ready to access to roughly, and there's some stupid math formula here.
Basically, what we're going to do here is dig up the Earth a big chunk at a time, and we're going to boost the whole lot of it into orbit.
All six sextillion tons of it.
A mass driver is a sort of oversized electromagnetic rail gun, which once proposed as a way of getting mined materials back from the moon to Earth.
Basically, just load this thing into the driver.
You fire it upwards in roughly the right direction.
We'd use a particularly powerful model big enough to hit escape velocity of eleven kilometers per second, uh, even after atmospheric considerations, and launch it all into the sun or randomly take place.
It'd be boomeranged back to us and wipe us out.
Number number five, sucked into a giant black hole.
You will need a black hole.
Extremely powerful rocket engines and optionally uh a large rocky planetary body.
The nearest black hole to our planet is sixteen hundred light years from Earth in the direction of Sagittarius.
Method, after locating your black hole, you need to get it and the Earth together.
This is likely going to be the most time-consuming part of your plan.
There are two methods moving Earth or moving the black hole.
Though for best results, you'd most likely move both at once.
It's very difficult but definitely possible.
Earth's final resting place will be part of the mass of the black hole.
Number six, uh, ways to destroy the Earth, destroyed by vacuum energy detonation.
You will need a light bulb.
This is a fun one.
Contemporary scientific theories tell us that what we may see as a vacuum is only vacuum on average, and actually thriving with vast amounts of particles and antiparticles constantly appearing and then annihilating each other.
It also suggests the volume of space, enclosed by a light bulb, contains enough vacuum energy to boil every ocean in the world.
Therefore, vacuum energy could prove to be the most abundant energy source of any kind.
Anyway, it goes on to describe how you use a light bulb to destroy the Earth.
Number ten, blown up by matter antimatter reaction.
You will need two trillion five hundred billion tons of antimeter or antimatter.
That's the most explosive substance possible.
In fact, in one of the precursors to the Da Vinci Code, some secretive sect in Switzerland had developed a machine to create it or gonna blow up the Vatican with it.
Number eight, sucked into a microscopic black hole.
Uh number nine, gobbled up by strangelets.
Hijack control of the relativistic heavy ion collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York.
Use the RHIC to create and maintain a stable strangel.
Do you get the point here isn't number number ten, uh, total existence failure.
You will need nothing.
No method.
Simply sit back and twiddle your thumbs as completely by chance, all two hundred gazillion gazillion gazillion gazillion atoms making up the planet Earth suddenly simultaneously, spontaneously cease to exist.
The odds against this actually ever occurring are considerably greater than a Google Plex to one.
Failing this, some kind of arcane, probably manipulation device may be employed.
In other words, there's no way to destroy the planet, folks.
it it just can't be done.
You'd need the you'd need to find a way to smash Mars into the earth or smash us into Mars.
That'd need a lot of rockets.
You'd have to attach various parts of the planet, a lot of propellant, propel us through space, all those gazillions of miles, make sure we miss the moon on the way, because that's not big enough to destroy us if it hit us.
So feel free in driving your SUVs or whatever you're driving now with a gas price at five bucks a gallon, soon will be.
Make it uh make book on that.
Um and and uh don't worry about your air conditioners, uh whatever.
You're not destroying the planet, and you can't.
We can't, we don't have the ability, the vanity of humanity thinking we can destroy the planet by advancing the technology aspects of our lifestyle is just pure rock gut.
And that would be the golden EIB microphone.
Uh many requests to post the web link for the top ten ways to destroy the earth.
We will uh do that at Rush Limbaugh.com later this afternoon.
Hey, try the try this headline from the uh Associated Press.
Rising gas prices hurt poor Americans most.
No.
Uh for most Americans, today's rising gasoline prices are an annoyance, not a serious financial hardship.
And then there are people like Kenneth and Edith Taylor of Baltimore who already struggled to make their monthly social security checks of less than $1,700 last by cooking casseroles and soups at home instead of eating out, and they forego new clothes for as long as possible.
Now with neighborhood pump prices averaging two eighty-five a gallon, the tailors say that they simply can't afford the eighty-mile round trip to visit their daughter more than once a month.
Their and back is ten bucks worth of gasoline, said eighty-four-year-old Kenneth, who used to make the trip and is Buick the Saber at least every other week.
The uh Taylor family's increasing frugality may be a drop of the bucket for the world's most voracious energy consuming nation, but it is not inconsequential.
It could be the start of a broader trend.
That is, what's the broader trend?
Riding rising gas prices hurt poor Americans.
Uh the most.
Melissa in Dallas, uh, nice to have you on the program.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
Great to talk with you.
Just one quick comment.
I just you made a statement a couple months ago about um a lot of your audit audience's women, and we kind of look to talk radio for our intellectual fix, and that's true.
I had a great career, but now I have two young boys, and I want to be home to take care of them and make them into wonderful U.S. and productive citizens.
But I did want to comment about got uh the gasoline uh, you know, issue going on right now.
I think Congress, you know, they passed in the early 90s certain legislation that put restrictions on gasolines or how it had to be formulated and stuff because of the pressure they were feeling from the environmentalists.
But they don't talk about this, that they uh what they actually did to do this, and also the heavy taxes that are part of the gasoline prices as well.
And I think that's an issue we need to talk about, and that that's just something I wanted to bring up.
And I want to know what I can do.
I mean, I'm a smart woman.
I have a lot of friends like myself that were great career women, we're all now taking care of our kids.
I mean, um that's more important than having some fabulous career.
We can always do that.
But there's a lot of us that could just be uh motivated and activated.
Let me let me tell you something, Melissa.
It's an interesting question.
You say you want Congress to investigate themselves.
Uh we will that that will happen uh after the Earth is destroyed.
Uh Congress that's the one thing Congress will not investigate itself other than a trumped up ethics committee examination.
But you're absolutely right.
Congress placed all these restrictions on formulations of gasoline for different uh geographical uh areas of the country.
After Hurricane Katrina, they suspended them, and gasoline was distributed just fine, got everywhere it was needed, kept the price down, in fact.
They could do it again if the price gets so high that it becomes oppressive to the uh to the people of the country.
Uh taxes, they could rebate taxes, cancel them for a while.
They won't do it.
Congress is isra that Congress passed the laws that dealt with FEMA and Katrina and the levies, but after Hurricane Katrina, they acted like bystanders and spectators.
Well, what happened down?
Well, we gotta have hearings.
Uh, we gotta find out how the Bush administration screwed this up.
We've got to find out how the Corps of Engineers screwed this up.
We've got to find out how X screwed it up.
Um they they have no accountability uh whatsoever.
Their their role and their their efforts here that uh that lead uh to higher prices on anything.
They're never going to examine them.
In fact, they won't the idea that they should do without less uh never occurs to them.
It's uh even when it if somebody proposes a tax cut, well, how are we gonna pay for this?
Oh, from whom we're gonna get the money we're cutting taxes.
It's just I'm blue in the face talking about this.
Chris, sell call North Carolina.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
This is Chris.
Um long time listener, I'm a truck driver.
I leave out every Sunday, and if you ask any truck driver, the roads are packed, the highway is packed with drivers.
Three dollars a gallon, I'm surprised it's that low.
All filled with out of state drivers all weekend.
We've become an economy of not staying home.
Oh interesting.
It's it's a can it's a consuming issue, not a price issue.
And I mean, the second point is when did a price of what it costs to manufacture something determine the final price on it.
Uh when did the price of what it cost to manufacture something determine the final price on it?
What do you mean?
Like if a gallon of gas cost the gas company a dollar to manufacture, who's to say they are supposed to sell it for a dollar?
They sell it for whatever people are willing to pay.
If they're willing to pay ten dollars a gallon, I say jack it up.
Well, now you're not being very sensitive here to the people of the country.
You know, you you're not supposed to tell people how this works.
You're supposed to commensurate, commiserate with them and tell them how much you feel their pain and have somebody screwing them left and right and and and you you you got this all wrong.
You need empathy like I have.
I I I have now, Chris, Chris, are you laughing out there?
Yeah, you're funny.
I appreciate you listening to me.
You put on a good show, and I'll be back listening.
I appreciate it.
Chris, thank you.
Thanks so much.
Um you know he's got a point.
I I was on the roads this weekend, and they're they're they are what Mr. Snurder, what?
Does that mean does it are you are you inferring from what he said that that people don't really care about the high price because they're still out there driving?
It is an interesting question.
At what price will behavior be affected?
At what price will people start driving less?
At what at what price will people say in mass?
No, I'm talking about in mass.
I've had it, I'm cutting back.
Uh what what what what is that price?
Uh I forgot about that.
Yes, folks, once again, I had to be brought back into reality by Mr. Snerdley.
I had forgotten.
Uh and Chris, I'm I'm surprised.
Uh you didn't think of this yourself.
People have to drive to their second jobs because they can't get by it, American one.
And that's why the Democrats are gonna win the House and Senate uh in uh in uh in November.
Uh Scott in Peabody, Massachusetts, welcome to the program.
Yeah, hi.
Hey.
Yeah.
I just heard your comment about somebody saying that the poor are the ones that are most affected by the high gas prices.
I I totally disagree.
I'm a middle class person, I own my own business, I deliver bread for a living, and I don't control my cost.
Uh I sell.
You still there?
Well, no, it didn't say that it doesn't say you're not hurt.
It says rising gas prices hurt poor Americans the most.
It doesn't, because they number one, I'm f I'm forced to drive every day.
I don't have a choice.
If I want to make a living, I gotta get in my truck and drive every day.
Uh if I how many jobs?
How many jobs are you driving, Scott?
Well, I I I have two jobs.
I was gonna see that's exactly right.
So how does that how does that say they're gonna be hurt more?
Well, because they have less income.
It's it's a it's a math equation for the uh for the media.
I mean, we're talking about people that have on social security, thirty-four hundred dollars a month.
Well, these four people that call up, they can't go see their daughter but once a month.
Yeah.
I'm sorry, you're breaking my heart.
You know, I gotta get up and drive every day to go to work to try and make an income to feed my family.
Right, and no matter what the gas price is.
No matter what the gas price is, you have to make those trips to those two jobs.
Right.
And I and I have to pay it regardless of the price, and I don't get to pass that price on anybody because I don't set the prices.
I'm in I'm an independent, I'm the middle guy.
So I'm the one that's hurt.
I'm the one that's this is a good thing.
Now wait a minute on my property.
Now wait a second now.
Uh you've got to be able to pass some of that price in because some of that you're driving for expense, right?
You're driving for business.
Well, yeah, that's true.
Yeah.
But what I'm saying is is that when gas goes up from you know where it was last year, and it's a buck more a gallon now, I don't get to charge higher prices for what I'm selling.
My pri the my prices of the bread are set priced.
So it just costs me more to do the same job every time the prices go up.
Okay.
Well, then this is this is a good testimony, then, because what this what this means is that higher gasoline prices are not just hurting the poor the most, they're hurting contractors too.
Yes.
And and where we can't pass on the price.
You know, if a you know the big company, they they pass the price on the consumer.
They raise the price of their goods or whatever.
The trucking companies, they just pass the price on to the consumer.
I don't get to pass a price on anybody.
I just it comes right out of my profit, comes right out of my ability to buy groceries and all that stuff.
That's why I'm working a second job.
I'm working a second job to pay for the gas to rot to run the business that I own.
So I don't see how I don't see how I feel bad for the people that aren't working, you know.
Yeah, well, what what do you think needs to be done about this?
Well, I think the reason we're paying higher price prices because you have cowards for politicians.
And they've allowed the environmentalists to set the agenda.
They they've been they've been f uh forced by fear into not drilling for more oil, not going to Anwar.
Uh, you know, we're we're forced into this position because we have men on that are in Congress and that are cowards.
You know, they're more worried about what people think and say about them than they aren't doing the right thing.
You are very shrewd.
You have just No, seriously, you have just nailed it.
That but don't discount this either.
Now, I some of you might have thought I was joking.
When when uh Ahmadinejad goes out there and threatens Israel, take a look at what happens in the commodities markets when it comes to oil.
Price goes up.
Every time he starts rattling the sabers of annihilating Israel or attacking the United States, the commodities markets go, hey, hey, hey, hey, babe, might have an interruption of supply of oil if the U.S. and Iran go to war.
Hey, hey, hey, babe, bam, price goes up.
Saudis love it.
The Iranians love it, the Russians love it.
Everybody produces oil loves it.
Uh, Hugo Chavez loves it.
Uh, and the Democrats uh love it as uh well.
Iran's economy is in trouble too, because they've had all this military buildup and spending.
They need a high oil price, and uh old uh Mahmood uh uh is is getting it on the uh on the commodities market and a number of other places.
Thanks for the call out there, Scott.
We'll be right back, folks.
Oh, Canada Hillary Clinton News.
Now this is a this is a flip-flop, is it not?
Responding to polls showing the strong majority of Americans support building a wall across the U.S. Mexican border.
Hillary Clinton announced Saturday she backs a border wall uh that would include both physical barriers and a smart fence.
The physical structure, obviously important, Mrs. Clinton told the New York Daily News.
A wall in certain areas would be appropriate.
Uh the news said she also supported deploying a high-tech smart fence that could spot people approaching from 200 or 300 yards.
She said the uh deployment of surveillance uh surveillance drones and infrared cameras should be considered as well.
So uh Hillary says she wants a wall now and she wants a fence to keep illegals out.
Somebody needs to tell her that a wall and an electric fence would have kept Jesus out if he had tried to cross the border.
Because remember, she didn't she say that that the uh Jesus wouldn't bill walls.
You can't treat these poor people from other countries uh unchristian like manner.
Jesus wouldn't do this.
But but but now she's flip-flopped if somebody needs to tell her that uh her idea would keep Jesus out.
Uh now there's nothing on her website on this.
Uh her statement comes this weekend, right?
When the Democrats are getting rocked with the Mary McCarthy scandal.
Most interesting.
Hillary Clinton comes out for a border wall.
Howard Dean's out there going to put on a uniform, patrol the border himself.
Oh, we have ports news, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Cargo industry.
This is not good.
And it does not well, I'm not going to play the theme because I don't have enough time here, but cargo industry officials are worried that a federal ID system aimed at boosting security could cost many port workers their jobs.
Something that would bottle up the flow of goods destined for virtually every U.S. community.
Details of this program, more than three years in the making, are still being worked out.
But according to industry officials who've discussed it with the Transportation Security Administration and a Coast Guard, illegal immigrants and people convicted of certain crimes might be barred from the positions they now hold at the ports.
At ports, that could mean thousands of people will be out of jobs, including dock workers and truck drivers, and this doesn't even have anything to do with the Dubai ports deal.
Dubai's out of it.
Of course there are concerns, said Chuck Carroll, executive director of the National Association of Waterfront Employers, a trade group for terminal operators.
You'd have a same number of boxes, but fewer people to move them, and that could mean major congestion.
The proposal would bar anyone who is on a terror watch list, who entered the country illegally, or who has certain criminal convictions.
Among the disqualifying crimes to work at the ports would be offenses related to espionage, terrorism, explosives, or a transportation security incident.
In some cases, workers could be excluded for assault with intent to murder, kidnapping, rape, drug offenses, extortion, robbery, and fraud.
It's unclear right now.
Get this.
It's unclear exactly how many workers currently at the ports fall into these categories.
Though it is generally acknowledged that illegal immigrants and felons work at the ports.
I don't even know how many go through the list again?
What a what a list.
If you're on a terror watch list, if you entered a country illegally, or if you have certain criminal convictions like intent to murder, kidnapping, rape, extortion, robbery, fraud, drug offenses, and they don't know how many people currently fit that bill who are working at the ports.
Bob in Washington, D.C., uh welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Great to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Longtime listener, first-time caller.
Thank you.
Uh, I just wanted to go back and revisit the Mary McCarthy issue for a minute and point out the absurdity of the idea that John Kerry was pushing that uh information is classified to hide the truth from the American people.
Uh information is classified to keep sensitive information from getting into the hands of our enemies.
The bad guys, that's right.
Exactly.
And uh, you know, furthermore, I didn't, you know, the idea that when something is classified, that the president is the only one who knows the information.
That's absurd as well.
Excellent point.
But you know, that's the way the Democrats always want government perceived when they're not running it, that it's run by a bunch of people keeping secrets on the American people like spying on them or what have you.
But uh it's an excellent point.
I I think they're just trying to capitalize on these uh approval numbers.
I think they see Bush at 33, 36, 39 percent, whatever it is, and they're just gonna throw the kitchen sink at him, thinking the American people will fall for it when probably most of it is about gasoline prices.
And they're throwing that at him too.
Um one final story, uh, just the headline here.
Uh lethal injection uh of of those on death row, lethal injection may cause agony.
Uh execution by lethal injection may cause excruciating pain, according to human rights watch.
North Carolina man was executed by lethal injection on Friday by officials uh who uh uh following a judge's order used a brainwave monitor to ensure that he did not suffer undue pain while being executed.
Why do we even mess with this anymore?
Uh with what we learned during the Shivo case, uh we could we could execute death row inmates with euphoria, and we would save the money that we spend uh on on lethal injection and food.
We wouldn't feed them, there'd be no last meal because that would destroy the euphoria.
We just we just let them starve to death uh and and uh it'll be a blissful, uh happy ending uh for uh those on death row.
Simple solution to me, which is uh noista key, uh.
Uh future official language of our country.
I am not here tomorrow.
Uh Paul W. Smith, uh, WJR Detroit be sitting in.
Look forward to getting back here on Wednesday.
Thanks, folks.
Been great being with you.
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